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News on newspapers not a surprise

Thanks for Joel Dyer’s great article on the future of Digital First Media’s newspaper holdings [Re: “What’s Next?: Analysts predict Digital First Media is preparing to sell its newspapers. What this could mean for Boulder County and beyond,” Cover Story, April 10]. I had not realized that the Denver Post was owned by a hedge fund

but that fact alone explains some things. I parted ways with the Denver Post a number of years back when they laid off Mike Littwin, a holdover from the Rocky Mountain News. I should probably say that I tried to part ways, but the Denver Post decided that they had not had enough of me. Instead of the cancelled newspaper, every Sunday brought a fresh batch of advertising supplements delivered to my driveway, probably in a

bid to hold onto advertising revenue. Although I requested their cancellation on a number of occasions, the unwanted litter kept arriving. Sadly, I’ve considered subscribing to the Post again just so I could put the Sunday advertisements on vacation hold. I miss local news and hope for an outcome which improves the situa-

Republican Gov. Rick Scott and his party’s legislative henchmen officially rammed voter suppression into law, targeting Latino, African-American, student, elderly, and other likely-Democratic voters. From purging such people from voting rolls to making them use broken down voting machines, voters in Democratic-leaning precincts faced procedural chaos and up to sixhour-waits — deterring at least 200,000 Floridians from casting their ballots. But now comes an added discouragement in Miami, where a ruling by a Democratic election official will literally leave voters p.o.’d. Advocates for people with disabilities had asked whether restrooms in Miami-area polling places would be accessible to voters in wheelchairs or having other physical needs. They expected to get “yes” for an answer, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, but instead they

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Highroad Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections by Jim Hightower

t’s our civic duty to vote, right? Well that depends on who you are. The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don’t want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their civic right. In 2012, Florida’s highest officials disgraced their offices by engaging in this thuggish electoral thievery.

got this jaw-dropping shocker: “In order to ensure that individuals with disabilities are not treated unfairly, the use of restrooms by the voters is not allowed on Election Day.” Yes, in a perverted twist of logic, “fairness” to people with special needs will be assured by treating everyone unfairly. Thus, the political right to vote will be trumped by the biological need to pee — especially if they wait in line for six hours! It seems to me that what Florida needs is a couple of good kindergarten teachers to take over their election system — and just keep it simple. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 24, 2014 7

commentary The lessons of Ludlow by Dave Anderson

n 1914, you couldn’t be neutral about the Colorado coal miners strike. Muckraker Upton Sinclair said the Denver newspapers were prostitutes of Big Coal. The Denver Chamber of Commerce advocated a boycott of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Times for pro-worker bias. Boulder Daily Camera publisher L.C. Paddock raged against Denver papers and published a pro-management special section of his paper on the strike, which he distributed throughout the state to 40 dailies and 80 weeklies. Beginning in February, a U.S. congressional committee held hearings to investigate the wretched living and working conditions in the Colorado coal fields. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was compelled to testify and he claimed the strikers were merely outside agitators and that his employees were happy and satisfied. For many months, private detectives hired by the coal companies conducted a reign of terror against the strikers which featured beatings, simulated executions, torture (including waterboarding) and random shootings. There was a lawless environment in southern Colorado with corrupt local officials where scores of people were jailed without charge or warrant and homes searched and private property confiscated without warrant or probable cause. Then on April 20, a strikers’ tent colony at Ludlow was attacked with machineguns. About 1,200 men, women and children were living there. The tents were torched and looted. Many strikers were killed as well as two women and 11 children. William Chenery of the Rocky Mountain News wrote an emotional editorial on April 22: “The horror of the shambles at Ludlow is overwhelming. Not since the days when pitiless red men wrecked vengeance upon intruding frontiersmen and upon their women and children has this Western country been stained with so foul a deed.” This was the time of the Mexican Revolution. Chenery said “Mexico offers no barbarity so base as that of the murder of defenseless women and children by the mine guards in soldiers clothing.” The mine guards were “the gunmen of the great cities, the off-scourings of humanity... hardly human in intelligence, and not as high on the scale of human kindness as domestic animals.” He said, “Machine guns did the mur8 April 24, 2014

der. The machine guns were in the hands of the mine guards, most of whom were also members of the militia. It was a private war, with the wealth of the richest man in the world behind the mine guards.” After the massacre, rumors of mass strikers’ graves and a “war of extermination” against workers were in the air. Miners rallied to a “Call to Arms” issued by the United Mine Workers: “Organize the men in your community in companies of volunteers to protect the workers of Colorado against the murder and cremation of men, women and children by armed assassins in the employ of the coal corporations, serving under the guise of state militiamen.” For 10 days, there was a coordinated, efficient but ferocious military assault on the state militia, strikebreakers and mine properties by over a thousand strikers on a 225-mile front. The fighting reached Boulder County on April 27. A gunfight broke out between guards at the Hecla mine in Louisville (located today near the King Soopers on South Boulder Road) and strikers living nearby. Thousands of shots were exchanged over many hours but there was only one death. The war finally ended when President Woodrow Wilson sent in federal troops. The miners were defeated and the Rockefellers devised a corporate P.R. spin campaign to clean up their image. In 1915, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. visited the mines, ate meals with miners and danced with miners’ wives. He promoted his tightly controlled company union where workers could air their grievances. He visited Boulder (an anti-union town) and dined with the University of Colorado president and several Boulder businessmen. Life improved somewhat for the miners but in 1927 they went on strike over grievances similar to those in the 1913-14 strike. This strike ended with another massacre of workers at a mine near Lafayette. It wasn’t until FDR’s New Deal that unions became legal. Industrial disputes became more civil and workers were included in a liberal coalition. That’s the crucial lesson of Ludlow. Workers can only win if we are militant, use collective action — and elect a friendly government. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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tion. However, the worst thing for me in a sale of the local press would be if I could no longer get the Wall Street Journal (with its real news) delivered to my home. After all, it comes to me by way of the one thing that The Denver Post still does well, and that is to deliver newspapers! Jeff Lewis/Westminster

Sheriff candidate preaches new policies on 4/20 for CU

In this third year of CU’s efforts to suppress the 420 celebration [Re: “The cost of tilting at the 4/20 windmill,” Cover Story, April 17], one point of view is that this is a misuse of funds and police authority to quash actions which are this year purely a matter of self-expression. From University official’s perspective they are addressing the possibility of reckless and disruptive behavior, which is not uncommon with large college celebrations. By a coincidence of the calendar, several other large celebratory gatherings are happening on the same day, at events that are almost guaranteed to be sober, joyous, and non-disruptive. And here religion helps remind us how through proper application of ceremony it is possible to hold large social gatherings and send everyone home with a renewed sense of civic responsibility. I see an overlooked opportunity, one where social obligations and personal liberties are conceded by all parties. Representatives of the justice system, the university, and religion gather to bless and caution the ceremony. Having acknowledged our social obligations, we

then exercise our personal liberties, and enjoy the moment in confidence mutual agreement confers. If I am elected as Boulder County Sheriff in November 2014, I will seek to address matters of public safety without the use of punishment, and strongly resist the efforts of unelected officials to restrict the freedom and movement of County residents. Toby Fernsler, sheriffoflove.org/ Boulder

Bullying in Colorado

A shooting caused by bullying in a state with no official laws regulating bullying. In 2010 John Cloud wrote in Time Magazine, “At least 42 states have passed laws against bullying.” Colorado is not one of the 42 states that have passed laws against bullying. In December of 2013 a tragedy struck the halls of Arapaho High School when a young boy opened fire at his school. The boy was bullied so hard that he felt it was necessary to bring a gun to school and open fire on his peers. This left the state of Colorado in a shock. Maybe it’s time Colorado caught up with the other 42 states that have already passed anti bullying laws. Clearly Colorado agrees with me because on March 7th 2014 the House approved an anti cyberbullying law in Colorado. The Colorado Springs Gazette, “The bill would make it a misdemeanor to inflict ‘serious emotional distress on a minor’ through cyberbullying.” The bill must go through the Senate first but see LETTERS Page 11

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COLORADO 12TH IN THE NATION FOR INCREASING STUDENT DEBT In what is sure to be unsurprising news to our readers currently in college, a new report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association places Colorado 12th in the nation for rising student debt burden. The Centennial State spent 32 percent less per student in 2013 than in 2008 — and we’re not alone. Only three states — North Dakota, Illinois and Wyoming — made increases to their spending per student in the five-year period between reports. For the most part, tuition increases helped colleges offset the cuts, with nationwide out-of-pocket costs for tuition and fees going up by 29 percent since 2008. The University of Colorado Board of Regents recently approved a 3.3 percent tuition hike for the 2014-15 academic year, the smallest increase since 2006-07 (however, CU students across the system bore the weight of a 27.8 percent hike the previous academic year). In the past decade, the CU system has increased tuition by an average of 10 percent each academic year. TWITTER BUYS GNIP Microblogging site Twitter purchased Boulder-based social media data company Gnip, Inc. this month. Gnip offers its clients data from dozens of social media websites including Facebook, Google+, Instagram and flickr, all of which can provide valuable data about market trends and public opinion about products and services. We’re not sure about you, but we have a sudden desire to pour through our past tweets to see what kind of picture we’d paint of ourselves… Twitter went public last last year on the New York Stock Exchange, but even with a net worth of more than $18 billion (revenue from advertising sales), the social media site has been searching for a way to turn a consistent profit. Gnip, which spelled backwards is “ping,” might just be the answer, Twitter hopes. Twitter has confirmed that the deal will lead to the social media giant’s first official presence in Colorado. BOULDER CRACKS CODE FOR HUMOR, BUT NOT TOP 50 We’re not exactly sure why the city of Boulder didn’t crack the list of the top 50 funniest cities and why Tulsa, Oklahoma, for instance, did. Maybe Boulder’s periodic episodes of dourness and occasional tendency to rain on parades led University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of marketing and psychology Peter McGraw to head up his investigation of what makes us laugh. Using an algorithm at his Humor Research Lab, McGraw and his crack team claim to have found the funniest cities in America. Topping the list were Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Portland. Denver came in at No. 8, just after New York and Los Angeles. And, it turns out, senses of humor vary from place to place. “We found humor often has a local flavor,” said McGraw in a CU press release. “The jokes that get laughs at comedy clubs in Denver seem unlikely to fly with a cartoon editor at The New Yorker, for example. The kind of torturous game shows that some Japanese find amusing would likely fall flat to a sitcom producer in Los Angeles.” McGraw has lately been making rounds for his book, a collaboration with former Boulder Weekly journo Joel Warner: The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny. ROBOTS GO TO WORK ON FLOOD The city of Boulder’s Public Works Department employed a robot to assess how much damage last year’s flooding caused to infrastructure and how to make any repairs. The robot possess all the capabilities of a river dolphin armed with a waterproof camera: “It just floats down and there is a sonar out front that is basically taking instantaneous readings of what’s below the water surface elevation and then the camera is taking a picture of what’s above,” Public Works spokesman Douglas Sullivan told CBS4 News. The city hired Red Zone Robotics for $175,000 to explore six miles of sewer pipes and to assess how much flooding took place underground. Boulder Weekly

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passing this bill will take huge strides in the never-ending war against bullying and would mean Colorado is finally doing something about it. Elisabeth Opdyke/Boulder

Throw the bums out!

