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Patriotic fracking
Joel Dyer may have written “Hiding behind the flag” (DyerTimes, May 23) for BW awhile ago, but here on the East Coast in the Marcellus Shale region, or better known as frack country, we are just starting to have the pleasure of reading and circulating it. First, thank you, Mr. Dyer, for your commentary. Our state of New York may have a moratorium on horizontal hydro-
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ant to see pure altruism in action? Go to Washington, D.C. — not to the marbled buildings of the federal government, but to the real city, where ordinary folks live. There you’ll find a business organization that wants nothing more than to serve the people, help improve lives, and
fracking, with a decision coming this year by Gov. Cuomo on whether our state will be the second state besides Vermont to ban horizontal hydrofracking. In the meantime, it is not stopping the oil and gas industry from using eminent domain through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to run a large natural gas pipeline called the Constitution across our Empire State from Pennsylvania.
It’s a real kick in the gut how the natural gas industry not only uses our Stars and Stripes to hide behind while fracking us; now they are naming volatile, landgrabbing natural gas pipelines with smogbelching compressor stations after the document our country was founded on! The true answer to our country’s energy independence and homeland
be a generous neighbor. That selfless organization is Walmart. With six bigbox stores planned for D.C., the corporation’s regional manager wants people to know that Walmart’s intentions truly are philanthropic. We wish only “to bring more jobs, shopping options, and fresh food choices,” he recently declared, “as well as to expand access and opportunity,” create “a job-training program,” and “support nonprofits.” Alas, though, this Mother Teresa of Global Retailing is now wailing that its generosity has been spurned by an impudent city council that says it’s not interested in corporate pretensions of “charity,” but in tangible fairness. Council members have had the audacity to pass a “Large Retailer Accountability Act” that would require Walmart to pay fair wages to its D.C. employees. The stipulated wage floor is $12.50 an hour, or about $25,000 a year in gross pay, which is not much in this very expen-
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sive city. In response, Walmart threw off its altruism mask, revealing the low-wage, miserly scowl for which it is globally infamous. The nice regional manager turned nasty, sputtering that the giant retailer couldn’t afford such extravagance, and he threatened to abandon the city if the fair-wage law is not repealed. “Afford?” Walmart is the most profitable corporation in America, bagging $17 billion in profits last year. Yet, it routinely pays its workers so poorly that they have to take food stamps and other support from us taxpayers. Hey, D.C. — tell ’em goodbye and good riddance. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 1, 2013 7
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Ca n someo ne ex pl ai n w hy th e ne ws media is fo cusi ng on me in stead of th e is sues faci ng New Yo rk Ci ty?
Another water battle to keep an eye on by Richard Clifford
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hile citizens of Boulder and Larimer counties battle horizontal fracking and the mess associated with it, countless communities in Latin America, Asia and Africa are trying to stop open-pit megamining in order to save their water. With the price of gold nose-diving after last October’s high of $1,790/oz. to just above $1,200 on June 27 of this year, Newmont Mining revealed on June 12 that it would soon be laying off 33 percent of its Colorado workforce, overwhelmingly from its Greenwood Village corporate headquarters. Newmont CEO and President Gary Goldberg said, “Ultimately, we cannot postpone the work we need to accomplish now to create sustainable value for our stakeholders into the future.” In others words, Newmont plans to generate more return on investment for stockholders by developing its mines more efficiently, bringing more gold and copper to market at lower production costs. So, why then did Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommend that investors sell their Newmont stock on the same day as Newmont’s press release? Cramer said, “No, can’t be there. [I] don’t like Newmont Mining. I don’t like the gold miners and I don’t like the silver miners … but as they lift, you want to go [i.e., sell] because the mining costs are too high, and many things seem to go wrong [emphasis added] every time they’ve been extracting gold. I don’t like them.” Newmont’s most ambitious undeveloped gold and copper holding, the Conga Project in northern Peru, is a perfect example of what can go wrong with mega-mining projects in environmentally fragile areas. Conga’s mineral wealth lies beneath pristine mountaintop wetlands that serve as the headwaters for five important river basins. Those rivers and mountain lakes supply clean water to thousands of farmers and villagers living below Conga. So here is what puts the “con” in Conga. According to an August 2012 independent survey in the Peruvian El Comercio newspaper, 78 percent of the affected urban population opposes Conga, and 83 percent oppose it in the surrounding rural areas. Of course, those devastating numbers may be related to the shooting deaths of three protesters and one 16-year-old high school student, 8 August 1, 2013
César Medina Aguilar, while he was merely going to the home of a classmate to lend him a book. All four were shot to death by Peruvian National Police and/ or military forces brought in by the federal government to quell anti-Conga demonstrations in the town of Celendin on July 3, 2012. Not surprisingly, the energized local opposition has since vowed, “Conga no va!” meaning “Conga will not go forward!” Yet Newmont continues to say on its website, “Construction on the Conga project will only continue if it can be done in a safe, socially and environmentally responsible manner with riskadjusted returns that justify future investment.” I think César’s family would say that Newmont is batting zero for three on those fronts. Since 1992, when Newmont began building the Yanacocha gold mine, most Cajamarquinos have learned that megamining is incompatible with sustainable agriculture and reliable, safe drinking water. According to the nonprofit Earthworks, tests done by the mine and the Peruvian government of treated water coming from the Yanacocha mine have shown levels of arsenic and mercury that exceed World Health Organization standards. Gianni Converso’s documentary Open Pit shows Yanacocha discharging “treated” water not fit for human consumption, laying off workers with elevated levels of mercury in the blood, and intimidating anti-mining protesters by hiring and transporting Peruvian National Police and allowing them to wear their government-issued uniforms and carry their government-issued weapons while being paid by Newmont to protect company property. If Newmont leadership wants to garner confidence with investors and stakeholders, they should abandon the albatross around their neck that is Conga and pursue profits in socially and environmentally less risky places around the world. Clifford has been a member of the Denver Justice and Peace Committee, a nonprofit organization working for lasting peace and economic justice in Latin America, since 1995. During the past year he volunteered with the legal and technical support nonprofit GRUFIDES in Cajamarca, Peru, and gave presentations to rural communities in Baja California Sur, Mexico, about the hazards of open pit mega-mining.
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n Denver and Fort Collins, activists with Health Care for All Colorado (HCAC) have just hosted 48th birthday celebrations for Medicare, the highly successful program that has provided comprehensive low-cost health care for older people and the disabled since 1965. HCAC wants a similar publicly funded “single payer” system for all Americans. They are circulating a ballot petition for the 2014 election to establish a state constitutional right to health care. It asks voters to approve, “as a matter of human right and public good for all residing in Colorado, access to an appropriate single standard of high quality health care without financial barrier.” It requires the legislature to create the framework for the universal system and the Colorado Department of Revenue to collect a premium that won’t exceed 9 percent of an individual’s income to fund it. This system could not be under the control of or administered by “a for-profit, nonpublic entity or corporation.” The initiative states, “Quality health care as a part of our individual and collective quality of life shall not be treated as a private, for-profit commodity in Colorado.” HCAC has to collect 86,105 valid signatures by October to place the question on next year’s ballot. They are taking advantage of a provision in Obamacare (or ACA, the Affordable
Care Act) that allows states to apply for a waiver to establish their own health care system. Why should we support something like this? Why not wait to see if the ACA works? Because, unlike Social Security and Medicare, the ACA is a volatile compromise. There are many good provisions, such as banning discrimination based on “pre-existing conditions,” free birth control and other preventive care, and allowing children up to 26 years to be included on their parents’ insurance policies. However, there are serious concerns about costs. Particularly the growing trend of (euphemism alert!) “underinsurance.” This can mean not seeing the doctor when you are sick, not filling prescriptions, skipping diagnostic tests. It can also mean financial disaster. A recent study revealed that medical bills are the biggest cause of personal bankruptcies in this country. Three quarters of the “medical debtors” had health insurance at the time of their illness. In an editorial in the “Journal of General Internal Medicine,” Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein argue that the ACA may actually increase underinsurance. “Obamacare is lowering the bar for health insurance,” said Himmelstein, a professor of public health at the City see HEALTH CARE Page 11
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Caught on tape While we have been among the first to point out the possible pitfalls of the city of Boulder’s municipalization initiative, to make sure that if we go forward we do it right, we are also the first to call out efforts that sidestep and cheat the democratic process. So if you missed seeing the video of the antics of signature-gatherers that was put together by New Era Colorado this week, check out http://youtu.be/ jf8bXrGNxhM. The video, titled “How Xcel Energy Lied Their Way Onto the Ballot,” apparently shows petition circulators for the campaign to place a charter amendment on the ballot. The amendment would ask voters to approve debt limits and other measures that some say would kill the city’s municipalization effort. The video shows some yahoo talking nonsense about losing teachers and libraries if municipalization goes forward, saying it’s going to cause “billions” of dollars of debt. He even calls Boulder’s elected leaders “shitheads.” Now, we’ve always been critical of city council members when they deserve it, but we don’t recall ever claiming that their brains were made of poop. The video goes on to show an elderly female signature-gatherer who is repeatedly asked, “Didn’t we already vote on this?” Her falsehood-filled replies include, “It didn’t go through,” “We have to vote on it again,” “It was too close for comfort” and “We’re reinforcing it.” This woman is then recorded doing what can only be guessed as filling out areas of petitions herself. Meanwhile, Xcel is distancing itself from the petition effort. Company spokesperson Michelle Aguayo told us that not a dime of the approximately $3,000 Xcel has spent on the campaign was used for the signature-gathering effort. That initiative was funded by Voter Approval of Debt Limits, and Xcel has its own issue committee. Aguayo says she will notify Xcel’s attorneys that New Era has wrongly attributed the questionable tactics to the company. “We would like to not have our name associated with videos like this, but they need a bad guy,” she says. “That group might get a nice little letter from our attorneys.” Potty mouth Well here’s a new one. Scientists in China are proudly reporting that they have grown a human tooth using stem cells taken from urine. Yes, this news was leaked. It’s been dribbling out. OK, sorry, we’ll stop. The move has been heralded because apparently piss is a less controversial source of stem cells than human embryos. Um, not sure about you, but if we got a tooth knocked out, pretty sure we’d rather just live with the gap than have some slightly yellow substitute grown from our pee. Unsurprisingly, the practice has apparently run into some controversy, but not because of the source — it’s because it only has a 30 percent success rate, making it unreliable. We can’t resist thinking of some other combinations that might be interesting. How about using spit to grow toes so that you can say with confidence that someone is constantly drooling on the floor? Or using tears to grow lips so that you’re always crying in your beer? Maybe use some plasma to grow pupils so that you are assured of having bloodshot eyes? The possibilities are endless. Just stay away from our stool samples, please. We really don’t want to go there. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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(Re: “The hills are alive with the sound of fracking,” Danish Plan, July 11.) My last four years fighting fracking have played out to where the health of my family has been compromised. In the summer of 2012 they started drilling near my home by the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. I had no cooperation from the city or Chesapeake as to when they would be flowing back and putting those wells into production, so that I could watch the winds and remove my family from downwind toxins. In January my teenager was getting this rash at the same time my husband’s lymph nodes were swelling in his neck. Now we have chemo and radiation to finish up by this August. My teen has biomarkers for an adrenal tumor, and I need to have a third test run and get another doctor’s opinion on him. I will never be able to prove drilling harmed my family, but the drillers will never be able to prove they did not. Important considerations for an ordinance is what I learned from experience. I live two blocks from a Chesapeake gas drill site near the Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where we have 60 padsites of urban drilling in neighborhoods and near schools. The industry is doing business as usual, pretending that rural methods and vertical drilling apply to
