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Weed whackers (Re: “See no weed,” cover story, April 14.) Thank you for your article. It was good. However, on the same day your article came out the Department of Justice reaffirmed that it will not respect state laws in their war on cannabis (http://bit.ly/weedwar). It has not happened here yet because the DEA is waiting until July 1, when the unconstitutional Department of Revenue rules go into effect. Specifically from the rules, “Surveillance recordings and clear still photos must be made available to the MMED and law enforcement upon an administrative or law enforcement request demonstrating that the information sought is relevant and material to a legitimate regulatory or law enforcement inquiry.” And in light of the Haag memo, which states, “The DEA will enforce the Controlled Substance Act vigorously against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law. The Department’s investigative and prosecutorial resources will continue to be directed toward these objectives.” So all they will have to do is wait and then request the videos as the DEA sees fit. That is why they have

not started prosecutions in Colorado because that would require a lot more resources then just having dispensaries video tape their federal crimes and be required to turn them over to the DEA. A great majority of the DEA’s funding is to combat cannabis and angry government officials with auto-

When Mike Turner, a Colorado spokesperson for the Drug Enforcement Agency, says, “We’re

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t’s good to know that some corporate chieftains feel the pain of their underlings, who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett, the media giant that owns 23 television stations and 82 newspapers, including USA Today. Early this year, Gannett employees were notified that, for the third year in a row, they would get no raises and would have to take a week off without pay. The note was written with a gentle hand, however, acknowledging the hardship that such sacrifices cause for workers and thanking them for their “great work.” To soothe the pain a bit, the note added that Gannett’s two top executives would take a commensurate cut in their salaries. OK, team spirit! But don’t grab the pom-poms and break out in cheers. Only two months later, bonuses totaling $3 Boulder Weekly

matic weapons will not just roll over and let liberal cannabis laws affect their budgets. Corey Donahue/Boulder

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Workers down, bosses up: a morality play by Jim Hightower million were very quietly bestowed on the top two. And to add a bright cherry to this sweet delight, the duo of honchos also were awarded stock options and deferred pay totaling as much as $17 million. So, some 32,000 workers were forced into furloughs to save about $17 million for Gannett, but the corporation’s number one and number two were then allowed to slurp up all of that savings and then some. Who says there’s no “I” in team?

going after the biggest and the baddest,” we can only assume he means people violating the original reasons given for outlawing marijuana: • “Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step see LETTERS Page 6

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It’s not like the executives are doing a terrific job. With them at the helm, Gannett’s newspaper readership, revenues and stock price have fallen substantially, and the corporate chieftains are widely viewed as lacking imagination. But they are credited with “aggressive cost management.” What’s that? It’s a cynical corporate euphemism for throwing employees in the ditch. Once again, working people are being sacrificed because of management’s failure, middle-class opportunities are shrunk, and top executives collect multimillion-dollar bonuses. Where’s the morality in that? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 21, 2011 5

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on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.” (Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1934) • “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana can cause white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.” (Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger) • “...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.” (Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger, 1930) • “Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality and death.” (Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger, 1937) • “Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind.” (Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger) • “[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania, probably to kill his brother.” (See U.S. Government Propaganda To Outlaw Marijuana, www.druglibrary. org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t3.htm.) The fear of brothers murdering each other after a toke is something to reckon with, but I cannot find a single case of a marijuana-induced homicide of any kind. Agent Turner should clarify the reasons for keeping cannabis illegal. Who is the DEA going after and why? Ralph Given/Daly City, Calif. Reasons not to arm Libyan rebels (Re: “Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels,” Danish Plan, April 7.) As a non-magical thinker, I say the “lord” has nothing to do with any conflict, aside from being used as a reason. Humans are endowed with certain inalienable rights, such as the right to pursue happiness and depose deranged tyrants not because of some good god, but because of centuries of struggle specifically against tyrants that have resulted in the liberal democratic ideals we enjoy today. We cannot arm the Libyans because, “They are doing the lord’s work.” If they are fighting to take down Gaddafi, let’s take down Gaddafi, not innocent civilians. We armed the antiSoviet resistance in Afghanistan, and that helped lead to our current problems in the Middle East. Remember Osama bin Laden? Arming these rebels is no guarantee of immediate success or long-term stability, or even an insurance that the next leadership will be friendly to the West. 6 April 21, 2011

The Egyptians and Algerians recently overthrew their tyrannical, dictatorial, no-term-limit regimes, and I don’t recall the U.S. arming the rebels, and I believe they won. Why does arming these rebels assure a different outcome? If the rebels lose, will the U.S. and NATO really lose? I doubt that. Gaddafi will continue to sell oil to the Europeans. Our addiction to oil will not be impacted. The Arab world won’t disappear. The analogy that Obama loses if the rebels lose is not accurate. We have rewarded many weak or failing presidencies in the recent past. Reagan, Clinton and Bush II all had failed policies and won second terms. The Obama administration’s job one should be about rebuilding the middle class in the U.S., creating new and strengthening existing financial regulations, solving the health care crisis, investing in education and clean energy. There are many issues facing the U.S. more important than arming the Libyan rebels. Unless the arms industry is prepared to do the patriotic thing and supply weapons free of charge, why should the average taxpayer be on the hook for another military venture? The only winners in arming the rebels are the arms manufacturers. Imagine if we were to give the economic aid and training to Mexico’s poorest at the level we fight wars and arm rebels half a world away. Here is a country that still admires the U.S., and we are turning our back on them, building fences, treating them as undocumented aliens. That is at least one of the conflicts close to home we could have success with. Supplying arms and fighting wars of aggression has not proven successful in the past. I suppose one could say that the French helped us in our hour of need not out of some “let’s help the rebels” ideology, but rather saw an ally in their dispute with Great Britain. Our arming and training the rebels is because we don’t want an interruption in our oil supply. Remember the acronym OIL — Operation Iraqi Liberation? Our leaders should not be swayed by the rhetoric of arming and training rebels because we are trying to prevent some future event. I do not think using fear to convince the public of the dire consequences that might result if we don’t arm Libyan rebels is the correct stance to take and is tiring and disingenuous. The Republican Party has been using this fear tactic for a long time. Hopefully we can mature past that see LETTERS Page 9

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Colorado should quit punishing pot users by Paul Danish

here are at least two groups that intend to put marijuana legalization initiatives on the Colorado ballot in 2012, but neither has as of yet put forward an actual proposal. Here’s mine. If it were up to me, what I’d put on the ballot would be a proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution consisting of just three sentences: “The use of marijuana and its possession for personal use shall not be punished. Legal residents of the state of Colorado may cultivate up to six marijuana plants for their personal use within their domiciles (with the permission of the landlord in the case of rented accommodations) or within facilities rented for the express purpose of marijuana cultivation. The Colorado Legislature may in its own good time adopt laws providing for the regulated sale of marijuana and for its production for sale and for its taxation.” Notice that the proposal does not actually legalize pot. It leaves that decision to the legislature. It just says that people can’t be punished for using it. And it provides that those who do want to use it have a way of getting it that doesn’t require them to enter the black market. I grant you that this might seem a strange way to go. If the object of the exercise is to legalize marijuana — which I strongly favor — why not just write a straightforward amendment

voiding out the present laws banning marijuana and providing that its use, production, sale and taxation would, subject to regulation, be legal? Essentially like the proposal that was defeated by California voters in 2010. In comparison, my approach may seem inconsistent, ambivalent and contradictory. But it has one overarching virtue: It probably reflects the feelings of a majority of the voters on marijuana legalization, which are inconsistent, ambivalent and contradictory. We know that the country is closely divided on the question of legalizing pot. According to the latest Rasmussen survey, 42 percent favored legalization and 45 percent opposed it, with 13 percent undecided. We know that support for keeping marijuana illegal has been steadily collapsing, while support for legalizing it has been slowly increasing. But if we step back from the polling, we can probably characterize the current attitude of most voters like this: “The war on drugs is an expensive flop, especially when it comes to marijuana. It’s crazy to spend tens of billions of dollars a year arresting hundreds of thousands of people for smoking pot, which is generally safer than drinking beer. But legalizing marijuana? Well, I don’t know about that. Sure, I tried pot during the ’60s and ’70s, but now I’ve got kids …” The amendment I’m proposing is see POT PROBLEM Page 8

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ization would like to see. The last clause, that one giving the legislature permission to legalize the sale of marijuana when it sees fit to do so, may seem unnecessary — the legislature already has the authority to do so, after all — but it isn’t. Most American elected officials have known for at least 20 years that the war on drugs generally and the war on pot in particular were crashing failures, but they kept voting to fund them, because it’s easier to double down on your mistakes than to tell the voters you made a big one that involves millions of people getting rap sheets. By explicitly giving the legislature permission to legalize when it feels the time is ripe, the voters would in effect be giving the lawmakers permission to change their minds. In a perfect world, I would prefer an outright legalization initiative. But over the years I’ve learned two political lessons that apply here: 1. Elections are decided by the most ambivalent voters, not by the most passionate. 2. The guy who said politics is the art of the possible knew what he was talking about. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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designed to speak to this sort of ambivalence and anxiety. The amendment’s first clause would ban the state of Colorado from punishing people for using marijuana, while not legalizing its sale — or even legalizing its use, for that matter. It would just ban the state from punishing its use, which is different. This would create a situation not much different from the one that existed during prohibition: Alcohol was prohibited, but people who were caught using it were not punished (except by having their booze confiscated.) Passage of this provision might not seem like much of a change, but for the 12,000-plus people who are busted for pot every year in Colorado and the hundreds of thousands who live in fear of being busted, it would be huge. Passage would also make continuation of the war on pot largely pointless and brusquely de-escalate the war on drugs. The second clause, which allows people to grow pot for their own use, is intended to give users a legal way to get marijuana short of full legalization and take most of the profit out of the market for illegal drugs, something both the proponents and opponents of legal-

“They are seeking destruction and a reinforcement of their evil dominance in the region.” —Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the West is responsible for the uprisings and unrest that have been spreading across the Middle East and North Africa “I demand that society come out and criticize them.” —Thailand Cultural Minister Nipit Intarasombut, reacting to reports of three teenage girls dancing topless in a Bangkok street during New Year’s celebrations; the three have paid fines for public indecency “Two plus two is four. Never five, much less six or seven, as we have sometimes pretended.” —Cuban President Raul Castro, explaining his proposal to enact term limits for his country’s politicians Boulder Weekly

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Rainwater? Yes, we can I was excited to learn that Boulder Weekly wrote a blurb on rainwater harvesting in the Boulderganic section (“Harvest the rain: Know what’s legal,” April 7), but when I got a hold of a copy and read the article I was deeply disappointed. As the subtitle (“Know what’s legal”) suggests, I was expecting to read about what Colorado residents can do to benefit from the rain. Instead, sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph only served to reinforce what we cannot do to harvest the rain. After this latest rainstorm (April 13-14), it is sad to think that Colorado residents once again feel like they have to usher away their roof runoff as quickly as possible, when I know better and have been actively promoting the alternative. In fact, 90 percent of all rainwater harvesting strategies are perfectly legal in the state of Colorado and always have been. We have a water-illiterate culture in this dry-land state, and what we need now more than ever are solutions that help to rehydrate our landscapes, not be told over and over that we cannot use rainfall runoff. For me, this issue is the real “Yes, we can!” but it seems too few people understand the issue of Colorado water law as it pertains to harvesting rainwater. I invite you to write a positive article clearly stating what can be done to use our precious rainfall in Colorado. I am happy to be a waterharvesting authority and resource for the future article. I think we can do better to inform and enlighten the public, instead of reiterate the status quo understanding! Jason Gerhardt/via Internet

Recycling is overrated This Earth Day, Boulder should reconsider its infatuation with recycling and bring it back into perspective. Recycling is not the holy grail; actually it should come last! Remember “Reduce, re-use, recycle”? First, reduce what you use. Then, if you need to use it, try to re-use it. Only failing those two should it come down to recycling. Boulder is known for its environmental awareness ... but also for its conspicuous consumption. Recycling has come to be an excuse for excess consumption — it’s OK to use a plastic cup just once if it can be recycled?!? But it took energy to produce Boulder Weekly

the material, make the cup and eventually handle the recycling. All of that energy, plus materials consumed in the processing, are wasted. It is especially wrong-headed to measure waste reduction in percentage of materials diverted from landfills. That can actually reward (recyclable) waste. Consider this: I could switch from beer in a reusable keg to bottled beer and improve my waste score, even though a gallon of bottled beer uses about five pounds of glass. Glass is environmentally expensive — to manufacture, transport and recycle. But because it can be recycled, it shows up as credit instead of debit on the waste-reduction balance sheet. Incredible. Dick Dunn/Longmont

