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contents news and views 4/20 SMOKE-SCREEN / 6 CU’s crackdown teaches college students the wrong lesson

by Stewart Sallo ADVICE FOR A THIRSTY WORLD / 6 Bottled water may be a bigger threat to Earth than you think

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CU’S MISGUIDED 4/20 APPROACH / 9 Citizens should be allowed to protest idiotic laws on marijuana

by Paul Danish ON THE COVER: THE MAGIC BULLITT / 12 Can anything end our apathy and political fatigue when it comes to Earth Day?

by Matthew Schniper

buzz ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY / 27 Art bridges cultural divides at Communikey Festival

by David Accomazzo Overtones: Das Racist breaks ankles with wicked intellectual crossovers / 29 Overtones: Boulder Phil and Takács jam a lot into season finale / 29 Arts & Culture: Boulder music stores gear up for Record Store Day / 33 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 35 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 41 Screen: The Cabin in the Woods / 42 Cuisine: Eat, drink, shop, walk: Taste of Pearl / 45 Cooking with Cynicism: Butter get busy / 45 Cuisine Review: Royal Clay Oven / 46

departments Letters: CU should rethink 4/20 crackdown; Thanks for excellent True tribute / 5 The Highroad: Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers / 5 In Case You Missed It: Baked with fish sauce; Number 2 / 8 Boulderganic: Green sandwiches and the invasion of the carrots / 17 Adventure: Apryle Craig and Phil Magistro on kayaking to Alaska / 23 Boulder Marketplace: Your community resource / 52 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 55

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CU should rethink 4/20 crackdown

(Re: “Nipping 4/20 in the bud,” cover story, April 12.) To all CU campus administrators involved in 4/20 planning: As a CU alum I would like you to know that the majority of CU students disagree with your approach to the 4/20 event.

Your attempts to suppress civil disobedience and free speech against unjust laws only shows how out of touch you are with the feelings and desires of your student body.

Imprisoning people for non-violent protest and ruining your students’ future job prospects is rooted in an antiquated and tragically misinformed view of the marijuana plant, which has been proven safe over 50 years of scientific study.

If the CU administration wishes to stop destructive drug abuse on campus, alcohol abuse is clearly the area to address.

Let’s compare, shall we? A handful of students have literally died directly due to alcohol poisoning on campus in the past decade. The number of students who have died as a

result of 4/20 or as a result of marijuana use is, of course, zero. Rape and domestic violence, both major problems on campus, have been linked to alcohol abuse time and time again.

If CU wants to improve its reputation as an academic institution, the university should address the far more dangerous and destructive habit of alcohol abuse on campus, not marijuana.

Let’s be realistic: alcohol is killing your students, not pot!

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Thanks for the excellent True tribute

(Re: “Chasing the White Horse,”

Adventure, April 5.) With a gracious heart, I want to thank Elizabeth Miller for sharing such a beautiful story surrounding the life of Micah True.

This year’s Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon was truly a magical, joyous celebration, in a spirit of peace and harmony, uniting the running cultures of the Raramuri and International athletes.

Micah loved the sacred beauty of the mountains of Boulder. Elizabeth captured the essence of Micah’s journey among Mother Earth, and how running transcends the borders which separate our spirits.

I send my sincere thanks to all

who opened their homes and shared precious memories of Micah.

I sincerely appreciate the hospitality of Buzz Burrell, Michael Sandrock, Brian Metzler, Dan and Jane Bowers, Deborah Bezanis and Jennifer Johnson Cline, who understand the importance of continued support of all running cultures.

The Caballo Blanco Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon 2013 will be a joyous celebration!

Kuira Ba! (We are one!)

Peaceful blessings.

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Highroad Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers

by Jim Hightower

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ook out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land!

Unlike thieves of old, this gang is not out to rob bags of cash from banks and railroads. Instead, they are bankers and high-rolling railroaders who’re using their own heavy bags of cash as weapons to steal our elections and turn our government into their servant. A small group of Wall Street billionaires, for example, has

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stuffed some $20 million into a super-sized bag of cash that Mitt Romney has used to club his GOP opponents into submission. Their money has gone into a SuperPAC, appropriately named “Restore Our Future.” They definitely mean their future, not yours and mine.

Among the members of Romney’s attack-PAC are four hedge-fund hustlers who put up a million dollars or more each. Ed Conard, another million-dollar member, literally tried to be a masked robber — this Wall Streeter tried to disguise his donation by using a fake name.

Why are these high-finance billionaires riding with Romney? Because he has sworn a blood oath to protect the very special speculator’s tax break that they get for doing practically nothing of social value. Unlike most Americans, they make their

money on other people’s For more information on Jim Hightower’s money, rather than work, work — and to suband their lobbyists have scribe to his awardgouged a loophole in the winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower law allowing them to be Lowdown — visit www. taxed at less than half the jimhightower.com. rate assessed on the rest of us. President Obama is proposing to tax their income like everyone else’s, and the Kleptocrats see Romney — who, after all, is one of them — as their best bet to beat Obama and save their lucrative piece of tax favoritism.

These and other financial elites are now rearming their Restore Our Future PAC with many more million-dollar donations to buy attack ads that’ll pound Obama. These self-serving billionaire Kleptocrats are turning our elections into highway robbery.

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stew’s views 4/20 smoke-screen

by Stewart Sallo

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here are so many angles from which to contemplate the wrong that CU is perpetrating with respect to its tactics to end the “4/20 smokeout” that one hardly knows where to begin.

We should be deeply troubled by the closing of the grounds of a public university and the manner in which this suggests the limiting of vital discussions of topics that an institution of higher learning ought to be promoting, including the politics of marijuana. We should be equally troubled by the disingenuousness of the CU public relations machine, as it endeavors to obfuscate its true agenda — maintaining the success of its corporate-like business model and the flow of cash that is necessary to fulfill it — by hiding behind the illegality of marijuana and an insincere concern for “substance abuse.”

We should also be troubled by the manner in which corporate media has offered itself up as a de facto, free of charge public relations vehicle for the University. For our corporately owned daily paper to allow CU to use its headlines to convey its scare-tactic message designed to thwart free speech and our right to assemble is disturbing. Those who profit by trumpeting the value of free speech for themselves have an intense obligation to protect that same right for others. Refusing to be a mouthpiece for those who seek to limit the rights of men and women with a different point of view than those in power is a critical responsibility of the media at a time when the power of the individual is being steadily, methodically and intentionally eroded.

However, as troubling as all of that is, the greatest wrong in this entire scenario is the way the university is failing the students who have come to Boulder to learn how to take their place as the next generation of Americans by sending the unmistakable message that they should accept a passive role of conformity and submission, rather than one of vision, leadership and activism.

Whatever one believes about the politics of marijuana, we all must agree that American citizens have the inalienable right to gather and protest on behalf of what they believe is right — for themselves and for our society. And among all of the styles of protest, that of gathering with other like-minded individuals in a “strength in numbers” manner to speak 6 April 19, 2012

truth to power is the most important to protect, as it is within the safety of such a protest that citizens are truly empowered to let their voices be heard.

Alongside the many educational opportunities that must accompany a college education, becoming involved in political causes and student activism are an essential part of the curriculum. In that regard, the “4/20 smokeout” has been nothing less than a brilliant feather in the cap of the University of Colorado Boulder. For within the context of this annual tradition lies a ready-made model for CU students to learn how to protest what they believe to be unjust.

How many universities can boast that kind of educational opportunity?

In choosing the approach that has been so carefully strategized by the University and so well publicized in the Camera, both of these entities have shown their true colors. Clearly, CU cares more about how its national reputation as a “party school” might be bad for business than it does about offering a true, realpolitik educational opportunity for its students. As for the Camera, this serves as yet another example of the way in which corporate media is increasingly becoming just another tool in the toolbox of deceit being utilized by the public relations departments of powerful corporate and corporate-like entities.

And what of the message that this sends to CU students who have, ostensibly, come to Boulder to be exposed to the highest, most progressive and advanced version of human thought, research, reflection and consciousness?

What do our impressionable youth — the ones we are counting on to solve the weighty problems with which we will entrust them as they take up the torch of a society that was created to reflect the highest set of principles in the history of human civilization — learn from this event? Do they learn that we live in a society that guarantees fundamental rights, such as freedom of speech and the right to assemble? Or do they learn the disillusioning and disempowering “truth” that in America we merely pay lip service to the freedoms that are necessary for student activism to continue to flourish? Do they learn that one must stand strong for one’s beliefs and fight against injustice in the world? Or do they learn that taking a stand for what one believes in and

uncensored Advice for a thirsty world

by Pamela White

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hat if all you had to do to change the world for the better was drink a glass of water? A glass of water.

If you drank a glass of water, you wouldn’t be drinking pre-bottled water. And that would be good not only for the environment, but also for your health.

Though most of us have heard that drinking pre-bottled water is wasteful

of resources, few of us understand just how harmful pre-bottled water — and the business of bottling water — is for our little blue planet.

Let’s start with the product. Most people assume that water sold in plastic bottles is specially purified or safer than tap water. Not true. Much of the water sold in bottles is taken from municipal water see WATER Page 8

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BAKED WITH FISH SAUCE News about CU using fish fertilizer on Norlin Quad to deter would-be pot-smokers on 4/20 made national news this week. And we thought the whole point of cracking down on 4/20 was to get negative news about CU out of the headlines.

One of the many questions we have is whether seafood stench will still be in effect on Sunday the 22nd, when the Quad will play host to an Earth Day event celebrating the CU Environmental Center’s 40th anniversary. So we asked CU spokesperson Bronson Hilliard.

“I would think two full days in the open air, it would be weakened to the point where people could have an enjoyable time on Earth Day,” he said, adding that the campus uses the fertilizer every year. “We apply it in the springtime any way, but we have a nice coincidence that we can use it as an extra deterrent for [4/20].”

Wonder what other First Amendment rights that fish fertilizer could have been used to quash. A couple of gallons in Ward Churchill’s office might have kept him from writing his infamous 9/ll screed. A little fish juice might have put the kibosh on Adrienne

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Anderson and her pesky students’ environmental work, and maybe even Phil Mitchell, that CU instructor who was deemed too conservative.

Instead of giving former football coach Gary Barnett a few million bucks to go away, we could have stymied his sexist comments about Katie Hnida by hosing him down with fish entrails.

CU may have solved all of its problems. And it’s all thanks to those 4/20 stoners.

Hilliard also addressed the commonly held myth that the Wyclef Jean concert at the Coors Events Center was simply being used as a roach motel.

“One rumor is that the administration is using the Coors Events Center as a way to herd kids in, not let them out, and bust them all for marijuana,” Hilliard said, explaining that the concert was completely conceived and organized by the student fee-funded Program Council.

“Categorically, it was not the administration’s idea. The idea for the concert was hatched by the students, for the students. In fact, we all raised our eyes, like ‘Wow, we want to have two things going on at once?’”

NUMBER 2 Here’s an item that was deposited on our desk this week.

Apparently, there’s this outfit in Denver that specializes in picking up dog poop.

Yes, a service called Pet Scoop claims to have logged more than 31.6 million piles of canine caca in its 18-year history.

All you have to do is plop down about $10 a week.

“With over 469,000 doggie households in the Denver metro area, 40 percent having two or more dogs, and each canine companion pooping roughly twice a day — that’s a lot of doody,” their press release grunts.

They must get a lot of business dumped on them in Cherry Creek, where people have a big enough wad that they can pass their time in other ways, like watching cable.

The company is marking its onemillionth yard cleanup today by laying gifts — like a free year of service — on one lucky client at 10 b.m. We can’t drop her name, or we’ll soil the surprise.

But we can release what kind of dog she has.

It’s a Shih Tzu, of course.

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Patch, a vortex of litter formed by ocean currents that carry and concentrate trash in a specific area of the ocean.

Located roughly 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N, most of this garbage soup is made up of hardy plastics, which not only contain toxins, but are also capable of absorbing other environmental toxins. Marine wildlife ingest some of the plastic, and those chemicals get passed throughout the marine food chain and back to the species responsible for the mess in the first place. That’s us.

If all of that isn’t enough to persuade you to stop buying bottled water, perhaps taking a look at the corporate angle will. While the world stands on the brink of a potable water shortage with people literally dying every day due to lack of access to clean water, big corporations are buying water rights so that they can package that water and sell it.

