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I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2). I literally shed tears reading this article. I could not possibly, no matter how I tried, more accurately summarize my thoughts and feelings about what is happening in Longmont. I have given so much time to researching fracking, talking to friends in the area, writing city council members (and state/national politicians), attending city council meetings (that last one until the next day) and, finally, gathering petition signatures for hours upon hours each day — it has almost become a part-time job. It’s consumed my life. I’m not an activist — I’m just a mom who doesn’t take no for an answer when it comes to the safety and health of my kids. But things have become downright vitriolic about this issue. Longmont is a very divided town, and this issue has really grabbed hold of us all on both sides. I’ve stopped reading articles, writing letters, paying attention. ... It’s become too much for me to stand. But reading your article has made me feel completely vindicated. You’re so completely right about the intent of the state to make an example

of us. About the people with their canned speeches to city council provided by COGA. If I have to hear about how Colorado has the most transparent and rigorous guidelines for drilling in the country, I will scream. And I’m sure that all of the out of work software engineers in town can’t wait to snatch up all the jobs provided by O&G out on the oil rigs. Sorry, I digress, and I’m preaching to the choir. But your voice and ability

to call out the bullshit publicly has made me feel ready to take on the next level of the fight that we’ve found ourselves in. It’s so worth it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Lindsay Gahn/via Internet Joel [Dyer], if I had you right here with me, I would give you the biggest kiss and hug of your life. (Excuse me if you have a wife!)

The Longmont community owes you a debt of gratitude for the article. And Gore Vidal is smiling on you right now, saying, “Pretty good job, kiddo”! I thank you for the clarity you bring to the issues, and together “we can/will change the outcome.” Gerri Bradford/Longmont Dammit man, can you write! Your see LETTERS Page 10

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commentary is like reading Sugar Ray Leonard landing every punch (if that makes sense). It’s awesome. When I was petitioning (for the [fracking] ban), a man walked up to me from Fremont County, Wyo. (where Pavillion is). I’m holding my clipboard and a copy of your “lessons in fracking” issue. Man, did he ever go on. And with a passion like you’ve never seen or heard ... he talked about ozone clouds in the winter, garbage in their beloved trout streams, ruined ranch values, mess everywhere, etc. Three times he looked at my clipboard and said, “Man, I wish.” He called the people up there “prairie settlers” … too spread out to stop anything, none of them had a chance. Born out of frustration, he just wished he could sign on the line, so he could feel like he did something, anything. I wrote a piece about him and had someone read it at council, as I was too busy making petition signs. We need to have more people in town reading you ... we must find a way. Fred Gabriel/Longmont I have read a lot of articles in Boulder Weekly promoting locally grown food. Why, then, is the sourcing of oil and gas locally met with such disapproval and outrage? A recent issue featured pictures of relatively small, unobtrusive oil wells behind fences in parks and (gasp) golf courses that were clearly meant to offend the reader. I would rather see oil wells in local public places and on undeveloped land than pay foreigners who hate us for their oil and fight wars over it. Amy Puls/via Internet

Celebrating Jerry Garcia

(Re: “Jerry Garcia’s 70th,” Stew’s Views, July 26.) Indeed. Really nice article about celebrating Jerry. The Winnie the Pooh quote was so touching at both ends of the article. Thanks for penning many of my own feelings. 10 August 9, 2012

My own soundtrack includes meeting my future husband, Ventura, July 21, 1984. Marrying him, Berkeley Greek, June 20, 1987, and our beautiful love child, Shanti Sugaree. Forever loving and missing Jerry, Stacy Kalstrom/via Internet

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I fail to understand how you can allow and possibly even pay someone like Paul Danish to state opinions as if they are facts. I am not sure what planet he is on, but it is certainly different than the rest of us. Since when does jobs for a few (temporary jobs at that) override the well-being of the community at large? Since when does breathing in cancer chemicals like benzene take second place to giving a bunch of guys beer money to work in an industry that pads the pockets of the 1 percent? I will not accept that my taxes have to fix roads that are damaged by heavy equipment heading to and from frack sites. I will not accept that the public will have to pay the burden of the cancers that our children develop from breathing the polluted air flowing from the gas wells in eastern Colorado. I will not accept turning over a world to my grandchildren that is a desert due to billions of gallons of water permanently removed from the hydrologic cycle permanently by fracking. Put the fracking money into solar and wind energy, and I guarantee there will be plenty of jobs. And they will be jobs that will still exist in 25 years, unlike those that will be gone as soon as we run out of oil. But then, in Mr. Danish’s universe, maybe gas and oil are as infinite as his ignorance. In my universe those things are finite. Give me a fracking break here. Mr. Danish has about as much intelligence as his namesake pastry. Jim Wilson/Boulder

ne of the latest — and silli- released, the propane turns to vapor and er — local whines against flows to the surface with the oil and/or fracking is that it is a profgas that has been freed. Almost all of it ligate consumer of water returns to the surface and can be easily that takes 33,000 acre feet recovered and reused. In conventional, of the stuff permanently out of the state’s water-based fracking, as much as half hydraulic cycle. the water may remain in the well, where The 33,000 acre feet of water that is it can cut hydrocarbon production. supposedly lost forever (actually a subAnd since propane-based frack fluid stantial percentage of it is being recyreturns as a vapor, the fracking chemicled) represents less than 1 percent of cals, which don’t vaporize, are left in the the state’s annual water supply. well. Unlike recovered frack water, the That seems a small enough price to propane doesn’t have to be cleaned up pay for 1) the multi-billion dollar ecobefore reuse. nomic return that comes from the revival And then there is the matter of of the oil and gas industry in Colorado, increased production. In some forma2) the plunge in natural gas prices that tions, like the Cardium shale formation fracking has caused, west of Edmonton, which will benefit production from virtually every propane-fracked Since waterless frack- wells is two to three home and business in the state, 3) the times better than ing looks like a solureduction in U.S. production from tion to several green oil imports (and water-fracked wells. objections to dollar exports) that GasFrac’s waterfracking contributes less fracking techfracking, is the to, and 4) the nology is relatively environmental comreduction in U.S. new — it was develmunity celebrating? CO2 emissions oped in 2008 — but from electric utilinot untested. The Fat chance. ties being able to company has sucburn more natural cessfully fracked gas and less coal that fracking has made more than 1,300 wells in the last four years, and business is booming. possible. Propane fracking currently costs The state’s hydraulic cycle is an open cycle — each year millions of acre feet of about 50 percent more than conventional fracking, but that will probably change water enters it from the Pacific and as other companies get into the business Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico via snow and rain, and leaves it via rivers and the technology matures, as has already happened with conventional and evaporation. True, the water that fracking. remains in fracked wells may be lost to So since waterless fracking looks like the global hydraulic cycle (never mind a solution to several green objections to the state cycle), but it is routinely fracking, is the environmental communireplaced by — wait for it — mother ty celebrating? nature. And the Pacific Ocean isn’t Fat chance. going to run out of water anytime soon. Faced with the prospect of waterless However, the oil industry is increasingly turning to a technology that makes fracking providing a way for oil companies to get around New York State’s ban the water availability argument moot — on (water-based) hydraulic fracking, the waterless fracking. The process, which was developed by Sierra Club and 14 other environmental groups last spring sent a letter to the a Canadian company named GasFrac state’s Department of Environmental Services, uses propane instead of water Conservation denouncing propane-based as the working fluid in fracking. The fracking as fraught with “alarming” company developed a jelled mix of propane and chemicals that it substitutes for known and unknown risks. Given the risk of propane explosions, said Sierra water in its frack jobs. Club spokeswoman Deb Nardone, “it is This has several advantages that go beyond saving water. After a well has see DANISH PLAN Page 13 been fractured and the pressure is Boulder Weekly

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FREEDOM FAIRY VISITS BOULDER In a complete reversal of their earlier position, City Manager Jane Brautigam and her minions now seem to think that forcing those who would choose to exercise their free speech rights by demonstrating to do so only in cityapproved “advocacy zones” with a city-issued permit is now a bad idea. It’s as if the Freedom Fairy descended upon the bureaucrats of Boulder, spreading her free-speech sparkly dust upon those who clearly needed a good dose. If not fairy dust, what else could have caused this sudden reversal of opinion? Could it have been the fact that several members of council who aren’t afraid of being criticized by the public they work for thought that restricting free speech rights in a historically progressive place like Boulder is nothing short of f*%#@ crazy? Or was it the fact that moving forward on this hair-brained program designed to censor all citizens of Boulder presumably for the benefit of the few who do, in fact, fear what the public has to say, would no doubt have created the biggest public backlash in recent memory? Either way, it appears for now that we citizens are still living in the Republic of Boulder. But this has been a valuable lesson. We need to keep our eyes on this particular group of city bureaucrats, as they seem hell-bent on forcing their vision of morality and their interpretation of what we can and cannot say and where we can say it on the rest of us. Kudos to those on council who made it clear that they were going to fight this insane proposed ordinance to the very end. Now let’s just hope that the Freedom Fairy can work her magic on the corporate puppets running CU before next April. POTUS AND POT Speaking of, the University of Colorado spent more than $280,000 to shut down the campus on 4/20 so that pot smokers couldn’t exercise their constitutional rights to assembly, free speech and protest. University officials, er, student leaders (sorry, common mistake) even shelled out a bunch of cash to pro-marijuana performer Wyclef Jean, who was allowed to play a concert at the Coors Events Center as an alternative to the annual smokeout, as long as he didn’t make any pot references. Not surprisingly, hardly anyone showed up. And yet that same university announced last week that it spent $110,000 to bring the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to campus a few days after the marijuana smokeout. Obama, who was reportedly a stoner himself in his earlier years (despite his administration’s heavy-handed approach to state and local medical marijuana laws), spoke in the same Coors Events Center the following week. Does this strike anyone else as odd? Our publicly funded university spent more than twice as much to keep herb smokers and their speech off campus as it did to protect an admitted herb smoker’s speech five days later? We are supposed to be encouraged by the CU press release that assures us that funding for Obama’s visit came from “existing insurance rebates to the university” that will “not result in any tuition or fee increase to students or reductions in campus budgets.” Whew. For a minute there, we thought there might be some sort of double standard, having a facility funded by a huge beer company at a campus that has a massive drinking problem, and then allowing certain pot smokers to speak there, while restricting other pot smokers’ free-speech rights on the rest of campus. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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in facilitating the growth of gardens and agricultural practices, such as beekeeping, that are beneficial to both the human population and to the environment. Boulder City Council demonstrated how a government can benefit a people’s movement like this one Tuesday, Aug. 7, when it voted to amend its land use code to allow community gardens in all zone districts around the city. This opens the door for the creation of more community gardens, such as those run by Growing Gardens, a local nonprofit that manages several gardens around Boulder. DANISH PLAN from Page 10

clear that propane fracking just substitutes one set of problems for another set of even more dangerous problems.” The objection is lame. Explosions and fires are a small but real risk at any oil and gas operation. It’s hard to see how putting propane down a well that is expected to produce, among other things, natural gas (methane), condensate (natural gasoline) and propane, is going to increase the risk by much. In any case, given the degree to which the United States and industrial civilization generally are dependent on oil and natural gas (yeah, even in Boulder), the risk is acceptable. For the past decade there has been a technology race under way between the oil and gas industry and the alternative energy industry. Alternative energy has made great technological strides during that time and dramatically reduced the cost of its technologies, but the oil and gas industry has made much greater strides. Green energy has benefitted from generous government subsidies — at least as favorable as those the oil industry gets — and favorable laws (like those requiring that utilities obtain a substantial percentage of their electricity from green sources). That’s to the good, but the fact remains that without those subsidies, alternative energy can’t compete with oil and gas. The oil and gas companies are winning the technological race — they’re developing and deploying new technology faster than the green energy companies are, and faster than green activists can demonize it. Wind and solar’s day will eventually come, but only after their entrepreneurs learn to compete the old fashioned way — by offering better products at a lower price — without the benefit of government subsidies and special treatment. If their success hinges on getting rival technologies banned, and with dishonest arguments at that, they will fail. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

City Council did this thoughtfully by amending the ordinance to include standards for community gardens — such as banning the use of fresh manure — designed to prevent complaints from neighbors and limit potential conflicts. There are other steps local governments could take, including: strictly limiting the use of pesticides and herbicides near bee hives, community gardens and backyard gardens; establishing the growing of fruits and vegetables in one’s yard as a by-right use that takes precedence over the rules of homeowner associations

(HOAs); and establishing community gardens and urban farming as part of the city’s “brand” or identity, in order to attract philanthropy, as well as residents and businesses that value urban farming. From that point on, government need only step aside. Certainly, Boulder has a vibrant organic farming community, with community-support agriculture (CSA), a thriving farmers’ market, and organic locally sourced food at restaurants and grocery stores. It’s important to support those businesses, too.

