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news & views White guilt / 6 While it may be uncomfortable, we need to talk about race by Pamela White Orwell got it backwards / 6 Israel and the recent voyage of a ‘peace ship’ by Paul Danish On the cover: Race in the U.S.A. / 12 Contributions from a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ward Churchill and others

buzz Mashamatics / 29 Umphrey’s McGee brings its strange user-requested covers to Red Rocks by Dave Kirby Overtones: Colorado Music Festival offers diverse lineup / 33 Arts & Culture: Colorado Shakespeare Festival returns for 53rd season / 35 Arts & Culture: New writings by Charles Bukowski hit the shelves / 37 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 39 Elevation: Blue River Century is state’s best grassroots cycle tour / 49 Cuisine: Rueben’s has a better Boulder burger / 57 Cuisine review: The Mediterranean Restaurant / 59 Dessert Diva: Red, White and Blueberry Apple Pie / 62 Screen: Micmacs; Grown Ups / 52 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

departments Letters: Sarah Palin is not all that; Where are CU’s priorities? / 4 The Highroad: Look out, BP’s doing it again! / 4 News Briefs: Fireworks bad, safety good; Big Wheel Rally returns / 10 In Case You Missed It: Every sperm is wasted; Hold this / 11 Police Blotter: Avoid getting a DUI; Kidnapping on Peak to Peak / 24 Boulderganic: Bike share pedals into Boulder / 27 Sophisticated Sex: Not so pretty in pink / 47 Classifieds: Your community resource / 65 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 69

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Clarification The June 24 cover story, “A sobering look at Tom Carr,” quoted City of Boulder spokesperson Patrick von Keyserling as saying that a state liquor authority decides whether to grant liquor licenses. Actually, as the subsequent paragraph states, that function is performed by a city licensing authority. Liquor laws on things such as bar operating hours are set by the state, while the city attorney can influence things like where bars operate by working with City Council on zoning changes. The district attorney, not the city attorney, handles the vast majority of alcohol-related prosecutions.

Sarah Palin is not all that (Re: “What would Sarah do?” Danish Plan, June 17.) The writer of this article makes some good points on what should have been done immediately after the explosion. I think Obama should have done these things and still should, but I think the writer has given Sarah way, way, way too much credit. Obviously the writer has some insight as far as problems solving this crisis, but apparently, never heard her open her mouth or make an attempt to answer an intelligent question. Maybe the writer should be advising Obama, not

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puffing up Palin. Andrew MacLean/Boulder

Revising Israel’s history (Re: “Piling on Thomas,” Letters, June 17.) Mr. [Robert] Porath’s defense of Helen Thomas’s racist comments

The Highroad

K, people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds and other wildlife should put our minds together to send an urgent telepathic message to the animals in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Our message is blunt: Flee! Flee as fast as you can! Flee, because BP is coming! While our attention has been riveted on BP’s disastrous blowout in the Gulf, the British oil giant has been quietly and quickly drilling another risky offshore well three miles off of Alaska’s north coast. Dubbed “Liberty,” this project requires a technique called “extended reach,” which is even more prone to explosions than the Gulf process. First, BP is drilling down two miles under the Beaufort Sea, then going sideways for up to eight miles to tap into one of our national oil reserves. But wait — didn’t Obama impose a moratorium 4 July 1, 2010

conveniently ignores historical facts, as revisionists are inclined to do today. How far back do you want to go to determine whose land is the sliver of territory legitimately established as the nation of Israel? This land has been settled by Jews for thousands of years. It

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Look out, BP’s doing it again! by Jim Hightower on such offshore drilling? Yes ... But when Liberty was planned in the Bush years, it was magically declared by his devil-may-care regulators to be an “onshore project.” How can that be? Because the rig sits on a tiny artificial island that BP built, so — voila! — it’s “onshore” even though it’s three miles offshore. Also, just as in the Gulf, industry-cozy regulators let BP write its own environmental impact state-

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ments for Liberty. And — guess what? — BP’s 2007 statement said BP would cause no environmental problems. A-OK, said the winking regulators, as they rubber-stamped the project. And what about a disaster response plan, just in case, you know, something bad does happen? Not to worry, BP assured everyone, because the likelihood of a blowout is very remote. So, here we go again. To learn more about BP’s Liberty escapade, and to learn what you can do besides warning the sea animals to flee, call the Center for Biological Diversity in Alaska: 907-2741110. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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White guilt by Pamela White

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recently received a fan letter from a reader who pleaded with me to write a novel featuring a multiracial couple. The woman who wrote the letter argued strongly that I shouldn’t let my own prejudices get in the way of crafting a love story about two people of different races — one black, one white — and ended her plea with the words, “Love is love.” What I found strange about the letter was that I’ve written two novels featuring couples of different races — American Indian and white. This woman had apparently read both of the books without noticing that fact. And then it dawned on me that for a great many whites, race is strictly an issue of black and white. What about Asian Americans? What about people of Indigenous descent? What about people with mixed blood? You’d think that we in the United States would by now be in the midst of a productive conversation about race and ethnicity. Sadly, our public discourse on the topic is far from sophisticated. Racism is still a hot-button issue, but it’s one that generates so much discomfort that most whites would rather pretend there isn’t a race problem in America, particularly now that the nation has a black president. Sorry. That just doesn’t fly. In my experience, conversations about race almost immediately run into a roadblock that makes further discussion difficult at best. And that roadblock is the phenomenon known as “white guilt.” Bring up race among white people and someone is bound to say something like this: “I’m not racist. I’ve never done anything to anyone because of the color of their skin. Why should I feel bad?” I’ve always wondered what causes this reaction. Is it purely a defensive response from the hearts of genuinely good people who don’t want to bear the shame of having the same skin color as white supremacists and other obvious haters? Is it denial from people who are secretly mystified by the fact that people of European descent somehow ended up on the wrong side of imperialist history? Is it an attempt to reject the guilt they harbor from participating in white privilege or even from buried racist thoughts and emotions? Regardless of the cause, it’s become clear to me that a nuanced conversation about race in America can’t happen until the sticky issue of “white guilt” is addressed 6 July 1, 2010

and the discussion is allowed to move on. So here goes: If you’re white, you enjoy a certain set of subtle and not-sosubtle privileges from birth that people of color do not. As a result, you’re less likely to live in poverty, less likely to land in prison, less likely to have sub-standard health care, less likely to die a violent death and so on. It doesn’t matter that you didn’t set up this system of privileges yourself or that you participate in the system unintentionally. It’s there. It exists. And you’re a part of it. And although you yourself might not have owned slaves or massacred Indian people or imported Chinese to die while working on the railroad, other white people did, and the collective trauma of those experiences is still real to the groups that suffered through those atrocities. Rather than pointing out that you never did any of those terrible things, it might be more productive — and more healing for you — to set your ego aside and listen with compassion to the concerns of those who have experienced racism. There. Was that so painful? When we can finally get past this quagmire, we can begin to address other issues, such as the extremely high incarceration rates of men of color; or the fact that poor people of all races have more in common with one another than they do with the rich; or the fact that the American “melting pot” lauded in U.S. history textbooks is slowly simmering to a shade of brown. The topic of what it means to be mixed race could keep us busy for a very long time all by itself — if we can ever get around to it. Yes, talking about race can be personally uncomfortable, but the answer isn’t to avoid having that discussion. The answer is to accept the discomfort and submerge ourselves in the dialogue with the intention of listening rather than defending our egos. On July 4, 1776, a group of white men proclaimed their nation free, declaring that all men were equal. They did so more or less blind to the irony that some men were enslaved, that the land they stood on had been stolen and that their own mothers, sisters, wives and daughters lived lives of subservience. The United States has paid for the inability of its founders to bridge the gulf between their high-flown rhetoric and their actions. Now, 234 years later, the issues they couldn’t address are still the ones that haunt our society. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Danish Plan

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ecently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace activist. They’re sponsoring “peace ships,” replete with jihadists masquerading as pacifists on board, to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Real “peace activists” are brought along for window dressing. This became obvious when Israeli commandos attempted to board the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara last month. Along with several hundred peace pilgrims and 1,100 tons of styptic pencils and Band-Aids bound for Gaza, it also carried 50 or 60 Turkish Islamist toughs, each of whom had been paid $10,000 cash to seek peace. It turned out the Turkish “peace activists” had issues with the peace part of the concept. When Israeli commandos rappelled onto the latter-day Love Boat, instead of going limp, Turkey’s excitable peaceniks lit into the boarders with steel rods and knives. That in turn prompted the rest of the boarding party to draw pistols and make peace with extreme prejudice. When the smoke cleared, nine peace seekers had found it, and a couple dozen more had had near-peace experiences.

It subsequently emerged that funding for the flotilla had not come from bake sales at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, but from a Turkish Islamic charity with ties to terror groups called IHH. It also emerged that IHH was acting as a cutout for the Turkish government. The incident, and the world’s reaction to it, provided a moment of clarity — for Israel at any rate. It became blindingly clear that most governments can’t tell the difference between a peace activist and a jihadist or choose to ignore it, at least insofar as Israel is concerned. It also became clear that much of the world wouldn’t be overly troubled if Israel were to drop dead. But the real moment of clarity came when the Iranian and Turkish governments and Hezbollah announced they intended to send further “peace ships” to Gaza. Israel will have no choice but to stop those ships. To do otherwise would let Gaza turn into an Iranian port and missile base. However, intercepting the ships will provide Iran and its allies with a pretext to launch the war of extermination against Israel that Ahmadinejad has been plotting. Ahmadinejad has never made a secret of his desire to destroy Israel, and he has spent the past five years acquiring the see PEACE IS WAR Page 8

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weapons, installing the logistical infrastructure, training the troops, building the alliances and creating the ideological climate to do so. These preparations are well along, and the strategy they represent has a real chance of working. How can this be? Ahmadinejad’s not so secret weapon is the ballistic missile. Iran and Syria, which both now produce ballistic missiles indigenously, have piled up 1,000 to 3,000 of them in Syria and Lebanon. These missiles, not the Iranian nuclear program, are the primary existential threat to Israel and will continue to be for some time to come. A lot of people tend to think of ballistic missiles as a relatively minor threat (provided they aren’t armed with nukes) because they aren’t very accurate. Their information is out of date. In 1991, a Scud-type missile had a 50 percent chance of landing within a mile of its target. Today it’s more like 600 feet and maybe even less. Moreover, today’s ballistic missiles have conventional warheads that can spread destruction over a much larger area than their Gulf War predecessors. These missiles are intended to be fired in salvos at its air bases, command and control bunkers, tank parks, power

plants, ammunition depots and so on. If the Israeli air force is grounded, even temporarily, and its reserve army’s ability to mobilize quickly is degraded, then the attackers have a real chance of success — provided they have a sufficient ground force of their own. The Syrian army and Hezbollah militia are probably not sufficient. But if Iran could get its Revolutionary Guard Corps into the fight, that might be another matter. And thanks to Erdogan throwing in with Ahmadinejad’s Axis of Evil 2.0, Iranian divisions could very well be granted road passage through Turkey to Syria and on to the fray. If some of the foregoing seems a little improbable, consider that last week Iran announced it was moving Revolutionary Guards Corps divisions north into Iran’s Azerbaijan region — ostensibly to prevent an American/ Israeli attack from the neighboring country of Azerbaijan. However, the region also shares a common border with Turkey, and good roads through Turkey connect it to Syria. So they could move swiftly if a few boatloads of “peace activists” were to, Allah willing, pick a fight off Gaza. Orwell got it backwards. Nowadays, peace is war.

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“It’s worthy of The Da Vinci Code.” —Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, condemning the police raid of a meeting of Catholic bishops. The police were collecting information on alleged incidents of child sexual abuse by priests. “Thank you, football god! After 44 years, Wembley has finally been equalized. Now the English know how we felt the whole time.” —German newspaper Bild on the referee’s decision to deny a goal to the English, which the paper claims makes up for a similar bad call in England’s favor in the final game of the 1966 World Cup “I’m just lucky enough to be playing Jacob, the guy that doesn’t wear a shirt ... I think all of that love is going toward Jacob, not me personally.” —Actor Taylor Lautner, who plays shirtless werewolf named Jacob in the Twilight series, responding to his stardom and beefcake status Boulder Weekly

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In the second century, in response to several rebellions against Roman rule by the Jews living there, most of those Jews were either slaughtered or expelled to the far reaches of the Roman Empire. The thousands that remained were mostly enslaved initially, but still continued to live there. The angered Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out any reference to Judea, so he renamed the area Provencia Syria Palestina, later shortened to Palestine. This word had its origins from the word Philistine, a non-Arab people possibly of Greek origin who had invaded and conquered the Jews there much earlier. The Philistines were absolutely despised by the Jews, and this name Palestine was given as punishment for the Jewish revolts. This land was continuously settled by Jews for at least two thousand years before Christ and has always remained so. The arrival of Arabs to the area is a more recent development, relatively speaking, and those Arabs were not known as Palestinians until Israel was established in 1948. This name was added to the rallying cry for the recent claim they are making to the land. The Arabs have never had a sovereign nation there. So who are the real denizens of this land? As usual — take our own country for instance, or the Australians, or almost any country, for that matter — one group of people immigrates and acquires the land through force or purchase, then continues to do so until they are in the majority. Israel is now forced to defend herself against those that would repeat the cycle. Gary Gansar/Niwot

Where are CU’s priorities? The CU administration intends to ask the state for $31.7 million over the next two years to build a fifth wing on its new biotech center. Meanwhile: More cuts to resident instruction loom. Academic programs suffer as CU’s faculty and staff are squeezed for more work on frozen salaries. Critical thinking is eliminated from the University’s once-exceptional liberal arts core curriculum, ostensibly to save money. Several non-tenured faculty and staff positions are eliminated. Student fees now pay for academic buildings. Students attend larger classes, have fewer course choices, endure reduced services and must absorb a large tuition increase next year as available financial aid dwindles. If the state can afford to build a new eight-figure facility for the biotech industry, it certainly can fund resident instruction. What I see happening in Colorado higher education, and at CU particularly, suggests to me that the mission of public higher education in Colorado is morphing from education and the advancement of Boulder Weekly

knowledge in the classical sense to the development of inventions and intellectual property for the benefit of multinational corporations, and to the provision of a highly skilled, lightly educated, uncritical and generally compliant worker force. I am discouraged, demoralized and disgusted at this situation. Though I am not alone in my assessment, few are willing to speak out for fear of losing their jobs. I would like to know if the Democratic Party leadership intends to question the evident hijacking of our higher ed institutions for the benefit of a narrow set of business interests and at the expense of quality undergraduate instruction, faculty and staff well-being, and those capable students who will never be able to obtain a college degree, much less the opportunities that such an education affords. I would appreciate some reflection on this sorry state as the legislature debates whether to support resident instruction or to increasingly subsidize corporate profits by exploiting what was once a public institution dedicated to the betterment of the whole of society. Ken Bonetti/Boulder

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Don’t whine For decades, we have rejected plans to produce energy. We blocked drilling and mining due to potential environmental risks. We blocked “wind farms,” an alleged threat to birds. We blocked solar arrays occupying too much open land. We blocked power plants, whether fueled by coal (pollution and a carbon fuel), natural gas (another carbon fuel), or nuclear (horrors!). No production yields no energy. At the same time, we acquired evermore-energy-consuming tools, toys and gadgets. Even “energy-efficient” gizmos use energy. Even “rechargeable” devices plug into the power grid. Do the math. Elementary economics demonstrates that the cost of anything rises when the supply diminishes or the demand increases. Foolishly, we both thwarted energy production and boosted energy consumption. The predictable result: high cost. So don’t whine. We brought it on ourselves. Energy won’t become affordable until we act responsibly. Peg Brady/Centennial

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Fireworks bad, safety good Officials from the city of Boulder and the University of Colorado are reminding local residents that all fireworks are illegal within city limits, including sparklers, snaps, snakes, bottle rockets, Roman candles and smoke bombs. Celebrants are encouraged instead to attend the annual professional fireworks show, Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast, on July 4 at Folsom Field. Gates open at 8 p.m., and the program begins at 8:30 p.m. Details can be found at www.boulder4thofjuly.com. Boulder police will be on extra patrol over the Fourth of July weekend, enforcing the city’s fireworks ban, which has been in effect since 1985. Penalties can include fines, courts costs, property loss, arson charges and jail time. For CU students, penalties also can include sanctions from CU’s Office of Judicial Affairs. Unused fireworks can be brought to any Boulder fire station. To report fireworks violations, residents should call the non-emergency dispatch line at 303-441-3333. ‘Dream’ golf tourney coming The “I Have a Dream” Foundation of Boulder County’s eighth annual golf tournament is scheduled for July 22 at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie. Proceeds from the fundraiser, which will be held from 6:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., go back into the community via the “I Have a Dream” drop-out prevention program for low-income youth. Funds raised will go toward the programming and scholarships that help “Dreamers” stay in school and go on to attend college. This year’s event features prizes, a sleeve of balls for each golfer and a chance to win a six-night stay in a beautiful Cabo San Lucas condo. The event will also feature a silent auction, prize giveaways, breakfast from Santiago’s and lunch from Noodles & Company. Reggie Rivers, former Denver Bronco and CBS Channel 4 sportscaster, will emcee the awards luncheon after the tournament. For more information, contact Lisa McAlister at 303-485-7209 or lisamcalister@comcast.net. Erie hosting softball tourney This week, the Ballpark at Erie is hosting the Colorado Sparkler, one of the largest girls’ fast-pitch softball tournaments in the world. The tournament, which started on June 29 and concludes on July 3, features 45 teams and more than 12,000 players, coaches and parents from 19 states. Games will be held on Thursday, July 1, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday 10 July 1, 2010

