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MENTAL HEALTH CARE, NOT GUN LAWS / 8 Reflections on how to prevent more mass killings

by Pamela White A TYPICAL MASSACRE IN AURORA / 8 Once again, the perpetrator was the only one in the room with a gun

by Paul Danish MAPPING CONFLICTS / 15 City resumes identifying 600-foot radius around council members’ properties

by Jefferson Dodge BOULDER HOSPITAL SUED OVER DEATH OF ANOREXIC WOMAN / 15 Family of Erin Riederer claims health providers guilty of negligence

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz CONTESTS PART OF ROCKYGRASS TRADITION / 27 Band, instrumentalist competitions as old as the festival itself

by David Accomazzo Overtones: Joey Porter says funk is the gift that keeps on giving / 31 Arts & Culture: Tony Ortega’s art explores cultural intersections / 35 Arts & Culture: Quilter mixes art and function, tradition and innovation / 39 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 41 Screen: The Dark Knight Rises / 47 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 48 Cuisine: Stewardship of Dushanbe Teahouse inspires local restaurateurs / 51 Cuisine Review: Native Foods Cafe / 53

departments Letters: Misleading frack job; Uninformed columnist / 7 The Highroad: ‘Double-S.O.B.s’ keep making a killing / 7 In Case You Missed It: Chick-fil-A vs. Cheney and the Muppets / 12 Boulderganic: Unregulated food labels can be misleading / 19 Adventure: Documentary shows serendipity of unguided travel / 22 Free Will Astrology: By Rob Brezsny / 58 Boulder Marketplace: Your community resource / 59

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Misleading frack job

What a misleading title on your cover: “Frack tracks? Activists: Mysterious land scars may be caused by oil/gas waste” ( July 19).

The body of the story concludes otherwise, that the linear patterns on the ground are “simply areas where livestock feed was deposited.”

Disinterested state officials dismissed the activists’ claims conclusively. Shame on you for a sensational headline.

The lines apparently had nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing or oil and gas waste, but everything to do with unfounded accusations by a group of activists.

Matt Silverman/Boulder I read this article on “frack tracks” and wanted to say that with 10 years’ experience in photography and graphic design your gray “spills” in those photos are not part of the original photo.

Any lay person could notice the inconsistency in terrain, color and pixels.

If indeed there are areas which look suspicious, why would you doctor them to make them look differ-

ent? Unless in their original appearance they didn’t seem “significant” enough to raise concern ... which makes you, your cohorts and this paper look suspicious to me.

Also, you may want to find a more skilled intern to do your Photoshop work.

Shame on you.

Derek Jolly/via Internet Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly did

not alter the photos in question.

Uninformed columnist

Until I read “CU searches for conservative counterpoint” ( July 12, In Case You Missed It), I was bemused by the university’s plan to hire a visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy.

However, even as a lifelong social liberal, I was stunned by the dangerous and ignorant list of stereotypes in

the anonymous column. The assumption that conservative thought is synonymous with the Republican Party and that all conservatives oppose ethnic studies courses, dismiss global warming or want to eradicate free speech is outrageous.

The uninformed columnist is precisely the reason that a visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy is essential and, it appears, long overdue.

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Highroad ‘Double-S.O.B.s’ keep making a killing

by Jim Hightower

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t’s true that America’s working stiffs are mostly stuck in the muck of depression these days, spinning their economic wheels with low wages that can’t even keep pace with inflation. Still, though, there are some good news stories about some who’re doing well — such as David Simon.

Through good’ ol’ American ingenuity and hard work, Dave quintupled his pay last year, pocketing $68,500! An hour. In the previous year,

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poor Dave was only paid about $13,000 an hour, those bosses hauled off in one year. but apparently he really applied himself in 2011 Especially galling is the sight of such CEOs as and was rewarded with an annual paycheck of Brian Moynihan cashing in. The boss of Bank of $137 million. See, the American dream is still America, Moynihan’s pay jumped by 600 percent alive for those who believe in it last year, even as his bank was (and who happen to be CEOs of foundering. BOA’s stock value corporations with compliant has plummeted by 81 percent on For more information on Jim boards of directors that lavish his watch, some 36,000 employHightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winshareholder money on the chief ). ees are getting pink slips, and the ning monthly newsletter, The David is honcho of Simon bailed-out behemoth has become Hightower Lowdown — visit Properties, a shopping mall operwidely despised for ruthlessly www.jimhightower.com. (and often illegally) foreclosing ator, and he topped the list of last on people’s homes. year’s most richly rewarded executives. While typical American workers saw their Such gross inequities, caused by CEO greed pay barely inch up by a meager 1 percent in 2011 and narcissism, are why more and more — a sum totally eaten up (and them some) by the Americans spell “boss” backwards: price increases for gasoline, groceries, rent and Double-S.O.B. other essentials — the typical corporate chieftain Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com socked away $9.6 million. It would take 244 years This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the on the job for a typical employee to make what views of Boulder Weekly.

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uncensored Mental health care, not gun laws

by Pamela White

I

n the aftermath of the Aurora theater massacre, we’ve seen an understandable, if misguided, call for tighter gun control, including a renewed ban on “assault weapons.”

But since the suspect in this case broke a great many laws to carry out his mass killing, including acquiring an extended magazine for his AR-15, it’s hard to say what we’ll gain by making it harder for citizens to own weapons.

As Gov. John Hickenlooper told CNN, “I’m happy to look at anything, but if there were no assault weapons available, and no this or no that, this guy is going to find something. He knows how to create a bomb, and who knows where the mind would have gone.”

Where there’s a sick will, there’s a way.

What people aren’t talking about in this case is the need for an overhaul of our mental health system. Since our goal ought to be preventing future tragedies like this one, not just passing feelgood legislation that has little real impact, perhaps our focus ought to be on the problem that likely caused the alleged perpetrator James Holmes to kill: mental illness.

Let’s back up about 18 months to when Jared Lee Loughner walked up to Gabrielle Giffords and shot her in the head at point blank range before aiming

into the crowd, wounding 14 and killing six. Though some chose to blame right-wing rhetoric for the attack, it turns out Loughner is mentally ill.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he remains in custody in a prison hospital.

Prior to the shooting, there were plenty of signs that something was wrong with Loughner — drug and alcohol use, being fired from jobs and even volunteer work, irrational behavior toward his college, bizarre conspiracy theories. Rather than being flagged for evaluation and treatment, he was pushed away and held at arm’s length by people who found him frightening.

That’s understandable, but it’s also regrettable.

No one yet knows what the investigation will reveal about Holmes. We do know that he told police he was “the Joker” — an enemy of Batman — and that his hair was dyed orange-red like the Joker’s. We also know he behaved strangely enough that the safety-conscious owner of a Colorado gun range refused to let him join. Like Loughner, he was a loner and had recently dropped out of graduate school.

Add to this the fact that schizophrenia often emerges in a person’s early 20s, and you have a very high probability that Holmes is also mentally see UNCENSORED Page 13

quotes “I thought it was showmanship. I didn’t think it was real. I was just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do. ... He would reload, and shoot, and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed.”

—Jennifer Seeger, who was in the second row of the Aurora movie theater on July 20 when James Eagen Holmes pointed a gun at her during the deadly shooting rampage “The hotter the fire, the stronger the steel.”

—Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin, in a tweet sent the day before the NCAA announced the penalties imposed on the university for the Jerry Sandusky scandal “Put a sock in it.”

—London Mayor Boris Johnson, responding to critics who have publicly expressed concerns about whether the city is prepared to host the Olympics

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danish plan A typical massacre in Aurora

by Paul Danish

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n at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun.

It was like that at the 1991 Luby’s Cafeteria massacre in Killeen, Texas (23 killed, 20 injured), at the 1984 McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, Calif. (21 killed, 19 injured), at the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in Blacksburg, Va. (32 killed, 23 injured), and at several dozen other restaurant, school, post office and shopping mall massacres over the past 60 years. The story is almost always the same; none of the victims are armed, so no one shot back, and the perpetrator had his way with them.

In the case of the Aurora massacre (12 dead so far, 58 injured), there were more than 300 people in the theater when James Holmes allegedly started shooting and no one shot back; that suggests the theater was 99.66 percent gun free. And that alone tells you that the sort of disarmament gun control advocates want does not prevent mass murder, it enables it.

The Aurora massacre was typical in another way as well: The police did not intervene in time to prevent the killings.

It’s not like they didn’t try. The elapsed time between the first frantic calls to 911 and the arrival of the first officers on the scene was roughly 90 seconds. Chances are it will never get much better than that. But by the time officers actually entered the theater, alleged gunman Holmes had left it. He was arrested outside the building.

The police response in Aurora was

orders of magnitude better than the police response at Columbine High School, where hundreds of officers from all over the metro area rushed to the school but didn’t enter it for hours.

But the fact remains that even with a near-instant response, the police couldn’t intervene quickly enough to stop the killing. It ended when the shooter had his fill. The truth is that, with rare exceptions, the only people who can stop a massacre are the people being massacred — but they rarely fight back.

Fighting back is a broader concept than shooting back, although it embraces the latter. It may mean throwing things at the shooter and trying to swarm him, or barricading a door, or taking on terrorists with whatever weapons you can improvise, like the tea cart on Flight 93.

There’s a lot that can go wrong when you choose to fight back, but fighting back is probably the only thing that can stop a massacre once it begins.

But you have to be mentally prepared to do it. Most people aren’t.

It was not for lack of courage and gallantry that people in the audience didn’t fight back in Aurora; at least three men died protecting their girlfriends with their bodies. When you are the target of a surprise attack, like the Aurora shooting or similar rampage, that may be all you can do. But chances are you won’t be able to fight back more effectively unless you prepared yourself see DANISH PLAN Page 13

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Music has the unique power to evoke the thoughts and feelings that were present in an experience, even many years after the fact. And in the infinite and enigmatic wisdom that we, as humans, possess, we create musical soundtracks on a continual basis for every moment of our life, should we ever have the need to remember, truly remember, one or more of the experiences that comprise our life.

The music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead has been the soundtrack of my life for almost 40 years. And on the occasion of Jerry’s 70th birthday, Aug. 1, 2012, I feel compelled to pay tribute to the man who provided a marvelous musical context for millions that has endured for more than 50 years, including the last 17 years following his untimely, but hardly shocking, death.

The Grateful Dead was hardly the first and certainly not the only musical soundtrack of my life. In my early childhood years I came under the spell of the ancient music of my Jewish heritage — the joyful blessings over the Chanukah candles, the haunting melodies of the liturgy in the synagogue, the celebratory Klezmer tunes from Eastern Europe. The first records I played on the turntable in my boyhood room were classical — Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Shubert come to mind. Within a short period I was listening to 45s of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, The Monkeys and countless others. Then came my marching band years, with ultra-patriotic military band melodies such as John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”

All of that set the stage for the summer of my 20th year, when I first began listening to the Grateful Dead’s “Skull and Roses” album. There was a spirit and joy in the music, particularly the melodious and innovative lead guitar parts played

by Jerry Garcia, that moved me in a way that I had never been moved before. And when I relocated to the Bay Area in central California and became steeped in the “hippie” culture that was still very much thriving there in the mid-’70s, I became fully immersed in the music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead and adopted it thematically as the predominant soundtrack of my life.

Exactly what it is about Jerry Garcia that has moved so many is a subject that has filled countless pages. But as the 70th birthday of this legendary figure has grown imminent, I have given the matter some thought. Indeed, Jerry and his enigmatic and enduring legacy were on my mind recently as I was listening to “Scarlet/Fire” (an often-played medley of the

otherwise unrelated Grateful Dead tunes “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fire on the Mountain”) from the famous May 8, 1977, Ithaca show, while enjoying a classic ride from Boulder to Jamestown and back. What came to me is the talent that Jerry had for creating an elegant balance of non-conformity and community building — a seemingly oxymoronic notion.

Jerry Garcia was a staunch non-conformist who mastered the art of living life on his own terms. His childhood and family life — in which he lost his father at the age of 4 and lived with his grandparents — were anything but traditional.

He began smoking cigarettes and marijuana at the age of 14, was constantly in trouble in school and never graduated from high school, stole his mother’s car, joined the Army, accrued numerous counts of AWOL and was quickly discharged.

Through it all, Jerry knew he was an artist and a musician, and lived his life authentically and purposefully. Despite the turbulence and tragedies of his childhood, Jerry Garcia became one of the most accomplished and beloved musicians of his time. He did this by following his passion for his true calling as a musician and by never giving an inch in being his truest self and in breaking with convention, as necessary.

