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DYERTIMES: ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is more sinister than it appears by Joel Dyer
....................................................................... ON THE COVER: A half-century later,
the environmental movement returns to its roots by Joel Dyer
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....................................................................... NEWS: Activists sound alarm over oil waste pit in Lafayette by Jefferson Dodge
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....................................................................... ADVENTURE: Center fundraises to finish climbing school, community center in Nepal by Elizabeth Miller
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BUZZ: Canadian psych-rock band Black Mountain lands on an unlikely soundtrack by Dave Kirby
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....................................................................... SAVAGE LOVE: Dan Savage’s
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6 LETTERS: Tell Danish about drought 6 THE HIGHROAD: Saving our ravaged planet — and ourselves 8 DANISH PLAN: Big day in American history 11 ICUMI: Hold another municipalization vote; Humans didn’t cause the ‘Biblical Flood’ 19 BOULDERGANIC: H&M’s conscious shift ARTS & CULTURE: Praise the Lord and pass the lefse OVERTONES: The music never stops for Joe Bonamassa BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go REEL TO REEL: Films showing locally SCREEN: Spring Breakers CUISINE: Mixologist competition takes local one sip further TIDBITES: Food happenings around town FOOD REVIEW: Under the Sun BOULDER COUNTY BEER TOUR: Shine APPETIZERS: Where to get your grub ASTROLOGY: By Rob Brezsny BOULDER MARKETPLACE: Your community resource
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Correction: The April 11 story “A taste of the world’s music at CU” was written by Peter Alexander, not David Accomazzo.
Tell Danish about drought
(“If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming,” Danish Plan, April 4.) Could somebody explain to Paul Danish that the Front Range climate is semi-arid, and the weather is in the second year of a severe drought which may go on for more years? There isn’t enough
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Highroad Saving our ravaged planet — and ourselves by Jim Hightower
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arth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep? Or cheer? Both. The first step toward any recovery is admitting that we have a problem. In fact, beaucoup of them. For example, despite the squawking of profiteering polluters and professional deniers, our very atmosphere — without which everyone and everything is dead — is
water now. Even farms with good water rights were cut off last summer. So, separately from various other concerns about fracking, we don’t have the spare 5,000 to 10,000 acre feet of water it’s going to take to frack all those planned wells. Even worse: We certainly can’t afford to have all that water taken entirely out of the regional hydrologic cycle forever. Current fracking technology is flatly environmentally unsound in a dry region such as ours. “If you like fracking, I hope you
rapidly being degraded by our addiction to fossil fuels, literally altering Earth’s climate in disastrous ways. Yet, as we burn, our policymakers fiddle. Let us fiddle with the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, they demand, uncaring about the vast amounts of ozonedestroying carbon that will be released by ripping open the boreal forest to get at the junk oil, or about the extra carbon-dioxide contamination that will come from processing this especially toxic sludge. Also, let us fiddle with the Earth itself by fracking deep underground shale to bring gas, oil — and ozone-depleting methane — to the surface. Oh, and let us keep fiddling with the priceless ecology of America’s ancient Appalachian Mountains by exploding off the mountaintops, merely to make it cheaper for Big Coal to extract more ozone-killing ore. There are plenty of horrors to make you weep on this Earth Day. But tears
don’t want local food.” Dick Dunn/Hygiene
Why the Yukon?
(Re: “Young’s apology more telling than racist remark,” ICUMI, April 4.) While Palin and Young may have an inbreeding project going on — would it really be in the Yukon? The Yukon is a territory of Canada. Not part of Alaska or the U.S. Paul Tiger/via Internet
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don’t bring change. That comes only from the determined effort of ordinary grassroots people to organize, strategize and mobilize. The good news for our Earth and our own existence is that such people are on the move in every part of America. They’re confronting the greedheads and boneheads, creating effective energy alternatives, forging fresh and sensible policies, lifting heads out of the sand — and producing the change we must have. That’s what Earth Day is about. Don’t weep — cheer the progress we’ve made, and join the movement for more. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
DyerTimes ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is more sinister than it appears
Wor ld’s top fr e e r i de rs movi e
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s we recently reported, a lastminute rider was slipped into HR 933, the 240-page spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on March 26. The bill was designed as an emergency measure to prevent a government shutdown, but as it turned out, it also made a pretty good Trojan horse for the biotech industry. The rider, which had Monsanto’s fingerprints all over it, was added by a company lackey, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and in essence says that if a court questions the approval process of a new genetically engineered crop, or rules that such a GMO crop needs further safety testing, the crop in question can still be sold and grown until the USDA, FDA or any other regulator has finished the research needed to make a final assessment. Its corporate creators innocuously titled the rider the Farmer Assurance Provision, but opponents of the provision more accurately refer to it as the Monsanto Protection Act. If you know how Monsanto’s business model works, then you understand the calamity that is unfolding before our eyes. Most of us are aware that the seed industry has become dangerously consolidated and that Monsanto’s monopoly control over our food supply is particularly disturbing. The company’s patented seed traits can be found in about 90 percent or more of most major crops such as soy, corn and sugar beets. Monsanto is also the largest seller of fruit and vegetable seeds, and is the main controller of conventional seeds as well. If it’s grown, Monsanto is pretty much the market. But what most people don’t know about Monsanto’s business model is that “speed” — the amount of time between product launch and full market domination — is a central part of the company’s game plan. And that is why this single paragraph in the bill is devastating. For example, it was only in 2008 that Monsanto introduced its GMO sugar beet seed to the world. With Monsanto’s massive ownership and/or influence over the seed market, it would be an understatement to say that the company’s GMO sugar beet seed was a real hit. But, as a court would later rule, the USDA had licensed Monsanto’s sugar beet seed without doing the legally required study to determine the safety
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and possible negative impacts of this new GMO product. So the court ordered Monsanto’s GMO sugar beet license suspended until proper research was completed. But there was a speed problem. In the less than 24 months since the time of its launch, Monsanto’s GMO sugar beet seed had already accounted for 95 percent of the entire sugar beet market. And because of Monsanto’s control over the overall seed industry, there were no major sources remaining of nonGMO seed. As a result, the USDA said that the United States would experience a major sugar shortage if the court’s ruling were followed, so Monsanto was allowed to ignore the judge’s ruling and keep right on selling its product even though the study had never been done. By the time the final research came in two years later — research that did, in fact, find several significant problems with GMO sugar beets — Monsanto was still allowed to continue selling its GMO product because of the lack of any viable alternative. There simply was no substantial remaining supply of non-GMO seeds, and the perceived need to avoid a temporary sugar crisis was considered the dominant factor in continuing down the GMO-sugar-beet path. Clearly Monsanto learned from this. It has now, thanks to the Trojan horse spending bill, influenced Congress and the president to pass a law that will allow it to do to all future crops — and presumably also upcoming GMO fish and other animals — what it did to the sugar beet market, namely, completely monopolize them before studies regarding potential health, environmental or market pitfalls have even been conducted. Based on the consistently long research timetable, the Monsanto Protection Act gives the company at least a couple of years of uninterrupted sales of any new patented trait, even if the courts step in and demand additional research. As we learned with sugar beets, two years is enough time for the Monsanto monopoly to so totally dominate a market that, regardless of the research findings, the company will have already made it nearly impossible to ever reverse course. Speed is the card that Monsanto has up its sleeve. And if regulators don’t figure that out soon, we will be past Monsanto’s point of no return. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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danish plan Big day in American history
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o•ver•re•ac•tion noun CU’s response to 4/20
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pril 19 is a big day in including Paul Revere and William American history, maybe Dawes, to alert the countryside that the even the biggest. Brits and trouble were on the way. Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Taking different routes, they both made Here’s a clue. it to Lexington, with Revere arriving It was a cool and misty morning. first, and by 1:30 a.m. the town knew Suddenly a shot rang out. the British were coming. It was heard around the world. Just as important, so did Samuel Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Adams and John Hancock, who had battles of Lexington and Concord. been hiding out in Lexington. They Fought on April 19, 1775, the battles moved on and lived to sign the are considered the start of the American Declaration of Independence the folRevolution. The occasion is officially lowing year. celebrated as Patriots’ Day in The lead British units, about 100 Massachusetts and Maine (the Mainers men, were under the command of a spell it Patriot’s Day), but it is largely British Royal Marine major named ignored in the rest of the country. (Since John Pitcairn, a highly respected offi1969 Patriots’ Day has been observed cer. (Pitcairn Island, of Mutiny on the on the third Monday of April, which Bounty fame, was named after his this year was last Monday.) son.) Pitcairn’s contingent arrived in The first shot, the one that is still Lexington at about 4:30 a.m. They echoing around the world 238 years were confronted on Lexington Green later, was fired on Lexington Green as by 77 militiamen under the command dawn was breaking. of Captain John Parker, the local No one knows who fired it. militia commander. He had called out It might have been a Brit. It might the militia as soon as the town have been an received the alert, American. It might and 130 answered have been a hotthe call. They head with an itchy mustered on the trigger finger, or a green, and after RECOGNIZED THE klutz whose gun standing around SITUATION FOR WHAT accidentally disin the dark for IT WAS — SUICIDAL charged. No one about an hour, knows. Parker dismissed — AND SAID SO. Here’s what’s them with orders “THERE ARE SO FEW known. On the to return at the OF US,” HE SAID. “IT evening of April sound of a drum. 18, a force of 700 Some went home IS FOLLY TO STAND British troops and some repaired HERE.” under the comto nearby mand of Lt. Col. Buckman Tavern. Francis Smith was When the drum ferried across the sounded, 77 Charles River from Boston and began a showed up. They were drawn up in 26-mile march to Concord, Mass., two lines as hundreds of Brits which was six miles beyond Lexington. marched down the road and onto the Their mission was gun control. green. They must have been scared They had been ordered to seize and shitless. destroy military supplies, including One American recognized the situaweapons, ammunition and rations that tion for what it was — suicidal — and the American militias had stockpiled in said so. “There are so few of us,” he towns north and west of Boston. said. “It is folly to stand here.” Their raid was supposed to be secret, “The first man who offers to run but Boston in 1775 was about as leaky will be shot down,” Parker replied. as Washington, D.C., today. The Brits started moving up at douThe Americans knew days in ble time. advance that a raid was coming, and as “Stand your ground!” Parker soon as the op began (at about 10 p.m. ordered. “Don’t fire unless fired upon! on April 18) the Boston Committee on But if they want to have a war, let it Public Safety dispatched horsemen, begin here.”
