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BALONEY ON VEGGIES / 6 Polis protests calling pizza a vegetable for school lunches by Pamela White BOULDER’S LIFESTYLE DEPENDS ON THE USE OF FRACKING / 6 There is a paucity of actual victims when it comes to hydraulic fracturing by Paul Danish ON THE COVER: UNZIPPED / 10 Seth Brigham may be a pain, but was he on to something? by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

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Correction: The May 10 cover story, “Different recipe, same great taste,” misidentified a member of Leftover Salmon, at one point swapping the name Billy Nershi for Vince Herman.

Garden wars

(Re: “Garden wars,” cover story, May 3.) I believe that dogs in the community gardens is a violation of state law, for the same reason that dogs are not allowed in places selling food. Fecal contamination of food is a public safety issue. Any activity endangering the health and safety of others is prohibited in Boulder county open space as well. Dogs walk in areas contaminated with feces, and dangerous pathogens can stick to their feet. No sane person wants their food contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria or wants to be infected by hook worms, tape worms or round worms. The rights of a person end when their activity endangers the safety of another. Many dog owners are really no different than rapists, child molesters or drunk drivers. When it

comes to dog waste they don’t care who gets hurt by it if they get the pleasure of owning a dog. Jay Parks/Boulder

Constructive criticism

(“From grades to the Gothic,” Overtones, May 3.) Fantastic article, it is good to see ska being talked about. I noticed two things: 1. The band “Synthetic Element” is actually spelled as Synthetic Elements.

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illions of children in our public schools will soon be hearing from the Heartland Institute. It might sound like a nice above-board civic group promoting such salt-of-the-earth virtues as integrity and veracity, but quite the opposite. Heartland’s mission is to promote mass ignorance on behalf of its self-serving (and often heart-

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Bailey on loan

(Re: “A high-powered mom,” Boulderganic, May 10.) I recently

less) corporate backers. It is yet another secretive far-right-wing front group funded by the Koch brothers’ club of billionaires who’re intent on establishing an unbridled corporate plutocracy in our country. But this outfit was recently outed by someone who released a trove of its internal documents — including details of its multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to undermine the teaching of climate change science in America’s schools. Heartland is creating an anti-science curriculum to pooh-pooh the facts of global weather change and planning to turn the issue into a major culture war in local school districts across the country. Falsely claiming that “Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective” and that climate change “is a major scientific controversy” the Institute and its right-wing allies are already pressuring school boards to adopt its denial

Another Koch-funded stealth campaign by Jim Hightower

2. The band “Streetlight Manifesto” is a very well-known ska band, one of the best. It is listed as non-ska in the article. Otherwise, I enjoy the Boulder Weekly a lot! Please don’t take this as criticism but as a loyal reader’s input! Thanks and great work, John Marinera/Boulder

became aware that Boulder has hired Heather Bailey to assess the possibility of municipalizing its electric utility. I have had the privilege of working on and off with Heather for the past 20 years. She may well be the smartest person I know, and her tenacity and work ethic is legendary in her home state. Boulder could not have picked a better individual for the job. see LETTERS Page 9

curriculum, forcing teachers to water For more information on Jim Hightower’s down the science. work — and to subThe dishonesty scribe to his awardof Heartland’s camwinning monthly newsletter, The Hightower paign includes its Lowdown — visit www. shielding of the spejimhightower.com. cial interests behind it. When the campaign comes to your area, it won’t tell local people that the Koch brothers — who own America’s largest private oil corporation and are vituperative opponents of regulations to restrict their emissions of global warming pollutants — are putting up $200,000 for the effort this year. To get to the dark heart of this insidious campaign, and to stand for science and truth in teaching, go to the National Center for Science Education at www.ncse.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com May 17, 2012 5

uncensored Baloney on veggies by Pamela White

ack in 1981, the Reagan than getting something leafy and fresh administration set about cre- and full of nutrients for that serving of ating a budget for fiscal year vegetables, students in those districts 1982 that would include $27 will receive a slab of carbs and fat. billion in cuts to so-called Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, entitlements. The school lunch program, unveiled new legislation on May 14 that which provides meals to kids from lowhe hopes will bring some nutritional income families, was cut by $1 billion. reality to the burning pizza issue. The Feeding hungry children is, after all, School Lunch Improvements for such a waste of taxpayer dollars. Children’s Education Act — or SLICE The U.S. Department of Agriculture Act — would allow the USDA to: clasthen tried to figure out how it was going sify the two tablespoons of tomato sauce to run the school lunch program with a on the average slice of school pizza as significantly smaller budget while follow- simply two tablespoons of tomato sauce, ing its own nutritional guidelines. This not a vegetable; to create science-based proved to be difficult — until the secretargets for sodium reduction; and to cretary of agriculture had a brilliant idea. ate a whole grain requirement. What if those little ketchup packets “Agribusinesses should never dictate and packets of pickle relish could be the quality of school meals,” Polis says. classified as “vegetables?” Slap one on “Big food companies have their priorieach tray with a pig ties, which include in the blanket, and selling cheap, you’ve got two servunhealthy foods at The best thing we can ings of vegetables. high profits. But do to improve our diet The American parents and schools people realized they have their prioriand health is to remove ties: making sure were being fed processed products and our kids eat right bullshit. The outreplace them with real because research rage was widefood. shows a clear conspread and high nection between volume. Newsweek nutrition and sturan its famous cover dent performance in school.” of a bottle of ketchup labeled, “Now a Polis hopes to get the legislation vegetable.” As a result of the backlash, enacted this session. ketchup and pickle relish remained clasThe SLICE Act is a move in the sified as condiments, which, incidentally, right direction. It’s a great start to a they just so happen to be. broader conversation about processed It’s sad when you’re left thinking of the Reagan Administration as being foods in school lunches — and in the part of “the good old days.” American diet in general. Last year, Congress gave in to lobLet’s talk about that slice of pizza. byists from the frozen food industry and What’s on it besides two tablespoons of blocked an effort by the USDA to mod- tomato sauce? Cancer-causing nitrates? ify its rules to make school lunches Pink slime? Food coloring? And what’s more nutritious. The new rules would in the tomato sauce? High-fructose corn have limited the amount of potatoes syrup? Is there bovine growth hormone that were included in school lunches, in the cheese? For that matter is the would have required more green vegeta- cheese actually, you know, cheese? bles, and would have raised the bar on What we eat matters. What our tomato paste, declaring that one-half children eat matters even more. The best cup of tomato paste, not merely two thing we can do to improve our diet and tablespoons, was a vegetable. By scuthealth is to remove processed products tling the new regulations, Congress and replace them with real food. enabled school districts to call pizza a Of course, the big food corporations vegetable, thanks to the smear of tomato don’t want this and will try to dominate paste on each slice. any discussion we have on this topic by Now pizza is no more a vegetable lobbying Congress again. But when it than ketchup. In fact, it’s arguably less comes to our children’s health, they don’t of a vegetable, given that most of it is deserve a place at the lunch table. crust. But if Congress tells the USDA Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to let school districts classify it as a vegThis opinion column does not necessarily gie, then that’s what it becomes. Rather reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. 6 May 17, 2012

danish plan Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking by Paul Danish

couple of weeks ago the price of natural gas dropped below $2 per thousand cubic feet, the lowest it has been in more than a decade before rebounding somewhat. For that, the 99 percent — the 99 percent of Boulder residents who heat their homes with natural gas, that is — can thank an oil company. The reason the price of natural gas

is down and the market is glutted is because the oil and gas industry deployed a suite of technologies, including three-dimensional seismology, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), to access enormous gas and oil deposits in shale and other non-porous rock formations (“tight sands”) that have been mostly see FRACKING Page 7

quotes “This is not red hat, white hat, or black hat. It is simply a practical hat. I am not a special person, as I mentioned.” —The Dalai Lama, wearing a purple visor during his speech accepting the Templeton prize for progress in religion at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London “He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family.” —Journalist Andrew Sullivan, discussing his Newsweek piece about the similarities between the homosexual community and President Barack Obama “We deplore this weak and unjust decision.” —Former News International chief Rebekah Brooks, exeditor of News of the World, in a joint statement with her husband, Charlie, responding to charges that they perverted the course of justice in the phone hacking controversy