Among the many examples of this is the Grateful Dead’s groundbreaking policy of allowing fans to make recordings of their live shows and to freely share these recordings. This notion flew in the face of what was traditionally held to be a fundamental principle of the music business: Musicians must retain the copyright and control of their music at all costs. Breaking with this “sacred cow,” the band created a new paradigm that turned out to be a gamechanging marketing strategy. By allowing fans to freely record and share their live performances, the Grateful Dead built a community of millions and became the highest grossing band in the U.S. in 1991 — ahead of the Rolling Stones and The Who. In 1976, a Deadhead buddy and I hitchhiked cross-country with just one precious cassette tape containing parts of the Oct. 18, 1974, and Aug. 13, 1975, Grateful Dead shows. By contrast, because of this revolutionary policy, a terabyte disk has been making its way through the Grateful Dead community that contains more than 1,900 complete Grateful Dead concerts, which comes staggeringly close to representing all of the band’s 2,314 live performances. I am the proud owner of a copy of this catalogue, and I have shared it with my 1976 Deadhead buddy, as well as numerous others.

As a former “hippie” and 30-year self-employed entrepreneur, I have been endlessly inspired by the example of Jerry Garcia as a non-conformist who lived life on his own terms, built a community of inestimable size and created a new business model that revolutionized an industry. Which brings us to Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

Jerry: The “tomorrow when we’re not together” has lasted 17 years so far for all of us who love you more than words can tell. We are braver, stronger and smarter for having known you. Thanks for providing such a splendid soundtrack for our lives. You will always be with us.

Happy 70th, Jerry!

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The statements by the founder of Chick-fil-A have created a bizarre alliance of once disparate, politically powerful forces, which could well become the face of a new political party to rival the Republicans, namely Dick Cheney and the Muppets.

At virtually the same time that Mr. Cathy was disparaging gay marriage, Dick Cheney was celebrating the same thing. Cheney’s daughter Mary finally tied the knot with her long-time partner Heather Poe, which, according to a press release by Dick and Lynn Cheney, made Mary’s parents very happy. This clearly puts the Cheneys on the same team as the Muppets, who have been quite outspoken in their outrage over Cathy’s statements.

But the real demise of the GOP will likely come as a result of preacher-turnedRepublican-presidential-candidate-turned-Fox-TV-personality Mike Huckabee, who has called for a Chick-fil-A eating marathon to show support for Cathy’s anti-gay stance.

Considering that a meal consisting of a Chick-fil-A deluxe chicken sandwich, large order of waffle potato fries and a big Coke contains 1,270 calories, 48 grams of fat and 1,850 mg of sodium, it’s quite likely that the majority of Fox viewers who follow Huckabee’s advice may actually become too large to leave their homes to vote, or so physically ill that they are forced, due to economic considerations, to become supporters of Obamacare.

Either scenario will assure another four years of Obama while shrinking the numbers, if not the girth, of the Republican Party to insignificant levels. It could happen. This sandwich stuff is serious.

CITY EXPLAINS REMOVAL OF DISCLOSURE FORMS We took a swipe at the city of Boulder last week for removing city council candidates’ 2011 financial disclosure statements from the city’s website at a time when some of those forms are under scrutiny for being incomplete.

City Clerk Alisa Lewis says the city’s election page is wiped clean and archived annually in a database to prepare for posting new forms related to the next election. The archived 2011 reports aren’t available online yet because the city department that handles that is currently short-staffed and being manned by temps, Lewis says.

But she acknowledges that even the archived 2010 election reports on the website currently aren’t accessible without a password, and that she hopes those and older reports will become publicly available online once the city switches to its new website and fills its vacancies in the central records department.

She says all forms are available upon request, which is all fine and good, but it’s a lot easier for the public to see council members’ possible conflicts of interest by going online than trying to figure out how to file an open records request.

So maybe there is a logical explanation for the sudden lack of transparency, and it may just be a case of bad timing.

But it still looks bad. Again, it’s about the appearance of impropriety.

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There are surely those who want to see Holmes and Loughner both executed and who will read this and say, “Who cares if they’re crazy?”

If we want to prevent future massacres, we all need to care. We must find a way to identify those with dangerous mental illness and see to it that they receive the treatment they need before they go on a murderous rampage. But here in the U.S., one big problem stands in our way: Who’s going to pay for it?

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to do so, physically, but above all, mentally, well in advance.

Here’s how Jeanne Assam, the former Minneapolis police officer who took down Matthew Murray, a gunman intent on mass murder at New Life Church in Colorado Springs on Dec. 9, 2007, recently described her mental state at the time of the shooting. Assam was working on the church’s security detail that Sunday. Murray had already killed two people in the church parking lot and wounded three others. Earlier, he had shot four others, two fatally, at a missionary center in Arvada.

“I didn’t want to kill anyone,” she said, “but he gave me no choice. When that gunman entered the church with his AR-15, I wasn’t afraid, I didn’t get tunnel vision, and I didn’t have any problems breathing normally. I was in my element and I knew exactly what to do. Yes, I knew there was a chance I could be killed, but that fact didn’t deter me for a minute, nor did it frighten me for a second. We shot at each other.

While I hit him multiple times, he missed me.”

Assam brought 15 years of police training and experience, as well as years of both secular and spiritual mental preparation to her rendezvous with destiny. She also brought a gun.

The important point is that when evil appeared with little warning, she was both mentally and physically prepared to confront it — and she successfully did so.

Most people will never have the sort of preparation and experience that Assam had. But many ordinary people will be called upon to confront evil during their lives, and maybe the real lesson of Aurora is that the time has come for the schools and other societal institutions to routinely teach the fundamental skills they will need to do so, and survive, instead of teaching them how to be victims.

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It’s hard to convince people in the United States that we as a society need to address mental health in part because a stigma surrounds mental illness — but also because a great many Americans are convinced that all health care should be left to the free market.

How can we expect those who don’t want a “public option” for children with cancer to give a shit about young men with schizophrenia?

Ultimately, however, mental health is a public health care issue, and we’re already paying for it. Some mentally ill

people live homeless on the streets, ending up in emergency rooms when their bodies are sick, contributing to the high cost of health care and our high insurance premiums. The majority of people in Colorado’s jails and prisons have some form of mental illness, often complicated by drug or alcohol addiction. Incarceration costs taxpayers more than $30,000 per inmate per year.

Oddly, we’re OK with throwing money at prisons, preferring punishment to treatment.

But mental illness can be just as

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deadly as a killer virus, as Loughner and others have so horrifically demonstrated. So while we start yet another conversation on gun laws — and while investigators try to figure out how Holmes managed to break laws we already have by purchasing an extended magazine — let’s figure out how best to identify and treat those with dangerous mental illness before their sickness leads to the loss of precious lives.

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City resumes identifying 600-foot radius around council members’ properties

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s appearances of impropriety among certain Boulder City Council members and city staff have continued to pile up in recent months, it turns out that the city actually does have mechanisms through which council members can disclose possible conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from votes that affect their property.

The question is whether they are availing themselves of those mechanisms.

Boulder Weekly has been taking a look at disclosure forms filed by city council, and has uncovered that at least two members, George Karakehian and Ken Wilson, did not sufficiently disclose the properties in which they have ownership interests. The discovery raises questions about how often council members are voting on matters that affect their private interests or those of their business partners, versus recusing themselves.

The city’s code of conduct, outlined in Chapter 2-7 of the Boulder Revised Code (www.colocode.com/boulder2/chapter2-7.htm) discusses how to handle such conflicts of interest. For instance, it says that any city council member, appointed board member or city employee “who determines that his or her actions may cause an appearance of impropriety” should consider disclosing that and recusing

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he parents of an anorexic woman are suing Boulder Community Hospital and other medical providers, claiming that her death two years ago was caused by bungled treatment.

The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Court on June 8 by Joan and William Riederer, deals with the death of their 28-year-old daughter, Erin Riederer, on June 10, 2010.

In addition to Boulder Community Hospital, the defendants are the Denver Health Medical Center and two Denver doctors who specialize in eating disorders, Philip Mehler and Barbara Cleary.

According to the suit, Erin Riederer suffered from anorexia nervosa and had received both inpatient and outpatient care at Denver Health.

In April 2010 she was receiving a substantial amount of her nutrition through a tube known as a peripherally inserted central catheter line, but was admitted to Denver Health to have it removed due to an infection, the lawsuit says. Her liver function Boulder Weekly

oneself — but is not required to — in several circumstances, including: • “If the person has a close friend with a substantial interest in any transaction with the city, and the council member, appointee, or employee believes that the friendship would prevent such person from acting impartially with regard to the particular transaction;” • “If the person has an interest in any transaction with the city that is personal or private in nature that would cause a reasonable person in the community to question the objectivity of the city council member, employee, or appointee to a city board, or commission;” • “If the person owns or leases real property within six hundred feet from a parcel of property that is the subject of a transaction with the City upon which he or she must make a decision, and is not required to receive official notice of a quasi-judicial action of the City.”

Regarding the latter provision, city staff have even sent Boulder City Council members maps showing properties they have declared ownership of, with a circle around each displaying the 600-foot radius. The idea was to encourage council members to consider recusing themselves when a decision has to be made on a property within that circle.

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Boulder hospital sued over death of anorexic woman

by Jefferson Dodge was normal at that time, according to the suit, and Riederer was discharged

by Cleary with a plan for only oral intake of nutrition.

At the time, she weighed 70.2 pounds, and according to a plan set by a registered dietitian under Mehler’s supervision, she was to be reassessed for in-patient treatment if her weight dropped by more than 5 pounds, the suit says.

In May 2010, Riederer’s health providers discovered that she had been putting batteries in her pockets to increase her weight during check-ups for several months, but they did not tell her parents, according to the lawsuit.

She weighed in at 61.2 pounds at that time, her parents claim, and medical personnel failed to reassess her for inpatient treatment, instead opting for weekly “vigilant monitoring” and using

a feeding tube at night. However, the plaintiffs say the supplies for such feedings were not delivered in a timely manner, and that when Riederer canceled a June 1 doctor’s appointment, it was rescheduled for late June of that year.

While she did see her dietitian in early June 2010, a follow-up visit was not set until three weeks later, the suit says. According to the Riederers, their daughter contacted her dietitian on June 7 and a doctor on June 8, saying she felt weak, tired, “cruddy” and “like ‘crap.’”

She declined an appointment with the doctor, the suit says, but he faxed a lab order to Boulder Community Hospital, and while those lab results showed low sodium levels and liver failure, hospital employees did not send the doctor those lab results until June

10, the day Riederer died.

Her parents are claiming that the defendants failed to properly communicate and coordinate care for their daughter.

Boulder Community Hospital spokesperson Rich Sheehan told Boulder Weekly that hospital officials can’t discuss active litigation. Similarly, calls to Mehler and Cleary were referred to Denver Health spokesperson Julie Lonborg, who declined to comment.

One of the Riederers’ attorneys, Julia Thompson, also turned down a request for an interview.

The lawsuit alleges that all four defendants were guilty of negligence that led to a wrongful death. The Riederers are seeking to recoup economic losses as well as “any non-economic losses and injuries, including damages for grief, loss of companionship, impairment of quality of life, inconvenience, pain and suffering, emotional distress, psychological complications and other non-economic losses, past and future.”

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However, as former city council member Crystal Gray points out, “the map is only as good as the information you provide on your forms.”

Gray says members of council were only sent one map showing circles around only the property they own, not properties owned by other council members, so it’s largely a self-policing system. Since her home is downtown, she says there were several instances while she was on council when she had to double-check the distance between her house and downtown projects that came before council. In addition, Gray says, the late Tom Eldridge, who owned downtown property while he was on city council, often consulted with the city attorney about whether to recuse himself on certain votes.

City spokesperson Sarah Huntley told BW that a previous city attorney appears to have been providing the maps to council members as a courtesy, as “helpful guideposts.” She added that the city is not required to produce them for council, and it seems they haven’t been distributed since 2010.

“There was no conscious decision to not do them anymore,” she said.

But after BW requested copies of the maps for current city council members, Huntley said she was having the city’s planning department produce them this week for the council and BW. Huntley also confirmed that the maps did not include addresses of commercial or rental properties owned by council members — just primary residences — and the new ones being generated this week will stay consistent with that past practice.

Council member Macon Cowles provided BW with a copy of his map, which is dated February 2010. That map, titled “Council Members Residence,” shows 300-foot and 600foot circles around the house Cowles owned at the time, and includes a list of the other council members and their residential addresses. But it does not, for instance, include the rental property owned by council members Lisa Morzel or those owned by Matt Appelbaum, which they listed in their most recent disclosure forms.

And, of course, it doesn’t include properties that Karakehian and Wilson have ownership interest in. On his disclosure form, Wilson listed the name of the apartment complex in Longmont that he co-owns instead of the name of the real estate trust that actually holds the property. And Karakehian has said he didn’t include his partnerships in limited liability companies (LLCs) that own downtown properties on his disclosure form because they are held by his company, not himself, and they represent his “retirement.”

Cowles says that if the maps don’t

news show all properties owned, aside from primary residences, they ought to.

“I think they should,” he said, “because the idea is that if a discretionary review comes up within a certain zone, to avoid the appearance of impropriety, that you’re voting in a way that would benefit yourself or hurt somebody else that you had an issue with, you just stay out of the thing.”