Recently, Stone Brewing Company, of Escondido, CA, threatened Kettle and Stone Brewing, Gunbarrel-based craft brewers, with a cease-and-desist order over the use of the noun “stone.” Our local guys capitulated with a name change (pending), not wanting to risk their hard work, endanger their dream. While it seems absurd that a company can trademark the very material we all stand on, I’m not naïve about capitalism and its intellectual property practices. However, why does the number ten largest craft brewer have to beat down a startup? What happened to the camaraderie, cooperation and collaboration that seem to pervade the Front Range craft brewing industry? Maybe Stone Brewing has forgotten its roots in favor of protecting their identity and market share. Stone Brewing should rest assured there is no way I will confuse their beers with anything I would drink. Fellow Colorado beer aficionados, when you see a Stone product on tap, maybe you could ask the establishment to switch that tap to a local beer. Let’s throw the bums out and pour a Freedom Stout! Robert Carrier/Boulder

State house bill on vaccines a step toward a safer community

The Colorado House of Representatives passed House Bill 13-1288 last week [March 24-28] that would require parents who opt out of vaccinating their children due to personal beliefs to complete an online module or obtain information from their medical providers about the risks and benefits of vaccines. We believe this bill would help to protect our community. Widespread vaccination has been successful in decreasing some of the most common childhood diseases. However, we are beginning to see a reverse in this trend. Measles has reappeared in New York, Ohio, and most recently in California, where 20 cases have been reported due to under-vaccinated or unvaccinated children. Refusing to vaccinate has significant consequences for the entire community. Maintaining high levels of immunizaBoulder Weekly

tion within the community protects individuals who are immunized as well as those who are not. When community-level immunity decreases — like when a large number of parents claim personal belief exemptions — it puts those who can’t be vaccinated at risk. This is particularly dangerous for those who are medically fragile, too young to

be immunized, or who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. Parents may be unaware that their children share classrooms with children who are too ill to receive vaccinations. For example, children with cancer cannot be vaccinated against chickenpox or measles — diseases that can be deadly to them. States that allow personal belief

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This bill would make it more difficult to obtain personal belief exemptions and help to ensure that parents and caregivers are fully aware that their decision not to vaccinate may have a detrimental impact on the most vulnerable members of our community. Sophia Yager/Immunization Program Coordinator, Boulder County Public Health

Municipalization objections

We oppose the municipalization of the electric utility for several reasons: 1. The municipalization advocates are focused on maximizing the use of solar and wind and not on providing reliable service. 2. Rates charged to customers only have to be the same as Xcel’s on day one and can go up after that. Given the priority of maximizing the use of solar and wind, higher costs are likely. 3. We don’t believe that the City of Boulder can run an electric utility as reliably or efficiently as Xcel. Operating an electric utility with multiple energy sources is considerably more complicated than running a water utility. 4. We feel cheated that county customers, such as us, were included only after the city voters approved the process, and that county residents have had, and will have no vote on whether municipalization goes forward and how the utility will be run. 5. The “independent third party” evaluation was a sham. The contractor selected for the evaluation has only worked for municipalization advocates and, in any event, the city’s contract did not allow the contractor to provide an independent review of the city’s analysis of the feasibility of a municipal-owned electric utility and the rates it expects to charge. Mike Dorsey & Carolyn Buck/ Boulder

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Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall is a valuable resource for coroners’ offices across Colorado. As a colleague and fellow coroner from Moffat County, I have had the opportunity to consult with Ms. Hall on several of our investigations over the past three years. She has always been eager to share her knowledge and experience of forensic pathology and death investigation, which has been particularly helpful in some of our most challenging and

unusual cases. Ms. Hall often presents on uncommon topics at the annual conference for the Colorado Coroner’s Association. Last fall she shared her experience in handling the recent mortuary fire in Boulder County that involved seven bodies. It was informative to hear how she managed the scene, worked with the families and identified the bodies. As a result of her investigation, she was able to verify that there were no fatalities from the fire. The case presented a challenging question of coroner jurisdiction, and Ms. Hall received high remarks from many other coroners and forensic pathologists for the manner in which she handled this unusual situation. I appreciated her insight into the role of the coroner in this case and her ability to bring closure to the families of the deceased. I have also met several of Ms. Hall’s staff who attend and present on educational topics at the Colorado Coroners Association Conference. I have always found her staff to be very professional and knowledgeable. I am thankful to have Ms. Hall and her staff as a resource, especially when situations arise where I need guidance in communicating and working with families in difficult situations. I firmly believe that the voters of Boulder County should re-elect Emma Hall for a second term as coroner. Kirk McKey, Coroner, Moffat County

Please rein in the Pentagon

I’m unhappy to learn that 40 cents of every one of my 2013 federal tax dollars went to fund current and past wars, according to the Quaker advocacy group the Friends Committee on National Legislation. We have some critical needs as a country — how to respond to the effects of climate change, how to repair our crumbling bridges and roadways, how to bridge the growing divide between rich and poor. I want to see more of my tax dollars going to these priorities rather than to the Pentagon. I hope that Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet will work to make this happen in the coming year. They can start by eliminating the more than $100 billion of documented waste, fraud and abuse found in the Pentagon’s budget every year. We might disagree about the need to invest in the tools for war, but surely we can agree on the need to spend our tax dollars responsibly. Sara Avery/Lafayette Boulder Weekly

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Bob and Lisa Parr had a beautiful home and life on their 40-acre spread in Texas. The problem was that their home was sitting on top of the oil and gas rich Barnett shale. Over time, Aruba Petroleum drilled 22 wells within two miles of the couple’s home where they lived with their daughter Emma. Other oil and gas operators also drilled near the Parr’s home. The couple was featured in the documentary film Gasland 2 wherein they claimed that their health had been compromised, their water contaminated and their property value destroyed. According to several published reports Lisa Parr’s doctor claims he had found drilling chemicals in her blood and lungs as early as 2010. At times the air pollution was so bad the family was forced to flee from their home for months at a time. Aruba insists that its operations were in full compliance with all the oil and gas waste regulations of the federal government and Texas. Despite that claim, on April 22, Earth Day, a jury awarded the Parrs $3 million in their lawsuit, filed in a Texas county court, against Aruba Petroleum. According to a release by the Parrs’ attorney David Mathews of Mathews & Associates, the award includes “$275,000 for the Parr’s property loss of market value and $2 million for past physical pain and suffering by Bob and Lisa Parr and their daughter, $250,000 for future physical pain and suffering, $400,000 for past mental anguish.” This groundbreaking lawsuit is being called the first legal victory against fracking and its dangers and it could open the floodgates for victims of drilling and fracking across the nation. This could include not only victims of contamination whose air, water and health have been impacted, but also victims whose property values have declined due to nearby drilling activity — property declines that recent research shows range from 5 percent to 20 percent for any homes within a mile of a well. Aruba Petroleum has said it will appeal. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

news BolderBoulder ‘sissy’ T-shirt stirs debate

Boulder’s popular 10K race has been selling the shirt for years, but some Boulderites say it’s time to stop by Caitlin Rockett Courtesy of BolderBoulder

n May 26, tens of three employees at BolderBoulder thousands of people she emailed, Ramirez went pubfrom around the lic. world will descend “To be honest … I was hopupon Boulder — ing for a response or some kind some of them in traditional runof comment. I was disappointed ning gear, many of them in wacky that I didn’t get anything from costumes — to participate in the anyone,” says Ramirez. annual BolderBoulder, a 10-kiloBosley says he was unaware of meter road race that has become Ramirez’s concerns, and did not one of America’s most loved know of her attempts to contact races. BolderBoulder, until he received But for some, the jovial spirit a phone call from BW asking to of the competition is lost because discuss the T-shirt. of a race-sponsored T-shirt “When I mentioned it to our claiming that “Sea level is for sismarketing guys, they said they sies.” While the T-shirt has been had received a copy of her email around for years, debate over the and hadn’t responded, so that’s an connotation of the word “sissy” oversight on our part for not continues to flare. responding to her directly and At more than 5,400 feet sooner,” Bosley says. “When above sea level, running in things like that happen, we take Boulder ups the ante for even the pride in listening and quickly most elite athlete. Lower air presresponding so that people know While the “Sea level is for sissies” T-shirt has been around since 2007, debate over the connotation of their comments don’t fall on deaf sure at higher altitudes makes it the word “sissy” continues to flare. significantly harder for the body ears. I’m a bit red-faced about to process oxygen. this.” While anyone would agree In the seven years that the that Boulder’s mile-high-plus status presents a chalBosley says. “Beyond that, [they understood] there BolderBoulder has been offering the “Sea level is for lenge for racers, residents like Mardi Moore, executive wasn’t any malice behind our use of it.” sissies” shirt as a souvenir for race participants, Bosley director of local LGBTQ group Out Boulder, see the The T-shirt controversy resurfaced this year when says that there have been perhaps a half a dozen or so term “sissy” as derogatory. Boulder resident Debbie Ramirez expressed her discomplaints, but that by and large, the feedback is “tre“Statements like this further the negative stereopleasure with the slogan. mendously positive.” type that male-identified individuals should only be “I think for me, there are characteristics that have “Thousand of people say it’s awesome, and I think aggressive and domineering,” Moore wrote in an been stereotypically assigned to women, and people of it’s because they know where it’s rooted,” says Bosley, email to Boulder Weekly. all genders have those types of characteristics,” says “This has everything to do with people that are runThis isn’t the first time that Out Boulder has Ramirez, a two-time BolderBoulder race participant. ning, training and racing at altitude and are excited taken issue with the language on the shirt. Cliff “It’s putting down these traits, whether it’s how about that.” Bosley, race director for the BolderBoulder, says forstrong they are, if they express their emotions, all Moore says that while she doesn’t think the race mer Out Boulder co-director Cathy Busha met with these things people say when they use the word sissy coordinators meant any harm by using the term, she still hopes the organization will make an apology. race coordinators in years past to talk about their dis— what are they really trying to say?” Ramirez says. In a phone conversation, Moore told BW that she pleasure with the slogan. “And I think those traits are in all people and should saw this as a learning opportunity. “They wanted to let us know that they weren’t as be embraced instead of put down.” “Everybody makes mistakes. Maybe for the first excited about that [motto] as they were about some of Merriam-Webster defines “sissy” as “a boy who is time they’ve thought about the [implications of a the other [mottos] we did and still do,” Bosley says. weak or who likes things that girls usually like,” or “a word],” Moore says. We don’t want to come across as The organization has been using the “Sea level is person who is weak and fearful.” The word can also be saying, ‘You’re a terrible, rotten organization,’ but this for sissies” slogan since 2007, Bosley adds. The phrase used to describe “an effeminate man or boy,” or “a is just one of a number of expressions the race has timid or cowardly person.” is an opportunity for them to learn, so what will we used over its 35-year history including “Oh yes you Ramirez says she’s known about the T-shirts since do with it?” can” and “Altitude with attitude.” her first BolderBoulder in 2012. While she took Both Moore and Ramirez said they hope the offense, she didn’t take action. When an email on The organization, says Bosley, never intended for shirts will be retired. the “sea level” shirt to be an attack on anyone’s gender April 10 of this year informed her that the first 100 “I think there are other ways to embrace running BolderBoulder registrants would receive a free “Sea or sexuality. the BolderBoulder and people’s ability to run the level is for sissies” T-shirt, Ramirez decided to reach “The upshot of that meeting [with Out Boulder] BolderBoulder instead of using the word sissy,” says out to the race coordinators that very evening. After was, while their preference was, ‘We wish you Ramirez. four or five days and no response from any of the wouldn’t [make the shirt], we get why you do it,’” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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MED-a-mints’ original tin box includes a warning label on the back (left). Dixie Elixirs’ re-branding of MED-a-mints (right) shows new packaging — a tin box sans the warning label on back.