This commodification of water — also under heavy demand from the gas and oil industry, as we saw recently in Colorado, where high-rolling frackers bought water shares that used to go to farmers — raise troubling questions about whether access to water is a human right or whether this most pre-

cious necessity can be controlled for the sake of profit.

When it comes to the evils of pre-bottled water, I’m just scratching the surface.

But Tapped, a film by director/producer Stephanie Soechtig, takes an in-depth look at the damage our consumption of pre-bottled water has on the environment, on our water supply and our health.

In honor of the 42nd celebration of Earth Day, Eco-Cycle will be screening Tapped on Sunday, April 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Eco-Cycle Executive Director Eric Lombardi, and the event launches Eco-Cycle’s latest campaign, Choose to Reuse, which aims to combat the use of wasteful products such as pre-bottled water.

For those who can’t make the screening, here’s the gist: Quit buying pre-bottled water entirely. Use reusable lightweight stainless steel water bottles instead. It’s easy to do. It’s better for you.

And it’s better for the environment.

For more information about the screening, Eco-Cycle’s full schedule of Earth Day events or the Choose to Reuse program, visit www.ecocycle.org/earthday.

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sources, i.e., the same sources that provide water to your kitchen tap.

And for that, you pay more than you pay for gasoline.

What most people are paying for, of course, is convenience. A bottle of water is a quick way to quench your thirst when you’re out and about. They fit nicely in your car’s beverage holder, your gym bag, your backpack. The big businesses that sell bottled water portray their product as being part of a healthy lifestyle. But that plastic container might be providing you with more than you bargain for.

Most bottled water in the United States comes in packaging that contains bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates or peraxylene (PET), all of which leach from the containers into the water and which have been shown to contribute to cancers and other diseases.

And although Boulder is big on recycling, fewer than 20 percent of plastic water bottles are actually recycled nationwide. The rest make their way into landfills, where they leach toxins into the soil, or they contribute to our terrible litter and pollution problems, including the Great Pacific Garbage

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danish plan CU’s misguided 4/20 approach

by Paul Danish

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U has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year.

It appears to have gotten it from North Korea.

The strategy involves 1) hermetically sealing the campus borders to prevent the entry of corrupting outsiders, 2) arresting and prosecuting anyone who penetrates the cordon sanitaire, and 3) fertilizing the Norlin Quad, where the pot smoking has occurred in recent years, with a fish-based fertilizer, which presumably stinks.

In addition to securing the borders of the Hermit University, rounding up any undesirables who might sneak in, and spraying the 4/20 venue with the next best thing to Agent Orange, one final stratagem will be deployed: Shortly before the 4:20 hour, the CU student body will be lured into a concrete bunker (aka the Coors Events Center) with the promise of a free concert by a former candidate for the presidency of Haiti.

The performer and ex-candidate is hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean — who advocates marijuana legalization. The concert is going to cost $150,000.

It’s not clear how much the fish fertilizer will cost.

So why is CU going to all this trouble to stop an event that has generally caused less trouble than a run-of-the-mill rowdy apartment party?

According to CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano, “The gathering disrupts teaching and research right in the heart of the campus. The size of the crowd has become unmanageable, and limits our faculty, staff and students from getting to class, entering buildings and doing their basic work. It needs to end.”

I think he’s being a bit disingenuous.

Disrupts teaching and research, huh?

What does he think hosing down the quad with liquid lutefisk will do? Not that CU is exactly a beehive of teaching and research on Friday afternoons at 4:20 p.m.

Give me a break.

The truth, of course, is CU wants to be rid of the 4/20 pot party because it involves massive law-breaking, and the school’s inability to prevent it is an ongoing reproach to the competence and legitimacy of the CU administration. And that, in turn, can have real consequences for the university’s funding and independence.

DiStefano should have the candor to acknowledge that much. If he did, he might get more cooperation from his stuBoulder Weekly

dent body on 4/20 than he’s getting now.

College students admire candor.

I’m guessing CU’s decision to go after the 4/20 rally was influenced by the City of Boulder’s successful campaign to get rid of the annual Halloween Pearl Street

Mall Crawl some years ago. But there is a big difference. The Mall Crawl didn’t have a political component to it. The 4/20 event does, and it isn’t a trivial one.

The 4/20 rally’s party atmosphere masks the evil of the thing it is protesting.

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The most substantive thing it has accomplished is to sow the seeds of distrust between people and police, employees and employers, and children and parents — and to spread corruption throughout society. The one thing it hasn’t done is reduce pot use. Today there are 20 million or 30 million users.

The 4/20 rally involves law-breaking, but it also involves civil disobedience that is just as moral and just as justified as the civil disobedience that was directed against segregation two generations ago.

CU should have the candor to acknowledge that as well.

And then there’s this: This year’s 4/20 rally marks the first time more Americans favor legalizing marijuana than oppose legalizing it.

This has been confirmed by at least three national polls and a slew of state and local polls in the last eight months.

The most recent was a national survey, released by Rasmussen on March 30, that found 47 percent of those surveyed favored legalizing and taxing marijuana “to help solve America’s fiscal problems.”

Forty-two percent were opposed.

A Gallup survey taken last October found legalization was favored by a 50 percent to 46 percent margin. An Angus Reid survey taken last August also showed support for legalization, 55 percent to 40 percent.

In Colorado, where a legalization initiative will be on the November ballot, a Public Policy Polling survey taken last November found legalization ahead 49 percent to 40 percent.

The important finding in this polling is not the growing support for marijuana

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legalization, which is still tentative. It is the collapse of opposition to legalization. In the past six years, opposition to legalization has dropped 15 to 20 points in most polls; only about 4 in 10 Americans still favor keeping marijuana illegal. That trend is probably irreversible, and will, in the not too distant future, lead to legalization.

Which makes one wonder why CU going to so much trouble and expense to get on the wrong side of history.

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fighting against injustice are fruitless endeavors that may result in receiving a citation that might hinder their ability to earn a living when a potential employer learns of it? Do they learn to take their place in history in a sacred chain of student activists that have fought for and achieved political, environmental, economic and social changes in areas ranging from racial discrimination to equal rights for women to injustices in the military, industrial and prison systems to war and peace, and countless other important causes? Or do they learn that powerful entities inevitably win out in the end, and that it’s better to accept things as they are than try to change them for the better?

We have many battles that lie ahead, including issues of the environment, human rights, health care, ArabWestern relations, immigration, labor, poverty, gay/lesbian rights, etc. Who is going to fight these battles in the future if we enable this unacceptable disenfranchising of the very young people whom we should be encouraging to take on the lofty goal of furthering the cause of human civilization and improving the human experience?

This is not about whether marijuana should be legalized. Rather, it is about whether we wish to empower the next generation of Americans to believe that change is possible or discourage their involvement with the notion of activism.

It is about whether we will allow the de facto corporation known as the University of Colorado to rob the Boulder community of its rights and send a dangerous message to CU students, far more dangerous than whether an innocuous drug called marijuana is smoked on campus or even whether donations to CU decrease because of its reputation as a “party school.”

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oulder Weekly has won five awards for its reporting last year from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and its annual Top of the Rockies contest.

The award winners for SPJ Region 9, which includes journalism outlets in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, were announced on April 13.

Boulder Weekly was recognized primarily for its environmental reporting on issues like genetically modified organisms (GMOs), hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and threats to water quality.

Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge won first place in environmental investigative reporting for their Dec. 15 article, “Behind the GMO curtain: Big Ag threatens war on Boulder.” Elizabeth

Miller won third place in general environmental reporting for her June 16 story, “Watershed woes: Runoff from Fourmile mines could taint local water quality.” Dodge won first place in that category for his Oct. 27 article “What the frack? Controversial oil/gas drilling digs in around Boulder County.”

Dodge also took first place in political investigative/enterprise reporting for the Oct. 20 story “Terrifying telecom tale: Corporations bankrolling fight against local network measure — again” and third place in general health reporting for his May 26 article “Clean acres: State, county crack down on fertilizing fields with sewage.”

Boulder Weekly competes against publications with circulations between 10,000 and 75,000.

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n response to Boulder Weekly’s “Ghosts of Valmont Butte” series and concerns from several local activist groups, City of Boulder officials have issued written memos defending their approach to remediating the property.

On March 30, Joe Castro, the city’s facilities and fleet manager, sent a letter to Carol Affleck of the Valmont School District #4 Cemetery Association, Steven Moore of the Valmont Butte Heritage Alliance and LeRoy Moore of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, all of whom have raised concerns about cleanup plans at the site, in part due to the Boulder Weekly series.

In the letter, Castro reasserts many claims that Boulder Weekly has demonstrated to be questionable at best, including the idea that the only groundwater at the site is on the east end of the property and that groundwater can’t migrate to the north through the primary tailings pond’s dike dam because the Valmont dike formation is a geologic barrier.

In addition, Castro maintains that city officials know the exact location of the radioactive soils buried by the city at the site in 1971, and that updated plans call for extending the cap over the area identified by Boulder Weekly as a likely site of at least one pit. He also Boulder Weekly

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City staff sent a longer version of the Castro letter to city council on April 12 as part of its “weekly information packet.” Boulder Weekly has prepared a point-by-point response to that memo, incorporating excerpts from an EPA report as evidence that contradicts the city’s claims.

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Our times are similar to those which launched Earth Day in 1970. But can anything trigger an end to our apathy and political fatigue this time around?

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o try listing all of the impressive bullet points in Denis Hayes’ career as an environmentalist is like trying to count all the sunflowers in a 30-acre field. Let’s just say it begins with his national coordination of the first Earth Day in 1970, which was to influence millions of people and later spread to more than 180 countries, becoming the largest secular holiday on the planet.

Hayes was only 25 years old then, but within the decade would serve under President Jimmy Carter as the head of the Solar Energy Research Institute (today called the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). He’d also practice law, teach at Stanford University, serve on gobs of boards and earn recognition from scores of nonprofits, including the Sierra Club and the National Wildlife Federation.

Now 67, Time magazine’s “Hero of the Planet” circa 1999 is president and CEO of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, which encourages sustainable development as a core mission, and is currently in the process of constructing “the greenest commercial building in the world.” It’s a $30 million project that aims to yield an energy- and waterneutral space that incorporates everything from geothermal and solar energies to sustainable and non-toxic materials, with a goal to “still make sense 250 years from now.”

As it’s built, Bullitt will freely share information about the project, hoping others will replicate it. The foundation will also share a database of more than 350 chemicals common to construction that are toxic at some point in their life cycles, all of which will be avoided there. Hayes notes that he had one employee work for more than a year 12 April 19, 2012

and a half just to identify all those chemicals, in the process spurring some manufacturers to clean up their formulations.

It’s just this type of positive change that defined the inaugural Earth Day so many years ago. People from all camps and political parties and backgrounds found common ground. Congress acted.

Legislation such as the Clean Water and Clean Air acts were passed, and the Environmental Protection Agency was born.

As inspiration worth remembering today: Change did occur on a grand scale, and it all started with people in the streets.

In the following interview, he discusses the era of that change, as well as today’s efforts and initiatives.

Q: Were you surprised by the overwhelming participation in the first Earth Day in 1970?

A: I’d hoped we might be something that was, if we were really lucky, comparable to the Vietnam moratorium, which was in maybe a dozen cities across the country and probably had a

million, maybe more than a million, participating. Compared to that, [the engagement in] Earth Day was vastly greater.

But the momentum was building sufficiently by March and going into April. We knew that it was going to be very big. ...

The one point where I actually did have the first sort of startled response was, I went up to New York and addressed the crowd that the New York organizers had put together. Mayor [ John] Lindsay had given them the great lawn on Central Park and shut down Sixth Avenue, and it was a million people. And the first time that you climb up onto a 40-foot-high stage and glance out at a crowd of a million people, stretching way beyond where your eye can see the end, that is pretty awesome.

Q: Vietnam was such a hard-fought campaign. I’m told that there was something different when Earth Day came around, that it was so positive.

Can you contextualize it for those of us not around then?

A: It was the end of the ’60s, which

was a remarkable decade in American history and in Western history. We had student riots all over Western Europe, on a wide variety of issues. And in the United States, the anti-war movement was moving into a phase where basically nothing had worked to end the war, so people were moving out of the mass demonstrations and getting really depressed.

We’d driven a president out of the office in 1968 — gotten rid of Lyndon Johnson, only to find ourselves with Richard Nixon — and basically you then had this shift over to The Weathermen and Symbionese Liberation Army and other groups that were relatively small and relatively violent — bomb factories in a lot of places.