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from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Coast to Coast Softball is expected to recruit 25 of the top players from the Sparkler tournament to go to Australia or New Zealand to play on their national teams Visit www.erieparksandrec.com for a schedule and to view photos from the tournament. Big Wheel Rally returns The “Almost Annual Matt Armbruster Memorial Big Wheel Rally” returns to the Pearl Street Mall on July 10. This year, it benefits the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Fund at the Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation. The 29-year-old event, which starts at the Walrus at 5 p.m., involves people riding plastic Big Wheels from pub to pub, announcing their arrival with power slides and spin-outs. Proceeds will go toward capital needs, continuing education for NICU staff at St. Joseph’s and special needs for the babies or families of the NICU. For more information or to register, visit www.bigwheelrally.com Pull for Colorado Volunteers are being sought for “Pulling For Colorado,” a statewide event being held July 10 to educate residents about the impacts that noxious weeds are having on natural, agricultural and recreational lands. Participants will learn about diffuse knapweed and the problems it causes, and then work together to pull and dig up that weed near the Walker Ranch Loop trailhead. The project runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Kids as young as 12 are welcome, with adult supervision. To register, e-mail WildWorkVolunteers@ BoulderCounty.org, or call 303-6786216 by July 7. BGBG hosts seminars The Boulder Green Building Guild has started hosting Building On-Site Seminars that include a tour of a facility by builders and installers, a gourmet dinner, an in-depth analysis by a panel of building science professionals, opportunities for questions and networking. Upcoming BOSS events include tours of the ZED-2 house and the Balsam Project Home. A variety of packages are available, including early-bird rates. Registration is required and space is limited.

Register at www.bgbg.org. For more information, contact Heather Braithwaite at 303-704-5057 or heather@bgbg.org. Arts festival returns The 3rd Annual Boulder Festival of the Arts on the Twenty Ninth Street mall will be held July 24–25, featuring both national and local artistic talent. The event, hosted by Howard Alan, runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days and is free and open to the public. Artistic media will include paintings, life-size sculptures, photography, glass, wood, jewelry, collage and ceramics. The artists, juried by an independent panel of expert judges, are handselected from hundreds of applicants based on quality and diversity. All of their artwork is original and handmade in America. Prices range from $25 for hand-designed earrings to $20,000 for metal sculptures. For more information, see www.art festival.com, or call 954-472-3755. Louisville library gets $130K A bequest of $130,000 from a longtime children’s librarian and cataloger has resulted in the largest gift ever bestowed on the Louisville Public Library. Marian Madison, who died in March, was a Louisville resident who frequently used the library and held a master’s degree in library science from the University of Denver. The Madison Endowment, which will be managed by the Louisville Public Library Foundation, will be used primarily to fund programming and service efforts that are otherwise beyond the scope of the current library budget. A reception to honor Marian Madison and her family will be held on Sunday, Aug. 1, at 4 p.m. at the library. The public is invited. For more information, contact Louisville Public Library Foundation President Phil Barton at 303-664-1050. Duck race winner announced Ally Cumella of Boulder was the winner of the 23rd annual EXPAND Duck Race held on Memorial Day. She gets $1,500 cash and a $500 gift card to Fisher Honda/KIA. This year, 7,000 rubber ducks raced down Boulder Creek, and Cumella’s duck was the first one across the finish line. Ducks could be sponsored for $5 each, netting $23,000 for Boulder

Parks and Recreation Department’s EXPAND program, which provides services to people with disabilities. For more information, visit www. BoulderParks-Rec.org WhiteWave wins fundraiser Sixteen local corporations in Boulder and Broomfield counties recently participated in the 15th annual “Compete to Beat Hunger” Corporate Challenge to benefit Community Food Share. Over a twoweek period, there was a friendly competition between the companies to see which could raise the most dollars and pounds of food for the food bank. After the conclusion of challenge, awards were presented to the “winners” of the competition on June 15, based on a point system. WhiteWave Foods won first place in both categories, most total points and most points per employee. Cable Television Laboratories won second place in both categories, while Rally Software won third place for total points, and McKesson won third place for points per employee. The companies donated more than $160,000 and 1,100 pounds of food, which will allow Community Food Share to distribute more than 641,000 nutritious meals. Free chiropractic for vets Boulder chiropractor Jason Orowitz of Peak Vitality Chiropractic is offering a year of free treatments to up to 10 military veterans who have returned recently from combat service in Iraq or Afghanistan. The offer expires at the end of September. Orowitz says he is extending the offer because he has wanted to help this under-cared-for population ever since working with veterans during his schooling at Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. For more information, call 303746-7494, or e-mail PeakVitality Chiropractic@gmail.com. English classes offered Intercambio de Comunidades, a nonprofit organization, starts a new semester of English classes for adults on July 6 in Boulder and July 7 in Lafayette. Classes are held twice a week in the evening for nine weeks, and the cost is $35 for registration and books (scholarships are available). Intercambio also offers resource workshops and intercultural social events. Intercambio´s services are available for any adults interested in improving their English skills. Contact Maria Velasco at 303-996-0275, ext. 3, or Jenny Desmond at 303-996-0275, ext. 7, for more information. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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1. A sobering look at Tom Carr At a

meeting that ran until midnight, the Boulder City Council unanimously appointed Tom Carr as Boulder’s next city attorney, a position with considerable power. How will he do?

3. The trouble with comprehensive immigration reform 4. Theme park review: Wizarding world of Harry Potter 5. Sarah McLachlan’s revived Lilith faces a tough marketplace 6. Arizona’s immigration law 7. Burning ditches 8. Best of Boulder 9. Astrology (6/24) 10. 3OH!3: Rockin’ out in a cabin

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Do you think Tom Carr will be a good city attorney? • Yes. His track record shows it. 5% • No. His background is scary. 67% • Not sure. Give him a chance. 5% • What’s a city attorney? 24%

Keep an eye on the pie Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff is now spreading the sauce in a different way. Abramoff, who was recently released to a Baltimore halfway house after serving more than three years for fraud, corruption and conspiracy, is working in a local kosher pizzeria. Apparently, staff at the halfway house got to choose Abramoff ’s job for him, and we think they chose well. We’d like to see a few others get handed some menial work to humble them a bit, like the CEO of BP, who has said he wants his “life back” and recently jaunted off to see his yacht race in England. We think cleaning raw sewage out of septic tanks for a while might be appropriate for him. As for Abramoff, they just have to be sure he doesn’t steal the dough.

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Do you believe we’re living in a post-racial America?

• Absolutely. Look at my president! • Nope. Racism is alive and well. • We’re on our way. Stay tuned. • What America do you speak of ?

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Hold this When Apple head honcho Steve Jobs was quoted last week as saying, “Just avoid holding it in that way,” we weren’t sure at first what he was referring to. Kind of reminded us of that grandmotherly advice beginning women golfers get on their grip: “Hold it like you would a man’s penis, dear.” Turns out, Jobs was talking about the new iPhone 4, which apparently loses signal strength when you hold it. Pretty major design flaw, wouldn’t you say? Call us crazy, but don’t most people still hold their phones when talking on them? The problem is especially severe when the phone is held at the lower left corner. When a customer had the gall to complain, Jobs issued his curt response. Just don’t hold it that way? How about you just don’t charge me hundreds of dollars for a phone that loses its already crappy AT&T signal when I pick it up? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Every sperm is wasted Israeli scientists might just have found the contraceptive Holy Grail — an injection for men that is 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. The injection apparently eliminates a protein in sperm that is essential for conception, thereby “deactivating” them long before the money shot. Although they make it into a woman’s body, they’re powerless to do anything in the new neighborhood other than wander around. Unlike previous attempts at a male contraceptive, the injection doesn’t have the side effects of mood swings and loss of libido that men on hormonal birth control have experienced. And that’s a really good thing because who wants men with PMS? Besides, what’s the point of contraception if it leaves you limp? Male mice given the drug reportedly continued to behave normally, eating and screwing, but without producing baby mice. When the drug left their systems, they once again became fertile and had no problems adding to the mice population. This is great news for men who want to have control over when they start paying child support and for women who can’t tolerate hormonal birth control. Imagine a world where men get a shot every month or two and no pregnancy is unplanned. Not only could it be a huge help in the effort to control overpopulation, but it would give women, who’ve shouldered the contraceptive burden thus far, a much-needed break.

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The Summer 2010 edition of Boulderganic is now available. It’s your homegrown resource for living green, supporting the local economy and building a sustainable future. This edition marks the first anniversary of the publication, which has grown from what was originally envisioned as an annual issue into a magazine that is published three times a year, a vibrant website and a weekly column.

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become at tradition at Boulder Weekly to devote our Fourth of July issue to a single topic. So far we’ve explored the First and Second amendments and taken a look at what the Founders might think of the United States today. This year, we’re devoting the Fourth of July issue to a discussion of race. We asked people from a variety of communities — Latino, African-American and American Indian — to write about an issue they consider to be pressing. In addition, we feature an interview with Rigoberta Menchú Tum, a Mayan woman whose work in her homeland of Guatemala earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. The perspectives in this edition of the paper vary, and some are bound to be controversial. We hope you find the edition thought-provoking and worthwhile. As always, feel free to share your own perspective in a letter to the editor. In the meantime, have a safe and happy Fourth of July.

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reed, envy, individualism, and an excessive materialism are altering the human experience and causing a lack of equilibrium in the world. I believe the inequality has also generated racism, the sickness of discrimination. This world has lost values; it must begin again. Beginning again means much humility.” — Rigoberta Menchú Tum in PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace

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An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner & Mayan leader Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in and translated from Spanish. Racism. It’s a cauldron of shadow attributes that amass into a powerful brew of sheer yuck: abuse, harassment, discrimination, prejudiced attitudes, cultural biases. Often rooted in fear and ignorance, racism, ironically, is an equal opportunity affliction that comes in varying strengths. Little ones can pick it up from their family members as easily as they pick up their ABCs. Adults with ingrained biases can spend their whole lives fine-tuning their skewed perspective, certain that their sense of superiority over others is justified. Fortunately, there is hope for a present and a future that calls for a united front of minds and hearts and that has the potential for unleashing a new consciousness within each of us. I’m not talking about just the intellectual and spiritual realms — I’m talking about the embracing of a consciousness that has pragmatic, real-world action behind it. On July 8, Boulderites will have a unique opportunity to hear from a wise Mayan woman who represents that beacon of hope. Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an internationally renowned Mayan activist from Guatemala whose lifetime of work in leading her indigenous people in a non-violent movement against the military government of Guatemala earned her the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. She’s recognized as having been instrumental in a peace accord in Guatemala that helped to end a 36-year civil war and reclaim many rights on behalf of Mayans. Mrs. Menchú, the sixth of nine siblings, knows racism from a very personal level: her father, mother and one of her brothers were all tortured and killed by the Guatemalan army. Mrs. Menchú continues to work for peace and justice for her people and indigenous cultures worldwide. Currently she is working with Guatemala’s minister of education as part of a team tasked with

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our time to initiate a new era. I hope this new era will be prosperous, successful, a contribution to humanity, because the one we have lived for more than 5,000 years has been very painful. But perhaps the new era will be more prosperous for our people because the lives of our indigenous peoples are also the life of humanity in general. Natural disasters demonstrate that no one can own life, no one can own knowledge. And because of this, it is so important that we all collaborate to form a better world. All of us must dream together of a better world.

by Ana Arias constructing a national peace curriculum for Guatemalan youth that will be implemented nationwide through the school system. Between a trip to China and preparing for her visit to Boulder, during which she will share insights about the dawning of a new age in 2012, Mrs. Menchú took time to share her thoughts on racism. Boulder Weekly: In the 2008 book PeaceJam: A Billion Acts of Simple Actions, you write that inequality has generated racism, which you call the “sickness of discrimination.” Racism is such a prevailing illness in our culture. From your experience, what leads the human soul to take the crooked path of racism? And how is it still affecting us today? Rigoberta Menchú Tum: I have seen many dead people. I have seen many poor people, and I have seen many people who cry and cry and cry trying to find happiness. I have seen a lot of suffering, many people who are destitute and hungry, many people with cancer and other diseases, and they have all been excluded and marginalized. People are marginalized when they are not able to enter into certain social categories. The struggle against marginalization, exclusion and racism is not a temporary struggle, but rather a life-long one. BW: As I understand it, Mayan spiritual tradition believes that beginning in 2012, much will begin to shift in the world — a shift away from the “darkest time for humanity” that the Mayans call “no time,” in which there is lack of perspective, a time where humans have lost what you call the “concept of solidarity, of amity, or collaboration, of sharing.” Part of that shift is associated with the people of the world finding a common ground. How are those anticipated societal changes going to impact racism as we know it? RMT: I think the indigenous peoples have been able to survive disasters, discrimination, racism, exclusion and many exterminations precisely because they have a profound and deep culture. As Mayans in particular, we are very proud that our culture endures today in the universe of cultures. Well, in 2012 there is a change in era, and it is

BW: How do you teach children to embrace, not hate; to celebrate, not put down or bully, when so much of what they see around them seems to model disrespectful, inhumane or unkind treatment based on accent, skin tone or nationality? RMT: It is necessary to reconstruct the fabric of society, taking into consideration what is happening and perhaps fighting with much more courage, because I feel that people have lost courage and have accepted the injustices. I think we have to do the important job of training leaders. I think we have to invest in the creation of leaders. I am referring to the fact that there have to be programs, opportunities, exchanges of opinion. Human beings have to be thinking beings. Human beings should be thinking beings because otherwise they only accept the rules that are already in place, and many of the rules are based on policies that are racist, materialistic and not based on global and holistic policies that respect human dignity. BW: Tell us the story of a specific example where you have witnessed fierce racism. And share with us a couple of instances where you’ve seen or learned of a life-changing experience where racism morphed into healing. RMT: Several members of my family were tortured and killed during the war in Guatemala, and many people have heard this story. This is still my deepest experience of racism. But I would like to talk instead about healing. Right now it is time to open the pathways. We must open the door to reconciliation amongst ourselves. We have offended one another a great deal. We have offended cultures. This idea of starting over together can be practiced in very difficult situations. I have, in

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these years, helped in the process of reconciliation between couples, for example. It is a very special thing. But also, not only must we ask for forgiveness, we must also learn to coexist with each other. We must have a great deal of tolerance of others and respect others and their differences. Each person has a world, a preoccupation, an objective, and we should try to be patient and know that this objective is valid since it is his or her dream. So, many paths must be opened for tolerance, patience, for humility. Humble people know how to listen. It doesn’t matter if words are offensive, they don’t kill. One must simply listen and assimilate the good and let the bad filter out along the way. Finally, I think that it is not only ours to open up the paths, but also to be an example. I think our first obligation is to not respond to provocation with anger, but with wisdom, because that which we need the most these days is wisdom.

tunes they have missed in life until they have a terminal disease. And spirituality, remember, is not a religion, but a way of life. One must be grateful, humble, and walk the Earth knowing that there are other lives around us. And we must be in harmony with ourselves. Spiritual fortune is what this world needs the most. That is how we begin to create empathy and compassion.

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BW: What are the most meaningful, practical actions that everyday people can do to extend a hand toward inclusion and tolerance as opposed to the clinching fist of division and racism? RMT: In my personal experience, there was a time where I was left with no money, no friends, no strength, and it was like my health was in jeopardy. I asked the spiritual guides what I needed to do. What’s happening to me? I didn’t want to get up. I didn’t want to do things. And they told me that I had a lack of equilibrium. If you find equilibrium, you can do many things. So I traveled through many hills and valleys. I went to temples. I walked through the mountains and volcanoes, and went to many places full of energy. And since then, I have had a great conscience about time and the need to help people return to their Mother Nature. In my personal experience, I have had to secure this equilibrium within myself before I could really extend my hand to others, day after day. So, this is where you have to start.

