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news & views School of hard knocks / 6 Principal teaches Overland High journalism students wrong lesson by Pamela White Boulder targets more dispensaries for closure / 10 City issues cease-and-desist letters for non-compliant shops by Jefferson Dodge On the cover: See no weed / 14 Feds explain why they’re not turning up the heat on dispensaries by Jefferson Dodge

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departments Letters: Check the facts; Licensed to steal / 5 The Highroad: High spirits at the top / 5 In Case You Missed It: Doing the J School shuffle; Freedom? No thanks / 9 News Briefs: New hazmat facility opens; Meet library director finalists / 12 Boulderganic: Clean energy for clean water / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 48 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Check the facts (Re: “Libya and Lockerbie,” Letters, March 31.) Peter Johnson’s letter poohpoohing my assertion that the CIA (aka the Christian Investment Authority) has a long history of utilizing narcotics in its international skullduggery deserves a brief reply. Since space is limited, I suggest that Johnson, and other interested Boulder Weekly readers, consult the following books: The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Alfred McCoy, 1972 (revised several times); Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Gary Webb, 2003; Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn, 1999; American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan, Peter Dale Scott, 2010; and The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, Jonathan Kwitny, 1987. McCoy and Scott are, or were, academics. The other authors are investigative journalists. For those who prefer enlightenment via the entertainment route, see Air America, starring Mel Gibson. Kwitny’s book is particularly interesting. A long-time investigative journalist for the Wall Street Journal, the author named several U.S. generals and

an admiral who were associated with, or held responsible positions in, Australia’s defunct Nugan Hand Bank, the bizarre financial institution that laundered huge amounts of drug money for the CIA. Former CIA director William Colby was a lawyer for Nugan Hand. With regard to the Lockerbie disas-

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f you want to know how the economy is doing, don’t bother checking the Dow Jones Average or tracking the unemployment numbers. Instead, consult the spiritualists. Not the tarot card readers or those who have extra-sensory perception and commune with the supernatural, but the people of crass commerce who deal in liquid spirits — i.e., booze. Despite our nation’s relentless and depressing “jobless recovery” (or perhaps because of it), spirits are on the rise. Overall sales of liquors were flat during the Great Recession, but popped up by 2.3 percent last year to a total of more than $19 billion. Within that general number, however, lies a more telling economic indicator: consumer spending on the cheaper stuff is down by nearly 2 percent, while the super-premium goods had an 11

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ter, all I can do is again urge readers to peruse Lisa Pease’s article, “Lockerbie Doubts,” posted on CommonDreams. org, Aug. 23, 2009. The trial of the two alleged Libyan terrorists was, for numerous European journalists and jurists, a kangaroo trial replete with anomalies galore. For example, both

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High spirits at the top by Jim Hightower percent hike in sales in 2010. This sales data is consistent with the ongoing decline in working people’s incomes — they’re in a downward spiral that leaves them shopping for even cheaper buzzes than Two-Buck Chuck, even as the affluent few are trading up to single-malt scotches and boutique bourbons. Then there are the imbibers at the tippy-top of America’s economy — the Wall Street bonus babies and your billionaire class. They enjoy a constant

defendants were tried on the same evidence, yet only one was convicted, the other set free. Truth, as the saying goes, is stranger than fiction. Dave Morton/Longmont see LETTERS Page 6

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liquidity, showing few ups and downs on the booze index, because ... well, because they’re always rich. These swells buy spirits from the locked cabinets of exclusive liquor dealers, taking home a case of, say, the 2005 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Romanée-Conti. It’s $4,000 a bottle. Perhaps the redundant use of the name Romanée-Conti doubles its price, but if you have to ask what it costs, you’re in the wrong ZIP code. Yeah, times are hard for most folks, with no relief in sight, but I’m sure that you take great comfort in knowing that those at the top are always in high spirits. Don’t you? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 14, 2011 5

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Licensed to steal Although I am one of those who is unalterably opposed to the idea of allowing a corporation the same rights as a living person, and find that the recent Supreme Court decision regarding same is a travesty of real justice, I recognize that it is the law of the land nonetheless. Given the above, corporations — at the very least — should also be required to accept the same responsibilities as those expected of a person; it should be a good citizen and an honorable, ethical member of the community. In the case of international corporations, that community has to be defined as the world. In actual practice, however, corporations are the opposite of good citizens in many if not most instances. They bribe politicians to write laws that cheat society on a mammoth scale, most significantly by allowing them to avoid paying many of the very real costs incurred in conducting their businesses. What economists refer to as “externalities” are left out of price calculations. This includes the social and environmental costs of destruction of valuable resources, pollution, the burdens on society of workers who become injured or ill and receive little or no health care, the indirect funding received when companies are permitted to pay employees less than a living wage, provide substandard working conditions and extract natural resources from public lands at less-than-market prices. Additionally, allowing corporations to domicile offshore to avoid taxes is to allow corporations to evade taxes, and if that is considered wrong for living persons, it should be considered wrong for corporations. Further, most corporations are dependent on public subsidies, exemptions, massive advertising and lobbying campaigns, and complex transportation and communications systems that are underwritten by taxpayers; their executives receive inflated salaries, perks and “golden retirement parachutes,” which are written off as tax deductions. Under proper accounting, all the above externalities would be factored into the costs of products. Those goods and services that are inherently “clean” would also be the cheapest. Consumers would pay a premium for products that strain the environment and society: The price would include funds to correct the damage. In a truly “free” market economy, these very real costs would be “internalized” — included. But they are not. Why? Because accounting firms are not obligated to enforce sound accounting principles; they only need adhere to those required by laws — which are written by politicians who are dependent on the corporatocracy. Modern corporations have all the 6 April 14, 2011

rights of individuals, but none of the responsibilities. In fact, they are licensed to steal. From an economic standpoint, there is simply no other word for it. They plunder the poor and future generations in order to further enrich the wealthy. This is a reprehensible situation … inherently unjust, unethical and, at this point in our nation’s history, intolerable. This must change. Don Barshay/Boulder

Tax meat and dairy With the annual tax filing date upon us, pundits are searching for ways to make our tax code fairer and more reflective of our social incentives and burdens. In this regard, there is a growing interest in a tax on meat, eggs and dairy products designed to curb the selfdestructive health impacts of their consumption and to effectively compensate society for the associated devastating environmental impacts. The concept is hardly radical. We already pay similar taxes on tobacco and alcohol products. A number of states have or are considering imposing taxes on soft drinks and other junk foods. The revenue would reimburse the Medicare and Medicaid programs for treating victims of heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other chronic killer diseases that have been linked conclusively with consumption of animal products. It would pay for restoration of waterways and wildlife habitats that have been devastated by production of these items. Mark Twain said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Yet, the first can be deferred and the other reduced selectively by a tax on meat and dairy products that reflects the associated social costs. Stanley Silver/Boulder

Covering the cost of war Just as a “modest” proposal: I would like to suggest that our so-called “defense” budget could be covered by a heavy surtax on the profits of every international corporation currently investing in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is time for the Pentagon to begin handing out invoices for “services rendered,” and the tips to their “servers” should be huge. Robert Porath/Boulder

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School of hard knocks by Pamela White

he lessons our children learn often aren’t the ones we intend for them to receive. Such must be the case for student journalists at Overland High School. Lori Schafer, a junior and editor of the Overland Scout, the school paper, wrote an article on March 8 about the death of a fellow student, Leibert Phillips, who died on Jan. 1 of a blood clot related to a fractured ankle he suffered during a school-sponsored wrestling tournament. Schafer included an interview with Phillips’ bereaved mother, Linda Kore, who shared her overwhelming grief at the death of her son. “He was the love of my life,” Kore told Schafer. “He is my pride and joy.” It was a brave interview to undertake, one that couldn’t have been easy for Kore — or for Schafer. Part of being an effective journalist is learning how to handle such sensitive and heartwrenching subject matter, and Schafer faced the challenge head-on. Unfortunately for Schafer, Principal Leon Lundie seems to be more concerned about controlling the perception people have of his school than he is about ethics or educating student journalists. But let’s back up for a moment. Lundie instituted a policy that enabled him to control the newspaper’s content. Why he felt the need to do this is uncertain. Perhaps he didn’t trust his students. Perhaps he didn’t trust the paper’s faculty adviser, Laura Sudik, to

do her job. Or perhaps he sought this level of control for the same reason that many bureaucrats do — because they can. As reported by the Student Press Law Center (SPLC), Lundie did not approve Schafer’s article for publication, claiming that the issue of Phillips’ death was “too big” for a student paper. He also claimed that the article contained a factual error when it stated that Phillips’ death was related to the injury he received at the wrestling tournament — an injury that the school did not report to his mother. The students, being good journalists, obtained a copy of the coroner’s report, which proved that Lundie was the one who had his facts wrong, not Schafer. And then Lundie did what so many bureaucrats have done when faced with inconvenient truth. He went after the truth-tellers, pulling the plug on the newspaper and removing the faculty adviser from a post she had occupied for 14 years. Put a dunce cap on that man, and make him sit in the corner! When confronted about his actions, he attributed his decision to “budget concerns,” the SPLC reports. Meanwhile, the Cherry Creek School District spokesflack — a former journalist — told reporters that Lundie is considering a shift in curriculum away see STUDENT PAPER Page 8

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from traditional journalism toward communications and “new media.” These are excuses we’ve heard before. They were used to justify killing the University of Colorado faculty and staff newspaper, the Silver & Gold Record. They’re being used this week to try to eliminate CU’s journalism school. Changing times, budget problems. What a load of crap. Fortunately, Overland High students didn’t take this assault on their rights lying down. Neither did SPLC or the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Both organizations stepped up to support the student paper, bolstered by a Colorado law that protects students’ freedom of expression. In a letter dated March 29, the board of directors for Colorado SPJ called for an end to Lundie’s policy of prior restraint on content, the immediate reinstatement of the paper’s faculty adviser and the publication of all regular Scout editions. In response to the firestorm, the school district has decided that the Scout will be published at least through the end of the year and has reinstated the adviser — for now. Best of all, Schafer’s article will run. But what happens next year is anyone’s guess.

Let’s hope Lundie has learned a lesson through this and permanently scuttles his plans to kill the paper. Otherwise, what will he teach students at Overland High? That power can dominate truth? That human grief and other human emotional needs are less important than image? That being in charge is more important than being right? Of course, his actions may bring about unintended results. There’s nothing like adult hypocrisy to ignite idealism in a young person’s soul. This experience might well be the making of Schafer and her fellow student journalists, inspiring them to work harder, strengthening their commitment to the truth and hardening their resolve. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. As the corporate machine gobbles up one independent newspaper after another and economic pressures make far too many newspapers sell out, sacrificing journalistic ethics for the bottom line, we’re going to need iron-willed, committed journalists to carry the flame of our nation’s only constitutionally protected profession into the future. To read more, including Schafer’s complete article, go to www.splc.org/news/ newsflash.asp?id=2205. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Doing the J school shuffle It was pretty amusing to watch (insert one of CU’s long administrator titles here) Jeff Cox, former CU Regent Jim Martin and Denver Post editorial writer Alicia Caldwell jostling for position regarding CU’s discontinuance of its journalism school during the April 8 broadcast of “A Colorado State of Mind” on Rocky Mountain PBS. With a straight face, Cox insisted that the “discontinuance” is really an effort to strengthen journalism education at CU, with something encouragingly called “Journalism Plus.” And then there was Martin, in his usual rambling, broken sentences, suggesting that discontinuance is a troubling sign, since good journalism usually results in good government. Hey, we love you, Jim, you were often the voice of reason while on the board, you’re just not the best public speaker. Still, he made his point, and it’s a point well taken. CU officials can crow all they want about this “discontinuance” being an unfortunate term, about this not being a budget-cutting exercise, about faculty retaining their positions, about dragging the J school into the 21st century. The real proof, unfortunately, won’t come for several years, when we look at how things have changed in the program in terms of faculty numbers, budget, course offerings and number of students. You see, something like this can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. No matter what is decided now, the word is out that CU is “discontinuing” its journalism school because it’s not “first-rate,” to quote the chancellor himself. Talk about throwing one of your schools under the bus. Do we really think that this type of national news is not going to hurt student recruitment efforts? How many students are going to want to attend now that such “messaging,” to borrow a term from the Dark Side, is out there? This decision was a done deal when the “process” was announced last August. Hopefully the line that Cox and other CU honchos are spouting about their professed dedication to continuing and improving journalism education at CU is not just hot air. Martin would know. He sniffed this kind of thing out many times in his 12 years as a regent.

