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Sustainable wine (Re: “A homegrown blend for sustainable wine,” Boulderganic.) Local wine does make sense (local mead and cider, too).

Part of the acceptance is overcoming wine snobbery. Miller’s point about “shipping ... crates of wine all over the world” is right to the point. But there’s another challenge: Why are we shipping empty bottles all over the world to package the wine? A local wine can end up in a bottle shipped from Eastern Europe (by a circuitous route) with a cork from Portugal. Fixing this absurdity will require (first) changes in the attitudes of wine consumers (cork snobs), second some changes in laws, and finally changes in winery practice. Bag-inbox is good for wines consumed over a short period (more than 95 percent plus of wines), and a 3-liter package uses a few ounces of mostly recyclable material instead of four pounds of costly-to-recycle glass. Breweries use customer-owned glass bottles (growlers) returned for refilling.

Why couldn’t wineries do the same? There are several possibilities for major improvement in the “footprint” of wine packaging.

Part of the “paradigm change” involves letting go of the snobbery and realizing that high-end wine is a teacup in the ocean: Almost all wine is consumed relatively young. Also, bag-in-box keeps wine fresher than any way of saving part of a bottle.

The United States lags way behind in accepting this type of packaging, compared to say Europe or Australia/New Zealand.

Dick Dunn/Longmont

Corporate personhood Since the Boulder City Council may

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be deciding at their July 19 meeting on a fall ballot resolution about the issue of corporate personhood, I thought the community would be interested to learn more about the origins of this legal fiction and its bearing on current politics.

Corporate personhood is the claim by corporations that they have constitutional rights equal to Americans. This legal fiction was established only by court precedent, in the post-Civil War era. “Corporation” is not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, the

The Highroad

ome on, Obama, do it!

Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can!

The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes unlimited amounts of secret corporate cash to pervert America’s elections. Obama’s idea is simply to require that those corporations trying to get federal contracts disclose all of their campaign donations for the previous two years, including money they launder through such front groups as the national Chamber of Commerce.

This approach says to those giants sucking up billions of our tax dollars for endless war, privatization of public services, etcetera: You’re still free to shove trainloads of your shareholders’ money into Boulder Weekly

Constitution, the Bill of Rights, nor has “corporate personhood” been voted on by any legislative body, anytime, anywhere.

So how did it start? After the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 to grant citizenship to all persons born in the United States, lawyers for the railroads (the biggest corporations then) crafted a brilliant scheme. Could they claim rights as “corporate persons” under this law and thereby escape laws seeking to restrain them? The result:

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A little less corporate political corruption

by Jim Hightower congressional and presidential races, but — hey, just tell the public how much you’re giving and to whom.

Neat. It would be a clean, direct and effective reform — so, of course, the corporate powers and their apologists are squealing like stuck pigs. Steven Law, a Bush-Cheney operative who is now both a Wall Street Journal editorialist and the head of a secret corporate money fund, recently decried the very idea of public disclosure of contractor campaign

Between 1886 and 1910, there were 307 Supreme Court cases involving this amendment. Of these, 19 involved black men seeking to protect their rights; the other 288 were corporations seeking to expand their “rights” as “legal persons” (from Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann, Page 105).

This began 125 years of steady expansion of the rights of “corporate persons” — solely through court precesee LETTERS Page 6

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contributions: “When I was in the executive branch,” he sniffed, “mixing politics with procurement was called corruption.”

Yes, Steve, and y’all were corruption experts! Perhaps you’ve forgotten that we remember Halliburton, the Cheney-run corporation that helped put Bush in office and then was handed tens of billions in contracts, becoming the poster child of corrupt, no-bid procurement.

Come on, Obama, don’t back down from these corporate sleazes — sign that disclosure order! If they’re going to steal our elections, at least make them admit it.

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dent — culminating in the disastrous 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, saying money is equivalent to speech and allowing corporations to spend unlimited money in politics. This is a clear and present danger to our democracy. It must be reversed. I hope the City Council will put a resolution on the fall ballot to allow Boulder citizens to vote on it.

Rick Casey/via Internet

Justice for all?

When reading the crime and punishment section of my local newspaper (the business pages), I’m continually reminded of the gross inequities inherent in our criminal justice system.

Virtually every day there are reports of CEOs and directors of major corporations who are charged with fraud and tax evasion — on a grand scale. More often than not, those charged with such offenses end up making a settlement or plea agreement. Usually, those agreements result in fines and/or monetary settlement of lawsuits that don’t even begin to compensate victims of the crimes. Moreover, having agreed to huge multi-million-dollar settlements, there is usually a denial that there was any wrongdoing. To add further insult to injury, few are ever incarcerated.

If you hold up a convenience store, and you’re caught, you’ll have the cuffs snapped on your wrists, get thrown into the slammer and almost surely will do time. If you are one of those “pillars of society” who unlawfully drains hundreds of millions from their companies and stockholders, cause job losses in the thousands and financially ruins many lives, you’re more apt to first die from natural causes than you are to spend any time in prison.

There seems to be a dual standard of justice in this country when it comes to theft: one for the landed gentry, one for the “common criminal.”

Punishment should be meted out according to the gravity of the crime.

Paul G. Jaehnert/via Internet

Skip the fish Authorities recently found high levels of radiation — five to six times the legal limit — in fish caught near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. Samples of water taken from around the Fukushima facility have tested as high as 7.5 million times more radioactive than the legal limit.

While Americans may not have cause to be concerned about radioactive fish, there are other reasons to leave fish off your plate. During a seven-year study, U.S. Geological Survey scientists found mercury in every single fish they tested.

More than a quarter of the fish tested had mercury levels that exceeded the EPA’s safety limits for the average fisheater.

Other studies have found that fish in rivers across the U.S. are tainted with medications and common household chemicals.

None of us would dream of drinking water tainted by sewage, pesticides, heavy metals and other contaminants.

So why would anyone risk their health by eating the fish that are pulled from this toxic brew? To find out more, please visit www.PETA.org.

Paula Moore, The PETA Foundation/ via Internet

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Muslim tradition, Kellogg recomcircumcision was mended circumcisuncommon in the United States until ing boys without anesthesia. For him, health care practitioners of the pain was part of the procedure’s curative Victorian era, infected with the antieffect. sexual fervor of their time, began to “The operation should be peradvocate male and female circumcision formed by a surgeon without adminisas a way to cure both boys and girls of tering an anesthetic, as the brief pain the evil and dangerous habit of “onanattending the operation will have a salism,” i.e., masturbation. see CIRCUMCISION Page 8 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, whose

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utary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases,” he wrote in Plain Facts for Young and Old. “The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.”

For girls, he recommended the use of caustic, blistering chemicals on the clitoris or, if necessary, “the removal of the clitoris and nymphae [labia].” What he describes is nothing less than full-

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blown female genital mutilation (FGM) as practiced with devastating effects in parts of the world today.

During World War I, the U.S. military began to encourage circumcision, performing the procedure on thousands of young men in hopes of curbing masturbation and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Circumcised veterans, remembering how painful it was to be circumcised as young men, had their infant sons circumcised under the mistaken belief that babies feel less pain — a myth that persists today despite

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scientific proof to the contrary. And slowly but surely, circumcision for nonmedical and non-religious reasons became the norm in the United States.

(It is not practiced in Europe outside of Jewish and Muslim communities.)

The prevalence of circumcision in the United States increased from about 30 percent in the 1930s to nearly 80 percent by the early 1970s. During the past two decades, the circumcision rate decreased as parents began to question the need for a procedure that causes their new babies pain and which has no

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Today, the circumcision rate in the United States is about 50 percent. But for many, circumcision for non-medical reasons needs to end altogether.

They point out that the potential benefits of circumcision — cleanliness, a possible lowered risk in contracting STDs, a lower risk of penile cancer in old age — can also be achieved through personal hygiene and the use of condoms and that these benefits do not outweigh the risks, which include bleeding, infection, pain that interferes with breastfeeding and sleep in the early newborn period, adhesions, possible irreversible damage to the penis and even loss of the penis.

Further, the foreskin contains some of the most sensitive nerve endings in the penis and is intended to shield the glans, keeping it moist and protected.

Without the foreskin, the glans slowly becomes keratinized, with the skin growing thicker and tougher, a process that can lead to erectile dysfunction or lessened sensitivity during sex.

Circumcised men are likely to dispute the latter. But how can they be sure they’re not missing out? They can’t.

What do the medical experts say?

“Existing scientific evidence demonstrates potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision; however, these data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision,” writes the American Academy of Pediatrics. “In the case of circumcision, in which there are potential benefits and risks, yet the procedure is not essential to the child’s current well-being, parents should determine what is in the best interest of the child. To make an informed choice, parents of all male infants should be given accurate and unbiased information and be provided the opportunity to discuss this decision.”

The American Medical Association refers to circumcision as “non-therapeutic,” i.e., not medically necessary.

And that’s the bottom line: circumcision is not necessary and comes with risks that might not outweigh possible benefits.

Armed with this information, a coalition of nurses (some of them neonatal nurses traumatized by years of observing circumcisions), doctors, midwives, parents and men who were harmed by circumcision are working nationwide as part of the National Organization of Circumcision Resource Centers (NoCirc) to eliminate the practice of newborn circumcision. In San Francisco, “intactivists” are pushing for a referendum that would make it illegal to circumcise boys under the age of 18. The referendum does not make exceptions for religion, pointing to the widespread see CIRCUMCISION Page 9

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opposition toward FGM in the United States, a practice often justified by religion. (FGM is illegal in Colorado.)

Not surprisingly, this has led to an outcry from the Jewish community across the country, with some decrying anti-circumcision activism as antiSemitic. They argue vehemently against comparing male circumcision to FGM, saying that removing a bit of skin from a boy’s penis is nothing compared to removing a girl’s clitoris and labia, which robs a woman of sexual pleasure and is linked to increased risk of death for both mother and infant during childbirth, in addition to a host of other medical problems.

Apparently, they are unaware that there are forms of FGM that entail removing only part of the clitoral hood or the tip of the clitoris. Yet Americans are quick to criticize all forms of FGM, which is not covered in any form by health insurance or Medicaid. Further, men who’ve suffered lifelong problems with sexuality and penile health due to circumcision are unapologetic in their use of the term “male genital mutilation” to describe an unnecessary procedure that has caused them a great deal of emotional turmoil.

For some Jews, proof of the movement’s anti-Semitic underpinnings lies in a comic strip called “Foreskin Man,” created by intactivist Matthew Hess, which shows a blond superhero confronting Monster Mohel, a creepy looking Jewish man rendered in ways that are eerily reminiscent of the Nazi literature that fueled the Holocaust. Though Hess says he views anyone who circumcises boys as a villain, the comic strip is admittedly disturbing.

But Hess is one person in a movement the roots of which are compassion for baby boys and a concern for male sexual health.

And despite the outcry from the Jewish community, Jews are increasingly questioning the practice of circumcision as well. As Rabbi Eugene Borowitz famously said, “Judaism has never demanded uniformity of belief or Boulder Weekly

practice.”

On Oct. 18, filmmaker Eiyahu Ungar-Sargon, an Orthodox Jew, comes to Boulder with his film Cut: Slicing Through the Myths Of Circumcision, which details his struggle with the issue.

In Colorado, there are currently no efforts to ban circumcision. However, as of July 1, Medicaid will no longer cover circumcision unless it is medically indicated. Intactivists in the state say that although this is a step forward, the state’s CHP+ insurance program will still cover infant circumcision, as does private health insurance, meaning that the decrease in circumcisions is likely to be small.

Where real gain can be measured is in education. Sometimes, practices are nothing more than cultural habits. The purpose has been forgotten, but the practice persists. Most parents aren’t thinking of the evils of “onanism” when they hand their newborn sons over to be cut. When asked their reasons for choosing circumcision, many parents say that a penis is easier to keep clean if it’s circumcised. Others said that they want their sons to look like Daddy.

But if a penis is tough to keep clean, what about a vulva? And exactly how many daddy-son penis comparison sessions happen in American households each week?

There are simple solutions to both issues, of course, and neither involve making a newborn baby bleed. One involves soap and water, the other simple conversation and truth.

As parents learn more about circumcision, they increasingly choose to leave their sons intact. In that respect, Crowe’s tactless tweets were helpful.

Together with the San Francisco referendum, they’ve launched a nationwide discussion on a practice that is deeply ingrained in American culture, yet which has little value and, in fact, may cause lasting harm.

