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news & views City Council’s bad decorum / 6 It’s not the public that needs a new set of rules

by Pamela White Project Yes stays positive / 10 Nonprofit may be forced to shut down youth center, restructure

by Elizabeth Miller Mobility impaired / 14 Manager, residents of local mobile home park at odds

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz On the cover: All roads lead to Rowan / 20 RockyGrass musician pays tribute to the bluegrass legacy

by Ben Corbett Overtones: Big Head Todd & The Monsters get beautiful / 26 Overtones: These United States delve into darker themes / 27 Arts & Culture: Astroland offers Boulder a DIY space / 28 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Elevation: Roger’s River Run, a fun summer race / 41 Cuisine: Local Table Tours: A walking, culinary novelty / 44 Cuisine review: Boulder Organic Pizzeria / 47 Dessert Diva: Chocolate Raspberry Parfaits / 49 Screen: Inception; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice / 53 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 54

departments Letters: Musings on letters; Chamber is wrong; White guilt redux / 5 The Highroad: Fighting the super-bugs of agribusiness / 5 Police Blotter: Nearly knifed; Man falls, dies on Longs Peak / 11 In Case You Missed It: Economic struggle, ethnic cleansing in Arizona / 13 News Briefs: ClimateSmart deadline nears; Teens race solar cars / 17 Boulderganic: Discarded, but not broken-arted / 19 Sophisticated Sex: I’ll show you mine, you show me yours / 39 Classifieds: Your community resource / 57 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Musings on letters Alan Bloom’s letter in your July 15 issue accurately describes the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center as irrelevant (“Peace center is irrelevant”).

The Boulder address, I think, undermines its mission. Beyond that, the good Mr. Bloom’s simplistic, meaningless rhetoric (“...Ronald Reagan’s defeat of the Soviet Union...”) undermines his sarcasm.

But let us not overlook the gem that follows from one Tawn Orthalek from Grosse Point Shores, Mich., who’s convinced that Obama “wishes to destroy capitalism ...” (“Obama vs. Capitalism”).

Fascinating. But if you really wanted to destroy capitalism, wouldn’t you just let it run its course?

Doug Richards/Eldorado Springs

Chamber is wrong (Re: “Chamber opposes ‘Big Bad 3,’” News briefs, July 8.) Some observations about the anti-taxpayer announcement in the “Briefs” section.

Taxpayers will take it in the “briefs” if they heed the chamber of commerce opposition to pro-taxpayer ballot issues 60, 61 and 101. Issue 101 alone will save average families $500 a year, documented at COtaxreforms.com. Are you going to let some selfish “suits” talk you out of your tax relief?

Why did the Denver Chamber spend $500,000 to keep you from enjoying a $10 car registration fee, instead of the $70 or $90 you’re paying now, which just doubled without voter

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How much will your prices at stores increase to repay the $1.5 million the opposition has raised so far? See the Opposition Funding link at the above website, revealing $50,000 donations from a bank in Spain, a financial house in Canada, a law firm in Nebraska, an investment bank in Missouri, etc., etc.

The fiscal impact is less than 2 per-

The Highroad

ot so long ago, the “miracle cure” of antibiotics prompted doctors to prescribe them for illnesses as minor as colds and upset tummies.

But, then, people began to die. In droves.

Why? Overuse of antibiotics led to the rapid evolution of savvy bacteria resistant to the miracle drugs. These superbugs cannot be killed, so they swarm infected patients and kill them. Its become an epidemic — about 100,000 people a year are killed by unstoppable bacterial infections that they get in hospitals, plus many others die from superbug infections they get elsewhere.

To add absurdity to this horror, the real culprits in the overuse of antibiotics are not our doctors, but giant meat processors. In the massive factory operations of such conglomerates as Tyson Foods, millions of chickens, hogs and cattle are routinely Boulder Weekly

cent of total state and local government spending, which the U.S. Census has calculated as over $50 billion yearly.

How does a slower rate of future growth destroy the state? Is it bad for you to have more money to spend? No. Is it bad for the economy? No. The alleged “loss” (tax savings) in Boulder from passage of the issues has doubled in the past month. How old

Fighting the superbugs of agribusiness dosed each year with antibiotics. The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 84 percent of all antibiotics go not to us humans, but to the animals in these industrial facilities.

Why? One, because the facilities are filthy, making the animals sick. But second — and worse — the agribusiness profiteers use antibiotics simply to force the chickens, hogs and cows to grow faster, thus reducing corporate costs. Never mind the cost

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were you when you learned people will lie to you to get your money? Now, which side in this campaign wants your money? Not us — we want you to keep more of it.

These measures are not “draconian,” a reference to Count Dracula. Our side does not have the blood-sucking para-

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

in human health. This is so senseless that it makes your brain hurt.

At last, however, federal regulators are taking tentative steps to — O, progress! — stop meat processors from using antibiotics to bulk up animals. Of course, the corporate powers are swarming Congress like, well, like bacteria, in an all-out effort to kill any reform.

In the past, special interest money of agribusiness has been able to clobber common sense, but this time the momentum is on our side. To help give it a push, contact the Union of Concerned Scientists, www.ucsusa.org.

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sites in this campaign. Furthermore, the tax relief is not “very extreme,” but is phased in over four to ten years, unlike government’s tax increases, which fully hit us overnight.

What was the secret political payoff to get Big Business to oppose tax relief for the little guy?

We wish your free advertising for opponents had mentioned our website —COtaxreforms.com — as well as theirs. “Fair and balanced” — what a concept!

Thanks!

Natalie Menten/Lakewood (Editor’s note: The origins of the term “draconian” have nothing to do with Count Dracula. The word is an adjective that references the harsh code of laws promulgated by Draco, the first lawgiver of ancient Athens.)

White guilt redux This letter is being written in response to Sue Anderson’s letter, printed in the July 8 Boulder Weekly (“Not guilty”). Her letter was in response to Pamela White’s article about white guilt in the previous issue (“White guilt,” Uncensored, July 1). Dear Sue: In your letter, you admit your privileged status as a white woman and state, “How is it that since I have this life, I should consequently consider myself racist? I don’t get it.” I am writing today to help you “get it,” as I believe your question to be sincere and not merely rhetorical.

First of all, racism is, by Webster’s definition, institutional. This means that while a person of color living in the United States may very well be bigoted, it is literally impossible for them to be racist, by definition.

You state that your first experience of racism was in college. Well, that says a lot right there. I remember the first time I was socialized with African Americans (in 1976) in the first grade: I was telling my classmate that she was brown, and she was quite insistent that she was black. I had no notion of the significance of this color debate. My point is that at 6 years of age, she already knew the ugly face of racism and what it would or could mean for her for the rest of her life. People like you and me (I am white) might be quite a bit older before we are directly challenged by bigotry.

One of the primary attributes of white privilege is to be ignorant that you are privileged, or to remain ignorant of the degree of your (our) privilege.

Another attribute of that privilege is to deal with the topic when you feel like it, not necessarily as part of daily living.

You further state that white people are responsible for “creating millions of jobs” and that “Washington, Jefferson

and that noble group of white guys are going down.” Your ignorance would be laughable if it weren’t so sad. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner until the day he died! Had you, as a woman of any color, been alive in his time, you would have been well aware that you were a second-class citizen with no right to vote or do much else in determining your future.

As for creating millions of jobs, what usually happens is white industrialists steal land from earth-based agrarians, pushing them to un-farm-able places, while spreading the economy of dollars (as opposed to an earth-based existence). Having been aggressively pushed off the land of their ancestors, these same people are then forced to work in the white man’s factory(s) or industrial farms in order to survive. The aforementioned group of “noble white guys” became expert at doing this with native American Indians; their descendants are doing it to this day all around the world.

Sue, I thank you for writing and creating an opportunity to respond, for I believe your perspective is probably that of the majority of white Americans. I had a perspective similar to yours for a number of years. I am a professional drummer. I earn the bulk of my income playing African rhythms and hand drums. From African Americans of all ages, incomes, and locales, I have encountered a variety of responses to my endeavors, and that is perhaps material better shared at another time.

But my point is that were I to continue, in integrity, on the path I’ve been on for some 20 years now, I would have to do some reading, as well as a lot of listening. So before you or anyone who shares your perspective takes the time to respond, I would like to suggest some reading: A People’s History of The United States by Howard Zinn, The Making of a Slave by Wille Lynch, and a short 20-minute video The Story of Stuff. These sources contain a wealth of information that our whitewashed “education” conveniently managed to overlook.

Scott Parker Mast/Boulder What do Pamela White’s editorial of July 1 and Sue Anderson’s rebuttal of July 7 have in common? They both stifle the conversation about race by conflating guilt with responsibility. Anderson’s defensive and angry reaction is the predictable outcome of White’s moralizing that, even if individual white people do not perpetrate racist acts or experience racist feelings, they should still individually feel bad. As always, the debate stalls right there. White’s laudable intention of see LETTERS Page 8

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City Council’s bad decorum

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oulder City Council members seem to be confused.

They seem convinced that dealing with the public at their public meetings has become difficult and that new rules are required to keep the hoi polloi from making a mockery of civil government.

In truth, it’s City Council that needs to be regulated. But let’s back up here.

The current call for tighter decorum has its roots in the Feb. 16 council meeting, where local gadfly Seth Brigham got up to speak and stripped down to his boxers. His purpose in getting mostly naked was to protest a proposed nudity ordinance, but he also spoke to individual council members Suzy Ageton and George Karakehian, addressing concerns he had with them.

How did council members respond?

Ken Wilson diddled his microphone, drowning out Brigham’s words.

Karakehian motioned to a cop and asked that Brigham be removed. Brigham’s mic was cut, and he was cuffed, hauled away and arrested on suspicion of obstruction and trespassing. The charges were ridiculous, of course, and less than 10 days later, they were dropped.

Stung by the public rebuke that followed Brigham’s arrested, and no doubt frustrated and embarrassed, City Council seems to be trying to come up with a set of rules that would enable them to arrest people for doing what Brigham did — and have the charges stick. Yes, they want to legalize their

own actions and make illegal actions like Brigham’s.

“The way the rules are currently structured ... the only way the council would stop someone is if the behavior actually disrupted the meeting,” Tom Carr, the city’s new attorney, told the corporate media.

Do you mean to suggest, Mr. Carr, that City Council members currently cannot have someone arrested merely for being annoying, that a person must actually disrupt the proceedings to be cuffed and dragged away? Heavens! That’s just terrible!

The solution from the city’s perspective is clear. More laws. The more laws there are, the greater the chance that someone will break one of them, justifying an arrest. (Council surely has the perfect man for the job, as Carr is best known for controversies surrounding his terms as city attorney in Seattle, where he was said to be a fan of regulations.)

To that end, the city released last week a draft of proposed “decorum” rules intended, some council members claim, to enable them to have productive “business meetings,” while still taking public comment. The proposed regulations include bans against specific things that Brigham did, i.e., addressing individual council members and taking off one’s clothes, as well as other things, such as shouting, stomping one’s feet and jeering. see DECORUM Page 8

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But wait! Wasn’t it City Council members who misbehaved at the Feb. 16 meeting? Ken “Diddle” Wilson and George “Book him!” Karakehian were more out of line than Brigham.

Brigham’s only transgression was participating in the meeting in a way that irritated some on council. For the city to impose regulations on the public in the wake of that incident is like sending someone else to anger management therapy because you lost your temper.

So to help City Council out, here’s a list of proposed rules City Council members ought to consider imposing on themselves: All newly elected council members must study the First Amendment before taking office.

Any council member who uses body parts, electronic devices or a combination thereof to block out words they don’t want to hear should be barred from

speaking at council meetings for six months.

Any council member who has someone arrested on bogus charges must spend 24 hours locked down in Boulder County Jail—and foot the bill for county hospitality.

Any council member who gets on his or her high horse about the public interfering with public meetings must stay after the City Council meeting and write “I am a public servant” 1,000 times with a dry erase marker.

Since it’s unlikely that the city will pass these rules, however, I’ll suggest an alternative. Vote the offenders out of office when they come up for reelection.

We don’t need more regulations in Boulder. We need elected officials who have mastered themselves well enough to serve.

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starting a dialogue ends with one harsh riposte, and silence again descends.

Those who choose to feel “white guilt” can retreat into the satisfying illusion (common in Boulder) that feelings alone will accomplish something. Those who reject “white guilt” can retreat into the satisfying illusion (common in other parts of Colorado) that, because they personally have nothing to be ashamed of, they also have no responsibility for racial inequality in America.

How about if we try something different and drop our obsessive focus on the feelings, good or bad, of white people? Guilt and remorse are important steps in the reconciliation of individual bad acts, but shame is a poor motivator of public policy discussions.

On the other hand, a sense of responsibility is a good motivator. As citizens of a (barely) functioning democracy, each citizen is responsible for how that democracy works, whether see LETTERS Page 9

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“We are for negotiations, but to do so you have to sit down like a good boy.”

—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the U.S. should discontinue its “cowboy logic” if it wants discussions with Iran about that country’s nuclear program “I think we’re going to shock the heck out of everybody.”

—Vice President Joe Biden, saying that he is not concerned about the Democrats sustaining major losses in the elections this fall “Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.”

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we voted for those in power or not. If our society suffers from unequal access to education, jobs, health care, and other public goods, we are all responsible, whatever our skin color happens to be. Our discussion about how to fix racial inequalities would be significantly empowered if we were not required to debate, as a threshold issue, whether we ought to feel personal shame about them.

John Tweedy/Boulder

End oil dependence The British Petroleum oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has made us realize that we need to invest in solutions that provide safe, convenient and low-carbon transportation choices for all American citizens. The Livable Communities Act, introduced by Sen. Dodd, would invest in local projects that would provide lowcarbon options and would reduce our independence on oil and improve public health. Please encourage your senators to co-sponsor this bill.

Carole Mock/Lafayette

obtain my teaching license and master’s degree in special education in the more traditional manner.

College tuition is on a steady increase. The national average rose 6.5 percent for 2009-2010 school year, and will rise again this year. Tuition rates for the average in-state undergraduate student will go up 9 percent this year at CU-Boulder for a total of $7,018 per year. At the same time universities and colleges throughout the nation are challenged with providing access to all students without compromising the quality of educational programs or services.

The current political push in Colorado

is to increase the number of out-ofstate enrollments for the purpose of gaining more tuition dollars — but I ask, “At what cost to Colorado youth?”

The problem is multi-faceted with many pieces yet unidentified, and one not easily resolved. There is not one slam-dunk solution. We must provide for the future of Colorado and America through education by ensuring Colorado students an affordable higher education with the benefits of life learning. Help me address this issue by electing me to the CU Board of Regents for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

To learn more about my goals and ambitions for Colorado education, go to www.bc4cu.com.

Robert Bishop-Cotner/Windsor

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The high price of higher ed Education is not free nor should it be. As a Colorado high school teacher, I see our next generation of college students in the classroom every day. I hear their aspirations and their dreams for college. I also see those dreams drift away due to the ever-increasing cost of higher education.

I am Robert Bishop-Cotner, “BC” for short. I am a teacher, and I am running for CU Regent in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. My goal is to ensure that more Coloradoans have the opportunity to reach for their dreams of learning for life through higher education. Our children should not have to settle for what they have simply because college costs are beyond their reach.

Parents should not have to choose which child they provide the educational opportunity. I believe we should “Never Settle” for status quo.

We all make sacrifices to ensure opportunities are available to us. The question is, “When is the cost too much?”

