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Push Walmart to improve

(Re: “Demand more from Walmart,” May 9.) On April 25, as part of national actions to support Walmart workers seeking higher wages, more hours and more transparent scheduling, I and two friends met with managers at seven area Walmart stores — the Neighborhood Market under construction in Boulder’s Diagonal Mall and the Supercenters

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Highroad Turning people who report corporate crime into criminals by Jim Hightower

In most state legislatures today, bizarre is not unusual, and off-the-wall has become the political center. Still, it seems strange that legislators in so many states — from California to Vermont — have simultaneously been pushing “ag-gag” bills that are not merely outrageous, but downright unAmerican. Each is intended to prevent journalists, whistleblowers, workers and other citizens from exposing illegal,

in Broomfield, Westminster, Lafayette and Longmont. We delivered information about important corporate changes Walmart’s leaders had committed to make that would provide their “associates” with the size and regularity of hours assignments they need to have sufficient, stable income. We informed the managers that these changes, promised several months ago, had still not been implemented at

most stores in the U.S., and encouraged them to assist their staffs by communicating with top management. In the past decade, Walmart has responded to bad publicity and market forces with policies and practices positioning the company as “green” and community-minded. For example, it was a retail leader in shifting away

abusive or unethical corporate treatment of animals confined in factoryfeeding operations. Our nation’s founders mounted a revolution to establish our Constitutional right to a free press and free speech — even if the reigning government doesn’t like the message. Yet here come a mess of so-called “conservatives” using state governments to outlaw messengers who shine a light on corporate wrongdoing — turning those who expose crimes into criminals. Even kookier, these repressive laws declare that truth-tellers who so much as annoy or embarrass the corporate owner of the animal factory are guilty of “an act of terrorism.” Oddly, each of these state proposals is practically identical, even including much of the same wording. That’s because, unbeknownst to the public and other legislators, the bills don’t originate from the state lawmakers who intro-

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

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duce them, instead coming from a corporate front group named ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council. Lobbyists for corporate funders of ALEC convene periodically to write model bills that serve their corporations’ special interests, then the bills are farmed out to the group’s trusted lawmakers across the country. The secretive ALEC network produced the ag-gag model in 2002, titling it the “Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act.” The only terrorists in this fight are the soulless profiteers in the corporate suites and the cynical lawmakers who serve them. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 16, 2013 7

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arvey and I were breaking did was piss off Democrats and make out the Doritos when there you sound constipated. Now you’re tellwas a knock on the door. ing me you want to be one?” It was Richard Nixon “Times change,” he said. “Anyway, I and a guy with a serious 5 have a lot in common with the o’clock shadow. Democrats and Obama.” “Do come in!” I said. “Harvey, hop “Come on, man,” I scoffed. “You over to the fridge and get our guests a and the Democrats couldn’t be more couple of restoratives.” different. For one thing, the Democratic Harvey is a 6-foot-3½-inch-tall Party is fully of environmentalists rabbit who used to hang out at the and…” Rocky Mountain News with Molly “…and I created the Environmental Mayfield, Gene Amole and Amole’s Protection Agency, and signed both the Idea Fairy. But then Molly and Gene Clean Air Act and the National met the Final Deadline and the paper Environmental Policy Act of 1970, folded, and one day Harvey and iFairy which introduced environment impact showed up at my place and announced statements into national life,” he said. “I they were moving in. also supported the creation of the “Why me?” I asked. Occupational Safety and Health “We newsroom Administration, apparitions have to which is why stick together,” America is well on iFairy said sweetly, the way to becomperching on the ing the first countop of my computtry in history “I HAVE A LOT IN er screen. where everyone COMMON WITH THE But we digress. wears a helmet.” Back to Nixon. “But you vetoed DEMOCRATS AND “What brings the Clean Water OBAMA.” you up from Act of 1972,” I finPurgatory on this ished weakly. fine spring day?” I “It was a great asked. “I thought idea, but I thought you hated sunshine.” it cost way too “I do, but I had some personal much,” he shot back. “We were fighting business I had to take care of.” inflation at the time. Anyway, Congress “What sort of personal business?” I overrode the veto. asked. “And speaking of inflation,” he went Just then Harvey hopped in with a on, “I imposed wage and price controls tray of beers. Nixon grabbed a bottle to fight it. The Democrats in Congress and took a long pull on it. came up with the idea and gave me the “I’ve decided to change my voter power to do it — and to their amazeregistration from Republican to ment I did it in 1971.” Democrat,” he said, avoiding eye con“OK, but what about civil rights?” I tact. asked. “Why on earth do you need to “What about them?” he snapped. change your party affiliation?” iFairy “My administration implemented the exclaimed. “You’re dead, for God’s Philadelphia Plan in 1970, the first fedsake!” eral affirmative action plan. Kennedy “That’s never stopped anyone from and Johnson talked a lot about school registering as a Democrat,” he replied a integration, but it was on my watch that little defensively. “I had a long talk with desegregation actually started to happen Dick Daley about this very point.” on a meaningful scale. “But why do you, of all people, want “And, by the way, I supported the to join the Democratic Party, of all par- Equal Rights Amendment starting in ties?” I asked. “For one thing, you spent 1968.” your entire political career deliberately “My hero,” iFairy said, planting a mispronouncing its name. You called it see DANISH PLAN Page 11 the ‘Democrat Party,’ even though all it

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from selling energy-wasteful incandescentlight bulbs, and has reduced packaging for many products. In January, the company, which already claims to be the nation’s largest employer of veterans, pledged to hire 100,000 more. But what future will new workers face in an organization which pays associates less per year than its CEO makes in a single hour? Michael Duke’s annual salary jumped 14 percent last year, while the vast majority of Walmart staff get no benefits and can’t afford the company’s health insurance. And what of the communities in other countries which bear the terrible burden of supplying at nearly cost the goods Walmart sells for its famously low prices? In Bangladesh, where the company and other multinationals reject proposals for independent inspections of factory safety and working conditions, families of 112 garment workers killed in a fire at one Dhaka suburb production facility are still mourning, while the bodies of more than 1,100 workers have been pulled from the collapsed wreckage of another plant nearby. For all its trumpeted commitment to social-environmental responsibility, Walmart fails to understand this simple truth: Its workers are part of the environment. Treating them all as well as the rest of the Earth it claims to be protecting, and fully honoring their contributions to the company’s success, is the least it can do. And it should do a lot more if it wants to earn our respect and spending dollars.

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When you consider hydraulic fracturing (fracking), please use the familiar rules of safety: “Stop, Look, and Listen.” Stop. The full effect that fracking is having on our ecosystems is not well known. One reason for this lack of clarity is that nature does not have standing in our court system. What if trees or birds could sue because their water sources are polluted from fracking chemicals? Human activity has altered the biorhythms of the biosphere. We need to develop legal systems and measures of wealth that are in rhythm with nature. Please recall Aldo Leopold’s ethics: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” Fracking is wrong. Stop. Look. Are we burning down our planet in order to heat our houses? Let’s take a bird’s eye view. A 2011 publication by the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that “over one-third of natural gas produced in North Dakota is flared or otherwise not marketed.” The prairie looks like it is on fire. Will migratory see LETTERS Page 11

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City unearths contamination at teahouse site by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer Editor’s note: There is no evidence that any of the contamination discussed in this story poses any health threats to patrons of the Dushanbe Teahouse, Farmers’ Market or any other attraction in the area. omething unsightly has gotten a bit too close to one of Boulder’s crown jewels. An environmental contractor hired to deal with possibly hazardous materials from an old gasification plant near the Dushanbe Teahouse downtown has confirmed the need to clean up contamination at the site. And if an extensive remediation project is required, it will likely be city of Boulder taxpayers and Xcel ratepayers left holding the tab. Most of the health risks seem to be buried underground — there appear to be no immediate threats to those visiting the teahouse or adjacent properties. The question is, how far have contaminants traveled through Boulder’s groundwater and even into local waterways over the 110 years since the plant was built? The City of Boulder hired USA Environment to excavate areas of the parking lot on the east side of the teahouse in late 2012, in an effort to learn more about why elevated levels of contaminants showed up in six monitoring wells installed in 2010. The company dug up sections of old gas lines and put in two additional monitoring wells, uncovering high levels of chemicals like benzene and naphthalene. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), benzene is a carcinogen that has been linked to increased rates of leukemia, chromosomal aberrations and disorders of the blood, especially in bone marrow, as well as excessive bleeding and damage to the immune system. Acute exposure to naphthalene has been linked to hemolytic anemia as well as neurological and liver damage, while chronic effects include cataracts and retinal damage. The property, known as the 13th Street Plaza, is the site of a coal gasification plant operated by the Federal Gas Company from 1902 to 1952. The plant generated fuel used by Boulder residents for heating, cooking and gas lamps (see story at right). The contamination at the property is nothing new to the city. The EPA investigated the site in 1994, exposing many

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of its flaws, and in 1996, a prospective restaurant proprietor for the teahouse reportedly got cold feet over the contamination issues and backed out, prompting the city to procure the necessary public financing to make the project happen.

But air-quality tests conducted by the city in January 2012 in the teahouse and Atrium Building at 1300 Canyon showed that levels of benzene and naphthalene were well below government contamination thresholds. “We just wanted to double-check

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oulder was a very different, grittier place at the turn of the last century. The first automobile had just appeared in town and the speed limit for the new machine was capped at six miles per hour. Railroad workers had unionized and gone on strike. As was the custom then and now, the company hired replacement workers, and in response, a disgruntled union brakeman lit a caboose on fire where the scabs were sleeping. The fire quickly spread to a freight car containing 2,400 pounds of dynamite, and a chunk of downtown Boulder blew up, killing three people. Andrew Macky wasn’t yet the namesake of the University of Colorado auditorium concert hall. In 1904 he was the principal shareholder of the Federal Gas Company, which manufactured coal gas, a substance more commonly known as “town gas” that was used to light the lamps of the downtown business district and surrounding homes. Unfortunately, it appears that some of the leftover grit from these early days has reappeared and is sorely out of place in

today’s Boulder. The 13th Street Plaza, Dushanbe Teahouse and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art together represent an area of town considered to be one of Boulder’s crown jewels. With Central Park just across the street to the west, it’s also the area that hosts Boulder’s Farmers’ Market on weekends and any number of festivals throughout the summer. But 1770 13th St. wasn’t always a center of Boulder culture. For more than 50 years it was home to a towngas manufacturing plant that appears to have left behind a serious mess in the form of soil and groundwater contamination, contamination that is proving to be quite a challenge to clean up, mostly because the City of Boulder built a plaza and a teahouse right on top of it even after it knew the subsurface contamination was an issue. But in 1902, the only issue was that Boulder needed lamps to illuminate the night and something to burn in those lamps. To meet this need, the Boulder Gaslight and Fuel Company See HISTORY Page 18

that everything was fine, and it is,” city spokesperson Jody Jacobson told BW last fall. The current hubbub over the property was prompted by complaints in 2009 about contamination along 15th Street, some 300 feet away, at the former location of a dry cleaner where elevated levels of certain chemicals associated with coal gasification plants were detected. Some substances appeared to be residues left by chemicals formerly used by the dry cleaner; others seem to have spread from the teahouse site — although Jacobson says it’s unlikely that groundwater is flowing in that direction. The latter question is still an open one, but two contaminants detected downstream at the dry cleaner are substances commonly found at gasification plants and were detected at high levels at 13th Street Plaza, suggesting that the contamination has wandered to adjacent areas. Xcel, which chipped in up to $50,000 for this round of consultant work, bought the company that previously owned the plant and has secured permission from the Public Utilities Commission to pass clean-up expenses along to its ratepayers. Does the November 2011 agreement with the PUC mean that the company is bracing itself for the possibility of being on the hook for at least part of a costly cleanup? Xcel officials did not respond to questions about the PUC filing. But it seems the public has a vested interest in keeping the cost of remediation down, since it’s their pocketbook that could suffer, whether through city tax dollars, their Xcel bill, or both. * * * * USA Environment, the city’s contractor, was charged with identifying some of the gasification plant’s leftover underground pipes and tanks, cleaning up what was encountered, and determining whether those features were responsible for previously detected contamination in the area. Using an electromagnetic geophysical survey conducted in 1997, before the teahouse was constructed, the contractor identified the location of the plant’s old gas lines, tanks and holders and dug up a section of them in the parking lot east of the teahouse. The excavation confirmed See TEMPEST Page 14