For more information, go to www. nocirc.org; jewishcircumcision.org; and cutthefilm.com.

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very year, the U.S. produces about 34 million tons of food waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But are local businesses in Boulder, a county that has the goal of producing “zero waste — or darn near” by 2025, really taking the steps needed to achieve this by 2025?

Not all of them are, according to Boulder Food Not Bombs (FNB) coordinators Hana Dansky and Caleb Phillips.

Food Not Bombs is a national and international grassroots movement that was founded by anti-nuclear activists in Cambridge, Mass. Since its creation in 1980, FNB groups have worked to end hunger across the world.

The Boulder chapter of FNB has waxed and waned in activity, but it recently gained momentum in mid-February when Dansky and Phillips began hosting dinner parties for the hungry.

“She [Dansky] started having these dinner parties and fed them food that we had rescued from area Dumpsters,” says Phillips. “We were teaching them that there is all of this food that was going to waste that you could eat.”

Dansky and Phillips figured out which local businesses threw away excess food each evening just by glancing in their Dumpsters each week. Unsettled by the amount of food that was being thrown away, the two began rescuing it, washing it multiple times with soap and water, then preparing it and serving it to the hungry at their dinner parties.

The dinner parties grew in size until Dansky and Phillips decided to recreate a chapter of FNB in Boulder and organize public feeds at the band shell in Boulder’s Central Park. The FNB coordinators went around to businesses that they knew were throwing out food and asked them to save their leftover produce, pastries and bagels so that one of them could pick them up.

“We’re an all-vegetarian organization and mostly vegan,” explains Dansky.

“Part of that is for ethical issues and part of that is for health issues — we don’t want to get anyone sick.”

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by Mindy Rappoport up on the evening before a meal. The two their compactor and seeing how much also spent the evening before each meal food they throw away.”

Dumpster-diving at those businesses that Alfalfa’s manager Mike Jackman says wouldn’t save and donate their excess food they donate packaged food to to FNB for one reason or another.

Community Food Share Monday Unfortunately, digging through through Friday, with a little produce.

Dumpsters to rescue food isn’t a thing of “They [CFS] distribute to a lot of the past for Dansky and Phillips. Many organizations,” says Jackman. “So when Boulder businesses are still turning them we partner with them, we can help a down when it comes to saving their left- larger group of people than we could do over food for the hungry. on our own.”

“In ’94 under the Good Samaritan Jackman says that CFS doesn’t have Act, part of that was that unless it’s a the resources to pick up food donations case of utter neglect, you won’t get sued each weekend, so Alfalfa’s donates that for donating food,” says Dansky. produce to the Emergency Family Although she isn’t quite sure why Assistance Association (EFAA), which some businesses won’t uses the leftovers to donate their excess prepare meals. food, Dansky thinks Jackman said Boulder Food Not Bombs: they might be hesithat although the boulderfnb.org tant because they store already donates EPA: tinyurl.com/ EPAFoodWaste don’t want to go its food to CFS and Zero Waste: tinyurl.com/ through the extra EFAA right now, it ZeroFoodWaste work of setting the doesn’t mean food aside to save it Alfalfa’s might not for donation. give its leftovers to other organizations Like Dansky, Phillips isn’t sure why in the future. many businesses won’t donate their food, When summer began, FNB started but he thinks it could have to do with working with Friends Encouraging concerns about hurting their brand.

Eating Daily (FEED), another local “Maybe they think having stale organization that feeds the hungry. baguettes with the brand name on them FEED is led by Chris Mitchell, manager would be harmful to them in some way, of operations for Boulder Outreach for or perhaps they don’t want their brand Homeless Overflow (BOHO), says associated with homelessness and hunPhillips. Since BOHO usually helps feed ger,” says Phillips. “Certainly there’s no the homeless during the winter months, legal reason why they couldn’t do it, so I FEED takes over during the summer, could only assume it’s a marketing reasays Phillips. son, but I’m not in a position to say.”

Earlier in the year, FNB would disPhillips says they have asked Whole tribute its food on Sunday afternoons, Foods and Alfalfa’s Market to donate but since many churches provide free their excess produce in the past, but both food to the hungry on Sundays, FNB said they were unable to do so. Whole started distributing its meals with FEED Foods told Phillips and Dansky that “it on Saturdays at noon, Phillips says. FNB was hard to do because we have to get a and FEED volunteers distribute meals lot of people on board,” and so FNB was to about 80 people every weekend on the added to a list of groups to work with in south side of Boulder Creek, near the the future, says Phillips.

Boulder Public Library, Dansky says.

Mara Maxwell, a marketing director As of now, FNB prepares meals for Whole Foods, says the store is conusing leftovers that employees at sidering working with FNB. Espresso Roma, Saxy’s Café, and Illegal “Alfalfa’s says they donate their food Pete’s put aside for donation. Local to Community Food Share or Share, an online marketplace where peoEmergency Family Assistance,” says ple can advertise what they’re looking for Phillips. “I can tell it’s not all of their and gift, loan, rent or sell items to the food, though, by just taking a peek in community, is also in the process figur-

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ing out how to work with FNB. Phillips says that it’s usually easier to get employees to put food aside for FNB because sometimes managers are worried about liability and brand image.

Anna Nord, an Illegal Pete’s employee, says that she got involved with FNB when a friend who had previously been apart of the Boulder chapter put her in touch with Dansky. On Saturday nights, Nord would bring home leftover rice and vegetables from Illegal Pete’s, then go over to Dansky’s the next morning to cook the food before they distributed it.

Nord says that she thinks employees at local businesses, grocery stores and farms should get involved in FNB. “They [employees] should be concerned with food that’s wasted and perfectly good but is slightly damaged and could still feed people,” says Nord.

Nord argues that slightly bruised produce could be donated to FNB, which would in turn use the healthy part of the produce to create meals for the hungry.

“I think people should be more engaged in helping out not only the homeless, but there’re also a lot of lowincome families who need food,” Nord says. “It’s a waste of energy to throw away perfectly good food when it could be retransformed into a meal for somebody.”

Phillips says that in the future, FNB hopes to be the “short-term middle man” that will help distribute healthier food, such as produce, to local homeless shelters.

“There’s Community Food Share, and they get a bunch of food but can’t deal with perishables. They don’t have the ability to get fresh fruits and vegetables unless it’s a mass amount, so shelters aren’t getting the nutritious and healthy foods,” explains Phillips.

Aside from wanting to feed as many of the hungry as possible and getting more businesses to donate leftovers, Dansky says the Boulder FNB chapter also hopes to make it more sustainable.

“We’re just trying to build something that’s more sustainable in Boulder, and taking the food that’s going to waste to feed our homeless,” Dansky says. “We’re trying to raise awareness about food waste while still using food that’s being thrown out.”

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olice have spent a significant amount of time responding to incidents at the skatepark in Lafayette during the first seven months it has been open.

A records search shows that police have been called to the skatepark at least 15 times since it opened last December, responding to everything from graffiti to theft to assaults.

Searches of records at other local police departments produced only six similar calls to the skatepark at Scott Carpenter Park in Boulder, and there were only three at the Sandstone Ranch skatepark in Longmont. And both of those tallies were for the past year, not seven months. (A staff member at the Louisville police department told Boulder Weekly that officers responded to no incidents at that city’s skatepark over the past year.)

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The most recent incident at the Lafayette skatepark, which is located on the north side of the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, occurred on May 28, when two kids got into an argument that ended in a broken arm and charges of assault and disturbing the peace. According to a police report, the two adolescents exchanged words, then one boy attempted to shake hands, at which point the other kid grabbed his arm, twisted it and pulled it over onto his shoulders until it made a popping sound.

On May 22, someone reported a stolen skateboard that was later recovered sans wheels and bearings, and police have been unable to locate a suspect. On April 14, an adolescent boy told police that someone threw his skateboard into one of the bowls and a piece broke off. According to an April 10 report, a man reported that his son’s backpack,

which contained Target gift cards and a Sony camera, was stolen. The case was closed after no suspect was identified.

According to an April 30 report, police responded to a hit-and-run car accident in the parking lot, and two days later officers found graffiti in the area, including the gang tag “14NORT13” as well as the words “420 bitch’s” and “West Side.”

On April 18, a 15-year-old boy was arrested on assault charges after allegedly knocking down another man and punching him multiple times.

And on April 8, an 18-year-old and a 20-yearold got into a physical altercation after exchanging words. According to police, one accused the other of “talking trash,” and onlookers broke up the scuffle that ensued. Both were issued summonses for Boulder Weekly

disorderly conduct and barred from the park for one year.

The day before, police responded to another report of graffiti near the skatepark, and on March 25, a backpack containing a hoodie, a Nintendo DSi video game player and a skate tool was stolen from the park, according to police reports.

On March 20, Lafayette police responded to a case of harassment at the skatepark in which an adolescent girl accused a man of yelling at her to get out of one of the bowls. The man, who the girl estimated as being between 20 and 30 years old, allegedly hollered that if she didn’t get out of the bowl, he would “knock her down, make her bleed [and] leave her there,” the report said. The case was closed when police could not locate the suspect.

On Feb. 26, police cited two men for drinking beer in the parking lot, contrary to park rules, and on Feb. 19, an iPod Nano was stolen from an unlocked car parked on the south side of the skatepark.

On Dec. 29, police busted a 16-year-old for smoking cigarettes in the skatepark, and on Dec. 21, there was a report of a bike tire being slashed in the parking lot. According to a Dec. 12 report, a man reported being assaulted by three individuals who police suspect are members of the Northside gang.

By way of comparison, the three Longmont skatepark incidents that occurred over the course of a year consisted of two lost cell phones and a found diaper bag, according to police records for that address.

A similar search of calls to the skatepark at Scott Carpenter Park in Boulder produced six incidents during the past year, including a hit-and-run car accident, graffiti, a lost wallet, a broken van window and a transient sleeping in the park who had some marijuana and a pipe. There was one assault at the Boulder skatepark during that time, when a 17-year-old reported being punched in the face two or three times by a 25- to 30-year-old man after a verbal altercation.

But the comparatively high number of incidents at the Lafayette skatepark does not stand out as a red flag, according to Cmdr. Gen McCausey of the Lafayette police. McCausey told Boulder Weekly that the activity at the skatepark is about what police expected to see, if not less than anticipated.

“We’re pleased that we haven’t had more incidents there,” he says. “I would consider it a safe place. I don’t live in Lafayette, but if I did and if I had young kids, I wouldn’t mind if they went up there to the skatepark and played.”

McCausey says Lafayette police did consult with other police agencies in Boulder Weekly

the area last year — especially the Longmont police — on skatepark issues such as whether to have a mandatory helmet rule and whether to install video surveillance cameras.

He says some of the incidents over the past seven months can simply be chalked up to the age group.

“A 12-year-old kid twists the arm of another kid and breaks the arm — I don’t want to downplay the seriousness of it, but you put together 12- and 13-year-old boys with their hormones going crazy, and things happen,” he says.

Boulder resident Jordan Grano, who regularly takes his 6-year-old son Ryder

nessed no bad behavior at the county’s skateparks, other than occasional graffiti and bad language, and other skaters actually offer encouraging words to his son sometimes.

McCausey counters the perception that skateboarding can attract a bad element, echoing the bumper sticker, “Skateboarding is not a crime.”

“Sometimes there are less desirables involved, but overall I think they’re just kids enjoying the skatepark,” he says.

Curt Cheesman, Lafayette director of recreation and facilities management, did not return calls by press time.

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to skateboard at the county’s skateparks, says he has seen nothing untoward at the Lafayette park, although he acknowledges that he takes his son there during times when it is not busy.

“I’ve been surprised at how few incidents I’ve seen,” Grano told Boulder Weekly. “Boulder’s [skatepark] has been the roughest one, actually, because a lot of bikers use it.”

He explains that BMX bikers travel faster than skaters, hop quickly from bowl to bowl, and take up more space with their lines, which makes it difficult for skaters to drop into a bowl that has a biker using it. Grano says he has wit-

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Denver gets Boulder’s goat Denver stepped ahead of any town in Boulder County on Monday, June 20, when the Denver City Council voted 7-3 to permit residents to keep chickens, ducks and dwarf dairy goats in their backyards. The new ordinance, which some say was an effort by the city to keep a more radical urban farming measure off the ballot, allows residents to keep up to eight hens or ducks, along with two dwarf nanny goats for milk.

Roosters and billy goats are not permitted.