The Civil Rights movement similarly had begun, with Southern preachers talking about Gandhi-esque passive civil disobedience. They got the shit beaten out of them by Southern sheriffs, using police dogs. And young people who were deeply committed to the values were lying there and suddenly watching their girlfriends being assaulted.

At some point, that too devolved in a different direction from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and more toward the Black Panthers. And the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee started carrying guns. And then students were taking over dormitories at Cornell [University], carrying carbines.

Earth Day, while it had clear values of things that it was promoting, also had clearly demarked lines between the things that it opposed, and much of what it was all about was this difference between how we were measuring ourselves as a nation — in some large measure then, by gross domestic product.

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nation ... simply weren’t ranks that are as depressed encompassed in this ecoabout the effectiveness of nomic thing. The progress government as they were that we were bringing was, back in the 1960s. in a great many ways, the Where in the 1960s that stuff that left people less led us to non-governmental happy, less fulfilled, less protest, the current youth — healthy. with very notable excepSo what we did with tions, sociologically, generiEarth Day organizationally cally as a category, the was create a home for most Millennials — tend to be everybody that was prepared much more into individual to affiliate itself with those actions. Into stuff like going sets of values without forcout and building a house for ing any particular issue on Habitat for Humanity or anyone. Which is to say if planting some trees or pickyou were an inner-city coming up some litter or somemunity that was about to thing, as opposed to orgahave a freeway torn through nizing demonstrations. your neighborhood, then Because they just don’t have you needed an Earth Day much hope that the political Denis Hayes’ history of activism prepped that had to do with fighting system will be responsive. him for his Earth Day work. freeways. If you were in a That’s the sort of stuff that Above, speaking at an Earth Day rally in place [where] the disappearbobs and weaves constantly 1970, and, at right, organizing in the Earth Day offices. ance of bird life due to in the yin and yang of politDDT and other pesticides ical processes. We will get was the big issue, then you kinds of social networking and technol- takes place by getting consumers to through this period as well. did it about that. Much of America was ogy, some of which I probably don’t Ordinarily the kinds of things that make more intelligent choices — it’s focused upon clean air in part because it even know about, that are hugely pownot all about political power. In a sense, are the crystal in the supersaturated solution that causes a fundamental was so easy to dramatize by having erful and effectively free. In a little bit it’s like doing in energy what was done change to happen when you drop that everybody wear gas masks. of interregnum, we don’t know what’s when computational technology and crystal in tends to be some big, dramatFrom the world population explogoing to come out at the end of it, and informational technologies got rid of ic event that the media focuses on for a sion to saving a local thicket, there were most of the stuff has thus far not been everything from carbon paper to tradithousands of issues that people seized terribly effective except to calling atten- tional telephones to typewriters to what very long time. And mobilizes enough people who are just so upset by the staupon. In a sense it was a unique form of tion to things. Though that itself is an have you. They basically just got pretus quo that they are susceptible to organizing, in that as long as you subimportant thing to do. empted by something that was better. I scribed to the central tenets of what it In those days though, organizing being organized to demand change. think some of that will be occurring in was about, you got to fashion an event was mostly a matter of sweat That is the sort of thing that that could be a march, a demonstration, equity. It was the simple busihistorically I would have a litter pick-up, a teach-in, could be ness just like you do with the expected to come out of a Gulf anything on whatever issue you chose ground forces in a political oil spill. I would have expected that reflected those values. That just campaign today. It’s a matter to come out of a Fukushima. ...

The war was an important part of Earth unleashed a level of creativity. It was of compiling names, finding But by and large, as these Day. As was racial injustice, rats in the almost a crowd-sourced event. out who actually delivered on have come through, the soluinner cities, lead paint on poor people’s Q: How did your dissent of the war things that they promised, tion has not been supersaturathouses that was peeling off and being inform your environmental dissent? building Rolodexes, getting ed, and these things have not eaten by infants, and on and on.

A: As a preface, let me say that telephone trees. ... caused that yet to happen. And It was a matter of commitmost of the national organizers of in part because the fatigue goes ting yourself to working for Earth Day cut their teeth in the antifrom everything to sub-prime peanuts to try to bring about something the energy space as well. war movement or the Civil Rights housing to the collapse of the economy, Edward Celias that was good. But there were no great movement or Hispanic Rights movevery high unemployment rates, all kinds The difficult thing is that our polisecrets about it, other than if you’ve ment. So they brought the organizing cies have generally been designed to try of international threats, some of them been through it a few times, you know skills and the contacts that they had, environmental ... It’s just difficult to get to get people who are current major enough to get crowd insurance. You and as a consequence when we talked something that captures the attention players in that space to bring in new about the environment, the speeches know enough to have Port-O-Potties long enough in a way that motivates technologies. And by and large, the talked about the defoliation of lined up, you know enough to have people by letting them really recognize major players have such enormous Southeast Asia — the complete ravagsome people trained as the folks who’ll investments in the existing technologies how immediate it is to their own welling of the fertile mangroves and replac- suppress violence if it breaks out in the being. If the Gulf oil spill didn’t do it, that they’ve had very little incentive to ing them with barren forests of bamcrowd, and that kind of stuff. it’s really difficult to figure out what do something that would pre-empt boo, just because that’s what grew up would.

Q: In a teaser for the upcoming them. after you fire-bombed everything with Q: When is the tentative finish date documentary film about the fossil fuel Q: Addressing that particular comnapalm. industry, Greedy Lying Bastards, you ment about “rising up,” and speaking as for the new Bullitt Foundation buildThe war was an important part of ing? are featured saying, “The only way that the man who took Earth Day to 180 Earth Day. As was racial injustice, rats A: The end of November. We hope in the United States the climate issue countries, how do you think we should in the inner cities, lead paint on poor to have the building ready for occupanwill be resolved, I’m afraid, is not by start organizing? You just spoke of the people’s houses that was peeling off and courageous leadership on the part of cy before the beginning of next year. times 42 years ago, but what about being eaten by infants, and on and on.

Q: Are you sure that you’ll actually our leaders, it’s gonna be by the people today? How do we combat green It was not a displacement of one set rising up and demanding it. That’s the be the greenest in the world? fatigue? of issues, it was an expansion of the A: I don’t know any other building only thing that can overcome the forces A: It’s not just green fatigue. It’s kinds of things we were talking about. arrayed against them.” fatigue. There’s a whole generation of see BULLITT Page 14 We’re moving into an area now with all A: A whole lot of the displacement Americans now rising through the Boulder Weekly

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that has done all of Q: Of all the these things, and I places we could do think that the put resources now, challenge that you’ve chosen to we’re going for, the take on commerLiving Building cial buildings.

Challenge [see ilbi.

Why? org], is the toughA: We’re takest set of building ing roughly a third standards out there of our total invest... ment portfolio and The difference placing it into a between a really real estate investgood building and ment. We’ll be an average building using one half of is stunning. A one floor of a sixLEED Platinum story building. building versus a Everything else Today, Hayes focuses on sustainable conventional code- development in urban areas and cities, will be a lease. particularly in rapidly growing countries meeting building, We’ll be using it like China and India. even in a city with as a source of pretty tough codes, income to make is really big. But then we’re taking this grants off of ... That just seemed to us additional quantum leap, and we use to be a great way to use leverage. ... less than half as much energy as a But if 10 years from now, this is the LEED Platinum building. So we’re just only thing like this that has been built, trying to figure out what we can do to then it was a mistake. Because this is a push the envelope as far as we can figmission-oriented investment. We could ure out ways to do it today. get a higher rate of return on any number of other things that we could do.

Actually in your state, the new ... In order to be able to build this building that was done by NREL [the building, which would have been illegal National Renewable Energy under any number of regulations in the Laboratory, in Golden] is just a superSeattle building and regulatory context, green building. They’re fabulous. the city council passed an ordinance They’re gonna be on the energy front. that said as long as you are [reaching] a They’re doing the same sorts of things very high percentage of the goals of the we’re doing.

Living Building Challenge, you’re Q: I read on your website that this exempted from a variety of those prebuilding is based off your philosophy of scriptive regulations.

Well, that’s not mimicking nature. That “in nature, the just for our building, but for anybody more efficient an organism is in its use of energy and materials, the more likely else that wants to do this.

And the whole thing is to try to it is to survive and succeed.” begin to shift Seattle and through A: In terms of biomimicry, we did Seattle, then Portland and Vancouver not literally build it in the shape of a and from the Northwest, have the thing Douglas Fir tree. But we’re trying to spread. When we’re being really ambilearn from how nature functions and tious about where we’re going, we’d love derive things and then put that into to have this spread internationally. something that also meets the tests of ... China over the next 25 to 30 human functionality. In a sense, what years is going to be moving an estimatwe’re trying to do is have the plot of ground on which the building sits func- ed 350 million people off of agrarian areas into urban areas. If they do that tion somewhat the way it would have right, it’s a great opportunity to be havback when it had that native Douglas ing a wonderful beneficial impact on Fir forest on it. the world.

The trees would have gotten all of ... What we’re trying to do, and their energy from the sun, and that will be true here as well. And the water that what various people are trying to do elsewhere, is build models that the fell on it would not have gone cascadChinese can look at and hopefully learn ing down the Puget Sound through a storm sewer system; it would have been from. We’ve got a team coming over to tour our building this fall from NDRC, absorbed into the soil. That’s what the leading Chinese regulatory agency we’re doing as well. There would have that oversees all building and developbeen no toxic materials transported to ment in the country. We had one of our the site or generated on the site, and contractors go over and address a huge that’s what we’re doing as well. It Chinese building conference about doesn’t look like a Douglas Fir forest, what we’re doing ... We’re really hoping but it achieves many of the same goals, using many of the same biological prosee BULLITT Page 15 cesses.

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to have this thing ricochet around in a way that causes change far beyond our one little building.

Q: In 2009, you proposed a “progressive consumptive tax,” where instead of taxing income, governments would tax based on how much someone consumes. And you suggested a cap on carbon emissions that would use an auction system. Have either of those ideas gained traction?

A: The progressive consumption tax has not worked anyplace. There are things that are slightly akin to it in some of the value-added taxes in Europe and Asia. They’d be relatively easy to tweak them to be more. But no ...

The global economy right now is in my view utterly dependent upon Americans consuming like crazy, often beyond their means ...

You travel anywhere, and you find that countries are investing across the board in a brighter future. In America, it’s all about reducing tax rates to give more money to people to be able to spend on current consumption of goods that they don’t need that are generally imported from China. It’s a horrible thing. But it would have the salutary effect of dramatically diminishing that if you had a progressive consumption tax, and unfortunately the conventional economic view of how the global economy ought to operate is just flat-out flying in the face of that. It’s hard to get any support.

With regard to creative approaches to carbon, we actually had two senators — Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins — who did sponsor an alternative to the conventional, and in my sense, not terribly smart, cap-and-trade legislation that was defeated. I think theirs was Boulder Weekly

substantially better. However, they had a total of two votes for it.

Q: You once said, “If you aren’t hopeful, then you don’t have a chance.”

Is that a good point on which to end here?

A: It absolutely, fundamentally is true. It all actually traces back to a paper that I wrote when I was a teenager. It had to do with revolution potential in the world, and why some places you have what we’d now think of as an Arab Spring, and in other places a huge depression and nothing ever happens.

I spent a lot of time — I was 19 years old — roaming around in South Africa, and the fundamental thing that came out of all of that was the difference between, say, the revolution in Algeria or in Kenya and South Africa, was that in South Africa, over the quasi-peaceful revolution in India, was the existence of hope. People just don’t do anything if they’re absolutely convinced in their hearts that they will be crushed.

The Africans in South Africa at that point, they certainly had their small revolutionary things in the ANC [African National Congress], but by and large the vast population was convinced they’d be crushed for whatever they did, and for good reason. So it became almost a guiding, worldwide, lifelong belief.

Environmentalists have a tendency — and I’m as guilty of this as anyone — to describe all of the bleak threats on the horizon that leave you feeling like “Oh god, it’s time to go commit seppuku, it’s all over.” But if you don’t leave people with hope, then things are really are hopeless.

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are two ways to make a donkey move forward,’” says Swithin Lui, the head campaigner for the Boulder Carrotmob. “‘You can either hit it in the back with a stick or you can dangle a carrot in front of it.’ We use this because instead of protesting or boycotting a business, we give them incentives like monetary rewards to get them to make socially responsible decisions.”

