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Same song, different verse

Here we go again!

President Obama came to CU to promote continued federal stimulus of loans for college students loans. There are over $1 trillion in student loans and default rates are rising. It is just like the housing bubble, a good intention run amuck: government stimulus (regulated interest rate, prohibit bankruptcy exit, standard instrument to encourage securitization) of mass borrowing for the purchase of an asset, excess production of a deficient product that will not bring sufficient value to pay off the loan.

Again, a government promotion and industry beneficiaries conspire to herd lemmings over a cliff. We need to conduct a transformation of how we conduct higher education as a decentralized, lifetime process.

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Fan of Fan’s

(Re: “Chinese-American standbys,” cuisine review, March 15.) Your observations and comments regarding Fan’s are on the money.

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Terror in Boulder

How does it feel to be afraid, take to the streets because you might get waylaid. By those whose minds are chained by hate looking for a black male to lay out in state? How does it feel to fear the bus stop? Alert for the SUV screaming “Fuck you black asshole” as it drives past in haste, wishing to disturb my peaceful state.

So should I buy a .38 so I can feel safe? A .38 is light and can be pulled

out fast to take out the hater before he steps on the gas. Maybe I need a 45.

It will kill any sentient being alive.

But then I’d have to live with what I’d done. Stained my conscience by the bark of a gun. Bear a grieving mother’s pain ’cause her son was so distorted that he had to be slain. I saw the grief on my own sister’s face when her son Al was buried in a state of grace.

Would gentle Jesus so meek and mild understand my need to kill someone else’s child? See his mother cry like my sister did? Cry over the coffin of her youngest kid. I’m a 60-year OG who wants to stay alive; see his five children, four granddaughters and white son-in-law thrive. Should I leave the Bodhisattva path? Sacrifice

my soul and face a loving God’s wrath? Would gentle Jesus so meek and so mild accept a brother who killed someone else’s child? My ancestors cried to see anyone die. Even the haters who brought the lie: There is really a difference between you and I. So I sit in my room, hang my head and cry. Am I shedding tears for Viola, Malcolm and Martin, who were all cut down as they tried to help the black, the poor, the white and the brown? Why do I stay in a town so blind that it doesn’t care about a black man’s bind? Turns a silent ear to a black woman’s speech who was called see LETTERS Page 9

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Highroad The slickest stunt at SeaWorld

by Jim Hightower

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et me tell you a corporate morality tale that I call: “The Shame of Shamu.”

Actually, Shamu is not the cause of the shame. After all, that’s just the generic name given to the killer whales kept in captivity as the star attraction at three theme parks operated by SeaWorld Inc. The shame belongs to the corporation, which not only profits from its exploitation of the whales, but also

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manages to dodge paying even a penny in national or state income taxes. Based in Orlando, this giant outfit pocketed record profits of $380 million last year, but paid zero taxes on it.

This is because SeaWorld is owned by Blackstone Group, a multibillion-dollar, private-equity giant that specializes in acrobatic accounting and spectacular twistings of our tax laws. For example, Blackstone structured its 2009 takeover of SeaWorld so that it could immediately begin grabbing tax deductions under the law’s convoluted depreciation rules. Also, the Wall Street group paid 60 percent of the $2.5 billion purchase price with money borrowed at high interest rates from wealthy speculators, making the huge interest payments on that debt totally deductible from Blackstone’s tax bill.

Thus — shazam For more information on Jim Hightower’s Shamu! — big profits at work — and to subSeaWorld, no taxes for scribe to his awardthe equity fund. True, winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower admitted a corporate Lowdown — visit www. spokesman, but the jimhightower.com. group “operates entirely within the letter and spirit” of the law.

Well that’s an easy trick for them, since they pour millions into lobbyists and politicians to rig the law. Blackstone is a whale in America’s political pool. It has already spent $7.3 million lobbying the current Congress and $1.3 million so far on campaign donations for this year’s elections, including $173,000 to back Mitt Romney — who promises if elected to make tax laws even more favorable to money manipulators like Blackstone.

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uncensored Funding cut hurts county breast-cancer programs

by Pamela White

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oulder County has been hit hard by a decrease in funding from Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Poor women, those without health insurance and undocumented immigrant women are among those who will likely feel the greatest impact of this decrease. And it is up to us to make up the difference.

Among the organizations that had their funding from the Denver affiliate of Komen cut entirely this year is Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center (BVWHC), which provides a range of breast-health services to medically underserved women in the area.

BVWHC has been a Komen grantee since 1999. Last year, the organization received $35,000 from Komen and used that funding to pay for services such as breast cancer screening.

“We’ve come to depend on that to fund services for women who fall outside the guidelines of other programs, such as the Women’s Wellness Connection,” says Susan Levy, executive director of BVWHC. The Women’s Wellness Connect (WWC) is a government program for poor, uninsured women and has very strict guidelines. Only poor women who are 50 and older and who are documented residents of the United States are allowed to participate.

“There are a whole lot of women we serve who don’t fit those guidelines,” Levy says. “It’s probably those who need it the most who have other barriers to service, who don’t get funding.”

This loss in funding effectively leaves holes in what was a well-organized safety net involving many organizations and individuals that has been in place in Boulder County for 13 years.

“We felt so good about having this wrap-around safety net for women who were uninsured and low income, and now we don’t have that,” Levy says. “We just don’t.”

But despite persistent rumors to the contrary, the center’s loss of funding from Komen has nothing to do with the fact that BVWHC also provides abortion care for women. Nor is the funding decrease the result of a backlash against Komen for the national office’s ill-conceived attempt to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, one of the biggest providers of breastcancer screening in the country.

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executive director of the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the trouble lies with the economy.

Most of the Denver affiliate’s fundraising happens in the fall and had already taken place before the Planned Parenthood fracas arose, Ostrander says.

Further, the Denver affiliate was one of the few affiliates nationwide to publicly oppose the national office on the issue of funding Planned Parenthood.

Instead, what the Denver affiliate is seeing is a decrease in donations and a simultaneous increase in a demand for their help, she says.

“We are dependent on the community for support,” she says. “With the continuing economic challenge, we’re dealing with a larger population that needs more help.”

This grant cycle the Denver affiliate is funding 19 projects, totaling almost $2.5 million, a drop from $2.9 million in the last grant cycle.

Clínica Family Health Centers, Salud Family Health Centers and Boulder Community Hospital were the only Boulder County organizations to be named 2012-2013 grantees, and the amount of money they received has decreased substantially. Boulder Community Hospital’s grant from Komen for breast cancer treatment was cut by 50 percent.

How this will impact the county’s ability to meet the needs of women who need screening and treatment for breast cancer remains to be seen.

“What concerns me the most is that we had a well-designed, well-run program that worked,” Levy says. “It is only $35,000 [that we lost], but it was funding that came in the door and went out to pay for services.”

In the long term, Levy hopes the center will get its Komen funding back. But in the short term, donations are the only way to make up for that loss.

In honor of Mother’s Day and the women you love, please get out your checkbook or your credit card and give generously to BVWHC. The lives of women in our community are at stake.

To donate, go online to BoulderValleyWomensHealth.org.

To help support the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen For the Cure and help fund Colorado programs, go to www.komendenver.org.

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danish plan Think globally, and fry locally

by Paul Danish

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eh.

According to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, windmills can cause global warming.

Well, what the study actually found was that the surface temperature around wind farms in west-central Texas had increased by about 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit over a decade compared with the area around them, and that the rate of increase closely tracked the installation of additional turbines at the farms.

The study, which was conducted by Research Associate Professor Liming Zhou and colleagues at the University at

Albany, State University of New York, analyzed temperature readings taken from NASA satellites from 2003 to 2011.

The study area contains four of the world’s largest wind farms. During the period of the study the number of wind turbines in Texas grew from 111 to 2,358.

“Typically at night, there’s a stable atmosphere with a warm layer overlying a cool layer,” Zhou said. “Enhanced vertical mixing [caused by the wind turbines] brings warm air down and cold air up, leading to a warming near the see DANISH PLAN Page 9

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BEAR PHOTO TAKES ANOTHER TWIST Just when the whole bear falling from a tree photo controversy seemed to be settling down, a new claim has emerged. You may recall that CU Independent photographer Andy Duann snapped a cute photo of a bear falling out of a tree after it was tranquilized by authorities. The photo was so cute that it went viral. As a result of the photo becoming something that people actually seemed to like, the Daily Camera decided to buy it for itself for $250 from Duann. As could have been predicted, the CU Independent that Duann actually shoots for thought that it owned the photo, only to later discover that it had forgotten to get a contract from the photographer concerning the work he provided to the Independent, CU’s online newspaper. So Duann now claims to be the owner of the photo. But hold on. Let’s not forget the victim.

As of Wednesday morning, the bear had retained Frank “The strong arm” Azar, and has filed suit. The bear claims that her civil rights were violated when she was drugged and then photographed in a compromising “super bear” pose while incapacitated. The suit also claims that the bear was further humiliated after millions of viewers saw the photo, which was indiscriminately distributed across the Internet. The bear’s attorney has described the case as “extremely complicated” because so many people at various corporate-owned publications need the photo in order to drive the page views that, more often than not these days, determine their annual bonuses. Azar says that he expects still more claims of ownership to be filed because many newspapers are only now hearing that the bear photo went viral, and while they don’t know what that means, their consultants have told them that they should try really hard to own viral things as often as possible so they can all become paperless papers someday like the Independent.

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surface at night.”

Professor Zhou cites the usual caveats — possible errors in the data set, small study area, etc., and says more research is needed.

But that has never stopped the few surviving ink-stained wretches of the world from jumping to conclusions at moments such as this.

I’d like to jump to a couple now.

The important finding here from a public policy perspective is that windmills have environmental impacts big enough to be noticed from outer space — especially when they’re bunched up — and that those impacts will grow as wind farms expand and proliferate.

One of the principal arguments for wind energy is that, apart from some aerial road kill, it comes with minimal environmental impacts.

Zhou’s study strongly suggests that isn’t the case, and that a technology that’s subsidized because it will slow global warming in the future is, in fact, producing local climate warming in the present.

And the term “local climate” can cover a lot of ground in the context of a wind farm. The Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, which has 735 megawatts of installed capacity (421 turbines) is spread over 47,000 acres, an area about 1 1/2 times the size of the Boulder Valley.

What’s more, unlike say forest fires or oil spills, which are transitory events that can be remediated, the wind farm warming effect will occur for as long as the wind farm operates.