Memo to birthers To all Birthers (idiots): 1. Visit hawaii.gov. 2. Search for “Obama birth certificate.” 3. Click the top hit, “Statement by Dr. Chiyome Fukino — hawaii.gov” 4. Shut up! J. Andrew Smith/Bloomfield, N.J. I had said up until a few days of the last presidential election that I was convinced (still am) that there was a certain kind of “European American,” for the sake of conversation, that would rather slit their wrists than to see a black man, an American African, as leader of this country. I’m exaggerating, of course, but to those who subscribe to any of the various “pure blood” theories around the world, probably not by much. And it is precisely these people, this kind of thinking, and from this absurd, racist, ignorance, that spawned the “birther” movement, in my opinion. It is absolutely impossible for them to accept that the last election even happened. Shock! Still, this cannot be, so let us attack from this angle. Well, I’m afraid that they’re just going to have to get over it, and even the phony Donald Trump cannot bring any credibility whatsoever to this non-issue, non-debate. Pathetic. Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

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“There’s something special about working at an independent paper,” she said. “There’s a lot more flexibility, there’s a lot more freedom.” White also said that while recent events in the field of journalism concern her, she remains hopeful about the future of the industry. “It troubles me that I’m standing here tonight the day after CU’s journalism program has been discontinued,” she said. “It troubles me that Overland High School had its paper temporarily nixed by a principal who was uncomfortable with editorial content. I’m troubled that so many independent papers are being gobbled up, because in truth, we are all keepers of the flame. “We are all in this battle to try to be a voice for the voiceless, to tell the truth, to be a watchdog against government, to tell people about what is going on in the world around them and, most of all, to empower them to make a change.” White also won a second place award from the SPJ in legal feature writing for the July 15 story “Stripped of dignity” about prison strip-search procedures. In addition to White’s honors, Boulder Weekly Arts and Entertainment Editor David Accomazzo won second place in education feature writing for the Oct. 28 story “Bleeding ink.” And Dodge won five awards: second place in environmental general reporting for the May 13 story “Justice: Boulder attorneys’ battles against polluter pay off for poor Denver neighborhood,” third place in legal general reporting for the Nov. 18 article “Foreclosure crisis hits home in Colorado,” third place in business general reporting for the Oct. 14 story “Ruffled feathers: Flap over Boulder Creek Festival has nonprofit crying fowl,” third place in environmental feature writing for the March 18, 2010, article “Poop, plants and pollution,” and third place in health general reporting for the Sept. 2 story “Squatters’ rights: Eldorado Springs says county is passing the buck on new sewer system.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Fighting ‘Gang Green’ So, you may recall that an out-of-state conservative group, Western Tradition Partnership (WTP), ran attack campaigns against liberals in the Longmont City Council election in 2009. Well, they also go by the name American Tradition Partnership (ATP). Identical websites and logo. Identical annoying pop-up urging you to join their e-mail list. Identical anti-environmental agenda. “Help fight Gang Green!” these forward-thinking individuals proclaim on their websites, calling themselves “a no-compromise grassroots organization dedicated to fighting the radical environmentalist agenda.” Their latest press release lauds the recent removal of the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Donny Ferguson, who was WTP’s director of public relations in 2009 and is now listed as ATP’s executive director, acknowledges in the release that his group seeks “the eventual total repeal of the Endangered Species Act. … Thanks to meddling by East Coast environmentalists, wolves are now a fast-spreading predator that kills livestock, spreads disease and is wiping out sensitive natural game herds like elk and moose.” Their websites also warn that “dozens of radical eco-organizations whose stated purpose is to dismantle the free enterprise system — and our Constitutionally protected rights — through so-called environmental protection have set their sights on robbing Americans of the right to exist, achieve and produce.” Oh, and by the way, our very own Colorado secretary of state, Scott Gessler, is in bed with them — or at least he was in 2009, when he was WTP’s attorney and his office was listed as their street address in secretary of state documents. We wonder if he would recuse himself and acknowledge his conflict of interest if faced with an election decision related to an environmental initiative. The real Lennon killer Speaking of wolves in sheep’s clothing, this item is from the kook folder in our email account: John Lennon was not actually shot and killed by Mark David Chapman, it was the Maharishi! Some chap claiming to be Hamid Mahmoodi of London wrote to us insisting that this claim is “neither a prank, nor am I speculating.” Oh, good. We were worried there for a second. “These yogis,” you can almost hear him whispering, “have the power to take over the body and mind of anyone at any distance or location and run their affairs as they will.” He says the Maharishi took over Chapman’s body to kill Lennon because he was mad that the Beatles had a falling out with their spiritual adviser in 1968, left India and stopped giving him publicity. “I am also a victim of the activities orchestrated by these criminals, and that is how I have come across these facts,” Mr. Mahmoodi writes. “You may be in a position to help a lot of people, including Mr. Chapman, who has no idea what happened to him. I hope that you have found this amusing, as I have put my life and livelihood in danger by coming out with this truth.” Oh, we found it amusing all right. Thanks for sharing.

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elephant in the classroom Split liberal ticket, outside GOP group help conservatives sweep CU student elections by Chelsea Long

oulder votes Democrat. It’s a People’s Republic tradition. But when it comes to the University of Colorado’s student government, that tradition may have to be amended. In its recent election, CU students showed up in record numbers to elect a new set of representatives. And in a sweeping victory, one ticket took every seat it ran for. That ticket was INVEST, and that ticket was conservative. And while much of their success was due to a splitting of progressive votes and intense campaigning, there were also bigger powers involved. A national organization called the Leadership Institute helped INVEST win the election. It held a workshop to organize and train the young student group, a practice that’s beginning to show up across the country. Is it grassroots outreach, or is it external manipulation?

How it happened In the week-long election, each of the three parties held events, lined the University Memorial Center with tables and wrote chalk messages on sidewalks, urging students to vote. And while students did come out and vote, with a record number of 10,407 students,

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totaling 36 percent of the student body, the results were surprising to a traditionally liberal campus. “I’m honestly shocked the conservative ticket won,” says Isra Chaker, who ran for president on the EDGE ticket. She credits the fact that there were three tickets, two of them decidedly liberal, as the reason for INVEST’s win. “It came down to the fact that if you had just two options, it would be easy to decide who you’d vote for, conservative or liberal,” Chaker says. “If the two [liberal] tickets were just one, we would have won by a landslide.” The numbers back up that claim. In the race for the executive candidates, the INVEST ticket earned 3,860 votes. But the EDGE and PROPEL tickets combined would have garnered 5,840 votes. While INVEST members may admit that the split vote helped, they also relied on their platform — one in which they pledged to continue decreasing student fees and improving campus safety — and their campaigning, to get the win. “We campaigned easily more than 1,000 hours combined,” says Brooks Kanski, newly elected vice president of external affairs. He says the INVEST

campaign focused on reaching out to its constituencies, being present in student centers to talk to voters, chalking sidewalks all over campus and basic networking with students. The other two tickets’ efforts may have rivaled those. They held events, but also created commercials, sunglasses and even a superhero. “We set up seven different events at different places in Boulder starting the Thursday night before election week,” Chaker said. “We had an amazing lineup that would get EDGE out there, and let students know who EDGE is.” Their campaign included handing out sunglasses, which Chaker says are still being worn, even after the elections. They had an EDGE superhero who dressed up to go meet students around campus. “We were at a different level, truly, than any other ticket,” she says. The PROPEL ticket, too, held events at bars and clubs around Boulder, and put in hours of chalking and tabling.

Between the three tickets, the campaigns were more visible than they’d ever been. “It seemed as though you couldn’t walk more than 10 yards without seeing a poster, flyer or chalked sidewalk,” Kristy Gustavson, director of public relations for the University of Colorado Student Government (CUSG), wrote in an email. “Each ticket did a great job of getting out there and working for their votes, it was really something great to see. I’d definitely say it was a very competitive year for election.”

Too competitive? The race may have been too competitive, some of the candidates said. “It was definitely personal,” says Chaker. “People called me names during campaigning. I was called a terrorist.” Even after the event, allegations of personal attacks on candidates were reported. Corey Wiggins, who ran for president on the PROPEL ticket, accused a member of the INVEST

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party of allegedly chanting “I hate gays” at the end of the election week. Both parties have witnesses saying the incident did — or didn’t — occur. “We don’t stand for what took place with Corey Wiggins. He’s a good friend and colleague of mine,” Chaker says. The PROPEL ticket ran on a GLBT-friendly platform and had an openly gay representative running in each category except the judicial branch. “We were running as the largest queer ticket that’s ever run before,” says Hillary Montague-Asp, who ran for representative-at-large with PROPEL. While Montague-Asp says she felt the alleged attack on Wiggins was personal, there were other incidents that just may have seemed that way. “Our platforms are based on personal identities that we have,” she says. “When those platforms are knocked, it feels personal. It can be a personal attack, that’s also valid. But I feel like we’re dealing with a really passionate group of people who are really, really invested in what they’re trying to do, so I think that makes everything a little more personal.”

Personal goes political Though the atmosphere surrounding the campaign became increasingly heated towards the end of election week, the INVEST ticket had a calming influence a few days before voting started. That was the voice of Michael Thompson, who taught the Campus Election Workshop, one of the Leadership Institute’s many programs to get students involved in the political process. “The Leadership Institute’s goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative students worldwide,” Thompson says. The Leadership Institute is an organization founded in 1979 by Morton Blackwell, a well-known activist who has been on the Republican scene since the 1970s. Blackwell, Virginia’s Republican National Committeeman and founder of the Conservative Leadership Political Action Committee, has had success working with young Republicans before, including with the Youth for Ronald Reagan campaign in 1980. Karl Rove is one of Blackwell’s more notable graduates. Blackwell was out of the country at press time and could not be reached. The institute itself is a tax-exempt nonpartisan organization, established under section 501(c)(3). According to the IRS, the 501(c)(3) designation means that the organization cannot be an “action organization,” or one that Boulder Weekly

attempts to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities. It also cannot participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates. It cannot be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests and is restricted in how much lobbying it can conduct. According to its website, the Leadership Institute has a Congressional Advisory Board that is described as “bipartisan” but also as “statesmen and women [who] understand the importance of training the next generation of conservative activists.” The Leadership Institute is funded by donations. The 2009 tax returns posted on its website show that their assets, including property and investments, total $13,960,755, all from contributions and pledges. That same year, the institute spent almost $7 million on its program service expenditures, which are the programs put on for students. These included “247 training schools of 32 different types to train youth leaders and provide education regarding the public policy process,” according to the 2009 return. It included, too, the Campus Leadership Program, as well as CampusReform.org. Campus Reform is “designed to provide conservative activists with the resources, networking capabilities and skills they need to identify, expose and combat leftist bias and abuse on college campuses,” according to the return.

Conservative training The workshop at CU was free for the students and was held days before voting began. But that isn’t standard procedure. “We normally do [trainings] well before the election,” Thompson says. “But [INVEST] already had their message in place. They’d already done a lot of the work, so we just helped them to tailor their message.” Kanski, who wasn’t involved in the workshop, said it was a chance to align the ticket “as a team and as a family.” Thompson described it similarly. “We try to create a unifying campaign strategy,” he says. Thompson, and the rest of the Leadership Institute, are forthcoming about their status as a conservative organization. “Anyone is welcome, although our stated goal is to increase the number of conservative activists worldwide,” he says. “It’s important that you work with college students to get them excited about a career in public policy.” Thompson says that if a liberal student were to come to one of their train-

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Foundations formed to train tomorrow’s leaders aren’t restricted to conservatives. Campus Progress, a similar 501(c) (3) organization run by the Center for American Progress, held a day-long nonpartisan training seminar in June called “How to Win in 2010: Mobilizing Young Voters.” It was training for candidates, campaign staff and media on how to get more youth turnout at the polls. They talked about outreach, branding and fundraising, among other issues. Campus Progress also held a campaign called “Vote Again 2010,” which used the Web and video campaigns to get more young people to the polls for the national elections. “Through programs in activism, journalism and events, Campus Progress helps young people make their voices heard now on issues that matter, and works with young leaders to build a strong, united progressive movement that can bring long-term positive change,” Katie Andruill, communications and outreach manager for Campus Progress, wrote in an email. There’s also Open Society Foundations, an organization that lists youth activism among its many functions. That foundation, too, is a taxexempt nonpartisan one, although it was founded by George Soros, who donated millions to organizations that supported Democrats in the 2004 election in an effort to remove former President George W. Bush from office. According to its website, the focus of Open Society Foundations is “building vibrant and tolerant democracies.”

