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Your paper is refreshing

Thanks for the great article on p.

7 of the June 13 edition (“Monsanto Frankenwheat crops up in Oregon,” The Highroad).

So great to stay well-informed via your articles.

I also really appreciated the article “Venturing out of the box” (Adventure, June 13) — it was so insightful, on several levels, and made me laugh, as I gave up cube-ness a

the

Highroad Flagging the lies of Big Oil’s frackers on the 4th of July

by Jim Hightower

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ig Oil’s frigging frackers are wrapping their shameless profiteering in our flag.

In shale fields across the country, you’ll see fracking rigs festooned with Old Glory, and they even paint some of their rigs red, white and blue. This ostentatious patriotic pose is part and parcel of the industry’s cynical

while back as well.

I was so surprised that your publication is so full of relevant information and perspectives. We have lived out of state for a while, just returned.

We don’t read traditional news, and it was entirely refreshing to read your paper. I am seeing now that you are “dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice ...” etc., and isn’t that refreshing!

Excellent work, Boulder Weekly!

PR campaign to convince you and me that its assault on our health, water, air and economic future should be mindlessly saluted, rather than questioned.

Energy independence! is their deafening cry — this shale gas boom, they exclaim, will free America from dependence on foreign producers.

“Oh say can you see [through the frackers’ big lie?]” One who has peeked behind their star-spangled curtain is investigative digger Joel Dyer, editor of Boulder Weekly. What he uncovered is “one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on America.”

Far from independence, we’re going to get the pollution and other problems, but foreigners will get the energy, for the gas extracted from our fractured land is destined for the export market. How do we know that? First, because the industry and its government enablers admit it in their internal communications. But, secondly, guess who’s paying for the

Finally, a news publication I can read and feel that I am being “illumined” with truth and a thought-provoking perspective!

Thank you so much!

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Fear Amazon, not NSA

(Re: “NSA uses ‘terrorism’ to justify mass surveillance that started see LETTERS Page 8

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fracking of America? Dyer cites reports

by Bloomberg News that China has pumped $5.5 billion into the U.S. drilling “boom” — not only so it can export the energy back to its people, but especially so the Chinese can “redeploy the best U.S. practices and technologies” back to China.

Other foreign owners fracking us are Japan ($5.3 billion invested so far), India ($3.5 billion), France ($4.5 billion), as well as multi-billions more from Korea, England and even Norway.

Norway? Come on, America — don’t let the profiteers wrap you up in our own flag. It’s the 4th of July — let’s rebel!

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

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commentary Walmart is still bad for the planet

by Dave Anderson

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n May, Walmart was hit with $110 million in environmental fines after pleading guilty to improperly dumping pesticides, fertilizer and other hazardous materials into public sewers and landfills. The Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section said that it was the second-largest environmental criminal penalty ever imposed in U.S. history, after the $4 billion BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the result of a plea agreement that ended a nearly decade-old investigation involving more than 20 prosecutors and 32 environmental groups.

Walmart “put the public and the environment at risk and gained an unfair economic advantage over other companies,” Ignacia S. Moreno, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, said in a prepared statement.

This event clashes with the firm’s relentless, ad-heavy PR campaign about its sustainability initiative. Walmart has been quite successful in the mainstream media and with too many environmentalists.

Boulder’s online countercultural magazine Elephant Journal ran a piece asking if the city should “welcome a reformed Walmart into its Green-minded community.”

Last year, the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance issued a report called “Walmart’s Greenwash,” by Stacy Mitchell. She says that sustainability has been a growth strategy. In 2005, Walmart had gained a reputation for mistreating workers and suppliers. ThenCEO Lee Scott told The New York Times that improving labor conditions would cost too much. “Going green was a better option for repairing the company’s image,” Mitchell notes. “It offered ways to cut costs and, rather than undermining Walmart’s control (which would happen if workers had some say), sustainability could actually augment its power over suppliers.

Environmentalism also had strong 8 July 4, 2013

appeal among urban liberals in the Northeast and West Coast — the very markets Walmart needed to penetrate in order to keep its U.S. growth going.”

By 2010, the number of Americans with an unfavorable view of Walmart had fallen by nearly half, from a peak of 38 percent in 2005 to 20 percent.

The findings of the ILSR report indicate that the change in public perception wasn’t based on reality. Here are some of the findings: almart’s greenhouse gas emis•W sions are increasing rapidly. The company currently derives just 4 percent of its U.S. electricity from its wind and solar projects. At its current rate of adoption, Walmart will need roughly 300 years to reach its goal of 100 percent renewable energy. Meanwhile, other U.S. retailers are doing much better. There are some, like Kohl’s and Staples, which get all of their electricity from renewable sources.

•W almart has made little progress toward its goal of developing a sustainability index to rate consumer products.

•W almart hasn’t dealt with the habitat and climate impacts of its land development practices. The retailer continues to build sprawling stores on undeveloped land, often just a few miles from older, vacated Walmart stores. Mitchell found 152 abandoned Walmart stores in the U.S. listed as available for lease or sale on the company’s realty website. almart’s continuous drive for •W lower prices has driven suppliers to create lower-quality goods that must be replaced more frequently. For example, clothing has become much less durable and sturdy. Because clothes are so shoddily made today, we buy far more of them. The average consumer back in the midsee WALMART Page 11

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long before 9/11 and the Patriot Act,” News, June 20.) Really?

Spying? To watch or observe closely and secretly, with unfriendly purpose, really? Hell, Amazon has more information on U.S. citizens than the NSA will ever have.

The mere collecting of phone numbers, email addresses, etc., is not spying. Only if A. a legitimate law enforcement agency suspects an unlawful activity and then B. presents its evidence with probable cause to an independent federal court and then C. the court issues an order for surveillance. Once these steps are completed, the previously gathered data is used to determine who and what may be linked to potential criminal activity. It’s called law enforcement, and it’s been going on forever.

Current technology presents both problems and advantages, but to label this process as spying is nonsense.

There is as always a simple and straightforward solution. In this case, don’t be a criminal.

Ted Cackowsky/Broomfield Let’s see. The same people who vehemently advocate in favor of “profiling” in order to uncover those who enjoy life in America while not paying taxes are now apoplectic over the IRS “profiling” a political organization that overtly advocates against government and taxation, while applying for an IRS tax loophole to keep from paying taxes?

Can you say, really? Get over yourselves.

PJ Breslin/Rifle

Municipalization and netzero carbon emissions

When Boulder signed on to the goals laid out in the Kyoto Protocol [which essentially commits to greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels] we didn’t anticipate seeking netzero carbon emissions, just to rein in emissions as a starting point, then seek a sustainable energy future. Since the turn of the century [this century], however, a number of communities are leading the charge to net-zero energy supply as a viable means to pull overall emissions down. A big question in my head is whether all the trouble in wrestling for local energy control is worth it. Boulder’s emission wedges show us that electricity supply contributes 57 percent.

So that is a good place to focus if we want to move the fulcrum.

So is net-zero emissions even viable? Is local control the best analog for other communities to follow? If replicability is the overarching guiding vision in achieving lower emissions, then which is the simplest, quickest path? Let’s tackle the first question, and leave the second for another time.

There are a number of communities leading the way, not just to Kyoto targets but toward net-zero emissions in their energy supply. Take Germany deciding that solar without nuclear baseload is not only feasible but is achievable without a significant cost impact to their economy (a perceived competitive disadvantage to industry).

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We laughed, literally out loud, when we got the press release from CU bragging about how the university spent like 17 grand less on shutting down the campus’s 4/20 pot smokeout last spring than it did the year before.

Sure, $17,000 may sound like a lot of money to you and me, but it’s just a drop in the bucket when it comes to CU’s budget. They want us to be proud of them for spending only $107,794, down from $124,561 last year.

On fighting a drug that is now essentially legal in Colorado.

On an herb that has caused way more tax-generating pizza runs that it has injuries or deaths. (We all drive way slower and more carefully when high, right?)

And this was on a Saturday, when no classes are held, when there are hardly any research or educational activities to disrupt on campus.

Give us a break. The cost should have dropped to $17,000, not by $17,000.

The university should spend more on hiring additional good faculty — or hey, even better, reducing tuition — instead of shelling out six figures to serve as yet another nanny state in the city of Boulder.

Give us a nudge and pass the bong when the leaders of this university figure out that there is a natural secondary meaning for the term higher education.

Especially in Boulder.

Pot shot at Scott

Hey, everybody makes mistakes. Even journalists.

We know that comes as a tremendous shock to all of you, given that reporters rank maybe one notch above car salesmen, porta-potty peepers and lawyers in terms of bad reputations.

But in this case we have to admit, nostra culpa, we screwed up. In last week’s issue, we intimated that Secretary of State Scott Gessler would be running for re-election. Apparently, he is not. But hold your applause, please.

Instead, he is running for governor.

Again, hold your applause. Please.

But we were also assured by some who know him best, after running a bit of a slam piece on him in this space last week, that he is actually a solid, stand-up guy who might have made a few mistakes earlier in his career. So, sure, we’ll give him a second, er, fourth chance.

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Hey, if you missed the early screening of Josh Fox’s new fracking movie, Gasland 2, when the filmmaker showed it to a packed house in the University of Colorado’s Glenn Miller Ballroom on May 22, you may want to tune in to see the premiere on HBO at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 8.

This time, Fox takes an even broader and deeper look at fracking and other oil and gas operations, paying special attention to Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania.

He hits many of the topics that BW has been covering over the last couple of years, including the use of injection wells to dispose of wastewater and the export of natural gas overseas.

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through policy and financing solutions, all of which, by the way, are in support of local providers. How about Australia deciding that 100 percent renewable supply is economically feasible, with a carbon tax incentive of $50/tonne carbon dioxide. Heck, Secretary Chu and NREL released similar studies showing that not only is 100 percent renewable energy [RE] feasible, they also modeled up that over-built RE (to address the intermittency issue and high cost of energy storage) is economically viable, flying in the face of conventional wisdom. But closer to the local community question — who is doing it and who is talking about it: San Francisco (not the new Pope) has tried to municipalize more than once, and now has a 100 percent RE by 2020 goal supported through California’s Community Choice Aggregation law, which we don’t have here in Colorado; Palo Alto passed a ruling just this year that their electricity must be 100 percent carbon-neutral; Seattle also has aggressive net-zero goals (of course that’s always easier with a liberal supply of hydro); Toronto is pursuing 100 percent RE; and, of course, our brothers and sisters up the street in Fort Collins are piloting projects to figure out 100 percent local generation.

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Rep. Cory Gardner’s May 23 guest opinion in The Denver Post is a standard repetition of oil and gas industry talking points with all of the standard misrepresentations and biases.

The tired and patently incorrect claim that there has not been a single documented case of contaminated drinking water due to fracking is refuted by the 2011 EPA report on Pavillion, Wyo. There are other problems with Cory Gardner’s position. Because the current price of natural gas is so much cheaper in the U.S. than in foreign markets, the gas will inevitably follow the money and will be exported.

Resultant jobs will be predominantly temporary low-wage and itinerant, while huge wealth gets funneled to corporations and their shareholders.

Furthermore, energy prices will actually go up, not down, even as we become increasingly dependent upon this new “miracle” energy, natural gas.

Historically, nations that export their natural resources become banana republics, as vast, concentrated wealth inevitably corrupts political institutions. This process is currently under way in the United States.

Are you ready for it? Yes, wind, solar, biomass — renewables. This is where the real jobs and sustainable prosperity lies.

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1990s bought 28 items per year.

Compare that with the 59 items we buy today, throwing away 83 pounds of it annually, four times as much as we did in 1980.

•W almart and the Walton family finance anti-environment politicians, including some of the most powerful climate-change deniers in Congress.

Last year, Food and Water Watch released a report entitled, “Why Walmart Can’t Fix the Food System.”

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Walmart has become the largest food retailer in the U.S. One out of every three dollars spent on groceries in the U.S. goes to Walmart. The firm has driven consolidation and industrialization of the food system.

The report notes that “Walmart is the largest purchaser of American agricultural products, and as such it has considerable influence over which foods are available to the public, the methods in which these foods are produced and the prices paid to producers.”

Now Walmart is coming to Boulder with its private-label, factory-farm-produced organic milk and genetically engineered (GE) Monsanto sweet corn.

At what point will we say no?

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A reason to celebrate

Democracy still alive and well when citizens overcome corporate money

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he growing corporatization of America, the control that major companies and their lobbyists have over our elected officials, the back-room deals struck between the wealthy and the powerful.

These are things that can make one lament the power of the almighty dollar in this country, and sometimes cast doubt on whether the democratic republic our forefathers envisioned is still in there somewhere, under all of those bought votes.

The cynical among us might be tempted to give up in the face of uphill battles against wellheeled corporate interests. After all, what chance does the little guy have when taking on the Xcels, Monsantos and Encanas of the world?

Well, if a handful of local examples of democracy in action in recent years are any indication, the power of the people is still alive and well, at least in Boulder County.

In honor of the Fourth of July, Boulder Weekly decided to take a look at some of the inspiring grassroots efforts we have seen lately, efforts in which good, old-fashioned activism and volunteerism, against all odds, overcame extremely well-funded corporate opposition.

