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(Re: Savage Love, April 25.) Great column. Keep it going. Great investigative journalism by Joel Dyer (“State ‘promotes’ natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River,” DyerTimes April 25).
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rostitutes are amateurs compared to Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, whose going rate is $20,000 a pop. At least that’s what he was paid last year by Waste Control Specialists. First, some background. A decade earlier, WCS parlayed political donations to Gov. Rick Perry into a special deal to build a low-level nuclear waste dump in a West Texas county, right up against the
Otherwise how would we know? Now, what to do about it? Patricia Kay Youngson/via Internet
The GMO truth
I was surprised to read your article about the GMO sugar beet farmer (“A day in the life of a GMO farmer,” Boulderganic magazine, March 28). This comment really shocked me: “Since their introduction in 2008, environmental groups and food safety
New Mexico border. Headed by Harold Simmons, a right-wing Dallas billionaire and GOP moneyman, Waste Specialists originally promised to take atomic trash from only two states. But after dumping more donations into Perry’s 2010 campaign, Simmons was allowed to take trash from 36 other states. Now, back to Seliger. In exchange for taking $20K from WSC for his 2012 re-election race, he has dutifully rolled over to sponsor a bill in the Texas Legislature this year to let Simmons ratchet up from low-level waste to highly radioactive stuff. The bill would also block residents of neighboring New Mexico from contesting this change in Texas courts. Why take this gratuitous slap at New Mexicans? Because towns there actually are closer to WSC’s nuclear dump than any Texas towns, and — since radioactivity pays no heed to state borders — Sierra Club members in Eunice, N.M., are opposing the Texas
groups have criticized Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beets, citing unintended threats to human health and the possibility of cross-pollination with non-GMO plants. However, the USDA has determined that the weedresistant crop is unlikely to pose these risks and officially approved it for use in 2010.” In your articles about fracking you see LETTERS Page 8
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permit. Having taken Simmons’ money, Seliger has been pushing hard to turn the trick for him, but the senator is finding that even his Republican colleagues are disgusted by his shamelessness. As the GOP chair of the Natural Resources Committee asked about Seliger’s kinky proposition: “Why would we limit affected parties to three sides [of the county] and not the fourth?” The New Mexican neighbors, he said, are “still Americans,” and “they should still be offered the opportunity to protest the plant’s permit.” Stay tuned at www.texas.sierraclub.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 2, 2013 7
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wo pro-gun-rights billboards have recently gone up in Greeley and they’re causing quite a stir, as in you can read about them in The Washington Post kind of stir. But why have a couple of political signs sparked so much controversy and who is paying for them? As for the latter, we don’t know. The people responsible for the billboards, replicated above, asked Lamar Advertising, the Denver company that owns and leases the billboards, to keep their identities secret. This may sound a little paranoid (bingo, wink wink, nudge nudge), but you have to remember that these billboards are in Marilyn Musgrave, Ken Buck and Cory Gardner country, which means that the people responsible for the billboards are likely hyper-conservative white folks with arsenals of weapons in their basements who are convinced that the federal government is coming for them any day now because they are God-fearing gun owners who understand that the Second Amendment of the Constitution was written by a divine hand that looks nothing like the hand of that Obama fellow from Kenya. Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that one or more of the teapartying politicos I just mentioned had chipped in a couple of bucks themselves to get this gun message out before the federal boogeyman gets his gun-owner concentration camps built. So is my profile of the secretive billboard creators pure speculation? Yep, but I like to think of it as an educated guess by someone who has spent years in the company of people arming themselves in preparation for that inevitable Red Dawn-esque showdown with the federal government, or U.N., or whoever. I’ll happily correct myself if and when those responsible for the signs
come forward and prove me wrong. As for the controversy over the content of the signs, that depends on whom you’re talking to. I asked aboriginal writer and activist Abiyomi Kofi about the billboard and recieved a 2,300-word response via email that read in part, “To be brutally frank with you, I am so disturbed by this advert that it is difficult for me to discuss this issue objectively, and I won’t even try. Chiefly because it is achingly clear to me and any other sentient indigenous person, (especially those of us involved in the anti-mascot struggle) that the neoconservative geniuses behind this abominable banner are utterly oblivious to their own denied sense of racial entitlement, as well as their historical status as colonialist trespassers and the material beneficiaries of Euro-American anti-indigenous murder. In short, these folks are apparently either too stupid or too choked up with dreams of Aryan Americana supremacy insecurities to comprehend the exhaustively contradictory nature of this billboard’s argument against government gun controls.” You can read the rest of Kofi’s reply at http://tinyurl.com/ c9oxghh. But not everyone in the Native American community has a problem with the sign. When I asked Ward Churchill, author, political activist and professor of ethnic studies at CU for 17 years — until he was illegally fired for exercising his right to free speech — what he thought, he sent me an email that read simply, “Can’t see anything to disagree with, Joel. On the contrary, [the billboard] is exactly on point.” It’s an interesting perspective I can’t argue with. Churchill has been researching and writing on the historical mistreatment of Native Americans and other disenfranchised folks for see BILLBOARD Page 11
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are totally cynical about governmental oversight of this extremely hazardous procedure; yet with regard to GMOs you seem to be giving the USDA a free hand. Surely you are aware of the charges leveled against the revolvingdoor bureaucrats who claim to oversee the very industries that have groomed their careers? I also was very disappointed that you did not clarify in your interview with the farmer that the Monsanto product requires much greater amounts of pesticides than normal non-GMO seeds. Michael Korn/Arvada
Hick nearly unelectable
I’m writing as a Democratic Party activist. Elected Democrats damage the Party Brand whenever they vote against popular measures like gun control, as our two U.S. senators did recently; or when they support corporate exploitation, as Gov. Hickenlooper is doing with the toxic issue of fracking. A nugget in the recent “Public Policy Polling” poll shows that our supposedly popular governor has a 44 percent disapproval rating. With that in mind, it should be noted that a politician who has a disapproval rating of more than 50 percent is generally considered as unelectable!! Fractivists have exposed Hickenlooper as an unwavering mouthpiece for fossil fuels who is even willing to sue his own constituents in Longmont in order to support an outdated fuel source. If you don’t believe me, then consider the fact that the U.S. receives 3,900 percent more sun than Germany, yet Germany currently produces 6,000 percent more solar power. We are faced
with a political problem rather than an energy problem! Fracked natural gas is not necessary in our energy mix. To my fellow fractivists, we only have to generate six more disapproval points to put our “Hickenlooper Problem” into unelectable territory — way to go! Cliff Smedley/Lafayette
Oil/gas industry should be accountable
A rose by any other name smells as sweet. A tax by any other name costs as much. When industry cries “gas prices will go up” in response to any and every change in state oil and gas law, remember this: There are costs to extract, and whether they are folded into the price of gas or hidden as negative externalities, they are borne by us (despite the mind-boggling profits of the industry). We are paying these costs now, and they are very real. We pay in property values, national security, shortened life, cost of health care, quality of life, health of our children, to name just a few and we are paying a lot to keep that gas price down. Industry wants the costs to be hidden because for them, low prices mean increasing demand. What they are fighting is accountability. So when industry cries “gas prices will rise if you regulate us,” remember that industry would have you believe we’re talking about increasing costs, when in fact, we’re talking about shifting costs to the column in which they belong so we know what we are paying for. Accountability. Kristen Mecca/Niwot Boulder Weekly
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he drug war dead-enders repeal, which will allow them to feel and nanny-statists who want holy twice over. to recriminalize marijuana • For nanny-state liberals, who live in Colorado think they have in state of constant fear that Colorado hit on a cunning new strate- voters will turn thumbs down on any gy to do the deed. and all new taxes, the proposal may They want the Colorado Legislature seem a heaven-sent way of coercing the to put a constitutional amendment on great unwashed into passing the pot the ballot this November that would tax. This may explain why House repeal Amendment 64, the amendment Speaker Mark Ferrandino (D-Denver) that legalized marijuana in Colorado called the proposal “worth the converlast fall, if the voters don’t approve the sation” and Senate President John taxes on marijuana that will appear sep- Morse (D-Colorado Springs) declared arately on the ballot. himself “absolutely supportive of the On April 29, the Colorado House idea.” passed a bill putting a 15 percent excise All in all, pretty damned clever. tax and a 10 percent But perhaps too sales tax on pot. clever by half. For sheer creMason Tvert, ative sneakiness, who led the camthe recriminalizers paign to pass deserve some sort Amendment 64, of a prize. Here are characterized the some of the politirecriminalization ON THE BALLOT cal implications of proposal perfectly WOULD AMOUNT TO what they are prowith one word: EXTORTION.” posing: “extortion.” • The recrimi“Placing such a — MASON TVERT nalizers would get measure on the their repeal ballot would Amendment 64 amount to extorproposal put on the ballot by tion of the voters,” he said. “Voters will the Colorado Legislature, saving them be told that they must vote for whatever the trouble and six-figure expense of taxes the legislators choose in order to collecting the 100,000-plus signatures prevent the repeal of the constitutional that would be needed to put their amendment they approved last scheme on the ballot via the petition November.” route. Tvert made a second point as well: • The proposal would go to the vot- Putting a proposal to recriminalize ers in an election held in an odd-nummarijuana on the ballot in 2013 is very bered year. Turnout in an odd-numlikely unconstitutional. Under the Taxbered year could be two-thirds less than payer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) proviturnout for a general election in a presi- sions of the Colorado Constitution, the dential year — like 2012 when only measures that can be put on the Amendment 64 was passed. If past ballot in odd-numbered years “are issues experience is any guide, the demoof government financing, spending, and graphics most likely to go to the polls taxation,” and Amendment 64 goes way in November 2013 are Republicans and beyond that. April 29, Tvert released a voters over the age of 65, the two legal opinion from an attorney with the groups most opposed the legalizing pot. election law firm Heizer Paul Grueskin By the same token, the two groups least strongly agreeing with him. According likely to vote in 2013 are independents to attorney Edward Ramey, in as much and voters under the age of 30, the two as Amendment 64 could not have been groups who voted most heavily in favor put on the ballot in an odd-numbered of Amendment 64. year under the provisions of TABOR • For anti-tax, anti-pot social con— since it speaks to much more than servatives, the proposal is a heaven-sent taxes, spending and government finance — an amendment to repeal it could twofer. They can vote “yes” on the repeal Amendment 64, and then cast a see RECRIMINALIZATION Page 11 “no” vote on the taxes to trigger the
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only appear on the ballot in an evennumbered year. It might come as a surprise to the recriminalization proposal’s perpetrators, but Americans tend to deeply resent the sort of sleazy squeeze play they are pushing. Voters can respond to this sort of scheme with an anger and fury that transcends the metrics of political demographics and can knock the most sophisticated political calculation into a cocked hat. The instinctive reaction of a voter
