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staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Contributing Editor, Pamela White Interns, Blair Madole, Amanda Moutinho, Hadley Vandiver, Steve Weishampel Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Theo Romeo, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing Account Executives, David Hasson, Amber Hayes, Brooke Sunness, Amaru Ward, Jim Williams PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Francie Swidler CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo March 1, 2012 Volume XIX, Number 30 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Valmont is a dumping ground (Re: “On the hook,” Ghosts of Valmont Butte series, Feb. 23.) Our family has lived in Valmont since 1915. Our house is the location of the old Grange hall. Boulder has always looked east to Valmont as their dumping ground. When they needed gravel, they dug it here. When they needed a place for a trash transfer station, they converted a beautiful KOA campground for that purpose. Where do you think they intended to build a sewage composting plant and a fire training station? On Valmont Butte, next to our pioneer cemetery. The county also issued a permit to tear down the butte to supply rock and dirt to build the railroad overpass on Foothills Parkway. The latest proposal is to dig up the open space on Valmont to make a swamp to replace a wetland being covered for a bike path on Highway 36.

Boulder always sends representatives to tell us how wonderful these projects will be for our community and, since we don’t get to vote on anything, we will have no part of the decision-making. For years we have had to form groups to fight the

destruction of our area and, with the help of the Native Americans and the federal government, we have sometimes succeeded.

Hugh McGinty/Boulder Thanks so much for the story on Valmont Butte. I think my blog comments came off as sarcastic, but I am not at all, so don’t read that in. The BW is doing marvelous work here.

This story is off the hook. Circular remediation. Put all the crap bags in a big pile and worry about it later. Later is now.

Boulder’s version of pay it forward?

People can protect themselves with

knowledge. Go and stop the madness, only if they know what the madness is.

Paul Tiger/via Internet Glad to see [the series] back. Can we have more history of the town of Valmont and that area? Thanks!

Chris von Grebe/via Internet

Abortion and circumcision

(Re: “Foreskin follies,” Uncensored, Feb. 16.) Editorials in the Boulder Weekly the last few weeks come out strongly in favor of abortion rights and against male circumcision. Juxtaposed, these positions present an interesting observation: The problem with circum-

cision is its timing. If it is performed in utero, no problem, as a fetus has no protectable interest and the pregnant woman has no restraints on what she does with her own body. In utero circumcision benefits as well from the argument that if a woman can abort her fetus, surely she can take action far less destructive.

Mark Loewenstein/Boulder Dear Pamela, I’d rather be circumcised than aborted!

Sincerely, John M. Jacquat/via Internet see LETTERS Page 6

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(not even a decimal point in the national budget) was slashed by 94 percent to only $2 million. Gutting this program will not save you and me a penny on our tax bills.

Well, retort the whackers, who needs this program, anyway? Some of the poorest families in America, that’s who. Lead poisoning from contaminated paint and soil is a silent epidemic in our country, afflicting some half-a-million low-income children a year with permanent brain damage and loss of IQ. The only safe level of lead in a child’s blood is zero, which is why this program to monitor blood levels of lead and help state health departments inspect homes and contain the poison was initiated.

Lead poisoning is entirely preventable. America has the science and programs to stop this insidious destruction of babies’ brains. Yet, even the miniscule $30 million budget the program previously had

Congress chooses to keep poisoning children

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es, we certainly need to cut unnecessary and even frivolous federal spending, because, well, because it’s unnecessary and frivolous.

So, Congress has targeted unnecessary oil subsidies and frivolous tax giveaways to billionaires, right? Uh, no. Instead, our learned solons have chosen to whack the Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. This tiny, $30 million fund Boulder Weekly

couldn’t touch the crisis of lead contamination in For more information the 4 million homes in on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subwhich vulnerable chilscribe to his awarddren live — and now winning monthly newsCongress has refused this letter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www. dollop of funding, jimhightower.com. responding instead to the wails of Wall Street billionaires that federal spending be cut to preserve their minuscule tax rates.

Imagine the national emergency declaration from Congress if 4 million homes of the super-rich posed a danger to their children. But, then, we’re told that such thoughts amount to class war — and we can’t have that, can we? To fight this outrage, go to www.leadsafe.org.

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Thank you so much for publishing the recent “Foreskin follies” article by Pamela White. I can’t believe that some of our state legislators want to spend our tax dollars on circumcision, which is little more than cosmetic surgery. Our state budget is collapsing, and Medicaid recipients can’t even get all of the medically necessary treatments they need, yet Sen. Foster wants to spend money on circumcision? The bill she drafted would force Medicaid to cover all types of circumcision, even adult circumcision when there’s no medical problem! This would be a ridiculous waste of our money and a disservice to Medicaid recipients.

Craig Garrett/Colorado Springs It’s illegal even to make a pinprick on a girl’s genitals. Why don’t boys get the same protection? Everyone should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they want parts cut off

their genitals. It’s their body.

It’s not like it can’t wait — there are only two countries in the world where more than 50 percent of baby boys are circumcised — the USA and Israel.

Mark Lyndon/via Internet

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t’s 7 a.m. on a summer Saturday.

You get up early, throw your gear in the car and get rolling, eating an energy bar on the way. You turn off Baseline, and the hunt begins for that most elusive of scores — a parking space at Chautauqua.

When I was in grade school and Bluebell Road was still open, cars lined the right side of the road from Baseline to the picnic shelter at the top. After the road was closed to the public, traffic was funneled into the Chautauqua Park area, the Gregory Canyon parking area, down the south side of Baseline, and into the surrounding neighborhood.

As one of the most loved and busiest locations in the city, Chautauqua draws an estimated 1,280 vehicles per day during the summer, but has only 378 available parking spaces. As a result, people sometimes park where they shouldn’t, taking parking spaces away from those who live in the park’s rental cottages.

The city of Boulder has taken up the issue of parking at Chautauqua and appears to be headed toward yet another neighborhood parking permit (NPP) program that would require residents to buy a parking permit in order to park in some places around Chautauqua. Some permits would also be available for nonresidents for a higher cost.

NPP programs seem to be the city’s default answer to neighborhood parking problems. Rather than addressing the reasons people drive en masse to certain areas, the city finds a way to charge everyone for the privilege of parking on the street. For many restaurant workers, retail employees and college students, parking downtown or on the Hill is a serious expense arbitrarily inflicted on them by the city.

“Let them ride bikes,” say the Boulder elite.

Sure. OK. Except that, when you’re commuting from Denver and have children in daycare and prescriptions to pick up and groceries to buy, a bike doesn’t do the trick. And what if you don’t own a bike?

NPP programs have always felt ineffective and elitist to me. They’re ineffective because they simply shift the parking problem from one place to another.

They’re elitist because they protect the privileges of the wealthy at the expense of the working class.

But this elitism is especially distasteful when it involves a public treasure like Chautauqua. Anyone who calls Boulder home feels a special attachment to the

park and the trails that surround it.

From its rich history to the Fourth of July celebrations it hosts to sunny days filled with play, Chautauqua is very much The People’s Park. For the city to launch a program that enables the wealthy to have greater access to parking at Chautauqua than everyone else offends my sensibilities.

People drive to Chautauqua because they need to bring their climbing gear or their crash pad or their picnic lunch or their 2.5 kids and a stroller. Restricting parking won’t eliminate their need to drive. It will just make it harder for the average Boulder resident to enjoy Chautauqua.

It’s heartening to know that some City Council members are considering other options besides a new NPP program. City Council member Lisa Morzel says she would like to explore the possibility of a seasonal shuttle or trolley that would move hikers and other recreationists from outlying parking areas up Baseline Road to Chautauqua during peak use months.

“I understand the NPP thing, but I guess I look at Chautauqua as everybody’s resource,” says Morzel. “I have a problem allowing people who have the money to live up there to displace others who want access.”

The shuttle or trolley could be as simple as a privately owned bus or van company that makes regular runs from a parking area in town up Baseline to Chautauqua and Flagstaff. Or it could be a system of shuttles that interfaces with RTD to provide access to Open Space and Mountain Parks trailheads, from Mt. Sanitas all the way to Eldorado Canyon State Park. (Dean Paschall, manager for communications and public policy for Open Space and Mountain Parks, suggested in a conversation that we call the shuttle “the Hike.” If this were Facebook, I’d give that a “like.”)

Morzel says it would be interesting to see what a private company could provide in terms of a shuttle service.

Public or private, let’s hope the shuttle concept prevails over the NPP concept during the coming discussions on this issue. Solving the parking problem isn’t about making it harder to park; it’s about finding creative ways to meet people’s transportation needs so they can leave their cars behind and enjoy the beauty of our public land.

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Jill Kinmont Boothe (Feb. 16, 1936 – Feb. 9, 2012) was a former alpine ski racer who competed in the mid-1950s. In early 1955, she was the reigning national champion in the slalom, and a top prospect for a medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics. While competing in the downhill at the Snow Cup in Alta, Utah, on Jan. 30, 1955 — the same week she was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated — she suffered a near-fatal accident which resulted in paralysis from the neck down. Kinmont was the subject of two movies: The Other Side of the Mountain in 1975, and The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 in 1978.

Jan Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – Feb. 24, 2012) was an American writer and illustrator best known for creating the children’s book series the Berenstain Bears with her husband, Stan. Jan and Stan met on their first day of class at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941 and married five years later, on April 13, 1946.

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND So the members of the North Boulder Alliance would rather buy the proposed housing site for chronically homeless than have those undesirables move into the neighborhood?

Nice.

Boulder Housing Partners wants to build a 31-apartment complex near the homeless shelter, at 1175 Lee Hill Dr. But the neighbors have complained that it would concentrate the homeless population even more into their area.

How about use that money to help people become un-homeless? If the property was bought for more than $800,000 almost two years ago, how much are the North Boulderites willing to pay to make the project go away? A cool million?

That would buy a lot of blankets, soup and job training programs.

NOT IN THE JOB DESCRIPTION Some satisfied reader threw a large rock through our glass front door in the middle of the night last week.

Actually, we have a short suspect list of loonies that we’ve identified, but if you saw something at our building the night of Feb. 23, call us.

A real class act, eh?

But our dutiful Daily Camera delivery person went ahead and tossed the newspaper through the gaping hole, and didn’t bother reporting the crime.

Hey, when you work for the MediaNews Group monopoly, you just keep your head down and do your job, you don’t ask questions.

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he City of Boulder is lawyering up for its battle with Xcel over municipalization.

City officials are expecting to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next year to two law firms that will represent Boulder as it investigates municipalizing its electric utility.

And that doesn’t include the appraisers, assessors and engineers needed to estimate the cost of acquiring Xcel’s infrastructure, much less the executive director who will be hired to lead the transition.

Boulder citizens voted last fall to authorize an increase to the existing utility occupation tax by up to $1.9 million a year for five years to plan for and acquire an electric distribution system, presumably the one owned by Xcel. The utility fought unsuccessfully to defeat the measure, spending almost $600,000, not including contributions it made to the anti-municipalization Boulder Smart Energy Coalition.

The ironic part is, since Xcel is still the city’s electric utility supplier, it is collecting the new tax, but has to return those revenues to Boulder — so that the city can then turn around and spend that money on attorneys and other professionals to fight Xcel.

The city recently signed a contract with the Denver law firm Duncan, Ostrander & Dingess to spend up to $600,000 — but no more than $400,000 a year — to assess the cost of condemning and acquiring Xcel’s utility infrastructure. The city is finalizing a similarly structured contract with Duncan & Allen, a Washington, D.C., firm that will represent the city before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to city spokesperson Sarah Huntley.

Huntley tells Boulder Weekly that the two Duncans are no relation, and that Duncan & Allen’s primary role will be to defend the city against Xcel’s claim that Boulder will owe the company more than $300 million in “stranded costs.” Stranded costs are infrastructure investments that Xcel has made that would have benefited Boulder customers had the city renewed its 20-year franchise agreement with the utility.

The city maintains that it owes Xcel nothing, because the company should not have assumed that the agreement Boulder Weekly

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The case could set a precedent.

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watching this,” Huntley says. “We had attorneys from all over vying to be a part of this.”

She explains that while there are plenty of municipal utilities across the nation, most are many years old and predate the legal concept of stranded costs.

Huntley says the city is expecting to spend the full $1.9 million authorized by taxpayers, at least in the first couple of years. Boulder has to pay engineers,

assessors and appraisers to calculate the value of the Xcel infrastructure that the city may condemn and take over. She says the city also intends to pay six figures to an “executive director for energy strategy and utility development,” a twoyear position charged with leading the transition. Huntley explains that the person hired for that position must have a blend of entrepreneurial skills associated see XCEL Page 12

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very year, thousands of people worldwide flock to Nederland and celebrate the cryogenically maintained body of an 89-year-old Norwegian man, a.k.a. the frozen dead guy.

Bredo Morstoel died in Norway from a heart condition in 1989, and was immediately shipped off to a cryogenics institute in California. In 1993 he came to Nederland, where he remained under the surveillance of his daughter Aud Morstoel and grandson Trygve Bauge.

Upon both of them being deported in the mid-’90s due to visa issues, Aud Morstoel went to local newspapers and made her father a celebrity.

In 2001 the Nederland Chamber of Commerce decided to celebrate the man who had brought them worldwide publicity and throw a festival in his honor.

“There was such a media blitz when they found the body, and someone in the Chamber said, ‘We are known for [being] the town with the frozen dead guy, we might as well run with it,’” says Amanda MacDonald, the event director.

“It was some wacky, creative thinking.”

Since then, the winter festival has become a local and international favorite.

But, despite its popularity, the event’s future was in question last year when the Nederland Chamber of Commerce put the festival’s trademark on the market.

MacDonald came to the rescue and

purchased the rights. She has lived in Nederland for 14 years, and has directed the festival in the past. She hopes to carry on the festival’s integrity by, for one, keeping it free.

“People thought I was crazy and said I should charge. But I didn’t want to charge because it’s such a cool festival, and I wanted the community to fully benefit,” she says.

This year’s event, being held March 2-4, will feature favorites like the polar plunge, coffin racing, a hearse parade and frozen salmon tossing. For those brave souls who want to take a peek at Grandpa Morstoel’s carcass, Bo “Ice Man” Shaffer provides tours of the Tuff Shed where his body lies. Also, there will be plenty of live music from bands like Mekanizm, Longest Day of the Year, Fried Grease, Jet Edison and Acoustic Mining Company. And for the first time on the FDGD schedule, there will be snow beach volleyball and the Newly Dead game, which quizzes couples on how well they know one another’s last wishes.

MacDonald’s intent is to only improve the festival, and hopefully fix some logistics.

“I don’t think I’m trying to change the flavor at all, I’m just trying to make it run smoother because of its scale,” she says.

Last year, she says, the festival attracted 15,000 patrons, which is more than 10 times the size of Nederland’s

population. For those interested in coming to the festival, she suggests leaving very early, carpooling or taking the bus. And because of Nederland’s limited parking, she says to bring good walking shoes.

With all the excitement surrounding the festivities, people tend to forget the year-round upkeep that it takes to “maintain” the guest of honor. Among his tour guide duties, Shaffer is in charge of keeping Grandpa at the perfect temperature. Every month Shaffer hauls 1,600 pounds of dry ice, in 10-pound slabs, to pack around Grandpa’s sarcophagus, which is kept at a brisk minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Shaffer says he runs one of six cryo-

genic operations in the world — four in the U.S. and two in Russia — yet isn’t as respected as other operators.

“The biggest complaint from the, pardon the expression, ‘mainstream cryogenic community’ is that we use dry ice and not liquid nitrogen,” he says. “They call us a backyard operation, but we still maintain.”

Even though the festival seems to rejoice in death, Shaffer says FDGD actually does the opposite.

“It’s the Mardi Gras of the cryogenic community,” he says. “It’s a celebration of life because he wants to be reanimated, and we’re all here living and celebrating life.”

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says, “but we anticipate a very robust public process around each off-ramp.”

Huntley adds that while city officials intend to be as transparent as possible about releasing information related to the process, detailed budget documents may not be forthcoming. She says the city may invoke attorney-client privilege to shield its specific strategy for battling Xcel, so that the company doesn’t gain any insight into it.

