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Speaking up on RNAi science Thank you Dr. Vance for telling your story and Caitlin Rockett for reporting it [Re: “Muzzled by Monsanto,” Cover story, April 3]. We recently published a comprehensive review of risk assessment procedures on this technology in the authoritative scientific journal called Environment International (Heinemann et al (2013) A comparative evaluation of the regulation of GM crops or products contain-

ing dsRNA and suggested improvements to risk assessment Environment International, Volume 55, May 2013, Pages 43-55). It is open-access, so free for anyone to download and read.

It is important to note that not a single study that has been claimed to refute the work by Dr. Zhang’s laboratory has attempted to replicate his study. They have used variations of his approach and are not true replicates.

The closest is the Monsanto/miRagen

study, but as Dr. Zhang already has said in Nature Biotechnology, they also diverged in important ways.

It is especially important that Dr. Vance has exposed the ILSI report which is being used to overstate the historic efforts to demonstrate safety. We also discuss this report in our peer reviewed paper.

Even the ILSI report was not an see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad U.S. Postal Service selling out workers and… America

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More jobs, that’s what.

Not Walmart-style “jobettes,” but real jobs, stable ones with a good salary and benefits, union jobs so workers have a say in what goes on, jobs that have strong protections against discrimination. A job you could make a career, do useful work, take pride in it, earn promotions,

and be respected for what you do.

Believe it or not, there is at least one place where such jobs still exist.

But — and you really aren’t going to believe this — those in charge are pushing like hell to eliminate them, turning positions that ought to be a model for American job growth into just another bunch of jobettes. The place? Your local post office.

Right-wing government haters in Congress, along with the corporate executives now sitting atop the U.S. Postal Service, claim that in order to “save” this icon of Americana, they must decimate it. These geniuses are privatizing the workforce, selling off the invaluable community facilities, and shrinking services. Hello — the workers, facilities and services are what make the post office iconic and give it such potential for even greater public use.

Their latest ploy is a “partnership” with Staples, the big-box office supply

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

chain. In a pilot program, 82 Staples outlets have opened “postal units” to sell the most popular (and most profitable) mail products. Rather than being staffed by well-trained and knowledgeable postal workers, however, the miniPO’s will have an ever-changing crew of Staples’ low-wage, temporary sales clerks with weak performance standards and no public accountability.

Cheapening postal work might be good for a few profiteers like Staples, but it will diminish postal service — and it’s exactly the wrong direction for America to be going. For info and action go to www.apwu.org.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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commentary Ludlow, unions and politics

by Dave Anderson

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n 2012, the right-wing Washington Times reported that “union bashing has been a unifying theme at this year’s Republican National Convention, as few topics have generated louder, longer and more robust cheers and applause during keynote speeches.”

In previous years, the GOP avoided overt attacks on organized labor. Now House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was portraying Labor Day as a holiday celebrating management and CEOs. Just last month, at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, there was a panel on how to destroy the labor movement. It was moderated by Grover Norquist, an influential political strategist, who said unions are in decline but “they’re not dead yet.” Norquist’s goal is to return America to what it was “up until Teddy Roosevelt, when the socialists took over.

The income tax, the death tax, regulations, all that.”

Let’s look at life in Norquist’s libertarian utopia a hundred years ago. Today rightwingers whine about “class war” when their taxes are increased a little bit, but in 1914, you had a real shooting war in Colorado. Coal miners in this state were on strike over lousy pay, dangerous working conditions and feudal domination of their lives in fenced camps patrolled by armed guards. The Rockefellers controlled the largest company, Colorado Fuel and Iron. A Rockefeller mine manager found Governor Elias Ammons to be pliable.

He called him “our little cowboy governor.”

Ammons called out the National Guard and both sides welcomed them at first. As the strike dragged on for many bitter months, regular soldiers were replaced by company guards and unsavory mercenaries of the coal companies. The Rockefellers paid the Guard’s wages.

The coal companies employed the Baldwin-Felts detective agency, which had an armored car with a machine gun that fired up to 400 shots a minute with a killing range of two miles. It was mounted on a tripod that let it swing from side to side and up and down. The strikers called it the “Death Special.”

Detectives would indiscriminately spray bullets into the strikers’ tent colonies.

Strikers were living in tents (supplied by the union) because they had been kicked 8 April 10, 2014

out of their company-owned homes.

On the morning of April 20, the National Guard fired on the strikers’ isolated tent colony at Ludlow. Many residents fled into the hills. Some women and children hid in underground pits the strikers had dug under the tents for protection. In the early hours of shooting, guardsmen assassinated a union organizer, a Greek immigrant named Louis Tikas, and two other strikers; they also killed two other union men and an 11-year-old boy. Then they set fire to the tents. When the fires burned out, camp residents discovered the burned and twisted remains of two women and 11 children who had suffocated and died in one pit.

No one knows for sure how many people were killed in the onslaught. The National Guard sealed off the area for two days to both the families of the deceased and the Red Cross. They shot at anything that moved. The soldiers fired on the undertaker’s horse-drawn wagons when he came from Trinidad to claim the bodies. Several soldiers approached the bodies of the dead strikers and made a joke. They shook Louis Tikas’ lifeless hand and wished him well in the next world.

The Ludlow massacre wasn’t entirely unusual. The U.S. has had the most violent labor history of any industrialized country in the world. The violence was overwhelmingly committed by promanagement forces.

An investigation of the Ludlow massacre by the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, a body appointed

by President Woodrow Wilson, included this statement: “The State of Colorado through its military arm was rendered helpless to maintain law and order because that military arm acted, not as an agent of the commonwealth, but as an agent of one of the parties in interest, as an agent, that is, of the coal companies, as against the strikers.”

On Thursday April 17, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow massacre with a folk music concert by John McCutcheon, Alice Di Micele and many others at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder at 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.rmpjc.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

Really BAD Ideas

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

Whe n th ey to ld me th ey match ed my DNA to a po op pile on op en sp ac e, all I co uld th ink is “Don’t yo u gu ys have a re al job yo u co uld be do ing?”

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unequivocal statement of safety.

Instead of denying the risks, it is time to address them and deal with them. Then, if dsRNA pesticides are determined to be safe enough, great.

Let’s not use the scale of investment by the private and public sectors determine for us what are valid questions.

Jack Heinemann/via Internet Strangely, the author didn’t feel the need to note that Lam has a patent on this topic, and a vested interest in it working (or appearing to work). http:// www.google.com/patents/ WO2012135820A2 Of course, we all know patents aren’t peer-reviewed, but some people think that’s evidence anyway. So let’s be sure to disclose that.

Readers might want to know that.

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Ain’t no disrespectin’

About the Tricked article in the Boulder Weekly [Re: “No, it’s not the game. It’s the players: ‘Tricked’ documentary challenges stereotypes on domestic sex trafficking,” News, March 27]: When it comes to sex trafficking the only people the media speak with are the anti-sex trafficking organizations and no one else. This is a biased one-sided conversation.

The media will never question, check or research any of the claims that these groups make. Always taking their word for it and never once researching or questioning any thing they say. This results in misleading and false reporting by the media and news organizations.

The 300 children sold per day for

sex in Colorado in the article is a crazy number that anyone who knows math will know is fake.

Woman have consensual sex with men for different reasons. Yes, some might have sex with a man for money.

— What does having sex for money mean? Anti-sex trafficking groups believe that the only possible way to have sex for money means the woman was forced, beaten, raped, held against her will, and kidnapped. So, if a man gives a woman a gift of money that automatically means that she was sexually abused? Yes, this is what they believe.

If you do any hard factual research and not listen to the government, media, and anti-prostitution groups, you will find that the victims of sex trafficking are mostly adult consensual prostitutes. Doing sex work of their own free will. The police and government will say the women are victims, but the women prostitutes won’t say they are victims, because there are not! The police and government won’t believe them and will force them to be “rescued” which means forcing them to do whatever the government tells them to do. So it is actually the government who are forcing the prostitutes.

Prostitution is a business between adults and in our society adults are responsible for themselves. Sex slavery is just that, slavery and it’s non-consensual. To equate the two is to say grown women aren’t capable of being responsible and making decisions for themselves. That is pretty insulting to women don’t you think?

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THE FISHY BUSINESS OF GMOS Biotech firm AquaBounty Technologies has attempted to bring its girth-y, genetically-modified salmon to market for two decades. Now that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to finally decide whether to allow the company to sell the so-called “frankenfish” to grocers, debate is hitting a fevered pitch. The fish, which grows at twice the rate of a farmed salmon, is receiving plenty of opposition from environmentalists, health advocates and fishermen.

And it seems that even if the salmon is approved, the company will face an upstream fight in winning the hearts of consumers. Kroger, which runs King Soopers stores, Trader Joe’s, Safeway and Target are just the latest grocers to join a long list of those refusing to stock the fish on its shelves. “Now Costco, Walmart, Albertsons and other retailers need to catch up and provide their customers with what they want: natural, sustainable seafood that isn’t genetically engineered in a lab,” writes the Friends of the Earth environmental group.

BOULDER: NOT TOO SHABBY In the ongoing, relentless world of ratings and rankings, Boulder once again is No. 1 in something — this time for not being as fat as the rest of America. Just 12.4 percent of the city’s residents are considered obese, according to Gallup and Healthways pollsters, citing survey results that relied on self-reported height and weight measurements from more than half-a-million adults across the nation.

Unless Boulderites were more prone to lie about their weight than people elsewhere in America, the results seem worth bragging about because the national obesity rate is 21.7 percent. The most obese pocket in America? The HuntingtonAshland region in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, where almost 40 percent of people score a body mass index of 30 or greater.

IN DIVIDE: WILL A DONKEY BE MAYOR? In Divide, a small town 30 miles west of Colorado Springs, nobody seems to want to be mayor — or care. So Mary Steinbeiser, the CEO of the Teller County Regional Animal Shelter, is taking action and holding an alternative election. On her ballot: 11 pets vying for the right to give out the key to the city, cut ribbons, make proclamations and wear, should the occasion so merit, a top hat. The idea is really just a ruse. Steinbeiser is looking to raise money for her no-kill shelter and voters from around the country are responding with $1 clicks that tally as votes, according to The Associated Press. Among those on the ballot: Keyni the wolf, Teddy the mutt and Herbie the donkey. The candidates’ political affiliations were not available at press time. As for Steinbeiser, she is already mired in a small scandal for overseeing the election but endorsing a favorite: Pa Kettle, a bloodhound with an apparent nose for fundraisers.

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uch of your April 3 article (Muzzled by Monsanto) describes the scientific process which includes experts presenting data, other experts critiquing their methods and results, and the scientific community’s best minds challenging and defending the evidence and what it tells us. This is how knowledge grows. We respect this healthy, often passionate exchange of information and all of us benefit as a result.

Within the story, however, there was an assertion that Monsanto attempted to influence the scientific process and the work of one researcher, Dr. Vicki Vance. We regret any misunderstanding with this particular researcher and would have shared our perspective with your reporter if she had asked us about that issue. We work with hundreds of scientists all around the world on a daily basis and we encourage the healthy dialogue that is part of the scientific process.

In this particular instance, we were highly interested in a study Dr. Vance planned to reference. That study had drawn controversial conclusions and we thought it would be important to have other experts conduct additional testing to try to confirm those results. We worked with experts in the field at miRagen on such testing. That extensive study showed very different results and has -since been peer reviewed and published. While our work with miRagen was under peer review multiple independent studies were published coming to similar conclusions.

All of the interactions we have had with Dr. Vance and other researchers in the field have always been focused on ensuring the best science is brought to bear, leading to an unbiased discussion of the facts.

For the readers of the Boulder Weekly, we want you to know that while Monsanto scientists vigorously engage in the scientific process, we do not and will not condone violating that process in any way. That is not who we are or how we work with scientists.

Gregory Heck, Monsanto Weed Control Platform Lead Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly -contacted Monsanto to request an interview with their scientists for the above-mentioned story. They were unable to resolve scheduling conflicts prior to deadline.

“Muzzled by Monsanto” is a speculative and sensationalistic article that ignores the body of scientific evidence generated across multiple independent laboratories in favor of a dubious conspiracy theory.

Just to be absolutely clear, miRagen’s sole motivation for conducting the studies in collaboration with Monsanto was to help determine if plants could provide an important new technology for the oral delivery of RNA-based human therapeutics and therapeutic foods. Our company is focused on developing innovative RNA medicines to treat diseases of high unmet medical need. The original observation published by Dr. Boulder Weekly

Monsanto, miRagen response to last week’s BW ‘Muzzled by Monsanto story’ Zhang provided a potentially ground breaking opportunity that we had hoped to apply to RNA-based drugs.

The fact that we were unable to reproduce the published scientific results was a major disappointment.

An article with less conspiracy theory and more balanced conclusions would have benefited your readers by contributing positively to the dialog on

the topic. Instead, you left the audience with a very biased impression, including the assertion that Monsanto is attempting to suppress research in the area by using companies like miRagen as their foot soldiers. This couldn’t be further from the truth and to suggest so is quite offensive. The studies we conducted on the potential of plants to make RNA molecules orally

available were of the highest scientific standard. The paper miRagen published in Nature Biotechnology was independently peer reviewed by at least five experts in the field selected by the editor of the Journal.

Unfortunately we could not demonstrate that the phenomenon reported

by Dr. Zhang was reproducible.

Again, very simple, no grand conspiracies, but probably too boring to sell adds…

Bill Marshall, president and CEO of miRagen Therapeutics, Inc.

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ast week, Jaime Leon Rivas was sitting in a cell facing possible deportation from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This week, he is out and back on track to complete high school in Frisco.

It’s an unexpected turnaround for the young man who feared that if he is forced out of the United States, he could be killed by gangs.

Last week, Boulder Weekly reported how Rivas came to the United States as a boy, escaping the poverty and violence of San Salvador. In 2005, at the age of 10, Rivas and one of his brothers were brought to the United States by people smugglers — coyotes — after Rivas’ mother sent for the boys. When they crossed into southern Texas, they became lost and were eventually detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Because they were minors, the boys were not deported, but instead brought to relatives in Courtesy Jenny Martinez Colorado. They enrolled in school and learned English.

