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Second-class citizens I am a hiker and commuter cyclist, not a mountain biker, but I completely agree with Stewart Sallo’s article “Bikes and ’boarders” (Stew’s Views, March 24). Mountain bikers seem to be seen as second-class citizens by the hiking establishment. They should have reasonable access to trails, and especially a connection to Eldorado Springs. If a route from Chautauqua is not feasible, one could be constructed from Shanahan Ridge along the South Shanahan and Lower Big Bluestem Trails. Paul Siegtler/Boulder

Mission creep I began cycling in 1970 when my high school in Palo Alto, Calif., initiated hair-above-the-ears policies for sports teams. Fortunately, my Palo Alto High School was just across the street from Stanford’s 14,000 acres and gateway to the Santa Cruz mountains — sound familiar? I rode a three-speed my grandmother won at a church raffle, followed by working up the $300 for a hand-crafted Pogliaghi Italian job which was just the thing to savor county roads, including flying through a complex set of curves near Joan Baez’s cabin and later near where renowned bike designer Tom Ritchey set up shop. Not long before I left the Bay Area in the early 1990s, just above Tom’s Ranch was a pond at the junction of Page

Mill/West Alpine on Skyline Boulevard, an equivalent to Boulder County’s Peak-to-Peak Highway that had been bought by the regional open space district from folks that used to let us swim there among natural grasses and pond lilies. Up there with a girlfriend on a

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ood news, people: America’s wages are up — the average worker is making more today than a year ago! How much more, you ask? Get ready to be excited: 58 cents a week. Of course, averages don’t tell the whole story. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith graphically explained the problem of averages with a story about a six-foot tall man who drowned when wading across a stream with an average depth of three feet. Similarly, while average workers are trying to decide how to spend those extra five dimes, a nickel and three pennies they’re getting each week, your average CEO is wallowing in an extra $860,000 this year over last. That’s just the increase in their bonuses. It does not include their multimillion-dollar salaries, which

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A Mickey Mouse wage hike by Jim Hightower are also up, nor their golden pensions, free health care, limousines, corporate jets, etc. And, as you might imagine, many corporate chieftains did much better than average in their bonus checks. Take Robert Iger of Walt Disney Inc. He pocketed a bonus of $13.5 million this year, 45 percent more than he got a year ago. Well, explained his PR agent, bonuses provide incentives for excellent executive performance, and Iger deserves his riches this year because Disney’s

ripped up the top of lightly traveled Alpine Road so they could insert a large-diameter galvanized walking culvert under the road for a new 15-car parking lot. The grounds leading down to the pond had been crushed and were see LETTERS Page 6

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still hammered down by the bulldozers necessary to insert the culvert; the site of course was complete with signs suggesting just what was now acceptable at this treasured and serene example of nature’s finest. I came in on the West TSA discussions that have perhaps reached a similar saturation point. Now one may listen to the rantings of an aging collection of Boulderites who may or may not have had similar experiences, apparently long ago since forgotten. Yes, urban Front Range Colorado is becoming more crowded, but no need to panic just yet! Pirate “Angry Ranger Trail” rediscovered by rangers on Flagstaff just days before the West TSA final vote, come now? How many tree-hugging, mostly over-educated cyclists riding bikes that cost a small fortune do this sort of thing? If caught, rangers have the option of taking away their bikes and fining them. ... Night use of any kind in the open space? Is this a problem? Are we now moving on to wearing name tags certifying and specifying just what we’re doing out there? Well, we went from parking meters on our busy commercial streets to more signs in many parts of town specifying allowed parking times to credit card-capable meter stations in pay-for-parking zones to video systems and radar vans dispensing tickets to computer-driven monitoring systems that can tell if our cars are overdue in at their parking locations, and police cars with automatic video systems that check for warrants and issues through license records — all in the name of progress. Is this the stuff of our buffering open space? Last Saturday, I rolled into the overfilled Dowdy Draw and South Mesa parking lots on Eldorado Springs Road. As usual, there weren’t many trail users of any kind more than a mile out, which reaffirmed my thinking on a possible solution. My utilitarian proposal to send to Boulder City Council was to use an already existing open space gate and trailhead halfway down Greenbriar near Smugglers Way, just above the vast meadow south of town, for a new multi-use trail over to the South Mesa and Dowdy Draw parking lots on Eldorado Canyon Road (park by South Boulder Rec Center if necessary). Why Shanahan Ridge folks object to cyclists and others accessing the larger south open space area seems to miss the crux of one of the larger problems. No traction on this one! Commuting to and from Eldorado Springs on bikes, kids playing safely near Shanahan, dogs, etc.? Yes! Get with it, dog lovers, cyclists, horsey people, night walkers! Elect or better influence representatives who will find solutions more of us approve of. We 6 April 7, 2011

all treasure the open space, and it will continue to serve us while protecting nature. Yes, I’d take 2.7 miles of trail across the “cow grazing meadow” below Greenbriar, and I expect it would be enjoyed by most. Robert Moore/Boulder

Obama breaks his word In a Dec. 20, 2007, interview with the Boston Globe, presidential candidate Barack Obama is quoted as saying, “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” But now that he’s president, Obama is directly contradicting that. He has unilaterally authorized a military attack against Libya — without consulting with Congress, as is required by the 1973 War Powers Resolution. And under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war. Even President Bush had the decency to consult with Congress before attacking Iraq (although Congress didn’t declare war, which should have been a prerequisite). So, Obama has now established that he is worse than Bush on the matter of “wars of choice.” Is this the type of hope and change we wanted? Libertarians don’t think so. Yes, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi is a monster, and libertarians would cheer his ouster. But Libya hasn’t attacked the United States, nor is it a national security threat. The Constitution should not be trashed by the president. Nor can we afford yet another unconstitutional war. Stop the war! Chuck Wright/Westminster

How to save the Earth It is estimated that if the whole world were consuming as much as the wealthy countries are consuming, we would have to use up five Earths. To increase the world’s sustainability, the wealthy need to shift to smaller, more efficient homes, i.e. multi-family units. Also, we should make sure that rangefed meat isn’t from animals over-grazing. Alexander Michael Sokolow/Santa Monica, Calif.

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here seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan

rebels. That’s strange, because arming and training the Libyan rebels should be a no-brainer — for at least eight reasons: 1. They are doing the Lord’s work — assuming you believe the Lord (aka Yahweh, aka Allah) endowed men with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the right to take down deranged tyrants who have become abusive of those rights. 2. They are fighting to take down Gaddafi, who apart from being an enemy of liberty, democracy and term limits, is a vicious enemy of the United States who will be an orders-of-magnitude worse enemy if he survives. 3. If they are not armed and, more importantly, trained, they will lose. 4. If they lose, the United States loses. NATO loses. The pro-democracy movement sweeping the Arab world loses. The Arab world’s tyrants will win. They will know they can put down mass protests with mass murder and that the world will let them get away with it. 5. Everyone who said “never again” after Srebrenica, after Darfur, after Rwanda, after the Holocaust, will lose. The world’s dictators will have one more reason to believe — as if they don’t have enough already — that the

people who say “never again” never mean it. 6. If the Libyan rebels lose, Obama loses, because if Gaddafi stays in power, Obama won’t. When picking presidents, Americans don’t reward failure, as Herbert Hoover (the Depression), Harry Truman (Korea), Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam) and Jimmy Carter (Iran hostages) found out. That alone should make arming the Libyan rebels the Obama administration’s job one. 7. Arming and training the Libyan rebels can be done without sending American ground troops into Libya. If the folks in Washington are so set against having the U.S. Army’s boots on the ground, they should give the company formerly known as Blackwater, or some of its many competitors, a call. 8. Arming and training the Libyan rebels is the best way to ensure that Libya won’t go Islamist. It’s all but certain that there are Muslim Brothers, alQaida members and assorted other Salafists and jihadists hanging around the Libyan revolution, just as there were Bolsheviks hanging around the Russian revolution in 1917, and there is no guarantee that, like the Bolsheviks, they won’t take over. But there is a lot less chance of that happening if the U.S. is actively siding with the revolution and helping it succeed by providing it with the tools it needs to do so. It might drive the folks at the see LIBYA Page 8

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Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center wild to say it, but the principal way that nations that have arms industries gain influence and clout in nations that don’t is by selling them arms. Good thing, too. The U.S. was able to persuade the Egyptian military to not turn Tahrir Square into Tiananmen Square in no small part because the Egyptian military was Americanarmed, American-trained and American-sustained. Supplying arms and help to a revolution can lead to enduring alliances. Consider our relationship with the French, who sold us guns during the revolution and showed up with a fleet off Yorktown in 1782 to enforce a no-sail zone. It was the start of a beautiful friendship. The surest way to ensure that we will have some influence in Libya after Gaddafi is out is to become the revolution’s armorer before he goes. And a sure-fire way to ensure we have no influence in Libya after Gaddafi goes, and to open the door to the Islamists, is to turn our backs on the democratic forces in the country while the fate of their revolution — and it is currently their revolution, not the Islamists’ — hangs in the balance. But aren’t the Libyan rebels no

more than a stunningly incompetent rabble in arms? Maybe, but chances are good that properly arming them and teaching them some rudimentary military skills can accomplish wonders. If you doubt this, consider our own revolution. In 1775, America’s rebels were about as ragtag as they come. (How ragtag? Consult the lyrics to Yankee Doodle.) The first couple years of the American Revolution saw more panicked retreats and humiliating routs than American victories, and the American army that went into winter quarters (such as they were) at Valley Forge in 1778 was still a little better than a rabble in arms. Fortunately, a foreign trainer and advisor showed up in the person of Friedrich von Steuben and taught the continental army some basic military skills. After that, things began to turn around. The Libyan rebels are the product of a popular uprising. They don’t have to be convinced of the value of regime change and democracy. Their revolution is explicitly calling for those things, and they volunteered to fight for them. Those are the sort of revolutionaries that most deserve our help and can most benefit from it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Spaw days for Japan Bring your pooch to Boulder’s Natural Animal Hospital for a day of pampering on Saturday, April 16, and spoil Fido for a good cause. Half of the proceeds from each “Spaw” day purchase will be given to the Red Cross to support relief efforts related to the earthquake in Japan and subsequent tsunami. The other half of proceeds will benefit the World Vets volunteer organization, which works for animal relief efforts around the globe. For $5, your furry four-legged pal can receive such services as a canine massage from Lisa Simmerman at StellaEarth, a professional pedicure treatment with optional nail polish, coat brushing treatment, take-home bandana, professional photo portrait by Marsha Steckling from Evie Photography and fresh-baked doggie cookies from Paws Barkery. Boulder’s Natural Animal Hospital and Out-U-Go! will match all funds collected up to $500. The event will also feature food, beverages, music and raffle items from Boulder businesses. Boulder’s Natural Animal Hospital is located at 685 S. Broadway (in the Table Mesa Shopping Center), and the event runs from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.bouldersnaturalanimal.com. Donate to Safehouse Local acupuncturists Theresa Ugalde and Barbara Mahler of the Apothica Studio are teaming up with NAYA Organics and several other local businesses on April 23 to host an open house and raffle to benefit Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN). SPAN is the domestic violence intervention and prevention program serving Boulder and Broomfield Counties. The event will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. at Apothica, at 735 Poplar Ave. in Boulder. Each guest at the open house will be able to purchase as many raffle tickets as they like to enter to win gift certificates from Apothica Studio, DollHouse Studio, Purple Flower Spa and NAYA Organics. All of the businesses donating are woman-owned and –operated, and all of the proceeds from the raffle will go to SPAN. “Each year SPAN has to raise more than $1.5 million to be able to continue

