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Correction: A June 21 story, “Heating up alternative energy,” should have said that to qualify for the new Elevations Credit Union loan program, buildings must have achieved a 15 percent energy “saving,” not “rating.” In addition, any customer can participate in the loan program to save energy; the 15 percent savings threshold is only required to qualify for renewable energy such as solar photovoltaic.

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I was impressed with Paul Danish’s June 28 column “Oil wells vs. subdivisions” (Danish Plan). Where many pundits must resort to comparisons of apples to oranges to sidle up to their point, Mr. Danish attacks straightaway in a frontal assault of massive logic. In this case, regarding environmental responsibility, he has proved conclusively that people should be living in oil wells, not subdivisions. I look forward to his upcoming column, “Coal mines vs. schools.” Richard Wall/Lafayette I hate to even engage this exercise in logical gymnastics. It’s giving me a

headache just thinking about it. But for some reason I feel the need to try to address this specious argument. Hopefully I can keep it short. So, yes, it is true that in order to create a residential area and prepare it for habitation, some fairly industrial activity is involved, and yes, it could impact surrounding established residential areas. Creating residences is somewhat industrial by nature, but necessary and unavoidable. Communities need to grow, and people need places to live. I’m not arguing in favor of subdivisions, but that’s the basic fact of urban life.

Once people move in and start living in a community, no, obviously there should not be more unrelated industrial activity going on in the same area, zoned residential. That’s why we have zoning in the first place, to keep different types of land use from interfering with other types of land use. It’s very common sense. Fracking is a rather extreme industrial process by definition, harnessing the power of a water and chemical cocktail that we, the people in residential areas, are not legally allowed to know the contents of, under pressure great enough to literally fracture the

bedrock 5,000 feet below us. No big deal. Fracking is not going to lower my heating bill nearly enough to make me feel OK with the risk. I’d rather be cold than slowly poisoned, or worse. I’m not at all embarrassed to say, in this case, not in my backyard! No thank you. Who are these people cheerleading for this madness anyway? I’d like to know who is paying them. James Allison/via Internet see LETTERS Page 6

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profiteers want to keep the very existence about the safety of these DNA-altered foods and to of such contents hidden from consumers. scare voters with false claims about skyrocketing food No need to put that information on food prices if the initiative passes. Posing as the consumers’ packages, insist industry friend, the “Coalition Against officials, just trust us. Costly Food Labeling” has sprung Uh, no. In consumer up in California. It’s a PR front For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to surveys, about 9 out of group funded by such “friends” of subscribe to his award-win10 Americans say they ours as the Grocery Manufacturers ning monthly newsletter, The want GE foods to be of America and the Council for Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com. labeled so they can Biotech Information — which decide for themselves whether to themselves are political fronts for the usual corporate suspects. buy the industry’s hype. That’s why Why are these purveyors of GE food so desperate public support is so strong for California’s right-toknow initiative that would require food companies to to hide the true content of their own product from admit using GE ingredients. their customers? Because they have something to So, how have the manipulators and deceivers hide. For more information, go to: www. responded? By doubling down on manipulation and OrganicConsumers.org. deception. Bio-engineering giants like Monsanto and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com such food powers as Kellogg’s and Kraft are putting This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the as much as $100 million into a PR campaign to lie views of Boulder Weekly.

Food manipulators trying to deceive voters by Jim Hightower

n old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig? That’s different, say the corporate profiteers behind the startling number of our food products that now contain genetically engineered organisms, altering the DNA make-up of everything from corn to pigs. Yet — even though GE foods pose serious health, environmental and economic dangers to consumers and farmers — the Boulder Weekly

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uncensored Rapists in the ranks by Pamela White

hen Fox News commentator Liz Trotta addressed the topic of sexual assault in the military this past February, telling her audience that women who serve should “expect” to get raped, she seemed barely able to conceal her contempt for U.S. servicewomen — at least those who are speaking out against sexual violence. “They want to be warriors and victims,” she said, implying that rape victims who come forward are nothing more than wimpy whiners. Her diatribe offered a classic example of victim blaming, shifting responsibility for sexual assault from rapists who hide behind uniforms to the women they attack. The pain her words caused resonates still with military women who’ve been there, survived that. If Trotta were speaking strictly in terms of statistics, then, yes, women who serve in the military should be aware that they might be raped. The Pentagon estimates that one in three women will be raped by a fellow serviceman during her years in uniform. Last year, 3,191 military sexual assaults were reported, but because many victims remain silent, the Pentagon estimates that the actual number was probably closer to 19,000. The shameful truth is that women in the military are more likely to be raped by a brother in arms than killed by the enemy. Trotta seems to think the answer is to remove women from the military. “The whole airing of this issue [of women in the military] has never been done by Congress,” she said. “It’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminists.” So feminists are to blame for the fact that women are in the military, and the presence of women in the military is the reason military women are being raped. I’m sure the Taliban would agree with Trotta’s assessment. But the real problem isn’t the presence of women. It’s the presence of rapists in the ranks. What do you do about that? Right now, a man in uniform who rapes a servicewoman has the odds on his side. There’s less than a 15 percent chance she’ll report the assault, and if she does, there’s a greater than 90 6 July 5, 2012

percent chance that nothing will come of it. She’ll be humiliated, perhaps discharged, stripped of rank and benefits. And if he is convicted, and even if he serves time, he won’t have to register as a sex offender. (See related story on page 20.) The Department of Defense is attempting to improve the situation by, among other things, announcing a zero-tolerance policy for sexual assault, requiring sexual assault education for service members, and moving the reporting system further up the chain of command. The Navy is going so far as to try changing a culture that facilitates rape, teaching seamen that it is their duty to interfere when they know a woman is being harassed or assaulted by a fellow sailor. But there’s much more that could be done. First and foremost, Congress should pass the Sexual Assault Training Oversight and Prevention Act. The STOP Act would establish an independent professional legal entity separate from the chain of command of the Department of Defense and place the investigative power in cases of alleged rape in its hands, providing checks and balances that currently do not exist. Furthermore, a man convicted of a sex crime in a military court should be required to register as a sex offender when he is discharged. He shouldn’t be able to shed the shame with the uniform. (Go to http://chn. ge/Mpi9mw to sign a petition on this issue.) These two changes would alter the equation, making rape a far more dangerous proposition for the rapist and creating a support network for those who’ve been assaulted. Risk is, of course, an inherent part of military service — the risk of death, of maiming, of being taking prisoner and tortured. But those are actions perpetrated by the enemy, not carried out by the people who are supposed to have your back. While facing hostile fire is part of the job description, being violated by your fellow troops is not. Rape in the military is not just a serious crime, it’s a profound betrayal. Respond: letters@boulderweekly. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Paul is right on point. Finally an article that speaks common sense about fracking wells that keep our cars running and our homes heated. We all want renewable forms of energy, but the timeline is not immediate. I would like to know where the problem wells are so I can get involved. I don’t know of any, and the drilling techniques are amazing so to eliminate surface impact. Water contamination where? Please let me know! Fracking is done at 8,000 feet or 7,500 feet below ground water. I drink Boulder water every day proudly, and absolutely no evidence is available of contamination. Thank you Paul! Don Fort/via Internet

The last straw

(Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to Al Lewis of Dow Jones.) Hi Al, I can’t take it anymore. There is nothing “conservative” at all in the Republican/ Tea Party agenda, only radical changes to what was once considered the

American way of life. Meanwhile, a mega-billionaire can buy an entire Hawaiian island; the CEOs of Chipotle can pull down $38.2 million but pay their shareholders no dividends; the average household has lost 40 percent of its worth; cutting Social Security, food stamps and public employee and teacher pensions are claimed to be the cure for the economic crash and the federal debt; the mainstream media has been co-opted by corporate money; and the next generation seems completely oblivious and happily content with their iPhones, tweeting one another and watching YouTube. I really can’t believe what I am seeing and reading these days. And five days of 100-degree-plus heat in Colorado in June! And the climate change deniers prattle on, and we seem to be entering a long era of resource wars. Sign me up for medical marijuana now! The ’60s have never looked so worthy of a return visit. Robert Porath/Boulder

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But our perception of American soldiers and veterans has not always been simple and pure. Much has depended on the conflict itself. Separating from British oppressors to create one’s own country is one thing; sending our troops overseas to die in an unpopular, losing battle against the spread of communism — or in the name of protecting our Middle Eastern oil interests — is another. Flashpoints like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 tend to unify us and justify military force, in the name of striking back at those who dared attack us on our own soil. Similarly, sinister dictators annihilating millions of innocent people, like Adolf Hitler, tend to galvanize the American public and their support for military action aimed at protecting the innocent and punishing “evildoers.” American support for both the objective of the conflict and our soldiers seemed