According to the American Wind Energy Association’s annual report, as of the end of 2011 there were 46,916 megawatts of installed wind generating capacity in the U.S. But because wind is an intermittent energy source, wind accounted for only about 3 percent of U.S. electrical output.

If wind is to produce 20 percent of the country’s electricity, a goal of wind advocates, that generating capacity will have to be increased by at least a factor of seven. Meeting that goal will require more and bigger wind farms. If they are

concentrated in areas with the best wind resources, like the Texas Panhandle, a local warming problem could easily turn into a regional problem. And become more pronounced, of course.

Conclusion: Maybe environmentalists shouldn’t get so damned holy about wind power as an alternative to all fossil and nuclear fuels. When it comes to anthropomorphic global warming, miners and oilmen aren’t the only ones with dirty hands.

The real question is whether the Zhou Effect (if we can call it that this soon) is a bug or a feature.

Unlike the effect of greenhouse gas increases, which take decades to manifest themselves (and centuries to go away), the Zhou effect turns on and off like a light-switch.

Overall, the world may be warming, but there are places in it where warming up the local environment might be considered a solution instead of a problem.

The Texas panhandle, which has been going through a horrendous drought for the last few years, probably isn’t one of them. Minnesota, which is a major wind energy state and where water isn’t much of a problem (10,000 lakes, you know), is another matter.

If the Zhou Effect could result in a longer growing season around wind farms, then that could trump the higher summer temperatures it causes — especially since the effect could be shut off by idling wind turbines during heat waves, if necessary.

According to Professor Steven Sherwood of the University of New South Wales, citrus growers sometimes use helicopters to combat early morning frosts by mixing the warm and cold air layers above their orchards; wind turbines are doing the same thing. Come to think of it, they grow a lot of grapefruit in Texas.

Conclusion: Think globally, and fry locally — but that may be a good thing.

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MAN CLAIMS HE WAS WRONGLY EJECTED FROM COMMUNITY PLOT BY JEFFERSON DODGE

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ehind the East 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.

It is Hawthorn Gardens, a community where the characters are sometimes as colorful as the flowering plants. It’s a place where gardeners can rent a patch of earth to grow crops, and Brandon McKee claims he has gotten kicked out for no good reason.

In the morning sun of Monday, April 30, he is without a shirt, urgently digging up some of the 31 varieties of berries he has cultivated on his double plot for 10 years, in an effort to be out by his 9 a.m. deadline. He is moving more than $15,000 worth of plants into pots headed for gardens owned by friends at the North Boulder Garden Center, formerly known as I Love to Grow.

Stephen and Jonathan Hayes, co-owners of that establishment, are helping McKee place bushes into plastic barrels and loading them into a truck for a fourth trip to their nursery.

McKee claims that Growing Gardens, a nonprofit that operates several city community gardens, has evicted him because he was a troublemaker, a whistleblower. Growing Gardens officials recently sent tenants a new set of rules that, among other things, gives the nonprofit the right to eject any gardener for any reason. They claim that McKee lost his plot because he responded to the new rules and staffing changes like he has reacted to those who let their dogs run loose at Hawthorn: in a threatening, aggressive way.

However, McKee and other gardeners maintain that the regulations are not just poorly communicated but selectively enforced. **** McKee is looking for the favored metal pitchfork with which to extract one of the plants that he says got him evicted from his small parcel of land. It is a josta berry, a cross between a gooseberry and a black currant, he explains. McKee soon finds the pitchfork and begins stabbing at the far-reaching root system, saying that he knows of only one person in Boulder who has more varieties of berries than he does.

“It’s not going to fruit now, so I’ve lost this whole harvest,” he says of the bush as he pulls it out of the ground and hoists it into a large black bucket with a sigh. “I realized there was no way I could fight getting kicked out, and I realized it was time to go, so I focused my energies on finding another place.”

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Another gardener who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution said there was only one other tenant who was kicked out for something other than abandoning their plot, and that was a woman the gardener referred to as an “obnoxious hippie” who used to accuse neighbors of stealing her iris and would go looking for them accompanied by two tall “thugs.”

McKee says another gardener was issued a “weedy warning,” a notification that weeds in one’s garden have gotten out of control or are about to go to seed and spread to other plots. That gardener attempted to clean up the weeds, but when she went to renew her contract, it had been discontinued without notice and her plot assigned to another gardener, McKee says.

That gardner, he adds, is a new Growing Gardens staffer who he suspects has been strategically placed “in the middle of the troublemakers and old-timers” to keep tabs on things.

Raspberries are a cane fruit, which are prohibited

by Growing Gardens because they are considered invasive and can take over. But McKee says he got permission from Growing Gardens Executive Director Ramona Clark nine years ago to transplant the berry plants when they were encroaching on the pathways between plots, which are supposed to be kept clear. Since then, he says, he has gained the permission of each subsequent garden coordinator to keep the berries, and he points to other raspberry bushes around Hawthorn that have not attracted the same crackdown that he has received. McKee adds that other, equally invasive plants like hops and horseradish are allowed, for some reason.

McKee says he is considering taking legal action to fight his horticultural ouster and has contacted the district attorney’s office. But as part of their contract, gardeners agree to release all claims against Growing Gardens and not sue the organization.

While he may be guilty of growing a cane fruit, McKee says, he is being singled out because he has been vocal about pointing out violations of other garden rules, like one that prohibits dogs being off leash.

“The rules are unevenly enforced,” he says. “I complain about not enforcing the dog rule, so I’m the bad guy. … Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs. I just hate dog owners.”

One problem seems to be communication, according to other gardeners interviewed.

“The main issue is a lack of transparent interaction between Growing Gardens and the gardeners, in regards to how the rules and regulations are designed over the years and how they are applied,” says one gardener who asked not to be identified.

**** Clark, a co-founder of Growing Gardens in 1998, acknowledges that those notified of a weed problem have two weeks to remedy the situation before the plot is turned over to someone who will take better care of it. She denies, however, that she gave McKee permission to grow the berries. Still, she says, he was kicked out not because of cane fruit but due to his reactions to the recent rules and staffing changes as well as complaints from others about his behavior.

According to Clark, the change in regulations allowing Growing Gardens to revoke a plot for any reason was prompted not by a desire to remove McKee, but by an incident last year involving another gardener that could have escalated into danger or violence. She acknowledges that the rule change “riled some gardeners up,” but she adds that “we’ve never revoked anyone’s plot for no reason.”

She says an email exchange with McKee regarding his concerns about the changes ensued, culminating in McKee sending a particularly disturbing message.

“He went on a little bit of a rampage,” she says. “It really freaked our staff out, being in the garden at the same time as him.”

Clark read some excerpts from the email, which contained phrases such as “your days are numbered,” “I will attack you with a vengeance” and “in some countries people lose limbs, and no one knows what I am capable of.”

McKee admits that things had come to a head and his frustrations spilled over in a “mean and nasty” email, but he insists he meant no violence, and was simply telling Clark he would make sure she lost her See WARS Page 12

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But Clark says other gardeners have sent her emails saying that they, too, have felt intimidated by McKee. One person told her that McKee ran at her, screaming profanities about her loose dog, threatening to call the cops and follow her home.

McKee finally told Clark that it would be best if he left Hawthorn. She took that to mean he was giving up his plot, so she prepared the paperwork and his refund check. But McKee says all he meant was that he was looking for an alternate garden, not that he was ready to leave yet. He received his check, Brandon McKee holds up a then returned it and said he clump of spicy orange thyme that he was forced to wasn’t leaving. But Clark, transplant. after consulting with the city’s parks and recreation superintendent, told McKee it was never want to kick anyone out of the time to go. McKee says the cane fruit garden. Why would we give ourselves violation was listed among the reasons that headache?” for his eviction, but Clark counters that As for the claim of selective he was primarily evicted for “harassenforcement, Clark says her staff is not ment and threatening behavior.” constantly patrolling the gardens, so “We take it very seriously when we there is not a lot of scrutiny unless a ask a gardener to leave,” she says. “We violation is reported or something

becomes a big issue.

“We’re not huge enforcers,” she says. “We’ve never kicked anybody out of the garden for cane fruit. … We try to make the greater whole function, and it sometimes makes individuals unhappy. When it starts to affect other gardeners, we take action.”

Clark adds that she is always open to discussing policies and rules with the gardeners, and she plans to have a community meeting soon to discuss the recent changes and areas that may be unclear, like a recent move to purge the waiting list for plots at the end of every calendar year.

She agrees that Hawthorn and others like it are their own little subcultures.

“The community gardens are a microcosm of the world, a compacted and dense version of the world,” Clark says.

“It’s a very intense community experience. But part of that community is that it has all kinds of people, and they all have to get along, and sometimes they don’t. … Gardeners are very passionate people.”

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T

he Boulder city attorney alleged this week that the possible grave site marker near Valmont Cemetery that was removed by city workers on April 23 may well have been a fraud.

The Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office has determined that no crime was committed in the city’s removal of the rocks, which were positioned in the shape of an encircled cross and featured a weathered cross made of sticks.

In an April 25 statement, city officials acknowledged that its workers had removed the marker after its contract archeologist and Native American monitor hired for the Valmont contamination cleanup determined that it was not a historic artifact. The city claimed in the statement that the marker had only been there about a month, even though regular visitors say the marker had been there much longer. During Boulder Weekly staff ’s periodic visits to the site since late January, the marker was observed several times.

During a public comment period before city council on May 1, members of

the Valmont cemetery association expressed their dismay that the city would have removed the marker without communicating with them at all. Jody Harper, who has numerous family members buried at the cemetery, asked why the stones are being kept in a city staff member’s office, and she asked council members to put themselves in her shoes.

“I’d like you to think a minute about how you’d feel, the cemetery that your family and loved ones are buried in, and imagine the huge earthmovers and the dust and the desecration of their final resting place,” she said, her voice breaking.

But City Attorney Tom Carr reacted strongly to the suggestion that the city was at fault.

“This was very disturbing,” he said.

“Someone came onto city property and created a circle of rocks, clearly from freshly dug up rocks. The dirt was still apparent, the rocks were still wet. … It is very troubling if someone tried to commit a fraud by creating a grave site on city property.

The city is spending thousands and thousands of dollars to carefully mitigate the

damages up at Valmont Butte, and these accusations, and really serious accusations, that a city employee would desecrate a grave are really unfounded and unfortunate.”

He passed around an iPad so that Deputy Mayor Lisa Morzel, who was running the meeting, and other council members could see photos of the rock marker.

“I would ask that at some point we make these available to the members of the public to see as well,” suggested council member Tim Plass. “Tom, is that a problem?”

“Uh, I don’t know,” replied Carr. “I assume so, but I don’t know.”