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news Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly Editor Joel Dyer is the author of Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is Only the Beginning. He has been researching and reporting on the root causes of domestic terrorism for more than 20 years. His work on this subject has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, U.S. News & World Report and other national publications. He has also been called to testify as an expert at several of the nation’s highest profile domestic terrorism trials.

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ccording to authorities, on Sunday, Aug. 5, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page walked into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and started systematically killing innocent people who had gathered to worship. By the time Page was finally wounded by police officers arriving at the scene, he had murdered five men, one woman and wounded three others, including a police officer whom he shot eight times from close range. The question now being asked by nearly everyone, including those who lost loved ones, members of the media and the public at large, is “why?” One news report after another tells us that there was no hint that Page was about to commit an unthinkable act of violence — no note, no Facebook post, no confession to friends or family as he headed off to do his final deed, nothing whatsoever that would have indicated he was about to blow. But while the motive for this mass killing, including Page’s own decision to go out with a self-inflicted bullet to his head, may seem invisible to most of us, it is crystal clear to all of those who have themselves enlisted to fight in the same war that Wade Michael Page was waging when he entered that temple. His seemingly random actions were anything but, and were likely designed to encourage his fellow warriors to take similar action. If we look closely, the clues are there. They say that Page left no explanation, no manifesto, but he actually left a very long note of sorts explaining his motives, a note that took years to write and was inscribed with ink and blood. Page was a skinhead — not the wimpy, punk-music-loving, multicultural-tolerant, do-my-skinny-jeans-andnew-piercing-look-cool type, but rather a Hammerskin, a stomp-the-teeth-outof-an-old-black-woman, shoot-a-Sikh kind of racist skinhead. To those who know how to translate the message, Page’s explanation for 14 August 9, 2012

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What led to the recent mass murder of Sikhs in Wisconsin by Joel Dyer the killing was written in several locations, his hate-filled songs, the racist websites he visited and, finally, carved into his body in the form of his many tattoos. According to reports and available photographs, he had a Celtic knot on his back, a Celtic cross with the number 14 on his left shoulder, a fire tat running down his leg and other numbers and imagery associated with notions of white pride, supremacy and violent intentions for his enemies etched all over his torso. The number 14 stands for 14 words considered nearly sacred in skinhead circles: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” It should be noted that what wasn’t present among Page’s tattoos was anything pertaining to 9/11. It had been widely and wrongly reported by national news outlets that such a tattoo was on Page’s arm. This misinformation led to speculation that Page, a former member of the U.S. Army, may have targeted the Sikhs in retaliation for 9/11, incorrectly believing that they were Muslims. But this is unlikely. We want our murderers to be that stupid and inept, but in reality, an understanding of the worldview that informed Page’s day-to-day life makes it clear that being Sikh, or more importantly brown and not white, was more than enough motive for him to do what he

did. If his inked skin didn’t paint a clear enough picture of his racist ideals, Page also made his motives pretty clear in the white-power music he wrote and performed at various skinhead and white supremacist gatherings across the country. For the past seven years, Page was a member of at least two different bands in the hate-music genre, End Apathy and Definite Hate. Here’s a sample of lyrics from a Definite Hate song titled “Take Action”: All the talking is done and now it’s time to walk the walk / Revolution’s in the air 9mm in my hand / You can run but you can’t hide from this master plan. Pretty chilling, considering that Page allegedly murdered his Sikh victims with a 9mm he had legally purchased about a week before the shootings. Page and his bandmates sold their racist, antiauthoritarian music through a skinhead record label, Label 56. Two organizations that monitor hate groups, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), have both identified Label 56 as a racist skinhead organization. For those unfamiliar with racist skinhead culture, the music — generally punk comprised of violence-laced, racist lyrics — is a serious component of the

overall belief system and can even define a skinhead organization’s hierarchy. Both bands and record labels are often considered racist organizations by those who monitor the movement. It is estimated that there are between 80 and 120 different skinhead factions, also known as crews, active in the U.S. at any given time. It is difficult to be more exact, as groups merge, divide, disband, start up and sometimes move to new cities in their entirety with some frequency. Because of this fluidity, few skinhead organizations have managed to achieve a national, or international, presence. The Hammerskins of which Page was reportedly a member are one of the larger groups, with a significant number of members and reach. But even the Hammerskins are divided and fractured into regional crews displaying differing levels of violence and organization. Nonetheless, this particular group is considered to be one of the most violent skinhead organizations currently in existence. But just because Page was reportedly a member of the Hammerskins doesn’t mean that the larger organization had foreknowledge of or anything to do with the massacre at the Oak Creek temple, apart from creating an environment where such horrific actions are viewed as something noble. Such group involvement is nearly always discouraged because it is considered dangerous from a law enforcement perspective. Consider these instructions for “revolutionary action” that the ADL reports were presented by white supremacist Tom Metzger in August 2003 at a White Unity festival in Indiana attended by Outlaw Hammerskins, Northern Hammerskins, Hoosier-State Skins, Klansmen and Creativity Church members. According to the ADL, Metzger’s “plan called for ‘lone wolf ’ tactics, silent operations, blending with the community (regrowing hair, covering/removing tattoos), the acquisition of professional jobs, identification of informants, and a commitment to action. Metzger stressed the importance of maintaining a stoic attitude symbolized by the ‘Five Words’ (‘I have nothing to say’) if one is caught in illegal acts.” In other words, a lone skinhead walking into a temple full of nonwhite Sikhs and gunning them down is exactly the type of operation that Metzger seems to be endorsing. But it’s not just Metzger. The idea of leaderless resistance and lone-wolf action has been the preferred tactical approach to antigovernment and racist Boulder Weekly

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attacks since the days of Tim McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing in the mid 1990s. Many hate group leaders have expressed the need for individuals rather than groups to plan and carry out racist actions and killings. So we know that Page was a racist skinhead. We know from his music that he seemed concerned about the apathy of white people when it came to fighting for their race, and that he promoted the idea of violence as a means of fighting back against perceived threats from minorities and government. But why did he feel this way? Where did such beliefs come from and how did they take root? Since Page is dead, we can only speculate based on his behavior and known associations. Page first came onto the radar of the SPLC in 2000 when he attempted to purchase materials from The National Alliance, at that time the nation’s most powerful hate group because it was led by none other than William Pierce. You may recall Pierce’s name. He was the author of the book The Turner Diaries, which has, to one degree or another, played a role in nearly every act of racist domestic terrorism since at least the 1980s. Parts of the book were found in the passenger seat of Tim McVeigh’s car when he was initially pulled over and arrested less than an hour after the Oklahoma City bombing. Within the racist and antigovernment movements, The Turner Diaries is considered more of an operations manual than a work of fiction. In the book, the lead character, Turner, eventually commits a brazen act of terrorism and murder, which ultimately ignites the final race war predicted by most adherents of racist belief systems, including Christian identity. Turner, of course, becomes a hero for his inspiring attack, as blacks, Jews and other minorities — including those who dared to betray their race by way of marriage to a minority or homosexuality — are lynched from every utility poll across the nation. The book paints a stomachturning image of this white man’s ultimate triumph. Since the book’s publication, one Turner-wannabe after another has stepped forward to commit “the act” of violence that they believe will ultimately lead to the overthrow of the federal government and kick off the race war that they truly believe will make them “the hero” in the eyes of their peers. It may sound like a crazy fantasy to most of us, but it is a deadly serious Boulder Weekly

What happened in Milwaukee was sickening, but it was not without explanation and even purpose. And in some circles Wade Michael Page is today being praised as a hero.

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reality for those who have been poured into the funnel of conspiracy theories and Identity theology, only to come out the other end as a racist terrorist willing to die and kill for his beliefs. For the most part, the white supremacy belief system is based upon certain conspiracy theories, first among them being that Jews have secretly taken over the governments of the world with the intention of destroying or subjugating all other races who could threaten their power. This obviously isn’t new thinking. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the supposed blueprint for Jewish global domination, has been being circulated amidst anti-Semites and white supremacists for more than a century. Henry Ford had his newspaper declare the document real, and the industrialist paid to print and circulate more than a half million copies. The Nazis also used the Protocols to justify their decimation of the Jewish population. You cannot underestimate the power of conspiracy thinking. Once people have come to truly believe that a conspiracy is absolutely true, they are confronted with a difficult question: Will they act? It is at this point where a person’s nationalism, patriotism, pride of race and/or religious beliefs become important. These foundational beliefs serve as the igniter for the fuel of conspiracy. For instance, if you are a true American Patriot and you believe that the government has secretly been taken over by

