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hile we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s socalled “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow.

This started with “co-branding” agreements, rationalized by NPS officials as “aligning the economic and historical legacies” of parks with advertisers. In other words, they are selling the Park Service’s proud public brand... as well as its soul. First in line was Coca-Cola. In 2010, the multibillion-dollar colossus became a “Proud Partner” with NPS by making a mere $2.5 million taxdeductible donation. In return, Coke got exclusive rights to use park logos in its ads — and it also was allowed to veto an NPS plan to ban sales of bottled water in the Grand Canyon park. Disposable plastic bottles are that park’s biggest source of trash, but Coke owns the Dasani brand of water, so bye-bye ban. Public outrage forced officials to reverse this crass move, but NPS’ integrity has yet to recover. Then this April, the park service abandoned its policy of rejecting any

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ties to alcohol products when Anheuser-Busch also became a Proud NPS Partner by making a $2.5 million tax-deductible “gift.” In turn, its Budweiser brand was given the Statue of Liberty. Not literally, but symbolically — Bud now has the right to plaster Lady Liberty, the iconic symbol of the USA itself, on its cans. Creeping commercialization of our public parks is not creeping, it’s running rampant! For example, take a whiff of this: In return for becoming a Proud Partner, Air Wick was authorized to market a new fragrance collection that it advertises as being “uniquely inspired by America’s national parks.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 30, 2015 5

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ill Clinton, when he was running for re-election as President in 1996, declared, “We remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.” His second-term secretary of state Madeleine Albright repeated the phrase “indispensable nation” so much that many people thought she originated the phrase. Actually, Clinton privately had a more modest view of America’s role in the world. Strobe Talbott, a friend of Clinton’s and former deputy secretary of state, says that after leaving the White House, Clinton told him he wanted to get the American people to accept a multi-polar world. Clinton said, “I wanted to build a world for our grandchildren to live in where America was no longer the sole superpower, for a time when we would have to share the stage.” Talbott asked Clinton why he didn’t say that while he was president. Clinton responded, “That’s why you’re a wonk, and I was president of the United States. Because it’s political suicide to say ... [that] ‘my vision is that we have to prepare for our children’s and grandchildren’s era when America’s not going to be the top dog.’ I’d have been ridden out of town on a rail!” Barack Obama is facing this dilemma right now in the controversy surrounding the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers. There is a massive campaign underway by Republicans, the gov-

ernment of Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to kill the deal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran wishes to “take over the world.” Naftali Bennett, the leader of Israel’s far right settlers party, says this is “one of the darkest days in world history.” In the United States, GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham says the deal is a “death sentence for Israel” and radio talk show host Glenn Beck predicts that the deal will cause another Holocaust “perhaps bigger than the last.” Peace groups and multi-issue progressive organizations are campaigning for the deal. Among them are J Street (the self-described “pro-Israel and pro-peace” Jewish lobbying group which competes with the hawkish AIPAC) and Jewish Voices for Peace. In June, J Street commissioned a poll of American Jewish voters which found that they favor by 59 to 41 percent an agreement that would require Iran to significantly restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the easing of economic sanctions. This is higher than the 53 to 43 percent margin that CNN found recently among the general public. J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami says: “Most American Jews support the president in believing that diplomacy, and not military action, provides the best chance of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran. If finalized, the emerging deal would cut off every pathway that Iran could take see COMMENTARY Page 8

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DyerTimes Council is listening, but to whom? by Joel Dyer

t this point, I actually feel a bit sorry for the members of Boulder’s City Council. In the last few months they have managed to anger just about everyone for one reason or another. Whether its development or rightsizing, municipalization miscues, nutty decisions on historical preservation or their continued support for the city’s discriminatory policies aimed at pushing the homeless out of sight, pretty much everyone has expressed some level of displeasure with this crew. And while the community’s grumblings spring from a variety of issues, the central complaint is nearly always the same: “this Council just doesn’t listen.” While that accusation may have some merit, I don’t think it’s this Council’s biggest problem. When most people complain that council isn’t listening, what they are really saying is council isn’t doing what I want them to do. For the record, I’m not one of those folks who wrongly believe that after we elect someone to office, council or otherwise, their only duty is to hold their finger in the wind and vote for the majority position no matter how misinformed that majority may be. Nope, we live in a representative democracy wherein council members are supposed to inform themselves on an issue and then vote for what they believe is in the best interest of the community. And I honestly believe that the members of This Council try to do just that. The problem isn’t that the Council doesn’t listen. The problem is to whom the Council is listening, which appears to be mostly to each other and city staff who have a vested interest in telling their bosses’ bosses what they want to hear. Unfortunately, relying on such a small, incestuous pool of feedback can make for some pretty goofy decisions freed from the bounds of common sense. Take municipalization for instance. Council was told repeatedly by staff that Xcel didn’t have a leg to stand on when it came to using the courts or regulatory agencies to stop Boulder’s quest to create a municipal electric utility. This paper warned repeatedly that the road to municipalization would be fraught with unforeseen difficulties due to Xcel’s considerable legal expertise, its nearly unlimited budget to fight and its Boulder Weekly

significant political influence over the regulatory agencies. I seem to recall folks in the city attorney’s office laughing off such warnings. At least they laughed until the city started losing every legal and regulatory challenge Xcel threw its way. BW still supports municipalization, but from where we sit, this Council has been repeatedly surprised by bad news because it is constantly working from poor advice that is routinely overoptimistic and overly simplistic because staff tells Council what Council wants to hear. As a result, Council feels justified in shutting out the voices of those critical of its actions on any number of aspects of this complex issue. Sticking your fingers in your ears so you can’t hear what someone has to say is rarely a recipe for proper decision-making. And what about “right-sizing?” What’s that? It worked in Amsterdam. The Pope thinks it’s a good idea? I won’t spend my space here describing the lack of research and common sense that went into this recent Council decision; you can read about this fiasco on page 16 of this issue. I’ll just say it’s a good example of listening in all the wrong places. And here’s another great example of what can happen to a council that allows staff to drown out the voice of the people. Anyone who has followed the issue of the historic Glen Huntington Bandshell in Central Park knows that a good portion of this Council wants to see it moved from it current location, which is prime real estate for those elected officials who see themselves as the lone architects of Boulder’s future identity. In an effort to appear to be listening to public input, an online survey was set up by the city, which asked people where they wanted the Bandshell to be located. According to press reports, almost two-thirds of respondents told the city that they wanted the Bandshell left right where it is. Pretty simple to interpret those findings, right? Not in Boulder, not these days. When asked about the survey’s results, Jeff Haley, Boulder’s planning manager over the Civic Area that includes Central Park, told the Daily Camera, “We are taking that [survey results] to mean it should stay in its

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current location or somewhere in the civic area.” What? No. It means that the vast majority of people want the Bandshell to stay exactly where it is just like they said when they filled out the survey. They don’t want it to be moved somewhere else in the Civic Area. What a perfect example of only hearing what you want to hear. So what will likely happen next? I

can only assume that staff will provide guidance to Council that says something along the lines of “the people of Boulder will be happy so long as the Bandshell is located anywhere in the Civic Area.” And at that point, Council will vote to move the Bandshell, all the while being shocked by the sure-to-follow public outcry declaring City Council is deaf to the concerns and desires of the community it is supposed

to be serving. Representative democracy is a good thing, but when a city council becomes too insulated from public input and too dependent upon it’s own members passions and a staff that, not surprisingly, desires to provide guidance that it knows the council wants to hear, it can become the victim of this feedback loop. It’s like what happens to Republicans who only listen Fox News

or Democrats addicted to the self-reinforcing slant of MSNBC. It makes you feel good. It can even make you believe you are informed. But in the end, it only serves to free you from the bounds of reality, at which point its likely you will start making very silly decisions … like “right-sizing,” moving bandshells or lobbying against laws that would give the homeless the right to simply rest. COMMENTARY from Page 6

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to develop a nuclear weapon, and it would impose the most intrusive inspections regime in history, allowing inspectors full access to Iranian facilities, including underground sites.” But in Israel, a majority of Jews and almost all politicians support Netanyahu’s opposition to the deal. However, there are a growing number of high-ranking veterans of Israel’s security establishment who are publicly supporting the deal. J.J. Goldberg reports in The Jewish Daily Forward that they include a former chief of military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, who now heads Israel’s main defense think tank; a former chief of arms technology, Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, who now chairs The Israel Space Agency; and Israel Ziv, a former chief of military operations among others. Goldberg reports that the security insiders have differing opinions about the agreement. Some say it is a bad deal but Israel can live with it. Others say it’s good for Israel. But Goldberg notes that “[e]ither way, they agree that Israel should work with the Obama administration to plot implementation, rather than mobilize Congress against the White House. All agree that undermining Israel’s alliance with America is a far greater existential threat than anything Iran does.” Goldberg adds: “It’s impossible to say for certain whether the dozen or so exgenerals and spymasters who have spoken out are representative of the broader security community. But there are hints. Netanyahu has replaced top personnel repeatedly, but each new cohort takes the same stance: opposing precipitate action; denying that Iran represents an existential threat, insisting that Iran’s leadership is rational and responds to negotiation and deterrence.” This is a precarious situation. If the deal is killed, international sanctions will go away and the hardliners in Iran will become more powerful, and we will likely be headed for another war in the most volatile region on the planet. For once, let’s give peace and diplomacy a chance. Boulder Weekly

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Chickenhawks I say

When a guy blusters and bloviates about his determination to protect America from all enemies foreign and domestic, all one needs to do is compare what others with similar bluster and bloviation in their permanent records have expressed. Mr. Trump sounds a lot like Ex VP Cheney and our conservative friend Mr. Limbaugh. All veteran chickenhawk draft dodgers. But they know best, don’t they? Tommy Holeman/Niwot

need them that badly. If there is really a demand, people will come and enjoy their firepower, and others will not be forced to endure the awful sound of gunfire, and the occasional meaningless destruction of a family, (it’s not just fireworks, which we are much more responsible and careful with than bullets). No amount of happy fun or recreational imperative overrides the certainty of careless periodic loss of a life and destruction of a peaceful, natural environment. No gunfire occurs natu-

rally in nature. There already are a number of successful privately owned and managed shooting ranges in our county. Why is this long-established, common sense recreation establishment not encouraged and our mountains left to nature and in peace? John Gilburt/Allenspark

Whatever works best

The world will be a more dangerous place, unless we write to our elected officials as follows: If the sanctions on

Iran will keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons and from funneling more money to terrorists, then we should keep the sanctions in place. If, however, we need a deal in order to keep Iran from getting such weapons, we must make such deal as effective as possible: We must make the lifting of sanctions contingent upon unlimited access to possible nuclear weapons sites—and this should be in effect for more than 10 years. Alex Sokolow/Santa Monica, CA