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inaccessible until now. 20 or 30 years whether it likes it or not. (These technologies are often Natural gas sustains Boulder’s way of referred to as “new,” but they have actu- life, and fracking keeps it affordable. ally been around for 30 years or more. The most striking thing about the What’s new is using them to extract oil folks who don’t like fracking is how from shale and tight sands.) dependent their lifestyles are on the Six years ago the price of natural gas product fracking produces, and how was about $10 per thousand cubic feet. clueless they are about it. If 3-D seismic, horizontal drilling and Chances are, most of Boulder’s gas fracking hadn’t come along, Boulder comes from the Wattenberg Field, residents would be paying that much which covers 3,000 square miles of for gas today. Or more, because worldWeld County. Since the field was diswide demand for natural gas is explodcovered 40 years ago, more than 20,000 ing. In Japan, which imports all of the wells have been drilled in it — and gas it uses and which recently shut nearly all of them have been fracked. down 50 nuclear plants, natural gas is Think of it — 20,000 fracked wells. selling for around $15 per thousand If fracking were remotely as dangerous cubic feet. as the anti-frackers intimate it is, Weld For the peace and justice/occupy County should be a national sacrifice Wall Street crowd, anti-fracking is the area by now, with its water, soil and air new anti-GMO, but that doesn’t hopelessly contaminated, its people change one stubborn fact — Boulder is chronically ill, and its agriculture destroyed. so dependent on natural gas that its But it isn’t. economy and its Weld County is way of life would one of the most fall apart without it. productive agriculVirtually every tural counties in home and business As was the case the United States. in Boulder is heatwith last year’s Its agriculture has ed by natural gas. More than a third coexisted comfortanti-GMO cause of the city’s elecably with the oil célèbre, the antitricity is generated industry for 40 with gas. Most of years, and it is a fracking narrative its food is produced healthy and attracverges on the apocwith fertilizers and tive place for peoalyptic, but there is agricultural chemiple to live. cals made from So healthy and a paucity of actual natural gas. Cut off attractive, in fact, victims. the gas supply and that the biggest the ensuing ecothreat to Weld nomic and social County farming is disruption would the explosive make the Great Depression look like a growth of subdivisions on prime agriwalk in the park. cultural land, (like the subdivisions Moreover, there is no way Boulder from which some of the louder anticould end its dependence on natural gas fracking NIMBYism is emanating). quickly. The only real alternative for As was the case with last year’s antiheating would be all-electric heat, and a GMO cause célèbre, the anti-fracking complete conversion to it would probanarrative verges on the apocalyptic, but bly take a minimum of 20 or 30 years. there is a paucity of actual victims. Boulder’s putative municipal utility Fracking is supposed to be a dagger would have to create the infrastructure at the heart of the country’s water supto generate and deliver twice as much ply, but half-a-million fracked wells or more electricity as it would have to later, it’s proved nearly impossible to today to meet the needs of an all-elecfind examples of it happening. The two tric city, and from green sources at that. cases which anti-frackers like to cite, Converting to all-electric heat would one in Pennsylvania and one in also require replacing 30,000 to 40,000 Wyoming, have been debunked by furfurnaces and boilers, and increasing the ther investigation. insulation in tens of thousands of It’s all the rage in Boulder these homes and businesses to the point days to talk trash about oil companies where heating with kilowatts becomes and fracking, but you know, it’s not very more or less affordable. Those sorts of nice to spit in the faces of the people changes are not made overnight. who make your lifestyle possible. It’s They’re done over a generation, as old beyond rude. It’s decadent. buildings are remodeled or replaced. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Which means Boulder will be This opinion column does not necessarily dependent on natural gas for the next reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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FROM THE ‘DUH’ CATEGORY Note to would-be thieves: If you are actually stupid enough to steal something valuable from some poor innocent person, don’t go on national television to try to sell it, because if you do, you will likely get arrested and go to jail. This is the lesson that Erie resident Gene Newton apparently (and allegedly) failed to get from his parents. While other kids were learning about fencing stolen goods, it appears that Gene was busy watching the Discovery Channel. According to reports, Newton went on the television show American Guns and was attempting to sell a couple of pistols, including an 1800s vintage colt Dragoon black powder revolver worth as much as $20K. While good for ratings, the superduper rare revolver also piqued the interest of a viewer in New Mexico who had, coincidentally, just been robbed of such a gun. A couple of phone calls later and the Erie police were arresting Newton for allegedly trying to sell the stolen gun on national television.

POLIS IS MOSTLY RIGHT As you read in Pamela White’s “Uncensored” column this week, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis doesn’t think that pizza should be counted as a vegetable in school lunches. He also thinks that it’s wrong to allow giant agribusinesses to sell cheap crap food at big profits to our kids and then buy off politicians with campaign contributions to keep the whole unhealthy scheme going. Hard to argue with that part. But it seems that Rep. Polis hasn’t spent much time eating in school cafeterias. If he had, he would realize that the lousy pizza is one of the few foods served that actually gets eaten at all. Until we really do the right thing and go all Jamie Oliver on our school lunch programs — that’s to say, start shopping for healthy food and preparing it in delicious ways that the British food activist has shown can be done for the same money we now spend on vegetables like pizza — redefining where pepperoni, catsup and bread goes on the food pyramid or wheel or whatever it’s called now just doesn’t matter much. Until then, both our kids and the greedy crapfood corporations will get fatter.

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BOOING BENSON Isn’t about time the University of Colorado began shopping for a new president? The average tenure for a CU president in the past few decades (with the exception of interims) has been four or five years, and Benson was appointed in early 2008. Besides, he was booed after being introduced to give a speech at the May 11 University of Colorado Boulder commencement. We likely yawned or clapped politely when the president of our alma mater took the podium at graduation. But it was probably somebody we barely knew the name of. Benson must be pretty bad if that many in the audience knew enough about him to boo. After finishing his speech, he proceeded to spend most of the remainder of the ceremony reading a document. Talk about disengaged and checked out. Not sure he has changed many minds since the outcry against his appointment more than four years ago. And ProgressNow, which opposed Benson back then, began circulating a petition this spring calling for his ouster, in part because of the flap over the use of tuition money for already over-inflated administrator salaries. To sign it, go to bit. ly/BensonResign. It’s about time to go back to hiring accomplished faculty leaders as presidents, academics who have a true appreciation for things like academic freedom, tenure and the open marketplace of ideas. The Brown/Benson experiment of running the university with right-wing businessmen and politicians has come up short. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Arresting obesity

The number of Americans considered obese is expected to rise from the current 34 percent to 42 percent by the year 2030, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and discussed at the recent “Weight of the Nation” conference in Washington. Diabetes, kidney failure, heart disease, and other obesity-related ailments account for countless premature deaths and as much as 18 percent of the $2.6 trillion national cost of medical care (wapo.st/obesestudy). The leading causes of obesity are consumption of fat-laden meat and dairy products and lack of exercise. This is particularly critical during childhood years, when lifestyle habits become lifelong addictions. A five-year Oxford University study of 22,000 people, published in the International Journal of Obesity in 2006, found that those on a vegetarian or vegan diet gained the least weight. A review of 87 studies in Nutrition Reviews concluded that a vegetarian diet is highly effective for weight loss. The time has come to replace meat and dairy products in our diet with wholesome grains, vegetables, and fruits and to undertake a regular exercise program. Parents should insist on healthy school lunch choices and set a good example at their own dinner table. Rudolph Helman/Boulder

Supremacist court?

As the Supreme Court, the unelected decider of elections and politically charged issues, ponders the fate of the affordable care act/ Obamacare, as to whether, in their almighty power, they will allow Americans to have the health coverage we elected our Congress to allow us to buy, the question of whether we can constitutionally require a person to buy something he or she does not want to buy seems to be the main sticking point and current GOP wedge issue. To that, I say the bill does not force anybody to buy anything. It just requires them to pay a small price for something they already have. Case in point, and there are numerous cases, a healthy young man does not buy health insurance and breaks his neck Boulder Weekly

on a trampoline, requiring $150,000 in surgical and rehabilitation costs. As a humanitarian nation we will provide him with his care rather than let him die. The cost will be absorbed by higher hospital rates that are paid by higher premiums from those of us with health insurance. Obamacare will, for the first time, bring a level of fairness while controlling the cost of health insurance. Returning to unregulated for-profit

health insurance will, and has allowed, people to die who can’t afford the premiums or have pre-existing conditions. The insurance oligopoly (businesses that conspire together to set prices) is also hobbling our manufacturing industries that must bear the burden of 18 percent health insurance rates, the highest in the industrialized world. If not even one of the ideologically right-wing Supreme Court judges

are able or willing to allow our Congress to make decisions in the best interest of the people, this nation will continue to suffer from skyrocketing insurance premiums and Wall Street death panels that only care about increasing profits. Consequently, the 75 percent of people who now do not respect the judgment of the court will increase as we continue on the path of predator economics. Tom Lopez/Longmont

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Was Seth Brigham on to something when the City slapped him with a restraining order?

by Jefferson Dodge & Joel Dyer

or years, local political gadfly at risk. It’s comSeth Brigham got away with pletely unacceptable. being a persistent, even belligThis plea agreement erent, bug in the ears of city allows Mr. Brigham council. to get the help that But he didn’t get slapped with a he clearly needs to restraining order until he started noscontrol his behaving around the undisclosed financial ior.” ties of city council members including Brigham’s attorKC Becker and George Karakehian. ney at the time, Brigham says he believes his questions Philip Bienvenu, and discoveries, which he forwarded to responded to Carr the city attorney and district attorney, via email: “Your led to the restraining order. press release was At the very least, he says, the timbeyond self-serving ing is curious. But is he really onto spin; it was misleading and irresponsisomething? ble. You should Some say he is crazy and out of apologize publicly to control. After all, he loses his temper and curses at city officials, interrupting Seth Brigham and admit publicly that meetings. He acknowledges that he has bipolar disorder and drinks alcohol there never was any court-ordered menin moderation. tal health treatment, In 2010, he even went so far as to drew his plea of not guilty and it still address city council while only wearing that Mr. Brigham was only asked to stands.” boxer shorts, in protest. He was kicked show that he has in fact been under Most people would have backed out for that offense, but won a $10,000 treatment and has cooperated with his down after that. But not Brigham. He settlement after pushed on, repeatedly threatening to sue. airing unflattering claims And then about his elected offiBrigham questioned cials. If Carr’s interpretation of Boulder’s According to court police officers filings supporting the because he thought disclosure laws is allowed to stand, city’s restraining order they were harassing then he is in effect creating a loopagainst Brigham, which the homeless on hole whereby every candidate runprohibits him from June 3, 2011. He emailing city council, was arrested, but ning for office in Boulder in the much less coming within agreed to a deferred future can easily hide all of their 50 yards of the municipal prosecution in business connections and real building at 1770 August. City offiBroadway, he is a threat. cials sent out a surestate holdings. A city-appointed workprisingly damning place violence expert, press release not John Nicoletti, who typically issued declined an interview about suspects. In request from Boulder Weekly, has pored addition to describing the police vertreatment provider. And you should over Brigham’s writings online. He sion of the encounter, the report stated admit that there was a clear difference discovered some things he found disthat Brigham would undergo “courtof opinion whether Seth did anything turbing in poetry and song lyrics, ordered mental health treatment.” to obstruct officers, with other witwhich Brigham says were taken out of In the release, City Attorney Tom nesses agreeing with Seth. You should context. (Nicoletti is described as a Carr said, “What Mr. Brigham did was admit that it was really not a ‘plea “drive-by psychic” by Brigham’s curdangerous. His behavior put an officer agreement,’ in that Seth never with10 May 17, 2012

rent attorney, David Lane.) Granted, Brigham has had mental problems and has admitted being hospitalized for his illness. City officials have known this for a long time. So why issue a restraining order now? Brigham thinks it’s because he got too close. He started questioning city council members about their records. Brigham began uncovering publicly available documents on the Internet that appear to show that some council members failed to accurately disclose all of the financial information required by law on their candidate disclosure forms, an offense that can, but rarely does, lead to elected officials being removed from office. He started to question councilmember Becker’s campaign image as a middle-class working mom, revealing that she has connections to wealth. Brigham also alleged that councilmember Karakehian did not disclose all of his financial ties when he filled out the necessary forms to run for re-election last fall. The following is what the law requires to be disclosed by all those Boulder Weekly

news running for city council under the subhead of “Business Interests”:

