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Correction: The May 3 cover story, “Garden wars,” referred to the North Boulder Recreation Center as the East Boulder Recreation Center.

Fossil fuel apologist

(Re: “Think globally, and fry locally,” Danish Plan, May 3.) I am sure Paul Danish considers himself a global warming/climate change/fossil fuel realist. After all, our modern world is currently completely dependent upon the burning of fossil fuels, and that is not going to change at any time soon.

However, it is discouraging when he parrots neo-conservative attempts to discredit alternatives to energy production. Any small redistribution of heat caused by wind turbines is miniscule in comparison to the worldwide distribution of long-dormant quantities of carbon dioxide, water and energy spewed into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels.

No level of denial can negate the simple fact that what we are doing daily is altering the climate and weather patterns of the planet. How severe this change will be is yet to be determined, but it does no good whatever to be a

constant apologist for the fossil fuel industries.

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Wrong take on NoBo

(Re: “Best Big Breakfast for the Bucks,” Best of Boulder, April 26.)

We’re really disappointed in the illinformed, gratuitously insulting characterization of the residents of North Boulder that accompanied the staff pick of the North Boulder Café in your recent “Best of...” feature.

We agree with the praise of the Café but, as a retired teacher and a freelance part-time grant writer from lower middle class families, we strongly object to being described as trust fund babies with NIMBY attitudes. If your staff had bothered to examine the facts or follow the issues (as other staff members have done so stupendously well with Valmont Butte), they would have found that nearly half the housing units north of Violet are “permanently affordable,” and that doesn’t even

include the two mobile home parks.

They also would have found that the opposition to the facility for the chronically homeless was based on sound land use principles, the seven social service facilities already in the area along with more subsidized housing under development, and a total lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the developer — not opposition to helping the least fortunate among us. If see LETTERS Page 6

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Likewise, Walmart honchos are presently talking about the nauseating stench of its still-evolving bribery scandal as though it’s coming from somewhere else.

“We are deeply concerned by these allegations,” declared a corporate spokesman, “and are working Boulder Weekly

aggressively to determine what happened.” Well, gosh, just walk aggressively over to the executive suite and ask CEO Mike Duke, board member Lee Scott and vice chairman Eduardo CastroWright. While Walmart’s massive bribery payments took place in Mexico, the corruption emanated from the very top of corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. It stems directly from Walmart’s ruling ethic of ruthless expansion and profit at all costs, pressuring managers to achieve “very aggressive growth goals” by doing “whatever was necessary.”

A decade ago, when Castro-Wright was head of Walmart operations in Mexico, he decided that “necessary” included unbridled bribery. He began doling out some $24 million to Mexican officials, clearing Walmart’s path for rapid domination of Mexico’s retail market. As early as 2005, this was known — and condoned — by corporate chieftains in Bentonville, including then-CEO Scott and

Duke, who oversaw For more information all international on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subdivisions at the time. scribe to his awardSo, what hapwinning monthly newspened? Far from letter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www. stopping the corrupt jimhightower.com. payments, Scott killed an internal inquiry into the corruption by turning it over to — guess who? — Castro-Wright. Yes, the very same man pushing the illegality!

The bribes continued, Castro-Wright was promoted to vice chairman, Scott retired with a golden pension and multimillion-dollar fortune, and Duke was elevated to CEO, now drawing $18 million a year in pay.

Walmart’s executives are stinkier than a whole den of skunks could ever be.

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uncensored Paper or plastic? Tax ’em!

by Pamela White

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or decades, the question in the checkout lane has been, “Paper or plastic?” A great many people are hoping the Boulder City Council’s answer will be, “Tax ’em!”

On Tuesday, May 15, City Council will take up the issue of banning or mandating fees for single-use shopping bags in the city. On the table are several options, including: a fee on both paper and plastic bags; a ban on plastic bags combined with a fee on paper bags; a ban on both plastic and paper bags; and education and outreach campaigns.

There are lots of good reasons why city leaders are considering banning or taxing the use of single-use bags, which consume resources, generate litter, pollute our oceans and take up space in our landfills.

According to the Wall Street Journal, 100 billion plastic shopping bags are used annually at an estimated cost of $4 billion to retailers.

Less than 1 percent of plastic bags in the United States are recycled. Some are reused, then tossed when they fall apart. Most go straight into the landfill, where they can take 1,000 years to break down. Millions end up in our oceans, where they, together with other plastics, contribute to the deaths of an estimated 1 billion seabirds and mammals each year.

Plastic bags are a problem locally as well. Although some residents recycle disposable bags, Boulder County’s recent Waste Composition Study showed that that a shit-ton of plastic bags go into our solid waste stream each year — 781 tons in 2010 alone.

That’s almost 120 million plastic bags that we failed to recycle in Boulder County.

Clearly, asking people politely to recycle isn’t enough. If it were, they’d be doing it by now.

Further, plastic bags also make it harder to recycle the materials we do consistently recycle. Despite EcoCycle’s many and constant warnings that plastic bags constitute the worst contaminant in the single-stream recycling bin, lazy people still toss them in — at a significant loss in terms of productivity to our county recycling program.

“When you put it in your singlestream recycling bin, it is the number one contaminant,” says Marti Matsch, communications director for Eco6 May 10, 2012

Cycle. “It literally binds the equipment used to sort recyclables. We have to stop the equipment, get up on it and cut the bags off.”

(Matsch notes that, when recycled correctly at the Center for Hard-toRecycle Materials — the CHaRM — or participating grocery stores, plastic bags, which are 100 percent recyclable, are turned into a kind of durable “lumber” that is used for decks and piers, cutting back on the use of wood.)

The environmental havoc caused by plastic bags doesn’t mean that paper bags are a better choice. Paper bags use more water in the manufacturing process and require more energy to transport. They also contribute to deforestation.

These things, taken together, constitute a high price for our planet to pay for the tiny convenience of not bringing your own bags to the grocery store.

For city government, a bag tax is the next logical step toward reaching its zerowaste goals. Other U.S. cities have banned or taxed the use of plastic bags, including San Francisco; Maui, Hawaii; Brownsville, Texas; as well as Aspen and Carbondale here in Colorado. The benefits to be gained by reducing the presence of single-use bags in our city is significant, while the consequences are minimal.

So you have to keep reusable bags in your car or backpack and remember to bring them inside when you shop.

Hey, life is tough all around.

But which option should we choose — an outright ban or a tax?

Eco-Cycle would like the city to impose a user fee, not a ban, on singleuse bags — both plastic and paper.

Banning only plastic bags would create the illusion that paper bags are somehow better for the environment, which they are not, Matsch says. Charging a fee, on the other hand, drives home the point that both plastic and paper bags are unnecessary uses of our resources.

“It’s a concept called ‘polluter pays’ that’s been around for quite a long time,” Matsch says. “A fee would discourage the unnecessary use of disposable bags and help create a cultural change around the use of disposable bags.”

And a cultural change is exactly what we need.

For more on recycling plastic bags in Boulder County, or to buy some snazzy reusable shopping bags, go to www.ecocycle.org.

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you lived here, you too might believe that concentrating all the city’s downand-out residents in one small area is a bad idea for everyone, including the down-and-out.

In any event, reasonable people may disagree about policy, but reasonable people do not use cheap-shot, snarky stereotypes to describe people they know nothing about. Responsible journalists would know better.

Gail Promboin and Bob Burnham/ North Boulder

Free Seth Brigham

I’ve got to say, as a longtime political gadfly (on temporary hiatus) I find

the city’s use of a restraining order against Seth outrageous.

Correct me if I am wrong, Seth [Brigham] is not showing up at the homes of council or staff and he is sending e-mail through the city’s official channels. If this is the case, what’s the problem? Anybody in the audience could be a threat.

The right of citizens to bring forth their grievances to government officials is one of our most fundamental rights.

He also has the right to speak his mind.

If [city councilmember] KC [Becker] wants to sue him for libel or slander, see LETTERS Page 9

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MITT’S WORLD OF PLENTY In an age in which cash-strapped Americans have been shedding their SUVs and short-selling their massive suburban homes to downsize to smaller, often urban-infill dwellings, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney once again shows how in touch he is with the public by declaring that “everyone should live like this” while at a $1,000-per-person dinner party at a mansion. We’re not talking a Highlands Ranch McMansion. We’re talking private golf course and swimming pool mansion.

Why, yes, of course, Mitt. All 313 million Americans should definitely live in dwellings of more than 40,000 square feet on 16-acre estates (the figures for the Kentucky estate belonging to Papa John’s pizza-chain founder John Schnatter, whose home Romney was in when he made the comment).

That’s about 736,000 square feet per person. At that rate, we could house about 37 people per square mile, and accommodate the population of America only if making use of the entire square mileage of the North American continent, leaving some poor sucker with a golf course in Saskatchewan — and all 34 million people who live in Canada floating on icebergs in the Arctic. But hey, who knows, perhaps it’s all part of a brilliant scheme to make the most of global warming, which could turn scenic Nunavut, with its average daily temperature of 46 F in July, into the next Hamptons.

YES, IT’S STILL CALLED THE ‘DAILY’ That item in the May 9 Camera about their kid sister paper, the Colorado Daily, going to a three-times-a-week schedule in the summer sure was a fun read.

The move is being done not for reasons of profit, or lack thereof, but “in honor of the season.” Yeah, right. And then there’s this one: “For readers, the new schedule means more time to pore over each edition.” Ha! That only takes about 30 seconds, considering that what’s not wire filler is already in the Camera!

Finally, we’re told: “For advertisers, it means 7 days of exposure for 3 days of advertising at our Crazy Days of Summer rates.”

Hey, by that logic, we’ve got a better offer! We’ll give you seven days of exposure for only one day of advertising!

Not sure whether this is a news story or an advertisement, because it quickly devolves into addressing the reader as “you” and fluffy appeals to advertise in the currently editor-less Daily. It’s sad, actually, considering what the Daily once was.

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN American Tradition Partnership, the right-wing group that funds dirty campaign tactics like the push poll against a liberal Longmont City Council member in the 2009 election season, is patting itself on the back again for its anti-environment gains.

This time, ATP Executive Director Donny Ferguson sent out a press release congratulating himself on helping to defeat SB 178, the state legislation that he says would have increased Colorado’s renewable energy mandates.

Wouldn’t want to get more of our energy from renewable sources, nope. Not when you’re a special interest group that specializes in protecting the rights of oil and gas companies to rape and pillage the earth.

Donny, whose group, don’t forget, was represented by none other than our Secretary of State Scott Gessler, claims in his self-serving screed that the bill would have increased our utility rates by 25 percent and that green energy installations actually cause more pollution than using coal or natural gas.

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she should. I want Seth to be free to speak his mind so that I may speak my mind. Black folks haven’t had true constitutional rights for all that long, so I get a little agitated (politically agitated) when government officials want to take them away.

If the president cannot stop extremist preachers from burning flags and Korans or protesting against the GLBT community at the funerals of dead soldiers, what makes you think you have a case?

I think that city staff and council are going to just have to put up with his mess. If you can’t stand the heat ...

You already have police officers at the council meetings. If he commits a crime, arrest him. Even then, he would still have a right to come to council meetings. Again, correct me if I’m wrong, even ex-felons are allowed to come to meetings and send emails.

Ignore and delete his emails (as many of you have sometimes done with mine). I don’t like what he does, but I support his right to do it. He’s mean.

Get over it.

Today it’s Seth. Who’s next?

I think you need another legal opinion on this.

Respectfully submitted, Tim “Black Cowboy” Thomas/via Internet P.S.: Didn’t the occupiers show up at the city manager’s house? Were they banned from council chambers?