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the survey’s findings, indicating that the two remaining 12-inch pipes run under the teahouse and connect to other possibly submerged plant structures to the west and northwest of the teahouse, along 13th Street. In its report, posted to the city’s website on April 8, USA Environment writes that between Nov. 27 and Dec. 18, it dug up 177 feet of pipe and 1,750 square feet of soil, hauling off 340 yards of contaminated earth to a waste management facility in Aurora after discovering a three- to six-inch layer of odorous, discolored dirt around pipes, discoloration that was thicker around joints. The pipes led to a submerged structure of a “main holder” tank northeast of the teahouse, where they joined with two “pipe chase structures” connected to the tank. Workers attempted to get to the bottom of what was believed to be the foundation of the above-ground tank, digging down eight and a half feet, but they never found the bottom. It was common for gasification plants to have above-surface tanks above underground tanks, but Joe Castro, the city’s facilities and fleet manager, says there is no sign of a submerged holding area. It was in this area where testing showed that the levels of substances like benzene and naphthalene were highest. According to the report, at these pipe connections to the holding tank, the city directed its contractor to refrain from pumping out toxic liquid, but Xcel disagreed. The company, sometimes referred to in the report by the name of

its subsidiary that previously owned the property, Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), hired its own firm, Tetra Tech, to extract the contaminated fluid. “Given the unknowns about the size of the pipe chase, the source and quality of the pipe chase contents, and the effect of its removal on static conditions, the City elected not to pump out the pipe chase contents until next steps had been determined for the Site,” the report states. “However, PSCo wanted to pump out the pipe chase, and the City allowed Xcel and its consultants access to do so. … These residual [manufactured gas plant]‐generated process fluids (combined water, oil, and sludge) were subject to sampling, characterization, and removal by PSCo.” “The company thought it was prudent to remove the liquid wastes before closing the site back up, to avoid any potential for releases of the liquids into the environment,” Xcel spokesperson Michelle Aguayo told Boulder Weekly via email. “This was outside the scope of work that the city originally intended, but the city was willing to let the company step in to perform this task upon its request.” When asked why the city didn’t want to pump out the toxic fluid, Castro says the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment advised city officials that it was not an immediate threat to the environment and could be left in place until the actual clean-up begins, and there was some concern

about disturbing the stability of the structure. Colorado’s basic standards for groundwater call for no more than 5 micrograms of benzene per liter. According to the report, the benzene level at one pipe was 3,170 micrograms per liter, and 4,000 micrograms per liter at the other. At the main holder tank, benzene measured 2.4 million micrograms per liter. Similarly, while the state’s allowable standard for naphthalene in groundwater is 140 micrograms per liter, the report states that the level measured at the tank was 60 million micrograms of naphthalene per liter. Joe Ryan, a professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at CU-Boulder, says those levels are off the charts because they represent amounts that are far more than can be absorbed in water, indicating that some solids must have been tested with the liquids, even though they are labeled as “aqueous samples.” “I’ve never seen a sample that’s exactly what they pulled out at that site,” he says. “I have never seen a comparable sample.” But the city’s website stresses that there is no immediate health risk. “Most of the area where the gas manufacturing equipment was located is now covered in pavement, which prevents exposure to the public from any materials that remain,” according to the See TEMPEST Page 16

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**** Of course, much depends on the direction of groundwater flow. USA Environment, just like a previous city-contracted firm in May 2012, determined that groundwater flows from the site to the northeast, seemingly away from Boulder Creek and the manmade ditch that runs along the teahouse’s south flank. But in January 2009, Terracon, the engineering consultant hired to install monitoring wells and investigate the contamination found at the nearby dry cleaner property, determined that groundwater was flowing to the southeast, toward Boulder Creek. Other contaminants that Terracon found at Art Cleaners, which has since relocated to north Boulder, included excessive levels of benzene and naphthalene, the primary gasification plant contaminants found at the nearby 13th Street Plaza just 300 feet away. In addition, trichloroethene, a substance not typically found at gasification plants but historically used as a degreaser for metal machinery, was found at both Art Cleaners and 13th Street Plaza. Trichloroethene, which was also used in the dry cleaning process, was measured by USA Environment at 38,000 micrograms per liter at the underground vault structure below the main holder foundation at the 13th Street Plaza, many times higher than the state groundwater threshold of 5 micrograms per liter. It may prove to be another connection between contamination at 13th Street Plaza and the property that once housed Art Cleaners, and it is unlikely it would have spread from the dry cleaners, uphill, into the base of the vault. “Based on previous investigations and the results from the recent investigation, Terracon reiterates our contention that petroleum hydrocarbon impact at the Site likely originates from an upgradient source, namely the former Federal Gas Company facility,” Terracon wrote in its report. But city officials Castro and Jacobson

disagree. Castro points to the fact that the city has had four separate studies reach the conclusion that the groundwater heads northeast. While the water may, indeed, be moving northeast on the plaza property, this doen’t mean it doesn’t change direction to the southeast towards Boulder Creek and the dry cleaning monitoring wells only a few feet beyond the property line. Such natural groundwater behavior was recently demonstrated at the site of the Parachute Creek benzene spill in Western Colorado. CDPHE officials and oil company execs claimed that the creek was in no danger from the spill because monitoring wells showed that the creek was recharging the groundwater and therefore the groundwater was moving away from the creek. But the officials failed to consider that the natural path of the groundwater would eventually turn it back towards the creek, which it did, reversing its direction just a few feet farther west, contaminating the creek and now threatening the Colorado River. It is likely that the ditch next to the plaza property, which is several feet above the level of the groundwater, is recharging the groundwater. This would likely result in a northeast movement immediately adjacent to the ditch on the property’s southern edge. But like at Parachute, the water should turn back towards the area’s natural drainage of Boulder Creek to the southeast very quickly. This would explain why the water at the dry cleaner property just a block away is moving southeast towards Boulder Creek. Groundwater from the plaza site could show a northeast movement in the property’s monitoring wells and still turn quickly to find its way into the dry cleaning wells to the southeast. When asked how benzene and naphthalene could have ended up at the Art Cleaners site, Jacobson initially told BW that the two substances are used in the dry cleaning process, but she later backed off that assertion. “We think it’s two separate contaminations, we feel like it’s not coming from here,” she says. “I could be wrong about those being related to the dry cleaning process itself, you’d want to confirm that, but we do feel pretty confident it’s not from this site.” “We don’t think they’re related at all, with the dry cleaners,” Castro says. They add that benzene and naphthalene are water-averse and don’t migrate quickly underground. “So the fortunate piece of any of it is that they don’t move very far,” Jacobson says. Boulder Weekly

news “Because of the nature of these chemicals, they aren’t transported in the environment, so we think the chances of migration off site are very low,” Castro says, adding that the city has determined that there are no drinking water wells within a mile of the property. But information provided by the EPA and other environmental regulatory agencies contradicts the city’s acessments of these contaminants’ mobility. According to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, of all the contaminants found in coal tar, benzene is “the most soluable and thus the most likely to be dissolved in groundwater and migrate off site.” Likewise, the NYDEC states that most polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) do not readily dissolve in water, so they “are not easily transported in groundwater ... with the exception of naphthalene,” which can move quickly and easily with groundwater. NYDEC further warns that “despite low solubility, PAHs may still migrate significant distances because mobile tars or emulsions may move through the subsurface.” In addition, the EPA report on the Federal Gas Plant site states that there are 63 groundwater wells within one mile of the site and 222 wells within two miles. **** Considering the taxpayer dollars that have gone into cleaning up the city’s Valmont Butte dumping ground, the decision to build the teahouse at its current location may prove to be a decision that Boulder officials regret. While the problems at Valmont dwarf the contamination at the 13th Street Plaza, there are parallels. As they did at the Valmont site, city officials plan to pursue a Voluntary Cleanup Plan (VCUP) with the CDPHE. The VCUP process is an arrangement between the CDPHE and the EPA that allows parties to do their own remediation of toxic sites when they aren’t serious enough to qualify for the Superfund National Priorities List. According to a memorandum of agreement between the CDPHE and EPA, the VCUP is encouraged “due to limited resources, the need to prioritize sites and the need to expedite cleanup action” in cases where facilities are being transferred, redeveloped or reused. The VCUP “is tasked to operate quickly and with a minimum of administrative processes and cost,” the agreement states. Officials from the CDPHE, city and Xcel deny that the VCUP is a way to fast-track cleanups on the cheap, to avoid cumbersome and expensive EPA procedures as well as limit the EPA’s ability to require additional future cleanup. “If there were ongoing releases, that’s Boulder Weekly

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lot was finally covered with blacktop and turned into a parking lot. Eventually it was purchased by the City of Boulder and was being used as a permit-only parking area for city employees. In 1987, the people of Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, gave Boulder a traditional Tajik teahouse as a gift. In 1990, then-Mayor Leslie Durgin appointed a citizen task force to determine an appropriate site for the teahouse. The task force examined several viable neardowntown locations and then chose the 13th Street site in 1991. Between 1991 and 1994, the city approved the 13th Street site location over a second location at 11th and Arapahoe, created a master plan for the development of the area, incorporated the teahouse trust and signed a 20-year lease with the trust to manage the teahouse, including its construction and future restaurant operations. It isn’t clear from the record if city council members or the citizen task force were aware of the 13th Street site’s town gas history and subsurface contamination prior to 1994, even though city officials should have been aware at the time the city purchased the property. But either way, in 1994 the EPA evaluated the site, and at that point, with absolute certainty, the city was made fully aware of the site’s history and subsurface contamination issues even though subsurface testing had yet to be done. Despite this knowledge, the city and teahouse trust pushed forward with their plans to put the teahouse and plaza directly on top of the old gas plant grounds. In 1997, the city did an electro-magnetic survey of the property (see map page 14), which confirmed that the underground infrastructure of the old gas plant has, in fact, never been removed from the site or remediated. Yet, even armed with this proof of contamination below the surface and despite the funding issues that had arisen due to the contamination, the city broke ground on the teahouse redevelopment of the gas plant property later in 1997, paying for the project itself after funding for an initial prospective teahouse proprietor fell through due to fears surrounding the contamination. The assembly of the teahouse was completed in 1998. In 2003, groundwater contamination consistent with the types associated with town gas sites, as had been described to the city in 1994 by the EPA, was discovered in the monitoring wells of a separate groundwater remediation site on 15th Street, some 300 feet to the southeast of the old Federal Gas site. The consulting firm monitoring the 15th Street wells says that the benzene and naphthalene contamination at this location is coming from a plume of contamination emanating from the old Federal Gas Plant site. In 2009, the city of Boulder and the EPA were informed of this possibility. A report prepared by the consulting firm in 2009 and presented to the EPA recommended a subsurface investigation to determine if the naphthalene and benzene contamination observed in the area originates from the historic Federal Gas Company. According to EPA documents dated 2010, as a result of this concern over a possible contamination plume reaching the 15th Street wells from the teahouse location, the City of Boulder launched a new investigation of subsurface contamination at the site, something that it failed to do prior to building the plaza and teahouse at the location. In 2012, Xcel (as the current owner of PSCo) joined with the city to do a $230,000 study of the property, including drilling additional monitoring wells and partial excavation on the eastern part of the teahouse property (see “Tempest under a teacup,” page 13).

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he EPA has identified 1,502 former town gas sites in the United States. Other sources state that as many as 25,000 such sites may exist in the U.S., with most still unreported. There are 350 former town gas sites under review in the Superfund system, and nine are listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List, which would qualify them as Superfund sites that could receive federal funds for clean-up. A study that examined 30 of the nation’s primary U.S. utility companies’ financial information found that the companies had set aside $1.5 billion for the purpose of remediating town gas sites. It appears that the companies estimate an average cost of $3 million per site, which the study notes is enough money to initiate, if not complete, a cleanup. The average town gas site covers approximately 2.5 acres, and the price of remediation tends to increase based primarily on the extent of treatment of subsurface soils and groundwater. In 2001, it was estimated that the total cleanup cost for town gas sites ranged from $2.8 million to $17.7 million.

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in 1926 and operated it until it closed in the early 1950s. Davis says Xcel is still researching whether, or to what extent, Xcel is responsible for what happened at the site between 1926 and its closure. “That’s one of the things that is still being scoped out,” Davis says. “There’s no finger-pointing going on right now.” An Xcel spokesperson gave a similar answer in a September 2010 Camera article, saying that the company’s legal ties to the gasification plant were being researched. “Xcel Energy was the result of a merger with Northwest Power in August 2000 — so in essence, Xcel Energy never owned the property,” Xcel’s Aguayo told BW via email. “Public Service Company of Colorado sold it in 1963. It sounds like the assumption is that any issue with the site comes solely from the manufactured gas plant. Due to the number of different businesses that have been located at the site (and nearby), there are a number of possible sources. … Because the City of Boulder currently owns the property, Boulder is in charge of any site investigation and/or cleanup work. As a former property owner, we are cooperating and supporting Boulder’s efforts. We have a shared goal to ensure the site is responsibly managed to protect public health and the environment.” In actuality, the town gas plant was the only business ever located on the site until the teahouse was built. And an EPA report states that there is no other known business in the area that could have produced the contaminants in question. Aguayo did acknowledge in a subsequent email that, just as Honeywell was on the hook for a portion of the Valmont cleanup after buying a company that contributed to the contamination, “under environmental laws and regulaBoulder Weekly

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This aerial photo from the 1940s shows the above-ground holding tank on the northeast side of the Federal Gas Company property, as well as the outline of a second tank on the north side of where the Dushanbe Teahouse is located today. 13th Street runs left to right toward the bottom of the image, bordered by Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard. The company’s building, pictured on page 13, is located west of the two holding tanks, along 13th Street.

