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news & views Polis plays the Nazi card / 6 The sound of jackboots comes from Washington, D.C., not Arizona

by Paul Danish On the cover: Coming full circle / 12 Nederland man builds carousel in memory of lost friends and family

by Heather May Koski

buzz KGNU turns 32 / 18 As a gift, station plans to triple its broadcasting power

by David Accomazzo Overtones: Dead Floyd stitches together the best of both worlds / 22 Overtones: Fun is what Cobra Starship does best / 23 Arts & Culture: Daria hits DVD shelves after eight-year delay / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 28 Elevation: Groovin’ in the Gore Range / 34 Screen: Casino Jack and the United States of Money / 38 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 39 Cuisine: Put a cork in it and see what’s new with brew / 41 Cuisine review: Carelli’s of Boulder / 43 Dessert Diva: Almond Apple Pan Dowdy / 45

departments Letters: Help clean up elections; Breast brouhaha; Reasons to inhale / 4 The Highroad: Monsanto comes a cropper / 4 News Briefs: Berthoud Days are back; Free mulch pile moved / 10 Police Blotter: Follow the paint; More Erie burglaries; Step off / 11 Boulderganic: Gettin’ down with the farm / 15 In Case You Missed It: Study: Men bad for women; Not that angle / 17 Sophisticated Sex: Experiential sex ed / 33 Classifieds: Your community resource / 49 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Help clean up elections Volunteers are now collecting signatures for Ballot Initiative 53, which will set up a system for public financing of electoral campaigns in Colorado. If passed, candidates for the state legislature and statewide offices (with the exception of members of the U.S. Congress) will have the option of accepting public funds for their campaigns, and, in exchange, they will agree not to accept private money. This measure will greatly reduce the power of big money and corporations in our state.

Elected officials will be much freer to act on behalf of the common good and the welfare of all Colorado’s residents. They will be freer to protect the environment and will no longer be accountable to corporate polluters. And finally, the initiative will make it possible for many more people to consider running for office.

More volunteers are needed to collect signatures to meet the July 12 deadline. It’s easy. And it’s rewarding because the initiative will clearly and dramatically increase the power of the people and democracy in our state. To help out go to www.cleancampaignscolorado.com, or call 303-444-6981, ext. 2.

Carolyn Bninski/Boulder

Breast brouhaha The May 6 issue’s cover title and photo — “Much Ado About Melons” — may have been humorous and eyecatching, but the use of immature references to breasts defeated one of the pur-

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poses of the article — to demonstrate that showing human breasts in public isn’t obscene in itself. Plenty of other images could have been used, such as a photo of the Pierces in their garden, or women breastfeeding (I am happy to volunteer for that one), the latter of which is the purpose of having breasts.

Certainly you could depict these sorts of images without breaking any rules about obscene content; after all, there are enough sexually suggestive advertisements in the BW already that don’t

Pamela White’s insightful article about Bob and Catharine Pierce and how the Boulder City Council handled

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s an old TV ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”

Monsanto corporation, however, still has not taken Mother’s advice. This giant chemical maker became a veritable Frankenstein in the 1990s, genetically engineering new organisms in an effort to fool Mother Nature for fun and profit. But Momma got mad — and now she’s kicking Monsanto’s butt all across the country.

Here’s the background: Monsanto marketed an herbicide labeled “Roundup” to farmers. But the herbicide also tended to kill the crops. Thus, Monsanto’s mad scientists artificially manipulated the genes of corn, cotton and soybean seeds to produce crops that — hocus pocus! — could absorb mega doses of Roundup without croaking. These patented seeds, called “Roundup Ready,” helped Monsanto sell oceans of its weed killer.

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appear to offend readers. It would be nice for the human body to be represented seriously if American society is to ever get over our college-boy mentality of seeing breasts and other body parts as things about which we should snicker, idealize and portray as lewd sexual objects.

Jill Churchfield/Louisville

Monsanto comes a cropper But Mother Nature’s weeds are smarter than the Frankensteins in Monsanto’s labs, and they’ve quickly evolved into tenacious superweeds that Roundup can’t kill. There are now 10 resistant species of these superweeds infesting some 10 million acres in 22 states — and spreading.

Monsanto sold its Roundup Ready seeds as a miracle crop, charged far more for them and scoffed at concerns that the weeds would adapt. But there

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the issue of their lack of proper attire illustrates an important principle: Clothes are symbolic. Clothes announce one’s employment and financial status.

Clothes provide an insight into one’s personality. Clothes can point to one’s culture and heritage. However, clothing can have a negative connotation, as well.

In nearly every society, how much more clothing a woman is required to wear relative to what a man is required

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

they are, and farmers are now having to use extra-toxic herbicides to kill the aggressive mutant weeds that have invaded their fields. The result is higher costs for farmers, lower crop yields, more poisoning of land and water and a rising chorus of farmers saying, “Some miracle, Monsanto — thanks for nothing!”

All of this because one arrogant, profiteering corporation thought it could fool Mother Nature. As an Arkansas farm leader says of Monsanto’s creation of the spreading superweed crisis: “It’s the single largest threat to production agriculture we have ever seen.”

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ollowing the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law last month, Boulder Congressman Jared Polis unburdened himself of the following thoughts to the POLITICO website: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second-class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II when they had to have their papers with them at all times and were subject to routine inspections at the suspicion of being Jewish.

“I fear that Arizona is headed for a police state, and it really underscores the need for immigration reform at the federal level to fix our system.

“I think it’s a very fair comparison, and I hope that we’re not headed on the same trajectory that Nazi Germany was.

But this was a very recent experience for Jewish Americans and Jews worldwide, and it’s something that when we see similarities we start ringing alarm bells.

“Many Jews have been uneasy with President Obama’s policy on Israel… but when they see scary policies, endorsed by mainstream Republicans, signed into law by mainstream Republicans, like this Arizona law, it means the only choice for Jewish voters is the Democratic Party.”’

Well, that’s the first genuinely stupid thing he’s said.

For openers, it trivializes the Holocaust, but save that discussion for another day.

It is true that Jews in pre-war Nazi Germany had to carry identification papers that showed they were Jewish at all times, and that those papers were subject to inspection on demand.

But it is also true that Nazi Germany required everyone in the county — Herrenvolk and Untermenchen alike — to obtain identification papers — as did pre-Nazi Germany back to Bismarck, as does post-Nazi Germany to this day, and as do most countries in the EU. Carrying identity documents in itself does not make a country a police state — although it seems to be a necessity for both totalitarian states and 6 May 20, 2010

welfare states — its what’s on them and who checks them and how they use the information that matters. National IDs do gnaw at personal freedom and privacy, but when it comes to first steps down the road to serfdom, sobriety check points, urine tests and no-knock drug raids — things Congress has mindlessly voted for decade after decade without a peep of objection from its alleged civil liberties watchdogs — are much worse.

The real oppression in the Third Reich, by the way, did not begin with the issuance of identity papers. It began with the censuses of 1933 and 1939, which, like the American census of 2010, required you to divulge your race and ethnicity. The census data was used to create the databases and registries that identified Jews, Gypsies and assorted other non-Aryans. The identity papers were the final tip of the iceberg and, when it came to determining whose door was going to be kicked in at midnight, the least important part.

The Nazis issued all sorts of identity documents that had to be produced on demand; it was a means of intimidation and control. One the most common was the “Arbeitbuch” or “Labor Book,” without which you couldn’t get a job. More about that in a moment.

For the record, the State of Arizona does not require its citizens to obtain and carry identity documents (unless they want to drive a car, of course).

Its newly passed law does require non-American citizens to carry identity documents showing that they’re in the country legally and produce them if a police officer or other official asks to see them — as has existing federal law since the Roosevelt administration.

The Arizona law was deliberately patterned after the language in the federal statute in this respect. If Polis is hearing the sound of jackboots on the streets of Phoenix and Tucson, it’s an echo from Washington, D.C. However, it is the last paragraph of Polis’ statement — the one suggesting that mainstream Republican support of see REAL FASCISM Page 8

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to wear is an indication of how much a woman is under authority in that society.

The Boulder City Council realized this when they voted to make the clothing requirements the same for men and women. Women who were involved in the women’s movement from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s — we call them “equity feminists” — understood the significance of treating men and women equally and advancing women out from under male authority, and that is why in Boulder the female breast could be displayed more equitably with respect to the male breast.

However, starting in the late 1970s, a new form of feminism, gender feminism, developed as a reaction to equity feminism and was an attempt to place women under the authority of other women (matriarchy) who felt that women had gone too far in their bodily self-expression and had somehow become victims of exploitation. This was followed by the “Moral Majority” in the 1980s that was an attempt by religious groups to place women back under the control of men (patriarchy).

The ghosts of gender feminism and the Moral Majority exist in some form or another in our society today and play an important role in what can be displayed in entertainment and the arts. Both groups want to place women under authority to keep them from doing things with their bodies that either group finds objectionable. No such restraints are placed on men.

That is why there were no calls to police or complaints to the housing authority when Bob appeared topless in just a thong or completely nude (to the appreciation of several women in the neighborhood who would stop by to watch Bob work out in the nude) and why there were multiple calls to the police and demands by women in the neighborhood that Catharine cover her chest.

Pamela White is on to something more with this controversy. The issue here is really gender equality and how this clothing symbolism defines the general attitude about equality in a society. Any society that insists that female

breasts be covered up more than male breasts or demands that female genitalia be covered up more than male genitalia is clearly a society that is not equal and places women under authority.

F. Barrett/Boulder

Reasons to inhale (Re: “Pot perspectives,” letters, May 6.) Matthew Knudsen can rest assured that marijuana does more than help clear phlegm out of the lungs. Studies like “Effects of Smoked Marijuana in Experimentally Induced Asthma 1975,”

by Professor Donald P. Tashkin, medical director of the Pulmonary Laboratory UCLA, show that one puff of marijuana is 100 percent effective in instantly stopping potentially lethal bronchospasms.

Smoked marijuana restored normal breathing after a severe asthma attack in less than half the time of any other drug.

Many people die from acute bronchospasms even while in hospital care every year, but the government instantly defunded further marijuana-asthma research. (See: tinyurl.com/2ajbk73.)

I like the fact that marijuana presents no risk of fatal reactions the way ADVAIR does. ADVAIR contains Salmeterol, which increases the chance of asthma-related death. Marijuana presents no such danger, and I haven’t had a bronchospasm in more than five years since I began treating my asthma exclusively with marijuana.

The immediate asthma relief caused by marijuana has been known for more than 130 years and should be saving lives instead of being a political football for lunatic drug crusaders.

Ralph Givens/Daly City, Calif.

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the Arizona law “means the only choice for Jewish voters is the Democratic Party” — that took real chutzpah.

If Arizona “is headed for a police state” because it adopted a law that requires non-citizens to carry identity papers, what are we to make of a proposal for immigration reform that was presented last week by Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Robert Menendez, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin? Among other things, it proposes turning the Social Security Card into a high-tech national identity card with embedded biometric information which every American would be issued — and which they would be required to present to an employer if they wanted a job. (Like Polis and myself, Schumer and Feinstein are Jewish. Schumer is the principal drafter of the proposal.)

The card is intended to prevent illegal aliens from getting work in the United States.

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illegally to show their papers, yet at the same time be completely sanguine over the fact that several Democratic members of the United States Senate are proposing legislation that will issue every American citizen a latterday, high-tech Arbeitbuch that he or she will have to present in order to get a job.

In other words, the Democratic Party’s idea of “immigration reform” is to require all American citizens to have documents. This gives a whole new dimension of meaning to the concept of blaming America first.

Now then, if being required to carry documents and present them to the authorities when they suspect you of a crime is a step down the slippery slope to fascism when it is required of noncitizens, then isn’t it a much larger step toward fascism when it is required of American citizens?

And if that it is case — and it selfevidently is — then why is it that Congressman Polis is condemning Arizona and not condemning Sen. Schumer and his merry band of blue state brown shirts?

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“We wrote out an alphabet with some children, and they associated the letter K with AK-47.”

—Lourdes Almada, leader of an organization that works with school kids in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, reporting on how kids are affected by the cartel-related violence that surrounds them “The government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say — which puts them into the category of, I suppose, every other government in the world.”

—Noam Chomsky during an interview with al-Jazeera after he was refused entry into the West Bank “I can’t tell you if cell phones are dangerous, but I can tell you that I’m not sure that they are safe.”

—Dr. Devra Davis, a professor of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, regarding a study on cell phones and brain tumors released Tuesday, May 18, that found inconclusive results Boulder Weekly

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Step back in time at Walker Ranch If you think spring is busy at your house, wait until you see what had to be done on a working ranch in the 1800s!

Boulder County Parks and Open Space is hosting a homestead event on Sunday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Walker Ranch. The event is free for all ages. Costumed volunteers will recreate one of the busiest seasons of the year as they demonstrate various chores associated with rural living in the late 1800s.

Visitors are invited to participate in several chores, including making wooden shingles, churning butter, chinking and daubing, doing laundry the old fashioned way and planting.

Children will get a chance to learn about recreation in the late 1800s, with games like graces and jump rope.

To get to the Walker Ranch homestead, go approximately 7.4 miles up Flagstaff Mountain Road, west of Boulder. Follow signs to the site. For more information, call 303-776-8848 or visit www.BoulderCounty OpenSpace.org.

Dogs and bicycles are not permitted on the ranch site. Visitors are invited to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at nearby Walker Ranch Open Space picnic sites.

Free mulch pile moved The City of Boulder and Western Disposal are still providing free mulch to Boulder residents, but the location of the mulch pile has been moved from its location on 63rd Street to Pearl Parkway (east of 49th Street and west of 55th Street). Turn north into the driveway near the “Tendril” sign. The new location is the former recycling drop-off site.

The free mulch is three inches in size and is made from branches dropped off at the Yard Waste Dropoff site.The mulch is available yearround. Self-loading the mulch is required, as there is no loading equipment available.

