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A metaphor in a hidden Chicano mural

Thank you for doing an article on Los Seis [“Los Seis de Boulder,” Cover Story, May 29] and the context of repression against Chicano students. The mural on the cover was painted by Pedro Romero, former University of Colorado art student, now in New

Mexico, and the fact that it is in storage in Pueblo is a testament to the fact that the university is still reluctant to accept its role in the history then, or now. A lot more work needs to be done in order to honor the history of the struggles for equal rights and justice, and to make get university a place that reflects the true history and diver-

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Retrial for Eddie Waters?

My name is Michael Waters I am Eddie’s brother [Re: “Troubled Waters: Eddie Waters may spend the rest of see LETTERS Page 10

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Highroad Fast food chains stealing from lowwage workers by Jim Hightower

o matter how small the haul is, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about outrageous, disgusting — or simply unbelievable? Well, believe it or not, it’s happening every day in multiple ways, and not by a few bad apples, but in what has

become routine corporate practice by McDonald’s, Burger King, Domino’s, and other hugely-profitable giants. Technically it’s called “wage theft,” and it involves such slick-fingered moves as erasing hours from employee time cards, requiring off-the-clock work, not paying for overtime hours, refusing to reimburse workers for gas they bought while making deliveries, or inventing uniform fees and other deductions that illegally drop pay below the minimum wage. Come on — isn’t it shameful enough that these global behemoths pay rock-bottom wages, without them circling back like low-life pickpockets to steal from their own employees? This is not just corporate thievery, it’s thuggery. How low can fast-food greed go? So low that the top bosses at headquarters play a sleazy game of Hide & Seek, pretending that they have nothing to do with this rip off. Personnel practices,

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they airily claim, are left to local franchisees, who are “independent business owners.” Bovine excrement! Corporate central dictates how much mustard each franchise can put on a bun, so to think that it doesn’t monitor every dime in payroll is a ludicrous lie. In a recent survey of fast-food workers, nine out of 10 said they have had wages stolen by their bosses. This thievery has become business as usual, and it’s worse than shameful — it’s slimy. For more information, go to the National Employment Law Project: www.nelp.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 5, 2014 7

DyerTimes The Polis/Hickenlooper fracking compromise; thanks, but no thanks By Joel Dyer

emember the old comedy skit wherein a well-meaning fellow decides he wants to do a good deed by helping an elderly woman cross a busy street? He eventually hauls her kicking and screaming safely through the traffic to the other side only to have the old lady kick him right in the yarbles as she scolds him for dragging her back across a street she just spent an hour to cross in the other direction. Apparently Congressman Jared Polis liked this routine so much he wants to reenact it at the state capital by way of Governor John Hickenlooper’s proposed special legislative session that could come as soon as June 8 and will aim to keep local control over oil and gas development off the ballot this fall. I like what Polis has done on a lot of issues, most of them, in fact, but he’s come up short on fracking for a number of reasons I’ll get to shortly. So for his sake, let’s hope that the Congressman is wearing a cast-iron cup. Because if he successfully manages to drag a half million of his constituents kicking and screaming back across the fracking wasteland to the same place it took them two years of inspired grassroots activism and door-to-door democracy to get away from in the first place, he’s going to need it. So here’s the backstory. The good people of Longmont, Lafayette, Boulder, Boulder County, Fort Collins and Broomfield have either banned or placed moratoriums on fracking in their communities because, frankly, the State of Colorado’s oil and gas regulations are an unenforceable joke designed to sound impressive while accomplishing virtually nothing to protect the environment and public health (See “America’s dirtiest secret” in BW’s March 13 issue). This is not an overstatement. Because of various exemptions and special treatment for the oil and gas industry under federal environmental laws, state regulators in Colorado and across the nation have basically been neutered. Or as one Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) manager explained it to me, there has been a statute on the books in Colorado for 30 years or so that doesn’t allow the state to pass any statutes on oil and gas production waste so long as the federal government is still exempting all such waste 8 June 5, 2014

from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act’s (RCRA’s) subtitle C. He went on to tell me that, as a result, all Colorado can really do is issue “policies and guidance” that have no real enforcement capacity, in other words, suggestions. When asked if the state could even fine a company that ignored its guidance and policies when it comes to production waste, he said “No, not unless you could prove the public had been put in danger, and that’s nearly impossible.” And so with this lack of enforcement backdrop, local communities decided to do what the state wouldn’t and couldn’t: protect themselves from oil and gas industry contamination to their air, land and groundwater by prohibiting fracking, which tends to make all oil and gas development within city limits pretty much uneconomic. So Hickenlooper has commanded the state to join his oil company pals and industry trade groups in suing local communities that had the guts to try to protect themselves. Now back to the present. The oil and gas industry has been spending millions of dollars on advertising to buy off the mainstream news media (TV and newspapers) and convince Coloradans that fracking is good for you. It hasn’t worked, of course, because people aren’t stupid. The industry’s argument that fracking is good for you because it creates jobs makes about as much sense as saying terrorism is good for you because it employs bomb builders and generates economic rewards for the families of suicide bombers. The oil and gas industry only makes up about 1 percent of Colorado’s work force and many of those jobs are in offices in downtown Denver and aren’t going anywhere regardless of Colorado’s local fracking bans, even if such bans start appearing statewide. Many other oil patch jobs are in places like Weld County that are enthusiastic about trading their air and water quality for new county buildings, so those jobs aren’t going anywhere either. In fact, if you actually tried to calculate how many oil and gas jobs would never be created — not “lost” as the industry is so fond of stating — because drilling rigs aren’t allowed inside city limits, the number would be so small as to be meaningless, as in negligible. How do I know it’s negligible? Because as I said, the entire industry makes up less than 1 percent of

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the Colorado workforce and fracking uses up about 1 percent of the state’s water and in that scenario the industry says 1 percent is “negligible.” I’m just applying the oil industry’s own standard to its jobs. The industry is scared. It’s bought the Governor; it’s bought the mainstream media and its spending millions on 30-second spots and mailers to convey its disinformation and its still getting its ass kicked by a bunch of moms and dads and even kids who don’t mind giving up a few hours a week to encourage their neighbors to preserve the quality of life in their communities. It must be so frustrating. I feel bad for them, I do. In an effort to keep citizen initiatives off the November ballot that would give more control over land-use decisions such as drilling to local governments statewide, Hickenlooper is desperately trying to call a special session so that state legislators can pass a law, supposedly a compromise of some sort between the industry and environmentalists, that would get the initiatives dropped off the ballot. Here is what is wrong with this picture and the current position of our friend Congressman Polis. If you really wanted to create a compromise you would invite the two sides in opposition. That’s how it works, Governor. You don’t invite the oil and gas industry, an industry-friendly environmental group that opposes fracking bans and Jared Polis to sit down and carve out a middle ground. Those people are already on the same side for all intents and purposes. You failed to invite the actual other side, which is composed of local grassroots organizations like Our Longmont, Our Broomfield, Citizens for a Healthy Fort Collins, Be The Change, The Garfield Transparency Project, Food and Water Watch, What

the Frack?, The Mother’s Project, 350 Colorado, Protect Our Loveland and Frack Free Colorado. These are the organizations who actually represent the places where roughly a half million people are now protected from the oil and gas industry. Note to everyone who has been invited to the governor’s private negotiations designed to get fracking off the ballot: Stop treating this massive citizens movement like the simple political fodder you’re used to. You don’t get it. As if to clearly demonstrate their total disconnect from the anti-fracking, local-control groundswell, those with the secret invites to the governor’s table have been making public statements like “we all want to resolve this issue before both sides are forced to spend millions and millions of dollars in a bitter election battle.” Are you kidding? Hello. The people who are pushing the citizen-driven local-control ballot initiatives don’t give a rat’s ass how much money the industry has to spend in its next feeble attempt to buy an election. The real grassroots organizations fighting the industry don’t actually care how much money Polis spends either. Grassroots organizations opposed to fracking already know and have proven they don’t need mass amounts of money to win. They have won every election so far while being outspent by tens of millions of dollars. In fact, what the oil industry PR machine doesn’t understand is that the more it spends screaming that fracking is safe, the more suspicious and weary the public becomes. In the real world, people who aren’t doing something wrong don’t feel the need to tell you they aren’t doing anything wrong every two minutes. No one wants to compromise away see DYERTIMES Page 11

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Greeley, we were fracked last night. 3.7 on the Richter scale, approximately four miles north east of Greeley by the municipal airport. Could it have been an earthquake in Greeley? Do fault lines exist four miles outside of town? This is highly unlikely. I will assume the source; this resulted from hydraulic fracturing that injects fluid at enormous pressures of up to 15,000 pounds per square inch (equivalent of having a 7.5 tons pressing on each square inch) to force open gaps in the rock through which oil or gas can more easily flow. As we ponder the appropriateness of setbacks in regard to the practice of hydraulic fracturing, whether it is safe to place wells within a few hundred feet of homes and schools or safe to leak cancer causing toxins like benzene in the air as a result of hydraulic fracturing, the experience we shared last night literally got us up out of bed and in the streets asking: Is this practice safe? I am reluctant to take a tour of my foundation in the daylight. I live in a home bordering the historic section of Cranford that was built in 1927. At the most self interested level of concern, I am worried about the integrity of my home! Let the community decide what they will value before profit; if not our health, environment or safety, perhaps our concern for our property values will be the deciding factor. Therese Gilbert/Greeley

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Colorado law grants the coroner the authority to intervene in a trying and emotional event in any citizen’s life — the death of a loved one. With that authority comes a responsibility to

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their air and water to avoid spending money on TV commercials. This whole “spending” argument by those supposedly working on a compromise just proves that only one side is at the table. Jared, please remember the past. Longmont City Council passed a new set of oil and gas ordinances that gave them more control over setbacks, light, noise, dust and even established stricter water and air monitoring at the oil industry’s expense. It was a very similar set of rules as those now being proposed as a grand compromise worthy of a special session at the capital. Do you recall what the citizens of Longmont did after their council established these new rules? They immediately said that’s not nearly enough to protect our quality of life and our children’s health and they went against the council and put a fracking ban on the ballot and passed it overwhelmingly. Don’t sit down with Hickenlooper and his oil industry pals thinking you can cut a deal that will carry your constituents back across a difficult road to a place they’ve already been and rejected. That’s a routine best left to professional comedians. If the people of Colorado wanted this compromise then they would have chosen to follow Longmont City Council’s lead years ago, but they didn’t. They rejected such meaningless partial measures then and they still reject them today. If you don’t want to spend a ton of your own money bankrolling an election battle on local control of fracking, then don’t. No one will think the worse of you for that, but sell the people out with a compromise they didn’t ask for and don’t want, and that’s a different story. And while I have your attention, it doesn’t actually seem possible to be for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and still claim to be an opponent of fracking. But maybe you have never considered yourself an opponent of fracking. Maybe you are for fracking any and everywhere so long as it isn’t next to houses like yours. We need to know your true position loud and clear. The TPP not only makes it possible to export unlimited amounts of natural gas without need for federal approval, it also makes it possible for oil companies to go before non-elected arbitration judges and have local fracking bans, moratoriums and other environmental regulations overturned. It makes corporations more powerful than local, even state, democracies. If you support the ballot measures then how can you support a trade agreement that would overturn them? The industry is excited about the Boulder Weekly