THE CHANGING FACE OF PATRIOTISM solid in both world wars, but Vietnam was a different story. While the draft — and domestic rationing of much-needed war resources like metal — pulled us together with a sense of shared sacrifice in the first half of the 20th century, by the time Vietnam rolled around, the draft fell out of favor, and the peace movement stood as a constant, vocal critic of the conflict as being an unpopular, unnecessary and unsuccessful effort. Protesters didn’t just oppose the war, they spit on our own soldiers when they returned from the conflict. The first Gulf war, while viewed by many as oil-motivated, was tolerated as a good, old-fashioned American ass-kicking that felt like it was done at a comfortable, detached arm’s length, because it didn’t cost us many lives and was marked by CNN videos of smart bombs being directed into chimneys with video-game joysticks. Then came 9/11, resulting in a renewed swell of patriotism and support for our troops, who were righteously sent into Afghanistan to go get the bastards. American flag bumper stickers sold like hotcakes. Then, somehow, for reasons that are still disputed, we ended up in Iraq. And yet, most of us who questioned that war did not blame the soldiers who were ordered to fight in it. Suddenly, there was a need for a new bumper sticker, one that made a finer distinction in responding to the blind patriots who were urging us to “love it or leave it.” It was a bumper sticker saying, “I can oppose the war and still support the troops.” And yet, there are still gray areas. What do we make of our American soldiers who have tarnished the reputations of their fellow troops — and, indeed, all of us — by doing things like urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters? We have come a long way, but it remains to be seen how our next conflict — and those who fight in it — will be perceived. Each year around Independence Day, instead of engaging in rah-rah patriotism, Boulder Weekly celebrates our freedom of speech, and of the press, by taking an in-depth, critical look at a challenging national issue facing our country. This year, in an effort to provide some perspective on how much things have changed on the battlefield and on the home front when it comes to the military, we present the following package of stories examining the modern soldier and veteran. We hope you find it interesting and provocative. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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WAR’S INVISIBLE KILLER by Joel Dyer

t started with an errant shot … and now another one. This time it was a mule deer just south of Casper, Wyo. The bullet took off the deer’s lower jaw and sent the pain-crazed animal flailing in circles, stumbling to the ground, then back up. But it didn’t run away, or couldn’t. By the time Ron got down the hill to see what he’d done, his head was already swimming. He remembers the deer’s thrashing head, blood flying in all directions, covering his clothes, face, hair. He recalls screaming, as he ran at the deer, knocking it to the ground. Then nothing. His next memory from that day is of being on the dirt, his back pushed against a small pine tree. He says it was like watching himself from a few feet away. He could see his shaking hand as it held the pistol pointing directly at his forehead, thumb on the trigger. He recalls just waiting for the sound, hoping, but it never came. On that day when he went hunting, it had been more than six years since Ron had been in combat and even longer since he had pulled the trigger on his first misaimed shot, which haunted him in the form of a young woman’s lifeless face. No one can say what invisible force connected those two shots that day. It is enough to know it was caused by war. Years later, I asked him why he didn’t pull the trigger. He said he didn’t know, but he was glad he hadn’t. Ron is now a mostly happily married father of two girls. He still has struggles, but life has improved since he quit drinking. I asked him if he still thinks about killing himself. He said no, after that day he never came close to committing suicide again, and he even gave up hunting and sold his guns. For Ron, a veteran, the same gory experience with that deer that nearly caused him to take his own life ultimately saved him. It was a sort of purification by fire. But unfortunately, Ron’s self-healing seems to be the exception. Suicide has always been an issue for our veterans returning from the battlefields, no matter which war we were fighting at the time. But for many veterans of today’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where four, five or six deployments are the norm, suicide has reached epidemic proportions. On average, 18 veterans now kill themselves every day of the year. That’s 6,408 suicides every year, compared to 6,440 U.S. soldiers killed during the 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems inconceivable that far more soldiers are killing themselves than are killed in combat, but it’s true. Suicide has become the cure of choice for the pain that so many of today’s veterans are experiencing, pain that most of us just can’t understand because we haven’t been there. I drove out to Sterling a few years back to talk to a 21-year-old Marine corporal who was about to be deployed for his third tour of duty in Iraq. I was originally drawn to his story when I attended a swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. citizens and saw him in full uniform taking his oath of citizenship. I must confess that I was, at the time, unaware that many young men and women of different nationalities join the U.S. military as a pathway to being granted U.S. citizenship — provided they live through their service. But once I spent time with the young Marine, whose identity I am withholding because he is still active in the military, my interest in his story changed. You see, he was only 21 and already hollow inside. I wanted to understand how that happens. 12 July 5, 2012

By my reckoning, the corporal had the misfortune of being a very good shot. As a result, the Marines turned him into a sniper, a job that had its own unique set of requirements in Iraq. He told me how he would take three days’ worth of provisions, his sniper rifle and ammunition, and then at night, alone, slip out past the perimeter of his U.S. base of operations in Anbar Province. Under the cover of nightfall he would make his way to hidden positions on roofs, behind bushes or in the abandoned buildings of nearby towns. His orders were simple enough: Kill anyone you identify as the enemy. The horrifying part is that to hear him talk about the Iraqis, he clearly saw all of them as his enemy. With no hint of emotion, he told me how, at night, he would watch for certain behavior, such as men gathering in a home. When he saw it, he’d take aim, pull the trigger and watch through his scope as their heads exploded in a red mist. He’d try to hit two “targets” before anyone could react, then he’d move and lay low, waiting for the next opportunity to do his job. He was a 21-year-old kid, alone, scared and deciding who lived and died on a daily basis by arbitrary criteria at best. To say that he coped with this unimaginable situation by dehumanizing the enemy is not strong enough. He coped by dehumanizing all of us, including himself. When I asked him how he could be sure that the people he killed were the enemy and not innocent civilians, he stared right through me and didn’t say a word. He correctly sized me up as one of the idiots back home who couldn’t possibly understand the things he had seen and done. But I kept trying. It took several more hours and most of a pack of cigarettes to get him talking again. He told me he hated coming back to Sterling because nothing there made sense. He said the only place he could go and feel comfortable was the local VFW hall where he did most of his drinking. I asked him if it was because there were people there he could talk to who understood him. He raised his head, smirked and once more called me a fool without ever saying a word. He eventually confided that he felt comfortable there because nobody at the VFW needed to ask him anything, they already knew and they left him alone. As steel cold as his demeanor had been when describing his assassinations, the opposite was true when I asked if he ever spent time with his old high school friends when he came home. Surprisingly, it was this seemingly innocuous question that gave me my best glimpse into the young man’s pain. He suddenly stumbled over his words as he tried to describe the anger and frustration he felt when he was around anyone his own age who wasn’t a fellow soldier. His words were infused with raw emotion, as if someone had plugged him into a socket. He twitched, chain-smoked and spoke to a spot on the ground as he described how he would go to a bar or restaurant or even a movie where people his age gathered, and how he’d try to just keep to himself, but couldn’t. It always turned out the same, he told me. He’d start listening to their conversations, which he described as “whining and bitching about stupid shit” like college or boyfriends or cars, and then it would come over him before he even knew what was happening. The “it” that came over him was a rage he could not explain and that clearly frightened him. “I just start beating the shit out of anybody near me for no reason, no matter how many of them are there. I don’t want to. I just look at them and I lose it. They just won’t shut up.” He concluded with a long, deep pull on his cigarette after telling me that he just wanted to get back to Iraq. “I’m better when I’m there,” he said. The corporal left for his third tour of duty the next morning. I can’t say that I got to know him. I’m not even sure if he was still in there to know. Will he one day find himself looking down the barrel of his own gun? No one can say. But he Boulder Weekly

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was right about me. I don’t understand what he has been through and what it has done to him. Try as I might, I can’t pretend to grasp what it’s like to exist in a world where it feels more normal and comfortable to be hiding alone in a bush waiting to kill someone than to be going to a movie with friends in my old hometown. Thank God I don’t know that feeling. What I do know is that we can’t expect people to exist in the world of war we have thrown them into one day, and then ask them to come home and live a “normal” life the next. For many, if not most, of our veterans, their “normal” has changed and, quite likely, changed forever. The government now acknowledges the veteran suicide crisis. In response, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has added nearly 2,000 mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrist and social workers, to the existing 20,590 mental health care workers currently employed to counsel veterans. But despite this effort, the number of veteran suicides is still increasing at an alarming rate, and no one seems to know why, or when, or even if, it will stop. What we do know is that we have never been faced with a situation like this before. Our modern-day soldiers have now been fighting continuously for a longer period of time than was needed to wage and conclude World Wars I and II plus most of the Korean War, all added together. The bottom line is, we don’t know what happens to the minds of men and women who are repeatedly sent into two different wars in different countries for a decade. We have never asked such a thing of our military before. But if the current epidemic of suicides is any indication, what we have done to our veterans this time around may be more damaging than we could have imagined. We may have improved our triage techniques to the point where battlefield casualties have been greatly reduced, but it appears from the numbers that our understanding of what war does to the body is far greater than our understanding of what war does to the mind. It seems that the errant shots can be just as deadly over time as enemy fire, maybe even more so. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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hink about a time you had to deal with a difficult insurance claim, or feared recovery in the aftermath of an injury. Now think about trying to deal with that after two, three or even four tours in a war zone while living in a fog that makes everyday life an onerous task. Many of our veterans are now facing just such a task. With no military draft and a volunteer army fighting our battles, media that provides constant distractions from such things as the war, and a price tag for conflict that has yet to be fully assessed, a lack of awareness regarding the true costs of war has set in. For instance, many of us now believe that our soldiers are safer than in past wars because we are told that fewer than 7,000 have died on the battlefield in the past 10 years. But as our Global War on Terror forges ahead into a second decade, this supposed safety has been proven a myth for tens of thousands of our veterans. Our nation has been programmed to view death rates as one measure of success for a mission or war. So when we hear that only 6,500 recorded deaths of U.S. personnel have occurred during a decade of war in multiple theaters — roughly the same number of dead as the 35-day Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II — it can lead one to believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq represent a level of success. But the success is muted, considering that the Department of Defense claims we have nearly 47,000 wounded service members from those wars and the Veterans Administration reports that 508,152 veterans of those campaigns have been treated by the VA. Many have sustained injuries that in previous conflicts would have meant certain death. So instead of immortalization, like the iconic memory of American soldiers raising the flag during intense battle, many of today’s survivors return home to immobilization. Americans wounded in World War II survived at a rate of 69 percent, a number that rose to around 76 percent during Vietnam. Today, the survival rate for wounded service members stands at about 91 percent. Medical technologies, better equipped and trained medics, and tactical expertise all help account for the dramatic increase in those saved in action. The flip side of such a glowing statistic is one that most of us overlook — the increasing number of wounded who survive, only to face the daunting challenge of surviving the rest of their lives dealing with their injuries. Blast injuries are the most common injuries in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, replacing the injuries from ballistic projectiles that marked the Vietnam era. In 2011, the U.S. military reported 16,554 improvised explosive device (IED) attacks, more than 45 per day. Despite improvements to vehicles and armor intended to deflect these homemade weapons, thousands of amputations have been necessary. The concussive blast that accompanies an IED often causes traumatic brain injury (TBI). An estimated 14 percent to 20 percent of our military service members have fallen victim to TBI during our most recent conflicts, while thousands more are thought to remain undiagnosed. Being subjected to small arms fire on the way to work, knowing co-workers who died doing the same job, and having job duties that include handling human remains, it’s not hard to see how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) might set in. A “hidden” ailment like TBI, PTSD can manifest itself long past the point where a gung-ho soldier steels himself for battle after getting his bell Boulder Weekly