“It just seems awkward to me that we’re seeing photographs that the public isn’t seeing,” Plass responded.

Council member Ken Wilson countered, “But the public is making accusations in public, without warning.”

Morzel, noting that the situation has been marked by friction and distrust, suggested that city officials could have at least see GRAVE Page 13

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communicated with the cemetery association. “If there had been a question, maybe they could have been brought into it and looked,” she said.

“I don’t see that,” Carr countered. “We have a structure for dealing with archeological remains, and it does not include people other than the archeologist we’ve hired and the Native American monitor.”

Morzel noted that during the examination and removal of the marker, cemetery representatives were unable to access the property because the locks on the cable blocking the driveway were repositioned.

“It’s interesting that we’re getting emails from the Valmont cemetery association telling us about their inability to access their cemetery, and during this week, when they can’t get in, all this stuff happens,” Morzel said.

“You’re not suggesting the city had anything to do with it,” Carr replied.

“No, I’m not making any judgment on it at all, but I have to listen to all sides,” Morzel said.

“I understand, but this was a very expensive act that involved a trespass on city property and could have been some form of fraud,” Carr responded. “It certainly wasn’t a grave. … And yet you heard folks come up here tonight and accuse city employees of desecrating a grave. I think that’s outrageous.”

Plass suggested that the parties get together and resolve the areas of conflict.

“The fraudulent creation of markers?” councilmember Ken Wilson asked incredulously.

“Well, you don’t know that,” Morzel replied.

“Well, we just had a report from our attorney that suggested that the experts came in and in fact determined that, Lisa,” countered councilmember George Karakehian. “So I think we do know it, unless we’re going to question our own attorneys and the monitor, so I’m sorry, but … this bothers me. This really bothers me.

I’m up to here with this. For us to put any weight in those accusations is wrong.

“We bend over backwards to make things right, and then Lisa, you say something about access,” he continued vehemently. “We’ve received email after email that we are not responsible for access.

Then we spend thousands and thousands of dollars, according to Tom, on evaluating and bringing in experts to see if these are relics, and they’re stones that somebody dug up. I’m sorry, but in my own opinion, this is a total waste of time.

“I am absolutely not interested in sitting down to try to bring the groups together,” Karakehian concluded. “About what? There’s nothing to bring people together on, other than accusations that are made which are wrong. I’m sorry, but I don’t buy it, and I don’t want to go there and make this any bigger of a deal than it already is.”

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Councilmember Suzy Ageton agreed, noting that the sheriff ’s office had closed its investigation.

“Unless there is some other evidence that someone wishes to bring to that investigative body, I don’t see where we go with this,” she said.

“We just need to be sensitive to those concerns,” Morzel responded. “I’m concerned that this whole thing is kind of exploding, and it doesn’t need to explode.”

Asked for her response to Carr’s characterization of the marker as a hoax, Harper said Wednesday, “I get the feeling

that they think we put it there on purpose, and I don’t appreciate being called a fraud and a liar.”

While there is a Colorado law against the “desecration of venerated objects,” that statute is violated only if a person “knowingly” desecrates a burial site. Cmdr. Rick Brough of the sheriff ’s office told Boulder Weekly that because city workers called in their consultants and believed it wasn’t a grave site, the city’s action would not constitute a “knowing” desecration.

“So, for that reason, I feel that they didn’t knowingly commit a crime,” Brough

said, adding that the city is not going to be remediating or excavating at the spot where the rock formation was found. He said no attempted exhumation is planned in part because cemetery association members don’t want the site disturbed further.

As a result, it may never be known what, if anything, was buried under the marker.

When asked whether the stones would be returned, city spokesperson Jody Jacobson said “we haven’t decided what we’ll do with them yet.”

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olorado’s organic farms may soon get a big boost from some faraway customers: members of the European Union.

Beginning June 1, the United States and the EU will be able to trade organic products while avoiding the red tape that was in place in the past. It is the result of an equivalency agreement reached at BioFach 2012, the world’s largest trade show for organic foods, held annually in Germany.

This year’s BioFach was attended by several Colorado organic companies, including Roth Farms of Longmont and representatives of Aurora Organic Dairy and Goddess Garden, both of Boulder.

In the past, both the EU and the U.S. had to meet each other’s organic standards in order to trade, which led to increased expenditures and hassle.

However, EU and U.S. organic products will now be accepted as comparable, which clears the way for international trade, says Tim Larsen, the senior international marketing specialist at the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

Stephanie Dybsky, the director of trade and investment for Europe and other regions at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, says that equivalent standards are the basic purpose of the agreement.

“The big takeaway that was explained to me after the agreement was that formerly the EU did not recognize the U.S. organic certification.

The USDA national organic standards weren’t formally recognized by the EU,”

she says. “Now that’s changed and they’ll consider if it’s officially considered organic in the U.S. then the EU will also recognize it.”

Dybsky says Colorado farms have already started benefiting from the agreement.

“Of our six companies represented there, $115,000 were made in sales on the floor show,” Dybsky says, “which is really great.” Dybsky says those same six companies, including Roth Farms, anticipate making another $750,000 in sales over the coming year.

Colorado may be one of the prime benefactors of the trade agreement because of its large supply of organic millet and wheat, Larsen says. Colorado produces about 60 percent of the U.S. supply of millet, and there is a low amount of organic millet in the EU supply chain. There may also be a larger market in the EU for organic wheat with lower protein content, Larsen says, and Dybsky adds organic lettuce producers to the beneficiaries in Colorado.

“Because of our unique landscape, with the mountainous region in the west and the Eastern Plains and the amount of sunshine Colorado gets,” Dybsky says, “our farmers are poised to really benefit from the agreement and have a strong niche.”

The EU will also benefit from the agreement because of its large supply of organic finished products, such as olive oil, pasta and chocolate. These items will likely not be a threat to Colorado businesses or organic produce, Larsen says.

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Despite past arguments between the EU and the U.S. over organic standards, the equivalency agreement will allow both sides to export organic products under similar labels. Though it is yet unclear whether the organic items will be labeled with their country of origin, they will likely be labeled as organic certified under the USDA in the U.S. or with the organic logo in the EU, Larsen says.

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That’s how the Fray’s singer/keyboardist Isaac Slade looks back at a recording session for The Muppets: The Green Album, the soundtrack to last fall’s movie The Muppets. The session came at a point when the band was struggling as it was turning its attention toward making its third CD. “[Guitarist/songwriting collaborator] Joe King and I weren’t really getting along,” Slade says. “We were writing these forced collaboration songs that were just kind of melodies with weird lyrics. I think a turning point for us was doing this Muppets soundtrack. ... We were supposed to record this fun, upbeat, laissez-faire kids song called ‘Mahna Mahna.’

“We were all just kind of staring at each other, wishing we could just leave. And a lot of alcohol got involved, and Joe and I ended up in the booth together, singing on the same microphone, and something clicked. We both remembered that this is the greatest job ever. I’m not making coffee [at Starbucks]

anymore. He’s not appraising auto damage anymore. And we get to make music for a living. Whatever differences we have, they’re workable, and we’ve just got to be honest with it. So that was a turning point.”

Slade really did work at a Starbucks, while King worked as an insurance adjuster before the Fray, which formed in 2002 in Denver, made its mark. With drummer Ben Wysocki and guitarist Dave Welsh completing the lineup, the Fray was signed

by Epic Records and saw its career take off when the title song of its 2005 debut CD, “How to Save a Life,” became a smash hit single.

A self-titled second CD followed in 2009 and reached the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. While it didn’t match the double-platinum sales of the first CD, it was still a success.

But after touring behind the second record, life in the band grew patchy. According to Slade, each of the four members encountered difficulties, some with long-term relationships, or in Slade’s case, feeling that his quest for acceptance and popusee FRAY Page 20

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larity had caused him to compromise the you’re going to make it back. You don’t authenticity in his songwriting. know if you’re going to put something “I think for each one of us in the out there and everybody sort of cringes band, we got to the point where in our and quietly backs away from it. But I lives, we were just aimless and lost and think with the universal connection devastated or discouraged to the point of [with the group’s fans] in our sight, we just, disillusioned a little bit,” Slade says. reached for something we’ve never had “We’d had a bunch of success and two the courage to reach for. I feel like we records that did great, and we’re so much got it.” bigger than any goals that we ever set for The band also found the courage to ourselves. It’s like ‘What’s next?’” evolve musically on Scars and Stories. Yes, Slade, in particular, found that being the sensitive arena balladry that has regthe frontman of a istered with Fray popular band fans is still present didn’t feel the with songs such as ON THE BILL: The Fray play at Red way he expected.

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“Psychologically, I feel this difference “I think when I swung for the ball as between where I was before and where I hard as I could, quote-unquote, there am now as a frontman, as a lead singer. I was a little bit inside me that was afraid had a real [reluctance] to be vulnerable, and holding back,” Slade says. “If you except every single song was [supposed peel back a little bit, you can always sort to be] as vulnerable as it gets. It was a of nurse your wounds by saying, ‘Well, I hard tightrope for me to walk. I felt didn’t try my hardest.’ naked and embarrassed. And somewhere “I think because of that, I really did between 2009 and now I started reconhold back a little bit,” he says. “And ciling the fact that this is who I am. This something happened. I think I just kind is my reputation. of got to the point where I wanted to “This is me. I don’t have a persona. I make a statement.” don’t have sunglasses. I don’t have a big, In working on Scars and Stories with huge production show to sort of hide producer Brendan O’Brien (best known behind. I get onstage and I sing songs for producing Bruce Springsteen and about my life. We play music that’s autoPearl Jam), Slade, with O’Brien’s encour- biographical. agement, ventured into the place deep “I think there’s a new acceptance of within himself where he could be totally that that I feel has started to change the honest and clear with his lyrics, no matshow experience for me and for this ter the risk. band,” Slade says. “I don’t feel embar“You just kind of have to go there, to rassed about it anymore. I don’t feel hesthat mythical place, and it’s a scary thing itant to really put it out there and give it because nobody else came with me,” everything I’ve got. And it’s exciting.”

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alancing high school, extracurriculars and college prep is hard enough — until you throw in band practice, late shows and planning a tour. But somehow, the members of Hatrick Penry can do it all.

“I remember, we played a really late show last December during finals week,” says drummer Chris Roob. “And I had two finals the day after the show. I was really worried, but it turned out to be an excellent balance. I was able to play the show and remember all my studying — I got an A on both tests.”