TPP and the pending European trade agreement because both will cause massive exports that will lead to the largest natural gas boom in U.S. history, albeit a short boom lasting only until other countries get their own gas online. But short as it will be, perhaps 10 years, that boom will be more environmentally devastating to the nearly 40 states that it impacts than anything this country has ever experienced. And if the new research is correct,

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and solar, because unfortunatehe Environmental ly, despite some significant Protection Agency’s gains, we still see coal providannouncement that ing two-thirds of the power power plants are here in Colorado, which is too going to have to cut carbon much to be able to realistically dioxide emissions to 30 persay that we have completed our cent below 2005 levels by 2030 goals of moving to clean and has sparked cries that it’s a renewable energy.” recipe for economic woe. The Natural Resources Small government advocacy Defense Council, using EPA group Americans for data, still ranks Colorado 10th Prosperity says the proposed in the nation for carbon emisstandards hit Americans in the sions pollution. pocketbook through their The electric power sector electric bill and the American produced 32 percent of total Coalition for Clean Coal greenhouse gas emissions in Electricity called them “misthe U.S. in 2012, making fosguided.” But Colorado is being sil-fueled power plants the held up as evidence that the largest source of carbon dioxide path to reduced carbon dioxide emissions in the country. emissions is survivable. The Before the June 2 proposed EPA even turned to Colorado standards for carbon dioxide to inform the carbon dioxide emissions from existing power State legislation has put Colorado ahead of schedule for meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s mitigation measures outlined plants were announced by the new standards for emissions from existing power plants and electricity providers have already begun to in these proposed guidelines. EPA, the agency had issued no incorporate wind power. Colorado’s Clean Air, national limits on carbon polluClean Jobs Act, passed in tion levels from power plants. 2010, called for investorOnly the level of arsenic, merowned utilities — Xcel Energy cury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen and Black Hills Energy — to oxides and particle pollutions reduce emissions by 30 percent they can emit have been limited. by 2020. Xcel Energy, the Cutting carbon dioxide state’s leading electricity proemissions from the power secvider and the 15th largest tor by 30 percent nationwide electricity producer in the below the 2005 level would be nation in 2012, is already on track to utilities, and some of the plans that they and 1.1 percent, respectively. an amount equal to emissions from half reduce total emissions of carbon dioxide have in place, how that’s going to fit in State legislation also requires that the homes in the U.S. in one year, in Colorado by 35 percent from 2005 with these new standards,” says Chris rural power co-ops reduce emissions by according to the EPA. The reductions levels by 2020, a full decade before the Arend, strategic communications direc10 to 20 percent, depending on the are expected to have corresponding benEPA’s deadline. Nationally, the company tor for Conservation Colorado. The number of meters served. Legal chalefits in reducing particle pollution, nitrois set to reduce emissions by 31 percent public has 120 days to comment on the lenges to Colorado’s renewable energy gen oxides and sulfur dioxide, avoiding in that same time frame. proposed rules, and in that time, he says, legislation were recently dismissed in as many as 6,600 premature deaths and These efforts to reduce the greena much clearer picture of where federal court. up to 150,000 asthma attacks in children house gas emissions that contribute to Colorado stands should emerge. “Colorado has demonstrated its and 490,000 missed work or school days climate change don’t seem to have cued For now, Arend says, “We feel like intent to be a leader in reducing carbon, and cutting electricity bills by 8 percent, an economic Armageddon. the steps that Colorado has taken leave and while we are ahead of schedule all while continuing to allow coal and “Colorado proves that by working us as a state and as residents well-posicompared to other states in retiring natural gas to be the leading sources of together and pursuing innovative cost tioned to meet these new carbon polludirty coal plants and reducing overall electricity generation in the U.S. effective solutions we can reduce our tion standards.” carbon emissions from those existing “EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas rule power plants, to remain a leader I think impact on climate change and keep our In 2004, Colorado became the first has potential to significantly change economy strong while preserving our state to have a voter-approved renewwe should take a more aggressive stance how we produce and consume electricity unique Colorado quality of life,” Carrie able energy standard, calling for 10 per- and goals than just the federal minimum in this country. 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The Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act led together to address climate change and Colorado see benefit from EPA regulaThe EPA’s proposed guidelines to plans to decommission coal-fired we applaud President Obama and his tions that call for slower progress than “build on trends already underway in power plants around the state, including administration for putting that standard states and the power sector” to cut those the state has already outlined and allow Xcel’s Valmont Station in Boulder. In forward. ... While Colorado has already leniency for natural gas even as conseremissions and allow states flexibility to met many of those goals, we should Colorado, coal accounts for 56 percent vationists increasingly criticize that meet carbon pollution limits that were work harder to continue to remove dirty individually set based on the electricity of Xcel’s energy supply, natural gas is “bridge fuel” for its methane emissions? coal from our list of energy options and “I think a lot of that is being figured 21.6 percent, wind is 19.3 percent, and be able to focus more directly on wind out — figuring out what a lot of our hydro and solar power are 1.9 percent See CARBON Page 16

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Local activist group looks to educate Boulder on Colorado’s strained water resources by Caitlin Rockett

The Colorado River is one of the most used rivers on Earth. It provides water for more than 40 million people across seven states and Mexico, and generates more than 4,200 megawatts of electricity.

acked by local activist group River has become the clearest example Boulder Rights of Nature and of the West’s strained water supplies. In the Rocky Mountain Peace 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Justice Center, a diverse completed the Colorado River Basin group of experts, environmen- Water Supply and Demand Study, talists and concerned citizens will which confirmed that growing demands address a variety of critical water issues on the river — 40 million municipal facing Boulder, the state and the West at users, irrigation for nearly 5.5 million an open forum on June 7. acres of land, supplies for at least 22 Beginning at 9 a.m. at Unity Church federally recognized tribes, seven of Boulder, speakers will discuss topics national wildlife refuges, four national ranging from Colorado water law to recreation areas, 11 national parks and how food choices can impact your water hydropower facilities generating more footprint. Boulder Rights of Nature than 4,200 megawatts of electricity — member Kristen Marshall says that the coupled with the impacts of climate idea for the water forum arose from a change may lead to prolonged water similar event shortages if Pete McBride, U.S. Geological Survey that was held changes in last year at water use Unity Church. aren’t made. While Boulder “When Rights of you read about the Colorado Nature wasn’t before it was part of that, she diverted, the and other wildness of the members felt Colorado was that the diaamazing. It logue about would flow water needed to continue. and surge and “Water is seemingly essential to life destroy areas and for life, and and then Colorado River hadn’t reached the Sea of I think that we, The afterward, life Cortez in 16 years until this spring. the human would seemrace, are a part ingly just of nature, not apart from nature and it’s happen,” says Abby Burk, the Western going to affect all of us, these changes,” Rivers Action Network consultant for says Marshall. Colorado. “Now in some places it’s more The changes Marshall speaks of are like plumbing than a river. It’s hard for many, but foremost among them is the me to see as an ecologist, as a river ever-growing gap between water supply enthusiast.” and demand. With its waters reaching As an avid whitewater kayaker and a the Sea of Cortez for the first time in longtime Colorado resident, Burk has a 16 years this past spring, the Colorado deep personal love of Colorado’s rivers, Boulder Weekly

as well as an education in biology, hydrology, ecology and education. “I think this forum is a great first step,” Burk says. “When I talk to people, and I’m talking from school kids to policy makers, people don’t understand where their water comes from. Most of our water we use throughout the day — for drinking, for cooking, for bathing — that is mostly river water, and most people have a disconnect with understanding where their water comes from and with what that water also supports, so getting people connected, creating a respect and a new water ethic is needed. We can take stewardship of how we manage our water without taking for granted all the things it supports.” Burk works with approximately 9,000 people across the state on water issues, including consultation with organizations such as Audubon Rockies. “Birds are an incredible barometer for ecosystem health,” Burk says. “Over 90 percent of birds species in Colorado depend on rivers for some part of their life cycle.” Burk says that many bird species are threatened or endangered as water supplies dwindle. At Saturday’s water forum, Burke will be speaking about the status of the Colorado Water Plan, the state’s first comprehensive plan to address water supply solutions to meet Colorado’s needs for drinking water, agriculture, recreation, tourism and environmental preservation. The plan is being developed by the Interbasin Compact Committee, which represents each of the eight water basins in Colorado. While the Denver metro area isn’t associated with a river basin, its concentrated development and extensive water needs make it the ninth entity on the

committee. “We are setting the course for what we want our water footprint to be in the future. Right now we have a limited supply of water, especially when we’re talking about dealing with climate change and a reduction in snowpack,” says Burke. “As we have a reduced amount of water and increased growth in population, how do we want to see our water used? Will it be purely for agriculture? For development? Each of the nine basins is tasked with how best to use their water.” Burk says there is ripe controversy about the amount of water used on the Front Range, where 80 percent of the state’s population resides, but where only 20 percent of the state’s precipitation falls. “The controversy comes from the realization that the Front Range needs to rethink water usage, and the realization that we are now very much impacting river health on both sides of the Continental Divide. We are taking water from one river basin and it will never return to that basin,” says Burke. “River health issues are important, as are the wildlife communities that those rivers support. Those are issues that are near and dear to people. People can see how a lot of water on the Front Range can be seen as misused or wasted. Now you have folks that are looking at wasted water and a new project that’s going to harm the environment and wildlife communities and wondering ‘How can we justify that?’” The project Burk speaks of is the Gross Reservoir expansion. Gross Reservoir is located about 15 miles southwest of Boulder and has served as See WATER FORUM Page 20