“Xcel would love to have a road map for what we’re doing and when we’re doing it,” Huntley explains.

When asked about the city’s retention of the law firms, Xcel Regional Vice President Jerome Davis points out that “none of them are from Boulder, so they’re not local.”

He also cautions Boulder taxpayers to keep an eye on whether city officials end up spending more than they promised before the ballot measure passed.

“We still don’t believe, for the amount of money they stated during the campaign, that they can have lower rates, better reliability, more renewables, no use of coal, all for under $300 million,” Davis tells Boulder Weekly.

He says possible additional costs include city staff time spent on municipalization, which “takes them away from other work they should be doing” and would be “a shell game with the citizens.”

Davis agrees that the case is a big deal.

“I don’t think there’s an example of a

taking this large, a condemnation effort this large, in the history of this state,” he says.

But he adds that he’s not worried about the case setting a precedent that would encourage other municipalities to leave Xcel.

“We don’t think other cities are watching this,” Davis says. “Probably other cities are saying, ‘Glad Boulder is spending their money. We’ve got other important things we need to be doing.’”

He declined to reveal how much Xcel plans to spend on its legal battle with Boulder.

“We do know it’s going to be an expensive litigation on both sides, unnecessarily,” Davis says.

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with a start-up business, as well as knowledge of day-to-day operations and long-term strategies for running utilities.

She adds that the executive director is unlikely to continue as the city’s utility manager, if Boulder ends up pursuing municipalization.

When city officials proposed the ballot measure last year, they pledged that there would be several “off-ramps,” or opportunities to abandon municipalization if it proved unsustainable.

According to Huntley, the first of those off-ramps will likely occur after the valuation of the Xcel system is completed.

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City of Boulder officials say they do not know how this fox at Valmont Butte died, but they pledged to have it tested.

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roof by assertion: Sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam). In other cases its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies.” —Wikipedia We’ve all heard the old adage, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

Sometimes, particularly in politics, this is done intentionally to deceive. At other times, assertions of false, or at least questionable, information can find their way into the public sphere and get passed around as truth for decades because they are what the people saying them want to believe. This repetition seems to happen when the questionable information serves the economic purposes of the folks making the assertions. You could say money talks, but it doesn’t always get its facts right.

Several such assertions have made their way into the lexicon of environmental monitoring and remediation at Valmont Butte over the years, but nobody is questioning them because it would likely cost more money to clean up the butte if the suspect information were found to be even partially wrong.

How much more money? Possibly tens of millions of dollars, or even more if human health issues are involved.

That’s plenty of incentive to blindly accept decades-old information and repeat it as fact, even if current knowledge of the site contradicts it.

Here are a few examples of flawed assertions that have determined the fate of contamination at the butte in the past and are still guiding environmental policies at the site today.

Assertion #1: The Allied Chemical mill site at Valmont Butte is composed only of the mill buildings and the two tailings ponds located on the 103-acre property now owned by the City of Boulder.

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Assertion #2: The Valmont dike creates an impermeable barrier that prevents any potential groundwater contamination on the property from migrating to the north. Therefore, the primary tailings pond can serve in perpetuity as a safe disposal pit for the estimated 370,000 to 1.1 million tons of radioactive tailings containing dangerous levels of lead and arsenic.

Assertion #3: There is no groundwater on the property and, therefore, no potential for groundwater to enter or escape from the primary tailings pond.

Assertion #4: There is no evidence of completed pathways to human exposure from contamination created by the Allied milling operation.

These four assertions have guided nearly every decision regarding the status of contamination and clean-up at Valmont Butte for the past 30 years.

And yet, there is substantial evidence that each of these assertions is critically flawed to one degree or another.

Assertion #1: The Allied mill site at Valmont Butte is composed only of the mill

buildings and the two tailings ponds located on the 103-acre property now owned by the City of Boulder.

As a result of defining the Allied mill site as that portion of its operation that was located only on the property now owned by the city, in 1982 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to score the site high enough to qualify it for the Superfund’s National Priority List (NPL). The city’s 103-acre property missed the NPL by less than one point, scoring a 27.8 on the EPA’s hazardous ranking system (HRS) out of the 28.5 needed to make the list.

Had the EPA chosen to score the entire Allied mill site, including that portion of its operation located on the Public Service Company’s property adjacent to and south of the city’s land, it would most likely have reached the 28.5 threshold, with room to spare.

That’s because the portion of the Allied mill site left out of the agency’s scoring process contained a fairly large tailings pond that subsequent testing has been found to contain lead contamination as high as 8,630 parts per mil-

lion. Testing just 50 feet farther down the slope below the tailings pond and even close to Leggett Reservoir found lead at 34,800 parts per million. As a matter of perspective, that’s roughly 2.3 million times drinking water standards.

This lead-contaminated tailings pond, plus another tailings pond that was located to its west and also used by Allied, are located just above Leggett Reservoir. Leggett is one of the three connected and circulating Public Service Company lakes that are used to cool water at the company’s coal-fired plant known as Valmont Station, whose towers have been familiar to Boulderarea residents for decades. It appears from records that the EPA is unaware of the existence of this second tailings pond even today, and as a result, has yet to test it for contamination — let alone score it. Also, the EPA has incorrectly stated that the one tailings pond it does know about on Public Service land was used originally by the old Culbertson mill and later by Allied. This is incorrect, as the pond was not constructed until after 1937, a full quarter century after the Culbertson mill stopped operation. This type of inadequate investigation and incorrect assumption has been par for the course for much of the EPA’s work on the Allied mill site.

What should have been even more important to the Allied mill HRS score than the tailings ponds was the fact that the lakes on this adjacent property were used by Allied’s milling operation as a discharge point. For years, the chemical giant actually pumped its presumably radioactive, lead-contaminated tailings pond water directly into the reservoir, a process that should have caused the lakes (they are connected and circulating) receiving the thousands of gallons of contaminated water a day to also be tested and scored as part of the contiguous Allied mill site operation.

Considering that the lakes receiving Allied’s contaminated discharge — apparently with the full knowledge of Public Service Company — were wildlife preserves as well as being part of the Boulder Creek and St. Vrain watersheds, one would think that this unpersee VALMONT BUTTE Page 17

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mitted contaminated discharge would surely have been worth one additional point in the EPA’s site score.

In fact, it should have been worth far more than that, because these same lakes historically discharged millions of gallons of water a year that quickly made its way into Boulder Creek and presumably, to some extent, into the intake points along the creek that fed the water supply for surrounding towns, like Lafayette.

But it wasn’t to be.

It now appears that the EPA may have inexplicably let something as insignificant as a chain-link fence on the property line be reason enough to divide the Allied mill site into two pieces before scoring it for the NPL.

can be grouped to define the site.”

As a result of the EPA splitting the contamination between the two properties, it is unclear whether any of Allied’s impact on the Public Service property was ever considered for the HRS score for the Valmont site. If it had been added, the entire butte, and possibly even more of the surrounding area, would likely have been cleaned up 30 years ago.

And more importantly, the failure to define the Allied butte site to include its entire operation has made it possible for the city, the EPA, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), the county, and Public Service to pretend that the public has never been impacted

by Allied’s contamination. The phrase is, “there is no evidence of completed pathways to human exposure.” It’s hard to find a completed pathway when something as simple as a chain-link fence is interpreted as a break in the pathway. This example represents only one of the contortions that regulatory agencies have gone This aerial photo from the 1940s shows that Allied Chemical’s through concerning mill operation included two tailings ponds on Public Service Allied’s Valmont Company’s property to the south (the blue line is the property line). Allied also discharged tens of thousands of gallons of butte mill site over contaminated water per day into Leggett Reservoir, which is the years to not find also located on Public Service Company property. what they fear finding most: contamiOn a memo dated Dec. 27, 1996, Pat nation poisoning the public.

Smith, a site assement manager for the Michelle Aguayo, spokesperson for EPA, wrote a handwritten note that Xcel, the parent company of Public sheds light on this issue.

Service, has denied requests from The original memo concerned a Boulder Weekly to meet with company report about contamination on the officials about the possible cross-conPublic Service property south of what is tamination between the city’s Valmont now the city’s Valmont property.

Butte site and the Public Service propSmith’s note was scribbled in the marerty. gins of another EPA employee’s type“I have approached a number of written memo about whether the report people on this story, and the overall could have any bearing on the Allied consensus is that we’re not sure how we site to the north. Smith’s handwritten fit into your story other than the fact response read as follows: our property is next to the Butte,” she “The ‘site’ under Superfund is the said in an email. “Xcel Energy follows contamination & where it’s come to be located, not a fenceline. Related sources see VALMONT BUTTE Page 18 Boulder Weekly

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At right is a 1937 aerial photo that was taken as primary tailings pond was being initially filled. Note, the water is pooling to the north, against the dam.

This photo was taken from what is now the Allied Mill primary tailings pond looking through the gap where a dam made of tailings now stands. The Keeter House is visible across Valmont Road.

Handrawn in the 1800s, this map below shows the ravine cutting across what is now the primary tailings pond. It goes through the gap where the dike dam has been constructed.

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all local, state and federal guidelines related to our plant operations.”

After answering a few emailed questions regarding issues like Xcel’s permit to discharge selenium into the watershed and outflows into South Boulder Creek, Aguayo again declined to set up a meeting between Boulder Weekly and Xcel officials knowledgeable about the history of the plant and its processes.

“We do not believe we are a part of the story of the Valmont Butte, as we have seen thus far,” she wrote.

Finally, in a Feb. 28 phone interview, when confronted with more specific examples of the Xcel property receiving contamination from the Allied mill, Aguayo said the tailings pond was last used in 1977 and was subsequently capped.

As for BW’s request for an in-person interview, she said, “That’s something we’re still not interested in taking part in.”

Aguayo and Xcel Regional Vice President Jerome Davis referred Boulder Weekly to the company’s attorneys.

Assertion #2: The Valmont dike creates an impermeable barrier that prevents any potential groundwater contamination on the property from migrating to the north. Therefore, the primary tailings pond can serve in perpetuity as a safe disposal pit for the estimated 370,000 to 1.1 million tons of radioactive tailings containing dangerous levels of lead and arsenic.

This is by far the simplest of the four assertions to debunk. So simple, in fact, that it defies all logic as to how many times some version of this patently false statement appears in the public 18 March 1, 2012

health and environmental records of the EPA, CDPHE and Boulder County Department of Health (BCDH) concerning Valmont Butte and its dike. It is so misleading that it can lead one to question what agencies such as the EPA and CDPHE have to gain by repeating such questionable information. Unfortunately, there may be an answer to that question.

Before we can get to who may have been exposed, we need to understand how it could happen in terms of topography.

Without belaboring the geologic details, what we know today as the Valmont Butte is a geologic dike that is roughly a mile-long ridge of porphyritic basalt. The dike thrust its way through the Pierre shale millions of years ago.

As the ground has eroded, the basalt, which is harder than the surrounding rock, has become taller than its more quickly eroding peers. The dike is approximately 25 to 100 feet thick and, most importantly, decreases in height from the west to east. It has a series of high and low points visible at the surface along its entire length. Some geologists say it is impermeable, while others say it could be fractured and allow water to work its way through the formation. These opposing opinions don’t matter when it comes to Assertion #2.

What makes this assertion false is that a very significant portion of the contaminated material in the primary tailings pond (a 14-acre waste bin) is resting not against the “impermeable” dike, as advertised so often in the records, but against a large, man-made dam that was fabricated out of contam-

inated tailings in 1936 to fill a gaping hole where the dike dips down between two higher points, or buttes.

In the old days, Valmont Butte was referred to on maps as “Valmont Buttes” because it appeared as a series of buttes rising from the surrounding plains, as opposed to a single, continuous ridge. As can be seen in the photo above, at one time you could stand on what is today the bottom of the 40-foot-deep primary tailings pond and look straight through the missing area of the dike to the Keeter house, located directly across Valmont Road to the north. The photo shows the view through the gap that was filled by the tailings pond dike dam in 1936. Sheep are grazing in what is today the bottom of the primary tailings pond. It is the spot where the city intends to store, in perpetuity, 370,000 to 1.1 million tons (depending on whom you ask) of lowlevel radioactive mill tailings contaminated by substantial amounts of lead, arsenic and other heavy metals.

Not only is there no “impermeable” dike in this large section of the primary pond’s northern side, the bottom of the

dam is actually lower than the center of the tailings pond (see engineering map from 1936 on page 19). This means that any groundwater that has migrated, infiltrated or otherwise become pooled or perched in the tailings pond will naturally move, albeit quite slowly, downhill along the shale bottom of the pond to the north. Unfortunately, there is no impermeable barrier to the north to stop such a migration, so the water would likely pass through the few feet of contaminated tailings that now comprise the dam, and escape the confines of the primary tailings pond. After that, it is only a few feet farther to the groundwater aquifer to the north.

But would groundwater in the tailings pond naturally move to the north?

Or would it move to the east, along the dike, as the EPA has claimed is the only possible escape route for such water? The short answer is yes, it might go east as well, but it would primarily move north. The historic evidence suggests that the northern pathway through the dike dam has always been the natural pathway for waters through this section of the property.

The EPA’s Valmont Butte records suggest that groundwater on the property would most likely be pooling and migrating according to the surface features of the property. In speaking with numerous experts on this subject, Boulder Weekly has likewise been told that this is generally the case for most groundwater, with some exceptions.

So what do the surface features tell us about likely groundwater paths in and around the primary tailings pond?

Visiting the site today, you could get the impression that any groundwater making its way into the tailings pond area would be trapped in a 14-acre bowl or basin. But this impression of the tailings pond, in its dry and bulldozed state, is merely an illusion created by the manner in which the contaminated tailings and the fill dirt on top of them have been piled and shaped by earthmoving equipment.

While scraping and plowing does, in fact, help direct and control surface water runoff to some extent, it doesn’t significantly change the slow, natural movement of subsurface water, which is see VALMONT BUTTE Page 19

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VALMONT BUTTE from Page 18 This is a 1936 engineering map propared for the construction of the dike dam at Allied Chemical’s

primary tailings pond. The map shows the terrain forms a funnel through the area where the dam now largely directed by the stands. hard shale and basalt features below the surface of the land. Therefore, to understand groundwater movement in the primary tailings pond area, we have to examine what the topography of the land was like before the tailings pond existed, and there are historic maps that can help us do just that.

The earliest of these maps of the butte is a hand-drawn map created by one of the first farmers living on its slopes (see the 1800s map on page 18). This map shows an important feature on the butte that is nearly, but not totally, invisible today.

It shows a ravine running downhill, northeast, from the east side of the Valmont Cemetery, on the pond’s southern edge to 4,803 unlined waste bin for Allied’s contamistraight through the gap between the feet at the center of the base of the dike nation. two buttes that is now occupied by the dam. The topography of the pond This evidence speaks volumes to the 1936 dike dam. This naturally occurshown on the 1936 map, created by the negligence that has occurred over the ring ravine would likely be a significant engineers who built the dam, shows a past 70 years at Valmont Butte on the path for subsurface water (even seasonconsistent slope to the north all the way part of those contaminating the land al) to move through the tailings pond across the pond, a slope considerably for profit — as well as those charged area. more severe than what is said to be with monitoring the environmental and Even today, the upper portion of occurring to the east. health conditions on and surrounding this ravine can be seen coming down Still further evidence can be garthe property. the hill from the Public Service proper- nered by a half-century’s worth of aerial For more than 30 years, millions of ty to the south of the tailings pond, photos, which show that the water and gallons of water carrying radioactive entering the pond at its southwestern tailings in the dam have always pushed tailings, lead and arsenic were poured corner. Likewise, the northernmost end toward the gap to the north. Even durinto the primary tailings pond with of the ravine shown on the map can be ing the 1930s, when the water was first impunity because it was claimed to be a seen coming down the hill from the filling the pond and could have pooled natural basin protected to the north by base of the dike dam to Valmont Road. in any direction based on the slope of the Valmont dike. This was never true.