From fracking to municipalization to, of all things, a fiber-optic network in Longmont, we have seen several instances recently of the will of the common folk emerging victorious, despite tremendous challenges posed by industry and its money.

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hat a difference a month makes.

On May 21, the Boulder County commissioners decided not to extend a 16-month-old moratorium on new applications for oil and gas drilling. At that time, only Commissioner Elise Jones supported the idea; commissioners Deb Gardner and Cindy Domenico did not.

But four weeks later, on June 18, the board decided to extend the moratorium for another 18 months, making it official in a resolution approved unanimously two days later.

So what changed? In the face of notso-veiled threats of lawsuits from the likes of state agencies, industry groups and oil and gas companies (including the Colorado attorney general’s office, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association and Noble Energy), what on Earth would make the commissioners make such a radical shift?

Well, some say the power of the people played a role in convincing the commissioners to stand up to such powerful interests. Virtually every oil/gas hearing the commissioners have had in the past year and a half has seen standing-room-only crowds packing the board’s hearing room, bearing anti-fracking signs and even being disruptive enough on at least one occasion Boulder Weekly

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A behind-the-scenes look at what made county commissioners change their minds on oil/gas moratorium

by Jefferson Dodge to prompt the commissioners to suspend the proceedings and walk out.

In addition, during that four-week period in May and June, opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other oil/gas extraction methods suspected of posing air and water quality health risks, sent the commissioners thousands of emails, including 1,100 in the week leading up to the vote, according to Neshama Abraham of the Sierra Club Indian Peaks Group.

Jones acknowledges that the vast amount of public feedback opposed to oil and gas operations like fracking played a part in the board’s decision.

“I can’t speak for my fellow commissioners regarding the specific factors impacting their decision-making on this particular issue,” she told BW. “But I do think I probably speak for all of us in saying that one of the top responsibilities of an elected official is representing your constituents and actively listening to their

views and concerns. So absolutely, public input is a critical piece of any major policy decision. That’s how democracy works.

“And on the fracking issue,” Jones continues, “we had a significant amount of public comment, both in person at hearings and via emails, and the overwhelming majority of comments supported a moratorium extension. Of course that played a role, as did scientific data and studies, legal analysis and other policy factors.”

Legal defense n the legal analysis front, Abraham says the commissioners made it clear they needed a legally defensible position, so she enlisted the help of a couple of environmental attorneys, and the three of them held individual meetings with each commissioner, county attorneys and other county staff in an effort to assure them they were on solid legal ground in extending the moratorium.

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“We were quite the team,” Abraham says. “I felt like they wanted to extend it, but didn’t know how to do it, so we said, ‘We’ll help you.’”

Those attorneys, Eric Huber, senior managing attorney for the Sierra Club’s Environmental Law Program, and Dan Leftwich of MindDrive Legal Services, say they looked at multiple fronts on which an extended moratorium might be challenged, and found legal precedent protecting the county for each one.

The justification for the first moratorium was the time needed for the county to develop new oil and gas regulations. Now that those regs have been completed, the question was, could the county justify an extension of the moratorium because of the need to wait for the science to catch up with possible health threats posed by possible air and water pollution?

First, Huber and Leftwich say, the argument that this could be seen as a “takings” issue — illegally depriving mineral owners of access to their property — was dealt a blow June 5, when a judge dismissed a takings claim in the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s lawsuit against the city of Longmont and its fracking ban.

“I think that was very significant,” Huber says. “All I did, on behalf of the Sierra Club, was to reassure them that there should be no valid takings claims See ABOUT FACE Page 14

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against the county, because those were the big-money issues they were concerned about.”

Another area in which they identified precedent was previous cases of government agencies issuing lengthy moratoriums in the name of protecting the citizens from possible health and safety threats.

Then there was the issue of whether there was any “operational conflict” between what the county was doing and state’s rules, in which case the state trumps the local government. Leftwich points out that when the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved new setbacks from oil and gas operations recently, it acknowledged it didn’t have enough data on possible health impacts, so it launched a five-year study on the topic. That acknowledgement is consistent with, not in conflict with, the county’s position that more time is needed to study possible health threats, Leftwich argues.

Finally, county officials needed confidence they had the authority to extend the moratorium, and Leftwich says the Colorado Constitution, which the commissioners swear to uphold, refers to protecting the life, liberty and safety of the people.

“They not only have the authority, they have a constitutional duty,” he asserts.

Huber says that while the attorneys’ input might have played a role in the commissioners’ decision, a far bigger factor was the public outcry.

“I think this shows the power of the citizens to get their voice heard and their decisions made,” he told BW. “I think the most compelling argument that was made was the 500 people packing that chamber. … I think that’s really what happened here. You’re seeing it here, you saw it in Longmont. You’re seeing it in other municipalities too. You’re getting a real conflict between oil, gas and pollution and people’s quality of life. The real conflict here is between people’s quality of life and these big, moneyed corporate interests.”

Planning Commission vote ll involved also agree that the Boulder County Planning Commission’s June 5 vote to recommend the extension of the moratorium — instead of attempting to slow oil and gas drilling through a “phasing” approach — was key in changing minds on the board.

“I think that’s when the tide turned,” Abraham says.

The planning commission voted 4-3 to not endorse the phasing approach,

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which would have limited companies to submitting one application at a time for new pads or wells. Some commission members expressed concern that, since companies can drill a dozen wells on one pad, and could create multiple subsidiaries to file for applications, the phasing approach would not be effective enough at slowing the rate of drilling. After voting down that plan, they voted unanimously to recommend extension of the moratorium, much to the delight of most of the audience.

Planning commission member Pat Shanks was the one who suggested recommending the extension of the moratorium instead.

“If there was a single person who turned that ship around, it was him,” Abraham says. “He’s my hero.”

“It seemed like this thing wasn’t ready for prime time,” Shanks says of the phasing approach, noting that it could have allowed for new pads being approved every two months. “So we didn’t think it was airtight, or would work very well.”

Shanks adds that another reason for voting down the phasing plan and recommending the extension of the moratorium was it was evident that county staff were not prepared to conduct baseline water and air quality measurements.

The county commissioners agreed.

“I think they picked up on our recommendation of taking enough time to get a good testing procedure in place,” he says, adding that while it’s possible that the county will be sued over the moratorium, “sometimes you just need to make a decision based on what you think is right. I’m really happy the commissioners did what they did.”

Shanks agrees that the public outcry played a role in the board’s decision.

“There’s no doubt, when you have 300 people show up for a meeting, and they get 1,000 emails, that’s definitely an indication that the public is behind it, and they have to pay attention to it,” he says. “I think the process worked, and I was happy about that.”

Commissioners reflect on decision ones says that, aside from the public input, there were several primary reasons why she supported extending the moratorium. The first was a study presented to the Regional Air Quality Council, which

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includes representatives from nine counties, showing that all air pollutants along the Front Range are on the decline except one: oil and gas emissions, which are “increasing rapidly,” according to Jones.

“The fact that we don’t have a handle on this growing problem helped underscore the fact that we’re in this place of seeing a big oil and gas boom creep across the east county line, into Boulder County, and greatly exacerbate a public health problem with the air quality that exists now, and that would only get worse,” she says.

Jones says the fact that county staff need at least 18 more months to collect baseline air and water quality data, and make sure they were prepared to deal with any leaks or emission problems, also played a role in the board’s decision.

“That was very influential as well, to say, ‘Wow, that’s how much time we need to get our ducks in order, if we want to say to the residents of Boulder County that we think you’re protected.’”

Then came the planning commission recommendation, and the realization that the phasing approach wouldn’t have slowed the drilling enough.

“At that point, I think it became clear to all the commissioners that the only real choice we had to assure that we were fully protecting our citizens and operating from a data-driven place was to extend the moratorium, get more information, study the impacts and get in place a great monitoring system,” Jones says.

She downplayed the worries that the moratorium will get challenged in court.

“The legal concern was not that we were going to get sued, because Boulder County, frankly, gets sued all the time,” she says. “It’s that you need to be responsible to make sure you don’t set bad legal precedent for ourselves and other jurisdictions. … The legal risk is that a court could say you don’t have the justification to go any further [with the moratorium], and then all of a sudden you’ve put a time limit on local government moratoriums that didn’t exist before.

“But at the end of the day,” Jones explains, “it wasn’t the legal issues that swayed the outcome, it was that the tradeoffs were such that it was more important to make sure we were protecting public health.”

Commissioner Gardner agreed in an interview that the key elements that

changed her mind included the air quality study, the likely ineffectiveness of the phasing approach, the planning commission’s recommendations — and public comment.

“I think that’s always important,” she says of the feedback the board received.

“There was an overwhelming number in favor of extending the moratorium. Any time you make a decision you want to hear what the public thinks about it.”

Commissioner Domenico told BW that factors in her decision-making process included the fact that the state legislature passed only two of 10 bills that would have addressed concerns related to oil and gas operations, and those two were “the least impactful, in terms of health and safety.” She agreed that the recent air quality study and questions about the county’s preparedness for implementing its new oil and gas regulations played a role as well.

Domenico also acknowledged that public input was a factor.

“I really appreciated the folks who referred to scientific studies and data, more than the emotional outpouring,” she says. “And believe me, I completely empathize with the emotional outpouring, because I know people are worried and afraid and not sure what the impact, eventually, of this industrial industry in an urban environment will be.”

Domenico has personal, firsthand knowledge of the impacts of oil and gas operations. Her parents, who own farmland in Boulder County, signed a lease with the Martin Oil Company decades ago, when income was tight. The company drilled two wells on their property in the early 1990s, then re-fracked them several years later, according to Domenico.

“That is exactly the thing that helps me empathize with people who are concerned about what could happen,” she says. “It was a very painful experience, actually. … Imagine what it would be like if it were you, and you saw the devastation of the trucks rolling in, and the road being created across farmland, and the impact of the area, the acreage, that is lost to the well site. It has an impact on family farmers who believe in conservation of land and protection of natural resources.’”

While Domenico says she doesn’t let her personal experience with oil and gas drilling sway her public-policy decisions, it’s clear that what happened to her family’s farmland had a profound impact.

“The noise and the lights and all of that, at the time those things were happening, that was very traumatic for people,” she says.

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he political ads were so ubiquitous it was almost like it was a presidential election.

Sometime in 2011, as the citizens of Boulder were deciding whether to take the first step towards municipalizing the electric utility, Xcel Energy’s partner in anti-municipalization, the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition, paid to produce a series of “Harry and Louise” commercials warning residents against the dangers should they vote yes. In them, a couple squabbles over various power-related issues as the lights flicker on and off, bemoaning the higher prices and frequent outages wrought by municipalization. The wife constantly threatens to leave the husband and withholds sex because he voted to municipalize.

The commercials were seemingly everywhere, on TV and on the Internet, in the weeks before the vote.

It was part of a spending campaign on the anti-municipalization side that wound up totaling around $967,000.

The pro-municipalization side, by comparison, via three groups — the Boulder Smarter Energy Coalition, the Campaign for Local Energy and Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future — spent a little more than $100,000. And yet despite the massive expenditures by Xcel and others (of that $967,000, $960,000 came from Xcel), Boulder residents approved the two measures by the slimmest of margins, kickstarting the municipalization process that continues to this day. And it was a massive grassroots effort from a small group of nonprofits that paved the way for the passage of the measures.

Steve Fenberg, executive director of New Era Colorado, mobilized around 300 volunteers and initiated a massive voter outreach campaign. He and his organization formed an issue committee, Boulder Smarter Energy Coalition — a jab at the anti-municipalization Boulder Smart Energy Coalition — and got to work.

“We got involved in a significant

way [in] late summer 2011, July or August. Fairly late in the election cycle,” Fenberg says.

As he was watching both sides hash out their arguments, he realized the issue could potentially reverberate outside Boulder.

“It wasn’t just a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our community, it was a way to set an example of how communities could take things in their own hands,” Fenberg says. “We thought this was a pretty cool local example of how communities could do something and how it could be replicated across the country.”

New Era volunteers knocked on doors, made phone calls and registered and engaged younger voters, who typically don’t vote in off-year elections, Fenberg says.

But they weren’t the only ones knocking. The Boulder Smart Energy Coalition hired a group called Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach (RMVO) to go door-to-door to spread the antimunicipalization word. A man hired by RMVO, Landon Bain, wrote a letter to Boulder Weekly, published the week of the election, saying that he quit after he felt he was being asked to “spread lies.” An RMVO spokesman denied the allegations, pointing out that Bain had connections to New Era Colorado and accusing him of dirty politics, but it was a final salvo of sorts that marked the intensity of the election, which Boulder City Clerk Alisa Lewis would later say was the most expensive in the city’s history.

The election was conducted solely through mail-in ballots that year, and so the county had already counted many ballots by the time the voting deadline had passed. Fenberg had an idea that his group’s efforts would pay off the closer they got to election day, but the first round of ballots the county released showed a disheartening discrepancy in favor of the anti-municipalization side. Disheartened, Fenberg braced the troops for the worst.

“We kind of had this moment. We were like, ‘Oh, OK, that’s what this is Boulder Weekly

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going to be like,’” Fenberg recalls. “I gave a speech to the volunteers that they worked so hard; whether we win or lose, we all did something important.”