The code of conduct language containing the 600-foot rule also seems to support the idea that all property — not just primary residences — should be included on the maps, since it refers to “real property” owned or leased by the council member.

For that matter, the maps should also probably include properties leased by council members, such as property on which Wilson and his partners appear to be paying rent for their consulting business.

Cowles acknowledged that city government has a “structural problem” because the two people who could enforce the council’s conflict of interest rules — City Attorney Tom Carr and City Manager Jane Brautigam — are hired and supervised by council.

“If financial disclosures are not made correctly or sufficiently, there’s nobody there to enforce it,” he says. “The city manager and the city attorney are in a difficult position, because they are employees of the city council, so they’re not the right office to put the hammer down.”

Cowles said that instead of having council members — or one of their employees — serve in that policing role, the city could have a citizens group or committee charged with holding council members accountable for disclosing possible appearances of impropriety.

“It’s important for us to work together, as a group of nine, and not have us pointing fingers at each other about financial disclosures,” he says.

“That should be someone else’s job.”

When asked about the allegations regarding Karakehian’s LLCs, Cowles stopped short of casting aspersions on his fellow council member, but agreed in broader terms that all financial interests should be disclosed.

“I think that all properties that a councilor owns a significant interest in should be disclosed, because it provides information to the public that may let the public know whether the councilor has a special interest in it or not,” Cowles says. “We should not permit people to escape the full disclosure by layering entities between themselves and the property interest. That doesn’t look good. That needs to be addressed. I’m not sure our disclosure forms require that property that’s held by an entity be disclosed, but they certainly should.”

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by Hadley Vandiver

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atural,” “organic,” “whole grain,” “hormone free”: the labels in grocery store aisles are endless, all designed to tell consumers more about the products available for purchase.

But the significance of the labels, their enforcement and whether they really mean that a product offers more nutrition and fewer processed ingredients varies in ways the labels don’t immediately make clear.

Certain labels carry more credibility than others, and all food labels should be taken with a grain of salt, says Barney Feinblum, co-founder and director of Alfalfa’s Market.

“I think ‘consumer beware’ really holds true here,” Feinblum says. “A lot of these labels are designed to glom on to the environmental movement or the health food movement, and some of them are not particularly helpful. Just because there is a label on the package that says it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a great product.”

USDA Organic At this point, one of the more credible labels is the green “USDA Organic” label, which is certified under a federal program, Feinblum says. According to the USDA, organic foods must be produced without “synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation and genetic engineering.”

“I think that the pesticide and GMO issues are the most important to consumers,” Feinblum says. “If you boil it all down, people are concerned about

their personal health and safety first.

‘Organic’ gives people comfort that these products were grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.”

But even the USDA organic certification has different levels of compliance. Labels that say “100% organic” are completely made with organic products.

Other products can still get the green USDA organic stamp if 95 percent of their ingredients are organic, and a product with at least 70 percent organic ingredients can still say “Made with organic.”

100 Percent Whole Wheat Jennifer Fowler, associate brand manager for Rudi’s Organic Bakery, says label confusion is also a problem in the bread aisle, especially where whole grains are concerned.

“There are a lot of breads on the market with the ‘100 percent whole wheat’ label, and you look at that and go, ‘Oh great, it’s 100 percent whole wheat, this must be good for me,’” Fowler says. “But then you flip it over and look at the ingredients list, and see that there are also all these other ingredients you can’t even pronounce.”

Though the term “100 percent whole wheat” is a regulated label, it only ensures that the first ingredient in the bread is whole-wheat flour rather than just wheat flour. After that, the bread can contain a multitude of artificial chemicals and preservatives, Fowler says.

“What people really need to do is take that next step and look past the

labels,” Fowler says. “If it looks like something that you need a Ph.D. to read, then it probably isn’t very good for you. Consumers think they’re getting these really great products when they see all of these labels, but that’s not always true. You can’t put that much faith in a company, that they are always looking out for your well-being.”

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by Boulder Weekly staff BATTLE CRY ISSUED FROM 180,000 OPPONENTS OF PEBBLE MINE Opponents of the proposed Pebble copper mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, have come out in full force, flooding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during a public comment period on the proposal with about 200,000 comments in opposition to the project, and the EPA is still counting.

Of the comments received during a 60day comment period, preliminary analysis suggests that about 98 percent of them rejected plans to develop the Pebble Mine, which environmental groups argue would devastate the surrounding ecosystem.

Bristol Bay, located near the southwest corner of Alaska, is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world, not to mention 25 recognized indigenous tribes that have relied on salmon for sustenance for nearly 4,000 years, according to the EPA. Because of the low quality of ore in the area, the mine would need to cover a very large area to be considered economically feasible. If fully mined, however, the EPA estimates the project could produce more than 11 billion metric tons of ore, which would make it the largest North American

mine of its kind.

Environmentalists have expressed concern that the project could require storing up to 10 billion tons of waste at the headwaters of the bay, a situation complicated by the high incidence of earthquakes in the area.

Even if the mine runs smoothly without any accidents or spills, it would destroy up to 87 miles of potential salmon spawning streams and 4,200 acres of wetlands, according to the EPA’s assessment of the proposed project.

The mine, which the EPA estimates could continue producing ore for the rest of this century, would require building pipelines, roads and a deep water port, among other infrastructure that could potentially threaten the ecosystem.

The Pebble Mine project has received heavy criticism not only from environmental groups around the country, but also from former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond,

more than 600 hunting and angling groups and more than 700 businesses, including jewelry company Tiffany & Co. “Despite the best of intentions, 175 years of experience sourcing precious metals tells us that there are certain places where mining cannot be done without forever destroying landscapes, wildlife and communities,” the Tiffany & Co website reads.

“We believe Bristol Bay is one such place.”

Opponents of the Pebble Mine project say they hope the EPA and the Obama administration will use their authority under the Clean Water Act to prevent the mine from ever being developed.

The proposal will now move on to be peer-reviewed by a panel of experts on Aug. 7 and 8, after which EPA staff will decide whether to apply principles from the Clean Water Act to stop the Pebble Mine project.

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ferentiate a product by calling it all natural if it had no artificial colorings, flavorings or preservatives,” Feinblum, of Alfalfa’s, says. “But unfortunately, natural doesn’t really mean anything anymore. It’s not regulated at all.”

Both Feinblum and Fowler agree that the term has become almost worthless because of its lack of regulation. A recent study by the Organic Center, a Boulder-based nonprofit organization that conducts research on organic food and farming, found that breads labeled “natural” actually had more ingredients in common with conventional, unlabeled products than with organic products.

“What one company defines as all natural is very different than what another company might define as

all natural,” says Erin Smith, a senior science consultant at the Organic Center. “But there are a lot of people out there that don’t know that, and they’ll buy a product labeled ‘natural’ and think they’re making a better choice.”

Local Another label that is quickly growing more important is “local.” In Boulder, many of the hippest restaurants are “farm to table,” meaning that many of their products are sourced from area farms. The popularity of the Boulder Farmers’ Market is also a testament to Boulder’s love of local. But the term “local” on grocery store products is as yet unregulated, and, as such, its boundaries remain vague and undefined.

“Everyone kind of defines local differently,”

Feinblum says. “At Alfalfa’s, we define local as Boulder County, and then the state of Colorado, but we’re fortunate that we live in the state of Colorado so we can get a lot of good food. Other people have tried to define it in so many miles, or a day’s travel. So it’s all relative and undefined, but it’s also a really important thing for people.”

Until federal regulations step in to add clearer definitions to some of these labels, the best advice for consumers is to stay informed and keep reading labels from start to finish, use outside information sources, shop where someone is available to ask questions, and exercise purchasing power to shape the market while waiting for regulations to catch up.

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Dion is now just coming off tour“The idea of revealing the path is ing the film around the western U.S. really a bit of how we approached the with Dominique Fraissard, who wrote filming of this project,” Dion says. “We an original soundtrack for the film that knew the locations includes a harp made we wanted to get to, of bike frames ON THE BILL: Reveal the but oftentimes, once Fraissard created.

Path begins a week-long run at we were out in it, Screenings opened the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax on Friday, July 27. Mike Dion will introthe people that with Fraissard playduce the evening show on ended up coming ing some of his Thursday, Aug. 2. into our peripheral music from Ride the Divide and Reveal vision really just sort the Path, and closed with a Q&A with of came up through people that knew Dion and giveaways from their sponsor, people, or via Twitter.”

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Throwing the guidebooks away in “It’s been nice to have that almost the name of open doors and explorations guided by people met along the band experience with that film,” Dion way led them to pedal heavy mountain says. “Swapping stories in the lobby … bikes on the route for Tour de France the interaction was my favorite part.” cyclists, into the sheeps’ wool tents of The questions he has fielded from Berber families in Morocco to share audience members have often focused mint tea, and behind the handlebars of on the logistics — how to do what Nepalese rickshaws.

Dion has done. And, from the audienc“They didn’t really have to pitch me es, people have also stepped forward to very hard, it sounded like a pretty fun share stories of adventures Ride the idea,” says Lee, one of the film’s charac- Divide inspired them to undertake, ters and the winner of the Tour Divide including riding the Tour Divide. race the year Ride the Divide was made.

Though Dion is back home in The Tour de France portion of the ride Colorado, the film’s journey is continu-

ing as distribution companies from France, Italy and New York inquire about the film, and bike clubs, bike shops and advocacy groups as far away as Australia request a screening kit.

“People left, I think, inspired, which is a lot of the meaning of the film, inspired adventure by bike,” he says. “Reveal the Path is really taking that idea of inspiration and maybe being a kick in the pants, or that sort of ‘Wow. Aha. Maybe I should be doing a little bit more with my life or my time on this earth.’”

Maybe that manifests as training for a 100-mile bike race, and maybe it just means biking to work more often, he says.

The film reiterates that you don’t have to be a cycling pro to undertake a bike packing journey; Weeks didn’t even own a bike in 2008 when he worked with Dion filming Ride the Divide, wasn’t sure he could pedal the course sketched out for Reveal the Path, and ended up leading the charge on a fat bike down the Alaskan coast.

“Anyone could go through what we did,” Dion says, “And Hunter [Weeks], as one of the main crew on this film, is proof — and a little inspiration — that anybody out there can hop on a bike and have a little adventure.”

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ust like Boulder seems to support more than the typical per capita number of bike shops and running shoe stores, this year’s Olympics, which begin on Friday, July 27, in London, will see a stunning 11 competitors from Boulder — all of them cycling or running after medals.

Two of the athletes, Emma Coburn and Shalaya Kipp, are current members of the University of Colorado track and cross-country teams, and another three of the 11 are former Buffs. This means that CU has the highest number of current students and graduates of any university in middle- and long-distance races, says Heather Burroughs, associate Taylor Phinney competes in the 2011 UCI head coach of the CU track and (International Cycling Union) Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. field team.

Phinney took 24th place in the race.

“It’s pretty satisfying to have so many of our athletes competing,” says Burroughs. “We look at not only how our current athletes do, but also how our graduates are doing. We think that’s an important reflection of our work at CU, that people are ready to continue, and that they’re still excited and they have a lot of good running left in them.”

Both Coburn and Kipp will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, where Coburn is the defending national champion. Both of the women are hopefuls for the finals in London if they have a “good day,” says Burroughs.

CU student Flora Duffy will compete in the triathlon. Duffy competed in the 2008 Olympics, but did not finish the race due to an injury. She will represent her native Bermuda in the games.

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Jenny Simpson, the first CU athlete to gain eligibility for an international team in the steeplechase, will be competing in the 1,500-meter run.

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Dathan Ritzenhein, a former member of the CU track team, will compete in the 10,000-meter run in London. This marks Ritzenhein’s third time in the Olympics. Another former member of CU’s track and cross-country teams, Kara Goucher, will compete in the marathon. Goucher is also an Olympic veteran.

Erie resident Constantina Dita will defend her Olympic medal in the women’s marathon. When Dita won the marathon in 2008 at the age of 38, she became the oldest Olympic marathon champion in history. Dita represents her birth country, Romania, in the Olympics.

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since recovered to take first place in this year’s USA Cycling Professional Road National Championship.

“Coming back from that brain injury that nearly killed me is one of the accomplishments that I am most proud of,” Duggan says. “That I could go from such a low low, and come back to be better than I was before is an unquantifiable reward. To be here at the Olympics now is really satisfying, because I’ve been working towards something like this for my whole career.”

Taylor Phinney, who grew up in Boulder with two Olympian parents, Davis Phinney, who medaled in road racing in the 1984 Olympics, and Connie Carpenter, who won gold for road racing the same year, will compete in the cycling road race and time trials. This is the 21-yearold’s second Olympics.

And Tejay Van Garderen, a Boulder resident, will also compete in the cycling road race, just days after finishing the Tour de France.

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“I really love [RockyGrass],” O’Brien says. “I love the facility, the natural theater on the river. Some of the very first times I went to hear old time bluegrass, it was out in the country someplace pretty, a place you could swim.”