In celebration of Earth Day, Lui and his team began a bidding war among the restaurants on the Hill for the chance to host a Carrotmob event and use their revenues to update lights, windows and other items throughout their store. The final four contenders — Rush, Abo’s, La’au’s Taco Shop and Half Fast — began the bidding by offering percentages of their revenues from the day for energy efficiency updates.

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his coming Earth Day, the Carrotmob will descend upon University Hill at Half Fast Subs in an effort to raise enough money to help the sub shop become more energy-efficient. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 22, all revenues from Half Fast will be used to make the outdated restaurant more green.

The Carrotmob is a group geared towards helping businesses become more socially responsible. They help businesses with campaigns to raise money to make energy-efficient and eco-friendly changes, and they often arrive in carrot costumes.

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contribute 100 percent of their revenues,” Lui says. “Honestly, we were expecting the final bid to be around 20 percent, so 100 percent was definitely a surprise, but Half Fast winning wasn’t.

They said they knew they were going to win from the start.”

Anthony Merino, the general manager of Half Fast, says the sub shop has looked at becoming more environmentally friendly in the past, but the Carrotmob event is a great incentive to finally make the changes.

“It feels good to know that you are trying to improve the way your business functions and make it more environmentally friendly,” Merino says. “It was hard to choose what we wanted to do, whether it be composting, using renewable energy or becoming more energy-efficient. In the end, though, it will be great to be considered a green business, especially in a place like Boulder.”

Energy Smart has also contributed to the event by doing an assessment of Half Fast and See CARROTMOB Page 18

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“Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They’re not just about contaminants on your plate. They’re not just about the ice depleting. They’re about the issue of humanity. What we do every day — whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China ... can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source.”

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A FEW FUN WAYS TO CELEBRATE EARTH DAY: FREE ADMISSION TO RMNP Earth Day, in fact, Earth Week, is a great time to celebrate with a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Not only is it a beautiful place to spend your environmental holiday, it’s free of charge for everyone between April 21 and April 29. RMNP is having an Earth Day event on Saturday, April 21, at the park’s Fall River Visitor Center, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Per a press release from the park, “there will be ranger-led educational programs, starting at 10 a.m. and a Skins & Skulls talk at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Throughout the day, there will be an arts-and-crafts station set up, where children can create cool Earth Day artwork. Question-andanswer booths staffed by park scientists and rangers will allow visitors of all ages to receive behind-the-scenes information about the park. Kids ages 12 and under can also sign up to earn their Junior Ranger badge. The Junior Ranger program is available in English and Spanish.”

If you feel like traveling a bit farther, all National Parks in the U.S. are offering free admittance during Earth Week.

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Touted as “The Greenest 5k in Boulder,” the 10th Annual Earth Day 5K Run/Walk is going down on Sunday, April 22, at the CU-Boulder Research Park in Boulder. The run is offering cash prizes for the top men and women finishers. All proceeds go to benefit the Center for ReSource Conservation (CRC), a local 501(c)(3) non-profit that is trying to make our community more sustainable. The race begins at 10 a.m. at Potts Field at 4001 Discovery Drive, after a 9 a.m. yoga and meditation circle that will be led by Sakyong Mipham, spiritual leader of Shambhala. Registration closes at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 21. For additional information, contact the CRC at 303-9993820.

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determining what areas need improvement. After the assessment, Half Fast was able to establish a set of tiered goals based on the costs of each improvement. If they reach $2,500, Half Fast will change all of the light fixtures to LED lighting. If they make more than that, the shop will also replace the 100-yearold windows with more energy-efficient options. Finally, if the shop earns $5,500, the furnace will be updated as well as the lights, though the windows will be left alone.

In addition to the assessments, Energy Smart, offers assistance in finding contractors and available rebates, all as part of its suite of amenities available to businesses.

Thus far, Energy Smart has worked with 2,522 businesses, 310 of which are in the food industry. They have a little more than a year left of their grant, and by that time they hope to work with 5,300 businesses, says Pam Milmoe, the business sustainability coordinator for Boulder County Public Health.

“We have some big numbers,” Milmoe says. “We have given $923,000 in rebates so far, which are spurring $5 million in energy-efficient investments in both businesses and local utility investments. Through our projects, we are on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 6,000 metric tons.”

The work at Half Fast is just one example of many businesses that have taken advantage of the grant given to Energy Smart to make Boulder more environmentally friendly.

Lui was happy to help the movement spread to the Hill.

“We figured we were going to try and attract as many students as we could, and by choosing a restaurant on the Hill we will hopefully get a more impassioned clientele,” Lui says.

“Plus, the Hill is one of the places that could use a little greening up, especially because it is such a symbolic part of Boulder.”

Merino says he’s happy to see Half Fast be a part of Earth Day and the movement to make businesses in the county more green.

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This year’s 11th annual Wild Earth Day, put on by Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center, will take place in the center of the town of Nederland on Sunday, April 22. Organizers suggest you “Ride the RTD N bus from Boulder, walk, carpool or ride your bike for Boulder County’s Earth Day celebration! Special prizes at Wild Bear’s booth if you used alternative transportation to get to Wild Earth Day!” Wild Earth Day offers a day of free, hands-on experiences for all ages. This year’s guest speaker, Lonnie Gamble, is a professor and curriculum director for the sustainable living program at Maharishi University of Management and founder of the Abundance Ecovillage, a 15-acre, off-the-grid, sustainable development in Fairfield, Iowa.

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This Earth Day celebration is especially important for the University of Colorado’s Environmental Center. The center is the first of its kind and is celebrating its 40th birthday this April 22.

According to a post by Marisa McNatt at Earth911.com, “The Environmental Center has planned several events to take place on Norlin Quad” including, in addition to a fair, “live bluegrass music and a free Reggae concert to celebrate the eco-conscious choices students are making. Students will also hear from Jonathan Koehn, a regional sustainability coordinator who represented Boulder in Copenhagen this past December.”

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At the April 21 Farmers’ Market, Earth Day will be celebrated by having secret shoppers keep an eye out for folks using reusable bags or coffee mugs instead of disposable ones.

When they see you being sustainable, they are going to surprise you with a gift like a cookie or a starter plant and say, “We caught you reusing.” This eco-idea is part of a new “I Choose to REUSE” campaign run by Eco-Cycle to help promote the concept of reuse.

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Next, the public is invited to a free screening of the film Tapped at the St Julien Hotel & Spa. All are welcome to this event, sponsored by Eco-Cycle and the St Julien. You need not do the cruiser ride to attend.

Critics have called Tapped “one of the most pivotal movies made to save our lives.” It is “a film that demonstrates the unnecessary detrimental effects single-use products like bottled water have on our environment and local communities.”

Following the screening, which begins at 6 p.m., Eco-Cycle Executive Director Eric Lombardi will lead the launch of EcoCycle’s newest Zero Waste campaign to stop this kind of unnecessary environmental destruction before it starts: “I Choose to REUSE.” And don’t forget, Earth Day is a celebration. Happy Hour at the St Julien will run from 5 p.m. to close. ­

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“And then we paddled into this bay and a humpback whale breached in front us 16 times in a row. It sounded like gunshots out of the water. It was unbelievable.”

Craig is reminiscing about her do-it-yourself kayak trip through the Pacific Northwest’s Inside Passage.

The 111-day journey started in Washington’s Gig Harbor before traveling more than 1,200 miles to Alaska. Along the way, Craig and her husband Phil Magistro traversed the wave- and windswept coasts of British Columbia and Alaska, encountering more than just hump-

backs. The environment, says Craig, was “incredibly rich in wildlife.”

Watery expeditions complete with whales, waves and endless paddling seem remote from land-locked Boulder. Indeed, Craig and Magistro, who live in the mountains northwest of Boulder, didn’t set out to be oceangoing adventurers. They met while being active in the University of Pittsburgh’s outdoor club. Upon graduation, Craig decided to hit the road.

“My family had taken a trip when I was 12,” Craig says and laughs. “It was the kind of trip where everyone piles into a car and you hit as many national parks as possible.

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Craig, who calls herself an ordinary, For the couple, trying something hard-working person. “A trip for the new quickly meant testing themselves, sake of just going on a trip isn’t enough. not only on Colorado’s peaks but farI need something different, and the ther afield. In 2008, their sights turned more we both learned about the wild to Mt. Rainier. salmon runs, the more we got into it.

“We decided that we’d try to do a Seeing them in person was unlike anyhike which circumnavigated the mounthing I’ve ever seen.” tain and then we’d try to summit it,” The Living Oceans Society is camsays Craig. paigning to eliminate open-net salmon But the mountain had other ideas. farms, which often hold up to half a “It was a really big snow year, and million fish and release waste, chemithe amount of water coming off the cals, disease and parasites into the surmountain was intense,” recalls Craig. “A rounding water. There are more than lot of the bridges were out and you could hear huge boulders being swept along the streambeds. We had to abandon the trip, and decided to try kayaking in the Puget Sound.”

Craig and Magistro’s flexible approach resulted in a “plan B” circumnavigation of Orcas Island, a trip that whetted their appetite for more ocean voyages via sea kayak.

“It inspired our trip,” photo courtesy of Apryle Craig says Craig of her first sea kayaking adventure. “Phil had some 100 open net-cage farms growing kayaking experience, and once we padsalmon in sheltered bays along the dled in the San Juans we decided to do British Columbia coast alone. The more of it.” parasites spreading from open-net But while the San Juans are, accord- farms into the ocean include sea lice, ing to Craig, “super accessible,” the which attach to wild juvenile salmon Inside Passage is longer, more challeng- during their migration and can kill ing and poses real risks from storms, young salmon. tides, equipment malfunctions and “It’s an incredible resource,” Craig other unknown dangers. says of Living Oceans. In addition to The duo’s 2009 “Go Wild progress on the ground in the Expedition” covered a total of 1,251 Northwest, she says, consumer attitudes miles over approximately four months. are changing, and with them, chain The trip was supported by brands like stores have started to catch on.

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knew we’d have to be eating the same dinner together and crawling into the tent together at night,” Craig says.

And of course there are other memories. The sunrises and sunsets and empty stretches of water and rocky beaches and some not so rocky.

And there was the solitude.

“We’ve reached Sointula and are getting ourselves back on track after figuratively losing ourselves in the wild upper reaches of Vancouver Island for a week.

Lost track of days, and camps are blurring together in our minds. Port Hardy seems like an apparition,” Magistro wrote in one expedition blog post.

Another post captures the emotional impact of the journey, with Magistro penning that, “In many ways we are letting go of old expectations and accepting where we are and where we can go from here.”

If the journey taught her one thing, Craig says, it’s the fact that people can step out of their comfort zone and experience their own adventure.

“It’s never an easy choice to leave somewhere you are comfortable,” Craig says. “The easy choice is always status quo. But when you challenge yourself, no matter if it is a threemonth expedition or a hike to the highest lake in Rocky Mountain Park, you will push yourself and grow.”

She advises people who want to do big things to start with simple challenges, then start thinking bigger.

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s Communikey approaches its fifth year as a festival and its eighth year as an organization, founder, creative and managing director Kate Lesta is in disbelief over how the electronic music scene has changed in the past decade.

“When we started, we were the only ones in town doing this [putting on electronic music concerts],” Lesta says. “Now dubstep is pop music.”

But as pop music shifts to accomodate the creeping influence of dubstep and other forms of electronic dance music, the Communikey organization and its festival are themselves morphing with the times.

Lesta and company are rebranding the festival this year. Gone is the “Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts,” replaced with simply “Communikey Festival,” happening April 25-29 in various venues around Boulder.

“We started bringing artists that didn’t really fit into that category [of electronic arts],” says Matt Krall, project manager and marketing director for the festival, explaining the name change.

The first festival focused on techno music and lacked the “spectrum” of music and events found at this year’s festival, Lesta says. Now the festival Laurie offers films, bands, workshops and Anderson more, and festival organizers are start- is on the bill ing to book some big fish too: On the for this years communikey bill this year is Laurie Anderson, disfestival tinguished standard-bearer of the New York City avant-garde scene.

Anderson has always made work that defies classification. Such is the case with the performance art piece she’ll perform on Wednesday, April 25 at the Boulder Theater as part of the CMKY festival.

“Dirtday!” is the third installation of a trio of story performances that she’s put on, and this one has a bit of everything.