It makes sense that this naturally occur- the property, it pooled first and foreBut even more inexplicable, after 50 ring ravine, which took millions of most against the dam (see aerial photo years of inspections, testing and enviyears to be created, is still directing the on page 18). ronmental examination by the city, the movement of groundwater through the And yet, nowhere in the EPA, county, the state and the federal govtailings pond area. And there is other CDPHE or county health department ernment, not one agency has ever quesrecords, has Boulder Weekly been able to evidence of this northern pathway tioned this false assertion in a practical locate a single document that acknowlthrough the tailings pond. manner by drilling a monitoring well edges that the Pierre shale underlying Detailed topographical maps from below the dam and examining the posthe primary tailings pond slopes from 1902 to the 1950s, including the dam sibility that radioactive water filled with south to north. Most times, the docuengineer’s 1936 map above, show that lead and arsenic could be escaping the ments either incorrectly refer to the the natural landscape hidden beneath pond by leaching through the dam. the million tons of contaminated mate- pond as a closed basin or, at best, say it There is ample evidence that this has rial in the primary tailings pond is not a gently slopes to the east. This omission happened in the past, and may still be basin, but something more akin to a is both inaccurate and a bit suspicious, occurring to some degree. scoop that pours out through the low considering that this common knowlThe dam itself was once cored and spot in the dike now filled by the dam edge should have been an important sampled for contamination. The sample of tailings. element in deciding where to look for from the dam was found to contain by Based on records from the state groundwater contamination on the far the highest level of radioactivity on engineer’s office, the primary tailings property and, ultimately, in determining the entire property. But why would a pond actually slopes downhill to the the appropriateness of using the prima- dam made from the same tailings as north, from an elevation of 4,840 feet ry pond as the equivalent of an eternal, those it is designed to hold back be as

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much as 10 times more radioactive than most of the other tailings in the pond? One possible explanation is that if radioactive water from inside the primary tailings pond has been slowly migrating through the dam for the past 70 years, it could have caused the tailings in the dam to become that much more contaminated. In other words, if water were passing through, the dam would serve as a filter to the contaminated water, straining out radioactive particles and making the dam more radioactive

each year.

The discussion of monitoring wells and groundwater moving through the dam will go a long way toward debunking another of the questionable assertions, the one concerning the lack of groundwater at the property.

Assertion #3: There is no groundwater on the property and, therefore, no potential for groundwater to enter or escape from the primary tailings pond.

It is not a mystery that groundwater does exist on the property, even though this claim has been floating around for nearly 30 years and was still being made by the city earlier this year, when we began this investigation. It was the EPA who first declared that no groundwater existed on the property in 1984.

This incorrect proclamation ultimately cleared the way for the tailings to be covered and left in place at the property, and there is certainly evidence to suggest that this is the outcome that everyone wanted, from the CDPHE to the EPA to the city. It was the least expensive outcome, by a long shot.

It is not an overstatement to say that everything changed in the way that state and federal agencies handled the Allied mill property following this 1984 EPA finding. The supposed complete lack of groundwater was used as the excuse by the EPA to stop all soil, water and any other types of testing at the see VALMONT BUTTE Page 20

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property. Later, the state would cite the We don’t know, because this single, had been known to exist for lack of groundwater as one of the main most obvious potential pathway to decades before then — at least by reasons it believed that it could termihuman exposure (homes are directly Allied Chemical. An affidavit in the nate the hazardous materials license across the street, within a couple of CDPHE records, as well as a health that it had previously claimed would hundred feet of the dam) is the one report in the county files, states that have to remain in place as long as the place where neither the city nor any General Chemical (Allied) had to drill tailings were stored on the property. agency charged with investigating the a new well on the Keeter property, Thanks to this 1984 “no groundwater” contamination at the Valmont Butte which is located directly across the finding by EPA, it would be nearly 20 mill site has ever been willing to drill a street from the tailings pond dam, in years before anyone would question the monitoring well and test for contamithe mid-1940s. accuracy of this claim and prove it to be nation.

The affidavit makes the following wrong.

But why? There’s obviously ground- statements: Today, we know that there is a wetwater present.

“Around 1945, the domestic water land at the east end of the property Unfortunately, the answer seems well located ten feet from the kitchen with groundwater. (It’s curious that the obvious. of the house, which was built in 1890’s, EPA missed that one, with all those big There is a pretty good motive not to was contaminated … Our parents, trees.) We know that there is pooling look.

George and Ruth Sawhill, had the groundwater in the primary tailings The drinking water wells for those water tested and it came back positive pond, which is coming from somehouses directly across the street, includ- for contamination. General Chemical where. Monitoring wells have found ing the one in the old photo taken was contacted, they took responsibility groundwater in several more locations before the dam was built, have been and agreed to dig a new well approxiat the east end of the property as well. known to be contaminated with radiamately 200 feet from the house. The tion and lead since 1967. The same city reason for the contamination was water What may be more important, however, is where the leaching [not leaking or authorities have still failed flooding] from the tailings to find groundwater: anypond of the General Primary tailings pond dike where that it could be feedChemical Mill to our house dam constructed in 1936. ing into the primary tailings well … Our concern is the pond and anywhere it could integrity of the dike and be leaking out of the primathe possibility of further ry tailings pond. There’s an contamination of our interesting story to both. ground water.”

Anyone driving on Over the years, beginValmont Road can see that ning in 1967, the well tests the gently sloping, easily found levels of gross alpha accessible piece of the city’s radiation as much as 10 property below the dam is times higher than today’s the only densely forested drinking water limit of 15 area on the north side of picocuries per liter (the goal Valmont Butte (see photo at contaminant level is zero).

Experts believe that the lush vegetation with a variety of trees below right).

But while radiation is a the dam indicates that groundwater is approximately 15-20 feet Boulder Weekly has taken below the surface. serious issue in drinking a number of experts — from water, the most serious and agencies that won’t put in a moniU.S. Army Corps of Engineers investithreat for residents using the aquifer gators to geologists to dam experts — toring well below the dam have known north of the dam is the lead and arsenic to view the area below the dam on the about this water-well contamination that is prevalent in the Allied contamicity’s property. All have expressed the across the street for at least 45 years. nation. opinion that there is clear evidence that Public records show clearly that The safe level for lead in drinking groundwater north of the dam is supauthorities believed the contamination water is zero. (It has a maximum conplying sustenance to a variety of trees they were finding in these water wells taminant level of .015 parts per miland plants between Valmont Road and north of Valmont Road was most likely lion.) the base of the dam, even up the side of coming from the Allied mill operations It is clear that the main concerns of the dam. They say the tree varieties in and, more particularly, the primary tail- the residents at the time of the testing this location suggest that the groundings pond. So much so that county offi- and of those doing the testing was the water is no more than 15 to 20 feet cials felt it necessary to create a proradiation. It was rare when a test for below the surface. gram to test the wells every year lead was conducted. When they did So the only real question is whether because of their proximity to Allied’s look, with a proper screening limit, they the groundwater below the dam is part primary tailings pond, which is less found it. of the larger aquifer that exists directly than 200 feet away from the well that Contamination in these shallow across Valmont Road to the north, or had consistently showed the highest aquifer wells (18 to 20 feet deep) was whether it is groundwater that has levels of historic contamination. found consistently until the testing sudmigrated downhill, through the dam, And while well contamination may denly stopped in 1984 — coincidentally from the tailings pond on the other have been first documented by the or not — at exactly the same time the side. Or is it a combination of both? county and state in 1967, allegedly it EPA declared that groundwater didn’t 20 March 1, 2012

exist on the property across the street.

Once again, the EPA of Ronald Reagan, Anne Burford and Rita Lavelle (see Part 3 of this series) failed to find a completed pathway to human exposure because it went to seemingly bizarre lengths to not look in the most obvious places that would have allowed it to complete the pathway. The moral of the story is, if you don’t drill a monitoring well below the dam, then you get to continue to claim that there is no evidence of groundwater contamination below the dam. Unbelievably, this is still occurring today.

The city, Honeywell, the state and the EPA have still not tested the groundwater below the dam on the city’s property. EPA did drill a new monitoring well across the road, several hundred feet farther north, behind the Keeter house, in 2004. They say there was no contamination found at that time.

It seems like it would have been easier to test the old existing wells that had historically been contaminated, instead of drilling a new one, especially when you consider that the farther north in the groundwater aquifer you drill, the more diluted any lead or radiation contamination would be. EPA documents seem to indicate that the agency really wanted to have drilled the new well in the Keeters’ front yard, closer to the old originally contaminated well, but they were afraid they might hit buried utilities, so they changed their mind. Perhaps someone at Public Service was out of those little orange flags on a wire the day they worked near Valmont.

The bottom line is that it if you really want to know if your tailings pond dam is allowing lead- and arseniccontaminated radioactive water to leach into groundwater that connects to an aquifer used for drinking wells, then just test the groundwater below the dam on your own property and prove once and for all if there is or isn’t a pathway to human exposure.

It shouldn’t be this complicated if the truth is the only goal.

Not putting a well below the dam explains how authorities can claim that there is no evidence of groundwater leaving the tailings pond. But what see VALMONT BUTTE Page 22

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In 1982, the state and county were still hoping that the federal government would use Superfund dollars to clean up the Allied site. As a result, they submitted the site to the EPA, explaining that they believed that the aquifers on the land around the site had become contaminated, and that even the municipal wells for the City of Boulder were at risk. Pretty scary stuff.

But when the site failed to be added to the NPL for reasons already discussed, the CDPHE, realizing that there would be no federal dollars to aid with cleanup costs, changed its tune, and started searching for a cheaper solution. All the talk of contaminated wells and aquifers stopped cold.

It was just around this time in the first half of 1984 that Tom Hendricks, who was then leasing the mill for his gold operation, made a suggestion to the state. He offered to put a dirt cap on the tailings pond and asked the CDPHE if that would eliminate the need for the ongoing hazardous waste license attached to the property as a requirement for storing the radioactive material in the tailings pond. It would be an understatement to say that Hendricks’ request found receptive ears at the state. CDPHE understood that this could be its way out of the Allied mill saga. There was one problem, however: The Allied site couldn’t be approved for permanent storage of the waste, and the license couldn’t be terminated as long as the issue of potential groundwater contamination existed at the property. At this time no monitoring wells had ever been drilled at the property.

The CDPHE was apparently so cash-strapped that it couldn’t cough up the $50,000 it would take to drill and test the groundwater itself, so it turned to the EPA, which also wanted to see the Allied site off its books. The conversation went like this.

In a letter dated June 12, 1984, from Dr. Robert Arnott, assistant director Office of Health Protection at the Colorado Department of Health, and to Robert Dupree of the EPA, Arnott writes, “If you have F.I.T. [field investigative team] or other resources that could be applied to this situation in a timely manner, we may have a unique opportunity to resolve a long standing and difficult situation.”

In his letter of reply dated June 27, 1984, Dupree agreed to conduct a drill-

ing program so that the site could be “reevaluated to determine its suitability for long term stabilization in place.”

Everything had changed. This was the CDPHE that had previously fought with the EPA to get NPL status for the site because it believed that the contamination was too dangerous to be left in place. The same state agency that had told the EPA just two years earlier that it believed that people were being exposed to contamination from the site and that it suspected that Boulder’s municipal aquifers were being impacted

by Allied contamination, was now asking for $50,000 to prove that the whole problem could be covered with dirt and left right where it was forever. Quite a turnaround. What happened next defies all logic.

On Dec. 28, 1984, the EPA’s field investigative team (FIT) visited the Allied mill site for “reconnaissance” purposes, to determine where to drill the groundwater monitoring wells that the state had requested in order to determine if the tailings could be capped and left in place. The report filed by this team after visiting the site is riddled with very incorrect assertions.

First, the report says, “During the reconnaissance, FIT observed that the tailings are placed in a closed valley.

The igneous Valmont Dike bounds the tailings on the north. This rock may act as a barrier to groundwater flow.”

The report never mentions that a dam even exists.

Next, the report states, “Using this information, FIT has postulated that locally, near surface groundwater, if present, should flow eastward. … Using this interpretation of groundwater flow, FIT staked the location of four monitoring wells.”

Strike two, no mention that the pond slopes to the north.

Finally, the report says, “FIT decided that a well could not be drilled anywhere along the north side of the Valmont dike. The dike and its rubble are not easily accessible, and Valmont Drive covers the alluvium immediately below this intrusion. The sampling plan will be amended to incorporate this change.”

So there is no mention of a large dam made of tailings. And no mention of an easily accessible, relatively gently see VALMONT BUTTE Page 23

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Rahe Junge, a geologist from the Colorado Geological Society (CGS) who had been working on the groundwater sampling plan for the state on the Allied site, formally protested the manner in which the two wells had been drilled and the way the site inspection had been prematurely abandoned.

The CGS had recommended a drilling plan at the Allied site that would have included 12 wells, two drilled to 100 feet and 10 drilled to 50 feet. Junge said he believed that more wells needed to be drilled and properly cased in order to truly determine the state of the groundwater on the property. He was right.

The 1985 operation was peculiar for a number of reasons. First, the first well had casing put in place. This is a relatively expensive part of the drilling operation, so making the decision to go back and tear it out later is odd, at best.

The reason that monitoring wells are often cased, even when they appear to be dry, is that groundwater is not constant, moves very slowly and often takes a while to appear. For example, one of the groundwater monitoring wells that was drilled at the Allied site in 2004 was initially dry, but was cased anyway, as were all the test wells in 2004. As it turned out, it took 10 days for the groundwater to show up in this well at the Allied site. When it did show, it was contaminated.

There is no question that the EPA was aware in 1985 that groundwater could have shown up in the first well or the second well, had they been properly cased and allowed to remain for monitoring (hence the name “monitoring well”).

More disturbing still, had the 1985 FIT team continued drilling the remaining two wells it had scheduled further east, we now know today, because of more recent drilling and testing, that both of these wells would likely have found groundwater that was contaminated.

As further evidence that the first well might have filled with water if given time, two groundwater monitoring wells were drilled on the Public

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sloping patch of land on the north side of the Valmont dike that would have been simple to drill, an area that just happened to be located directly below the large dam that the “investigative” team doing important “reconnaissance” apparently didn’t see.

As for the well sites, one location was staked in the ravine above the southwest corner of the tailings pond, just below the Public Service property line. This is the same ravine described earlier in this article and shown on early maps.

Another well was located just east of the end of the primary tailings pond, and the final two wells were even farther east, towards the end of the property.

In addition to drilling the four wells and sampling groundwater, the FIT team had supposedly been instructed to sample soils on both the Allied and Public Service properties, surface water in the Public Service lakes, and even sediments in the same lakes. But then something strange happened.

On Feb. 11, 1985, the first well was drilled in the ravine above the pond. It was drilled to a depth of 45 feet and into the Pierre shale. The well appeared dry, but as is standard on monitoring wells, PVC casing — which allows groundwater in but keeps dirt out — was set and cemented into the well. But according to a report in the CDPHE records, the FIT team leader then placed a phone call to his supervisor.

Following the call, the fit leader ordered the casing pulled from the well and the well to be backfilled with dirt. The cement had already set up, so the casing broke and only about eight feet were recovered. The monitoring well was then buried. More on why this was so unusual later.

The team then proceeded to the next well location, at the eastern end of the tailings pond. This well was also drilled into the Pierre shale, at 30 feet.

It was declared dry and immediately back-filled with dirt. No casing was ever set.

The team leader then declared the site inspection complete. The remaining two wells were not drilled, and the other testing that had been scheduled for both properties was declared unnecessary and was never done. Both the EPA and the state seemed fine with this sudden termination of the site investigation that had just cleared the way for the CDPHE and EPA’s “long standing and difficult situation” to be

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In another strange — and yet somehow expected — twist to this story, the core samples taken from the EPA’s two 1985 dry holes, which could still be reexamined today for evidence that groundwater did move through the area, have apparently gone missing.

Oops. That explains why everyone says there is no evidence that groundwater feeds into the primary tailings pond.

Assertion #4: There is no evidence of completed pathways to human exposure from contamination created by the Allied milling operation.

Considering the reporting thus far, this assertion is certainly as flawed as the others. While it’s true that much of the most dangerous potential pathways to human exposure occurred in the past while everyone involved turned a blind eye, this should not mean that those responsible for such blatant disregard for environmental laws should walk away scot-free.