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paying off that $4,800 purchase. Freedom? Try indentured servitude. It’s popular to whine about Congress spending our children’s future, but we are spending our children’s future. Freedom isn’t about spending. It’s not about furniture and flat-screen TVs. They have that shit in China. Freedom is about being able to make important choices unencumbered by debt and other harmful, unnecessary obligations. No thanks, Chase. Your brand of freedom is too much like slavery. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ine more medical marijuana businesses have received cease-anddesist orders from the city of Boulder this past week due to problems with their applications for a license. City spokesperson Sarah Huntley told Boulder Weekly on April 12 that in addition to the six dispensaries that received cease-and-desist letters in early March, six more dispensaries, a grow operation and an infused-product business were sent similar letters on April 7. By the end of the day on April 12, two of those dispensaries had successfully negotiated to have their license denial lifted, but another had been added to the list of those targeted for closure. The businesses have 10 days to file an appeal with the city; those that do not must shut down. The most common reasons for denying an application for a city license relate to zoning and background checks. Boulder’s medical marijuana ordinance prohibits those “not of good moral character” from having a financial interest in or managing a dispensary; Huntley says having a felony conviction within the past five years is grounds for denying a license application. (Hourly employees are not subject to this restriction.) In addition, the ordinance does not permit dispensaries to operate within 500 feet of a school or day care center, or within 500 feet of three other dispensaries. According to Huntley, the seven remaining businesses that are still under cease-and-desist orders (and the alleged reasons for the license denial) are: 14er Holistics (500-foot rule), Boulder MMJ (background check), Boulder Vital Herbs (500-foot rule), grow operation Colorado Bottling Company LLC (background check), The Greenest Green (500-foot rule), Lotus Medical (500-foot rule) and infused-product business Spoon Full of Sugar (background check and other alleged ordinance violations). Huntley says those businesses that appeal will be scheduled for a quasijudicial hearing and will be allowed to

remain open pending the outcome of those hearings. Huntley also told Boulder Weekly that city officials have reviewed 90 of the 117 applications that have been received. The fact that only 14 of those 90 applications have been denied is evidence that “the city is making every effort to work with these businesses that have applied, to bring them into compliance,” she says. The 76 medical marijuana businesses that have been cleared in this first phase of review are not home-free yet, however. Huntley says they still have to work with officials to make sure they adhere to city building and fire codes. Only one dispensary — Good Humor Meds — has been granted a city license so far. Huntley says five of the six dispensaries that received cease-and-desist letters last month have filed appeals and have been allowed to stay open, although hearings have not been set for them yet. Those five dispensaries are 8th Street Care Center, Fresh Baked Dispensary, High Grade Alternatives, Southwest Alternative Care and Timberline Herbal Clinic. Medical marijuana dispensaries that don’t comply with the cease-and-desist orders could get a visit from police. Huntley told Boulder Weekly last month that no police action had been taken so far, “but we certainly could choose to go down that road if we felt like it was necessary at a later date.” She also says dispensaries have suggested dealing with background check issues by removing the people in question from their positions. “In some cases, businesses have called us and said, ‘What if I terminate the individual you have a concern about?’” she told Boulder Weekly. “In some cases, that could be a way to resolve the issue, if it’s somebody who’s not considered a primary owner. But if it’s an owner who has the issue, then we are telling businesses they would have to resubmit an application with new ownership information.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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CU receives tree recognition The University of Colorado Boulder is being recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a “Tree Campus USA” for excellence in tree management as well as student and community involvement. The Arbor Foundation issues the Tree Campus USA designation to campuses that meet five requirements, including convening a tree advisory committee, creating a tree care plan, implementing a tree program, holding an Arbor Day observance and offering a service learning project. CU-Boulder will be presented the Tree Campus USA designation and will celebrate Arbor Day with the planting of two Sweet Gum trees on Friday, April 15, from 11 to 11:30 a.m. on the grounds located across University Avenue from the Armory Building. Speakers will include campus leaders, as well as forestry representatives from the state of Colorado and the city of Boulder. The event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by refreshments and the opportunity to speak with professionals about tree care. Since the late 1880s, when one of the first trees, a Plains Cottonwood, was planted near Old Main, CU-Boulder’s tree population has grown to more than 4,100 trees comprising more than 100 species. Senior Grounds Specialist Alan Nelson leads tree walks on campus in conjunction with the CU Museum of Natural History and the CU Heritage Center, educating participants on the history and significance of CU-Boulder’s trees. The next two tree walks, which are free and open to the public, will be held on May 17 and May 18, beginning at 5 p.m. on the west steps of Norlin Library. To explore tree-related and other volunteer opportunities visit http://ecenter.colorado.edu/resources/get-involved. Law school applicants a record While many law schools throughout the nation are experiencing double-digit drops in application Boulder Weekly

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numbers, the CU School of Law is seeing the highest number of applicants in its history. Colorado Law currently has about 3,160 applications pending for its three-year, full-time program, up 12.7 percent over last year. The school will admit approximately 180 students for its incoming fall class. The average drop in law school applicants, according to a recent online article in the ABA Journal, is about 11.5 percent. And as reported in the Yale Daily News, the Yale Law School — ranked the nation’s No. 1 law school — is experiencing a 16.5 percent decrease in applications. Colorado Law, established in 1892, is a top 25 public law school. It consists of approximately 500 students and offers dual degree programs in business, environmental studies, telecommunications and public affairs. CU professor nominated to NSB President Barack Obama has nominated University of Colorado Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger to serve on the National Science Board. Lineberger is the E.U. Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and is a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. If confirmed by the Senate, as a member of the National Science Board Lineberger would help to establish the policies of the National Science Foundation and assist in advising the president and Congress on issues about engineering and science. CU Distinguished Professor and JILA Fellow Carl Wieman was confirmed as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last September, and former CU Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson was nominated and appointed to serve on the National Science Board in 2008 by former President George W. Bush. Respond: letters@boulderweekly .com

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County’s new hazmat facility opens Boulder County’s new Hazardous Materials Management Facility is set to open its doors on Wednesday, April 20. The facility is located at 1901 63rd St. in Boulder, immediately west of the recycling center. It will serve residents of Boulder and Broomfield counties, as well as all residents of Erie. Proof of residency is required, but there is no charge to drop off materials. Operating hours of the facility will be 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. More information is available online at http://bit.ly/haz-mat.

Saturday, April 16, in the Boulder Public Library’s Creek Room. This past week, the state Senate approved a budget package containing a $250 million cut to K-12 education. The budget must still pass the House and earn Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature before it goes into effect. Heath and other state senators will be holding the meetings, titled “Local School Budget Breakdown,” to help constituents understand issues surrounding school finance and what it means for public education in Colorado. Don Haddad, superintendent of the St. Vrain Valley School District, will appear as a guest speaker.

Meet library director finalists Members of the public will have an opportunity to meet with the finalists for Boulder Public Library director from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 17. Twenty-six people applied after the search was extended in early February when two top candidates withdrew from consideration. The city will conduct a final round of interviews after Sunday’s public presentations by each candidate. The presentations will be held in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Building, 1777 Broadway. A public reception to meet the candidates will follow from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the lobby. The finalists are Ann Kling, assistant deputy director for public services at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library in Buffalo, N.Y.; Valerie Maginnis, director of library and cultural services for the City of Mission Viejo, Calif.; Jennifer Miles, acting director of the Boulder Public Library; and Donna Walker, manager of neighborhood libraries, outreach services, and child and family library services at the Arapahoe Library District in Centennial. Information about the candidates, as well as comment cards, will be available at the public presentations and reception. The city anticipates announcing the selected candidate in May.

Lafayette rec center: Turn off TV The Bob L. Burger Recreation Center in Lafayette is hosting TV Turnoff Week April 18-24, and kids in grades K-12 who register for the program by April 17 will receive a free weeklong pass to the rec center. Upon registration, participants will be given an activity log to keep track of the daily activities they engage in as an alternative to watching television, playing video games and using the computer for recreational purposes. All participants who return their completed activity log to the Recreation Center by May 2 will be awarded a participation certificate and an ageappropriate book, compliments of the Lafayette Public Library. In addition, parents of children who return their activity log will be entered in a drawing to win a TV/video game monitoring device called “BOB” from Hopscotch Technology of Louisville. “Some kids just need to be given the opportunity to realize there are lots of other great activities besides TV and video games,” says Curt Cheesman, director of the Lafayette Recreation Department. “We’re very proud of our involvement in the TV Turn Off Week program and the message it sends to our youth about the importance of healthy, active lifestyles.” For more information, see www. cityoflafayette.com/page. asp?navid=1724

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Bookworm gives out health books Free health books are being given away at the Bookworm Bookstore in Boulder, courtesy of the Stoll Foundation for Holistic Health. The purpose of the giveaway is to empower people to take charge of their own health and live a healthier lifestyle. It is especially aimed at people who are uninsured, cannot afford to pay for health care, cannot afford books, or know that education and self-care is the key to good health. Participants must fill out a short questionnaire at the Bookworm before choosing a book or books valued up to $10 (used book price). The giveaway will continue until $250 worth of books have been given away. The Bookworm is located at 3175 28th St, #2, and its hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more information about the Stoll Foundation, see www.stollfoundation.org. Heil volunteers celebrate Earth Day Boulder County officials are looking for volunteers to join them April 23 for some improvements at the Heil Valley Ranch Open Space. For the past three years, volunteers have thinned forests and built brush piles at Heil Valley Ranch. The brush piles were burned, and now volunteers are needed to restore the leftover scars with native seed. The project runs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The minimum age is 12, with adult supervision. Register online at www. BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/wildwork or, for more information, call Shane Milne at 303-678-6295, ext. 2. Review Boulder Valley plan An open house on an update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Boulder Weekly

Plan (BVCP) will be held on Wednesday, April 20, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building Lobby, 1777 Broadway. The city of Boulder has been collecting community feedback for the BVCP 2010 Major Update for more than a year. The update process happens every five years to reflect changes in circumstances and community desires. The BVCP sets the preferred long-term use of land in the Boulder Valley and provides guidance for zoning and development decisions. It is adopted by four bodies: The City of Boulder Planning Board, the City Council, the County Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners. Staff will be available at the open house to answer questions and take feedback on the update, which is available for review at www.bouldervalleycompplan.net. Paper copies can be obtained by calling 303-441-4293. To learn about various feedback opportunities, visit the plan website at http://1.usa.gov/hTKIDo. Comments received by Friday, April 29, will be reflected in future public hearing materials. Acappellooza benefits Japan Extreme Measures, a University of Colorado co-ed a cappella singing group, is hosting “Acappellooza” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the outdoor Mary Rippon Theater on the CU campus. The annual concert benefits a charity of the host’s choice, and this year, proceeds from ticket sales will go toward the American Red Cross and its recent earthquake/tsunami relief efforts for Japan. The concert features all of CU’s a cappella student groups: Extreme Measures, The Buffoons, In the Buff, Mile 21 and On the Rocks. In addition, The New Wizard Oil Combination, an a cappella group that includes many CU alumni and performs in the greater Denver area, will make a special opening-act appearance. Seats are general admission, and people are advised to arrive 30 minutes before the start of the show. (Old Main is the back-up location in case of inclement weather.) Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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FEDS IN COLORADO EXPLAIN WHY THEY’RE NOT TURNING UP HEAT ON DISPENSARIES BY JEFFERSON DODGE

espite federal efforts in other states to crack down on dispensaries, feds in Colorado say they haven’t changed their tune on how they deal with medical marijuana and have no plans to do so. They say they are focused on large-scale, illegal distribution and sales operations, not the individual patient or the dealer on the street corner. While dispensaries seem to be a bit of a gray area, it seems that if federal officials in this state stick to 2009 guidelines set by the U.S. attorney general’s office, Colorado dispensaries that keep their noses clean should not attract the attention of federal prosecutors and drug enforcement officers. **** An Oct. 19, 2009, letter — referred to as the “Ogden memo” because it came from U.S. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden — has served as the law of the land when it comes to how the Obama administration intends to deal with medical marijuana in states where its use is authorized. (Marijuana remains illegal as a schedule I controlled substance under federal law.) The Ogden memo lays out guidance for U.S. attorneys in states where medical marijuana is legal. In an environment of limited resources, the memo says, the Department of Justice is primarily concerned about “significant traffickers of illegal drugs, including marijuana, and the disruption of illegal drug manufacturing and trafficking networks.” The memo says federal resources should not be focused on “individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance” with state marijuana laws, and it differentiates between the individual patient/ caregiver and large-scale operations, including questionable dispensaries hiding behind state laws. “For example, prosecution of individuals with cancer or other serious illnesses who use marijuana as part of a recommended treatment regimen consistent with applicable state law, or those caregivers in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state law who provide such individuals with marijuana, is unlikely to be an efficient use of limited federal resources,” the memo states. “On the other hand, prosecution of commercial enterprises that unlawfully market and sell marijuana for profit continues to be 14 April 14, 2011

an enforcement priority of the Department. To be sure, claims of compliance with state or local law may mask operations inconsistent with the terms, conditions, or purposes of those laws, and federal law enforcement should not be deterred by such assertions when otherwise pursuing the Department’s core enforcement priorities.” The Ogden memo lays out several factors that, coupled with medical marijuana activity, would make conduct fall clearly outside the lines of “clear and unambiguous compliance” with state marijuana laws: • unlawful possession or use of firearms • violence • sales to minors • financial and marketing activities inconsistent with state law, including money laundering and financial gains/cash amounts that are inconsistent with state law • amounts of marijuana inconsistent with state law • illegal possession or sale of other controlled substances • ties to other criminal enterprises Many inferred, perhaps incorrectly, that the Obama administration’s Ogden memo softened the federal government’s stance on regulating marijuana in states that have authorized its use for medical purposes. **** Recently, Michael Ormsby, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington state, made headlines for notifying landlords of penalties they may face for leasing to dispensaries, and he threatened to take “quick and direct action” against operators of dispensaries. Washington voters approved a 1998 ballot initiative removing the state’s criminal penalties for “physician-prescribed” marijuana, Ormsby said in an April 6 press release, but state law does not allow for “marijuana stores.” And in California, a Feb. 1 letter from U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag — referred to as the “Haag memo” — outlines concerns about Oakland creating an ordinance permitting “large-scale industrial marijuana cultivation and manufacturing” because it conflicts with federal marijuana laws. Haag says in her memo that, after consulting with Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney

General Ogden, it is clear that while the Department of Justice will not go after “seriously ill individuals” who use marijuana in a medically recommended treatment program under state law, “we will enforce the [Controlled Substances Act] vigorously against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law.” The latter clause raised the hackles of Colorado’s own Cannabis Therapy Institute, which on March 17 issued an e-mail warning to its stakeholders that the Haag memo marks a departure from the original Ogden memo and “says clearly that the feds will not look the other way on medical marijuana. The ‘Haag Memo’ states very clearly that the feds will continue to investigate, arrest and prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries in every state ‘regardless of state law.’” The Institute surmised that ensuing Drug Enforcement Agency raids of dispensaries in California and Montana were prompted by the Haag memo. “Maybe this will wake people up who think that it can’t happen here,” Kathleen Chippi of the Coloradobased Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project was quoted as saying in the e-mail. **** Congressman Jared Polis, D-Colo., told Boulder Weekly that the medical marijuana industry has been a key economic driver in the state, and that the Ogden memo “gave some needed assurances that patients and legitimate business owners would not have to live in constant fear of DEA agents. This trust was quickly broken right here in Colorado.” Polis was alluding to the DEA’s arrest of Highlands Ranch resident Chris Bartkowicz on marijuana charges in early 2010 after Bartkowicz told a TV station about his major basement marijuana grow. “Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law,” Jeffrey Sweetin of the DEA subsequently told The Denver Post. “The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody.” see MARIJUANA Page 15

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The incident prompted Polis to quiz Attorney General Eric Holder about how the feds determine whether someone is in “clear and unambiguous compliance” with state medical marijuana laws. At a May 13 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Polis pointedly asked Holder about Sweetin’s comments and whether they conform to the Ogden memo: “Do you agree that statements that could be reasonably taken as threatening to businesses that are legal in our state are, in fact, contrary to your stated policy?” Holder replied that such statements are, in fact, contrary to the Ogden memo if such businesses are in compliance: “If the entity is, in fact, operating consistent with state law, and is not — does not have any of those factors involved that are contained in that deputy attorney general memo, and given, again, the limited resources that we have and our determination to focus on major traffickers, that would be inconsistent with what the policy as we have set it out.” Polis says he didn’t feel like he got a clear response from Holder, and he notes that Sweetin was later promoted. “It appears that a year later, via the Haag memo, I as well as all Coloradans have received an unambiguous response — that it is not the intention of the Department of Justice to respect our state’s laws,” Polis told Boulder Weekly.

“This is an established industry in our state employing thousands of people. The cannabis industry has taken money out of the hands of international drug cartels. Federal prohibition of marijuana is a failed policy. Working with bipartisan colleagues, I plan to continue supporting laws to support the cannabis industry [and] decriminalize its use for adults.” **** Jeff Dorschner, spokesperson for Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh, declined to comment on Polis’ statements. But he insists that the Haag memo does nothing to change the feds’ approach to medical marijuana in Colorado. He says the DEA and his office continue to follow the guidance set by the Ogden memo. According to Dorschner, each U.S. attorney has “a fair amount of discretion,” and the Haag memo applies only to the California district for which it was written. “It has no bearing on what Colorado’s situation is,” he told Boulder Weekly. “It certainly doesn’t supersede the Ogden memo. It doesn’t clarify the Ogden memo. It only applies to Oakland. Nothing has changed in Colorado because of the issuance of that letter.” Dorschner agreed that from a federal perspective, there is less protection for commercial distributors of medical marijuana than there is for individuals.

hour over the limit. He also used the analogy of having a bunch of flies in your house and only trying to swat the one that begins to annoy you. “We’re going after the biggest and the baddest,” Turner says. “We’re typically not spending time going after dispensaries. There’s been no change for us. … Medical marijuana is not something we sit here and chat about every day.” **** A bigger concern for medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado may be state and municipal regulations that some dispensary owners are calling too onerous. In addition to any city licensing hurdles that dispensaries have to clear, 77 pages of rules from the Colorado Department of Revenue will go into effect on July 1, thanks to the passage of HB 1284 last year. The full list of those rules is available at http://1.usa. gov/eDUfF4. In addition, the Cannabis Therapy Institute is hosting a legal seminar, “Compliance with the New Department of Revenue Rules,” at 6:30 p.m. on April 19 at the Holiday Inn in Denver. The seminar, led by attorney Robert Corry Jr., costs $150 per person. For more information or to register online, see www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/classes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

CU cops: Cracking down on 4/20 isn’t worth it

ver the years, University of Colorado at Boulder officials have made several attempts to curtail, break up and even prosecute participants in the 4/20 pot smokeout. They’ve turned sprinklers on the crowd, even posted photos of smokers online in an attempt to identify them. But in recent years, CU police seem to have taken a more hands-off approach, and that is expected to continue this week when the event returns. Cmdr. Tim McGraw of the CU police told Boulder Weekly that there were “mixed reviews” on the use of sprinklers and online photos, which were intended to “thwart some of the momentum” of the event, in which cannabis smokers now gather on Norlin Quad at 4:20 p.m. on April 20 to partake in pot. “A percentage of the public thinks we treat this far too lightly; other community members think we treat it too harshly,” he says. Asked why authorities now seem to look the other way when the event happens, McGraw says “having a strict enforcement policy, frankly, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for us.” He explains that in Colorado, where minor pot offenses were decriminalized years ago, possession of up to two ounces of marijuana is not even a misdemeanor — it’s a class 2 petty offense that carries a Boulder Weekly

Asked how dispensaries could avoid drawing attention from the feds, he would only say that his office and the DEA follow the Ogden memo, its “clear and unambiguous compliance” standard, and its list of complicating factors that would make a dispensary noncompliant. If the DEA encounters a dispensary where one of those factors is at play, they will contact Walsh’s office for guidance, Dorschner says. Dorschner says the Bartkowicz incident occurred before Walsh took office, and that initial reports that the Highlands Ranch resident could face up to 60 years in prison were not realistic. Walsh offered Bartkowicz a plea deal of five years in prison, which in Walsh’s analysis was a fair sentence, according to Dorschner. Mike Turner, a Colorado spokesperson for the Drug Enforcement Agency, agrees that the Haag memo doesn’t change anything for Colorado dispensaries. “There is no change in our status,” Turner told Boulder Weekly. “We don’t go after sick people.” The situation in which the DEA would go after a dispensary is “if folks get way over the line” under the parameters set by the Ogden memo. He compared it to speeding while driving: Those going 20 miles per hour over the speed limit are more likely to get pulled over than those only a few miles per

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maximum fine of $100, with no chance of jail time. By comparison, McGraw says, the penalty for littering is up to $1,000. He notes that it probably wouldn’t make sense to the community to assemble the number of officers needed to crack down on 10,000 people who showed up to an event, littered and then left. So why put together a similar police force for an offense that carries a penalty that is 10 times smaller than littering? “It’s more of a social issue, frankly, than it is a police enforcement issue,” he says. McGraw acknowledges that if people are walking across campus smoking a joint and encounter a police officer, “there would be a pretty strong likelihood that they’re going to get a ticket. But we’re not going to wade into the crowd or try to put a fence around people and then develop the probable cause that would be needed to show that everyone inside committed a violation. Given the low statutory status of this event, it makes no sense for us to dedicate resources to do that. We also could likely create a bigger issue than the one we’re trying to resolve.” McGraw did say police don’t want participants jumping on trampolines, slack-lining or doing similar

activities that could lead to injuries during 4/20. He says that in past years, the event has involved mostly medical calls, and police will be on hand to handle life safety/health issues. “I’m certainly not saying that it’s carte blanche permission to go out and violate the law. I’m just saying that our point of emphasis is going to be elsewhere, in dealing with things that we can control and respond to,” McGraw says. CU spokesperson Bronson Hilliard, who estimates that only about 25 percent of the 4/20 crowd is CU students, says the event — and media coverage around it — always prompts complaints from parents, lawmakers and donors, and detracts from productive contributions made by the university, like the 13,000 students engaged in community service. “If the student element that participates in [4/20] … understood how this one single little event that feels like a good time in the sun works against every positive message about the institution that we try to put out there, I think they’d think twice about it,” Hilliard says. “I don’t think anyone here is against having a debate about drug laws or symbolic gestures calling into question the nation’s drug laws … But this is nothing but a giant party. “I see a lot of heads, but not a lot of heavy discourse.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 14, 2011 15

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“For the last 25 years, we’ve been beneficially using the methane gas that we derive from treated solids. As we break down and treat solids, a gas is formed that’s primarily methane,” Douville says. “Methane has a combustion value, and we use a system called cogeneration to make electricity.” That system generates an average of 20 percent of the facility’s power needs, and it keeps methane from being released in the atmosphere. “Not all communities do that. We’re on the exception end of things,” Douville says. “Normally what a facility would do is burn the gas, so they’d flare it, ignite it and combust it, and it would go off in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and heat. Boulder made the commitment to produce electricity.” While that program has been successful and beneficial, they haven’t stopped looking for new ways to offset their energy needs. In the fall of 2010, solar panels were installed at the wastewater facility. At their highest output, the panels have produced 75 percent to 80 percent of the facility’s electricity, though on average, factoring in hours of sunlight and storms, the panels have been producing, and will likely continue to produce, around 15 percent of the facility’s power needs on an annual basis. “We’re trying to be energy-conscious and make the commitment regarding greenhouse gases, while

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by Chelsea Long hile many residents don’t know what the Boulder Wastewater Treatment Facility is, the plant is taking steps to keep the community safe and energy-efficient. The 75th Street center, which receives and treats all commercial and industrial waste from the city of Boulder, is equipped to handle up to 25 million gallons of wastewater daily. The actual amount is closer to 15 million gallons, which is treated through physical, microbiological and chemical methods. “What we do is definitely a necessary step in keeping the community safe,” says Chris Douville, coordinator of wastewater treatment at the facility. The water, once treated to Environmental Protection Agency and state of Colorado standards, is discharged into Boulder Creek. At that point, it’s not safe for consumption, but it is safe for recreation and contact with those downstream of the facility. “What we’re doing is we’re taking what would happen in natural ecosystems and compressing it in time and space,” says Douville. “It takes a lot of power to do that, primarily electricity.” But since 1986, the treatment facility has been finding ways to offset that electrical necessity. Back then, it was methane gas. Now, it’s solar power.

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Do you like movies about gladiators? Airplane: The Movie plays at the St. Julien on Sunday, April 17.

Thursday, April 14

DIVE! Living Off America’s Waste — Film screening and discussion on hunger. 7 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, CU campus, 303492-8308.

Friday, April 15

Laser U2 — In the name of getting high and listening to music. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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Love laptop music? Hate it? Thank Ableton co-creator Robert Henke

he genie is out of the bottle, and she is circuitry. As quickly as the subgenres of electronic music become tagged and assimilated and commonly negotiated — trance, drone, dubstep, ambient, et al. — Robert Henke smears the palette and bleeds each into the others. The archetypal pioneer, plowing directly into the darkness with a worn path of linear determination pointed at a destination over the horizon, doesn’t seem to fit Henke’s remarkable, if under-publicized, route through contemporary electronica. Instead, the programmer-turned-electronic music performer cuts broadly inscribed figure eights around the points of familiarity: martial and aggressive club beats supporting banks of textured and detailed grey noise when performing as his alter-ego Monolake, or gentle and

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immersive tonal baths, graced by vocal samples or orphaned bits of melody, random but delicately wrought, performing as himself. “I am probably more interested in sound as a phenomenon than in music as an abstract idea,” he explained in a 2004 interview. “Also, I am fascinated by gradually evolving structures. For me, a pulsating, repetitive beat of a club track, the music of Steve Reich, a Thomas Koener soundscape, or distant urban traffic noises are all equal sources of inspiration and delight.” Henke was born in Munich in 1969, educated at Pottsdam, where he studied and received his degree in sound engineering (his thesis: “Modeling Nonlinear Distortions of Vinyl Records in Realtime”), and he

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Painting with Light Workshop — Fine-tune your chiaroscuro. Shining Mountain Waldorf School, 999 Violet Ave., Boulder, 303-951-8581.