“It moves back and forth between politics, kind of some ideas about evolution and dreams, and then sort of general reporting stuff,” Anderson tells Boulder Weekly. “I’ve been going around and visiting tent cities and checking them out, and there are a lot of them. … I just sort of reported on some time I spent in one of the places.”

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thing, politics motivates her work.

“A lot of what this country is about is sort of being shredded, in my opinion,” she says. “I really don’t understand why there aren’t just mass riots.”

She praised the Occupy movement for trying to effect some sort of change.

“I was part of the student movement in the late ’60s early ’70s, and we were extremely snobbish,” she says. “We were like, ‘We know what the real scene is, and the rest of you are just dupes of the system.’ We had our own music, our own food, our own culture, and we were very exclusive. It was about excluding people. Occupy is about redefining the whole thing, saying actually it’s about everyone.”

Anderson’s way of distilling this in “Dirtday!” will include spoken word, electronics, projections, music and more. Her experimental storytelling fits in perfectly for the festival’s mission.

“What we realized is that we’re interested in music that is challenging and adventurous, and on the edge, on the fringe. It’s not necessarily about electronic music,” Lesta says. “We’re really interested in cultivating a space where people can connect in an unfiltered way.”

One connection that happened early on in the festival was between Lesta and Turkish LED artist Deniz Kurtel. Kurtel is an LED artist and DJ whose music bridges house and techno. She will perform live at the Bitter Bar on April 25, and she will also bring an LED installation, housed in a 6-foot-by-12-foot trailer, called “The Introspectacular.”

Kurtel took an unlikely path to becoming an electronic music producer. While in New York, working on a pair of master’s degrees in policy analysis and quantitative methods from New York University and Columbia University, Kurtel became friends with Zev Eisenberg from the house-hip-hop DJ duo Wolf + Lamb, and she started making LED installations for Eisenberg’s shows and parties.

Lesta met Kurtel while visiting New York, and she commissioned an installation for what would be

the first Communikey Festival.

“We brought her here for the first festival. It was her first commission, and she didn’t really know how to do it yet,” Lesta says. “She didn’t know how to take her art outside her own studio, outside of controlled environments. I think it was a really big learning experience for her, and I think it was a catalyst for her for figuring out how she wanted to execute her vision. And in the time since, she’s become an internationally renowned techno producer.”

Kurtel is grateful for the experience, saying it helped her realize her ambitions as an artist.

“The most important part of it was Kate Lesta, who was the first person who commissioned me for a large-scale project,” Kurtel says. “She kind of gave me the courage to kind of take it further and provided me with a lot of material that I was able to keep and keep using in further projects and stuff.

“That was one of the main objectives doing this road tour. I’ve been wanting to thank her in a way and go back and visit her, and this was a very good opportunity to pass by Boulder and participate in this festival again.”

That’s what a somewhat underground festival like Communikey can accomplish. By refusing to take corporate sponsorships (which is one of the festival’s core tenets), the festival must take a chance on local and unknown-to-lesser known artists. And sometimes those artists make the most out of those opportunities.

“It feels good to be seeing [CMKY artists succeed], starting to be able to see the effect of that,” Lesta says. “It’s very intentional. We know that we have the capacity to offer that. If that’s happening, then we’re doing our job right.”

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Das Racist breaks ankles with wicked intellectual crossovers by Chris Parker

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ou might call them “culture High and Rising, an album for which warriors,” though you won’t Vazquez has a lot of appreciation.

Victor V find them armed with There’s a pleasant self-effacing Ashok Kasquez, Bibles and picket signs. everyman quality to their rap persoand Himondabolu a D They’re not even that angry. nas, whether they’re discussing as Racis nshu Suri of t.

New York rap trio Das Racist are more “Deep Ass Shit (You’ll Get It Nayeli Ro driguez hipster wise-alecks battling mediocrity When You’re High)” or, on the 2008 in witty verses lined in hip slang and sensation, trying to locate each other at friends with MGMT, carpeted with pop culture sediment. one of fast food’s seventh wonders, the who also attended Wesleyan, and for Olympic figure skater Phillippe “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.” a while Vazquez followed in their footCandeloro, White Castle, Seinfeld’s “Basically, at the time, we were lissteps with his pop band, Boy Crisis.

George Costanza, Donkey Kong tening to shit that was like that.

“It was basically aping a lot of Country, RapGenius.com, ’70s soft Ninjasonik was a huge influence at that MGMT’s shit,” he says. “They were rock hit “Summer point,” Vazquez friends of ours, so they passed our ON THE BILL: Das Racist plays the Rain” and says. “It was a wild- names on to some industry fools who Fox Theatre on Saturday, April 21. Doors at Bollywood director 8:30 p.m. Wheelchair Sports Camp also out song. It had no were looking for the next shit like that.”

Gutu Dutt are just plays. Tickets are $23 in advance, $26 day specific aim to it, Boy Crisis received $100,000 on the of show, with a $2 fee for being under-21. and I think people a few of the referfront and another $50,000 when they 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. ences overflowing read into it, and delivered the first album in a four- to from their songs. saw it as being five-album deal. The album was Sure, you can probably discern a politismarter than it was — probably because shelved, though it’s out on the ’net. cal perspective having to do with culof the early press. The first thing writ“I lived off that for like a year and a tural oppression and rabid capitalism, ten about it in the Village Voice interhalf doing Das Racist on the side, and but judging from the deep indulgence view, where we said some college-y shit, in the meantime Das Racist kind of in its by-products, it sounds like someand so people were like, ‘These guys are blew up,” he says. thing of a love/hate relationship. smart. Plus, they did this song that did After starting as a duo, they brought “Mostly it’s just us fucking around,” hella well, so this song in turn must be on Suri’s high school friend, Ashok says Victor Vazquez, aka Kool A.D. “A hella smart as well.’”

Kondabolu (aka Dapwell) as their hype lot of the music we do, we aren’t trying Not that it isn’t true. Vazquez went man, and got down to business. The to think of anything specifically. Early to Wesleyan University in Connecticut name was taken from the MTV2 sketch on we were just trying to make stuff with Himanshu Suri (aka Heems) comedy show, Wonder Showzen, which that made each other laugh, and maybe where he was Suri’s resident advisor in featured a bit where a little black kid our friends laugh. Something that a “students of color for social justice”says, “That’s racist.” It was sort of an would entertain ourselves and our themed dorm. They “kicked it” a bit inside joke where Suri liked to scream it friends.” but didn’t get together until they both at the television or as an expression of In many ways it’s a throwback to the moved to Brooklyn after graduation. outrage toward whack behavior. playful, goofy golden-age spirit of De La (Vazquez is actually from San “It’s not the type of name we Soul’s breakout ’89 debut Three Feet Francisco.) While at school they were thought would be representing our most

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he Boulder Philharmonic’s season finale concert has more unusual angles than a geometry textbook. And fortunately for Boulder’s classical music audiences, they are all positive.

Under the title “Celebrating Takács,” the concert features the renowned Takács Quartet from CU’s College of Music as soloists with the orchestra (Saturday at Macky Auditorium; see details on page 30). This is the first angle: Boulder’s premiere orchestra celebrating Boulder’s premiere chamber music ensemble.

The rare appearance of an entire string quartet as soloists with orchestra is another intriguing angle. And there are others: Edward Elgar’s littleheard “Introduction and Allegro for Strings,” which

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heavily funded musical ideas,” Vazquez laughs. “It kinda sucks that the element of surprise is gone. You’re overtly political no matter what you do. I miss the subtlety of being able to be political in a project where people aren’t thinking about that straight out the gate.”

After releasing a couple of free online “mixtapes” in 2010 (Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man), last September they released Relax, their proper debut. It features the entire spectrum of the Das Racist experience, from meditations on commodification (“Middle of the Cake”) to loose-limbed braggadocio with a racial undercurrent (“Rainbow in the Dark”) and old-fashioned club anthems (“Booty in the Air”).

The album has generated a lot of attention for the band, which suddenly can support its members on a few festival gigs and a college tour or two.

They’re currently looking at labels and are said to be considering signing with a major, though at the moment they’re haggling over money above and beyond record sales.

“We’re talking about signing a contract,” Vazquez says. “If that happens, we’ll put out an album, if not, we might wait a bit and just work on our solo shit and keep playing shows whenever we’re asked.”

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Boulder Phil and Takács jam a lot into concert season finale by Peter Alexander has the quartet in featured roles, should be of interest to anyone who relishes the rich sounds of the late Romantic style.

In fact, the program is filled with infrequently performed music that provides a reason to turn out.

Apart from the Elgar, two solo works for viola — performed by Takács violist Geraldine Walther — composed by the early classical composer Johann

Stamitz and the late Romantic Max Bruch, are both well worth hearing. And filling out the program is Brahms’ least familiar orchestral work, the Double Concerto for violin and cello performed by the quartet’s violinist, Edward Dusinberre, and cellist András Fejer. see PHILHARMONIC Page 30

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And particuThe Takács larly fascinating is quartet how the entire concert explores different ways of presenting soloists with orchestra.

Classical audiences are familiar with concertos that match a single soloist against the full orchestra.

As Boulder Philharmonic Music Director not necessarily the norm, as Butterman Michael Butterman explains, “these solo explains. “I’ve seen it done by a couple concertos are part of that Romantic of stars who might not have spent archetype of the noble individual or the much time working together, and who hero. They celebrate not only the indimay be used to playing solos and not viduality of the soloist, but also the solo- necessarily listening to each other. ist’s prowess on the instrument, with a “In our case, we have two musicians lot of bravura display.” who are not only superb virtuosi, but That is the Romantic approach, but also consummate collaborators — musineither of the solo works for viola on cians whose years of playing together in Saturday’s prothe Takács make gram are written them ideal duo on the heroic partners.”

ON THE BILL: Boulder Philharmonic model. The If these three Orchestra and the Takács Quartet play Macky Auditorium on Saturday, April 21.

Stamitz Viola works represent Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at Concerto, written different angles $13. For tickets and more information, on the concerto, in 1774, offers visit boulderphil.org. 1595 Pleasant St., 303-492-8423. the Elgar some bravura disIntroduction and play (Stamitz Allegro is somewrote it for himthing else entirely. It was written in self to play), but it predates the soloist1907 to show off the string players in as-hero, and Bruch’s Romance for viola the newly formed London Symphony and orchestra is more of a lyrical mediOrchestra. tation. As Butterman describes them, “It’s a virtuoso work for string “These two pieces show two sides of the viola’s sound — one crisp and tech- orchestra, and there happens to be a featured quartet,” Butterman says. “It nical, the other lyrical and romantic.” probably was intended for the principal The crisp and technical Stamitz is players of the orchestra. But it’s not like “fun to play and hear because it’s a joythey are always in the fore, and the ful romp in the first and last moveorchestra is playing the accompaniment. ments, giving the soloist plenty to do,” They are really part of a larger fabric.”

Walther says. And she calls the Bruch “For example, there’s a fugue in the “a beautiful romantic jewel of a piece.”

Allegro part, and most of it is carried If the solo concerto can be a heroic by the string orchestra, while the solo drama, double concertos are the classiquartet plays something a little more cal music equivalent of the “buddy like, almost a unison melody.” movie.”

“The Elgar is more like a Baroque “It’s more about the partnership than the individual,” Butterman says. In concerto grosso” is the way Dusinberre that regard, Boulder audiences are espe- explains it. “We play a few measures of solo writing here and there, often on cially lucky to hear Dusinberre and our own, not accompanied by the Fejer play the Brahms. orchestra. And at times we double the “The Brahms Double is a gorgeous piece with beautiful melodies, emotion- string orchestra. In fact, the orchestral writing is more difficult than that for al intensity and a lively finale,” the solo quartet!”

Dusinberre says. “I feel lucky to perA solo piece where the accompaniform it with András, having already ment is harder than the solo part? played so much of Brahms’ chamber There’s another angle. music with him.”

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n the age of the Internet, buying an album is about as personal as checking the weather. Gone are the days of awaiting the next release of your favorite band before buying a copy at your local music store and popping a copy into your player at home.

Moments like that are why record stores around the world are hosting events to celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday, April 21.

Boulder’s record stores, Bart’s Music Shack, Absolute Vinyl and Albums on the Hill, are getting in on the action and gearing up for Saturday’s festivities.