who thinks he is being threatened, coerced and bullied is to vote “hell no.” Democrats who think a recriminalization ultimatum is the way to get the marijuana taxes approved may discover that voters reject both the recriminalization proposal and the taxes — just to make it clear they are not going to be pushed around. The real irony here is that a recent poll — of 900 registered Colorado voters, done by Public Policy Polling April 15-16 — found overwhelming support
for the 15 percent excise tax and the 10 sales tax on pot. Seventy-seven percent of those polled supported the two taxes. About the only thing I can think of that could cause that sort of support to turn into “no” votes would be to threaten voters with the sort of ham-fisted political extortion that the recriminalization proposal represents. One final point. In politics, friends come and go. Enemies accumulate. Make enough enemies, and you will destroy your political career, your politi-
cal party and everything you value in public life. Lawmakers, especially Republican lawmakers, who find the recriminalization scheme seductive, should remember that a vote to recriminalize marijuana is really a vote to recriminalize people — hundreds of thousands of them. That is not a clever thing to do. It is an obscenely evil one, and the people you vote to turn into criminals again will be your enemies for life. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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years. If you take the billboard from a strictly Native American perspective or, for that matter, the perspective of nearly any other disenfranchised peoples, then it really could make sense. That’s why knowing who paid for and authorized the sign makes a big difference. If the billboard has been put up by Native Americans as a reminder of atrocities that have occurred when they have attempted to cooperate with the U.S. government, tragedies ranging from the Trail of Tears to the massacres at Sand Creek and the Washita River to the murders at Wounded Knee (twice) and the government’s deadly moves on the Pine Ridge Reservation, including its actions in the 1970s, then the billboard could, in fact, be delivering a powerful message. But if the sign is being paid for by political conservatives who believe that God has given them the right to own unregistered assault rifles, then I have to say that using the images of Native Americans is a really stupid idea. After all, it wasn’t just the U.S. government that committed genocide on Native Americans. It was also the hundreds of thousands of white settlers, and the railroads and other industries, all armed with guns and hell-bent on taking the land and resources used by native peoples for their own. To equate the historical genocide or current political and economic struggles of Native Americans to the potential minor inconvenience that may be experienced by mostly hyper-conservative, primarily white Americans who might someday have to register their firearms, is a grotesque and immeasurably ignorant comparison. And just in case you are wondering, the answer is “no,” the first sign of the apocalypse is not the inability to purchase high-capacity clips for your assault rifle. Until we know who is picking up the tab for the billboard, we won’t be able to determine exactly what’s wrong with this picture, but I suspect it is plenty. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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t’s progress, but we’re not there yet. It was an important step when the county When my dear friend Bonnie Lloyd granted them the paperwork acknowledging gave opening remarks at a private ceremony their civil union Tuesday night, but we’re not April 30 before she and her partner, Pattea there yet. Carpenter, obtained one of the first civilSeeing these two people hold hands and union licenses issued by Boulder County, she dance and kiss might still make some of us thanked us. uncomfortable. I’ve been fortunate enough to see it enough times over our 16-year friendship that She thanked the small group of close friends it doesn’t faze me. And at times during the cerefor treating her and Pattea as “normal,” for not mony at The Huckleberry in Louisville, before treating them as a lesbian couple. they made their way over to the county office get Normal. Granted, there have been times over the years their union officially sanctioned, I wondered how when I’ve felt like I had to prepare certain many heterosexual couples are lucky enough to friends before they met Bonnie and Pattea, share the same bond, the same connection, after explaining that they are lesbians and that they more than two decades. have a daughter together, Zoe. This has been an issue that Boulder Weekly And by together, I literally mean together. has fought long and hard for over the years. On Bonnie and Pattea are both biological mothers to Pattea Carpenter, left, and Bonnie Lloyd at their April 30 ceremony. May 20, 2004, our in-your-face cover featured 17-year-old Zoe. Bonnie’s egg was implanted two men kissing as part of a story about homointo Pattea and then artificially inseminated with sexual couples fighting for their right to marry. sperm from a donor. Genetically, Zoe is Bonnie’s. In fact, at the ceremony Tuesday night, when But Pattea carried her. They are believed to be friends were asked to submit wishes for Bonnie the first lesbian couple in the country to have and Pattea, several suggested that recognition of used the Uniform Parentage Act to obtain joint full-fledged gay marriages should be the next parental rights to their child in such a way. step. Sometimes I tell friends about Bonnie and Pattea we see two parents of the same gender. Look how far we’ve come. And how far we still in advance to avoid awkwardness, to avoid questions It’s a big step, the implementation of the new state have to go. that unsuspecting heterosexual couples might ask law allowing civil unions, and Bonnie and Pattea joyBonnie and Pattea, congratulations. And thank when they assume the women are just friends, like fully celebrated this governmental recognition of their you for setting a good example of why bigots who “Where’s your husband?” or “Where is Zoe’s dad?” commitment. Like many other couples exchanging refuse to recognize your wonderful, inspiring relationWhy do I do this? I wouldn’t feel the need to vows, when they gazed into each others’ eyes Tuesday ship are so wrong. warn friends about a mixed-race couple they haven’t night, you could feel the true love, the devotion. And forgive us for not being there yet. met, right? It’s because we’re not there yet, we’re not Did I mention that they are better parents than At least now we are one step closer. tolerant enough as a society to not bat an eye when most heterosexual couples I know? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Farmer struggles to access evidence for oil & gas fine hearing
hen Longmont-area farmer Rod Brueske lodged a complaint about the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s (COGCC) settlement with Encana Oil & Gas Inc. following an air quality violation, the commission warned him that he would have the burden of proof for each and every alleged violation, and failure to prove his case could lead to an outcome that included no fine and no violation for Encana. But as Brueske works to prove his claim, he says, he’s running up against roadblocks from the state that he argues may prevent him from successfully making that case, including being denied access to the documents showing the state’s calculations for Encana’s settlement fine and testimony from an inspector who visited a well hundreds of feet from Brueske’s home in early 2012, while Brueske was lodging complaints with the state about emissions from the well. A key component of his complaint is that the state’s fine for Encana accounts for too few days of a well out of compliance. Anyone with the data for when the wells came online, how much natural gas they were producing and how much volume the emission control Boulder Weekly
by Elizabeth Miller device processes could probably do the math on how long they were out of compliance. But Brueske has been told the state’s calculations aren’t public information. “They’re trying to loophole me into silence,” Brueske says. “This will make it look like they gave me a chance. I don’t have a chance.” The heart of Brueske’s complaint was that the company hadn’t been fined enough for what he saw as a risk to the health and welfare of his family, and that the fines levied against Encana were outdated. “The violation had a significant negative impact, or threat of significant negative impact, on the environment or public health, safety and welfare,” Brueske argues in his request for a hearing. “Mitigating factors that might adjust fines should not be considered due to the fact that the operator installed inadequate equipment where [sic] was later replaced only after I called the COGCC and [Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment] to file a complaint.” Following months of complaints from Brueske, an inspection by the state’s Air Quality Control Division found that wells near Brueske’s house were equipped with emission control devices too small to reduce the volatile organic compounds released from those wells to an acceptable level. For that alleged violation, the state offered Encana a settlement — for the payment of $53,900, the company would be recused from further legal action on those violations while not having to admit being guilty of those violations (Encana maintains that the well was in compliance). At a Nov. 15 hearing for the COGCC to approve the settlement, Brueske complained that the fine was insufficient and asked to pursue his complaint against Encana. “The Commission explained to Mr. Brueske that this meant that he had the burden of proof on each and every alleged violation in the NOAV [Notice of Alleged Violation],” Encana points out in a Jan. 28 motion to strike. “Mr. Brueske was also advised by the See HEARING Page 15
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prominent anti-fracking moratorium on fracking. activist from South Africa “The evidence was stacking up to was in Boulder County this such an extent that they couldn’t ignore week as part of a national it,” Deal says. tour of the areas most The moratorium was in effect for affected by hydraulic fracturing and about 18 months before expiring last other oil/gas operations. September, but he remains confident Jonathan Deal accepted the prestithat his group will be able to successfulgious Goldman Environmental Prize in San Francisco on April Susan France 15. The $150,000 that accompanies the honor has been dubbed the largest award given to grassroots environmentalists. It is presented annually to one person in each of six continental regions. Deal won the Goldman Prize for his efforts to secure a nationwide moratorium on fracking in South Africa as chairman of the Treasure the Karoo Action Group, and he says he plans to use the prize money to continue that initiative. A businessman and writer who lives in the scenic beauty of the wildlife-rich but waterdeprived Karoo region, Deal says he was not an environmental activist when he read a newspaper article in 2011 about Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to obtain exploratory drilling permits in the area. “I was just someone who enjoyed the outdoors and nature,” he says. But he soon became the face of the South African movement, combining a viral online presence with an onthe-ground campaign to educate communities about fracking. “I think we would have been dead in the water if it weren’t for the Internet,” Deal says, referring to the access his group had to fracking-related news in ly appeal any exploration permits issued the U.S., including the April 18, 2011, by the minister of minerals. blowout of a Shell well in In addition to meeting with Pennsylvania’s Bradford County that President Barack Obama in ended up polluting creeks and rivers Washington, D.C., Deal’s visit to the that flow into the Chesapeake Bay. He U.S. has included two tours of heavily says he and his group used that incident fracked Pennsylvania as well as parts of as an example of what could happen in Colorado, including Rifle and South Africa. Glenwood Springs, where he docuEven though Shell has a cozy relamented decimated areas in photos and tionship with the South African govvideos to bring back to his country as a ernment, the effort succeeded in concautionary tale. He says he’s seen some vincing the country’s leaders to enact a of the houses bought by oil and gas