But at the group’s election party, as the votes came in, the votes in favor of municipalization began to climb, eventually surpassing those against. In the end, Issue 2B passed with 50.4 percent of the vote, and Issue 2C passed with 51.93 percent. New Era and its partners had secured a hard-fought victory, despite being outspent nearly 10 to 1

by Xcel.

The municipalization fight is far from over, as the 2011 vote ostensibly was just to give the city permission to explore municipalization options. Since then, there has been jostling back and forth over which substations the city must condemn, the city’s cost projections for energy pricing, which customers in

unincorporated parts of the county would be roped into Boulder’s energy utility, and so on. Groups like New Era might have to mobilize once more for this year’s election. On Friday, June 28, an anti-municipalization group called Voter Approval of Debt Limits submitted 7,500 signatures to the city clerk in order to force another vote on municipalization in November.

Fenberg says it will be tough this year, as fighting to counter money in politics is always difficult when you’re the underdog.

“One thing that we always say, that we’re saying this time, is that Xcel is going to have the war chest, but we’re going to have the army,” Fenberg says.

“The only way to fight money in politics is with people, so that’s what we’re going to do.”

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s organizers drew together for the campaign to ban fracking in Longmont, they faced a slew of obstacles, from explicit threats of lawsuits by the governor to being out-fundraised by the oil and gas industry by about $18 for every $1 donated to their campaign — and the industry’s campaign spending came out to $10 per active voter.

But when election day 2012 came, it saw Question 300, a ballot question on whether to ban fracking within Longmont city limits, pass with the decisive majority of votes: 59.9 percent. It passed in 50 of 55 voting precincts.

“Grassroots, of course, is extremely important, especially when you’re battling both government and industry like oil and gas,” says Kaye Fissinger, campaign manager for Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, the campaign for Question 300.

The barrage of television ads, glossy mailers and the dozen or so full-page ads paid for by the campaign against Question 300, run by the political issue committee Main Street Longmont, actually created suspicion about the campaign among Longmont voters, she says. They’d seen big money at work in their camBoulder Weekly

paigns before (see “Fiber power,” page 19) and weren’t having it again.

So Fissinger and her campaign took a more personal approach: The campaign made a goal of having one-on-one contact, face-to-face or by phone, with every active voter in the precincts they were targeting. That meant turning to more than 100 volunteers to knock on 8,000 doors, make 5,000 phone calls and distribute 12,000 pieces of literature.

“Most of the people involved were not seasoned activists, they were people who were just concerned for their health, their family’s health, their quality of life, their property values, and I don’t think most of them even understood what it was going to take to do that when they undertook it, because it really was a herculean effort,” Fissinger says.

And while Our Longmont saw total cash donations of just under $25,000, Main Street Longmont reported $443,483.40 in donations. Many of their donors — the American Petroleum Institute, Encana, Chevron and Nobel Energy — donated more to the Main Street Longmont campaign than the total amount Our Longmont received during the entire campaign.

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Without hesitation, Fissinger says yes, she thought the campaign would be successful. They couldn’t afford polling to see how their efforts were working among voters, and relied on feedback gathered through phone banking and time spent with boots on the ground, but it seemed positive, and she even wondered if they’d approach that 60/40 split in the days coming up to the elections.

“I knew it was going to take a lot of work, but I felt like we were on the right side of history,” Fissinger says.

“I like to think of our democratic system as a scale, and this is how we think of it as a scale,” says Sam Schabacker, mountain west director for Food and Water Watch and a member of the steering committee for Our Longmont. “On one side, the oil and gas industry can pile on as much money as they want, it’s certainly more than we’ll ever be able to raise, and the other side is people and their votes. That’s what this is about. It’s communities versus corporations, and I think there’s no substitute for what we did in Longmont.”

The campaign drew from knowledge of the commuJefferson Dodge nity itself — Fissinger became an activist shortly after moving to Longmont in 2006, and Schabacker, who says he’s been organizing for a decade, grew up near Longmont.

The timing also just barely worked out. The two agreed that if it had been just a couple of weeks later when they found out about Leland Keller of fracking initially, Longmont at a November 2011 in a proposal for Longmont City TOP Operating Council meeting to drill on open space near Longmont, they might not have succeeded.

Now, both Fissinger and Schabacker are involved in Protect Our Colorado, an organization working to support antifracking movements around the state.

The three-pronged goals of Protect Our Colorado are to hold Gov. John Hickenlooper accountable for his role in

protecting citizens instead of cheerleading for oil and gas development, work against legislation that protects companies over people and support local efforts to ban fracking. The organization is also planning a large action for the Democratic governors’ gathering in Aspen on July 13 to make the case that, as Schabacker says, “Good governors don’t frack their people.”

The group is pro-safety, pro-health, pro-Colorado’s economy, he says, and the goal is to keep the state a great place to live for future generations.

“A lot of the folks who are involved in fracking are not dyed-in-the-wool activists,” Schabacker says. “These are teachers, retirees, people who moved to Colorado and want to keep this a great place to live, and they think there’s something fundamentally wrong in placing this industrial activity right where their kids are going to school or where they’re raising their families.”

Protect Our Colorado has members from Adams, Boulder, Huerfano, Elbert and Routt counties, and cities that include Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Loveland. ProCo members are keeping an eye on the ongoing petition drives in Loveland, Lafayette, Broomfield and Fort Collins to put fracking moratoriums on the ballot this fall.

“When you have a success like this,” Fissinger says of Question 300, “it gives courage to others and reinforcement to others that they’re not alone.”

The judge handling the lawsuit over the fracking ban has recently approved a motion to intervene filed by Our Longmont, meaning they’ll be able to pursue defending their case even if the city decides it’s time to back down from defending the ban — a decision that falls to city council, the composition of which can change with this year’s elections.

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When it’s going up against corporations and their trade associations that have shown they aren’t afraid to bend the truth.

That was the case for the City of Longmont in 2011, when its voters considered whether to allow the city to use its own fiber-optic network. Question 2A that year asked voters to approve the city’s use of the fiber-optic network it already had installed, rather than only allowing outside companies to use it. The network was largely unused at the time, as a state law restricted who could use it.

The question would essentially establish a city-owned telecommunications and cable utility, much like Longmont’s long-standing electric utility, or allow the city to contract with a third party.

Opponents of the measure — a group that called itself Look Before We Leap — argued the network would be too costly and would expose the city to a “risky experiment” that would cost the city “as much of your tax dollars as it needs.”

At the time, the director of Longmont Power and Communications, Tom Roiniotis, told Boulder Weekly that such arguments were taking liberties with the truth. He said the eventual municipal telecommunications entity, if one were created, would have to fund itself, not draw from city funds.

But that didn’t stop the campaigning of Look Before We Leap, which ultimately spent $385,000 on mailers, TV ads, door-to-door canvassers and phone calls trying to defeat the measure. The group’s pamphlets employed scare tactics in a very literal sense: Halloween-style fonts asked potential voters if they “Want to hear a scary story?” before ripping the municipal telecommunications idea as “a money pit” and “a highly speculative venture.”

The funding for Look Before We Leap all came from one place, according to its campaign filings with the City of Longmont: the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association. The CCTA, a trade group representing multiple telecom companies, including Boulder Weekly

Comcast, Turner and Optimum, donated $385,000 to Look Before We Leap and was listed as its only donor. CCTA’s spending on the Longmont ballot question dwarfed the group’s spending on any statewide issue or candidate in the past decade, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which tracks political spending on its website www.FollowtheMoney.org. The trade group spent only $171,000 in total on state ballot measures and candidates between 2003 and 2012.

Meanwhile, facing this industryfunded group with deep pockets was: nobody.

“There were no groups organized and collecting/spending money in support of the ballot issue,” says Valeria Skitt, Longmont’s city clerk, in an email responding to a request for the financial reports of any groups in favor of Question 2A. Look Before We Leap made an argument that a city-sponsored mailer to voters amounted to campaigning for the measure, because the city’s pro/con list was slanted toward the pro side, but the city maintained the pamphlet was neutral, and Look Before We Leap did not pursue the complaint. Various community and business leaders, including thenMayor Bryan Baum, spoke out in favor of the measure. In the end, even without any group spending money trying to pass Question 2A, the measure passed with more than 60 percent of the votes.

Since the vote, the city’s power utility has expanded to cover communications.

And in May, staff of Longmont Power & Communications presented a feasibility study to city council covering the next steps in providing city-owned broadband services to Longmont residents. A survey included in the feasibility study found that Longmont residents have a positive view of the city’s ability to provide power that would likely transfer to the communications realm. The city is also shooting for a 20 percent discount over Comcast prices to draw in new customers.

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In a CSA, members sign up in advance for a season’s share of goods from a farm’s harvest, receiving their portion weekly.

The CSA, which launched on June 17 and lasts 26 weeks, is separate and independent from the former Grant operation, but involves individuals who worked with the farm. It was originally called “Sixdog Farms,” after the poultry operation that had been affiliated with Grant, but business manager Josh Hall says the farm recently obtained the intellectual property rights to return to using the Grant Farms name, database, website and social media accounts.

Hall says the CSA currently only has a couple of hundred members, a far cry from only a year ago when Grant Farms had nearly 5,000 members and was one of the biggest CSAs in the country.

He acknowledges that the current operation is limited in its ability to grow, partially because of the small parcel of land it is using, but the new CSA has re-created partnerships with several of Grant’s previous providers.

It is offering fruit shares, egg shares, microgreen shares from Raspberry Hill Farms, mushroom shares from Hazel Dell Mushrooms, and cheese shares from Windsor Dairy, MouCo Cheese and Haystack Dairy. Hall says the CSA will also have partnerships with Western Slope growers for fruits and vegetables later in the season, with fruit shares going on sale in mid-July.

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used on a limited basis to grow crops like rhubarb and tomatoes, due to the CSA’s relatively late start in the growing season. Hall says the growers hope to have more produce available by the time autumn rolls around.

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by Grant is now used by Localization Partners, a for-profit company launched in August 2011 by Boulder County-based Transition Colorado to help fund local food and farming enterprises. Transition Colorado gave Grant a $1.5 million loan last year to keep the farm afloat, money that was raised from investors and now must be repaid, and gained control of farming the land after Grant Farms went bankrupt. Michael Brownlee of

Localization Partners says the 437 acres is being farmed by Dave Asbury of Full Circle Farms, which is now the largest organic farm operation in the state. He says the squash, spinach, cilantro, lettuce, kale, beets, chard and green beans being raised on those former Grant acres are being sold to retail and wholesale customers and are being kept local as much as possible.

Brownlee says he expects it to take three years for profits from the farm operation to fully reimburse the investors who lost money when Grant went belly up.

“To get our investors paid back, we’re farming,” he says.

The new Grant Farms CSA has more than three dozen host locations,

or places where members can pick up their share of the harvest, along the Front Range between Colorado Springs and Cheyenne, Wyo., and many of them are the same ones Grant used previously, Hall says. He adds that former Grant Family Farms owner Andy Grant has no financial or employment ties to the new group, but the CSA is leaning heavily on him for farming expertise and counsel. Hall says Grant is staying connected to the operation, just not the business side.

“He’s a dig-in-the-dirt kind of man,” Hall says of Grant.

The new CSA, which is owned

by Sixdog Farms operator Nick DiGiorgio, jumped at the chance to get the Grant name back, Hall says, because despite the fact that it’s a brand that has been somewhat blemished because of media coverage surrounding the bankruptcy, “there are tons of adamant supporters out there” after being in business more than 30 years.

Brownlee says the Grant Farms name and trademark were put up for sale by the bankruptcy court, but Localization Partners wasn’t interested.

Now that the new CSA has bought it back, it “creates great confusion now” because the lion’s share of what used to be Grant Family Farms is now being used by Asbury’s Full Circle Farms.

Still, he says, “the dust is pretty settled on the legal wranglings.”

Similarly, Hall expresses a desire to move on.

“It’s something we have to remove ourself from and step away,” he says.

For more information on the new iteration of Grant Farms and its CSA, visit grantfarms.com. More about Full Circle Farms is available at www.fullcircleorganicfarms.com.

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“The incomparable beauty of the Rockies and easy access to public lands, clear-running streams, and clean mountain air are critical to our image and marketing; they inspire us to make some of the most popular beers in the world and they attract a lot of people to come try them,” the letter reads. “As a former brewer, you know that the most important ingredient in good beer is good clean water!”

The letter, signed by representatives from Boulder’s own Asher, Shine and Wild Woods breweries, also cites craft beer’s $446 million contribution to the state’s economy and the 6,000 jobs created. It closes by asking the governor to consider the same quality in energy resources as brewers have long encouraged among beer drinkers: Enjoy responsibly.

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This is true despite occasional grumbling by the singletrack set. Sure, mountain bikers won’t get to taste the charms of the Mesa Trail anytime soon, but once you’ve tired of riding Walker Ranch or Marshall Mesa, instead of grumbling about lack of access, put some energy into something better: planning a road trip to some of the amazingly varied and high-quality riding that lurks within a day’s drive of the Boulder Bubble.

Indian Creek/Waterton Canyon Mountain bikers often compare the attitudes of Boulder city and county land managers to the “access for everyone” approach Jefferson County has taken. It’s true that Jefferson County has invested in plenty of multi-use trails, and is welcoming to mountain bikers. This approach is reason enough to take your bike (and your wallet) south of Morrison to sample some of the great riding that our neigh-

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A good place to start is the Indian Creek/Waterton Canyon trail.