Lawsuit in the land of legal marijuana

MED-a-mints maker disputes Dixie Elixirs’ efforts at re-branding by Michael de Yoanna

n September of 2012, when Gary Gabrel was introduced to the owner and founder of Dixie Elixirs, it looked to be a good match for a venture into the vastly uncharted world of marijuana sales. Tripp Keber, Dixie’s founder and CEO, represented one of the nation’s hippest and, it would turn out, media savvy marijuana edibles companies. And Gabrel, who made millions of dollars in a range of businesses — from board games to pizza restaurants — was pedaling a special formula of edible marijuana called MED-a-mints, combining a “good high,” as Gabrel claims, with a reliable dose. “And just like Coca-Cola,” Gabrel says, “what goes into our mixture is a secret.” The deal was for Gabrel’s company to provide the “premium” cannabis to Dixie, which would package and distribute the mints to pot shops around Colorado. The marriage of the two companies seemed to be going well as Dixie emerged as one of the most familiar names in the business. Keber seemed to be everywhere — from Rolling Stone to 60 Minutes’ segment on marijuana, “Rocky Mountain High.” But behind the spotlight, trouble was brewing between Dixie and Gabrel. The problem? Dixie, Gabrel says, turned his MED-a-mints into a “slick, sexy-looking product.” While Gabrel has no qualms with that approach in itself — “slick and sexy sells,” he admits — the focus on safety and consumer warning seemed Boulder Weekly

to fall a bit to the wayside. “Our old label may have looked pedestrian — maybe a little too pedestrian for them,” he adds, “but it was responsible.” So Gabrel and Dixie have parted ways. And now Gabrel is taking Dixie to court in what may be the pot industry’s first legal trademark dispute. The suit, which Dixie’s chief of marketing is calling “frivolous,” was filed in Denver District Court last week on behalf of Gabrel’s company, Bridge Marketing. It alleges that Dixie put image over concerns for consumer information. But the controversy is highly nuanced, largely centering on the tin box that contain the mints. The “packaging does almost nothing to inform consumers that the product actually contains marijuana infused mints,” the suit alleges. “The only information on the container concerning its contents are the initials ‘THC.’ There is no other information to warn consumers of the presence of cannabis. Rather, the packaging is suggestive of any other designer mint that consumers would purchase at Whole Foods or Starbucks.” Dixie’s efforts, Gabrel adds in an interview, made his MED-a-mints “look like candy for children.” That characterization, Dixie Chief of Marketing Joe Hodas says, is “absolutely ridiculous.” Dixie takes safety “very seriously,” Hodas adds, and the packaging of MED-a-mints is clearly labeled and styled to

appeal to adults. The conflict over the tin boxes that hold the mints comes as edibles have sparked disturbing headlines in recent weeks, including stories of two deaths. In Denver, Levy Thamba, a 19-year-old Northwest College student visiting from Wyoming, plunged to the ground from a hotel balcony. The coroner in the case found that Thamba had consumed cookies infused with cannabis and that “marijuana intoxication” was a significant factor in his death, classified as an accident. In another case, which has made headlines around the globe, prosecutors have filed one charge of first-degree murder against Richard Kirk in the shooting death of his wife, Kristine A. Kirk, according to a statement by the Denver District Attorney’s Office. Kirk reportedly purchased marijuana edibles before the shooting and appeared intoxicated after being taken into custody. The two cases are among the most serious on a growing list of problematic incidents in which high doses of marijuana were a likely factor. And that’s fueled debate about the subject at the Colorado Legislature, where lawmakers seem to be on the constant lookout for how to regulate edibles. Earlier this week, for example, House Bill 1366 passed the full House. If the bill becomes a law, edible retail marijuana products would need to be “shaped, See MARIJUANA MARKETING LAWSUIT Page 18

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infused with marijuana.” The cardboard backer adds that the mints are not regulated for safety and health and that they may be health risks for women who are pregnant and that people should not drive or operate heavy machinery while under the influence of marijuana. “What is of utmost relevance,” Hodas adds in an email, “is the amount of content that we are required to include with our mint packaging — which also has to be legible.” In other words, Hodas says Dixie is providing more information to consumers by using the cardboard card, not less. But that’s moot to Gabrel. He says people will detach the card after buying the mints and simply throw it away, and have only the tin to inform them. He adds that Dixie’s changes to the packaging of his product were “unilateral,” a charge that Hodas also vehemently denies. Hodas says Gabrel was involved in email approvals of the product. With Gabrel also alleging “nonpayment of royalty fees,” that leaves Dixie preparing to defend itself in court, as well as exploring other legal remedies. Gabrel, meanwhile, says he is seeking a new business partner. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Two decisions by Boulder’s alcohol board spell trouble for some by Josh Gross

hose that read “The New Moral Crusade,” Boulder Weekly’s March 27 investigation into Boulder’s recent crackdown on local bars, might have been surprised by the relative calmness of the Boulder Beverage Licensing Authority meeting on April 16, the first meeting subsequent to the story. Unlike the meetings detailed in the “Crusade” piece, there was little emotion, and few aspersions cast at bar owners’ “moral character.” By most measures, it was the sort of tame bureaucratic snoozefest that makes people lose interest in city government, even in times of scandal. A new member was confirmed and elected chair. A pending case was granted a stay to better prepare. Roberts’ Rules of Order were respected. The real action was in what wasn’t discussed: new developments on two recent rulings by the BLA. The first concerns downtown bar The Pearl Street Pub, and the eight-day closure the BLA levied against it in January for charges of “serving a visibly intoxicated person.” In addition to facing the BLA to defend his liquor license against the charges in January, Pearl Street Pub owner Jim Sonn faced Class 2 misdemeanor criminal charges punishable by up to 12 months in prison for the same incident. Sonn told BW that he tried to get the BLA to delay its hearing until after the criminal trial, but that the board wouldn’t allow the requested stay. His trial was held April 8. The day-long jury trial at the Boulder County Justice Center centered largely on the testimony of State Investigator Chelsea Rosipajla, who was undercover in Pearl Street Pub looking for signs of overservice. She thought she found one in a member of a wedding party who ordered a round of shots. “I observed him swaying, which in and of itself isn’t anything, he could be tired,” said Rosipajla. “But 20 April 24, 2014

when I got closer, I saw red, watery eyes.” Those red, watery eyes observed — after midnight — were enough for Rosipajla to call for backup and to have a citation issued. State law doesn’t allow police to use a Breathalyzer in these stings, saying only that it’s illegal to serve someone who is “visibly intoxicated,” while not offering a precise legal definition of what visibly intoxicated means, often leaving bartenders and police with very different barometers. Defense council pressed Colorado Department of Revenue Alcohol Enforcement Officer Kelly Haralson on the lack of a definition, asking if it meant someone talking loudly over music or someone throwing up in the back alley. “Person under the age of 21 isn’t defined either,” she fired back, leaving observers bewildered at the comparison. In addition to the report of a man swaying on his barstool, a photo of two Coors Lights and a shot was entered into evidence. “How far are we going to go with this law?” the defense said in its closing statements. The verdict? Not guilty. That means the BLA levied a penalty against Sonn, his bar, and his employees for charges a jury exonerated him of. “A criminal case has a very high burden of proof.

It’s beyond a reasonable doubt,” says Senior Assistant City Attorney Sandra Llanes who provides legal advice to the BLA. “And an administrative case has a lower burden, it’s preponderance of the evidence, as it’s called.” The evidence in question had largely to do with police reports. There were multiple undercover police officers in The Pearl Street Pub during the incident that lead to the charges against Sonn. Each of them filed a report detailing their experiences. But as most of the police officers had inadequate vantage points to offer anything more than speculation, most of those reports were ruled inadmissible in Sonn’s criminal trial. But for the BLA hearing, they were both considered as evidence, and uncontested by the lack of defense witnesses or crossexamination. The short version is that in the criminal trial, Sonn was able to present his own evidence and offer a defense and as a result he won, but at the BLA hearing, with little opportunity to defend himself or question those accusing him of a crime, the deck was seriously stacked against him. “The reason why [there is a higher burden of proof in a criminal case] is that a criminal case can carry severe penalties, possibly even jail time,” Llanes says. The less-severe penalty levied by the BLA (a