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The water drop: H2O Jo peers through large, black-rimmed glasses and reminds us to: “KEEP IT CLEAN ‘cause WE’RE ALL DOWNSTREAM”. H2O Jo is a mascot for the program “Keep it Clean Partnership” and has suggestions about what we can do to decrease water pollution. We should: “never put anything down the storm drain, and not overwater. Excessive runoff wastes both water and chemicals you may have added to your yard.” Thanks Jo, these are good suggestions. Another thing that we can do to reduce the risk of chemicals polluting our water is to ban hydraulic fracturing.

During hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, millions of gallons of chemical Koolade, water mixed with sand and proprietary chemicals, are pumped into a well. Fracking fluids might contain benzene and other toxic chemicals.

Most of the water used in fracking will be removed from the hydrological cycle.

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to be about 52 percent of average.

Farmers are being outbid by energy companies for water. I grew up on a small dairy farm. The water that we used to grow crops also supported some wildlife. (Including a wildlife wannabe Holstein named “Jumpy” that thought she was a doe. She always managed to jump out of the pasture but never back into it. I think that she spent more time in the swamp than she did in the barn.)

During droughts, other farmers might ask my dad if it would rain again.

He would answer: “It always has.” We also had well water and ponds to help us through droughts. Today, farms in Boulder County might run the risk of having their wells or ponds polluted by fracking fluid.

We all live downstream.

Kristen Marshall/Boulder Thankfully one level of government, Boulder County commissioners, is concerned about fracking and has passed a moratorium.

What is seldom discussed is the appalling amount of water itself used in the process — 200,000 to 300,000 gallons per “shot” — amounting to 2.9 billion gallons in Weld County alone last year and lost to other uses through chemical contamination. This, while we individuals are urged to conserve water!

Next to air, water is most essential to all life — Colorado is already short of water for agricultural and residential/ commercial uses, to say nothing of the drying of the Colorado River and the increasing fragility and drawdown of the Oglala aquifer.

Where are the priorities here?

Of course, oil and gas companies say there is no need for concern and, of course, fracking makes money — does anyone remember the story of King Midas? Everything he touched turned to gold, including food and water — imagine his ultimate fate.

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I

t seems as if the perfect storm is building.

And we can only hope it brings rain.

Forecasters are projecting a summer drought that could be the worst Colorado has ever seen.

Snowpack is paltry. And yet oil and gas companies are only increasing their drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” which use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per application.

While municipal and state water officials downplay the amount of water being sold to oil and gas companies for their controversial extraction methods, calling it a miniscule percentage of their total water supplies, a Boulder environmental group is preparing to release a report calling for better data and planning regarding the use of water for fracking.

There is a brewing conflict in Colorado towns and cities that are selling significant amounts of water to the oil and gas industry (or the water companies that deliver to well sites), despite growing concern among their residents about the possible health hazards associated with fracking and other phases of the process. It promises to become an election issue at the local level, and already has in the Boulder County commissioners race, as voters decide who they want controlling public water supplies.

And in a handful of municipalities, including a couple in Boulder County, city councils are imposing moratoriums on things like new drilling permits with one hand, but accepting water revenue

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from those same banished companies with the other.

Cities and towns in the northeast quadrant of Colorado, the new hotspot for natural gas wells, are selling water to oil and gas companies because it can help fill a cash-strapped municipality’s coffers, and it is more convenient and cheaper for the companies to tap water near a well site than have it trucked in from afar. Environmental activists and public officials mention Greeley, Fort Lupton and Loveland as prime providers of water for frackers.

And even here in Boulder County, Longmont and Erie are selling small amounts of water, contributing to a practice in which anywhere from 500,000 to 5 million gallons can be shot down a well in each fracking cocktail of sand and chemicals, to free pockets of natural gas.

In the grand scheme of things, local officials say, the water sold to the industry doesn’t amount to much.

Yet. **** Fred Diehl, Erie’s assistant to the town administrator, says he is prohibited by state law from releasing details about Erie’s water customers, but he and Gary Behlen, the town’s director of public works, spoke with Boulder Weekly in general terms about the amount of water being sold for oil and gas operations. According to Behlen, about 80 percent of the town’s water goes to residential users, 12 percent is devoted to

irrigation of public lands like parks, and approximately 8 percent goes to commercial uses like oil and gas extraction, which itself represents only 1 percent to 2 percent of the total.

According to Diehl, in spite of the town’s myriad efforts to regulate fracking in the face of an outcry from its residents about issues like the placement of wells near schools, it may actually be preferable for the town to sell water to companies rather than have them truck it in. And it’s not just about the money, he explains. Allowing the company to use a meter to measure the water it takes from a town hydrant near a well site may have a lower impact than heavy water-truck traffic, so Erie wants companies to give the town first right of refusal, or initial dibs, on supplying water in cases where it makes sense.

Operators have been generally agreeable to that arrangement, Diehl says, although some are already locked into a contract with a water provider.

Another option under consideration, he notes, is to charge oil and gas companies, and maybe even their middleman water providers, a higher rate for water. According to Diehl, the town has rights to 3,900 acre-feet of water and used 3,000 of it in 2011.

When asked what would happen if the town were in a drought and had to choose whom to sell dwindling water supplies to, Behlen said, “Our first priority is to our residents.”

Diehl added that a town ordinance would require Erie officials to restrict water for fracking before it limited water for residential indoor use.

“It would be contrary to our own

law to favor commercial users during a drought,” he says.

Similarly, Ken Huson, Longmont’s water resources administrator, says that the city primarily “rents” its extra water for the irrigation of school fields and playgrounds, farming and the Platte River Power Authority to generate electricity.

“We won’t have any surplus to lease to the oil and gas industry this year at all,” he says, explaining that the companies are still getting enough water from municipalities near the heaviest well activity, whereas Longmont has a relatively small number of drill sites on its eastern borders. “If someone wanted millions and millions of gallons for oil and gas, we probably wouldn’t allow it.”

Huson says the city issued permits for only 1.9 acre-feet of treated “bulk water” to frackers last year, an amount that pales in comparison to the 7,800 acre-feet of surplus water it plans to rent out this year, the 17,000 acre-feet it used in 2011 and the 30,000 acre-feet to which it has access.

Edward Celias “Nobody’s applied yet this year,” he says, probably because they’d “pass three different places where they could get water on the way here.”

But in a Jan. 31 memo to Longmont City Council, Huson and public works director Dale Rademacher acknowledged that the city also has a “raw water” agreement with A&W Water Services, which provides water to the oil and gas industry. Under that agreement, Longmont delivers water to the St. Vrain, primarily as effluent from see WATER Page 12

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its wastewater treatment plant, and it flows to the South Platte River, where it is used by A&W to offset the company’s depletions. According to city documents, A&W has been using an increasing amount of Longmont’s water over the past four years, from 150 acrefeet in 2008 to 480 acre-feet in 2012, for which it will pay the city $123,840.

Huson told Boulder Weekly that the city does not permit selling water for commercial purposes during a Level 3 drought, which is the most severe.

Water officials also agree that despite the expected drought conditions this summer, the recent years of heavy snowpack — especially last year — successfully filled the various reservoirs that serve the northern Front Range, meaning that mandatory watering restrictions are unlikely. **** But not everyone is so reassuring. What if we see several years of drought conditions, and oil and gas companies begin clamoring for water (and profits) just as loud, if not louder than, thirsty local residents and their lawns? It may sound extreme, but years down the line, water may become more valuable in the West than those shiny yellow nuggets during the Gold Rush. The Colorado River already runs dry by the time it reaches Mexico. Could Boulder Creek, the St. Vrain, the Big Thompson and the Cache La Poudre face similar fates?

A report due to be released in the next few weeks by Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates (WRA) calls for more information about the amounts of water the oil and gas industry is using, and where that water is coming from. It also urges officials to be more deliberate about planning for increasing demands on water supplies for operations like fracking before we get too far down that road, given that oil and gas companies are projecting massive future well activity in Colorado’s portion of the Niobrara Shale Formation.

“It could really take off,” WRA water resources engineer Laura Belanger, the lead author of the report, says of future water demands for fracking. “We need to slow down, and plan, and get it right. We could find ourselves dealing with unexpected consequences down the line.”

Belanger acknowledges that there is a lot of water in Northern Colorado’s reservoirs right now, but she takes a broader view. If the state suffers multiple consecutive drought

years, “we’re in trouble.” Plus, she adds, a lot of the water surplus in the reservoirs could get used to compensate for this summer’s drought.

“My understanding is that farther down the Platte, farmers will need plenty of supplemental water if they’re not getting precipitation,” she says.

Belanger says that state officials and pro-industry observers like to point out that more than 85 percent of the state’s water is used for agriculture, and only 7.5 percent is used by municipalities, which makes the proportion used for fracking look insignificant. But she points out that according to WRA estimates, in 2011, the water used for oil and gas operations equaled more than the total amount used by the city of Lakewood, Colorado’s fourth-largest city.

Instead of comparing oil and gas to agriculture, she argues, oil and gas needs should be compared to other municipal demands, because it is at the local level where frack water is going to become significant.

For example, the WRA estimates that in 2011, water for oil and gas production accounted for between one-third and two-thirds of Weld County’s total domestic supply, and was more water than any single town in the county used, with the exception of Greeley.

“Are communities going to be asked to conserve water at the same time they are selling water to oil and gas companies?” Belanger asks.

She suggests that communities demand access to the agreements their cities or towns have made with water, oil and gas companies.

Belanger says one key finding in her report is that there is not reliable, aggregate data on things like the average amount of water used per well, in part because the state’s website for companies to report details like the chemicals and water used, fracfocus.org, shows separate reports on each well, so “you’d have to go through every one manually and enter the data yourself.”

Her WRA report is expected to ask the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and others to produce more data, and in a more useful form, on things like chemicals used, amounts of water and the sources of that water.

Even if it’s a dry year, she tells Boulder Weekly, the oil and gas companies will not stop drilling and fracking.

“They’re going to get that water somehow,” Belanger says.

She also points out that while 90 percent of residential see WATER Page 13

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indoor water use is reused because it is processed by a wastewater treatment facility, water used for fracking is so polluted that even the portion regurgitated back up the well can’t be salvaged.

“It’s being permanently removed from the system,” Belanger says. “Not only do you have that initial big use, but now that water’s gone.”

Granted, only about half of total residential water use is indoors, but even 17 percent of outdoor irrigation returns to area streams, she explains.

Regardless of the impacts we might see in the form of mandatory watering restrictions, which might result in the shocking notion that we don’t have a front lawn as green as the neighbor’s, fracking and other demands on water could boost the argument for new diversion projects for Colorado watersheds, which not only affect recreational opportunities, but entire ecosystems.

Belanger points to examples like the Windy Gap Water Diversion Project and the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP), both of which would benefit Boulder County municipalities.

“It’s proposed under the guise of municipal purposes, but a portion of it is going to fracking,” she says. “Do we want our water used for this purpose?” **** The NISP, which would benefit Erie, Lafayette and the Left Hand Water District, is opposed by Gary Wockner, executive director of Save the Poudre, who says “the exact same cities that are proposing new water diversion projects are selling water for fracking, and plan to continue to do so.”

He and Brian Werner, the spokesperson for the Northern Water Conservancy District, which is proposing the diversion projects and which supplies water for several Boulder County cities and towns, disagree about the effects of such efforts.

Wockner argues that diverting even more of the depleted Poudre for Front Range sprawl and other uses, like fracking, will dry up the river. Werner maintains that Colorado needs more “buckets” to keep its excess water from flowing out of state. He says a portion of water from new reservoirs will be used to keep rivers like the Poudre flowing during times when it currently goes dry.

“NISP isn’t going to dry up the river, I can tell you that,” Werner says.

“In fact, it’s going to put more water into the river at times it’s needed. … I truly believe the river will be better off with the project than it is now.”

Wockner calls Werner’s claim a “newsflash” and suggests he put it in writing.