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RETHINKING THE DRAFT

Many Americans forget the sacrifice too few are making every day by Don Tartaglione

nation held its breath. There were 366 blue plastic capsules containing birth dates waiting to be chosen from a large glass jar at Selective Service National Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 1969. The drawing determined the draft order that would begin the following year making all eligible men between the ages 18 and 26 potential draftees for the Vietnam War. Sept. 14 was the first date drawn, and it continued until each birth date was assigned a lottery number. It was the first time since 1942 there had been a draft lottery. Abolished by Nixon in 1973, it is unlikely that a draft will return in the near future. After 10 years and two wars, the all-volunteer military is managing the fight overseas. But the war at home, the public’s stake in the war has been far less engaging. Those with loved ones in the military couldn’t be more committed, knowing the person they love is in harm’s way. But for those who don’t have a direct connection, the war is a far-away conflict that can be viewed from the safety of our homes. There is little concern, little sharing of the burden, and it’s easy to forget the sacrifice so many Americans are making for their country. What would a draft mean for this country and those serv-

ing in the armed forces? Despite the opposition to the draft, Democrat Charles Rangel proposed a Universal Service Act to the House of Representatives in 2003. It would have required “that all young persons [1826] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service.” The results of the vote were two in favor and 402 against. Bring Back the Draft, an opinion piece written by Rangel in the The New York Times, explains why he introduced his bill. “I believe that if those calling for war knew that their children were likely to be required to serve — and to be placed in harm’s way — there would be more caution and a greater willingness to work with the international community in dealing with Iraq,” Rangel wrote. “A renewed draft will help bring a greater appreciation of the consequences of decisions to go to war.” Rangel was openly opposed to the war, voting against the Congressional resolution that gave President George W. Bush the authority to declare it. The bill he proposed was to not only send the message that conflicts would be handled more delicately if the general population had an equal stake in the conflict, but that if there was a

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draft, we’d all have to share the burden of the conflict. A majority of people would be directly connected to the war. Larry Smith, a Vietnam veteran living in Bettendorf, Iowa, was drafted as a field medic and witnessed both the positive and negative effects of the draft’s implementation. “The bad side of an all-volunteer army is that the suffering is done by just a few people on a few families,” he says. “A majority of the people in our country aren’t touched by it. Whereas in Vietnam, somewhere in your extended family you had someone that was in Vietnam who had suffered.” According to a Pew Research Center study, one half of 1 percent of American adults has served on active duty. This is the smallest percentage of Americans since the peacetime between World War I and World War II. For the past 10 years, we have put the weight of the wars on the shoulders of less than half of 1 percent of our adult population, a severely unbalanced proportion that makes it easy for many Americans to forget the war in their day-to-day life. “A lot of people are just disconnected from Afghanistan and Iraq; it doesn’t affect them, and even the money that’s wasted,” says Smith. “The people hear about it, but it kinda goes in one ear and out the other.” The question remains whether a draft would have affected the initial decision to go to war with Iraq. According to a PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll dated March 31, 2003, 54 percent of Americans supported the president’s decision to invade Iraq despite not getting clearance to do so from the United Nations Security Council. The presence of a draft likely would have made that percentage significantly lower. While a draft would create a greater connection between the general public and the conflict the military is involved in, it would come with a price. Besides being unpalatable for “forcing” some of our citizens to serve, the quality of our armed forces would likely suffer. “The volunteer army is a much better army than the draft army,” says Smith. “Today, with a volunteer army, you have people that want to be there, you have people usually that are doing something that they want to do within that structure. They like the structure of the military. I think I was glad when the draft was eliminated.” And some wars are more justifiable than others. “During World War II, the country worked as a team, people stepped up,” Smith says. “It didn’t matter if you Boulder Weekly

were drafted, people volunteered during World War II because they knew the enemy was evil; it was very, very well-defined.” We shouldn’t need a draft to constantly remind us of the sacrifice our soldiers are making for our country, but in reality, it’s effective at doing just that. Without a draft, it’s easy to forget that if one American is at war, we’re all at war. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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At left, Capt. Javier Abarca is interviewed in front of a solar array. Below, workers install solar panels at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora.

Enlisting the sun

Military uses solar energy to help power its operations by Hadley Vandiver

f all the countries in the world, the United States consumes the most energy. Within the U.S., it is the Department of Defense (DOD), encompassing the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force, that consumes the most energy, according to the DOD. In 2010, the DOD’s energy costs totaled more than $4 billion. So what is the DOD doing to combat its gigantic carbon footprint? It’s looking to the sun. The Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora brought 5,040 solar panels on line last year. Currently, the solar field provides the base with about 1 percent to 2 percent of its energy needs, according to John Spaan, chief of public affairs at Buckley. “We’re not getting a huge amount of energy from the solar panels right now, but we’re happy to be using at least some renewables,” Spaan says. “There’s a big focus in the DOD on energy conservation and consumption, and we’re really excited to be one of the first bases with a big solar grid.” The grid produces about one megawatt of energy, enough to power roughly 140 homes, Spaan says. Though the base cannot power its whole facility with the solar grid, there is room for expansion in the future. “We’re lucky to be out here in Colorado where we have so many sunny days, and we want to use all the resources available to us,” Spaan says. “We’ve gotten lots of positive reactions and it would be great to keep growing it. It is an expensive project, but in a little bit of time it will pay off because we’re not using coal energy. We’re producing some of the energy that we use, and we feel like that’s really important.” The Army and the Marine Corps have also recently begun using solar power for troops in the Boulder Weekly

field and at bases abroad. “They’re using solar energy in many ways,” says Bill Scanlon, a science writer with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). “In places like Iraq and Afghanistan, they can power their bases without having to bring diesel by truck to the bases. The trucking of diesel to the bases is one of the leading reasons for deaths in both Iraq and Afghanistan, especially with the drivers. So solar is saving lives.” While its application in powering military bases is useful and beneficial, deployed troops are also using solar technology in smaller, portable solar power units they can bring with them when they leave the bases. “The sun is a global resource, and a mobile one as well,” Scanlon says. “The soldiers can change locations and just bring along the mobile solar power, so they can have electricity while they’re out there in the field.” Ascent Solar in Denver is working to develop flexible solar panels integrated with fabric that can be rolled up like a rug or folded and put into a backpack. The panels made it onto TIME magazine’s list of top 50 best inventions last year. “It makes a lot of sense for the military to look into using this technology,” says Brad Kemp, director of sales and marketing at Ascent. “Transporting fuel into really remote areas is expensive and it’s super-dangerous. But at the same time, a glass solar panel on a backpack doesn’t really work. It’s heavy, it’s big — you just can’t put a big glass solar panel on a soldier’s backpack. So these light, durable panels enable that transportation and use in the areas where solar was never able to go before.”

The development of these flexible, mobile solar panels not only protects the lives of soldiers, but also diversifies the group of people thinking about being environmentally conscious. “In Colorado, there’s a good like-minded community of people that are into thinking about new ways to get energy and conserve energy. They’re passionate and educated about solar power,” Kemp says. “But people aren’t as clued in to renewable energy everywhere. Giving solar power to the military gets more people using it and offsetting their use of nonrenewable energy.” While these innovations in solar technology are beneficial, they are only a step in the road to a reduction of the military’s huge consumption of energy. “The president came to Buckley earlier this year to talk about energy conservation and consumption,” Spaan says. “The Air Force is one of the largest users of electrical power, mainly because of all the computer technology we have, and we know that just putting in solar panels won’t change that. So we need to take every opportunity that we can to lessen our impact.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com July 5, 2012 19

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‘The Invisible War’ exposes military’s shameful treatment of sex assault victims

by David Accomazzo Kori Cioca of the U.S. Coast Guard displays personal possessions in the documentary.