BW: Estimates on gang activity in Guatemala put the number of gang members at 400,000, in a country whose population is 13 million. Many of the gang members in Guatemala are affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha 13, the most feared and violent gang in Los Angeles. In the United States, criminal gang members are estimated to be around 1 million, responsible for approximately 80 percent of crimes committed in neighborhoods nationwide. What can be done to change the mindset of such hardcore, deeprooted hatred and racism in extreme groups? RMT: Guatemala is a very spiritual place. Mayans are spiritual. Aztecs were warriors and Incas

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“2012 Revealed,” with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual leaders, July 8, 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Naropa University, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder. Tickets are $195 for general admission. Call 303-455-2099, or visit www.peacejam.org/events.aspx. were economic gods, but Mayans were very, very spiritual. My people say that humanity has gone through four cycles, each cycle having 5,200 years. The first cycle was dominated by feminine energy, the second cycle had a masculine energy, the third cycle had a feminine energy, the fourth — which is the one we’re leaving ­— has a masculine energy, which can give you an idea why we have so much violence in the world today. But after the 21st of December 2012, we’ll begin the fifth cycle, which has a dual energy, the feminine and the masculine, in balance for the very first time. So I have hope. I have great hope for the future. I am also very happy to be coming to Boulder with my Mayan teachers, so that the Mayan voice can be heard very clearly right now, because it is the time for this. BW: Empathy is a human trait known to be an effective ambassador to exorcising deep-rooted racist views. Would you agree and, if so, how can we teach ourselves and others to permanently adopt empathy? RMT: All individuals are in need of being in equilibrium. Equilibrium begins in our “other I.” I have another shadow, another spirit, and this other spirit needs to be in equilibrium. The two great fortunes we own must be in equilibrium … material fortune and spiritual fortune. Many times we emphasize the material fortune, that is, our home, money, shoes, clothes. And we are not thinking, “Who am I? What is my purpose? What energies do I possess? What is the depth of my spirit to be able to be healthy?” And we don’t care for ourselves until we are ill. Many people don’t think about all the spiritual for-

BW: You are a recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of your nonviolent work for indigenous people’s rights. In 2007, you ran for president of Guatemala. What message would you like to impart to the people of Boulder County about ending racism in our backyards and yours? RMT: I think we must renew our commitment so that the fight for justice is a life-long fight, the fight against impunity is a life-long fight, the fight for peace is something so vital so as to actually renew the contents of peace. And I think that we are the hope of a culture of peace. This culture has to be born out of tolerance, of dialogue, of non-discrimination, and of inclusion. This peaceful culture does not only accept difficulties but looks for solutions. I think that we must become people who try to look for solutions every day.

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BW: What do you do to keep your spirits up, in light of the violence in the world? RMT: Each day, I pray for much spirituality, much concentration and much confidence, because the Creator strengthens us every time we are looking for energy. Ribogerta Menchú Tum will be joined by Mayan spiritual elders Don Pedro Yac Noj and Doña Faviana Cochoy Alva on Thursday, July 8, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naropa University’s Nalanda Campus. They will provide information not previously shared about the real Mayan prophecy regarding the year 2012. The event will offer a day of teaching and inspiration, as well as guidance on how to be a leader in these challenging times. Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run with the Wolves) and Grammy-nominated musician Nawang Khechog will also be participating in the event. A limited number of tickets are still available. To register, call PeaceJam at 303-455-2099, or register online at www.peacejam.org/events.aspx. Proceeds from the event will support the work of Mrs. Menchú, the Mayan spiritual elders and the PeaceJam Foundation. PeaceJam is an international program developed around Nobel Peace Prize winners who work personally with global youth to “pass on the spirit, skills and wisdom” embodied by Nobel Prize recipients. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Defined out of existence Latinos feeling left out of 2010 U.S. Census by Quibian Salazar-Moreno

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f you read through the 2010 Census form, past the part where it asks how many people are living in your house and past the part where it asks for people’s ages, you’ll find that there is a space for the American Latino contingent on Question 8. But immediately following that question is one about race, which left many Latinos confused. “For Latinos, the only option that was given was to check ‘Other.’ There was white, black, or indigenous, which infers that you have to be an American Indian, ideally with a registered federal tribe,” says Arturo Aldama, associate professor in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s ethnic studies department. “In history, when it comes to the census, Latinos have been counted as white as a way to deny the demographic power of Latinos. This is especially true in the state of Colorado. Latinos were checked off as white up until 1970. So if you read through demographic and census reports up until 1970, what the census showed was a very high white majority in Colorado.” The purpose of the United States Census is to gather information to help distribute government funds to schools, hospitals, emergency services, public-works projects like bridges and tunnels and other governmentsponsored endeavors. The census also helps determine the number of seats a state can hold in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2008, the Colorado census reported a white population of 89.7 percent, but in the category of white persons not Hispanic or Latino, it was at 71 percent. The numbers show that “brown” people are selecting white as their race, which in turn could affect how some of the government funds are distributed. While there are black and white Latinos in the U.S., a more inclusive description for a majority of Latinos here would be “mestizo.” The term “mestizo” refers to people who are of mixed Spanish and indigenous ancestry, which includes Aztecs, Mayans, Incas and other groups that populated much of Latin America in the pre-colonization era. But to get anything added to or changed in the U.S. Census, it must go through a stringent process. “When the U.S. Census Bureau is preparing those questions, they go through a process with focus groups of various ethnic groups throughout the country, and they narrow it down to the specific races and ethnicities,” says Doug Wayland, U.S.

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Census media spokesperson for the Denver region. “The census questionnaire is submitted to Congress. They go through a lengthy process of identifying the questions they want on the census form, and Congress approves them. The ultimate purpose they want to achieve is to get a complete and accurate count.” In the 2000 U.S. Census, people were able to select more than one race, mostly to cater to bi-racial people who had a black parent and a white parent. It also afforded Latinos the opportunity to select their

“mestizo” background by choosing American Indian and white, but some were still disgruntled to not see themselves as a race. With the population of “mestizo” Latinos growing at a fevered pitch, becoming the largest minority in the United States, you would think it wouldn’t be that much of a problem to get “mestizo” added to the 2020 U.S. Census. “The U.S. Census Bureau officially feels that the appropriate response for Hispanics would be Caucasian or white because they’re using an old way of looking at race,” says Fernando Soriano, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Human Development at California State University San Marcos. Soriano is also the vice chair of the Hispanic Advisory Committee, a group under the Race & Ethnic Advisory Committee which counsels the U.S. Census Bureau on matters of race. Other groups under REAC include African American, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

(NHOPI) advisory committees. Soriano says the Hispanic Advisory Committee’s main purpose and goal is to make sure the Latino population is counted. The committee was instrumental in getting Question 8 added to the census, as well as keeping the “Other” race option in Question 9, as opposed to forcing Latinos to select “white” as their race. “Obviously that’s very controversial and not really appropriate, so that’s why we made sure the Bureau included the ‘Other’ category,” Soriano says. “For a while, there was a proposal from the Census Bureau that would eliminate that, therefore forcing everybody into the other racial categories. So we forced that issue and made sure we maintained that.” Soriano and the rest of the Hispanic Advisory Committee are already working with the Census Bureau on the 2020 U.S. Census and are continually trying to figure out how to get the best response from the Latino/Hispanic population, including the possibility of adding “mestizo” to the form. For others, however, the future doesn’t seem so optimistic for Latinos. Although the population is continually growing, so is the backlash and prejudice against Latinos, thanks to the immigration debate. “It’s complicated and problematic, but I feel in this particular case with the Census, to be honest and without trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist, I think the increase in anti-immigrant hostility with impunity is because there’s this ‘browning’ of America,” says Aldama. “The U.S. is becoming much more multi-racial, and much more of a nonwhite majority. I think there’s a certain amount of pushback going on that is creating these ways in which this ‘browning,’ or multi-culuturalizing, if you will, is being minimized.” It’s a tough process to get the population counted and have everyone feel included, but Soriano says at least the Bureau is listening. “They have been receptive, but it’s one of those things where they’re very much interested in our feedback, but it’s like a train leaving the station and it’s not something you can stop,” Soriano says. “The process of planning the 2020 Census starts now, and sometimes the challenge is in making sure the train stops for feedback from the advisory committees.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The myth of a post-racial America by William M. King

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n July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from the Peculiar Institution, gave a talk in Corinthian Hall before the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Rochester, N.Y., in which he addressed the topic of “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” I was reminded of that talk in the course of a phone conversation with a representative of this newspaper who invited me to essay the subject of race in the United States in the light of the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, and whether that event has made this nation less racist than at the time of Douglass’ remarks. Clearly, the answer to that question is both yes and no. Yes, there has been absolute progress — if only for the few. No, relatively speaking, in that biased attitudes and discriminatory behavior still exist — evident both during Obama’s campaign and particularly subsequent to his election — that leave in doubt the quantity and quality of the progress the nation has made since Douglass’ speech. Granted the volume of words, both pro and con, produced in the past couple of years have left many people confused about the current status of things given the continuance of widespread disparities throughout society respecting access to and the allocation of goods and services. After describing his trepidation arising out of the newspaper and poster announcements indicating that he was to deliver an oration, after pointing out the inherent contradiction of inviting him into a “grand illuminated temple of liberty” to join the mostly Caucasian celebrants in joyous anthems that abounded in “inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony,” Douglass went on to detail the distance he had traveled from the slave plantation to the platform on which he then stood. He was both astonished and grateful for his achievement. What he wanted his audience to understand, if they could, was that the

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Fourth was the birthday of their national independence, not his, one of the reasons he spoke on the fifth and not on the fourth. Theirs was an independence, he said, brought about by their secession from the British Empire through force of arms resulting in a kind of political freedom, even if what they wrote in their founding documents was still a long way from being realized in both word and deed; unrealized perhaps because of the inadequacies and insecurities of those charged with interpreting a Constitution for “We the People” still with us today. Too easily, he intimated in a message that has import for 21st-century America and the desire among some for an originalist rendering of the meaning of that document, we willingly overlook the fact that at the time that particular document was ratified, the society that would become a new nation, in Lincoln’s words “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” had already been up and running for 184 years. During that time, whatever cultural baggage the colonists brought with them was refashioned into a fully functioning social order with its own values, mores, laws (one of its first was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793), classes, objectives and goals, and in terms of expansion was already beginning to evince its own imperial tendencies. And then Douglass abruptly changed direction, saying, “Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.” But that was then. Now we must ask whether the nation is a prisoner of its heritage, or dare we evince the audacity to hope that one day the American Dream might become the reality implied in Emma Lazarus’ poem attached to the Statue of

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Liberty in New York harbor? Clearly, that dream cannot be realized unless and until there is a meaningful redistribution of power in this society. For as W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903, holding an oppressed people responsible “for their own social regeneration … without power is a mockery and a farce.” Yes, reallocation, he wrote, does mean “the growth of initiative among Negroes, the spread of independent thought, [and an] expanding consciousness of manhood” that fosters the determination of their own destiny. With redistribution of the resources of power we might better counter the consequences of schools that push out those students whose life experiences are not addressed by the curricula or texts used therein. Where will they learn to utilize modern technology so as not to become victims of the digital divide? What about housing policies and real estate practices that contribute to slum formation masked as preserving the value of property by keeping out “undesirables” at the same time they perpetuate a “genteel” species of racism, sexism, et al. Or the disparities we find in health care that have more to do with where and how it is delivered? Then, too, there is a criminal justice system the quality of whose justice is a function of the client’s ability to pay. In short, what we appear to have here is less a democracy than it is an obstacle course and a scavenger hunt whose rules are not always articulated in advance or reserved only for the cognoscenti. These and other aspects, organizations and institutions that influence our lives and that are animated by disingenuous assumptions about race coupled with prejudicial attitudes (recall, for example, the societal response to Michelle Obama’s comments about her new-found pride in America) raise questions about the continued possibility of being different without being deemed deviant simply because the opinions you express critique the conventional wisdom. Granted the values of materialism are one thing, and for some a good thing; but are they appropriate as a guiding force in the conduct of human affairs? It is not that I am seeking excuses for aberrant behavior here that has us living in a fear-based culture sending all too many of us to the gun store in pursuit of the illusion of self-protection. Boulder Weekly

Rather, like the late Harold Cruse, I find myself asking more and more often whether we do understand and have the political will to do anything about the ineffectuality of preserving, protecting and defending without further examination certain beliefs and practices that no longer, if they ever did, describe the “America” in which we live. This society, Cruse wrote in 1967, one that “idealizes the rights of the individual above everything else, is in reality, a nation dominated by the social power of groups, classes, in-groups and cliques — both ethnic and religious. The individual in America has few rights that are not backed up by the political, economic and social power of one group or another. Hence the individual Negro has, proportionately, very few rights indeed because his ethnic group (whether or not he actually identifies with it) has very little political, economic or social power (beyond moral grounds) to wield.” This particular observation, and the condition and position (still moving from the periphery to the center as singlets, not as a people) of black people, as Malcolm spoke of in his writings and teachings at the Audubon Ballroom, make clear that integration, a term much discussed, invariably and inappropriately misused in a society still desegregating, might not ever come if the comments and activities of certain of our divines, politicians and public pundits are taken at face value. Yes, I have heard them describe themselves as entertainers. But what is funny about the use of pejorative stereotypes to score a following among those who do not want to accept that society is changing and that the way things used to be are ending? Is this idea so difficult, as Max Planck said one time, that all of the supporters thereof will have to die off before there is a new day in Babylon? In short, beyond symbolism, and its utilization as role model for oncoming generations, what difference has Obama’s presence in the White House really made in the character and conscience of the United States of America? What do you think? Dr. William M. King is a professor of Afroamerican Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. July 1, 2010 17

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n the Fourth of July, citizens celebrate with barbeques, picnics, ceremonies and lots of fireworks each year in the United States. It marks a beginning point in this country’s history, independence from the British. How does the American Indian fit into this idea of independence when it wasn’t until 1924 that, as a group, American Indians were granted citizenship? This brings up several questions before we can begin a discussion of “Indian Country.” Who is the American Indian? What is the educational and health status of this group? There are more than 566 federally and state-recognized tribes with 200 different dialects. Each tribe practices its own spiritual ways, some of these being similar across tribes. Enrollment into a tribe varies, quite often by blood quantum (degree of tribal blood). This enrollment criteria is set by tribes themselves, the U.S. Department of Education sets its own definition, and the U.S. Census Bureau uses self-identification. Indian identity can’t necessarily be confused with blood quantum. This is a common mistake made by many non-Natives, asking the Indian individual, “How much Indian are you?” As if to pretend to know how much blood makes an Indian an Indian. Being recognized as a tribal member does not bring with it an automatic check from the federal government, nor does it provide health care off the reservation. The U.S. government has gone down in the history of the world for breaking more treaties than any other country. Education has changed in the underlying philosophy, from “kill the Indian/save the child” to a philosophy of bicultural education. Bicultural education can be seen as including both Indian and mainstream subjects. The Two Eagle River School on the Flathead Reservation in Montana can be seen as an example of this, requiring both the Salish language to be learned, as well as well as cultural practices of food- and root-gathering in home economic classes. Health care is another treaty-obligated service provided by the federal government to Indian people on reservations, although the budget for health

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care has not increased proportionally as the population has increased. However, the funding base has been increased by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed under the Obama administration. Health issues facing American Indians vary, but the leading causes of death involve the health status of Indians/Natives sorely lagging behind all other ethnic groups in the United States. Mortality rates for this group are high. The top 10 leading causes of death include: tuberculosis; chronic

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not to be diagnosed for diabetes compared to whites. American Indians were less likely to be informed of having hypertension and were more likely than all other groups to experience a migraine, pain in the neck, and/or lower back pain or pain below the knee. This study also found they were more likely than other groups to report difficulty hearing or deafness, and were more likely than other groups to have activity limitations (CDC, April 2005). Other health disparities include: • Indian men were twice as likely to be diagnosed with stomach or liver cancers as white men. • Indian/Native women were 20 percent more likely to die from cervical cancer compared to white women. • Adult males were 2.3 times as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as their white peers. • Indian/Native adults are at greater risk of developing heart trouble. • Education and health disparities among this group consistently are at a greater gap than any other minority group in the U.S. Given all of the ills that are rampant in Indian country, patriotism runs strong. Per capita, Indians enlist in the military in greater numbers than any one group in America. Post-traumatic stress lends itself to the fabric of each reservation. This contributes to what has been termed historical trauma. Many American Indians of today have forgiven, but not forgotten, the history of their forbearers and tribal histories as well as those familial stories of more recent time. These stories are still handed down from generation to generation in an oral tradition. Gatherings like those during the Fourth of July provide an opportunity to have ceremonies, share stories, and to strengthen one’s identity as an American Indian, as well as a citizen of the United States of America. Dr. John Peregoy is a descendent of the Flathead Nation of Montana in private practice as a psychotherapist in Louisville. He can be reached at jjpprof@aol. com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

liver disease and cirrhosis; accidents (unintentional injuries); diabetes; stroke; chronic lower respiratory diseases like pneumonia and influenza; suicide; homicide; cancer; and heart disease. Upon examination, one can surmise that economic conditions (unemployment, lack of economic opportunities, availability and access to appropriate health care, etc.) strongly influence health status. This, combined with geographic isolation, limited access to medical care, cost and other barriers, creates invisible boundaries that stand between Native peoples and appropriate health care. In addition, American Indians/Alaskan Natives have disproportionately high prevalence of mental health issues; obesity, substance abuse and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (CDC, 2002). The boundaries that impede access to health care are obvious when examining the lack of appropriate diagnosis. Recent research (CDC, April 2005) strongly indicates American Indians/Alaskan Natives are under-diagnosed in comparison to whites. Natives are nearly three times more likely