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the public with any impacted soils or groundwater, as the soils are at depth and below asphalt, and given that groundwater in the area is not used for drinking water purposes.” “It was positive in that we confirmed some things we suspected, like were the structures at the site still there,” Castro says. “That was confirmed, it was important to have that confirmed.” He adds that USA Environment completed another round of work at the site in March, adding another monitoring well in the middle of the plaza and investigating the relief holder tank west of the main holder. Castro declined to say what excavation was done at that tank or what was found, saying the consultant’s report will be included in the VCUP application when it is submitted in the late summer or fall. When asked whether the city plans to test for heavy metals like lead, which have been common contaminants associated with gasification plants nationally, he says he isn’t aware of that concern and is unsure whether such tests will be conducted. The city and various regulatory agencies failed to test for lead for several decades at the Valmont Butte site, and it was later found to be the most serious contaminant at the property. According to Castro, the plan is to begin the clean-up after the conclusion of the Boulder Farmers’ Market season

and complete it before the market reopens in spring 2014. And as for the gas pipes under the teahouse? Castro says USA Environment recommends leaving them in place, since the ends were sealed with concrete and they don’t pose a threat. “What we saw was that there wasn’t a whole lot of contamination in the piping itself,” he says. “The teahouse really hasn’t been impacted by this, it’s all outside the teahouse. We don’t anticipate any impacts to the teahouse.” Teahouse proprietors Lenny and Sara Martinelli did not respond to requests for comment by press time. When asked whether it was a good idea to put the teahouse at that site, Jacobson replies in the affirmative, adding, “based on what we knew at the time.” But it’s clear the city was aware of the contamination at the property, to at least some degree, before the teahouse was built. One question BW plans to explore in a future installment is why city officials persisted in choosing this site over other possible locations that didn’t have the same environmental problems. The other lingering question, one that may not be answered for a long time, is whether the decision will end up coming back to haunt taxpayers and Xcel ratepayers alike. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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eforestation is at the top of the CIA’s list of environmental issues facing Indonesia, and much of it can be attributed to the creation of palm oil plantations, built to satisfy demands of the American market, which has increased the import of palm oil by 485 percent over the last decade. Palm oil is used in ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, breakfast bars, cake mixes, doughnuts, potato chips, instant noodles, frozen desserts and meals, baby formula, margarine and dry and canned soups, according to the Rainforest Action Network, which is campaigning to see palm oil eliminated from products or their producers switch to using sustainably grown palm oil. The Indonesian government has announced plans to convert some 44 million more acres — an area the size of Missouri — into palm oil plantations by 2020, according to the Rainforest Action Network. The United Nations’ Environment Program estimates that 98 percent of Indonesian rainforests could be destroyed by 2022. The loss of those rainforests would mean the loss of habitat for endangered species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger and Sumatran rhinoceros and some of the most biologically diverse rainforests — home to 12 percent of mammals and 17 percent of bird species, according to the Rainforest Action Network. Anna Lappé is the author of Diet for a Hot Planet, which picks up the conversation started by her mother, Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé, and Boulder Weekly

Why palm oil is key to cutting the carbon emissions from our food system by Elizabeth Miller co-founder (with her mother) of the Small Planet Institute, which works to spread Moore Lappé’s concept of “living democracy.” Lappé, who has also been on the board of the Rainforest Action Network since 2008, will be coming to Boulder for a conversation with Rainforest Action Network Acting Executive Director Lindsey Allen about the intersections between the environmental movement and the food movement. Boulder Weekly: The core of the mission driving the Small Planet Institute is this concept of living democracy. What changes would the spread of that concept make for the world we live in? Anna Lappé: Our vision of living democracy is the idea, as my mom likes to put it, that democracy isn’t something we have, it’s something we do, and the idea is that democracy calls all of us to be engaged in our communities. So a vision of living democracy means a vision of having people directly engaged in their communities around issues that are affecting them. How does this campaign to change some of the practices around palm oil fit into some of the bigger ideas you’ve been working on both in your books and at the Small Planet Institute? Rainforest Action Network’s work around palm oil is actually how I first really connected with the organization.

I’d been familiar with the work for years, but I was working on my most recent book, Diet for a Hot Planet, which is about the connection between food systems and climate change. Specifically, it’s looking at how the food industry is driving greenhouse gas emissions. And what I was surprised to discover is palm oil and the palm oil used in American snack food products and across many consumer products in the U.S. is actually directly related to endangering rainforests half a world away in Indonesia and Malaysia. And there are some pretty significant effects to carbon emissions from that industry. That’s right. Palm oil production, especially in Asia, is driving large-scale destruction of rainforest, and also carbon-rich peat landscapes, and as a result it’s releasing significant quantities of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, which is making palm oil a major global driver of human-induced climate change. What inspired you to write Diet for a Hot Planet? I was inspired to write Diet for a Hot Planet because for more than a decade I’d been working as an advocate for sustainable food and farming and thinking and learning about the social and environmental and economic costs of industrial agriculture, and I hadn’t really connected the dots between industrial agri-

culture and climate change until about 2006, when I read a report from the United Nations that started connecting those dots for me, started showing just how significant a food system is in global emissions. Across the planet, the food system is responsible for about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a really significant contributor to the crisis, and I felt passionately that although Americans were increasing their understanding of climate change and really starting to get engaged with trying to confront the drivers of global emissions, that food and food systems was really off of people’s radar. So I was hoping, through the book, to help people understand just what a significant impact our global food system has on climate and how food systems and farming can be a part of the solution. What are the some of your suggestions for solutions? What I was pleased to discover is that the kind of food and farm systems that I’d been advocating for for more than a decade when I started working on the book, that many friends and colleagues are working for across the country, is often called sustainable farming, but it can also be seen as climate-friendly farming. The sustainable practices like using on-farm sources of fertility, like having and growing diverse crops on your land, like using ecological sources for pest and weed control — all those things we know are good for our bodies, are good See DIET Page 24

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tive in partnership with food and farming organizations across the country called Food Mythbusters. We’re taking on some of the biggest myths people have about food and helping them understand more about where their food comes from and more about what sustainable food looks like and tastes like, and doing that through a series of online movies, a website and grassroots events. Our first movie took on the myth that we need industrial agriculture to feed the world and kind of busted that myth and showed just how powerful sustainable farming is in terms of addressing hunger globally. Is there anything you want to add about the event or your work? I was in Boulder last September and did an event with the [University of Colorado Boulder] and a number of other environmental groups and I was just so overwhelmed by the concentration that you have there in Boulder of really passionate people who care about the planet and, of course, it’s such a hot bed for fabulous sustainable food companies and sustainable product companies. Of all the cities in the country to be having this conversation about these intersections between food and the environment and the food movement and the environmental movement, Lindsey and I felt like Boulder was the place to be, so I really am excited about who’s going to be in the room with us. Anna Lappé and Lindsey Allen will be appearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St. Tickets are $125 for VIP, $35 for general admission. Additional information is available at www.ran.org. Food Mythbusters videos are available at www.foodmyths.org for both private viewing and community screenings. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ons, according to author Cameron Stracher. It was the first time Americans had taken the gold in “American runners now are not what they used to that event in 64 years, and the following years saw be,” Stracher says. “They used to be the best in the attendance at new races soar. Stracher cites as an world.” example the Falmouth Road Race, which saw 93 runStracher’s most recent book, Kings of the Road: ners at its first race in 1973, and more than 400 for How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar the second in 1974. Bill Rodgers won the event that Made Running Go Boom, chronicles the transformayear, setting a new course record by five minutes. tion of distance running in America during the Shorter, Rodgers and Alberto Salazar “were OurStracher Entirewrites Inventory ofresident Clothing, 1970s. that Boulder Frank Footwear, American running during those years,” Stracher says. Shorter, Camp co-founder the Bolder Boulder, launched “They gave their sport real conflict and drama for the &ofTravel Gear & Sunglasses the Golden Age of distance running when he won first time.” gold for the marathon at the 1972 Munich Olympics. There has always been a strong social component

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to running, even though the sport is also highly individualized. In fact, that’s part of what made running “go boom” in the ’70s, Stracher says. “It was the perfect sport for the ’70s because we had just come out of this great social consciousness movement,” Stracher says. “People who were running in the ’70s were still kind of in that mindset — sort of social, hippie, beatnik, Woodstock-type thing.” At the same time, Stracher acknowledges that America was transitioning toward the ’80s — “a very much self-centered, me-focused, individual era.” “In a way, running kind of combines both of those,” Stracher says. “It’s a very social activity. ... But when you’re out on the road racing, you really are alone. And to be really good, you need to be really competitive. You need to want to beat other people. Once you’re on the road, you’re not friendly anymore.” Shorter says the training that led up to him winning the Olympic gold in the marathon wasn’t necessarily about being competitive. Running was about stress release, and a little curiosity. “I always just wanted to find out where I would level off, and my telling people I was training — to, say, try to make the Olympic team — was enough for them to leave me alone so I could run,” Shorter says. “Because at the time, running was something you did to make an Olympic team, and then, the social expectation was that you would get on with the rest of your life. “It was and still is primarily stress relief and my way to just be selfish with my time. I just happened to find out I was very good at it.” Shorter was so good, in fact, that in addition to winning Olympic gold in

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the marathon, he was the U.S. national 10,000 meter champion in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977, a four-time U.S. national cross-country champion, a four-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon and a two-time winner of the Falmouth Road Race. Whether Shorter considers himself highly competitive or not, he acknowledges that he is an obsessive person, as are many successful runners. “I am obsessive by nature,” Shorter says. “But I think that OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder] can be channeled constructively.” Stracher, a runner himself, shares a similar trait. He recalls a trip to Europe with his girlfriend where he decided he had to run in Yugoslavia, even when there was a civil war going on. “If you miss a day, you know, you start getting really neurotic about it,” Stracher says. “Running attracts obsessive people, and it also makes people more obsessive.” Shorter and Stracher agree that, today, people run for many other reasons, with socialization and fitness at the forefront of the running culture. During the late ’90s, the “running for charity wave began,” according to Shorter. This wave signaled the second part of the running boom, when speed was no longer as important. For Shorter, this new wave also signaled the demystification of distance running, which aided its surge in popularity. “Somewhere around 2000, distance running became much more inclusive rather than exclusive,” Shorter says. “People began to realize that if you truly put in three months of training and did it consistently, you could run a marathon.” The demystification of distance

running produced an appreciation of effort, he says. “People were really exclusive and borderline elitist about running, and a marker of that was time,” Shorter says. “Now the perspective has changed, and it’s just about covering distance.” When Shorter decided to co-found the Bolder Boulder in 1979, Shorter says he and co-founder Steve Bosley were sensing a fall-off in physical activity in schools. “Steve initially wanted to start a track race to include as many people as possible to encourage physical fitness and running in younger athletes,” Shorter says. “So, I said, ‘Well, why don’t you start a road race?’” So they did. Approximately 2,700 runners registered for the first Bolder Boulder in 1979. Now, almost 20 times that number register to run the race each year. The success of the Bolder Boulder mirrors the cultural shift in distance running. “For young kids now, it’s normal for them to run. When I was their age, well, maybe you ran as a form of punishment in gym class. But you certainly didn’t cover distance,” Shorter says. “More than 60,000 [people] will come out for the Bolder Boulder this year. And that’s the great thing about it — everybody will appreciate the effort behind the distance.” Stracher, however, remains somewhat more pessimistic about the socialization of distance running in the 21st century. “To be honest, some of it is just big business,” Stracher says. “The more social you make running and have huge races, attracting hundreds and thousands of people, the more money everybody can make.” “I’m not saying that running for

social purposes is a bad thing,” Stracher says. “I’m all for it, but I guess I would like to see a shift back more towards the hard, fast part of running.” Shorter has a different view. “I like the way things are now,” he says. Shorter adds that the spirit of distance running in America has been strengthened by the bombing at the Boston Marathon this year. “I think that the effect of the Boston Marathon bombings will push more people to run,” Shorter says. “I was running in a race down in Roanoke, Va., just a week after the bombings, and almost immediately more and more people were calling up to register and volunteer to help with the race.” Shorter ran and volunteered in the race, the Blue Ridge Marathon, which Rodgers was also running. No matter how the running culture has shifted within the last 30 years or what tragedies have been suffered, both Shorter and Stracher agree that the spirit of American distance running is still alive and well. For them, there is no end in sight. “Running is such a wonderful freedom to have,” Stracher says. “Especially when it comes to marathon running — all those miles on the open road — it’s terrible to think that stuff like that has to be closed. But really, it never does.” The Bolder Boulder will be held on Monday, May 27, with the pro wheelchair wave beginning at 6:55 a.m., followed by the “A” wave at 7 a.m. The race begins at 30th and Walnut streets and ends at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field. More information can be found at www.bolderboulder.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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cholarship applications are currently being taken for the Women’s Wilderness Institute girls’ programs. The Institute offers four- to 14-day trips for girls beginning at age 9. Their classes allow girls to try out backpacking, rock climbing and hiking a peak, or delve into a committing trip, like an eight-day backpacking expedition. Courses are also offered that pair art and the outdoors, bring a parent or adult mentor along to learn outdoor skills with girls, and bring Latina girls out to have outdoor experiences on day trips led by Latina women. “What I love about the program is how it positively changes girls’ lives, teaching them real-world leadership and communication skills using a model designed especially to meet girls’ needs,” Shari Leach, the executive director of the institute, said in a press release. Full and partial scholarships are available, based on family income level. In 16 years the program has been running, it has not yet turned away a girl who wanted to attend due to financial need. Last year, it awarded $30,000 in scholarships, 94 percent of which went to Colorado residents, according to the

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ON THE BILL: Yo La Tengo plays the Boulder Theater on Tuesday, May 21. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 in advance, $25 at the door.