Jews — white supremacists refer to the U.S. government as ZOG, Zionist Occupied Government — you have no choice but to fight. Sound silly? This is exactly what Tim McVeigh was thinking when he detonated the Oklahoma City bomb. Until his dying breath he not only didn’t apologize, he defended it as an act of patriotism done on behalf of all of us who are unaware of the real state of things. Within the white racist movements, Jews, persons of color, race traitors and homosexuals are considered the enemy. For most adherents, this belief has at least its roots in Christian Identity theology to some degree. Christian Identity has nothing to do with mainstream Christian organizations or beliefs. Identity has a wild and racist interpretation of the Bible. At its core, Identity teaches that Jews are the offspring of Cain, who was born as a result of Eve having been seduced by Satan. As a result, Jews are less than human and, in fact, are actually to this day the servants of Satan as the devil tries to take over the world and defeat God. Persons of color, according to Identity, are not actually humans at all. According to the teaching, they were created along with the other animals, before Adam and Eve were created. As a result, they have no soul and are simply another species, like a cow or dog. This is why they are referred to as “Mudpeople” in racist circles. They are, according to many white supremacists,

used like pawns by the Jews in their efforts to take over the world and enslave white Christians. Many Identity followers could pass a lie detector test while saying they are not racist. This stems from their honest belief that you cannot be racist against a mere animal species. It’s a handy, self-soothing theology for anyone who plans on mudering people of color. This is obviously the very short, dumbed-down explanation of Identity Theology. But now imagine how America’s racist hate groups and antigovernment groups have interpreted Barack Obama being elected as our first African-American president. Perhaps the simplest way to answer this is to consider that, according to the SPLC, the number of hate groups and patriot organizations, many of which share the racist rights belief in ZOG, skyrocketed since Obama’s election. Patriot groups alone went from 149 known organizations to 1,274 such groups in just the first three years of the Obama presidency. Now consider how the widespread conspiracy theory that Obama is really a Muslim who wasn’t even born in this country is being interpreted by the true believers of the racist hate groups and white supremacist organizations. We laugh about Donald Trump’s hair as he and Fox News and even the mainstream press continuously give air time to this racist trash talk. But in truth, it is actually believed by millions, and in racist white supremacy circles beckons an answer to questions like, “Will you now take action, do you have the guts to be a hero like the fictional Turner and start the war that will ultimately ‘secure the existence of our people and a future for white children?’” What happened in Milwaukee was sickening, but it was not without explanation and even purpose. And in some circles Wade Michael Page is today being praised as a hero. Will an apocalyptic race war now be ignited? Of course not. But it is likely that with the incredible growth of the racist antigovernment movement since the election of Obama, coupled with the mainstreaming of certain conspiracy theories concerning him and his current bid for reelection to a second term, we should expect to see an increasing number of race-based domestic terrorist attacks like the one perpetrated on the Sikhs earlier this week. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com August 9, 2012 15

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his week, as local political activist Seth Brigham finally had his day in court regarding the city’s restraining order against him, new allegations about Boulder City Council members’ possible conflicts of interest have come to light. And council member KC Becker has responded to questions about her financial disclosure forms that Boulder Weekly raised last week. At an Aug. 7 hearing, Judge David Archuleta did not rule on the city’s request for a permanent restraining order against Brigham, instead giving City Attorney Tom Carr until the end of next week to provide additional affadavits regarding the personal and emotional toll that Brigham’s antics have taken on city officials. Brigham has been under a temporary restraining order since early May. In recent months, as BW has looked into allegations Brigham was making about council members, irregularities have emerged about members’ business interests, income and properties. Council member George Karakehian failed to disclose several limited liability corporations (LLCs), saying they represented his “retirement” and were owned not by him, but his company. Council member Ken Wilson labeled a Longmont apartment complex by its name, not by the ownership LLC in which he was a partner. Macon Cowles failed to declare the capital gains he received from the sale of his home in 2011. The rash of irregularities has contributed to the need for City Attorney Tom Carr, who is both hired by council and advises members on how to handle conflicts of interest, to research how to clarify the financial disclosure forms. But the questions keep piling up. At least one additional claim has arisen this week regarding Karakehian’s possible conflicts of interest. City council minutes for the Oct. 5, 2010, meeting show Karakehian voted to approve three nominees for the board of the Downtown Boulder Business Improvement District. One of those nominees was attorney John Mehaffy, who was not only Karakehian’s business partner in Sport-Kar, Inc., but who has been listed as power of attorney for Karakehian’s primary business, Art Source International. Documents show Mehaffy has also served as the registered agent for several LLCs in which Karakehian has an interest, including KAK LTD, which was formed by his wife, Kristin. Mehaffy donated to Karakehian’s election campaigns and is listed on the Downtown Boulder Inc. website as being employed by local powerhouse developer Stephen Tebo, with whom Karakehian owns at least one LLC. In response to a request for comment 16 August 9, 2012

At left, David Lane, Seth Brigham’s attorney, speaks to reporters after his client’s Aug. 6 hearing. Next to Lane are fellow attorney Faisal Salahuddin and Brigham, at far right.

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Becker, Karakehian respond to concerns about business partners by Jefferson Dodge about whether he should have recused himself on that vote, Karakehian sent the following email to BW: “Discussed your issue with Tom Carr and he does not see any conflict!!!!” As for Becker, on her 2010 form, under “Business Interests,” she lists herself as an investor in “1240 Cedar LLC.” Records show that 1240 Cedar bought a Boulder apartment complex at that address for $2.05 million in early 2010. Later that year, city Planning Board files show that 1240 Cedar LLC applied for a “non conforming use review” to gain permission for improvements that included “new landscaping, new site amenities including a seating area and walkways, and a paved driveway and parking lot including a trash enclosure and 13 carports, one for each unit.” Becker did not disclose that the “non conforming use review” submitted to the city involved a property in which she had invested. Her LLC was one entity that sold the property for $2.5 million on Sept. 3, 2010, six days before the date on her disclosure form. She does not list revenues from that sale on her 2010 or 2011 forms. After BW raised questions about the transaction on Aug. 2, Becker said this week that she did not receive any profits from the sale of the property until after her September 2010 form was due, and that the failure to include those revenues in her “Sources of Income” section on the 2011 form was an oversight. She says she assumed that including the LLC in the “Business Interests” section of the 2010 form was sufficient. “That’s a sincere mistake,” Becker says. “Maybe you’re supposed to list those things twice. … If I make a mistake, I

make a mistake. I certainly wouldn’t withhold anything, any information. There’s just no reason for me to do that.” As for the “non conforming use review” submitted for the property while she was an investor, she says she never dealt with that application, and that while she might have been aware of it, it was not a decision that came before council or even the planning board, which has the right to “call up” such decisions. In this case, the request was approved by staff. “I had no involvement in that,” Becker said. “I never knew what their plans were. I didn’t weigh in on those things. I never actually went over to the property or went in the property.” When asked whether she ever considered alerting city officials that she had a vested interest in the project, she said, “Heck no. There’s no way they would know. I feel like if I were to call someone and say, ‘Oh, by the way, I own that property,’ it could be mistaken for trying to peddle influence, and I think the less they know, staff knows … I don’t want them to feel awkward. I don’t want them to question why I’m letting them know I own a property they’re looking at.” One issue that Brigham has repeatedly raised is Becker’s possible involvement in former Mayor Susan Osborne’s appointment of Becker’s friend and former business partner Scott Holton to the Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) board in March 2011. This week, Brigham provided BW with copies of emails sent among Holton and council members around the time of his appointment, including an email from Becker to council member Suzy Ageton, who was the liaison to the BHP board. In the Feb. 25,

2011, email, Becker says she encouraged Holton to apply for the position. She refers to him as a “friend,” outlines his qualifications and recommends him for the board. (Osborne has said she was not aware of the relationship between Becker and Holton at the time of the appointment.) Becker didn’t deny recommending Holton this week. “Because I think he’s very smart and competent and insightful, I’m sure I would have recommended him to people, to council members,” she says. She told BW that her involvement in the 1240 Cedar LLC ended with the sale of the property in September 2010, so she was no longer business partners with Holton when he applied for the BHP board in spring 2011. Becker also points out that Holton was the only applicant for the seat, and the mayor, not the full council, makes those appointments. But in an email to Holton, council member and current Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum indicates that council does have a say in such appointments. “As you may know, the seat on the BHP authority is technically filled by the mayor, although in practice the council weighs in on the choice, which I would expect to do as well,” Appelbaum wrote in the March 2, 2011, message. One of Holton’s business partners, Calvin Cox, was also involved in the 1240 Cedar deal and is included on the city of Boulder’s website in a list of recommended lenders for buyers of affordable homes. Becker told BW that she was unaware that such a list existed, much less that Cox and his bank appear there. She says the council members likely need more guidance when it comes to filling out the disclosure forms. “I don’t think anyone ever paid any attention to these; I remember being totally frustrated with it when I first got on council,” she says. “I know I’m willing, and I’ve heard from other council members that they’re willing, to tighten up the form or create a process where there’s more consultation between council members and city staff about the contents of the form.” Still, Becker says, there will always be relationships that disclosure documents don’t capture, putting the onus on the elected official to come clean. “No matter how good those forms are, it comes down to council members stepping up and recognizing and thinking about potential conflicts when they’re supposed to,” she says, adding that BW’s inquiry has had an impact. “I think you have some fair criticisms, and I think that’s absolutely brought some things to council’s awareness, and I think that’s all worthwhile.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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hile Longmont activists successfully landed a fracking ban question on the November ballot this week, one city council member hopes to put another initiative before the voters asking them how they would like to be taxed when the city loses a lawsuit over the ban. The group “Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont” announced Aug. 7 that it had collected enough signatures to put its proposed ban on hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” on the Nov. 6 ballot. But city council member Bonnie Finley had raised concerns about how Longmont might pay for a suit defending an outright ban at the council’s July 24 meeting. She asked City Attorney Eugene Mei what funds are available if a mineral rights owner sues the city over the loss of those rights, and Mei said Longmont’s risk management loss fund currently totals about $1.36 million. Finley said she had been told it would cost the city at least $4 million a year to defend itself against such suits, and she asked what the deadline would be for city council to pass a resolution placing an item on the ballot authorizing the city to raise those funds. Mei replied that the last city council meeting at which such a resolution could be approved is Sept. 4. Finley told Boulder Weekly Wednesday that she is still doing research on the matter, in part by contacting Colorado counties and other local governments that have been the target of such suits. “I’m not worried about the lawsuit itself,” Finley says. “I think we have money for the lawyers. What we don’t have money for, I don’t think, are the damages. Should fracking be banned altogether in Longmont, that’s taking away the mineral rights owners’ rights to access their minerals. So they would in turn sue us because of the loss of their right.” She said she was told by Greeley’s city attorney that the town was sued for similar reasons about 20 years ago, and the damages sought initially were $200 million, although the mineral rights owner eventually gained access to the minerals and settled for $300,000. “We don’t have that kind of money,” Finley says. “That worries me. That could bankrupt the city.” Her preliminary proposal is to give voters a choice of three methods to raise funds if the city’s loss pool is ever extinguished due to a fracking ban lawsuit: a mill levy (property tax) increase, a sales