Should the cost of higher education only be affordable to the few? Should we continue to allow the cost of higher education to escape those that have an educational dream beyond high school?

Writing this, I think back to my own dreams of college after high school. It was evident neither my wife nor I could afford a higher education. We needed to do something, so I enlisted in the military — that was not a bad thing. During that time, we each received our bachelor’s degrees through non-traditional means — i.e., mail-in courses, small classrooms in non-university settings, even night courses. After the military, the Veteran’s Administration helped me Boulder Weekly

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Project Yes stays positive

Project Yes still sounds like success. Open the door to the youth center, located in Lafayette, and the sounds of laughing, shouting, squealing, talking and even a mid-afternoon vacuum cleaning session drift out.

But Project Yes has been hit hard by the recession and is looking at ways to restructure itself to manage a $41,000 shortfall. The organization provides arts-based service-learning for students ages 5 to 12, runs a youth center for middle and high school students and organizes two annual community events — the Martin Luther King, Jr. March for Peace and the service-learning day SeLebration. The most expensive items in the budget are the youth center’s rent and utilities, so to stand a chance at surviving, the organization’s directors are considering closing the center. That would bring Project Yes back to its roots as a project-based organization, doing programming where needed and when needed, but without a location open for teenagers five days a week.

Most of the 15 to 30 young adults, ages 11 to 18, who spend their afternoons at the center bike or walk from their houses. At the center, they can participate in workshops that range from hip hop dance to crochet to cooking to vision boards to bookbinding. They come, they say, because it’s something to do. It’s fun. Their friends are there. And some of them come every day the center is open.

When Max Hittle was in sixth grade, he heard his friends talking about Project Yes. “I came to check it out, and I haven’t missed a day since,” he says. “It’s a good place for me. It’s better than just going home and not doing anything … It’s the best place to be during the summer, I think. It’s better than Elitch’s or WaterWorld or anything.”

He does art projects, plays on the computers and, on a hot summer day, loaded up water balloons to toss.

“I’ve learned so many things here. I became more outgoing,” he says. “I was so shy, I didn’t really want to talk to anybody, but here I can talk to whoever comes in.”

As a student employee for Project Yes, he spends some time answering phones and cleaning the center, and has heard a little about the financial difficulties facing Project Yes. “It’s really bad right now.” he says. “It’s getting worse day by day because we’re losing funders … It’s starting to get a little scary.”

The idea of the center closing distresses him.

“It kind of makes me feel sad, like sick to my stomach,” he says. “It would be terrible if this place closed.”

Isabel “Izzy” Porras heard about Project Yes through her friends and thought it sounded neat.

“Basically for us kids … It’s a place where we can come and be safe essentially and do what we’d like and be with people we like and trust,” she says “It’s just a trusting, very positive place to be.”

Porras started coming to the youth center when she started high school.

“It’s just been a real positive experience for me,” she says. “Because of the programs that were offered here and the tutoring, I was able to get ahead on my school work and I think I’m going to graduate early this year.”

But the young people it served told them it had to be an organization, she says.

Project Yes relocated to Colorado in 1994.

“The original vision, I think, was really about changing the way that we see young people from being the leaders of tomorrow, which is language we often hear, to being the leaders of today,” MacNeil says.

Thousands of young people have participated in the program over the years, and it was at the request of those young people that the youth center was created in 2000.

“To lose the center would be a huge loss not just to the young people who come there and who participate in the programs. It would be a real loss to the community, as well, because this is a place that’s nurturing young people to be positive forces for change in their community,” she says.

But in some ways, it would bring the organization full circle. The center provides an important service, MacNeil says, but if the organization survives as a service-learning program, it can continue to do its work in the community.

“I see that as coming back to the heart of the mission,” MacNeil says.

The center sees roughly 15 kids a day in the summer and 30 during the school year. The service learning programs can reach up to 300 kids in a semester, giving it a broader impact at a lower cost, Van Buskirk says.

The Martin Luther King Jr. march in Lafayette and SeLebration serve almost 2,000 community members and are primarily funded by Project Yes. To stay in Lafayette, she says, those events are going to need support, especially from the city.

“We’re unique in the fact that there’s not a lot of sister organizations doing the same thing we are,” Hennigar says. “I would think that Lafayette would be very proud of that. And Boulder and Erie.”

As Project Yes’s programming coordinator, 90 percent of Bryan Higgins’s job is direct service — meaning 90 percent of his workweek is spent with the kids at the youth center.

“Even though it’s harder for all the nonprofits to stay open, now is the time when they are needed most,” Higgins says.

Whether restructuring means focusing on the programming or the center, he says, it’s going to be hard for the kids.

“It’s hard to think about the youth center closing.

For a lot of these kids,” he says, “it would take an integral part of their lives out.”

Hennigar and Van Buskirk both stressed that the organization is just focusing on getting to excellence in one area.

“Project Yes isn’t disappearing. Every ounce of support we can get right now will make the biggest difference in ensuring that the restructure goes smoothly,” Van Buskirk says. “Nonprofits are community-based, and we’re here to serve a need in the community. I think that’s kind of our hope — that the community responds to that and wants us to be here and takes action to keep us here.”

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Nonprofit may be forced to shut down youth center, restructure

10 July 22, 2010

by Elizabeth Miller Tracee Hennigar, Project Yes’s executive director, has been searching for corporate sponsors, subsidized rent, donations or another organization to partner with — anything to consolidate, collaborate and keep the core of the organization intact through a recession that cost it some key foundation grants.

“What we’re trying to do is trying to really focus on getting funds on either some sort of business sponsorship or individual donorship to help us with our fiscal shortfall,” Hennigar says.

She was hired in May knowing Project Yes (Youth Envisioning Social change) was having financial troubles. But, she says, she didn’t know how few tools and resources would be available to her. Project Yes does not have a board of trustees, which would typically be looked to for help through a tight financial situation.

There’s a donor list, but according to Hennigar, those people have not been contacted since 2007.

“There’s been no outreach at least three to four years,” she says. “You have to nurture and inform and communicate and build those relationships.”

Hennigar is reaching out now to get the word out that the community might lose one of the only nonprofits in the county that serves young people with both a safe space and an arts-based service-learning curriculum.

She’s also looking at what funding they do have, what programs are strong, how the organization began, and how to move forward with that.

What exactly a restructured Project Yes running on half the budget will look like remains to be determined.

“I think a lot of it depends on where we’ll have a really sustainable source of funding we can really count on and grow from,” says Allie Van Buskirk, the servicelearning partnership coordinator and interim executive director, who has worked at the center for more than three years. She and Hennigar are focused on finding the money to lengthen the time they have to restructure the organization in positive ways and diversify the revenue streams for the future.

Carole MacNeil and Beth Krensky were graduate students at Harvard when a school project led them to start what grew into Project Yes. “We felt like the youth voice was missing from a lot of the discussions that were happening around education and youth development,” she says.

They assembled a group of young people to talk about the issues impacting them and create an art project to do something positive about those issues.

“It was really only supposed to be a one-time deal, a one-semester project,” says MacNeil, who now works as a nonprofit consultant and sits on the advisory board after working for Project Yes for 10 years.

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Nearly knifed On July 15, Boulder police were dispatched to an area near the intersection of 11th and Pearl streets on a report of an attempted robbery.

The victim said the suspect pulled a knife on him after he ignored the suspect’s request to give him money.

The victim called the police and followed the suspect to a bar in the 1900 block of 11th Street. He was able to identify the 27-year-old male suspect, who was subsequently arrested and charged with felony menacing.

Man falls, dies on Longs The body of a solo hiker who had fallen about 300 feet to his death while battling harsh wind conditions about 150 yards southwest of the Keyhole Route of Longs Peak was found by a 22-year-old hiker early in the morning on July 16.

The body was identified as 29-year-old Jeffrey R. Rosinski of Rhode Island. A park trail crew arrived within two hours of the report, and rangers arrived to assist at 11 a.m. The body was transferred by plane to the Boulder County Coroner’s Office, where the death is still being investigated. eBay leads to bike burglar A 22-year-old male was arrested July 15 on suspicion of felony theft after taking a high-end mountain bike valued at $7,000 off the bike rack of a vehicle.

The vehicle was parked on the 28th Street frontage road at Pennsylvania on June 3. The victim later saw the bike for sale on eBay and was able to track down the seller, who reportedly confessed to stealing the bike.

Intruder interrupted Boulder police responded to the 600 block of Highland Avenue at around 10 p.m. on July 11 after a woman called 911 and said her husband was fighting with an intruder in their garage.

When officers responded, the suspect left the area on a bike. The homeowner who fought with the suspect was not injured and was able to describe the suspect as a white male in his 20s, wearing a dark colored shirt, with buzz-cut blond hair. The suspect was about six feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds, described as being fit with an athletic build and Boulder Weekly

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Anyone with information about the crime or the suspect is asked to contact Det. Brian Scott at 303-4413381. Those who wish to remain anonymous should contact Boulder County Crime Stoppers at 800-222TIPS or 800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted via the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com.

Wildfire breaks out Emergency crews responded to a lightning-caused fire near South Boulder Peak, just south of the city of Boulder, on July 18 at around 3:15 p.m.

The fire was one-quarter of an acre in size, burning in heavy timber on the top of the ridge. A helicopter with a water bucket worked to extinguish as much of the fire as possible before it got dark. Because of steep terrain and the late time of day, crews did not hike into the area. City of Boulder and Rocky Mountain Fire crews then monitored and helped control the fire.

The Northern Front Range has received more than 1,600 lightning strikes over the past two weeks, many in the mountains and foothills of Boulder County. Due to the current hot weather and drying fuels, along with the high amount of lightning, local wildland fire conditions are reaching moderate to high severity.

Fire managers will be closely monitoring the situation, as conditions can rapidly change. They ask county residents to promptly report any wildland fire to local police.

Injured hiker rescued The Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office received a report of an injured hiker on the Diamond Lake Trail in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area on July 15 at approximately 12:25 p.m.

The Rocky Mountain Rescue Group and Nederland Fire/Rescue, along with deputies from the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office, responded to the Fourth of July Trailhead to find the injured hiker. When rescuers reached the hiker, she was conscious but may have had a sprained ankle.

Rescuers carried the 59-year-old woman out on a litter to the trailhead and offered to transport her to the hospital, but she declined any further medical treatment. She left with friends.

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Tom and the village idiots Sure has been fun watching the right-wing politicos scrambling around, hemming and hawing over whether they should agree with some, all or none of former Congressman Tom Tancredo’s latest idiotic comments.

At a rally for Senate candidate Ken Buck, district attorney for Weld County, Tancredo called President Barack Obama the greatest threat the country faces right now.

Buck hastily distanced himself from the comments, saying that Tancredo “tends to exaggerate sometimes” and that “I love Tom, but I don’t always agree with him.”

Oooh! Ken loves Tom! We always knew it, secretly.

Well, in pounces Buck’s competitor, former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, jumping on the opportunity to seem as right-wing as Buck by saying that there was “a real measure of truth in what Tancredo said.”

Not to be out-right-winged, Buck clarified that what he meant was that the “progressive liberal movement” is the biggest threat.

The Dems jumped in as well, with Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff calling Tancredo’s comments “reprehensible” and Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak calling on gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to pick a side.

“McInnis flaunts his relationship with Tancredo when campaigning at the grassroots,” Waak said. “But he refuses to be public about whether or not he agrees with Tancredo’s outrageous remarks last week.”

We left a message for McInnis’ PR type, Sean Duffy, but haven’t heard back.

Hmmm, maybe Sean has been busy with his employer’s plagiarism controversy.

Speaking of, you gotta love the two Democratic CU regents who unloaded on McInnis for plagiarizing.

What goes around comes around, eh? Seems like just yesterday that the rightwingers were pouring gasoline on the shitstorm around Ward Churchill’s plagiarism case.

The two Dem regents were forced to issue a correction to their original press release, of course, clarifying that they weren’t speaking for the entire board. You think that was prompted by the Republican board members raising hell?

Nah. There are no politics on the Board of Regents, right?

Not that it matters (except when it comes to running out unpopular professors), but a vote for Democrat Melissa Hart over incumbent Steve Bosley would likely turn the majority of the board blue for the first time in many moons.

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Top 10 Stories Week of July 8 - July 14 1. Arizona’s immigration law 2. Panorama (7/15) 3. Stripped of dignity Being strip-

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4. Brancato disputes arrest record 5. How to stop illegal immigration 6. Summer snow 7. Wizarding world of Harry Potter 8. Sedition to submission 9. That devil music 10. Officials hope Lindsay Lohan won’t get Paris Hilton treatment in jail

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Economic struggle, ethnic cleansing in Arizona Arizona may be paying an unexpected price for SB 1070, the new law that enables racial profiling in an effort to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants. According to The Guardian UK, Latinos are fleeing the state in anticipation of the racial hostility they fear may be just around the corner.

Parts of Phoenix have turned into ghost towns almost overnight, with real estate offices, Mexican restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries, clothing stores and even cell phone stores going out of business. Schools are on track to have much lower than normal enrollments, as well.

It’s not just undocumented residents who are leaving, but Latinos in general. The Guardian quotes one woman, a community worker, as saying, “Panic has set in.”

The same worker goes on to explain how a “Gestapo community” is in the making in Arizona, with whites threatening to turn undocumented Latino neighbors over to police for transgressions like barking dogs.

None of this is good for Arizona’s Latino families, even those who are U.S. citizens. But it’s not good for the state’s economy, either. Arizona seems to be on the brink of creating its own private depression within the recession.

Well, how about that?

As Nelson from The Simpsons would say, “Ha ha!”

Let’s hope Colorado’s conservative lawmakers are paying attention. Some were inspired by the passage of SB 1070 in Arizona and hope to introduce a similar measure in Colorado next January. But undocumented workers are an important part of our state’s economy. Give them a path to citizenship. Colorado doesn’t need to make its own budget crisis worse by upending the economy in this way.

Besides, it looks too much like ethnic cleansing when one group of people begin boarding up their shops, closing their businesses and fleeing an area out of fear of their neighbors.

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Mobility impaired

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here is a motorcycle in the front yard of Tracy Manthy’s mobile home.

This wouldn’t be so unusual, if it weren’t for the flower pot sitting on top of it, the bicycle hanging from the fence nearby, the towering giraffe sculpture or the makeshift scarecrow wearing a tiger mask.

Arranged thoughtfully on two stacked coffee tables are metal pigs, a sideways detergent container sprouting a plant and a giant gold medallion bearing the words Boulder and Colorado. Flanked by sunflowers are a female mannequin head on a stick and a walker that is only big enough for a child.

Manthy sees her sculptures and garden as an exercise of her free expression, but the manager of the San Lazaro mobile home park, Laura Hadaway, wants her to clean up the eyesore, since it is a violation of the terms of her lease. The two are in a standoff.

Also in a standoff with Hadaway is nearby resident Joe Klassen, who rattles off a litany of allegations about the park and its management.

For her part, Hadaway acknowledges that some residents don’t like her because she has to play the bad guy. But she also talks about her passion for the park, where she has lived for almost 40 years, and about the need to maintain the upkeep and appearance of the property, since the value of the mobile homes is the only investment some families have left.

Senate Bill 156, a new law co-sponsored by Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Longmont, and Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, gives residents of mobile home parks more protection and went into effect July 1.

While most agree it was a good first step, a visit to San Lazaro reveals that there is much more to be done when it comes to addressing the problems encountered in a local trailer park, the last bastion of affordable housing for Boulder’s low-wage workers.

“This is the underbelly,” Hadaway says.

