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by Pamela White CLIMATE CHANGE & THE INGRATITUDE OF THE EIGHTH GENERATION / 8 Society will have adjusted to global warming by the time we fix it

by Paul Danish RTD RUNS THE OLD BAIT AND SWITCH / 17 Not only is our rail line not coming anytime soon, it will cost twice as much

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buzz ON THE COVER: TAPPING INTO HISTORY / 24 The rich culture and community of Colorado’s ‘Harlem of the West’

by Lori M. Hunter Arts & Culture: Josh Gross’ short stories reveal a writer finding his voice / 29 Overtones: The Drive-By Truckers album that almost wasn’t / 31 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 35 Screen: The Lorax; Project X / 43 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 44 Elevation: Buddhist boxing / 46 Cuisine: One baker’s road to cakes / 50 Cooking with Cynicism: Raw kale: There’s just something about it / 50 Cuisine Review: Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. / 51 Tidbites: Justin’s releases candy bar line; Wine Merchant hosts class / 52

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Save poop — and water

(Re: “Drying Times,” cover story, Feb. 23.) In millions of households across Colorado, people are defecating into water and flushing it all “away.”

What a waste!

Flush toilets are the rule, in spite of the gross misuse of water they cause.

Having used both flush toilets and toilet systems that allowed me to hot-compost my “humanure,” I can unequivocally say that with a simple change we can make a big difference in Colorado with regard to water usage, among other issues.

Joseph Jenkins’ book “The Humanure Handbook” lays out many of the environmental challenges we face these days, including water shortages and one simple solution: Stop pooping into water — start hot-composting poop! Obviously, this raises great concern and fear among people who don’t know any better (but think they do — although they don’t question the madness of flush toilets). The author explains in great proven detail the simplicity and increased safety of hot-composting humanure over conventional sewage treatment methods. With thermophilic bacteria present in hot compost, we can safely kill all human pathogens in our

manure in a short amount of time. He has had his compost tested numerous times and it always is pathogenfree. What’s more, we can create amazing fertilizer — turning “waste” into a valuable resource. I have done it in several countries, to feed trees, shrubs and flowers, and the author even raised his children safely to adulthood on organic, garden-grown food fertilized by humanure compost. As it is, we already are putting all of that “waste” out into the environment and contaminating groundwater with it, even with septic systems.

Think of how much water we could save for better uses! Think of how much fertility we could create!

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Both articles point out important statewide water issues, however, it seems you have completely forgotten to mention a local, and very important, issue for Boulder and Boulder County residents.

Denver Water has proposed a massive size increase for Gross Dam Reservoir in south central Boulder County. Gross Reservoir sits directly to the west of our beloved and iconic flatirons, at the top of Flagstaff Road, and above Eldorado Canyon. This project is based on the future needs and growth of the greater Denver metro area, and directly depletes the headwaters of the Colorado River, through the Moffat drainage system. This project also calls

for massive disruptions to the residents and wildlife of the surrounding areas.

Major issues include thousands of healthy trees being removed, air, noise and water pollution, as well as dynamite blasting and the construction of a 24-hour cement factory on site.

This construction will take several years to complete. Increased traffic congestion of the two-lane Hwy. 93 and the tight curves of Hwy. 72 will be jammed with multiple gravel trucks who have come from near Longmont and through Boulder. South Boulder Creek will be a mere trickle for several years if not totally dry. Denver Water has never see LETTERS Page 13

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explosion deep inside the corporation’s Upper Big Branch mine two years ago.

So far, no — but even the odious former CEO of Massey, Don Blankenship, must now be having some sleepless nights, for the Justice Department has steadily been climbing up the corporate ladder.

Prosecutors have gone from indicting a couple of lower-level Massey managers to now nailing Gary May, who was superintendent of Upper Big Branch when it blew.

The charges against May show a corporate-wide, careless culture of “profit over safety” and a deliberate policy of deceiving mine safety inspectors. May allegedly directed workers to falsify official safety record books, and he used codes to warn workers that inspectors had arrived, calling out, “Bringing in a load of blocks” and “There’s a hailstorm outside.”

Stepping steadily upward on Massey’s corporate ladder

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very day on the job, hundreds of miners descend deep into the earth. And every time they go down, each of them wonders: “Will I make it back to the top today?”

These days, though, miners and their families are wondering if federal prosecutors will make it to the top — wondering whether justice will catch up to top honchos of Massey Energy who’re responsible for killing 29 mine workers in a horrific methane

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So warned, workers were expected to act quickly For more information to hide such violations of on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subsafety laws as rigging the scribe to his awardventilation system to winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower make the air in the mine Lowdown — visit www. seem better than it really jimhightower.com. was. May is also charged with such deadly practices as ordering the rewiring of a methane monitor to keep miners working, even as levels of explosive methane rose dangerously.

But Superintendent May is not likely to be the Justice Department’s final rung on its climb up Massey’s corporate ladder, for he appears to be cooperating with prosecutors. I think we’ll find that the conspiracy to subvert safety laws ran all the way to the top.

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female military veterans issued a statement calling for Limbaugh’s show to be pulled from the airwaves of the American Forces Network for its sexist, objectionable content that is contrary to the mission of the U.S. military.

Women have had enough. It’s not just this single incident involving a foulmouthed gasbag that has suburban moms ready to kick ass and take names.

Limbaugh’s sexist stupidity was just the last straw. In the past month, women have watched in disgust as lawmakers, political candidates, pundits and others have launched what feels very much like a war against our sex with “personhood” bills that would limit our health care and contraceptive options; with stupid jokes about keeping our legs together; with transvaginal ultrasound bills that even Republican women said are tantamount to state-sponsored sexual assault; with the offensive suggestion that a woman who spreads her legs for sex shouldn’t mind spreading her legs for a transvaginal probe; and with comments from a presidential candidate that contraception should be an issue for states to decide.

But women are fighting back.

Women lawmakers have introduced a variety of invasive health-related bills targeting men, including a bill that would require a rectal exam and other testing before a man can receive drugs for erectile dysfunction and another that would ban men from ejaculating anywhere but inside a woman’s vagina. The Wilmington City Council in Delaware declared that sperm are people, too, passing a resolution that calls on their state legislature to pass a “personhood” bill for sperm that forbids men to destroy their semen.

Though the bills won’t make it onto the floor of any state legislature, they give men just the barest taste of how ridiculous and enraging we women find proposed bills that meddle with our bodies and our health care.

“What GOP war on women?” asked one male commentator.

The war in which conservative lawmakers and pundits try to drag women kicking and screaming back into our grandmother’s century for the sake of some kind of misogynist religious ideology.

I hate to break it to them, but they’re going to lose this war. The birth control moms will win.

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n Feb. 20, Rush Limbaugh said there was no such voting block as “birth control moms,” suburban married mothers for whom contraception is a key issue.

I wonder what he thinks now that 43 advertisers and Hawaiian and Massachussets radio stations have dropped his show.

Nine days after denying the existence of “birth control moms,” Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she testified before Democratic Congressional leaders as to why she felt it was vital for contraception to be included in all insurance plans, even those provided by religious institutions. Limbaugh dug the hole deeper when he suggested that young women like Fluke, who are having so much sex they can’t afford enough birth control — sorry, Rush, but the pill isn’t like your Viagra, you don’t take it every time you have sex — provide online sex tapes so that he could get something out of subsidizing their sex lives.

The response was immediate — deep, searing outrage. It wasn’t just feminists who were angry or Democratic women or moderate to left women. It was most women. Wives and college students. Stay-at-home moms and working women. Fashionistas and military officers. It was birth control moms.

Letter-writing campaigns began immediately, with Facebook groups and friends posting and sharing the contact information for the sponsors of Limbaugh’s show. Women I know who seemed not to have a political bone in their bodies surprised me by sending me copies of emails they wanted me to proofread. My own post on Facebook netted more comments than anything I’ve ever posted, with women of all political stripes expressing their disgust.

A personal friend and fellow novelist, Capt. Jessica Scott, an Army officer who has served in Iraq, garnered international attention and landed in the Twitter top 100 with her tweets under #iamnotaslut.

“I am a mother of 2, an Army officer who has deployed. I use #birthcontrol to be a good soldier and responsible parent. #iamnotaslut,” read her first tweet.

She followed this with, “I used #birthcontrol while deployed with my husband so I *wouldn’t* get pregnant & sent home. #iamnotaslut.”

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by Paul Danish “Why should I do anything for posterity?

What has posterity ever done for me?”

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The correct answer is because half a billion years of evolution on this planet preclude you from doing anything else — unless you happen to be one of natural selection’s culls.

Nor is the question hypothetical or abstract. It is as real, concrete, relevant and topical as a Boulder City Council

resolution.

OK, I admit the analogy is infelicitous, but I was thinking of the resolution the council was expected to pass on March 7 urging the Obama administration to Do Something about climate change.

The resolution, which was introduced

by Mayor Applebaum at the urging of the Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona, declares that climate change “is not an abstract problem for the future or one that will only affect far-distant placsee CLIMATE CHANGE Page 9

quotes “Already there is too much loose talk of war.”

—President Barack Obama, explaining to the pro-Israel group AIPAC that sanctions should be given more time to deter Iran’s nuclear efforts “I don’t expect, and I know you don’t either, morality or intellectual honesty from the left. ... This is the mistake I made: In fighting them on this issue last week, I became like them.”

—Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, explaining why he described Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” in calling for women who use government-funded contraceptives to post videos online of themselves having sex “If there is a fight erupting, our military and people will have the enemy kneeling before us to sign not a truce this time but a document of surrender.”

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es, but rather climate change is happening now, we are causing it, and the longer we wait to act, the more we lose and the more difficult the problem will be to solve.”

It calls on the feds to use the Clean Air Act to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm).

It’s currently at 385 ppm, according to the resolution (and at 391 ppm and rising at 2 ppm a year, according to NOAA). The Supreme Court has ruled the EPA can regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the act.

Granted, meaningless symbolic acts are a way of life in Boulder, and there is no point in beating up the city council for indulging in the municipal pastime.

What’s interesting is what the council is really trying to do here — which is, despite the “happenin’ now” rhetoric, do the right thing for posterity.

There is, of course, no other rational reason for attempting to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels. That’s because if we stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow, it will be two or three centuries before atmospheric CO2 began to drop. Like it or not, the planet is going to keep getting warmer for centuries just on the strength of the CO2 that’s been released up to now. Today’s level of global warming, and then some, is a done deal, yea unto the seventh generation.

So the only reason to reduce our carbon footprint today is the hope that the eighth generation will get something out of it — to do the right thing for posterity, in other words.

Too bad the eighth generation isn’t going to see it that way.

When that glorious day finally arrives when CO2, temperatures and sea level all begin to fall, the eighth generation will be angry beyond belief. They will curse our names and piss on our graves.

The reason why the advent of the global cooling will not be met with huzzas and hosannas is that the eighth generation will have adapted to global warming. Embraced the suck. Learned to live with it. More than learned to live with it. Learned to thrive in it. Learned to thrive because of it.

And they will be horrified by the prospect of having to readapt to a colder world, just as we would be horrified by the the prospect of having to readapt to ice age conditions.

None of this, of course, will deter the city council from trying to fight climate change instead of preparing the city to adapt to it.

However, if the council is bound and determined to pass resolutions nagging the government to cut CO2 emissions, it ought to have the integrity to state within those resolutions, with candor and precision, exactly what steps they will and Boulder Weekly

will not support for reducing atmospheric CO2 levels to 350 ppm.