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companies and met people who’ve had to leave their homes due to the pollution caused by nearby wells. Deal has already titled the presentation he will deliver to the South African parliament upon his return: “Breaking the Silence: A Firsthand Account of Fracking in the United States.” While in Boulder County, he toured some local oil/gas operations with Sam Schabacker, Food & Water Watch’s mountain west director, and attended a May 1 event hosted by Protect Our Colorado. He told BW that during his meeting with the president, Obama said Deal was doing good work in South Africa, and seemed to take the environmental issues associated with fracking seriously. Deal says he comes at the fracking issue not with emotion, but with logic and good oldfashioned economics. “Shale gas mining is not the bridge to the future at all,” he says, explaining that the average production of shale gas in the U.S. declines by 69 percent the first year, meaning that neither the resource nor the jobs are sustainable. “The industry tends to use the word ‘sustainability’ very easily and loosely, and I don’t think they know the meaning of the word.” He says relying on shale gas will simply delay the transition to renewable energy and further our reliance on fossil fuels, compromising future generations for the sake of a couple of decades of rewards. “I can’t understand the logic of it,” Deal says, adding that the industry doesn’t include the costly side effects of its operations in its financial calculations, like the taxpayerfunded cleanup of a polluted aquifer, for instance. The oil and gas industry is very powerful internationally, he says, and that is one reason for his trip to the U.S. “We are not going to succeed unless we can oppose them with a global coalition,” Deal explains. “It can’t be done on a country-by-country basis.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Commission that should he elect to proceed to prosecute the alleged violations on his own that all Commission Rules must be followed and that a possible outcome was no violation and no fine if every element of each alleged violation was not sufficiently proven by him.” He was given a printout of the commission’s rules, more than 200 pages that filled a three-ring binder and included nuances like documents with 13 accompanying copies. Brueske’s a farmer, not a trained lawyer, but he has tried to work his way through the legal system to make his case. He’s faced multiple filings from Encana to see the case dismissed. “The wonderful thing is, the state has struck both their motions to strike, so I have two little victories, as small as those may seem,” he says. Robert Frick, hearings officer for the COGCC, said Encana’s motions to dismiss had, in places, elevated form over substance and he “reluctantly” recommended the commission reject Encana’s arguments for dismissal. Oral arguments for Encana’s motion to dismiss the case will be heard on May 6. One of the elements of the argument Brueske is seeking to prove is that the wells were out of compliance for long enough to merit more than the $53,900 fine. The Colorado Air Pollution Prevention and Control Act specifies that the penalty for violations like those Encana was accused of making in April can be up to $15,000 per day for each violation, depending on the severity of the violation, the company’s prior air quality violations in Colorado and the cooperation of the company in remedying the violation. Because Encana cooperated and worked to bring wells quickly into compliance, the Air Pollution Control Division offered a reduced penalty. Encana expressly denied that it was in violation of any air quality laws, according to the settlement letter, which was signed by Shannon McMillan, field services program manager for the Air Pollution Control Division. But matching that fine with the days out of compliance works out to some weird math, Brueske argues. On the one hand, the COGCC told him the fine accounted for a 10-day violation — meaning the maximum fine is almost three times the settlement penalty. “I was asking for the original calculations of the original fine, and that’s when Tom Roan, the [first assistant] attorney general, said, ‘Oh, those calculations have been destroyed.’ Since then, he called me back and said, ‘We did find the calculation, and Encana was only out of compliance two days,’” he says. Starting with Boulder Weekly
fines that accrue in $15,000 per day, Brueske says, the “reduced penalty” of $53,900 doesn’t seem to fit. “They either overcharged Encana and wrote in their settlement that they settled for a lesser amount, or there’s a rat of a cover-up,” Brueske says. But without seeing the state’s calculations, it’s tough for him to challenge them. Throughout the course of the month of April 2012, Encana was bringing
additional wells online and had communicated to the COGCC that it had plans to install — or already had working — emission control devices that would handle the increased flow of vapors to the tanks. An air quality inspector also reported, on April 6, that a third emission stack would be added and a seal needed to be replaced. A field inspection form from April 10 showed the equipment for the Ross G Unit 1 well, which
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site again. This time, they found that the emission control device was too small for the available tank vapors and that a hatch was leaking hydrocarbons onto the tank and platform. The inspectors also reported observing visible emissions and visible leaks of condensate from the hatch. They concluded that a similar “unloading event” took place on April 26, the day before Brueske’s complaint report was filed. Encana was given a notice of an alleged violation of a state air quality requirement for oil and gas operators, which requires conducting all condensate collection, storage and processing in a way that minimizes the amount of volatile organic compounds leaking into the atmosphere — with a target control efficiency of at least 95 percent. “Based on the inspectors’ observations during the inspection, the thief hatch cover was not properly weighted for the pressures from the separator,” the letter reads. Brueske contends that it was after work on the well done on Feb. 8, 2012, almost two months before the larger emission control device was installed, that his family started noticing a difference in their air quality — the air around his home tasted like a 9-volt battery, he says, and his son suffered uncontrollable nosebleeds. There’s no record of his Feb. 8 complaint on the COGCC website, but a copy of the complaint Brueske provided shows him raising the same kinds of concerns about odors that continued through the April inspection that found the well equipped with emission control devices too small to accommodate the vapors produced from the wells. Brueske has also asked to have Jen Mattox, oil and gas team enforcement supervisor for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Pollution Control Division, testify. Mattox visited the well sit on Feb. 8, when work was being done on it, though Tom Roan, first assistant attorney general
in the Air Quality Unit of the Natural Resources Section, suggested that rather than requesting her testimony at a hearing, Brueske use a report from her visit that day. Roan will be representing the CDPHE and COGCC when the case is heard in district court. “I understand that you still seek Ms. Mattox’s testimony, although the purpose of her testimony is not clear,” Roan wrote in an email to Brueske on April 11. “As I said, the Division has no stake in the outcome of this hearing that would justify the investment of time necessary to prepare for and attend this hearing. Thus, we will likely resist any effort to compel Ms. Mattox’s attendance.” Brueske requested the documents on the Air Pollution Control Division’s written analysis of the penalty calculation for Encana, and was told those records are not made available to the public. “These records have not been disclosed to anyone outside of APCD, including the defendant,” Roan told him in an email. “The Colorado Open Records Act authorizes APCD to keep these records confidential as part of the deliberative process for decision making. Our penalty calculations are only the staff recommendations to the decision makers.” The attorney general’s office does not comment on ongoing litigation. Brueske has been trying to gather the records to make his case, he says, but getting in touch with people has proved challenging. His next move is to try to get the attention of oil and gas attorneys who might help in crafting his case. “The state appears to be negligent, and I think that’s the buzz word that everybody’s looking for to get the attention of somebody out there that would probably pursue it,” he says. “I don’t think it would be anybody in the state of Colorado, but somebody who’s high-profile that would say, ‘Yeah, let’s go put a lawsuit against ole Hick and the boys.’” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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fter suffering more than 15 years of a mountain pine beetle outbreak, Colorado’s forests are now facing another bark beetle epidemic. Last year, 183,000 acres of Colorado’s forests Spruce beetle were infested with the spruce beetle, bringing the total acreage affected by spruce beetles to just under 1 million since the initial outbreak in 1996. The area affected by spruce beetles is still smaller than pine beetles, who affect some 3.4 million acres of forests in Colorado, according to the U.S. Forest Service. But 2012 was the first year in recent history the spruce beetle affected more trees than the pine beetle, which infested a new 140,000 acres last year, according to a 2012 report from the National Forest Service. With the spruce beetle outbreak comes a renewed debate between Colorado foresters and researchers: Is global warming the most important variable in the bark beetle equation, or
are other forest management techniques also responsible and therefore capable of helping to slow the spread? While forest researchers disagree on the importance of climate change and beetle infestations, they concur that Coloradans should be concerned about the impact that climate change and high-elevation beetle outbreaks will have on watersheds. “There’s been a long history of research by forest entomologists documenting that warming temperatures are favorable for the survival of bark beetles,” says Tom Veblen, a professor in biogeography and conservation at the University of Colorado Boulder. “There is no debate whether or not warming is contributing to the increase in spruce beetle activity.” But warming is just one part of the equation for Allen Owen, Boulder district forester for the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), and Sky See BEETLES Page 18
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Stephens, forest entomologist for the CSFS. They argue that lack of management and large, overmature tree stands play equally important roles. “Climate change is certainly one of the many factors impacting the landscape,” Stephens says. “But even if we remove the impact of climate change, we would still see significant insect activity. Lack of management, drought conditions and tree stocking densities are all making trees even more susceptible to spruce beetles.” Spruce forests are typically higher-elevation forests, according to Owen, which is part of the reason those forests have seen less management. “High-elevation forests are usually inaccessible,” Owen says. “They’re more recreation- and wildlife-oriented, so intentionally, we don’t manage these forests as Spruce beetle progression in Southwestern Colorado from 2004 to 2012. intently as lower-elevation forests like ponderosa or lodgepole pine. spond with warmer and drier condiThey just remain a lower priority ests, says Veblen, who recently won a tions,” Veblen says. as far as forest management goes.” $300,000 grant from the National Warmer temperatures accelerate the High-elevation spruce forests are Science Foundation to study spruce beelife cycle of the spruce beetle, while usually under U.S. Forest Service tle outbreaks in the context of climate drier conditions put an added stress on (USFS) jurisdiction and are not manchange and wildfires. trees, leaving them more susceptible to aged locally, according to Owen. The “Climate change would override infestation. mountain pine beetle has been more those more local factors like tree size “The fact that we have warmer of a priority for the USFS; thus, man- and stand position,” Veblen says. temperatures during the winter is agement of spruce forests has suffered “Historical factors like logging and forimportant in favoring the survival of and beetles have spread, Owen says. est management are definitely a secondlarvae,” Veblen says. “In habitats and But jurisdiction and lack of manageary influence.” elevations where formerly the life ment aren’t the whole picture for Spruce beetle outbreaks in Colorado cycle of the spruce beetle required two Stephens. aren’t new, nor is the science linking years, it now requires only one. … The “Much of the spruce beetle activity beetle outbreaks to warmer temperain southwestern Colorado has started in tures, he says. Similar spruce beetle out- drier conditions associated with warmer temperatures and natural varia wilderness area — by definition, areas breaks were recorded in Colorado forability reduce the resistance of trees to in which we’ve elected not to do any ests in the 1800s and 1940s. By coring attack.” management, to let whatever happens, trees and examining tree rings that date “I don’t know that drought or happen,” Stephens says. back hundreds of years, Veblen and his weather were a factor in the past,” Warming temperatures outweigh team have reconstructed historical beetle Stephens says. “Forests were just in a lack of management and the number of outbreaks. “The dates of those outbreaks correcondition that lent them to being susreadily available host trees in spruce for-