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before voting began, even though the Leadership Institute was trumpeting the INVEST victory in a press release and on its website. “The credit goes to the students,” Thompson told Boulder Weekly. “The sweep is indicative of how the students’ goals and aims for student government were received by Colorado students. They’re working for all students, whether those are liberal or conservative.” Kanski credits the hard work his team did in both campaigning and developing its platform, as well as the fact that students might not be as aligned with parties as their adult counterparts. “At this point, students aren’t as concerned with political tickets as they are with what we’re doing for them,” he says. “We have a very unique organization that we’re running, and students are educated enough to see who can run that organization at its optimum point.” The INVEST candidates say they will work to decrease student fees, increase student safety and educate students on campus about how to work with their student government. Kanski says he doesn’t know just how the budget cuts will work out. “I can’t foresee anything right now,” he says. “It comes down to if we’re in a situation where we need to make a reduction, and what compromises we can make with cost centers on those fees.” The members of PROPEL and EDGE tickets, though, expect to see more cuts like those to CoPIRG, a student interest group that works on energy and environmental initiatives, among other issues, and ITP, the Interactive Theater Project, which performs monthly skits about relevant social issues. “I think we’ll see what we’ve seen from them all year long,” Chaker says. “Cutting programs — I would expect to see just that.” She, and Montague-Asp, who cochairs a board through the student government for the GLBT Resource Center, plan to stay involved in the community and government at CU. “It was never for the title,” Chaker says. “My involvement at CU has been about positive change and truly benefiting the student body. This doesn’t take me away from the work.” She also offers advice to the 10,407 students that voted, and those that didn’t. It’s advice that’s helpful to even the Democratic wave of voters in Boulder. “I want to ask the student body to keep this focus,” Chaker says. “Have a voice. Apathy should not be taking the lead role anymore.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Innisfree expands If you’ve been to Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café recently, you may have noticed that they have quietly expanded their once-cramped digs at 1203 13th St. into the space next door. They are celebrating the move and National Poetry Month with a second grand opening ceremony on April 23. Mark Glenn, co-founder of the Conscious Coffee brand served in the store, will give a talk about his company’s fair trade-oriented business model. Conscious Coffee is delivered via bicycle in reusable containers, and the owners take strides to form relationships with the farmers who grow the coffee beans used by the company. At 1 p.m., Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal will read from his new book, Origin of the Species. Dayanaa Sevilla will sing as part of the introduction. Cardenal has published more than 35 books and now lives in the Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, and many consider him to be the greatest living Latin American poet. At 2:30 p.m., members of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will read selections from Shakespeare’s sonnets and monologues. The Boulder Renaissance Consort will play music as part of the CSF readings, and there will be an open mic after the reading for visitors to share their favorite Shakespeare lines. For more information, visit http:// on.fb.me/Innisfree Lawmakers host meetings Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, and Rep. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, will host a meeting about the progress of the 2011 legislative session in Louisville on Monday, April 25. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Louisville Public Library at 951 Spruce St. In addition, Shaffer, Jones and Rep. Deb Gardner, D-Longmont, will host a similar meeting in Longmont on Tuesday, April 26. The event, which will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m., will be held at Abbondanza Pizza, at 461 Main St. What to do with yard waste City of Boulder officials are reminding residents that there is no longer a city-sponsored spring cleanup program. The program has been replaced by the residential curbside compost colBoulder Weekly

lection service. Yard waste is collected in curbside compost carts every other week, throughout the year. The city requests that residents do not place their yard waste by the curb. Loose piles of yard waste that are left on the curb may incur additional charges. City residents may dispose of excess yard waste by using trash hauler-provided compost carts; placing up to three additional compostable bags of leaves and three bundles of branches beside their compost carts on collection days (at no additional charge); or bringing it to the Yard Waste Drop-off center (free to city residents) located at Western Disposal, 5880 Butte Mill Road. (For more information on the Yard Waste Drop-off site, visit www. westerndisposal.com.) Customers may also subscribe to larger compost carts on an annual or seasonal basis. Contact your trash hauler for more information on the curbside compost collection service. For additional information, contact the Local Environmental Action Division at 303-441-4900, or visit www.bouldercolorado.gov/LEAD EnergySmart offering new rebates A new round of rebates for energy efficiency upgrades are available to Boulder County businesses and commercial property owners. Through its EnergySmart program, Boulder County is offering $450,000 in rebates to businesses until the end of the year or until funds are committed. Rebates are for qualifying projects in lighting, heating and cooling, roof insulation, refrigeration, food service, motors and drives, air compressors, server virtualization and more. Rebate applications are available at www.EnergySmartYes.com. Payments will be made upon completion of projects on a first-come, first-served basis. The $450,000 is available in addition to existing utility rebates and can be applied to both lighting and nonlighting measures. Rebates of nearly $130,000 have been distributed to 57 local businesses for lighting upgrades since the program launched in 2010. Due to success in 2010 and ongoing demand, lighting rebates will continue to be offered through 2011, subject to available funding. For more information and to check eligibility requirements, call an EnergySmart advisor at 877-505-6722 or visit the website. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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f Bo and Nancy DeAngelo’s kids are hunting for eggs this weekend, it won’t be the first time this week they’ve gone to the yard looking for eggs. And the ones they’ll return with won’t be hard-boiled and dyed. They’ll be freshly laid and ready to be made into breakfast. The DeAngelos keep 18 chickens in the backyard of their home on Table Mesa, and the chickens do a little lawn maintenance for them. “They make wonderful pest protectors,” Bo DeAngelo says. “It’s not just the garden either. They have a tendency to reduce the overall pest level around the house.” That’s meant fewer earwigs in the lawn furniture and fewer flies. “They just love tomato horn worms,” DeAngelo says. “And millipedes and sowbugs are no longer an issue.” They even keep the grass trimmed — DeAngelo says he only mowed his lawn two or three times last summer. In official terms, chickens fit into what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes as “integrated pest management,” which means coordinating pest controls in a way that’s sensitive toward people, property and the environment. Those practices can supplement or replace chemical pesticides with mechanical traps, pheromones to disrupt pest mating cycles, and natural predators. “Typically, the biological methods which would be used in a home garden are going to be more along the lines of insects eating insects, or the selection

of specific plants which may discourage pests,” VelRey A. Lozano, integrated pest management coordinator for the regional EPA office, told Boulder Weekly via email. “It is difficult to specifically know what will work for a home garden, because it will depend on the area of the garden, the pest, the crop, etc.” Integrated pest management is most effective when the specifics are lined up: targeting a specific pest according to its biology. “With IPM you do want to be careful not to introduce another problem for the one you are trying to get rid of. Some of the things to consider with recommending chickens: Their fecal matter may create another issue, their dander and dust from feathers, housing, city ordinances, predators, etc.,” Lozano said. Early on, DeAngelo had questions about the manure, bedding and predators, but so far, he says, “We’ve had zero problems.” He keeps an eye out for rats and recycles the pine shavings used as bedding in his compost. “You have to be careful with chickens because they do have to scratch and dig,” he says. That can shred your garden, so it’s best to keep chickens out of the garden until the plants are matured, and some plants, like spring greens and lettuce, aren’t going to be suitable for chicken patrol. A layer of mulch can also help, DeAngelo says. If scratching and weekly coop clean-up are deal breakers, guinea fowl are an alternative. They’re still egg-layers and bug-chasers, but they can be

less hazardous to gardens. “When the chickens get out in the gardens, they scratch for food. They pull up worms and stuff,” says Jeannette Ferguson, author of Gardening with Guineas: A Step by Step Guide to Raising Guinea Fowl on a Small Scale and president of the Guinea Fowl Breeders Association. “Guineas get food within their reach. They go for bugs and insects that are sitting on plant leaves or on top of the grass blades. They don’t scratch.” When Ferguson got guineas, her bug-free flower garden became showworthy, and she’s won more than a hundred fair ribbons and rosettes. Because they’re still basically wild, guineas must be trained to stay close to home. But while chicken coops need to be cleaned weekly, a guinea coop needs it just once a month. Guineas produce eggs only from early spring to late fall, and prefer to lay them in secluded areas and among thicker cover. Because guinea eggs are smaller, they have to be substituted for chicken eggs at a two-to-one ratio. City of Boulder zoning codes don’t have any limitations on keeping chickens or guineas, although roosters can lead to a noise violation. If you’re not interested in bringing poultry home, or don’t have a garden space available on which to help green the planet, Earth Day activities this weekend will allow you to plant trees on someone else’s land, or simply donate to encourage sustainability education. Check out local events at www. boulderganic.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Week of March 31- April 6 1. See no weed Despite federal efforts in other states to crack down on dispensaries, feds in Colorado say they haven’t changed their tune on how they deal with medical marijuana and have no plans to do so. They say they are focused on large-scale, illegal distribution and sales operations, not the individual patient or the dealer on the street corner. 2. Capturing the spirit, if not the notes 3. Panorama (4/14) 4. CU cops: Cracking down on 4/20 isn’t worth it 5. Making room for mobile food trucks 6. City targets eight more dispensaries for closure 7. Noam Chomsky to speak in Boulder 8. The ins and outs of sex 9. Valmont bike park to open June 11 10. Shouldn’t be alive

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Bueller… Bueller… Ferris Bueller’s Day Off screens at the St. Julien Hotel on Sunday, April 24.

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Free Acupuncture Day — Take advantage of this opportunity to let strangers poke you with needles — for free! 2-6 p.m. Left Hand Community Acupuncture, 409 S. Public Rd, Lafayette, 720248-8626.

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Laser Bob Marley — In typical stoner fashion, the Bob Marley laser show is late, coming two days after 4/20. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

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Moisture from the venue, an YouTubeArizona water park, caused one of his generation digital turntables to lock up. musicologists “I was a nervous wreck up there, have dubbed trying to learn how to DJ in a comthis sound pletely new way in front of 3,000 peo- “complextro” ple,” he says of his valuable lesson in (a mash-up of improvisation. “complex” and Still in his senior year of high “electro”), but school, Robinson has proven he’s no it’s remarkably amateur. Six years of production expe- similar to rience began with a “nerdy little Cubist ideas of 12-year-old, chillin’ in my bedroom objects analyzed in pieces and with nothing to do,” Robinson says. abstractly re-assembled in a broad Once he found electronic music, he context. listened to it exclusively until the “I talk a lot about having disparate sounds of “legends” elements, lots of such as Wolfgang cuts and chops,” On the Bill: Porter Robinson plays the Gartner, Noisia and Robinson says. Fox Theatre on Thursday, April Dirtyloud became a “But the glue 21. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets reality on his own that holds these are $15 in advance, $18 day of show. 1128 13th St., laptop. things together, I 303-443-3399. What he latched think, is creating onto has become the a lot of different most recognizable production techelements out of like elements.” nique driving today’s electronic music: The greater goal is a cultivation of identifying the strengths of different high-energy dance music. electronic genres and their characteris“It’s all about that drop, it’s all tic phrasing, then speaking a macroabout bangers,” Robinson says, noting language through a mesh of sounds. the potential of taking a familiar Like conducting for a punchy electro jump-up energy into new tempos and orchestra, each “instrument” gets a modes of expression. moment of focus before leaping to “I think part of the point now is another, uniting them all in a compelthat we’re all attempting to distinguish ling way. ourselves and not run together, and