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Fairview Jazz Band 1 — High school jazz at its finest. But programs alums wish it started 30 minutes later. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

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worked for years in Germany at various studios and for a handful of theaters. His primary obsession, though, was computer-generated music, a hobby from his teen years, ever since he acquired a Roland Juno-6 synthesizer in the early 1980s. “I have been discovering Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre,” he told Noah Pred at pitchadjust.com in 2003, “and then I tried to get hold of every kind of electronic music I could find. This was back then mostly Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Yello, Depeche Mode. ... In 1990, I moved to Berlin and started getting interested in techno and also spent lots of time listening to accademic computer music and contemporary music of the 20th century. Currently my iPod hosts a funny mixture of ‘serious’ music and electronic dance stuff.” That Henke should wind up in Berlin, of course, closes a logical circle in the generational passing of the electronica torch — it was in Berlin, of course, right around the time Henke was born, that the earlier generation of German electronic music pioneers, especially Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese and drummer Klaus Schulze, were tinkering with the first portable synthesizers, interrogating their circuitry and training themselves

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to tame the delicate sensibilities of technologists and developers. He also voltage control units and pitch modudraws a paycheck as professor for lators while lugging the machines from sound design and computer music perauditorium to club and figuring out formance at the University of Arts in how to keep the temperature-sensitive Berlin — not a bad gig, dividing one’s electronics in tune, surrounded by time between clubs and the classroom, sweating, tripped-out German narif you can get it. conaut kids. Henke’s other On the Bill: But Henke’s own obsession is Monolake and Atom TM play obsession with the sound installathe Fox Theatre as part of the Communikey Festival on Friday, technology — disastions — the April 15. Doors at 8:30 p.m. sembling it, replacement of Tickets are $25, with a $2 fee for assembling it, proloudspeakers being under 21. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. gramming it, driven by layered extending it — sound, around eventually led to the real and imagdevelopment and marketing of Ableton ined space — that have been placed in Live in 1999, without question the cities from London to Stockholm, most widely used and versatile comput- Sydney to Paris. er-based music performance software And if the notion that music itself, in use today. liberated from centuries-old constraints If you see a solo DJ or producer about structure and socialized to onstage with a laptop, it’s better than become accessible to merely the aeseven odds that Ableton Live is running thetically curious in a culture handy on the thing. The Ableton company with a laptop and quick to absorb softwas founded by Henke’s then-Monoware as an extension of personal lake collaborator Gerhard Behles in expression, is a troubling matter (and 1999, and Henke signed on as chief this has been insinuated before — we programmer, primarily to give himself heard it plenty from conservatorya platform to develop live performance trained musicians 30 years ago when software. Henke officially left the busi- the synth-pop craze created internaness end of the company some years tional stars out of geeky nobodies with ago to concentrate on performance, weird hair and two-note sequencers), although he remains one of its primary Henke offers no apologies. It is sound,

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for its own sake, which keeps him lurking on the fringes of the aesthetic. Describing his own weakness as a musician on Ableton’s website years ago, he explains, “I cannot play an instrument. I cannot remember melodies. I cannot sing. I have bad timing. I know way too little about counterpoint. I am just someone who is addicted to sound and who under any circumstances wants to create music with electronic instruments. This is what has kept me doing it for almost 20 years.” Henke’s appearance is one of the highlights of this year’s Communikey Festival, which is a Boulder-based interdisciplinary organization dedicated to social, cultural and ecological innovation through creative process. This year’s program features a wide range of electronic artists, several sound installations and films, including Burning Ice, the 2009 documentary chronicling a nine-day journey by artists like Robyn Hitchcock, KT Tunstall and Laurie Anderson aboard an icebreaker to the glaciers of Greenland to “to see, experience and contemplate the effects of climate change first-hand — and to begin a creative conversation with the rest of the world about one of the most important and pressing issues facing the future of humanity.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Takács Quartet performs music by Daniel Kellogg, Schubert and Bartók. Sunday, April 17, at 4 p.m. and Monday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall on the CU campus Ticket information: 303-492-8008

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is Web page has photos of him skiing in Utah, hiking at Brainard Lake in the middle of the winter, on the beach in Southern California, and wearing a hard hat at a construction site in Denver. Oh yeah — there’s one backstage at the Aspen Music Festival, too. Did I mention that he’s a distinguished composer who teaches at the University of Colorado College of Music? Daniel Kellogg has written music for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Colorado Symphony and l’Ensemble orchestral de Paris, among others. In addition, his works have been premiered by performers as diverse as the Ying Quartet, the President’s Own United States Marine Band, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble and eighth blackbird — not bad for an outdoorsy Coloradan still in his 30s. One of Kellogg’s more recent scores was written for Boulder’s Takács Quartet, which will perform his Soft Sleep Shall Contain You: A Meditation on Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” in its upcoming concerts at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18, in the Grusin Music Hall at the CU Imig Music Building. As its full title suggests, Soft Sleep Shall Contain You is based on Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet, which takes its name from Schubert’s song of the same title, used in one of the quartet’s movements.

The Kellogg score will be performed along with the Schubert work on the upcoming program, which will be completed with Béla Bartók’s Quartet No. 6. The Takács Quartet premiered the Kellogg piece in New York last October and has since played it on tour around the world. At the premiere, both the work and the performance earned a glowing tribute from New York Times critic Vivien Schweitzer. Kellogg’s “intelligently wrought and harmonically intriguing work ... echoes a famous quartet by Schubert,” she wrote. “In the original quartet the tension between the Grim Reaper and the maiden is expressed by the tussle between the violin and the cello ... Kellogg conveys that dance of death in the clash between G and F sharp, which casts a dissonant pall over the opening section. During the more robust interlude that follows, a simmering tension contrasts with exuberant outbursts. Schubert’s themes are woven through the work, which concludes with a beautiful chorale.” Of the Takács performance, Schweitzer noted “the sensitivity and commitment [of ] the Takács players,” adding that “their complex and intense interpretation illuminated every nuance” of the Schubert. The idea of commissioning a piece based on the Schubert quartet was the brainchild of Edward Dusinberre, Takács’ first violinist. “The idea of contemporary music commenting, reflecting, on our mainstream repertoire means I think that people listen to both with open minds,”

Dusinberre says. Kellogg was likewise fascinated by the suggestion. “I was drawn ... to the idea of conversing with older music in a modern aesthetic,” he says. And as he notes, he has joined a long “tradition of creating new music from old,” dating back at least to the Renaissance and continuing up to the present day. The result, Dusinberre thinks, fits the players of the Takács Quartet particularly well. “We know Dan well and have worked together before,” he says. “He knows the sound of our group and the individual personalities; we felt he wrote specifically for us.” Indeed, Kellogg says that’s exactly what he did. “In this case, I wanted to take advantage of the beautiful and lyrical playing that they bring to the table, but also the passion they bring to it — knowing that they could have the most extreme expressions, that they could pull that off and have the drama so successful in their playing,” he says. There’s one more thing Kellogg wants audiences to know when they hear his piece. “Writing music can often be a difficult challenge,” he says, “but writing this piece was one of the greatest joys I’ve had as a composer, starting with the beautiful Schubert chorale, and then writing for this group. The piece seemed to write itself, which hardly ever happens to me.” As usual with Takács performances here, the concerts are sold out. And as usual, determined concertgoers may still be able to get into the concert. You may call the box office at 303-492-8008 to get on the waiting list for returned tickets; come to Grusin Hall before the concert and get on the wait list for lastminute turnbacks; or purchase stage seating, for which a limited number of tickets remain available. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Dark Star Orchestra plays the Boulder Theater on Thursday, April 14, and Friday, April 15. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $32 in advance, $37 day of show. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Dark Star Orchestra aims to channel the Grateful Dead, not replicate them by Cory O’Brien Dark Star Orchestra

s far as seminal groups of the ’60s and ’70s go, the Grateful Dead were a little bit different. They were less a band than a way of life — a living, breathing mass of humanity with smiles on their faces and flowers behind their ears, travelling around the country mixing hippie mysticism with killer jams. Zeppelin fans can recapture the feeling of Plant and Page with a six-pack of Budweiser and an FM radio tuned to a classic rock station, the Beatles will forever live on in their various classic albums, and as long as there is a stoned teenager trying to sync up Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard of Oz, the spirit of Pink Floyd will be alive and well. But fans of the Dead want a little more help to keep the band’s spirit alive. They need the Dark Star Orchestra. The Dead have never been radio mainstays, and while American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead are rightly regarded as classic works of Americana, their studio output barely scratches the surface of the Dead’s impact during their three decades as a touring band. Unlike the Beatles, where all someone needs to truly “get” the group is a pair of headphones and a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s, the Grateful Dead need to be seen live to be truly appreciated. And with apologies to the recently formed Bob Weir/Phil Lesh group Furthur, the spot-on tribute band Dark Star Orchestra offers fans the best chance to catch what the Dead were like at the height of their powers. “The thing with the Dead was, you never really knew when the magic was going to happen,” says Dark Star guitarist/Jerry Garcia stand-in Jeff Mattson. “You can go four nights, and then on the fifth night, everything just clicks between the audience and the band, where everything is magical and everyone just

feels it. We’ve had a couple of those nights with Dark Star, where everything is just perfect.” In fact, calling the group a tribute band at all doesn’t really do them justice. The band recreates classic Grateful Dead shows with a painstaking amount of detail, ensuring that the equipment and general sound of the night is true to the era they are covering. But the fluid nature of the Dead’s music and Dark Star’s willingness to embrace that fluidity means that no two Dark Star songs will ever sound the same, and no Dark Star song will ever sound exactly like the way the Grateful Dead played it. In playing what Mattson refers to as “real music in real time,” he feels that Dark Star is more in line with the spirit of the Dead than if they were playing note-fornote rehashes of classic Dead shows. “It wouldn’t be true to the Dead if we were to learn one version of ‘Rambling Rose’ and learn it note-for-note, and play the same version every time we perform that song,” explains Mattson. “We have a vocabulary to work with, but at the end of the day we

are playing it as it happens.” If tribute bands often give off the appearance that they are play-acting, it is because in a sense, most of them are. A Guns ‘N Roses tribute band may play all the notes of “Paradise City” exactly as they sound on Appetite for Destruction, but it really doesn’t feel like a GNR show unless you’re scared the guy playing Axl Rose might come off of the stage and kick you in the face. But the spontaneity that comes with covering the Dead and the idea that any night could offer something special, something that no one has ever heard before and no one will ever hear again, gives Dark Star shows a similar vibe to the original Grateful Dead. Dark Star Orchestra feels more like a real band that happens to be playing Dead songs than a campy tribute band or a group resorting to cover songs because their originals couldn’t hack it. “Because of all the improvisation goes along with Dead songs, we really get to express ourselves personally, because no one can really predict where the jam is going to go on any given night,” Mattson says. That unpredictability has even led to Dark Star inheriting some of the touring culture that was so vital to the original Dead experience, with fans often joining the band for extended periods on the road. While nothing can truly recreate the magic of the original Dead, Mattson believes his band’s meticulous attention to detail is what has resonated so strongly with Deadheads young and old. “There are a million different details that go into every show that make everything faithful to the style they were playing that particular day, week and year,” Mattson says. “We’re just trying to do our best to capture the spirit of the Dead in every show.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom! A reimagined circus makes us all kids again by Gary Zeidner Stephanie Boisvert

ould that I were a talented enough writer to pen this review of Les 7 doigts de la main’s Traces without referencing Cirque du Soleil. I have little doubt that most, if not all, reviews of Traces — or any of Les 7 doigts de la main’s other shows — call out Cirque, and color me contrary, but I’d love to be the exception to the rule. Unfortunately, as I am not some Shelley-ian creation with the sagacity of Plato, the wit of Shakespeare and the rhythmic sense of Chaucer, that ain’t gonna happen. Les 7 doigts de la main translates as “The seven fingers of the hand” and is a play on an old French idiom about disparate parts coming together to work toward a common goal. Either that, or it’s really the punch line to a filthy French joke on par with The I have been lucky enough to have seen 10 different Aristocrats. After all, which of the non-French speak- Cirque shows over the past 14 years or so. Some left ers among you could say for sure? In the interest of me speechless while others merely impressed, but all brevity, Les 7 doigts de la main shall hereafter be were singularly positive experiences. After seeing 7 referred to as 7 Fingers for the duration of this humFingers’ Traces, I cannot emphasize enough that it is ble review. not Cirque-lite — though it is performed in smaller Both 7 Fingers and Cirque venues and with fewer On the Bill du Soleil are modernizations accoutrements. Nor is it the Traces plays through May 14 at the and reinterpretations of the ciranswer to what some would Denver Center for the Performing Arts, cus. Both were formed in perceive as Cirque’s overly 1101 13th Street in downtown Denver. Tickets are $10 to $65. For tickets or inforMontreal, Quebec, and as one flamboyant hyper-theatrimation, call 303-893-4100 or visit might expect based on that cality — though it is decidwww.denvercenter.org. fact, both organizations possess edly more grounded and far a notably French-Canadian less embellished. Despite worldview and aesthetic. 7 Fingers and Cirque du the many similarities, Traces shows 7 Fingers to be a Soleil shows focus on acrobatic derring-do as a means truly distinct, fully evolved variation on a similar to simultaneously entertain and challenge the auditheme, and though I have loved Cirque for well over a ence. Neither outfit uses animals (other than humans) decade, I will be counting the days until the next 7 in their productions. Fingers production rolls into Denver.