O’Brien’s history with the RockyGrass Festival predates the current ownership, back in the days when the grandpappy of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, teamed up with the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society to create the festival in 1972. O’Brien was living in Boulder, clawing together a living as a bluegrass player. RockyGrass was an alluring opportunity for the young musician, who was still developing his chops, both because he thought it might be the last time he could see Monroe perform (though Monroe ended up performing almost until his death in 1996) and because of an instrument contest held at the festival, which offered tempting cash prizes for the winners.

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falls, strangers form picking circles and play until the wee hours of the morning. It’s not unusual to see pros like O’Brien picking solos shoulder-to-shoulder with ticketbuyers. Once you experience it, people say, it’s hard to stop going, which helps explain why tickets to the festival sell out months in advance every year.

Among the festival’s storied traditions are the band and instrumentalist contests. The instrumentalist contest has hosted its share of wellknown players, like O’Brien and musical Renaissance man Mark O’Connor. The band competition has served as a stepping stone for Tim O’Brien many fledgling bands, including 2001 winner Steep Canyon Rangers was playing and paying my bills such as they and 2004 champ Chatham County Line. The were. … I just wanted to go to the fiddle con2005 winner, Broke Mountain, is no longer test and pick up the $50 [prize].” around, but its members are — Andy Thorn He placed second in the 1975 guitar and (2003 banjo contest winner) plays with the fiddle competition. In 1978 he was recruited to Emmitt-Nershi Band, bassist Travis Book is join Hot Rize, and the band was making with the Infamous Stringdusters, and dobro records and touring by 1980. O’Brien has been player Anders Beck plays with Greensky a prolific songwriter and performer ever since.

Bluegrass, all of which will be at this year’s fesRockyGrass, now in its 40th year, has tival. amassed a number of traditions along the way.

That all goes to say that the entrants each It’s on the small side, as far as summer music year for the RockyGrass Band are usually festivals go, and that helps keep things intimate. unproven yet ambitious, and this year’s field is Talk to anyone about the festival and you’re no different. But despite what’s at stake — cash, likely to hear as much about the friends they prizes, and an opening slot in next year’s festival meet every year in the parking lot as you are to hear about the bands on the stage.When night see CONTESTS Page 29 July 26, 2012 27

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or a lot of us, turning the odometer over at one of those zero years can be a soul-scraping experience.

But at the 40-year mark, RockyGrass is blowing out its candles with a serene and confident grin.

In the middle of a Colorado summer marked by sirens and tragedy and special news reports, events like RockyGrass, the annual bluegrass festival in Lyons started four decades ago by bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe and members of the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society, represent a cultural and community stanchion, a reminder that the Colorado lifestyle, and its passion28 July 26, 2012

ate affair with outdoor music, continues to sustain us.

We asked Planet Bluegrass spokesman Brian Eyster if all the events of the last couple of months have affected the festival.

“It’s definitely been a weird year for Colorado,” Eyster says, “but no, it really hasn’t affected us. As far as fire danger and stuff goes, we haven’t been subject to any additional measures.

We’ve never allowed campfires for the folks who come to festival to camp anyway, so really nothing’s changed there.” see ANNIVERSARY Page 29

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— bands entering this year’s festival seem more eager to be at the show than they are to play in the contest.

Jon Weiland is bringing his family band, WMD Bluegrass Band (for Weilands of Mass Destruction) to the contest this year, but it’s not the first time they’ve attended the festival. The kids, 14-year-old Jackson, 12-year-old Wyatt and 10-year-old Luke, look forward to the festival every year, Weiland says.

“It has become a tradition,” he says.

“It’s mostly the same people who show up every year, and it’s become kind of a

tradition for us.

“One neat thing about bluegrass music is that it’s very folksy. The people who are big musicians in bluegrass, when they’re not playing or performing, they’re out here with the people, just jamming and playing out.”

The members of Northern Departure are trekking from Seattle to attend the competition.

“We figured, well, we can kill two birds with one stone,” guitar/mandolin player Chris Luquette says. “We can have some fun at a festival we’ve never been to, and we get to play, even if it’s

on a little side stage or whatnot. We get to go down there and do our thing and have some fun and meet some other bands from around the Western United States.”

Beth Wilberger of The Wolftones, a somewhat new Boulder bluegrass band, will compete in her fourth competition this year, and she and her bandmates are all RockyGrass regulars.

“Last year we were talking, and we all love going to RockyGrass, so why not [enter the competition]? It’s a perfect opportunity for us to work for, especially since we’re a newer band.”

No matter the outcome of the contests this year, hopefully the musicians won’t have the same experience that befell O’Brien in 1982, when he entered a competition in Aspen and came head-to-head with some surprisingly tough competition.

“Somebody might show up and you might lose. There was one time when [virtuoso bluegrass bassist] Edgar Meyer showed up at a contest — the first time I met him,” O’Brien says, laughing. “And he nearly beat me.”

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The festival itself is one of the most enduringly successful events on the Front Range, as it continues to draw top bluegrass talent from around the U.S. and Canada, while retaining a significantly closer relationship to the pure acoustic roots and aesthetics of the bluegrass genre. Its younger brother, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, has extended well beyond the genre to include rock and pop acts on its marquee to varying degrees over its history, and probably not coincidentally draws a more diverse fanbase.

But RockyGrass remains intimate with its roots, a luxury it can afford in part due to its limited size at the Planet Bluegrass ranch just outside of Lyons.

And selling the event out is not an issue.

“We sold our last ticket this year, I think, on Feb. 27,” Eyster says, “which is the earliest in our history.”

One of the event’s longtime partners, New Belgium, is helping celebrate the festival’s milestone year with a special brew dubbed Summer Bliss.

“They brewed up about 200 kegs of this really nice lager just for us this year. We went through about 100 kegs for Telluride, and we’ll be serving it at the Folks Festival in August,” Eyster says. “If we have any left, we’ll share it with the good folks at Yonder Mountain String Band’s Kinfolk Celebration in late August.”

Little things like this lend a personality to festivals, and sometimes it’s the little things that matter the most.

RockyGrass owes its success, in large part, to being little. Don’t expect it to grow to another venue.

“I don’t anticipate that the festival will ever grow past where it is today,” Eyster says. “I mean, if it were ever to move to another location, it might as well be called something else.”

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eyboardist Joey Porter remembers the first time he encountered Herbie Hancock — or, to be more precise, the first time he mainlined Hancock’s feral funk stylings after the pianist had left Miles Davis’ legendary quintet in 1968.

“In college,” Porter recalls, “I took this jazz course, which was more or less just smoking weed and listening to jazz records. We had this sort of stoner/hippie teacher and all we did was go through jazz history and write papers about how it made us feel. It was pretty funny. So I knew Herbie’s music from that, the jazz stuff but not the Headhunters stuff.

“So I moved to Portland in 1994 and I had this neighbor who says, ‘Hey, I got this Herbie Hancock record you might like,’ and I was like ‘Eh, you know, I’m more into funk now, not so much the jazz stuff.’ … So he played ‘Chameleon’ for me, and I was like, what the heck is this stuff? This is amazing. I just listened to the whole album and said, ‘How did I not know about this?’ It was like the music I had invented in my own mind.

It was an epiphany for me — I just dove headlong into all of it, all Herbie’s funk stuff from about 1970 to 1976.”

Porter, along with Dave Watts, Garrett Sayers, Dan Schwindt and Dominic Lalli, will be staging their semi-regular Herbie Hancock tribute gig at the Boulder Theater Friday, July 27.

The Motet/Juno What/Big Gigantic mafia have been working tribute shows for a few years now — past shows have included The Dead, Talking Heads, Madonna and Earth, Wind and Fire, while Parliament-Funkadelic is on tap for this year’s Halloween extravaganza — but if the rock and pop trib shows are audience appreciation gigs, the Hancock dates are a players’ experience.

Porter has been staging Herbie gigs since his Portland days, and still stages an annual show there with members of his old band Porterhouse. So this is familiar territory for the keyboardist, but he says he still approaches Hancock’s proto-funk explorations with a palpable sense of humility.

Hancock, after all, was an already well-established jazz pianist and composer by the time the Headhunters scene took off — this is was not a trivial artistic indulgence.

While many of his fellow Davis alumni pointed their post-Davis careers toward fusion and world music tangents, Hancock turned his attention toward funk, packing almost a decade of trad jazz chops into a newly charged enthusiasm for electronics.

A little intimidating?

“No doubt,” Porter agrees. “I’m a funk player first and a jazz player second.

He was a jazzer first and a funk player second. I kind of learned them in reverse.

But I love this stuff, and it’s great to try and play it and do it justice, you know? I know I’ll never play this with the same ability as Herbie Hancock. He’s one of the greatest keyboard players in history.”

Did anyone play a wah-pedal clavinet better than Herbie, that chunky trademark chop long since embossed on the ’70s as the sonic calling card to blaxploitation films and cop show theme songs?

“Maybe George Duke,” Porter suggests. “The two of them really defined

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by Dave Kirby that sound. Stevie Wonder also, and the guy from Tower of Power, Chester Thompson, who’s mainly known for his organ work but also played some incredible clavinet. I learned a lot from him.

“I think the reason the clavinet became popular was … you play it through an amp and it has actual strings in it, so it sounds kind of like a guitar.

You can play it percussively, like Herbie and all these guys did, so it kind of sounds like you’re playing a guitar.

“All of a sudden, the keyboard player — you know, the ‘nerd’ guy in the band — he’s one going all funky and stuff. It was a whole new ballgame.”

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And further burnishing this music’s repute 40 years after the fact, reigniting the imaginations of funk players two generations down the line, Porter says that even if Hancock brought a master’s chops and a Davis-alumni depth of harmony to the Headhunters project, his reputation with skeptical jazz purists still took a hit.

“A lot of the jazz aficionados dumped Herbie when he started playing this funk stuff,” Porter says. “They were all saying, ‘You need to be playing acoustic piano, and you need to be swinging.

You don’t need to be playing this funk stuff anymore.”

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enver artist Tony Ortega’s attic studio overflows with framed prints he has made during his three-plus decades as a professional artist.

Chicano-style prints made with colorful pastels and paints hang from the walls. His proliferative output is partially the legacy of his grandmother, a Spanish-speaking New Mexican who worked as a seamstress. He credits spending summers at her house with helping him realize his artistic ambition.

“When I was a little kid, I would hang out with my grandmother a lot, and she would give me a needle and thread,” Ortega says on a sunny morning in his studio. “I guess I always knew I wanted to be creative.” see ORTEGA Page 36

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Ortega, an associate professor at Regis University, grew up splitting time between Denver and New Mexico, and his work occupies an intersection of Latino and Gringo culture. An exhibit of his work, Mestizo Hybridity, is currently on display at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, and his focus is on the demographic change in the United States that occurs with Latino immigration.

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baking, often overlaid on a concert poster or other document.

Ortega works in mixed media, using pastels, printmaking, acrylics, collage and more. When Ortega paints people, he gives the figures lifelike details — an elbow slightly cocked outward, hands casually placed in pockets, a foot placed in front of the other, a slight bend in the torso to one side — but he doesn’t draw faces. The contrast of the realist bodies with the faceless heads lends the figures an everyman kind of feeling, which grows stronger as he incorporates different media into the mix.

One piece, “Western Union,” uses the yellow, Spanish-language forms for wiring money to Mexico (“Para enviar dinero a México”) as a canvas. Ortega uses three of these documents. He draws a man slicing bread on the first, a pair of ranch hands on the second, and a maid making a bed, perhaps in a hotel, on the third. The figures are not representations of individual people, but depictions of a culture.

Ortega’s pieces at the Firehouse work with archetypical figures, but he also uses stereotypes in the exhibit.

Speedy Gonzales graces several prints, appearing superimposed on top of the Statue of Liberty and in front of a group of men. The Chihuahua from the Taco Bell commercials also appears, laid behind images of Rod Stewart, Our Lady of Guadalupe and a can of Campbell’s “Pozole,” a clear reference to Andy Warhol’s iconic soup can.

“With my work, I’m trying to say that Latino culture is more complicated than stereotypes, than Mexican immigrants who just crossed the border,” Ortega says. “It isn’t just where Tijuana and San Diego meet. You see it in Denver, Boulder, Longmont. …

The border moves; it immigrates.”

Ortega relays a story from when he was younger about how he noticed a number of posters for Mexican bands popping up around Denver. The groups would tour up through New Mexico and Colorado and play the National Western Stock Show, he says.

The image stuck with him because it showed so lucidly how the workers who came up from Mexico — to do jobs Americans didn’t want, he says — brought their culture with them.

Posters appear in his art as well.

There’s a print at the Firehouse featuring four men relaxing, over which there is a Speedy Gonzales figure and a piece of a poster advertising a Mexican art show. It’s a portrayal of Boulder Weekly

immigrants bringing changes, and a culture into anothOrtega’s art tries to ON THE BILL: Mestizo Hybridity is at the Firehouse Art er country, and that reconcile and recogCenter in Longmont through country’s attempt to nize the differences Aug. 11. 667 4th Ave., create media based that naturally arise.