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Some of his men started to drift away. Pitcairn and two other officers rode to the front of his troops, about 100 feet from Parker’s line. “Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, and disperse!” he shouted. Parker finally concluded that resistance was futile and ordered his men to disperse. They began to leave, but did not disarm. “Lay down your arms, damn you! Why don’t you lay down your arms?” Pitcairn shouted. “Damn them! We will have them!” cried one of Pitcairn’s officers, meaning the rebels’ muskets. That was when the historic shot rang out. It was followed almost immediately by an order from one of the British officers to “Fire, by God! Fire!” One platoon let loose a volley that missed. Pitcairn struck his sword downward as a signal to cease firing, but his troops were too jacked up to stop. There was another volley that tore into the retreating militiamen, answered by a few desultory shots from the Americans. Then the Brits charged. The remaining Americans ran. The Brits kept firing at them until they were out of range. When the shooting stopped, eight Americans were dead. Ten others were wounded, but escaped. British casualties consisted of one private with a relatively minor leg wound. Pitcairn’s horse sustained two grazing wounds. The Brits reformed their ranks and marched on down the road to Concord. For the single most transformative revolution in human history, it wasn’t the most auspicious of beginnings. Fortunately things got better for the Patriot cause as the fighting moved to
Concord, where a much larger militia force forced the British to begin a retreat under fire that continued all the way back to Boston. When the fighting was over, the final casualty counts were these. The Brits had 73 killed and 174 wounded, a number of whom subsequently died. There were 49 Americans killed, and 39 wounded. Taken together, the two battles were an American victory. The fighting at Concord around the North Bridge inspired Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” in which the phrase “the shot heard round the world” first appeared, even though the first shot was fired at Lexington. Here’s the first stanza: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Modern accounts of the battle of Lexington (including the one in Christopher Ward’s massive work, The War of the Revolution, from which most of the foregoing description of the battle is drawn) usually neglect to mention the names of the eight who fell there. It’s an omission that has always troubled me. So here they are: John Brown Samuel Hadley Caleb Harrington Jonathan Harrington Robert Munroe Isaac Muzzy Jonas Parker Asahel Porter Tomorrow is their day. I think a decent respect for the gallantry of ordinary men requires that their names be honored on it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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t’s been more than four decades since the first Earth Day event held on April 22, 1970. And since that time it is fair to say that the environmental movement has had its ups and downs. So where does it stand today, and what should we expect moving forward? When it comes to this particular subject, we have to understand where we’ve been to see where we are going. Environmentalism has been around a long time and has taken many forms through the years. Where did it all start? Some folks give Henry David Thoreau the nod as the movement’s original guiding light. But when it comes to the modern movement, it was Rachel Carson and the publishing of her book Silent Spring in 1962 that exposed the downside of “progress” and caused a generation to rethink our place in the world. Like the canary in the coalmine, Carson warned the world that the way we were using pesticides such as DDT was creating an environmental disaster that was not only endangering nature but ourselves. She challenged the decisions that the government and her fellow agricultural scientists were making with regard to pesticide policies. In short, Carson put the human race into the food chain and, by doing so, forever changed the way we view our place in the world. And because it was the 1960s, her words not only inspired a generation to listen, but to also take action. The antiwar movement was already changing the country as it became more and more aggressive in its fight to end the Vietnam War. Within the anti-war movement there was also a back-tonature movement. And as the Vietnam War was finally beginning to wind down, all of this existing activism began to turn its attention to the environmental issues of the day. Thanks to Carson’s work, the environmental issues of the day were toxins, direct health threats to the families that were, in the late 1960s and early ’70s, organizing at the grassroots level to fight against this threat to their air and water. Due to the very lax environmen-
tal laws at that time, activists didn’t have to look too far to find a local enemy to confront. Smokestacks in towns all across the country spewed their lead and soot and other contaminants down on those living nearby. Factories poured horrible, deadly toxins directly into lakes and rivers, killing aquatic life and putting mercury and other hazards into our own food chain. It was a time in our history that put great stock into the idea that “out of sight and out of mind” was the answer to all waste issues. Whether it was plutonium or pesticides or lead or arsenic or anything in between, if a corporation or the government had buried it below a few inches of dirt, it was considered to have been disposed of properly. Because environmental activists were coming out of the anti-war movement, where direct and even dangerous confrontation was an everyday tactic, they did what they knew how to do when it came to fighting the threats posed by toxic waste in their towns. They organized locally and confronted polluters where they lived. The environmental movement was able to capture all of the energy of the anti-war movement and, in doing so, like the anti-war movement, it was able to win victory after victory. Millions of men, women and children turned out for that first Earth Day 43 years ago, and politicians and corporations alike took notice. The result was the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts, and eventually the Superfund to clean up the mess that had been left behind. These were great victories, but the grassroots activism that came to exemplify the fight against toxins wouldn’t last. As best described by journalist and former Mother Jones publisher Mark Dowie in his book Losing Ground, corporate America figured out how to beat the environmental movement. If it couldn’t make the movement go away, it would support it financially and redirect its attention. It was a brilliant ploy. Instead of grassroots activism, the See ROOTS Page 13
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HOLD ANOTHER MUNICIPALIZATION VOTE We have to agree with those who are calling for a final vote of Boulder residents on the municipalization question, before the city moves ahead with it. There are so many details we don’t know yet, and yes, it’s true that the vote in November 2011 authorized our esteemed representatives on city council to move ahead if the path is clear, but we’re sorry. There are just dozens of wild cards here, too many things that still need to be settled in court. And, frankly, we’re not sure how much we trust the current council’s judgment right now. Give the people a final say when all of the facts are out. That’s the process that should have been on the ballot in 2011. We’ve heard the words “Trust us” before, and let’s just say it hasn’t always turned out for the best. Not that we should be trusting Xcel, either. Now that we’ve been given this opportunity to craft our own energy fate, let’s do it carefully and make sure the plan still has the public’s support when all of the cards are on the table. HUMANS DIDN’T CAUSE THE ‘BIBLICAL FLOOD’ We almost ran this straight-faced as an Eco-Brief, but it’s more humorous than anything else. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) recently referenced the biblical Great Flood as evidence of climate change not induced by human activity, according to media reports. Seriously? So, we should all keep driving around solo in our SUVs because a purported flood proves we have no impact on our environment? His biblical reference on April 10 was part of his remarks on the Keystone XL Pipeline to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. Barton doesn’t deny that climate is changing — he just questions whether human activities are to blame. Incredibly, he’s not alone: a recent Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Republicans now acknowledge the scientific consensus that the climate is warming — up from 37 percent in 2011 — but still, only 39 percent of Republicans believe humans are the cause, LiveScience reports. “I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change, and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy,” Barton said while speaking about the Northern Route Approval Act, which gives Congress the authority to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. If you’ll recall, that’s the project that would pave the way for oil companies to extract oil from Canada’s tar sands. Environmental advocates fear that the carbon released would quicken global Boulder Weekly
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justifiable snow day were out of luck, for the most part. And we all heard the collective groan of tens of thousands of college students on the morning of April 16, the day after CU closed its doors early at 2 p.m. because of the white stuff, when they all rolled out of bed and failed to see a text alert from the chancellor announcing a campus closure. Come on, Mama Nature, you’ve got at least one humdinger of a storm left in you before summer, don’t you? We could use the day off, er, the moisture. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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movement became a collection of large environmental groups like the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, the list goes on and on. The local fight against toxins became a global fight to preserve wilderness and wildlife. While this was, of course, a valid desire for environmentalists, it was also exactly what the chemical and oil and gas and manufacturing industries wanted. They were spending millions to fight local environmental groups over toxins and clean up contaminated sites. Switching to saving wilderness gave polluters a way to give tax-deductible funds to the large environmental groups that were willing to save beauty rather than fight toxic waste. Corporate greenwashing was born, but even worse for the planet, being an environmentalist was redefined, going from someone chained to a tree or heavy equipment or holding a protest sign while being arrested to someone who gives $100 a year to a big nonprofit group claiming that it will save the rainforest and lobby Washington politicians to fight global warming. While this new national group-centric environmental movement has done some good things in the last 25 years, it has failed to make the kind of strides that the grassroots activists coming out of the 1960s to fight toxins locally made. But this is changing quickly. The environmental movement is returning to its roots. There are several reasons why this is happening. First, a new generation has grown weary of watching large environmental organizations trying to save the planet by lobbying politicians and com-
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promising with, and even forming partnerships with, polluting industries. It hasn’t worked, it isn’t working, and frankly, it never will. If a polluter wants five new coalfired plants, it asks for 10. The environmental groups come in and demand a compromise, and in the end the polluter gets the five plants it actually wanted and the eco-group tells the world it cut the polluter’s impact by half. It may be great for fundraising, but it accomplishes nothing. Another factor in this return to its roots is that when the banking system failed, Americans of every political stripe saw firsthand how out of control our corporations had become. We saw that the government had allowed and even encouraged the banks’ out-of-control behavior that brought the global economy to the brink. As a result, the Occupy movement was born. It was local, and even though it was not particularly focused, it did manage, like the anti-war movement of the 1960s, to capture the energy from the anger and frustration that most Americans were feeling at the time. It was a sign of just how tired and skeptical we had become of our corporations and politicians. And then came the fracking issue,
Democrats and Republicans, fighting side-by-side against those who would threaten our health and quality of life to make still more money. And like the 1970s, we are once again winning. From Texas to Colorado to California to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York, and all across this country, environmental activists fighting locally against fracking and pipelines and coalfired plats are winning. Locally, Longmont has banned fracking, Fort Collins has banned fracking, Lafayette is on the verge of doing the same. Tiny Paonia is beating the oil and gas industry. The Western Slope is fighting back, and Boulder County is getting into the fight in a big way. And look at the reactions of local politicians to what is happening on the ground. One legislator after another has sponsored bills to reel in the power of the oil and gas industry. In Colorado we have several bills making their way into law that will finally create real oversight of the industry and put teeth into the enforcement of the law. In 2013, the state of the environmental movement is nothing short of spectacular. It has once again become a grassroots movement fighting against toxins locally. Even the large environmental groups are coming around, replacing their long-time leaders with younger, more activistoriented folks. Who knows, maybe those exemptions to the Clean Air and Clean Water acts can finally be undone. From where I sit, the future looks very bright. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
CU defends ongoing effort to snuff out 4/20
hen University of Colorado officials announced plans to close campus to outsiders again on April 20 — a Saturday — critics howled that last year’s justification for doing so was no longer valid. The 4/20 smokeout needed to be averted, CU officials said last spring, because it was so disruptive to the academic mission of the university. But there are no classes held on Saturdays, and other types of academic activity drop off significantly as well. Still, CU spokesperson Bronson Hilliard says there is plenty to disrupt on Saturdays, including research, graduate dissertation defenses, rehearsals and performances. While he acknowledged that he knows of no Boulder Weekly
and the Keystone pipeline, at just the right moment in history. The energy of the Occupy movement poured into the local environmental fight. Politicians and corporations assured us that they had our best interests at stake as the rigs moved right into the middle of our communities all across the nation, drilling in our parks and neighborhoods. And then the resulting production platforms started spewing tons of toxins into our air and, in some places, contaminating our water. Only then did most of us find out that in backroom deals the government had actually exempted the oil and gas companies from the very Clean Water and Clean Air acts that had been won from the hardfought battles over toxins in the 1970s. For these reasons the environmental movement has returned to its roots. This is no longer an intellectual battle over rainforests and global warming, even though those are the issues in the larger picture. This is once again about corporate America trying to profit by decimating our communities with their toxins. Environmental activists all across the country are once again fighting polluters aggressively, face-to-face, in their communities, in their neighborhoods. Soccer moms and anarchists,