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Manthy is sitting on her porch, explaining why, after a divorce, she no longer wants to bottle up her creativity and free expression. She wants her children, 14 July 22, 2010

and other neighborhood kids, to feel free to sprinkle seeds and create their own masterpieces in her front yard, as evidenced by two car tires positioned to resemble owl eyes. Manthy deliberately planted a garden over the front walkway to her porch.

She’s been told for a long time that she’s too expressive.

“I can’t be squelched anymore,” she says. “The garden, for me, is a celebration.”

Her two children, Roxy and Blue, emerge with wavy, unruly blond hair, Roxy with a baby bird in her hands. A ladder stands against the side of the house, so that the children can get on the roof and plant flowers in the gutters. They are accomplished rock climbers, Manthy points out. But she says a neighbor called the cops because her kids were on the roof.

“We have quite the menagerie, in more ways than one,” she says.

Manthy can’t produce a copy of the lease language that prohibits front-lawn menageries like hers. She says she has “chosen not to inform myself ” about the rules.

Hadaway hasn’t removed anything from the front yard yet, Manthy says, but the manager has removed other residents’ property in the past.

According to Manthy and Klassen, Hadaway is known for marching up to front doors, banging loudly on them, cursing and leaving brightly colored warnings on doors and the windows of illegally parked cars.

“It’s how the Jews must have felt when they got a yellow star on their door,” Klassen says.

Hadaway demands that residents make improvements to their mobile homes and threatens eviction, they say.

It is a neighborhood that is inhabited primarily by Caucasians, some Bosnians, and a growing number of Latinos, many of whom are undocumented immigrants. As many as 17 “illegals” have lived in one mobile home, according to Klassen. Sheriff ’s deputies are a common sight in the neighborhood, which is just outside the Boulder city limits, at the corner of 55th Street and Valmont Road.

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Manager, residents of local mobile home park at odds Story and photos

by Jefferson Dodge Klassen brings his pack of cigarettes over to Manthy’s porch and the two share a smoke as they sip sodas, mosquitos hovering in the heat.

Klassen, whose rapid-fire, wordy eloquence and eternal sunglasses slightly remind one of Ward Churchill, wears a long, gray beard and a baseball cap that bears several pins. One reads “One shot, one kill.”

Another has a bear claw. A third honors prisoners of war and soldiers missing in action. He has worked at Rocky Flats and in construction and is now on a fixed income. He also says he has worked at Area 51, but can’t divulge what went on there.

Klassen, who walks with a cane, says he got his disability after being shot in a drive-by in Denver. He lists the unnecessary improvements that Hadaway wanted him to make after moving into his mobile home, improvements that he says were required in a short timeframe, were not demanded of others and were the result of neglect by the previous resident.

Later, on a tour of the mobile home park, he cites alleged violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), pointing out places where sidewalks have crumbled, are blocked by cars or lack ramps, making it impossible for a person in a wheelchair to get around.

At Klassen’s insistence, a handicap parking space was created in front of the San Lazaro office, but he has a photo of Hadaway’s golf cart parked in it. He says one in seven of the park’s residents have a disability.

He says inconsistencies and discrimination in how the park’s regulations are enforced and how leases are written are violations of the Fair Housing Act. He lists the American Civil Liberties Union, the Colorado Civil Rights Division and the Department of Justice among the bodies with whom he has filed — or plans to file — complaints. He has presented his case to the Boulder County Commissioners and Sheriff Joe Pelle.

He threatens to sue Hadaway and the park’s out-ofstate ownership group on a variety of fronts. He drives around the neighborhood taking pictures of violations, and in addition to those photos, he has a recorder full of conversations.

Klassen has concerns that the on-site sewage treatment facility might pollute the middle fork of Boulder Weekly

Boulder Creek, and that the chlorination process used in the park’s water plant isn’t sufficient. He claims Hadaway refused to let him rent the community meeting hall. Klassen also says his mobile home lacks proper plumbing and that he uses the bathroom in the camper on his truck, but Hadaway wants it out of his driveway.

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Back on the porch, Manthy is worried. The owners of San Lazaro, a group called 5005 Properties Inc. that runs mobile home parks around the country, are in town for a meeting with Hadaway, and Manthy knows that she and her eclectic yard are on the agenda. She expects them to come around the corner in a couple of golf carts any minute. But they don’t.

Klassen is encouraged because the owners’ presence meant he could bend the ear of Josh Winter, a legal agent for the company. He says he spent about 30 minutes with Winter, unloading his complaints, and that Winter agreed to help address the concerns.

But Klassen calls Boulder Weekly two days later to report that his little talk with Winter has gotten back to Hadaway, and that she has retaliated by putting a warning on his and his wife’s car, which were parked in the street, contrary to park regulations, for exactly 12 minutes. (Each resident can have no more than two cars, and they must be parked in the driveway.) Klassen has photos of the other residents’ cars that were also parked in the street at the time, but did not receive similar warning tags.

He tours the neighborhood, pointing out the families that have more than two cars and keep them parked in the street.

“We want to have a harmonious, pleasant community where people don’t live in fear of retaliation,” he says.

He cruises past several other car-related violations, his camera phone out the window. Klassen says one local resident who is married to Hadaway’s sister is allowed to park on the street. He points to mobile homes where businesses are being operated, and to landscaping trailers, both of which are contrary to regulations. There are multiple cars parked on lawns, a no-no, and campers just like Klassen’s on top of trucks. A small sign in a window advertises candy and refreshments for sale. Some wooden fences look like they are higher than six feet, a height Klassen says he wasn’t allowed to exceed. Besides, he says, the rules say fences should be chain-link and no higher than 40 inches.

He motions to the mobile home where he claims Hadaway confiscated a bunch of belongings from the yard and kept them in a nearby field. There is a missing San Lazaro sign at the entrance that has been replaced and re-stolen.

And then there is the common area, where the office, swimming pool, mailboxes and storage units are. Klassen points out the barriers to handicapped people, from steps to tall gate latches to a high door slot for residents to deposit rent payments.

• • •

Hadaway seems tired of putting out all of the fires that occur in a mobile home park.

She denies being verbally abusive, but acknowledges that she loses her temper.

“I’m a passionate person,” she says. “I can be pretty abrupt when I get fed up with someone not cleaning up their stuff.”

For her, it’s not just a job. Hadaway has lived in San Lazaro since 1972 and raised two kids there. Before she became manager three years ago, she engaged the manBoulder Weekly

agers and owners as an advocate for the residents. occurrence. Hadaway cautions Boyd not to do anything When asked about the new law aimed at mobile foolish like keying the neighbor’s vehicle, then rolls her home parks, Hadaway says she doesn’t know much about eyes. it, other than the legislation didn’t go far enough. She She holds up a stack of paperwork on people who says it should have contained limits on how much an have “problem yards” and displays a map on which she owner can increase the rent, for instance. has marked mobile homes where there are vehicles that “I’ve always viewed the mobile home park like the are unregistered or without license plates. feudal system,” she says. “If you have a good owner who Hadaway, a former criminal defense attorney who cares about the property and the people, a good manager serves on the local board for the National Alliance for who cares about the property and the people, it’s OK.” Mental Illness, says she is vigilant but compassionate.

But she adds that there are cases where the residents She offers residents her own personal truck to haul off are totally subject to the will of the owner and manager, unwanted stuff. She started an annual community picnic and abuses can occur. She does not count herself or the with the sheriff ’s office.

San Lazaro owners in those numbers.

“A lot of my Hispanic people were afraid of the cops Hadaway says the owners hired a consultant to do a because they weren’t necessarily here legally,” Hadaway study on the disability and says. access issues Klassen has One resident is in a raised, and while the park is wheelchair, and she says Joe Klassen barricading his driveway “grandfathered” on some she only applies “gentle fronts because it was develpressure” to get his vehioped before the passage of cles registered. Instead of the ADA, several improvereporting kids who get ments have been identified in trouble to the police, and implemented, in addishe has them serve comtion to the handicapped munity service with her, parking space. She shows off in one case fixing up the the handicap-accessible restwheelchair-bound man’s room and doorknobs in the mobile home. office as examples.

Her primary conAccording to Hadaway, cern, she says, is to keep the county judicial system is the place looking good reluctant to uphold an evicso that property values don’t suffer. And she tion for anything other than insists that language in nonpayment of rent, so she leases is consistent: The lets some things slide at San company owns the land, Lazaro, such as the number and management may of cars kept on the street. enter the property, even She has only had one towed, a fenced yard, when necwhen she couldn’t locate the essary, such as when it is owner. not kept in “neat, clean, “To evict a woman with attractive condition.” two kids because of furni“Ultimately, the lease ture on the lawn, it would has a provision where we can go in and clean up,” be very hard for me to do that,” she says.

Hadaway says. “What does ‘neat, clean, attractive condiBut while she might stop short of evicting someone tion’ mean? That’s a pretty gray area.” like Manthy, she is vigilant about pointing out violations “It’s my job,” she says of her enforcement efforts. as they occur. And she insists that she does it without “You can’t require people to do something they don’t playing favorites or discriminating. want to do and expect them to be happy.”

“Everybody gets treated exactly the same,” Hadaway Still, Hadaway acknowledges that being the bad guy says. “I have a strong ethic of fairness, whether people gnaws at her sometimes. believe me or not.”

“A lot of people think I’m mean,” she says. “It bothShe explains that when she sees a car blocking the sidewalk, she lets the owner know, regardless of who it is. ers me that people don’t like me; it bothers me a lot.”

As for improvements like the ones Klassen has But she probably misses some, which might create the called for, Hadaway says any investment in the property perception of selective enforcement. would likely result in an increase in rent, which she is “I’m not on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” trying to avoid. she says.

Asked about the meeting room, she holds up a calWhen asked about the accusations leveled by endar as the only decision-maker, saying it is rented out Manthy and Klassen, she initially declines to comment. strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. Hadaway says “It would be unethical and unprofessional of me to she knows of no home-based businesses. While leases discuss my situation with Joe Klassen or any other residon’t allow utility trailers or RVs, they are silent on dent,” Hadaway says. “It’s a war I can’t win, because he campers, and the owners have allowed Klassen to keep can say whatever he wants. … I bent over backwards to his, she says. Hadaway also maintains that San Lazaro get him in here, with the understanding that he would has never had any water-quality violations. do X, Y and Z. He signed a contract he couldn’t fulfill.”

“Most of the people here are good, hard-working people,” she says. “And the owners provide them affordDuring the interview, a frustrated man named Boyd able housing. … If there wasn’t someone here to hold the stops by the office to complain about his neighbor’s car line for the majority, the homes would lose value, and in being parked over his lot line, which has been painted, some cases, that’s all they have.” with Hadaway’s permission, expressly to avoid such an Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ClimateSmart deadline nears As part of the final 2010 funding cycle, applications for grants from the city’s ClimateSmart Solar Grant Fund must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 16. For applications and more program information, visit the city’s Solar Rebate and Grant Program’s website at www.beClimateSmart. com.

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Teens race solar cars to Boulder High school students from across the country driving solar cars they built from scratch will complete their eight-day cross-country trek in Boulder on Sunday, July 25.

Representatives from the Boulder-based American Solar Energy Society and University of Colorado engineering students will greet the 22 teams racing in the Hunt-Wilson School Solar Car Challenge. Now in its 15th year, the event is free, open to the public, and presents an opportunity to see roadworthy solar cars built by teenagers.

The race began at Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas on July 18, and will arrive at Folsom Field on July 25 between 1 and 3 p.m. The high school students and their adult chaperones face scorching temperatures, uncertain road conditions, and unexpected “breakdowns” along the 900mile race route. States represented in this year’s event include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Oregon and Texas.

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for creating a hands-on project that spurs original thinking and ingenuity in high school students,” said Brad Collins, executive director of the American Solar Energy Society.

For more information, visit www. winstonsolar.org/challenge.

Community Cycles seeks used bikes Community Cycles, a nonprofit bike collective that serves Boulder County, will hold a used bike collection drive from July 29 through Aug. 1. The used bikes will be refurbished and recycled into the community through programs such as Community Cycles’ Earn-A-Bike and Fleet programs.

Some of the used bikes are also refurbished by volunteers and sold at greatly discounted prices or donation prices at annual events such as the CU Back to School Bike Sale and at the Community Cycles Holiday Bike Giveaway.

“Used bikes are our lifeline,” said Rich Points, executive director of Community Cycles. “We know people have many extra bikes in garages and basements that are in working order or may need a little TLC to get running again. By donating these bikes to Community Cycles, we can focus on getting them back in use and reducing car trips around town.”

Community Cycles’ main shop, at 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, in Boulder will take donations from 1 to 9 p.m. on July 29 and 30, and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 31 and Aug. 1.

Community Cycles’ north storage, at 820 Lee Hill Dr., Boulder, will accept donations from 4 to 8 p.m. on July 29 and 30, and from noon to 4 p.m. on July 31 and Aug. 1.

Donations are tax-deductible. For more information or to volunteer with this drive, call 720-565-6019.

County seeks volunteer pickers It may look pretty, but Oxeye Daisy is a noxious weed that has escaped gardens and is taking over mountain meadows at Caribou Ranch.

Boulder County Parks and Open Space is seeking volunteers to spend a morning finding and pulling these flowers to help protect the local ecosystem.

Volunteers can participate on Aug. 1 or 7, or on both days, from

Buy into Boulder has new site The Boulder Chamber of Commerce, City of Boulder, Downtown Boulder, Twenty Ninth Street, Boulder County Independent Business Alliance (BIBA) and University Hill have launched a new website, www.buyintoboulder.com, for the Buy into Boulder campaign.

The City of Boulder began the Buy into Boulder campaign during the November 2009 holiday season to encourage citizens to keep their dollars in the community rather than making online purchases or shopping outside of Boulder. The website will serve as a hub of information with store listings, discounts, event calendars and articles on businesses. Liz Hanson, economic vitality coordinator at the City of Boulder, says for every $100 spent at Boulder stores, $3.41 in tax revenue stays in Boulder.

Overall, retail sales taxes will make up approximately 32 percent of Boulder’s 2010 budget, and sales tax collections have been on the decline and tax revenues are not keeping pace with the cost of services provided, Hanson adds.

“We’re encouraging community members to make the conscious decision to support their community by keeping their dollars here,” she says.

For more information about the Buy into Boulder campaign, visit the new website at www.buyintoboulder. com or follow the updates on Twitter @buyboulder.

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Let’s dance!

Local dance enthusiasts Drew Biel and Lyn Gregory will host an outdoor dance, pot luck and old-time music jam at their home on 1908 Apple Valley Rd. in Lyons on July 31 from 4 to 9 p.m. This is a public dance, and all are welcome. Chris Kermiet calls the dances, and Chad Yost and Friends oldtime band provides the music. The dance will be outdoors in the shade on level grass. Biel and Gregory will provide water, tables and chairs. Attendees are asked to bring their own food, drinks and water bottle.

Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children and seniors, or $12 for a family.

For more information, e-mail oldtimedances@musicinlyons.com, or call 303-823-0816.

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by Charmaine Ortega Getz

ehind a blank facade in one of North Boulder’s industrial strip malls is a room vibrant with color, conversations and the noise of artisans turning out small, quirky masterpieces of recycled goodness.

This is Sweetbird Studio, creative home of a Hygiene resident who says art transformed her from someone who thought she wasn’t an artist.

“I was a business major hired right out of college to work for the Federal Reserve,” says Nancy Anderson. “But when I had my daughter 25 years ago, I was looking for something I could do at home and be challenged. I was raised by a family that appreciated the nostalgic in antiques and crafts, and I had a big collection of bits and pieces. I just started making things out of them.”