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water storage for municipalities in the Denver metro area since 1954. Water utility Denver Water diverts water from the Colorado River, west of the Continental Divide, through the Moffat Tunnel to be stored in Gross Reservoir, east of the Divide. A panel at Saturday’s forum will discuss Denver Water’s proposed expansion of Gross Reservoir, which will increase the height of Gross Dam by more than 120 feet, nearly tripling the reservoir’s storage capacity. The Final Environmental Impact Statement for the expansion came out on April 25. A comment period of 120 days was granted for any citizen to make assessments on the 11,000-page document, a time frame that some have characterize as severely inadequate for such a hefty analysis. An extension of the comment period was denied, making Monday, June 9 the final day for comments. While Denver Water says the expansion will resolve issues with water supply shortages in the metro area, activists like Chris Garre, president for nonprofit The Environmental Group Colorado, say the utility’s proposal to expand the dam is “horrendously flawed.” “The shortcomings of it are not only so significant that the project disproves itself, but also arbitrary and capricious,” says Garre. “The conspiratorial-type thinking is starting to look less conspiratorial, as much as I hate to say that.” The project has raised concern about environmental destruction on both the Eastern and Western slopes. According

to Garre, destruction on the Eastern Slope is focused mainly on the expansion of the reservoir, which could take between three and seven years to complete. Acres of wetlands will be upended, cliff faces will be blasted and quarried and tens of thousands of trees will be removed. A winter bedding habitat for elk populations will also be disturbed. However, Garre says the vast majority of environmental damage will occur on the Western Slope — a “tricky situation,” in Garre’s words. “Fraser River will be drained. It’s 65 percent drained now. They say 85 percent is what it will be depleted after expansion, but those numbers are annual averages and you only draw off the river for four months out of the year because it’s frozen,” says Garre. “So when you divert 99 percent over four months and average it out for the year, you get 85 percent. So really it’s the whole thing. In fact if you use their math it’s 103 percent. It’s pretty obvious their goal is to build the reservoir as large as they can.” Garre hopes people will come to the forum and learn more about the proposed expansion of Gross Reservoir and take a few moments to add to the public comments against the project. “We’ve hired and managed to entice volunteer hours from scientists, engineers and policy advocates to come up with what we believe to be the killer comment stack,” says Garre. “We’d like other people to sign on and say, ‘We’re with you.’ I’ll have it on an iPad and you put in your name Boulder Weekly

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and email address and go.” Burk says that diversion projects like the Gross expansion project are preventing Colorado’s rivers and streams from creating healthy, natural habitats. “Rivers are very dynamic and we have so many struc- Courtesy Boulder Rights of Nature tures to tame them. Even at high runoff rates we’re seeing now with spring snowmelt, rivers need that pulse of high water to mobilize that sediment out of the riverbed so invertebrates The Fraser River Diversion and fish populations can eat invertebrates. Cottonwood and willow trees need high flows to spread and reproduce. With a lot of diversion structures, we really flatline rivers — they aren’t allowed to have that natural hydrograph, that high flow,” she says. Other speakers at the forum include Phil Doe, a former bureau chief and environmental compliance officer for the Bureau of Reclamation, and Wes Wilson, a retired analyst for the Environmental Protection agency and featured expert on the documentary Gasland, who will co-present on the hazards fracking imposes on water and the environment at large. Steve Grace will be present to sign his book Dam Nation, which examines the scramble to claim water rights in the West during expansion, and the rapid development of dams to satisfy the growing West’s need for water. Dale Ball and Carolyn Bninski will Boulder Weekly

discuss how individuals can shrink their water footprint through a vegan diet, and Libby Comeaux, a lawyer and member of the Loretto Community, will explore a paradigm shift in law that places more empasis on nature. Jo Evans, president of the Audubon Colorado Council and chair of the Audubon Water Task Force, will help set other presenters up by kicking the forum off with a simple explanation of Colorado water law. Evans says “people run in the other direction,” when faced with discussions about water law, afraid that it’s just too complex. “It honestly isn’t that complicated,” she says. Evans has written a booklet that she calls the “Run, Spot, Run” of water law. She uses the hypothetical “saga” of Farmer John to simplify how Western states divide water among millions of users. “The rank and file, us, can be part of the dialogue going on about water,” Evans says. “In order to do that, we need to demystify Colorado water law so we can all participate in the exchange of ideas.” “Water: Rights & Nature, Exploring Water Use and Ecosystem Conservation” will take place on June 7 at 9 a.m. at Unity Church, Valmont and Folsom streets, Boulder. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Pacific, as giant, slow-moving masses of warm water called Kelvin waves moved eastward, tipping the equatorial region toward the formal El Niño threshold. Those waves were among the strongest ever recorded, leading some experts to tout a possible Super El Niño that could drive average global temperatures to a new all-time high record. But according to other scientists, that scenario is far from a done deal. Ultimately, every El Niño is different, even if there is an overall pattern. For Colorado, the information is critical. Even slight variations in annual snowfall of 20 percent make a difference when it comes to planning water diversions and storage, and if a lengthy dry spell is on the horizon, farmers, water managers and ski area bosses want to know. They often call on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist Klaus Wolter, who has been studying those cycles for years, developing sophisticated computer models to improve long-range forecasting. From his Boulder office and his mountain home west of Boulder, he’s seen it all, from record snows to epic droughts and last September’s floods, which affected Wolter’s entire community profoundly, including spurring fears of yet more floods. It gets to the essence of why people like Wolter dedicate their professional lives to trying to figure it all out, because with accurate information, we can prepare. And if this year’s prediction of an early and moderately strong El Niño comes to pass, it could indeed mean more trouble for some hard-hit areas, Wolter said. “I think I’m on board that this is going to be El Niño, and the stronger it is, the wetter this summer will be,” he says, adding that there are indications for summer moisture even without the El Niño factor. “This recent spate of wet weather on the Front Range is hinting that we’re on track for that. But we don’t really know how long this thing is going to stick around.” Essentially, a burgeoning El Niño shifts the summer monsoonal flow, weakening it in Mexico and sending more moisture toward New Mexico, Colorado and even into southern Wyoming. “Right now, I’m thinking a moderate El Niño, when you look at the next five months or so,” Wolter says. “Considering the floods last year, this is the one time we don’t need it,” he said, referring to the historical trend of above average summer rains when El Niños Boulder Weekly

start to form in the spring and strengthen into summer. Already, Wolter recorded the second-wettest May on record at his station near Jamestown, and extra moisture is one thing the area desperately doesn’t need this summer. Canyons scarred by last September’s torrents are exponentially more susceptible to further damage, even from less than record flows. The state’s weather history is pretty

clear on the link, with the 1976 Big Thompson flood, the 1997 Fort Collins flood and other big events all coming during El Niño onset years. On the brigher side, it could also mean fewer intense and damaging wind storms, Wolter adds. But a summer El Niño also increases the odds of big autumn snowstorms that can close roads and schools along the Front Range. Nearly all the big his-

toric fall blizzards have been during El Niño years, he says. Looking back at the 24 years of watching weather from his mountain home, Wolter says he remains awed by the chaotic nature of the atmosphere. “I’ve been more humbled over the years at how much natural variability is in the system — it just keeps it interesting,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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often does those who take the more adventurous path. “I walked out of the house one day and there was an orange jalopy of an old Mercedes blocking my driveway, and this old hippy guy standing there looking at the bus,” says Georgis. The ensuing conversation would prove enlightening. “He said to me, ‘Hey dude, what are you going to do with the bus?’” recalls Georgis. “I said I wanted to make it look like a log cabin and he looked at me and said, ‘Cool, do you know how to weld?” I had to admit that I did not, and then he asked me if I knew anything about busses, and I had to say ‘no’ again!” Georgis laughs. “Then the guy introduced himself. His name was Will and he told me that he’d been a welder for five years and had cut the tops off of two busses. He showed up out of nowhere.” With the help of Will, along with friends who helped scavenge materials

(the siding for the first bus was sourced from an old fence owned by the mother of his girlfriend at the time) it took Georgis 90 days to build his first bus, and Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours was in business. “The first year was fun,” says Georgis. “You have the excitement and it’s new. But year two it really tested me. We didn’t know when to do tours. I hired some people at the start, and they didn’t work out. But the third year got much easier, everyone we hired was over 40, and their maturity really helped — 2007 was great, we expanded to Denver 2008, that was difficult, but not as hard as 2006, and in 2010 it blew up. It has been a lot easier since.” “The funny thing is there was the hostel down the street [on The Hill] and I was dropping off some brochures my first year and met a guy from India who was staying there, he told me that the second year you will want to give up, and he said, ‘Don’t give up. It is just testing you.’ He really made an impact, and he was right. I don’t know how he knew.” Boulder Weekly

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Backpacker’s “Get Out More” 2014 women’s tour is stopping at more than 50 venues over five months to present a 75-minute informative seminar on the unique challenges for women hiking, camping and backpacking. Backpacker ambassadors Rebecca Scholand and Samantha Brady visit Neptune Mountaineering Monday, June 9, to motivate and educate women on getting outdoors more often.

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Backpacking Light Gear and Skills with Andrew Skurka. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. Festival Camping Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303583-9970. Stroke & Stride Series. 6 p.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, www.withoutlimits.co. Sunset Hike at Walden Ponds. 6:30 p.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat group icnic shelter near Cottonwood Marsh, Boulder County, 303-678-6214. FRIDAY, JUNE 6 After the Flood Hike for Families — On the Upper McClintock trail. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org. Walking Tour of Anne U. White Trail — Tour the trail closed due to damage from the September flood. 9 a.m. Registration required, 303-678-6201. SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Boulder Sunrise Tri/Du/Run. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, www.yourcausesports.org/ events/boulder-sunrise. SUNDAY, JUNE 8

Jungle Birds of Boulder. 7:30 a.m. Register for location, www.naturehikes. org. Walking Tour of Pella Crossing — Tour the area closed since the September flood. 2 p.m. Registration required, 303678-6201. MONDAY, JUNE 9 Backpacker Magazine’s “Get Out More” Women’s Tour. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

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“My employees have all been with out the window. The bus is there, the me for long periods of time,” adds open road of life is calling, adventure Georgis of his current team. “We have waits around every bend. He looks at had one new employee the bus and takes a in the last three years. sip of coffee as the INFO BOX John Georgis’ They do it because morning light flits Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours offers they like it; none of through the trees and everything from private transportation to Rockies them do it because imparts one last sliver games to ghost tours of they have to. We’re all of wisdom, the drivBoulder to historic tours that take in Chautauqua Park old enough to realize ing force behind the and other Boulder highlights. what is important, and bus, and the fuel for a Go to www.BanjoBilly.com for more info. it’s lifestyle. The funny life of adventure. thing is, when I came “The choice is do up with this idea when what you want to do, I was floating in the or to not do what you ocean, I was thinking, ‘I want to do want to do,” says Georgis. “That’s not a something where I can ski a lot.’” choice at all.” Georgis laughs, sits back and looks Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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imothy Orr isn’t exactly new to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. He started acting there in the mid-oughts, moved up to associate producing director in 2011, and spent last season as the interim artistic director after the departure of Philip Sneed. But this season is his first year as a permanent fixture in the top slot, and that frees Orr to look beyond just the summer season, and toward the direction he wants to take the festival on the whole. “I’m going to try to grow the festival and grow our offerings,” Orr says. That means more performances, more productions and trying to improve on the already high production value. Let no one say Orr isn’t ambitious.