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he late Kwame Turé (Stokely Carmichael) used to talk about how, when as a young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer, he’d gone South to face down the endemic violence of Jim Crow, the racism of which had always defined the character of a country reserved at its inception for the enjoyment of “free, white men.” “Racism then was a prideful thing, arrogant and strutting,” he’d recall. “But we took it on, slugging it out with the lynchers and the nightriders and the Bull Connors who enforced racism in what we thought at the time was its most virulent form, and — guess what? — we thoroughly kicked their collective ass. “After that, there was a while when racism as we knew it was in full retreat. It became a cowering, craven thing, seeking refuge in the shadows,” Kwame would muse. “We actually believed that we’d destroyed it and that, consequently, we could set ourselves to the task of building a new and better society, one with a capacity to transcend the ugliness of its origins and evolution. … “Well, things have changed. These days, the structure of white supremacy is maintained primarily by way of subterfuge, duplicity and denial of the obvious. Nobody much contests the existence and ongoing effects of ‘institutional’ racism, for example, but you’ll be really hard-pressed to find someone who’ll admit that they play any tangible role in it whatsoever. Nobody — nobody at all — is responsible for formulating and implementing the policies and procedures generating institutionally racist results, apparently. … “There you have it. The normative form assumed by racism at present is one in which it masquerades as anti-racism,” Kwame summed up. “This is something far more insidious, intractable, and difficult to combat than anything embodied in the likes of Lester Maddox and George Wallace during the ’60s. And, to that extent, it’s much worse.” The proof of any premise can, and often does, accrue from unexpected quarters. Such is the case with Kwame’s, as I will attempt to recount in local terms, drawing on a jumble of my own somewhat fragmentary personal recollections, as well as those of several others who witnessed the events described. Back in the fall of 1993, the Denver Metro klavern of the Ku Klux Klan was casting about rather frantically for a means to redeem the humiliation of having been publicly routed by a surging mass of irate black teenagers amidst an attempt to commemorate Adolf Hitler’s birthday on the steps of the Colorado Capitol. Their solution, brilliant in its way, was to have Thom Robb, fundamentalist minister cum Grand Dragon of the Arkansas-based Knights of the KKK (subsequently retitled “Christian Concepts, Inc.”), to observe the 1994 Martin Luther King holiday by giving a speech in front of the old courthouse adorning Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall.

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I mean, really, there’s no mystery in the fact that it would have been impossible for a town of this size anywhere outside Scandinavia to have ended up with the demographic complexion of Boulder simply by “accident,” is there? Or that nothing much has changed in this regard since Pastor Robb wiped the proverbial floor with his “anti-racist” opposition 16 years ago? It is of course true that “market dynamics” have been a significant factor in accentuating Boulder’s already pronounced whiteness over the past four decades, but this, too, was by design rather than happenstance. Right, Mr. Danish? Can there really be any doubt that the correlation between the ever-rising price of Boulder real estate on the one hand, and the ever-increasing whiteness of local demography on the other, serves simply to underscore the degree of affluence still enjoyed by whites relative to that evidenced by “nonwhites” of all denominations? One does, to be sure, see an occasional splash of color among the faces moving along Boulder’s streets. Many are those of people working in such low-wage and menial capacities, most of whom commute daily from such less pricey localities as north Denver suburbs. More typically, however, they are those of students and faculty at the University of Colorado, an emphatically transient group — with few exceptions, faculty of color have tended to pass through the institution almost as rapidly as the students — upon which Boulder has long traded in conjuring the illusion that it is a vastly more “diverse” than is actually the case. Even at the university, moreover, students of color are, and have always been, dramatically underrepresented, by as much as 50 percent, depending on whether state or national population data is employed. For faculty, the shortfall is arguably even more pronounced. The university professes to have been “studying” the problem more or less continuously ever since the Jessor Report was released in 1969, but has never been able to discover a means by which to attain the requisite balance between what it refers to via the euphemisms “inclusiveness” and “excellence.” That the university, the very presence of which has added much of the sheen to highly cultivated liberal veneer with which the People’s Republic is larded, should feel free to employ code words so transparently equating “excellence” to “white” says it all. Stripped of its lofty pretensions, Boulder is no more than a bastion of white-skin privilege, complete with an entire battery of carefully crafted methods with which to maintain its system of de facto racial separatism. More than anything, the apparent paradox serves to demonstrate that both Kwame Turé and Thom Robb were right on target with their analyses. Read the full text of former CU ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill’s piece at www.boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Reflecting on the whiteness of denial by Ward Churchill Predictably — at least it can be said with certainty that Robb predicted it — a host of the more purportedly enlightened denizens of the People’s Republic sallied forth at the designated time to denounce the pastor’s unabashed celebration of white supremacist values with chants and placards demanding the utmost “tolerance” of racial/ethnic “diversity.” Unfortunately — or not, depending on one’s point of view — things didn’t go quite as those on the “antiracist” side of the confrontation anticipated. Fixing his gaze upon the small sea of hecklers neatly ensconced behind rows of metal barriers erected by Boulder’s finest — this, it was claimed, was to “ensure his safety,” although it would’ve taken someone a lot less canny than Thom Robb to worry that whatever protestors might turn out in the veritable buckle of the granola belt would so much as sip a cup of herbal tea without first reciting the Pledge of Nonviolence — the pastor seemed downright amused. Then, making even fuller use of his PA system, he delivered an utterly devastating blow (albeit, sadly, I can only repeat it in paraphrase). “What’s all this yapping about ‘diversity’?” he asked. “The town we’re standing in is 94 percent white. That’s why I’m here. This place is exactly what [the Klan] is trying to duplicate all across the country. If it’s racial diversity you’re looking for, you might want to consider moving to Newark or Detroit. But, hey, you’re not about to do that, are you? Ever wonder why that is?” Sometimes the effects produced by a little dose of reality can be amazing. A queasy silence settled over the crowd even before Robb’s verbal roundhouse was complete. People shifted from foot to foot, not-so-figuratively squirming in place, the message boards they’d been holding lowering steadily, as if the signs themselves were wilting. By ones and twos, then in somewhat larger clots, they began, almost furtively, to slink away. The altogether embarrassing outcome of its grand protest against Thom Robb is something Boulder’s selfstyled “progressive community” would prefer to leave unmentioned — or at any rate have its implications remain undiscussed — in hopes that it will end up in the dustbin reserved for matters conveniently forgotten. As someone who’s been loath these past 30 years to venture inside Boulder’s corporate boundaries without donning the very dark pair of shades I deem essential to warding off a malady akin to snow blindness, usually resulting from exposing the naked eye to such the glaring whiteness as that of the populace, I can readily see why they might tend to feel that way.

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last fall. The candidate, Republican Bob Brancato, disputes the police account of the disturbance and says no charges were ever filed in the case. He has filed a petition to have the record sealed. Brancato was taking on fellow Republican Stephen Bailey in the August primary, as both aim to unseat the Democratic incumbent, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. Bailey bested Brancato in the May 21 Republican assembly 61 percent to 39 percent. Brancato, a Firestone resident, says he won a $1.4 million settlement from the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2008 after being sexually abused by his Catholic priest as a child. Boulder Weekly obtained a copy of a Firestone Police Department report detailing a Sept. 29, 2009, incident in which police were dispatched to the Brancato residence on a report of a “domestic problem.” Brancato and his wife, Rochelle, told Boulder Weekly that the report contains inaccuracies, and that she called 911 for medical assistance because her husband was having an episode of post-traumatic stress disorder due to his sexual abuse. But police said in the report that the two were having an argument. According to the report, Brancato, 41, said he asked his wife to leave the house, then blocked her from gathering her belongings. The report says Rochelle Brancato told police that her husband “chestbumped her, causing her to backpedal into a computer that was lying on the floor.” The report continues, “Rochelle stated Robert then placed his hands on the wall behind her, pinning her to the wall. Rochelle stated Robert told her he would not let her leave with the children. After approximately 30 seconds, Robert let her go and she went upstairs to call the police.”

Bob Brancato was arrested and transported to Weld County’s north jail complex in Greeley. The anticipated charge listed on the police report was “false imprisonment.” The report says both admitted to drinking “4-5 beers” beforehand. The Brancatos told Boulder Weekly that Rochelle drove to Greeley the next day and explained the situation to the assistant district attorney, who apologized and ensured that no charges were filed. “There were no charges, there was no false imprisonment, there was no domestic abuse,” Rochelle Brancato says. “The cops showed up and put words in my mouth … . There was no arguing, no chest-bumping.” She says one officer was too aggressive in interrogating her. “He took me into the corner of the house and said, ‘He was pushing you, wasn’t he? He was arguing with you, wasn’t he?’” Rochelle Brancato says. “And at that point, I’m crying and saying, ‘Whatever, whatever, just take care of him and take him to the hospital.’” (Firestone police did not provide a response, and Weld County officials could not provide documentation on the status of the case by press time.) Later, she told Boulder Weekly, “I was throwing stuff, OK? It was one of those nights that a lot of couples have. … [This was a] husband-andwife deal that probably was not real cool, and the only time, and never since. And I love my husband, my husband is a very gentle man, and my husband has had very hard times. If he was a guy who would do stuff like that, I would not be with him.” In a statement announcing the end of his campaign Tuesday night, Brancato said, “We have learned recently that liberal media outlets intend to share personal information concerning my family matters, which in turn will jeopardize their privacy and safety. While we understand that when you become a public figure your past is ‘put out’ for all to see, the line that is being crossed cannot be redrawn in this case.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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The lost hiker was soon found. She was hiking with a group of people and decided to hike back to the Cal Wood cottage on her own at approximately 12:30 p.m. The group returned to the cottage at 3:30 p.m. and realized that she had not yet returned to the cottage. A local resident found her in the 1200 block of County Road 87J. Busy suspect, quick arrest On Monday, June 28, Boulder police officers arrested a suspect wanted in connection with a burglary and assault that occurred earlier that same day in the 900 block of 14th Street. According to a city press release, officers were dispatched to the scene at 8:37 p.m. and spoke to a victim who described being attacked by a male who had entered the residence. According to police reports, the victim was struck in the head with a bottle and required medical treatment. The suspect was identified as Thomas Ansley Holloway, born Dec. 2, 1956. Officers learned that he was a suspect in a crime that occurred in Broomfield, also on Monday, June 28. Officers went to Holloway’s apartment, where he was arrested without incident. He was taken to the Boulder County Jail and charged with first degree burglary and second degree assault. Simul-climbing results in simultaneous trip to hospital Boulder County sheriff ’s deputies and local rescue teams responded to Eldorado Canyon State Park on a report of a fallen climber on Saturday morning, June 26. Two people were climbing the Redgarden rock formation. The climbers were simul-climbing, with both climbers ascending at the same time while tied to rope. Initial reports indicated that one climber fell, forcing the other to fall, as well. Witnesses reported that one climber fell 80 to 100 feet. One climber reportedly sustained head injuries and was transported to St. Anthony’s Central Hospital via helicopter. The other climber did not appear to be injured. — Compiled by Heather May Koski Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Two receive NSF CAREER awards Two University of Colorado at Boulder scientists have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, awards. Assistant Professor David Noone of the atmospheric and oceanic atmospheric sciences department and Assistant Professor Noah Fierer of the ecology and evolutionary biology department received the significant monetary grants to further their research. Both Noone and Fierer are fellows at CU-Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Noone received a $722,421 CAREER grant to analyze the exchange of water between the land surface and atmosphere to improve climate models and predictions of climate change. He also will deploy a new precipitation-monitoring network in coordination with middle schools in and around Erie, which is expected to engage students in the scientific process. Fierer received a $655,000 CAREER grant to study the effects of nutrient addition on soil microbial communities. Pollution and farming practices, such as the addition of fertilizers, are leading to inputs of nitrogen and phosphorous in the soil far beyond normal levels. Fierer will look at the impacts of these additions on microbes, which are important organisms for maintaining soil fertility. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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city that has more than 300 miles of bikeways is a cyclist’s dream. Now the bike-friendly city of Boulder has decided to create a bike-share program that gets people out of their cars and on the seat of a bike. According to Marni Ratzel, bicycle/ pedestrian transportation planner for the city of Boulder, the bike-share program is different than bike rental, giving people the opportunity for shortterm use, while keeping the bike in circulation as much as possible. Two vendors, Gravity Cycles and Bcycle, responded to the city’s request for proposals. But Waylon Lewis, editor of elephantjournal.com, wants to know why there has not been more input from Boulder residents. “As one of many 365-day bike commuters in Boulder, this is a huge development for Boulder — and we should be acting like it,” he says. “If this is approved without extensive public comment — well, shame on us.” Bike-sharing will only work if the community is interested in the program and wants to purchase memberships — users pay for an annual, monthly, weekly or daily membership and have unlimited access to the bikes. After 30 minutes of use, the member begins racking up additional charges. Ratzel says the point is to have the bikes available for those in need of making a short trip, keeping the bikes and people in motion. “Ninety-two percent of bike rides

by Katelyn Feldhaus are 22 minutes or less,” says Russell Altman, CEO/president of Gravity Cycles. “The city did a study that projects that for phase one of the Boulder bike-share program there will be 20 to 25 bike racks strategically located throughout the city, with an average of nine to 10 bikes per station, and [they will] have 30 to 40 percent open spots.” “Bike share is marketable to people who not only live here, but also people who don’t live here but work here. People can offset their carbon footprint by riding the bus or driving here and biking while in town. It provides more flexibility for transportation and commuting,” says Ratzel. It will also be an easy way for visitors to Boulder to get around. The two vendors submitted their proposals and demonstrated how their systems could work in Boulder on June 14. Vendor selection will be made July 2, followed by contract negotiations. Bcycle was founded by Humana, Trek Bicycles and Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Andrew Davison, chief marketing officer of Bcycle, says, “After benchmarking the best practices of bike-sharing, the focus is on normalizing the bike to be accessible and easy-to-use for people who want to ride a mile or two to grab groceries.” The bike stations are made to fit each city’s needs, making the system adaptable to any landscape. “The advanced software system allows the city to understand which bikes are being used and how they are being utilized,” says Davison. “Each

member has their own ID tag that you put on the station’s reader, and the bike unlocks for you. Members have website profiles to track calories burned, offset of carbon footprint, routes of where you have traveled and more.” The Trek bikes are durable, with a heavy carrying capacity, designed for all heights and built for safety. “When it comes to advertising, we don’t want NASCAR bikes. Our companies want to say that these bikes are brought to you by them, being sponsors rather than advertisers,” says Davison. “We are excited that if Boulder does pick us, we could have the first interoperable Bcycle route from Boulder to Denver,” says Davison. Denver Bcycle was implemented as Denver’s bikeshare program on April 22. Officials from Gravity cycles, which is smaller than Bcycle, say their size allows them to not take on a lot of ads and to promote the local economy. “Our approach is focused on what Boulder needs; we understand that Boulder wants to keep Boulder, Boulder. These are the reasons why you don’t see McDonalds on Pearl Street,” says Altman. They say key problems in bikesharing are advertising focus models, insufficient research, vendor lock-in and being contingent on one bike program. Altman says, “We are a vendorneutral company, not just an advertising company. We want to bring awareness of the best solution for future expansion of bike-sharing in Boulder.” For information on cost and federal funding, visit bouldercolorado.gov.