Do not leave any yard or wood waste at the mulch pile site; instead, take it to the yard waste drop-off site located at Western Disposal, 5880 Butte Mill Rd. For more information on the yard waste or wood waste dropoff sites, visit www.westerndisposal. com.

Berthoud Days are back The 56th Annual Berthoud Day Celebration will be held on Saturday, June 5, in Berthoud Town Park, at 200 Seventh St. The day begins with a pancake breakfast fundraiser for Boy Scout Troop 6 at the Depot Park from 6:30 a.m. to noon.

The Habitat for Humanity 5K begins at 8 a.m. Registration forms are available at www.berthoudhabitat.org.

The Berthoud Day Parade starts at 11 a.m. (free entry forms are available on the Berthoud Area Chamber of Commerce website at www.BerthoudColorado.com).

Berthoud Day festivities include arts and crafts, specialty vendors, a beer garden, food, refreshments and children’s activities.

There will be performances by the 101st Army Band–Centennial Winds at noon, the Kelly Aspen Band at 2 p.m., and the band Hindsight at 6 p.m.

Dance stage performances by the Moriarty-Moffitt School of Irish Dance begin at 1 p.m., followed by the BAC Rope Runners at 1:30 p.m., Tap Roots–BAHA at 3 p.m. and a pizza-eating contest at 5:30 p.m.

The Berthoud Blues Vintage Baseball Game will be held at 3 p.m. on the field

SmartCo grocery opening in Longmont One of the five new grocery stores that SmartCo Foods is opening in the Denver metro area will be at 1750 Main St. in Longmont.

The company recently announced that it intends to hire 500 local employees to staff the five stores, and it is holding its first job fair May 20-21 in Denver.

According to a company news release, the new stores “will blend the best features of your local supermarket, warehouse club store and farmer’s market in one, convenient store, without membership fees or club cards.”

The first of the five stores will open in Denver at 1442 Parker Rd. in late June. The job fair on May 20–21 will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Denver East Stapleton, located at 3333 Quebec St. (at the corner of East 33rd Avenue and Quebec Street).

SmartCo plans to fill the available positions over the next month to ensure its new locations are fully staffed for the grand openings scheduled throughout June and July.

between Eighth and Tenth Streets, south of Welch Avenue near Berthoud High School.

For more information, contact Don Dana at 970-532-4200 or by e-mail at bcc@BerthoudColorado.com.

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Police Blotter Follow the paint On May 18, at approximately 1:05 a.m., police responded to the area of 17th Street and Aurora Avenue after a passer-by discovered a car covered in fresh paint. When they arrived in the area, the officers found five vehicles in a nearby alley and two vehicles on the street with white paint on them. Officers were able to follow a trail of paint to the home of one of the suspects, in the 800 block of 17th Street. Officers contacted two males, ages 20 and 21, who had white paint on them. Both admitted involvement in the crime.

They told officers that the paint was stolen from the University Hill Elementary School. The suspects were charged with criminal mischief and theft.

More Erie burglaries In the early morning hours of May 13, the Erie Police Department took six reports of residences being burglarized in the Orchard Glenn neighborhood, only 10 days after three burglaries were reported in the Arapahoe Ridge area. Two occurred on Pope Court, two occurred on Chestnut Street, and two occurred on Cottonwood Place. In most instances, the suspect(s) entered the home through an outside garage door, but in one instance the residence was entered through an unlocked sliding glass door. The Erie Police Department is continuing to investigate.

Erie Police are asking that all residents be aware of the activity in their neighborhoods and report any suspicious activity they observe.

Anyone with information regarding these or any other crimes are asked to contact the Erie Police Department. If you see suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call Boulder County Dispatch at 303441-4444.

Step off Boulder police responded to the 2800 block of Kalmia Avenue on May 3 at approximately 4 p.m. on a report of a suspicious incident. A 44-year-old female reported that as she started to enter her apartment, a male approached her from behind and told her, “Step inside!” After a short verbal altercation, the male left Boulder Weekly

the area.

The suspect is a white male, believed to be about 30 years old, approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and 115 pounds. He had a mustache and shoulder-length curly brown hair. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a blue vinyl rain jacket.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Officer Patrick Vest at 309-4413330. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Police nab 1994 murder suspect On May 10, Boulder police arrested David John Trujillo in Grand Junction in connection with the 1994 homicide of David Eugene “Gene” Cox. Trujillo is charged with second-degree murder and has been booked into the Boulder County Jail with bail set at $500,000.

Trujillo,42, was arrested at his home with the assistance of the Mesa County Sheriff ’s Department.

Cox was found dead in his home in the 4500 block of 19th Street on Jan. 4, 1994. He was 55. The autopsy report determined that Cox died of massive head injuries due to blunt force trauma.

The Boulder Police Department re-opened the homicide investigation in 2004.

Investigators presented their case to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office in February.

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Medical chopper On May 16, at approximately 12:30 a.m., emergency personnel responded to the 200 block of South Peak Road in unincorporated Boulder County on the report of a 68-year-old male having a possible stroke.

It was determined a medical helicopter was needed to transport the patient. North Colorado Medivac of Erie landed near the 6000 block of Sugarloaf Road, where sheriff ’s deputies established a landing zone. Pridemark Paramedics relayed the patient to the waiting Medivac helicopter, and the patient was transported to St. Anthony’s Central Hospital for further evaluation and treatment.

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hat can you buy with $2,000? A small franchise, cheap car and digital camera come to mind.

For Scott Harrison, $2,000 bought him a carousel frame, motor and gears. For the past 24 years, Harrison has been restoring and creating what he now calls the Carousel of Happiness, from the original electric motor to the custom carved and painted animals to the newly constructed building the carousel rests in.

Due to open Memorial Day weekend at its home in Nederland, the carousel is receiving a few finishing touches from Harrison and his volunteer construction crew.

The carousel is dedicated to deceased family members and friends — and two U.S. Marines who died in a Vietnam battle that Harrison survived.

Harrison met with Boulder Weekly last week to talk about the carousel and what it means to him.

Harrison, now retired, says that seeing the finished carousel is magical for him.

“I am exhilarated by the fact that all of the animals are out of storage and paraded in a circular manner on the carousel,”he says.

The Carousel of Happiness is a symphony of detail, from the vibrantly painted whimsical animals to the series of paintings that adorn the carousel frame and ceiling.

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photos, spiritual and children’s literature and folktales, Harrison created one animal at a time, for a total of 58 assorted creatures that include a majestic peacock, a towering giraffe, a dynamically colored zebra, a giant gorilla with space for a wheelchair and a diving dolphin. He says he spent three to six months creating each figure, and they are all his own designs.

“My shop is my garage, and I was always thinking about the next animal while I was carving,” Harrison says.

Each animal symbolizes different cultures around the world and significant strengths, virtues or legends. Harrison says he didn’t want to just have horse figures because he envisioned variety — the only horse on his carousel is an Indian pony. The “twirling girl” at the very top of the carousel is a muse conducting the music and parade of the animals and their future riders.

“The twirling girl expresses exuberance that reflects the joy that children and adults will have when they ride the carousel,” Harrison says.

Harrison created the “twirling girl” from a photograph of a little girl caught in the joy of dance that had been sitting on his office desk for many years. The animals parade to the music of a restored 1913 Wurlitzer Band Organ.

The building, which incorporates solar power, recycled materials and other green technology, smells of rich wood and fresh paint. Harrison chose basswood, a common Linden tree in North America, to create the carousel animals. He says basswood has been used for carousel figures for more than a century. As a member of the

National Carousel Association, Harrison attended annual technical shows to increase his knowledge of carousel art and history and create his own carousel design.

The wooden gift counter in the visitor entrance is Cuban mahogany, a rare wood that was donated

by Chris McCormick, the president of Broad Reach Engineering in Golden. The gift shop will feature many items made especially for the carousel and a puppet theater available for performances by area puppeteers.

Special dedication Harrison served in Vietnam as a machine gunner from 1966 to 1968. While there, he received a music box from his sister. He listened to its sweet music — a composition by Chopin — whenever he had idle time, turning to it as an outlet to daydream, calm his nerves and escape the stress of war. The music also inspired a vision of a carousel — something happy to think about in the midst of violence.

And that violence eventually hit home. Harrison lost two friends, both U.S. Marines, in a battle where the casualties were so extreme that his company was disbanded afterward.

Decades later, the music from that music box filled Harrison with sorrow — but it also brought back the vision of the carousel.

He created the Carousel of Happiness to recognize and appreciate that deceased loved ones are still alive in our hearts. He says he wants

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the carousel to translate into happiness and joy for its riders.

“I have an empathy and sympathy for people who want to remember loved ones,” he says.

Harrison says a ride on the carousel can be a time to sit quietly and recall friends and family who have passed away.

“The first turn of the carousel will be the start of a new life for the animals and the carousel,” he says. “I’m happy to be a small part of the joy the carousel will bring to its riders.”

The carousel’s first rotation on opening day will be riderless, in remembrance of Harrison’s U.S. Marine friends and of the family and friends in whose names donations were made for the carousel. People and riders can adopt carousel animals and fairies by donating.

“So many people have already given money in the name of ones they have lost,” Harrison says. Individuals and businesses can also be Green System, building or painting sponsors and will receive a colorful cloth patch for their contributions, no matter what amount it is.

Right after its first riderless rotation on opening day, Harrison says the carousel will turn all day long to begin its mission of bringing happiness to carousel visitors and riders. Rides are $1, and Italian sausages and hot dogs will be served as long as they last on Memorial Day weekend. Face painters and caricature artists will be at the inauguration, and Nederland’s Wild Okapi Marimba Band will provide pleasant melodies for the riders and audience.

Local opportunities Designed to be accessible for people with disabilities, the Carousel of Happiness includes animals — like the gorilla, swan and bear — that can accommodate disabled or wheelchair riders. The three animals symbolize power, light and personal health, respectively, Harrison says.

“I would like this carousel to be a welcoming place for everybody — an inclusive, inviting destina-

He says it’s important for visitors from different cultures and backgrounds to have this pleasant memory.

The Carousel of Happiness is available for private parties and events. Harrison says there is a small waiting list of people who have reserved the carousel for special occasions.

“We are trying to design a good series of opportunities for birthday parties, wedding receptions and other special events where the community can rent the carousel out for a day or weekend,” he says.

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tion to visit,” he says.

All proceeds beyond expenses will go to charities that benefit people with special needs. He says there haven’t been any donations to charities yet because the carousel hasn’t opened to the public.

Nederland, a town of about 1,500 people, will undoubtedly benefit from the economic and social impacts of the Carousel of Happiness. Located in the Caribou Shopping Center in the center of Nederland, Harrison says a lot of thought went into the carousel’s location. The Guercio family and Caribou Companies are leasing the location to the carousel for $1 a month for 30 years, which is essentially a donation. Sitting along the Peak to Peak Highway, Harrison says he foresees visitors stopping unexpectedly and discovering a pleasant surprise.

“I am happy that the carousel will provide an economic stimulus for Nederland,” Harrison says.

“All the traffic that drives through and never stops will now have a reason to pull over and enjoy the carousel and explore the town.”

The construction and grand opening of the Carousel of Happiness have been made possible by dozens of volunteers who helped with the construction of the building or who contributed to its funding. Doug Cosper, a journalism instructor and construction volunteer, said that nearly $700,000 has been raised, almost entirely from the Nederland community.

“There have been a dozen core people who have dedicated themselves to making Scott’s carousel vision come alive,” Cosper says.

Nederland resident Gen Hansen says that after watching dedicated people build the carousel over the years, he feels as though it’s representative of Nederland and the town’s residents.

“The people of Nederland all seem to age slower, and maybe being young at heart is the key to longevity. With that being said, you’ll see me riding the pony there every chance I get,” Hansen says.

Harrison says that creating the building and carousel has been all-encompassing for him.

“I’ve been involved in so many different aspects of the building that I’m ready for a break,” he says.

Harrison says he will continue to carve animals for the carousel because he loves to create animals for the riders’ enjoyment.

“My next animal will be a skunk that will rest on the supporting rafters. A raccoon will be offering her flowers,” Harrison says with a smile. “I love to build animals for people’s enjoyment.”

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In this case, education in farm skills comes mostly from Jim Barausky, resident consultant and regional coordinator for the North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program.

Over a recent lunch of Frog Belly products, the interns — Nick Certeza, Amanda Jung, Maggie Mahle and Nigel Wackett — spoke of wanting “to feel connected to the earth,” “being able to grow my own food,” feeling “community with others.” Certeza and Wackett want to be farmers.

Not a single one of these folks is an agriculture major.

The program through NABAP offers certification for skills learned on “mentor farms.” With only four years of experience, Frog Belly owners Mike and Melanie Mackinnon have learned that good intentions don’t always mean good interns.

“I had to learn how to hire people who are good fits,” said Mike Mackinnon. “We’re not yet breaking even, so they can’t expect much pay.

They have to face the realities that we can’t always be as environmentally pure as we’d like, and that we kill animals, yes.”

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are a growing number of organized efforts to match farms with people willing to serve, from short-term volunteer stints to longer apprenticeships (a word that seems to be interchangeable with “internship,” depending on who you talk to).

The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service has an internships and apprentices database that covers all 50 states. It lists 62 Colorado farms that offer internships, 10 in Boulder County alone.

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (also known as Willing Workers), a global network of national organizations, also helps find good fits between farms and people. The U.S. website lists 49 Colorado farms.

According to NSAIS, there were more than 2.2 million farms counted in the 2007 Census of Agriculture, 75,810 more farms than in 2002.

Business magazine Fast Company last year had farming lead its Top Ten Best Green Jobs for the next decade.

But prior to 2002 there were decades of farmers leaving the land, and the average age of those remaining is 57.1. That means a bumper crop of farmers is needed to meet the current and coming shortage.

With the rising interest in sustainable and organic farming that is heavily dependent on manual labor, more farm hands will be needed, too.