The ordinance also streamlines the process, making it easy for urban farmers to acquire a one-time license for a mere $20, eliminating yards of red tape.

Boulder allows bees and an unlimited number of hens, but dairy goats are not permitted. Longmont allows only four hens, as well as up to two bee hives. Superior and Lafayette both allow up to six hens, while Erie and Louisville don’t allow urban hens at all. Nederland is reportedly considering the issue.

Face it: Denver is just more progressive than Boulder, or any city in Boulder County, when it comes to urban farming. Considering the importance of urban food production to our future, that’s not an area where any city wants to lag behind.

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More J school oddities We know that Chris Braider, the new faculty director of the University of Colorado’s journalism program, is a good, level-headed guy who has shown sound leadership qualities.

It’s just that he’s a French and Italian professor. Does that strike anyone else as odd, that someone who does not have a background in journalism will be directing the journalism faculty?

The canned quote that came with the press release was telling: “The transition from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication to a new program requires a fair-minded leader who will not be influenced by past conflicts and issues in the school,” Provost Russell Moore said.

Read: None of the current journalism faculty could be entrusted with guiding this transition, because they are all too close to

the in-fighting and dysfunction that helped lead to the school’s discontinuance in the first place. Nice.

The release is quick to point out that Braider will not be teaching or directly involved in curriculum design issues.

Add this appointment to the long list of head-scratchers that have befallen the journalism school over the past year.

Blame a Mexican When in doubt, blame brown people.

This week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., defended his statements that illegal immigrants were responsible for some of Arizona’s wildfires.

McCain did backpedal enough to say that he didn’t mean that illegals caused the current Wallow Fire, just that he has been told by Forest Service officials that those brown people from Mexico sometimes start fires.

But invoking the Forest Service reminds us of when that big marijuana grow was found in a Colorado forest and authorities warned us good, Godfearin’ white folks to watch out for evidence of those bad Mexican drug dealers. Telltale signs of trouble, we were told by one U.S. Forest Service official in August 2009, included Tecate cans and tortilla wrappers.

Next thing you know, undocumented immigrants will be blamed for the economic recession, if not global warming.

Kitties’ ditties In case you missed them last time they came through Colorado, this time they’ll be at Boulder’s Nomad Theatre.

Touted as one of four performing house-cat troupes in the country, the Amazing Acro-Cats will be purr-forming at the Nomad June 26-29.

Apparently, these pussies push carts, ride skateboards, roll barrels, ring bells, turn on lights, walk tight ropes, jump through hoops and more.

PETA disclaimer: The group’s master trainer, Samantha Martin, is described as “a pioneering feline behavioral expert who has devoted her life to animal welfare, public education and helping people better understand their animal counterparts.”

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Ned carousel marks 100,000th rider The Carousel of Happiness in Nederland, which opened May 28, 2010, awarded its 100,000th rider a special card Wednesday, giving her free rides for life. The winner was Rachel West, a 5-year-old who is living with Dr. and Mrs. Paul Strom of Boulder while her father, Sgt. Patrick West, is deployed in Iraq.

The 101-year-old restored carousel sports 60 hand-carved animals by Nederland artist Scott Harrison.

According to a news release, senior groups, school tours and “organizations of differently-abled people” — who are a special focus of the carousel’s nonprofit mission — have been regular visitors to the carousel, where junior docents educate them about the attraction’s history.

The carousel is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week through the summer.

Tour of affordable homes set Prospective homebuyers will be able to tour 16 affordable properties in the City of Boulder Homeownership Program during open houses being held Sunday, June 26, from noon to 3 p.m.

Homes available for viewing include condos, townhomes and single-family homes starting at around $100,000 for a one-bedroom, one-bath condo and $200,000 for a single-family home. To view pictures of the homes and see a list of properties featured in the event, visit www.boulderaffordablehomes.com and click on the Homeownership Program link.

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and uneven-aged groupings of trees,” says Parks and Open Space Outreach Coordinator Pascale Fried. “The goal is to have a healthier forest that is less susceptible to insects, disease and catastrophic wildfires.”

Ponderosa Loop Trail visitors might hear the thinning taking place and are advised not to stray from the trail to ensure their personal safety as well as that of the equipment operators.

The process involves using a “harvester that fells, delimbs and bucks trees into standard log lengths, and a forwarder to haul wood material away from the site,” according to a news release. The remaining logs will be contributed to biomass plants that heat the Boulder Parks and Open Space and Sheriff ’s Office buildings. Branches and small trees will initially be utilized as a road base to prevent erosion, and any remaining material will then be burned over the course of the next few years as conditions permit.

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Based on the current per-kilowatt-hour price of building wind turbines, the project could cost between $350 million and $400 million. Xcel is expected unveil its price estimation and more details at a June 28 meeting with city council.

Sam Weaver and Frank Selto of CBCEF will present that group’s findings on the projected costs and benefits of municipalization at 6:30 p.m. on June 29 at the Boulder Public Library.

Under the Xcel plan, even 20 years after finalizing the deal, the wind farm Boulder paid to construct would still belong to Xcel, meaning the city could be right back at the standard rate of 30 percent renewable energy that Xcel will be providing for the rest of the state — though those new 200 kilowatts of power will always be on the grid.

“We’ve been hearing a lot from our community that they want local control and local decision-making, and they want to be able to influence the people who are making these decisions,” Huntley says. “So from that perspective, the wind proposal probably won’t get us very far.”

Both ideas — municipalization and the Xcel wind farm — have attractions and risks, Huntley says.

“Both of them have some community goals they probably won’t accomplish right away,” she says. “It’s going to be a weighing, a balance sheet, of what our community wants and how quickly they want it.”

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“The reality is that no, your house isn’t powered by wind. You’re buying more wind to put on the grid, and your house might get a little more wind powering it, but you’re still drawing from the main grid,” says Sarah Huntley, communications coordinator for the city of Boulder.

“Boulder can’t be 90 percent wind in terms of true electrons,” says Larry Slowers, deputy director for distributed and community wind at the American Energy Association. “They can say they want to buy the equivalent of 90 percent wind, but they’re not buying instantaneously 90 percent wind.”

Members of Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future, however, are proposing an alternative: a municipally owned energy provider that relies on a combination of natural gas and renewable energy. This model, they say, would help meet more of Boulder’s goals, and would also provide a model for other communities looking to reduce their carbon impact.

Though a municipalized utility would likely move more slowly toward figures like 70 percent or 90 percent renewable energy, Huntley says, a local power authority, which would be held accountable by voters, could explore more localized options for hydropower and solar energy. Xcel’s wind farm would likely be built in eastern Colorado or Wyoming.

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cel Energy’s proposal to build a 200-kilowatt wind farm dedicated to Boulder residents promises a quick transition to renewable energy for almost all of the city’s electricity, but city officials are still evaluating that proposal’s ability to meet all of the energy priorities for Boulder in the long term.

The conversation on changing Boulder’s energy sources began with renewables, but residents have also indicated that they value rate stability, reliability and control of the energy source.

City council members will be comparing the Xcel proposal to the option to municipalize power for the city, which would likely provide renewables at a slower rate, but would allow for greater say over where power for the city comes from — and in the long run could provide a more effective transition to more renewable energy.

The proposed wind farm would provide renewable energy credits to the city of Boulder for 70 percent of its power in its first year of operation, and up to 90 percent by 2020. That doesn’t mean 90 percent of the electrons actually powering Boulder will come from wind. Those wind-powered electrons will be distributed throughout the grid.

“Imagine a bathtub with different spouts going into it,” says Michelle Aguayo, Xcel Energy spokesperson.

“Once you’re in the bathtub, you don’t know where that water came from.”

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang screens at the St. Julien Hotel on Sunday, June 26.

Thursday, June 23

Boulder Weekly Film Series: I AM — Some hate it. Some love it. You can’t leave this film without an opinion either way. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Friday, June 24

CU AND NAROPA EXPLORE THE LINKS BETWEEN FILM AND THE WRITTEN WORD BY ADAM PERRY hough an obscure class or two on film studies or screenwriting sometimes appears on the course list at Naropa University, the Buddhist-inspired Boulder school has no film studies major. However, since 1999, Naropa has enjoyed the presence of the novelist, singer-songwriter and screenwriter Junior Burke, who is on the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics faculty and was formerly its chair. Burke has also taught film studies at the University of Colorado Boulder for the past half-dozen years, and he was an integral part of bringing this weekend’s Moving Images poetry and film conference to Naropa’s Summer Writing Program (SWP) in conjunction with CU’s film studies and creative writing programs.

Billed as “the first symposium of its kind, bringing scholars, filmmakers and poets together to explore the intersection of film and poetry,”

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Moving Images is the product of Burke’s introduction to University of Chicago heavyweight Tom Gunning (director of the school’s Department of Cinema and Media Studies) two years ago.

“Tom was coming out here and doing some teaching at CU, and I met him through [former CU film studies chair] Dan Boord,” Burke tells Boulder Weekly. “He had just received a Mellon grant and was going to be able to put on several events around the country, so we decided to put on a film/poetics event at Naropa, and it’s been two years of planning.

“It came about through the history between CU film studies and the Kerouac School, in terms of strengthening the relationship between film and poetics,” Burke says. “In some ways it’s an interesting fit because of Stan Brakhage [who taught at CU until his death in 2003] being the founding spirit of the film studies

department over at CU and his experimental mode and his stature in that little alternative film world. In many ways that is a good fit in terms of the Kerouac School being an ‘outrider’ lineage and experimental for its time.”

Over three days at Naropa and CU, approximately 20 speakers — including academics, writers and filmmakers — will use Moving Images’ platform to explore the relationship between poetry and moving pictures since the era of silent film. According to Lisa Birman, director of Naropa’s Summer Writing program, the fact that Moving Pictures coincides with the second week of SWP wasn’t planned at all.

“Funnily enough, we already had a film/poetics theme for week two of the Summer Writing Program before we knew this was gonna happen. So when Junior came and said, ‘What do you think about this idea?’ the timing see MOVING IMAGES Page 20

Where Will Our Next “Giant Leap” Take Us? — We’re betting on Mars. With Addie Dove.

8 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Saturday, June 25

4th Annual Festival of the Arts — Featuring several talented Boulder artists. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Through June 26.

Sunday, June 26

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — Worth seeing for the Rube Goldberg machine. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, June 27

“So, You’re a Poet” — Bring your beret and your Moleskine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, June 28

Edward Scissorhands — Johnny Depp is rarely this weird. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Wednesday, June 29

Bands on the Bricks — With Hazel Miller, who leads one of the tightest bands in Boulder.

5:30 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

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was actually just phenomenal,” Birman says.

CU film studies Professor Phil Solomon, who considers himself a “poetic filmmaker” and whose own filmmaking strives for “poetic overtones,” is also participating in Moving Images and calls it “a perfect storm.”

“I am interested in promoting a stronger relationship between [CU] film studies and Naropa,” he says. “I’m not particularly interested in the literal juxtaposition of poetry and film. In point of fact, I have rarely seen it done successfully — that is, images accompanying a poem being read on the soundtrack. For me, poetry lives in blessed silence on the written page.

More often than not, I prefer to read it than hear it read aloud — so what interests me are what I would call ‘poetic films’ and what I would call ‘cinematic poetry,’ poems which evoke a cinematic sense or evoke a cinematic sense of place or atmosphere and create uncanny juxtapositions — like film editing or dissolves — as you scan over the words.”

During Moving Images, Solomon will be analyzing Brakhage’s notable 1980 film, “Murder Psalm,” as it relates to “the crucial differences between image metaphor and language metaphor.” Solomon stresses that he was “thrilled” at the news that Gunning, whom he calls “the premiere film schol-

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ar in the U.S.,” is coming to Boulder to son, which opened and illuminated the talk about the relationship between film dark cave of my brain,” Waldman tells and poetry. Unfortunately, Gunning Boulder Weekly. “Montage and jumpturned down Boulder Weekly’s intercuts and syncretic layering have always view request because of three dissertabeen important in my own writing. tion defenses due in the past week, but Manatee/Humanity [Penguin, 2009] has perhaps his involvement in this weeka section mimicking a film narrative. end’s conference will speak for itself.