Longmont, 303-651-2787. on them, as well as “Our southern that culture’s border is no longer attempts to define itself. just El Paso, Juarez,” Ortega says. “The BCF BWkly MiniPgbrings 2012_BCF Pagealso 1 exists here in Denver, in Immigration vast 7/11/12 cultural10:31 AM border

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Cultures and languages mutually influence each other. … My artwork reflects the integration of culture, history, religion and the changing demographics of Latinos in the United States.”

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s Kerry Larkin has traveled the country with her handmade quilts, she’s discovered that people in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. — just like people in rural Pennsylvania where she grew up and her current home in Colorado — have stories about quilts.

“There’s stories about why a pattern came to be, and then there’s stories about the maker of the quilt and why he or she chose to make it that way and who they’re making it for, so there are so many stories engrained in those patches and patterns,” Larkin says. “So I’m just taking those patches and patterns and colors and reinterpreting them into something else. I just really distill what a quilt is down to its basic form, and then I kind of thoughtfully add back into it, and I think that’s why they’re so minimalist. It’s like, what can I put back in that doesn’t take away from just the basic form of a quilt?”

What she puts back in is up to 800 words of text, often stitched in white thread on white fabric so that the words are what holds the fabric of the quilt together. They’re stories about people in places, casual metaphors for life or at least for the way we live. Her color use is spare, often just timeless charcoal and white, occasionally interrupted by a playful turquoise or cactus green.

The white thread — in the cursive of her handwriting written with a needle — on white fabric makes the text look like just texture at first glance. The words form gradually.

“The idea is, the more you read the quilt, the more you live with it, the more words emerge from the quilt,” Larkin says.

But, should you stare at the quilt long enough to read it (or take a look at the tag enclosed with her quilts), it will relate a story about place, and people, and how the two relate that’s designed to be visually descriptive and decidedly unsentimental.

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tions of quilts, all but one use Larkin’s original writing.

“My writing is all about place and experience and capturing moments,” she says. “I like to grab a glimpse of a moment in time of a place, whether it’s in rural Alabama or the mountains of Colorado or Wyoming.”

Often, the stories sewn into the quilts were sparked by the memory of a place as captured in haiku she started writing years ago. All of it now is relayed in second person, a device she employs to invite the reader into the scene, she says, so that “even if you’ve never been to an aspen grove in Colorado, you still become part of the story.”

Because the stitching goes all the way through the quilt, one side shows the words in reverse.

“I like that it actually, it holds the layers of the quilt together,” she says.

“It’s really an integral part of the quilt.”

The occasional phrase or sentence pops out in colored thread and formal typeface, like this one from writer Jody Jenkins: “Be not afraid to dance like the white-skirted girl with the suntanned face, for joy is surely the greater of our

gifts.”

Some of her customers put her quilts on their beds. Some hang them on their walls.

Larkin’s story with quilts starts with a great grandmother who quilted and had a loom in her home that women would gather around to do hand quilting. She came back to what she knew about working with fabric for projects as an artist before making a quilt as a wedding gift. The recipients urged her to pursue it. Within months, the former architect and product designer had the LLC and the website running for Comma Workshop, the name of her quilt-making company. That was 2010.

In two years, she says, she has flown by milestones she thought would take five years to achieve. Among them, she has been one of 121 artists, out of 1,500 applicants, to exhibit at the Smithsonian Craft Show earlier this year, released a limited edition line in Anthropologie’s Manhattan stores, been written up in magazines, including Martha Stewart’s Whole Living and Philadelphia, and quit her bartending job to run Comma Workshop full time.

Soon, she’ll have a studio space in town

where she can work and display her quilts — a welcome change from her cozy north Boulder apartment where the occasional plastic bin of quilt fabric waits in her kitchen for her to haul it to the binder.

She’s still honing Comma Workshop, including the business end — where she borrowed from the cottage industry model and relies on half a dozen quilters to do much of the production work in their own homes — and experimenting. One of the quilts in a recent collection uses gray thread for the text, and a sneak peek at her new fall collection shows cursive in yellow and orange.

“These have just really grown from what I really want to do,” Larkin says. “I thought, you know, for the beginning of a company, what do I have to lose except doing exactly what I want to do? … And, you know, if it works, great.

And if it doesn’t, it’ll transition into something else.”

So far, though, it seems to work.

And on Aug. 2, Comma Workshop will debut at the first “local launch” party at Factory Made. Factory Made uses its “Factory” portion to nurture creative undertakings and artistic types, and the “Made” portion to showcase ethically made goods. Larkin got connected with the organization through her roommate, who works with Factory Made’s collaborator AIM House, a transitional program for young adults.

“She came in and shared her story and her product with us, and we were just really excited by it and thought it was beautiful and very creative and loved what she was doing,” says Leah Brenner, public relations and marketing manager for Factory Made.

Factory Made will host a one-night pop-up shop designed to celebrate the business and introduce Larkin and her work to Boulder.

“We thought it would be a great time to just present what she’s doing to the Boulder community,” Brenner says, “and honestly that’s kind of our inspiration for our local launch series.”

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6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Jimmy Seville & Mojoville. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

EnergySmart Public Input Session. 7:30-9:30 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, www.energysmartyes.com.

Johnny O Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Farm to Table Dinner. 6 p.m. Bácaro Venetian Taverna, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-4888.

Meniskus. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Wildflower Gala — Fundraiser for Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center. 4 p.m. – 12 a.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main

The Music of ABBA. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway,

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Katie Glassman. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The L Town All-Stars. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Tim Crawford Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Troubadours. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

events Beautiful Transitions Art Show 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Love is Love — Creating Self Love Workshop with Onkar. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., 720-252-3962.

Saturday, July 28 music CAKE — With The Lumineers. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Castleman Sonata Concert. 7:30 p.m. Chamber Hall C199, College of Music, University of Colorado, Quartetprogram.com.

Clark’s Quark. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Country Music Project. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665see PANORAMA Page 42

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David Mayhew’s landscape photography is on display at the Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery

Mestizo Hybridity — Tony Ortega. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Through Aug. 11.

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Nov. 25.

David Mayhew — Landscape photography.

Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683. Through Sept. 2.

Simply — A juried photography exhibit. The Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Center of

Fort Collins, 400 N. College Ave., 970-2241010. Through July 28.

Farewell — The Photography of Christopher Allen. Dona Laurita Fine Art Photography, 820 Main St., Louisville, 303-818-1616. Through July 31.

Feeling the Heat. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 25.

The Ghosts of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 27.

Visual Rhythm. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Sept. 9.

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Chris Daniels & the Kings — With Honey Comb.

6:15 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 29th St. & Canyon, Boulder.

Kirtan — With the Pushpams. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., 720-2523962.

Dana Kyle Stokes. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Love Stories — Presented by Interweave Dance Theatre. 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Charlotte Irey Studio Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-7945.

Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914 x313.

Danny Shafer & the 21st Century. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

David Wilcox — With Liz Barnez, Cary Morin and Justin Roth. 8 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Highway, Bellvue, 970-4824420.

Full Frequency Modulators. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847.

Grant Farm Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Gumbo Le Funque. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Hezekiah Goode — With Statue of Liberty. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Kyle Hollingsworth Band. 3-7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303444-8448.

Welcoming the Goddess — Receiving Nourishment, Energy and Healing. 3:15-5:30 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., 720252-3962.

Yoga Rocks the Park — With Stephen U. & Sue VanRaes, music by Shanti & Scott Medina. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library lawn, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, July 29 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Carbon Leaf — With Post Paradise and Rob Drabkin. 5 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Highway, Bellvue, 970-482-4420.

Last Men on Earth. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-318-1749.

Cameron Powers: Egyptian TranceDance. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Los Lobos — Plus Steve Earle and the Dukes. 7:30 p.m. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Amphitheater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

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

The Roustabouts — With Big Paddy. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Tynan the Great. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

events Earthdance Global Festival for Peack Fundraiser. 7 p.m. – 2 a.m. Gabrel’s Sweet Spot Farm, 5624 N 115th St., Longmont, www.earthdanceboul-

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Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. 12-7 p.m.

Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4993.

The Flatlanders 40th Anniversary Tour. 8 p.m.

Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003 x2 Jazzy Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

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

Prairie Scholars. 5-7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main see PANORAMA Page 44

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The Belle of Amherst, based on the life of Emily Dickinson is running at the Miners Alley Playhouse

The Belle of Amherst. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Aug. 26.

Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 1.

Jailbait. Silhouette Theatre Company, John Hand Theater in Lowry, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, 303-999-9143. Through Aug. 5.

Little Shop of Horrors — By PHAMALY. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Aug. 5.

Richard III. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 2.

Rocks Karma Arrows. Motus Theater at the ATLAS Black Box Theater, CU campus, www.oneaction.org. Through July 29.

Twelfth Night. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 4.

Women of Will. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 12.

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Symphony On the Rocks — Music of Queen. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Trace Bundy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Vagabond Swing Mountain. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

events CoPVA Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Forks Over Knives — Movie showing and discussion with Barb and Tom Kostohryz. The Old Gallery, 14863 Highway 7, Allenspark, 303-747-2906.

Outdoor Volunteering at James Peak — Oxeye daisy flower and seed invasive weed removal with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado, U.S. Forest Service and Colorado State University Gilpin County Cooperative Extension. 8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. James Peak Wilderness, www.voc.org.

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Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-

Summer Heritage Day at Walker Ranch Homestead. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Walker Ranch, Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303-678-6214.

Monday, July 30 music 23 String Band. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Film On the Rocks — Anchorman with music by Take to the Oars. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Margaret Coel presents an author talk on Chief Left Hand at the Boulder Public Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 31

Friday, July 27 Seth Brady Tucker — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Friday, July 29 Mathew Brouwer — Poetry reading. 2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, July 30

“So, You’re a Poet” — an open poetry reading.

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

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Noises Off. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 5.

Tuesday, July 31 Chief Left Hand — by Margaret Coel. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wednesday, Aug. 1 Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History — by Deanne Stillman. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727.

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Harmony on Harrison — Bilingual Venezuelan and Flute Music. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Bolder Talks — Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree reading with Mark Andreas. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince St., Boulder, www.bolderlifefoundation.org.

Town Hall Meeting — With Rep. Matt Jones and Rep. Jonathan Singer, on education. 6 p.m.

Longmont Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, www. cohousedems.com.

Tuesday, July 31 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Friday, July 27 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, July 28

Sunsational Exhibit Activities. 2 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-6042424.

110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Waldo’s Birthday Bash. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sunday, July 29

Wednesday, August 1

Body Revolution 3K — A body positive 3K with Boulder Youth Body Alliance. 8 a.m. Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, http://boulderyouthbodyalliance.org.

Deadline for Left Hand Outdoor Challenge Applications — Land stewardship program for students ages 14-18. www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/challenge.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.

Monday, July 30

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, July 31

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-6042424.

Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum,

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

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Danielle Ate The Sandwich. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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Percussion Extravaganza Jam Session — Hosted By Bill Hoke. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Scream It Like You Mean It. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Bands on the Bricks — That Eighties Band. 7 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-4493774.

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

The Indulgers. 6 p.m. Lakewood Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St., Lakewood, 303-987-7850.

Kaskade. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-8652494.

Mary Alma, Cold River City. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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screen Editor’s note: As of press time, the connection between The Dark Knight Rises and the recent massacre that occurred at the movie theater in Aurora remains unclear.

There has been endless speculation on that question — aided by evidence both convincing and contrived — but until more information surfaces on what actually motivated this horrific mass killing, we will not speculate as to any connection to the film.

We therefore have made the editorial decision to treat The Dark Knight Rises as what it is, a summer blockbuster. There might soon be a time and place to examine the role, if any, the movie served in the mind of the shooter, but that time and place is not in a movie review the week after the tragedy.

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Got ham?

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is almost goofy

by Ryan Syrek

rom Christian Bale’s bark to Hans Zimmer’s “gonna getcha” score, if director Christopher Nolan has driven one point home in his Batfilms, it has been this: “Take my films seriously, yo.” From meditations on the fine line between vengeance and justice to the moral ambiguity of using highend technology “for the greater good,” this Bat-trilogy has cleverly and successfully fused “real world” stuff with “comic book” stuff. Until now.

The Dark Knight Rises (TDKR), the final chapter in Nolan’s Bat-saga, is an ambitious, thrilling catastrophe that collapses in on itself like the death of a gorgeous celestial star. It is at once a celebration of everything this cinematic genre has to offer (modern morality plays, archetypal character work, decadent technological showcase) and everything it often fails at (believability, nuance, a plot that makes any kind of actual sense).