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U.S. War on Drugs? #FAIL After 40 years of waging war on the use of certain drugs — not tobacco or alcohol — the War on Some Drugs has cost the United States $1 trillion, in addition to ruining millions of people’s lives. The situation is so transparently awful, that even Gil Kerlikowske, the U.S. drug czar, has conceded failure.

Kerlikowske told President Obama that it’s time for the country to change from prosecution of drug users to drug treatment.

According to the Associated Press, he then held out his hand and asked for another $10 billion for “interdiction and law enforcement,” i.e., prohibition and busting people.

That makes a lot of sense. The War on Some Drugs is a failure and has cost the United States $1 trillion, while enriching drug cartels to the point where they’re as destructive to Mexico as the Taliban is to Afghanistan — but let’s go ahead and waste another $10 billion at a time when the nation is broke.

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have claimed for so long — that the U.S. law enforcement apparatus is financially addicted to the War on Drugs? You don’t have to be stoned to figure that one out.

If Kerlikowske truly were interested in eliminating drug-related crimes, he’d be fighting to replace marijuana prohibition with fields of locally grown, taxable, cartel-free weed. Instead, he’s holding onto a failed policy designed to create the one thing law enforcement needs to keep their jobs — criminals.

A boob in Virginia So we were glad to find out that an element of uptight boob blanketers is not just alive and well in Boulder, but in Virginia!

The attorney general of that state, Ken Cuccinelli, recently had ordered some pins of the Virginia state seal, which features the Roman goddess Virtus (Virtue), one breast bared outside her tunic.

But Cuccinelli apparently found that image shameful, so his pins feature the goddess sporting chest armor, concealing her unsightly funbag.

This conservative kook is also the guy who advised colleges and universities that they don’t have the legal authority to protect gay employees from discrimination.

Which, in turn, prompted Jon Stewart of The Daily Show to mockingly gasp, “You can’t be gay in college?

That’s the whole point of going to college!”

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Week of May 13 -May 19 1. Much ado about melons 2. 7-year old Detroit girl shot and killed by police 3. Best of Boulder 2010 4. Panorama (5/13) 5. BP finally connects mile long pipe to begin capping oil spill 6. Alcohol at altitude: wine and mead in Colorado 7. A mannered manor 8. Justice

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Not that angle A geometry teacher in Jefferson County — Alabama, not Colorado, thankfully — misfired when he used the assassination of the president as an example in teaching his students about geometric angles.

“He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,’” Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class, told The Birmingham News.

Ouch. Poor analogy, to say the least.

Anyhoo, the teacher got a visit from the good ol’ Secret Service, who checked him out and cleared him of being any credible threat to the president’s life.

Wonder what he’ll use for an analogy when it comes to the isosceles triangle — leg-spreading?

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Boulder environmental attorney Randall Weiner’s 13-year-old class-action lawsuit against a Denver smelting plant is finally paying off for many residents of the former Denver suburb known as Globeville.

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Study: Men bad for women A new study conducted by Sven Drefahl of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research shows that men are simply bad for women.

The studied researched women’s and men’s mortality and how it might be affected by marital status. While marriage was shown to increase a man’s life expectancy, particularly if he’s married to a younger woman, the reverse was true for women. Regardless of whether women’s spouses were older or younger, married women had shorter life expectancies.

This might help to explain why 80 percent of divorces are filed by women — and why divorced women are less likely and more hesitant to remarry than divorced men. Clearly, somewhere deep in their DNA women realize that the aggravation of living with a guy who can’t do his own laundry, put down the toilet seat or provide any level of true emotional intimacy is eventually going to kill them.

No, you’re not imagining it — he really is sucking the life out of you.

So for all those spring brides happily choosing flowers and gowns, here’s another thing to add to your list of wedding purchases: a coffin.

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drove to work last week.

It was a feature interviewing the mothers enrolled in the teen pregnancy program at Fairview High School, and it was one of the most honest, revealing and jarring looks at teenage mothers that I ever heard. And the reporters putting together the program were eighth grade students enrolled in a journalism class at Casey Middle School, a school that gets slapped around in the media from time to time for perennially underachieving on standardized test scores.

“Where else are you going to empower and train eighth grade girls to be journalists and talk to their peers about this issue?” asks KGNU’s executive director Sam Fuqua. “It was revealing. … that’s what adults need to be hearing as we consider how we deal with teens getting pregnant.”

It’s just one example of the delightfully schizophrenic mix of programming you can hear at any given time on KGNU, 88.5 FM here in Boulder. You can hear anything from indie rock to medita-

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Evolution Theatre Company: Tick, Tick...BOOM! — Time’s running out to see this one. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Saturday, May 22

Boulder Farmers’ Market — The freshest vegetables and the healthiest snacks, all gathered together in one place. Hallelujah.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303910-2236.

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Festival De Vida — Presented by Sol Vida Dance. Celebrate life! 1-4 p.m. Guerilla Garden, 3821 Steele St., Ste. A, Denver, 303-564-7009.

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hough some call the art form embattled, for centuries, the written word was one of the most popular forms of entertainment available for the masses.

Families in Victorian England would gather round the fire to read the latest Charles Dickens installment (he wrote most of his novels one chapter at a time), and Dickens fans in America reportedly besieged the sailors on the ships carrying his novels, crying, “Is Little Nell dead?”

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Be brief.

to grow a blade of grass, and you don’t need chapters to tell a story. All you need, as Hemingway attests, are the right words.

That said, I’d like to introduce the first ever Boulder Weekly Flash Fiction Contest.

From now until June 17, send in your (very) short story of 700 words or less to buzz@boulderweekly.com, and we’ll publish the one we like best on June 2 and send the winner a small cash prize. Any submission with more than 700 words (not including the title) will be disqualified with extreme prejudice. Now get writing, creative Boulderites, and keep it short.

For the complete rules, visit www. boulderweekly.com.

Boulder Weekly’s summer flash fiction contest.

by David Accomazzo Misérables to Remembrance Rock, have page counts in the thousands.

But who says literature needs to be long? Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words and supposedly called it one of his best works. (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) And who can say those words don’t evoke the same passion and emotion provided by more verbose works? Fact is, you don’t need a valley

Monday, May 24

Uniquely Colorado: Exploring Our Connection to Wild Lands — Learn about our state’s most gorgeous features. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Tuesday, May 25

Salsa Night — Dance your little heart out. Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

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WILD Wednesdays at Upslope Brewing — $1 from each pint sold benefits the WILD Foundation. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www. upslopebrewing.com.

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tion chants to rip-roaring blues, and nary a focus group-tested playlist in sight. Community radio might be one of the few radio formats left where the DJs actually choose what music they play.

And if you have to suffer through the occasional Community radio might be bout of dead air that inevitably happens with a one of the few radio formats staff of volunteer DJs, so be it. It’s a small price to pay to hear good, commercial-free music on the left where DJs actually radio.

As the station celebrates its 32nd birthday with choose what music they play. a small fundraising event on Saturday, May 22 (featuring live music, pancakes and a plant sale), Dead air be damned. bigger and better things are coming up on the horizon. Namely, antennas. KGNU is moving forward with a plan to increase their broadcasting range. The radio station has received FCC approval to begin a 30-day test period of a new 4,000-watt antenna, more than triple the power of the current where we came up only 60 percent of where we need1,300-watt one. Fuqua cautions that nothing is yet ed to be, so we had to go back on the air. And we did permanent, but he tentatively expects the new eventually make it, thanks to people stepping up, but antenna to reach several hundred thousand new lisit was really tough,” Fuqua says. “This spring, we teners. It’s still a far cry from the ended more normally for us. … five- to six-digit wattage of the But it seems we have to work a On the Bill: Clear Channel stations, but it’s a little harder just to stay even.”

Community radio station KGNU proud step for the little guy, finally Going into the new decade, celebrates its 32nd birthday on Saturday, May 22. Festivities run growing after three decades of KGNU faces new challenges from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 4700 broadcasting. and increased competition Walnut St., Boulder, The new growth is even more from the Internet and from sat303-449-4885. surprising given the economic ellite radio. The station’s listenhardships of the past few years, er base has remained steady for a couple years now, and Fuqua says one of the which have proven especially difficult for donationhardest upcoming tasks is going to be marketing dependent nonprofits such as KGNU. But there are the station to new listeners. signs that things are looking up.

“KGNU is a difficult station to market since [the “We had a really tough pledge drive last fall,

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programming] is so eclectic,” Fuqua says. “We have to be smarter about our marketing and really reach out to specific groups of people and talk to them about specific shows, rather than just promote the station as a whole. We need to improve our targeted marketing.”

But still, KGNU offers something the Internet cannot: local voices. You can turn on the radio and hear your neighbor interview a local musician, or you can hear the president of your book club speaking with a touring author making a stop to promote a book in Boulder.

“To be live and local is what will keep KGNU going for another 32 years and beyond. And that’s different from the fragmented view people can get on the Internet,” Fuqua says. “There’s something about the communal experience, I think, that still draws people to local radio. We’re all alive on this planet at this moment, and we’re all listening to this radio station.”

One of those local voices is retired dentist Jack Rummel, who has hosted a ragtime show nearly every week for 30 years after fatefully sitting next to KGNU’s then-station manager at Don’s Cheese and Sausage Mart for lunch on Pearl Street three decades ago.

“From a strictly selfish point of view, where else are you going to hear an hour of ragtime a week?” Rummel asks. “This is the only show that features ragtime that you’ll find between the Mississippi River and the west coast. [KGNU] gives niche music an opportunity to be heard, whereas on other radio stations, it’s pretty much a format that’s dictated by the management.

“KGNU is one of a vanishing breed, nationwide.”

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f you’re among those already recognized, Dead Floyd who have never heard of draws on jazz, funk, and rock to Dead Floyd, a very bring a high level of musicianinnovative and very talship to the catalog of both clasented double tribute sic bands, while still maintaining band, you might be asking: a very distinctive take that Huh? Whatizzit? An homage to stands on its own. In other Pink Floyd, the original psychewords, these guys are not so delic arena prog-rockers or devmuch imitators, as they are otees of the Grateful Dead, proardent interpreters of the mategenitors of jam bands from the rial. hippie era and beyond? Well, As the sheer volume of those of you who have seen and songs generated by both the heard this dynamic Fort Dead and Floyd is so enorCollins-based quartet know how mous, audiences at Dead Floyd easily they can morph from one shows always ask, “What will sound to the other, with signifithey play next?” In addition to cant stage razzle-dazzle and the well-known, even iconic musical prowess. And, yes, Dead tunes, Dead Floyd also managOn the Bill Dead Floyd plays the Fox Floyd pulls it all off quite well, es to explore lesser known, Theatre on Friday, May 21. as you’ll be able to witness for obscure and even rarities from Doors at 8:30 p.m. yourself when they perform on both groups’ early days. The Zobomase opens. Tickets start at $5. 1135 13th St., the Hill at the Fox. Indeed, this unpredictability of their set list, Boulder, 303-443-3399. is where the Dancing Bear meets and the modern translation of the Flying Pig. classic, beloved songs bring an Collectively, the members of element of surprise to every Dead Floyd performed over 1,000 performances Dead Floyd show. across the USA in various combinations and incarnaIn addition, these dudes know how to put on a tions, through a wide variety of original music entershow, in case you were wondering whether this was prises, such as The Grippe, Hot Gazpacho, The Maji, all just an exercise in copying some old recordings. To Wooleye, Holy Moses and the High Rollers, Orooni, be sure, beyond the honest title of “tribute band,” this and many others. Since coming together in this is a unique, inventive, and very contemporary group unique and high-energy incarnation just over a year full of surprises, even for those who know the origiago, the four members — Charlie Humphreys (guinal material by heart. The love of the music of both tar, vocals), Josh Miller (bass, vocals), Stu Crair bands inspires Dead Floyd to present the songs in a (drums, vocals) and Matt Goldberg (keys, synth) — way that allows the music to timelessly live on and have played The Aggie Theatre, Mishawaka passes the legacy of both bands to the next generaAmphitheatre, Owsley’s, Quixote’s, Ullr’s Tavern, and tion of fans. many more, including the Fox. As audiences have Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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arker Circles, The Sadies’ latest work, is appropriately titled. The album is as cyclical as it is dark. Guitar chords and drum riffs allude to previous tracks constantly, building a solid and steady album that concludes beautifully.

The darkness of Darker Circles is tangible from the start. Distorted swirling guitars on the opening track, “Another Year Again,” build a timeless morose tone the band keeps throughout the entire album. Dallas Good sings, “You can make it up so high that the only place that’s left to go is down.”

The album explores the darker side of individual struggle with a brilliant country-rock perspective. Songs like “Cut Corners” and “Tell Her What I Said” have the same reverb and chord structure that the Sadies used with Neko Case on tracks in Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.

Though they don’t always emote, the Sadies use their sound to build a poignant piece of reflection on regret and self-doubt.

More impressive than the congruent tone of Darker Circles is the album’s structure. Each song contains little traces of the others, allusions that come off so slightly that they’re barely noticeable. Every track is a different experience, but they all connect in a looping web of guitar and reverb, leading to a final climax on the 11th, and most interesting, track.

Ten tracks make up the first half of the 11-track album. I say this because the last song, “Ten More Songs,” is the whole album repeated in a genius, almost tactical display of technical cunning. It’s at this point that you’ll realize just how structured this seemingly unorganized selfreference in the album is. It’s the moment when the darker circles become completely illuminated. It’s awesome.

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Dancing for pleasure

Fun is what Cobra Starship does best

by L. Kent Wolgamott

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ometimes, a band can tell when it’s making a hit song. That’s the story of Cobra Starship and “Good Girls Go Bad.” “Everything felt good about it when we made it,” says guitarist Ryland Blackinton. “People throw that expression around a lot ‘song of the summer.’ I don’t know about that. But it does have that summer sound.”

In fact, “Good Girls Go Bad” which features vocals

by Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester, became a song of summer 2009, an instant smash when it was released in mid-May a year ago.