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we’re finding that you don’t have to stick to conventional electro speeds or dubstep speeds to make a banger track. What we’re experiencing now, I think, is a lower regard for genre and a lower regard for tempo and more about expressing an attitude.” For being a teenage overnight success, Robinson is disarmingly self-deprecating. He frankly relates the story of how it all happened: His first single, “Say My Name,” held the top spot on Beatport’s Electro-House before Robinson had ever seen a live DJ. His father chaperoned for a trip to California, where the two would attend both Robinsons’ first experience seeing a DJ. “My dad, he was like, ‘I want to get a sense of what exactly you’re getting into.’ So he’s with me in this club. He’s like 58, and kinda standing out,” Robinson says as he starts to laugh. “I’m nervous as hell just being in a club, I’ve never been to one before. I’m like, am I gonna have to dance with people? What am I doing

here?” He reports that his performance the next day was “a crazy risk, but it worked out.” Robinson has since moved to sold-out performances across North America and a spot at major festivals alongside the big players in electronic music, yet he continues to attend school at home. Robinson said he can be lectured on human history one day and open for Tiesto the next. “It’s very strange and it’s kind of hard to reconcile intellectually. It’s hard to care much about school, but it’s important to me.” That leaves Robinson straddling a strange social existence. On one hand, he’s a high-school student with international popularity. On the other, he is a young player in an aggressive field of heavy partiers and big egos. Nowadays, Skrillex may be a bigger bully than anyone at his North Carolina high school. It’s happened that some headliners have scoffed while watching Robinson mixing it up in the big leagues, he says, “but at the end of the day I’m just kind of doing me, y’know, playing music that I love and doing it in a sensible format. If people want to treat me differently for my age, eh, I guess that’s a temporary thing.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Boulder’s International Film Series celebrates 70 years by Adam Perry

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he International Film Series is a celluloid-focused Boulder institution attached to the film studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder, and it’s been going strong since 1941, when IFS began showing eclectic black-and-white 16 mm titles. With CU’s Muenzinger Auditorium as its chief venue, IFS now fills nearly every night in Boulder — skipping only summers — with exciting documentaries, unique features from around the globe, and mint-condition reels of inimitable oldies. The affordable IFS ($6; $5 for students) celebrates its 70th anniversary this weekend with a Saturday matinee showing of a private collector’s print of the legendary ’80s Tom Waits concert film Big Time (still not on DVD), an evening screening of Straight to Hell Returns (the new, retooled edition of the punk classic) and a raucous concert at the Absinthe House featuring Veronica and Nuns of Brixton (yes, a Clash cover band that dresses up as nuns). Beginning with a technical lesson packed with rarified language such as “sprockets” and “platter houses,” IFS director Pablo Kjolseth, a CU alum who grew up in Boulder and has been programming IFS for 14 years, schooled me on the rapidly changing world of film screening. Enjoy a few snippets as we help celebrate IFS’ 70th birthday. Boulder Weekly: What’s the difference between IFS and the mainstream movie-going experience? Pablo Kjolseth: We’re dedicated to the experience of the cinema and then conversation afterwards. We’re not trying to make money off of candy and soda pop. And if you go to Cinemark, for example, they’re phasing out all their film. I find the evolution from film to digital stultifying, because people are getting a little too computer-happy, which makes for a lot of sloppy bullshit. We’re very much dedicated to celluloid, though we show some digital.

BW: Why are you so passionate about film? PK: I consider film to be one of the most important art forms of our time. To me, being visually literate is so important, now more than ever. We’re being bombarded with more visual images today than in any other point in human history, and we take it for granted. We don’t even acknowledge how we’re being manipulated. Sometimes it’s so obvious — you watch Fox News and you see the propaganda and the drumbeats. But other times it’s just branding and people trying to make an impact, distracting you in different ways. And it chips away at us, especially if you’re not visually literate. So to me it’s an incredibly important way of looking at the world, and it’s an ongoing education because visual arts and mediums are constantly changing, and the way we interact with them is changing. It’s a constantly evolving process, and the art form constantly evolves along with it. BW: How did you originally get interested in movies? PK: My parents used to regulate how much TV I could watch — a half-whour a day. I would save up that half hour so that I could watch the “Creature Feature” double features on the weekend. That got me going, and when I was about 6 I really wanted to see Jaws more than anything in the world, and my parents said I could only see it if I read the book. I was 6! But I read it, and luckily Jaws was in the theater forever. Actually, [that

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was] at the United Artists Regency on Walnut [now the Absinthe House], where we’re having the 70th anniversary concert. You know, Boulder used to have a really good independent art-house film scene. I saw Star Wars at the Flatirons Theater, which is now a medical marijuana dispensary. And I was watching movies at the International Film Series as well. BW: What’s your take on the state of filmmaking in Boulder today? PK: I actually think we have a film scene that’s percolating. A lot of people are coming here who already have backgrounds working with studios and companies — real studio connections and also some money. But there are always people here doing their own thing, and I think that combination is making the background noise get louder and louder every year. As far as whether they have a platform right now … my platform is international celluloid. I still hold a torch for celluloid, but I have had local filmmakers, and the amount of submissions I get is crazy. At some point I sense that, because of that background noise, there will be a reason to do a weekly or monthly dedication to local filmmakers. BW: After all these years, what’s your favorite film? PK: I have so many favorite films that the easiest way I can answer that question without feeling like I’m slighting all these other films is … if you could rephrase that to ask what film I’ve watched the most times. The two that pop up are Brazil [coincidentally screening at IFS tonight] — I’ve watched that over 20 times — and, after that, I would say Evil Dead 2. I just love that film. If I’m ever really depressed, it’s the movie I go to watch. No matter how bad your day is going, at least you haven’t had to chainsaw your girlfriend in half, fight zombies, cut off your hand and get sucked into the past-vortex. I come out feeling pretty good, going, “My life’s not so bad.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Alfredo Muro and other guests play the Dairy Center for the Arts on Saturday, April 23. Lectures start at 2 p.m., with other lectures and musical performances throughout the day. Tickets start at $18. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328, or visit http://thedairy.org.

The sound of South American strings Alfredo Muro’s Latin guitar journey

e caught up to Alfredo Muro a couple of weeks ago just a few minutes after the Peruvian-born guitar maestro finished up conducting a longdistance lesson — via Skype. Having only recently moved here from Portland, Ore., where he had lived and worked for 20 years, most of Muro’s longtime students are still back in the rainy Pacific Northwest, and Skype affords him a handy and affordable tool to maintain these relationships — sensible and practical, even if we found it a curious and unexpected intersection between slick modern technology and the deeply historic, aesthetically intimate legacy of the Spanish guitar. Muro laughs a bit about it. “It works well, works perfect,” he says. “It’s like having a student there, face to face … Sometimes I have a little trouble with the sound, but in general it’s good.” You can hardly blame someone like Muro, a virtuoso player fluent in many different forms of Latin guitar, for being a little picky about the sound. For all its simplicity and plaintively warm tone, the Spanish guitar is an absolutely essential voice of South American culture, engendering both its high art and folkloric traditions in a way that probably doesn’t have an equivalent in North America. On his recordings, fiery and reflective in equal measure, Muro glides effortlessly between them, with the patience and precise listening born of years of study extending back to his pre-teen years growing up in Lima, absorbing the wide stylistic palette of musical forms from the various countries of South America.

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by Dave Kirby A cultural legacy, we suggested, too little known north of the border. “Exactly, I agree with you,” he says. “Which is why I proposed this idea to do a concert to focus on Latin music, considering … Americans in general are not really exposed to the rich variety of Latin American music.” “Since I was a kid [growing up in Peru], I was exposed to all Latin American music, not just Peruvian. At my house, I’d hear tangos, guarania from Paraguay, Brazilian music, pasillo from Equador, cueca from Chile … it all became a common language for me. So we decided to do a concert of all these types of music … music from Venezuela, milongas from Argentina and Uruguay, guarania from Paraguay, and Brazilian music. Not only the bossa nova and the samba, which are very well-known, but the choro music and the afro-sambas, very rich in the north of Brazil, especially in Bahia.” And all of this traces back to the Spaniards? “Yeah, with the only distinction that the Brazilian music all came from Africa … and the Portuguese. “Most of the main ports in Brazil, like Montevideo, and Buenos Aires, they had the advantage of receiving those European immigrants, especially the Portuguese and King João, who had the great musicians. Very, very important musicians … and that’s why you find such a great tradition of music in Brazil,” he says. “Countries like Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay were exposed to all the culture the immigrants brought to America, but that didn’t happen with countries like Paraguay, in the

center of South America, or Bolivia. “And of course, Peru had the influence of the Spanish conquerors, along with Ecuador and Colombia.” As part of the program for this special presentation at the Dairy Center for the Arts, Muro will also being presenting an afternoon lecture on the life and times of Agustin Barrios, the guitar virtuoso and composer from Paraguay who lived from 1885 to 1944 and is buried amongst generals and revolutionaries in the state cemetery in El Salvador. Barrios is still revered by his countrymen as a national hero, and by students of the Spanish guitar as an artistic peer of the great Spanish maestro Andres Segovia. Barrios’ music was largely forgotten until the late 1970s — unlike Segovia, who had the benefit of a longer life, a celebrated recording and performing career, and a European pedigree. Muro will perform at this all-day event, both solo and with guest artists (Kevin Garry, Felicity Muench, Michael DeLalla, Steve Mullins, Lise Blumenthal, Rob Chirico, Mitch Helble and Jullien McVean) in duet, trio and quartet settings. And while Muro himself plays the master of ceremonies, ultimately it all comes down to playing this music himself. There is a special kind of terror that band-trained guitarists know: playing solo. Two hands, six strings and a sea of faces. Unplug the amps, grab an acoustic guitar, and if you miss a note, everybody hears it. We wondered if Muro ever feels that terror anymore. Not really. “My first public in Peru was when I was 12, I think,” Muro says. “And it was in front of 2,000 people. And when I played for the Pope in the Vatican, in 1984. You know, you forget about all the people watching you. You get experience. … For me, my passion is to play.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Shpongle Presents: The Shpongletron Experience at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, April 23. Random Rab and Hallucinogen open. Doors at 8 p.m. Tickets are $43. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Simon Posford and Shpongletron want to blow your mind by P.J. Nutting

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very time Simon Posford rolls into town, two things are certain: He’s bringing something (or someone) that will absolutely blow minds, and a large crowd of vision-seekers will gather to stand directly in its line of fire. Those lucky enough to catch Posford’s latest attempt to up the ante will experience the Shpongletron, a beautifully terrifying structure that stands almost 20 feet tall and includes four levels of projection screens, animatronics, dancers on lofted platforms and 3-D mapping, all designed by the infamous VJ Zebbler. “He’s probably one of the only people I Simon Posford know who has managed to close down a whole city,” Posford says, referring to a promotional project the visual designer undertook for chedelica and creating a convincing alternate reality a cartoon show that was misinterpreted as a terrorist through light and sound. Posford nearly begs you to attack. “He’s got a very artistic sort of personality and ask what drugs he’s on; in actuality, performances are is very creative. We’re really happy to have him build a sober endeavor. this thing and do all the lighting.” “It works for some people,” he says, citing artists Anything Posford touches turns to psychedelic ranging from Pink Floyd to Bob Marley who have gold. In 1996, he paired up with Infinity Project been open about the positive effect of drugs on their member Raja Ram to launch Shpongle, creating an music. energetic yet meditative brand of trance music that “For me, I can’t do it, certainly with a computer,” incorporates Eastern instruments with backwards Posford says. “At times, even when I’m just DJing, I’ll vocals and a universe of synthesizers. Aside from his find myself playing the same song twice, forgetting solo DJ project, Hallucinogen, Posford frequently col- whether I’ve played it or not … y’know, ‘This sounds laborates with Benji Vaughan (aka Prometheus) in the amazing! Ah shit, I just played it. Or have I?’” instrument-driven project Younger Brother, featuring Drugs of all kinds continue to influence music, Grateful Dead drummer Joe Russo, among others, as and electronic music in particular exists in a chickenwell as a No. 2 spot on iTunes’ Dance chart for their or-the-egg relationship. Much of Shpongle’s art caters latest release, Vaccine. to those who see with their third eye, or at least have If each collaboration represents an inner creative taken something to make their other two eyes pop child within Posford, Shpongle would be a 15-yearwide open. But when contextualized against rave old guru with four heads. It’s heavily driven by psymusic that is fueled by self-serving “love” drugs, or