tax hike or a fee on Longmont residents’ utility bills that would go toward creating a legal defense fund. When asked whether such a question would deter citizens from voting for the ban, Finley replied, “They just need to go in with their eyes wide open. Everyone needs to know what the facts are.” She also denies that her move to add a ballot question is intended as a scare tactic to defeat the proposed ban. “Not at all,” Finley says. “It’s simply to cover the city’s fiscal responsibility. If we have what Greeley had, and we don’t have that money, we need to find it, and there’s only one place it can come from. It’s not like we can have a bake sale.” Finley, who works for the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, which basically serves as the state’s chamber of commerce, says she has not discussed her initiative with representatives of the pro-industry Colorado Oil and Gas Association or the state regulatory body that’s currently suing the city over its recently approved oil and gas regulations, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. But she acknowledged that she speaks with industry insiders regularly as part of her job. “It’s always hard when people ask me questions like that,” Finley says. “I work for the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, so I talk to industry people whenever they come in for meetings or whatever, but I have not talked to them about damages.” She did acknowledge that she has discussed the issue with Colorado Municipal League attorney Geoff Wilson. Finley says she never feels pressure from the oil and gas industry, despite reports from other council members about such efforts. “The only people who have threatened me are the anti-fracking people,” Finley says. “I’ve gotten nasty phone calls and nasty emails. … The people who are nasty are on the other side.” Michael Bellmont, a spokesperson for the Our Longmont group, issued the following response to Finley’s effort: “This initiative is meant to scare the people of Longmont. It is intended to make the Longmont voter and taxpayer believe that they have to choose between their health and safety and their wallets.” In a press release, Our Longmont also called on Finley to resign her seat because of her conflicts of interest in being employed by CACI. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ity of Boulder officials want to charge the Valmont cemetery association more than $1,000 for copies of test results and other documents related to the cleanup project in and around the cemetery parking lot. In a July 27 letter, cemetery preservation spokesperson Carol Affleck and members of the board of directors of the Valmont School District No. 4 Cemetery Association told City Manager Jane Brautigam that it had been more than 13 weeks since Bill Boyes, the city’s facilities maintenance program manager, had promised to provide them with test results for the parking lot. The lot is included in the 103 acres that the city is remediating at the contaminated site. In their letter to Brautigam, the cemetery representatives renewed their request for test results from the parking lot, which has been the target of some test holes but no widespread excavation. Curiously, a foot or two of soil has been removed from a large area running along the north side of the cemetery parking lot fence. Since contamination is unlikely to be stopped by a chain-link fence, it raises questions about whether the test results on both sides of the fence are that different. In addition to the parking lot test results, the cemetery association made a host of other requests in its letter, including that the city: • remove the orange fence and “no trespassing” signs placed along the cemetery’s chain-link fence; • provide specifics about the cleanup standards used in determining that contamination levels in the cemetery parking lot did not exceed the threshold that would have prompted excavation; • provide field sampling and analysis results for the excavated areas adjacent to the cemetery on the north and east sides; • provide copies of all communications between the city or its consultants and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) regarding sampling and analysis for the cemetery parking lot; • provide all other sampling and analysis results for the entire site. That last request may have proved too broad, since the city’s facilities and fleet manager, Joe Castro, replied in an Aug. 1 letter that the three batches of test results, sampling and analysis requested would require 30 hours of “research, retrieval and compilation.” At $35 an hour, he wrote, it would cost the cemetery association $1,050 to obtain that documentation. Not including the 25 cents per page for copies. Alternatively, Castro said, the group could wait for all sampling results to be Boulder Weekly

City wants more than $1,000 for Valmont documents by Jefferson Dodge compiled at the conclusion of the project in a “Remediation Construction Completion Report,” which will be posted on the city’s website after remediation work is finished in December. As for the cleanup standards used,

Castro referred the group to the city’s Voluntary Cleanup Plan. Regarding the request for correspondence, he said “no such communications have been sent from the city to the Colorado Department of Public Health &

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f two water initiatives die before they have a chance to reach the ballot in November, do they make a sound? If they did, the sound you might hear is the collective sigh of relief from the Colorado oil and gas industry, the agricultural industry and other opponents of Initiatives 3 and 45. The two initiatives, drafted by environmentalists Richard Hamilton and Phil Doe, were designed to restore water rights to the public. But their attempt fell short. They were only able to gather an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 of the required 86,000 signatures by the Aug. 6 deadline to get the initiatives on the ballot — and Doe and Hamilton are pointing fingers. Originally granted to the people of Colorado by the state constitution, the public ownership of water has been “chiseled away and chiseled away and shaved away until there’s just nothing left,” Doe says. The initiatives they drafted would have re-established “the primacy of public ownership.” If passed, Initiative 3 would not only have given the public unrestricted access to the natural streams it owns, it also named the government as its steward to protect that public ownership and granted citizens

tiatives addressed only one topic, a rule known as the single-subject requirement, Doug Kemper, executive director of the Colorado Water Congress, decided to appeal the matter to the Colorado Supreme Court. The judicial review process took 100 days, reducing the time remaining to collect signatures by more than half. Although the proponents of the initiative could have collected signatures during the judicial review, it would have essentially been a gamble; if the Supreme Court found that the language of the initiatives didn’t meet requirements, the collected signatures would have become void. “You can get signatures during that period, but at your own risk,” says Richard Collins, a constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. “A confident lawyer familiar with this field could have looked at those two amendments … and been fairly confident that your side would win that appeal, and therefore the risk would not be too great.” Because of their limited resources, however, Doe and Hamilton chose not to take that risk, and they argue that delays in the court cost the initiative its

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chance at the ballot. “[The Supreme Court’s] only charge was to determine whether it met the single-subject requirement,” Doe says. “It provided [Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory] Hobbs an opportunity to fulminate over not whether it was a single subject but whether this was good for the state of Colorado. …That was not his charge — I mean he should be cashiered for what he did.” The Supreme Court approved the initiatives, with Justice Hobbs as the only dissenter. “I think Greg Hobbs played a very vicious political game there,” Doe says. “Why should they delay it for three and a half months? … They put us behind the eight-ball.” Hobbs, who declined to comment on Doe’s accusation, has been one of the most vocal critics of the initiatives. The justice argued in his dissenting opinion that the initiatives did not meet the single-subject requirement because they contained within them “surreptitious measures” that proposed “to drop what amounts to a nuclear bomb on Colorado water rights and land rights.” The justice also wrote that he sees the initiatives as a threat to the agricultural industry and beyond. In reference to Initiative 45, he said, “Masquerading as a measure to protect the public’s control of water, it would prevent farmers, cities, families and businesses from making beneficial use of water rights that have vested in them over the past 150 years under Colorado’s statutes and constitution.” Other critics of the initiatives, such as Kemper and other members of the Colorado Water Congress, argued that the agricultural industry could have been devastated by the initiatives

Critics of the initiatives argued that the agricultural industry could have been devastated because the initiatives allowed citizens to sue the state if they found any farmer’s use of water to be outside the public’s interest. because they allowed citizens to sue the state if they found any farmer’s use of water to be outside the public’s interest. “The uncertainty that it creates in day-to-day activities is enormous, and the threat that it presents to municipal and industrial and commercial and especially agricultural water users is substantial,” Kemper adds. “It just takes

our whole water rights system and kind of turns it upside down.” However, Doe maintains that “there is not a word about our intent to take anything away from anybody.” “This is a sharing type of initiative,” he says. “All we’re asking is that you have to share.” It wouldn’t turn the world upside

down, Doe argues. “It would just say there are limits and the people who own it are going to set the limits,” he says. Traditional agricultural uses would not be altered, he says. The drafters of the initiatives say the real targets are those who destroy Colorado’s water supply by removing massive amounts of water from the water cycle or by polluting water. Not only can horizontal fracking contaminate groundwater, he says, it removes water diverted from streams from the water cycle completely by irreparably polluting it. After failing to get the initiatives on the ballot this fall, Doe and Hamilton say they will regroup and form their next plan of attack. They say they will most likely resubmit the initiatives for the 2014 election and keep very similar language to streamline it through the courts the next time around. “The public was precluded from having an opportunity to discuss the issue by a set of procedural anomalies or procedural hurdles that had nothing to do with the initiatives, but had to do with the process,” Hamilton says. “We do not live in a society where the government sits there and says what we can say to one another about important political issues.” However, it looks as though Colorado citizens will have to wait until 2014 to have that discussion. “We’ll stay at this until we win, and we will eventually win,” Doe says, “because I think the public is getting pretty tired of the 1 percent treating the rest of us like cattle, and the public’s resources like something that doesn’t matter.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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dog’s fangs rip into my thigh,” Harz says. “I freaked, backpedaled and tried to slam the door on the thing, but he had his shoulders through the door and bit me a couple more times before I could get my pack between us and push the damn thing back in the hostel.” Shocked and assessing the wounds, the two were then confronted by the hostel’s owner. “She says, ‘Why’d you scare Mack?’” Sorenson says, laughing. “Why did we scare Mack? Damn, lady.” A meeting followed in which Harz and Mack sat on the sofa, gazing into one another’s eyes as Pat, the aged hostel owner, counseled them to just be friends, so that neither man nor beast would suffer any psychological trauma. The dog attack raised serious questions about the expedition. “At elevation, your immune system begins to shut down, it’s so overtaxed and under-oxygenated” Harz says. “If that wound goes septic on the mountain, depending on our location and the weather, we might be beyond help. It might be fatal.” What was more, several of the piercing wounds were directly where his chaffing harness straps would ride. Though “summit fever” is not a genuine medical condition, many mountaineers have died through denial of risks and an overwhelming desire to summit.

“It would be heartbreaking for the expedition to fail then and there,” Sorenson says. “Thousands of dollars, six months of training — we decided to go for it.” The climbers slept in a shed at the end of the small runway. Weather had been terrible on Denali for weeks, and when a window of opportunity arose for the flight to get off the ground, they had to be ready to scramble onto a small plane. “You don’t fly when you want to fly, you fly when Denali lets you,” Harz says. Luck, however, rejoined the team, and they were able to get out the next day. Like transiting between worlds, the two flew from the brilliant green Alaskan summer and entered a realm of perpetual snow and ice, wind, cold and danger. As the plane rounded a set of peaks, Denali, at long last, came into view. “I was taken aback by how big it was, and how beautiful,” Sorenson says. “I switched into expedition see DENALI Page 26

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touch firmer, and thus safer. They passed Motorcycle Hill, where the Japanese team joined the list of Denali casualties, and ascended to Windy Corner, a dangerous, tricky traverse on an exposed face on the way to camp 4 at 14,200 feet. Then, the weather cleared. A weather transmission on the radio said there would be a three-day window of clear weather, the first in weeks. They faced an agonizing decision whether to take the rest day they badly needed, or to push on to make the summit on a clear day. It’s the kind of decision that often divides the living from the dead. They rested. Reaching camp 5, Harz and Sorenson had one last summit push ahead, but it would be the most dangerous stretch of mountain, passing the Autobahn, a sharp, high ridge named for a German team that slid off, gaining tremendous speed along the way before sliding into the valley below. Earlier this season, another German climber attempted to retrieve his sliding pack, lost his footing and slid down after it. “After the Autobahn, we had Summit Ridge and Pig Hill, but you don’t feel as on edge. The most dangerous part is over,” Harz says. “It’s a knife edge, and it’s windy, but you just have to stay focused.” It was nine hours from camp 5 to the summit, but they made it. “We had a perfect blue day. The weather held for us for six days,” Sorenson says. “That’s unheard of on Denali. We were so lucky.” “We were the only ones up there. Camp 4 and 5 were ghost towns. So many teams were defeated, but there we were on a perfect day on the summit in blistering cold with all of North America there beneath us,” Harz says. “It was emotional for me. It was the end of a bad phase in my life,” Sorenson says. “I couldn’t help it, I started crying, which triggered Alex to start crying. ... It’s such an emotional release.” The best mountaineers, the ones who stay alive, live by the mantra that a climb is only half over at the summit, if that. For Harz and Sorenson, the worst was yet to come. While lowering their uncontrollable sleds through fields of mouth-shaped crevasses, Sorenson fell through two snow bridges into hidden chasms. Their rope held and he was able to escape unharmed, though the situation was the most terrifying either climber has yet experienced — trumping a self-arrest Harz made on the way up. Socked in for days by bad weather back at base camp, their Cessna finally succeeded at getting in after several attempts. It landed, they hurried aboard and took off. Now, the Harz/Sorenson team only has five summits, five continents, to go. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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way down the mountain, defeated by weeks of constant storms. “They looked haggard, just beaten and broken,” Harz says. “One guy, a Montenegran, passed us saying, ‘I have not seen the sun for weeks!’ We were going up, and I thought, ‘What are we going into?.’” They busied themselves with the various tasks necessary to live on the mountain. Wielding meter-long collapsible saws, they cut blocks of ice to build shelters to shield their tents from the fierce winds that constantly raked the mountain. Ice must constantly be melted for water — when it came to the stove, the freeze-dried food they packed ranked second to the necessity of hydration. After a body burns off fat reserves, it starts on muscle. Both climbers lost some 15 pounds by expedition’s end. The move from camp 1 to camp 2, at 9,800 feet, takes mountaineers up Ski Hill, a steep face known for funneling bad weather down the mountain. “You have to be ready for instant change, heavy solar radiation, high winds, and whiteout,” Harz says. Whiteout is what they got. “I called it chasing flags, because all you can do is look for the route flags left by other climbers. Everything else is white and featureless, and it’s highly crevassed and full of avalanches.” A wrong turn could have taken the two sliding off a ridge to their deaths; a constant threat. Encountering descending groups, they began hearing news of a disaster, but details were vague. “We heard guys were dead; three, four, five, but no one knew for sure what happened,” Sorenson recalls. It wasn’t until reaching camp 3, at 11,000 feet, that the climbers learned the scope of the disaster. “We saw the slide zone, then a helicopter showed up with a search and rescue team, and they looked for the guys from this Japanese team that was hit by an avalanche and sucked down a crevasse,” Harz says. “It was a five-man rope team. One hit a ledge about 30 feet down, the rope snapped, and he was able to climb back out. ... The rest of them will be down there, 50, 100, 300 feet, forever.” Protecting one another’s lives took on new relevance at that point, and they decided that their strength lay in their lack of team members. Working as one man, they could move more quickly, react faster to changing conditions and, given their close friendship, be honest with each other. Embracing this new mentality, they cached all but the most essential supplies and progressed up the mountain alpine style: light and fast. The two took to traveling at night. Though it was light 24 hours a day, nighttime was significantly colder, making the steepest reaches of the peak a