Later, Rivas, while still a minor, was issued a departure order requiring him to leave the country of his own accord. He never did. Instead he continued to attend school, and also got into trouble with the law, but completed a juvenile program to turn his life around. Despite his progress, in early March he was handcuffed and taken to the ICE detention center in Aurora. After his arrest, a determined group of supporters, including his teachers and principal from Snowy Peaks High School, attended a vigil at the center, marking Rivas’ 19th birthday. A week later, ICE granted Jaime Leon Rivas is allowed to stay in the what’s called a “stay of removal,” United States — for now. allowing Rivas to remain in the U.S. for up to a year.

“Stays do not get granted very often,” says Rivas’ attorney, Alexander McShiras with the Chan Law Firm in Denver. “So it is a small victory — miracle — that he was released and the stay was granted.”

For Rivas, the stay may have saved his life. He was adamant in his interview with BW that if he was returned to El Salvador he could be killed by gangsters. Though Rivas has resisted involvement in gangs, ICE has labeled him as associated with the ultraviolent Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang.

Rivas’ grandfather is believed to have been killed by gangsters in San Salvador, and the rest of his family there is in hiding.

The stay also buys McShiras time to argue for a “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival” since Rivas came to the U.S. as a boy. McShiras’ plan is to seek to reopen Rivas’ case, allowing for presentations to a judge to keep him in the country.

Meanwhile, Rivas could find another way to stay permanently in the U.S. He and his girlfriend, Jenny Martinez, a U.S. citizen, are discussing marriage.

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ontroversial Senate Bill 93 has died in the House. One of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Jenise May, D-Aurora, requested that the bill be laid over until May 9, a date beyond the end of this session, effectively killing the legislation.

The industry-friendly bill was originally put forward as an attempt to override a decision by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2012 which found that utility companies have the right of eminent domain to secure rights of way for electric and gas lines, but oil and gas companies do not.

The language of the bill would have given oil and gas companies who “operate pipelines that convey oil, gasoline, or other petroleum or hydrocarbon products” the right of eminent domain.

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Analysts predict Digital First Media is preparing to sell its newspapers. What this could mean for Boulder County and beyond.

by Joel Dyer “Back on Twitter. Our start-up Thunderdome didn’t work out.

DFM fine. Critics gleeful.

Supporters sad. All I can say is: Next.”

— John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media, via Twitter, April 6

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ext. If only it were that easy for the company and its 10,000 employees, or more importantly for the communities that Digital First Media’s newspapers serve.

Paton tweeted “Next” followed by a period, but a quick read of what is being reported around the country by the nation’s leading newspaper analysts makes it clear that a question mark might have been the better choice for the controversial CEO of America’s second largest newspaper chain.

It appears that what is “next” may well be a draconian $100 million cut to the company’s operating budget in an effort to prepare for the sale of all 280 daily and weekly newspapers that Digital First owns in 18 states. The properties include The Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera, Longmont Times-Call, Loveland Reporter Herald, Broomfield Enterprise and Estes Park Trail-Gazette to name just a few of the newsgathering organizations whose reporting impacts our region (see side bar on page 14 for full list of Digital First Media’s Colorado newspapers).

The current story started to unfold on April 1 when rumors of another round of layoffs at Digital First Media began to circulate. Then on April 2, the company’s CEO John Paton used his blog to announce that the company’s Project Thunderdome was being shut down in order to go “in a new direction.”

But what new direction could there be for a company that actually chose to operate its business under the name “Digital First”? Project Thunderdome was the 3-year-old centerpiece of Boulder Weekly

Digital First’s decision to rapidly convert its legacy newspaper business from what it saw as a print past to a digital future, despite the lack of any known business model to do so. Thunderdome was the company’s attempt to consolidate the national newsgathering responsibility for all of its papers into one small, high-tech office in Manhattan. It had been touted as the way of things to come, a digital revolution of sorts.

Now it’s been shut down on the heels of the company’s other major reversal on its path to digital transformation, the recent decision to erect

paywalls for return visitors at its newspaper’s websites. So it came as no surprise that the business world and the rest of the newspaper industry are viewing the Thunderdome closure as a sort of death knell for Digital First and its strategy.

On April 3, Rick Edmonds, media business analyst for The Poynter Institute, wrote that “The announced shutdown of Digital First Media’s national newsroom Wednesday and the probable sale of its 75 daily newspapers later this year is a significant jolt to those who believe a viable business model for rapid transformation of lega-

cy operations is close at hand.

“CEO John Paton’s explanation in his blog that the company has decided to dismantle Project Thunderdome ‘to go in a new direction’ barely hints at the converging economic troubles.”

In his April 2 article for the Nieman Journalism Lab, Ken Doctor, a well-known news industry analyst and author wrote, “The move [shutting down Project Thunderdome] also signals the fatigue of majority DFM owner Alden Global Capital — and that it is readying its newspaper properties for sale. They’re not yet on the market, but expect regional auctions of DFM properties (with clusters around the Los Angeles area, the Bay Area, New England, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania) — unless Alden can find a single buyer, which is unlikely.”

In his Poynter post, Edmonds further noted that two “informed sources (who declined to be quoted by name)” had confirmed to him that “the properties have informally been shopped around since the start of this year.” He added, “That is not to say definitively that a formal sales process is in place. I am also not so sure that a buyer for the whole company or a set of buyers for its component parts will be found.”

And finally, Nathan DonatoWeistein of the Silicon Valley Business Journal wrote that in an email exchange earlier this week, Doctor told him that “the timing of the sale is ‘months, not weeks or years, though the talking has begun on potential buyers.’”

No one can claim to know exactly what is “next” for Digital First Media.

But if the analysts are correct, what’s next will likely have a major impact on everyone living in the state of Colorado.

That’s because who owns the news matters because control over the news See WHAT’S NEXT? Page 14

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Over the years, the Colorado newspaper landscape has been transformed from a diverse collection of competing community newspapers into a dangerously consolidated monopoly owned by first one corporate entity then another.

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The idea of owning multiple papers in a region in order to obtain certain economic efficiencies is not new. It has been practiced by both large and small papers alike for decades.

Scripps, the one-time owner of the Rocky Mountain News also bought the Boulder Daily Camera, the Broomfield Enterprise and eventually the Colorado Daily as well for just that reason.

In 1967, Ed and Ruth Lehman, the owners of the Longmont Times-Call bought the Loveland Reporter Herald and in 1978 they purchased the daily paper in Cañon City. The Lehman’s would eventually add the Erie Review, Lafayette News, Louisville Times and Superior Observer. Eventually these last four were melded into what is today the Colorado Hometown Weekly.

And then there was Media News, the company owned by Dean Singleton.

Media News owned The Denver Post and over time added a fair number of other dailies and weeklies in Eastern Colorado including the Fort Morgan Times, Sterling’s Journal-Advocate, the Lamar Daily News, Akron News Reporter, Brush News Tribune, The Burlington Record, Julesburg Advocate

and the Estes Park Trail-Gazette.

And so the stage was set. After years of fierce competition, Scripps’ Rocky Mountain News and MediaNews’ Denver Post decided to stop competing, at least on the business side, and to operate under a joint operating agreement in 2001. This started the dominoes falling.

The two companies continued to work together rather than compete and in 2006, they formed the Colorado Publishing Company with 50/50 ownership. The new company owned the Daily Camera, Colorado Daily, Broomfield Enterprise, Fort Morgan Times, Journal-Advocate in Sterling, Lamar Daily News, Akron NewsReporter, Brush News-Tribune, The Burlington Record Julesburg Advocate and the Estes Park Trail-Gazette.

Eventually Colorado Publishing Company would change its name to Prairie Mountain Publishing.

In 2009, following its decision to shut down Colorado’s oldest daily newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, Scripps sold its remaining interest in Prairie Mountain Publishing to its partner making MediaNews the sole owner of the 11 newspapers in the subsidiary at that time.

In 2011, Singleton’s Colorado news monopoly became complete when Prairie Mountain Publishing bought all of the Lehman’s papers as well.

While most newspaper companies attempt to find some degree of operating efficiency by owning more than one paper in the same region, no one took this philosophy of clustering to the extremes that “Lean Dean” Singleton employed.

Consider this appraisal of Singleton’s business model offered by Doctor in a 2011 post on his Newsonomics blog. “[Singleton] expertly used OPM

(Other People’s Money) to finance often complex deals, deals that the company’s 2010 bankruptcy filing only partially brought to light. If he was known as Lean Dean, he also became the Count of Clustering. Why not put together groups of contiguous newspaper titles, and then bring basic corporate principles of consolidation to them.

Consolidate advertising sales and production, circulation, finance, HR, and as much as possible, editorial across the titles, and you’ve saved lots of headcount, lots of FTEs. It was a formula that many others in the industry soon tried to copy, but Dean seemed the master of it, until time ran out.”

And time did run out. In 2010, with circulation and ad revenue shrinking in the midst of the Great Recession, MediaNews, like many of its large newspaper chain peers, filed for bankruptcy. One of those peers was the Journal Register Company.

To make an already long story shorter, the condensed version of events is that both Journal Register Company and Singleton’s MediaNews went into bankruptcy. A Venture Capital firm known for buying distressed businesses, Alden Global Capital, eventually became the controlling owner of both companies. Alden Global Capital then created an entity called Digital First Media, which now runs all of Alden’s interest in both of the newspaper companies it acquired out of bankruptcy.

So where we stand today is that the vast majority of newspapers in Eastern Colorado and along the Front Range including The Denver Post and all of the general-interest papers in Boulder County with the exception of the Boulder Weekly are currently owned by a hedge fund known for cutting operating expenses and then flipping its acquisitions for a profit if possible.

As noted by respected media analyst Boulder Weekly

analysis Alan Mutter in his Reflections of a newspapers over the past few years sold as individual papers or regional Newsosaur blog on April 2, regarding through layoffs, outsourcing some proclusters, but this too is problematic. the shutdown of the Thunderdome duction functions to India, additional In the past, it would have been very Project, “the clear signal is that the content sharing and the selling off of likely that a wealthy individual or colmoney guys behind the company — the newspaper’s former office buildings. lection of such folks would have hedge fund Alden Global Capital — But now that it appears to be ready- emerged to save local daily papers in are looking for an exit. Paton, as I have ing its papers for sale, it is taking their communities. In places like noted in earlier posts, spent several another step down the cost-cutting road Boulder, Longmont and Loveland that years as an investment banker himself. with what is being called “Project would have been expected, but is that So he was a logical CEO for Alden, but Catalyst,” reportedly a $100 million still possible today? probably under more pressure than he company-wide budget slash.

Unfortunately, the very consolidahas let on to clear the tion tactics employed by firm’s financial hurdles Singleton and now in a timely fashion.

Digital First have OF “Ideally, investors blurred the picture. in distressed businesses What exactly would a DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA’S NATIONAL NEWSROOM like Alden (a.k.a vulsale of the Longmont WEDNESDAY AND THE PROBABLE SALE OF ITS ture funds) are looking Times-Call, for instance, 75 DAILY NEWSPAPERS LATER THIS YEAR IS A to squeeze out costs, look like? The paper’s restructure strategically content is provided not SIGNIFICANT JOLT TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE A and sell at a profit only by the small VIABLE BUSINESS MODEL FOR RAPID TRANSafter a few years. remaining Times-Call FORMATION OF LEGACY OPERATIONS IS CLOSE However, if that scestaff but also by the staff nario doesn’t work out, of the Daily Camera, AT HAND.” they are ready to bail The Denver Post and — RICK EDMONDS, MEDIA BUSINESS ANALYST out sooner and take occasionally other newsFOR THE POYNTER Institute their licks. Alden has rooms in the chain. done that once already, The paper’s office selling its controlling building is already on interest in Philadelphia the market to be sold newspapers to local and its $18 million dolinvestors at a 50 percent loss after just On April 2, the Deseret News lar state-of-the-art printing press in two years.” reported that Digital First Media, Berthoud does the printing for several It now appears that Alden is prepwhich owns the Salt Lake Tribune, had of the Prairie Mountain Publishing ping for the big flip. given the Tribune “a mandate to trim newspapers. Could a new owner untancosts” as part of “Project Catalyst.” gle such a comingled operation and PREPPING FOR SALE? Tribune editor and publisher Terry return it to a stand-alone enterprise? It In a recent piece for Huffington Post, Orme reportedly told the Deseret News would be a herculean task to be sure. assistant professor of journalism at that “the Tribune will likely attempt to And the same would be true for anyone Boston’s Northeastern University, Dan navigate an estimated 10 percent budattempting to purchase any individual Kennedy wrote, “One of the biggest get cut by reducing syndication and paper from the cluster, whether it be problems Digital First faces is its cornewsprint costs, and if necessary, by the Daily Camera, Reporter Herald or porate structure. Can for-profit local cutting staff.” the Broomfield Enterprise. journalism truly be reinvented by a Analysts believe that similar cuts are The current condition of the papers national chain whose majority owner — expected to be implemented across all nearly necessitates that they be sold as a Alden Global Capital — is a hedge Digital First papers. group, but at a time when most newspafund? People who invest in hedge funds Mutter describes it this way, “One per chains are unloading not adding are not generally known for their deep DFM project, Project Catalyst, has papers, it could be a challenge. and abiding affection for the idea that swallowed another, Thunderdome.