I’ve worked with filmmakers over the “I know his years, and fine critical writappeared in an Moving Images takes place at the ing,” Kerouac early Adolphus Naropa University and the University of School founder Mekas film Colorado campuses from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26. For a comand international[and] also in plete schedule, visit bit.ly/filmandpoetly renowned poet an early film ry. All events are free and open to the Anne Waldman

by Robert public. For a complete schedule and list of events, visit bit.ly/filmandpoetry. says of Gunning, Kramer.” “and it will be a Waldman, great honor and pleasure to encounter who just finished working with Bowes him live and addressing the creative on a short film tribute to Akilah Oliver community in Boulder. We welcome (the beloved poet and Naropa teacher this unprecedented collaboration.” who tragically passed away in February), Naropa’s faculty has included such says she often finds “extraordinary legendary film-interested literary icons rhythm in the movement of film, in its as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg quick transitions, in its gestures in time and the wild-eyed archivist Harry and space, much like the unexpected Smith. Still, perhaps no one in Naropa’s moves of poetry and like our own colorful history of revered underground metabolism.” icons has been so involved with the juxMoving Images will be a welcome taposition of film and poetry as celebration of ideas, passions and conWaldman, whose interest in film began nections between CU and Naropa, but in her youth and who has been collaboalso a rare high point in the recent hisrating with her husband, the filmmaker tory of the Kerouac School, which was Ed Bowes, for the past decade. rumored to be on the chopping block “I grew up in Manhattan and saw a amid the ongoing “reorganization” of lot of experimental films as a young per- Naropa, which confirmed in May that it

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According to Burke, the elimination of the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at Naropa in favor of keeping just the 37-year-old Summer Writing Program (probably the most well-known and well-respected part of Naropa outside of Boulder) “was never going to happen, and we weren’t going to let it happen.”

As for the recent anger over Naropa President Stuart Lord’s controversial declaration a few weeks ago that he intends to relocate the school’s historic Allen Ginsberg Library to the basement of Naropa’s administration building, Burke said simply, “I feel that the Allen Ginsberg library is a tangible manifestation of everything that’s been built here, in terms of the Kerouac School, and I feel it has to be preserved.”

When asked about Naropa’s future, and the future of the Kerouac School in particular, Burke was a bit more cryptic.

“There’s been a lot of changes, but I feel pretty positive about the present. I don’t know about the bigger picture, but I know the level of commitment of the people I work with here, and I think that we’re gonna be able to continue doing what we’ve been doing.”

With Moving Images descending on Boulder this weekend, the Kerouac School’s present looks bright.

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Boulder gets first glimpse of brand new musical

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eople often analogize the credant to the Great Depression driving him, ative process to the reproducthe audience knows from the get-go that tive one. They talk about the Ollie has joined this particular circus for “labor pains” artists go through reasons well beyond food and board. As he as they struggle to bring a goes about his business, clowning and othnovel piece of art into the world. They refer erwise, the circus’s sneaky, sniveling owner to “giving birth” to a new idea, painting, (is there any other kind?), Charles Deuce play or piece of music. There are, of course, (Arnold Follendorf ), schemes to sell Angel’s exceptions to this referential rule. I’ve never beloved carousel for a quick buck. With no heard it applied to, say, a mime routine or carousel to tend and certain obvious impediprofessional wrestling story arc, but it does ments to exercising her more aerobatic seem, generally, to track to the world of art. skills, what will become of dear Angel?

Perhaps the agony of bringing a truly I can see a future in which The original story to life explains why so few Awakening of Angel DeLuna is performed people even bother to try these days? We on Broadway. I was flabbergasted by the live in a world of sequels. Already this year, level of craftsmanship that has gone into Hollywood has given us The Hangover Part this musical. For being a brand-new proII, X-Men: First Class, Fast Five and Kung duction, it already seems polished well Cast from left: Kevin Schwarz (Ollie Blatsky), Britta Laree (Angel DeLuna), Shoshana Fu Panda 2, just to name the smallest beyond its short lifespan. The story, the Bass (Young Angel DeLuna to Laree’s right), John Riggs (Mike, above), Kyle Smith (Fred, below) and Arnie Follendorf (Charles Deuce) handful, and still to come are the second music, the lyrics, all of them feel more Sherlock Holmes, the third Transformers, the Broadway than Boulder. fourth Twilight, the second Cars and the As impressive as it is, The Awakening of eighth Harry Potter. It’s far easier to rehash a successful rousing, operatic musical, but at its heart it is all boyAngel DeLuna is not yet a perfect musical. Certain formula than it is to strike out boldly into the artistic meets-girl, boy-loses-girl. And, well, you know the relationships could use better development, while othunknown. rest. It opens with a mysterious circus clown (wow, ers could stand to be diminished. A main character’s It’s precisely for that reason that Boulder’s theatre now that’s a decidedly unusual character description) key infirmity, one that plays a pivotal part in the musilovers should rejoice for The Awakening of Angel signing on with the troupe, and it ends with cheers cal’s biggest dramatic scene, needs to be set up more DeLuna. This Broadway-style musical, which had its and tears. clearly earlier on in the show. And, the running time world premiere at the Dairy Center last week, is a Years before the story begins, a young trapeze artwould benefit from a slight trim. purely original work of art and labor of love that ist, Angel DeLuna (Britta Laree), fell victim to a dasThat said, The Awakening of Angel DeLuna is a surproves the creative spirit is far from dead, at least in tardly combination of performance mishap and gravity. prising triumph. It is without a doubt the most sucBoulder County. The fact that it is making its debut in Though she survived, she gave up the heights of the cessful, brand-spanking-new musical I have had the Boulder as opposed to some off-Broadway theatre big top for the relative safety of tending to the circus’s pleasure to witness. With some tweaks and some luck, gives Boulderites a chance — and one that comes antique carousel, and that carousel literally became the it really could end up playing in Manhattan or in along about as frequently as the 100-year flood — to center of her universe. Each undulating horse, lion or Denver by way of the traveling Broadway company. beat their NYC cousins to the theatrical punch. lamb is her friend and charge, and the angels that And you can say you saw it first, back when it was just Set in a Depression-era circus, The Awakening of adorn the carousel’s canopy are her confidants. opening its eyes and reaching out to the world for the Angel DeLuna is, first and foremost, a love story. It is Enter Ollie Blatsky (Kevin Schwarz), the aforemen- very first time. also a comedy, a slice-of-life historical piece, and a tioned circus clown. Even with the deprivations attenRespond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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oulder has plenty of places to drink, dance and jam — but people looking for laughs have been out of luck.

“We’ve known for about five years or so that a new form of nightlife, or a new form of entertainment, in Boulder could be well received,” says Matt Rushing, a CU alum and Denver local. “So we had the idea of opening a comedy club in Boulder for a few years now.”

Rushing started the John “Hippieman” Boulder Comedy Club, a Novosad business model that follows that of a promotions company. He has partnered with the Lazy Dog and currently puts on shows about once a month — he expects them to be held more frequently once the university returns to its fall schedule.

“Once we had the venue, we were able to go to the comedians and say, ‘What’s your availability?’” Rushing says. “The reception from the comedians has been great; they’ve all been very stoked to see something going on in Boulder on a more regular basis.”

In recent years, stand-up comedy has been conspicuously absent from the Boulder scene, though improv and sketch comedy groups like the Boulder Improv Collaborative and Left Right TIM from CU have a strong community presence.

“As far as the history goes, there hasn’t been a traditional comedy ‘club’ in Boulder in any recent years, to my knowledge,” Rushing says, via email. “There

by Sara Kassabian were shows at the Redfish and Albums on the Hill a few years back, but they’re no longer running on a regular basis.”

Rushing says the comedy club tries to recreate the traditional setting — “complete with lights, sounds, and the little round tables.” He says this setting hasn’t been in Boulder for a long time, if ever.

The lack of stand-up comedy in Boulder is offset

by Denver, a city with two Comedy Works locations.

Closer to Boulder is the West End Comedy Club in Westminster, making it an easy commute for people passionate about stand-up, and for comics looking to perform.

John Novosad, also known as Hippieman, is a Boulder local who started his career in comedy in various Denver rooms in the early ’80s. Novosad will be performing through the Boulder Comedy Club at the Lazy Dog on Saturday, June 25, and says he is looking forward to bringing his show to his hometown.

Despite the lackluster resources, Novosad got his start in comedy through the Tuesday night show that was held at the Blue Note, a club that used to be on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.

“I had no idea what the hell I was doing,” he says. “[The Blue Note] had an open mic kind of new-talent-thing going on there, and I did that for, like, a year and a half, and that’s really how I got started.

And then the Comedy Works started happening in

Denver and there was just more opportunities while things progressed in the early ’80s.”

Novosad is in good company. Both he and Rushing say that the Front Range is home to comics who serve up smart comedy.

“I think the word that I would use to describe their expertise is it’s smart humor,” says Rushing, referring to storytelling methods employed by many local comedians.

“They bring the audience in and they’ll kind of have an inside connection — the audience feels they have an inside connection or an inside joke with the comic when the show’s over,” Rushing says.

Novosad says he uses a lot of self-deprecating and political humor in his act, one of the jokes being “Hippieman’s plan for America.”

Hippieman, Novosad’s character, reflects his Boulder-bred liberal sensibility. In Hippieman’s plan for America, Novosad says the idea is that Democrats and Republicans are more or less the same.

“So I came up with my plan for America and then I just present it,” he says. “I have it on index cards and I just take topics that are in the news, and I have funny solutions for them.”

Rushing says because Boulder is a smart town, bringing witty comedians like Novosad and others from the Front Range works. It is also proving to be a lucrative market, as the Boulder Comedy Club has sold out the past two shows.

Novosad says the Front Range offers a tightknit community for comics looking to refine their act.

“There’s just a real comfortable family feeling in the comedy scene there, it’s really supportive,” he says.

“So that’s probably influenced me more than anything — to see other people’s success and to have those clubs to work stuff out [in] has been the thing that’s helped me the most.”

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ometimes all you can do is marvel at someone’s dumb luck, blessed fortune, or whatever you want to call it. Like the guy who wins the lottery because he picked one or two of the right numbers by mistake, the woman who hits the jackpot on her first pull on a slot machine after you spend three hours losing money on it, or the unknown actor who lands a highly coveted role in a film just because some producer happened to see him at the right place at the right time. Joy Williams is one half of the popular band The Civil Wars, and the story of how she came to be in the band — as well as that of bandmate John Paul White — is one of those stories.

“We actually met at what we call a blind date collective,” Williams says. “It was a songwriting gathering, and there were about 25 people in one room. John Paul was literally the first person I had to write with that day, just picked at random. He and I had never known a thing about each other before stepping into that room. So the moment we started playing and singing it was just strange alchemy, it was unlike any other co-write we’d ever experienced.”

What makes this fortuitous story even more amazing is the fact that it almost didn’t happen at all.

“It’s crazy,” Williams says with a laugh. “We found out later that we both tried to cancel even going to that songwriting gathering in the first place, but I’m glad that we didn’t!”

And now, barely two years later, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world who would echo that last thought. Their latest release, Barton Hollow, has been praised by publications and critics everywhere, they have been featured as one of VH1’s “Artists You Oughta Know,”

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ichael Christie knows what he wants at Boulder’s Colorado Music Festival (CMF).

“Variety is most important,” says the festival’s music director. “What we do is look off the beaten track and then throw in some element that’s surprising.”

Variety indeed: The current CMF season, running June 26 through Aug. 5 at Chautauqua Auditorium, includes orchestral concerts, from Mozart to Mahler; a virtuoso violin mini-festival that features fiddling 26 June 23, 2011

and they have appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. And that’s just for starters. Not bad for an independent duo who don’t have major label support.

“It’s surreal, but it’s something we’re really grateful for, especially being independent artists that lack having the big machine behind us,” she says before mentioning that while The Civil Wars is still in its infancy, both she and White have been in the industry for about a decade apiece. “It’s been a series of bread crumbs along a path that has slowly led us to this point.”

Barton Hollow is a well-crafted album, filled with exquisite love songs, as well as a number of painfully gut-wrenching ones. The lyrics are sparse and exact, avoiding filler content like the plague, and the songs

themselves are often simple without being simplistic. With sounds ranging from the title track’s dark and funky Americana sound to the more upbeat acoustic number “I’ve Got This Friend,” the duo makes sure everything sounds and feels heartfelt.

“We tried to let the songs sing back to us and let us know what they needed, but we also sort of wanted whatever was going to be added to be felt and not just simply heard,” Williams says. “And a lot of times when we were recording — you know, adding instruments, overdubbing — we’d end up taking almost all of that stuff out in the end.”