Last week ska band Hatrick Penry surprised everyone and won the Best of Boulder pick for local band. Members Roob, Paul Schirmer (guitar), Drew Volz (saxophone and keyboard) and Ian Rosenstein (bass and trumpet) formed in the beginning of 2011, shortly after Roob and Schirmer left bands they were in. Roob says they were looking for a creative outlet, and he invited Schirmer over to jam that January.

Over the next few months Rosenstein and Volz joined, and the band started playing shows in June.

Since last year, the band has been trying to establish a following in Denver. They’ve played The Gothic Theatre and Moe’s Original BBQ and opened for bands like Synthetic Element and Igor & Red Elvises.

But playing music is the band’s night job. During the day most of Hatrick Penry’s band members attend Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette.

Both Schirmer, 18, and Volz, 18, are seniors, and Roob, 17, is a junior. The only member not in high school is 20-year-old Rosenstein, who graduated with the other members’ older siblings. He works as

a full-time karate sensei at United Studios of Self Defense.

Despite being musicians, the band still enjoys school and realizes its importance. Some members find music is even helpful to their studies.

“We all like school,” Volz says. “But because there is all that stress from doing well in school, I see the band as a creative outlet where I can throw my ideas out there and sort of relax after a long week.”

The band lists notable non-ska groups like Pink Floyd and Streetlight Manifesto as influences.

Schirmer says the band takes the sounds of several genres and blends them into the up-tempo music it plays.

“We all take influences from rock and punk, and also classical influences and jazz influences, and we just shift it into a ska key,” he says. “Out of that comes a unique sound that’s still ska that people love.”

The boys have a loose style that involves a lot of improvisation. Schirmer, one of the band’s main lyricists, wrote the song “Model Rocket” on the spot.

The lyrics include, “Some people probably think that I’m a lunatic / Hiding downstairs with super glue and lightning sticks.” Schirmer says he’s a fan of funny songs that don’t make sense, and that his philosophy is to not take songwriting too seriously.

“Especially with ska music, you forget about all

Celebrating women in classical music

Pro Music Colorado devotes program to telling ‘The Women’s Story’

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ynthia Katsarelis, director of Pro Music Colorado Chamber Orchestra, is a storyteller.

“I kind of believe that music is always telling some kind of story, even if it’s an abstract story,” she says.

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No doubt that is why Pro Music Colorado has billed 2011-2012 as “A Storied Season.” Programs have been “A Soldier’s Story,” featuring a work by Stravinsky with the same title; “The Christmas Oratorio,” featuring music by J.S. Bach telling the Christmas story; and this weekend’s season finale,

the rules for what songs have to be about and just write about anything,” says Rosenstein. “I wrote a song about a time-traveling raptor and a super hero who rides along with him.”

Hatrick Penry also splices their music with various sound bites from movies like Blazing Saddles and Stand by Me as well as cameos by Rosenstein’s 8-year-old brother.

Major changes are headed to the band as some of them go off to college. Schirmer is heading to the University of Colorado and plans to stay with the band. But Volz will be leaving the band as he heads to St. Olaf College in Minnesota in the fall.

As of now, they’ll spend the summer prepping for their tour, which will include cities like Grand Junction, Phoenix, Dallas, Tulsa and a stop in Kansas.

Roob has high hopes for the band. He says that he hopes Hatrick Penry will help ska become a more well-known genre.

“The thing with ska, being as young as we are, we’re playing this music that died so long ago, so I would love to be known for bringing it back,” Roob said. “I’d love to be on the cover of Rolling Stone as the coming back of ska.”

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“The Women’s Story,” at 7:30 p.m., May 5, at Boulder’s First United Methodist Church.

The first inspiration for the program came when Katsarelis heard a piece by Cindy McTee, a successful and busy composer who recently retired from the faculty of the University of North Texas.

“I learned of the Adagio by Cindy McTee some time ago and I wanted to do it,” Katsarelis says. “I knew that I would be able to build other things around it.”

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to be performed by flutist Christina Jennings from the CU music faculty.

It is interesting that there is only one piece on the program written by a woman. There seem to be two reasons for that: Katsarelis wants women’s music to stand up to the greatest composers, and she wants to showcase more than one way that women have been empowered.

“Ensembles that have been devoted to women composers and concerts that have been devoted to women composers, I think they’ve been very important to shed Cynthia Katsarelis light on the fact that there are women producing this fabulous music,” she says. “I successful sovereign, even by the cutmean, we already did a chamber music throat standards of her time. recital of women composers. But I If it sounds like there is a political think that the next step is a mainmessage in the program, Katsarelis streaming, and yes, I think McTee’s cheerfully stresses that the concert is music stands up very well in the conand should be “mostly about the music.” text.”

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“We love on equal footing Tickets are $5. 1421 Spruce St., 303-442doing those midwith Haydn and 3770. For tickets and more information, visit fumcboulder.org. dle Haydn symMozart, the prophonies, and No. gram symbolizes 48 is a really speother forms of cial symphony. Haydn was the teacher empowerment for women in the music of Beethoven, and you can see it in this world: a woman soloist who can stand particular symphony,” she explains. on equal footing with any other soloist, In the last movement, for example, and a woman leading the entire concert. she says “the development section is Such roles for women have not tradireally, really short, but the fact of the tionally been the norm in the classical matter is that he’s extensively developmusic world. ing the music throughout.

“The first doctorate in composition “We also have short themes that at Juilliard was granted to a woman in Haydn moves to very interesting har1979,” Katsarelis explains. “Women as monic realms. It’s phenomenal that soloists have only become common in while he’s doing interesting things harmy lifetime. In the 1960s, when the monically, he’s got these wonderful orchestras put up screens to audition motivic elements that he’s taking us on their members, is when women started a very cool journey. It’s just great. And making it in the classical world. the third movement has so much con“If you want to talk about conductrast it’s almost operatic.” tors, since Marin Alsop left the As for the third piece on the proColorado Symphony, I am the only gram, Katsarelis says, “The Mozart woman music director of a professional Flute Concerto is a beautiful, beautiful orchestra in Colorado. There are no piece. There are just these wonderful women leading the orchestras at the character changes, and these wonderful universities in Colorado.” interactions between the soloist and the Representing another form of orchestra. It’s charming and beautiful. empowerment, Maria Theresia was the “I think we’re telling an interesting only empress in the 800-year history of story all the way around, but this is a the Hapsburg dynasty. She had to fight concert where everyone should leave for her right to rule, but like the with a big smile on their face!”

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ou don’t have to look much beyond the title of comedian Kate Clinton’s latest show to get her take on the state of the world. In “All Fracked Up,” Clinton cranks through woes of the modern world like fracking (of course), global weirding and Republicans.

“I really feel like my job is to take those things that are infuriating and try to kind of transform them into something we can laugh about,” she says. “Although sometimes I say things in my show and think, ‘We should all be crying at this point.’”

Clinton started in comedy around the same time that former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were elected to their respective offices. Her sense of humor has endured eight presidential inaugurations. It’s a fitting measurement of her career, given that what those in the nation’s highest office do is part of the fodder for her show. She draws from current events, national, international and sports related, and layers in plenty of opinion.

“I don’t think there’s anything off limits, but I feel like I need to have competence and confidence in it,” she says. “As long as you have that, I think people will take anything in, even if they disagree with it. I’ve had people come out of my show going ‘Well, I’m a Republican, but I laughed.’”

But the experience of laughing and then talking about a show is just the start.

“I think it’s good practice to laugh together, because I think it’s a good practice for activism — because you’re laughing out loud, you’re making a physical statement,” she says. “It’s good practice for a march.”

Don’t laugh it off. Laugh and then get cranked up and go out and do something, she says.

“It’s a lot to ask. I expect a lot of comedy,” she says.

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But then again, she’s seen it deliver.

At a show in St. Louis, she was being picketed by Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church people, she says, and they were carrying signs declaring God’s hate for (insert another f-word). Most of the audience members were lesbians.

“I thought, ‘Well, could you update your signs, at least,’” Clinton says. She talked about it during the show, and the audience walked outside and starting engaging the people with the picket signs.

“I really encourage people to, at least at some point, to have a talk with somebody that they don’t agree with or to challenge somebody,” she says.

The layers of misunderstanding in the country among the people, and between the people and those charged with representing them in Congress, deserve a certain other f-word as a label. And while the aging Millennials promise a future that includes a more progressive electorate, Clinton says she’s not sure she can wait out another three inaugurations.

“I think we have lots more work to do and it’s very exciting, and we’ve had a lot of victories,” she says. “I’m

encouraged and just want them to finish the work they’ve started.”

The task at hand is to take the momentum of the LGBT movement forward — past the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, past the inclusion of transgender people in laws that prevent housing discrimination, and continue on the “slow and grinding way toward federal marriage equality,” she says, among other tasks.

“If you talk to LGBT teens, what they’re concerned about is violence and homelessness and incredible rates of HIV, so we have a lot of work to do,” she says.

Rather than sit at home and worry, Clinton gets on the road — and when she doesn’t have shows during which to fire off one-liners about the headlines and get other people fired up to do something, she gets what her partner of 25 years calls “seasonal off-road disorder.”

Her May 4 stop in Boulder is one of just a few stops around the country, and she says the informed and conversational Boulder crowds are a pleasure to play to.

And Colorado is a key stop for social issues and the people who spend a lot of time talking about them — like, you know, presidential candidates.

“Colorado has been really ground zero for some really early incredible amendment battles and I think what happened was it really activated a lot of people,” she says. “I think my coming there is to keep the conversation going.”

So, maybe it’s a little f-ed up right now, but it’s not hopeless.

More on Clinton, her video-log and links to her columns for The Progressive can be found at Kateclinton. com.

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1. Best of Boulder 2012 Boulder is one of the most famous little cities in the country.

It’s one of the foodiest towns, one of the best destinations for an outdoors enthusiast and one of the best places to live for a local-food advocate. What makes it the best are the businesses and the people unique to this town.

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

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

3. Todd Snider’s bi-polar spring

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

4. Panorama (4/26) 5. Dreams of free meals 6. Musical anarchy

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

Los Boyos — Masters of the Irish Guitar. 7 p.m.

Johnnys Cigar Bar, 1801 13th Street, Boulder, 303449-0884.

Martin Gilmore’s Flying Picking Circle. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Whitewater Ramble –– With Henhouse Prowlers and Pete Kartsounes String Band. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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8. Scents for a woman

Comedy Night. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Comedy Works presents Nancy Norton — With Chris Charpentier and MC Bill Leblanc. 7:30 p.m.

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

10. Chasing the White Horse

POLL Last Week What was the biggest story of Obama’s Boulder visit?