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I am most perplexed and upset over revisiting the “possibly suited” gun fun ranges in populated areas in nearby mountain communities, in my case Allenspark. A few years ago this idea was soundly and sanely condemned and abandoned as not only far too dangerous, but an extreme insult to the quiet environment in our mountains. Are you now willing to risk the collateral damage, like Glenn Martin, the grandfather killed last week by a stray bullet? Has the resident and guest population in our nearby mountains decreased, do you think? And now the risk of an occasional Glenn Martin killing is acceptable? I raised my family in a cabin near Allenspark and well within range of the proposed sites. I would not have let my children live next to a shooting gallery where they would have to think about a stray shot every day. Bullets travel far. Twice as far as their sound. Even a .22 will carry a mile. Hundreds and hundreds of homes, cabins, guest facilities, hiking, camping, biking areas lie within easy range of gunfire which is still lethal, like an offhand shot into the air. Do we really think that stray shots don’t land and won’t occur? How much would the odds go up with each beer? Shooting is not like snowshoeing. Even if no one happens to get shot on a given day — at the very least it interferes with many others’ “right to quiet enjoyment” of their home or campsite and is completely incongruent in our mountain recreation areas. Add the four-wheelers and dirt bikes? What are we creating? An auditory war zone? Is that the idea? With an occasional grandfather sacrifice to pay for our fun and amusement. A shooting range needs not to be a hidden, unsupervised, unbounded hillside in a mountain forest. It would serve far better to be in the open where sightlines are long and safety is certain. This should happen on the plains on private property as legitimate business for landowners and ranchers where shooting can be enjoyable, safe and professionally managed. It would also be safer to build indoor ranges if we Boulder Weekly

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t’s well known among Boulderites that staying in downtown parking structures until after the attendants leave means the gates go up, and the entire night of parking is free of charge. What’s one more drink if it means free parking? But this may be changing. Councilman Macon Cowles began asking about public parking prices and policies via email through the Boulder City Council’s Hotline at the beginning of July. Cowles wants the City Council to look at how city parking policies align with city goals, which include reducing traffic, carbon emissions and congestion, as well as generating revenue. He says he raises the issue because of long waiting lists for parking permits in city Boulder parking garage pricing may change in the near future. facilities and the price difference between public and private parking garages. Molly Winter, executive director of the ing in the downtown and presumably that’s why fees Downtown and University Hill Management Division have gone up. But our rates are not comparable to priand Parking Services, has been working on parking in vate garages in town,” Cowles says. His emails refer to Boulder since the late ’90s. She says after years withthe pricing difference as a “subsidy” for downtown out wait lists, there are currently 1,234 people waiting parkers. for city parking garage permits, although some com“What’s a little bit different from comparing our panies are on lists at multiple garages. The city already garages to private garages is that private garages are oversells permits by 105-125 percent in order to maxi- first and foremost for the tenants,” Winter says. She says the published rates of certain companies, mize the use of each facility. including One Boulder Plaza, which Cowles refers to in Due to increased demand and market trends, Winter says parking permit rates in city downtown the emails, are not indicative of parking rates for all garages have increased 28.6 percent in three years — their tenants, but rather the rates are negotiated as part 3.6 percent in 2014, 16 percent in 2015 and a proof each tenant’s lease. “They are focused on making sure their tenants are happy,” she says. Plus, “In some of the posed 9 percent in 2016. Previous to that, parking private garages, the landowner has said they set their rates only increased by approximately 4 percent every short-term rates really high to discourage short-term other year, according to Winter. Current permits are parking.” $330 per quarter ($110 a month), and are expected to The city, on the other hand, is tasked with providincrease to $350 a quarter in 2016. In contrast, private ing parking for employees, shoppers and visitors alike. garages charge anywhere between $375 and $600 a “It’s hard to have a straight across comparison,” quarter. Surface lots in downtown, which cost $200 a Winter says. “We just have a different purpose, differquarter, increased rates by 21.9 percent in the same ent goals.” three-year period. Winter and her team assess the parking rates in “There continues to be a robust demand for park-

April of each year and make budget recommendations based on the market trends, which is all a part of the public budget review process with City Council. “We don’t have the flexibility that a private garage does. If they say they want to raise the rates next month they can,” Winter says. Cowles also raises the question of possible lost revenue when parking for free in surface lots and parking garages after lot attendants leave at the end of the day, which Winter’s department has not tracked. “It seems to me that it’s trackable,” Cowles says. “We know at least how many tickets have not been paid for. I would think the city can develop that information and it may be important. We probably should be tracking that.” Rather than tracking lost revenue, Winter’s department is researching a new gate-access system, either a “pay on foot machine” or credit-card machine at the gate, in order to collect on charges after the attendant leaves for the night. The current staffing at parking garages will most likely remain in place. “We feel it’s important [attendants] provide customer service, and they provide a lot of information actually to people who are visiting,” says Winter. The city currently charges $1.25 an hour for the first four hours and $2.50 an hour after that for shortterm parking in downtown structures. Winter says those prices will remain the same in 2016. “The goal of all of this [is] not about the parking. It’s about making sure our commercial districts are vital from an economic standpoint,” Winter says. “We want to find that sweet-spot [between] the market trends, charging enough that it could make people think twice about driving if they have other options [and] we also realize a lot of our employees don’t have options; they don’t have access to transit.” Cowles says aligning the parking prices with the city’s goals is a policy decision, and he’s asked to bring the issue forward for discussion in a September City Council meeting.

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ntil recently, Loveland artist Harrison Hand illegally lived in his rental office space. Another Loveland artist, Mary Waters, says she was “technically” homeless for the previous 10 months. But now both Hand and Waters live, and create, at the Artspace Loveland Arts Campus, an affordable live/ work housing project which opened to residents at the end of June. “Here I get to sleep in my studio and not violate any zoning laws,” says Hand, a science-fiction/fantasy writer and illustrator and entrepreneur who has lived in Loveland for 12 years. He sleeps on a small cot, which he hangs up on the wall during the day to have more work space. “There’s two ways to look at this space — it can be an apartment that you do your art in or it can be a Angela K. Evans studio that you can sleep in,” he says. Filmmaker Caryn Sanchez also lives at Artspace Loveland — in a one bedroom apartment that Gov. Hickenlooper talks with artists doubles as her on Monday, July 27 while touring film and editing Caryn Sanchez’ apartment. studio. “I may only make a film every three years so whatever money I get from that has to last me for that amount of time,” she says. “Literally having this means I can work fulltime as a filmmaker and not have to work two other jobs to make ends meet.” She has always benefited from the rich art community in Loveland, but Artspace provides the perfect living situation for her creativity to thrive, without worrying about disturbing her neighbors. “We all understand it; we are all artists that work odd hours, and we just have a different lifestyle,” she says. “It’s nice to know that within these walls there’s an acceptance, an encouragement, and we can do what we do and not feel like we’re bothering anybody.” The Artspace Loveland Arts Campus already has a waiting list as all 30 units, ranging from studio to three-bedroom apartments, are currently leased. But it is just the first of many live/work artists facilities set to open around Colorado in the coming years. At a press conference at the new facility on Monday, July 27, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Space to Create, Colorado, the first state-wide initiative in the country to provide affordable housing for artists in rural communities. “The more you can get creative energy into a community … that energy helps the entire business economy. It helps start-ups, it helps people considering Boulder Weekly

starting a company, it helps bigger and older companies,” Hickenlooper says. Space to Create is part of the Colorado Creative Industries Creative District Program, which certifies certain arts and cultural Filmmaker Caryn Sanchez sits in the studio of her apartment at the communities and provides funding Loveland Artspace. through competitive grants programs. Since the program struggled over the last several decades,” Hickenlooper launched three years ago, 12 different communities says. “I think if we can figure out some ways to get have been certified, creating almost 10,000 jobs and more cultural energy into Trinidad it could be part of $134 million in revenue, Gov. Hickenlooper says. that critical mass. …There’s a benefit to Boulder and “We have more cultural visits in Colorado per Denver when our rural Colorado economy does well.” capita in a given year than any other state in After the initial project in Trinidad is completed, America,” Hickenlooper says. “I think that’s a big part the other sites will be determined through a comof the economic vitality, this kind of resurgence, we’ve petitive application process. According to seen in the last five or six years.” Hickenlooper, each project will cost an average of The idea of Space to Create came when Artspace $5 million. The projects will be funded through applied to the Colorado-based Boettcher Foundation low-income housing and historical building tax to fund the Loveland Campus. Boettcher Foundation credits, regional Department of Local Affairs offices president Tim Schultz not Angela K. Evans and philanthropic donations. only supported the “Philanthropic funding can help Loveland Artspace but also and will have to help bridge the suggested the state-wide gap to make sure that these initiative. “The state was projects are financially doable,” very receptive from the Gov. Hickenlooper says. “We’ll beginning and very excited get the money, it may take about it. … It didn’t take a awhile but we’ll get the money.” lot of convincing. Tim has The Loveland campus is one a powerful persuasive of approximately 30 similar voice, and he has a lot of affordable arts facilities across connections in both the the country developed by the private and public sector,” Minneapolis-based non-profit says Wendy Holmes, Artspace. Similar projects in senior vice president of Lakewood and the RiNo district consulting and strategic in Denver are currently in develpartnerships at Artspace. opment. Although not officially Space to Create will part of the Space to Create inispecifically target rural tiative, like the Loveland campus communities, developing these urban projects will utilize affordable housing facililow-income housing tax credits ties in nine different and historic tax-credits dependregions across the state in ing on location. the next eight years. With Whether in rural or urban the announcement on areas, the Artspace facilities popMonday, Hickenlooper ping up around Colorado are Resident Harrison Hand stands in front of the also unveiled Trinidad as intended to not only provide Artspace Loveland Arts Campus. host to the first Space to affordable space for artists but Create demonstration also help expand and grow the project expected to launch by the end of this year. state’s economy. Hickenlooper says the rural towns throughout the “The future economy has to be creative,” constate, like Trinidad, are still struggling from high cludes Hand. “A creative economy that provides unemployment rates while more urban areas like opportunity for people to express themselves and conDenver, Boulder, Fort Collins and even Pueblo are nect with other creatives, I think, will benefit everyshowing signs of economic resurgence. “Trinidad is body. It will benefit the state economy but also the one of the most beautiful cities in the state of world. If we are creating things not destroying things, Colorado, and yet for a variety of reasons it’s kind of it benefits everybody.” July 30, 2015 13

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he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers met with the public on July 22 and 23 to discuss decades-long plans to address water needs in Northern Colorado. The public comment session came about a month after the Corps released its Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Study (EIS), which was about 12 years in the making. It looked at a number of options for meeting water needs, including building multiple reservoirs and diverting major amounts of water from the Cache La Poudre River. The Corps ultimately dismissed plans that centered around conservation and efficiency. The debate on how to acquire the amount of water that the Corps says Northern Colorado needs — about 45,000 acre-feet of water capacity now, with increasing needs in the future — started as soon as the problem was recognized. A conglomerate of 15 water providers in the area, from the Fort Collins Loveland Water District down to Lafayette and all the way out to Frederick, submitted a plan to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to secure that water, and in 2004 the Corps returned with the original EIS. Because the scope of the project was so large; the population in the region had grown so much; and there were so many points of contention in the first study, the Corps came out with a supplemental study — the one that was released last month. The current plan to meet water needs includes the construction of two reservoirs, the Glade and Galeton reservoirs, which would have a combined capacity of about 200,000 acre-feet. The water would be pumped into the reservoirs via a canal built from the Poudre. The Corps considered alternatives to this plan that were submitted by various groups. In all, the Corps says it considered more than 16 water supply sources and four project alternatives. One big alternate option to the above plan that includes Glade and Galeton, is the “No Action Alternative,” which assumes the need for 40,000 acre-feet of water as set forth by the Corps (this number is in dispute by some who say conservation and efficiency measures can lower the capacity need). It also would set out to transfer Boulder Weekly