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ance the new normal,” said Woolhandler. “It will reduce the number of uninsured from 50 million to 30 million, but the new coverage is full of holes. Americans deserve the kind of first-dollar, comprehensive coverage that Canadians already have. But that’s only affordable under a single-payer system that cuts out the private insurance middlemen.” Barack Obama knows this. He strongly supported single payer when he was a state senator in Illinois. On the campaign trail and as president, he said single payer was the best system. But he added that most people were “accustomed” to employer-based insurance. Yes, and the vested interests in the private insurance industry, the for-profit hospitals and HMOs have become accustomed to making obscene profits and influencing the political process. If we want change we can believe in, we’ll have to stand up for ourselves. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ot a whole lot of college students drink wine. Beer, yes, sometimes copious amounts. Hard liquor, of course, often in 1-ounce glasses. But under new ordinances that Boulder City Council will consider this fall, potential bar and restaurant owners on University Hill had better hope student tastes change. If any of the bills are passed, hard liquor sales on the Hill will be restricted, and new liquor licenses will only allow bars and restaurants to serve beer and wine — if they’re allowed to serve at all. Colorado has long had a state law banning liquor sales within 500 feet of a school, including universities. Boulder ordinance, meanwhile, has had an exemption for the University of Colorado Boulder ever since the city allowed alcohol sales in the mid-1960s. Thus, Boulder traditions like The Sink and more recent additions like The Goose, No Entiendo (formerly K’s China) and The Rib House can serve beer, wine and liquor within 500 feet, by walking distance, of the CU campus. But the 500-foot rule may soon change. City council member Ken Wilson, in his final year before his term limit is reached, says city council revisiting the exemption to the 500-foot rule is “long overdue.” He says the atmosphere in the business district on the Hill has improved since “12 or 15 years ago,” when establishments like the Players Club used to draw large crowds, but he says changes to liquor licenses could help calm down the business area. “I would say now, the business district is a lot calmer and less of a problem than it was back then,” he says. “And I’d like to see it stay that way. I’d like to see a better variety of businesses, of both restaurants and retail, and if the whole place turns into a bar scene, that doesn’t accomplish that.” So before the council session ends in November, city council will consider a set of possible ordinances that could restrict new licenses in the Hill business area. The city could implement the 500-foot rule, banning new liquor licenses within 500 feet of CU, or it could only allow Beer & Wine licenses, a new license designation, in the 500foot area. Another option is to change the zoning and land use codes to ban certain types of liquor licenses in the Hill business area — for the so-called “high impact” businesses that stay open after 11 p.m. or that serve primarily Boulder Weekly
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City council considers stricter Hill liquor laws that have business owners up in arms by Steve Weishampel alcohol rather than food. None of these changes would affect existing businesses, which would be grandfathered in and would be allowed to transfer their liquor licenses to new businesses, says Mishawn Cook, staff liaison for the Beverage Licensing Authority (BLA). But the city’s own research doesn’t agree that change is necessary. In all, city council has studied the Hill in three ways: a working group that included various stakeholders; the ongoing University Hill Commercial Area Management Commission, commonly called UHCAM; and a 2012 public survey. None of those three have recommended changing the 500-foot rule or changing zoning on the Hill. UHCAM, which consists of five commissioners appointed by city council, voted 4-0 in its July 17 meeting to tell city council it does not support changes to the 500-foot rule, with Commissioner Jyotsna Raj abstaining; the vote was 5-0 for a statement that
the ordinances “do not appear to address the problem” and calling for further study of how new ordinances would affect new and potential businesses. At the July 17 meeting, commission chair Hillary Griffith suggested the city council wasn’t listening to the commission. “It would be nice to get city council here, or at least some members,” she said. “They say we are a priority, but they don’t act like it,” added Raj. Lexi Winer, who serves on UHCAM and was formerly the director of city and neighborhood relations for the CU student government, put forward the motion opposing the 500foot rule. Winer also served on the working group formed by city council, and she says the ordinances that city council is now considering don’t reflect the recommendations of that group. “It wasn’t the majority opinion, I can say that,” she says. “Specifically
relating to changes in the 500-foot rule, that was not the consensus.” Michael Absalom, an assistant general manager at South Boulder’s Southern Sun and the president of Boulder’s Responsible Hospitality Group (RHG), says the language in the potential new ordinances came out of nowhere. His predecessor at the RHG served on the working group. “We brought it to city council in February — the directives from the community working group and our industry — and they came back with completely different things,” he says. Current CU student government president Chris Schaefbauer and Bill Shrum, a former chair of UHCAM and an entrepreneur working on establishing a new co-working space called SparkBoulder on the Hill, both agree. “Things being brought forward [to city council] didn’t have consensus” from the working group, Schaefbauer said at the July 17 UHCAM meeting. At that meeting, Hill business owners emphasized the damage that new regulations could do, even to existing businesses that wouldn’t be directly affected. “Changing the 500-foot rule would cause irreversible economic damage to the Hill,” said Mark Heinritz, co-owner of The Sink, at the UHCAM meeting. It would “put a stamp” on the Hill that it’s for college students only. It would send the erroneous message to Boulder at large that the Hill is “dangerous,” Heinritz said. He said the message from city council would be, “Look what we had to do.” It would also create “more friction” for potential restaurant owners and give them reason to open their restaurant elsewhere, where they wouldn’t face earlier closing times and would be able to sell liquor and mixed drinks. “City council should be embracing what kind of opportunities they can create in terms of [the Hill] being an underperforming asset,” Heinritz says in a separate interview. “There would be a return in sales tax revenue on any investment.” If The Sink were to operate under the restrictions, Heinritz said, it would represent “10 to 12 people becoming unemployed” and a drop in revenues of 20 percent. Also at the meeting, Absalom said enforcing the 500-foot rule would “just crush the revitalization See THE HILL Page 14
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of the Hill.” Multiple Hill business owners expressed frustration at the city’s current restrictions on Hill bars and restaurants. Many are not allowed to stay open after 11 p.m., including the recently relocated Rib House, which had its request to stay open late rejected by city council. No Entiendo, taking over the liquor license of K’s China, operates under a long list of restrictions including checking two forms of ID for any patrons who enter the bar and reporting monthly food sales to the BLA. BLA member Lisa Spalding, who several bar owners say is the strictest member when it comes The entryway to No Entiendo, to Hill bars and restaurants, formerly K’s China declined a request for an interview because the BLA “has a Hill bar coming before it next month.” has ever conducted,” the city’s website In interviews, Wilson and council says — the overwhelming verdict from member Suzy Ageton held up Café respondents was: Do nothing. SeventyAion at 1235 Pennsylvania St. as a pos- five percent of respondents said alcohol sible model for future businesses. But overconsumption is not a problem. And Aion would not open under the condiasked where overconsumption was a tions the ordinance would establish, problem, 54.6 percent of respondents Chef/Owner Dakota Soifer says. Told said private house parties; 6 percent about the potential changes to the 500- cited “specific businesses” and 5.6 perfoot rule, Soifer says he would not cent the “University campus.” choose the Hill. But since the survey was released, “I think that that would have city council members have repeatedly deterred me from criticized it, opening a busisaying the ness up here,” he results were says. tainted. “I’d be very “You worried and conmust not cerned that that have heard would just be what actufurther alienating ally hap— Ken Wilson on the city’s pened and deterring alcohol survey there,” anyone from Wilson coming up to the says. “The Hill and starting bar owners a business,” Soifer were making says. “Nor do I copies of that and giving it to every one think that really would address and fix any issue.” of their bar patrons. It was a totally Also a Hill resident, Soifer says he’d bogus thing by the end of it. It was, like to see the Hill appeal to Boulder at ‘What do people drinking in the bars large, but he doesn’t think the proposed think should happen?’ That’s why counlaws would accomplish that. cil paid no attention to that and we “This is our ’hood,” he says. “I go to pretty much told staff, ‘Don’t do this all these places and I think they’re all again.’ It was not at all a scientific surgreat. It’s just, I don’t think the city or vey. It was co-opted by the bar owners the community at large is doing anyfor their own purposes. And people had thing to attract any new business.” seen them doing this, and they pretty The city’s new potential laws also much admitted it. It was silly. weren’t informed by the survey of inter“It was totally worthless,” he adds. ested parties that the city conducted Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum online in late 2012. With more than says the same: “That was the survey 2,000 responses — “the most successful that folks at various bars were getting Web survey that the City of Boulder their patrons to respond to,” he says,
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which invalidates the results. “Once it gets to be statistically not valid, it’s not reflective of anything,” he says. “You just can’t claim anything about it.” Bar and restaurant owners around the Hill say otherwise. Only one establishment, No Entiendo, said it encouraged patrons — or, to be specific, Facebook friends and fans — to take the survey, according to No Entiendo bartender Brian Noonan. Bruce Rush and Steven Schein, co-owners of Half Fast Subs, say they didn’t tell patrons to take the survey; Goose owner Dallas Pflug says he “didn’t say anything to anybody.” “I have better things to do” than encourage customers to take a survey, Pflug says. But Rush, Schein and other business owners all say that bars asking patrons to take the survey shouldn’t “invalidate” the results, as Appelbaum says it does, since the survey was available to the public and anyone could have encouraged others to take it. “Respondents were in a certain age group where [they] said, ‘These people are young. Their opinions don’t matter,’” Absalom says. “Even when they took out that age group, it was only a 6 percent drop.” Schein says the city council only decided to discard the survey after seeing what it said. “If it came back, ‘Yes, we think it’s a serious problem,’ do you doubt for a second that the city council would not have held that up to be supportive of their hypothesis? … Not getting the answer that they so desperately wanted, they trashed their own survey.” So where is the city’s ordinance idea coming from, if not the working group,
the standing commission or the survey? Wilson says the idea of stricter regulations for Hill businesses has been in the works for years, at least since city council responded to the prevalence of house parties in the residential area of the Hill with new ordinances 15 years ago. But current CU students suggest house parties still contribute significantly to alcohol consumption on the Hill, more than drinking in the business area or on Pearl Street. Sharing a porch at 14th Street and College Avenue on Sunday afternoon with a friendly dog and a crushed PBR tallboy, Zach Bushey and Kevin Flinn say Hill houses are still the number one place to drink. “Hill residences by far” are the site of the most drinking, Flinn says. “Just for convenience.” “The business area isn’t so much the problem,” Flinn says. He cites Half Fast Subs as “really good about policing themselves” and avoiding serving underage drinkers. And he and Bushey agree the easiest way for people under 21 to drink is at house parties. But Wilson sounds certain that city council will pass one or more of the measures. “I think council wants to do something,” he says. “It will be an interesting discussion to see what. But I would be very surprised if we do nothing.” He says he hopes Hill business owners will attend city council’s meetings and help guide the changes, rather than simply oppose them. “My advice to the business owners would be, don’t say no to changes. Work with the council to make the right changes. …. Because we’re not gonna do nothing.” Appelbaum says the potential ordinances are scheduled to receive a first reading at the Sept. 17 city council meeting and a second reading Oct. 1. Appelbaum predicts that public comment on the proposed ordinances will take place in October and “could easily change by a couple weeks.” Wilson says it’s city council’s job to balance the concerns of business owners and residents who want opposite things. “Not everybody’s gonna be happy,” Wilson says. “Probably no one’s gonna be exactly happy. “That’s the thing in Boulder, even if you’re giving away ice cream on the street, people will show up and complain.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Alphonse Keasley, right, CU’s liaison for Ignite Your Potential, congratulates Marcelino (Chelo) Ramirez on finishing the program
Shooting for the stars
Graduates from Ignite Your Potential course, in their own words by Elizabeth Miller
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n a world full of opportunities, and a town with so many people privileged to take full advantage of them, sometimes we forget that not everyone has it so easy. Not everyone comes from a background of even knowing what it takes to get into college, how to apply and how to afford it. This summer, the Family Learning Center ran its third annual Ignite Your Potential summer program, designed to reach high school students of low socioeconomic status who are the first in their families to apply for college. Seniors selected their colleges of choice and completed the application materials, while younger students practiced writing personal statements and crafted educational plans that will get, or keep, them on track to college. These students emerge through a gauntlet of challenges that face many high school students in America — alcohol and drugs, teen pregnancy, rising costs of higher education and increasing competition for scholarships and grants. In the next few weeks, Boulder Weekly will be looking into the challenges that face these students and the outlook for their futures as they shoot for the stars. We open this series by allowing them to introduce themselves in their own words. Below are excerpts from the essays and personal statements written by this summer’s Ignite Your Potential students. Angeles, senior, aspiring medical student As I entered the apartment disillusioned my mother asked “Que tienes Angeles?” “What’s wrong Angeles?” With
tears in my eyes I responded “Nada ama simple mente me dijeron que no podía trabajar.” “Nothing mom they just told me that I couldn’t work.” “I’m sorry you’re not eligible……..” These words have been stuck in my mind since I was 15 years old. Being an undocumented student and also coming from a family that occupies the “undocumented status” is hard. As a result, my family has always struggled with finances, finding and maintaining a secure place to live, and especially to work. Jesse, senior, aspiring translator/language studies student “Nunca dices no puedes hacer algo” (Never say you can’t do something) Coming from a one parent, lowincome household, I learned to appreciate what I have. There were times, when I thought I couldn’t do something, and my mother reassured me. All my life, I worked twice as hard to not become another “societal statistic”. To not be another person working at McDonalds all my life, or to not to be another person on welfare. My faith in myself, and the support from my family, are the best motivation for me. Jasmine, freshman, aspiring civil rights lawyer Having a nice car was all that I ever wanted when I was little. Before going to bed, I would close my eyes tightly and pray for a car that wouldn’t break down. It wasn’t that my family didn’t own cars; it was just that every car we bought would fall apart within a few months. I also remember feeling embarrassed to go to school since all my other friends had Boulder Weekly
news nice cars like shiny BMWs, exclusive Lexus models, and mighty Landrovers. My old gas gosling, Suburban could not compete. I vividly recall my face getting hot with anxiety, as my mom arrived at Summit Middle School. I was convinced that having a broken car defined who I was.