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Traces features seven artists — all born in the 1980s if memory serves — performing individually and in any number of grouped permutations. They tumble, dance, embrace, shove, scamper, climb, flip, slide, roll and glide all with boundless enthusiasm and energy. The opening number, set to VAST’s “Touched,” introduces the artists and establishes the show’s loose, Earthy vibe. Soon after, a wordless bit featuring one of the men and the only woman in the troupe depicts the arc of a relationship with more emotional vitality and veracity than I’ve seen in any medium in ages. Skateboard trickery arrives set to 1930s-era music. All seven daredevils crisscross the stage as they leap through rings seemingly too high and too small to allow passage. A La-Z-Boy (or perhaps a less iconically branded easy chair) becomes a dance partner as the artist clowns with it around the stage, sitting on its every possible surface. My only moment of disappointment came after we were told that one of the artists would now sing a “French song,” and it turned out not to be “Frère Jacques.” (Come on, you have to admit that would have been pretty funny.) If you enjoy precision acrobatics, free-flowing, dance-inspired movement and genuine commitment from a set of performers, Traces is calling your name. If you’ve ever wondered what a Cirque show might be like if scaled down and stripped of its over-the-top production design, buy a ticket today. Even if you haven’t set foot in a theater or under a big top since you were 5 years old, I can all but guarantee that you’ll walk out of the Denver Center after a showing of Traces with the goofiest of grins on your face. Trust me, this is one not to miss. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Top Ten of SXSW!

Sun., April 17th

Open Stage

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Mon., April 18th

George Nelson Quartet

CAMP CROWD

w/Kal Cahoone, Glowing House, & Martin Gilmore Sat. 04.30

$15

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JOHNNY CLEGG Tues. 05.10 $28

Rogue Sound

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Thursday, April 14

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weekly events!

Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. Ana Sia. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Dark Star Orchestra. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dechen Hawk Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Dexter Payne Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Lindsay Meredith, Poet in the Pit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Live Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m. Folsom St. Coffee Co. ,1795 Folsom St. 303-4408808. Open Stage — With KC Groves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night. Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344. Pete Kartsounes. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Prohibition Six. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Teresa Lynne. 730 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel

Thursday Night Open Mic Open Band Night on Sunday (No Cover)

HAPPY HOUR - 7pm to 9pm

Fri Apr 15 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

something underground

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Donna the Buffalo —

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

and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-0782.

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. Blogettes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600

Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Colorado Skies:The DAWN Mission. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001. DIVE! Living Off America’s Waste — Film screening and discussion on hunger. 7 p.m.Visual Arts Complex, CU campus, 303-492-8308. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.

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Boulder/Denver Area An Instinct Toward Life — Sculptures by Dario Robleto. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through May 15. Bloodlines — Paintings by Hermann Nitsch. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29. Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — By various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 28. My Life Unbottoned — Artwork by Brette Petway. Saxy’s Cafe, 2018 10th St.,

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Boulder, 303-786-8585. Through April 6. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Art by Susan Brooks. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through April 30. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Jane Whittlesey. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through May 31. Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 29.

Orphan Paintings — Russian avantgarde paintings by various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Ourrubberos — By Jessica Moon Bernstein. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Piece Work — Sculptures by Allison Smith. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29. Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan. BioLounge, CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Sat Apr 16

Private Event-Closed to Public

Fri Apr 22 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

the long run

w/ special guest bobby doran Sat Apr 23 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm $10

under a blood red sky Fri Apr 29 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

joe cool

Sat Apr 30 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

the delta sonics

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Alice in Wonderland. Jesters School for the Performing Arts, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through May 7. Camelot. The Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 17. Performance Friday: And They Lynched Him on a Tree. Presented by CU Dance Faculty. 5th Floor, Norlin

Library, CU campus, 303-492-1423. April 15. Swing! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 8. You Can’t Take It With You — Presented by CU Department of Theatre & Dance. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Through April 17.

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Friday, April 15

music Avery County. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Back to the Woods. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bottom Feeders. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Brothers of the Son. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Communikey Festival. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Crescent Ulmer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Dark Star Orchestra. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dave Edwards. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Futaba. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Ground Up. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. In Due Time. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Indulgers. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Just Gypsies. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Leon Redbone — WIth Professor Phelyx. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Lisa Oxnard. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Quinton Young Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

events Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427. Bicycle Dreams. 7 p.m.Vance Brand Auditorium at Skyline High School, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-378-2330. Comida Mobile Mexi-Feast. 4:30-7 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-530-1381. The Crowded Sky. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser Pink Floyd: The Wall. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser U2. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Left Right Tim Presents: The Sandlot Show — Improv comedy show. 8 p.m. Hale 270, CU campus, www.leftrighttim.com. Photography Master Class: Building a Successful Business. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, April 16

music

Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Acoustic Open Mic. 2-4 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Benefit for the Second Wind Fund — With Edgar Papke and others. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Calling — With Switchfoot and Chasen. 5

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p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. The Clamdaddys. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Colorado Special Olympics Benefit — With R.I.C.E., The Jonglare, Suicide By Proxy, The Killwatch. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. D.A.R.C. Benefit for Japan Earthquake Red Cross — With The Mourning Sickness, Amphibious Jones & The Inactivists. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Donna the Buffalo. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Jayme Stone. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Jeff Finlin Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Lisa Bell. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Music on the Mezz — With Janine Gastineau and Her Rhythm Duo. 5:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344. Mimosa. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Mojomama. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Notes & Oats — With Boulder Ukulele Group. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Quemando. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Riot. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Still Run,The Magpies. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Synthetic Elements. 8 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Wadirum. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Zachary DuPont,Trilegate Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

events Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Jesus in India — Flim screening with producer Paul Davids. 7 p.m. Nomad Theater,1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-415-3900. Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. www.Tango AmongFriends.net.

Sunday, April 17

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Asher Bluegrass Pick. 4-6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court., Boulder, 303-530-1381. Avery County Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Ayo Awosika. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dog House Music Presents: Pitchforks And Torches, Stellar Atlas, Bassline, Watch For Wildlife, Man Down. 12:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jazz Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. John Brodeur,The Longest Day of the Year. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-

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Robert Michael Pyle’s The Thunder Tree. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Thursday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Kids & Animals Drawing Hour. 2 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, April 15 Revival of the Classics — With Erin Blakemore. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Tuesday, April 19 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, April 19 Tuesday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book Store, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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6683. Open Stage. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Swing State. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Thom Sandrock Student Recital. 5 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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events

11th Annual Canine Classic — Dogfriendly 5K to benefit Moving to End Sexual Assault. 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N 51st St., Boulder, 720-406-3648. Airplane:The Movie. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

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music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Donald Glover, Childish Gambino. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Hot Soup. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Free Open Class — Meditation instruction. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Painting with Light Workshop. Shining Mountain Waldorf School, 999 Violet Ave., Boulder, 303-951-8581. Through April 22. “So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — One dollar of each pint sold goes to Kiwanis Club. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, April 19

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons,

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303-823-6685. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. Fairview Jazz Band 1. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Megan Burtt & The Cure for Love. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. No Joy. 8 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303-4927704. Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7:15 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Paper Diamond, Michal Menret. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Super Sessions with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628. The Super Villains. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m. Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464. Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wednesday, April 20

music Adam Bodine. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Arlo Guthrie — With Reed Foehl. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Collie Buddz. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Dolly Parton Tribute Night. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Fairview Jazz Band 2 & 3. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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George Nelson Band. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jaden Carlson, Andy Ard. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Yellowbirddd, The Kentucky Street Parlor Pickers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Art for Lunch. 12:15 p.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala

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Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, April 14 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30

p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, April 15 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, April 16 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder

Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. The Lafayette Recreation Department’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt for Ages 3-8. 10 a.m., Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. The Lafayette Recreation Department’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt for Ages 1-2. 11 a.m. Festival Plaza, 309 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Laser Perseus and Adromeda. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Wild Earth Saturday — Sponsored by Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center and NCAR. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-8604.

Sunday, April 17 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. The Family Pick — All-ages bluegrass jam every Sunday. 3-6 p.m. The Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Monday, April 18 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Twinkle Babies. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Tuesday, April 19 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Wednesday, April 20 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007. Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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The ins and outs of sex Dr. Jenni Skyler Dear Dr. Jenni, Last week you talked about a couple experimenting in the outdoors. I have a similar issue. My boyfriend only gets excited when we have sex in public places. It’s to the point that he refuses to have sex inside. I get really nervous, because this is illegal, but it’s the only thing that gets him aroused. What should I do? —Public Panic

on this. Do you think I should push the issue? —Getting Frisky That Time of the Month

Dear Getting Frisky, How we juggle sex and menstruation differs from person to person, couple to couple. You have to respect the wishes and boundaries of your girlfriend, even if they are stricter than yours. Dear Public, Perhaps consider this an opportuniIt’s understandable to have different ty to create yearning and desire in the fantasies and objects of stimulation, but relationship. For instance, Orthodox it becomes very difficult on a relationJews refrain from sexual activity, and ship if the fetish object is the sole man- even touching each other, for the whole ner of getting menstrual week and aroused. This can the week after. The Questions be particularly danrestrictions on sexSend questions for Jenni gerous if there is an ual activity help Skyler to drjenni@ illegal component create an atmotheintimacyinstitute.org. sphere where they involved. can eagerly yearn to Not to be a reconnect with one Debbie Downer, another. but you should recognize that habitualOn the other hand, many couples ly having sex in public will highly enjoy taking advantage of this window increase the odds of getting caught, of time, as women can be hormonally which could mean jail time. If he insists more aroused during their period. If on sex in public, you may want to you don’t mind a little mess, you can reevaluate your relationship and throw down a towel, have a little fun, encourage him to get counseling. and wipe up after if needed. Some peoI suggest having a conversation with ple mix and match and refrain from him about what about the outdoors arouses him. There may be the possibil- sexual activity only during heavy flow ity of recreating similar scenarios in a days, while others fully refrain during more private (and legal) area. the entire period. Additionally, you might be able to Again, how you negotiated this with strike a compromise with your boyyour last girlfriend may be different friend between public and private with this girlfriend, as different people where you seduce each other outside, have different boundaries. I don’t sugthen transition inside to have sex. gest being pushy, but certainly open the Eventually, you can make the time out- conversation to explore the pros and side less and less, and the inside more cons of each scenario and why certain and more. This may help recondition boundaries, or lack thereof, are imporhis ability to have sex inside as well as tant to each of you. This can be a good out. exercise to deconstruct your beliefs and In the time being, check out the help each other understand your value laws in your area. You may be able to systems. get creative in your backyard, and even At the end of the day, you may not find places in the outdoors that are out agree. However, you may have a higher of sight—way out of sight, as in no sex level of appreciation and empathy, on the trailhead in the middle of the which is an essential relationship skill afternoon! no matter what the topic. Send questions for Jenni Skyler, PhD, Dear Dr. Jenni, to drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org. My girlfriend refuses to have sex Skyler is a sex therapist and board-certiwhile on her period. With my last girlfied sexologist who runs The Intimacy friend, we didn’t mind at all. I’m not Institute in Boulder, www.theintimacyinsure why this girlfriend is so hung up stitute.org.

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Americans, we love stories about surviving against the odds and the elements. Flip through the channels of cable television on any given night, and you’ll probably find a survival-themed reality TV show. I Shouldn’t Be Alive features dramatizations of people who survived injuries or other mishaps in the wilderness. Survivorman follows the travels of a lone outdoorsman living off the land. In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls conducts a frontal

assault on nature, eating insects and climbing down waterfalls with a camera crew in tow. The trend is even at the movies. The film 127 Hours, about self-amputating Colorado climber Aron Ralston, was nominated for several Academy Awards. Greg Wiggins says much of it is “hype for ratings,” but see SURVIVAL Page 42

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there are still nuggets of useful information in these shows. He knows a little something about the subject. He has been teaching survival classes for more than 36 years and once survived 22 days stranded by snow in the Cascade Mountains. “You never know what can happen out there. The key is to be observant. Always know that danger is all around,” Wiggins said. With warmer weather on the horizon, outdoors enthusiasts will soon begin venturing deeper into the wilderness. Even a short afternoon hike, rafting trip or ATV jaunt can turn into a survival situation. Read these stories that serve as a reminder that, with the proper mindset, training and equipment, you can go into the wild prepared for any eventuality. You might even make it onto I Shouldn’t Be Alive.

Don’t need a weatherman In 2007, hiker Warren Edick II learned the hard way about the biggest cause of wilderness mishaps in Colorado: a sudden change in our unpredictable weather. A spring backpack trip on Pikes Peak turned into a search-and-rescue mission when three feet of snowfall collapsed his tent and waist-deep snow prevented him from walking out. He didn’t bring snowshoes. The forecast called for only an inch or two on the peak. “The fun goes into the background when you’re fighting for your survival,” Edick said. He was able to summon help with his cell phone. It was a change in the weather that stranded Wiggins in the Cascades. It snowed heavily, then rained on the snowpack. “We were prepared mentally and

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equipment-wise. The problem was running out of food,” he said. He and his friends survived by huddling in a U.S. Forest Service cabin, living on its stores, and then horse oats and dry dog food. The moral: When venturing into the mountains, dress for any season.

Bad luck But all the preparedness in the world can’t save you from bad luck. Colorado Springs technical climber Craig Smith learned that the hard way in 2006 when a cliff ascent in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison turned into a life-or-death situation after he fell and broke his leg. It took 17 hours, but he and his partner pulled themselves out of the chasm. “Several times I wanted to give up, but there was no option. I just had to get out,” he said after the ordeal. Experts say the proper attitude — and remaining calm — is as essential as the proper gear. Wiggins teaches the acronym “STOP”: sit, think, observe, plan. Keep calm and ask yourself, “Do you know where you are?” “If you don’t know where you are or how to get out, obviously you’re going to stay put,” he said. “Staying put, in most situations, is really going to be key, unless the weather clears up or you have a good idea where to get out.”