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agricultural water supplies from the Poudre and Big Thompson rivers into two existing reservoirs and a third, Cactus Hill Reservoir, that would be new. Other alternatives include only constructing the Glade Reservoir, diversions to other existing reservoirs and more. One of the biggest opponents of the current plan is the group Save the Poudre, which points to key errors in the new EIS. “The main problem is that the proposed project is exactly the same as it was seven years ago,” says Gary Wockner, director of Save the Poudre. “They’re still proposing to drain and destroy the Cache La Poudre River. “ Wockner says the “No Action Alternative,” outlined above, which serves as a foundation for the study’s look at alternatives, has major issues. “It was completely flawed because it also required taking water from the Poudre River, building a big reservoir, [which would cost] more than a billion dollars. So we think the entire document is flawed because the comparisons

are all messed up,” Wockner says. As much as 68 percent of the water in the Poudre River would be siphoned off in the current plan, Wockner says, which would have major impacts on the river’s overall health, the associated ecosystems and the agricultural community. Northern Water, the conglomerate of water districts that put forward the original plan, released a white paper explaining proposed actions that they say would help mitigate environmental concerns. The actions include building new wetlands around Glade Reservoir, repairing nearby rivers and streams, implementing fish passage facilities, and “avoiding impacts to federal and state plant, animal and bird special status species through surveys, habitat protection and relocation if needed.” Wockner says his group’s research found that an emphasis on conservation, efficiency and working with farmers, who as a group use a large portion of the area’s water, could be enough to avoid massive diversion of the Poudre. “We put [conservation] in as an alternative, asking that they analyze water conservation as a solution to this

problem. They blew it off saying the cities are going to grow too much, too fast. But we think they should start with conservation and then work with farmers,” Wockner says. The Corps ultimately threw out the conservation alternative, claiming it wouldn’t be enough to adequately address the water needs. The Corps will now solicit comments on the revised study until Sept. 3. Wockner says his group will be submitting a comprehensive rebuttal to the study, outlining the environmental and logistical issues with the plan as it is. After the comments are received, the Corps will have to begin the long process of securing permits and rights to build the reservoir, but Wockner says it is “far from a done deal.” “I think it’ll be 10 years before there’s a final determination about whether they can build this project or not,” Wockner says. “And I would encourage any city that wants this water, which includes Lafayette, they need to go to Plan B and find a way to get it sooner and cheaper and easier, and that’s conservation and efficiency.” July 30, 2015 15

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oulder’s first of three “rightsizing” pilot projects has rubbed many Boulder residents the wrong way — so wrong, in fact, that on July 28, City Council decided not to move forward with the next two pilot projects as soon as initially planned. The first project — reducing the number of car lanes and widening bike lanes on Folsom Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Valmont Road — has elicited significant public outcry. Many citizens claim City Council didn’t have adequate data to proceed with the project, which critics say has turned the corridor into a parking lot. It appears that at least some of that criticism has merit. Interviews with city officials and transportation staff reveal the city did not look into whether vehicle lane reductions on the three corridors chosen for right-sizing — Folsom Street, Iris Avenue and 63rd Street — would hamper traffic flows on the few remaining large arteries in town, particularly Broadway, 28th Street, Violet Avenue and the Balsam-Edgewood-Valmont corridor. Transportation staff is only collecting data about cars that turn off of right-sized corridors onto adjacent streets that connect with other neighborhood feeder streets, providing no information about increased vehicular traffic on main arteries from citizens who are no longer willing to take rightsized streets due to increased congestion or the perception thereof. This lack of data leaves a sizable gap in the knowledge the city has on how rightsizing is truly affecting traffic flow in Boulder. For instance, while the city is collecting data for the number of cars that may switch from Folsom to 20th/19th Street, it fails to take into consideration the number of drivers that swap their old Folsom route for the more logical alternative of 28th Street even though it is already heavily congested. Right-sizing is by no means a new or Boulder-developed concept; cities across America — Seattle, Portland and Pasadena, to name a few — have implemented right-sizing on some of their streets. Sometimes called a “road diet” or a “complete street,” right-sizing removes lanes from a street and repurposes the space for other modes of travel, such as biking. There are a number of ways roads 16 July 30, 2015

Folsom Street between Canyon Boulevard and Walnut Street at 5:30 p.m., July 28.

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Critics say Council voted before they had information necessary to evaluate rightsizing experiment by Caitlin Rockett can be configured to accommodate right-sizing, but in Boulder each corridor will shrink from four car lanes — two in each direction — to one lane in each direction with a shared center turn lane. The extra space created will be used to increase bike lanes to a width of 7 feet. Boulder’s right-sizing plan was initially developed as a set of four pilot projects within Boulder’s Living Laboratory program (which seeks to improve cycling conditions around the city). Even prior to Council’s vote on the right-sizing project, community input was high: the July 16 public hearing before City Council had to be moved forward one day to accommodate a large volume of estimated testimonies. After approximately 80 citizen statements on June 15, City Council voted 7-2 in favor of moving forward with the plan on three corridors — Folsom, Iris and 63rd — while holding off on implementing the project on 55th Street in East Boulder for the time being.

Folsom Street, between Arapahoe Avenue and Valmont Road, was chosen as the first pilot project, with installation beginning on July 13 and wrapping up the following week. Potholes were filled, roads were restriped and flexible bollards were installed to further differentiate the bike lane. Initial plans called for installation to begin on Iris Avenue after a month of evaluating the results on Folsom, and, after a similar period of evaluation, work was to begin on 63rd Street in September. As of July 28, the final two pilot projects have been postponed due to hundreds of emails sent directly to Council complaining about the Folsom project. Since June, public commentary hasn’t slowed, including harsh criticism from Steve Pomerance, a former Boulder City Council member. Prior to the delay of the next two pilot projects, Pomerance expressed disbelief at the short amount of time the city planned to spend evaluating the results on Folsom before moving forward with installations on Iris and 63rd, saying the

evaluation period was “almost a year too short.” Pomerance says from a process perspective “this project stinks — that neither the Council nor the public was provided sufficient information to make these decisions.” “It’s been done so poorly,” Pomerance says. “It was a good idea, but ideas are a dime a dozen — good ones and bad ones. But you don’t just do things because they are good ideas. So what’s wrong with it? I have to sit here and make a list. They have insufficient data against which to make comparison, that’s one.” And one glaring omission in the city’s data collection is how right-sizing will affect the remaining large thoroughfares in Boulder. For north-south running Folsom, Broadway and 28th Street are the obvious larger alternatives for those who choose to avoid slower moving traffic on Folsom post-right-sizing. For Iris, which has the heaviest traffic volume of all three right-sized project corridors, there are few viable east-west alternative routes. But, a quick glance at a map shows that Violet Avenue to the north and the Balsam-Edgewood-Valmont corridor to the south are the next largest east-west running alternatives. Regarding Folsom, Dave “DK” Kemp, senior transportation planner for the City of Boulder, says traffic would probably reroute to 28th Street during the “p.m. peak period,” which begins to build around 3 p.m., peaks at 5 p.m., and tapers off by 6 p.m. However, Kemp says transportation experts aren’t concerned about traffic diversion onto 28th (or similar large roads) because it’s the type of corridor “designed for more cars.” “For Folsom we’re looking at [diversion onto] 20th Street, or 19th [Street], and we look at the daily [vehicle] counts. If the daily counts are the same after installation as before, then we can assume that no one’s diverting traffic and heading all the way up to 19th,” Kemp says. “But if it’s diverting to 28th, that’s not a problem for us because 28th is a corridor that’s meant to handle heavy traffic.” Likewise, only streets that are closest to Iris will be evaluated. According to the Living Lab’s “Before” Data Summary from June, statistics have been collected on the number of right turns onto side streets along Iris: Boulder Weekly

Broadway, 14th, 15th, 16th, Iris Court, 17th, 19th, Hermosa/22nd, 25th and Folsom. Kemp says that since the “Before” data document was produced for the Transportation Advisory Board, vehicle counts have been done for turns off of Iris onto Glenwood Drive, Grape Avenue, Hawthorne Avenue, Kalmia Avenue, Linden Drive and Twin Lakes. “Violet and Balsam didn’t rise to the necessity for collecting data from, being that I think it’s these streets (Glenwood, Grape, Hawthorne, Kalmia, Linden and Twin Lakes) that are immediately adjacent to [Iris],” Kemp says. But going through neighborhoods on streets with multiple stop signs is likely slower than driving a short distance further to an alternative artery such as Violet or the Balsam corridor. Councilman Sam Weaver, who voted yes on the right-sizing project, says determining whether right-sizing affects other main arteries such as Broadway and 28th would be difficult. “If you saw something like Folsom traffic go down and an increase in traffic on Broadway or 19th … you can make educated guesses that that’s where the traffic is going, but it’s very hard to prove anything,” he says. “We do have good measurements of traffic volumes on the major arterials, but as far as anyway of proving that people have shifted over [because of right-sizing], I don’t think there’s any good way to do that.” Such a lack of information is a tough reality considering 28th and Broadway are already heavily congested main arteries during peak usage. And if traffic is furthered slowed on these major corridors as a result of right-sizing, it could equate to an increase in carbon emmissions as drive times slow for thousands of vehicles. Weaver agrees that adding Violet and the Balsam-Edgewood-Valmont corridor to the list of evaluated thoroughfares could provide useful data. “I don’t see any reason you fundamentally wouldn’t want to do just that. I think the bigger concern is, at least those, Balsam and Violet, they are intended as arterial streets, but you look at most of the others [being evaluated] and they are intended as neighborhood feeder streets. I think the real concern is unintentionally turning a neighborhood feeder street into a defacto arterial — Boulder Weekly

the neighborhoods certainly have that concern pretty high up on their list.” But for drivers, turning an arterial road like Balsam or Violet into a daily traffic jam is of equal concern. As to whether it was appropriate that Council moved forward with right-sizing despite not having data on possible impacts to the city’s few main arterial roads, Weaver says yes, because the project is an experiment. He does, however, admit that Council could have had better data. “What we could have done better would have been to have better baseline data on more of the side streets,” he says. “We have good baseline data on Folsom itself, but do we know everything we need to about 19th and maybe some other [streets]? A little bit better baseline data on the nearby side streets is something that’s fair to say we should do better.” Weaver also says that while he’s since seen data that breaks accidents down by type — vehicular, pedestrian and cyclists — that breakdown wasn’t provided before the vote to move forward. “Of the accidents that occur on these corridors, which and how many of them would we expect to change? So

we got the kind of overall 30 percent reduction in crashes, but then there would be a further breakdown that we could have discussed at greater length,” he says. Former Councilman Pomerance points to the fact that while city documentation states some general goals for right-sizing — decreasing traffic accidents and vehicle speeds, increasing bike use and improving pedestrian experiences — there are no specific, quantifiable goals that would allow the city to measure whether the project was truly successful. “If you take the evaluation criteria that went to the council … fundamentally it said, ‘Here are some of the things we might look at, but fundamentally we’re going to come back and tell you whether it worked or not,’” Pomerance says. “That’s not evaluation criteria. But had they said, ‘Here are the five measurable quantities.’ Then the next question would be, ‘How good is your data on those things now?’” Kemp says such specific goals aren’t fair in a project like this. “Because while we are basing a lot of our rationale on these projects on best practices nationally in other cities, all cities will have their own results. So