Williams and White have persistently pursued their crafts and passions in music, without ever considering the idea of giving up. And the payoff is proving to be rewarding in ways that extend beyond the obvious.

“We’ve never worked harder in our lives,” she says, “but we’re more satisfied and more inspired and encouraged to keep doing what we’re doing than we ever have been before.”

Of course, it also helps if you aren’t simply in this to try to make a few bucks and live like a rock star.

“Aw man, it’s just so much fun,” Williams says of getting to make music, let alone make the kind of music she and White have made. “If it wasn’t fun, there’d be no reason to do it. I mean there’d be no reason to be gone that much. John Paul’s got a really sweet and lovely family with younger kids at home in Alabama about two hours away [White often commutes to Williams’ house in Nashville for writing sessions], so we have to love what we do in order for it to make sense.”

Fortunately, they do, and thankfully, it does.

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cert, Sunday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m., which features a completion of the most famously uncompleted masterwork: Schubert’s “Unfinished” symphony. To make the story more unusual, the completion (a third movement based on Schubert sketches and an original fourth movement) is by Marcel Tyberg, an Austrian composer who died in 1944 at Auschwitz and whose music was rediscovered in a Buffalo, N.Y., basement in 1995.

Christie conducted the world pre-

Colorado Music Festival brings diverse classical offerings to Boulder

by Peter Alexander superstar Mark O’Connor; Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with jazz breaks by the Marcus Roberts Trio; world music that ranges from Gospel to Hawaiian to the percussive force of Street Drum Corps; and a night of “Patriotism and Pops.”

And that’s only a selection of the variety the festival serves up this season.

(For the full schedule, go to www.coloradomusicfest.org.)

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On the Bill “Tyberg did “What I love this as kind of an about this proThe 2011 Colorado Music Festival runs June 26 through Aug. 5 with exercise just to gram is that in performances at Boulder’s see what he many ways it conChautauqua Auditorium. For full could do,” he tinues the audischedule and ticket information, go to www.coloradomusicfest.org. says. “He’s a ence outreach that Tickets are available online, by really masterful we have been phone at 303-440-7666 and at the composer and doing for a long Chautauqua Box Office, in the kiosk behind the Chautauqua keeps all the time,” Christie Dining Hall. proportions and says. “They’ve got harmonies of a lot of producSchubert. It’s really pretty spooky, espe- tion value: They’ve got video footage, cially the third movement, how they’re bringing a Russian folksinger Schubert-esque it really is.” to sing the Russian folksongs that Another surprise comes a few nights much of Rite of Spring is based upon, later (Thursday, June 30, and Friday, July so there’s all this extra value that’s way 1), when audience members will see a beyond the capability of a small festifull jazz trio on stage with the orchestra val.” for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

On July 28 and 29 the festival will “It’s the original Rhapsody in Blue,” continue its 10-year survey of Mahler’s Christie explains. “But Marcus’ trio cre- symphonies — one symphony a year — ate their own little jazz combo in the with the Sixth Symphony. The Sixth is middle of it, where the orchestra just not familiar to most audiences, even stops and he and his trio riff on though it offers what Christie calls Rhapsody in Blue.” “music of incredible potency, just huge Those concerts will open with the climaxes and incredible energy. world premiere of an overture by “It’s so direct in what it does, but all Patrick Zimmerli, winner of the CMF’s the emotions are delivered so pro“click” commission (so-called because foundly,” he says. patrons of the festival made online conSkipping over the intriguing world tributions to the commission by clickmusic series and several other concerts, ing on the composer they preferred) the festival ends with a week-long resiand close with “Ansel Adams: America” dency by Time for Three, the “classicalby Chris Brubeck. ly trained musicians with a garage-band “A hundred-and-some-odd of mentality” who were a hit at last year’s Adams’ photos will be projected during festival. the piece,” Christie says. “The music is They will present workshops, their not specifically reflective of a photo — own trio concert on Aug. 2, and end it’s kind of like chapters with the music. the whole festival with the orchestra on But I found the music to be big, proud Aug. 4 and 5. music that really makes you feel good.”

“The energy level that these guys A new development for this year’s bring to the stage is just kind of ecstatfestival is “Beyond the Score,” a proic,” Christie says. “For the whole festigram pioneered by the Chicago val it’s going to be really great to have Symphony. On July 21-22, Christie and them around so we can get drunk on the Festival Orchestra will perform their energy a little bit.”

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, preceded by And that’s the other thing Michael a multimedia program borrowed from Christie wants: to share that energy with as many people as possible.

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

Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

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

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

Cowgirl Radio. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dan Treanor. 8 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

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

Eufórquestra. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

Jubal and Monica Colbi. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Kimmerjae and the Soiree. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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

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

Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m.

Folsom St. Coffee Co. 1795 Folsom St. 303-4408808.

Open Stage — With KC Groves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Rhythm on the Rails — With Soul School.

6:45 p.m. Whistle Stop Station, Niwot, www. niwotcolorado.com.

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This band will hit you with a mish-mash of styles the first few minutes into one of its songs. Influences like swing, jam bands, funk and more are all audible, and they bring it all together in a simmering sauce pot of styles. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

The Stanleytones. 9:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

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

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m.

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

Opening Reception for BIODOME: An Experiment in Diversity. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Boulder Weekly Film Series: I AM. 7:30 p.m.

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

Colorado Skies: Summer Skies. 8 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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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.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Photographs by Richard

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

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

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

The Little Prince — Preview performance. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-4920554.

Out of the Same Soil — Art show opening reception. 5:30 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-1862.

The Planets Uncovered. 10 a.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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theater The Awakening of Angel DeLuna. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826.

Through July 10.

Carousel. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through July 10.

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

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

Bill McKay. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Blue Oasis. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Eric Gunnison Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Hourglass. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

John McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Maraca — With Quemando. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Nick O’Connor Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

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

Onda. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Sheryl Diane, Steve Waitt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Somasphere. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Tropical Latin Nights. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Widespread Panic. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

The ZydeCoasters. 9 p.m., Jake’s Roadhouse, 5980 Lamar St., Arvada, 303-424-7266.

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe

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George Nelson Quartet Wed., June 29th

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words Thursday, June 23 Mark Butler’s Zen Money Blues. 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 25 Writing Workshop: Learning from the Young Adult Novel. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sunday, June 26 Ally Carter’s Uncommon Criminals. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, June 27 “So You’re a Poet” ­— Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, June 28 Tuesday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

449-6000. Through Sept. 24.

The Little Prince — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Aug. 14.

Romeo & Juliet — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 13.

Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

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

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

Extreme Pita Grand Opening — First 25 customers win free pitas for a year. 10:30 a.m.

Extreme Pita, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303786-7482.

Laser: Electrolyte. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Romeo & Juliet — Preview performance. 8 p.m. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Where Will Our Next “Giant Leap” Take Us? — With Addie Dove. 8 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Saturday, June 25

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

Barbara Paris, Keith Waters and Dirk Dixon. 8 p.m. Trident Book Store, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133.

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

Bullhead*ded, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Wandering Monks. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Cameron and Kristina: Ecstasy of Arabic Music. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Erica Brown. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Forest Kelly Trio. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Gasoline Lollipops. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Hot Soup. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St.,

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

The Longest Day of the Year. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

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

Miriams Well. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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

Sam Golden Trio. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Stephen Marley. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Tage Plantell and the Dusty Radio, Steve Law. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE — With The Ticket. 6:30 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street mall, 1710

29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Widespread Panic. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

events 4th Annual Festival of the Arts. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Through June 26.

2011 Turtle Float — To benefit Over the Rainbow Preschool. Part of the High Peaks Art

Festival 2011, Nederland, 303-258-0390.

Through June 26.

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.

High Peaks Art Festival. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nederland, www.nederlandchamber.org. Through June 26.

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

Sunday, June 26

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

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

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

George Nelson. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Here Come Cowboys. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Jamesons Co-Dependent Band. 6 p.m.

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

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

Glowhouse, Lulacruza. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Molly Greacen and the Sweet Life. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Widespread Panic. 4 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

events 4th Annual Festival of the Arts. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Affordable Homes Open House. 12-3 p.m.Various locations, Boulder, 303-441-3157.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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.

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

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

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

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

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

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

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

Performance in the Parks — With Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Yard, 9th Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303413-7200.

events Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous — Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www.BoulderCountyAA.org.

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.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — One dollar of each pint sold goes to Kiwanis Club. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, June 28

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350.

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

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

Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7:15 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Sodium Bride, Dangerous Nonesense. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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

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

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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.

Churchill & Wentworth Kersey. 6:30 p.m.

Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Comedy Show with Nancy Norton. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Edward Scissorhands. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m.

Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464.

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

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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Wednesday, June 29 The Afronauts. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bands on the Bricks — With Hazel Miller.

5:30 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

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

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

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

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Hot Tuna and Dar Williams. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

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

Rebekah Todd, Lamont Coal. 7:30 p.m.

Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 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.

Tea,Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m., Boulder. For location, call 720301-3993.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing — 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.

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Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

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

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, June 23 Laser: Celebration of Flight. 1 p.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.

Friday, June 24 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, June 25 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, June 26 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

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

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

Monday, June 27 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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

Tuesday, June 28 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

Folk Dancing for Children. 6:15-7 p.m.

Boulder Civic Plaza, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

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

Wednesday, June 29 Drop-in Storytime. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Laser Peter and the Wolf. 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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‘Lantern’ not illuminating

by Dave Taylor

J

ust when I thought that the summer was going to be defined by great films, I watched Green Lantern. Based on a storyline that’s more suited for Saturday morning cartoons than a cinematic production, the film had the awkward feel of a children’s made-for-TV animation that got repurposed as a live-action adult movie.

The Green Lantern Corps is an intergalactic police force that utilizes the green energy of Will, and serving is considered an extraordinary honor. The universe, we learn, is split into 3,600 sectors. The Green Lantern who is assigned to our little galaxy has a disastrous encounter with the evil creature Parallax, and it’s his ring that selects ne’er-do-well test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as the next Green Lantern.

Jordan is a cocky daredevil in the Top Gun vein, but he runs from difficult situations, including his unresolved emotions about the death of his fearless and beloved test pilot father. His on-again, off-again girlfriend is Carol Ferris (Blake Lively), daughter of Ferris Aircraft president Carl ( Jay O. Sanders) and a superb test pilot in her own right.

Meanwhile, back in Green Lantern intergalactic headquarters, Sinestro (Mark Strong) leads the Corps and debates the threat of Parallax (who is powered by “yellow fear” rather than “green will” energy) with the

council of Guardians, an immortal circle of wise puppets who look like rejects from E.T.’s prop department.

Sinestro doesn’t believe humans are good enough to be in the Corps and tells Jordan quite bluntly on their first meeting, in what was intended to pass as some sort of interpersonal tension.

If you guess that Parallax is the evil bad guy creature that the Corps can’t stop but that new Green Lantern Hal Jordan can because of his new-found courage, you’d be right. But it’s all so extraordinarily predictable that’s not a spoiler, just a statement of the obvious.

And that’s the core problem with Green Lantern, that the story is so asinine, so rife with clichés that it was boring and completely un-engaging, a factor exacerbated by the fact that the majority of the special effects look like they were done for a highbudget kids cartoon, not a full-blown big screen flick.

There are enough half-baked story elements that it’s quite possible the director’s cut will be at least 90 minutes longer. One character changes into an evil scientist (using a story element that is completely illogical) and can read minds, but that goes nowhere. There are computer-controlled fighter planes that come and go, a secret government organization that’s in control of alien research, and a gang of Ferris Aircraft employees who beat up Jordan, who retaliates with his new-found superpowers. Are they hurt? Do they come back and apologize later?

From the tedious 3-D effects to the pantheon of silly characters and the never-ending parade of clichés and cinematic tropes, my best advice to you is to just skip Green Lantern and spend your time elsewhere.

You’ll thank me for it.

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Getting lazy about slackers

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he Art of Getting By is a screen romance that echoes its title: It gets by. Barely. It’s another wan tale of an anti-social teen who finds himself irresistible to the sweetest, prettiest girl in school. But the film has flashes of wit and some interesting teen insights. And it finishes with a message and a flourish.

Freddie Highmore is George, a disaffected senior at a New York private school. When we meet him, George has simply shut down. He’s not doing the work, not participating. He’s let his fear of death overwhelm him.

“I just couldn’t take this awareness of my mortality,” he says. (Hey, it’s better than “The dog ate my homework.”)