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he Boulder International Fringe Festival (BIFF) is a little more than a week away, and Executive Producer David Ortolano has deep, dark bags under his eyes. “I work probably 30, 40 hours a week [on the Fringe Festival] in addition to my full-time job,” he says, noting that he peaks at around 100 hours a week. He adds wryly, “There’s not that much time for sleep.” Sitting in a chair at the Naropa Performing Arts Center, as various artists performing in this year’s festival check out the space, hash out technical details and rehearse, Ortolano talks about the festival he birthed eight years ago with a pragmatic savvy. He casually reels off ways he could put on the festival given a fraction of the current resources available, saying that because

the Fringe Festival provides such a valuable service for artists, any scale of festival would be successful. “If we had to and we had no support from the community, we would put on a festival and make it nice. It’d be something,” he says. “If my resources are my body and my mind, I’m going to grab cardboard boxes out of a trash bin and I’m going to make finger puppets with an old pen that I found in the street, and I’m going to sit in front of the goddamn courthouse and I’m going to make a festival because I think that’s important for our community. And people would just be like, ‘Yeah, oh yeah, that’s exciting,’ and maybe they would bring their own version of that to it.” Of course, the festival is much more than a see FRINGE Page 30

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street performance on Pearl Street. The Fringe Festival is an artist’s festival, a chaotic smorgasbord of more than 250 artists and 300 events taking place over 12 days (Aug. 15-26) in 14 different venues. There are no stuffy juries or artistic boards deciding who gets in and who doesn’t. Nobody exercises prior restraints on artists. Instead, performers submit applications to enter the festival, and the first 25 percent automatically get in. Organizers select the remaining 75 percent with a lottery. It’s all chance, and everything’s fair game. The festival does a bit of outreach to performers, too, Ortolano says. Ortolano reached out to Imagine! — a Longmont-based organization for adults with developmental and physical disabilities — and asked the program’s participants to create a piece for the show. They had done a piece the previous year, and he found it very moving. “Fringe provides a venue for people who aren’t being selected because of whatever reason,” he says. “All of a sudden you have a big community event happening that’s unjuried … and right after [Imagine!] is Still Napping, dance choreography veterans who are doing a New York-level modern dance piece. And they’re one right after another.” The Fringe Festival follows four main rules: the artists get 100 percent of the ticket sales, ticket prices are kept low, the acts are unjuried and the acts are uncensored. The first rule encourages artists to take full responsibility for the content and promotion of their show, while the second keeps the festival accessible. Those last two rules encourage artists to bring work that has nowhere else to go, and they ensure a healthy variety of the weird, the deviant and the obscure. “The whole point of the Fringe Festival is to inspire the work to be happening no matter what, no matter what the resources are,” he says. As a result of the lack of censorship, you get shows like David Kleinberg’s autobiographical one-man show about sex addiction, during which he frequently goes into character as his penis, performing the same week as a clown troupe, a one-woman burlesque show, improv comedy and a battle of the bands. The lack of a jury deciding who gets in guarantees diversity, Ortolano says, in both content and ability, and he acknowledges it turns each festival into 30 August 9, 2012

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somewhat of a grab bag. “We’re asking the audience to take a chance on something that’s a little different than usual,” he says. But that diversity, the mercurial randomness that makes each festival unique, is what fringe festivals are all about. The term dates back to the Edinburgh International Festival in the ’40s. Legend has it that artists and performers not invited to participate in the festival crashed the edges of the festival, setting up impromptu performances. Journalist Robert Kemp wrote, “Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before,” and a movement was born. By providing a venue for acts that might fall outside the standards of an artistic board, fringe festivals give a voice to artists who might not find one elsewhere. “That’s the soul of the fringe festival,” Ortolano says. “It’s not really about me deciding what makes a Fringe-y show and therefore fits into some model that’s inside my head. An artistic board choosing work? That’s sort of counter-fringe. The fringe is about letting the work choose itself.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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al hicago comedian Kelsie Huff is no stranger to a rough crowd. “My first standup I went to a bar near Wrigley Field, which is very sporty and very douchebaggy,” Huff says. “I thought, ‘I’m just gonna tell one of my stories!’ and got a lot of ‘show us your tits!’ instead.” But with years of experience under her belt with the improv group Second City, Huff says she’s learned to just go with it. “Sometimes you gotta know your audience, so I do a lot of my dick jokes at that bar,” she says. “But in a coffee shop or something, it might be a little more low-key. That’s the great thing about comedy — you have to flex different muscles in your environment all the time, and that’s what makes it fun and scary as hell. But mostly fun.” Huff’s comedy blends a healthy mix of dark cynicism and carefree wit, evidenced by how she got into the business. “The depressing answer is that I had an intense home and had to make some jokes, ’cause I had some booze in my family,” she says. “So that’s the depressing answer. But Chicago’s a great comedy town, and I’m from a small town right outside of Chicago, and I had a lot of funny folks in my family. I started taking improv classes at Colombia College and then went to Second City. But even as a kid I used to watch Eddie Murphy really late at night when I wasn’t supposed to, so it’s all Eddie Murphy’s fault.” While comedy is her calling, Huff says she’s painfully aware of the low pay up-and-comers make. “I’m from the Midwest, so doing any comedy is like, ‘Oh, that’s a nice little hobby you have,’” she says. “I do have a day job right now. It’s difficult to get paid, though every once in a while I do, but I sort of have two lives. I have a day job and I teach comedy, which pays a little more, and then I just hustle it up, and the goal is just to keep hustling more so I can eventually not have to work a ‘real job,’ as my mom says. It’s a good aspiration, to piss off Mom.” For Boulder’s Fringe Fest, Huff will be teaching comedy workshops to those interested in giving the mic a try. “This specific workshop is really focused on standup comedy and how to bring the character of you out, how to bring your voice out and experiences and make it more humorous,” she says. “Everybody has a story — everybody thinks they don’t, but they do. And to bring it out and to see people who have no performance experience is awesome.” Huff says that some of her favorite comedians are the ones who finally get the courage to go up on stage. “I get a lot of excitement from the local scene in Chicago,” she says. “There’s people there now moving to L.A. and becoming bigger deals. One of my passions is seeing newbie comics take the stage for the first time.” Channeling her excitement into this new workshop, Huff says the ultimate goal is to encourage people to do a two- to three-minute set in front of a live audience. “It’s just awesome to see people find that confidence to get up there and rock the microphone,” she says. “Standup comedy is one of those things that’s terrifying for most people. To get up there and have the power of a microphone for two minutes and make a room laugh is pretty awesome, so I’m hoping it goes well.”

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he selection-by-lottery format of the Boulder International Fringe Festival ensures a healthy diversity of performers each year, but there are still repeat artists from year to year. Gemma Wilcox, a 34-year-old British expat who produces, directs and acts in one-woman shows, is one of those Fringe Fest regulars. She won the “Best of Fest” award in 2005, 2006 and 2008, and she’s back this year with a one-woman show called The Magical Mystery Detour, which she co-wrote with director Elizabeth Baron. Wilcox’s character, Solandra, gets a letter from her mother’s lawyer telling her that one of her mother’s final wishes was that her daughter witness the transit of Venus in England, so Solandra drops everything and travels overseas. To act out the journey, Wilcox takes on the personas of 21 characters, including men, women, animals and inanimate objects. “[The play explores] how we deal with the apparent ‘detours’ in life and relationships, especially when it’s different than or goes against the pictures we have or our expectations, dreams, etc.,” Wilcox says. Wilcox doesn’t collaborate on her one-woman plays often, but she speaks enthusiastically about her work with Baron. “I would say that in the past, I’ve done more of the writing myself. … I’d say this is more collaborative than usual in my one-woman shows,” Wilcox says. “Sometimes we’ll just have the same thought or think of the exact same line. It’s really special. For many years I was looking for a creative partner, someone I could trust, because many of my plays are really vulnerable.” Wilcox is not alone in doing solo acts at the Fringe Festival. At least nine acts feature just one performer, and many more acts feature fewer than five. The rules of the Fringe Festival encourage this. Artists must pay for all production costs associated with their act, and they pocket 100 percent of the ticket proceeds. However, another rule dictates that ticket prices be kept low. The combination of those two rules encourages acts without much overhead or actors, encouraging performers to strip down their performances. Wilcox’s play is about as stripped down as you can get, with no costume changes, no other actors and a minimal set. It’s “raw theater,” as she calls it, and she hopes to take it to other festivals across the country after the Boulder Fringe Festival ends. (She’s sort of a regular on the “fringe circuit”; she says she spends about three to four months Boulder Weekly

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she says The Magical Mystery Detour will stand on its own.) She and Baron wrote the play in a three-week blitz, and emotions sometimes ran high. “[Baron] and I have certainly been laughing and crying quite a bit — and

buzz sometimes simultaneously — during our rehearsals,” Wilcox says. But getting to that vulnerable emotional core is what makes good theater, she says. That’s the ultimate goal. “Basically, the theatre work that I love and the teachers in the arts that I have been drawn to embrace the entire human being, in all its light and shadow, joy and pain,” she says. “And often the best material comes from the most vulnerable places where things are raw.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Laurie Morvan burns in blue Guitarist is part axe-slinger, part electrical engineer by Dave Kirby Morvan and her band are spending the hottest and driest summer since the Dustbowl plying the clubs and scattered blues festivals across the nation’s midsection (we caught up to her en route to Topeka by way of Kansas City). Their

f life’s a race, it’s certainly the hurdles. An experienced racer, Andrew Bird’s been going around the track since the mid-’90s, when he ran with acts like the “Hell”-ish Squirrel Nut Zippers and Bowl of Fire. He struck out on his own in the early aughts and has developed a devoted following and loads of critical acclaim for his exquisitely crafted, violin-driven indie pop. But on one of those trips around the track, Bird’s foot caught a hurdle. It happened in Belgium, where faced with a “pensive” audience, Bird hit bottom. “I was going through absolute burnout,” Bird recalls. “It sucks because you