offering services and support to domestic violence survivors and their children,” said SPAN Development Director Alexandra Lynch. “We can’t do this alone — we rely on the support of the entire community. And events like this open house are a wonderful way to reach new people, raise more awareness, create more community.” Pupusas Sabor Hispano restaurant in north Boulder will be providing appetizers, and North Boulder Liquor is donating wine. Kelsey Riley, owner of NAYA Organics, will also have her product line for sale at the event, and will be donating 15 percent of sales to SPAN. Solar grant deadline extended The application deadline for City of Boulder Solar Grant Funds has been extended to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19. The City of Boulder Solar Grant Fund (formerly known as the ClimateSmart Solar Grant Fund) is dedicated to providing financial assistance through grants toward installation of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems on housing in the city’s permanently affordable housing program; lower-income housing developed and/or owned by nonprofit organizations; and facilities of nonprofit organizations. The program is funded by revenue generated through a solar rebate ordinance that the Boulder City Council approved in 2006. The city collects taxes on the sales and installation of solar technologies, using the revenue to fund the City of Boulder Solar Grant Fund and to provide sales-tax rebates to those who pay solar sales and use taxes. Approximately $150,000 is currently available for solar grants. Since the first grant cycle in March 2008, a total of $232,784 has been awarded to nonprofit organizations and homeowners participating in the city’s affordable housing program. The grant funds have resulted in improvements that save approximately $38,000 annually and prevent about 265 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted per year. For applications and more program information, visit the city’s Solar Rebate and Grant Programs website at http://1.usa.gov/ig5DCJ. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Six-pack of cold ones In the latest wave of religion-based hate clogging our fair state’s political process, six middle-aged state representatives are responsible for the latest assault on civil rights in Colorado. Last week, Colorado senators voted yes on a bill that would legalize civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado, and they passed it to the House Judiciary Committee. Thanks to that committee’s six Republicans, that bill is now dead. The 6-5 vote was split along party lines. The bill almost certainly would have passed had it reached a vote on the House floor. But those GOP representatives, whose party won a powerful edge in House committees after the 2010 elections netted them a measly 33-32 majority, robbed gay Coloradans the decency of a floor vote by banding together to kill the bill in committee. The bill’s sponsors, Rep. Mark Ferrandino and Sen. Pat Steadman, both openly gay Democrats, were publicly optimistic about the bill’s chances in front of the entire assembly, as three Republicans voted for the bill as it breezed through the Senate on a 32-13 vote. There was a very, very good chance that a Republican would join Democrats in voting for the bill. Gov. John Hickenlooper, who rarely comments on pending legislation, has publicly supported the bill and urged the committee to send it to the floor. The biggest hurdle was getting past the family values crew on the House Judiciary Committee, to which the bill was assigned. Sadly, that hurdle was too high. Here are the six Republicans who voted to maintain second-class status for gay Coloradans: Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs; Rep. Mark Barker, R-Colorado Springs; Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling; Rep. Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs; Rep. B.J. Nikkel, R-Loveland; and Rep. Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland. Fifty years from now, our grandchildren will look back at how our era treated gays with the same embarrassment with which we now view Jim Crow laws. The voices of ignorance and bigotry should be ignored in our state and any other. That a former aide to Marilyn Musgrave (Nikkel), a guy (Sonnenberg) who knowingly hired a man accused of Internet luring and attempted enticement of a child (and Boulder Weekly

was later convicted), a Domino’s Pizza franchisee (DelGrosso) and three Colorado Springs lawmakers could decide the legal fate of same-sex partnerships in Colorado is a tragedy. Thanks to those six politicians, Colorado, once again, has ended up on the wrong side of history. Coffman’s latest grandstanding It was pretty amusing to watch the posturing on the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare last month. Predictably, Colorado Democratic Party Chair Rick Palacio issued a statement lauding the many new patient protections and benefits that have already taken effect, like the prohibition against insurance companies denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions. Equally predictably, goofball Republicans like Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman chided the legislation as “a costly failure.” Coffman latched onto the claim that ObamaCare will cost 8.6 percent more than originally estimated, and he called for its repeal. But Palacio rightly points out that repealing the act “would add over a trillion dollars to the national debt and put the lives of Coloradans back in the hands of health care lobbyists and the insurance industry.” Coffman’s grandstanding came just a week after he issued his boneheaded statement about why Congress should vote to defund NPR. His argument for yanking the news outlet’s funding was such a blatant lie that it nearly rivals the “budget cut” excuse used by CU administrators when they eliminated a certain faculty/staff newspaper based on its editorial content. Coffman’s lofty justification? He’s just concerned about the government influencing the media, of course. “In a free society, the government must never be engaged in sponsoring media outlets because there will always be the temptation by those in power to exercise their political influence on the direction of the reporting.” What a joke. As if he’s really more concerned about protecting the independence of the Fourth Estate than eliminating a left-leaning voice, further dwindling the number and diversity of media outlets not owned by massive corporate chains. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen the county’s ClimateSmart loan program was suspended last year, it left hundreds of local homeowners holding the bag — a bag they now need to fill with money. The program allowed property owners to get low-interest loans for energy-related improvements with little or no money down. But federal regulators pulled the plug on the program last summer, saying the financing was too risky. So now property owners must pay off those loans when the property is sold — or even refinanced, if they have enough equity. However, there may be an end in sight. There are efforts under way from the county level to the federal level to restore funding for ClimateSmart and similar programs around the country. Some speculate that politics surrounding the debate over climate change and global warming may have had something to do with the decision to yank funding from the energy program, but those close to the negotiations say it was simply a question of federal regula-

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tors having a low tolerance for any perceived risk, fresh off the near-collapse of the country’s banking industry.

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE In 2009, Boulder County latched onto a stellar idea that was beneficial for homeowners’ pockets, the environment and maybe even banks. It was an idea that got its start in two California cities, an idea in which homeowners could take out an additional loan on their homes to fund energy-efficient and renewable-energy upgrades like insulation and solar panels. The loan was a first lien, meaning it had priority over the regular mortgage and repayments were made along with property taxes. Even more important, it traveled with the property, not with the holder of the loan. It allowed cash-strapped homeowners to get a loan for attractive terms and save on their energy bills, all while reducing greenhouse gases. It seemed too good to be true, and maybe it was. It all changed on June 29, 2010, when the county had to cancel its third round of residential financing due to a mandate from fed-

eral banking regulators that essentially precluded such loans from being funded due to concerns that they were too risky. Almost $9.8 million had already been issued to 632 people, who on average received about $15,500 for their improvements. As of March 11, only 33 of the 632 assessments — $454,164 of that $9.8 million — had been paid off. Teresa Foster of Longmont is one of those hundreds of people in the county who still hold a loan under ClimateSmart. Now, as she goes to sell her home, she has realized that instead of passing that loan on to the next property owner, the loan is going to have to come out of her pocket when she sells her house. The county commissioners sent a letter to ClimateSmart participants last September notifying them that, due to the plug being pulled by the feds, they must pay off those loans for any new mortgage to be eligible for sale to Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, which is where most mortgages end up. The letter also notified participants that if they refinance their mortgage and they have sufficient equi-

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ty, the ClimateSmart loan must be paid off at that time. If there is not enough equity to cover the loan payoff, the refinance can be carried on to the loan still attached to the property, the letter said. In the case of Foster, who has paid off her home, it’s going to mean she has to take $27,000 off the top when she sells it. “All of us are going to be shit out of luck,” she told Boulder Weekly. “The bottom line is that a program that was set up by the county to give us renewable energy and make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions and also reduce demand has turned out to screw us. … Now I’m finding the hand that fed me is going to bite me.”

‘SIGNIFICANT RISK’ County officials began to get warning bells about the program in September 2009, when Fannie Mae issued a “lender letter” acknowledging that it was reviewing its underwriting guidelines to “determine appropriate requirements” in areas that had enacted Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs like ClimateSmart. The other shoe dropped in May 2010, when an additional lender letter from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac indicated that mortgages with senior liens like PACE loans are prohibited. By July 2010, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the entity created to regulate Fannie and Freddie two years earlier amid the banking crisis, issued what those in the industry call “the execution letter,” which in no uncertain terms ruled out PACE loans, saying they “are unlike routine tax assessments and pose unusual and difficult risk management challenges” and “present significant risk.” The letter says “first liens that disrupt a fragile housing finance market and longstanding lending priorities, the absence of robust underwriting standards to protect homeowners, and the lack of energy retrofit standards to assist homeowners, appraisers, inspectors and lenders determine the value of retrofit projects combine to raise safety and soundness concerns.” For their part, the county commissioners have been sympathetic to participants’ concerns. “I would be upset too,” Commissioner Ben Pearlman told Boulder Weekly. “If we had any idea that the FHFA was going to pull the rug out from under us, we wouldn’t have designed the program the way we did. I share their frustration, and I wish we weren’t in the situation we’re in. … These are the kinds of investments we have to make as a society if we’re going to get any kind of chance of energy independence and addressing climate Boulder Weekly

change.” But he points out that the energyrelated improvements have increased the value of those homes and lowered energy costs. “Those are tangible improvements, and the fact that the lending industry doesn’t recognize that at all is unimaginable and, I think, myopic,” Pearlman says. “Heck, everybody should be doing this, but not everybody has the money up front, and there was that question of how long you’re going to be in your house. So this program really was designed to crack that nut, to make it possible for lots of people to do this. And then we get this letter.” Pearlman says it’s curious that the FHFA took this stance when there are scores of other special improvement districts that have been formed using the same financing structure. And he says it has always been the prerogative of local governments to determine what types of “public purpose” or “community benefit” warrant such special assessments, be they roads, sidewalks or energy savings. “That, to me, is beyond the pale, as if energy were not one of the fundamental things we should be addressing as a collection of communities,” Pearlman says. “For decades and decades, local governments and state governments have had the ability to determine what were the appropriate circumstances for public benefit.”

homes. Those who may feel the pinch most are those who want to refinance to take out some of their equity, because they’ll have to use some of that equity to pay off the extra loan first. But help for current and future ClimateSmart participants may be imminent. Toor says county officials are hoping to launch a similar program on a smaller scale later this spring, and are in negotiations with two financial institutions to do just that. Using a portion of a $25 million grant received from the U.S. Department of Energy last May, he says, the county plans to create a “loan loss reserve fund” that will be used to back loans for energy-related improvements for borrowers with a wider range of credit scores — and at lower interest rates — than the banks would consider otherwise, because they will have this security fund worth between 10 percent and 20 percent of the total loan pool to fall back on in case of defaults. Initially, Toor says, the loans will be up to $3,000 for residents, but plans call for increasing that amount and expanding it to small businesses as well. Toor also describes two other efforts under way at the national level that could revive PACE programs like ClimateSmart. One involves litigation; the other involves legislation.

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Commissioner Will Toor agrees. “It’s an unprecedented and significant attack on state and local decisionmaking,” he says, noting that the Colorado legislature had passed a bill authorizing ClimateSmart. “You’re in violation of 75 years of precedent. You’ve got a federal agency asserting that they get to decide what’s a valid public purpose for improvement districts, rather than state legislators getting to decide.” “This is not a new financing mechanism,” adds David Gabrielson, the executive director of PACENow, a national organization advocating for PACE programs. “Nobody put the FHFA on this earth to be the arbiters of public purpose.” Toor says the type of financing offered through ClimateSmart is actually less of a risk for lenders than other types of assessments, like those issued for improvements associated with new, sprawling housing developments that could very well be a bust. He sympathizes with ClimateSmart participants who are saddled with extra debt, but he points out that since the improvements increased the value of their properties, they should be able to increase the asking price for their

Several lawsuits have been filed nationally against the feds who killed PACE programs. The most prominent — and furthest along — was filed by former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is now that state’s governor. Toor says he was encouraged by a judge’s recent ruling in that case, a ruling that seemed to acknowledge the plaintiffs’ claim that the FHFA did not follow proper procedures before issuing its ban on PACE-affiliated mortgages. On Dec. 20, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken declined to grant the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction that would have reinstated PACE programs, but she encouraged them to submit a narrower request — one asking that “the defendants proceed to initiate the notice and comment process while this lawsuit is pending.” The implication is that the defendants did not conduct a “notice and comment process” as they should have at the outset. “There was no process that was followed, they didn’t do any analysis to support their decision,” Toor says. “They did nothing that involved any stakeholders. They simply issued these

letters unilaterally, saying, ‘This is what we’re doing.’ “I believe it’s ultimately going to be resolved in a favorable manner,” he says of the lawsuit. “I think it’s just a question of how long it’s going to take.” Toor says he is also encouraged by progress on legislation to reinstate PACE programs. Democratic members of Colorado’s congressional delegation, including Sen. Michael Bennet, Rep. Jared Polis and Rep. Ed Perlmutter, have been especially supportive of the effort to restore ClimateSmart, co-sponsoring pro-PACE legislation and writing letters to everyone from interim FHFA Executive Director Edward DeMarco to President Barack Obama, whose administration has been supportive of PACE programs — and who appointed DeMarco to the otherwise independent regulatory agency. Congressman Mike Thompson, D-Calif., and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., were among the primary sponsors of bills introduced late in the last congressional session that would have reversed the FHFA’s decision on PACE. That legislation was unsuccessful, but Thompson has found more Republican support this time around and is poised to introduce similar legislation with a Republican co-sponsor. Sandra Wiseman, senior legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., confirmed that Lungren is a likely co-sponsor, but it is clear that last session’s bill will not pass, so the plan is to write a letter to Fannie and Freddie requesting that they outline their specific concerns about PACE, then amend the legislation to address those concerns. “I think it bodes well that there is now some Republican support,” Toor says.