“State the name, location, and nature of activity of any business entities or enterprises for profit, with holdings of real or personal property or with business dealings in the area encompassed by the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), in which you may have any financial interest, or in which you are actively engaged as an officer, director, or partner. “For each, state the nature of your interest or activity therewith, and state whether you have controlling interest in the entity. Business entity means any type of business: sole proprietorship, joint venture, partDistrict Attorney nership, Stan Garnett corporation, trust holding, or investment company, professional corporation, etc. It is immaterial whether the business is making money.”

After receiving an email from Brigham, which stated that his investigation into the disclosure issues of Karakehian and others on council had been stopped by the city’s restraining order, Boulder Weekly took a look into what Brigham claimed to have found and had turned over to Carr and District Attorney Stan Garnett. This is what Brigham wrote to Stan Garnett:

“Dear Mr. Garnett, I’m sure that you are aware of the controversy surrounding e-mails I sent to The City of Boulder. After more than two months of Open records requests, I was finally given some Financial Disclosures of Boulder City Council that I found to be insufficient. I asked several times for the records department to clarify the requirements in regard to local and state law, as I felt the disclosures did not meet the requirements. I asked The City Attorney, Tom Carr, to clarify. No one would respond to these questions. I began to investigate on my own and found businesses and financial partnership that were not disclosed. Boulder Weekly

Though I only began to investigate KC Becker and George K, I did find some financial interests that were questionable and/or not disclosed as required by law. George M. Karakehian Insurance, 1237 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO 80302, Sales: $5-10 Million, Employees: 10 – 24 As well, Mr. Karakehian has several partnership LLCs with Stephen Tebo that have never been disclosed on any financial disclosure form.

I found some possible conflicts of interest in regard to KC Becker. But, that’s when I stopped my investigation because of this Restraining Order put upon me by The City of Boulder.” As to the claim that Karakehian failed to disclose his insurance company, it appears that the councilmember has not been in that business for nearly two decades. His only income from his old insurance business at this point,

according to Karakehian, is about $170 a year in old renewal income which, being less than $1,000 per year, is not required to be disclosed. As for the “several partnership LLCs with Stephen Tebo,” as Brigham describes it, there appears to be something to it. Two separate business entities, Tebo/Karakehian LLC and Mall/Kar LLC, are not listed on Karakehian’s Candidate Financial Disclosure See UNZIPPED Page 12

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Statement (CFDS). The first does member who was investigating the appear to be an LLC owned by case, that instead of taking two weeks, Karakehian and Boulder developer and the case was being closed immediately businessman Stephen Tebo. The secbecause there was no merit to the alleond appears to be held by Karakehian gations. He acknowledged telling Carr and John R. Mehaffy. Both LLCs are the day before that there was likely no blind, meaning that all of the parties grounds for a violation, but that it was involved are not disclosed. Mehaffy under investigation. He said he had also does business with Tebo, but it is not talked to Carr or Karakehian the unclear if Tebo is, in fact, part of the morning of the 16th before closing the Mall/Kar LLC. investigation. Apparently, the timing Together, the two LLCs that the of the sudden conclusion of the councilman did not mention on his Karakehian investigation, like the CFDS own three properties valued by Brigham restraining order, was only a the Boulder County assessor at coincidence. $6,497,500, which are located at 1243 Carr acknowledges that the city’s Pearl Street, 1237 Pearl Street and campaign disclosure law is not clear, 2017 13th Street, all in Boulder. and that Mayor Matt Appelbaum has Karakehian told Boulder Weekly that previously asked him to examine it for he didn’t believe that he was required possible changes. to disclose his ownership in the LLCs He says that after examining because they are owned in the name of Karakehian’s situation, he became conhis business, Art Source International, vinced that the councilmember did not which he does list on omit anything intenthe form as his employtionally. He explained er. He initially told that Art Source, not Boulder Weekly that he Karakehian, owns the didn’t believe he needed LLCs, and Karakehian to report the ownership did list Art Source on in the LLCs because the form. they are owned by his “The language is employee profit-sharing broad, but not clear,” plan. In a subsequent Carr said of the law. phone conversation, he “It’s clear to me it’s not further defined his a knowing violation. interest in the LLCs as He doesn’t believe he his retirement fund. has to report it. If the Karakehian says he language were clearer City Attorney Tom Carr thought that since the and it said it included LLCs were not generretirement benefits, ating income at this time, he was not then maybe there would be a probrequired to disclose them. lem.” Boulder District Attorney Stan But the law, as shown earlier in this Garnett confirmed on Wednesday, article, is actually extremely clear. It May 16, that he had received requires all business interests of any Brigham’s complaint about kind and size to be disclosed. Presumably this would include $6.5 Karakehian’s incomplete financial disclosure statement, and that his election million in business interests with some of the city’s largest developers. The division was investigating the matter. At that time, he said it would probably very purpose of disclosure laws for be a couple of weeks before the inquiry candidates is to give voters the opportunity to know who is in bed with was completed. whom before they mark their ballot. It But when informed of the DA’s also makes sure that successful candiinvestigation, Karakehian told Boulder dates recuse themselves from votes Weekly that it was news to him. “Tom that could enrich themselves or busiCarr told me yesterday [May 15] that ness partners once they are elected. he had just gotten off the phone with If Carr’s interpretation of Boulder’s Stan Garnett, and Stan told him there disclosure laws is allowed to stand, was nothing to investigate,” then he is in effect creating a loophole Karakehian said, adding that he planned to make a phone call to clarify whereby every candidate running for office in Boulder in the future can easthe matter. Karakehian later said that ily hide all of their business conneche telephoned Carr, not Garnett. tions and real estate holdings. They Nonetheless, shortly after would simply need to put their assets Karakehian says he called Carr on the into the name of a company they own morning of the 16th, Garnett called and then mention in the disclosure Boulder Weekly for a second time, and statement that they own the company. said that after checking with the staff Boulder Weekly

news In the mean time, their company could cies should not be required to disclose be in partnerships and doing substanany communication with their attortial business deals with every powerful neys, according to Seattle Weekly. player in town and even with fellow Similarly, when Boulder Weekly city council members, and the candirequested a memo sent to city council date would not, under Carr’s interprethis spring regarding the Valmont Butte tation of the disclosure law, be required cleanup, Carr deemed it attorney-client to list any such business interests and privilege. But he acknowledges that if connections that the company has. the communication does not contain This is clearly not the intention of legal advice, it is a public record. Boulder’s disclosure requirements. “We do lots of things that are George Karakehian’s oversight may open,” Carr said. well have been an innocent mistake. City councilmember Ken Wilson He has told Boulder Weekly that he is told Boulder Weekly in 2010, at the happy to amend his statement if he is time of Carr’s hiring, that he was indeed required to provide the addiimpressed by the attorney’s ability to tional information. The problem is that defend the anti-camping ordinance. it is impossible to determine at this But Carr doesn’t seem to have sucpoint if the new information would ceeded in doing that on at least one have made a difference in his being front, since this week a judge struck elected, or at least in gaining a fourdown the city’s decision to remove violators’ right to a jury year term instead of trial. two years, due to being Carr was city attoramong the highest ney during Boulder’s vote-getters. While effort to close public such a different outparks after 11 p.m., an come may seem unlikeinitiative that some say ly, being tied to big developers in Boulder was an effort to crack is certainly important down on the homeless information to many and the Occupy area voters. Movement. Then there Carr denies that was city council’s decithere is any connection City council member sion to back the George Karakehian between Brigham’s University of restraining order and Colorado’s unprecehis questions about the financial dealdented response to the 4/20 celebraings of Becker, Karakehian and others. tion, dedicating city cops to turning “That’s not true,” he told Boulder the campus into a police state. Weekly. “That would be absurd, that we There is little doubt that Seth would go for protective order for Brigham is very often a pain in the something like that.” city’s backside. And looking at the eviHe said Brigham has every right to dence that the city has provided in scrutinize their financial interests, but support of its decision to seek and be he crossed the line when he made it granted a restraining order against its personal with Becker by involving her biggest critic, it would be easy to say husband, father, child, even emailing a that it does have an argument. photo of her home. The other straw What seems unusual is that the that broke the camel’s back, he said, vast majority of the examples of what was an April 19 city meeting that the city claims is behavior that threatBrigham interrupted. ens violence took place in the past, “He has that right [to raise quessometimes the distant past. So why tions about Becker’s finances],” Carr didn’t the city act to silence and said. “He doesn’t have a right to come restrain Brigham’s movements back screaming into a meeting. … We all then? Why did it wait until his emails have listened to Seth’s criticism, and started pointing out credible problems he’s welcome to make criticism. That’s with council’s adherence to disclosure completely different than coming in laws? Is it just more coincidental timreally angry and disrupting a meeting ing like the phone calls between Carr, and nobody being able to control him. Garnett and Karakehian and the That’s what scared folks.” instant end of the disclosure investigaBut the timing is curious, especially tion? considering Carr’s background. It looks bad, but Carr insists there In his previous job as Seattle city is no connection. attorney, he has been described in “Do you really think, in your own media reports as being heavy-handed mind, that the city would do something and resistant to attempts by the public like that?” he asks. When told it raises a and press to examine city business. valid question, Carr replies, “It absoluteCarr successfully argued to the ly does not raise a valid question.” state’s supreme court that public agenRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Medicine Wheel Garden at Willow Way