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One area he’s particularly interested in expanding on is CSF’s educational outreach. “We’ve been doing our Shakespeare and anti-bullying tour for about two years now,” Orr says. “It keeps getting bigger and reaching more and more schools every year.” The anti-bullying program was something CSF dreamed up in 2011, as they were preparing to take a production of Twelfth Night on the road. “We thought, there’s so many practical jokes in Twelfth Night, we can turn that into a conversation about bullying and intimidation,” Orr says. CSF has spent the years since going into see SHAKESPEARE Page 32

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classrooms statewide, performing an CSF is staging five plays this sumabridged version of a classic piece, and mer: The Tempest, The Merry Wives of then leading a discussion with students Windsor, I Hate Hamlet, Henry IV: Part about better ways to solve some of the 1 and Henry IV: Part 2. conflicts depicted in the play. While perhaps not immediately “One of the things we talk about is visible on the surface, Orr says those girl violence and — selections are thea term I hate, but matically linked. ON THE BILL: Colorado — slut-shaming,” “I think there’s a Shakespeare Festival University of Colorado Boulder Orr says of the prostrong through-line campus, University Theatre and gram’s current play, in this season of parhistoric Mary Rippon Outdoor Much Ado About enting, and the Theatre, 303-492-8008, www.coloradoshakes.org Nothing. “What choices we make and The Tempest, June 7-August 10 happens to Hero in how difficult it can The Merry Wives of Windsor, that play? These be and how rewardJune 28-August 9 I Hate Hamlet, June 13-August 9 guys, Don John and ing,” Orr says. Henry IV: Part 1, Borachio, they start There is the July 18-August 10 spreading rumors mentor relationship Henry IV: Part 2, July 27-August 3 and ruining her between Prospero reputation. And and Miranda in The they’re doing it to Tempest, the parent’s get back at someone else.” advice for all the sons and daughters Orr says the kids don’t get lost in getting married in The Merry Wives of the language, and often pick up new Windsor, and the mentorship triangle and subtle plot points that even he between Hal, Falstaff and Henry in missed. parts one and two of Henry IV. “They have penetrating questions Falstaff is another element that at the end,” says Orr. links the pieces together, as he appears But even with all that on the horiin The Merry Wives of Windsor and both parts of Henry IV. zon, there is still the looming summer “The great comedic convention of season, which opens Saturday, June 7. Boulder Weekly

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Falstaff appears in all three of those plays,” says Orr. “It felt like an ambitious thing to do to find one actor to play Falstaff in all three plays.” CSF found the one ambitious actor, in Michael Winters, a veteran who has done stints in Seattle, at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore., and plenty of TV shows, including 53 episodes of Gilmore Girls and several episodes of Ally McBeal. “He’s a phenomenal name in the regional theater circuit,” says Orr. The season’s only non-Shakespeare piece is I Hate Hamlet, by Paul Rudnick, the story of a Hollywood actor who trades a big-money TV gig for the role of Hamlet in a Shakespeare in the Park production, and must be coached through the process by the ghost of acting legend John Barrymore, which once again captures the mentor theme. “It’s a great comedy,” says Orr, who is directing that show himself. “A thing that really inspires us when we pick non-Shakespeare titles is to pick plays that analyze Shakespeare, or involve it Boulder Weekly

in some way. Our audience seems to understand that.” The season opener, The Tempest, hasn’t been produced at CSF since 2006. “For us at the company, it’s one of our all-time favorites,” says Orr. But CSF especially wanted to bring it back because of the feel of last season’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Geoffrey Kent. “[When envisioning The Tempest,] we kept thinking along those lines, and we thought it was a great chance to collaborate with him again,” Orr says. “It takes place in a jungle, and it’s full of magic and monsters, and it’s a great love story.” Orr is also excited to pair the play’s setting with the vibe of the outdoor stage. But if you want to see The Tempest, or any of the other shows this season, Orr says it’s always a good idea to book in advance. “We’re selling out on many performances,” he says. “So don’t wait.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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by Adam Perry ot many modern metal groups are featured on NPR’s First Listen or routinely garner nearly a halfmillion YouTube views when a new music video is released. But Portland sludge-rock favorite Red Fang, which plays the Gothic Theatre in Denver this Friday night, has a unique way of maintaining a sense of unbridled fun, for both band and listener, while playing remarkably heavy songs with remarkably dark lyrics. “I think both darkness and whimsy can come from the same place, which is an indirect expression of repressed feelings,” Red Fang lead vocalist and bassist Aaron Beam says. “In many cases, I think whimsy is an expression of repressed darkness.” Murder the Mountains, Red Fang’s critically acclaimed 2011 sophomore longplay, was accompanied by an exceptionally whimsical video for the song “Wires,” which hilariously features the band spending a $5,000 check from its record label — ostensibly meant to cover the video’s production budget — on junk food, beer, a used car and miscellaneous items (from gallons of milk to furniture) the members of Red Fang jubilantly run over with the car. It was literally a smash hit, quickly becoming a

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YouTube sensation and making Red Fang as close to a household name as underground metal bands get. Probably not since Suicidal Tendencies’ legendary 1983 “Institutionalized” video has a metal group so creatively and successfully roped audiences who might not normally listen to heavy music into its unrelenting lyrics and music with a brilliantly comical video. “The ‘Wires’ video is amazing and turned us on to a lot of new people for sure,” Beam says. “Making [it] was definitely about as much fun as you can have making a video. I mean, come on, we got to smash shit with a car all day. Duh. It was all our buddy Whitey McConnaughey’s idea. He is a genius for ideas like that. He’s made all our videos so far.” Not surprisingly, Beam remembers the glam-metal act Twisted Sister, with its memorable videos starring Animal House’s Mark Metcalf, as “the first band I got interested in, and it was definitely because of the video for ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’” Still, despite the more widespread attention brought by numerous whimsical music videos — and a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman, of all places, with Paul Shaffer sitting in

— Beam says Red Fang isn’t focused on homogenizing its image or sound for a wider audience. “We’ve never written any rules for ourselves,” Beam says. “No, I lied. We wrote one rule: If we all like it, it can be a Red Fang song. Doesn’t matter at all what it sounds like or how heavy or light it is.” Beam, whose “first favorite pop song” was “Private Eyes” by Hall & Oates, insists there is no musical formula for Red Fang, despite the obvious influences of early metal such as Black Sabbath and the gory lyrics of sadistic greats like Samhain. “Each of us listens to and appreciates pretty diverse music, and I think that definitely affects our songwriting,” he says. “Our fundamental form of expression, no matter what we are listening to or thinking about when we are writing, is dark and heavy…[but] we don’t really think about trying to achieve a balance.” “Speaking just for myself, it’s really just whatever comes out when I put the pen to paper. Usually it is some sort of expression, whether direct or symbolic, of emotional shit I am trying to process. Sometimes I don’t even know what the

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hell a song is about until months after Red Fang, more than anything else, writing it.” embodies what Flea once called “playing The term “stoner rock” has been ferocious music as a healthy release of used in regards to Red Fang’s music, anger…turning a source of misery into which continued its thick, driving — something beautiful.” No matter how you but well short of hardcore as far as choose to describe Red Fang’s sound, it’s tempo goes — tendencies on last year’s obviously an impressive feat to gain such Whales and Leeches. widespread appeal The crunchy psychewhile juxtaposing such delia of classic stoner uncompromisingly ON THE BILL: Red Fang, rockers such as Kyuss heavy music with lyrwith Big Business and American Sharks. 8 p.m., Friday, June 6 is missing, but the ics like “just before I at the Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. pounding drums, take you / paint your Broadway, Englewood. $25 dark themes and lips with blood / God-size rhythm you’ve stripped away guitar of Sabbath’s the skin / babe frothsurely stoner-rock ing at the teeth / carry early ’70s material are crucial to Red him to me, his blood like cream.” Fang’s big, imposing metal. Not that It’s no sin for Red Fang to acquire Beam pays any mind to how his group much of that mainstream attention, gets labeled. which no doubt has helped the group “I feel like stoner rock has blosbook its mighty metal into some major somed as a genre in the last five years or festivals this summer, by making music so, to the point where there is basically a videos featuring such unforgettable formula for making a stoner band,” he sights as a zombie ripping a bloody fist says. “We do not fit that formula…but through Fred Armison’s rib cage Alienif you enjoy smoking weed while listenstyle in a dive bar just to snatch a can of ing to us, then I guess we are [stoner Tecate from the Portlandia star. The rock]. I guess I don’t really care, because videos are veritable sugar to get the ultimately, labels are sort of useless. medicine (Red Fang’s searing live “I think the closest you can come to shows) down and deliver what the band describing what a band sounds like is to calls “The Joy of Red Fang.” do one of those formulas where it’s like “I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, expressing darkness through the Black Sabbath plus Hot Snakes plus Balkan Brass Music minus trumpet solos music and lyrics means that I have purged it in a way, and then I don’t equals Red Fang. But that still is obviously not 100 percent effective, and genre carry it with me, so I don’t act like a goth,” says Beam. names are convenient and people like Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com them, so whatever.” 36 June 5, 2014