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forced eight-day closure with 13 more days put in reserve for any potential future violations) is estimated to have cost The Pearl Street Pub as much as $20,000, and put its employees out of work for a week. And that fell far short of the permanent closure that was being pushed for by BLA member Lisa Spalding. As for whether or not the outcome of Sonn’s trial will have any effect on the BLA’s ruling, the answer is no. “There are different standards for different forums and one doesn’t really have any bearing on the other,” says Llanes. The second development concerns an application for a liquor license for downtown’s newest addition, Kava Lounge, an application that the BLA denied in March. Reasons cited for denying the application at March’s BLA meeting included concerns about the Kava Lounge’s inadequate kitchen facilities, a spotty previous record with alcohol laws at a Denver location and concerns about crowd control around its exits, analready congested alley that runs between downtown magnets like the Nitro Club and Absinthe House. At the hearing, Boulder Police Alcohol Enforcement Officer Carlene Hoffman was especially concerned with the increased police presence that would be required for a club of that size in that location. The result? Kava Lounge announced plans to open in late April or early May as an 18-and-up that will be open until 5 a.m. on weekends. After the BLA meeting, Kava Lounge had some plans to be a B.Y.O.B. (bring your own booze) establishment, an odd quirk that is legal in Colorado under certain circumstances, but the owners changed their mind after some meetings with the BPD. True to its name, the 300-capacity Kava Lounge will also serve the mildlyintoxicating — over-the-counter in America, but banned in Canada, Switzerland and Germany — Kava root. No alcohol will be served. The BLA’s quest to limit the problems of late-night crowds resulted in the unintended consequence of Kava Lounge deciding to be open later and serving a younger clientele. It seems unlikely that this was the result the BLA was attempting to achieve with its denial. What the BLA did do at its April meeting was hear a testimony from Marc Stine, the Greek Advocate at the University of Colorado Boulder, who was emailed out of the blue and asked to Boulder Weekly

appear before the BLA to brief them on alcohol consumption issues at fraternities. “Alcohol is an issue for 18- to 24-year-olds no matter how you organize them,” he said. Stine expressed concern about increased hard liquor consumption, something he’s seen rise in recent decades. “I think that the increase of binge drinking is the direct result of the universal 21 drinking age,” Stine said, a

statement BLA member David Timken quickly suggested reading to counteract. Stine further explained that he felt hard liquor binging had replaced 3.2 beer drinking for underage students and noted “you can’t get alchohol poisoning from 3.2 beer, we tried.” After Stine discussed how frats must submit a plan to BPD 72 hours before having a party, and often provide third party security and/or onsite EMTs, Spalding pressed Stine about

what level of control he had over rental houses that were not fraternity houses, to which he gave the obvious answer: not much. Stine then said that he didn’t think trying to shift kids from The Hill to Pearl Street was a good idea. “The police spend an enormous amount of resources on MIPs,” Stine told BW after his testimony. “And it doesn’t change a thing.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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tists will be able track the offhere was a time when spring from those pairings, even Colorado’s lakes and after the fish have been released streams were full of big, splashy rainbow into the wild, biologist George trout that would Schisler says. eagerly rise to an angler’s lure The new strains showed a and put up quite a tussle, breachrange of resistance, so using common animal husbandry teching the water in a shimmer of niques, the biologists re-crossed green, red and gold. the families to maximize the But that all changed about 20 years ago, when state workers resistance while at the same time accidentally released a batch of maintaining the desirable qualifish infected with a deadly paraties of the Colorado River rainsite that quickly spread throughbows. It’s challenging in part out the state and decimated because the resistant Hofer rainbow trout populations. strain has long been bred as a A whirling disease-resistant Hofer rainbow trout planted as a three-inch fish in 2010 or 2011, grown to Initial reports from biologists approximately 15 inches by May 2013 docile food fish. Schisler says the suggested that whirling disease differences were even apparent might not be a problem for wild in a lab setting, where the rainbow trout populations, so the Colorado River rainbows tried to Colorado Division of Wildlife hide in the farthest corner of a continued stocking infected trout tank. for four or five years after they But the Hofer rainbows are first discovered the disease. By nearly tame. the time they realized their mis“You can practically pick take, it was too late. By the early them up,” Schisler says. 1990s, rainbow populations had By 2008, the state’s fisheries simply collapsed, disappearing experts were ready to release entirely from some rivers and some of the fish back into lakes, with only a few remnant Colorado rivers, with high hopes marily from a few rivers in northern populations holding on. ing funny around the banks,” he says, that they could rebuild the once-thrivCalifornia and Oregon. In the late In the Colorado River, for example, describing the onset of the epidemic in ing rainbow trout fishery. And last year 1800s, when fish husbandry became rainbow trout dropped to less than 1 the late 1980s. for the first time, they determined that widespread, rainbows were transported percent of the total trout population. The disease essentially deformed the new strain of rainbows are reproHistorically, the balance was about 80 the spine of the fish, causing them to all over the world, and the Colorado ducing in the wild — a hopeful sign as percent rainbows and 20 percent brown swim in circles — hence the name version quickly evolved into a spunky, fisheries biologists try to rebuild selftrout, says Jon Ewert, an aquatic biolo“whirling disease.” With no known long-lived strain that made them a sustaining rainbow trout fisheries gist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. cure, and no way to eradicate the paradesirable fish for anglers. throughout the state. “We started seeing it before we sites, the future looked grim — until Working through an international “We looked in good fry habitat, knew what it was,” says Trapper Rudd, Colorado Division of Wildlife biolocollaborative, Colorado biologists startEwert says, describing part of the rigora longtime Summit County guide who gists started cross-breeding Colorado ed some genetic testing to try to find ous and regular monitoring used to well remembers the heyday and subseRiver rainbows with a strain of domesthe exact genes that make the German assess fish stocks. quent decline of Colorado River rainticated trout from southern Germany trout resistant to whirling. The first “Last year for the first time we saw bow trout. crosses between the Colorado River that are resistant to the parasites. them prior to stocking,” he says, “When it was in its bloom, we It’s important to remember that rainbows and the Hofer rainbows were explaining that the timing of the obserstarted catching these small fish that rainbow trout aren’t native to Colorado. made in 2003, with 35 different famiSee TROUT Page 24 were deformed. We noticed them actlies. Using genetic markers, the scienThey stem from the West Coast, pri-

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vations makes it certain that they were observing fish born in the river rather than fish stocked from a hatchery. “At one site, rainbow fry even outnumbered brown fry,” he says. The new cross-bred strain is finding favor with anglers and guides, too. “They’re really strong, exciting fish to catch. Even the ones that are a year old, maybe 10 inches, they are really energetic fish. ... You know what you’ve got on your line,” Ewert says, adding that the Hofer rainbows are growing especially fast, probably because of their genetic history as domesticated fish. The new rainbows are even catching hold in places like the Arkansas River that historically have not been strongholds for the species. “Before the Hofers, all our rainbows were stocked fish, series of different strains over the years. They did pretty well as catchable size, but if you planted them too small, the browns would eat them all,” says Greg Felt, a long-time guide with ArkAnglers. “We’ve been seeing really good natural reproduction. We hadn’t really had that before. [Colorado Parks and Wildlife] really surprised me with how effective they were with this,” Felt says. “The other thing that’s kind of cool about it is watching to see how the rainbows and browns get along. Will the rainbows compete with the browns directly? I’m sure there is some competition but rainbows make use of different habitat, and they’re active at different times,” he says, explaining that the addition of the Hofers enhances overall fishing opportunities on the Arkansas. “Where I tend to look for them and target them is around riffles, or where there’s a cobbled shelf, that shelf just drops away. If you weight way your rig so it drops of the shelf, you can look down and just see those torpedoes stacked up,” he says, referring to the handsome speckled rainbows.

The same holds true for the Colorado River, says Mitch Melichar, a Silverthorne-based guide with Cutthroat Anglers. “I have not seen a whirling disease fish in years, probably since late 1990s. We’re catching the Hofers on the Blue River and in the Colorado. ... It’s been a pretty big success from an angler’s standpoint,” Melichar says, highlighting few spots where state biologists have targeted their efforts, including the Upper Colorado near Parshall, where by some reports there are as many as 8,000 fish per acre of water in an area where state biologists have stocked up to 200,000 fish per year in a six-mile reach of the river. Downstream of Glenwood Springs is another area where rainbows have come back strong, with anglers reporting 25-inch fish, he adds. The state wildlife agency has also crossed Hofer rainbows with a lakeadapted trout from Montana that also shows resistance to whirling disease. The Harrison-Hofer cross, which spawns in lake inlets, is being used to boost rainbow trout populations in Colorado lakes and reservoirs, Ewert says, adding that there are signs of success in Grand Lake. Rebuilding self-sustaining populations is important because there’s always a limited supply of hatchery fish. “We only have so many to go around, I’ve concentrated all of our stocking in the state wildife areas, around Parshall and Hot Sulphur Springs. We’re hoping they’ll seed themselves downstream. We’ve already seen some of that. Maybe at some point we can start taking eggs out of the river again,” he says. There is even some potential that the Hofer rainbows could act as a biological filter, helping to reduce the overall incidence of whirling disease. Somehow, the resistant fish are able to

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Researchers have more than 20 years of photo data showing the activities of North America’s largest bird, the endangered California condor. If the data were to be fully analyzed, it would allow biologists to determine how the condor’s behavioral habits correlate with their ability to survive in the wild. The data is so immense that researchers can’t analyze all of the data on their own, so they are utilizing Zooniverse’s web-based citizen project to allow interested citizens the chance to help with the analysis. According to Alexandra Rose, citizen science coordinator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, a condor’s decisions on whom they feed and interact with are connected to the condor’s ability to survive. Researchers have over 175,000 automatically recorded images taken of condor groups as they feed on carcasses. Interested citizens can log in to www.condorwatch.org to identify the bird’s tag number and describe the behavior of the birds in these images. With this information recorded, biologists will be able to understand condor social networks to a greater extent, and may be able to see how the bird’s social interactions are connected to lead poisoning and other human intrusion issues. These established connections would allow conservationists to more effectively tailor their strategies for the successful recovery of the California condor. “If we can easily differentiate the dominant birds from the subordinate birds, which are more susceptible to lead poisoning, we could possibly devise two different conservation efforts,” says Rose. “The first would be an early warning system, where we would not have to check on all the birds, just the ones that are indicated as being susceptible from the photos, and secondly, we could train the susceptible birds to avoid contaminated carcasses, just as they were trained to avoid power lines in the past.” — Mallane Dressel

make the parasitic spores nonviable, Ewert says. “When the spores come drifting down the river, they stick to first fish they come to, but Hofers deform the spores. The spores that get released off a Hofer are non-viable. They could be a kind of super-fish, acting as a biological

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loating down western Colorado’s Yampa River is an exercise in opposing forces: stillness and motion. As our raft bobs through gentle currents, our guide draws in her oars, letting the river take us where it will. Newly alert, her head lifts and ours folThe Yampa River provides an offlow; a peregrine falcon the-beaten-path tour of Dinosaur soars high above the National Monument flesh-toned canyon wall. Later, continuing this quiet way, we spot a mother bighorn sheep with her yearling scrambling up a crumbling rock bank. Beneath the raft, we hear the cackle of sand and watch concentric rings left by surfacing fish. Although we are floating through the center of popular Dinosaur National Monument, we see few other the heart of our natural legacy, the rivpeople. Most of the crowds travel the ers flowing through them are the cenasphalt, unaware that there is another, tral arteries, the life-blood offering wetter byway into the park. As a mode nourishment, habitat, shelter, and, of of transport, river running is unsurcourse, geological beginnings. Best yet passed. It offers access and removal for us visitors, they offer fun. As Water simultaneously; it offers the calmest Rat says famously to Mole in Kenneth tranquillity and the most exhilarating Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows: excitement. “Believe me, my young friend, there is If the nation’s park units represent nothing — absolutely nothing — half

nations are served by professional guides, and the parks can help provide specific information depending on the type of river trip you’d like. For more information about the Yampa River, usually run as a five-day wilderness trip, visit the Dinosaur National Monument website at www.nps.gov/dino/. River permits for private trips are issued by lottery several months in advance of the spring and summer season.