The success of “Good Girls Go Bad” heightened expectations for Hot Mess, Cobra Starship’s latest album, which, Blackinton says, is fine with him.

“We worked on this for over a year,” he says. “It feels like something that is ripe and ready to entertain. We really want to turn it loose. It’s exciting [what has] happened with the single. Hopefully, that will be indicative of what the record will do.”

Cobra Starship collaborated with Kevin Rudolph on “Good Girls Go Bad” and worked with the likes of American Idol judge Kara Dioguardi, Sluggo and songwriters Benny Blanco and Patrick Stump in making its third album.

While some bands resist bringing in outside collaborators, Cobra Starship takes the opposite view.

“We’re a completely open band as far as those things are concerned,” Blackinton said. “We take music pretty seriously, but not that seriously. We’re not that precious with the material. We’re open to other people’s input.”

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That openness, in part, is because Cobra Starship knows that the input from producers and co-writers is really just a building block that the band will use to make a song its own, Blackinton says.

“You listen to the original demo and you listen to it when it’s done and it’s typically a completely different thing,” he said. “It’s kind of a cycle and it usually works out for the best. We take the song and work on it until it fits.”

That process, however, took far longer this time than the wham-bam method used to make Viva La Cobra! — the second Cobra Starship album and the first time the entire band worked together in the studio.

“Our last record we did in 27 days,” he says. “This record we did over the course of a year, so we tried out a lot of things. We entered into a bit of uncharted territory, some more experimental places. It didn’t feel like the mostsmooth recording process. But we know we’ve got our best songs now.”

The year of recording yielded 27 songs that Blackinton said had to be cut down for the album, a process that he said went surprisingly smoothly.

The result is an entertaining, upbeat record with witty, hook-filled tunes like “You’re Not In On The Joke” and “Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We’re Famous” that are instantly catchy and danceable.

Blackinton got a laugh when he heard a long list of descriptions of Cobra Starship, most amusingly “emopunk-dance-pop.”

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says. “Nobody likes the genre people put them in. We don’t sing about losing our girlfriends and having all these problems. So you should at least drop emo from the list.”

The emo tag is likely residue left over from Midtown, the guitar pop band Gabe Saporta fronted before he formed Cobra Starship in 2006. Saporta’s personal introspective lyrics with that band were, to some degree, emo before that term became popularized.

After leaving Midtown, Saporta put moping aside and began writing and recording dancy songs that mixed synthesizers with guitars and lyrically weren’t so downbeat and serious.

One of those tunes Saporta wrote was “Bring It,” which wound up on the soundtrack of Snakes on a Plane three years ago. Its success demanded a full album.

Playing most of the instruments himself, Saporta put together the Cobra Starship debut While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets, then recruited Blackinton and bassist Alex Suarez, who were a folk-pop duo called This Is The Ivy League, to join him on tour along with drummer Nate Navaro and keyboardist Elisa Schwartz. (Schwartz was replaced by Victoria Asher three years ago.)

From that road adventure, a band was born.

Given its origins, Cobra Starship has always has been about having fun.

And the fun that can be heard on Hot Mess extends to the live shows, where Blackinton fans show up in “Team Pleasure Ryland” shirts, a takeoff on “Pleasure Ryland,” a jokey song about an imaginary place where dancing is nearly clothes-free and drinks are free.

“We do a pretty big grab-bag of songs when we play live,” says Blackinton, who changes instruments on stage depending on what is needed for each song.

“There’s a lot of electronic songs, then some more guitar-based songs. We try to have a balance between the two. We know it’s working when everybody in the place is dancing.”

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Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company presents

Ring Round the Moon Written by Jean Anouilh

May 7th – May 22nd Adapted by Christopher Fry, directed by Joan Kuder Bell & performed by special permission of the Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Performed at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

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You’re standing on my neck Daria hits DVD shelves after eight-year delay

by David Accomazzo

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he year was 1997. Hanson’s “MMMBop” was jostling with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” for the top spot on the charts, Bill Clinton’s “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky were still private, and an MTV animated cult hit about two morons in high school called Beavis and Butthead was wrapping up its controversial four-year run.

Beavis and Butthead’s cultural contributions to the world are significant but are, alas, another story for another time. This is about a minor character introduced early in the show’s run named Daria Morgendorffer, a brainy, fashion-challenged, free-thinking foil to the mindless inanity of the show’s titular duo who spawned her own series when the original ended.

Daria ran for five seasons and two movies. After a nearly decade-long wait and an online petition signed by more than 30,000 rabid fans, Daria: The Complete Animated Series is finally available on DVD. The show debuted in 1997 and quickly picked up a cult following. The show portrayed the pettiness of suburban high school drama with biting satirical force, with Daria serving as the lone beacon of sanity in the whirlpool of empty drama swirling around her.

I might have been the only member of the 12- to 17-year-old male demographic who liked Daria (“Seriously? Dude, Beavis and Butthead was so much better,” a friend said judgmentally when I mentioned the DVDs), and when I heard the show was coming to DVD, I began to wonder if the show had kept its edge after almost a decade off the air.

The characters are basically typecast stereotypes, but they haven’t lost their relevancy. Daria’s father is a neurotic mess who can’t get past his torrid relationship with his own late father, her mother is a highpowered lawyer addicted to her job and juggling personal and professional responsibilities, and her young-

er sister Quinn is everything Daria’s not — fashionobsessed, popular and vapid.

Her parents mean well, but they just don’t get their daughter. There’s a moment in Season 3 where she’s sitting at the table with her parents, who are trying their best to connect with their daughter. Feeling the conversation starting to wither away, Daria’s father asks her if she has read anything interesting in the newspaper recently.

“Hmm,” Daria replies dryly. “I did see an article by an efficiency expert who claims one really intense conversation with your child over breakfast is worth a whole week of unfocused parenting. Did you catch that article?”

The characters at Daria’s school are even more entertaining. There’s the self-promoting principal, the pitifully emasculated new-age teacher of the selfesteem class, the dumb jock, the brainless cheerleader, the man-hating feminist, and the elite, pretty and highly sought-after members of the fashion club.

It would be tempting to label Daria as another entry in the two-tiered, jocks-vs.-nerds culture war that characterizes American high school in popular culture. But the popular kids are not the enemy on Daria; they are the butt of the joke. Daria and her

best friend Jane constantly mock them, and for good reason, since the show portrays them as exceedingly shallow and superficial.

But if that was it, the show wouldn’t have aged well. The show made a point of slowly introducing depth to the stereotypical characters it loved to mock. Daria eventually steals her best friend’s boyfriend, the black (and popular) valedictorian Jodie struggles with telling her parents she’d rather attend a black college instead of a whitebread elitist one, and the star quarterback hides his shame at having failed his senior year and being unable to graduate with his girlfriend.

The resulting is fascinating. There are very few shows that idolize nonconformity with such tact as Daria. But it’s the honesty with which the show deals with its characters that I think is mainly why the show remains so popular. It is more than the jocknerd binary that ’80s flicks were so fond of; the show gave dimension to even the conformists it had so much fun lampooning. And it idolized a protagonist that dared to go against the grain and be herself, not the person her parents and her school wanted her to be.

A final note: A discussion of music is in order.

Like Beavis and Butthead before it, Daria’s soundtrack famously featured then-popular songs playing on the radio, at parties, on television, etc. But buying licensing rights for all the songs used in the original series would have made the transfer to DVD impossible, claims series creator Glenn Eichler. Good riddance, I say. As much as hearing “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” at a cartoon party might have transported me back to 1998, I didn’t really notice its absence. The generic replacement music didn’t distract from the show’s themes.

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music Bamsha Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Diane Birch — With Andrew Belle. 8 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

DLX. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

The Eagles. 8 p.m. The Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Cir., Denver, 303-405-1100.

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

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

Hot Soup. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

JFlash. 8:30 p.m. doors/9 p.m. show. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Martin Sexton — With Ryan Montbleau Band.

8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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

Rhythm Angels — With Rebecca Folsom and Celeste Krenz. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr.., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ronnie Shellist Blues. 7 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

The Widow’s Bane. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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Everyone loves zombies. Zombie skateboard movies, zombie Halloween costumes, Baby’s First Zombie books — why not add a zombie folk band to the mix? Try it; you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Or eaten alive. Who knows. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Bob Dylan’s Birthday Celebration and Poster Show. PosterScene, 1138 13th St., Boulder, 303-527-2701. Through May 31.

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

Q’s Food & Wine Series:Talbott Vineyards.

6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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3OH!3, Cobra Starship. 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-8370360.

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

Ayo Awosika, Megan Burtt and Julia Bryan.

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

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Boulder/Denver Area 10,483,200 Minutes — By Eric and Heather ChanSchatz. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.Through May 23.

Arvada Fine Arts Guild Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through June 6.

Extraordinary Images of Ordinary Things — By Brad Hatch. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through May 23.

Face to Face — By Beverly

McIver. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through May 23.

Rawhide, Steel & Bone — Photography by Britt Ripley.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through May 31.

Landscapes — Navajo weaving and textiles. Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 North Broadway, Denver, 303-492-6892. Through May 30.

Leanin’ Tree Museum and Sculpture Garden of Western Arts. Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr.,

Boulder, 303-530-1442.

Permanent exhibit.

Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made — Multimedia art by William Stockman, Samuel Beckett and Lorraine O’Grady. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.Through May 23.

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

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through May 23.

Resurrections: A Functional

Trash-Art Exhibition.

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

Through June 30.

Rodeo Days — Oil paintings

by Elizabeth Wonnacott.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303497-2408. Through May 31.

Ropes — Pattie Lee Becker.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through May 23.

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

Through May 30.

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

Boulder Acoustic Society — With Elyse Miller. 7 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970-482-4420.

By All Means. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Casual Crisis. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

The Catfish Kray Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Dead Floyd. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 9 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Elephant Revival — With Taarka. 8 p.m.

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

Enrique Bunbury. 8 p.m. 3263 South Broadway, Englewood, www.gothictheatre.com.

FAC Concert — with Carli & The Reactions.

Benefits Grillo Health Information Center, Western Resource Advocates. 5:30 p.m.

Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850.

The Jagtones. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Photo Atlas.. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Quemando. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

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

The Say-So Crazies. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303443-5108.

Trinity Demask, And Ard. 6 p.m. D Note,

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Take that, Edison. Topsy lives. With Taarka. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Evolution Theatre Company: Tick,Tick...

BOOM! 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Ring Round the Moon. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

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theater Boulder/Denver The Music Man. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 25.

High School Musical 2. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through May 27.

The Four Seasons — Ballet.

Arvada Center for the Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. May 28-30.

Girls Only. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100.

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Through June 27.

The Burger Foundation — Michelle Ellsworth performance art. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. May 21 only.

Peter Pan. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 4.

101 Dalmations. Jester’s Children’s Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. May 8 through June 12.

5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Angels & Airwaves. 8 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-8370360.

Blazing Scarlet. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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

Chris Kroger Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Elephant Revival — With Taarka and Gristle Gals. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Flatirons Jazz Quintet. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Fort Know Five — With Fury and others.8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Gretchen Troop Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Jake Loggins Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

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

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

Meg Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Meese. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Motorhome, Great American Taxi. 4:20 p.m.

Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970-482-4420.

Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

The Indulgers. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

events Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877.

Brazil at the Broadway Shops. 1-5 p.m.

Shops along Alpine Avenue and Broadway, 303775-3856.

Build Your Own Kinetic Sculpture Workshop. 9 a.m. Longmont Parks & Recreation Department, 7 S. Sunset St., Longmont, 303-651-8406.

Community Cycles Rolling Bike Clinic.

12-5 p.m. Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park, 3003 Valmont Rd., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Evolution Theatre Company: Tick,Tick...

BOOM! 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Music and Mimosas — Every Saturday 9-11

a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665.

Ride the Divide — Film screening and special musical guest. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Ring Round the Moon. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Spring Beer Festival 2010. 12-4 p.m.

Pumphouse Brewery, 540 Main St., Longmont, 303-702-0881.

Sunday, May 23

HIGHER AND HIGHER: Neshama Carlebach in Concert Neshama Carlebach, one of the leading superstars in Jewish entertainment, is continuing the legacy established by her father Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, whose deep spirituality and love of all humanity filled every song he wrote and touched every person he encountered as he changed the face of Jewish music.

Like her father, Neshama’s talent and charisma captivate and endear her to people of all ages and backgrounds as she performs in cities all over the world. Together with her incredible band she continues to deeply move and entertain as she sings her father’s melodies as well as her own inspiring original compositions. She has just released her seventh CD, “Higher and Higher.” Visit neshamacarlebach.com to hear her incomparable songs.

Thursday, May 27 7:30 pm Congregation Har HaShem 3950 Baseline Road Tickets: $20 Available online: www.boulderjcc.org And by phone: 303-998-1021

Kathryn Bernheimer Director, Menorah, *B’Yahad* Maimonides 303-998-1021 or kathryn@boulderjcc.org

Congregation Bonai Shalom Presents

music 5th Annual All-Star Tribute to Bob Dylan.

7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Afton Showcase — With the green screen effect and others. 6:30 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Ayo’s Students. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bill McKay & Friends. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Brazilian Jazz with Carmen Sandim and Danny Meyer. 5 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

DJ Harry. 10 p.m.Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St. Denver, 303-388-2337.

The Expendables — With Dirty Penny, Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, and Big B. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Fried Nothing TV. 7 p.m. 3263 South Broadway, Englewood, www.gothictheatre.com.

Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Juba Juba. 2 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970-4824420.

Long Road Home Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m.

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

Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m.Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St., Denver, 303-388-2337.

events Catchup Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class.

5:30-6:15 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Festival De Vida — Presented by Sol Vida Dance. 1-4 p.m. Guerilla Garden, 3821 Steele St., Ste. A, Denver, 303-564-7009.

Evolution Theatre Company: Tick,Tick...

BOOM! 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

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

The Expendables. 7 p.m. doors/7:30 p.m. show.