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Tuesday, July 6 The Solar Panel. 6 p.m. Wynkoop Brewery’s Mercantile Room, 1634 18th St., Denver, www.wynkoop.com/happenings. Wednesday, July 7

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Umphrey’s McGee brings its strange user-requested covers to Red Rocks

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circuit from 10 years ago, so you always look forward to seetheir Rocks gig this holiday weekend, the ing each other when festival season comes back around. … centerpiece of braided two-nighters which It’s like all the bands coming together in one communal include separate gigs at the Gothic, the environment. It’s so different from your normal tour grind. two bands will be stirring an unholy elixir of their “We’ve had this dialog going over e-mail for quite decidedly divergent life forces into a fan-voted joint some time now. And we’re really big into this mashing up of mash-up cover. tunes, where you find two songs that have DNA that are closely related. They might be in the The Chicago-based Umphrey’s, the prog-jam calsame key or same tempo…like, we’ll do the Beatles’ culus jocks of the jam scene and Galactic, the slightly “Come Together” and Nine Inch Nails’ “Come Closer evil, very greasy funk conjurers from the Big Easy, go Together,” and the idea is that we’ll play something back a long way. along the lines of that ideal.” “Yeah, we’ve known those guys for years,” Fair enough, but this selection looks like it could Umphrey’s guitarist Jake Cinninger told us last week, create some acutely schizophrenic results. just emerging from a four-day power outage courtesy “Heartbreaker” and “Master Blaster”? Muses’ of a early storm that tore through his western Illinois hometown. “We go back from the early days of the festival see MASHAMATICS Page 30

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The Women’s Wilderness Institute Party with Purpose — Nothing better than a happy hour fundraiser. 4-6 p.m. The Boulder Chop House & Tavern, 921 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-938-9191.

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NOBO Nite Out — Check out what’s been going through North Boulder artists’ heads in this walking tour. 6-9 p.m. Various location along N. Broadway, Boulder, 303442-3142.

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Magical Mexican Mondays — The magic of tacos and magician Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle For Freedom — Screening and Q&A with filmmakers. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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“Supermassive Black Hole” and “Heard it Through The Grapevine?” Pink Floyd’s “San Tropez” and “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough”? Say what? “It’s kind of weird the way things end up working. … If you change the key of one song a little bit, sing a ‘San Tropez’ verse over a Michael Jackson beat, you can actually kind of make it work. And it’s not like mashing two recordings; as a group of musicians we can flex and change to the arrangement.” But this comes as little surprise to the legions of Umphrey’s faithful (self proclaimed “Umphreaks”) — as part of the band’s enduring career-long ethic of teetering on the musical precipice, infusing languid and relaxed jam float-aways with neck-snapping prog figures and eight-minute instrumental calisthenics, the band has also explored new territories in fan interaction. If “new” territories can still mean playing fan-requested sets and mashes. “We’ve been thinking about different ways we can get our music heard and seen, and for people to be more involved. The old methods just aren’t working so well … like, just cutting a CD. So the idea is to get the fan-base more involved and more tuned in.

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We’ll let them choose a few things and like, but to mine for musical substance we’ll try it out. in strata well outside the year-in, year“And it can put us in a real vulnera- out touring comfort zone. Doing ble position, because we really have to something hard. pull something out and make it work. “Yeah, we definitely kind of come So it really forces us to improve a vein from that Zappa school of thought, for the best, and … the more we do it, trying to be proficient at your instruthe more we learn about it. And after ment and then being thrown in this one of those perpot of scaldformances where ing water and On the Bill: fans text in on this see if you can Umphrey’s McGee plays with huge screen and make someGalactic at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 3. we basically do thing happen. Doors at 6 p.m. The Wailers open. what they say for The actual Tickets start at $36. 18300 West a half an hour, thing of fallAlameda Pkwy., Morrison, 1-800-745-3000 or we’re really ing flat on www.redrocksonline.com. exhausted mentalyour face a ly.” hundred times A jaundiced musically, you observer may be inclined to dismiss actually learn from that. Not everythis as a gimmick, a kind of high-tech, thing we do is perfect, because of that. show-offy spin on the not so new traThere’s always going to be room for dition of, well, playing requests. Hell, error, so our fans get to hear the good ancient Greek lutists did that. shows and the not so good shows. Just But at the same time, it represents a like anything else, where there’s risk, hallmark of the kind of artistic self-dis- there’s going to be failure. But … we’re cipline and ambition that has consiswilling to risk a little uncomfortable tently vaunted UM above most of their moment for something glorious.” peers in the post-Phish jam movement, And it’s not like the band scrupuwhich has produced scads of outfits lously masks its failures. Umphrey’s has seemingly content to mirror-gaze into a longstanding policy of making every their own improv looking glass. The live show available on CD or through idea isn’t just to do something the fans download. Every one, since about

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2004. The old schooler’s alarm bells go off right about here. There’s a certain spirit of generosity that attends this kind of policy, and the band’s faithful have had this access to live Umphrey’s music so long now it’s hardly news. But we couldn’t help wonder if this vast ocean of live material doesn’t somehow devalue the band’s studio efforts. “I’m pretty old school, probably the most of the band. I like listening to records, y’know? That’s all I do when I’m at home — I don’t like to even touch anything with ones and zeros. So, I’m into the tangible aspect of listening to music, where it’s a big piece of art and it’s a ritualistic thing where you put the piece of plastic down and drop the needle on it. Like it’s an event. So, with the whole thing of us being known as a live band, the idea is to kind of do both. There’s two coats to wear there. “For us, it’s really important to kind of separate the two. When it’s time to make a record like [2009’s] Mantis, it’s strictly for the studio, and until it’s done it’s not to be heard. So it becomes an event. “And they get it, and … there it is.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Colorado Music Festival offers diverse lineup in 34th season by Peter Alexander

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usic festivals are springing up all around Colorado this time of year like columbines blooming along mountain hiking trails, from classical music in Aspen and Breckenridge to opera in Central City to bluegrass in Telluride and Lyons. The Colorado Music Festival, Boulder’s own eclectic contribution to the summer festival scene held at Chautauqua through Aug. 6, serves up all of those, with a helping of world music thrown in for good measure. Now in its 34th season, the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of music director Michael Christie, a peripatetic maestro who leads orchestras in Phoenix and Brooklyn, often piloting his own plane to get from gig to gig. Just back from visiting Australia, Christie celebrates his anniversary tonight and tomorrow night with an orchestral concert that features Robert Schumann’s unique and entertaining CMF music director Konzertstück (“concert piece”) for Michael Christie four — four! — solo horns and orchestra, which Christie conducted during his very first CMF concert. Filling out the concert will be a selection of waltzes and polkas by various members of Vienna’s Strauss family. Christie describes the remainder of the summer’s programming as “a dynamic mix that honors the past, present and future.” In fact, the CMF season is so varied that it is difficult to give even a small foretaste without listing the whole program (available online at

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www.coloradomusicfest.org/). To touch on a few highlights, the world music series will include bluegrass veterans Dr. Ralph Stanley with the Clinch Mountain Boys; Ljova and the Kontraband, playing a unique blend of gypsy melodies with jazz and tango rhythms; the Celtic band Solas; and avant-garde cellist and composer Zoë Keating with the Apex Contemporary Dance Theatre. Guest artists include distinguished classical artists like pianist Peter Serkin and Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen, but also the virtuoso klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, and, well outside the musical mainstream, the return to Boulder of William Barton, performing vocals, electric guitar and didgeridoo with orchestra. But it is the orchestra concerts that represent the heart of the festival. And this year the heart of the heart, as it were, will be a series of concerts of music by Johannes Brahms. Starting two years ago, the festival has selected a theme for a mini-festival within the festival: the Beethoven symphonies in 2008, the greatest piano concertos last year, and now Brahms. A series of five concerts will present all of the major orchestra works: the four symphonies, the four concertos and the two orchestral serenades. Festival themes are something of a gimmick — a way to “position” the event for marketing. At the same time, they represent an unparalleled opportunity for audiences to immerse themselves in the works of a

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single composer or genre and to experience the music in a new, hopefully deeper way. “We actually experienced the [stylistic] evolution from [Beethoven’s] First Symphony to the Ninth Symphony, and we all actually felt the shift happen between the Second and Third symphonies,” Christie says. Brahms is particularly ripe for this treatment. Unlike Mozart and Haydn, he has not had a recent anniversary to bring his music forward, and unlike Beethoven, he is rarely the subject of full symphonic cycles or major musical celebrations. “[Brahms] brought the 19th century together,” Christie says. “He brought Beethoven together with Mendelssohn and Schumann and Bach … and in many ways, he gave us the map to go forward.” Beyond Brahms, there are other orchestral concerts. A program of light Americana will include two ever-popular standbys of descriptive music: Ferde Grofé’s “Grand Canyon Suite” and Gershwin’s “An American in Paris.” The most popular piano concerto not performed during last year’s series of “greatest piano concertos,” Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C major, will be featured on a program with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” A program devoted to Wagner will include the vocal virtuosity of “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde,” as well as the completely non-vocal “Ring Without Words.” The Festival Finale concerts will pair Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with a new work for orchestra, electric guitar and didgeridoo. If it’s a little hard to grasp so many musical ideas wrapped into a single package, it must be said that the CMF comes as close as anyone can imagine to providing something for everyone — which works out just fine for Boulderites. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Sat. July 3 Red, White & Elvis

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hen you’re putting on a production of John Hutton stars as a classic play King Lear alongside Jamie Ann Romero, already performed playing Cordelia. thousands of times by a canonical playwright like Shakespeare, the devil’s in the details of the adaptation. For this summer’s production of King Lear by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), the devil’s in the oil. “We’re setting [King Lear] in the roughly 1890 American West, because it seemed to the director and myself that we wanted to look for an American equivalent to what King Lear represented in ancient Britain,” says CSF Director Philip Sneed. “And it seemed like in King Lear, there were very few rules and that the monarchs were sort of making things up as they went and had absolute power, and the oil and timber barons on Broadway; and Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic of the American West in the 19th century seemed Our Town. like an interesting equivalent to that of men who The non-Shakespeare choices are relatively new weren’t kings but sort of acted like they were and to the festival; The Fantasticks is only the second were used to having things their way, and then when musical the festival has ever produced. (The first was they fall and they’re no longer in charge, it’s a huge in 2008.) The decision to offer the longest-running shock. That was explored in movies like There Will Broadway musical ever alongside classic Shakespeare Be Blood recently, which is part of the inspiration for plays is partially an effort to attract paying customers this.” who might be less willing to spring for theater tickKing Lear starts off an eclectic mix of plays for ets given the economic downturn, but it’s partially to the CSF’s 53rd season, which will mix three pay tribute to American classics as well as British Shakespeare plays with two classic American works ones, Sneed says. — a play and a musical. The CSF season, which “If you look at the idea of what a classic is, and if opens on July 2, presents the aforementioned tragedy we look at classics from other cultures, first of all, King Lear; the comedy The Taming of the Shrew; the America’s a young country, so we don’t have lesser-known gem Measure by Measure; The 400-year-old classics,” Sneed says. “We have Fantasticks, the 1960 musical that had a 42-year run 50-year-old classics, 75-year-old classics, and our

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classic theater is the musical theater, because we essentially invented that form. So when we look at American classic theater, it’s impossible to ignore the musical theater genre.” Sands Hall, who performed with the CSF as a young actor in 1975, returns to the festival to direct The Fantasticks. “The significance of that [1975 production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline] is that was the production that finished Shakespeare’s canon for us, and with that production in 1975, we became one of the first theaters in the world to have done all 37 plays that Shakespeare wrote, and this director played a leading role in that production, which is kind of fun,” Sneed says. John Hutton, a 19-year veteran of the Denver Center Theatre Company, graces Boulder to play the title role in King Lear, fresh off of playing Iago in the Denver Center’s recent production of Othello. The last couple years have been hard on the arts, and the CSF is no exception, Sneed says, adding that about 75 percent of the festival’s funding comes from ticket sales. “I think all of my colleagues in the arts field are challenged by the economy,” Sneed says. “We’ve made a lot of budget cuts, and we’re trying to be prudent in these times. We certainly see signs of improvement, and we expect this year to be better than last, but it’s still a time to be very cautious. The belt gets tighter and tighter every year the last couple of years, so it’s more demanding for everybody than ever before.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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bsence of the Hero, Vol. 2, the latest book of uncollected Charles Bukowski writings, begins with “The Reason Behind Reason,” a poignant tale of a professional baseball player who has somewhat of a psychotic break while playing the outfield. In the middle of a game, the centerfielder looks around at his teammates, the sky and the overall spectacle he’s an essential part of; despite being confused and bewildered, he catches a fly ball, and then runs with his teammates to the dugout after the inning’s final out. In his next at-bat, the puzzled player hits a “screamer” off the outfield wall but fails to leave the batter’s box, standing curiously still until the ball is thrown in to first base — at which point he walks to the locker room to face the press as the story ends. If only Bukowski had more consistently offered readers stories like “The Reason Behind Reason” — and had known when to nix overboard nonsense such as “The Rapist’s Story” — his readership may have expanded beyond horny high schoolers and college students who paid to have the writer come to their schools and perform (i.e. drink a case of beer on stage and berate the audience in between poems). However, Absence of the Hero and other recent collections further reveal not only Bukowski’s remarkable prolificness, but also the diversity of his talents and literary interests. “Bukowski is becoming a household name,” says Nate Jordon, head of Boulder’s burgeoning Monkey Puzzle Press. “It’s as if Bukowski is finally being discovered. It’s almost ironic because even at the height of his fame, Bukowski was still an underground writer — he

by Adam Perry was still below the public radar — but, to those who knew of him, he was a genius.” Henry Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was well into his 50s when he started to enjoy widespread success as a writer. Since his rise to international fame in the 1980s, Bukowski’s short stories, poems, essays and letters have been translated into numerous languages, been made into major motion pictures and helped several publishers make a boatload of money. A household name, yes, but the majority of Bukowski’s fans utilize his edgy writing — which “voiced the realities of the rejected,” says Jordon — as a rite of passage and move on. Bukowski’s characters, who are virtually always on the verge of either punching each other or fornicating, hang on to life by holding on to each other, if only for one night or a couple of months. They treat each other horribly, with Bukowski’s selfstyled character Henry Chinaski usually taking the prize for worst behaved, and are usually either drunk or hung-over. But unlike Exit to Brooklyn and other erotically charged American tales of urban horror and desperation, many of Bukowski’s short stories actually leave one with a warm glow, whether from reluctant but real love, brilliant delineation of sociological phenomena in America or, once in a while, juicy science fiction. Additionally, literary geeks have surmised for decades that Bukowski hated the Beat Generation and the Beat Generation hated him. “Bukowski vehemently denied being a part of the Beat Generation and many times expressed a loathing of such associations,” Jordon says. But it’s more complicated than that. In Bukowski’s

entire sprawling catalog, references to the Beats are almost nonexistent, but Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2 provides somewhat of a breakthrough with an unearthed Bukowski review of Allen Ginsberg’s Empty Mirror (1961). “He’s better to have around than not to have around,” Bukowski says of Ginsberg, which is one of the nicest things the Los Angeles writer is known to have said about the Beats. “I think that Ginsberg belongs somewhere,” he continues, “and that without his coming through, none of us would be writing as well as we are doing now, which is not well enough, but we hang on.” Bukowski, who egotistically describes himself as “one-half Hemingway and one-half Bogart” at one point in Absence of the Hero, also had a lot in common with Jack Kerouac. Although somehow Bukowski was able to endlessly abuse alcohol and live into his 70s, while Kerouac died in his 40s of alcoholism-related physical trauma, both strived toward what Bukowski calls here “the true line devoid of ornament.” At one point in Absence of the Hero, Gregory Corso and Bukowski cross paths in New Mexico. The inimitable author of “Marriage” proceeds to repeatedly tell Bukowski, “I am your peer,” as if the little Italian eccentric was convinced that Bukowski had an inferiority complex for never being part of a major literary movement, let alone the major literary movement of his time. Bukowski and Corso proceed to drink together amicably in an Albuquerque bar, and the reader wonders who dreamt up the Bukowski/Beat controversy in the first place. Still, as a graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder — co-founded by Ginsberg almost 40 years ago — I also closed Absence of the Hero, Vol. 2 wondering why the name Charles Bukowski never came up in two years of classes. “With Naropa and the Beat lineage there,” says Jordon, a Kerouac School graduate, “I think there’s a conscious decision to delineate Bukowski from the Beats. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe someone should bring it up.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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music Denver Brass, Latin Brass Hot, Hot, Hot — With Ballet Ariel. 6 p.m. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7201. Euforquestra, Ocote Soul Sounds. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399. Firefall. 6:15 p.m. Fireworks display to follow. Fanny Hill, Snowmass Village, 1-800-766-9627. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Hot Chicks. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Josh Blackburn. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490. Moussa Konate. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Natalie Cole. 7 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Rhythm on the Rails Concert Series — With Elephant Revival. 6:45 p.m. Whistlestop Station, First Avenue and Murray Street, Niwot, www.niwot.com/events/. Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Soulpatch — With The Congress and The Soular System. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Stephen Thurston Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475. Tony Rosario. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

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The Autumn Film. 8:30 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3771666. Ben Raznick. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. The Big Motif. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz. 7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

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Classic rock and blues guitarist. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490

Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado.org. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Boulder Public Library Film Series — Screening of found home movies. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Comedy Works Presents Steve Gastineau & Hippieman. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Dance Home’s Barefoot Boogie — Free-form dancing. 8:30-11:30 p.m. The Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303443-2074. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www. flamenco-boulder.com. The Women’s Wilderness Institute Party with Purpose — Happy hour fundraiser. 4-6 p.m. Boulder Chop House & Tavern, 921 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-9389191. Zane Lamprey Comedy Tour. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

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David Leonard. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Elephant Revival. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Friday Afternoon Club Concert Series — With The Nacho Men. Benefits Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and The Wild Animal Sanctuary. 5:30 p.m. 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850. Galactic. 8 p.m. 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, www.gothictheatre.com. Hot Soup. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Joseph Barton Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Lionel Young Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Meniskus. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Nina Storey. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Phil Robinson Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Ramaya. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Sambadende. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Scott Holt. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290

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Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess — Various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303 298 7554. Through Sept. 13. Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 31. Face to Face. Various artists. Denver

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Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 29. Humor & Pathos — Artwork by Gary Sweeney. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 5. Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-530-1442. Live at the Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir. Arvada Center for the Arts, 901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 29. Mi Frontera Es Su Frontera — Artwork

by Tony Ortega. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 5. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Oil paintings by Marie Channer. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through June 30. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Sculpture by Jane Yamada. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through July 31. Pottery by Elizabeth Lazarus. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline

Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through July 31. Shape and Spirit: The Lutz Bamboo Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 19. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Jan. 9. A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. NOBO Nite Out — Walking tour of art galleries. 6-9 p.m.Various location along N. Broadway, Boulder, 303-442-3142. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, July 3

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Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Akash Mital Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bluez House with Paul Soderman. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz. 7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667. Disco Inferno. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Lion Vibes. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Johnny Barber as The Velvet Elvis — An all-American tribute to Elvis. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Longest Day of the Year. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Phil Robinson. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Radical Knitting Circle. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Ramble On The River — With Whitewater Ramble and others. 2 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970482-4420. Scott Holt. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

String Board Theory. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Twenty Ninth Street LIVE! With FACE,

Thursday, July 1 Kirstin Downey’s The Woman Behind the New Deal. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Sunday, July 4 Spanish Book Club. 4 p.m. Boulder

Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, July 5 Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.” The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Statewide Emergency. Portion of beverage sales to benefit WOW! Children’s Museum. 6 p.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Umphrey’s McGee, Galactic — With The Wailers. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Vegas Crimes. 7:30 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Willie Houston Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877. Humane Society of Boulder Valley Mobile Pet Cruiser. 6 p.m.Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-4424030. LaMont Does Outdoor Pool. 12-6 p.m. 500 S. Boulder Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Open every day through Aug. 22.

Wednesday, July 7 Conversations in English: Literary Discussions. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. An Evening with Local Authors. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Scott Sigler’s Ancestor. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Music and Mimosas — Every Saturday 9-11 a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665. Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Plant and Craft Sale. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Marisol Imports, 2516 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-6981, ext. 1.

Sunday, July 4

music

Accordionist Ron Tomocik. 11 a.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Acoustic Jam — With Jax Delaguerre. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400. Blues Traveler — With Rebelution. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

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Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 8. The Music Man. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 25. Peter Pan. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 4.

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772. Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m.

For more information, call 720-301-3993. Sunday Afternoon Tea — Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

Monday, July 5

music Colorado Symphony Orchestra: Symphony on the Rocks. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy.,

Morrison, 720-865-2494. The Congress. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous — Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www. BoulderCountyAA.org. Citizenship Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, July 6

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam with Dan Treanor. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. The Iveys. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Kevin Dooley & Friends — With Mark Viator, Susan Maxey, Deborah Stafford. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tony Rosario. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Streetlight Manifesto — With The Supervillains, The Wonder Years, Dan Potthast. 7:30 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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American Sign Language Night. 4 p.m. Avery Brewery, Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Full Cycle & Fleet Feet Gathering. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464. Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. The Sun Behind The Clouds:Tibet’s Struggle For Freedom — Screening and Q&A with filmmakers. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

303-444-0190. Tea,Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993 Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Upslope Brewing — 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, July 1 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St.,

Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, July 2 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665. Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie,

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music Bands on the Bricks 2010 — With Deja Blu. 7 p.m. 1300 Block of Pearl Street, Boulder, www.boulderdowntown.com. Benyaro. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. An Evening With Hapa. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Hold Steady — With The Whigs. 8 p.m Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303832-1874.

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273. Reggae Wednesday — With Rude Boys. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Katie Herzig. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Moon Taxi. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Saliva — With Shaman’s Harvest. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Scott Warren. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Silent Bear. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Shady Grove Picnic Series — With Quiet American. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People: Michael Christie. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740. DreamWeaver Hands-on Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350. Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m.. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, Boulder Weekly

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Saturday, July 3 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Just Write — Creative writing for middle and high school students. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, July 4 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, July 5 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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107th Annual Cowboys’ Roundup Days. Romick Arena, 501 Howelsen Pkwy., Steamboat Springs, 877-754-2269. Through July 4. Art on the Mountain. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gondola Square, Steamboat Springs, 970879-0880. Through July 4. Estes Park July 4th Celebration. Various location, Estes Park, 970-577-0610. Through July 4. Fifty Stars: A First Friday Opening. 6 p.m. Lucid Gallery, 719 W. 8th St., Denver, 720-297-8853. Fourth at Firestone Celebration. 5-10 p.m. Miner’s Park, 151 Grant Ave., Firestone, 303-833-3291. Through July 4.

Saturday, July 3 Bandimere Speedway Independence Day Celebration. Bandimere Speedway, 3051 S. Rooney Rd., Morrison, www. bandimere.com. Celebrate Independence Day — High Country Stampede Rodeo, fireworks and more.Various locations, Winter Park, 970726-4118. Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Cherry Creek North Shopping District, Denver, www.cherryarts.org. Through July 5. Civic Center SOUNDS. 8:30 p.m. Civic Center Park, W. 14th Avenue and N. Broadway, Denver, 303-MAESTRO. Let Freedom Sing 2010! Concert and fireworks. 6 p.m. Salisbury Park, 9200 Motsenbocker Rd., Parker, 303-841-0353.

Mountain Madness Road Race. 8 a.m. 285 Howelsen Pkwy., Steamboat Springs, www.runningseries.com. Pikes Peak Arts Fest. Colorado Avenue and Cimino Drive, Colorado Springs, pikespeakartsfest.com. Through July 5. Plenty of Fireworks — Piano concert. 7 p.m. 1332 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-9794353. Summer 4th of July Event. 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sandstone Ranch Park, 3001 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-774-4692.

Sunday, July 4 2nd Annual Downtown Frisco Art Festival. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Main and 3rd streets, Frisco, www.artfestival.com. 15th Annual 4thFest Colorado. 5 p.m. Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, 303-825-4625. 19th Annual Steamboat Sprint. 9:40 a.m. Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs, runningseries.com. Arvada’s Celebration of the Spirit of America. 3 p.m. Stenger/Lutz Complex, W. 58th Avenue and Oak Street, Arvada, www. arvada.org/. Colorado Rockies vs. San Francisco Giants. 1 p.m. Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver, 303-830-TIXS. Concert and Fireworks — With Jakarta. 8 p.m. Green Valley Ranch, 4890 Argonne Way, Denver, 303-595-8747.

Family Festival. 5K run/walk, parade, fireworks and more.Various locations, Georgetown, 303-569-2888. Firecracker 4K. 8 a.m. Erie Community Park, 450 Powers St., Erie, 303-926-2793. Firecracker Flow: All-levels Yoga Class. 10 a.m. Om Time Yoga, 2035 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 720-565-6115. Four on the Fourth 4K. 9 a.m. Avery Brewery, Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324. Fourth of July at Twenty Ninth Street. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Fourth of July Twang Fest. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 3034436461. Fourth of July Downtown. 11 a.m to 6 p.m. Concert, fireworks and more. Downtown Fort Collins, www.downtown fortcollins.com. Fourth of July Fireworks. 9:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Fourth of July Fireworks Extravaganza. Various locations in Grand Lake, 970-627-3402, www. grandlakechamber.com Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. Various locations, Grand Junction, www. visitgrandjunction.com. Fourth of July Spectacular. 6 p.m. Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 Alameda Pkwy, Aurora, 303-326-8FUN. Highlands Ranch Celebration. 5K run, parade, fireworks and more.Various locations, Highlands Ranch, 303-791-2500. Independence Day — Film screening. 8:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jamestown 4th of July Pancake Breakfast Celebration. 7:30-11:30 a.m. Town Square, Maint Street, Jamestown, 303449-1129. July 4th Celebration and Music In the Park — With Elephant Revival. Chipeta

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Mount Evans Hospice 29th Annual Freedom Run. 8 a.m. Evergreen Middle School, 2059 Hiwan Drive, Evergreen, 303674-6400. 30th National Veteran Wheelchair Games. Various locations, Denver, www. wheelchairgames.va.gov/. Through July 9. Old-Fashioned July 4 Celebration. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Four Mile Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 720-865-0800. Ralphie’s Independance Day Blast. 8 p.m. Folsom Stadium, CU campus, www. boulder4thofjuly.com Rockin’ the Fourth: Red, White & Boom! 6 p.m. Metzler Ranch Community Park, 4175 Trail Boss Rd, Castle Rock, www. crgov.com/rockin. Woodland Park’s Old-Fashioned 4th of July — Pancake breakfast, live music, family activities, art and crafts, food and more. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Memorial Park, Lake Avenue and N. Park Street, Woodland Park, 719-687-5218.

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Sam and Max deliver the laughs again by David Accomazzo

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t was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse, a new, funny and immensely entertaining episodic adventure by Telltale Games starring everyone’s favorite anthropomorphic dog and bunny detectives. For those unfamiliar, the original 1993 DOS-based game Sam & Max Hit the Road hit the shelves during the heyday of point-and-click adventure games. Games like the King’s Quest and Space Quest series were all the rage, Myst was blowing the minds of gamers nationwide, and there seemed to be nothing video game lovers liked more than advancing a game’s storyline through the clever, semi-logical and/or pun-based use of objects found in a 16-bit atmosphere. See, back then games didn’t have much going for them graphics-wise. State-of-the-art processors had less power than an iPod, and game designers had to think of creative, gameplayand storyline-based ways to provide an entertaining experience for gamers. So you had games like Space Quest V requiring you to reference the manual for a hint as to how to solve a puzzle. The genre was filled with misses, but Sam & Max Hit The Road was by all measures a hit. One of the first games to hire talented voice actors (the horrible acting in certain older games is hilariously amateur), S&M won over audiences with wickedly funny dark humor, detailed cartoon landscapes and addictive gameplay. It instantly became a cult classic. Sadly, as graphics improved and games requiring less puzzle-solving skill became popular, the point-and-click adventure game faded in favor of first-person shooters and massive role-playing games. But Steve Purcell, creator of the Sam & Max comic books and the brain behind every video game version, has valiantly kept the genre alive, and his new five-part series Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse is a breath of fresh air for gamers burnt out on the clichés haunting the video game industry these days. The series is now in its third installment, and each one so far is fresh and fun, utilizing actual comedy writing, a rare find in video games. The whole series feels like a throwback to the early ’90s adventure games — you point, you click, you hear snarky and clever lines from the characters, you solve ridiculous puzzles, and you beat the game. The end. Episode one, “The Penal Zone,” finds our heroes in a Twilight Zonestyle vision, using newfound psychic powers to fight off an invading space ape. The game continues in a pleasant style that’s firmly grounded in the conventions of the genre. Things get interesting in the second episode, when Sam and Max find a magical film projector that allows them to dive into the action. The film shows how their ancestors, Sammus and Maximus, go to Egypt and raid the tomb of Sammun-Mak. There are five reels players can navigate in and out of, and to solve the puzzles, you have to watch the story unfold out of order. There’s a hilarious moment of self-reflexivity, as Sammus and Maximus must exchange a bestselling toy idea with Santa’s wise-cracking, entrepreneurial elves for a key item needed for the game. After the elves shoot down ideas for Monopoly, a Slinky and others, Sammus suggests a point-and-click adventure game. The smiles evaporate from the elves’ faces, the background music stops, and it becomes clear how profitable the elves think that option would be. You can’t help but laugh. The rest of the game is the same way. It’s fiendishly clever, fresh and entertaining. I’d recommend buying a copy as soon as you can. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ig Pharm is trying to barge into our bedroom again. They did it with the little blue pill, Viagra, and now they are doing it again with the little pink pill, Flibanserin. While Viagra addresses blood flow, helping a man achieve a stronger, longer erection, the Flibanserin pink pill manages brain chemistry in an effort to increase serotonin. Developed by pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), the goal of this pill is to cure women of their low sexual desire. Clinically defined as Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, HSDD is characterized as a lack or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity for some period of time. For this to be regarded as a disorder, it must cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulties and not be better accounted for by another mental disorder, a drug, or some other medical condition. What about not better accounted for by normal relationship differences? Did BI miss the memo that sexual desire is relational? “Low” sexual desire is only defined in contrast to someone else’s apparent “high” level of desire. And even then, it only causes distress or interpersonal difficulty if the person with higher desire demands more sex. Luckily, the FDA rejected BI’s proposal for the pink pill because the benefits did not outweigh the side effects of fatigue, depression and fainting spells. But beyond the physiological risks, the research study was rushed and poorly constructed. They sampled a small pool of primarily white, non-Hispanic, married, premenopausal women around the age of 36. Of the 5,018 applicants determined to have HSDD, only 1,388 were treated. Nothing was said about the 3,630 women who were not given treatment. Were all these women placed on placebos, or did a significant number of women drop out? And why were post-menopausal women left out of the study? Is the serotonin in their brains drastically different after they finish ovulating? Moreover, the study perpetuates a disease-mongering model and creates a colossal threat to women. Essentially, the pink pill paints normal, healthy sexuality for women, thereby defining Boulder Weekly

what qualifies as abnormal, unhealthy and, God forbid, low sexual desire. Women with so-called low desire must subscribe to escalating sexual standards and undergo lengthy pill-taking to normalize — and standardize — their brain chemistry in hopes that they will start pining for more penetration. What if low desire is actually normal, and we are being pressured to adjust to a profoundly sick society? Though hypersexualized Hollywood pushes high desire as ideal, certain places in the East and Middle East attempt to restrain high sexual desire, as it is considered indulgent, sinful, and/or distracting from more meaningful life paths. Even in our own U.S. society 60 years ago, women with high sexual desire were considered “hysterical.” To be a lady meant restraining your sexual impulses. Today, an adequate female partner must act more akin to the sexually ravenous Samantha from Sex in the City. But Samantha got cancer, and down went her libido. Because it happens. Our sex drive ebbs and flows with the struggles and stresses of life. Relationship dissatisfaction, for example, can cause a tsunami to hit sexual desire. Yet the medical solution of a potential pink pill only addresses one slice of an eight-piece pie, if that. Yes, solving issues related to hormones and neurotransmitters is important, but don’t forget touch and arousal, communication, safety, sensuality and challenging the social narrative of what qualifies as “satisfying sex.” Most importantly, sexual desire is about intimacy — intimacy with yourself and with your partner. Can you stand in your own two shoes and continue to connect on deeper levels? Doing so will create a greater potential for desire to develop. In the meantime, ladies, if you need something pink to bolster your brain’s yearning for sex, plug in a seven-speed, battery-operated boyfriend. He never cares how often he gets action. He’s happy to serve when desire calls him to duty! Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org.

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Thursday, July 1 Cultural Journey: From Ukraine to Greece by Foot. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Grand Opening of Bluebird Mine Complex. 2 p.m. Caribou Ranch, Nederland, 303-678-6222. Tour de France with the Pros. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont, 303-651-8374. The Women’s Wilderness Institute Party with Purpose — Happy hour fundraiser. 4-6 p.m. The Boulder Chop House & Tavern, 921 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-938-9191.