Yo La Tengo still has it

Ira Kaplan discusses what 20 years flying under the mainstream feels like by Dave Kirby Matthew Salacuse

taying the same for almost 30 years has it benefits, explains Yo La

Tengo helmsman Ira Kaplan, but it’s also OK to shuffle the deck once in a while. Sings Kaplan on the lead-off cut to Yo La Tengo’s newest CD, Fade: “But nothing ever stays the same / Nothing’s explained / The higher we go, the longer we fly,” and talking to Kaplan, one gets the sense that if Yo La Tengo has reached a low-resistance cruising altitude, they’ve at least overcome the jinx of not looking down long enough to worry. Fade has everything that YLT adherents have come to cherish about the lowdrama, defiantly un-categorizable Hoboken-based trio, now approaching its third decade. Rattly guitar-driven thrashabouts (the ode to fatalism “Ohm,” the crunchy pop-noise of “Paddle Forward”), curiously diffident appeals to devotion (“I’ll Be Around,” “Well You Better”), and broad swatches of murky, gauze-wrapped glimpses of redemption (the brass-’n’string-framed “Before We Run”). The band’s tender side balanced with uncertainty, its pop sensibilities grinning behind a grimy windshield, Yo La Tengo confounds with a gentle touch and an illsharpened pencil. There are worse problems to have, Kaplan reminded us during a quick chat last week, than fronting a successful (and some might say, even beloved) band for as long as he has — especially one without anything resembling a hit — but it does have its challenges. “The part of our tenure that, if asked, see TENGO Page 32

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might work against us, would be just that I think it makes people more prone to take us for granted. We’re sort of a redwood,” he says and laughs, “always been there, probably always will be there, you know? I think our ‘hot new thing days,’ if they ever existed, are long over. “So I think sometimes you have to fight through that notion. We’ll talk to people that say, ‘Oh yeah, we saw you guys last year, you were great,’ and we’ll say, ‘Well no, we haven’t played your city in eight years.’ “But I was just saying something about that on stage last night. We did a song from 1997, and I said ‘Wow, it feels like we just did this song.’ Even though it’s 16 years old. So … I understand that, and we also kind of have to deal with the same perception sometimes.” Kaplan and Yo La Tengo (which includes his usually-the-drummer wife Georgia Hubley and usually-the-bassist James McNew) recorded Fade last year in Chicago with longtime friend John McIntire (The Sea and the Cake, Tortoise) producing, a departure from many years of recording in Nashville with Roger Moutenot. Because that’s what they do, YLT obsessives may be inclined to disassemble the finished product for hints of what McIntire brought to the table. So did some of the songs emerge from the control room differently than they might have otherwise? “Oh sure,” Kaplan says, “and I think that’s something we like in the band. We don’t walk in with a clear vision of what we want it to sound like and spend a couple of months enforcing that vision. I think we’re open to what happens in the moment. So working with John was inevitably going to change the direction in ways that … in some aspect, I’m not even sure how it happened, but it happens, you put a fourth person in and allow them to change things. “But the relationship with John, or with Roger for that matter, is not like

we play the songs and then come back three months later and the record is completed. We’re there the whole time and very involved. Neither John or Roger are the type to rule with an iron fist — like, ‘Oh I think the singing should be louder, and I’m the producer so shut the fuck up.’ It’s not like that.” A few of said online obsessives have also noted that Fade clocks in as the shortest YLT release in more than 20 years, just reaching past 40 minutes, but Kaplan says that the end result — carefully sequenced and tightened up from the band’s more typical splatter-pattern flow — was actually a conscious design decision, one that’s reflected the band’s live show this cycle. “This record was definitely conceived as an LP, and a lot of debate went into how it would be sequenced. … One of the things we did with this, at the last second while we were sequencing, we realized that with enough ingenuity at mastering, we could get the record onto one vinyl LP instead of the two that we’ve been doing for the last 16 years or something, by dropping

a song. So we did that — we have a few songs that didn’t get included because we like the idea of having a single record.” We asked Kaplan about a Longread that caught our eye this week, about artists going back and re-recording a lot of their old material to reclaim licensing rights over hits and catalogs that have been locked up in record labels’ accounting ledgers. “Yeah, I saw that but haven’t had a chance to read it yet,” Kaplan says. “I mean, it’s not really that weird, it’s just a way of controlling licensing rights to your own material. It’s just a business thing, I don’t think anyone has any illusions that the re-recorded stuff is the same as the original, although I have heard that a couple of people come up who intentionally don’t try to recreate the music note-for-note perfect versions, just to kind of get the song down. “A record contract, in its purest form, is an unusual thing. The record company loans the band money to make a record, the band pays them back … and the record company still owns it. It’s sort of like a mortgage — the bank lends you the money, you pay off the mortgage, but the bank still owns your house.” Finally, we asked Kaplan how far he and Hubley get away from the music thing when they’re not working; some artists carry notebooks and sketch out song ideas at the grocery store, some set aside a calendar bracket and decide not to think or write or play any music at all. “Well, we work a lot. But no, I don’t have notebooks full of ideas that I carry around,” he says. “I’d say when we’re not working, we’re not working.” Sounds like that’s a good thing? “It’s a good problem to have. There’s never enough time to do all the projects that you want to do. I love working, and I love not working,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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peth has toured relentlessly since releasing its 2011 CD, Heritage. And that’s where the Swedish progressive death metal band has spent the lion’s share of time since, touring North America, Europe, South America, Japan, Turkey and India. Now Opeth is back in the U.S., making one last run before heading home and into the studio. “It’s how you make a living, man,” singer/guitarist Mikael Akerfeldt says of the near non-stop touring. “That’s the job now. The music industry has changed quite a bit. Putting out a record is like an excuse to go on tour. To keep the momentum up, we have to go on tour, go on tour, go on tour. We’re going to be at 250-odd shows for this album, which is a lot. And we’re a pretty hard-working band. We tour a lot.” Akerfeldt, singer/songwriter/guitar/ driving force of Opeth, says touring is how the band became known outside of Sweden and how it built its following and reputation. “We’ve been touring pretty extensively since we put out the fifth record, which was five records ago,” Akerfelt says. “Before that, we were pretty much an underground band. We had to build it. The only way you can do that as a metal band is to go out and tour. We’re not on TV. We’re not on the radio. What that means is we’ve been touring for 10 years. We’re constantly on the road.” Formed in Stockholm in 1990 as a doom-laden death metal outfit, Opeth has evolved into progressive metal, a movement fueled by Akerfeldt, who was initially influenced by heavy metal bands, most notably Judas Priest, and then brought progressive rock and some folk tinges into the music. Boulder Weekly

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A dynamic vocal presence, Akerfeldt alternates between death metal screaming on the band’s heavier, darker material and a soft breathiness on quieter songs, and he’s always counted among top metal guitarists. Opeth, which has sold more than 1.5 million albums worldwide, didn’t come to the U.S. until its first world tour in 2001 and didn’t have commercial success here until its previous CD, 2008’s Watershed, which hit No. 23 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart. Since then, Opeth has been an established name in metal, developing a strong following that loyally supports the band’s shows. In continually changing, Akerfeldt knows he’s not following traditional metal rules — defiantly so. “I refuse,” he says. “If I have a new idea, I use it. I don’t have to ask, ‘Is this metal?’ I like to think we’re one of the bands that’s difficult to figure out.” That is particularly the case with Heritage, a lighter, meticulously arranged recording that marked a departure from the band’s heavier past — to the point where there’s no death

growls to be found on the disc. That switch, Akerfeldt said, meant “a few people scratched their heads, wondering what we were doing.” But most of the Opeth audience bought into the sounds of Heritage, which came from another side of Akerfeldt. “I’m a music buff, a music lover,” he says. I don’t always get inspired by Judas Priest. I get inspired by anything. It’s going to roll into my music library. That kind of open-mindedness we have as a band helps. It’s impossible to progress if you only listen to Judas Priest anyway.” The Opeth set, which Akerfeldt said will average about two hours, is a career spanner, delivered in no particular order — chronologically or musically. “It’s all mixed up,” he said. “There’s all sorts of stuff, some real heavy stuff, some lighter stuff, some old stuff, some new stuff...” By new stuff, Akerfeldt was referring to material from Heritage. Songs that will turn up on the next record aren’t close to ready. “Not yet,” he said. “I’m writing for it. I have three songs I’m working on at the moment. We haven’t played any of the new songs. It’s still a work in progress.” That work will likely begin in the fall or winter, after the final leg of Opeth’s “Heritage” tour is complete. “It’s been fun,” Akerfeldt said. “I can’t remember when it [Heritage] came out. But we’ve been touring ever since. It’s been a really good run.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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We lead angelic lives,  Yet have a merry time of it besides. We dance and we spring,  We skip and we sing.  Saint Peter in heaven looks on. his innocent view of the hereafter is portrayed in the text and music of the finale to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, one of the featured works of this year’s Colorado MahlerFest. On the orchestral program with the early symphony is another, less innocent but still comforting portrayal of eternity, “Der Abschied” (The fareJennifer Bird-Arvidsson, left, and Julie Simson flank MahlerFest conductor Robert well) from one of Mahler’s last works, Olson at last year’s festival. Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the earth). Performances with conductor Robert Olson, soprano Jennifer BirdArvidsson, mezzo Julie Simson and the MahlerFest orchestra will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, in Macky Auditorium (www.mahlerfest.org). Olson chose “Der Abschied” to honor Simson, who is making her final MahlerFest appearance before leaving piece what, 100 times? And I was in sense of meter or barlines, for major Boulder to take a job at Rice tears. I’ve never had anything affect me sections. But there’s a certain beauty to University. She has sung many so strongly as that performance.” the simplicity of it all. It’s a piece that MahlerFest performances over her “Der Abschied” is ideal for you can sit back and just listen to the years on the CU faculty, and will also Simson’s MahlerFest farewell because way it gradually evaporates in a heavsing a farewell gala in her honor, at the text literally describes the parting enly mist, if you will.” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the of two friends. It is, Olson says, “the Pairing the heavenly mist of “Der Academy in Boulder (970 Aurora most colorful, beautiful, intimate piece Abschied” with the innocence and Ave.). of music ever written. Period.” simple joy of the Fourth Symphony “It’s very, very exciting and a real Like the Fourth Symphony, it was an inspired choice. Coming from honor that they would addresses the idea of opposite ends of Mahler’s life, they do this for me,” eternity, but unlike present two different sides of the comSimson says. “I haven’t much of Mahler’s poser, neither of them the tormented ON THE BILL: Colorado MahlerFest orchestra been able to rehearse music, it does so with soul we often think of. concerts will be held on [“Der Abschied”] yet serenity and music of “We don’t have all the sturm und Friday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m., without crying. It’s a ethereal beauty. The drang that is so common in Mahler’s and Sunday, May 19, at 3:30 p.m., in Macky Auditorium. very melancholy time spirit of the movement music, all the death on our doorstep The Julie Simson Farewell for me because I’ve is captured in the text: Mahler was preoccupied with,” Olson Gala takes place on been here 23 years and “Where I am going? I says of the symphony. “Starting off Saturday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m. in room C-199 of the with sleigh bells on the first few bars love it here and I’ve am going to wander Imig Music Building on the — what could be happier than that? had wonderful colinto the mountains. I CU campus. Visit www. “The whole first movement is like leagues and wonderful seek peace for my lonemahlerfest.org for tickets and more information. this — it’s just kind of a happy piece. students. ly heart.” And the third movement is the crown “I’m hoping I’m As serene as the jewel. Has anyone ever written more getting that all out of music sounds, it is not beautiful music than this slow movemy system before I easy to perform. ment? It’s about as simple as it can be, have to do it on stage,” “It’s harder than a just simple and innocent. And dropshe adds. son of a gun,” Olson says. “I’ve been dead beautiful. When Olson heard Simson was conducting now for I think 44 years, “Then the last movement, it’s so leaving Boulder, he wanted to “honor and only twice in my life have I ever beautiful, a little child singing about her for what she’s done for the had to pick up the phone and call a what heaven must be like. It ends quiMahlerFest and for the University of professional and say, ‘How do you do etly and peacefully — the music just Colorado. this?’ And this definitely is one of the “I have always respected her musipieces. I’m glad to say in both cases my gradually leaves the stage. It’s quieter and quieter and quieter, ending in a cianship,” Olson says. “She sang a Song assumption was correct. sense of total satisfied peace.” of the Wayfarer, the piece she’s going to “What makes it difficult is that Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com sing Saturday night. I’ve heard this Mahler, in this piece, destroys any