Carolyn, freshman, aspiring community college student I have always had a feeling of being lost throughout my life. There are two different meanings of “lost” that define me. The first is my need to escape from reality. The second definition of ‘lost,” is the feeling of conVanessa Schatz fronting the unknown. I feel lost by knowing only one side of my cultural heritage, which is Mexican-American. I want to find the other half of myself; the Native American side of me that I do not know.
on Mr. Billy’s stage; the wobble that came with every step resulting from the pegs holding it up. My lungs filled with the smell of dusk from the old bookcases and paint fumes from students working the New York City set. The improvised stage curtains were held up with poles, sticking out like holding up a child’s homemade tent. ... This stage is where it all happened for me; the beginnings of finding myself through acting.
Rosa, junior, aspiring accounting student Aesthetically, images do not always capture the story words may tell. As a young Mexican woman, living in a predominantly white environment, I have become accustomed to adapting to changing cultural environments. I constantly experience the currents of multicultural exposure; as a child, language was an immense barrier. I Joshua, senior, only spoke Spanish up aspiring zoologist until first grade. I Joshua’s passion took offense when Keasley with Juliet Birungi (left) and for the science of crea- Jesse Johnson someone noticed that I tures with fur, scales, was not a native and feathers was first sparked when he English speaker, and I isolated myself noticed a stuffed animal with a hose for a through a cultural barrier. To assimilate nose at the age of five. During his youth, into American culture, I blocked out my he fascinated classmates and surprised cultural roots only to discover later how teachers with his expansive knowledge of integral they are to my identity. the planet’s strongest, fastest, and largest monsters. While his peers were Juliet, freshman, aspiring adoption entrenched in sports and fantasy, Joshua lawyer was busy contemplating the complexities “We are moving to America” stated of arthropods skeletons, mapping the my adoptive mother with a hopeful external regions of their cold-blooded voice. By the time I was fourteen years bodies. Joshua is a self-made animal old, I had lived in four different counenthusiast. tries across Africa: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Chelo, senior, aspiring personal athUganda, and I had to flee the genocide letic trainer in Rwanda. In 2004, when I moved “As I held you in the incubator, I from Uganda to Rwanda, my mother could see and feel you take each breath. I died a Tuberculosis infection leaving knew you were fighting to stay alive and me, an uprooted orphan at the age of I wanted to help you through every min- four. “There are people, who want to ute of it.” This is what my father saw adopt you.” When I was first told that I and felt when I was first born. There is am moving to America, I did not want no doubt that I am fighter: I fought for to leave Africa. At the age of six, I was my life since day one and I am still here convinced that my adoptive family today. From the very beginning of my would be British and I was concerned life, I was exposed to the vulnerability of that they would eat me. Fortunately, I my existence. I was a premature baby, was proven wrong. born a month to early. With blood in my lungs, on the brink of death, I survived. Becoming an adoptive lawyer, I want Without a doubt, I made it because I am to focus my career to help out families in a progressor. Africa. I do not like seeing children living a life they did not choose to live. I Autumn, senior, aspiring acting/the- would not want anyone to experience ater student the life of an orphan that I did. The unforgettable moment I set foot Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Weekly. “[Traffickers] go to all sorts of different jurisdictions, they go interstate, they go out of country even, so that requires not only having multiple agencies involved, and not as restrictive boundaries, but also having the federal government involved to have that reach where we need it.” Task force operations often begin as local enforcement actions in truck stops, casinos, street ‘tracks’ and on dating or escort service websites, according to a press release from the FBI Denver office. Arrests for prostitution or solicitation can provide information on more organized, cross-state trafficking operations. “There’s really no one way we find these trafficking victims,” Ricky Wright, the FBI coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets task force, told Boulder Weekly. Wright has been with the FBI 16 years and has been working on the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, specializing in violent crimes against children, for six years. His first work with child prostitution enforcement was on an Operation Cross Country roughly five years ago. “A lot of times, once we think we have an idea, or any knowledge really that a girl out there might be involved in prostitution, we start looking for her, and since a lot of it’s online anymore we can try to find escort ads they might be posting,” Wright says. An online search for Denver escorts could return dozens of such websites. FBI agents and police partner with the U.S. Attorney’s offices and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section to collect evidence to bring charges. Because of the time between the initial arrest and the trial for an accused pimp or trafficker, the victims are not often available to testify. “That’s where it’s nice to have this multijurisdictional task force where we have the time to work on proving the case beyond that reasonable doubt, even beyond having the victim,” Steele says. “That means going back through and taking every little piece of information that the child or the adult gave us and corroborating every little piece of information so that basically the amount of information is so overwhelming that it puts the prosecutors in a position of power.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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the age of 50. “I think sometimes when something is just a youth movement or just being pushed on behalf of an older generation, it doesn’t have as much success as when there is intergenerational agreement,” Lovell says. “That is an issue we need to work on.” Occasionally, tensions can arise in cross-generational efforts. “Ageism can really plague movements,” says Hava Gordon, an associate professor at the University of Denver who studies social inequalities in race, class, gender and age. “It is a kind of inequality that we don’t recognize in our society that can really be deployed when older folks take over. It can be alienating. There has to be room for young people to lead the movement.” Sometimes, adults set up a project in a top-down style, then try to “plug youth in” to the project, she says. “That is where the conflict can arise — when young people are tokenized instead of being the visionaries of the movement,” Gordon says. “We see this in city youth councils and some forms of student government, where students are the figureheads but they don’t really hold much of the decision-making power.” In the end, Lovell says, youth will have to lead social movements for them to have a future: “Every movement needs a new youth group to carry on our message.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Dear Governor Hickenlooper events in Boulder, Denver organize artists against fracking
Frack Free Colorado, a collaborative group of organizations hoping to raise awareness of fracking, will team up with Patagonia’s Boulder store to host a gathering at 7:30 p.m on Aug. 5. The event is intended to encourage people to contribute to Dear Governor Hickenlooper: This Is My Colorado, a project to engage filmmakers, photographers, graphic artists and anyone who has a story about fracking’s Joel Rotunda effects or possible solutions. The event will showcase previously submitted short films as well as general information about how to get involved with the project. According to a press release, a fulllength film will premiere at Mountainfilm 2014 and is a collaboration with established filmmakers, including Lionfish Oscar winning director Louie Psihoyos of The Cove, Jeff Orlowski, director of Chasing Ice, Pete McBride, Ally Bombeck and others. The goal of Dear Governor Hickenlooper: This Is My Colorado is to shape the conversation around energy to gear up for the 2014 elections. The Patagonia store in Boulder is located at 1212 Pearl St. The Patagonia Denver Store, at 1431 15th St., will host a gathering at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 6. — Camilla Sterne
No fowling around: Chickens await classification for endangerment
The lesser prairie chicken has escaped the endangered species list — for six more months at least. After adding the bird to the list of “threatened” species in December 2012 due to habitat loss, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service managers have decided to wait another six months to determine the status of the imperiled fowl to gather additional
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Lionfish becoming king of the Atlantic Ocean
The elegant but dangerous lionfish is causing problems all over the eastern seaboard of the United States. A recent expedition completed by Oregon State University and others found that not only are lionfish populations reaching unprecedented levels, they are getting bigger — some reaching lengths of 16 inches. The fish were found as deep as 300 feet below the surface. “We expected some populations of lionfish at that depth, but their numbers and size were a surprise,” Stephanie Green, David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at Oregon State University, said in a press release from the school. This increase in size also allows lionfish to create even more lionfish cubs, if you will, than usual. Large, mature females in some species of fish have been known to be able to produce up to 10 times as many offspring as a fish half its size. With all of these extra fish swimming around, other species are suffering. Populations in herbivorous fish have dwindled, allowing seaweed to run rampant. Lionfish have been known to decrease prey populations by up to 80 percent in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a 2007 study by Oregon State University. Lionfish were accidentally introduced to the Atlantic, where they have no natural predators, in the 1990s. Researchers are still trying to determine what controls are lack-
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helmet is the Magic Knot — because it’s the knot that lets you defy gravity, Teitelbaum says. It’s a friction knot that locks from your own weight. Loosen the knot and you can cinch it upward to climb. At your feet is the Red Knot — because the rope’s red, Teitelbaum says. It’s a thinner rope tied into two Sunday, August 4 rabbit-ear loops for your feet. Slide the Bike Patrol with the Rangers — A Junior Ranger Adventures Summer Challenge proRed Knot from your feet up to your gram for kids ages 6-13. 11 a.m. Mud Lake, waist, stand in the loops taking your Nederland, 720-352-7041. weight off the Magic Knot, cinch up Butterflies and Other Flying Creatures. 9 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space Lichen Loop the Magic Knot, sit, let the top knot Trail, Lyons, 303-678-6214. tighten and repeat, and advance only a foot or two with each effort. You’re really rope inch worming, but an event called “recreational inch worming” the tree literally changes your perspecprobably wouldn’t attract too many tive on the world. Anything in the tree, members. Not many people attend even watching the traffic go down when it’s called tree climbing. Baseline Road, becomes fascinating, and Teitelbaum says he’s probably taken I stare at the unaware motorists for a thousand people or more up the trees minutes. Were I the one driving, I in Colorado, and this year is on pace to wouldn’t even think of looking up in the be the largest year yet. Simple, intuitive trees for us. Before today, I’ve never seen and relaxing, tree climbing is to rock someone recreationally tree climbing. climbing as flatwater kayaking is to You can find a climbable tree in all white-water kayaking. And if you ride a 50 states, but not enough registered fixie, ski tele or longboard, you may instructors/facilitators to fill the counalready see the appeal. It’s minimal. It Our Entire Inventory of Clothing, Footwear, try to climb in all of those states at the gives the climber a sense of being & Travel Gear Sunglasses same time. & According to the Global unhindered by anythingCamp and everything. Teitelbaum calls this sensation of tranOrganization of Tree Climbers, an quility and calm “tree time.” Being in international non-profit that sets safety
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standards and practices for recreational tree climbing, there are 39 such enthusiasts in the U.S. and six of them live west of the Mississippi River, including Teitelbaum. Recreational tree climbing originated in Georgia in the 1980s. Today, the majority of tree climbers reside in the South and the East Coast. Tree climbing instructors are scarce in the West in part because it’s easier to get a minister’s license in Colorado than to be an ordained tree climbing instructor. You have to be invited to train as an instructor, and if you might see TREE CLIMBING Page 26
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be into tree climbing for the wrong reasons, instructors such as Teitelbaum will not train you. Even if people are willing to pay to for the lesson and the hundreds of dollars worth of equipment, Teitelbaum has no qualms about refusing to train them if their ideals don’t align. Specifically, he’s wary of the peakbagging mentality of a 14er climber spreading to the trees or anyone who doesn’t show trees the proper respect.