by Jefferson Dodge classes held on Saturdays, he says students are studying in Norlin Library and participating in programs at the Rec Center, among other activities. “The university doesn’t just shut down on Saturdays and Sundays,” Hilliard told BW. “It’s not a high school.” CU officials have also repeatedly said that their opposition to 4/20 is not related to marijuana or drug laws. When asked if the university’s response would be the same if a crowd of 10,000 gathered on campus
for a gun rights or anti-abortion rally, Hilliard replied that authorities might be more open to a gathering of that size if the hosting group followed campus policies, got a special events permit, had a student sponsor and paid for arrangements like porta-potties and clean-up. But no one has ever done those things for 4/20, he says. In addition, Hilliard says CU does not allow marijuana on campus due to the federal Drug Free Schools and Communities Act. He says violating that act could jeopardize CU’s federal research funding, even though some say the likelihood of that happening is slim. See 4/20 Page 14
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“I don’t think any university in the CU police spokesperson Ryan Huff country really wants to be the first unisays he expects the university’s police versity to test whether the feds are seri- presence on April 20 to be similar to ous about that,” Hilliard says. last year, when officers were brought in And he adds that those who say from various other Front Range law CU should loosen up about 4/20 enforcement agencies. The university because the state just passed spent more than $75,000 on overtime Amendment 64 to regulate marijuana for CU cops and outside officers last like alcohol may not realize that 64 year. According to Huff, those without only allows for the private consumpproper ID who are caught on campus tion of pot, not smoking it in public. could face a misdemeanor trespassing Hilliard acknowledges that 64 may charge carrying a fine of up to $750 actually have the Susan France and up to six effect of reducing months in jail. the size of the Hilliard and 4/20 crowd even Huff dismissed further, because civil-liberties conthere is less to cerns about requirprotest, at least in ing students, faculColorado. ty and staff to As for the carry their IDs infamous fish ferwith them on tilizer applied to April 20, saying Norlin Quad last it’s the only day of year to deter the year that such would-be tokers, a requirement is in he says CU decidplace. ed to discontinue When asked the practice at the what the police request of student response would be leaders who said if a group of cardthey had received The scene on Norlin Quad at 4:20 p.m. on carrying students complaints about April 20, 2011. gathered on another quad to smoke the concoction’s and protest, Huff health effects on said, “Our primary objective is to keep asthmatics and others with chemical sensitivities. Plus, Hilliard says, last year everyone safe.” Rob Corry, a Denver attorney who the fertilizer became more of a media specializes in marijuana law and who story than an actual deterrent, since it unsuccessfully challenged the 4/20 didn’t emit a very intense smell. campus closure last year in court, says He also challenged the notion that he and his clients considered pursuing 4/20 is constitutionally protected as a a campus permit to hold the event, peaceful assembly to exercise free but didn’t get encouraging signs from speech and protest gun laws. the university that it would be “4/20’s never been about drug laws, approved. it’s been about partying,” Hilliard says, “They didn’t say one way or the adding that it’s only a protest for a tiny other, but I think it was pretty clear percentage of participants. “No one that they wouldn’t, that they would could credibly make the argument that 4/20 is a consciousness-raising, political deny it,” he told BW. “The prospect of getting a different result wasn’t very free-speech activity. high.” “There isn’t a First Amendment Corry says the lack of classes on right to do something illegal under fedSaturday means the university’s argueral law,” he continues. “If their motivament about 4/20 disrupting its academtion is to make political statements about marijuana, the best place to make ic mission is specious. “I think it completely undermines those is in the shadow of the state that argument, and it exposes what their Capitol and the City and County of Denver. … At CU-Boulder it’s nothing real argument is and their true motivation, which is the university’s image,” he more than a party.” says. Hilliard says the point when he But Corry also agrees that with the realized the event should be disconpassage of Amendment 64, there is less tinued came a few years ago when a to protest on 4/20. participant was climbing a cotton“This is a new world this year,” he wood tree in the middle of the massays. “It’s just outright legal in sive crowd, and an emergency responder next to Hilliard leaned over Colorado. There’s less need for civil disobedience when you’re not even disand said, “If he falls, we would have obeying anything, really.” no ability to get to that person, to Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com save him.” Boulder Weekly
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n February 1984, a woman living in the Lafayette area called police to report that her cat had fallen into an oil sludge pit. The pit was used for depositing waste material from nearby oil and gas wells, and the cat had returned home covered in an oily substance. The woman ended up taking her cat to a veterinarian, who diagnosed it with liver damage. She told officers that the cat was not expected to survive. According to a Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office report dated Feb. 15, five days after the cat incident, subsequent interviews with the operator of the pit and a local health official revealed that the pit was filled with water, oil and paraffin, a toxic brew that the investigating officer was told should be considered “dangerous.” Police suggested erecting temporary fencing and more frequent patrols in the area to keep children and animals away from the pit. The report includes the health official’s observation that “the federal government has placed few restrictions on the processes of oil and natural gas in this matter.” Records indicate that the toxic material was pumped out two days later, and that the pit was backfilled. **** Fast-forward nearly 30 years, and anti-fracking activists are now raising red flags about the ongoing construction of a Lafayette housing development where that toxic waste pit was located. Those types of pits were rarely lined in those days, raising the possibility that the waste might have soaked down to groundwater or had other lasting effects. Three activists sent a letter to the Lafayette City Council on March 25, requesting that all construction at the Silver Creek housing development be ceased “until it can be empirically determined through proven third-party scientific testing to be free of toxic materials.” The letter, signed by Shane Davis of fractivist.com, Cliff Willmeng of East Boulder County United and Gary Wockner of Clean Water Action, notes that Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) records indicate that there has been no soil sampling around the site of the pit to test for any lingering contamination. City officials responded with their own memo to city council on April 2, describing how all processes had been followed correctly during the approval of the new housing development. Phillip Patterson, assistant city administrator and community development director, wrote that an aerial photo indicates that the pit, located across the Boulder Weekly
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year to reinstate the 350-foot buffer for rent or abandoned wells and pits within that western well, prohibiting future city limits to identify possible health development on the site of the pit. threats. “If staff had known of a potential In addition, the activists suggest environmental hazard related to the that the city’s planning and zoning gas/oil well,” he wrote, “[it is] possible commission “may not be conducting that additional studies would have been adequate due diligence for the future required at the time the Cabrini residents of Lafayette,” and they recGardens and Silver Creek subdivisions ommend that the commission be were being reviewed.” required to investigate prior oil and gas And in response to a question in the operations, waste disposal methods and activists’ letter asking if there are any spills prior to approving new residential other risks from past oil/gas operations developments for any given area. within city limits, Patterson said, “This Davis told BW that the city’s request is too broad for staff to attempt defense about not knowing about any to answer. Based on the information environmental threats at the time received from the Silver Creek was COGCC, it is posapproved is no excuse East Boulder County United is sible that any gas/ to not act now. As hosting a launch party on oil well drilled in new knowledge Sunday, April 21, for a campaign to place a Lafayette fracking Lafayette might emerges, public offiban on the ballot in November. have had a drilling cials have an obliThe event, being held from 2 to 4 pit associated with gation to address p.m. at Natural Grocers, at 100 W. South Boulder Road, will prothe well.” problems. vide resources on neighborhood “We thought education and fundraising **** asbestos was OK in efforts, petition-gathering and engaging elected officials. The fractivists 1984 too,” Davis were not satisfied says. with the city’s He adds that response. They say Lafayette’s existing a 350-foot setback is not nearly aderegulations on things like setbacks from quate, considering the May study by a wells fly in the face of Gov. John University of Colorado researcher at Hickenlooper’s argument that such the Colorado School of Public Health requirements should be set at the state level to avoid a hodgepodge of widely that found elevated risks of cancer and varying local controls. other health problems among people “The governor is full of shit when living within a half-mile of oil/gas he says we don’t want a hodgepodge,” wells. he says. “It already exists.” In a second letter sent to council Willmeng says in an interview that Monday, Davis, Willmeng and city officials seem to be going out of Wockner request that soil testing be done in the area and that the developer their way to demonstrate they broke no laws, but he explains that the activists and residents be notified of the docuare not claiming that any laws were mentation of the pit that has been broken — they just want action to prounearthed so far. They also call on the city to conduct a full assessment of cur- tect public health and safety. Boulder Weekly
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grams in large textile-producing countries like Bangladesh, Cambodia, China and India. These programs are aimed to get children out of factories and fields and into schools, according to UNICEF’s website. In 2009 the company sponsored a five-year program called All for Children in Tamil Nadul, India, through a $4.5 million donation to aid families who work for their living in cotton fields so their children can go to school instead of working in the fields. The approach may be the closest to actually making change in factories, according to Bair. “Some research suggests if some brands or retailers work really closely with the workers, try to understand what their problems really are, they can help reduce those problems,” Bair says. On April 4, H&M hosted a panel on sustainability at Vogue headquarters in New York City to discuss its new sustainable and ethical practices. H&M representatives on the panel stated that they had a responsibility to be sustainable and ethical, but some of the responsibility also lies with the consumer. “I think it’s about raising the awareness of our consumers [about] the added value of sustainability in a product and encourage people to act more responsible,” Catarina Midby, head of fashion and sustainability communications for H&M, said at the panel. Representatives from H&M did not respond to requests for comment. What it really comes down to is paying more for the product at both ends: company and consumer. See CLOTHING Page 20
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The Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, is joining forces with more than 20 craft breweries to campaign for clean water. “The new ‘Brewers for Clean Water’ campaign will help translate the amazing economic growth of the craft brewing sector into a powerful voice on behalf of clean water in the United States,” reads the NRDC press release announcing the campaign. The participating breweries are mostly located in the Great Lakes region, but they also include Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Company. The NRDC’s website invites other brewers interested in signing the Clean Water Pledge to send information about their brewery. “You can’t make great beer without clean water,” the pledge reads. “That’s why our brewery is proud to join the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and its more than one million supporters to stand up for clean water and the Clean Water Act.” This is a new tactic for an organization that has previously used the court system to fight for stricter enforcement of the Clean Water Act. Its blog cites a survey published in February by the Environmental Protection Agency indicating that more than half of the country’s streams and rivers are in “poor condition.” — Cecelia Gilboy
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Starting July 1, Colorado residents can no longer dispose of electronic waste in their household trash, and Colorado landfills can no longer accept electronic waste. The change is a direct result of a new law: the Electronic Recycling Jobs Act. “The new law applies to TV sets, central processing units, computer monitors and peripherals, printers and fax machines, all kinds of laptops and notebook computers, DVD players, VCRs and any video display device with a screen larger than four inches,” Wolk Kray, recycling specialist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, says in a statement released by the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division. The new ban also includes radios, stereo equipment and video game consoles. Telephones, motor vehicle components and non-hazardous industrial or commercial devices can still be disposed of in Colorado landfills. Kray encourages people to recycle their electronic waste through community collection events, manufacturer take-back programs or a reputable electronics recycling company. Recycling is expected to create new employment opportunities. Recycling one ton of waste sustains 10 jobs for every one landfill job, according to the Institute for Local SelfReliance. In addition to creating jobs, recycling
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Boulder native Nicole Glaros, managing director for TechStars, made GOOD magazine’s list of 100 people moving the world forward. GOOD is a quarterly publication that focuses on social enterprise, design and living well while doing good. Glaros has been with TechStars, a Boulder-based organization that provides seed funding from top venture capital firms and investors for startup companies, since 2009. But she has spent “nearly a decade working to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Colorado through leadership roles at various incubators such as CTEK, Investor Avenue, CleanLaunch and the Advance Colorado Center,” according to the TechStars website. Glaros is now living in New York City, co-managing TechStars NYC and blogging about her experiences. In her most recent post, Glaros wrote about the tough cuts she was forced to make in choosing the TechStars NYC class: “There were so many teams we fell in love with, there were so many projects we fell in love with, and I think today I just realized what my least favorite part of my job is. Saying no. I absolutely hate telling an entrepreneur no, I really want to help all of them.” — Abby Faires