basement electronic styles that pair aggressive music with tranquilizers, Shpongle is mellow and holistic music that will take you on a trip with or without drugs. “Someone could say, ‘What’s it like to be on acid?’ And to confer that experience into language, I think it’s an extremely poor medium,” Posford says. “It’s like having a vocabulary of five words to describe it. Music provides the extra keys on the typewriter you need to express the whole experience.” Shpongle’s songs start from mental images conjured by Posford and Raja Ram, who conceptualize the music as surreal landscapes of light and color. Posford describes a few from Shpongle’s first album: a lake shimmering in the sky; a journey to a waterfall amongst whirlpools and giant moths, with the “massive, raw power of [the waterfall] pounding on you; then you go through the waterfall into another sort of reality — the drips from the cave and the echoey space of the cavern,” he says. Whether your imagination can handle this journey without chemical assistance is not Posford’s concern. “I really have no judgments on what people want to do at my shows at all,” he says. “Whatever floats your boat, really. The music is out there, so listen in any state you like. I would be disappointed as an artist if my music could only be appreciated by people on drugs. I would sort of have failed, because I myself am not on drugs all the time, so I want music I can listen to when I’m driving or sitting around at home, or reading, or whatever.” If you can quietly read a book while a time-warping jester face blasts lasers from its mouth, you probably need to tell your drug dealer he was scammed. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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22 Hazel Miller This woman’s voice isn’t for the light-hearted. Hear it and believe it. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Yellowbirddd, Swing State. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Basics of Blogging. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Colorado Skies — 2012, Fact or Fiction? 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001. Free Acupuncture Day. 2-6 p.m. Left Hand Community Acupuncture, 409 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, 720-248-8626. Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www. flamenco-boulder.com. The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Boulder/Denver Area An Instinct Toward Life — Sculptures by Dario Robleto. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through May 15. Bloodlines — Paintings by Hermann Nitsch. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29. Exhibition by Henrique Oliveira. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Art by Susan Brooks. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table

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Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through April 30. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Jane Whittlesey. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through May 31. Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 29. Ourrubberos — By Jessica Moon Bernstein. Boulder Museum of Contemporay Art, 1750 13th St.,

Boulder, 303-443-2122. Piece Work — Sculptures by Allison Smith. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29. Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan. BioLounge, CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — By various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

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Friday, April 22

music 19th Annual Microbreweries for the Environment. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Back to the Woods. 5 p.m. Alfalfa’s Market, 1651 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-5343. Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Chilli Willie Band. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Chu’uchadelics. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. CU Glowfest. 6 p.m. Balch Fieldhouse, CU campus, www.cuglowfest.com. Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Eef & The Blues Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Finnders & Youngberg Album Release. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Flamenco with Rene Heredia. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Idlewhile,Themes. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Laurie Dameron. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Mach Zehnder. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Mike Wojniak, Monocle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Motet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Music on the Mezz — The Linda Hardin Trio. 5:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Raising Cane. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Rory Block. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Adobe Photoshop: Compositing and Montaging. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. City of Stars. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser Bob Marley. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser Sublime. 10:45 pm. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

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theater Alice in Wonderland. Jesters School for the Performing Arts, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through May 7. An Empty Plate at the Cafe du Grand Boeuf — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. Through May 7.

Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Bass Seminar — With Anthony Wellington. 12 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Daniel Park, Jeremy Dion Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Gregory Greer. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Highwater. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. IFS 70th Anniversary Concert Fundraiser — With The Nuns of Brixton and Veronica. 9 p.m. The Absinthe House, 119 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-492-1531. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Kate and Brent Jazz. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Mestizo. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Motet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Music on the Mezz — With Dave Honig and New Standards Project. 5:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344. A New Brain for Arnie. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Shpongletron Experience. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Singer/Songwriter Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Tribal Seeds. 8 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Wendy Woo. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder,

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass — Presented by CU Opera. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver, 303-492-8008. April 26. Stories on Stage: Crazy in Love. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. April 30. Swing! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through May 8.

303-443-3322. Words in Flight, Peters Bros. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Young Songwriters Competition 2011. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

events 3rd Annual Big Top: A Springtime Circus Extravaganza! — Benefit for Boulder County Aids Project. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617. Processing Your Photos in Adobe Camera Raw. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. www.Tango AmongFriends.net.

Sunday, April 24

music Asher Bluegrass Pick. 4-6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court., Boulder, 303-530-1381. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Chris Kroger. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Melissa Cox & Reign Lee. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Onda. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400. Open Stage. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

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events Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Easter Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Easter Sunrise Service. 6 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Monday, April 25

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. High RaceVine. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683. Jay Ryan’s BigTop. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683. Milk Drive. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

events Chimera Lightning Tip & Tricks — Free. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Free Open Class — Meditation instruction. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — One dollar of each pint sold goes to Kiwanis Club. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Choosing June. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. Fort Wilson Riot, Lady Parts. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Jonny Jyemo. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7:15 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Super Sessions with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

events 46th Annual George Gamow Memorial Lecture — Anticipating a New Golden Age: A Vision and Its Fiery Trial at the Large Hadron Collider. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, www. phys. colorado.edu/gamow. A Capella Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. BMA Film Night: Pedal Driven, LifeCycles. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public

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words Thursday, April 21 Gary Vaynerchuk’s The Thank You Economy. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Thursday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, April 25 Tim Sandlin’s Lydia. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, April 26 Dan Millman’s The Four Purposes of Life. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Tuesday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book Store, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wednesday, April 27 Jenny Shank’s The Ringer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. From Hive To Honey: An Introduction To Bees And Beekeeping. 6:30 p.m. Altona Grange, 39th and Nelson Roads, Longmont, 303492-6112. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m. Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464. Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Media Training. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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music George Nelson. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Rodrigo y Gabriela. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Stacey Dee. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Aesthetics of Editing. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Art for Lunch. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Introduction to SEO. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. StandUp For Kids Boulder Open House Event. 5 p.m. Masonic Lodge Facilities, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 720-339-2360. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, April 21 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, April 22 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, April 23 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Boulder Folders Origami Drop-in

Folding Session. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Sunday, April 24 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Family Pick — All-ages bluegrass jam every Sunday. 3-6 p.m. The Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Monday, April 25 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, April 26 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424. Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, April 27 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007. Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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Dear Looking, Don’t stop wearing the glove of love yet! Figuring out when to have sex without getting pregnant is an art that very few people have successfully mastered. Some attempt the withdrawal method of extracting the penis before ejaculation. However, there can still be sperm Dear Decreeing, in the pre-ejaculate, and sometimes the What a wonderful question! While heat of the moment may make a person you are coming from different perspeclose control quicker than they’d like. tives, you are both right. Your “spontaSome attempt to use the rhythm neity” idea mainmethod, whereby tains that sex stems couples abstain Questions from a place of from intercourse on Send questions for Jenni seductive desire. the days of a womSkyler to drjenni@ an’s menstrual cycle His “planning” idea theintimacyinstitute.org. when she is ovulatargues that desire ing. This requires results once sex cataloging changes starts. in your cervical mucus and taking your The benefit of spontaneity is the basal body temperature to know when thrill in never knowing when sex might you are ovulating. Again, this is a skilled happen. The benefit in planning is the art that has to be learned and used assurance that you will regularly have accurately and consistently. sex and time to intimately connect with Furthermore, some women can have one another. cycles that are off and irregular from On the down side, those who solely causes such as stress, too much exercise, depend on spontaneity may find themselves living a busy life and neglecting illness or drugs. to have sex as often as they’d like. And As for getting pregnant during your those who subscribe to only planning period, it is possible. The likelihood is sometimes feel like sex can be as routine lower, but recognize that if you have a as brushing your teeth. short menstrual cycle, you could ovulate The solution sounds like a comproa few days after your period. Since mise of both strategies. Besides, one sperm are able to live in the reproducapproach can feed the other. You can tive tract up to three days, there is a have regular scheduled sex sessions that slim possibility of fertilization. have an ambiance of excitement, fantasy Furthermore, spotting or breakthrough and pleasure. The energy and fun you bleeding can be mistaken for a period, have from these times together may also and if you are ovulating at this point, inspire you to be more salacious and then pregnancy is almost a given. seductive on the spur of the moment. Check out Planned Parenthood or Whatever arrangement you decide, Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center congratulations on having the courage for numerous alternatives if you don’t to converse about this topic. This may want the pill or condoms. Some options be the most important vow you can include a patch, an intrauterine device take! (IUD), shots, sponges, caps and a ring you can insert into your vagina. And Dear Dr. Jenni, don’t forget the adventure of outerI just stopped taking birth control course! pills and started using condoms with my Send questions for Jenni Skyler, PhD, boyfriend. I don’t like condoms either to drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org. Skyler and want an alternative, but I’m worried is a sex therapist and board-certified sexolthat I will do something wrong and get ogist who runs The Intimacy Institute in pregnant. Is this common? Can you get Boulder, www.theintimacyinstitute.org.

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Thursday, April 21 Adventures in Patagonia. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Saturday, April 23 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., #B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241. Saturn’s Rings. 9-11 p.m Boulder Valley Ranch Trailhead, Boulder, 303441-3440. Sunday, April 24 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org. Monday, April 25 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:306:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720565-6019.

at home K on the trails by Nathan Van Dyne

elli Emmett has a thing for dirt. Whether she’s riding her 300 KTM motorcycle or any one of an array of mountain bikes, the 33-year-old Colorado Springs resident feels most comfortable away from pavement. It’s a surface that has played a substantial role in her life. She spent a good chunk of her childhood laboring on the family’s apple farm in Plymouth, Mich. When she wasn’t mowing fields, picking apples or pruning her share of the orchard’s 15,000 trees, odds were good she was turning laps on an old dirt bike. But it wasn’t until Emmett hopped on a mountain bike that she began making what ultimately would become her indelible

Tuesday, April 26 Andrew Skurka’s Lightweight Backpacking and Skills Clinic. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866. Flamenco Dancing In Andalucia, Spain. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303786-8406. Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735. Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019. Wednesday, April 27 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder., www.pearlstreetrunners.com. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com.

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mark. “Hated it,” Emmett says of that initial encounter with the sport. “I was like, ‘This is stupid. Why would anyone want to do this?’” It seemed a valid question; Emmett was far more interested in social activities than sports and was a smoker. Plus, mountain biking wasn’t easy, and after that first ride Emmett had the bumps and bruises to prove it. Yet, she didn’t quit. Her father, a longtime smoker, made sure of it. He saw mountain biking as a healthy alternative to cigarettes. He knew that in order for his daughter to adopt this new habit, she would have to kick the old one. By the time she crossed the finish line of her first race in Michigan, she was hooked on mountain biking and had given up cigarettes. Within two years, Emmett — a “nonathlete” who was booted from a high school weightlifting class for not participating — had reached the pinnacle of racing. As a professional mountain biker, Emmett has built an impressive resume. In her first season as a pro, she finished top 10 in World Cup and parlayed that success into her first contract. She’s a member of the Giant Factory Off-Road team, and her long list of accolades includes 2000 National Collegiate Champion, 2007 Single Speed World Champion, 2008 Sea Otter Classic Champion, 2010 Downieville All-Mountain World Champion and 2006 and 2010 Super D National Champion. “It changed my life,” Emmett says of riding. “I just fell in love with it. It pushes you always.” And Emmett pushes herself — with the work ethic gleaned as a girl picking apples for “hours on end.” Those hours now are spent in the saddle, testing her technical skills with quick descents through Williams Canyon, fine-tuning her cornering

techniques at Pueblo Reservoir and building her endurance with long rides to Hanover. “I think all pros have those moments where you have to get out on a ride or do a workout when you are really not motivated,” she says. “For me, I just have to think about my goals for the season and what I want to achieve. “I know it isn’t going to happen by not training.” In 2011, those goals are defending her crown at Downieville, finishing top three at nationals, and winning the Leadville Trail 100 — a race that has surged in popularity since Lance Armstrong first competed three years ago. Emmett has raced several ultras but never Leadville. And while 100 miles at an elevation of 10,000 feet and higher might not sound like fun, Emmett is looking forward to the challenge. “It’s an amazing show,” she says. “I know it’s going to be a long, hard day for sure. Sometimes those races, you just set a pace, put your head down and go. It will be a cool adventure.” It’s been one adventure after another for Emmett since moving to Colorado Springs in 2001. She likes to, as she says, “mix it up” when it comes to racing and training. She owns enough bikes to lose count and she competes in multiple disciplines for Giant — her favorite being the Super D, a cross-country downhill race that requires endurance. Although she spends an estimated 25 hours on her bike during peak summer weeks, Emmett looks for other ways to stay fit and race-ready. She joins the parade of hikers on the Manitou Springs Incline. She embarks on backcountry skiing trips, where strenuous ascents simulate the climbing required in mountain biking. She jumps on her motorcycle and rides