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depiction somewhat flat in a physical sense. He can’t control the subtle movements of a padded suit or a fake nose the way an actor can control their stomach or their shoulders or the muscles in their face. He isn’t closer to being Shrek, he’s Shrek with something slightly off. It’s especially odd as a second ogre character whose makeup is applied Boulder Weekly much more hastily for plot reasons I’ll not spoil here on the off-chance you haven’t seen the film is actually less of a sore thumb visually, and the costume is less restrictive of the performance’s nuance. While in a perfect world, remakes and adaptations wouldn’t bear the cross of critical comparision, each analyzed independently as its own work, that link is present in the mind of anyone familiar with the source material and therefore must be acknowledged. And while it’s probably even less fair to compare a stage production to an animated film, there are critical differences between the mediums that affect the depictions. Shrek, the film, works not just because of the clever writing and cultural references, but because of what Scott McCloud described in his book, Understanding Comics, as the picture plane. It is a triangular graph in which one corner represents photorealism, another symbolism and the third abstraction. Every image falls somewhere in that triangle. McCloud writes that while photorealism represents a specific object, symbolism represents that object conceptually, so while a photograph of a person would represent one specific person with all their nuanced emotional complications, bad

hair days and personal quirks, a stick figure just represents the idea of a generic person free of all that baggage. Moving away from photorealism and towards symbolism through the use of cartoonish animation makes it easier to suspend disbelief for more absurd, outlandish content, like a stick figure telling a terrible joke or, say, a giant green ogre going on a hero’s quest. However, a photorealistic stage play of the same material is a slightly tougher sell, which is why that one costume shortcoming is so hard to ignore. But the thing about that sore thumb sticking out is the reason it’s so noticeable is largely because of how clean the rest of Shrek The Musical is. Rae’s energetic, braying performance steals the show as Donkey, the staging is top-notch, and the writing is every bit as clever as the film, working in new gags and cultural references, as well as fun song and dance numbers and a truly epic fart battle. My viewing companion — who has seen the film far more times than myself — even remarked how she was particularly pleased and impressed with the way that several of the gags from the film were re-imagined for the stage rather than being cut. The only people really likely to leave Boulder’s Dinner Theater grousing about the uncanny valley and visibility of the spirit gum are estheticians and the sort of curmudgeons that think a good solid harrumphing amongst friends is a thrilling way to spend a Friday night. For everyone else, Shrek The Musical is good, light-hearted fun that keeps the spirit of the theater alive. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS Saturday, June 7, with JJ Grey and Mofro, and Vintage Trouble at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway Morrison. 7 p.m. $45.50.

Thursday, June 5

Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

The Laughing Hands. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Arthur Lee Land & gogoLab. 7:30 p.m. Ferg’s Inn, 349 Main St., Lyons, 703-405-2481.

David Booker. 8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Margoles Duo. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Astronomix. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Espresso! 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Jive Coulis & The Hatters Blend. 9 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Monte Selbe & Larry Clyman. 6 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.

John Butler Trio. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Jamestown

Samantha Ray Photography; Singer is Gina Razon

Sunday, June 8: The 20th Annual Boulder Jewish Festival. 11 a.m. Boulder County Courthouse lawn and Pearl Street Mall.

Colorado Composes brings you what’s new in the world of opera from local composers. For this concert they are combining with Opera on Tap Colorado — a non-profit organization that brings opera singers to bar venues. Their singers will be showcased along with local composers and musicians on the piano, viola, clarinet and percussions. Tickets are available at www.eventbrite.com and more information can be found at the Facebook page, Opera on Tap Colorado. A donation of $10 is suggested.

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Sunday, June 8: Opera on Tap presents Colorado Composes. 2 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303442-6530.

David Fellows, Editor and Publisher Boulder Jewish News

The festival will bring a one-day celebration of Jewish culture that includes live music and entertainment, ethnic food, fine art and judaica (Jewish ceremonial art) and community organizations. To celebrate the festival’s 20th year, Cowboy Hersh will kick off the festival with a musical set for the kids, and Mikey Pauker (one of the top 10 stars of New Jewish Music according to Time Magazine) will be performing. Hit Israeli duo Off Lines will also bring jazz piano, drums and vocals to the mix. For a full schedule and more info, visit www.boulderjewishfestival.org.

Patina Strings. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Psychodillo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. see EVENTS Page 44

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Thursday, June 12: Channel 93.3 and Twist & Shout Present The Faint, Doom Abuse Tour. 8 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206.

Omaha’s finest electro-pop and industrial punk pioneers The Faint are coming to the Gothic Theatre next week with music from their ninth album, Doom Abuse. Known as Norman Bailer in the ’90s (with Bright Eyes member Conor Oberst), The Faint will bring dancing, jumping, head banging and all around sounds of confusion. Reptar and Darren Keen will open. Tickets are available at www.axs.com. Show starts at 9 p.m.

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EVENTS from Page 43 First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Raised by Astronauts. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Russ Hopkins Trio. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

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Selasee. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Upcoming Music at Boulder’s Home of the Blues Thursday, June 5

THE OUTLIERS Friday, June 6

ULRICH ELLISON AND TRIBE Saturday, June 7

MAYNARD MILLS Sunday, June 8

FINAL BLUES JAM Thursday, June 12

DAVID BOOKER Friday, June 13

NEW FAMILY DOG Saturday, June 14

LIONEL YOUNG BAND

Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Thursday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. U Rock Live Band Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Events “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation. 7 p.m. Longmont Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Artist Social. 6 p.m. Longmont Council for the Arts, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Boulder Salsa Social. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Get Growing Garden Program with Ollin Farms. 11:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Getches-Wilkinson Center Martz Summer Conference. 8 a.m. Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building, University of Colorado, Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, 303-492-1286. Tango Class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Friday, June 6 Music Aaron Peace. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Austrian Connection. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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The Art of Data. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through July 6.

Through Jan. 18. Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the AlbrightKnox Art Gallery — Features works collected by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 8.

PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 21. American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 14.

A Recognizeable Disguise will be on display at the Firehouse Art Center through through June 13.

Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 — by various Artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through June 28.

New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through June 15. Language of the Forest — Artist Linda Everson. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

The Material Body — Artist Segna Nengudi. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through July 13 A Recognizable Disguise — Artists Adam Milner, Laura Chill and Joel Swanson. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through June 13.

Thursday, June 19

Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

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Big Paddy. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Rick Iracki. 7 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Tango Practica at BTS. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Craig Cornett and the Phast and Wreckless. 8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Speak Your Truth Poetry Jam & Open Mic. 9 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Weekly Gurlz Ride with Boulder Mountainbike Alliance. 6 p.m. Flatirons Vista Trailhead, Boulder.

Dave Fulker Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Steel Pennies. 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

The Electric Red. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Swing Saint Vrain. 7 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Andy Schiller. 4 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Girls on Top. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Bluez House. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

$5.00

Helicopter Bear Shark. 6 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130.

Ulrich Ellison. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Boogie Machine. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Tues/Weds, June 24-25

Jaden Carlson Band. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Wandering Natives. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Cary Morin Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Cyclhops, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Jamestown Revival. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Wendy Woo Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Clarkes. 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

John Statz. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Whiskey Tango. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, Main Street, Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614.

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Denny Driscoll. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

NICK MOSS BAND Friday, June 20

EDDIE “DEVILBOY” TURNER Saturday, June 21

JOCKAMO W/ JILL WATKINS ANDY T & NICK NIXON $5.00

Thursday, June 26

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Lani Nash. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Lantern Band. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Leibermonster. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Maxwell Hughes & MaryLeigh Roohan. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

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Monocle. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771. Pete Kartsounes & Bluegrass Delta Force. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Quemando. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303. First Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303-440YOGA. Game Night at Meadows. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Getches-Wilkinson Center Martz Summer Conference. 8 a.m. Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building, University of Colorado, Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, 303-492-1286. Historical Walking Tour of University Hill. 11:30 a.m. Harbeck House, Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Seniors on Bikes Berthoud Ride. 9 a.m. Tom Watson Park, 6180 N. 63rd St., Boulder.

Saturday, June 7 Music

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Foxfeather. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Full Frequency Modulators. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Good Gravy & Gipsy Moon. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Gypsy Jazz Tricksters. 7 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Home on the Grange. 10 a.m. Altona Grange Hall, 9386 N. 39th St., Boulder. Intuit. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. John Bunzli. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit

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B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Kirtan with Steph! 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. The Larks. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Lori Flynn. 9 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Maynard Mills. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Ragged Union. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Second Acts Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Weight Boys Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events AscenDance Project Summer Season Showcase. 8 p.m. AscenDance Studios, 5721 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Boulder Swing Dance’s Saturday Stomp. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Fire and Flowers Hike. 9:30 a.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

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The Little Mermaid. Jesters Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through June 14.

Naropa's fortieth Summer Writing Program centers on the "anthropocene," the age where everything is affected and conditioned by humans. Through workshops, panel discussions, and readings, we will explore shifting the frequency in our writing and communities.

Peggy Jo & the Desolate Nothing. Square Product Theatre in collaboration with Buntport Theater Company, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through June 21. Square Product Theatre is putting on Peggy Jo & the Desolate Nothing in collaboration with Buntport Theater through June 21.

Seussical — Parlando School for the Arts. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 8. Playback Theatre West Presents a Night of Improv. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, June 7. Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre,

5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6. The Sound of Music. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 13. The Tempest. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder. 303-492-8008. Through August 10.

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Hwy. 66, Longmont, 303-441-3440. Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460. Neighborhood Nosh. 1 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Paint-out Session. 8:30 a.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder. Pizza Time and Original Sin. 8:30 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-927-0802. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Theatre-Hikes: Alice in Wonderland. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-663-9491.

Jazz Jam with Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Kyle Swan. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Matt Skinner Band. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Mike Wojniak. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

The Prairie Scholars: Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Events

Clifford Storytime. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

The Prairie Scholars. 8:30 p.m. Lyons Fork, 450 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-5014.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival Lecture Series. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sharon Glassman. 3 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Blues Jam with The Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Power Lung Rangers. 3 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Sunday, June 8

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Hot Soup. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Citizenship Classes with Immigrant Legal Center. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Teresa Storch. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Old Town Swing Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Valmont Park Bike and Watch Night. 6 p.m. Valmont Bike Park, Boulder.

Music

Westin Smith. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

6/22 | 4:00 p.m. Peter Orlovsky, A Life in Words Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder

Book launch, panel discussion & book signing facilitated by editor Bill Morgan. Free & open to the public.

Visit Naropa.edu/ upcoming-events for details.

TangoConnection Classes. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Trivia. 8 p.m. Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6262. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Women and the Body Series with Melissa Michaels. 5:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

The Drifter Band. 10 a.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Salon Avalon Milonga. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

Highwater. 8:30 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Theatre-Hikes: Alice in Wonderland. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-663-9491.