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Cisco DeVries, president of Renewable Funding, is considered by some to be the father of the PACE program. He is credited with concocting the idea in 2007 as chief of staff to the mayor of Berkeley, Calif., which, along with Palm Desert, Calif., was one of the first cities to undertake such programs. He says the FHFA’s ban on PACE came as a slap in the face because proponents of the program had already addressed the regulators’ concerns. “Essentially, they made an edict based on totally inaccurate information,” DeVries says. “Fundamentally, it was a problem of a new regulatory agency that simply did not take its time and do its homework, and could not take yes for an answer.” One lingering question is what prompted the FHFA, Fannie Mae and April 7, 2011 13

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Freddie Mac to pull the plug on PACE in the first place. Toor suspects that bank CEOs and climate-change politics may have been factors. “I think the FHFA is one of those agencies that is completely dominated by the banking industry, and I think you had [George W.] Bush administration holdovers who just sort of hated clean energy,” he told Boulder Weekly. Others say that the biggest driver in the decision was regulators’ paranoia over any perceived risk. “I personally don’t believe it was a broader ideological battle over climate, because PACE is now, and has always been, non-ideological and bipartisan,” DeVries says. “Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, signed PACE legislation. It was the Republican leaders of the legislature in Florida that introduced PACE legislation. It’s not always about climate change. PACE is about jobs. It’s about energy independence. The way I started, in Berkeley, it was about climate. But that doesn’t mean that’s what it has to be for everybody. In fact, it’s not. I think it was a regulatory agency that could not see the forest for the trees.” The decision to disallow PACE may simply have been a question of bad timing. “If PACE had come along two years earlier or come along two years later, it would have been fine, but PACE showed up on the desks of the mortgage regulators and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at absolutely the worst moment for them,” DeVries says. “They were terrified of risk, and I think it made them irrational about PACE. … PACE should be the best assessment the mortgage industry has seen in its whole life. It’s the first assessment in which the property owner actually receives cash back. That’s never happened before. This is, in many ways, the single least risky new assessment that local governments have done. It increases the likelihood that [borrowers] will pay their mortgage on time.” PACENow Executive Director Gabrielson says that of the approximately $50 million loaned for more that 2,000 projects nationally, not including those in Boulder County, there has been only one default so far, a statistic that should convince lenders that these types of programs are among the safest. “Aside from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the FHFA, I can’t find anyone else who doesn’t cheer about PACE and say, ‘That’s a nobrainer,’” Gabrielson says. Asked about the motivation for the decision, he says that around 2000, banks started lending “to anybody and everybody,” and when Freddie and

Fannie followed suit, “everybody lost their shirts.” The banks and their CEOs “had no sense of risk and they damn-near ruined this country,” Gabrielson says, and while they emerged unscathed, Fannie and Freddie suddenly became “so scared of anything that happened on their watch that they could be blamed for.” Asked whether politics over the climate-change debate may have contributed to the FHFA’s decision, Gabrielson says, “I don’t have any evidence of that. It’s not something that occurred to me.”

BOULDER STANDS OUT DeVries and other national experts credit Boulder County with being the first to grow the program at such a large scale — and that actually may have contributed to the demise of PACE nationally. Peter Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University who served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and who was involved in the discussions with the FHFA about financing PACE programs, told Boulder Weekly that it was actually the pace at which such programs were growing that alarmed federal regulators. Boulder County’s ClimateSmart program in particular was a red flag, he said, because it grew so quickly and was held up by the FHFA as an example of how expensive such loans could be, if allowed to multiply. Swire says PACE supporters want to expand the programs exponentially, and federal regulators saw that as a risk. Whereas other special assessments attached to loans were limited to a particular neighborhood and a specific improvement, Swire says, FHFA saw PACE programs as a loan that could be expanded to “millions of homes in a short period,” and that was a perceived threat. He dismisses the notion that politics over climate change were an issue. “In fact, the regulators begged for other programs that would meet conservation goals,” Swire says. But DeVries remains frustrated about the response to PACE programs. “I think the great disappointment I have is that we’ve taken this tool that not only seemed to be a good idea, but actually was working really well and was absolutely living up to everyone’s expectations for it, and then they killed it just before it really took off around the country,” DeVries says. “And we can’t let that happen. So we absolutely need to get PACE back, because there’s no good replacement for it. There’s nothing else quite like it out there, so we’re going to keep fighting.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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by Charmaine Ortega Getz available on his website (www.harvesttherain.com/index.html), as well as the usual book outlets. “Conservation only puts off the problem in the sense that throughout the Southwest and much of the world our water resources are depleted,” says Downey. “We have to do more than conserve.” For example, the Ogallala Aquifer, which extends from South Dakota to Texas — the High Plains’

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become widespread practice, says Downey. In the meantime, there’s still valuable usage left in “wastewater” for irrigation and other needs. You can find a few sample chapters of Downey’s book online at http://bit.ly/nate-downey. For more information on our state’s water laws and what is currently permitted, check out “Graywater Reuse and Rainwater Harvesting” from the Colorado State University extension at www.ext.colostate. edu/pubs/natres/06702.html. And for a more hands-on kind of how-to, there are local classes to check out. Transition Colorado and Real Earth Design! are offering weekend workshops April 16-17. The cost is $65 each day. Information and registration are available at www.transitioncolorado. org/events.php. For more information, contact Jason Gerhardt by calling 303-258-7982 or by e-mail at info@transitioncolorado.org. In addition, Harlequin’s Gardens is offering a one-day “Introduction to Rainwater Harvesting” class on Saturday, July 16, at 1:30 p.m. The cost is $15, and early registration is strongly encouraged. Harlequin’s is located at 4795 N. 26th St. in Boulder, and can be reached at 303939-9403. Also see www.harlequins gardens.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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n the state of Colorado, those with water rights already have dibs on the rain that falls on your property, unless you have your own well (and even that has limits). If you use municipal water, you can’t use a rain barrel or cistern to collect rain that would otherwise run off or disappear into areas where it’s not needed. Having a private well may grant you a permit to use rainwater for irrigation, but not if the well is already restricted for household use. (There is currently a Colorado pilot program to test rainwater catchment systems in new housing developments, but that won’t do anything for most of us today.) Still, you don’t have to be resigned to the status quo. Yes, there are legal ways to keep more and “harvest the rain” for yourself, as the title of a new book proposes. Not only is it in the best interests of a community to sustain itself on local water, but our waterways need help to keep soil and contaminants from flowing into them after rain slides off our roofs. So says author Nate Downey, owner of a Santa Fe landscapedesign firm who writes on permaculture for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper. His Harvest the Rain is published by Sunstone Press and

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Doc and Meth in the flesh. Method Man and Redman perform at the Fox on Thursday, April 7.

Thursday, April 7

Method Man & Redman — These two hip-hop vets have made some astounding music over the years, and they still put on a hell of a show. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Friday, April 8

Laser Michael Jackson — Think it’s bad? Beat it! 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

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group is a rather overused term. Publicists throw it around every time a number of musicians come together under a new identity or project. The New Pornographers might have it backwards, but they’ve nonetheless become such an entity all the same. What started as a humble Canadian enterprise with under-the-radar albums like Mass Romantic (2000) and Electric Version (2003) has become a massive indie rock tree upholding several substantial branches. Thus, a supergroup emerged, with each member holding several other commitments in addition to the New Pornographers. Frontman Carl Newman has his own A.C. Newman solo moniker. Neko Case is a legend unto herself. Dan Bejar and John Collins formed heavy indie hitters like Destroyer and Swan Lake. Kathryn Calder just released her first solo album and also performs

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Sunday, April 10 with The Immaculate Machine. Kurt Dahle and Todd Fancey appear with Limblifter and write solo material as well. “I think the best thing about everybody having their own projects is that you lose some of the frustration,” Newman says. “If the New Pornographers was the only thing that people did, yet they still wanted to write their own thing, but they were relegated to [being] a person in the band who didn’t write or sing, they would be frustrated. As it is, they don’t have to feel that way. There’s not any competition in the band. Todd Fancey is not fighting to get one of his songs into the New Pornographers, because he’s putting out his own Fancey record.” Newman admits getting everyone together for another album can become a difficult enterprise, but he says it was even that way in the beginning. With see PORNOGRAPHERS Page 20

Japanese & Balinese Ensembles — Experience the music of the other side of the world. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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Boulder Folders Origami Workshop — Learn the delicate art of folding paper. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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eight schedules (the other being synth player Blaine Thurler) moving toward several artistic endeavors, it’s easy to see the challenge Newman describes. Yet he surprises when he says it’s always been that — even in the beginning. “It can be difficult to get everyone together, but then again it was just as hard in 2000 or 2001 as it is 10 years later,” Newman says. “We’ve just always been scattered. For example, even when we first started, Neko didn’t live in the same town as we did. So we’re always fighting that battle.” The earlier days also brought a lack of commitment, since The New Pornographers was nothing more than a hobby while everyone worked their day jobs and had other distractions. Thus, Newman says today’s distractions are really no different than when a new band has issues getting everyone to be focused. “Even when everyone lives in the same place, they find reasons to be distracted,” Newman says. “When your band isn’t your job or when it seems more like a hobby, you try to set up a practice and someone says, ‘Oh, I can’t do it. I have to go out to dinner with my cousin.’ Then practice is cancelled. It’s the problems of any band with five or six members, and now the problems are different. Instead of crossing town,

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we have to cross the continent, but we ready? Can we see a cut yet?’ We were figure things out.” just looking over his shoulder at his The band’s latest single, “Moves,” computer and thought, ‘This is amazfrom their 2010 release Together, feaing!’ We’re very lucky to have the video.” tures one of The New Pornographers’ Yet even with a highlight like this, finest moments yet. The official video Newman said he watched the video for the single was directed by comedian alone with his wife, since getting the Tom Scharpling, band together who served as writer would have been On the Bill: and producer for the nearly impossiThe New Pornographers play TV series Monk, ble. the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, April 13. Doors at 8:30 p.m. among other proj“My wife was Menomena opens. Tickets are ects. The video with me and we $25. 1128 13th St., Boulder, serves as a trailer for were playing this 303-443-3399. a fake biopic on little variety show “The Rise and Rise in New York. of the New Pornographers,” and Tom Scharpling, the director, was there. Scharpling called in several comedian We found a computer and he showed it friends like Paul Rudd, John Hodgman, to us. I knew everyone in the band Bill Hader and Wyatt Cenac to take would love it. I mean, how could anypart. one not love this video? And it does The end result is a hilarious viral exactly what a video should do, which video that’s quickly breaking the band is to draw attention to the band.” to an even larger mainstream level. The Newman’s own solo material emergband knew Scharpling was onto somees every few years, with only two thing good, but they had no idea it releases under the A.C. Newman moniwould become the band’s most watched ker thus far. The last release, Get Guilty, video within a single week. dropped in 2009 and charted at No. 99 “We were blown away when we saw on the Billboard Top 100, providing the final cut,” Newman says. “Actually, not only a mild success for Newman Tom Scharpling was showing it to us. but a creative respite away from the We kept bugging him. We knew everyband. body was in the video, so we knew we “It is good to take some time away really wanted to see it. We’d say, ‘Is it to do your own thing and then come

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back together with the band,” Newman says. “It is good that you don’t feel as burnt out as if you were constantly doing the same things with the same band. So when we do get together to make another record, we’re definitely feeling a little more inspired.” As the band prepares to hit the road to once again support Together, Newman says fans will hear a lot of the new album in the set, but only because the songs belong in the canon. Instead of promoting the newest material, the goal is about a proper fit, and Together happened to gel with the band’s previous material more than usual. “The great thing about Together is that the songs felt like they belonged in the set immediately. Sometimes you put out a new record and [when] you’re playing them with all of your old songs, it doesn’t work. But when we played new songs like ‘Moves,’ ‘Crash Years,’ ‘Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk’ or ‘We End Up Together,’ they felt like they’d always been there.” As The New Pornographers continue to function as a supergroup, it’s that last song — “We End Up Together” — that describes the biggest challenge they’ll face. Yet given the beauty of the various creative outlets involved, don’t be surprised if no one complains. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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An accident left director Tom Shadyac yearning for non-material fulfillment by Chris Callaway