In Boulder Weekly’s recent interview with Tom Hendricks — who from all indications from the public record was the most responsible operator to ever occupy the Allied mill site — he described to Boulder Weekly the conversations he would have with former employees of the Allied mill regarding Allied’s handling of its contamination.

EPA’s 1985 “dry” holes Location of two monitoring wells on Public Service property that found groundwater Other wells Location of ravine that runs downhill into the primary tailings pond

primary tailings pond

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According to Hendricks, every time the subject of the thousands of gallons a day of contaminated primary pond tailings water being pumped intentionally into the Public Service lakes for years came up, the Allied employees would just put their finger over their lips and say “Sshh.”

This wasn’t, after all, an unusual practice for the chemical giant during this timeframe. You may recall that the $13 million dollar fine Allied was hit with by the EPA in 1976 was for dumping contamination straight into the James River in Virginia and causing people downstream to get sick.

We may never be able to assess what the actual damage caused by the Allied mill operation to humans may have been. It’s nearly impossible to go back in time and analyze such damage.

But what we do know is that there is no safe level for lead in drinking water and that the consequences of drinking it are devastating and last a lifetime.

What can be assessed, and should

be, are the current ongoing risks at the site. If groundwater leached through the dam in the past, as even the state now seems to be willing to admit, then it could happen again. In a recent email, Warren Smith of the CDPHE said, “When the site was operating and the tailings pond was in use prior to the mid-1980s, it was likely that there were offsite impacts to groundwater, but that is not the case today.”

In the mid-1980s, the CDPHE was claiming that there was no groundwater on the site at all.

Today, we know that there is groundwater in the primary tailings pond. And whether it is coming from rain and runoff that penetrates the pond, as authorities claim, or is being fed by groundwater that is migrating into the pond, if it is there, then the potential for it to migrate through the dam still exists. A dirt and rock cap such as the one proposed by the city will not stop rain and runoff from entering the contaminated tailings below. And

the weight of the cap, according to some, may well force more water to migrate from the pond.

If everyone is so sure that there is no problem today, then why still refuse to drill the one monitoring well below the dam that would make it possible to know when and if contamination is leaving the pond? And if contamination is entering the groundwater below the dam, then it should be remediated by constructing a French drain or some other type of groundwater capture system as is being done at other contaminated sites across the country.

Considering the track record of those charged with protecting the public from the contamination at the city’s Allied mill Valmont Butte site, we would do well to remember that being told we are safe is sometimes the same as being told that what could endanger us is simply unknown or not even being looked for.

Consider these statements from the final 2005 EPA report on the Allied mill site now owned by the city. They actually appeared on the same page of the report.

“Although the extent to which leachate could permeate the fractured Pierre Shale and impact drinking water wells north of the site is unknown, analytical data do not indicate that this is happening at a level that poses a significant risk to human health and the environment.”

“No complete pathways were identified during this investigation.”

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Ani DiFranco plays the Boulder Theater on Saturday, March 3.

Gregory Alan Isakov opens. Tickets are sold out. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Leftover Salmon mark the Fox’s 20th

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Poets, teens tackle body image issues

Page 46 / Elevation: Going down, fast

buzz cuts

Benyaro plays Oskar Blues in Lyons on Sunday, March 4.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1

The Funky Meters — A legendary funk band with rhythm to spare. With Hot Soup. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

Boulder Blind Café — Experience life without sight.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Integral Center, 2805 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 800-838-3006.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

BaoBao Festival — 9th annual celebration of West African singing, storytelling, drumming and dance. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.baobaofest.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

Benyaro — Try the Deviant Dale’s. You’re welcome. 6 p.m.

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

MONDAY, MARCH 5

Danny Shafer — Prolific local songwriter. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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ne of the real changes in how Ani DiFranco approaches live performing these days may be something she does while not performing. But rest assured, DiFranco indicated during a recent phone interview that it’s making a difference in her concerts.

“For most of my life, I’d get off stage and I have this sort of tortured side to my personality where I just, I relive all of the things that I did wrong or didn’t quite say right, because I like Boulder Weekly

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 to speak off the cuff,” DiFranco says.

“And sometimes it comes out right and sometimes it comes out sideways.

And then I have to dissect every moment, and I’ve done a lot of beating myself up and worrying over the years about not being good enough.

“Now I really consciously try not to do that so I stay more at peace,” she says. “I think it sort of helps me to walk out on stage with a more relaxed, ready-to-have-fun version of myself if I can sort of put my worrying gene on the backburner a little bit. So I do that

better now. It’s still hard for me, but I try to be more zen about it because I know that the best moments on stage are when you’re totally relaxed and in your skin. That’s when you and the audience get the most out of it.”

That emerging inner peace as a performer seems like part of a bigger overall picture of contentment for DiFranco. After years of romantic and personal disappointments (including the divorce from her first husband and

The Oneness Meditation — Oneness monk Doug Bentley, from Oneness University in India, shares a blessing. 12:20 p.m., 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. with live kirtan dance band. The Integral Center, Chapel Room, 2805 Broadway, Boulder, 720364-0789.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

Gogol Bordello — Crazy gypsyrock always worth seeing live. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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long-time musical partner, Andrew Gilchrist — known affectionately as “Goat Boy”), DiFranco met her second husband (and co-producer), Mike Napolitano. The couple had a daughter, Petah Lucia, in January 2007.

Marriage and motherhood clearly agree with DiFranco, 41, at this point in her life.

“It helps to be a parent,” she says.

“I’ve got a daughter pushing 5, and I’ve got other things in my life that eclipse my job in importance most of the time.

It helps keep it all in perspective, and, I think, I’ve been enjoying that a lot, a little bit of perspective on these moments that are still very important to me. But now that I have a balance in my life, it’s not life or death.

“I just feel very lucky to be where I’m at, to have a job that I love, to have a family that I love that’s supportive,” DiFranco says.

But don’t think that a happy home life is keeping DiFranco from noticing things that are wrong in the world and feeling inspired to share her thoughts on these issues.

In fact, her new CD, Which Side Are You On? (which was released on Jan. 17), has its share of topical songs that take on what she considers some of the major issues of the day. If anything, DiFranco feels she’s testing boundaries with some

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of the new songs to see how political and opinionated her songs can get.

“You know, since it seems to be my job to push that envelope, I’ve been sort of exploring how hard can you push it,” she says.

The topical side of the new CD should be apparent enough just from the title. “Which Side Are You On?” is an updated version of the pro-union protest song made famous by folk legend Pete Seeger.

Seeger himself plays banjo on the song, which was written in 1931 by Florence Reece, a wife of a coal miner and union organizer.

This song needed some updating.

“I wrote a lot of new words … for the verses to have it reflect the political [situation] now,” DiFranco says. “As I worked on this album, over the last few years, that sort of rose to be the title track just because, I guess, it’s an urgent question that I’m asking the world around me. We’re faced with a lot of crises, and it’s not getting any simpler. So we’ve got to really take action. So it’s sort of a cry for action. It’s this big rabblerousing show closer on a lot of nights.”

The fate of unions and workers’ rights, though, is hardly the only topic DiFranco tackles on the new CD. “I think there’s a lot of ideas floating through the new record about changing

course, you know, away [for instance] from unsustainable fossil fuel technology and into sustainable holistic technologies of the future,” she says.

Another major topic gets explored on the song “Amendment.” “[It’s] about the Equal Rights Amendment and trying to revive that, because I think the civil rights of women is an important building block toward future democracy,” DiFranco says. “I, myself, strive for a sophisticated understanding of feminism that is just bigger than the rudimentary equal work for equal pay or safety for women on the streets or in the home. It’s about a shift in consciousness that brings the feminine sensibility into balance with the masculine. And then through that, a very fundamental, hard-to-achieve sort of shift, we get more of a balance in the way we approach the environment, the way we approach foreign policy and other nations and the way we approach each other in our domestic policies.

“I think that’s something that women have a special window into, and if we can bring that into our political and social imagination, I think that we can shift things,” she says. “I really feel like a feminist direction is going to be really important in this new century because that is inescapably the world we live in. It’s smaller and smaller, and the

inter-connectedness is more and more profound in that way.”

DiFranco stresses, though, that not everything on Which Side Are You On? is weighty and political. On her previous CD, 2008’s Red Letter Year, she had a few songs that chronicled the joys of motherhood and marriage, and some of that happier life also filters into the new CD. “It’s pretty wide scope on this record, I guess, from the very macro to the very micro,” DiFranco says. “Yeah, that trend is carrying through from Red Letter Year as well. I mean, for me it provides a nice balance.”

DiFranco has been playing a number of the new songs in her live show, and also a selection from across her entire catalog, which now includes 17 studio CDs, all released on her own label, Righteous Babe Records.

And that happier, more settled attitude she’s been taking in not being so selfcritical of her shows, as well as the stability in her personal life, is having a positive effect on her frame of mind in general.

“I think I’m in such a good place now that my health has improved,” she says.

“I’ve noticed my immune system functions, and all of these nagging problems that I was dealing with in my body, a lot of them have really solved themselves. There’s nothing like inner peace for medicine.”

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uccumbing to a sudden fit of retro-surfing nostalgia, we recently spun Leftover Salmon’s seminal Ask The Fish for a fresh listen. A riot of colliding strings and goofball interludes and marksman-like musicianship, the band’s first live CD, recorded at the Fox in October 1994, marks a fitting left-side bookend to the jamgrass franchise’s career ascendency and a fitting vignette of the party-yer-parts-off madness that Salmon would shortly take national.

Mando/guitarist/co-founder Drew Emmitt remembered the gig when we caught up with him last week, just back from an Emmitt-Nershi tour and slumming it with Salmon on Little Feat’s annual Jamaica Excursion.

“Oh yeah,” he chuckles, “that was recorded on Halloween, and we were all in costume. I was wearing this very cumbersome wizard costume with these huge sleeves. So not only were we recording a live record, but were also hindered by the costume element. Plus it was an absolutely crazy night. So it was kind of a nutty way to make a live record — picking one of the craziest gigs ever and recording it.

“And I think some of that craziness still exists in the band, but it’s sort of tempered now by more focusing on the music, not just so much being the most crazy, weird band we could possibly be. Which is kind of where we were back then.”

When Salmon climbs the stage Tuesday night for the first time at the Fox since their bye-for-now New Year’s Eve 2004 gig, and unofficially for their 64th appearance up there (and yes, we think that’s the venue’s single band marquee record), they’ll be returning re-inspired and reinvigorated. A new CD of all original material (working title, Aquatic Hitchhiker) is in the can and poised for a spring release. It was recorded in Portland last month and produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin, and two or three tours of 50 or 60 gigs total extend the band’s schedule through 2012.

“It’s really a very different record for us,” says Emmitt, “in that we really all got together and helped

with history in this organization, and they’ll all point to the full-time addition of banjoist Andy Thorn as the spark that lifted the band from part-time, extended reunion status to Fish 2.0.

Thorn filled in to handle some Salmon dates a couple of years ON THE BILL: Leftover Salmon plays the Fox ago, and it was pretty Theatre on Tuesday, March obvious to everyone by 6, and Wednesday, March early last year that the late 7. Doors start at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are $32.50, with a $2 Mark Vann’s banjo seat fee for being under 21. was filled.

1135 13th St., Boulder, 303“Big time, definitely,” 443-3399 Emmitt says. “He saw us in Chapel Hill at the Cat’s Cradle years ago when he was 14, his mom brought him, and he said that gig changed his life, made him really want to do this. And y’know, Mark was really a big influence on him.

“And he plays a lot like Mark. He’s a great bluegrass banjo player, he plays in the Emmitt-Nershi band as well, just rips on the banjo. But he can also rock out on the banjo, and that’s been a tough thing. That’s something that the other banjo players that came after Mark, as great as they were, weren’t really able to capture. And that’s what Leftover Salmon requires. It’s a rock ’n’ roll bluegrass band. Equal parts. And he’s definitely got both those worlds.”

As for the Fox, Emmitt expressed a little shock each other write the songs. It wasn’t like we each had when we told him how many Fox gigs are on the songs and brought them to the table and that was it. band’s résumé. But he couldn’t deny the role that the We all collaborated on it. And Steve really helped too, band and the venue each had in helping the other he came out early and we had a session at Vince’s grow up. where we got together and wrote, and he had some “It was kind of our standing monthly gig for a really great input. … It’s really the first time we really while,” he says. “Before we started touring, we played collaborated on a record as a band. the Fox, we played the ski areas, Fort Collins. But “But we’re psyched. It’s bluegrassy, almost a little yeah, that was our mainstay, that’s where we first folksy in a way. A little bit of rock, some Cajun, some learned we could really blow up some shows and calypso in the true Salmon tradition. But … it’s kind make it happen. of hard to describe. Very roots and very earthy.”

“And it kind of set the template for our touring, Salmon has been pointing toward this moment for too. We figured, hey if we can do shows like the Fox a couple of years now, picking up more tour dates the around the country, then we’ll be doing good.” last couple of years after unofficially and sporadically Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com resuming business in 2007. Talk to just about anyone

Spawning time

As the Fox Theatre marks its 20th anniversary, Boulder’s most celebrated fish come to deposit some roe

by Dave Kirby

New director, new direction

Bach Festival’s final concert opts for shorter pieces instead of a single work

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he annual Boulder Bach Festival has been an important part of the city’s classical music scene for 30 years. But this year the Finale Concert has a new look.

In the past, the last concert of the weeklong festival has typically featured a major choral work: one of the passions (St. Matthew and St. John), the B-minor mass, or possibly the Magnificat with some other work.

This year, however, new festival director Rick Erickson has chosen a different kind of program: Instead of a single major work, he is venturing into what he calls the “heart” of Bach’s work as a composer, the cantatas. Two of the cantatas will be performed, along with a motet (for chorus without

orchestra) and one of the always-popular Brandenburg concertos for orchestra.

In his duties as Cantor of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Bach presided over the performance of a cantata during the service every Sunday. In pursuit of those duties, he wrote more than 200 sacred cantatas that have survived, and doubtless many others that have been lost. There are cantatas for every Sunday of the Lutheran liturgical calendar.

“The cantatas are at the heart of Bach,” Erickson says. “I’ve been so fortunate in my life to spend such a huge part of my time with the cantatas. This is the week-to-week life of Bach, and there see BACH Page 31

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is the huge variety of expression [in the just as hymns are today. As a result, it cantatas].” was in these concluding movements Erickson also sees the cantatas as a that the individual religious experience good training for the chorus, since it of the people in the pews found expresgives the singers an opportunity to sion in the work being performed by focus on specific challenges. “I really the church musicians. wanted to avoid for this first year Unlike the cantatas, Bach’s six sursomething like the B-minor Mass or viving motets were probably written the St. John or the St. Matthew pasnot for the weekly Sunday services but sion,” he says. for special occasions, such as funerals.

“I want to be able to focus, in these All are written for multiple voice parts marvelous cantatas, with no more than a on some very specific continuo accompanivocal issues with the ment — that is, supON THE BILL: Boulder Bach Festival Finale Concert choir. All of the more port for the bass line, plays at the Mountain View extended works grow including a keyboard United Methodist Church on out of the cantata instrument.

Saturday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 to $30. For inforBecause the voices language.” mation and tickets, visit http:// The cantatas constitute the entire www.brownpapertickets.com/ Erickson chose for texture, the motets event/193974. the Finale Concert are especially chalare No. 187, Es wartlenging for the singers. This is especially true of the motet et alles auf dich (All things wait upon Erickson has chosen, “Lobet den thee), written for the seventh Sunday Herrn, alle Heiden” (Praise the Lord, after Trinity; and No. 147, Herz und all ye heathens), as the singers’ parts Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and are especially virtuosic. mouth and deeds and life), composed If programming shorter pieces for the Feast of the Visitation of the instead of a single major work constiBlessed Virgin Mary.

Both cantatas conform to the stantutes a new direction for the festival, dard practice in Leipzig during Bach’s Erickson is ready. lifetime by combining chorus, soloists “I really want to see what the interand a small orchestra, much as the lon- est and what the natural evolution of ger works do. Each opens with a move- the festival might be,” he says. “I want ment for chorus and orchestra, folto see how we can find really strong, lowed by a series of recitatives and arias exciting directions that make a lot of for the soloists. sense.”