For example,would the council favor replacing all of the nation’s coal-fired power plants with nuclear ones — which would eliminate the burning of 1 billion tons of coal a year?

No nukes? OK, would it favor converting all of the nation’s coal-fired power plants to natural gas, which would cut their CO2 emissions in half? If yes, would it favor a crash program to develop U.S. shale gas reserves through the

use of horizontal drilling and fracking?

Would it favor installing 150 450-foot-high wind turbines on City of Boulder open space, which would produce enough green electricity to meet all of the city’s electric needs?

Alternatively, would it favor using 6,400 acres (10 square miles) of City of Boulder open space for a solar power plant capable of meeting the city’s electric demand?

And so on.

All of the above require the sort of

hard choices and real trade-offs that are mandatory if CO2 levels are to be stopped from rising any further, never mind cut to 350 ppm, and there is little reason to believe that the Boulder City Council — and more important, the people who elected it — have the stomach to make them.

Which is good news for the eighth generation.

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Rush, of course, was being paid, and quite well, while he was making these statements. We point this out because by Limbaugh’s own logic, albeit twisted logic, this means that he was profiting from those same prostitutes, which makes him a pimp.

Fortunately, as only a pimp and not a hooker himself, we don’t have to take the extra step of suggesting that Rush “Huggy Bear” Limbaugh post his sexual exploits online for all of us to see.

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We side with the gun-rights gang on many issues. The First and Second amendments to the Constitution kind of go hand-in-hand — we should have the right to see and comment on what our elected government is doing, and if things get really desperate, we should have the right to overthrow the government by bearing arms.

A pretty good system of checks and balances.

But this campus gun ban is tricky. On the one hand, it would be nice to have an armed student nearby the next time some whacko goes on a shooting spree. Might save some lives. On the other hand, there are some narrowly defined places where most would agree that guns are not appropriate, and it wouldn’t infringe on the safeguards established by our forefathers to ban firearms — as long as no one was able to smuggle them into such places, like child care centers and schools.

To provide some context to the sensational headlines about this decision, we’re talking about a very small percentage of people here.

First, those who can carry concealed weapons on the Boulder campus must be at least 21 years old, and CU officials estimate that is about 7 percent of the resident student body. They also say that less than 0.6 percent of all CU faculty, staff and students have a concealed-carry permit.

The kind of loonies we are worried about being trigger-happy for the wrong reasons are probably not going to sit through training classes and undergo background checks for a concealed-carry permit, so let’s all just take a deep breath.

Then again, this is the same university that, after a uproar over an admittedly roughly executed satirical column about race, cut funding for the campus newspaper to the point that the print product was eliminated and it became an onlineonly publication. If you aren’t going trust these students with free speech, how are you going to trust them with guns?

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imposed any real type of conservation plan on its customers, and the motivation behind this project seems to be based on an ever-growing thirst for our most precious resource, as well as a never-ending desire for people to live in our state. The Dannon corporation sells bottled Denver Water at Wal-Mart for a very low price, while both corporations profit from Colorado’s diminishing water supply. Developers continue to profit as they fill in the last open spaces with subdivisions that continue to drain our rivers dry, for new houses that require green lawns, dishwashers, showers and more, and more water usage.

The residents of Coal Creek Canyon and surrounding areas met with the Boulder County commissioners a few months ago to discuss our concerns. The elected commissioners hold a special local power of law in their hands regarding water laws in the state of Colorado. They hold the power to stop Denver Water completely and indefinitely, but have yet to make a decision regarding so. Why? The film No Water To Waste available at nowatertowaste. com, profiles this subject in depth, as well as the obvious connection to the Candelas development adjacent to the Rocky Flats Refuge property, as well as the Jefferson Parkway completion.

Inform yourself and tell our elected officials to stop Denver Water now, or enjoy your wildlife running away in fear, and your Flatirons with a backdrop of blasting and smog.

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(Re: “Why fracking is here to stay,” Danish Plan, Feb. 9.) My fiancé and I were looking at Weld County and eastern Boulder County as potential places to purchase a home, since we aren’t part of the Boulder anointed and therefore cannot shell out half a million dollars for an overpriced home in the city of Boulder (we are longtime residents/ renters in the city). However, after reading various op-eds by Paul Danish in the BW, we’ve decided we wouldn’t touch Weld County, Erie, large swaths of the eastern portions of Longmont/ Lafayette/Louisville, Broomfield County, Adams County and possibly Larimer County with a 10-foot pole.

While Danish harps about all the money fracking is bringing (to whom exactly, oil companies? the government of Weld County?), the residents of Weld County have lost the value of their homes. Why anyone would want to have steam, water and unknown chemicals fracturing the rock below or nearby their houses (and schools, Erie) in a lateral mining process is beyond me. Not Boulder Weekly

to mention the noise and pollution at the surface from nearby operations, or the ruining of one’s well water or the potential for small earthquakes, which might create cracks in the foundation of one’s home. In the gold rush-type zeal for profits connected to fracking, it feels like Danish and his ilk cannot see the forest for the trees. What’s the purpose of being the wealthiest county in the state or country at the expense of your own residents not being able to sell their homes in two, 10, 20 or 30 years? Talk about local government and big business raping the little guy on this one — and I don’t mean individual land owners in Weld County who’ve sold out to oil/gas and are making money, I’m talking about residents of adjacent communities who’ve never had a voice or a choice in the matter.

Additionally, not that I can afford to anyhow, but would you buy “organic” produce or eat meat from any type of agricultural operation in Weld County?

I wouldn’t, not with all the unknown chemicals involved in the fracking process and its potential to contaminate groundwater. I hope the Boulder Farmers’ Market, the farm-to-table restaurants and the purveyors of Whole Paycheck do their due diligence around this issue.

Finally, in our arid state where water issues abound, I cannot fathom that we’re allowing fracking rights to trump water rights (referring to the enormous amount of water needed for the fracking process). On the flip side, I suppose in the future the lack of clean water will solve the problem of me not wanting to eat anything coming from any agricultural operation in Weld County. Even Colorado’s agricultural Eden on the Western Slope, Paonia, faces a dim future should fracking be allowed to take root there, only they’re wise enough to know it. Can’t say the same for Weld County.

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n 2004, area voters approved a 0.4 percent sales tax as part of the FasTracks ballot initiative. The money collected from the tax was to be entrusted to the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in exchange for its promise to build, among other things, a Northwest Rail that would ultimately provide Boulder, Longmont and Lafayette with a link into Denver’s light rail system. It was to be a great thing for all of us, including area businesses and the environment.

But somewhere along the way, it appears that RTD either spent our money on somebody else’s project or the brain-trust at the transportation district was simply too incompetent at estimating construction costs to deliver on the promises it made in exchange for our money in the first place. Or, there is a third option: Boulder County taxpayers just made a good mark.

Thank goodness these carnies of transportation aren’t the decision-makers on all public projects supported by a special tax. Just imagine that world.

What if RTD had been in charge when six metro counties voted to tax themselves in order to build Coors Field? At the time, the stadium project was controversial to be sure, but we gave our money to the Stadium District and

construction started right away. Today we have one of the premier ballparks in the nation, and it’s all paid for.

It worked out so well that we continued to pay the tax so we could build that nice man who owns the Broncos his own sports palace in the same fashion. Once again, we entrusted our hard-earned money to the Stadium District, and now we are the proud owners of Mile High at Invesco Sports Authority at Mile High, or some combination thereof, stadium. It’s pretty nice, whatever they’re calling it this year. And like them or not, at least these stadiums now exist.

If RTD had been in charge of spending the stadium tax and getting these sports arena projects up and running, all we would have today is a giant billboard on Blake Street with an artist’s rendering of what Coors Field will look like in 2042 … maybe. As for Mile High, it wouldn’t matter anymore because Pat Bowlen would have moved the Broncos to another city years ago after going nuts trying to figure out what RTD was doing with the stadium money that it wasn’t spending to build the stadiums it had promised to taxpayers.

What is happening with the see RTD Page 18

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hile there is now a local uproar about hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” an early iteration of the oil and gas extraction method actually has its roots in Boulder.

The modern-day version of fracking involves shooting a high-powered mixture of water, sand and chemicals down a well to release oil and natural gas. Historically, fracking was often accomplished by drilling a vertical well and creating fractures

in a producing formation with explosives.

But because the drilling was vertical, once a well reached an oil- and gas-laden formation, the fracking impact was limited, perhaps four to 80 feet depending on the thickness of the producing layer of rock.

Now, with the advent of “horizontal drilling,” companies can drill down — and then across producing formations for greater distances — magnifying the see FRACKING Page 19

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Montrose-based coalition of organic farmers has lost its lawsuit against Monsanto and its genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association (OSGATA), et al. v.

Monsanto on Feb. 24 in Federal District Court in Manhattan after hearing oral arguments on Jan. 31.

The suit was filed by farmers “to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed, something

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Monsanto has done to others in the past,” according to the website of OSGATA, the Colorado organization that brought the suit on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations.

The plaintiffs’ lead attorney, Daniel Ravicher, issued a statement on the OSGATA website in response to the dismissal.

“While I have great respect for Judge Buchwald, her decision to deny farmers the right to seek legal protection from one of the world’s foremost patent bullies is gravely disappointing,”

he said. “Her belief that farmers are acting unreasonable when they stop growing certain crops to avoid being sued by Monsanto for patent infringement should their crops become contaminated maligns the intelligence and integrity of those farmers.”

According to The New York Times, Buchwald ruled that that the farmers did not have any standing for filing the suit, had not been harmed by Monsanto, and had engaged in “a transparent effort to create a controversy where none exists.”

Ravicher indicated that the group intends to appeal the decision.

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Northwest Rail today is no less absurd than this example. Earlier this week, eight years after the FasTracks tax was approved by voters, RTD was actually contemplating just shelving the whole idea of giving Boulder County the rail line it promised to build with our money.

And RTD is not offering to refund our money if it decides to flake on its commitment.

Instead, the transportation district has the nerve to offer other transportation alternatives that, in one form or another, involve giving us yet another bus system instead of the light rail we paid for. It’s the ultimate bait and switch, as if we would have voted to raise our taxes for more half-empty buses screwing up traffic.

Once again, this would be like waiting a decade on Coors Field only to be told by RTD that it had decided to just build a really nice concession stand that serves Ball Park franks and Velveeta nachos instead.

So why is this happening? It appears that RTD has less of a grasp on estimating costs than the average 12-year-old in one of our failing schools.

In 2004 RTD told us it would cost a total of $894 million to build out the Northwest Rail project. The district now claims that it underestimated the costs by nearly a billion dollars. The new number to build the rail system is $1.7 billion. Unless my math is as bad as an RTD number cruncher, the transportation district missed its estimate on this project by more than the amount of its total original cost estimate. That, to put it politely, is not very good.

In its defense, RTD says that things changed over the years that it could not have anticipated, and that’s what drove up the costs. Are you kidding? It’s only been eight years and RTD couldn’t keep up with the times. But now that it is

estimating costs for the rail project that has been pushed to 2042 or beyond, it wants us to trust that it’s thought of everything this time around. And they also want us to double the amount of tax money we give them.

That’s crazy. Trains may only be found in museums by 2042 at the rate technology is changing the world. For all RTD knows, we’ll be using a transporter to get to Wynkoop Brewery from Boulder County by the time it gets around to breaking ground on the Northwest Rail, which by 2042 might cost $12 billion. Who can say?