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ilmmaker Tom Shadyac is best known for comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor, which have filled his bank account with plenty of green. However, Shadyac, whose newest film, I AM, lands in Denver at the Landmark Chez Artiste on April 8, found that the rewards of success didn’t lead to the fulfillment he’d hoped for. So he decided to downsize, moving out of his 17,000-square-foot mansion and Tom Shadyac (right) interviews into something significantly smaller — historian Howard Zinn. a mobile home. “I had the big estate and I saw that it didn’t pay,” he says. “I had that kind of awakening years. Instead of spending all his time behind the moment in my first Beverly Hills house where I realcamera, Shadyac jumps to the front of the lens and ized, ‘Oh, this didn’t do what they told me it would do.’ interviews luminaries such as Bishop Desmond Tutu I had been walking into different models and experiand Noam Chomsky about what’s wrong in the world menting, and something spoke to my heart about a today and what we can do to improve it. Notables very simple space. from all trades — scientists, environmentalists, pho“Everybody thought I was nuts for even considertographers, activists, authors, talk-show hosts, busiing living in a mobile home community, as nice as this nesspeople and even Shadyac’s father, Richard — are one is,” he continues. “It’s still out of the paradigm, if featured in the 80-minute film. you will, and I’ve found it quite the opposite. I’ve Shadyac, as a searching soul, wanted to ensure that found community there, and I have neighbors. I have he approached his topic with an open mind while creativity. It’s simple and wonexamining the issues prevaOn the Bill derful. So by emptying, I’ve lent in the world. He avoidI AM screens at Landmark Chez Artiste kind of gotten full.” ed using the reasons often theater from Friday, April 8, to Thursday, Shadyac’s move to simplicigiven for the difficulties April 13, at Landmark Chez Artiste theater in Denver. For more info, visit http:// ty was closely followed by a around the globe — war, bit.ly/chezartiste. 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., life-changing bike accident that greed, poverty and the like Denver, 303-352-1992. led to post-concussion syn— as filters in his search. drome. He experienced the Doing so was not nearly as kind of physical pain that makes one question one’s arduous a task as one might suppose. very survival. Regardless, the horrific event provided “It was actually freeing,” he says with a laugh. “It him with the impetus to craft I AM, a documentary actually was the opposite of difficult. I wouldn’t [imagine] somebody going to a doctor with a stomthat reflects the changes, including the move away achache and the doctor not saying, ‘What are you eatfrom materialism, that had been his focal point for

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ing?’ And I feel like that’s what we have done as a culture. We keep having these symptoms, but we never say, ‘What are we ingesting? How are we looking at the world? What is the undercurrent of why we have these things?’ Ultimately, the [answer] is, ‘This is just who men are. This is just who the human species is,’ and I call that into question in the movie. So it was really freeing to me. I hadn’t seen that conversation on television. I was dying to see that conversation. I think people are hungry to have that conversation, and I was thrilled to be able to talk on that level for the duration of

the picture.” Shadyac did not limit his views to the big screen alone. He set them in motion by creating a nonprofit organization, the Foundation for I AM, which receives all proceeds from the film. “The first thing we’re going to do is free a village of slaves with an organization called Free the Slaves,” Shadyac says. “By simply going to our movie, you’re going to be participating in that.” Moviegoers also will be participating in Shadyac’s nonprofit work if they see any of his future pictures, as his director’s fees will be put back into the Foundation for I AM. What those future creative works will be, including his next picture, remains undisclosed. “I’ll do whatever moves me,” Shadyac says. “I would love to follow this up with a raucous comedy. I believe in the sacred space created with laughter. So I’ll just do simply what moves me, but this did not move me away from Hollywood films at all. I think Hollywood films are wonderful, you know, the work [of ] the likes of Danny Boyle with Slumdog Millionaire and Bob [Robert] Zemeckis with Forrest Gump. Those works are scripture to me.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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The Big Motif play Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids on Friday, April 8. For other shows in the area, visit www.thebigmotif. com. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5. Crow Radio also plays. 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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The Big Motif’s second album is the product of six years as a band by Matt Conner

hrases like “head start” or “early jump” fail to adequately capture the story behind The Big Motif. After all, the seasoned Denver trio average less than 20 years of age among them, yet they’ve been playing together since 2005. Yes, that means that jazzy blues/rock you’ve enjoyed for years at bars and events around Boulder and Denver was actually a bunch of teenagers. Three, in fact. Jeff Jani and Hunter Roberts grew up a block apart and met Tony Pacello through a radio contest to put together a youth band. Seven members were recruited to play, but Pacello says the trio instantly connected and has stayed together ever since. While others focus on it as a topic of interest, Pacello says he forgets how young they were and how rare their situation really is. “I guess it is an anomaly that we’ve been at this for so long when we were so young, but it’s never something I’ve really thought that much about,” Pacello says. “For me, I’m just having fun making music with my buddies. It’s surprising sometimes when people ask how long we’ve been together. You think, ‘Holy shit! We’ve been together for six years already?’ It always hits you when you actually put a number to it.” Formerly known as The Runnin’ Wild Band, Pacello explains the band has grown up quite a bit since they first started. As time progressed, they felt their former name represented the early days and needed an update. Soon thereafter, The Big Motif was born and gave the band an identity that fit their catchy yet older sound.

“We were young when we had the old band name, and we just brought it together randomly,” he says. “We never thought we’d be doing anything important with it. So the older that we got and the direction that the band started to take didn’t match the old name at all. In fact, it seemed the old name was holding us back and labeling us as this bar band, which is definitely not what we want to be. With the name change, I think it fits our sound a lot better. It’s definitely less cheesy and less childish, so to speak. We like it and we’ve been happy with it.” All three Big Motif members were musical anomalies of sorts in school, jiving more with the classic rock and blues leanings of their parents, while ignoring the typical radio fare. Pacello says that commonality became the unifying element in forming a band in

the first place. “We grew up listening to stuff away from the mainstream,” Pacello says. “I know I grew up listening to the blues and some of the classic rock stuff that my dad would play. But I really fell in love with the blues. Jeff and Hunter grew up with the same. When we started to explore music more, we all fell in love with jazz and funk and modern rock like Black Mountain and Black Angels and the Black Keys, obviously. But I don’t think we were ever really interested in the pop stuff or Top 40 stuff.” After releasing a self-titled EP, the band’s now rehearsing for several regional CD release parties for their latest sevensong effort, Does It Weigh Heavy. The new tunes are great for a diverse show that includes funk, rock and everything in between. “We like to keep their heads bobbing with some of the heavy rock stuff and keep them dancing with the funky dance stuff,” says Pacello. “But we really just like going straightforward in your face, especially with the rock, with this new album. It’s a night that will keep the energy up and the feeling raw.” In the end, The Big Motif hopes the new music carries them beyond the confines of Colorado into a strong regional presence. “With the release parties that we have coming up, it does feel like we’re gaining some good momentum,” Pacello says. “It just seems that the gigs and promotions that we’re getting is definitely bigger than it used to be. Hopefully it will continue once the CD is released, but this last month has definitely picked up.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Ana Sia plays the Fox Theatre on Thursday, April 14. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Ben Samples and Epcot open. Tickets are $15.50 in advance, $18 day of show. Add $2 for under 21. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Going old-school DJ

Ana Sia’s musical preferences have rocked clubs around the country

by P.J. Nutting

ith jangly earrings and an innocent smile, you would never guess Ana Sia was taking the stage to rip your mind apart. Thankfully, your body will remain intact after a night of the DJ’s head-stretching electronic rhythms. The mission of this nimble bass sprite is to plug a subwoofer directly into the inherent human desire to move to vibration, as she reveals some of the best global-psy-funk tracks the electronic world has to offer. “It was really just a passion for dance more than anything else,” she tells Boulder Weekly of her musical journey. “I’ve been a dancer all of my life and been very much an advocate for using your body as a tool for expression through sound and music. It came very naturally, the desire to create an experience on the dance floor the way I would want to be enjoying it.” Ana Sia’s bouncy, unforced energy on stage has expanded her following beyond the underground circles of West Coast bass music to the masses at the nation’s biggest festivals. “My role, I guess, is to be an ambassador for the freshest sound that you can possibly be listening to right now,” she says. “So as many tour dates as I have, I know my goal is to bring each person in each town the freshest experience of music, the hottest shit out there right now.” Lately, Sia is making moves, from the aggressive sounds that first marked her as a no-nonsense bass

head to more up-tempo resurgences of house and garage styles reinterpreted through modern technology. Her main project, though, is campaigning for an upcoming compilation “gathering tunes from this amazing pile of gold we have in North America of incredible, forward-thinking music producers” that will be released through her “family,” San Franciscobased label/collective Frite Nite. This umbrella of multitempo, omni-genre dance sets has proven to be inviting. Within the past three years, Ana has become a staple performer at electronic events nationwide. After her three Colorado stops, she’ll hit up Coachella, Wakarusa and Electric Daisy Carnival, and she’ll perform alongside a stellar lineup at the Soundwave Music festival (held at a water park in Tempe, Ariz.). It’s amazing that her heavyweight status is due to only a sparse handful of mixtapes, remixes and her debut EP, 2010’s International Profile. Over three years of performing, the buzz surrounding Sia has spread via an aggressive touring schedule that spotted around 200 performances last year. Sia is a DJ in the traditional sense, playing sets of other artists’ music as opposed to the modern misusage of the term that refers to anyone who produces electronic music. She isn’t shy about her DJ role as a conduit rather than a composer of music. “I’d say I’m 75 percent DJ and 25 percent producer,” she says, citing the scene’s mantra that not every

producer should be a DJ, and not every DJ should be a producer. “I don’t try to campaign myself as anything else but that. I’m happy to be playing other people’s music and share it on the platform I have. I get a hold of some stuff that people on a regular level would never be able to hear, and for me that’s a great gift.” Looking beyond her energetic live performances, full of cutting, re-sampling and rearranging sound via laptop, Sia’s creative engine runs like a mobile quasilabel. She’s a lens focused on electronic music, magnifying the electronic scene circa “classic dubstep” and the rise of glitch-hop. Electronic music continues to morph into hyphenated hybrid genres and divide as nuances are incorporated from old-school forms. Stylistic traits are exchanged like molecules in a complex chemical reaction of artistic taste, but Sia’s success shows that variety is one thing that will never go out of style. The opening track may slap the audience with panicinducing sirens over a thumping hip-hop rhythm, then suddenly drop into a funky disco track that gets everyone smiling. You don’t have to Google “female DJ” to imagine what type of sexploitation exists in a scene where performers are the centerpiece of a club party. But for someone who routinely outpaces onstage go-go dancers with admirably stylish physicality, Sia is outspoken against the reasons why her gender is often the first thing discussed. “It’s crazy and frustrating that I’m put in this category, like ‘Well she’s a DJ, but she’s a female DJ. … It’s frustrating that people think it’s helpful to say that I’m female and help recognize I’m a girl doing this thing, but it’s a letdown to me that that has to be the focus. I hope that everybody in their lives, not just me, but everybody in their lives, would be able to erase this duality between sexes.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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music Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Eef Guitar. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Frogs Gone Fishing. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Jill Cohn. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Live Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Method Man & Redman. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m. Folsom St. Coffee Co. 1795 Folsom St. 303-4408808. Open Stage — With KC Groves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Pete Kartsounes. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Redbull Thre3Style. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Romano Paoletti. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-0782.

Boulder School of Rock Presents ‘The Wall’ — The Boulder School of Rock will be performing Pink Floyd’s legendary The Wall in its entirety. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the performance starts at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. Breadmaking Workshop. 6-8:30 p.m. River Rock Commons, 520 N. Sherwood St., Fort Collins, 970-224-3247. Comedy Works Presents Sam Adams. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. The Edge of the Visible Universe: Dr. Mike Shull. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. EnergySmart Kickoff Party Longmont. 5-7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Aesthetics of Editing. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-

Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www. flamenco-boulder.com. Getting Started with QuickBooks Webinar. 12-1 p.m. www.asecondoffice.com/ trainingservices.html.