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Werner counters, “It’s not written down, but the participants from Northern Water have committed to that.”

He says that commitment will appear in writing as plans are approved

by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Army Corps of Engineers. He accuses Wockner of using “language to incite the masses.”

Wockner says there is a classic “bait and switch” going on in which cities and towns claim they need more water to accommodate population growth, and yet they are selling water to oil and

gas companies. He says the environmental impact statement on the Windy Gap diversion project is 1,472 pages long, and yet it never mentions fracking. Wockner also says the NISP’s proposed Galeton Reservoir, near Greeley, would be formed over more than two dozen producing well sites.

“If they build these projects, every year will be a drought for Colorado’s rivers,” he says.

When asked what effect fracking has on Northern Colorado’s water supply, Werner replies, “None. I wish we’d focus on issues that matter. … I think

they’re trying to create a red herring. …

I think they’re trying to create hysteria.”

There is, however, one thing that Werner and Wockner do agree on.

And that is the fact that in some areas this year, we may have the lowest snowpack the state has seen since 2002, when certain levels were the worst ever recorded.

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boulderganic A high-powered mom Bailey brings municipalization experience to Boulder

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H

eather Bailey is Boulder’s new czar of municipalization, and she knows a thing or two about regulatory agencies and cities running their own electric utilities.

Much has been made about Bailey being paid $250,000 annually during a two-year contract, which will make her the city’s highest-paid employee.

But she says she is not angling for the more permanent utility manager job if Boulder decides to power itself.

Bailey insists that localizing the city’s electrical utility is the question, not the agenda. She says she has not been given marching orders to find in favor of severing Boulder’s ties to Xcel, the company that has been in a bitter feud with the city over the future of Boulder’s electric utility since before last year’s election season. It was November when, despite opposition heavily funded

by Xcel, voters approved a measure allowing the city to spend $1.9 million in a utility occupation tax over two years to explore becoming independent from the energy giant.

But the proposition may be costly, considering that Boulder wants more renewable energy, which generally costs more than traditional sources like Xcel’s coal-fired plants.

Bailey has been brought in to take

an impartial look at the prospect, and she has extensive experience with municipal and state utilities in Texas.

Bailey, who was born in Japan because her father was in the military, moved to Austin, Texas, when she was 12. She has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

She worked for the Public Utilities Commission of Texas, setting up its compliance program beginning in 1980, only a few years after that PUC was formed. Then Bailey worked for the city of San Antonio, where electricity was municipalized. She says that city’s utilities department was distinctive because it was overseen by a largely independent board that oversaw the utilities director.

But when Bailey took a job with the city of Austin’s internal audit department, she gained experience with a new model, one in which the city council had more oversight, since the utilities director reported to the city manager.

Bailey says the municipalization approach that Boulder should adopt — if it adopts one at all — depends on the

“You have the opportunity to create the utility of the future, if that is the right answer.”

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character of the city’s population and its government.

“You just have to get a feel for the city and how it operates,” she says.

Bailey also gained experience at the state level, working for the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) of Texas, one of the largest power utilities in the country. This is where she spent the majority of her career, working for an entity that former President Lyndon B. Johnson helped found with a dam project built to power rural Texas.

She started as accounting manager and worked her way up to executive manager of corporate services and deputy chief financial officer.

Bailey continued working for the LCRA even after Texas deregulated its wholesale power market and the LCRA became a transmission system, where she held the title of executive manager of transmission services business management and asset development.

She retired in 2006, and decided to

take some time off to be with her two sons, who are now in high school. But after about 10 months, she says, she decided that she was “not a good stayat-home mom,” so she went back to work, for Navigant Consulting, as director of energy practice.

Bailey says she is passionate about preserving the integrity of the community, and when she starts working for the city on June 7, she will initially spend time learning about Boulder’s citizens and government, as well as Colorado’s rules and regulations when it comes to public utilities.

One question, she says, is to what extent the state’s PUC requires equal services to all, and to what extent utilities can discriminate. (Xcel has threatened to begin curtailing solar and wind incentive programs in anticipation of Boulder’s potential municipalization.)

Regardless of the answer to that question, she says the city has taken the correct tack by creating an independent, objective procedure by which to assess whether municipalization is the desired course.

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It’s hard to make changes and save the planet when the majority of us apparently have the attention span of the average second grader. At least that’s one interpretation of a new Stanford University poll that shows that our support for measures designed to curb global warming is already in decline even though many of the changes losing popularity have yet to even be implemented.

The new poll asked potential voters the same questions as another poll conducted in 2010 regarding our level of support for various steps to cut greenhouse gases. The comparison found that our support for cutting the harmful gas emissions had actually declined by 10 percent even though more scientists than ever now accept that global warming is a reality.

According to USA Today, the

Stanford poll’s lead researcher Jon Krosnick says, “Most Americans (62 percent) still support industry taking steps aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but they hate the idea of consumer taxes to do it.”

Translation: Apparently most of us would rather keep an extra 3 percent of our paychecks than save the world for future generations.

LIGHT A MATCH DINO

New research from the category of what else can we get a grant to study, has found that dinosaur farts may have actually ushered in global warming back in

the day.

The new study was conducted by British researchers and was just published in the May 8 issue of the journal Current Biology. The researchers admit that their findings are based on best guestimates but the research does make sense. We

know that modern day ruminants such as cows and sheep are adding between 50 and 100 million metric tons of methane into the atmosphere each year.

The researchers believe that the dinosaurs, which reached up to 20 tons in size, could have been farting and belching as much as 520 million metric tons into the atmosphere each year, enough to cause global warming and subsequently climate change.

What a way to go.

ENDANGERED LANGUAGES AND SPECIES LINKED

It was suspected for years, but now it has been confirmed. New research published in the May 7 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences found that in the areas of the world where languages are disappearing the fastest, so too are the most species of plants and animals becoming extinct.

This makes sense because of the many tribal languages spoken in such biodiversity hot spots. In fact, 70 percent of all languages occur in such areas. It appears that the loss of languages may be happening more quickly than the loss of species which is currently occurring at the staggering estimate of 1,000 times the historic rate. Linguists now estimate that 90 percent of the world’s languages could disappear by the end of the 21st century.

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right,” she says, citing the city’s twoyear process for evaluating the situation.

Bailey emphasizes that her goals include “making sure everybody’s voice gets heard” and adhering to the objectives set by the community.

“You have the opportunity to create the utility of the future, if that is the right answer,” she says.

Bailey acknowledges that while it may be tempting for the city, after spending so much money on the inquiry itself, to move forward with municipalization, Boulder must stick to the goals it sets. And the “off-ramps” that

the city has created will force pauses for self-reflection.

“It helps you stop yourself and do a gut-check,” she says.

Bailey adds that while her options are open, she does not have her sights set on being Boulder’s municipal utility manager, because that would introduce an agenda that compromises the independent and objective nature of the municipalization inquiry.

“I don’t want to come in thinking about that possibility,” she says. “I want to get to the right answer. … I’m not going in with any future intention of

anything other than the task at hand.”

The $1.9 million in taxpayer money is being spent primarily on her services and the attorneys who will assess the costs of acquiring Xcel’s infrastructure as well as the company’s investments in the Boulder market, and they are expected to perform a due-diligence evaluation.

“That’s why you bring in someone who’s independent,” Bailey says. “That money will be well-spent if you get to a conclusion that is right for the community.”

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it is realistic for the city to expect to pay the same electricity rates as it currently pays Xcel — a prerequisite for it to move forward with municipalization — while significantly increasing its renewable energy sources, which generally cost more. On the one hand, Xcel has economies of scale. On the other, Boulder could have lower overhead.

“That is a very good question,” Bailey says when asked about it.

Finding the answer is why she is getting paid the big bucks.

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Leftover Salmon prepares for its massive block party in Denver to celebrate the release of Aquatic Hitchhiker, its seventh studio album and its first since the band went on hiatus in 2005, a look at the band’s 22-year history provides some insight into the group’s staying power.

Co-founders Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman met in 1985 after Herman moved to Boulder, and the two combined their two groups, The Left Hand String Band and The Salmon Heads, for a 1989 gig in Crested Butte and haven’t looked back since.

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Though the band has weathered lineup changes, the time demands of new projects, and the tragic death of founding banjo player Mark Vann, the joyous music and carefree spirit that has defined the band for two decades has stayed refreshingly constant.

Nowhere is that more clear than on the first track of Leftover Salmon Celebrating 20 Years, a compilation of live recordings released on jambase.com in 2009. The track, a cover of the Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun,” is a from a 1991 performance at the late and somewhat storied Boulder venue

J.J. McCabe’s. It’s a long-lost relic predating the band’s first disc, and the performance is a high-energy affair that, in retrospect, might as well be the band’s manifesto.

The band (which at this point consisted of Emmitt, Herman, Vann, accordion player Gerry Cavagnaro, drummer Michael Wooten and bassist Rob Galloway) plays the cover pretty faithfully for the first couple of verses. Then, suddenly, the drums cut out and Herman starts a spoken-word creed filled with local imagery, delivering a tale of see SALMON Page 20

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existential debate in wild vocal inflections. few times, and the chemistry was palpable.

“My girlfriend, she’s always telling me, Herman realized the band might have found ‘Why don’t you drive to Denver and get a its missing link. real job?’” Herman rants.

“He’s just been a really great boost to the He follows up with a sarcastic response. energy and the whole project. We kind of “I think what I really have in mind is felt like we were missing a leg once mark maybe a position as a ski bum in some passed,” Herman told Boulder Weekly in mountain town where you can wake up and November. “Andy has been a real find, do a big wake-and-bake and ski all day!” makes it feel real good again. And he’s a ball Whoops of appreciation come up from to hang with, and just a phenomenal player.” the crowd.

Thorn was thrilled to join the band. Just “And she’s like, ‘Well, you’ve been doing 29, he hadn’t even picked up a banjo by the that for so many years now, and where’s that time Leftover Salmon played its first show, got ya? All you do now is run around and but he has accomplished a lot during his have fun!’ short career. At the age of 19 he won the “And I said, ‘Listen, baby, if that’s what banjo contest at Rockygrass. A friend introyou got in mind for your man, I think maybe duced him to Chris Pandolfi of the you best better look up an ad in Westword or Infamous Stringdusters, who introduced something like that, because it ain’t me that him to Emmitt. From there, he was asked to you’re looking for, man,” he says, building sit in with Leftover Salmon, and they soon into a fever pitch. “I ain’t got no ambition asked him to join. man, I just want to do those wake-andWith the newfound chemistry and bakes! I don’t want to fuck off, man, I wanna enthusiasm in mind, Herman, Garrison, play tunes! I wanna have a good time!”

Thorn (and Emmitt, via Herman’s iPhone) Then he sings the triumphant final chogathered at Thorn’s North Boulder house to rus of the song: “Let me go out, like a blister talk about Aquatic Hitchhiker, which occupies in the sun / Let me go out / I just wanna be the same free-spirited, everything-is-groovy a ski bum!” musical zone as their previous albums.

The disc is the first full-length made by And though no one can accuse Herman the band since 2004, and it marks another of being a bum of any sort — he has played first for the band as well — the first Salmon thousands of shows in his decades-long career — the spirit of the screed remains true album to be released on vinyl, the thought of to Leftover Salmon to this day. The band which tickled the band members pink.

From left, Greg still has that ski bum spirit: an uncompro“Oh man, everything’s different now that Garrison, Vince Herman and Andy Thorn mising commitment to doing what you love Tupac just played Coachella, you know?” in life, and a refusal to compromise the Herman says. “Seriously, what are the values that define who you are. implications of this? We were talking That independent streak helped about this a lot last night. And one Leftover Salmon define the jamgrass of my friends said that the guy who’s genre now populated by bands like moe., programming that hologram isn’t Yonder Mountain String Band and othTupac. So it’s spiritually removed.