And putting slack in the rope to stand on the tallest branch and become taller than the tree irks the traditionalist tree climbers. “A lot of people do it and I’ve done it myself, actually, but you know I don’t really want to think I should be bigger than the tree. I don’t want to be superior to the tree,” he says. “You always want to have respect for the tree. You never want to try to dominate it.” If you haven’t heard of this slow-
growing sport, it’s in part because climbers like Teitelbaum share a natural aversion to the bureaucratic red tape necessary to hold instructional climbs. He does work with a handful of city and county partners across in the Front Range. But he says climbing in Boulder has become more difficult, since he has been restricted from climbing on weekends. In response, Jennifer Bray, a spokesperson for the city of Boulder, said groups with commercial permits
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are not allowed in neighborhood parks on the weekends, regardless if it’s for a bootcamp, jump roping or tree climbing classes. She adds that Parks and Recreation staff also check and approve the trees suited for this activity, and not one of the trees climbed on in Boulder have suffered any damage from Teitelbaum’s climbs. Vivienne Jannatpour, a spokesperson for Boulder County Parks and Open Space, says that she has never heard this type of request before. Anyone is allowed to free climb from tree branches in Open Spaces, she says, but recreational tree climbing with ropes and saddles would fall into a grey area based on the impact it’ll have on trees, the landscape and other open space users. “The natural evolution of rules and regulations is that they get more restrictive as time goes by; although, I deal with some really great people in Boulder forestry,” Teitelbaum says. “I didn’t climb in Boulder for several years, but that’s just me. I have a low tolerance for bureaucracy.”
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While climbing up the tree is a workout itself, going down was fast, simple and easy. We rappelled down and my sneakers touched grass in no time, and snap. I was out of tree time. What felt like only 30 minutes in tree time was actually two hours in real life. “You know, people change when they’re in a tree,” Olalla says. “I don’t want to sound too New Agey, but it feels like we’re brothers and sisters up here.” The day I climbed, it was a small family. Only one other person besides me showed up that day, out of the dozen or so who said they would attend. This is an abnormally low day, the two say. First-time climbers sometimes have a powerful emotional response after rappelling down, Olalla says. After facilitating a climb in Chile, a fellow climber wept in her arms after she descended the tree, she was so overcome with emotion. And while I walked back to the car, I felt like I was leaving the trees instead of returning to solid ground, and I still look for that specific tree when passing Chautauqua Park. “We’re arboreal creatures, we came from the tree,” Teitelbaum explains. “There’s a feeling of safety and security when we’re up in the tree. It’s almost like going home. It’s almost like restoring us to a place and a feeling that we’ve known a long time ago.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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vein of nature runs through troubadour Gregory Alan Isakov’s music, fitting imagery for the singer-songwriter, who lived on a farm for several years. On his new album, The Weatherman, which dropped July 9, Isakov sings of “casting hooks off the California coast,” “plucking strings in the pouring rain” and “waiting in the wings while the trees undress.” The natural world is everpresent in his songs, and his music — softly strummed folk with simple, melancholic vocals accompanied by sparse, calm backing instruments, including cello, banjo and violin — always feels whispered, like a hummed melody you can just make out over the sound of the wind. The video for “Living Proof,” a song in which Isakov reminisces on the magical moments of past relationships, is set in an abandoned amusement park that has long since been reclaimed by the ground upon which it was built. A mime in skinny white
jeans, a red-and-white horizontally striped shirt and a white jacket wanders through the skeletons of the roller coasters and old carnival booths, trying in vain to restart the rides and restore the park to its former glory. It’s poignant symbolism for a man recalling the euphoric moments of an old relationship, and just like one can topple backwards into nostalgia-fueled doldrums if not careful, the natural world looks like it is on the brink of devouring the man-made attractions at the park. Isakov’s music, like the amusement park in the video, seems to have succumbed a bit to the simpler pleasures of the natural world. Isakov says that on his last album, the 2009 release This Empty Northern Hemisphere, while the songs might not have sounded like it, there were as many as 95 tracks on a single cut. For The Weatherman, he ditched digital and recorded the tracks directly to tape, capping the amount of tinkering he could do with the songs. “This record was done on tape, and there were mostly 16 channels on a song,” Isakov says. “In my writing this year, I’ve been a little more melody-based, a little more music in the songs, and a little more sparse in lyrical content.” Note the timeframe: “this year.” The Weatherman, Isakov’s third studio album, arrived just about see ISAKOV Page 30
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four years after his previous album, The go-with-what-feels-right attithough it’s not for lack of trying. Isakov tude has served him well. The album says before he started working on The debuted at No. 102 on the Billboard 200 Weatherman, he was “slaving away” on an chart and No. 5 on the Folk chart, entirely different album, one that he Isakov’s first time making sales numbers eventually shelved. The new album has that significant. more organic roots than just recording “I wouldn’t have even thought to an album for an album’s sake. check,” he says, sounding somewhat “We were in Europe bewildered. and stopped in this studio Isakov was born in On the Bill: in Holland and started South Africa, and his family Gregory Alan tracking just a few songs moved to the United States Isakov plays the Boulder Theater on that I wrote,” Isakov says. when he was young. He Sunday, Aug. 4. “Then I came back and moved to Boulder in 2001 Sera Cahoone [engineer Jamie Mefford] to attend horticulture school opens. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets and I, we rented this studio and has been here ever are sold out. 2032 up in Nederland, Colo., since. After bouncing 14th St., Boulder, and just holed up there for between Boulder and Lyons 303-786-7030. six months and sort of for a few years, he’s now setrecorded it as live as we tled in the county seat. could.” Isakov has been a local favorite tagged Soon, he had completely ditched the with the “up-and-comer” label as early as old album and was working on what 2008. He and his band toured with became The Weatherman, and all of the Brandi Carlile for a spell, and Amy Ray songs were fairly new. He recorded mul- of the Indigo Girls called him “a great tiple takes of many songs, culled many of writer.” This past year saw him as part of them and was left with a batch of fresh, official showcases at SXSW, and on his raw songs. current tour, he sold out many of his East “A lot of the songs were recently Coast dates — a significant milestone for written,” he says. “It just felt better to an artist, to be that popular so far from work on that. Everything was kind of one’s hometown. It seems he has crossed pointing in that direction.” the threshold from rising star to established veteran. He invited his friends and fellow It’s never easy to pin down the reamusicians up to the studio with him, so son for an artist’s success, but part of the resulting album is very much a product of Colorado musicians. Prominent are Isakov’s appeal lies in his entrancing live shows. Isakov’s quiet demeanor and longtime collaborators Jeb Bows (violin, dusty voice create a force that demands viola) and Phil Parker (cello), as well as attention during his performances. James Han (piano). Elephant Revival’s Bonnie May Paine and singer-songwriter During the frenetic, raucous party that is SXSW, Isakov commanded the undiNathaniel Rateliff contributed backvided attention of a room of seated ground vocals, as did Julia Davis, Natalie music fans. At a recent sold-out show Tate and Reed Foehl. Jon Grigsby played bass, Will Schlatmann contributed accor- at The Bowery in New York City, one reviewer noted that the audience was dion, and Reyn Ouwehand played the “in the palm of his hand” and that odd mellotron part. “time slowed down as he played.” The musicians tracked the songs in When asked about how he manages the studio, but Isakov was picky. He to captivate audiences like he does, wanted to make a cohesive album, a Isakov doesn’t have an exact answer. complete one, and if he felt that a track “I think about it a lot. I think about didn’t fit the aesthetic he wanted, he the crowd a lot. I think about, I don’t chucked it. know, what I would want to hear, “Some songs didn’t really fit that maybe,” he says. “Music is such a perrecord. Even some stuff that we really were excited about,” he says. “We proba- sonal thing. I think I make it for one person. When I think about writing and bly threw away five or six songs. … You I think about recording, I think about always throw away stuff when you’re one person in their car, or listening to writing. I write a lot, and only just a litthe stereo in their kitchen. That’s how I tle bit makes it into a song. Then again, think about it; that’s how I relate to it. when there’s a good seed for something, “It’s a big honor to have someone it’s hard to tell if it’s going to live very take time out of their day and spend long. I sat on a lot of these songs before money on going to see a show. I really we tracked them. Played them live, like to respect that. This is valuable time; toured with the songs for awhile, felt I really take it seriously. … But I’m humreally good about this batch of songs.” bled by the fact that they’re there. I don’t He at least will have something cellike to squander that type of energy.” lared away for later. He completed an Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com EP that he will release next year. Boulder Weekly
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ot surprisingly for someone who co-owns and manages a tattoo parlor, Chelsea Pohl of Claw and Talon Tattoo in Boulder has some pretty significant ink running form her left shoulder down to her elbow. But it’s the two tattoos on the back of her ankles, the words “deep” and “roots,” surrounded by dots of different sizes and colors, that connect her to a community on the opposite side of the country. The words are part of poem written by poet Bianca Spriggs about Pohl’s hometown of Lexington, Ky. Pohl was one of 253 people to get part of the poem tattooed onto themselves as part of the Lexington Tattoo Project, and Pohl, who graduated from Naropa University in 2005, is starting a similar project in Boulder. The Boulder Tattoo Project seeks to foster conversation and a sense of community by celebrating the city of Boulder. Pohl commissioned poet Anne Waldman, a Naropa professor, to write an ode to the People’s Republic. The poem was released Aug. 1, and even before that, Pohl says many people had expressed interest in the project. “It invites conversations, and it invites connections,” Pohl says. “It’s all
about the love of the city and the community.” The project started with The Lexington Tattoo Project in Kentucky, and after some national press coverage, other cities, including Miami and Cincinnati in addition to Boulder, wanted to start similar projects. Each participant gets a word or phrase on their Chelsea Pohl body surrounded by a design of dots that, when combined with all the rest of the tattoos, will form a secret image. rush for certain phrases from the poem, Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova, but in Kentucky, only 15 or 20 people who started the Lexington project, will had to re-choose their tattoo. People design the tattoos. Words and phrases gravitated towards unusual words and will be assigned in the next few weeks, phrases, Pohl says. Someone even wantand the tattooing will start later this ed just a comma. year, Pohl says. Alongside the tattoos, Waldman receives the occasional Pohl wants to create a film of Waldman commission for a poem, for birthdays, reading the poem to music played by weddings, convocations and the like, (she hopes) local singer-songwriter but she says she has never written a Gregory Alan Isakov, set to a montage poem expressly for a human canvas. A of tattoos. The Knight Foundation, Boulder resident since 1976, Waldman which has funded Pohl’s project to the knew the poem should be an ode to the tune of $20,000, wants to make a fullcity, and the final poem, “Boulder on documentary of the various cities Zodiac,” contains 12 five-line stanzas, tackling the project. each tailored to the essence of the city You’d think there might be a mad and inspired by the astrological signs.