“Them” ranges from old container tins to Nixon campaign buttons, vintage labels, bracelet charms, jewelry pieces, polished stones, semiprecious gems, medals, found objects, salvaged junk, scraps of this and pieces of that.

Anderson put them into jewelry and belt buckles, mixed-media wall art, ornaments for hats and bags, pet collars and anything else that caught — and still catches — her fancy. She’s especially drawn to things with nostalgic, even kitschy, graphic art, such as vintage advertising.

As with the name of her studio, which comes from a Joni Mitchell

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song, words have the power of encouragement during difficult times.

So she’s also fond of throwing text into the mix — words, slogans, phrases that speak to her.

“On each piece, I always include a message to the buyer,” she says.

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Among them, “Have no doubt,” “Release the vision,” “Tiempo es oro,” (Time is golden) “Cherish the moment” and “Love rules.”

Much of her design inspiration comes from the folk art invented along the Santa Fe Trail — a mix of Anglo, Spanish and Native American cultures that created beauty out of whatever was on hand.

Her latest items are designed with

the tragedy of the Gulf oil disaster in mind. “Our Lady of the Gulf ” frames the Madonna with turtles and shells and a plea for her intercession. A dog tag-like medal etched with the image of a crustacean has SOS, for “Save Our Shrimp.” Plans are for 100 percent of these and other items’ proceeds to go to clean-up efforts in afflicted areas.

Anderson doesn’t do as many one-of-a-kind pieces as she used to, but still does a lot of custom work.

Ninety percent of her mixed-media pieces are from recyclables. The business uses mostly metal; even its leftover scraps are sent to an American smelter that returns them as casting grade material.

It looks like success in the studio — but the easy and cheerful bustle of today belies a long struggle. There were times when Anderson, the divorced mother of two, quit her own business. But her late-discovered artist wouldn’t accept that for long.

“It’s what I’m always telling people, especially the young ones,” she says. “When you’re doing what you love, it will follow you. You can’t quit it.”

For more information, visit www.sweetbirdstudio.com, or call 303-440-9891.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com CORRECTION: The phone number for Western Aluminum Recycling was incorrectly listed in the July 15 issue. The correct number is 303-447-0252.

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Thursday, July 22 Lafayette Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m.

Festival Plaza, Public Road and Chester Street, Lafayette, 303-665-5588.

Saturday, July 24

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303-910-2236.

Louisville Farmers’ Market. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-902-2451.

Saving Your Seed — with Janis Kieft.

1:30 p.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.

Sunday, July 25 2010 Aspen Environment Forum. 8 a.m. Aspen, 970-544-7916. Through July 28.

Monday, July 26 SEI: Grid-Direct Electric Fundamentals and Grid-Direct Design — Online workshop. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 970-963-8855.

Tuesday, July 27 Introduction to Vermiculture. 5:30 p.m.

Ellie’s Eco Home Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-952-1004.

Wednesday, July 28

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

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eter Rowan is one of those risk-takers who’s so dexterous in his abilities as a bluegrass guitarist that he can play with just about anyone, under any circumstances. And it’s this versatility that placed him in the middle of some of those legendary moments in the halls of bluegrass mythology.

Whether it’s his stint as Bill Monroe’s guitarist, or a successful run with Old and in the Way, for Rowan, these moments — all the collaborations and events — add up to a collective legacy, and he’s paying tribute to it with his forthcoming album, appropriately titled, Legacy.

“This band I have now, this is the first time I’ve had a bluegrass band under my own name,” Rowan says.

“You’ll hear a lot of Old and in the Way in this band, because it’s the same approach. And it’s the first band since Old and in the Way that gives me that feeling.

We’ve come this far and lost a lot of people along the way, and so my music is all about that. It’s the legacy of the whole thing.”

The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band consists of Keith Little playing banjo, Paul Knight on bass and Jody Stecher on mandolin. Recorded in April on bluegrass artist Alison Brown’s roots music Compass label, Legacy features 12 new songs, and two traditional tunes.

“Plus, I have a new gospel tune called, ‘God’s Own Child,’ and that features Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs,” Rowan says. “And then I’ve got a tune called ‘So Good,’ and it’s got Gillian Welsh singing and Dave Rawlings playing guitar. It’s ‘Legacy’ in that it’s all my old and new compadres in the string-band music, plus some traditional tunes that we draw upon all the time. It’s a very traditional-based band. But they go with me where I want to go. If I have an adventuresome song, they’re good with it.”

For Rowan, the bluegrass legacy began back in 1964, when he won an audition in Nashville to play guitar for the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Thus began Rowan’s professional career as a musician. For two-and-a-half years, Rowan toured with Monroe across America and England, playing the Grand Ole Opry each week.

And before his tenure with Monroe ended, he had recorded a total of 14 songs as one of Monroe’s see ROWAN Page 22

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Thursday, July 22

Colorado Music Festival — Talk Under the Tent. 6:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Friday, July 23

Horses, Humans and the Space Between — Clinic and fundraiser for Colorado Horse Rescue, defenders of everyone’s favorite mode of green transportation. 10386 N. 65th St. Longmont, 720-494-1414, ext.

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Saturday, July 24

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Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-4030.

Sunday, July 25

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class — Say aloha to fabulous dancing skills. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Monday, July 26

Film on the Rocks — Clueless. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Tuesday, July 27

Flamenco Dance Technique — Dance like they do in España.

5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Wednesday, July 28

Master Class — With tenor Anthony Griffey. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-4928008.

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Bluegrass Boys. But Rowan had the itch to expand his style, whereas Monroe had his way of doing things.

To be a Bluegrass Boy meant playing it by the book, with loyalty to Monroe’s way and nothing else.

“By the time I had reached him, it was fiddle, guitar, banjo, bass and mandolin — the five solid building blocks of bluegrass,” says Rowan, who at the time wished to push the envelope stylistically. “He was in his 50s and he’d passed through that experimentation stage. I think he went through it like everybody else, always trying to find where square one is — home base. When I was with him there were sparks flying all the time, because I was young and wanting to do this and do that, and he told me, ‘It’s been as much work to keep things out of bluegrass as it is to add them to bluegrass.’“ Rowan would eventually form bluegrass-rock hybrids, complete with drums, which at the time was a disturbing blasphemy to genre purists.

But after Rowan left Monroe, he joined mandolinist David Grisman in 1967 and formed Earth Opera, which released a couple of albums on Elektra Records and even opened for The Doors on many occasions. They disbanded in 1969, however, with

Grisman heading out to the West like ‘Is it gonna be four bars? Is it Coast, and Rowan joining up with a gonna be eight bars? How long are we band called Seatrain. In 1972, gonna do this? When do we come Grisman brought a Grateful Dead back in?’ And to this day, it’s all done album to Rowan that contained a by feel. And that’s what keeps it fresh.” cover of the traditional song “Cold Old and in the Way lasted until Rain and Snow,” which Rowan had 1974, and the self-titled album wasn’t coincidentally played often in Bill released until 1975, a year after they Monroe’s band. Intrigued, Rowan went disbanded. During this time, Rowan with Grisman to play with Jerry penned the rockin’ country songs Garcia, which “Panama Red,” On the Bill: led to the birth and Peter Rowan plays the RockyGrass of Old and in “Lonesome Festival on Friday, July 23. the Way, a traL.A. Cowboy,” Gates open at 10 a.m. Day passes for Friday are $50. ditional bluewhich were Planet Bluegrass, Highway 36 just grass band that staple hits for northwest of the historic area of included fiddle New Riders of downtown Lyons, 800-624-2422, www.bluegrass.com. genius Vassar the Purple Clements and Sage. A little John Kahn. later, in 1976, Although this was a highly structured Rowan met Tex-Mex accordion player bluegrass band, Rowan’s yearning to Flaco Jimenez, and together with fidexpand the music still called to him, dler Tex Logan, the three formed the and he opened the door for some Free Mexican Airforce. After that, extended jamming with the song Rowan embarked on what has become “Midnight Moonlight,” in which he a highly successful solo career that has wrote a guitar solo. ranged from bluegrass to country “The first song that got recorded hybrids, and even reggae. Then, in was ‘Midnight Moonlight,’ where I 2002, surviving members of Old and wrote a bridge that was the solo secin the Way reformed for a reunion tour tion,” says Rowan. “And I’d look over called Old and in the Gray. at Garcia, and his eyebrows would just Rowan explains that at the time, he be way up there going, ‘Yeah, this is wasn’t sure about the intentions behind good.’ Whereas other people would be the reunion.

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“It was like, ‘Are we carrying on the legacy? Are we revisiting the past?’” he says. “It raised the question, ‘What are we representing?’ You had five different guys with five different minds up there. But in the end, the music wins out. The thing about Old and in the Way was, as Garcia said as we walked off stage and people started grumbling about this and that ... he said, ‘No thoughts.’ Just go for it. Go for the groove. Stop thinking.’”

Rowan’s latest album was 2007’s Quartet, the second collaborative effort with acoustic guitar master Tony Rice.

But with his new album, Rowan is taking all of his collective experience, all of those legendary moments, and wrapping them up in what amounts to his first traditional bluegrass album release since back in the day.

“Bill Monroe said, ‘Pete, you stick with bluegrass. If you can play bluegrass, you can play anything,’” Rowan reminisces. “I took the electric band concept as far as I could. You know, drum-based, bluegrass-style kind of jamming and picking and stuff. That was fun. Now everybody’s doing it, so now I’m back to the basics. I never dared to put the name Peter Rowan together with ‘bluegrass band’ before.

But that’s how it is now.”

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Recording the next chapter

Big Head Todd & The Monsters get beautiful on latest album

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s the soul-streaked strains of Todd Park Mohr’s voice laments the laws of love and justice on the band’s new single “Beautiful,” carried on the wings of one of modern rock’s most effortlessly nimble rhythm sections, it feels as if the Monsters are back again ... even if they never went away.

The single arrives two cuts down the roster of Big Head Todd and The Monsters’ newest and ninth CD, Rocksteady, just now hitting the streets and broadband, and its success puts a little smile on Mohr’s face.

“We’ve been doing better at radio with this track than anything we’ve done since ‘Sister Sweetly,’ and that was almost 20 years ago,” he says. “Y’know, I don’t know where it’s going to lead, but I’m pretty pleased with what’s been going on so far.

“When it was done, I think it was obvious to all of us [that “Beautiful” was going to be the single], even though we weren’t aiming for it. It was just so haphazard and out of the way; I thought of it as a secondary kind of song ... kind of a ‘filler’ song, you know? I just didn’t know it would work out so well.”

That happens of course, a sleeper song gets the right arrangement and a little throw of magic dust and suddenly becomes a CD’s hood ornament, but Rocksteady bears some depth and breadth that should grow it into an essential entry in the BHTM catalog.

We told Mohr that we really liked the following track, the brash rock-funk stomp of “Muhammad Ali,” a first-person testimony pivoting around that floating and stinging thing.

Mohr says it’s one of his favorites also.

“Sure, absolutely, for a lot of reasons. Obviously, Muhammad Ali himself is inspirational, just a great

subject for a song. It’s basically all his words, every line in it is something he said. There’s something so wonderful about that supreme self-confidence ... ‘I was great before I knew I was.’ He just has a million of ‘em.”

And swimming against the tide, we likewise appreciated the band’s read of Howlin’ Wolf ’s “Smokestack Lightning,” a nugget of Chicago mojo that roots-validating bands have rolled into their sets for decades, but thankfully delivered here without facile, festival-groove smugness. All business, no apologies and a gutbucket Mohr solo, a little reminder for the casually distracted that this band can rock your stuff.

“Y’know, I’ve always loved Howlin’ Wolf, I just think he’s the greatest,” Mohr says. “It’s really funny about that song, because rhythmically, there’s something that’s surprising about it. The way the vocal melody happens on the one. Other versions of it, like Dead’s version and a couple of other versions of it, tend to be a bit more ‘poppy’ with the rhythm. It was

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fun to do a really traditional version of it.”

Mohr is clearly pleased with this project, the first release of a two-CD project that will be followed by another, edgier release soon. Two and a half decades into the band’s career, it’s obvious to anyone really paying attention that making CDs, even for a franchise like BHTM that has earned its bread and butter from touring, is still an essential competency.

Wait ... two and half decades?

Seriously, how does anyone last in this business anymore for two and a half decades?

“Fear of having to get into other businesses, mostly,” Mohr laughs. “But ... it’s a wonderful business model to work in. Friends who are your peers and your partners, and anytime someone can get into a business like that, it’s probably going to last.

“We’ve never really had the gratification of ... y’know, winning a Grammy or being on Saturday Night Live. We’re not really celebrities in the pop culture sense. The way I look at it is ... some people out there, we’re they’re favorite band. So, what else do you want?”

And he says the band is still getting better.

“Oh, absolutely,” he says. “I think I’m getting better. I think my singing is better, my songwriting’s improving. ... I’m definitely a better guitar player. So, that’s another dimension to being a musician and an artist.

“I think for me, culture’s the most important thing, the most important contribution I can make, because I’m good at it. And that’s how I live my life, I think that’s how everybody should live their life.

What do you have to give? And when you can get better at it, it’s very easy to be engaged, and doing it, and want to win at doing it.”

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State of the union

These United States delve into darker themes for new album

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by Brian Palmer

esse Elliott — lead singer of the band These United States — has been coming out to the same little cottage in the woods of Michigan, a handful of yards from the shore of Lake Michigan, every year since his birth, so a number of experiences there have helped give the area a special place in his life. But in the summer of 2009, a shocking event impressed itself on his memory in an unpleasant way.

“I had a pretty scary experience drifting a little too far away from the shore … and then not making it back.” he says.

Elliott professes to have a terrible memory, but this one has stuck with him.

“It’s certainly the one I’ve been thinking about most often, recently,” he says. “These two guys, John and John Jr., rowing up to me in this tiny little metal rowboat and fishing gear, fishing me out of the lake and bringing me back to dry land. That one’s come back to me in a couple of dreams, or nightmares, really.”

He says all of this with a laugh — something that occurs frequently and easily — but he knows how momentous that day was.

“It was the kind of experience that definitely shook me in a very serious, personal sort of way,” Elliot says. “And as I sat on the porch and shivered for the next 48 hours straight, trying to recover from near-drowning, pneumonia and all that fun stuff, I told myself I’d better use this for something so I don’t scare myself into never doing anything fun again.”

The harrowing experience became the starting point for creating a lot of the material that appears on the band’s fourth album, What Lasts. An album filled with folk, country, Americana and rock undertones, What Lasts is a kind of lament in search of hope, with

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tracks like the epic “Just This” being particularly emblematic of the album’s content.

“Most of the album is about death,” he says. “That’s about as clichéd as you can get, but I think there’s a reason for that too, you know? When you come up against something like that, once you’ve hit that wall and almost gone through it, you can’t help but focus on that. But the album’s about a slow kind of death, sort of a wearing down as you go through the journey of the day to day, and just getting to a point where you realize there is no justice, just occasional graces. So the point is you gotta live for those really small moments because that may be all you ever get.”

Elliott further describes the album as a mix of old and new.

“It’s like most creative things you do: it’s kind of a combination of everything that’s come before, and hopefully a bit of something new,” he says. “It’s our fourth album over the last couple years here, so it’s hard to get away from the past too quickly. You know,

inevitably some of it’s gonna keep trailing behind you, catching up with you and overrunning you, but at the same time what we try to do is get away into some new territory.”