he first 15 minutes of Kirby Dick’s new power who were reluctant to documentary, The Invisible War, contain a prosecute. staggering opening salvo. Dick and his team focus the First, the jab, a statistic: “20 percent of narrative of the documentary servicewomen have been sexually assaulted through the lens of a small while serving.” handful of victims, but his team Then the cross, a devastating montage of 12 victims, did extensive interviews with from all different branches of the military, each describing more than 70 victims, he says. how they were raped. Some look at the camera, some look Dozens of them make their way off-screen, some stare vacantly into nothing. into the documentary, and each of their stories, in the And then the uppercut: If you take into account the most heartbreaking way possible, further illustrates just chronic underreporting of sexual assaults, Dick and his how bad the problem is. team estimate that around 500,000 women have been sex“The reason we did that is so that people would not ually assaulted in the military. walk away thinking ‘Oh, this happened to five or six or Rape of service members is one of the military’s most seven people,’” Dick tells Boulder Weekly. “No, it’s hapdamning problems. The sexual assault issue isn’t new, but pened to probably five or six or seven hundred thousand it’s persistent: It seems that once or twice a decade a major people over the last several generations.” military sexual assault scandal spills its way into headlines. One of the scariest facts pointed out in the documenIn 1991 there was the Tailhook scandal, in which almost tary is that reporting sexual assaults might be harder for 100 women were systematically sexually assaulted at a members of the military than for civilians. When civilians symposium; in 1996 there was the Aberdeen scanwant to report a rape, they go to the police. But the dal, in which a so-called “rape ring” of civilian systems of law have no power commanding officers victimized 19 over military affairs. When military women; in 2003 an investigamembers need to report a sexual tion at the Air Force assault, they have to go to Academy discovered that 12 their commanding officer. percent of graduating And the commanding offiwomen reported being viccer has complete discretion tims of either rape or when deciding when to prosKori Cioca and her husband Rob in an attempted rape; and in an ecute. emotional interview from The Invisible War. unfolding scandal at the The victims Dick interviews Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, tell how their commanding officer in one-quarter of the instructors in a particular charge of prosecuting the rape was a friend training squadron are under investigation for sexual misof the rapist, or had some sort of vested interest, such as conduct, according to the Washington Post. But all the maintaining unit cohesion, in making the charge disapscandals seem to have one thing in common: victims, pear. And sometimes it was worse: About 25 percent of threatened with professional repercussions, afraid to come rapes in the military go unreported, the filmmakers figure, forward, and commanding officers with prosecutorial because the officer that would be in charge of bringing the 20 July 5, 2012

rapist to justice is the rapist. Victim-blaming of sexual assault victims in the civilian world is rampant, but in the military it might be worse. If the commander with prosecutorial discretion decides it’s the victim’s fault and not the rapist’s, there’s practically nothing else the victim can do, and it becomes a long, uphill battle to get the military to cover any treatment associated with the trauma from the rape. Former Denver Post journalists Amy Herdy and Miles Moffeit investigated sexual assault cover-ups in the military in a Pulitzer-nominated series called “Betrayal in the Ranks.” Dick contacted Herdy early in production, and she appears on camera several times throughout the documentary. The similarities between the injustices Herdy and Moffeit uncovered in the past decade and the ones Dick uncovered in the past two years are dishearteningly similar. “The faces and the names change, but it’s really the same details,” Herdy tells Boulder Weekly. “These women are raped by superior officers, and when they report … the military tries to drone them out by either saying they’re crazy or they’re liars. And if they get rid of them either way, then they don’t have to give them benefits. And once they get out of the military, it’s a horrific struggle to try to get any kind of benefits, to get help, to get counseling or any sort of mental health assistance.” Victims often know their rapists personally, and they often are in a position where they must see and interact with their perpetrators every day. Instead of an impartial prosecuBoulder Weekly

tor making the decision to press charges, it’s a woman’s commanding officer, who might be buddies with the rapist. If a woman’s commanding officer thinks she’s lying about a sexual assault charge, or is unsympathetic to her, there is practically nothing else she can do. In the worst-case scenario, evidenced by several of the women in the documentary, the officer can press charges against the woman herself and derail her military career. For example, several victims who appear in The Invisible War were charged with adultery after reporting the rape, despite being single. It was the rapist who was married. “When they go after the rape victim in the military, they tear down her entire life,” Herdy says. “That’s her job, that’s where she lives, it’s who she associates with. It’s supposed to be her family. Think about it. It’s everything. A rape victim in the civilian world goes home and hopefully has some sort of support structure and has separate living quarters that don’t remind them of their sexual assault, and hopefully they don’t see their perpetrator every day like they do in the military.” Only 3,158 sexual assaults were reported in 2010, according to the Department of Defense, which estimates the actual number to be around 19,000 when taking under-reporting into account. The filmmakers crunch the numbers from a bunch of reports and say that out of the 3,223 perpetrators the military identified in 2010, only 175 served any jail time whatsoever. The documentary paints the military’s efforts to prevent sexual assault as laughably inadequate. They include posters, training videos rife with victim-blaming, and a rap video. Yes, a rap video (“turn the other cheek is a thing of the past / Up close and real when they try to harass”). And when the military brass faithfully repeats the party lines when asked about sexual assault, Dick allows victim advocates to shoot them down point-by-point. But Dick says progress is being made. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta saw the film recently and told one of Dick’s executive producers, Jennifer Newsom, that he was very moved by it. “We expected they would take the usual response when there’s an exposé around sexual assault in the military, which is to either discredit the film or attack the subjects in the film… but they haven’t, and I think it’s because the film is really infallible,” he says. Shortly after seeing the film, Panetta held a press conference announcing that prosecutorial discretion for sexual assaults would be moved up the chain of command. The military also ordered copies of the documentary for training purposes, Dick says. They are good steps, but they don’t go far enough, he says. “The problem is it’s still within the chain of command, at the colonel level,” Dick says. “They still have a conflict of Boulder Weekly

interest and can know the perpetrator, can know the defendant, and can have motivation to keep this covered up as well. The decision to investigate and prosecute has to move entirely out of the chain of command.” The film is a powerful and devastating look at the shameful way sexual assault is handled in the military. You can’t watch the film and not get infuriated with the disgusting way the victims interviewed in The Invisible War were treated while serving their country. While steps

are being taken to fix the problem, the military is still a long way from arriving at a place where men and women receive equal treatment. “Women are in the military, but women are not embraced in the military. We are a long, long way from having it be where it should,” Herdy says. “If I had a daughter, which I don’t, but if I had a daughter, I would fight like hell to try to talk her out of joining the military,” she says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen String Cheese Incident announced their summer tour plans a few months back, it was hard not to notice all the three-nighters they had on the bill. Red Rocks Amphitheatre (of course), Horning’s Hideout, Electric Forest. SCI has landed and kept itself near the top of the jam-madness world long enough to sustain these nearly stretch-weekend sieges, and just about any working franchise prowling the interstate highways these days would mortgage its soul to have that luxury, but we asked keys player Kyle Hollingsworth how the band approached these gigs. It’s more than just having a deep repertoire, isn’t it? “You know, that’s a good question, I’m just thinking about that now that you ask,” he says. “Obviously, we try to do no repeats over the whole weekend, each show will be a unique experience. And, certain circumstances, we’ll be doing, ah, like acoustic sets for example. The first festival will be Electric Forest [Rothbury, Mich.], and we’ll be doing an acoustic set there. But to answer your question, we basically just try to get a feel for each night. And on top of that, we’ll have all our theatrics and the whole Incident part of it. “But we do walk in with a setlist, for sure. … We read the crowd in the sense that we feel the energy, and we’ll make choices on songs from there. And of course, jams are always pretty much up in the air. Anything can happen.” We still had a BBC Beatles documentary stuck in our heads from the night before, a tightly compressed history piece presumably timed to coincide with the nothing-burger milestone of Paul’s 70th birthday. The script emphasized that the band real-

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space, all of a sudden it comes together. They’re the best shows. When you’re ready to move away, that’s when the best shows happen.” A little counterintuitive, isn’t it? “It’s a really weird thing. You just start reading each other. ‘Oh, that’s it,’” he says. The band also successfully executed a no-sales-charge, direct-sales program for a portion of the ticketing for each of their summer shows, a milestone dear to their hearts and representing something of a closure to their scrape with Ticketmaster extending back to 2003. You won’t hear any lingering static from Hollingsworth on that subject. “Yes, it’s great,” he says. “We have nothing against Ticketmaster, we just want to be able to sell tickets. We weren’t really in a fight with Ticketmaster, we were just fighting for the ability to sell tickets. That’s it.” And it’s not all gates and hula-hoops and bus fumes. Just last week, the band released a new studio single, their first in years, a bouncing, keys-heavy Caribe-confection called “Can’t Wait Another Day,” and hinted of a new disc later this year. Hollingsworth and Co. are even re-discovering the sometimes-muted charms of rehearsing and just plain goofing around in the forest, something that Hollingsworth, the once-aspirant forest ranger, still gets a charge from. “We’ve been heading up there to Billy’s house, which is just outside of Nederland,” he says. “Other than the fire smoke, an amazing place to rehearse. Yesterday we did some rehearsing, then we went for a hike and some climbs among the rocks, then went in and played some music again. It’s nice to be hanging with the guys again.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

String Cheese Incident brings trio of live shows to Red Rocks by Dave Kirby ly started unraveling after deciding in 1966 to quit the road and stick to the studio. It’s probably perilous to use the Beatles as template for anything in the contemporary business of music, except maybe for the fact that the road is at least as important now as it was 40-something years ago, especially since people don’t really buy records anymore, and SCI, particularly, have solidified their repute as first-rate live performers. So we ask Hollingsworth about the whole road thing, band cohesion, keeping it fresh, especially in light of the timeout they took not long ago. “Well, we’ve been back together at this point a year and a half, maybe two years,” he says. “I think in the beginning there was a little bit of a struggle. At this point, we did a whole fall tour of the East Coast, and that harkened back to the old days, we just felt the cohesion come together. Especially by about the eighth day, when you’re all sleeping in the bus together, and you’re like ‘Oh my God! I need space.’ Just when you feel like you really need the