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You could be moving away from rescuers and wasting precious calories if you don’t know where you’re going. A Colorado Springs woman learned that lesson in 2005 when she lost her friends while mushroom hunting on Greenhorn Mountain southwest of Pueblo. Rose Ann Nardini-Hausman walked in the direction she thought she had left her car, but only got more lost. After a cold night along a creek, she sprained her ankle and spent two more nights in the wilderness. She wrote “SOS” in rocks, held her red sack in the air and kept calling for help. Finally, a rescue crew found her. After her rescue, she said keeping a positive mental outlook kept her going. “I told myself, ‘You’ve got to stay in your head. If you give in to your emotions, you’re really going to be in trouble,’” she said.

Bring the right gear In 1998, two people on a winter hike around Rampart Reservoir tried to take a shortcut to their car as dusk approached. They got lost and spent 40 hours struggling through blizzardlike conditions and waist-deep snow without food. “I was totally underdressed,” Benjamin Shaw said. “I wasn’t too prepared at all.”

But Shaw and his hiking companion had a lighter, and campfires kept them alive until the weather cleared and they could walk to find help. They took shelter beneath a rock overhang. Fires and shelters are two keys to survival, and Reg Francklyn, president of El Paso County Search and Rescue, said anyone venturing into the wilderness should have the ability to make both, even if your shelter is just an emergency poncho. Other essentials he recommends are a knife or other tool, first aid equipment, extra clothes, water filter or purifier, map, compass, water and food. But too often, he said, people have nothing more than their cell phone, which is an unreliable tool in the high country. “There’s an over-reliance on technology,” he said. “Yes, a cell phone is wonderful, and we recommend people have them, but that shouldn’t be your only piece of equipment.” For people planning serious backcountry endeavors, he suggests taking a class in survival techniques. Still, the best way to survive is to avoid a survival situation. Most are the fault of people who ignore warning signs — changing weather, unfamiliar terrain — and plunge on. It’s also known as “summit fever.” “They’re just not stopping to think of the consequences,” Francklyn said. “In looking at all the different survival situations, you look at the ones where people survived tremendous odds and those who died doing something pretty basic and simple they shouldn’t have died doing,” said Wiggins. “It’s the lack of preparedness and the lack of knowledge that get most people in survival situations.” (c) 2011, The Gazette (Colorado Springs). —MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Making room for mobile food trucks

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obile food trucks are a trend that has been popping up in Austin, Portland, New York and Denver. They’ve even got them in Colorado Springs. So if they’re not allowed inside Boulder, can we really call ourselves the foodiest town in America? “Boulder is not going to be less progressive than Colorado Springs,” says Ashlie Beckham, the face behind Walnut-a-gogo, the Walnut Café’s mobile food truck. Currently, mobile food trucks are not permitted within the limits of the city of Boulder unless they’re operating as “caterers,” on private property, and even then that’s tricky. Rayme Rossello, owner of Comida, the bright pink truck that serves Mexican food, has had the cops called on her while operating on private property with permission from the owner. “We’ve been asking the city to allow us to operate, and to let us make friends instead of enemies,” Rossello says. “I can speak for myself, and a few other food truck owners, and say that I don’t want to put my Mexicanfood truck in front of a Mexican restaurant.” Beckham agrees, saying she’d never park her breakfast food truck in front of a place like Lucille’s Creole Café or Peet’s Coffee. “We’d never want anybody to do that at one of the Walnuts,” she says. “But there’s got to be something between no food trucks allowed anywhere in the city of Boulder and me driving down the middle of Pearl Street and parking sideways.” City Council is working to change those codes, and had a meeting April 5 to discuss a new set of rules and regulations that would allow the trucks inside city limits — while still protecting the interests of brick-

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and-mortar restaurants. Another meeting will be held in May to vote on the proposed codes. Until then, you can find trucks like Comida, Walnut-a-gogo, and A.J. Julian’s Top of the Hill Grill West scattered around office parks around 55th Street and in east Boulder at lunch time, or at other locations that most announce on their Twitter and Facebook pages. “Especially with summertime, and having worked in Boulder, I know I’ve got 30 minutes to go get food at lunch,” says Julian, owner of a newer mobile food vending service. “It’s not feasible sometimes unless you want to have McDonald’s or Wendy’s every day. I want to be able to reach the workers that are not able to get a fresh, healthy lunch on a regular basis without having to spend their whole lunch hour in a baking hot car.” Julian’s Top of the Hill Grill West sells barbeque food, but is not the meat-only operation you’re used to.

He’s got beef brisket, pulled pork and other traditional barbeque favorites, but also sells a tempeh wrap, veggie burgers and a greensbased salad wrap with homemade vinaigrette. His style, like the other food trucks popping up in Boulder, allows for a blend of great food with the variety and creativity needed to survive in a town that’s lauded for its diverse and plentiful restaurant selection. “Nobody is successful in Boulder doing it fast or cheap or uncreative,” Beckham says. “That’s never going to work in this town.” Beckham’s truck, affectionately named “Dinah,” serves food based off the Walnut menu, but with twists that allow for patrons to eat without a fork. Their traditional, beloved Eggs Marcos, a scrambled egg dish with bacon and cream cheese, is transformed into a quesadilla for customers at the Walnut-a-gogo. The Walnut’s name and credibility has played into the success of Walnut-a-gogo, which just started in December. “People know that the Walnut’s on the up-and-up. They know that the food is good, and they recognize us,” Beckham says. “People know the faces of the Walnut Café, and that around town helps us with a following we’d never had if we just started a breakfast truck.” It helps, too, to have great food. “The food has to be good enough to make people want to come out and sit on the ground,” Rossello says. She started driving her truck, “Tina,” in May 2010, and is one of the first members of the food truck society now starting to grow in Boulder. She’s been vocal in see FOOD TRUCK Page 47

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ome local Italian restaurants lunch special, which includes salad, entrée trace their culinary lineage and a soft drink. At this price, you’d expect back to the venerable a few lettuce leaves splashed with vinaiAmericanized red sauce haunts grette, but this plate of greens exceeded of San Francisco or the East expectations. Attractively plated, this salad Coast. Alternatively, they may possess a featured a tart and adroitly seasoned dressmore direct link to the old country without ing atop a foundation of fresh greens, carrot the hindrance of flavors compromised to strips and heirloom tomato. suit New World palates. Such is the case My friend’s multitude of ravioli entrée with North Boulder’s Bacco Trattoria & options included lobster-stuffed pasta and Mozzarella Bar, which establishes its contithat new ubiquitous classic, vodka sauce. nental bona fides with a chef who was born Andrew selected wisely by combining subtly and trained in Rome. sweet and earthy butternut squash ravioli Admittedly, the early word on the street with sage and butter. This simple sauce preregarding Bacco made me initially ambivasented a remarkable balance of green herbal lent about sampling its fare. However, on a pungency with dairy-based richness. lunch visit with friend Andrew, I felt my My main course of $13 Pappardelle Al enthusiasm rising as I studied the menu. Cinghiale, or homemade wide noodles with Granted, there were more pedestrian dishes wild boar red sauce, was a weightier selecsuch as lasagna and chicken parmigiana. But tion than the ravioli. The robust red sauce there were also such intriguing selections as was reminiscent of a good cacciatore, or piquant puttanesca with fresh pasta, artisan hunter’s stew, which made sense, given the four-cheese pizza with prosciutto, and fritto boar’s status as a game animal. The meat misto, the coastal fried seafood platter. aving recently been introduced to making mozzarella was free of the sharp taste common to game The anticipated plate of rustic bread was at Pizzeria da Lupo, I decided to try my hand at home and was surprisingly tender. The homemade one of the first items to arrive at the table. cheese-making using a kit from Sunflower Market. Making pasta was blessed by ideal al dente consisWhat distinguished Bacco’s offering was an mozzarella is a straightforward process. One heats up milk, tency, and a generous sprinkling of arugula accompaniment of pleasing pesto dip that while monitoring the temperature with a candy thermomeon top provided a compelling contrast to astutely balanced the flavors of olive oil, ter, followed by the addition of rennet, an enzyme, and citthe stew-like richness of the dish. green herbs and garlic. Since mozzarella is ric acid. These additions are necessary to form solid curds Bacco ably balances both Italiannearly Bacco’s middle name, we also ordered and yellowish liquid whey. After letting the milk set up, the American and authentic Old World sensiup a costly plate of $11 buffalo cheese with heated curds should lend themselves to being kneaded bilities. As a neighborhood restaurant, it a choice of two condiments, more accurately into a ball of mozzarella. My end product never firmed up, succeeds admirably, especially with such and it looked and tasted like ricotta. unique specialties as the delectable boar categorized as sides. These included attracpasta. The showcase cheese could benefit tive slices of fresh tomato and marinated from some adjustment in preparation, but eggplant that would have benefited from the underlying concept of offering fresh product more assertive seasoning. making homemade mozzarella isn’t easy, and my own with appealing sides is sound. Service was friendly The cheese carried the pleasantly moist and airy attempts have resulted in something resembling a and not overly familiar, and contributed to an ultifeel of good, fresh-made mozzarella. Sadly, the cream- cross between runny ricotta and low-grade animal mately satisfying lunch experience. iness was marred by an acid taste that detracted from feed. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com the richness. In Bacco’s defense, I’ve learned that Andrew ordered the reasonably priced $9 light

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n preparation for my staycation (I mean, who doesn’t just love staying home for four days instead of flying off to Cabo?), I am preparing to turn my place into a B&B, and I am not talking Bénédictine here, although surely alcohol will be on hand. You can’t have a vacay or staycay without indulging a little. So I am making the quintessential B&B treat: Blueberry StreuselTopped Muffins. Ha! Take that, beautiful ocean, wind blowing through my hair, sand between my toes and tequila in both hands. I have blueberry muffins in a dusty house with an ocean breeze candle and a PBR. I think blueberries are about as close to a perfect food as we can get. Delicious, and good for you, too. Of course, I’m combining them with butter, flour and sugar, but nonetheless, they are still perfect little bursts of sunshine in your mouth. So many of us think we have the perfect muffin recipe, and then the rest of us find they sink in the middle, are dry and crumbly, or just taste plain boring. This recipe won’t disappoint anyone — the buttermilk adds a richness you can’t beat, and adding a streusel topping to the already delicious little cake will send your staycation over the top. You will never want to leave the house to travel again. Who needs Italy when you have blueberry streusel-topped muffins? These are regular-sized muffins, just so you know. Not the soccer ball-size muffins you can buy from many a coffee shop. Not that there is anything wrong with food bigger than your head, but I’m making them a little less offensive in the calorie department, so you might not feel as bad indulging in one or two with coffee, tea, mimosa, tequila, margarita, pina colada. What? Muffins go swimmingly with anything when you have to stay home instead of lounging poolside.

Save a few blueberries and pop them in some champagne to pair alongside the muffins. That my friends, is a berry good idea. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it, and invite me over when it’s done.

Blueberry StreuselTopped Muffins 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temp) 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla 3/4 cup buttermilk 1 cup fresh blueberries Streusel topping 1/4 cup flour 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 3 tbsp. butter (cold and chopped up) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a 12-count muffin tin with liners or grease muffin tin (this recipe ends up making about 15 muffins). In small bowl, combine 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter with a fork or two knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside. In another small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Stir in buttermilk until batter is smooth. Add flour mixture to wet mixture. Stir until just incorporated. Fold in blueberries. Fill each muffin holder with batter until almost full. Top each muffin with streusel mix. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until tops are golden brown. Take out and let cool 10 minutes in pan. Remove. Enjoy! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

TIDBITES Food happenings around town Alfalfa’s to open on Earth Day Boulder’s newly revamped Alfalfa’s Market will officially open for business on Earth Day, April 22. Originally founded as the Pearl Street Market in 1979, Alfalfa’s became a leading provider of natural and organic foods during the 1980s and 1990s. It was acquired by Wild Oats Markets in 1996, and — 15 years later — is now returning to its roots. The store, located at its original spot on Broadway and Arapahoe, will open at 7:30 a.m. that day. For more information about Alfalfa’s, visit www.alfalfas.com. New lunch menu at Islands Islands Restaurant in the Twenty Ninth Street mall in Boulder has rolled out a new lunch menu that starts at $5.95. Available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the lunch

menu includes Islands’ Big Wave with Cheese (and fries), Northshore Tacos, Shorebird, Jungle Caesar Salad and a soup and salad combo. The restaurant is located at 1855 29th St. Chipotle offers golden opportunity In what it is calling the “Wrap What You Love” contest, Chipotle Mexican Grill is encouraging customers to wrap something they love in gold or silver foil, then upload a photograph to its website at chipotle. com/gold. Entries with the most “love” votes at the end of each week will receive 24-karat gold Chipotle coins, and the company will donate $1 to familyfarm.org for every vote (up to $150,000). The grand prize winner will be awarded $10,000. The contest runs through May 8. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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attempting to change the codes surrounding the trucks. “It’s a hip and urban development. Sticking us in office parks is not the way that food trucks are supposed to go,” Rossello says. “We won’t stop going to those places, we love them, but in being able to go downtown and get a whole new crowd of people — that makes it fun and easy and exciting.” Whether she’s downtown or somewhere outside city limits, there’s no mistaking Tina’s bright pink paint job. “It stands out, which is good and bad! When you’re downtown making people mad, it’s bad, but if people are looking for you, it’s great,” Rossello says, laughing. “I chose pink because in Mexico that’s the color of bougainvillea, which is super representative of what Mexico is to me. And it’s feminine, which is representative of me.” Other food trucks and mobile vending services are getting their wheels on the ground, too. The Tasterie Truck is currently testing recipes for its cupcakes, cookies and other desserts, and should be out in Boulder by late April or May. There’s also Seb’s Wood-Fired Cuisine, a portable wood-fired oven that can deliver pizza literally out of the oven. To locate any of these trucks, check their websites, or find links to their Boulder Weekly

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f one word could be used to describe Lafayette’s Tutti other than Tutti, that word would be choice. Offering many menu items in three distinct sizes, Tutti permits diners to choose whether they want a sampler, entrée, or platter suitable for sharing. Noteworthy dishes include artfully prepared seared scallops with risotto, as well as a classic macaroni and cheese. Parents can enjoy these dishes while youngsters frolic in the restaurant’s downstairs play area, which features toys and video games.

