5 24 12 boulder weekly

B o u l d e r C o u n t y ’ s Tr u e I n d e p e n d e n t Vo i c e / F r e e / w w w. b o u l d e r w e e k l y. c o m / M a y 2 4 - 3 0 , 2 0 1 2

SALE

AMERICAN FURNITURE WAREHOUSE

SUPER

MEMORIAL D AY

Quality - Value - Selection - Everyday LOWEST prices. Your Choice!

Outdoor Rocker

$

49

Brown or Mocha

LG / 42PA4500 / 42" Class 720p 600Hz / Plasma HDTV

$

70

INSTANT SAVINGS!

47999

$

Regular Price $54999

Metal & Glass TV Stand

• Durable black powder finish • Holds up to 50” flat HDTV • Assembly is required • 50w x 24h x 18d

Compare at $89 (SKU: 1A-47417) Assembly Required.

77

$

Microfiber Recliner with Ottoman

AFW price $138 – Compare at $199

SKU: AV50

(SKU: 1D-7120)

5-PC Patio Set

$

171

Hexagon Gazebo

$

88

(100w x 102h x 100d) Compare at $219 (SKU: ALG-7) Aluminum and steel construction, Powder coated finish, and a pack-and-carry bag. While supplies last!

42” Round Glass Top Table

Sling Patio Chair

Compare at $89 (SKU: GLS-TBL)

Compare at $69 (SKU: GLS-CHR2)

AFW price $59

Comes with screens and a carry case!

AFW price $28

MANuFACTuReRS HAVe GIVeN OuR BuYeRS SOMe AMAzING DeALS FOR OuR MeMORIAL DAY SALe.

We have a huge selection of furniture that is IN-STOCK and ready for you to take home today.

See OuR COMMeRCIAL NOW:

AFWonline.com

Scan with your smart phone to view.

Additional handling charges may apply to merchandise picked-up at showroom locations. See store for details.

DOUGLAS CO. MEGASTORE & WAREHOUSE 2 minutes east of I-25 off E-470 & Peoria St.

(303) 799-9044

COLORADO SPRINGS

UNIVERSITY

I-25 & FILLMORE - 2805 CHESTNUT ST.

S. UNIVERSITY & COUNTY LINE

PUEBLO

AURORA

(719) 633-4220 I-25 & EAGLERIDGE

(719) 542-5169

(303) 795-0928 1700 S. ABILENE

(303) 368-8555

www.facebook.com/American.Furniture.Warehouse

GRAND JUNCTION NEW E! HWY 6 & 50

(970) 208-1920

R

STO

FIRESTONE SUPERCENTER & WAREHOUSE

I-25 & HWY 119 • Longmont/Firestone

(303) 684-2400

twitter.com/AmericanFurn

WESTMINSTER

FORT COLLINS

(303) 425-4359

(970) 221-1981

S.W. LAKEWOOD

GLENWOOD SPRINGS

(303) 933-3975

(970) 928-9422

94th & WADSWORTH

5390 S. WADSWORTH BLVD.

I-25 AND HWY. 14

3200 S. GLEN AVE.

THORNTON SUPERSTORE & WAREHOUSE I-25 & 84TH

(303) 289-4100

youtube.com/AmericanFurnWhse

contents news and views

Summer Spanish Courses

SAINT MELINDA / 6 Melinda Gates should be the Patron Saint of Voiceless and Vulnerable Women by Pamela White

Adults & Kids Courses Register Now at spanish-institute.org (303)350-5533 2850 Iris Ave Suite I-4 Boulder

ON THE COVER: WHO’S AFRAID? / 10 Wyoming’s open hunting season on wolves could keep them out of Colorado by Elizabeth Miller CITY DENIES REQUESTS FOR VALMONT MEETINGS, TOURS / 12 ‘Boulder Weekly,’ activist groups can’t speak with cleanup monitors by Jefferson Dodge, Joel Dyer and Elizabeth Miller SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS HITS BOULDER POWER PLAYERS / 13 Phone records of D.A., city attorney and council member raise questions by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

buzz EVIL CHEESEY RIDES AGAIN / 18 Local filmmakers to produce documentary about Boulder daredevil by Sebastian Murdock Overtones: Jane’s Addiction collaborates, emerges with different sound / 23 Arts & Culture: Upright Citizen’s Brigade incubates top talent / 25 Arts & Culture: Devil’s Thumb scratches itch and takes on ‘Bug’ / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 35 Screen: The Dictator / 37 Cuisine: Vanilla journeys far in reaching your olfactory system / 42 Cuisine Review: Udon Kaisha / 43

departments Letters: Brigham brouhaha; More on Carr; The facts of Komen / 5 The Highroad: Wild about wild chickens / 5 In Case You Missed It: Konfused Kevin; Watching Fox makes you stupider / 8 Boulderganic: Turn up the heat / 15 Adventure: Filmmaker floats 550-mile stretch of Yellowstone River / 39 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 49 Boulder Marketplace: Your community resource / 51

@DPDough_Boulder

@DPDough_Boulder

staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Contributing Editor, Pamela White Interns, Michael Callahan, Sebastian Murdock, Hadley Vandiver Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing Account Executives, Andrea Craven, David Hasson, Lisa Secco, Brooke Sunness PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Francie Swidler CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo May 24, 2012 Volume XIX, Number 42 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com

Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink.

Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2012 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

Boulder Weekly

NEW SUMMER HOURS 11am-Midnight (Sun-Wed) Open Till 3am (Thurs-Sat)

303.444.ZONE

May 24, 2012 3

Spring Cleaning Sale!

Now h g u o r thThe Sleep St MAY 31

Doctor™ is IN

Introducing...

AtThe Urban Mattress it’s ™Out Dr. Breus Bed with the Old, In with the New! An unequalled combination of benefits for a better night’s sleep. The Dr. Breus Bed™ keeps temperatures just right for great sleep. You’ll be cradled in amazing comfort while experiencing nature’s finest support.You can wake-up with the energy to make the most out of every day.

We’re offering Great Discounts on Floor Models, Old Models and Exchanged mattresses! …and ask about Dr. Breus’ exclusive If you missed our Groupon don’t Up to 50% off floor models and “House Call Program,” too! worry, we’re offering the same last years models, including the $150 discount through best in eco-friendly memory foam, Memorial Day Weekend! natural latex, and *Only valid on purchases $999 or more. innerspring mattresses. Cannot be combined with any other sales or offers

“Monogram” www.urbanmattress.com $

1499 Queen Set Stop In At Our Showroom Today!

2099 King Set 303.440.0288 The Dr. Breus bed was featured on the Dr. Oz

2830 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder (Just east $ of 28th on Arapahoe) show as•aFamily Top 10 Must-Have for better health! Locally Owned Operated • Free Delivery, Haul Away & Recycle

we donate 2% to local charities ™

letters Boulder Weekly welcomes your correspondence via email (letters@ boulderweekly.com) or the comments section of our website at www.boulderweekly.com. Preference will be given to shorter letters that deal with recent stories or local issues, and letters may be edited for style, length and libel. Letters should include your name, address and telephone number for verification. We do not publish anonymous letters or those signed with pseudonyms. Letters become the property of Boulder Weekly and will be published on our website.

Brigham brouhaha

(Re: “Unzipped,” cover story, May 17.) As usual, excellent journalism by Boulder Weekly. Please inform Seth’s lawyer that, barring any radical changes in the situation, I would be proud to testify on Seth’s behalf. I’ve already marked the date on my calendar and will be at the hearing. I’m suggesting that if the papers wanted a good story, they should go through the minutes of past meetings and interview frequent speakers at council meetings like myself. Ask them what they think about this restraining order and if they would support council members who advocated this. Whether the issue is sustainability and social justice (me), process issues or pesticides, we are passionate, not dangerous. Question to staff: Mr. Carr, did you, as reported in BW, issue a press report stating that “Brigham would undergo ‘court-ordered mental health treatment’”? His attorney said, according to BW, that: “You should apologize publicly to Seth Brigham and admit publicly that there never was any court-ordered mental health treatment, that Mr. Brigham was only asked to show that he has in fact been under treatment and has coop-

erated with his treatment provider. And you should admit that there was a clear difference of opinion whether Seth did anything to obstruct officers, with other witnesses agreeing with Seth. You should admit that it was really not a ‘plea agreement,’ in that Seth never withdrew his plea of not guilty and it still stands.” Staff question: Mr. Carr, do you have any medical or mental issues that we should know about? Have you ever been to a psychiatrist? Respectfully, do we really expect this behavior from the city attorney’s office (CAO)? I hope Ariel Callone is not watching the hard work he put into the CAO’s office being flushed down the toilet.

the

Highroad Wild about wild chickens by Jim Hightower

S

ome people complain that their town has gone to the dogs, but Bastrop, Texas, has gone to the chickens — and Bastropians are proud of it. Well, most Bastropians. While other cities might boast of their historic sites or cultural offerings, the good folks of this easy-going, free-spirited community have chosen to

Boulder Weekly

By the way, what is the number of emails that the CAO’s office considers threatening? Crystal [Gray] used to call me the 10th council member, does that mean I’m exempt? This is a new low for the city of Boulder. P.S.: I saw Seth the other day in the coffee shop. He gave me a hug. I wasn’t scared. He’s a pretty small guy. Respectfully and non-dangerously submitted, Tim “Black Cowboy” Thomas/via Internet

More on Carr

The Brigham story just barely

highlight a flock of feral chickens that has lived for years on (appropriately enough) Farm Street. No one owns these roosters, hens and chicks — they take care of themselves, eating bugs, clucking contentedly from yard to yard, and yes, crossing the road for no apparent reason. It’s a quirky phenomenon that fits right in with this town of delightfully quirky folks. Three years ago, some of them got the city council to enshrine the quirkiness by designating their area “The Farm Street Historical Chicken Sanctuary” — a proclamation that provides protected status for the flock. Everyone smiled, the chickens clucked, and all was well. Until this spring, when Beverly Hoskins raised a ruckus in the hen house, figuratively speaking. As owner of several rental houses along Farm Street, she wants the council to consider repealing the proclamation, complaining that “a lot of chicken

scratches the surface of Tom Carr’s murky world. During Tom’s tenure as Seattle city attorney, there were extensive “excessive use of force” complaints against the police department of the city of Seattle. Imagine you’re the mom of a developmentally disabled teenager who gets his face smashed by a Seattle police officer — an officer who had done something similar on other occasions, but was still on the force because of corrupt internal review. Let’s be clear: Under Tom Carr there were 400 back-to-back-to-back non-disciplined “excessive use of force” cases. In other words, the officer was not see LETTERS Page 6

waste” was being spread by the daily For more information on Jim Hightower’s promenade. work — and to subThe denizens of scribe to his awardFarm Street, however, winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower flocked to defend the Lowdown — visit www. fowls, asserting that jimhightower.com. wild chickens are an integral part of “Bastrop culture.” One lady who rents one of Hoskins’ houses said of the chickens that roost in a tree in her yard: “I welcome them.” Another neighbor pointed out that “Hey, the chickens were here first? And it is ‘Farm Street!’” The fate of the flock is still up in the air, but the council recently hinted at its sentiments by authorizing some banners on Farm Street telling motorists to slow down, for they’re driving through a chicken sanctuary. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com May 24, 2012 5

uncensored Saint Melinda by Pamela White

M

elinda Gates is my new hero. In fact, I think she should be canonized as the Patron Saint of Voiceless and Vulnerable Women. Gates announced earlier this month that she intends to focus the wealth and might of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on making the development and availability of reliable contraception a global priority. Her goal is simple and noble: improving the lives and the health of women around the world. In a year that has seen new extremes on the part of religious fundamentalists intent on hindering access to contraception here in the United States, it’s not surprising that Gates’ announcement, which she discussed at length in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, was met with derision on the part of the male hierarchy of the Catholic Church and other religionists. Gates’ decision was informed by compassion and the result of years spent doing something that the religious patriarchy rarely seems to do — listening to women. While access to contraception isn’t what it should be in the United States, in other parts of the world, it’s much, much worse. In many countries and cultures, the concept of marital rape — the idea that a woman has a right to refuse to have sex with her husband — is nonexistent. Unfortunately, many of these places also have high rape rates (even excluding spousal rape) and very low access to contraception and reproductive health care in general. In some areas, the attitude toward contraception is viciously hostile. In Afghanistan, for example, midwives have been killed by militant Islamists, who believed the birth attendants were providing condoms to Afghan women. In Uganda and other parts of Africa, asking one’s husband to wear a condom can result in a brutal beating. As a result, an estimated 100,000 women die each year from complications due to unintended pregnancies. The infant mortality rate in such cases is six times that. Clearly, lack of contraception constitutes a public health crisis for women and babies. Can you imagine having pregnancy forced on you — and then dying in childbirth or of a post-partum infection? Women’s lives, it seems, just aren’t that important—except to women themselves. As Gates explained to Newsweek, she has spent years traveling widely with the 6 May 24, 2012

Gates Foundation, which has been using its billions looking for ways to fight and prevent malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious diseases that kill women, children and men in poor countries. During conversations with women in villages in developing countries, she has continually and consistently received requests from women for help with access to contraception. Some walked long distances repeatedly to remote clinics in search of Depo Provera injections, a type of contraceptive that effectively prevents pregnancy if injected at regular intervals — and which can be concealed from a husband. “Women sitting on a bench, 20 of them, immediately they’ll start speaking out and saying, ‘I wish I had that injection I used to get,’” Gates told Newsweek. “‘I came to this clinic three months ago, and I got my injection. I came last week, and I couldn’t get it, and I’m here again.’” These women were not being coerced into using family planning. No one was duping them into getting Depo Provera shot. They were walking for miles, babies on their backs, hoping against hope to be able to get the shot, often in secret, risking the displeasure of their husbands or family members to do so. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church was quick to condemn Gates’ decision, in part because she is Catholic. Francis Phillips wrote in The Catholic Herald, “A horrid image comes to mind, of white-coated boffins hard at work in diabolical laboratories, devising new ways of depriving men and women of their conjugal dignity, their culture and their traditions.” If Phillips wants a truly horrid image, she should look hard at this: girls who are routinely raped after being forced into “marriage” at puberty to older men; women who are beaten for trying to protect their own lives with a simple condom; mothers leaving seven children orphaned and alone after dying while giving birth to unwanted child No. 8 at the age of 24. As for dignity, there is absolutely zero “conjugal dignity” in dying while giving birth on the floor of a mud hut to a baby conceived in marital rape. Any culture that does not protect women’s lives and women’s dignity is in dire need of transformation. Ignore the misogynists of the Church, Ms. Gates. Follow your heart. There’s more true compassion there for women than in the Vatican. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

LETTERS from Page 5

held accountable with removal or suspension of his job — and in many cases, where an adjunct review board did recommend to Tom that he take disciplinary action, which Tom was actually responsible for doing, he did nothing. The Federal Justice Department came in, and the deputy attorney general of the Human Rights Division, Thomas Perez, cited the entire oversight process as broken. In point of fact, he could have cited Tom Carr, but instead cited everyone, including Tom. In point of fact, though, it was up to Tom to act when others wouldn’t — or at the very minimum, act more appropriately on a case by case basis with victims of brutality. Google “Seattle brutality.”

In other videotaped cases, an innocent Hispanic man is kicked in the head by an officer while lying on the ground. In another case, a pregnant woman was tasered multiple times by three officers, and Tom appealed a federal judge’s ruling to allow the woman to move forward with a civil claim for damages. Tom did not lose the 2009 Seattle city attorney’s race to a relative newcomer by some weird accident, or, as he claims, because it was a “bad year for incumbents.” No, he lost the race in an absolute landslide because people were sick to death of seeing reports about police brutality and suffering victims. Jon Kita, an Asian ressee LETTERS Page 9

quotes “President George W. Bush not too long ago ordered torture and admitted to doing so. Torture is a crime against humanity. The United States has refused to prosecute him. Is he above the law? Where is the fairness?” —Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was convicted of war crimes, calling for similar prosecution for former President George W. Bush “A thousand years of history disappears just like that.” —Fernando Ferioli, mayor of Finale Emilia, Italy, one of the towns hit by an earthquake in northern Italy on May 20. A historic clock tower in the town was destroyed. “It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.” —British human rights activist Peter Tatchell, lambasting his government for the guest list at the Queen’s planned lunch with sovereign monarchs, including the king of Bahrain, who has been accused of using brute force to suppress pro-democracy efforts

Boulder Weekly

MAGENTA DEAL DAYS

GET ONE

HTC® RADAR™ 4G

SAMSUNG GALAXY S® BLAZE™4G

SAMSUNG GALAXY S® II 4G HTC® ONE™ S 4G

AMERICA’S LARGEST Like us if you like 4G

HTC® AMAZE™ 4G

4G NETWORK Find a store near you at T-Mobile.com

New two-year agreement on qualifying Classic plan and mail-in rebate card required.

DEAL ENDS MAY 28TH Eligible devices include HTC Radar, HTC One S, T-Mobile myTouch, T-Mobile myTouch Q, HTC Amaze, Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G and Samsung Exhibit II 4G. Offer valid 5/18-5/28, 2012; subject to change. Participating locations only. Taxes and fees add’l. While supplies last. Devices must be purchased and activated at the same time on the same account. Device Offer: Free device must be of equal or lesser value. Domestic only. Credit approval, $35/line activation fee, and two-year contract with up to $200/line early cancellation fee req’d on each device. If you switch plans you may be bound by existing or extended term (including early cancellation provisions) and/or charged an up to $200 fee. You may be unable to switch to some plans. Regulatory Programs Fee (not a tax or government-mandated charge) of $1.61 per line/month applies. Taxes approx. 6-28% of bill. Mail-In Rebate Card: Activation of qualifying plan req’d; must remain active and in good standing at time rebate is processed. Limited to specic model(s); supplies may be limited. We reserve the right to substitute different models of equal or greater value. One device per eligible account. Rebate provided in the form of a VISA card. Allow 6-8 weeks for processing. See rebate form for details. Coverage: 4G HSPA+ network not available everywhere. Abnormal Usage: Service may be slowed, suspended, terminated, or restricted for misuse, abnormal use, interference with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users, or signicant roaming. See brochures and Terms and Conditions (including arbitration provision) at www.T-Mobile.com for additional information. The Windows logo is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The Android robot is created and shared by Google and used according to the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License. T-Mobile and the magenta color are registered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG. America’s Largest 4G Network and myTouch are registered trademarks of T-Mobile USA, Inc. ©2012 T-Mobile USA, Inc.