Thankfully the band has no interest in rehashing what has worked on previous records because, quite frankly, such a notion is a bit of a mystery to them.

“Well, we have the benefit of sort of not being clear about what’s worked before,” he says, laughing again. “We don’t feel like we have anything that’s been a 100 percent sure-fire success, but that’s a good thing in a creative sense.

We’re pretty hard on ourselves. We’re always looking back on our immediate past thinking, ‘Man, how can we do that better next time?’”

Creativity is part of what fuels the band, so they’re always looking to grow and allow their songs to evolve as time goes by.

“I think there’s something in a musician where, after you’ve played a song a hundred times, you can have a sort of constructive reaction to it, like ‘I can build this part up better this way’ or something similar; or it can be destructive, depending on if you’re tired of it or bored with it; and then I think a third possibility is you don’t even notice how it’s changing over time,” he says. “There are songs we play live that slowly evolve into something different, and I don’t even think we realize it. Sometimes it’s simply in reaction or addition to whatever you’ve done before.”

Despite all the gravitas on the album and the experience that inspired it, it’s nice to know that at least Elliott still has a sense of humor about his profession.

“Why do I make music? Because I don’t know what else to do with myself,” he exclaims.

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Astroland offers Boulder a DIY space

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Story and photo by Jonathan Thomas he first trick is just trying to find the place.

No bright marquee calls attention to the location of Boulder’s Astroland; rather, a single dim light hangs outside the darkened, tucked-away North Boulder ware-

house.

Astroland opened Jan. 1, but the concept of a space dedicated to local arts has long been in the works.

“Last summer we had the idea to start throwing shows at our house with bands that consisted explicitly of our friends,” explains cofounder Zack Roif. “From there it kind of snowballed. The house became notably more packed. The community was loving it.”

Eventually the crowd outgrew capacity and Roif began searching for a warehouse to better suit the size of the shows.

“We all acknowledged this huge void in Boulder in terms of the music that gets booked in Boulder and the venues in Boulder, which is pretty one-dimensional. You have the Fox and Boulder Theater, which are booking the bigger acts, and there are all these smaller acts that have no place to play in the community.”

On this night, July 17, the members of Astroland are truly put to the test. Some volunteers are late, leaving the staff short-handed, and headlining act Young Coyotes canceled at the last minute. As the crew scrambles around with final preparations it almost seems the undertaking of a DIY art space is too immense for a group of students, but one’s doubts are silenced as Roif jumps up to hit one of the stage lighting fixtures into place and exasperatingly jokes, “Clearly we’re run by a bunch of professionals.”

At the first sound of music, the crowd slowly migrates into the warehouse. People find a seat on the floor, on the couch, or against the wall. The audience is remarkably respectful and attentive, placing full focus

on the performance.

Cloud Lantern’s set begins with a slow, eerie static that escalates and cascades into an avalanche of noise driven by a storm of instruments: a cello, violin, ukulele, keyboard/synthesizer, two classical guitars and two percussionists. The tight orchestration of the strings over the rhythmic guitars and percussion creates a haunting

landscape of sound and successfully fuses classical and indie-folk elements. Vocalist Jordan Bodhaine releases waves of melodic ambience through a microphone flooded with reverb.

“I enjoy making music to create an atmosphere for people,” says Bodhaine while outside smoking a cigarette after the show — Astroland boasts the unique opportunity to converse directly with the artists who perform that night.

From the outset, Louisiana-based Gashcat’s sound explodes with an awakened energy. The transitions are seamless, alternating between quiet guitar/vocal confessions and powerful, all-out jams. Gashcat is reminiscent of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and Bright Eyes, but the emotion singer/songwriter Kyle Craft puts into the

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delivery of each word is something that cannot be fabricated. Although this is the last show of Gashcat’s first tour, he shows no signs of fatigue. Craft heard about Astroland through word of mouth, which is the main source of promotion for Astroland.

“By far this looked like the best place to play in Boulder. There are intimate shows and there are bar shows, and we really like the intimate ones like this,” Craft says. “It almost feels like it should be more intimidating, but it’s not, because the audience is there with you.”

As the hot July evening neared midnight, the crowd at Astroland rallied and rose to its feet for the final band, New Jersey’s Slow Animal. The three-piece lo-fi garage band, deeply rooted in both pop and punk, turned their amps all the way up for the finale. The vocals sounded like muddled echoes lost in the blownout fuzz of over-amplified distortion, but the honest energy of the music kept the crowd dancing ’til the very end.

With the satisfaction of a successful show, the members of Astroland wearily begin cleaning the silent, empty warehouse. Although tonight’s event is over, there is still much work to be done for the future of Astroland. However, its survival depends on the community to sustain and support a collective art space. To do this, Astroland requests a donation of $5 to $10 for each show and offers private rentals and parties.

“Astroland doesn’t belong to anyone,” says Erica Dixon, a co-founder of Astroland. “It’s open for people to make happen whatever they want to happen there.”

Regular events include the Black Market Reading Series, a themed, monthly reading; an open mic night called The Drunk Poet Society; and the Court Cinema Series, which screens a variety of student and experimental films. Located at 4115 N. Broadway, Astroland is easily accessible by the SKIP route, and is an all-ages venue.

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Sinners and saints

Measure for Measure measures up

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ou may not consider yourself a “theater person.” You may be one of the many who feel a twinge of actual fear when contemplating reading — or even just seeing — a work by William Shakespeare. Regardless of your preconceptions or past experiences, I can’t encourage you enough to attend at least one of the performances at this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival. While the CSF has been doing great work for over 50 years, this season is really quite spectacular.

The third Shakespeare play of the festival, after the justly famous King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew, is the lesser-known Measure for Measure.

Though classified as one of Billy’s comedies, Measure for Measure defies easy categorization. Humor, often of a determinedly bawdy sort, pervades the play, but among the copious laughs, one finds a great deal of commentary on the hypocritical nature of man, the value of mercy and the price of honor. It is also not every comedy in which a beheading plays a crucial role in the outcome of the story.

Set as originally intended in Vienna, Measure for Measure opens with the Duke Vicentio (Robert Sicular) embarking on a journey away from the city.

In his absence, the Duke declares that his deputy, Angelo (Chip Persons), shall rule in his stead.

Unbeknownst to Angelo or anyone else, the Duke never leaves the city but instead disguises himself as a priest so that he can observe how Angelo rules and learn how the citizens of Vienna truly feel about the Duke himself.

Angelo’s first act as ruler is to begin enforcing the laws against immoral behavior, laws that have been for the most part ignored up until that time. After learning that Claudio (Nick Henderson) has engaged in premarital sex with his fiancée, Juliet (Emily Van Fleet), a fact evidenced by Juliet’s obviously pregnant belly, Angelo orders Claudio put to death, per the statutes. In a last-ditch attempt to save himself,

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by Gary Zeidner Claudio asks his sister and soon-to-be nun, Isabella (Lenne Klingaman), to beg Angelo for mercy.

When Isabella approaches Angelo she quickly learns that, like modern-day politicians who decry homosexuality but later turn out to be gay themselves, Angelo’s firm stance against immorality does not apply to himself. Angelo demands that the virgin Glenn Asakawa

Lenne Klingaman plays Isabella, and Chip Persons plays Angelo.

Isabella have sex with him as the price to save Claudio’s life. Despite Claudio’s less-than-brotherly entreaties that Isabella should give in to Angelo’s

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extortion, she remains firm in her faith and refuses.

Still incognito as the priest, Duke Vicentio learns of Angelo’s treachery and puts a plan in motion that will not only expose Angelo for the scumbag that he is but also save Claudio’s life and Isabella’s virginity.

As an added bonus, Duke Vicentio also gets revenge on Lucio (Timothy Orr), a man who repeatedly slanders the Duke to the priest (who, of course, is actually the Duke), and the priest to the Duke (who is, once again, the same person).

In a first in my years of experience with the CSF, Director Scott Williams elects to seat a portion of the audience on stage with the actors. I had my reservations about this approach and feared that it would leave too little space for the actors and prove a distraction to the “main” audience. Thankfully, Williams knew better, and the on-stage seating causes no ill effects.

Robert Sicular, whom I praised in his supporting role in King Lear, is a joy to behold as the Duke. As both the Duke and the priest, Sicular is hilarious to the extreme without ever becoming a caricature. He is ably aided by tremendous performances from Klingaman, whose Isabella is the only character who really has to express a full emotional range, and Orr, whose Lucio provokes wave after wave of laughter from the audience. Stephen Weitz, the Fool in Lear, plays a similar role here as Pompey, a man of questionable morals but infinite good cheer. He, too, deserves special note for the commendable work he does with a relatively small role.

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Best of Open Stage. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Cafe, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Bill & John McKay. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Chris Berry Trio. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Colorado Music Festival — David Lockington & Orion Weiss. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

David Booker. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

David Gans & Oakhurst. 8 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-4437510.

Frogs Gone Fishin. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Full Tang. 9 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-7871.

Lethal Lisa & Rick McCall. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m.

Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

Louisville Cultural Center Summer Concert Series — With Wendy Woo. 7 p.m.

Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Dr., Louisville, 303-666-6565.

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

Pete Kartsounes — All proceeds benefit cancer research. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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by Salem. 10 p.m Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m.

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

Sandstone Summer Concert Series — With Steamboat Zephyr and Friends. 6:30 p.m. Sandstone Park, Lyons, 303-823-6622.

Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel,

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

Colorado Music Festival — Talk Under the Tent. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Oil paintings by Marie Channer.

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Sculpture by Jane Yamada.

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Pottery by Elizabeth Lazarus. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline

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Humor & Pathos — Artwork by Gary Sweeney.

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Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-530-1442.

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Mi Frontera Es Su Frontera — Artwork by Tony Ortega.

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Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess — Various artists.

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Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-8655000. Through Oct. 31.

Face to Face. Various artists.

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Shape and Spirit: The Lutz Bamboo Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

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Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

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A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

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

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Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Healing Meditation with Alan McAllister. 7-8:30 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Ste. 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Left Hand Brewing Company Beer Tasting Dinner. 6 p.m. Greenbriar Inn, 8735 N. Foothills Hwy., Boulder, 303-4407979.

Peter Pandemonium — Presented by the Peanut Butter Players. 7:30 p.m. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 990 Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-786-8727.

Service and Spirituality: Exploring the Connections. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Rd., 720-304-6446.

Friday, July 23

music Ben Raznick. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

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

Brad Colerick & Tom Corbett and Stephanie Bettman & Luke Halpin. 8 p.m.

Tuft Theatre, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

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

Colorado Music Festival — Greta’s Dream. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd.,

Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Colorado Music Festival — David Lockington & Orion Weiss. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

DJ Mark Farina. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Evan Cantor. 6:30 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601

Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Finn Riggins. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Flatirons Strings Academy Faculty Concert. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Friday Afternoon Club Concert Series — With Steve Thomas. Benefits Imagine! and Center for People with Disabilities. 5:30 p.m.

1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850.

Fat Rabbit. 5-8 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room,

3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

George Winston. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

Louisville Downtown Street Faire — With Hamilton Loomis. 6:30 p.m. Front and Spruce Streets in Historic Downtown Louisville, 303665-3355.

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

RockyGrass Music Festival. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, 800-624-2422. Through July 25.

Selassee and the Fafa Family. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Taarka. 10 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Tempa and the Tantrums. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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THUNK. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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Alliance Française de Denver’s 4th Annual Benefit Event. 5:30-9 p.m. Denver Botanic Garden, 1005 York St., Denver, 303831-0304.

Breadworks Community Art and Dinner Event — With artist Kahlie Sue Pinello, singer Laurie Dameron. 6:30 p.m. 2644 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-5667, ext. 3.

Corazon Flamenco Performance. 8 p.m.

Sandbox Theatre, Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050.

Horses, Humans and the Space Between — Clinic and fundraiser for Colorado Horse Rescue. 10386 N. 65th St. Longmont, 720-494-1414, ext. 2202. Through July 25.

Peter Pandemonium — Presented by the Peanut Butter Players. 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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

Single Parents Empowered Benefit — Clusterfunk and Nate Moore. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

SpiritTalk:The Soul, the Ego and MidLife Crisis. 7 p.m. The Bead Lounge, 320 Main St., Longmont, 303-545-5562.

Saturday, July 24

music

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

Barbershoppers Harmony Festival. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua Association, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Bent Lens Cinema: La Mission. 7 p.m.

Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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

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

Carmen Sandim. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Flatirons Jazz Quintet. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

The Grant Farm Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

Heartwood. 6:30 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Hot Cheese Soup. 10:15 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Liz Barnez Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Midnite Vine. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

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Raygunomics. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Rhythm Allstars. 8 p.m Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

RockyGrass Music Festival. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, 800-624-2422. Through July 25.

Stan Jones Band. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE! With Buckner Funken Jazz. 6 p.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303444-0722.

Two Fresh. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

events 3rd Annual Boulder Festival of the Arts.

29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Through July 25.

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

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

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

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Boulder Outdoor Cinema — Top Gun. 7 p.m. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 888-881-FILM. Horses, Humans and the Space Between — Clinic and fundraiser for Colorado Horse Rescue. 10386 N. 65th St. Longmont, 720-494-1414, ext. 2202. Through July 25.

Humane Society of Boulder Valley Mobile Pet Cruiser. 6 p.m.Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-4424030.

Peter Pandemonium — Presented by the Peanut Butter Players. 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, July 25

music

The Beaten Sea. 10 p.m.Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St., Denver, 303-388-2337.

Blues Jam with Lionel Young and Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

Colorado Music Festival — An Afternoon of Flute & Guitar. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Colorado Music Festival — Tango: A History of Music. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Joao Junquiera. 6 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

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

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

RockyGrass Music Festival. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons, 800-624-2422.

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

String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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3rd Annual Boulder Festival of the Arts.

29th Street, Boulder, 303-444-0722. Through July 25.

— Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www.

BoulderCountyAA.org.

Cool Boredom — Talk by Roland Cohen. 7 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Film on the Rocks — Clueless. With music

by Jonny Barber & The Rhythm Razors. 7 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

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

449-1922.

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

Master Class — With tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Taft Street Winery Tasting. 5-7 p.m. The

Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Tuesday, July 27

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

Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Boulder Zydeco Dance. 7-10 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303440-8303.

Colorado Music Festival — Talk Under The Tent. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Horses, Humans and the Space Between — Clinic and fundraiser for Colorado Horse Rescue. 10386 N. 65th St. Longmont, 720-494-1414, ext. 2202.

Peter Pandemonium — Presented by the Peanut Butter Players. 7:30 p.m. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 990 Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-786-8727.

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m.

For more information, call 720-301-3993.

Star Wars: A New Hope. 8:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Monday, July 26

music Colorado Music Festival — French horn master class. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Jazz Jam with Brad Goode. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Mary Chapin Carpenter. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-449-0790.

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

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

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

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

Taarka. 9:30 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-7871.

The Tommy Staudt Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Whitman’s Stache, Garret Suzelis, Q-Diva Experience. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Big Smith Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Colorado Music Festival — Chamber Music at the Yard. 7:30 p.m. Rembrandt Yard Art Gallery, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Denny Driscol. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jack’s Corner Cafe, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-7767667.

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

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

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

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

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Midnite. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Part Deux. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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Carousel. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through July 25.

The Fantasticks. Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Aug. 8.

King Lear. Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554.

Through Aug. 8.

Measure for Measure. Presented

by Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

MONDAYS

SALEM

The Author Platform: What It Is and Why You Need One Now. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, July 28

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

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

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

Master Class — With tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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Colorado Music Festival — Solas. 7:30 p.m.