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orter Robinson almost forgets to pick up his phone as he wakes up ON THE BILL: Porter Robinson plays the Boulder groggy from a nap Theater on Friday, July 6. Doors after a long night of DJing. at 8:30 p.m. Mat Zo, The M “I hate it, dude,” he says. “I’d Machine and Aviva open. Tickets are $26.50. 2032 14th much rather wake up at 6 a.m. St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. than 6 p.m., but it’s just not an option when you’re on tour.” Robinson, 19, rose to prominence in the electronic dance music (EDM) scene after landing the No. 1 spot on Beatport’s Electro House chart with his first single, “Say My Name.” Now, Robinson is playing his first major tour after being signed to fellow EDM pioneer Skrillex’s label. On this tour, Robinson brings an elaborate light rig and syncs his songs to video while performing, and he says crowds are going wild. “It’s awesome, man, it’s really amplified the crowd response,” Robinson says. “People have been going pretty crazy, and it’s a good, kind of different version of my show. The crowds have been fantastic and the feedback has been really good, and it’s been a fun thing for me to do, as opposed to just playing nightclubs or festivals. We just blast people with lights and really structure a show around maximizing the energy.” When asked about “brostep,” a derogatory term often (and sometimes unfairly) flung at electronic music producers, Robinson gets prickly. “I hate that word, frankly,” he says. “I definitely wouldn’t say ‘brostep’ is the term to describe my sets.” Robinson has instead dubbed his style of music “complextro,” a shortening of “complex electro,” and has introduced other genres like trance and dubstep. Robinson says he coined the term back in the archaic social media days of Myspace. “When I first made my Myspace like two years ago, I put the word ‘complextro’ under my tag line, under my name. I just wrote that as a funny little joke, totally meaningless, and then people started adopting that as a genre name.” With his unique brand of electronic music at his fingertips, Robinson says he’s become more confident as a live performer. “When I first started I didn’t really know what I was doing,” he says. “I had heard a few DJ sets on the Internet, but I hadn’t really gone to see a DJ myself, so I didn’t understand the flow and course of energy perfectly, but practice

makes perfect. Since then I’ve done some 200-something gigs and I’ve figured out what it is that’s effective and what I’d wanna hear on the dance floor.” Part of what Robinson enjoys hearing on the dance floor is electro that doesn’t take itself too seriously and focuses on giving the audience high-energy feelings without — despite what his genre suggests — being overly complex. “In my live sets, I don’t particularly lean towards songs that are unnecessarily complicated,” he says. “I play a lot of minimalistic stuff, I play a lot of alternative electro stuff and I play a lot of heavy electro.” Still, that isn’t to say Robinson doesn’t work hard to create his wub-filled tracks. “My goal is just to make something that I would wanna hear and make a song that I think is interesting and independent of what else is happening in the scene,” he says. “Something I’ve loved for a long time is more emotive, sentimental music. And oftentimes I try to incorporate those elements and use those styles of chords. I would rather have some more reflective and heartfelt chords instead of using some progressions that are just sort of stale and don’t mean anything to anyone.” As his Language Tour starts to wind down, Robinson says he’s thankful to get a couple weeks off before embarking on a shorter European tour, where he’ll be playing smaller venues in an attempt to get his name out to a wider audience. “I’m not really well known [in Europe], so I’m going back over there to reestablish a presence. In case the dance music scene ever goes south in the Americas, then it’ll be useful to introduce myself to Europe. We’re gonna start out with small clubs and pack out as many little venues as we can.” Despite his growing success, Robinson says he hasn’t forgotten about his roots. Hailing from Chapel Hill, N.C. — or “North Cackalacky,” as he lovingly refers to it — Robinson practiced making electro at an early age in a state largely devoid of an EDM scene at the time. But now, Robinson says he’s welcomed home with an outpouring of support. “I played in Charlotte yesterday and it was pretty wild, the crowd was insane,” he reflects. “It was good; those people were extra enthusiastic.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Thursday, July 5 music Acoustic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Chris Daniels & The Kings — Niwot Rock N Rails Concert Series. Whistle Stop Park, 1st & Murray, Niwot, www.niwotcolorado.com/events. Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Diamond & Copper. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Eleven Foot Fall — With The Bluegrass Delta Force 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Randall Dubis Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. The Stangebyrds. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313. String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Travis Grode Band — With Lisa Weyerhaeuser. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Yoga Rocks the Park — With Jason Bowman, music by Derek Russo. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library Lawn, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, July 8 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m., Traditional Irish Session 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. . As You Like It. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues & BBQ. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. George Nelson Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Wild Road Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Kevin Dooley Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Zeppephilia. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Kriseb Graves — With A Tour of Sorts. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Mike Lensse Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder, www.boulderfarmers.org.

Featuring Academy Award-winning actor and narrator F. Murray Abraham

Collins, 800-568-8924.

Cancerian Birthday Ball. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Final Cut Pro X Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Learn to Play Guitar in a Day. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Front Range Community College, 2190 Miller Dr., Longmont, 303-678-3722.

Music in the Mountains — Parry Karp, cello recital. 8 p.m. Rocky Ridge Music Center, 465 Longs Peak Road, Estes Park, 970-586-4031. Nu Mundo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Pete Kartsounes — Brunch and music. 11 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Strange Byrds. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Salsa Lessons and Dancing. 8:30 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-998-3805.

Symphony on the Rocks — The music of John Williams. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Theatre-Hikes Colorado — As You Like It. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road., Boulder, www.chautauqua.com.

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The Truth About Fracking — Presented by LongmontROAR. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, Longmont, www.longmontroar.org. Wings of Freedom Tour — WWII Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and North American P-51 Mustang. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fort CollinsLoveland Municipal Airport, 4824 Earhart Road, Fort

Bolder Nights — An evening of local and original theatre, art and music. 6:45 p.m. – Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4510. Cheese-making Class. 9 a.m. Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266. Cheese Tasting Tours — With Molly Browne. 2:30 p.m. Cured, 1235 Pearl St. Boulder, www.localtabletours.com.

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The regional premiere of Jailbait, by Deirdre O’Connor, plays at the Silhouette Theatre

Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 1. Into the Woods. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 8. Jailbait. Silhouette Theatre Company, John Hand Theater in Lowry, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, 303-999-9143. Through Aug. 5. Noises Off. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 5.

Theatre-Hikes Colorado — As You Like It. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road., Boulder, www.chautauqua.com. THUNK. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m.. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Star-Studded Benefit for Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center — Feat. slam poet Andrea Gibson, Giddyup Kitty, Vampyra and Earth Guardians. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom, Boulder, 303-444-6981. Sunday Market. 10 a.m. Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266. Ward Churchill — At Vets for Peace. Potluck dinner 6 p.m., speech at 7 p.m. Arborwood Condominiums Clubhouse, 3250 O’Neal Circle, Boulder, 303-444-6981. Wildflower Hikes. 10 a.m. Register for location, boulderwalkingtours.com or 720-243-1376. Wings of Freedom Tour — WWII Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and North American P-51 Mustang. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fort CollinsLoveland Municipal Airport, 4824 Earhart Road, Fort Collins, 800-568-8924.

Monday, July 9

Richard III. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 2. Twelfth Night. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 4. Women of Will. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through July 5 & 7.

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Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Slipstream feat. Ross Martin & Greg Garrison. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-0886. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Romano Paoletti’s Open Stage. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

events Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Open Stage with Turtle. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. “So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Trivia Quiz. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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The Beach Boys — 50th Anniversary Tour. 7:30

Robert Zubrin reads at the Boulder Book Store from Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

Friday, July 6 A Mindful Nation — by Rep. Tim Ryan. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Tuesday, July 10 Thursday, July 5

Roseanna Frechette & Asa Lott — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. East of Denver — by Gregory Hill. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, July 11 Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism — by Robert Zubrin. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Tuesday, July 10 music

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Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Mister Voltage. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Beginning Meditation Class. 6:30 p.m. East West Wellness, 1148 West Dillon Road, Suite 1, Louisville, 303-554-1600.

Open Stage. 7:15 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Singer/Songwriter Open Stage. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Tinsley Ellis. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Johnny Lang. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.,

Film On the Rocks — Bridesmaids with music by Land Lines. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West

Harpeth Rising. 6 p.m. Lakewood Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St., Lakewood, 303-987-7850. Marlo & Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Google Analytics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Nokuthula — With Chishom Karen. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Wednesday, July 11

Nolan McInnis Band. 7 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

music Bands on the Bricks — BOP SKIZZUM. 7 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774. Eddie Turner. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Old Timey Music Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Stage. 7:15 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Be Your Own STROBIST: Use Small Flash for Big Results. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Board Summit and Public Kickoff Reception — For public input on Boulder Civic Area. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, www.bouldercivicarea.com. Expert Talks — With Sterling Crispin, Rick Silva, and Fernando Velázquez. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Lafayette Public Art on the Street Artist Reception. 6 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-817-1374. Nostalgia de la Luz — Film Fiesta. 6 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, 303-296-0219. Seven Chances — Chautauqua Silent Film Series. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. 303-442-3282 Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, July 5 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Summer Crafts. 9:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette 303-604-2424.

Friday, July 6 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, July 7 Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Great Race — by Nathan Kumar Scott, with traditional Indonesian puppets. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sunday, July 8 Go Club for Kids & Teens. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, July 9 Planet Hopping. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette 303-604-2424. Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, July 10 Eric Litwin — Musician and author of Pete the Cat. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Planet Hopping Science Class. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, July 11 Watercolor Wednesday Craft. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette 303-604-2424.

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f the shocks in his prosthetic arm would reload faster, Marc Dervaes could spend all his evenings doing one-armed pushups. After losing his right arm just above the elbow in combat, Dervaes had a replacement prosthetic built with a set of shocks like those on a mountain bike. He wanted to go kayaking again.

Dan Hoban busts out a roll at a Team River Runner pool session.