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

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Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, June 10

Jason Hicks & Amy Stott. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open House: Printing A Broadside with Woodtype. 1 p.m. The Book Arts League: Ewing Farmhouse & Bunkhouse, 1915 N. 95th St., Lafayette.

Monday, June 9

6/13–6/15 The Shambhala Principle: Rising to the Challenge of Our Times

Conversations in English. 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

David Richey & Friends. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Jack Hadley Duo. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Cyclhops, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

6/2–6/28 40th Annual Summer Writing Program: Anthropocene Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder

One Act. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Friday, June 6.

Peter Pan. 2:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303871-6200. Through June 6.

Events

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

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Stars Go Blue — by Laura Pritchett. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting — The Biscuit Joint, by Peter Heller. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Practice — by Barb Schmidt. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

In the Presence of Buffalo — by Daniel Brister. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, June 6 The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls — by Anton DiSclafani 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Active Minds Lecture: Privacy vs. Protection in the War on Terror. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch. 303-4707050

Saturday, June 7 An Elephant & Piggie Storytime. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Daniel Wilson will be signing and talking about his book Robogenesis at The Tattered Cover on Colfax on Wednesday, June 11.

Will Write for Food: A Five-Course Workshop with John Lehndorf. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Sunday, June 8 An Afternoon with Local Authors. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, June 11

Future Flash — by Kita Murdock. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Robogenesis — by Daniel Wilson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

EVENTS from Page 45 Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Frankie and Floyd. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic feat. White Trash Warrior. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Royal Southern Brotherhood. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Events

I Spy Bones. 10 a.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder. Rad Company and Huayhuash — Boulder Mountainbike Alliance’s annual film night. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Read to the Dog! at the Meadows Branch. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Storytime for Children - At Reynolds Branch. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Study Session with City Council and Library and Arts Commissions. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder Folders: Learn Origami. 6:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Tango class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group at Meadows. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Tango Colorado Weekly Practica & Class. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Conversations in English. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Teen Film Nexus: Oz the Great and Powerful. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Conversations in English at W. Senior Center. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Tuesday Hikers. 8 a.m. North Boulder Park, 9th St., Boulder.

Francophone — French-Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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So much in music is about largesse. Bigger shows, bigger spectacle, bigger sound. But Colorado musicians will be celebrating the opposite with the annual Denver Ukulele Festival, going down June 5-7 at Swallow Hill Music in Denver. “The ukulele is a really accessible instrument,” says Lindsay Taylor, publicity manager for Swallow Hill Music. “There’s only four strings on it so it’s really easy to manage for people. The ukulele is small, you can put it on your back, you can go anywhere with it. It goes hand in hand with what Swallow Hill believes, which is that music should be accessible to all.” The festival will include dozens of performances and workshops, spanning all levels of skill in the ukulele. “I am really interested in the finger-style blues workshop that’s happening because that’s something you don’t typically think of with the ukulele,” says Taylor. The intro-level courses will mostly be taught by local musicians, but many of the courses will be taught by big names in the ukulele world like Hawaii’s Aldrine Guerrero, founder of UkuleleUnderground.com, who will be teaching a workshop called “These Are Some of My Favorite Riffs.” “The thing that I really love about Uke Fest is watching all these people come together for one thing: the ukulele,” says Taylor. “But each of them has a different definition of what the instrument means to them.” There will be performances from Guererro, The Ooks of Hazard, Stukulele, Star Belle, The Copoetics and more, and, of course, the annual Heavy Metal Uke Jam, an event Taylor says is less about metal than it is about reaching out across genres. “Really, it’s a singalong with a funny name,” she says. The Denver Uke Fest was at one point one of the biggest ukulele festivals in the world, with 1,200 attendees. But Taylor says things will be slightly scaled back this year, with capacity for 300 to 400 people. And Taylor says that tickets are going fast, even for people that have never played before. “I’m always surprised by how many ukuleles we have to loan out,” she says. Get more info, purchase tickets and see a full schedule at www.swallowhillmusic.org/events-andfestivals/ukefest/.

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Music

Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Bands on the Bricks with The Samples. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. eTown Live Radio Show Taping with Rodney Crowell & Very Special Guests. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Events 15 Minute Aura Cleanings with Alan McAllister. 4 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 3055 47th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Josh Quinlan Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Lightly Toasted Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Lucent Dossier Experience. 12 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Midday Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Picnic on the Plaza with J Morley. 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1225.

Single Dating Night with Marcus Lucas. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Walking Wednesdays. 1 p.m. 1101 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Purple Squirrel ‘Lost World’. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

WALTZ Etcetera. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Royal Southern Brotherhood. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Wednesday Evening Social Rides. 6 p.m. Mountains Edge Fitness, 693K S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-9187062.

Seth Phillips. 6 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St.,

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The Lost World, with Koko the Clown, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 11, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. $12, $6 for members

by Michael J. Casey

here once was a time in the not-too-distant cinematic past where the world was still largely undiscovered and areas of the planet were a mystery to modern man. What beasts lived on these islands? What creatures were in these jungles? What was out there, lurking in the shadows? This theme cropped up again last month when Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla opened. In the updated version, Godzilla is not a lizard that has become radioactive due to nuclear bomb testing, but a prehistoric beast that ruled the land. Similarly, Steven Spielberg’s game-changing Jurassic Park harbored dinosaurs on a remote Hawaiian island. True, these dinosaurs were cloned, but they were cloned from DNA found in mosquitoes that were dug up from deep underground in remote jungles. Were those the same jungles that King Kong once ruled? Trace these stories back far enough, and you end up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, The Lost World. It has been adapted directly to cinema five times, and who knows how many more it inspired, but the original (and best) is the 1925 silent version directed by Harry

Hoyt, which will that’s okay. We did not come be screened to see scintillating story tellWednesday, June ing, we came to see dinosaurs! 11 at Chautauqua And thanks to the work of Auditorium with Willis O’Brien, dinosaurs are Purple Squirrel what we get. O’Brien started Quartet providing working with stop-motion live musical accomanimation as early as 1913, a paniment. Max painstaking process where the Fleischer’s Koko the illusion of movement is conClown (an early example of structed by creating a small rotoscope animation) will figure, usually out of clay, and precede the screening. photographing it’s movement The plot of The Lost one-frame at a time. When World is so simple and so the images are played back at maddeningly stupid that a normal speed (twenty-four you’ll find yourself cheering frames a second) the figure The iconoic stop motion animation in The Lost World is all neck and for the dinosaurs (maybe comes to life and moves no nonsense. that’s the point). Professor before our very eyes. It takes Challenger (Wallace Beery) a lot of time and love to is convinced that somewhere in the and a rag-tag team joins Dr. Challenger make a stop-motion movie, and it shows. “trackless jungles” of Venezuela, dinoand Paula: sportsman Sir John Roxton O’Brien followed up the success of The saurs still walk the Earth. This theory is (Lewis Stone), reporter Edward Malone Lost World with another classic, 1933’s based on a few sketches found in a note- (Lloyd Hughes), the skeptical professor King Kong, and both have remained in book that Paula White (Bessie Love) Summerlee (Arthur Hoyt), the Indian good circulation on TV and in specialty gave him. Apparently, that’s good servant Zambor ( Jules Cowes in appalltheaters worldwide. Both movies contain enough for Challenger and he challenges ing black face) and Challenger’s butler, wooden acting and dated filmmaking, any man that does not believe him to Austin (Francis Finch-Smiles). but the creatures themselves continue to follow him into that very jungle. A The characters are one-dimensional be cherished and loved. newspaper offers to fund the adventure (at best) and the plot is barely there, but Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Scarlett Johansson plays a mysterious woman trolling the Scottish hinterland who lures unsuspecting men to their deaths with her sexual charms. It’s a visually and emotionally intriguing film that takes the viewer on an exploration of gender roles, lust and the power of sex. At Boedecker.

the ocean, to the floating abalone farms located along China’s Fujian coast, this film will take you places you never dreamed of and show you sites you could never have imagined. This film will leave you haunted by the importance and growing scarcity of our most precious resource, water. At Boedecker. A YEAR IN BURGANDY This film is a pure delight for your senses. Filmmaker David Kennard follow seven families over a four-year period. The families are all winemakers who live in the Burgundy region of France, and whose livlihoods depend on making wine. If you love wine, you will not want to miss this film. If you don’t, you will still not want to miss

WATERMARK This documentary film is composed of many stories from all around the globe. What ties these stories together is that each explores our relationship to water. From the Colorado River’s desert delta, evidence that it no longer reaches

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t would be easier to shrug off writer/director/actor/egomaniac Seth McFarlane’s blatant racism and misogyny if he was funny or had a point. Alas, he isn’t and he doesn’t. A Million Ways to Die in the West is McFarlane’s laborious love letter from himself to his own stupid face and is a continuation of his brotastic brand of “edgy comedy,” which is really just saying awful shit and coyly winking as if to say, “Ain’t I a charming stinker?” No, but you do stink. And so does your movie. What’s more, your popularity is one of the many anchors fastened to America’s yoke as we dangle over an abyss of bigotry and violence against women. Let me explain. A Million Ways is, above all else, a sex fantasy for brociopaths — thanks to comedienne/author Sara Benincasa for that term. McFarlane plays Albert, a shepherd in 1880s Arizona who gets dumped by Louise (Amanda Seyfried). We are told in no uncertain terms that this was a wholly unspeakable crime against Albert, who “did everything to make her happy” at the expense of his own happiness. She is labeled an idiot whore for betraying the nicety nice niceness of Albert. Except, Albert is a friggin’ loser. Not only is he a smarmy, weak-willed prick, he’s incompetent at his job and unpopular. Still, Louise owed it to Albert to stay with him and give him sex because, you know, he’s really nice. Albert wallows with his friend Edward (Giovanni Ribisi) and Edward’s prostitute girlfriend Ruth (Sarah Silverman), a couple whose onejoke storyline could have been dumped to save a half hour from McFarlane’s endlessly boring self-indulgence. When Boulder Weekly