“It just seemed to clarify it a little more, just give it a little more substance and feasibility to specific choices people might have, rather than a poem and then you say, ‘OK, I like these two lines,’” Waldman says. “It just seemed to have more formal interest to me. It wouldn’t just be seen as an excerpt.” The poem is filled with images of nature and invokes the natural beauty of Boulder as well as its history and future. Local images abound, from mountain lions to the Pearl Street Mall to “slow growth ethos” to Walden Ponds. The final lines of the poem, “spiritual Boulder! aspirational Boulder! inspiring / with new age awareness slow growth ethos, reinventing / herself as the Scorpion does, grows back her tail in intricate / iteration, will not sting but seductively beckon….” imbue the city with a powerful attracting force, striking at the essence of the city that attracts so many see TATTOOS Page 34
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nuanced light, coyote yips full Sagittarian moon’s clear shadow you might spook yourself, seething centaur drawing up the Boulder dawn into your chest your lungs, take aim, it’s your own heart city of choice, of modernity, of ancient creeks a few miles from Continents’ Divide and Arapahoe mystic native lore, great-horned Capricious ones party here, where Rockies crash Great Plains where granite meets bone and Aquarius sheds his water semi-arid land thirsts for let it come down, sweet, dramatic, sudden let it gather and snow melt lift the Great Platte river is your life, your guardian
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largemouth bass got lucky, and then not so stocked out by Walden Pond, silvery, the Piscean transmigratory life, the way we see through water miles from it land-locked, but look up at primordial Flatirons, feel irony of topological wrench, of negative ions’ clarity, your mind stays high and clear leads the pack, you are Aries the “agrarian worker” and you settled here to see the future ride the terrifying Dark Age here in humility where poetry thrives, where a warm chinook carries gentle tread of the inscrutable bull down from Heaven, a Buddha, who stops and sits, Taurus mind of “negative capability,” comfortable in doubt, in curiosity, study of place, flora, fauna, every columbine flower, Indian Paintbrush, cottonwood tree, Stellar’s Jay mind doubles, being Gemini sees “both both” mirrored in struggle, flames licking at canyon mouth, flood warning crises at the gate! move to higher ground, rescue meteorological archive of topological shift, note coming hard times, scarcity of water on diffident Crab whose job is to scuttle over surface, dig in, soul mate to the prairie dog perhaps who surveys the environs with keen eye, raise a ruckus! for mountain lion also, be sure to go asymmetrical not turn your body, make loud noise, back away honor his kinghood in these parts, roaming Bald Mountain, O hungry Leo, lokapala of this berg citizens, guard your house pets, do not be careless honor the great open space, honor semblance of wilderness Virgin wildflower, first bud of spring, close to tundra once ocean and you feel pull of tide another equinoctial moon over the downtown Mall, Tibet’s magic shop, bookstore to browse, diverse eateries share the wealth, education, sporting life, don’t mess with balance of tolerance, keep Scales aligning, remember habitat is your ecos- your house, your hearth- your ecology – your health tip the scales and you go down, Libra, stay wise, proactive, run the marathon, save the planet from itself, do no harm, transcendent friend! spiritual Boulder! aspirational Boulder! inspiring with new age awareness slow growth ethos, reinventing herself as the Scorpion does, grows back her tail in intricate iteration, will not sting but seductively beckon…. Memorial Day 2013 People’s Republic of Boulder, Copyright 2013 by Anne Waldman
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here’s some undeniable peril ferent. I’m actually real big into Bob “For a long time, especially when we in tapping a rock song refer- Dylan, kind of folkie stuff, and Chris were getting started, it was hard to get ence to name your band. [Wilke], our bass player, he’s the guy gigs, in my opinion, because we weren’t The casual listener may who’s into more modern music like Dead-oriented or Phish-oriented, and mistake you for a tribute Mars Volta and bands like that. that kind of seemed to be what most band (and conversely, if you are a trib“But that late-’60s, early-’70s thing people were after. The other bands that ute band, you’re more or less compelled is where we all kind of find common are playing with us on Saturday are to do it), and the obsessive-retentive ground, and when we’re jamming, that’s bands whose music we really enjoy as types are likely to throw a flag if you when it really starts to resonate.” well, and they kind of hit the same disappoint them with mer- Mary Robinson | MonkeyBethMedia.com chord. They’re not really chandise defiantly dissimijam or funk bands either. lar to your presumed inspi“And I like jambands, ration. and I like funk bands. I just Drummer Mike Roth don’t think doesn’t seem too worried there’s enough On the Bill: Eugene’s Axe about it, though. Eugene’s psychedelic plays the Fox Theatre on Axe has a lengthy enough rock ’n’ roll Saturday, Aug. 3. Doors at 7 p.m. 8 Foot Orphan and Some history playing small-stage being played Friends of Mine open. Tickets gigs in the area, and the today, so I’m are $5 in advance, $7 day of reference is nicked from the happy to kind show, plus $2 for under-21 tickets. title of a pretty obscure of represent Pink Floyd song (“Careful that if I can. With That Axe, Eugene”) … And it kind dating to the band’s preof sounds like a cliché a litDark Side of the Moon days, tle bit, but it really is kind when they were still frying of a dream come true for us college-student brains in to play on that stage. Birmingham, England. Definitely a milestone for The fact is, the band’s us.” reference isn’t really likely to Roth, who writes ficresonate with much of its tion on the side and also club-crawling demographic plays guitar, is one of those (the band’s Bandcamp page rare animals: a lead vocalist explains the term). It’s just a drummer. On the big name, a token of the trio’s stage, who do you have? shared affinity for lateDon Henley. Phil Collins. ’60s/early-’70s classicism, Louie Pérez, back in the even if their own original day. Uh … uh … help us material moves between out here. heady, riff-centric, club“Levon Helm,” Roth sized trio rock to moody, cuts in. Of course, Levon. meditative indie impresRIP. sionism. Psychedelia, But seriously … what’s strained through a filter of up with the drummer-aspost-Seattle and post-shoevocalist thing? gazer disaffection. For Eugene’s Axe, who got their “I like the three-piece arrangeBut Roth and the band’s appreciastart in 2005 but are just re-engaging ment,” Roth says. “The three of us are tion for that era extends beyond mere after a couple-year layoff (Roth and his in a like mind, and if two guys disrote archivalism — it’s a common point wife had a daughter), an upcoming agree, there’s always one deciding vote, of reference for three players who othSaturday night gig at the Fox represents y’know? It kind of works for us. … All erwise have fairly divergent aesthetic a threshold, and maybe a little vindicathe drummers we knew were [already] inclinations. tion that an original-material rock trio in bands, we were getting gigs and “So, our guitar player Chuck [Nilan] can actually punch some holes in the always had new material to write and is a big Keith Richards fan,” Roth funk and ’grass and house music scene play, and after a while it just kind of explains. “He kind of introduced me to that some think dominate the live scene became ‘us.’ I started doing it because the [Rolling] Stones. Floyd and in Boulder. we had just formed and there were no Zeppelin and the Doors … that’s kind “Truthfully, it’s always been kind of vocals. I gave my shot at it and it kind of where the three of us meet. an uphill battle for us in Boulder,” Roth of stuck.” Otherwise, the three of us are very difRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com says. Boulder Weekly
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Mobiles
Rules and boundaries sometimes have a way of freeing the creative mind. Photographer Kevin Hoth likens the technological limitations of a smartphone camera to that of a Polaroid, and there is an opening reception for his mobile phone photography on Thursday, Aug. 1. 6 p.m. madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-927-0802. Thursday, August 1
Left Food Green. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
music Afortunado. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. HARD Red Rocks — featuring Knife Party, Diplo, Disclosure and Flosstradamus. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Rapidgrass Quintet. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Intuit. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
She Said String Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Jerry Band — Beatles tribute. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-4448448.
Steepwater. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
John Scofield Uberjam Band. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kort McCumber. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Wandering Natives. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Willis Alan Ramsey. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
events
Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Dirty Wars. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Mobiles opening reception — Photography by Kevin Hoth. 6 p.m. madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-927-0802.
Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152.
Brit Floyd — “The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show.” 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Friday, August 2 music
Casey James Prestwood. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Atomic Pablo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Dustin Pittsley. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Big Paddy. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
see EVENTS Page 40 Greg Lefcourt
Mario Zoots
Thursday, Aug. 1: Expert talks with Mario Zoots, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 6 p.m.
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Saturday, Aug. 3: Leftapalooza, Left Hand Brewing Company, 12 p.m.
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BMoCA exhibiting artist Mario Zoots and his friend and fellow artist Mark Sink will talk art, creativity and the tricks of his artsy trade. The Denver-based collage and photography artist began making collage for a simple reason: lack of space in his small apartment. He is recognized for his mysterious and psychologically challenging images that combine collage and digital manipulation. His talk at BMoCA supplements the museum’s Cut & Paste exhibit, which showcases his black-and-white collage work.
It’s always the right time to indulge in beer and oldies-but-goodies.The third annual Leftapalooza from Left Hand Brewing Company will feature abundant beer and local cover bands playing a range of music, from Journey to Weezer. Proceeds will benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The nine performing tribute bands will compete for one hell of a first-place prize: a show at the Boulder Theater.
Sunday, Aug. 4: Roda de Samba and Brazilian BBQ, Boulder Beer Company, 1 p.m.
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Hosted by Colorado Samba School and the final event of Colorado Brazil Fest 2013, this Sunday afternoon event will offer Brazilian outdoor barbecue, a live samba music jam, dancing and surprise performances by festival artists.
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arts Through Aug. 2.
Chad Colby’s Coleigma Epitera evokes taxonomical classification, but on closer inspection is merely whimsical. Russ Croop
Barbara Yates Beasley, Rob Wardell. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000.
BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Oct. 27. Bunny Rosenthal Rubin. Boulder Public Library Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28. Coleigma Epitera — With Chad Colby. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 11. Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15. Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Through Sept. 3. Historic Photographic Exhibit: Revealing Our Routes: Women of Boulder County. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through Aug. 17. Latitude=45 Longtitude=122 — with Liz Obert. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-
7826. Through Aug. 16. Manic Botanic — With botanic art by Julie Clement and Mary McCauley. The Dairy Center for the Arts, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 11. Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25. Sequentially Speaking:The Art of Comic Books — Graphic art by Samantha Reveley and David Balan. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 24. Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 22. This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8. Threads of Change: Colorado Textiles Now. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303279-3922. Through Aug. 1. Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Sept. 8.
EVENTS from Page 39 Ginga. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.
Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
The Goonies & Issovee. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Inspiring Pet Stories & Animal Communication Techniques. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center. 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.
Isa and Joe Alan. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
saturday night!
John Lee Hooker blues band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Madeleine Peyroux. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Poeina. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. PoliCulture. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Rapid Grass Quintet. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Sarah Donner. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Stories We Tell. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Saturday, August 3 music Avocat. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bluegrass Delta Force. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Cameron Powers Project: Dancing With The Shadow Side. 7:30 p.m. Trident Booksellers & Café, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Colorado Brazil Fest Finale Show. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Daniel Ondaro Group. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Adventures in Animal Behavior — Lectures and interactive presentations. 9 a.m. Various locations on CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-6892.
Eugene’s Axe. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Aerial Dance Festival — Through Aug. 10. Various venues. Visit www.frequentflyers.org for more info. Boulder County Fair — Through Aug. 11. Visit http:// bouldercountyfair.org for a complete schedule. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Cocktails and Card Tricks — With Brandon K Parker. 6:30 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303444-2260.
Flint Blade. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Jaden Carlson blues band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. John Lee Hooker Jr. blues band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Leftapalooza. 12 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company,
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events 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Magpie’s Duo with Ken Stevens. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847.
Gregory Alan Isakov CD Release. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Jazz Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Maria Vasquez. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Monocle. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
New Sound Underground. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Pete Stein. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Ryan McGarvey. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Songs, Words, Beats and Reels. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Shane Dooley, Sam Rae Sidwell and Jessica Johnson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Safe nurturing with no expectations & clear boundaries.
The Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.
Ladies 1/2 price special for new customers.
Soul-A-Billy. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Steve Itterly solo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. Th3rd Bridge. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company. 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152. Thievery Corporation — with Toro y Moi and Art Department. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Zimmermans. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
events Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Paula Poundstone. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Renoir. 3:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Volunteer training for those interested in joining the Circles Campaign — RSVP required. 9 a.m. East Boulder Senior Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, Boulder, 303441-1503. Yoga on the Rocks. 6 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Sunday, August 4
Truckstop Honeymoon. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Toktral Dechen. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Saturday, Aug. 3 The Highway — by C.J. Box. 2 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder,
Free First Sundays. 12 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.
Monday, August 5 music Bruno Mars. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Indigo Girls. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, Aug. 7
303-444-0349. Leaving Annalise — by Pamela Fagan Hutchins. 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.
The Good Life Lab — by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Sunday, Aug. 4
Wednesday, July 31
The Genius of Earth Day — by Adam Rome. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Foraging the Rocky Mountains — by Liz Brown Morgan. 7:30 p.m. Historic Lodo Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303436-1070.
Natalie Giarratano. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry
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Leaving Annalise — by Pamela Fagan Hutchins. 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.
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Butterflies and Other Flying Creatures. 9 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Open Space Lichen Loop Trail, North of Boulder off Lefthand Canyon Drive, 303-678-6214.
Wendy Jehanara Tremayne’s The Good Life Lab tells the story of a couple who ditched their high-pressure careers for the “good life.”
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The Joints. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mathias and the Crooked Streets. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
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The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Bruno Mars. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
High Plains Garden Talks: Mid-Season Troubleshooting. 6:30 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.
Elephant Revival - With Members of the Colorado Festival Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Stories We Tell. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
The Groovetramps. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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50 Shades Of Loud. Heritage Square Music Hall,18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303-2797800. Through Sept. 8. Cabaret. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Oct. 6.