Highmore plays George as a bit on the perky side for a boy supposedly so depressed he can barely get through the day. His support system at the school — Principal Martinsin (Blair Underwood), an English teacher (Alicia Silverstone), his art instructor ( Jarlath Conroy) — won’t give up on him. His mom (Rita Wilson) has her own issues right now with his stepdad, but she plainly cares.

Then George meets Sally. A mild act of rebellion by his most adorable classmate (Emma Roberts) hurls them together. She takes an interest and threatens George’s Boulder Weekly

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whole morose worldview.

“You have issues,” she says.

“I fear life,” he answers back.

It’s a friendship, not a romance. Because that’s all George can handle and she’s not forcing the issue. Well, not much. He ignores the make-your-move romantic advice of an artist-mentor (Michael Angarano, very good), content to continue his “Teflon slacker” shtick.

Writer-director Gavin Wiesen doesn’t have much new to say here. This is Igby Goes Down and Thumbsucker by way of Metropolitan; smart, arty private-school kids flirting and skipping school to see

French films because they have to cope with life in New York City. Elizabeth Reaser turns up as Sally’s too-flirtatious mom, suggesting what the girl might see in this boy who isn’t all over her. For all the talk of what George is doing to his “future” with his senior-year meltdown, all the peer group advice on this non-romance romance that Sally and George struggle with, Reaser’s character is the one with the pithiest take. Of men, she says, “I’ve played with their affections most of my life. With the good ones, though, it’s just not right.”

The movie plays with our affections, too. Highmore pitches George as sensitive, self-absorbed but not obnoxiously so, so we get why Sally might be drawn to him.

But Wiesen never makes it easy for us to root for them as a couple. It’s a tender age and a tender subject, and not making it a “romantic comedy” could have placed this in (500) Days of Summer or Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist terrain. But Getting By never ever gets over that way. (c) 2011, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.).

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Buck

See full review on Page 37. At Century.

Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback, travels the country for nine months a year helping horses with people problems. Buck follows Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatres

Bad Teacher Having played sweet, good girls for too long, Cameron Diaz gets in touch with her bad self as the world’s worst schoolteacher, an alcoholic, drug-using party animal who tries to seduce a wealthy new substitute (Justin Timberlake). Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

The Canal Street Madam

Beginners Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion and surprises of love. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father, Hal, has passed away.

This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who — following 44 years of marriage — came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Blood Simple In a jealous rage, Texas tavern owner Julian

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

This adaptation of a 1938 children’s book stars six real-live gentoo penguins and one giant dodo. And just when we thought Jim Carey’s career was going extinct...

Marty hires unscrupulous private detective Loren Visser to not only tail his two-timing spouse, Abby, but also murder her and her bar-keeping paramour. Events take a surprising turn, however, when the gumshoe doublecrosses his client. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15, 11:45 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 11:30, 2, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35, 11:50 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2, 4:25, 6:40, 9:05, 11:20 Midnight in Paris Thu: 10:15, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 9:45, 12, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45, 12:01 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu: 9:50, 11:10, 12:20, 1:35, 2:45, 4, 5:15, 6:30, 7:45, 9, 10:15, 11:25 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7, 9:35, 12:01 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 12:05, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20 Super 8 Thu: 9:55, 10:50, 11:40, 12:35, 1:30, 2:20, 3:15, 4:15, 5:10, 6:05, 7:05, 8, 8:45, 9:45, 10:40, 11:35 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 12:55, 2:35, 5:15, 6:50, 7:55, 10:40 Tree of Life Thu: 9:45, 12:50, 3:55, 7, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 X-Men: First Class Thu: 9:45, 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 1, 4, 7:25, 10:25

Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 The Art of Getting By Thu: 10:05, 12:15, 2:40, 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Bad Teacher Fri-Wed: 10:05, 11:15, 12:25, 1:40, 2:50, 4:10, 5:20, 6:35, 7:45, 8:55, 10:05, 11:15 Beginners Fri-Wed: 9:55, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Bridesmaids Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:40, 6:20, 7:35, 9:10, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Cars 2 Fri-Wed: 10, 12:45, 3:25, 6:05, 8:45, 11:30 Green Lantern Thu: 10, 12:40, 3:25, 6:10, 8:50, 11:30 Fri-Wed: 11:25, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:45 The Hangover Part II Thu: 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15, 11:45 Fri-Wed: 10:45,

Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Bad Teacher Fri-Wed: 1:15, 3:45, 7:20, 9:45 Bridesmaids Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40 Cars 2 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Green Lantern Thu: 10:20, 1:05, 4:55, 8, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 1, 5, 8, 10:40 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 11:05, 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu: 11:10, 1:35, 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4, 7:05, 9:30 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 9:50, 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 FriWed: 1:25, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Super 8 Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 X-Men: First Class Thu: 10, 10:30, 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30,7, 7:30, 10, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 1:30,

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AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Bad Teacher Fri-Wed: 10:10, 12:30, 3, 5:20, 8, 10:30 Bridesmaids Thu: 10:50 2, 5:05, 8, 10:55 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 2:10, 5:10, 8:10, 11 Cars 2 Fri-Wed: 10, 10:45, 12:40, 1:30, 3:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Green Lantern Thu: 10:40, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:35, 6:40, 9:30 The Hangover Part II Thu-Wed: 9:50, 12:15, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 11 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 10:10, 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:20 Midnight in Paris Thu: 10:25, 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 9:50, 1, 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 9:55, 1:10, 4:25, 7:45, 10:55 Super 8 Thu: 10:05, 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 10:55, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 X-Men: First Class Thu: 10, 1:10, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 10:15, 1:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10:55

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Bridesmaids

Until an FBI bust upended her life, Jeanette Maier was a successful New Orleans madam.

Her discreet clientele included a number of powerful, high-ranking politicians. The ensuing very public trial focused salaciously on the fact that Jeanette’s brothel was a family affair — Jeanette ran the business with her mother and she employed her own daughter as an escort.

Jeanette and her family ended up infamous, their futures blighted by felony convictions, yet their well-connected clients escaped exposure.

Now, the Canal Street Madam sets out to reinvent herself, reclaim her public persona and protect her family as she fights back against a system that silences the powerless and protects the elite. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

3:55, 4:30, 6:55, 7:30, 10, 10:35 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Beginners Thu: 3:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 FriWed: 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Bride Flight Fri-Wed: 2, 5, 8 Buck Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:30 City of Life and Death Thu: 5, 8:15 Stephen Sondheim’s Company Thu: 7:30 p.m.

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The Tree of Life Thu: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:45, 7, 8, 10 Fri-Wed: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8:15, 10 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Midnight in Paris Thu: 1:40, 2:20, 4:20, 5, 7:05, 7:45, 9:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 12, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Submarine Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Trip Thu: 1, 4, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Blood Simple Tue: 7:30, 10 The Canal Street Madam Thu: 7 p.m.

Crossing the Net Sun: 4:30 p.m.

The Double Hour Thu: 2:15, 4:45, 7:25 I AM Thu: 2:30, 5 Fri-Sat: 2:15, 5 Sun: 2:15 p.m.

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Mile High Sci-Fi: Big Fri: 7 p.m. Sat: 9:30 p.m.

The People vs. George Lucas Thu: 2, 4:30, 9:45 Fri: 2, 4:30 Sat: 2, 4:30, 7:15 Sun: 2, 7:15 Mon-Wed: 2, 4:30

Tell Them Anything You Want/ I Knew It Was You Mon: 7 p.m. !Women Art Revolution Fri-Wed: 2:30, 4:45, 7:30 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Bad Teacher Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:50, 10:05 Cars 2 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:25 Green Lantern Thu-Wed: 11:10,1:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Kung Fu Panda 2 Thu: 11:20, 1:30, 4, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 9:40 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu: 11:30, 1:45, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed:11:20, 1:45, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 7, 9:55 Super 8 Thu-Wed: 11:15, 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:10 X-Men: First Class Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 10 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 The Inspector General Sun: 4, 7 North Face Wed: 7 p.m.

Of Gods and Men Thu: 7 p.m. Fri: 4 p.m.

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lated by living, talking automobiles, was the only Pixar film I didn’t like. But I was skeptical about Toy Story 3, too, and look how that one turned out, so let’s hope for the best. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez City of Life and Death In December 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, killing as many as 300,000 citizens during a six-week reign of terror, the details of which Japan and China dispute to this day.

Abandoned by the outside world and with no resources or defenses, the people of Nanking were subjected to torture, rape and death by a chaotic army that had little experience operating in a foreign country. Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan’s bold re-creation of these events is told with startling humanism through the eyes of both victims and occupiers. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatres Crossing the Net Crossing the Net captures Denver’s culture, spirit and passion for tennis. The film showcases the words, deeds and aspirations of a few local heroes — pioneers who have made Denver City Park a true home for tennis and real community of avid players — players who are young, old, rich, poor, beginners, professionals, black, white, Asian and Hispanic. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Double Hour Sonia and Guido, a penniless maid and a chilly ex-cop, 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 at 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 Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Green Lantern See full review on Page 37. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

The Hangover Part II On the heels of their wild Las Vegas bachelor party, four pals get into more trouble en route to a pre-wedding brunch in Thailand. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Hot Summer In this East German teen musical, a group of girls from Leipzig are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast.

When a loud and obnoxious group of boys from Karl-Marx-Stadt intrude on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacation plans as they do. The two groups quarrel with each other and compete over a number of things, but gradually attractions start to form. This is East Germany’s own version of Grease.

I AM I AM, a 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

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practitioners. At Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres The Inspector General This hilarious vehicle for Danny Kaye is loosely based on Nikolai Gogol’s 19th-century masterpiece of dramatic satire, which is being produced by the Colorado Shakespeare Company this summer. The celebrated American actor, singer, dancer and comedian stars as a schlemiel in a traveling Gypsy medicine show who is mistaken for the feared Inspector General by corrupt town officials. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater The Jerk After discovering he’s not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Kung Fu Panda 2 The martial artist panda Po and his friends must once again protect the Valley of Peace from a formidable villain. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Midnight in Paris A lark, a souffle, a delightful shaggy-dog story with Owen Wilson as its shaggy hero. What’s he doing in a Woody Allen movie about a B-list screenwriter who time-travels from the present to the Jazz Age? Disarming the audience with his wistful joie de vivre, that’s what.

Rated PG-13. At Mayan and Flatiron. — Carrie Rickey Mile High Sci-Fi: Big Big is about a little boy who wishes he was big, and his wish comes true, and then his clothes don’t fit and his mom freaks on him, then he gets a job at a toy company and tap dances on a big piano at FAO Schwarz, which makes their stock jump $10. Yes, it is adorable. Yes, we all loved it. Yes, it is one of your sacred childhood memories and, yes, you are going to feel guilty as hell laughing your big butt off when we lampoon it this weekend. But your guilt will be erased when you remember Tom Hanks was also partially responsible for Money Pit and You’ve Got Mail. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Mr. Popper’s Penguins Jim Carrey stars in this adaptation of the 1939 Newbery Award-winning children’s book about a house painter who starts breeding trained penguins and takes his animal act on the road, creating a national sensation. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez North Face Based on a true story, North Face is a suspenseful adventure film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif — the Eiger — two reluctant German climbers begin their daring ascent. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Of Gods and Men Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s.

When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they realize that they have no choice but to stay. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

form, an Air Force train derails before their very eyes, some strange boxcar cargo making its presence known. Then the strangeness starts happening. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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Teens participating in You Are Here (the Boulder Public Library’s teen summer reading program) vote and choose a movie to show outdoors. We will show three movies, every other week. Movie will show under the library, on the north side by the creek. Pizza and pop will be served. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

This modern telling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice depicts the poet Orpheus’s loss and regaining of his wife, and his love for the illusive Princess Death, who travels constantly between the world and the “Zone.” This film is the second installment of Cocteau’s films à clef trilogy of Orphic identity. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL The People Vs. George Lucas The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled, but when it comes to George Lucas himself, many have found their ardor has cooled into a complicated love-hate relationship. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary delves deep into Lucas’ cultural legacy, asking all the tough questions. Has Lucas betrayed his masterwork? Should he have left the original trilogy alone? Will he ever redeem himself in their eyes, and more importantly, does he have any obligation to do so? At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society 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 The Princess of Montpensier Against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/ Protestant wars, Marie de Mezieres, a beautiful young aristocrat, finds herself married to a young prince she does not love, haunted by a rakish suitor from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman, harboring his own forbidden desire for her. At Boedecker Theater.