Anna (Charlize Theron) blows into town, she agrees to help Albert win a duel against Louise’s new boyfriend, Foy (Neil Patrick Harris). Of course, she sees the nicety nice niceness of Albert as irresistible and cannot wait to reward him with sex. Only, she’s married to evil outlaw Clinch (Liam Neeson), who is an exaggerated version of how brociopaths like McFarlane see “other guys.” Basically, beautiful women like Theron should trip over themselves to bone guys like McFarlane because they are “good” and all other men are “bad.” Don’t worry, McFarlane still finds time to joylessly and gracelessly jab at every race and religion possible. It’s almost impressive watching him shoehorn a Muslim joke into a Western. And by impressive, I mean “screw you.” Theron, whose work as a comedic actress isn’t praised enough, and Harris are the only things standing between this debacle and the lowest rating I can legally give. Maybe McFarlane was jealous of Harris’ scene-stealing and that’s why he wrote a bit where Harris has diarrhea in a hat (and we see it). I understand that I’m expected to shrug the racism and misogyny off because objecting makes me a tightly wound, politically correct fool who doesn’t “get” that edgy comedy is totally the best. I could care less. McFarlane has proven time and again to be an unrepentantly racist, sexist moron who is about one-eighth as clever as he thinks he is. A Million Ways to Die in the West is just more proof we should feel guilty we made him rich. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t was 2013’s most-Googled diet. Over 500 Registered Dieticians named it one of 2014’s top diet trends. And these days, it seems like every single one of the thousands of people nationwide who follow the paleolithic or Paleo diet live in Boulder. There’s no denying that paleolithic eating, which claims to mimic the ways of our pre-agricultural ancestors by focusing on protein and eschewing grains, legumes and industrially processed seed oils, is the saber-toothed tiger of current diet trends. But though word of the paleolithic trend has spread through Boulder County like prehistoric wildfire, the diet — known more for what you can’t order — has been slower to make it onto restaurant menus. But it started working its way in last March at the Village in central Boulder — a fancy name for what is really an unassuming mini-mall at Folsom and Arapahoe. Look a little more closely and you might just see a few sweaty patrons of CrossFit Sanitas in the parking lot, sprinting and pushing tires Connect with us before heading into their mirrorless “box” (CrossFit speak for a gym) to perfect their burpees, snatches and squats. The gym, which was founded in 2012, got good reviews and built a devoted clientele almost immediately, but founders Eric and Melissa Roza ran

into just one problem: hunger. After a shower, commute home and food prep time (many CrossFit enthusiasts follow a Paleo-style diet), many clients were famished. And not just any kind of famished — the me-eat-cave-bear sensation that is particular to a fitness enthusiast who has just picked up and put down heavy objects approximately one billion times. The Rozas had only to look across the parking lot at Zolo Grill to find their solution. Many patrons already headed to the restaurant for an afterworkout meal (burger, no bun), so why not take it a step further? A few weeks later, CrossFit Sanitas and Zolo Grill had partnered on a Paleo menu with a simple premise: a $10 meal that could be pre-ordered by Sanitas patrons and that would arrive hot and ready at the end of that day’s workout. Connect with us specific,” “The Paleo diet is pretty says Brent Bedard, general manager of Zolo Grill. “The process of coming up with Paleo menus has been fun for Chef Justin Goerich. There’s nothing like throwing around some big tires, running five miles and then grabbing a meal. If you take away the tires and the sauté pan, it’s very caveman.” Zolo doesn’t just offer its Paleo menu to CrossFit Sanitas patrons — see PALEO Page 52

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anyone can ask for the Paleo menu, which costs $10 and includes a choice of one main protein (burger, roast pork, chicken breast or chorizo) and one side (salad, seared greens, roasted vegetables or sweet potato hash). Tom Baker, CrossFit Sanitas’ gym manager, notes that the menu has been so successful that the gym is considering partnering with other restaurants like YellowBelly. And Boulder’s paleolithic menu trend doesn’t stop there. In fact, it’s evolved into a first: the city’s first allPaleo restaurant, Blooming Susan France Beets Kitchen, which opened May 22. Housed in a contemporary space studded with reclaimed wood and industrial steel, the restaurant is the brainchild of Paleo blogger Iva Paleckova, who says her Paleo diet helped her drop 15 pounds and improve her mood and overall health. A self-proclaimed “cooking idiot,” Paleckova searched in vain for a 100 percent Paleo option in her adopted hometown. When she couldn’t find one, she decided to start one herself. She added the proceeds of an Indiegogo campaign to her own savings and a few business loans and selected Diagonal Plaza in North Boulder as the site of her new venture. Along the way, she’s collected an executive chef (Brittany Kerr), more than 113 backers (allergic, celiac and Paleo

enthusiasts from all over the country), a distributor for local, GMO-free vegetables (Source Local Foods) and even a rancher (Casey Cook of Colorado Sustainable Farms). “It’s not just about the money,” she says. “This is our chance to show people that Paleo can be delicious. That it’s easy to enjoy healthy, sustainable food.” Blooming Beets Kitchen will offer a menu that’s 100 percent grain, corn, gluten and soy-free and that uses coconut, avocado and olive oils in place of processed canola and soybean oils. The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, with prices ranging from $7.50 for a beet-gingercitrus bisque to $25 for grass-fed steak with mushroom sauce. In addition, Blooming Beets Kitchen will offer chef-selected recipes for some dishes on its menu so patrons can enjoy Paleo dishes at home. “I really hope this restaurant helps counter the meathead image of Paleo eating,” says Paleckova, who notes that transparency about food sourcing and cooking methods is paramount. “I invite anyone who has questions about what we’re doing not just to come in, but to explore our pantry, our kitchen. We’ll be happy to open them up to anyone who asks.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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weekend of August 2 at the Boulder Dushanabe Teahouse. The Three Leaf Concepts-sponsored festival will hold a Tea Bazaar where people can sample premium teas from different vendors. Workshops on this year’s schedule will cover Teahouse chef/owner Lenny Martinelli’s tips on preparing dishes containing tea ingredients, a Japanese tea ceremony, international expert analysis on rare Asian teas, the art of tea blending and much more. For more information or to register, visit www.rockymtnteafestival.com.

TASTE LOUISVILLE AT TASTE OF LOUISVILLE THIS WEEKEND The annual Taste of Louisville is going down this weekend in, you guessed it, Louisville. The day-long celebration will feature excellent food served from the local restaurants of Louisville, beer tents, arts and crafts, live entertainment from local dance and martial arts centers and kid’s activities. At the downtown Steinbaugh Pavilion you can jam out to local bands for the seventh annual Louis-Palooza, and the Louisville Farmer’s Market will have its opening day at the Taste as well. If you really want to work up an appetite, run the Taste of Louisville 12k or 5k runs that start at 8 a.m., or a free kid’s run at 11 a.m. For more information or to register, go to www.tastehalf.com A Taste of Louisville runs June 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. More information and a full schedule of events are available at www.louisvillechamber.com/tasteoflouisville.html. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen I announced plans to review The Rowdy Mermaid, Boulder’s new kombucha taproom, a co-worker swiftly warned me reading on the Internet that kombucha, a sparkling fermented tea drink with live yeast and bacteria cultures, can cause “fatal diarrhea,” to which another coworker immediately shouted out, “band name!” Having once tried kombucha in a botched dating attempt and living to tell the tale, I suspected that prognosis was from the Jenny McCarthy school of

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The Rowdy Mermaid is craft-brew for teetotalers by Josh Gross medicine, in which googling something once at 3 a.m. takes the place of a Ph.D. program. But the experience had left a fairly literal bitter taste in my mouth. Not good. Between that and an email from the owner asking how we could “work together,” (a phrase which does great insult to the principles we critics like to bluster about at parties in order Rowdy Mermaid to sound important to 2516 49th St., Unit 2, people who later feed us Boulder full of bitter kombucha), 303-396-0498 I was approaching the review out of sense of journalistic duty (which I could later bluster about at parties) more than enthusiasm. How pleasant a surprise for The Rowdy Mermaid to be the polar opposite of my early experiments with kombucha at parties. More than bearable, it was downright pleasant. The Rowdy Mermaid’s taproom is a bright, highceilinged space in a warehouse a few doors down from the J. Wells Brewery on 49th. Easily accessible by bike and with a friendly, welcoming feel, despite what the

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the same sort of summer day. The tap room offers 12-ounce pours for $4, or four-ounce samplers for $1.50. Flights are $6, and growlers and growler refills are sold in 32 and 64 ounce sizes. The flagship brew, Living Ginger, has a pleasant spice to it and a hint of lemon — imagine a cold, sparkling and less sweet hot toddy. The Deep Forest, brewed with vanilla bean and sarsaparilla, has a surprising root beer tang, but with a lighter, more flowery feel. The Cherry Kom Pow went another direction: the mint and pennyroyal give it the same breathy heatbeating lightness as a mint julep, but with a hint of cherry. And then there’s Morning Dew, a honeydew melon-based brew that fulfills the reputation as the

money melon. There are trace elements of alcohol (a fraction of a percent) and most of the brews are lightly caffeinated, but neither are present enough for any sort of buzz. Nor is it loaded down with sugar or whatever labmade frankensugar is hot this week. The overall result is a drink that’s as refreshing as a beer or a soda, but without the associated ill effects. Though, in their place, are a whole different set of issues, mostly centered around the somewhat nebulous effects of living bacteria on children, pregnant and/or breastfeeding women, people with immune deficiencies or other fragile health conditions, who are all advised to avoid kombucha outright, or sample one of the non-fermented tea blends. But those same live cultures are also alleged to have probiotic health benefits, scientifically unproven of course. But putting the perceived risks or benefits aside, from a pure consumption standpoint, if you’re looking for a new summer haunt that won’t get you daydrunk, The Rowdy Mermaid may be just what Dr. McCarthy ordered. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“When given a choice between owning an object and having an experience,” says art critic Holland Cotter, “I always choose the experience.” He prefers to spend his money on adventures that transform his sense of self and his understanding of the world. I recommend that approach to you in the coming weeks, Taurus. The most valuable “possessions” you can acquire will be the lessons you learn, the skills you hone, and the relationships you ripen.

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In Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way, the narrator speaks of how profoundly he is inspired by an older writer named Bergotte: “Each time he talked about something whose beauty had until then been hidden from me, about pine forests, about hail, about Notre-Dame Cathedral . . . with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.” I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because in the coming days I suspect a great deal of beauty will explode into you. Why? I think it’s because you’re more receptive than usual to being delighted and enchanted. The triggers could be anything: exciting people, eavesdropped conversations, good books, surprising music, and who knows what else?

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“Little horses cannot carry great riders.” So says a Haitian proverb. Now, in accordance with the astrological omens, I’m urging you to meditate on its meaning for your life. Here are four possible interpretations: 1. Are you a “little horse” trying to carry a “great rider” who’s too much for you? 2. Are you a little horse that could grow into a bigger, stronger horse worthy of a great rider? 3. Are you a “great rider” who is in need of a horse that is big and strong enough to serve your big, strong ambitions? 4. Would you like to be a “great rider,” but you can’t be one as long as you have a horse that is too small and weak?