Friday, April 8

music Andre Nickatina. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

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Alice in Wonderland. Jesters School for the Performing Arts, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through May 7. Mr. Spacky, the Man Who Was Continuously Followed by Wolves. Presented by Catamounts. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., 720-468-0487. Through April 9. Camelot. The Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Saturday, April 9

music 500 Miles to Memphis. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Acoustic Open Mic. 2-4 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., I NLyons, T E 303-823-2345. R N A T I O N A L Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. MUENZING E Rp.m. AU D I TO RIU M The Clamdaddys. 4:30 Oskar Blues Tasty WWW.INTERNATIONALFILMSERIES.COM Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. thuRSDAy APRIl 21 @ 7 PM ONly Deep Honey in the Rock. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Heavy Cats. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut fRIDAy St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. APRIl 22 @ 7 & 9 PM Honey Don’t. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. John Brown’s Body. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Kailin Young, Dexter Payne, Jesse Manno. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole,SAtuRDAy 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.APRIl 23 @ 7 & 9 PM Kristina Murray & Jamie Davis. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. The Legendary Hitchhikers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. SuNDAy @ 7 PM ONly Mariachi & APRIl African24Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Notes & Oats — With Boulder Ukulele Group. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Potcheen. ConorfOR O’Neill’s, 1922 13th thE 10 IfSp.m. bREAkS thE SuMMER wIll bE bAck IN SEPtEMbER. St., Boulder,but 303-449-1922. thE fAll lINEuP wIll bE AvAIlAblE ON OuR wEbSItE AuguSt. The Queen Beez. 9:30 IN p.m. D Note, 7519 thANk yOu fOR SuPPORtINg thE IfS: Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. bOulDER’S fIRSt, AND lOcAlly PROgRAMMED, ARt-hOuSE fIlM SERIES. Rootsfest 2011. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. FOR MORESounds. INFORMATION CALLD 303-492-1531, OR: Sentimental 4 p.m. Note, 7519 WWW.INTERNATIONALFILM SERIES.COM M E Ave., D I Arvada, A S P O N S O R S Grandview 303-463-6683. Swing Je T’aime. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519

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Through April 17. Crimes of the Heart. Longmont Theater Co., 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through April 2. Swing! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 8. Story Journeys — All proceeds benefit Sound Circle Eurythmy. 11 a.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-484-5559. April 9.

Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Tartufi, Privatized Air, Counterfeit Change. 8 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd. Teresa Lynne Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Terra Gatos. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Advanced Editing in Final Cut Pro — Hands-on intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Lecture: Auditioning for the Metropolitan Orchestra — With Tom Benand. 1 p.m. Imig Music Buiding, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617. Bill Maher. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-7704. East Boulder County Artists 2011 Studio Tour Opening Reception. 6-9 p.m. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, www. ebacolorado.org. Easter Egg Hunt. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Firefly Handmade Makerie Market. 7-10 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Q’s Food & BEER Series Presents: Left Hand Brewery Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. www.Tango AmongFriends.net.

Sunday, April 10

music The Absynth Quintet. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Asher Bluegrass Pick. 4-6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court., Boulder, 303-530-1381. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Boulder School of Rock Presents The Wall. 1:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Japanese & Balinese Ensembles. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Katey Laurel, Jim Herlihy, Esther Sparks. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Stage. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Suite Ti. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tribute to Merle Haggard. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

events Firefly Handmade Makerie Market. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Japan America Society of Colorado’s Ganbare Japan: A Fundraiser for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Relief — Sponsored by Sushi Zanmai. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, www. jascolorado.org. Open Door Fund’s 14th Annual Fundraising Dinner — With guest speaker Megan Kennedy. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-0436.

Monday, April 11

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Inspired Flight. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Boulder Folders Origami Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — One dollar of each pint sold goes to Kiwanis Club. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, April 12

music Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Bob’s Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. I Was Totally Destroying It, The Amends. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Jack Hadley Trio. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7:15 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Super Sessions with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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James McVey’s The Way Home: Essays on the Outside West. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Thursday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

C.J. Box’s Cold Wind. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Tuesday, April 12 An Afternoon With Local CIPA Authors. 2 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Wednesday, April 13

music Ironwood Rain. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Jarrad Manard Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Jubal and Monica Colbi. 8-10 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2580782. Madeleine Peyroux. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Marlene Carvalho. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. The New Pornographers. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Romano Paoletti TV Shoot. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events Art for Lunch. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Denver/Boulder Drupal Users Meetup. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. iPhoto Step by Step. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, April 7 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

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Friday, April 8 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, April 9 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Kids in Space. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser Space Odyssey. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Sunday, April 10 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. The Family Pick — All-ages bluegrass jam every Sunday. 3-6 p.m. The Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Story Sharing Circle — with Dan Overholser. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, April 11 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Twinkle Babies. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Tuesday, April 12 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Wednesday, April 13 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

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akland Childers has returned to his roots. He started his professional writing career in skateboarding. And he even met his wife in a skate shop. Now Childers, former editor of the Colorado Daily, has opened a skateboard shop in Louisville with his wife, Melissa. It is full circle for the two. The couple met at Switch, a skateboard shop in Delaware. And his first real magazine gig was at a New York publication focused on skateboarding, snowboarding and music. Childers says he initially wanted to be a professional musician or a pro skateboarder (he’s been skating since the age of 9), but he didn’t have the naturalborn talent to go far enough in either field, so he started writing about them. His System Skateboarding shop, which opened on March 16 at 305 McCaslin Blvd., Suite 2, is holding a grand opening April 9-11. During the first two days, Childers Boulder Weekly

plans to offer giveaways and free food and drink. The final day of the celebration will feature a 6:30 p.m. screening of the skating video Since Day One to raise money for the Johnny Kicks Cancer Foundation (johnnykickscancer.org). The film was made by REAL Skateboards, which is asking skate shops showing the world premiere to collect donations to fund research on childhood leukemia. The fundraiser was inspired by the death of Johnny Romano, an up-and-coming professional skateboarder who died from leukemia in 2008 at the age of 10. Attendees are being asked to make minimum donations of between $2 and $5 to raise money for the foundation. Childers says Romano’s story hits him on a personal level because one of his young daughter’s friends got leukemia, but thankfully is now in recession. “It’s a sock in the gut, because you don’t even think of that sort of thing happening,” he says. The film will be shown on the bigscreen TV Childers has in his shop, and the nearby Bean & Berry will be offer-

ing drink and food specials for parents who want to drop off the kids and go next door during the movie. The TV in System Skateboarding is surrounded by a couch and chairs because Childers wants his shop to be a place where skateboarders feel comfortable congregating. He’ll even provide the beverages when they stop by to chill out and watch skate videos. “We always have something for them,” Childers says. “People are welcome to come and just hang out.” Childers, who worked at the Colorado Daily from 1998 to 2008 and served as editor the last two of those years, also has experience writing for several music and skateboarding magazines, including Thrasher, Alternative Press and ALARM. He also started a media consulting and public relations company, Ink Blot Media Consulting. In addition to skateboards, System carries an array of shoes, accessories and attire, even girls’ clothing. And, as Childers says, he carries some nice clothes

— “not just T-shirts and sneakers.” He says his shop always has about 150 skateboards in stock, from all major brands. He and Melissa, who acts as chief financial officer for the store, also carry a “shop board” made especially for System that is currently priced at $30. Childers says he also sells “every kind of longboard you can think of,” whether you want to cruise or carve. “It’s an ever-growing sport in this area, and we’re doing our best to offer everything from cruising/commuting boards to more serious carving, sliding and racing gear,” he says. Asked why he picked the name System for his new shop, Childers replies that he ran several names past friends who run a large skateboarding shop in Delaware, “and that’s the only one they said wasn’t terrible.” So far, it seems his return to his skateboarding roots hasn’t been terrible either. For more information, call 303665-4SK8 (4758), or visit www.systemskateboarding.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 7, 2011 35

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Boulder hosts national climbing championship

by Marisa Ware

rowdy throng of spectaand fourth place, respectively. tors crowded into This fall will be Hong’s first time Boulder’s Movement representing the United States at the Climbing and Fitness on World Cup as an adult competitor. The Saturday night to watch competition, which will be held at Sasha Digiulian and Magnus Midtbø Movement in October, marks the win the 2011 Sport Climbing Series return of the World Cup to American National Championship, the precursor soil after more than two decades. to the International Federation of Sport “Hopefully this will start bringing Climbing Lead World Cup this fall. World Cups back to the U.S. again,” After the qualifiers competition on says Hong, who has noticed an increase April 1, nine women and 12 men, many in public interest in the sport and the of whom were local Boulder climbers, competitions. “There’s a lot more advanced to the finals round. money in the sport now, and more peoThe women’s route, a 5.13c that ple are getting into it. The crowds are began as a traverse to a double-hand getting bigger and bigger at each comp, dino, then moved through a steep secand it’s getting people psyched.” tion of powerful movement to a techniDanielson, who has worked in the cal sequence at the top, was completed scene for more than a decade, echoes only by Digiulian. Boulder climber this sentiment. Paige Claassen took second, and Dana “The growth of the sport overall is Riddle came in Caroline Treadway definitely an objective,” third. Danielson says. The men’s “By that I mean route remained more particiunfinished, pants and highthough the top er-level compethree placing titions showcompetitors, casing the abiliMidtbø, Matty Hong, and ties of athletes Carlo Traversi, that are at the all fell a few top of their mere moves game.” from the top. For Chelsea Boulder native Paige Claassen on the women’s The route, a Rude, head final route at the SCS National Championships 5.14a, began coach of held at Movement Climbing and Fitness in with a section Movement’s Boulder. of 5.13 that led youth team and to a rest around long-time the fourth bolt before a section of climbing competitor, the return of the power endurance climbing, culminatWorld Cup to U.S. soil brings opportunity and possibility for America’s ing with a three-move V8 boulder involvement with the sport. Rude problem. With the competition so placed fifth in the competition on close, the points from the qualifiers Saturday. round were used to decide the winner, “Having the comp at Movement with Midtbø winning by two tenths of was important not only for Boulder, but a point. for the U.S. in general,” Rude says. “As route setters, our ultimate goal “The competition aspect of climbing is to divide the field of competitors,” has been steadily developing, and with says Chris Danielson, head setter for the U.S. hosting a roped World Cup for the event. “We try to create interesting the first time since 1988, I think that movements that are functional but also sport climbing nationals is only going look aesthetically spectacular on the to get bigger.” wall and make for a good show. There’s Rude says that Boulder, with its always an intended sequence, but high concentration of elite and amateur climbers are so creative that you can climbers, is the perfect setting for the never really predict how they’re going World Cup’s return to America. to climb it.” Danielson agrees, saying, “The Hong, a freshman at Colorado State University whose father, Steve Hong, is comp was a great highlight for Boulder well-known for his days as a top climb- and an excellent lead-up to the World Cup in the fall.” er, took second place. Locals Traversi and Jon Cardwell followed him in third Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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e’ve all been there, that moment in time when destiny knocks on the door, and we’d rather just yell “Go away, I already have plans!” So it’s easy to identify with E.B., the drum-playing rocker in the lead role of Hop. His destiny? He has to take over for his dad as the Easter Bunny. But he really wants to hit it big as a rock drummer, not distribute candy and be responsible for year-round production of sweets, toys and other Easter stuff. I was surprised by how much I liked this witty, amusing hybrid animation film. It’s mostly real-action, but Easter world (located, logically enough, below Easter Island) is all painstakingly rendered computer animation. If you remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it’s astonishing to see how far we’ve come with animation/real-life blending. E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) jumps through a hyperspace portal (or something like that) and pops out at the foot of the iconic Hollywood sign. He’s ready to be discovered as the next big drummer! In parallel, we meet slacker Fred O’Hare ( James Marsden), a personable 20-something wasting his life,

still living with his parents, and finding excuses to reject any job opportunity that comes along. His parents, Bonnie (Elizabeth Perkins) and Henry (Gary Cole) arrange an “intervention,” along with sister Sam (Kaley Cuoco) and smart-aleck adopted sister Alex (Tiffany Espensen). Time to get a job.