ceptible, much like today.” Researchers need to caution against overreacting to the spruce beetle outbreak as an ecological disaster in and of itself, according to Veblen. The spruce beetle is a native insect, and we know that large-scale outbreaks have occurred in the past. “Instead, we have to look objectively at what the potential changes in ecosystem services that we derive from forests are,” Veblen says. “The big question is, what might be the impact on water resources?” Veblen, Stephens and Owen agree that people should be concerned about the impact that climate change and spruce beetle outbreaks can have on Colorado’s water supply. Tree cover and snowpack are critical to watersheds in Colorado. When there is denser tree cover in high altitude forests, the spring snowmelt is more gradual, which means there is less stress on waterways when melt occurs. Without trees, the melt is much faster and thus more stressful on watersheds. As spruce beetle infestation continues to threaten Colorado’s higher-elevation forests, killing mature trees and thinning overall forest composition, there will be less vegetation to slow snowmelt and to keep debris out of waterways. Forests that have suffered wildfires are extreme examples of what could happen to Colorado’s waterways, according to Stephens. “The Poudre River right now is still black and disgusting and full of junk from fires this summer,” Stephens says. “And it’s gonna be that way for a while. All that vegetation to slow the water going downhill is gone.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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thought was a lunch spot, get swindled by a 10-year-old boy selling balloons and arrive in an unknown town late at night unable to find a place to sleep. We resort to a luxury hotel and pay 20 percent in taxes, as is the norm in the communist state of Kerala. On the plane ride over, I read that India is a beautiful mess. And now we are right in it. There are no pristine, blue pools and mango juice for us. It’s hot, dusty roads, and there is a constant smell of gasoline. Screeching at 30 miles per hour over shoddy concrete streets, defending our rickety contraption against motorists and doubledecker buses brimming with faces curious at our decorated vehicle, the passing people and towns become surreal. I snap out of the chaos in isolated moments: a bedazzled elephant walking down the street as casual as a summer cloud or a young merchant boy speaking as a grown man. The thrill in my stomach is so fierce it hurts. This is why I have come, I think, for the awe moments. We stop at the first glimpse of the Arabian Sea after two days of sweltering conditions. My tired teammates meander toward a refreshing swim as I linger behind. I pause to consider my thoughts, noticing the sunlight playing tricks on the loveliest body in the world. The sea covers two-thirds of the world, and I regret I will not live long enough to see it from every possible
vantage point. Scientists and poets alike will say the sun rises and sets, though we know this to be untrue. We spin away and towards an improbable mass of gas. For a split, uncalculated second, it occurs to me: Amid the shock of the culture, the differences from my own an obvious reason to travel here, I feel something intently vulnerable. For a moment, on the beach, we are just creatures hanging out, without any great effort, on a warm tide of events greater than we are. That evening we careen through a Muslim town as a procession of men in white array make their way to prayer. There are no women in sight. I later remark upon the sheer number of people to an Indian man living part-time in London. “People come to India and they think, ‘Wow, look at all the poor people.’ They come to feel something, to open to something,” he says. “But here, the men sleep like kings. They sleep on the side of the road after a day’s work, undisturbed by the passing of cars. In the West, we must swallow little pills to sleep.” I contemplate his comment and the enormity of what I have witnessed in a short period. I do not yet know it, but this will be my last night, two weeks before my original departure date. The only certainty in travel is uncertainty. It came down to a logistic. After a mechanical breakdown, we were forced Boulder Weekly
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slew of changes has rocked Nate Cook’s world this past year. His band, The Yawpers — rock ’n’ roll with a country twinge, starring two acoustic guitars and a drum set — is letting their record deal with Boulder label Adventure Records expire, and the band has leapt over to Colorado SpokesBUZZ, becoming the first non-Fort Collins band to sign with the FoCo-based nonprofit/label. The band is planning to record an album sometime in the near future, tentatively titled Cold War Core, and is taking a page out of Sound City and forgoing fancy digital technology for tape. (The band is weighing a couple of local studios with analog capability and hasn’t decided on one yet.) “With analog, it’s lossless. What you hear is the actual sound. … People talk about it too much. But there’s that warmth that you get with analog, and there’s that rich low end, which is really important to us since we don’t have a bass.” Some musical changes are taking place as well. The band is back to just a trio: The short-lived addition of harmonica player Dave Romano ended when Romano ripped his MCL in half while snowboarding and had to retreat to the East Coast for rehab. “We’re on the road so much, it was hard to justify keeping him on board,” Cook says. But Cook sounds like he is Nate Cook, left, embracing the lineup change as and James Hale of a back-to-basics breath of fresh The Yawpers air. He and fellow guitarist Jesse Parmet have added some effects pedals to fill out their sound (Parmet uses around 13 pedals, Cook says), and he welcomes how the structure gets his creative juices flowing. “We started as a trio and we kind of wanted to go back,” Cook says. “I think if you work within the confines of a situation, the more difficult a situation is, the more you can kind of be creative with it. Same with tape and going back to a threeperson [lineup]. Those are things that actually help the creative process in a way; you don’t have to depend on more stuff. With that, we’ve expanded our sonic setup with the pedals and all that sort of shit. Plus, we get paid more.” There’s more positive news, too. see YAWPERS Page 26
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“I got hitched,” Cook says, smiling basically the same size as Boulder, basiand pointing to the band on his finger. cally a college town, but they have this “She was a French actress that was much more blue-collared element over here, and was a Yawpers fan,” where they want to go out, get fucking Cook says. “I love the shit out of her; drunk and listen to rock ’n’ roll music. she loves me. There was no reason to Boulder plays it a little safer, I feel like. Kirsten Cohen wait.” If they’re going New record to get their deal, new wife, Birkenstocks new lineup: scuffed, they Change seems don’t wanna go to be good for to the show.” The Yawpers. “When we The band plays play say, Conor more than 200 O’Neill’s here, gigs a year the line will be The Yawpers are drummer James Hale (left), guitarist Jesse around the out the fuckParmet and singer/guitarist Nate country, and ing door for Cook. Cook hasn’t three hours. had to work For hours, it any other job for a year now. The will be out the door and people will be Yawpers are very much a full-time job. fucking fighting and getting blowjobs Not many bands have busted out of in the bathroom and breaking glasses, Boulder’s music scene onto the national and God help us if we could sell one scene during the past few years, and CD. You know what I mean? I don’t The Yawpers are one of the few to do know how to describe it. I don’t know so and make a career out of it. But call- what the mentality is, but it’s like, OK, ing the Yawpers a “Boulder band” you guys played for us, thanks, and now might soon be a malapropism. Cook we’re gonna go. Thanks. and new wife have just moved to “I feel like every night playing in Denver, and he reacts strongly when Boulder is like a one-night stand. You get to fuck the crowd one night, and asked if the band should be identified you both go home and never see each with the People’s Republic or the Mile other again.” High City. And in Denver? Cook says that “We don’t want to be called a people seem to be much more appreciaBoulder band anymore,” Cook says tive of local music and the people who immediately. “I mean, we don’t mind create it, and he speaks highly of being called a Boulder band. It’s just, Denver’s musical community as well. [in] Denver … there’s a lot more going “I wanted to be somewhere that was on there with the music scene. So we’re more conducive to being an artist,” kind of trying to move into that. Two Cook says. “I had two musician friends of our guys still live up here. So you can in eight years here. I’ve lived in Denver call us a Boulder band if you want.” for two weeks, and I have 30.” Perhaps his annoyance with the Only the future will tell what will Boulder music scene had to do with the come of The Yawpers’ new home base. fact that The Yawpers are a little more For now, Cook is still exploring the rock ’n’ roll than the town could stomach? After all, many bands with distort- aesthetic frontier he and Parmet have ed guitars report having trouble finding created. Not many rock bands eschew the bass and go for two acoustic guitars, spaces to perform publicly around and Cook feels like he hasn’t exhausted Boulder. The Yawpers never seemed to the possibilities yet. have that trouble, though. The Black Keys made five albums “It’s not difficult to find a gig; it’s as a primarily guitar-drums duo before difficult to find an audience, or at least switching to a full band and expressing a repeat audience,” Cook says. “We sell sentiments that they had exhausted the more tickets in Tulsa, [Okla.]; Kansas format. City; Manhattan; Lincoln, Neb.; “Sure, if it ever happens we’ll stop Lawrence, Kansas; Santa Fe, New doing it,” Cook says. “I’m not doing it Mexico; Fort Collins; Denver; and because it’s trendy; I’m doing it because Aspen than we do in Boulder, and we I feel it’s what best serves my art at this were based here forever. We sell more time. … I honestly think it’s the way tickets in North Carolina, in we need to do it. Sonically, we’ve Wilmington, than we do in Boulder. carved out a little niche for ourselves No doubt about it. It’s not a joke. This that we’re still exploring. Once it gets town — if you can’t take ecstasy and boring, then we’ll stop. And it just dance to it like that, there’s not a huge hasn’t yet, for us.” market here. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “Fort Collins, on the other hand, is Boulder Weekly
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e caught Ned Scott, remix bed but stands squarely as a work keyboardist and one of unto itself, may leave anyone who recalls The Egg’s founding their first album from back in the day, twin brothers, during a Albumen, wondering exactly when the quiet evening a couple synths and mirror ball romance took of weeks ago at home in his Notting over from the rambling, raggedly psyHill flat, just as he was about to step chedelic, offbeat band sound. away to prepare (honestly) a cup of tea. There’s plenty to like about “Oh my gosh yes, of course,” he Something To Do, of course. The spastammered, learning that his transcious and moody “Electric City” swoons Atlantic phone interview was calling, and sways with unforced elegance, “but, um could you call back in, say … I Scott’s vocals well below the song’s dunno, three minwww.theegg.org.uk utes?” We laughed. How about four minutes, we countered. “Four minutes, perfect then. Just the exact time it takes to boil an egg,” he deadpanned, and off he went. We’re not sure if that was meant to be a clever pun; we don’t boil eggs very often. Is that how long it takes? The Londonbased quartet (a quintet when they’re on the road) brings its multimedia, shamelessly genre-bending electronic dance music show to the Fox this weekend, kicking off a few-week swing through the Western U.S. on the heels of Something To Do, the latest long sweeping high arch; the aggro-EDM player from a band that, despite an driver “Over There” roils beneath slashalmost 18-year history, doesn’t actually ing guitar figures that might force a grin have a lot of them to its of familiarity from The name. Well-known and Edge; and the sinfully ON THE BILL: The Egg -regarded in its native throbby “Fire,” all satin and Sophie Barker (Of Zero England, the band got and slithery groove, 7) play the Fox Theatre on its start in Oxford in actually opens with a Thursday, May 9. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in the mid 1990s and Spanish guitar. So no, advance, $17 day of made a name playing it’s not all automated show, with a $2 fee for the east/west club cirbeats per minute. under-21 tickets. cuit between there and The Egg is still a Bath, but really broke band. when its electro house “Yeah. Yeah, we are,” single “Walking Away” got picked up he says. “And thanks for that. ‘Electric and remixed by the German spinner DJ City,’ I really like that one. It started off Tocadisco in 2006. The original single in a hotel room in Perth, when we did a also included guest vocals by singer tour through Australia. … It’s about Sophie Barker — who joins the band people being in so much technology on this twin-bill tour. now, people having an Internet connecThese things happen in a turntable tion, [so] they don’t need each other so and DJs-as-stars club scene world. But a much, but want to be sure that someone cursory trip through Something to Do, is there. It’s got that sort of spaced-out, which may sound like a really swell dance thing — you can take the vocals