The Denver Post is a different story. quality journalism is essential to demoCatalyst is aimed at taking more than The Post is a political jewel in a purcratic self-governance. Rather, they $100 million out of the company’s costs ple state. With Colorado’s new status as want their money back — and then … Recent DFM cuts a swing state and its recent trend of some. Preferably as quickly as possible.” in Philadelphia and the Bay Area, elim- going blue still not considered an irreIt was never clear what operating inating dozens of jobs across all diviversible trend, the Post could find itself a expenses Alden Global Capital was sions, are part of that process. Catalyst target for deep-pocketed operatives. going to be able to cut from operations is led by Steve Rossi, a former Knight Philip Anshutz, whose empire was that had been built and run by “Lean Ridder COO, who recently moved into built on oil, now also includes newspaDean” Singleton. In many ways, that same position for DFM.” per holdings including conservative Singleton was a newspaper buyer of the Getting newspapers ready for a sale papers such as the Daily Oklahoman and same ilk as Alden. That’s to say, he is one thing, but selling them is anothcloser to home the Colorado Springs bought cheap and then cut expenses in er. Many analysts have noted that with Gazette, has long been rumored to have every imaginable way, including editori- Alden Global’s Digital First now ownan interest in acquiring the Post. al staff. The only difference being that ing the second largest newspaper chain And the Koch Brothers, who have he held onto the papers and wasn’t in the country, it is unlikely that any recently been rumored to have their eye looking to sell them for a quick profit. one buyer for the entire chain will on the Los Angeles Times or even the Even so, Digital First has managed emerge at any price. This means that to cut expenses at Singleton’s former the papers have a better chance of being See WHAT’S NEXT? Page 16

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entire Tribune Chain including the Chicago Tribune, might see the acquisition of Colorado’s largest daily as a cheap way to potentially swing the outcomes of Colorado elections back to red.

Such well-heeled buyers might even be willing to purchase Digital First’s entire holdings in the region if necessary.

But all such talk is nothing more than speculation at this point. It suffices to say that finding a buyer or buyers for Digital First’s papers may be a long and difficult process in the current environment in which daily newspapers find themselves and due to the comingled condition of the papers.

But no one is rejoicing at what these important local news organizations are facing. Communities need newspapers of record. It doesn’t matter if they are print or digital except for the fact that print can sustain their continued existence and ability to do important journalism and digital can’t, regardless of what the false profits like Paton claim as they destroy one newspaper after another.

Mutter summed it up this way in his April 2 piece. “Because venture investors favor exponential growth in audience and page views over such traditional metrics as revenue and profitability, they are content to underwrite these new digital ventures in the hopes THE HARDER THEY FALL that they will grow to the point they In his tweet that started this article, will merit an IPO or be acquired by a Paton wrote, “Critics gleeful. Supporters well-heeled player.” sad.” Again, Paton has oversimplified Unfortunately for Paton, he picked the issue. No one is rejoicing at the turthe wrong vehicle and the wrong finanmoil within the cial backers to purcompany, the shutsue his digital tering of Project quest.

Thunderdome or Until he nuked FOR PATON, HE PICKED Digital First’s failthe ambitious THE WRONG VEHICLE AND ure to reinvent Thunderdome itself as an ecointeractive publishTHE WRONG FINANCIAL nomically viable ing effort, Paton BACKERS TO PURSUE HIS media company enjoyed telling felDIGITAL QUEST.” that had moved low publishers to beyond its depenstop grousing —ALAN MUTTER, MEDIA dence on declining about the decline ANALYST AND SILICON daily print revenue. in print advertising Yet it’s true some dollars and to start VALLEY CEO people are “gleeful.” “stacking digital But they are dimes.” Although gleeful that Paton Paton’s privately appears to have held company does failed, that he was wrong again, not report its financial results, his not that the company is likely about to actions clearly suggest that the dimes be dismantled and sold off. did not accumulate as fast as dollars Within the newspaper industry, flowed out of the print side of his busiDigital First’s CEO is often viewed as ness, which even in its dissipated state an arrogant self-promoter, long on demands attention because it continues criticism for his peers but short on to produce the preponderance of reveactual accomplishments. He makes nues and profits for his company.” what many consider to be wild, The future of the newspapers in the unsubstantiated claims about how well region may be uncertain, but one thing his company’s transformation from is not; our communities need local daily newspapers in order to remain vibrant print to digital revenues is going and he frequently refers to his peers in the and democratic. There is simply no replacement on the horizon for the industry as stupid, lacking in talent, misinformed and unwilling to do what critical role that they play.

In the end perhaps journalism prois necessary to achieve success. fessor Dan Kennedy summed it up best So yes, when John Paton flails, when he wrote the “Digital First expersome people smile. iment was probably destined to end this For example, Raju Narisetti, senior vice president, strategy, for News Corp, way, as chain ownership generally does … maybe we’ll all come to understand tweeted that “Shock over Project that the best way to reinvent local jourThunderdome is classic case of media nalism is at the local level, by people critics; Twitterati enamored by ‘digital who are rooted in and care about their first’ talk; not looking at economics.” community.”

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Rep says state should study fracking’s impacts on our health

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o Joann Ginal, a simple cians, an economist, a statistician, a repquestion doesn’t always yield resentative for environmental organizaan easy answer. For example: tions and a representative of the oil and If oil and gas production is gas industry. The oversight group would near your house, can it harm have until Dec. 31 to approve a proposyour family? al to collect data from selected commuFor many — like those who voted nities; Feb. 1, 2016, to approve studies for fracking bans — the answer to that of interest; and Jan. 1, 2017, to issue a question seems to be an obvious, “yes.” final report “concerning the significance But for Ginal, a state representative of occurrences of conditions of interest,” from Fort Collins, finding the right according to a legislative analysis. answer is trickier than that. There’s not All the research, which could spark enough research Courtesy of Joann Ginal recommendashowing whethtions for even er there’s a cause more studying, and effect when will cost the it comes to state about fracking and $700,000 over public health, the three-year she says. period, accordIn response, ing to Alex Ginal has craftSchatz, a noned legislation to partisan fiscal research the analyst with the idea. state’s “Truth is, if Legislative you don’t have Council. your health, you Doug don’t have anyFlanders, directhing,” she says. tor of policy and “So it’s worth external affairs knowing the for the answers.”

Colorado Oil Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins, wants the But try con- Rep. and Gas state to study the impacts of oil and gas operations on human health. vincing the oil Association, says and gas industry many in the that more industry believe answers are needed. Lobbyists for the bill is unnecessary because state Noble Energy, Anadarko Petroleum officials are already working to protect Corp., the Bill Barrett exploration corpublic health. poration, the Colorado Oil and Gas “Why is there a need for an overAssociation and others are vying to kill sight committee, let the Colorado Ginal’s House Bill 1297. Others in the Department of Public Health and industry — BP, Encana Oil & Gas Environment do their job uninhibited,” (USA) Inc. and Shell Oil — have lobFlanders says. “They have the expertise byists monitoring the bill. and the experience.”

The bill would require the Colorado He adds: “The study’s oversight Department of Public Health and committee, if staffed as proposed, begins Environment to study and report on with the appearance of being political the health and quality-of-life effects of and thus not neutral or credible.” oil and gas operations in six counties: And the “study is a duplicative Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, effort,” Flanders says, because studies Larimer and Weld. The legislation have either already been done or are would create a scientific oversight group underway. of Legislature- and governor-appointed But Ginal says the bill is meant to members, including at least two physiaddress the questions ordinary

Coloradans may ask about oil and gas operations.

“Our constituents have a right to this information,” she says. Right now, they don’t believe they are being heard.”

Ginal, whose background is in science, adds she was “shocked” to find just a handful of credible government reports on oil and gas operations focused on human health. She could find only a handful of studies worth earmarking — four in Garfield County and more in the town of Erie.

“That’s all I could gather, and the findings were limited,” Ginal says. “The ones in Garfield County focused only on air quality in a limited area, and the ones in Erie were disputed, which causes problems.”

In Erie, a study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found relatively high levels of propane in the atmosphere.

Then the town commissioned Lakewood-based Pinyon Environmental Inc. to do a separate study, which found human health risks low. The opposing findings only fanned the flames of the debate about fracking and health, proving, Ginal says, that the state should play a role in sifting through the research.

Some of the research has generated big headlines, Ginal notes, like recently released research by the Colorado School of Public Health showing an association between congenital heart defects in babies and the presence of oil and gas operations. The birth defects, according to the study, are up to 30 percent more common for babies whose mothers lived within 10 miles of natural gas wells. Ginal echoes concerns raised by the state’s chief medical officer, Larry Wolk, that that study is problematic in several regards, like failing to account for other possible causes of birth defects and for not asking mothers if they lived at multiple addresses during their pregnancies.

Backing Ginal’s legislation are groups like Environment Colorado and Sierra Club Colorado. So are some local governments, especially in areas where operations are expanding or could expand. Boulder County and the city of Boulder Weekly

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Should her bill make it to the governor’s desk, Ginal says she has reason to be optimistic.

“Yes, I believe they are open to it,” Ginal says. “Yes. That’s what I’ve heard.

That’s all I can say right now.”

The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

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Fort Collins both support Ginal’s legislation. Other government entities, including the city of Boulder, where voters in November passed a five-year ban, are watching.

Boulder City Councilman Sam Weaver supports the legislation: “Anything that advances our knowledge is a step in the right direction. I can’t imagine why anyone would oppose this because it is just gathering information.”

Meanwhile, officials in Weld County can imagine a reason to oppose it. None of Weld County’s commissioners were available for an interview, says county spokeswoman Jennifer Finch.

However, Douglas Rademacher, the chairman of the commission, sent Boulder Weekly a brief written statement: “We are opposed to using any more taxpayer money to study something that has already been studied by the private, public and educational sectors.”

Weld borders Boulder County on the east and is home to approximately 20,000 oil and gas wells — more than any other county in the state. The oil and gas biz in Weld is synonymous with a way of life, a place where tax payments from single oil producers can be in the tens of millions of dollars, providing revenue for roads, schools, libraries and fire districts.

HB-1297 faces a long path ahead.

The bill, which will cost $700,000 over three years, only eked its way past the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee last week on a 6-5 party-line vote. Ginal and her fellow Democrats voted for the legislation; Republicans against.

This week, the bill advances to the House Appropriations Committee for debate. If successful, it then moves to the House floor. If passed, it goes to the Senate, where Democrat Irene Aguilar, a medical doctor from Denver, is the co-sponsor.

Even if the bill is approved by the Legislature, it must survive the scrutiny of Gov. John Hickenlooper, a trained oil geologist who supports fracking.

Last year, the Democrat famously claimed during a congressional hearing that fracking fluid is safe enough to drink — and that he even drank some.

That claim sparked a backlash of doubt and ridicule as did the governor’s new air quality regulations when it was realized that the state didn’t have enough inspectors to enforce the new regs and that the Environmental Defense Fund, who had helped to negotiate the news rules, was being funded by a number of major players

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hey all agree: there was more work than time to do it — the students of Damian Tate’s Career Digital Arts program and Heather Riffel’s Urban Agriculture program at Arapahoe Ridge High Arapahoe Ridge high school students School had seven weeks, created a short film that looks at how a warming climate has created a longfrom Jan. 6 to Feb. 21, to term drought that scientists believe will make a short film about decrease agricultural yields worldwide. how climate change affects agriculture.

That’s a tall order for a group of teenagers, many of whom had never made a film before.

But seven weeks later, they had produced a four minute and 18 second documentary for a student film contest hosted end, you’d learn more about climate change than peoby the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative ple would imagine. It was cool to see how different Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences’ (CIRES). “Lens on Climate Change” asked eight mid- groups took different spins on topics. Some took a spin on how snowpack is more affected, or flooding, or dle and high schools from across Colorado to produce drought.” three- to five-minute films about how climate change Manhattan Middle School’s film won for “Best affects their lives and their community. Each team was Scientific Content” at the middle school level. paired with a CU graduate student who helped guide Nederland Middle/High School also participated in the budding filmmakers to scientists who helped them learn and communicate about their topic. the competition.

Despite time constraints and learning curves, The Arapahoe Ridge film takes a look at how a Arapahoe Ridge’s film, “Lens on Climate Change: warming climate has created a long-term drought that Impact on Agriculture,” won “Most Entertaining” and scientists believe will decrease agricultural yields “Most Creative” at the high school level as well as worldwide. Here in Colorado, snow packs melt earlier and evaporate sooner, meaning less water is available “Best Film” overall in the competition. for crops.

“Everybody, all the schools, did a great job,” says The students in the Arapahoe Ridge film crew are Tate. “I think if you watch all the films from start to

Short film, big message

part of Boulder’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program, which provides high school students with the opportunity to receive a certificate in programs such as health occupations, cosmetology or criminal justice. Some of the students in the film crew go full-time to Arapahoe, while other students come to the campus for two hours a day for their Career and Technical Education class.

Heather Riffel, Arapahoe Ridge’s Urban Agriculture teacher, says that CIRES researcher and Boulder Valley School District board member Lesley Smith came to Riffel in November suggesting that her agriculture students take part in the “Lens on Climate Change” film contest. By January, when the new semester started, Riffel was able to assemble a group of interested students.

“My students had just started a class in urban agriculture, and of course the first thing we talked about was water and its relationship to agriculture. So it worked for our curriculum,” says Riffel.

But she saw a larger opportunity for collaboration, bringing in Tate’s digital arts class to be videographers.

“In the end, my students had to be able to communicate scientific material and then interpret that to the videographers, who might not know the content and

High school students explore climate change and agriculture in award-winning short film

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Grier, the program coordinator for the Ocean Ambassador Program. “All this water is either fueling different communities along the way, fueling the The Intergovernmental Panel on estuaries and then eventually leading Climate Change just released its comto the ocean. Promoting the further prehensive conclusions on climate understanding and education of this change research, which indicated connectivity is really important.” that both mitigation and adaptation The deadline for applications for this will be necessary in order to insure a Ocean Ambassador Program is April 11. more secure future.

The program, which lasts five weeks, is The report, approved by represenThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report funded by the National Marine tatives from 195 nations around the compares projections for global warming under a low-emisSanctuary Foundation and aims to world, stated that from their review of sion mitigation scenario and a high-emission scenario. attract candidates from all cultural climate change research they conbackgrounds and professions who are cluded that the evidence of climatepassionate about ocean conservation. changing impacts is most prevalent NEW OCEAN AMBASSADORS PROGRAM Attendees of the program will experience and obvious among natural ecosystems.

INVITES COLORADANS TO SPEAK UP FOR hands-on experimental work, field trips and Scientific research has indicated that many OCEANS an array of lectures delivered by members species have shifted their geographic Colorado Ocean Coalition members of the ocean protection movement, the ranges, seasonal activities, migration patassert that their new Ocean Ambassador National Marine Sanctuary Program and terns, abundances and species interactions Program couldn’t have come at a more regional water quality and watershed in response to climate change. opportune time, considering that the annu- experts.