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hurt yourself when you have that kind of impassive audience that’s not giving back. You will physically hurt yourself to reach and scrape the bottom of the barrel to get it out rather than just phone it in. And then it gets scary.” It’s out of this moment that Bird derived the “no man is an island” theme for much of his latest album, Break It Yourself. It runs from the swirling calliope of jangling guitars on “Eyeoneeye,” which provides inspiration for the album’s title (”Made yourself invulnerable / No one can break your heart / So you break it yourself ”), to the infectious vaguely jazzy folk ditty “Give It Away,” see BIRD Page 36

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in the mid-1980s with a degree in electrical engineering. “I would walk into class,” she says, “and there’d be 50 guys. And me. … We had 6:30 a.m. workouts, and then 2:30 p.m. workouts, and so I’d walk into class all sweaty and gross, and it’d be, ‘Hi guys.’ “But really what helped was … you get As. That’s what helps, cause then nobody can argue that you don’t belong there.” She moved to California after Illinois and worked for three years as an engineer in the aerospace industry. The job was a little too restrictive for an aspiring musician with her eyes on the road, so she moved onto teaching, securing her Master’s in applied mathematics some years later. She currently 36 August 9, 2012

holds a faculty position at Cypress College in Southern California, teaching calculus and trigonometry. Blues guitarist on the weekends and in the summer, a college math instructor the rest of the time. She doesn’t make a big deal about it — plenty of club artists have day gigs to keep themselves afloat, and Morvan, who could go back to engineering more or less any time she wanted, approaches the whole thing with characteristically balanced logic. “I kind of feel like, if something’s going to take me away from music, then I want it to be an extremely worthy cause,” she says. “As long as I’m teaching, I still feel like I’m in the dream business.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Acoustic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Cowgirl Radio — With Deborah Crooks. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Dexter Payne. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Face. Niwot Rock N Rails Concert Series. Whistle Stop Park, 1st & Murray, Niwot, www.niwotcolorado.com/ events. Fun — With Citizen Cope & Givers. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Jet Set — With Jason Hicks & Amy Finders. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Katey Laurel. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Lucky Me. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Patrick Dethlefs. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Skrillex. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. The Sky She Cries. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Smack Thompson. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Los Lonely Boys. 7:30 p.m. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

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Patrick Dethlefs — Live from UI Sound Studios. 7:30 p.m. UI Sound Studios, 2401 Broadway, Boulder, 303929-1679.

Alabama Shakes. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Sambadende. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Amendment. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Soul School. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Thievery Corporation — With Beats Antique and Afrolicious Live. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Dance Party — With DJ Johnny Trash. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. DJ Chad Zygoat. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Indulgers. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Johnny O. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Julian Verlard. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Interstate Stash Express. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Joseph Cutshall Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

Town Mountain. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

events Breema — The Art of Being Present, an open house. 7 p.m. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 510428-0937. Pecha Kucha Night. 7 p.m. Firehuse Arts Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Photography Session — With Ranger Fowler. 6:30 p.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder, 303-499-5083.

Blind Pilot. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. The Clamdaddys. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914 x313. Greater Heart Music Festival — Fundraiser for Eye of the Heart Refuge. 12 p.m. Rollinsville, www.eyeoftheheartwildliferefuge.com. Jababa. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Java Jam in the Park. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Jockamo. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Jubal. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Malah. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Matic. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Moses Jones. 6:15 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 29th St. & Canyon, Boulder. NuMundo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Pelta-Tiller — With The Stray Birds. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see PANORAMA Page 40

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Mestizo Hybridity — Tony Ortega. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Aug. 11. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Nov. 25. David Mayhew — Landscape photography. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Through Sept. 2.

Heirloom, by Anne Mondro; Infotainment, by Evan Colbert; Past Lives, by Hilary DePolo Collective. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Artists’ talk at 4 p.m. Aug. 3. Karen Barnett, painter, and Cheryl Pennington, hand-colored black and white photographs. The Old Gallery, 14863 Hwy 7, Allenspark, 303-747-2089. Open for Design — A Denver Art Museum Community Challenge. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 2.

Elsewhere — Photos by Kevin Van Aelst. The Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Center of Fort Collins, 400 N. College Ave., 970-2241010. Through Aug. 25.

Photography Workshops — At Rocky Mountain National Park. Free and open to the public. 800-925-2949, www.photographyintheparks.com. Aug. 5-11.

Feeling the Heat. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 25.

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PANORAMA from Page 39 Rockin' Jake. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Spring Creek — With Town Mountain. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Steve Conn. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Zimmermans. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Caring for Backyard Chickens — With Transition Colorado. 1-4 p.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-1822. Boulder Asian Festival. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. 1300 and 1400 blocks of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-956-3693. Boulder Outdoor Cinema — Jurassic Park, with The Goonies. 7:30 p.m. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 855-BOCYEAH. Chipotle at the Farmers’ Market — Distributing free $10 tokens and BOGO offers. 8 a.m. Canyon Boulevard and 13th Street, Boulder, www.boulderfarmers.org. Feast for the Senses — A five-course dinner. 4:30 p.m. farm tour, 5:30 p.m. dinner. Isabelle Farm, 10029 Isabelle Road, Lafayette, www.blackbellycatering.com. Hafla: Belly Dance Variety Show. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Senior Law Day — This annual event brings legal professionals to present seminars for seniors and their caregivers. Volunteers are needed for setup, cleanup, registration, parking support, and more. 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Plaza Hotel Conference Center, 1850 Industrial Circle, Longmont, 303-443-1933. Summer Beer Dinner with Avery — Presented by Q’s Food and Wine Series. 6:30 p.m. Q’s, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880.

Sunday, August 12 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m., Traditional Irish Session 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400. Dan McCorison. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Doug MacLeod. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Lee Johnson. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Meagan Tubb. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Pink Martini. 7:30 p.m. The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Race: The Power of an Illusion — A screening of the three-part PBS film series followed by panel and discussion. 10:30 a.m.– 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Raul Midon. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Search and Rescue: Celebrating Colorado Authors — Presented by Stories on Stage and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-494-0523.

Sublime. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Ron Matthews. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Anna Joy Springer, Janice Lee — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Friday, August 10 Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art and Practice of Embodied Mindfulness — by Dr. Risa Kaparo. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Saturday, August 11 All my Patients Kick and Bite— by Jeff Wells. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Debra Morkun, j/j hastain — Poetry reading. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Sunday, August 12

and Buddhism for Living an Engaged Life — by Michael Stone. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, August 13 “So, You’re a Poet” — an open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Tuesday, August 14 Final Crossing — by Carter Wilson. 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349. Living Poets Society — Reading Help is on the Way, by John Brehm. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, August 15 Kitty Steals the Show — by Carrie Vaughn. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Daniella Katzir. 9 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Teresa Storch — With Amy Schmidt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Film On The Rocks — Spirited Away With Meiko. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Bolder Nights — An evening of local and original theatre, art and music. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Boulder Asian Festival. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. 1300 and 1400 blocks of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-956-3693.

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The Boulder Home Show. 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. SW corner of Safeway parking lot, 2798 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, 720-272-7467. Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Special Event Walkabout — To discuss the Reservoir Master Plan. 10-11:30 a.m. Reservoir Office, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, www.boulderrez.org. The Sunday Market. 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. SW corner of Safeway parking lot, 2798 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, 720-272-7467. Tour de Coops — Lyons area. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Lyons, www.tourdecoopsCO.com, 303-908-3054.

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Twisted Pine Benefit for The Puppy Rescue Mission — Events include keg relay race, blind keg tapping, beer trivia and chug-off, 10 percent of sales donated to The Puppy Rescue Mission, which helps bring home companion animals of soldiers serving in war zones. 12-8 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 303786-9270.

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Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Romano Paoletti’s open stage. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

events Bolder Talks — With Rosaline Wiseman & BULLY Project. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. “So, You’re a Poet,” — An open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628. Web Designs Transitions Certificate Program. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tuesday, August 14 music Open Stage. 7:15 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Singer/Songewriters in the Round. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Sons of Fathers. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Ron LeGault Trio. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 1. Comic Con con Comedy. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, www.tclstage.org.

Women of Will. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 12.

Jersey Boys. The Buell Theatre, 950 13th St.,

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Comedy Night — with Nancy Norton. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, August 15 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Andrew Bird. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Summer Crafts. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Friday, August 10 Art Fundraiser at Creative Framing. 5 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-6042424. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Bands on the Bricks — The Nacho Men. 7 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Sunday, August 12

Marlo & Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Bluegrass Pick. 10 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Punk Rock Rollerfest. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Songwriters in the Round. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Eco Art Awards Entry Deadline — A thematic competition for $12,500 for six categories in prizes. www. ecoartsawards.com. Deadline Aug. 15.

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

Monday, August 13 Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, August 14 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, August 15

Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962.

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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Storytime. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Thursday, August 9 Auditions for P’Zazz Children’s Choir. By appointment. Studio, 11905 W. 107th Ave., Broomfield,

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In the middle of nowhere, a mill town’s population emptied over the last few years. However, some have decided to stay, more out of choice than necessity, because this is where they were born and grew up. Among them: Francis, a conscientious worker who continues to maintain the machine on which he’s worked all his life; Samir, his son, who returns to the neighborhood after a long absence; and Maria, the neighbor, who lives alone with her son José, who believes his father is Gary Cooper. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

married couple seeking to rekindle a big romance in the hands of a couples counselor (Steve Carell) in a small town. Tommy Lee at his most endearingly gruff and Meryl at her most blushingly flustered. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D The endless chase for that acorn has continental ramifications. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THE IMPOSTER

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY

Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio and held him in secret detention. At Chez Artiste and Century. — Landmark Theatres THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker gets a new look (and an origin story) in this Marvel remake of everyone’s favorite web slinger. Unlike Toby Maguire’s emo-esque rendition of the wall-crawler, actor Andrew Garfield’s portayal hopes to bring Spidey back to his roots with more wit and fewer tears. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Forget concerns about star power and familiarity. Fight to see this movie and to let it be seen. We have never needed a coming-of-age fable set against environmental and poverty concerns as much as we need this. And it is more than up to the challenge. At Century and Mayan. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. BERNIE Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset) returns to his Texas roots for this delightfully poker-faced black comedy — based on a true story — about East Texas assistant funeral home director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black). Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Driven by her cruelty to put four bullets in her, Bernie goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that she’s still alive. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the place a shell of its former self. At Century. — Landmark Theatres THE BOURNE LEGACY

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Will Ferrell, still taking things too seriously.

this super-spy and put him under lock and key. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. BRAVE Brazenly red-headed Merida, princess, skilled archer and general nuisance at the royal dinner table, accidentally unleashes a curse on her kingdom. She then fights bravely — get it? — to defend her kingdom. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THE CAMPAIGN

A long-term congressman faces off with a CEO-appointed opponent in a congressional race sure to whet your appetite for the ongoing political dramas this election season. Oh, except, it’s Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, and what they really want to score is another stream of one-liners that will fasten themselves to the lexicon as well as half the script of Talledega Nights and Anchorman. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. A CAT IN PARIS

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

Welcome to the Dollhouse) enters somewhat more upbeat territory with this quirky, tragicomic romance between eager underachiever Abe (Jordan Gelber) and insecure, overmedicated Miranda (Selma Blair). In his mid30s, Abe is an avid toy collector who still lives with his parents (the wonderful Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow), and resents working for his father. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax and Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

Director Christopher Nolan’s D.C. superhero legacy comes to an end as unwelcome and reluctant hero Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) dons his cape and deepens his voice once more. Batman battles for the future of Gotham against ruthless criminal Bane (Tom Hardy) with the help of the “catty” Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway). Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS

The latest installment in this series based on the popular books sends the wimpy kid off on appropriately wimpy summer misadventures. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. FAREWELL, MY QUEEN

A glimpse at the opulant debauchery that was the cake-addled court of Marie Antoinette shortly before that ugly incident with the guillotine. Rated R. At Century.