LEFTOVER SALMON ers. Herman’s eclectic interest in ethnic And that’s kind of what digital music THROUGH THE YEARS music combined with Emmitt’s bluegrass does. It’s a little bit spiritually removed. traditionalist sensibilities in a way that And if you take this stuff far enough, Aquatic Hitchhiker (May 22, had never really been done before, creatwe can sit at home on our couch and 2012) LIVE (2002) ing what the band early on dubbed as beam in our hologram to wherever the Twice In A Blue Moon (2010) The Nashville Sessions (1999) “polyethnic Cajun slamgrass.” Elements live show is. I was watching that with

of calypso, Cajun music and reggae popu[Grateful Dead drummer] Bill Years In Your Ears (DVD, 2006) Euphoria (1997) late the band’s bluegrass-based numbers, Kreutzmann in New Orleans, and he Leftover Salmon (2004) Ask The Fish (1995) propelled equally by energetic rock drumwas like, ‘I could play with Jerry mers and slamming, traditional bluegrass [Garcia] again.’ I mean, how weird does O’Cracker Where Art Thou Bridges To Bert (1993) banjo. it get? So what part of that whole slide (2003) The band has included a slew of notatowards soulless digitalization of our ble supporting cast members that have culture, how much of that is prevented rotated in throughout the years, including by someone putting out a piece of drummer Wooten (who played with vinyl?”

Carole King), bassist Tye North (who went on to play Taxi and later hooked up with Todd Snider; Emmitt Steve Berlin of Los Lobos produced the album, with Darol Anger and others) and keyboardist Bill teamed with The String Cheese Incident’s Bill Nershi and after about two weeks of recording, the album was McKay, among others, but the core of the group was to form the Emmitt-Nershi Band; Garrison joined finished. Seems pretty quick, right? the chemistry between Emmitt, Nershi and Vann.

Emmitt-Nershi and the Punch Brothers as he worked “Not in this day and age,” Garrison says, laughing.

When Vann died of melanoma in 2002, the band solon his doctorate in jazz studies.

“That’s kind of a luxurious time frame. … We had a diered on and produced a self-titled disc in 2004 with In short, the band members kept busy, but it was lot of time just to mess around in the studio and try banjo player Noam Pikelny, but things weren’t the only 27 months before the band reunited for a show at different things.” same. The band decided it needed a break. Bassist the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, euphemistically billed “And we have a couple of extra songs,” Herman Greg Garrison told Billboard at the time that once the as “Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman and Friends.” chimes in, plugging the documentary Salmonlandia, band made the decision to go on hiatus, the group From then on, Salmon played a few one-off dates a available on iclips.com, which catalogues the making instantly started sounding better. year. But as side projects wound down, a full-fledged of the album. “You know, you have to do something So the members put Salmon in the fridge and took Salmon reunion started sounding better and better. more than just put out a recording of you playing up other projects. Herman formed Great American Emmitt-Nershi banjo player Andy Thorn had sat in a songs these days to really kind of make it an event, as

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1 p.m. for more information happen, and to really The goal? Build a about the show or Leftover show the world that sense of community Salmon’s new album, visit www.leftoversalmon.com. in an increasingly Leftover Salmon was fractured world. back, was to go back “To me it conjures in the studio. … The up old images of the Grateful Dead in more we talked about it, the more we San Francisco or something, where got excited and started putting together street music just caused really good tunes, and it all just came together last things to happen,” Herman says. “You fall.”

Herman and Emmitt say the time know, it’s going to be a wild summer in apart allowed the members to approach Denver, and we gotta take it to the the new album with fresh perspectives streets, man, you know? It’s Occupy influenced by time spent collaborating Denver summer. We’re gonna occupy with other musicians. this street, it’s going to be really fun.”

“I think it really opens your eyes to Herman pauses, then continues. different ways of writing and kind of “You know, we have to,” he says. “In breaks you out of your box,” Emmitt an era where strange, police-state kind says. “I think it’s been really great for of things are really happening, people the band as a whole for us to do these have to get out to the streets to reindifferent projects. I definitely think it’s force the fact that we’re alive and happy brought a new perspective to Salmon.” to be alive and aren’t going to cave in to “It was really cool,” Herman says. “I the forces of evil around us in all places! think all the side projects that we’ve We must conquer through music!” done have really brought us into the And the funny thing is, he’s only studio with kind of bigger ears, and a half-joking. Not bad for a ski bum with real more comfortable, less deer-in-thean independent streak. headlights kind of feeling, at least for Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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he Denver hip-hop trio BLKHRTS is seeing that some people are having a hard time trying to classify the type of music they make. The music is dark and aggressive and influenced by industrial and punk rock like Joy Division and The Misfits. The trio, which consists of Yonnas Abraham, King FOE and Karma tha Voice, dress in all black, give menacing looks from the stage, and when the music drops, go crazy.

One writer called their style “goth rap.”

“We are not Marilyn Manson,” Yonnas says.

“The term ‘goth’ means a million things to a million different people, but I think that to me, it’s a culture and it’s definitely been able to describe my aesthetics, which is the dark and the beautiful, the romantic and also the macabre. But I think those things have been explored before. I think Wu-Tang is goth rap, I think Gravediggaz is the prototypical goth-rap group. So I read it in articles and people say that about my music, I’m like, ‘Oh wow.’”

There’s no black eyeliner or any type of make-up, no crazy hair or leather chains and whips. And although the lyrics have depth and explore a darker side of life with themes of sex, drugs and violence, don’t expect any kind of depressive atmosphere.

“We do have people, bloggers and writers, saying it’s goth rap, it’s this, it’s that. But yeah, that shit is wack,” says King FOE. “Don’t get me wrong, we dress down in black and we do our shit, I even have a song called ‘Goth Swag,’ but it’s more like this is the type of dudes we are. We aren’t some emo-ass niggas,

“They’re both really great performers and they’re both really great rappers,” Yonnas says.

“Obviously they have a lot of energy, but it’s more than that, though.

It’s the nuance and the delivery of the way they performed. It was very energy-intensive but also very natural and cool to ON THE BILL: BLKHRTS opens look at. It just seemed for Schoolboy Q and AB Soul on like we could really comMay 12. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets are $14, day of show $16 plement each other.” (+ $2 for under 21). 1128 13th St., The group got to Boulder, 303-443-3399. work and has already released a slew of music since forming. Their first project, an EP called BLK S BTFL, was wellreceived and opened the door for the group to release two mixtapes, Su Alma Negra and Beast and another EP called whining about shit. But we like Bauhaus, Radiohead; CHRCH. And while the music has been well-received, we listen to other alternative shit that a lot of these the shows have been just as critically praised. With dudes don’t listen to. Everyone else is trying to be all The Pirate Signal’s Chez Sheree Strong on guitar and swagged out and chained out, having big chains and keys and Hogans on drums, the show is high-energy watches, driving on 28-inch rims and shit. We’re not and loud where neither a mosh pit nor b-boy circle trying to do that.” would be out of place.

The BLKHRTS formed in 2010 after years of the “It’s weird because I’m an extremely private person guys hanging out on the Denver hip-hop scene. but on stage, that’s like my moment of freedom,” says Yonnas, who is with the group The Pirate Signal, and Karma. “I just black the hell out and then those two, King FOE and Karma, who are members of the Yonnas and FOE, they’re crazy as hell and both come Jewell Tyme Music conglomerate, used to go to each with it. For me individually, I never thought I’d find other’s shows as well as share the stage. While The freedom in front of strangers. On stage I’m free and at Pirate Signal had a sound that was unique in the peace.” scene, Yonnas was looking to work on things outside The group is now in the midst of dropping a triloof that. King FOE and Karma, on the other hand, gy of releases from each individual group member had a style that was more grounded to the streets, but under the BLKHRTS banner. Yonnas was first, they also were looking to explore ideas outside of the releasing the six-song EP Sextape (along with a eighttraditional hip-hop box. Yonnas approached them with the idea of starting the group. see BLKHRTS Page 24

The future is black

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Ghosts of blues past

Otis Taylor’s latest album leaves you among the spirits of the past

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T

hat’s not a coat that Otis Taylor is wearing on the cover of his latest CD, Contraband, released on Telarc a couple of months ago. Not a Sasquatch costume, not a blaxploitation set piece.

“It’s a rug!” Taylor explained to us last week. “They

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threw it on top of me; it was still too dirty. We were two hours late for the photo shoot in New York — someone typed in the wrong ZIP code and we ended up in Coney Island or something. Wrong time of day to get into New York. … I look like I’m 500 pounds. Like Solomon Burke gone hip.”

And there’s heft between the folds, as the CD kicks off with a galloping, full band rendition of “The Devil’s Gonna Lie,” Taylor’s husky baritone delivering his usual less-is-more lyrics (“The Devil’s gonna lie / When he needs to”), spreading across an arrangement with backup singers, two guitars, organ and Ron Miles’ cornet punctuating sly and subtle chordal landmarks.

Taylor unleashes his band as well on the CD’s namesake cut, “Contraband Blues,” a stone-heavy vignette of the desperation of escaped slaves languishing in Civil War camps across Union lines.

People, but not people.

“It’s about … people being treated like animals, see TAYLOR Page 24

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like cattle, you know? It tells a story, it gets a story out there. You’re free but you’re not free.

You’re cattle. They didn’t call them people, they didn’t call them prisoners of war. Or refugees from a war zone. They called them ‘contraband.’”

Taylor pauses a little, talking about this one.

We tell him we think it’s the center of the CD (and others have suggested it as well), the pivot around which everything else — thinly sketched vignettes like “Blind Piano ON THE BILL: Otis Taylor Teacher,” odes to exhausted plays the Outlook Hotel & Suites on Friday, May 11. desire like “Yellow Car, Booker & Klyde open. Show Yellow Dog,” all of it — starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are revolves. $20. 800 28th St., Boulder Characteristically, though, Taylor shrugs it off.

“Eh, I’m not that deep,” he says. “You know that.”

Maybe that’s an illusion, a function of sequencing, or production; Taylor’s songs are often held together by the barest of lyrical thread, a Piano Teacher” to a Jet Li movie, of all things), a repeated phrase merely suggestive of context, a story newspaper clipping, something he once heard. But if half-told or half-remembered, murmured as often as the craft is subtle and the results profound, Taylor declared. When they work, salted across his trademark admits that making the records themselves and getone- or two-chord arrangements, they engage, and ting them into critics’ hands doesn’t come without frequently compel, the listener to create the story. The some second-guessing. His re-entry into the music genius behind Taylor’s music is that it can take the lis- business in the mid-1990s after years of dealing tener someplace quickly and effortlessly and leave you antiques and cycling has been met with plaudits and there among ghosts to find your own way back. awards, festival appearances, a healthy following in And sure, the songs all come from someplace.

Europe.

Historical record, a film (he partially credits “Blind A few years ago, someone on Jazz.com called him

the “King of Acoustic Blues,” an oddly awkward title for someone who plies a trade so consistently inspired by the anonymous.

“Kenny Passarelli [who played on a few of Taylor’s early recordings] once told me, ‘You’re either working your way up, or fightin’ to come down.’ Great wisdom there,” Taylor says.

“What happens, is, as you make more records and get good reviews, it’s like you’re waiting for someone to say, ‘Boy, he just couldn’t do it this time.’ It’s kind of like, you get a high off it. You take a chance and it works. Every time you want to do something different, but yet the same. It gets harder; it doesn’t get easier.

“Every time I do a new album it gets harder, three times harder than the last album. …The photographer who does all my album covers told me, ‘there’ll never be another album as good as [2010’s] Clovis People,” he laughs, wryly appreciating a genuine compliment that also predicts the artist’s inevitable decline.

So every album has to be better than the last one. Really?

“It doesn’t have to be better, it has to be as good.