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“Ultimately, the consumer is part of the story,” Bair says. “We have gotten to a point where we expect clothing to come down in price dramatically, and that all comes from this global industry. But if we are serious about ethical production, someone has to pay for that.” If consumers demand clothing produced ethically, companies will respond,
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equipment, tying knots, belaying, rope management and wilderness first aid. Over the years, their curriculum has added material centered on customer experience like English lessons and knowledge of local flora and fauna to enrich the client’s experience when they hire a guide who has graduated from the KCC. On April 20, they’re hosting a gathering at Movement Climbing to fundraise for the latest step in expanding the programs available to Sherpas in Nepal — building a community center that will house their class each January and be available as a gathering place and training ground over the rest of the year. Each winter, during the off-season for climbing at Everest, professional athletes, including some of Anker’s teammates at North Face, volunteer their time and pay their own airfare to travel to Phortse, a town in a corner of Nepal selected for plentiful ice climbs in varied grades of difficulty, ripe territory for learning skills like rope management and glacial travel. Although Sherpas spend more time on the mountain than Westerners and push the route toward the summit, hanging fixed lines that will help Western clients to the top and hauling extra gear like cylinders of oxygen, they often don’t have basic training. They’ve started as porters at base camp and worked their way up, but didn’t necessarily get mountaineering courses along the way. “When we started teaching our classes 10 years ago, we had a number of students who had summited Everest but they didn’t know how to tie a figure eight knot, which is the simplest knot in climbing terms,” Lowe-Anker says. “So we’ve come a really long ways from that.” “Things have gotten safer on the mountain, certainly, and if you talk to the guides that work up there
in the ’70s and ’80s, the climbers, it was just quite a bit different,” Anker says. “They never really had technical equipment, they didn’t really want to learn to be technical climbers. They were just sort of a hard living bunch of guys that just carried the load and did that and then they were done. Now, there’s this desire to become as current as a Western climber, so, wearing helmets in the ice fall, having proper crevasse rescue equipment and knowing how to use it, wearing the latest in boots and clothing — things like that that really make a difference for them.” Just in the last few years, he says, helmets have gone from being geeky to a sign of legitimacy. And while it seems like things have gotten a little safer, Anker says, training and certification through the KCC or the UIGM also helped to make the business model for Sherpas more sustainable. “Probably the greatest benefit to this is it gives the Sherpas a sense of self-confidence and ability to ask what they’re worth from their clients,” Anker says. The classes are also geared to cultivate a sense of fun — encourage safe climbing in a community-based program, but also build the sense of passion for mountaineering that can fuel a care for the work that surpasses the level that might be given by someone
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who comes into climbing with an idea of punching a time clock, logging the hours to make a living. “If you like climbing and you’re avocationally motivated to do it, you’re going to be a better climber,” Anker says. “Jenni and I both feel strongly that by having people that want to climb and want to be part of it, they will become better climbers because of it.” The list of previous Khumbu Climbing Center volunteer instructors — bringing that sense of passion and play in the mountains to the classes along with their skills and experience — reads like a who’s who of mountaineering with names like Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, Barry Bishop, who was on the first American ascent team to Everest, and Peter Athans, a filmmaker and mountaineer who has summited Everest seven times. But at this point, there are enough returning graduates of the school that the Nepali instructors take the lead. “It’s becoming the way we envisioned — sustainable with regards to them taking the reins,” LoweAnker says. It’s that sustainable component that sets the program apart, says David Burger, a Boulderbased mountaineer, former Outward Bound instructor and president of The Burger Concinnity Group, which provides executive coaching and alpine guiding services. Burger had climbed with Athans and Alex Lowe — The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation, created in the memory of a mountaineer who was a former partner to both Conrad and Burger, funds the Khumbu Climbing Center. “There are so many organizations and foundations that go over places like Nepal and they give them stuff, and [the Sherpa are] still appreciative, and then see CLIMBING Page 24
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the Westerners go away and they don’t know what to do with it,” says Burger, who has gone to teach with the KCC four times. “I think it was the Swiss who gave Himalayan Rescue Service a winter generator to power a little clinic up high in a 14,000-foot village, and it was great for three years and then it broke — no spare parts and no knowledge or training how to fix it, so it sits there like a statue. And you see that all over, not just Nepal, of course, any developing nation you see that. The Khumbu Climbing Center, they got in and they really focused on, what does this culture need and how would they learn that and how can they sustain that? So that’s kind of a comparative distinctiveness because there are a lot of foundations that are giving stuff away, and it’s very noble. It just doesn’t last.” Anker has also organized donations of climbing gear that’s put ice climbing tools and crampons in the hands of Sherpas who couldn’t otherwise have afforded so much as a carabiner, he adds, but the school taps into the culture and learns from the mistakes and responds to the way the culture works. “You spend that kind of time, not just there but all around the mountains of the world, and mountain people have a great place in one’s heart, and so especially the Sherpa because they’re so service-oriented,” Burger says. “And really, the crux of the school is twofold in my mind: a tribute to Alex, who loved it there and wanted to give back so it’s a very obvious thing to create something that’s sustainable that gives back, and
also for the Sherpa people who are so generous and giving — to a fault and that fault specifically is they die.” He had a student who had been to the top of Everest eight times but only knew how to tie one knot. But the students show up open, willing and appreciative of the chance to learn those skills. “The Khumbu Climbing Center, they got in and they’re really focused on, what does this culture need and how would they learn that and how can they sustain that?” Burger says. That’s carried through in the creation of the center, which became a community center in addition to a classroom in response to recognizing that a sense of community and gathering spaces are the important components of the Sherpa culture. That lesson came from an effort to replace a spring in the center of Phortse with water filters, saving villagers the trip to the spring. The villagers were reluctant to abandon use of the spring, though, because it served as a gathering point for the community. “That was really a paradigm shift for us to say, ‘Oh, we can’t build the climbing school building, this has to be a community center because that’s what they’re doing,’” Burger says. So the water purification system will be moved into the community center. “Simple things like that make it much more sustainable — and part of that is enough consciousness to be calm and slow down and observe what these people really want or need. … It’s show up, observe, make mistakes, learn from them, Boulder Weekly
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change, get back in the game, learn some more. Sometimes I think for our staff it’s a little frustrating because we’re still in that get-it-fixed-quick [mode] and it’s an ongoing, organic process. It’s not going to just happen overnight.” The center they’re building, which is being constructed on land donated by local families and was designed by Montana State University’s School of Architecture, will house their equipment room, an indoor climbing facility, gear storage and a library, even showers tourists can pay to use. The gathering space can house community events like weddings, a movie screening or a cultural night with music and performances, Lowe-Anker says. “The status of the building right now is we need to raise some money to keep it going,” says Tim Harrington, a Boulder-based general contractor and owner of Harrington Stanko Construction. Harrington turned a longstanding interest in the region around Everest into the motivation to spend three weeks in Phortse working on the construction of the building last fall after his daughter, Emily Harrington, a professional athlete on the North Face team, climbed Everest with Anker and came back talking about how wonderful the people and the Khumbu Valley were. Harrington and his team, Zach Roth, Ryan Arment and Mike Auldridge, have plans to return next fall to install the roof tresses and put up the windows — if the local masons can raise the walls to the roof level before they return, which will require raising funds to keep paying those masons to work, he says. If there’s a delay, it wouldn’t be the first time. In Phortse, everything is brought in by yaks or porters, and electrical power Boulder Weekly
is “not great,” Harrington says. The trip was delayed a full year as they struggled to get all the materials together. “We did a lot of problem solving, which is actually kind of fun,” he says. “You just can’t go down McGuckins or Home Depot and get something that you need. It has to be portered up there. So there’s a lot of challenges to that. … You wait. You wait for things to get up there.” They’ve already looked into getting solar-powered battery packs for charging batteries on the next trip so that the power drills they take along can last as long as they do — which, on this last trip, was 8:30 in the morning until dark for 18 days in a row with one afternoon off to trek up to a monastery. “Its just vast, rugged peaks everywhere you look, it’s just this beautiful world up there that’s still primitive, but yet comfortable,” Harrington says. “Obviously in the U.S., we have a disproportionate amount of material wealth and this is one way of moving it from one continent to the other,” Anker says. “If anyone has trekked in Nepal or climbed in Nepal it’s a great way to give something back to the people that are over there.” The Khumbu Climbing Center and Movement Party & Fundraiser starts with a tail gate party at 5 p.m. (weather permitting) on April 20 at Movement Climbing + Fitness, 2845 Valmont Road, Boulder. Doors open at 7 p.m. The show, which will include presentations by Conrad Anker, Emily Harrington and the Khumbu Climbing Center construction crew, begins at 8 p.m. There will also be a silent auction and opportunities to meet with other North Face athletes. Tickets are $10 and may be bought at the door or at Movement in advance of the event. More information on the project can be found at www.alexlowe.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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heartbeat, framed by Schmidt’s weeping synthesizer garnish. But the cut that’s gotten probably the most attention is the grinding rock opus “Mary Lou,” a slab of dark and serrated dive-bar psychedelia, a kind of Romeo Void on lysergic drip. Some of the Web buzz around the song suggests that it’s a new BM cut, but Schmidt says, eh, not exactly. “‘Mary Lou’ actually was an old song,” Schmidt explains, “probably as old as the songs from the first Black Mountain record [2005]. It was just one that we played a little bit years and years ago, and then it kind of got shelved. It was just something that we never really got around to recording, like creating a definitive version. So, when this film opportunity happened, we figured it would fit and it would be worth revisiting finally. If we hadn’t done it for this, I suppose it would have eventually
come out on one of our next records, I don’t know.” No telling when any of that will happen. We caught Schmidt just as he was packing up for the band’s first road work of any significance since the end of last summer, and he admits that a new album — at least relative to content — is probably still a ways off. Refreshingly, for a band as good and as long-tenured as they are, Black Mountain doesn’t push too hard to stay busy. They work when they work; they get away from it when they don’t. “We did a little bit of jamming recently, just kind of to bounce ideas around,” Schmidt says about the band re-emerging from its half-year hiatus. “We haven’t really spent enough time playing since we took our break to hash out much new stuff. We got a couple of things that we might try and play on the road. “We never really force things, we just kind of let things develop on their own. But it will be good to go out and play again; once you go out and play on tour, it makes you want to go in and record. And once you go in and record, it makes you want to go out and play live. It’s like stretching two different sets of muscles.” Indeed, but this one kept gnawing at us. We couldn’t make it stop. Is there actually a surf scene in Vancouver? Schmidt laughed. “I’m sure there probably is, but if so, I don’t know anything about it,” he says. “There is good surfing apparently on Tofino, which is on the far side of Vancouver Island. I guess it’s a globally recognized spot for surfing. … But beyond that, I know nothing. I’ve never even been there.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ven if you are a Dawkins-lovin’, God-mockin’, cardcarryin’ atheist, the odds are that during your youth you spent some time in and around a church or synagogue. Be you current or lapsed Catholic, Protestant, Lutheran, Methodist, Jew or any other God-fearing flavor, you likely shared the same, quintessential religious experience of witnessing the tireless efforts of a select few female congregants to feed the flock at every regular and unscheduled gathering. Often led by an older, veteran kitchen-minder and usually including two, if not three, generations of women-folk hailing from the same family, these devoted devouts showed up early and stayed late to prepare lefse and latkes, coffee and cakes. Their ministrations, maybe more than those of the priest or pastor, gave succor to the sad and added joy to the jubilant. women wear simple, functional, probaRegardless of where the kitchen resided bly hand-made aprons. And in the spirin your particular house of worship, it of “waste not, want not,” tin foil is they were (and are) the Church smoothed and reused over and over Basement Ladies. again. Though one hears “The devil is in Set in Minnesota in 1964, Church the details” more frequently these days, Basement Ladies is a lighthearted look at that phrase is a bastardization of the a Lutheran flock. Vivian (Barb Reeves), original, “God is in the details.” In the the eldest of the kitchen queens, rules case of Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s the basement. Old fashioned, even Church Basement prickly at times, Vivian’s Ladies, some deity — devotion to the culinary ON THE BILL: Church most certainly ably needs of the congregaBasement Ladies plays at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, assisted by the likes of tion is unparalleled. Her through May 12. Tickets are Scenic Designer Amy right-hand woman, $35-$56. 5501 Arapahoe Ave. Campion, Costume Karin (Alicia Dunfee), For tickets or information, call 303-449-6000 or visit www. Designer Linda is equally able and bouldersdinnertheatre.com. Morken, Technical decidedly more affable. Director Steve Street Karin’s daughter, Signe and Director Curt (Heather Marie Doris), Wollan — must have been smiling represents the next generation of the kitchen crew. Mavis (Bren. Eyestone down from his or her puffy, white Burron) serves as handywoman, referee cloud, because the level of detail and number of little touches in this regional and court jester. Pastor Gunderson (Wayne Kennedy) mostly tries to stay premiere are nearly characters all their out the way. own. From festivals to funerals to new Snow falls fast outside the basement furnace fundraisers, these women (and windows. Dishes arrive in glass-lidded, white Corningware. The Joy of Butter man) weather it all with good humor to cookbook sits front and center on the spare. Much of the comedy — like counter. “Grace,” the famous Enstrom Mavis’ menopausal hot flashes and the photo of an old man bowing his head cultural disdain of Norwegians for in prayer over a modest meal, hangs on Swedes — is timeless. Vivian gives the rear wall of the kitchen. The voice to the age-old suspicion of the