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ormerly known as Ichiban, Longmont’s Sushi Kaiten brings conveyor-belt Japanese cuisine to Boulder County. Items are available both made-to-order and off the belt, and can’t-miss selections include the heavenly spicy salmon handroll and house-smoked salmon dusted with green tea powder. Other attractions include the surprisingly creamy white tuna and the aficionado’s choice, uni, or sea urchin roe.

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un Rose Café’s rugged brick interior hosts a successful hybrid of hospitable country café and sophisticated bistro in the heart of downtown Longmont. The menu ranges from omelets in the morning to panini and soups during the day, and concludes with such dinnertime entrees as portabella mushroom ravioli. The lavender-scented lemonade here is addictive and perfectly paired with a traditional Italian cold cut sandwich. Basted eggs with particularly moist and flavorful chicken sausage are a top a.m. choice.

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izzeria Locale is the eagerly anticipated Naples-influenced establishment from the same folks who brought you the celebrated Frasca. The menu includes salads, contorni (side dishes), desserts and pizzas ranging in price from $9 for a Marinara to $18 for a deluxe version featuring prosciutto and arugula. Standout selections include the traditional Margherita, with fresh basil, tomato and mozzarella, as well as the Cassata, chocolate cake freighted with sweet ricotta and candied fruit.

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noteworthy and affordable version of this beef noodle specialty. The broth is wonderfully rich, the product of a long, slow simmer of beef bones, onion and herbs. Thin rice noodles possess perfect texture, and garnishes of lime, bean sprouts, chile peppers and basil are fresh and abundant. Not bad for a place where a large soup sells for just $7.25.

rhard’s European Café and Bakery is a low-key yet elegant cash-only business situated near the intersection of Baseline and Foothills in Boulder. Sandwiches, soups and sausage meals with potato salad make up the lunch choices, but the baked goods are perhaps the most distinctive items offered. Fruit turnovers, cookies and Linzer and marzipan tarts are just some of the tempting choices.

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erving dinner, lunch and weekend brunch, Nederland’s Savory Cafe offers everything from lemon ricotta beignets to seared duck breast to $1 tacos each Wednesday. The setting is simple mountain town café, and the humble ambience fails to prepare the diner for the high quality of the food. Highlights include the hanger steak sandwiches with blue cheese and arugula, and the crispy rock shrimp salad.

The Pinyon 1710 Pearl St. Boulder 720-306-8248

he Pinyon is an inviting and airy venue on Pearl Street specializing in new takes on old classics, ranging from catfish po’ boys to hot fudge sundaes. But there’s more than a whiff of culinary sophistication here, demonstrated by such offerings as cola-braised kobe beef and wild prawns with grits. Yet it’s an old favorite, fried

et another entry in the fancy pizza sweepstakes, Pizzeria da Lupo features a relatively simple menu spotlighting antipasti, sandwiches, salads and daily specials ranging from roast chicken to salt cod. Of course, the main attraction is the pizza, which is baked in a wood-fired oven and has an outstanding crust. The Saliche pie is notable, topped with fennel sausage, rapini and firstrate ricotta and mozzarella.

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rom one perspective, the well-lubricated yet stiff-jointed 1981 comedy Arthur, the one about the millionaire Manhattan drunkard played by Dudley Moore, was ripe for a remake. It scored a huge popular success early in the Reagan era, when unexamined wealth was king. And because the movie, which harkens back to Depression-era wish-fulfillment fantasies, holds up only fitfully well a generation later, mostly in the scenes between Moore and John Gielgud (who won an Oscar as Arthur’s manservant), a remake has a fighting chance of bettering its source material. The new Arthur, which is blobby and a bit of a mess but offers a fair number of laughs, will live or die at the box office on Russell Brand’s brand of louche comic authority and on how audiences take to it in this retro-rich-drunk context. In the original, Moore’s alcoholic playboy fell in love with a waitress/actress/shoplifter played by Liza Minnelli. As retooled for our more sober era by screenwriter Peter Baynham, Arthur falls for a sweet, unlicensed Manhattan tour guide, played by Greta Gerwig. The title character is once again engaged to marry a more socially and financially expedient selection of human, here played as a brittle harridan by Jennifer Garner. Hobson, the “help,” has switched genders, going from Gielgud in the first version to Helen Mirren in the remake. Are the results funny? In the margins, yes. Brand, so choice as the other man in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is best in small doses and sloshed asides. (Ordering at a fancy restaurant: “A cauldron of tequila Boulder Weekly

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tower since a young child — a la Rapunzel — by the evil wizard Leezar ( Justin Theroux), and he returns on their wedding day to kidnap Belladonna and return her to his evil lair. Fabious now has a new quest, to rescue his fair Belladonna from the clutches of the evil Leezar, and accompanying him — on his first quest, and under duress — is Thadeous and his faithful servant Courtney (Rasmus Hardicker). Cue a non-stop stream of sexual and scatological jokes that almost always fall flat and scenes that were often embarrassing to watch (the Great Wize Wizard, the selection of the Minotaur’s trophy), all with weirdly impressive production values. Therein lies the tragedy of Your Highness. With a more mature writer and some adult supervision on the dialogue and scenes, there really was the basis of a beautifully produced chivalric comedy. But Your Highness is not that film, and unless your sense of humor is stuck in sixth grade, this is not a film for you to see. Ever. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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and a spoon, please.”) He brings a genially debauched edge to the role. Gerwig, seen lately in Greenberg and quite wonderful in her absence of guile, predictable rhythms and seeming calculation, has a way of forcing her co-stars to cut to the heart of things and keep it honest. This is handy, considering the uneven material. The writing in their introductory scenes, followed by an extravagant first date in Grand Central Station, gets awfully sticky. Here’s where the new Arthur runs into problems sidestepped (at least according to the gross receipts) by the ’81 edition. It would be nearly unthinkable, and at the very least a dubious challenge, for a commercial romantic comedy to embrace a career alcoholic’s base-

line adorability in the early 21st century. Thus, director Jason Winer’s film, taken from Baynham’s script, makes a considerable deal about Arthur heading into Alcoholics Anonymous. (In Get Him to the Greek, Brand played a rougher sort of libertine dealing with similar “issues,” to use a word Mirren’s character uses.) This takes the material a few steps away from the realm of retroscrewball romance and into a more seriocomic realm. In theory, I’m for it; the first Arthur came at the very tail end of what might be called “the late Foster Brooks era,” when drunks were basically amusing rather than a societal headache. But it makes the comedy tricky. (Also, it’s weird to see aggressive product placement for Maker’s Mark in a story that ends up in AA.) The real drawback with Winer’s film — which is nonetheless more amusing than the trailers suggest — is visual. The movie favors tight close-ups and telephoto lenses; we’re always a little too close for comfort. The movie boasts all sorts of nice faces, to be sure. But when actors try to get a little back-and-forth going, and maximize whatever banter they’re given, chop-chop close-ups and reaction shots become wearisome. Physical comedy is not this Arthur’s strong suit. It works best, to the degree it works, when Brand, Gerwig and Mirren are allowed breathing room. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com lish herself in a city unknown to her. After Luján and Sosa’s paths repeatedly cross, the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by Sosa’s turbulent past. With traffic accidents as the number one cause of deaths in Argentina, bodies are currency, and a black market strives to get rich from the personal tragedies that literally litter the streets. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

13 Families

The shootings at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, ended 13 lives and shattered countless others. But while the tragic events of that day were well-documented, the stories of the families who lost loved ones and struggled to build new lives have yet to be told. Bound forever by unimaginable circumstances, these 13 families lived through the same tragedy, yet each has dealt with the aftermath in its own way, and each has a different story of how their lives changed. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Arthur

See full review on Page 51. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Atlas Shrugged

A railroad heiress tries to save her company amid a crumbling society and corrupt government in this adaptation of the first part of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Barney’s Version Barney’s Version is the warm, wise and witty story of Barney Panofsky, a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. At Boedecker Theater. — Landmark Theatres

AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Arthur Thu: 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 FriWed: 11:25, 2:10, 5, 7:45, 10:20 The Conspirator Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:15 Hanna Thu: 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 FriWed: 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 8:10, 10:45 Hop Thu: 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:30 FriWed: 11:30, 2:30, 5, 7:20, 10 Insidious Thu: 11:20, 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 10 FriWed: 11:20, 1:50, 4:45, 7:55, 10:50 Limitless Thu: 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu: 11:10, 2, 5, 8, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2:05, 5:10, 8:05, 10:55 Paul Thu: 10:25, 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:30, 10:55 Rango Thu: 10:45, 1:20, 4:05 Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:15 Rio Fri-Wed: 11, 2, 4:35, 7, 9:45 Scream 4 Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Soul Surfer Thu: 10:30, 1:10, 4:15, 7, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1:20, 4, 6:45, 9:30 Source Code Thu: 10:35, 1, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Your Highness Thu: 11:55, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:40, 5:30, 8, 10:35 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Arthur Thu: 12:55, 2:05, 3:30, 6:05, 7:20, 8:40, 10 Fri-Wed: 1, 2:25, 3:40, 6:30, 7:50, 10:25 Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 The Conspirator Fri-Wed: 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 9:55 Hanna Thu: 10:45, 1:25, 4, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:30, 4:35, 7:25, 10 Hop Thu: 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:40, 9 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:40, 4:20, 6:40, 9 Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

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A revenge thriller about a teenage girl raised to be the perfect assassin? Thank God Zack “Sucker Punch” Snyder was nowhere near this one. Carancho

In Argentina, more than 8,000 people die every year in road accidents, with each victim representing millions of pesos in medical and legal expenses. Behind every tragedy, there is an industry. Set in

Buenos Aires, the film noir thriller Carancho stars Ricardo Darín as Sosa, an ambulance-chasing, disbarred attorney with questionable ethics. Luján is a young doctor from the provinces, trying to make a living out of many jobs. Alone, with a work rhythm that barely allows her to sleep, she tries to estab-

local theaters Limitless Thu: 10:45, 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu: 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 9:45 p.m. Rio Fri-Wed: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Scream 4 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Soul Surfer Thu: 11, 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:35 FriWed: 11, 1:35, 4, 7:20, 9:50 Source Code Thu: 11:50 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:05, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Sucker Punch Thu: 12, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 9:20 p.m. Win Win Thu: 11:30, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:30 FriWed: 11:25, 3:20, 6:55, 9:35 Your Highness Thu: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Arthur Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:50 Hanna Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Hop Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:20 Insidious Thu-Wed: 1:55, 5, 8, 10:40 Limitless Thu-Wed: 2, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 Paul Thu: 1:35, 7:40 Rango Thu: 3:55, 7:05. 9:50 Rio Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:30 Scream 4 Fri-Wed: 1:45, 4:15, 7:30, 10:10 Soul Surfer Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10 Source Code Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 9:40 Your Highness Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 I Am Thu-Wed: 4:45, 7:30, 9:55 Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:45

Of Gods and Men Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Certified Copy Thu: 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 FriWed: 7:10 p.m. Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40 The King’s Speech Fri-Wed: 4:30, 9:45 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Carancho Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Cedar Rapids Thu: 4:15, 7:20, 9:30 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Potiche Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:30 Win Win Thu: 4, 7, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 13 Families Mon: 7 p.m. Cedar Rapids Fri-Wed: 5, 7:20, 9:40 Concert Thu: 1, 4:15, 7:10 Con Artist Thu: 7 p.m. Fri: 4:30, 7:15 happythankyoumoreplease Thu: 1:30, 9:45 Into Eternity Thu: 4:30, 9:30

Jean de la Fontaine, le Defi Wed: 7 p.m. Kill the Irishman Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 The Last Lions Thu: 1:45, 4:45 Fri: 2:15 p.m. On Coal River Sat: 12 p.m. PlanEAT Sat: 2 p.m. Slither Fri: 10 p.m. UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434

Tim Lippe was the guy people always thought would go places, but then he just didn’t. He’s been living in sleepy Brown Valley, Wis., his whole life, selling insurance to protect other people’s dreams. But Tim’s life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he’s headed to a major metropolis — Cedar Rapids, Iowa — where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be nonconventional. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax, Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Certified Copy Juliette Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on a whim or is

Arthur Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Hanna Thu: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Hop Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Insidious Thu: 4:35, 7:35, 10 Fri-Wed: 7:05, 9:50 Rango Thu: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50 Rio Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4, 7:20, 9:40 Scream 4 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Soul Surfer Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 FriWed: 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10 Source Code Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Your Highness Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 City of Life and Death Thu: 7, 9:30 I Am Wed: 7, 9 Poetry Fri: 7, 9:30 They Live Sun: 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197 Kinoautomat Thu: 7 p.m.