Documentary meets film noir in the riveting jaw-dropper The Imposter, a true story that has the twists and turns of a thriller. In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems. The boy bears many of the same distinguishing marks he always had, but why does he now have a strange accent? Why does he look so different? And why doesn’t the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It’s only when an investigator starts asking questions that this strange tale takes an even stranger turn. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres THE INTOUCHABLES The Intouchables, by French writer/directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, is the inspiring true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres IRON SKY

In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the dark side of the moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society MAGIC MIKE While it would be great to think that a movie about male strippers would be for women what movies like Striptease and Showgirls were for men, the loose threads of a plotline here suggest that Magic Mike really is just about encouraging more men to womanize and more women to fall for their ploys. Rated R. At Colony Square. MOONRISE KINGDOM

This documentary follows a group of teenagers in rural southwestern China who are recruited as their country’s next Olympic hopefuls. It also focuses on coach Qi Moxiang, who turns them into Western-style boxing champions. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax and Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

Hysteria tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness. A feisty love story and a trip into hidden history, Hysteria is an exploration of women’s passion and a celebration of the forward-thinking spirit that has always kept human progress buzzing. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

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

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f you’ve ever seen an online profile picture, chances are you’re familiar with the pursed-lips, craned-neck, supposedly slimming contortion known affectionally as “the duckface.” Total Recall is the sci-fi tale of a quasi-postapocalyptic duckface war between Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel, with Colin Ferrell as the judge. At least, that’s what this remake of an adaptation of a short story, written by a gob-stopping five separate writers, seems to be about. Any larger theme is missed among the cacophony of dubstep and techno sounds, Farrell’s unrepentant shirtlessness and Biel and Beckinsale’s leather pants. Some folks out there are under the delusion that 1990’s Arnold Schwarzenegger-led Total Recall is an untouchable sci-fi masterpiece. Well, if that’s the sliding scale for masterpieces, the Louvre should resemble a new parent’s refrigerator. There was no inherent harm in director Len Wiseman resurrecting this property for another goround. Then again, there was no real incentive to do so either. Ferrell is Douglas Quaid, or a secret agent named Hauser, depending on how you see things. He is perhaps the most bland, nondescript hero to ever possess two identities. In the near future, “chemical war” has rendered only Europe and Australia habitable, presumably because weather patterns in sci-fi movies allow gas to observe political borders. Quaid and his wife, Lori (Beckinsale), live in “The Colony,” which is Australian for ghetto. Each day, he has to board an elevator that takes him through the center of the earth to England, where he makes robots. Presumably, Stephen Hawking’s next book will be How to Build an

Elevator Through the Center of the Earth for Dummies. Dennis hates his life, despite being married to Kate Beckinsale. So he checks out “Rekall,” which is run by a badly hair-dyed John Cho. Rekall gives you fake memories so you can falsely remember a time when you didn’t hate your life. Dennis asks to be a spy because he’s had dreams about a sexy female agent (Biel), but right when he’s about to go under, it’s revealed he already is a spy. Or is he? Much like the 1990’s incarnation, the “mystery” is whether or not Douglas is actually a spy fighting against the evil Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) or if he’s basically just dreaming. In addition to the beloved tummy mutant, Kuato, the most memorable part of the original was Mars, which is gone. That said, the single best element of this otherwise unremarkable outing is the set design. The overpopulated world has sloppy buildings that, while Blade Runnerinspired, are not derivative. Oh, and some of the fighting is OK. Beyond that, there’s only the intrigue of Cranston’s hairpiece and Biel’s flexibility that remain compelling. There’s nothing wrong with the lifeless, charisma-free Total Recall. It is a blockbuster yeoman, if that does anything for you. To put it another way: Before the movie started, an audience member talking far too loudly confused Colin Farrell with Colin Powell and inaccurately described the plot of S.W.A.T. using Powell’s name. Now that idea is something that stays with you. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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reel to reel classical music in what is considered the most important Russian opera ever written. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater OPERA: NORMA – TEATRO ANTICO TAORMINO

Norma is considered Vincenzo Bellini’s magnum opus, and the apex of the bel canto operatic style. Flowing, lyrical melodies –— including the infamously difficult soprano aria “Casta Diva” — heighten this sweeping drama. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater OTTER 501

As an abandoned otter pup is rescued and returned to the wild, we follow a young marine biologist as she learns about the plight of sea otters, the ocean ecosystem, and the efforts to save this species from the brink of extinction. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

Duplass), a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

A Mexican Baja cartel threatens three close friends and their prime marijuana-growing operation. Rated R. At Colony Square STEP UP REVOLUTION

A would-be professional dancer gets entangled with a flash mob leader and joins a campaign to save the world from capitalism — by dancing. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks.

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With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres

While Rome is a city abundant with romance and comedy, To Rome With Love is about people having adventures that will change their lives forever. Directed by Woody Allen. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theaters

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A midnight cult sensation, this quirky black comedy has been running for more than nine years in Los Angeles and is ready to take the rest of the country by storm. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres RUBY SPARKS

In the romantic comedy Ruby Sparks, Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing — as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby (Zoe Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

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This never-before-seen concert movie captures this world famous band at the height of its career. Shot on 16 mm in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1978, the film has been upgraded to high definition with a 5.1 audio track. It opens with a Sir Mick Jagger interview filmed in August 2011 in which he introduces the concert and offers an insight into its significance in the band’s history. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

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John, an awkward 30-something with a deadend job (Mark Wahlberg), has his world turned upside down when his girlfriend (played by Mila Kunis) gives him an ultimatum: Ditch the best friend, a teddy bear (voiced by Seth McFarlane) who miraculously came to life when John was a child, or lose the girl. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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he best nutritional advice continues to advocate the importance of eating breakfast. Yet when the alarm clock goes off and we set about our work or exercise, it becomes easy to forget feeding the body. For Boulder residents peckish after a morning of activity on an empty stomach, there are plenty of options to fill up your energy reserves without starving your budget. Feeling a bit hungry, Boulder Weekly decided to explore lunch buffet options in the area. Whether you are entertaining a large party or getting by on a shoestring, what follows is a sampling of a few local restaurants where asking for seconds is not frowned upon. Despite the cliché Asian and Indian buffet fare, a plethora of quality choices in the Boulder area are available for lunch if you are willing to delve a bit deeper. Just don’t eat so much that you have to skip dinner. Boulder diners have long showed an affinity for world cuisine, and their craving for Indian food in particular has led to an influx of restaurants offering a variety of choices. A big selling point of the Indian buffet in this area is the usual abundance of vegetarian options available, though there is plenty for carnivores to gnaw on as well. Starting off the buffet parade is Jai Ho, the Indian

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Belly up to the bar and buffet your hunger pangs by Michael Callahan kitchen located at 1915 28th St. Serving its brand of lunchtime goodness daily between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., Jai Ho’s menu offers what they call a fusion of youthful exuberance and classical traditions. Lentils, mushrooms and eggplant mesh seamlessly with chicken, mutton and egg, and the fresh ingredients help you forget that it’s only a break from work, not a vacation. Despite a rather unassuming location in the Belmar Shopping Center, The Taj Restaurant has been serving consistent Indian favorites for years,

and its $9.99 lunch buffet brings a steady stream of traffic to the 2630 Baseline Road locale. Move a little farther east to 5290 Arapahoe Ave. and indulge in more flavors from the world’s second-most populous country at the Royal Clay Oven. Another hole-inthe-wall joint, Royal Clay nonetheless rocks the popular faves for under 10 bucks. One more option for those on the north side is Himalayas restaurant, which recently relocated its beloved tandoor oven from Pearl Street to 2850 Iris Ave., near where the Diagonal

Highway meets Highway 36. Incorporating some real high-country flavor into its Indian-influenced cooking, Nepal Cuisine is a familyowned restaurant serving a lunch buffet from 11 a.m to 3 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Located on the south side of Boulder at 4720 Table Mesa Drive #C100, Nepal Cuisine serves whole wheat flat bread, a salad bar, appetizers and entrée selections like chicken curry or tandoori for less than $10. Mondays are especially inviting to vegetarians, as the buffet features all-vegan selections, including flaky vegetable samosas and alu gobi, a dish of cauliflower and potatoes cooked with tomatoes, onions and spices. Down the street from Nepal in the Table Mesa Shopping Center, at 619 S. Broadway, sits Tandoori Grill. If the sprawling shopping complex makes the restaurant hard to find, just follow the steady flow of lunchtime diners that quickly fills up the place between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 daily. Traditional favorites include tandoori chicken, vegetable masala and the blend of spinach, cheese and spices that make up the creamy goodness known as saag paneer. Fresh fruit and rice pudding complement the flavors, with hot naan bread fresh from the tandoor ready to sop up any tastes see BUFFETS Page 53

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ack in the ’70s, Dad would often return from overseas business trips with his battered black briefcase freighted not with paperwork, but culinary treasures. Returning from Lisbon, Dad once brought back an enigmatic hunk of salted meat. “It’s Portuguese prosciutto,” he explained, “and it’s illegal in the United States.” I took a taste, and was immediately hooked on its surprisingly complex flavor that bested my favorite salamis. The contraband nature of this delicacy only enhanced my enjoyment, and to this day, there’s a tiny illicit rush when I savor preserved meats. Pearl Street’s Cured, a small and welcoming shop specializing in wine, cheese and charcuterie, is where I go to indulge these sub rosa cravings. This open brick and wood space also includes the sublime Boxcar Coffee’s retail outlet. Cured has become my go-to destination for topnotch gourmet sandwiches artfully combining the best crusty baguettes in town with artisan charcuterie and small-batch cheeses. But during a recent lunch visit, sandwiches were not on the agenda as friend Diane and I decided to fully commit to mainlining cured meats and cheeses. We ordered a $37.24 mixed platter paired with a $3 baguette that

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Dining on the farm

peaking of smallproduction eats, I recently had the opportunity to enjoy a farm dinner prepared by chefs Bradford Heap and Michael Drazsnzak of Salt and Colterra. The meal consisted of courses like a torn bread and local heirloom tomato salad and Colorado top sirloin. The venue was the Lyons Farmette, which hosts several dinners throughout the summer, including meals prepared by Heap, Meadowlark Farm Dinners and Crust Pizza, among others. Prices are $39 and up, and events run through September. Additional information is at www.lyonsfarmette. com.