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all it strangeness on a train. The highly gimmicky, very entertaining new thriller Source Code takes place mostly on a passenger car, part of the fictional Chicago Commuter Rail line, speeding toward the Loop carrying a bomb planted by an unknown terrorist. Our point person in this pressurized scenario knows nothing about the detonation to come, how he got there, where he’s getting off or how he came to know his chatty, sympathetic fellow passenger, played by Michelle Monaghan. Rough commute! Utter disorientation, followed by fireballs. Then, someone hits the “reset” button and Jake Gyllenhaal must relive those eight minutes in hopes of a better outcome. Written by Ben Ripley with relentless focus on structure and a tiny bit left over for character, Source Code wisely does not stretch out its guessing games regarding Gyllenhaal’s character past the point of exasperation. The actor, who has a dogged way of staying calm under the craziest narrative circumstances, plays a decorated U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Afghanistan war veteran who, upon that first explosion, wakes up to find he’s actually in an American military lab, in a tightly confined space. He communicates only with Capt. Goodwin, played by Vera Farmiga, who answers to the so-called Source Code experiment’s creator, Dr. Rutledge ( Jeffrey Wright, who has a witty way with a bureaucratic ras38 April 7, 2011

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Meanwhile, back on Easter Island, Easter chick Carlos (voice of Hank Azaria) is plotting to take over the factory, a Marxism-lite coup-d’état where the worker chicks are going to throw out the bunny bosses, and the hilarious Pink Berets have been sent to find E.B. and bring him back before they miss Easter entirely. Think “cute, cute, cute” and you’re on the right track with both of these subplots. Fred bumps into E.B. on his way to a house-sitting job and the results are comic and lighthearted. Sure, there are the obligatory sophomoric jokes commonly found in children’s films (E.B. poops jellybeans, which Sam unwittingly eats. “MMMmm ... watermelon!”) but it’s all lively, fun and engaging. My test audience of four 11-year-old boys all gave it a thumbs up. Hop is the kind of family film that we don’t see too often, one that addresses serious issues in a delightful manner, with plenty of visual jokes to keep parents engaged and a cute storyline for the younger kids. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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cal). The team has only hours to solve the inevitable train bombing, thereby preventing a larger, more deadly threat on the horizon. Comparisons to Groundhog Day can and have been made willy-nilly. This movie is really several eight-minute films — an omnibus feature unto itself. Each time Gyllenhaal’s Capt. Stevens time-travels back to the same place on the train and the same fateful final minutes, he scrambles to piece together a little more of the puzzle. “Find the bomb, and you will find the bomber,” Goodwin says. Chicago’s fate, not to mention its future

cinematic exploitation possibilities, hangs in the balance. I like the size and scale and itchy excitement of this medium-budget picture (reportedly in the $30 million-$40 million range). While Monaghan has played richer roles, she’s very shrewd about finding variations on a theme and forcing the audience to regard her character a little differently in each replay. Stevens realizes he really, really, really likes the Monaghan character and would like very, very, very much to save her. Can Rutledge’s grand plans accommodate this impulse? While I don’t find Gyllenhaal the most exciting leading man, he’s effective in conveying straightforward, sincere devotion to a romantic cause. Director Duncan Jones made a considerable impression with his earlier feature, Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, which told of an isolated man caught in a different sort of technological crisis. Shot almost entirely on soundstages in Montreal, Source Code necessarily maintains a rhythm one might describe as “here we go again” (if the movie doesn’t work for you) or “one more time!” (if it does). The recent Vantage Point, which rehashed the same political assassination from a wearying number of angles, never quite transcended its contrivances. Source Code is a contraption, no doubt. But it works. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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The Adjustment Bureau

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In this adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story, a politician (Matt Damon) falls hard for a ballerina (Emily Blunt), then discovers that a sinister government agency that relishes controlling people’s futures has decided the two don’t belong together. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez

This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. As fate encircles him, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life’s corridors. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Arthur

British comic Russell Brand takes over for the late Dudley Moore in this remake of the 1981 smash hit about an alcoholic playboy who may lose his inheritance if he pursues a woman (Greta Gerwig) his snooty relatives don’t like. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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Jeb Berrier charismatically narrates this documentary by Suzan Beraza about the role of plastics in our lives — and the havoc they’ve wreaked. As Berrier makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags at home, he starts to wonder what happens when we throw something in the trash. What he discovers is alarming: the single-use products we purchase may be convenient, but they are devastating our landscape, waterways and even our health, leading to a crisis of global proportions. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 The Adjustment Bureau Thu: 11:35, 2, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 12:10, 5:35, 10:55 Arthur Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Battle: Los Angeles Thu: 10:35, 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Fri-Wed: 6:45, 9:40 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Thu: 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9 Hanna Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Hop Thu-Wed: 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:30 Insidious Thu: 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 FriWed: 11:20, 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 10 The King’s Speech Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 2:45, 8 Limitless Thu: 11:20, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Fr-Wed: 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu: 11:30, 2:25, 5:20, 8, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 2, 5, 8, 10:45 Paul Thu: 11:55, 2:40, 5:30, 8:15, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Rango Thu: 10:50, 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:20, 4:05 Soul Surfer Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:10, 4:15, 7, 9:50 Source Code Thu: 10:25, 12:40, 3, 5:35, 8, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Sucker Punch Thu: 10:30, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Your Highness Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303442-1815 Arthur Fri-Wed: 11:25, 12:55, 2:05, 3:30, 6:05, 7:20, 8:40, 10 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Thu: 1:10, 3:40, 6:05, 7:20 Fri-Wed 10:50, 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 8:45 Hanna Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:25, 4, 7:10, 9:50 Hop Thu: 11, 1:35, 4:25, 7, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:40, 9 Insidious Thu: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:15, 5, 7:55, 10:25 Jane Eyre Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 FriWed: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

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In The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey plays an attorney who rides around in a Lincoln Town Car and gets mad. It’s not A Time to Kill, but we hear it’s good. Barney’s Version

Battle: Los Angeles

Based on Mordecai Richler’s prize-winning comic novel, Barney’s Version is the warm, wise and witty story of Barney Panofsky, a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. At Boedecker Theater. — Landmark Theatres

Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridget Moynahan are among the U.S. Marines squaring off against alien invaders in this special-effects extravaganza. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez

local theaters The King’s Speech Thu: 1, 4, 6:45, 9:30 FriWed: 12:30 p.m. Limitless Thu: 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 8:35, 10 Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu: 12:40, 3:35, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Paul Thu: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 3:35, 6:25, 9:20 Rango Thu: 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 8:55 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Soul Surfer Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:35 Source Code Thu: 11:35, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 11:50 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sucker Punch Thu: 3:55, 5:20, 6:40, 9:20, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 12, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:35 Win Win Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:30 Your Highness Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303604-2641 Arthur Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:50 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Thu: 1, 3:50, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1, 4:15, 7:25, 9:45 Hanna Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Hop Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:20 Insidious Thu-Wed: 1:55, 5, 8, 10:40 Limitless Thu: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 The Lincoln Lawyer Thu-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 Paul Thu-Wed: 1:35, 7:40 Rango Thu-Wed: 3:55, 7:05, 9:50 Soul Surfer Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Source Code Thu: 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 9:40 FriWed: 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 9:40 Sucker Punch Thu: 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 FriWed: 4:40, 10:20 Your Highness Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Heartbeats Thu: 4:45, 7:30, 9:55 I Am Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:30, 9:55 Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:45 Of Gods and Men Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Certified Copy Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Jane Eyre Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40 The King’s Speech Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303352-1992 Cedar Rapids Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7:20, 9:30 The King’s Speech Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 The Music Never Stopped Thu: 4:30, 7:10 Win Win Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:50 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Bag It Sat: 12 p.m. Biutiful Thu: 1, 6:45 Concert Fri-Sat: 1, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Tue: 1, 4:15, 7:10 Wed: 1, 4:15 Cracks Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Even the Rain Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 9:50 happythankyoumoreplease Thu: 4:45, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat: 1:30, 7:30, 7:45 Sun-Wed: 1:30 p.m. Into Eternity Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:20 Last of the Lions Fri-Wed: 1:45, 4:45 Lunch Line Sat: 2 p.m. Pootie Tang Fri: 10 p.m. What’s Organic About Organic? Mon: 7 p.m. UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Arthur Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55

This documentary shot in large part in Boulder explores the genius of avant-garde filmmaker and longtime Boulder resident Stan Brakhage. Included are interviews with Brakhage, his colleagues, critics, friends and family. It features excerpts from his films, and Brakhage in films by other avant-garde filmmakers, including George Kuchar, Jonas Mekas, Bruce Elder and others. An original score was composed for the film by longtime Brakhage collaborator and noted avant-garde composer James Tenney. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Cedar Rapids Tim Lippe was the guy people always thought would go places, but then he just didn’t. He’s been living in sleepy Brown Valley, Wis., his whole life, selling insurance to protect other people’s dreams.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules Thu: 11, 1:20, 4, 7;15 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Hanna Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Hop Thu: 11:20, 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 Insidious Thu: 11:15, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10 Limitless Fri: 11:30, 2, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:25, 7:25 Paul Thu:1:10, 4:15, 7:35 Fri-Wed: 4:25, 9:50 Rango Thu: 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Soul Surfer Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Source Code Thu: 11:25, 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10 FriWed: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Your Highness Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 On the Bowery Thu: 7, 9 Saint Misbehavin’:The Wavy Gravy Movie Wed: 7, 9 Sing, Cowboy, Sing Fri: 7 p.m. The Woodmans Sat: 7, 9 Sun: 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197 Brakhage Thu: 7 p.m. Brakhage’s Faust Films Sat-Sun: 12 p.m. Small World Wed: 6 p.m. Stan Brakhage Collaborations Mon: 7 p.m.

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But Tim’s life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he’s headed to a major metropolis — Cedar Rapids, Iowa — where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be nonconventional. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Lisbeth Salander fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

worthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story about Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer, and maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. — Landmark Theatres

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Juliette Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they playacting on a whim or is there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

happythankyoumoreplease is a sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives and their loves. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Center

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

Michelle Esrick’s documentary about the former Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, captures the charming, compassionate and occasionally exhausting sides of the man, from his early adult years as a New York poet to his daily routine as the head of a 40-year-old commune in Berkeley. The straightforward approach doesn’t always match the subject matter, but there’s plenty of interesting material, especially for younger viewers who know more about the counterculture icon’s Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor than his artistic contributions and philanthropic work. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS

Limitless

Small World

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

The pioneering work of nature photographer and environmentalist Fran Hall is presented in Small World. This film takes us into the real world of living creatures: the insect world. Hall began collecting insects at the age of 6, and pioneered the exhibition of documentary films on insects. At George Reynolds Public Library. — BPL

Cracks Cracks stars Eva Green as Miss G, a glamorous force in an idyllic British boarding school. The school’s most elite clique, led by Di, rules the school and competes for the attention of Miss G, who thrives on the girls’ fascination and eggs them on with lessons in a scandalously liberated world view. But when a beautiful Spanish girl appears at the school, Miss G, who loved being the most glamorous presence in her girls’ lives, becomes obsessed with, threatened and tantalized by her. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Concert During the communist era, conductor Andreï Filipov was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish players. He sank into booze and depression. The director of the Bolshoi has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon,” but he’s only mocking him. Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a lastminute replacement for the indisposed Los Angeles Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: He’ll round up his old musician buddies, and they’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. They’ll defy destiny and take their revenge! Will they make it? At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Zachary Gordon returns as Greg Heffley, the prepubescent, set-upon hero of Jeff Kinney’s books, for more adventures among the grade-school set. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Even the Rain A Spanish film crew arrives in Bolivia to make a film about Columbus in the New World. Idealistic director Sebastian wants to denounce the injustices of the past, focusing on exploitation of the indigenous people. After an open casting call almost degenerates into a riot, Sebastian hires outspoken Daniel to play the rebel Indian leader. But when the locals begin demonstrations against a multinational’s plans to privatize water, Daniel is in the thick of them, endangering the film’s shooting schedule. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Hanna A teenaged girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is sent on her first mission. Cate Blanchett is the intelligence agent hot on her trail. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Heartbeats Heartbeats centers on two close friends: Francis and Marie. At a dinner party one evening they meet Nicolas, a young man recently arrived from the country. His boyish charm and classical good looks create an irresistible mystique that neither of the two friends can shake. The three begin to spend more and more time together. But the more intimate they get, the more remote and unattainable Nicolas becomes, sending Francis and Marie’s comic obsession into overdrive. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Hop See full review on Page 38. At Flatiron, Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square. — Rene Rodirguez I Am I Am, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it and what we can do to make it better, represents writer/director Tom Shadyac’s first foray into nonfiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Insidiuous Writer Leigh Wannell and director James Wan try their hands at atmospheric horror with this tale of a married couple trying to protect their comatose son from evil spirits. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. – Rene Rodriguez Into Eternity Every day, large amounts of radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock. While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth. Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this documentary takes viewers on a journey into the underworld and into the future. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Jane Eyre