And it has to be different. The hard part is the concept, it has to be different. You want people to hear the album and read the liner notes and leave with something. You know? I’ll leave the Contraband project or the [Recapturing The] Banjo project, and I want to know that they’ve learned something.

“Something that made them think about what I did.”

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song prequel called Sexts) in December, King FOE is following that with his EP Junkie (he’s already released an eight-song prequel called The Junk) on May 15. At the end of the summer, Karma will release his EP, Murderball, and at the end of the year, we’ll get a debut album from the BLKHRTS. “We wanted to showcase all of us individually along with the group,” says King FOE about the trilogy idea. “We want to take our time with the album because we want to put out the best quality. Plus this is how we’re marketing BLKHRTS. Even though we have these solo songs and even though we have these solo albums, it’s still BLKHRTS albums, it’s all BLKHRTS shit. It’s just like another variation of our own individual personalities.”

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“We’re too ‘individual’ to be mass marketed,” adds Yonnas. “And I guess I feel like if you’re going to be that kind of artist you have to really build a brand. We can’t be the kind of band where we make an EP, then we have an album, then we’re going to blow up. We have to be the kind of band that has a ton of music that you can immerse yourself in. If we’re going to be idiosyncratic, there’s a whole universe there. So to me, I feel like in the course of a year, if I can build the universe and then drop the album, there will be a fanbase.”

Although the group has been contacted and approached by well-known record execs and record labels, they’re sticking to the program they’ve set up.

Being indie, in control of their art and responsibility

to no one but themselves is how the BLKHRTS want things to be.

“I just want us to be received,” Karma says.

“More than anything, we just want to be received as raw artists that you can’t put in any particular genre or any kind of box. However the chips fall, I put that in God’s hands. I know it’s on us to just continue to work, stay strong and see what happens. I pray to God that one day we’ll be doing shows overseas on some crazy shit. For now, we’ll take the hometown love and the love we can get when we’re out of town, but ideally, we want to be touring all over this muhfucka. Staying in people’s face, that’s the key.”

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1. Panorama (5/3) 2. First amendment — 1, CU administration ­— 0 3. Best of Boulder 2012 4. Garden wars Behind the North Boulder Recreation Center off Broadway is another world, nestled between subdivisions and marked off into 400-square-foot plots. It is a subculture that has its own rules. And like any community, especially one where there are no walls and your neighbors are literally right next to you, disputes can arise.

5. Think globally, and fry locally 6. In Case You Missed It: Bear photo takes another twist 7. A reanimated Gorillaz is back, this time with real-life musicians 8. Organics going international 9. Celebrating women in classical music 10. Slideshow: Black Keys at the 1stBank Center, May 1

POLL Last Week Do you think the grave marker at Valmont Cemetery was fake?

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0% • Not sure. Why don’t they just dig and find out? 25% • Hey, I buried my gerbil there! 50% This Week Should cities sell their water for fracking?

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Dry Creek Trail Grand Opening. 3-4 p.m. Lefthand Valley Grange Trailhead, bouldercounty.org.

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

Adam Bodine. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Beth Preston — With John Craigie & Paris Hayes.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Boa and the Constrictors. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Clouds and Mountains and Princess Music. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Cold Forty Three. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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

Fairview High School Choral — Festival, Troubadours, Madrigals, Age of Guinevere and Excalibur. 7 p.m. Fairview High School Auditorium at 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, fairviewhw.org.

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

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

Lazerdisk Party Sex –– Last day of finals party. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Rush Archives — A Tribute to Rush. 7:30 p.m.

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

Social Distortion — With Toadies and Lindi Ortega.

6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

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

Holly DeHoog. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Getting Started with Adobe Dreamweaver. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

The Immortal Blues Ambassadors. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS.

Yoga Class and Movie Screening — 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Kyle James Hauser — With The Changing Colors.

7:30 p.m. UI Sound Studios, 201 Broadway, Boulder, uisound.com.

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

Friday, May 11 music An Intimate Evening with Trevor Hall: Music, Stories and Inspiration — With Jaden Carlson. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

Bearsnail — With Kristina Murray and Jamie Davis.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

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

DJ Russo Cymatic Kicks. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Felonius Smith Trio. 5:30 p.m. Upslope Brewery Tap Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite #20, Boulder, 303449-2911.

Long Road Home. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Matt Flaherty Band. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Otis Taylor — And Booker & Klyde. 8 p.m.

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

Paa Kow’s By All Means. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Portland Cello Project and Emily Wells — With Ian Cooke and Shenandoah Davis. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Ronny Shellist. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Sarah Louise Pipelow. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Something Underground, Ryan Chris, Q Diva and Friends. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Tommy and the Tangerines. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

events Nutrition, Vaccinations and Chiropractic Care with Dr. Tim O’Shea. 7 p.m. Chiropractic Works, 2835 Pearl St. Unit D, Boulder, 303-444-7744.

Stress & Nutrition Seminar with Brendan Brazier.

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University of Colorado BFA artwork is on display at the CU Art Museum

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2012 East Boulder County Artists 13th Annual Studio Tour — 52 artists. Lafayette, Louisville, Longmont, Superior and Erie. Preview exhibit at Firehouse Art Center, 916 Main Street, Louisville, ebcacolorado.org. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. May 11-12.

The Anxiety of Influence. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

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

Julia Lunk, Judith Trager. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through May 31.

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Ghost in the Machine — With Monocle Stache. 8 p.m. Absolute Vinyl Records & Stereo, 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-955-1519.

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

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

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James Egbert & 3LAU — With Wiley Webb and Paris Burns. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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George Nelson Quartet GaSOlINe lOllIPOPS Wed., May 16th

Tina and her Pony. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

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The Zydecoasters. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

events AscenDance Project Dance-Climb Fusion Class.

12-2 p.m. AscenDance, 5721 Arapahoe Ave., Unit C, Boulder, 510-225-8844.

Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, Boulder, www. boulderfarmers.org.

Lisa Bell. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Fly Fishing 101. 9 a.m. Boulder Orvis Store, 629B S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-554-0122.

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

Frequent Flyers Productions’ Apprentice Company: Dreams in Flight — An aerial dance performance that explores the dream worlds we visit every night. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Resort2Kindness: A Benefit Concert. 7:30 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Sacred Sound Journey — With Christine Tulis, KemStralka, Paradiso and Rasamayi. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 310924-2660.

Schoolboy Q — With AB-Soul, BLKHRTS and DJ Low Key. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Wadirum — With Daniel Cooper. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Satterfield Solo. 7:30 p.m. Derby Grill, 110 Bunyon St., Berthoud, 970-532-0986.

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

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Something but definitely not Nothing: The Spring 2012 BFA Exhibition, Keeping It Real. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 11.

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

Bluefolk Dreamers — With Connie Hannah, Atomic Conundrum. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Sculpture by Leonard Pettus, Shelley Goddard, Anne Shutan & Lynne Jacobs. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

6 p.m. Alfalfa’s Market, 1651 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-420-8400.

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

Herbal First Aid — Certified Clinical Herbalist and Wilderness Responder Kat MacKinnon for a hands-on class about specific herbal first-aid remedies. 1-3:30 p.m. North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, Boulder, clinicalherbalism.com.

The Hill Flea — An open-air flea market promoting reuse, repair, reskilling, upcycling and local products and services. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder, thehillflea.com.

Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet: Scarlet, World Premiere — Authentic movement exploration, brave experimentation and kinesthetic language by international choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl.

8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St.,

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and inspiration. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Maria’s Children and Patch Adams, M.D. & Gesundheit! Institute Art Exhibition and Live Auction. 6 p.m. Hotel Boulderado Event Center, 2115 13th St., Boulder, mariaschildren.ru.

Boulder Ballet’s Cinderella. 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

Native Plant Sale — Hosted by the National Wildlife Federation. 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. 2995 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-786-8001.

Femmes Toujours — Mother’s Day celebration of Womanhood, Motherhood, Community and Song. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Paper Trails: Tracking the Clues to a Life. 10 a.m.

Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway 66, Longmont, 303-678-6214.

Fossils and Flowers — Hike with a naturalist to explore Rocky Mountain fossils and wildflowers. 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Location provided to registered participants, 303-678-6214.

Playback Theatre West: A Night of Improvisational Theatre — Improvisational, “comicathartic” theatre using the audience’s stories. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet: Scarlet, World Premiere — Authentic movement explora-

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Bug. Devil’s Thumb Productions at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-250-8177. Through May 26.

The Drowsy Chaperone. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through May 13.

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

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder,

303-4421415.

Through May 19.

The Nerd. Coal Creek Community Theatre, Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant St., Louisville, 303-6650955. Through May 12.

Two of Us. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044.

Through May 20.

Student Art Show — Artwork by student artists Daniel Booth, John Caron, Susan Finley, Lael Har, April Gatesman, Nancy Kirkendall, Christine Kulie, Rosemary Lohndorf, Paige Mackey, Jeanne Visvader. 4-8 p.m.

Lael Gallery & Studios, 1025 Rosewood Ave., #108, Boulder, 303-324-7980.

Trail Maintenance Day, Colorado Trail, Segment I. 8:30 a.m. Waterton Canyon parking lot, Denver, comba. org.

Wildflower Hikes. 10 a.m. Register for location, boulderwalkingtours.com or 720-243-1376.

World Fair Trade Day — Featuring fair trade products from Malawi, Madagascar and Kenya, plus chocolate and coffee tastings. 1-4 p.m. Momentum, 1625 Pearl St., Boulder, ourmomentum.com.

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

Birds of a Feather — With Live Animal. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

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

By All Means. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

David Booker Trio. 10 a.m. Nissi’s. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

GrandMothers of Invention — The legendary members of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention performing the music of Frank Zappa. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Holly and the Husbands. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s. 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

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Meagan Burt. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Musekiwa Chingodaza & Zimbira. 3 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Special Mother’s Day Show featuring Thunderhoney. 4 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

events ArtAIDS — Cause a Spectacle! Boulder County AIDS Project’s art auction benefit. 5:30 p.m. silent auction, 7:15 p.m. live auction, Rembrandt Yard Gallery, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-6121.

AscenDance Project Auditions. 12-4 p.m.

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Jennifer Wilson reads from her memoir on a family sabbatical to Croatia

Thursday, May 10 Poetry Reading — With Donna Stein. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future — by Richard Martin.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sunday, May 13

Poetry Reading — With Matt Stark, Peyton Prater, Sofia Laguna, Jake Malpocker and Kevin Kane. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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Monday, May 14

Mother’s Day Brunch Buffet. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Town Hall Meeting with Rep. Matt Jones and Rep. Jonathan Singer. 6-7:30 p.m. Abbondanza Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, cohousedems.com.

Tuesday, May 15

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

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

Sunday Afternoon Tea Dance. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962.

Blues Jam — Hosted by Randall Dubis. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303443-3322.

Wildflower Hikes. 10 a.m. Register for location, boulderwalkingtours.com or 720-243-1376.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Stage — Hosted by Romano Paoletti. 6:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

events Guided Chautauqua Tour and Square Nail Awards — Preservation and historic tour of Chautauqua and Square Nail Awards to those who have made special contributions to historic preservation in Boulder County.

4 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-443-9952.

Marketing With Google AdWords. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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Mother’s Day Concert. 7 p.m. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 71st & Lookout, Boulder, 303-5304422.

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“So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Running Away to Home — by Jennifer

tion, brave experimentation and kinesthetic language by international choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl.

2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Everyone does it.

Wilson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Digital Video Camera and Lighting Basics. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Essential Oils and Hydrosols of the Colorado Plateau — The properties, energies and applications of local plants. 7-9 pm. North Ameircan Institute of Medical Herbalism, Boulder, clinicalherbalism.com.

To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes — An evening with author Francis Slakey. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-443-9952 Wildflowers of Boulder County Slide Program. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-678-6214.