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oe Bonamassa’s recently released concert CD, Beacon Theatre: Live From New York, isn’t advertised as a homecoming show, but in a very real sense, it was a return to his beginnings. “That’s where I’m from,” Bonamassa said in a recent phone interview. “I grew up in upstate [New York], but I used to live in New York Arnie Goodman City about seven blocks from the Beacon Theatre. The Beacon Theatre is significant because when I was a kid and had no money, I was living in New York and I was on an $11-a-day, $13-a-day budget. There was a little bodega across the street from the Beacon Theatre, where I used to buy a lottery ticket because I thought that was my only ticket out of here. And I would buy a lottery ticket, peanut butter and jelly and Ramen noodles. You go by that marquee and you’d see everybody playing there, from Steely Dan to Pat Metheny to Spyro Gyra to the Allman Brothers for 10 nights. And it’s like man, can I ever make it there? “When I was 22, 23 years old, that just seemed like insurmountable odds,” he said. At age 22, Bonamassa, now 35, was already a recording artist, two albums into his career, having released A New Day Yesterday in 2000 and So, It’s Like That, in 2002. He was also being touted in some circles as the next great blues-based guitarist, having been mentored in his early teens by the late, great guitarist Danny Gatton and having opened some 20 shows for B.B. King at age 12. He was also seven years removed from a stint in the group Bloodline, which released one album in 1995 before breaking up over musical differences. But Bonamassa at that early point in his solo career knew that reaching a level where he could play the Beacon Theatre was possible, if he put in the Boulder Weekly
work. And Bonamassa has been nothing if not a hard worker since then. He has just released another live CD/ DVD, An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House, which was recorded last summer on a rare outing in Europe with an all-star, all-acoustic backing band assembled for the tour. The Beacon and Vienna live releas-
of his depth. Fair enough.” Bonamassa stepped up to the plate at the Royal Albert Hall, and now on the Beacon DVD, he looks confident and in command of the stage — a feeling he said grew out of that 2009 concert. “In 2009, you could see I was still struggling to figure out who I was,” Bonamassa said. “But now you’re just going, this is who I am and I’m not makON THE BILL: Joe ing any apoloBonamassa plays the gies.” Bellco Theatre on Tuesday, On his studio April 23. Show at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $75. 700 releases, 14th St., Denver, 303-228Bonamassa has 8000. shown steady growth, particularly over his previous half-dozen albums. With Driving Towards Daylight, Bonamassa focuses on his blues roots and makes a confident statement about how he is carving out an identity within this seminal music genre. Bonamassa is back on tour this spring, playing in his usual mostly electric format. But fans can look for much more music from him yet this year. There will be a CD, We Want es came on the heels of the May 2012 Groove, by his funk-oriented side projrelease of his latest studio CD, Driving ect, Rock Candy Funk Party. This Towards the Daylight. That CD marked summer, he will record four shows at his 10th studio album in a dozen years four different London venues, with — to go along with three studio each show covering a different part of albums with his side group, Black his career. Assuming all goes as Country Communion, and a 2011 CD planned, they will be released as a called Don’t Explain, made with singer multi-DVD set to form a live career Beth Hart. retrospective. Then in January 2014, he There was also one other DVD, Live From Royal Albert Hall, which was plans to record his next studio album. In the midst of all of this activity, released in 2009. he has a second album with Hart on That 2009 show at the famous the way. London theater, Bonamassa said, was “It’s been a real joy to see the effect the moment when he proved himself as it’s had on her personal solo career,” a solo artist and showed he was ready Bonamassa said of Don’t Explain. “So to shine in the spotlight. we’re doing that [second album] and “Albert Hall trained me for the big then we’re recording all four shows in moment in a pretty substantial way,” London as a DVD and as a record, Bonamassa said. “My whole career was four different bands, four different set basically riding on that night. It could lists. It’s going to be crazy.” have flopped and they would have said Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com well, he’s just a blues guitar player out
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music Big Dog & the Cool Cats. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dan and Diane’s House Concert. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Decker. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Fillament. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Holly Y Los Esposos Malos. 5 p.m. 100% Mexicano Restaurant, 2850 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4141. Jim Adams — With John Stilwagen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Open Mic. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Paa Kow’s By All Means Band — With Nii Armah Sowah and the 1000 Voices. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Sage Francis — With Prolyphic, Wheelchair Sports Camp & Bullhead*ded. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Tina & Her Pony. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
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Sense & Sensibility the Musical takes a musical approach to Jane Austen’s classic novel Sense and Sensibility. It is now playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through May 26.
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Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Antje Duvekot with Kate Klim. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Araabmuzik — With special guests. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Congress — With THUNK. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Blue Man Group — Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-4682030. Through April 21. Cabaret — Presented by Ignite Theatre. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 720626-9796. Through May 5. The Color Purple — Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970. Through May 12.
The Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?) — presented by square product theatre. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 20. Dark Wood — Dangerous Theatre Company. 2620 W. 2nd Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-2334703. Through April 26. Guys and Dolls — Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Market Place Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through June 16.
Bouldering Poets. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Main Library Renovation Project Check-in. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Little Women, the Musical — University Theatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Through April 21. On Golden Pond — Arvada Festival Playhouse. 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-4224090. Through April 20. Other Desert Cities — Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through April 28. Sense & Sensibility the Musical — Presented by Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through May 26. The Shadow Box — The Edge Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, 303-232-0363. Through May 19. Tigers Be Still — Presented by Firehouse Theatre Company. John Hand Theatre, 7653 E. 1st. Pl., Denver, 303-562-3232. Through May 11. The Villain of Guy Gulch — Heritage Square Music Hall, 18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303279-7800. Through May 19.
Veteran Job Fair — Hiring event for veterans and military spouses. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Sports Authority Field at Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., Denver, https://events.recruitmilitary.com/news.
Friday, April 19 music
Eclipse — Journey tribute band. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Fever. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. The Goonies. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Harmonius Junk Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jaden Carlson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. L-Town Allstars. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Presented by CU Program Council & Cultural Events Board. 7 p.m. Balch Fieldhouse, 2055 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-7704. New Sensation. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Soul Rebels Brass Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. see EVENTS Page 36
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42nd Annual Jefferson Foundation High School Art Exhibit — Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through May 12.
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Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through June 2014. Heidi Jung: Black and White — A Jeffco Alumni Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through May 5.
American Visionaries — Works by Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon. Longmont Musuem & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 26. BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Oct. 27. Black Maps — A solo show by David Maisel. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through May 11. Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre — a solo show by Karen Kilimnik. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 23.
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Land Through the Lens. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through April 19. A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720865-5000. Through July 21.
Georgia O’Keefe, “Church Steeple,” 1930. Museum of Broken Relation-
A selection of Georgia O’Keefe’s work is on display at the Denver Art Museum through April 28.
The Denver Salon: Then and Now — Fine art photography. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-9433. Through May 31. Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist — Works on paper by the artist and his circle. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. April 6 through June 30. EcoCreations4 — Art from recycled objects. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through April 27. Exempla — by Brian Knep. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 19. Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through
ships. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 26.
National Photography Month Photo Exhibits. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 19.
A Neurotic Erotic Alphabet.The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 19. Primal Seen — Selections from the CU photography collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22. Stories, Memories + Histories. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970224-1010. Through April 27. This is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. on April 19. Through May 31. Western Road Movie — Landscape paintings by Patrick Kikut. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-4924247. Through May 19.
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events Fundraiser for Cancer — With The Duke Street Kings. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Metamorphosis. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Jazzebel. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Microbreweries for the Environment — With Juno What?! & Whitewater Ramble. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Las Seresteras featuring Julia Hays. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Saturday, April 20 music Al Chesis & Bob Pelligrino. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Little Wolf. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. New Speedway Boogie. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Astronomix & Genetics. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Susanne Abbott — With Decker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Black Mountain — With special guests. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Teresa Lynne Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
Blue Canyon Boys and Finnders & Youngberg. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
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Tyler Grant & Private Gripweed. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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Dead Set. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Cool Moves — Multicultural dance performance. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Deadphish Orchestra: A Beatle’s Tribute — Featuring
Dia del Nino — 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contempo-
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St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Metamorphosis. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Tuesday Swing Night — Featuring The Stilettos. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Wednesday, April 24
National Record Store Day — Art, music, free records and more. All day. Absolute Vinyl Records & Stereo, 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-955-1519.
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Town Hall with Sen. Rollie Heath. 10 a.m. Boulder Chamber of Commerce, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder, www. senrollieheath.com.
Sunday, April 21 music The Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Blackbird and the Storm — With Mason Reed. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390. Colorado Railroad Water Tanks — Learn about the history of water tanks for Boulder, Longmont, Lyons and Lafayette railroads. 7 p.m. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Pain & Gain — CU Program Council Advanced Screening. 9 p.m. Cristol Chemistry 140, 2000 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-7704. Recycled Runway Fashion Show. 7 p.m. Boulder
Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
The Boulder Blues Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Owen-Barton Duo. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Cassie Taylor Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
SJ — With Tynan the Great. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Little Women — CU Presents Brown Bag Preview. 12 p.m. Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8008.