Dervaes kayaked before his injury, and says his paddling abilities have increased since his so-called disability. Two and a half years ago, the now-retired Army sergeant first class who was injured in Afghanistan found Team River Runner, a kayaking group for Fort Carson’s soldiers transitioning back from combat. Just about every Friday he can be found at their pool sessions, teaching or boating with the soldiers who show up to learn kayak strokes and how to roll a boat. He’s seen other kayakers missing a leg, but never one missing an arm. Dervaes is among a growing group of veterans who have turned to outdoor sports to fill in some of what civilian life leaves out. Kayaking, climbing, hiking and biking, often with a group of veterans, pro-

vides the camaraderie of a team and a thrill of activity. The companionship, the routine and the activity may also be helping some veterans who are dealing with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). When Team River Runner started at Fort Carson, it was just Dervaes, but the numbers have grown to the point that the pool can get crowded. That means someone is always in close proximity when a boat flips and the call “boat over!” signals for someone to paddle over, bump nose to hull, and let that flipped boater grab the nose to pull himself back upright if his roll isn’t dialed yet. “You get so involved in it, you almost forget that you’re injured,” Dervaes says. “That’s a huge start

toward recovery. You’re almost in the, what’s the word, normalization of recovery. You’re no longer somebody who gets stared at as a burn survivor or an amputee or somebody that walks with a cane or somebody that has PTSD that doesn’t want to come out of the house.” He says his only complaint with his prosthetic made for kayaking and mountain biking is the blistering that sometimes occurs where it vacuum seals to his residual limb. There’s probably more money in prosthetics in his house than the home actually cost, he says, but as he fingers the $7,000 titanium extension of his biceps and triceps, he says, “I like this one

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best.” Team River Runner focuses on “getting butts in boats,” he says — get away from the game console and onto the water. “I was an infantryman for 18 years and when I got blown up, we were in the middle of fighting, so adrenaline at that point was very high. You’re keyed up, and when that’s taken away from you, you don’t have an outlet anymore,” he says. “You’re sitting in a hospital room, you’re in a wheelchair, and I’m not going to say I’m an adrenaline junkie, but I lost that excitement.” The fears now are different — it’s boulders instead of bullets — but Dervaes says he’s seen white water kayaking help service members who had a similarly abrupt disconnect from life in the military reintegrate into sociMarc Dervaes ety. Part of that has nothing to do with adrenaline: A rushing river is referred to as “combat” by boaters, and though it’s a rough analogy, there’s a translation from the battlefield — a veteran doesn’t go into combat in a river alone. “What was once a unified team in combat is now another unified team,” he says. “Sometimes, down the river, you’re in combat, you know, it’s you against the river. And knowing that your teammates are in front of you and behind you is a great feeling. So if I wet exit, I know that somebody’s going to get my boat and most likely I’m going to be able to swim to the side. And it’s a support thing that a lot of these guys feed off of and enjoy. They miss it. They really miss it.” Dervaes is working to combine forces now, bringing more attention to Team River Runner through his full-time occupation described as a part-time job: working as Colorado Springs area outreach coordinator for the Wounded Warrior Project. Like some 15,259 other wounded soldiers, Dervaes’ introduction to the Wounded 1Warrior Project rudy.bw.rx.left page.06.20.pdf 6/20/12 10:10 was a backpack of basic comforts like socks, gym

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shorts, phone cards and toiletries that met him in the hospital after he spent four days in a hospital gown being transported back from Afghanistan. Wounded Warriors, founded in 2002, provides programs to serve the mind, body, economic empowerment and engagement of military members who served after Sept. 11, 2001. One of the programs in their Combat Stress Recovery Program, Project Odyssey, uses nature-focused outdoor retreats to encourage connections to peers and to nature. Wounded Warriors reports that 93.4 percent of participants in their Project Odyssey programs say they came away with new coping skills for combat stress and recovery, and 91.5 percent of adaptive sports participants had sought out other sports or recreation opportunities. In 2006, there were five Project Odyssey retreats. This year, there will be 50. “Acceptance is a hard thing, for a lot of these injured guys, that things aren’t going to be normal for a while, and the road to recovery is not fast and it’s going to have many obstacles, many challenges,” Dervaes says. “There’s a process, an entire healing process. I’m still healing and I got injured in ’09. I still have obstacles. I still have to manage meds. I have memory issues. But I use physical activity like this to put it away for a while.” The mountains were a logical destination for Mike Kirby when he finished 12 years in the military — he enjoyed climbing before and was on the mountaineering team in the Army. After an early winter storm caught him on Longs Peak and he lost half his foot to frostbite, a friend made the call to Malcolm Daly, executive director of Paradox Sports, which AM runs adaptive rock and ice climbing trips, while Kirby

was still heavily medicated. He started climbing with them, and credits Daly with making the biggest difference in his recovery. “I just wanted to be with other people who were adapting to what they loved to do because of their disabilities,” he says. “I was going through the exact same thing. I wanted to get back into rock climbing because that was my passion.” Paradox also provided a connection to other people who were adapting to living with a disability. “It’s funny, since this has happened I feel like there’s people with disabilities and then there’s normal people. I get along better with people with disabilities I think just because we’ve gone through similar experiences,” Kirby says. But before he was a climber adapting to having lost half a foot, he was, and will always be, a soldier who had done three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Just on its own, coming back to civilian life last summer was hard, he says. It’s still hard. “I don’t really have any other way to relate to people because all my relationships have been with people in the military,” he says. But like his time in the service, the outdoors provides a connection, a vocabulary, and a way to relate to other people. It’s because veterans connect with veterans — people who understand what they went through, from any era — that Stacy Bare and Nick Watson founded see WARRIORS Page 36

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Veterans Expeditions in 2010. The Boulder-based organization has taken veterans to the top of Longs Peak and the Grand Teton — on trips for veterans, led by veterans. “Part of why I run Veterans Expeditions, part of why I’m here for sure, it’s my way of giving back to modern-day veterans who I didn’t serve with. It’s my way of giving back to the past veterans who I didn’t serve with,” says Watson, a former Army Ranger. “Veterans Expeditions is just purely my desire to see that veterans get the attention that they need.” While there are a lot of organizations that serve veterans, he says, there can never be too many groups and people stepping in to help out veterans where Veterans Affairs has left off. “My stance or Veterans Expeditions’ stance is, we’re not going to point fingers at the VA,” Watson says. “We’re just saying, there’s a tremendous amount of veterans falling through the cracks. The VA will admit that; anyone who’s involved with the situation will admit that. The problem is huge. The suicide statistics are absurd.” An estimated 18 veterans commit suicide every day. Rather than throw up their hands at a huge problem, he says, he and Bare decided to apply a $25,000 check Bare was given to getting veterans outside on a single trip. The project has grown from there. Veterans Expeditions is for all veterans, from any war. Participants come along for casual hikes, and he and Bare assemble teams to tackle larger projects,

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like an upcoming trip to Mount Rainier. They’re not a therapeutic organization, Watson says, but there’s a lot of therapy that seems to happen on their expeditions. “There’s more therapy done on a Veterans Expeditions casual hike than is going on in most therapeutic settings that are trying to get veterans help, and the reason is because they feel comfortable, they just start talking to one another casually,” he says. “No one’s asking them prodding questions or leading questions. When it’s time for them to talk about something, they talk about it, and we listen. If that means stopping everything of what we’re doing, we listen.” In therapeutic terms, the trip is the container; in advertising terms, it’s the gimmick for getting veterans together, Watson says. “And that’s all it’s about. It’s about vets getting together with other vets.” He understands wilderness therapy on a “blue collar” level, he says, from two decades of working with wilderness outings and wilderness therapy programs. Wilderness levels the playing field — it’s tough to hide in a group of your peers when you’re all climbing a mountain together. “Veterans do a fantastic job, probably the best job of any population in the United States of getting by, of faking it, of not being at 100 percent,” he says. “When you’re struggling with posttraumatic stress or when you’re in that kind of depression, you’re not at 100 percent, you’re maybe at 50 percent. And these people, at 50 percent, get up, they go to work, they provide for their families. They just hold so much, they do so much, and they’re not functioning well and most of the public wouldn’t bat an eye to it, they don’t see it.” But get a bunch of vets together outside in a group of vets, and it’s tough to hide. “For whatever reason, the outdoors allows most folks, but for sure in the veteran community, space to relax, space to throw down their guard, space to just be themselves, maybe how they haven’t even been for some time,” Watson says. “I think it’s that dropping into that, or starting to feel that way again, that makes them realize, oh yeah, I actually do have a lot going on here that I probably do need to address at some point because I’m not who I used to be.” PTSD is characterized by feelings of depression, anger, mistrust, panic and guilt, as well as violent behavior, physical pain, dizziness and trouble sleeping. Fewer than half the soldiers who report symptoms of PTSD receive treatment for it, according to research Boulder Weekly

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released by Major Gary Wynn, a research psychiatrist with the Walter Reed Army Medical Institute of Research. And of those who do start a treatment plan, 20 percent to 50 percent leave before it’s completed. Wynn says that might come down to the feeling that the treatment will go on endlessly, according to a report in Stars and Stripes. “That’s always the takeaway from anything therapeutic, right, is the understanding of this isn’t just a couple sessions that I can afford or want to pay for,” Watson says. “This isn’t just this temporary Band-Aid. This is the rest of my life. It’s not gonna go away.” Successful treatment programs, veterans say, are ones that create a habit they’ll return to the rest of their life. Something they can do with family, friends or other veterans. “Vets are not going to get better, feel better, by sitting still,” Watson says. “Usually the veterans I deal with, if they’re sitting still, they’re not doing well. For right or wrong or for whatever reason, I’ve seen the outdoors give people confidence, give them people to hang out with, so give them community, give them other vets, give them a sense of belonging, give them some self esteem, and help kind of get unstuck. They get stuck. I think we’ve all been stuck. I’ve been stuck. So it kind of gets things moving again.” Those feelings push back against the feelings of inadequacy, of having an insufficient ability to cope with stress, that characterize PTSD. Although the VA has confirmed that social support helps prevent PTSD, there is not yet sufficient research to confirm that outdoor sports are an effective treatment. Recreational therapy is part of the recovery at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Texas, which provides rehabilitation for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom service members who have sustained amputation, burns or functional limb loss, but it’s not a part of programs for treating veterans. Dr. Matthew Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Department of Boulder Weekly

Veterans Affairs’ Center for PostTraumatic Stress Disorder, says there’s been interest in the benefits of outdoors programs for a long time, particularly those crafted by Outward Bound. “There’s no question in my mind that people who engage in Outward Bound find the experience valuable, but there are many valuable outcomes that may only be indirectly related to PTSD outcomes,” he says. Outward Bound programs promote individual empowerment to deal with daunting situations and succeed. “By enhancing one’s feelings of self efficacy, that has a lot of beneficial effects on how people feel about the world. They’re in a position to confront some of their own concerns or personal demons,” he says. Outward Bound, and, presumably, other wilderness programs, also promote a sense of teamwork, developing an ability to give and receive support. And social support can be protective against developing PTSD during war time, he says. He cautions that too much adrenaline can be dangerous because, biologically, PTSD connects to an inability to regulate adrenaline in the brain. “It’s much too early to conclude that outdoor challenge experiences will ameliorate PTSD,” Dr. Friedman says. “One could contemplate scenarios where they might actually exacerbate situations, particularly where the leadership experience is not well trained and the people are exposed to unnecessary risk and danger.” The treatments for PTSD available now, he says, are excellent and they’ve had great success with a number of psychotherapeutic approaches. Veterans Expeditions has a slot reserved to present “Reclaiming the Edge” about PTSD and the outdoors at 6:30 p.m. on July 20 at the REI in Boulder. For more information on Veterans Expeditions, visit www.vetexpeditions. com, for more on Paradox Sports, see www. paradoxsports.org, for Wounded Warrior Project visit www.woundedwarriorproject. org and for more on Team River Runner, see www.teamriverrunner.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com.