Both cantatas also end with a setBoth the cantatas and the larger ting of a chorale tune for chorus and works are likely to be part of that new orchestra. These simple movements direction. “I hope we can continue seem musically anti-climatic to audibringing cantatas to life, as well as, of ences accustomed to the transcendent course, the larger-scale works.” finales of Romantic music, but for the But for now, his focus is on this congregation at St. Thomas, they were year’s performances. “I’m excited about central to the religious experience of the performers, our artists who will be the service. with us,” he says. “I think we’re going Chorale tunes and texts were famil- to have a grand time. I’m really looking iar to the congregants, since they were forward to it.” sung communally during the service, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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EVENTS AND MUSIC FOR FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS

Schedule of Events

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

3:00pm - 8:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

4:00pm and 6:00pm

Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour!

Tour to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

7:00pm

Opening Ceremony in Nederland’s roundabout with Skeleton Dancers and snow sculpture, by Cool Hand Carving, unveiling.

8:00pm - 2:00am

Grandpa’s Blue Ball at Black Forest Restaurant Ice Queen & Grandpa Look a Like contest.

Music by The Big Blue Ball Band, fusion of Nederland’s world class finest musicians.

Tickets $12 at the door

10:00pm

LIVE MUSIC Area restaurants and bars. See Music Schedule.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

8:00am - 11:00am

Event Day Registration at the Teen Center. For the Parade of Hearses, Polar Plunge & Coffin Races.

8:00am - 11:00am

Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center. Eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and all you can eat pancakes . $7 adults ,$5 Seniors, $4 kids

10:00am - 4:00pm

Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour! out to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

10:00am and 4:00pm

Freeze Frame Your Dead Guy Days Experience Get your photo taken with Grandpa at The Business Connection - 1 block W of the traffic circle. Also Dead Guy Day postcards available as events happen! Dead Guy Day masks and helium balloons too!

10:30am - 2:30pm

Cryogenic Work Shop at Wild Bear in Shopping Center Hammer nails with bananas, shatter flowers, and make ice cream with nitrogen!

11:00am - 8:00pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl and Brain Freezer Tent Downtown Nederland First Street is tranformed into a pedestrian mall.

In the Brain Freezer Tent Avery and Lefthand beer, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks will be available.

Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 8:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 4:00pm

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed at Black Forest Restaurant. NEW Location!

Watch the award-winning short film. Shows approx. every 30 minutes.

Noon

Parade of Hearses From the Nederland Teen Center and up First Street.

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Charity Polar Plunge in Chipeta Park Take the freezin’ plunge! RC Rental is providing a warming tent & changing area. $20 entry, register at Teen Center

1:00pm and 5:00pm

The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films Talk at Black Forest A collection of comedy scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics! Mustknow-NOW details and The Newly-Dead Game.

2:00am - 3:30pm

Coffin Races at Chipeta Park Coffin races through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, playground slides.

PRIZES FOR 1ST, 2ND & 3RD PLACE, BEST COSTUME & MOST FDGD SPIRIT

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Icy Turkey Bowling Test your Poultry Bowling Skills. $5 entry. In front of Wild Mountain

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Brain Freeze Contest In front of tent on First Street Finish downing frozen treats first for prizes. $5 entry

5:00pm

Frozen T-shirt Contest How fast can you “get it on” Frozen T-shirt Contest, for great prizes. $10 (keep the shirt!) At The Pioneer Inn

10:30am and 2:30pm

Cryogenic Work Shop at Wild Bear in Shopping Center Hammer nails with bananas, shatter flowers, and make ice cream with nitrogen!

11:00am - 6:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 6:00pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl and Brain Freezer Tent Downtown Nederland First Street is tranformed into a pedestrian mall.

In the Brain Freezer Tent Avery and Lefthand beer, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks will be available.

Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

great prizes. $10 (keep the shirt!) At The Pioneer Inn

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Icy Turkey Bowling Test your Poultry Bowling Skills. In front of Wild Mountain

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Brain Freeze Contest In front of tent on First Street Finish downing frozen treats first for prizes. $5 entry

2:00pm

Cool Hand Carving Ice Demonstration At the Brain Freezer tent on First Street

2:00pm

The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films Talk at Black Forest A collection of comedy scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics! Mustknow-NOW details and The Newly-Dead Game.

6:30pm - 1:00pm

11:00am - 2:00pm

2:30pm

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

11:00am - 2:00pm

3:00pm

11:00am - 4:00pm

5:00pm

Grandpa’s Pub Crawl Live Music at local pubs and bars. See Music Schedule.

8:00am - 11:00am

Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center Eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and all you can eat pancakes .$7 adults ,$5 Seniors, $4 kids

10:00am and 4:00pm

Freeze Frame Your Dead Guy Days Experience Get your photo taken with Grandpa at The Business Connection - 1 block W of the traffic circle. Also Dead Guy Day postcards available as events happen! Dead Guy Day masks and helium balloons too!

Salmon Toss & Sunday Brunch at the Sundance Cafe Furthest Toss wins the prize. Come by Anytime! $5 entry 1 mile South of Nederland on HWY 119 Snowy Beach Volleyball NEW this year! at Chipeta Park Speed tournament, first come, first serve! $20/team Great Prizes!

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed at Black Forest Restaurant NEW Location!

Watch the award-winning short film. Shows approx. every 30 minutes.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Sasquatch Investigations Of The Rockies at Voodoo Toys in the Shopping Center The SIR will be talking about organization, research and findings.

10:00am, 1pm and 3pm 12:00pm - 1:00pm Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour!

TTour to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

Corpse Pose at Tadasana Mountain Yoga Drop-in between 12 and 1pm, stay for 5 minutes or the whole hour. $5 In the Shopping Center 1:00pm Frozen T-shirt Contest How fast can you “get it on” Frozen T-shirt Contest, for

Extreme Air Guitar Competition Come cheer on these wanna be rockstars! $5 Entry Fee ~ 1st Place $100 Cash, 2nd place: $50 Gift Card Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest Race to eat as many rocky mountain oysters as possible. $5 entry at First Street Pub & Grill Closing Ceremony of 2012 Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland’s roundabout.

Music Line Up FRIDAY, MARCH 2

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 3:00pm – 4:15pm Mekanizm 4:45pm – 6:00pm Longest Day of the Year 6:30pm – 8:00pm Fried Grease 8:00pm – 2:00am Grandpa’s Blue Ball @ Black Forest Restaurant Blue Ball Details: Ice Queen & Grandpa Look a Like costume contest for great prizes ($10 entry fee) Featuring: The Big Blue Ball Band, fusion of Nederland’s world class finest musicians, NoGo Gilbilles & The Square Groupers Tickets $12 at the door day of; pre-sale $10 on line or in person at Dog House Video in Nederland till 2/29/12 or online - www.frozendeadguydays.org.

Grandpas Pub Crawl 10:00pm Fizakat at First Street Pub & Grill 35 E. First Street (next to Brain Freeze Tent) Bread & Circus at The Pioneer Inn 15 E. First Street Jet Edison at Whistler’s 121 N. Jefferson

Horn Dog at The Pioneer Inn 15 E. First Street Grant Farm with Bill Nershi at Whistler’s 121 N. Jefferson

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 11:00am – 12:15pm The Whiskey Bottles 12:45pm – 2:00pm Holden Young 2:15pm – 2:35pm Andrea Love (tweener) 2:50pm – 4:05pm Jeff Brinkman Band

4:30pm – 6:00pm She Said String Band Brain Freezer Tent Stage @ East 1st Street (‘Downtown’ Nederland) 11:00am – 11:45pm Doug ‘Brightwood’ 12:00pm – 1:00pm Danny Shafer 1:30pm – 3:00pm John McKay Band 3:30pm – 5:00pm Stan Sutton and Friends Holden Young Trio at Whistler’s 8:00pm 121 N. Jefferson “The Annex” Behind Wild Mountain 70 E. First Street 2:15pm – 2:35pm The Mile Markers

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 11:00am – 12:15pm Acoustic Mining Company 12:45pm – 2:00pm Blackdog and the Psycho Horns 2:00pm – 3:00pm Coffin Race Break 3:00pm – 4:30pm Bread and Circus, featuring Jubal & Monica Colbi 5:00pm – 6:30pm Smooth Money Gesture 7:00pm – 8:30pm Fox Street All Stars Brain Freezer Tent Stage @ East 1st Street (‘Downtown’ Nederland) 11:00am – 12:15pm Kort McCumber 12:30pm – 1:45pm Jeff Brinkman Band 2:15pm – 3:30pm Lesley Kernochan 4:00pm – 5:30pm Jet Edison 6:00pm – 7:30pm Ground Up “The Annex” Behind Wild Mountain DJ JD Dub – Reggae and Hip Hop 70 E. First Street all day Grandpas Pub Crawl 10:00pm Fox Street Allstars at First Street Pub

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EVENTS AND MUSIC FOR FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS

Schedule of Events

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

3:00pm - 8:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

4:00pm and 6:00pm

Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour!

Tour to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

7:00pm

Opening Ceremony in Nederland’s roundabout with Skeleton Dancers and snow sculpture, by Cool Hand Carving, unveiling.

8:00pm - 2:00am

Grandpa’s Blue Ball at Black Forest Restaurant Ice Queen & Grandpa Look a Like contest.

Music by The Big Blue Ball Band, fusion of Nederland’s world class finest musicians.

Tickets $12 at the door

10:00pm

LIVE MUSIC Area restaurants and bars. See Music Schedule.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

8:00am - 11:00am

Event Day Registration at the Teen Center. For the Parade of Hearses, Polar Plunge & Coffin Races.

8:00am - 11:00am

Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center. Eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and all you can eat pancakes . $7 adults ,$5 Seniors, $4 kids

10:00am - 4:00pm

Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour! out to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

10:00am and 4:00pm

Freeze Frame Your Dead Guy Days Experience Get your photo taken with Grandpa at The Business Connection - 1 block W of the traffic circle. Also Dead Guy Day postcards available as events happen! Dead Guy Day masks and helium balloons too!

10:30am - 2:30pm

Cryogenic Work Shop at Wild Bear in Shopping Center Hammer nails with bananas, shatter flowers, and make ice cream with nitrogen!

11:00am - 8:00pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl and Brain Freezer Tent Downtown Nederland First Street is tranformed into a pedestrian mall.

In the Brain Freezer Tent Avery and Lefthand beer, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks will be available.

Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 8:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 4:00pm

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed at Black Forest Restaurant. NEW Location!

Watch the award-winning short film. Shows approx. every 30 minutes.

Noon

Parade of Hearses From the Nederland Teen Center and up First Street.

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Charity Polar Plunge in Chipeta Park Take the freezin’ plunge! RC Rental is providing a warming tent & changing area. $20 entry, register at Teen Center

1:00pm and 5:00pm

The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films Talk at Black Forest A collection of comedy scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics! Mustknow-NOW details and The Newly-Dead Game.

2:00am - 3:30pm

Coffin Races at Chipeta Park Coffin races through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, playground slides.

PRIZES FOR 1ST, 2ND & 3RD PLACE, BEST COSTUME & MOST FDGD SPIRIT

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Icy Turkey Bowling Test your Poultry Bowling Skills. $5 entry. In front of Wild Mountain

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Brain Freeze Contest In front of tent on First Street Finish downing frozen treats first for prizes. $5 entry

5:00pm

Frozen T-shirt Contest How fast can you “get it on” Frozen T-shirt Contest, for great prizes. $10 (keep the shirt!) At The Pioneer Inn

10:30am and 2:30pm

Cryogenic Work Shop at Wild Bear in Shopping Center Hammer nails with bananas, shatter flowers, and make ice cream with nitrogen!

11:00am - 6:00pm

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Chipeta Park Avery and Lefthand, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks. Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

11:00am - 6:00pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl and Brain Freezer Tent Downtown Nederland First Street is tranformed into a pedestrian mall.

In the Brain Freezer Tent Avery and Lefthand beer, specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks will be available.

Live Music, Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

great prizes. $10 (keep the shirt!) At The Pioneer Inn

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Icy Turkey Bowling Test your Poultry Bowling Skills. In front of Wild Mountain

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Brain Freeze Contest In front of tent on First Street Finish downing frozen treats first for prizes. $5 entry

2:00pm

Cool Hand Carving Ice Demonstration At the Brain Freezer tent on First Street

2:00pm

The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films Talk at Black Forest A collection of comedy scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics! Mustknow-NOW details and The Newly-Dead Game.

6:30pm - 1:00pm

11:00am - 2:00pm

2:30pm

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

11:00am - 2:00pm

3:00pm

11:00am - 4:00pm

5:00pm

Grandpa’s Pub Crawl Live Music at local pubs and bars. See Music Schedule.

8:00am - 11:00am

Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center Eggs, sausage, coffee, juice and all you can eat pancakes .$7 adults ,$5 Seniors, $4 kids

10:00am and 4:00pm

Freeze Frame Your Dead Guy Days Experience Get your photo taken with Grandpa at The Business Connection - 1 block W of the traffic circle. Also Dead Guy Day postcards available as events happen! Dead Guy Day masks and helium balloons too!

Salmon Toss & Sunday Brunch at the Sundance Cafe Furthest Toss wins the prize. Come by Anytime! $5 entry 1 mile South of Nederland on HWY 119 Snowy Beach Volleyball NEW this year! at Chipeta Park Speed tournament, first come, first serve! $20/team Great Prizes!

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed at Black Forest Restaurant NEW Location!

Watch the award-winning short film. Shows approx. every 30 minutes.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Sasquatch Investigations Of The Rockies at Voodoo Toys in the Shopping Center The SIR will be talking about organization, research and findings.

10:00am, 1pm and 3pm 12:00pm - 1:00pm Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour!

TTour to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.

Reservations $30, $35 day of if available.

Tours start at Buffalo Bills

Corpse Pose at Tadasana Mountain Yoga Drop-in between 12 and 1pm, stay for 5 minutes or the whole hour. $5 In the Shopping Center 1:00pm Frozen T-shirt Contest How fast can you “get it on” Frozen T-shirt Contest, for

Extreme Air Guitar Competition Come cheer on these wanna be rockstars! $5 Entry Fee ~ 1st Place $100 Cash, 2nd place: $50 Gift Card Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest Race to eat as many rocky mountain oysters as possible. $5 entry at First Street Pub & Grill Closing Ceremony of 2012 Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland’s roundabout.

Music Line Up FRIDAY, MARCH 2

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 3:00pm – 4:15pm Mekanizm 4:45pm – 6:00pm Longest Day of the Year 6:30pm – 8:00pm Fried Grease 8:00pm – 2:00am Grandpa’s Blue Ball @ Black Forest Restaurant Blue Ball Details: Ice Queen & Grandpa Look a Like costume contest for great prizes ($10 entry fee) Featuring: The Big Blue Ball Band, fusion of Nederland’s world class finest musicians, NoGo Gilbilles & The Square Groupers Tickets $12 at the door day of; pre-sale $10 on line or in person at Dog House Video in Nederland till 2/29/12 or online - www.frozendeadguydays.org.