An enigmatic musical poet — and the most documented classical musician of the last century — world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his untimely death. The documentary humanizes the legend, weaving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Jane Eyre suddenly flees Thornfield Hall, the vast, isolated estate where she worked as a governess for Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester. With nowhere else to go, she is extended a helping hand by clergyman St. John Rivers and his family. As she recuperates in the Rivers’ Moor House and looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, Jane wonders if the past is ever truly past. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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The Last Lions

The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughey enters the courtroom for the first time since 1996’s A Time to Kill in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel about a lawyer who conducts his business from his Lincoln Town Car. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Lunch Line Lunch Line takes a new look at the school lunch program by exploring its past, its current challenges, and its opportunities for the future. Leaders from all sides of the school food debate weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America’s children for another 60 years. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Music Never Stopped Based on the case study The Last Hippie, The Music Never Stopped chronicles the journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Of Gods and Men

Saint Misbehavin’

Soul Surfer AnnaSophia Robb stars in this fact-based drama about a teenaged girl who musters up the courage to climb back on her surfboard after losing an arm in a shark attack. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Source Code See full review on Page 38. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Stan Brakhage Film Collaborations Beginning in 1984, Stan Brakhage and others collaborated on a monthly event at the Art Cinema on Pearl Street called the Sunday Associates. In 1986 he collaborated on a film for the first time in 25 years. This was the beginning of many years of film collaborations with musicians, actors and filmmakers in Boulder. This program features collaborations with musician and filmmaker Joel Haertling and composer Rick Corrigan. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Despite the growing menace, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Sucker Punch

On the Bowery

Win Win

Vividly capturing a vanished New York milieu and a persistent human phenomenon, Lionel Rogosin’s landmark, independently produced On the Bowery retains its “semi-documentary” qualifier on mostly academic terms. Beyond mere grit, it catches the joys and camaraderie of a skid-row drinking life as well as the daily bitterness, betrayals and humiliations. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS

Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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Opera fans’ favorite double billing, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, are two brief operas that pack a big punch! Watch renowned tenor José Cura wail as the tormented, betrayed Canio — captured live from La Scala, Milan, on Jan. 20, 2011. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Pootie Tang Pootie Tang was written and directed by comedian Louis C. K. and tells the tale of a musician/actor/ folk hero of the ghetto, and chronicling his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, which tries to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Director Zack Snyder returns with another action-heavy fantasy, this one a lot more estrogenfriendly than his previous work. Five young women institutionalized in a mental hospital turn to an alternate reality filled with dragons, monsters and peril as a means of escape. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

The Woodmans is an astute and thrilling ride comparing what it takes to be an artist, and what it takes to be a great artist. With only the aid of journals, a few choice interviews and cherry-picked journal entries, we learn about the dramatic Francesca Woodman and know her fate long before it is revealed to us in the film. It’s fascinating to watch, and we want to see more of her amazing photographs. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS. Your Highness Director David Gordon Green brings his Pineapple Express sensibilities to this medieval comedy about a prince who enlists the help of his useless younger brother to help rescue his fiancee from the clutches of an evil wizard. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

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teve Redzikowski, chef at Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, was on his way to work on March 9 when he received the news that his restaurant was

on fire. Oak had only opened about four months prior. Redzikowski and his partners, Bryan Dayton and Annie Polk, worked on a large part of the development of the restaurant themselves. He had been looking forward to preparing a whole fresh pig that had come in that morning for a pig roast the following weekend. So what the heck had just happened? Redzikowski arrived at the scene to find little visual evidence of a problem; the building, upon first sight, seemed to be unscathed. As he would find out later, the fire — which started somewhere in the hood exhaust — moved up through the crawl space area and then to the roof. “I didn’t realize it was going to be that large of a scale of a fire,” Redzikowski says. Having worked in the restaurant business for 15 years, Redzikowski has seen a few hood fires, none of which, he says, amounted to anything too serious. When he saw firefighters climbing to Oak’s roof with chainsaws to cut an opening for the blaze, he knew this was something a bit bigger than he had witnessed before. The second floor received most of the fire damage, but the restaurant below was largely ruined by water from the sprinkler system. The exact cause of the fire is still undetermined. “It took maybe four or five days to kick in,” Redzikowski says. “I just couldn’t believe what had happened.” Polk, the general manager at Oak, says the restau-

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rant is currently undergoing deconstruction prior to starting repairs, and likely won’t be open for another six to eight weeks. Polk says that Oak is grateful for the many concerned members of the community that have approached the restaurant, asking what they can do to help out. “It’s really thoughtful, and it means a lot,” Polk says. “We’re definitely really looking forward to getting open as fast as possible. And we’re just really thankful for the community in Boulder for being super supportive of us.” While Oak appears to be at a standstill, Polk and Redzikowski say they will be doing their best to stay busy and keep their staff motivated. Now is the time, Polk says, to take the opportunity to reorganize and expand the staff ’s knowledge through meetings twice a week and continued training. Upon re-opening, Redzikowski says, Oak wants

to come out of the gates even stronger than before. The restaurant hopes to keep all current staff members, who are being compensated during the re-building process. The staff has been visiting sources of many of their products — going to different breweries, bread companies and spirit providers — in an effort to learn more about what they will be serving. This, Polk says, has given them a more hands-on method of training that they wouldn’t normally get when going through everyday restaurant life. “We’re trying to make this a positive thing,” Redzikowski says. “We have that grasp of what it’s like to open up, but now we can really fine-tune it.” Although Redzikowski and Polk are both disappointed about missing out on spring cooking — with fresh produce from the Boulder Farmers’ Market — they say that Oak is looking forward to a few events in the coming months that will enable them to get back into the kitchen. The restaurant still plans to participate in the Taste of Pearl on May 1, and Redzikowski has been speaking to some other chefs in the area to see if Oak might be able to prepare its food selections in nearby kitchens. Oak will also be hosting a dinner with Avery Brewing Company on May 2, pairing each course with one of Avery’s beers. The proceeds from this event, Polk says, will likely benefit a cause for fighting or recovering from local fires. “You can only hope so much,” Redzikowski says. “And then you’ve got to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to get my butt back in gear.’” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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vexing culinary conundrum revolves around A&W’s sizing scheme for its hamburgers. It was easy enough to figure out the Baby Burger’s place in the pecking order, as it was of diminutive slider size. A product of gender bias, the Mama Burger was larger, but it was overshadowed by the two male burgers, the most problematic of the lot. These two sandwiches, dubbed the Teen and the Papa Burger, raised the edible, or perhaps Oedipal, question of which was the larger symbol of alpha maleness, a question that remained unresolved for much of my youth. Fortunately such thorny inquiries don’t come up at Lafayette’s Tutti, which differentiates itself by offering most dishes in three distinct sizes. These consist of small sampler plates, medium-sized entrée servings, and platter helpings for sharing. True to the restaurant’s name, the expansive menu also has something for everyone, including Caesar salads, burgers, tapas-style small plates and entrees like filet mignon. Situated on South Public Road, this hospitable split-level eatery consists of two distinct sections. The street level features a tastefully casual dining room set off by dark, earthy colors. Downstairs, there’s a bar and dining area adjoining an enclosed Plexiglas play area for youngsters, stocked with toys and video games. Once you get past the Sheryl Crow rock video vibe of the play area, you realize it’s a brilliant idea, as Mom and Dad can enjoy an adult meal while the kiddies entertain themselves. Kicking off a shared-plate supper with friends, I ordered $2 happy hour portions of fried potato balls with cheese and classic macaroni and cheese. A smattering of these upscale tater tots provided a fine melding of crunch and cream. While the comforting pasta didn’t have much in the way of superfluous adornment, it surpassed more expensive versions with spot-on richness and balanced seasoning. A $13 platter of Asian-influenced sesame ginger chicken wings paired with intriguing wasabi ranch dressing put classic Buffalo wings to shame. The taste of

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las, American A&Ws have done away with the burger family with the exception of the Papa option. The other sandwiches have been cashiered in favor of more generic nomenclature such as “bacon cheeseburger.” However, Canadian A&Ws have retained the burger family and have even added new relatives. In terms of caloric content, the patriarch of the burger family is the Grandpa, followed by the Papa, the never available in the U.S. Uncle, the Teen, the Mama and the Baby. Interestingly enough, some U.S. A&Ws still feature statues of the burger family members, who resemble Bob’s Big Boy’s less detailed cousins.

the wings was pleasantly subtle compared to overwhelmingly vinegary wings, and it had a lighter texture than some heavy-handed interpretations of sesamecoated poultry. Not Asian influenced, a medium bowl of $13.50 Drunken chicken tended more towards Mediterranean cuisine with rum, white wine and olive scents atop mashed potato. This composition was vaguely reminiscent of a chicken Marsala, which isn’t a bad thing, although the thigh meat texture was tender in some instances, fibrous in others. Happily, our medium helping of $16 seared scallops suffered from no textural concerns. These skillfully prepared seafood morsels featured a whisper of char on the exterior and a velvety interior possessing sparkling fresh flavor. The side of first-rate butternut squash risotto

provided a suitably suave accompaniment. For dessert, the $6.50 bread pudding was enjoyably moist and infused with maple. Less tempting was the $7.50 carrot and cheesecake tower, which married fine cheesecake with an overly dry carrot portion. The minty $6 grasshopper pie, despite its Miami Vice pastel appearance, was the clear winner, with pleasing mouthfeel and satisfying chocolate accents. Portion-sized options, menu variety and familyfriendly seating choices add up to a worthy and reasonably priced dining experience at Tutti. While a few items could benefit from slight adjustment, it’s a hospitable venue also happily free of such vexing conundrums as those posed by A&W’s burger sizing schema. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Dessert Diva White Chocolate Lemon Cream Squares by Danette Randall

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can’t tell you how happy I am sister spring is here. I know we still have a few blasts of Old Man Winter (he is so grumpy, that one), but I am celebrating the sun and ignoring the few blasts of nasty sure to pop up. What better way to celebrate than another lemon treat? Yep, I got a request for a lemony, creamy-witha-twist kind of treat. I try and use my listening ears and give the readers what they want. So here it goes: White Chocolate Lemon Cream Squares. The mental applause in my head is really boosting my ego. Thank you, thankyouverymuch. I understand the need for lemon desserts this time of year. Although lemons are one of those fruits where the time of year doesn’t really have an effect on quality or price, something about squeezing and zesting after the long, cold and snowy days makes you feel alive and ready to enjoy the great outdoors. My version of the great outdoors, of course, means cocktails on a patio, but you go ahead and dream of hiking and biking. Regardless of how we spend our days in the sun, this lemon treat is sure to brighten your household. I’m making a streusel type of topping that I think will pair famously with the sweet and sour combo of this treat. You will think you have died and gone to Vail. Speaking of Vail (yes, I am the queen of segue) The Taste of Vail is this week, April 7-9. If you haven’t been, you should get your booty up there toots sweet. Something for everyone and, of course, it’s in Vail, that’s all you really need to know. Doesn’t get much better than that. Cocktails on a patio are taken to a whole new level at this shindig. Drive up for the day or stay at my favorite place, Vail Cascade Resort and Spa. You will forget all about my lemon squares when you walk into this place. They are simply the best!

Aren’t you glad I’m here to dictate what you do with your weekend? Hey, I listen to your dessert requests, you can listen to my weekend getaway recommendations. Whatever you do, let’s all make lemons into lemon drops this week. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done (or invite me to Vail Cascade, either one works).