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Peter Parker gets a new look (and an origin story) in this Marvel remake of everyone’s favorite web slinger. Unlike Toby Maguire’s emo-esque rendition of the wall-crawler, actor Andrew Garfield’s portayal hopes to bring Spidey back to his roots with more wit and fewer tears. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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BEL AMI The historical drama based on the 1885 novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant is the story of George Duroy (Robert Pattinson), who travels through 1890s Paris. From cockroach-ridden garrets to opulent salons, he uses his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society BERNIE Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset) returns to his Texas roots for this delightfully poker-faced black comedy — based on a true story — about East Texas assistant funeral home director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black). Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Driven by her cruelty to put four bullets in her, Bernie goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that she’s still alive. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the place a shell of its former self. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BOY It’s 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives.This is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Boulder Weekly

JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s best sushi chef, is the proprietor of a 10-seat sushi restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. As his son faces the pressure of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro relentlessly pursues his continuing quest of mastery of his art in this poetic treasure. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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BRAVE Brazenly red-headed Merida, princess, skilled archer and general nuisance at the royal dinner table, accidentally unleashes a curse on her kingdom. She then fights bravely — get it? — to defend her kingdom. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche as a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment quickly turns personal as she is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and forced to confront her own sexual fears and desires. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, A Cat in Paris is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadow-drenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico — a slinky cat burglar with a big heart. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theaters

One of the world’s greatest living painters, the German artist Gerhard Richter has spent more than half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. Infamously media-shy, he agreed to appear on camera for the first time in 15 years for a 2007 short by filmmaker Corinna Belz. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy’s painful past. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society CHILDREN OF PARADISE Children of Paradise is the tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society ELLES A provocative exploration of female sexuality,

KATY PERRY: PART OF ME A 3D motion picture that goes backstage with Katy Perry to cover her year of sparkling stardom. A fan pleaser, and a bone thrown to those fans of celebrity culture, but yet another summer film to dodge for cinophiles. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED 3D The quest continues as zoo animals struggle to return to New York. This time, the path from Africa to America swings through Europe and tags along with a traveling circus. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MAGIC MIKE While it would be great to think that a movie about male strippers would be for women what movies like Striptease and Showgirls were for men, the loose threads of a plotline here suggest that Magic Mike really is just about encouraging more men to womanize and more women to fall for their ploys. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MONSIEUR LAZHAR

A lighthearted romantic comedy that tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) plays the title character in Monsieur Lazhar, a film that deals with grief in a way that feels surprisingly upbeat. As an Algerian immigrant who inherits a classroom of children whose last teacher killed herself while on the clock, Lazhar works through his own personal loss while helping them come to grips with theirs. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theaters

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Once more, writer/director Wes Anderson dips his stylish pen into murky, melancholy tales of whimsy. This time out, the Royal Tenenbaums auteur follows a young “Khaki Scout” who flees from his troop and troop leader (Edward Norton) while camping on an island to unite with his prepubescent and troubled gal pal. Her parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, and the island cop (Bruce Willis) give chase in this Instagram fairy tale. At Century and Mayan. —The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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OPERA: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Verdi’s fascination with destiny and revenge is most fully realized in this epic tragedy, considered by many to be a “cursed” opera for the bad luck it has encountered. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING Jane Fonda makes a triumphant return to the screen in this comedy about reunion and second chances. Catherine Keener stars as Diane, a conservative New York City lawyer who is in desperate need of an escape after her husband asks for a divorce. Along with her two children (Elizabeth Olsen and Nat Wolff), she takes refuge at her estranged hippie mother Grace’s (Fonda) farmhouse. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres PEOPLE LIKE US His father’s sudden death brings 20-something Sam home, where a family secret forces him to reconsider his life choices. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks. PROMETHEUS 3D Mid-21st century anthropologists discover cave paintings in Great Britain that share impossible similarities to other cave paintings from the same time period. The reason? Aliens! Humanity sends a spaceship out to the likely source of the alien life, and chaos ensues. All the stars aligned for Ridley Scott’s first science fiction film since the 1982 classic Blade Runner to be a great film, but Prometheus is nothing but a black hole of undeveloped characters and gaping plot gaffes. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. QUILL

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Quill, a yellow Labrador retriever. Quill’s life as a normal dog drastically changes after his first birthday when he leaves his mother’s side to become a seeing-eye dog. He is a little slower than the other dogs at the school, but he seems to have an unusual “empathy” and remarkable patience with his trainers. His trainer decides that Quill would be the ideal guide dog for Mitsuru Watanabe, the lonely and ill-tempered middle-aged man who is reluctant to rely on him at first. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater RUSHMORE

This thoroughly original coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Schwartzman (I Heart Huckabees) as a 15-year-old student who forces self-made millionaire Bill Murray into a battle for the heart of Rushmore Academy’s most beautiful teacher (Olivia Williams). From Wes Anderson. At Esquire. — Landmark Theaters SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED Do you need to know more than that this film was created by the producers of Little Miss Sunshine? No. But OK. Three jaded magazine employees set out on a quest to get the story behind a bizarre classified ad. They’ll be funny, and they’ll be a little bit sad. Rated R. At Century. Boulder Weekly

SAVAGES A Mexican Baja Cartel threatens three close friends and their prime marijuanagrowing operation. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. SET IT OFF Set It Off is a crime thriller about four women bank robbers from a housing project in L.A. Ever since her parents’ death, Stony (Jada Pinkett Smith) has had to act as a parent to her little brother. She works in various capacities to make a future for him at UCLA. Cleo (Queen Latifah) is a butch lesbian who wants nothing more than to customize her classic car. Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) is the stylish bank teller. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN When Snow White (Kristen Stewart) escapes imprisonment by the wicked queen (Charlize Theron), she is chased down by the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), which turns out to be a pretty good thing. Featuring most of the same characters and general plot points as the beloved classic story, this retelling slaps a coat of gritty seriousness on the whole affair, resulting in a visually thrilling if overly simple experience. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. TED See full review page 40. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square. TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION Because a ridiculous proposition for a film should never be abandoned while tickets will still sell, Madea returns to rescue a nephew who needs witness protection after being set up to take the fall for a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. YOUR SISTER’S SISTER Mark Duplass (co-director of Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Cyrus) stars as Jack, a slacker who’s still emotionally unstable a year after his brother Tom’s death. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s ex-girlfriend, Iris (Emily Blunt), offers her family cabin in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. There, he runs into Iris’ sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), a lesbian reeling from the abrupt end of a sevenyear relationship. At Esquire Theatre. — Landmark Theaters

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oing out to eat can be an adventure, if it’s done right. We’ve evolved far enough that eating means more than gaining sustenance. That’s the reason the ambience of a restaurant is so important. Dining out is not just about the food. It’s about the feeling that surrounds you every time you step into a restaurant. When you choose to put something new on your dish, you can take the experience even further. We’re not just talking about a different entrée than the usual plate of pasta or burger, but a meal that is truly unusual. Here in Colorado, there are a few dishes that push the boundaries of what can be defined as ordinary. Most

are takes on the game meats that are available in the area, but others venture into uncharted territory. Locally, the most common cuisine that pushes boundaries is the famous Rocky Mountain Oysters. A favored practical joke to play on visiting family members, these deep-fried bull testicles make for a great appetizer, if you can keep your head clear of what you’re actually putting in your mouth. While it’s not as common as Rocky Mountain Oysters, rattlesnake has slithered its way onto a plate in the form of a cake. Think of a crab cake, but with rattlesnake. Available at the Red Lion Restaurant, this spicy appetizer is a favorite among diners who want to push the ordinary.