Grandpas Pub Crawl 10:00pm Fizakat at First Street Pub & Grill 35 E. First Street (next to Brain Freeze Tent) Bread & Circus at The Pioneer Inn 15 E. First Street Jet Edison at Whistler’s 121 N. Jefferson

Horn Dog at The Pioneer Inn 15 E. First Street Grant Farm with Bill Nershi at Whistler’s 121 N. Jefferson

SUNDAY, MARCH 4

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 11:00am – 12:15pm The Whiskey Bottles 12:45pm – 2:00pm Holden Young 2:15pm – 2:35pm Andrea Love (tweener) 2:50pm – 4:05pm Jeff Brinkman Band

4:30pm – 6:00pm She Said String Band Brain Freezer Tent Stage @ East 1st Street (‘Downtown’ Nederland) 11:00am – 11:45pm Doug ‘Brightwood’ 12:00pm – 1:00pm Danny Shafer 1:30pm – 3:00pm John McKay Band 3:30pm – 5:00pm Stan Sutton and Friends Holden Young Trio at Whistler’s 8:00pm 121 N. Jefferson “The Annex” Behind Wild Mountain 70 E. First Street 2:15pm – 2:35pm The Mile Markers

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 11:00am – 12:15pm Acoustic Mining Company 12:45pm – 2:00pm Blackdog and the Psycho Horns 2:00pm – 3:00pm Coffin Race Break 3:00pm – 4:30pm Bread and Circus, featuring Jubal & Monica Colbi 5:00pm – 6:30pm Smooth Money Gesture 7:00pm – 8:30pm Fox Street All Stars Brain Freezer Tent Stage @ East 1st Street (‘Downtown’ Nederland) 11:00am – 12:15pm Kort McCumber 12:30pm – 1:45pm Jeff Brinkman Band 2:15pm – 3:30pm Lesley Kernochan 4:00pm – 5:30pm Jet Edison 6:00pm – 7:30pm Ground Up “The Annex” Behind Wild Mountain DJ JD Dub – Reggae and Hip Hop 70 E. First Street all day Grandpas Pub Crawl 10:00pm Fox Street Allstars at First Street Pub

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FESTIVAL FINALE THIS WEEKEND!

BRANDENBURG & MORE

RICK ERICKSON, MUSIC DIRECTOR

FESTIVAL FINALE

SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 7:30 PM—Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca St., Boulder

Tickets are $30. Children, $5; Students, $10.

Buy online at www.brownpapertickets. com/producer/18122 or at the door (we are unable to take credit cards at the door).

Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 Cantatas 147 and 187; Motet 230

BACH VESPERS

Rick Erickson, conductor Artists: Sarah Brailey, soprano; Eric Brenner, countertenor; Daniel Hutchings, tenor; Joe Damon Chappel, bass-baritone; Zacchary Carrettin, violin; Ann Marie Morgan, cello; Rick Erickson, harpsichord Boulder Bach Festival Chorus & Players

SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 4:15 PM—Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th Street, Boulder After the New York practice based on the Leipzig tradition—Cantata BWV 159, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem Rick Erickson, conductor Festival Artists & Players Cost: $15

www.boulderbachfestival.org 303.776.9666

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art & culture Poets and teens team up to tame body image issues

Boulder Youth Body Alliance seeks to redefine beauty Amanda Moutinho

T

wo years ago, performance poet Sonya ative messages about their bodies, so she wanted to Rene Taylor was chatting with a friend create a healthy environment for them to learn and who was having an issue in the bedroom. promote self-love.

Her friend had cerebral palsy, and she felt The organization provides a support group and a awkward asking her partner for the speplatform for activism, Cool says. Members give body cial attention she needed because of her disability. image presentations to classrooms and around the Taylor responded with, “Your body is not an apology.” community, and have even gone to Washington, D.C., That response grew into a poem with lines saying, to campaign for legislation surrounding eating disor“Praise the body, for the body is not an apology. The body is Deity, the body is God ... the only righteous love that will never ON THE BILL: The Boulder need repent.” Months later Body Slam takes place at the that poem became a moveNomad Theatre on Friday, March ment. The Body is Not an 2. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students.

Apology preaches acceptance Visit www.boulderbodyslam.com and “radical” self-love. for tickets and more information.

“We live in a society that 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510. economically benefits on us feeling bad about ourselves — fashion, make-up, gyms, all make money on dissatisfaction of our bodies,” Taylor says. “We’re inundated with messages that we’re not good enough. So the message of telling ourselves that we’re beautiful and worth it is an absolutely radical idea.”

Taylor is bringing her idea of body Brandon Caffey confidence to the Boulder Body Slam, which is happening on March 2 and benefits Boulder der awareness and prevention.

Youth Body Alliance. The event will feature Taylor, One member performing in the show is 18-yearadults and youth poets who will perform on topics old Vanessa Kahn, who struggled with negative body around body acceptance. image and unhealthy eating habits from the end of BYBA started in 2004 by Carmen Cool, a body elementary school through the middle of high school. image therapist who battled eating disorders growing “Maybe to friends and family I looked happy, but up and had a sister die from anorexia. She kept there was an internal storm raging inside of me,” encountering teenagers who were sick of hearing neg- Kahn says. “For me, I feel like I’ve come full circle

from being in the deep hole of eating disorders.”

She joined BYBA to help others who were dealing with the same demons she was. Using poetry as a form of catharsis, Kahn says she hopes that her poem helps people see that eating disorders aren’t what define a person.

For some, like 16-year-old Maia Huey, joining the group wasn’t an easy decision. Huey saw one of BYBA’s presentations in eighth grade, but she didn’t join until last September because her own insecurities held her back from promoting a message of self-love to others.

“I didn’t know how to talk about it,” she says. “But what hit home was when I was babysitting and this little girl said she felt ugly because of the color of her skin. I didn’t know how to tell her that she was beautiful. I didn’t know how to tell her to love herself because I didn’t love myself. I realized I wanted to be part of the change.”

Huey is taking her mission of spreading positive body images to the stage by performing her poem “Barbie” at the Body Slam. She wrote the poem in a moment of frustration when she was tired of the images of women shown to young girls — Barbie had the looks, the house and the man and was always happy. Huey wanted to separate herself from the model of perfection and tell the world she is a woman, not a toy.

Helping young people develop confidence is very important to Taylor, who clearly remembers the moment her insecurities started — back in third grade when classmates taunted her about her hair.

“I often think how different the trajectory of my life would look if I had loved myself back then — that would have been a buffer against those kids on the bus who teased me. These are memories that I’ve carried around for 25 years,” she says.

Learning self-love at young age, Taylor says, can solve all the ills of the world.

“If we cultivate that love, that’s how you get through those rough adolescent years. The more we love ourselves, the more we love other people. That’s how we end racism and homophobia. That’s how we dismantle all these social justice problems.”

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NOW PLAYING at Miner’s Alley

Master Class

By Terrence McNally

Now Playing Through April 1 This is the story of the glamorous diva Maria Callas, a commanding, larger-than-life and surprisingly funny pedagogue who is holding a master voice class at Juilliard. She retreats into recollections about the glories of her own life and career including her affair with Aristotle Onassis. Master Class is an incredible ‘behind the scenes’ look at the world of Opera at it’s highest level!!!

Directed by Robert Kramer Assistant Directed by Ace Edwards Tickets are $19.00 - $26.50 senior, student and group rates available.

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The 9th Annual BaoBao Festival

celebrates West African singing, storytelling, drumming and dance.

3 p.m. at Boulder High School.

Thursday, March 1

Broadway St., Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Boulder, 303-939-9900.

music

Comedy Works — Presenting Chris Voth, Sam Tallent, MC Bill Leblanc. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Mr. Anonymous — With Ivy, Bobby C Sound TV and Psychonaut.

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

Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Funky Meters— With Hot Soup. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Eric Wiggs Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Jim Bradford Band. 8 p.m. The Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Kort McCumber. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

SEE FULL PANORAMA LISTINGS ONLINE To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Martin Gilmore’s flying picking circle. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Max Wagner Trio. 6:30 p.m.

Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante, 300 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-6521606.

Mike Zito Band. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Ocean Versus Daughter, Arrie Bozeman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Ecstatic Flow Yoga and Kirtan. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Paul Glover. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Steve Mullins & Rim of the Well. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Jazz, Jewishness, Apartheid — With author Gilad Atzmon. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center, CU campus, sponsored by the Students for Peace and Justice and CU-Divest, sites.google.com/site/cudivest/ gilad-atzmon.

Stone Soup. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Tom Weiser & Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Matt Jones (D-Louisville). 6-7:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303665-5200.

events

Friday, March 2 music

Boulder Blind Cafe. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Integral Center, 2805 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Bonnie & the Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Core Transformation Workshop. 9 a.m.

- 5:30 p.m. Best Western Boulder Inn, 770 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-2902.

The Buck Fifty. 6 p.m. The Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestonw, 303-442-5847.

Frozen Dead Guy Days — Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour, Opening Ceremony, Grandpa’s Blue Ball. 3 p.m. - 2 a.m. Nederland, frozendeadguydays.org.

Pete Stein and Black Tiger Fire. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Kelly MacLean leads a comedy night at the Bitter Bar on March 1. For more, visit boulderweekly.com.

Nerdist Podcast Live –– With Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray and Matt Mira. 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder,

Dillon Warnek, Offbeat Revolution. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

303-786-7030.

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

Driving Karma Wavorly. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events

Eef and the Blues Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Schiff Dance Collective: fits like a gLOVE. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Saturday, March 3

Ginga. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

music

Hey Lady — A B-52s Tribute, with Retrosonics. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder,

Keith Summers. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St.,

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Benefit Concert for Crohns and Colitis foundation of America –– With Rough Around the Edges, LHS, Concept, and Counterman Chaos Theory. 6 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Boulder Blind Cafe. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Integral Center, 2805 N.

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panorama 303-449-1922.

Ani DiFranco –– With Gregory Alan Isakov. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Barry Shapiro. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

BOULDERDENVER AREA “Haughty” from Red LightTragic Beauties and Other Objects of Desire

David Richey & Jordan Ramsey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Jayden Carlson Trio. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Jan Lisiecki — 17-year-old pianist. 7:30 p.m.

Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, 303-987-7845.

Los Boyos, Jeff Lambert and J.C. McKim. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Maura O’Connell — With John Mock. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

One on One. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ramaya Soskin, Dechen Hawk, Wadirum and Widow’s Bane. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

arts

Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer — CD release for Seed of a Pine. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Anthony Grant Studio Gallery. The Art Underground, 917 Front St., Louisville, 303408-5533. Reception 6-9 p.m. March 2.

Aurelius Rune, Ashley Williams. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408.Through March 31.

The Distance Between Us. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 North College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-2241010. Through April 28.

Mike W photography. Sponsored by Imagine! Innisfree Poetry Bookstore &

Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Viviane Le Courtois’ Edible? and Jason Rogenes’ Sp4c3cr4ft. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through June. 17.

Georgia Landman’s photographs. Amante Uptown, 4580 Broadway, Boulder, 303-448-9999.

Through March 29.

Red Light — Tragic Beauties and Other Objects of Desire. manifest ART gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

Through April 7.

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

Tequila Mockingbird. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

LIVE MUSIC every Sun, Mon, & Wed @10pm & Fridays @ 5pm

Wendy Woo. 8 p.m. The Dickens Opera House, 302 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Yo Flaco! 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events

EVERY TUESDAY! $3 Premium Drafts all day $5.00 Cheeseburger & Fries after 4pm

BaoBao Festival — 9th annual celebration of West African singing, storytelling, drumming and dance. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.baobaofest.org.

Fri., March 2nd

Free Introduction to Yoga — 8:30 a.m. Academy of Kung Fu, 1075 E. South Boulder Road #140, Louisville,

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George Nelson Quartet Wed., March 7th

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Frozen Dead Guy Days — Cryogenic Workshop, Chocolate Tour, Pancake Breakfast, Grandpa’s Mall Crawl, Parade of Hearses, Polar Plunge, Coffin Races, Ice Turkey Bowling, Pub Crawl. 8 a.m. - 1 a.m. Nederland, frozendeadguydays.org.

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Playback Theatre West — A Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Rally Against an Attack on Iran. 11 a.m. Sister Cities Plaza, Broadway and Canyon, 303-444-6981.

The Schiff Dance Collective: fits like a gLOVE. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

eTown — Gomez & Ariana Gillis. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Grant Family Farm. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Under Paris Skies. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The West, Your 33 Black Angels. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

The Drowsy Chaperone plays at Boulder’s Dinner Theater through May 13.

Brighton Beach Memoirs. Coal Creek Community Theatre at Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant St., Louisville, 303-665-0955.

Through March 10.

The Drowsy Chaperone. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through May 13.

Harvey. Upstart Crow Theatre Company, The Dairy Center for the

Benyaro. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Backstage with Margot Fonteyn and the Bumptious Colonial. 3 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-4391.

Frozen Dead Guy Days — Salmon Toss and Sunday Brunch, Snowy Beach Volleyball, Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies, Cool Hand Ice Carving Demonstration, Closing Ceremonies. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Nederland. frozendeadguydays.org.

Monday, March 5 music Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through March 3.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through June 24.

Murder at an Irish Wake. Adams Mystery Playhouse, presented by Marne Interactive Productions, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver, 303-455-1848.

March 2-31.

Danny Shafer. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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

George Nelson Quartet. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

events An Evening with Sam Harris. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, macky.colorado.edu.

Tuesday, March 6 music The Joints. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

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Sonya Renne performs at the Boulder Body Slam on Friday, March 2.

Thursday, March 1 Dwight Cosper. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

No Snowflake in an Avalanche — by Michael Weinstein. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

3. Panorama (2/23) 4. Drying times In Colorado, when we think of snow, we often think of skiing. But for the tens of millions of people who live in the river basin that bears our state’s name, in places like Arizona and California, our snowpack means much more.

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Sunday, March 4 Reading in honor of Wislawa Szymborska. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, March 5 West of Here — Jonathan Evison.

7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Sonya Renee — Spoken word artist at the Boulder Body Slam, benefit for Boulder Youth Body Alliance.

7 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510 or www.boulderbodyslam.com.

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

Saturday, March 3

Weekly Open Poetry Reading.

7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

Until They Have Faces: Stories of Recovery, Resilience and Redemption — by David Page and Elle Page.

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Justin Berndt –– And Cordical Fugal Network. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Friday, March 2

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

Read Across America Storytime. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble at Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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Saturday, March 3

Auditions — Merry Wives of Windsor, with Upstart Crow Theatre Company. 7:30 p.m. Upstart Crow Studio, 2131 Arapahoe Ave., Unit A, Boulder 303-442-1415.

BaoBao Festival — 9th annual celebration of West African singing, storytelling, drumming and dance. 3 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.baobaofest.org.

Encaustic Painting — With Alix Christian, six-week class. 6 p.m. Clementine Studio, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-444-1862.

Getting Started with Podcasting. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Wednesday, March 7 music Benyaro. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

First Wednesday Music Club. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder Ballet Storytime for Alice in Wonderland.

11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Sunday, March 4 Boulder Ballet Storytime for Alice in Wonderland.

11 a.m. Barnes & Noble at Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Monday, March 5

Gogol Bordello. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

Tuesday, March 6

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

Thurston Group. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

events Fundamentals of Web Design. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390.

Wednesday, March 7 Registration Deadline for Boulder County Parks and Open Space Junior Ranger Adventure Day on March 10. Contact Ranger Sarah Holton, sholton@ bouldercounty.org or 303-258-0543.

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

Thursday, March 1 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public

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The action beats come straight out of the video game Call of Duty.

Realism thwarted

by Michael Phillips

M

ade with or without U.S. Department of Defense cooperation, fictional films about the American military favor narratives in which (mostly) men buck authority, risk their necks in bouts of jealous infighting and go the lone-wolf route in pursuit of the enemy.

Act of Valor has no time for that lack of teamwork.

Its Navy Sea, Air and Land team warriors, better known as SEALs, collaborate without friction. They stick to the plan or adapt it when needed. Authority is not bucked. Voices are raised only under fire. And the SEALs, played in this film’s rather strange mixture of real-life and hoked-up heroics by active-duty SEALs, spit out authentic mission jargon without stopping dead to explain what “hot extract” means to the civilians.

Here’s how a frankly strange film came to be.

According to Rear Adm. Denny Moynihan of the Navy Office of Information, quoted in The New York Times, the Navy was looking for approximately 500 more SEALs than they had at the ready. Then came “a series of initiatives to try to attract more people,” Moynihan said. “This film was one of those initia-

tives.”

All movies start somewhere; this one is derived from a seven-minute training video on the Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen.

Sports documentary veterans Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh expanded on their short film once the Navy signed off on a fictionalized SEALs adventure. 300 co-writer Kurt Johnstad wrote a script. The real-life SEALs share the screen with such actors as Roselyn Sanchez as a covert CIA agent who, in one scene, endures power-drill torture before being rescued by SEAL commandos.