Combining U.S. Forest Service trails with access via Denver Water District lands, as well as some singletrack inside Roxborough State Park, you’ll ride through terrain that’s home to Bighorn sheep, mule deer and more than 40 species of birds. It’s a Front Range gem, which also takes in a part of the Colorado Trail. Once you’re done with riding, bust out the pocketbook for lunch and a beer at the nearby Waterton Tavern.

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Sure, there’s some use on weekends, but less than you’d see on the trails around Boulder, and it is positively empty on weekdays. Add in some good camping options, and you have a sweet singletrack escape that’s well worth the drive.

Rabbit Valley Moab gets hot in the middle of July, and Rabbit Valley is not much different. But the difference lies in the fact that Moab gets crowded. Very, very crowded. So, for those who love the dry air and warm nights in the desert without crowds and pay-perHappy Jack/Pole Mountain night controlled camping, Colorado’s The Happy Jack area features single- Rabbit Valley provides the perfect track Wyoming style, with fast, rolling antidote to the hordes that blast past terrain north of Fort Collins. This area is the area en route to Utah. This area used for XC skiing in the winter, with has always been popular with locals: trails that translate perfectly into crossThey camp in the area and rip around country mountain biking in the summer. on dirt bikes and ATVs. For some, Riding here features plenty of loops, that’s a turn-off. But it’s worth multiple spurs and options in a classic remembering that dirt bikers don’t care Our Entire Inventory of Clothing, Footwear, Western setting of aspens, mountain what you ride, and you’ll not get a Camp & Travel Gear & Sunglasses meadows and pine forests.

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Abajo Mountains Too far south and too quiet for the Moab crowd, Monticello sits at the base of the Abajo (or Blue) Mountains. Lush, with wildflowers and aspen glades, this intimate mountain range features a variety of dirt roads, trails and tracks that climb from the desert into the peaks, the tallest of which, Abajo, stands at 11,360 feet. Monticello’s 7,066-foot elevation means that it’s possible to ride comfort-

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Ridge Trail, which tops out at approximately 11,000 feet, high enough to leave even strong riders gasping. Or Trail 20, a 50-mile slog that was created by dirt bikers but which also gives those beasts who thought Shay was too easy the opportunity to test themselves.

For the rest of us, there are a variety of singletrack options as well as easy cruisers like Geyser Pass road, which crosses the range.

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adventure Your grandma climbed one last weekend, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that 14ers are kind of a big thing in Colorado.

Colorado boasts 54 independent peaks above 14,000 feet of elevation.

That’s more than half of all 14,000-foot peaks in the country. Trails rate in difficulty from class one (relatively easy hiking) all the way up to class five (experienced climbers wanted).

If you’re not a dedicated hiker, climber or skier, the odds are you’ve

never been above 14,000 feet outside an airplane. Daunting though it may seem, just about anyone can make it to the top with a little preparation, a free day and a touch of determination.

What to expect when you’re ascending Colorado’s obsession with the outdoors means there are plenty of places to get information. Guidebooks and websites offer advice on every 14er in the state, complete with pictures, personal stories, videos and fascinating trivia.

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The two most popular guidebooks to fourteeners are Gerry Roach’s Colorado Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs and the classic two-volume set of Dawson’s Guide to Colorado Fourteeners. Both offer locations of trailheads, multiple routes, difficulty ratings and general advice. Dawson’s Guide, by Louis Dawson III, also offers information on skiing down these behemoths, a feat many backcountry enthusiasts pursue. General guides to hiking and climbing in Colorado often offer more limited information on select 14ers.

The website www.14ers.com provides much of the same information, along with trip reports of recent climbs, descriptions of current snow conditions and discussions with experienced hikers and climbers.

Videos from other hikers can also be helpful in knowing what to expect.

Blow your mind, not your afternoon Weather in Colorado can change at a moment’s notice, and nowhere is that more true than the high altitudes of the mountains. At www.14ers.com, hikers can find the latest weather information from the National Weather Service and NOAA. Even in the summer, hikers can experience snow, wind and cold. Packing a variety of layers that you can add or remove will make the trip much more comfortable. While companies like Go-Lite and Patagonia offer some great options, your closet probably already contains everything you need for your first 14er. If you plan on summiting more than one, investing in half-zip pants, base layers and light, portable clothing is a smart decision.

And if you see storm clouds rolling in, don’t be afraid to turn around and try again another day.

Rise and shine Above 13,000 feet, even the most experienced Boulderite will note the thin air and bright sun, so make sure you pack plenty of water, snacks, sunscreen and protection for your eyes and head.

If you’re not sure if you can handle summiting a 14er, try some of the more challenging local hikes, like Bear Peak near NCAR, which offers nearly 3,000 feet of elevation gain, topping out at 8,461 feet over a hike that is seven miles round-trip.

Despite the worries you might have, the hardest part of climbing a 14er is waking up early. Experienced hikers recommend summiting well before noon, and with most 14ers needing at least three hours to reach the peak, that means being at the trailhead before the time you’d normally be drinking your coffee.

With these things in mind, you should be ready to tackle a 14er with ease. Perhaps next weekend, your grandma will let you keep her company, assuming you aren’t slowing her down.

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The bass and soprano, who are appearing in plum roles at the Central City Opera (CCO) production of Our Town this summer, are living proof that opera singers can have their cake and eat it together. As a couple. Long term.

In fact, during the CCO season, they will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary — an unusual enough milestone for anyone, much less two people in a competitive, high-pressure field like opera.

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“People ask us, ‘How does your marriage last with these two careers going?’” Langan says. “The fact that we respect each other, that there’s no jealousy over one doing better or making more money than the other. We just really respect each other’s talent, ability, and the fact that this is what we wanted to do with our lives.”

Langan and Wolf met 36 years ago, when both were studying at Indiana University. It is fair to say that they fell in love with each other and with each others’ voices.

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Wolf says.

With both careers off to a fast start, Wolf and Langan had some initial worries about maintaining a marriage.

“That’s why we waited,” Langan says. “We didn’t get married until three years into our professional careers. During that period we were trying to figure out, is this going to work.”

Wolf remembers a cross-country trip after they had served separate summer apprenticeships, his in San Francisco and hers in Santa Fe. “That was three months see OPERA Page 30

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of not seeing him at all, so Peter Alexander on our way back, we talked about, do you think we can handle this?”

With such peripatetic careers before them, it was clear that the marriage would be based in their relationship more than the traditional notion of building a home together. They bought a house in New Jersey, to be close to auditions in New York City, but soon found that they were almost never “at home.”

“We were gone about 11 months out of the year,” Wolf recalls. “We didn’t have the money to travel yet, and there was one year Sally Wolf, left, and we didn’t see each other for Kevin Langan. like eight months. But pretty soon, once we both got rolling [professionally], then if I had a toire, and we have admired and respected break between performances, to hear week off I’d fly to him or vice versa.” each other’s talents since the day we met Wolf performing at the prestigious The couple was careful not to mix in 1977. I am thrilled for Sally’s success as Salzburg Festival. And when he was marriage and careers. They instructed honored for his 300th performance at the a singer and vice-versa.” their manager never to offer them as a Then Langan touches on a topic San Francisco Opera — the first major package. that many of his colleagues probably artist to reach that milestone — Wolf “We don’t keep [the marriage] a don’t want to hear was there. about. “There is secret,“ Wolf says. “But I don’t want A big part of the problem of the somebody to say, ‘We’re going to have their success is just On the Bill: Our Town plays at male ego being Kevin Langan, and we’ve gotta have his the fact that their Central City Opera through July 28. bruised, if you’re wife, too.’ So we have been places where careers have lasted For tickets and more information, visit www.centralcityopera.org/ourtown. both in the same they don’t know that we’re married.” so long. Langan business,” he In one case they laugh about today, and Wolf attribute observes. “Some the apprentices where they were perthis to Margaret men can’t handle that. I find that often forming saw their rings and assumed Harshaw, their teacher at Indiana, who the case in our business, that if the they had both spouses elsewhere and was one of the great singers and teachwoman is more successful, the male were having an affair. ers of the last century. can’t deal with that. I don’t see things Because they individually became “She really understood the voice, no that way, but other people seem to. My known for the high quality and dependmatter whether you’re a soprano, tenor, ability of their work, they did end up on baritone or bass,” Langan says. “She gave mother once said, ‘You’re the breadwinner! Doesn’t it bother you that your wife the same stage more than once. us the basis for a vocal technique that makes more money than you do?’ And I “We’ve done a lot together, over the goes back to the bel canto period of the said, ‘Not at all. She’s a soprano! They years,” Langan says.

19th century. That’s what’s kept us in make bigger fees!’”

For example, Wolf became well the business as long as we’ve been able Down time together has helped keep known for her Queen of the Night in to.” them grounded.

The Magic Flute, and Langan was an Like many of Harshaw’s students, “When the job is over we go imposing Sarastro in the same opera. they would return for a “check-up” long home and we don’t think about it,” “In Abduction [from the Seraglio]” we after they were singing professionally.

Langan says. At the family summer sang Osmin and Constanza,” Langan “Every year we made sure that we cabin in Canada, they cook out, go says. Turning to Wolf, he adds, “I marcould get back for lessons,” Wolf says. ried you in Lucia di Lammermoor — in “Once we started professionally, she said, fishing, go to the movies, and enjoy Wednesday-night bingo. “The word Denver, in fact.”

‘If you guys can come back together, ‘opera’ may not come up for weeks on “And killed me in Rigoletto,” Wolf that’s great, because you should sit in on end,” Langan notes. “You know, we’re replies. each others’ lessons. When I’m gone, just a normal couple to everybody up “A few times,” Langan admits, laughyou’re going to teach each other,’ and there.” ing. “I was your dad in Norma and in Don that’s what we do.”

Indeed: A normal couple that has Giovanni. She voted for me in Baby Doe, Ultimately, the success of their marsung on the major opera stages of the even though I lost the election.” riage comes down to mutual respect — world for 35 years, but always love, When not performing together, shar- and the absolute security each feels in admire, respect and celebrate each other, ing each other’s big nights has been a their own career and person. completely without jealousy. priority. Once, Langan flew from Santa “We have that security,” Langan says, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Fe to Salzburg and back in a six-day “because we don’t sing the same reper30 July 4, 2013

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s June has given way to July, the heat it was kind of magical for us.” index has inched up around Colorado.

Though they retain elements of both, the Dead Boulder and Denver have seen their first Winter Carpenters are too percussive for bluegrass handful of 90-degree days, with many and a little hard for folk. Half of it can be traced six more on the way. But coming from hours south of Tahoe, in the rough-and-tumble Phoenix, the Dead Winter Carpenters will kindly Bakersfield, Calif., where performers like Buck Owens take Colorado’s summer sun. and Merle Haggard played a flavor of rock-influenced “Phoenix in the summertime is otherworldly,” lead country that would spawn a name to put their town vocalist and guitarist Jesse Dunn says. “The forecast on the map. The Bakersfield sound emphasized drums this weekend is 117 degrees, so we’ll be looking forand a strong guitar, as well as the softer, lovelorn side ward to getting to Colorado.” of cowboy living.

It’s a familiar place for Then there’s outlaw country. In the the Dead Winter saloons of Texas, singers like Townes On the Bill: Dead Winter Carpenters, who by Van Zandt and Waylon Jennings were Carpenters play the Fox Theatre Dunn’s estimation have playing a style of music for the downon Saturday, July 6. The Yawpers visited the state seven or and-out that bucked the then-prevalent and The Longest Day of the Year open. Doors at 8:30 p.m.

Nashville sound. These were heavyeight times since they Tickets are $8 in advance, drinking, fresh-out-of-prison ballads formed in 2010. The band $10 day of show, plus $2 for holds Boulder in particuthat dealt with the after-effects of the under-21 tickets. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. larly high esteem, a place cowboy heartache chronicled by Owens Dunn likens to their base and his Bakersfield compadres.

That Bakersfield/outlaw country influof operations in Lake ence is evident in much of the Dead Winter Tahoe (“A lot of outdoor enthusiasts and highCarpenters catalogue.

Some are much more one than mountain/high, mountain music”) but with better the other, like “I Shot Him,” a honky-tonk rock murbeer. Pressed to choose a favorite, Mountain and der ballad that’s a spell gruffer than anything Buck Southern Sun stand out.

Owens put out.

On the other hand, no one would “First of all, there’s incredible beer, and then mistake the sweetly sincere “Find Your Home” with everybody’s there to have a good time,” Dunn says.

“We had one show where Andy Thorne [of Leftover an outlaw country number.

Salmon], Dave Bruzza from Greensky Bluegrass …

Still, both sub-genres put a premium on storytelleverybody was in town for that one Sunday night, and ing, a concept that Dunn says drew him to this sort of

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here are a lot of things to do on July 4, but with multiple parts of the state literally on fire, it might be hard to come by those oft-cherished fireworks. Here are some of the best things to do this Independence Day — fireworks not guaranteed.

Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast 8 p.m. Folsom Field, Boulder It isn’t football season, but Folsom Field will be opening its doors to all come July 4. In addition to the Boulder Open Space Singers, both the Monarch High School Marching Band and CU’s own Ralphie will be in attendance. Doors open at 8 p.m., and fireworks will

music in the first place.

“I think recycling those old stories is a cool way to relay history from generation to generation,” Dunn says of American roots music. “And it’s all about everyday struggles, really. Life and love and being on the road and drinking too much and unrequited love.

There’s stuff in there that everyone can relate to.”

Rambling songs are another shared hallmark of the two styles, so it’s no surprise that DWC’s latest LP, Ain’t It Strange, is mostly made of songs about going somewhere. Tribute might be one reason for it, but more directly, it’s because the Dead Winter Carpenters themselves are now bona fide ramblers; they’re living the life of the folks in their songs.

“Touring is what we do, and there’s a lot of experiences and emotions that come from that,” Dunn explains. “A lot of our stuff comes from being on the road … [or] not being home and missing your significant others and your family.”

Traveling the country gives Dunn grist for his songwriting mill, which he’s peppered with vernacular picked off folks from around the country, but at the core, it’s still a slog, he says. It’s enough to make a band pine for the days of the parlor gig, when the money was steady and you could be back on your porch drinking tea at night’s end. But, as Dunn jokes, the only gigs like that today are in Las Vegas. ‘“And then you gotta be in Vegas,” he says, which is all right, save for one catch: “It’s 110 [degrees].”

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U.S. Air Guitar Qualifier 8 p.m. Hi-Dive, Denver So fireworks aren’t your thing, huh? Why not try out America’s unofficial pastime — air guitar. Though it may not be hosting the national championship like it has in the past, Denver will once again be part of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships. The competition is still accepting entries. For more information check out www.usairguitar.com/entry. see FOURTH Page 35

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Los Angeles Dodgers 6:15 p.m. Coors Field, Denver “For it’s one! ... Two! ... Three strikes ...” and, yeah, you’re out at the old ball game. But this isn’t any ordinary ball game. It is American pageantry and regalia in its purest form: baseball, hot dogs, beer and fireworks. What the hell — let’s throw some cotton candy in there for the kids. Unless you live in Boston, New York or San Francisco, you probably wouldn’t have trouble getting tickets to a baseball game, but July 4 games are always a hot ticket — and tickets are hard to come by for this game. But hey — you could always go see the Denver Outlaws ...

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6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison After nearly 20 years of playing this holiday show, the seasoned rock vets will yet again return on Independence Day to one of the most historic music venues. It is almost impossible to not have a good time at Red Rocks.

Pack a blanket, a picnic basket and the kids and head on over to the show.

Getting a view of multiple firework celebrations from the top of the amphitheatre can’t be anything but inspiring.

Avery Brewing Company’s Four on the Fourth 4K 9 a.m. Avery Brewing Taproom, Boulder There might be some of you outdoorsy Colorado types that actually want to work out on your day off. Fine.

The least you could do though, is balance it out with a few beers. Avery Brewing Company is once again hosting a footrace on July 4. Or you could get motivated and try to win. The men’s and women’s champions, after all, win their weight in beer. Bring it, Boulder!

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Gold Hill. Just 10 miles into the mountains, this small town is having a pancake breakfast to support its local fire department. Traditional, wheat and gluten-free pancakes will all be available, as well as bacon and rhubarb sauce, both cooked by the fire chief himself.

Alfalfa’s Market Hometown Throwdown 11 a.m. Alfalfa’s Market The Hometown Throwdown brings something a little more low-key to the July 4 festivities: a seed spitting contest.

Don’t worry, though, as there will be much more to this Boulder staple’s Independence Day festivities. Including face painting, live music, a local foodtasting, burgers and “other goodies” from the Al Fresco grill, this is more like a traditional backyard cookout.

Fourth of July Twang-Fest and Barbecue 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn Live music and barbecue will ring in our nation’s 237th birthday. Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams, Town Mountain, Bella Betts and the Little Stars and Kort McCumber will all play.

Nederland Opting for a non-flammable option, the city of Nederland has invited everyone to come “downtown” with lights at dusk so that there can be a bright celebration of independence. No joke.

Fireworks and more For those of you who would rather sit around and just watch fireworks all night, here is a list of some of the best local fireworks displays.

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etting one of Shakespeare’s plays in a relatively modern time and place is more the rule than the exception these days. Of the dozens of performances of the Bard’s works I’ve seen, only a small handful has used a “traditional” setting.

Instead, directors tend to take Othello and move it to America’s antebellum South or turn Romeo into a Greaser and Juliet into a Soc a la The Outsiders.

While this bent toward modernizing Shakespeare invariably results in novel productions, it often feels more a gimmick than an inspiration. From time to time, however, a director uses this technique so successfully that a wellworn classic, a known commodity, becomes vibrantly alive once again. Such is the case with Director Jane Page’s Macbeth at this year’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF).

With American troops still on the ground in Afghanistan today and with the relationship between the U.S. and Russia becoming more eerily Cold War-ish every week, Page’s choice to set Macbeth in the 1980s Soviet occupation of the perennially war-torn Iranian neighbor is nothing short of brilliant. This Macbeth may be the most thoughtprovoking and emotionally arresting production of a Shakespeare play that I have ever seen.

As Macbeth (Nigel Gore) and Banquo (Sam Gregory) journey home from battle, they encounter three witches ( Jamie Ann Romero, Nicole Bruce and Geoffrey Kent — not in drag). The witches prophesy that Macbeth will be elevated to next-in-

Liza de Weerd stars as Lady Macbeth, and Nigel Gore plays Macbeth at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

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attention to this second set of supernatural pronouncements, then watch wide-eyed as they come to pass in most unusual ways.

The CSF has been working hard to recapture the credibility and respectability it has enjoyed in decades past.

Casting actors like Nigel Gore, who plays pivotal roles in both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth, aids those efforts immeasurably. Gore exceeds all expectations, whether delivering a On the Bill: Macbeth famous soliloquy or plays through Aug. 10 at the a non-traditionally Colorado Shakespeare Festival on the CU campus. Tickets are humorous one-sen$10-$59. Call 303-492-8008 or tence aside. Along visit www.coloradoshakes.org with Gore, Romero, for more information.

Bruce and Kent give us chillingly venomous Middle Eastern witches that feel more organically integrated into the time and place than in any other production of Macbeth I have experienced.

Scenic Designer Lisa Orzolek builds on the foundational set she created for A Midsummer Night’s Dream to give Macbeth a simple yet evocative look. The costumes by Hugh Hanson and the props — particularly the wide array of firearms — by Amy Chini sure, and sends assassins to murder impart to the play an air of authenticity not often seen.

Banquo and his son, Fleance ( James Page has crafted a Macbeth that is Miller). so topical, so gripping, that some audiThough Banquo dies, Fleance ence members may actually feel escapes, and this — along with uncomfortable during certain particuanother visit by Macbeth to the larly challenging scenes. The reactions witches — sets up a twist ending that from the opening night crowd were likely had Elizabethan audiences walking out of the Globe Theatre, some of the most visceral I’ve witmouths agape, thinking of nessed at the CSF. Macbeth is a play Shakespeare as his generation’s about the lust for power and its ramifiShyamalan (circa The Sixth Sense — cations, and this version of it drills everything after that film and that point home mercilessly. It should Unbreakable has been a sad study in be required viewing, a cautionary tale, diminishing returns). If you’ve never if you will, for politicians at all levels read nor seen Macbeth, pay close and in all areas.

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Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth (Liza de Weerd — who, with a name like that, perhaps should have played one of the witches), goads her husband to seize the moment, murder Duncan and ascend to the throne. Though conflicted at first, Macbeth ultimately screws his courage to the sticking place and does the dastardly deed. Mindful of the witches’ words, Macbeth realizes that killing the king is only a half-mea-

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LaS Cruces, N.m.-based aerial dance company Project In Motion presents a surreal exploration of the creative process based on the works of Italian Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Saturday, July 6, 8 p.m.

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

Parenting Place - 4th of July Bike Parade. 10 a.m. City of Boulder Municipal Building, 900 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-449-0177.

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Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast. 8 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8900.

Ash and Andria Ganley. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Friday, July 5

Blues Traveler. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Gumbo le Funque. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Avett Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Tickle Mafia. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Barnstar Bluegrass band from Boston. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Earn Your Independence 5K, 1 Mile and 4-on-4 Volleyball Tornament. 7 a.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51 St., Boulder, 303-441-3461.

see EVENTS Page 40

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Fourth of July Twang–Fest & Barbeque. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Friday, July 5: The Secret Disco Revolution, The Dairy Center, Boulder, 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 6: Boulder County Bombers Bombshells, Boulder County Fairgrounds, Longmont, 7 p.m.

Monday, July 8: Rocktin Grove, Southern Sun, Boulder, 10 p.m.

“To me, the Village People are one of the most subversive groups ever.” That’s one of the insights this documentary offers, while doing a total 180 on what you think disco meant. Hint: It wasn’t all cocaine and awesome outfits.

Bomber member Lacy Vasive, aka Jordan Honea, received a shock when her mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but she found a solid support group in her roller derby teammates. The team will donate the proceeds from its July 6 bout versus the 10th Mountain Roller Dolls Mountaineers to the Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance.

Rocktin Grove makes the kind of blended tunes music that might actually turn bluegrass naysayers into fans. The band builds funky, laid-back grooves on top of traditional bluegrass banjo and mandolin, layering everything from violin to electric guitar to saxophone on top to build a jazzy sound that’s impossible to categorize as anything but danceable.

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Local artist Bunny Rubin exhibits paintings from her Where Earth Meets Sky exhibit at Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Ramp.

Barbara Yates Beasley, Rob Wardell. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Aug. 2.

BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Oct. 27.

Bunny Rosenthal Rubin. Boulder Public Library Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cover Story. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22.

Cut and Paste.

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

Through Sept. 15.

Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts.

Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4434430. Through Sept. 3.

Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and PreBauhaus Years.

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

Through July 14.

Historic Photographic Exhibit: Revealing Our Routes: Women of Boulder County. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through Aug. 17.

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Past Life and Between Lives Soul Regression Sessions & Training Dr. Linda Backman, Licensed Psychologist, 30 years in practice, studied/ taught with Dr. Michael Newton, author of Journey of Souls.

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Jen Lewin: It’s Electric. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through July 27.

A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 22.

Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Sept. 22.

Not Exactly. RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-296-4448. Through July 28.

Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25.

Rocky Mountain Majesty — The paintings of Charles Partridge Adams. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through July 21.

Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept.

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This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield.

Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720287-1717. Through Sept. 8.

Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Sept. 8.

Victor Vasarely and Yaacov Agam: Works on Paper from the David Goodman. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200 Through Aug. 25.

EVENTS from Page 39 Blood Pollution. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Danny Shafer & 21st Century. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Red, White and Bluegrass — with Bluegrass Delta Force. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Riff Raff. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Selwyn Birchwood Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Disco Meltdown — Feat. the music of Abba, with Arrival from Sweden. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Technicolor Tone Factory Plays Daft Punk. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

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

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The Haunted Windchimes. 5:30 p.m. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Idlewhile. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Meryl Romer Jazz Trio. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

The Secret Disco Revolution. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

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Tuesday, July 9 Film on the Rocks: Point Break. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

First off, The Denver Film Society, which hosts Film on the Rocks, just successfully funded a $150,000 Kickstarter campaign to upgrade its projectors, which will allow them to continue screening movies in both Denver and Morrison for years to come. So that means Point Break is a celebration of sorts, a toast to the continued health and viability of independent film centers. Secondly, this film is simply superb, a masterpiece of shmaltz and cheese. Keanu Reeves stars as an FBI agent tasked with infiltrating a rag-tag band of surfers/bank robbers, led by Patrick Swayze. Gary Busey is all kinds of insane as Keanu’s hardened, “I was in this bureau while you were still popping zits on your funny face and jacking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog” partner. There are more classic lines in this must-see film than there are surfers at San Onofre. Don’t miss it. — David Accomazzo

Saturday, July 6 music The Avett Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-8652494.

Daniel Ondaro Group. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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

Ethyl & The Regulars. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Face. 7 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Live!, Twenty Ninth Street mall, Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Highway 50. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Hindsight. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Rogue Sound.10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Skean Dubh. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Art of Tracking with Ian Sanderson. 10 a.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. Registration required. www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329.

Artist Stephanie Teller. 1 p.m. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Boulder County Bombers Bombshells — Roller derby match proceeds benefit the Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Irish Saturday Evenings — with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Project in Motion: The Palace at Night. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Nine Mile Station. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Wildflowers of Caribou Ranch. 9 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, 303-678-6214.

Pantyraid — With TYR & Shank Aaron. 8:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Sunday, July 7

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

Monday - Friday: 10:00AM - 7:00PM Saturday: 10:00AM - 4:00PM

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

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

Pete Katsounes Band. 10 a.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Monday - Friday: 10:00AM - 7:00PM Saturday: 10:00AM - 4:00PM Sunday: 10:00AM - 2:00PM

music Acoustic Jam. 4 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. see EVENTS Page 42

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Bestselling author Andrew Sean Greer will read from his new The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells on July 10 in Denver.