not until we do this for the first time can we see what those results will be. So to say, ‘Hey, we had a 25 percent reduction in crashes over the course of that year, but man, we said we were going to see a 32 percent reduction’ — does that mean it failed?” he says. “And there’s also the understanding that it’s really a combining of the results that determines success and failure. And so what constitutes success or failure needs to be looked at holistically and also needs to be examined by the community.” While Councilman Weaver says he “isn’t settled” on whether the City Council should have adopted a set of metrics as “pass-fail criteria” for the right-sizing project, he does have personal metrics. “Perhaps another thing we could do better is say, ‘OK we wanted to define these and agree on them ahead of time,’ but if it comes that we have twice as much travel time on the corridor, we only get a 10 percent reduction in crashes and the volumes go up on other streets, I’m willing to call something a failure and move on,” Weaver says. After the July 28 decision to postpone installations on Iris and 63rd, Council decided to consider another public hearing in September. Until then, data from the Folsom Street installation will be regularly posted on the city’s Living Lab website. Andy Schultheiss is the executive director of Open Boulder, a nonpartisan group that aims to engage more Boulder residents in civic conversations across a number of topics. Schultheiss says that while he hopes the right-sizing project is a success, he feels concern about a group of elected officials who don’t set measurable standards for what constitutes success in a project. “If you’re going to experiment, you have to say what you would consider a success and what you would consider a failure. If you don’t, you can do all sorts of moving the goal posts down the line and the public doesn’t know how bad the traffic has to get before the city will decide to reverse the project,” Schultheiss says. “And we certainly hope it’s a success. And we think the experiment is a perfectly fine idea, but you have to be clear, in our opinion, for a better elected-official/voter relationship. You have to be clear about what your metric’s going to be to evaluate the experiment.” July 30, 2015 17

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Natural ratio Radiocarbon dating is a 70-year-old technique now used with increasing precision to date anything once alive from the last 50,000 years. It exploits the natural ratio of two isotopes of carbon in the atmosphere. Plants, and the animals that eat them, absorb radioactive carbon-14 and stable carbon-12 from the atmosphere in proportions which — except during the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s — have not changed much from the Ice Ages

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Forty seconds before round two, and I’m lying on my back trying to breathe. Pain all through me. Deep breath. Let it go. I won’t be able to lift my shoulder tomorrow, it won’t heal for over a year, but now it pulses, alive, and I feel the air vibrating around me, the stadium shaking with chants, in Mandarin, not for me. My teammates are kneeling above me, looking worried. They rub my arms, my shoulders, my legs. The bell rings. I hear my dad’s voice in the stands, ‘C’mon Josh!’ Gotta get up. I watch my opponent run to the center of the ring. He screams, pounds his chest. The fans explode. They call him Buffalo. Bigger than me, stronger, quick as a cat. But I can take him if I make it to the middle of the ring without falling over. I have to dig deep, bring it up from somewhere right now. Our wrists touch, the bell rings, and he hits me like a Mack truck. — Joshua Waitzkin

his book The Art of Learning, Joshua Waitzkin describes how he is able to compete, and win, against martial arts competitors much physically stronger than himself by putting his mind into the game. When I asked Waitzkin whether he thinks his mental game is a result of his high intelligence, he told me: “I don’t think I have an extraordinary intelligence. Buffalo had cultivated his whole body his whole life, and he had that edge. I had cultivated my mind. My chance lay in making the mental game dominate a physical battle. At a high level of competition, success often hinges on who determines the field and tone of battle.” “Mental toughness” is a phrase that is commonly used in sports to describe the superior mental qualities Boulder Weekly

of the competitor. Most elite athletes report that at least 50 percent of superior athletic performance is the result of mental or psychological factors, and a whopping 83 percent of coaches rate mental toughness as the most important set of psychological characteristics for determining competitive success. One of the first descriptions of mental toughness was made by sports psychologist James Loeher. Based on his extensive work with elite athletes and coaches, he proposed seven dimensions of mental toughness that he argued are developed: self-confidence, attention control, minimizing negative energy, increasing positive energy, maintaining motivation levels, attitude control and visual and imagery control. Following up this work with a more systematic analysis in 2002, Graham Jones and colleagues interviewed 10 international performers (seven males and three females) from a variety of sports. The elite performers were asked to define mental toughness in their own words and describe the central characteristics of mental toughness. The following definition naturally emerged from the interviews: People who are mentally tough have a psychological edge that enables them to cope better than their opponents with the many demands that sports place on a performer, and they are also more consistent and better than their opponents in remaining determined, focused, confident and in control under pressure. The athletes identified 12 key attributes as key to mental toughness in sport, ranked in order of importance: 1. Unshakeable self-belief in your ability to achieve competition goals. (“Mental toughness is about your

self belief and not being shaken from your path. ... It is producing the goods and having the self-belief in your head to produce the goods.”) 2. Ability to bounce back from performance setbacks as a result of an increased determination to succeed. (“Yeah, we all have them (setbacks), the mentally tough performer doesn’t let them affect him, he uses them.”) 3. Unshakeable self-belief that you possess unique qualities and abilities that make you better than your opponents. (“I am better than everyone else by a long way because I have something that sets me apart from other performers.”) 4. Insatiable desire and internalized motives to succeed. (“You’ve really got to want it, but you’ve also got to want to do it for yourself. Once you start doing it for anyone else ... you’re in trouble. You’ve also got to really understand why you’re in it ... and constantly reminding yourself is vital.”) 5. Remaining fully focused on the task at hand in the face of competition-specific distractions. (“There are inevitable distractions and you just have to be able to focus on what you need to focus on.”) 6. Regaining psychological control following unexpected, uncontrollable events (competition-specific). (“It’s definitely about not getting unsettled by things you didn’t expect or can’t control. You’ve got to be able to switch back into control mode.”) 7. Pushing back the boundaries of physical and emotional pain, while still maintaining technique and effort under distress during training and competition. see TOUGHNESS Page 26

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(“In my sport you have to deal with the physical pain from fatigue, dehydration and tiredness. ... You are depleting your body of so many different things. It is a question of pushing yourself ... it’s mind over matter, just trying to hold your technique and perform while under this distress and go beyond your limits.”) 8. Accepting that competition anxiety is inevitable and knowing that you can cope with it. (“I accept that I’m going to get nervous, particularly when the pressure’s on, but keeping the lid on it and being in control is crucial.”) 9. Not being adversely affected by other’s good and bad performances. (“There have been cases where people have set world records and people have gone out 5 or 6 minutes later, and improved the world record again. The mentally tough performer uses other’s good performances as a spur rather than say, ‘I can’t go that fast.’ They say, ‘Well, he is no better than me, so I’m going to go out there and beat that.’”) 10. Thriving on the pressure of competition (“If you are going to achieve anything worthwhile, there is bound to be pressure. Mental toughness is being resilient to and using the competition pressure to get the best out of yourself.”) 11. Remaining fully focused in the face of personal life distractions. (“Once you’re in the competition, you cannot let your mind wander to other things”; and, “It doesn’t matter what has happened to you, you can’t bring the problem into the performance arena.”) 12. Switching sport focus on and off as required (“You need to be able to 26 July 30, 2015

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switch it [i.e., focus] on and off, especially between games during a tournament. The mentally tough performer succeeds by having control of the on/off switch.”) In more recent years, a number of studies have attempted to further clarify mental toughness, its dimensions and its development. In one large review, Daniel Gucciardi and colleagues argued that the dimensions that comprise mental toughness influence the way we approach and interpret both positive and negative events, which in turn influence performance. Research also shows that mental toughness is an ongoing developing process. The attitudes, cognitions, emotions and personal values that comprise mental toughness develop as a result of repeated exposure to a variety of experiences, challenges and adversities. Once acquired, mental toughness is maintained by: A desire and motivation to succeed that is insatiable and internalized; a perceived support network that includes sporting and non-sporting personnel; and effective use of basic and advanced psychological skills. Do athletes have higher levels of mental toughness than non-athletes? In a very recent study, Felix Guillen and Sylvain Laborde compared levels of mental toughness between athletes and non-athletes. Based on the review by Gucciardi and colleagues, they distilled mental toughness down into four main dimensions: 1. Hope: The unshakeable self-belief in one’s ability to achieve competition goals. (“I can think of many ways to get out of a jam.”) 2. Optimism: A general expectancy that good things will happen. (“In uncertain times, I usually expect the best.”) 3. Perseverance: Consistency in achieving one’s goals and not giving up easily when facing adversity of difficulties (“I am often so determined that I continue working long after other people have given up.”) 4. Resilience: The ability to adapt to challenges in the environment. (“I do not dwell on things that I can’t do anything about.”) All four dimensions were significantly related to each other, forming a general factor of mental toughness. Athletes scored much higher than non-athletes on this general mental toughness factor, with a large effect size. What’s more, there was no difference between the type of sport (individual vs. team sports). This is consistent with prior research suggesting that mental toughness is more a function of environment than domains. The researchers also found that mental toughness increased with age, also consistent with prior research showing that mental toughness develops through developmental experiences. Finally, the researchers found that athletes with higher levels of mental toughness practiced for longer, on average, than athletes with lower levels of mental toughness. Mental toughness is not only important in sports. Markus Gerber and colleagues found that adolescents with higher mental toughness are more resilient against stress and depression. As Gucciardi and colleagues argue, mental toughness is important in any environment that requires performance setting, challenges and adversities.

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tor’s conference in India, and 2011 Jessie Friedman, a psychotherapist and Friedman historian, had noticed that a few and her husprominent authors were also band Jules speaking at a literature festival in Levinson were returning to Jaipur a few days after the conferBoulder after travelling for more ence. They decided to pop in, neithan 50 hours from New Delhi. ther knowing what they were in Not having slept, the couple was for. in a state of delirium when “We were coming out of this Friedman had a eureka moment. extraordinary [translator’s confer“We were in the car,” ence], and we were just blown Friedman says. “I nudged Jules, away, moved and stunned [by and I said, ‘We have to do it. We The Jaipur Literature Festival in India is an immersive experience. The organizers behind JLF at Boulder are working to create a similar environment but with more local flavor. JLF],” Friedman says. “We would have to do it here.’ And he goes, pass each other in this crowd of ‘Huh?’ He had no idea what I was 200,000 people going to the next talking about. ‘The literature festithe mind, and celebrating ideas, and celebrating stories session, and we couldn’t believe what was happening val! We have to bring it to Boulder.’” and celebrating everything that people in this A.D.D. The festival Friedman was referring to is the ZEE environment we live in need to celebrate.” here. It was fabulous. There was some depth of human Jaipur Literature Festival ( JLF). Founded in Jaipur, The first year the festival reached 7,000 attendees, beings coming together and having deep, important India in 2006, the festival has grown to be the largest the next year 14,000, and it kept exploding until last conversation. ... literature festival in the world. And it’s heading to year they had over 270,000. Roy says they had no idea “Nobody realized it, but it’s like suddenly you’ve Boulder for its first American reincarnation Sept. that the festival would garner this kind of growth, but found that water in the desert, and you didn’t even 18-20 at the Boulder Public Library. More than 60 he attributes it to having the right ingredients. know what your thirst was.” local, national and international authors, writers and “Much of it was great programming, incredible It was after that trip in 2011, that Friedman and poets are currently confirmed, including Pulitzer Prize authors, being in this particular city of Jaipur — that Levinson, and fellow local JLF fan Maruta Kalnins, winners and Nobel laureates. There will be panels, lends to the romance of literature and the passion knew they had to bring it to Boulder. music, workshops and performances. Plus, it’s free. about being alive — the color, the great hospitality, “[The festival] is kind of ordinary and kind of JLF began as an offshoot from the Jaipur Heritage democratic access and the sheer vibrancy of the audiamazing all at the same time,” Levinson says. “Beyond Festival, says Sanjoy Roy, the managing director for ences who come,” Roy says. “It has a larger than life that, you can hear us try to desperately say what it is, JLF. As the heritage festival ended, they wanted to reputation. And each person who’s gone to the festival but you can’t really know until you see it. That’s why keep what was then a small part of the festival alive. comes back with 10 people the next year.” we’re bringing it here.” Thus JLF was born. Among those festival goers were Levinson and Last May, Friedman emailed Roy and started the “It’s a festivity more than a festival, and that’s the Friedman, who practically stumbled across the festival. see LITERATURE FESTIVAL Page 30 unusual nature of it,” he says. “It’s a festival celebrating Levinson, a Buddhist scholar, was attending a translaBoulder Weekly