Act of Valor plays like a highly favorable SEALs tribute placed atop a vaguely bogus storyline. After a bloody Philippines-set prologue, the story follows a SEALs team sent into Costa Rica to extract Sanchez’s Morales, whose captors work for an oily drug lord (played by Alex Veadov). There’s a larger problem, too, involving the smuggler’s Chechen Muslim associate ( Jason Cottle), whose plans for global terrorism include a multi-city attack on the U.S.

Thanks to its nonprofessional actors’ facility with weaponry, Act of Valor contains shots and parts of entire sequences that feel different, and truer, than the average war picture. The filmmakers’ access to a full range of modern weaponry, including a nuclear submarine, lends an aura of credibility — that is, at least until the combat sequences obsess, again and again, on splattery kill shots to the head.

The action beats come straight out of the video game Call of Duty. And when you have real SEALs placed in a picture that lives and dies on the same old firstperson-shooter aesthetic, you have a film divided against itself.

“No one is stronger and more dangerous than a man who can harness his emotions,” we hear at one point in a eulogy. I wish Act of Valor conveyed more of that real danger.

—MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Sucky socialists

The idea of rat-racers running off to a “simpler” life is as old as the movies.

by Roger Moore

P

aul Rudd stands in front of a bathroom vanity and riffs a string of vulgar, not-veryfunny euphemisms for the intercourse he plans to have with Malin Akerman’s character in an outtake that’s part of the closing credits of Wanderlust. It’s a part of the process with any Judd Apatow production — raunchy, riffy runs, comic actors firing away in an effort to top each other and what’s in the script. Apatow’s ethos: “The funniest line wins.”

Only they’re not funny. The take of him doing this scene in the film isn’t amusing either. And Rudd is easily the most experienced member of the Apatow Frat Pack in this cast. If he can’t find the humor in this comedy about uptight New Yorkers who drop out on a Georgia commune, what chance do his castmates have?

Not much. Wanderlust, co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Akerman, Justin Theroux and Alan Alda, is a random, tedious and tone-deaf comedy, a feeble recycling of every hippie commune cliBoulder Weekly

ché you’ve ever heard.

The Gergenblatts — George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) — are displaced New Yorkers who lost their shirts and their “micro-loft” (studio apartment) when George’s financial company was shut down by the feds, his bosses jailed for financial malfeasance.

Linda, a 40-ish sometime documentary filmmaker/children’s book author and coffee-shop operator, may shriek, “How could you let this happen to us?” But she’s been no help, dabbling in a lot of careers and never settling on one or succeeding at any.

They pack their ancient Honda and putter south to stay with George’s obnoxious portable toilet rental tycoon brother Rick (Ken Marino, who cowrote the script) and Rick’s self-medicating wife (Michaela Watkins, amusing). But on the way, George and Linda stumble across Elysium, a commune that operates a bed-and-breakfast.

George is taken by it and drags them back to this community of organicfarming, folk-singing, drug-using, freeloving clichés. They will live in a house with no doors and no privacy under the thumb of the tuned-out guru, Seth, a Jesus-haired caricature played as such

by Theroux.

Seth is full of teensy profundities such as “time is our friend.” He’s sort of a watered-down version of the aged stoner (Alan Alda) who founded the place, an old man who has learned that “money buys nothing.”

George is initially into this lifestyle,

abandoning his stress, tempted by Miss “We Share everything” (Akerman). Then he’s over it. Of course, by that time, Linda has given herself over to this radical new lifestyle of “truth circles,” where every argument is a public event, as is every trip to the toilet.

The idea of rat-racers running off to a “simpler” life is as old as the movies, and the two things co-writers David Wain (Role Models) and Marino bring to it are nudity — the Full Monty, kids — and crudity. Coming out on the heels of a major American lifestyle shift — the Great Recession — this could cash in thanks to the zeitgeist. But Wain (who directed) has nothing funny to say, and Marino can’t find a laugh in front of, or behind, the camera.

—MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

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It’s not about what it is.

It’s about what it could have become.

Based on a headline-grabbing incident in the U.S., sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s provocative debut feature follows the fallout in a sleepy French coastal town when a group of teenage girls all decide to become pregnant at the same time. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

ters to his wife Louise, many containing powerfully drawn sketches of his ideas, which form the foundation of this documentary. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3-D

See full review page 43. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

A family embarks on an adventure to a mysterious island in this sequel to the 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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ALBERT NOBBS

LIFE IS TOO LONG

Glenn Close stars in this tale of a woman forced to live as a man, Albert Nobbs, in order to work and survive in 19th-century Ireland. After 30 years, a new love threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Alfi Selinger is a man in crisis: His kids can’t stand him, his wife is cheating on him and his bank has lost his investments — including his mother’s Holocaust reparations. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin is enjoying the good life. He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller, a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly.At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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BIG MIRACLE A small-town reporter and his environmentalist ex-girlfriend lead an unlikely international coalition to save a family of gray whales trapped in the Arctic circle. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT BULLHEAD Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society COLFAX & 15TH A young hood, Isaac, is trying to reform his life but is caught in a hidden web of corruption as he begins to unravel the shady organization of his employer. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society CHRONICLE After making a surprising discovery, three high school students develop uncanny powers and begin to lose control. Rated PG-13.

At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT CRY BABY This campy comedy set in 1950s Baltimore stars Johnny Depp as Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker, a leather-clad street tough who leads a gang. When Wade falls for a goody-twoshoes (Amy Locane) and steals her from her mossback beau (Stephen Mailer), he sparks a battle between rival factions. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society A DANGEROUS METHOD The driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen).

Both men fall under Sabina’s spell. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater DECLARATION OF WAR Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War follows 44 March 1, 2012

a young couple, Romeo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (director/co-writer Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres THE DESCENDANTS An indifferent father of two girls is forced to re-examine his life when his wife suffers a boating accident and he’s confronted with a big decision. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Esquire. — Los Angeles Times/MCT DR. SUESS’ THE LORAX 3D In this animated film, a 12-year-old boy searching for the key to winning over his dream girl must confront a mysterious grumpy creature who is protective of his homeland. Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift provide voices. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT ETHEL An intimate portrait of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, directed by their youngest daughter who was born six months after his death, is a unique installment in the cultural history of this storied family. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D Still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter, the supernatural antihero Ghost Rider risks everything to team with a rebel monk to save a young boy and himself.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT GONE A woman who escaped a kidnapping a year earlier comes home to find her sister missing and suspects the same serial killer, whom she then races to track down. Rated PG-13.At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

THE HELP Three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project. Rated PG-13. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society HUGO In 1930s Paris, an orphan living in a train station tries to unlock a mystery left behind by his late father. Rated PG. At Colony Square.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT THE IRON LADY This biopic presents a portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the only woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Los Angeles Times/MCT I SHALL REMEMBER Half Russian, half Greek,Vadik is a streetsmart 13-year-old living in occupied southern Russia in 1942. When other men volunteer for the front and his father stays home, Vadik’s disappointment is clear. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society IN ANOTHER LIFETIME In 1945, thousands of Hungarian Jewish prisoners are on a death march. A small group of prisoners become stranded in a secluded village, finding refuge in a barn. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society IN HEAVEN, UNDERGROUND: THE WEISSENSEE JEWISH CEMETERY One hundred thirty years old, the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery still in use in Europe. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society INCESSANT VISIONS – LETTERS FROM AN ARCHITECT Architect Erich Mendelsohn wrote 1,200 let-

Famed Israeli director Etyan Fox brings us the story a young man searching for his mother, who abandoned him as a child. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society MOON CHILD Romain is a “moon child,” afflicted since birth by a genetic deficiency that makes him unable to stand daylight. Since infancy, he has been cared for by David, a dermatologist who is fascinated with his case and with whom he has developed an unusually close relationship. Now David has to leave. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater MY WEEK WITH MARILYN During the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956, a young British assistant introduces actress Marilyn Monroe to some of the charms of British life and helps her escape the pressures of Hollywood. Rated R. At Mayan. — Los Angeles Times/MCT NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare’s play, broadcast from the National Theater in London. At Century.

OPERA: IL VAGGIO A REIMS – LA SCALA Rossini’s last opera in the Italian language was commissioned to celebrate the coronation of French King Charles X and has been acclaimed as one of Rossini’s finest compositions. It requires 14 soloists. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: ANIMATED This year’s Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short. At Chez Artiste and Boedecker Theater. — Landmark Theatres OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: LIVE ACTION This year’s Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: DOCUMENTARY Incident in New Baghdad, Saving Face, The Barber of Birmingham, The Tsunami and The Cherry Blossom. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Boulder Weekly

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SURVIVING PROGRESS Can our globally entwined civilization escape a final, catastrophic progress trap? Potent images and illuminating insights from thinkers who have probed our genes, brains and social behavior. At International Film Series. — IFS

When Roger Ebert said that 3-D is “unsuitable for grown-up films of any seriousness,” he probably didn’t reckon with Wim Wenders, who chose the new technology to film his documentary on the late German choreographer Pina Bausch.The film that Wenders, the mind behind the breathtaking cinematography of the 1987 film Wings of Desire, has made uses 3-D to film Bausch’s work, and the results are gorgeous. Rated PG. At Century.

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Three ordinary high school seniors attempt to make a name for themselves by throwing an unforgettable party, which spirals way out of control. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

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he technique is solid: weight firmly on the downhill ski, eyes ahead, shoulders square. There’s fire in the eyes, determination there. There’s also beauty and grace and something timeless. Skiing is, after all, a sport that’s been around for years, and the carved turn is a basic part of anyone’s repertoire, whether you’re a collegiate racer in 1947 or a World Cup athlete today.

The skier in the photo is D’ann Duft. The year is, indeed, 1947. And the place is Aspen. A Boulder native, Duft was one of four women on a powerhouse University of Denver ski team. The

team also featured Barbara Kidder, Gerry Fleming and Louise Bulkley. Skiing in Colorado was still young then. Young enough for Duft to have a front row seat as Colorado’s white circus started to unfold. And the sport was also young — and small — enough that Duft would end up knowing personally many of the individuals who would shape the face of Colorado’s ski resort industry.

“It was an interesting time,” Duft says of the latter half of the 1940s. “The post-war period saw a boom in skiing. There was Max Derkum at Keystone and Larry Jump at A Basin.” see SKIING Page 47

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by Adrienne Saia Isaac her time. her fellow teamOne of mates on the DU Colorado’s most ski team ended venerable ski areas, up benefiting Winter Park has a from Cramner’s att Cudmore always wanted to own a ski shop. rich history dating work.

The idea struck Cudmore in his time as a ski instructor in back to the 1930s.

It was during Germany. Three years ago, the 32-year-old found himself drinkD’Ann Duft today ing beers with his neighbor in his garage and threw the idea out there The resort’s develthis period that again. opment started in Winter Park “I was studying aviation maintenance and working with composite 1937, with the construction of a ski became the de facto home materials,” Cudmore says. “I thought, ‘How cool would it be to build a jump and a few trails. By 1938, the of the University of Denver pair of skis out of these?’” first ski trains started taking skiers ski team, the place where Cudmore started building custom skis in 2009 while working a fulltime job and raising three children. He calls the first pair of skis he from the Denver area to Winter Duft and other racers made the coolest he’s ever ridden.

Park. It would take one more year would hone their skills.

It takes roughly 15 hours of work to create one pair of skis. for the first lifts to be installed, “DU started sponsoring Cudmore expects to produce more than 300 pairs of skis this year. rudimentary surface tows that are a a ski team,” says Duft.

His company, Meier Skis, has started to gain a following, including far cry from the detachable quad “This was before there was a group of high school kids who wanted to learn to build their own boards. chairlifts the resort boasts today.

Title IX, but they still let “I feel like I have the whole community behind me,” he says.

“We took the train up to the girls try out for the That support is important for Cudmore, who put a commitment to Winter Park,” Duft recalls, “and we team. You’d try out and “balance, sustainability and living in the moment” into his company would stay up there for 50 cents a then you were on the team philosophy for Meier Skis. He uses materials sourced from Colorado, night.” for good. They didn’t have including wood that is 50 percent from beetle-kill pine. He also wants to create jobs for the locals who’ve supported him.

Lift tickets for that year cost a any additional tryouts each “The idea is about doing what we’re loving and not getting buck, and the money was plowed year, you just got on the stressed out,” Cudmore says. He wants to show the kids who help him back into improvements, including team and that was it.” that life is more than a time clock and a paycheck. clearing more trails and installing A self-taught skier, Cudmore says he wants the kids to “write their own stories — ask rope tows. By 1945, you could ski Duft ended up in fast yourself what do you want to do and make it happen.”

And he’s making it happen one plank at a time. the upper mountain with rope-tow company. Kidder, in parRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com access, and by 1948, the mountain ticular, was a talented had reached the big time, with a racer who would qualify total of three T-bar lifts and four for the Olympic team, but rope tows. opted out of competing The majority of Winter Park’s due to pregnancy. Despite not Colorado’s 14ers by the time she Cup Team Race in Sun Valley development came under the guidbecoming an Olympian, Kidder’s was 11 years old. By 14, Kidder and raced to a Southern Rocky ance of George Cramner. Cramner, legacy is one of an athlete at the had qualified for the National Mountain Ski Association chamthe manager of Denver’s Parks and top of her game. Born to hall of Championships, held in Aspen pionship. Other top finishes folImprovements in 1935, had a fame skier Art Kidder Sr., in 1941. And in 1942, she represee SKIING Page 48 vision of a mountain city park that Kidder had summitted many of sented Colorado in the Jeffers

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lowed, including a first place in the downhill and slalom at the Intercollegiate Ski Championships at Winter Park in 1945. In 1946, Kidder would turn it up a notch, with a victory in the Snow Cup at Alta. Then came a second place in the Kate Smith Trophy Race, a victory in the Southern Rocky Mountain Ski Association Championships in Aspen, and a second in the National Championships.

Her career has not gone unrecognized: Kidder was elected to the National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming in the spring of 1977.

With Kidder leading the charge, Duft and the rest of the University of Denver ski team traveled across the Rocky Mountain region competing in the top events of the era, including the national championships in Alta and Aspen’s celebrated Roch Cup. Named after André Roch, a Swiss skier, engineer and avalanche expert who helped develop the first ski run on Aspen mountain, the first Roch Cup was held in 1946, before any lifts existed and the athletes had to hike to the start of the course. The pioneering event saw a total of 23 athletes, 20 men and three women, race. A year later, when Aspen officially opened as a resort, the Roch Cup became the highlight of the season. Barbara

Kidder would take the win for the women, with Dick Durrance and Steve Knowlton winning the men’s events.

“The dream came true for Aspen,” says Duft. “The ski races were a lot of fun. But there were a lot of injuries, too, because of the equipment. If your team got through a race without any injuries, that was good.

“We’d go up to Aspen for the weekend, and if you qualified then you’d race on Sunday. Afterwards they’d have a big dinner and about 8 p.m. you’d head back down to Denver. There was no tunnel and the drive would take six hours. You’d get home about 2 or 3 a.m., and then you’d go to class in the morning.”

Events like the Roch Cup were a far cry from the sophisticated course preparation that the ski racers enjoy today.

“You did a lot of your own packing,” says Duft. “Alta, that was an eye opener. … Those long wooden skis didn’t turn well in powder, and the snow was really deep. It was quite an experience racing there.”

Duft, now 86, has retired from skiing.

“The last time I skied was when I was 70,” she admits. But to her credit, she wrapped up her career at Crested Butte, a mountain notorious for its challenging slopes.

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“If you just walk by a shop like this — I would think the same thing — you may look inside and go, ‘Oh, that looks really interesting, but it looks kind of boutique-y,’” says Hayward, who owns the shop.

But appearances can be deceiving. Hayward says Savory offers lower prices for spices than what you’d find in the grocery aisle.

“If you went jar for jar, we’re about a dollar or two less expensive for the normal line of spices,” he says. “Most people, when they see our prices, are like, ajwain seeds, Tahitian vanilla beans — ‘Wow, unbelievable.’” where you gonna find that stuff?”