fter years of fighting Boulder County land use codes and regulations, Zia Parker is selling her farm and moving with her husband to Ecuador in hopes that running a permaculture farm will encounter fewer obstacles in the South American country. Parker’s farm, Willow Way, is a permaculture herb farm and herbal CSA in Niwot. Permaculture is a design method that uses the principles of natural ecosystems to create diversified food production systems anywhere from rural farms to urban apartments — a method that seems like it would fit perfectly in Boulder. But Parker also intended her farm to be a demonstration farm where people could go to learn about permaculture practices. This demonstration aspect brought trouble in the form of a cringe-worthy saga of public hearings, objecting neighbors and tight restrictions. “It ended up being a really heavy

own organic foods growing in their front yard.” Smith says they’ll be making use of permaculture’s ability to work in both rural and urban settings and will take the demonstrations from the farm to the sites of those interested in learning about techniques. Because Parker’s problems stemmed largely from concerns about privacy and increased traffic, Smith says she does not anticipate problems with the local government or neighbors. “We really believe in having open communication with the neighbors,” Mitchell says. “I don’t think we’re going to be doing anything they’ll find objectionable at all.” When Parker first attempted to start her demonstration farm, her application was sent to a public hearing. The Land Use Department approved the farm, but only under certain conditions. “The county took this kind of twofaced stance, saying that they would approve the demonstration farm so they

Local farm loses the battle against local government by Hadley Vandiver

logistical task, to carry out all the restrictions they placed,” Parker says. “It’s a very cumbersome process to be involved in as a citizen, and farmers don’t have that kind of time. Who does?” Parker recently sold Willow Way to Susan Mitchell and Jay Smith, who talk enthusiastically about owning the farm and say they plan to keep Parker’s permaculture practices intact. “We’re going to continue the legacy of sustainability and growing herbs, but

also look at expanding to include more vegetables and fruits,” Mitchell says. Mitchell and Smith say they will also retain the educational aspect of Willow Way, though through different methods than Parker. “I’ve been in the permaculture community for the past 25 years, and I’m a fifth-generation organic farmer,” Smith says. “One of the things I’ve done in my career is permaculture projects onsite for schools, churches, institutions and individuals that just want to have their

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by Boulder Weekly staff HANG IN THERE, SNOWFLY

Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a 12-month listing determination for the Arapahoe snowfly, ruling that protection of the insect was warranted under the Endangered Species Act. Unfortunately, it won’t be happening any time soon because the USFWS says it has higher priorities. This means that upon publication of the 12-month listing determination, the Arapahoe snowfly will only be added to a candidate species list and will only move toward endangered species protection as priorities allow. But it isn’t as if time is on the snowfly’s side. The Arapahoe snowfly is found along only two small tributaries of the Cache la Poudre River in Northern Colorado: Young Gulch and Elkhorn Creek. According to a press release from Rocky Mountain Wild, “A recent status review developed by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation strongly indicates that this aquatic insect is critically imperiled and

may be on the brink of extinction.” The major threats to the Arapahoe snowfly are logging, habitat damage, livestock grazing, stream de-watering and the application of insecticides in the vicinity of Elkhorn Creek.

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The second annual Walk on the Wild Side walkathon for conservation is happening at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 19. The walkathon is a great opportunity to get the whole family outdoors and see some migratory birds and other critters. And while you’re having fun, you will also be helping to preserve an important wetland that is vital to more than 90 bird species. According to the event website, individuals and families can choose a “1K or 3K walk that explores Walden Ponds’ best wildlife viewing areas. Along the way, participants will be treated to interactive environmental learning activities hosted by local environmental education groups. Registration fees and the additional pledges from friends and family will

support bird habitat conservation projects at Walden Ponds.” The event will offer activities for kids including birdhouse building and award prizes to teams and individuals who rasied the most in pledges. Boulder Audubon Society, Cal-Wood Education Center, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, Nature’s Educators, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks will provided “Education Stations” along the walk’s route. “We had a great inaugural Walk on the Wild Side in 2011 that raised enough funds to purchase and plant 88 native trees and shrubs. Walkers will be able to see the impact of this planting,” says Susan Bonfield, director of Environment for the Americas. Registration for the event is $20 for adults, $25 for families, $10 for virtual walkers and children under 12. For more information visit http://walk. birdday.org/boulder.

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could save face,” Parker says. “But then they put all these restrictions on it, to the point that it was impossible to operate as a viable business.” The county restricted the number of cars that could be at the property to just 10, and limited where cars could park. Though Parker’s application made clear she intended Willow Way to be a demonstration farm, she was told she could only give three tours per year. Finally, the county ruled that her studio would have to incorporate two disability accessible bathrooms. “With a 600 square foot studio, that

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would mean we would barely have space for the classroom,” Parker says. Parker proposed putting two disability accessible portable toilets on her farm instead. Her request was denied, however, as portable toilets are not covered in the land use codes, she says. “The county wasn’t against me. The codes were,” Parker says. “The county did not interpret the codes in favor of sustainability, and they did not use the processes available to them to change the codes to favor this sustainabilitybased project. In many instances, the codes are absolutely contrary to sustain-

ability.” Parker says she believes the county could greatly improve its support of small farmers and sustainable practices by streamlining the process by which land use codes are changed. “[Officials in the Land Use Department] say that they’re just doing their jobs and that they have to follow the codes,” Parker says. “Well, whose job is it to make the codes, and adapt the codes to the needs of the people and the land? We need to be able to change the codes so that they support sustainable practices.”

Though Mitchell and Smith will continue the sustainable, permaculture practices of the farm, Parker says she believes the root problems with what shut her farm down still need to be resolved. “The planet is screaming for attention, for common sense, for human beings to be considering her in every decision,” Parker says. “The codes need to be more adapted to the needs of a changing planet. The whole process needs to be more supportive of the Earth.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen the second incarnation of the Boulder Roots & Blues Summit kicks off this weekend at the Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre, audiences will be able to take their pick from a smorgasbord of musical delights ranging from hirsute folk rocker Anders Osborne to silkysmooth bluesman Keb’ Mo’ — with Colorado group Musketeer Gripweed mixed in as fodder for localsourcers. Yet organizers scored a coup when farming out the lineup for this year’s event, adding Grammy Awardwinning American blues guitarist and roots instrumentalist Taj Mahal to the bill. In town to help celebrate Colorado’s support for unique music along with celebrating his 70th birthday, the headline act epitomizes not only the musical genres touted in the Summit, but some of the ideals associated with the city throwing the party as well. A routine conversation last week intended to tout his own Boulder appearance May 18 — featuring “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin, Taj’s daughter Deva

Mahal (along with her New Zealand-based touring outfit Fredericks Brown) and Keb’ Mo’ — turned into a free-flowing conversation touching many different topics. Like the Renaissance man that he is, the rambling-yet-focused conversation took many turns, but in the end came back to the same interplay between humans that define our times here on this marble. The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was a labor of love that took 22 years to complete. More than 300 years after completion of the original, with a body of work more than twice as long in the making, Taj Mahal has firmly planted his own taproot in the garden of American music. American to the core, he shares a passion for some of the most valued commodities we care about besides the sometimes-polluted air. “There are two things that people are not gonna do without, and that’s food and that is music,” he says. “These two things are part of the natural world to me.” A proponent of local farming as well as farming one’s see TAJ MAHAL Page 20

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cultural roots, Taj Mahal has a unique later that evening — opened up about perspective on the values of sustainable the importance of gaining insight from agriculture and American roots music, outside sources while simultaneously both from studying agriculture at the sustaining local wares. University of Massachusetts and from “I think you get influenced by a lot of working on a dairy farm before becoming different styles when you’re traveling; it’s a musician. Exploring cultural styles and inspiring to hear different cultures’ stuff,” moving forward with a learned abandon, says Osborne, who recently released a he has belied stereo- Jay Blakesberg new disc called Black types and bypassed Eye Galaxy. “You some of the more don’t hear each countraditional levers of try’s folk songs unless commercial power in you seek them out. fashioning his I’m not a preacher or Johnny Appleseedanything, but I think like career. you should seek out Taj Mahal grew your own regional up in a time when music and support it the natural state of and know why it’s things saw people there.” growing their own Save for gospel, food while hummost American ming their own music that bubbled native music from up from the black different areas of community initially the globe. In a starmet disdain from tling reverse of white audiences. As Taj Mahal where we were just such, the genre that a century ago, the Taj Mahal inhabits norm now is that a has been subjugated small percentage of to all sorts of scorn ON THE BILL: The Boulder Blues people provide for by the powers that & Roots Summit takes place at the be. all of society — Boulder Theater and the Fox “For a lot of while people have Theatre May 18-19. Performers include Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’, years the music stopped humming Anders Osbourne and more. For a industry didn’t pay their native music full schedule, visit j.mp/bluesandmuch attention to and replaced it with roots. this great music, and whatever mass-prowe decided to take it duced ditty they upon ourselves to make sure that it heard on TV, radio, the Internet, etc. would be around, and get orally passed These experiences helped develop on to another generation,” Mahal says. new perspectives for Taj, who says he “It’s easy for us to start complaining wonders why some American families and blaming corporations or whoever didn’t listen to music in the home, let on problems, but that’s the bad news.” alone talk about their heritage or culHe would rather focus on the positural roots. tives, like locally grown food and sus“How many Americans do you see, tainability for self and city. when you ask where they’re from, they “There’s all kinds of great things say, ‘Cleveland!’ Uh, OK. … Where are going on as a result of people finally you from in the world?” he says. The newly christened septuagenari- saying, ‘I’ve stood all I can stand, I can’t stand no more,’” he says. an believes in a resilient America that Given that most Boulderites are has more cultural potential to tap into than that which we normally use in our committed to their health, there should be no problem remaining upright this day-to-day existence. It’s just going to weekend at the Blues & Roots Summit, take a little effort. Or as Mahal says, as the dissemination of music by some “You can’t be afraid to work. You gotta great names will provide ample energy. get up and earn yours. You got a big After all, there will be a 70-year-old pile of manure in front of you, you man funneling a theater’s worth of gotta get to shoveling.” movement right back at the audience, It’s a philosophy that permeates mirroring the labor of love that built his throughout the weekend’s performers. namesake. Fellow Blues & Roots participant Or, as Taj Mahal says, “It’s like Anders Osborne — who plays acoustianything else, man. Positive input? cally with Keb’ Mo’ at the Boulder Positive output.” Theater the afternoon of May 19 and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com then headlines his own show at the Fox Boulder Weekly