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

Jazz Jam with Brad Goode. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Sage Francis — With Free Moral Agents and B. Dolan. 7 p.m. 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, www.gothictheatre.com.

events Meditation Instruction — Talk & refreshments. 7 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

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

Uniquely Colorado: Exploring Our Connection to Wild Lands. 6:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline

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Tuesday, May 25

music Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350.

Deadbolt. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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

Noble, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

Saturday, May 22 101 Dalmations — Musical. 3 p.m. The Jesters School for the Performing Arts, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, May 23 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

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

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

Monday, May 24 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, May 25 Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

events Beautiful Caribbean Islands. 7 p.m. Traveler’s Tuesday program. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-7868406.

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

Grant Writing: Approaches to Getting Started. NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-499-3311.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Janet Solyntjes. 7 p.m. Sherpa’s Restaurant, 825 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-771-1253.

Wednesday, May 26

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

Nelson Rangell — Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr.., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Balance & The JAH Disciples, DJ Frontline Sound System. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

events Chautauqua Silent Film Series — Reaching for the Moon. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua Association, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m.. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

WILD Wednesdays at Upslope Brewing — $1 from each pint sold benefits the WILD Foundation. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Kids’ Calendar

Thursday, May 20 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

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

Friday, May 21 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes &

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Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

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

Wednesday, May 26 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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words Thursday, May 20 Manuel Ramos’ King of the Chicanos.

7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Saturday, May 22 Nathaniel Philbrick’s The Last Stand.

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

William Haywood Henderson’s Native. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Monday, May 24 Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.” The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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Heather Lende’s Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, May 25 Peter Yarrow’s Songs for Little Folks. 6:30 p.m.

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

Active Minds Lecture:The European Union. 3:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Wednesday, May 26 Hal Higdon’s Marathon. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

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Experiential sex ed

by Dr. Jenni Skyler

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ike taking a tour through Glacier Ice Cream, sex education comes in many flavors. One flavor offers abstinence-based education, the message of which is to refrain from sex before marriage. Another flavor is a comprehensive sex education that includes an abstinence option accompanied by STD and pregnancy prevention via condom use. Other flavors include hyper-sexualized Hollywood movies and racy reality TV programs. Some students get the nuts and bolts in high school health classes, while others rely on questionable Internet information. However, most of us get the bulk of our sex education experientially — by actually engaging in sexual activity.

Likewise, our sex educators can be big power centers such as Abstinence Clearinghouse, Planned Parenthood, the Church, Mosque or Temple, or our health teachers, parents and older siblings. Other voices in our sex education include directors Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick, along with Madonna, Lady Gaga and Google. For experiential learners, our sex educators include ourselves and our romantic partners. And then there are the sex educators who are a little less known, but just as experiential — the Tantra ones.

Tantra is neither a religion nor philosophy, but rather a spiritual practice centered on sexuality. In Sanskrit, Tantra is defined as “expansion through awareness.”

Dawn Beck, co-founder of Tantric Sacred Journeys, describes it as expanding one’s senses, energy centers and the ability to feel the body and spirit open and connected to self and other.

Beck entered into the Tantra field as many do, for personal reasons.

“When I met my beloved on a blind date at the Corner Bar in the Boulderado 12 years ago, I knew he was the one. But after three years together, I knew I needed more sexual depth to keep our emotional connection alive,” she says.

That’s when Beck and her beloved, Gerard Gatz, researched Tantra schools to help them expand their understanding of sex. They chose an all-weekend workshop with Charles and Caroline Muir.

They were “blown away,” Gatz recalls, and began to practice together on a daily basis with meditation to quiet their minds, and breath and sound to move energy through their bodies. After finding enormous benefits as individuals and as a couple, Beck and Gatz ventured to the Muir’s Source School of Tantra in Maui Boulder Weekly

to become certified Tantra educators.

Beck recalls that in some of her past relationships her heart was wide open and connected to her partner. In other relationships, her yoni (the Tantra term for vulva/vagina) was wide open to her partners. But she was never able to open both simultaneously. Until Tantra.

“It has profoundly helped me connect my ‘heart center’ to my ‘sexual center,’” Beck states.

Tantra has helped the couple create a business for experiential education and healing. Today they run Tantric Sacred Journeys (www.tantricsacredjourneys. com) and host one-day intro workshops, three-day couples-only intensives and monthly puja evenings — sacred ceremonial circles for couples and singles. Beck also teaches women-only workshops for women to experience a deeper exploration of women healing women. They also offer private sessions conducted in a safe, sacred and connected manner and tailored towards couples’ and individuals’ specific healing and educational needs.

Being a spiritual epicenter, Boulder is rich with Tantra opportunities. The other major school of Tantra is from Margot Anand, who holistically blends ancient traditions of sexuality with modern techniques in communication skills, massage, meditation and ritual. Anand’s focus includes a more external pelvic release for both genders, including stimulation of full genital and groin regions.

Muir, on the other hand, places a major focus internally — on yoni sacred spot healing and massage, and lingum (Tantra term for penis) massage with ejaculatory choice and control for men.

Both emphasize eye contact, energy and awareness. As Muir says, “Tantric sex is not about sleeping together, it’s about awakening.”

That said, exploration of Tantra might not be for everyone and is not to be taken lightly. Experiential sex education is a very intimate way to learn about sexuality, and some people can feel very exposed and raw after Tantra experiences.

If you are interested in exploring Tantra, do your research first and find sophisticated and seasoned practitioners to help guide you on that journey. Or just keep reading this column, and glean what education you can!

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

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Thursday, May 20 2009 Fourteener Bike and Hike — presented by Bart Miller. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Suite A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Friday, May 21 Cottonwood Institute’s 2010 Ripple Effect Awards. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Saturday, May 22 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, May 23 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

Groovy in the Gore

Monday, May 24 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

More flowers than Woodstock without the mud or crowds he trail was rocky. And steep and nasty and hard. And my pack was heavy — too heavy. It might have been the two bottles of wine stuffed in there, but the wine was essential

gear. And everyone knows you shouldn’t go heading into the wilderness without taking all the essentials. and mountain locals who rank as some of the most active in the nation, you’d expect the Gore to be crowded. After all, the FREE hiking and backpacking are $25 Team Hat spectacular, and most of the range has 4:14 PM been protected with a federal wilderness

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designation. Meaning, of course, that the Gore is about as close to pristine as any place on the planet.

But the reality is that as spectacular as these mountains are, they get surprising little use compared to many recreation areas in the state. Because of this, it’s worth taking a second look at this jagged and spectacular range, a mere two-hour drive from Boulder.

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Tuesday, May 25 Beautiful Caribbean Islands. 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program.

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

Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:307:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, May 26 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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shuttle), and you have a moderately challenging weekend trip that can be done by those who haven’t spent much time backpacking in Colorado’s great outdoors.

We started our journey by leaving a car in Vail (and booking a cheap condo for the Sunday evening when we expected to wrap up our backpacking with a return to civilization and the charms of a hot shower and fine dining). A short trip over to Vail Pass and Frisco to the Lilypad/Willow Creek/Buffalo Cabin Trailhead in the Wilderness neighborhood of Silverthorne set the trip in motion. We’d leave a car in the parking lot here and pick it up on our way back to Boulder on Monday morning.

North Tenmile Trail is one of several that start in Summit County and plunge deep into the Gore. Some, like our choice, lead to easy connections over high-mountain passes and connect with trails that end up in East Vail. Others, particularly those north of Silverthorne, like the Gore Range and North Rock Creek trails are more committed and involved, with route-finding and difficult off-trail alpine slogs over severe ridges to get to the other side. But that’s the beauty of the Gore. There’s something for everyone here, from relative novices to hardcore backcountry enthusiasts. And with easy access to trailheads on both sides of the range, your adventure is yours to choose.

During the first part of our hike, the miles seemed to go quickly, but as the elevation gained, our packs became increasingly burdensome. Still, the wildflowers served to keep our minds off the strain, and the views unfolded in waves of panoramic bliss.

The first part of the trail was relatively straightforward and easy as we worked our way around the flank of Buffalo Mountain.

This 12,777-foot peak is notable for its classic shape, and is easily visible from the long descent down the hill from the West Portal of Eisenhower Tunnel. The mountain looks as though it has had a large bite taken out of it, the cirque the dominating element of the rounded peak. While we’d climbed the mountain in

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Topographic maps, trail conditions and more information can be obtained from the U.S. Forest Service’s regional offices. For the east side of the Gore, contact the Dillon Ranger District. For trails on the west side of the range, contact the Holy Cross Ranger District.

Dillon Ranger District: 680 River Parkway Silverthorne, CO 80498 — 970-468-5400 Holy Cross Ranger District: P.O. Box 190, 24747 US HWY 24 Minturn, CO, 81645 — 970-827-5715

the past, the summit wasn’t on our agenda today.

Once around the side of the peak, the trail gave up precious elevation, dropping to the South Willow Creek to rendezvous with the Wheeler Dillon Trail.

As a side note for those who hate going down, it’s possible to forego traversing Buffalo and start lower

down the valley where this trail exits civilization north of Silverthorne. The option is an example of how hikers and backpackers are spoiled for choice in the Gore, and how motivated individuals can link multiple trails and hikes to create loops, multi-day trips and other adventures.

We saw our first — and last — people at Willow Creek Falls, and after fueling up, it was game on to the high alpine meadows below Red Buffalo pass. The wildflowers and small brooks were too enticing to pass up, so we set up camp, opened a bottle of wine (much to my aching back’s relief ) and watched the sun set while dinner bubbled away on our stove.

We’d planned the next leg to be the shortest and easiest of the trip, a day for wandering through meadows stuffed full of wildflowers, napping in the sun and, of course for a “city cowboy” start on the trail. The 10 a.m. start didn’t disappoint, and while the short trudge over Red Buffalo pass at the rarified elevation of 11,800 feet did get our hearts pumping, we knew that it would be all downhill on the Gore Creek Trail from there as we headed toward Vail. The western slope of the Gore is, if anything, more spectacular and empty than the Summit County side. It’s lusher and greener, with enough wildflowers to please the most discerning botanists. It’s also home to several attractive peaks, including Mount Valhalla and Red Peak. These and the other thirteeners in the Gore don’t see the traffic that Colorado’s fourteeners do, but they’re just as imposing, crenellated rock spires that pierce the sky. True to our dude ranch-style on the day, we didn’t attempt any of them, preferring to set up camp in their shadows and admire them from afar.

The next morning, after wading through more waist-deep wildflowers, we descended the rest of the way to civilization. The wine was all gone, our packs were much lighter, but the smiles on our faces were as large as the mountains we’d just crossed.

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The casino that Jack destroyed

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hy would you make a documentary?” kingpin lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a.k.a. the Man Who Bought Washington, asked filmmaker Alex Gibney. “No one watches documentaries. You should make an action movie,” he advised, which, in the best possible sense, is what Gibney has done.

Casino Jack and the United States of Money is a film that’s always on the move, a smart, lively, thoroughly involving documentary about a complex, critical subject. As previous credits such as Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and the Oscarwinning Taxi to the Dark Side demonstrated, Gibney is as good as it gets at making complicated political material come alive on screen.

Gibney’s latest, coming after the bitter Congressional battles over health care and financial reform, couldn’t be more timely. It’s a film about lobbying, about how interest groups get their voices heard in Washington through a process that former Illinois Sen. Peter Fitzgerald frankly calls “a system of legalized bribery.” Is the problem personal or endemic, Casino Jack asks; were times more innocent in the past, or were we just naive?

The film shrewdly filters this examination through the character of Abramoff, generally conceded to be the best in the business of connecting money to power. “He could talk a dog off a meat truck,” says the candid Neil Volz, a close Abramoff associate. Until the man went too far and ended up pleading guilty to charges of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials and being sentenced to more than five years in prison.

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peddling and corruption scandal that cut a wide swath through Congress (more than 200 members received Abramoff money), Gibney and his secret weapon, editor and producer Alison Ellwood, have covered the waterfront to convey information and keep us entertained.

In addition to sharp, on-camera interviews with some of the key participants, including former Ohio Congressman Robert Ney, who served 17 months in prison, and former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who resigned in the wake of the scandal, the filmmakers have weaved in a wide variety of audio and visual elements.

There are reproduced e-mails, vintage TV-news footage, a soundtrack that includes Aretha Franklin singing a rousing version of “The House That Jack Built” and even clips from movies — one from Treasure Island that’s on screen as someone says, “Jack found money where no one else thought to look.”

Perhaps taking a note from Abramoff (who declined to appear on camera), director Gibney even starts the film with a conventional action sequence that re-creates the mob hit that took out a Florida businessman, a murder that gave investigators their first reason to examine Abramoff and his doings.

Casino Jack’s story, however, starts much further back, with Abramoff ’s early career as a power in the College Republicans, where he worked with the likes of Grover Nordquist and Ralph Reed and saw himself as a pre-Tea Party freedom fighter taking on the liberal malaise destroying the country.

After a brief stint as a film producer (the Dolph Lundgren-starring Red Scorpion) Abramoff

returned to Washington in the wake of 1994’s Newt Gingrich-led “Republican Revolution.”

Paradoxically, the film posits, it was the intensity of Abramoff ’s belief in the conservative goal of markets without limits or controls that led to his illegal activities. Like many before him, he felt rules didn’t matter because his goal was so important.

Casino Jack goes into great detail on a number of Abramoff ’s schemes and stratagems, but a few stand out. Because many of his conservative colleagues couldn’t be seen taking money from Abramoff ’s less savory clients, his associate Michael Scanlon set up the American International Center, a multimillion-dollar money-laundering front that was headed by a genial lifeguard Scanlon had met while swimming at Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach.

The heart of Abramoff ’s downfall was the elaborate overbilling schemes he concocted to charge Native American tribes some $45 million to help them protect their legalized gambling operations.

The shenanigans that Gibney documents are enough to make your head truly spin.

One of Abramoff ’s most costly weaknesses was his penchant for putting everything into electronic communication. “What every American should learn from Jack,” says Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, “is ‘Don’t put it in e-mails.’”