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Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour — With Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Benny Green, Chris Potter, Lewish Nash & Ambrose Akinmusrie. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Cosmology & Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390. Fundraiser/Community Outreach — for The Women see EVENTS Page 37
Colin Hay: Finding My Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Daphne Willis. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Felonius Smith acoustic blues band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Giddyup Kitty — Bluegrass band. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Global Earth Day Conscious Dance Party — 8 p.m. Adi Shakti Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 916873-4856. Sharon, Grant and Rob. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Static Wicks — With Ashen Past. 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
events Metamorphosis. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wild Earth Day. 11 a.m. Boulder’s downtown Central Park, 13th St. and Arapahoe St., 720-428-0712. Wild Earth Day After Party. 3:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Monday, April 22 music Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Jovan — Open mic Jimtown style. 5:30 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Pete Kartsounes. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
events Digital Photography Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Earth Day Event. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. “So, You’re a Poet,” presents an Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Tuesday, April 23 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Concert Band & Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Foster & The Flight. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Second Set. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl
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Ecumenism in Tibet — a public panel with Ringu Tulku. 7 p.m. Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library, 1157 18th St. The Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church — by John Thavis. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-
Why Does Diversity Matter to White People? — a presentation. 11:30 a.m. Institute of Behavorial Science, Rm. 155, 1440 15th St., 303-492-0460. Friday April 19 The Book of Nice: A Nice Book About Nice Things for Nice People — by Josh Chetwynd. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Evelyn Reilly. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644
Monday, April 22 Little Known Facts — by Christine Sneed. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Ramblin’ Erik James. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644 So, You’re a Poet? — an open reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, April 23 I Promise Not to Suffer — by Gail Storey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others — by Shane Lopez. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-4361070. Weekly Open Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, April 24 The Female Buddha — by Deborah Bowman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
EVENTS from Page 37 and Gender Studies Program at CU. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
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Indigenous Sites of Boulder County — Presented by Boulder History Museum Prehistory Series. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282.
Sketchbook Studies: Exploring Nature. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Pedal East Boulder Paths. 6 p.m. Starts at Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Suite 1000, Boulder, 720565-6019.
KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, April 18 Musical Storytime with Alice & Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sneak a Peek. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Sunday, April 21 Teen Open Mic. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303441-3120.
Monday, April 22 Monday Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Tuesday, April 23 Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Storytime for Children — At the Reynolds Branch. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Spring Tea Party. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Tactile Tuesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Tuesday Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Family Dance Planet — International Dance. 9:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303641-8901. It’s a Girl Thing: Mother-Daughter Bookclub at Reynolds Branch. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303441-3120. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library
Wednesday, April 24 Earth Day Celebration. 2 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100 & Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Jackie Robinson challenged prejudices when Branch Rickey signed him to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Three-time New York City Mayor (19781989) Ed Koch was combative, funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a history of the world’s greatest city and an intimate portrait of the former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
ADMISSION Starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. Need more? Fey plays an admissions officer at Princeton. Rudd talks her into taking on that role at his school. They get happy and funny together. Rated PG. At Century, Twin and Colony Square.
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE In Tokyo, a young prostitute develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
BIDDER 70 Bidder 70 follows Tim, a University of Utah student, who on Dec. 19, 2008, in a dazzling act of civil disobedience, derailed the outgoing Bush administration’s illegal Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction. At SIE FilmCenter and Boedecker. — Denver Film Society
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BLANCANIEVES Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves and became a legend. But you’ve never heard the tale quite like this! At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres CODE OF THE WEST
Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become the first in the nation to repeal its medical marijuana law. Part of DocNight series at SIE FilmCenter, and at Boedecker. — Denver Film Society THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
The world of Jim Grant (director Robert Redford), a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in Albany, N.Y., is turned upside down when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres THE CROODS 3D A caveman family road-trips to a colorful world in this Flintstones-meets-Avatar animated kids movie. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Twin Peaks and Century. DIRTY DANCING
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances “Baby” Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer — and unexpectedly falling in love. Part of Hey Girl series at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society DISCONNECT Jason Bateman and Hope Davis team up in
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An intense new marijuana strain named “Black Forest” is taking Los Angeles by storm, and Gretel’s stoner boyfriend can’t get enough. But when the old woman growing the popular drug (Lara Flynn Boyle) turns out to be an evil witch, Gretel and her brother Hansel must save him from a gruesome death. Part of The Watching Hour at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Book of the Dead possesses and mutilates five friends trapped in a cabin in this bloody remake of the classic cult horror film. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. EYES OF LAURA MARS
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HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA A Werner Herzog documentary about the people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Set in Yokohama in 1963, this lovingly handdrawn film centers on Umi and Shun and the budding romance that develops as they join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Eight friends meet for their monthly “couples brunch.” But what starts as an impromptu therapy session/airing of domestic grievances takes a sudden, catastrophic turn when the city falls victim to a mysterious attack. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
THE GOD OF COOKERY An arrogant prick hosts a television show that mostly involves him judging culinary competitions and harshly criticizing other chefs’ dishes for not living up to his perfect standards. He is also a complete fraud who actually knows very little about cooking. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International
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JURASSIC PARK 3D What could make the velociraptor kitchen scene even more heart-stopping? 3-D, apparently! At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
LORDS OF SALEM From the mind of metal musician Rob Zombie. A DJ in Salem gets a wooden box, and after listening to some tunes she figures out that the lords of evil are making a return to this town with a troubled past. Evil, blood and death abound. Rated R. At Century. MARWENCOL In 2000, five men beat Mark Hogancamp outside a bar so severely that he nearly died. Unable to afford therapy, Mark decided to create his own. In his backyard, he built Marwencol, a one-sixth-scale World War II-era town that he populated with dolls representing his friends, family and even his attackers. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society MENTAL The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness — because if they’re not crazy then they’re just unpopular. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society NETHERLAND’S DANCE THEATER’S AN EVENING WITH CRYSTAL PITE Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience.At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater NO
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white-boy rapper, gun runner and drug peddler at war with Archie (Gucci Mane). He is the incarnation of American excess, evident in his repeated admonition to “look at all my shit!” To be in Alien’s company is to court danger, and for some of the girls, that’s relationship they waited a lifetime to find. Spring Breakers makes most sense as a visually opulent Grimm’s fairy tale, with less of a moral and more scary teeth. The girls aren’t girls so much as indistinguishable sexualized objects. Alien is not a human so much as temptation given flesh. Miami is not a destination so much as an imaginary cultural wasteland. Korine paints with neon colors, more obsessed with “the right feel” than a message. Nothing about this feels cohesive; it’s a chaotic combination of skin and sin. The girls are splendid, even if they blend to form one mega-girl. In particular, Korine’s wife, Rachel, who looks like Jennifer Lawrence and acts like Juliette Lewis, is devastatingly sincere. But this is Franco’s masterpiece. It turns out he’s neither stupid nor terrible; he’s just strange as hell and only comfortable playing completely bonkers. His inspired accent makes his disarmingly charismatic weirdo one of the classic and quotable characters in recent film. While Disney should lose his number, Korine should probably keep it. Spring Breakers is uncomfortable and awesome, confusing and beautiful. It is a Frankenstein’s monster of leftover parts of other genres, sewn together by a madman, and in its own way, sorta brilliant. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Based on Kerouac’s beloved American novel, On the Road is the story of Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, and Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. At SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres
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t’s everywhere: The local movement has found strong roots in Boulder. Boulderites think local, eat local, buy local, are local. But what about when it comes to drinking local? Well, Boulder’s got that covered too. April 21, 303 Distillery is hosting the third annual Boulder’s Best Alan Henkin of Basta Mixologist competition, where mixologists from seven restaurants will be mixing up cocktails to see who is the best in the business. Several mixologists competing this year come from restaurants where chefs create seasonal, locally-sourced menus: sanal and craft-driven and chef-driven The Kitchen, Aji, SALT, Basta and in a way,” Henkin says. “A bartender is Riffs Urban Fare, to name a few. definitely a more loose term that Boulder mixologists often compare encompasses anybody behind a bar serving food and drinks. But mixolotheir work to that of chefs. gists are really trying to learn every“There are always these really great chefs, who are like celebrities,” says thing they can about every ingredient Katelin Westfall, a mixologist who will they are putting in that drink.” compete on behalf of Aji this year. “But Henkin says that it is crucial for mixologists to get ingredients of the bartending has a lot of the same conhighest caliber, so they can make drinks cepts — you’re still creating something of the highest caliber. For Boulder mixfrom scratch, and you’re still putting ologists, finding high quality ingrediyour heart into it.” ents often means sourcing locally. Alan Henkin, owner and general Randi Curtis, Boulder’s Best manager of Basta, agrees that mixoloMixologist competition event coordinagists are a lot like chefs, but he is reluctor, agrees with Henkin and draws a tant to equate mixology with bartendstrong line between mixology and baring. tending. “Mixologists are slightly more arti-
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“The mixologists who will be in the competition try very hard to be creative with their cocktails,” Curtis says. “They pour fresh ingredients and use local ingredients from here in Boulder. They use a lot of herbs from local farms, and that’s some of the difference as opposed to just pouring a vodka-soda.” The “market section” of Basta’s cocktail list changes just about every month, and that’s where the East Boulder Italian eatery’s Basta’s locallysourced ingredients can be found, according to
Henkin. “We go to the back-of-house chefs all the time, and we say, ‘What kind of fruits and vegetables are coming in this season that you’re really excited about?’” Henkin says. “They’ll give us some options, and the bar team takes that ingredient and uses it as inspiration for the next market cocktail. Local plays a huge part in it.” Conor McDermott, who will be representing SALT at the competition this year, says that surviving the Boulder bar scene isn’t just about sourcing locally. It’s also about knowing what’s in season. “You better really wrap your head
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Three hundred Denver and Boulder-area restaurants will participate in the “Dining Out for Life” fundraiser Thursday, April 25. Participating restaurants will donate 25 percent of the day’s food sales to Project Angel Heart, a food delivery service for Coloradans suffering from disease. Each week, Project Angel Heart delivers free meals to over 800 Colorado residents suffering from life-threatening diseases like HIV. Started in 1991 with a single pan of donated lasagna, the organization delivered over 445,581 free meals to 1,950 people in 2012. More than 8,800 volunteers donated their time last year to help prepare and deliver the meals. Find a list of participating restaurants for breakfast, lunch or dinner at www.projectangelheart.org.