This kind of incompetent planning shouldn’t have occurred. The folks at RTD, at least the executives, are obviously pretty smart. At least we hope they are smart, since 47 of them are being paid between $100,000 and $200,000 a year in income — plus an average of 33 percent more on top of that in the form of benefits and perks. Unless my math is RTDed, that’s like $6 million to $8 million being split between just a handful of people, presumably the same rocket scientists who underestimated the costs of a $1.7 billion project by about a billion dollars, so far.

Assuming that it is too much at this point to simply ask that we taxpayers get a well-run, well-planned, fiscally responsible transportation system for our money, how about this as an alternative to the concession stand currently being offered to replace our stadium. For the next eight years, RTD pays us the same amount of money that we have been paying to them since 2004. In exchange for this revenue, we will provide the transportation district with a perfectly accurate scale model of the rail system that we thought we were buying all this time. Hey, it’s more than we ever got from RTD. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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impact of fracking in two ways. First, what historically might have been fracked in a six-foot-thick formation can, today, become hundreds of feet of fracked rock in the same formation because the layer of rock is drilled across, instead of down.

And second, because a horizontal well is fracked towards the top and bottom of a producing formation that may only be a few feet thick, it increases the chance of releasing hydrocarbons into surrounding layers of rock that can be holding water.

The practice has raised concerns locally in Longmont, Erie and even unincorporated Boulder County, which have all enacted moratoriums on oil and gas drilling because of concerns about environmental and health effects.

Back in the 1800s, the extraction methods were much more crude.

Civil War veteran Col. Edward Roberts is given credit for creating the first “torpedo” filled with gunpowder (and later with nitroglycerin) in 1866. The contraption was lowered into wells that were then filled with water before the explosive was detonated. The effect was dramatic, with some wells’ production increasing 1,200 percent, according to the American Oil and Gas Historical Society.

Years later, Warren F. Bleecker, whose mill at Third and Pearl in Boulder is believed to have produced the radioactive soil that the city of Boulder shipped off to Valmont Butte in 1971, created an even more effective method of fracking.

Bleecker was an inventor, metallurgist, chemist and physicist. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, he first worked in Boulder as a teacher of high school chemistry and physics, according to “Time Bombs and Radiation,” a 1994 article by Tom Meier of the Boulder Museum of History.

In the early 1900s, Bleecker operated facilities that produced tungsten, vanadium and radium in various locations, including at the Preston Mill west of Ninth Street on Boulder Creek, the Luckie Two Mill at the intersection of Pearl and Canyon streets, and an electrical furnace plant at Third and Pearl.

One of Bleecker’s greatest accomplishments, aside from being a state legislator and a gubernatorial candidate, was his development of a technology called the “time-bomb.” The invention, which he took over after an explosion claimed the life of its Oklahoma inventor in 1924, was designed to detonate nitroglycerin charges in oil wells.

“The explosions were intended to fracture the oil-bearing rock and facilitate a better flow of oil,” Meier wrote.

“Employing his exacting research and engineering skills, Bleecker turned the crude, hazardous, hit-and-miss occupation of an ‘oil shooter’ into a safer proceBoulder Weekly

news dure. Within a few years, his Boulder product was in demand in the oil fields of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and, eventually, throughout the world.”

Indeed, judging from newspaper accounts at the time, Bleeker’s fracking “time-bombs,” or “zero-hour torpedoes,” made a splash. In 1926, Bleecker sent two employees to Tulsa, Okla., to develop a manufacturing facility for a special paper tubing to be used for “loading” wells that were to be shot with nitroglycerine. The paper tubing was believed to have advantages over the tin cans traditionally used in the process, because they were waterproof, resisted friction when lowered into the well, could be sized more easily and would be destroyed when exploded, unlike tin, which could block casing with fragments of metal.

“There is, in addition, the ever-present element of personal danger, which is thrilling both in the sense of anticipation and of past experience, but a thing to most of us to be avoided at the present moment,” he was quoted as saying.

After the nitroglycerine was deposited in wells in shells or cans, the removal of the line used to insert them would cause some earth to cave in, requiring the insertion of Bleecker’s “time-bombs” to ignite the explosive material below the cavings.

According to newspaper reports at the time, his device consisted of a battery and a time piece encased by the insulating tube, with an explosive charge at the bottom in a water-tight cast-iron shell.

At one point, he won a patentinfringement case for his “time-bomb” in federal court, and was credited with accomplishing “a rather ticklish shooting job, overcoming unusual conditions” in an Oklahoma City field in 1930, according to the Tulsa Daily World. In that job, Bleecker succeeded in developing in Boulder a specially designed zero-hour time bomb with two small Swiss watches that were lowered into a hole “with a Halliburton measuring line to a depth of 6,374 feet” where a three-inch drill pipe had been “frozen in the well and had parted,” the paper reported.

And according to an August 1931 newspaper article, the chief of the special service of the Santa Fe railway system sought Bleecker’s advice about an apparent terrorist attack: Someone had placed explosives under gasoline tanks at the railroad right-of-way at La Junta, but had not succeeded in detonating them.

In January of 1936, Bleecker had surgery to remove a tumor from his right lung. He died in April of that year.

Bleecker’s refinery at Third and Pearl was never reopened, and the City of Boulder Street and Water Departments took over the space in 1931.

—Hadley Vandiver contributed to this report

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he Women’s Wilderness Institute, a Boulderbased non-profit organization focused on helping women build strength and courage through wilderness experiences, recently teamed up with the Sierra Club and the University of Michigan to research the benefits of outdoor activities for veterans.

Three desert backpacking trips funded by a $30,000 grant from the Sierra Club, along with outings coordinated by three other grant winners, will examine whether being outdoors can help veterans and their families cope with problems like reintegration and PTSD. If the results show that outdoor

“The wilderness offers a place where it is quiet and there is not a ton of outside stimulation,” says Shari Leach, the executive director of the institute.

“This makes it so you have the space to be with your own thoughts and emotions and to process those. There are also quiet noises around you all the time, like crickets, and birds, and water, that help remind you that you are a part of something greater, and that can be really reassuring for people. All of the armed services have begun to look at how this might benefit veterans.”

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by Blair Madole activities are beneficial, new policies involving immediate outdoor work for returning service members may be implemented, says Stacy Bare, the Military Families and Veterans representative for the Sierra Club. That change could drastically reduce the time and money spent on extensive therapy and medication.

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— Caleb Warnock, reporter for the Daily Herald and volunteer with the U. S. government’s germplasm program.

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Climate change could cause 900 bird extinctions Scientists at the University of Utah and Boston University have recently completed a study regarding the impacts of climate change on potential

bird extinctions in the coming century.

The study highlights say, “Many tropical bird species currently considered safe from extinction are highly vulnerable to climate change.

Montane, coastal, restrictedrange, and physiologically specialized species are the most vulnerable. Synergies with other threats will exacerbate climate change effects.

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Viva la antiGMO In 2008, the French government banned the growing of Monsanto’s MON810 GMO maize in their country.

However, despite the extremely anti-GMO opinion of the French people who have steadfastly opposed allowing such genetically modified crops, a high court overturned the ban.

But not to be outdone in an election year, the French government is once again prohibiting the planting of MON810 GMO maize and has

made its ruling in time to prevent the seeds from being put into the ground this upcoming season.

In its explanation for its current action, the French government reportedly told the European Union that a recent European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) study of Monsanto’s bt11 GMO maize, which is similar to MON810 in important ways, posed considerable risks to the environment should it be planted.

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ing trips in April for female veterans and female spouses or partners of veterans, each of which will begin in Grand Junction before moving into the Utah desert. Though the trips will be along the same route, the veterans and the spouses or partners will be taken on separate routes to better meet their unique needs, Leach says.

“Women who are veterans are more likely to have PTSD, or they sometimes have reintegration challenges,” Leach says. “A lot of the emotions that serve you really well, particularly as a woman, in a combat situa-

tion are not the emotions that we naturally associate with women back home. So it can be really hard for women to feel like themselves again after their service. For spouses

and partners, there is a lot of challenge as well when your partner comes back from a combat situation. They have had some experiences that you haven’t shared in, so it can be really hard to understand what is going on for them. You have also had to create a life and a routine that functions with them not being there, and all of a sudden they are trying to fit back into it. There can be a lot of tension in relationships as a result of that.”

The group outings, like those that will be provided by the Women’s Wilderness Institute, will require them to work together, reminding these veterans and their partners that they’re not alone in what they’re dealing with, Bare says.

“Adventuring outdoors can help veterans realize that though they may not find the same camaraderie they found in the military, they can still lead exciting and adventurous lives,” Bare says. “It helps them and their families let go of the negative.”

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ighty-eight-year-old Harriet Butcher vividly recalls Sammy Davis Jr. tap dancing on the stage of the Roxy Theater in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood.

Butcher takes a deep breath and closes her eyes as she recalls swooning over the legendary performer.

“He tore up the show; that was big time,” she recalls.

Sharing the stage for dress rehearsals, Butcher also sang for Davis that day, and he encouraged her to stay committed to her art. She has.

She continues to.

Butcher’s was an artistic childhood, spent mostly in the Five Points neighborhood. Five Points was Denver’s first predominantly AfricanAmerican community, and during the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, “the Points” was the place to be for all things music, especially jazz.

Tap dance was part of the culture too, from attaching metal to school shoes to watching adolescents drop into impromptu street performances.

“In those days, everybody danced,” Butcher recalls. “At a national level, you don’t hear that much about tap dance, but it was really a part of our life. Tap was everywhere.

“These neighborhood guys would dance at the drop of a hat! Crowds would gather ’round, people would watch, cheer, and then just move on about their business. Tap dance really was a part of the community.”

But both Five Points and tap dance have faded to the background today, each but a glimmer of their glory years. Tap’s relevance is practically only historical, and Five Points is just now emerging from a crippling period of urban decay. But Butcher’s reflections bring each back to light, revealing the role of women in tap dance, historically invisible and under-valued yet integral to this uniquely American dance form.

All sparkles: women in tap Take a minute and recollect famous tap dancers with whom you’re familiar. Who comes to mind?

Gregory Hines? Fred Astaire? Gene Kelly?

Where are the women?

Admittedly, Ginger Rogers probably rings a bell, but her dancing fame came predominantly on Astaire’s arm.

Through tap’s early history, women have been in the background, highheeled, swaying and sparkling, providing the background in front of which men danced.

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retiring, Butcher collaborated with other female hoofers to form Denver’s Park Hill Tappers.

At one point, the Park Hill Tappers numbered eight women over age 65 — they danced and they danced, entertaining and teaching mostly senior audiences.

Butcher explains that the Park Hill Tappers “helped our attitude about being older, and as for these ‘wise years,’ I hope I’m leading them in a wise manner — I think it’s not what you tell them, it’s how you dance!”

Boulder-based tap artist Ellie Sciarra has profiled Harriet Butcher’s story — and the personal journeys of other female tap artists in Sole Stories (currently a website, solestories.org) — a project designed to capture the voices and experiences of women in tap.

On Sole Stories, Butcher says “it’s important that women’s role in tap dancing is being recognized. I guess there’s a pleasant disagreement about how in the world they could make a movie like Tap and ignore women!”

In an interview with Boulder Weekly, Sciarra describes Butcher as “inspirational and legendary … an embodiment of the beauty of tap dance.”

Female dancers like Butcher were important to the appeal and success of tap during its heyday, according to Sciarra. Even so, they didn’t often get the spotlight, nor do they often appear in history books.