The store is one of just two specialty And what are you supposed to do spice shops in Boulder, along with with it? Don’t look at me. I had to look Penzeys on Pearl Street. up how to spell “ajwain.” Big thanks to Hayward says his store tries to take Wikipedia, but buying the spice and advantage of its specialty by offering then Googling a recipe probably isn’t the instruction and variety to its customers. best bet for getting the most out of your Savory carries “80 to 90 percent” of the seasonings. Hayward says the staff at same spices shoppers could find at a gro- Savory is there for you. cery store, Hayward estimates, but even “We’re here to help educate people,” with more common spices Savory tries he says. “People are like, ‘I’ve never heard to offer a wider selection than grocers. of that before, what is that? What do He points to curry powder: A groyou do with that?’ We really like to help cery store might carry one yellow curry educate people.”

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For those who are like, “Why part 2?” I don’t know what to tell you. Call Doc Brown or Huey Lewis, whoever can get you back in time faster.

While they go where they don’t need roads, let’s talk photos. This is a pizza recipe, so you would think the photo should be a finished pie. But I did that last week. As food columns go, you expect an accompanying photo to either be of the finished dish, or some artsy and meaningless shallow-depth-of-field shot of random ingredients. I’ve done both before.

But this week, I thought the most helpful photo should be of my starter, so you’ll know what yours should look like. Come to think of it, people who didn’t read last week’s installment will undoubtedly see the word “pizza” in this week’s headline, see the photo of a non-descript, bubbly mass, and think, “This guy’s pizza is garbage,” and move on.

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“They know one way to use something, or they know three ways to use something, well, we’ll add a couple more,” he says. “We want to take it to the next level and make sure you can really understand what you’re getting into.”

That education has to be inviting, too, Hayward says. He knows Savory isn’t an easy place to walk into.

“Is this intimidating? Yeah, it is intimidating for a lot of people,” he says.

The store carries more than 400 spices from nearly 80 countries, Hayward says, and the rows of bottles can be daunting.

“In general, most people have never seen anything like this, and it’s intimidating.”

Hayward says Savory sees a variety of customers in Boulder’s dining scene, including some of Boulder’s most prominent restaurants, like SALT, Black Cat, Frasca and The Kitchen. But food isn’t the only place Savory’s spices pop up. We’re in Colorado, after all.

“Upslope [Brewing Company] … won a gold medal for their pumpkin ale at the Great American Beer Festival,” Hayward says. “Those were our spices.

The sweet, kind of ‘winter’ spices — clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, mace, allspice, that kind of thing.”

Savory’s other recent success in beer collaborations is Left Hand’s Fade to Black, which this year was a pepper porter brewed with three types of chilies.

When a guy whose entire job is making and trying beer says something’s fun, that should carry some weight. Left Hand’s head brewer, Ro Guenzel, says as

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either good food nor subtlety was a strong suit at the busy suburban mall food courts of my youth.

In those pre-Sbarro years, kitsch was king. Over-the-top Union Jack displays heralded the fish and chips stand, and garish, if not stereotypical, lanterns and kimonos indicated where greasy tempura was dished out.

Last and perhaps least, there were those poor folks peddling lemonade wearing puffy chapeaus that made Smurf hats look like Vivienne Westwood creations by comparison.

Nowadays, Boulderites would be mortified by such displays. We pride ourselves on our refinement and erudite dining sense, and we expect understatement when it comes to our food courts.

Such is the case with the prepared food section at the expanded Whole Foods Market. While the wide open space rivals the size of most old-school shopping mall venues, subdued colors and signage make it obvious this isn’t our

parents’ food court. One thing that time has not changed, however, is the crowds.

Navigating through the lunchtime crowd with friend Kon, our experience fell somewhere between the first level of Frogger and the running of the bulls at Pamplona. We bounced off the salad bar, rebounded off the sushi case and bypassed the taqueria before settling in for main courses at the BBQ stand and Asian noodle kiosk.

Kon picked up a $10.78 barbecue combo plate, consisting of ribs, chicken, slaw and macaroni and cheese. A subtle measure of smoke flavor and tenderness were the highlights of the ribs. The chicken was simply tender white meat doused in basic barbecue sauce, not necessarily a choice that broke new culinary ground. Purple and green slaw was satisfyingly crisp, with both fresh taste and lighter saucing than retro mayonnaise-based versions. While the texture of the mac and cheese was comfortingly soft, it lacked the appealing

dairy tang common to most gourmet interpretations of this pasta found around town.

We also sampled a $1.68 bite-sized assortment of fennel salad, horseradish polenta and Chinese pork. The fennel had a snappy freshness and delicate anise tones. “Creamy” best describes the polenta, but the bite of the horseradish was scarcely detectable. The Asian pig pleasantly surprised with its char siulike flavors, although the taste was not as assertive as its butcher shop inspiration. To its credit, this pork lacked the shockingly red food coloring found in most versions.

Another Asian-inspired item was the $6.99 pho ga, a take on Vietnamese chicken and rice noodle soup. Cooked to order, this dish took a while to prepare, as the lunchtime crush created a bottleneck at the noodle bar. I did appreciate the ability to choose what veggies went into my soup, and I selected the triumvirate of bok choy, snap peas and scallions. Once it was finished cooking, the noodles were correctly al dente, and the overall impression was that this was a satisfying soup.

However, a Vietnamese restaurant ver-

har siu is a Cantonese specialty featuring slowcooked pork traditionally seasoned with honey, bean curd, five-spice powder and a mix of hoisin and dark soy sauces. This is considered a siu mei, or roasted meat dish, commonly featured in Chinatown shops selling other preparations like steamed chicken and roast duck. Like other siu mei, char siu often accompanies plain white rice, perhaps with a side of simply prepared vegetable like gai lan, or Chinese broccoli.

Char siu is the key ingredient in char siu bao, a dim sum staple consisting of a baked or steamed bun stuffed with pork and sauce.

sion would have a more deeply-flavored broth with complex herbal notes.

While Kon and I exercised restraint in our choices, we noticed it’s all too easy to run up an expensive tab among some of the options here, particularly with selections sold by weight (salad bar, anyone?). Some dishes, like the pho ga, are competitively priced. But finding these more affordable selections requires some prudence and investigation on the part of the value-conscious diner.

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Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar in Boulder, Fort Collins and Denver will celebrate everything oyster during the 14th Annual Oyster Month at Odell Brewing Company.

On March 1, Jax will release its specialty Oyster Month beer, Emersum Oyster Stout, brewed

by Odell Brewing Company with assistance from the employees of Jax and the addition of Emersum Oysters. Jax Denver will kick off the first of three Oyster Eating Contests on March 11, with Boulder’s following on March 18, and the Fort Collins contest on March 25.

After proving your guttural strength to the world by sucking down as many oysters as possible, head to one of three oyster dinners starting on March 20, where Ryan and Travis Croxton of Rappahannock River Oysters and Emersum Oysters will cook four-course fresh oyster feasts with the help of Jax chefs, led by Executive Chef Sheila Lucero. In addition to the special events, each of the restaurants will offer $1 Emersum Oysters, weekly oyster specials and drink specials all month long.

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much of his trip to the spice shop to pick out the right peppers.

“It was kind of fun,” Guenzel says.

“Dan and I started pulling peppers off the shelves.”

Hayward says he steered Left Hand to the right chili powders to give the beer a kick.

“We kind of went through the whole chili wall,” he says. “We just started smelling a few things, he took some samples with him and they came up with anchos, smoked serranos and brown chipotles to make their pepper porter. And it’s been a huge hit.”

Usually, Hayward says, he works with breweries on a much smaller scale.

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quantity early in their process, when they’re making samples, test brews and taproom-only beers.

Guenzel says he and other Left Hand brewers go to Savory “as often as we can, whenever I have something that calls for flavorings or spices.” Unfortunately, he says, that’s only about once a year, although Left Hand has been working with Savory for six years, starting with the spice shop’s Denver location.

And once the spices are picked, Left Hand typically works with the store and its suppliers to get the volume the brewers need. Guenzel says the pepper porter required “close to 700 pounds” of the chili powders.

Penzeys did not respond to requests for an interview by press time.

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dough, sauce, and how to cook the thing properly.

But before we make the dough, you have to test your starter. Fill a bowl full of water, and scoop a teaspoon of starter in there. If it floats, it’s ready. If not, then you need to give your starter more time.

Also, you’ll need a scale for this. Go buy one.

THE DOUGH: (Makes about four 12-inch pizzas) 100g starter 400g warm water 300g wheat flour 200g white flour 1 tbsp. olive oil 10g salt Mix all ingredients except the salt in a bowl with your hands until the dough comes together. Cover with a dish towel and let sit for 30 minutes.

Add salt and squeeze the dough through your fingers until it is incorporated. Then wet your hands and reach under the dough, still in the bowl, and pull the bottom of the dough up and stretch it over the top. Do this on all four sides of the dough (we’ll call this one turn), and then let it sit, covered, for about 30 minutes.

Turn the dough once every 30 minutes for the next two hours, then once an hour twice.

Put a generous amount of flour on a cutting board or your counter, then divide dough into four equally sized balls. Let them rest for 30 minutes on the floured surface. Sprinkle flour over the tops of them, and cover with a towel or plastic wrap.

When you are ready to assemble your pies, shape each ball, which will be pretty flat at this point, into a disk. I can explain the method I use to do this, but it’s easier if you watch it done on YouTube.

THE SAUCE: This is super-easy. I’m not even going to list the recipe out. Either skin and peel about 15 Roma tomatoes, which takes a lot of time but tastes great, or buy some canned San Marzanos at Whole Foods. Put tomatoes in a bowl, add salt to taste, a bit of olive oil and dried oregano, and blend until smooth. Done. Your sauce is going to cook on the pizza, so why cook it beforehand?

THE COOKING METHOD: You’ll need a pizza stone. It’s the only way to do this right. Put your oven rack as close to the top of the oven as you can get it, and put the pizza stone on the rack. You need to have about three inches of clearance between the stone and the oven ceiling. Turn the broiler on high, and let that heat the stone for no less than two hours. There’s no shortcut here.

Once your stone is face-meltingly hot, your pies will cook in about 7-9 minutes, have nice blistering on the crust and cheese, but stay chewy. Remember not to overload your pizza with ingredients — three at the most is a good rule of thumb.

Or do whatever the hell you want with them, I suppose.

Enjoy.

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he expanded food court at the Pearl Street Whole Foods quite literally has everything from soup to nuts. Available items range from a crisp, anise-scented fennel salad to a surprisingly flavorful interpretation of Chinese barbecued pork. Made-to-order fare includes taqueria-style Mexican street food and Asian noodles, highlighted by the Vietnamese-influenced pho ga, a chicken and rice noodle soup.

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Richly marbled, sweet and tender, the Wagyu filet’s a good way to go, especially after one of their smooth martinis. The adventurous can start their meal with chicken-fried sweetbreads, but more sedate choices like duck confit also tempt.

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he Big Red F Restaurant Group’s foray into the world of artisan cocktails, The Bitter Bar, has taken over the former Happy Noodle venue. Drinks here range from original award-winning concoctions such as the Gone Fishin’, featuring naval-strength rum and ginger liqueur, to old chestnuts like Irish Coffee. But the focus on libations doesn’t detract from the food, which includes such winning options as a fresh-tasting lobster risotto and the unique gingerbread cake garnished with bacon caramel popcorn.

hef Radek Czerny’s L’Atelier, deeply influenced by classic French cuisine, builds upon a traditional foundation. At dinner, starters range from Thai-spiced mussels to traditional escargot and shrimp Louis. Classicism marks the entrée menu, which includes filet mignon and rack of lamb.

The lunch menu features lighter options like a tuna nicoise salad and a salmon, lettuce and tomato panini, and both meals feature the can’t-miss lobster ravioli.

ocated at Folsom and Arapahoe in Boulder, Tossa Pizza functions as a typical fast-casual, order-at-thecounter joint during lunch. Come late afternoon, it switches to table service throughout dinner and until closing. This affordable Italian-accented eatery dishes out pizza, salads, pasta and panini of a quality that’s pleasantly surprising for the price. Highlights include the macaroni and five cheeses and the arugula and mushroom pizza.

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At one point in his book The Divine Comedy, the Italian poet Dante is traveling through purgatory on his way to paradise.

American poet T.S. Eliot describes the scene: “The people there were inside the flames expurgating their errors and sins. And there was one incident when Dante was talking to an unknown woman in her flame. As she answered Dante’s questions, she had to step out of her flame to talk to him, until at last she was compelled to say to Dante, ‘Would you please hurry up with your questions so I can get on with my burning?’“ I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I love the way you’ve been expurgating your own errors and sins lately. Don’t let anything interfere with your brilliant work. Keep burning until you’re done. (Source: “A New Type of Intellectual: Contemplative Withdrawal and Four Quartets,� by Kenneth P. Kramer.)

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Instead, concentrate on skillfully doing the pleasurable activities that you do best. Be resolutely faithful to your higher mission and feed your lust for life. Slowly but surely, I think you’ll find that the frustrating impediment will be drained of at least some of its power to lock up your energy.

SCORPIO

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If you’ve been holding yourself back in any way, Taurus, now’s the time to unlock and unleash yourself. If you have been compromising your high standards or selling yourself short, I hope you will give yourself permission to grow bigger and stronger and brighter. If you’ve been hiding your beauty or hedging your bets or rationing your access to the mother lode, you have officially arrived at the perfect moment to stop that nonsense.

A few years ago, the Hong Kong company Life Enhance sold briefs and boxer shorts that were supposedly designed by a master practitioner of feng shui. On the front of every garment was an image of a dragon, which the Chinese have traditionally regarded as a lucky symbol. To have this powerful charm in contact with your intimate places increased your vital force — or so the sales rap said. By my estimates, Scorpio, you’re not going to need a boost like that in the coming weeks. Without any outside aids whatsoever, your lower furnace will be generating intense beams of magical heat. What are you going to do with all that potent mojo?

Please don’t use it on trivial matters.

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In the cult blaxploitation film The Human Tornado, the main character Dolemite brags about his prowess. “I chained down thunder and handcuffed lightning!� he raves. “I used an earthquake to mix my milkshake! I eat an avalanche when I want ice cream! I punched a hurricane and made it a breeze! I swallowed an iceberg and didn’t freeze!�

This is the way I want to hear you talk in the coming week, Gemini. Given the current astrological configurations, you have every right to. Furthermore, I think it’ll be healthy for you.

There are times in your life when you do a lot of exploring in the outer world, and other times when your pioneering probes are directed primarily inward. In my astrological opinion, you’re currently more suited for the latter kind of research. If you agree with me, here’s one tack you might want to take: Take an inventory of all your inner voices, noticing both the content of what they say and the tone with which they say it. Some of them may be chatty and others shy; some blaring and others seductive; some nagging and needy and others calm and insightful.

Welcome all the voices in your head into the spotlight of your alert attention. Ask them to step forward and reveal their agendas.

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Astrologer Antero Alli theorizes that the placement of the sign Cancer in a person’s chart may indicate what he or she tends to whine about. In his own chart, he says, Cancer rules his ninth house, so he whines about obsolete beliefs and bad education and stale dogmas that cause people to shun firsthand experience as a source of authority. I hereby declare these issues to be supremely honorable reasons for you to whine in the coming week. You also have cosmic permission to complain vociferously about the following: injustices perpetrated by small-minded people; shortsighted thinking that ignores the big picture; and greedy self-interest that disdains the future. On the other hand, you don’t have clearance to whine about crying babies, rude clerks or traffic jams.

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AQUARIUS

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We turn to Dr. Seuss for help in formulating your horoscope this week. He told a story of dining in a restaurant with his uncle, who was served a popover, which is a puffy muffin that’s hollow on the inside. “To eat these things,� said his uncle, “you must exercise great care. You may swallow down what’s solid, but you must spit out the air!� Drawing a lesson from these wise words, Dr. Seuss concluded, “As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.� I expect your coming week will be successful, Aquarius, if you apply these principles.

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You should be like a rooster, Pisces: dispensing wake-up calls on a regular basis. You should be nudging people to shed their torpor and shake themselves out of their stupor.

What’s your personal version of “Cockadoodle-doo!�? It shouldn’t be something generic like “Open your eyes!� or “Stop making excuses!� Come up with attention-grabbing exclamations or signature phrases that no intelligent person can possibly ignore or feel defensive about. For example: “Let’s leap into the vortex and scramble our trances!�

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