Record Store Day started in 2007 as a way to celebrate the dwindling number of independent music shops in the U.S. Since then, the movement has spread worldwide and received support from music labels and musicians, including their ambassadors Ozzy Osbourne, Josh Homme and, this year, Iggy Pop. “Record stores are cultural touchstones, and it’s marvelous that they’re being celebrated,” says Andy Schneidkraut, owner of Albums on the Hill. “It’s a reminder to people that it’s an experience they once enjoyed.”

Albums on the Hill will have live music and giveaways. Bart’s Music Shack will have music from bands like Springdale Quartet and Los Fear of Shrimp.

Doug Gaddy, owner of Absolute Vinyl, has planned events for the entire day that he calls “the Black Friday of record stores.” There will be kung-fu demonstrations, live painting

by Anthony Moulton and live music from The Yawpers, Whiskey Blanket, The Alright Band, Monocle, Jamesons Co-Dependent Country Band and Modern Synthetic Chemistry.

There will also be giveaways from Radio 1190 and local label Adventure Records.

“I try to make it special,” Gaddy says. “If people are coming out for a Black Friday-type of event, sure, it can be about commerce, but there are a lot of artists out there, and I want to turn it into a party. I’m trying to give back to the town, and remind everyone how record stores used to be before there was the Internet.”

Bands are getting in on the celebration, too. The Yawpers will not only be playing at all three Boulder

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years, and Schneidkraut says it has become his busiest day of the year. Last year, Record Store Day increased independent stores’ album sales 39 percent in the following week, according to Billboard.com. Unit sales increased by 182,000 and accounted for 41 percent of that week’s increase.

One of the major parts of the event is the hundreds of limited-edition releases that the Record Store Day organization distributes to independent stores. The editions include old and new, special tour recordings, albums with the original art and liner notes, etc.

Schneidkraut says his plan is to secure as many limited editions as he can for his customers. He has his eye on Phish’s vinyl release of “Junta,” which will only have 2,500 copies released. He’s also looking to get Widespread Panic, Animal Collective and the Black Keys, among others.

Albums on the Hill has been around for more than 35 years, and has been owned by Schneidkraut for 25. He remembers a time when record stores weren’t so sparse.

“In my category of store, there used to be 7,000 considered similar to mine. Ten years later, there’s less than 1,000,” he says.

But Schneidkraut says there’s been a resurAndy Schneidkraut rection in interest.

Bart Stinchcomb has been in the record game since the late ’80s. He says that part of the record boost came from an emergence of DJ culture, but also because of the fact that people want to connect with music again.

“With records, you have an intimate relationship with a piece of music,” Stinchcomb says. “It’s a piece of art. It’s something Spotify and Pandora can’t offer.”

Schneidkraut says Record Store Day is also about keeping independent stores alive in today’s corporate world. record stores, but three more in Denver and Arvada “We’re losing book stores, we’re losing — Tonic Records, Black & Read and Independent these independently owned stores,” Schneidkraut says.

Records and Video.

“I don’t think it’s good for the arts and cultural life of ”I’ve been in and out of record stores since I was the U.S. to be losing these independent places that younger,” says Yawpers member Nate Cook. “We want have their own flavor, and aren’t generic, and don’t people to support record stores. They’re an important have the corporate stance. It’s important to celebrate part of the community.” the independent stores.”

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Air Dubai –– With Beats Noir, Nautical Mile and Rogue Sound. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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1. Nipping 4/20 in the bud Every year during April, the University of Colorado administration warns students about the potential consequences surrounding the annual 4/20 gathering on Norlin Quad.

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Frogs Gone Fishing. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Jimmy Thackery. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Ladies Night Dance Party — With The Ticket. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Matt Flaherty and Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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Still in Nespelem: An Artist’s Perspective — Clyfford Still’s work from his time with the Confederated Tribes of the Coleville Reservation in Nespelem, Wash.

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The Guests, Synergy — Followed by Soul Dive. 7 p.m.

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Happy Hour Jazz — With Peter Lorenzen and Devin O’Toole. 4 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

The Haunted Windchimes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Johnny O Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

The Malai Llama. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

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

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

Young Songwriters Competition 2012. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

events A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer — Activists and their stories. 7 p.m. The Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Art Night In. 6 p.m. pARTiculars, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888.

Cirque de Minuit — The Midnight Circus, with Frequent Flyers Productions. 7:45 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

DAM Uncorked — Wine tasting. 6-9 p.m. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

Kirtan. 7:30 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of

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

Marley –– The definitive life story of the musician, the revolutionary, the legend. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Purple Oranges. 6 p.m. The Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Vagina Monologues. 7:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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

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Satterfield Band. 8 p.m. Eagle Grill, 1600 Hover, Longmont, 303-772-2555.

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

music Be Always Coming Home — Resonance Women’s Chorus. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.

Scott Dale Band. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS.

Benjy & Heather Wertheimer. 8 p.m. The Double Rainbow Ranch, 6541 N 63rd St, Niwot, www.DoubleRainbowRanch.com.

Soul Sacrifice — With Cisco Kid. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew,

303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Bob Dylan’s Birthday: Postcards of the Hanging perform an evening of Bob Dylan — With special guests. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Das Racist — With special guests. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Eef Guitar — With Blues Express. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Fox Street All-Stars. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

Lea Holz, Matt Glascoe. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Luke Callen, Wolf van Elfmand and Chad Golda.

6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Max Wagner. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The Motet: Funk Is Dead — With Yellow Dubmarine. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Neal Marks Quartet, Psychonauts. 9:30 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Pete Kartsounes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Record Store Day — 1 p.m. Whiskey Blanket, 2:30 p.m. The Yawpers, 4 p.m. The Alright Band, 5:30 p.m.

Monocle, 6:30 p.m. Jamesons Co-Dependent Country Band, 8 p.m. finale with Modern Synthetic Chemistry.

Absolute Vinyl Records & Stereo, 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/AbsoluteVinyl-Records/.

Roda de Choro (Choro Circle Jam) — With Daniel Ondaro and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Women’s Songwriter Showcase — Presented by Emma Back. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

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A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer — Activists and their stories. 2 p.m. The Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Adobe Flash Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Arbor Day Volunteer Event — Coal Creek Trail. 9-11 a.m. 1630 Avalon Ave., Lafayette, 303-665-5588 ext.

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Behind the Scenes at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. 1 p.m. 720 E. Vine Dr., Fort Collins, 970484-7756.

Children’s Peace Garden Earth Day Celebration.

10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Growing Gardens Children’s Peace Garden, 1630 Hawthorn, Boulder, 303-443-9952.

Cirque de Minuit — The Midnight Circus, with Frequent Flyers Productions. 7:45 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Art of Spring. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683.

DAM Uncorked — Dinner and auction. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-913-2793.

The Bird Show — Feat.

Linda Gleitz’s Capistrano: Return of the Fock. Rabid Rabits Galeria, 530 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-7748338. Through April 29.

Dhamma Brothers — Center for Juvenile Justice Fundraiser. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Black and White — Juried exhibit. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 North College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-224-1010. Through May 19.

Firefly Handmade — At the Makerie. 7-10 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, fireflyhandmade.com.

John Perreault and Mark Van Wagner’s Drawings from Sand. Naropa University, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-875-6879. Through May 15.

Meditation and Dance Workshop — With Hannah Kinderiehrer. 10 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Salsa Lessons and Dancing. 8:30 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-9983805.

SeLebration — Project Yes service learning day. 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Pioneer Elementary and various Lafayette locations, project-yes.org.

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Backwoods Galaxy Friday, Apr 27th - Danny Shafer Sunday, Apr 29th - Open Stage, 9pm Mon., Apr 30th - George Nelson Quartet Wed., May 2nd - Bluegrass Ninjas Friday, May 4th - David Tiller Sunday, May 6th - Open Stage, 9pm Mon., May 7th - The Heavy Cats Wed., May 9th - Smack Thompson

Urban Foraging — Performance with Viviane Le Courtois. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Vagina Monologues. 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Sunday, April 22 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bernard Allison Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

Bluegrass Pick — With Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m.

Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Felonius Smith Trio. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewery Tasting Room, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, lefthandbrewing.com.

Julia Lunk, Judith Trager. NCAR Mesa Labora-

Firefly Handmade — At the Makerie. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, fireflyhandmade.com.

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

Taste of Pearl — 15 restaurants paired with 15 Colorado wineries. 2-6 p.m. Pearl Street, tasteofpearl.com.

Monday, April 23 music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Funktion. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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

Jazz Jam — With Sherrie Scott, John Bertram Trio and Friends. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Robby Hecht — With The Margoles Duo. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Vagabond Swing. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

events AnimalHelpNow! — Presentation and fundraiser. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Cirque de Minuit — The Midnight Circus, with Frequent Flyers Productions. 1:45 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Center for Resource Conservation Earth Day 5K. 10 a.m. Potts Field at CU, Research Park, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, 303-999-3820.

EcoCreations — An exhibit of art from recycled materials. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through April 21.

Leon Loughridge. Mary Williams Fine Arts, 5311 Western Ave., Unit 112, Boulder, 303-9381588. Through April 30.

No Longer in My Hands — by Terry Campbell.

Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 27.

Viviane Le Courtois’ Edible? and Jason Rogenes’ Sp4c3cr4ft. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through June 17.

Sound Circle — Praises for the World. 7 p.m.

Columbine Unity Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-473-4525.

events Audition — Mature actor for 60s-70s character in Boulder Fringe Festival. 7 p.m. 1850 Folsom St., Boulder.

For appointment, call Mark Read, 303-717-8439, Evening at the Epicenter — With Horst Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients. 5:30 p.m.

University of Colorado Wolf Law Building, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder, horstattheepicenter.eventbrite.com.

Shakespeare A La Carte — Dinner with a side of Shakespeare. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Tuesday, April 24 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Stage –– With Turtle. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Blues Jam — With Gretchen Troop. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303

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

Greg Abate. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

tory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through May 31.

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

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5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Square Product Theatre, The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, squareproducttheatre. org. Through April 28.

Camelot. Lakewood Cultural Center and Performance Now Theatre Company, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845.

Through April 29.

The Drowsy Chaperone. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 13.

Forever Plaid. Firehouse Theater Company,

John Hand Theater, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, 720-880-8727. Through May 13.

Staged Reading: Henry VI Cycle. 6 p.m.

April 23-24. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Gross Indecency. Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 5.

Earth Day Anti-Fracking Rally — West steps of the state Capitol, 1-4 p.m., Denver, 350.org.

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Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Gary Farmer Band — Benefit for the Native American Rights Fund. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Henricksen Amps Presents: Sean McGowan’s Jazz Guitar Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Old Monk. 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.

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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.

Introduction to Aperture, Part 1. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tongue Tied Talking to your Teen — A workshop for parents and mentors. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th Street, Boulder, 303-502-7746.

Wednesday, April 25 music Blue and Green: ’60s Crooning Jazz Project, the likes of Chet Baker and Kenny Burnell. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

David Sye-Bad. 2 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Emalkay — With Project Aspect . 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Homegrown Singer-Songwriter Night. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, April 20 BNC Demo Dance Class. 11 a.m.

WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

“Give it Up” Pajama Party — The Merchant of Venice rewritten by 4th and 5th graders, presented by Imagination Makers. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Auditorium, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 720-5651055.

Saturday, April 21 David Williams — Children’s music. 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Día Del Niño. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

French/English Storytime. 10:15

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

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

Laurie Anderson’s Dirtday! –– Anderson looks at politics, evolution, families, history and animals with a collection of songs and stories (Communikey Festival opening concert). 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

events Circus Jam — With hoops, poi, clubs, etc. 8 p.m.

Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303827-4088.

Great Colorado Bear Stories by Laura Pritchett is part of the Rocky Mountain Land Series at the Tattered Cover.

a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, April 22 Earth Day Children’s Music Concert. 3 p.m.

Sunrise Amphitheater, Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder, naturehikes.org.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Monday, April 23 Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, April 24 Happy Baby Cooking Class. 9:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Open Space Story Hour. 1 p.m. Nature-themed books. 1:30 p.m. Five-senses discovery hike.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, naturehikes.org.

Wednesday, April 25 French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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

Getting Started With Adobe Premiere Pro. 9 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Hardwired — 10 Major Traits of Women, presentation

by Alexia Parks. 7 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

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

Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

World Book Night. 6 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, April 24

Thursday, April 19 Glenn Freeman — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Bonus Allegations — by Michelle Lombardi Gesse. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Friday, April 20

Noel Black, Matvei Yankelevich — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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Saturday, April 21 Great Colorado Bear Stories — By Laura Pritchett. 2 p.m.

Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Sunday, April 22 Poetry is for Everyone! Readings — With Jack Collom. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, April 23 “So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing

Kyle Dargan — Editor and founder of Post No Ills. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

From Our Shelves Bookclub Meeting — Reading The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, April 25 Natural Brilliance — by Irini Rockwell. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Robert and Elizabeth Cooperman. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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8 1/2 A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Fellini attached a note under the eyepiece during filming that said, “Remember, this is a comedy.”

At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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21 JUMP STREET Two young police officers and ex-classmates go undercover at a local high school to investigate a dangerous drug ring. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT AMERICAN REUNION A decade after their teen adventures in American Pie, a group of lifelong friends return to their hometown for a high school reunion. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

The Lucky One

Wait, is Zac Ephron even old enough to play a

GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

Martin Scorsese traces Harrison’s life from his musical beginnings in Liverpool through his life as a musician, a seeker, a philanthropist and filmmaker. Scorsese weaves together interviews with Harrison and his closest friends, performances, home movies and photographs. Much of the material in the film has never been seen (or heard) before. At Denver FilmCenter/ For a list of local movie Colfax. — Denver Film Society times, visit boulderweekly.com/ GOON movie-times.html From writers Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg (Superbad) and Canadian cult director Michael Dowse (Fubar I and II) comes this hilarious tale that just may knock Slap Shot off its skates as the best comedy ever to tackle the topic of hockey. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Marine?

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GRATEFUL DEAD MEET UP 2012

Hollywood 1927. Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is enjoying the good life, although he seems fonder of his faithful dog than of his trophy wife (Penelope Ann Miller). He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

The complete Grateful Dead concert at Alpine Valley Music Theatre on July 18, 1989. At Century.

BALLET: MEDITERRANEA At La Scala. Set to music ranging from popular Turkish to Ligeti and Mozart, this choreography focuses on the gestures and spirit of the Mediterranean in a balance between lyricism and pure energy. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater BULLY More than 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new film Bully, directed by Sundance and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

film takes audiences on an exhilarating roller coaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

grumpy creature who is protective of his homeland. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

CORIOLANUS

Few wildlife films attain the sheer virtuosity and poetic force of Jean-Michel Bertrand’s Flirting With Heights. A remarkable and highly personal project shot alone over four years in the French Alps.

At International Film Series. — IFS

Caius Martius “Coriolanus” (director Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman general, is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. At Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres DETACHMENT

Bad things happen when a group of friends visit a remote cabin in the woods.

Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Oscar winner Adrien Brody stars as a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, he finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

CHIMPANZEE

DHAMMA BROTHERS

This nature documentary follows a baby chimpanzee and his family as they survive in the African forest. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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CONNECTED Have you ever faked a restroom trip to check your email? Or become so overwhelmed that you just unplugged from it all? This funny, eye-opening and inspiring Boulder Weekly

DR. SUESS’ THE LORAX 3D In this animated film, a 12-year-old boy searching for the key to winning over his dream girl must confront a mysterious

FLIRTING WITH HEIGHTS

FOOTNOTE Footnote is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. Meanwhile his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field who appears to feed on accolades. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres FUNNY GIRL The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Two American showgirls in the mood for love board a luxury liner to Paris. Engaged to be married, fair-haired Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) is unknowingly tracked by a private investigator who was hired by her future father-in-law. But the detective only has eyes for her brunette friend, Dorothy (Jane Russell). At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

HUNGER GAMES In the post-apocalyptic ruins of North America, a teenage girl competes in a nationally televised battle to the death against 23 of her peers. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME A 30-year-old man-child hunkered down in his mother’s basement ventures out into the real world on an errand and winds up on an adventure with his brother. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Los Angeles Times/MCT JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI For most of his 85 years, Jiro Ono, the most famous sushi chef in Tokyo, has been perfecting the art of making sushi. He works from sunrise to well beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish; meticulously train his employees; and carefully mold and finesse the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation. Rated PG. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THE KID WITH A BIKE Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the deeply moving new film by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L’Enfant, Rosetta) delves into the emotional life of troubled 11-year-old Cyril. When his father abandons him, Cyril at first refuses to admit it, claiming his father just forgot to say where he was going. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres LOCKOUT A wrongly convicted ex-government agent can regain his freedom by saving the pressee MOVIE REVIEWS Page 43

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hat’s funny is that writer Joss Whedon and writer/director Drew Goddard are going to get praised for how original The Cabin in the Woods is.

It isn’t.

In fact, the entire fundamental concept of the film relies solely on existing themes and tropes, on the relentless repurposing of the same mundane series of ideas over and over again. It just gives us an excuse to devour those familiar elements like so much comfort food. And that’s precisely why it is so brilliant. Now, that may sound confusing, but considering how dumbed-down and revealing most movie marketing is these days, it’s kind of great to feel all turned around for once.

Because those who reveal spoilers are only slightly less vile than third-world dictators and people who pronounce the word “wolf ” as “woof,” this review can’t cover the very things that make the film so fun. To talk about it without ruining it is to dance a particularly tricky jig. So let’s get to two-steppin’.

A quintet of clichés get into a Winnebago and drive to a place so reminiscent of the Friday the 13th setting, they may as well have called it “Camp Schmistal Shake.” There’s the virginal Dana (Kristen Connolly), the alpha-dog Curt (Chris Hemsworth), the trampy Jules (Anna Hutchinson), the brainy Holden ( Jesse Williams) and the goofy Marty (Fran Kranz). These characters are the permanent residents of movies like this, but for once we are given a gleefully fun reason why that’s always the case.

That reason has to do with Sitterson (Richard Jenkins) and Hadley (Bradley Whitford), two mid-level managers in white shirts and ties, and has to do with the end of all reality as we know it. As the kids are tormented and tortured, the nature of this repetitive song-and-dance becomes clear. The result is a triumph of cleverness that makes this the finest horror film of the last decade. That’s practically an irrefutable fact.

By and large, horror is a tired genre. Worse than that, it’s so frequently lazy. What Whedon and Goddard have done is make that very fact their entire premise. The best part is that the trailers are underselling the scope of it all, concealing the colossally epic third act that is likely to remain among the best of the year.

It may be slight in nature, with a self-referential conceit that isn’t likely to find massive public appeal, least of all from the core horror audiences that made Paranormal Activity 3 a hit. But The Cabin in the Woods is proof that the wheel need not be reinvented so much as repurposed. Essentially, Whedon and Goddard stripped the rubber from that broken down old car, threw a rope in the middle and made us a tire swing to ride on.

Although this isn’t a Sixth Sense experience predicated on holding a reveal until the final moments, the less you know going in to this, the better. So see it now before the true movie villains, those dill-weeds who ruin things on social media, claim another victim.

—This review first appeared in The Reader.

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MIRROR MIRROR An exiled princess enlists the help of a group of diminutive bandits to take back her usurped throne from an evil queen in this retelling of the Snow White fairy tale.

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his week, I decided to talk about something dear to my heart: getting laid. This recipe is the ultimate time-to-takethings-to-thebone-zone meal, unless you’re cooking for your family — in that case, I say, do not cook this particular recipe. It’s just too powerful.

Beurre blanc, which is French for “The butter to connect all love parts,” is the catalyst for the inevitable sex romp this recipe is sure to incite.

Who can explain why we get so hot and bothered when we ingest enough butter to kill an entire planet of vegan fairy tree people?

Scientists have died trying to figure it out.

But until they do, here’s a saturated-fat humdinger for between the sheets.

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onsidering the fact that Pearl Street restaurants, wineries and boutiques hardly ever get any business due to their unfortunate location, Downtown Boulder Inc. decided to host the event Taste of Pearl to help draw visitors to this neglected area of town.

Kidding.

The point of Taste of Pearl, which will be held for the third time this Sunday, April 22, is to draw people out for an exploration of the many offerings of Pearl Street. They might just discover something new.

The already sold-out event features food from 15 different restaurants and wine from 15 Colorado wineries hosted in 15 retail stores on Pearl. It goes from 2 to 6 p.m, and this year will host around 600 attendees.

“It’s not a typical food and wine festival, where you’re just under a tent or in a big room with a bunch of tables,” says Terri Takata-Smith, director of marketing and communications for Downtown Boulder Inc. “This one is really unique, because it’s a four-hour event, so people have time to leisurely go from location to location and spend time exploring everything that the host business has to offer.”

Ulla Merz, who owns the Bookcliff Winery with her husband John, summed up the best things about Taste of Pearl in just a couple of sentences.

“Food and wine are much better experienced together,” Merz says. “And don’t we all love shopping?”

Bookcliff has been participating in Taste of Pearl since its inception in 2010, and its owners get a lot of enjoyment from the event. John Merz was the first to experience it.

“That first year I didn’t go with him; we thought it would just be a little thing,” Ulla Merz says. “But then he called and asked me to come down and help. Pretty soon he said he wanted to take just a little break to go check out some of the other food and wine. I didn’t see him again until the event was over.”

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“We don’t want to force people to buy something while they’re having a fun afternoon,” Takata-Smith says. “When you attend, you get a 10 percent off card for all of the retail stores that’s good for a week. We recognize that these people are busy sampling the food and wine, so they might not necessarily also be shopping.”

The $60 price tag for the event might have deterred some people, but that didn’t seem to have any effect on ticket sales, which sold out more quickly this year than in previous years.

Boulder’s wealth of foodies, wine lovers and impulsive shoppers might have something to do with the large ticket sales.

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ver the $8.99 the pans so that lunch buffet at the latecomers Royal Clay Oven wouldn’t suffer (formerly India’s from a comproClay Oven) on mised tidbit. It might be helpful, Arapahoe, British-born friend however, to serve the naan to Andrew and I discussed the difeach table individually rather ferences between Indian restauthan put it in the buffet, so as to rants in the U.S. and U.K. He prevent this bread from drying pointed out that more people in out. the U.K. work in subcontinental Both of us bypassed the eateries than in the shipbuildWestern-style salad bar for more ing, coal mining and steel-maktraditional meatless choices. ing industries combined.

These were uniformly well-exeWhile this factoid may be a cuted, particularly the saag, commentary on a changing which didn’t go overboard on manufacturing base more than the creaminess, allowing the anything else, it still goes to the fresh spinach tones to shine prevalence of this cuisine through. Another intriguing abroad. As we took our seats, vegetarian option was the vindi Andrew noted that Indian food masala (a.k.a. bhindi), a spiced is more of a late-night meal in dish of sliced okra. These vegthe U.K., accompanied by plenty gies tended towards crisp-tenof lager. He noted that the comder, and were remarkably free of bination of beer and fiery hot food played a unique the sticky if not slimy texture commonly associated stant replenishment of this dish, and others, such as role in the collective psyche of young British men. He the curried potato-laden samosas. These selections with this ingredient. explained, “It’s a bit of a macho thing.”

Another poultry preparation was the chicken tikka don’t improve by sitting out on the steam table, and Clearly this news hasn’t reached Boulder, as it was masala, which arguably finds its origin in the U.K. the quietly professional staff conscientiously refilled early afternoon, and in the dining room, versus India itself. A continental cousin a group of sober folks had gathered, preof butter chicken, this tomato cream sumably workers from the nearby office sauce specialty capably balanced richness park. The decor here is simple and funcwith a hint of tang, and the bird had a satisfying texture. tional, with the exception of vibrant purWe ended with the kheer rice pudple tablecloths fitting in with the restauding, which wasn’t overly sweet comrant’s regal moniker. pared to other versions, which was to its The lunch offerings here aren’t overbenefit. If one desires more sweetness, the-top spicy, although it is clear the they can do as Andrew did, and augkitchen pays attention to both preparament it with some of the canned peachtion and service. True tandoori chicken useful guide to Indian food in the U.K. and what dishes es available from the salad bar. marinates in lime juice, and it was nice the novice should order can be found at bit.ly/UKindian.

My only suggestion would be that to detect fresh citrusy flavor in the Clay Interestingly enough, this insightful essay’s author is Ian Anderson, noted flautist and Jethro Tull frontman. He discusses many topics, the kitchen provide one or two truly Oven’s pleasantly moist version. ranging from the number of Indian restaurants to suggested lager spicy options, such as a pungent vinAnother smart touch was having the pairings. Anderson’s concludes his essay with this observation: daloo, for those aficionados of heat. serving spoon for the texturally perfect “Wagner, Beethoven and Hendrix might have chanced the Otherwise, this Royal Clay Oven dishes basmati rice stored in an ice-water-filled Vindaloo, but Mozart, Debussy and John Denver were probably out low-cost yet intriguing lunches in vessel, so that old grains wouldn’t stick Korma or, perhaps, Dhansak guys on a daring night. Got the picture? See you in Curry Heaven.”