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

University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Aug. 6.

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

Peter Pan. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Sept. 4.

The Taming of the Shrew.

Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 6.

Reggae Wednesday — With Balance and the JAH Disciples. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Shady Grove Picnic Series — With Shakedown Street. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303777-1003.

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

Waneka Concert Series — With Julia Bryan. 7 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

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Animal Abuse Is Part of Domestic Violence. 5:30 pm. SPAN Outreach Center, 835 North St., Boulder, 303-444-2424.

Buddhism and Psychology: The Art of Counseling — Presented by Naropa University and FACES Conferences. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Through July 31.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m.

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

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister.

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

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

Tea,Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, July 22 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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.

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25 String Cheese Incident — C. Taylor Cruthers.

7:30 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

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

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

Saturday, July 24 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Just Write — Creative writing for middle and high school students. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, July 25

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., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Wednesday, July 28 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Colorado Music Festival — Classically Kids. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-449-1397.

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.

Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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, July 26 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, July 27 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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by Jenni Skyler

think it’s safe to say that we are a compulsive society and all of us are obsessed with something. In Boulder, our obsessions tend to be mountain biking the Marshall Mesa Trail or training for the Bolder Boulder. For me, I’m addicted to those free samples at Whole Foods. As long as your obsession doesn’t take over your life, then you’re in “good shape,” right?

But many of us feel handcuffed to our obsessions, especially the electronic ones.

How many times a day do you e-mail?

How many times an hour do you text?

Our society operates electronically, but there comes a point when we have to ask ourselves if we are more intimate with our gadgets than we are with our loved ones. That might mean divorcing your Blackberry so it doesn’t chaperone you and your honey to the dinner table or to the bedroom.

Or it might mean divorcing Facebook.

There is a magnetism to Facebook that seems to exacerbate our inherent need to exhibit ourselves. I’m guilty as charged. I have a personal Facebook page and a fan page for my business, and I have no shame about either.

A survey by Oxygen Media posted astounding statistics about women’s use of Facebook (www.geekosystem.com/facebook-addiction-women-oxygen-mediastudy). Of 1,605 women surveyed, 34 percent reported checking Facebook in the morning before even brushing their teeth, and nearly 50 percent felt comfortable posting personal information, including inebriated shots of self and friends.

What is it about our human condition that needs to always post what we are thinking, eating or wearing? Why do we need to show the public our plethora of photos documenting our life experiences?

On the flipside, many of us compulsively check Facebook to peer into the lives of others. Similar to exhibitionism, social conditioning has groomed us to be voyeurs both in and out of the bedroom.

Facebook voyeurism satiates our morbid curiosity to see when people are giving past partners too much attention, or to see if old high school friends are getting wrinkles at the same rate we do. Mostly, it alleviates boredom. This is why we’re drawn to the Internet in the first place.

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(it’s there all the time and never says no), anonymity (the screen masks our identity) and affordability (it’s free).

Like lurking through old flames on Facebook, we can prowl porn sites with the same level of access, anonymity and affordability — and some let us be exhibitionists at the same time!

ChatRoulette.com, for example, is a website that pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations. The site offers further insight, and evidence, into electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism.

One anonymous ChatRoulette user, who we’ll call ACRU, is a single, heterosexual male from Boulder. ACRU claims he was initially drawn to the site for its entertainment value.

“You get to be totally anonymous as you randomly connect to people all over the world,” he says.

ACRU occasionally uses the site when he masturbates.

“The majority of users are dudes sitting around, and of those, a good percentage are masturbating. It gets a little frustrating for me because I have to wade through a lot of guys before I come across a girl; but I like the excitement of exhibitionism and to see what types of people will stop and watch me masturbate.”

It would seem like exhibitionism is the norm on sites like ChatRoulette, but voyeurism is particularly more prevalent.

ChatRoulette gets criticized for the large numbers of men who seem to employ the site as a place to parade around their aroused genitals as if they are novice porn stars. However, they do so as they simultaneously stare at others on the screen.

ACRU believes that the sexual draw of Internet voyeurism is that the experience is in real-time, “like porn with real people.”

Whether you are seeking Internet sex or Internet friendship, as long as your proclivity for prowling or electronic exhibitionism stays firmly in the fantasy of your electronic medium, chances are you’ll be safe (at least from a legal perspective). But remember, life is about finding the right balance. If your minutes spent online outweigh time spent face-toface or outside under summer skies, then you may want to reassess your use of electronic technology. Just a thought.

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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post-birthday party invite to Cuba Cuba in Denver was supremely tempting the night before Roger’s River Run in Longmont, which occurred on a hot Saturday morning this month. No, it wasn’t a half-marathon or 10K, merely a 5K and an average run on any given day, but prior late nights out before a race told my imbibing mind to go home and catch a few winks to prepare for all 3.1 miles of the run. I had good intentions of going to sleep at a decent hour, around 10 p.m. Hours beyond that time, I stagger to my bed, drunk with exhaustion — and not the renowned mojitos at Cuba Cuba. The source of delayed sleep was July’s issue of Cosmopolitan and determining the proper bus and footpath to take come morning.

As a biker without a car, such measures are necessary to reach any destination punctually.

What seemed like mere hours later, my alarm sounded bright and early at 5:30 a.m. The first order of business needed to be attended to: a fresh cup or two of Joe. Nothing gets you going in the1 morning a steaming rp.boulder.weekly.bike.pdf 6/18/10 like 2:05 PM cup of coffee, especially before a race. Trial and error with

various pre-race breakfasts resulted in the conclusion that no more than two cups of coffee and a banana should be consumed before running a race. Anything more is too heavy and time-consuming to digest, while anything less leaves you running on fumes.

As the coffee brews, I wash my face and pick out my running outfit. I know, I know, it shouldn’t matter what you look like or wear when you’re working out, but I couldn’t possibly run without coordinating colors. My shoes and iPod armband are pink, so I always try to match my shorts and top accordingly. Hot pink shorts and a white racer back with a built-in bra fit the qualifications. I recently started running with a visor, which helps keep the sun off my face and hair out of my eyes. A few short cups of coffee and banana later, I’m on my bike and out the door, racing for the bus stop on Canyon and 28th Street to catch the first BOLT to Longmont.

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participate because the registration fee is always more on race day. Roger’s River Run was a reasonable $20 for race-day registration, a price inclusive of a T-Shirt, timing and a post-race breakfast, particularly ideal for those eating only a banana before the run. Between the time I got on the bus and the time I arrived at the registration station at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, I got asked out by a boy getting off a red-eye shift and got completely turned around to the point that I didn’t know if I would arrive in time to register for the race. Luckily, the registration process and the line for the portable toilets were quick.

Minutes later, 450 runners gathered at the start line and prepared themselves for the gunshot. At its sound, we took off, a large mass for only a moment before the swiftest runners took the lead. I quickly found my pace with runners of similar strides and picked a woman with radical polka dot shorts, who was no more than five seconds ahead of me, to shadow. The first mile is typically the fastest because you’re fresh and pumped with adrenaline from race excitement. An out-and-back run along the St. Vrain Greenway trail system, the race was scenic and relatively

shaded with the trees along the trail. Mile two left me slightly winded and in need of a song change.

“Morning After Dark” by Timbaland, my song of the month, couldn’t have arrived at a better moment, and I increased my pace as I started mile three. Passing Ms. Polka Dot, I scanned runners ahead to find another person to shadow. He emerged in a sunlit section of the trail, tall, dark and muscular. He was running slightly faster than I would have liked, but I was up for the challenge with less than a mile to go. We ran in time, Mr. TDM a mere stride ahead of me. As we approached the finish line, I saw a young runner vomiting along the trail. Clearly he consumed more than coffee and a banana that morning. My long observation of the sick runner cost me a sprint to the finish line to catch up with Mr. TDM, who had slyly pulled ahead as I pondered what the runner had for breakfast. At 24 minutes, I finished Roger’s River Run 2nd in my division and 59th overall.

Breakfast never tasted better on a hot July morning.

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Copper Mountain Info: coppercolorado.com You may not recognize the names of many of the acts booked for this summer’s line-up at Copper Mountain, but it’s worth remembering that when U2 started, no one had heard of them either. Catch underground talents here on Fridays, including Angie Stevens & The Beautiful Wreck ( July 30). Stevens’ folk- and country-infused musings on love and life are made all the more poignant by her hauntingly beautiful voice.

Other acts include the Matt Clark Band, Guitar Town Showcase and Lipbone Redding and the Lipbone Orchestra, which close out Copper’s summer season with yet another free show on Aug. 27.

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Vail Info: vvf.org This venerable tradition happens each Tuesday at the world-class Ford Amphitheater. If you think that $45 bucks for the front-row seats is too much dough to spend to see Toad The Wet Sprocket at Chautauqua, then show up at 5:30 when the doors open

for a free concert with the band here on Aug. 17. Other musicians gracing the Ford’s outdoor ambience this summer include The Police tribute band Message In a Bottle (Aug. 24). Finally, aficionados of dance won’t want to miss a date with BreakEFX, a dance crew from right here in Colorado that’s won acclaim for their hip-hop-infused performances (Aug. 10).

Steamboat Springs Summer Concert Series

Steamboat Springs Info: resortqueststeamboat.com The Howelson Hill amphitheater plays host to Steamboat’s free Friday night concert series, which, unlike many other events listed here, features opening acts in addition to headliners.

Highlights include reggae sensation Easy Star All Stars ( July 30); MOFRO, a seven-piece blues, Southern rock and funk band from Jacksonville, Fla. (Aug. 13); and the Emmitt Nershi Band (Aug. 20).

Sunset Concert Series

Telluride Info: tellurideskiresort.com Telluride is best known for its Bluegrass

Festival, but the town also delivers with a stunning line up for Wednesday Sunset Concert Series. The concerts kicked off with a July 14 date featuring Duwayne Burnside, son of veteran bluesman R.L. Burnside. Can’t-miss evenings include an Aug. 25 performance by country and bluegrass phenomenon Jim Lauderdale, who was recognized by the Americana Music Association as Artist of the Year in 2002. And fans of reggae won’t want to miss an Aug. 4 date with the Sierra Leone All Stars. Other acts include Dangermuffin ( July 28), Marco Benevento Trio (Aug. 11) and These United States (Aug. 18).

Snowmass Free Summer Concert Series

Snowmass Info: stayaspensnowmass.com Snowmass is rapidly becoming the place to see live music in the Roaring Fork Valley, and this summer is no different with blues act Tab Benoit holding down an Aug. 5 date. Other performers include Holmes Bros (Aug. 12), and the quirky sounds of These United States, who will wrap up this free summer series on Aug. 19.

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erhaps you just moved to Boulder for a job opportunity or to attend school at the University of Colorado or Naropa University. Or perhaps you’re a Boulder native and know the town and its charm like the back of your hand. You’ll soon discover, if you haven’t already, the bounty of great eateries in town. One way to enjoy Boulder’s renowned cuisine scene at its best might be with Local Table Tours.

A business founded by Megan Bucholz and Julie Read, Local Table Tours developed over a simple conversation about the growing tourism niche of food tours. Bucholz and Read met at CU while pursuing their master’s degrees and quickly discovered their shared interest in food and travel. Local Table Tours offers different culinary walks through downtown Boulder that feature fresh, local food at selected restaurants.

“Cofounding foodie” Bucholz says that Local Table Tours’ primary goal is to help locals and visitors have a memorable cuisine experience in Boulder. Opening only two months ago, Local Table Tours is already a growing business with a popular demand.

Currently offering two tours, the Market to Table Tour and the Downtown Tour, Bucholz says addi-

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tional tours are in the works.

“The ideal situation would be to eventually have a West End Tour, an East End Tour and a Dessert Tour,” Bucholz says.

The tours are strategically planned on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons because according to Bucholz, most chefs don’t work on Sundays and Mondays.

The Market to Table Tour on Wednesday afternoons occurs simultaneously and appropriately with the Boulder County Farmers’ Market on 13th Street.

“The Market to Table Tour tries to link locally

grown food with restaurants that use that food to create signature dishes. We live in such a great

place for locally grown food,” Bucholz says.

Both the Market to Table Tour and the Downtown Tour feature a sampling of different foods with complimentary alcohol pairings. Bucholz says there is a non-alcoholic option with each tour too. Restaurants like Q’s, Aji, Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant and Salt often change their dishes for every tour.

“One consistency of tour tastings is at Salt, where they always serve signature fries with homemade ketchup. They’re proud of their ketchup,” Bucholz says.

Beyond wanting to create a memorable cuisine experience for tour participants, Bucholz says the business strives to support local restaurants.

“A lot of tourists like the Market Tour because they see the food and often meet the people who grew and harvested it before they eat it,” Bucholz says.

Most restaurants offer tour participants an incentive to return within two days for a discounted meal, appetizer or drink special.

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meats. Accompanied by puffy flatbread, ou don’t need a Wayback this platter included ricotta, mozzarella, Machine to know that the Parmigiano-Reggiano, organic cured proancient Roman forebears of sciutto, prosciutto cotto (cooked ham) and today’s Italian cookbook writFinocchiona, fennel-scented salami. The ers embraced the bedrock cheeses were especially remarkable, with principle of cooking seasonal ingredients the mozzarella exuding a sensually soft of top quality. These scribes advised that spices and other superfluous adornment richness, while the Parmigiano possessed a were to be used sparingly, lest one detract pleasant sweetness. The finocchiona was from the inherent goodness of fresh prothe star of the meats, with pungent licoduce, meat and seafood. Drop the ancient rice tones playing off the bits of fat and Sicilian poet Archestratus — his epic “The meat.

Life of Luxury” celebrates Mediterranean Our main course was the $14 procuisine — into the Boulder Farmers’ sciutto-and-mushroom pizza, which could Market, and he’d feel vindicated amid the likely feed three. Unfortunately our order displays of local, organic produce. was misunderstood, and we received a Old Archie would also warmly mushroom pizza without prosciutto. The embrace the Boulder Organic Pizzeria, a error was somewhat rectified by the addition of prosciutto cotto, but we both downtown establishment devoted to feawould have preferred its cured counterturing organic and local ingredients, simpart. On the edges, the thin crust was ply presented. This space also offers gludelightfully crisp, but got a tad soggy ten-free and vegan options at no additionusing about prosciutto, musician friend John and I toward the center. Nevertheless, the pizza al cost. Menu items include salads and reminisced about our favorite restaurant chain in Spain, was one we’d order again, especially since appetizers and, of course, pizza, available the Museo del Jamón, or Museum of Ham. This shrine to cured the fine Hazel Dell mushrooms lent whole and by the slice.

Friend John and I first grasped this pig offers up multiple Spanish versions of prosciutto, including intriguing textural variety and pleasingly pizzeria’s attention to detail when my iced the famed Serrano, which translates to mountain ham. On a complex taste. tea arrived. It came with a shot glass loadvisit to Madrid, I quickly made this my stop for a morning meal.

We ended with a $6 freighter-sized ed with opaque liquid, and John likely relI would order paper-thin slices of cut-to-order ham on a crusty portion of Tiramisu, decadently creamy ished the potential spectacle of me going roll, adorned with nothing more than sweet butter and a glass and shot through with chunks of chocoblotto over lunch. After making a discreet of fresh orange juice. Here I had my first taste of premium late. This dessert spoke to the strengths of inquiry with our attentive and thoroughly Iberico, produced from acorn-fed pigs. this establishment, mainly its ability to excellent server, Marietta, I discovered the take selections that are very nearly the glass contained not alcohol, but simple stuff of clichés and make them new again syrup. This thoughtful touch eliminated the pesky However, the light-yet-tangy dressing of olive oil and through expert preparation and drawing upon the finproblem of solid sugar precipitating out in the cold lemon made this a truly satisfying summertime course. est ingredients available locally and abroad. This liquid. Eureka! Somebody was paying attention in We later learned that the chef ’s influences are cooking philosophy makes for some tasty choices, and high school physical science class.