Fiddler On The Roof — Presented by the Phamaly Theatre Company. The Space Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Aug. 11.
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Legendary singer/songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey is bringing his unique version of Americana to Boulder County, and it shouldn’t be missed. Ramsey is a cult legend. In 1972, Leon Russell’s Shelter Records recorded Ramsey’s first and only album released to date. That album has become the stuff of legend for a couple of reasons. First, it has been critically acclaimed as one of the best debut albums ever, as evidenced by the folks who have covered the music on it over the years, including Widespread Panic, Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, Shawn Colvin and Jimmy Buffett. And second, because although he has been touring, writing great new music and even recording that music for four decades since his last album came out, he has yet to offer up that elusive second album. Why? I don’t know or really care. I’ll take a singer/songwriter who cares more about the music than the industry any day. And this way, you never know exactly what you’re going to hear when you go to one of his shows. But you can count on a great mix of old and new. Ramsey is truly a unique talent, and the opportunity to see him in an intimate setting like Nissi’s is too good to pass up. — Joel Dyer
Macbeth — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Ampitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4920554. Through Aug. 10. A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554.Through Aug. 11.
Richard II — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 11. Romeo & Juliet — Longmont Theatre Company, various locations, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Aug. 18. Triumph of Love — Centerstage Theatre Company, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720320-6692. Through Aug. 11. The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 31. Wonder of the World — Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Sept. 1.
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events 1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Bobby Doran. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Preschool Yoga and Storytime: Creepy Crawly Critters. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Stamp Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Janine Gastineu and Mitchell Long. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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The JV3. 5:30 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-1582. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Neko Case, Ozomatli, The Wild Feathers & Tom Odell. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Nokuthula. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Pete Katsounes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Phoenix — with Dinosaur Jr. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
events Cinema Program — Free screening of Packed and Heart of Gold Hill. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hike at Sunset — Heil Valley Ranch. 6:30 p.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Boulder, 303-678-6214. Introduction to Digital Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Novel, Sweets and Spirits on the Green: Storytime for Grown-Ups with Dessert and Beer — With author/musician Sharon Glassman. 7 p.m. La Momo Maes Bakery, 624 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-834-8502. Peter Pan. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Stories We Tell. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Smurfs turn to their human friends for help rescuing Smurfette from an evil wizard. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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It has the acting. Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, and Bill Paxton star in this “dirty cops out to screw each other” saga of drugs and money. Many a plot twist and lots of action in this one. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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The Attack Israeli Palestinian surgeon Amin Jaafari’s picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves 19 dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. At Chez Artiste.— Landmark Theatres
Before Midnight
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick’s classic exploration of violence adapted from the Anthony Burgess’s novel. Not many films come with their own language, but this one does. Rated R. Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Cockneys vs Zombies The Bow Bells Care Home is under threat and the McGuire’s — Andy, Terry, and Katy — need to find some way to keep their grandfather and his friends in the East End, where they belong. But, when you’re robbing a bank, zombie invasions makes things a lot harder. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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Grateful Dead Meet Up: Sunshine Daydream This Deadhead meet up features Sunshine Daydream, the band’s single most requested release. NR. At Century
Grown Ups 2 This sequel to Grown Ups features Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade learning lessons from their kids on the last day of school. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.
The Heat A foul-mouthed, dirty methods cop (played by Melissa McCarthy) is forced to team up with a suit-wearing, micro-managing FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) to go after a drug lord. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
for middle class families, offering all mod cons. Except, that is, for the kids, left to find the usual entertainment of drugs, drink and sex in a run-down prefab ‘rec’. When this last haven is threatened with demolition, adolescent high spirits and bad behavior result in nihilist rage and rebellion. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Pacific Rim When giant monsters rise from the Pacific Ocean, mankind turns to massive robots piloted by soldiers to defeat them. The robots aren’t enough, however, and an unlikely team must find a way to save mankind. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Paris Opera Ballet: Mahler’s 3rd Symphony Ballet
When disturbing things start happening at the Perron family’s farmhouse, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine must step in to help the famiy. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Hunt This film is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, written as “a great hymn to the glory of all creation,” combined with John Neumeier’s lyrical and powerful choreography, creates an elegant and inspired evening of dance. Simon Hewetti conducts. From the Opera de Paris, captured live on April 18, 2013. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Michael Cera teams up with maverick writer/director Sebastian Silva in an offbeat comedy/drama about young people trying to discover themselves. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
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Passengers are put in a precarious situation aboard a plane flying from Spain to Mexico City when a landing gear failure endangers their lives. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Despicable Me 2
While trying to clear his name, Frank must defuse a Cold War project involving an activated nuclear weapon in Russia. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Lone Ranger
It’s time for more Minion madness as this animated sequal starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and others is sure to be a family favorite. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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There is much action and killing as the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) take to the western landscape in this TV to cinema redo. Rated PG13. A Colony Square.
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Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America’s expanding covert wars. It’s the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. This is a battle cry for the soul and conscience of an America few of us know exists. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
This is an epic portrait of the rise and fall of British nudie theater impresario Paul Raymond. The symbol of Soho, sex and sophistication from the swinging 60s to the 80s, Raymond almost single-handedly rewrote the cultural history of the U.K. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, this atmospheric drama tells the story of the celebrated Impressionist painter. In declining health at age 74, his middle son, Jean, returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. Both father and son fall under the spell of the free-spirited young Andree, who will be Renoir’s last model. Their home and countryside grounds reverberate with the enchanting and headstrong young muse. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training and their attempts to join the best fraternity. Rated G. At Colony Square.
Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, wakes up on the morning of Dec. 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Girl Most Likely Failed New York playwright Imogene Duncan is forced to move back in with her New Jersey family after both her personal and professional lives hit the skids. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Stories We Tell In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Still Mine
Jesse and Celine first met in their 20s in Before Sunrise, reunited in their 30s in Before Sunset and now, in director/co-writer Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, they face the past, present and future. Rated R. At Century, Mayan, Esquire and Boedecker. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
When the crew of the Enterprise returns to earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space pals to a forbidding prison planet to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
Monsters University
Only God Forgives Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling reunite for this intense crime drama set in Thailand, following a powerful crime boss seeking bitter vengeance for the murder of her son. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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R.I.P.D. Detective Nick Walker is recruited into the Rest in Peace Department, which is tasked with protecting the living from evil spirits, after a fatal accident. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Secret Disco Revolution Beneath the reverberating vocals, frenetic strobe lights and four-on-the-floor beat, there was a neon epiphany waiting to emerge. This humorous and insightful investigation into the much-maligned genre takes up the claim that disco was in fact a misunderstood culture of protest and a movement of mass liberation for some of American society’s most marginalized citizens: women, AfricanAmericans, and gay men. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
In his first lead role after decades of playing supporting characters, James Cromwell (The Artist, L.A. Confidential) gives a tour de force performance in Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Based on true events and laced with wry humor, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of independent farmer Craig Morrison (Cromwell), who sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold). Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Terms and Conditions May Apply Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billiondollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your secrets, and they’re not only selling the information to the highest bidder, but also sharing it with the government. At SIE Film Center. — Denver Film Society
The To Do List See full review page 46. Rated R. At Century.
Turbo Theo the garden snail’s racing dreams come true when an accident with nitrous oxide gives him the power of incredible speed. His newfound talent inspires him to try to win the Indianapolis 500. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Unfinished Song Unfinished Song is a funny and inspiring comedic drama about curmudgeonly pensioner Arthur, who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local seniors choir. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Way, Way Back A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy, Duncan, begins his transition into adulthood over the course of one transformative summer. Rated PG-13. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
When Comedy Went to School Why are there so many Jewish comedians? When Comedy Went to School answers this question with an entertaining portrait of this country’s greatest generation of comics — the generation that includes Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl and Jerry Stiller, all of whom make appearances in the film, delivering jokes and telling their personal stories. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Wolverine Logan must travel to Japan to battle an old acquaintance while stripped of his immortality. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
World War Z As the zombie apocalypse hits, a retired UN worker must find a way to stop the pandemic and save the world. Rated PG-13. At Century.
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efore anything else: How great is Aubrey Plaza, right? From her droll, intentionally weird character on NBC’s Parks and Recreation to her killer late-night TV interviews (just watch the last one with Conan O’Brien if you doubt), Plaza is deliciously and completely secure in herself. She draws focus to gender conformities and then pisses on them, both flaunting and completely masking her sexuality. She’s the kind of actress and comedian who just needs to get spectacularly, stupidly famous for so many reasons. Unfortunately, it’s probably not going to be because of The To Do List. Oh, it could have been. If writer/director Maggie Carey’s film were just a hair tighter, only slightly less clunky and inconsistent, it could have been a sister film to Easy A, which helped truly launch Emma Stone. But unlike that superior film, The To Do List is sometimes measurably un-clever and repetitive, launching torrents of uninspired vulgarity just to see what sticks to the comedy wall and running through various sexual scenarios when fewer would have had the same effect. Plaza plays Brandy Klark, who just graduated as the valedictorian of her high school in 1993. She’s a mathlete, so sex is an abstract idea to her. When her friends, Fiona (Alia Shawkat) and Wendy (Sarah Steele), trick her into going to a kegger, she meets Rusty Waters (Scott Porter). Rusty is maybe the greatest character in The To Do List; after countless shallow, big-chested girls next door have prompted sexual revolutions in the pants of cinematic male teenagers, Rusty is the first “himbo” to serve the same role. Brandy immediately decides she wants him to
punch her “V card.” But she has to be prepared, which means gathering sexual experience. With notes from her slutty sister, Amber (Rachel Bilson), and surprisingly open mother (Connie Britton), Brandy compiles a list of dirty activities to perform before college and uses pals Duffy (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Derrick (Donald Glover) and lovelorn Cameron ( Johnny Simmons). While her prudish father (Clark Gregg) and manchild manager at work (Bill Hader) try to look out for her, Brandy repeatedly demonstrates she needs no such guidance. The moral of The To Do List appears to be “sex is important and unimportant,” which is a pretty real and sophisticated message rarely spoken in a language intended to reach both genders. Unfortunately, the trappings are clumsy. It’s not that hearing Bilson and Plaza dump truckloads of F-bombs or seeing a female character finally demonstrate sexual ownership is a bad thing; it’s that it’s not done all that well. Pushing raunchy boundaries can yield great comedy, but poop gets eaten in this. Poop. Gets eaten. The To Do List feels like the first draft of a classic comedy. But plot strands get away (like Bilson and her fiancé), situations are redundant (Brandy didn’t need to cover four different sex acts with three different guys when only one of them was funny) and the end result is a mixed bag of sexual empowerment and stupidity. Don’t worry though: Ms. Plaza will break through, one way or another. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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he taco has deep, traditional roots that go back as early as 18thcentury Mexico, and still today those same flavors can be found at traditional Mexican restaurants across the United States and in Boulder County. But in recent years, more and more restaurants have popped up around the Denver metro area that offer a different, creative version of the beloved Mexican tradition, essentially developing a new style of Latin cuisine. From Hawaiian to Southern barbecue flavors, restaurants are experimenting with tacos, trying to offer something unique and bring more people in their doors. Nowhere is this trend toward creativity more evident than at one of Denver’s newest “Mexican” restaurants, Moontower Tacos. At Moontower, some of the menu items — which include six breakfast tacos, two beef and pork options, six very different chicken options and two seafood and veggie tacos — resemble traditional Mexican tacos in tortilla only. There’s the Doggfather, with fried chicken, bacon and a waffle in a flour tortilla; the Gangnam Style, pork with fresh slaw and crushed peanuts; and the Jim Bob for breakfast, eggs and brisket with smashed potatoes in a tortilla. The owner of Moontower, Brent Thrash, is a CU-Boulder alumnus who traveled around the world to all seven continents, falling in love with the different varieties of street foods he found along the way. Thrash then incorporated international flavors and
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sauces to combine with traditional taco meats and vegetables into his Moontower menu. “There is a lot of good, authentic Mexican food in Denver and Boulder, but the idea here was to go away from that,” Thrash says. “Tacos in theory are Mexican, but we’re doing something completely different, we’re not trying to be authentic in any way.” He says the menu gets great feedback partly because Moontower is simply different. “I think people love the concept and the idea of not-your-average street and Mexican tacos,” Thrash says. “Some people probably don’t understand it yet because they expect authentic tacos when they see a taco shop, but people do love it.”