A concern depicted in the report was al nation-wide Graduates receive a cerhow climate change has increased temwater shortages tification of compleImage courtesy of Eye Fathom Photography peratures. Rising temperatures globally are are becoming a tion and have a responsible for glacial melt and permafrost common crisis and 50-hour commitment thawing, and both glaciers and permafrost water pollution and to their choice of conare essential for our planet’s water storage. ocean acidification servation work. The According to the report, in a little over a have become a goal of the program is millennium the planet could see the near critical global issue. to give attendees the complete loss of the Greenland ice sheet, The program will extensive knowledge which would cause up to a seven-meter educate attendees and communication sea level rise across the globe. The report about marine conskills that will help them details impacts to be expected on crops, servation problems become an educator animals and weather if emission are mitiand solutions, and recruiter for water gated or not. If emissions are mitigated, the watershed health, MANI/PEDI conservation efforts in temperature increase will be a few marine sanctuary their community. The degrees, and if no action is taken, the tem- protection and legprogram will continue perature increase could be up to almost 12 islation and how to to support graduates’ degrees in the Northern Hemisphere. best utilize social Colorado Ocean Coalition is announcing its new growth by providing “It’s not a choice between cutting emis- media to enhance Ocean Ambassador Program. outreach materials, sions and building resilience anymore. We conservation such as water quality need to do both, and we need to do them efforts. monitoring equipment, fast,” Rebecca Shaw, lead author of “One of the Colorado Ocean speaking engagements and scheduling Chapter 16, Adaptation, Opportunities, Coalition’s biggest mottos is, ‘Just because support.

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Snody waters plants after talking super depressing.” about her debut filmmaking Tate echoes this Tough subject matexperience. sentiment, saying that ter didn’t make the experience less positive for his students it was a for the students. lesson in client-based work, where the “I think one of my favorite moments end goal can be a moving target as a cliwhile working on this project was when ent’s concept shifts during production.

I realized I’d gotten to the point where “I think we as a class didn’t quite I’m not learning how to make things understand the end goal,” Tate says of anymore, I’m utilizing all the things I’ve his digital arts students. Tate adds that learned in school up to this point to this spring is only the second full educate people,” says Brennan. “I just semester that Boulder CTE has hosted remember being a little kid and watchthe Career Digital Arts program, making those educational videos that the ing the learning curve that much older kids had made and thinking, steeper.

‘That’s so sweet,’ and now I’m working “I think being able to communicate on one of those videos and I helped in two totally separate languages was make it. It was awesome.” certainly an issue,” says Riffel. “[The Tate “put on his teacher hat” and agriculture students] didn’t understand the video editing aspect, and [the digital said the best part of the experience was the collaboration he saw between the arts students] didn’t understand a lot of students from two very different technithe scientific concepts, particularly the cal programs. relationship with agriculture. So we “We struggled, at first, to figure out were always showing each other half a what our purpose and what our end picture.”

Yet through the difficulty of learning goal was, but then to have the collaboration from the two subjects come to communicate needs and develop a together and come out with a final story, Digital Arts student William Carson says that there was consensus on product that did very well at the film festival, I think that was incredibly end product. rewarding,” Tate says.

“I think what everyone had in mind Lisa Collins, communications assisis we’re not going to make a video tant for the Boulder Valley School where we talk at you, we’re just eduDistrict, is currently making a compilacating,” says Carson. tion of all the student videos. She says Brennan and other agriculture stushe hopes the compilation will air next dents say they realized that working week on BV22, the school district’s eduwith students without a background in cational television channel. agriculture helped create a more Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com understandable video on what is ultiBoulder Weekly

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Science of climbing class brings bouldering experience to kids

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n a chilly April morning, a school bus pulled up to the Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette with some unusual cargo. It wasn’t full of children. It was, in fact, emptied of its seats and lined instead with a floor of padding covered in red carpet and walls layered in plywood over a reinforced steel frame and covered in hundreds of rock climbing holds.

For the second time, The Women’s Wilderness Institute’s bouldering bus was coming to the school to bring to a group of students what many of them couldn’t otherwise get to — a chance to try bouldering, the low-level, ropes-free version of climbing.

With the Flatirons still visible on the horizon,

it’s tough to imagine that any outdoor sports are out of reach for these kids, but fewer than half of the 20 fourth graders who circle up in the gym that morning raise their hands when asked if they’ve climbed before — and some of them are counting climbing on playgrounds. Most of them list off outdoor activities closer to home as their favorites — walking, climbing trees, biking, swimming, fishing, doing cartwheels. When Meghan Mosher, field staff for The Women’s Wilderness Institute, asks if anyone has bouldered in a bus, their eyes widen.

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brought along as a prop for talking about the adaptations that allow an animal to survive in the high alpine environment, and asks, “What kind of cow is this?”

“That’s no cow at all,” says Molly Daley, Colorado Mountain Club’s Youth Education Program coordinator and lead instructor.

The Colorado Mountain Club and The Women’s Wilderness Institute have partnered to teach kids a course called “The Science of Climbing,” which gives them a chance to learn about the biology of what makes a good climber, mountain goats and humans included.

“The Science of Climbing helps kids understand the real world applications of science, and how science applies to their everyday lives,” says Shari Leach, executive director of The Women’s Wilderness Institute. “You could do the Science of Kickball as well, and talk about angles, force, vectors, etc.

But climbing is a more individual sport, which allows each student to connect with it personally and very directly.”

The class meets Colorado state education standards for both science and physical education.

“It’s been amazing for us to see how much the girls in the classes enjoy the climbing, particularly when they get to try it without any boys around,” Leach says. “The girls are also pushed to be more engaged in the science portion of the program without any boys in the room. We believe the Science of Climbing program is a very hands on way to meet STEM goals and objectives, and to inspire girls to think outside of existing social and cultural norms in the areas of science as well as physical body standards.”

Engaging a younger generation in the outdoors is an issue conservationists and outdoors enthusiasts have been working to address all the way to the

Students learn the basics of climbing, including finding hand and foot holds and spotting to keep one another safe.

highest levels of government. In October, Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell announced plans to create opportunities for 10 million young people to play outdoors and provide nature-based educational opportunities to 10 million K-12 students. If this group of fourth graders follows the trends of the Millennial generation, currently ages 18 to 33, despite caring about the planet, they’ll grow up disconnected from their natural world.

According to The Outdoor Foundation outdoor industry advocacy group, participation rates in outdoor activities rose in 2011 — a change the organization attributed to nationwide efforts to reconnect youth in the outdoors — and remained stable through 2012, but participation numbers are still lower than they were in 2006.

“Research dictates that building the critical connection to nature at an early age is vital to he enjoyment of the outdoors later in life,” reads the 2012 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report.

“And, youth report spending time with family and friends as a top reason why they enjoy the outdoors. So, to engage youth, entire families and whole communities must emphasize the importance of the outdoors as a lifestyle choice.”

Outdoor organizations have also been working to welcome changing demographics in younger generations — 71 percent of youth and young adult participants were Caucasian in 2012, according to the Outdoor Industry Association. At Sanchez Elementary, 70 percent of the students are Hispanic.

“Looking forward, a growth strategy focused on today’s youth and future generations of outdoor participants will be critical to reconnecting Americans with nature and healthier lifestyles,” says a 2013 report from the Outdoor Industry Association.

Both The Women’s Wilderness Institute and the Colorado Mountain Club have existing infrastructure for getting kids outside. The Women’s

Wilderness Institute runs summer camps for girls that offer varying levels of commitments to time in the great outdoors, from rock climbing day camps to overnight backpacking trips, and offers a program specifically for Latina girls. The Colorado Mountain Club’s youth education programs include after school programs, such as climbing clubs, at Jefferson County schools and use the American Mountaineering Center in Golden as a base for summer camps and courses.

“One of the goals for the year was to engage more Boulder County schools,” Daley says. “We wanted to kind of make it a little bit unique, and bring the science of climbing to Title I schools and schools that may not be able to get to the climbing wall at the American Mountaineering Center.”

Title I provides monetary assistance to improve learning opportunities at high-povery schools. Sanchez is one of eight schools in Boulder County classified as Title I. “Because this program has focused on Title I schools in Boulder County, it’s giving the chance to climb for the first time to many of the students we’re serving,” Leach says.

The Colorado Mountain Club was awarded a grant through the Millennium Trust at The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County to bring the “Science of Climbing” to schools in Boulder County. The Women’s Wilderness Institute was asked to join the project so their “bouldering bus” could provide a place for kids to immediately put some of the science they learn to the test — specifically, that biology is on their side, and anyone can climb.

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breaking it down to why you can use gravity, a series of experiments with your body and why your body has various limb sizes as they build their evolved to have this characteristics that own “climbing animal,” a dose of enable you to be a climber,” Daley says. straight-armed pushups and an intro“We’ll do some activities toward the duction to “Nanny,” the taxidermied end — having them hang on a straight mountain goat loaned by the Denver arm, or a straight arm pushup versus Museum of Nature and Science, they’re having it bent — and kind of show how finally ready to explore the bus. their body and their skeleton is really “Our intention really with having accommodating to climbing, and that it … was to be able to bring climbing gives them a little bit more, ‘Oh, it’s not to people who otherwise wouldn’t get just about me needing to be super to have it,” says Lori Mathews, marstrong or super athletic. It’s something keting coordinator for Women’s that’s inherent Courtesy of The Women’s Wilderness Institute Wilderness. in our evoluThe bus was tion,’ and I built by a think that’s current cool for kids Women’s to be able to Wilderness see and get a board memhandle on.” ber while she Students, was living in divided by North gender (and Carolina, Daley starts where there with the girls), weren’t places circle up to rock climb. around a white After she board with a moved, and ring of photos the bus fell around two into disuse, columns: Women’s “climbers” and Wilderness staff were “non-climbable to fly out ers.” to retrieve it “We’re just and bring it going to start to Boulder. It talking about After a lesson in the science of climbing, kids put their own biology to the test in the bouldering bus. has visited the physical students at adaptations Emerald and that certain Columbine elementary schools, in animals have developed and evolved addition to a previous group of kids at over time to be a climber,” Daley says.

Sanchez.

“So this is just a little interactivity to Once in the bus, the girls look get kids thinking about what sorts of around, part excited and part nervous animals are climbers.”

— which is the report they give to Hands fly up, eager to try, and the Mosher when she does a verbal checkgirls come up one at a time to move in on how they’re all feeling. animals to their respective columns. A She covers the basics quickly — big horn sheep, mountain goat, human hand holds versus foot holds and how and sloth move quickly to the “climbto fall.

The girls practice tiny falls ers” column. The non-climber column with shrieks and giggles. Each is gets a turtle, pufferfish, cow, pig, hippo instructed on safely spotting and given and giraffe. And oops, a bunny goes to the rules — always have a spotter, take the climber column and a bear goes to turns, spread out and keep your feet non-climber. lower than your head.

“Do any of you disagree?” Daley One is so eager she jumps onto the asks. Discussion ensues — frogs should wall in purple, sparkly ballet flats rather move from non-climber column, than wait to borrow a pair of climbing they’ve got sticky feet that let them shoes from a bucket of loaners. climb well. The bear gets moved over, They begin tentatively with just a as does a snow leopard — their claws few holds, working a little way up let them climb. Clearly, we’re on to the toward the five-foot-tall ceiling on the fact that climbing has something to do bus, and toward the end of the session with hands, feet or paws. some are climbing all the way onto the After a crash course in center of Boulder Weekly

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How and why zombies have gone mainstream is explored in the film festival’s opening night feature, the documentary film Doc of the Dead.

Key props from the film Oculus.

Among the immersive events at the Stanley Film Festival is a zombie walk.

Origins of evil, zombies and a film festival on the rise

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Stanley Film Festival lures in horror fans and filmmakers

by Elizabeth Miller

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t’s a cool spring evening with a bit of a breeze coming in off the mountains — just enough to slam a few doors and lift a few curtains. Old iron gates swing on their hinges in the courtyard.

Though it’s too dark to clearly see the surrounding peaks, there’s a suggestion of cloud cover in the sky, a storm blanketing the peaks. At dusk, it was just beginning to spit snow down on the mountain roads that led into town, and who knows what condition they’re in now. The thought that an escape route may not be clear sinks heavily into the gut.

It’s an ideal setting for the preview night for the Stanley Film Festival, Colorado’s new horror filmfocused festival, which is slated to be held at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park April 24-27. At the near sold-out advance screening of the horror film Oculus, director Mike Flanagan delves into the origin story for his latest film. The concept nearly died — it was tossed out as an afterthought in Flanagan’s meeting with would-be producer Jason Blum. The idea begins with the Overlook Hotel, the insidiously evil setting for The Shining that drove Jack to chase Wendy and Danny with an ax and has made the historic Stanley Hotel, inspiration and setting for the book and film, a coveted visit for horror fans. Flanagan’s film explores Boulder Weekly

the answer to, “What if you had a portable Overlook Hotel?”

In Oculus, the Overlook is a mirror, bought to adorn a father’s office wall, that slowly poisons the minds of father and mother and drives them to horrific ends while their terrified children watch (see full review page 51). Then the conversation turns to the origin story of the mirror itself — a background Flanagan says he deliberately omitted.

“If you’re dealing with evil, of course we all want to understand where it came from,” he says. “But in my experience as a viewer … I think it’s scarier if you don’t know.”

Just like the evil we encounter in real life, he says, evil in films ought to appear in ways we don’t fully understand.

“The nature of evil is something that is at the heart of what’s being explored in The Shining, and it’s always going to permeate the conversation here,” says Landon Zakheim, festival programmer for the Stanley Film Festival, run for the first time this year by the Denver Film Society. And so, he says, will a film that pays tribute to The Shining in some way — references to the film are so pervasive in horror movies that it’s almost inescapable.

“It’s just one of those movies, which is nice, because we’ll always be able to find something that pays homage to The Shining that is also a great film we can showcase,” Zakheim says.