Mainlining cured meats and cheeses by Clay Fong had a luxuriant texture which precluded the need for butter. Before committing to a particular selection of items, helpful cheesemonger (Does that make me a wordmonger? Cool) Courtney allowed us to sample many choices. Diane dismissed what she termed the “moldy” cheeses, which eliminated my favorite blues from the running. We eventually reached consensus on the charcuterie

and settled on a variety of high-end cuts from America and abroad. First up was slices of Saucisson Sec, a French-influenced salami from Portland’s Olympic Provisions, shot through with garlic and black pepper. Moister than its Italian-by-way-of-San Francisco cousin, ample marbling gave it a wonderfully velvety quality. From the same source came a Spanish-style dry chorizo that Diane lauded for pos-

sessing the “perfect amount of heat.” Spice also was apparent in the hot Coppa from Denver’s Il Mondo Vecchio, although it lounged around in the mouth for a few seconds before gradually creeping up on the tongue. Classic prosciutto di Parma, the authentic Italian standard bearer, arrived sliced paper thin with a decadently silky texture and smoky, salty aroma. For cheeses, we selected a mix of hard and soft varieties. Red Leicestershire was a compellingly harder edged British take on cheddar — perhaps it’s the Jason Statham of curds? Vermont’s Rupert was a raw milk number that tasted similar to gruyere, and Diane was particularly appreciative of its nutty sharpness. In contrast, European Midnight Moon had a mellower flavor and harder texture akin to a dry Jack. For the soft selections, we thoroughly enjoyed the creamy vanilla tones of Nancy’s Camembert, a personal domestic favorite. Another winner was the Fleur Verte, or green flower, a smooth-tasting goat cheese dusted with the tempering, woodsy flavors of Herbes du Provence. We could have spent less on our plate (we were able to feed yet another friend with the leftovers), and some may consider what we spent as pricey for an everyday lunch. But this is no workaday repast, but rather a sensual indulgence, perfect for a celebration or romantic al fresco meal. As Diane put it, enjoying a platter at Cured is “really a culinary adventure.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Q’s restaurant is teaming up with Avery Brewing Co. for a summer beer dinner on Aug. 11. Join Q’s chefs at 2115 13th St. as they pair five seasonal courses with some of Avery’s best brews. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. The dinner costs $40 per person, and participants will be entered into a drawing for an exclusive small group brewery tour at Avery. Call 303-442-4880 for reservations.

BREWER ACES COMMUNITY TEST

For a limited time, Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries will be serving up a new Ace Asian Session Ale in celebration of the new signature brew crafted for the new Ace Restaurant in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood. The craft brewer has worked in concert with the new restaurant to create the subtle, citrusy ale, which has a crisp finish. After a trial run at the Mountain Sun family of restaurants in the Denver metro area, the ale will make its permanent home at the Asian-inspired ping-pong hall located at 501 17th Ave. in Denver.

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Earlier this summer, Pizzeria da Lupo offered a picnic basket dinner to enjoy anywhere you wish. Now the restaurant is ditching the basket altogether and allowing you to take a whole table with you. The Table for Two dinner allows you to take Pizzeria da Lupo with you for dinner. For $44, guests arrive at the restaurant for drinks before departing in a Volkswagen van to a location determined by the diners. After arriving at the destination, dinner will be served. An antipasta board, salad, pizza and dessert are included. Guests are allowed to bring their own alcohol. Call Pizzeria da Lupo at 303-396-6366 for more information and to make reservations.

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lingering behind on the plate. daily at 11 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m. Like any cosmopolitan city, Boulder weekdays and 3 p.m. on the weekend, has its share of ubiquitous Chinese resthe restaurant offers unlimited eating taurants and buffets. While many buffrom the buffet for $8.99. The buffet fets serve up Americanized Asian cuiserves a variety of pizzas, including sine at low prices, few locations stand their signature Mountain Pies, along out for their taste, longevity and popuwith a fresh salad bar and selection of larity. The few that do and would be hot soups. With honey on the table to worthwhile lunch destinations include sweeten the burly Beau Jo’s crust, you Tsing Tao Chinese in the Table Mesa might even say dessert comes with the Shopping Center on South Broadway, price. Jin Chan near 28th Street and Valmont Perhaps the most decadent and variRoad and Haoway etal of the local buffet Chinese Café near choices is the Tuscan 30th Street and Table lunch buffet Arapahoe Avenue. served Monday An antipasti bar and through Friday from Moving away from the Asian continent composed salads pre- 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. but staying in the at Jill’s Restaurant & pare the mouth for same hemisphere, Ras Bistro inside the St. Kassa’s Ethopian Julien Hotel & Spa for homemade pizzas Restaurant has been just $11.99. Offered as from the wood stone Jill’s take on a New mentioned in past oven, pressed panini York City power lunch, Best of Boulder issues the Tuscan Table buffet for its vegetariansandwiches, a roast is crafted daily by friendly cuisine and or fish selection, and Executive Chef ambience worthy of a Laurent Mechin and first date. If you’re a pasta bar. his team. While the feeling hungry between 11 a.m. and ingredients are hand2 p.m. weekdays, Ras picked, menu items Kassa’s offers up a banquet of tradiremain fairly constant. An antipasti bar tional salads, injera sponge bread and and composed salads prepare the mouth entrees. Be it the ki ser ena denech, a for homemade pizzas from the wood mix of warm, fresh beets and potatoes, stone oven, pressed panini sandwiches, a or the lamb tibs, a dish of cubed lamb roast or fish selection, and a pasta bar with sautéed onions, peppers and with 20 combination creations. With herbs, most everything is finger-lickdessert included, no wonder reservations ing good. And since Ethiopian tradiare recommended for the daily lunch. tion eschews silverware in favor of The next time your office cohorts your own hands, you won’t be looked whine about being hungry, ditch the PB upon with disdain if you get your fin& J and vending machines and head gers dirty. This restaurant named for a out to lunch, where even the most finking is located on 30th Street between icky of eaters can find something to fit Walnut and Pearl. their taste. For little more than $10, One straight-up Colorado option is Boulder can satiate even the most famthe Beau Jo’s Pizza lunch buffet at its ished of daytime eaters. 2690 Baseline Road location. Starting Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Native Foods Cafe

1675 29th St., Suite 1272, Boulder 303-442-0213

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riginating in Palm Springs, Native Foods Cafe is a fast-casual chain restaurant featuring vegan fare, where various forms of meatless protein stand in for such items as chicken wings and gyros meat. This hospitable spot in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street features everything from meatless nacho starters to dairy-free cupcakes. The seitan-based meatball sub is a winner, as is the Soul Bowl, a surprisingly compelling take on Southern fried chicken sans poultry.

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Boulder favorite since the early ’90s, the Mountain Sun continues to dish out its winning combination of microbrews, salads and sandwiches. Burgers range from your standard-issue cheeseburgers to more distinctive selections like the brightly herbal basil blue cheeseburger. Other offerings, such as the tender Monterey chicken sandwich and hearty hummus starter, also hit the culinary mark.

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he fundamental strength of this self-proclaimed “urban taqueria” is its strong respect for the original source cuisine, which is basic street-influenced Mexican. The guacamole here is impeccably fresh and epitomizes balanced flavor. Amongst the tacos, clear winners are the decadent braised pork belly and the snapper, which evokes all the best qualities of this Baja California staple.

Curry N Kebob

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oulder’s recently opened Curry N Kebob features value-priced Indian that’s served up quickly. At lunch, there’s a $7.95 special that includes a choice of one of about a half-dozen entrees — at least one is vegetarian — as well as rice, naan bread and dessert. Popular selections include the rich and herb-infused makhini, or butter chicken, and various kebobs, which include classic tandoori chicken and fish and shrimp variants. 54 August 9, 2012

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

Thai Avenue Rice & Noodles 1310 College Ave., #220, Boulder 303-443-1737

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espite Thai Avenue Rice & Noodle’s humble appearance, quick service setup and rock-bottom prices, it unquestionably stands as one of Boulder’s top choices for Thai. Located in a basement food court on University Hill, this order-at-the-counter spot dishes out heaping portions of top-notch Pad Thai, with subtle hints of tamarind and egg. The red curry stands out for its winning complexity of flavor, punctuated by the perfume of fresh basil.

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t’s easy to associate the West End Tavern with bar staples like chicken wings and beer, which are in fact available. But this association doesn’t acknowledge this eatery’s considerable acumen in replicating American cookout standards. Back-to-basics choices like the Tavern burger, with its unpretentious pairing of Colorado’s Best Beef meat and aged cheddar, illustrate how the simple can create great satisfaction. Barbecued items from the smoker,

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

StarLite Diner and Lounge

1750 29th St., Suite 1064, Boulder 303-443-1559

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dhering to the ’50s eatery theme, the StarLite Diner and Lounge features burgers, sandwiches and pizza, as well as breakfast faves like French toast and Denver omelets. There’s also an assortment of ice cream treats, including milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes. New York pizza adherents will enjoy the thin-crusted pies, and burger fans will appreciate the reasonably priced grass-fed offering.

Udon Kaisha

191 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette 303-665-1713

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

South Mouth Memphis Hot Wings

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

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. “One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,” he testified. He said it resembles a “spray of sparklers,” as 10 million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what’s gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

At the heart of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,” said Angelou, “people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you’d like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

The coming week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas? Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to? Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves? I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Here are my questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally, Cancerian, I’m hoping you will elect to do what’s a bit unsettling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you’re not angling to please or impress me — or anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself — or don’t do it.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

When Tchaikovsky wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

“And if nothing is repeated in the same way,” says poet Antonio Porchia, “all things are last things.” That’s a good principle to adapt for your own purposes, Virgo. A few weeks from now, I bet you’ll be enmeshed in an orgy of novelty, creating yourself from scratch and exploring experiences you’ve never heard of before. But in the meantime, as you bring this cycle to a close, be equally inventive about how you finish things off. Don’t imitate the approach you used in tying up loose ends in the past. Don’t put stale, boring karma to rest in stale, boring ways. Nothing repeated! All things last things!

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

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SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

One out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling — that we have misread our soul’s code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you’re among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem — to leave the niche where you don’t belong and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you’ve found your vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

You can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I’m getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13th-century Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what’s now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don’t believe they’re literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

The Italian mattress company Sogniflex has created a bed with features designed to facilitate love-making. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extra-strong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what’s beautiful about anyone you’re attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

My $10-an-hour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: “Never try to be someone you’re not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity.” On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-a-minute wisdom is more complicated, subtle, and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling. Here’s a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you’re not. Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way — giving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimately return to the path you were born to tread.

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isa Anderson has lived the last 15 years with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She was first diagnosed in 1997. She also has several of her spinal column discs fused together due to a car accident in 1993. MS is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms. MS affects the ability of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to communicate with each other effectively. There is no known cure for multiple sclerosis.

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isa currently takes 12 different drugs to help with the pain and muscle spasms associated with MS. It has been five years since she has been able to walk or drive a car. Each morning she starts her day off by using medical cannabis to help her stop the pain and muscle spasms associated with her condition. Additionally, she uses medical cannabis to help mitigate the side effects of the 12 pharmaceutical medications that she takes. These side effects include nausea and the loss of appetite which medical cannabis has proven to be very effective in alleviating.

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last word The Drum Shop

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We are open 7 days a week

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HOLOS HEALTH - DR. JOE COHEN A holistic medical practice specializing in MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS We and our exceptional staff were voted Best of Boulder 2012 with our former practice and provide the expertise and experiene necessary for obtaining your MMJ card.

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