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Denver Water offering ‘critical care’ to river on life support I thought that the article “Obituary for

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diversions without mitigating the impacts would flat line this historically important river. Since I was quoted extensively in the article, I would like to have this input. The present state of the Fraser is a river on life support but not dead. Denver Water has come to the table to offer to assist in the critical care to keep this river

Switzerland, because he could pay less in taxes there? Not that he was actually moving to that cold country, mind you — no, no, he’d still be living right here in the good ’ol USA, still benefitting from all those public services that taxpayers like you provide. Surely, you think, this has to be a joke. Well, meet Gregory Wasson of Long Grove, Ill., who has announced all of the above. While he’s not personally your neighbor, the corporation he heads might be, for it has stores in hundreds of neighborhoods all across the country — Wasson is CEO of Walgreens Corporation, the $72-billion-a-year drugstore chain that is America’s largest. But Greg no longer wants Walgreens to be American, so he’s planning to reincorporate it in Switzerland. Why? To skirt paying about $800 million a year in corporate taxes that Walgreens owes to America. Of course, the stores will not move to Switzerland.

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Wasson fully intends to keep extracting profits from our neighborhoods and for Walgreens to keep benefiting from all the public services that America provides, from police to infrastructure. Oh, one more thing: About a fourth of Walgreen’s annual income is derived from — guess who? — the U.S. government. Yes, the very government that Wasson & Co. say they no longer want to help support. The unpatriotic drugstore ingrate drew nearly $17 billion last year from Medicare and Medicaid payments provided by Uncle Sam. If Walgreens doesn’t want to support public programs like these, the programs should not be supporting Walgreens. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com July 10, 2014 7

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you to bring one quart of water for a two- to three-day trip over the mountains or across the desert — the time depends on a group’s speed, children and old people slow things down, and waiting out the Border Patrol can add a day. It’s a trip the crossers thought would only take a few hours. That’s what they were told. Such deception is good for business. It’s how a smuggler convinces would-be crossers to give them their money instead of some other smuggler who is equally deceptive regarding the risks that will be encountered. It’s also another reason why so many people die crossing the border. More than 6,000 bodies of those who didn’t make it have been found along the border since 2000 and some experts believe that the actual death toll could be three times that high. Who knows how many bones are hidden among the chaparrals or have been buried by the blowing sand? They’re closer now. We can now hear the footsteps of two border patrol agents on the trail only a few yards away near the area where we crawled into the brush. The sound of their boots on sand and rock seems magnified by the tension. Then they stop. Fear and sweat become one and we are all drenched. I’m not breathing. People’s lives, their actual lives, are hanging by the thread of their silence. Will it be the better life they have dreamed of and risked so much for, or will a sneeze or cough or whimper give it all away? They have to know we’re in here. On my first trip out I did a few days of ride-alongs and tracking with Border Patrol agents in the region. Some of them can read sign like the cavalry scouts in old westerns. It’s just a matter of whether or not they want to bother crawling around in the brush until they find us, wait us out or try to outguess the guide and catch us with less effort somewhere else between here and the highway. We catch a break. It’s a hot, dusty day and they opt for the latter. After a see DYERTIMES Page 11

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Mr. Danish does us all (including himself) a disservice when he attempts to pull levers the function of which are opaque to him. From his June 26 opus [Re: “A costly inconvenient truth, ” Danish Plan, June 26] we see in train an apologist for the oil and gas industry who may be far more the alarmist than the accusations aimed at those who don’t want or trust fracking nearby. I worked in exploration for Conoco and Union Oil, and I was a licensed Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in Colorado. My analysis begins with honesty and realism: the Wattenberg Field and its siblings probably underlie at most onefifth of Boulder County’s 751 square miles. Of that, I estimate 15 percent would be inaccessible on the surface, fracking or no; after all, the squeezers may like to think it is feasible to poke a hole in Panama Reservoir #1, but I very much doubt even they could make that work. Counted within that 15 percent are geologically barren tracts. There truly are many. Using 160-acre spacing, in line with forced pooling and unitization practices in Colorado, and applying a 5 percent probability of a “dry hole” (from numerous operator annual reports), there may be 483 net wells possible in the County’s eastern arm. One “major” operating in the Wattenberg has shown rather consistent production averaging about 96 barrels per day per well. Not all is oil here — the accepted conversion factor is 6,000 cubic feet of natural gas per barrel of oil — equivalent (“boe”). Using 2013 realized prices for oil and gas at the wellhead (meaning transportation is not counted), the overall effective gross price was no more in 2013 than $53.75 per boe. Subtracting production costs amounting to roughly 12 percent of gross receipts, plus taxes (not income tax), and also depletion, depreciation and amortization, one sees what’s called the “netback” at no more here than $20 per boe. A one-eighth typical royalty [land]owner, then, may receive $2.50 for that same boe. Using 48 barrels produced per day (96 divided by two, expressing the true option-

pricing, overriding probability — either a well produces today, or it doesn’t), this putative well on 160 acres throws off approximately $43,800 per year. Royalty owners in my neighborhood agree. I use a 10 percent annual discount rate, just as the operators did in 2013. The length of production-value term is three years, because a fracked well’s production pressure declines precipitously in as little as two years. That mineral cash flow implies a maximum value for these 160 acres of land as $109,000, or $681 per acre. Good irrigated land can often bring twice that amount; therefore, the highest and best use of this hypothetical eastern Boulder County/Wattenberg parcel is not oil and gas production. Before Mr. Danish gets excited again, I cite words used frequently by oil and gas companies regarding their reserves: “Engineering estimates of proved reserves are imprecise.” A pity that no one can be sure of real reserves under the land without testing somehow. Drilling is but one such test. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Can’t ignore costs to health, water quality

Paul Danish’s recent column on the costs of banning fracking omits several additional costs that should be included in any calculations pertaining to making Boulder County’s ban on fracking permanent. In “A costly inconvenient truth,” [Danish Plan, June 26] Danish ignores one whole side of the ledger: the monetary costs of allowing fracking. Among these are damage to county infrastructure and private property as a result of frackinginduced earthquakes, including gas explosions, auto wrecks, and various other calamities; contamination of groundwater and birth defects caused to local residents from drinking contaminated water; damage to local agriculture due to water contamination and/or a drop in the water table; and damage to the local tourism industry from lost or damaged aesthetics. Property values might decline as well, since some residents will likely move out in search of better water quality and a place to sleep uninterrupted by earthquakes. I’m sure Mr. Danish would counter that none of these negative consequences has been legally proven to be linked to fracking, and therefore could not be upheld by a court of law. But these are what has happened in places like Wyoming, Oklahoma and Ohio, where fracking is widespread. I contend that the burden of proof should fall on the oil companies, that they should not be allowed to continue unless and until they can prove fracking does not cause earthquakes and contamination of ground water. Robert Karnisky/Broomfield Boulder Weekly

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few minutes their voices begin to fade as they make their way back up the trail to the north. We remain silent and motionless in our sauna of a room in the scrub brush for several hours. We have to be sure they’re not watching from higher ground. As I sit and listen as hard and far as I can, I hear a throat being cleared off to my right. I look deep into the shadows and modeled light and some 20 feet away through the limbs I see several sets of eyes staring back at me. It’s another group of migrants who have been here the entire time, hiding in silence just like us. They must have been ahead of us on the trail, heard the same voices and retreated back to the same cover before we got here. I don’t know why, but it’s that image that haunts me most from my first border crossing, those eyes in the shadows. So much need, so much fear, all conveyed without a word. **** Thanks for indulging me that story. Current headlines about children crossing and dying while trying to cross the U.S./Mexican border have caused a few old memories of mine to resurface of late. One of the worst things about the current immigration news cycle is having to listen to our reality-challenged elected leaders and TV talking heads coldly discussing the fate of these children migrants as if they were nothing more than another bargaining chip to be traded in the next round of elections. These are real kids with real names and real families and real hopes and dreams and fears who are literally dying for a chance at a better life in this country. Most are risking the deadly one- to three-day gauntlet required to cross the deserts and mountains along the border because they are fleeing life-threatening conditions in their home countries that are unimaginable to most of us. They deserve better than to have their lives reduced to political theater for cable news. Since last October, 52,000 unaccompanied children have been caught by the Border Patrol entering the U.S. along our border with Mexico. We don’t know how many have died trying to get in or how many have made it through. Most of these children are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, three places that the life expectancy of a teenager unwilling to join a gang and do things like cut off people’s heads for failure to pay protection money is pretty short these days. I honestly don’t think I know a single parent who, if confronted with the Boulder Weekly

choice of having their child try to survive on the crime-ridden streets of El Salvador or sending them north in the hope that they might survive the arduous journey into the U.S., would not choose the latter. It’s time that we quit talking about these children trying to seek asylum in our country in order to avoid the near certain death that stalks them in their homelands as if it has anything to do

with Democrats, Republicans, elections or budgets. My God, is this what we have become? Have we lost our compassion, our empathy, our ability to look a little harder, to see into the eyes in the shadows and offer help? I hope not. Deporting these children back to a place where they will quite likely die after they have endured the hardship

and trauma of making the crossing is not immigration policy; it is a death sentence being carried out for the crime of being born poor in the wrong place at the wrong time. It needs to stop now. And it’s up to each of us to make that happen. Let your elected leaders know that playing politics with immigration in the real world too often equates to murder. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Salvadorian assets in the U.S. or impose other sanctions. But wouldn’t having to pay off a $500 million bill destroy the economy of El Salvador? Quite possibly. So let the El Salvadoran government pay it off over 10 or even 20 years. According to the CIA Fact Book, the Gross Domestic Product of El Salvador is $24.67 billion at the official exchange rate, and its government takes in $4.68 billion in revenue annually. A $50 or $25 million a year bill would sting, but would still be within the country’s means. The bill would only become burdensome if another 50,000 kids show up on America’s doorstep next year and year after year after that. So billing El Salvador — or any other country which is exporting its kids to the USA — for the upkeep of its children in the U.S. would provide those countries with a powerful inducement for keeping them home. And how might that be done? Not by building border fences and trying to keep people from leaving by force, which would only produce more violence and tyranny and cause still more people to send their kids north, but by addressing the political, economic and social pathologies that cause people to vote with their feet — or their children’s feet — in the first place. Those pathologies include criminal and political violence, economies that are sapped of their vitality by top to bottom corruption, the absence of the rule of law, which discourages both foreign and domestic investment, parasitic elites that have been treating common people like shit for the last 400 years, the inability or unwillingness of most Latin American polities to pay a decent respect to the concept of the loyal opposition, which is the bed-rock concept on which all stable democracies rest, and so on. One reason this crap goes on and on and on is that it’s more cost-effective to export the up-coming generation of malcontents to the U.S. than it is to build societies in which people want to live in instead of flee. Making the governments pay for the support of their kids who are illegally in the United States, will provide some incentive for addressing the reasons why people want to leave; it would be much more cost effective to pay for a school in El Salvador than to pay the yearly cost of educating an El Salvadoran kid in L.A., for