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t’d be a bit of a stretch to find he referred to Active Child as a contemporary points of reference project, something that suggests to adequately qualify Pat Grossi’s a finite ambition within the music; we’ll go out on a limb to music’s context — a beginning, suggest a club-tempered melding a middle and an end. of Jimmy Somerville-meets-Andrea “Well,” Grossi says, “it has Vollenweider at a trip-hop rave, and if that sense of a project in that it that sounds improbable, well, that’s has that sort of pseudonym about the best we can do. We’ll leave it moniker attached to it. But in a to others to find a way to throw a flag lot of ways, it’s really just me on that. making music. … I didn’t sit Trained as a chorale vocalist in his back and kind of formulate what youth and the son of a rap music label kind of sound I wanted to make, executive, the 28-year-old Grossi, who and this is the name and this is goes by the moniker Active Child, the imagery I wanted to associlofts a stratospheric, high-register tenor ate with it. It was much less over a glistening bed of harp (yes, actu- planned out and just me evolval harp), slow and mid-tempo house ing as a musician and progressbeats and an alchemistic broth of elecing into this sound I have.” tronic textures, some of them tactical Grossi actually went into the and melodic, some ambient and largely studio with Ariel Rechtshaid (former formless. The effect Hippos singer/guiis … well, we hate tarist and producer to say it, because ON THE BILL: Active Child plays the Larimer Lounge on for Usher and Plain everyone else does, Saturday, May 19. Doors at 8 p.m. White T’s) acting but we kind of have Balam Acab and as producer, a first to … a little like a Superhumanoids open. Tickets are $13.50 in advance, $18 day of for Grossi, who has summoning of show. 2721 Larimer St., Denver, been self-produced angels. 303-291-1007. Simultaneously until this release. chilly and intimate, Working with a evocative and alien, producer is usually Grossi’s craft is defiantly unique and a dicey proposition for a fully formed unlikely to spawn many imitators. For artist, but Grossi says he nonetheless one thing, outside of Mormon found a kindred spirit in Rechtshaid. Tabernacle Choir grads who actually “We just connected on so many levkeep up with their drills while twidels, as far as what we wanted sonically, dling Ableton patches, there aren’t and when it came to choosing specific many dudes out there who can actually sounds, and reverbs and delays and sing like this. drum samples,” he says. “So in that Grossi is out on tour — leading a sense, we really worked well together, three piece band — behind his second I’m looking forward to working more with him in the future. proper release (after a cassette-only EP “I wrote the tracks and produced in 2010), You Are All I See, and we them like I would have normally done caught up with him last week just and kind of finished them, and then I before a set in Washington, D.C. took them into the studio and we really We noted that, in a prior interview,

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Colorado MahlerFest, will be reunited with the Second Symphony on Saturday, May 19, and Sunday, May 20, in Macky Auditorium, conducting the unforgettable score as part of this year’s festival. The performance of Mahler’s large-scale Resurrection Symphony — calling for an orchestra of 100 musicians, plus an even larger chorus and two soloists — will be the culmination of the 2012 festival, which also includes chamber performances and

MahlerFest takes the stage to perform composer’s epic Second Symphony by Peter Alexander

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breaking his heart. “Oh man, I wish I could fill you in on the nightmare of bringing up this light show; you have no idea,” he says. “Before we left for this tour, we spent about 72 hours designing lights for every one of the songs. And the hardware that used to run the whole thing decided not to work. We got another one, and that one broke, so we kind of went back to square one with the lights. We’ll keep pressing on and hope we get some good house light support.” And Grossi, who’s lived in Los Angeles since getting his art degree from CU in 2008, says he’s looking forward to returning to Colorado, even if a Boulder date would be that much sweeter. “Man, I would love to play a show in Boulder, that’d be a great homecoming for me, to be able to do a show at the Boulder Theater,” he says. “That’d be a beautiful thing.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

a symposium. Olson’s first experience with the Second Symphony was 23 years ago, in the festival’s second year. And he says it was the make-or-break event for the brand-new festival. “It’s one thing to put enough people on stage for the First Symphony,” which he had conducted in the festival’s first year, he says. “The real test was going to come with the Second. I had to go from recruiting a 70-piece orchestra to about a 105-piece orchestra, plus the chorus, plus two soloists. To my surprise, I ended up having to turn orchestral musicians down. That was when I knew we had somesee MAHLER Page 24

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Elephant Walk the Talk Show — With Waylon Lewis. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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No Longer in My Hands — by Terry Campbell. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 27. Sculpture by Leonard Pettus, Shelley Goddard, Anne Shutan & Lynne Jacobs. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

DJ Brookstar. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Julia Lunk, Judith Trager. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through May 31.

The Anxiety of Influence. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

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Hollyfelds. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Indulgers. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jaspar Lepak and Jen Korte. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Mestizo, Canyon Creek Band — Followed by Laroy & Co. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Laurie Dameron. 6:30 p.m. Artwalk, Longmont, lauriedameron.com. Nelson Rangell. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS.

Boulder Ballet: BB2 2012 — The most advanced students from the Boulder Ballet School in both ballet and modern dance. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Community Garage Sale — Proceeds support Boulder Mountain Fire volunteer firefighting. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. BMFPD Station 1, 1905 Linden, Boulder, bouldermountainfire.org. Finding the Genius in Your Life — With author and storyteller Michael Meade. 7 p.m. Naropa Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, www. mosaicvoices.org. Law Enforcement Torch Run — To benefit Special Olympics Colorado. 9:30 a.m. Public Safety Buildng, 1805 33rd St., Boulder, 303-441-3333. The Transition to E-Publishing: One Writer’s Experience — With local author Rex Burns. 7 p.m. Wolf Law Building, CU campus, 303-492-7511.

Saturday, May 19 music

Nolan Farmer. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Anders Osborne — With Musketeer Gripweed. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

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

Back In The Day. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Quamandito. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Sherrie Scott. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Treasa Levasseur, Fredericks Brown and Hope Waits. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Vittoria Ensemble — Chamber choir in the polyphony tradition. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., 303-442-4752 Wild Road. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Art Night Out — With The Fab 4, a Beatles tribute band. 4-9 p.m. Downtown Lafayette, cityoflafayette.com.

Boulder Roots and Blues: Keb’ Mo’— With Anders Osborne. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Doug Endres Memorial Concert — With Ironwood Rain, Lion Soul Jah and Mr. Steak. 6:45 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewery Tasting Room, 1265 Boston Ave, Longmont, 303-772-0258. Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Goonies. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. John Kohne. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Menage. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St.,

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Thursday, May 17 Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, May 18 Arvada Center Dance Academy Spring Concerts — Ballet dance concert featuring music of Peter Pan. 7 p.m. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. P’zazz Children’s Choir and Dynamix Singers. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-887-2371.

Saturday, May 19 Arvada Center Dance Academy Spring Concerts — Ballet dance concert featuring music of Peter Pan. 7 p.m. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-

Fishin’ Fun — Two-hour fishing excursion with a ranger for National Kids to Parks Day. 9 a.m. Call for location, 303-441-3440. Hiking as a Family — Talk with a naturalist on the importance of getting kids outdoors for National Kids to Parks Day. 12:30 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, naturehikes.org. Saturn’s Rings — The rings and moons of

Saturn. 9 p.m. Boulder Valley Ranch, Sage Trailhead, Boulder, naturehikes.org. Walk on the Wild Side — Walkathon. 9 a.m. Walden Ponds, 75th Road north of Valmont Road. Hiking as a Family, naturehikes.org.

Sunday, May 20 Arvada Center Dance Academy Spring Concerts — Ballet dance concert featuring music of Peter Pan. 2 p.m. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200.

Monday, May 21 Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

Tuesday, May 22 Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, May 23 Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

303-786-7030. Community Garage Sale — Proceeds support Boulder Mountain Fire volunteer firefighting. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. BMFPD Station 1, 1905 Linden, Boulder, bouldermountainfire.org.

Roda de Choro (Choro Circle Jam) — With Daniel Ondaro and friends. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Statue of Liberty. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Fly Fishing 201. 9 a.m. Boulder Orvis Store, 629B S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-554-0122. German Sparkle Party — presented by Shine and Pearls Treat Burlesque. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Harlow — Movie screening. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library Main Branch, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder. 303-441-3100.

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Idnaha Films: Boulder Premiere of Arise the Movie — An award-winning documentary about women around the world coming together to heal the injustices against the Earth. The evening will include music, poetry, dance, local organizations tabling and a Q&A with the filmmakers. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

KGNU’s Annual Plant Sale and Birthday Party. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. KGNU, 4700 Walnut St., Boulder, 303449-4885.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder, www. boulderfarmers.org.