EXPERT

bikE REPAiR (ANY ViNTAGE OR MAkE) • Full service & repairs • Fast, friendly help • Locally owned 2432 Arapahoe Ave. (Folsom & Arapahoe) 303-443-1132 • BoulderBikeSmith.com Open 9am-6pm every day

FREE

12oz. cup of fair trade organic coffee

with purchase of one bagel with cream cheese EXP. 5/31/12

Get Ready for Summer! Try Rolfing® Structural Integration

JUNE-JULY CLINIC IS STILL OPEN

BECOME A ROLFER™ ~ FINANCIAL AID AVAILABLE for those who qualify

Experience Rolfing SI at a Discounted Rate Visit clinic.rolf.org and Email you group choice to clinic@rolf.org The Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration • 303-449-5903 • Boulder, CO

SERIOUS FELONIES sexual assault, Drugs, Domestic violence, DUI, DMv Hearings

2011 rising Star

the Savela law firm, P.C. Jason savela

Graduate of Gerry spence’s Trial lawyers’ College

8 May 24, 2012

250 arapahoe, Suite 301 Boulder, CO 80302

720-260-7392

www.jasonsavela-law.com

icumi

in case you missed it

KONFUSED KEVIN Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud, like a lot of Republicans these days, wants to have it both ways. Very little government, unless big government suits their needs. The latest example came when Lundberg spent some time at the end of the legislature’s recent special session complaining about the University of Colorado Boulder’s new policy on “canvassing,” which he said prevents people from handing out materials on campus unless they get permission in advance and do it in specific locations. Lundberg called on CU to end the practice, calling it “censorship” and a suppression of First Amendment rights in a press release. “Our state’s flagship institution of higher education should be a place where ideas are freely exchanged, not a place of censorship,” he snorted. Hey, where was this guy in 2005 when former CU Professor Ward Churchill was being strung up for exercising his free speech rights? Oh, that’s right. He was on Hardball With Chris Matthews attempting to suppress those rights back when he was a state representative. Make up your mind there, Kevin. Do you want limited government, or do you want a government that steps in to control women’s bodies when it comes to abortion? Do you believe in small government, or do you want a government that prohibits two people of the same sex from entering civil unions? You change your mind when it suits your out-of-touch morals, pal. Yes, this is the guy who tried to get his fellow Republican, Rep. B.J. Nikkel of Loveland, kicked off the House Judiciary Committee because she had the gall to vote for the most recent civil union bill. A real charmer. And, hooray, he’s running for Congress. WATCHING FOX MAKES YOU STUPIDER Yes, we know that you already knew this, but now it’s official, as in new research has actually proven it to be true. In a recent article for The Nation, Ben Adler points out that while “people who work at Fox News might like to think that they are despised by real journalists only because they are conservative and most journalists are liberal,” that isn’t the case. They are despised because Fox “fails the fundamental test of journalism: Are you informing your audience?” The Nation further reports that, “according to a new study by Farleigh Dickinson University, Fox viewers are the least knowledgeable audience of any outlet, and they know even less about politics and current events than people who watch no news at all.” Fox-watching respondents to the study’s survey were able to answer correctly “an average of 1.8 of 4 questions about international news and 1.6 out of 5 questions about domestic affairs.” If that sounds like a pretty high percentage to you, you probably watch Fox News. But Fox newsers aren’t wrong about everything. At least they know that Saddam Hussein paid the ultimate price for his role in 9/ll and that Barack Hussein Obama is really a Muslim born in a foreign country. Take that, liberal lamestream media. A FITTING TRIBUTE Speaking of Republicans, CU President Bruce Benson was honored by the Denver Zoo this week for his contributions while on the zoo’s board. The punch line? Wait for it … The zoo named its predator exhibit after him. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Boulder Weekly

letters

LETTERS from Page 6

taurant owner, interviewed in the Seattle press about the videotaped “excessive use” assault he endured, put it this way: “How is it possible to get to 400 cases in a row with no discipline?” Indeed, how is it possible? It must be noted, Tom absolutely oversaw the contracts for civil claims defense of police officers alleged to have harmed people. During Tom’s tenure, the bill added up to $18 million dollars, which all went to one law firm which Tom helped choose. If at any time during those 400 non-disciplined cases there was a turnaround towards implementation of discipline, that would have caused the costs for handling those cases — the billings — to nosedive. Tom prevented that from happening. The question remains, at what point in time did Tom become aware that the city of Seattle was receiving bad publicity for its brutality problems? Was it a year before the election? Could Tom have a rational understanding that he would lose — that in fact, the other side could nominate a doorknob, and he’d probably lose? In other words, what was the nature of Tom’s commitment to having this highly paid bunch of lawyers defend brutal officers? Did Tom somehow feel that his own personal sense of justice and duty serving the city of Seattle was more significant than the information he was getting from the ever-growing list of injured residents seeking bare compensation for their suffering? Or did someone pay him to take his election loss with a smile and the “it was a bad year for incumbents” remark? And how did the city of Boulder manage to hire him, at a pay increase of about $50,000 per year, without ever discussing the 2-to-1 margin of loss in the 2009 election, and the brutality issues which always went unresolved and which were lead stories in the local news, time and again? Rob Smoke/Boulder

and a profit of $109,406 in 2010! $35,000 is a rounding error at BCWHC! You lose any and all credibility when you whine so loudly over so little. You sound just like the typical Boulder trust fund baby — never understood there are times when everything doesn’t go up. Don Sherwood/Boulder Editor’s note: BCWHC Executive Director Susan Levy responds: “The surplus noted by the writer for 2011 was directly a

result of a capital campaign and renovation. Contributions are reflected as revenue, while renovation expenses are depreciated, thus the large surplus. This is not indicative of BVWHC’s capacity to cover the loss of the Komen funding, nor the need to secure resources to pay for breast screening services to low-income, uninsured women. And the writer states that the grant was ‘reduced’ — it was actually eliminated entirely.”

Danish is right on fracking

(“Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the

use of fracking,” Danish Plan, March 17.) Finally, finally someone who shows some common sense on this whole issue of fracking! We farm in Weld County and I own a local business in downtown Longmont, and I am so tired of the lies that are being placed on the fracking process. Thanks so much, Paul, for your great article. I will pick up more Boulder Weekly papers to read what you have to say! Carleen Burch/via Internet

Please join us for the

BASH

Featuring our Best of Boulder awards ceremony

Thursday, May 31 • 5:30-9pm

Boulder Theater • 2032 14th St. Free for all guests, must be 21+ to attend

Live Music by Hindsight Classic Rock and the

Yawpers!

The facts on Komen

(Re: “Funding cut hurts county breast-cancer programs,” Uncensored, May 3.) “Boulder County has been hit hard by a decrease in funding from Susan G. Komen For the Cure.” Oh really? The Susan G. Komen Foundation in Denver had a reduction in donations from $2.9 million to $2.5 million, a 13.7 percent drop. Their grant to Boulder County Women’s Health Center (BCWHC) was reduced by $35,000 — a 1.2 percent reduction. Of course, you failed to include in your whining little article that BCWHC had revenues of $2.82 million (more revenue than the Komen Denver affiliate) Boulder Weekly

Don’t miss the opportunity to mingle with the Best of Boulder, sample free food from award-winning restaurants, and hear fabulous local music.

May 24, 2012 9

news

A

lmost 40 years passed before anyone thought to miss the gray wolf. Wolves, along with grizzlies, had been deliberately eradicated in western states in the name of protecting people and their livestock. The last wolf in Colorado was killed in the 1930s. By the time they were added to the list of endangered species protected by the Endangered Species Act in 1974, they existed only in a small corner of northeastern Minnesota. In the decades that followed, humans would undertake concentrated efforts to undo the damage of their ancestors, reintroducing gray wolves in Idaho and at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in 1995 and 1996. But the move has been met with polarized responses: for every conservation group that would have howled in celebration, there was a hunter or a rancher loading a round into the chamber. Although Colorado residents have long expressed positive feelings toward having wolves returned to the state, Colorado’s Wildlife Commission has come down on the opposite side, leaving Colorado out of deliberate reintroduction efforts. Were wolves to return to Colorado, they’d have to arrive on their own, migrating from the reestablished packs in neighboring states. And as Wyoming once again puts forward a wolf management plan which, if approved, would deprive wolves in that state of the protections of the Endangered Species Act, that path becomes more harrowing, and the likelihood of wolves gaining a foothold in the southern Rocky Mountains decreases. Wolves now occupy more than 110,000 square miles in the northern Rocky Mountains, most of it public land. By December 2009, there were at least 1,706 wolves and more than 100 breeding pairs in 242 packs, and in April 2010, an estimated 600 new pups were born. That number is five and a half times the target recovery goal from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of 300 wolves and 30 breeding pairs over the three states. The return was so robust that the states of Idaho and Montana were able to successfully argue in 2009 that the gray wolf was established in the northern Rocky Mountains — Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, eastern Washington and Oregon and a small part of southcentral Utah. Federal protections for the species under the Endangered Species Act were removed — except in Wyoming, because the state did not have an adequate management plan for 10 May 24, 2012

maintaining wolves. Wolf hunting was allowed for the first time since the 1930s in the fall of 2009 in Montana and Idaho — 206 wolves were killed, in addition to the 270 killed for attacking livestock that year. But a year later, in August 2010, a Montana district court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had unlawfully delisted wolves from the Endangered Species Act and those protections were restored and hunting stopped. But last year, while Congress was repeatedly stumbling over passing an appropriations bill that would keep the United States from defaulting on its loans, Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson tacked Sec. 1713 onto the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011. Without ever mentioning the words “wolf ” or “endangered species,” the bill reinstated the 2009 decision on the part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist gray wolves in Idaho and Montana. So now Wyoming wants in on the action. They’ve crafted a plan that calls for wolf protection — in a “Wolf Trophy Big Game Management Area,” a corner

of the state encircling Yellowstone National Park, in which wolves can only be hunted down to 100 individuals and 10 breeding pairs. That area may have as many as 200 wolves now and the state some 350. In the rest of the state, wolves will be classified as predatory animals — along with coyotes, jackrabbits, porcupine, raccoons, red foxes, skunks and stray cats, according to Wyoming statutes. Any gray wolf caught doing damage to private property can be immediately killed by the property owner, and if a wolf is caught harassing, injuring, maiming or killing livestock or domesticated animals, or just “occupying a chronic wolf predation area,” the owner may notify the Wyoming Fish and Game Commission, which can issue a Lethal Take Permit. Public comment has just closed on the latest draft of the plan. The first draft was rejected because it presented a “substantial risk to the population” of wolves in Wyoming. The new addendum argues that of course wolves will be managed to prevent a population drop below a certain level. If only to keep the federal government from reassessing the decision to delist wolves.

“In large part, it’s a plan to contain wolves and greatly contract their range and greatly reduce their numbers,” says Michael Robinson, conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, which has come out strongly opposed to the idea of delisting wolves. “It will, in effect, end the possibility of recovery in Colorado.” Douglas Smith, team leader for the wolf project at Yellowstone National Park, has spent more than three decades studying wolves. About 100 wolves live in Yellowstone National Park. If a wolf leaves the park, it falls to the state officials to monitor the wolf, and its chances of survival decline. “In the past it was conflicts — illegal killing and livestock control, and now it’s illegal killing and livestock control and legal hunting,” Smith says. “So wolves survive less well outside of Yellowstone National Park, and I don’t think that’s a secret.” Given their propensity to move to areas without wolves, the wolf-free Colorado landscape looks like pretty ripe wolf habitat. “But it’s a long way,” Smith says. “Wolves have gotten there from the Yellowstone area, so they can make it. It’s just that they don’t survive very well.” It’s possible, but unlikely, that wolves could relocate here without gradually moving into areas south of Yellowstone and dispersing as younger generations set out to look for mates and territories to call their own. “Wolves typically disperse and travel as loners, so to have a breeding pair in Colorado would take an individual male and an individual female both leaving where they came from and making it to Colorado and then meeting there,” Smith says. “If that happened, they’d probably pair and have pups. The likelihood of that happening is low.” But, it’s even less likely that an already established breeding pair would relocate. Wolves tend to settle near where they meet. “It’s the loners that travel a long way, and part of the reason they’re traveling a long way is they’re looking for an opposite-sex wolf to settle down with,” Smith says. “Part of the reason they go so far is they don’t find them, so they keep going, and they usually end up dead.” When the plan for reintroducing wolves to the United States was crafted in the mid-’90s, Colorado wasn’t invited to the party. Whether Colorado wanted to be depends on who you ask — a 1994 mail survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Colorado Boulder Weekly

news showed strong support for reintroducing wolves with some 70 percent in favor. But a 1989 resolution from the Colorado Wildlife Commission states that, because humans had moved into the habitat needed for grizzly bears and wolves, and the reintroduction of either could present conflicts with the livestock industry and humans as well as presenting a “management problem,” reintroduction of wolves and grizzly bears was opposed. “There won’t be any reintroductions,” says Eric Odell, species conservation program manager for carnivores with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “Our Wildlife Commission has given two resolutions that said that they’re opposed to a wolf reintroduction to the state for a variety of reasons — social and agricultural and all that kind of reasons.” Wolves in Colorado are still managed by the federal government via the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as long as they are considered endangered in this state. Colorado drafted a plan in 2004 for managing wolves in the event they were ever delisted, but meeting that criteria, according to the Endangered Species Act, means having a substantial and self-sustaining population. Though reports of wolves have come out of a ranch in the northwestern part of Colorado, the High Lonesome Ranch, DNA testing has either indicated that the scat collected was coyote or been inconclusive. “In the whole state, there are no known wolves or wolf pack established,” Odell says. He receives reports, sometimes several a week, from people who say they’ve seen wolves. “Everything that we’ve received and followed up on has shown that there are no known wolves at the moment.” Two wolves have been killed here, one on I-70 and one in northwest Colorado, and another was videotaped near North Park, but those were several years ago. “That was the last time we knew of any wolf for sure in the state, and those were individuals,” Odell says. “There’s no established population or anything like that in the state.” Most of North America was once home to wolves, which are considered a keystone predator. Their presence shapes an entire ecosystem: Studies have shown wolves keep elk and deer on the move, which allows for healthier tree and shrub growth, providing habitat for other species, and wolves cull Boulder Weekly

sick, weak adult deer and elk, possibly preventing the spread of communicable diseases, including the mad cow variant that ungulates carry. Rocky Mountain National Park has been allowing hunting to manage the overpopulation of elk there. But a hunter’s aim, while precise, doesn’t have an eye for the sick and weak — the kills are more arbitrary than those chosen by wolves. In Colorado, people play the part of that keystone predator. “We’ve been doing that for the last 100 years or so and we do manage our game populations, our deer and elk populations, through our hunting regu-

“They’re allowing the proposal of the destruction of most of the wolves in Wyoming and they are likely to close the door on reintroduction in Colorado altogether.” — Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity

lations pretty specifically,” Odell says. “We take that role of managing the game populations to benefit the ecosystem.” The densely populated Front Range makes it tough to contemplate other options in this part of the state. “When you’ve got that many people, where are you going to put the wolves?” Smith says. “They can’t live year round in the mountains, because the winter hits and the elk come down and the deer come down and the wolves follow them. And where they do, the deer and elk go in the backyards of people — that’s a problem, and people don’t like it, but it’s a much different problem when you’ve got a wolf in your backyard.” Despite an elk population so abundant the park has needed to issue permits to hunt some of them down and has fenced in aspen groves to protect them from lingering elk, Rocky Mountain National Park doesn’t provide a good location because it’s so high in elevation. The elk may be able to winter over near the ice cream and t-shirt shops and mini golf courses in Estes Park, but the wolves can’t. “You would have people, elk and

wolves all thrown together and we know that doesn’t work,” Smith says. “It’s not that the wolves don’t tolerate the people, it’s that the people don’t really tolerate them.” Southern Colorado’s stretches of public land near the San Juans might provide a better habitat for wolves, but the act of getting there is still tough. “Assuming wolves could make it through a lot of Wyoming — I mean those are a lot of ifs,” Smith says. “Right now all the wolves are in northwest Wyoming, and they won’t be allowed in a huge area just south of Jackson, so connectivity between that area and Colorado is going to be your first problem.” But the connectivity is precisely what the Endangered Species Act was meant to provide. Its purpose, as defined by the Act itself, is “to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved.” And preserving the ecosystem, according to conservation organizations like the Center for Biodiversity and the American Society of Mammologists, which have both come out opposed to Wyoming delisting wolves, requires allowing species to successfully maintain themselves. “Connectivity between the wolf subpopulations … not only is that vital for long-term genetic maintenance, but allowing that connectivity to exist is one way of measuring whether that ecosystem exists,” Robinson says. To do otherwise thwarts the purpose of the Act and the definition of an endangered species. A recovered animal is one that can maintain itself, according to the Endangered Species Act. An animal that needs to be carted around in order to find a mate — as Wyoming’s plan proposes doing if necessary to maintain genetic diversity in its wolf population — is not maintaining itself. “One would hope that the Fish and Wildlife Service would say, ‘We’re moving way too fast, this doesn’t make sense. It’s not consistent with the law and it’s not consistent with the public sentiment,’” Robinson says. Robinson’s book, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West, charts the history of the eradication of wolves from North America, a move that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s predecessor organization was pressured to make. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service still carefully monitors the impact

wolves have on livestock and compensates ranchers who lose animals to wolves. The organization reported that between 1987, when Canadian wolves first denned in upper Montana, and 2009, more than 1,301 cattle, 2,584 sheep, 142 dogs, 31 goats, 25 llamas and 10 horses had been killed by wolves and nearly $2 million had been paid in damages by private and state wolf damage compensation funds. Wolves were relocated 117 times and killed more than 1,259 times to reduce conflicts. “The Fish and Wildlife Service has a history as an agricultural service. In large part what we’re seeing is a reversion to form,” Robinson says. “They’re allowing the proposal of the destruction of most of the wolves in Wyoming and they are likely to close the door on reintroduction in Colorado altogether.” From ranchers to conservationists to casual observers, the response to wolves is rarely a moderate one. “Some people think it’s the coolest thing in the world, and other people think it’s the end of their life, my life just got ruined,” Smith says. “There’s very little in the middle. … And that’s part of the problem. You go from one private holding to the next and the welcome mat changes from ‘Welcome’ to ‘Don’t step on this place.’” The hackles raise to the point of either side sending death threats. A photo of a trapped wolf from Idaho that shows the wolf still limping through a circle of pink snow behind the smiling Nez Perce Forest Service employee who trapped, and would later shoot, the wolf, earned the hunter death threats. The anti-wolf trapping nonprofit that reposted his photo and complained of his cruel practices also received death threats in response. “I think wolves are a symptom of bigger things in our society,” Smith says. “In the last 10-15 years, we’ve become more polarized about the environment, what’s the purpose of the environment. Is it here for us, or is it here for us to coexist in, or is it here for us to use, and the wolf symbolizes that conflict. It’s really a lightning rod for the disagreement surrounding how we coexist with nature. They’re very symbolic with wildness, and some people think we don’t need wildness, we don’t want it because it’s inconvenient and it gets in our way, whereas other people think how dare we remove every shred of the earth that has nothing to do with us. So they’re very symbolic about a larger debate about just economics, do we use the land, do we conserve it, how do we live on it, versus how do we deal with life separate from human life.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com May 24, 2012 11

news

City denies requests for Valmont meetings, tours Anesthesia Free Dentals for Dogs and Cats

Safe, Affordable, Healthy

Well AnimAl institute

303.654.0560 7856 Baseline Rd., Boulder, CO www.wellanimalinstitute.com

Learn the Martial Art of the

Russian Special Forces

“No rules, no belts, no nonsense. Systema - a fighting art without all the needless baggage.”

—BLACK BELT MAGAZINE

E OUTSID E! THINK THE CAG

Ad for

a

ASS L C E FRE

t this Presen

“UNLEASH THE WARRIOR WITHIN”

303-485-5425

www.SystemaColorado.com 1830 Boston Ave., Suite F, Longmont

Ask about our Student Discounts

Get set for weekend projects... planting, painting or just relaxing. Come and check out our in-store specials!

Open Memorial Day 9-3 691 S. Broadway, Boulder • 303.499.7211

www.tablemesahardware.com

12 May 24, 2012

by Jefferson Dodge, Joel Dyer and Elizabeth Miller

C

ity of Boulder officials have denied a request from several local organizations, including Boulder Weekly, to meet with the city archeologist and tribal monitor who are working on the Valmont Butte cleanup. Some have concerns about the disturbance of archeological and cultural resources at the site, from possible graves outside Valmont Cemetery to the Native American burials and artifacts that have been identified at the property. Several groups requested meetings with the archeological and tribal monitors to discuss preserving such resources during the city’s earthmoving operations to clean up the contaminated site. Those concerns were exacerbated last month when, apparently on the advice of those two monitors, the city removed rocks that appeared to be a grave marker just outside the Valmont Cemetery. City Attorney Tom Carr and other city officials later alleged that the marker had been planted there as a hoax. The Valmont Butte Heritage Alliance, Native American Rights Fund and Valmont School District No. 4 Cemetery Association asked weeks ago to meet with tribal monitor Gary Brown and archeologist Marilyn Martorano of RMC Consultants, who were hired by the city to keep tabs on what was unearthed during the project. In the case of the cemetery association, which asked that work in its parking lot be postponed until a meeting with the monitors could be arranged, Alison Thayer of the city’s outside law firm Temkin Wielga and Hardt denied the request for a delay, saying it would cause “unnecessary expense to the project.” She also wrote in an April 13 email to Carol Affleck of the cemetery association that Brown and Martorano were “busy with other commitments, including the onsite monitoring at Valmont Butte,” but that other staff could meet with association representatives. Thayer asked for a list of attendees and an “agenda for consideration. We want to ensure that the meeting is focused on issues that have not already been discussed with the Cemetery Association.