instance. (El Salvador is an extreme case. Not all countries that are the source of illegal juvenile immigration are church-mice. Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador all have oil. Venezuela and Ecuador are members of OPEC.) Billing the child-exporting nations for the care of their children also addresses the political crisis the refugee flood is creating in the U.S. The American people are not about to allow thousands of children to die on their doorstep. They aren’t about to allow themselves to be emotionally blackmailed and played for suckers either — especially by people on this side of the border. However compelling the reasons in Central and South America for sending unescorted children north, the proximate cause of the current influx is in no small part due to Obama’s unwillingness or inability to secure the border — and to his reckless use of his pen and his phone in a way that convinced tens of thousands of Central and South American parents that he would allow them to get their kids into the U.S. illegally. As a result, fairly or unfairly, the current flood of child border crossers has the smell of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift to it — a humanitarian crisis deliberately created for political purposes — only this time with the perpetrator on our side of the border. That in turn is unleashing political and social passions in the United States — especially in states along the southern border — that could easily turn violent. My father once remarked that the genius of the English-speaking peoples was their uncanny ability to reduce all passions into matters of money. The way to defuse the passions boiling on the southern border is to monetize them — pronto. Still, wouldn’t it be dreadfully unfair for a rich country to shake down a poor one? Absolutely, but the money the U.S. would be dunning the refugees’ home countries for would be money that was spent entirely for the upkeep and welfare of their children. Asking a country to pay for the sustenance of its children isn’t a shakedown — anymore than asking a delinquent parent to pay child support is a shakedown. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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Charter would move control from county commissioners to citizen vote by Matt Cortina

n initiative to create “home case three years ago in which voters said istered electors of each county of the rule” in Boulder County, they didn’t want genetically modified state are hereby vested with the power which might allow it to ban crops planted on Boulder County agrito adopt a home rule charter.” fracking, GMO cropping cultural land, but the county commisWith enough signatures, Boulder and other ventures currently sioners voted in favor of it. Home rule County will be the first county in under state jurisdiction, is under way would have allowed citizens to vote and Colorado to put a home rule measure after the Boulder County Clerk recently decide for themselves if they wanted spurred by citizens on the ballot. Two approved an initial petition for the case. that land used for GMO agriculture, Colorado counties — Weld and Pitkin The petition would put on the Smith says. — have home rule charters, but county November ballot the question “Shall “How home rule differs from statucommissioners enacted those charters. Boulder County Establish a Home tory [rule] is that the citizens themThe path to home rule can be arduRule Charter Commission?” This com- selves have the power of initiative. So ous and one such case is currently mission would write a self-government through a petition process, we can actu- unfolding in Lafayette, where voters and bill of rights charter on which ally get a petition on the ballot and cre- passed a home rule charter amendment Boulder County residents would then ate local law through a democratic pro- for the city in November 2013. The Wikimedia vote in the future. On the Lafayette City Council passed a same ballot this year would be resolution ahead of the election an election of 21 citizens to urging citizens to vote against it, write that charter. claiming that, “The proposed In order to get the initial charter amendment will only ballot question in front of votsubject the City to expensive liters, the petition needs to coligation, potential financial liabillect 13,000 petition signatures. ity for violation of federal and The Boulder County state constitutional rights and Community Rights Network, a loss of legitimate businesses.” citizen organization, filed the The Council further resolved petition. “Legislation is already in place Home rule calls for cities that adequately protects the city or counties to set up “self-govfrom adverse impacts of oil and ernment” instead of the curgas exploration.” Boulder County Community Rights Network is at the helm of an rent system of “statutory,” or As foretold, the Colorado initiative to create “home rule” in Boulder County, which might state, regulation. Cities or Oil and Gas Association allow the county to ban things like fracking and GMO crops. counties that enact home rule (COGA) sued the city, saying have, ostensibly, more ability to that residents don’t have the decide matters of local importance that cess, through the voice of the people,” authority to ban certain activities are currently influenced or governed by Smith says. This is contrasted with the allowed by the state government. And state laws — things like water quality, current, statutory method where county in response, Lafayette residents filed a fracking, farming, social issues and commissioners have the ability to enact lawsuit in June against Colorado, more. They do this by amending the or disallow many ventures. Governor John Hickenlooper and the approved home rule charter via voterHowever, there is some doubt about Colorado Oil and Gas Association, approved petitions. This is opposed to the legality of a voter-approved home claiming that their right to self-govern letting key issues be decided by county rule charter and, furthermore, if home trumps state regulations that might commissioners, who home rule proporule charters will supersede existing allow fracking in the area. Both lawsuits nents say must oblige the state, not the state laws or effect any real change at are currently pending. wishes of local communities. all. However, Boulder County “There have been a number of Proponents point to Article II, Commissioner Cindy Domenico says issues over the last several years where Sections 1, 2 and 3, of the Colorado there is an important distinction to be the citizens have had absolutely no Constitution which says — in part — made about the Lafayette case — that authority, legal authority, to decide what “The people of this state have the sole home rule cities have different abilities happens,” says Mary Smith of the and exclusive right of governing themthan home rule counties. Boulder County Community Rights selves, as a free, sovereign and indepen“A home rule charter would not give Network. “There’s been a lot of situadent state; and to alter and abolish their us further power,” Domenico says, cittions in our county history where the constitution and form of government ing legal experts at the commissioner’s people have spoken loud and clear and whenever they may deem it necessary office who looked at the case. “We the county commissioners have decided to their safety and happiness, provided, would still have the same set of responagainst the will of the people. They do such change be not repugnant to the sibilities. [It] would not ban fracking. not represent us — they represent state constitution of the United States.” … That is not how we read it.” interest because we are a statutory Too, Article XIV of the Colorado Indeed, as far as infrastructure is county.” Constitution outlines the rules for concerned, home rule counties and statOne such issue, Smith says, was a home rule counties and says, “The regutory counties are responsible to Boulder Weekly

administer essentially the same services. (Those services are written into Colorado law — services like public works, water maintenance, taxes, hospitals, etc.) Domenico says the Lafayette measure specifically banned fracking, whereas a Boulder County charter may not be able to enumerate specific services to ban or allow. Amendments to a home rule charter that is enacted, however, can be voted in by petition. These amendments could ban specific enterprises like fracking, for instance. “Cities are a different animal already based on where they gain their powers,” Domenico says. “Counties are only granted powers from what the state grants to them. A home rule county typically has more latitude around specific ordinances and that sort of thing. For us, it’s a structural thing versus some of the far-reaching things a home rule city would have. It doesn’t make the kind of difference that it does for a city. That’s a simplistic way of describing it.” Domenico adds, “There are definitely the abilities for people in some certain situations to bring petitions to us that already exist.” Merrily Mazza, a board member of the Colorado Community Rights Network (not directly affiliated with the Boulder County Community Rights Network), says Boulder County residents have every right to expect real change from home rule legislation and anticipates pushback from the county commissioners. “Somebody is going to come and say, ‘You can’t do this. It’s against the law,’” says Mazza, who also serves as a Lafayette Councilwoman. “And our answer is ,‘Well, we’re going to change the law because it’s not working for the people who live here. It’s working dandy for the corporations.’” Mazza says if Boulder County enacts home rule, they can “of course” expect litigation on many individual cases from the state and from corporations moving forward because “people are going to come out of the woodwork and say, ‘No, you can’t do that.’” Tom Groover, a Boulder chiropractor and Boulder County Community Rights Network member, says the cost See HOME RULE Page 16

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of litigation is something Boulder residents would be willing to shoulder. “I think the people of Boulder would be willing to pay a dollar a person to fight fracking,” Groover says. He adds that if property values decrease by the conservative estimate of 20 percent due to visible and abundant fracking wells throughout Boulder, the cost of litigation to preserve a new home rule charter would be far less. In addition to the Boulder County initiative, there is also a statewide measure, Amendment 75, initiated by Mazza’s Colorado Community Rights Network, that would spell out the right for Colorado municipalities to enact home rule and their rights if they do. That petition must garner 86,105 signatures statewide by Aug. 4 to make it onto the November ballot. And, too, there is Initiative 89, which would allow municipalities to enact environmental laws that are “more restrictive and protective” of the environment than current state laws. On these issues, Carolyn Tyler of the Colorado Attorney General’s office says, “We are not taking an opinion” and that “If any of them should become law, we of course defend all state laws to the utmost ability of our office.” Tyler did not specify which, if any, of these amendments would legally supersede existing regulation. Though home rule legislation and lawsuits are only just beginning nationwide, there are cases that set a precedent for Boulder County. The New York Court of Appeals, for instance, ruled on June 30 that municipalities have the right to ban fracking under home rule. And on July 7, the Dallas Independent School District’s home rule charter commission met to discuss a ballot initiative that would allow them to govern school issues outside of state regulations. One other potential obstacle is the economic impact of instituting home rule. Coloradans for Responsible Reform (CFRR), a statewide business group, has expressed opposition to the aforementioned initiatives, saying home rule could damage the local economy. “These anti-business measures would cripple Colorado’s energy sector, wrecking our economy and killing jobs,” Kelly Brough, CFRR “leadership team” member and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement. “These wrong-headed measures effectively ban oil and gas development in Colorado and will cripple Colorado’s