Lafayette City Council Third Saturday Coffee Talks — With Mayor Carolyn Cutler and Mayor Pro Tem Steve Kracha. 9–10:30 a.m. Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 303-665-5588.

Statue of Liberty. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Women’s Songwriter Showcase. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Boulder Roots and Blues: Blues in the Schools — With Keb’ Mo’. A peek at the Blues in the Schools program, which relates music to a school’s curriculum. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder,

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Studio D Travels the World — Kids dance plus live music. 1 p.m. & 6 p.m. Monarch High School Auditorium, 329 Campus Dr., Louisville, studiodance.com.

Mezzo Mestizo. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Perry Como’s 100th Birthday Celebration. 2 p.m. Old Main Chapel, CU campus, Boulder, 303-735-3645.

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Flowers, Frogs and Furry Things — Story hour and kids hike. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, naturehikes.org.

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

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Literary Salon — With Boulder Writers’ Workshop. 10:30 a.m. Villas at the Atrium, 3350 30th St., Boulder,

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Thursday, May 17 Let the Birds Drink in Peace — by Robert McBrearty. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Poetry Reading — With Clara Burns. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644. Saturday, May 19 Caleb’s Crossing — by Geraldine Brooks. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

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Cat Daddy: What the World’s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love and Coming Clean — by Jackson Galaxy. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, May 23

Giving Birth to My Parents — Lorrie Caplan. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Poetry Reading — With Bryan Walpert. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, May 21

Unending Crisis — by Thomas Graham, Jr. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

“So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing

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Pulling for Colorado — Statewide effort to eradicate Mediterranean sage. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/wildwork or 303-678-6329.

9:30 a.m. walk. University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, walkmscolorado.org. Walk on the Wild Side — Walkathon for conservation. 8 a.m. Walden Ponds, Boulder, 303-900-3430. Wildflower Hikes. 10 a.m. Register for location, boulderwalkingtours.com or 720-243-1376.

Salsa Lessons and Dancing. 8:30 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-9983805.

Sunday, May 20

Tripawds Annual Three Legged Dog Party. 4 p.m. Tony Grampsas Dog Park, at Tony Grampsas Sports Complex, 44th & Salvia, Golden, tripawds.com.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Walk MS — National MS Society, Colorado-Wyoming Chapter, to raise awareness and funding for MS programs, services and research. 7:30 a.m. registration,

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Ane Brun — With Gemma Ray. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-

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Paint the Pavement — Block party. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Zamia and 14th streets, Boulder, 303-709-9102.

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Bug. Devil’s Thumb Productions at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-250-8177. Through June 2. Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Sept. 1. Circle Mirror Transformation. Theatre Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through June 9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through May 26. Into the Woods. Jesters Dinner Theatre,

224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through July 8. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415. Through May 19. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. Arvada Center Black Box Theater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 27. Wicked. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis, Denver, 303-893-4100.

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

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

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

Understanding CSS. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Kort McCumber. 6 p.m. West End Tavern. 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Wednesday, May 23

Open Stage. 7:15 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Katie Glassman. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Quantum Jazz. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Lynn Patrick. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757 Steve Manshel Duo. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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music Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

303-665-2757. Gin Mill Gypsies. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Marlo & Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Blue and Green: ’60s Crooning like Chet Baker and Kenny Burnell. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Naturally Boulder Spring Fling — With Gary Hirshberg. 5 p.m. Millennium Hotel’s Creek Side Patio and Gardens, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 720-220-4142.

Barefoot Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028.

Break Science and Orchard Lounge — With Crushendo. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962.

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Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette,

Understanding CSS. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Community Garage Sale — Proceeds support Boulder Mountain Fire volunteer firefighting. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. BMFPD Station 1, 1905 Linden, Boulder, bouldermountainfire.org. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. In the Along — School of Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s Student Company. 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, bncdance. com or 303-464-5835. Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet School: 2012 Spring Student Showcase — Includes performances from kinder dance to advanced level. 3 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Lorrie Caplan Book Event — Giving Birth to My Parents. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. Make Herbal Oils and Salves. 1-4 p.m. North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, Boulder, clinicalherbalism.com. Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Tour de Coop — Six- to eight-mile bike ride from coop to coop. 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Fort Collins, sustainablelivingassociation.org. Wildflower Hikes. 10 a.m. Register for location, boulderwalkingtours.com or 720-243-1376.

Monday, May 21 music Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. ISOVEE. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Community-Based Social Marketing Workshops — Three-day workshop with Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr, author of Fostering Sustainable Behavior. University of Colorado Boulder, University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, cbsmcolorado2012.eventbrite.com. “So, You’re a Poet” — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Understanding CSS. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tuesday, May 22 music Arbor Oasis and Friends. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam — Hosted by Gretchen Troop. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303443-3322.

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hen water washed away the red sandstone of the Colorado Plateau, it left the improbable spires of rust-colored rock, fingers flipping off the over-baking sun and the sand-spitting wind and the improvised protection the climbers who lusted after the tops of those towers would have to rely on in pursuit of a summit. It’s these spires that Steve “Crusher” Bartlett explores in his book, Desert Towers: Fat Cat Summits and Kitty Litter Rock, a historic tome loaded with images to twang the imaginations of any climber who loves to lock hands with splitter cracks. Desert Towers chronicles almost a century of climbers laboring their way up precarious stacks of sandstone, drawing from around a hundred interviews and submitted photos and essays. The narrative arch stretches from John Otto’s first ascent of western Colorado’s Independence Monument in 1911 up to the 2008 ascent of what may have been one of the last sizeable, steep-on-all-sides tower in the Colorado see TOWERS Page 34

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Plateau. He tried to bring it all to life, Bartlett says, from the hemp ropes and Z pitons to Wild Country’s 1978 invention of the “Friend,” the camming device that made it possible to protect far more climbs and put a lot more people in the desert — including Bartlett. “I thought that the history of climbing the towers of the Colorado Plateau is unique. It’s a very unique thing because it’s just confined to that one area, but it’s also a microcosm of the entire climbing universe. You have to start from the bottom. You’re going to be faced with God knows what kind of challenges between where you are and the summit, and there’s no way of Steve “Crusher” finding out what those challenges Bartlett are without actually launching upwards and hoping for the best,” he says. “If you are on the top of a tower after doing the first ascent of that work on weekends and evenings, he put tower, it’s a fantastic feeling because together a book that went on to win best where you are is somewhere no one has book in mountaineering history at the ever been before, no one has ever seen 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival. what you can see from the top of that “People seem to really like it,” he tower, no one has ever seen that view says. “What more could you ask for from before, no one has ever stepped on that a book, that people who are interested, same bit of rock or that same bit of dirt, involved — the people who care, that and that’s a rare thing in this day and they liked it. That’s great.” age.” Beyond the history, the book capBartlett had been mulling the contures the spirit of what it meant to be a cept of the book for years, he says, before climber in an era in which climbing was he found himself on the top of Colossus, far more dangerous and climbers had to 400 feet of Entrada sandstone near be vastly more enterprising. Bryce Canyon. It took four visits over “The idea of starting at the bottom several months, exploring various routes, of a climb with no real idea of what to find one that led to the top. you’re going to find and just getting to a “When I got to the top, I just felt a specific summit, that has gone by the sense of being completely exhausted, wayside over the years,” Bartlett says. completely wiped out, and I started to “People start climbing in a climbing gym wonder if maybe I should put my enernow, so what they learn in the gym is gies toward something different, rather very much the sport climbing ethic — than just doing one tower after another,” clipping bolts, lowering off and just Bartlett says. “That was one of the doing hard technical climbs with no elethings that really galvanized me to try to ment of risk or uncertainty or route put together a history, a book.” finding. There are a lot of people who In three years of full-time work, pre- climb in the gym who go sport climbing, ceded by unknown numbers of hours of who’d actually love to climb more adven-

turous things, but they’re not prepared mentally to tackle really adventurous, demanding climbs where there are no bolts and there’s some uncertainty about what’s going on — the rock might be unstable, the protection might not be very good. It’s a huge leap from what you can learn in the gym or what you can learn on a sport climb to tackling hard desert climbs.” Bartlett still has a to-do list of towers to climb. Where? He’s not telling. “I don’t really know what the future holds for the Colorado Plateau for the sport of climbing desert towers,” Bartlett says. “I hope I maybe inspire people to go out there and explore the place for themselves. And if it turns out that before too long there are not many desert towers left to be done because they’ve all been climbed already, at least I’ve done something to bring to life the stories, the pictures from the first ascents so people can see what it was like back in the day when the desert was empty, vacant, nobody knew what was there. When it was a huge adventure.” On May 17, Bartlett will speak at Neptune Mountaineering on the responsibility that falls to those of us who treat Utah as a favorite destination: protecting our playground. For as long as the man who has summited 130 towers, 30 of them first ascents, has been climbing Entrada and Wingate sandstone, people have been fighting to protect those wilderness areas and the experiences only that hard-bitten landscape can offer. They’re working to preserve as much of that empty landscape in pristine condition for other adventurers, whether they’re enjoying it from atop its towers or sunken into its canyons. The quarrel over which lands and how many acres of it should be protected dates to the Bureau of Land see TOWERS Page 37