CORK RESTAURANT TO HOST WINE TASTING DINNER
A wine tasting dinner featuring California winery Ridge Vineyards will be held at 6 p.m. April 23 at the Boulder Cork. Ridge Vineyards is cohosting the event with the steakhouse. see TIDBITES Page 48
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outh Boulder’s Southern Sun, dish a potent kick. cousin to downtown’s Mountain To draw a cinematic parallel, where the Sun, has been a local’s destination classic white wine mariniere preparation might for beers, burgers and other be the suave equivalent of Cary Grant, Under relaxed fare. Now, another related the Sun’s aggressive preparation is pure Lee eatery, Under the Sun, has recently opened Marvin. Regardless of your taste in retro male beneath this landmark getaway. This new venue leads, Mara pointed out that this selection, creates more of a fully realized dining, rather coupled with accompanying bread dunked in than a pub, experience. the peppy broth, is an ideal light supper. The bustling atmosphere and casual neighFrom the flatbread selection, Mara chose a borhood hangout feel carry over from its $7.95 caprese mushroom number. This choice upstairs sibling. The most apparent difference is came topped with earthy duxelles, or chopped in the menu, which has a more sophistisautéed fungi, roast tomato, balsamic cated touch. It’s certainly possible to vinegar, arugula and both mozzarella enjoy a sandwich and small-batch brews and ricotta. Hot, thin, crust split the difin the tradition of this eatery’s sister resference between cracker and bread, and taurants, but that’s only part of the pichad an endearingly irregular rustic ture. One can sample a variety of woodappearance. My first bite of an edge fired flatbreads, like the happy hour spepiece tasted unbalanced, but once I samcial topped with arugula pesto, organic pled a section that had a more even disthe 1700s, some 200,000 Scotch-Irish hile Scottish chefs get a bad rap heirloom tomatoes and mozzarella. tribution of cheese, the flavors truly immigrants came to the original 13 for haggis, they probably don’t Entrees going a step beyond mere bar melded and came alive. colonies, with many settling in such get their due for their pivotal role in fare include wood-roasted chicken and Never one to turn down a dish of introducing fried chicken to the United Southern locales as the Carolinas. They lamb short ribs. fried chicken, I couldn’t resist the States. Early references to fried chicken brought fried chicken with them, and include a 1773 meal where man of let- the easy availability of lard from one’s Arriving at 5 p.m. for an early $10.95 three-piece offering. Arriving own barnyard for frying helped move ters Doctor Johnson and his biograSaturday dinner, friend Mara and I piping hot, crisply breaded and wonderthis dish to the forefront. pher Boswell enjoyed fried pullet. In noted the space was already starting to fully moist inside, perhaps due to brinfill up. Another benefit of a late aftering, this was a true Southern-style noon arrival is that we were able to enjoy charmer. Sides of chard and sweet a pair of bargain-priced happy hour glazed carrots rounded out the homesnacks. texture of these spherical sprouts. spun savor of this dish. First up was an addictive bowl of $3.95 fried Our other shared starter was a skillet of $4.95 Under the Sun is a more than worthy addition to Brussels sprouts, breaded in a delicate Annapurna wood-roasted mussels seasoned with the usual susthis solar family of eateries. It retains the comfortable Amber beer coating. These diminutive cruciferous pects of white wine and tomato. There was a touch of trappings and uniformly amiable service of its older relaveggies were correctly crisp and tender, with just the inconsistency regarding the flavor and texture of the tives, while upping the ante on the menu. What makes right crunch quotient on the batter. While a condishellfish itself, but these bivalves left a generally favor- this accomplishment even more remarkable is that the ment of subtle lemon aioli came on the side, it was able impression. More unexpected additions included prices are only marginally more than its antecedents. nearly rendered superfluous by the balanced taste and cilantro and spicy chorizo sausage, which gave this Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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around what’s new and what’s fresh and about going “local.” what’s in season,” McDermott says, “or “This competition is for the comelse you won’t be working in this town munity,” she says. very long.” In fact, it’s the community who will Recently, Basta has taken a more determine the fate of the competition. seasonal approach to its menu and has Attendees get to vote for their favorite really been focusing on grapefruit, cocktail, and the mixologist with the Henkin says. He anticipates the winter most votes wins. fruit playing a role in “The people who Boulder’s upcoming mixattend this event are the ON THE BILL: ology competition. ones who go in and supBoulder’s Best Mixologist competi“Right now, grapeport the mixologists at tion takes place at 4 fruit is one of the best their restaurants every p.m. Sunday, April 21 winter fruits,” Henkin week,” Curtis says. “This at the 303 Vodka Distillery, 2500 47th St., says. “And think about event is a great way for Boulder. Proceeds how great of a mixer people to meet the mixolobenefit There With grapefruit can be with gists, when they have time Care, a nonprofit for families and children cocktails. I definitely to talk about what they’re facing critical illness. think that’ll be popular.” doing — when they aren’t Participants include McDermott says he behind a busy bar.” Aji, Basta, The Corner Bar, Riffs Urban Fare, plans on using strawberMcDermott, however, SALT, The Kitchen and ries in the competition says that he wants the Q’s. because they are just competition to feel like starting to come into he is behind the bar. He season. Katelin Westfall, one of Aji’s doesn’t want to “pre-batch” his drinks, two competing mixologists, was relucas Curtis requested. tant to divulge too much of their ingre“The way I’m thinking about it, I dient list. But she did say that they want it to be like I’m behind the bar,” would at the very least be seasonal. McDermott says. “I want people to see Every participant must use 303 how the drink comes together.” Vodka, distilled in Boulder, as a base for Curtis says she wanted to create this their cocktails. Everything that goes event because she thinks people in into making the vodka comes from Boulder want to stay close to the comColorado, says Curtis. munity, and they want to support local businesses. “The water is from Indian Peaks,” “That’s what’s so nice about being Curtis says. “And the potatoes are from in Boulder,” Curtis says. “Everybody the San Luis Valley. And even the calls it the bubble, but it’s a really nice owner — well, he went to Fairview bubble to live in.” High School.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com For Curtis, creating this event was Boulder Weekly
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uch is made of Boulder County, and particularly the city, being different from the rest of the country. I can’t speak to that as a whole, but I can say it’s pretty different from my hometown in Northeast Ohio. And nowhere was that more apparent than Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place. Back in gravy country, if your menu has three sections, that third one had Elizabeth Miller better be dessert. Actually, scratch that — that third one is going to be dessert. At Shine, the third section after Food and Wine, Beer & Martinis is the distinctly Boulder-ish Potions & Elixirs. Shine’s potions — described on the menu as containing “a magical tincture” — span various flavors, contain piles of ingredients and, according to the menu, provide many benefits, including increased focus, greater libido and stress relief. I try not to be a judgmental person. But I confess my first thought is, this is a cross between that free-range chicken sketch in Portlandia and Harry Potter. So naturally the staff ordered a couple. I can’t say we felt any different, but we passed the small “Permission Sips” around, so maybe the effects were diffused. The menu does note, “Perhaps the success of our Shine Potions will ultimately boil down to the one drinking them and whether or not they actually believe in magic.” Taste-wise, the Upside Down Fu was actually pretty good: cinnamon, spice and eggnog. One of the elixirs, with a name unfortunately lost to history and a taste a little like root beer, wasn’t as appealing to most of us. Offering potions and elixirs isn’t the only way Shine is a very Boulder spot. Colored-glass insets in a wall represent the seven chakras. Shine’s near-nightly Boulder Weekly
events, like poetry readings and community outreach mixers, lean toward the holistic, highbrow and otherwise hippie — a term we don’t consider an insult. But even in Boulder, Shine is a bit of an outlier. Breweries here, and especially brewpubs, typically style themselves after German beer halls or sports bars, and bacon cheeseburgers are a lot more common than the “probiotic, fermented slaw plate” on Shine’s happy hour menu. Shine’s beer menu, meanwhile, is heavy on hoppy selections. Trilogy IPA, named after the former 13th Street restaurant previously owned by Shine’s owners, is joined by an IPA collaboration with FATE. Then there’s the Shine Pale Ale, one of the hoppiest pales we’ve had, and an imperial red that’s full-bodied and sharp. Even the stout, Sanitas, is imperial, making it relatively hoppy and surprisingly light. One of Shine’s strongest offerings is the strong ale, a malty beer with banana and citrus notes. And Shine’s got people with celiac disease covered, too, with its Liberation gluten-free ale. It’s missing a certain something — well, a certain protein, first of all — but it’s drinkable and compares well with gluten-free specialists New Planet, Elizabeth’s friend Ben says. It’s not likely that many patrons are heading to Shine for the beer experience. They’re there for the food and, as the name says, for the community. Grabbing a few hopped-up brews is just an added benefit — and, in its own right, a very Boulder thing to do. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Next stops: Twisted Pine, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 4 p.m. April 18; Upslope, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Boulder, 4 p.m. April 25. Members of the public are welcome.
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Five Spice
3325 28th St., Unit 5, Boulder 720-565-0707 or th Boulder’s Five Spice, like most decent Chinese restaurants, is a pleasantly unfussy place with straightforward service and reasonable prices. It also differs from similar places in that it offers a far-reaching range of Asian dishes, including Japanese tempura, Vietnamese rice noodle bowls and Thai curries. Asian pastas are a strong suit, par ticularly the flavorful drunken noodles and the delightfully crunchy Hong Kong-style pan-fried noodles.
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1310 College Ave., #210 Boulder 303-449-5897 espite its name, University Hill’s Goody Monster isn’t staffed by furry blue puppets. Instead, it dishes out ice cream and other desserts, as well as first-rate homestyle Korean cooking. Don’t miss the sublime special soon do bu, a main course soup of silken tofu and seafood in a red pepper-scented broth. The boneless beef bulgogi seasoned with garlic and soy is classic stick-to-your-ribs fare.
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1932 14th St. Boulder 720-406-7548 oulder’s Tee & Cakes is a petite-yet-inviting downtown spot featuring a range of appealing baked goods. These include special occasion (including glutenfree) cakes, cakepops, macarons and other pastries, both sweet and savory. Cheddar biscuits are a Thursday special, and these slightly tangy treats are a perfect small meal, while cupcakes such as a salted bourbon caramel creation should satisfy any sweet tooth.
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3601 Arapahoe Ave. Suite D-181 (inside the Peloton) Boulder 303-544-9000 iving up to its tagline of offering “farm-fresh foods,” the Poppy Cafe boasts a rustic gourmet sensibility within the urban confines of the Peloton residential complex. Weekend brunch provides a fine introduction to this spot, and offerings range from simple eggs and soy sausage to creative entree options. These include the hearty country lamb hash, scented with rosemary, and a wonderfully satisfying crab cake Benedict.
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4700 Pearl St., Boulder 303-447-1833 on’t expect anything too fancy at the Parkway Cafe, a classic American diner nestled among light industrial businesses off East Pearl Street. Serving up classic breakfast and lunch fare, this unpretentious eatery spotlights friendly service and expertly prepared staples like Denver omelets and not-too-spicy green chile burgers. Other dishes worth checking out include the breakfast burritos and Friday New England clam chowder.
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3325 28th St., #1 Boulder 303-247-9000 rawing heavily on Philly influences, D’Angelo’s Italian Deli serves reasonably priced and topnotch East Coast sandwiches. Grandma Dot’s Meatball Parmigiana combines homemade meatballs and a satisfying marinara to create what might be the best example of this sandwich in town. Vegetarians can enjoy salads as well as a meatless version of the meatball sub.
1335 Broadway, Boulder 303-442-RIBS he Rib House, formerly located in downtown Boulder, has relocated to University Hill, bringing with it loads of classic American barbecue meats perfumed with wood smoke. The hickory-scented offerings include the achingly tender baby back ribs, hauntingly smoky brisket and sides ranging from traditional cole slaw to mac and cheese wedges. Top these off with the house barbecue sauces, such as the sweet and subtly peppery XXX hot version, and you’ll have yourself a classic smokehouse experience.