Sunday, July 7 Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders — by Nathaniel Hoffman. 4:30 p.m. American Friends Service Committee offices, 901 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 303-623-3464.

Tuesday, July 9 Rachel McKibbens. 6 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

The Plateau: Voices of the Earth — by Maureen Dudley. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover. 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-322-7727.

Wednesday, July 10 Heather Taylor Johnston. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644.

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells — by Andrew Sean Greer. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover. 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-322-7727.

EVENTS from Page 41 Idlewhile Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400 Jazz Jam — with Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio.

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

Josh Groban with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Mello Cello Sundays — with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Natural Camouflage with Ian Sanderson. 1 p.m.

Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. Registration required, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329.

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TRIVIA NIGHT 809 Main St. Louisville, CO 80027 www.waterloolouisville.com 303-993-2094

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

Rob “Fire” Coonrod. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Alice Adams. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Blues & BBQ with Danny Shafer. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Free First Sundays. 12 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Monday, July 8 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

listen up Saturday, July 6 Dance party and live radio show — Feat. DJ/MC Cool Style and Lady Midnight. 9 p.m. Cool Spirit Nature & Star Elements, 4949 N. Broadway, Suite 117, Boulder, 720-239-2761.

David Accomazzo

Husband-and-wife duo Sean Gardner and Rebekah Radmacher.

Husband-and-wife duo Sean Gardner and Rebekah Radmacher, aka Cool Style and Lady Midnight, opened Cool Spirit Nature & Star Elements in May, and they’ve been hosting this weekly dance party every Saturday since. Gardner designs Jungle Wear — all-natural, 100 percent hemp clothing — and full-suspension pushscooters, and Radmacher makes jewelry and hand-knitted accessories. Every Saturday they transform their studio space into a dancehall, and Gardner DJs a party. “I represent the hip-hop elements,” Gardner says. “I consider myself a hip-hop templeist.” It doesn’t get much more underground than this in Boulder.

— David Accomazzo

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Pink Martini. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-440-7666.

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Rocktin Grove. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Wednesday, July 10

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The Villains Proper. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat

Science on Screen: Genetics and Gattaca.

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

Local music might specialize in a few genres — bluegrass, singer-songwriters and folk come to mind — but there’s really a great variety of Boulderites making music.

Take, for example, Boulder band The Villains Proper, which released an album of electro-pop in the vein of The Postal Service in April of this year. The group builds atmosphere through humming keyboard and persistent, ringing percussion, creating danceable, orchestral tunes. It’s indie pop with a layer of keyboards — a far cry from the bluegrass standards Boulder knows best. At the Laughing Goat, expect dancing among the tables to The Villains Proper’s catchy tunes.

— Steve Weishampel

Tuesday, July 9 music Bill Harley. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

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

The Groovetramps. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

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Lindi Ortega. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Mathias and The Crooked Streets. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Songs and Sonic Journeys with Eastern Forest.

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

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

Van Zedu Marimba. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events Film on the Rocks: Point Break. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Night Hike at Walker Ranch. 8 p.m. Walker Ranch, Meyers Homestead Trailhead, 303-678-6214.

Teen Summer Film Nexus — Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. 5 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, July 10 music A4 Animal. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bill Harley. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch. 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Eighties Band. 5:30 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 Block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Highline Silver Cornet Band. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Jamey Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

JT Nolan Group and The Matt Skellenger Group.

6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-771-1003.

Kevin Dooley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Personal Space Happy Hour. 4 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 100 Arapahoe Ave., Bldg 1, #2D, Boulder, 303-545-5562. see EVENTS Page 44

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Fiddler On The Roof. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-468-2030.

Through July 14.

Collected Stories — Presented by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through July 14.

Macbeth — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.Maty Rippon Outdoor Ampitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554.

Through Aug. 10.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Mainstage, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 10.

The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030.

Through July 14.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554.Through Aug. 11.

The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Through Aug. 31.

EVENTS from Page 43 Robert Plant presents The Sensational Space Shifters. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Shelley King — With Magnie & Amadee. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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KIDS CALENDAR Friday, July 5 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Get Growing. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Sunday, July 7 Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Monday, July 8 Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Green, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Tuesday, July 9 Clay Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Wednesday, July 10 Stencil Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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The Lone Ranger

Johnny Depp just turned 50, but who’d know it, the way Hollywood has him dressing these days.

20 Feet From Stardom In his compelling new film, director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan.

The Rabbi’s Cat Based on the best-selling graphic novel of Algeria in the 1930s, an intersection of Jewish, Arab and French culture, this animation tells the story of a rabbi and his cat — a sharptongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi’s voluptuous teenage daughter. Not rated. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

100 Bloody Acres Brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan are struggling to keep their organic blood and bone fertilizer business in motion. Their secret “recipe” for success (using dead car crash victims in their product) was a huge boon to business, but lately supply has been gravely low. Months have passed since their last find, and an important new customer is now waiting on a delivery. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

The Sapphires Inspired by a true story, the dramatic comedy The Sapphires follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

A Band Called Death Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music — and band name — too intimidating, and the group was never given a fair shot. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

Becoming Traviata The reinvention of Verdi’s masterpiece, La Traviata, as sung by world-famous French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, is the subject of this documentary. For more than two months, in rehearsal rooms and behind the scenes, we see director Jean-Francois Sivadier strip away the grandiosity normally associated with opera and follow a minimalist post-punk approach, retaining the ageless passion. With music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Before Midnight Jesse and Celine first met in their 20s in Before Sunrise, reunited in their 30s in Before Sunset and now, in director/co-writer Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, they face the past, present and future. Rated R. At Century and Mayan.

The Bling Ring The Bling Ring tells the story of a group of teenagers who burglarize celebrities’ homes in Los Angeles. Rated R. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres

Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness, as this animated sequel starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and others is sure to be a family favorite.

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

Dirty Wars It’s the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: All bets are off, and almost anything goes. We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill (author of BLACKWATER: The Rise of the World’s Most Mercenary Army) traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret fighting force in U.S. history, exposing operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.

The East This espionage thriller stars co-writer Brit Marling as former FBI agent Sarah Moss, who’s starting a new career at an elite private intelligence firm that ruthlessly protects the interests of its A-list corporate clientele.

Sarah goes deep undercover to infiltrate The East, an elusive anarchist collective seeking revenge against major corporations guilty of covering up criminal activity. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres.

Fill the Void Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron), the youngest daughter in an Orthodox Hasidic family from Tel Aviv,

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is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. But on Purim, her 28-year-old sister, Esther (Renana Raz), dies while giving birth to her first child, and the pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match.

At Chez Artiste.

Frances Ha Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Rated R. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

Gattaca For this Science on Screen series film, Dr. Nicole Garneau of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will discuss genetics, followed by the film. Gattaca is a brilliant, underrated piece of cinema that the not-toodistant future will, in retrospect, see as one of the more outstanding movies of the ’90s. The Oscar-nominated film stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman in a future in which destinies are officially decided by genetics. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Hannah Arendt The sublime Barbara Sukowa re-teams with director Margarethe von Trotta for her brilliant new biopic of Hannah Arendt. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The Heat A foul-mouthed, dirty methods cop (played by Melissa McCarthy) is forced to team up with a suit-wearing, micro-managing FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) to go after a drug lord. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

A Hijacking The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. The seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

How to Make Money Selling Drugs A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.

The Kings of Summer

This film got great reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It’s a comedy about three teenage friends who decide to build their own house and live off the land.

Rated R. At Esquire.

Laurence Anyways In the ’90s, Laurence tells his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds, in spite of each other, they confront the prejudices of their friends, ignore the counsel of their families and brave the phobias of the society they offend. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.

The Lone Ranger There is much action and killing as the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) take to the Western landscape in this TV-to-cinema redo. Rated PG13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Maniac Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.

Man of Steel The reboot of the Superman series focuses on Clark Kent’s childhood and transformation into a superhero after being transported to Earth from Krypton. Rated PG13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

Monsters University This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training and their attempts to join the best fraternity. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Much Ado About Nothing A series of comic and tragic events conspire to keep two couples from truly finding happiness — but then again, perhaps love will prevail. Rated PG-13. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres

Mud When two boys discover a mysterious stranger hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River, their lives and those of everyone in their small town are changed forever.

Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

Now You See Me The world’s greatest illusionists take to robbing corporate bad guys and giving the spoils to their fans, all the while avoiding capture by the feds. Think magic Robin Hoods.

Rated PG-13. At Century.

Paris Opera Ballet: Don Quixote Don Quixote, one of the most popular ballets ever, takes on new brilliance in this re-imagining by dance legend Rudolf Nureyev. Choreography: Kevin Rhodes. Starring: Paris Opera Ballet — the Etoiles, Premiers danseurs and Corps de ballet. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

This zeitgeist film was Gene Siskel’s favorite; Ebert said he watched it at least 17 times. One can enjoy it on many levels: its kitschy charm, the music, the dance scenes, the youthful longing to break away from the mundane and Travolta’s Oscar-nominated role which launched his career. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

The Secret Disco Revolution

Beneath the reverberating vocals, frenetic strobe lights and four-on-the-floor beat, there was a neon epiphany waiting to emerge. This humorous, insightful investigation into the much-maligned genre takes up the claim that disco was in fact a misunderstood culture of protest and a movement of mass liberation for some of American society’s most marginalized citizens: women, African-Americans and gay men. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Shadow Dancer This conspiracy thriller set around an act of betrayal within a tight-knit family stars Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson. A woman is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London and offered a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

SOMM SOMM takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world — the Court of Master Sommeliers and the massively intimidating Master Sommelier exam. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the Enterprise returns to Earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space pals to a forbidding prison planet to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

This is the End When the apocalypse hits, six friends — fictional versions of James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson — find out what true friendship really means. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

White House Down A reluctant hero steps in to save the president when the White House comes under attack. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

World War Z See full review page 48. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

Upcoming films from Denver Film Society Shows playing at SIE FilmCenter next week include: The History of Future Folk, V/H/S 2, The Hot Flashes, One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das.

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or the seemingly infinite production companies behind World War Z, the must-see movie of next summer is Ninja Squirrel Poets* (*note: does not actually feature ninjas, squirrels or poetry). As has been wellpublicized, Brad Pitt’s company, Plan B, snapped up the rights to Max Brooks’ thoughtful, faux-historical retrospective novel and then promptly scrapped everything but the title. Turns out, they disregarded most of that too, in that the film World War Z features no war. Technically, it does take place on a planet, so it satisfies the “world” in its title. But unless the “Z” is meant to invoke onomatopoetic snoring, twothirds of the title is still a lie.

Pitt plays Gerry, the world’s most smoldering former U.N. inspector. The central character in Brooks’ novel was but a recorder; his defining characteristic was that he took good notes. In the film, the dullard and the dullard’s family are at the absolute center.

Instead of a rich tapestry of voices, composing the most complex, vast take on a zombie apocalypse ever endeavored, World War Z is just more “walk slow or the undead will hear you” redundancy.

Gerry gets tasked to track down the origin of a disease turning humans to twerking corpses. That’s hard to do when superfast biters are everywhere.

He sets off to South Korea, stays long enough to meet a toothless David Morse and pick up a clue that sends him to Israel. Israel is actually doing pretty well, having built a huge wall.

And that wall will keep them all safe, provided not a single zombie gets in because then they’d just be a Kosher buffet. From Israel, it’s off to Wales for the obligatory “sneak past brain eaters” sequence. The twist this time?

Even though the zombies have vision, they only really respond to sound. So the heroes have to be as quiet as the disinterested audience.

Pitt glowers and grimaces, trying to beat back the hordes that threaten him by sternly pouting. The lack of hyperbolic reactions by all involved is almost as unbelievable as the fact that cell phone reception never cuts out and that Pitt cracks the mystery at the end thanks to a soldier’s limp. And speaking of limp … World War Z is not the complete, absolute disaster suggested by tales of its production (what with an entirely reshot third act). But that’s the limpest compliment that can be given, as “it’s not as bad as I thought it would be” has never sent anyone’s heart atwitter.

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y 2050, the U.N. predicts, our planet will be inhabited by 2 billion more humans. If income and body mass continue their current upward trends, those billions will be richer and fatter than we are. That means they’ll want meat, not grain.

They’ll also want seconds. But will 2050’s concentrated agricultural feeding operations — much less its free-range heritage pig farms — be able to produce enough livestock to meet the demand?

A growing number of optimistic soothsayers say yes. But only if we expand our definition of livestock to include such underutilized food sources as mealworms, grasshoppers and Sago grubs. In January 2012, 37 international experts met at the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome to discuss “the A Cambodian potential benefits of using insects for food and insect merchant feed as part of a broader strategy to achieve global food security.”

Insects, their advocates enthuse, are high in protein and other nutrients: A 100-gram portion of grasshopper meat contains 20.6 grams of protein, just 7 grams less than an equivalent portion of beef. In addition, insect farming requires less water, less feed and less land per calorie than traditional livestock farming, and it produces much moth larvae with thin, inch-long slivers of potato lower greenhouse gas emissions. All in all, 2050’s cooked in duck fat and sprinkled with agave worm squirrels and housecats appear to be in luck: When salt. Side by side in a tiny square serving dish, the worldwide beef supplies get tight, we’ll have other golden-brown insects and stem tubers look like brothoptions. ers from another mother.