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

U2’s Bono has called Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” “the most perfect song in the world.” It is mournful and triumphant, despairing and uplifting. It’s a riddle that improbably offers cathartic release. Over 300 recording artists have done cover versions of it, and it has even been the subject of books. And yet it was a challenge for Cohen to compose. He wrote more than 80 verses before choosing the few he would actually include in the final version, and in one famous session he resorted to banging his head on the floor to stimulate his creative flow. “To find that urgent song,” he said, took “a lot of work and a lot of sweat.” I nominate “Hallelujah” to be one of your sacred symbols for the next 12 months, Scorpio. From your strenuous effort, I predict, will come masterful creations.

NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Let me outline the breakthroughs I hope to see for you in the coming months. First, what is pretty good about you will not interfere with what is potentially great about you, but will instead cooperate with it and boost it. Second, your past accomplishments won’t hold back your progress; you will not be tempted to rely on them at the expense of your future accomplishments. And third, the brave ideas that have motivated you so well won’t devolve into staid old dogmas; you will either renew and reinvigorate them or else move on to a new set of brave ideas.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

If you are in even moderate alignment with cosmic rhythms during the next 12 months, you will be a connoisseur and master of recycling. I’m speaking metaphorically here. What I hope is that you will reanimate worn-out inspirations and convert faded dreams into shiny new fantasies. You will find ways to revive alliances that went off track. A once-vibrant shtick or trick that lost its cool could be retrieved from the ash heap of history and turned into a fresh, hot asset. Gear yourself up for some entertaining resurrections.

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VIRGO

I wish I could tell you that your power animal this month is the eagle or dolphin or panther. Having a glamorous creature like that as your ally might boost your confidence and charisma. To be paired with one of them might even activate dormant reserves of your animal intelligence. But I can’t in good conscience authorize such an honor. That’s not what the astrological omens are suggesting. In fact, your power animal this June is the bunny rabbit. Please understand that there is no shame in this. On the contrary. You should be charmed and appreciative. It signifies that you will be fertile, fast, a bit tricky, and very cute. (To read an essay on the mythology of the rabbit as trickster, go here: http://tinyurl. com/rabbittrickster.)

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Give special attention to what will last the longest. That’s my main recommendation for you in the coming weeks. Devote less of your energy to transitory pleasures and short-term hopes. Turn away from the small obsessions that demand far too much of your energy. Withdraw from the seemingly pressing concerns that will soon start to fade because they really aren’t that important. Instead, Virgo, devote your love and intelligence to the joys and dilemmas that will animate your life well into the future. Express reverence and care for the mysteries that will teach you and teach you and teach you for years to come.

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Dear Dan: I’ve got a question I doubt you’ve ever gotten before. It has a bit of everything: sex-work etiquette, long-distance phone interaction, and a het cis chick anxious not to lose her tolerance badge. Here it goes: A few months ago, I started getting hang-up calls from numbers I didn’t recognize in Boston. Then weird texts started showing up, trying to set up “dates.” I responded to the first few because I figured someone was giving out a fake number that just happened to be mine. (I kept my cell phone when I moved from Boston to Seattle.) But after the fourth or fifth call/text from a different unknown number, I turned to the internet. Google informed me that my phone number is identical, except for area code, to a trans escort working in Boston. I’m getting one or two calls or texts per week meant for this other woman. They’ve started to get more explicit. Because of the time difference, they come at weird hours. I don’t know what I should do. I can ask my phone company to block each number individually, but that’s a pain in the ass. I can text the correct area code to the men who are writing to me looking for the trans escort, but I don’t really want to help people too stupid to read a phone number correctly. I suppose I could report the whole thing to the Boston police, but I doubt they’d care, and I don’t have any moral objections to sex work, I just don’t want people to call/text me asking for it. Aside from changing my phone number, which has been my sole number for almost eight years, anything else you can suggest? Stupid Phone And Messages

of a deal — that sex worker will probably be more distressed to learn that she’s losing so many potential clients. I’ve known and loved a few sex workers — loved in a strictly platonic sense — and most would change their professional phone numbers regularly to rid themselves of time-wasters and clients they didn’t want to see again. The sex worker whose calls you’re getting may be willing to change her number, or at the very least emphasize the correct area code in her ads. The best way to demonstrate that you don’t have a moral objection to sex work is to assume sex workers are reasonable human beings and treat them accordingly. Because sex workers are human beings, SPAM, and most human beings are perfectly reasonable. If we were talking about a Fox News personality, my advice might be different — but we’re not talking about a Fox News personality, are we?

Dear SPAM: You claim no moral objections to sex work, and say you’re a tolerant person. But you’re thinking of siccing the police on a trans sex worker — for what? One or two calls or texts a week. As pains in the ass go, that sounds like a pretty piddling one. You know what constitutes a major pain in the ass for a sex worker? Being harassed by police and swept up in the criminal-justice system. You’re right, the police are unlikely to drop everything to solve your problem. But you shouldn’t call the cops on this woman regardless. If your call was answered by a lazy cop who would rather hassle trans sex workers than go after criminals who are actually hurting people, this woman — who hasn’t really harmed you in any way — could wind up getting badly hurt. The criminal-justice system is rough on sex workers generally, and it’s brutal to trans women who do sex work. Here’s another idea, SPAM, and a better one: Call the trans escort and have a conversation with her. You’ve got her phone number. Talk to her. As distressed as you are to receive these calls and texts — and, again, one or two a week doesn’t seem like that big

Dear ANAL: When I hear from straight couples just starting to explore buttsex, it’s usually the boy who wants to “jump right in” and the girl who is afraid of getting hurt. I tell these straight boys that they are obligated to take their partner’s feelings into account — they must take it slow, they must use lots of lube, they must start with fingers and toys and plugs, etc. Those are Buttsex Best Practices. My advice for you is the same: You are obligated to take your partner’s feelings into account. His fear of hurting you is just as valid as a woman’s fear of being hurt. So while you may not need plugs and toys for your own comfort, ANAL, you should use them for his. It’s possible that his concern is misplaced — you’ve taken shits that are longer and thicker than his erect penis. But unless you’ve taken shits that have jumped out of the toilet and jammed themselves back into your ass, and then pounded you for 20 minutes, you really don’t know what it’s like to get buttfucked. On the Lovecast, the special rage of men who can’t get laid: savagelovecast. com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he Rohrabacher-Farr amendment to the 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill (HR 4660) passed Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or the Department of Justice from using taxpayer money to interfere with medical cannabis in states where it is legal and would bar federal agencies from prose(from left) Reps. Jared Polis, Maurice Hinchey and Dana Rohrabacher cuting hemp production in states where it is legal. It would not keep the DEA from arresting people unconnected to medical use. in the Republican vote last night were people who The bipartisan measure was co-sponsored by took a lot of those words and the philosophy of Democrats Sam Farr, Jared Polis, Barbara Lee, Steve Ronald Reagan to heart.” Cohen and Earl Blumenauer and Republicans Dana Whatever it takes. Rohrabacher, Don Young, Tom McClintock, Paul Farr’s press statement summed up the importance Broun and Steve Stockman. of the vote. “States with medical marijuana laws are no The amendment was first offered by Rohrabacher longer the outliers; they are the majority,” he said. “This and Maurice Hinchey in 2007. It was defeated 262vote showed that Congress is ready to rethink how we 165. The last time the amendment was introduced treat medical marijuana patients in this country. This was 2012. It lost 262-163. Last week, it passed 210amendment gives states the right to determine their 189, with 49 Republicans joining Democrats in voting own laws for medical marijuana use; free of federal yes. For some historical reference, the first House vote intervention. It also gives patients comfort knowing on the issue was on a nonbinding resolution opposing they will have safe access to the medical care legal in medical marijuana in 1998, which passed by a 311-94 their state without the fear of federal prosecution.” margin. Another amendment that passed will stop the “We all are realists here,” Polis told reporters on administration from moving staff temporarily to Friday after the vote. “We know that we haven’t had increase the Pardon Attorney Office’s personnel, an appropriations process in some time. We don’t which could help stop the administration’s initiative to know where this particular amendment and bill are lower sentences for non-violent drug offenders now in going,” he said. “It’s the will of Congress. It has ramiprison. Rep. Steve Cohen added one that moves $5 fications for banking, for insurance, for a number of million of the DEA budget on grants to state and other issues that affect the industry.” local police to help them reduce the backlog in rapetesting kits. Another Cohen-sponsored amendment, Rohrabacher, a Republican from California and former Ronald Reagan speechwriter, conveniently for- which would have shifted money from the DEA to the Legal Services Corporation, was defeated. getting that the 40th president and his wife declared Still, this is historic — the first time a federal conwar on cannabis at this time 30 years ago, praised gressional body has voted to oppose anything about the Reagan for the 50-vote Republican turnaround. “I think that what we’ve got now and what we have here federal War on Drugs. Given the congressional divide

today, that in itself is pretty extraordinary. It even brought together the director of the Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann, and tax reform lobbyist Grover Norquist, who together penned an editorial in the Daily Caller asking Congress to support the bill as a stand for sensible drug policy and against wasteful government spending. I doubt those two have ever agreed on anything before. The amendment has some hurdles to overcome. It goes to the Senate next week, which is working on its own appropriations bill. It could go along with the plan, change it or send it to a joint committee for revisions. But it suggests, for the first time, that Congress might be finally waking up to the fact that two states have legalized it, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical cannabis laws, five more allow access to CBD oils, and 10 states are attempting to bring industrial hemp back to American fields — all in defiance of federal statutes. The hope is that this amendment will end the pervasive DEA raids on medical facilities in the years while Michelle Leonhart has led the organization. Some doubt that the language is strong enough to deter a determined DEA. And nobody knows how the Senate will react, although there have been indications that some in the body are warming to the idea that cannabis should be a state rather than a federal matter. Farr admits that it still faces long odds before the president finally signs off on the omnibus appropriations bill. “But while momentum is on our side, there is still work to be done to get this bill out of the Senate,” he said. “In the meantime, the federal government can continue to prosecute medical marijuana patients. This is more than just a waste of taxpayer dollars; it needlessly destroys lives and tears families apart. The majority of states and now the House of Representatives have clearly stated this absurd policy needs to stop.” I couldn’t have said it better. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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