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Other restaurants and chefs see Moontower’s concept as an interesting way to create tacos, and also a new style of cuisine that somewhat takes away from the roots from which Latin cuisine originated. Meanwhile, Enrique Socarras, executive chef at Boulder’s Centro Latin restaurant, says he focuses on the roots of the dish. “Preservation of the Cou rtesy roots of all of the dishes that of Big Red F we make is very important to me,” Socarras says. “I don’t want to lose sight of what we’re doing, and really what’s intriguing about Latin food is the cultural aspect of it, and once we lose sight of that, then we’re just creating our own cuisine, and that’s not what we’re trying to do.” At Centro, flavors cover a wide spectrum, from the traditional carnitas to the more creative flavors of shrimp and masa fried avocado. “Whatever we offer, whether it’s a taco or an entrée, we really have to look at the customer base that’s walking through the door,” says Socarras. “I think although they want to come in and have the Latin cuisine, what is going to separate us from all the other Mexican restaurants in Boulder and Denver? We have to set ourselves apart a little bit so we try to do everything as craftsman as possible.” One of the most authentic Mexican restaurants in the Boulder area is Restaurante 100% Mexicano, see TACOS Page 52
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The baby Goat is born
Just in time for a baby royal to be born, Boulder has its very own baby to celebrate. The Laughing Goat opened its new location, The Goat at the Garage, on July 13 and hosted a grand opening with its partner and neighbor, the Green Garage. The new and unexpected pair are located at 55th and Pearl. Also located on the CU campus in Norlin Hall, The Laughing Goat carries Denver-roasted, premium-estate, shade-grown organic and Fair Trade Certified coffee from the Kaladi Brothers. The new location will also serve the local air-roasted coffee, and, according to a press release, offers quiet views overlooking Valmont Butte as well as easy access to Goose Creek Bike Path and Boulder Creek Bike Path. “What I love is the unique opportunity we have to be catalysts and curators of community,” says Laughing Goat co-owner Johnny Jenkins. “I love watching the relationships with and between all our regulars deepen and evolve. A lot of new creative and vital relationships are being formed, as well as many being renewed.”
Feta takes on Longmont
Murray’s Cheese Shops have teamed up with Mediterranean lifestyle expert Tara Brennan to celebrate the arrival of Real Greek Feta, an artisan cheese made from sheep’s
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milk. Brennan, author of the bestselling cookbook Scoop It Chop It Cook It, will be at the South Hover King Soopers in Longmont on Sunday, Aug. 11. According to a press release, she will demonstrate how to prepare an assortment of feta dishes, including salads, appetizers and summer-ready snacks. Through a partnership with Greek cheese advocate Pantelis Rapanakis, president of ODIPPAF, the organization charged with protecting and promoting Greek PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) feta cheese, Murray’s is endeavoring to keep the ancient tradition of feta alive. With a one-pound purchase of Real Greek Feta, the first 48 attendees at the 995 S. Hover Street King Soopers will receive a complimentary copy of Brennan’s cookbook, which contains 36 Mediterranean recipes.
IHOP doesn’t waffle when it comes to waffles
For those too “sophisticated” for pancakes with funny faces, IHOP has introduced its new Belgian waffle in three flavors — Berries & Cream, Cherries & Cream and Bananas & Cream. “Waffles have always been an important part of the IHOP heritage, and as we’ve done with our Brioche French Toast and Signature Pancakes this year, we’ve found a way to bring this beloved favorite to a completely different level,” Senior Vice President of Marketing Natalia Franco says in a press release. This decadent breakfast option will only be available in restaurants through Sept. 8, so IHOP urges patrons to indulge sooner rather than later. However, the kid in all of us may still insist that we order the Funny Face Pancake, just for good measure. The Boulder IHOP is
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Vail’s Gourmet on Gore returns to Vail Village for Labor Day Weekend
Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, the last time to wear white or seersucker, rampant sales and — for those who remember the holiday for its origins — a celebration of the economic and social contributions of workers. This Labor Day weekend, the eighth annual open-air culinary and beverage festival Gourmet on Gore will hit Gore Creek Drive and Bridge Street in Vail to showcase Vail Valley’s restaurants. The event promises live music as well as a variety of food and drinks. The event is free of charge and open to the public. Gourmet on Gore will kick things off with a tasting tour on Friday, Aug. 20, and end on Sunday with Brunch on Bridge Street. Chef demonstrations, mixology seminars and abundant food and drink will add to the epicurean atmosphere, according to a press release. If you attend, make the most of your last few days to wear a white suit.
Bistro 503 grand opening salsa celebration
Bistro 503 recently relocated to the Lafayette Marketplace, next to Jax Ranch & Home, on the south side of South Boulder Road. The restaurant, which offers a variety of South American cuisine, will celebrate its expansion into a larger space on Friday, July 26. Bistro 503 will host Grupo Quemando, a salsa and merengue band, starting at 9 p.m. “Bistro 503 prides itself in creating worldly creations with fresh, high-quality ingredients that are typical international cuisine. We are honored to host Grupo Quemando, presenting a variety of music that complements our dining experience,” says Bistro 503 owner Ado Salguero in a press release. The restaurant is now located at 400 W. South Boulder Road in Lafayette.
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scratch when you order. It was also clear Thai Shi only Thai Shi House prepares small quantities at a 3033 28th St., time for their serving table, Boulder so I wasn’t worried that my 303-444-3133 meal had sat out for an extended period. As a matter of fact, the chicken Pad Thai tray was empty when I ordered, and minutes later, a server brought me a freshly prepared, piping hot and generously sized portion. Thai Shi’s interpretation holds its own with most other versions in town, featuring piquant but not overwhelming fish sauce seasoning, tender poultry and a bright squeezing of lime juice. My other option, a ginger tofu curry, was an addictive blend of sweet coconut coupled with everyone’s favorite perky rhizome. While the sauce was Street. This predominantly Thai and Japanese eatery serves a number of spe- a bit on the sweet side, partially due to the addition of several pineapple cials for the price-conscious. These include a Monday-through-Friday patio chunks, it didn’t detract from my enjoydeal consisting of dollar beers, $2 green ment of the fried polygons of tofu. Carin’s similar choice of tofu in red salads, and $3 California rolls served curry was similarly flavorful and also from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. made for a satisfying selection. Her secAt lunchtime, they offer an $8.95 ond dish, a mix of chicken and eggspecial consisting of white or brown plant, spotlighted a luxuriously textured rice and a choice of two Thai entrees, vegetable, resplendent in purple. The including several curries, such as the effect was a much richer-tasting dish potato and squash-laced Massamon. than the ingredients would indicate, For those with smaller appetites, a cheaper, single entree plate is also avail- making for a winning choice. To round things out, we also split a able. Colleague Carin and I both $9.95 sushi special, consisting of two ordered the two-entree deal. rolls and a choice of soft drink or miso Service is cafeteria style, and I inisoup. We went for the miso soup, tially was a touch wary of this presentawhich had a more nuanced and not tion mode. I realized then that my woroverly salty taste that was a pleasant ries were also unfounded, as most Thai surprise at this price point. While our restaurant curries aren’t cooked from
Thai that won’t break the bank by Clay Fong
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llowing for very few exceptions, one of the chief tenets of my culinary belief system is that Asian food should be reasonably priced. This preference originates from a childhood consisting of many Friday night meals in Oakland Chinatown that clocked in at around $20 for the entire family. Nowadays, I might make a cost-related exception for a sushi feast or the occasional high-end Asian establishment like San Francisco’s Vietnamese-inspired Slanted Door, but that’s about it. Fact is, I still bristle over any bahn mi sandwich that costs more than $2. One Boulder spot that amply satisfies my sense of food-related thrift is Thai Shi House, located at the intersection of Valmont Road and 28th
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peaking of Japanese culinary arts, I recently had a friend bring back a santoku kitchen knife from famed Tokyo maker Tsukiji Masamoto. In my kitchen, I prefer Japanese blades versus their heavier German equivalents. A santoku is a general-purpose kitchen tool that is slightly less versatile than a Western-style chef’s knife or its Japanese equivalent, the gyuto. The santoku makes short work of slicing and dicing fruits and vegetables, but its sheepsfoot design prevents a cook from rocking the blade up and down. However, the lighter, thinner blade compensates by making for a livelier feel in hand.
twin rolls of yellowtail and salmon weren’t particularly fancy, the fish tasted uniformly fresh and clean, and the short-grain rice was properly seasoned. The price was comparable to supermarket sushi, but I felt it to be a superior alternative for the money, which more or less sums up Thai Shi House’s chief virtue. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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which offers a variety of traditional Mexican flavors, including tamales, gorditas, ceviche and, of course, freshly made tacos. “People are always looking for something new and different. That’s just how people are, especially in Boulder,” says Restaurante 100% Mexicano owner Shawn Camden. “So many people come from different places, and people want real, authentic Mexican and not the exotic restau- Courtesy of Big Red F rants that are sometimes, honestly, over-priced.” Camden’s tacos are sold individually at $1.75. Along with asada (grilled steak) and barbacoa (shredded beef ), 100% offers traditional ingredients less commonly seen in the U.S., like tripas (cow tripe), buche (pork throat) and lengua (cow tongue). Camden emphasizes the importance of maintaining the true, authentic Latin flavors at his restaurant, but he says he isn’t opposed to interpretation and innovation. “I’m all for experimenting with food and being creative and coming up with something different as long as it tastes good,” Camden says. “I think it’s good to be creative, that’s what is so exciting about food. The sky is the limit. It’s like music, you create new things, and some taste great and some don’t, and creative
tacos are a fun new thing.” One Boulder restaurant that has nothing at all to do with Latin cuisine, The Rib House, has joined in on the creative taco bandwagon and has been very successful in attracting in people through its doors on Tuesdays, when its Southern pork tacos are $1 each. The Southern pork taco features a hard shell stuffed with owner Tracy Webb’s famous illegal rib meat that is topped with cole slaw and cornbread crumblings. Webb says it’s a rather unusual combination for a taco, but it’s tasty, and selling them for a dollar gets more people in his doors. “It’s not a money-maker, but it makes people happy,” Webb says. “People come in, they try the tacos, and they find out how good our food is, and they come in and spend their money on another day. So I think the best plan is to give people a deal. Give them good food at a price they like, and make them happy, and they’ll keep coming.” In Boulder and Denver, the taco’s deep historical roots are clearly starting to change, as some chefs have begun approaching the tortilla as if it were a blank canvas, allowing creativity to flourish. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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here’s nothing I like more than an odd couple. And there are plenty of unexpected pairings at Odd13 Brewing Company, the next brewery to join Boulder County’s ever-growing list when it holds its grand opening Aug. 3. The contradictions begin right when you pull up. Odd13 has goals as lofty as any new brewery in Boulder — barrel-aging Steve Weishampel beers, six or more taps running, covering all styles from stout to Belgian to rye IPA, live music, arcade games — yet this is the most neighborly of neighborhood breweries. Directly across the street from the historic Mary Miller Theater, Odd13 occupies an unassuming little building that formerly housed a plumbing company. Co-owners Ryan and Kristin Scott gutted the interior, Kristin Scott says, and have spent months renovating the building. So while the brewery has lofty goals — and, as a veteran homebrewer, Ryan Scott is capable of getting there — it’s also filling the role of neighborhood bar. Kristin Scott describes conversations with neighbors about controlling the volume of music and making sure everyone has parking available — the kinds of things that don’t really come up when you open on Pearl Street or in a warehouse. Then there’s the motif. In its marketing and promotions, Odd13 has established itself as Boulder County’s first theme brewery. A banner in Odd13’s window encourages passersby to “Meet the Odd Squad” when the brewery opens Aug. 3. The Odd Squad isn’t just Odd13’s four year-round beers; it’s a group of four superheroes that “attack blandness with hop character and lack of color/flavor with malt complexity,” Odd13’s website says. Then there are the five villains, the Legion of Odd, that will regularly rotate on 54 August 1, 2013
Odd13’s taps, and two Sidekicks, rarities that Odd13 says “are often sour, very hoppy, or otherwise difficult to craft.” So this neighborhood bar is the battleground of superheroes and villains. And, in another contradiction, the battle is curated by co-owners as friendly and down-to-earth as any brewers around. Kristin Scott gives me a tour before other preview invitees arrive, but even once they do, Kristin and Ryan frequently step out from behind the bar to show people around the fermentation tanks and outdoor patio. By the time Odd13 opens, three of the four Odd Squad members should be on tap. At the July 27 preview, I got to try two, the Coal Miner’s Cuzzin oatmeal stout and the Eric the Red India Red Ale. The stout, weighing in at only 4.4 percent ABV, is smooth, creamy and simple, and as much as I love a good Russian imperial, it’s nice to see a stout I could order a second of. Eric the Red, meanwhile, is not playing around; it’s hoppy and sharp, with some citrus flavors. Also on tap for the preview was the Succubus Belgian golden strong ale, a Legion of Odd member that, like most Belgian strong ales, is extremely sneaky. It’s so good, refreshing, light, bubbly, delicious — and 8.2 ABV, before you start liking it too much. Odd13 also had a variation on the stout, Buzzin Cuzzin, made with coffee grounds but still mild and subtle. And speaking of buzz, people’s eagerness for Odd13 helps prove Lafayette is more than ready for more beer. Odd13 fans lined up to ask for invites when Odd13 posted on Facebook about the preview event. And with the grand opening just days away? That’s a lot of hype. Sounds like a job for the Odd Squad. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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through phases when we could have uttered a similar statement. But I doubt that this is one of those times for you, Libra. On the contrary. I suspect your heart is very smart right now — poised and lucid and gracious. In fact, I suggest you regard the messages coming from your heart as more trustworthy than any other part of you — wiser than your head and your gut and
