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departments Letters: Harmon Killebrew; Common security / 4 The Highroad: Offshore corporate havens come onshore / 4 In Case You Missed It: Flipping off the po-po; ‘Virginity checks’ / 11 News Briefs: Get tested for HIV; SketchAPalooza targets record / 10 Boulderganic: A homegrown blend for sustainable wine / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 50 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Harmon Killebrew (Re: “A better time, a better hero,” Stew’s Views, May 19.) Thanks for your piece on Harmon Killebrew.

I also grew up in Minnesota at the same time as you and remember all of that as if it were yesterday. Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall, Zoilo Versalles, Earl Battey. I loved Met Stadium and afternoons in the sun.

It was so wonderful to see how many people remembered Killebrew and what a great guy he was. I thought your piece really captured the whole thing. After he retired, I remember Killebrew had a contest with someone, must have been in conjunction with the All Star Game or something, where they were trying to hit across the Mississippi. I don’t think they ever made it, but they kept trying.

Thanks for staying in touch with a time that was so important. And for reminding us all.

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Common security The Great Recession continues to hurt the majority of Americans. People have lost jobs and had their wages cut.

They’ve lost their homes, retirement and savings. Given this economic uncertainty and insecurity, the average American is worried and scared about the future. The American Dream has

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vanished, and people are traumatized.

The classic American myth is that each individual is solely responsible for his economic wellbeing — the myth of “individualism” and the “self-made man.” Instead of looking at the structural issues that have created our indi-

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rom Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make investors think the businesses were sounder than they really were.

The good news is that Aetna, AIG, MetLife and other giants have now moved away from such offshore hideouts. The bad news, however, is that they have not actually moved away from the shady practice of hiding their finances from regulators and investors — they just don’t have to do it offshore these days.

This is because Vermont, Delaware, South Carolina, Utah and other states have turned themselves into onshore havens for concealing the finances of insurance corporations.

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vidual difficulties and demanding a system that meets our needs, we tend to turn inward and blame ourselves.

There are many societies around the world that are far more oriented to the wellbeing of their members. We can create one here.

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Offshore corporate havens come onshore

by Jim Hightower In these states, insurers can set up special subsidiaries that, intriguingly, are called “captives.” This scheme allows the same sort of hide-and-seek financial chicanery that offshore havens provided. For example, when AIG was hemorrhaging losses on some of its mortgage insurance policies recently, it created a captive unit in Vermont, shoveled $7 billion worth of claims by policyholders into it, and thus —

To get there, we need a powerful collective response. Given the corruption of our system in which our politicians sell themselves to the highest bidders, we must build a strong, grasssee LETTERS Page 6

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poof! — made the ugly books of AIG itself look handsome, allowing the giant to keep selling more mortgage policies.

Why would states be part of this hustle? Money. In exchange for limpwristed regulations, they collect taxes and fees from the corporations. But each new state entering this game offers lower taxes to entice captives to locate there, thus compelling all states to shrink their take to stay in the game.

The real captives, as usual, are the consumers who’ll end up getting shtooked by the deceit and us taxpayers who’ll be asked to bail out the deceivers.

It’s a losing game.

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roots movement that demands that our politicians serve us, not Wall Street bankers, multinational corporations and military contractors. If we don’t do this, both our economic and environmental situations will continue to deteriorate. As Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand.”

Common security clubs (www. commonsecurityclub.org) provide a method for building a broad-based grassroots movement. In these tough economic times, they provide mutual support and offer opportunities for learning about critical economic and environmental issues. They build community and solidarity, and are networked together to achieve broad social change. And they’re open and free to all.

To get involved in a common security club, call the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center at 303-4446981, ext. 2, or attend an introductory session at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, 3970 Broadway, Suite 105, in Boulder.

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A clearer look Let’s clarify a few terms that are being thrown around these days.

Fiscal conservative — Commonly used in the corporate media to describe those people who want to further enrich the top 1 percent. These people do not resemble the Republicans of my earlier days. At a fundraising dinner George W. Bush said, “You are my base: the haves and have-mores.” For all of Obama’s nice talk, evidence is that this is also Obama’s base. Under George W. Bush, the U.S. entered into very expensive wars, bailed out the financial industry with little benefit to the taxpayers who bailed them out, instituted tax cuts only for the wealthy, and turned a federal surplus into a debt. President Obama has only furthered those same policies and that debt.

Tax cuts — That sounds very appealing to those of us who work for a living and actually produce a service or goods. However those “tax cuts” are only for the wealthy and for large corporations. The ordinary person or small entrepreneur has not benefited from them. Indeed, we are burdened with hidden taxes. We entered into a social contract, an annuity, with the government in regard to Social Security, Medicare and public pensions. The government has repeatedly borrowed from these sources, claiming them as a revenue source, without repaying. If your uncle repeatedly borrowed from your life savings without 6 June 2, 2011

repaying, those savings would also dwindle, regardless of how much you had set aside or how sound your saving plan was. When we pay into Social Security and Medicare and can’t collect from it, we are being dealt hidden taxes. When we bail out corporations and banks with taxpayer money, both we and our children will be taxed for that.

Tax cuts for the wealthy create jobs — If that is so, where are the jobs?

This policy has been tried many times in the past 30-plus years and has never produced jobs.

The best and the brightest — This is what they called the very people who created the financial crisis and cheated with ordinary people’s investments and with public funds. Yet we were asked to bail them out to the tune of $750 billion-plus so that they would not leave their positions with banks and Wall Street firms. Perhaps the term is fitting only in that they are the best and brightest crooks.

We have to tighten our belts — Only so that large corporations, CEOs and banks can loosen theirs.

Economic stimulus — Several Nobel Laureate economists warned that Obama’s “stimulus” would fail because it was not large enough to create jobs that would bring much-needed tax revenues and demand for goods and services. A small stimulus was worse than none, because it did not have a lasting effect and demonstrated that inadequate government stimulus to the economy does not work.

What if you had a disease for which your doctor prescribed a certain medicine, but you only took a fraction of that medicine? Would that mean that you did not use the medicine appropriately or that the medicine does not work?

Jobless-recovery — Now that is an oxymoron. There cannot be a jobless recovery. Ask someone whose income, Social Security or pension is reduced to the point of not being able to meet basic human needs or someone who lost their job due to down-sizing or outsourcing if there is a “recovery” in their jobless lives.

We need to be very vigilant and sensitive to the fact that corporate media is part of a larger plan to misinform and redirect our democracy.

Marketing strategies tell us that someone exposed to a slogan six times will believe it. The misuse of the above terms is much more frequent than that, and works with many people.

We also need to be careful not to fall prey to accusing our neighbor of not deserving just a little more than see LETTERS Page 9

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ince President Barack Obama seems clueless on how to go about getting government spending and debt under control, he ought to consult someone who’s done it. No, not Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich or Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels.

Douglas Bruce.

Yeah, that Douglas Bruce.

The guy with the horns, pointy tail and 666 license plate on his gas guzzler — the mere mention of whose name causes liberal minds to snap shut like bear traps.

OK, let us stipulate at the outset that Douglas Bruce is an irascible conservative — and that is an understatement of breathtaking proportions, sort of like calling Mao Zedong a Chinese agrarian reformer. And to say he is influential in Colorado politics is also wrong. His terms as an El Paso County commissioner and as a state legislator both ended badly, and most of the ballot questions he has authored have been defeated.

All except one: the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). TABOR is the 1992 amendment to the Colorado Constitution that limits the growth of government spending to inflation plus the percentage by which the state’s population has grown the previous year, unless the voters approve a larger increase. It also provides that all new

taxes or tax increases require a vote of the people.

Among progressives TABOR is hated and reviled, which only goes to show that progressives aren’t nearly as smart as they think they are.

The truth is TABOR has made it much easier to do at the state level what progressives correctly argue is absolutely necessary at the federal level if the debt crisis is to be dealt with, but which they haven’t been able to do — raise taxes.

(Big business doesn’t like TABOR either, in no small part, I suspect, because it results in a lot of tax increases.)

Despite its critics, including a group that’s pushing a ballot proposal for 2012 to gut it, TABOR has kept Colorado on a sound financial footing for 20 years. It does this in two ways: 1) Although TABOR has been frayed around the edges by court rulings and by subsequent initiatives, it does cause government to live within its means. Elected officials may howl about how TABOR is causing schoolkids and their teachers to be thrown to the wolves, or about how TABOR will cause the state’s roads and bridges to end up looking like Dagny Taggart’s railroad before she met Hank Rearden, but at the end of the day they pass budgets in which spending matches revesee TABOR Page 8

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TABOR injected a degree of discipline, rigor and realism into governance that isn’t present on the federal level or in places like, say, California or Greece.

2) Non-intuitively perhaps, TABOR also made it much easier to raise taxes.

Every year dozens of proposals for tax increases appear on Colorado state and local ballots, and every year roughly 50 percent of them pass. It has been that way since TABOR was adopted. It’s inconceivable that elected representatives would have a .500 batting average when it comes to approving tax increases.

TABOR has made it much easier to raise taxes precisely because under TABOR taxes are raised by the people instead of by elected officials. The people are much more likely to vote to raise taxes than their elected officials are.

Why? When the individual voter casts a ballot on a tax question, he does it in secrecy of a voting booth, and no one knows how he voted unless he tells them. Elected officials vote on taxes in public, and everyone knows how they voted and holds them accountable.

If an elected official votes to raise taxes, he or she will have some explain-

ing to do in the next election. The individual voter doesn’t have to run for reelection after voting for or against a tax hike.

Colorado’s experience has been voters will vote to raise taxes if 1) the tax is earmarked so they know what it’s going to be used for, 2) if they want that service, 3) if they think the tax will do what it is intended to do, 4) if they believe the tax revenue will be wisely handled, and 5) if they think they can afford to pay it. Which, it turns out, is about 50 percent of the time.

TABOR-style limits have this attraction as well: A majority of the American people wants them.

According to a Rasmussen survey, 56 percent of the American people favor a spending cap tied to inflation and population growth.

Progressives generally, and Obama in particular, ought to be less dismissive about amendments like TABOR, because putting the federal government’s financial house in order is going to require tax increases as well as spending cuts. And as much as progressives might wish it, these days Congress demonstrably won’t vote for tax increases, regardless of which party controls it.

Maybe the people will.

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we have. That is a strategy meant to distract us from looking clearly at how this “crisis” was manufactured and who is benefiting hugely from it. The culprit is not the neighbor across the street who took a reduced salary in order to save a pension or who receives a meager Social Security benefit after years of paying into the system. Watch the movie Inside Job for a look at just one portion of the enormous robbery that has taken place.

And remember that we are our brother’s keeper. That is not only a moral injunction. It is also an economic one because, “We all do better, when we all do better.”

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military operation, including the designation of the units assigned to the task. They received access to information on a dog involved in the operation, the name of the dog trainer and the location of the training base.

When President Obama visited the troops to congratulate them, the names and faces of many individuals were plainly visible on TV. The media reported we captured bin Laden’s computers, CDs and telephone numbers with information on numerous

Loose lips sink ships As a former naval officer who served a tour of duty as an intelligence officer, I am astonished at the covert information released to the media by the U.S. government. The operation against bin Laden is an example of this problem.

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As Robert Reich writes, Medicare isn’t the problem, it’s the solution to economic recovery. Rising general health costs are the problem and could be reversed by extending Medicare to all ages, which would save $58 billion to $400 billion annually. Expanding the Medicare risk pool to include both healthy young and sick elderly, and changing payment from fee-for-service to payment-for-quality, would provide significant savings. Permitting Medicare to negotiate bulk drug rates (prohibited by Medicare Part D reform) would substantially reduce prescription costs for all.

Under Republicans’ “free market” pretense of vouchers, seniors will pay much more out-of-pocket, making health care available only to those who can afford to pay outright. Congress exacerbated the wealth shift upward by extending Bush tax cuts in 2010 and cutting Social Security payroll taxes, jeopardizing that program.

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The non-competitive ride will be held on Sunday, June 5, beginning and ending at Scott Carpenter Park.

The ride includes either the 25-mile B-360, which begins between 3 and 3:30 p.m., or the 18-mile B-180, which begins at 3:30 and 4 p.m. For more information, see at http://1.usa.gov/m2c7Pa.

Restorative justice help needed Boulder County Community Justice Services is seeking volunteers for a restorative justice program designed to help offenders repair harm done to the community. Volunteers work with clients who have committed misdemeanor crimes and have been ordered to do community service with government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Volunteers may serve as case managers or case assistants in Boulder or Longmont. Both require a six-month commitment and six to eight hours per week during regular business hours.

Case managers assist in matching clients with suitable community service opportunities and monitor clients to ensure they are fulfilling their courtappointed responsibilities. Case assistants help with administrative tasks such as tracking client hours and appointments.

Participants must be 21 or older and have good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse populations.

The deadline to register is June 3. For details and registration information, contact Janice Allan at 303-441-3718 or jallan@bouldercounty.org.

