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Ally, not asexual (Re: “Homosexuality in history,” cover story, June 30.) “A” in “LGBTQIA” is for “asexual?!” I think not! It means “ally,” BW, and refers to those of us straight folks who are allied with the cause of equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity ... all those other letters in the acronym.

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Circumcision revisited The article “To cut or not to cut?”

(Uncensored, June 23) left out two extremely vital pieces of information.

First, many men suffer from an “oversensitive gland,” commonly referred to as premature ejaculation. This is a problem for millions of men. It disrupts normal healthy sex, deprives women of satisfaction and interferes with healthy sexual relationships. Just ask the many doctors who own and/or work in male sex clinics around the United States (and there are many such clinics). This is not one of those problems that gets discussed openly, and is a painful discussion for men to have even in the privacy of the doctor’s office. The very notion that all men need or want greater sensitivity, as postulated by the author, is blatantly false and a serious mischaracterization of the reality of male sexuality.

Second, every day, adult men undergo adult circumcision for medical reasons. Did the author ever think to research studies regarding those men and if they enjoyed sex any less post-

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circumcision? The very notion that circumcised men could be “missing out” is absurd. All one has to do is check the facts or interview the doctors who daily treat patients in male sex clinics.

Finally, the statement, “Without the foreskin, the glans slowly becomes keratinized, with the skin growing thicker and tougher ...” is simply untrue. Just ask any circumcised male or any urologist. Please get the facts straight.

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Skatepark positives (“Skatepark skulduggery,” News, June 23.) Next article you write about the Lafayette skatepark, maybe mention the camps that are sold out, the Element contest held at the park, which was a food drive for homeless shelters, or the winner of that contest, who went on to win the finals in California and a full sponsorship.

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The Highroad

ne person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from Afghanistan by 2014: Hamid Karzai.

“A moment of happiness for Afghanistan,” exulted the incurably corrupt, inept, weak and pompous Afghan president. Our leaders put this ingrate in power, and the lives of our soldiers and billions of our tax dollars have been spent to prop up his sorry excuse for a government — yet he’s the one saying “good riddance.” It puts the dumb in dumbfounding.

The dumbest and most shameful aspect of America’s 10-year Afghan war is the pretension that Karzai represents some flowering democracy.

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by Jim Hightower the Bush-Cheney regime in 2002, he is widely despised and ridiculed by Afghans and has clung to power through fraud and autocratic power plays. For example, in last year’s parliamentary contest, Karzai was PO’d that 62 candidates he favored lost or were disqualified by the country’s independent election commission because of fraud. So, Hamid haughtily set up his own special court to review those results.

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pened and happens at every skatepark.

The difference is Lafayette has an amazing park (kids don’t go out of their way to Longmont’s park, trust me) and it’s next to the police station and rec center. That can’t be said about the Boulder park.

And seriously, reporting a board stolen after you left it at a park overnight doesn’t count. Ever hear police reports of a glove stolen from a baseball field after it was left overnight?

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ment, Karzai’s kangaroo court disqualified the 62 parliamentary winners, replacing them with his chosen ones.

Of course, the 62 winners are refusing to budge from their seats, which has created a governmental stalemate. But this suits Karzai perfectly, for the stalemate allows him to rule without parliament. As a top opposition leader puts it: “Karzai does not believe in the rule of law; he thinks democracy doesn’t work in his favor.”

It’s both insane and immoral for our leaders to cause even one more American to die for Karzai.

Tell Obama to bring all of our troops home, pronto.

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Rein in defense department With the Independence Day festivities and budget talks occurring nearly simultaneously this year, we need to do our homework and think about what has happened since the beginning of the new millennium.

Our spending has to be addressed along with the wisdom of the methods of “providing for the common defense,” as per our Constitution. Too many lawmakers and Americans have given the defense department a pass and ignored the fact that the budget for “defense” has doubled since 2000, from $350 billion to more than $750 billion per year, and, not coincidentally, the role of the private sector (that has to allow for a profit to exist) has taken an ever-larger piece of the pie. Even the generals involved in the decision-making process have been quoted as objecting to certain expenditures as bloated and unnecessary.

That’s why the defense department needs to be on the table just as all other departments, ensuring “domestic tranquility” and promoting “the general welfare,” again, as per our Constitution.

True, there are animals of the human persuasion that for reasons of faith or reasons of profit and greed need to be kept at bay and executed if necessary to ensure worldwide general welfare and ensure the tranquility of peace-loving and law-abiding citizens everywhere.

There are ways to accomplish that goal without enabling the wicked in the quest to “destroy the Great Satan,” as was the animal named bin Laden’s wish.

Take his demise as a perfect example. With advanced technologies and

weaponry paid for by U.S. taxpayers, and the “black budgets” (not included in the defense department figure), it was possible to pinpoint the location, get a small force in and do the job of eliminating Osama bin Laden. Just like President Obama promised.