economy,” CFRR’s Ken Salazar, who served as Secretary of the Interior for President Obama between 2009 and 2013, said in a statement. “Now the balanced development of our natural resources and the quality of life we have worked so hard to achieve is threatened by what will become effective bans on Colorado’s oil and gas industry. We cannot afford to kill Colorado’s economic recovery.” Coloradans for Responsible Reform has raised more than $750,000 to fight home rule measures in Colorado. “That’s the same reaction they had about Lafayette: ‘Oh, they’ll bar every business.’ Well that is such a load of bullshit,” Mazza says, “because all these small communities are relying on sales tax. “What they said about Lafayatte is, ‘Well, it’ll stop gas from going to people’s homes to heat their homes.’ It’s that kind of silly hyperbole, over the top, nonsensical bullshit,” Mazza says. “Small communities who want to be more like hermits and who don’t want any business … they can do that already. Communities can ban business, but they don’t do it because they need the revenues. It’s silly because there’s too much to do with that revenue like treating your water, treating your sewage, caring for your roads.” Smith says these protests are made in the name of corporate interest without the wellbeing of Colorado citizens in mind. “We’ve come to a place in this country and specifically in the state of Colorado where they have elevated the rights of money over the rights of life,” Smith says. “Fracking is an industry that violates our water, our air, our soil and the very things we depend on to live. It is exempt from provisions in the Clean Water, the [Safe] Drinking Water and the Clean Air Acts.” Commissioner Domenico cautions, “I hope people are careful about what they say could come of [home rule] when, legally, the end result may not be what they believe it to be because of the difference in city and county home rule structure.” She adds that she expects Boulder County residents to “read any petition that comes before them and act accordingly.” For now, Smith says the Boulder County Community Rights Network is soliciting petition signatures to get this initiative onto the ballot. Then, voters can decide for themselves if home rule in Boulder County should be considered. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ecause of a conflict between state marijuana statutes and federal gun laws, Colorado residents must choose between owning guns and using marijuana. Yet state law enforcement officials are virtually powerless to enforce the intersection where those conflicting laws meet. Plus, Colorado’s marijuana users aren’t lining up at their local sheriff ’s office to turn in their guns. Federal law prohibits Colorado’s legal marijuana users — medical and recreational — from owning or purchasing guns or ammunition. According to Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, however, law enforcement has no way of knowing about marijuana use and corresponding gun ownership unless someone self-reports or is arrested for another infraction. “We initially had several people selfreport that they were medical marijuana users, and so we did not issue them a concealed carry weapon permit,” Pelle says. “But, we are not actively investigating if [permit holders] are marijuana users.” Pelle says the Sheriff ’s Office will continue to exercise its authority and obligation to revoke permits if it has documentation supporting possession of both marijuana and guns, but he has no

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plans for proactive enforcement of the two laws. Since the legalization of medical marijuana use in 2001, the Boulder Sheriff ’s Office reports no more than a handful of county residents have turned in their concealed carry weapons permits (CCWs). Recreational marijuana users pose even greater difficulty for law enforcement because there is no documentation for casual users of marijuana. Bob Ford is the President and owner of Rocky Mountain Arms, Inc., a gun manufacturing and finishing company in Longmont. Ford laughs as he described the likelihood that all marijuana users were complying with federal law and forfeiting their gun rights. “I’ll bet you, the majority of them didn’t get rid of their guns,” he says. “If you think people are complying with that, I’ve got a beachfront property in Las Vegas.” So why are marijuana users being

denied their gun rights? Michael Hammond, legislative counsel to Gun Owners of America, says he doesn’t think it is fair that so many Coloradans are being denied their right to own guns. He said Gun Owners of America warned Colorado about the consequences of instituting universal background check requirements for gun purchases and hopes the state now recognizes what he calls “inefficiencies” in the Colorado Bureau of Investigation InstaCheck system. Unless marijuana users honestly selfreport on the Colorado Bureau of Investigation background check form, state law enforcement has no way of prohibiting gun sales to users — a glaring loophole in the law. According to a 2011 open letter from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to all federal firearms licensees, the federal government asserts that, “any person who uses or is

addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether his or her State has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medicinal purposes, is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition.” Hammond refers to the ATF statute as a, “loose, poorly drafted law.” “It hasn’t triggered the backlash that it probably should, because it’s basically not being enforced,” he says. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has yet to release any formal documentation regarding recreational marijuana use and gun ownership. According to Brad Beyersdorf, the public information officer for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Denver field division, the same rule applies for both medicinal and recreational marijuana use. Marijuana is considered an illegal controlled substance under federal law, thereby making gun and ammo purchases and possession illegal for all users.

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their concealed carry weapons permits of their own free will shows some public awareness about the issue. “It was more important for those people to still have the medical marijuana card and not be able to carry their concealed weapon anymore,” he says. It goes to show a difference in public priority — choosing one personal freedom over another. But Jodi Biekert, who handles the concealed handgun permits for the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office, doesn’t think that the general public knows much about the conflicting gun and marijuana laws. Biekert says since the inception of the medical marijuana law in 2001, no more than five people have returned their concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits to her office. “The recreational users don’t come in and say, ‘I’m a recreational user and I’m going to turn in my CCW.’ I’ve never had that happen,” Biekert says. “Sometimes we can loosely find out like in 2012, one of our CCW holders got arrested for something serious and in the ensuing investigation, it was found that he had a medical marijuana license and that he was using at the time of the crime. So, the Sheriff denied him his CCW permit.”

Proactive Enforcement Boulder County officials say they do not have the manpower to actively seek out and arrest people who smoke pot and have guns. Enforcement of federal gun laws against state marijuana laws relies heavily upon officer discretion,

according to Biekert. “This is a very gray area in law enforcement,” Biekert says. “It’s not always black and white.” Sheriff Pelle says, “I would compare marijuana to alcohol in this case — I know there are casual users of both, but we really don’t care about those people. We care about the people who have a problem and pose risk to themselves or others.” Other Colorado counties also struggle to enforce the intersection of the two laws. Of more than 30,000 concealed carry weapons permit holders in El Paso County, only one has forfeited his/her permit in favor of a medical marijuana card, according to Sergeant Joe Roybal, the county’s public information officer. Judy Searle, from the Jefferson County Sheriff ’s Office, mentions that some county residents had admitted they were willing to give up their medical marijuana card because they’d rather legally carry a concealed firearm. Hammond says it is a difference between the theoretical and the practical aspects of lawmaking. Theoretically, the state of Colorado strives to grant its people freedom to use both marijuana and guns responsibly. The state instituted background check requirements and magazine limits on guns in an effort to promote gun safety, while simultaneously making marijuana legal to anyone over the age of 21. But the practical implications of these laws don’t necessarily align with the state’s intentions. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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t’s an unfortunate fact of life that along with those endless dog days of summer — perfect for barbeques, biking, hiking and swimming — also comes the height of mosquito season. While these blood-sucking members of the fly family are often little more than nuisances, certain species of mosquitoes can carry dangerous diseases, such as West Nile. The bird-borne virus hit Colorado hardest in 2003 when nine people died in Larimer County. In 2013, there were 322 reported cases of West Nile in the state, with seven of those resulting in deaths. The Colorado Department of Health and Human Services confirmed this year’s first two human cases of West Nile virus just last week in Saguache and Pueblo counties. And after a year of abundant moisture and early summer temperatures, conditions are ripe for mosquitoes to breed. Cities can and do work to control mosquito populations, though strategies may vary among cities in the same county. There are two main methods for controlling mosquito populations: larviciding, which uses a naturally occurring soil bacteria to kill mosquitoes before they hatch, or adulticiding, which kills the bugs when they’re full grown via a chemical called permethrin. Permethrin-based sprays concern some folks as the chemical can, according to toxicity data from the Environmental Protection Agency, kill beneficial insects such as bees. In 2013, Fort Collins City Councilman Bob Overbeck spoke for concerned residents and said that the city should review the health and environmental effects of mosquito treatments. This year, the city of Fort Collins announced it wouldn’t start spraying against West Nile virus until two humans are infected in the city. Many vector control experts disagree with Fort Collins’ choice to wait until humans contract West Nile. “When you are trying to stop transmission of [West Nile from] mosquitoes to humans and you’re waiting for humans to be your indicator as opposed to infected mosquitoes, you’ve already passed [the window to stop transmission],” says Jessica Schurich, Colorado Mosquito Control’s operations manager

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for Northern Colorado. Schurich manages mosquito abatement programs for the cities of Longmont and Fort Collins. She says that because some people don’t show symptoms of West Nile for as much as two weeks, there’s a delay in the investigation of reports. “If you’re waiting to find humans, the likelihood you’re really going to stop transmission [decreases], especially late in the season,” she says. Last year, she adds, “[Fort Collins] basically waited until pretty much most of the cases had already occurred. I do not support [Fort Collins’ city] council’s decision. I think when you’re again trying to stop a public health emergency or an increase season for risk, waiting until you find [infected] humans is not the way to do so.” Al Summers sat on Boulder County’s Mosquito Control Advisory Board from 1998 to 2011 and knows firsthand how contentious an issue mosquito control can be. “How programs are financed is through taxes and that goes into a general fund for mosquito control programs,” Summers says. “The problem with that is those are tax-paying citizens and they feel they have right, and they do have legal right, to have a say-so in this. A lot of the meetings when I was

on the control board dealt with issues about whose concerns take precedence over whose concerns.” Summers, who has also been a beekeeper for 50 years, maintains that permethrin’s impacts to human and environmental health are almost nonexistent. “If you drank the stuff or lived in it all the time, yeah, but the amount of exposure people get from mosquito control, it’s not in that same league at all,” Summers says. “There’s a tendency for over-reaction in this. Pyrethroids [the organic compound in permethrin] are not benign, but they are orders of magnitude less toxic and problematic than products they’ve used in the past.” Cities apply permethrin around problem zones — standing bodies of water, such as ditches and reservoirs — using ultra-low-volume spraying. The tiny droplet size allows the spray to degrade quickly, posing fewer threats to the environment, according to Summers. Spraying is done at night, when bees are in their hives, and by the morning the spray has evaporated. Tom Theobald, founder of the Boulder County Beekeeper’s Association, agrees that permethrin, used in ultra-low volumes at night, is likely not posing great risk to human