• His speech. 30% • Eating pizza at The Sink. 60% • Getting yogurt spilled on him. 10% • Spending the night in Cherry Creek instead of Boulder. 0% This Week Do you think the grave marker at Valmont Cemetery was fake?

• Yes. City attorneys don’t lie.

• No. That’s someone’s grandma.

• Not sure. Why don’t they just dig and find out?

• Hey, I buried my gerbil there!

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No. KeepIt’s them one of the on their toes! foodiest • Maybe to towns, one of the best destinations for an outdoors enthusiast and one of the best places to live for a local-food advocate. What makes it the best are the businesses and the people unique to this town. Boulder offers some amazing restaurants, stunning shopping options and remarkable entertainment choices.

This year’s Best of Boulder is our biggest ever simply because it’s so tough to narrow down what to talk about. Check out the entire listing at BoulderWeekly.com!

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student films from across the country at the Backdoor Theater in Nederland May 5-6.

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

7. A reanimated Gorillaz is back this time with real life musicians 9. Iced over

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Exploring Spiritism — Mental Handicaps. 7 p.m.

Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Fundamentals of Web Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Movie: Marley — The definitive life story of the musician, the revolutionary, the legend. 7:30 p.m.

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

Ragamala Dance in “Sacred Earth.” 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Kirtan. 8 p.m. Body Work Bistro Living Arts Center, 3825 Iris Ave, Suite 300, Boulder, 303-413-1992.

The Longest Day of the Year. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Peter Lorenzen and Devin O’Toole — Happy Hour

Friday, May 4 music Augustana — With Greylag. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Blame Sally — Album release with Steve Law. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6262.

Cowgirl Up, The Duke Street Kings, Bad Brad and the Fat Cats, The Current and Tomara Conrad. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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101 Dalmatians — Presented by Boulder Performing Arts Company. 5 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-484-5559.

Beautiful Art for Beautiful Minds — Fundraiser to benefit Mental Health Partners and Chinook Clubhouse. 5:30 p.m. Macy’s, Twenty Ninth Street Mall, Boulder, 303-413-6287.

Blind Café. 6:30 p.m. The Integral Center, 2805 North Broadway Ave., Boulder, 800-838-3006.

Kate Clinton — Presented by Maven Productions and Out Boulder. 8 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom, 303-443-5858.

One Big Yes Productions : BOOM. — A jazz infusion dance show. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Sam Adams — A night of comedy to benefit Assisted Cycling Tours. 7:30 p.m. Heritage Todd Creek, 8455 Heritage Drive, Thornton, 303-5782281.

Sculpture Garden Opening — Feat. Leonard Pettus, Shelley Goddard, Anne Shutan & Lynne Jacobs. 5 p.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

Saturday, May 5 music

Jazz. 4 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Bonnie & the Clydes. 8 p.m. Bertolin Barn, 11965 Wasatch, Longmont, 720-936-3908.

PosterScene Grand Opening Party — With Pete Kartsounes String Band. 5 p.m. PosterScene, 1505 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-527-2701.

Cinco de Mayo Show — With Cisco Kid, WAR tribute band, Soul Sacrifice. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Ginga. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

The Query — With The Outside Alliance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Cinco de Merco! — With Good Sax. 8 p.m.

Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Holden Young. 6 p.m. Topo Ranch, 1505 Pearl Street #103, Boulder, 303-440-4242.

Roots & Rhythm. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS.

Dan Zanes and Friends. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Holden Young. 10 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First Street, Nederland, 303- 258-0782.

Rorey Carroll Band. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

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

Tom Weiser and Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 7:30 p.m.

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

Finders and Youngberg. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Deja Blue. 8 p.m. The Eagle Grill, 1600 Hover Road, Longmont, 303-772-2555.

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

Jockamo — With Jill Watkins. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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2012 East Boulder County Artists 13th Annual Studio Tour — 52 artists. Layfayette, Louisville, Longmont, Superior and Erie. Preview exhibit at Firehouse Art Center, 916 Main Street, Louisville, ebcacolorado.org. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. May 5-6 and 11-12.

Boulder Potters’ Guild — Annual Spring Show and Sale. Boulder County Fairgrounds, Hover and Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-4470310. May 3-6.

Spring into Your New Body with

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

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

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No Longer in My Hands — by Terry Campbell. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 27.

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

SMBA Art Show — Sponsored by SHREDly, with local artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. May 3 7-10 p.m.

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

Viviane Le Courtois’ Edible? and Jason Rogenes’ Sp4c3cr4ft. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 17.

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

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

Juno What?! and Euforquestra. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

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

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

Pinko de Mayo — With Pink Mammoth, Mile High Club. 9 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall, 1543 Pearl St., Boulder, pinkmammoth.org.

Strangebyrds — With Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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The Women’s Story — Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-443-0565.

• Power Plate Studio • Herbal Detox Body Wraps • Nutrition and Diet Consulting • Body Composition Testing • Metagenics

101 Dalmatians — Presented by Boulder Performing Arts Company. 12 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-484-5559.

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

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over the country.Nederland Community Center, 750 750 Highway 72 North, Nederland, www.facebook. com/Film4Film2012.

Flower Arranging Demonstration. 9 a.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303651-1106.

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

Growing Gardens Community Plant Sale. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. 1630 Hawthorn Ave, Boulder, 303-443-9952.

One Big Yes Productions : BOOM. — A jazz infusion dance show. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

A Night of Denim and Diamonds — Colorado Mountain Ranch Fundraiser for Mountain Summers Scholarship Program. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424557.

Orientation Meeting for Volunteers at Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. 10 a.m. 720 E. Vine Drive, Fort Collins, 970-484-7756.

PBJ Showcase — Peers Building Justice. 7 p.m.

The Boulder Loft, 1710 29th St., #1068, Boulder.

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

Opening Reception for Cinco de Mayo. 6-9 p.m.

Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

Sunday, May 6 music

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

Behind the Scenes at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. 1 p.m. 720 E. Vine Drive, Fort Collins, 970-484-7756.

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

Blind Café. 6:30 p.m. The Integral Center, 2805 North Broadway Ave., Boulder, 800-838-3006.

eTown: Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Film 4 Film — Award winning student films from all

Evergreen Grass Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Gadzukes! 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303

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African Drum and Dance performance at the Boulder Public Library May 5

Thursday, May 3

303-444-0349.

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

Monday, May 7

Friday, May 4 Children’s Storytime.

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

Saturday, May 5 African Dance & Drum Performance. 2 p.m.

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

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Sunday, May 6 Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Shadow Princess — by Cindy Marvell. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder,

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

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m.

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

The Purple Oranges — With Dan Coyle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

The Rail Splinters — With Lauren Stovall. 6 p.m.

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

Run Bambe Run — With Spiral Radio. 7 p.m.

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

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

events The Boulder Brew Bus. 5:45 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Craft and Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303651-1106.

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

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

Tuesday, May 8 Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, May 9 Cruisers & Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

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

Film 4 Film — Award winning student films from all over the country.Nederland Community Center, 750 750 Highway 72 North, Nederland, www.facebook. com/Film4Film2012.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.

Honeybee Colony Care I. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn Ave, Boulder, 303-4439952.

One Big Yes Productions : BOOM. — A jazz infusion dance show. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

One Mind: Being Open to New Ways of Communicating. 2-4 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Population, Arithmetic and Energy — With University of Colorado Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett. 2 p.m. West Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, boulderenergyfuture.com.

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

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William Denis reads “The Verger” by W. Somerset Maugham at Stories on Stage

The Drowsy Chaperone.

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

Through May 13.

Forever Plaid.

Firehouse Theater Company, John Hand Theater, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, 720880-8727.

Through May 13.

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

Into the Woods — Presented by Boulder Performing Arts Company. 6:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-484-5559.

The Merry Wives of Windsor. Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415. May 4-19.

Stories on Stage — Small Victories. Su Teatro, Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Boulder, 303-494-0523. 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 6.

Two of Us. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through May 20.

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

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

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

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.

Sam Holt Band. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Wendy Woo Band. 5:30 p.m. Prospect-Eats, Prospect Downtown Park, Hwy 287, Longmont, www. prospecteats.com.

events Helander Dance Theater: Happenstance — A film premiere and live performance at the Bodecker Theater. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Oil and Gas Development Meeting — Conducted by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and local officials. 5:30-8 p.m. City of Longmont, Civic Center, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, www.cdphe.state.co.us/oeis/oil_gas/OilAndGas.html.

Wordpress for Beginners: How to Run Your Own Site/Blog. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tuesday, May 8

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

Bob’s Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Doug Yager Quartet. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder, 720-406-9696.

James Morrison — With honeyhoney. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

The Thurston Group. 8:00 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Up, Up and Away — With Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. of the 5th Dimension. 7:30 p.m. Candelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Market Place Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747.

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.

Helander Dance Theater: Happenstance — A film premiere and live performance at the Bodecker Theater. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Web Marketing and Social Media Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Peter Wernick & Flexigrass. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

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

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

The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam: Going Away Party. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Fairview High School Choral — Festival, Chivalry, Voices of the Knight, Enchantment. 7 p.m. Fairview High School Auditorium at 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, fairviewhw.org.

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

Songs from the Silo — With Jeff Brinkman. 8 p.m.

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

events Conservation and Agriculture: Process, Successes and Challenges in Patagonia, Chile — With Josh Metten. 7 p.m. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266.

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

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WINC Networking Event — Women in Community small business incubator. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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1314 Pearl St. Mall • 303.449.9321 • www.falafelkingboulder.com Florence Williams reads from Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural Life on May 9

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$20 advance

JOHN MCCUTCHEON Sat 05.05

$20 advance

KATE LEROUX FULL CIRCLE w/special guests

Fri 05.11

Friday, May 4 CU Advanced Poetry Workshop Reading.

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

MICHELLE SHOCKED

Sat 05.12 $26 advance

Teen Authors Afternoon — with Amy Kathleen Ryan, Todd Mitchell and Laura Resau. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-

Organic Gardener’s Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West — by Jane Shellenberg. 12:30 p.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

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L2 Arts & Culture Center $25 advance

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lame it on Boulder. At least that’s where author, adventurer and Boulder native Eugene Buchanan lays responsibility for an interesting, eclectic life that has taken him around the globe in search of steep rapids on remote rivers and some not so steep and rapid.

“Growing up in Boulder had a lot to do with it,” Buchanan says when asked how he ended up chasing watery dreams around the world. “We grew up in the Chautauqua neighborhood and Chautauqua was our backyard, from scrambling up the Third Flatiron to playing capture the flag up there, that was how we had fun.”