TDKR is a nearly three-hour long ink-blot Rorschach test, the reaction to which reveals more about the viewer than the movie. Immediately after viewing, more than 40 questions popped up like unwanted moles in need of a good whacking; these range from issues of plot convenience to thematic inconsistencies. But we’ll get to all that in a few Bat-minutes — and Boulder Weekly

yes, above all else, “Bat-” remains the prefix that keeps on giving.

For all its dilly-dallying, the plot is you-gotta-be-kidding-me simple.

Eight years after the events of the last film, Batman (Bale) remains in exile in order to preserve the memory of deceased D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). By making Dent look like a hero and not a half-faced horror show, Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) helped leverage public opinion to pass “The Harvey Dent Act,” which allowed the streets of Gotham to be cleaned up. How? That’s just question one.

Bane (Tom Hardy), a musclebound nutso in a designer surgical mask, shows up determined to destroy the whole city with a bomb. Although his plan is seriously that simple, it somehow also involves Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) stealing Bruce Wayne’s fingerprints and selling stock holdings among other distracting gibberish. While Bruce uses futuristic knee-brace technology to once more suit up, Alfred (Michael Caine) throws an unmotivated tantrum and leaves, Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) somehow goes from genius to overseer of a bankrupt once-multi-billion dollar enterprise, and Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) and John Blake ( Joseph Gordon Levitt) do a bunch

of stuff that would be considered spoilers, so we can’t talk about them much.

If it seems like this all goes together about as well as Helen Keller’s jigsaw puzzle, you aren’t wrong.

Characters pop from one place to another without explanation, act in direct opposition to how they’ve behaved in two previous movies, or disappear entirely. Like Batman. That’s right: Batman vanishes for almost an hour while characters like Matthew Modine’s nameless cop get screen time.

It’s not simply a case of Nolan trying to do too much, but doing too much too poorly.

That isn’t to say TDKR isn’t kinda good. It is. Despite itself. Wally Pfister’s cinematography is just out-ofthis-world, the chaos means that even at nearly three hours it’s never boring, and the goodwill generated by the first two films flows freely into this one, even without a performance anywhere near as ballsy as Heath Ledger’s. It’s just that by trying to shoehorn in broad comic book brush strokes, like the destruction of an entire city with a bomb Wayne Enterprises created, the “reality” Nolan wants evaporates into hammy nonsense.

Sure, the Joker was extreme, but sociopaths do exist; fuzzy-vest-wearing terrorists who have a Darth Vader

voicebox and bully a whole city into collectively fighting itself after a menacing speech at a football game, not so much. And the ending, have mercy, the ending … Savages didn’t even get to hold on to the “worst conclusion of the year” award for a full two weeks, as Nolan packs in a deux ex machina finale that still doesn’t fix anything and plays like bad fan fiction, down to relentless relationship obsessing.

But let’s take a step back here and place this in context of the broader trilogy.

Undoubtedly one of the best pop-culture cinema sequences of all time, it hit its high point in its second act (The Dark Knight), which is nothing to be ashamed of. That said, watching all three films in a row reveals the first half of Batman Begins to be perhaps the best told on-screen superhero origin story and solidifies that first installment as the only Bat-flick ever to focus exclusively on our hero and not the villainof-the-week. The Dark Knight may be a better movie, but Batman Begins is a better Bat-movie.

The problem is, by the time TDKR hits, every character except for the bad-ass Gordon betrays who they were established to be. Lucius goes from genius to dolt, Alfred goes from loyal-until-death to “peace out, homey,” and, most damningly, Bruce goes from a man who declared war on crime to honor his murdered parents to a man who refuses to fight crime to honor his murdered girlfriend. And that’s the real bummer about TDKR: it’s not that it fails in just a “how did so-and-so get there” or “why did soand-so do that” fashion, but that it lets down the very character arc it tried to build up.

TDKR is not a bad movie, nor is it great. And yet it will be called both by those who either expected too much from it or subconsciously vowed to love it no matter what. The reality is it’s just a pretty good end to an otherwise legendary series. Now we must once more fear the Batman … reboot.

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reel to reel THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker gets a new look (and an origin story) in this Marvel remake of everyone’s favorite web slinger. Unlike Toby Maguire’s emo-esque rendition of the wall-crawler, actor Andrew Garfield’s portayal hopes to bring Spidey back to his roots with more wit and fewer tears. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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The endless chase for that acorn has continental ramifications. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE INTOUCHABLES The Intouchables, by French writer/directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, is the inspiring true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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Arise is both a documentary and an ethnographic study of women from around the world who share a profound intellectual and spiritual understanding of what it takes to live in harmony with the environment. At Boedecker Theater — Boedecker Theater

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BALLPLAYER: PELOTERO

This compelling documentary narrated by John Leguizamo is a gritty and never-beforeseen look inside the world of Major League Baseball (MLB) training camps in the Dominican Republic. Miguel Angel and Jean Carlos are two of the top prospects at an MLB training camp, and they are both about to turn 16, which means they can be signed to an MLB farm team and ultimately move up to the majors. Filmmakers Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin and Jonathan Paley take you inside this never-before-seen world for an up-close and personal look at the cost of the American dream. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), a 6-year-old girl, exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality.

At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres BERNIE Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset) returns to his Texas roots for this delightfully poker-faced black comedy — based on a true story — about East Texas assistant funeral home director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black). Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Driven by her cruelty to put four bullets in her, Bernie goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that she’s still alive. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the place a shell of its former self. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BILL W.

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included in TIME Magazine’s “100 Persons of the 20th Century.” Interviews, recreations and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

stories of illicit drugs and organized crime, all leading to an explosive finale. Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder on The Killing) stars as JW, a poor student who lives a double life within the wealthy Stockholm elite. He falls in love with an upper-class girl and is soon lured into a world of crime. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. An affectionate spoof of — and tribute to — Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, filmed as if it was a lost relic of that prolific era. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BRAVE Brazenly red-headed Merida, princess, skilled archer and general nuisance at the royal dinner table, accidentally unleashes a curse on her kingdom. She then fights bravely — get it? — to defend her kingdom. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

A CAT IN PARIS

An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, A Cat in Paris is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadowdrenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico — a slinky cat burglar with a big heart. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

See full review page 47. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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The Clyfford Still Museum and Denver Film Society delve into the summer’s programmatic theme of music, movement and modernism with an evening of short films by avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE FLY

While testing his teleportation device, scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) accidentally merges his cells with those of a housefly. As his reporter girlfriend (Geena Davis) bears witness, Seth slowly — and quite disgustingly — morphs into an insect. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society FOOTNOTE

This is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son, both eccentric professors who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. We see insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and several very complicated family relationships. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater HOOK

Steven Spielberg directed this delightfully grown-up fairy tale about an adult Peter Pan and his evil nemesis, Captain Hook.

Peter Banning (Robin Williams) is a 40-year-old corporate lawyer too busy with his work to notice his family. But when Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children, he is forced to remember who he really is: Peter Pan. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Kumaré is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumaré, however, is not real — he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi who impersonated a spiritual leader for the sake of a social experiment designed to challenge one of the most widely accepted taboos: that only a tiny “1 percent” can connect the rest of the world to a higher power.

At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater MAGIC MIKE While it would be great to think that a movie about male strippers would be for women what movies like Striptease and Showgirls were for men, the loose threads of a plotline here suggest that Magic Mike really is just about encouraging more men to womanize and more women to fall for their ploys.

Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

MOONRISE KINGDOM Once more, writer/director Wes Anderson dips his stylish pen into murky, melancholy tales of whimsy. This time out, the Royal Tenenbaums auteur follows a young “Khaki Scout” who flees from his troop and troop leader (Edward Norton) while camping on an island to unite with his prepubescent and troubled gal pal. Her parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, and the island cop (Bruce Willis) give chase in this Instagram fairy tale. At Century and Mayan.

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In May of 2011, Neil Young drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario, to downtown Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall, where he intimately performed the last two nights of his solo world tour. Along the drive,Young recounted insightful and introspective stories from his youth to filmmaker Jonathan Demme, a longtime friend, fan and collaborator. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres OPERA: BORIS GODUNOV - TEATRO REGIO DI TORINO

Mussorgsky rejected Western conventions in classical music in what is considered the most important Russian opera ever written.

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reel to reel in Ernani, an early Verdi gem based on a story by Victor Hugo. Three powerful men compete and conspire to win the hand of the beautiful Elvira, but in the end, duty and honor leave everyone woeful. From the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. At Boedecker Theater — Boedecker Theater PEOPLE LIKE US His father’s sudden death brings 20-something Sam home, where a family secret forces him to reconsider his life choices.

Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

POLISSE

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize and nominated for 13 French Academy Awards, Polisse follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the Parisian police. Based on a script from real child investigation cases, the actors convey the emotional strain of the work with gritty realism. At Boedecker Theater — Boedecker Theater REVEAL THE PATH

A visually stunning adventure by bike: Reveal the Path explores the world’s playgrounds in Europe’s snow-capped mountains, Scotland’s lush valleys, Alaska’s rugged coastal beaches and Morocco’s high desert landscapes. Ride along and get lost in the wonders of the world. Enjoy the authentic locals living modest yet seemingly fulfilling lives, leading us to question what it means to live an inspired life — however humble or extravagant. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

The longest-running midnight movie of all time. It’s harmless musical fun — a delightful spoof of Hollywood horror movies and Old Dark House melodramas. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres ROOM 514

When a young, idealistic Israeli military investigator confronts an elite soldier with accusations of unnecessary violence against a Palestinian man in the Occupied Territories, her integrity and determination are put to the test as the case proves less black and white than it originally seemed. Taking a stand against a perceived abuse of power in spite of her colleagues’ advice to back off because of the political complexities of the case, her increasingly zealous quest for justice ends up having far-reaching consequences for everyone involved. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society SACRIFICE

For generations, the Zhao family has wielded power, even extending over the king. In a well-planned coup, their mortal enemy Tu’An Gu (Wang Xue Qi) slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. However, a solitary Zhao baby survives the massacre, and is hidden and taken home by Cheng Ying (Ge You), the doctor who delivered him, to live with his wife (Hai Qing) and their own newborn baby. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

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When Margot (Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine), 28, meets handsome artist Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres TED John, an awkward 30-something with a deadend job (Mark Wahlberg), has his world turned upside down when his girlfriend (played by Mila Kunis) gives him an ultimatum: Ditch the best friend, a teddy bear (voiced by Seth McFarlane) who miraculously came to life when John was a child, or lose the girl. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. TO ROME WITH LOVE

While Rome is a city abundant with romance and comedy, To Rome With Love is about people having adventures that will change their lives forever. Directed by Woody Allen.

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Four ordinary guys on neighborhood watch get to step up their suburban guardian skills when aliens threaten to take up residence.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

YOUR SISTER’S SISTER Mark Duplass (co-director of Jeff,Who Lives at Home and Cyrus) stars as Jack, a slacker who’s still emotionally unstable a year after his brother Tom’s death. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s ex-girlfriend, Iris (Emily Blunt), offers her family cabin in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. There, he runs into Iris’ sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Landmark Theaters

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n July 28-29 world travelers and local lovers of exotic tastes will once again descend upon the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse for the Jefferson Dodge 2012 Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. Before gathering around in celebration of the humble leaf, it is appropriate to acknowledge the local duo intent on bringing foreign tastes from farm to table and back again at the landmark restaurant and throughout the county.

When Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, bestowed a custom-built traditional Persian tea house on Colorado 25 years ago, political and fiscal concerns tabled the construction of the building for nearly a decade.

Deliberations over using public money for the project and even nefarious Cold War rhetoric threatened to derail the process. After the city decided

to lease the building for public use, a rigorous bidding process handed the reins of the building to Lenny and Sara Martinelli, local residents who had been partnering to help run Naropa Café on that university’s campus.

“It’s bigger than us,” Sara Martinelli says of their role tending to the building handcrafted by traditional artisans without the use of power tools. “We have a responsibility to be stewards of this community treasure that will almost certainly outlast us. We feel honored, blessed and incredibly fortunate to be the people who are in a position to be the stewards of the Teahouse right now.”

Her husband and fellow steward over their three children, three dogs, three cats and the progressively growing Three Leaf Concepts shares the sentiment. The management group they incorporated to oversee their burgeoning restaurant empire takes pride in

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egun 14 years ago at the only Persian-style tea house in the Western Hemisphere, the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival incorporates the exotic space of the Dushanbe with the handson experience of an educational forum. The weekend includes a bazaar for sampling premium teas and tea ware, a demonstration of the intricate traditional Japanese tea ceremony, lectures and tastings on healthy beneficial teas, tea-spiked cocktails and much more.

“It was created to bring everyday people into contact with experts in the tea industry so they could sit down intimately in a workshop situation,” says Sara Martinelli, operator of Dushanbe.

Some highlights include: • Cooking with Tea. Executive chef/owner Lenny Martinelli leads this popular class that prepares numerous dishes using tea as the special ingredient.

• Taiwanese Oolong Tasting. Washington, D.C.-based tea shop proprietor Brian Wright travels to Taiwan annually to source some of the freshest boutique-style oolong teas direct from Taiwan.