and beneficial insect health. But with bees around the nation dropping in numbers — something referred to as colony collapse disorder, which scientific studies have linked to increased pesticide use — Theobald questions whether spraying is warranted at all. “There are lots of opportunities for things to go wrong,” he says. “Since there’s no vaccine for West Nile, you are really dependent on your genes as to how you respond to it. You have two choices: you face [contracting West Nile] at some point in your life, or you avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes forever. Spraying just postpones that. We may be postponing the exposure for this small segment of the population [who contracts West Nile] and I sympathize with them — it’s tragic but unavoidable.” While some municipalities in Boulder County have been spraying since the early summer — Longmont has sprayed weekly since June 18 — the City of Boulder does not use adulticides on the streets as other cities do. “The whole goal of our program is to reduce public risk of contracting West Nile, trying to balance that with minimizing impacts to the environment,” says Rella Abernathy, integrated pest management coordinator for the City of Boulder. To do this, the city uses a naturally occurring larvicide called Bti. Tablets or so-called “dunks” of this soil bacteria are dumped in standing bodies of water where mosquitoes breed. “The place to reduce numbers the most is when they’re larva,” says Abernathy. “They are all in one place, not flying around, and we’re using a product that has fairly minimal impacts to other organisms.” Abernathy points to the fact that adult insecticides are broad-spectrum neurotoxins. “The way they work, they use these little tiny droplets that have to come into contact with mosquitoes [to kill them]. There are a lot of areas where mosquitoes are never going to come into contract with the droplets,” she says. “Some experts believe you need to control 90 percent of mosquito populations to control West Nile, and there are variSee MOSQUITOES Page 22

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The Lyon’s Historical Society is partnering with former University of Colorado Boulder instructor Dr. Kayann Short to host a day of writing about last September’s flood. The purpose of the effort is to create personal stories about the devastating 2013 flood that can be added to the Historical Society’s flood project. As all of us along the Front Range can recall, monsoon rains washed over our region last September hitting Boulder County with five days of rainfall that set a new annual precipitation record, according to the Colorado Climate

Center. As a consequence, serious flooding occurred, leaving thousands of people displaced, hundreds of homes destroyed and eight people dead, according to a FEMA disaster report. While memories of these tragic events may be all too fresh at this point, that will not always be the case. Hence the reason that the Historical Society wants to get those memories in writing now so they can be preserved for future generations. Short, a Lyon’s flood victim herself as well as a former CU Boulder literature and women’s studies instructor of 25 years, will be using her own published essay on the flood as a tool

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ous studies showing adulticides only result in about a 40 percent reduction.” The city of Boulder contracts OtterTail Environmental to help with their mosquito abatement. This group of biological consultants map larval sites and then conduct testing to differentiate between nuisance mosquitoes — those that harass people but don’t carry disease — and the species known as Culex tarsalis, which does carry West Nile. Boulder only treats areas with disease-carrying bugs. OtterTail developed a vector index that acts as a predictor of whether human cases of West Nile will occur. The decision to focus only on the presence of vector mosquitoes — those capable of carrying disease — was controversial in 2003 when the city’s abatement program was implemented, but

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the Centers for Disease Control eventually adopted Boulder’s approach. The vector index is now used in many municipalities across the country. But Summers says he understands why cities choose to spray instead of focusing on larval killing. “It’s cheaper for [cities] to do a widespread spraying for mosquitoes than it is to invest the extreme time and money into a [larval] surveillance program,” he says. “You can be proactive and eliminate about 80 percent of mosquito problems by monitoring and treating at the larval stage rather than waiting until spring, but it costs so much more in staff and time, and samples have to be brought back to a lab and checked and confirmed.” Abernathy says that every mosquito abatement program she’s aware of on

the Front Range uses both techniques. The City of Boulder spends around $240,000 a year on mosquito abatement, Abernathy says. In 2013, Fort Collins spent around $77,000 on just two sprays. Reports from Longmont show that a single citywide spray there costs $40,000. The bottom line, says Schurich, is that West Nile is not something to be taken lightly. “One of my residents has told me that she’s unable, 10 years later, to cut her own food [after contracting West Nile],” says Schurich. “From where I stand, that’s devastating and that is the justification for doing surveillance, not even mass spraying or calendar spraying, but unfortunately we have areas where we’re trending 85 to 90 percent of the mosquitoes in our traps are West Nile vectors. “We’re not just spraying to spray,”

she adds. “You assess the population on a weekly basis because those numbers can change just from all these environmental changes — is it warmer, was there more rainfall, is it more humid, are they living longer? I don’t think a lot of folks realize that disease management is done on a daily basis. You’re constantly assessing the data to makes sure you’re using good science and good data collection to drive your applications of Bti or adulticides.” Summers agrees. “We’ve got an issue with West Nile Virus in Colorado and as far as the actual incidence of it, it’s not too bad, but from an epidemiological point of view, telling the population that there won’t be 100 people dying, there will only be one or two, that’s not acceptable to the general public.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Warriors on Cataract takes veterans down the Colorado River between Moab and Lake Powell.

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he issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to swim. So it goes with combat veterans. They’re dealt turbulent conditions — multiple deployments, increased incidence of traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress, a rising survival rate that sees them returning with injuries, such as multiple amputations that would have left a previous generation of soldiers dead on the battlefield — in which you have to just prepare for your boat to overturn. And many of them

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are drowning. Each year, 6,000 veterans commit suicide — more soldiers than were lost in conflicts over the last 10 years. But it turns out, a little time on the river may be among the steps that can help keep veterans onboard, even through the roughest waters. Fredrick Solheim has run Cataract Canyon, the stretch of Colorado River between Moab and Lake Powell that’s dense with rapids, for years, and he’s always liked to take “wild cards” along for the ride, he says. In 2011, he heard a triple-amputee veteran on the radio talking about how he’d recently learned to ski, saying his stumps were a little sweaty but he was starting to get the hang of it. Solheim thought he’d like to take that guy down the river.

Though he couldn’t get that particular veteran out of Walter Reed and onto the water, he says, he thought it sounded like a pretty good idea, so he started looking more locally for veterans within driving distance of Moab. He called anyone he could think of who might be able to connect him to veterans and asked, “Anybody want to go on a raft trip?” “To me, it’s a real embarrassment that we aren’t doing enough for these guys, and it seems so easy to give them a little bit of a boost forward, something as simple as a raft trip,” he says. He tells Veterans Administration recreational therapists in Denver, Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, “Bring me your worst,” he says. They do.

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In 2011, he brought his first trip of 20 veterans down that canyon in the inaugural run for Warriors on Cataract, spending four days traveling through Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado River, riding rapids and camping on beaches and stopping to hike to see waterfalls, petroglyphs and Indian ruins. Veterans can bring their spouses and even service dogs. More than the rafting and camping and hiking, Solheim says, what’s important is that they’re connecting with other veterans. “I heard some of them say I’d rather be back in combat than be over here. VA therapists say these raft trips I just don’t fit. There’s no one I can be include components fundamental around that’s my type,” he says. And to the therapies they find effective in helping veterans address mental that’s what veterans get on these trips health issues. — time among people they fit with. Once the boats shove off from the launch point, he moves into the backSalt Lake City. She clarifies, “both are true and that’s ground. my job on the trip, is to see what would be the most “Other than saying, ‘We camp here, there’s a nice useful. So stepping back is one of the best things I can hike over to a waterfall,’ we let them off on their possibly do, because it’s the sky, the river, the wind, it’s own,” Solheim says. the camping, it’s the being barefoot on the sand, those At night, from his sleeping bag, he can hear the are really beneficial and the camaraderie that happens, veterans talking until all hours of the night. laughing, jumping in the river — these things are so “I’m sort of an outsider,” he says. “I’m a muggle.” beneficial, and then there’s that other element of the In this, his fourth year, he flips through photos of actual processing that can happen.” the veterans against a backdrop of muddy river water Actual processing being the times they sit down and glowing red sandstone canyon walls and recounts together and talk about what’s happening for them war stories tied to each of the faces, from bullet over the course of the trip, something veterans aren’t wounds to lost limbs. He talks about the battles they always eager to do. She mentions working with a vetfaced after the war, when the shove of reintegrating eran with severe PTSD who spent years dividing his into society left them dealing with depression and time between work and sitting at home alone, selfalcoholism, making attempts at taking their own lives. medicating with alcohol. The thing that matters most to him, he says, is the “He does not want to come in and just sit in an sheet of comments he collects from veterans at the office with a woman psychologist and talk his probend of the trip. Over and over, they say “This trip lems away, that means that he’d have to look into all saved my life.” of those really hard, traumatic experiences and talk “These raft trips seem like real big medicine,” about them and cry — that does not sound fun,” she says. “I got with him at some point, he got wind of Solheim says. “[Veterans] get together and they bond this trip, he came on the trip and all the sudden he’s up, they communicate. … The VA therapist told me with 10 other veterans from Salt Lake City. … That these soldiers are better healers among themselves was really scary for him. That was kind of his first than anything that the VA could do with their phartreatment with the VA, so I commend him for saying maceuticals or their therapy.” yes to that. But you can see that because it’s so nonThat therapist was Emily Potter, with the VA in