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

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

Friday, May 11 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Mountain Music Duo. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Saturday, May 12 Madeline Stands Tall — A ballet inspired by the children’s book. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, bncdance. com/Madeline or 303-4665685.

Sunday, May 13 Go Club for Kids & Teens.

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

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

Discovery Days: Get Growing! 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, May 16 Discovery Days: Get Growing! 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Flip the Switch. 2:45 p.m. Horizons K-8 School, 4545 Sioux Dr., Boulder, 10:35 a.m.

Erie High School, 3180 County Road 5, Erie, conservationcenter.org.

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

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

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Boulder Colorado Mountain Club Open House — For new and prospective members to explore the Colorado Mountain Club’s classes, trips and activities.

7 p.m. CMC Clubroom, 633 South Broadway, Unit N, Boulder, 303-554-7688.

Blue and Green: 60s Crooning Jazz Project, the likes of Chet Baker and Kenny Burnell. 7:30 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985.

Jet Life Tour: Curren$y — With The Jets, Smoke DZA, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, Trademark and Young Roddy. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Marlo & Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Noelle Marie — With Jeremy Dion. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ignite Boulder — A night of presentations on a variety of topics, with a twist. Each presentation has 20 slides, which advance automatically every 15 seconds.

6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

The Love of Beer — A documentary celebrating women in the craft beer industry. 6:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Company’s Barrel Aged Cellar, 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, theloveofbeermovie.com.

Social Justice & Inclusivity Workshop Series — Safety & Inclusivity for Transgender Communities. Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, Boulder Outreach Office, 835 North St., Boulder, 303-449-8623.

The Shine Improv Show. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

Toning For Personal and Planetary Healing. 7-8:30 p.m. The Starhouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, www.healingsounds.com, 303-443-8181.

Tribute to Bob Dylan. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Walk and Bike Month Kickoff Ice Cream Social.

4:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-564-9681.

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his was going to be a rabid, frothing defense of the superhero genre, complete with impassioned pleas that appealed to cinematic intellectuals who are apt to dismiss such films. But Tom Hiddleston, who ironically plays the evil Loki in The Avengers, got there first, and he crushed it. Damn you, Loki! Does your villainy know no end?

In his unreasonably eloquent opinion piece in The Guardian on April 19, Hiddleston namedrops motion-picture pioneers the Lumière brothers, noting the delight they would derive from the spectacle of technological progress demonstrated in such “unimportant films.”

And then he offers this gem: “In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.” Essentially the dude like took all the smart stuff to say.

So that leaves us with this: The Avengers effing rocks. A lot.

It is a slam-bang, holy-crap, ballsto-the-walls realization of every dream any kid weaned on a steady diet of Stan

Whedon’s ‘Avengers’ talk nerdy — and that’s a good thing

by Ryan Syrek

Lee could ever dream. Already revered for his work on Firefly and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, writer/director Joss Whedon can now appeal directly to the nerd papacy for official sainthood, as it is nothing short of a miracle that a movie of this garish visual opulence is somehow this satisfying.

Marvel Comics played Johnny Appleseed across its last five major movies, sewing tiny narrative seeds often buried beneath the fertile soil of the end credits. These nuggets promised that, at some point, Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris

Barnabas, stay buried

‘Dark Shadows’ remake better left in the ground

by Dave Taylor

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creepy goth tale of love and revenge, a 17th-century vampire out of place in 1970s Maine, a troubled family fallen on bad times. Based on a popular soap opera of the 1960s, the film version of Dark Shadows suffers from some horrible scenes and a story that gets increasingly incoherent as it proceeds to its predictable, though completely incomprehensible, ending. Dark Shadows is the eighth collaboration between director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp, and that collaboration has had very mixed results across the years. On the positive side, Edward Scissorhands, but on the negative side, a number of overly stylized messes, notably including the creepy and disturbing remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

To be charitable, the first hour of Dark Shadows was terrific. The film opens in 1750 Liverpool, England, as members of the Collins family, including young Barnabas, depart for the Colonies, landing in Maine and establishing their fortunes as entrepreBoulder Weekly

Hemsworth), the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and Hawkeye ( Jeremy Renner) would unite under the guidance of Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) to rid the world of super evilness. Beneath the shade of a whisper-thin plot — Loki threatens to use a powerful weapon and alien army to take over the world — our heroes do unite. And the result is an antidote to the monotonous modern trend to render all hero films “dark and gritty.” Quite simply, it’s hella fun.

Whedon has long been known for his ability to balance ensembles; that said, it’s one thing to co-mingle Sarah

neurial pioneers. Twenty years later, young Barnabas (Depp) is master of his community, a city named Collinsport, and adored by servant and townie alike.

Unfortunately, when he falls for servant girl Angelique (Eva Green) but switches his amorous attentions to Josette (Bella Heathcote), Angelique gets mad and, as she’s a witch, she curses Barnabas, turning him into a vampire. She then buries him alive, where he lays undisturbed for almost two centuries, waking up in the hippie-inspired world of 1972.

Barnabas awakens and returns to Collinwood, the ancestral home, a delightfully creepy run-down 200room mansion complete with turrets, peculiar sculptures and secret passages. He meets the last of the Collins line: family matriarch Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer), her dubious brother Roger ( Jonny Lee Miller), his son David (Gully McGrath) and her daughter Carolyn (Chloë Grace Moretz). Also in residence is Dr. Julia (Helena Bonham Carter), hired to treat David because he’s ostensibly crazy but actually seems the most sane of everyone in this Addams Family band of oddballs.

So far, the film’s great fun, and the introduction of lost waif Victoria (Bella Heathcote) and reappearance

Michelle Gellar and Alyson Hannigan and another to deal with the likes of Downey, Jackson and Renner in what is only Whedon’s sophomore big-screen effort. And yet, no character gets the shaft (except Hawkeye in a literal sense).

What’s more, at every point where things appear to be too self-indulgent and operatic, a self-deprecating one-liner gets dropped. And unlike every other Marvel movie, even the revered Iron Man, which struggled to find a truly great third act, The Avengers goes gleefully mental the last 45 minutes. This could go on and on, but here’s the takeaway: This is the best superhero movie made thus far. Period. If you don’t like it, you don’t like comic books, which is fine. Even if that’s kind of sad for you.

The Avengers is defined as much by what it isn’t as what it is. It’s not grim.

It’s not an obligatory origin story. It’s not stripped of comic book trappings to make it more palatable for mainstream audiences. It’s just “a unique canvas” covered in awesome fun. Your move, Batman.

—This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

of the evil Angie (Eva Green) adds to the storyline, but when Barnabas and Angie make love in her office, the film falls apart and never recovers. Worse, the scene where they make love is a disaster of epic weird masochistic proportions, as they slam into walls, scratch each other, and turn what could have been creepy-interesting into stupid appalling.

But that’s not the worst scene: there’s a scene later on, when Victoria explains her childhood, that would fit better in the torture-porn film Sucker Punch.

By the time the film finishes up, there are so many inconsistencies in the story (can Barnabas be in direct sunlight or not?), so many random violent scenes, so much that doesn’t really make sense, even within the goth soap opera world of Dark Shadows, that most theatergoers seemed glad to see the credits appear.

There’s a really entertaining film buried inside Dark Shadows, with a delightful performance by Depp, but as is, I cannot recommend the film to anyone but the most hardcore Burton fan.

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reel to reel ALL ABOUT ACTRESSES

with live music by Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and other special guests. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Denver Film Society

A woman director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown, the intellectuals, the comics and the forgotten ...

Filming absolutely everything, with or without their permission, the director will be pulled into the game and let herself be devoured by these women who are as fragile as they are manipulative. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

HUNGER GAMES

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THE AVENGERS 3D See full review page 35. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

BALLET: LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE — LIVE “Fille is a treasure,” says Monica Mason, director of The Royal Ballet. Anyone who has seen this sunniest of ballets will certainly agree. With its origins in a work first seen in Bordeaux in 1789, La Fille Mal Gardée had been staged by several choreographers in the 19th century. Frederick Ashton brought the work into the 20th century and created an instant classic which has never left The Royal Ballet’s repertory. Funny and touching, La Fille Mal Gardée is the perfect ballet for firsttimers of all ages, but it is also one to which ballet lovers will return again and again. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater.

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) who decide to “outsource” their retirement to the less expensive and seemingly exotic country of India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the place a mere shell of its former self. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BOY This is a hilarious and heartfelt coming-ofage tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson. Boy is a dreamer who lives with his brother, a tribe of deserted cousins, and his Nan. Boy’s other hero, his father, is the subject of fantasies; a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson. In reality he is an inept, wannabe gangster who has been in jail for robbery. When his father returns home, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential, and learn to get along without the hero he imagined. At Boedecker Theater and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Boedecker Theater BULLY More than 13 million American kids will 36 May 10, 2012

In the post-apocalyptic ruins of North America, a teenage girl competes in a nationally televised battle to the death against 23 of her peers. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI

The Five-Year Engagement

Emily Blunt, will you please start making movies we can tolerate sitting through?

be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new film Bully, directed by Sundance and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Writer Joss Whedon and writer/director Drew Goddard play footsie with stale horror movie tropes and themes in one of the most entertaining genre movies in recent memory. As a quintet of teenagers face clichéd terror, the result is surprisingly refreshing. So see it before a spoilerpeddler ruins it for you. Rated R. At Century. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. CHIMPANZEE This nature documentary follows a baby chimpanzee and his family as they survive in the African forest. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT DAMSELS IN DISTRESS Writer/director Whit Stillman’s (Barcelona, Metropolitan) comically deadpan and charming film Damsels in Distress follows a trio of beautiful girls who set out to revolutionize life at a grungy East Coast college. Rated PG-13. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres DARK SHADOWS See full review page 35. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

DARLING COMPANION Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her dis-

tracted, self-involved husband Joseph (Kevin Kline) and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE DEEP BLUE SEA Writer/director Terence Davies, master chronicler of post-War England, returns with a timeless romantic drama starring Rachel Weisz as a woman whose overpowering love threatens her well-being and alienates the men in her life. At Boedecker Theater and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres ELLES Juliette Binoche plays Anne, a wife, mother and journalist researching an article about student prostitution for the French edition of ELLE magazine. She finds herself drawn to two young women who have entered the sex trade for different reasons. As they open up, Anne confronts realities of her own bourgeois life. At Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Most romantic comedies give up once the girl, or guy, has been gotten. This movie shows why. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE GLASSHOUSE The American artist Danielle de Picciotto has finished a new experimental movie about her last night in NYC in 1987 just before she moved to Berlin, Germany.

The bizarre events which took place on that dark evening are not only meant as a personal memoir in her film, but as a metaphor for the growing atmosphere of menace in our society. The movie The Glasshouse, will be shown in the form of an audio/visual performance on May 12

Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef, is the proprietor of a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro relentlessly pursues his continuing quest of poetic mastery of life through his art. Rated PG. At Boedecker, Denver FilmCenter/Colfax and Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater JUAN OF THE DEAD Juan is 40 years old, and has spent most of his life in Cuba doing absolutely nothing. It’s his way of life, and he’s prepared to defend it at any cost, along with his pal Lázaro, who is as lazy as Juan but twice as dumb. Suddenly some strange things start to happen, and people are turning violent attacking one another. At first, Juan is convinced it’s just another stage of the Revolution. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Denver Film Society LA BAMBA Rock ’n’ roll biopic on the life of Ritchie Valens, a young Mexican-American whose talents as a rock and roll singer catapulted him from the obscurity of a farm laborer obsessed with music to stardom at the age of 17 with a string of pop hits still popular today. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE LADY The Lady, directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, The Professional), is the extraordinary story of human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband, Michael Aris (David Thewlis). It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE LUCKY ONE A Marine returns home from his third Boulder Weekly

tour of duty in Iraq with his good-luck charm: a found photo of a woman he’s never met but intends to find and thank.