or not.” Scott, for his part, kind of sidesteps the question of whether The Egg is really an EDM dance band, a kind of outlier in this day and age, or whether they’re a rock band with a BPM fixation. “We have that kind of Pink Floyd chord structure, in the writing and textures,” he says. “The other side of it, which I think is more exposed on Albumen, is that we kind of like playing a live funk party. My brother Maff is a really brilliant drummer, easily the best drummer I’ve ever worked with. … I think humans playing in a room full of humans is inspiring.” And, not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with it; it’s not Ableton. “Yeah. Ableton is all kind of locked in and sync’ed to be in time and all that stuff. I used to have a sampler and a box, but it was for playing leads. It was just the sounds; the rhythms and the fills from the keyboard are all live,” Scott says. And Scott, probably unintentionally, then wandered off into one of those revealing and unexpected places that speaks to the genetically encoded symbiotic side effects of playing in a band with your identical twin brother. “Apparently, I end up tapping with my left hand on the side of the keyboard, to syncopate my right hand with the rhythm. And I end up standing on one leg.” He concedes it isn’t always easy for other band members to work their way into Team Scott — the inside jokes and seemingly arcane quarrels that only twin brothers would understand — but for better or worse, it’s what gives The Egg its shape. “I guess that’s kind of where the title of the album comes from,” Scott says. “Playing in this band is Something To Do; something for me and my brother to do together.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Thursday, May 2 Andrea Gibson. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ash. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Billy the Mountain. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Deborah Stafford & Stone Soup. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. French ’Nilla & The Decaf Muchacho — With Cowgirl Radio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Grant Farm feat. Andy Thorn — With The Drunken Hearts. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.
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Bach at Leipzig — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 18. Cabaret — Presented by Ignite Theatre. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 720-6269796. Through May 5. Church Basement Ladies — Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., 303-449-6000. Through May 12.
The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303468-2030. Through July 14.
James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
Glengarry Glen Ross. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through May 18. God of Carnage. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-
Neptune’s Only Daughter. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. New England Tunes Jam. 7 p.m. 230 South Cleveland Ave., Louisville, judikrd@yahoo.com. Open Mic. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
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Chase N the Dream. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Full Belly. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
The Color Purple — Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970. Through May 12.
Jim Deeming. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.
Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
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Intuit. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Jesse Garland Show. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
events Boulder Salsa Social. 6:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Digital Video Camera & Lighting Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
623-0524. Through June 8. Guys and Dolls — Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Market Place Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through June 16. A Knight to Remember. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-946-1388. Through May 11. Mary Poppins — Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303893-4100. Through May 5. Sense & Sensibility the Musical — Presented by Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through May 26. sex.Now! — Dangerous Theatre Company, 2620 W. 2nd Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-233-4703. Through June 8. The Shadow Box. The Edge Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, 303-232-0363. Through May 19. Tigers Be Still — Presented by Firehouse Theatre Company. John Hand Theatre, 7653 E. 1st. Place, Denver, 303-562-3232. Through May 11. FrackingSENSE — Featuring Gov. John Hickenlooper. 6:30 p.m. Mathematics Building RM 100, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-4879.
Ginga. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Girls On Top. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384. Hymn for Her. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Jimmy Seville & Mojoville. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Katchafire — With Maoli & Oso Negro. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Kevin Mermel — With Zen Mustache. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Laurie Dameron. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
The Journal of Abby Munson — Presented by the Imagination Makers Theater Company. 10 a.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
The Meryl Romer Jazz Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Stanley Film Festival — Horror films. 7:30 p.m. Through May 5. Estes Park, www.stanleyfilmfest.com.
Riff Raff. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Neder-
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American Visionaries — Works by Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon. Longmont Musuem & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 26.
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Black Maps — Solo show by David Maisel. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 11.
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Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre — Solo show by Karen Kilimnik. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 23. The Denver Salon: Then and Now — Fine art photography. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-9433. Through May 31.
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Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist — Works on paper by the artist and his circle. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 30.Boulder Weekly Exempla — by Brian Knep. Denver Art Museum,
100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 19. Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through June 2014. Heidi Jung: Black and White — A Jeffco Alumni Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through May 5. Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 14. Linda Gleitz: Capistrano IV — an installation. Longmont Musuem & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 8. A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21. Museum of Broken Relationships. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 26. Primal Seen — Selections from the CU photography collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22. This is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through May 31. Western Road Movie — Landscape paintings by Patrick Kikut. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-4924247. Through May 19.
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The Journal of Abby Munson — Presented by The Imagination Makers. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Luminous Thread: Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Mike Sikorsky & Bill Holmes — Square Dance. 7:30 p.m. Broomfield United Methodist Church, 545 West 10th Ave., Broomfield, 303-666-8389. NoBo Art District First Friday. 6 p.m. North of downtown on Broadway, NoBoArtDistrict.org.
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Readings in World Literature. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.
David Booker solo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. NuMundo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Rob Drabkin — With Dechen Hawk. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Soul Sacrifice. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Summa — With Bad Maps. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tim Crawford Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Salsa Tasting. 4 p.m. Lucky’s Bakehouse & Creamery, 3960 Broadway, Boulder, 720-596-4905.
Trout Steak Revival. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Saturday, May 4
Two Hearted Jones band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
music Big Motif. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Yawpers & Eldren. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
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Chris Tomlin with Louie Giglio & Karl Jobe. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Dan Treanor & Afrosippi — With Erica Brown. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Annual Studio Tour — East Boulder County Artists. 11 a.m. Various locations, visit http://ebcacolorado.org for more info. Blind Yoga Fundraiser. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Bo Burnham. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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events Dance Class Showcase & Works in Progress. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Geology of Rabbit Mountain — Volunteer naturalists will lead a moderately strenuous hiking tour of the area. 9 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, Lyons, 303-6786214. Lyons Old-Time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Smokin’ Dave’s BBQ Log Cabin, 228 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0816. Mountain Bike Demo. 10 a.m. Sports Garage Cycling, 2705B Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-0033. Playback Theatre West: A Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Top Gun. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Sunday, May 5 music Acoustic Jam — Followed by traditional Irish session. 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Cary Morin solo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Cosby Sweater. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.
3100. Birth Story — Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives Film Screening. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Clay Roberts — School program developer. 7 p.m. Boulder Valley Christian Church, 7100 South Boulder Road, 303-604-6512. Pricing and Selling Wedding and Portrait Photography, Part 2. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. “So, You’re a Poet,” presents an open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Tuesday, May 7 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jazz Night — With The Joints. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mathias and the Crooked Streets. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
events Advanced Green Building Seminar: Mechanical Systems. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 1750 33rd St., Boulder, info@bgbg.org. Bathing in Perfect Egyptian Harmony: Ecstatic Toning For Everyone. 7:30 p.m. Adi Shakti Sanctuary, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. BIJA Freestyle Dance. 7:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, bija@bijaboulder.com.
School of Rock shows — Jimi Hendrix. 12 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.
School of Rock shows — The Black Keys vs. The White Stripes. 3 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Noam Chomsky — KGNU fundraiser. 7 p.,m. Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman St., Denver, 303-4494885.
School of Rock shows — Hair Metal. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Wednesday, May 8
Sublime Sextets — Presented by the Library Concert Series. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Symbols — With Intuit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
events Free First Sundays. All day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Musical Birding Hike. 8 a.m. Sawhill Ponds, 75th Street about 0.6 miles north of Valmont Road, Boulder, www. naturehikes.org. Spring Wildflower Hike — Join volunteer naturalists for a leisurely spring stroll through Legion Park. 10 a.m. Legion Park Open Space, Boulder, 303-678-6214.