Paddle through the parks With river season on the rise, a survey of options from around the country by Florence Williams so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” A word on safety: even ‘easy’ river trips can turn unpredictable, as Rat and Mole found out. Only people with extensive outdoor experience, including wilderness first aid certification, swiftwater rescue training and whitewater skills, should attempt ‘private,’ selfguided trips. All of the following desti-

Alsek River, Alaska:

Alaska is the land of monuments: big mountains, big rivers and big national parks. The Alsek River embodies all three as it flows from the heart of the St. Elias Mountains, where it drains the largest non-polar ice-cap in the world, to its delta at Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska. Most people begin their journey on the moderately gentle Tatshenshini River in the Yukon territory, then join up with the Alsek at a breathtaking mountainous confluence just east of the U.S./Canada border. The total 140-mile

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Rio Grande River, Texas: If the Alsek is the great wilderness

With temperatures and water levels coming up, it’s time to let the river set the pace of your trip.

river trip of the north, the Rio Grande through Big Bend National Park is its desert counterpart. Another international river, the Rio Grande slices the enormous cultural chasm between Texas and Mexico. The boat’s eye view, however, is one of unity: Rising from both sides of the river are dramatic buff canyon walls, delicate spindly ocatillo cactus and the lonely soaring of the raven. As it flows around the western dip of Texas, the remote stretch of river borders the park for 118 miles. In this distance, it has carved three deep canyons into the Chihuahuan desert: Santa Elena, Boquillas and Mariscal. Many people run all three as popular weeklong wilderness trip, or choose just one or two canyons as a shorter trip. Just downstream, the “lower canyons,” another week’s trip, are so beautiful they are also federally protected under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1978. In total, the National Park Service administers 245 miles of the Rio Grande, all of which is raftable. Both the upper and

lower canyons offer easy to moderate whitewater, extraordinary (though rugged) hiking opportunities in numerous side canyons and, in spring, colorful desert wildflowers. The river can be run year-round, although the most popular time is around spring break. For private river trips in the park or on the Wild and Scenic River, a free permit must be obtained at any of the ranger stations. No advance reservations are required at this time. For more information, visit the National Park Service website for the Rio Grande River: www.nps.gov/rigr. Local companies rent gear, run shuttles and guide full-service trips: Far Flung Outdoor Center (www.bigbendfarflung.com) and Big Bend River Tours (www.bigbendrivertours.com).

Snake River, Wyoming: Perhaps the most photographed mountains in the world, the snowcapped Tetons offer a spectacular com-

panion to the gentle Snake River as it flows 26 miles through Grand Teton National Park. Considered an easy float trip, the river below Jackson Lake Dam is famed for scenery rather than whitewater. Wildlife abounds in this heart of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem; an all-day or half-day trip will likely reveal moose grazing in riverside willows, bald eagles perched on cottonwood branches and great blue herons soaring above gravel bars. Bears and bison also inhabit these reaches. Several sections are suitable for rafting, the most popular being a 10-mile stretch above the small town of Moose. Ideal for families and novices, the water is nevertheless swift and very cold. In the spring when snow is melting, the river can be swollen, silty and filled with log-jams. Later in the summer, afternoon thunderstorms and strong winds are not uncommon, so private boaters must be experienced and prepared for variable conditions. Over 70,000 people per season run the river from mid-May to late September. Private boaters will need to obtain a boat permit, which costs $10 and is good for seven days, from one of several ranger stations. Camping and fires are prohibited along the river. For more information, contact Grand Teton National Park, 307-739-3300. Several rafting companies offer guided trips. A list of providers is available at http://www.nps.gov/grte/planysee PADDLE Page 28

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CU Fringe Festival seeks to meld outsider art and non-traditional venues by Danielle Meltz

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head over to the theatre “The goal of Fringe Festival is to give as many building when you hear people as possible the chance to do art, and then ON THE BILL: Shows will take that Romeo and Juliet is show it off to the community for free,” says Hana place April 25-27 in the University of being performed for free at the University of Christenson, president of CU OnStage. Colorado Theatre and Dance Building. Colorado Boulder. However, things take a turn Students have put together a total of 32 plays All shows are free. Schedule can be found on Page 32 or when you realize students are dancing in the hallfor this year’s festival, more than CU has done in its at the CU-OnStage website, ways, a capella groups are performing before the past two seasons. www.cu-onstage.org. play starts and you can hear laughter from the stand The plays range from classics such as Romeo and up comedy in the next room over. What starts off Juliet to originals such as Luna’s Magical Hair, which is the story of Luna Lovegood from the as traditional Romeo and Juliet, takes a sudden and Harry Potter novels, but when she’s not around the unexpected turn for the avant-garde. The lack of title character. props only accentuates the creativity, and you realize something: You’re “There’s a lot of student influence on the plays. Even if they’re not not in the artistic center anymore; you’re at the fringe. written [by students] — which a good deal of them are — they still get CU’s Fringe Festival, going down April 25 to 27 at various locations to put their own style in it,” says Dyes. on the CU campus, is an all-art, all-free, all-student weekend, a time An established play performed at a Fringe Fest is different from other when students are free to create their own work, and are not restrained by theatre performances in that everyone is there to have fun and make art, content or experience. Consequently, the theatre and dance department is Christenson says. getting ready for one of the most exciting, entrepreneurial times in its “There’s the stereotype of the serious artist, who is fully in it to expose history. your soul. And I mean, yes, you can do that,” she says. “But you can also “Fringe Festivals are a place where new work starts. A lot of plays that just have fun, singing songs and doing Shakespeare. Art can be as fun as eventually make it [to] Broadway start out at [a] fringe festival,” says Rya Dyes, the vice president of CU OnStage, a student-run group that collab- you want it to be and that’s kind of what fringe is. It’s all sorts of art and all sorts of students.” orates with the theatre and dance department to put on the Fringe Christenson says that students at CU are pushed to be creative during Festival. The festival is the biggest event that OnStage puts on all year. Fringe for two reasons. The fringe festival concept started in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947, “There’s creativity necessitated by how much money you can get, and and now takes place all over the world. Fringe festivals generally combine different elements of the performing arts, such as theatre, dance and film, see FRINGE Page 32 in an open environment where it is easy to participate.

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then creativity for the sake of, ‘let’s do it differently.’ And fringe is both,” says Christenson. OnStage allocates its budgets to students trying to direct a play, and students have to go through an application process to run their show. “It’s not like you have to be an experienced director to get a project,” she says. “But the application process is to show us that you know what you’re getting into and you have all of your materials together to make it as good as it can be.” The reason why so much of the work that comes out of Fringe Festival is as successful as it is, is because it gives the students a space to experiment. Alex Reed, a CU alum, produced two original plays through CU Fringe Festival, one of which, Bentathlon was performed by Obscene/Courageous Theatre. His second play, Believe, is premiering this year. “It’s a really great place for artists to try things, and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t,” Reid says. “But it’s a safe creative space, which is definitely important. Since art exists, critics also exist. And it’s not judgmentfree, because, I mean, if you’re terrible, you’re terrible, but at least you tried.” The CU Fringe Festival brings together people not only from different theatre backgrounds, but from other departments too. “A lot of film students do it because they get to make a different kind of film that they might not get to make in class,” says Dyes. “It’s an opportunity to get to show their work to a larger group of people.” The festival will take place at CU’s main stage, The Loft and The Black Box in the theatre building, but as with the rest of Fringe, the students are not restricted. “We have one dance piece that’s going in the hallways in between shows that are going on, and there will be a couple a capella groups who play in between,” says Dyes. In other words, students are given an open space to experiment in their area of interest. The Fringe Festival helps students learn what it is like to work through a production without any outside help from faculty. “For me, the biggest thing about it is that it’s a great opportunity for students to learn how to collaborate on their own work, because as artists that’s definitely something they need to learn,” says Dyes. The CU Fringe Festival affects more

Bernadette Venters-Sefic (left) and Sarah Adler will be performing their two-women show MATT AND BEN at this year’s CU Fringe Festival.

schedule SATURDAY, APRIL 26

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

UNIVERSITY THEATER 12:30 p.m. – Red Dove 1 p.m. – Broke-In 2 p.m.– Acapellooza 4 p.m. – Believe 6:20 p.m. – Life 7 p.m. – Romeo and Juliet

UNIVERISTY THEATRE 12 p.m. – Homonym 12:30 p.m. – Matt Travels the World! 1:30 p.m. – Believe 3:30 p.m. – Romeo and Juliet 6 p.m. – Times New Roman 6:30 p.m. – Spring Awakening 9 p.m. – Stand Up 10 p.m. – Burlesque

LOFT THEATRE 11 a.m. – One Variable 12 p.m. – Ain’t Your Mama’s Feminist 2 p.m. – Luna’s Magical Hair 3:30 p.m. – Title of Show 6 p.m. – Whose Line? 7:30 p.m. – Matt and Ben 9:30 p.m. – Songs I Was Born to Sing ACTING STUDIO 12 p.m. – Fateful Starboat 1:30 p.m. – Icarus 2 p.m. – Ledge, Ledger and the Legend 3 p.m. – Suffer, Sleep; Die, Dream 5 p.m. – Amelia’s Airhearts 6 p.m. – This Is Our Youth

than the people involved with it by exposing the local community to a side of CU that does not always get a lot of attention. “When people think of CU, they don’t think of our arts,”says Christenson. “They think, ‘Oh yeah,

LOFT THEATRE 12 p.m. – Songs I was Born to Sing 1:30 p.m. – Title of Show 3:30 p.m. – On that Note 5 p.m. – Matt and Ben 6:30 p.m. – Luna’s Magical Hair 8 p.m. – Even We Don’t Know How It Ends ACTING STUDIO 3 p.m. – This Is Our Youth 6:30 p.m. – Suffer, Sleep; Die, Dream 8 p.m. – Grimm 9 p.m. – Ledge, Ledger, and the Legend 9:30 p.m. – Icarus