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Barney’s Version Thu-Sat: 6:30 p.m. Genius Within Thu: 4 p.m. Fri-Sat: 4, 9:30 Sun, Wed: 6:30 p.m. OPERA: Carmen Sun: 1 p.m. Poetry Wed: 4 p.m.

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there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres City of Life and Death With City of Life and Death, the brilliant Chinese director Lu Chuan makes his third, most ambitious and powerful film, a war saga of epic proportions that depicts in impressive detail every aspect and every group of the 1937 Japanese occupation and massacre of Nanking. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS Con Artist

Con Artist is a stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America’s craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980s New York scene, millionaire “business artist” Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his own. Con Artist focuses on Kostabi’s current attempts to regain prominence and find happiness through fame, which he openly equates with love. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Concert During the communist era, conductor Andreï Filipov was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of his Jewish players. He sank into booze and depression. The director of the Bolshoi has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon,” but he’s only mocking him. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a lastminute replacement for the indisposed Los Angeles Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: He will round up his old musician buddies, and they’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. They will defy destiny and take their revenge! But will they make it? At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Conspirator In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the president, vice president and secretary of state. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Zachary Gordon returns as Greg Heffley, the prepubescent, set-upon hero of Jeff Kinney’s books, for more adventures among the grade-school set. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences 26 years after his untimely death. The documentary humanizes the legend, weaving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Hanna A teenaged girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is sent on her first mission. Cate Blanchett is the intelligence agent hot on her trail. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Hop Live-action and animation blend in this comedy about a man who accidentally hits the Easter Bunny with his car, then must take over the rabbit’s annual duties until he recuperates. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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I Am

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I Am, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it and what we can do to make it better, represents writer/director Tom Shadyac’s first foray into nonfiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners. At Muenzinger Auditorium, Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

From the lush wetlands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta comes the suspense-filled story of a determined lioness ready to try anything and willing to risk everything to keep her family alive. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

Insidious

Bradley Cooper is a novelist suffering from writer’s block whose life is slowly falling apart — until he starts popping illegal pills that allow him to make full use of his brain’s abilities and turn him into a super-genius. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez

Remember when Scream 3 hit theaters, how everyone involved in the project swore up and down there would never be another? Well, they lied. Eleven years after the events of the last film, surviving cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette reunite, along with a few new faces. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Writer Leigh Wannell and director James Wan try their hands at atmospheric horror with this tale of a married couple trying to protect their comatose son from evil spirits. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. – Rene Rodriguez Into Eternity Every day, large amounts of radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock. Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this documentary takes viewers on a journey into the underworld and into the future. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Jane Eyre Jane Eyre suddenly flees Thornfield Hall, the vast, isolated estate where she worked as a governess for Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester. With nowhere else to go, she is extended a helping hand by clergyman St. John Rivers and his family. As she recuperates in the Rivers’ Moor House and looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, Jane wonders if the past is ever truly past. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Jean de la Fontaine, le Defi On Sept. 5, 1661, astonishing news is heard: Fouquet, the powerful king’s counselor, has been arrested on the order of Colbert. Louis XIV becomes the only master of France. While all artists fall in line behind the king, a man stands in support of the fallen counselor. He is the famous poet Jean de La Fontaine. Colbert swears to stop him from criticizing the king. But de la Fontaine never gives up, and even in poverty he continues to write his tales against the despotic regime. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Kill the Irishman

In the summer of 1976, 36 bombs detonated in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene’s rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The King’s Speech Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both Oscarworthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story about Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer, and maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. At Mayan and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Kinoautomat Kinoautomat was the world’s first interactive movie. The film is a black comedy and centers around a man who finds himself caught up in various moral dilemmas. At nine points during the film the action stops and a moderator appears on stage to ask the audience to choose between two scenes. Following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played. Using a specially constructed voting system, audience members could change the trajectory of the film at key moments by pressing red or green buttons. The screenplay was written such that the two plot-lines converged at each decision point, meaning that there were only ever two possible scenes. (This is a tentative booking subject to cancellation.) At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

Limitless

The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughey enters the courtroom for the first time since 1996’s A Time to Kill in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel about a lawyer who conducts his business from his Lincoln Town Car. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Of Gods and Men Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Despite the growing menace, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres On Coal River On Coal River takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the future of their valley, their children and their life as they know it. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Shutter Island WWII soldier-turned-U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his own troubling visions and by Dr. Cawley. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Slither From the director of the upcoming Super comes this tribute to the sci-fi B-movies of yesteryear about a small country town unprepared for the onslaught of an alien attack in the form of fast-moving, leech-like creatures that begin turning the residents into brainless, flesh-hungry monsters! At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Soul Surfer AnnaSophia Robb stars in this fact-based drama about a teenage girl who musters up the courage to climb back on her surfboard after losing an arm in a shark attack. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Source Code Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a man who wakes up on a passenger train eight minutes before a terrorist bomb goes off, killing everyone aboard. Through the use of new anti-terrorist government technology, he must relive those eight minutes again and again, until he can stop the attack. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

OPERA: Carmen

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Lies. Lust. Murder. (And some great music too!) The thrilling story of Carmen tells of the fatal attraction between the titular hot-blooded gypsy, and Don José, the upstanding corporal in the Spanish army. This production from La Scala stars opera greats Jonas Kaufmann and Erwin Schrott, with newcomer Anita Rachvelishvili making her wildly successful debut. Don’t miss this opera classic. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Five young women institutionalized in a mental hospital turn to an alternate reality filled with dragons, monsters and peril as a means of escape. At Century. — Rene Rodriguez

PlanEAT PlanEAT tells the story of the scientists, farmers and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age, the West’s love affair with meat and dairy. Through an extraordinary personal and culinary journey we discover why it’s bad for our health, the environment and our planet’s future. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Potiche Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne, a submissive, housebound “trophy housewife” (or “potiche”) who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Rio Jessie Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jane Lynch and Wanda Sykes provide the voices for this animated tale about a domesticated macaw who travels around the world to chase down the love of his life. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Colony Square and Century. — Rene Rodriguez

They Live They Live tells the story of a homeless construction worker named Nada. He stumbles across a pair of sunglasses and decides to try them on. He is shocked to see that all around him are hidden messages concealed in billboards, magazines, etc. that say “OBEY” or “SUBMIT.” Even worse, not all the people around him are human. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS We Live in Public

The ’90s will be remembered for a lot of things, but perhaps the biggest impact was the rise of the Internet and the dot.com kids. These free-thinking uber-nerds, blessed with both brains and chutzpah, took the industry by storm. Of the many flashes in the pan, none were as noted (and notorious) as Joshua Harris. Earning his first million with the prescient notion of collecting online data for advertisers and merchants, he turned his attention to an equally profound kind of web “performance art.” With it, Harris invented reality television, pushed the boundaries of social experimentation and destroyed most of his commercial clout in the process. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS Win Win Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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March 21-April 19:

In her blog, Jane at janebook.tumblr.com answers questions from readers. A recent query went like this: “Who would win in a steel cage match, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?” Jane said, “Easter Bunny, no question; he has those big-ass teeth.” But I’m not so sure. My sources say that Santa has more raw wizardry at his disposal than the Bunny. His magical prowess would most likely neutralize the Bunny’s superior physical assets. Likewise, Aries, I’m guessing you will have a similar edge in upcoming steel cage matches — or any other competitions in which you’re involved. These days you’ve simply got too much mojo to be defeated.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

“Dear Rob: Last January you predicted that 2011 might be the best year ever for us Bulls to commune with the invisible realms and get closer to the Source of All Life. And I have been enjoying the most amazing dreams ever. I’ve had several strong telepathic experiences and have even had conversations with the spirit of my dead grandmother. But that God character remains achingly elusive. Can’t I just have a face-to-face chat with his/her Royal Highness? —Impatient Taurus.” Dear Taurus: The coming weeks will be one of the potentially best times in your life to get up close and personal with the Divine Wow. For best results, empty your mind of what that would be like.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

I was reading about how fantasy writer Terry Pratchett made his own sword using “thunderbolt iron” from a meteorite. It made me think how that would be an excellent thing for you to do. Not that you will need it to fight off dragons or literal bad guys. Rather, I suspect that creating your own sword from a meteorite would strengthen and tone your mental toughness. It would inspire you to cut away trivial wishes and soul-sucking influences that may seem interesting but aren’t really. It might even lead you to rouse in yourself the zeal of a knight on a noble quest — just in time for the arrival of an invitation to go on a noble quest.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Over the years I have on several occasions stood at a highway exit ramp with a handmade cardboard sign that reads, “I love to help; I need to give; please take some money.” I flash a wad of bills, and offer a few dollars to drivers whose curiosity impels them to stop and engage me. I’ve always been surprised at how many people hesitate to accept my gift. Some assume I have a hidden agenda; others think I’m crazy. Some are even angry, and shout things like “Go home, you freak!” If a comparable experience comes your way anytime soon, Cancerian, I urge you to lower your suspicions. Consider the possibility that a blessing is being offered to you with no strings attached.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

“Nearly all men can stand adversity,” said Abraham Lincoln, “but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, that thought will have extra meaning for you in the coming weeks. So far in 2011, you have gotten passing grades on the tests that adversity has brought you. But now come the trickier trials and tribulations. Will your integrity and impeccability stand up strong in the face of your waxing clout and influence?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

It would be a good week for you to assemble a big pile of old TVs you bought for $5 apiece at a thrift store and run over them with a bulldozer. It would also be a favorable time to start a blazing fire in a fireplace and throw in the photos of all the supposedly attractive people you used to be infatuated with even though you now realize that they were unworthy of your smart love. In other words, Virgo, it is a perfect moment to destroy symbols of things that have drained your energy and held you back. There’s an excellent chance this will provide a jolt of deliverance that will prime further liberations in the coming weeks.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

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the Kikongo tongue it denotes “honoring, revering.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you Libras to bring the spirit of semba to your life. Use your imagination as you dream up ways to infuse your intimate exchanges with belly-to-belly reverence and enchantment. Be serpentine and worshipful. Be wild and sublime. Bestow your respectful care with all your slinky wiles unfurled.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

In the Philippines, there is a geographic anomaly I want to call your attention to: a volcanic island in a lake that’s on a volcanic island in a lake that’s on an island. Can you picture that? Vulcan Point is an island in Crater Lake, and Crater Lake is on Volcano Island, and Volcano Island is in Lake Taal, and Lake Taal is on the island of Luzon. It’s confusing — just as your currently convoluted state is perplexing, both to you and those around you. You could be aptly described as fiery earth within cool water within fiery earth within cool water within fiery earth. Whether that’ll be a problem, I don’t know yet. Are you OK with containing so much paradox?

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For the Navajo, the quality of your life isn’t measured by your wealth or status, but by whether you “walk in beauty.” It’s an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to evaluate yourself from that perspective. Do you stop to admire a flock of sparrows swirling toward a tangerine cloud at dusk? Are you skilled at giving gifts that surprise and delight others? When your heart isn’t sure what it feels, do you sing songs that help you transcend the need for certainty? Have you learned what your body needs to feel healthy? Do you know any jokes you could tell to ease the passing of a dying elder? Have you ever kissed a holy animal or crazy wise person or magic stone?

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“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate,” says Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore in one of his “Stray Bird” poems, while “he who loves finds the gate open.” I agree completely. That’s why I advise you, as you get ready to head off to your next assignment, not to be burning with a no-nonsense intention to fix things. Rather, be flowing with the desire to offer whatever gifts and blessings are most needed.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

“Once bread becomes toast, it can never become bread again.” Today I saw that piece of wisdom scrawled on the wall of a cafe’s restroom. I immediately thought of you. Metaphorically speaking, you’re thinking about dropping some slices in the toaster, even though you’re not actually ready to eat yet. If it were up to me, you would wait a while before transforming the bread into toast — until your hunger got ratcheted up to a higher level. The problem is, if you make the toast now, it’ll be unappetizing by the time your appetite reaches its optimum levels. That’s why I suggest you put the bread back in the bag. For the moment, refrain from toasting.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Don’t try so hard, Pisces. Give up the struggle. As soon as you really relax, your subconscious mind will provide you with simple, graceful suggestions about how to outwit the riddle. Notice I just said you will be able to “outwit the riddle.” I didn’t say you will “solve the riddle.” Big difference. Outwitting the riddle means you won’t have to solve it, because you will no longer allow it to define the questions you’re asking or the answers you’re seeking.

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