— Boedecker Theater Stephen Sondheim’s Company Neil Patrick Harris leads an all-star cast which included Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Christina Hendricks, Craig Bierko and Martha Plimpton. Company’s plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. It’s a concept musical composed of short vignettes linked by a celebration for Bobby’s 35th birthday. At Chez Artiste and Boedecker Theater. — Landmark Theatres Submarine Oliver Tate has two big ambitions: to save his parents’ marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his 16th birthday. Based on Joe Dunthorne’s acclaimed novel, Submarine is a captivating coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Super 8 Joe, the young teenage son of a local police officer, is making a zombie movie with his friends in their hilly Ohio steel town. One night while filming a scene on the train plat-

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Tell Them Anything You Want/I Knew It Was You Tell Them Anything You Want is a deeply moving tribute to Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent whose conflicts with success and lifelong obsession with death have subtly influenced his work. Sendak is best known for his book Where The Wild Things Are, which he wrote 12 years into his career as a writer and illustrator. I Knew It Was You is an exploration into the life of the exceptional but little-known actor John Cazale. Cazale’s film career consisted of just five movies, but all of them were Academy Award nominees for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Tree of Life The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Through Malick’s signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres The Trip When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country’s finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon. As the brilliant comic duo, freestyling with flair, drive each other mad with constant competition and showdowns of competing celebrity impressions, the ultimate odd couple realize a rich amount about not only good food, but the nature of fame, relationships and their own lives. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres !Women Art Revolution An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of feminist art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfx. — Denver Film Society

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Boulder County’s booming brewery business

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oulder County’s streets might as well be flowing with beer. Many breweries in the area are expanding their facilities, and brewpubs seem to constantly be adding new ales to their menus.

But could this beer bubble ever burst?

Currently there are more than 1,700 breweries in the United States, more than ever existed in the nation’s history. In 2011 alone, there were almost 700 documented breweries planning to open, says Julia Herz, a craft beer program director with the Brewers Association.

“You’ve got a large portion of existing breweries, 1,700-plus,” Herz says.

“Then on top of that, you’ve got … 700 breweries in planning, which is unprecedented.”

Herz says the future may look bright for small breweries in the U.S., but their respective regional markets will determine their success. In Boulder’s case, the market is thriving, and some breweries are experiencing the fastest periods of growth they have seen to date.

The Mountain Sun family is anticipating the opening of their biggest brewery yet at their Vine Street location in Denver. Paul Nashak, a managing partner of the operation, says the decision to open the new brewery has been in the works for five years and was necessary to meet the demands of consumers.

“The two breweries in Boulder almost didn’t make enough beer for the demand that we had,” Nashak says. “So when we decided to open a third pub, we

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by Sarah Simmons wanted to find a spot that would lend itself to a larger brewery than what we had so far, so that we could relieve some of the strain of the demand of all three pubs.”

Nashak says the addition of the new brewery will create the identity the other Mountain Sun locations are known for and allow brewers the room for creative experimentation with the beer, something that will be beneficial during a time of rapid growth in the Colorado beer market.

“The trend is still growing; every year that goes by, microbrews are doing better,” he says. “I think Colorado beer is doing better than it’s ever done. All the breweries and distributors are experiencing growth.”

Herz says this ability for consumers to see — and taste — the identities of the breweries in their area is one way to ensure they continue to thrive.

“Any brewery today is going to give you their personal story, and if they’re not sharing that, they’re not going to succeed,” she says. “Every brewery that you tour and taste at, you’re getting a piece of the personality of the principles behind their craft beers.”

Another local brewery undergoing changes to meet growing demands is Avery Brewing. Avery Marketing Director C.V. Howe says the brewery has had to almost double employee numbers over the past six months to keep up.

Boulder County is a brewer’s paradise because of ample mineral water, college-educated demographics and relaxed laws regarding distribution contracts. In

other states, Howe says, small brewers are required to enter into contracts with distributors who act as middlemen, and often, their brand can be lost among the other brews on a distributors list.

“Colorado allows for contracts with distributors but doesn’t demand it,” Howe says. “That means that a small brewery [that] doesn’t have any brand recognition in another state would have to sign on with generally a large distribution company who is not going to pay any attention to their brand.”

Meeting the expectations of both consumers and the market has meant that Boulder County breweries are constantly looking for ways to stand out, including aging beer in barrels used for white wine or whiskey, while breweries like Asher Brewing Company take steps to stand out starting with their foundational ingredients by brewing only all-organic ales.

But will this market ever become saturated? Herz says it boils down to whether or not a market is oriented toward local breweries, and in a state where the governor refers to the beer industry as the “Munich of the West,” Colorado, for the foreseeable future, will continue to thrive.

“Colorado is definitely a hotbed and one of the more advanced beer cultures in the U.S.,” Herz says.

“You’ve got a lot of positive things that have helped breweries in the state overcome barriers that possibly in other regions have been hard to overcome.”

Despite the back-breaking pace of the industry, some breweries in the area continue to experience an environment that is geared more toward camaraderie rather than competition.

“We have a very open, fluid and communicative relationship [with other breweries] for sure,” Howe says. “We’re good friends with all the folks over at the Mountain Sun chain and all sorts of other breweries in town. They’re doing the same thing that we’re doing, which is educating consumers and turning them on to really, really great products.”

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s someone with too much time salad ingredients seem more luxurious than on my hands, I’ve recently been they were. preoccupied with seeking out Cynthia’s entrée was the $15 chicken classic, if not downright iconic, marsala, served atop silky, wide pappardelle meals. These repasts don’t necnoodles. The ample quantity of mushrooms essarily have to be pricey or complex, and can made Cynthia happy, although she wished for be as simple as a grilled cheese accompanied a dab more of the included mustard and soft by tomato soup. Another might be a Paris bismascarpone cheese to give the pasta some tro meal of onion soup, a dozen raw oysters, gloss. Otherwise, the flavor of the poultry and floating island meringue for dessert. Not balanced well with the subtly sweet wine, included in this category would be friend which was in turn bolstered by the mushCynthia’s impromptu dinners where a box of rooms’ pleasing earthiness and the pasta’s Red Hots or Lemonheads served as the entrée. considerable heft.

Fortunately, boxes of candy aren’t on the My iconic meal continued unabated with a menu at Lafayette’s Zamparelli’s Italian $13 plate of spaghettini topped with bright red Bistro. Despite Cynthia’s propensity towards marinara and meatballs. A carnivore’s delight, confectionery as entrees, she had decided to these mixed-meat meatballs weren’t overcooked join me for dinner at this vibrant, familylike most, and were nearly tennis ball-sized. friendly eatery, which seemed ideal for an The sauce carried a hint of herbal flavor, which archetypical Italian-American meal. The menu accented the understated sweetness of tomato, features antipasti, salads and standby sandand didn’t overwhelm the creamy tones of the wiches such as sausage and peppers and eggmeatballs. The skinny pasta was the correct al plant parmesan. There’s also plenty of pasta, peaking of wine, the affordable, family-friendly iteradente consistency. ranging from basic spaghettini with marinara tion of Boulder’s The Kitchen opened last week. The We ended with a $4 cannoli, the pastryto pesto and meaty Bolognese-sauced selecKitchen [Next Door], located at 1035 Pearl St., takes a wrapped sweet cheese confection, dusted with tions. Brick oven pizzas span the range from zero-waste approach to vintages, serving them not from powdered sugar and flavored with cinnamon. basic pepperoni to pesto shrimp. bottles but from reusable kegs. Food selections are all Imported from New York City, this dessert was Cynthia ordered a refreshing bottle of priced under nine dollars. If an $8.95 Colorado lamb too sweet for my friend’s taste, although the Lambrusco, marked down to $14.50 as part of sandwich and a $3.95 side of roasted beets sampled fried dough wrapper was nice and flaky, which a Monday night half-off bottles of wine speduring opening week are any indicators of quality, this isn’t always the case. cial. This helped wash down a $4.75 cheesy comfortable spot will be packing folks in. What’s more, a Truly good Italian-American cooking is garlic bread starter, something I anticipated portion of the restaurant’s receipts will go towards plant- surprisingly hard to find locally. That’s a ordering as part of my textbook dinner. This ing and supporting gardens at Boulder schools, so one shame, because many may crave the simple can eat both well and altruistically. comforts of garlic bread, an unfussy salad, pasta appetizer featured a tender — as opposed to and a classic Italian sweet. Fortunately, rubbery — topping of lightly browned cheese Zamparelli’s understands that just offering these clasand packed a garlicky punch, which is how I like it. from fancy, this cold and crisp salad still hit the spot, This formidable starter could have made for a reminding me of the family-style Italian restaurants of sic dishes isn’t enough — the most satisfying versions require care worthy of their iconic status. light meal with the house salad ($2.50 with pasta my youth. The richness of the creamy gorgonzola Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com entrée) of romaine, cucumber and grape tomato. Far dressing and a dash of black pepper helped the simple

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Juanita’s won’t reopen on Pearl St. After leasing 1048 Pearl St. for 28 years, the owners of Juanita’s Mexican Restaurant are no longer continuing with plans to remodel and reinvent the iconic downtown Boulder eatery.

“We’re sad to see Juanita’s go,” says Curtis Snyder, a minority owner of Snyder Family LLLP, which owns the building. “We would’ve loved for Juanita’s to stay open for as long as possible.”

The restaurant’s owners closed it in March to pursue remodeling plans, either reinventing Juanita’s or opening a different restaurant, says Snyder. Two weeks ago, Juanita’s owners notified Snyder Family LLLP that they would not be renewing their lease.

Ed Bigg, general manager at Juanita’s, says the hope is that the restaurant moves elsewhere in Boulder or the metro area.

“As our concept is evolving, we feel like there’s another space out there that may be more ideal for what we’re doing,” Bigg says.

About 80 percent of those who have expressed interest in leasing the 3,150-square-foot space are interested in opening a new, moderately priced restaurant, Snyder says.

Snyder Family LLLP will continue with Juanita’s plans to remodel the exterior of the space, but the new owners will be responsible for any interior remodeling they choose.

“We’re also very excited that another staple will be developed there, that another icon will go up in its place,” says Snyder.

Zpizza hosts grand opening The new Zpizza restaurant in Boulder is having a grand opening celebration on Friday, June 24.

The celebration will begin with Boulder Mayor Susan Osborne’s introduction of Zpizza to the community from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The restaurant’s menu includes artisan pizzas, rusticas, pastas, calzones, sandwiches and salads that are

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made with all-natural and organic ingredients and include vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.

Zpizza will be selling customers $1 slices of pizza from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 20 percent of the day’s sales will be donated to the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. Humane society officials will be on hand to answer customers’ questions about the organization.

A drawing will also be held at 12:30 p.m. to reward two customers with a year’s worth of free pizza.

Zpizza is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is located at 1695 29th St., #1252.

Tea festival returns The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse will host the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival on July 23 and 24.

The festival, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on July 23 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 24, consists of workshops, seminars and tea parties.

“We started the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival 12 years ago as a place for tea-lovers to learn about, taste and discuss their favorite beverage,” said Sara Martinelli, tea specialist, certified herbalist and owner of the Three Leaf Concepts restaurants.

“We invited a number of speakers and industry leaders to teach seminars [and] workshops, and host tea tastings. The response was gratifyingly strong, and the Tea Festival became an annual tradition.”

She said a highlight will be a workshop on Puerh tea led by David Lee Hoffman of the Phoenix Collection Tea Company, based in Lagunitas, Calif.

For more information on the event, see www.boulderdushanbeteahouse.com/teafest.html. To register in advance for workshops, readings and demonstrations, call the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse at 303442-4993.

The Teahouse is located at 1770 13th St. in Boulder.

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nder new ownership, Boulder’s Naraya Thai and Sushi occupies the former Siamese Plate space. While the old proprietor is long gone, the new incarnation provides a similar menu and ambience. The Thai lunch specials are a fine value, providing entrées with a choice of protein in the $7 to $8 price range. Excellent choices include the shrimp Pad Thai and a fine chicken red curry, distinguished by perfectly cooked corn, zucchini and eggplant that retain pleasing texture and fresh, individual flavors.

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he menu at Louisville’s Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse is deceptively simple, consisting of a variety of starters, sandwiches, salads and brick oven pizza.

Sophisticated starters include winter squash puree and tapenade, and although you’ll find archetypical Italian grinder sandwiches here, there are also roasted veggie selections adorned with smoked mozzarella. The roasted beet salad, which comes with goat cheese and candied pecans, is first rate, as is the Hazel Dell Wild Mushroom pizza, topped with fresh arugula and a whisper of truffle oil.