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process to hold the festival in Boulder. Luckily, Roy and organizers had been wanting to bring it to America for some time. After interest from New York, Chicago, California and others, Roy says they chose Boulder because it was the best of any festival city for many reasons: its size, infrastructure, accessibility, local proximity and mainly, its people. “When I arrived here, despite the obvious beauty of Boulder, it was about the people I met, who were well traveled, who were well read and very much enthused about engaging about the other,” Roy says. “That isn’t necessarily what you find in most American cities. ... Boulder is concerned with engaging with the rest of the world and is aware of the world’s many problems.” Considering this is the festival’s first time in America, Roy says they don’t know how many people will attend — from a few thousand to several thousand. But he’s hoping for a big turnout and expects to see some fans of Jaipur’s event head to the Front Range. Of course, Boulder’s no stranger to intellectual festivals. But Roy, Levinson and Friedman say the Jaipur festival is unique. “It’s not like professional conferences or a book fair. It’s a different thing,” Levinson says. “It’s not a portal for the publishers or the book selling industries. It’s deep conversation between remarkable people.” And the list of former JLF attendees includes numerous notable writers and public figures like Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama. But the focus of the festival is stimulating that discourse between these remarkable people. “The idea here was not so much to read from a book,” Roy says. “But it was to look at what that book was about — the commonalities of themes — and dis-

cuss that. It was to discuss the broader issue of what are sometimes lost. … And these are themes that whether you talk about them in India or Africa or America, you’ll see these to be common themes about humanity. It’s about today, it’s about the past, it’s about tradition, it’s about ideas that continue to generate new thoughts, new content, new discoveries, new challenges of everything we experience on planet Earth.” The festival organizers work to create a mixture of ideas, cultures and perspectives. Roy says he hopes that the subject matter of the festival doesn’t deter people. In reality, the festival is presenting age-old topics through a lens to make you look differently at the world. “As soon you say literature to some people, they think it’s a little highfalutin,” Roy says. “It’s not. It’s storytelling. It’s human beings talking to each other about some of the most meaningful and wonderful things and doing it in this world where it’s been transformed by a different kind of imagination. And yet it’s also a way of getting under the skin … and inside that magic box as writers and readers that we can’t do in real life. We can get out of some of these ruts that we’re in, and we’re free to think in ways that we couldn’t do most of the time.” Another notable aspect of the festival is its cost: none. Accessibility was very important to the organizers, who didn’t want to horde information, especially from those who need it most. Roy tells the story of being at the Jaipur festival five years ago when, because of the expanding crowd size, they had to put in security. “It was 7:30 in the morning, and I was standing around to see if everything was working,” Roy says. “A man and a boy Boulder Weekly

came up, and they were stopped because they didn’t look like they ‘belonged.’ And because I was standing there, I went up and asked if I could help. The father said, ‘I sleep on the street across the hospital down the street, and I know I’ll never be able to send my son to school or buy him a book. But I thought if he could hear a story, it might change his life forever. I heard that this is where they tell the best stories.’ And that, in a sense, just proved the importance of knowledge being disseminated democratically. In any society where there is inequity, you need to allow knowledge to be accessible in order to build equity. “That was one of the guiding principles,” he says. “Knowledge is what will bring about the change. It’s not about a handout. It’s not about charity. It’s about getting them to believe through the power of ideas, and that can be the most transformative thing in an individual.” It’s the hope literature inspires that makes it so important, Roy says. It’s through literature people are forced to think about and create the possibility for a better future. “Mankind and humanity has to exist on the hope of a better tomorrow,” Roy says. “There will always be the Hiroshimas, Nagasakis, the Boston bombers, etc. wanting to eliminate, in whatever way they can, the possibility of tomorrow. “But with authors and stories, you escape into it,” he says. “Not the way you do in a film. When you read a book, it’s your mind and a book. It’s your translations of how the author has visualized that meadow or that mountaintop. It’s really your mind being captivated and being allowed to roam free and unhindered.” The plan is for the festival to be an annual occurrence and Roy wants to make it clear that JLF at Boulder is not a copycat of the Jaipur event. It wouldn’t work exactly the same way in Boulder because attending the festival is an immersive event with its own local flavor. “Each experience has to be different,” he says. “It’s almost impossible to recreate an experience, which is a reason why Woodstock, for example, was never recreated after that. People tried, but you can’t. It’s the magic of the moment.” The key is to capture Boulder’s essence, Roy says. Using Boulder Library is a good start, and in the future they hope to expand in the open space around the library and provide bike rides, hikes, healthy eating — all of which are staples of Boulder’s culture. “We’re going to try the best we can and add more and more as the years go by,” Levinson says. “Rome wasn’t built in day and neither was the Jaipur Literature Festival. So we’ll start where we can.” Boulder Weekly

schedule JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL AT BOULDER. Events all day. Friday-Sunday, September 18-20. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Check jaipurliteraturefestival.org/ boulder for a full schedule for the festival and all lead up events. SPEAKERS FOR JLF AT BOULDER Aaron Elliot Hirsh, Amitava Kumar, Anchee Min, Anne Waldman, Anosh

Irani, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Arisha Sattar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ausma Zehanant Khan, BK Loren, Brian Aivars Catlos, Casey Schwartz, Christi Merrill, David Barsamian, Debra Magpie Earling, DW Gibson, Elini Sikelianos, Elizabeth Fenn, Esther David, Gideon Levy, Hannah Nordhaus, Hari Kunzru, Helen Thorpe, Jan Ellison, Jason Grunebaum, Jennifer Foerster, Julene Bair, Jules Levinson, Jung Chang Kai Bird, Kalyan Ray, Laila Lalami, Laird Hunt, Laura Pritchett, Linda Hess, Linda

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overtones Another color in the crayon box Melissa Etheridge says music saved her life by Amanda Moutinho

rom coming out as a lesbian to her political Etheridge has come a long way since her debut it myself.’ I really enjoyed that it gave me such freeactivism to talking openly about her breast self-titled album. On the newest album, This is M.E., dom to go way outside of the box.” cancer diagnosis, Melissa Etheridge isn’t she tried to pump up the creativity and venture into On This is M.E. Etheridge teamed up with shy to tell the world about her personal uncharted territories, all the while staying true to her Grammy Award-winning producers who’ve worked problems. Honesty is the only way, she says. fans. with some of the biggest names in today’s music. But she wasn’t always this way. Openness was her “I was trying to just stay relevant in the music Despite the many collaborators, the album retains a form of teenage rebellion, and she thread of cohesion and skirts the line quickly found an outlet for her truth — John Tsiavis between modern-day sounds and the music. classic Etheridge feel. While continuing “It’s the opposite of what I grew up to explore herself as an artist on this with,” Etheridge says. “I grew up in the album, in the end she returned to her Midwest, in Kansas in the ’60s and ’70s musical core. — you don’t get more repressed than “It’s almost like I had to go around that. It was a very narrow scope of emothe world to come back home,” she tion. Everything was hidden, and you says. “My guitar playing, my voice, my just didn’t talk about it. As I fired into writing is stronger than ever, and the my adolescence and realized I was difcollaborations I did really supported all ferent, I started putting it into my of that.” music and rock ’n’ roll. And music saved Etheridge was one of the ladies who my life. I just started writing, and I paved the way for females in rock, never would write really truthful and see how apologizing about her gender, her raspy people would relate to it and knew that voice or her refusal to conform to it was something.” female stereotypes. This has garnered a Etheridge brings her brand of honcareer that focuses on the music more esty to Chautauqua on Aug. 5 in her than anything else. latest solo tour, where she’ll be talking “A couple of nights ago I did a conabout her career and playing her newest cert and it was myself, Blondie and Joan songs, greatest hits and even taking the Jett,” Etheridge says. “And the beautiful occasional request. thing was there was no mention of the “I’m looking forward to getting back all-girlness of it at all. It was just a rock is no stranger to playing in Boulder — she had one of her first rock shows here to the smaller and more intimate thing,” Etheridge ’n’ roll night. I think that’s where we’re in 1989. she says. “It’s a different shade of the at. Now it’s just an appreciation of the music, and I like the contrast.” work, looking past the gender.” This isn’t her first time on the Front Range. industry,” she says with a laugh. “This is my 13th As the playing field levels out, the music industry Boulder has always held significance in Etheridge’s album. … I’m so fortunate to keep making my music is now a better place for women. But Etheridge says career when back in 1989 she played Boulder’s Coast, and having people interested in it. I figure my job is there’s still more to be done. a former nightclub in the People’s Republic. to make the music I love, find what thrills me and “I never spent much time thinking that I didn’t get “It was one of my best shows ever,” she says. then my fans will hear that. That’s my number one something because I was a woman,” she says. “And “KBCO played my music so much that Boulder was goal. ... now when you see people like Taylor Swift, who’s a one of the first few real rock shows I ever did. It was “[This album] was a time of independence for huge star, we see that women are really running the like 700 people, and it was the most I had played to me,” she says. “This was my first album not on a see ETHERIDGE Page 34 [at that time].” major label. I left the labels and said, ‘I think I can do