Monday, May 6 music An Evening with Steven Wilson. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jami Lunde & Kate Groves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685 Joe Mack Bluegrass Duo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
music Andy Frasco and The UN w/ Esther Sparks and The Whiskey Remedy. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Delta Sonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Eric the Viking. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Nick Thompson — With Bill Giebler Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick — All welcome. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Robotic Pirate Monkey — With Freddy Todd & Alpha Delta. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Mike Robinson Jam Session. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Zac Brown Band. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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Aziz Ansari — CU Program Council Presents. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder,
Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-
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Thursday, May 2
Monday, May 6
Here, Everything is Dreaming: Poems & Stories — by Robert Moss. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.
Coin: The Irreverent Yet Practical Guide to Money Management for Recent College Graduates — by Judy McNary. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
My Foreign Cities: A Memoir— by Elizabeth Scarboro. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070.
Friday, May 3
A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals — by Rory Freedman-Beg. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America — by Jeff Chu. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070.
303-492-7704. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Red Moon — by Benjamin Percy. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Monday, May 6 Musical Storytime with Alice & Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. Pathways to Parenting Success. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Thursday, May 2
Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Thursday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Sneak a Peak. 4 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Friday, May 3 ClayDate: Mother’s Day Frame. 4 p.m. Crackpots Pottery Studio, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-7762211. Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Stamp Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Happy Family Presentation & Tasting Event. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Cooked — by Michael Pollan. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-317-3946.
Paint Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Wednesday, May 8
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Hoopy Hour & Trunk Show. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
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Tuesday, May 7 On God’s Side — by Jim Wallis. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Poison — by Jordyn Redwood. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.
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So, You’re a Poet? — an open reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Teresa Louis & Aakash Mittal. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather — by Andrew Jewell. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070.
Clay Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Zumbatomic for Kids. 4 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-604-9098.
Wednesday, May 8 Cruisers & Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Stencil Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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42 Jackie Robinson challenged prejudices when Branch Rickey signed him to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
1943, while the male pros are at war, Dugan finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his all-girl team. Part of Hey Girl series at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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Starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. Need more? Fey plays an admissions officer at Princeton. Rudd talks her into taking on that role at his school. They get happy and funny together. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. THE AVIATION COCKTAIL Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be hell. When a girl is kidnapped by a serial killer in the Nebraska Sandhills, Sheriff Henry Fisher asks his pilot brother, Jack, to fly to the scene where the kidnapper has been discovered hiding in a barn. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE BIG WEDDING
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In this third installment in the series, the wolfpack returns to Vegas to find Mr Chow, and politically incorrect chaos ensues ... no wait, that’s Hangover 3. In this part 3, Robert Downey Jr. puts on a cool robot suit and blows stuff up for Gwyneth Paltrow.
of the Internet and what happens when the digital world goes crazy. Rated R. At Century. THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE...
This wedding comedy will surely provide plenty of family antics and an excuse to see Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams and Susan Sarandon in a movie together. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Without telling him, Madame de... sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts. That act sets off a circular wave of suspicions as well as financial and marital difficulties. Presented by Tattered Cover at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL
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My Brother the Devil stars James Floyd as Rashid, a young man from a traditional Arab family who runs with a gang that rules the streets of Hackney, one of London’s most ethnically-mixed and historically volatile neighborhoods. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres
The Book of the Dead possesses and mutilates five friends trapped in a cabin in this bloody remake of the classic cult horror film. At Century.
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
The world of Jim Grant (director Robert Redford), a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York, is turned upside down when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres THE CROODS 3D A caveman family road-trips to a colorful world in this Flintstones-meets-Avatar animated kids movie. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Twin Peaks and Century. DISCONNECT Jason Bateman and Hope Davis team up in this tale about the destructive power 38 May 2, 2013
THE GATEKEEPERS This Oscar-nominated documentary is built around interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater GI JOE: RETALIATION 3D With COBRA on the brink of world domination, it’s up to the GIs to do some stunts, blow stuff up and save the day. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, and Colony Square. GIRL RISING These are the stories from around the world of nine girls who face arranged marriages, child slavery and other heartbreaking injustices. Despite these obstacles, the brave girls offer hope and inspiration. At Boedecker and Colony Square. — Boedecker Theater
GRACELAND An unthinkable predicament emerges when a chauffeur gets ambushed while driving both his boss’s 12-year-old girl and his own daughter home from school. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE HOST There are no vampires or werewolves in the newest teen-romance series from the author of Twilight. This time, there are aliens. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square. IRON MAN 3 3D When his enemy leaves Tony Stark’s personal life in shambles, he must suit up once again as Iron Man. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. IT’S A DISASTER Eight friends meet for their monthly “couples brunch.” But what starts as an impromptu therapy session/airing of domestic grievances takes a sudden, catastrophic turn when the city falls victim to a mysterious attack. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society JURASSIC PARK 3D What could make the velociraptor kitchen scene even more heart-stopping? 3-D, apparently! Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Tom Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of
When two boys discover a mysterious stranger hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River, their lives and those of everyone in their small town are changed forever. Rated PG 13. At Century. THE NET Sandra Bullock was coming off a hot streak when she did this movie but as we all know, nothing good lasts forever. Part of Mile High Sci-Fi at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society NO In director Pablo Larraín’s political drama NO, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is forced by international pressure to call a plebiscite on his presidency in 1988. At Boedecker. — Landmark Theatres OBLIVION Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman star in this visually amazing film. As for plot, Cruise battles to save the entire planet Earth, of course, in some far-off future time. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN The White House is captured by terrorists and the president is kidnapped. So the Secret Service has no choice but to use a former agent who left the service in disgrace to get them inside. Rated R. AtTwin Peaks. OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D We know all about Dorothy and have heard the Wicked Witch’s take. Now it’s the Wizard of Oz’s turn. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. PAIN & GAIN Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in this action comedy flick about bodybuilders who have more brawn than brains when it comes to crime. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. see REEL TO REEL Page 40
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screen Buddha Plays The Blues Tom Cruise’s foreign policy “Drones bad,” ‘Oblivion’ says by Ryan Syrek
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f you conceived a child back when Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch, it would now be old enough to tell you to move on. Despite welcoming back rapists and murderers when they win a Super Bowl, modern society seems intent on holding a grudge against a guy who, at worst, is a weird idiot. Oblivion is still being written into a “comeback narrative” that those with a brain stopped furthering after Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol became his highest grossing film ever worldwide. It is an attempt to make Oblivion significant somehow when it most certainly isn’t. And that’s a good thing. Oblivion is old-school, hard sci-fi pre-chewed for audience digestion. It’s not Matrix-heavy with innovation or District 9-dense with allegorical suggestion. It’s just a clever conceit executed crisply and cleanly by an actor who can sell the absolute crap out of the worst lines of dialogue ever written. At one point, he whispers “Dream of us” and it didn’t result in mass projectile vomiting, which is a testimony to his unspeakable charisma. The film is set in the year 2077. Earth is a wasteland, because even scifi writers can’t conceive of a scenario in which we don’t completely screw the planet up. This time, it’s not our fault: it’s them durn aliens again! They showed up, so we fought them and accidentally ruined the planet, which seems about right. What’s left of the human race has moved to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Well, everyone but Jack (Cruise) and Victoria (Andrea Riseborough). Huge machines are sucking up the ocean because of … um, science reasons … and Jack’s job is to protect the Boulder Weekly
equipment from the leftover aliens, called “scavs” which is short for “scavengers.” The only thing protecting the ocean-suckers are flying mechanical drones (“thanks, Obama!”). But the couple has been promised that, in just two weeks, they get to stop playing earth janitor and reunite with humanity. But then a ship with a mysterious cargo crashes and Jack suddenly finds himself fighting against the very drones he once fixed. It’s a twist! Jokes aside, the plot maneuvers largely work, to the point where you’ll notice Morgan Freeman’s name missing above. This isn’t just Cruise’s ability to force an action-adventurer forward using only his will and toothy grin; the script from Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt and director Joseph Kosinski is the perfect degree of semi-serious. Sure it almost pretzels itself trying to reveal the intricacies of the happenings, but it rarely overstates its case. The love story isn’t somehow epic, the stakes aren’t explicitly huge and the final sequence is basically a smarter version of Independence Day, so it’s only kinda stupid. Like a porcupine playing volleyball with a balloon, it’s easy to poke holes in Oblivion but it’s still fun to watch. Cruise’s got his swagger back, the sci-fi isn’t SyFy and it looks real pretty (and that’s not just costar Olga Kurylenko). In a time of year when Scary Movie 5 gets a wide release, cling to Oblivion’s entertainment like you cling to bashing Cruise’s foibles. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Director Derek Cianfrance’s new film starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling pits a cop against a man who committed a crime to support his child. Both of their lives will be changed forever. Rated R. At Mayan, Century and Colony Square.