Radda Trattoria 1265 Alpine Ave., Boulder 303-442-6100

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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.

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version of this ancient preparation, and the pancetta-laden carbonara is a must-try.

Two Dog Diner 645 Tenacity Dr., Longmont 303-772-2364

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estled in Longmont’s New Urbanist Prospect neighborhood, Two Dog Diner has the feel of a popular locals’ hangout, successfully blending elements of the old and new. Traditional enough to offer blue-plate specials, it’s also forward-thinking enough to make one of these diner classics a platter of grilled fish tacos. Weekend brunch is popular as well, and can’t-miss items include corned beef hash and eggs Benedict specials.

Arabesque 1634 Walnut St., Boulder 720-242-8623

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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.

Arabesque’s chicken shawarma features whitemeat 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.

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acco Trattoria and Mozzarella Bar lives up to its Italian moniker by virtue of being a hospitable neighborhood restaurant. Blending ItalianAmerican with Old World influences, the menu includes pizza, lasagna and more unique offerings such as brickpressed grilled chicken. The wild boar pappardelle is especially memorable, with a satisfying cacciatore-like flavor and tender pork.

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Ted’s Montana Grill

pecializing in bison-based selections, Ted’s Montana Grill is a culinary endeavor spearheaded by billionaire Ted Turner. The menu straddles the line between straightforward bar food and traditional steakhouse, with such unique offerings as bison nachos and a plethora of burgers and steaks. While not inexpensive, the bison burgers, such as the Blue Creek with blue cheese and bacon, are generously sized and are both lean and flavorful.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

Sushi Kaiten

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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.

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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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COLORADO’S DEEP SNOWPACK MEANS A LONG, WET SUMMER FOR RIVER RATS STORY AND PHOTOS BY TOM WINTER

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summer solstice means many things.

For some, it’s a chance to delve into their pagan roots. For others, it’s an excuse to have a party. And this year, after one of the deepest winters and wettest springs on record in the high country, it’s the start of what looks to be one of the best — and longest — rafting and kayaking seasons Colorado has ever seen.

Colorado’s epic winter has left the state poised for a big water year, and with cool temperatures the norm late into spring, the season has been primed for excellence.

The average snowpack across Colorado has been measured at 248 percent of average, with some areas along the Continental Divide clocking in at 359 percent of

average. That’s a huge amount of snow, and with a delayed summer (more than eight inches of snow fell Sunday night at the top of now-closed Loveland Ski Area), the snow has been stacking up instead of melting.

But melt it will, and the potential has whitewater enthusiasts drooling.

“We’ve gotten record snows, which translate into record water flows,” says Boulder Outdoor Center’s Eric Bader. Furthermore, according to Bader, “the water is having a pretty even melt, at a nice, reasonable rate. This is fantastic for river running.”

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County, says the year so far is better be respected. than expected.

“I recommend taking professional “Last year we had a really warm trips right now unless you are very flash, but this year we’ve had a cool experienced,” he says. “This kind of May and June, and the water has water can be run very safely, but you maintained,” he says. “It’s fun because need experience to do that, and the a lot of people who come out at this best way to find that experience is time of year don’t get the epic water. with a professional trip.”

But this year is different. It’s a perfect “We don’t run certain things above level for us. The water has hung out at a certain level,” adds Seelig. “Dowd the more adventurous level.”

Chute near Minturn is great. It’s like With the water this good, people being shot out of a cannon. But right are taking the plunge. According to the now we’re not running it. It can be Colorado River Outfitter’s Association, run at these levels, but if something things are busy, with bookings up 11 goes wrong there, it’s a nasty swim.” percent over But Seelig Memorial Day. says that the And the fun isn’t Chute will The Boulder Outdoor Center is a going to end come into form full-service rafting, kayaking and whitewater outfitter, offering daily anytime soon. soon, and there and multi-day trips to Colorado’s “The middle are other best rivers. Learn more at www. boc123.com, or call 303-444-8420.

Eagle section’s options aside normally only from rafting, Lakota Guides operates daily trips to some of the Western Slope’s open two weeks,” like kayaking or best water, and they also offer says Lakota’s the latest trend, instruction and rentals for river paddling. Contact them at 970Seelig. “It’s been stand up pad845-7238/lakotaguides.com open a month, dleboards, and we are anticwhich also offer ipating another month.” the chance to get wet and have fun That’s exciting news given the during one of the best runoffs in fickle nature of the Eagle. years.

“If you want to experience the Vail “Kayaking is fast and fun,” says local rafting runs, it is at the perfect Bader. “It’s like driving a sports car.” level,” says Seelig. “I’d tell anyone to Bader says that the Boulder do the middle Eagle. You can’t usually Outdoor Center has been teaching experience the middle Eagle section at kayaking for 31 years and that once the levels they are now. It’s really you learn, it is amazing. tough. You can’t plan on getting up “You can go to so many cool places here and having the water like this, and paddle in places that can only be but we’ve maintained a perfect level, reached by the river,” he says. “You see and you can call and book your trip so much wildlife, the sound of the this year and know a week in advance river covers your approach, and you that the water is going to be great.” can really get close.”

Bader agrees.

And for those who want to try the “We’re expecting excellent water newest thing, there’s the paddleboard. through July, and maybe even into “River paddle boarding is explodAugust,” he says, noting that local riv- ing,” adds Seelig. “That’s what the ers such as Clear Creek outside of river community is jumping on. For Golden and the Cache La Poudre those people who have tried kayakoutside Fort Collins are perfect for ing, paddle boarding on rivers is the day trips right now. newest thing.”

Still, Bader cautions that the But regardless of how you get extended above-average flows are to wet, with its epic runoff, this is the

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inding the motivation to put down the video-game controller and step outside to play can be a challenge during the summer. But thanks to a new line of pedometers called GeoPalz, kids ages 5 to 12 have a reason to turn off the TV and get active.

The rationale is simple: Why not give kids a way to track their activeness and then reward them for it? Kids simply clip the battery-operated pedometer onto their pants to count the number of steps taken each day.

The GeoPalz keeps track of those steps, which can then be logged onto an interactive website. Kids earn one point for every mile they walk — roughly 2,500 steps — and then earn prizes like hacky sacks, Frisbees and even credits to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. Parents only pay shipping and handling for the prizes.

The GeoPalz site also tracks kids’ progress and sends out virtual certificates when milestones are reached, such as logging 10,000 steps. Online updates also are sent to parents to track their child’s activity.

The pedometer costs $19.99 and can be purchased at www.geopalz.com/ store, and it is free to register the pedometer online. A free GeoPalz iPhone app can also be downloaded from the Apple iTunes store. Users can count steps with the app and track multiple family members’ GeoPalz progress at once.

For adults, the S2H Replay digital watch lets you earn gift cards for moderate physical activity, which can be as simple as doing a load of laundry. The watch tracks arm movement and lets you know when you’ve reached 60 minutes of physical activity. It then displays a code that can be redeemed online for gift cards to shops such as Toys R Us, Amazon, Target and iTunes. Users can redeem only one 60-minute code a day.

The S2H Replay watch sells for $19.95 at www.s2h.com.

Interchangeable rubber armbands can be bought for $2.99.

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summer to do it. Sure, there’s the adrenaline-filled rush of rafting Clear Creek or Dowd Chute, but Colorado’s rivers offer a lot more, even for those who like things a bit more sedate.

“I love ’em all,” says Bader of Colorado’s rivers. “There’s such a great diversity, from the canyon walls of the Yampa River to the ponderosa pine forests of the upper Dolores. There are fantastic desert runs and steep

creeks and mellow float trips.”

And there are even beer trips, in which Bader and the crew at the Boulder Outdoor Center take you out on the river in canoes for beer tastings.

While Coors may or may not be on the menu, there’s no doubt that Adolf Coors, a fan of Colorado’s rivers, springs and rushing waters if there ever was one, would approve.

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March 21-April 19:

Golden orb spiders of Madagascar spin robust webs. Their silk is stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing facet of their work: Each morning they eat what remains of yesterday’s web and spend an hour or so weaving a fresh one. I’m thinking that your task in the coming weeks has some similarities to the orb spider’s, Aries: creating rugged but flexible structures to gather what you need, and being ready to continually shed what has outlived its usefulness so as to build what your changing circumstances require. (Thanks to the California Academy of Sciences for the info on orb spiders.)

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

The year is almost half over, Taurus. Shall we sum up the first part of 2011 and speculate about the adventures that may lie ahead of you in the next six months? The way I see it, you’ve been going through a boisterous process of purification since last January. Some of it has rattled your soul’s bones, while some of it has freed you from your mindforged manacles. In a few short months, you have overseen more climaxes and shed more emotional baggage than you had in the past three years combined. Now you’re all clean and clear and fresh, and ready for a less exhausting, more cheerful kind of fun.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Advertisements are often designed to make you feel inadequate about the life you’re actually living so you will be motivated to “improve” your lot by buying what they’re selling.

In this short horoscope, I don’t have room to express how much soul sickness this wreaks upon us all. Recently HBO unleashed an especially nefarious attack. Promoting its new streaming service, it informed us that “The story you could be watching is better than the one you’re in.” Fortunately, Gemini, you won’t be tempted to swallow that vicious propaganda anytime in the coming weeks. Your personal story will be profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO or any other entertainment source might offer.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

A company that manufactures processed food made a promotional offer: If you purchased 10 of its products, it would give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man named David Philips took maximum advantage. He bought 12,150 pudding cups for $3,000, earning himself more than a million frequent flyer miles — enough to fly to Europe and back 31 times. This is the kind of legal trick you’re now in a good position to pull off, Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please: How could you play the system, outwit the matrix, rage against the machine or subvert the Man? No need to break any laws; the best gambit will be an ethical one.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

While watching fast-talking politicians talk on TV, my Polish grand-uncle would sometimes mutter, Zlotem pisal, a gownem zapieczetowal. I only learned what those words meant when I turned 18 and he decided I was old enough to know the translation: “written in gold and sealed with crap.”

One of your interesting assignments in the coming weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything that fits that description in your own life. Once you’ve done that, you can get started on the next task, which should be rather fun: Expose the discrepancy, and clean up the mess.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Years ago I did a book tour that brought me to Eugene, Ore., where my sister and her husband and their daughter live. They came to my reading at a bookstore. My Virgo niece Jasper was 7 years old at the time. I was surprised and delighted when she heckled me several times during my talk, always with funny and good-natured comments that added to the conviviality of the moment and entertained everyone in attendance. Who said Virgos are well-behaved to a fault?

Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece: With wit and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of any events that could use some smart agitation.

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“Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on,” wrote author Samuel Butler.

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

In August and September, millions of seabirds known as Sooty Shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand and travel thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just off the coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it?

The feeding is first-class; the tasty fish and squid they like are available in abundance. I suggest you consider a Sooty Shearwater-type quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio. The very best samples of the goodies you crave are located at a distance, either in a literal or metaphorical sense.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

I really thought I’d understand sex better by now. After all these years of doing it and studying it and thinking about it and talking about it, I still can’t regard myself as a master of the subject. The kundalini’s uncanny behavior continues to surprise me, perplex me and thrill me with ever-new revelations. Just when I imagine I’ve figured out how it all works, I’m delivered to some fresh mystery. How about you, Sagittarius? Judging by the current astrological omens, I’m guessing you’re due for a round of novel revelations about the nature of eros. As long as you keep an open mind, open heart and open libido, it should all be pretty interesting.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

A few years ago, Eve Ensler took her famous play The Vagina Monologues to Pakistan. She and a group of local Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with discourses on vibrators, menstruation and “triple orgasms.” I invite and encourage you to try something equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give your spiel to a new audience; take your shtick to a wild frontier; show who you really are to important people who don’t know the truth yet.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

When my “macho feminist” memoir The Televisionary Oracle was published in 2000, I suffered from comical delusions about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I tried to get a review in The New York Times.

As I know now, that had as much likelihood of happening as me traveling to the moon in a rainbow canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu of that kind of recognition, others arrived. One of my favorites: My book went along for the ride with a group of goddess-worshipers on a spiritual tour to the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey. They read my writing aloud to each other, amused and entertained. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience, Aquarius: having to “settle for” a soulful acknowledgment that’s different from what your ego thought it wanted.

Take it from me: That’s actually better.

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