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Flipping off the po-po The ACLU of Colorado earns kudos for providing free criminal defense services to Shane Boor, a 35-year-old Colorado man who flipped off a Colorado State Patrol officer. Boor, who has no criminal record, was on his way to work when he passed a state trooper who had just pulled over another driver.

Boor flipped the officer the bird — only to have another state patrol officer show up at his workplace later that morning and hand him a criminal summons.

Boor faced criminal prosecution — and possible jail time — for a hand gesture.

But after the ACLU intervened, the state patrol dropped the charges, acknowledging that the use of one’s middle finger is a free speech issue.

“Our client engaged in peaceful, silent symbolic expression that is protected by the First Amendment,” said Mark Silverstein, ACLU’s legal director.

“The protection of the Constitution is not limited to speech that is acceptable in polite society. The First Amendment also protects expression that may be disrespectful, coarse or even vulgar. It’s rude to flip off a cop, but it’s not a crime.”

Someone at state patrol HQ needs to pass word along to the two officers involved in Boor’s case. Hell, maybe they should hold a briefing for the entire force. That way taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill for another bullshit summons or additional court time.

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rights was first brought to light by Amnesty International, which claims women were beaten, blasted with stun guns, strip-searched and then forced to submit to vaginal exams — sometimes with soldiers in the room — to determine whether they were still virgins.

The Egyptian government at first denied these claims. Then a senior Egyptian general apparently found his balls and admitted that female protesters were, indeed, subjected to these exams.

“We didn’t want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we

wanted to prove that they weren’t virgins in the first place,” the general said.

“None of them were [virgins].”

First, it doesn’t take a penis to break a hymen. It’s quite possible for a woman’s hymen to rupture or break as a result of physical activity. But most importantly, women who aren’t virgins can still be raped. Forcing these women to endure vaginal exams under threat of violence is itself a form of sexual assault.

It’s a case of military men using sexual violence as a means to bully women who dared to speak their minds.

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Can marriage be saved?

Data released by the U.S. Census department reveals that married couples no longer make up the majority of U.S. households. They now account for only 48 percent of households, down from 52 percent in the last census. What’s up with that?

Well, for starters, lots more heterosexual couples are living together with no plans to marry. The number of unmarried cohabiting couples has jumped by 13 percent since 2009, to 7.9 million. Also, with people living longer, more elderly individuals are finding themselves living alone. Further, the census collected data on same-sex partners, who no longer feel the need to pretend to be roommates.

While conservatives lament this, wringing their hands and crying into their grape juice, they’re missing an obvious solution. If they want to change those statistics and show how truly important marriage is for the American family, all they need to do is legalize gay marriage.

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES DEAL WITH BUSHELS OF NEW STATE REGULATIONS BY JEFFERSON DODGE

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he medical marijuana game is about to get some new rules that will make it a lot harder to play in the state of Colorado.

On July 1, 77 pages of regulations from the state’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division (MMED) will go into effect, stipulating in excruciating detail everything from the type of locks to be installed on dispensaries’ doors to the kind of cable used for their video monitoring equipment. The regulations come on top of — and as a result of — a series of bills that have been passed in the state legislature over the past 18 months designed to both crack down on the industry and take advantage of its tax revenue potential.

It’s partly an effort to keep tabs on every ounce of medical marijuana used by Colorado patients, ensuring that none of it leaves the state or streams in over our borders. Every dispensary is now required to produce all of its marijuana in Colorado (30 percent can be obtained from other Colorado dispensaries over the course of a year, but it still must be grown in Colorado).

It’s not just a way to ensure that the state and local governments get to collect the optimum amount of fees and sales tax from the industry. The lockdown may also have something to do with the saber-rattling that federal officials have been doing lately, and it may protect Colorado medical marijuana operations from being targeted by the feds in the same way they have been in other states.

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Boulder attorney Jeff Gard, who specializes in medical marijuana law, says state officials’ desire to create a “vertically integrated” system that tracks pot medicine “from seed to sale” stems in part from a landmark 2005 California case, Gonzalez vs. Raich. In that case, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, the feds were successful in prosecuting a medical marijuana patient even though California law permitted medical marijuana. (Marijuana is still a schedule I controlled substance under federal law.) One of the main arguments used by the court to defend the feds’ authority was that the homegrown pot was entwined in the interstate marijuana market, which in turn opened the door for the government to invoke the Commerce Clause as justification for interjecting itself into what would otherwise be a state’s purview.

Hence, Gard says, if Colorado can demonstrate a “closed loop,” in which none of its marijuana crosses state borders, it strengthens the case against federal intervention.

But some attorneys and dispensary owners are calling the legislation and the new MMED regulations too onerous, if not overreaching.

“I’m not aware of any other industry in the world that is vertically integrated,” says prominent Colorado medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry. “King Soopers Boulder Weekly

passed it to those who accept money from dispensaries for advertising could conceivably be seen as “co-conspirators” in the state’s medical marijuana industry.

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Corry challenges the constitutionality of HB 1284, the 2010 bill that spawned the 77 pages of regulations.

Corry sent a letter to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers on May 27 notifying him that he and his clients plan to launch a legal challenge to HB 1284. In the letter, he outlines a host of claims, including the fact that Amendment 20, the constitutional amendment passed by Colorado voters in 2000, calls for definitions, legislation and criminal penalties to be enacted “not later than” April 30, 2001, not nine years later.

Corry also challenges language allowing local governments to prohibit the cultivation of marijuana, the limit on how much marijuana a dispensary can bring in from outside sources, background check and state residency requirements for licensees, and minimum distances between dispensaries and certain other facilities, like day care centers. He says the bill’s language precluding two or more caregivers from banding together violates citizens’ constitutional rights to association. In addition, Corry questions HB 1284’s prohibition against using “advertising material that is misleading, deceptive, or false, or that is designed to appeal to minors,” calling it a violation of the First Amendment.

“Many things that appeal to minors can also appeal to adults,” Corry writes. “I love watching Sponge Bob with my daughters.”

Deputy Attorney General Geoffrey Blue replied to Corry’s letter the same day, saying “We disagree with your analysis in its entirety, and therefore do not believe there is any room for compromise on the issues you raise.”

Corry acknowledges one silver lining of HB 1284 and other medical marijuana legislation: They make it harder for the feds to crack down on pot medicine in Colorado, since its roots run deep. Everyone from the governor who signed the bill to the legislators who

Gard, unlike Corry, does not believe HB 1284 represents a violation of state constitutional rights. He asserts that the legislation simply lays out the details of how Amendment 20 is to be implemented. One is at the macro level, the other at the micro level, Gard says, and neither takes precedence over the other.

“We have free speech, but can you yell fire in a theater?” he asks. “No. Can you vote? Yes, but on the first Tuesday in November, with an ID.” Gard adds that the constitutional amendment did not grant the right to sell medical marijuana.

“If we both have a valium prescription, and you run out, I can’t sell you mine,” he says. “That’s a felony.”

Besides, Gard says, HB 1284 gives legitimacy to an industry that has long suffered from a credibility problem. Much like the outcry over approving gambling in certain Colorado towns in 1990 soon faded with the creation of strict regulations, the regulatory structure being implemented for medical marijuana will have the effect of making it more widely accepted than it is currently, he says.

Despite his concerns about HB 1284, Corry acknowledged in an interview with Boulder Weekly that he advises clients who want to make a profit with their medical marijuana operation to follow the legislation — and the 77 pages of rules — to be legitimate in the state’s eyes.

That path is an intricate, costly one to follow, but for those who want to keep their noses clean, it’s currently the only way under state law. At a three-hour legal seminar held in Denver by the Cannabis Therapy Institute on April 19, Corry went through the new rules page by page, giving medical marijuana professionals some idea of what will be expected of them.

The new rules will apply on July 1 for dispensaries and other medical marijuana operations that met a series of 2010 deadlines for filing paperwork with their local governments and the state to continue to operate.

While they will have to comply with the new rules on July 1, legislation passed this spring precludes eligibility for all other MMJ businesses until July 1, 2012, which Corry says “is going to lock down the industry.” Gard estimates that 85 percent of Boulder County’s dispensaries met those deadlines and will have to begin complying this summer — even if the state does not have its monitoring systems up and running for months.

“The state may not come around until October, but they’ll be looking at what you had going back to July,” Gard says.

HB 1284 differentiates between a single patient — or her caregiver — growing marijuana for personal use see MARIJUANA Page 14

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and the larger-scale cultivation and sales operations that serve many patients. In the first category, a caregiver can have no more than five patients, and no more than six plants and two ounces of medicine per patient. Opposition to the fivepatient limit is something Corry and Gard can actually agree on, because they say it arbitrarily limits patients’ access and choice in an industry where one caregiver’s strain might be highly effective and in high demand.

In the large-scale category, there are three types of medical marijuana operations allowed under HB 1284: the Medical Marijuana Center (MMC), which is the dispensary; Medical Marijuana Infused Products (MIP), or “edibles,” providers; and Optional Premises Cultivation Operations (OPC), which are grow operations.

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To hear Corry and Gard tell it, no matter which path a business takes, its carefully tracked inventory is tied back to the number of patients it has. It can have hundreds of patients, and the more one has, the more expensive the state fees — the categories are less than 300 patients, 300 to 500 patients, and more than 500 patients. (Gard says the cheapest license is $7,500, plus $1,250 for a grow operation, not including any fees required by local government, like the $5,000 charged by the city of Boulder.)

But regardless of how many patients they have, operations are still limited to six plants and two ounces per patient.

“If you have an excess amount, you are required to destroy it,” Corry says.

And from the moment the seed is planted to the second it is sold to the customer at the cash register, its location and other identifying information is documented. The plant — and later, the package that the dried product is placed in — will sport a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag not unlike the ones affixed to merchandise at Walmart to track inventory and set off alarms at doorways.

According to Dan Hartman, MMED director, his inspectors will be able to enter a grow operation with a handheld reader and instantly compare the amount and ID numbers of the entire crop with the state’s database of what should be there. Alerts will notify regulators if there is any discrepancy between what is on site and what is in MMED records, whether it’s when the packaged product is scanned as it’s loaded onto the delivery truck or checked in electronically upon arriving at the store.

Video cameras will be rolling (only during work hours if approved alarm systems have motion detectors activated during off-hours) not only at the store, but at key points in the grow operation,

including when it is weighed, before and after drying and packaging. Operations will have to keep 20 days of videotape stored and accessible to MMED at all times, with an additional 20 days of archived video, available on DVD or a hard drive, for instance.

The marijuana must be inserted in sealed containers with tamper-proof bands, no more than one pound per container, transported to the MMC (and documented on the driver’s manifest) within 48 hours, and weighed again at the center within eight hours.

Those in the medical marijuana business will have to inform the state within 10 days if they have any criminal arrests or convictions, and they must report any new patients they acquire within 72 hours. The 77 pages of rules contain a long list of possible violations and the sanctions that accompany them.

“It’s going to be hard at the beginning to keep all of this in your brain and do what they want,” Corry told attendees at the April 19 seminar. “Use your common sense. … They don’t want used paraphernalia anywhere. They don’t want any evidence of use on the premises.”

MMED inspectors, who Corry refers to almost affectionately as “reefer rangers,” will be able to inspect the marijuana facilities at any time, as can other law enforcement officers. Corry says licensees complying with the state process effectively give up their Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, and they are guilty until proven innocent.

“It’s a recipe for some degree of unfairness,” he says, adding that he unsuccessfully pushed for better oversight of the inspectors themselves. “This entire scheme gives massive amounts of power to these regulators. This is like prohibition. Who’s watching the watchers? … They’re the good guys, they’re the government. But human beings are human beings.”

Corry expects regulators to set up stings, similar to the way that police send underage drinkers in to test bars and liquor stores.

“Assume that everyone who comes in is a cop,” he said on April 19. “That should be the chief operating principle for your employees.”

And the 77 pages of rules will likely grow. There are still significant sections, like “Instructions for Local Licensing Authorities and Law Enforcement Officers,” that were left blank, or “reserved,” to be completed in the future.

The state’s need to fill in those holes and get up to speed on the entire monitoring and regulatory structure was one of the main reasons why full implementation see MARIJUANA Page 15

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ARE EDIBLES THE FUTURE?

BY JEFFERSON DODGE

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ob Corry, one of Colorado’s most prominent medical marijuana attorneys, says the new regulatory system that goes into effect on July 1 holds some inherent advantages for “edibles,” or marijuanainfused products.

After all, it’s not just about the brownies any more. One can now easily find marijuana-infused lollipops, chews, drinks, pills — even medicated olive oils and balms.

Corry says there was an intentional effort in the 2010 legislation HB 1284 to give edibles an advantage over marijuana that is smoked or vaporized, in part because of a perception that it is safer for patients.

It’s also a bit more politically palatable.

“My mother is way more likely to try a brownie than smoke a bowl,” Corry says.

But Boulder medical marijuana attorney Jeff Gard rightly points out that infused products do not have the same immediate effect that accompanies smoking the medicine, because it has to be ingested and digested. In addition, he says, the potency of edibles varies widely.