Frankly, there’s a whole lot more we could learn from this gripping, unsavory story, and it behooves us to do so before even more damage is done.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com Pompidou Center in Paris. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

Babies

Guaranteed to elicit tsunamis of “oohs” and “awwws,” this narration-less documentary focuses on four newborns from different cultures and countries: Namibia, Mongolia, the U.S. and Japan.

The cute factor is through the roof in this transcontinental celebration of teeny, tottering humanity.

Rated PG At Century. — Steven Rea

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

See page 38 for a full review. Rated R. At Mayan.

City Island

Raymond De Felitta’s screwball farce City Island introduces us to the Rizzos, a boisterous party of four living in the tradition-steeped, seaside spit of Bronx real estate of the movie’s title. The Rizzos don’t talk to one another much, and when they do the neighbors undoubtedly hear every word. But deep down, we’re meant to understand, they shout because they care.

The movie’s setup would barely pass muster on Three’s Company, and there’s little doubt that the whole thing is going to end in a group hug. But City Island scrapes by and delivers a smile or two because it does contain a fundamental understanding of the rot that sets in when people hide their true selves from the ones they love. Rated PG-13. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Glenn Whipp

Back Home Tomorrow

In Back Home Tomorrow, directors Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Paolo Santolini share the moving stories of two children affected by war to present the remarkable work of the Italian aid organization Emergency. Yagoub fled with his family from Darfur and now lives in the Mayo Refugee Camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. He has to undergo a serious heart operation, but neither his family nor his fellow tribesmen can come up with the money to pay for it. Then there’s Murtaza. He’s recuperating in a hospital in Kabul after losing his left hand to a landmine. The directors expertly interweave these two fascinating and heartfelt stories without commentary to create a film of rich complexities and emotional resonance. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Back-up Plan

The Back-up Plan is about as much fun as 36 hours of labor, only you don’t get to go home with a baby at the end. Instead, you leave with a throbbing headache and a lot of questions about why anybody still thinks Jennifer Lopez can anchor a movie.

Lopez plays Zoe, a gorgeous New York businesswoman who is inexplicably single. Zoe desperately wants a baby, and as the movie opens she’s being impregnated with sperm from an anonymous donor.

On her way out of the doctor’s office, she hails and gets into a cab. A hot guy (Alex O’Loughlin of TV’s defunct Moonlight) jumps in at the same time.

Naturally, they squabble, meet again and eventually fall in love, forcing Zoe to confess she’s already

A not-so-merry man

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Clash of the Titans

pregnant, an announcement that will lead to terror, misunderstandings and a tiresome amount of bickering about trust and commitment. If there’s a cliche available for any given moment, screenwriter Kate Angelo latches onto it. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Connie Ogle Bounty Hunter

Jennifer Aniston stars as a reporter on the trail of a police corruption scandal. She skips a court hearing to meet up with a snitch, and her ex-husband, a bounty hunter played by Gerard Butler, is thrilled to be the one bringing her in. But he owes some loan sharks, so everyone’s trying to kill them, and they bicker and bicker and chase and chase and are chased and chased again. Butler grates in this

cringe-worthy romantic comedy, and Aniston’s script karma continues its vengeful post-Friends rampage. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Breath Made Visible

Breath Made Visible is the first feature-length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance’s power to teach, heal and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage (including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S.) and excerpts of current performances such as “Parades and Changes” at the Georges

Clash of the Titans could be the first film to actually be made worse by being in 3-D. The third dimension, especially in the action scenes, is more of a distraction than an enhancement. This remake of the creaky 1981 original is also hampered by a numbskull plot and plodding dialogue. Sam Worthington of Avatar stars as Perseus, the demigod who leads a group of warriors against an entire Noah’s ark of inhuman adversaries, including the dreaded Kraken. Rated PG-13. At Century, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Kenneth Turan Date Night Comedy is hard. Farce is harder. The momentum and lunacy need to keep building. The characters’ cluelessness needs to be endearing, but they can’t come off as imbeciles. The outrageous hijinks can’t be pushed too hard or the whole delicate conceit is apt to collapse into desperate chaos. Wonder of wonders, then, that Shawn Levy, the director of such middle-of-the-road

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 Babies Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:30, 3:30 The Back-up Plan Fri-Wed: 7:20, 9:55 Date Night Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35 Furry Vengeance Fri-Wed: 12:20, 2:40, 5:05 How to Train Your Dragon FriSun: 12:05, 2:35, 5, 7:15 Iron Man 2 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Letters to Juliet Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 MacGruber Fri-Wed: 11:35, 1:40, 3:50, 5:55, 8:20, 10:25 A Nightmare on Elm Street Fri-Wed: 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Robin Hood Fri-Wed: 10, 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9:05, 10:05 Shrek Forever After Fri-Wed: 11, 11:45, 1:10, 2:00, 3:25, 4:15, 5:45, 6:30, 8:05, 8:45, 10:20 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Babies Fri-Wed: 12:20, 2:45, 4:55,

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Robin Hood Fri-Wed: 10:55, 12, 1:05, 2:15, 3:15, 4:30, 5:35, 6:30, 7:50, 8:45, 9:50, 10:55 Shrek Forever After Fri-Wed: 10:15, 11:30, 12:10, 12:50, 2:10, 2:50, 3:30, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:10, 8:50, 10:10, 10:50 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Babies Fri-Wed: 1;20, 4:10, 7:10 The Back-up Plan Fri-Wed:

1:50, 4:30, 8 Date Night Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 Furry Vengeance Fri-Wed: 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 The Ghost Writer Fri-Wed: 2:40, 6:50 How to Train Your Dragon FriWed: 12:50, 3:40, 6:40 Iron Man 2 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 10 Letters to Juliet Fri-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:50 MacGruber Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 Oceans Fri-Wed: 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 Robin Hood Fri-Wed: 2:20, 6:50 Shrek Forever After Fri-Wed: 12:30, 2:10, 3:20, 5, 6:10, 8, 8:50, 10:20 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3197 The Gleaners and I Thu: 7 p.m.

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Look Into My Eyes Sun: 5 p.m.

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Remnants of War Sun: 3 p.m.

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fare as Cheaper by the Dozen and The Pink Panther, and Josh Klausner, one of 12 credited screenwriters who worked on Shrek the 3rd, should turn out to be such gifted practitioners of this very tricky genre in Date Night. That there is a beating heart at the center of all this makes it all the more appealing. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square — Christopher Kelly

Jay Baruchel) meets one of the dreaded beasts and learns dragons are a misjudged species, which puts him at odds with his father (Gerard Butler) and the rest of the village. The flying scenes are fantastic, so seeing Dragon in 3-D really is a must. Rated PG (language and sexual content). At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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The iconoclastic English painter Banksy may be the most important artist on the run from police. Or the most creative vandal. A graffiti muralist who satirizes government, authority and society, his unauthorized use of urban buildings as his gallery space obliges him to remain anonymous. Wearing disguises, he has glued his own art-mocking oil paintings onto the walls of leading museums. In 2006 he smuggled a life-size inflatable replica of an orangejumpsuited Guantanamo Bay detainee into Disneyland, setting off a major security alert. Quite the outlaw. Yet prints of his art fetch a fortune at Sotheby’s and his coffee-table books are sold at Urban Outfitters. Banksy’s tightrope walk between secrecy and publicity is a central theme of the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. At Mayan. — Colin Covert

“A passable knock-off.” That’s how the obscenely rich but heartsick industrialist played by Robert Downey Jr. characterizes the electro-weaponry wielded by his adversary (Mickey Rourke) in Iron Man 2. Much of this scattershot sequel to the 2008 smash feels like a passable knock-off as well. Here and there, director Jon Favreau’s diversion takes us back to the considerable satisfactions of the first Iron Man, but Iron Man 2 has a harder time with matters of story clarity and momentum. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Furry Vengeance

An ambitious young real estate developer faces off with a band of angry animals, led by an incredibly clever raccoon, when his new housing subdivision pushes too far into a pristine part of the wilderness. With Brendan Fraser and Brooke Shields.

Directed by Roger Kumble. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Time The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A violent, exhilarating and faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller, with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the role of Lisbeth Salander, the punky, pierced, perturbed, cyber-hacking heroine. Not rated. (violence, sexual violence, nudity, profanity, adult themes) At Esquire. — Steven Rea The Gleaners and I

Directed by Agnes Varda, this documentary is an intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s director. The aesthetic, political and moral points of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato or the leftover turnip. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL The Good, The Bad, The Weird

This deliriously over-the-top “Oriental Western” is a loving, virtually non-stop action tribute to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. The Good (Jung Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down criminals with rewards on their heads. The Bad (Lee Byung-hun) is the leader of a group of bandits and can’t stand to be secondbest. The Weird (Song Kang-ho, The Host) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map The Weird discovers while robbing the train. In an unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand in the end as the winner? Directed and co-written by Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters).

Fully subtitled. Not rated. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres How to Train Your Dragon

The swoops and dives of this exuberant animated feature, in which the teen hero befriends the winged enemy, should prove as addicting to its target audience as similar scenes have in Avatar. On the Island of Berk, the Vikings have been putting up with dragon attacks for 300 years. Hiccup (voice of 40 May 20, 2010

Just Wright

Audiences may be stunned by the genuine display of niceness in this romantic comedy. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist who has two months to rehab the man she secretly loves, the nicest guy in the NBA, played by Common, after a knee injury threatens to derail his career. Director Sanaa Hamri deftly preserves the heart of this film. The reason Just Wright works is simple. It finds ways to let familiar characters move around inside a familiar premise like living, breathing, likable human beings.

Rated PG. At Century. — Michael Phillips Kick-Ass

This super-violent superhero movie revels in geek revenge. High-schooler Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who transforms himself into the selfappointed butt-thumper of the title, discovers there’s a masked 10-year-old girl out on the mean streets already, going by the handle “Hit Girl” (Chloe Grace Moretz). She is the protege of her ex-cop father, also a crime-fighter behind a mask, operating as “Big Daddy” (Nicolas Cage). The gore is stupidly relentless from beginning to end. Rated R. At Century. — Michael Phillips Letters to Juliet

A young American joins a group of volunteers in Verona who respond to letters written to Shakespeare’s Juliet seeking advice on love. With Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero. Written

by Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan. Directed by Gary Winick. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times Look Into My Eyes

Filmmaker Naftaly Gliksberg sets out to investigate what anti-Semitism looks like today, crossing two continents to see how people react to direct questions about their attitudes toward Jews, Israel and the notion that there is such a thing as anti-Semitism. It is a startling personal journey of painful discoveries as he explores representations and impressions of Jews and Israelis around the world.

As he visits individuals in Poland, France, the United States and Germany, Gliksberg discovers that people’s responses to his pointed questions are often a mixture of their own culture, some version of history and a certain collective psychology. At Starz.

— Denver Film Society MacGruber

Naturally, MacGruber doesn’t spring from an original idea. When was the last time Saturday Night Live had an original idea? It is a parody (a word used by young comedy writers when they can’t come up with their own premise, so they make fun of another writer’s premise) of a television series named MacGyver that ran on ABC for seven seasons, starting in 1985. Richard Dean Anderson starred as

an extremely resourceful spy who didn’t like guns and could construct a nuclear weapon out of a box of paper clips and a roll of toilet paper if it was necessary. On Saturday Night Live, one of the endlessly forgettable cast members (Will Forte) has been portraying a character similar to MacGyver in sketches. Apparently, hilarity ensued. Well, let’s just say it ensued for a generation that wouldn’t know cleverness or originality if it hit them in the face with a cream pie. If it doesn’t involve human feces, it isn’t funny to this generation. In transforming this SNL sketch to the movie theaters, Forte again plays the title character, and the plot centers on his attempt to thwart the plans of his archenemy Dieter (played by funnyman Val Kilmer), to destroy Washington, D.C. I can’t get excited about a character that I am not familiar with, even though I’ve heard the movie is loaded with human feces. Rated R. At Century, Flatiron and Colony Square. — Barry Koltnow Mother and Child

Three women’s lives share a common core: they have all been profoundly affected by adoption.

Karen (Annette Bening) had a baby at 14, gave her up at birth, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) grew up as an adopted child; she’s a bright and ambitious lawyer, but a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy (Kerry Washington) is just embarking with her husband on the adoption odyssey, looking for a baby to become their own. With both humor and pathos, Mother and Child brings this ensemble together to reveal the emotional complexity of families lost and found. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter

Bridging two worlds, Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter tells the moving story of one Malian mother’s fight for asylum in the U.S. to protect her two-year-old daughter from female genital cutting. Expertly interweaving scenes from Mali of girls preparing for an excision ceremony and scenes from Philadelphia where those who have survived the ceremony share their stories, the film demonstrates precisely why and how Mrs. Goundo fights for her daughter and her future. At Starz. — Denver Film Society A Nightmare on Elm Street

Like a cover band with more stagecraft than talent, A Nightmare on Elm Street looks good recycling “greatest hits” moments but fails to capture the excitement of the original. Freddy Krueger’s ninth return to the screen is a subpar exercise. Primitive production values, overwrought acting and dreadful hairstyles notwithstanding, Wes Craven’s 1984 Nightmare offered the first fresh horror concept in eons. Freddy was a bad dream come to life, a monster who wakes up when you go to sleep. Skulking around his victims’ subconscious, he could take any form, and he taunted their helplessness with maniacal glee. What’s lacking in this version is the imagination, inspiration and emotional impact that made the original a touchstone of the genre. Rated R. At Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Colin Covert Oceans

DisneyNature follows up its sprawling, over-reaching Earth Day 2009 documentary Earth with a more dazzling, more on-message movie about the state of the world’s seas. The “wow” factor alone makes Oceans a great Earth Day/Earth Week at the movies.