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Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary and feature film For a list of local movie debut, First Position, follows six times, visit young dancers as they prepare boulderweekly.com/ for a chance to enter the world movie-times.html of professional ballet. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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KEYHOLE After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE KID WITH A BIKE Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this deeply moving new release by the Dardenne brothers delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril. When his father abandons him, Cyril obsessively tries to find his bicycle — after all, his father must have cared about him enough not to sell that off, he reasons. He becomes the ward of a kind hairdresser, a woman who seems surprised to find herself so determined to help him. With his unpredictable behavior and his disastrous search for father figures, Cyril risks losing her — though she refuses to give up without a fight. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater. LA BAMBA Rock ’n roll biopic on the life of Ritchie Valens, a young Mexican/American whose talents as a rock and roll singer catapulted him from the obscurity of a farm laborer obsessed with music to stardom at the age of 17 with a string of pop hits still popular today. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE LADY The Lady, directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, The Professional), is the extraordinary story of human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband, Michael Aris (David Thewlis). It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres MARLEY Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Director Kevin Macdonald’s (One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) documentary Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres MIRROR MIRROR An exiled princess enlists the help of a group of diminutive bandits to take back her usurped throne from an evil queen in this retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3-D See full review on page 40. Rated PG. At Boulder Weekly

Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor as Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual request. A businesswoman named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt, The Adjustment Bureau) wants his help in fulfilling a wealthy sheikh’s (Amr Waked) desire to bring sport fishing to Yemen. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres SOUND OF MY VOICE In the mystery drama Sound of My Voice, a couple of young documentary filmmakers infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (co-writer Brit Marling, Another Earth). Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie’s underworld. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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Celebrating the month, as well as their second decade in Boulder, Mateo Restaurant Provençal will be offering a special “May Flowers” dinner May 29. The Volio Vino Wine Dinner will feature the gastronomic delicacies of Europe’s Provence Region in four courses — each paired with wine from seasonal small batch varietals located in France and Italy. From the opening Orchid course, which pairs an octopus ceviche with a Riesling, through the Elderflower dessert course that includes gelato, strawberries and honey mousse, the Pearl Street restaurant promises it will be a night to remember. Dinner will begin at 6 p.m. Call 303-443-7766 or visit www.mateorestaurant. com for more details.

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Denver favorite H Burger will open its new Pearl Street location on May 17, bringing its fare up the turnpike to see TIDBITES Page 44

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Imported food raises safety questions by Harriet Weinstein

hen it comes to Between 10 percent and food, imported 15 percent of all food is in. “We’ve all consumed by U.S. noticed asparahouseholds is imported. gus and pineapples in December in the supermarkets,” says Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute of the Consumer imported: nearly two-thirds of fruits and Federation of America (CFA). A visit to vegetables and 80 percent of seafood supermarkets finds frozen vegetables consumed domestically. from across the globe, including Canada, “The growth in imports has been China, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru rapid — and promises to accelerate,” the and Poland. agency says in a 2011 report. Between 10 percent and 15 percent But the FDA only checks about 2 of all food consumed by U.S. households percent of all food products entering the is imported, according to the U.S. Food country. “The FDA is really outgunned and Drug Administration (FDA). Also when it comes to inspecting imported

foods,” says Patty Lovera, assistant director at Food & Water Watch, who says inspectors rarely check food processing plants abroad. As the number of imported foods entering the U.S. increases, so do quessee FOOD SAFETY Page 45

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Buffalo Wing fest

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EO Speedwagon’s Hi Infidelity, the first season of Miami Vice and the John Madden-era Oakland Raiders are among my myriad of guilty pleasures. Chicken wings come close to making this list. However, many versions, either prepared indifferently or adhering too faithfully to the vinegary tones of the original Buffalo version, inevitably disappoint. For this reason, they have yet to reach the exalted status of a guilty pleasure. ordered a 20-piece wing assortment for That may change, given the quality $19.95, which afforded us the chance to of the bird at South Mouth Memphis sample a quartet of sauces. Uniformly, Hot Wings, located on Broadway near the fried wings themselves were pleasdowntown Boulder. At this eatery, the ingly plump and moist, without the namesake appendages semi-dessicated qualiare offered with a ties that sometimes South Mouth Memphis choice of 10 specific afflict this dish. Along Hot Wings sauce varieties. Prices with our chicken, we 1650 Broadway, Suite A range from $6.95 for also received the 303-449-9464 five party wings to required sides of fresh $72.95 for 16 pounds carrot and celery sticks, of Memphis wings, which are trimmed along with properly creamy portions of differently from the party variety. Those ranch and blue cheese dressing. desiring something other than wings First out of the gate were the lemon can opt for a salad or chicken tenders, pepper wings, a dry-rub preparation. and there’s a mess of available sides, Bright citrus notes made this choice including fried items such as pickles, come alive, with pepper playing second mushrooms, corn on the cob and jalafiddle. The only drawback was the saltipeño poppers. ness that detracted from the other more Feeling plucky, pal Cyn and I balanced seasonings.

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Next up was a more exotic wing, flavored with sriracha. Wisely, the kitchen here decided not to serve this with straight-up red pepper sauce, which might have made these wings unbearably hot. A subtle undertone of what might be fruit successfully rounded out the flavor, contributing surprisingly complexity. For classic hot wings, the four choices range from “you can” to “you better not.” Perhaps channeling the culinary equivalent of Lewis, the Burt Reynolds character from Deliverance, we went for the “better not.” These lived up to their billing, and made me glad to have a root beer close at hand for relief. Yet the heat was still modulated to the point that this wasn’t simply an exercise in pain, and one could detect tones other than raw fire. Of the four choices, our favorite was the mango habanero, which compellingly balanced solid heat with honeyed fruit. Like the hot wings, it was indisputably spicy, but not off-puttingly so, and didn’t obscure the underlying chicken flavor. The sweet tang of tropical fruit effectively complemented the slightly floral qualities of the habanero. For dessert, we continued the theme of Southern-fried indulgence with an expansive helping of $4.95 funnel cake

evotees of hot wings would be wise to book a flight to Buffalo, N.Y., to attend the National Buffalo Wing Festival, which will be held Sept. 1-2. Last year’s event attracted some 85,000 attendees who chowed down on more than a half million wings, weighing in at an impressive 37 tons of poultry. This year’s event will include the U.S. Wing Eating Championship, sauce-offs for both restaurants and amateurs, and a Cheesiest Couple contest. No word on whether Wing Eating champion Sonya Thomas will be on hand to defend her title, which she earned after eating 183 wings.

fries. Basically hot and sweet cake dusted with sugar and sided with caramel dip, this was a fittingly indulgent way to end our wing-fueled debauchery. The next time I get a hankering for wings, which probably happens more often than I should admit, I’ll make a beeline for South Mouth. It’s entirely possible that this eatery’s impressively flavorful wings could nudge this poultry pleasure up to the pantheon of guilty culinary indulgences. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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satiate the meaty desires of Boulder denizens. In three years since first opening in LoDo, the burger joint has won accolades from Denver’s Burger Battle and Travel & Leisure magazine, while its chocolate milkshake picked up a Best of Westword award for its decadence. Those without a hankering for meat can choose from salads, sandwiches and vegetarian options from the locally owned chain. If the food doesn’t entice you, maybe the alcohol will. A fully stocked bar featuring contemporary drinks awaits those looking to wash down a busy day along with their burger. H Burger will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. See www.hburger.com for more details.

BREWING UP GOLD

In news you may already know — Colorado beer manufacturers make some wicked brews. That fact was hammered home at the recent Brewers Associated World Beer Cup, where Colorado brewers took home 27 medals in the blind tasting evaluation dubbed “The Olympics of Beer Competition.” The ninth bi-annual competition showcased more than 3,900 beers from 54 different countries, judged in 95 style categories. That Colorado brewers culled such a large haul of hardware shows the effort and love this state puts into their quaff. Gold medal winner Kris Oyler of Steamworks Brewing in Durango summed up the ho-hum attitude of dudes who just love beer by saying, “We’re really proud, but not surprised.” “It’s further proof that Colorado has one of the most advanced beer cultures in the world,” Steve Kurowski of the Colorado Brewer’s Guild said in a press release. The nonprofit trade association provides information for Colorado beer lovers and features 20 of the 27 Colorado award winners under its umbrella. For a complete list of winning beers, visit coloradobeer.org.

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And for those who don’t think beer culture has invaded all four corners of our proud state, Wynkoop Brewery in Denver has introduced two new beers made especially for Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park. Elitch Gardens Orchard Wheat and Elitch Gardens Fire Roasted Amber will be previewed at the brewery this week during American Craft Beer Week, with taps in the park opening May 19. The Orchard Wheat features hints of citrus and summertime drinkability. The Fire Roasted Amber gives off a roasted pepper aroma to go with caramel and malt flavors.