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ypsy-punk pioneers Gogol Bordello are touring now with an album that’s an athem to and call to action for gypsy punks worldwide. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, the simplest way to describe them is that they thrive on total chaos. And Gogol Bordello will invade the Boulder Theater on April 29. Its eight members are known to parade on stage like a carnival troop, shredding accordion, electric fiddle and acoustic guitar, attacking the percussion instruments and electric bass and stomping out Soviet-bloc punk anthems with energy as infectious as ebola. In short: a Gogol Bordello The ecclectic weirdness that is Gogol Bordello show promises a hectic celebration of weirdness and craziness. from their roots to the band’s sound. “The shaking power of Gogol The wild and unpredictable live Bordello is one of the most reliable performances are carried by music rich things out there,” explains Eugene with themes of immigrant life and culHütz, leader and vocalist of the ture around the world. Frontman Hütz Manhattan-based band. Hütz, who is a political refugee from Ukraine who sports a handle-bar moustache and a lived in Italy, Austria, Poland and thick Ukrainian accent, is a Slavic rock- Hungary before landing in the U.S. in er who formed the “gypsy punk” band the ’90s, and is currently living in in New York City in 1999. Brazil. The music of Gogol Bordello They are tough enough for punk talks about embracing the nomad lifefans, but their style, often touchmusical capabiliing on notions of ties stretch far being an outsider. ON THE BILL: Gogol Bordello beyond three They have called plays The Boulder Theater on April 29, 2014 with Act Rights. Doors chords and a this lifestyle the open at 8 p.m. for this all ages growl. The band “Transcontinental show. Tickets are $36 day of the lists inspirations Hustle,” also the show. The Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030, and influences name of their 2010 www.bouldertheater.com/event/ from The Clash to album. gogol-bordello-2 Manu Chao to Gogol Parliament Bordello’s latest record, Pura Vida Funkadelic. The Conspiracy, is a mashup of latin and eccentric combination is hard to imagslavic music, reggae, folk, punk and ine until seen in action. gypsy jazz that features classic Gogol “We’ve always been shaking people style while digging deeper into new lyrup,” Hütz tells BW, “Since the first conical themes. cert and on into the future.” “‘Pura vida’ in Spanish means ‘pure The group is a melting pot of culture, with members hailing from Russia, life,’” Hütz explains. “Miraculously, China, Ethiopia, Ecuador, the U.S. and people can’t seem to locate the life. Belarus, all of whom bring elements People live the life, while not really liv-

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arts & culture Hello I must be going, to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Marx Bros. classic hits the stage in Denver by Josh Gross

he Denver Center for the Performing Arts opened Animal Crackers, the classic of stage and screen from The Marx Bros. And whether you know the show or not, the summary is that it doesn’t matter. You’re just not going to see a bad show at the Denver Center. The venue, budget and talent prevent a production from being less than top-notch. And that’s the case in Animal Crackers. The multi-level set, with its old rich opulence and motorized elements, and the truly slammin’ jazz orchestra deliver a magnificent performance. Actor Jim Ferris’ Groucho is so good that he was able to do nearly five minutes of faux improv in the audience after an actor faux-dropped a line. Jonathan Brody’s Chico nailed his character’s bizarre piano stylings, and though he didn’t touch an instrument, Jonathan Randell Silver even managed to capture the twinkle in Harpo’s eye. The show was funny from start to finish and entertained even younger members of the audience who couldn’t possibly have yet grasped the scope of their influence. But that said, there is a slightly unsettling meta layer to the show. The average play is never the same in multiple productions. Set designers build different spaces, actors make different choices and directors seek to evoke the unique tone they read from the script. Oftentimes the goal is to

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have yourself to blame for not walking out,” Groucho quips in progressive nonsense of the third act. What made the Marx bros. great was ON THE BILL: Animal Crackers runs at the Denver their total originality. Center for the Performing As such, the producArts Stage Theater through tion, in all its majesty May 11. Showtimes and tickets ($30-$65) are available at and comedic wizardry, www.denvercenter.org. comes off a bit like a tribute band with pro performers, possibly even more skilled than the original, but lacking the soul. How much that will matter to you as you’re busting a gut laughing may depend entirely on whether or Jonathan Brody, Jim Ferris and Jonathan Randell Silver bring the Marx Brothers to life in not you make your living as a curthe Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ presentation of Animal Crackers. mudgeonly arts critic — as Groucho sang in Horse Feathers, “whatever it is, I’m against it.” make the play a wholly new reading as a series of gags shoehorned around But if the point of art is to inspire showcasing the characters, meaning of the material that shows it in a preconversation, a good topic could be viously unseen light. But with Animal without precise imitations, the story whether big-budget live theater’s trend makes even less sense. Crackers, the interpretation is set in away from original material and stone because the play was not just The basics are that an old money towards stage adaptations of movies for performed by The Marx Bros., but socialite in upstate New York is having decades is harming the medium, if by written specifically for their characa party to show off her friendship — only putting the faux Marx bros on ters. Marlon Brando may have so and hopeful romance — with a famous stage to meet the bottom line, our culthoroughly owned the role of Stanley African explorer, Captain Spaulding, ture might be missing out on the Kowalski in the film version of A played by Groucho (Ferris), a character opportunity to discover their modern Streetcar Named Desire that he became who seems more fit to explore the day equivalent. the barometer all stage actors measure depths of an easy chair than the African Wondering what I’m talking their performances against, but there outback. For questionable reasons, the about? See the play for yourself. And is no measuring oneself against a other brothers show up as party guests, when you do, be prepared to laugh despite not knowing the host, and are Marx brother, there is only imitating yourself silly. them. Add on top that the “story” of invited to stay. Hilarity ensues. Animal Crackers isn’t a story so much “If this doesn’t make sense, you only Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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events Celebration of Color: An Art Opening. 5:30 p.m. Open Arts Gallery at Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2973.

Open Stage Night. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

Friday, April 25 music Big Hibiscus. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Bonnie/Clydes. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Electric Red. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

Five 13. 8 p.m. Cheers Pub, 11964 Washington St,

Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720340-4169.

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Gora Gora Orkestar. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Harmonius Junk. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Hot Licks. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill,

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Isa & JoeAlan Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

Girls on Top!. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet. 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7845.

Harlequintet. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confec-

Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S Jef-

Hindsight. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut

ferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614.

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Lantern Band. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery,

Jaques Crow. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Lionel Young Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

John Craige. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music Hall, 2525

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Living Easy. 6 p.m. Range Brewing Company, 400

Laurie Dameron & Blues Babes. 8 p.m. Boulder

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

Microbreweries for the Environment. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Steel Pennies. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-2453.

Willie Bean Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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

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Steve Ignelzi and Signel-Z. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-449-2911.

The Sweet Lillies. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Watersong. 5 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

West Water Outlaws. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Engineers Without Borders: USA Film Festival. 7 p.m. E-Town Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder,

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Purge Your Spurge. 9 a.m. Boulder County

Friday Night Yoga Club with Boulder Burlesque After Party. 6:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant

Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6294.

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Puttin’ On The Leash 2014: Super Heroes. 6 p.m. Coors Event Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5316.

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& Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Monday, April 28. The Big Tiny — Rocky Mountain Land Series with Dee Williams. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303322-7727. CU Creative Writing Reading. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Sam Truitt. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

The Here and Now — Ann Brashares. 7 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Friday, April 25. Blood Always Tells — Hilary Davidson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. The Early Poems of Lev Loseff. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727. Tuesday, April 29.

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Following Oil — Thomas Petrie. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Not For Nothing — Stephen Graham Jones. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home

Singer Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon

of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

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Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company,

Brandon Hagen. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Stovall & Sims. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe. 6 p.m. Oskar

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m.

Feloniuis Smith & Nic Clark. 10:00 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

AFSP 2014 Out of the Darkness Campus Walk. 11 a.m. CU Boulder, Duane Physics Building,

From Solomon’s Court to the Ends of the Earth. 4 p.m. Congregation Har HaShem, South Build-

2300 Colorado Ave, Boulder, www.afsp.org.

Live Music. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1039

Anthony Jeselnik. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

ing, 3901 Pinon Drive, Boulder, 303-499-7077.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5973.

Marcelo Moxy. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gather-

ing Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Mike Finders. 5 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt

Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Truth Be Told. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Pick ‘n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap

Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 11. William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through April 26. The Road to Mecca. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Suite 200, Golden, 303-935-3044. Through May 4.

Open Jovy. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108

Mulan. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through MayRuby 3.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th

Sweeney Todd. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through May 10.

Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Horsethief, Colorado River The Road to Mecca runs at Miners Alley Playhouse through May 4.

events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing

Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th Street, Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tuesday, April 29 music Blue Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

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

Gogol Bordello. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Karaoke. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

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

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Karaoke. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Society for Creative Anachronism. 6 p.m.

Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Wednesday, April 30 music Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing

Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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EVENTS from Page 45

Open Stage Night. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,

Wednesday Night Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Members Exhibition. 6 p.m. University of Colorado

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Stephen Marley. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th

St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Treena McCurdy. 6 p.m. Dicken’s Tavern, 300

Museum of Natural History, 218 UCB, Boulder, .

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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Saturday, April 26: MMMMMBoulder. 5:30 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. $25. Tickets available at www.thedairy.org. MmmmmBoulder isn’t just the sound Godzilla would make when he mysteriously arises from Boulder Creek and takes a chomp out of Pearl St. It’s one of the city’s best running art series, with performances across multiple m’s: moves, music, movement, monologue, modern art, and, ahem, “magic.” The team at MmmmmBoulder will be taking over The Dairy Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 26 to showcase Boulder County filmmakers Larissa Rhodes, Don Sniffin, David Partick Bashford, William Garrison, Stacey Sheers and more, along with music from Americana Martian Acres, Covex, Purple Squirrel, Lisa Bell, and dance from 3rd Law Dance/Theater. There will also be monologues and visual art from local visual and performing artists and chow courtesy of Boulder Bowls food truck and Shamane’s Bake Shop. The annual event typically sells out, so just don’t sit around counting the m’s.