Southern Italian, making him less likely to draw upon despite a few quibbles, this pizzeria is a worthy heir to Next up was a refreshing $8 salad of real crab atop overdone balsamic vinegar for his dressings. an ancient tradition of letting first-rate ingredients a bed of baby arugula. More than enough for two, this An $8 half order of the mozzarella sampler conspeak for themselves. selection would have benefited from a touch less salt. sisted of a terrific assortment of Italian cheese and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The taqueria offers authentic Mexican flavors with a menu that includes burritos, tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas, soups and salads. Pica’s is located at 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Suite F, and is open Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. For daily specials or for more information, visit www.picasboulder. com.

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Blending Cellar hosts wine tasting On Monday, July 26, The Blending Cellar will host Taft Street Winery’s A Sonoma County Tasting from 5 to 7 p.m. Taste and learn about three delicious Russian River wines with proprietor Laurie Keith.

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Terroir hosts beer social Terroir Restaurant of Longmont will host its next monthly Community Beer Social on July 23 at 6:30 p.m. This month’s event features Stone Brewing Company of San Diego. Cost is $25 and includes three courses paired with different Stone beers. For more information or to RSVP, call 303-651-0630.

Left Hand hosts beer dinner Left Hand Brewing Company will host a beer tasting dinner at Green Briar Inn on July 22, at 6 p.m.

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is that Bucholz and Read offer the tours in a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, German and Japanese. Private tours and group cooking classes are also available upon request. Between $50-65 per person, the tour features ample food and beverage samples for a duration of about two hours.

According to Heidi Vair, a Berthoud resident and recent Downtown Tour participant, the tour prices are well worth every last cent.

“You see a wide array of food at each place, and you’re stuffed afterward because you get a small portion at each place. The price that you pay is an amazing deal,” Vair says.

Vair’s tour in early June stopped at Salt, Tee & Cakes and The Blending Cellar.

“I am a huge wine consumer,” Vair says. “I work at a wine cellar, and I learned more about wine on that tour than I have in my entire experience. Everybody was so excited about their product and presenting it.”

As Local Table Tours support local restaurants, Vair points out how the restaurants support the new business.

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“The restaurant community is getting Local Table Tours known.

The waiters are so enthusiastic and passionate about explaining the wine and food. The pride that the vendors have was incredible,” Vair says.

Vair says Local Table Tours are an ideal experience for those who perhaps work in Boulder but live in surrounding towns because tour participants get a little bit of everything.

“The fun part about it is that it’s so untraditional. You just came in, they had everything ready it for you, you sit, you taste and you leave. It was great,” Vair says.

Local Table Tours doesn’t currently advertise beyond its website and brochures placed around kiosks on Pearl Street. Bucholz says the business has been fairly successful through word of mouth so far. Vair can agree with that statement.

“I tell all my friends and family about the tours because I enjoyed my experience so much. I’ve also been back to a couple of the featured restaurants a few times,” Vair says.

Visit localtabletours.com for reservations, blogs and more information.

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oulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House takes Mexican fare to a more elevated plane by offering memorable ambience, a gourmet-versus-utilitarian experience and prices to match. But the food does match up to the prices, and includes a first-rate chicken mole as well as a sophisticated shrimp tamale that balances the taste of corn with delicate seafood.

End with a creamy-but-not-too-sweet coconut flan, and you’ve got an elevated “south of the border” experience.

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he Mediterranean Restaurant is the proverbial old reliable of Boulder eateries. Its voluminous assortment of Southern European pastas, sandwiches, tapas, salads and main plates means that anyone’s dietary restrictions or plain old pickiness can be ably accommodated. Highlights include tapas items like bacon-wrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts such as crème brulee and panna cotta.

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hile the Sun Deli still retains its selection of hot and cold sandwiches, pizzas, cheese steaks and other items that delight the carnivore, it’s also making great strides in broadening its menu for the meatless diner. This eatery draws upon a substantial palette of meatless ingredients to create vegan and gluten-free pizzas, as well as strombolis stuffed with herbivorous sausage and pepperoni. Parmesan sandwiches are also available in meatless versions, with the faux chicken interpretation being a 50 July 22, 2010

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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 on that menu include the cheese platter, featuring domestic and European selections, including a first-rate Italian goat’s milk blue. The moules, steamed mussels in a wonderfully balanced broth, melds licoricelike pastis with herbs and tomato.

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According to founder Phil Armstrong, the aim of this operation is to spotlight up-andcoming chefs in a non-restaurant setting.

Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area (previous engagements were in and around Denver) took place at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured such items as smoked tomato gazpacho and port-braised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush intends to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list simply by registering at www.hushdenver.com.

while offering a swanky, contemporary setting. The menu will warm the heart of the traditionalist craving a bowl of minestrone, followed by a main course such as cacciatore, calzone, pizza or a parmesan sandwich. Highlights include seafood risotto and fettuccine carbonara. Sandwiches, pastas and pizzas are also available in glutenfree versions.

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

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he menu here is a blend of traditional pub grub and breakfasts as well as more contemporary sandwiches and small plates.

Entrées top out at $11.99 and include such United Kingdom stalwarts as fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and pot pies.

Sandwiches include standard-issue clubs and Reubens, while the Euro small plates offer sophisticated tastes of seared tuna, roasted piquillo peppers and an exquisite Thai shrimp skewer.

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easonably priced and tasty, Boulder’s Half Fast Subs’ sandwiches are a cut or two above chain-store offerings. There’s an abundance of meatless selections (tempeh cheese steak anyone?) as well as unique items like a compelling shrimp po’ boy sandwich. Deli staples such as Italian-style subs and classic BLTs are also offered here, as are beverages such as hurricanes and Long Island iced teas.

you can enjoy some of Boulder’s finest authentic Mexican food at La Choza. A small stand adjoining the Sinclair gas station on the Diagonal, this serves up inexpensive and tasty classics for breakfast and lunch — it closes at 3 p.m. Specialties include a dead-solid perfect quartet of carne asada steak tacos, a variety of filling breakfast burritos and generously portioned tostadas.

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ormerly housed on Main Street, and with other outposts in Brighton and Lafayette, Longmont’s Pinocchio’s offers comforting Italian in an elegant setting that belies the reasonable prices. Start with a pepperoni roll, a calzone-like concoction of cured meat and melted cheese. Follow it up with a classic pasta dish such as the homemade lasagna, and call it a day with the homemade Kentucky bourbon pie or lemon cake. For weekend breakfast, try one of the unique eggs Benedicts, including the signature version made with shrimp.

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he retro-modern Modmarket has 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.

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hile the name of this basement foodcourt hangout emphasizes the traditional Japanese box lunch, 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.

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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.

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nception is one of the most complicated stories I’ve ever seen on the big screen, but if you can figure out what’s going on, it’s an amazing movie filled with mind-boggling visuals and an intriguing exploration of the subconscious. It might also be the best movie of the summer, if not 2010.

The story takes place in a near future when companies send agents to steal secrets from within people’s dreams. The military are trained in artificially constructed dream worlds, worlds indistinguishable from reality, where they feel pain, but they wake up if, in the dream, they die or are killed.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a rogue dream extractor who believes that in addition to exploring other people’s dreams, it should be possible to plant ideas in their subconscious, too.

Called “inception,” it’s highly controversial.

He’s hired by Japanese industrialist Saito (Ken Watanabe) and assembles a team to plant an idea in the mind of competitor and troubled conglomerate heir Fischer (Cillian Murphy). Cobb brings together an unlikely group: Ariadne (Ellen Page), a young “architect” who creates the dream worlds, Arthur ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt), his point man and long-time collaborator, Eames (Tom Hardy), a likable, sarcastic forger and Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a chemist.

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really liked Fantasia (1940) as a kid and recall being amazed at how well the music and animation synchronized in one of the most trippy of the Disney animated films. The centerpiece of Fantasia was the Sorcerer’s Apprentice scene, where Mickey Mouse used magic to clean his master’s lab, just to have the mops and brooms take on a life of their own.

Nicholas Cage was equally captivated by Mickey’s cameo in Fantasia, and made that the centerpiece of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a glossy confection from Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean team. Unfortunately, while Cage pulled a full-length story out of a vignette, he skipped the hard part: making it coherent and engaging.

The result is a film that, while enjoyable, is shallow and unsatisfying, demonstrating yet again that Nic Cage has forgotten how to act.

He walks through his role as Master Sorcerer Balthazar Blake, and even in scenes when he should have been elated, terrified or angry, bland Nic Cage is all we get.

Regular guy Dave (a likeable Jay Baruchel) is the apprentice and, a la Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, he’s plucked out of a mundane existence as a student at NYU and learns that he has hidden powers as a sorcerer and is, in fact, the only person who can stop the evil sorceress Morgana (Alice Krige) from unleashing unspeakable evil on the Earth. Or something like that.

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Mal (Marion Cotillard) constantly appears in his dreams, along with his two adorable tow-headed children. We learn more about why she haunts his dreams from his father-in-law Miles (a nice Michael Caine cameo) and it’s, well, complicated.

Like the best heist films (I’m thinking in particular of the amazing Nine Queens, which warrants a frame-by-frame examination of the last three minutes of the movie), as Inception proceeds, seemingly random scenes from the beginning of the film fit neatly

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much back-story, setting the scene in 740 A.D. Britain where we witness a war between Merlin and Sorcerers Horvath (Alfred Molina), Balthazar (Cage) and Morgana (Krige). They fight over the deadly “The Rising” spell that would raise an army of the dead (didn’t Brendan Fraser fight that same spell in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor?) and it ends with Horvath, Morgana and Balthazar’s girlfriend Veronica (Monica Bellucci) trapped in a “grimmold” doll until ...

Cut to 10 years ago when our everyman hero Dave is in fourth grade on a field trip in NYC and finds himself in an odd curio shop that wouldn’t be

into the puzzle, and even the somewhat baffling opening scene suddenly makes complete sense in the story.

Watching a film is inherently a deceit where we, as the audience, are complicit in the voyeuristic world projected on screen. Most films studiously avoid examining this dilemma, where questions like “whose point of view does the camera represent?” are critical. Alfred Hitchcock reveled in this with his sly masterpiece Rear Window, and Nolan has again brought it to the cinema with Inception.

Whose dream are we watching, anyway?

Inception also has one of the most satisfyingly ambiguous endings of any film I can remember, and certainly offers a far more powerful “Wow — damn” wrap-up than the cliché diluted ending of DiCaprio’s previous film outing, Shutter Island.

With its eye-popping visual effects, Byzantine story line, splendid performances from the entire cast (notably DiCaprio, who has matured into a superb actor) and thought-provoking world, I can’t speak highly enough about Inception. Go see it on the big screen — or look for an IMAX screening — and be prepared to be stunned by this amazing movie.

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out of place in Diagon Alley, run by an eccentric long-haired Balthazar. He wreaks unintentional havoc, embarrasses himself in front of his teacher and classmates, and spends the next decade as the school outcast.

There’s some befuddled nonsense about Merlinians vs. Morganians (get it? Merlin-ians and Morgana-ians?) but it’s so bizarre that even the characters in the film scratch their heads over that unnecessary plot detail.

As much as I disliked Cage’s performance in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, I again found myself delighted by Alfred Molina’s presence on screen.

He’s becoming a formidable supporting actor, most recently being the highlight of The Prince of Persia.

Starting with the time-tested story device of everyman learning he has amazing special powers, director Jon Turteltaub has given us a film that’s pleasant enough to watch and has the splendid production quality of all Bruckheimer’s movies, but no depth, no engaging roles and a storyline as banal as they come.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has a line explaining that “normal people use 10 percent of their brains, but sorcerers can use all 100 percent.” That being the case, it’s too bad that no one on the production team used that spare 90 percent of their brain to figure out that the story was just too weak to sustain a full-length film, great special effects or not.

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sever their roots and hop aboard a Greyhound to L.A. Hoping to make it as filmmakers, they begin filming the city’s ample supply of beautiful women and produce content both troubling and erotic.

Using women as mirrors into their own true natures, the boys each begin their own difficult, fascinating journeys into whom they truly are. At Starz.

— Denver Film Society

Excuse me, I need to sit down, catch my breath and extinguish my singed eyebrows. I’ve just experienced The A-Team, a highly combustible concoction of testosterone, napalm and gunpowder, seasoned with cheesy comedy and served flambe. In what feels like a tryout for the next Mission: Impossible directing job, Joe Carnahan has made the reboot of the 1980s TV series an excuse to blow up every vehicle, prop and backdrop in a four-mile radius. The film is a relentless, unapologetic, in-your-face barrage of special effects and virtuoso stunts that roars into action in the pre-credits prelude and rarely downshifts. The main benefit of basing The A-Team on a pre-existing series is that it comes partially assembled, with the character quirks already in place. That way we can get to the detonations faster. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Colin Covert

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Featuring now-legendary performances from JeanPaul Belmondo as the Bogart-inspired small-time hood living on the edge and Jean Seberg as la petite américaine who casually sleeps with him and just as casually betrays him, Breathless is funny and daring and just as much a breath of fresh air today as it was on its release five decades ago. Audaciously reinventing the grammar of movies, Breathless transformed cinema overnight and instantly put Godard in the rarified company of Picasso, Joyce, Brecht, Stravinsky, et al. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Breathless, Rialto Pictures is presenting a stunning new 35mm restoration — the first ever in the film’s history. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Cyrus

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on

Predators has two things the original didn’t: Adrien Brody and more Predators. What else do you need? romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie, John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim at a party. To his surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei). The relationship takes off quickly, but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John’s house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly’s life: her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). Cyrus is his mom’s best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her. He will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits — and it appears only one man can be left standing when it’s over. At

Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Despicable Me

The world’s most nefarious villain (voiced by Steve Carell) is planning the greatest crime in history — stealing the moon — when three orphaned little girls awaken his paternal instincts. Julie Andrews, Will Arnett and Russell Brand round out the voice cast of this 3-D computer-animated comedy. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Century and Colony Square.