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With her new This is M.E. solo tour, Etheridge says she’s excited to get back to performing a more intimate and relaxed show. ETHERIDGE from Page 33

show here. It’s obvious that we’ve come here. We all came from somewhere else a long way. It would be nicer to see to come here. ... more women on the inside of the music “It means now it’s on the person. If business — it’s still run by a lot of guys. you want to be the person who is afraid But women are doing it. We’re getting of sex so much that someone else’s sexthere.” uality threatens you, than that’s your It’s impossible to talk about burden and your issue. It won’t affect Etheridge’s gender without mentioning my civil right to be married to my love the work she’s done for the LGBT and the person that I want to enjoy this community. Coming out in 1994 at Bill gorgeous American life. So, it was a Clinton’s inauguration, Etheridge has beautiful day.” since been an advocate for gay rights And Etheridge got to celebrate it and never one to apologize for who she with her wife, Linda Wallem, whom is. she married last year. “I can’t say that “I felt like now I coming out hurt can hold my wife’s ON THE BILL: Melissa Etheridge: This Is M.E. Solo. 9 me,” she says. “If hand and walk down p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, there’s someone the street. I don’t Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 who’s not going to have to worry if I’m Baseline Road, Boulder, 303442-3282. listen to me or steoffending anyone,” reotype me because she says. “We’ve I’m gay, they’re not pulled this out of the going to be digging my music anyway. I shadows, we’ve looked at it and we said, don’t think I’ve lost anything. I don’t ‘We don’t need to hurt ourselves over think anybody nowadays thinks about this. Let’s move on.’” it. It’s just a color in the crayon box. It Coming out of the darkness has doesn’t define the music at all. My been Etheridge’s goal since her adolesaudience is so diverse; the one thing we cence. She has nothing to hide, and by have in common is we all feel very sharing pieces of her life with the deeply.” world she helps herself and those in A recent burst of emotion for need. Moving toward a more truthful Etheridge was the groundbreaking world, she says, leads to a healthier Supreme Court decision a few weeks world. “I’ve had enough experience that I ago legalizing gay marriage. get how this works,” she says. “The “That was one of the most amazing more power you bring inside of yourself feelings I’ve had all my life. I’ll never forget it,” she says. “It’s such a beautiful with your own truth — yeah I’m gay, yeah I had cancer, yeah I’m a cannabis ringing of the bell of change. For 20 smoker — the more open and honest I years we’ve debated and seen the worst am about that, the more accepting and come out of us — fear, bigotry, confusion. We’ve worked as a society to show honest my world is. I don’t do it to help anybody else, yet it ends up helping how we can tolerate — not tolerate but other people. [Being open] is the only actually hold diversity, because that’s way to change the world.” what we came from. We’re all different Boulder Weekly

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I sit here, borrowing lungsful of air from the world and returning them used and slightly damp, one after another. I know that somewhere tender sprouts are uncurling and billions of small green hands are taking in this soiled laundry and setting it out again, newly washed, like prayer flags fluttering in the sun. When I stand up and move my body or speak with this very breath I know I must do it on behalf of us all.

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ON THE BILL: “Westerns: The Golden Years.” All screenings, events and discussions take place at the Sie Film Center, 2510 E. Colfax, Denver, 303-595-3456. Tickets and film schedule at denverfilm.org.

Print the legend

Westerns at the Sie Film Center by Michael J. Casey

his is the West, sir. When the legend Stagecoach is how it is pre-World War II, for the U.S. becomes fact, print the legend.” anyway,” Piturro explains. “The rest of the world was That line, from John Ford’s seminal getting ready for war, or at war, but the U.S. was still 1962 Western, The Man Who Shot Liberty neutral at that point. Stagecoach is really a sort of plea Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movto Americans to work together to fight a common ie’s theme, Ford’s overall career or even the entirety of enemy. So it’s really much more about 1939 than it the Western genre. No, “print the legend” are three was about 1881. words that describe America, a country where stories “You take a look at something like High Noon,” become legends and legends become fact. For proof, Piturro says, referring to the 1952 film. “It was much look no further than one of America’s greatest contrimore about the McCarthy era than it was about the butions to cinema: the Western. 1890s.” And this summer you “Westerns 101” covers four won’t have to look too far. films from 1939 to 2007, divPlaying Aug. 13-16, the Sie ing into the genre with Film Center in Denver will Stagecoach. Directed by Ford run a special program of nine and starring John Wayne in movies and one panel in a the role that made him a star, series called “Westerns: The the film set the standard. Golden Years: 1930s-1970s.” Seventeen years later, Ford This three-day crash and Wayne challenged that standard with The Searchers, course offers classics — Piturro’s second pick. Stagecoach (Aug. 13), My Piturro continues the cineDarling Clementine (Aug. 14), matic journey out of Arizona’s High Noon (Aug. 15) — Monument Valley and into alongside postmodern revithe dusty shrubbery of Spain sions — Once Upon a Time in and Cinecittà for Sergio the West (Aug. 15), Pat Garrett Leone’s 1964 film A Fistful of and Billy the Kid (Aug. 16) — Dollars, the first spaghetti to highlight the vast sweep and surprising malleability of Western and a riff on the conthe genre. ventions and forms of Ford. My Darling Clementine is only one of the west“The Westerns are always erns being shown at the Sie Western film series. “That’s the counter-culture the lens on a contemporanegeneration, the children of the ous society set in the past, to make things easier — Western generation,” Piturro explains. “That’s why the easier to digest,” says Vincent Piturro, an English and spaghetti Western became popular, because it was the film professor at Metropolitan State University of Western repackaged for that generation.” Denver. Piturro concludes with a look at James Mangold’s Prior to “Westerns: The Golden Years,” Piturro 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma, starring Christian Bale will offer “Westerns 101,” a three-hour course on Aug. and Russell Crowe. 9 at Sie designed to prep moviegoers for their wagon “What I want people to get out of [the course], is ride out west. understand, number one, [the Western] is a very “One of things we’re going to talk about with dynamic genre and we shouldn’t oversimplify it,”

Piturro says. “Number two, that form is what’s important and that form lives on in many different genres today. ... The form is really powerful.” The forms of the past that reflect the present also point to the future, and that future is the new Western, shot right here in Colorado, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. Viewers will have to wait until December to get their eyes on Hateful Eight, but the Sie is welcoming two production team members on Aug. 15 for a panel discussion with film critic Robert Denerstein: “Designing the Modern Western” with costume designer Courtney Hoffman and set decorator Rosemary Brandenburg. The Western benefits heavily from its use of costuming — think of Eastwood without that signature poncho — and hearing how Hoffman articulates a character’s backstory and social position with a piece of clothing isn’t something moviegoers will want to miss. This is similar to Brandenburg’s challenge with set decoration. In an interview with the American Film Institute, Brandenburg refers to her position as “the sociologists of the picture,” and when dealing with the Western genre, she must make sure that every prop, every piece of décor must have conceivably been trekked hundreds of miles to the remote location where it now resides. There is no room for frivolity in the Western, only purpose. The Western is more than just the history of America; it is a chance to grapple with America then and America now. Along the way gender roles are challenged, relations with races are complicated, the ideals of law and order are stretched to their furthest limits and the eternal struggle of man versus man and man versus nature play out on a screen full of energy and excitement. There is also hope. A complicated hope, but hope for a better, more civilized America. As Mrs. Jorgensen tells Ethan in The Searchers, “Some day this country’s gonna be a fine, good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come.”

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Thursday, July 30 Music Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

cue Unit. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-2260.

Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. George Nelson Trio. 8 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

GetUrGoat. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

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Highwater. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880

A Little Nightmare Music: Igudesman and Joo Saturday, Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

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Who says you can’t enjoy the finer things and laugh at the same time? With “A Little Nightmare Music,” Aleksey Igudesman and Huyng-ki Joo have put together a show that combines physical comedy, popular culture and classical music in an entertaining performance rife with laughs and unexpected turns. Igudesman and Joo have been friends and co-performers since meeting at age 12, where both were studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School. In the years since, they’ve worked with performers across the entertainment landscape, from John Malkovich to composer Hans Zimmer to Billy Joel. Get ready for a “Little Nightmare” full of classical performances and comedic moments. — Sam Routhier

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Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. The Hippie Buckaroos. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. John Fielder’s Colorado in Music. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Los Bohemios. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Punch Drunk Monkey Funk. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Matchsellers. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Michael Shay. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Dance Esperanza Spalding Sunday, Aug. 2, 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Holly Andres

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

Esperanza Spalding’s upright bass is bigger than she is, but that doesn’t stop her from bringing the house down when she plays her jazz tunes on it. A four-time Grammy Award winner, Spalding is only 30 years old but already is more than a decade into a career that has spanned four albums and includes collaborations with artists such as Janelle Monae and Bruno Mars. Spalding was also chosen by President Barack Obama to perform at the President’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Spalding’s one-of-a-kind music translates well to a live show, where it is near impossible for audiences not to bust a move. — Sam Routhier

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Plutonium: Permanent Problem at Rocky Flats Thursday, July 30, 7 p.m. Naropa University Events Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-442-0202. This event will feature three speakers discussing the Rocky Flats cleanup and issues with plutonium at the site, as well as an open discussion to follow. From Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship, a co-sponsor of the evening along with Naropa University, Dr. LeRoy Moore will discuss what protection the government’s Rocky Flats cleanup program actually provides. Also speaking will be Dr. Iggy Litaor and Dr. Michael Ketterer, the former having worked for a decade studying radioactive materials at Rocky Flats and the latter a plutonium specialist who will address some unanswered questions regarding the issue of plutonium’s presence at the former nuclear weapons production facility. — Sam Routhier

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Tupelo Honey. 6:30 p.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Events

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Art Show. 11 a.m. OpenArts Gallery@Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2972.

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Awe-Struck’s Thursday Night Farm Dinner at Sol y Sombra. 6:30 p.m. Sol y Sambra, 75th Street and Highway 66, Boulder, 303-618-3510.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Thursday: Open Mic UPCOMING EVENTS Thursday, July 30

clOsed fOr privaTe parTy friday, July 31 • 8pm

The saMples

saturday, aug 1 • 9pm

Thin air burlesque sunday, aug 2 • 2pm

blues & bbq with helen peTersOn friday, aug 7

clOsed fOr privaTe parTy saturday, aug 8 • 8pm

The hashTOnes

sunday, aug 9 • 2pm

blues & bbq with JOhnny O saturday, aug 15 • 8pm

bObby Walker & special guesTs sunday, aug 16 • 2pm

blues & bbq with bObby Walker friday, aug 21 • 8pm

The syMbOls & The JOhn Weeks band saturday, aug 22

clOsed fOr privaTe parTy friday, aug 28 • 9:15pm

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An Evening with Elizabeth Fenn. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geopolitics Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. GohDoh Story Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.

Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 13. In Bloom. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Oct. 11.

Ansel Adams: Masterworks. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303279-3922. Through Aug. 30.

Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20. Photographer Alec Soth brings his imaginative work to the Denver Art Museum through Novemeber 29.

Open Mic Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322.

Biennial of the Americas. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 30.

Photo Archiving with Mylio Software. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 30.

Plein Air Artists Colorado Annual Exhibit and Sale. 5 p.m. Mary Williams Fine Arts, 5311 Western Ave., Boulder, 303-938-1588.

Contemporary Photography by Marc Bernardi. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 31.

Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, Caribou Road, Nederland, 303-678-6200.

Preparing for Divorce: What You Need To Know. 7 p.m. Iris Office Park, 3775 Iris Ave., Suite 5, Boulder, 309-345-4158. Silent Disco. 12 p.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Story Club in Motion. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tenkara Demo and Fish-A-Long. 5 p.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. Women’s Triathlon Overview. 6 p.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th, Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. Friday, July 31 Music Acoustic Harmony. 7 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Analog Son with Maceo Parker. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Appleseed Collective. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Flatlander. Boulder Museum of Contemporary

Family Fun Concert. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303442-3282. Fast Eddy. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Fast Eddy Duo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Highway 50. 9 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. John Fielder’s Colorado in Music. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Johnny O Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Laurie D. 6 p.m. Mod Market Longmont, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 720-494-1655. Los Cheesies. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Matchsellers. 6 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Catfish Bernie Meise. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Chris Daniels and Friends. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-449-3137.

Old’s Cool Rock. 8 p.m. The Tandoori Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Richie Furay. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Dean Himes. 6:30 p.m. Lunada’s Eatery & Cantina, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-612-7315.

Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Echoes and Embers, Willow Tree Collective. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Elise Wunder. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. 40 July 30, 2015

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The Samples. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Selasee and the FaFa Family. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Shelvis & The Roustabouts. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s,

Oils on Canvas by Betsy Cole. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through July 31.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10, 2016. Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3, 2016. The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11.

2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Stewart Ehrlich of WadiRum. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Sweet Spot Trio. 6:30 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Wallpaper House Band. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683. Whale Tales. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Whiskey Autumn. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Events Art Show. 11 a.m. OpenArts Gallery@Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2972. Bow Wow Film Festival. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Community Art Program Exhibits. 8 a.m. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2570. It Follows. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Kids Camera Camps. 9 a.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Louisville Street Faire. 5:30 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-449-3137. Minecrafternoons at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. The Spirit in Oil Pastels. All day. Boulder Fastframe, 2327 30th St., Boulder, 303-448-1000. Boulder Weekly

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Saturday, August 1 Music Andrew Bonnis Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Atomic Pablo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Citizen 7. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Cosmic Serenity Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-4443133. David Coile. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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Dulcimer Showcase. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-708-4067. El Javi. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Evan and Mangrove. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Foxfeather. 7 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Joe Diamo. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Leftapalooza. 12 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258.

Tuesday, Aug. 4 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Wednesday, Aug. 5 Field Trip Fiasco and John Muir Wrestles a Waterfall — Julie Danneberg. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Stratosphere All-Stars, Allen Aucoin. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Taylor Radio. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Events About Elly. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Adobe Photoshop Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Art Show. 11 a.m. OpenArts Gallery@Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2972. Court. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Magpie Zero. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

The Great Amazing Race. 4 p.m. Harlow Platts Park, 1360 Gillaspie Drive, Boulder, 303-4137200. Heroes 6K. 8 a.m. Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-666-6565.

MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

I Love the Land. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Mezzo Mestizo. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Kirikou and the Sorceress. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Music in the Yard with North Boulder Underground. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Old’s Cool Rock. 7:30 a.m. University of Colorado, Boulder Campus Business Field, Regent Drive, Boulder. Pistachio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Radiate Unified Dance Party With DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. REMember. 3 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Lyons Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St., Lyons, 303-823-5215. Mexican Rodeo. 7 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720864-6460. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Second Annual Finish the Fight 5k Fun Run/ Walk. All day. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-9124. Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902.

Somebody’s Darling. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.

TRUST Is Delicious. 1 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4493066.

Steepland String Band. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Walk to End Alzheimer’s. 7:30 a.m. University of Colorado Boulder, 2055 Regent Drive, Boulder,

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Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

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David Potter. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813. Delta Sonics. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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303-492-1411. Yoga on the Plaza. 9 a.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Sunday, August 2 Music Adam Bodine Trio. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066. Cat Jerky. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303530-0642.

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Celtic Music and Rock Program. 6 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Christopher Cook and Emmy Rose. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Daisy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Elise Wunder. 8 p.m. Left Hand Brewery, Pikes Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Esperanza Spalding. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Felonious Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Jay Stott. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Jon Ridnell Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Kevin Dooley: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Mbanza. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Music In the Yard. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066. Nature’s Tableaux. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303442-3282. Peace Concert. 7 p.m. Boulder Valley Unitarsee EVENTS Page 42

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Always a Bridesmaid. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 30. Guys and Dolls. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 11. Henry V. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 9. Mary Poppins. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Sept. 5. Much Ado About Nothing. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 8. YEA

Don’t miss out on the final weeks of the Colorado Shakespeare Fesitval with Henry V, playing through Aug. 9.

Othello. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 9.

Pump Boys and Dinettes. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044.

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SUP Yoga. 9 a.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 North 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461.

Summer Songwriters Series. 4 p.m. Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont, 909-776-8771.

Teen Movie: The Avengers. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Weekend Workshop. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Travers Brothership. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Events 2015 Cane Conclave. 9 a.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Cinema Program free screening The Horn Blows at Midnight. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Music Alphonso Johnson, Jeff Pevar. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Erik The Viking Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Gravy. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Dances With Branches Recreational Tree Climbing. 12:30 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-9124.

I & The Many. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Experience Madagascar. 5 p.m. Life Bridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont 303-7762927.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772. I Love the Land. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Jack’s Benevolent Bash. 1 p.m. University of Colorado Boulder, 2055 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-1411. PhotoJAM. 7 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Rhapsody in Blue. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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CPRA Rodeo. 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont 303-678-6235.

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Wittenberg. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303492-8008, Through Aug. 8.

ian Universalist Fellowship, 1241 Ceres Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-4280.

Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Prospect Sound Bites Summer Concert Series. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Ziggy Marley. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Events Angel Summer Camp. 9 a.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303442-1411. Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Art Show. 11 a.m. OpenArts Gallery@Rembrandt Boulder Weekly

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BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962.

Ellie King. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Boulder Fringe Adventurer’s League. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, August 4 Music Acoustic New Family Dog. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Folk Dancing for Children. 6:15 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Horseshoes and Hand Grenades. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Music Mash-Up: The Crazy Arc of Love. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Nikka Garcia. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-7084067.

George Ezra. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. George Nelson. 5 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993.

Micro Altenbach. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Boulder County Farmers’ Market. 4 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Fifth Avenue and Main Street, Longmont, 303-910-2236.

Storm Large. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Boulder County screening of Dear Govenor Hickenlooper. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Chefs, Films and Glorious Song. 6:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Good Samaritan Medical Center Blood Drive. 8 a.m. Good Samaritan Medical Center, 200 Exempla Circle, Lafayette, 303-689-4000. The Power of Video Storytelling for NonProfits. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Sounds True Blood Drive. 10 a.m. Sounds True, 379 S. Arthur Ave., Louisville, 303-665-3151. Wednesday, August 5 Music

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Charlie’s Country. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Foundation: Basic Financial Literacy for Young People. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Great Books Discussion Group at Meadows. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. I Love The Land. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Ladies Night Fish A Long. 5 p.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Open Hack for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rhapsody in Blue. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704.

Ben Hanna Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Socrates Cafe at Main! 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Chris Daniels & The Kings. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder.

Square Dance Lessons. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Chris Kroger & Friends. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Covenhoven. 7 p.m. Starling Farms, 7770 Valmont Road, Boulder.

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Boulder Valley Adobe User Group. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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outhpaw is a boxing movie with, dare I say, far too much boxing in it. I realize that sounds strange, but director Antoine Fuqua’s new movie isn’t very interested in its extended training montages or improbable fight scenes — and that’s not entirely a dig. Unapologetically, Southpaw is a vehicle for star Jake Gyllenhaal to continue his career renaissance with another stellar performance. Unfortunately, Gyllenhaal’s stellar performance draws attention to just how hokey the rest of Southpaw actually is. Gyllenhaal plays Billy “The Great” Hope, an undefeated boxing champ whose life becomes overstuffed with the saddest sad stuff to ever sad after his wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams), is killed during an incident so awkwardly melodramatic that our eyebrows are still raised when the end credits roll. Part of that awkwardness has to do with the fact that Maureen’s death sets up a mystery that we assume is going to be Southpaw’s major subplot before dropping it immediately. Maureen’s death triggers Billy to start falling apart in all the worst ways. His promoter dumps him, apparently everybody in the world sues him, his mansion In what is basically Cliché: The Movie, Jake Gyllenhaal gets repossessed and he plays Billy “The Great” Hope, a boxer who endures a series loses custody of his of dramatically sad events before trying to seek redemption in the ring. daughter to child protective services. See? Saddest sad stuff ever. Shortly after hitting bottom, Billy finds employment as a janitor at an innercity boxing gym run by Titus “Tick” Wills (Forest Whitaker). With characters named Billy “The Great” Hope and Titus “Tick” Wills, you really know that you’re watching a boxing movie. Anyway, Titus takes Billy under his wing, the opportunity for a redeeming title fight emerges and the latter-half of every boxing movie ever made ensues. What’s fascinating is that there are way too many training montages and fight scenes in Southpaw, and yet they all manage to feel a bit rushed as the narrative struggles to get back to what everybody really wants to see: Gyllenhaal emoting for your consideration. Southpaw truly is a starring vehicle for Gyllenhaal to deliver a performance that is so crazy stupid awesome, it’s sort of heartbreaking when the movie doesn’t trust him to carry it. Scene after scene of Gyllenhaal delivering intense, immersive perfection is completely undermined by unconvincing dramatic stakes and a soundtrack so hammy that Fuqua might as well have just reused the theme from Chariots of Fire. As for the rest of the cast, everybody kills it in their mostly underwritten roles. The only big misstep is the criminally underused Naomi Harris, whose character isn’t just underwritten but whose presence in Southpaw’s third-act is downright inexplicable. All in all, Southpaw isn’t a good boxing movie or a bad boxing movie. It’s just an OK boxing movie and, hey, that’s fine. It’s difficult to complain about an opportunity to see Gyllenhaal cut loose with another incredible performance as he tries his damndest to atone for Bubble Boy — especially when he is playing off great actors like Whitaker and McAdams. Despite its flaws, Fuqua’s movie is undeniably watchable. However, I can’t quite recommend it because (ahem) Southpaw fails to pack a punch… And yes, I’ve been waiting patiently for this entire review to write, “Southpaw fails to pack a punch.” This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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Court. Through Aug. 1, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407825. Tickets start at $6 at www.thedairy.org

Vira Sathidar plays Narayan, a folk singer accused of causing a man’s suicide in Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut film Court.

s there a less desirable room to be in than a courtroom? True, courtrooms are the spaces where civility and rhetoric determines the justice of actions, but entering one is like traversing Dante’s Inferno. Justice may be served, you might even come out the victor, but getting there is a laborious and Kafkaesque process. Ever watched a high-profile court case conclude with one of those impromptu press conferences on the courthouse steps? Don’t they look exhausted? And they’re the winners. Imagine how the losing side feels. Thankfully, Court’s depiction of courtroom proceedings is anything but exhausting, despite how accurately it portrays the absurdity. The debut feature from Indian writer/director Chaitanya Tamhane revolves around Narayan (Vira Sathidar), an aging teacher and folk singer charged with abatement of suicide when a Mumbai manhole worker is found dead in the sewer. The state claims that Narayan performed an inflammatory song that convinced the man to commit suicide by entering the sewer without proper protection and suffocating himself to death. At no point does anyone acknowledge that this might be the most horrific way to voluntarily end one’s life. But that doesn’t seem to matter, least of all to the wealthy defense attorney, Vinay (Vivek Gomber), who takes on the hardworking Public Prosecutor (Geetanjali Kulkarni) and Judge (Pradeep Joshi), a man more concerned by the rules of the game than the reality of the situation. Tamhane’s interest lies not in Narayan’s trial but in the asinine bureaucratic process that dictates the courtroom as well as society. There is a point where the Judge reschedules the hearing of another case simply because the accused show up in the wrong attire. What’s the point in playing the game if the rules aren’t obeyed? And if those roles are archaic, then so be it. We must have rules. Tamhane finds humor in these rules and visually exploits them as best he can. Court is filmed almost entirely in long static shots with very little camera movement — wide-angle observations that allow the eye to wander back and forth between the characters and the world they inhabit. This stylistic rigor allows Tamhane to plunder his story for humor rather than pain; often letting shots go on far after the scene has concluded. He waits, patiently, for something funny to happen, easing the pain and frustration of living. What Tamhane ultimately crafts is a portrait of a society where the lower classes push against their roles, while upper classes argue about how that should be done. How poetic that Tamhane selects a wealthy attorney to defend the accused artist against a middle-class prosecutor over the death of a working class laborer — a man who literally climbed in the bowels of the Earth to scrape shit off of walls. Tamhane’s approach to Court, and possibly life, is a refreshing one. The answer to all of this misery and pain is to sit back, silently contemplate and then laugh directly in its face. It’s not much, but it’s something.