But, surprisingly for a kid with world-class rock climbing out the front door, it was the liquid charms that would end up becoming the biggest influence in Buchanan’s life.

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adventure Boulder Creek,” he says. “As kids, we’d go out to Boulder Reservoir, and we’d go to the swimming holes up in Boulder Canyon and in Eldorado Canyon — no one was kayaking these runs back then — and that’s where I developed a love of cool, fresh water.”

Buchanan also had some help from his family, going on river rafting expeditions on the Yampa River and in Cataract Canyon as a kid. Those experiences, coupled with the tubing excursions closer to home, led to summer gigs as a raft guide on the Arkansas and up in Alaska. And then one day he found himself in Russia, paddling a grantfunded trip.

The W.L. Gore’s Shipton/Tilman Grant, named after explorers Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman, is designed to assist small expeditions.

Pioneering mountaineers of the 1930s and ’40s, Shipton and Tilman collaborated on several projects, including a lightweight assault of the 7,546-meter Himalayan massif of Muztagh Alta in 1947. While the attempt failed just shy of the summit, their lightweight, minimalist approach to mountaineering and focus on small, highly compatible teams was deeply influential. When Buchanan first heard of it, the grant had had never been awarded to a river expedition.

“They seemed to like expeditions that could be planned on the back of an envelope, and historically it had been given to climbing expeditions,” Buchanan says. “We caught wind of the grant and picked a spot on the map.”

The spot happened to be the Manuska River, in Siberia. But they never made it there.

The Manuska’s River expedition’s hectic first 24 hours, as well as their entire epic journey in Russia, are chronicled in the book, Brother’s on the Bashkaus. And in retrospect, floating the Bashkaus was perhaps truer to the spirit of Shipton and Tilman than the initial

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plan to do reconnaissance on the Manuska.

“We rolled with the punches,” Buchanan says. In the end, the entire project became “back of the envelope planning.”

Buchanan was joined on the Manuska expedition by Bruce “Edge” Edgerley, who currently runs Boulder-based Backcountry Access; Ben Hammond, who was assistant director of the Rocky Mountain region of the National Outdoor Leadership School at the time, and Jackson Hole resident Van Wombwell.

The group coalesced around Buchanan, who heard of the grant through his job as editor of Paddler Magazine. The year was 1992 and, with the Soviet Union opening up, the expedition members decided that Siberia would be a worthy destination. The grant committee agreed and the first Shipton/Tilman Grant for a river exploration was awarded.

“The book is based on our whole string of events,” says Buchanan. “We didn’t end up doing the river trip and ended up doing the hardest river in the former Soviet Union — one of the premises of the grant is that any worthwhile adventure is worth doing.”

And the Bashkaus was worth doing.

One of the most difficult and scenic rivers of Siberia’s Altai region, the Bashkaus is considered a Russian testpiece. It’s ranked as Class V water, technically difficult with deadly rapids.

Compounding the objective danger is the river’s utter remoteness. And the fact that once you go in, there’s no choice but to keep going.

“There’s really no way out,” Buchanan says. If things go wrong on a river like the Bashkaus, he says, “You just keep going downstream. You have to keep going.

“In the heart of the trip it took us two weeks to go 13 miles. Some days, you’d go a mile. Some days, half a mile.

It all depended on the portages. We

were with 10 Latvians, only one of whom spoke any English, and we had to bond as one team. You couldn’t have done it alone.”

Compounding the difficulties was the equipment.

“They made all of their gear,” Buchanan says of the Latvians. “They made life vests out of soccer balls, and they manufactured their raft frames from the forest. It’s actually a good way to do it because if you break a frame, you can just use the natural materials to repair it.”

Still, while a great adventure, the Bashkaus is only one of the many rivers that Buchanan has found himself floating on. And, as the current editor of Paddling Life, he’s been able to marry a paycheck with a watery lifestyle.

And he’s changed pace. His latest book is Outdoor Parents Outdoor Kids: A Guide to Getting Your Kids Active in the Great Outdoors, focuses on how to enjoy the outdoors with youngsters. Part of the proceeds assist the Boulder-based Outdoor Foundation’s efforts to increase youth participation in outdoor recreation.

“I caught some flack from my hardcore guys, saying ‘Have you gone soft?’ when I wrote that,” Buchanan says laughing.

He would still love to get back to the Altai region of Siberia, he says.

“It’s a cross of Montana and Idaho when it comes to rivers. There’s at least 10 two-to-three week long Class V rivers over there and, to me, it is still one of the great places on the map. But when you have kids, trips to Siberia are harder to come by.”

But he’s not too bummed out about the whole situation.

“When you take your kids out, you can have just as much fun and enjoy yourself just as much,” he says. “That’s the beauty of the sport. A class 1-2 boater can have as much fun. You can push yourself at your own level.”

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hat happened to Cory “Nobody knows what it was, but it Richards on Mount went away,” Hackett says. “They defiEverest on April 28 nitely ruled out a pulmonary embolism when the climber with a CAT scan, and Cory’s heart became ill, and how seemed OK. They think he’s OK to go that will affect the rest of the National back up, but the National Geo team is a Geographic Society’s 2012 expedition to pretty nervous about it.”

Everest is not yet clear.

There are other possible causes for Richards had climbed to 23,000 feet the pain on the left side of his chest, with Conrad Anker, the expedition’s Hackett says, but it’s all speculation. As leader, on a reconnaissance and acclima- is what would happen to Richards were tization hike toward the West Ridge he to return to altitude. route they planned to use to ascend the “There’s no diagnosis, so there’s no peak. Various accounts report that they way to know if it might have had to do courtesy of The North Face turned back because with altitude or not,” Richards experienced Hackett says. “The big shortness of breath and question is can he go chest pain, or that his back up without knowing symptoms began after exactly what it was?” they turned back because Without knowing, it’s possible he could go back of dangers posed by rock to altitude and have the fall. But the pain in his same problem again. left side led to a speedy “Stranger things have descent of more than happened, but the good 5,000 feet, some of it news is that he’s fine. with Richards being There’s no major probhauled in a sked, before lem,” Hackett says. he was finally airlifted National Geographic from Base Camp seven Cory Richards hours later. has reported that Cloud cover preventRichards will return to ed a helicopter rescue from Camp 1, Everest, though the decision on whether and the team decided that although he will attempt the West Ridge is likely crossing the Khumbu Icefall in the to fall to the expedition leader, Anker. afternoon was risky, it was a better In a May 1 dispatch, Anker said, choice than keeping Richards at an ele“Regarding Cory, it’s wait and see. And vation of 19,900 feet overnight. something like this, where a climber’s “Late afternoon is not the time to health is compromised at certain elevapass through the Khumbu, which was tions, still 2,000 meters below the sumsteaming and creaking ominously, but mit — it’s not the prudent thing to we had no choice,” National Geographic have the climber come back up and go writer Mark Jenkins reported in the back into the invisible grip of altitude.”

Field Test blog. “It was a matter of Anker estimated then that, based on weighing risks. Despite his condition, weather and snow conditions, a summit Cory flew down through the Icefall.” push was likely 10 or more days out.

From Base Camp, elevation 17,600 This was Richards’ first attempt on feet, Richards was airlifted by helicopter, Mount Everest (see “Getting a grip” in despite adverse weather conditions, to the March 15 issue of Boulder Weekly).

Lukla and then on to a hospital in He has called the expedition “the culmiKathmandu. nation of my career as a photographer A pulmonary embolism, a blockage and climber” in the National in the main arteries of the lungs often Geographic Field Test blog and said it caused by blood clots, was suspected as “is the realization of a partnership, the diagnosis, but the tests have come friendship, and mentorship that reaches back negative. beyond words.”

The results of the tests have “turned For additional information, photos up nothing,” says Dr. Peter Hackett, and updates on the National executive director of the Institute for Geographic expedition to Mount High Altitude Medicine in Telluride Everest in 2012, visit natgeo.com/ who spoke with Richards’ doctor in everest.

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21 JUMP STREET Two young police officers and ex-classmates go undercover at a local high school to investigate a dangerous drug ring. Rated R. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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As a young girl who always knew she was “different” from the other kids in her farm town home outside of Seattle, Patty never dreamed she would one day have her picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

THE AVENGERS 3D A team of superheroes including Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and Thor unite to save the world. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye documents a truly new brand of Romantic consciousness, one in defiance of the daily dehumanization of the body by the pervasive presence of advertising and pornography, conveying beauty, dignity and devotion from a perspective never before seen on film. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a witty comedy-drama about a group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic 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 shell of its former self.

At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BULLY See full review, page 40. 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 spoiler-peddler ruins it for you. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. CHIMPANZEE This nature documentary follows a baby chimpanzee and his family as they survive in the African forest. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and vampires get along? Where wizards and wookies can be themselves?

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FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres 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 DARLING COMPANION Beth (Diane Keaton) saves a lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, 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

simply wants to wander through life as his father and grandfather did, with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society 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. — Landmark Theatres THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT See full review, page 40. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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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 Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

In this French romantic drama, two couples decide to explore the boundaries of their relationships by swapping partners.

What starts as a free-spirited ménage-afour experimentation full of sleepovers, shared vacations and dinner parties soon turns into a hotbed of desire, anger and confusion. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

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DR. SUESS’ THE LORAX 3D In this animated film, a 12-year-old boy searching for the key to winning over his dream girl must confront a mysterious grumpy creature who is protective of his homeland. Rated PG. At Colony Square.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT EL MARIACHI Filmed in two weeks on a budget of $7,000, El Mariachi was one of the singular pleasures of the 1993-1994 movie season. Kind-spirited guitarist El Mariachi

HAPPENSTANCE This hybrid film and live performance documents and enhances a series of dance and theater pieces set in Lucky’s Market and Lucky’s Cafe. It also features an art installation by Sara Rockinger. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater HIT SO HARD Hit so Hard follows the journey of Patty

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

— Los Angeles Times/MCT JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI For most of his 85 years, Jiro Ono, the most famous sushi chef in Tokyo, has been perfecting the art of making sushi.

He works from sunrise to well beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish; meticulously train his employees; and carefully mold and finesse the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation. Rated PG. At Boedecker and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres LOCKOUT A wrongly convicted ex-government agent can regain his freedom by saving the president’s daughter from rioting inmates at an outer-space prison. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT THE LUCKY ONE A Marine returns home from his third 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.

Rated PG-13. At Century 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.

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Anatomically correct At least ‘Bully’ has heart in the right place

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here is a conversation about bullying that is desperately needed in this country.