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4BHDMBD NM 4BQDDM The Boedecker Theater A new series pairs fun science lectures with classic movies. May 20, 7pm Skip Miller - the Tempest Unmanned Aircraft

classic Sleepdealer

June 17

Dr. Charles Steinburg, infectious disease and Contagion

July 8

Dr. Nicole Garneau, genetics and Gattaca

August 19

Julienne Strove and Ted Scambos, snow and ice and The Day After Tomorrow

26th and Walnut - thedairy.org for info and tix 38 May 16, 2013

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arts & culture

n the “About the Show” section for Delirium Tremens on the Bump in the Night Entertainment website, the production company — presumably via playwright Rhett Jonke — admits that the classic murder mystery format is, by its very definition, contrived, and challenges the rest of us “judgmental bunch of assholes” to try to write an original play of our own. Bump in the Night’s inyour-face attitude comes through elsewhere on its website, in the program for the show and, as one might expect, in the show itself. In fact, it amuses me to no end that some of the material on their website (particularly the description of Penumbra in the Garden of Twilight’s Cucumbers, the fictional play they’d intended to produce before settling on Delirium Tremens) and in the program so far exceeds in cleverness and craft the dialogue in Delirium Tremens itself. Bump in the Night obviously includes some individuals with salty tongues and sharp wits. I think all they’re missing is a measure of focus, and they could turn their caustic comedic tendencies into some truly interesting theater. This is not to say that Delirium Tremens is a failure or even represents a serious misstep. It’s a reasonably amusing play with occasional moments that impress, but in the final analysis it comes off as just a tad too amateurish to be considered first-rate. If playwright and director Jonke gave the script another polish with an eye toward trading in some of the more random, shocking-just-to-be-shocking profanity in favor of snappier, better-timed zingers, and if a few of the cast members put a little more effort into enunciation and

Young), serves the rest and suffers far from silently in doing so. Two experiences I had during intermission go a long way toward illustrating this play’s strengths and weaknesses. First, a gentleman in the lobby asked me if I thought the first act had been overly long. I replied that, objectively, it didn’t seem much longer than most first acts. I then noted that Jonke had technically crammed in two acts pre-intermission, and that may have been why the first “act” seemed longer than usual. Back in the theater, I overheard a few audience members hypothesizing on why the play was not receiving a warmer response from the crowd. These commentators felt that Delirium Tremens was as funny as funny could be and speculated that Boulderites were either too intellectually snobby, too politically correct or just too boring to appreciate the nuances of repeated dick and fart jokes and the word “motherfucker” yelled by and at most every character. Though Boulderites certainly have their faults, trust me, we laugh as loud as anyone at all types of humor, and some of us treat creative profanity with the same reverence that others reserve for their deity of choice. In the case of Delirium Tremens, both the comedy on display and the acting used to convey it are simply subpar. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

ON THE BILL: Delirium Tremens plays through May 19 at the Dairy Center for the Arts. Tickets are $15-$25. For tickets or information, call 303444-7328 or visit www.thedairy.org.

It was the cat rapist in the solarium with the enema nozzle An R-rated murder mystery at the Dairy by Gary Zeidner clear projection of their lines, Delirium Tremens might well live up to the bravado in its accompanying literature. On the requisite dark and stormy night in upstate New York in the 1930s, a colorful group of haves and have-nots find themselves faced with a murderer (or, perhaps, murderers) in their midst. The patriarch of the bunch, Lord Dunraven (Alfred Ferraris), is an elderly business magnate of dubious ethics and even dubious-er health. Always with a cocktail close at hand, his wife, Evelyn ( Jennifer Bass), waits somewhat less than patiently for Dunraven to shuffle off this mortal coil so that she may enjoy his riches without having to endure him. Dunraven’s nurse, the bubbly, bouncy and chronically befuddled

Barbie Barbeaux (Brittany Lacour), attends to his physical needs with an almost legendary lack of medical knowledge. When not ogling Nurse Barbeaux, Reverend Church (Alastair Norcross) attempts to minister to Dunraven’s more spiritual concerns. Dunraven’s ne’er-do-well son, Billy (Devin Jamroz) and his sex- and booze-addled wife, Norma Jean (Kari White), drop in to check on the old man and his fortune. Dunraven’s ancient aunt, Helga von Clapp (Erin Presley Froemke), is visiting from the Fatherland, where, among her other pursuits — Jew hating, Gypsy baiting — she serves as advisor to an up-and-coming young politician, Adolf Hitler. The maid, Vernita Brown (Lisa

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14TH & PEARL • BOULDER

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the james hunter six nathaniel rateliff & the night sweats sat. May 18 6:30 PM / 21+ 97.3 KBco, colorado daily, daily caMera & Boulder roots & Blues suMMit Present

hot tuna (acoustic)

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ft. steve KimocK w/ the soul of john BlacK & Dan treanor’s afrosippi BanD

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June 15 ........................................................................................ mr. anonymous June 20 .................................................................................................... Howie Day June 21 ....................................... rocky mountain Grateful DeaD revue June 22 ............................................................................................ tHe Dunwells June 26 ....................................................................... streetliGHt manifesto June 27 ....................................................... Jet eDison’s summer superJam June 28 .......................................................................... Juan maclean (DJ set) June 29 ... sHannon mcnally banD & tHe california HoneyDrops June 30 ........................................................................................... two Gallants July 6 ...................................................................... DeaD winter carpenters

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tues. May 21 7:30 PM

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106.7 KBPi, WestWord and tWist & shout Present

lamB of goD DecapitateD & terror tues. May 28 6:30 PM Ponderosa Music & art Presents

luDovico einauDi & his orchestra fri. june 14 7:30 PM hanuMan festival Presents

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sat. june 15 8:00 PM hanuMan festival Presents

mc yogi Dj Drez

tues. july 2 7:00 PM WestWord and tWist & shout Present

toDD runDgren’s official state visit fri. july 5 7:30 PM / 21+ daily caMera Presents

as seen at reD rocKs

music of aBBa ft. arrival from sweDen fri. july 12 7:30 PM 97.3 KBco & Boulder WeeKly Present

steve earle & the DuKes the mastersons

sat. july 20 7:00 Boulder WeeKly Presents

anDy mcKee sun. july 21 7:00 PM WestWord Presents

weirD al yanKovic thurs. july 25 8:30 PM 97.3 KBco & Boulder WeeKly Present

triBute to herBie hancocK ft. memBers of the motet, Dominic lalli & more!

June 19 & 20 .................................................... conscious media film festival June 21 &22 ..................................................................... dan fogelberg tribute July 3 ......................................................................................................................... moe. July 13 .............................................................................................. railroad earth aug 1 .................................................................... John scofield uberJam band aug 4 ..................................................................................... gregory alan isakov sept 27 ......................... richard cheese & lounge against the machine oct 19 .................... world blues ft.taJ mahal,vusi mahlasela & more! oct 23 - oct 25 ............................................ spank! the fifty shades parody

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CRAFTS AND TRADES OF OLDEN DAYS

A TASTE OF HOW LIFE USED TO BE LIVED. SUNDAY, MAY 19, 10 A.M., AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER, 8348 HIGHWAY 66, LONGMONT, 303-776-8848.

Thursday, May 16 music Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Foster and the Flight. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Gipsy Moon. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Ghost Town Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322.

theater

SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE, INCLUDING HAPPY HOURS. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Imagine Dragons. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Mag Men. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384. Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Mark Foster — Jeff and Angie Foster. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe, 71 East Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-7771003.

Scaring bad salesmen since 1984, Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s unforgettable play, gets The Theater Company of Lafayette treatment. Bach at Leipzig — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 18.

The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through July 14. Edward II — Presented by Obscene/ Courageous Theatre. Loft Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU campus, http://bit.ly/Loft_E2. Through May 19. Fiddler On The Roof — Presented by Jesters Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-468-2030. Through July 14.

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

Glengarry Glen Ross. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through May 18. God of Carnage. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through June 8. Guys and Dolls — Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Market Place Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through June 16. A Little Night Music — Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through June 1. The Memory of Water — Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through May 26.

music Ascendit: Music Inspired by the Sistine Chapel. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine Road, Boulder, www.vittoriaensemble.com. Paranormal Murder — Presented by Marne Interactive Productions. Adams Mystery Playhouse, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver, 303-455-1848. Sense & Sensibility the Musical — Presented by Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through May 26. sex.Now! — Dangerous Theatre Company, 2620 W. 2nd Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-233-4703. Through June 8. The Shadow Box. The Edge Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, 303-2320363. Through May 19. The Wizard of Oz — Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., 303-4496000. Through Aug. 31.

Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826.

events

An Eclectic Evening Inside the Steampunk Story. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Charity Handwork. 5 p.m. Longmont Yarn Shoppe, 454 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8242

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

Coast to Coast Toast — Beer fest. 5:30 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464.

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Friday, May 17

303-443-3399.

Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Supreme, Dirt Monkey, Coult 45, Ishe, Lotus Drops, NCYT. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder,

Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Delirium Tremens. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the

Getting Started With Adobe InDesign, Part One. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. If These Stones Could Talk — Book talk and slideshow. 2 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave.,

Country Touch. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Cafe, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. DeltaSonics. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Fortunate Youth — With Inna Vision and Na’an Stop. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Global Dub Festival: Flux Pavilion/Excision. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The James Hunter Six. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

Janine Gastineau & her Rhythm. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder. 303-499-2985. Jockamo — With Jill Watkins. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Left Foot Green. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. see EVENTS Page 42

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Saturday may 18 wattS uP

FEat antiSErum & HELicoPtEr SHowdown w/ cLickS & wHiStLES, StEPtEcH

tHurSday may 23

maGic BEanS & JoEy PortEr’S VitaL orGan w/ tHE main SquEEzE

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Band oF HEatHEnS

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FEat andrEiLiEn, ana Sia, ProJEct aSPEct & many morE

Sunday may 26

monday may 20

co muSic GEar & tradE SwaP tuESday may 28

Juicy J “Stay triPPy tour” w/ a$aP FErG & BLack PEGaSuS

mELt your FacE monday tuESday may 21 SuB.miSSion PrESEntS

ELEctronic tuESday

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Friday JunE 7

an-tEn-naE Saturday JunE 8

autHor (LiVE), krytic mindS, Jack SParrow & ruckSPin Thursday June 13 • FrEE SHow!

SwEatSHoP union & wHiSkEy BLankEt Friday JunE 14

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saTurday June 15 • dual Venue!

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wEdnESday may 22

FEat omEGa, cLoud-d, SouLJorn & mikEy FiSHEr

Friday may 24

tHE Lady wu PrESEntS 20 yEarS oF wu tanG cLan – a triButE

Saturday may 25

aFroLiciouS

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ELEctronic tuESday

Friday May 31 • Free show!