Now serving number 666 Finding truth and humor in ‘Court’ by Michael J. Casey

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Vern’s Place in Laporte is worth a stop on your next trip by Matt Cortina

here is no better conversation about stuffed mountain lions than the conversation about stuffed mountain lions you have at Vern’s. If you’re headed north, it might be your first of many dining conversations about taxidermy; if you’re headed back to Boulder County, it might just be your last for a while. Vern’s Place is affixed to a gas station west of Fort Collins in the 2,000-person farm and fishing hamlet called Laporte. The town sits along the Cache La Poudre, and Vern’s looks out over a cowfield, dewy and daffodil-yellow in the early morning. It’s only about 30 minutes north of Longmont, but Vern’s feels like a roadside welcome station to something cozy and familiar, like some over-romanticized personal version of Mayberry we have in our heads. The lack of pretension at Vern’s, combined with a hearty American breakfast, is the source of that feeling. We order a big breakfast and start in on the mountain lions. Mounted along the top of wooden beams are fish from the Poudre, elk and deer heads popping out above the coffee pot and three big cats in separate corners of the dining room. ‘What is that, a cougar? A lynx?’ Maybe Vern’s feels foreign because I’m out of place like a student walking into the wrong lecture. ‘And what kind of cat is that furry brown one?’ That cat is a bear. The food I have a better handle on. And, the food is as cozy-making as the stuffed animals. A warm and fluffy cinnamon bun; chicken-fried steak with sausage gravy; homefries and hasbrowns; crisp bacon and toast; and an ever-filled mug of hot coffee that has a cartoon of Vern holding up a trout on a fishing line.

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The chicken-fried steak was pure comfort. You don’t get chicken-fried steak for any other reason than comfort. The cube steak on the inside was tender and warm, and the resulting fry was crispy and moist. It was well-executed and fresh, and if you eat this dish on road trips you know that sometimes you get a salty hockey puck instead of the mouthgay that Vern’s serves up. The sausage gravy was rich and peppery, and thick enough to serve as a base for the over-medium eggs plopped on top of the whole thing. Vern’s also managed to simplify the most simple of side dishes, hashbrowns and homefries, while still elevating and personalizing them. The hashbrowns were closer to mashed potatoes than fries, fluffy and just moist enough. The homefries were large wedges of potato, with an extracrispy skin left on, and subtle seasoning with salt and pepper. How they managed to get those things so crispy without drying out the whole wedge is mystifying. The cinnamon bun — and I’m no cinnamon bun aficionado, a point worth making because Vern’s boasts the best — was good. It was about the size, color and shape of a catcher’s mitt except

a lot more succulent and airy. It came with a big cube of butter plopped on top, so yeah, it was on the lighter side. Vern’s is the perfect place to get you in the right headspace for a trip into the West, or to give you one final experience of something different before returning to Boulder County. Or, it’s just close enough to get in the car, do something different and make a long morning out of a good, old-fashioned breakfast.

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On August 4, from 6:30-9 Jax Fish House in Boulder will be celep.m., check out the “Films, brating National Oyster Day on Chefs and Glorious Song” Wednesday, August 5 by handing out 100 event, benefiting the Flatirons free half-dozen racks of freshly shucked oysFood Film Festival that is coming ters. STONE FRUIT FESTIVAL to Boulder in October for the The oysters will be handed out on a firstthird straight year. It’s that wonderful time of year Courtesy of Jax Fish House The fundraiser will again: peaches, plums and other help bring in top names stone fruits are finally in season. from the culinary and In honor of the stone fruit harvest, film world to the festithe Boulder County Farmers’ Markets val. One such target of is hosting a stone fruit festival at the the festival is Andy Boulder Farmers’ Market from 8 a.m. Ricker, the James Beard – 2 p.m. Award winner and chef Chefs from The Kitchen will be on of the famed Pok Pok hand to share recipes, tips and restaurants. Ricker will demonstrations on how to use appear in cohesion with the docupeaches, plums, nectarines and mentary Farang, a film made cherries. You’ll get to taste varieties about himself and his journey of the local fruits and get involved in through the culinary world. Also some peach-based breakfast and looking to come is Sandor Katz, lunch dishes. There will also be live author of Wild Fermentation and music, which we have to assume is The Art of Fermentation. not stone fruit-themed. The fundraiser on August 4 will take place at Agora at the ROCKY MOUNTAIN CIGAR FESTIVAL Slurp down some free oysters from Jax on National Oyster Day, Riverside in Boulder. It will feature August 5. small plates from Dave Query and Hey, here’s a good one. The sixth Alex Krill (Jax Fish House), Eric annual Rocky Mountain Cigar Skokan (Black Cat Farm Table Festival is coming to Broomfield at the Omni Bistro), John Platt (Riff’s), Kelly Whitaker come, first-served basis starting at 4 p.m. Interlocken Hotel on Saturday, August 22 (Basta) and Kyle Mendenhall (The The oysters are sustainably harvested from from 12-7 p.m. More than 2,200 cigar aficioKitchen). There will also be live music, the Chesapeake Bay by Travis and Ryan nados are expected to attend. We wonder auctions and some short film screenings at Croxton of the Rappahannock River Oyster if they’ll get charged for smoking in their the event. Of course there will also be Company. Jax is the first restaurant in hotel room. wine and craft beer, as well as desserts Colorado to partner with the Monterey Bay The festival includes the world’s premium from Fior di Late and Robin’s Chocolates. Aquarium Seafood Watch, which ensures cigars for sale, as well as wine, craft beer Tickets are $55 online and $60 at the sustainability and quality in the seafood and craft liquor. For more information and to door. To purchase tickets or find more inforserved at the restaurant. buy tickets, visit www.rmcigarfestival.com. mation about the fundraiser and the For more information, visit www.jaxfishFlatirons Food Film Festival, visit www.flathouse.com.

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Cauliflower is booming in Boulder County and beyond by Noel Phillips

rowing up, outside of being the ugly, bad-tasting vegetable no one wanted on the veggie platter at parties — the one even ranch dressing couldn’t help — cauliflower was rarely seen at my house, but for one exception: fried cauliflower. In my current commitment to healthy, conscious eating and living, I cringe at the memory, but the smell of frying cauliflower remains a vivid part of my childhood. I can still hear the Fry Daddy bubbling and churning like a witches’ cauldron as my step-father dropped battered cauliflower florets into the waiting hot oil like tiny virgins being sacrificed to our appetites. Waiting for the caramel brown bites of heaven to cool on their greasy paper towels felt like hours in my childlike impatience. It was amazing what pancake batter and a little oil could do to the previously undesirable vegetable. What had been inedible became this light, creamy delight surrounded by a subtle crunch. And then I went to college and didn’t touch the stuff. For whatever reason, my body decided it could no longer tolerate fried foods. If I couldn’t eat cauliflower fried, then I surely wasn’t going to touch it raw. Eating raw cauli-

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flower is like trying to chew peppery are touted, deservingly so, as tasty alterStyrofoam. natives to grain-based products. With my history with cauliflower, Cauliflower recipes are outpacing it’s been nothing short of surprising to cat videos on the Internet. It seems witness the ever-growing popularity of there is nothing this little vegetable this colorless, weird-looking cruciferous can’t replace. Shepherd’s pie, chowders, vegetable. And even Wikipedia more surprising: I’ve experienced an increasing taste and enjoyment for it. And I’m not alone. Cauliflower sales have been increasing steadily over the years, along with other vegetables. But recently, with a larger population choosing to turn toward a gluten-free or paleo-type diet for a variety of reasons real or imagined, cauliflower’s popularity has sky-rocketed. Recipes have been posted with increasing Cauliflower’s popularity has skyrocketed. zeal across social media sites for grainfree, cauliflower-based takes on old grilled cheese sandwiches, curries, hashfavorites. Cauliflower mashed “potaes … no part of the culinary world is toes,” pizza crust, rice, tortillas, bagels, safe. breadsticks and even mac and cheese But cauliflower is not utilized solely

in replacing ‘unhealthier’ ingredients. Increasingly, it’s being enjoyed for its own subtle flavors. Café Aion Chef and Owner Dakota Soifer didn’t always love cauliflower. It wasn’t until he became a chef working with wood fired ovens that he discovered the new depths of flavor that roasting could bring to the pale cruciferous vegetable. With its ability to handle bolder spices, such as curries, he realized there was more to the vegetable than he’d first thought. And now, cauliflower has become a star at Café Aion. The fried cauliflower tapa reigns as one of their signature dishes — and for good reason. Dusted with toasted cumin and served with a dollop of saffron yogurt and lemon, the dish showcases the vegetable well. Soifer loves “how the starchy raw cauliflower, when dropped into ripping-hot oil, turns see CAULIFLOWER Page 52

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crispy on the outside and soft and sweet the erratic Boulder skies this spring and inside. People always ask if it is breadsummer with dismay. The unusually ed, but we don’t. Nature gets it just wet year, with its short bursts of intense right for us.” heat, tends to not make for the best of Flavored with cinnamon, chilies, growing seasons. coriander and preserved lemons, cauli“We planted our first succession of flower also takes the lead in the vegeta- cauliflower prior to the May rains,” ble tagine. The mildness of the vegetasays Condon, “and the excessive May ble soaks up and imparts added moisture has definitely taken a toll on strength to the Wikipedia that planting heady — the heads Moroccan spicare smaller and es featured in not as radiant the dish. as we like Soifer has them to be — enjoyed caulibut fortunately flower’s rising we plant a popularity. “I number of sucthink it is great cessions of when an ordicauli every seanary, inexpenson, and the sive vegetable subsequent becomes an ‘it’ successions are ingredient,” he looking great.” explains. He Hopefully Indian dish aloo gobi featuring cauliflower. attributes the the weather popularity to a continues to number of factors, citing the low price cooperate so that local farms, such as as making it more appealing for restauIsabelle, are able to keep up with the rants to use; the heartiness of the vegedemand. As the season progresses table; its versatility; and its availability and the later successions of better at local farms. looking and better tasting cauliflower Natalie Condon, farm manager of plants mature and are harvested, look Isabelle Farms, from which Soifer often to the menus for an increasing number of cauli-inspired dishes and even buys his vegetables, tends to agree with drinks. It may not be long before the latter, adding that, “We find the cauliflower leaves the bloody mary folks who like cauliflower best come toothpick to enjoy its place as star in from two camps: They’re either trueblue locavores always on the lookout for its own cocktail. But for now, as cauliflower season what’s in season locally, or adhere to a settles in, enjoy the seasonally inspired paleo diet and understand that caulidishes of the local chefs, or branch out flower makes a great grain substitute in of your own comfort zone and experifried rice, tabbouleh [and] crusts.” ment at home with this versatile vegeWith the increase in demand in the table. versatile vegetable, some farmers eyed Boulder Weekly

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