Sole Stories celebrates tap’s history and the role of women in today’s efforts to reinvigorate the art form.

“I think we [women] take the edge off the tension in the performance,” says Idella Reed-Davis, a Chicago-based female tap artist. “You can breathe while we dance. … When women dance you can sit back, absorb what it is that we’re doing. You can feel. You can be in the moment with the dancers.”

Butcher agrees.

“Some women want to mimic men,” she says. “I think if you can tap, make it look feminine.”

The art and history of tap The community of Five Points fostered Butcher’s artistic life.

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Although popularized today as a happy dance, tap’s legacy is deeper than the animated penguins we see today.

Constance Valis Hill, an Amherst dance professor, details tap’s legacy in her book Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History. Tap dance, according to Hill, emerged primarily from colonial America, finding its roots in the melding of music and dance of African slaves with the step dancing of Irish immigrants. At its core, tap dance is about making music with one’s feet.

In the South of the 1700s, slave laws prohibited drumming and other forms of creative expression. African slaves adapted traditional drumming and dancing circles to include percussive use of the feet, patting the body and clapping hands. During this era, indentured Irish servants also held onto cultural dance traditions, including the clogging and step dancing popularized today by Riverdance, a dramatic glorification of traditional Irish step dance.

The late 1800s and early 1900s saw tap dance blossom through further fusion and inspiration. As Hill describes, dance steps were stolen, shared and reinvented as hoofers watched each other at social clubs, dance halls and on the streets.

By the 1920s, metal taps were added to shoes to add crispness and clarity — Butcher and her schoolgirl pals followed the trend. With metal on their shoes, the children danced right through the Depression — “clip, clip, clip right up the street,” she says.

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host their own variety shows for homespun entertainment on Saturday evenings.

For years, tap was the darling of vaudeville shows, according to Sciarra, and eventually made the journey to Broadway and Hollywood. Tap dance had become a uniquely American cultural fusion, one enthusiastically playing out on stages, streets and in living rooms across the nation.

‘Harlem of the West’ The 1930s and 1940s brought jazz and tap dance into direct conversation with one another. According to Hill, the emerging swing style of jazz music proved a perfect backdrop for the emerging style of jazz tap dance.

And in Five Points, the conversation between tap and jazz was loud.

In its heyday, with more than 50 night clubs and after-hours establishments, everyone was playing “the Points.” Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Nat King Cole. The area began to be known as the “Harlem of the West,” and Rocky Mountain PBS highlighted the community in a 2001 documentary, Jazz in Five Points.

“Celebrities were part of the culture of community because of segregation,” explains Butcher.

Unable to stay in Denver hotels, these performers would play and stay in Five Points after performing on downtown Denver’s main stages. At night, the legends would jam with locals, often at Five Points’ Rossonian Hotel and Lounge.

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Looking to the future Mid-century brought decline both for tap dance and for Five Points.

Sciarra says that public appetite for tap waned as favor turned toward jazz dance and ballet on Broadway. A federal tax closed ballrooms, and dance halls and performance venues all but dried up. Television stole live audiences.

Once-vibrant Five Points dried up too, though memories remained of the close community with unlocked doors, friendly front porches, homegrown churches, fraternal organizations and boisterous house parties.

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Butcher married and retreated to raise her family, her creative soul expressing itself mostly on Sundays in church choir.

Still, the ’80s and ’90s saw renewed interest in percussive dance — consider the block-busting success of Riverdance. Consider Savion C W Tony Award-winning Bring Glover’s on O y P r in ’da Noise, in ’daiFunk —a EN aBring L br a t Norlinthat Broadway sensation historian Hill describes as “making tap dance cool again.”

Even so, tap dance remains mostly hidden, relegated to an occasional stage or animated film. Sciarra and Taps Are Talking, Inc. are working on a film project to honor the dance, highlighting the role of Butcher and other women tappers in the art form’s evolution. As presented in Sole Stories, Sciarra argues that there has been a consistent female presence in tap dance, albeit often in the background. In addition, female dancers, Sciarra argues, are playing an integral role in tap’s re-emerging vitality.

As for Five Points, in the early 1990s, Denver’s first light rail system connected the community to the downtown core. The community’s rich history, and the broader story of African-Americans in the West, are celebrated through the Stiles African American Heritage Center, The Black American West Museum & Heritage Center and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library.

“Juneteenth” is celebrated each summer, commemorating AfricanAmerican emancipation, while the Five Points Jazz Festival also honors community tradition. Both the legendary Rossonian Hotel and Lounge and the Roxy Theatre are experiencing well-merited rebirths.

On community, connection and the arts, Butcher says, “We’ve had to fight. … Arts are important for connecting and for going further than interest in oneself and one’s own family — all the talk about having to drop music, art — no, it’s all important. Art helps us stand in decency.”

Through the years and challenges wrought by racial hatred, prejudice and discrimination, Butcher is thankful for her life experiences — especially the artistic ones.

“A life full of variety — there isn’t anything I haven’t done. I even washed dishes,” Butcher says. “It helps build character. But mostly, I like to dance.”

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to forbidden music through darkened back alley windows. This was very much the case in Five Points.

In the 1950s, Butcher worked at The Casino Dance Hall. Along with the Rossonian, it was one of the premier stops for touring jazz musicians.

Across the street from the Welton department store where Butcher once worked was the seamstress where she would take men’s trousers. Next door was the community’s primary grocer.

Food markets, drug stores, insurance agents, beauty parlors and lots and lots of music and dance — Five Points had it all. Butcher says, “I just couldn’t have had it better.”

As described in Jazz in Five Points, for decades, the Points was the center of black life in the American west. During an era of intense racial segregation and discrimination, Welton Street formed the backbone of a vibrant and diverse economic community — a “city within a city.”

Instead of eating at the back doors of downtown restaurants, Five Points business owners offered black neighbors front-door service. Instead of being ushered to the balcony of downtown theaters, in Five Points black patrons could choose any seat in the house.

While the KKK burned crosses and churches around the Denver region, Harriett Butcher recalls finding a safe space for movies and live performances at Five Points’ Roxy Theatre, or simply “The Roxy,” at 2549 Welton St. The Roxy was like home because, according to Butcher, “The woman selling tickets behind the glass was one of us.”

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ON THE BILL: Josh Gross will read from Secrets & Lies on Thursday, March 8, at 3 p.m. at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café.

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f course I liked Secrets & Lies, a collection of short fiction written by Josh Gross. I like Josh Gross.

We dated in college, hated each other until I was in graduate school, and then became friends. And there’s enough of him in those pages for it to feel, after reading a story, as though I’ve just had a conversation with him.

But part of what has made us friends, and keeps us friends, is that Josh is one of few people in the world who calls me on my bullshit. So I know he would let me get away with calling him on his.

I could write a review that was harsh, but honest, about the book he tried for years to get someone else to publish, and then ran an IndieGoGo campaign (to which I contributed enough to buy both a copy of the book and a karaoke song from him), and I’m pretty sure Josh would sigh and call me by the nickname few else are allowed and tell me he gets it. He just wishes I liked it more.

Were it really terrible, I would say so. But it’s not.

It’s his first published book, and like so many early works (and in some cases middle and late works), the stories contain a lot of threads of his life — in blended or mutated form. Stories that

detail the narrator’s troubled relationships with his mother, or fights with exgirlfriends, or the feelings that burst through after the death of a friend at times hit close enough to the heart for them to be squirm-in-your-seat awkward. And thoroughly enthralling.

He’s occasionally heavy-handed.

He tells, rather than shows.

(Had I edited the book like he’d asked me to there might be far fewer adverbs in its final form.) These are typical mistakes, particularly in early writers, and some of these stories do date back years. They show the traits of an early writer — that wavering faith in your prose to carry the story if you say it in fewer words, rather than more. He may never be Raymond Carver or Ernest Hemingway, but his prose will certainly shed some weight in the coming years. It already shows pounds melting away.

His is a world where people live large. Where anonymous sex in the bushes and a random drive across the Oregon border into Washington have great and expansive meaning. His sto-

ries suggest he wants us to take a long look at the way we live and the way we treat one another, the expectations we set for ourselves, and the dreams we build and then tear down.

At times the originality in his approach and his grip of humor writing knock the wind out of me. He takes risks — daring ones, bold ones. Like in “The Rise and Fall of the Wally Johnson Act,” which chronicles in terse terms the inception and implementation of a congressional act making it illegal to break someone’s heart. Or “Dead Air” (written over the course of a weekend for the Sledgehammer 36-Hour Writing Contest in Portland, Ore.), which recounts the trials of a surly, often-drunk television news station janitor dealing with the prankster ghost of a former news anchor and finishes with a flourish to leave you laugh-

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The pacing of the stories alternates. An exploration of human relationships in which the primary action, aside from two kisses, occurs outside the story, leads into a quickly moving story about a man who fakes his own death to escape his student loans and medical bills. Similar to the compressed space in Tobias Wolff ’s “Bullet in the Brain,” all of the action in “Debate is a Many-Splendored Thing” occurs in the flicker of memories between the phrase “I love you” and a carefully measured response.

His characters are ones you become immediately immersed in. They’re people who have struggled and flailed and fallen down and pulled themselves back up.

The collection is not without typos.

There may even be factual errors. (Will a $200 fake ID really be enough to get you on a plane to Argentina?) But as an early work by a writer who has demonstrated his determination to stick around, and as a collection of freshly contemporary fiction that engages with who we are and how we live now, it’s well worth the investment. Even if not every reader can get a karaoke serenade along with the ticket price.

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ith the release of their third studio album Southern Rock Opera in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers finally emerged from local alt-country favorites to national critical darlings.

The sprawling, hard-charging, 94-minute epic masterpiece somehow weaves the band’s personal history growing up young and reckless in Northern Alabama with the rise and tragic fall of Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd, all filtered through the social lens of the “duality of the South.” It’s a brilliant piece of storytelling, enhanced by the two distinct voices of principal songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Yet to hear Hood talk about it, it’s almost as if he regards one of the decade’s best albums as a personal failure.

“That was the record that kind of made us almost famous, I guess,” Hood says. “But when I hear it, it still drives me crazy. We were way too ambitious for our talent level and more importantly, what we could afford. … I still wish we could have made the record the way we heard it in our heads.”

Southern Rock Opera was a project years in development, but the album that launched the group’s career nearly didn’t get made. The band ran out of money multiple times during the recording process, and the stress of recording nearly tore the group apart.

“We almost had to make that album, because we had been telling everybody we were going to make it for so long,” Hood recalls. “Our backs were against the wall, and we had to do it, but when it came time to record the album it was a nightmare.”

The Truckers took the turmoil from recording Southern Rock Opera and channeled it into their next great album, the desperate, deeply personal 2003 follow-up Decoration Day. Nine years later, the band is still writing ambitious and sprawling albums that continue to explore the dark and complicated history of

about how expectations rarely find common ground with reality.

“That’s the great mystery that keeps this band moving forward, and I don’t have an explanation for it,” Hood says about the synergy between his songs and Cooley’s songs, which, on their best albums, come together to proON THE BILL: Drivevide a loose

By Truckers play the Fox Theatre on Saturday, structure to their March 10. Doors at 8 p.m. otherwise ramRobert Ellis opens. Tickets shackle are $30, plus $2 for the under-21 crowd. 1135 13th approach. “We St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. never really plan what we are going to write about, other than in Southern Rock Opera. I was blown away when we showed up with the songs for Decoration Day; his songs just fit like a jigsaw puzzle with mine. They counterpoint my songs in a really great way.”