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don’t think your life is going to get better,” says Kristi Ruben, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist with the Cheyenne VA Medical Center who sent between 20 and 30 veterans on the raft trip and has gone along on the raft trip three times. “I think this trip is wonderful because it does offer that ray of sunshine, that little bit of hope that, ‘Hey, this was really fun and there could be more things like this in my life.’” The trip often begins with a lot of anxiety and an uncomfortable, quiet group of strangers, she says. When it finishes and they take out of the river near Lake Powell, more than the scenery has changed. “There’s hugs and tears and exchanging of phone numbers and emails and, in that very short period of time, they really build a bond and hopefully it strengthens your life by having additional people for support,” Ruben says. Veterans who’ve been before ask to go again, she says. What makes Warriors on Cataract unique is that it combines so many elements — river rafting along with camping, teamwork, a level of challenge, a shot of adrenalin, some camaraderie. “It really encompasses a lot of things that we use that are very therapeutic in nature, especially for veterans recovering from particularly psychological, mental health-type challenges,” Ruben says. “There’s a lot of healing that goes on just from them talking among themselves. They share a lot of resources, they share a lot of ideas that work with everyone on board. I do think it helps them to build better coping skills.” Solheim’s whitewater trips were included in a University of Michigan study, commissioned by the Sierra Club, that found that improved psychological wellbeing, social functioning and life outlook among outdoor group recreation program participants. “The findings suggest that extended group-based nature recreation can have significant positive impacts on veterans struggling with serious health problems,” Jason Duvall, a research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment and one of the study’s lead authors, said in a press release. “Although more research is needed and many questions remain, the use of extended groupbased outdoor recreation programs to ease veterans’ transition back into civilian life seems to be a promising approach.” “I don’t know what the magic is of that trip — I guess I should know, I’ve 26 July 10, 2014

been down there enough,” Solheim says. “It’s depressurizing.” Potter says it’s like hitting a refresh button. This year, for the first time, Solheim ran a raft trip just for women. He’d noticed that although the raft trips were open to both male and female veterans, he wasn’t getting any women veterans to come along. Just looking at the number of women coming out of the military with allegations of sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape paints a pretty clear picture for why women might want to keep themselves separate. “It’s very sensitive for these women to be on vulnerable trips for overnights, and they don’t feel safe, that’s a lot of what they’re trying to come to therapy for,” Potter says. But when the all women’s trip was announced, the response just in the first 24 hours was tremendous. “I think there’s a real need to do trips specific to females where they can address their issues in an environment that feels very safe,” Ruben says, after mentioning the increasing number of military sexual trauma programs at VA medical centers. In an effort to, he says, “keep up the cadence of healing” throughout the year, he’s started “mountain camps” where veterans canoe, kayak, hike, fly fish and ride horses and a winter ski camp to help disabled veterans learn how to ski again. This year, the August mountain camp will be only for women. He’d like to see even more programs added throughout the year, and more than the roughly 100 veterans who attend his trips now be able to benefit. Warriors on Cataract partners with Outdoor Buddies, an off-shoot of the Craig Rehabilitative Hospital, for 501 (c)3 status. Funding comes from Ball Aerospace, Ophir Corporation, others corporations and a number of Boulder-area law firms. Though VA therapists attend as support staff, the VA does not provide any funding for the program. Among the things that were really important for him was to make this an operation without expenses — no one gets a salary. In fact, Solheim’s likely to find himself a few thousand dollars in the hole at the end of the year. He shrugs it off. “One thing that really strikes me about this particular Warriors on Cataract is that it was kind of one guy who said, ‘I want to help. I want to do something.’ So he just got this whole Boulder Weekly

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’m trying not to use the word ‘magical’,” Liz Marsh warned me as we sat down to discuss the upcoming season of the Boulder Outdoor Cinema (BOC), which opens on Saturday, July 12. Marsh, along with her cohort, Jeanine Fritz, are the owners of BOC, but “owner” isn’t quite the right title. Marsh’s email signature lists her as “BossPants.” Why? “‘Owner’ sounds like it’s a real business,” she says. And anyone who has worked in any regards in the movie business will agree that it is anything but “real.” Located in the parking lot behind the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), BOC celebrated its initial season in 1995 and has been running strong since. Three years ago, Marsh and Fritz purchased the festival from Dave Riepe and Jon Hegeman and oversaw the continuation and

growth of BOC. Marsh has been working at BOC for 10 years, Fritz longer, and it was Fritz who brought Marsh into the fold. “I was a film student at CU Boulder,” Marsh recalls. “Jeanine was working there already and she was in my class and she asked, ‘Does anyone want to come work for the outdoor cinema?’ It seemed like a really fun summer job to get paid to watch movies and talk about movies, so I jumped at it.” Marsh isn’t the only one who jumped at the opportunity. “[BOC] is driven solely by the passionate people behind it,” Marsh told Boulder Weekly. “If we didn’t have those same seven staff members, there’s no way we could do it.” In addition to the core seven, Marsh relies on a whole team of concessionaires, bouncers and friends who donate their time and effort for little to no compensation. “They would make a lot more delivering pizza,” she says, referring to them as, “Our outdoor cinema angels that pop out of the woodwork every year and do an amazing amount of work for us.” Now in its 19th season, BOC kicks off with 2013’s animated musical Frozen, which is one of the see CINEMA Page 29

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movies Marsh is most excited about. more complicated endeavor than one But in truth, “I love all of them,” might expect. It begins with Marsh Marsh says, smiling. “I’m really happy and Fritz compiling a list of movies via with our lineup this year.” word of mouth and suggestions from BOC’s 2014 lineup provides a social media. This year, they started smattering of genres and contemporary with a list of 233 titles. classics with The Royal Tenenbaums “Programing is by far the hardest (2001), Aliens (1986), Office Space part ... and we’re never going to make (1999), Zombieland (2009), The everyone happy, but we try,” says Princess Bride (1986), American Hustle Marsh. (2013) and Monty Python and the Holy How do they accomplish this? Grail (1975). “Jeanine Frozen and The and I like to Princess Bride take polls in are family-oribars around ented fun, but Boulder,” SEASON INFO: (music schedule subject to change) Marsh says. considering the July 12 Frozen, music TBA, food Their nostalgia factor from Cheese Louise favorite haunt of Princess July 19 The Royal Tenenbaums, music from Ben Hanna, food from Suburban is also the locaBride and the Weiner wide-sweeping tion that most July 26 Aliens, music from resembles an success of Jeff Brinkman, food from Verde August 2 Office Space, music TBA, office for the Frozen, all ages food from Bon Appetite BOC: Conor will delight in August 9 Zombieland, music from Radio O’Neill’s. both. The Royal 1190 deejays, food from Quinn Popcorn August 16 The Princess Bride, music Once a list Tenenbaums, from Danny Shafer, food from Fro-ZEN of 20 or so Office Space and August 23 American Hustle, music from movies has Monty Python Ben Jenkins, food from Bike Blenders August 30 Monty Python & The Holy are perfect been estabGrail, music from Chimney Choir picks for the lished, Marsh “quirky tackles the 30-year-old” as most convolutMarsh ed aspect of describes them, and summer is the programming: licensing, something perfect time to revisit James Cameron’s Marsh says is “really tricky,” and “a classic, Aliens. The outlier in the group constant kind of chess game.” is David O. Russell’s non-musical BOC, and other legally operated musical, American Hustle, which garoutdoor cinemas, deal with Swank nered a bevy of Oscar nominations last Motion Pictures and Criterion year. Pictures, which own the non-theatri“We always try and bring somecal licensing for most movies. Once thing newer,” Marsh explains. “We the licenses are acquired and the movchoose movies based on what we think ies are locked into place, BOC adds other people will love, and sometimes musical acts for the pre-show enterwe’ll have to take ourselves out of it. tainment. This year’s line-up includes We always think we know what’s best some Colorado favorites: singer/songand we’ll program something that we writer Jeff Brinkman, Danny Shafer really love and then no one shows up and Chimney Choir, among many to it and it’s like you threw a party and others. no one came to it kinda thing.” As to the future of BOC, Marsh Programming the festival is a much sees a lot of opportunity. BOC has

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ow in its 57th season, the Colorado selves at a resort Shakespeare Festival is enjoying a wellin the Catskill earned renaissance. The 2014 CSF is full Mountains of of interesting, high-quality offerings, chief New York circa of which is the uproarious The Merry 1962. I’d be willWives of Windsor. During the 12 years I have had the ing to bet that privilege of reviewing the festival, I can recall only a Panitch is a little Verily, it hath a hemi. few other examples of productions this entertaining. Swayze crazy — Atop the long list of excellent decisions made by or at least a big first-time CSF director Seth Panitch is his choice of fan of Dirty play. Though Shakespeare snobs sometimes relegate Dancing — because, beginning with the setting and The Merry Wives of Windsor to second-class status, I extending well beyond it, his production feels not only would argue that it is one of the Bard’s better comedic inspired by the iconic 1987 film but also like a loving efforts. Its broader reliance on prose rather than poet- homage to it. (Note to the CSF: If we could get a ry and its refusal to veer into tragicomedy or outright similar Roadhouse/Hamlet mashup next season I think tragedy as some of ol’ Will’s other comedies do gives ticket sales would go through the roof.) As much as the set itself, which is effective if a bit it a wider appeal and a more consistent comic tone, mundane, and the costuming, which is full to the making it an extremely accessible piece. brim with wonderful period-approShort on funds, Sir John priate attire, the steady flow of culFalstaff, here minus the “Sir” and tural references anchors The Merry dubiously employed as a circuit ON THE BILL: The Merry Wives Wives of Windsor in its time. Is one comedian, decides to woo a rich of Windsor, through August 9, character seemingly channeling man’s wife as a means to getting at Colorado Shakespeare Festival on CU’s campus, 303-492-8008, Elvis? Check. Does another need her husband’s cash. His intended www.coloradoshakes.org, $18to hold down the front of her dress victim, Mrs. Ford, and her friend, $64. as she stands over an updraft a la Mrs. Page, however, quickly turn Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year the tables on him, putting Falstaff Itch? No doubt. Are there shouts into some amusingly compromising positions. Meanwhile, Mrs. Page’s daughter, Anne out to Sinatra and Martin? But of course. And does a (Kyra Lindsey), is being courted by no less than three supporting character offhandedly threaten to send suitors, one, championed by her father, one by her another “to the moon” Ralph Kramden-style? mother and the last by Anne’s own heart. The two Indubitably. storylines interweave and, masterfully, share a mutual Along with all the deft 1960s allusions, Panitch resolution. peppers the play with popular tunes from the time. As is often the case at the CSF, the play is set in a Among others, Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” the non-traditional time and place, so instead of Windsor, Marvelettes’ “Please Mr. Postman,” the Contours’ “Do England some hundreds of years ago we find ourYou Love Me” and the Four Seasons’ “Big Girls Don’t