Once we have your proposed agenda, we will determine the appropriate attendees from the city and their near-term availability for a meeting.” The city also denied a similar request from the Valmont Butte Heritage Alliance (VBHA) and Native American Rights Fund (NARF). “We were not able to speak with the monitors,” says Lori Windle of the VBHA. “Apparently they had no interest in speaking with us.” “It never got beyond the city’s attorney,” adds Steve Moore, senior staff attorney for NARF. “We had asked to be able to go up on site and visit with the monitors, have a chance to have them describe to us what protocols they’re following, what they’ve come across, and how they’re dealing with things. It never got beyond Alison Thayer.” He notes that Thayer, as she did with Affleck, offered to have other city staff meet with the groups off-site. “We didn’t see the utility in meeting with [city facilities officials] Bill Boyes or Joe Castro for the millionth time,” Moore says. Moore says Thayer told him that “with all the dust-up over the stone marker, all the allegations that were being thrown around, the monitors just didn’t want to get into the middle of that and end up being part of the story.” In a May 4 email, Thayer offered assurances that culturally sensitive areas had been fenced off, and that Brown had monitored all activities within a 100-foot boundary of those areas. One oft-mentioned concern is that artifacts just under the surface could be accidentally scraped up when heavy equipment is scooping up piles of clean fill dirt. Even Peter Gleichman, who performed an archeological study of the Valmont Butte property for the city in 2004, is worried about that. “The problem is, we don’t know what’s under the surface in that area,” he says. “Artifacts have been found there, so I’ve been told. … If they’re using bulldozers to scoop up dirt, it’s pretty easy to gouge down.” Thayer said in the May 4 email that when working with such stockpiles, “the contractor is under instruction to use

survey information to ensure that native surface soils is not picked up, along with fill dirt,” and that a monitor will observe the process when the bottom of the stockpile is neared. “For me, there are real trust issues here,” Moore says. “Do we trust the city? Do we trust the monitors? I don’t know.” “We have no reason to believe that we cannot trust the monitors,” Windle adds, “but we have plenty of reason to not trust the city, based on the history we’ve had with them.” After asking city officials for a similar meeting with Brown and/or Martorano, on May 18 Boulder Weekly spoke briefly by phone with Brown, who said he had returned to his home in Wyoming because his work at Valmont was done. But city officials say the project is only 25 percent complete and won’t be finished until December. When asked why Brown was sent home so early, city spokesperson Jody Jacobson said via email: “All of the excavation work is not completed, but the areas of concerns for Mr. Brown, the designated Native American monitor, have been completed. RMC Consultants (Ms. Martorano) will monitor the remaining areas that will be disturbed.” Patrick von Keyserling, the city’s communication manager, denied BW’s request for an interview with a monitor. His March 22 email reused the line about Martorano being “busy with other commitments, including the onsite monitoring at Valmont Butte” and said city contractors cannot be expected to “provide media relations support.” As for BW’s request for a tour of the property, which had been granted to the Media News-owned Daily Camera in recent weeks, von Keyserling also declined, citing the inordinate amount of time the city has spent dealing with BW regarding the paper’s ongoing series on Valmont in recent months. He wrote via email that “the tour and interview request was the Camera’s first interview request in over two years for this project. The amount of time the city has spent providing the Boulder Weekly with interviews and answering follow-up questions is more than the amount of time afforded the Daily Camera.” When told later that it appeared as if the Weekly was being singled out for doing a critical, in-depth investigation on the property, von Keyserling replied, “I think it’s more a matter of staff resources.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

A

Boulder Weekly request for phone records related to Boulder City Council member George Karakehian’s financial disclosures only raises more questions — and more suspicions. Among the allegations raised by local political gadfly Seth Brigham — just before he was slapped with a restraining order by the city — was that Karakehian did not properly declare his 2011 financial interests in a form required to be completed by city council candidates. Brigham had sent his findings to both City Attorney Tom Carr and District Attorney Stan Garnett prior to being restrained. An independent inquiry by Boulder Weekly (“Unzipped,” May 17) found that there does appear to be several LLCs that Karakehian should have declared on the forms, but didn’t. Garnett initially told BW on May 16 that he had launched an investigation into the matter, but when Karakehian learned of that inquiry, he said he would make some calls, because he was under the impression that the DA had told Tom Carr that there was “nothing to investigate.” Later that morning, Garnett called BW to report that the investigation had been closed because the claims had no merit and the DA’s office had no jurisdiction on the matter. At that time, Garnett told BW he had not spoken with either Carr or Karakehian that day. But phone records obtained by BW show that Garnett did in fact talk to Carr five minutes earlier, despite the fact that both men subsequently denied speaking with each other during that timeframe. Below is an edited timeline of phone calls, from the records of Carr and Boulder Weekly: • 9:14 a.m. — Garnett tells BW his office is investigating financial disclosure allegations against Karakehian, and that the inquiry will take about two weeks. • 9:30 a.m. — BW informs Karakehian of the DA’s investigation, Karakehian says that’s contrary to what he’s heard from Carr, and that he plans to make some calls • 9:36 a.m. — Karakehian calls Carr • 9:41 a.m. — Karakehian calls Carr again • 10:41 a.m. — Garnett uses his personal cell phone to call Carr • 10:43 a.m. — Carr calls Karakehian • 10:46 a.m. — BW asks Garnett if he has talked to Carr or Karakehian that morning, Garnett says no. • 11:15 a.m. — BW calls Carr, leaves a voicemail about the confusion • 11:51 a.m. — Carr calls BW, denies he has talked to Garnett that morning prior to BW’s 11:15 a.m. voicemail to him When asked about the phone Boulder Weekly

news

Short-term memory loss hits Boulder power players by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer records on May 22, Garnett told Boulder Weekly that he may have called Carr because his landline is unreliable, but “we certainly didn’t talk about this case.” Several minutes later, Garnett called back, saying that he had just talked to Carr about their conversation on May

16, and that Carr had refreshed his memory. The two had, in fact, talked about the Karakehian case briefly, Garnett said, and they discussed the fact that the investigation had been closed. He apologized for not remembering the conversation, saying he was busy at the

time and probably shouldn’t have been discussing an open investigation. “I think I certainly learned a lesson from this,” he said. Garnett also insisted that neither Carr nor Karakehian swayed his decision to close the case. As of press time Wednesday, Garnett had still not complied with a May 18 open records request for his telephone records, even though it was past the three-day timeframe for complying with such requests by state law. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

NO NEED TO SHOP ANYWHERE ELSE

Locally owned and operated for over 40 years!

WE MATCH

OTHER LIQUOR STORE ADS IN BOULDER COUNTY! *Excluding Coupons CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MONEY SAVING COUPONS!

15th & Canyon Downtown Boulder 303-449-3374 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 8am - 11:45pm

www.liquormart.com

Ad good thru Tuesday, May 29, 2012

available now at Liquor Mart! BUDWEISER Original, Light and Select

MAKERS MARK

24/12oz Cans

$

16 99

NEW PLANET

(Gluten Free)

Raspberry and Off the Grid Pale Ale 4/12oz NR

$

15

5

99

$

90° American Whiskey 1.75Ltr

39

99

THREE OLIVES

80° and Flavors 1.75Ltr

$

19

FLIPFLOP 7 Types 750ml

2 FOR

$

10

ROTARI

Brut & Brut Rose 750ml

99

After Instant In-Store Bottle Necker Coupon only $16.99

$

9 99

EVERY DAY ALL WINE OFF % FULL & MIXED CASES INCLUDING: PORT, SHERRY, KOSHER, SAKE & CHAMPAGNE

FOLLOW US ON

& May 24, 2012 13

Free Delivery Lunch & Dinner (Minimum $18)

Everyday Lunch Specials Combination Lunch

including Soup & Appetizer (until 3pm)

NOW LIVE: Boulder’s Online Deals Marketplace

We use only the finest and freshest ingredients to prepare all our dishes. no msg—only canola oil used banquet room available

1964 28th St, Boulder www.GoldenLotusCuisine.com

Thank You Boulder for Your Support!

303.442.6868

Sun-thurS 11am-10pm fri-Sat 11am-10:30pm

Save 5%

LOCAL ORGANIC PRODUCE DELIVERED

when you mention this ad!

Visit BestofBoulderDeals.com to find great deals from your favorite Boulder businesses. Buy gift certificates at up to 80% off.

L A E D

K

E E W E H T F O

Share in the Harvest!

From our farm to your table. Know the source of your food, buy locally and enjoy a fabulous array of fresh organic herbs, vegetables, fruit, cheese, bread, and eggs delivered weekly to a convenient pick up point in your neighborhood for 26 weeks.

Join our CSA! Contact Jessica, Your CSA representative at: 970-237-1758 jessica@grantfarms.com 14 May 24, 2012

$25 Gift Certificates OUR PRICE: $15!

Sign up for our e-newsletter for exclusive coupon codes direct to your email inbox.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY Boulder Weekly

boulderganic

R

ed chili peppers are hot, both as a spice and as a new remedy for pain relief. It turns out that capsaicin, the substance that gives hot chili peppers their fire, also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent and pain reliever. Capsaicin has been used for centuries to treat pain, particularly in locales where the spice is a culinary passion. “It’s a nerve toxin which enables you to selectively choose nerves to kill off,” explains Dr. Wendye Robbins. Capsaicin works to alleviate pain associated with (nerve disorders) diabetes, neuralgia, HIV or regional pain syndrome. Seven out of 10 patients suffering from chest or foot pain from these disorders improved by at least 50 percent. With more potent (concentrated) creams, all 10 participants reported some relief (but it doesn’t work as effectively as the high dose). The high dose kills off the bad nerves and spares the good ones, while the low dose will detract from the pain, but it will not kill the nerves. Low doses may be effective for some patients. “In low doses, it is a counter-irritant; it’s still active at the receptor and you will get a dying off of some nerves,” says Robbins. “But patients would have to use over-the-counter ointments three times a day, and they would still get less relief than from a single high dose.” The defining characteristics of many nerve disorders is severe, often unbearable pain. “I pride myself on being able to handle pain,” claims Barbara Martin,

Turn up the heat by Amy Paturel

a Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) patient who eventually found relief through capsaicin. TN is a condition of the trigeminal nerve that causes episodic attacks or nerve spasms. “I had two natural childbirths (one a breech birth) with no pain killers at all — I thought I could handle the pain (of TN),” says Martin. “I couldn’t handle it.” Unfortunately, awareness of the has a long history as a were regularly consumed, apsaicin positively healing capabilistomach-settling aid. It affects internal condi- and they have a much can be used to ease lower incidence of bloodtions as well as exterties of capsaicin digestive problems but clotting disease. Contrary nal ones. It reduces triglycis limited. In should not be used by erides in the blood, speeds to popular belief, we have fact, it is someone who already has up cholesterol breakdown, long known that eating extremely rare for an ulcer. With its ability to hot peppers does not and reduces the risk of a doctor to recomspeed up metabolism and cause ulcers. In fact, it internal blood clots that lower blood sugar levels, may help prevent them. In trigger heart attacks. mend or prescribe hot and spicy food may India, the East Indies, Scientists looked at the capsaicin to their neueven help you lose weight. Africa, Mexico and the medical records of counropathic patients. Pass the Buffalo wings! tries where hot, spicy foods Caribbean, red pepper Many patients resort to creating “rituals” to help them handle the excruciating pain of their disorder. “I beds, they lost their jobs, some couldn’t it’s safe and it has good outcomes,” found that continually moving my jaw eat or drink, many contemplated suiclaims Robbins. “It kills off the bad in a chewing motion, and swinging my cide.” nerves and leaves the good ones alone.” arms vigorously while walking rapidly in Not only do the drugs come with Capsaicin can be used as a topical a clockwise [counter-clockwise didn’t devastating side effects, but they are also medicine for numerous skin conditions work] circle could help me get through ineffective for some patients. That is and chronic skin pains, including a spasm,” says Martin. “Weird, but when capsaicin can truly be a life saver. arthritis pain, bruises, shingles, postsomehow I managed.” “Patients who did not respond to operative amputation trauma, psoriasis Traditional medications for disorders other pain medicines found relief with and nerve pain. For reasons still not such as TN are often debilitating in and high dose capsaicin,” says Robbins. completely understood, capsaicin alters of themselves. “Some of them got three to four months the action of Substance P, a nerve “I was horrified to read all the perof relief from a single exposure.” chemical that sends pain messages to sonal experiences on ‘the ’net.’ And horMost traditional medications act on the brain. Some experts are under the rified by what the traditional drugs did all nerves, regardless of whether the impression that capsaicin depletes the to people,” claims Martin. “Some were nerves are affected by the disorder. virtually helpless, some never left their “It [capsaicin] is exciting technology, See CAPSAICIN Page 16

OTHER HOT STUFF LINKED TO SPICE

C

Felonius Smith Trio Thurs May 24 7:30-10:00pm

Blues Jams Every Tuesday & 2nd & 4th Sunday Jazz Jams Every 1st & 3rd Sunday PLAYERS WELCOME Boulder Weekly

Terablu Band Sat May 26 8-10:30pm

The Jack Hadley Band Fri May 25 8:00-10:30pm

Ronnie Baker Brooks Tues May 29 7:00-10:00pm Tickets $15

May 24, 2012 15

boulderganic

eco-briefs

by Boulder Weekly staff QUOTE

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. — Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

TROPICAL BIRDS OF BOULDER

Why spend all that money to fly to the tropics to experience the sights and sounds of tropical birds? After all, they will soon be arriving in Boulder. Join naturalist Dave Sutherland this Saturday, May 26, for a hike to a local birding area where colorful, migratory songbirds from such destinations as Belize and Costa Rica can be found on their travels north. According to the city of Boulder’s press release, all you need is binoculars and birding books if you have them — the guide will be using Birds of Costa Rica in the field. The hike runs from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Hikers/birders will meet at the neighborhood access point to Bear Canyon trail — map search 1520 Bear Mountain Drive in Boulder. Parking is available along the street. Natural Selections hikes, offered by City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain

Parks, are free staff-guided programs to explore parts of the OSMP system. It’s a good idea to bring along a snack and water and wear comfortable clothes and shoes for hiking. But please leave dogs at home. For more information check out www.NatureHikes.org.

IT’S WORKING … BETTER GUT IT

You have to love the way our political leaders work. Sometimes it seems like they just can’t stand success. Consider this: In the past 40 years, the Clean Air Act has been truly one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever passed. It is estimated that the act prevents about 130,000 heart attacks a year. In addition, it prevents nearly 100,000 trips to the emergency room and as many as 1.7 million asthma attacks. So what do our Washington politicians want to do with the act now that we know how well it works? Gut it. That’s right, no less than three bills designed to make the act impotent have already been introduced or passed in the

House. The bill with the bull-manure-inspired title of The Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act is pretty straightforward. If passed, it would prevent any future additions to the Clean Air Act. Period. Case closed. No more good stuff that saves lives can be added, because it might cost one of those campaign donors a few bucks. Next we got The Congressional Review Act, which would in effect scrap the EPA’s new, more effective air pollution standards for the coal industry. The new standards were issued because new technology has made it possible for coal-fired plants to pollute less, but again, that might cost some donor money, so we can’t have that. And finally, The Gasoline Regulations Act of 2012 would simply remove doctors and scientists as the people in charge of setting emission standards and replace them with economists and industry insiders. Apparently, it is very important to figure out if saving lives is cost-effective for industry before making laws to help people. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

CAPSAICIN from Page 15

body of Substance P. However, Robbins argues that “the depletion of substance P is a misstatement, I know you see that all over, but what we know is that capsaicin binds to a receptor, activates it, and then inactivates it (eventually causing a change in the direction of blood flow).” Capsaicin acts as an anesthetic. In fact, it is the active ingredient in the over-the-counter cream Zostrix, recommended for arthritis foot pain and the pain of shingles. When applied to the skin it often stings and burns ini-

tially. “Capsaicin can be uncomfortable for many people at the beginning. The cream naturally burns (being the essence of hot chili peppers),” says Martin. “But people should understand that the burning sensation goes away after a few applications — it may even take a week or two for the burning to disappear.” The pain associated with these types of nerve disorders is so excruciating that it has been known to drive many to suicide. “A lot of people end up trying to

end their lives,” says Robbins. “That’s why people like Jack Kevorkian have a role.” She wants to give people the opportunity to kill the pain and continue to live themselves. “That’s why I go to work every day,” she says. “I just wish that all TN people would at least try the capsaicin [with a doctor’s supervision],” suggests Martin. “If it works it can put your life back to normal. It has been two years since I’ve had an attack — and the constant fear is

gone. A miracle for me.” However, Robbins urges, “It’s important for people to understand that it [capsaicin] is a nerve toxin. You should not use it without a doctor’s supervision — you could kill your nerves off.” Amy Paturel is a health writer in California and a blogger for SELF.com. She holds master’s degrees in nutrition and public health, both from Tufts University in Boston, Mass. This article first appeared at CBS Healthwatch. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Open Space & Mountain Mountain Parks Open Space & Parks Open Space & Mountain Parks

Volunteer on OSMP OSMP Trail Projects! Volunteer on Projects! Volunteer on OSMP TrailTrail Projects! Boulder trail crews are hosting several projects this season: trailare crews are hosting several projects this season: BoulderBoulder trail crews hosting several projects this season: Green Bear Trail May 5 Green Bear Trail May 5 Trails June 2 (National Trails Day) Green Bear Trail May 5 Towhee Homestead and Homestead and Towhee Trails June 2 (National Trails Day) Homestead and Towhee Trails 2 (National Trails Day) Homestead Trail July 14June Homestead Trail July 14 Homestead Trail July 14 Wittemyer/Sanitas Trail August 11 Wittemyer/Sanitas Trail August 11 Wittemyer/Sanitas Trail August 11 Come once, or come often - we’d be happy to get your help Come or come oftenbe - For we’d beto happy to get your Come once, oronce, come often - we’d happy get your help on these hands-on projects. more information, visit help us at these hands-on projects. For more information, visit us at on theseon hands-on projects. For more information, visit us at www.osmp.org or call Kristin at (303) 413-7632. www.osmp.org or callat Kristin (303) 413-7632. www.osmp.org or call Kristin (303)at 413-7632.

   

16 May 24, 2012

     

Boulder Weekly

Six Persimmons

eds of Doubt Flyer8_Layout 1 5/14/12 4:07 PM Page 1

Health, Wellness & Beauty! Natural remedies for allergies, sleep, digestion, anxiety, depression, pain, menopause + more Boulder’s Best Massage: Deep tissue, Swedish, Lymphatic, Cranial Sacral, Reflexology Anti-aging Sanitas, Astara & Hauschka Facials Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy

$10 off an organic facial or massage with ad!

840 Pearl St. Boulder 303 583 0179 www.sixpersimmons.com Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine & Homeopathy 303 413 9596

The Seeds Seeds of of Doubt CONFERENCE The Doubt CONFERENCE The Seeds of Doubt CONFERENCE Join us in this one day event to inform, engage, and inspire.

Join us in dayday event inform, engage, and inspire. Jointhis us inone this one event to to inform, engage, and inspire. MOs are now a global issue affecting every generation from here forward. GMOs are now a global issue affecting every generation from here forward. Os are now a global issue affecting every generation from here forward. away from this event with useful tools and the knowledge tochanges make changes Walk away from this event with useful tools and the knowledge to make way from this event with useful tools and the knowledge to make changes yourand life, and lives your family and friends tomorrow. in yourinlife, thethe lives ofofyour family and friends tomorrow. in your life, and the lives of your family and friends tomorrow.

CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT CREATE THE WORLD WORLD WE WANT CREATE THE WE WANT The Seeds of Doubt ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: CONFERENCE

Dr. Don Huber, PhD, Emeritus Professor ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: The Seeds of TOUR OUR SPEAKERS: Omni Interlocken Hotel of Plant Pathology, Purdue University, The Seeds ofDoubt DoubtCONFERENCE CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: Saturday, June 9th, 2012 ••8am–5pm 500 Interlocken Blvd Emeritus Professor of Plant Dr. Don Huber, PhD, Huber, PhD, Emeritus Professor 50+ years ofEmeritus soil research.Professor Saturday, June 9th, 2012 8am–5pm Huber, PhD, Broomfield, CO 80021 Saturday, June 9th, 2012 • 8am–5pm

Omni Interlocken Pathology, PurdueUniversity, University, Pathology, Purdue University, 50+ years of soilHotel research. 303/438-6600 Omni Interlocken Hotel Pathology, Purdue Francis Moore Lappe, author of “Diet for 500 Interlocken Blvd rs of soil research. 500 Interlocken Blvd by Metametrix Buffet Lunch and lecture sponsored s ofasoil research. Small Planet”. Co-founder of Food First, Broomfield, 80021 (organophosphate and chlorinated pesticides exposure) Broomfield, CO 80021 Francis Moore Lappe, author of “DietCO for a Small Small Planet Institute and Small Planet 303/438-6600 COST: $160 303/438-6600 Planet”. Co-founder Food First, Small Moore Lappe,author author of“Diet “Dietof for Fund. $185 atPlanet the door Institute and Moore Lappe, of for Buffet Lunch and Metametrix Buffet Lunch andlecture lecturesponsored sponsoredbybyMetametrix TO REGISTER ONLINE: Planet”. Co-founder of Food First, Planetof Fund. lanet”.Small Co-founder Food First, (organophosphate and exposure) (organophosphate andchlorinated chlorinatedpesticides pesticides exposure) Robert Rountree, MD, author, international www.SeedsOfDoubtConference.com lanet Institute andSmall Small Planet anet Institute and Planet COST: $160 speaker and educator in Functional COST: $160 INFORMATION: FOR ADDITIONAL Robert Rountree, MD, author, international speaker $185 at the door Medicine. Cheryl Gray, 303/875-8658 $185 atRD: the door Cheryl@SeedsofDoubtConference.com and educator in Functional Medicine. TO ONLINE: TO REGISTER REGISTER ONLINE: John Scott, DC: 303/530-3828 Jeff Smith author of “Seeds of Deception”, ountree, MD, author, international Rountree, MD, author, international www.SeedsOfDoubtConference.com www.SeedsOfDoubtConference.com John@SeedsofDoubtConference.com leading spokesperson on health dangers (8 CEUs available) Jeff Smith author of “Seeds of FOR Deception”,leading and in r and educator inFunctional Functional ADDITIONALINFORMATION: INFORMATION: FOR ADDITIONAL ofeducator GMOs. SEATING IS LIMITED ~ REGISTER EARLY spokesperson on health dangers of GMOs. e. CherylGray, Gray,RD: RD:303/875-8658 303/875-8658 ne. Cheryl

PRESENTS

Cheryl@SeedsofDoubtConference.com Cheryl@SeedsofDoubtConference.com

JohnScott, Scott,DC: DC:303/530-3828 303/530-3828 The Seeds ofDeception”, Doubt conference John h author ith authorofof“Seeds “Seedsof ofDeception”, John@SeedsofDoubtConference.com John@SeedsofDoubtConference.com Saturday, June 9th, 2012 pokesperson on dangers spokesperson onhealth health dangers CEUs available) (8(8 CEUs available) 8am–5pm s. SEATING IS LIMITED ~ REGISTER EARLY SEATING IS LIMITED ~ REGISTER EARLY

Omni Interlocken Hotel 500 Interlocken Blvd Broomfield, CO 80021 303/438-6600 Buffet Lunch/lecture sponsored by Metametrix (organophosphate and chlorinated pesticides exposure) COST: $160 in advance, $185 at the door TO REGISTER ONLINE: www.SeedsOfDoubtConference.com FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Cheryl Gray, RD:303/875-8658 Cheryl@SeedsofDoubtConference.com John Scott, DC: 303/530-3828 (8 CEUs available)

SEATING IS LIMITED ~ REGISTER EARLY For a

20% DISCOUNT

enter promotional code “BLDRWKLY” on the registration site A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to supporting non-profits Boulder Weekly

Sat. June 2 10am -2pm

Boulder Foothills Community Park Multi Sangha Get-Together + Potluck Picnic

800 Cherry Ave (at the shelters)

9:30am Arrival- Set up your picnic area, set up your info booth etc. 10:00 Opening Ceremony: Group Om Circle ~ Singing Bowl Meditation ~ Walking Meditation (bring your singing bowls, gongs, tingshas, bells, chanting voice + walking feet!) Bathing of the Buddha, Hanemido Shrine, by Rev. Carol O’Dowd of Longmont Buddhist Temple 10:30 10:45 Zenko Iba kyudo archery demonstration Noon Intro to the Buddhist Coalition - POTLUCK LUNCH 12:30 Buddha’s Birthday Cake! 12:45 Bhutanese Dancers 1:30 Julia Misawa and Boulder Taiko HIBIKI drumming performance 1:50 Closing Ceremony song lead by Nalandabodhi

Curious About Buddhism?

Special performances by Boulder Int’l Fringe Festival, Kids Craft Area, Sangha Info Booths Zero-Waste Event sponsored by Eco-Cycle

SPONSORS: • • • • • • •

Boulder International Fringe Festival Drukpa Mila Center Eco-Cycle Julia Misawa and Boulder Taiko HIBIKI Longmont Buddhist Temple Nalandabodhi Boulder Zenko Iba

THIS FREE EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL! BRING- Potluck Dish to Share, Drinks, Picnic Gear, Wear Traditional Outfit. Consider the Potential of the Buddhist Community in Addressing Local Social Issues If We All Work Together! COMPASSION IN ACTION! Contact: prescottrk@hotmail.com

May 24, 2012 17

urtesy of

Photos co

ng

Chris Leisi

Chesebro jumps a line of cars at an unknown Boulder lake in 1975.

Local filmmakers to produce documentary about Boulder daredevil by Sebastian Murdock

W

hen Terry “Evil Cheesey” Chesebro, 58, is out in public or walking near a road, it’s not uncommon for the former daredevil to receive quick honks as people yell his name in admiration. In the mid-’70s, Chesebro, donning a colorful cape and helmet, stunned crowds when he jumped over cars on his motorbike — often landing in a lake — to the oohs and aahs of hundreds of spectators. Now, two filmmakers hope to remind Boulder of the mythical man who still garners attention and fond memories from fans today. Chris Leising, a 26-year-old University of Colorado Boulder alum with a film degree, and 36-year-old Jack Hanley, currently completing his master’s in English, have taken on the task of see CHEESEY Page 20

18 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

just announced

just announced

aug 3 .......................................................................... west water outlaws aug 11 .................................................................................................. the malah aug 16 ................................................... march fourth marching band

june 8 ................................................ nlp, bronze & a4animal june 17 ............................... #regeneration w/ q&a by sts9 june 26 .......... climate change on earth feat bill nye

thur. maY 24 8:30 Pm

thurs. May 24 7:00 PM

i-25 ent & loYal roYaltY Productions Present

Fly Fishing Film

the worK ethic tour ft.

one be lo & KublaKai

Where The yelloWsTone goes

microPhone militants, ProXimitY & more

Fri. May 25 8:00 PM

fri. maY 25 8:30 Pm

colorado daily Presents

colorado dailY Presents

a night of dYlan & the dead

ft. the zimmermans & dead/Phish orchestra sat. maY 26 8:30 Pm westword & radio 1190 Present

best coast

jeff the brotherhood sat. aug 4 8:30 Pm

UprighT CiTizens Brigade ToUring Co. BoUlder improv CollaBoraTive sat. May 26 7:30 PM / 18+ Boulder Burlesque Presents

madonna meeTs Wh*re W/ dj danCe parTy Fri. june 1 7:30 PM 97.3 kBco & Boulder weekly Present

Bodeans

boulder weeKlY Presents

Warren hood & The goods

sun. aug 19 8:00 Pm

Marquee Magazine & radio 1190 Present

the budos band Kunc & colorado dailY Present

sharon Van etten

sun. june 3 6:00 PM

eToWn:

david BromBerg & greTChen peTers sat. june 9 8:00 PM white swan & hanuMan Festival Present

BlaCk sWan danCe parTy FeaT. dj drez, deserT dWellers & more sat. june 16 7:00 PM 97.3 kBco & Boulder weekly Present

riChard Thompson wed. june 20 7:00 PM channel 93.3 Presents

ColleCTive soUl Fri. june 22 8:00 PM sierra nevada, kgnu & Boulder weekly Present

karl denson’s Tiny Universe

TriBUTe To The BeasTie Boys FT. kyle, og & dela (From slighTly sToopid) sat. june 23 7:00 PM kgnu, kunc & daily caMera Present

all We are saying:

Bill Frisell

explores The mUsiC oF john lennon wed. june 27 8:00 PM westword Presents

ThUrsTon moore Band tues. july 3 8:00 PM Marquee Magazine & radio 1190 Present

lUCero

the foX theatre will be closed june & julY for roof rePairs. foX boX office will be oPen m-f 11am-3Pm. Please Visit boulder theater boX office after 3Pm & on weeKends.

Boulder Weekly

june 30 ............................................... rob drabkin performing ‘graceland’ july 4 ......................................................................................... eminence ensemble july 6 ............................................................................................. porter robinson july 10 ....................................................................................................... jonny lang july 12 ...................................................................................victor wooten band july 13 ................................................ david grisman bluegrass experience july 14 ................................................................................................ michal menert july 19 ............................................................................................................. big k.r.i.t. july 31 .................................................. silymi tour ft. attack attack & more aug 2 ............................ dj set by james murphy (dfa / lcd soundsystem) sept 25 ...................................... esperanza spalding: radio music society

May 24, 2012 19

Chris Leising

NOW OPE

IN THORNTON N! 1281 E

. 120th A Unit D ve.

*Monthly Plan Required

Franchises Available

buzz

Today, Chesebro’s health problems prevent him from riding. CHEESEY from Page 18

©2011 The Joint Corp.

PedeStRian ShoPS

annUal CRoCS Sale

1/3 - 1/2 oFF ENTIRE SELECTION DOZENS OF STYLES MENS, WOMENS & KIDS

bringing local Boulder history to life with their upcoming documentary Evil Cheesey Rides Again. “It’s an important story to tell,” Leising says. “Not very many people know about Cheesey, but those who do have never forgotten him or his jumps.” In the past, Leising and Hanley have worked together on school film projects and will be co-producing and co-directing their new film together. “I’ve got film and screenwriting experience, so we’re splitting the duties down the middle between us,” Hanley says. While trying to earn money to pay his way through grad school, Hanley took a job as a bartender at the Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, where he first met Chesebro. “It was during that stint that this lone, stoic bearded guy always shuffled in,” Hanley says. “It struck my curiosity because everyone in the bar knew who he was, no matter what time of day, and told all kinds of stories about him. Inevitably he’d always get 86ed out of every bar he

was at, but that’s how I first learned about him and the local history surrounding his stunts.” Some of those stunts included illegally jumping six cars lined up on Pearl Street. “He’d literally sit in a bar on Pearl and then decide to [jump cars], and within an hour people would start lining up cars and blocking off sections,” Hanley says. “Police did try to stop him, but he wasn’t arrested,” Leising says. “He did a few jumps on Pearl and as soon as he landed, a bunch of the bars and owners who were supportive and drunkenly cheering him on would surround him and his bike and hide Cheesey in a bar before the cops could find him.” April Mitchell, Cheesey’s 30-year-old daughter and Boulder resident, says her father has always had a rebellious spirit. “He didn’t finish high school and was doing a lot of partying,” Mitchell says. “My dad could never really hold a job down; he always went out and drank and did his own thing and borrowed money

Chris Leising

HURRY! ENDS MAY 31ST

comfortableshoes.com on the downtown mall at 1425 Pearl St. 303-449-5260 & in the village next to McGuckin 303-449-7440 20 May 24, 2012

Chesebro’s hand-built bike lies unused today.

Boulder Weekly

Courtesy of Chris Leising

buzz Did you put on a few extra pounds over the winter?

Power Plaote classes nlew availab

• Power Plate Studio • Herbal Detox Body Wraps • Nutrition and Diet Consulting • Body Composition Testing • Metagenics

SPRING IS HERE!!

Get your bathing suit body back! www.quickfitboulder.com • 303-993-7361 2835 Pearl Street, Suite C, Boulder

Chesebro, sometime in the ’70s

The from everybody. But he’s always had a fascination with dirt bikes and speed; he’s always loved doing that kind of stuff. That, and breaking rules.” Scott “Messyman” Mess, 45, who owns the local taxi service Messyman Transportation, says he started giving rides to Evil Cheesey in 1997. Throughout his time driving around to old Boulder dive bars, Mess developed a friendship with Chesebro. “Cheesey was part of a crew that used to call for rides back and forth from the bars,” Mess says. Although Mess never got to see Chesebro perform his infamous stunts, he says Evil Cheesey and his exploits were lore all around Boulder. “When Rich’s Roadhouse was still around, they used to have his cape hanging on the wall. If you prodded Cheesey long enough, he’d pull out a scrapbook of his jumps and the book would circulate throughout the crew.” Mess says he enjoyed listening to the stories of Chesebro’s old biking days, even if it sometimes took a bit of convincing. “He’d always tell you a few stories if you were patient enough to listen,” he says. “He’s definitely one of those people you could define as an odd character who has a lot of personality.” Today, Cheesey’s life of partying and breaking the rules has settled down significantly, as he suffers from dementia, a condition that has severely impaired his memory and speech and which has recently forced him to join an assisted living program where he can be taken care of. “He started to become very odd in his behaviors,” Mitchell, Chesebro’s daughter, says. “He’d go in a market, grab a soda and walk out without paying, so he’d go to jail for that. He’d go to the bar and Boulder Weekly

drink and come home and fall off the porch and cut his head open. Over the years he’d be very forgetful and repeat a lot of words.” “He says a couple words here and there, but he’s not an oracle or conversationalist, so the footage really helps,” Leising says. Part of that footage includes Super 8 mm films of Evil Cheesey’s daredevil stunts taken by local Boulder residents over the years. “Since the inception of getting into production just a few months ago, we’ve gotten a lot of phone calls from people saying they have footage of him jumping,” Hanley says. While the film is mostly self-funded by Hanley and Leising, with a few donations on the side, the filmmakers stress the importance of getting Boulder locals to share their stories about Evil Cheesey. “We want people to come forward to send us emails, and then we can go and just interview people to tell a story and then put together all the stories,” Leising says. Mitchell says that while she doesn’t see her dad jumping cars any time soon, she hopes he’ll one day get to ride his bike again. “I bet he could get on a bike, knowing my dad,” she says. “He’s looking pretty good and healthy. He was under 100 pounds for a while, but he’s getting real strong. He couldn’t jump, but he could take a little ride around the block. That would be something at least, but I’d still be nervous.” The filmmakers encourage anyone with footage, photos or stories of Evil Cheesey to contact them at evilcheesey ridesagainmovie@gmail.com. Visit http:// on.fb.me/evilcheesey for more information. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Center A Mystery School

Please join us for this exciting two day conference; designed to deepen the focus, awareness and conscious lifestyle of each participant in order to advance on this planet as an individual and as a collective.

2012 IBLRN CONGRESS ON SOUL EVOLUTION Serving the Progress of the Soul, The Body/Mind, & The Planet

September 8-9 2012 Millennium Harvest House, Boulder Saturday: Serving the Progress of Humanity Sunday: Honoring the Mind, Body & Spirit SCHEDULED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Ms. Gayle Rose, Dr. David Scharf, Mr. Wayne Peterson, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Dr. Linda Backman, Dr. Earl Backman Early Registration Through June 15 ( $175/both days; $135/day) Email Earl@TheRavenHeartCenter.com, or call 303-818-0575 for more information www.ravenheartcenter.com

“Light Beings” are advanced beings who have been summoned to Earth to assist with our changing times. Learn what they have to say about:

“One of the best tools I’ve discovered for validating what I already know to be true”

• The shift into the New Humanity • How to manifest what you want to happen in your life • Living the soul agreements you made before incarnation • Making the most useful choices for your soul evolution and the advancement of consciousness on our planet

— M. Nevar

Sponsored by: The RavenHeart Center (www.ravenheartcenter.com) Join Dr. Earl Backman, a medium trance channel, for a private channeling session or one of his monthly group Channeling Sessions via teleconference. 303.818.0575 ebackman@earthlink.net

May 24, 2012 21

Finishing Touch Spa & Salon Skin Deal Vita C Facial $69

Vita C Firming Facial, Eye & Lip Treatment, Relaxing Facial Massage, Antioxidant Vitamin Serum

Microdermabrasion $75 Smooth, Lighten & Tighten

$29

Color & Cut

new clients only

new clients only

Cut & Style Chem Shot Condition

$59

Spa Pedi & Mani $55 Shellac Mani $29 2 week polish guarantee

GIFT CERTIFICATES INSTANTLY AT FINISHINGTOUCHSPA.COM 3131 28th Street, Tebo Plaza, Boulder For appointment: 303.449.1852

Membership Madness Special Initiation fee waived! Offer valid thru may 31st

Body Benefit Membership Rates initiation fee

session price

30 minute

$39

$34/month

60 minute

$59

$54/month

90 minute

$99

$74/month

*With membership, unlimited additional sessions may be purchased at this rate

Join today, maintaining good health has never been so easy. 1640 Broadway • Boulder, CO 303.938.0388

70 Broadway • Denver, CO 303.777.7874

Massage • Chiropractic • Acupuncture • Orthotics Schedule online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

22 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

overtones Psyching out the rock

ON THE BILL: Jane’s

Addiction plays the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday, May 29. Doors at 6 p.m. Must be 16 to enter. The Duke Spirit opens. Tickets are $58. 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482.

Jane’s Addiction’s new musical styling the result of collaboration by Alan Sculley

A

band promising a new type of concert experience usually sounds like little more than hype. But coming from Perry Farrell, such a promise carries more weight. This is the man, after all, who founded the touring Lollapalooza Festival in 1991 — an event that brought a whole new type of multi-act, multi-media tour to the summer live music scene. Now Farrell is saying his band, Jane’s Addiction, will give fans a different kind of concert than they’ve ever experienced on its theater tour this winter. “I feel that it might be time for a new experience when people go out and listen to music and see musicians playing,” he says. “Concerts have been around for 50 years now. From the concert came the festival. But where do we go from here? It doesn’t necessarily have to go bigger. Things can actually become more intimate. And within that intimacy, when I mean intimate, I mean not only smaller, but the crowd will be more immersed in the performance. And the band, or the group, would be immersed into the audience. So that’s what I’m working on.” Farrell didn’t spell out exactly how Jane’s Addiction will achieve this immersive concert experience, but he said there will be a film component to the show and a specific look that he described as “1920s surrealist twist mixed with a ’60s Warhol pop.” Also, look for a show that’s not confined to the stage. “What you want to do is you want to stretch out past just the stage,” Farrell says. “You want to stretch yourself out past those monitors. And you also want to reach out and bring the audience closer to you, so you’re not divided by barricades.” And there will be new music, courtesy of The Great Escape Artist, the CD Jane’s Addiction released in the fall. It’s only the fourth studio album from a group that has had a stormy, intermittent — and influential

— history. Formed in Los Angeles in 1985, the group — which included singer Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Eric Avery — shook up the music scene with the wiry, kinetic and thoroughly modern style of rock that populated its first two CDs, 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking and 1990’s Ritual de lo Habitual, two albums that blazed a trail for the generation of alt-rock acts that followed. But then the group broke up, and two previous reunions — including one that produced the 2003 CD, Strays — failed to take. The latest reunion, which began in 2008, had its rocky moments as well. The original lineup attempted to start the new CD with Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor producing. It did not go well. “It was a damn frustration, man,” Farrell says. “We started out, we wrote a couple of tracks. They were pretty good, but they needed some work. But we immediately butted heads, to the point where there were complete blow-ups, to be honest with you.” Avery then bowed out and was replaced by former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagen. Three songs from that period — “Ultimate Reason,” “Broken People” and “Words Right Out of my Mouth” — made it onto The Great Escape Artist CD. But Farrell said much of the writing fell too close to “derivative straight rock,” and McKagen split from the group in September 2010. Farrell, Navarro and Perkins, though, did not give up on Jane’s. With producer Rich Costey on board, the

band resumed work on The Great Escape Artist. It was Costey who suggested bringing in a fourth musician, TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek — a talented producer in his own right — to join the creative team and play bass on the CD. Sitek injected a whole new energy and focus into the project — as well as some fresh sonic ideas. “We’ve always been a band that was learning about music, learning about sound and then giving people the most contemporary sound that we could,” Farrell says. “And Dave [Sitek] was kind of the vehicle. He was a key to opening the door to those sounds and teaching the guys how to play with those instruments and the software that he had. They were up for it and they really got it together. It was a longer process, but guess what, it’s not derivative.” The sound on The Great Escape Artist has some new facets for Jane’s Addiction. The psychedelic overtones and edgy atmosphere of the band’s music remain, but there’s a new layer of electronics and other sonic effects within the sound, while many of the songs are more anthemic than in the past and boast some of the most inviting melodies and hooky instrumental parts Jane’s Addiction has ever created. Now, with The Great Escape Artist under the band’s belt (and bassist Chris Chaney in the touring lineup), Farrell is optimistic about the future of Jane’s Addiction. “I’m very enthusiastic about us,” he says. “I see us doing another record, and it won’t take another eight years. It will come faster than anybody ever thought.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

5/25/12 • 7:30-11pm

5/26/12 • 7:30-11pm

$12 advance / $14 door

$10 advance / $12 door

THE LONG RUN BLACK WATER 5/24/12 • 7:30-10:30pm

LADIES NIGHT Featuring

THE TICKET

Happy Hour All Night Long for the Ladies FREE ADMISSION!

Boulder Weekly

5/27/12 • 7:30-10pm

SKANSON & HANSON $5 advance / $7 door

May 24, 2012 23

ECO-CONSCIOUS

& INDEPENDENT

“You’ll find Eco-Cycle ads in the Boulder Weekly and Boulderganic because we support independent news-media, and because they have a commitment to reporting on environmental issues and other topics that matter.” — Iris Sela Horowitz Communications Coordinator at Eco-Cycle

r o m u H h g u o r h T h? aling life on eart

He

ged by n e l l a h c l e s health, d Ever fe r a w o t e c ulder rat ra ightenment? o B e h t f o Tired and enl nut-free, , e happiness, e r f y r i a soy-free, d ing to be desired? , e e r f n e t u th gl Does your, leave you with some vegan diet

th

7 2 y a M , y Sunda :00 3:30 - 6

BONUS GIFT INCLUDED!