• Rare Teas of China. David Lee Hoffman, an Asia backcountry traveler for more than three decades who now works to implement sustainable organic tea farming in China, details the world of Puerh tea, the unique aged tea promoted recently for its health benefits and nuanced tastes.

• Mommy and Me Princess Tea Party. For one adult and up to seven kids, this hour-long party includes tea, mini scones, cucumber sandwiches and chocolate strawberries to go with craft and photo opportunities.

• Tea Dinner. Teahouse chefs prepare a four-course meal with all dishes incorporating tea. Premium teas accompany each separate course.

For more information check out www.boulderteahouse.com, or to register for Tea Festival events call 303-442-4993.

operating an architectural icon in the heart of this well-traveled city. It also creates a heightened sense of awareness as a restaurant operator.

“Without complaint, I gladly accept my responsibility to make the Teahouse as best as it can be,” Lenny Martinelli says, adding that the restaurant is wellsuited to the city. “People in Boulder are a highly educated community that has

actually seen and experienced the world.

This building, to me, is classic for Boulder. It’s got that exoticness. Being in front of the farmers’ market, being located in the heart of Boulder, it’s just a perfect fit.”

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eeting up with old friends Michael and Allison, a dining dilemma posed itself. Michael describes himself as the antithesis of a vegan, while Allison is a self-proclaimed picky eater straddling the line between vegetarianism and full-tilt veganism. While there’s more than a few spots that can accommodate vegan dining, some are more compromised than others. In some cases, meatless offerings are nothing more than a thoughtlessly thrown together veggie plate.

A compact florescent light bulb went off above my head. I realized this situation might best be resolved by a dinner visit to the Native Foods Cafe.

A new occupant of Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street mall, this is the first Colorado outpost of a growing fastcasual chain featuring vegan fare. It’s an order-at-the-counter place, and our selections arrived well within the prom-

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The menu features a battery of salads, pizzas and sandwiches, with a heavy emphasis on meatless equivalents of fare like meatballs, burgers and chicken wings. Rather than offer up an array of cola-anchored fountain beverages, Native Foods offers three unique $2.50 soft drink offerings. These include a berry and hibiscus-based iced tea, a watermelon agua fresca and a lavender lemonade. While floral scents were a bit hard to detect in the lemonade, this beverage was refreshing without being too sweet.

Michael ordered the $9.95 Greek Gyros bowl, featuring seitan, glutenbased protein, in place of the traditional lamb-beef hybrid. The high points included bright-tasting hummus accented by a lemon garlic sauce atop a foundation of fluffy quinoa. Less successful was the truly flat grilled flatbread, which lacked the pillowy appeal

of a well-executed pita.

No such concern arose with Allison’s $7.95 seitan meatball sub, which came atop a pleasingly crusty grilled baguette. Texturally, the meatballs were surprisingly true to their animal-based analogue. Fresh flavors of marinara sauce and creamy, dairy-free “cheese” helped amp the satisfaction quotient on this hot sandwich.

Additionally, a $1.95 side of sweet potato fries was beyond reproach, arriving hot, crisp and pleasantly sweet.

Another friend had previously recommended the $9.95 Soul Bowl, an inspired take on meatless fried chicken.

The faux poultry was darn close to indistinguishable from the real thing, and the seasoning was dead-on. Bits of kale and a generous hunk of cornbread served as a culinary tip of the hat to the dish’s Southern heritage. I’d definitely order this one again.

The $2.95 desserts were more of a mixed bag than the main courses. The cheesecake had a slicker texture than its dairy analogue, although the berry topping helped to distract from the mouthfeel. We sampled three cupcakes,

nother new spot is Bootstrap Brewing, which has recently launched a tasting room that is open from 3 to 8 p.m. at 6778 North 79th St. in Niwot (303-652-4186). This brewing operation currently serves pints and growlers of winning specialty brews such as the fiery Backfire chili beer, which is a fine complement to Mexican food. One brew with a unique historical backstory is the 1956 Golden Ale. This beer takes its name from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Steven Kaczeus Senior, father of Bootstrap’s “yeast whisperer,” Steve Kaczeus, participated in this revolution as a student at the University of Bucharest.

including a cardamom-scented number that we found overpowering. The chocolate version was comparable to other vegan preparations found in specialty cupcake shops, and Michael’s favorite was the vanilla one. He said, “I’d pay $7 for this one.”

In terms of both concept and execution, Native Foods does a remarkable job of providing tasty vegan fare to the masses, and even an unrepentant carnivore like Michael said he’d likely return.

Each dish we sampled came amply portioned, and all of us were struck by the fresh flavors and quality, which were a noticeable cut above most other fastcasual establishments.

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ership over the local landmark while catering to out-of-town visitors led the Martinellis to go beyond the borders of the sister city while forgoing the formulaic tourist fare.

“We wanted to do Tajik food,” Lenny says, but other than plov, the rice-based national dish, and a few other specialties, “there’s really not a whole menu of foods that you can attach to the country.”

Lenny took his experience with world food at Naropa Café and the Sister City International ideal of bringing cultures together to create a menu that serves as a cultural touchstone for different cuisines of the world and a springboard for the couple’s own growth as business owners.

By incorporating their love of locally sourced goods and the Boulder community, the success of the Teahouse has allowed the Martinelli’s Three Leaf Concepts to open a number of foodrelated businesses over the years. It has given residents the ability to imbibe local bounty while sampling far-off flavors, and led Lenny and Sara to take the leap from farm-to-table advocates to full-fledged food cycle entrepreneurs.

The ground beside Coal Creek along Highway 285 and South Public Road in Lafayette is a hodgepodge of organic experimentation that has been known as Three Leaf Farm since 2011.

The farm is the next logical leap for restaurateurs intent on providing true farm-to-table delivery. Tilled rows rife with vegetation and fresh eggs from 50 chickens go directly to the couple’s Boulder County restaurants.

This focus on growing their own food, as well as on conservation, recently got the Martinellis recognized by the Nature Conservancy. The Dushanbe Teahouse won a People’s Choice Nature’s Plate Award for favorite green restaurant in the Denver/Boulder area.

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and Three Leaf ’s own vegetarian niche eatery Leaf.

“We’re still figuring out how to do it,” Lenny says of bringing their version of “seed to plate” to fruition. “Now, we own all of this product coming off the farm. And in my constitution I cannot stand waste. I can’t tell nature to grow more slowly or grow faster, so we are actively changing our menus today to accommodate an abundance of some crops.”

The attitude that has allowed the Teahouse, one of the area’s top restaurant entities, and menus at Leaf neighbor Aji Latin American Cuisine on Pearl Street and The Huckleberry and Zucca Italian Ristorante on Main Street in Louisville to shift on the fly. By adapting to the garden item du jour, Three Leaf satisfies the tastes of local denizens while rigorously composting the waste for return to the ground that produced so many menu items.

“It only makes sense,” Lenny says.

“Because of the Teahouse, when we do a project we try to do authentic things.

We like to bring tradition to a lot of our plates. [Getting a farm] just seems to be where we’ve fallen in our role as restaurateurs.”

For his partner, the benefits of doing things right resonate long after a headstrong leap into the unknown.

“A lot of it is being involved in the natural cycle,” Sara says. “For me it’s more about a deep spiritual nurturing of your soul when you work with foods from the seed all the way through the harvest, and you prepare it for guests, and they leave being nourished. That nourishing energy flows throughout the entire process. What we have found is a lot more depth with us being involved in the growing aspect of it. It may sound a little Boulder-y, but it’s true.”

In an area known for both great food and stalwart environmentalism, a little Boulder-y is just fine.

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fter Qin Liu and Rong Pan graduated from the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business they saw an opportunity in Boulder. One of the things they had trouble finding was a cup of quality Chinese tea. Seeing the opportunity among the plethora of local shops, in 2006 they decided it was time to open their own business: Ku Cha House of Tea. “Boulder is a place where a lot of people like tea, drink tea and enjoy tea,” Liu says. “So we wanted to introduce more of Chinese tea culture here.”

The married couple would first have to create a relationship with tea farmers before they sold tea. Their first trip soon became an annual one, searching for the perfect tea from local, family-owned farms in southwest China.

“Small farmers produce very high quality, organic green tea,” Liu says.

They found the tea farms during their travels in China and through recommendations from friends. Chinese tea farms are small, and differ from those in other countries, which commonly have very large tea plantations.

The care that small farms put into their tea is what produces the high-quality product that Liu and Pan are looking for. When the couple visits a tea farm, they are shown how the tea is processed from a leaf to the finished product.

“We actually go out and pick tea with them,” Liu says. “They show us how they process the tea from start to end, the whole process. And then of course they will have teas for us to taste.”

Many people don’t realize that white, green, black, oolong and puerh tea are all derived from the Camellia sinensis plant.

The process of withering, rolling, oxidation and drying or firing determines what the leaf ultimately becomes.

Liu says that during one particular trip, he realized how labor-intensive tea picking and processing are.

They arrived at a small fami-

ly-owned tea farm like many times before, but that day they met the farmers just as they were getting back from their morning pick. The farmers laid the baby green tea buds on a tray before them. They discovered that a very large amount of tea leaves won’t yield much tea.

“After the fresh leaf is processed and dried, the whole tray will produce a very small amount of tea leaves, and you realize how precious they are,” Liu says. “They spent the whole morning and didn’t get a lot.

And you really appreciate the labor, the quality and everything.”

The freshest tea is picked in the spring, during the months of March and early April, when the leaves first start sprouting. During the summer months the tea quality has deteriorated due to the amount of water in the leaves.

“The freshness of the tea leaf determines the quality of the final product,” says Liu. Liu and Rong have to find a combination of the freshest tea leaves and the best processing techniques to find the high-quality tea they want in their shop.

Ku Cha has already sold around 1,000 kilos of its premium tea this year. Liu can only describe the amount of tea they import to the United States as “a lot,” since the amount they bring back varies year to year.

Even though Ku Cha features a lot of tea from China, it also carries tea from other parts of the world. Mate is a popular South American tea that Ku Cha acquires through a distributor.

“Tea drinking is not just a part of Chinese culture, but global culture,” Liu says.

He says he often wishes that there was more time for the shop to promote tea culture, not just tea as a product. Liu and Pan had one goal in mind when they opened their shop, an aspect of their store they plan to stay true to as long as it’s open.

“Not just show tea, but culture around tea,” Liu says.

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BEER AND A PIECE OF CHEESE

Kyle Hollingsworth of The String Cheese Incident is more than a musician. He’s a musician with a love of craft beer.

After three consecutive sold-out years, Kyle’s Brew Fest returns to the Boulder Beer Company on July 28 for craft beer exploration, music and fun. The event, which runs from 3 to 7 p.m., will feature more than 30 breweries and 60 craft beers on tap. Kyle’s love of music won’t be far from the mix, because the Kyle Hollingsworth Band will play an exclusive performance for festival-goers.

Tickets cost $25, with all proceeds going to Conscious Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment and fighting hunger.

Visit www.boulderbeer.com/events/kyles-brewfest for more information.

GLUTEN-FREE GRANOLA

Granola just got even better.

Fiona’s Natural Foods Inc., based in Longmont, is now offering its glutenfree granola at the Boulder Farmers’ Market.

The granola is made with certified gluten-free oats, and comes in three varieties: Almond Millet, Cranberry Flax and Sunflower Vanilla Coconut. The only sweetener is organic agave nectar, and the oil used is rice bran oil.

Founder Fiona Simon says she thought it was also time to create gluten-free granola and quinoa bars because there was such a high demand from customers. She is staying true to her commitment of only using natural ingredients, she says, and the bars are produced locally by hand in small batches to ensure quality.

The gluten-free granola can also be found at Lucky’s Market and the Niwot Market.

See www.fionasnaturalfoods.com for more information.

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Patxi’s Pizza serves both Chicago-style deep dish and Italian pizza. The restaurant will offer a myriad of fresh toppings, two styles of dough, four styles of mozzarella and more than 30 different meat and veggie toppings, with ingredients sourced locally when possible.

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The Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery

1535 Pearl St., Boulder 303-546-0886 Boulder favorite since the early ’90s, the Mountain Sun continues to dish out its winning combination of microbrews, salads and sandwiches. Burgers range from your standard-issue cheeseburgers to more distinctive selections like the brightly herbal basil blue cheeseburger. Other offerings, such as the tender Monterey chicken sandwich and hearty hummus starter, also hit the culinary mark.

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Noodle items include thick udon, as well as more svelte ramen, available in a variety of broths. Sushi selections are simple, eschewing such exotica as sea urchin roe in favor of crowd-pleasing staples like salmon and tuna. Can’t-miss selections include the $5 yellowtail and scallion sushi roll, as well as the shoyu (soy sauce) broth udon noodles.

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oused in the former site of Juanita’s on West Pearl, the new Pastavino is a winning exercise in fairly priced Italian classicism. Featuring entrees like veal legs, New York steak and baked fish cioppino, this eatery also unsurprisingly features a plethora of noodle dishes.