And would a filmmaker ever be reluctant to ship a film — a new film, because the Denver Film Society has an unwritten rule about playing only films that haven’t been released yet — to debut in the tiny mountain town of Estes Park? Unlikely.

“We’ve had great luck getting films like [Oculus] and from these really contemporary icons or budding icons in horror,” Zakheim says. “I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that horror filmmakers are inherently excited by the idea of this festival. It doesn’t seem like the world necessarily needs another film festival, but I think what we’re doing here is already inherently exciting to people. We’re doing something else, we’re doing something unique, and so we can attract and will continue to attract films like that.”

While the 19 horror films screened at the festival form the centerpiece, there’s no denying that some share of the focus will be on the setting for the festival, one of the more notoriously haunted hotels in the country.

Programmers have included an array of events to accompany the films, among them, a zombie walk, a Shininginspired “big wheel race” (picture Danny’s tricycle), a murder mystery dinner, horror film trivia and a live radio play run by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid that’s expect to hit at the heart of what horror is.

“We know that this place has kind of a magical calling to fans and to filmmakers and even to the casually curious, so we have this opportunity to create a convergence where all of these elements can come together at once and have a larger celebration,” Zakheim says. “The destination aspect also lends itself to feel a bit like a vacation. You certainly feel a bit like you’re elsewhere here and we can take advantage of the little secrets and nooks and crannies in here too and then do something that other festivals can’t do at all, which is create a bevy of really exciting, immersive events.”

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traces the roots unusually supportive of one of a current pop another’s work, in culture pheaddition to being nomena — polite, jovial and zombies. surprisingly “I’ve been squeamish. making pop culThey’ve got a ture-related ready-made comdocumentary munity that lends films now for itself particularly about 12 years, well to a destinaso I think it’s an tion festival setunderstatement ting. And yes, to say I’m they’ve all heard obsessed with of the Stanley. pop culture,” They’re also Philippe says.

George A. Romero is perhaps best known for originating the zombie apocalypse horror prone to being “So that also story in Night of the Living Dead. historians (hence means that I the horror trivia). look at trends “I think, because horror filmmakers and I think it’s been very, very difficult this one was the spark of a great idea are such a jolly bunch generally, that to not notice the past few years that and we’re glad to get in.” there is always going to be a celebratory zombies were on the rise in a very, very The film society’s official place at tone at the festival, and also because big way. So really in a nut shell, I set out the wheel was settled a relatively short camp and kitsch is such a large part of to make this documentary to explore the time ago, giving staff a small window in horror, as well, that there is a fun elequestions, why are zombies so popular which to plan. But they’ll start work on ment that we are always going to have today? Why have they gone from fringe the 2015 festival, Erickson says, the day and is certainly what we seek with our culture to mainstream?” after this year’s festival ends. events,” Zakheim says.

For answers, he turned to interviews Among the changes to come is a The origin story for the festival itself switch from a curated festival, as this with George A . Romero, creator of the begins with John Cullen, owner of the year’s is, to one that takes open submis- original zombie film, 1968’s Night of the Stanley and founder of the Grand Living Dead; Greg Nicotero, executive sions. The 2014 line up draws big Heritage Hotel Group, who had the names from big festivals, Zakheim says, producer of The Walking Dead, the mostidea of using the iconic hotel as the but with an international flair and some watched drama in basic cable history; Simon Pegg, co-writer and star in Shaun backdrop for a film festival inspired by experimental films that may appeal to of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s The Shining, and approached the the University of Colorado Boulder End; Bruce Campbell of chainsawColorado Film Commission. The film crowd. limbed glory in the Evil Dead, Evil Dead Commission works closely with the “As a curated festival, everything II and Army of Darkness trio; and Max Denver Film Society, the largest film we’re playing has a pedigree,” Zakheim organization in the state, and Colorado says. “We’re playing a lot more repertory Brooks, creator of the comics Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman titles than we did last year as well Among the bigger surprises in the helped draw the Film Society in as a because we feel it’s important, especially filmmaking, he says, is Romero’s take on partner for the inaugural Stanley Film with the history of the hotel, to honor special offer: $5 uplift tickets for zombies now, which is to say disconFestivaltheinflood-distressed 2013. the kind of heritage and history of horat hotrize.com nected and disbelieving that something “After the first year and the success ror, especially because horror fans tend that originated in a film he made with a of that, I think everyone knew — it was to be historians.” bunch of friends has become what borlike this crystalline moment — this is The features recently announced going to be something big,” says Britta for the festival include Dead Snow: Red ders on a franchise.

“He loves his fans … but he does Erickson, Denver Film Society festival vs. Dead, a follow up to the cult hit by not understand how Hollywood is director. “So we started discussions with Tommy Wirkola in which Colonel banking on zombies being what they John Cullen about helping grow it, with Herzog leads a Nazi zombie army; are,” says Philippe, pointing to the film the capacity we have as an organization Open Windows featuring Elijah Wood, adaptation of World War Z with its $190 with a full-time staff to move things who will be recognized alongside forward and give it even more support.”

SpectreVision cofounders Daniel Noah million budget and Brad Pitt in a starring role. “It’s really interesting, but it’s The Denver Film Society signed a and Josh Waller with the festival’s also touching in a way. It’s this creator three-year contract to the run the festi“Visionary Award”; vampire mockuwho doesn’t comprehend how this thing val, and mapped out a trajectory for the mentary What We Do in the Shadows; that he did has become so huge. It’s programming and event content, as well and retrospective screenings of The kind of beautiful, in a way.” as the artistic spirit of the festival, that is Fall of the House of Usher, a silent film As for the questions of how and why expected to see full maturation around from 1928 played at the festival with a zombies have made this rise to promiyear five. live score, Gremlins (1984), nence that prompted the film, he says, “Denver Film Society just felt like Sleepwalkers (1992) and a 40th annithere hasn’t been any one single answer. this was the right festival for us to grow versary restoration of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).

For starters, it’s fun. into. We do so many already, we don’t But the festival kicks off with an “People really enjoy just being zomlook at these things lightly. We don’t opening night feature that digs into, bies and going on zombie walks and just decide to do anything that comes what else?, origin stories. In Doc of the our way,” Erickson says. “We get prosee STANLEY Page 36 Dead, director Alexandre O. Philippe posed a lot of things, but we know that Boulder Weekly

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One zombie expert even connected zombie walks and movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring — 10,000 zombies walking in the street is a tacit message to government that revolution is still possible.

“I think the zombie is so interesting because of course the zombie is us, you know, and I think it’s a way for us to exorcise the fear, we’re going to essentially be this thing that one day we’re all going to be — which is dead,” Philippe says. “So I think it’s a way to exorcise that fear because I think we’re all afraid of death, to a certain extent.”

Do we need to go on to say there will be plenty to discuss at the festival’s film panels? Probably not.

Philippe, who also made The People vs. George Lucas, has a standing relationship with Denver Film Society staff and they’ve shown 10 of his films in the Starz Denver Film Festival over the last decade, he says. They asked to see his latest film when he completed it.

“It didn’t take them very long to say ‘OK, we’d like to program it,’” Philippe recounts. “And I was actually really, really pleased that they were wanting to screen it at the Stanley. ... I just think, in a few years, that festival is going to be huge. It’s a combination, to me, of

the location and what it represents, what they’re doing, the fact that they’re going beyond the idea of a film festival and they’re creating some events, and then the fact that it’s going to be a horror film festival with a very small, kind of focused programming.”

Right, the location.

There’s little in the origin story for the Stanley Hotel that belies the storied presence it now occupies in the minds of horror film aficionados and paranormal activity would-be investigators.

The hotel was built by F.O. Stanley, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis, given six months to live and moved to Colorado in 1903 to help increase that lifespan. It worked — by 37 years. Time enough for his wife, Flora, to convince him to build a “summer home” to entice a social scene to the otherwise quiet valley.

The hotel’s supposed hauntings don’t stem so much from a grisly history as much as the persistent presence of early residents. The owner’s piano-playing wife or perhaps their regular visitor, American composer John Philip Sousa, left behind a piano that seems to play itself. One of the longest-termed employees of the Stanley, former head chamber maid Elizabeth Wilson, turned down beds for decades in the presidential suite, what is now the famed room 217, and was caught, but only injured, in a gas explosion while lighting a lantern.

Lights are said to flicker in that room. It was in that room that Stephen King stayed for a sleepless night said to inspire The Shining. Children were let loose to play on the hotel’s diminutive fourth floor for their family’s threemonth stay at the hotel, and Ryan Gaterman, Stanley Hotel manager, claims the front desk receives two or three calls a week from fourth floor residents with complaints of children play-

ing in the hallways late into the night.

Guiding a ghost tour for the hotel, Gaterman takes guests to the basement and shows them the pillars of rock that go almost up to the floorboards of the first story rooms, directly beneath the spiral staircases said to frequently be spotted with an orb or two in photographs. The rock, mostly a dusty tan, he points out, has little flecks of metallic sheen — pyrite, and there’s quartz, too.

The conductive quartz and pyrite create a base for a loop that circles up the twin spiral staircases in the hotel and across the fourth floor, Gaterman says.

It’s like a magnet, or a record.

Things that occur, reoccur.

“Had the hotel had a traditional foundation, it might not be haunted,” he says.

“I think the nice thing about that history here is that we don’t know if that’s true,” Zakheim says. “That’s a theory. People want to create answers.

It’s human nature to want to solve problems. … I think, yeah, people are looking for answers, and that’s a theory, but I think there’s enough skepticism of that theory that the search for why are there ghosts here and what are they doing can go on.”

Though he’s gone looking for ghosts himself, even taking filmmakers on a late-night tour of the hotel last year searching for a paranormal experience, so far, he says, he’s come up short.

“I have not experienced anything paranormal, but you know what, it’s because I want to so badly,” he says. “I feel like the magic always comes when you least expect it, and you can’t go looking for it.”

While ghostly sightings may not be a guarantee at the Stanley, the film festival looks to have a staying power similar to some of those former residents.

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atie Herzig reflects back on everything she had to endure before making her new record, Walk Through Walls — especially the death of her mother in 2011, as she was preparing for her last tour. Herzig is candid about one of her biggest

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“I don’t think it was that I wouldn’t ever write again; I knew I had to,” she says. “But having to sing and perform these songs? That was a fear of mine.”

And before she could even think about performing, there was the issue of actually writing something. Herzig went nine months without writing any songs, and when she finally realized it was time to start, the prospect of doing so was daunting. Fortunately for Herzig, once she got going, she gradually started to heal.

“I think clearing my emotional palette would be a good Katie Herzig’s latest album pushed the line for how willing she was to share her feelings after the death of her mother. way to think of it for me,” Herzig says of her mindset heading into the making of Walk. “Once I got through that early stage, it became what songwriting has always been for me, “When you start an album, it has this unlimited potential which is a combination of my life, what is happening, and to be anything you want it to be,” she says, “and when it gets what I’m observing.” towards the end and you start to see what it’s become, you Walk, which came out earlier in April, is an intriguing have to come to terms with what it is and let go of everylook at a life in flux. For Herzig — who was born in thing else it could have been. I never know exactly what to California, spent most of her childhood in Fort Collins, expect, but when I start to see what it is, then I have to start graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder and to wrap myself around what it is because I’m going to have to then moved to Nashville a decade ago — transitions are live with that for years!” nothing new, and the record dives into her attempts to find Owning your sound can be fun if it takes some unexpecther bearings again. From the smoky, warped ed turns, but owning your words can be a difsynth-laden opener “Frequencies” where she ferent subject altogether, even for songwriters.

ON THE BILL: Katie sings about allowing herself to love enough Where do you draw the line with regard to Herzig plays the Fox to risk her heart being broken, to the fun what you are willing to share? Do you even Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, on Thursday, April and sexy “Drug,” which centers on being so have a line? When it came to writing songs 17. Doors at 8:30 p.m., show deep in the throes of love that you cannot for this album, Herzig engaged a variety of at 9 p.m. Tickets are $14. possibly free yourself from its grasp, Walk perspectives on this subject. explores the past, the future and what we do “At the beginning, I had this attitude like, in the present to help us move from one to ‘Am I really saying this?’” she admits. “And the other. then [it became], ‘I don’t care. I’m going to say it.’ And then The album’s wide-ranging musical framework also mirother times it was like, ‘Oh, okay! I’ll let that be what it is rors Herzig’s personal growth and adventurous side. While because apparently I don’t know how to say it any other there are moments on Walk that recall some of Herzig’s way!’”

And now that the record is complete and out there for ebullient hits like “Free My Mind” or “Hey Na Na” — the the world to hear, it’s time to play the songs live. Herzig ambient, echoing pop track “Summer” is a fine example — knows it will not be easy, but she is ready to give it a shot some of the tracks are more subdued, employ unique perbecause the payoff could be great. cussive elements and have a stripped down, “less is more” “I know it’s going to be a challenge, but I’m looking foraesthetic. Herzig’s willingness to take a slightly different ward to sharing those songs because I know that everyone tack with certain aspects of this album not only represents experiences loss, so people really connect and respond to her ever-broadening creative horizon, but also her openness to accept songs for what they are instead of trying to make that,” says Herzig. “It’s a good thing to challenge myself.” them something else.

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The Boulder County Bombers are hosting an invitational tournament on April 12 and the first bout will start at 5 p.m.

The BCB recognizes anti-bullying heroes during their halftime shows as part of their anti-bullying campaign. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

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Everton Blender. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill,

Thursday, April 10

1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

music Algorhythm Trio. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Billy Shaddox. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Mike Munson & Jake Llika. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook

Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Bluegrass Pick . 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

The Polish Ambassador with Liminus. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids

Ragged Union. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave.,

and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Dexter Payne Quartet . 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broad-

way St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Author and review writer Colson Whitehead will be discussing racial tensions in contemporary literature, along with his own experience as an author. Whitehead has continued to attract awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, and was a New York Times bestseller for his book Zone One.

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Saturday, April 12: Riff Raff. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder.

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Thursday, April 10: Colson Whitehead.