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Birth date: April 7, 1977 Disciplines: Cross Country, Short Track XC, Super D, Marathon

Primary strength: Descending Primary weakness: Climbing — “People think because I am a little smaller, I must be a great climber. Well, don’t be fooled. I am much better on rolling courses with short climbs. ... Cyclists usually say it takes 10 years to develop your weakness, so any day now my climbing should improve!” Unusual form of crosstraining: Dirt bike riding — “We ride a lot of the same trails. It helps with learning how to corner better.” Passions that don’t include two wheels: Cooking and reconnecting with friends Other places you’ll find Kelli: Coaching one of her 10 clients or working at the Center for Creative Leadership Favorite food: Apples — several years of working on the family apple farm didn’t sour Kelli on her fruit of choice. She still eats three a day. Quotable: On Colorado Springs resident and friend Katie Compton joining Giant — “It’s great! I have been the only woman on the team for the past four years, so I can’t wait to have someone to talk to about feelings. I get a little tired of the dude talk sometimes.” iPod playlist: Tegan and Sara, Mumford & Sons, M.I.A., Jurassic 5 Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

her favorite mountain biking trails. Emmett even takes her road bike for a couple of spins each week. As with many mountain bikers, it isn’t something she looks forward to, but she understands the purpose. “Mountain biking can be very physically fatiguing, which can accumulate if done too much day after day,” Emmett says. “So it is easier to get in more miles and time on the road bike without the additional fatigue.” Those long, sometimes windy rides aren’t memorable — “a little boring,”

she says with a laugh — and on one occasion led to trouble. Drafting behind a friend on a road bike, Emmett was pulled over by police in Tucson, Ariz. The officer issued a ticket, with make and model designated as “Specialized 10 speed,” for riding 21 mph in a school zone. Maybe that’s why she has a thing for dirt. —MCT (c) 2011, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Meta-references are not always good by Michael Phillips

n the first few minutes of Scream 4, the teenage girls home by themselves on a dark night are watching a DVD and discussing the merits and demerits of the Saw franchise, which one of the girls refers to as “torture porn,” and then brrrrrrrrrrrrp brrrrrrrrrrrrp goes the slightly tooloud cordless phone. This announces the presence of the serial killer who will be killing them soon, and not softly. A minute later, blood all over the walls, and turns out we’ve been watching a scene from Stab 6, which is being watched by two teenage girls home by themselves on a dark night. Brrrrrrrrrp brrrrrrrrp. The real movie starts. We think. Does it? Begun in 1996 by screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven, the Scream franchise has consciously made an in-joke virtue of its meta-critiques, its yakky way of calling attention to the horror-movie tropes while deploying them anew. Scream is all about the text and the film-geek footnotes. The opening of this franchise reboot — wait, is it a reboot if it’s from the same people? — promises a gory delirium the film cannot sustain. All in all, though, it’s a moderately entertaining exercise in running in circles and chasing one’s tail. I won’t give too much away,

A conspiracy full of holes

eartbreakingly average, director Robert Redford’s The Conspirator errs in the way so many films do, especially films about unsung pieces of American history. It focuses on the wrong character — in this case the white male, i.e. the “bankable” one, instead of the person the story’s really about. On April 17, 1865, three days after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., boarding house owner Mary Surratt, along with seven others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to kill the president. Was this Confederate sympathizer an active participant in Booth’s deadly plot, or merely an acquaintance? What was her scheming son’s precise role in the events that threatened to bring down the nation? The movie’s screenwriter, James Solomon, keeps Surratt herself at a remove from the main line of the action in what is, at heart, a courtroom drama. Surratt’s court defender in the military tribunal, Unionist Frederick Aiken, may have believed in Surratt’s innocence. Or he may have thought she was guilty. The conflicted Aiken becomes the so-called audience identification figure. This is frustrating, not because Aiken is inherently dull but because Surratt’s Boulder Weekly

except to say that the killer is really ... nah, better not ... but I will say that I appreciated the movie’s gentle insistence on actually ending. As opposed to sequelending, which is more like nyah-nyah. Craven and his cinematographer, Peter Deming, remain clever exploiters of widescreen film, as opposed to standard verite digital, and even if you tire of the all the “BOO!-oh-it’s-just-you” setups, in their fashion these men play more or less fair. The film is jampacked with stabbings, mostly to the stomach and

chest region, but the gore doesn’t impart that salacious, lingering Saw/Hostel feeling. It’s fun to see that charming under-reactor Neve Campbell, looking about 20 minutes older, back as Sidney Prescott. The character is the author of a cathartic best seller about what it took to survive the Woodsboro slasher attacks. Sidney’s in town just in time for the anniversary celebration of the horrors and her old high school’s “Stabathon,” a festival of the Stab movies based on the killings, held in an abandoned barn. And who do you think shows up for that? As always the town can count on Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) to show up a tetch late. Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers reconnects with her TV reporter’s instincts for ego and detective work once the bodies start piling up. At this point is there anywhere left to go with the Scream brand of genre self-love? Not really. I jumped a few times. I loved the prologue. I hope Craven gives us a taste of something new sometime soon. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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circumstances and psychological nooks and crannies are inarguably more dramatic. With James McAvoy in the leading role, The Conspirator has an actor of considerable skill but uneven judgment. His Aiken comes off as a petulant fellow, anachronistically blasé (though McAvoy, in his beard, resembles a young Ulysses S. Grant). The story is told as one righteous man up against a stacked deck

full of stony, steely faces determined to give a bloodthirsty post-Civil-War public a scapegoat. Redford’s ensemble is blessed with many fine character actors, chief among them Tom Wilkinson (as Aiken’s mentor, former Attorney General Reverdy Johnson), Colm Meaney (Gen. David Hunter) and Kevin Kline (war secretary Edwin Stanton). They provide the interpretive juice missing from Solomon’s stilted dialogue. Redford’s peak achievement as a director, Quiz Show, had the benefit of a sharp, fast, verbally adroit screenplay. We’re in a more somber, stylistic realm here, but Redford struggles to locate a tone, a rhythm and reasons to justify so much emphasis on Aiken. As Surratt, Robin Wright lends a cryptic dignity to a mysterious historical figure. There is, however, a difference between a shadowy historical figure and a shadowy historical figure brought to life. Unlike The Assassin’s Accomplice, the book that inspired The Conspirator, the movie’s so intent on treating Surratt with dignity and restraint that it fails to make her interesting. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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African Cats

This documentary follows three big cats on the African savanna. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

leading ballerinas of the Company. Peter Wright’s sensitive staging in the atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane heightens the contrast as the story moves between the human and supernatural worlds. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

The American Astronaut

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Shot in black-and-white, the film follows a roguish space captain, Samuel Curtis (McAbee), who transports cargo from one place to the next. He trades a cat for a girl, the girl for a boy, and the boy for a corpse, which he will take back to Earth for a handsome payment. He’s trailed by Professor Hess (Rocco Sisto), our narrator, a sociopath who kills (almost) everybody in his wake. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS

Bill Cunningham is obsessively interested in only one thing: the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the New York Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Bill has lived in the same small studio above Carnegie Hall for 50 years, never eats in restaurants and gets around on a worn-out bicycle. The contradiction of his monk-like existence and the extravagance of his photographic subject matter is one aspect of his private life revealed in the movie. At Chez Artiste and Muenzinger Auditorium. — Landmark Theatres

Arthur

British comic Russell Brand takes over for the late Dudley Moore in this remake of the 1981 smash hit about an alcoholic playboy who may lose his inheritance if he pursues a woman (Greta Gerwig) his snooty relatives don’t like. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron and Century. — Rene Rodriguez Atlas Shrugged

A railroad heiress tries to save her company amid a crumbling society and corrupt government in this adaptation of the first part of Ayn Rand’s 1957

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It’s kind of like Inception on a train. Sort of. OK, not exactly, but it does star Jake Gyllenhaal. Do you really need another reason to see it? novel. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT BALLET: Giselle

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works of the dance canon and of The Royal Ballet’s repertory. The title role presents the transcendental power of a woman’s love in the face of betrayal and is one of the most technically demanding and emotionally challenging roles in classical dance — not surprisingly, it is here a great showcase for the

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Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Bill Cunningham New York Fri-Wed: 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:35 I Am Thu: 4:45, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 4, 7:15, 9:25 Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:45 Of Gods and Men Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Certified Copy Thu: 7 p.m. Jane Eyre Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40 The King’s Speech Thu: 4:30, 9:45 Of Gods and Men Fri-Wed: 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Carancho Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Potiche Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:30 Super Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Win Win Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Cedar Rapids Thu-Wed: 2:30, 5, 7:20 Con Artist Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 Kill the Irishman Thu: 2, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:30, 7:30 The Last Lions Thu: 2:15 p.m. Putty Hill Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Smiley Face Fri: 10 p.m. Urban Roots 12 p.m. Vanishing Bees Sat: 2 p.m. UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 African Cats Fri-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40 Hanna Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed:

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Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 BALLET: Giselle Sun: 1 p.m. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Thu-Fri: 6:30 p.m. Sat: 6:30, 9:30 OPERA:The Barber of Seville Tue: 12 p.m. Poetry Thu: 4 p.m. Fri: 4, 9:30 Sat: 4 p.m. Sun: 6:30 p.m. Wed: 4 p.m.

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rhythm that barely allows her to sleep, she tries to establish herself in a city unknown to her. After Luján and Sosa’s paths repeatedly cross, the two form an unlikely romance that is threatened by Sosa’s turbulent past. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Cedar Rapids Tim Lippe was the guy people always thought would go places, but then he just didn’t. He’s been living in sleepy Brown Valley, Wis., his whole life, selling insurance to protect other people’s dreams. But Tim’s life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he’s headed to a major metropolis — Cedar Rapids, Iowa — where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be nonconventional. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Certified Copy Juliette Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on a whim or is there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Con Artist

Con Artist is a stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America’s craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980s New York scene, millionaire “business artist” Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings that he openly signs and sells as his own. Con Artist focuses on Kostabi’s current attempts to regain prominence and find happiness through fame, which he openly equates with love. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Conspirator See full review on Page 37. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron and Century. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences 26 years after his untimely death. The documentary humanizes the legend, weaving together an unprecedented array of unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, as well as compelling interviews. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Hanna A teenaged girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is sent on her first mission. Cate Blanchett is the intelligence agent hot on her trail. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Hop Live-action and animation blend in this comedy about a man who accidentally hits the Easter Bunny with his car, then must take over the rabbit’s annual duties until he recuperates. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez I AM I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it and what we can do to make it better, represents writer/director Tom Shadyac’s first foray into nonfiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners. At Muenzinger Auditorium, Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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Insidious

OPERA: The Barber of Seville

Writer Leigh Wannell and director James Wan try their hands at atmospheric horror with this tale of a married couple trying to protect their comatose son from evil spirits. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. – Rene Rodriguez

Rossini’s charming comedy The Barber of Seville is sure to leave you singing “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!” — just one of this opera’s many memorable tunes. A truly Italianate spectacle, performed on the classic stage of the Teatro Regio di Parma in Parma, Italy. Starring Vittorio Prato as the rapscallion barber Figaro and Ketevan Kemoklidze as the clever beauty Rosina. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Jane Eyre Jane Eyre suddenly flees Thornfield Hall, the vast, isolated estate where she worked as a governess for Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester. With nowhere else to go, she is extended a helping hand by clergyman St. John Rivers and his family. As she recuperates in the Rivers’ Moor House and looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, Jane wonders if the past is ever truly past. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Kill the Irishman