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

MARLEY

Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Director Kevin Macdonald’s (One Day In September, The Last King of Scotland) documentary Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

MIRROR MIRROR

An exiled princess enlists the help of a group of diminutive bandits to take back her usurped throne from an evil queen in this retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

OPERA: CARMEN

Lies. Lust. Murder. (And some great music, too.) Carmen. Bizet’s masterpiece (with its titillating story and memorable melodies) is one of the most popular operas of all time. This celebrated, modern-day production from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, stars opera greats Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott and Beatrice Uria-Monzon. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

THE PERFECT FAMILY

Kathleen Turner stars in this timely family comedy as a meddling matriarch determined to rein her husband and two grown children into her image of what the “perfect family” should be. When her son and daughter choose to march to the beat of their own drum, the fur begins to fly. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3-D

The Pirate Captain tries to beat out a bitter rival for Pirate of the Year Award in Hugh Grant’s animated film debut. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE RAVEN

request. A businesswoman named Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt, The Adjustment Bureau) wants his help in fulfilling a wealthy sheikh’s (Amr Waked) desire to bring sport fishing to Yemen. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THE SALT OF LIFE In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writerdirector-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy — this time with a dash of the bittersweet.

Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life — with both hilarious and poignant results.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

In the mystery drama Sound of My Voice, a couple of young documentary filmmakers infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (co-writer Brit Marling, Another Earth).

Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie’s underworld. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Inspired by Ronald Wright’s bestselling non-fiction book A Short History of Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks’ intelligent and compelling documentary explores the concept of progress in our modern world, guiding us through a sweeping but detailed survey of the major “progress traps” facing our civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption and the environment. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THINK LIKE A MAN Four men have their love lives shaken up when the women they are pursuing read a relationship-advice book and take its lessons to heart. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THIS AMERICAN LIFE - LIVE 2012 A live showing of the much adored radio program. At Century on May 10.

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Based on a 1940s Los Angeles murder trial, Zoot Suit follows the various members of a Mexican-American gang, led by Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez), as they’re tried and sentenced to San Quentin for a murder they may not have committed.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor as Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual Boulder Weekly

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THURSDAY, MAY 10 Ellesmere Circumnavigation by Jon Turk. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866.

Running Form and Stride Mechanics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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aybe you know AscenDance from the television show America’s Got Talent. Or maybe from their 2009 appearance at Boulder’s Aerial Dance Festival. Or maybe you’re getting to know them as a new neighbor on Arapahoe Avenue. The AscenDance

California, Von Rittberg says.

But having relocated the dance project, she’s now looking for new performers to join the team and will host a dance-climb fusion class on Saturday, May 12, followed by AscenDance auditions the next day.

“The idea behind it is to really give people an insight into what we do,” Von Rittberg says. “There’s intrigue, but people don’t really quite understand what it means to dance on a climbing wall.”

Dancers, gymnasts, climbers, aerialists, break dancers and others interested can come to the class on Saturday to see what AscenDance is all about, then carry those lessons over to the auditions Sunday.

The class is also a chance to see if there’s ongoing interest in courses for the community.

“Because of the discipline we’ve created it’s really been interesting the variety of backgrounds we get,” Von

Dance-climb fusion project moves to Boulder

by Elizabeth Miller Project moves an art form into a sports arena by blending dance and climbing — the dancers cling to holds on a climbing wall while executing their choreography. And its founder and artistic director, Isabel Von Rittberg, has officially moved to Boulder, bringing the AscenDance company to a new studio here.

It’s a long-awaited move that answered her desire to move back into the mountains after years of living in

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Rittberg says. She gets frequent inquiries asking what she’s expecting in a performer, she says, and the answers vary. Her background is in ballet, but now one of her strongest performers has a background as a rock climber and musician.

“Really what these backgrounds provide is just a really unique style to each performer, and that’s what I enjoy so much,” she says.

But before they look for their names in lights, new performers will first be tasked with creating a new AscenDance project that can be taken on tour — a performance that can fill an evening, rather than some of the shorter appearances AscenDance already has booked along the Front Range.

“There’s a high demand for AscenDance projects, but we need to build a show and that takes a lot of tedious and hard work,” Von Rittberg says. “These new dancers are going to have to put in a lot of work to create something that can be shown so we can go on tour.”

More information is available at www.ascendanceproject.com.

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SATURDAY, MAY 12 Cycling with Kids. 9 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

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Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

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TUESDAY, MAY 15 African Wildlife. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

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adventure RICHARDS RETURNING HOME ational Geographic has announced that Boulder-based mountaineer Cory Richards, whose expedition to Mount Everest was interrupted by a medical emergency that ended in him being airlifted to Kathmandu April 28, will not be returning to Everest Base Camp. Diagnostic tests on what led to Richards suffering from a shortness of breath and chest pain were inconclusive.

The expedition’s team leader, Conrad Anker, made the call on Richards’ status after discussing the situation with six doctors, including Mayo Clinic staff at Base Camp.

Richards’ departure left Anker without a partner on his attempted repeat of the West Ridge route. Simone Moro, who climbed Gasherbrum II with Richards last winter (the expedition documented in the Banff Mountain Film Festival winner Cold), is one candidate currently under consideration. But it’s Moro who’s doing the considering — both on the logistics and on his own attraction.

“I need to have time to fall in love with this route. It’s like a woman, you know,” he said, according to a National Geographic blog.

Weather conditions will also need to cooperate to reduce the risk of rock fall in the Hornbein Couloir.

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SCHOOLED IN THE OUTDOORS he Girls’ Wilderness Program believes in using time in the woods to help girls develop confidence and build interpersonal and personal skills.

And they aren’t alone in the opinion that time outdoors helps girls grow up strong.

A study published in the Journal of Experiential Education in 2006 reported that girls who participated in wilderness programs “challenged conventional notions of femininity in diverse ways” by demonstrating perseverance and determination, a willingness to challenge assumptions of girls’ abilities and the notions of ideal beauty, and an increased ability to speak out and develop relationships with other girls.

The 15-year-old Girls’ Wilderness Program encourages girls to go backpacking, whether they consider themselves outdoorsy or not. This summer’s courses include “Adventure Camp” wilderness sampler classes for middle school girls, “Wilderness Expeditions” eight-day backpacking trips for high-school-age girls, a rock climbing camp and a Yellowstone trip.

The program is offering scholarships for girls from low- and middle-income families. Scholarship spaces are open until May 14, and a few may remain available after that date. For more information, visit womenswilderness.org or call 303-938-9191.

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adventure events TO THE LAST BREATH: A MEMOIR OF GOING TO EXTREMES

Featuring author Dr. Francis Slakey, Tuesday, May 15, 7 p.m., Chautauqua Community House, $10 ($7 Member) July 2009, Dr. Francis Slakey the first person to summit Ithenbecame highest mountain on every con-

tinent and surf every ocean. Slakey has now written a memoir titled To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes which has been published

by Simon & Schuster. Slakey spent 12 years completing his adventure, which he refers to as “the first global surf-nturf.” From Mount Everest to the beaches of Bali, Slakey overcame obstacles, met interesting people and learned lessons that changed his life. Slakey will be telling his story, sharing his insights on adventure and selling and signing his books this week.

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t is not an overstatement to say that burro racing is one of the Imost underappreciated sports on

earth. If you don’t believe it or if you want to learn more about this amazing endurance sport, then be sure to check out the documentary Haulin’ Ass later this month at Chautauqua Auditorium. According to the Chautauqua website, the film was shot “during the 2009 burro racing season. The hour-long film captures images of this remarkable adventure sport as it traces the personal world of three devoted competitors in their quests to take the Triple Crown while overcoming their own mental and physical obstacles. This film will make you feel like you’ve physically and emotionally been to the top of Mosquito Pass with each of these characters.”

Competitor magazine Editor Brian Metzler will introduce the film. He is an appropriate choice, as Metzler himself has actually competed in pack-burro racing. The racers featured in the film will also be present to prove their sanity as well as answer questions from the audience. They, too, will have books to sell and sign.

Buy tickets online at chautauqua.com.

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IT’S CRAFTY, SO GET AROUND

Boulder Beer Company marks American Craft Beer Week May 14-20 with special events, beer and food celebrating all the little fish in the big pond of brewing.

At its local pub and other locations, Boulder Beer will kick off the week with a simultap toast of its Flashback India Brown Ale on May 14.

Taps will pour at 4:20 p.m. with a nitrogen-infused version of the award-winning black IPA. There will be a week’s worth of special menu items, including Italian sausage made with Singletrack Copper Ale and Tenderloin Tips marinated in cognacbarrel-aged Obovoid Stout.

For dessert, Boulder Beer teamed up with Shamane’s Bake Shoppe to make a blueberry cheesecake infused with Kinda Blue wheat beer.

The culmination of the week will be when Boulder Beer replaces its 12 taps with barrel-aged and pilot brews at noon on Saturday, May 19, while simultaneously see TIDBITES Page 44

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Restaurants rise from the ashes

by Hadley Vandiver

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oulder was voted “foodiest town in America” by Bon Appétit in 2010, so it is hardly a surprise that the local food business is competitive. Only the toughest survive.

Recently, a couple of new additions have decided to brave the fierce competition, and they’re doing it from the gravesites of some of Boulder’s recently deceased restaurants. In April, the StarLite Diner took up residence in the building that once housed Ruby’s Diner at Twenty Ninth Street. PastaVino, which held its grand opening on May 5, fills the space (and big shoes) left behind by Juanita’s on Pearl Street. And later this month, H Burger and T/ACO urban

taqueria are slated to open their doors in the former homes of The Pinyon and BOP Pizzeria, respectively.

Fabio Flagiello, owner and executive chef of PastaVino, says he is not worried that another restaurant couldn’t survive in the same space.

“I’m very confident in what we’re doing, in our concept and the food we’re serving, and I’m not concerned,” Flagiello says. “It’s up to me, it’s up to us to make it work, and if we do a good job, there will not be any problems.”

PastaVino’s concept focuses on serving simple, traditional Italian dishes made with organic, fresh ingredients. Flagiello researches every product that comes in, he says, to ensure the best quality.

Sara Wells, marketing and graphic design director at the StarLite Diner, says that the restaurant’s success comes from its niche market.

“There aren’t many diners in Boulder,” Wells says. “And when you walk in here, you really feel like you’ve been transported to the ’50s, which is a blast. The jukebox is always running over the speakers, playing the classic oldies, and we make a lot of milkshakes.”

Though previous restaurants have perished in the locations of StarLite and PastaVino, the newcomers say their locations are actually an advantage.

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ne of my pet peeves is the eatery that appropriates inexpensive ethnic food and gussies it up beyond recognition with little resulting benefit.

Adding insult to injury is the establishment that jacks up the prices on affordable chow to something approximating the cost of a taco truck rather than the taco itself.

Speaking of which, I’ve been known to enjoy a street-style taco on occasion, and typically savor these tidbits in what I’d affectionately term “joints” versus more high-falutin’ eateries. Hence my initial apprehension at venturing out to Longmont’s Prospect neighborhood to visit the Comida Cantina, which possesses an unquestionably upscale, if not hip, atmosphere.

This cantina is the spinoff of the similarly named Mexican food truck, and was easy enough to spot on a Sunday night, as the namesake vehicle was parked outside. My apprehension receded a bit when I found the ambience to be pleasingly modern and vibrant, with a feel that was welcoming versus pretentious.

The menu here differs from most American Mexican restaurants as it tends towards ala carte items like individually priced tacos and gorditas in lieu of combo plates. However, such options as sides of rice and beans are readily available, and one can create a reasonable facsimile of traditional restaurant platters.