Friday JunE 28

rocky mountain PowEr Jam

FEat coL BrucE HamPton (aquarium rEScuE unit), GEorGE PortEr Jr (tHE mEtErS), Eric mcFaddEn (StockHoLm SyndromE), JoEy PortEr (tHE motEt/Juno wHat?!), dJ LoGic, cEciL “P-nut” daniELS, tErrEncE HouSton (touBaB krEwE) & morE

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wEdnESday JunE 5 Saturday JunE 8

wHitnEy morGan

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wEdnESday JunE 12 w/ andrEux & tHE SEa oF SoundS

Sunday JunE 16

tHE LocaL BEForE wE Go GLoBaL wraP uP

w/ aSaP, y-Jay, FamE, Forwordmuzik, Jaykay, SPacESHiP PoSSE, t.H.c. & Jon StEELE

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JErry JoSEPH & tHE JackmormonS w/ JEFF croSBy & tHE rEFuGEES

Saturday JunE 22

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FEat trEy anaStaSio Band mEmBErS ray PaczkowSki & ruSS Lawton w/ maLai LLama

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tHE quick & EaSy BoyS wEdnESday JuLy 3

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BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Oct. 27. Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre — Solo show by Karen Kilimnik. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 23. The Denver Salon: Then and Now — Fine art photography. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-9433. Through May 31. Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist — Works on paper by the artist and his circle. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 30. Exempla — by Brian Knep. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 19. Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through June 2014.

A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21. Museum of Broken Relationships. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 26. Our Global Village — Multiculural art. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through June 14. Patrick Kikut: Western Road Movie — BMoCA at Macky. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., 303-492-8423. Primal Seen — Selections from the CU photography collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22. Rocky Mountain Majesty — The paintings of Charles Partridge Adams. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21. This is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8. Unmasked: The Language of Cultural Identity — Various artists. WESTend at The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 29.

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StranGEr & P nuckLE

BonErama

w/ SPEciaL GuEStS

Arvada Fine Arts Guild Annual Spring Membership Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7255. Through June 2.

Margaret Donhol, Heidi Wagner. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through May 31.

dEEP FriEd 5

w/ roBBy ScHEctEr & tHE motion dEtEctorS & wondErLic

tuESday JunE 18

kiSS army

American Visionaries — Works by Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon. Longmont Musuem & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 26.

Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 14.

FEat dJ FinaLS

Jon waynE & tHE Pain

Friday JunE 21

All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 5.

wEdnESday may 29

FuLL SEtS By tHE nEw maStErSoundS, touBaB krEwE & tHE LoHi aLL Star orcHEStra FEat matt ButLEr (EVEryonE orcHEStra), kyLE HoLLinGSwortH, aLL mEmBErS oF tHE nEw maStErSoundS, JoEy PortEr, GarrEtt SayErS & morE

konSHEnS

arts

Friday may 17 HEady GLaSS PrESEntS

Margarent Donhol’s paintings are on display at the NCAR Visitor Center through May 31. Call 303-497-1000 for more details.

The Long Run — A Tribute to the Eagles. 7:30 p.m. Nissi's, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

303-834-9384.

Mary Huckins and Rebecca Folsom. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

music

Project 3/Liberal Monkey Movement — With Bill McKay and the Blue Canyon Boys. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bill Payne — With Dennis McNally. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 East Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003.

Saturday, May 18 Andy Palmer and Sound Rabbit. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

events

Dance Party and Live radio show — Feat. DJ/MC Cool Style and Lady Midnight. 9 p.m. Cool Spirit Nature & Star Elements, 4949 N. Broadway St. Suite 117, Boulder, 720-239-2761.

Adi Shakti Kundalini Kirtan Band and Kundalini Yoga Class. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, 720-252-3962.

Gang Forward — With The SOUP duo of Anthony Parrotta and Colt Pope. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Art Night Out. 5 p.m. Festival Plaza, 309 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5588 ext. 3455.

Hot Tuna (acoustic) featuring Steve Kimock. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Boulder International Folk Dancers. 7:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-668-7355. Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District Annual Garage/Estate Sale & Auction fund-raiser. 9 a.m. Boulder Fire Station, 1905 Linden Ave., Boulder, 303441-3350. Delirium Tremens. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826. Plant Passionate Living. 5:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Biological Studies, 717 Poplar Ave., Boulder, 877-202-9329. Vertical Fusion presents Cirque de Radiance. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont,

Jacob Larson. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Jazzebel. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Living With The Past — Jethro Tull Tribute. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384. Matt Graziano. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

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Tree Planting. 8:30 a.m. Boulder County Justice Center, 1777 6th St., Boulder, 303-678-6089.

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Blues Doctors — With Nine Mile Station. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384.

Boulder Walk in the Wild. 9 a.m. Walden Ponds, Boulder, 303-499-1950

Boulder Mountain Fire Protection District Annual Garage/Estate Sale & Auction fund-raiser. 9 a.m. Boulder Fire Station, 1905 Linden Ave., Boulder, 303441-3350.

Delirium Tremens. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826.

Dechen Hawk. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Denver Roller Dolls. 7 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.

Delirium Tremens. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826.

Discover the LoBo Trail. 12 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Drive Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-5656019.

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

Fly Fishing 101 — Free class. 9 a.m. Orvis, 629B S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-554-0122. Outdoor Sculpture Show. 5 p.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106. Plant Passionate Living. 10:30 a.m. Center for Integrative Biological Studies, 717 Poplar Ave., Boulder, 877-202-9329.

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Mother Shrew — With The Margoles Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Boulder Bicycle Swap. 10 a.m. Fat Kitty Cycles, 3380 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, www.boulderbicycleswap.com.

Saturday Swing. 8 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 970-566-3298.

Boulder Ballet: BB2. 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Spring Fever in Oregon. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880

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Leigh Herrick. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. The Rithmatist — by Brandon Sanderson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Friday, May 17

City of Women — by David Gillham. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Wee Felt Worlds — by Heide Murray. 6 p.m. Longmont Yarn Shoppe, 454 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8242. Saturday, May 18 Pitch Green — by Andy Washburn. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349. Sheryl Luna. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Reinventing the Chicken Coop — by Matthew Wolpe. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. The Vast Unknown — by Broughton Coburn. 6 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Raising Cubby — by John Elder Robison. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Monday, May 20 Bunker Hill — by Nathaniel Philbrick. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. John Dorsey, Lawrence Gladeview, Jason Hardung. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. So, You’re a Poet? — an open reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, May 21 Fiction Book Club Meeting — The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Murder as a Fine Art — by David Morrell. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, May 22 Effortless Beauty — by Julie DuBose. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Monday, May 20 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Salem. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Vampire Weekend, Of Monsters and Men. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bobby Davis. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Jesse Garland Show. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mark Brut. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tuesday Swing Night — Feat. The Stilletos. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Yo La Tengo. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-865-2494.

events Advanced Green Building Seminar: Indoor Air Quality. 3 p.m. Office of the Clerk and Recorder, 1750 33rd St., Boulder, 303-447-0901.

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BIJA — Barefoot Imrpov Jam Association Freestyle Dance. 7:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, www. bijaboulder.com.

Google Analytics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Caregiving Symposium. 12 p.m. Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-441-1543.

“So, You’re a Poet,” presents an open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Flower Essences. 5:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Biological Studies. 717 Poplar Ave., Boulder, 877-2029329.

Tuesday, May 21 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303

Our Food, Our Forests, Our Climate: Palm Oil and the Broken Food System. 7 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2970.

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events Secrets of Superior Composition in Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Student Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Take 5: 5 Plays/5 Directors. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Wednesday, May 22 music The Big Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Boulder Blues Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sketchbooks Studies: Exploring Nature. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Sunday, May 19 Baby Boogie, Bring your kids into dance! 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Crafts and Trades of Olden Days. 10 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8848. School of Rock Shows. 12 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Family Garden Storytie with Kristin. 1 p.m. Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Clay Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Stencil Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Cruisers & Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100 & Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Chris Theron. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Delta Sonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Lamb of God. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 720-865-2494. Open Bluegrass Pick — All Welcome. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Aroma-Herbalism for Beautiful Skin and Graceful Aging with Mindy Green. 6:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. Registration required. www. integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329. Evening Handwork. 6 p.m. Longmont Yarn Shoppe, 454 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8242. KGNU Birthday Open House. 9:30 a.m. 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-499-4885. Marketing With Google AdWords. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Take 5: 5 Plays/5 Directors. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Wednesday Waltz Etcetera — Ballroom Dance. 8 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-3173946. What Could an Electric Municipal Utility Mean for Gunbarrel? 6:30 p.m. Vinelife Church, 7845 Lookout Road, Gunbarrel, 303-449-3330.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, May 16 Musical Storytime with Alice and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303441-3099. Thursday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Paint Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Sneak a Peek! 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Friday, May 17 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Game Night at Meadows. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, 303441-4390. Get Growing! 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Stamp Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Saturday, May 18 Get Outdoors! — CD release concert. 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. New Vista High School Auditorium, 700 20th St., Boulder, www.jeffandpaige.org.

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Jackie Robinson challenged prejudices when Branch Rickey signed him to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

The Place Beyond the Pines Director Derek Cianfrance’s film starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling pits a cop against a man who committed a crime to support his child. Both of their lives will be changed forever. Rated R. At Mayan, Century and Colony Square.

All Together Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stéphane Robelin’s crowd-pleasing comedy starring Jane Fonda in her first French-language film since Godard’s 1972’s Tout va bien. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Aftershock After an earthquake erupts in Chile, tourists discover that all of the inmates from a nearby prison have escaped. That’s when the fear really sets in. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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The Angels’ Share The latest film from legendary filmmaker Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Lavery, The Angels’ Share is a bittersweet comedy about a young man from Glasgow with a criminal past who wants a way out. At SIE FilmCenter and Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

At Any Price A firm believer in the big-agribusiness mantra “Expand or die,” ambitious Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son Dean (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional racecar driver. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

The Big Wedding This wedding comedy will surely provide plenty of family antics and an excuse to see Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams and Susan Sarandon in a movie together. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

The Company You Keep The world of Jim Grant (director Robert Redford), a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, N.Y., is turned upside down when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres

The Croods 3D A caveman family road-trips to a colorful world in this Flintstones-meets-Avatar animated kids movie. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Escape from Planet Earth An animated family movie with many wacky space characters rescuing each other and fun things like that. Rated PG. At Colony Square.

The Great Gatsby Set in New York during the roaring ’20s, Nick Carraway is thrust into Jay Gatsby’s world of lavish parties and disposable wealth. But as the writer pieces together the truth about his dazzling neighbor’s unrequited love, Carraway’s vision of the American Dream begins to crumble. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Twin Peaks and Century.

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At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back 10 years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. At SIE FilmCenter and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

contract killer, Richard Kuklinski, from his first days as a young mobster until his arrest for having killed more than 100 people. His family had no idea of what he did for a living. Bet his wife was surprised. Rated R. At Century and Mayan.

In The House Sixteen-year-old Claude insinuates himself into the house of fellow high school student Rapha, writing about his family in essays that perversely blur the lines between reality and fiction for his jaded literature teacher Germain. Intrigued by this gifted and unusual student, Germain rediscovers his taste for teaching, but the boy’s intrusion sparks a series of uncontrollable events. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Iron Man 3 3D When his enemy leaves Tony Stark’s personal life in shambles, he must suit up once again as Iron Man. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

Jurassic Park 3D What could make the velociraptor kitchen scene even more heart-stopping? 3-D, apparently! Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

Koch This documentary on New York City mayor Ed Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world’s most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

Kon-tiki This film recreates the amazing adventure of explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing in 1947 in a balsa wood raft with five men. Rated PG-13. At Esquire.

Leviathan Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast — the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick — the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail. At SIE FilmCenter and Boedecker. — Denver Film Society

Lore Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama Renoir tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At Chez Artiste. — Denver Film Society

Royal Ballet’s “Giselle” Giselle is one of the most influential of all Romantic ballets, and one of the greatest and most popular works of the dance canon and of The Royal Ballet’s repertory. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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When two boys discover a mysterious stranger hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River, their lives and those of everyone in their small town are changed forever. Rated PG 13. At Century.

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

Oblivion Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman star in this visually amazing film. As for plot, Cruise battles to save the entire planet Earth, of course, in some far-off future time. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das In 1970, Jeffrey Kagel walked away from the American dream of rock ’n’ roll stardom, turning down the chance to record as lead singer for the band soon-to-be the Blue Oyster Cult. Instead, he sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of Long Island to the foothills of the Himalayas in search of happiness and a little-known saint named Neem Karoli Baba. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Oz the Great and Powerful 3D We know all about Dorothy and have heard the Wicked Witch’s take. Now it’s the Wizard of Oz’s turn. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.

Pain & Gain Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in this action comedy flick about bodybuilders who have more brawn than brains when it comes to crime. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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Science on the Screen: Drone Tech and Sleep Dealer “Drone Tech” is the science lecture by Skip Miller and Sleep Dealer is the film being screened. at Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

The Simpsons Movie Homer has to to save his family and town from a horrible fate that, of course, is all his fault. Rated PG-13. At Esquire.

Something in the Air It’s 1971, and in the wake of the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 a group of youthful Paris radicals are trying to live their ideals, contributing to the revolution they believe is just beginning. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Star Trek Double Feature For fans of Star Trek, this is a combo of the seasonending and new season premier episodes of Next Generation, the TV series. No rating. At Century.