“It either doesn’t work or your legs don’t work,” Gard says.

Corry acknowledges that edibles are “uneven,” until you find a type you like and get used to it.

Gard counters that HB 1043, the medical marijuana “clean-up bill” passed by the legislature this spring, contains additional regulation of infused products, not to mention HB 1250, which was originally aimed at banning edibles.

“Some kid got a hold of a parent’s brownie and all hell broke loose,” Gard says.

In the end, the version of HB 1250 that passed simply requires edibles to be packaged in a way that is “significantly difficult” for children under the age of 5 to open and that hides the product.

Dan Hartman, director of the state’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, describes it as making sure “a cookie is not out there looking like a cookie.”

Corry says he’s not opposed to HB 1250, although it will require providers to take on extra costs that will be passed on to patients.

Hartman says he doesn’t see much difference in the way edibles and the smoked product are regulated.

“We’re certainly not treating them any differently,” he says.

And Gard estimates that edibles make up only between 4 percent and 16 percent of his clients’ business.

“Infused products are not the future of this industry,” he says.

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was put off a year in HB 1043, the medical marijuana “clean-up bill” passed this spring.

Hartman says he and his regulators are thankful for the extra time.

“It helps us quite a bit,” he says. “We need to do our due diligence and not hurry it along.”

But medical marijuana operations classified as “existing” don’t have that extra time — they have less than a month before the new rules kick in.

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fits and around 1,250 grow operations statewide.

And there still seems to be some educating to do. Gard says he was recently discussing the new regulations with an officer in the Gilpin County Sheriff ’s Office who wasn’t aware that he will have detailed information about medical marijuana operations at his fingertips when he goes on a call.

“You should have seen the look on this police officer’s face,” Gard recalls. “He asked, ‘Are they really doing that?’”

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Her focus, Merz says, is on staying local. Most of their wine is sold on the Front Range, and their grapes are sold only to Colorado wineries, including the Boulder Creek Winery.

Mike Thompson, co-owner of Boulder Creek Winery with his wife, Jackie, and son, Will, collects corks to be recycled, reuses wine shipping containers, sends grape stems and skins to EcoCycle to be composted, and uses stainless steel tanks instead of plastic to make their wines, which are all vegan and gluten-free, he says.

Grapes for the winery are trucked over in a Mile High Frozen Foods truck that delivered beef patties to Grand Junction stores and would otherwise drive back to the Front Range without a load.

Organic-certified wines from Europe and California are great, he says, but, “How green is that when you’re shipping wines 5,000 miles and you could be buying wines from 250 miles away?”

“We make all the wine right here in Boulder, and we sell 75 percent of our wine right here in Boulder, so we’re not trucking our wine all over the universe,” he says.

For a taste of Colorado wines, check out the first annual Winefest Denver June 9-11. A Winefest preview tasting will be held at 3 p.m. on June 5 at Salt Bistro, where the wine list often showcases Colorado wines.

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“As with many other products, I would like to always buy local, but in wine it’s almost like saying you want to buy local, but you eat pineapple,” Keys says. Wine connoisseurs may need to be more flexible, she says, modify their tastes and consider local alternatives.

“I hope that more people in Colorado give Colorado wine a chance,” says Ulla Merz, who co-owns Bookcliff Vineyards and Winery with her husband, John Garlich. “I think at this point it can compete with any other wine you find in liquor stores.”

Though the Palisade-based Bookcliff Vineyards has avoided pesticides and herbicides since opening in 1996 and switched from chemical fertilizers to a compost of apple peels, chicken manure and wood chips, Merz says they won’t be labeling their wines with anything more official than “sustainable.”

“With our practices now, we could decide to go forward and be organically certified. We won’t, and I’m not interested in that,” Merz says. “It does cost money. It’s an additional effort, and currently there are no rewards for selling wine made from organically grown grapes. It’s a personal choice that I make wanting to be a good steward of the land because I believe in it, but I don’t turn it into a marketing message.”

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he idea of organic wines is a little laughable in Europe.

“I’ve actually gotten scoffed at,” Joanne Keys, executive director of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado and co-owner of the West End Wine Shop, says of her inquiries into sustainable wine-making in Europe. “It’s like, ‘What do you think? We farm the same way and make our grapes the same way as our fathers and grandfathers did.’”

Traditional wine-making practices often just happen to also be sustainable practices. It’s the modern spin on the wine palette — the need for a French wine at a Colorado table — that isn’t sustainable. Buying local wines reduces the carbon footprint of wine consumption and supports practices that have less environmental impact, even when the wines don’t boast a full organic certification. “[Wine-makers] actually say they were not going to go after being certified because it’s really expensive and it’s a marketing pit,” Keys says.

She’s heard customers eyeing the wines in her store’s organic section debating whether the wine will be as good or keep as long.

“All I can say is that wine has been around for centuries and centuries, long before we had the pesticides or techniques we have today,” she says.

It’s shipping 39-pound crates of wine all over the world that really creates the problem with sustainable sipping.

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HOW THE FUNKIEST BASS PLAYER IN THE WORLD GOT HIS GROOVE

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illiam “Bootsy” Collins, bassist extraordinaire and rhythmic savant, has done it all. He played regimented, tightly wound funk with Godfather of Funk James Brown.

He played with George Clinton and his merry band of Funkadelic freaks. He broke out on his own. He made beats with the rap superstars of the early ’90s.

He got addicted to drugs. He got sober. Now, at the age of 59, Bootsy finds himself reflecting on his life and the forces that drove him to where he is today.

His latest album, The Funk Capital of the World, reveals the man who once shouted to his rotund, comely backup singers to “Sing it, pretty-fat!” being introspective and thoughtful.

“I think it’s time to point people to where I got my funk from,” Bootsy tells me, on the phone from his hometown of Cincinnati. “I wanted to leave an imprint on this album of who inspired me. Something people could connect the dots with.”

Indeed, within the album’s 16 tracks are tributes to Brown, Bootsy’s late brother Phelps “Catfish” Collins, the late Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider and Jimi Hendrix.

“I just wanted to point back,” Bootsy says.

“A lot of people in the black world don’t know about Jimi Hendrix like in the white world.

So for me to bring up Jimi Hendrix to let people know that he was one of my main inspirations, for a lot of black people, that was kind of surprising.”

I twist my mind around that funky brainteaser — why, especially during his prime and just after his death in 1970, was Jimi Hendrix

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An Evening with NASA Astronaut Alvin Drew — It might not be your childhood dream of actually being an astronaut, but it’s pretty close. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Saturday, June 4

Festival Brazil — Party like Lent’s about to start. 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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How We Eat: Experiential Workshop — Learn how to eat mindfully while minding what you eat. 1-4 p.m. Nomad Community House, 1480 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-847-5356.

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Storytelling With Photography — Learn which pictures are worth a thousand words, and why. 6 p.m.

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less relevant to the black community than he was to the white one?

“We are a people that is not as evolved as far as what’s going on in the overall world of things. If you remember one time, we weren’t allowed to read,” Bootsy says with a chuckle. “So you know, all those things play into us being behind a lot of current events, you know.

Especially back in that time. It was not popular for blacks to be freaky. It was not popular for a black guy to — I call it ‘eat mouth,’ you know. I guess you know what that is, right?”

No, I don’t.

“Eat—.” Some static blocks out the second word. Maybe he means eating acid? I’ve heard how Bootsy quit James Brown’s band after being falsely accused of tripping one too many times, but I’m not sure if the drug was as popular with Bootsy’s crew as it was with the hippie movement. I ask him to clarify, stopping just short of asking him to spell out the elusive concept for me like he would to a 2-year-old. He does so anyway.

“No, no, no,” he says, carefully enunciating each syllable. “VA-GI-NA.” Oh. Now I get it.

“I ain’t just telling you this stuff, you know! It just wasn’t popular for a black man to eat mouth,” Bootsy continues.

“All of this tells you that that’s another reason why Jimi Hendrix wasn’t popular.

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Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are was wearing “To have experi$41.50. 2032 14th St., Boulder, clothes that black enced both sides is like 303-786-7030. men wouldn’t total bliss. Because on dare wear. … I the one side with don’t care how incredible his music was, James Brown, I needed that discipline. I blacks would not identify with him needed to be structured. I needed that because he was wearing the wrong stuff. foundation,” Bootsy says. “Coming up in a He was hangin’ with the freaks as far as home without a father, I needed that structhey was concerned. That’s where I think ture; I needed that presence of telling me our generation came in. A few of us exactly what I needed to do. [Eventually], came in as blacks and wanted to explore it got to the point where I felt like I didn’t what Jimi was into. I think I was one of want to be told anymore. I just wanted to them. And eating mouth wasn’t that freak out, you know.” deep for me.”

He stresses how playing with George A 19-year-old Bootsy brought his Clinton got his priorities straight. distinctly pro-cunnilingus, pro-freak per“So George allowed me to freak out, spective into the James Brown band in eat mouth — and play music,” he says.

1970, and it’s not surprising that the “What’s bigger than that, man? Come on!” prodigious young bass player and the Brown might have taught Bootsy straight-laced Brown eventually clashed. structure and discipline, but it was But Bootsy stuck around just long Clinton who gave Bootsy the creative enough to glean some important conspace he needed to become the bass cepts from the Godfather of Funk. player he is today. Bootsy is no technical Bootsy, who grew up without a dad in virtuoso, but he has more rhythm than a the poor part of Cincinnati, saw Brown metronome factory and is quite possibly, as a father figure, and at first he welwith respects to Larry Graham, the comed the rigorous structure. But inevifunkiest bass player to ever walk the tably, he tired of Brown’s incessant earth. A fellow musician once said it demands, and by 1972, he had become a best: “Bootsy could hit a rock with a fixture in the P-Funk crew. stick from the ground and it’d be funky.”

He credits experiencing both the That might be the best way to describe old-school structure and the hippie Bootsy’s minimalist style, where he never

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lets too many notes get in the way of the groove.

“That’s pretty funky!” Bootsy agrees, laughing.

What’s his secret to maintaining such a funky groove for so long?

“I’m going to tell you a little secret, David,” Bootsy says. “It might have something to do with early eating mouth. It might have something to do with that. I’m not sure. I’m not saying for young people to go out at, like, 6 or 7 years old and eat mouth. I’m just saying that I think eating mouth might have had a little something to do with that.”

You heard it here first, straight from the mouth of Bootsy: Oral sex begets musical muse. Who could have guessed such a common human experience would have inspired such a marvelous body of work?

“Yeah, eating mouth had a lot to do with the start-up of my whole career, because my brother played guitar, and he had a lot of chicks following me around,” Bootsy reflects. “And so at 9 years old, I wanted a lot of chicks following me around. I don’t know what for, but it looked cool to me. So early on, I got the idea that if I learned how to play guitar, maybe I could have some chicks following me! And once they started following me, I started sniffing that mouth, and then I was eating the mouth.”

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The fantastic felines of Cats prowl Boulder’s Dinner Theatre

by Gary Zeidner

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o parents still teach their children to “respect your elders,” or has that onetime de rigueur parental mandate gone the way of the dodo, cassette tapes and sex without the specter of AIDS? Judging from reality television and my last 23-year-old girlfriend, I’m going to assume that showing deference to those older than you is neither preached by harried parents nor practiced by many young whippersnappers today. If it were, anyone below the age of 34 would be required to show proper veneration for Boulder’s Dinner Theatre.

That’s right; Boulder’s Dinner Theatre is enjoying its 34th season, which means that BDT has bested the one and only Lord Jesus Christ in terms of corporeal longevity on this big, blue, mostly-watercovered rock we call Earth. (That is, of critics and audiences alike. While many see it as the course, assuming you go by the widely accepted belief most entertaining example of musical theatre on four that Jesus died when he was 33 and was not, in fact, (OK, two) legs, others find its melodies obvious, its imaginary.) Way to go, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre! structure elementary and its resolution cloying.

Obviously, if you’d rather be BDT! BDT! BDT! spayed or neutered than sit You know what ultraOn the Bill famous Broadway musical is through another round of Cats plays through Sept. 24 at nearly the same age as Jesus “Memories,” then by all means Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 and Boulder’s Dinner Theatre? pass this Dutchie on the leftArapahoe Ave. Tickets start at $35. For tickets or information, hand side.

Cats. After its debut in 1981, call 303-449-6000, or visit If, however, you’re one of the Cats quickly became one of the www.bouldersdinnertheatre.com. legions who longs to hear T.S. most popular Broadway proEliot’s verses come to life in the ductions in modern memory. It form of dazzlingly costumed, immaculately made-up is the second longest-running show in the history of actors dancing and prancing around the stage as they the Great White Way, behind Phantom — which, relate a universal story about love and acceptance, coincidentally enough, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre will then get your tickets now, because Boulder’s Dinner be putting on in November — and in front of Les Theatre does Cats to the nines.

Miserables.