Saturday, July 3 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241. Sunday, July 4 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org. Monday, July 5 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

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olorado’s mountainous landscape is tailor-made for epic cycling tours. Whether you prefer the challenging high mountain passes or the long stretches of rolling alpine meadows, pedaling in the high country is a feast for the senses. The third annual Blue River Century ride and fundraiser captures all of the majesty of Colorado’s towering topography, while offering several ride options for cyclists of differing abilities — and it just so happens to make a strong case for the best century ride in the west. Now is a great time to rp.boulder.weekly.runner.pdf 1 6/18/10 3:05 ends PM start training for the Aug. 22 ride, which starts and at

Keystone’s River Run village. Having ridden in most of Colorado’s marquee road cycling events — such as the Triple Bypass, the Copper Triangle and the Mount Evans climb — I feel the Blue River Century is my personal favorite. The grassroots feel, the zero-waste initiative and proceeds benefiting the Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG Foundation for cancer research all make it a worthy cause before you have cranked a single pedal stroke. Riders can raise money in several different ways see CENTURY Page 50

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and are given the option to ride in honor of loved ones who have battled cancer. The race is well supported and offers four different finishing opportunities: 62.1 miles (a metric century), 101.42 miles to the town of Montezuma, 103.26 miles to A-Basin or the full 109.48 mile course that summits Loveland Pass and ends at the River Run parking lot at Keystone. The Loveland Pass finish covers three mountain passes (plus the bonus “subpass” on Swan Mountain Road) and pushes up over 8,600 feet in elevation gain. So for all the hardcore riders — what are you waiting for? Founder Marie Willson created the Blue River Century in honor of friends and family who have fought cancer, with her brother David (a cancer survivor) foremost in her heart. After being inspired by other community cycling events run by the LIVESTRONG foundation, Willson knew Colorado was the perfect setting for a cancer fundraising event. The 3rd Annual Blue River Century is dedicated to the memory of Lewis and Jeanette Hagerman, in-laws of Blue River Century volunteer webmaster Michael Birdsong. Lewis and Jeanette passed away from cancer within eight months of each other. Michael and his wife Patricia (Lewis and Jeanette’s daughter) themselves are both cancer survivors. The inspiration to carry on and triumph over the darkest side of this deadly disease fuels the spirit of the Blue River Century and makes the ride not only a challenging day in the mountains, but also an affirmation of life. In the first two years of the event, more than $36,000 has been raised for cancer research. As the event grows and evolves, Willson hopes the awareness

the Blue River Century raises will inspire more riders to participate and help bring in more donations. For all the great intentions and hard work, perhaps the best part of the ride

is the course itself. Because the course combines good climbs with beautiful rolling hills, the crowds soon disperse and riders are left to feel the fresh air and open sky of the high country. All riders follow the same route to the metric finish, meaning if you want to hammer out the full century and your friend wants a more modest day, you can ride along together all day. Starting from Keystone, the first climb pushes up Ute Pass and returns under I-70 to climb Fremont Pass. From there, riders can push towards whatever finish they feel up for. The Loveland Pass finish is a true test of endurance, as the last climb up offers the steepest and highest elevation road in the entire event. The screaming-fast downhill to Keystone is a glorious finish and compares favorably to the rush of entering Folsom Stadium at the end of the Bolder Boulder (only about 102 miles more of work). Registration for the Blue River Century is $65 for the metric century and $75 for the full century until Aug. 8, when the fees for both entries increase by $10. Riders can sign up until race day (Aug. 22) at 6:15 a.m. (race day registration is $85 and $95 for the metric/full century respectively). A minimum $25 donation to the LIVESTRONG foundation is required as well, though riders are encouraged to set up a fundraiser page to raise more money. Top fundraisers receive prizes. For more information, visit www.blu erivercentury.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ean-Pierre Jeunet hasn’t directed many films, but they’ve all been terrific, distinctive and stylish. Two you’ll hopefully have enjoyed already are The City of Lost Children and the weird Amélie. With Micmacs (original title Micmacs à tire-larigot) Jeunet moves into comedy with his signature quirkiness, and the result is delightful and hilarious. The story revolves around misfit Bazil (an appealingly simple Dany Boon), who grows up in a wealthy but fatherless house — his father has been killed while trying to defuse a landmine. Bazil is somewhat of a slacker who happily wiles away the hours of his life working in a video rental shop in Paris. One night a car chase and shootout transpire in front of the shop and, through happenchance, he ends up with a bullet lodged in the front of his brain. Bazil meets up with a troop of fellow misfits, discarded people who scrape a living out of salvaging discarded items and reassembling them to be useful and interesting. This is the theme of the film; it’s powerful and a terrific launching pad for lots of comic situations. Bazil eventually wreaks his revenge on the two corporations that were responsible for the land mine that killed his father and the bullet lodged in his skull in a complex series of cons and tricks reminis-

cent of The Italian Job and House of Games. There’s a sense of visual inventiveness in Micmacs that is aided by cinematographer Tetsuo Nagata (Splice, La vie en rose) that contributes to the wonder of the movie. At times it’s as if we’re seeing a sort of human Rube Goldberg machine, where the sequence of events transpires in a logical but astonishing manner, with its conclusion just what Bazil desires. Once Bazil becomes homeless, he’s adopted by a family of fellow misfits that live in a cave within a massive junkyard, notably including Elastic Girl ( Julie Ferrier), human cannonball Buster (Dominique Pinon), master thief Slammer ( Jean-Pierre Marielle), Calculator (Marie-Julie Baup), Congo (Omar Sy) and Mama Chow (Yolande Moreau), who acts as the

house mother and leader of the group. I’ll single out two of these as being particularly delightful: I really liked Calculator and found her a sweet, sympathetic character, and Congo, whose constant misuse of common clichés led to much hilarious dialogue. In their own ways, each of the Micmacs group were misfits, offering up the perfect new family for Bazil, who had never found himself after the death of his father. The antagonists are the owners of the two weapons manufacturers, the thuggish Nicolas Thibault de Fenouillet (Andre Dussollier) and the suave, sophisticated Marconi (Nicolas Marié), who is a single father but is more interested in his television than his son, who is relegated to eating meals in the kitchen with his nanny while Marconi dines solo at a formal dining table. I really enjoyed Micmacs, and despite flaws in terms of character development and depth, the visual inventiveness and audacity of the cons utilized to bring down the arms makers create a delightful cinematic experience. For reasons I cannot fathom, the MPAA gave the film an “R” rating. Quite the contrary, I’d say a “PG” would be more appropriate and surmise my teen daughter would be delighted by the story.

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directorial approach to anything, really. But if he ever learns to sustain a shot and build a joke visually within the frame, rather than slamming it together in the edit, he’ll give us better comedies. I guar-an-tee it. Sandler’s character is the rich, successful, cool one, the one we’re supposed to relate to, though he’s by far the most condescending of the bunch, a Hollywood agent married to a fashion designer (Salma Hayek, who now goes by Salma Hayek Pinault) whose kids are, in his words, “snotty, spoiled” little pishers who text the nanny when they want a snack or a certain kind of designer water. (This is played more or less

straight.) When his beloved middle-school basketball coach dies, the agent and his far-flung pals reunite for the funeral back in “New England,” as the establishing title card reads. There, at a lakeside cabin over the July 4 weekend, the guys relive all their old adolescent pranks and pratfalls and rump-oglings (the Rob Schneider character has a couple of ha-cha daughters), while their families look on, smiling. The only people humiliated, really, are older people and heavy people and nerds and vegans and black people and mothers who breast-feed their 4-year-olds. Everybody else gets a pass. David Spade plays the drunk, horny, single one. Kevin James plays the overweight one. At one point Maria Bello, vastly overqualified to be playing James’ wife (though both are likable), hoses Rudolph in the face with her breast milk. Now there’s something you didn’t get a generation ago, in the comparably forgettable John Hughes-scripted comedy The Great Outdoors. —MCT, Tribune Media Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Director Reed Cowan initially planned on making a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah but soon realized that the homophobia that prompts otherwise loving parents to kick teenagers out of their homes is deep-seated in current Mormon ideology. Cowan, with his fellow filmmakers, experienced first-hand what it was like to grow up gay in Utah in the Mormon faith, then turned their attention to the historic campaign by the Mormon Church to pass Proposition 8 in California, believing that it was the cornerstone of an ideology that has worked for decades “to damage gay people and their causes.” The film is their emotional outcry to what they found. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

A young American academic, Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally), attempts to persuade the heirs of a celebrated Uruguayan novelist, Jules Gund, to allow him to write an authorized biography of the writer, who has recently died. Urged on by his vehemently ambitious girlfriend (Alexandra Maria Lara), another academic, Razaghi turns up uninvited on the family’s doorstep in a remote corner of Uruguay, hoping to change their minds. The writer’s widow (Laura Linney) stubbornly states with every breath that she will never give her permission. The writer’s brother (Anthony Hopkins) has a contrary opinion: a biography can only help to keep the writer’s name before a book-buying public. The writer’s young mistress (Charlotte Gainsbourg) sides with Caroline. Then, as she begins to fall for Omar (or is she succumbing only to the charm of someone, anyone, new?) she changes her mind. How Omar avoids or confronts life’s choices determines in time whether or not he has his wish granted. Directed by three-time-Academy Award-nominee James Ivory (The Remains of the Day, A Room With a View, Howard’s End). At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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Prince William County, Virginia, became ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy when officials adopted a law requiring police officers to question anyone they have “probable cause” to suspect is an undocumented immigrant. 9500 Liberty reveals the startling vulnerability of a local government, targeted by national anti-immigration networks using the Internet to frighten and intimidate lawmakers and citizens. Alarmed by a climate of fear and racial division, residents form a resistance using YouTube videos and virtual townhalls, setting up a real-life showdown in the seat of county government. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The A-Team

Excuse me, I need to sit down, catch my breath and extinguish my singed eyebrows. I’ve just experienced The A-Team, a highly combustible concoction of testosterone, napalm and gunpowder, seasoned with cheesy comedy and served flambe. In what

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Bella, Jacob and Edward the Sparkling Vampire are back for more smoldering looks and macho posturing in Eclipse. feels like a tryout for the next Mission: Impossible directing job, Joe Carnahan has made the reboot of the 1980s TV series an excuse to blow up every vehicle, prop and backdrop in a four-mile radius. The film is a relentless, unapologetic, inyour-face barrage of special effects and virtuoso stunts that roars into action in the pre-credits prelude and rarely downshifts. The main benefit of basing The A-Team on a pre-existing series is that it comes partially assembled, with the character quirks already in place. That way we can get to the detonations faster. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Colin Covert

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Burlesque and vaudeville acts were America’s most popular form of live entertainment in the first half of the 20th century — until cinema drove them from the mainstream. To add insult to injury, the art of burlesque became vilified and misunderstood and was largely left out of our cultural history. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its golden age through the women (and men!) who lived it, Behind the Burly Q reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

Cyrus

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie (Catherine Keener), John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim (Matt Walsh) at a party. To his and everyone else’s surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei). Their chemistry is immediate. The relationship takes off quickly, but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John’s house. Perplexed, he follows her

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 The A-Team Fri-Wed: 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:30 Eclipse Wed: 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:50 Grown Ups Fri-Sat: 10:10, 11:10, 12:40, 1:40, 3:15, 4:10, 5:45, 7, 8:15, 9:35, 10:50 The Karate Kid Fri-Wed: 9:40, 12:55, 4, 7:30, 10:40 Knight and Day Fri-Wed: 9:50, 11:20, 12:25, 2, 3:05, 4:45, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 9:55, 10:55 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 9:30, 11:15, 12, 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:05, 7:1, 7:45, 9:45, 10:25 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 10, 10:40, 11:30, 12:45, 1:30, 2:05, 3:20, 4:50, 6:15, 7:25, 9, 9:30, 10 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 The A-Team Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Eclipse Fri-Wed: 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 6:15, 7, 8:30,

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9:15, 10, 10:45, 11:30 Get Him to the Greek Fri-Wed: 1:35, 7:25 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Fri-Wed: 10:35, 4:20, 10:15 Grown Ups Fri-Wed: 12:35, 1:55, 3:20, 4:35, 5:55, 7:15, 8:35, 9:55, 11:15 The Karate Kid Fri-Wed: 11:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:40 Knight and Day Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 11:20, 12:50, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6, 7:30, 8:50, 10:10, 11:40 Please Give Fri-Wed: 2:05, 7:55 Solitary Man Fri-Wed: 11, 4:40, 10:05 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 10:20, 11:10, 12:05, 1:05, 2, 3:50, 4:55, 5:40, 6:35, 7:40, 8:25, 9:20, 10:25 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 The A-Team Fri-Wed: 10:10, 1, 3:50, 7:05, 10 Eclipse Wed: 10, 10:30, 12:55, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Get Him to the Greek Fri-Wed:

10:10, 12:50, 3:30, 8:05, 10:40 Grown Ups Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:50, 10:20 Killers Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:40 Knight and Day Fri-Wed: 10:20, 1:10, 4, 7:15, 9:55 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 11, 11:10, 1:40, 2:15, 4:40, 4:45, 7:25, 7:45, 10:25, 10:35 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 10, 10:50, 12:40, 1:35, 3:20, 4:10, 6:40, 7:35, 9:30, 10:10 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3197 Found Home Movies Thu: 7 p.m. Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-3521992 The City of Your Final Destination Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 The Secret in Their Eyes ThuWed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45

Winter’s Bone Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10:05

Psycho Beach Party Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Casablanca Fri: 11:59 p.m. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Thu-Wed: 4:30, 8 I am Love Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 The A-Team Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10 Eclipse Wed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Grown Ups Fri-Wed: 11:10, 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 The Karate Kid Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Knight and Day Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:40, 10:10 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Shrek Forever After Fri-Wed: 11, 1:35, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:10, 2, 4, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:05

Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Cyrus Fri-Wed: 5:15, 7:30, 10 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Fri, Mon-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:15 Micmacs Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 10 FriWed: 4, 7:15, 9:30 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 8:The Mormon Proposition FriWed: 5:15, 7:15 9500 Liberty Thu: 7 p.m. Fri-Sun: 3, 7:10 Behind the Burly Q Fri-Wed: 5, 7:30 Films on the Rocks: Raising Arizona Tue: 7 p.m.

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home and discovers the other man in Molly’s life: her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). A 21-year-old new age musician, Cyrus is his mom’s best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her. Cyrus will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits for the woman they both love — and it appears only one man can be left standing when it’s over. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Stark (played by Busch himself) is on the case, but soon her investigation is complicated by an overabundance of suspects. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Raising Arizona

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The plot hopefully thickens in the third chapter in the tale of love between the teenaged Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire beau (Robert Pattinson). Their romance is complicated by her growing friendship with wolf-boy Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and a string of serial murders that may or may not have been committed by vampires invading their Northwestern town. The question isn’t whether the movie will be a hit. The question is just HOW big will it be? Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Found Home Movies

I grew up with home movies, first as the subject soon after birth and later with encouragement from my father to shoot [them] myself, which we both did avidly. My mother introduced me to garage sales at about age five, to which I have gone ever since. Since the 1970s I have collected home movies found at garage sales. (Typically they are not to be found at thrift stores — presumably they are thrown away.) At a big church sale in about 1985 I found several home-edited home movie epics by “Smitty.” They include the upbringing of a daughter from cradle to prom, a men’s-only fishing trip on Marrie’s River, a “Golf Classic” and cross-country automobile family trips, each on full 400 feet reels of super 8mm film. For Family Reunion Month come view Smitty’s shared vision of his life through a super 8mm projector. At Boulder Public Libary. — Joel Haertling/BPL Get Him to the Greek

In Get Him to the Greek, likely to amuse and aghast in equal measure, Russell Brand plays the same British rock ‘n’ roll prat — Aldous Snow — that he assayed so expertly in the 2008 rom-com, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Only this time, Aldous is off the wagon and on any number of mind-warping chemicals. He’s an obnoxious, narcissistic, groping, blotto nightmare of a ninny — and he’s the “him” in the title of Nicholas Stoller’s improbable, intercontinental buddy movie farce. Aldous has to make it from his home base in London to Los Angeles for a big anniversary gig at the storied Greek Theater. Good luck to Jonah Hill, playing the dweebish record company underling with the job of accompanying — and babysitting — Aldous on his jaunt. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Steven Rea. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A violent, exhilarating and faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller, with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the role of Lisbeth Salander, the punky, pierced, perturbed, cyber-hacking heroine. Not rated. At Esquire and Century. — Steven Rea Grown Ups

See full review on Page 52. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. I am Love

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his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo’s friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

This highly acclaimed documentary takes the audience on a year-long ride with legendary comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life — peeling away the mask of an iconic comedian and exposing the struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. The film is an emotionally surprising and revealing portrait of one of the most hilarious and long-standing career women ever in the business. Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres The Karate Kid

In this remake of the 1984 sleeper hit, Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan take over for Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita as the teenager being bullied in school and the wise kung-fu master who teaches him how to defend himself. Everything old is new again! Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Killers

In Killers Ashton Kutcher plays a CIA superspy assassin who wants out, for the sake of his relationship with a Type A control-freakish ninny played by Katherine Heigl. She played a ninnyish Type A control freak in her previous assignment with director Robert Luketic, The Ugly Truth. How many more of these patronizing cliches can Heigl take on before audiences start blaming her for everything wrong with junk like The Ugly Truth and Killers? Haven’t we seen the oh-my-gosh-my-spouse-is-secretly-anassassin-but-you-know-a-nice-one routine once too often? Rated PG-13. At Colony Square. — Michael Phillips Knight and Day