Cooley’s presence, especially on recent albums, has kept the music grounded while allowing Hood to indulge his storytelling roots. Go-Go Boots, for example, is filled with Hood’s songs about wife-killing preachers and cops who lost their nerve that would be tough to digest if they weren’t buttressed by Cooley’s sardonic wit and breezy country compositions. In turn, Cooley delivers the best lines — and some would say best songs — on the album, but without Hood to provide the gravitas, his pieces would sound a little too slight to make for a great record. It’s that relationship between the group’s two original members that keeps the band going.

Hood has said in the past that even if the Drive-By Truckers break up, he would never be in a band without Cooley.

“I love his songs and I love playing guitar on his songs,” Hood says. “As long as our songs keep fitting together so well, we have a reason to keep on as a band.”

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It’s that interplay between Cooley and Hood that continues to drive the band after 16 years and nine studio albums. The two have different approaches to songwriting — Cooley is the aloof poet, Hood the brooding storyteller — but they are consistently drawn to similar themes. Time and time again they return to songs about the dark side of power, about good people trying to survive in a harsh world and

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March 8 Beyond ‘127 Hours’: an evening with Aron Ralston to protect the Greater Canyonlands.

7 p.m. at the Boulder Theater

Thursday, March 8 music Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Amazon Eye Shadow — With Eef Guitar & Anna Lisa. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Black Postcards. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

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Viviane Le Courtois’ Edible? and Jason Rogenes’ Sp4c3cr4ft.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through June. 17.

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

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

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EcoCreations — A juried exhibit of art from recycled materials. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-6787869. March 9 – April 21.

Red Light — Tragic Beauties and Other Objects of Desire. manifest ART gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303652-0952. Through April 7.

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International Women’s Day presents — Lara Ruggles, Ayo Awosika, Lesley Kernochan and The Railsplitters. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Beyond 127 Hours — An Evening with Aron Ralston to Protect Greater Canyonlands. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, greatercanyonlands.org.

James and the Devil. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Elephant Walk the Talk — With Waylon Lewis. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Retta Yarbrough Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Healing Space — 15-minute mini-healings with Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

Exploring Spiritism — Memorials and Funeral Services. 7-9 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723

Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

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KOLD Radio, Whitefish Bay at Festival Playhouse

American Idiot. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through March 11.

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

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The Drowsy Chaperone. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

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KOLD Radio, Whitefish Bay. Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-442-4090.

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

Way Out West in a Dress. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 31.

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Secrets & Lies — by Josh Gross. 3 p.m.

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Monday, March 12

Elyse Brownell — Poetry reading.

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

Friday, March 9 Laura Cesarco Eglin — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Saturday, March 10 Curses! A F***ed-Up Fairy Tale — by J.A. Kasimer. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Writers’ Salon. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Writers’ Workshop, Location

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

Tuesday, March 13 Weekly Open Poetry Reading.

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

Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub — Doubters and Dreamers by Janice Gould. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, March 14 Get-it-Done Series: Short Story and Personal Essay Writing Class — With Michael Smith. 6 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, meetup.com/boulderwriters.

Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1A, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

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Still Life Drawing with Esther Hartley — March 8 – April 12. 6 p.m. OpenArts, Clementine Studio, 2775 Valmont, Boulder, 303-444-1862.

Marc Landry, the Boulder Blues Mafia. 7 p.m.

Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Friday, March 9 music Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Brent Loveday, Phantom. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Holiday Blue — With The Tinder Box and Happy Hour Jazz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Jababa. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Jake Schepps & Corn Yeti. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Kenny Perkins Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Laurence Juber. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Los Lobos –– With Halden Wofford and the HiBeams.

7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-

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

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

Paper Bird — With Eye & the Arrow. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Someone’s in for an Explosion — With Crowboy, Live at UI Sound Studios. 8 p.m. UI Sound Studios, 2401 Broadway, Boulder, 303-929-1679.

Steve Ignelzi. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Wasabi @ Cedars. 9 p.m. Millenium Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-998-3805.

events Alice in Wonderland. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

EcoCreations Opening Reception. 6 p.m. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Strong Ale Fest — Craft beers over 8 percent from around the U.S. 5-10 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5757 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-410-4201.

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boulderweekly.com Transforming Gender Symposium — Opening keynote with Jack Halberstam. 4 p.m. www.colorado. edu/glbtqrc/tgs_workshops.html, 303-492-1377.

Saturday, March 10

TOP 10 STORIES

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Week of March 1 March 7

Adventure Records CD Release Party. 8:30 p.m.

Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

1. BIFF 2012: Bitter stories 2. Rush Limbaugh advertisers pull commercials in wake of Sandra Fluke slut firestorm

Al Chesis & Nick Clark. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

3. Antisec dumps Monsanto data on the Web 4. Farmers lose GMO suit 5. Valmont Butte’s got a dam problem, among others Several 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.

Fri., March 9th

Strangebyrds Sun., March 11th • 9pm

Open Stage

Mon., March 12th

The Heavy Cats

Wed., March 14th

Guta

10. Frozen Dead Guy Days a celebration of life

Drive By Truckers — With Robert Ellis. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Transforming Gender Symposium. 9 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. www.colorado.edu/glbtqrc/tgs_workshops.html, 303-492-1377.

Sunday, March 11 music The Atomic Duo — With Mark Rubin. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Blues Jam — With Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-4433322.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Katie Glassman Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303939-9900.

Stephen Thurston. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Interstate Stash Express. 8 p.m.

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

Tall City — With Miles Driften.

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

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

Windfall. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Last Week Do you think Boulder is paying too much for attorneys to fight Xcel?

• Yes. Xcel is too big to defeat. 30% • No. The voters approved the spending. 30% • Maybe. Is it worth it? 20% • Can we watch the suits duke it out instead? 20%

Irish Session. 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events

Meryl Romer, Bill Kopper Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Alice in Wonderland. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826

This Week How much more punishment should Rush Limbaugh take for his This Week ‘slut’ comments?

Should at-will CU instructors be • He’s had enough. He learned given five-year contracts? his lesson.

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WadiRum. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

KIDS CAMP 2012

Just because school’s out for summer doesn’t mean your child’s learning and growth should let up. The many summer camps in Boulder County provide plenty of options for keeping your kids active, entertained and engaged throughout the summer months.

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

The Quemando Salsa Fiesta. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

events Alice in Wonderland. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

BNC Adventures — Dinner and Silent Auction. 6 p.m. Sill-TerHar Ford Community Banquet Room, 150 Alter St., Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

Educate!’s Third Annual Ball — For the Future of Africa. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, experienceeducate.org/annualball.

Eurythmy — Public art showings. 11 a.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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Drew Schofield Band, Taking Issue, Half in the Bag. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Homeslice Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

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Friday, Mar 23rd - Connelly Ramey Duo Sunday, Mar 25th - Open Stage, 9pm Monday, Mar 26th - The Heavy Cats Wed., Mar 28th - The Gillbillies

Dawson James Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

7. When work is a labor of love

Taming or

Friday, Mar 16th - Ester Sparks Sunday, Mar 18th - Open Stage, 9pm Monday, Mar 19th - George Nelson Quartet Wed., Mar 21st - Magnolia Row

Caleb Hawley. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Full Belly. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Bukner Funken Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

6. Poets and teens team up to tame body image issues 8. Comedy crusaders hit Boulder

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

Bluegrass at the Audi — Feat. Dr. Harlan’s Amazing Bluegrass Tonic & Acme Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m.

Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, coloradobluegrass.org.

Town Hall with Sen. Rollie Health — With Dr. Bruce Messinger, superintendent of Boulder Valley School District. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1000 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Hands-On Digital Photography Introduction. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Intro to Gardening I. 9-11 a.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 303-443-9952 x1.

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

Strong Ale Fest — Craft beers more than 8 percent from around the U.S. 12-5 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5757 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-410-4201.

Beekeeping Classes — Introduction to Top Bar Beekeeping (start of an eight-month series). 9 a.m.

– 12 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 303-443-9952.

Bolder Nights — An evening of local and original theatre. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Boulder’s Best Mixologist — Savor, critique and vote for the best cocktails from Boulder’s drink masters. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, bouldersbestmixologist.com.

Derech Chayim — “A Way of Life” 6 p.m. Boulder’s Rabbinic Council at Har Hashem Congregation, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, contact Jodi for more details at 503-780-7470.

“Edgy” Runway Fashion Show — Benefit for Mental Health Partners. 11 a.m. Boulder Country Club, 7350 Clubhouse Road, Boulder, 303-413-6287.

Gluten Intolerance Group. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Stories on Stage — Distant Voices. 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, 303-494-0523.

Transforming Gender Symposium. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. www.colorado.edu/glbtqrc/tgs_workshops.html, 303-492-1377.

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panorama Listen to Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, March 9, at the Boulder Book Store.

Below, WOW! Children’s Museum

Monday, March 12 music

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

Entrepreneurship & Innovation — Andrew A. Chien, “How the End of Moore’s Law is Changing the Landscape of Innovation.” 5 p.m. ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, 303-735-4577.

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Salsa Caliente Mondays. 8 p.m. lesson, 9 p.m. salsa, merengue, cha cha cha. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. “So, You’re a Poet” — Jack Kerouac’s 90th Birthday Reading & Celebration. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Todd Jones, Alcohol Can be a Gas — Discussion on how communities can develop and support distilleries using waste to make alcohol to fuel cars. 7 p.m. Lyons Farmette, Lyons, 303-746-6266.

Tuesday, March 13 music Big Paddy, Ft. Collins Pipe Band. 7:30 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384.

Blues Jam — With Dan Treanor. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-4433322.

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

Clovis Mann –– With Northern Accent. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

kids’ calendar

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

Thursday, March 8 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Friday, March 9 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet — by Jane O’Connor. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, meetup.com/ boulderwriters.

Saturday, March 10 Boulder County Parks and Open Space Junior Ranger Adventure Day. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 303258-0543.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Sunday, March 11

Tuesday, March 13 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Wednesday, March 14

Between the Folds — Origami Festival. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

French Storytime. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Monday, March 12

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

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

Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

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

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

My Old School — A Steely Dan Tribute. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

events Barefoot Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028.

Communikey and Shine Present “Movies that Matter.” 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

The Content and Context of Digital Culture — Presented by Journalism and Mass Communication at CU Boulder, icjmtsymposium.org.

Dying with Dreams and Active Imagination. 9-11 a.m. Compassionate Care Hospice,11935 Quay St., Broomfield, 303-831-1744.

Ecuador: Progressive Politics and Ancient Indigenous Progressive Agriculture. 3 p.m. &

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7 p.m. Willow Way Farm, 6481 N. 63rd St., Niwot, 303-350-1415.

Healing Space — 15-minute mini-healings with Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Wednesday, March 14 music The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Cowgirl Radio — With Monocle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Guta. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

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Songs from the Silo — With Dan & Bonnie from Elephant Revival. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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

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

events The Content and Context of Digital Culture — Presented by Journalism and Mass Communication at CU Boulder, icjmtsymposium.org.

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Skiing Everest — With filmmaker Q&A. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Mark Brut, Bret Mosley. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-

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

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The filmmakers regard the 1971 Seuss book’s pro-environmentalist entreaties seriously in theory, not so much in practice.

Seuss is spinning

by Michael Phillips

T

he new animated feature The Lorax, known in its entirety as Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax to keep it straight from “John Grisham’s The Lorax,” does a few smaller things right but the bigger things not quite. I’ve come to fear these movies. I love Seuss so much, even his second-shelf works.