Cry” waft across the beautiful Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. And the moment when Falstaff makes an entrance to Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” will forever be a CSF highlight. Falstaff is considered the main attraction of The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Michael Winters’ portrayal is spot on: a heady mix of self-assured braggadocio and, especially later in the play, knowing vulnerability. As Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page, Vanessa Morosco and Mare Trevethan match him line for line and savor each humiliation they visit upon poor Falstaff. Shifting back and forth between Mrs. Ford’s jealous, uptight husband and a cool, beret-wearing beatnik, sometimes within the same scene, Peter Simon Hilton shows tremendous range and character awareness. As great a job as the cast does, they are all outshined by Geoffrey Kent in a deliriously absurd turn as Doctor Caius, one of Anne’s suitors. Kent’s Caius echoes so loudly Peter Sellers’ work as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther films that I wouldn’t have been surprised to have heard a few bars of Mancini’s famous theme song pop up during his scenes. Kent wrings every ounce of comedy from every line and gesture, and he does it without seeming to break a sweat. The Merry Wives of Windsor is the Colorado Shakespeare Festival at its very best. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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

Music 76th Street. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bottoms Up Blues Gang. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

The Almond Butters. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

The Boulder Swing Collective. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Colorado Music Festival: Brahms, Tckaikovsky, Sibelius, and Elgar. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Emily Clark Band with Dave Watts. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Friday, July 11: New Belgium’s Clips of Faith Tour. 8 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder.

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Fort Collins brewmeisters New Belgium get it: Take what you like, and add beer. It’s a successful formula they’ve applied to bikes, more beer, and this weekend, film. Clips of Faith is making its annual stop in downtown Boulder, showcasing a series of short films made by New Belgium fans and shown in the open-air summer “yeehaw” style while being paired with New Belgium’s most “esoteric,” beer creations. Blood of Thine Enemies Red Ale and an Escargot Porter? Sign us up. All proceeds from beer sales will benefit Community Cycles, a local. Films start at sundown.

303-440-3355. Esther Sparks. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Ma & God. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Monte Selbe and Larry Clyman. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 900 Baseline Road, Louisville, 303-317-5522. Nick Berry. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

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Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Willie Bean and the Bluegrass Rangers. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Events Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & WCS. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. see EVENTS Page 36

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Films and Works — by Paul Sietsema. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Oct. 12.

Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13.

The Material Body — Artist Segna Nengudi. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through July 13.

Eggshell MosaDorette Carlson’s eggshell mosaics ics — Artist Dorette Project for a Park will be on display at the NCAR gallery Carlson. Community through Aug. 1. Library — Artist Art Program gallery, Jorge Mendez Blake. NCAR, 1850 Table MCA Denver, 1485 Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 1. July 13. Photography — Artist Richard Warner. ComUnbound: Altered Environments — Artists munity Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Christina Battle, Justin Beard, Christine BuchsMesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through baum, Sonja Hinrichsen, Patrick Loehr, Loretta Aug. 1. Young-Gautier. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center Photography and Vision. Denver Art Museum, for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. 5000. Through January 25, 2015. Unbound: Digital Creations — Artists Chris First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Coleman, Michael Salter, Milton Croissant III, Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Bryan Leister, Alex McLeod. Upper Gallery, Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 720-865-5000. Through March 22, 2015. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 — by various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 Unbound: Five Installations — Artists Nicole W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Banowetz, Katie Caron, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Rian Through Aug. 31. Kerrane, Laleh Mehran. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 WadDrawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Desworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through sign Archives — by various artists. Denver Art Aug. 31. Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through January 18, 2015. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., ArMCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303vada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015. 298-7554.

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EVENTS from Page 35 Create an Online Portfolio Using WordPress. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Jokes for Spokes. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tango class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Friday, July 11 Music Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Ben Berry. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Colorado Music Festival: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Elgar. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Burns Twice. 8 p.m. The Eagle Grill, 1600 Hover Road, Longmont, 303-772-2555. Chase N The Dream. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. David Williams and the Gypsy Jazz Tricksters. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder,

303-442-2176. Dr. Doctor. 9 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Colorado Music Festival: Family Fun Concert. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Full Belly. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Geoff Union & Pat Hoeper. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Gina Sicilla. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Honeycomb. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Hot Soup plays Ween. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614. Kristina Murray. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Left Hand Market Boys. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Members of White Water Ramblers. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. MerryGold. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Miranda Sings. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.,

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Peter Pan. 11 a.m. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Aug. 24 Shakespeare to the Death. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Aug. 16.

The Tempest. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 10. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 9. I Hate Hamlet. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 9. The Sound of Music. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through July 13.

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Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. 303-447-9984. Through July 19.

Equinox Theater Company is putting on Company at The Bug Theater through July 19th.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through July 26.

Boulder, 303-786-7030. Monocle. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Pete Kartsounes. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Pipin Hot Ghost Peppers, Gripton. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Policulture. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771. The Prairie Scholars: Andy’s Birthday Bash. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Sarah Caton. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Gruesome Playground Injuries. Triptych Theatre, Carsen Theatre in the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303444-7328. Through July 20.

The Odd Couple. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Through Aug. 24.

Stephen Thurston Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Sweet Lillies. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

Events 2nd Friday Street Werkz. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Anne U White Trail Hiking Tour. 9 a.m. Anne U White Trail, Boulder. Club de literatura en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, see EVENTS Page 38

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Stephen Tompkins. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Veronica Roth in Conversation with Margaret Stohl — Four: A Divergent Collection. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-4707050.

Vintage Beer — by Patrick Dawson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. Friday, July 11 The Belief in Angels — by J. Dylan Yates. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Saturday, July 12

Veronica Roth will be signing and talking about her book Four: A Divergent Collection at The Tattered Cover Bookstore on Tuesday, July 15th.

Writing Dates. 9 a.m.12 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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The Hurt Artist — by Shane Niemeyer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. Wednesday, July 16

Lori DeBoer’s Writing Bookclub Meeting: Vampires in the Lemon Grove. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Saturday, July 12 Music

BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. Canyon Critters Reptile Show. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Canyon Critters Reptile Show. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

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Casual Commander with Blunt Force. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Dan & Yoshi. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Face. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Henscratch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

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Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460. Old-Fashioned Carpenter Tools: Their Ways & Workings. 1 p.m. Boulder, 303-776-8848. Pulling for Colorado. 8 a.m. Walker Ranch, 7701 Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303-678-6294. Sister Winds Festival. All Day. Pachamama Farm, 10771 North 49th St., Longmont.

Sunday, July 13 Music Blues & BBQ with Pete Kartsounes. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Brunch with Honeytree. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Jaden Carlson Band. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

Lazer Bunny. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Denny Driscoll. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Lori Flynn. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

Ellis & The Whiskey Treats. 5 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Los Cheesies. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. One Flew West. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Purr Gato Heart Beat Tour. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Rebel Tongue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Sam Barnhill (Wrong Side Right). 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. ShoGun Mojo. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Timber! 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130. Too Slim & Taildraggers. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Ultra Lo-Fi. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Redeem this introductory price in store by starting a customer profile w/ ad $6.98 savings expires August 31 2014. One Per Customer

Forestry Project. 9 a.m., Boulder, 303-678-6089.

Isa & JoeAlan. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Pete Kartsounes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Events Adobe Illustrator Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Art on the Green. 10 a.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons, 970-532-2623. Bilingual Spanish/English Creekwalk. 10:30 a.m.

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Gustafer Yellowgold — presented by the Library Concert Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Old Town Swing. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Open Bluegrass Pick with Timber! 5 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303786-9270. Colorado Music Festival: Ravel, Canteloube and Beethoven’s 5th. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Rise and Shine Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. The Semophores band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Sharon Glassman. 3 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Sol Quatro. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Susto. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Them Kids. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tommy Price & The Stilettos. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tyler Thompson. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Events Art Gallery Open House. 12 p.m. Uplifting Art Gallery of Boulder, 1520 Eisenhower Drive, Suite 132, Boulder, 314-363-5091. Art on the Green. 10 a.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Rail-

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road Ave., Lyons, 970-532-2623. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. GLBTQ Dogs & Bikes Event. 10:30 a.m. Valmont Dog & Bike Park, 5275 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-4995777. LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Meet Search & Rescue Dogs. 1 p.m. Walker Ranch, 7701 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Sister Winds Festival. All Day. Pachamama Farm, 10771 North 49th St., Longmont.

Monday, July 14 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

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

Presents: Carnival of the Animals. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Rachel & the Rukus. 7 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-5588.

French Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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

Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Indiana Bones. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Night Hike at Walker Ranch. 8 p.m. Walker Ranch, 7701 Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303-678-6214. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Teen Film Nexus: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series

Music Bands on the Bricks with The Tripping Griswolds. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Events Great Books Discussion Group at Meadows. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Blake & Groves. 6 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Eef & The Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Erik Boa. 5 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Picnic on the Plaza with Randy Johnson. 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6611225.

Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Boulder Concert Band Summer Park Concert. 7 p.m. Salberg Park, 3045 19th St., Boulder. Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Ranger Cottage, Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.