Having seen Cats numerous times over the years, I Despite its enormous popularity, Cats often divides

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wondered what more I could take away from such well-worn material. To be honest, I was a bit worried that I might have grown bored with Rum Tum Tugger, Skimbleshanks, Grizabella and the rest, but I put my faith in Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. After all, they’ve never let me down in the past, and, sure enough, they wowed me again.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre hits all the (forgive me) high notes of Cats without seeming to need to try. The choreography fits vast amounts of movement into a relatively small space without risking either actor or audience life or limb. The tap number is tap-tastic. The jokey segments get big laughs. And the odd bits of sentiment — particularly the heartbreaking story of Gus (aka Asparagus), the broken-down theater cat — are truly affecting.

Still, it was the little moments crafted by cast and crew that kept Cats fresh for me. During intermission, Old Deuteronomy sat atop his throne silently flicking his tail and mooning at the Moon.

Later, while upstage was filled with Bast’s minions leaping and lapping, a lone cat crouched quietly behind them in the husk of some discarded appliance, watching and waiting.

At this point, Cats is a theatrical known quantity.

Face it, you’d have to insert an originally scripted segment in the middle styled after Nunsense A-Men! and call it Dogs to inspire any sort of double takes from the crowd. Familiarity, though, doesn’t always breed contempt, and I’m sure that many folks will flock to BDT to take in their second or third performance of Cats. And if you’re one of the few who has never seen the show before, you won’t do any better than the BDT version.

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In the belly of the beast

Noah and the Whale singer shares his thoughts on music critics and more

by Dave Kirby

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here’s a bit of peril involved in mining this meme too deeply, but as Noah and the Whale slide a little awkwardly out of their charmingly twee folkie-pop dungarees into shinier, smooth-surface synth-pop threads, it may not be much of a surprise that their third long player, Last Night On Earth, comes across as a collection of bus-window epiphanies and unforced glimpses of puny redemption, plainspoken and seldom aspiring to folk-poet ironies or cleverly understated epistles of revelation.

That sort of Grand Statement-ism wouldn’t suit this London quintet very well, anyway. Charlie Fink’s songwriting has always pivoted on the carefully drawn borders between first-person reflection and third-person observation, a search for little more than a subtle moment, or a fleeting image, or a small lesson learned momentarily.

Still, though, if Last Night on Earth, with its infectious leadoff single “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.” is a plainsong tome on growth and growing up and growing away, delivered in two-syllable simplicity, it also represents a band three releases into a good, solid career, willing to extend, at the least, its musical reach.

“I think we wanted to challenge ourselves with this record,” Matt “Urby Whale” Owens told Boulder Weekly over a shaky and reluctant transatlantic phone line a couple of weeks ago. “We’re very reactive to what we’re listening to at the time. We don’t really write a lot tunes and then edit it down to an album.

We tend to write for the album, so we’ve got it pretty well down beginning to end. At the beginning of last year, we were listening to a lot of classic American rock — Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, guys like that. And then, by later in the year, we were on to other things. Brian Eno, Tom Waits. So the advantage to taking a long time to do this record — our other records we made in a few weeks, and this one we had six months — was that we could absorb all those

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things and let the songs take on a sort of new life.”

Before we got Urby on the phone, we thought, just for grins, to see whether their growth spurt had seduced or alienated the tastemakers, stateside and back in the Realm. Bands that survive the freshman blush of critic love long enough to release a majorlabel third offering are likely to earn some attention in the rags.

The self-appointed guardians of indie-cool at Pitchfork all but threw up on the thing, basically berating Fink and the band for indifferently hawking watered down, carelessly derivative drek unworthy of pimple-goo commercials, while the notoriously corrosive scribes at NME, legendary merchants of toxic nastiness the dudes at Pitchfork could only dream about, absolutely loved the thing.

Maybe we need to get out more, but we were perplexed.

Urby wasn’t impressed much, either way, laughing at the notion that the NME could like, well, anything.

“Yeah … interesting. Ha! I think, ultimately, when it comes to that kind of thing, if you make the record that you want to make … it’s like, you’ve got albums

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No outside influences. And so once we’ve finished a record, it’s ours; if someone doesn’t like it, we really don’t care. We make music as good as we can make it.

“Now,” Urby continues, “I think if you compromise in that, you try to make a record you hope people will like, then you might take criticism for that.”

And even if the common perception is that they became L.A.-produced pop product all of a sudden, Urby takes an unsurprisingly longer view of the band’s five-year career, and borrows from his own experience as a lover of records.

“The thing is, our records are very different,” Urby says. “So, there is an element of, say, someone who likes the darker, more personal lyrics of the first record might not take to this. … The problem is, there’s two things. Most of my favorite records, I wasn’t a big fan of when I first listened. And the same with my favorite artists. They grow on you. The artists I like best are the ones where I’m never quite sure what they’re going to put out next.

“And the thing is, when I listen to some of my favorite albums, it wasn’t until the fourth listen, the fifth listen, when it finally hit me and I became obsessed with it. So when the guys are reviewing albums, I don’t know how many times these guys actually listen to albums before they write about them.”

But life goes on. And America — the stages, not the blogs and not the columns — awaits the band.

“It’s kind of an English dream, when you form a band, to just tour the States. Playing the LAs and the New Yorks, and everything in between.

“Growing up in an English band, it always seems sort of out-of-reach.”

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inTze Wu likes to break barriers.

She broke several when she founded Sounds of Lyons, a classical chamber music festival in one of the world capitals of bluegrass.

She overturned conventional expectations by taking the festival from zero to illustrious in only two years.

And she has done this with programming that defies all conventions. She has mixed classical masterworks with folk music. She has created concert programs that startle with unexpected juxtapositions.

She has built entire programs around stories.

The third Sounds of Lyons, taking place Friday through Sunday, June 3-5, in venues around Lyons, MinTze Wu and John Sousa play a traditional Irish tune at last will do all of these things — and do them, characteristically, in completely new and unexpected ways. year’s Sounds of Lyons.

Friday’s opening concert is a new twist on the concert music-folk music pairing. music world now.’

“We’re presenting a very interesting combination of “The openness of the sound at the beginning of the folk, modern and Baroque instruments,” Wu explains.

Art of Fugue is really how the folk music starts as well.

“We have banjo, guitar, nyckelharpa, a Swedish folk I am very fascinated with how they derive from very instrument, the [Baroque] viola da gamba and violin in similar elements.” this ensemble.”

But that’s only half of the concert. The second half For this eclectic group, Wu selected music by the — and there’s not space to describe all the surprises most august of classical masters, J.S. Bach. The prohere — will focus on variations, with 17th century gram will start with arrangements of three of Bach’s music, African music, American folk music and French two-part inventions, known to all beginning piano stuconcert music, sometimes enlivened with the group’s dents. own variations.

“The inventions will be sort of experimenting with Saturday night the festival will offer a more tradithe sound of the different instrument combinations,” tional string quartet concert: Beethoven’s Quartet in F Wu says. “And then we will put all five together to do minor, op. 95, Shostakovich’s unfamiliar String Quartet the Art of Fugue.”

No. 7, and Benjamin Britten’s even less familiar Art of Fugue is one of Bach’s most learned works, Quartet No. 2. Here the theme — “War and Peace” — but Wu approaches the score with her usual adventurcasts a new light on these highly personal works. None ousness. of them is overtly about war, but they feature internal “Between parts of the Art of Fugue we will diverge struggles that will emerge as analogous to war. to some Swedish music. It’s not a stark change of “The central part of this program is Britten,” Wu sound, and then you realize, ‘Ah! You are in the folk says. “Britten is a pacifist, and for me the Second

Quartet tells the horror of the war. And especially the final movement for me is the lingering song of the dead.

“I feel that he’s really dealing with how we survive with a kind of hope. Shostakovich is a very obvious choice for a companion [about] how we deal with our own war and our own peace. And then almost any Beethoven you could put in there, [but] we do Op. 95 because it’s just so tormented.”

About Sunday’s concert, Wu says, “This last musical journey is always in the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, where we can play with the lighting, and it has that element of nature as well.

“This is the one concert that there is a kind of story line. It’s a concert without a plot or actors, but it has pretty distinct roles each instrument is playing, and it will be quite apparent to the audience what story we are trying to tell.

“The story is the earth before we came along, how we knew to be peaceful with it, how we departed from that, and to reflect this whole relationship of us as humanity and earth.”

Here, the framing element is a piano trio by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, eight movements broken into four pairs separated by performances by solo flute, percussion and a simple chant sung by children.

After a couple of brutal movements in the piano trio and a chaotic percussion piece by David Lang, a flute solo by South African composer Alexander Johnson returns to a more peaceful mood. The story closes with the final movements of the piano trio and what Wu calls “an end of time quality.”

The whole festival is unconventional, but Wu knows exactly why she wants it that way.

“I like to create a theatrical experience with music,” she says. “I love the music so much and I want to maximize its effect.”

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Thursday, June 2

music Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m.

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

Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Colorado Children’s Chorale. 7 p.m. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

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

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

Kate and Brent Jazz. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m.

Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

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

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116.

Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2580782.

Trailer Park Boys Live — Starring Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

events Advanced Blogging Skills. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m.

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Student Showcase with Bassline and Watch For Wildlife — The members of Bassline may be young, but they channel classic blues-rock like a much more mature band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m.

Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Comedyworks Presents Lori Callahan and Gretchen Hess. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Suite 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.

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Lafayette Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-499-2494.

Poetry and the Public. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Friday, June 3

music Ars Nova Singers’ 25th Anniversary Season Finale. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165.

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Boulder/Denver Area Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 31.

Confluence Project. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Through June 26.

Exhibition by Henrique Oliveira.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Kevin Singleton. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through July 31.

Ourrubberos — By Jessica Moon Bernstein. Boulder Museum of Contemporay Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption —

Photographs by Chris Jordan.

BioLounge, CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Watching Me Watching You — Drawings by Joe Zucker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — Paintings by various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 23.

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Austin Leonard Jones, Cure for Madeline.

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

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Dispatch. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

DJ Chonz and Friends. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Easy Bill. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Eric Wiggs. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

John Alex Mason Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Joy Kills Sorrow. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Lisa Bell. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Noah and the Whale — With Bahamas. 9 p.m.

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

Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Quemandita. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Scarlet Canary, Wireframe, Shatterproof.

7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

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

Trailer Park Boys Live — Starring Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

events Boulder Designers Group for Women. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Comida Mobile Mexi-Feast. 4:30-7 p.m.

Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-530-1381.

An Evening with NASA Astronaut Alvin Drew. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

First Friday Art Walk. 6 p.m. Downtown Louisville, 236-5206 Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Saturday, June 4

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Ars Nova Singers’ 25th Anniversary Season Finale. 7:30 p.m. Frederic C. Hamilton Family Recital Hall, 2344 East Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-499-3165.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Dispatch. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre,

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

Through Sept. 24.

Playback Theatre West: Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. June 4.

18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

Erica Brown Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Iron & Wine. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Jim Stricklan and Friends. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Joe Cool Band. 7 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

John Heart Jackie, Jeremy Dion Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Matthew Kocel. 7 p.m. So Be It Studios, 917 Front St., Suite 260, Louisville, 303-926-5316.

My Body Sings Electric. 12 p.m. Flatiron Crossing Mall,1 W Flatiron Crossing Dr #1083, Broomfield, 720-887-7467.

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

Three Generations Of Klezmer — With Hal Aqua & The Lost Tribe, The Bloomers, and Osi Sladek. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Red Feather Woman, Rose Red Elk. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617.

Digital Photography Workflow. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Festival Brazil. 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

The Schiff Dance Collective Training Company: Unlovely. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. June 3 & 4.

Tyrannosaurus Sex (and Other Truths) — A Musical Theater Debut. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Center, CU campus, 303-735-4577. June 3.

Nederland Spring Thaw Clean Up. 9 a.m.

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center, 20 Lakeview Dr., 303-258-0495.

Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. www.TangoAmongFriends.net.

Sunday, June 5

music Acoustic Eidolon. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m.

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

Dispatch. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

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

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

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

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Paul Chesne Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Rebecca Abraxas, Audrey Drake, Dustin Edge. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Sage Quartet. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Stephen Thurston. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

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Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

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1-4 p.m. Nomad Community House, 1480 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-847-5356.

Monday, June 6

music Bootsy Collins. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Chandra Plan Fundraiser. 6 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

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

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Chand Plan Fundraiser. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Cornhole League. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-530-1381.

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction.

7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Getting Started With Final Cut Pro. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Storytelling With Photography. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Web Design Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tuesday, June 7

music Earth, Wind & Fire. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Open Mic. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Student Showcase with Bassline and Watch For Wildlife. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Super Sessions with Super Collider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Folk Dancing. 7-10 p.m. Boulder Civic Plaza, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Moon & Stars. 10 a.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Movie: I AM. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Wednesday, June 8 Adam Bodine. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Andrew Forbes, Nabin Shrestha, Fresh Cut Memory. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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words Thursday, June 2 Ana Forrest’s Fierce Medicine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Thursday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Saturday, June 4 Emma Donoghue’s Room. 2 p.m.