If you don’t mind taking a trip down U.S. 36, Denver has its share of bizarre cuisine. Given the huge selection of game meat at famous restaurants like the Buckhorn Exchange, which offers rattlesnake and ostrich, many Coloradans may be used to these selections by now. More difficult to find in Denver are dishes like the Pad Thai Pig Ears available at Euclid Hall, located at 1317 14th St. The dish isn’t simply pad thai with pig ears, it’s pad thai in which the noodles are replaced with pig ears. Quite a mouthful, but reviews have diners reveling at its deliciousness. Super Star Asian Cuisine, at 2200 W. Alameda Ave. in Denver, offers a dim

sum that includes spicy jellyfish. Dim sum consists of small dishes that are perfect for mixing and matching a variety of tastes, making it possible to try the spicy jellyfish in small portions. Taste it with more common dishes that are guaranteed winners to the palate, because the jellyfish is a lot less of a commitment when more familiar plates surround it. If you’re about to take a trip and not just push boundaries but cross them, there are variety of destinations where the local food options will require more courage than curiosity to taste. The Daily Meal (thedailymeal.com) has compiled a list of 27 unexpected delicacies from around the world that push culinary limits. If you’re heading east, Far East, the city of Omachi, Japan, offers a chance for anyone that has ever been stung by a wasp to get revenge, no Raid required. The little buggers have already been put out of their misery. They’ve been caught, boiled, dried and infused into a crispy wasp cracker. The wasps are clearly visible, and each cracker offers a plentiful number of wasps, ensuring that each bite is not lacking in a crispy crunch, whether it’s from the cracker or the wasps. Mexico offers an exotic getaway a bit closer to home with its own distinctive array of cuisine, so it may be useful to know what you’re putting on your tacos. The agave plant is commonly known as a key component in tequila, but the ant larvae from around its roots is another delicacy. Known as escamoles, these ant larvae are traditionally used as a topping for tacos. With their buttery, nutty flavor, escamoles may be worth a try. But their consistency, like cottage cheese, might be enough to throw even the see STRANGE Page 46

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ost Indian restaurants spotlight Northern Indian dishes, and while the food of Bangladesh bears some resemblance to this fare, Bengali cuisine possesses unique attributes of its own. Meat and fish are popular items across the board, and the prevalence of rivers and ponds make fish the most common protein. Rice and lentils are popular staple items, and sweets receive a fair amount of emphasis on Bangladeshi menus. Many are

ing. Joe’s entree of chicken makhini, also known as butter chicken, was more nuanced than other versions. Built on a base of dairy and tomato, based on dairy products, and most versions wield their draw upon sweetcreaminess like a blunt ened cheese as a instrument. This interpretabase. These include Curry N Kebob pantua, which 3050 28th St., Boulder tion was more nuanced, balinvolves fried cotancing this dish’s richness 720-328-4696 tage cheese, prewith herbal aromas, and it pared either in oil made a fine foil to the peror butter and fectly textured and subtly aromatic doused with syrup. rice. Another winning side was the crisp and flavorful samosa, stuffed with curried potato. My chicken vindaloo, served at a medium spicing level, could have used more heat with respect to both temperature and seasoning. Traditionally known for its fiery nature, this dish wasn’t much peppier than Joe’s makhini, although it was tasty. We requested garlic naan with our The included dessert was described lunches, and this choice did not disapas an ambrosia, in this case, creamed point. On occasion, this flatbread fruit cocktail. I suspect I would have comes drenched in enough clarified been happier with a simple but wellbutter that it flies out of your hands. executed kheer, or rice pudding. Not so here, as this example arrived However, from a value perspective, with just the right brushing of ghee Curry N Kebob is tough to beat. A and a sprinkling of herbs. Also, some less inhibited approach to spicing in versions come with off-puttingly some instances would help this eatery sharp-tasting slivers of garlic. Here the up its game, and elevate it to the top potentially pungent ingredient was echelon of local Indian fare. muted into a pleasantly nutty seasonRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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An alternative to the Indian buffet by Clay Fong gobi, a melange of mixed vegetables. There’s always at least one meatless choice available, although poultry beckoned for both myself and Joe. By now, some of you may have surmised that my Indian dining beverage of choice is a mango lassi, and this venue’s $2.50 version nicely juggled the tastes of tart yogurt and mellow tropical fruit. It wasn’t too sweet, either, and to its credit, its texture wasn’t too thick — after all, this isn’t a Shamrock shake.

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GIVE IN TO YOUR WORLDLY DESIRES A local Boulder restaurant has undergone a makeover to better serve the community, fashioning local ingredients into international flavors while continuing to offer a robust palette of internationally flavored beverage choices. The World Café recently opened on the west end of Pearl Street after renovating the old Cuvée wine bar. The wine list remains, but the restaurant will now be offering a locally made tapas menu to go along with dinner. A coffee bar featuring Fair Trade organic coffee from Conscious Coffees will complement a continental breakfast menu and healthy lunch offerings. The restaurant is located at 946 Pearl St. Call 303-447-0475 for reservations.

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oused in the former site of Juanita’s on West Pearl, the new Pastavino is a winning exercise in fairly priced Italian classicism. Featuring entrees like veal legs, New York steak and baked fish cioppino, this eatery also unsurprisingly features a plethora of noodle dishes. Daily pasta specials include the veal canneloni, a rich concoction of meat and cream sauce, and one can’t-miss item is the spaghetti vongole, featuring manilla clams in a perfectly balanced white wine sauce. The rare beef Carpaccio and Fritto Misto mix of fried calamari and bay scallops are noteworthy starters.

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yons Fork provides a top-notch weekend brunch experience. Hospitable service, a bright and comfortable familyfriendly ambience, and skillfully prepared fare make for a lowkey but quality meal. Top choices include the Haystack goat cheese and zucchini fritters with a spunky aioli, and the hefty French toast, garnished with toasted almonds, sour cream and a pleasantly complex apple compote.

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

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idden in a Lafayette strip mall, Udon Kaisha offers Japanese noodles and sushi of high quality at exceptional prices. Noodle items include thick udon, as well as more svelte ramen, available in a variety of broths. Sushi selections are simple, eschewing such exotica as sea urchin roe in favor of crowd-pleasing staples like salmon and tuna. Can’t-miss selections include the $5 yellowtail and scallion sushi roll, as well as the shoyu (soy sauce) broth udon noodles.

South Mouth Memphis Hot Wings 1650 Broadway, Suite A, Boulder 303-449-9464

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

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

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

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

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APRIL 20-MAY 20:

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

GEMINI

There come times in your life when you have a sacred duty to be open to interesting tangents and creative diversions; times when it makes sense to wander around aimlessly with wonder in your eyes and be alert for unexpected clues that grab your attention. But this is not one of those times, in my opinion. Rather, you really do need to stay focused on what you promised yourself you would concentrate on. The temptation may be high to send out sprays of arrows at several different targets. But I hope that instead you stick to one target and take careful aim with your best shots.

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Of all the signs of the zodiac, you’re the best at discovering short cuts. No one is more talented than you at the art of avoiding boredom. And you could teach a master course in how to weasel out of strenuous work without looking like a weasel. None of those virtues will come in handy during the coming week, however. The way I see it, you should concentrate very hard on not skipping any steps. You should follow the rules, stick to the plan, and dedicate yourself to the basics. Finish what you start, please! (Sorry about this grind-it-out advice. I’m just reporting what the planetary omens are telling me.)

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

The epic breadth of your imagination is legendary. Is there anyone else who can wander around the world without ever once leaving your home? Is there anyone else who can reincarnate twice in the span of few weeks without having to go through the hassle of actually dying? And yet now and then there do come times when your fantasies should be set aside so that you may soak up the teachings that flow your way when you physically venture outside of your comfort zone. Now is such a moment, my fellow Cancerian. Please don’t take a merely virtual break in the action. Get yourself away from it all, even if it’s only to the marvelous diversion or magic sanctuary on the other side of town.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In Norse mythology, Fenrir was a big bad wolf that the gods were eager to keep tied up. In the beginning they tried to do it with metal chains, but the beast broke free. Then they commissioned the dwarves to weave a shackle out of six impossible things: a bear’s sinews, a bird’s spit, a fish’s breath, a mountain’s root, a woman’s beard, and the sound a cat’s paws made as it walked. This magic fetter was no thicker than a silk ribbon, but it worked very well. Fenrir couldn’t escape from it. I invite you to take inspiration from this story, Leo. As you deal with your current dilemma, don’t try to fight strength with strength. Instead, use art, craft, subtlety, and even trickery. I doubt you’ll need to gather as many as six impossible things. Three will probably be enough. Two might even work fine.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

This is a time when your personal actions will have more power than usual to affect the world around you. The ripples you set in motion could ultimately touch people you don’t even know and transform situations you’re not part of. That’s a lot of responsibility! I suggest, there-

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There’s a term for people who have the ardor of a nymphomaniac in their efforts to gather useful information: “infomaniac.” That’s exactly what I think you should be in the coming week. You need data and evidence, and you need them in abundance. What you don’t know would definitely hurt you, so make sure you find out everything you need to know. Be as thorough as a spy, as relentless as a muckraking journalist, and as curious as a child. P.S. See if you can set aside as many of your strong opinions and emotional biases as possible. Otherwise they might distort your quest for the raw truth. Your word of power is “empirical.”

Over the years, you’ve explored some pretty exotic, even strange ideas about what characterizes a good time. In the coming days, I’m guessing you will add to your colorful tradition with some rather unprecedented variations on the definition of “pleasure” and “happiness.” I don’t mean to imply that this is a problem. Not at all. To paraphrase the Wiccan credo, as long as it harms no one (including yourself ), anything goes.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

I’ve been meditating on a certain need that you have been neglecting, Capricorn — a need that has been chronically underestimated, belittled, or ignored, by both you and others. I am hoping that this achy longing will soon be receiving some of your smart attention and tender care. One good way to get the process started is simply to acknowledge its validity and importance. Doing so will reveal a secret that will help you attend to your special need with just the right touch.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Due to the pressure-packed influences currently coming to bear on your destiny, you have Official Cosmic Permission to fling three dishes against the wall. (But no more than three.) If you so choose, you also have clearance to hurl rocks in the direction of heaven, throw darts at photos of your nemeses, and cram a coconut cream pie into your own face. Please understand, however, that taking actions like these should be just the initial phase of your master plan for the week. In the next phase, you should capitalize on all the energy you’ve made available for yourself through purgative acts like the ones I mentioned. Capitalize how? For starters, you could dream and scheme about how you will liberate yourself from things that make you angry and frustrated.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:Check to see if you’re having any of the following symptoms: 1. sudden eruptions of gratitude; 2. a declining fascination with conflict; 3. seemingly irrational urges that lead you to interesting discoveries; 4. yearnings to peer more deeply into the eyes of people you care about; 5. a mounting inability to tolerate boring influences that resist transformation; 6. an increasing knack for recognizing and receiving the love that’s available to you. If you’re experiencing at least three of the six symptoms, you are certifiably in close alignment with the cosmic flow, and should keep doing what you’ve been doing. If none of these symptoms have been sweeping through you, get yourself adjusted.

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