Unfortunately, Bully seemingly isn’t interested in being part of it. Director Lee Hirsch’s film, although clearly well-intentioned, preaches to the choir with pedestrian truisms that tug on heart strings but ultimately add nothing of substance to a potentially important dialogue.

Sure, it’s impossible not to be moved by stories like that of Tyler Long, who hung himself in response to relentless and malicious torture by his peers. Try not to shed a tear as Alex is called “fish face” and fails to raise his hand when a teacher asks “anyone with at least one friend” to do so. More troubling still are the cases of Ja’Maya, who took a gun onto a bus but never fired a shot, and Kelby, who is forced to move after coming out in her small town.

But these are only examples, and evidence is worthless without a cogent point to support. “Bullying sucks” is an inherent truth, a no-brainer. Watching 90 minutes of a handful of children in various small towns recount being picked on only reiterates what everyone already knows. It’s not like there’s a group of vocal advocates out there supporting the practice of bullying. This country has a rather infamous established organization designed to more or less defend pedophilia, but no one in this country has started the National Association for Making Bullies Loved in

America … because everyone accepts that it’s indefensible.

You know what Bully doesn’t do? Talk to a bully. Ever. Remember, this isn’t a movie called “Bullying”; its very title suggests an important element that’s completely omitted. How can we begin to address the core of this issue without contemplating the motives of its source? Although town hall meetings with angry parents are therapeutic, where are the discussions of actual school board policies? And Kelby, the only LGBT teen presented, not only clocks the smallest screen time, but nowhere in her story does anyone bother to explore the depths of small town homophobia that represents the origins of her struggles.

Basically, Bully is sadness pornography. It is emotional manipulation designed to look like something of substance. In reality, the conversation regarding the film’s rating may have been the most productive element surrounding the documentary. When it was

In need of altar-ations

‘The Five-Year Engagement’ is slow-motion matrimony

by Ryan Syrek

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omplaining about the length of a film can be a cop-out, a lazy way to avoid dissecting actual content in favor of basically whining about how valuable your free time is. But jokes about The Five-Year Engagement being long enough to legally make its audience common-law married aside, the duration of this and other Judd Apatow–produced movies has become a discussion point of substantial merit.

Constantly clocking in well past two hours, the length of these films suggests a pretense that is (hopefully) unintentional. Basically, it feels like the creators must think awful highly of their passably sweet, slightly dramatic endeavors, in which everybody drops the F-bomb and at least one dude drops trou, in order to allot them more than 120 minutes.

For example, nothing about the giggle-funny script and generally affable characters in Engagement seems to warrant more than 90 minutes — tops. Tom ( Jason Segel) is a successful chef who works with his horny, idiot broth40 May 3, 2012

er, Alex (Chris Pratt). Violet (Emily Blunt) is pursuing her graduate degree in psychology when she’s not coddling her weepy sister, Suzie (Allison Brie). Although Tom and Violet love each other with a passion reserved for Hallmark cards and contrived plots, circumstances keep forcing them to delay their impending nuptials.

First they delay because Alex knocks up and then marries Suzie. Then they delay because Violet’s career takes them to Michigan, where Tom is miserable. After the short stint in Michigan turns into an indefinite one, they delay again. Although Segel and director Nicholas Stoller should be praised for penning a romantic comedy in which conflict doesn’t hinge on a single misunderstanding that could be cleared up with a brief conversation, the

unfairly slapped with an “R” for vulgar language and later released unrated, it garnered attention, and people began demanding that this “message movie” be shown in classrooms … often without ever having seen it.

If Bully opens up dialogue, that’s swell. But it will be despite the film and not because of it. Not every documentary has a responsibility to take a stance and advocate a position. But this is a documentary with a movement (thebullyproject.com), selling itself as “important.” They got it half right. The issue is unquestionably vital, but the movie isn’t.

Things have gotten out of hand. LGBT teens are killing themselves at unimaginable rates, and scores of others are suffering immense pain as school workers and parents are either ineffective or impotent. There needs to be something substantial said on this matter.

If only Bully had started it.

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

third act’s pensive meandering is just exhausting. Trim about 45 minutes, and the laugh-to-overly-drawn-outrevelation ratio plummets to a delightful level.

Thank the good lord both Blunt and Segel are inherently endearing — extra props to Blunt for making us believe she’s sexually attracted to the oddly shaped, bizarrely mole-dappled Segel. Without any Bridesmaidlevel set-piece laugh extravaganzas (like sink and street pooping), Engagement finds its humor in quieter moments, like Brie’s incredible delivery while choking back tears and Pratt’s oblivious one-liners.

The third act is so full of unnecessary detours that it feels like road construction designed by Daedalus, and it undermines the (thin) integrity of the characters.

Watching Tom and Violet carry on as they do throughout the last 30 minutes makes them less compassionate, less endearing and far more grating. Still, with Blunt delivering perhaps her most charming performance and Segel wringing every last drip of amusement from even his facial hair, this is remarkably pleasant. Had Engagement built on its believable conflict and likable casting with judicious editing and a thoughtful conclusion, it may have stood as a semi-classic. Instead, it logs as yet another mildly engaging overlong diversion from Team Apatow.

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

Generation X and Generation Y, #ReGENERATION takes an uncompromising look at the issues facing today’s youth and young adults and the influences that perpetuate our culture’s apathetic approach to social and political causes. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Verdi’s most evocative music brings Shakespeare’s drama to life on the stage of the Royal Opera House. Macbeth stars British baritone Simon Keenlyside as the titular tormented ruler of Scotland. Don’t miss this thrilling tale of power and corruption. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

A cage fighter and mixed martial artist swoops in to avenge his family and protect a 12-year-old girl. Jason Statham continues to impress … or not. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Australian filmmaker Peter Weir has often been interested in encounters with things beautifully strange, and here it’s with something entirely unknown. On an outing with her school to a fascinating and mysterious rock formation, a high school girl wanders off by herself. When she finally returns, something has happened – but what?

Parents and authorities leap to all sorts of conclusions. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Landmark Theatres THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS The Pirate Captain tries to beat out a bitter rival for the Pirate of the Year Award in Hugh Grant’s animated film debut. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE QUEEN AND I When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian activist in exile, set out to make a documentary about Empress Farah Pahlavi, the wife of the Shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. Surprisingly, Empress Farah welcomes her as a fellow refugee from their beloved homeland, granting unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, Sarvestani enters Queen Pahlavi’s world, planning to challenge the Shah’s ideology; instead, she must rethink her own. Not rated. At Boedecker Theater — Boedecker Theater THE RAID: REDEMPTION When a well-intentioned cop (Iko Uwais) storms an apartment complex populated entirely by murderous criminals, the results are super violent and super cool.

Featuring gorgeous kung fu choreography and kinetic, non-stop action, this is a movie destined to find a cult following among violence enthusiasts and martial arts aficionados. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. THE RAVEN In The Raven, a killer stalks the streets of early-1800s Baltimore, committing murders modeled after the tales of author Edgar Allen Poe. Poe himself (John Cusack) teams with a Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to find the killer before he targets Poe’s love (Alice Eve). This suspenseful thriller costars Brendan Gleeson and Kevin McNally.

Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks. #REGENERATION Ryan Gosling produces and narrates this feature documentary directed by Phillip Montgomery. Beyond the labels of Boulder Weekly

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor as Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who one day receives an unusual 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 Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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— Boedecker Theater TITANIC 3D A new 3-D version of the 1997 romance film about two star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed ocean liner. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT 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 THE THREE STOOGES Three infants left on a nun’s doorstep grow up to be knuckleheads who get embroiled in a strange murder plot and stumble into a reality TV show. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller from director/co-writer Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar), We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the fractious relationship between a mother and her evil son. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

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KEEP IT BOTTLED UP

Coloradans can be very territorial about their beer.

But one of Colorado’s favorite sons, Oskar Blues, has found a collaborator outside our borders to co-produce a beer in a re-sealable pint bottle.

Oskar Blues and Indiana brewery, Sun King, have “traveled between locations for months,” a press release says, to co-create Chaka, a Belgian-style ale. The collaboration is the result of a friendship between Oskar Blues head brewer Dave Chichura and the two founders of Sun King.

The beer, an 8 percent ABV ale, is made with ingredients from Indiana and Colorado and is being brewed in both locations.

Oskar Blues has long been recognized as a pioneer in canned beer, canning the first craft beer in 2002 when it put Dale’s Pale Ale in aluminum. Chaka is the first craft beer to be contained in Ball Corporation’s “Alumi-Tek” resealable pint bottles, currently used by Coors and Miller for their beers.

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Carolynn Spence, chef at Bar Marmont in Hollywood, Calif.

The latest trend among chefs: tattoos

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ichael Voltaggio has no idea how many tattoos he has. The question makes him laugh. The wise-cracking 33-year-old chef is pretty well covered. The name of his restaurant, after all, is Ink. Before dinner service on a recent Friday, Voltaggio plays around with an insulated bucket of liquid nitrogen, dipping his hand in it and tossing the residue on the floor where it morphs, CGI-like, into little rolling marbles of chemistry before dissolving into wisps of smoke. He laughs like the 15-year-old kid he was when he got his first covert tattoo, a crude three-leaf clover on his ankle.

“I started getting them before they were trendy; now you can get tattoos that are nicer than most clothing,” says Voltaggio, who is surrounded by employees sporting tattoos.

In L.A.’s professional kitchens, tattoos, often with a culinary bent, are as ubiquitous as paring knives and just as sharp.

In the foodie-driven world of chef-as-rock-star, it makes

sense that these rebellious spirits would hew to an aesthetic that helps them stand out from their uniform chef whites.

As Voltaggio points out, tattoos in the restaurant industry are hardly novel, but the fact that some of L.A.’s favorite chefs have chosen to mark themselves with the very symbols of their trade, namely images of food or their restaurant logos, is worth taking note of.

Carolynn Spence, formerly of New York’s hammy Spotted Pig and now executive chef at the Chateau Marmont, has a slew, including a ruler on the side of her hand, along with tattoos of a teaspoon and a tablespoon. She calls this her “working-class hand.”

“The first ones start out having some heavy meaning, but the more you get, it’s like, ‘Give me a break,’” she says. “After a point it’s just art.”

That’s why she has a whimsical trio of anthropomorphous veggies — an onion, celery and a carrot — posing in the classic “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” pose. She says she was going to get the vegetables tattooed in their natural form, but when her tattoo artist came to her with the “silly” idea, she just couldn’t say no.

Bruce Kalman, the culinary director for Acme Bar Group, which owns Urbano Pizza Bar, Laurel Tavern and see TATTOOS Page 44

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or over a hundred years, the building housing The Louisville Rex has provided Main Street with entertainment of one kind or another.