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CHILD’S POSE Seeing a way to reassert control over her adult son’s life when he faces manslaughter charges, an affluent Romanian woman sets out on a campaign of emotional and social manipulation to keep him out of prison, navigating the waters of power, corruption and influence. Child’s Pose is based on the sense of loss of parents who have to send their children away-physically and psychologically. The parent-child relationship is re-assessed through a son in his 30s that wants to escape from his mother, who in turn wants to keep her adult son by her side. The mother’s character is quite familiar, but this film is unique in that the director delicately portrays how the controlling mother wants to deny that her son is destined to leave her by following the characters’ emotional flows and gazing at their twisted desires. Luminita Gheorghiu turns in an extraordinary performance in playing a mother struggling to “save” her son. Heading to the conclusion, the film shows that the unhealthy mother-son relationship is not that simple when it comes to matters of humane duty. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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CLASSICS: TOKYO STORY — TALK BACK WITH ALBERT HAND A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

ENEMY Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his Prisoners director, Academy Award nominee Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Mélanie Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. Gyllenhaal is transfixing as both Adam and Anthony, provoking empathy as well as disapproval while embodying two distinct personas. With masterfully controlled attention to detail, Villeneuve takes us on an enigmatic and gripping journey through a world that is both familiar and strange - and hard to shake off long after its final, unnerving image. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Boulder Weekly

when a handful of individualists settle on the same small island seeking their own distinct and sometimes clashing notions of Eden. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

ERNEST & CELESTINE Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hard-working mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer — and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put to the test by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities. Magical and funny, Ernest & Celestine joyfully leaps across genres, propelled with brilliant comic timing, to capture the kinetic possibilities of animated storytelling. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN Darwin meets Hitchcock in this feature-length documentary. The Galapagos Affair is a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands. Featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Gustaf Skarsgard and Josh Radnor, this film skillfully interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers (a handful of Europeans, Americans and Ecuadoreans who settled idiosyncratically on the Islands between the 1930s and 1960s). As such, it is a parable about the search for paradise -- about what happens

LEVIATHAN One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, from the directors of Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts, Leviathan is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast — the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick — the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail. Employing an arsenal of cameras that pass freely from film crew to ship crew, and swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird’s-eye views, Leviathan is unlike anything you have ever seen; a purely visceral, cinematic experience. Thu April 24, Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series

OPERA: LA BOHEME — SALZBURG FESTIVAL One of the operas performed most frequently all over the world, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème has its grand premiere in 2012 at the Salzburg Festival – its brilliance already ensured by the star cast led by conductor Daniele Gatti. As in a film, scenes, images and impressions flit past the viewer. Like snapshots, momentary images record the pact of friendship between four young individualists in the metropolis of Paris: Rodolfo writing, Colline philosophizing, Marcello painting, and Schaunard, who has turned towards music. Into this artists’ idyll, Rodolfo introduces fragile Mimì – who, however, does not seem cut out for the life of the bohemians. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater OBVIOUS CHILD For aspiring comedian Donna Stern, everyday life as a female twenty-something provides ample material for her incredibly relatable brand of humor. On stage, Donna is unapologetically herself, joking about topics as intimate as her sex life and as crude as her day-old underwear. But when Donna gets dumped, loses her job, and finds herself pregnant just in time for Valentine’s Day, she has to navigate the murky waters of independent adulthood for the first time. As she grapples with an uncertain financial future, an unwanted pregnancy, and a surprising new suitor, Donna begins to discover that the most terrifying thing about adulthood isn’t facing it all on her own. It’s allowing herself to accept the support and love of others. And be truly vulnerable. Never failing to find the comedy and humanity in each awkward situation she encounters, Donna finds out along the way what it means to be as brave in life as she is on stage. April 21 only, Muenzinger Auditorium. International Film Series Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 24, 2014 49

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very decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 masterpiece, Tokyo Story, which will play at The Dairy Center as a part of Classic at The Boe series on Sunday, April 27th at 4:00 p.m. If you haven’t heard of it, don’t worry. Though Tokyo Story was made when film fans were eating up the works of Akira Kurosawa, Ozu was deemed “too Japanese” and his work remained dormant on the Western stage for years. The persistent writings of film critics Donald Richie, David Bordwell and Roger Ebert brought exposure to Ozu films, but it was Ozu and his gentle nature that made the movies so timeless. Ozu’s films deal with middle-class people, focusing primarily on family dramas with a universal and timeless appeal. Tokyo Story is over 50 years old, depicts a foreign land and culture, and yet continues to resonate with audiences far and wide. Tokyo Story is quietly simple: Two elderly parents leave their small country town to visit their children in the city. The children are happy to see them, but too busy with their jobs and their own children to pay them any real attention. The parents feel guilty about being in the way and the children feel guilty for neglecting them. Manners keep everyone from stating the obvious. The children decide to send them to a hot springs spa for a vacation, but the parents decide to go home. On the train ride home, the mother grows ill and

dies, and the children must make a trip. A summation of the movie makes it sound intolerably sad, and it is a sad movie, but only because it invokes genuine empathy. Consider the scene where the mother watches her grandson playing in a field. She wonders if he will grow up to be a doctor. She then wonders if she will live to see it. She won’t, and the look on her face conveys that in a way that words simply can’t. The Japanese call this “mono no aware” or “a bittersweet passing of things” and Ozu finds the right moments to strike this chord. After the mother’s funeral, two of the daughters discuss their siblings, mother and father until the younger one says, “Isn’t life disappointing?” The older one nods, “Yes, it is.” Yasujirô Ozu directed Tokyo Story as well as co-authoring the script. His style is unique and may seem off-putting to the casual moviegoer, but it quickly becomes invisible and quite effective. His camera is positioned three feet off the ground and remains stationary. When characters have a conversation, Ozu films them talking directly to the camera. This allows them to talk to us and occasionally for us. What these children and these parents on the screen go through, we shall go through too. Of the 54 films Ozu made in his 60 years, Tokyo Story is the acknowledged masterpiece, which makes it an excellent starting point to the rest of his oeuvre. For those familiar, this screening will be a special event, thanks to an included talkback session with Albert Hand, a member of the film selection committee for The Boe. Tickets and more information are available at thedairy.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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s a red-blooded American beer enthusiast with deep roots in beer culture, I got a little riled up when I read a press release a few months ago from a group of brewers concerned about the potential impacts of fracking to their water supplies. In all, 36 brewers signed a letter to Gov. John Hickenlooper, mildly (and vaguely) expressing concern about energy development impacts to the state’s craft-brewing industry. Specifically, the brewers asked Hickenlooper to strike a better balance between energy development and resource protection by supporting more stringent rules for fracking and other fossil fuel development. Though there’s no fracking in my immediate area, and no imminent proposals to do any drilling, I decided to call one of the Summit County brewers on the list to see if there’s was a threat to my favorite high country brews. “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” said Rick Tork, manager of the Frisco Backcountry Brewery, when asked why he signed the letter. He went on to suggest that his brewery has a “special” pipeline that delivers water straight from a pristine backcountry source — which, of course, is a bit of a stretch. All the municipal water lines are well-mapped and documented in

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Right around the same time the Colorado brewers wrote to Gov. Hickenlooper, Germany’s powerful brewing trade association warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that many water sources for brewing could be threatened under national fracking legislation proposed by the government. The German trade association is no bunch of screaming greenies, either, but a mainstream lobbying group representing a Connect with us multimillion dollar industry that’s part of nearly every German’s daily life. A spokesman for the group put his finger on the crux of the problem when he told Reuters, “You cannot be sure that the water won’t be polluted by chemicals, so we have urged the government to carry out more research before it goes ahead with a fracking see FRACKING BEER Page 54

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For one, we still don’t know exactly what various companies use when they inject fluids deep into the earth to shake loose the shale gas. While Colorado’s disclosure laws have been hailed as groundbreaking, there are still some huge loopholes, allowing companies to keep many proprietary ingredients secret. This is a huge problem because it means that, when you try to find a toxic spill, you don’t even know what you’re looking for. There may not be much stomach for it in an election year, but a national disclosure standard, certified and monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency, would be the best way to track potential impacts. We don’t know how many leaks and potential problems are going undetected because the state’s enforcement and monitoring arm is chronically short on resources. On-the-ground inspections don’t happen nearly as often as they should, and a few well-publicized enforcement actions resulting in significant penalties would be a sure deterrent. Despite all their best efforts geologists and hydrologists still can’t trace every connection between surface and groundwater —think of McElligot’s Pool, a Dr. Seuss classic that vividly shows the connections between a bucolic country pond and the distant oceans. That means if something does leak from a fracking operation, we can’t be 100 percent sure where it will end up. Without knowing that, we can’t honestly say that there’s no threat to water used by Colorado brewers. The only answer is much more extensive monitoring and testing, an idea that’s anathema to the

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What we do know We know that further development of fossil fuel resources poses an existential threat to humanity, with the potential for catastrophic climate change. That in itself justifies the concerns expressed by Colorado brewers. Paradoxically, it also suggests that the debate over potential threats to beer are misleading, because it really should be a more fundamental question of whether we should even be considering more drilling. We also know that extractive industries in Colorado have a long sordid history of boom-bust cycles. The closest parallel is the mining industry, which recklessly exploited the state’s natural resources, leaving behind a toxic legacy of thousands of abandoned mines and streams polluted with heavy metals from acid mine drainage. Times have changed. Environmental oversight is better and even the most hard-hearted energy company executive wouldn’t cut corners on environmental protection in the face of shareholder pressure for profit, right? Not like those BP officials who may have knowingly approved a faulty installation at the company’s failed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. There’s a growing body of evidence that even limited exposure to the soup of fracking chemicals is bad. It’s kind of a no-brainer, but the documented science always lags behind reality in this area — think Thalidomide or DDT, or, more recently, the persistent organic pollutants that are turning fish into transexuals. So give the brewers some credit when they ask Gov. Hickenlooper to strike a better balance between energy development and conservation. There may not be a fracked well directly outside the door of your favorite brewpub, but the concerns address a more fundamental question: Do we want to live in an industrialized landscape dominated by fossil fuel impacts, or can we find a more sustainable future, with an economy based on sustainable use of natural resources? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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In no order, here are three of the greatest things ever: movies, beer and food. And come fall, they’ll all be mashed up together to form best-things-ever-Voltron, or its actual name, The Flatirons Food Film Festival. The festival will take over CU’s International Film Series beginning October 16, with showings of food-related films and documentaries at CU’s Muenzinger Auditorium. Expect to salivate. Stay tuned, as Boulder Weekly will be following this story closely as it develops.

LINDSAY’S BOULDER DELI CLOSED FOR RENOVATION

Diners and mallrats alike might notice something absent as they stroll down Pearl Street this week. Lindsay’s Boulder Deli, which occupies the choice corner spot at Pearl and Broadways streets, has closed its doors for a 2-month renovation. The lack of sandwiches and fresh soups announced daily has avid followers flocking to their website and Facebook page to express their outrage at the twomonth abandonment period, which just goes to show that it’s true what they say: you really don’t know what you have till it’s gone. The local beloved deli will open back up again in early June. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he first thing you need to know about The Cheese Course is that it’s almost absurdly pleasant. Outside, the sun roasts the asphalt of the parking lot as the traffic roars through the intersection of Folsom and Arapahoe, but inside you are hit with a blast of Tommy Dorsey on the stereo, a whiff of gouda in the noseholes and the clean, simple and naturally-lit design of a European country market, complete with a long hardwood table and a broad selection of cheeses and snacking accoutrements as a feast for the eyes. It’s almost a cheese similar to parmesan, but better for slicing). two-day spa vacation just to step in the front door. The balance of the olives and the manchego was But just hanging around in the doorway breathjust the right level of tart and salty. ing deep is a great way to creep people out. So you’ll Obviously, the menu has a variety of different probably want to order something grilled cheese sandwiches. Choose once you’re in. Lucky for you, the from an aged English cheddar, asiaThe Cheese Course menu is a bit of terrific as well. go and fontina, jalapeño Monterey 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Keeping to the European theme, Jack or brie. Get the most out of Boulder the menu has a Basque region empha- 720-536-5228 that sandwich by pairing it with a sis, with simple sandwiches, soups and soup. The menu recommends the salads, many of their flavors built tomato bisque, which is the obvious around their various cheeses. choice. The Spanish serrano ham sandwich ($10.99) I Slightly less obvious is the Buffalo-style soup ordered came on a baguette, an olive tapenade, with ($3.99 for a cup, $5.99 for a bowl), a lightly spicy balsamic vinegar and greens delicately layered atop cream soup with chunks of chicken and garnished ham, and a fine manchego cheese (a rich, hard with a fine blue cheese. It’s sweet and tart and per-