Recently heartbroken, Simon travels to Paris to clear his head. After several days of wandering aimlessly, Simon finds himself drawn into a sex parlor and has a sexual encounter with an exotic prostitute, Victoria. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
SPACE JAM Michael Jordan slams, Bugs Bunny jams and the Looney Tunes stars hoop it up in Space Jam, one of the cleverest and funniest animation/live-action capers ever made. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama Renoir tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter PierreAuguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At Chez Artiste. — Denver Film Society
The French Canadian comedy Starbuck stars Patrick Huard as David Wosniak, a lovable but perpetual screw-up who finally decides to take control of his life. A habitual sperm donor in his youth, this 42-year-old eternal teenager discovers that he’s the biological father of 533 children. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres
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The whole company is drawn into the fun, dancing a myriad of quirky characters: a twitchy White Rabbit, a tap dancing Mad Hatter, a sinuous caterpillar and so many more. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Parisian single mother Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and Midwestern tourist Neil (Ben Affleck) fall madly in love in France and relocate to Oklahoma with Marina’s young daughter to start a life together. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Inspired by a true story, the dramatic comedy The Sapphires follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Simon, a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
SCARY MOVIE V In this latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, we get to see Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and Snoop Dogg, er, Lion, in their natural habitat. Now that’s scary. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century. SIDE EFFECTS After her husband returns home from jail, a woman takes pills for anxiety that may cause her to murder. Rated R. At Colony Square. SILVER CIRCLE It’s 2019. The dollar is dead. The Federal Reserve brutally clings to the power it has gathered for more than a hundred years. Zoe Taylor stands in their way, with a cunning plan, a scrappy group of Rebels, an insider’s help, and a competing currency made of pure silver. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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A young woman is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man, and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he may also have been subjected to the same process. At SIE FilmCenter and Muenzinger Auditorium. — Denver Film Society WAIT WAIT...DON’T TELL ME! LIVE NPR’s quiz show is filmed live. Hosted by Peter Sagal with official judging done by Carl Kasell. At Century. WAR WITCH Komona, a 14 year-old girl in SubSaharan Africa, tells the story to her unborn child about her kidnapping by rebels. When she discovers a valuable intuition about the presence of the enemy, she is elevated as a witch and favored by the rebel leader. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Boulder Weekly
cuisine Your brain on yogurt
Probiotic bacteria spread at Colorado universities and businesses by Cecelia Gilboy John Eisle/Colorado State University
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ex, drugs and yogurt: what do they all have in common? They could all affect the hormone associated with happiness. Serotonin levels can be affected by bacteria like those found in probiotic foods, says John Cryan, a neuroscientist who has co-authored studies on probiotics and stress. The bacteria in probiotic foods, including yogurt, are being studied for the potential benefits to diners’ well-being. “It’s exactly what antidepressants do,” University of Colorado serotonin scientist Christopher Lowry says of the bacteria he studies. He’s been researching an admittedly “sci-fi” concept: using bacteria as a vaccine against depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Probiotic bacteria were proven to lower stress hormones and anxiety in mice in a 2011 Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences study. Co-author Cryan says he’s excited about the potential to develop medicines using bacteria to treat anxiety disorders. Bacteria in human guts — your “microbiota” — are drawing increasing research. Colorado State University recently announced a new major in fermentation science. Tiffany Weir, a fermentation scientist hired to teach the new curriculum, says it will prepare students both for the new field of medical science and for the burgeoning industry. Students can practice fermentation at
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CSU’s new on-campus brewery. Fermentation happens when microorganisms (bacteria or yeast) digest ingredients, converting them into something else. But beer isn’t “probiotic:” the bacteria aren’t alive when you drink it. Any subsequent feelings of reduced stress aren’t explained by the new bacterial research. Probiotic fermented foods include yogurt, Kombucha (fermented black tea and sugar), kefir (cultured milk), kimchi, sauerkraut and some frozen yogurt. Most Boulder fro-yo shops use Yoki Bliss yogurt, which contains probiotic bacteria, says Mary Trimble, director of publicity at Twirl. Even frozen yogurt’s dormant bacteria wake up in your gut, where they join billions of fellow bacteria. Your bacterial cells outnumber your human cells by about 10 to one. You’re a walking bacterial party. Or, sometimes, a war. A fuzzy line divides friend and foe. Normally, E. Coli bacteria reside peaceably in your gut — but if you ingest one of the few harmful strains, they can kill you. Citing a recent Nature study, Cryan says that diversity is essential to healthy microbiota. Diversifying your bacteria is hip. Yogurt consumption has doubled in the last decade, according to market analysts at NPD Group. And in local grosee BACTERIA Page 44
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pened earlier this year, Louisville’s Bistro 4 provides an unexpectedly elegant venue to enjoy a thoughtfully prepared breakfast or lunch. Tucked away in a strip mall a waffle’s throw from the local multiplex, this eatery’s ambience easily rises above its prosaic location. White tablecloths, stone tiles inset with colored glass, and a bar featuring such top-shelf liquors as Leopold Brothers’ gin are but a few of the fine-dining trappings here. At lunch, sandwich selections range from a grilled cheese featuring swiss, cheddar and brie to a Bistro burger highlighting natural beef and blue cheese. There’s also a meatless sandwich adorned with mushroom, tomato and pesto goat cheese. Less typical choices include braised chicken thigh on ciabatta and poached shrimp salad with aioli atop a Kaiser roll. The menu also offers soups like artichoke heart and tomato bisque, entree salads such as Nicoise with seared tuna, and a Caesar variant with white anchovy dubbed the Napoleon. It’s unclear whether consuming this salad results in eventual banishment to the remote isle of Saint Helena. What is less ambiguous is the bill of fare quietly pays homage to French cuisine without getting all prétentieux about it. Of all meals, breakfast is the one where diners seek the most predictability.
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arrived simply dressed with a subtly sweet vinaigrette suggesting fruit. These salad greens provided a lighter counterpoint to the rest of this preparation. Friend Mara’s $10 huevos rancheros was a standout interpretation of this south of the border classic. Instead of the expected sunnyside-up oeuvres, this version featured expertly poached egg, and tender pulled pork upped the heartiness quotient. Smoked tomato salsa made for a fresher, more complex flavor than the expected Ranchero sauce. Another touch that distinguished this interpretation was the addition of a thick housemade tortilla, which contributed heft and corn flavor that put its store-bought cousin to shame. While one certainly finds most breakfast classics on the menu here, what stands out is Bistro 4’s fresh take on many of these dishes. Indeed, the huevos had many of the elements of a textbook version. Yet the addition of smoky salsa, pork and an authentically rustic tortilla played the nifty trick of making the familiar seem new. Even the light spinach salad contributed a refreshing lightness to the chicken and biscuits that might be lacking in the original. This approach alone may be reason enough to visit here. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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We aren’t looking for restaurants to take eggs to strange new places — we simply want a decent omelet with a side of toast. On this score, the Bistro delivers with such items as pancakes, French toast and malted vanilla waffles. Egg dishes span from omelets to Benedicts, including one made with crab. More adventurous options are represented by corned beef hash drizzled with truffle oil and a bagel topped with house-smoked salmon. My choice of $10 chicken and biscuits featured a crisp and moist fried chicken breast atop light buttermilk biscuits swimming in herbed white gravy. I suspect the not-at-all dry poultry had been brined to preserve moisture, but the downside was that the chicken was a touch salty, as was the gravy. Otherwise, the sauce carried a pleasing sage aroma, and the bird’s breading was second to none. On the side, baby spinach leaves
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apoleon’s career came to an end when he was defeated at Waterloo, and banished to the remote island of Saint Helena, far off the west coast of Africa. He died there, either by cancer or poisoning. However, had he lived longer, there’s the tantalizing possibility he would have been liberated by infamous pirate Jean Lafitte. Rumor has it that Lafitte was in cahoots with Nicholas Girod, fifth mayor of New Orleans, to launch a naval raid on Saint Helena and deliver the deposed emperor to Louisiana. Girod’s Napoleon House stands today, named for who would have been its most famous resident.
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ceries, yogurt keeps demanding more shelf space. “Last year, we expanded the section by about four feet,” says Tristan Cargnel, dairy manager at Lucky’s Market. Noosa flies off the shelves, he says, and he was even approached about carrying buffalo milk yogurt. Yogurt can also easily be made at home. “A lot of customers buy our goat’s milk to make yogurt with it,” says Rob Anderson, owner of Colorado-based Mini Moo and courtesy of Esoteric Foods Kids Too. If you’re not into yogurt, you can still belly up to some bacteria. Local business Esoteric Foods sells its probiotic “zuké pickled things” at the Farmers’ Market and local grocers. “When you ferment food, you engage it in the Willow King, battle of bacteria,” right, and Mara King Esoteric co-owner of Esoteric Willow King says. Foods “The good guy triumphs… it knocks out E. Coli and other bad bacteria.” Fermenters affirm their foods’ safety, which has been questioned before. “The USDA lists no documented cases of food poisoning from fermented foods,” says self-described “fermentation fetishist” Sandor Katz, the author of The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved. But a 1981 USDA report mentions 114 cases of botulism, which is sometimes caused by bacteria that can contaminate fermented meats. Katz explains that a simple step is now known to prevent the bacteria. When a mysterious illness struck two women, killing one, in 1995, a Center for Disease Control report mentioned Kombucha as a possible cause. In 2010, Kombucha was pulled from shelves due to concerns about its alcohol content. Two major producers settled lawsuits, but admitted no wrongdoing, according to a beverage industry news site. “Fermentation makes food safer, not more dangerous,” Katz says. “Meanwhile, we’ve been in what I call ‘the war on bacteria.’” One bacteria labeled “bad,” he says, is going extinct in humans — just as it’s found to mediate signals that tell us when to stop eating. Gut microbes have been proven to