Who doesn’t feel protective of authors and illustrators they love? And not just because we were young when we made their acquaintance.

As with Horton Hears a Who! four years ago, the production design and computer-generated animation in this new Lorax respect the basic lines of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s illustrations, his voluptuously curvy universe of serious whimsy. Both the Horton and Lorax films work better, certainly, than the live-action Seuss pictures How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the seriously not-good Cat in the Hat. The Lorax is a little more like it. A little. But you couldn’t accuse the film of practicing what it preaches: careful stewardship of a precious resource.

The message tends to get lost in all the clanging slapstick and Wall-E imagery. Wall-E had the courage of its convictions as well as beauty and artistry; The Lorax is just another OK feature-length animated edition (in 3-D, if you choose to pay for it) of a Dr. Seuss book.

The filmmakers, headed by director Chris Renaud and screenwriters Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, all of Despicable Me, regard the 1971 Seuss book’s pro-envi-

ronmentalist entreaties seriously in theory, not so much in practice. Cooked-up elements include a corporate megalomaniac villain and a pair of nominally sympathetic young humans. The Lorax in The Lorax, the guardian of the trees voiced, dully, by Danny DeVito, is even more secondary than he was in the book.

In this version of Thneedville, no living thing grows: Trees and shrubs are inflatable plastic, the town is maintained with Truman Show-like fakery, and the apparent mayor of the town, Mr. O’Hare (Rob Riggle), has made his millions selling bottled air.

Young Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) is eager to impress the teenage Audrey (Taylor Swift), so he seeks out the faraway Once-ler (Ed Helms) who holds the secret to what Audrey wants most: a living tree, a reminder of better, greener days.

Most of the picture, as did the book, unfolds as a flashback to the Once-ler’s rabid capitalistic youth, when he harvested the precious Truffula tree for its velvety tufts and commercial prospects. Taking its cue from a single line in the original about the Once-ler’s family, The Lorax brings in a venal hick crowd straight

out of Million Dollar Baby to underscore the moral about greed being bad. The young Once-ler doesn’t question his own business goals, and can’t see the forest of his misjudgments for all the trees he’s leveling.

A good deal of this comes from the original slim volume by Seuss. By the time the good doctor published his warning about despoiling our planet willy-nilly (cue the Fox News objections!), his adopted home base, La Jolla, Calif., had become a swank coastal holdout to the schmutzy L.A. smog, a two-hour drive north. Every book comes from somewhere; Seuss’, I’m guessing, came from his concern over the threatened devaluation of paradise, Southern California style.

The book, unusually blunt and even humorless for Seuss, has become a conflicted diversionary tactic on screen. Its makers were plainly nervous about selling the message. And so they gussy it up with lots of vehicular chase sequences and musical numbers of uneven quality and after a while you long for another trip to see the Once-ler, just because he’s a loner and you could use the break. The Lorax comes back around by the end to where it needs to be, i.e., in Seuss’ corner. But there’s a lyric about life in Thneedville painting the place as “plastic and fake and they liked it that way!” And it’s too close to the movie’s truth for actual moviegoing comfort.

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

Project X is more politically incorrect than hateful, even if it is just shy of Girls Gone Wild in its sexism.

Teen dream, parental nightmare

by Michael Phillips

P

roject X is the movie equivalent of that good-looking, well-off teenage boy your gut tells you to keep away from your teenage daughter.

Something sets off the warning bells — that he has lost his mind to his hormones, that he objectifies women in the worst way, that he’s too casual with the homophobic slurs.

That doesn’t really describe Thomas (Thomas Mann), the gawky uppermiddle-class teen in this Hangover for high schoolers. But it nails his pal Costa (Oliver Cooper, in the Jonah Hill role). Costa is a blustering transplanted New Yorker who eggs on Thomas as they plan a parents-out-of-town birthday party, mocks their mutual “fat little Rain Man” pal J.B. ( Jonathan Daniel Brown) and is hell-bent on turning this Boulder Weekly

North Pasadena fete into an epic party that will be the “game changer” for their social status, lift them into their high school’s elite and give them access to sex with the school hotties.

And no list of warnings — “Do not go into my office. The pool heater?

Don’t touch it.” — from Thomas’ colorless dad (Peter Mackenzie) can steer the boys from their collision course with destiny.

Things only start to go wrong when they rip off Costa’s well-armed, disturbed drug dealer. Costa has blasted the invitations all over social media, so the socially anonymous Thomas will be hosting hordes of “randoms,” peers who

don’t know he exists. Not to worry, though. Costa has hired a team of middle schoolers led by Tyler (Nick Nervies, hilarious).

Naturally, Thomas must pursue the hottest girl in school, who is utterly compliant. Naturally, his gorgeous longtime pal Kirby (Kirby Bliss Blanton), the only woman given even a hint of personality, is hurt by this.

This Todd (Hangover) Phillips production produces its share of explosive laughs, mostly of the “Oh my God” variety. Excess — the treehouse turned into a beer dispensary, hoses run to ground level where gravity and volume

produce a lung full of suds for every underage imbiber — passes for humor here.

It’s a wearying “romp,” from its tired “lose our virginity” formula (worn out even when Superbad used it) to the conceit of making this a “birthday” mockumentary, ostensibly filmed by the gothvideo nerd Dax (Dax Flame). Director Nima Nourizadeh loses track of that for long stretches of impossible-for-Daxto-get angles and edits.

Project X is more politically incorrect than hateful, even if it is just shy of Girls Gone Wild in its sexism. Clueless boys in its target audience may mistake it for a date movie. Now. But just you wait, kids. X is that beau who sets off warning bells when he’s there to date your little girl. You won’t want to let her out the door with this creep.

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

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

ACT OF VALOR

A benign little dip into sentimentality.

After the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of Navy Seals is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt to foil the attack. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

MODIGLIANI Set in Paris in 1919 when the city’s bohemian community was in full flower, this film stars Andy Garcia as the Jewish-Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. With talk back by Mizel Museum Curator Georgina Kolber. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

ALBERT NOBBS

MY REINCARNATION

Glenn Close stars in this tale of a woman forced to live as a man 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 Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

An unusual and enlightening documentary about Tibetan Buddhism, impermanence, and a popular spiritual master and his son. At International Film Series. — IFS

THE ARTIST

During the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl, 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

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller, a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly.

At Century, Colony Square, Chez Artiste and Twin Peaks. — Landmark Theatres

reel to reel

BALLET: LE CORSAIRE — BOLSHOI A young Greek girl and a dashing pirate journey through a tapestry of dramatic events. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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BALLET: LE DANSE — THE PARIS OPERA BALLET A rare glimpse into the world of ballet. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater BONSAI PEOPLE: THE VISION OF MUHAMMAD YUNUS What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality? Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus is a look at how Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing just that. At Boedecker Theater and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Boedecker Theater BOOM! The wealthy, self-absorbed eccentric Sissy Goforth has taken up residence on a secluded Mediterranean island where she dictates her memoirs, flies into rages and screams insults at her servants. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society BULLHEAD A cattle farmer, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a mafioso meat trader. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society CONNECTED This funny and eye-opening film takes audiences on a rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st Century. At International Film Series. — IFS CHRONICLE After making a surprising discovery, three high school students develop uncanny powers and begin to lose control. Rated PG-13.

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GONE A woman who escaped a kidnapping comes home to find her sister missing and suspects the same serial killer. Rated PG-13.At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THE GIRLS IN THE BAND Untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their ground-breaking journeys. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society HIT SO HARD The journey of Patty Schemel, the openly gay drummer of Courtney Love’s seminal rock band Hole. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society HUGO In 1930s Paris, an orphan living in a train sta-

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oxing may seem like a strange stop on the path to inner peace. From outside the ring, the sport resonates violence, fury and chaos. The most direct path to victory is to knock your rival into a stupor. Fat lips, black eyes and missing teeth are all part of a normal day at the office if you are a professional prizefighter.

But there is another side to boxing that has more in common with yoga, martial arts and meditation than sophisticated street brawls. Boulder happens to have a gym that blends the toughness and athleticism of the “sweet science” with the focus and control of spiritual reverie. Front Range Boxing, owned and operated by Dave Gaudette, is a shrine to low-tech, high-minded fitness.

First, let’s be clear about what we mean by “boxing.” This is the real deal, not a diluted version of boxing fundamentals modified for mass consumption.

If you step into the ring, be ready to get hit. Workouts are brutally taxing and require a high degree of focus. Even experienced athletes are quickly humbled by the ferocity of training.

Conversely, a skilled boxer must also have the coordination of a dancer and a quick ability for pattern recognition to pinpoint weaknesses in his opponent.

But if you are serious about getting your fitness and mental focus to a new level, there may be no better sport.

World’s most difficult sport Until you have tried it firsthand, it may seem like a conspiracy that boxing regularly tops many lists compiled by sports experts as the most difficult sport.

True, it does not require the grinding endurance of marathon running, the twitch reflexes of connecting with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball or the finesse of driving your tee shot 300 yards down the middle of the fairway. But it has very high levels of all these skills, com-

bined with the very real consequence of being hit hard, square in the face.

The physical and mental endurance needed for a three-minute round of boxing is unexpectedly exhausting. Even those individuals honed in triathlons are often gassed midway through a single round. There’s a lot going on in the ring. The sustained, intense focus is unlike the spurts of concentration found in sports like tennis and does not allow for zoning out, like in cycling.

Coordination, footwork and the ability to take a punch all play roles in making a quality boxer. And if you buy into Gaudette’s approach, this combination is the ultimate in letting go and living purely in the moment.

A Buddhist approach After arranging a meeting with Gaudette at Front Range Boxing, I approached the encounter with some intimidation. I am a decent athlete, but certainly no fighter. My inner pugilist has lain dormant since a flimsy high school baseball brawl. My impression of boxing gyms is that they are tough, gritty places where eye contact is reserved for the nastiest, burliest dudes.

Yet, mere steps after walking through the door, my palpable tension was eased. The handful of boxers slugging away at heavy bags or shadow boxing in the ring were friendly and unpretentious. As it turns out, these are two of the requirements to be part of Gaudette’s gym. When he came out to greet me with a wide smile and a friendly handshake, my reservations melted away. He stands about 5 feet, 10 inches, and is built like a bull. He looks much younger than his 60 years, with a boyish aura that belies his dedication and devotion to boxing.

Gaudette’s pedigree is legit. After taking up the sport in 1967, he earned the New Hampshire Lightweight Championship in 1969 and the

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He takes his philosophy just as seriously, earning a master’s degree in comparative East/West philosophy from the University of Colorado.

“Boxing and Buddhism really go hand in hand,” explains Gaudette. “It gives you strength and confidence without pride. It makes you strong but keeps you humble.”

Beyond physical fitness, boxing helps reduce stress and gives even the most peaceful practitioners knowledge of how to defend themselves in extreme situations.

“My goal isn’t to make bullies tougher,” Gaudette says. “My gym is here to give people an outlet to find balance and get stronger in the process.”

The myriad of inspirational stories, quotes and images posted throughout the gym support this notion.

The ultimate cross training Those who aspire to spar in the ring are more than welcome to, but many of the athletes in Gaudette’s gym are there just for the workouts. Technique and safety are emphasized, and custom programs are available. Cross-training athletes have seen tangible improvements in their respective sports, including triathlons, rock climbing, mountaineering, baseball, marathons and mountain biking — and few of these individuals are driven for glory in the ring. They are there to boost self-confidence, channel inner discipline and, for many, learn a new and fun skill that has a way of radiating into other facets of competition.