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

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f “director Baz Luhrmann” and “restraint” have ever appeared in the same sentence together, they were the word-bread creating a sandwich around the phrase “has absolutely no.” Considering that the gaudy Jay Gatsby is basically Luhrmann’s spirit animal, the union made sense, even if the alleged $200 million budget for a 3-D version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel set to music selected by Jay-Z didn’t. Delivering on the promise of opulent visuals and dense performances, but weighed down by a dud of a narrator, The Great Gatsby is a mixed bag, a cocktail party with a horrid host but fascinating guests. Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce wisely acknowledge Fitzgerald was the most talented writer of the three of them and largely keep things close to the original text. Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) moves to a cottage in West Egg next to the mysterious party-thrower Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Directly across from Gatsby’s mansion is the home of his former beloved, Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan), the wife of wealthy philanderer Tom Buchanan ( Joel Edgerton). The cinematic Nick is stripped of any of Fitzgerald’s tiny cues of potential homosexuality. Thus, his inaction as Tom bangs his mistress, Myrtle (Isla Ficher), and his muteness during the volcanic conflicts involving Daisy, Tom and Gatsby make him feel rather pathetic. And as the glitter-and-jazz first half of the movie segues into the romantically terse second half, Luhrmann’s touch becomes stunningly limp. By the time all revelations have been revealed and all death has been dealt, The Great Gatsby isn’t so much

concerned with greatness as just sputtering across the finish line. There’s been so much opining on whether the novel can or should be adapted and so little acknowledgement of how it’s entirely impossible for anyone to completely botch a brilliant story this innately American. Gatsby and Daisy’s tragic romance is still a cautionary capitalist tale, a warning that it may be possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps but you may lose your soul or your life. This adaptation isn’t so much the nuanced indictment the original work displayed so much as a fascinating broader question: Is there any “right way” to be rich? As Luhrmann was magnetically drawn to the story, so was DiCaprio primed to play this role. He has long explored a darkness his boyish looks and swoon-inducing-appeal belie. Think of his troubled roles in The Beach, The Aviator, The Departed and Shutter Island and remember James Cameron once courted him to play Peter Parker in an aborted version of Spider-Man. DiCaprio’s Gatsby is both mesmerizing and in a state of implosion; the performance is damn near perfect. Maguire and Mulligan were also present. Not much more can be said, considering Luhrmann cared not to complicate either’s role, presenting Daisy as a flawed caged bird and Nick as a eunuch. Better as a whole than the sum of its parts, The Great Gatsby mirrors its title figure: it is over-ambitious, over-reaching and over-stylized but damn if it’s not mostly irresistible, too. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ood assistance in Boulder County has increased rapidly in the past five years. Since April 2007, clients of the Boulder County Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have jumped from 8,848 to 21,250 as of April 2013, a 240 percent increase. Just about every conceivable demographic group has seen an increase in food assistance recipients, according to data compiled by the Boulder County Department of Housing and Human Services. A few minority groups are fast risers in the numbers, like unmarried couples, which jumped by a factor of four but still account for only 1.5 percent of applicants, and households outside Boulder County, which increased tenfold to account for 10.6 percent of applications in April 2013. The largest groups also saw increases, as recipients in Longmont, adults between 20 and 65, seniors over 66 and single people all more than doubled. A portion of the increase can likely

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In slow economy, food assistance on the rise by Steve Weishampel be attributed to a change in the government’s attitude toward single applicants. Brian Cadena, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Colorado, says SNAP is intended to aid families, but has recently been applied to an increasing number of single-person households. “It typically targets families. It’s a household-level benefit,” says Cadena. “But since the recession, the federal agency in charge of food stamps has waived that requirement because it has been so hard to find work lately.” As of April 2013, the typical Boulder County recipient is a single adult living in Longmont getting $159 a month, based on the federal average. An estimated 7 percent of the county receives food assistance. An

estimated 10 percent of Longmont, 6 percent of the city of Boulder and 5 percent of Lafayette, Louisville and Superior, taken together, receive the benefits. The amount of assistance has risen right with demand, increasing from $11.1 million in 2008 to $27.6 million in 2012, a 249 percent increase, according to data provided by Boulder County HHS spokesman Jim Williams. “The figures are primarily federal dollars that flow to Boulder County to provide benefits for clients who enroll for food assistance here,” Williams says. The Boulder County Department of Housing and Human Services serves families outside Boulder County,

Williams says, in instances where recipients are moving into or out of the county. The rise in food assistance is a trend that more or less mirrors unemployment in the county, which hit a five-year low in early 2007 at under 3 percent, then more than doubled by late 2012, according to a housing and human services chart. Recent news stories have noted there are high unemployment rates among new college graduates, but there’s little in Boulder County’s statistics that can be attributed to that particular trend. Single recipients and the “Adult” group, which spans 20 to 65, haven’t risen faster than other groups. Unemployment for recent graduates nationwide remains high at 53.6 percent, according the U.S. Department of Labor and Census Bureau. Adults between 18 and 35 years old account for approximately 22.8 percent of persons receiving food assistance see ASSISTANCE Page 52

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ong before Boulder achieved fame as a foodie paradise, there were a handful of restaurants that opened in the early ’90s and swiftly landed on many locals’ favorites list. These restaurants distinguished themselves on providing good value, decent-sized portions and international, or at least, regional flair. Three of these spots still soldier on today, and these include Chez Thuy, Laudisio’s (which exists in modified form as Ristorante L) and Zolo Grill. Opened in 1994, Zolo has enjoyed a near 20-year run. When Zolo started, Southwest cuisine seemed more of a trend of the moment rather than a concept that could sustain an eatery for a couple of decades. Ask someone today to name three well-known chefs, and most probably won’t mention Mark Miller and Dean Fearing, two ’90s champions of Southwest fare. One could even argue that Zolo’s endurance would be akin to 1994’s chart-topping Ace of Base producing a No. 1 single today. Nowadays Zolo’s lunch menu doesn’t stray too far from the basics of Southwestern cuisine and would still be accessible to the ’90s diner. There’s a certain comforting culinary classicism inherent in a menu showcasing such items as tortilla soup, blue corn fried oysters, rellenos and chicken enchiladas. Sitting on the patio, friend Kuvy and I began with one of those classics,

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the $8 guacamole. A generous scoop, resembling a helping of sherbet shaded Kermit green, arrived surrounded by thin, crisp tortilla chips. The perfectly ripe fruit had a luxurious creaminess set off by a squeeze of lime. This suaveness makes Zolo’s guac likely the best in town. Next up was a $11 sampler of sopes, a trio of diminutive cornmeal cups, each stuffed with a different filling. Red chile pork, accented by a subtly tart green tomatillo salsa, had the melt-inyour-mouth texture of pulled meat. Chorizo fundido combined delightfully gooey cheese with peppy, but not overwhelmingly spicy, sausage. Last up were shreds of duck, which suffered from dry

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texture. Such aridity did not plague Kuvy’s $13 blue corn tamale plate, spotlighting a creamy masa filling that was closer to finely prepared polenta than typical rusticated stuffings. Wrapped up like a piece of Zolo Grill hard candy, 2525 Arapahoe these tamales Ave., Boulder, were perfectly 303-449-0444 set off by a red pepper salsa underscored by a whisper of sweet flavor. A side of kale and chard was a textbook example of crisptender veggies, and one suspects this adornment was a quiet nod to contemporary appetites for greens. Duck made an encore appearance in my plate of $11 tacos. Here, the chunks of duck were larger and thankfully much moister than they were in the starter sopes. It was easier to appreciate the earthy flavor qualities of this bird (as opposed to, say, milder chicken), especially as it was set off by thin slices of red potato and bright salsa verde. After two decades, some restaurants would get lazy, resting on their laurels and dishing out fare several notches below what they originally served. Zolo seems immune from this trap, and the menu doesn’t stray far from tradition. The key, as lunch illustrated, is perhaps no more complicated than keeping quality consistent, although this is more easily said than done. But here, the level of execution has remained high and Zolo, like the Dude, abides. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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peaking of longtime Boulder eateries, it’s worth noting that the Chautauqua Dining Hall is now being run by Three Leaf Concepts, the same folks behind the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, among other restaurants. This historic site has been open about a month under the new management. The menu features entrees showcasing Colorado ingredients such as golden trout and lamb as well as produce from Three Leaf’s Lafayette farm. Intriguing dishes include a Reuben made with corned buffalo instead of beef and a charcuterie platter spotlighting house-made sausages, such as one crafted from venison. 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4403776.

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nationwide, according to the Census Bureau. In Boulder County, adults 20 to 65 are slightly less than half the recipients, but that age group isn’t broken down further. Persons receiving aid in Colorado must also participate in the Employment First Program, according the state of Colorado’s official website. The Employment First Program is a federally mandated program designed to ensure that all able-bodied food assistance participants are engaged in activities that will improve their employability, according the website. Cadena says the purpose of SNAP isn’t just to help the homeless, it’s to provide assistance to the working poor. “It’s been for people who are working, so it’s for the working poor or at least for those who are looking for work,” says Cadena. “And the unemployment rate is falling disproportionately on people who have been unemployed for a long time or have little work experience.” One Boulderite who receives food assistance is already working, but his job doesn’t pay enough to eat right, he says. Theodore “Taj” Matuszak is a 33-year-old barista and artist who lives in a studio apartment on University Hill and says he tries to live simply. He works a minimum-wage job at Espresso Roma, where hours available to work are tight for all employees. Matuszak applied for food stamps in April and qualified for the maximum, $200 a month. He says he makes it a goal to eat healthy food. “I have the right to good food just like anybody else does,” Matuszak says. “It helps me to subsidize organic and healthful food instead of eating GMO crap.” In order to qualify for food assistance in Boulder County, the household income for one person cannot 52 May 16, 2013

exceed $1,211 per month, and a family of four cannot make more than $2,498. Single people can receive between $16 and $200 per month, and a family of four up to $668 per month. Dale Kamibayashi, store director for Alfalfa’s in Boulder, says purchases made with food stamp cards account for 4 percent to 5 percent of the store’s daily transactions. “Even people on food assistance want to buy healthy products and they budget appropriately,” Kamibayashi says. “They buy a lot of bulk food and see how far they can stretch and extend their dollar by buying these commodity items.” Cadena says the increased demand for and increased spending on food assistance is no surprise, given the slow growth of the economy. “Government spending is supposed to be counter-cyclical — food stamps are considered an automatic stabilizer in standard macro-economics,” says Cadena. “Getting money to people who will spend it immediately is always the goal in any stimulus program.” The need for assistance could be even bigger than the increase in demand reported by HHS indicates. HHS stats illustrate a particular issue in Boulder County: Perhaps due to high costs in other areas of life, people in Boulder County can be “food insecure” even when they’re making more than the federal poverty level. Food insecurity means a household lacks the budget to have a nutritious diet, HHS says. Data from HHS says 44 percent of the 38,920 food-insecure people in the county are above the federal poverty line, so they aren’t eligible for food assistance. Erica Lindberg contributed to the reporting of this story. She worked at Espresso Roma with Taj Matuszak. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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nce upon a time — like five years ago — all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll. Of course, that’s still true, as startups like Wild Woods, J Wells and Bootstrap have proven. But there’s a movement within craft beer toward specialties, as consumers begin to accept Joel Dyer craft beer as a whole and seek out their favorite styles. River North Brewery in Denver opened in 2011 and features beers with a Belgian twist; Denver’s Prost Brewing, which opened last year, brews only authentic German lagers; Gravity in Louisville, also a year old, specializes in high-alcohol beers; and the upcoming Twelve Degree Brewing, aiming to open sometime soon in Louisville, will feature Belgians. West Flanders is in this bold new group of breweries that’s making a specialty out of a particular style. While the recent addition to Boulder’s beer scene does produce an IPA, a stout, a pale ale and a few other standards, it’s all about the Belgians here. When we stop by for a Monday lunch, there are four Belgian styles on tap, along with actual Belgians from actual Belgium in bottles and on a guest tap. The Belgians here generally keep the yeast in check, leading to smooth brews like the St. Mark’s Dubbel, a mild, slightly banana-flavored beer that Joel embraces enthusiastically. “That’s a burger beer,” he says as his burger arrives from the kitchen. I, meanwhile, am thrilled with my Boulder Weekly

choice, the Daisy Cutter Belgian strong ale. It’s all caramel and malt, yet light and drinkable, yet 9 percent ABV, yet I wanted a second one. Elizabeth is “pleasantly surprised,” she says, by the ESBueno, an ESB that’s quite bitter but never goes overboard. “I have one and I’m ready to crawl under the table and take a nap,” she says, in the most positive sense. As we welcome new interns with a beer — “Oh, wow, cool cup,” Joe exclaims over the classic Belgian tulip glass — and Joel recounts memories of West Flanders’ location decades ago, when it was Potter’s and he was being tossed out for fighting, I wander off to check out the “Home Brew Wall of Fame,” a bit of an anomaly in such a nice place. I mean, would a fancy restaurant dedicate a bulletin board to home chefs? But that’s just the ethos of the craft brewing community. West Flanders offers an extended happy hour for homebrewers every Tuesday. It features photos of homebrewers working at home and keeps contact information displayed for Hop Barley and the Alers, the Boulder homebrew club. West Flanders’ brewer, Brian Lutz, has spent decades in the homebrewing community, and it shows. For this week, we are hoping to attend a May 16 event at the Boulder History Museum, the Coast to Coast Toast in celebration of American Craft Beer Week. If not, we might finally trek up to Ned and knock off Very Nice and Wild Mountain. Either way, the end, sadly, is in sight. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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dinner at the restaurant, focusing on “elegant, earthy varietals” including pinot noir, a Q’s press release says. The dinner, prepared using seasonal spring ingredients, is $65 and will start at 6:30 p.m. May 18. Call 303-442-4880 or visit www.qsboulder.com/events.