To get a taste of the future, I recently visited a As it turns out, wax moth larvae don’t taste all that tequila bar called Mosto in San Francisco’s Mission different from potatoes either. They’re a little salty, a District, where a local chef named Monica Martinez little smoky. Mostly, though, the insect fetuses are light had been operating her Don Bugito snack bar on and airy, not exactly stick-to-your-ribs food. It seems Monday nights throughout the spring. Martinez such fare will deliver future food security only if at least favors gradualism over shock value in her efforts to 80 percent of 2050’s extra humans are supermodels. introduce people to the virtues of entomophagy, or Restaurants around the world are showcasing insect eating. Her Crispy Mix appetizer pairs wax insects in similarly artful ways. At Vij’s, an Indian eat-

ery in Vancouver, the flatbread is made out of roasted crickets. At Typhoon, a pan-Asian restaurant in Santa Monica, you can get silkworm larvae stir-fried in soy, sugar and white pepper.

London’s Archipelago serves pan-fried locusts and crickets as a starter and chocolate-covered scorpions or baby bee brûlée for dessert.

Such dishes suggest the fundamental irony that informs contemporary entomophagy. While insect evangelists champion bugs as a potential solution to looming food shortages for the masses, we eat them today largely because food for the comparatively well-off is so boringly abundant. For millions of people, food is no longer just a form of sustenance, comfort or sensual pleasure; it’s a medium for exploration, discovery and self-expression. Like a roiling army of ants clear-cutting their way through the Amazon jungle, today’s foodies devour everything in their path on the hunt for new flavor combinations to taste and new textures to tweet. Having exhausted the possibilities of seaweed ice cream and frog-ovary soup, they turn their restless palates to boiled cockroaches.

But what will it to take for such fare to cross the chasm from novelty to staple? Couple the artisanal cachet provided by talented chefs like Monica Martinez with insect husbandry’s tiny environmental footprint, and it’s easy to depict the whole cuisine as a utopian endeavor, a radically out-of-the-box solution to the corporate industrial food system and all the plagues it has unleashed upon the world.

Yet who is best positioned to make the green, sustainable, cruelty-free promise of large-scale insect farming a reality? To augment 2050s food supply in a significant way, to have a real impact on greenhouse gas emissions, an industry that essentially doesn’t exist today will need to figure out how to produce hundreds

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The fourth in the mountains

Colorado’s resort towns have lined up a long list of events for the July 4 weekend, including music, yoga, fireworks and food and drink.

A full rundown of events is available at blog.coloradoski. com, but the highlights include the second annual Arapahoe Basin Trail Run with barbecue at the finish; the Wanderlust yoga and music festival at Copper Mountain; the 45th annual Gothic to Crested Butte third-of-a-marathon — that’s about 8.7 miles — on July 4, followed by the fourth annual Bluegrass in Paradise festival July 6-7; the Run for Independence at Winter Park July 6, which benefits The Children’s Hospital of Colorado; and The Village Uncorked wine and art festival at Winter Park.

A new Project on the Hill A brand-new pizza chain is coming to Boulder’s University Hill by the end of the month, bringing with it a menu that emphasizes variety and vegetarian options. Project Pie, which has locations in San Diego, Calif., and Las Vegas, is a fast-casual concept with a “charming” atmosphere, a press release says.

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zas. Diners can select unlimited toppings for a set price and have their pizza in two minutes from the 800-degree oven. The toppings list includes five cheeses and a wide range of vegetables and meats.

Founder James Markham, who previously started and sold pizza chains on the West Coast and in Asia, says Project Pie will soon open locations in New York; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; Indianapolis and the Philippines.

The Boulder franchise will be located at 1155 13th St. on the Hill.

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No, that 1 ain’t a typo Avery has announced the return of the Uncle Jacob’s Stout, one of its popular dark beers, for a limited release in its taproom.

The beer will be available in the Avery taproom on Arapahoe Avenue on July 7.

Aged in bourbon barrels for six months, Uncle Jacob’s has a long list of detectable notes, Avery spokesman Darin McGregor says in a press release.

“After four weeks of fermenting with an

English ale yeast and six months resting in the oak barrels,” McGregor says, “the brew boasts flavors of toffee, caramel, vanilla and hints of coconut from the Bourbon barrels, as well as dried currants and cherries.”

Uncle Jacob’s is among Boulder’s highest ABV beers, clocking in at 16.5 percent. It will be available in 12-ounce bottles for $12 each at Avery’s taproom, and any remaining beers will be shipped to “select retailers in Colorado,” spokesman Joe Osborne says, although there’s no guarantee of availability.

On the topic of Avery, the brewery has announced tickets are on sale for its 20-year anniversary party, which will take place Aug. 4 at the brewery’s taproom at 5757 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder.

A press release promises “rare and vintage beers” from Avery’s cellar, as well as pouring stations to represent Avery’s annual festivals, SourFest, IPA Fest and Strong Ale Fest. Tickets are $40 and are available at the Avery taproom or online at averyanniversary.eventbrite.com.

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At Project Pie you build your own pizza and it cooks in just two minutes.

One of Denver’s favorite dining sons, fast-casual burger joint Smashburger, has announced the opening of its first restaurant in Longmont, its 21st Colorado location.

The restaurant is located at 965 S. Hover St. in Longmont, just south of Nelson Road. It is open now.

Smashburger also has locations in the Twenty Ninth Street mall and in Lafayette at Arapahoe Road and North 95th Street.

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ow strangely fitting that my entrance into Geisty’s Dogg House with my friend Dan was delayed by a leashed-up canine that needed to sniff us out before granting us entry. A quick examination of the dog revealed it to be more friendly Geisty’s Dogg House pooch than cut-rate 1116 13th St., Cerberus. Once this Boulder, 303-402-5000 would-be hellhound was off our trail, we were able to take in the offerings at this University Hill joint.

Given the name, it’s not surprising Geisty’s serves up a variety of sausages, but it also offers tavern staples like burgers, fries and wings. I suspect this try rigidly adhered to the classic recipe isn’t a first for this kind of place, as of vinegary tang and noticeable but not Geisty’s also has a full bar, complete disconcerting heat. My personal favorite with cocktails and pitchers of beer. was the sweet and salty teriyaki, Around noon, though, things are reaalthough it didn’t make for a good sonably quiet in this stripped-down match for the expected side of blue cheese dressing. space, and Dan and I had no problem Next up was a $4 basket of skin-on finding a table, and our server quickly French fries, which were plenty for the took our order. two of us.

These medium-gauge spud For $12.50, we started lunch with 10 bone-in chicken wings (boneless are slices may have benefited from a crisper also available), evenly split between fried texture, but I was otherwise apprethose coated in standard strength ciative of the flavor and light salting.

“Angry Buffalo” sauce and teriyaki. The Overall, these were a notch or two wings consisted mostly of pleasantly above what you’d find in most bars. plump drumettes, and the Buffalo poulOur main events were a pair of sau-

sage sandwiches.

Dan went for the $4.75 Hawaii Dogg, a decentsized Polish sausage garnished with garlic lemon sauce, Hawaiian mustard and a pineapple relish. I’m not exactly sure what makes mustard Hawaiian, except to say that like most things related to tropical islands, it had a mellow profile. This certainly wasn’t a nostril-clearing condiment heavily laced with horseradish. Subtly peppery qualities of the Polish dog itself pleasantly contrasted with the mild sweetness of the fruit garnish.

Sausage fans preferring a more traditionalist tack may favor my choice of the $5.75 Topp Dogg. This consisted of a beer brat accompanied by mustard, kraut, peppers and onions. Compared to the Polish, this brat had a smoother, creamier taste, which made for a balanced counterpoint to the assertive mustard and tangy caraway-perfumed kraut. Given the compelling pungency of the cabbage, the soft onions and peppers contributed more to texture than taste. Lastly, it’s worth noting that the bun tended more toward the soft type one usually finds with a straight-up hot

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peaking of meaty matters, I recently discovered Dae Gee, a Westminster Korean barbecue restaurant. This strip mall spot offers tasty Asian carnivorous fare such as bulgogi beef rib eye and marinated barbecue chicken. Some of the tables feature a built-in grill so that diners can prepare the meat to their liking, and there’s a fine selection of banchan side dishes. These include savory pancakes, potato salad and kimchi. With this discovery, I no longer feel it necessary to go to Aurora. Dae Gee is at 7570 Sheridan Blvd. in Westminster, and the phone number is 720540-0700.

dog versus, say, a hard roll. This bread was fresh with some light chewiness.

Prices and the menu firmly establish Geisty’s as an archetypical student hangout, and it ably succeeds in this role. While the offerings here don’t break any new culinary ground, one quickly realizes that’s well beside the point here. Eating a specialty sausage sandwich here is akin to enjoying a similar meal at a cool friend’s wellappointed cookout, and there’s nothing at all wrong with that.

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of billions of pounds of insect meat per year in just three and a half decades.

Today’s insect farms primarily serve the pet food and bait markets. In the U.S., they produce enough food to keep approximately 13.6 million pet frogs, toads and lizards satisfied, but humans tend to have bigger appetites, and there are a lot more of us. In the future, we will not only need far more insect farms; we will need bigger, more productive farms as well.

Regulation of the industry is likely to get more stringent when people replace tarantulas as the target consumer. As insects inch their way toward the food pyramid, disease management capabilities will need to improve. (In the last few years, for example, cricket paralysis densovirus, which is harmless to humans and other creatures but fatal to Acheta domesticus, the common brown house cricket, has wreaked havoc on the commercial cricket industry in the U.S.) There will also be a great demand for processing — increasing shelf life, ensuring product safety and consistency, and, most of all, making mealworms and crickets look and feel and taste a little less like mealworms and crickets. While many people may never eat insects even after they’ve been beheaded, declawed and dewinged, they might eat insect flour or sports bars fortified with insect protein.

Especially if these products taste good, come in attractive packages and are aggressively advertised. A shot of tequila does wonders for the palatability of a roasted grasshopper, but entomophagy isn’t going to hit the big time on tequila bars alone. It will take Steve Baragona/Wikimedia Commons experimentation in state-of-the-art R&D kitchens, consumer testing, alluring packaging design, massive advertising campaigns and probably some help from Shrek and SpongeBob SquarePants. Indeed, given that adults are more likely than children to harbor longstanding, hard-tochange biases, it makes more sense to target kids, positioning insect gobbling as a fun, rewarding activity.

Will Big Food accept the challenge?

Corporate behemoths like Archer Daniels Midland, Tyson and Cargill have more expeInsects for sale rience killing insects in Cambodia than cultivating them, but they also have the expertise it will take to create a robust insect farming sector in just a few decades. As do companies such as Kraft Foods, General Mills, Walmart and McDonald’s.

So far these food giants haven’t expressed much interest in bugs. But given their reputations for relentless cost-cutting, it’s only a matter of time before they discover the profit-boosting efficacies of grub nuggets and mealworm burgers.

Even with such powerful companies on board, it will be difficult to grow a business from zero to, say, one-third the size of the current livestock industry by 2050. To establish insect farming as a significant enterprise so quickly, its practitioners will have to innovate in radical ways. Is it possible, for example, to grow a grasshopper the size of a hummingbird using growth hormones? Will we need new laws that require TV networks to air commercials promoting the benefits of entomophagy during shows aimed at children?

For those who have been envisioning the future of insect farming as a local, small-scale, farm-to-fork endeavor, a way to exterminate the corporate food system once and for all, the idea of using free collectible figurines to help sell genetically modified grub nuggets may be as hard to swallow as a cockroach sandwich. Yet unless 2050 has many more tequila bars than we have now, it seems unlikely that entomophagy will catch without Big Food at the table.

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ven on the last leg of our Boulder County beer tour — a trip up to Nederland to visit both Wild Mountain and Very Nice breweries — we’re learning something new, courtesy of Very Nice co-owner Susan Green.

But we’ve got to check a dictionary first. Green tells us the rotating tap at Very Nice, Greener’s Gruit, is “a beer with no hops.” Instead, it’s brewed with herbs — yarrow, rose petals and lemon balm, in this case.

It’s very interesting, with greater depth of flavor Elizabeth Miller than beer with hops and a tempered sweetness that, David says, seems like “something hobbits would drink.” In a good way, of course.

But slow down. Is this beer? Is beer not four ingredients, water, malt, yeast and hops? We’ve been flexible on where we go, even stopping by Redstone Meadery because, what the heck, mead is delicious, but we never called that beer.

And we aren’t calling gruit beer, either, until we hit the books, or the Internet. Dictionary.com and the World English Dictionary both say beer’s made with hops, but they also give the option of any fermented drink, alcoholic or not. So gruit is spice beer, just like fermented sassafras root is root beer.

The Internet does tell us, and Very Nice confirms, that gruit predates hopped beer, as hops gradually took the place of spice mixtures in beer.

But don’t think Very Nice doesn’t know its way around hops. The brewery’s imperial IPA is very hoppy, bitter and almost overbearing. “You wouldn’t want it for a mother-in-law,” Elizabeth

says. Another attention-grabber was the Logical Fallacy, somewhere between stout and India Black Ale with a strong coffee scent and a short, bitter aftertaste like dark chocolate.