Established as a billiard hall, it became a theater, and eventually another restaurant prior to its current iteration.

Nowadays, one of the main attractions of this spot is the spacious rooftop deck, which has the amiable feel of a venue in a far-away, warm-weather resort town. In other words, it’s a perfect spot for a staycation or just dozen chicken wings and a $5 helping knocking back a few with friends after of three fried pickles. work.

Each of these did their intended In that spirit, pal Andrew and I job. The fried pickles were whole dills, arrived on the deck just in time to catch encased in a subtly spiced batter. the tail end of happy Definitely falling into hour, which ends at 6 guilty pleasure territoThe Louisville Rex p.m. We were disapry, these were the kind 817 Main St., Louisville pointed when our of snack that one 303-666-6224 friendly server doesn’t want to admit informed us the kitchliking too loudly, lest en had run out of hot potato chips and one lose his foodie credentials. The nachos. But there were still many wings had loads of poultry on them, options to choose from, including fries, and we didn’t regret our choice of tradimini corn dogs and personal pepperoni tional Buffalo sauce, as the Rex’s verpizzas. We decided to address our bar sion wasn’t overly vinegary. food cravings with a $4 order of a half We wanted more than just snacks,

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though, and consequently we decided to check out the dinner menu. To the Rex’s credit, there weren’t many surprises on the menu, with burgers, salads (such as a Greek), pizzas and hot appetizers like potato skins taking center stage.

For some reason, Andrew decided to do the stereotypical Brit thing (he was also driving his vintage Morgan sports car that day, so maybe that had something to do with it), and order a $14 entree of fish and chips. The chips were thin-cut fries, hot and loaded with crunch.

While a lighter batter might have won this dish higher marks, the white fish tasted as it should and had a light, flaky texture.

My $15 lobster mac and cheese main course was a mixed bag, its main virtue being that the portion was generous, rendering the accompanying side of garlic bread superfluous. Bits of lobster were scattered throughout the thickly sauced pasta, but I wished for more seafood flavor, which was masked by the cheese. In retrospect, I suspect I might have been better off with a burger or entree salad like a Cobb.

But this shouldn’t be taken as a sweeping knock against the Rex. The wings and pickles were perfectly fine,

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y issue with overly vinegary hot wings stems from the fact that most hot sauces include this acid as a necessary ingredient. At one extreme, you have milder sauces that just as well could be salad dressing because of how much vinegar they contain. Then there are sauces simply producing gratuitously excruciating heat that burn off taste buds. Happily, I’ve recently discovered the Portland Pepper Sauce Company’s Red sauce, made with Fresno peppers. This sauce emphasizes freshpicked chile flavor above acid or unfettered heat, and it’s a new favorite, available at Boulder’s Cured at 1825 Pearl St. for $5 a bottle.

and the open-air setting makes for a uniquely pleasant warm-weather experience. To paraphrase Lieutenant Briggs, the antagonist of the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force, “A diner’s got to know a restaurant’s limitations.” If I had followed my initial instincts and ordered a sandwich or a mess of happy hour small plates, I would have had a different experience.

Nevertheless, I would return to the deck and stick to the bar food classics, because that’s what the Rex experience is all about.

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As the viral Five Second Films clip “Don’t Thinko de Mayo” bluntly points out, the holiday in the U.S. is often about having a few drinks. But if you want to do a little more — like raising money and awareness for charity — the Boulder County AIDS Project is hosting a Margaritas in Mustaches event to raise money for HIV care.

Margaritas in Mustaches — an event where a $10 donation to BCAP gets you a marg, a mustache (presumably not a real one) and a chance to win a bottle of Leyenda del Milagro tequila — will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. May 5 at The Bitter Bar. The event is the launch of BCAP’s connectBCAP group, a “new young professionals group” intended to raise money for the charity.

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Two Colorado companies are the latest on the roster of Louisville natural foods manufacturer Fresca Foods. Boulder Ice Cream and Denver granola company Love Grown Foods have signed on with Fresca, a press release says.

The manufacturer specializes in the production of natural and organic foods, the release says, working only with natural food brands and using only wind power. Its newest clients also emphasize all-natural food. Love Grown, distributing at Whole Foods and other local stores, produces allnatural gluten free granola, while Boulder Ice Cream is organic and allnatural.

The move to Fresca represents a big expansion for each company.

They’re both growing from homemade or small-batch operations. Boulder Ice Cream currently makes batches “nine gallons at a time,” the press release says, at its location near 28th and Canyon. The two founders of Love Grown, meanwhile, make their granola in a Stapleton commercial kitchen by hand.

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Library Bar, among others, recently got a full sleeve of fresh produce, including a lovingly rendered ear of corn up the back of his arm.

Kalman opted for a more baroque depiction of the produce in his tattoos, which are based upon a collection of prints that his tattoo artist had of produce from the 1700s.

“I gave her my wish list of the produce I wanted — all based off of the produce I get at the market,” explained Kalman, who is devoted to sourcing as much as he can for his kitchens from the Santa Monica farmers market. “In California, there’s no reason you should buy produce anywhere else.”

Both Kalman and Spence have sizable artichoke tattoos, her because “it’s

such a cool vegetable — very layered, very challenging, very rewarding,” and him because “they are so big and meaty and delicious.”

Voltaggio’s most talked-about tattoo is of a small knife and fork on his hand.

He got it on a whim with his chef de cuisine Cole Dickinson at a “down and dirty, no-name tattoo shop on the Venice turnaround,” just as the pair was about to open the Bazaar by Jose Andres.

“The quality of the work is not as good as the rest,” says Voltaggio, rubbing the tattoo absent-mindedly. “But because of what it is, I get the most comments.” ©2012 the Los Angeles Times —MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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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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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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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 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.

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

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

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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 Mexico-influenced 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.

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

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Available items range from a crisp, anisescented 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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ak at Fourteenth is back with a vengeance, serving up winning gourmet fare inspired in part by American regional cuisine. A sleek interior coupled with denim-clad waitstaff give it a subtle cowboy-meets-foodie feel, accented by attentive service. Dinners include a porterhouse steak for two and house-made pastas. At lunch, the shrimp grits are sublime, and the winning $11 burger lunch special includes two grass-fed patties, Old Bay seasoning-scented tater tots and house-made root beer.

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agyu steak is a pricey delicacy, and the Pearl Street Steak Room is a coolly retro venue where people can indulge their taste for this artisan beef. Richly marbled, sweet and tender, the Wagyu filet’s a good way to go, especially after one of their smooth martinis. The adventurous can start their meal with chicken-fried sweetbreads, but more sedate choices like duck confit also tempt.

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Your right brain and left brain have rarely been on such close speaking terms as they are right now. Your genitals and your heart seem to be in a good collaborative groove as well. Even your past and your future are mostly in agreement about how you should proceed in the present. To what do we owe the pleasure of this rather dramatic movement toward integration? Here’s one theory: You’re being rewarded for the hard work you have done to take good care of yourself.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

A South African biologist was intrigued to discover an interesting fact about the rodent known as the elephant shrew: It much prefers to slurp the nectar of pagoda lilies than to nibble on peanut butter mixed with apples and rolled oats. The biologist didn’t investigate whether mountain goats would rather eat grasses and rushes than ice cream sundaes or whether lions like fresh-killed antelopes better than Caesar salad, but I’m pretty sure they do. In a related subject, Leo, I hope that in the coming weeks you will seek to feed yourself exclusively with the images, sounds, stories, and food that truly satisfy your primal hunger rather than the stuff that other people like or think you should like.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

There are only a very few people whose ancestors were not immigrants. They live in Africa, where homo sapiens got its start. As for the rest of us, our forbears wandered away from their original home and spread out over the rest of the planet. We all came from somewhere else! This is true on many other levels, as well. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you Virgos to get in touch with your inner immigrant this week. It’s an excellent time to acknowledge and celebrate the fact that you are nowhere near where you started from, whether you gauge that psychologically, spiritually, or literally.

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“When I’m good, I’m very good,” said Hollywood’s original siren, Mae West, “but when I’m bad I’m better.” I think that assertion might at times make sense coming out of your lips in the next two weeks. But I’d like to offer a variation that could also serve you well. It’s articulated by my reader Sarah Edelman, who says, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m batty, I’m better.” Consider trying out both of these attitudes, Libra, as you navigate your way through the mysterious and sometimes unruly fun that’s headed your way.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

The Weekly World News, my favorite source of fake news, reported on a major development in the art world: An archaeologist found the lost arms of the famous Venus de Milo statue. They were languishing in a cellar in Southern Croatia. Hallelujah! Since her discovery in 1820, the goddess of love and beauty has been incomplete. Will the Louvre Museum in Paris, where she is displayed, allow her to be joined by her original appendages and made whole again? Let’s not concern ourselves now with that question.

Instead, please turn your attention to a more immediate concern: the strong possibility that you will soon experience a comparable development, the rediscovery of and reunification with a missing part of you.

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Seventeenth-century physicians sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to have success in hunting down remedies for complaints of both a physical and psychological nature. But you should be cautious about relying on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you. And always double check to make sure that the cures aren’t worse than what they are supposed to fix.

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Outer space isn’t really that far away. As astronomer Fred Hoyle used to say, you’d get there in an hour if you could drive a car straight up. I think there’s a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn. You’ve got an inflated notion of how distant a certain goal is, and that’s inhibiting you from getting totally serious about achieving it. I’m not saying that the destination would be a breeze to get to. My point is that it’s closer than it seems.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

When most Westerners hear the word “milk,” they surmise it has something to do with cows. But the fact is that humans drink milk collected from sheep, goats, camels, yaks, mares, llamas, and reindeer. And many grocery stores now stock milk made from soybeans, rice, almonds, coconut, hemp, and oats. I’m wondering if maybe it’s a good time for you to initiate a comparable diversification, Aquarius. You shouldn’t necessarily give up the primal sources of nourishment you have been depending on. Just consider the possibility that it might be fun and healthy for you to seek sustenance from some unconventional or unexpected sources.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

You wouldn’t want to play a game of darts with an inflatable dartboard, right? If you were a smoker, you’d have little interest in a fireproof cigarette. And while a mesh umbrella might look stylish, you wouldn’t be foolish enough to expect it to keep the rain out. In the spirit of these truisms, Pisces, I suggest you closely examine any strategy you’re considering to see if it has a built-in contradiction. Certain ideas being presented to you — perhaps even arising from your own subconscious mind — may be inherently impractical to use in the real world.

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