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Monday, June 6 “So You’re a Poet” ­— Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, June 7 Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Tuesday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

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Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

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

Jethro Tull and Special Guest Kansas. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Jubal and Monica Colbi. 7 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

Langhorne Slim — With Samantha Crain Trio.

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9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.

Southern Exposure. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

events Art for Lunch. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

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Thursday, June 2 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, June 3 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, June 4 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, May 5 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Family Pick — All-ages bluegrass jam every Sunday. 3-6 p.m. The Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Monday, June 6 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Twinkle Babies. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Tuesday, June 7 Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Laser Peter and the Wolf. 1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, June 8 Drop-in Storytime. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Laser Perseus and Andromeda. 10 a.m.

Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

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

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or some movies, seeming funny is enough. The Hangover Part II only has to show up to succeed. At once pushy and lazy, the sequel follows the 2009 smash, which has become the most lucrative R-rated comedy in history. Isn’t that depressing? I find that depressing.

Hangover II substitutes Bangkok for Las Vegas, and otherwise follows the templates laid out by director Todd Phillips in the original with a ruthless lack of creativity. I laughed maybe twice, though as with the first one (which I didn’t like, either — clearly I have Hangover issues), Ed Helms’ put-upon dentist Stu, here getting married to a Thai-American woman ( Jamie Chung) in her family’s native land, is the sole source of good will compensating for the script’s permeating smugness.

Why can’t I get on board with these movies, which strive simply for a rollicking, disreputable good time? Too many women enjoyed the first one to write off the phenomenon as a guy thing. I’d say it’s more of a comedy thing.

Phillips — whose previous picture, Due Date, helped to further the mysterious bankability of Zach Galifianakis — favors a rough edge, a mean streak and a vaguely putrid visual style in his tales of badly behaving men. Pushing comic scenarios into offensive

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‘Panda’ not going extinct any time soon

t takes somewhat longer for the awesomeness to turn all that awesome.

And you can’t really replicate that element of surprise that the first movie had going for it: a fan boy panda that gets to team up with his martial arts heroes.

But Kung Fu Panda 2 delivers more heart than laughs, and is, if anything, more visually dazzling than the 2008 original film.

Cuddly, plush Po (voiced by Jack Black) is now a reasonably accomplished and competent Dragon Warrior, a sixth member of the Furious Five, meting out justice with his mad kung fu skillz. But there is a new threat, a preening peacock (literally) that covets all of China and has a new magic weapon, “one that breathes fire and spits metal,” a weapon whose arrival on the scene “could be the end of kung fu.”

“But I just got kung fu!” Po protests.

Po and his Furious friends have a quest: stop Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman); destroy his weapon.

But first, Po’s mentor (Dustin Hoffman) has a new life lesson for him: find inner peace.

“My innards are already super-peaceful,” Po complains. Black has fewer lines with the gonzo-gusto of the first film, just the odd, “My fist hungers for justice!”

But the soul of Panda 2 is Po’s real quest, the one that Boulder Weekly

and risky territory (a la Borat, co-written by Phillips, which I love) can pay significant dividends in the right hands. The envelope-pushing stuff in Hangover II, however, made me want to push back.

Again, a night of extreme debauchery leaves the lads clueless and foggy-brained, unable to recall anything without photographic evidence saved for the end credits. Bradley Cooper returns as Phil, the “cool” one who rarely takes off his sunglasses, and while Cooper has talent, I find his character in these Hangovers to be a jerk. Nothing more. The vaguely pederastic screwball played by Galifianakis, same

thing.

Once again we have the “wake-up scene,” which reveals the boys/men in a hotel room somewhere in Bangkok. Once again we have a missing person: It’s Helms’ future brother-in-law (Mason Lee), whom the lads must locate in time for the wedding. Once again, the cackling Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong, whose privates come in once again for sight gaggery) and his underworld comrades provide a bit of plot for those who need a bit of plot.

Whatever. I need jokes. Something more than a situation recycling the situation in the first one. I’d like filmmakers who, worldwide grosses aside, show more of an interest in filming visual comedy — gross-out, violent, action-based, whatever — with some finesse. The other day someone said to me, “Well, you know, Knocked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Hangover, it’s all the same.” No, it isn’t! No, it isn’t.

The best of Judd Apatow’s guy-centric comedies take care of business (i.e., they’re witty) in addition to taking care of business. Hangover II is more like a spitball meeting, a series of ideas that might, in theory, be good enough for a sequel, than it is an actual movie.

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gives him flashbacks every time he sees Lord Shen’s peacock feather emblem on the wolves that are the villain’s minions: “Where did I come from?” A dumplingloving panda raised by a wok-wielding goose has got to figure out he’s adopted, sooner or later.

Artist-turned-director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who was head of story on the first Kung Fu Panda, sees to it that this sequel is both more striking — cut-out shadow puppets for the opening credits, two-dimensional flashbacks to Po’s childhood — and more

Confucian. When the evil megalomaniac Lord Shen asks his soothsayer (Michelle Yeoh, as a goat) his fortune, her answer applies to greed heads of any age: “The cup you choose to fill has no bottom.”

There are wonderful grace notes in this script, as befits a movie with a Buddhist bent: “Your story may not have a happy beginning. But look at how it turned out.”

The chases are 3-D animated wonders, the martial arts brawls are epic, or “severely cool,” as Po would put it. But the stunt voice casting doesn’t pay off. Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Seth Rogen and others don’t have enough lines to make an impact. And it takes a solid, stolid half-hour to finally get to that first string of laughs, that first blast of flip, funny “awesomeness.”

Still, Panda 2 has more genuinely heart-tugging moments than any Shrek sequel. Which is probably why we’re sure to see more tales of Master Po mastering martial arts, finding inner peace and learning to wok his way.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com Chauvet caves, sealed for eons by a rock fall and only discovered in 1994, where the glistening rockfaces turn out to house humankind’s first art gallery: paintings of horses and mammoths, lions and reindeer, put there some 32,000 years ago by a budding Picasso or two. Amazing. At Century. — Steven Rea

13 Assassins The year is 1844. A young lord rapes and kills with impunity by virtue of his political connections.

Though the era of the samurai is fading, an honest government official covertly enlists 13 swordsmen to assassinate this sadistic lord before he can seize more power. With the clock ticking, the assassins lay a deadly trap for the lord and his army of bodyguards, culminating in one of the bloodiest swordfights ever put to film. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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American: The Bill Hicks Story Three years in the making, American: The Bill Hicks Story brings the tale of one of modern culture’s most iconic heroes to the big screen. Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on.

But his unique gift was to tease apart the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards inherent in much of modern society, using nothing but his hilarious ideas and the uncompromising observational style that continues to resonate with successive generations. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Big Uneasy The media reported that what happened in New Orleans was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media were wrong. But its inability or unwillingness to report the hard truth — that these tragic floods

AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Bridesmaids Thu: 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 2, 5, 8, 10:50 Fast Five Thu: 1:05, 4, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 2:25, 8:10 The Hangover Part II Thu: 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9;40 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 11:05, 12, 2:20, 5:25, 8:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 12:10, 2:40, 3:40, 6, 7, 9:10, 10:20 Priest Thu: 10:20 p.m.

Rio Thu: 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2;15, 4:40 Something Borrowed Thu: 11:55, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 5:30, 11 Soul Surfer Thu: 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 10 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Thor Thu: 11:25, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45 Water for Elephants Thu: 11:10, 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 7:20, 10:10 X-Men: First Class Fri-Wed: 10, 1:10, 3, 4:20, 6:15, 7:30, 10:40 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Bridesmaids Thu:10:45, 1:45, 3:25, 4:45, 6:40, 7:55, 9:45, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 10, 11:20, 12:50, 2:10, 3:40, 5, 6:35, 7:55, 9:25, 10:45 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Thu: 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:20, 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 The Hangover Part II Thu: 10:30,12, 1:05, 2:45, 3:35, 5:15, 6:15, 7:45, 8:45, 10:15, 11:15 Fri-Wed: 10, 10:45, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 9:15, 10, 10:45 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 11:05, 1:30, 3:45,

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Same actors, same premise, same gags. But hey, the location is different!

That totally makes it worth a $10 ticket, right? creating widespread damage were caused by manmade errors in engineering and judgment — has failed both journalism and public safety. For what happened in New Orleans could happen again in other cities across the United States. In The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that could have been prevented, from the people who were there. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Bridesmaids

Everything Must Go

As maid of honor, a single woman leads her best friend and a colorful group of bridesmaids on a wild ride. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

After an alcoholic relapses and his life implodes, he holds a yard sale and tries to start over. At Esquire.

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Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog ventures into southern France’s

local theaters 6:05, 8:25, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 1:55, 4:25, 6:45, 9, 11:20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 11, 12:45, 2:25, 4:15, 5:40, 7:25, 9:05, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 11, 12:05, 2:05, 3:10, 5:15, 6:25, 8:20, 9:30, 11:25 Thor Thu: 10:50, 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 10:25 FriWed: 10:40, 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Water for Elephants Thu: 10, 3:15, 8:55, 11:45 Win Win Thu: 1:15, 6:45 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 X-Men: First Class Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Bridesmaids Thu: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40 The Hangover Part II Thu: 10:30, 11:20, 1:30, 2:10, 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 8, 10:20, 10:45 FriWed: 10:35, 11:20, 1:25, 2:10, 4:35, 5:10, 7:15, 8, 10:20, 10:45 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 10, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Thor Thu: 10:15, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10 FriWed: 11:05, 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:35 Water for Elephants Thu: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 X-Men: First Class Fri-Wed: 10, 10:30, 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 10, 10:30 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Forks Over Knives Thu: 4:15, 7;15, 9:40

Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport) and Guido (Filippo Timi) might be the two loneliest people in the Italian city of Turin. A penniless maid and a chilly ex-cop, they each go about their daily routines like ghosts, both tormented by mistakes and loss from their individual pasts, unable to truly move forward with their lives in any meaningful way. But when the two meet for the first time in the grimmest of settings — a schmaltzy speed-dating event — wary flirtation blooms into desperate passion. Only a single, shocking incident, an ill-timed robbery, threatens to destroy the salvation that Sonia and Guido so quickly find in each other. The Double Hour is at once a stark romance, a touching, psychological thriller and a story about possibilities. At Esquire.

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Fri-Wed: 4:15, 9:25 I Am Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:15 Meek’s Cutoff Thu: 4, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 6:45 The Robber Fri-Wed: 1:45,4, 7, 9:35 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The Double Hour Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7, 9:30 Everything Must Go Thu-Wed: 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Hesher Thu: 4, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 4, 9:45 Midnight in Paris Fri-Wed: 1:45, 2:20, 4:20, 5, 7:05, 7:45, 9:30, 10 Queen to Play Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 FriWed: 1:30, 7:30 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 13 Assassins Thu-Mon: 2, 7:10 Tue: 2 p.m.

Wed: 2, 7:10 American:The Bill Hicks Story FriWed: 2:30, 5, 7:20, 9:45 The Big Uneasy Thu: 2:30, 4:45, 9:45 Hobo With a Shotgun Thu: 5, 9:50 FriSat: 9:50 p.m.

Mia and the Migoo Fri: 2:15, 4:30, 7:30 Sat: 11:30, 2;15, 4:30 Sun-Tue: 2:15, 4:30, 7:30 Wed: 2:15, 4:30 Miral Thu: 1:30, 4, 7, 9:40 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Tue: 7 p.m.

The River Sat: 7 p.m.

Tank Girl Fri: 10 p.m.

Fast Five

The stars of all previous installments in the surprisingly successful franchise about drag racers reunite

Who Took the Bomp? Thu: 7 p.m.

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Bridesmaids Thu: 10:30, 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10:15, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 The Hangover Part II Thu-Wed: 10:50,11:20, 1:15, 1:50, 4:15, 4:50, 7:15, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 11:40, 2, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:55 Thor Thu-Wed: 10:25, 1, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Water for Elephants Thu: 10:40, 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 X-Men: First Class Fri: 10:30, 1:10, 1:40, 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:40, 10, 10:30 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Harvest Wed: 6:30 p.m.

In a Better World Wed: 4 p.m.

The Music Never Stopped Thu: 6:30 p.m. Fri: 4, 9 Sat: 6:30 p.m.

Opera: Manon Sun: 1 p.m.

Phil Ochs:There But For Fortune Thu: 4 p.m. Fri: 6:30 p.m. Sat: 4, 9 Rear Window Sun: 4, 7 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197 Mr. Hulot’s Holiday Thu: 6:30 p.m.

Screening of Scopitones Mon: 6:30 p.m.

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to break once again the speed limit the world over.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson joins the cast as the federal agent on the speedsters’ trail. Good luck with that, pal. Rated R. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez

Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

that invoke Van Gogh, Monet, and Cezanne. Figures are outlined in pastel and bathed in rustic watercolors for a handcrafted look that bursts at the seams with painterly detail. The film is a fable-like journey of a young girl who must overcome her fears on a quest to find her father and save the world from destruction. One night Mia has a premonition. So, after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross-continent journey, through mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The Hangover Part II

Miral

See full review on page 37. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Miral is the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl (played by Freida Pinto) growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and war in every corner of her life. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Forks Over Knives

Hesher Loud music. Pornography. Burning stuff to the ground. These are a few of Hesher’s favorite things.