Sadly, it’s just samplers today, because a patio across Boulder Creek is calling our names. At Wild Mountain Smokehouse and Brewery, we debate the wisdom of making your logo the animal you’re serving as we sip the three housemade beers, the Big Ned Red, Otis Pale Ale and Hop Diggity IPA. The pale is a surprise for its depth, maltiness and amber color.

There’s little in common with Dale’s Pale or Mountain Sun’s XXX. The body is amber-like, and the hoppy finish is more in line with a pale, leaving the beer somewhere between different styles. The red is similarly balanced, presenting hops and malt together with a relatively high alcohol content, while the IPA is hoppy and direct.

All would be suitable fluids for washing down Wild Mountain’s barbecue and sandwich menu.

At the outset of this tour in January, we’d scheduled the Nederland trip to be the end of the tour, but with craft beer in this county, there’s always more. As Boulder Weekly first reported on Twitter, Twelve Degree Brewing in Louisville and Front Range Brewing in Lafayette opened their doors over the weekend, which means we’re headed east. But there’s good reason to wait: Each brewery is only using half the taps on its wall, and both plan to fill the taps as soon as possible. The goodness is just getting started.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old woman who just ended a five-year relationship. It sucked. I cried. It was my first breakup, so I’ve felt totally insane for the last three months. Now I’m in the dating world, and I go out with people only to find that we have no physical chemistry. My mother says, “ You’re just picky.” How am I supposed to enter my slutty years if I rarely have a physical connection with someone? I’m starting to think I’m broken; the last few years, I’ve felt pretty cut off from my sexuality. I feel like I formed some sort of sexual block. Is there a pill for this? How do I break the dam?

—Bring Lass Overtly Clearer Knowledge Dear BLOCK: Here’s how you break the dam: You get high, you consume porn (text or vid), and you read Daniel Bergner’s book What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire. (“It should be read by every woman on earth,” Tracy ClarkFlory of Salon writes. “You want a female Viagra? This book is as close as we have to it.”) Don’t do all three at once, of course, lest you grind the gears off your sex gaskets. But do all three, over a long weekend, and try to relax and listen to your body and allow your erotic imagination to speak to you.

And give yourself a break, BLOCK. Some folks need more than three months to bounce back after ending a five-year relationship. Don’t force yourself to date right now if you’re not ready. Get high instead, read Bergner, and take in some erotica. And when you are ready to enter your slutty phase, BLOCK, hang on to your pickiness. In my experience — ahem — picky people are likelier to enjoy their slutty phases and likelier to survive them.

Dear Dan: I’m a newly aware bicurious woman newly wed to the man of my dreams. Before our wedding, I hooked up with my first lady-crush, and now I’ve opened a Pandora’s box of potential threesomes. My husband is supportive and enjoys the bonus of getting to fulfill all of his MFF fantasies.

In addition, my cute (OK, jaw-dropping) gay male friend is attracted to my husband, and my husband is so confidently straight and GGG that he says he would consider engaging in a make-out romp with my gay friend for my pleasure. One of my all-time fantasies has been a bi MMF, so this situation pres58

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ents itself as another Pandora’s box that I don’t know if I should open. Am I getting in over my head?

—Married Life Is Awesome Dear MLIA: If you go for it and it ends badly, MLIA, then you were definitely getting in over your head. If you go for it and it doesn’t end badly, then you weren’t getting in over your head.

The only way to find out for sure which it is — in over? In under? — is to go for it. So go for it. And send pics.

Dear Dan: I’m a straight woman in my mid-20s living in San Francisco. I have an amazing boyfriend who I’m sure will be my partner for life. However, he confessed something the other night that has me in a daze. Years ago, when he was much younger and had just moved to the city, he appeared in a gay adult film. He thought he might be bi at the time, he said, but the experience made him realize that he’s not really attracted to men. I would never leave him over this, but I’m having a hard time processing it. When we have sex, I can’t help but think about it, and it’s made it hard for me to get in the mood. I want to get past this.

—Confused About Lover’s Indiscretions Dear CALI: You live in San Francisco. If you rule out as a potential partner any straight guy who’s appeared in gay porn, CALI, you might have to move to another city.

Here’s something that might be easier than moving: Change your perspective on the meaning of sex between men.

When a straight girl messes around with another girl, no one thinks of her as any less feminine. But a straight guy who messes around with another dude is seen as less masculine. The belief that gay sex is somehow emasculating, and that guys who’ve had gay sex are less manly, is pure homophobia. And this particular kind of homophobia — your particular kind of homophobia, CALI — is killing your desire for your boyfriend. Willing yourself to see what was masculine and manly about your boyfriend’s gay porn experience — he wasn’t afraid to explore his sexuality because, hey, your boyfriend is one of those completely fearless manly man types — might help you get past it.

Good luck.

Send your questions for Dan to mail@savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage.

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In the course of your long life, I estimate you will come up with approximately 60,000 really good ideas. Some of these are small, like those that help you decide how to spend your weekend. Some are big ones, like those that reveal the best place for you to live. As your destiny unfolds, you go through phases when you have fewer good ideas than average, and other phases when you’re overflowing with them.

The period you’re in right now is one of the latter. You are a fountain of bright notions, intuitive insights and fresh perspectives. Take advantage of the abundance, Taurus. Solve as many riddles and dilemmas as you can.

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No one knows the scientific reasons why long-distance runners sometimes get a “second wind.” Nonetheless, such a thing exists. It allows athletes to resume their peak efforts after seemingly having reached a point of exhaustion. According to my reading of the astrological omens, a metaphorical version of this happy event will occur for you sometime soon, Gemini. You made a good beginning but have been flagging a bit of late. Any minute now, though, I expect you will get your second wind.

CANCER

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Thomas Gray was a renowned 18th-century English poet best remembered for his “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” It was a short poem — only 986 words, which is less than the length of this horoscope column. On the other hand, it took him seven years to write it, or an average of 12 words per month. I suspect that you are embarking on a labor of love that will evolve at a gradual pace, too, Cancerian. It might not occupy you for seven years, but it will probably take longer than you imagine. And yet, that’s exactly how long it should take. This is a character-building, life-defining project that can’t and shouldn’t be rushed.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

The 18th-century German philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg accepted the possibility that some humans have the power of clairvoyance. “The ‘second sight’ possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events,” he wrote. “I believe they possess this gift because they don’t wear trousers. That is also why in all countries women are more prone to utter prophecies.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, because I believe that in the coming weeks you’re likely to catch accurate glimpses of what’s to come — especially when you’re not wearing pants.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Were you nurtured well by caring adults in the first year of your life? If so, I bet you now have the capacity to fix whatever’s ailing your tribe or posse. You could offer some inspiration that will renew everyone’s motivation to work together. You might improve the group communication as you strengthen the foundation that supports you all. And what about if you were NOT given an abundance of tender love as a young child? I think you will still have the power to raise your crew’s mood, but you may end up kicking a few butts along the way.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Thirteen thousand years ago, lions and mammoths and camels roamed parts of North America. But along with many other large beasts, they ultimately became extinct.

Possible explanations for their demise include climate change and over-hunting by humans. In recent years a group of biologists has proposed a plan to repopulate the western part of the continent with similar species. They call their idea “re-wilding.” In the coming months, Scorpio, I suggest you consider a re-wilding program of your own. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you reinvigorate your connection to the raw, primal aspects of both your own nature and the great outdoors.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Who was Russia’s greatest poet? Many critics say it was Alexander Pushkin, who lived in the 19th century. His abundant creativity was undoubtedly related to his unruly libido. By the time he was 31 years old, he’d had 112 lovers.

But then he met his ultimate muse, the lovely and intelligent Natalya Goncharova, to whom he remained faithful.

“Without you,” he wrote to her, “I would have been unhappy all my life.” I half-expect something comparable to happen for you in the next 10 months, Sagittarius. You may either find an unparalleled ally or else finally ripen your relationship with an unparalleled ally you’ve known for a while.

One way or another, I bet you will commit yourself deeper and stronger.

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CAPRICORN

Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

It’s Grease Week — a time when you need to make sure everything is as well-oiled as possible. Does your car need a quart of Castrol? Is it time to bring more extra virgin olive oil into your kitchen? Do you have any K-Y Jelly in your nightstand, just in case? Are there creaky doors or stuck screws or squeaky wheels that could use some WD-40? Be liberal with the lubrication, Capricorn — both literally and metaphorically. You need smooth procedures and natural transitions.

AQUARIUS

Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Two years into the War of 1812, British soldiers invaded Washington, D.C. They set fire to the White House and other government buildings. The flames raged out of control, spreading in all directions. The entire city was in danger of burning. In the nick of time, a fierce storm hit, producing a tornado and heavy rains. Most of the fires were extinguished. Battered by the weather, the British army retreated. America’s capital was saved. I predict that you, Aquarius, will soon be the beneficiary of a somewhat less dramatic example of this series of events. Give thanks for the “lucky storm.”

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Like the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World who shills for Dos Equis beer, you will never step in gum on the sidewalk or lose a sock in the coming weeks. Your cereal will never get soggy; it’ll sit there, staying crispy, just for you.

The pheromones you secrete will affect people miles away.

You’ll have the power to pop open a pinata with the blink of your eye. If you take a Rorschach test, you’ll ace it. Ghosts will sit around campfires telling stories about you. Cafes and restaurants may name sandwiches after you. If you so choose, you’ll be able to live vicariously through yourself.

You will give your guardian angel a sense of security.

Summing up his experiment in living at Walden Pond, naturalist Henry David Thoreau said this: “I learned that if

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July 4, 2013 59

EEDBETWEENTHELINES

by Leland Rucker

Could Boulder price itself out of the pot market?

I

support taxes on sales of marijuana, but I’m scratching my head a little over the latest proposal before the Boulder City Council to place a 15 percent city excise tax on grow and infusion facilities and a 10 percent city sales tax on marijuana on the November ballot.

That’s in addition to the state, which is already asking voters to approve a 15 percent excise and 10 percent sales tax on that ballot.

There is already a 2.9 percent state sales tax and 3.41 percent city sales tax. It’s simplistic to just add those up — there are variances in how the excise tax would be levied, among other things — but consumers might be paying somewhere between 20 percent and 30 percent sales tax if they buy pot in Boulder, and they should expect to have the excise tax passed on to them, too.

I’m all for making marijuana pay its own way — for education, treatment, rules, regulations and enforcement. It looks like the only cities seriously considering retail weed stores, at least in time to open in January 2014, are Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins and Boulder. If the city opens retail stores, it will already share in the 15 percent of state marijuana tax revenue that Amendment 64 divvies up among cities and counties that participate.

One of the reasons I voted for 64 was to break down the illegal market and bring marijuana sales into the mainstream economy. Here’s this enormous underground market that, despite decades of expensive efforts by federal and state governments to stop, serves anyone who really wants it in Colorado. Which is why I’m concerned about the potential that a high sales tax will help keep the black market for marijuana open for business.

Actually, what once was called the “black market” has morphed, especially in the four Front Range cities considering retail, into an established underground market. Buying pot for most people in Boulder doesn’t mean driving to the seedy part of town and flagging down a scary, back-alley

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dealer with a piece in his belt. You go over to a friend’s house, have a beer, argue about municipalization and pick up a bag.

It’s discreet, it’s easy, it’s pretty safe, and there’s no tax involved and no photo taken at the time of transaction. And the price is generally much less

today than what patients are paying dispensaries for basically the same product. I don’t see consumers driving to Denver or Fort Collins to save a few bucks, but if the price is considerably more than the underground market, what will be the incentive to go to stores? (That’s not counting the overflow that could happen between users allowed to grow six plants each, which could affect city revenues, too.)

Denver is looking at sales taxes on pot, too. Last week the Amendment 64 Committee of the Denver City Council proposed a 2.5 percent tax on retail marijuana with a proviso that would allow council to

raise it to 10 percent at its discretion. The tax would be dedicated to licensing and regulation, enforcement of marijuana laws, education and public-health programs and restricting its use among underage users. The current Boulder proposal will allow 50 percent of tax revenues to go to education and the rest to go into the General Fund.

The idea of biking down to your local retail marijuana outlet is enticing to anyone who now buys marijuana illegally. But if taxes add significantly to the price, it could keep many away, with the result that the city won’t be getting the revenue it’s anticipating. Though popular culture continues to portray them as Cheechand-Chong stoners, pot smokers aren’t stupid — many have been buying an illegal product for years — and council might consider whether it might price itself out of the market while not denting the underground.

There has been a lot of boasting about weed becoming a tax cash cow. Certainly, it will have an effect on state and city revenues. Before the election, the Colorado Center on Law and Policy predicted that in the years up to 2017, the state would receive more than $32 million in new revenue, more than $14 million in new revenue for local governments, and would see savings of more than $12 million in state and local law enforcement spending. The Health Sciences Group in May predicted that the 15 percent state excise tax will yield an estimated $21.7 million in revenues, and a 15 percent sales tax (the ballot issue sets it at 10 percent) will yield $90.9 million in 2014. That’s a lot of cash, but its existence depends on the veracity of the prediction.

I think we might all be pleasantly surprised at the amount of revenue retail marijuana will generate, but let’s make sure we keep it competitive enough to put the underground market out of business.

Council takes the issue up again on July 16.

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