Nurture your soul and keep it real in a workshop of foolish-making laughter—Liberate yourself as you abondon your ego and play with the heart of a child Boulder Events Center 2805 Broadway, Boulder CO

Register at www.heatherhans.com $35 + Willingness to be Foolish

Please allow yourself to experience this event drug & alcohol-free

Heather Hans, lsw, msw, msba,cpa

Heather is a healer, teacher psychotherapist, and businesswoman with over a decade of experience in holistic wellness, including the health benefits of humor.

“When life is really hard, you have to laugh.”—Christopher Reeve

24 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

arts & culture photo courtesy of Carter Edwards

Comedic birthing pool

C

Upright Citizens Brigade incubates top talent and the accompanying laughter

omedy’s one of the or stand-up from there. world’s great equal “There isn’t such a huge disparity opportunity employers. between what makes a good standIt doesn’t matter what up comic, a really good improviser you look like, your age, and a really good sketch writer. socio-economic status or backPeople who have a knack for comeground. Gay, redneck, Asian, woman dy, people who have a knack for the (or all four!) — humor not only irreverence of it, they can do just reaches across the boundaries that about anything in that field they separate us, it pulls things out of the want to. A comedian is sort of a darkness and into the light, and comedian and then you can find allows us to laugh at ourselves and your niche you enjoy and excel at the way we see the world. more.” Edwards cautions that while Putting comedy within anyone’s many people sign up for their classes reach has been one of the goals of thinking they’ll take a few improv the Upright Citizens Brigade, a Upright Citizens Brigade members, from left to right, include Gavin Speiller, Shannon O’Neill, Bobby Moynihan (now with Saturday Night Live), Anthony King, Zach Woods (now with The Ofcourses and then beeline for SNL or comedy troupe that enjoyed a run on fice) and Eugene Cordero. the NBC comedy lineup, that’s not Comedy Central from 1998 to 2000 how it works. At least for most. and now operates theaters in Los However there have been some very Angeles and New York that have Parks and Recreation/SNL star Amy improv, going back to the original high-profile successes, even beyond served as stepping stones for many Poehler) moved to New York, where American improv troupe, Second City Poehler and McKay. Much of NBC’s comedic actors and writers. The comin Chicago, where its founders studied. they founded the Upright Citizens Thursday lineup is populated with pany also tours the It began as a troupe Brigade Theatre, and starred for three UCB alums, including The Office (Ed years in the Comedy Central show of nation, putting on in the early ’90s, the same name. Besides hosting improv Helms, Ellie Kemper, Zach Woods), comedy shows featuring members ON THE BILL: Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company plays shows, they started offering classes that 30 Rock ( John Lutz, Sue Galloway, coast-to-coast. such as Adam the Boulder Theater on Friday, grew beyond improv into sketch come- Jack McBrayer), and Parks and “Anybody can McKay (who startMay 25. Doors at 8 p.m. Boulder Recreation (Poehler, Aziz Ansari, dy, standup and, most recently, video come in and start ed Funny or Die! Improv Collaborative opens. Tickets are $15-$20. 2032 14th St., Aubrey Plaza), as well as Community’s production. learning,” says UCB with Will Ferrell Boulder, 303-786-7030. Donald Glover. On top of that, many touring company and co-wrote sev“We’re trying to become a wellof the members have gone on to write director Carter eral of his films), rounded comedy outfit, but our roots for the Daily Show, The Colbert Report Edwards. “If you’re Saturday Night Live are all in improv,” Edwards says. and SNL. good enough you can get somewhere.” member Horatio Sans and Neil Flynn “Someone that is new to UCB, we While the TV show featured sketch (Scrubs, The Middle), among others. always start them with improv and comedy, the theatre’s roots are in In 1996, four members (including watch them expand into sketch, video see COMEDY Page 26

by Chris Parker

Charles Carman, courtesy of Devil’s Thumb Productions

Scratching an itch

Devil’s Thumb takes on ‘Bug’ by Gary Zeidner

I

t’s not often that one has the opportunity to see psychological horror played out on stage. Pratfalls and buffoonery abound. Studies in tragedy crop up weekly. Musical theater is so prevalent that it has become its own sub-genre. But plays devoted to the terrors that come from within one’s own mind are few and far between. It was thus with great joy that I read that one of Boulder’s newest theater companies was bringing Tracy Letts’ Bug to town. Having previously seen Bug in both its theatrical and see BUG Page 26

Boulder Weekly

Kirsten Deane as Agnes and Graham Emmons as Peter

May 24, 2012 25

Color ado Music Festival

presents

arts & culture

DISNEY IN CONCERT COMEDY from Page 25

onC C y il

ert

Fam

MAGICAL MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES

TICKETS START AT JUST $12NO SERVICE FEES!

Disney in Concert is an enchanting multi-media concert experience for all ages. Relive memorable moments from Disney classics...Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid & more!

Thursday, July 5 & Friday, July 6 at Chautauqua in Boulder

F o r t i c k e t s : w w w. C O m u s i c . o r g | 3 0 3 . 4 4 0 .7 6 6 6

Tickets On Sale Now!

summer

2012 JUNE 9 - AUG. 12

Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night – Opens June 9 Richard III — A game of thrones — Opens June 23 Noises Off — "Funniest comedy ever" — Opens June 29 Treasure Island — Swashbuckling adventure — Opens July 14 Women of Will — Leading ladies — Opens July 5

box office: 303-492-0554 www.coloradoshakes.org 26 May 24, 2012

“We’ve gotten tremendously lucky in that a lot of our best people have gotten really big breaks and have made some pretty notable splashes,” Edwards says. “UCB is in a very fortunate place where a lot of the companies, agencies and networks sort of look to us as a source for talent … [but] the point of UCB is not to make people famous; the point is to put really funny comedy on our stage and our websites. We really want people who are interested in that to come and then sort of whatever happens after that.” But as much success as the company and its players have experienced, it still comes down to making you laugh. Unlike almost all televised or filmic comedy, UCB’s touring shows are unscripted long-form improv. That means that from out of thin air — often using suggestions from the audience — the troupe’s members construct a story of interconnected scenes, characters and ideas. There’s an energy about such performances because literally anything can happen, and there’s a danger performing without a net like this, which seems to make it that much funnier. “People who have no idea what long-form improv is should come because they are about to be blown away,” he says. “Those who’ve seen Whose Line Is It Anyway or some improv will find this is the best longform improv on the road today. These guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do. If you’re a student of comedy, it’s an excellent primer; if you’re just an audience member, it’s a fantastic night.” Chief among the night’s three performers is Eugene Cordero, whom

Edwards has known for more than a dozen years, going back to when they used to do improv tours together for a different improv theatre. Cordero — who recalls Horatio Sans a bit — is joined by his wife, Tricia McAlpin, and Betsy Sodaro. Sodaro’s a Colorado native who recently got a big break being upgraded from a guest to a regular on the pilot of the new NBC fall show Animal Practice, starring Justin Kirk as a kind of veterinarian Gregory House, M.D. All three live in Los Angeles and have been performing together for a while. Given the choice of performers from UCB’s three stages (two in NYC and one in L.A.) for his touring group, Edwards enthuses, “These guys are the best of the best.” We took this opportunity to query Edwards on the value of fart jokes and humor based on hard impacts to the male groin. He took the high road rather than disparage the low brow. “For me personally, I am man enough to laugh at just about anything,” he says. “I know some people will call a kick to the groin a cheap move, but I don’t know. If you’re laughing it’s worth it. But if the only thing I’m going to see for the rest of my life is kicks to the groin, I will really get tired of them. Then again, if the only form of comedy I’ll see for the rest of my live was The Colbert Report, I’d get sick of that too.” Luckily, you won’t have to worry about improv’s freshness, since the product changes nightly. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

BUG from Page 25

cinematic forms and enjoyed both versions immensely, I brought some hefty expectations to Devil’s Thumb Productions’ second-night performance at the Dairy Center for the Arts. An intense examination of codependence, paranoia and loneliness, Bug pushes boundaries (it’s one of the few NC-17 plays you’ll see) and strives to make the audience uncomfortable even as it entertains. Set entirely in a seedy motel room off some interstate in Oklahoma, Bug opens with Agnes White (Kirsten Deane) silhouetted in the doorway smoking a cigarette and sipping her first of many adult beverages. Agnes, a waitress at a dive bar, is damaged goods. Her every movement and sylla-

ble are infused with anger and sorrow. Her motel room is her self-imposed prison cell in which she attempts to blot out her pain with drugs and booze. One night, Agnes’ friend R.C. (Haley M. Driscoll) shows up bearing gifts of cocaine and a new acquaintance, Peter Evans (Graham Emmons). From the get-go, Peter presents as twitchy and slightly out of phase with the rest of the world. Though polite and mild-mannered, his early statement that coke isn’t bad for you as long as you smoke it rather than snort it foreshadows his mental instability. In a halting, heartbreakingly plausible way, Agnes and Peter begin to Boulder Weekly

arts & culture Heather Gray

Kirsten Deane as Agnes and Graham Emmons as Peter

8 week group: Meets weekly. 5:30-7:00 pm. June 6-July 25

June 7 • 8 PM Red Rocks Amphitheatre 3rd Annual

Live In Concert

John Denver Tribute

starring

Tickets: $29 (plus charges)

Jim Curry

with former John Denver Band Members Featuring Lee

fall for one another. Slowly, they reveal like to have seen an even deeper level why they are such broken souls, and of commitment from them, a level they take solace in each other’s misery that would completely obliterate the and company. For a time, it even looks line between actor and character. like some impossible alchemy could be While neither one of them seemed at work that will transform them into afraid, nor did they seem fearless. functional, perhaps even happy, peoWhere Bug excels is in its producple. tion design. Credit Then, the first Scenic Designer bug appears, and Shannon Meihaus for everything goes to her work on Agnes’ ON THE BILL: Bug plays at the Dairy Center for the hell. Broken up only motel room. With its Arts, 2590 Walnut St., through by the occasional viswater-stained wallpaJune 2. No one under 17 is its from Agnes’ exper, half smoked cigapermitted to attend. Tickets are $12 to $15. For tickets or husband, Jerry (Sean rettes and generic information, visit www.devilstScrutchins), R.C. corn flakes, the motel humbproductions.org. and, much later, a room is really a sixth mysterious figure character, and an known as Dr. Sweet important one at that. (Scott G. Hartman), Agnes and Peter The room mirrors Agnes and Peter’s spiral from drugged-out misfits to descent as it evolves throughout the something far, far worse. It’s them course of the play. Tyler Pelo’s sound design is equally good with its passing against the world, and the world has tractor-trailers and ominous helicopno intention of losing. ters giving the only glimpses into the Bug demands excellent performances from its two leads. One or the world outside of the motel. Working on a shoestring budget other of them is in every scene, and no and with relatively young talent, other characters truly command the Devil’s Thumb had its work cut out audience’s attention. Deane and Emmons throw themselves into their for it with Bug. While they deliver a roles, and for the most part get them passable piece of theatre, I wish that right. Especially in the second act, this Bug had gotten deeper under my they bring the madness of their situaskin. tion to the fore. That said, I would Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

Holdridge

CU New Opera Works

CU Voice Faculty Recital Friday, May 25, 7:30 p.m.

ATLAS Building Black Box Theater Featuring songs of composer Lori Laitman and poems of guest librettist David Mason

Ludlow

by composer Lori Laitman and librettist David Mason

June 1 & 2, 7:30 p.m. June 3, 2 p.m.

ATLAS Building Black Box Theater World premiere of the first act of this operatic work-in-progress! Performances include talkbacks with CU NOW artists.

$15 general admission

cupresents.org | 303.492.8008

Global performance. World-class entertainment. You have to be here.

May 24, 2012 27

LIVE MUSIC every Sun, Mon, & Wed @10pm & Fridays @ 5pm EVERY TUESDAY! $3 Premium Drafts all day $5.00 Cheeseburger & Fries after 4pm

Fri., May 25th

Statue of Liberty Sun., May 27th • 9pm

Open Stage

Mon., May 28th

George Nelson Quartet Wed., May 30th

Monocle Stache Friday, June 1st - Craig Corona Sunday, June 3rd - Open Stage, 9pm Mon., June 4th - The Heavy Cats Wed., June 6th - The Thurston Group Friday, June 8th - Brian Rezac Sunday, June 10th - Open Stage, 9pm Mon., June 11th - George Nelson Quartet Wed., June 13th - Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys

28 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

panorama

This week at

boulderweekly.com

TOP 10 STORIES

Week of May 17 - May 23

1. Unzipped For years, local political gadfly Seth Brigham got away with being a persistent, even belligerent, bug in the ears of city council. But he didn’t get slapped with a restraining order until he started nosing around the undisclosed financial ties of city council members, including KC Becker and George Karakehian. 2. Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking 3. Local farm loses the battle against local government 4. Panorama (5/17) 5. Towering challenges 6. Open mouth, insert wing 7. Best of Boulder 2012 8. Baloney on veggies 9. Imported food raises safety questions 10. Astrology (5/17)

Boulder Creek Festival Funkiphino kicks off the weekend-long Boulder Creek Festival with a concert from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 25, at the Twenty Ninth Street mall, 1710 29th St. in Boulder.

Downtown Business Association

POLL Last Week Should Seth Brigham be banned from all public city meetings? • Yes. He’s a threat and distraction. 28% • No. He has a citizen’s rights. 67% • Sometimes. If he acts up. 6% • Don’t care. Who is this dude? 0% This Week Should Wyoming be allowed to take wolves off the endangered species list? • Yes. Population is up to par. • No. They’re still endangered in Colorado. • Not sure. There’s other game. • Only if it’s Jacob from Twilight.

This Week Should at-will CU instructors be SUMMER 2012 given five-yearSCENE contracts?

year’s • YThis es. Protect Summer Scene academic lists festivals, freedom! concerts and • No. Keep events at 50them on their toes! towns around the state to • Maybe to let you know when to schedule that 14er summit so you descend into the town’s strawberry festival or evening rodeo. It’s designed to be your resource for knowing where to go and what to do, whether you’re looking to have fun around town or get away from the Front Range. So here it is, your guide to having the best summer ever. May you use it well, wearing down a pair or two of sandals and passing plenty of hours with your sunglasses on. Boulder Weekly

Thursday, May 24

events

303-449-1922.

music

3rd Law Dance/Theater Year-End Celebration — A short, informal showing with excerpts from the year’s performances and what’s planned for the next season. 6 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Black Water. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Amy Dynise. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Ash Ganley Trio. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Boulder Comedy Club — Headliner Matt Baca, with Robyn Krueger, Bradley Galli, Kelly MacLean, Terri Barton Gregg, Chris Charpentier. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Brandon Hagen — CD release show with Emma Back Trio and The Inquiry. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Dan Treanor and Afrossippi. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. George Nelson Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ginga. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Meryl Romer/Bill Kopper Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. One Be Lo and Kublakai — With Microphone Militants, Proximity, Risky Jones, Kno Respek and Kind Rich. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Primal Mates. 4-6 p.m. The Sandbox Theater behind Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Ryan Flick — With Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Smack Thompson. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Ticket. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tyler Grant solo. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Charles Sawtelle Memorial Bench Dedication — Presented by Hot Rize. 5:30 p.m. North Lawn of Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Blue Stone Mojo. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Clamdaddys. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Cowboy Dave band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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

City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks open house on the evaluation of the Voice and Sight Tag Program. 6-8 p.m. East Boulder Community Center/Senior Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, www.bouldercolorado.gov. Where the Yellowstone Goes — Feature film about a 31-day drift boat journey down the longest undammed river in the contiguous U.S. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Friday, May 25

Denver Folklore Center 50th Anniversary Celebration. 8 p.m. Newman Center for Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. Funkiphino — Boulder Creek Festival Kick-Off Concert. 6-9 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Jillian Henrique — With Marc Perreault. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Nolan McCinnis. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Stephen Thurston. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Sambadende. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Take 2 Band, Postal Holiday. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Yawpers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events

music

Bike to Farm Friday — With Awe-Struck Adventures. 10790 N. 49th St., Longmont, 303-807-6634.

An evening with (the music of) Dylan and the Dead — With The Zimmermans and Dead/Phish Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Flamenco show — With Rene Heredia on guitar. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bill McKay Band. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder,

Haulin’ Ass — A celebration of pack burro racing. 7

May 24, 2012 29

Realign Restore Perform Adam Mentzell

certified advanced rolfer

50% OFF Initial Session for new clients only Expires 6/15/12

BODYWORK THAT LASTS Call 720.878.2888 for appointment 3055 47th St., www.GetRolfing.com

panorama “The Clam Digger’s Wife and Her Clandestine Trampoline,” by Paul Adams at the Center for Fine Art Photography

arts

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION

If you’re looking to feel better in your body, improve sports performance, or you’re struggling with longterm muscular skeletal problems or simply looking to improve your posture, I can help.

Allegory — photos by S. Gayle Stevens. The Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Center of Fort Collins, 400 N. College Ave., 970-224-1010. Through June 30.

Alternative Processes & The Child is the Father of the Man. The Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Center of Fort Collins, 400 N. College Ave., 970-224-1010. Through June 23 and Aug. 4. Anne Evans: Colorado’s Cultural Visionary — Photographs, sculptures and the original writings and paintings of one of the leaders of Denver’s cultural development. Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-7933. The Anxiety of Influence. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company — With Boulder Improv Collaborative. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Gone Fishing — An interactive, digital media installation created by University of Colorado music, art and computer science students. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. No Longer in My Hands — by Terry Campbell. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 27. Sculpture by Leonard Pettus, Shelley Goddard, Anne Shutan & Lynne Jacobs. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106. Viviane Le Courtois’ Edible? and Jason Rogenes’ Sp4c3cr4ft. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through June 17.

Saturday, May 26 music Best Coast — With Jeff the Brotherhood. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

USA Ultimate College Championships. CU campus, www.usaultimate.org. Through May 28.

Born By Starlight — With b. bixler. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

We’re Already In It — Film presentation by Patty Greer. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Danny Shafer solo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Congratulations!

Daniel Ellis

For outstanding service to our customers, and being just a fantastic employee! THANK YOU DANIEL!

Theatrical Costumes, Etc! & Trendy Boutique 669 S. Broadway, Boulder • 303-440-8515 Second Place in 2012 Best of Boulder! 30 May 24, 2012

in Savers Shopping Center

www.theatricalcostumesetc.com Open 7 days a week 10am-7pm

words

Colorado’s poet laureate David Mason reads at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore

Thursday, May 24 Birds of Paradise — by Diana Abu-Jaber. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727. The Republic of Nature — by Mark Fiege. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. Poetry Reading — With Jared Smith. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644. Friday, May 25

Poetry Reading — With Brenna Lee and Ian Rummell. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Saturday, May 26 The Triple Threat Behind Staging a Scene — Writing workshop with Tiffany Inman. 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tipi Summer Writing Work-

shop Series, 1907 24th Ave., Longmont, 303518-6740. Sunday, May 27 Poetry Reading — With Jason Baldinger. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Monday, May 28 “So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Tuesday, May 29 Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, May 30 Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Boulder Weekly

Denver Folklore Center 50th Anniversary Celebration. 8 p.m. L2 Arts & Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St., Denver, 303-777-1003. Don from Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Encounters. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Eric Wiggs/Scott Martin Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. The Grant Farm. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jababa. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

theater

panorama

Arvada Center’s production of Twelfth Night closes this weekend

Bug. Devil’s Thumb Productions at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-250-8177. Through June 2. Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 1. Circle Mirror Transformation. Theatre Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, 720-2092154. Through June 9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-

5200. Through May 26. Into the Woods. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 8.

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. Arvada Center Black Box Theater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 27.

The Mosaic. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Procrastinators. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Randall Dubis Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Satterfield Band. 3 p.m. Derby Grill, 110 Bunyon St., Berthoud, 970-532-0986. Troubadours Evening. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Terablu Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

events Boulder Ballet School Showcase — End of the year recital. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Creek Festival — Bands, booths and carnival. 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Downtown Boulder along Boulder Creek from 9th to 14th Street, between Canyon Boulevard and Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 303-449-3137. Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder, www.boulderfarmers.org. Boulder Burlesque Presents: Madonna Meets Whore — With DJ Dance Party. A night of burlesque dance, theatrical comedy and social commentary. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kindred Spirits Meet & Greet — Meeting for ghost enthusiasts. 6-8 p.m. Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, 720-684-7149.