And they are what Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brings into the lives of TJ (Devin Brochu) and his father, Paul (Rainn Wilson), when he takes up residence in their garage uninvited. Grief-stricken by the loss of TJ’s mother in a car accident, Paul can’t muster the strength to evict the strange squatter, and soon the long-haired, tattooed Hesher becomes a fixture in the household. Like a force of nature, Hesher’s anarchy shakes the family out of their grief and helps them embrace life once more.

At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Hobo With a Shotgun A train pulls into the station — it’s the end of the line. A hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an urban hell. This is a world where criminals rule the streets and Drake, the city’s crime boss, reigns supreme alongside his sadistic, murderous sons, Slick and Ivan. Amid the chaos, the hobo comes across a pawn shop window displaying a second-hand lawn mower. He dreams of making the city a beautiful place and starting a new life for himself. But as the brutality continues to rage around him, he notices a shotgun hanging above the lawn mower. Quickly, he realizes the only way to make a difference in this town is with that gun in his hand and two shells in its chamber. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society I AM I AM, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what’s wrong with it and what we can do to make it better, represents writer/director Tom Shadyac’s first foray into nonfiction following a career as one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Kung Fu Panda 2 See full review on page 37. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Meek’s Cutoff The year is 1845 and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high-plains desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other’s instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the natural enemy. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Mia and the Migoo Created from an astounding 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, Mia and the Migoo is a work of art, breathtaking to behold, with backgrounds

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Mr. Hulot’s Holiday Director Jacques Tati plays a reticent, gangly bachelor off to a summer vacation at St. Marc-sur-Mer in his sputtering 1924 Amilcar. The prologue warns the audience not to look for a plot, as Hulot passes through several comic summer vacation tableaus, including various familiar summer vacationers and signature Mr. Hulot mishaps. In the summer of 1953, a general strike incapacitated the French railroad system. By August, the traditional month for Parisians to escape their city, which was about to be invaded by hordes of American tourists, there was no hope of a settlement — the Parisians were trapped. They vicariously experience a summer vacation through this motion picture that appeared at exactly the right time. A masterpiece of sight and sound gags. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL The Music Never Stopped This is the real-life journey of a father adjusting to his estranged son’s cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities. As he learns from a music therapist the songs that animate his son’s soul — the counterculture ’60s rock-and-roll — he begins to form an unusual but emotionally vibrant bond with the child he thought he had lost. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater O Brother, Where Art Thou?

With their collective eye focused on retrieving a cache of hidden money, three convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) break out of jail in Depression-era Mississippi and embark on an epic journey that bears more than a few similarities to Homer’s Odyssey. Along the way, they fast-talk their way out of jams, sidestep alluring riverside sirens and record a hit country song as the Soggy Bottom Boys. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune Over the course of a meteoric music career that spanned two turbulent decades, Phil Ochs sought the bright lights of fame and social justice in equal measure — a contradiction that eventually tore him apart. From youthful idealism to rage to pessimism, the arch of Ochs’ life paralleled that of the times, and the anger, satire and righteous indignation that drove his music also drove him to dark despair. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Opera: Manon Massenet’s passionate and tragic Manon stars three of today’s operatic luminaries: Rolando Villazón as Chevalier Des Grieux, Samuel Ramey as his father, and the incomparable coloratura Natalie Dessay as Manon herself. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Captain Jack Sparrow returns for another swashbuckling adventure, this time searching for the

Fountain of Youth and tangling with the pirate Blackbeard. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

In the ravaged, post-apocalyptic remnants of a long war between humans and vampires, a warrior priest disobeys his superiors to try to rescue his niece after she’s abducted by bloodsuckers. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez

study partners in law school, and on their way to being something more, when her smooth, confident pal swooped in and snatched him like a hawk seizing a rabbit. Now the couple is about to marry, while Goodwin smiles bravely from the sidelines with aching, unrequited longing and holds back tears. The film is a two-hour pity party, as her hopes for Egglesfield to snap out of it and realize he loves her are raised and dashed. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Colin Covert

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Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) discovers her love for chess when, one day, she comes upon a couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) engaged in an intense match. This obsession with the game, much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter, leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kevin Kline, in his first French-speaking role) — a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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

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Rio Jessie Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jane Lynch and Wanda Sykes provide the voices for this animated tale about a domesticated macaw who travels around the world to chase down the love of his life. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Colony Square and Century. ­— Rene Rodriguez The River The River comes from a novel by Rumer Godden about an English family living along the banks of the Ganges, and in the hands of Jean Renoir the story is translated wonderfully into color and rhythm.

For the most part, the English can’t quite become part of the civilization they’ve tried to dominate.

They stand out by their manner of dress; they move too hastily and abruptly for the pace of life dictated by the river, and they resist the Indian understandings of the processes of life and death.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Robber A champion marathon runner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between heists (and away from police cars) as many as three times a day. Based on the real-life story of Johann Kastenberger (changed to Rettenberger for the film), Austria’s most-wanted bank robber of the 1980s, Benjamin Heisenberg’s thriller is a lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (Revanche). Known as “Pump-gun Ronnie” because of his weapon and the Ronald Reagan mask he slips on during stickups, Rettenberger is portrayed here as an obsessive loner, more concerned with his lap times than other human beings. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Screening of Scopitones The Scopitone is a jukebox that projects motion pictures on top via rear projection. Several thousand were manufactured in France and the U.S.A. in the early and mid-1960s and placed in nightclubs and bars. Hundreds of short music films were made for the Scopitone characterized by imaginative staging of pop music from Europe and the U.S.A. This program features a selection of Scopitone films, including English College Girls by Audry Arno, Pussycat a Go Go by Stacy Adams, Quando Quando by the Kessler Sisters, My Teenage Fallout Queen by George McKelvey, All the Boys and the Girls by Francoise Hardy, High Boots by Mr. Eraserhead, and Caught in the Web of Love by Joi Lansing. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Something Borrowed Ginnifer Goodwin is a wallflower lawyer, Kate Hudson is her domineering alpha-blonde best friend, and Colin Egglesfield is the only available man in New York City. He and Goodwin were

Tank Girl In the year 2033, a comet has turned Earth into a rainless wasteland, and a mega-corporation controls all of the remaining water. In an attempt to end the evil reign of the company’s CEO (Malcolm McDowell), Rebecca (Lori Petty) and her shy friend (Naomi Watts) hijack a stolen tank and jet — at once becoming Tank Girl and Jet Girl. But if they want to save the world, the super-heroines will need help from a mutant race of kangaroo-humans.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Thor The launch of the summer movie season with a big-budget, big-profile comic-book adaptation has become a tradition, and this year, the arrogant god of thunder is kicked out of Asgard and sent to live among the lowly humans on our planet, including Natalie Portman. Kenneth Branagh handled the directorial duties. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Water for Elephants Steamy and sexy with a smack of sadism, this atmospheric adaptation of the Sara Gruen novel is a throwback to old-school Hollywood action/ romance. Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz co-star as a veterinarian, trick rider and unstable ringmaster struggling to save a financially ailing circus during the Depression.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Who Took the Bomp?

Who Took The Bomp? follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour across four continents and through 10 countries. Supported by a community of devoted fans and led by outspoken Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Le Tigre confronts sexism and homophobia in the music industry while tearing up the stage via performance art poetics, no-holds-barred lyrics, punk rock ethos and whip-smart wit in this edgy and entertaining documentary. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Win Win Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty, who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family.

Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boy’s mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything. At Century.

— Landmark Theatres X-Men: First Class This prequel chronicles the early days of the X-Men saga, as superhuman mutants such as the psychic Charles Xavier and the magnetic Erik Lensherr discover their powers and face the future. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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The Colorado winemaker that almost wasn’t

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by Dana Palmie

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t is hard to believe that a Boulder Master Sommelier, author of a scratch-and-sniff guide to vino and founder of three game-changing wine labels as well as a mescal company, would be a practicing environmental lawyer today if not for one fateful glass of wine, but such is the story of Richard Betts.

Despite years of work towards a master’s degree in geology, the vivid memory of a trip to Italy caused by a glass of wine during his last week in school caused Betts to shun academia in favor of working his way up from peeling potatoes in anonymous kitchens to becoming sommelier at the prestigious 20,000-bottle cellar at Aspen’s The Little Nell. After earning the rare title of Master Sommelier, Betts was determined to remove stuffiness from the industry and transformed wine into a decidedly more fun animal by co-founding three labels that reflect his passions — and to great success.

“So far we haven’t had to take anything out back and shoot it, which is a plus,” Betts says.

Betts, who now lives in Boulder, attributes his ability to make wine accessible to people beyond traditional connoisseurs to the partnerships he has forged while founding his labels.

“You have to find a partner that has your aesthetic,” Betts says. “You can’t just say, ‘Well, I like blue,’ and look for someone who says that they can help you make blue. You have to find someone who you say, ‘Oh my gosh, you love blue? I love blue. Let’s make blue.’”

Betts found such a partner in Dennis Scholl, who helped cement Betts’ reputation as a dynamo winemaker by introducing popular culture into the winemaking process through their line Betts & Scholl.

“Richard and I both love hip-hop, so we would drive around for hours and hours and hours looking for the perfect grapes for the Grenache that Richard had in mind, and we would always play hip-hop music,”

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says Scholl. “So we decided we would call our first — and still probably the most famous — Grenache ‘The Chronic.’ Now keep in mind that most people who drink fancy wine don’t know what the chronic is — they don’t know Dre.” Although a legal spat caused the wine to end up being called ‘The Chronique,” no longer was fine wine limited to staid, rich, white guys. Along with a punchy name, the duo drew on Scholl’s extensive knowledge of contemporary art to make its labels as distinct as its attitude — enlisting influential contemporary artists like Mark Grotjahn and Jim Lambie to design the labels. But rewriting the rules didn’t come without some anxiety.

“I called Richard and told him, ‘I’ve looked at 3,000 labels here and nobody is doing what we’re doing.’ And he just said, ‘Well that’s kind of the point,’” Scholl says. “We’ve always erred on the side of going for it, taking a shot, taking a chance.”

Taking chances has certainly paid off. Betts’ newest label, CC:, has revolutionized the industry again by making high-quality wine available at an appealing

price.

“CC: has been an overnight success to the tune of tens of thousands of cases — that’s not an easy thing, but we’ve hit a nerve with people that’s really resonated, and that’s exciting,” Betts says. “It’s cool to take a swing at something and have your passions be shared and indulged.”

“Winemaking is something that a lot of us Master Sommeliers want to get into,” says Bobby Stuckey, who worked with Betts to create Scarpetta, a wine inspired by the same region of northern Italy as Stuckey’s Boulder restaurant, Frasca. “Richard was the first one of us to do that successfully, and we probably couldn’t have started it without him.”

Betts knows that when it comes down to it, though, interesting labels and names are not what the wines are fundamentally about, but act as a way of making wine approachable so that anyone can have access to a sensory experience like the one that changed Betts’ life.

“Some of my nicest memories with wine are not academic — in fact, all of my nicest memories aren’t academic at all — so like that glass that changed my path or one of the first times I had this Muscat. I smelled it and I was like 6 years old again and crashed through my grandmother’s front door after school and she was baking gingersnaps, and that smell and her and it was all right there and it’s so nice, it just warms your heart,” Betts says. “It doesn’t always have to be so vivid, but there’s pleasure in every glass.”

Although Betts is no longer involved in the dayto-day operations of the brands he has founded, his momentum in the wine industry shows no signs of slowing down.

“I’m at that point today where everything is changing again,” he says. “Yeah, maybe there is a little pang that change is coming, but it’s also just so many possibilities — that’s the exciting part.”

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ntriguing goings-on are afoot in emphasized the fruity qualities of these downtown Louisville as summer morsels. We then split an $8 beet and arudraws near. Making my way to meet gula salad. Kuvy noted that the spicy qualifriend Kuvy for a weekend lunch, I ties of the arugula helped draw out the picked my way across a criterium sweetness of the other ingredients, which bike race like a real-life Frogger. My destiincluded delectable candied pecans and pernation was the modern, minimalistic envifectly roasted beets. Generous chunks of rons of Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse. It’s First Snow goat cheese added a hint of an aesthetically clean space, with pristine tangy cream, which complemented the white walls and a welcoming, open warepleasantly subtle white truffle vinaigrette. house-style ambience.

The $13 wild mushroom pizza clocks in The menu here is deceptively simple, at 14 inches in diameter, enough to share. consisting of a variety of starters, sandwichGranted, my crisp crust bias prevented me es, salads, and brick oven pizza. But make from fully embracing it, but I found it othno mistake, the food here is squarely in the erwise exemplary. The crust is of medium artisan pizzeria camp rather than that of the thickness and tended toward the soft and humble neighborhood pizza joint. They also bready. It’s not objectionable, but at the have 21 beers on tap, a third of them same time, it doesn’t break any new ground.