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Mike and Ray, two small-town kids from Oklahoma,

Eclipse finds Bella inching closer to her decision to marry Edward and become a vampire, thus breaking the werewolf heart of Jacob. The wolves and the vamps must unite to take on an army of vampiric “newborns.” Already, Eclipse has garnered praise as the best and most action-packed of the series — which I don’t understand. For me it’s ponderous and sloppily directed and by far the most deadening when the dramatic necessity known as “talking” must be confronted in between battles. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Everyone Else

A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean. On the surface, Chris and Gitti are perfectly in love while enjoying their time in Sardinia. Beneath their playful romps, secret rituals and silly habits, however, lies an underlying tension. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic Gitti is fearless in expressing her love and devotion for Chris, while Chris is more reserved in his outlook on life. When they accidentally run into an obviously happier and more successful couple, their fragile relationship destabilizes. But as their fears and insecurities are brutally exposed, Chris and Gitti get a second chance to discover themselves and each other – and to be as happy as everyone else. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 The A-Team Thu: 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 Despicable Me Thu: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10, 12:20, 2:40, 3:10, 5:30, 8, 9:25 Eclipse Thu: 11:25, 2:10, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:45 Grown Ups Thu: 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 8, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Inception Thu: 11:45, 12:45, 3:30, 4, 6:45, 7:15, 10, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 12:15, 3:30, 4:20, 6:45, 7:30, 10, 10:30 The Karate Kid Thu: 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Knight and Day Thu: 11:55, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 12:35, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50 The Last Airbender Thu: 12, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 Predators Thu: 12:25, 3, 5:30, 8 Ramona and Beezus Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Salt Fri-Wed: 10:20, 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Thu: 9:40, 10:10, 12:10, 12:40, 2:45, 3:15,

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5:15, 5:45, 7:45, 8:15, 10:20, 10:45 FriWed: 9:55, 11:40, 12:25, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Toy Story 3 Thu: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 9:30, 12, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Cyrus Thu: 10:40, 1:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Despicable Me Thu: 10:35, 12:15, 1:05, 1:55, 2:45, 3:35, 5:15, 6:05, 7:45, 8:35, 9:25, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 12:15, 2:45, 4, 6:30, 7:45, 9, 10:15 Eclipse Thu: 11:50, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:40, 6:15, 9:25 The Girl Who Played With Fire Thu: 8:50 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 3, 6:50, 9:45 I Am Love Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Fri-Wed: 12:10 p.m.

Inception Thu-Wed: 10:50, 12, 3:30, 4:40, 5:50, 7, 9:20, 10:30 Knight and Day Thu-Wed: 11:35, 2:30, 5:05, 7:55, 10:35 The Last Airbender Thu: 2:10, 4:50, 7:35 Mother and Child Fri-Wed: 12:30, 3:40, 7:30, 10:25 Predators Thu: 11, 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50

Ramona and Beezus Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Salt Fri-Wed: 11:50, 1:20, 2:15, 4:10, 4:50, 6:40, 7:20, 9:10, 9:50 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Thu: 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 12:35, 2, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Toy Story 3 Thu: 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 4:35, 7:15, 10 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Despicable Me Thu-Wed: 10:10, 11:40, 1:20, 4:10, 5:20, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30 Eclipse Thu-Wed: 10, 1, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Grown Ups Thu-Wed: 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Inception Thu-Wed: 10:30, 11:50, 2, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 9:50, 10:15 Knight and Day Thu-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:30, 10:10 The Last Airbender Thu-Wed: 11:30, 1, 2:10, 5, 7:35, 10:05 Predators Thu: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 The Scorcerer’s Apprentice Thu-Wed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10 Toy Story 3 Thu-Wed: 10:20, 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S.

Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-3521992 Breathless Thu-Wed: 4:30, 9:55 Great Directors Fri-Sun: 1:30, 7:30 Mon-Wed: 7:30 p.m.

I Am Love Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:35 Winter’s Bone Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Gone With the Pope Fri: 11:59 p.m.

The Kids Are All Right Thu-Wed: 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:40, 10:30 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Cyrus Thu 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 5:30, 7:45, 10 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Fri-Wed: 4:30, 8 The Girl Who Played with Fire Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:30 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 Document Thu, Sat: 7 p.m.

Everyone Else Fri-Wed: 4:45, 7:30 Film on the Rocks: Clueless 7 p.m.

The Killer Inside Me Thu: 4:55,

7:25 Scream Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

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series, this time plopping a group of mercenaries (including Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo and Alicia Braga) on the predators’ home planet. Bring it! Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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. At Mayan. — Steven Rea

Ramona and Beezus

Ramona Quimby (Joey King), the irrepressibly imaginative heroine of Beverly Cleary’s humongously popular children’s book series, makes her film debut in the first of an intended franchise, this time trying to save her family’s home. Rated PG. At .

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Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is a wanted woman.

A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), editor-in-chief of Millennium, will not believe what he hears on the news. As he fits the pieces of the puzzle together, he comes up against some hardened criminals, including the chainsaw-wielding “blond giant” — a fearsomely huge thug who can feel no pain. Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander’s past life. Committed to psychiatric care at age 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, this is a messed-up young woman who is the product of an unjust and corrupt system.Yet Lisbeth is more avenging angel than helpless victim. At Mayan and Century. — Landmark Theatres Gone With the Pope

Gone With the Pope is a never-before-seen exploitation film starring writer/director Duke Mitchell (Massacre Mafia Style) as Paul, a gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the pope and charge “a dollar from every Catholic in the world” as the ransom. Shot in 1975 as Kiss the Ring, Gone With the Pope was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell’s death in 1981. Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing rediscovered Gone With the Pope in 1995 and vowed to save it from obscurity.

Academy Award-nominated film editor Murawski (The Hurt Locker, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3) spent 15 years completing Gone With the Pope from the surviving film elements. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Great Directors

A deeply personal and intimate look at the art of cinema and the artists who create it, Great Directors is a celebration of films and filmmaking starring 10 of the world’s most acclaimed, provocative and individualistic living directors, featuring original, indepth conversations with Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnès Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. These interviews more than just chronicle filmmaker Angela Ismailos’ encounters with 10 remarkable men and women. Extensively illuminated by clips and historical archives from the subjects’ works, they also reveal the distinctive personalities who created the timeless images that have long inspired Ismailos — and all of us. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Grown Ups

Grown Ups is a sure thing — a film you feel as if you’ve seen before and probably saw somewhere a second time, so why not another? When Adam Sandler’s beloved middle-school basketball coach dies, the Hollywood agent and his far-flung pals (a comedy who’s who of Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite for the funeral back in New England. There, at a lakeside cabin over the July Fourth weekend, the guys relive all their old adolescent pranks and pratfalls, while their families look on, smiling. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips I Am Love

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Eduardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono) and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres Inception

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In this remake of the 1984 sleeper hit, Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan take over for Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita as the teenager being bullied in school and the wise kung-fu master who teaches him how to defend himself. Everything old is new again! Rated PG. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez The Killer Inside Me

Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson (The Grifters), The Killer Inside Me tells the story of a handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy named Lou Ford (Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James). Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact that he’s a sadist, a psychopath and a killer. When suspicion begins to fall on Lou, it’s only a matter of time before he runs out of alibis. But in Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker-than-noir universe, nothing is ever what it seems, and it turns out that the investigators pursuing him might have a secret of their own.

Co-starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker and Bill Pullman. At Mayan and Starz. — Landmark Theatres The Kids Are All Right

“All right” doesn’t begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. Doctor Nic (Annette Bening) and her longtime partner, Jules (Julianne Moore), have two teenagers from the same sperm donor.

When the kids make contact with the donor behind the moms’ backs, Mark Ruffalo’s easygoing restaurateur Paul shows up to stir this family’s pot a bit. Bening and Moore have never been looser on screen, and Ruffalo is the perfect foil. Writerdirector Lisa Cholodenko weds simple technique to complex and satisfying comedy-drama. Rated R. At

Esquire. — Michael Phillips Knight and Day

Perky June Havens (Cameron Diaz) unwittingly becomes tethered to renegade Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) after bumping into him at the Wichita airport. The two cozy up while on a curiously empty flight that erupts into chaos (the funniest scene) once June visits the restroom. When she returns, she discovers that the dreamy guy with the killer smile is lugging around a carry-on stuffed with issues. Not only is he being hunted by CIA members pursuing a mysterious device called “The Zephyr,” but Roy appears to be cuckoo and triggerhappy. After so many bad romance movies, it’s a treat to see genuine sparks fly between two major stars. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers The Last Airbender

There is incomprehensible, and there is inexplicable, and then there is The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s tale of tree-hugging blue people, this saga revolves around (I think) a war-torn future world waiting for a messiah to unite it. But the screenplay (also by Shyamalan) is cluttered with so much gobbledygook exposition and confusing action that it’s impossible to grasp what’s supposed to be going on for more than 15 seconds at a stretch. By the time the (mystifying) climax rolls around, the movie has come to resemble an unwieldy hybrid of Little Buddha and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Flatiron, Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — Christopher Kelly Ondine

In the enchanting fantasy Ondine, Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his trawler’s nets. At first, the woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse’s eyes. With the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie (Alison Barry), he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman, Ondine, might be the manifestation of a myth come true. Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love, but just as we think the fairytale might go on forever, the real world intercedes. Only after a terrible accident, and the return of a dark and violent figure from Ondine’s past, is hope renewed and a new beginning presented to Syracuse, Ondine and Annie. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Predators

Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal (Vacancy, Armored) pretend those silly Alien vs.

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Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-incheek position paper on the “dead teenagers” movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as halfparody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she’s still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her mother a year ago, and now one of her friends (Drew Barrymore) has been killed by a lunatic who harassed her with terrifying phone calls, then stabbed her to death while wearing a Halloween costume. Soon Sydney is receiving similar phone calls, quizzing her on the arcane details of such films as Friday the 13th and Prom Night, and is attacked by the same cloaked maniac. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, loosely based on the Mickey Mouse segment in “Fantasia,” Nicolas Cage plays Balthazar, a good sorcerer who can live forever and is trying to protect modern-day New York City and environs from the ravages of bad sorcerers played by Alfred Molina and Alice Krige. Once Balthazar presses young Dave (Jay Baruchel) into apprenticeship, the duo and Molina shoot fire-jets and balls of energy at one another’s heads. See full review on page 53. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Toy Story 3 If Toy Story 3 had sprung, Slinky Dog-like, from any creative think tank besides Pixar, it might be considered a classic. As is, it’s a good sequel. Young Andy is heading off to college, and the long-neglected toys are headed for the attic. After mistakenly getting thrown to the curb as trash, the gang — cowboy Woody, spaceman Buzz Lightyear, cowgirl Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the rest of the principals — has to bust out of the day care center in which they find themselves. Make no mistake: This Disney/Pixar release represents a franchise taken seriously by its custodians. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Winter’s Bone

Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence, The Burning Plain) as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail.

With a star-making performance by Lawrence, Winter’s Bone is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. Directed and co-written by Debra Granik. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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March 21-April 19:

Revenge fantasies would pollute your consciousness. I advise you to repress them. Wallowing in resentment would have an equally deleterious effect. Don’t you dare give that emotion a foothold. On the other hand, fantasies of experiencing pleasure and joy, even if they’re escapist illusions, will tonify and invigorate your awareness. I recommend that you indulge in them at great length, unleashing your imagination to explore a variety of blissful scenarios in tremendous detail and with ingenious flourishes. In fact, as your parttime soul doctor, I can’t think of anything else that would be more beneficial to your physical and mental health.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:):

If there were such a thing as the Queen of Heaven — a living Goddess whose presence both calmed and excited you, a numinous female magician who lit up your longing to see life as it really is — and if this Queen of Heaven came to be with you right now, what would you say? Would you ask her to help you, and if so, how? Would you seek an answer to the most important question in your life? Would you spill every secret and tell every story you’ve ever wanted to share and trust that she’d be able to see the totality of who you really are? I advise you to do this imaginative exercise sometime soon. The time has come for you to receive a blessing from the highest expression of feminine power.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

What’s up with your best friends? I mean, what’s really going on for them in the big scheme of things? According to my astrological intuition, at least one of your good buddies is at a turning point in his or her long-range cycle and could really use the deep reflection and catalytic help that you might provide. Try this exercise: Put aside all your ideas about who your close allies are and simply try to see the world as if looking out of their eyes. After you’ve done that, imagine how you could offer yourself to them as a brainbooster and heart-strengthener; brainstorm about how you might blend your life force with theirs so as to empower them to see further than they can by themselves.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

In my astrological opinion, you should pay special attention to whatever’s embryonic in your life. You should rouse the smartest part of your capacity for love and direct it with high-beam intensity toward burgeoning possibilities that have recently germinated. There may come a time later in the process when you’ll need to impose discipline and order on your growing things, but that’s not what’s called for now.

Be extravagant in your nurturing. Don’t scrimp on generosity and beneficence. Have fun overflowing with profusions of life-giving care.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

According to Hawaiian mythology, the soul leaves the body during the night to seek the adventures known as dreams. The place of departure and re-entry is the “soul pit” (lua’uhane), which is located in the tear duct of the eye.

During the next few nights, I’d love for you to send your soul flying out though your soul pit for some daring exploits that will revitalize your lust for life. Take your backlog of storedup tears along with you, and pour them down like rain on the secret garden you’ve been neglecting. The garden will respond to the downpour with a big growth spurt.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

A woman I know was invited to a party where she would get the chance to meet her favorite musician, psychedelic folk artist Devendra Banhart. On her last look in the mirror before heading out the door, she decided that the small pimple on her chin was unacceptable, and gave it a squeeze. Wrong move. After it popped, it looked worse.

She panicked. More squeezing ensued, accompanied by moaning and howling. Soon the tiny blemish had evolved into a major conflagration. Fifteen minutes later, defeated and in tears, she was nibbling chocolate in bed, unable to bring herself to face her hero with her flagrant new wound showing. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: Leave your tiny blemish alone.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

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in his life, warning him that he’ll never achieve his dreams if he stays with her. “We are the people who make sure things happen according to plan,” they say. “We monitor the entire world.” I’m happy to inform you, Libra, that this scenario is utterly make-believe. There is no “Adjustment Bureau,” on earth or in heaven. It is true, however, that if you don’t have a master plan, then your destiny is more likely to be shaped by your conditioning and by other people’s master plans. So get working! This is an excellent time to either formulate a master plan or refine the one you have.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

The United States is the planet’s major player in terms of political, economic and military clout. China is rising fast as a competitor in those three arenas, but lags far behind in a fourth: “soft power,” or cultural influence. The rest of the world finds America’s style, entertainment, art and ideas far more attractive than China’s. As you enter a phase that will be favorable for enhancing your own leverage and authority, Scorpio, I suggest you put the emphasis on wielding “soft power.” You’ll accomplish more by charming people with your intelligence than by trying to push them or manipulate them.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

I think it would be healthy for you to wander out to a frontier and explore a boundary. You might even want to re-examine a taboo you haven’t questioned in a while and tinker with a formula you thought you’d never change. I suspect that you would also learn a lot from gently pushing against a limit you’ve come to believe is permanent. Having said all that, I’m cautious about advising you to go further. If you get urges to actually transgress the boundary and break the taboo and smash through the limit, please do lots of due diligence. Know exactly what you’re getting into and what the consequences might be.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

When mobs stage political demonstrations in Pakistan’s biggest cities, they make sure that some of their signs are written in English. That way their protests are more likely to be filmed by news media like CNN and shown to American audiences. Take a cue from that trick as you plan your actions, Capricorn. It won’t be enough merely to say what you want to say and be who you want to be; you should tailor your messages to people who have the power to actually change what needs to be changed.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

I’m putting out a call to the rebel in your heart — not the cranky, vindictive rebel in your mind, but the joyful, yearning rebel in your heart. I am asking this tender renegade to rise up against narcissistic behavior wherever you find it. Don’t shout it down or try to shame it, though; rather, work around it through outrageous displays of empathy and radical acts of compassion and feisty outbreaks of wild kindness. Your job, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is to be a one-person wrecking crew devoted to smashing the boring inertia of egotism with your zealous concern for the good of all.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

As the economic recovery lags, many frustrated job-seekers have decided to stop waiting around to be saved; they’re taking matters into their own hands. As a result, entrepreneurship is thriving. I suggest you catch that spirit. In fact, I advocate a mass entrepreneurial uprising among Pisceans in the coming months. Even if you’re already employed, it’ll be prime time for you to create your own perfect gig, carve out your own special niche or dream up a role that is designed for your unique talents.

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