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Naughty Professor. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303449-2911. Open Stage — with Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Prospect Eats: Bluegrass Pick. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Rob Garza. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events Cinema Program free screening of Room 237. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Indiana Bones. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Indiana Bones. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Trivia. 8 p.m. Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6262. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tuesday, July 15 Music The Alphabet Club: A Weekly Queer-Hosted Dance Party. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Bands on the Bricks. 8 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Boulder Timberliners Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-4434151. Dave Tamkin. 5 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Greg Harris Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Showcase of Women Singer-Songwriters with Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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film Mean streets and dark nights

‘Double Indemnity’ and the existential abyss of film noir by Michael J. Casey

ilm noir gained popularity in the early 1940s, just as America entered the war and the moviegoing public was looking for something darker to sink their teeth into. Lucky for them, Hollywood recently gained an influx of European émigrés fleeing the Nazi Party. They brought with them psychological burden courtesy of a war-torn home, along with a tradition of German expressionism and chiaroscuro lighting. This sets the stage for Paramount’s 1944 release, Double Indemnity, which will screen Sunday, June 13th at The Boedecker Theater. Austrian-born Billy Wilder fled Europe in 1933 and started his career as a screenwriter before moving into the director’s chair with The Major and the Minor (1942). A year later, he hired the novelist Raymond Chandler — famous for the Philip Marlowe series — to help adapt James M. Cain’s novella Double Indemnity. Chandler and Wilder did away with Cain’s complicated ending and expand-

ed the relationship between the two male leads and the movie was released in 1944. Film noir, as well as Wilder’s career, fully arrived. Double Indemnity is about love, money and murder — but not necessarily in that order. It’s about three people, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) and Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). Neff is the close confidant of Keyes, a claims investigator who can sniff out a crook thanks to “the little man who lives in my stomach.” Neff pays attention — too closely

CHINESE PUZZLE A 40-year-old father’s life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can’t bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well, and also fathers a child for his lesbian friends, marries a Chinese woman for a green card and falls back in love with an old flame. Starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater The Black Pirate (1926) Silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and featuring live musical accompaniment by the Silent Cinema Trio. A nobleman Michel (Douglas Fairbanks) vows vengeance on the cutthroats responsible for his father’s death. Becoming the black pirate, he joins their scurvy crew and quickly becomes their Boulder Weekly

— and he thinks that he might be head right down the line. Double Indemnity was made during able to cheat the system. Enter the reign of the Hayes Code, a mediaPhyllis Dietrichson, a woman policing system that made sure violence with an unwanted spouse lying was kept to a minimum, sex was around. In another movie, their dropped completely and criminals were paths crossing might seem oddly coincidental. In film noir, it is adequately punished. Counterintuitively, more like prethese restrictions destination. work in Double ON THE BILL: Neff conIndemnity’s favor by Double Indemnity 4 p.m., Sunday, June 13 cocts a plan to pushing the murder The Boedecker Theater, rub out the off-screen and leaving 2590 Walnut St., Boulder unwanted Mr. the sexual sizzle to 303-440-7826 $6-$11 Dietrichson and the dialogue. Its charcollect the insurance acters don’t behave or money and Phyllis talk like real people; happily goes along. If they behave and talk they had just killed him, they might like they grew up reading pulpy have gotten away with it. If they had dimestore detective novels. They come just killed him and taken the regular up with complex plots to beat the sysinsurance pay out, they might have got- tem. But the house always wins, and ten away as well, but no — this is film they know it. noir — and they have to go for the big As Neff says: “I killed him for the payday. There is a clause in the claim, a money, and a woman, and I didn’t get payout to hook suckers, known as douthe money and I didn’t get the woman. ble indemnity: the insurance pays douPretty, isn’t it?” ble if the accident happens on a train. Seventy years later, Double Neff and Phyllis hop on the trolley — Indemnity is still one of the best. physically and metaphorically — and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

leader. But his plans for revenge become more complicated when he meets his first captive — a beautiful Spanish princess. Like a Robert Louis Stevenson adventure come to life, this high seas epic ripples with customary intrigue and a rapid succession of brilliantly inventive stunts. Mastered from a 35mm negative, this edition carefully recreates the authentic palette of two-strip Technicolor (comprised of varying blends of green and orange) so that modern viewers can savor the photography which the New York Times praised as “mindful of the paintings of the old masters.” At Chautauqua Auditorium. — Chautauqua A COFFEE IN BERLIN Winner of Six German Film Awards, this tragicomedy is a selfironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. Shot in black and white, and with a jazz soundtrack, it’s a look at a city and the zeitgeist of a generation. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

PARTICLE FEVER Follow six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet and pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from more than 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater WORLD CIRCUS Following five circus acts from around the world to the Academy Awards of circus competitions, the Monte Carlo Circus Festival, this family-friendly film reveals the spectacular life, history and culture inside a world that we usually just see on the surface. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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’m not saying that the impoverished are going to grab axes and violently murder the wealthy elite. But… Writer/director Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer does what the sci-fi genre does better than any other cinematic medium: examines modern life by asking a surreal “what if.” The “what if ” in this case being a metaphorical examination of the redistribution of wealth and the subsequent inability of the poor to climb the social ladder using a postapocalyptic ice age and Tilda Swinton with goofy teeth. Wait! It works! I swear! Snowpiercer is actually built on two modern social crises: global warming and the rising plutocracy. Set in the very near future, climate change has progressed to the point where even Ann Coulter has to admit the weather’s messed up. In a panic, scientists spread a chemical into the atmosphere Cat’s Cradle-style, and the whole world winds up a giant igloo. The only survivors are those who boarded a former luxury train that circles the world annually without stopping thanks to a crazy perpetual engine. In quite possibly the most literal scifi metaphor ever, the rich live lives of luxury at the front of the train. The poor are bound to the back, where they are crammed in tight quarters, eating “protein bars” made of stuff that makes hot dog ingredients sound delicious. Previous attempts at revolution have failed during the 17 years since Earth became a popsicle. But Curtis (Chris Evans) and his mentor Gilliam ( John Hurt) have a new, albeit very uncomplicated, plan: Bust security expert Namgoong Minsoo (Kang-ho Song) out of train jail and get him to open the

locked gates that lead to the front of the train, fighting cart by cart until they control the engine. It does not go well. If you’ve never had the pleasure of watching one of Bong’s films, be prepared for whiplash-inducing changes in tone. In what is fast becoming his trademark, Snowpiercer abruptly shifts from grimdark murderfest to broad surrealist comedy to moralizing parable. And somehow it works. It shouldn’t be possible for Evan’s tortured Curtis to share a scene with Swinton’s absurd Mason, but Bong pulls it off flawlessly. The entire cast, including Jamie Bell, Ed Harris and Octavia Spencer, navigate the potential minefield of unintentional comedy with remarkable aplomb. Although Snowpiercer’s metaphor is absurdly explicit, the takehome message is more nuanced. Bong does not offer false hope to real-life, would-be revolutionists, suggesting a complicated and chilling outcome if true change is achieved. What’s nice is the film can be enjoyed for ridiculous action, consumed for eccentric comedy or celebrated for complex commentary. If you enjoy all three, it’s a near masterpiece. Bong’s first English language film is a towering accomplishment born of immense creativity, social awareness and a fearlessness that few mainstream American directors possess. It’s the kind of film brave enough to completely stop before the final fight and let its main character unload a chilling, heart-rending soliloquy. In short, Snowpiercer is the kind of movie we need and get too few of these days. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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prices early in the season. While their prices have ers are experiencing less of a sticker shock as the price of many locally produced goods are holding remained steady, they have been paying more, recently, steady. While large scale, conventional agricultural for their organic feed costs due to the increased price in products are becoming more expensive, the price of grain. This follows a national trend in an increasing locally grown, organic produce seems to be rising less consumer price index (CPI) for food at the national steeply. Many local growers and organic farmers are level. finding ways to econoRecent data released from the USDA’s Economic mize and diversify to Research Service shows the price of beef and eggs up adapt to rising feed prican average of 10 percent from this time last year. The es and the cost of prosevere droughts across the Midwest in 2012 and production without passing longed water shortages in California, Texas and Connect withhaveushurt areas these expenses on to Oklahoma over the last several years customers. that supply corn and other grains for animal feed. More “The supermarkets, concerning, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor for ultimately, dictate price,” the second week in June, 100 percent of California was explains Paul Cure of experiencing drought, with more than 75 percent of the Cure Organic Farms, “based on what they think the state experiencing long-term, extreme or exceptional Connect with us consumers will pay.” drought. In a state where 80 percent of all water goes to On their farm in eastern Boulder County, the Cures agricultural production, California’s fruit and nut trees grow a wide range of fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat are dying off, livestock are being sold off and land is and wool. By selling directly to consumers through lying fallow as aquifers empty and ditches run dry. As farmers’ markets and a CSA, they are able to shift proour nation’s largest agricultural producer, the data for duction to meet client demand without having to grow see FOOD PRICES Page 44 one large crop for a vendor who might set wholesale

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Cured, located at 1825 B. Pearl St., or you can get the Cured de France boxes sent to your Sometimes doorstep for $95. there is nothing The entire bundled better than pairtour, or all eight ing a sporting stages, that goes event with a until July 27th, is chunk of hearty $295, which includes cheese and the newly released some succulent Arundel Looney Bin wine. At Cured, Bottle Cage, Boulder’s designed to hold a cheese, wine bottle of wine in and charcuterie comfort, loaded market on Pearl with a bottle of Street, that is Cured’s house red. exactly what For information owner and forabout Cured de mer Tour de France racer Will France, visit www. Frischkorn is providing. curedboulder.com In honor of Tour de or call them at 720France, the 21-day cycling 389-8096. race around France, “Cured “At the finale,” de France” breaks up the says owner race into eight stages, correFrischkorn, “we guiltsponding with the region the Cured is offering special wine and cheese ily enjoy cyclists are pedaling across, Champagne and a pairings to go with the Tour de France. and pairs a specific beverwedge of Fougerus age and cheese from that while the riders finally region for consumption. get off their bikes and bid goodbye to the Stage three takes places this July 11-14 when 101st Tour de France.” racers move across Northeastern France. The — Maalikah Hartley Marcaire cheese — a pungent, washed rind cow’s milk cheese common in Northeastern Q’S RESTAURANT MAKES WAY FOR BETTER France — will be paired with a fruity and THINGS brassy-colored gewürztraminer wine from Q’s Restaurant in the Hotel Boulderado shut Albert Mann in Alsace, France, according to down July 6 in preparation for an interior renoCured’s manager, Jessica Beer. vation and rebranding. The new restaurant, to For every stage, the bottle of wine and be called “Spruce,” will feature an expansive cheese (between a quarter and a half a pound) will be $40 and available for pick-up at oyster bar as the focal point and will open to