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merican Craft Beer Week, which started May 13 and runs until May 19, will include special tappings and events at various breweries around the county. Among the notable events and specials: • Twenty-twoounce bombers of Backfire Chili at Bootstrap Brewing, as well as a double dry-hopped IPA, Blueberry Gold and Red

Beerd on tap • A craft malt liquor, Boulde English 840, at Mountain Sun and Southern Sun • A tap takeover by Gravity Brewing at LuLu’s BBQ in Louisville May 16 • A tapping of Left Hand’s Twin Sisters Double IPA aged in casks May 16 and an installment of the Summer Jam concert series May 18 • Loveland’s Front Range Rally May 18, featuring beers from 34 breweries in Boulder County and beyond • Eleven new and revisited collaborations between FATE Brewing and local breweries, from the 13 percent ABV lager with Echo Brewing to the 5 percent English Mild with Boulder Beer and the 5 percent schwarzbier with Lone Tree. The two headlining events in Boulder County are the Coast to Coast Toast, a May 16 event held at the Boulder History Museum that will include 13 craft breweries in Boulder County, and the Craft Brew Crawl, which will hit six taprooms the afternoon of May 18, starting at Avery. The crawl is free; the museum tasting is $25 at the door and includes rarely-seen-outside-bottles brews from BRU, Crystal Springs and New Planet.

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owntown Boulder’s Shine Restaurant will host a benefit event for a nonprofit dedicated to helping Haiti May 19. The St. Luke Foundation for Haiti, a Haitian-run organization that runs three hospitals, 30 schools and a job training center, will hold the event. The group’s assistant national director, Wynn Walent, will appear to speak, present a video and play music. Walent lives in Lafayette when he isn’t in Port-au-Prince, according to a press release. The organization serves 100,000 patients and 10,000 students in a year. The event is 5-7:30 p.m. May 19 at Shine. Call 303-440-0120 for more information.

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olorado’s standing in the wine world may be steadily rising, but restaurants are still more inclined to feature wines from elsewhere in the U.S. This week, Q’s Restaurant is featuring the wines of Oregon as it hosts a “Spring Fever in Oregon” event May 18. Micah Nushawg, the wine director at Q’s, will be presenting wines throughout a five-course

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lready a food hotspot, Boulder received another contestant for its best burger. Snarfburger, a new iteration of the Snarf’s sandwich chain, attempts to continue the diversification of Boulder’s food scene. Formerly Daddy Bruce’s BBQ, the 680-square-foot shack (located at the intersection of 20th Street and Arapahoe Avenue) seats just eight but serves a wide range of foods, including frozen custard and fried bologna sandwiches. Snarf’s CEO Jim Seidel says in a press release that he had been “considering the idea for some time, but it wasn’t until another Boulder ‘shack’ became available” that he chose to open the restaurant. Snarfburger joins Oskar Blues’ new restaurant, CHUBurger in Longmont, as another option for burgers.

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enver’s Strange Brewing Company turns three years old on Thursday, May 16, and is celebrating by having a four-course meal, paired with various beers from the mile-high brewery. Working with Chef-n-Brew Events, the menu will include beef reuben sliders with Bock kraut, cinnamon rolls and roasted pork loin. Featured beers include Strange Brewing’s Maibock, ZORA Pale Ale and Dr. Strangelove Barleywine, a bronze medal winner in the 2012 Great American Beer Festival, according to a press release. The dinner is at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, and will be held at Strange Brewing Company’s taproom at 1330 Zuni St. in Denver.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In the alternate universe Go to RealAstrology.com to check out The 14th-century poet created by Marvel comic Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Dante was a major influbooks, there is a mutant HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE ence on 20th-century superhero called Squirrel HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes novelist James Joyce. “I Girl. She has the magic love Dante,” wrote the are also available by phone at 1-877power to summon hordes author of the epic novel 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. of cute, furry squirrels. Ulysses. “He is my spiriUnder her guidance, they tual food.” And yet Joyce swarm all over the bad felt he had to absorb guy she’s battling and Dante in small doses. disable him with their “Dante tires one quickly,” he said. “It is as if one were to thousands of tiny chomps and thrashing tails. She and look at the sun.” Is there any influence like that in your her rodent allies have defeated such arch-villains as Dr. own life, Libra? Judging from the astrological omens, I’m Doom, Deadpool, Baron Mordo and Ego the Living guessing it’s a fine time for you to get as much sustained Planet. Let’s make her your role model for the comexposure to that glorious source as you can bear. ing weeks, Aries. The cumulative force of many small things will be the key to your victories. As in Squirrel SCORPIO Girl’s case, your adversaries’ overconfidence may also OCT. 23-NOV. 21: be a factor. Greek poet Sappho was renowned in antiquity. The nine books she wrote were so esteemed that the historian TAURUS Strabo wrote, “in this whole span of recorded time we APRIL 20-MAY 20: know of no woman to challenge her as a poet even in the You have arrived at the edge of reality. Or rather, to be slightest degree.” And yet little of Sappho’s work survives. precise, you have arrived at the edge of what you think of As of 2004 there were just 264 fragments and three comas reality. Here’s where things could get very interesting. plete poems. But then a fourth complete poem emerged. Just on the other side of that edge you’re brushing up Its text was written on papyrus that had been wrapped against, there is much, much more reality — a vast terin the casing of an Egyptian mummy. The mummy had ritory you have barely imagined, let alone believed in or been stored for years in a backroom at Cologne University explored. Are you feeling brave? If you’re willing to find in Germany before someone discovered its hidden treaout about stuff you didn’t even realize you would love to sure. Your assignment, Scorpio, is to seek an equivalent experience, I suggest you slip across the border and wanrecovery. Search for a part of the past that’s still beautiful der around on the other side. and useful, even if that quest leads you to unlikely and obscure places. GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20:

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time,” said writer Charles Bukowski. “All else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” I invite you to make that thought one of your guiding principles in the coming week, Cancerian. Translate your high ideals into actions that make a practical impact on particular human beings and animals. Instead of merely talking about what good things you want to do, actually do them. As much as possible, be sure that every detail of your daily life reflects your vision of ultimate truth and beauty.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

If you were a fledgling savior, now would be a propitious moment to begin your messianic mission. If you were a musician hoping to leap to the next level of career success, this would be prime time to plan an extensive tour. If you were the inventor of the Next Big Thing, I’d suggest that you get your marketing campaign in gear. And if none of those descriptions fits your personal situation, regard them as apt metaphors for your use. How can you spread the word about what’s most important to you?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

As frontman of the band Queen, Virgo singer Freddie Mercury made use of his four-octave range with flamboyant showmanship and breathtaking technique. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest vocalists in the history of pop music. Freddie joked that he was perfect except for one glaring flaw: his overbite. Because he had four extra teeth in his upper mouth, his top jaw protruded. But he chose not to alter his appearance with surgery because he suspected it might change his singing voice in unpredictable ways. Is there a comparable situation in your own life, Virgo? A so-called imperfection that seems to be entwined with a beautiful asset? I urge you to be like Freddie. Accept the paradox — embrace it and celebrate it — and move on.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

When I turn my psychic attention in your direction, I smell smoldering smoke. Here’s how I interpret that: Your internal fire is burning with less than maximum efficiency. Do you agree, Sagittarius? If so, do you know why that might be? Did you not provide enough kindling? Is the wood too green? Is the ground wet? I urge you to find out what the problem is. You can’t afford to have sputtering flames and sooty light and spotty warmth. You need a steady blaze that radiates brilliant light and strong heat.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Very few of us are completely uninhibited about expressing who we really are. Most everyone is shy about revealing at least one facet of his or her identity. Why? Maybe because we’re afraid that people will judge us harshly for being different from what they think we should be. Or maybe our secret side is at odds with our self-image, and we hesitate to acknowledge it even to ourselves. What is this part of you, Capricorn? In what sense are you still in the closet about a truth or quality or event that’s central to your character? I urge you to have a conversation with yourself about it. You aren’t necessarily ready to tell the whole world about it, but now might be the right time to start considering the possibility that you can give it more room to play.

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time from a retail outlet. Adult visitors to the state will be allowed to buy a quarter-ounce in a single transaction. Both of those are, of course, subject to your city allowing retail stores. As per the amendment, municipalities have final approval over retail outlets within their city limits. Lafayette has already voted against retail, but indications are that other towns in the county, Boulder included, will be looking for added revenue through retail sales. If you plan on opening a grow operation or retail store or want to infuse edibles or do research and testing, you have to submit to a background check to apply for a state permit. All owners and employees have to be Colorado residents, owners for at least two years before applying for a license. Existing businesses in the medical marijuana industry have first crack and can begin applying Oct. 1, 2013. Applications for new businesses won’t begin until July 1, 2014. The application fee is a reasonable $500 for existing businesses and $5,000 thereafter. The state has 90 days to review and respond to applications. Existing dispensaries will have the choice of Brittney Bauer of The Dandelion in Boulder continuing their medical business, running both retail and medical sides or eliminating medical completely. Anyone who doesn’t already own a business can file a Carousel of Happiness stoned, you won’t be able to get notice that an application will be submitted beginning high at the coffee shop next door. Jan. 1 and will get preference on July 1, 2014. It also put the dampers on cities, like Aurora and The state can limit any aspect of the industry at any even Boulder, that might have considered running their time, including the number of retail outlets, production own seed-to-sale operations to squeeze out even higher limits on grow operations and even individual cultivation. revenue. I’ve never had the humiliation of a drug piss test for a As noted last week, the most controversial of the bills job, but I am friends with enough pot smokers behind coris HB 1325, which designates a five-nanogram limit of THC per milliliter of blood for a presumption of intoxica- porate doors to know that a drug test is a really ineffective, tion. Russ Belville makes a good point in the Daily Chronic expensive way to deprive a company of good employees. that when marijuana proponents asked cannabis to be reg- But Colorado businesses will still be allowed to disallow pot smokers for employment based on piss tests, now ulated like alcohol, they got what they asked for with the stoned-driving bills passed in Washington, which sets a per essentially penalizing citizens for doing something legal. Whatever makes you feel safer. se intoxication limit of five nanograms, and Colorado, Perhaps Rep. Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, said it which sets a five-nanogram limit yet allows a permissible best, quoted in The Denver Post: “We are in uncharted inference defense in court to allow you to prove you territory.” weren’t stoned. We’ll have to see how it plays out, but I Respond to letters@boulderweekly.com think we can expect lawyers to gang up on this one, too. What do you want to know about legal marijuana in The rules outlined in HB 1317 and HB 1318 should Colorado? Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulmake it relatively easy for Colorado citizens with a valid derweekly.com. driver’s license to buy up to an ounce of marijuana at a

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Dear Dan: I have a mentally disabled cousin who I haven’t figured out how to help. He’s lived for more than 40 years in the same nursing home in a small, conservative town. His mental age is about 8, there are other mental-illness issues, and he has some physical problems. He is now in his late 60s. He has always enjoyed dressing up as a woman, but given that he’s in a Christian nursing home, he must keep it fairly secret. He doesn’t want to move from his home of so many years. He periodically calls me to tell me about a dress he’s purchased or his monthly therapy sessions where he’s permitted to dress up, and I’m uncomfortable with the sexual vibe of the conversations. I would like him to have a sexual outlet, but one that doesn’t involve me. Any ideas? —She Knows It’s Really Tough Dear SKIRT: Nope. And staging some sort of intervention now — well, the effort seems about four decades late. Even if you could find a new living situation for your cousin, SKIRT, your cousin doesn’t want to move. He seems to like where he lives, he gets to buy himself dresses, and he gets to dress up once in a while. He’d probably be happier if he didn’t have to keep his dresses secret, but things could be much, much worse.

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