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South Broadway’s Kim & Jake’s Cakes is planning two new cakes to coincide with upcoming holidays — the foreign holiday and the relatively popular sporting-event holiday, both set for May 5.

That is Cinco de Mayo, of course. Kim & Jake’s plans a Mexi-Cali cake for the occasion, a lemon and corn cake with red jalapeño jelly and fresh avocado butter-cream icing.

Also on May 5 is the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, for which Kim & Jake’s will make the Derby Julep, named after the popular beverage. The Derby Julep features vanilla-mint cake soaked with Makers Mark bourbon, filled with vanilla custard and iced with mint chip cream cheese.

TWIST ON EARTH DAY

If contemplating the state of our planet’s environment sends you straight to the bottle, Twisted Pine Brewery has your back this Earth Day. The brewery will be tapping its Earth Day IPA at noon on Sunday, April 22, at its Boulder brewery and ale house at 32nd and Walnut.

Every customer sampling the 7 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) India Pale Ale will also receive a free pine tree sapling, though there’s no mention of whether the tree will be twisted.

For more information, visit www.twistedpinebrewing.com.

EATING FOR A CAUSE

Cured, Boxcar and Pizzeria Basta will host a collaborative pop-up dinner on Monday, April 23, at Cured in honor of the Growe Foundation.

The $100 tax-deductible ticket includes a dinner with a Cured charcuterie board, three courses from Chef Kelly Whitaker of Basta and Chef Theo Adley most recently of The Pinyon, Boxcar Coffee and dessert.

Colorado beer and wine will be paired with each course. There will be two seatings of 30 people, starting at 5:30 p.m.

And there will be one “private room” for a party of six who get to stay for the whole night. For $150 a person, the private room attendees will also get an extra two courses.

RSVP at 720-389-8096.

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a lot of people who are really interested in wine, and a lot that are really interested in shopping, but they don’t always overlap,” says Kevin Natapow, owner of Momentum, a store participating in Taste of Pearl. “So people who are big foodies come down to try out different restaurants, and then they discover different parts of town that they’ve never been to and different stores that they never even knew existed. The event really makes those connections.”

The options on Pearl Street do tend to make it the perfect candidate for a hip, cultural event, even if the businesses are hardly lacking in attention.

“The restaurant scene has just exploded here in the past few years,” Takata-Smith says. “In addition, we have a really strong retail mix. We wanted an event that would incorporate all of our businesses downtown in a broader way.”

With the speed at which Taste of 48 April 19, 2012

Pearl sold out, it seems that the event’s organizers have succeeded in making it the “cool” thing to do. The emphasis on Boulder businesses means that Taste of Pearl fits right into the city’s love of everything local.

“It’s on Earth Day this year, and we’re really excited about our pairing with Leaf [Vegetarian Restaurant] because they are really into the local, farm-to-table movement,” Natapow says.

“We want to encourage people to shop locally, to eat locally, to drink Colorado wine. It’s really making that further connection beyond just tasting good food, but thinking about where that food comes from.”

If you weren’t quick enough to grab a ticket, don’t worry. You can still eat, drink, shop and walk along Pearl Street any time. You just won’t be doing it the cool way.

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risotto and beurre blanc simultaneously, then do the scallops, which only take a few minutes.

a minute or so.

Once all butter is incorporated, pour through a strainer into a bowl.

THE SCALLOPS:

Toast rice in a dry pan on medium until you can smell the rice — kind of a nutty scent (anyone turned on yet?)

Add stock in ¼-cup stages.

Wait until liquid is absorbed each time before adding more stock. Keep stirring the whole time.

Add lemon juice and stir.

Cook for two minutes.

Add cheese and butter and remove from heat. Salt and pepper to taste.

THE BEURRE BLANC:

1 cup white wine 1 bay leaf Two sprigs of thyme ¼ cup cream 4 tbsp. butter ¼ cup blood orange juice (from fresh blood oranges if you can find them) Place wine, thyme and bay leaf into a pan and reduce on medium until it’s syrupy. Cut butter into ½-tbsp. pieces and set aside.

Add the cream and cook for about two minutes. Add blood orange juice and cook for one minute.

Remove pan from heat and add first ½-tbsp. piece of butter and stir until it melts into the sauce. Keep adding pieces of butter and stirring. If a piece starts to take too long, return the pan to the heat for

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Lay scallops on a paper towel and dry each side.

Turn pan on medium high and let it heat up.

Season both flat sides of each scallop from at least one foot above with salt and pepper.

Pour oil in pan and spread it out. Oil will begin to smoke.

Add scallops one by one, making a circle (or one circle inside another bigger circle) in the pan. Let them cook for about one minute. Then take a spoon and peek under the first scallop you put into the pan. If the bottom is nicely seared, and you can see white spreading up the sides of the scallop almost to the middle of it, flip it over. Do the same with the rest, in the order you placed them in the pan. Cook scallops on opposite side for another minute or two. Once that side is seared like the top, remove from pan and let them rest on a plate for about a minute.

THE PLATING:

Pour a thin layer of beurre blanc on plate, maybe in a zig-zag, who cares. The sauce is rich, so you only need a tiny bit. Place scallops on top and put a couple mounds of the risotto wherever you feel like.

You can use my example in the photo to guide your plating, but any expert will tell you that having round scallops offset by circle-molded risotto is amateur hour. Use more variation, especially if you’re trying to bed someone who knows anything about cooking.

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808 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6499 ocated smack dab in the middle of downtown Louisville, Zucca Italian Ristorante boasts an inviting ambience balancing the rustic with a subtle but unmistakable European flair. The same can also be said of the menu, which ranges from old standbys like comforting spaghetti and meatballs to more elevated selections like seafood cannelloni and rack of lamb. Can’t-miss items include the fried calamari starter, garnished with piquant pickled peppers and fresh tomato, and the arugula salad, a winning combination of greens, gorgonzola and apple.

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an’s Chinese Cuisine, situated in a Niwot strip mall near a sheriff ’s office substation, serves up dishes free of MSG, as well as gluten-free choices. Outside of that, the reasonably priced lunch bill of fare is a ChineseAmerican hall of fame, spotlighting such chestnuts as chow mein, Szechuan beef and vegetarian Buddha’s Delight. Top choices include flavorful Mongolian beef garnished with expertly stir-fried pepper and onion, as well as the fresh-tasting Grand Marnier shrimp.

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

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Offerings include egg-based dishes such as a Hazel Dell mushroom frittata, sweet choices like 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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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

835 Walnut St., Boulder 303-442-3050

he Big Red F Restaurant Group’s foray into the world of ar tisan 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 Irish coffee. But the focus on libations doesn’t detract from the food, which includes a fresh-tasting lobster risotto and the unique gingerbread cake garnished with bacon caramel popcorn.

Shine

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You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this test was merely a rehearsal for a more important and inclusive exam, which is still some weeks in the future. Here’s even better news: The teachings that you will need to master before then are flowing your way, and will continue to do so in abundance. Apply yourself with diligence, Aries. You have a lot to learn, but luckily, you have enough time to get fully prepared.

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APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Let’s see if you know what these exquisitely individuated luminaries have in common: Salvador Dali, Martha Graham, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, Maya Deren, Malcolm X, Willie Nelson, Bono, Dennis Hopper, Cate Blanchett, George Carlin, Tina Fey, Sigmund Freud. Give up? They are or were all Tauruses. Would you characterize any of them as sensible, materialistic slowpokes obsessed with comfort and security, as many traditional astrology texts describe Tauruses? Nope. They were or are distinctive innovators with unique style and creative flair. They are your role models as you cruise through the current phase of maximum self-expression.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In December 1946, three Bedouin shepherds were tending their flock near the Dead Sea. They found a cave with a small entrance. Hoping it might contain treasure hidden there long ago, they wanted to explore it. The smallest of the three managed to climb through the narrow opening.

He brought out a few dusty old scrolls in ceramic jars. The shepherds were disappointed. But eventually the scrolls were revealed to be one of the most important finds in archaeological history: the first batch of what has come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Keep this story in mind, Gemini.

I suspect a metaphorically similar tale may unfold for you soon. A valuable discovery may initially appear to you in a form you’re not that excited about.

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I nominate you to start the trend, Virgo. You’re the best choice, since your tribe, of all the signs of the zodiac, will most likely have the wildest rides and most intriguing adventures in the coming weeks.

LIBRA

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A starfish that loses an arm can grow back a new one. It’s an expert regenerator. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you are entering a starfish-like phase of your cycle. Far more than usual, you’ll be able to recover parts of you that got lost and reanimate parts of you that fell dormant. For the foreseeable future, your words of power are “rejuvenate,” “restore,” “reawaken,” and “revive.” If you concentrate really hard and fill yourself with the light of the spiritual sun, you might even be able to perform a kind of resurrection.

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Too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily good. (Have you ever hyperventilated?) Too little of a good thing can be bad.

(Have you ever gotten dehydrated?) Some things are good in measured doses but bad if done to excess. (Wine and chocolate.) A very little of a very bad thing may still be a bad thing. (It’s hard to smoke crack in moderation.) The coming week is prime time to be thinking along these lines, Scorpio.

You will generate a lot of the exact insights you need if you weigh and measure everything in your life and judge what is too much and what is too little.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had a clear strategy as he produced his art: “Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave.” I suggest you adopt a similar approach for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

With that as your formula, you could make rapid progress on a project that’s dear to you. So make sure you have an inspiring vision of the dream you want to bring into being.

Map out a bold, definitive plan for how to accomplish it.

And then summon enormous stamina, fierce concentration, and unfailing attention to detail as you translate your heart’s desire into a concrete form.

CAPRICORN

The devil called together a committee meeting of his top assistants. He was displeased. Recruitments of people born under the sign of Cancer had fallen far below projected totals. “It’s unacceptable,” the dark lord fumed. “Those insufferable Crabs have been too mentally healthy lately to be tantalized by our lies. Frankly, I’m at wit’s end. Any suggestions?” His marketing expert said, “Let’s redouble our efforts to make them buy into the hoax about the world ending on December 21, 2012.” The executive vice-president chimed in: “How about if we play on their fears about running out of what they need?” The chief of intelligence had an idea, too: “I say we offer them irrelevant goodies that tempt them away from their real goals.”

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

LEO

AQUARIUS

“If you don’t run your own life, someone else will,” said psychologist John Atkinson. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Leo. Write it on a big piece of cardboard and hold it up in front of your eyes as you wake up each morning. Use it as a prod that motivates you to shed any laziness you might have about living the life you really want. Periodically ask yourself these three questions: Are you dependent on the approval, permission, or recognition of others? Have you set up a person, ideology, or image of success that’s more authoritative than your own intuition? Is there any area of your life where you have ceded control to an external source?

When rain falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. “Petrichor” is the word for that smell. If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius. A parched area of your life is about to receive much-needed moisture.

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Here are the last words that computer pioneer Steve Jobs spoke before he died: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” I’d propose that we bring that mantra into as wide a usage as Jobs’ other creations, like the iPhone and iPad. I’d love to hear random strangers exclaiming it every time they realize how amazing their lives are. I’d enjoy it if TV newscasters spoke those words to begin each show, acknowledging how mysterious our world really is. I’d be pleased if lovers everywhere uttered it at the height of making love.

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“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,” writes novelist Anne Lamott, “you must.

Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” I think the coming weeks will be your time to slip through that forbidden door, Capricorn.

The experiences that await you on the other side may not be everything you have always needed, but I think they are at least everything you need next. Besides, it’s not like the taboo against penetrating into the unknown place makes much sense any more. The biggest risk you take by breaking the spell is the possibility of losing a fear you’ve grown addicted to.

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Forty percent of Americans do not know that the dinosaurs died out long before human beings ever existed. When these folks see an old cartoon of caveman Fred Flintstone riding on a Diplodocus, they think it’s depicting a historical fact. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you need to steer clear of people who harbor gross delusions like that. It’s more important than usual that you hang out with educated, cultured types who possess a modicum of well-informed ideas about the history of humanity and the nature of reality. Surround yourself with intelligent influences, please.

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