In the summer of 1976, 36 bombs detonated in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene’s rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Last Lions From the lush wetlands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta comes the suspense-filled story of a determined lioness ready to try anything and willing to risk everything to keep her family alive. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Limitless Bradley Cooper is a novelist suffering from writer’s block whose life is slowly falling apart — until he starts popping illegal pills that allow him to make full use of his brain’s abilities and turn him into a super-genius. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez The Lincoln Lawyer Matthew McConaughey enters the courtroom for the first time since 1996’s A Time to Kill in this adaptation of Michael Connelly’s novel about a lawyer who conducts his business from his Lincoln Town Car. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Madea’s Big Happy Family

Straight to Hell Returns

Alex Cox recently re-tooled his musician-studded Western featuring everyone from the Clash’s Joe Strummer to indy director Jim Jarmusch in Straight to Hell Returns. At VAC Auditorium, CU campus. — IFS

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A 60-something woman, faced with a crippling medical diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class. Lee Chang-dong’s followup to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment — and moral compass — of an elderly woman. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

When sad-sack loser Frank sees his ex-addict wife willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer, he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a handmade suit, a wrench and a crazed sidekick named Boltie, the Crimson Bolt beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes of saving his wife. The rules were written a long time ago: You are not supposed to molest children, cut lines or key cars; if you do, prepare to face the wrath of the Crimson Bolt! At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Potiche Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne, a submissive, housebound “trophy housewife” (or “potiche”) who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Putty Hill

A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, Putty Hill is the second feature from filmmaker Matt Porterfield. At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window into their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit of a shared dream. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Rio

The headstrong, wisecracking grandmother Madea tries to bring her family together with tough love, laughter and the revelation of a long-held secret. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Jessie Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jane Lynch and Wanda Sykes provide the voices for this animated tale about a domesticated macaw who travels around the world to chase down the love of his life. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Colony Square and Century. — Rene Rodriguez

The Mystery of Picasso

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In 1955 Clouzot joined forces with his friend Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film, “a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity.” This film reveals Pablo Picasso’s techniques of drawing, sketching and painting. In one instance he paints on a semi-transparent surface with the camera on the other side. Clouzot thus captured a perfect reverse image of Picasso’s brushstrokes. Picasso creates, and sometimes obliterates, 20 works, ranging from playful sketches to murals. The film was declared a French National Treasure in 1984. At Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch. — BPL

See full review on Page 37. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Of Gods and Men

AnnaSophia Robb stars in this fact-based drama about a teenage girl who musters up the courage to climb back on her surfboard after losing an arm in a shark attack. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Despite the growing menace, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

must relive those eight minutes again and again, until he can stop the attack. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Smiley Face

Imagine one of the fast-paced, thrilling segments of Run Lola Run, but the heroine is stoned, and you have Gregg Araki’s new comedy, starring hilarious ingénue Anna Faris as a pothead who accidentally gets baked out of her mind and has to set off on a short list of wild errands. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Soul Surfer

Source Code Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a man who wakes up on a passenger train eight minutes before a terrorist bomb goes off, killing everyone aboard. Through the use of new anti-terrorist government technology, he

Tom Waits’ Big Time

Matinee screening of a rare 35 mm print of the Tom Waits concert film Big Time. A tour de force by one of America’s greatest performers, with strange vignettes between the numbers. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS Urban Roots

This film tells the powerful story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally grown, sustainably farmed food in a city cut off from real food and limited to fast food stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Vanishing of the Bees

Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capitol Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Center Water for Elephants

A veterinary student falls for a star circus performer, and the two bond over their compassion for a special animal. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Win Win

Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. At Mayan and Century. — Landmark Theatres Your Highness

The shiftless younger brother of a dragon-slaying knight has a chance to be a hero by helping to save his sibling’s bride-to-be and his homeland. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — MCT/Los Angeles Times Boulder Weekly

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lfalfa’s Market is returning to its roots this week with an emblematic Earth Day opening on April 22 and a commitment to local and organic products that has survived nearly three decades of change. Mark Retzloff, an original Alfalfa’s founder, says the revived store will seek to deliver something new, exciting and innovative to the Boulder community — “an epicenter for natural and organic products in the country.” In an age where sustainability is becoming a priority, Alfalfa’s hopes to find a new place for itself by maintaining its founding loyalty to local producers and manufacturers. “For us, our brand is first Boulder Mark Retzloff in the new Alfalfa’s companies,” Retzloff says. “We want to be able to represent some really interesting products that are being developed right here in Colorado.” ing bakery, coffee shop, juice bar, wood-fired pizza The original Alfalfa’s was founded in 1983 as an oven and Asian food from Sushi Zanmai — with an extension of the Pearl Street Market. It became one attached café and outdoor seating, a floral departof the nation’s leading retailers for natural products ment that focuses on local growers and fair-trade throughout the 1980s and 1990s before Wild Oats practices for imported plants, the widest selection of Markets purchased the chain in 1996, to be later cheese in the state and the only grocery-operated acquired by Whole Foods Markets. beer, wine and spirits shop in Boulder. Fifteen years after the acquisition, Retzloff and In an effort to maintain a sustainable philosophy, his partners Barney Feinblum, Hugo van Seenus and the market has incorporated more than 8,000 linear Jimmy Searcy have restored the Alfalfa’s name and feet of Colorado beetle-kill pine throughout the mission at the market’s first home, located at 1651 store. It is working to be a zero-waste facility, with Broadway. composting and recycling programs. Retzloff says The new store, while paying tribute to its predethe use of LED and CFC lighting, as well as a statecessor with original flooring and recycled brick, has of-the-art Glycol refrigeration system, are also helpnearly double the amount of retail space as the old ing to lower energy use at Alfalfa’s. Alfalfa’s. It features a prepared-food area — includ“We’ve tried to be as environmentally aware as

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eaturing impressive Flatirons pepper brine and bland sausage. The chickvistas and an organic design en was the high point, with a tender consisscheme with local stone accents tency and clean taste well above that of that complements the view, supermarket poultry. north Boulder’s Restaurant Keith fared better with his choice, the 4580 has ambitions that exceed those of a $12.95 steak sandwich. While Philly purists humble neighborhood joint. Selections such may scoff at this selection, 4580’s version as lobster mac and cheese, and the adult ice successfully straddled the dividing line cream float featuring premium beer, indicate between cheap East Coast special and haute a kitchen reaching beyond the ordinary. cuisine interpretation. While this sandwich Additionally, since the owner’s family experetained the classic garnishes of caramelized riences gluten sensitivity, many dishes are onion and roasted pepper, the remaining also available in gluten-free iterations. ingredient swaps were decidedly for the At both lunch and dinner, the menu is better. divided into small plates, soups, salads, Gone were the traditional paper-thin burgers and entrees. Entrees range from top round slices, replaced by thicker and house-made pasta with red sauce to formihigher quality slices of steak. In lieu of dable duck confit cassoulet. Consigliere Cheese Whiz, the kitchen reached back to Keith and I sought out a hearty lunch to this grinder’s 1930s roots by featuring white kick off the work week, and 4580’s offerings cheddar cheese. The finishing touch was a appeared to be positioned to satisfy our dab of horseradish aioli that added a degree needs. of pep and complexity. Topping off the proLunch started strong with a $4 plate of n addition to seafood paella, the Valencian interpretation of this dish ceedings was a generous side of the addicfrites paired with twin dips of ketchup and is a Spanish cuisine standard-bearer. Some argue that deviation from tive fries, which Keith happily devoured. pesto aioli. This heaping helping of spuds a basic recipe of vegetables and snails results in something other With the exception of the paella, our artfully melded salt, crunch and fluffy potathan the traditional dish from Valencia. However, other recipes with a meal was solid. The small plate starters were to interior. I could have eaten these morsels Valencian name take a more inclusive approach with the addition of above reproach, and the sandwich delivered all day, accompanied, perhaps, by an approsuch ingredients as chicken and rabbit. But perhaps Colorado chefs on its promise. Ambition is a good thing, priate frosty beverage. Our other starter was interested in local ingredients would be best served by dishing out the but perhaps the kitchen may want to reel in the $8 lamb brochettes, garnished with a Campesina version, the paella of La Mancha. The Campesina is free of its approach with respect to the paella. subtle curry aioli. Lamb is easy to mess up seafood, and combines chicken and pork, and on some occasions, beef. Most restaurants, including 4580, offering by over- or under-cooking; this trio of this dish opt for a Mediterranean-inspired chunky meat medallions was cooked with version with plenty of seafood. In a place just the right amount of char on the outside, complemussels, salmon, chorizo sausage, hot pickled peppers, like Colorado, a better alternative may be to offer a non-seafood interpretation with local chicken and mented by a dusting of smoked paprika. Inside, the mussels, salmon, chicken and rice sounded appealing. meat was properly pink and rare, while retaining the Unfortunately, the execution didn’t live up to expecta- pork. As the weather warms up, offering a spring vegetable version may also be an improvement consistent proper level of doneness, distinct from ungulate sashi- tions, as this Spanish classic was dogged by watery mi. rice and vague flavors. I wanted very much to like this with the level of 4580’s best work. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com On paper, the $14.95 North Broadway Paella of dish, but the balance was thrown off by an excess of

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ou knew it was coming. Or maybe you didn’t, and I’m just assuming you give a flying cupcake about my treat of the week. Well, whether you were on the edge of your exercise ball or not, here it is. Little Deviled Egg Cakes. Yes, my sweet friends, an Easter treat that will have the Easter Bunny running down the bunny trail (hopping is so 2010). The great thing about this dessert is that although it is perfect for the holiday, it can work for any gathering, any season. They look like deviled eggs — an egg that popped out of a chicken on steroids, mind you, but still just an egg. I’m presenting them on a bed of Easter grass on an Easter platter, making them a perfect holiday treat. The base is a vanilla, orange-scented cake. I use an egg-shaped cookie cutter (I’m sure all the creative minds here in the People’s Republic could just freestyle the shape; me, I need a cookie cutter) to make a nice thick-looking egg. Topping the egg with a cream cheese frosting is a fabulous complement to the vanilla orange flavor of the cake. And, of course, the big finish, the yellow-tinted frosting glob in the middle to resemble the yolk. Yeah, I know, I’m really wearing my creative pants for this one. I know using the word “glob” is about as appetizing as referring to your banana bread pan as a loaf pan (visions of meatloaf being baked in the same pan turn some people off … whatever). But I’m sticking with the glob reference. It just feels right. Not to worry, there is no mustard, chives or sage in these devilish little treats, just sweet goodness running through every bite. You could put some real deviled eggs on the same platter just to mess with people, but that would be so un-Easter-like and, well, I think I’m doing it. It is an eggcellent idea, and holidays are meant to be fun. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

Little Deviled Egg Cakes 2 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 3/4 cup unsalted butter (softened) 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar

3 eggs Orange zest (whole orange) Juice from 1/2 orange (approx. 1 1/2 tbsp. You will use the other half of the orange in the frosting) 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup milk (I used skim, use what you have) Cinnamon for garnish

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13 baking pan with cooking spray. Cover bottom with parchment paper, with sides slightly hanging over ends. Lightly spray parchment paper with cooking spray. In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add in eggs. Stir in orange zest, orange juice and vanilla. Add flour mix into wet ingredients, stir until almost incorporated. Mix in milk, and stir until cake batter is smooth. Pour batter into prepared baking pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan. When ready to frost (frosting recipe is below), pull on parchment paper and slide out onto counter. Using any size egg-shaped cookie cutter, cut out your eggs. The number will vary, depending on the size of the cookie cutter. Frost tops with white frosting, dollop a small amount of yellow frosting in center of egg. Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on top. Serve on a deviled egg platter or cake platter. Enjoy!