And after a few visits and a one-on-one session with Gaudette, I can attest to being more focused, certainly wellworked and possibly a bit enlightened.

For more information, visit www. frontrangeboxing.com or call 303-5469747.

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erno turned around, the spotlights were on him and he was shadowboxing, getting ready to walk out to the ring for his fight, and he looked at me and said, ‘Bro, you all right?’ I’ve never heard of a fighter asking the coach if he was all right before a fight,” says Trevor Wittman, owner of Denver’s Grudge Training Center. And he’d been recruited by veteran boxer Verno Phillips to work the other side of Tate Zandstra the ropes — coaching, rather than fighting.

Wittman opened Grudge after a painful period in his life: He had suffered a lung injury during a fight that shattered his amateur boxing career.

“It was a very hard time for me. I couldn’t box anymore, I was going through a child custody battle, and I just felt really down all the time, but I went back to the gym finally and started hitting mitts with the guys and just fell in love with it,” he says. So he put together an amateur boxing team training fighters out of his basement. He turned out really good fighters, boxers going up to the national level.

“So I got out of my basement and opened a gym up on Jewell and Parker, which was like 3,000 square feet and I called it ‘T’s KO Boxing.’”

About six months later, Phillips came and asked if he could use Wittman’s gym to hit the bags.

“I said, ‘No problem,’ and he hit the bags for about two or three days, and then asked me if I wanted to hit the mitts with him,” Wittman says. Phillips was feeling him out. A couple weeks later, he asked Wittman if he wanted to coach.

“I never had any aspirations to coach, and I didn’t know anything about professional boxing,” Wittman says.

Pacing, rules, strategies and duration are all very different between the amateur and professional levels, but when Verno Phillips says you’re ready…

“Inside my head I was like, ‘I’m not ready for this,’ but outside I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, no problem,’” Wittman

says. They had a fight coming up in three weeks, a co-main event on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights. It was a huge test for an amateur boxer recently turned coach.

The promoter asked Phillips who Wittman was, then replied, “Who, that young guy? He don’t look like a coach.”

Wittman’s fighter pulled up his shirt, flexed his abs, and said, “He got me this.”

In his seventh round, they brought Wittman on air for an interview.

“I was so nervous, I was stuttering. …

Every time I see that interview now, I laugh,” Wittman says.

That time they lost the fight, Wittman says, but he learned a lot from the experience, gained more fighters and went on to have success after success with fighters winning championships.

In 2002, legendary Muay Thai Duane Ludwig walked in Wittman’s doors and asked for training for his upcoming MMA (mixed martial arts) fight against three-time Ultimate Fighting Championship winner Jens Pulver.

“We went up to Montreal and Duane stomped Jens in the first round and we got that world title,” Wittman says.

It opened the door to more MMA success. Veteran UFC champion Nate Marquardt joined Wittman’s team some three years afterward, and Wittman opened Grudge Training Center. Now, six years later, Marquardt is the head trainer, Ludwig is the Muay Thai trainer, and the gym has a stable of established and up-and-coming fighters both in MMA and boxing.

“From 4 o’clock on, though it’s not a fight gym. It’s totally open to the public,” Wittman says. “There’s not another gym in Colorado that can compare to the facility we have, whether you want boxing, MMA, Brazilian, Jiu Jitsu, core classes, yoga. It’s a great place to come in, work on self defense, get in great shape, gain confidence, whatever you’re looking for in the martial arts, come and get it from worldclass fighters.”

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One of these things is not like the others. Unless, of course, your name is Laurie Robin and you recently decided to forego your career and master’s degree in physical therapy to start a cakebaking business.

Robin started the Bella Moon Cakery in November, and currently runs the busicourtesy of Laurie Robin ness from her home and a small rented kitchen in Longmont. Though an organic cake business isn’t the newest thing to hit Boulder, Robin’s journey to the cake-baking business was not quite so normal.

“The funny thing is, I come from a family that does not cook or bake,” Robin says. “‘Homemade’ meant that you got a Betty Crocker cake from the box. So when I first Laurie Robin works on one of her creations. told my mom that I was baking cakes actually from scratch, and not from the Betty Crocker box, she was shocked.”

About 10 years ago, midway through graduate school for physical therapy in Massachusetts, Robin spent a summer in Denver. Like many who visit Colorado, she loved it, and contemplated dropping out of school to stay.

“Eventually I decided I had to go back and finish,” Robin says. “But the day I finished I drove right back out here, and I’ve been here ever since.”

Robin spent her first years in Colorado doing physical therapy, and started volunteering with the Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram outside of Boulder. At the yoga ashram, volunteers are asked to do whatever is needed, whether they have a background in it or not, Robin says. The ashram asked Robin to cook for them, and she was excited to learn,

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or the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing some recipes that, in retrospect, haven’t been the healthiest options.

Sure, pizza, in moderation, especially with a mostly wheat crust, probably isn’t going to result in an upgrade in coffin size and a rush order, but it’s not what I would consider healthy.

So this week, I wanted to do something fast, easy and healthy. Cue the kale.

Kale is wonderful stuff.

Not only does it taste great braised in stock, but it’s a far more robust stand-in for spinach in dishes like lasagna and ravioli.

However, I meet so many people who aren’t down with kale, and their reasons come off as disingenuous excuses.

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but wasn’t quite cut out to be a gourmet chef.

“It just turned out that I really was not a cook,” Robin says. “But on the side, I would also do all the desserts. And then all these fabulous desserts were coming out, so as time went on they were like, ‘OK, you’re definitely a baker, not a cook.’ And everything just kind of snowballed from there.”

Robin cut her physical therapy time from 24 hours per week to eight, then finally broke the news to her clients that she would be starting a business — not a physical therapy business, as they assumed, but a cake-baking business.

“When they heard I was opening a cake business they said, ‘Cake baking? You have a master’s degree and now you’re going to go bake cakes?’” Robin says. “I’m just going with the flow, this feels like a natural thing, and I love it. I still love physical therapy, its not like I hated my job and I was looking for something else. But this was just coming through and now I’m going for it.”

The cake flavors that the Bella Moon Cakery offers are what you might expect from any cake bakery. Chocolate with chocolate ganache, carrot with cream cheese frosting, lemon with lavender; nothing particularly out of the ordinary.

What is out of the ordinary, however, is the baker’s opinion on sugar.

“The thing about my cakes is that I make them with the smallest amount of sugar possible,” Robin says. “I just experiment with the recipes. I’ve been making the chocolate cake the longest, and every time I just cut the sugar down more and more, until I get to the point where I can’t cut it down any longer because then it wouldn’t be considered cake anymore.”

A cake without much sugar? Why eat a slice of cake if you’re not going to spend the next hour in a frosting-induced coma?

But Robin sticks to her guns, or spatulas, and says that most of her clients actually like her less-sugar approach. The cakes taste more natural, she says, and you can eat more than one bite without bouncing off the walls of your office for the

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ack in high school, a friend bric-a-brac. Friends Maureen, Cynthia, of mine worked at a Doug and I recently piled into a comWashington, D.C., beverage fortable upholstered booth underneath emporium called tasteful photographs for breakfast. The Georgetown Coffee and Tea. gentlemanly proprietor promptly filled Smart aleck that he was, he’d respond our mugs with old-school Farmers to customers who Brothers coffee. asked if the shop Due to his attentive carried coffee by yet unobtrusive serSanta Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. proclaiming, “Why, vice, he never let 33 South Main St., Longmont that’s our middle me see the bottom name!” For those of my cup during who asked if he had tea, he’d turn the meal. around and feign surprise at a conspicuDoug ordered up the Santa Fe skilous stack of the beverage. let, an $8.25 blend of bacon, chorizo, Despite my friend’s inherent snidepotato, bell pepper and onion. ness, I’ll admit I appreciate a business Generously proportioned and presented with a name that unambiguously idenpiping hot, as any self-respecting skillet tifies what it offers. Such is the case should be, this breakfast’s ingredients, with Longmont’s to-the-point Santa Fe including eggs, were all perfectly preCoffee & Burrito Co. This welcoming pared, no mean feat given the differing breakfast and lunch spot features cafcooking times of each element. feine ranging from classic diner coffee Cynthia’s $8.25 breakfast burrito to espresso drinks and hearty, New arrived freighted with chorizo. More Mexico-influenced meals. than enough for two meals, there was The cozy space, formerly occupied plenty of sausage, and it wasn’t the

by Swanky Franks, is unpretentious and grease sink that one would expect it to comfortable, and thankfully, the manbe. Like the skillet, the eggs, tortilla agement has resisted the temptation to and high-quality meat were balanced in go overboard on clichéd Southwestern terms of taste, although the texture was

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a touch dry.

Maureen enjoyed her $7.25 Huevos Rancheros, topped with a not-too-spicy green chile that tasted as if it had been enriched by chicken broth. Regardless of the ingredient composition, this Southwest gravy was one of the smoother and more flavorful versions I’ve had in recent memory. Equally laudable were the home fries, which Maureen dubbed the genuine article.

Indeed, these spuds lived up to the ideal described by iconoclastic food writer John Thorne in his book Serious Pig. Golden crisp on the outside, these potatoes conveyed buttery flavor and darn near fluffy insides.

My selection of the $7.50 enchilada and eggs was an exercise in unfussy balance. The tangy red ranchera sauce served as a mellowing influence on the compelling richness of the cheesy enchiladas. Attention to detail was also evident in the preparation of the eggs, which I had ordered sunny side up.

Sides of Spanish rice and smooth, nottoo-salty refried beans rounded out this dish.

My only service quibble arose when I went to pay the tab at the register, and

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he green chile at the Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. comes from a New Mexico recipe, and indeed this dish is a staple of Southwest cuisine.

Eaten alone or slathered on anything from eggs to burgers, green chile traces its roots back for centuries. In The Whole Chile Pepper Book, authors Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach note the claim that the Spanish introduced chile peppers at the time of Santa Fe’s founding in 1598.

However, it’s more likely that chiles had established themselves in the region centuries before that, the product of indigenous people trading with populations in what’s now Mexico.

noticed a board listing the day’s specials. We hadn’t been informed by the staff of these selections, which included a chicken-fried steak sauced with both gravy and green chile. In retrospect, that was probably just as well, since I was likely better off having something healthier than fried beef. That concern aside, this eatery certainly lives up to the promise of its name, and delivers on both the bottomless coffee and lipsmacking, reasonably priced Southwestern fare.

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“When hunger strikes, the last thing I want to do is read through a list of unpronounceable ingredients. That’s why I’ve created a candy bar you can feel good about eating,” says founder and CEO Justin Gold. “Satisfaction, simplified.”

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Parsons worked as a winemaker in New Zealand and went to the school of Oenology at the University of Adelaide in Australia before coming to Colorado to work on the Western Slope. In 2008, he started his own “urban winery” in Denver.

Four wines will be poured at the free class, where participants sip, swill and engage in a group Q&A. All participants will receive 15 percent off their wine purchases.

The class will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at the shop, at 2690 Broadway in Boulder. To RSVP, call 303-443-6761, and for more information see www.boulderwine.com.

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In honor of daylight savings time, on Sunday, March 11, Cured will open an hour early, at 10 a.m., and will offer a 30 percent discount on all store items for one hour, until 11 a.m.