Sunday, May 27 music 2 Hearted Jones — With Kristina Murray. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Blues Jam — With Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. Brunch Time — with Danny Shafer. 11 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Country Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Denver Folklore Center 50th Anniversary. 1 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, swallowhillmusic.org. Jeff Scroggins & Colorado — With K.C. Groves. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. The Living Wills — With Russ Chapman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Skanson & Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

events Boulder Ballet School Showcase — End of the year recital. 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Boulder Weekly

BOULDER CREEK FESTIVAL Monday, May 28 – 1:30pm Central Park Bandshell, FREE BEST OF BOULDER AwARDS BASh Thursday, May 31 – 5:30pm Boulder Theater, FREE CALL NOw to book the band for a Rockin’ Party! 303-819-8182 • www.hindsightclassicrock.com May 24, 2012 31

panorama

June 4 J une 10 J une 16 J une 30 July 7 July 14 July 16 July 21 Aug 4 Aug 11 Aug 15 Aug 30 Sept 3 Sept 7

Weir, Robinson, Greene Acoustic Trio Indigo Girls with full band The Shadowboxers opening Tennis / Paper Bird Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai Jake Shimabukuro Aaron Neville Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band Lucinda Williams Hayes Carll w/Joe Pug Blind Pilot

tickets

chautauqua.com

Andrew Bird John Hiatt & The Combo

kids’ calendar

summerconcert series 2012

Richie Castro, the History Hunter, uses music to teach cultural awareness to children ages 6-12

Thursday, May 24

Monday, May 28

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Meadow Music — Children’s music and nature education. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Green, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, naturehikes.org.

Friday, May 25 Ollin Farms Garden Program — Planting WOW!’s Summer Garden. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Saturday, May 26 Teen Creek Fest. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Richie Castro, the History Hunter — 6:30 p.m. The Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.

Boulder Creek Festival — Bands, booths and carnival. 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Downtown Boulder along Boulder Creek from 9th to 14th Street, between Canyon Boulevard and Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 303-449-3137.

Jerry Douglas Band

St Julien Carb Loading Pasta Night — In preparation for the Bolder Boulder. 5:30-10 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, May 28 music Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Indigo Girls with full band The Shadowboxers opening

July 15 Aaron Neville July 22 Lucinda Williams July 28 Los Lobos/Steve Earle and the Dukes

(and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer

Aug 10 Aug 12 Aug 19 Aug 23

Los Lonely Boys

Aug 29

John Hiatt & The Combo

Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime/ Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, May 30 Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Asleep at the Wheel

tickets

SummerAtTheCenter.com

“Weird Al” Yankovic The Alpocalypse Tour

Jean-Luc Davis Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Kort McCumber Duo. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ronnie Baker Brooks. 7 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

events “I Have a Dream” Tutors Walk-in Orientations. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. “I Have a Dream” Foundation, 3012 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 200, Boulder, www.ihaveadreamboulder.org.

Wednesday, May 30

Memorial Day Mountain Music Fest & Barbecue — Feat. Runaway Truck Ramp reunion, The Haunted Windchimes, Steve Itterly Band, Russ Chapman. 12-5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Homegrown Singer Night — With Romano Paolettii. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Romano Paoletti open stage. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Shook Twins. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

events

Pink Martini

Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Boulder Creek Festival — Bands, booths and carnival. 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Downtown Boulder along Boulder Creek from 9th to 14th Street, between Canyon Boulevard and Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 303-449-3137. EXPAND Duck Race. 4 p.m. 9th Street bridge, Boulder, www.EXPANDDuckRace.og. Kindred Spirits Meet & Greet — Meeting for ghost enthusiasts. 6-8 p.m. Richards Hart Estate, W 28th Ave & Benton St., Wheatridge, 720-684-7149.

Tuesday, May 29 music Dechen Hawk. 6 p.m. West End Tavern. 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535. Henricksen Amps Presents: Sean McGowan’s Jazz Guitar Night. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,

32 May 24, 2012

Tuesday, May 29

Rickie Lee Jones / Madeleine Peyroux

THE ARVADA CENTER J une 9:

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

music

John Beacher — with Jubal and Rebbecca. 11 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Marlo & Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nokuthula. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Percussion Extravaganza Jam Session — Hosted by Billy Hoke, with guest Eddie Turner. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events Behavioral Finance: How Emotions Impact Financial Decisions — Women-related financial workshop. 3-4 p.m. Charles Schwab Boulder Branch, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, schwab.com/workshops. Teen Summer Kick-Off party — Howl’s Moving Castle movie screening. 6 p.m. Boulder Library Main Branch, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder Weekly

Boulder Weekly

May 24, 2012 33

Boulder’s national broadcast

-

Building a better world through music and ideas

Boulder Weekly

and

SUN JUN 3 • BOULDER THEATER • 7:00 PM

and

David Bromberg Quartet “The reason man created stringed instruments.” – Jerry Jeff Walker and

Gretchen Peters "Glory thru my headphones." – Miley Cyrus

"In Peters' music every tale is brave, unique, beautiful.” – Time Magazine

SUN JUN 10 • BOULDER THEATER • 7:00 PM

The Tallest Man On Earth & more Tickets $20 at Boulder Theater Box Office 303-786-7030 at

www.etown.org

34 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH

reel to reel

prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

In a large apartment high above the city lives a couple. She’s a painter, he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon — except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 a.m., give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Most romantic comedies give up once the girl, or guy, has been gotten. This movie shows why. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. HEADHUNTERS

A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT BATTLESHIP The classic naval combat game brought to life with plenty of visual effects and slowmotion action sequences. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. BERNIE Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset) returns to his Texas roots for this delightfully pokerfaced black comedy — based on a true story — about East Texas assistant funeral home director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black). Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Driven by her cruelty to put four bullets in her, Bernie goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that she’s still alive. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the place a shell of its former self. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BOY This is a hilarious and heartfelt comingof-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson. Boy is a dreamer who lives with his brother, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy’s other hero, his father, is the subject of fantasies: a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he is an inept, wannabe gangster who has been in jail for robbery. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Boedecker Theater

Men in Black III

Ten years later, this franchise puts Will Smith back on the alien hunt.

pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater CHERNOBYL DIARIES From Oren Peli, creator of Paranormal Activity, comes another spine tingler about ignored warnings and unwelcome companions. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. CHIMPANZEE This nature documentary follows a baby chimpanzee and his family as they survive in the African forest. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT THE COLOR WHEEL JR, an increasingly transient aspiring news anchor, forces her disappointing younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment. Problem is, these grown up kids do not get along, and are both too obnoxious to know better. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society CROOKED ARROWS Tribal pride blends with an underdog sports team story in this tale of how a young man tries to prove himself to his father and earn his place in his Native American tribe. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

BULLHEAD

DARK SHADOWS

A domineering cattle farmer, constantly

A vampire is freed from his tomb after two centuries and set loose in the world

Boulder Weekly

Headhunters is an intense action thriller, as well as a provocative investigation into questions of betrayal, revenge and deadly ambition. The talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) stars as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway’s most accomplished corporate headhunter. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

For a list of local movie times, visit boulderweekly.com/ movie-times.html

THE AVENGERS 3D

of 1972. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. DARLING COMPANION Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres DHAMMA BROTHERS An overcrowded maximum-security prison in Alabama is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. The Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting 10 days, is seen by some as a threat to their religious beliefs. But for some it may hold the key for personal redemption. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater THE DICTATOR Sacha Baron Cohen is back with a character that sports a funny accent and antagonizes others. Shock! But unlike Borat, Admiral General Aladeen is neither revealing nor inherently hilarious. In what could have been a powerful and insightful statement in the wake of the Arab Spring is mostly a tired retread of moderately funny vulgar jokes. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. FIRST POSITION Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary and feature film debut, First Position, follows six young dancers as they

HUNGER GAMES In the post-apocalyptic ruins of North America, a teenage girl competes in a nationally televised battle to the death against 23 of her peers. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT KEYHOLE After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife in her bedroom upstairs. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE KID WITH A BIKE Grand Jury Prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this new release by the Dardenne brothers delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril. When his father abandons him, Cyril obsessively tries to find his bicycle. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater LIVE OPERA: PETER GRIMES Set in a drab fishing village, Peter Grimes tells the story of a man accused by his neighbors of committing unspeakable crimes and how their actions ripple further and further. Britten’s incredible score includes the Four Sea Interludes, instrumental music between scenes that perfectly expresses the mystery and pain at the heart of this opera. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater MARLEY Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Director Kevin Macdonald’s see MOVIE REVIEWS Page 36

May 24, 2012 35

Headaches? Misaligned spinal bones in your neck are a common cause of tension headaches. Pills only mask the symptoms. Chiropractic adjustments correct the misalignment, thus relieving your headaches.

reel to reel MOVIE REVIEWS from Page 35

(One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) documentary Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. At Mayan and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres MEN IN BLACK III

COME MEET OUR HEADACHE SPECIALIST

Dr. Cindie Dowell used to suffer from horrible headaches.

When a chiropractor cured her headaches she immediately enrolled in chiropractic school.

Call 303-444-7744 to schedule your consultation. 2835 Pearl Street Unit D • Boulder 303.444.7744 Located in front of Whole Foods next to Turleys Restaurant

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” -Spanish Proverb

www.MEDFIT.net Physical Therapy & Supervised Exercise

Boulder Longmont 303.447.2873 303.682.2440 Golden West Manor 303.939.0591

Everything’s Coming Up Bargains. 50% off

Open 7 days a week 303-604-5353 www.hospicecareonline.org 36 May 24, 2012

May 28th

The real prize in this film will be seeing Josh Brolin’s impressions of Tommy Lee Jones. But there are sure to be other entertaining aspects to this back-in-timeto-save-the-future tale. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MIRROR MIRROR An exiled princess enlists the help of a group of diminutive bandits to take back her usurped throne from an evil queen in this retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT OPERA: MARIA STUARDA Famous for the real-life power struggles that took place on stage during the rehearsals, and on opening night, between the two prima donnas, there is no such drama in this production, where the luminous Mariella Devia as Maria Stuarda and Anna Caterina Antonacci as Elisabetta come together in wonderful harmony. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3-D In this Claymation extravaganza based on a series of books, The Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) leads his group of hapless miscreants through an adventure that involves Charles Darwin (David Tennant). While jokes about evolution are found a plenty, laughs are not had by all in this shockingly boring endeavor. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. PRISONER OF PARADISE The true story of Kurt Gerron traces the life of the beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star who was sent to Theriesenstadt. Ordered to write and direct a propaganda film depicting the concentration camp as a haven for artists, Gerron filmed a production of Brundibar that survives today. Gerron, the children he filmed, and Brundibar’s composer were all sent to their deaths following the filming. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor as Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual request. A businesswoman named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt, The Adjustment Bureau) wants his help in fulfilling a wealthy sheikh’s (Amr Waked) desire to bring sport fishing to Yemen. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS

Open 10 am-5:30 pm 5565 Arapahoe Ave.

Sarah Sparks is a freelance “technologist” who repairs everything from new com-

puters to old-fashioned radios and considers it part of her job to interview strangers in public places about the role technology plays in their lives. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society SOUND OF MY VOICE In the mystery drama Sound of My Voice, a couple of young documentary filmmakers infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (co-writer Brit Marling, Another Earth). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres A SURPRISE IN TEXAS In May 2009, 29 young contestants came from all over the world to Fort Worth, Texas, to compete in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for the most prestigious prize in the music world. This is the story of one of the contestants, 20-year-old Nobuyuki Tsujii from Tokyo, blind from birth. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater THINK LIKE A MAN Four men have their love lives shaken up when the women they are pursuing read a relationship-advice book and take its lessons to heart. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THE THREE STOOGES Three infants left on a nun’s doorstep grow up to be knuckleheads who get embroiled in a murder plot and stumble into a reality TV show. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT TONIGHT YOU’RE MINE Strutting indie music star Adam (Luke Treadaway, Attack the Block) and feisty punk-rock girl band leader Morello (Natalia Tena, Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter series) are handcuffed together as part of a backstage altercation. With no key in sight, the two feuding musicians can’t be unhitched, even to perform. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres WE HAVE A POPE A cardinal suddenly finds himself elected as the next pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he’s presented to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. To prevent a worldwide crisis, the Vatican’s spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious nor all that committed to finding out what is wrong with the new pope. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING The book What to Expect When You’re Expecting is approaching 30 — about time to start bearing its own offspring, though the disjointed high drama of this film may not exactly make a parent proud. The ensemble cast that includes every available face from Jennifer Lopez to Chris Rock leads to heavy-handed dramatics panning in an overall sitcommy film. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Boulder Weekly

screen

Baker Sandoval Cleaning, LLC

Wadiya do that for?

Conserve Today for Tomorrow

‘The Dictator’ is pointless, toothless
 by Ryan Syrek

A

lthough it turned many a talentless friend into an amateur impressionist, Sacha Baron Cohen’s performance as Borat was inarguably hilarious. The improvised, horribly racist, legitimately brilliant film that put Cohen on the map was a straight-up phenomenon and a muchneeded reminder that the best comedy is dangerous comedy. Even Cohen’s follow-up, Brüno, was delightfully savage, exposing homophobia with a slightly lower laugh production than his freshman work. Sadly, The Dictator is total milquetoast weak sauce. The third wacky-character-based go-round for Cohen and director Larry Charles is easily their worst and is stunningly tepid. The idea was at least semi-ballsy: wicked oppressor of the fictional north African nation of Wadiya, Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen (Cohen), faces an internal power grab from his uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley). With the world gripped by the Arab Spring and enthralled by the removal of cruel rulers, with little interest in what happens in the wake of said removal, this seemed a target perfectly suited for Cohen’s heavily accented and brutal schtick. Then came the script decision that undid the film: Aladeen is replaced by a doppelganger and left penniless on the streets of New York, Trading Places style. A misunderstanding results in the freedom-loathing misogynist being employed by a tree-hugging, vegan feminist named Zoey (Anna Faris). Mashing up The Odd Couple and Coming to America is antiedgy, even when you throw in what could be the first birth scene shot from inside a vagina. The Dictator contains exactly one impactful scene, in which Aladeen explodes the fallacy of democracy’s perfection while describing his oppressive regime, and one edgy satirical joke, when Aladeen asks a pregnant Zoey, “Are you having a boy or an abortion?” The rest of the gags are stale, recycled or flat. Boulder Weekly

QUALITY COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL CLEANING SERVICES 720.304.9748 bsc964@yahoo.com

Locally-Owned

& Woman-Owned

A Neighborhood Gathering Place in Downtown Louisville

Considering that mockery of brutal rulers is probably the most frequently practiced comedy in the world, it’s shocking how little range the film has. The writing essentially neutered the film in shifting locale from the fertile comedic crescent to the home of nearly all fish-out-of-water. In concept, this film could have mocked not only dictatorial excess but the flaws of revolution, the failure of the majority of Americans to process events abroad and the similarity between military warlords and our elected officials. Instead we get copious jokes about Zoey’s tiny boobies and Aladeen’s tiny ding-dong. Oh, how daring! Kubrick dropped Doctor Strangelove two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chaplin unleashed The Great Dictator while Hilter was in office. The most powerful, brilliant works of comedic fiction are biting and timely. The Dictator could have been both. As it stands, it is just moderately amusing and lucky that it was released in the wake of the colossal stink bomb that is Dark Shadows. To put it another way, there’s a reason Chaplin’s Dictator got to use the descriptor “great” and Cohen is still searching for the right adjective. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

UPCOMING SHOWS Beginning 9:30 Nightly

THURSDAY MAY 24 • 8:30pm

Acoustic open Mic NO MINOrS

FRIDAY MAY 25

BOEDECKER THEATER Independent film & cultural performances in high definition. Wine, local beer and organic treats available.

THE KID WITH A BIKE May 24 – 7:00 talkback with Jim Palmer May 25 – 6:00 | May 26 – 4:00 & 8:00 May 27 - 5:00

NOlaN MCCINNIS

A SuRpRISE In TExAS

dON frOM tHe GaSOlINe lOllIPOPS

lIVE OpERA: pETER GRImES - BRITTEn

$6 BUrGer & frIeS!

talkbacks with Kathryn Bernheimer

SATURDAY MAY 26

MONDAY MAY 28

TUESDAY MAY 29 • 8:30pm

GaSOlINe lOllIPOPS WEDNESDAY MAY 30 • 8:30pm

trIVIa NIGHt

ServiNg the HIGHEST QUALITY iNgreDieNtS reAL FOOD reAL PeOPLe • reAL MUSiC

May 24 – 4:30 | May 25 – 4:00 & 8:00 May 26 – 6:00

May 24 - 12:00 | Encore June 10 - 1:00

muSIC & THE HOlOCAuST SERIES

pRISOnER Of pARADISE May 29 - 7:00

THE pIAnIST June 5 - 7:00

SHADOWS In pARADISE: HITlER’S ExIlES In HOllYWOOD June 12 - 7:00

OpERA: mARIA STuARDA - DOnIzETTI May 27 - 1:00 | May 30 - 1:00

BullHEAD

May 30 - 4:30 | May 31 - 7:00 | Jun 1 - 3:00 & 5:30 | June 2 - 4:00 & 8:30 | Jun 3 - 5:00

DHAmmA BROTHERS

May 30 - 7:00 talkback with Lisa Polansky May 31 - 4:30 | Jun 1 - 8:00 | Jun 2 - 6:30

809 MAiN St. • 303.993.2094 Simply Louisville WWW.WATERLOOLOUISVILLE.COM

2590 WAlnuT STREET - BOulDER

303.440.7826 x 110 WWW.THEDAIRY.ORG

May 24, 2012 37

Meet the most feared man in the dandelion kingdom.

Bob, Garden Department. Since 1980.

Ask the green vest. HOURS: Mon - Fri: 7:30 am - 8:00 pm Sat: 8:00 am - 6:00 pm / Sun: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm FREE PARKING: Available on all four sides at The Village at Arapahoe & Canyon PUBLIC TRANSIT: RTD stops on Folsom, Arapahoe, and Canyon

mcguckin.com 2525 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 443-1822

Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter

38 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

B

efore setting off in August 2011 to float for 31 days down the longest undammed river in the lower 48, filmmaker Hunter Weeks had spent just a little time rafting the Arkansas. It had been 10 years since he’d caught a fish. It’s 550 miles from the first place you can put a boat into the Yellowstone River — just outside Yellowstone National Park in Montana and beyond two waterfalls — to North Dakota, where the Yellowstone River joins the Missouri River. Along the way, Weeks would meet sheepherders and “the cake ladies,” temporarily lose a raft and catch brown trout, sunnies, bass and carp. He’d pass by the site of an oil spill, where an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst under the Yellowstone River and emptied 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water. The mark of the spill was still visible in the water and, even 100 miles downstream, in the mud. While his shoes may have finally dried out, Weeks says his filmmaking may never be the same, and nor will his perspective on our world and the

see YELLOWSTONE Page 40

Prestige (choose from 5 FREE models)

Rydon (18 sport models available in 2for1 Promo)

Slinger (choose from 7 FREE colors )

Boulder Weekly

May 24, 2012 39

upcoming

events

THURSDAY, MAY 24 Climbing for Change by Edge of Seven. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. SATURDAY, MAY 26 Fly Fishing 101. 9 a.m. Boulder Orvis Store, 629B S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-554-0122. Geology Walk at Sandstone Ranch. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Sandstone Ranch Open Space,Visitor Center, south of Highway 119, one mile east of Weld County Road 1, 303-6786214. Tropical Birds of Boulder. 7:3010:30 a.m. Bear Canyon Trail neighborhood access point, 1520 Bear Mountain Drive, Boulder, www. naturehikes.org. SUNDAY, MAY 27 Wildflowers of Heil Valley Ranch Hike. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Lefthand Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-678-6214. TUESDAY, MAY 29 Bike Maintenance Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Nicaragua Volcanoes. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303786-8406. Boulder Beer Road Ride. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Beer, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 720924-2453. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Travel With a Purpose. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”

40 May 24, 2012

adventure

YELLOWSTONE from Page 39

way humans use it. “I think the thing that did for me was to make me more aware of resources, how much of our natural resources we’re using and we need to continue to sustain our lifestyle,” he says. “As I go everywhere now, I see how much we consume, how much we use, and how much of our natural resources are being dedicated to allow us to be comfortable, and being in the middle of an oil spill cleanup like that sort of brought that to my attention.” Of course, a month spent on the water every day and camping every night is enough to change a person. And that kind of transformative trip is the stuff of good films — which Weeks says he recognized when he first heard the idea of floating that stretch of the river from Montana fly fishing guide and photographer Robert Hawkins. So Weeks, whose previous film credits include Ride the Divide and 10 MPH, packed up Hawkins’ drift boat and brought along another 14-foot raft, guided by Shannon Ongaro, and his father-in-law, John Hall, as camp cook, and set out on the trip that would become Where the Yellowstone Goes. They were assisted by an on-land crew of two or three people who met them along the way to provide recharged batteries and transfer the hours of video off the cameras. Mike Dion, executive producer of Ride the Divide and director of its follow-up, Reveal the Path, worked with that road crew, which captured scenic shots of the two boats together working their way down a slow-moving river. “For me, it was definitely fun to be really embedded in the experience, to really fish, float on a river and camp every night,” Weeks says. “I take each project as it comes. I just know for me, it’s worked really well to create this immersive experience and to just go with it and shoot it, and capture the players.” Of course, being a film about a Montana river, there was a necessary amount of fishing. Over their days on the river, what they’re fishing for chang-

es from cold-water trout to the bass and walleye that live in the river at its warmer lower elevations. “I think the fishing was such a natural part of being on a river, especially in a place like Montana, and I think Colorado’s very similar. you have quite a few avid fishers,” Weeks says. “Fishing’s definitely one of those things that goes way, way back all the way to the beginning of time. … It’s always had sort of a special kind of vibe.” Looking out over the landscape, which evolves from the crisp, clear mountains in western Montana to an increasingly dry and brown landscape approaching North Dakota, they talked over previous visitors on the land, from dinosaurs to the Lewis and Clark expedition. “We definitely had a lot of long conversations about life and thinking about what this land was like,” Weeks says. But the film isn’t so much a story of the land, or the river, as it is a story of the people who live on and by them. “I feel like, as I was journeying on that trip, I was trying to understand what to take from that experience, and the people I met were pretty key,” Weeks says. “This became really a river-of-life story.” Axioms drift up through the film to preview the lessons ahead: “You’re not too small” prefaces the story of a man who worked on a way to save fish that were dying in irrigation ditches from being sucked into those diversions, and “Honor loved ones” precedes the story of a woman who manages a herd of sheep alone, a herd that she once shared with her husband. “You really see these people who have these amazing qualities that live along the river. ” Weeks says. “They helped define the river and the river helped define them.” A river of life theme showed up in the lifecycle of the river, bugs and people living and dying. And there’s just the suggestion of worry about the death of the river itself. “There’s a lot of concerns about the

fish in a place like the Yellowstone River,” Weeks says. “That’s such a massive river, and it being the longest undammed river in the lower 48, you get a sense that there’s a lot of species, but a lot of strain, too.” Fisheries are facing problems, and the “Fishing Bridge” in Yellowstone National Park no longer permits fishing in hopes that the cutthroat trout population that once thrived there will rebound. “There’s a huge concern about how that will affect the chain all the way down the river,” Weeks says. And of the 60,000 dams in the United States, not one of them has managed to pin down the Yellowstone, reshaping it and affecting what species of fish live there. “It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the Yellowstone River over the years; there’s definitely threats and going to be continued pressure,” he says. The film played to a sold-out 450seat venue in Bozeman, Mont., May 19 and was warmly received there, Weeks reports. It was a relief, he says, after some worry about what Montanans would make of an outsider’s perspective on their river. He lived in Montana for just a year, and recently moved to Boulder. “I think everybody just loved the way the story was captured, they really felt like it truly represented the river,” Weeks says. “It’s such a special river, and that’s important when you try to tell the story, especially if you’re sort of an outsider. You want to do the best job you can, and people felt it was really spot on.” Where the Yellowstone Goes will be screening at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, at the Boulder Theater. Weeks will attend, along with his wife and one of the film’s producers, Sarah Hall, as well as raft guide Ongaro. The screening will be preceded by a get-together at 5:30 p.m. at the Lazy Dog. More information is available at www.wheretheyellowstonegoes.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Boulder Weekly

GoLite Boulder 1222 Pearl St. 303-440-1484

Bolder Boulder Runners: Don’t Forget to Thank Your Legs.