Norlin Library, Center for British and Irish Studies, M549, 303-492-7521.

Riff Raff has made a name for himself as a “shamelessly eccentric” white rapper rocking corn-rows and pimpedout grills, often custommade with bling-bling to match the color of his hair. His lyrics and music videos are just about as freaky as his outfits, claiming lines like: “Slapped a bitch on purpose and didn’t say sorry” (“Cookie Crisp”), and “I live the life of a Tampax tampon.

fun Sunday, April 13: Game of Thrones Viewing Party. 6 p.m. The Armoury, 2048 Larimer St., Denver, 303-2950215.

Every Sunday Game of Thrones fans unite for the screening the newest episode along with DJ performers, cartoonist battles and drink specials. To add to the nerd-tastic time, the band H2Awesome plays as part of a pre-show, and there are free blood shots every time a main character dies.

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Experience the Dungeon

Sessions are $100/hour for April at Mistress January Frost’s new play space. Play for 1 hour…play for 5!

arts American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through May 10.

Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Through April 13.

EcoCreations5 — Longmont Council for the Arts. 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Ed Tangen, the Pictureman.

Boulder Public Library, Carnegie branch for Local History. 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110.

Through April 19.

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Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through June 15.

Oil Paintings by Jan Burch. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000.

Through May 29 One Thing Leads to Another. BMoCA, Macky, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633.

Photography — Features the work of Kate Zari Roberts. NCAR. 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through PHOTO Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997), Head—Red and Yellow, 1962. Oil on canvas; 48 x 48 in. Collection May 31.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1962. © 2014 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photograph

by Tom Loonan.

Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through July 13.

Pastels and Digital Art — Artists Terrihammer. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive., Boulder, 303-497-1000.

Through May 31.

PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection.

CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 21.

Erick C. Johnson. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through May 4.

Paintings by Elen Feinberg.

NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000.

Through May 29.

Roy Lichtenstein is one of the artists A Language of featured at Denver Art Museum’s Modern Structure — Art- Masters series. ist Derrick Velasquez. Boulder Rebranded: PolMuseum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., ish Film Posters for the American Western.

Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 1.

The Land, The Space, The Square — Artist Anibal Catalan. Boulder Museum of ContempoSeen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. rary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Through April 13.

Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features Spring 2014 MFA Exhibition—CU Art Muthe work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 seum. 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Through April 17.

March 30.

Stories in Print — Features the work of CynModern Masters: 20th Century Icons from thia Brinich-Langlois, The Dairy Center for the the Albright-Knox Art Gallery — Features Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. works collected by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more. Denver Art Museum, 100 Wes Magyar: Means to an End. Arvada Center W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Through June 8.

Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 4.

New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA

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Sacrebleu! 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Smack Thompson . 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,

1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

The Sweet Lillies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.

First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Tyler Walker Band. 9 p.m. Hoffbrau, 7699 West 88th Ave., Westminister, 303-4227755.

Vinyette . 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl

St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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music Brad Upton Quartet . 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Cowboy Dave Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

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

The Chainsmokers. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park

Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Girls on Top. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Poetry Reading . 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee,

210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Jack Hadley. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-4492911.

Friday, April 11

Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S Boulder Weekly

Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614.

Kristina Murray. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Martian Acres. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing

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

Wild Road Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Company, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Mark’s Midnight Carnival Show. 10 p.m.

events

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Miles Wide Band . 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 13th St., Boulder.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m.

Molly Kollier. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-887-2371.

New Speedway Boogie. 10 p.m. The Lazy

Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Casino Royale Gala . 5 p.m. Broomfield Cham-

Papa Juke. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Con-

ber of Commerce, 2095 W 6th Ave., Broomfield, 303-466-1775.

Rocktin Grove. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Colorado Conservatory of Dance Adventure BASH!. 6 p.m. Broomfield Chamber

fections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Selasee and the Fafa Family. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-BREW.

Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Swing St. Vrain. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Sweet Spot Trio. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine

Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.

events Brewing With Friends. 11:30 a.m. The Post

Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette.

The Edge of Us. The Schiff Dance Collective.

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

Metamorphoses. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre

of Commerce, 2095 W. 6th Ave., Broomfield, 303-466-1775.

The Edge of Us. The Schiff Dance Collective. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Metamorphoses. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Murder in the Haunted Mansion. 2 p.m.

Adams Mystery Playhouse, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver, 303-455-1848.

Resonance Women’s Chorus: Speechless. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421

Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Sunday, April 13 music

at CU Boulder, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Anonymous Contributors. 12:30 p.m. Fox

Tango Practica. 8 p.m. Boulder Tango Studio,

Andrew Wynne-Solo Acoustic. 1 p.m.

6185 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B, Boulder.

Saturday April 12 music Americana Highway. 6:30 p.m. St Julien

Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Casual Sinners. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355.

Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Morrison Inn, 301 West Bear Creek Ave., Morrison, 303-697-6600.

Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bonnie & the Bluegrass Clydes. 6 p.m.

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

Guild Of Ages. 9:30 p.m. Hiccups Bar and Grill, 7980 Sheridan Blvd., Arvada, 303-429-9523.

Dean Himes. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Com-

Ian McFeron and Alisa Milner . 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Doc HaZe. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine

Lowland Hum. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

pany, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

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

G Jai Jook Joint. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Guerilla Milkshake . 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Jaden Carlson Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera

House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

JV3. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and

Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Parkin Lot. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Matt Skinner Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Randall Dubis. 5 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken

Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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

Traditional Irish Music Open Session.

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

Friday, April 25 * Boulder Theater

The Whale Tales. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next

Tickets: www.bouldertheater.com * 2034 14th St * 303-786-7030

Door], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5973.

The Well Diggers. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand

Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

events Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. see EVENTS Page 48

19 Breweries * $2 Pints * Doors @ 8pm Participating Breweries:

Asher, Aspen, Avery, Boulder Beer, Breckenridge, Bristol, Dillon Dam, Fort Collins, Left Hand, New Belgium, New Planet, Odell, Oskar Blues, Sanitas, Shine, Ska, Twisted Pine, Upslope, West Flanders Benefitting:

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Sarah Shourd — A Sliver of Light. 7:30 p.m.

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

Stacey Couch — Gracious Wild­. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Whitney Miller —­The Violet Hour. 4 p.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, April 15 Bookclub: Mrs. Queen Takes the Train­. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Leah Bassoff & Laura DeLuca — Lost Girl Found­. 6:30 p.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading­. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Friday, April 11 Chelsea Handler — Uganda Be Kidding Me. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenure, Denver, 303322-7727.

Wednesday, April 16.

Claire Cameron — The Bear. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenure, Denver, 303322-7727.

Innisfree: Brian Kimmel. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Saturday, April 12 Innisfree: Priscilla Stuckey. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Sarah Shourd will speak about and sign her new book A Sliver of Light on Thursday, April 10th.

Rocky Mountain Land Series with Michael SanClements — Plastic Purge. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.

303-436-1070 Sunday, April 13 Innisfree: Pace Goodman. 1:30 p.m. Innisfree

der, 303-495-3303.

Hannah Kent — Burial Rites, 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenure, Denver, 303322-7727.

Innisfree: Britt Margit­.

7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boul-

John Gierach — All Fishermen Are Liars­.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Rocky Mountain Land Series with Russell Gold. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. 303-436-1070.

FRIDAY APRIL 25

JON WAYNE & THE PAIN

W/ PRIME ELEMENT & LIVEDLIFE MOVEMENT (HUSHLIFE & (UNIT)E)

FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 16-17

Rocky Mountain Land Series with Doug Fine — Hemp Bound. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenure, Denver, 303-322-7727.

Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

PERFORMS BILL MONROE FEAT BRIDGET LAW OF ELEPHANT REVIVAL, ZACH DANIELS & AP HILL OF OAKHURST, JULIE GUSSAROFF, JOHNNY MILLER W/ WORLD’S FINEST & BIG TELL

FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 9-10

THE M & M’S

Innisfree: Medieval Poetry Night. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

EVENTS from Page 47

14th Annual Canine Classic 5k Run/ Walk. 9 a.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565

North 51st St., Boulder.

Metamorphoses. 2 p.m. University Theatre at

CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Marcelo Moxy. 3 p.m. Shine Restaurant &

Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Rachel Starr Ellins and Tonya Jillings. 4 p.m. Longmont Council for the Arts, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Monday, April 14 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Flagship. 7 p.m. The Marquis Theatre-Denver, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Pick ‘n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tuesday, April 15 music Mark Brut. 6 p.m. Dicken’s Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Jazz Supper Club feat. Cameron Powers.

6 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Mike Zito Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, Boulder Weekly

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The End of the Rainbow. The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through April 13

2907 2907 55th 55th street street

Hairspray. Performance Now Theatre, Lakewood Cultural Center, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. 303-987-7872 Through April 14.

The Road to Mecca. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Suite 200, Golden, 303935-3044. Through May 4.

Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 11.

The Road to Mecca will play at Miners Alley Playhouse through May 4.

William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead.

Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-2092154. Through April 26.

Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922

Flip and Fly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Spring Wind Ensemble Concert. 7:30 p.m.

Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bis-

Colorado Christian University, 8787 W Alameda Ave., Lakewood, 303-963-3000.

Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera

Teresa Carroll Trio. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S

Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink,

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Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

events Early Plants of Spring. 5 p.m. The Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, 717 Poplar Ave., Boulder.

Metamorphoses. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre

1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Wednesday, April 16

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210

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Mike Zito Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook

events

Society for Creative Anachronism . 6 p.m.

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tro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Brighton Cultural Center, 300 Strong St., Brighton, 303-655-2026.

mon - fri 6 to 6 | sat 7 to 3 | sun 8 to 1

the the baby baby GoAt GoAt

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Art @ the Armory. All Day. The Armory at

2907 55th street

next to valmont post office

303-443-3322.

13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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And the Sun Stood Still. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through April 20.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through April 19.

the the baby baby GoAt GoAt

next to valmont post office mon - fri 6 to 6 | sat 7 to 3 | sun 8 to 1

S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Dicken’s Tavern, 300

Pickin’ for Peace

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One evening with two concerts to benefit the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center

Thursday, April 17: Pickin’ for Peace.

6 p.m. till the cows come home. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boul der, 720-444-6981. ided byat rovavailable p

Tickets ly d in s k www.RMPJC.org ry! e Brewe or g d i r n e k Pickin’ for Peace on Facebook.

Two amazing concerts in one night and all for a worthy cause, not to mention that Breckenridge Brewery will be providing the beer. The first concert starts at 6 p.m. and will feature the legendary John McCutcheon and Alice DiMicele. The second show starts at 9 p.m. and will feature Leftover Salmon’s Vince Herman and Andy Thorn with Alice DiMicele. We shouldn’t have to tell you not to miss these shows.

But the best part of all is that this celebration is in support of our friends at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center and it’s in remembrance of the 100-year anniversary of the Ludlow massacre that took place in Colorado’s southern coalfields and changed the labor movement forever.

There will be an intermission party from 8-9 p.m. with beer, food and a silent auction.

Vince Herman & Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon play the later show at 9 PM with Alice DiMicele.

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film

ABANDONED

A classic film noir staring Jeff Chandler set in L.A. April 10, VAC Basement Auditorium (1B20). — International Film Festival

CYBER-SENIORS Proving you’re never too old to learn something new, Cyber-Seniors follows a group of initially reluctant seniors as they discover the wonders of the world-wide-web with the help of their teenage mentors. Boulder County Aging Services co-presents this heartwarming, humorous and candid documentary about the challenges and victories of seniors as they dive into the digital world. At Boedecker.

— Boedecker Theater

DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES: A TRIP THROUGH STRWBERRY FILEDS In early 1967, the Beatles released a groundbreaking single — John Lennon’s “Strawberry Fields Forever” backed by Paul McCartney’s “Penny Lane.” In its music, lyrics, arrangement and subject matter, “Strawberry Fields Forever”/”Penny Lane” was a large step forward for the Beatles and for all of popular music.

In this film, Scott Freiman explores the creation of these two masterpieces with special attention to the evolution of the songs from demos to final recordings. The presentation also includes an in-depth look at Sgt. Pepper’s “A Day In The Life,” one of the Beatles’ most remarkable achievements. April 12, Muenzinger Auditorium. —International Film Series

ERNEST & CELESTINE Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hard-working mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer — and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put to the test by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Magical and funny, Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres, propelled with brilliant comic timing, to capture the kinetic possibilities of animated storytelling. At Boedecker Mayan Theatre.

— Landmark Theatres

FOLLOWING THE NINTH: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BEETHOVEN’S FINAL SYMPHONY Filmed on five continents and in 12 countries, this is the story of four people whose lives have been transformed, repaired and healed by the Ninth’s message: “Alle Menschen werden Bruder (All People Are Connected).” At Tienanmen Square in 1989, students played the Ninth over loudspeakers as the army came in to crush their protests for freedom. In Chile, women under the Pinochet dictatorship sang the Ninth at torture prisons, and those inside took hope when they heard the music. In Japan each December, the Ninth is performed hundreds of times, often with 10,000 people in the chorus. Part road trip, part adventure, Following The Ninth is a story about the power of music and human resilience in dark times. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater 50 April 10, 2014

GOODBYE WORLD Living off the grid, James and Lily raise their young daughter in a safe haven of comfort and sustainability. After a crippling, apocalyptic cyber attack crosses the country, their home transitions from peaceful refuge to a fortress for the old friends seeking protection and community. This unexpected community gathering is soon compromised by personal histories and exchanges as well as the threat of a locally grown new world order. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater HISTORY ON SCREEN; THOMAS ANDREWS ON THE LUDLOW MASSACRE, AND “NO GOD, NO MASTER” University of Colorado history professor and author of Killing for Coal, Thomas Andrews discusses the 100th anniversary of The Ludlow Massacre, the famous attack on striking Colorado coal miners, paired with a screening of No God, No Master. Based on true events of the ’20s, No God, No Master focuses on an investigation of terrorism, involving a series of package bombs showing up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and business men. The film begins as John D. Rockefeller, who is dealing with the fallout from the Ludlow Massacre, receives one of the bombs. U. S. Bureau of Investigation Agent Flynn (David Strathairn) must find those responsible and ultimately discovers an anarchist plot. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater HONEY (MIELE) In Honey, Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate.