We see vast armies of crabs on the floor of Melbourne harbor, sprinting pods of dolphins stretching to the horizon, a torrent of cormorants, neon-nosed cuttlefish, great white sharks and great blue whales. And those are just the familiar sea creatures this French documentary crew caught on film. The messages are basic and nothing new. In the ocean, big fish eat little fish, sharks and orcas eat seals and sea lions and frigate birds snap up baby sea turtles. But not all of them. And this seemingly

infinite, seemingly inexhaustible resource is under grave threat from pollution, over-fishing (bottomtrawling) and simple apathy. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore Remnants of a War

In the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, one million cluster bomb munitions rained down upon the fields and orchards of south Lebanon. An estimated 35 percent failed to detonate. One year later, teams of locally recruited and trained deminers race to clear the land before more civilians are injured or killed. Remnants of a War takes an intimate look into the lives of these brave women and men. They work shoulder to shoulder to make their land safe again, while their country endures the worst political and economic crisis in 15 years.

Remnants of a War is both a primer on the cluster munition problem and a portrait of a people struggling to make a decent living and return the land to their fellow Lebanese. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Ride the Divide

Ride The Divide is an inspiring journey about the world’s toughest mountain bike race, which traverses more than 2,700 miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The film weaves the story of three characters’ experiences with immense mountain beauty and small-town culture as they attempt to pedal from Banff, Canada, to a small, dusty crossing on the Mexican border. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Robin Hood

Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology.

Set in 13th century England, Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard’s army against the French. He falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. Directed by Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Blade Runner). Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Landmark Theatres The Secret in Their Eyes

Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. In 1999, recently retired and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. Drawing on his own past life as a civil servant, he creates a true, moving and tragic story in which he was very directly involved — in 1974, his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman. As he writes, his past rises up before his eyes and awakens all his demons, particularly those involving his past decisions, uncertainties and irreparable mistakes. Juan José Campanella directs this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Fully subtitled. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Shrek Forever After

Shrek finds himself without Fiona in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted and Rumpelstiltskin is king. With the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. Written by Josh Klauser and Darren Lemke. Directed by Mike Mitchell.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times

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or many food lovers, pairing Photo-Cycle.com wine with certain foods is a common way to enhance your meal. But like wine, beer can be used as a promising complement to many familiar dishes.

On nights when you’re not in the mood for a glass of merlot, or if drinking wine is not your style, picking a beer to enjoy with your meal may be right up your alley. The idea of combining beer with food may not seem as sophisticated, but this grouping is a simple way for chefs like David Spirito, corporate chef for Baker St. Pub & Grill in Boulder, to show how a cold pint of beer can help blend flavors in a dish or can add some vigor to a meal that otherwise may be lacking. “We suggest our guests consider ales as if they were a white wine and lagers as if they were a red wine,” Spirito says. complementary dish,” Hutchinson says.

Beer exceeds in many areas where wine falls short, For people who are new to food and beer pairing, pairing well with salads and spicy food. Some wine deciding which types of foods work best with which experts have strict rules when it comes to pairing cerkinds of beers is a tasty trial of choices. It’s an investitain wines with dishes, while the beer backers are gational, ever-evolving experience for the thirsty, but more laid-back, letting the ale lead the way. Brian where to begin?

Hutchinson, the head brewer at Boulder’s Mountain “Think about how you would like the beer to Sun Pub and Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, explains relate to the food,” Spirito says. Beer has a wide range the technique behind the beer and food pairings. of flavors, textures and aromas, each with its own “At the Sun we will do trial pairings,” he says. “We dominant set of characteristic tastes. This gives beer have learned over time that our initial ideas are not the ability to harmonize with almost any kind of food, always spot-on, and we often need to re-work the dish from a spicy Cajun platter to chicken fried steak or or change the beer for the pairing.” fish and chips, from your backyard barbecue to dinner Experimentation is common for a lot of restauat a five-star restaurant. Hutchinson says to pick a rants and beer connoisseurs, as it allows people to mix strategy, whether it’s matching or contrasting flavor it up and test the options before they find what paircomponents, and generally the assertiveness of the ings they enjoy. beer should match the assertiveness of the dish.

“People tend to take more time to really taste the Looking for the right flavors in a beer to highlight meal and think about the beer. The right pairing your food of choice is what will give you the best will highlight the strengths and subtleties of both the results for your meal overall. According to Chad Melis, beer and the food. We tend to brew very flavorful marketing director at Oskar Blues, many similar flavors and ingredients are in both their beer and their beers, and I believe they are most enjoyable with a

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“We have many complex beers with many intricate ingredients. We pull flavors out of the food and pull flavors out of the beer, like matching our Old Chubs, with smoky caramel flavors, with a dish that highlights these flavors, either accentuating it or offsetting it,” Melis says.

The four universal ingredients in beer are hops, malted barley, yeast and water, and knowing how these ingredients add up in your beer of choice plays a part in pairing it to the right food.

From pilsners to stouts, beers’ wide range of ingredients are major factors in pairing the beer of choice to the right meal, and vice-versa. A crisp, clean pilsner makes a great contrast for buttery, creamy meals, but complements meals with sweet, citrus flavors. But it is quite the opposite for stouts, which complement the rich, butter-soaked dish and contrast the citrusy tastes.

“People may not realize that something as common as a pale ale can go nicely with our fettuccini alfredo,” Spirito says. “The ale’s ‘hoppiness’ actually accents the seasonings found in the alfredo sauce.”

There are many possible combinations when it comes to putting beer and food together, and the number of beers and ales on the market keep growing, giving us more options to improve our dining experiences.

“Guests at Baker St. Pub & Grill find that dishes are simple, comforting and incredibly beer-friendly. We mix and match different beers with various entrees.

Don’t be afraid to experiment, find what flavors you like, and go with it,” Spirito says.

Coupling food and beer can be similar to picking out diamonds, but rather than the four C’s — cut, clarity, carat and color — beer and food combos focus on three: cut, complement and contrast.

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t one end of the Italian The first thing to arrive was garlic restaurant spectrum, bread, for some diners a throwback to you’ve got your familychildhood. The Carelli’s version may run spaghetti joints, like not please the food snob, but I found its the old line joints you’ll buttery flavor complemented by mellow find in Louisville and North Denver. At garlic compelling. It’s a crunchy treat I the other, you’ve got your high-end would have enjoyed as a 10-year-old spots, defined by pricey dishes like squid and guiltily admit to still savoring. ink pasta and house-cured salumi, laboThere was a marked time lag riously prepared meat not to be confused between the bread and salads, a possible with salami. Carelli’s concern for the of Boulder straddles diner on a tight Carelli’s of Boulder the line between these timetable. Kon 645 30th St. two extremes by servwas pleased to see Boulder ing up a menu that his $6.95 spinach won’t frighten off the salad wasn’t too 303-938-9300 heavily freighted old-school cuisine fan with bacon, lest it while offering a cancel out the healthful properties of swanky, up-to-the minute setting. the greens.

The only flaw with my $6.95 Reasonably health-conscious friend Caesar was that the dressing was watery, Kon and I recently visited here for although with fine flavor, especially with lunch, and we basked in the ambience the bold addition of whole anchovies. of warm colors, sensually curved surfacKon dined like Neptune with his es and earthy wood and brick textures. $16.95 risotto di mare, a paella-like In cooler weather, a fireplace serves as a mixture of short grain rice and highwarming centerpiece, and spring brings quality seafood.

The test of any risotto a patio dining option, albeit one overis the firmness of the rice, and here it looking the parking lot. With such amenities, prices aren’t necessarily was nicely al dente with a whisper of cheap, but they aren’t over the top softness. A little less salt would have either. The menu will warm the heart made this one of the best in town, of the traditionalist craving a bowl of although the accompanying shellfish minestrone, followed by a main course could mask nearly any deficiency. The such as pasta, cacciatore, calzone, pizza, hefty scallop tasted sweet with a touch risotto or a parmesan sandwich. of caramelizing on the outside, while Sandwiches, pastas and pizzas are also the muscular shrimp possessed a sparavailable in gluten-free versions. kling flavor, as did the mussel.

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y personal frame of reference for Italian dining is the family-style restaurants of San Francisco’s North Beach, particularly Dante Benedetti’s New Pisa. Dad grew up next to North Beach in Chinatown and spent his youth playing ball and eating with the Italian kids. Not surprisingly, Dad would take us to the New Pisa, presided over by the longtime baseball coach at the University of San Francisco. Meals here were all-inclusive, starting with green salad, followed by minestrone. You could probably stop there, but you’d also get an entrée with pasta (my first encounter with pesto) and end with coffee and spumoni.

Angel hair con clam pasta is available for $11.95 with a choice of red or white sauce. I’ve always been partial to how the wine in a white sauce complements seafood, and so this was my choice. Like the risotto, the delicate angel hair possessed the correct consistency, and the delicate aroma of the medium-sized clams was beyond reproach. However, the flavor of the sauce was unbalanced, indicating that a key acidic ingredient, likely lemon juice

or zest, was missing in action.

Carelli’s menu won’t surprise anyone who’s ever set foot in an Italian restaurant in the last 50 years. But that’s not a bad thing, as the bill of fare and décor are part of the considerable charm.

Granted, the prices don’t lend themselves to daily dining, but Carelli’s effectively delivers classic dishes in an appropriate setting for a business meal or special occasion.

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Through May 20, the restaurant is offering a free kids meal with the purchase of an adult entrée. The week of May 24, the restaurant is offering a free 1/3pound All-American Smashburger with the purchase of an adult entrée. And on National Burger Day, May 28, one lucky person in each store will win a Golden Smashticket and free Smashburgers for one year.

In addition, all Smashburger locations are collecting food for Feeding America affiliate food banks in Colorado. Every dollar donated to Feeding America provides nine pounds of food and grocery products to men, women and children facing hunger.

Smashburger has locations in Boulder, at Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and in Lafayette, at Arapahoe Avenue and N. 95th Street. For more information, see www.smashburger.com.

Gluten-free beer Coloradans following a glutenfree diet can finally partake in locally produced craft beer. Boulder-based New Planet Gluten Free Beer is now widely available throughout the state

in both liquor stores and restaurants.

While Colorado has the largest number of local beers brewed per capita in the nation, only New Planet offers a gluten-free Colorado craft beer.

New Planet Beer was established in 2008 with a mission to help everyone celebrate life with a greattasting beer and help do great things for the planet. Its certified glutenfree beers are locally crafted by brewers, and the company donates a portion of its proceeds to ecosystem conservation.

New Planet Beer was started by Pedro Gonzalez, who is glutenintolerant himself, and his wife, Seneca Murley.

“When I first learned I had to remove gluten from my diet I was amazed how many products contained the protein, and ended up with very restricted food choices.

But after a period of time new gluten-free (GF) products started popping up. I really missed craft beer so I started drinking GF beer, but I really couldn’t find a brand that truly satisfied. I began my quest to make a truly special gluten-free craft beer that everyone could enjoy.”

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Grill is our Shepherd’s Pie, a hearty entree consisting of layers of seasoned ground sirloin, sautéed vegetables, buttery whipped potatoes and cheddar cheese. To ‘complement’ the rich, hearty flavors in the dish, order a heavy beer such as a Black Butte Port. If that is too heavy for your palate, you can ‘cut’ the buttery flavor of the potatoes by serving it with a light, hoppy beer such as a pilsner or pale ale,” Spirito says.

In order to “cut” a dish, you aim to counteract the prominent flavors by choosing the right beer. One way to do this would be to choose a lighter beer with more hops if the dish is heavy with butter or thick and creamy, balancing out the taste. If you want to complement a meal, you match food and beer that have similar tastes.

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first-taste as natural pairings. Grab a strong stout when you have a sweet tooth, as the roasted malt flavors found in the stout go great with sweet desserts and chocolate. Pairing also works well when the flavors are in contrast, similar to “cutting,” but you emphasize pairs that are noticeably different. Some beer can overwhelm the flavors in the meal when trying to contrast the pairing.

Wheat beer’s strong hints of yeast contrast well with a light pasta dish.

Throughout the Boulder County area there are many breweries, like the Mountain Sun and Southern Sun, which brew more than 50 different beer recipes, Oskar Blues, with 43 different craft beers on tap, and Baker St. Pub and Grill, which offers more than 40 different draught beers, and almost see BEER PAIRINGS Page 45

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Dessert Diva A local chef shares her sweet secrets

by Danette Randall

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oy howdy, am I excited for some pan dowdy.

I’m assuming that is a phrase you don’t hear too often. But how better to express my love for this dumpy dessert than to rhyme it with something that has some get-up?

This week it is Almond Apple Pan Dowdy. But I don’t really think it is a dumpy dessert. It gets its name from the overall look of it, which is “dowdy.” Poor thing, it just couldn’t hold its own alongside the cobblers and crisps of this world.

Personally, I like the look of it, and more importantly, I like the taste. An apple-based filling baked with a sweet, crispy crust. The name comes from what happens after the baking process.

The lovely hostess takes a fork and “dowdies” it up, leaving the pieces of pie crust broken and soaking up all the delightful juices of the apples. Tastes divine. Take that, you saucy cobbler.

This was a requested dessert this week, and I think that goes to show the pan dowdy is well on its way to making a comeback. If Mickey Rourke can do it, then by golly, so can this dessert. Just don’t forget, it has bad self esteem due to its lackluster name, so sing to it softly or make a up a rhyme.

Just do something special and it will bake up just fine. A poet, I am not, just make the darn recipe, it’s all that I got.

Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

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1/2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. baking powder 1 1/4 cups unsalted softened butter 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 3/4 cup sliced almonds 3-4 apples sliced about 1/2-inch thick (I used gala apples, cored but not peeled) 1/2 cup brown sugar 2 tsp. cinnamon Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease (I like butter for this dessert) an 8x8-inch baking pan. Sift flour, salt and baking powder, set aside.

In large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and milk. Add flour mixture and stir until well-combined. Take 1/2 cup of the sliced almonds and spread them on bottom of buttered pan. Add sliced apples on top. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over apples. Top with cinnamon. Add remaining 1/4 cup of almonds on top of apples. Spread batter evenly over top. Place pan on baking sheet in oven for 45-50 minutes, until top is golden brown. If serving warm, let cool for 15-20 minutes, break up crust so it is mixed up with apples and juices. Scoop out into bowl or plate, top with ice cream or whipped cream. Enjoy!