Store Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am-8pm Sun: 11am-6pm ®

©2011 GoLite LLC. All Rights Reserved. GoLite and the GoLite logo are trademarks of Timberland and Switzerland GmbH. All Rights Reserved.

Vallecitos Mountain Ranch A WILDERNESS LEARNING & RETREAT CENTER

June 16 - 23 Awareness and Wisdom: An Insight Meditation Retreat Carol Wilson, Guy Armstrong and Sally Armstrong

FREE MASSAGE at the event. July 6 - 8 Summer Splendor Hiking and Yoga Weekend June 10 - 14 The Mindful Awareness Retreat: The Art, Science and Practice of Mindfulness Grove Burnett and Richard Mahler Located west of taos

deep in the tusas Mountains, one of the most magnificent mountain landscapes in New Mexico

www.bcmt.org | (303) 530-2100 Boulder Weekly

vallecitos.org

575.751.9613 • Available for Event & Retreat Rentals May 24, 2012 41

cuisine

tidbites

Food happenings around town

N/JOY HAND-HELD DELICACIES

A new restaurant specializing in gourmet tacos went online this week in Boulder as T/ACO: An Urban Taqueria attempts to bring street fare indoors to Walnut Street. Former Kitchen sous chef Matt Collier and the owners of H Burger Concepts have come together to form more than a dozen different flavor combinations for the handheld meal. In addition to its namesake, T/ACO, pronounced “tee-ako,” will serve up different fresh ceviche and tamale options weekly, as well as their take on Mexican Pizza. Vegetarian and gluten-free options will be available in the small restaurant, which features a bar to wash down the pocket meals. Contact www.t-aco.com or call 303-443-9468.

THE BRITISH HAVE COME

Fort Collins favorite Odell Brewing will release its new Pond Hopper Double Extra Pale Ale beer in early June

see TIDBITES Page 44

42 May 24, 2012

It’s plain as day

Vanilla journeys far in reaching your olfactory system by Michael Callahan

I

t’s boring yet exotic, subtle yet spicy. Plastered with a reputation for plainness, a plant with a fairly short history of use is anything but. When studying vanilla, one discovers definitions that complement and clash when describing the world of this fairly ubiquitous taste. Its name even holds a dirty little secret. When in 1519 Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes tossed back a cup of Aztec leader Moctezuma II’s famous hot chocolate concoction, flavored with aged black pods originally cultivated by the Totonac people in the presentday Mexican Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, he became the first European to sample the complex flavors of the only fruit-producing orchid variety out of the more than 20,000 known to mankind. Despite a procurement process that included wiping out an entire civilization, Cortes returned home with this new flavoring. Amorously challenged Spanish sailors with ample time on their hands dubbed the plant vainilla, or “little sheath,” derived from the Latin word for vagina. The word vanilla wouldn’t enter the English language until a couple of decades before the United States’ Declaration of Independence — but a few grains of sand in the hourglass

Vanilla is considered the secondmost expensive spice in the world, after saffron.

of human history. Since a slave boy on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion discovered a way to hand-pollinate the orchid flowers that produce vanilla pods in 1841 — allowing for the spread of cultivation outside its native Mexico and the melipona bee that naturally pollinates it — vanilla has become a multi-billion dollar industry spanning the 20-degree band north and south of the equator with weather and terroir capable of producing the slow-ripening pods. Used in the past as a perfume agent for tobacco, an aphrodisiac and as a treatment for hysteria, fever and rheumatism, vanilla finds present-day popularity in aromatics and, of course, cooking. “Vanilla is definitely one of the foundations of baking,” Kate Clyde of Boulder bakery Tee & Cakes says of the spice considered the second-most expensive in the world, after saffron. So expensive, in fact, that the vanilla bean see VANILLA Page 45

Boulder Weekly

Susan France

cuisine review

Clay’s Obscurity Corner Non-native noodles

T

Rolling with noodles in Lafayette by Clay Fong

T

he brief email arrived late on ribs and miso cod are also on tap. Saturday afternoon from old We began by ordering some of friend Daniel, who I hadn’t Kaisha’s reasonably priced $5 sushi rolls. seen in years. It was a sumTypically, if I’m dropping this little on mons to Lafayette’s Udon sushi, two things are true. First, someKaisha, which he deemed “the best!” thing’s gone horribly awry and I’m on Not one to turn down such an invitathe brink of starvation. Second, I’ll pay tion, I soon found myself in a strip mall for this fare going through a 15-itemschockablock with undiscovered (to me, or-less express line. Neither of these truat least) Asian restauisms, apply to the sushi rants. here, which is of much Udon Kaisha The decor is minihigher quality and 191 W. South Boulder mal in this narrow greater quantity than Road, Lafayette 40-seat eatery, which prices would indicate. 303-665-1713 features several tables Daniel and I and a tiny sushi bar in ordered two rolls, an the back. I noticed a fair number of eel and avocado number, and one comAsian families dining here, always a bining yellowtail and scallion. Both tastgood sign. Noodle offerings including ed fresh and arrived wrapped in properthick udon, as well as more svelte ly crisp nori, and the eel sushi was parramen, are available in a variety of ticularly rife with creamy flavor. A little broths. Sushi selections are simple, less of the sweet brown sauce would eschewing such exotica as sea urchin roe have made this unagi darn near perfect. The yellowtail’s clean flavor and silky in favor of crowd-pleasing staples like texture was balanced out by the crisp salmon and tuna. Japanese-style spare

Boulder Weekly

sharpness of green onion. Never have I paid so little for eight pieces of highquality sushi that would cost double at a tonier spot. One can easily make a meal of the rolls, and next time I might splurge on one of the $12 selections like the jumbo spider, or soft shell crab, roll. Daniel’s main course was the $8 chicken teppan yaki, pan-fried noodles available with either ramen or udon. Dotted with Napa cabbage, bean sprouts, onions and carrots, the thick noodles of the udon version evoked the flavors of one of my favorite Chinese dishes, chow fun. This plate arrived piping hot, so as to best show off the benefits of expert stir-frying, which made for crisp tender veggies, al dente noodles and moist poultry. My selection was the $7 shoyu udon noodle soup, featuring a soy sauce-based broth. Having shoyu as a base makes it impossible to conceal this soup’s inherent saltiness, but the sodium level didn’t detract from the overall balance of the

he menu at Udon Kaisha offers a brief history of Japanese noodles, including the house specialties of udon and ramen. According to this restaurant, neither udon nor ramen are native to Japan. Buddhist monk Kukai introduced the thick and filling noodle known as udon to Japan in the ninth century, and ramen made its way across the sea from China. Chinese Buddhist monks also brought over shoyu some 200 years earlier. Miso, however, is native to Japan, having found its origins in Hokkaido, where the locals created this healthful soup base by subjecting both soybeans and rice to fermentation.

ingredients. The udon added heft, and while the two pieces of shrimp tempura were heavily battered, this weighty coating prevented these tidbits from getting too soggy from immersion in the broth. Fresh spinach contributed brightness, and fish cake slices offered a mellow counterpoint to the shellfish. Udon Kaisha doesn’t purport to offer high-end Japanese fare. Yet the offerings that Daniel and I sampled wouldn’t be out of place at a more expensive eatery in a more glamourous locale. In Boulder County, I’d be hard pressed to name a Japanese restaurant offering so much quality for so little money. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

May 24, 2012 43

Food happenings around town

WE HAVE THE BOLDER BOULDER TASTE OF SUSHI! MONDAY HAPPY HOUR SHUSHI ALL DAY & NIGHT

Lunch Happy Hour Sushi Menu Monday - Saturday

HAPPY HOUR

Everyday 5:00 - 6:30 pm $2-$5 Japanese Tapas & Sashimi $2 Off all Special Rolls $2-$3 Kirin & House Wine

tidbites

ATTENTION RUNNERS:

TIDBITES from Page 42

at the SAVOR American Craft Beer & Food Experience in Washington, D.C. A collaboration with UK craft brewer Thornbridge Brewery, inspired by owner Doug Odell’s frequent pondhopping to “research” his industry, has resulted in an elixir that is high quality and strong in flavor. Thornbridge head brewer Caolan Vaughan made his way from the UK to work on the project, proving beer culture knows no bounds. “This beer has a rich golden color with aromas of grapefruit, orange pine and ripe melon,” Doug Odell says of the 8.9 percent ABV brew capped with cork-and-cage bottles. Pond Hopper will be available soon in the Odell distribution realm.

MICRO BREWING YOUR FRUIT

The Colorado Cider Company recently celebrated one year in the business, thanks to an old-fashioned work ethic, thirsty mouths and craft-brewed hard cider. Having teamed up with Elite Brands of Colorado late last year, the company now offers its flagship Glider Cider statewide. In the meantime, Colorado Cider has introduced a dry-hopped Grasshop-ah cider and the premium barrel-aged Ol’ Stumpy cider, broadening the local scope of cider sales and craft offerings available. The Colorado Cider Company’s production facility in Denver is open for tours and features a tasting room that will be open seven days a week beginning June 3. A new cider with honey and herbs is slated for June, with barrel-aged specialties a possibility for the future. Visit www.coloradocider.com for hours and availability.

EVERY DAY THE SUN RISES IS A GOOD ONE

Delivery • Catering • Gift Cards

1136 Pearl St., Boulder 303.938.0330 www.boulderjapango.com

Sunrise of Boulder is showing off some culinary skills during its ninth anniversary of serving the local area with a “Taste of Sunrise,” featuring a world tour of kitchen creations from 5 to 7 p.m. on May 24. The local senior living community is inviting the general public to an event intended to showcase the nutritional value and culinary expertise of its chefs, celebrating with international cuisine and entertainment. Culturally themed dining areas including traditional samplings from French, Italian, Mexican and Asian food, along with dishes inspired by Sunrise of Boulder culinary experts. With its focus on homemade meals and a satisfying dining experience, Sunrise hopes to show senior living facilities have changed over the years. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

follow us @JapangoSushi 44 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

VANILLA from Page 42

powder they use for some of their topend recipes costs “around $200 for 16 ounces,” she says. There are now two major types of vanilla cultivated around the world, albeit with numerous variations in degree of quality within each vein that make acquiring a definitive taste for the spice difficult. The most popular is Bourbon, the rich and robust standard-bearer dominated for centuries by the African island nation of Madagascar but recently encroached upon by other Indian Ocean islands, Indonesia and African mainland countries like Uganda. Bourbon vanilla is actually the same plant that is grown in Mexico, but Mexican vanilla differs in flavor due to growing conditions and differences in cultivation techniques, which results in earthy and spicy tones. Tahitian vanilla, which is mostly cultivated in Papua New Guinea, is sometimes favored by chefs for the fruity and floral tones provided by this weaker mutation of the original. Dan Hayward, owner/operator of the Savory Spice Shop on Broadway, agrees with the sentiment that vanilla growing, while always somewhat of an art form, has moved into the realm of culinary nuance usually reserved for wines. Says Hayward, “There are 12 separate flavor profiles for vanilla — from almost a sharp taste all the way down to the sort of marshmallowy taste” that some people nonetheless get nostalgic for due to youthful days spent consuming cheap store-bought ice cream. But how does vanilla get from the vine into your latte? Like coffee, the procurement of vanilla pods ready for consumer use is a labor-intensive journey that reaches the soil of some of the more poor and remote regions on earth. That’s where Fort Collins-based Custom Blending comes in with an encompassing business plan to haul truckloads of vanilla from halfway around the globe to process in-state for distribution throughout North America. Taking a different tack from that of the early Europeans, Custom Blending attempts to work on the ground level to make sure it garners the finest quality materials for its Rodelle line of vanilla products, while also recognizing those who make such a product possible in the first place. “[The] average farmer or worker earns about a dollar a day,” says Joe Basta, partner at Custom Blending. In Uganda, where the company uses about 40 percent of the country’s crop for its products, Basta says, “farmers who meet quality specifications can earn a 50 percent premium on their crop. We back it up with a number of social programs.” Boulder Weekly

Initiatives like water sanitation, AIDS education and malaria prevention campaigns can buoy the wellbeing of entire communities, while stove projects and reforestation processes can help extend individual lives that right now face an average age of mortality in the mid-40s. It sometimes means a premium on the products they sell, but it seems like a small price to pay for the sensual nectar provided by this finicky vine. Basta and his crew at Custom Blending support a number of nongovernmental organizations and get their own boots on the ground when possible. “Our philosophy is to work as locally as possible,” he says. The efforts, like a maturing vanilla pod, are finally beginning to bear signs of progress. “In Uganda we started with 650 farmers in 2005, and now we’re up to roughly 10,000 farmers. If you treat the farmer well, if you pay them well, and you support them, they’re going to take care of you.” So while the story of vanilla begins with the decimation of an indigenous civilization at the hands of its invaders, companies like Custom Blending are working to square the circle of history by making lives in their producing regions a tad better. These people may be at the bottom of the supply chain, yet they are the ones who delicately handle each pod a dozen times or so before arrival on your local store shelf. Or as Basta puts it, “Profits make the world go ’round. Where you spend those profits is very important.” Speaking of profits, artificial flavoring commands a huge share of the vanilla market in countries like the U.S., a cost-saving measure that strays from the ethos employed by many believers in a healthy lifestyle. Instead of incorporating the full robust palette of flavors that emerge from the nearly 400 complex compounds that exist organically within the pods, consumers have been led to believe that the one compound duplicated by artificial means is authentic. Chances are you’ve walked into a room where someone uses vanilla for stress relief or relaxation and been instantly comforted by the familiar scent; or been lured to hide an extra scoop of ice cream under that layer of hot fudge. The next time you reach into the cupboard to grab the vanilla extract or taste the flecked filaments in your favorite baked trifle, remember the lengths that people have gone to make your taste buds sing. While not gold, silk or tea, it may be time that vanilla sheds the connotation of plainness associated with its name. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Heavenly Vegetarian

Falafel Wrap W/ Hummus & Mixed Greens $6.50

1314 Pearl St. Mall 303.449.9321 www.falafelkingboulder.com

Voted Best Tibetan Food & Runner Up Best Vegetarian

Lunch Specials Monday - Friday 11am - 2:30pm Starting at $4.95 +tax

Free Vegetable Spring Rolls (2) with Carryout Order of $15 or more. Must present coupon. Expires May 31, 2012.

TIBET KITCHEN FREE Delivery 5pm - 9:30pm

Colorado’s only Tibetan Family Owned & Operated Restaurant

OPEN M-Sa 11am-10pm Su 5pm-10pm

Arapahoe & Folsom, Boulder 303.440.0882 • www.tibetkitchen.com

May 24, 2012 45

appetizers South Mouth Memphis Hot Wings

Synopses of recent restaurant reviews. To read reviews in their entirety, visit www.boulderweekly.com

1650 Broadway, Suite A, Boulder 303-449-9464

B

oulder’s new South Mouth Memphis Hot Wings offers up its namesake poultry appendages with a choice of 10 specific sauce varieties. Prices range from $6.95 for five party wings to $72.95 for 16 pounds of Memphis wings, which are trimmed differently from the party variety. Besides the classic hot wings, other endearingly fiery choices include the Asianinfluenced sriracha and the fruit-and-fire combination of the mango habanero.

Comida Cantina

e by the glass l b a l i a Over 24 wines av elect martinis S • t f Craft beers on dra unch 10-2pm r B y a Now Open For Sund

F

“Wine without pretense”

L

Mediterranean-inspired small plates menu with weekly specials

2020 Ionosphere St. Longmont, CO 303-834-8536

Seasonal sangria, infusions, grappas, ports & house-made limoncello Wine, beer, port and grappa flights Occasional live music Casual, yet elegant atmosphere

Like Us On Facebook! www.yourplaceorvine.com

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

O

ne of the main attractions of The Louisville Rex is its expansive yet comfortable rooftop deck. This spot is reminiscent of a warm-weather resort spot and makes for either a fine staycation venue or just a place to knock back a few with friends after work. The bar food classics are another strong suit, and these include Buffalo chicken wings and a decidedly guilty pleasure, fried pickles.

Moe’s Original Bar B Que 675 30th St., Boulder 303-440-4BBQ

L

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

Royal Clay Oven

5290 Arapahoe Road, Unit B, Boulder 303-444-1626

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

SALT Bistro

1047 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-SALT

D

owntown Boulder’s SALT Bistro, one of the newest entrants in the affordable midday meal sweepstakes, now serves a “farm-to-table” lunch for $9. Favored choices include the Reuben, made with pork belly instead of corned beef. The meatless eater will favor the quinoa and chickpea fritters. Preferred sides include the tomato soup garnished with a tiny grilled cheese wedge and the beet or apple salads, for $2 more.

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

J

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

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

Tortugas

Zucca Italian Ristorante

L

218 Coffman St., Longmont 303-772-6954

C

ombining a hospitable, homey, Key West feel with a menu of fresh seafood prepared in the manner of the

46 May 24, 2012

Fan’s Chinese Cuisine

7960 Niwot Road, #C9, Niwot 303-652-6249

721 Confidence Dr., Longmont 720-204-6455

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

ambience balancing the rustic with a subtle but unmistakable European flair. The same can also be said of the menu, which ranges from old standbys like comforting spaghetti and meatballs to more elevated selections like seafood cannelloni and rack of lamb. Can’t-miss items include the fried calamari starter, garnished with pickled peppers and fresh tomato, and the arugula salad, a combination of greens, gorgonzola and apple.

808 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6499 ocated smack dab in the middle of downtown Louisville, Zucca Italian Ristorante boasts an inviting

L

Outdoor patio

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

Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co.