Daily pasta specials include the veal canneloni, a rich concoction of meat and cream sauce, and one can’tmiss item is the spaghetti vongole, featuring Manila clams in a perfectly balanced white wine sauce. The rare beef Carpaccio and Fritto Misto mix of fried calamari and bay scallops are noteworthy starters.

Thai Avenue Rice & Noodles 1310 College Ave., #220, Boulder 303-443-1737

espite Thai Avenue Rice & Noodle’s humble appearance, quick service setup and rock-bottom prices, it unquestionably stands as one of Boulder’s top choices for Thai.

Located in a basement food court on University Hill, this order-at-the-counter spot dishes out heaping portions of top-notch Pad Thai, with subtle hints of tamarind and egg. The red curry stands out for its winning complexity of flavor, punctuated by the perfume of fresh basil.

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3050 28th St., Boulder 720-328-4696 oulder’s recently opened Curry N Kebob features valuepriced Indian that’s served up quickly. At lunch, there’s a $7.95 special that includes a choice of one of about a halfdozen entrees — at least one is vegetarian — as well as rice, naan bread and dessert. Popular selections include the rich and herb-infused makhini, or butter chicken, and various kebobs, which include classic tandoori chicken and fish and shrimp variants.

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926 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-3535

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t’s easy to associate the West End Tavern with bar staples like chicken wings and beer, which are in fact available. But this association doesn’t acknowledge this eatery’s considerable acumen in replicating American cookout standards. Backto-basics choices like the Tavern burger, with its unpretentious pairing of Colorado’s Best Beef meat and aged cheddar, illustrate how the simple can create great satisfaction. Barbecued items from the smoker, such as pulled pork, beef brisket and ribs, are also worthwhile selections evoking summer tastes.

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ongmont’s Comida Cantina, the bricks-and-mortar spinoff of its namesake Mexican food truck, is a vibrant destination for South of the Border street food.

Diners can choose from a number of gorditas, tostadas and tacos served in the traditional street style. Top choices include the pork, slow-cooked in Stella Artois beer ; toothsome arrachera, a take on carne asada; and the hefty chorizo gordita.

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yons Fork provides a top-notch weekend brunch experience. Hospitable service, a bright and comfortable familyfriendly ambience, and skillfully prepared fare make for a lowkey but quality meal. Top choices include the Haystack goat cheese and zucchini fritters with a spunky aioli, and the hefty French toast, garnished with toasted almonds, sour cream and a pleasantly complex apple compote.

ne of the main attractions of The Louisville Rex is its expansive yet comfortable rooftop deck. This spot is reminiscent of a warm-weather resort spot and makes for either a fine staycation venue or just a place to knock back a few with friends after work. The bar food classics are another strong suit, and these include Buffalo chicken wings and a decidedly guilty pleasure, fried pickles.

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dhering to the ’50s eatery theme, the StarLite Diner and Lounge features burgers, sandwiches and pizza, as well as breakfast faves like French toast and Denver omelets. There’s also an assortment of ice cream treats, including milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes. New York pizza adherents will enjoy the thincrusted pies, and burger fans will appreciate the reasonably priced grass-fed offering.

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ocated a stone’s throw from Williams Village, Moe’s Original Bar B Que is the Boulder outpost of a ‘cue operation that originated in Alabama. It spotlights sandwiches and platters featuring such classic choices as brisket, pulled pork, hot links and fried catfish. One of the top choices is a platter of falling-off-the-bone ribs with bright fried green tomatoes and creamy banana pudding to finish.

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Are there are any weaknesses or problems in your approach to communication? They will be exposed in the coming weeks. If you’re even slightly lazy or devious about expressing yourself, you will have to deal with the karmic consequences of that shortcoming. If there’s more manipulativeness than love in your quest for connection, you’ll be compelled to do some soul-searching. That’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that you will have far more power than usual to upgrade the way you exchange energy with others. In fact, this could be the time you enter into a golden age of communication.

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If you narrow your focus now, the world will really open up for you in the second half of October and November. To the degree that you impose limitations on your desire to forever flow in all directions, you will free up creative ideas that are currently buried. So summon up some tough-minded discipline, please. Refuse to let your moodiness play havoc with your productivity. Dip into your reserve supply of highoctane ambition so you will always have a sixth sense about exactly what’s important and what’s not.

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The state of Maine has a law that prohibits anyone from leaving an airplane while it is flying through the air. This seems like a reasonable restriction until you realize how badly it discriminates against skydivers. Legal scholars will tell you that examples like this are not at all rare. Laws tend to be crude, one-size-fits-all formulations. And as I’m sure you’ve discovered in your travels, Leo, one-size-fits-all formulations always squash expressions of individuality. In the coming weeks, be extra alert for pressures to conform to overly broad standards and sweeping generalizations.

Rebel if necessary. You have license to be yourself to the tenth power.

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Can you guess which European country has the best military record in the last eight centuries? It’s France. Out of the 185 battles its soldiers have engaged in, they’ve won 132 and lost only 43. Ten times they fought to a draw. Of all the signs of the zodiac, Scorpio, I think you have the best chance of compiling a comparable record in the next ten months. Your warrior-like qualities will be at a peak; your instinct for achieving hard-fought victories may be the stuff of legends years from now. But please keep in mind what the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said in his iconic text The Art of War: The smart and powerful warrior always avoids outright conflict if possible, and wins by using slyer means.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

After consulting the astrological omens, I’ve concluded that during the next three weeks, you will deserve the following titles: 1. Most Likely to Benefit from Serendipitous Adventures; 2. Most Likely to Exclaim “Aha!”; 3. Most Likely to Thrive While Wandering in Wild Frontiers and Exotic Locales; 4. Most Likely to Have a Wish Come True If This Wish Is Made in the Presence of a Falling Star. You might want to wait to fully embody that fourth title until the period between August 9 and 14, when the Perseids meteor shower will be gracing the night skies with up to 170 streaks per hour. The peak flow will come on August 12 and 13.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

You may have to travel far and wide before you will fully appreciate a familiar resource whose beauty you’re half-blind to. It’s possible you’ll have to suffer a partial loss of faith so as to attract experiences that will make your faith stronger than it ever was. And I’m guessing that you may need to slip outside your comfort zone for a while in order to learn what you need to know next about the arts of intimacy. These are tricky assignments, Capricorn. I suggest you welcome them without resentment.

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My daughter Zoe has been writing some fine poetry these last few years. I regard it as professional-grade stuff that has been born of natural talent and developed through discipline and hard work. You might ask, quite reasonably, whether my evaluation of her literary output is skewed by fatherly pride.

I’ve considered that possibility. But recently, my opinion got unbiased corroboration when her school awarded her with the “All-College Honor” for her poetry manuscript.

I predict you will soon have a comparable experience. Your views or theories will be confirmed by an independent and objective source.

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The critic Dorothy Parker didn’t think highly of Katherine Hepburn’s acting skills. “She runs the emotional gamut from A to B,” said Parker. I realize that what I’m about to suggest may be controversial, but I’m hoping you will be Hepburnlike in the coming week, Pisces. This is not the right time, in my astrological opinion, for you to entertain a wide array of slippery, syrupy, succulent feelings. Nor would it be wise to tease out every last nuance of the beguiling vibes rising up within you. For the time being, you need to explore the pleasures of discerning perception and lucid analysis. Get lost in deep thought, not rampant passion.

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750 30th St. #8, Boulder

Monday -Sunday 9am-10pm | Drop-in or make an appointment

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– 2005, Burgundy. Asking $7,500

BODYWORK

Heart-Based Sensual Massage for Women and Couples.

Please Call 720-308-9355 for more info.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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LEGAL SERVICES

Experienced trial attorney will help you recover money for your auto accident injuries; help you deal with criminal charges; help you handle divorce or child custody. Call Matt Walker at 720-484-6396 or visit www.trueinjurylaw.com

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TICKETS ALL TICKETS - BUY/SELL NFL-NBA-NHL-NCAA-MLB WWW.DENVERTICKET.COM 303-420-5000 or 800-500-8955

PERSONAL SERVICES

SENSUAL MASSAGE By a beautiful blonde.

303-519-2614 Body Rubs at your Location or Mine …

720.253.4710

DELIGHTFUL Call between 7:30am-8:00pm 720-277-1215 A Nice Touch…

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HELP WANTED Driver Wanted Lee Yuan Chinese Cuisine. Full time or part time. Call Nancy 303-494-4210

HAIR EXTENSIONS IYExtensions

is offering discount hair extensions at affordable prices.

Starting at $60 located at JJ’s Hair Design (next to Safeway on Baseline) Call 303.554.0629

Music lessons Piano and Drum Lessons.

All ages / levels are now being accepted. Highly qualified instructor. Dr. Michael Barnett 303-818-2113

TO PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD Call 303-494-5511 x115

REAL ESTATE Land For Sale Price Reduced!! 35.93 Acres just South of Fairplay. Beautiful mountain views. Easy access to Ski Resorts and Mountain Towns. All utilities accessible. $35,000. Contact: Adell Shrout @ 303-494-9167 Property listed by Cherryvale Realty Immediate Debt Relief We take over house payments/Buy cash 720-935-2736 Dare to Dream!

San Luis Valley Homestead only $6k! 2 m. to hot springs, 1⁄4 mile off CO 17. Appox 500sq’ trailer & 2 adjoining 50x100’ lots. Elec .1 mile away, no convenants! Poss. owner carry w/50% down. drdaddio@ hotmail.com.

For Sale By Owner 3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Garage $379,000 Available 10.1.10 RV parking. Central location near 55th and Baseline. Rent w/ option to buy available with negotiable down payment. Call 720-536-8869 or 307-699-0779

piano man Available for all occasions.

Acoustic or digital piano, with or without vocals Dave Grimsland 720-841-1940

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COUNSELING

Home on 1 Acre in Boulder!

Lender owned 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Ranch, well water $338,900 Georgianna Dirga ERA HG 303579-0564

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400 W. South Boulder Rd. • Lafayette Plaza • 303.665.5599 www. herbalwellnesscolorado.com www.facebook.com/herbalwellnesslafayette Open 7 days a week • 9am-7pm

ONE STRAIN

Our

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NORMALLY $20 & $25

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H Lafayette Plaza Coal Creek Dr.

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S. Public Rd.

S. Boulder Rd.

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$25 1/8, $40 1/4, $80 1/2, or $150 OZ. REDEEM COUPON AT STORE

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We carry the very best Vaporizer Pen available, fully loaded with HUMMINGBIRD Brand Nectar In Stock Now: Purple Hawaiian, Great White Shark, OG2, U2 Bubba Kush ,Alpha Blue, Vortex, Orange Diesel, Bubba Kush, Bubba Gum, Dairy Queen, New Strains Weekly, 30 new strains coming in August.

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+ 8th Street Wellness +

SUMMER SPECIALS

Boulder’s Newest dispeNsary with a Few Familiar Faces (formerly

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Come by to check out our amazing new strains

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Various Specials Throughout the Week

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find us on facebook

OMC

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TOP SHELF STRAINS: $159 /oz. OR $5.25 /gram.

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50% discount on your first monthly 1/8th.

50% off 1/8th on your birthday.

WE PAY THE STATE RED CARD FEE FOR ALL MEMBERS

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$50.00

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Hours: Monday - Friday 11am - 6:45pm • Saturday 12pm - 6pm • Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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last word Percussion Extravaganza #4 AT THE OUTLOOK HOTEL Tuesday, July 31 • 7:30-10:00pm 303-402-0122

Divine Resonance Massage & Skin Care Please see ad on page 59.

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Piano and Drum Lessons

All ages / levels are now being accepted.

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See our ad on pg. 62 for current strains.

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WHERE NATURE & MEDICINE MEET

Best Indica: B-Well Kush

We are open 7 days a week

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I

is offering discount hair extensions at affordable prices.

Starting at $60 located at JJ’s Hair Design (next to Safeway on Baseline) Call 303.554.0629

HEALING ARTS CENTER

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Michelaii Massage

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Siam Sensation Massage 720-385-4840 See ad on page 59

CLONES

Now at The Bud Depot 138 Main St., Lyons

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HOLOS HEALTH - DR. JOE COHEN A holistic medical practice specializing in MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS We and our exceptional staff were voted Best of Boulder 2012 with our former practice and provide the expertise and experiene necessary for obtaining your MMJ card.

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$65 Renewals • $85 New $50 MMED Badge • $5 Notary & Processing Functional Medicine • Women’s Health Shamanic Energy Healing • Bodywork & Massage Online appointments at www.journey2life.org or call 720.273.3568

3970 North Broadway, Suite 201A, Boulder (Park FREE in Lucky’s Shopping Center, just above Dagabi)

5377 Manhattan Circle, Suite 204, Boulder • Hours by Appointment Mon-Fri 10-5

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specializing in smoke-free alternatives

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