Cured is also hosting “101 Education Series: Food and Wine Pairing” at 5:30 p.m. on March 8. For those who have always wondered what wine to pour with dinner or which bottle to open to complement dessert, the hour-long workshop covers the basics of wine and food pairing. Participants will receive 10 percent off everything in the store, located at 1825 B Pearl St. The cost is $50; to RSVP call 720-389-8096. For more information, visit www.curedboulder.com.

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Though she might be on her way to a successful cake business, Robin doesn’t have her heart set on being the Food Network’s next “Cake Boss.”

“I don’t even own a TV, so I don’t really get much into those reality cake shows. I’ve only watched a couple episodes online,” Robin says. “I think a lot of times those shows are just all about the drama. I like the cake part, but I’m not into the drama. It’s entertaining, but that’s not why I’m in it. I just want to make cake that’s healthy and that tastes good. I don’t care about winning a competition.”

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ence the taste of her cakes.

“She puts a lot of love into it, and she’s a longtime meditator, so you can really see that she puts a lot of conscious energy and presence into her cake,” Fortin says. “You know, you can tell the difference when somebody makes food, whether they’re making it with love or they’re making it when they’re in a bad mood. You can almost taste it.”

Whether or not you can really taste energy or get into a good mood by eating one of the Bella Moon Cakery’s creations is a an open question. But one thing is for certain: If you’re not happy with your cake, you can always ask for some physical therapy instead.

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phones, no less, when asked why they wouldn’t vote for him, all said some amalgamation of “I don’t know. There’s just something about him.”

Now last time I checked, this country doesn’t have a tradition of oppressing kale. The nutrientrich green wasn’t relegated to the back of produce aisles 50 years ago. And the people I know who have an inexplicable dislike of kale aren’t even old white folks.

Maybe it’s ignorance.

There is apparently such a big problem with unabashed kale hate that I’ve even seen marketing campaigns, replete with misguided slogans — a T-shirt I saw the other day read: “I [kale leaf] kale.”

I guess that’s supposed to be a play on “I [heart] NYC.” Notice, though, in this latter example, an image of a heart is used to replace the word heart, which I think we can all agree makes perfect sense.

The veggie campaign does make a point, though. I mean, we should all kale kale.

Not only is kale delicious cooked, as long as it hasn’t been boiled mercilessly all day, but it is a wonderful and refreshing raw delight.

Yes, raw kale.

A kale salad is a perfect accompaniment to a rich meal. But it has enough nutrients that it can be a meal all on its own.

And if the taste and the fact that it’s good for you aren’t enough, you can make the salad well in advance of a meal, because kale won’t get soggy and gross if it sits dressed for a few hours.

Kale salad

Makes enough for about 4 small salads

One bunch of kale 2 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar (Please buy the good stuff. It makes a world of difference.)

1 garlic clove 1 tsp. lemon juice Salt and pepper to taste Any hard cheese (I prefer Parrano Robusto in this salad, but get whatever you like) Note: Salads fail because people blindly add ingredients.

So please add one thing, then taste a leaf. It will ensure a welldressed and delicious result.

First, remove the spines of the kale leaves. You’ll be chewing them all night if you leave them on. You can keep them if you plan on making stock. After the spines have been removed, I usually tear each leaf into pieces no bigger than 3 x 3 inches.

Place leaves into a large mixing bowl and add olive and balsamic and toss. You want to coat all the leaves. The great thing about kale is that it won’t soak up the oil too much, so you can’t really over-dress. But we only want a hint of the balsamic, so make sure to taste a leaf after and adjust accordingly.

Add the lemon juice. Taste.

Either finely mince the garlic clove or put it through a press. You want little bits to cling to the leaves, but a mouthful of garlic will ruin the whole dish.

Salt and pepper to taste, and finish it off with thin shavings of the hard cheese (I use a potato peeler, but apparently they make tools especially for this). Enjoy.

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hile Laudisio is best known for its Italian-influenced lunches and dinners, it certainly satisfies with its solidly constructed brunch menu on the weekends. Offerings include egg-based dishes such as a Hazel Dell mushroom frittata, such sweet choices as a perfectly balanced lemon ricotta pancake, and breakfast pizzas topped with prosciutto. Other noteworthy items include the hearty steak and eggs sided with homefries, and the piping hot Italian-style donut holes.

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Pearl Street Steak Room 1035 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-9604

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agyu steak is a pricey delicacy, and the Pearl Street Steak Room is a coolly retro venue where people can indulge their taste for this artisan beef. 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.

The Bitter Bar

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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.

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or those desiring a lighter, reasonably priced meal combining bar standards with a touch of gourmet, try the small plates menu at the North Boulder location of Murphy’s. Marked down for happy hour, this menu includes south of the border specialties like Six Bite Nachos, larger than the name suggests. Other winning options here include the falling-off-the-bone Caribbean pork ribs with habanero mango sauce and the smoked salmon with brie on crostini.

Aloy Thai Cuisine

2720 Canyon Blvd., Boulder 303-440-2903

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ormerly Chy Thai, Aloy Thai Cuisine claims the same ownership and food as its predecessor with an upgraded dining room. Indeed, the solid Thai selections of the old venue live on, and the lunch menu provides an oppor tunity to enjoy several classic choices for less than $9. Lunch highlights include the red roast chicken curry and Pad Kra Pow, a basil-scented stir-fry.

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oulder’s Shine is the newest venture from the Emich triplets, late of Trilogy fame. Shine is a bar and restaurant as well as a performance and gathering space showcasing everything from world music concerts to yoga classes. The menu features healthful offerings ranging from locally sourced, grass-fed beef burgers to meatless jackfruit tacos. There is also a selection of housemade beer, and various elixirs and potions flavored with herbs and touted for their restorative qualities.

he Grateful Dead is the main influence on the ambience at Minglewood, a new eatery primarily catering to a lunchtime worker crowd near 55th and Arapahoe.

Hot and cold sandwiches, entrée salads and a rotating selection of soups and desserts make up the bulk of the menu. Rotating special highlights include the lamb meatball panini and cream of red pepper soup.

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5a Bistro and Sushi is a worthwhile addition to the East County dining scene. It provides an opportunity for a reasonably priced lunch prepared with care, an intriguing small plate meal, or a dinner combining comforting home cooking with gourmet flair. Winning small plate choices, none of which cost more than $7, include clams and chorizo, braised pork over potato, and chile pepper and avocado tempura.

L’Atelier

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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.

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nder new management since last spring, Boulder’s Korea House has a newly upgraded ambience. It still serves up a menu of Japanese items such as sushi and teriyaki, as well as classic Korean specialties such as barbecue beef and short ribs. The gal bi, or short ribs, are a can’tmiss selection featuring tender beef and a marinade balancing soy, garlic and a hint of sweet.

Tossa Pizza

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“Controlled hysteria is what is required,” said playwright Arthur Miller in speaking about his creative process. “To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It’s agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.” I hope this little outburst inspires you, Aries. It’s an excellent time for you to harness your hysteria and instruct your agony in the fine art of singing. To boost your chances of success in pulling off this dicey feat, use every means at your disposal to have fun and stay amused.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves,” said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. His advice might be just what you need to hear right now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best efforts? Is there a locked door you’ve been banging on, to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Reclaim the energy you have been expending on closed-down people and moldering systems.

Instead, work on the unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

The Cherokee Heritage website wants people to know that not all Native American tribes have the same traditions.

In the Cherokee belief system, it’s Grandmother Sun and Grandfather Moon, which is the opposite of most tribes.

There are no Cherokee shamans, only medicine men and women and adawehis, or religious leaders. They don’t have “pipe carriers,” don’t do the Sun Dance, and don’t walk the “Good Red Road.” In fact, they walk the White Path, have a purification ceremony called “Going to Water,” and perform the Green Corn ceremony as a ritual renewal of life. I suggest you do a similar clarification for the group you’re part of and the traditions you hold dear, Taurus.

Ponder your tribe’s unique truths and ways. Identify them and declare them.

In this passage from Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins provides a hot tip you should keep in mind. “There are essential and inessential insanities. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety — garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo.” I’ll add this, Scorpio: Be crazily wise and wisely crazy in the coming weeks. It will be healthy for you. Honor the wild ideas that bring you joy and the odd desires that remind you of your core truths.

GEMINI

NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

I don’t think you will need literal medicine this week. Your physical vigor should be good. But I’m hoping you will seek out some spirit medicine — healing agents that fortify the secret and subtle parts of your psyche. Where do you find spirit medicine? Well, the search itself will provide the initial dose. Here are some further ideas: Expose yourself to stirring art and music and films; have conversations with empathic friends and the spirits of dead loved ones; spend time in the presence of a natural wonder; fantasize about a thrilling adventure you will have one day; and imagine who you want to be three years from now.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Artist Richard Kehl tells the story of a teenage girl who got the chance to ask a question of the eminent psychologist Carl Jung. “Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life’s goal?” Without a moment’s hesitation Jung replied, “The detour!” I invite you to consider the possibility that Jung’s answer might be meaningful to you right now, Cancerian. Have you been churning out overcomplicated thoughts about your mission? Are you at risk of getting a bit too grandiose in your plans? Maybe you should at least dream about taking a shortcut that looks like a detour or a detour that looks like a shortcut.

Each of us is the star of our own movie. There are a few other lead and supporting actors who round out the cast, but everyone else in the world is an extra. Now and then, though, people whom we regard as minor characters suddenly rise to prominence and play a pivotal role in our unfolding drama. I expect this phenomenon is now occurring or will soon occur for you, Capricorn. So please be willing to depart from the script. Open yourself to the possibility of improvisation. People who have been playing bit parts may have more to contribute than you imagine.

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An old Chinese proverb says: “My barn having burned to the ground, I can see the moon.” The speaker of those words was making an effort to redefine a total loss as a partial gain. The building may have been gone, but as a result he or she had a better view of a natural wonder that was previously difficult to observe. I don’t foresee any of your barns going down in flames, Leo, so I don’t expect you’ll have to make a similar redefinition under duress.

However, you have certainly experienced events like that in the past. And now would be an excellent time to revise your thinking about their meaning. Are you brave enough and ingenious enough to reinterpret your history? It’s findthe-redemption week.

The “cocktail party effect” refers to your ability to hear your name being spoken while in the midst of a social gathering’s cacophony. This is an example of an important practice, which is how to discern truly meaningful signals embedded in the noise of all the irrelevant information that surrounds you. You should be especially skilled at doing this in the coming weeks, Aquarius — and it will be crucial that you make abundant use of your skill. As you navigate your way through the clutter of symbols and the overload of data, be alert for the few key messages that are highly useful.

VIRGO

Shunryu Suzuki was a Zen master whose books helped popularize Zen Buddhism in America. A student once asked him, “How much ego do you need?” His austere reply was “Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.”

While I sympathize with the value of humility, I wouldn’t go quite that far. I think that a slightly heftier ego, if offered up as a work of art, can be a gift to the world. What do you think, Pisces? How much ego is good? To what degree can you create your ego so that it’s a beautiful and dynamic source of power for you and an inspiration for other people rather than a greedy, needy parasite that distorts the truth?

This is an excellent time to ruminate on such matters.

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Numerous websites on the Internet allege that Greek philosopher Plato made this statement, which I regard as highly unlikely. But in any case, the thought itself has some merit. And in accordance with your current astrological omens, I will make it your motto for the week. This is an excellent time to learn more about and become closer to the people you care for, and nothing would help you accomplish that better than getting together for intensive interludes of fooling around and messing around and horsing around.

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