affect how much mice eat and how many calories they absorb from the same food, says Rob Knight, a CU biologist researching microbiota. So while Noosa is changing its nutrition labels to reflect a higher fat content than originally believed, it could still be good for your waistline. Its bacteria could help you to absorb fewer calories, and even to know when to stop eating it — a serious challenge, Noosa fans might say. Feelings of hunger and satiety may be mediated by the “gut-brain axis,” Knight explains. It’s like a phone line in your body, operated by bacteria. “The bacteria were talking to the brain, we realized,” Lowry says of his serotonin research at CU. “When we looked in mice, just injecting heatkilled bacteria had antidepressant effects.” When asked why he has to kill the bacteria, he chuckles. “I guess we don’t have to kill them,” he says. “But we’d have trouble getting regulatory approval for injecting live bacteria into people. But … there are other studies suggesting that eating probiotics might act in a similar way.” One of Weir’s students, at CSU after military service, hopes to research probiotics’ potential for PTSD sufferers. Katz expresses concern that research funding is provided only for proprietary strains, not traditional probiotic foods. But Weir is researching a very traditional tea. Before brewing, the tea leaves ferment, sprouting a yellow fungus. Initial funding came from a Denver clinic practicing Chinese medicine. As Weir finds benefits for diabetes and liver health, she’s submitting grants to the USDA. The National Cancer Institute funds her research on fermented bran. The National Institute of Mental Health has expressed interest in the role of microbiota, Knight says from a meeting with health officials in Washington, D.C. Katz predicts that heart and kidney health will soon join the list of bacteria’s beneficiaries. “We’ve just begun to scratch the surface,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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avor, dear readers, the rare industry that doesn’t require constant branding and marketing. There are tons of opportunity for branding in the craft beer industry, of course, but there isn’t a pathological need for it like with cars or cookies or coffee or most everything you can think of. This principle is best illustrated at Upslope Brewing, which shuns labeling altogether. Need an example? Name an Upslope beer. You can probably name several, but the point is you’re not thinking of names like Gangbusters Gold or Axe Grinder Amber or Lightning Lager. That’s not the style at Upslope. What’s their brown ale called? Brown Ale. The India pale ale is India Pale Ale. That amazing seasonal in the winter? Christmas Ale. The brewery’s lager gets way fancy: Craft Lager. Watch out now. Can you imagine a car company calling their sedan Sedan and their truck Big Truck? Upslope still has a brand, yes, but the whole design is clean and simple, and the beer names reflect that. Even the beer itself is straightforward and unfussy. We start with samples of the Dunkelweizen, a lager-y brew with strong banana flavors, and the Belgian Wit, a light, easy drinker. But soon enough, Joel and I turn to our favorite, the brown. The malty, roasty beer has long been the standard in my mind against which all other brown ales are judged. Jeff, meanwhile, drains a Pale Ale and chimes in with a searing insight. “I dunno,” he says. “It was good.” On a Thursday afternoon in the North Boulder taproom — which we can now call Upslope’s original taproom, since Upslope recently joined the expansion trend and opened a second taproom in East Boulder — there’s a family feeling in the air, no doubt aided by the employee who calls out, “Honey! I’m home!” as he steps through the door. In the rapidly growing craft beer world, Upslope is a grizzled veteran at five years old. The brewery’s dual-tone cans are everywhere, yet it still steadily cranks out limited releases like the aforementioned Christmas Ale, one of the best on the market, as well as a special stout (Foreign Style Stout) and a pumpkin ale (Pumpkin Ale). We find Upslope’s style — and pale ale — refreshing. We hope they keep turning out porters called Porter and trippels called Trippel forever — with the exception of Boulder Weekly Brown, of course, which we’re still holding out hope for. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Next stops: Walnut Brewery, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder, 4 p.m., May 2. Very Nice, 20 Lakeview Drive #112, Nederland, 5 p.m., May 9. Members of the public are welcome. Boulder Weekly
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rospect Eats, a burgeoning weekly foodtruck gathering in south Longmont, kicked off its 2013 season on Monday, April 29, with a crowd of about 800 showing up to partake in cuisine, live music and community interaction. The event, held every Monday until the end of September from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (9 p.m. between Memorial Day and Labor Food trucks at Prospect Eats Day), has grown significantly since its inception a few years ago. Edward Vanegas, who owns several businesses in the Prospect neighborhood, says he inadvertently kicked off the gathering in December 2010 when he invited a couple of food trucks to an open house he was hosting at his retail store, Suburban Hill. The following month, residents started asking him when the trucks would return. A dish from Arugula Since the Prospect Eats gathering is held on private property owned by the homeowners’ association, city code the event, which is open to the public. doesn’t apply, Vanegas says, although the “We think we have the buzz of the whole city has passed new code to give food trucks community, Longmont, not just Prospect,” he leeway. says. “If you let these small businesses prosper, The weekly gathering, which is held in the they will do it on their own, the good ones downtown Prospect park, used to attract will,” Vanegas says. only a couple of hundred people. Now, durAs an example, he points to Comida, a ing peak season, about 1,200 show up, makfood truck that has expanded to include a ing it “the largest gathering of food trucks in brick-and-mortar restaurant in Prospect and northern Colorado,” according to Vanegas, a plan for a restaurant in the Denver area. who is set to open his own Thai restaurant Vanegas credits word of mouth and nearby in late May. social media for the growing popularity of Musicians perform at every gathering,
offering everything from blues to jazz to folk. And the artists include big local names like the Boulder Big Band and Wendy Woo, who is booked for Memorial Day. On opening night this past week, Vanegas says, musician Paul Glover brought a former member of Jethro Tull on stage to perform. “It’s community, it’s families, moms, dads, kids, grandparents, and it’s dog-friendly,” he says. “We just want you to take a break from your life … and enjoy the music and food, and then go back to the regiment of what you do each week.”
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20:
Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area where a theater troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on different masks and wigs and disguises and get-ups. You can envision yourself living in different eras as various characters. If you like, you can even go out into the world wearing your alternate identities. Try this exercise, Taurus. It’ll stimulate good ideas about some new selfimages you might want to play with in real life.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
Ray LaMontagne sings these lyrics in his tune “Empty”: “I looked my demons in the eyes. Laid bare my chest and said, ‘Do your best to destroy me. I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.’” I wouldn’t be opposed to you delivering a message like that to your own demons, Gemini — with one caveat: Leave out the “Do your best to destroy me” part. Simply peer into the glazed gaze of those shabby demons and say, “You bore me and I’m done with you. Bye-bye.” And then walk away from them for good.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
I know a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism who got an unexpected message from her teacher. He told her she has made such exemplary progress in her quest for enlightenment that she has earned the ultimate reward. When she dies many years from now, the teacher said, she will enter nirvana! She will have no further karmic obligation to reincarnate into a new body in the future, and will be forever excused from the struggle of living in the material world. Although her teacher meant this to be good news, she was heartbroken. She wants to keep reincarnating. Her joyous passion is to help relieve the suffering of her fellow humans. Can you guess what sign she is? Yes: a Cancerian. Like her, many of you are flirting with an odd and challenging choice between selfishness and selflessness.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
A lawyer named John Keogh filed an application with the Australian Patent Office. It was for a “circular transportation facilitation device.” His claim was approved. He thus became the owner of the world’s first and only patent for the wheel. So far, he has not tried to collect royalties from anyone who’s using wheels. I nominate him to be your role model, Leo. May he inspire you to stamp your personal mark on a universal archetype or put your unique spin on something everyone knows and loves.
VIRGO
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This may be the best week in a long time to practice the art of crazy wisdom. And what is crazy wisdom? Here’s how novelist Tom Robbins described it to Shambhala Sun: It’s “a philosophical worldview that recommends swimming against the tide, cheerfully seizing the short end of the stick, embracing insecurity, honoring paradox, courting the unexpected, celebrating the unfamiliar, shunning orthodoxy, volunteering for tasks nobody else wants or dares to do, and breaking taboos in order to destroy their power. It’s the wisdom of those who turn the tables on despair by lampooning it, and who neither seek authority nor submit to it.” And why should you do any of that weird stuff? Robbins: “To enlarge the soul, light up the brain, and liberate the spirit.”
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
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OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
Historical records suggest that ancient Greek philosopher Democritus went blind late in his life. There are different stories about why. According to one account, he intentionally did it to himself by gazing too long into the sun. That was his perverse way of solving a vexing problem: It freed him from the torment of having to look upon gorgeous women who were no longer interested in or available to him because of his advanced age. I hope you won’t do anything like that, Scorpio. In fact, I suggest you take the opposite approach: Keep your attention focused on things that stir your deep attraction, even if you think you can’t have them for your own. Valuable lessons and unexpected rewards will emerge from such efforts.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
Search your memory, Sagittarius, and recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with extreme focus and intensity. You were rarely bored and never resentful about the enormous effort you had to expend. You loved throwing yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make plans to bring it into your life in the near future.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
Nairobi is Kenya’s capital and home of over three million urbanites. A few minutes’ drive from the city center, there’s a 45-square-mile national park teeming with wildlife. Against a backdrop of skyscrapers, rhinos and giraffes graze. Lions and cheetahs pounce. Wildebeests roam and hyenas skulk. I suggest you borrow the spirit of that arrangement and invoke it in your own life. In other words, be highly civilized and smartly sophisticated part of the time; be wild and free the rest of the time. And be ready to go back and forth between the two modes with grace and ease.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
In the wild, a tiger’s diet consists entirely of meat. The big cat loves to feast on deer and wild boar, and eats a variety of other animals, too. The hunt is always solitary, never done in collaborative groups. That’s why the creature’s success rate is so low. A tiger snags the prey it’s seeking only about 5 percent of the time. It sometimes has to wait two weeks between meals. Nevertheless, a tiger rarely starves. When it gets what it’s after, it can devour 75 pounds of food in one sitting. According to my astrological analysis, Aquarius, you’re like a tiger these days. You haven’t had a lot of lucky strikes lately, but I suspect you will soon hit the jackpot.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
The French word flâneur is a meme that refers to a person who strolls around the city at a leisurely pace, exploring whatever captivates her imagination. To the casual observer, the flâneur may seem to be a lazy time-waster with nothing important to do. But she is in fact motivated by one of the noblest emotions — pure curiosity — and is engaged in a quest to attract novel experiences, arouse fresh insights, and seek new meaning. Sound fun? Well, congratulations, Pisces, because you have been selected as the Flaming Flâneur of the Zodiac for the next two weeks. Get out there and meander!
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he elephant in the room of all attempts by states to regulate marijuana is the current federal prohibition, which began in earnest under President Richard Nixon. Federal laws that make smoking marijuana a crime and a Justice Department dragging its feet under pressure to continue the Drug War, as is, make it difficult to get any legal business off the ground in those states. Boulder-area Rep. Jared Polis and a growing group of U.S. representatives have championed efforts to get the federal government out of the pot-enforcement business. I talked with Polis via email about his latest efforts. BW: As an admitted non-marijuana smoker, would you outline what led you to eventually champion legislation that could help marijuana businesses gain an even footing and try to change decades of entrenched U.S. policy? Polis: I see marijuana legalization as a way to reduce violent crime, improve public health by reducing access for minors, and help balance our budget. State and federal prohibition of marijuana consumption disproportionately criminalizes African-American and Latino families, supports a thriving black market, fills our prisons to the bursting point and drains scarce law enforcement resources away from fighting violent crime — all without decreasing consumption or production of the plant. To me, taxing and regulating marijuana is the only practical solution. BW: You introduced a bill last year that would allow marijuana businesses to use banks, something currently illegal because of federal laws against marijuana and a real barrier for legal marijuana-related businesses to succeed. What is the status of that bill?
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