33 S. Main St., Longmont 303-996-1010

L

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

Laudisio

1710 29th St., Suite 1076, Boulder 303-442-1300

W

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

Whole Foods Market 2905 Pearl St. Boulder 303-545-6611

T

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

Hapa_mountedfish_BWeekly.pdf

1

3/16/12

3:08 PM

29th & canyon

laudisio.com

2012

(303) 442 1300

wild-caught fish coming soon to lodo 1514 Blake Street Denver, CO Boulder Weekly

landmark center 5380 greenwood plaza blvd. 303.267.8744

denver cherry creek 2780 e 2nd avenue 303.322.9554

boulder pearl street mall 1117 pearl street 303.473.4730

follow us on twitter @hapasushi

May 24, 2012 47

400 W. South Boulder Rd. • Lafayette Plaza • 303.665.5599 www. herbalwellnesscolorado.com www.facebook.com/herbalwellnesslafayette Open 7 days a week • 9am-7pm

COMING SOON

$20 - 1/8 $35 - 1/4 $150 Oz. All One Strain

FATHER’S DAY SPECIALS! BUBBLE HASH SPECIAL

CLONE BLOW OUT TOP GENETICS

$15 per gram ALL THIS WEEK!

287

THE BEST PRICES

H Lafayette Plaza Coal Creek Dr.

For Medical Purposes Only

S. Public Rd.

S. Boulder Rd.

astrology ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

LIBRA Go to RealAstrology.com to check out

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

“My soul is a fire that I have a head’s up for you, Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO suffers if it doesn’t burn,” Libra. Do your best to HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE says Jean Prevost, a writer avoid getting enmeshed HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes and hero of the French in any sort of “he said/ are also available by phone at 1-877Resistance during World she said” controversy. (Of 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. War II. “I need three or course it could be a “he four cubic feet of new said/he said” or “she said/ ideas every day, as a steamshe said” or “trans said/ intersex said” brouhaha, boat needs coal.” Your soul too — you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may norweek ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong mally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of suit. Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevostand clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mouna steady supply of the necessary fuel. taintop, flying in your dreams, and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling. TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Here’s a great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

“Sometimes I think and other times I am,” says French poet Paul Valery. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle — a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm”; a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Don’t pretend you can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it. In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

It’s OK with me if you want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. Networking opportunities will be excellent. Your web of connections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular and better fighters.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In 1977, the first Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’ father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here: tinyurl.com/AppleGarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years — and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labor of love that will change everything for the better.

Boulder Weekly

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In some Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers or yourself.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t indulge in this behavior any time soon. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings — not just in regards to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. Northern Flicker Woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. To allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost-insignificant pest seriously.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

It’s official: Dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: tinyurl.com/DanceSmart.)

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Your animal totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew. Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you — and do it with exceptional charisma.

May 24, 2012 49

ZANGA ZANGA HOOKAH LOUNGE and TOBACCO RETAILER

STATION BREED STRAINS

NOW AVAILABE

Middle Eastern Atmosphere Come Enjoy Moroccan Tea and Turkish Coffee for a Complete Middle Eastern Experience

OPEN FROM 11AM-4AM 7 DAYS A WEEK Live Music / DJs 1909 Broadway St. Suite 100 • Boulder Facebook: ZangaZanga Hookah Lounge

VOTED THE BEST DRUM SHOP IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE

ALL OUNCES

$220 Tax Includes

ALL STRAINS GROWN IN HOUSE EVERYTIME! NEW @ THE STATION THIS MONTH...

TRIBES DW YAMAHA PEARL TAMA PACIFIC

LuDWIg gRETSCH RoDgERS SonoR MAPEx ZILDjIAn

The Best Selection of Djembes & Ethnic Percussion in the Rockies! HaND DRUMS, DRUM SETS aND lESSONS fOR KIDS Of all agES.

2095 30th St. Boulder In Aspen Plaza

West side of 30th Street Between Pearl & Walnut

303.402.0122

50 May 24, 2012

M-F 10am-6pm Sat. 10am-5pm Sun. 11am-4pm

Super Lemon Haze, OG Sin, Al’s Hero, Golden Goat, Sky Jesus, Headband, Albert Valley Haze, Fiona, T-Slap OG, Tangerine Al, Squish Haze, Shrek, Herijuana Sky, Al’s Dream, Skunk Valley Haze, Skywalker, San Fernando OG Kush, Tangerine Haze, Sour Diesel, Tangnesia, Jack Herer, Amnesia Haze, Al’s Master, Chem Dawg, Chosen OG Kush, Herijuana, Maple Leaf, Chem Valley OG Kush, Butterfly Haze, Big Bubba Diesel, Critcal Mass, Squish, G-13 providing a sense of professionalism that has not yet been introduced to the medical marijuana community.

Intended for MMJ Patients Only

HOURS: MON - SAT 9:30 - 6:30 • SUNDAY 12-5 3005 28TH STREET • BOULDER • 303.442.0892 WWW.THESTATIONBOULDER.COM Boulder Weekly

Service Directory

Reach over 98,000 Boulder Weekly readers by advertising in the Service Directory! Email: jwing@boulderweekly.com 303-494-5511 ext. 115

MASSAGE

MASSAGE AND SKIN CARE

TATTOO REMOVAL

Spring Break 1997 Double Dare?

Regretting that tattoo you got?

thai massage ($110/2 hrs) thai aromatherapy massage ($90/1.5 hrs) thai herbal massage ($65/1 hr + $20 ) thai reflexology ($55/1 hr)

720-204-0485

Massage and Skin Care

(Aey, Text Message Available)

Best results and best price GUARANTEED!

Best of Westword Tattoo Removal 2007 12026 Melody Drive, Westminster • 303-280-5795 • www.ink-b-gone.com

LEGAL SERVICES

(laSt appOintMent at 7pM, Sunday OptiOnal)

www.siamsensationmassage.com siamsensation@yahoo.com

boulder: 5330 manhattan cir, suite h longmont: 16 mountain View ave., suite 116

strictly non-sexual massage provider

Robert McKenna, RMT Offering: Lomi Lomi – Island Style Massage for Body, Mind & Spirit Deep Tissue & Sports Massage – Relief for Overworked Bodies

Grand Opening Initial Rates 60 Minute Massage

$39

* also includes plant based hyaluronic acid with steam, 2 organic enzymes, colloidal silver with lavender antibacterial calming clay mask, resonant frequency oil, vitamin C, Phenomenal touch massage with jade hot stones and Love.

90 Minute Massage

$59

Helping People File for Bankruptcy Under the Bankruptcy Code

By appOintMent Only

A Debt Relief Agency

The main point of focus of this organic skin treatment is to go through all pores and gently clean out the skin. Following is a High Frequency application to get rid of surface bacteria, while also creating a soothing response. Lymphatic Enhancement Therapy and Omnilux near infra red light therapy boosts the immune system, deeply detoxifies the skin of p. acne bacteria, as well as helping to calm inflammation & accelerate healing.

Gift Certificates Available

Call or stop by for your FREE consultation!

Open MOn-Fri, 9aM-9pM Sat 9aM-7pM @ BOulder

Clean slate (acne prone) Introductory Rate 1 Hour for $80 or 1 Hour & 30 Minutes for $100*

We are the BEST because tattoos are all we do.

Are Bill Collectors

Threatening You? The law office of

Barry Satlow offers Immediate Relief while

Protecting Your Interests.

303.442.3535

www.barrysatlow.com

MASSAGE SERVICES

Boulder SenSationS Sensual Body rubs by Boulder’s Sexiest Young Co-eds

Book Online or Call: HoaHeleMassage.com, Facebook.com/HoaHeleMassage 720.840.1385 • 4880 Riverbend Rd. #2D, Boulder Nora Keahon L.M.T/L.E 720.432.1108 1629 Canyon Blvd. best skin care Boulder www.divineresonance.com

THERAPY & COUNSELING

720-296-2799

We are centrally and discreetly located in Boulder

Monday-Sunday 10am-8pm

HEALING

John of God Healing Circle Boulder / Fort Collins

TRANSFORMATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

Check out our website for more information

bouldersensations.com

Ready to make a big shift? Susie Verde

Native Brazilian Guide and Long Time Member of the Casa of Dom Inácio

For information about healing circles and trips to Brazil

info@JOGhealing.com 303-448-0068 www.JOGhealing.com

Boulder Weekly

Anxiety • Depression Relationships • Fear • Sexuality Addictions • Purpose

heal

|

grow

|

Call For Your

FREE SESSION

303.358.6259

keithkurlander@gmail.com keithkurlander.com Keith Kurlander, ma, lpc

thrive

MUSIC

West African Drum Classes w/ Master Drummer

Fara Tolno

Tues. Nights 6-7:30pm HAND DRUMS, DRUM SETS, AND LESSONS FOR KIDS OF ALL A GES.

2095 30th St. in Aspen Plaza

West side of 30th between Pearl & Walnut

303.402.0122

Mon.-Fri. 10a-6p, Sat. 10a-5p, Sun. 11a-4p

May 24, 2012 51

maximum

wellness ASIAN STYLE

Reach over 98,000 Boulder Weekly readers by advertising in Maximum Wellness! Email: classifieds@boulderweekly.com

303-494-5511 ext. 115

All Natural Massage

MASSAGE

• Hot Oil Massage • Relaxing Massage

foot massage

$30 for 1hr.

full body massage

• Shower & Sauna • All New Staff

30 min. $30

$49/hr with this ad

$45 for 1hr.

5290 Arapahoe Ave #A, Boulder Past Foothills, 2 traffic lights on right side.

( 303 ) 449-8005

720.565.6854

Open 7 days a week • Hours: 9:30am-10:00pm Visa & Mastercard accepted

1666 30th St. Boulder, CO. 80301

Peking Therapeutic Massage www.peking-massage.com $45 / hr $60 / 90 min. $80 / 120 min.

We Offer:

• Deep Tissue Massage • Swedish Massage • Sports Massage •Reflexology • Cupping

Advertise in Maximum Wellness... It works! Call for special rates! 303-494-5511 x 115

Monday -Sunday 9am-10pm • Call for an appointment ... or drop in anytime

6821 W. 120th Ave. #F • Broomfield, CO 80020 NW Corner of 120th Ave. and Main St. Behind the Burger King

303-351-2502 • www.peking-massage.com

It works! Call for special rates!

NEW STAFF NEW MANAGEMENT

DEEP TISSUE & SWEDISH MASSAGE

$

39 /Hour 99

Open 7 Days 9am-10pm

W/ Ad • Exp. 7/31/11

303-635-2200

10th Ave. 6th Ave.

Conoco Gas Station

BOULDER

1004 Depot Hill #1-D, Broomfield, CO 80020

Midway

HWY 36

Only 15 min. from Boulder

HWY 287/121 Broomfield

303-494-5511 x 115

SPRING SPA Depot Hill

Advertise in Maximum Wellness...

Relax, allow, and just BE, while a trained professional therapist guides you in a process that engages the power of your subconscious. Ingrid Zirnis Johnson CH

Member, National Guild of Hypnotherapists

2299 Pearl St., Suite 309, Boulder easy online scheduling at

www.ZHypnotherapy.com 303.776.8100

Boulder marketplace – 2005, Burgundy. Asking $7,500

BODYWORK

Heart-Based Sensual Massage for Women and Couples. Please Call 720-308-9355 for more info.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Internet Marketers Wanted http://club100K.com David 303.619.4100

TICKETS ALL TICKETS - BUY/SELL NFL-NBA-NHL-NCAA-MLB WWW.DENVERTICKET.COM 303-420-5000 or 800-500-8955

PERSONAL SERVICES SENSUAL MASSAGE By a beautiful blonde. 303-519-2614

REAL WORK FROM HOME opportunities. Go to: http://www. ProfitBank.com/index-18121.html

Body Rubs at your Location or Mine … 720.253.4710

LEGAL SERVICES

DELIGHTFUL Call between 7:30am-8:00pm 720-277-1215

Experienced trial attorney will help you recover money for your auto accident injuries; help you deal with criminal charges; help you handle divorce or child custody. Call Matt Walker at 720-484-6396 or visit www.trueinjurylaw.com

52 May 24, 2012

A Nice Touch… Soothing, tension relief body rubs. 303-588-6757

HAULING Hauling Junk for Less 720-327-4046 $145 – 7 yard container We load for you! Local, Reliable, Fast, Lic/Ins.

HELP WANTED

As the world leader in next generation mobile technologies, Qualcomm is focused on accelerating mobility around the world. Qualcomm has the following positions available in Boulder, CO: · Senior Software Engineer/ Graphics: Proficiency in C or C++ Programming; and Data Structure; and DPS or Image Processing req’d (FR-BD02-L) Multiple openings avail. Mail resume w/job code to Qualcomm Incorporated, P.O. Box 919013, San Diego, CA, 92191-9013. EOEDelivery

Driver Wanted Lee Yuan Chinese Cuisine. Full time or part time. Call Nancy 303-494-4210

REAL ESTATE

Land For Sale Price Reduced!! 35.93 Acres just South of Fairplay. Beautiful mountain views. Easy access to Ski Resorts and Mountain Towns. All utilities accessible. $35,000. Contact: Adell Shrout @ 303-494-9167 Property listed by Cherryvale Realty For Sale By Owner 3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Garage $379,000 Available 10.1.10 RV parking. Central location near 55th and Baseline. Rent w/ option to buy available with negotiable down payment. Call 720-536-8869 or 307-699-0779

THERAPY Past life regression Sophie Rose (303) 494-5474 www.astrosouls.com Therapy for Heart and Mind I am a licensed professional counselor looking to help clients discover kindness towards themselves and self-awareness. I look forward to meeting you! Nikolas Maslow MA LPC CGP 719-2140004 nmaslow74@yahoo.com

TO PLACE YOUR CLASSIFIED AD Call Jason Wing, Inside Sales Manager 303-494-5511 x115

COUNSELING

Dare to Dream! San Luis Valley Homestead only $6k! 2 m. to hot springs, 1⁄4 mile off CO 17. Appox 500sq’ trailer & 2 adjoining 50x100’ lots. Elec .1 mile away, no convenants! Poss. owner carry w/50% down. drdaddio@ hotmail.com.

Home on 1 Acre in Boulder! Lender owned 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Ranch, well water $338,900 Georgianna Dirga ERA HG 303-579-0564

Boulder Weekly

NOW is the Time to Stop and Smell the Flowers! Come Check out our new Harvest

Primary Center Incentives

Value Strains

$135 per oz.

• 100% pure medicine, all day every day • Store Credit for New Signovers • Loyalty Programs • Outstanding Customer Service and MUCH MORE!

Midgrade Strains

$165 per oz.

Chair Massages

Connoisseur strains

$199 per oz.

Thursday 3-5 $1p/min and FREE on Sunday 11-5! 60 and 90 min massages by appt $49/$69 LMT

Keif

$10 per gram

Bring this ad in for your

Red Dragon Oil

$15 1/2 gram $25 gram

Customer Appreciation Special! Colorado MMR Patients Only. This ad intended for Colorado MMR patients

NEW STORE HOURS: Mon - Fri 10:30 - 7:00 • Saturday 11:00 - 7:00 • Sunday 11:00 - 5:00

2885 Aurora Ave. Suite 40 • Boulder • 720-266-9967

Check our website. www.newoptionswellness.com and Facebook page for daily specials

OMC

OPTIONS MEDICAL CENTER • BOULDER

PATIENT FEATURE: LISA

L

isa Anderson has lived the last 15 years with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She was first diagnosed in 1997. She also has several of her spinal column discs fused together due to a car accident in 1993. MS is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms. MS affects the ability of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to communicate with each other effectively. There is no known cure for multiple sclerosis.

L

isa currently takes 12 different drugs to help with the pain and muscle spasms associated with MS. It has been five years since she has been able to walk or drive a car. Each morning she starts her day off by using medical cannabis to help her stop the pain and muscle spams associated with her condition. Additionally, she uses medical cannabis to help mitigate the side effects of the 12 pharmaceutical medications that she takes. These side effects include nausea and the loss of appetite which medical cannabis has proven to be very effective in aliveating.

$19.88 per 8th

No Membership Required

for top shelf

Get your first oz. for

$50.00

for signing OMC as your caregiver

Now available at OMC

The rempen

oil vape

$55.00

(price includes 1 pen plus 1 honey oil cartridge)

For medical marijuana patients only Hours: Monday - Friday 11am - 6:45pm • Saturday 12pm - 6pm • Sunday 12pm - 4pm

1534 55th Street • Boulder, CO • email: info@optionsmedicalcenter.com • 303.444.0861 54 May 24, 2012

Boulder Weekly

MAY SPECIALS STRAINS OF THE WEEK:

Grape Stomper Boo Berry KIEF

$10 per Gram 43% THC Come by to check out our amazing new strains for colorado medical marijuana patients only

FREE CONE with $25 purchase!

Your first mix & match ounce

OPEN 8am - 7pm DAILY!

$150 when mentioning this ad

We grow 100% of our medicine Top-Notch Hash and Edibles 2812 Colorado Blvd. • Idaho Springs, CO (Across from Carl’s Jr., Exit 241 #A) • 303-567-2018 • www.kinemine.org Boulder Weekly

May 24, 2012 55

Happily Selling Hondas in Boulder County Since 1976!

last word

I am committed to making your car buying experience easy and fun! Elizabeth Frame Awarded Best Senior Sales Consultant of Boulder by Daily Camera

Alpine Auto Detailing

Civic Hybrid 45 45 MPG MPGHwy Hwy 40 MPG CITy Civic Sedan InsightHwy 36 MPG 43 MPG Hwy 40 MPG CITy

Divine Resonance Massage & Skin Care

Full Mobile Service

Please see ad on page 51. Now offering acne treatments. www.divineresonance.com 503-536-5131

Get your car ready for summer! Winner of Best of Boulder 2011 & 2012!

www.alpinedetailing.com call 303.579.9398

Everybody knows somebody who loves a Honda.

Can Fans and Filters

30% OFF! (Valid until June 1st)

Proud Retailer of House & Garden Nutrients

Give me a call today!

10-6 Mon-Sat, 12-5 Sun 303.586.1715 3620 Walnut St., Boulder www.onelovegardensupply.com

303-772-2900

Frontier Honda

FREE GIFT!

FOR FIRST TIME VISITORS WITH MENTION OF THIS AD

mile high pipe

and

tobacco

glass with class! 1144 Pearl St. Boulder 303-443-PiPe Westminster 3001 W. 74th Ave. 303-426-6343 • Highlands Ranch 7130 e. County Line Road 303-740-5713

AlterMeds.com Louisville, Colorado 720-389-6313

The Drum Shop

Pure, Clean, Potent FARM NECTAR $35/gram, available at Root Organic and The Farm

African drumming classes with Fara Tolno Tuesday nights • 6-7:30pm • 2095 30th St., Boulder • 303-402-0122

Dog House Music

Ad_Boulder Weekly 210512.ai

303.442.0006 www.parlando.org

1

5/21/12

We are open 7 days a week including Memorial Day and the 4th of July.

THAT’S THE WAY WE DO IT!

525 Courtney Way, Lafayette 6:11 PM 303.664.1600 doghousemusic.com

For medical marijuana patients only. www.thefarmco.com

303.440.1323

Now Featuring

House & Garden

Premium Dutch Nutrients & Additives 1387 E South Boulder Rd., Louisville, CO

303.66.HYDRO (664.9376) victoryhydro.com

C

M

We’ve Lowered Our Prices

Y

CM

Over 50 Strains • Open 7 Days A Week! Mon-Fri 11am-7pm Sat - Sun noon-5pm 3370 Arapahoe, Boulder – 303-449-1905 www.HighGradeAlternatives.com

MY

CY

CMY

WHERE NATURE & MEDICINE MEET

K

The Best Wax Deal in Town! $15 1/2 grams all the time Rediscover the

Boulder Wellness Center Open Daily 11am-7pm

303.442.2565

5420 Arapahoe Ave. (Unit F) Boulder Between Connestoga & 55th. Going east, make right after Conestoga w w w. b o u l d e r w c . c o m

EVERYDAY

LOW PRICES

An exquisitely blissful full body massage. Incall-Visiting May 24-27 only S. Boulder,VIP Gents. No texts, 2-8pm, 303-803-7006

CO2 REFILLS

$

6.99

Michelaii Massage

PURE HARMONY • L/CMT NEW NORTH BOULDER LOCATION 720.438.5642

Siam Sensation Massage 720-204-0485 See ad on page 51

BEST SERVICE

BEST DEALS

EVERYDAY

REMPEN OIL VAPE Now in Boulder • Only at HHH 2714 28th St. Boulder, CO 80301 www.helpinghandsherbals.com

303.444.1564

Boulder 6395 W. Gunpark drive – 303.473.4769 deNVer 301 e. 57th Avenue – 303.296.7900 Fort ColliNs 3201 e. Mulberry street – 970.484.4769 lAKeWood 11989 W. Colfax Ave – 303.546.3600

– waytogrow.net –