Cream Cheese Frosting 1 8-oz. package of cream cheese (softened) 2 cups powdered sugar Juice from half an orange 1-2 tbsp. milk (put in one at a time, to determine how much you need) 1 drop yellow food coloring Beat all ingredients until smooth. Take out 1/4 cup of frosting, and add yellow food coloring. Keep the rest of frosting white. Note: I just frost the tops, but you can frost the whole egg. Be careful, as the cake is a bit fragile. Cutting up mint (to resemble chives) and garnishing the top of the yellow yolk is a cute idea too. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

TIDBITES Food happenings around town Triple Crown at West End Horse race season is just around the track, and the West End Tavern at 926 Pearl St. in Boulder is gearing up to watch the Triple Crown. The races begin on May 7 with the Kentucky Derby, where customers can enjoy $7 Woodford Reserve Mint Juleps while they watch. Then it’s on to the May 21 Preakness, when you can sip on $5 Black-Eyed Susans. Finish enjoying classic race-day cocktails with the Belmont Stakes on June 11 and a $5 Belmont Breeze. Prizes for the best hat and best dressed will be given out during each race, and there will be race-day food specials, mint julep slushies, and bourbon-barrel-aged beer. And don’t forget the famous hermit crab races while you watch. All of the parties start at 2 p.m. For more information visit www. thewestendtavern.com. Laughing Goat hosts fundraiser In honor of Laughing Goat owner Johnny Jenkins’ birthday, on April 28 the coffee house will be selling all espresso drinks for $2 and all coffee for $1 at both its Pearl Street and Norlin locations. All proceeds from coffee sales that day will be donated to a group of its coffee growers. “We will be funding a grant request made by the all-women’s cooperative that grows and processes our Guatemala Atitlan Nahuala coffee, one of my personal favorites,” Jenkins told Boulder Weekly. “They have a grant request with the Café Femenino Project for micro-loans for their community, which we would like to make sure and see happen.”

He notes that women coffee producers make up 30 percent of the 25 million coffee growers responsible for producing 75 percent of the world’s coffee, but gender inequality, poverty and abuse are rampant in many coffeeproducing regions. So more than 460 women coffee producers in Peru banded together to form Café Femenino. For more information visit www. cafefemenino.com. Royal wedding at Baker St. Even if you didn’t get an invite to the royal wedding, you can still be part of William and Kate’s big day, particularly if your name is William or Kate. On Friday, April 29, Baker St. Pub & Grill, at 1729 28th St. in Boulder, will award couples named William and Kate a $25 gift card to the pub and a crown and tiara set. (Identification required). As an added bonus, if you’re a ringer for Kate’s green eyes, flowing tresses and that certain regal, yet unpretentious demeanor — or for that matter are tall, handsome and slightly balding like Prince William — come to the pub that night at 10 p.m. and enter the “Royal Look-Alike Contest” for a chance to be crowned Prince and Princess, be toasted with champagne by your royal fans, and win a royal prize pack. To add to the festivities, the pub will be decorated with British fanfare beginning Tuesday, April 26. Fans will have an opportunity to test their royal knowledge with special trivia nights on Tuesday, April 26 and Wednesday, April 27, during happy hour. For more information visit www. sherlockspubco.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

ALFALFA’S from Page 42

The students and employees of CU were not a big part of the customer base during Alfalfa’s first go-around, Retzloff says. But this has since changed. Young people seem to be increasingly interested in where their products come from — and that is where Retzloff ’s hope is for the future of sustainable living. When Retzloff left the retail business years ago, local and natural foods were not as much of a priority as they are today. Most of the stores in town now, he says, do a great job of providing these products to the Boulder area. Boulder Weekly

In an ever-changing community, Retzloff says the market is excited about finding more local brands to feature. As a single store, he says that Alfalfa’s will be able to be more flexible and adaptable in understanding what the Boulder community needs and broadening its selection based on those needs. “When it all gets said and done, for retailers, you have to listen to your consumer,” Retzloff says. “It’s all about walking your talk and being authentic.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he Pinyon is an inviting and airy venue on Pearl Street specializing in new takes on old classics, ranging from catfish po’ boys to hot fudge sundaes. But there’s more than a whiff of culinary sophistication here, demonstrated by such offerings as cola-braised kobe beef and wild prawns with grits. Yet it’s an old favorite, fried chicken, that steals the show. The Pinyon’s version may be the best you’ve tasted.

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ndia’s Clay Oven offers straightforward subcontinental fare at affordable prices, including an $8.99 lunch buffet. This noontime offering affords an opportunity to sample some of their standout dishes, including a moist, tender and flavorful tandoori chicken and a smoothly rich butter chicken. Service is discreet and friendly and contributes to a lowkey and affordable dining experience.

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udaka Healthy Latin Food dishes out meatless South American fare, with a particular focus on Venezuelan and Columbian cuisine. The healthy and fresh-tasting offerings include bean and rice bowls served with salsa and smooth Venezuelan guacamole, as well as fried yucca root appetizers. Arepa, a stuffed cornmeal cake, is a signature offering here. The namesake Zudaka version, filled with meatless ground beef, salsa, Venezuelan guacamole and cheese, is especially appealing.

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un Rose Café’s rugged brick interior hosts a successful hybrid of hospitable country café and sophisticated bistro in the heart of downtown Longmont. The menu ranges from omelets in the morning to panini and soups during the day, and concludes with such dinnertime entrees as portabella mushroom ravioli. The lavender-scented lemonade is addictive and perfectly paired with an Italian cold cut sandwich. Basted eggs with moist and flavorful chicken sausage are a top a.m. choice.

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izzeria Locale is the eagerly anticipated Naples-influenced establishment from the

same folks who brought you the celebrated Frasca. The menu includes salads, contorni (side dishes), desserts and pizzas ranging in price from $9 for a Marinara to $18 for a deluxe version featuring prosciutto and arugula. Standout selections include the traditional Margherita, with fresh basil, tomato and mozzarella, as well as the Cassata, chocolate cake freighted with sweet ricotta and candied fruit.

indi Cafe offers up a slate of such lightmeal standbys as soup, salads and sandwiches. Dinner is available from Thursday to Saturday night with a reasonably priced menu in the $9.50-and-up range, featuring burgers, stuffed squash and ahi tuna. Breakfast features a three-egg special, and lunch highlights include soups (the rosemary chicken is tasty) and the tuna salad sandwich.

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Pho 79 6650 W. 120th Ave., #A5 Broomfield 303-439-0028

standout among the area’s purveyors of Vietnamese soup, Pho 79 serves up a noteworthy and affordable version of this beef noodle specialty. The broth is wonderfully rich, the product of a long, slow simmer of beef bones, onion and herbs. Thin rice noodles possess perfect texture, and garnishes of lime, bean sprouts, chile peppers and basil are fresh and abundant. Not bad for a place where a large soup sells for just $7.25.

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erving dinner, lunch and weekend brunch, Nederland’s Savory Cafe offers everything from lemon ricotta beignets to seared duck breast to $1 tacos each Wednesday. The setting is simple mountain town café, and the humble ambience fails to prepare the diner for the high quality of the food. Highlights include the hanger steak sandwich-

rhard’s European Café and Bakery is a low-key yet elegant cash-only business situated near the intersection of Baseline and Foothills in Boulder. Sandwiches, soups and sausage meals with potato salad make up the lunch choices, but the baked goods are perhaps the most distinctive items offered. Fruit turnovers, cookies and Linzer and marzipan tarts are just some of the tempting choices.

Pizzeria da Lupo 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-396-6365

et another entry in the fancy pizza sweepstakes, Pizzeria da Lupo features a relatively simple menu spotlighting antipasti, sandwiches, salads and daily specials ranging from roast chicken to salt cod. Of course, the main attraction is the pizza, which is baked in a wood-fired oven and has an outstanding crust. The Saliche pie is notable, topped with fennel sausage, rapini and firstrate ricotta and mozzarella. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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March 21-April 19:

Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises? Will you follow through on your rousing start? Will you continue to stay passionately committed once the fiery infatuation stage evolves into the earthy foundation-building stage? Here’s a secret to succeeding at this test: You can’t just try to force yourself to “be good” and do the right thing. Nor does it work to use shame or guilt to motivate yourself. Somehow you’ve got to marshal pure, raw excitement for the gritty detail work to come. You’ve got to fall in love with the task of actually fleshing out your dreams.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

In his book on intuition, psychologist David G. Myers defines it as “the capacity for direct knowledge and immediate insight, without any observation or reason.” Another expert on the subject, Malcolm Gladwell, describes intuition as the “power of thinking without thinking.” Both authors encourage us to cultivate this undersung way of grasping our raw experience. But Myers also warns us of the perils of intuition if it’s untempered by logic and analysis. It can lead us down rabbit holes where we lose track of the difference between our fantasies and the real world. It can cause us to mistake our fears for accurate ESP or get lost in a maze of self-fulfilling prophecies. I bring all of this to your attention, Taurus, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to hone and purify your intuition.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

One of the most impressive elements of the Egyptian uprising in January and February came after it was all over. Eighteen days of street protests created a huge mess in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the surrounding area. When Hosni Mubarak finally resigned and reforms began percolating, thousands of demonstrators returned with brooms and rubber gloves and garbage bags to set the place back in order. I urge you to follow a similar sequence in the coming weeks, Gemini. Agitate for change; rebel against the stale status quo; fight corruption and ignorance; and once your work has led to at least a partial success, clean up after yourself.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

“Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,” said physicist Steven Weinberg as he admired a hackberry tree stoked with blue jays, yellowthroated vireos, and a red cardinal. You may find yourself thinking similar thoughts in the coming week, Cancerian. From what I can tell, life is primed to flood you with simple glories and exotic revelations, with signs of eternal splendor and hints of sublime meaning, with natural wonders and civilization’s more interesting gifts.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

I became an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church when I was 19 years old. Since then I have officiated at numerous baptisms, initiations, weddings (including marrying people to themselves), divorces, renamings, housewarmings, ghost-banishings, and the taking of primal vows. In all my years of facilitating these ceremonies, I’ve rarely seen a better time than right now for you Leos to seek a cathartic rite of passage. You may even be tempted to try several. I recommend you do no more than two, however. Are you ready to break a taboo or smash an addiction? Renounce a delusion or pledge your devotion or leap to the next level?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

It would be an excellent time for you to acquire the Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Kit, a package of goodies prepared by domestic expert Martha Stewart. I say this not because a Zombie Apocalypse is looming, or any other kind of apocalypse for that matter. Rather, the kit’s presence in your life might encourage you to make fun of your fears. And that would be a perfect way to cooperate with the current cosmic tendencies, which are conspiring to diminish the inhibitions that your anxieties hold in place. Remember one of the key rules in the game of life: Humor dissipates worry.

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Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

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You really should ventilate your house periodically, even when the weather’s cool. The air indoors gets stale; you need to flush it out and welcome in some fresh stuff. In my astrological opinion, it’s especially important for you to do this right now. So please consider opening all the windows for a while and inviting the breezes to blow through. In addition to its practical value for your respiratory system, it could serve as a ritual that gently blows the dusty crud out of your mind, thereby improving the circulation in your thoughts and emotions and fantasies.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

What do you like most about work? What are the pleasurable experiences that happen for you when you’re engaged in demanding tasks that require you to be focused, competent and principled? I think it’s important for you to identify those hard-earned joys and then brainstorm about what you can do to expand and intensify them. You’re in a phase of your long-term cycle when you can make a lot of headway toward transforming your job situation so it serves you better.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

The next phase of your life will be an excellent time to un-break your heart. Here’s what I mean by that: You will have extra power to dissolve any pain that still lingers from the romantic disappointments of the past. You’ll be able to summon acute insights into how to dismantle the sodden and unnecessary defenses you built to protect yourself from loss and humiliation. You will find it easier than ever before to forgive and forget any close companion who hurt you. So get out there, Capricorn, and launch the joyful process of restoring your love muscles to their original potency.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

“Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years,” read the headline in The Onion. “I always thought that if I kept searching and exploring, I’d discover who I truly was,” the report began, quoting 38-year-old Andrew Speth. “Well, I looked deep into the innermost recesses of my soul, and you know what I found? An empty, windowless room the size of an aircraft hangar. From now on, if anybody needs me, I’ll be sprawled out on my couch drinking black-cherry soda and watching Law & Order like everybody else.” I wonder if Speth is an Aquarius? Many of my Aquarian acquaintances seem to have hit a dead end recently in their quest to fulfill the ancient maxim “Know thyself.” If you’re like that, please hang on. The floodgates of self-discovery will open soon.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Odds are high that you know very little about Africa. Can you name even 20 of its more than 50 countries? Are you aware that its land mass is bigger than Europe, China, and the U.S. combined? Did you realize that about 2,000 languages are spoken by the people living there? I bring this up, Pisces, because from an astrological perspective it’s an excellent time for you to fill the gaps in your education about Africa — or any other subject about which you are deeply uninformed. Don’t get overwhelmed by this assignment, though. Choose maybe three areas of ignorance that you will concentrate on in the coming weeks.

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