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fect for dipping. To get a little roughage in there, I ordered the roasted beet salad ($6.99 for a half and $9.99 for a whole), which consisted of spring mix dusted with goat cheese, sliced oranges, strawberries, pine-nuts and came with a ramekin of honey-tarragon vinaigrette. Its fresh zest was as perfectly balanced as the saltiness of the sandwich. I could have eaten that salad in that seat listening to that version of “Chatanooga Choo Choo” all day long. But sadly, I had to get back to the office to write this review. But I’m fairly sure I’ll be back for one of The Cheese Course’s cheese sampler platters, which come with a series of regionally-grouped cheese served with your choice of sides for $15.90. If you don’t like the existing platters, you can make your own. There are over 100 cheeses and a dozen side dishes to choose from. Normally I’d pity a restaurant that opened up directly in between Rincon Argentino and Yellowbelly, two of my local favorites. That restaurant would be fated to be nothing more than the place I walked past as I went into those other restaurants for lunch. But given its pleasant atmosphere, affordable lunch combos and fresh, Basque flavor palettes, walking past would be an exercise in restraint. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Palcohol, developed by the privately held company Lipsmark, becomes an alcoholic beverage with the addition of five ounces of water. Or as the company suggests, it can even be sprinkled on food to give it that extra something. Not suggested by the company — but probably suggested by Mötley Crüe — was snorting it like a Pixie Stick. Lipsmark planned to market the products toward concertgoers to combat high drink prices at concerts, and promoted the ease of transporting the product for outdoor activities and traveling. But the government backed out a day after the news hit the net. Lipsmark released a statement that their labels were the reason for the renege because the labels indicated the wrong amount specifications for the powder within the package. Look out world, Lipsmark is now hoping to get their product in liquor stores by fall.

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Sanitas Brewing unveiled the new Déluge, the first installment in their collection of wild and sour barrel-aged beers to the public on April 19. The brewery’s blog says the new beer is named after the French word for “downpour” as a tribute to those affected by the floods that plagued Colorado in September because that was the same time the beer was placed in recently emptied oak red wine barrels for fermentation. The Déluge is described by the brewery as a hazy-gold, aromatic saison with layers of tart pineapple, lemon, oak and funk. The Déluge offers a dry, refreshing finish and has a 6.8 percent alcohol content. The time to try this unique beer is limited because of demand and small batch size. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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You remind me of a garden plot that has recently been plowed and rained on. Now the sun is out. The air is warm. Your dirt is wet and fertile. The feeling is a bit unsettled because the stuff that was below ground got churned up to the top. Instead of a flat surface, you’ve got furrows. But the overall mood is expectant. Blithe magic is in the air. Soon it will be time to grow new life. Oh, but just one thing is missing: The seeds have yet to be sewn. That’s going to happen very soon. Right?

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Here’s an excerpt from “Celestial Music,” a poem by Louise Gluck: “I’m like the child who buries / her head in the pillow / so as not to see, the child who tells herself / that light causes sadness.” One of your main assignments in the coming weeks, Gemini, is not to be like that child. It’s true that gazing at what the light reveals may shatter an illusion or two, but the illumination you will be blessed with will ultimately be more valuable than gold.

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Does Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt run faster than any person alive? As far as we know, yes. He holds three world records and has won six Olympic gold medals. Even when he’s a bit off his game, he’s the best. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he set the all-time mark for the 100meter race — 9.69 seconds — despite the fact that one of his shoelaces was untied and he slowed down to celebrate before reaching the finish line. Like you, Bolt is a Leo. I’m making him both your role model and your anti-role model for the foreseeable future. You have the power to achieve something approaching his levels of excellence in your own field — especially if you double-check to make sure your shoelace is never untied and especially if you don’t celebrate victory before it’s won.

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In his unpublished book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins new words that convey experiences our language has not previously accounted for. One that may apply to you sometime soon is “trumspringa,” which he defines as “the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin.” To be overtaken by trumspringa doesn’t necessarily mean you will literally run away and be a shepherd. In fact, giving yourself the luxury of considering such wild possibilities may be a healing release that allows you to be at peace with the life you are actually living.

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The potential turning points that might possibly erupt in the coming days will not become actual turning points unless you work hard to activate them. They will be subtle and brief, so you will have to be very alert to notice them at all, and you will have to move quickly before they fade away. Here’s another complication: These incipient turning points probably won’t resemble any turning points you’ve seen before. They may come in the form of a lucky accident, a blessed mistake, a happy breakdown, a strange healing, a wicked gift, or a perfect weakness.

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My interpretation of this week’s astrological data might sound eccentric, even weird. But you know what? Sometimes life is — or at least should be — downright unpredictable. After much meditation, I’ve concluded that the most important message you can send to the universe is to fly a pair of underpants from the top of a flagpole. You heard me. Take down the flag that’s up there, and run the skivvies right up to the top. Whose underpants should you use? Those belonging to someone you adore, of course. And what is the deeper meaning behind this apparently irrational act? What exactly is life asking from you? Just this: Stop making so much sense all the time — especially when it comes to cultivating your love and expressing your passion.

AQUARIUS

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You need to take some time out to explore the deeper mysteries of snuggling, cuddling, and nuzzling. In my opinion, that is your sacred duty. It’s your raison d’etre, your ne plus ultra, your sine qua non. You’ve got to nurture your somatic wisdom with what we in the consciousness industry refer to as yummy warm fuzzy wonder love. At the very least, you should engage in some prolonged hugging with a creature you feel close to. Tender physical touch isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity.

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Your body contains about four octillion atoms. That’s four with 27 zeroes after it. Believe it or not, 200 billion of that total were once inside the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. For that matter, an average of 200 billion atoms of everyone who has ever lived and died is part of you. I am not making this up. (See the mathematical analysis here: http://tinyurl.com/AtomsFromEveryone.) As far as your immediate future is concerned, Pisces, I’m particularly interested in that legacy from King. If any of his skills as a great communicator are alive within you, you will be smart to call on them. Now is a time for you to express high-minded truths in ways that heal schisms, bridge gaps, and promote unity. Just proceed on the assumption that it is your job to express the truth with extra clarity, candor, and grace.

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midst all the lunacy over the see it as a place where people will be pretty much shut out unless they stay weekend — Snoop Dogg at able to gather and meet, listen to intiwith friends or find a cannabis-friendly Red Rocks on the evening mate live music, play games or otherhotel, motel or rental, and 2) responsibefore Easter services, the wise just enjoy the presence of other ble parents who don’t want their chillong lines at the High Times cannabis users without the stigma that dren exposed to cannabis or their use of Cannabis Cup, the massive and orderly has accompanied cannabis use during it. annual Denver 4/20 celebration and the its prohibition. Several private clubs and collectives now annual 4/20 lock-out at CU — The opening also brings into clearer opened around the state soon after another historic first took place. It hap- focus a question for a state that has Amendment 64 passed, including the pened quietly on Sunday at 4:20 p.m. legalized cannabis. It’s great that no one Hive Co-Op in Lafayette, but ran afoul (or thereabouts) in Nederland. will ever be arrested for possession in of one regulation or another. There are Club Ned, the first legal private Colorado. But currently, though you private events for cannabis users — the club where you can use cannabis in the can purchase and use it, there is literally Cannabis Cup was one — and Club 64 state, officially opened. It was an emonowhere to go to enjoy cannabis in convenes in different venues around tional moment. The ribbon was cut by public, or more importantly, with other Denver. But Club Ned is the first club Nicole, the 24-year-old daughter of people, in much the same way that tav- to open in one location. owners Cheryl and Twenty-six-year resiDavid Fanelli, amid a dents of Nederland, the IS SMALL AND COZY, A COUPLE OF small crowd of people Fanellis owned and operwho had come from as ated Ned Meds, a medical ROOMS, SOME TABLES AND CHAIRS AND A PLACE close as Boulder and as marijuana dispensary, in WHERE YOU CAN PURCHASE COFFEE, TEA AND far away as Alabama to 2009 and 2010 before PASTRIES. celebrate the occasion. closing in the wake of the Nicole, who developed passage of HB 1284. Guillain-Barre syn“We’re just a mom-anddrome almost two pop business,” says Cheryl years ago, cut the ribFenelli. “We didn’t have bon while standing on investors when we decidcrutches. And the opening marked the erns allow people to drink and congreed this was what we wanted to to do. end of almost 15 months of family gate around liquor and beer. It’s one of We went to the authorities, told them, planning, revising, haggling, working the major differences between Colorado ‘this is what we would like to do, and is out legal details and getting the buildand Amsterdam, which has never legal- there a way to make this happen?’ ” ing in shape for this moment. ized cannabis but allows it to be sold They’ve already been written up in Club Ned is small and cozy, a couand consumed in sanctioned shops. Forbes magazine and contacted by 60 ple of rooms, some tables and chairs And let’s face it, it’s a question that Minutes. They were approached to star and a place where you can purchase Colorado and Washington will have to in a reality show, a project for which coffee, tea and pastries. People just walk face up to sooner or later. they had no interest. up and introduce themselves, and the There are many good reasons for Boulder attorney Jeff Gard acts as atmosphere is as genial and warm as people to want to consume outside of legal counsel to the Fanellis. After conthe wood stove in the middle. Club their own or friend’s places, not the sulting with them, he says they narNed feels like Nederland. The Fanellis least of which are 1) tourists, who are rowed the problem down to two issues.

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He remembered being in an VFW lodge where everybody was smoking inside. Gard noted the exception to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act that allows for “a place of employment that is not open to the public and that is under control of an employer that employs three or fewer employees.” There was some opposition to their plans in town, but in the end “everybody worked with us,” Fanelli says. “We’re very flexible, and we tried to make everybody happy. We talked with everybody, and Nederland was behind us. We talked to a lot of people to find what they would like to see and what they would not like to see.” The second issue was that Nederland statutes didn’t allow private clubs in the zone where the building is located. So the Fanellis petitioned for a change, which was granted by the city Board of Trustees earlier this year. They’ve spent the last weeks getting everything ready for the opening. Gard sees more clubs like this opening as the legal barriers fall. “All of the problems they’re having with public consumption and the complaints they’re getting,” Gard says. “We have a solution.” Club Ned Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7-11 p.m. Daily club fees vary, depending on time of day and entertainment at night. If you’re interested in visiting, “we’ll try to take people as they come,” Fanelli says. “But it doesn’t hurt to call first.” Location and information on Club Ned on Facebook. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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