Colorado craft brews.

But the toppings are first rate, especially the Sophisticated starters include winter mix of Hazel Dell fungi. squash puree and tapenade, as well as salu“This is a mouthgasm,” Kuvy exclaimed mi and cheeses ranging from New after taking her first bite. The mushrooms’ England Grafton cheddar to Italian gorincredibly earthy richness was enhanced by gonzola. Although you’ll find archetypical hile Lucky Pie does have a limited dessert selection, a liberal sprinkling of arugula, added after Italian grinder sandwiches here, there’s the smart money will venture next door to Sweet Cow baking, which contributed a peppy contrast. also roasted veggie selections adorned with Ice Cream at 637 Front St., Barn Door B, 303-666-4COW. This The main ingredients’ rich flavor smoked mozzarella. Likewise, straightforextraordinarily family-friendly spot is a fresh take on retro ice approached that of Duxelles, the famed ward pepperoni pizza stands alongside a cream parlors, serving up cones and shakes, as well as ice French mushroom reduction. Sweet more contemporary meatless pie heaped cream sandwiches and cakes. There’s a rotating selection Cippollini onion, mozzarella and a splash of with roasted red pepper, mozzarella, feta of flavors, and a personal favorite is the potent-yet-creamy truffle oil rounded out the flavor without and olives.

Ozo coffee ice cream. The first-rate root beer floats comovershadowing the mushrooms’ heartiness.

Our first starter was a bowl of $7 lambbine Wynkoop pop with their Super Delicious Vanilla, and Lucky Pie brings fresh flavors and attenbased meatballs, slathered with bright San sundaes come topped with such garnishes as sprinkles or tive preparation to Louisville’s Main Street Lucky Charms cereal.

Marzano tomato sauce. The meatballs posscene. The large patio and voluminous sessed a coarse, rustic texture, with a balselection of beer on tap make an ideal hideanced flavor that was neither bland nor gamey. A the lip-smacking sauce. away for relaxed, summer evenings. It’s an attractive pleasing dusting of vibrant pepper was apparent, Next was a simple dish of $4 house-cured olives alternative to more hectic Boulder venues, and Lucky although a dollop of cooling ricotta tempered the garnished with orange and lemon wedges. These Pie’s namesake selections are very much in the same heat. After we polished off the lamb, Kuvy insisted on olives varied in color and size, with the only common league as any other artisan pizza.

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emorial Day has come and gone, and now it’s time for barbecues, picnics, wine spritzers and my beloved white pants.

I can’t wait to whip up batches of ice cream, fruit salad and enjoy s’mores over the campfire, and by campfire I mean s’mores over a fire pit in someone’s fancy backyard.

I might be getting a tad ahead of myself. It’s not officially summer yet, but I’m just trying to jump on the heat train early this year.

This week’s treat will get us all in the spirit and in the mood for the heat that is sure to roll in. Banana Split Shortcakes. Oh yeah, I said it. Sounds good enough to eat, doesn’t it? Is it a banana split, is it strawberry shortcake?

Well, it’s all the delicious flavors of both rolled up into one beautiful little treat.

I’m making the shortcakes chocolate and stuffing them with banana whipped cream. Yum. It already sounds delicious, and we aren’t even done yet.

I’m doing more of the traditional banana split flavors, so don’t hate me because I’m (beautiful) rolling old school. You, of course, could change it up any way you want; the options are endless. Now, with the chocolate cakes and banana whipped cream, I’m adding sliced strawberries and pineapple chunks, then topping with whipped cream, walnuts and a cherry. I might just add a little hot fudge, because that just makes everything better.

We are making the shortcakes about the size you would imagine, but I think making mini ones and placing them in a banana split glass would be simply adorable, and I know you like adorable.

This treat has so many great flavors running through it, and the best part is, it reminds us of being a kid. Takes you back to those “old” days when nothing was better on a hot day than a banana split. Now, of course, nothing is better than a glass of Chardonnay on a hot day, but I still know how to enjoy a good dessert when the craving calls.

This recipe won’t disappoint, and if you don’t agree, then you can punish me by forcing me to enjoy my s’mores

over a real campfire in the woods. Tents and Dessert Diva don’t mix.

Now follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

Banana Split Shortcakes 2 cups flour 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted) 3/4 cup milk (I used 1%) Banana whipped cream 1 1/2 cups whipping cream 2 tbsp. powdered sugar 1 large ripe banana (use two if bananas are small, or you want more of a banana flavor) 3/4 cup crushed pineapple 3/4 cup sliced strawberries Whipped cream 1/4 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 to 1/2 cup hot fudge Maraschino cherries Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Add in melted butter and milk, fold until just incorporated.

Drop by heaping tablespoons onto baking sheet (depending on size you want, there should be eight large ones, or 10-12 medium-sized ones).

Bake for 10-12 minutes. Take off and place on cooling rack or waxed paper.

In large bowl, beat whipping cream until soft peaks form, add in powdered sugar, mashed banana and beat until stiff peaks form.

When ready to serve, gently split shortcakes using serrated knife. Place bottom halves on plates, dollop banana whipped cream over top of cakes, divide strawberries and pineapple between cakes. Place tops of cakes over top of fruit. Drizzle with hot fudge.

Top with whipped cream (can or homemade), walnuts and cherries.

Enjoy!

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Additions to Tangerine, Amaro Alec Schuler, chef/owner of Arugula Bar e Ristorante, has added three new employees to sister establishments Tangerine and Amaro.

Sven Hedenas, previously the executive chef at the 14th Street Bar and Grill, joins the team as Chef de Cuisine at Tangerine. There he served traditional American food, as well as food and wine inspired by his travels and reading. France, with its star restaurants and its country cooking, is his main passion, but he also finds inspiration in modern and traditional cooking from his native land of Sweden.

Bianca Huggins and Dante Reesman will be the head mixologists and co-managers at Amaro. Huggins has worked in fine dining, bistro and high-volume restaurants, has a private bartending business, and is active in local mixology competitions. She loves working with small batch distilleries and wineries that are defining themselves with high standards rather than high yields.

Reesman hails from Detroit, Mich., where he established himself as one of the elite bartenders in the area. He has expertise in both beer and wine, but really found his passion while working in the Matt Prentice Restaurant Group, where he was allowed to craft custom cocktails specific to guests needs and wants.

For more information on Arugula and its sister establishments, see www.arugularistorante.com.

Cured Boulder in Broomfield Cured Boulder will serve Colorado cheeses for the cocktail reception at the Taste of Elegance Chefs Food and Beer Pairing Competition, to be held June 7 in Broomfield.

The event, to be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in the Outdoor Pavilion at the Omni Interlocken Resort, will feature 14 master chefs, 24 dishes and 24 top beers.

The cocktail reception, presented

by Roundhouse Spirits, will feature a cheese and bacon tasting by Cured Boulder and Tender Belly from 6 to 7 p.m.

The food and beer tasting will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m., followed by

last call for the People’s Choice Awards.

Tickets are $75 per person and available online at www.denverbeercomp.com/taste.html.

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Oogavé delivers natural soda Denver-based Oogavé has introduced an all-natural agave-sweetened soda.

“Oogavé is a soda with integrity, made with simple, natural and organic ingredients,” said Stephen “Esteban” Anson, founder of the company. “Most of the time, ‘soda,’ has a negative connotation, as the word usually describes sugar-laden beverages filled with chemicals and high-fructose corn syrup. Oogavé is a ‘better-for-you’ option, allowing folks to enjoy a tasty, refreshing beverage without the junk.”

Frustrated with the lack of natural soda options on the market, Anson began concocting his own creations, sweetened with agave nectar, an all-natural sweetener extracted from the agave plant, and serving them in his restaurant. With positive customer reviews and high demand for his sodas, he began bottling Oogavé, and now it is distributed in nearly 40 states across the country.

As Oogavé is made with organic agave nectar, all of its sodas are low on the glycemic index, and are absorbed slowly by the body.

For more information, visit www. oogave.com.

Hello, Hiveranno On May 21, Odell Brewing released Hiveranno, the latest in its Single Serve series of offerings.

Hiveranno blends a traditional wild ale with bright American hop aromatics and soft oak tannins. It is Odell’s third offering that uses a wild yeast captured from the brewery grounds.

A “hiveranno” was a seasoned mountain man, one who had lived many years off the land, pioneering new ways to survive by exploiting available resources. To learn more about Hiveranno the beer, visit the brewery’s blog at odellbrewing.com/ blog, or follow Odell Brewing on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ OdellBrewingCo. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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self-proclaimed Tuscan-style neighborhood restaurant, North Boulder’s Radda Trattoria dishes out substantial fare that retains rustic roots while keeping a sophisticated flair in preparation and ingredient choice. The piccolo fritto appetizer is a triumphant blend of fried zucchini, onion, rock shrimp and citrus, with an appealing preparation style equaling that of the best tempura.

The brick-pressed chicken here is a standout version of this ancient preparation, and the pancetta-laden carbonara is a must-try for lovers of this pasta dish.

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Two Dog Diner

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rabesque, open for breakfast and lunch, is the place for some of the most authentic Middle Eastern fare in Boulder. The baba ghanoush is without peer, a suave melding of roasted eggplant, citrus and olive oil, perfectly paired with warm, rustic pita bread.

Arabesque’s chicken shawarma features white-meat poultry with a pleasantly tangy taste. And the cups of thick and potent Arabic coffee make for a fine conclusion to a meal here, especially with the housemade baklava.

Boulder Baked 1911 Broadway Boulder 303-444-4999

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pen from 4 p.m. until midnight, Boulder Baked is a no-frills joint with at-the-counter ordering and a slightly funky feel. It’s also one of the best places to enjoy comfort foods such as chili and grilled cheese sandwiches, though baked goods are the star attraction. Can’t-miss selections include the strawberry shortcake cupcake and decadently creamy cheesecake.

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ormerly known as Ichiban, Longmont’s Sushi Kaiten brings conveyor-belt Japanese cuisine to Boulder County. Items are available both made-to-order and off the belt, and can’t-miss selections include the heavenly spicy salmon handroll and house-smoked salmon dusted with green tea powder. Other attractions include the surprisingly creamy white tuna and the aficionado’s choice, uni, or sea urchin roe.

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estled in Longmont’s New Urbanist Prospect neighborhood, the Two Dog Diner has the feel of a popular locals’ hangout, successfully blending elements of the old and new. Traditional enough to offer blueplate specials, it’s also forward-thinking enough to make one of these diner classics a platter of grilled fish tacos. Weekend brunch is popular at the Two Dog as well, and can’tmiss items include corned beef hash and the eggs Benedict specials.

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affè, the newest entry in the Frasca stable, is an affordable spot of top-flight light meals, including sandwiches, salads and soup. Coffee drinks made with locally roasted Boxcar beans are above reproach, and beer and wine are also on offer. Highlights include an almond croissant that rivals the finest European examples, and the Crudo, a winning cold sandwich that reflects the shades of the Italian tricolor with its mix of prosciutto, parmigiano, arugula and heirloom tomatoes.

Restaurant 4580 4580 Broadway #D-1 Boulder, 303-448-1500

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eaturing impressive Flatirons views and a contemporary design that fits well with its North Boulder environs, Restaurant 4580 offers several ambitious menu items. These include lobster mac and cheese and an adult ice cream float featuring premium beer. The small plates can be particularly appealing, especially the perfectly prepared lamb brochettes dusted with smoked paprika and sided with curry aioli, as well as the frites.

Bacco Trattoria & Mozzarella Bar 1200 Yarmouth Ave., Unit A, Boulder 303-442-3899

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acco Trattoria and Mozzarella Bar lives up to its Italian moniker by virtue of being a hospitable neighborhood

restaurant. Blending Italian-American with Old World influences, the menu includes pizza, lasagna and more unique offerings such as grilled chicken flattened by a brick. The wild boar pappardelle is especially memorable, with a satisfying cacciatore-like flavor and tender pork.

4457 N. Broadway, Boulder 303-442-2717

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udaka Healthy Latin Food dishes out meatless South American fare, with a particular focus on Venezuelan and Colombian cuisine.

The healthy and fresh-tasting offerings include bean and rice bowls served with salsa and smooth Venezuelan guacamole, as well as fried yucca root appetizers. Arepa, a stuffed cornmeal cake, is a signature offering here. The namesake Zudaka version, filled with meatless ground beef, salsa, Venezuelan guacamole and cheese, is especially appealing.

Sun Rose Café 379 Main St., Longmont 303-651-3533

Tutti 103 S. Public Rd., Lafayette 720-746-9649

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f one word could be used to describe Lafayette’s Tutti other than Tutti, that word would be choice. Offering many menu items in three distinct sizes, Tutti permits diners to choose whether they want a sampler, entrée, or platter suitable for sharing. Noteworthy dishes include artfully prepared seared scallops with risotto, as well as a classic macaroni and cheese. Parents can enjoy these dishes while youngsters frolic in the restaurant’s downstairs play area.