Upscale Mexican street food

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The opening move for pal Ann and I was a $6 queso fundido, the classic cheese dip. My point of reference for this dish was the version my dad made in the ’70s, and this was unquestionably a more upscale take. A $3 side of expertly seasoned chorizo set this preparation off, which could have benefited from a thicker consistency.

Nevertheless, it captured the proper cheesy flavor and more than adequately

stood up to its accompaniment of freshly fried tortilla.

Our tacos, both griddled and oldschool street style, along with a gordita and tostada, arrived on a single communal platter. One of our $3 tacos, “The Sirloin Situation,” provoked a brief moment of panic as I initially feared it was the product of a Jersey Shore influence. Happily, it wasn’t, and it consisted of meat simmered in Negra Modelo

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omida’s queso fundido induced a cheesy flashback to my youth, and I decided to email my dad regarding his recipe. He replied thusly, “I am about to reveal to you a long-held family heirloom secret ... revered by epicureans worldwide.” Dad advised me to take a trip to the supermarket and “carefully make your way to the canned soup aisle ... and select an undented can of condensed cheddar soup. Take this home, and carefully heat in a sauce pan.

You may add jalapeño to taste. Love, Dad.” I prepared his queso recipe, and it was just as I remembered it.

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beer. While unquestionably tasty, the beef, with its soft, slow-cooked texture, wasn’t as appealing as the toothsome arrachera, Comida’s take on grilled carne asada.

Of the $2.50 griddled tacos, the bacon and jalapeño combo was our unequivocal favorite, skillfully balancing smoky and spicy. Heartbreakingly tender pork, cooked in a bath of Stella Artois and garnished with a pineapple habanero salsa, was another winner, successfully evoking pastor-style selections.

“It’s like a Mexican Shepherd’s pie,” proclaimed Ann upon sampling the $4 chorizo gordita, a hefty and heady blend of sausage and roast garlic mash tucked in a dense masa pocket. Among the meatless choices, a $3 mushroom tostada held considerable vegetarian appeal, with a satisfyingly hearty texture deepened by the aforementioned garlic mash.

One of Comida’s strong points is that it remains faithful to the original cuisine without resorting to such pretentious gimcrackery as “truffled tacos,” as Ann put it. While nontraditional ingredients such as smoked gouda appeared in items like the griddled taco, they were definitely enhancements rather than distractions. Comida also succeeds as a place to introduce the novice, who may be intimidated by a more downmarket location like a taco truck, to the charms of Mexican street food.

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kicking off its summer music series with Grateful Dead cover band All Dead. For $10, impatient imbibers can show up an hour early for a VIP tasting of the specialty beers, which will be replaced by standards like Singletrack as the day progresses.

CAP YOUR HIPPIE IMPULSES

For a unique take on taking your foodstuffs with you, Boulder Granola has a jarring new idea. In addition to traditional bags, the local purveyor will be offering its 100 percent organic granola in hippie-decorated mason jars.

Customers can make a deposit to take home their own jar, which can be refilled with bulk granola at the Boulder Farmers’ Market throughout the summer. At the end of the season, get your deposit back or save your decorative glass and happy thoughts for supporting local businesses and the environment.

GET PICKLED TINK OVER THESE NEW FOOD CREATIONS

The Esoteric Food Company, a Boulder-based team of “mom-entrepreneurs,” will be sampling its first distributed product this season at the Boulder Farmers’ Market.

Zuké Pickled Things includes two varieties of sauerkraut, a kim chi and pickled beets — all of which are raw, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and priobiotic-rich. The natural food startup has contracts to distribute at Alfalfa’s and Whole Foods Markets in the Rocky Mountain region.

Stop by Saturday, May 12, at the Farmers’ Market to taste the Zuké products, which go well with eggs, picnics and grilled meals.

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tion of Pearl Street,” Flagiello says. “I think it’s one of the best locations in Boulder, because people come in while they’re just walking around. Our execution is what sets us apart, and people recognize that we don’t compromise on quality by making simple food, so they want to keep coming in.”

StarLite is a little farther from the beaten path, but it benefits from being next to Century Boulder Theatre.

“I think things were different for Ruby’s, because they were here before the movie theatre really got started,” Wells says. “But now the movie theatre brings in great business for us. People come before or after their movie, and we stay open late on the weekends to catch that late-night crowd.”

Both PastaVino and StarLite have been open for a couple of weeks now, and business flow has been steady.

“We’re starting to see some people who are coming back, becoming ‘regulars,’” Wells says. “It’s very exciting.”

And what makes these restaurateurs confident that their restaurants will survive where others didn’t? Experience.

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Flagiello has owned Italian restaurants up and down the coast of California.

Chris Dailey, owner of StarLite, currently owns Street Legal Pizza and Street Legal Burgers in Broomfield. The company that plans to open H Burger and the T/ACO urban taqueria already has two successful restaurants in Denver.

“We definitely considered the fact that one restaurant had already closed there,” Wells said. “But we have people with experience and a great concept. I’m very confident that we’ll stay open for a long time.”

While opening so close to summer might help these new restaurants stay afloat, it will not all be smooth sailing.

“It’s a long process, with a restaurant,” Flagiello says. “You can’t just stay on top for a couple of weeks, you have to stay on top forever. Success doesn’t happen overnight, it takes time.”

Whether or not these fledgling restaurants will stick it out remains to be seen, but if their attitudes are any indication, they show great promise, even in the cutthroat Boulder dining scene.

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The Louisville Rex 817 Main St., Louisville 303-666-6224

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ne of the main attractions of The Louisville Rex is its expansive yet comfortable rooftop deck. This spot is reminiscent of a warm-weather resort spot and makes for either a fine staycation venue or just a place to knock back a few with friends after work.

The bar food classics are another strong suit, and these include Buffalo chicken wings and a decidedly guilty pleasure, fried pickles.

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Royal Clay Oven

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Tortugas

218 Coffman St., Longmont 303-772-6954

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

Chocolate bourbon bread pudding is an exquisite dessert, among the best endings available locally.

SALT Bistro

1047 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-SALT

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owntown Boulder’s SALT Bistro, one of the newest entrants in the affordable midday meal sweepstakes, now serves a “farm-to-table” lunch for $9. Favored choices include the Reuben, made with pork belly instead of corned beef. The meatless eater will likely favor the quinoa and chickpea fritters. Preferred sides include the tomato soup garnished with a tiny grilled cheese wedge and the beet or apple salads, available for $2 more.

Jai Ho Indian Kitchen, Bar and Lounge 1915 28th St., Boulder 303-444-5151

ai Ho, the Boulder spinoff of a popular Aurora restaurant, offers an intriguing blend of Northern and

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ocated in East Boulder on Arapahoe, the Royal Clay Oven dishes out a reasonably priced lunch buffet with an emphasis on freshness and service. The lime-marinated tandoori chicken has a lively citrus undertone, and vindi masala, spiced okra, has a pleasant crisp-tender consistency. The staff constantly replenishes such items as the hearty potato-filled samosa, ensuring that diners enjoy fare fresh from the oven.

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Moe’s Original Bar B Que ocated a stone’s throw from Williams Village, Moe’s Original Bar B Que is the Boulder outpost of a ‘cue operation that originated in Alabama. It spotlights sandwiches and platters featuring such classic choices as brisket, pulled pork, hot links and fried catfish.

One of the top choices is a platter of fallingoff-the-bone ribs sided with bright fried green tomatoes and creamy banana pudding to finish.

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Southern Indian food, ranging from street-style eats to the ubiquitous lunchtime buffet. The buffet offers a fine opportunity to appreciate the skilled spicing of such dishes as the creamy chicken Tikka Masala and its fiery chile-based relation, Vindaloo. The dosa, a crisp, cylindrical crepe, is also a winner, featuring hefty veggie stuffing and subtle sourdough tang.

Zucca Italian Ristorante

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

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Fan’s Chinese Cuisine

7960 Niwot Road, #C9, Niwot 303-652-6249

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

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ongmont’s Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Co. cer tainly lives up to its name. This welcoming breakfast and lunch spot features caffeine ranging from classic diner coffee to espresso drinks and hear ty, New Mexicoinfluenced meals. Morning highlights include anything with the green chile; piping hot skillets such as the Santa Fe, featuring bacon, chorizo, potato, bell pepper and onion; and the compelling enchiladas and eggs.

Laudisio

1710 29th St., Suite 1076, Boulder 303-442-1300

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

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

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In one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants — and gotten away with it. At least that’s one explanation for how confident you often are about speaking up when everyone else seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes.

This quality should come in handy during the coming week.

It may be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an obvious secret or collective delusion. Can you figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say what supposedly can’t or shouldn’t be said?

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He says that during a particularly lucid state, when he was simply relaxed and paying attention, he saw the great blunder his teachers had made. I encourage you to follow that lead, Libra. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to thoroughly question the lessons you’ve absorbed from your important teachers — even the ones who taught you the best and helped you the most.

You will earn a healthy jolt as you decide what to keep and what to discard from the gifts that beloved authorities have given you.

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Taurus actor Daniel Day Lewis will star as American president Abraham Lincoln in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood insiders report that Lewis basically became Lincoln months before the film was shot and throughout the entire process. Physically, he was a dead ringer for the man he was pretending to be. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, he spoke in the cadences and accent of his character rather than in his own natural voice.

It might be fun for you to try a similar experiment in the coming weeks, Taurus. Fantasize in detail about the person you would ultimately like to become, and then imitate that future version of you.

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My friend Irene has a complicated system for handling her cats’ food needs. The calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the dining room table.

Caligula insists on fish stew early and tuna later. He wants it on a black plate placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and beef liver for the evening repast. If it’s not on the basement stairs, she won’t touch it. I’m bringing your attention to this, Cancerian, because I think you could draw inspiration from it. It’s in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated exactitude that rivals Irene’s.

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The moon’s pale glow shimmers on your face as you run your fingers through your hair. In your imagination, 90 violins play with sublime fury, rising toward a climax, while the bittersweet yearning in your heart sends warm chills down your spine. You part your lips and open your eyes wide, searching for the words that could change everything.

And then suddenly you remember you have to contact the plumber tomorrow, and find the right little white lie to appease you-know-who, and run out to the store to get that gadget you saw advertised. Cut! Cut! Let’s do this scene again. Take five. It’s possible, my dear, that your tendency to overdramatize is causing you to lose focus. Let’s trim the 90 violins down to 10 and see if maybe that helps.

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“We all need a little more courage now and then,” said poet Marvin Bell. “That’s what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you.” I advise you to adopt his approach in the coming days, Virgo. Proceed on the assumption that what you need most right now is to be braver and bolder.

And consider the possibility that a good way to accomplish this goal is by hanging around people who are so intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub off on you.

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What are the most beautiful and evocative songs you know?

What are the songs that activate your dormant wisdom and unleash waves of insight about your purpose here on earth and awaken surges of gratitude for the labyrinthine path you have traveled to become the person you are today? Whatever those tunes are, I urge you to gather them all into one playlist, and listen to them with full attention while at rest in a comfortable place where you feel perfectly safe. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a concentrated dose of the deepest, richest, most healing emotions you can tap into.

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Tourists rarely go to the South American nation of Guyana.

That’s mostly because much of it is virgin rain forest and there are few amenities for travelers. In part it’s also due to the reputation-scarring event that occurred there in 1978, when cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones led a mass suicide of his devotees. Last year, after travel writer Jeff Greenwald announced his trip to Guyana, his friends responded with a predictable joke: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!” — a reference to the beverage Jones spiked with cyanide before telling his followers to drink up. But Greenwald was glad he went. The lush, tangled magnificence of Guyana was tough to navigate but a blessing to the senses and a first-class adventure. Be like him, Sagittarius. Consider engaging with a situation that offers challenging gifts. Overcome your biases about a potentially rewarding experience.

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