White Chocolate Lemon Cream Squares 1 can condensed milk 1/2 cup lemon juice (2-3 lemons if squeezing) Zest from one lemon 1 cup white chocolate chips 3/4 cup unsalted butter (softened) 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 cups flour 1 1/4 cups oatmeal (quick cooking oats, not instant) 1 tsp. baking powder Pinch of salt 1 egg 1/4 cup white chocolate chips (melted) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-by-13 baking pan. In small bowl, stir together condensed milk, lemon juice, lemon zest and 1 cup white chocolate chips. Set aside. In large bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Add flour, oatmeal, baking powder and salt. Stir until well combined. Take out 1/2 cup of batter and set aside. Add egg to big bowl of batter and mix well. Pat batter down into prepared pan. Spread lemon mixture evenly over top of crust. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup batter over top. Bake for 20-25 minutes until edges are brown and lemon mixture is set. Let cool 15-20 minutes. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted white chocolate chips over top. Let cool completely. Cut into squares and serve. Enjoy! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

TIDBITES Food happenings around town SourFest at Avery Tickets for Avery Brewing’s second annual Boulder SourFest went on sale this week. The festival will be held June 11 from noon to 5 p.m. with craft brewers from around the country showing off more than 60 rare sour beers. Proceeds from the event benefit the Colorado Brewer’s Guild, and tickets can be purchased for $45 online at www.averybrewing.com, or at the Avery tap room. What’s organic? A food documentary featuring a Colorado organic farm will screen at Boulder’s Nomad Theatre on April 13. The film, What’s Organic about Organic?, looks at how organic farming is being shaped as demand grows. Filmmaker Shelley Rogers focuses on Grant Family Farms, located in Wellington, which was the first farm to be certified organic by the state of Colorado in 1988. What’s Organic About Organic? won the “Our Planet” award at the Los Angeles Going Green Film Festival. Tickets are available for the Boulder screening at www.whatsorganicmovie.com. The screening will be held at 6:25 p.m., although appetizers and beverages, as well as a chance to sign up for a CSA share, will be offered beginning at 5:30 p.m. A question-and-answer period with Rogers and CSA Director Josh Palmer will follow the screening. Farm boxes to your door Door to Door Organics is making it even easier to support the local economy with its “Local Farm Box.” Available from June to October, the box will be full of 100 percent Colorado-grown produce from more

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than 15 local farms. The box will also be customizable, since customers will have the ability to make substitutions and add additional items. The farm origin of each item, farm news, details on upcoming farm events, seasonal eating tips and recipes are included in each box. More information on the Local Farm Box, and Door to Door Organics, is available at www.colorado.doortodoororganics.com. Guilty pleasure Odell Brewing is re-releasing its Double Pilsner on April 9. The Fort Collins company calls the Double Pilsner its “guilty pleasure,” a brew that weighs in at 8.1 percent ABV. It balances the classic Bohemian Pilsner with a rich Pilsen malt base. The beer will be available all summer as part of the brewery’s line of four-pack offerings. It will also be available in Colorado Beer Week events. Colorado Beer Week is being held for the first time at select Colorado breweries from April 8 to April 16. For more information on Odell and the Double Pilsner, visit www. odellbrewing.com. For more on Colorado Beer Week, visit www. cobeerweek.com. Gluten-free Moose Smiling Moose Deli has launched a new gluten-free menu at all 13 of its locations, as well as for its catering business. The deli chose Sweet Escape Pastries, a Colorado bakery, to create a gluten-free hoagie roll for its sandwiches. They also have ensured there is no cross-contact in the kitchen by using individually wrapped rolls, and they have started new kitchen procedures to prepare and serve each meal. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ndia’s Clay Oven offers straightforward subcontinental fare at affordable prices, including an $8.99 lunch buffet. This noontime offering affords an opportunity to sample some of their standout dishes, including a moist, tender and flavorful tandoori chicken and a smoothly rich butter chicken. Service is discreet and friendly and contributes to a low-key and affordable dining experience.

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

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

Zudaka Healthy Latin Food 4457 N. Broadway, Boulder 303-442-2717

udaka Healthy Latin Food dishes out meatless South American fare, with a particular focus on Venezuelan and Columbian cuisine. The healthy and freshtasting offerings include bean and rice bowls served with salsa and smooth Venezuelan guacamole, as well as fried yucca root appetizers. Arepa, a stuffed cornmeal cake, is a signature offering here. The namesake Zudaka version, filled with meatless ground beef, salsa, Venezuelan guacamole and cheese, is especially appealing.

Sun Rose Café 379 Main St., Longmont 303-651-3533

un Rose Café’s rugged brick interior hosts a successful hybrid of hospitable country café and sophisticated bistro in the heart of downtown Longmont. The menu ranges from omelets in the morning to panini and soups during the day, and concludes with such dinnertime entrees as portabella mushroom ravioli. The lavenderscented lemonade here is addictive and perfectly paired with a traditional Italian cold cut sandwich. Basted eggs with particularly moist and flavorful chicken sausage are a top a.m. choice. 46 April 7, 2011

Pizzeria Locale 1730 Pearl St., Boulder 303-442-3003

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

Pho 79 6650 W. 120th Ave., #A5 Broomfield 303-439-0028

standout among the area’s purveyors of Vietnamese soup, Pho 79 serves up a noteworthy and affordable version of this beef noodle specialty. The broth is wonderfully rich, the product of a long, slow simmer of beef bones, onion and herbs. Thin rice noodles possess perfect texture, and garnishes of lime, bean sprouts, chile peppers and basil are fresh and abundant. Not bad for a place where a large soup sells for just $7.25.

The Savory Café 20 Lakeview Drive, #207 Nederland 303-258-7329

erving dinner, lunch and weekend brunch, Nederland’s Savory Cafe offers everything from lemon ricotta beignets to seared

duck breast to $1 tacos each Wednesday. The setting is simple mountain town café, and the humble ambience fails to prepare the diner for the high quality of the food. Highlights include the hanger steak sandwiches with blue cheese and arugula, and the crispy rock shrimp salad.

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

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

Gindi Café 3601 Arapahoe Ave., #181 Boulder 720-242-8961

indi Cafe offers up a slate of such lightmeal standbys as soup, salads and sandwiches. Dinner is available from Thursday to Saturday night with a reasonably priced menu in the $9.50-and-up range, featuring burgers, stuffed squash and ahi tuna. Breakfast features a three-egg special, and lunch highlights include soups (the rosemary chicken is tasty) and the tuna salad sandwich.

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

Via Toscana Ristorante 356 S. McCaslin Blvd., Louisville 303-604-6960

hile the menu here consists of straightforward Italian fare, this isn’t just another spaghetti and meatballs joint. The most expensive entrée is the Steak Florentine, a $25 number consisting of a half-pound filet mignon melded with mushrooms and Alaskan crab. More modest — but equally satisfying — choices include simple angel hair pasta with tomato, basil, garlic and olive oil. There are also calzones, pizza, cioppino seafood stew and kids’ menu pastas.

Café Aion 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 303-993-8131

he key to Café Aion’s success is in its ability to take the familiar and make it seem new, primarily through top-notch prep and ingredients. Ser ving all three meals, its offerings include tapas like chicken liver pâté sourced locally and continental standards like paella and grilled hanger steak. Breakfast standouts include fresh-baked croissants and donuts, and a highlight is the distinctive house-cured ham, bacon or sausage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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March 21-April 19:

When he was 3 years old, actor Charlie Sheen got a hernia from yelling too much and too loudly. I definitely don’t encourage you to be like that. However, I do think it’s an excellent time to tune in to the extravagant emotions that first made an appearance when you were very young and that have continued to be a source of light and heat for you ever since. Maybe righteous anger is one of those vitalizing emotions, but there must be others as well — crazy longing, ferocious joy, insatiable curiosity, primal laughter. Get in touch with them; invite them to make an appearance and reveal the specific magic they have to give you right now.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

The hydrochloric acid in our digestive system is so corrosive it can dissolve a nail. In other words, you contain within you the power to dematerialize solid metal. Why is it so hard, then, for you to conceive of the possibility that you can vaporize a painful memory or bad habit or fearful fantasy? I say you can do just that, Taurus — especially at this moment, when your capacity for creative destruction is at a peak. Try this meditation: Imagine that the memory or habit or fantasy you want to kill off is a nail. Then picture yourself dropping the nail into a vat of hydrochloric acid. Come back every day and revisit this vision, watching the nail gradually dissolve.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Now and then I include comments in these horoscopes that might be construed as political in nature. For instance, I have always endorsed a particular candidate in the American presidential elections. Some people are outraged by this, saying, in effect, “How dare you?! What do your political opinions have to do with my life?!” If you feel that way, you might want to stop reading now. It’s my sacred duty to tell you that the twists and turns of political and social issues will be making an increasingly strong impact on your personal destiny in the months ahead. To be of service to you, I will have to factor them into my meditations on your oracles. Now let me ask you: Is it possible that your compulsive discontent about certain political issues is inhibiting your capacity for personal happiness?

CANCER June 21-July 22:

If you were a poker player, the odds would now be far better than usual that you’d be voted one of the “50 Sexiest Poker Players in the World.” If you were a physician volunteering your services in Haiti or Sudan, there’d be an unusually high likelihood that you’d soon be the focus of a feature story on a TV news show. And even if you were just a pet groomer or life coach or yoga teacher, I bet your cachet would be rising. Why? According to my reading of the omens, you Cancerians are about to be noticed, seen for who you are or just plain appreciated a lot more than usual.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

No other country on the planet has a greater concentration of artistic masterpieces than Italy. As for the place that has the most natural wonders and inspiring scenery per square mile: That’s more subjective, but I’d say Hawaii. Judging from the astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to visit one or both of those two hotspots — or the closest equivalents you can manage. (If you already live in Italy or Hawaii, you won’t have far to go.) In my opinion, you need to be massively exposed to huge doses of staggering beauty. And I really do mean that you NEED this experience — for your mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Healer Caroline Myss coined the term “woundology.” It refers to the practice of using our wounds to get power, sympathy and attention. Why give up our pain when we can wield it to manipulate others emotionally? “I am suffering, so you should give me what I want.” When we’re in pain, we may feel we have the right to do things we wouldn’t otherwise allow ourselves to do, like go on shopping sprees, eat tasty junk food or sleep with attractive people who are no good for us. In this scenario, pain serves us. It’s an ally. Your assignment, Virgo, is to get touch with your personal version of woundology. Now is a good time to divest yourself of the so-called “advantages” of holding on to your suffering.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

As an American who has lived most of my life in the U.S.,

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I write these horoscopes in English. But for years they have also been translated into Italian for the zesty Italian magazine, Internazionale. Over the years, my readership there has grown so sizable that an Italian publisher approached me to create an astrology book for Italians. Late last year Robosocopo appeared in Italy but nowhere else. It was an odd feeling to have my fourth book rendered in the Italian language, but not in my native tongue. I suspect you’ll be having a comparable experience soon, Libra. You will function just fine in a foreign sphere — having meaningful experiences and maybe even some success “in translation.”

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

You can gain more power — not to mention charisma, panache and love — by losing some of your cool. This is one time when too much self-control could actually undermine your authority. So please indulge in a bit of healthy self-undoing, Scorpio. Gently mock your self-importance and shake yourself free of self-images you’re pathologically attached to. Fool with your own hard and fast rules in ways that purge your excess dignity and restore at least some of your brilliant and beautiful innocence.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

According to a study published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, causes brain cancer cells to undergo a process called autophagy in which cells feed upon themselves, but leave healthy cells intact.

This week will be a time when you might want to get a hold of a toy you loved when you were a kid and actually play with it again; a time when you could speak so articulately about an idea you’re passionate about that you will change the mind of someone who has a different belief; a time when you may go off on an adventure you feared you would regret but then it turns out later that you don’t regret it; a time when you might pick out a group of stars in the sky that form the shape of a symbol that’s important to you and give this new constellation a name; and a time when you could make love with such utter abandon that your mutual pleasure will stay with you both for several days.

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The Norwegian film Twigson is about a boy who feels so friendless and isolated that he seeks companionship with a talking twig. In the coming weeks, I encourage you to be equally as proactive in addressing the strains of your own loneliness. I’m not implying that you are lonelier or will be lonelier than the rest of us; I’m just saying that it’s an excellent time for taking aggressive action to soothe the ache. So reach out, Capricorn. Be humbly confident as you try to make deeper contact.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

During one of 2010’s Mercury retrograde phases, astrologer Evelyn Roberts wrote on her Facebook page that she was doing lots of things you’re “not supposed to do” during a Mercury retrograde: buying a new computer, planning trips, making contracts, signing documents. Why? She said she always rebels like that, maybe because of her quirky Aquarian nature. More importantly, she does it because what usually works best for her is to pay close attention to what’s actually going on rather than getting lost in fearful fantasies about what influence a planet may or may not have. During the current Mercury retrograde, Aquarius, I recommend her approach to you.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Damon Bruce is a San Francisco sports talk show host I listen to now and then. He told a story about being at a bar and seeing a guy with a tattoo of a life-sized dollar bill on the back of his shaved head. Bruce was incredulous. Why burn an image of the lowest-denomination bill into your flesh? If you’re going to all that trouble, shouldn’t you inscribe a more ambitious icon, like a $100 bill? My sentiments exactly, Pisces. Now apply this lesson to your own life.

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