Perky June Havens (Cameron Diaz) unwittingly becomes tethered to renegade Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) after bumping into him at the Wichita airport. The two cozy up while on a curiously empty flight that erupts into chaos (the funniest scene) once June visits the restroom. When she returns, she discovers that the dreamy guy with the killer

smile is lugging around a carry-on stuffed with issues. Not only is he being hunted by CIA members pursuing a mysterious device called “The Zephyr,” but Roy appears to be cuckoo and triggerhappy. After so many bad romance movies, it’s a treat to see genuine sparks fly between two major stars. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers The Last Airbender

There is incomprehensible, and there is inexplicable, and then there is The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender.” Not to be confused with James Cameron’s tale of tree-hugging blue people, this saga revolves around (I think) a war-torn future world waiting for a messiah to unite it. But the screenplay (also by Shyamalan) is cluttered with so much gobbledygook exposition and confusing action that it’s impossible to grasp what’s supposed to be going on for more than 15 seconds at a stretch. By the time the (mystifying) climax rolls around, the movie has come to resemble an unwieldy hybrid of Little Buddha and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Flatiron, Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — Christopher Kelly

A childless couple unable to adopt decide that a couple who just had quintuplets won’t mind if they steal one of the babies. Thus begins the Coen brothers’ madcap romp Raising Arizona. Holly Hunter stars as Ed, a cop who is devastated when she learns that she cannot get pregnant. Nicolas Cage is her husband, H.I., an ex-con who wants nothing more than to make his wife the happiest woman in the world. So if she wants a baby, she’s going to have a baby, one way or another. At Red Rocks Amphitheatre. — Denver Film Society The Secret in Their Eyes

Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) has spent his entire working life as a criminal court employee. In 1999, recently retired and with time on his hands, he decides to write a novel. Drawing on his own past life as a civil servant, he creates a true, moving and tragic story in which he was very directly involved — in 1974, his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman. As he writes, his past rises up before his eyes and awakens all his demons, particularly those involving his past decisions, uncertainties and irreparable mistakes. Juan José Campanella directs this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Fully subtitled. Rated R. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres Shrek Forever After

Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. Shrek Forever After, the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series. Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers), feeling buried under the celebrity and the diapers, makes an unwise trade with a wizard named Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) and is sent back to a time before he was actually born. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore Solitary Man

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A modest but juicy character study of a horn dog in winter, Solitary Man stars Michael Douglas as the self-destructive hedonist, slouching toward redemption. At Century. — Michael Phillips

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Please Give is writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s (Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing) perceptive — and devastatingly funny — take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions and shaky moral bearings. Kate (Catherine Keener), Alex (Oliver Platt) and their teenage daughter Abby (Sarah Steele) purchase the apartment next door in order to expand their two-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Their only problem is Andra (Ann Guilbert), the cranky old lady living in it, and that they’ve got to wait for her to die. Simply waiting for Andra to die becomes complicated, resulting in a dramatic comedy about love, death and liberal guilt. At Century. — Landmark Theatres

If Toy Story 3 had sprung, Slinky Dog-like, from any creative think tank besides Pixar, it might be considered a classic. As is, it’s a good sequel. Young Andy is heading off to college, and the long-neglected toys are headed for the attic. After mistakenly getting thrown to the curb as trash, the gang — cowboy Woody, spaceman Buzz Lightyear, cowgirl Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the rest of the principals -- has to bust out of the day care center in which they find themselves. Make no mistake: This Disney/Pixar release represents a franchise taken seriously by its custodians. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) is a perky but unfulfilled teen. After witnessing the antics of a gang of strapping young surfer dudes at the beach one day, she decides surfing’s the thing for her and asks the group leader, the “Great Kanaka” (Thomas Gibson), to give her lessons. But Kanaka won’t give Florence the time of day — until her alter ego, S/M dominatrix Ann Bowman, unexpectedly makes an appearance. Meanwhile, a mysterious killer is offing the town’s teens one by one. Detective Monica

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Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence, The Burning Plain) as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail. With a star-making performance by Lawrence, Winter’s Bone is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. Directed and co-written by Debra Granik. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres July 1, 2010 55

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by Imagine! CORE-Longmont Reviewers Cyclists love it on their fries, we were told, and this restaurant has a Tour de France theme throughout. This theme is evident in Rueben’s menu where burgers are named after famous Tour de France locations and bike parts. In fact, Lance Armstrong’s own personal n your bike and hungry? Then bike on into trainer and chef have eaten at Rueben’s Burger Bistro! Rueben’s. It’s by the Pearl Street Mall on All their meat is 100 percent Broadway and Walnut, at the site of the old natural: no hormones, no antibiotScottish Pub whose owners recently moved ics. The burgers are normally back home to Scotland. served on soft pretzel buns that When we went to write this review, we met with come in from Chicago two to four Autumn McFarland, the general manager of the restimes a week. As you can tell, at taurant. Autumn was courteous and attentive to our Rueben’s, it’s “fresh, not frozen.” questions. She waited on our tables and clearly hadn’t Besides pretzel buns, they also “rehearsed” her answers, so nothing seemed canned or serve gluten-free and cracked wheat buns. contrived. The other workers followed Autumn’s The example by being polite and by meat itself providing great service. Rueben’s Burger is juicy, We were able to tour the Bistro lean and kitchen, where the staff showed 1800 Broadway, Suite 150, well us all the local, fresh foods that Boulder, 303-443-5000, cooked. go into the mix. The staff also Ruebensburgerbistro.com The menu takes customers’ dietary preferis fairly flexible, especially ences to heart by, say, cooking their Alp d’Huez, which is a custom-built burger chicken on one burner and beef on another. The hard workers in the kitchen also followed Autumn’s exem- named after the steepest climb in the Tour de France. plary lead by taking interest in our questions and by Autumn told us that one person wanted a “burger giving professional answers. with everything,” so that customer received one huge Most of the ingredients here are, indeed, quite Alp d’Huez with everything on it from beets and fresh. We could tell, for example, that the fries we ate mushrooms to green chilis and fried eggs on top. After taking on that challenge, the customer must were made of top-notch stuff: not too greasy, not too have felt just as exhausted as a cyclist taking on the brittle. Along with said fries, Rueben’s offers BBQ sauce, ketchup, the “special” fry sauce (which reminds real Alp d’Huez! As mentioned previously, the ingredients come one of Thousand Island) and mayo. Why mayo?

Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly received this submission from the Imagine! CORE-Longmont reviewers and decided to let them head off this week’s Cuisine section with an article on their experience at Rueben’s Burger Bistro. Imagine! is a not-for-profit program that assists adults with developmental disabilities and helps them integrate in their communities.

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he Mediterranean and tender. However, this dish paled in Restaurant, or just the Med, comparison to some of the salads I’ve as it’s popularly known, is the sampled here in the past, as it lacked old reliable of Boulder eaterthe same balanced complexity the others ies. Its voluminous assortment had. of southern European pastas, sandwiches, I ordered an entrée off the griglia, or tapas, salads and main plates means that grilled, section of the menu. These choicanyone’s dietary restrictions or even plain es, which top out at the mid-$20 range, old pickiness can be easily accommodated. consist of such simply prepared centerIt’s also a lively place, set off by its downpieces as salmon, New York steak, yellowtown location and dynamic customer base, fin tuna and lamb chops. One can also which spans from well-heeled lawyers to select a side of basmati rice, potato, or chic students. vegetable and a sauce. My selection was The far-reaching menu and welcomthe $16.95 hanger steak. This meat was ing ambience made this a perfect locale the meal’s high point, grilled to a perfect for me to reconnect with my elementary medium rare and possessing both remarkschool classmate Georgette, whom I able flavor and tenderness. Adding flavor hadn’t seen in two decades. Who could was chimichurri, the South American find fault with the bright and sunny color sauce of olive oil and such verdant herbs scheme evoking the restaurant’s nameas oregano. However, I would have presake? The patio dining space reminds one ferred this condiment to have a more of savoring tapas in Madrid, minus the assertive taste. dense crowds and blaring Europop. It’s hard to go wrong with dessert at Speaking of noise, we secured an outdoor the Med, and Georgette and I ordered the table, since the echoing tiled surfaces of handful of scenes from Orson Welles’ 1974 brilliant docu$6.25 crème brulee and the $3.95 panna the Med’s interior don’t always promote mentary F For Fake take place in La Méditerranée, a Paris cotta, two custardy European cousins. quiet conversation. seafood restaurant. Ostensibly, the main subjects of the film are Each was fine, with the brulee having a We began with tapas. The $6 sautéed art forger Elmyr De Hory and Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes’ sugary crust resembling a thin glass and an garlic mushrooms, possessing a slightly faux biographer. Welles himself appears throughout as a narraoverall silky texture. The sweetness of the watery texture and taste, weren’t anything tor and self-confessed charlatan. His bag of tricks includes adroit creamier panna cotta, which was a tad spectacular. The $5 bacon-wrapped dates editing and an indictment of so-called “experts” who allow fakmuch for Georgette, was tempered by a were better, mixing the soft, candy-like ers to thrive. By the end of the film, Welles convinces the audidrizzling of citrusy syrup that contributed sweetness of the fruit with the smoky ence that the dividing line between fakery and authenticity is welcome tang. complexity of the bacon, set off by a whisnot nearly as clear-cut as we would like to think. I’ve had meals at the Med where per of crispness. The $8 minced yellowtail there was little to criticize. The entrée ceviche tasted clean, although fewer diced salad and mushrooms were a little below veggies would have facilitated our apprecithe level I’ve historically been accusation of this tuna’s freshness and firm texture. Also, entrée salad. This consisted of a good-sized chunk tomed to at this eatery. Nevertheless, the Med this dish lacked something to scoop up the seafood, of halibut on mixed greens with strawberries, remains a more than acceptable spot for a refined like plantain chips, and it felt awkward to fork it into cucumber, grape tomatoes, blackberries, red onion, yet comfortable meal, or even a reunion with an old one’s mouth. carrot and avocado. The fruit and vegetables were friend. Georgette went for the evening’s special $13.95 fresh and visually appealing, and the fish was moist Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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In keeping with the Tour de France theme, the walls are a delightful yellow, the color of the Tour de France leader’s jersey. An avid cyclist fan, of course, the restaurant was started only recently by Rueben Verplank, a local entrepreneur who dreamed of starting such a bistro ever since he was a little boy. Rueben himself, who was as welcoming as Autumn and the rest of the staff, was nice enough to recommend a bike repair shop in the area to one of our writers. Overall, the fries we ate have a “zip” thanks to the combination of delectable spices and sea salt, the sliders are a 60 July 1, 2010

can’t-miss appetizer, and the refillable drinks made us feel refreshed. Personally, Ian loved the menu — which includes high-quality food at an affordable price — so much, that he ran back inside to try to take it home with him even after we left. In our opinion, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a place where you can get more than what you pay for. Imagine! CORE-Longmont Reviewers are: Mike Williams, Ian Markiewicz, Dawn-Marie Bisgard, and Dan Roberts. Boulder Weekly

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ormerly housed on Main Street, and with other outposts in Brighton and Lafayette, Longmont’s Pinocchio’s offers comforting Italian in an elegant setting that belies the reasonable prices. Start with a pepperoni roll, a calzone-like concoction of cured meat and melted cheese. Follow it up with a classic pasta dish such as the homemade lasagna, and call it a day with the homemade Kentucky bourbon pie or lemon cake. For weekend breakfast, try one of the unique eggs Benedicts, including the signature version made with shrimp.

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March 21-April 19:

How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Aries? Since we’re halfway through 2010, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping you’re well underway in the heroic task of conquering your past. It has been and will continue to be prime time for you to wean yourself from unresolvable energy-drains. So exorcise irksome ghosts, please! Pay off ancient debts! Free yourself from memories that don’t serve you! You’re finally ready to graduate from lessons you’ve had to learn and re-learn and re-re-learn. The coming months will bring you even more opportunities to finish up old business that has demanded too much of your time and energy.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Now that we’re midway through 2010, it’s time to assess how well you’re taking advantage of this year’s good fortune. So let me ask you, Taurus: Have you been expanding your web of connections? Have you honed and deepened your networking skills? Have you taken bold steps to refine your influence over the way your team or crew or gang is evolving? The first half of the year has been full of encouragement in these areas, and the coming months will be even more so.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

How well have you been attending to 2010’s major themes, Gemini? Since we’re midway through the year, let’s do a check-in. I hope that by now you are at least 15 percent sturdier, stronger and braver than you’ve ever been in your entire life, and at least 20 percent better organized and disciplined. I hope that you have outgrown one of your amateur approaches and claimed a new professional privilege. Now write the following questions on a slip of paper that you will leave taped to your mirror for the next six months. “1. How can I get closer to making my job and my vocation be the same thing? 2. What am I doing to become an even more robust and confident version of myself?”

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Let’s do a check-in on your progress so far in 2010, Cancerian. The year’s half over, and I’m wondering if you’ve been cashing in on the unique invitations that life has been sending your way. The way I understand it, you’ve been summoned to emerge from your hiding place and go wandering around in exotic and unfamiliar places. Events that in the past may have turned you inward toward thoughts of safety have in recent months nudged you out in the direction of the Great Unknown. Have you been honest enough with yourself to recognize the call to adventure? Have you been wild and free enough to answer the call? If not, I suggest you find it in yourself to do so. The next six months will be prime time to head out on a glorious quest.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

The year’s half over, Leo. Let’s take an inventory to see whether you’ve been taking maximum advantage of the special opportunities life has been offering you. Consider these questions: Has the quality of your intimate alliances become especially intense, invigorating and catalytic in recent months? Have you created lots of small miracles with the people you care about most? Have you been willing to risk more to get the most out of togetherness, even if it means dealing with shadowy stuff that makes you uncomfortable? If there has been anything missing from your efforts in these heroic tasks, get to work. Between now and January 2011, you’ll have a mandate to go even deeper than you have since January 2010.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

So how is 2010 going for you so far, Virgo? Have you been taking advantage of life’s offers to help you move into a dynamic new phase of your relationship life? Have you been willing to set aside tired old strategies for seeking intimacy so that you can discover approaches you’ve never imagined before? Have you been brave about overcoming the past traumas and hurts that scared you into accepting less than the very best alliances you could seek? I hope you’ve been pursuing these improvements, because this is the best year in over a decade to accomplish them.

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Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Have you been doing a lot of sweating and grunting from sheer exertion in 2010? Have you thrown yourself conscientiously into the hardest, smartest labor you’ve ever enjoyed? I hope so, because that would suggest you’re in rapt alignment with this year’s cosmic rhythms. It would mean that you

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

How’s that project coming, Scorpio? You know, that assignment the universe gave you at the beginning of 2010 to loosen up, play more and periodically laugh like a tipsy Sagittarius. Have you been taking a sabbatical from the seething complications that in most other years are your rightful specialty? Did you throw some of your emotional baggage off a cliff? Are you dancing more frequently? I hope you’ve been attending to all of this crucial work, and I trust that you’re primed to do even more of it during the next six months. To take maximum advantage of your appointments with relief and release, you’ll have to be even sweeter and lighter.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Are you a dynamic bastion of stability yet, Sagittarius? Have you been growing deeper and deeper roots as you bloom in your power spot? Are you continuing to build your selfmastery as you draw abundant sustenance from the mother lode? You’re halfway through 2010, the year when these wonders should be unfolding with majestic drama. The best is yet to come, so I recommend that you declare your intention to make the next six months be a time when you come all the way home.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

What are the toughest pairs of opposites in your life, Capricorn? What are the polarities whose different sides rarely resonate with each other and too often threaten to split you in half? One of the distinguishing characteristics of 2010 is the fact that you are getting unprecedented chances to bring them together in ringing harmony, or at least a more interesting tension. What have you learned so far about how to work that magic? And how can you apply it in even craftier ways during the next six months?

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

You may still be gnawed by a longing for your life to be different from what it is. You might fantasize that you’re missing a crucial element that would, if acquired, usher you into a Golden Age. But I’ve been analyzing the big picture of your destiny, Aquarius, and here’s what I see: This year you’re being offered the chance to be pretty satisfied with the messy, ambiguous, fantastically rich set of circumstances that you’ve actually been blessed with. The first half of 2010 should have inspired you to flirt with this surprising truth. The second half will drive it home with the force of a pile of gifts left anonymously on your doorstep.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

The journal Nature recently marked the tenth anniversary of a great scientific triumph: the complete mapping of the human genome. There was a cloud over the celebration, however, because few practical health benefits have yet to come out of this revolutionary accomplishment. It has proved unexpectedly hard to translate the deciphered code into cures for diseases. I offer this situation as a cautionary tale for you, Pisces. The first part of 2010 has brought you several important discoveries and breakthroughs. In the coming months, even as the novelties continue to flow, it’ll be your sacred duty to put them to use in ways that will permanently improve your day-to-day life. Unlike the case of the human genome, your work should meet with success.

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