Working under the name of Miele (“Honey”), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new “client” with a fatal dose, only to find out he’s perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene is determined to get the drug back. They become unwillingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene’s life forever. Award-winning actress Valeria Golino goes behind the camera to direct this impressive drama. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II Nymphomaniac Volume II picks up where Volume I leaves off, with the story of Joe’s (Charlotte Gainsbourg) adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications. The film also stars Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth and Jean-Marc Barr. Nymphomaniac marks Lars von Trier’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed film Melancholia, and is his third consecutive collaboration with Gainsbourg. A groundbreaking filmmaker for more than two decades, von Trier’s other film credits include Antichrist, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves. Note: Nymphomaniac contains graphic depictions of

sexuality to a degree unprecedented in a mainstream feature film.

April 16, Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series PARTICLE FEVER Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter.

But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist? April 15, Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series THE PAST Writer/director of the Oscar-winning A Separation returns with this story of an Iranian man who deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife’s request for a divorce. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS: DECONSTRUCTING

THE BEATLES REVOLVER In this film composer/producer and Beatles expert Scott Freiman takes music fans young and old on a journey through this remarkable album.The 1966 album launched a period of studio experimentation for the Beatles that coincided with the end of their concert performances.

Using rare audio and video clips, as well as anecdotes about the creation of the songs, Tomorrow Never Knows: Deconstructing The Beatles’ Revolver, explores the groundbreaking production techniques that went into producing this landmark piece of music history.

In addition to many of the tracks from Revolver, Mr. Freiman will also explore the creation of two other songs recorded during the same time period, “Paperback Writer” and “Rain.” April 11, Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series THE UNKNOWN KNOWN Using declassified memos, director Errol Morris (The Fog of War, Tabloid) guides former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld through a discussion of his controversial career as a highlevel executive under four different Republican presidents.

Such absorbing topics as Vietnam, the Cold War, Desert Storm and the War on Terror are all examined through the words of one of America’s most divisive and complex public figures. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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‘Oculus’ slices to the core

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H

orror films are often peppered with moments in which you wish your protagonists were just a little more bright or had planned things out a little better — “Don’t go into that basement” and “Don’t open that door.” Even the beloved Shining leaves moments of, “Damn it, Wendy, pull it together.”

It is, at times, a comfort to believe that the horrific scenario would be survivable simply by being a little less stupid.

Oculus offers none of that mercy.

Kaylie (Karen Gillan) has spent a decade planning her revenge on an inanimate object, a 400-year-old mirror known as the Lasser Glass that hung in her family home. She believes it is the cause of the torture and brutal murder of her mother and her brother’s subsequent murder of their father. She has spent years studying the mirror and its techniques and planning for its tricks, and can enumerate its history and the bizarre deaths that have surrounded or befallen its previous owners.

Her brother, Tim (Brenton Thwaites), has meanwhile spent the last 10 years in therapy to address the mental illness he says runs in their family.

When he’s finally released from protective custody, she immediately shuttles him back to their still-empty family home — because as the Ramseys can tell you, no one wants to buy a murder house — with a weekend’s worth of provisions, precautions and a meticulous plan for exonerating her family members and proving the mirror’s role in the deaths of some 45 people.

Having retrieved the Lasser Glass from the auction house where it awaits its newest owner, she hangs it again in the spot in their father’s study, and Boulder Weekly

turns the video cameras on to record.

Her goal: to document the ability of the supernatural forces within the mirror to kill and lure people into killing.

Because this is a horror film, not all goes according to plan.

The mirror’s evil is of the same insidious kind as The Shining’s Overlook Hotel — you are possessed before realizing a poison is taking over your mind. Its primary trick is to shift the perceptions of those in its proximity and Kaylie and Tim are rapidly sucked, once again, into a twisted reality that leaves Kaylie reciting the official horror movie mantra: It’s not real. It’s not real.

It’s not real.

The script, written by Mike Flanagan (Absentia) — who also directed — and Jeff Howard, braids together the family’s past and present tortures in a storyline that concurrently descends from dread to disaster. Cringe-worthy moments are delivered with just the right sound effects and a full commitment to it on the part of Gillan (BBC’s Dr. Who).

This Oculus is an expanded telling of the story from Flanagan’s 2005 short film “Oculus,” and in building this fulllength film, he made the choice to switch from a male to a female lead, in part inspired by Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, Riddick), who play’s Marie, Tim and Kaylie’s mother.

She seizes the role full throttle.

In a genre often better known for ax- and chainsaw-wielding, spurts of blood and blunt-force trauma, the latest entry from Flanagan is far more scalpel than hack-saw, and the chills it engenders have a pervasive linger.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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s the last snow begins to melt, flowers begin to bud and the temperatures rise, Boulder gears up to face the beautiful spring and summer months. One of the best ways to get the most out of spring is to take advantage of the nice weather and return of life with a good tour. A foodie schlep is a great way to see the city while getting a better understanding of its culture.

And there are plenty of food tours to choose from.

Local Table Tours

The most robust food tour in Boulder is Local Table Tours, run and owned by Megan Bucholz. The company runs an eclectic mix of tours that typically last between one-and-a-half to two hours.

Local Table Tours offers beer tours that take you to downtown breweries and tap rooms, downtown dining tours that involve the best of local food and drinks in Boulder, cocktail tasting tours (the only tour of its kind in Colorado), coffee and chocolateConnect tours for thewith morning uscrowd and those with a sweet tooth, market-to-table tours (which include a farm-to-table lunch), and a tour of the infamous Boulder Farmers’ Market or just a farmers’ market tour on its own. You can book as a group on the above-mentioned regularly programmed schedule, or set up private tours for a special occasion or for a company outing. If you have Connect with us an allergy or specific need, they’re quite flexible in setting up something to accommodate your needs.

Thanks to the relationship Bucholz has created over the years with Take part in one of Boulder’s Local Table Tours to explore some of the city’s eclectic fare.

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these venues, at each stop you can find an engaged discussion with either the chef, manager or owner, and get an inside view into the restaurant you wouldn’t get as a regular diner. Prices range between $20 and $70 per person, but will vary based on the tour.

However, privately arranged and customized tours start at $150 per person.

All Local Table Tours feature an informed guide, but you’ll be on foot, so be prepared to walk and enjoy the sites of Boulder.

Get more info at www.localtabletours.com.

There is also a lunchtime tour offered on several dates through the summer and fall that leaves from downtown and offers both easier and more challenging routes to Lone Hawk Farm where riders will enjoy lunch and a locally brewed beer.

Both tours cost around $40 and require registering in advance. Bikes are available for rent if you don’t have your own, and on some tours are included in the price.

Get more info at www.awestruckoutdoors.com/bike-to-farm-tours.html.

Dishcrawl

For a little something different, head slightly northeast of Boulder to Celestial Seasonings.

Founded in Boulder in 1969, their teas were made from fresh herbs harvested in the Rocky Mountains by hand, then dried, blended and packaged in hand-sewn muslin bags that were sold at local health food stores.

Today, Celestial Seasonings is a household name and they’re one of the largest specialty tea manufacturers in North America.

They serve 1.6 billion cups of tea every year and they source more than 100 ingredients from over 35 countries.

Celestial Seasonings offers free tea tours through their facility to learn about the history of the company and watch production live. They also offer tea samples throughout the tour. These 45-minute tours leave on the hour every day (except major holidays). A crowd favorite is the peppermint room that houses hundreds of ceiling-level shelves for their fragrant peppermint and can clear your sinuses. Visitors pop out into the gift shop at the end of the tour, where Celestial Seasonings gifts and teas are available for purchase.

A national company, Dishcrawl has made its way to Boulder in offering food tours and events. An online community for hosting culinary events that spans across U.S. cities, Canada and soon the U.K., Dishcrawl has a Boulder chapter where you can expect to find dinners, chef experiences and fun food tours that vary based on the community. There are local ambassadors in each location that plan and lead groups through neighborhoods or experiences all surrounded by food. It’s all walking tours, but whether it’s a planned event, set up with a private group or for companies, there are many options for attendees and they’re customized by the ambassador.

These food “crawls” might accommodate up to hundreds of people, depending on the type of event they’re hosting which encompasses a different feel than some of the other intimate tours.

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Local company Awestruck Outdoors has put together two of Boulder’s favorite activities: biking and eating all things organic.

They offer a weekly dinner tour on Thursday nights that starts from downtown Boulder. Participants then bike along the creek path to a nearby farm where a three-course dinner, wine and live music await them.

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As an honorable mention, there’s also Culinary Connectors. They used to host Boulder tours, but they no longer do, and now focus on Denver. However, they do private food tours in Boulder on request and ask only that you have a minimum group of eight.

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“I’ve always been fascinated with wild edibles and medicinal plants. It’s just something very helpful to know because there are just so many different uses for them in the home,” says Evans. “I think it makes us all a little bit more self-reliant.”

The Daily Meal announced its top 10 school lunches in the U.S. and just barely sneaking onto the list at No. 10 is Boulder Valley School District.

It’s an accomplishment considering that BVSD was competDAM UNCORKS FOR THE 14TH TIME ing against private schools with Raise your glass to the chance to taste limitless budgets, which allows more than 300 wines in a single evening them to even afford high tootat the Denver Art Museum’s “Uncorked” ing celebrity chefs in some event. This annual event, the 14th installacases. tion of one of the museum’s largest fundBoulder Valley School If you drink too much wine at DAM’s 14th Uncorked, aim for a raisers, kicks off on Friday, April 11 at 6 District earned their place canvas and call it a Jackson Pollock. p.m. with a wine tasting that includes hors among the ranks by overhauld’oeuvres from Kevin Taylor Catering. ing a preexisting system that nutrition for the fourth-ranked Ross School in Beer and spirits will be available, too, as will didn’t have nutritional value at the East Hampton, New York. tasting guides to help you navigate the top of its must-have list. According options. to Ann Cooper, director of food LEARNING ABOUT EDIBLE PLANTS, NOT OF THE Guests may also attend the DAM service for the Boulder Valley School District, CANNABIS KIND Uncorked Dinner and Auction on April 12, the overhaul began five years ago when she Weeds usually seen as nuisances, such as which features cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a signed on with the district. Cooper says the dandelions, are actually edible, down to the seated dinner and live auction for rare bottles biggest improvements are that more lunch root that can be roasted and used to make of wine, tours of the DAM with its curators, offerings are made from scratch, such as New Orleans inspired chicory coffee. That’s just access to private collections and original artlasagna, Szechuan beef and broccoli stir-fry. one of the many beneficial and enlightening works. Put your cocktail-lubricated purchasing Nutrition has become a priority with all hordetails to be shared during the Wild, Edible power to good use with the purchase of an mone- and antibiotic-free beef and chicken and Medicinal Herb Walks on April 11. original artwork in the Salon du Musée portion being used in dishes like nachos and burgers.

Susan Evans, a certified herbalist who has of the silent auction — proceeds go directly Local farms and producers are also getting a dedicated 20 years to cultivating and worktoward new acquisitions for the museum’s boost because locally sourced items, such as ing with herbs, will be leading the walks, permanent collection. Last year’s weekend of bratwurst, tamales, fruits and vegetables, are which are being hosted by the University of events raised more than $500,000 for the now incorporated into Boulder Valley School Colorado Museum of Natural History. Evans museum.

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Dress for this schmoozapalooza is business Cooper might have the magic touch when plans to take the group walks — the first to occur at 11 a.m. and the second at 2 p.m. — casual. Tickets to the tasting are $90 for DAM it comes to getting school lunches up to par through the University of Colorado Boulder members, $125 for nonmembers and $45 for because three of the schools or districts includcampus, identifying edible plants and informdesignated drivers. You can also get in early at ed in the top 10 list she either worked for previ5 p.m. for an extra $35. ously or continues to improve. She was the pre- ing attendees which ones to stay away from, like hemlock, which is prevalent in the Denver Tickets can be purchased at denverartmuvious director of the seventh-place finisher and Boulder metro areas and lethal. seum.org/uncorked.

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eing new-ish to town, it’s always interesting to hear what longer-term Boulderites focus on when describing various restaurants. For example, the way BW editor Joel Dyer summarized Mamacita’s on University Hill: “burritos as big as your head.”

I, on the other hand, took notice of its seemingly multicultural approach to Mexican food, with decidedly American fried Snickers bars on the menu for dessert and jugs of Sriracha (Asian hot sauce) on the tables Mamacita’s paired 1149 13th St., with the Boulder Inca303-443-2300 pyramid style seat backs in the booths. America is a melting pot and apparently so is Mamacita’s.

But a big part of that melting pot being in America is, of course, the need for there to be a giant, hideous television screen every single place you look.

Mamacita’s is no different, with multiple flat screens positioned perfectly so that there is almost nowhere to sit without getting a faceful of attention-suck — a shame, as it is in glaring contrast to the rest of Mamacita’s interior design, which manages to balance the bright and pleasant atmosphere of large Mexican sitdowns with the intimacy of a neighborhood hole-in-the-wall.

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Americanized Mexican restaurants, Mamacita’s didn’t go too far beyond the fried Snickers and french fries to whiten up the menu. While not the best salsa this reviewer has ever had as an appetizer, it was worlds away from the flavorless chemical red near-ketchup that so many “Mexican” restaurants slop onto the table from some sort of can. It had chunks of tomato and onion and a hint of bite.

The menu is straight to the point, with nearly everything falling into the category of tacos, burritos, enchiladas or fajitas, all available with a veggie option — which, due to my dining companion’s recent dabblings in vegetarianism, was why we found ourselves seated across from one another looking above each other’s heads at the wall-mounted screens.

One item on the menu stuck out: a chicken mole verde plate. For the uninitiated, mole is a sort of chocolate and pepper gravy that is a solid barometer of a restaurant’s worth. But it’s brown. Very, very brown, and verde is green.