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1085 South Public Road Lafayette 303-665-0666 ike many Vietnamese restaurants featuring this nation’s signature soup in its name, Lafayette’s Pho Cafe offers other dishes, such as rice and noodle plates as well as Thai-inflected entrees. But people ignore the namesake beef noodle soup at their peril, as this cafe’s version spotlights an expertly prepared pho with appealingly fresh garnishes like jalapeño, basil and lime.
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3601 Arapahoe Ave. (inside the Peloton), Boulder 303-997-8775 izzeria Basta recently changed its name to Basta — not necessarily a bad thing, as this eatery also dishes out exceptional contemporary fare in addition to its signature pies. Chef Kelly Whitaker makes the most of the restaurant’s impressive wood-fired oven and time-consuming sous vide slow-cooking techniques to turn out distinctive preparations. These include wood-fired vegetable salads and Niman Ranch chuck flap beef sided with smoked potato.
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The writer Oliver Burkeman has some advice that would be helpful for you Aries folks to hear right now: “When you assume your current preferences won’t alter, you’ll make bad decisions: embarking on a career or marriage, say, not with a view to its durability, but solely based on how it makes you feel now.” I am most definitely not predicting that you are about to make the kind of bad decision Burkeman refers to. I’m sure my warning here in this horoscope will derail any temptation you might have to make shortsighted moves.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20:
I’m happy to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now. Of course you won’t be able to use it, let alone tune in to it, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as help from the invisible world. So if you are the type of person who is very sure that reality consists of nothing more than what your senses reveal, I suggest that you temporarily suspend that belief. And if you are someone who has had direct experiences with blessings that come from the unseen realm, be aware that the imminent delivery is quite different from those you have known in the past.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
In her book A Monster’s Notes, Laurie Sheck describes the nuances of the term “ghost” in the German language. A mediocre wine may be called unghostly, she says. A witty, lively person is “Rich in Ghostliness,” whereas a dull, blank type “has no ghost in him.” In this spirit, Gemini, I suspect you will have some pretty fine ghostliness working for you in the coming weeks. And there’s a good chance that part of your extra-special mojo will arise from your creative engagement with energies that resemble the more traditional definition of “ghost.”
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
A one-minute video commercial for The Cosmopolitan luxury resort in Las Vegas shows an elegant woman at a sumptuous feast. She’s eagerly holding her dinner plate up to her face so she can lick it clean of its last delicious taste. The scene shifts to a well-dressed man who’s down on all fours serving as a chair for a chic woman. She applies her make-up while gazing into the shiny mirror-like surface of a high-heeled shoe. New scene: An 80-year-old woman pats the butt of a handsome young stud with whom she’s slowdancing. At the end of the ad, a catchphrase appears: “Just the right amount of wrong.” I say, let that be your mantra in the coming week, Cancerian.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1916. It had radical implications for the field of theoretical physics, but remained an unproven concept until 1919. Then a British physicist verified its accuracy with evidence gathered during a solar eclipse. The Times newspaper in London announced the event with the headline “Revolution in Science: New Theory of the Universe, Newtonian Theories Overthrown.” Not wanting to be left behind, The New York Times assigned one of its own journalists to cover the revolution. Unfortunately, the person they sent was a sports reporter whose specialty was golf. His article was less than illuminating. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Leo: When big developments are underway, show up at full strength, with all your powers engaged.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
“Never to get lost is not to live,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost. In fact, she says that not knowing how to get lost is unhealthy. These are useful ideas to consider right now, Virgo. It will probably do you good to get at least semi-lost. As you wander around without a map or compass, I bet you will stumble upon important teachings. At the same time, I hope you will put some thought into how you’re going to get lost. Don’t just leave it to chance. Make sure there’s a method in your madness.
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LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
In the English language, “low man on the totem pole” is an idiom that refers to a person who has the worst job or the least status. He or she is considered to be at the low end of the hierarchy. But it’s an incorrect metaphor. The creators of the original totem poles were indigenous Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and for them the figure at the bottom of the pole was the most important one. I foresee the possibility of a similar situation arising in your sphere, Libra. Be alert for a misapprehension that needs to be righted. It may be the case that what’s last should actually be first. Something that has been beneath or behind “more important” matters should perhaps get higher priority.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
In his book Karmic Traces, Eliot Weinberger describes the life story of naked mole rats. They’re animals that never leave their underground tunnels. Normally you Scorpios have nothing in common with them. But in the coming days, I’m hoping there will be one resemblance. According to Weinberger, the naked mole rats “change direction by somersaulting.” Metaphorically speaking, I think this would be an excellent strategy for you. There’s no need to mope cautiously as you alter your course. No need to be lackadaisical and fitful and full of doubts. Just spring into action with a cheery bounce, and move on with a renewed sense of purpose.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
The famous philosopher John Searle unleashed a witty dig about the famous philosopher Jacques Derrida, saying he is “the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name.” One of your fun assignments in the coming week, Sagittarius, is to do the opposite of what Derrida’s work does. In other words, give bullshit a good name. How? Well, you could engage in creative verbal expressions that boost morale and propagate delight and lubricate worthwhile connections. Make up noble fictions that are more accurate and useful than the literal truth. Spread uplifting gossip that heals and invigorates.
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“The ideal piano player is the one who wants to be the piano,” says a character in Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser. He continues: “I say to myself every day when I wake up, I want to be the Steinway, I want to be the Steinway itself.” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to apply this attitude to your own personal situation. In other words, merge with the tool you want to master. Immerse yourself in the skill you’re working to perfect — disappear into it. In your imagination, become completely united with the thing or person or experience you desire.
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
“The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination,” said writer Louis Kronenberger. I’m concerned that you may have fallen under the sway of this kind of myopia, Aquarius. A steady stream of useful tips and clues has been appearing, but you’re missing some of them. Your long-range goals aren’t sufficiently clear, so you don’t always recognize the significance of new revelations. Here’s the cure: In your imagination, create a vivid picture of your next big destination.
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage Dear Dan: I am uncircumcised, and the opening at the end of my foreskin is not large enough for the head of my penis to pass through. This means my foreskin doesn’t pull back when I get an erection. The Internet says this is a condition called “phimosis,” and a lot of medical websites recommend circumcision. I’m not super-excited by that idea. I don’t have any pain or difficulty with sex or urination, and I’ve never had any health problems related to being uncircumcised. The foreskin isn’t stuck or fused to the glans — the hole is just small. Is there a safe, nonsurgical way to enlarge the opening in the foreskin? —Dick Hole Panic Dear DHP: “Tell Dick Hole Panic not to panic,” said Stephen H. King, MD, a urologist in Washington state and my new go-to guy for all questions dick. “Phimosis occurs in an uncircumcised penis when a circular ring of the foreskin becomes scarred, often from prior infection, inflammation, or trauma. This scar prevents the normally elastic tissue of the foreskin from fully retracting to expose the head of the penis.” Roughly one in 100 men have phimosis, said Dr. King, “and depending on the degree of narrowing, complications of phimosis can vary widely. These can
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include difficulty with cleaning/hygiene, infection, pain with erection, bleeding from skin cracking, and paraphimosis.” Paraphimosis sounds like something you want to avoid: “It occurs when a narrow foreskin is pulled back to expose the head of the penis but then can’t be pulled back over the head, which then constricts blood flow to the glans,” said Dr. King. Paraphimosis can cut off blood flow to the head of the penis, which can cause the head of your cock to become gangrenous and die, which is why anyone suffering from it should head to an emergency room immediately. Here’s something else to worry about: “Although extremely rare, penile cancer can arise, usually in older patients with recurrent infections/inflammation.” You’re probably panicking now, DHP — hell, hearing about paraphimosis has me panicking, and I’m circumcised. But the doctor said your case doesn’t sound serious: You aren’t experiencing any pain, your dick seems to work fine, you haven’t suffered from a series of infections. You don’t need to do anything about your phimosis for now, said Dr. King, but if you’re worried about complications arising in the future, or if you want your sex partners
Love to see the head of your dick someday, there are nonsurgical remedies. “‘Preputial gymnastics’ is one way to resolve phimosis,” said Dr. King. “It sounds like an Olympic event, but it involves gently pulling the foreskin back to expose the tip of the glans to the point where the ring of scar is exposed.” In other words, pull your foreskin back until you can’t pull it back anymore, and you’ll be looking at the scar tissue. “Hold this position for one minute and repeat three to four times a day,” Dr. King continued. “In combination with topical application of a steroid cream twice daily, typically betamethasone 0.05 percent (needs a prescription), more than 90 percent of cases will dramatically improve or resolve within four to six weeks.” And if you’re one of the 10 percent of phimosis sufferers whose case doesn’t improve through preputial gymnastics? “Then he should break out the Manischewitz for his impending bris,” said Dr. King. Dear Dan: I have rarely ever been able to have an orgasm during intercourse. The few times it happened, I was stimulating my clit. But I think my body is used to clitoral orgasms without a penis thrusting inside
my vagina. Recently, I started mixing pot and sex. I’ve been a pot smoker for years but never thought to have sex on pot before. It has always been just a social thing with friends. It is incredible! Marijuana relaxes my body and heightens my senses so that when my BF and I have sex, I come! And come and come — and I squirt, which I have never done before! When we have sex without smoking, the sex is still great, but I don’t orgasm like I do when I’m high. I feel like I need weed to orgasm the way I want to. Before I dated my BF, I smoked pot only once a month or so. Now I’m doing it once a week at least. My sex life is finally amazing and fulfilling. Three questions: (1) Does this sound like a huge problem? (2) Should I be worried? (3) What do you suggest? —Blazing Orgasms Newly Gained Dear BONG: 1. It does sound like a problem — a problem that’s been solved. 2. Not if you live in Colorado or Washington state, BONG, where voters legalized pot use in last November’s election. 3. A vaporizer. Send your questions to mail@savagelove.net, and follow Dan on Twitter @ fakedansavage Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BEAUFORT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2012-CP-07-4036
South Carolina State Housing Finance and Development Authority, Plaintiff, v. Amber Borcherdt and First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., Defendants. SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Answer and Crossclaim of the Defendant, First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc. (“First Citizens”) in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Reply to the said Crossclaim on the Defendant, First Citizens’ attorney, Scott B. Umstead, 4226 Mayfair Street, Suite 100, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 29577, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to reply to the Crossclaim within the time aforesaid, First Citizens will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Crossclaim. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/ OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Mortgagee immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application
for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Crossclaim upon you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of South Carolina Code §29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the mortgage identified in the Crossclaim is hereby perfected and First Citizens hereby gives further notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery of the same to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default forward. In the alternative, First Citizens will move a Judge of this Circuit Court on the tenth (10th) day after service hereof, or as soon as counsel for First Citizens may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and/or profits, if any, compelling payments of all such funds covered by the mortgage and/ or by status and/or by common law directly to the undersigned attorney for First Citizens, which Motion is based upon the original Note and Mortgage identified in the Crossclaim therein and attached hereto as well as any applicable laws, statutes or regulations. SCOTT B. UMSTEAD, P.A. /s/Scott B. Umstead 4226 Mayfair Street, Suite 100, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Ph: 843-913-4610 Attorney for Defendant, First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc. April 5, 2013 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina NOTICE OF PUBLICATION TAKE NOTICE that a Summons to Crossclaim, Notice Required by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Amended Answer and Crossclaim of Defendant, First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc. and Corporate Verification have been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Beaufort County in Civil Action Number 2012-CP07-4036.
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