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the public Tuesday, Aug. 5 — National Oyster Day, fittingly enough. The new menu is being developed by Executive Chef Shawn Murrell, who has been leading Q’s kitchen for three years. The menus will be printed daily to showcase fresh-caught fish and will feature a heavy focus on local produce, a distinguished wine list and cocktails featuring local distillers. A refreshed color palette will be given to the restaurant, in addition to new seating, lighting and flooring, according to Shannan Reese of Stephanie Jones Public Relations, Inc. — Maalikah Hartley

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In the year 2050 there will be 9 billion mouths to feed and National Geographic Magazine is posing the question, how will we feed everyone? In their Future of Food eightmonth series, they will investigate how food connects us, nourishes us, defines us, and how it will shape our future. Topics include how to farm a better fish, traveling produce, supermarket Darwinism, how modern farming and natural forces have altered landscapes, and how to feed a growing population. Last month’s issue, “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World,” written by Jonathan Foley, who directs the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, explained that freezing agriculture’s footprint, growing more on the farms we’ve got, using resources more efficiently, shifting our diets and reducing waste will help combat the issue of hunger and sustainability. The magazine thanks The Rockefeller Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for their generous support of the series of articles. Visit www.nationalgeographic.com for more information. — Maalikah Hartley

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t first glance, Casa Alvarez might as well be decorated exclusively in red flags. It occupies the back corner location of a 30th Street strip mall and has an interior that looks like every Mexican restaurant in every town, with light pastel coloring and tile, overly harsh lighting and awkward attempts to recreate a jungle atmosphere inside. Though I didn’t see a ceramic parrot anywhere, I kept Casa Alvarez looking for one. 3161 Walnut St., That boilerBoulder plate continued 303-546-0630 with the arrival of the salsa, which had that overly red, nearly ketchup feel of generic Mexican restaurants country-wide. But dig a little deeper, and there are some really standout qualities. The first you might notice (since it’s on the way in the front door) is the unexpectedly killer patio. Though it isn’t visible until you get close, the entranceway is recessed from the parking lot with a large domed roof lined with skylights that fill the patio with gentle, filtered sunbeams. A low wall at the patio’s edge blocks the view of the parking lot and this soft-light paradise

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is pointed directly at the Flatirons. Well played, Señor Alvarez, wherever you may be. The next place Casa Alavarez stands out is in some of the menu choices. Sure, it’s based around the same menu that seems to be shipped out to every Mexican restaurant in bulk from Cisco with a blank space to be filled in next to the word “Casa” on the masthead, but tucked in-between are some gems. Regularly made menudo. Mole lamb. Cactus in red chile. And an unexpectedly wide selection of vegetarian tacos. Picking from the last can also yield some pleasant results. As much as M. Knight Shyamalan likes twist endings, I like combo plates. It’s the best dish smattering this side of a smorgasbord. But all too often, the things being combined ain’t so hot, which is why they’re vended in tandem to begin with. Not the case with Casa Alvarez. Its chili relleno — my barometer for Mexican food — gets high

marks, with little bitterness in the pepper and a nice batter that didn’t flake off when chomped upon. The green chili atop the shredded enchilada was leaps and bounds beyond standard enchilada sauce. The one shortcoming was the taco, which came in a hardshell with unmelted shredded cheese as if Casa Alvarez were some sort of Taco Bell (read that last part in a Mr. Howell accent, por favor). My dining companion’s array of veggie tacos arrived simi-

larly. The other option was to have them served on flour tortillas, which, even while acknowledging the great tortilla schism that exists between taquerias and sit-downs, are still the Gary Cherone-era Van Halen of tortillas. And there are other remaining vestiges of everytownness. Though the lamb was a nice touch, the mole that topped it wasn’t much to write home — or a column — about, and Casa Alvarez’s beans (refried or black — seriously, what’s a critic gotta do to get some spiced, whole pintos in this burg?) ain’t much to look at, or snack on, but they certainly came on the side. And though it’s hard to quantify specifically, on the whole, Casa Alvarez feels generally a little more expensive than it ought to be, especially for the sort of sunlit late lunch that the patio is perfect for. But wait a little longer until early evening and eat your combo platter in the fading light of a sunset on the Flatirons, and your problem is solved. Like almost everything, Casa Alvarez isn’t perfect. But despite snapjudgements, it’s not the generic Mexican restaurant it initially appears to be. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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What are the sources that heal and nourish you? Where do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Why do birds fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food. Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat. Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: Birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 percent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 percent of the time.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Is there an important resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool? I’m not talking about a luxury it would be pleasant to have or a status symbol that would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day. Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived for to become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Since 1981, Chinese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favorable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate long-term growth.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

The weeks preceding your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demon-banishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently, and even if it was cast by yourself. Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas, or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah!

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

You know what it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown. And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone. Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics. They’re doing well. The Avengers earned $1.5 billion, making it the third-highest-grossing film of all time. Iron Man 3 brought in over a billion dollars, too, and Thor: The Dark World grossed $644 million. Now Marvel executives are on schedule to release two movies every year through 2028. I’d love to see you be inspired by their example, Libra. Sound fun? To get started, dream and scheme about what you want to be doing in both the near future and the far future. Then formulate a flexible, invigorating master plan for the next 14 years.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

While in Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?” Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked. As amusing as his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should NOT proceed in the coming week. If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In one of her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

This would be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Expect nothing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo? Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders — with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Every year, the U.S. government spends $25,455 per capita on programs for senior citizens. Meanwhile, it allocates $3,822 for programs to help children. That’s only 15 percent as much as what the elders receive. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I believe your priorities should be reversed. Give the majority of your energy and time and money to the young and innocent parts of your life. Devote less attention to the older and more mature aspects. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need to care intently for what’s growing most vigorously.

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fter reading about all these horrible expegested that humans are innately drawn to alter their riences visitors are having with edibles, I consciousness, and that we do this beginning as childecided to find out what all the fuss was dren. This made perfect sense to me back then, and it about. Everybody’s heard about Maureen still makes perfect sense to me today, especially when Dowd’s eight hours of hotel terror by now, I’m watching someone like Ann Coulter explain that but even ace cannabis correspondent Jacob Sullum people don’t drink alcohol to get “high” and therefore had a negative experience recently with an edible cannabis must be worse than alcohol. Leland Rucker while passing through the state. Weil didn’t advocate drug I chose Dixie Edibles THC use in The Natural Mind, but his Infused Dixie Rolls. There were suggestion that it wasn’t deviant two rolls in the package, both or unnatural to want to alter about the size of a Tootsie Roll, your consciousness ran counter clearly marked as containing to my upbringing but made so 50mg each of THC. On the much sense. Using ideas develback of the package it suggests oped by Timothy Leary and single servings of 10mg for others, Weil touted the concept beginners. So the two rolls of set and setting to help deterincluded 10 full servings at recmine a subject’s reaction to ommended dosages. The budmind alteration, be it with drugs tender asked if I was experienced or meditation. “Set is a person’s and reminded me of the recomexpectations of what a drug will mendations. do to him, considered in the I cut off what I considered context of his whole personaliDo we really need this much packaging to ty,” Weil wrote. “Setting is the three servings. It tasted like a Tootsie Roll with a definite can- keep edibles away from children? environment, both physical and nabis overtone. We walked over social, in which a drug is taken.” to a neighbor’s birthday party, The set/setting concept and about an hour and a half later I began to notice a seems helpful when approaching edibles. The best pleasant relaxation in the muscles in my neck at advice, of course, is to always use common sense, about the same time the conversation became more something the government itself can’t legislate, by the animated. We came home and watched an episode of way. But you can control your set and setting. House of Cards. The intensity level began dropping off If you’re curious, before dabbling in edibles, I within three or four hours of ingestion, and I had no would suggest smoking bud marijuana first. Smoking problem sleeping. I repeated the experience the next cannabis is the fastest way to experience the “altered night with nothing negative to report. consciousness” that THC provides. More importantly, So why the bad experiences? Two things seem it’s an easy way to control your dosage — if you feel to be at work here. The first is ingesting an edible at your consciousness changing too much or too quickly, the prescribed dosage and then ingesting more you can stop. If you don’t like smoking, substitute a before the first dose takes effect. The second is vaporizer, which uses cannabis vapor instead of being caught in a place you don’t want to be — say, smoke and which you can easily control dosage in an out-of-state hotel room — by yourself when the much the same way. edible takes effect. So you’ve tried it and liked the change in conIn 1972’s The Natural Mind, Andrew Weil sugsciousness, and you want to try an edible. First, tem-

per your expectations. The packaging says that for individuals not used to cannabis, try 10mg and see what happens. Don’t take more just because you don’t feel it for a while. It took more than 90 minutes for the Dixie Roll’s effects to begin happening to me. Even more importantly, plan something pleasant for the setting: a picnic, a walk in the foothills, a movie, working on your lawn, a fine dining place. Don’t drive. And don’t plan something you’ve never done before. Cannabis tends to complement your feeling and your mood, so doing things you enjoy is perhaps the most important thing to remember. Being in the wrong place, as Dowd’s night in Denver shows us, could make the experience much worse. For tourists and anyone else, eating edibles is one of the few ways to consume cannabis legally. Which brings up the topic of where people will be able to legally consume cannabis, something that will most certainly have to be revisited in Colorado as legalization moves along. The city of Denver’s raid and closing of a private cannabis club last week isn’t promising, but we’re going to need to have that conversation, or we’ll continue to have problems with edibles for tourists. While I sympathize with the legislature’s attempts to keep edibles away from kids, the packaging was almost comically wasteful. The two small candy-barsized rolls were inside a sturdy, reinforced package eight inches by 3¾ inches that I had to cut with a pair of scissors to get inside. That bag was stuffed into a plastic container more than six inches high. Without the packaging, the plastic container alone could hold several dozen of the edible rolls. Somehow the idea that a container that could hold probably 80-100 Dixie Rolls is being used to transport two of them seems ridiculous. Besides driving up costs, it’s just wasteful, especially since children aren’t getting cannabis at retail stores. I don’t want Dixie Rolls in the hands of children. But are giant plastic tubs that hold tiny amounts of edibles and then wind up in landfills the best answer? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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