India’s Clay Oven 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-444-1626

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

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

Pizzeria Locale 1730 Pearl St., Boulder 303-442-3003

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

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Thursday, June 2 Sentinel: The West Face. 8 p.m.

Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Friday, June 3 Wildflowers of Goshawk Ridge. 4 p.m. For reservation and meeting location, call 303-441-3440.

Saturday, June 4 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, June 5 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

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Jenn Dice: I started mountain biking in earnest 12 years ago when I signed up for the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race. I wanted a big goal, and this was my first race ever, and it scared me to death. Fear is a great motivator, and in training for that race, I jumped into mountain biking with both feet. Since then I have done dozens of races, mostly endurance distance, 50- and 100-milers.

I have always been a lobbyist since graduate school at KU, in a variety of jobs at the local, state and federal level.

I was an IMBA member and met some of the IMBA staff at Veloswap, who told me about the job opening. Isn’t there a saying about, “if you fall in love with your work, you will never work a day in your life”?

It turned out combining my favorite hobby of mountain biking with my professional career of lobbying was the best decision I have made. I work with some incredible people and am lucky to be in the bike industry.

BW: And tell us a bit about IMBA. What exactly do you guys do?

JD: IMBA makes sure you have a great place to ride, close to home. We build many types of trails, advocate for access and funding, promote land conservation that is bike-friendly, and our 750 affiliated clubs, and 80,000 supporters, are out getting people on mountain bikes, holding festivals and races, and conducting close to one million hours annually in volunteer trailwork. Two of our highly successful clubs locally are the Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance (BMA) and the Colorado Mountain Bike Association (COMBA).

IMBA has a partnership agreement with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and several state governments. We help these federal partners build new trails and consult with them on trail build-

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ing, management, environmental compliance and a host of recreation issues.

The proposed mountain bike access trail in Boulder that would run along the western foothills was recently a hot political topic. Obviously, that trail isn’t going to happen, but a new trail was approved, and IMBA will continue to work for bike access.

BW: What’s happening now and what can we see in the future? Are there some cool things coming down the pipeline for Boulder mountain bikers that IMBA is involved with?

JD: Two exciting trail openings are coming up. Betasso Preserve’s new trails just opened on May 17, and

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It’s easy to become part of the solution, and participate in projects that not only help create access for mountain biking, but also enhance and preserve trails for other users. International Mountain Biking Association: imba.com Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance: bouldermountainbike.org Colorado Mountain Bike Association: coomba.org

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While we were disappointed that the north-south connector in the West TSA didn’t happen, we were encouraged that the City Council directed staff to explore new trails at Anemone Hill/Settlers Park, located in the West Pearl/Sunshine Canyon area, and to get cyclists from the Boulder Creek path out to Betasso’s connector off of the dangerous highway cyclists must currently negotiate. Both projects are sorely needed in Boulder. A lunch loop in the heart of town would be embraced by the local mountain bike community who would help build and maintain this trail system. IMBA consults with hundreds of cities and counties throughout the world on new trails construction and management. Shareduse trails work in cities with bigger populations and visitor numbers than Boulder, they can work here, too.

Recreation ecology has shown the impact of hiking and biking to be simi-

lar, with horses and OHV’s doing more damage to trails. Hikers and bikers can get along on the same trail system, and it is important that our current leaders encourage sharing.

BW: What about statewide?

Colorado has a lot of riding already, but are there any new projects that might provide a nice day trip for local riders?

JD: For a day trip, we encourage checking out some new IMBA built trails at the Golden Bike Park, and the Curt Gowdy State Park, near Cheyenne, Wyo., is incredible! Also there are new trails at Buffalo Creek called Raspberry Ridge and an extensive new trail system at Lory State Park near Fort Collins. A longer trip to Grand Junction has some of the best new technical trails in the state around the Tabeguache Trail System.

We’ve been talking about trails, but mountain biking and recreation in general is evolving pretty quickly. Keystone has a pretty big downhill and freeride bike scene, and action sports are on the verge of becoming mainstream, if they’re not already.

BW: Do you think that demographics will play a role in getting mountain biking accepted? After all, most kids these days are more interested in action sports than a quiet hike.

JD: Demographics will absolutely play a role, both from a standpoint of new cyclists and with decision-makers embracing shared-use trails. School leaders tell us all the time that kids love to ride bikes; they don’t think of it as exercise. Kids just want to play and have fun, and we are seeing an increase in bike parks and urban trails. Jump parks and pump tracks are a great way to get kids off the couch, away from video games and outside having fun.

Winter ski resorts are also embracing the summer freeride and downhill mountain bike scene. Mountain biking brings $40 million a summer to British

Columbia’s western cities, and U.S. ski resorts are following their lead.

From an access perspective, changing demographics are already changing the national scene. In communities with younger leaders, they realize that the next generation of environmentalists ride mountain bikes. We are bringing new people to the land that care about nature and in many western cities, similar to Boulder, trails shared by hikers and bikers are the norm, not the exception, like here. Even in national parks, we are seeing more park superintendents who understand that kids and families want to explore their park by bicycle. Forty-four national parks now have mountain biking. They want to be relevant to today’s youth and get people out of their RVs and minivans and into their park. President Obama’s new campaign America’s Great Outdoors and the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiatives are both helping get Americans more active and outside, enjoying their public lands. IMBA is a partner in both initiatives, and we see the mountain bike as a big part of the solution. IMBA’s Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day, Oct. 1, will get 30,000 kids on mountain bikes at 300 locations, all in the name of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! campaign.

BW: Will this mean that in 10 years it will be impossible for political leaders in Boulder to prevent mountain biking on public trails? Did the battle just get lost in the west TSA area, but the war is just beginning?

JD: We certainly don’t think of it as a battle or a war. We just have a set of open space staff that aren’t using best management practices or the best science available to make trail-building and management decisions. They aren’t looking to their peers in other communities to see what many other communities are constructing. They have 58 miles of illegal social trails in the West TSA alone, and many of the other trails are wide, see DICE Page 48

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eroded and an environmental mess. The next generation of land managers and elected officials will change that. IMBA’s two trail-building books have sold 30,000 copies worldwide and been translated into French and Spanish. IMBA’s guidelines for sustainable trail construction are SOP [standard operating procedure] in many communities, just not here. Yet. But it is definitely getting better, and things like Betasso and Valmont are the silver lining.

BW: For mountain bikers who want to make a difference, what’s the best way to get involved?

JD: Join your local IMBA club (BMA and COMBA) to support local trail initiatives and join IMBA to support the national campaign behind mountain biking. IMBA has doubled in size in the past 10 years. We have 44 staff, are working in all 50 states and a dozen countries on some exciting new trail projects and pro-bike policies. It is a great time to be a mountain biker. There are so many great trails to ride and destinations for all types of mountain bikes.

BW: Parting thoughts?

JD: IMBA launched our Public Lands Initiative (PLI) one year ago to help get mountain bikers active in more public land protection bills.

There are about a half-dozen proposals we care about in Colorado that if we aren’t at the table for the discussions, we will end up being on the menu and see our trail access erode in the name of land protection or poorly planned resource extraction. We need mountain bikers who want to see great riding in Colorado maintained and expanded, but want to protect the land around their trails from development, we need them to register at imba.com today. We will keep cyclists informed of what could happen to their access in places like Vail, Carbondale, Salida, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Gunnison, Durango and other communities. The PLI has taken on 25 public lands campaigns nationwide, many in Colorado, to promote bikefriendly land protections.

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The film The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of the U.S. army’s efforts to harness psychic powers for military purposes. It’s not entirely a work of the imagination. In fact, there’s substantial evidence that such a program actually existed. As the movie begins, a caption on the screen informs viewers, “More of this is true than you would believe.” I suspect there’ll be a comparable situation unfolding in your life in the coming weeks, Aries. As you experience a rather unusual departure from your regularly scheduled reality, fact and fiction may be deeply intertwined. Will you be able to tell them apart?

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April 20-May 20:

I dreamed you were a member of an indigenous tribe in what Westerners call New Guinea. You had recently begun to show unusual behavior that suggested you were developing enhanced cognitive abilities. You’d solved one of the tribe’s long-standing problems, were spontaneously spouting improvised poetry and had been spotted outside late at night having animated conversations with the stars. Some of your friends and relatives were now referring to you by a new name that in your native tongue meant “the one who dances naked with the deities.” How would you interpret my dream, Taurus? I think it suggests you could be on the verge of growing an intriguing new capacity or two.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

In the far northern reaches of Ilulissat, a town in Greenland, the sun sets for good on Nov. 29 every year and doesn’t rise again until Jan. 13. Or at least that was the case until 2011.

This year, to the shock of locals, sunlight broke over the horizon on January 11 — two days ahead of schedule. Though a few alarmists theorized that this disturbance in the age-old rhythm was due to a shift in the earth’s axis or rotation, scientists suggested that the cause was global warming: Melting ice has caused the horizon to sink. I expect something equally monumental to make an appearance in your world soon, Gemini. Can you handle an increased amount of light?

CANCER June 21-July 22:

I’m not a big fan of the “No Pain, No Gain” school of thought. Personally, I have drummed up more marvels and wonders through the power of rowdy bliss than I have from hauling thousand-pound burdens across the wasteland. But I do recognize that in my own story as well as in others’, hardship can sometimes provoke inspiration. I think it may be one of those moments for you, Cancerian. Please accept this medicinal prod from the ancient Roman poet Horace: “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents that in times of prosperity would have lain dormant.”

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

In his 1934 book Beyond the Mexican Bay, British author Aldous Huxley observed that “the natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.” He was using the word “orgies” in its broadest sense — not to refer to wild sex parties, but rather to cathartic eruptions of passion, uninhibited indulgence in revelry and spirited rituals of relief and release.

That’s the kind of orgy you’re due for, Leo. It’s high time to punctuate your routine.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do,” wrote the essayist Walter Bagehot. Personally, I don’t think that’s the supreme joy possible to a human being; but it definitely has a provocative appeal. May I recommend that you explore it in the coming weeks, Virgo? The astrological omens suggest you’re in an excellent position to succeed at an undertaking you’ve been told is unlikely or even impossible for you to accomplish.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

When people unsubscribe from my newsletter, they’re asked to say why they’re leaving. In a recent note, a dissatisfied customer wrote, “Because you are a crackhead who makes no sense. You sound like you write these horoscopes while you’re stoned on mushrooms.” For the record, I not only refrain from crack and magic mushrooms while crafting your oracles; I don’t partake of any intoxicants at any other time, either — not even beer or pot. I’m secretly a bit proud, however, that the irate ex-reader thinks my drug-free mind is so wild. In the coming week, Libra, I invite you to try an experi-

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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

If you’re a physicist or Wall Street broker, your assignment this week is to read the poetry of Pablo Neruda (bit.ly/ NerudaSongs). If you’re a kirtan-chanting yogini or the author of a New Age self-help newsletter, your task is to read up on the scientific method (bit.ly/ScienceMethod).

If you’re white, be black, and vice versa. If you’re yellow, be violet, and if red, be green. If you’re a tight-fisted control freak, try being a laid-back connoisseur of the mellowest vibes imaginable — and vice versa. It’s Mix-It-Up Week, Sagittarius — a time to play with flipping and flopping your usual perspectives, roles, and angles.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Describing muckraking journalist Peter Freyne, Senator Patrick Leahy said, “He knew the difference between healthy skepticism and hollow cynicism.” Mastering that distinction happens to be your next assignment, Capricorn.

Can you distinguish between your tendency to make compulsive negative judgments and your skill at practicing thoughtful and compassionate discernment? My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you will have a successful week if you do. Not only that: The universe will conspire to bring you blessings you didn’t even realize you needed.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

“There is time for work,” said fashion designer Coco Chanel, “and time for love. That leaves no other time.” I understand and sympathize with that perspective. But I’m going to beg you to make an exception to it in the coming weeks, Aquarius. In addition to getting a healthy quota of work and love, please do your best to carve out a few hours specifically devoted to engaging in unadulterated, unapologetic, unbridled play — the kind of flat-out, free-form, full-tilt fun and games that has the effect of permanently increasing your levels of liberation.

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Although I myself have an intimate ongoing relationship with the Divine Wow, it’s perfectly fine with me if other people don’t. Some of my best friends are atheists and agnostics. But I must admit that I laughed derisively when I heard that the supposed genius named Stephen Hawking declared, with the fanatical certainty of a religious fundamentalist, that heaven does not exist. How unscientific of him! The intellectually honest perspective is, of course, that there’s no way to know for sure about that possibility.

I bring this up, Pisces, as an example of what not to do. It’s particularly important right now that you not be blinded by your theories about the way things work. If you put the emphasis on your raw experience rather than your preconceived biases, you will be blessed with as much beauty and truth as you can handle.

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