The server said the verde came from cilantro being incorporated into the

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sauce, which she said made it one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes. So popular that after I ordered it, she had to return and say no mas, the mole verde was sold out at 1 p.m. on a Monday afternoon. So while as a critic I can’t tell you for sure that it’s any good, I can infer it from the evidence. Take that, Chef Sherlock.

Instead, I went for my other favorite Mexican food barometer, a chile relleno, with a pork taco on the side, and my dining companion went for a veggie

fajita plate.

The chile relleno was a good ‘un, stuffing a poblano with cojita and batter-frying it like a champ. The egg batter was crisp and golden brown, and the whole shebang was doused in a spicy red sauce. The rice and beans on the side were nothing special, but I give a lot of leeway for a solid relleno. And the pork taco was great, with rich and smoky carnitas balanced by the tartness of pickled onions on top.

My dining companion’s veggie fajitas was a giant, sizzling skillet of well-seasoned veggies with rice, beans, guacamole and tortillas, a dish that didn’t seem to lose much without the meat.

We finished things off with one of the deep-fried Snickers, another dish that our server said frequently sells out.

Was it authentic? Only if you’re going for a state fair in the Heartland. But it was melty and delicious and gone all too quickly. With dessert like that, this reporter can loosen his definitions a bit.

But all that said, as we were standing up to leave, I caught a glimpse of a man at a back table digging into his freshly arrived burrito. It was enormous.

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Nearly 4,000 beers were judged in the 2012 competition, and though numbers have yet to be released, expect this year’s total to be much higher due to increased overall entry.

Judging for the World Beer Cup went down on April 9-10, but unlike the Cannabis Cup — which will be held in Denver on Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20 — The World Beer Cup is not an event open to the public and winners were not announced until after press time. So you’re just going to have to wait until next week to find out who emerged victorious, or watch a live stream of the results and ceremony at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11 via http://new.livestream.

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Breweries responsible for Colorado’s 27 winning entries included Rocky Mountain Brewery, Rock Bottom Denver, Bull & Bush, Crabtree Brewing, Odell, Ska, Dry Dock Brewing, Steamworks Brewing, AC Golden Brewing, Miller, Coors, Dillon Dam Brewery, The SandLot, Telluride and Oskar Blues. That’s right: Miller.

Eager to play host, brew-schenanigan-perpetratrors-in-chief, Oskar Blues, made a special beer for the event, The 2014 CBC Collaboration, which involved 145 brewer members of the Colorado Brewers Guild.

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It’s Love Your Messes Week, Taurus. In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life -- from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them, and even take advantage of them. Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy. Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you. Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon.

Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

Saturn has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014. (It will make another visit from June to September 2015.) What does that mean? I have a view of Saturn that’s different from many astrologers.

They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle, and difficulty. Here’s what I think: While Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work super hard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and home in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong structures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

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“A snowball’s chance in hell” is an American idiom that’s equivalent to saying “it probably won’t happen.” After all, a snowball would instantly melt if exposed to the scorching fires that rage in the underworld. But what if there’s an exception to this axiom? Let’s call on another American idiom: “when hell freezes over.” It’s another way to say “it probably won’t happen.” But the truth is that now and then a cold front does indeed sweep through the infernal region, icing its flames. When that happens, a snowball’s prospects of surviving there improve dramatically. And that’s exactly what I predict will happen for you in the coming week.

CANCER

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In 2007, J. K. Rowling finished writing the seventh volume of her seven Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published it sold 11 million copies. But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning. I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

LEO

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When you see your shadow, it’s usually right next to you. It’s there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar. I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun’s rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below. I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that’s available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them, and thus greater compassion. You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

“You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars,” said psychologist Timothy Leary. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind in the near future. You might want to find a way to carry on constructive dialogs with people who have a hard time understanding you. It’s not necessarily that they are stupid or resistant to your charms.

The problem is that they haven’t experienced some of the critical transformations you have. They can’t be expected to converse with you in your butterfly language. Are you willing and able to speak caterpillar?

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SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Breugel the Elder (1525-1569).

I worked on reproducing his painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Breugel’s spirit and prayed for his guidance. I sank my psyche deeply into his. By the end of the four-week process I’d learned a lot about painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while. For best results, have fun with it. Play!

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings. In using a typewriter to produce over 1,200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers.

He never learned the ten-finger typing method. I suppose it didn’t matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn’t affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time.

Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn? Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“The truth’s superb surprise,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be “too bright for our infirm delight.” Sometimes we’ve got to be careful about articulating what’s really going on.

“The truth must dazzle gradually,” she said. If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So did Emily suggest that we should lie and deceive? No. “Tell all the truth,” she declared, “but tell it slant.” This is excellent advice for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES

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Here’s my report on your progress. You are not struggling to embody a delusional state of perfection as it is imagined by other people. Rather, you are becoming an ever-more soulful version of your idiosyncratic self, evolving slowly but surely.

You are not dazedly trudging along a narrow track laid down by thousands of sheep. Instead, you are lively and creative as you bushwhack a path for yourself through the wilderness.

To celebrate this ongoing success, Pisces, I suggest you get yourself a new power object that symbolizes your inventive devotion.

Editor: Here’s this week’s homework: Homework: Write a short essay on “How I Created Something Out of Nothing.” Go to FreeWillAstrology.com and click on “Email Rob.”

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Dear Dan: I’m an old guy, fast approaching geezerdom. After 45 years of marriage to the same woman, the sex has fallen off to zero. We otherwise have a great and comfortable relationship. If I want any at all these days, the only options are masturbation or professional service providers. I was very nervous the first time I paid for sex. Curiously and surprisingly, considering my Christian upbringing, I didn’t feel at all guilty. I now find the urge gets stronger as the body gets weaker. It seems as geezerdom takes a full hold, all I think about is pussy, and paid sex has become a regular thing. You stress honesty and communication for a long-term relationship to work. In our case, honesty would mean the end to what is now just a great friendship that provides us both with deeply satisfying companionship. I don’t want to hurt her, but revealing my outside activities would certainly do so, as she thinks men using prostitutes is disgusting. Any comments from a young gay guy?

Sin Or Salvation Dear SOS: There aren’t any young gay guys around at the moment, so you’ll have to settle for my advice…

Honesty and communication are important, SOS, but there are limits.

No long-term relationship would survive a strict regime of full disclosure enforced with depositions taken under oath, regularly scheduled lie detector tests, truth serums disguised as artificial coffee creamers, etc. Knowing what to omit and avoid — identifying herethere-be-monsters spots on the map and sailing around those topics/ incidents/persons — is just as important as honesty and communication. And married people, even long-married people, get inner lives, a few secrets they take to the grave, and some privacy and autonomy.

But there are limits. If your innerlife amounts to a double-life, that’s a problem. If secrets place your spouse at risk of grave physical or emotional harm, that’s a problem. If your zones of privacy and autonomy grow so large that your spouse doesn’t know who you are anymore, that’s a problem.

But I don’t think what you’re doing is necessarily a problem, SOS. If your wife is truly content — if she isn’t interested in sex anymore, if you’re not cheating her out of anything she values, if you’re not taking risks with her health, if you’re not depleting your retirement savings to finance your activities, if all of the above is true — then visits to sex workers are covered by my standard advice to people in sexless but otherwise solid, loving, and fulfilling marriages: Do what you gotta Boulder Weekly

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You sound like a decent and loving husband, SOS. To make sure you’re also a polite and courteous client — for tips on communication, personal hygiene, tipping, and avoiding women who have been trafficked — check out the all-star sex-worker panel we convened for a recent episode of the Savage Lovecast.

Go to savagelovecast.com and listen to episode 387.

Dear Dan: One of the boys at the restaurant where I work met up with a dominant gay couple in a regular bar — not a gay bar — during happy hour. They told him to go to the bathroom and strip in a stall. Then one of the guys came in and took his clothing from him. He didn’t know when they would be back or even if they would be back. While he was trapped there naked (and hard), other men were coming in and out. Knowing that other people didn’t know he was in his stall gave my coworker a big thrill. My problem: This couple and my friend involved other people — without their knowledge or consent — in their little domination game. I say, “Not okay!” We got in a heated argument about it and decided to ask you for a ruling.

Coworker’s Recent Escapade Entirely Perverted Dear CREEP: Let’s say a straight couple comes into your restaurant and they’re seated in your section, CREEP. They order, they eat, they tip, they leave. All good? Now let’s say that, unbeknownst to you, the man was wearing a locking male chastity device and the woman was wearing the key on a chain around her neck. She was dripping wet all through dinner, his cock was straining against the confines of his chastity device, and a big part of the turn-on was being in public and interacting with, say, a waiter who had no idea. Is that okay?

Of course it is — just like it’s okay for a businessman to get a secret thrill out of wearing panties under his suit at an important meeting or a sneeze fetishist to get secret thrills during flu season. The world is full of people deriving all sorts of secret thrills from all sorts of seemingly random shit. So long as secret thrill derivers keep it to themselves — so long as they don’t actively involve others without their prior consent — there’s nothing “Not okay!” about secret thrill derivation.

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The first week in April was also when Weedmaps was planning to inaugurate a campaign in New York to help bring attention to the legalization movement in that state as well as its own website by running a 10-second advertisement that would rotate on the CBS Super Screen in Times Square. The featured link brought you to a page with information about the legalization effort alongside the best places to get baked in the Apple.

In the cannabis world, Weedmaps is a leading online community with loads of content and information about dispensaries and cannabis strains. Its

handy mobile app, designed as a directory for medical (and now recreational) shoppers, uses GPS technology, maps, menus and lists to help shoppers find the best bargains and closest outlets. It’s a great tool that’s often called the Yelp of cannabis.

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shops — location, hours, inventory, deals and prices — as well as letting consumers post their own reviews and comments, which has created a vibrant online community. CEO Justin Hartfield sits on the board of the National Organization for Marijuana Legalization and puts his money where his mouth is, in the case of this ad, $50,000.

And on April 1, the morning the advertisement was to appear, it didn’t.

“We’re still trying to figure it out,” Hartfield told me later that same week.

Neutron Media, which sells ads for the billboard, approached NORML to run an ad. NORML is a non-profit and couldn’t afford it. “I thought it was a good opportunity for Weedmaps,” Hartfield said. “We thought we had clearance so we can run ads, especially with medical marijuana hopefully coming next year and retail in 2016.”

CBS approved the spot in late January, Hartfield said. “Even Tuesday morning [April 1] we thought we were approved. On Wednesday we got an email at 9 a.m. Pacific time, telling us that it was pending review by CBS’ lawyers. It’s been pending review ever since, apparently.”

Hartsfield got his medical card in 2007. He started using dispensaries, and went to Amsterdam and studied its coffee shops before launching Weedmaps with Keith Hoerling in July 2008. “I knew that L.A. would look like Amsterdam sooner or later.”

For the first six months, Weedmaps was just a directory. “It quickly kinda took off. People gravitated toward it,” Hartfield said. “It wasn’t Yelp-style yet.

I couldn’t figure out the program for the map, so we got some help. The biggest thing was allowing dispensaries to put their pricing and strains in a way that’s searchable.”

They took the company public in 2010 and were bought by General

Cannabis. Long story short, in 2013 General Cannabis sold Weedmaps back to the original owners.

“It was an expensive trial,” Hartfield admits.

How CBS could get its pants all twisted up over a ten-second cannabis ad that never even mentions the word shows how much, for all the support it’s getting from the general populace, cannabis is still stigmatized on Madison Avenue and somewhat of a pariah in the world of corporate advertising. That will change. But the most fascinating thing about the rejection is that, in today’s online world, something like this can wind up being just as effective, or even more so, than the ad itself might have been in the first place.

There it would have competed with all the other electronic billboards in the frenzy of Times Square. With the rejection, however, Weedmaps has been plastered all over the business pages of magazines, newspapers and websites, blogs and social media.

“It’s been fabulous,” Hartfield said.

“This has gotten us a lot of publicity even if the ad doesn’t get up.” (At press time, Weedmaps was still trying to work something out to allow the ad.)

Hartfield says the company has had similar problems with large corporations. “We have tried to advertise many times in the past. It’s a sad commentary on American culture at this moment in time. But at least we’re trying.”

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See our ad on pg. 62 for House, Window, Office & Garden Cleaning Coupons.

Farm Friends!

2 stores. Nearly the same vibe.

The Farm is going Recreational.

Root will remain Medical.

Farm Members, please switch your Red card status to Root (55th and Arapahoe) to continue to get great deals at both stores. Yes, both stores.

Thank you Boulder.

We are committed to continue serving our patients with great medicine while we help pave the road out of nearly 80 years of prohibition restricting our personal freedoms. Responsible Marijuana use is now legal in Colorado for those over 21.

Thank you for your support, from the Farmily.

303.413.0432

THAT’S THE WAY WE DO IT! For medical marijuana patients only (through April 12).

Locally Owned, Bonded & Insured.

28th & Iris • www.thefarmco.com

303.440.1323

ORGANICALLY GROWN IN BOULDER

DID YOUR DISPENSARY SWITCH TO RECREATIONAL?

Check out our Facebook page and Weedmaps

for great daily specials!

OPEN EVERYDAY 11AM - 7PM 1750 30th Street, Suite 7, Boulder 720.379.6046

The Drum Shop

African drumming classes with Fara Tolno

for colorado medical marijuana patients only

Tuesday nights • 6-7:30pm 30thApril St., Boulder Run2095 Date: 10th

303-402-0122

WE’RE STILL MEDICAL !

JUNK CARS & TRUCKS $$$ TOP DOLLAR CASH $$$ Must be complete & have title!

Call Gabe 720-338-2111 !!!

U.S. Army Veteran

5420 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder www.BoulderWellnessCenter.com

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Boulder

CO Springs

6395 W. Gunpark Dr 303.473.4769

4215 Sinton Rd 719.602.3000

Central Denver

North Denver

1051 S. Platte River Dr 301 East 57th Ave 720.310.1984 303.296.7900

Roots Organics $10.99

ProMix Bales $30.99

CocoGro $11.99

VermiFire $12.99

Perlite 4 ft3 $12.99

Fort Collins

Lakewood

3201 E. Mulberry 970.484.4769

11989 W. Colfax Ave 303.546.3600