Note: If letting cool first, then flip over onto serving platter when ready to eat so it resembles upside-down cake.

Cut up and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

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every item on the menu can be paired with a beer. Father’s Day is a perfect chance to test out your beer and foodmatching skills and impress the old man while you are at it.

“Learned behavior shows wine being the choice to match with food, but there are only a handful of wines, and there is such a variety of beers, allowing us to have 2,000 different profiles for beer and craft beer [and] unlimited options,” Melis says.

Wine may be more urbane, but from pizza to oysters and pale ales to porters, you can almost never go wrong with an ice-cold brew in hand, balanced with a Boulder Weekly

great meal and good company. Melis says, “We focus on the celebration of beer’s culture and diversity, giving more options and experience with liquids and solids, to broaden horizons to what craft beer can offer.”

“There are a lot of unchartered flavors that haven’t been explored yet by most chefs. Beer will always have a casual and social connotation associated with it, so next time you are out to dinner with some friends, pass on the bottle of wine and see what beer pairing you can come up with,” Spirito says.

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Mateo 1837 Pearl St. Boulder 303-443-7766

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hile it offers an impressive dinner menu with such classics as steak frites and spring lamb ragout over tagliatelle pasta, Mateo also offers a terrific bar menu with discounted items served from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Standouts include the cheese platter, with both domestic and European selections, including a first-rate Italian goat’s milk blue. The moules are steamed mussels in a wonderfully balanced broth that melds licorice-like pastis with herbs and tomato.

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ALBA Wine Bar Experience food and wine in the tradition of a true Italian enoteca.

Great wines and a menu of delicious small plates make for a perfect night on the town.

Modmarket

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Bento Zanmai 1310 College Ave., #260 Boulder 303-4-BENTOS

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hile the name of this basement foodcourt hangout puts the emphasis on the traditional Japanese box lunch, the ramen is the star of the show. Start with a bowl of the miso ramen, a formidable portion of sublime, soy-infused broth filled with bits of tender chicken or pork. The noodles are expertly prepared, with a fine al dente texture and satisfying heft that puts cheap instant ramen to shame.

Culinary Connectors 303-949-0085 www.culinaryconnectors.com

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ffering $99 tours of three local restaurants, Culinary Connectors fulfills both the appetite for fine dining and increased knowledge of the area’s restaurant scene. A recent Boulder tour included visits to Mateo, L’Atelier and Bombay Bistro. Each of these restaurants offered distinctly different menu highlights, ranging from seafood stew to duck to shrimp curry over noodles, and each stop also provided a rare opportunity to interact with the chefs behind the food.

Jill’s 900 Walnut St. Boulder 720-406-7399

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hile not inexpensive, Jill’s at the St. Julien Hotel and Spa is a superior spot

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Elephant Hut

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he retro-modern Modmarket dishes out fresh and healthy takes on salad, flatbread pizza and soup. Vegan and vegetarian choices are present here, including a savory vegan pie with dairy-free cheese. A butternut squash soup, sourced from Munson Farms, is glutenfree and vegan, with appealing flavor no matter what your dietary preferences are. Salads like the Asian-influenced Mongolian can be enhanced with tri-tip steak or chicken, and the Pom pizza marries a zesty pomegranate and balsamic vinegar glaze with chicken.

cheese and fried artichoke heart po’ boy sandwiches.

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for a special-occasion Sunday brunch in a modern-but-comfortable setting. Highlights include fresh-tasting crab legs and peel-andeat shrimp as well as made-to-order omelets. Sweets are also abundant here, including a candy-like toffee bread pudding and a can’t-miss chocolate fondue.

Wild Mountain Smokehouse & Brewery 70 East First St. Nederland 303-258-WILD

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nyone who has ever set foot in a microbrewery won’t be surprised by the Wild Mountain Smokehouse & Brewery’s menu of burgers, entrée salads, sandwiches, chicken wings and nachos. But there’s also a terrific selection of barbecued meats, including tender brisket and first-rate St. Louis style ribs accompanied by a variety of savory sauces. Vegetarians can also avail themselves of a Caprese sandwich or smoked tofu at this Nederland spot. Finish with the 99-cent scoop of vanilla ice cream and a brownie.

dent chicharron, or pork-rind taco. Tasty stuffings can also be had in a generously sized burrito.

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f you’re at all serious about authentic Mexican fare, Longmont’s El Taco Feliz is a can’t-miss destination. This nondescript stripmall venue serves up $1.20 tacos with fillings that include beef carne asada and al pastor style with tender pork and bits of pineapple.

The more adventurous can indulge in a heavenly lengua, or beef tongue, and deca-

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lephant Hut is a swanky Thai eatery serving staples such as curries, entrée salads freighted with fresh papaya, noodle plates and spicy, citrusy soups. While some dishes, such as the pad see ew, wide rice noodles stir-fried in soy sauce, are traditionally served with meat, vegan and vegetarian versions of most items are available.

The duck noodle soup comes with a fullbodied broth, expertly cooked noodles and flavorful waterfowl.

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

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

Le Peep

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pending $35 on the Chop House’s lobster tail dinner may be an irresponsible extravagance in these economic times.

However, even the cash-strapped can find luxurious indulgences at bargain prices off this restaurant’s happy hour bar menu. From 4 to 6 p.m., all tavern menu items are half off, which means one can enjoy a prime rib or steak dinner for under 10 bucks. Starters such as cornmeal-encrusted calamari and warm kettle chips are also available for less than three dollars a helping. With the money you save, you can splurge on the bread pudding.

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

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oulder’s Draft House lives up to its name, as it features numerous craft beers from the Colorado Brewing Company.

This cavernous but inviting space also serves enticing food specials, such as Monday’s $7 burger-and-a-beer deal, and Happy Hour runs all day Tuesday. This eatery also goes beyond the predictable wings and nachos by offering options like a lobster mac and

Snarf’s

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he offerings at Snarf ’s, which is indisputably a Boulder institution, are classic sandwiches, with the addition of entrée salads, such as the venerable Cobb; soups; and a multitude of specialty sandwich offerings.

The latter includes the prime rib and provolone, rotisserie chicken and, for the vegetarian, a portobello and provolone combo.

Other standouts include the tangy eggplant parmesan and a winning French dip.

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y client Jason Lauve, wheelchair-bound after a reckless snowboarder broke Jason’s back at Eldora, possessed two pounds of marijuana in his Boulder County home.

The Boulder District Attorney charged Jason with two felony criminal offenses, but had let the reckless snowboarder off, citing “resource” issues. On August 6, 2009, after a four-day trial brought by a team of top-notch felony-level prosecutors, a jury found Jason “not guilty.” He rolled out of the courthouse with his two pounds of marijuana, his yearlong Kafkaesque legal nightmare over. It smelled like victory.

In 2000, Colorado voters legalized marijuana for medical use, enshrining protections in the Colorado Constitution, Article XVIII section 14. A patient and/or caregiver must meet three requirements: (1) the patient was previously diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition; (2) the patient is advised by a physician (advice which need not be “previous”) that marijuana might be beneficial to address that condition; and (3) in possession

of such amounts of marijuana necessary to address the debilitating medical condition. The State-issued Medical Marijuana Registry card is optional.

The third prong generates the controversy. The Constitution contains non-binding guideline amounts of six plants, three of which are flowering, and two ounces of useable medical marijuana per patient, but provides for greater amounts if medically necessary.

Even a novice marijuana grower knows that the plants vs. ounce guidelines are internally inconsistent with each other; i.e., three flowering plants will nearly always produce more than two ounces, so it is impossible to follow the guidelines.

In Jason’s case, he had the previous diagnosis and physician’s advice, and the prosecution had zero evidence that Jason possessed more than was medically necessary. In every criminal case, the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Boulder County voters, suffering from a bad economy, will not long tolerate taking police off the streets to pursue many more of these wasteful victimless medical marijuana prosecutions, so the acquittal may stand as precedent indefinitely.

The jury foreman stated that Jason could have legally possessed “a ton” of medical marijuana. In light of the new District Attorney’s policy of increasing jury trials to discern “community standards,” in Boulder County possession of any amount of medical marijuana is legal, absent any specific evidence that the amount is excessive.

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March 21-April 19:

All of us have gaps in our education. You and I and everyone else alive have dank pockets of ignorance that diminish our humanity and musty pits of naïveté that prevent us from seeing truths that are obvious to others. We all lack certain skills that hold us back from being more fulfilled in our chosen fields. That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that the gaps in your education will be up for review in the coming weeks — which means that it’ll be an excellent time to make plans to fill them. Here’s a good way to get started: Be aggressive in identifying the things that you don’t even know you don’t know.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

You don’t have to answer to anybody this week, Taurus. You don’t have to defend yourself, explain yourself or compromise yourself. I mean, you can do those things if you want to be super extra nice, but there won’t be any hell to pay if you don’t. It’s one of those rare times when you have more power than usual to shape the world in accordance with your vision of what the world should be. I’ll go so far as to say that the world needs you to be very assertive in imposing your will on the flow of events. Just one caveat: Mix a generous dose of compassion in with your authoritative actions.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

When Paul McCartney first got the inspiration to write the song “Yesterday,” he had the melody and rhythm but couldn’t get a feel for what the lyrics should be. For a while, as he was waiting for the missing words to pop into his brain, he used nonsense stand-in phrases. The dummy version of the first line was “Scrambled eggs, oh my dear, you have such lovely legs.” This approach could be useful for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. As you create a fresh approach or novel departure in your own life, you might want to show the patience McCartney did. Be willing to keep moving ahead even though you don’t have the full revelation quite yet.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

I suspect you’re going to feel a bit constrained in the coming weeks, Cancerian — maybe even imprisoned. I suggest you make the best of it. Rather than feeling sorry for yourself and spiraling down into a dark night of the soul, try this: Imagine that you’re a resourceful hermit who’s temporarily under house arrest in an elegant chalet with all the amenities. Regard this “incarceration” as a chance to start work on a masterpiece, or upgrade your meditation practice or read a book you’ve needed an excuse to lose yourself in. Believe it or not, your “deprivation” could be one of the best things that has happened to you in a while.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

I won’t be surprised if people begin to compete for your attention. There may even be some pushing and shoving as they jostle to get closer to you. At the very least, you can expect a flurry of requests for your time and energy. What’s this all about? Well, your worth seems to be rising. Either your usefulness is flat-out increasing or else those who’ve underestimated you in the past are finally tuning in to what they’ve been missing. So here’s my question and concern: Will you get so seduced by what everyone asks you to give them that you lose sight of what you really want to give them? I suspect there will be a difference.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

I’m not saying that you should create a superhero identity for yourself and embark on a campaign to combat injustice.

But if you’ve ever wondered whether the life of a costumed crusader is right for you, it’s an excellent time to experiment.

Your courage will be expanding in the coming weeks. Your craving for adventure will be strong, too. Even more importantly, your hunger to do good deeds that reach beyond your own self-interest will be growing. Interested? Check out the Superhero Supply website to get yourself operational. It’s at www.superherosupplies.com.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

All 26 of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories about Tarzan are set in Africa, but he never once visited that continent.

And Bram Stoker didn’t feel the need to travel to the Transylvanian region of Romania in order to write about it in his novel Dracula. But I don’t recommend this approach to you in the coming weeks, Libra. If you want to cultivate something new in your life by drawing on an exotic influ-

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ence, I think you should immerse yourself in that exotic influence, at least for a while. If you want to tap into the inspiration available through an unfamiliar source, you need to actually be in the presence of that unfamiliar source.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Why would you choose this bright, sunny moment to descend into the dark places and explore the fermenting mysteries? What renegade impulse would move you to turn away from the predictable pleasures and easy solutions, and instead go off in quest of more complex joys and wilder answers? Here’s what I have to say about that: I think you long to be free of transitory wishes and fleeting dreams for a while so that you can get back into alignment with your deeper purposes. You need to take a break from the simple obsessions of your grayish, poker-faced ego, and re-attune yourself to the call of your freaky, evergreen soul.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Sufi holy man Ibn ‘Ata Allah was speaking about prayer when he said the following: “If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.” While I don’t claim to be able to perfectly decipher the will of the divine, my astrological research suggests that you will soon get a definitive answer to a question you’ve been asking for a long time. It may come softly and quietly, though, and from a direction you don’t expect, and with a nuance or two that’ll test your reflexes.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

“Is Fast Food Too Tempting?” read a headline in The Week magazine. The accompanying article discussed whether people have the right to blame and even sue McDonald’s and Burger King for their health problems. In my opinion, we might as well add other allegedly appealing poisons to the discussion. “Is heroin too tempting?” “Is cheating on your lover or spouse too tempting?” “Is watching TV five hours a day too tempting?” I hope you’re seeing where I’m going with this, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be a good time to take personal responsibility for any supposedly fun activity you’re doing that warps your character or saps your energy. It’s prime time to end your relationship with stuff that’s bad for you.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

“The mind loves order, the heart loves chaos, and the gut loves action,” says my astrological colleague Antero Alli.

The ideal situation is to honor each of these needs, keeping them in a dynamic balance. But now and then, it’s healthy to emphasize one over the other two. According to my astrological analysis, you’re entering one of those times when the heart’s longing for chaos should get top priority.

But if you do choose to go this way, please promise me one thing: Do your best to tilt toward the fascinating, rejuvenating kind of chaos and tilt away from the disorienting, demoralizing kind.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

When people are truly dehydrated, the impulse that tells them they’re thirsty shuts down. That’s why they may not know they’re suffering from a lack of water. In a metaphorically similar way, Pisces, you have been deprived so long of a certain kind of emotional sustenance that you don’t realize what you’re missing. See if you can find out what it is, and then make measured (non-desperate!) plans to get a big, strong influx of it. The cosmic rhythms will be on your side in this effort!

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