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Venerable Boulder sushi joint Hapa on the Hill closed last week, 13 years after opening inside the Fox Theatre, leaving its Pearl Street location as the only place in town to serve up the Hapa culture and food that made the restaurant so successful. The Pennsylvania Avenue location was not shuttered for long, however, as the restaurant has re-opened under new ownership as Sushi Hana. A call to Sushi Hana confirmed that while the new restaurant will be transitioning to a new menu in the coming months, for the time being the menu remains relatively unchanged. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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tions about food safety. Two organizaShop, and Fairway do. On a recent outtions, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Pew ing, for example, Stop & Shop had Health Group and the Center for Oriental Vegetable Medley from Mexico, Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Fairway had mixed vegetables from produced a joint report in 2011 evaluatEgypt and Whole Foods carried “365 ing the safety of imported raw produce Everyday Value” organic California-style and seafood — categories the organizaBlend Frozen Vegetables from Mexico. tions considered to be “of high risk.” U.S. companies say they are trying to When Pew and CSPI analyzed FDA balance food safety with costs. At rejections of raw produce and seafood at General Mills, one of the largest food U.S. border inspections in 2009 and companies worldwide, a spokesperson 2010, they found that a substantial says the company does source globally to amount of food in these categories was take advantage of global growing seasons. “potentially adulterated.” In the case of “Some ingredients are available in cerproduce, common adulterations leading tain parts of the world, like vanilla and to rejection included “illegal pesticide cocoa,” says the spokesperson. “It’s also residues,” contamination with the patho- why Americans can enjoy a morning cup gen salmonella and filth. In the case of of coffee.” seafood, salmonella, listeria and filth were Stop & Shop says that growing conamong the most common reasons for ditions and the cost of labor may impact rejection. the sourcing process. Stop & Shop sells wild shrimp from the U.S. and farmAbout half of the seafood imported raised salmon from Southeast Asia and in the U.S. has been farmed — grown in India, but not China, according to a confined areas that can lead the fish to spokesperson. For other develop high rates of fish, the supermarket bacterial infections, chain prefers to source which may require Waldrop says that the the seafood in the U.S. farmers to use antibiotFDA has not been or Canada. ics and antifungal Whole Foods is no agents to increase their given sufficient longer sourcing any of survival rates, according resources to successits 365 Everyday Value to a U.S. Government fully implement the frozen vegetables from Accountability Office Food Safety China except frozen report from April 2011. Modernization Act. edamame. “Once drugs are “We are still selling introduced, their residue bulk products and can remain in the fish branded products that may come from through harvesting, processing and conChina,” says a spokesperson. She continsumption,” the report notes. China has ues: “We want to be clear that we didn’t had the most seafood rejections for stop sourcing from China because of unsafe drug residues. quality or food safety concerns. We were Experts are urging consumers to ramp up their awareness of where foods simply able to find several suppliers in are produced. other countries, including the U.S., that “Outbreaks and contamination incioffered the same or better quality at betdents linked to imported food, melamine ter prices.” from China and contaminated green The Pew CSPI study recommended onions from Mexico, for example, have that Congress provide the FDA with the raised concerns that some countries have necessary resources to implement less rigorous standards or less rigorous the Food Safety Modernization oversight of their food production sysAct (FSMA) enacted in 2011 and sugtem,” says Waldrop. gested that FDA inspections of food The “country of origin” label — when imports in countries of origin and at the it appears — can offer some guidance. U.S. border be increased to keep up with The U.S. Department of Agriculture the rise in imports. (USDA) monitors the Country of Origin Waldrop says that the FDA has Labeling (COOL) law, requiring items not been given sufficient resources to such as fresh and frozen fruits and vegesuccessfully implement the FSMA. tables, frozen fish and shellfish to note Provisions of the law include “prevencountry of origin. But COOL does not tive control plans” for food processors cover foods classified as “processed.” If abroad to follow, and establishing broccoli and carrots are in one package, satellite offices abroad. “Not a cadre for example, that product is exempt. of inspectors, but we will have perRegarding fish, the USDA notes that a sonnel abroad who can do inspections honey mustard tilapia has a different and interact with foreign governname and character than a frozen tilapia ments,” Waldrop says, adding that filet and would not require labeling. these provisions will begin kicking in Even though COOL does not this year. require that companies disclose the origin —E/The Environmental Magazine, www. featurewell.com for mixed vegetable blends, many superRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com markets such as Whole Foods, Stop & Boulder Weekly

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721 Confidence Dr., Longmont 720-204-6455

ongmont’s Comida Cantina, the bricksand-mortar spinoff of its namesake Mexican food truck, is a vibrant and appealing destination for South of the Border street food. Diners can choose from a number of gorditas, tostadas and tacos that are both griddled and served up in the traditional street style. Top choices include the pork, slow-cooked in Stella Artois beer, toothsome arrachera, a take on carne asada, and the hefty chorizo gordita.

The Louisville Rex 817 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6224

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ocated a stone’s throw from Williams Village, Moe’s Original Bar B Que is the Boulder outpost of a ‘cue operation that originated in Alabama. It spotlights sandwiches and platters featuring such classic choices as brisket, pulled pork, hot links and fried catfish. One of the top choices is a platter of falling-off-the-bone ribs with bright fried green tomatoes and creamy banana pudding to finish.

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instead of corned beef. The meatless eater will favor the quinoa and chickpea fritters. Preferred sides include the tomato soup garnished with a tiny grilled cheese wedge and the beet or apple salads, for $2 more.

Jai Ho Indian Kitchen, Bar and Lounge 1915 28th St., Boulder 303-444-5151

ocated in East Boulder on Arapahoe, the Royal Clay Oven dishes out a reasonably priced lunch buffet with an emphasis on freshness and service. The lime-marinated tandoori chicken has a lively citrus undertone, and vindi masala, spiced okra, has a pleasant crisp-tender consistency. The staff constantly replenishes such items as the hearty potato-filled samosa, ensuring that diners enjoy fare fresh from the oven.

ai Ho, the Boulder spinoff of a popular Aurora restaurant, offers an intriguing blend of Northern and Southern Indian food, ranging from street-style eats to the ubiquitous lunchtime buffet. The buffet offers a fine opportunity to appreciate the skilled spicing of such dishes as the creamy chicken Tikka Masala and its fiery chile-based relation, Vindaloo. The dosa, a crisp, cylindrical crepe, is also a winner, featuring hefty veggie stuffing and subtle sourdough tang.

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ombining a hospitable, homey, Key West feel with a menu of fresh seafood prepared in the manner of the Caribbean, Mexico and New Orleans, Longmont’s Tortugas is an easy winner. Noteworthy dishes include the Creole BBQ shrimp appetizer wrapped in bacon, and the bright-tasting shrimp Mojo, with a Cuban citrus, garlic and olive oil sauce. Chocolate bourbon bread pudding is an exquisite dessert, among the best endings available locally.

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808 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6499 ocated smack dab in the middle of downtown Louisville, Zucca Italian Ristorante boasts an inviting ambience balancing the rustic with a subtle but unmistakable European flair. The same can also be said of the menu, which ranges from old standbys like comforting spaghetti and meatballs to more elevated selections like seafood cannelloni and rack of lamb. Can’t-miss items include the fried calamari starter, garnished with pickled peppers and fresh tomato, and the arugula salad, a combination of greens, gorgonzola and apple.

Fan’s Chinese Cuisine

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an’s Chinese Cuisine, situated in a Niwot strip mall near a sheriff ’s office substation, serves up dishes free

of MSG, as well as gluten-free choices. Outside of that, the reasonably priced lunch bill of fare is a Chinese-American hall of fame, spotlighting classic, time-tested chestnuts like chow mein, Szechuan beef and vegetarian Buddha’s Delight. Top menu choices include flavorful Mongolian beef garnished with expertly stir-fried pepper and onion, as well as the fresh-tasting Grand Marnier shrimp.

Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. 33 S. Main St., Longmont 303-996-1010

ongmont’s Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. cer tainly lives up to its name. This welcoming breakfast and lunch spot features caffeine ranging from classic diner coffee to espresso drinks and hear ty, New Mexicoinfluenced meals. Morning highlights include anything with the green chile; piping hot skillets such as the Santa Fe, featuring bacon, chorizo, potato, bell pepper and onion; and the compelling enchiladas and eggs.

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hile Laudisio is best known for its Italian-influenced lunches and dinners, it cer tainly satisfies with its solidly constructed brunch menu on the weekends. Offerings include egg-based dishes such as a Hazel Dell mushroom frittata, sweet choices like a perfectly balanced lemon ricotta pancake, and breakfast pizzas topped with prosciutto. Other notewor thy items include the hear ty steak and eggs sided with homefries, and the hot Italian-style donut holes.

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he expanded food court at the Pearl Street Whole Foods quite literally has everything from soup to nuts. Available items range from a crisp, anise-scented fennel salad to a surprisingly flavorful interpretation of Chinese barbecued pork. Made-to-order fare includes taqueria-style Mexican street food and Asian noodles, highlighted by the Vietnamese-influenced pho ga, a chicken and rice noodle soup.

Oak at Fourteenth 1400 Pearl St. Boulder 303-444-3622

ak at Fourteenth is back with a vengeance, serving up winning gourmet fare inspired in part by American regional cuisine. A sleek interior coupled with denim-clad waitstaff give it a subtle cowboy-meets-foodie feel, accented by attentive service. Dinners include a porterhouse steak for two and house-made pastas. At lunch, the shrimp grits are sublime, and the $11 burger lunch special includes two grass-fed patties, Old Bay seasoning-scented tater tots and house-made root beer. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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If we thought of your life as a book, the title of the next chapter could very well be “In Quest of the Primal.” I encourage you to meditate on what that means to you, and then act accordingly. Here are a few possibilities: tapping into the mother lode; connecting to the source; communing with the core; returning to beginnings; seeking out the original; being in tune with the pulse of nature. Does any of that sound like fun? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a mandate to be as raw as the law allows — to be the smartest animal you can be.

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“The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,” said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from which we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that you’re entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. You finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process.

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In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It’s not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind — at least at first — but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean.

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You spend nearly one-third of your life sleeping. For onefifth of that time, you’re dreaming. So pretty much every night, you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes’ worth of movies created by and starring you. Much of this footage is obscure and confusing and not exactly Oscarworthy, which is one reason you may not recall many of the details when you wake up. But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different. Your dreams should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals important information about the mysteries of your destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device.

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You may not have heard about the “forbidden colors.” And you certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough — seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like to read more about the forbidden colors, go here: tinyurl.com/ ForbiddenColors.)

There’s at least a 50 percent chance that the coming days will be over-the-top, out-of-the-blue, and off-the-record. I’m half-expecting florid, luscious, and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo, swashbuckling, and splendiferous adventures. Are you ready for all this? Of course not. That’s the point life will be trying to make: nudging you to learn more about the fine art of spontaneity as you improvise your way through unpredictable lessons that will lead you toward the resources you’ll need to succeed.

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It’s Oxymoron Season for you. That means you’re likely to encounter more than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes. The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost certainly have to seek assistance from your non-rational wisdom. I’ll give you a heads-up on some of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace: 1. a humbling triumph; 2. a tender rivalry; 3. a selfish blessing; 4. an opportunity to commune with risky comfort; 5. an invitation to explore a relaxing challenge; 6. a chance to get up-close and personal with a long-distance connection. For best results, Leo, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and recite them periodically: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

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