To add zest to mealtime, you might choose food that has been seasoned Go to RealAstrology.com to check out with red chile peppers, Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO cumin or other piquant HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE flavors. Some chimpanzees HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes have a similar inclination, which is why they like are also available by phone at 1-877to snack on red fire ants. 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing you are currently in a phase when your attraction your genitals put together. to spicy things is at a peak — not just for dinner but in other areas of your life as well. I have a suggestion: Pursue rowdy SCORPIO fun with adventures that have metaphorical resemblances Oct. 23-Nov. 21: to red chile peppers, but stay away from those that are like The Holy Grail of skateboarding tricks is called the 1080. red fire ants. To pull it off, a skateboarder has to do three complete 360-degree revolutions in mid-air and land cleanly. No one TAURUS had ever pulled it off until 12-year-old Tom Schaar did it April 20-May 20: in 2012. Since then, two other teenage boys have managed The 19th-century English artist John Constable specialized the same feat. But I predict that a Scorpio skateboarder in painting landscapes. The countryside near his home espewill break the record sometime soon, managing a 1260, or cially excited him. He said, “The sound of water escaping three and a half full revolutions. Why? First, because your from mill dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and tribe is unusually geared to accomplish peak performances brickwork, I love such things. They made me a painter, and right now. And second, you have a knack for doing complex I am grateful.” Take a cue from Constable, Taurus. Spend maneuvers that require a lot of concentration. quality time appreciating the simple scenes and earthy pleasures that nourish your creative spirit. Give your senses SAGITTARIUS the joy of getting filled up with vivid impressions. Immerse Nov. 22-Dec. 21: yourself in experiences that thrill your animal intelligence. Can you think of ways that you have been colonized? Have any powerful institutions filled up your brain with ideas and GEMINI desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values? For May 21-June 20: instance, has your imagination gotten imprinted with condiThis is Grand Unification Week for you Geminis. If your tioning that makes you worry that your body’s not beautiful left hand has been at war with your right hand, it’s a perfect enough or your bank account’s not big enough or your style moment to declare a truce. If your head and heart have isn’t cool enough? If so, Sagittarius, the coming weeks will not been seeing eye to eye, they are ready to find common be an excellent time to get uncolonized. There has rarely ground and start conspiring together for your greater glory. been a better time than now to purge any brainwashing that Are there any rips or rifts in your life? You will generate puts you at odds with your deepest self. good fortune for yourself if you get to work on healing them. Have you been alienated from an ally or at odds with CAPRICORN a beloved dream or separated from a valuable resource? You Dec. 22-Jan. 19: have a lot of power to fix glitches like those. An old Chinese poem tells us that “the true measure of a mountain’s greatness is not its height but whether it is CANCER charming enough to attract dragons.” You and I know there June 21-July 22: are no such things as dragons, so we can’t take this literally. In an episode of the TV show Twin Peaks, special agent But what if we treat it as we might a fairy tale? I suggest we Dale Cooper gives the following advice to his colleague draw a metaphorical meaning from it and apply it to your Harry: “I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, life. Let’s say that you shouldn’t be impressed with how once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait big and strong anything is; you shouldn’t give your mojo for it, just let it happen.” Now I’m passing on this advice to people or institutions simply because they have worldly to you, Cancerian. It’s a perfect time for you to try out this power. Rather, you will be best served by aligning yourself fun game. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when with what’s mysterious and fabulous. You’re more likely to you’ll be wise to intensify your commitment to self-care … have fun and generate good fortune for yourself by seeking and deepen your devotion to making yourself feel good … out stories that appeal to your soul instead of your ego. and increase your artistry at providing yourself with everything you need to thrive.
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LEO
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Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian ballet impresario who founded Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century’s great ballet companies. At one point in his career he met French playwright Jean Cocteau. Diaghilev dared Cocteau to write a piece for a future Ballets Russes production. “Astonish me!” he said. It took seven years, but Cocteau met the challenge. He created Parade, a ballet that also featured music by Eric Satie and sets by Pablo Picasso. Now let’s pretend I’m Diaghilev and you’re Cocteau. Imagine that I’ve just told you, “Astonish me!” How will you respond? What surprising beauty will you come up with? What marvels will you unleash?
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
Since 1948, the chemical known as warfarin has been used as a pesticide to poison rats. Beginning in 1954, it also became a medicine prescribed to treat thrombosis and other blood ailments in humans. Is there anything in your own life that resembles warfarin? A person or an asset or an activity that can either be destructive or constructive, depending on the situation? The time will soon be right for you to employ that metaphorical version of warfarin in both capacities. Make sure you’re very clear about which is which.
LIBRA
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Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
The questions you have been asking aren’t terrible. But they could be formulated better. They might be framed in such a way as to encourage life to give you crisp insights you can really use rather than what you’ve been getting lately, which are fuzzy conjectures that are only partially relevant. Would you like some inspiration? See if any of these inquiries help hone your spirit of inquiry. 1. What kind of teacher or teaching do you need the most right now? 2. What part of you is too tame, and what can you do about it? 3. What could you do to make yourself even more attractive and interesting to people than you already are? 4. What is the pain that potentially has the most power to awaken your dormant intelligence?
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20:
“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” So says Ishmael, the hero of Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby Dick. He is ostensibly referring to whale hunting, which is his job, but some modern critics suggest he’s also talking about the art of storytelling. I suspect his statement applies to a certain enterprise you are currently engaged in as well. Can you wrap your mind and heart around the phrase “careful disorderliness,” Pisces? I hope so, because I think it’s the true method. Here are some other terms to describe it: benevolent chaos, strategic messiness, purposeful improvisation, playful experiments.
“My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov in his novel Lolita. We have all gone
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Dear Dan: Here’s the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version: I’m a sexually inactive (by my own choice) heterosexual female in my late 40s who up until recently used to be much heavier and in rapidly declining health. Since my type 2 diabetes diagnosis, I have achieved substantial weight loss, a much-improved diet, and a little Clairol Nice ’n’ Easy. I now look and feel infinitely better than I ever did in my late 20s. People in my apartment building have been doing double takes, and recently I even got carded at my favorite restaurant dining out with a female neighbor friend half my age! While I admit the newly acquired positive attention is fun (especially getting carded! Who? Me?!? Ha-ha!), I’m happy staying single and am not interested in developing any LTRs with the opposite sex. The weird thing is, the majority of guys doing any flirting with me seem to be much younger than I am. A wise, older female friend of mine once commented that men “don’t know what to make” of someone like me. Okay, I think. So am I too narcissistic? I can’t seem to relate or really keep conversations going. Plenty of younger men in their 20s and 30s are nice looking, but I’ll be 50 next summer! —I’m Not A Cougar Though I’m Very Energized
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flirtatious attention from younger guys!” says Gallop. “There are many young men out there interested in and attracted to older women — but society considers that relationship model less socially acceptable than the olderman/younger-woman version, which is why she’s so surprised. Well, the good news is she can stay single, not embark on any LTRs with the opposite sex, and still have a lot of fun with younger men, without worrying about keeping conversations going — because the fun doesn’t need to involve much talking.” If “sexually inactive by choice” was a choice you made back in your heavier, unhealthier days due to a lack of confidence, Gallop says that this is the perfect time for you to get back in the game — and younger men are the perfect playmates. “INACTIVE is in her sexual prime, and she should go for it!” says Gallop. “The age issue is purely a societal judgment and is irrelevant. Younger man (lots of stamina, very short recovery period) plus older woman (confidence, experience, knows what she wants) is a fantastic combination. And I speak as someone who knows.” A couple of pro tips from Gallop for older women who are dating younger men: “No. 1: Apply the same filter to her dates that I do — regardless of how casual the relationship, he needs to be a very nice person. No. 2: If she hasn’t been sexually active for a while, check out MakeLoveNotPorn.com. She should be aware of what she may encounter in younger men that’s been learned from porn, and how to talk about what she prefers in that context openly, honestly, and lightheartedly.” Send your questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Denver’s pratfalls? City spokesperson Sarah Huntley says that Boulder, which does about 10 percent of the volume of cannabis business as Denver, considers itself strong in all seven areas where concerns were raised in Denver. Records are kept in writing, and policies and procedures have been established, posted on the city website. “While it has been difficult getting coordination with the state, the city does keep records of the state licenses issued for businesses in the city,” Huntley says. “Deadlines are established and enforced for all requirements. The city has been through the annual renewal process for all of the licenses that have been issued, and some businesses have been through their second annual renewal.” She says the city is looking closely at the possible impacts of only a few cities allowing retail operations. “One of the reasons for imposing a tax on this industry, whether it is a sales tax, an excise tax, or both, is to defray the costs of those impacts,” she says. “Staff also will recommend to council to continue with our active enforcement and strict licensing requirements. We will keep an eye on our local laws to make sure that prosecutions can occur when appropriate.” The renewal process includes inspections by police, code enforcement and fire, so if a business has missed a deadline, if would be caught at the annual inspection, she says. “All information is updated in the city’s paper files and on the city’s database when initial or additional significant information is submitted by a business and each inspection by any city staff.” Huntley says that all departments work together to inspect premise locations before city licenses are issued and for yearly renewals, and complete random on-site inspections are conducted if there are complaints or concerns.
Huntley says the city doesn’t expect the crush of applications it had in 2010. Density rules are already in place — for instance, no more than three medical marijuana retail locations within 500 feet of each other — that staff would like to see extended to recreational facilities as well. To deal with the changeover to retail, staff is suggesting that the city put a moratorium on accepting new medical marijuana business license applications between March 1, 2014, and Jan. 1, 2015. “The goal will be to start taking recreational marijuana conversions on June 1, 2014,” she says. “Then from June 1, 2014, to Oct. 1, 2014, staff would only be processing conversions of already issued city medical marijuana businesses (the current number is 67). We think that this stoppage of processing MMBs should allow us to work through conversions in a timely way.” As to when retail businesses might actually open, it’s still hard to say. Council will have final say on the staff proposals at a special meeting on Monday, Aug. 5. Prospective businesses need both state and city licenses to operate, and they can’t apply for state licenses until the city begins accepting applications. So if council takes staff ’s suggestion, businesses could begin applying for state and city licenses on June 1, 2014. The state has 90 days to comply with requests, which, if accepted, would then go through the city application process. If everything worked precisely and efficiently, that would make it possible for retail stores to begin opening in October 2014. But nobody thinks it will happen that easily or quickly, so we probably won’t see retail shops here until late 2014 or early 2015. We should know more when City Council takes up the cannabis issue with other potential tax-related ballot items at the Aug. 5 meeting, which starts at 6 p.m. at City Hall. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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