Did we get him? Was it necessary to start a very expensive war to “accomplish the mission”?

Americans now know the answers.

If we really want to honor our founding fathers, let’s do some reading and find out what they envisioned for future generations of Americans. The fact is that Thomas Jefferson himself was adamantly opposed to keeping standing armies during peacetime, and we know why. War is expensive. Armies are expensive.

Feeding and providing housing, health care and needs to troops and their families, while necessary during war, are still expensive. With new technologies and well-trained, well-armed outfits like SEAL Team 6, we can provide the security necessary to accomplish what all the founding fathers wanted for America without breaking the budget (which Osama bin Laden wanted, just as he did to the U.S.S.R.).

We can retain American respect and standing in today’s world and still give America the security, compassion and sensibilities envisioned by America’s heroes.

The only certainty in life is change, and unless we change as well, we will cease to exist. Let’s work together and be smart while we’re at it.

God Bless America.

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—Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, discussing the possibility that sex assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn could collapse after questions were raised about the credibility of his accuser, a hotel housekeeper “This [is] the new battle that life has placed before us.”

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arents who take their children to see the Harry Potter films enjoy a fun family night. But unless they dig deeper into the stories, parents miss a great opportunity to explore life’s biggest issues with their children.

Start with psychology. J.K. Rowling publicly discussed her struggles with severe depression. She contemplated suicide and feared for her daughter. In her novels, depression takes the form of the ghoulish dementors. To fight them, one of Harry’s professors explains, one must invoke “the very things that the dementor feeds upon — hope, happiness, the desire to survive.”

Or consider the Boggart, a magical creature that takes the form of one’s worst fears. Rowling offers another rich metaphor in the scar that the villainous Voldemort gives Harry — a scar that gives Harry some of Voldemort’s powers and sometimes links their minds.

The psychology of the novels could consume an entire college course. So could the politics. How should citizens organize government, and what happens when government goes bad?

After Voldemort’s return to power, first the Ministry of Magic grows corrupt, ignoring the threat and attacking Harry’s allies instead. The Ministry turns to censorship, intimidation and deception. Finally Voldemort takes over the Ministry, rising to Hitler-like dictator, complete with inquisitions of “half-blood” wizards.

The political background includes a wizard government that has long

oppressed other races, like making elves into slaves. Yet the government also serves the critical function of protecting wizards from violence. Readers of the novels may question the legitimacy of enforced segregation of the magical and non-magical worlds; the novels clearly criticize tyranny but leave many day-to-day political problems unresolved.

The novels do emphasize that bad journalism feeds bad government. The stories feature the corrupt journalist Rita Skeeter, who makes up quotes and unfairly slants her stories. But through the character of Hermione, Rowling also shows that journalism at its best tells the public the truth and challenges abuses of power.

The novels explore even deeper themes than psychology and politics, down to basic philosophy. Do we have free will, or may we blame bad luck for misdeeds? What is evil? What does living a virtuous life entail? What is the point of life? Does the soul survive the body? What is the nature of love? Is true love sacrificial?

Consider a few of the many poignant scenes. During his first year at school, Harry convinces his friends to join him on a dangerous quest to stop Voldemort from regaining his powers.

Why does Harry put himself and his friends in peril? He explains they need to protect their own lives, the lives and safety of friends and family, their liberty, and their ability to live in peace.

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The Boulder City Council is considering whether to place a referendum on the November ballot supporting an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United. Many say that this would merely be a symbolic gesture by the City Council. However, in light of the pervasiveness of corporate influence in today’s elections at the national, state and local levels, this issue affects us all here in Boulder County on a daily basis. Until legislators are willing to support major campaign and

election reforms to legislatively overrule Citizens United, corporations will continue to wield undue influence in our elections. As we know, many advertisements paid for by “soft” money are anything but informative and in many cases outright lies without any accountability.

The Grassroots Action Team of the Boulder County Democratic Party is sponsoring a rally in support of the Move to Amend at the Municipal Building in Boulder starting at 4:30 p.m. on July 19. The Boulder City Council will take public comment on a proposed referendum during their meeting on that date. Contact your councilperson to support this measure.

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Later, Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, interrogates the villain Peter Pettigrew, who turned over Harry’s parents to Voldemort’s murderous rage.

Pettigrew whines that Voldemort would have killed him otherwise.

Sirius retorts, “Then you should have died ... rather than betray your friends!”

Sirius later explains that “there are things worth dying for,” meaning that life is worth living only if we act to protect our essential values.

At one point the minister asks Harry to help put up a front to keep people pacified. Harry balks at this attempt to create a false sense of security. He refuses to help, saying, “You see, I don’t like some of the things the

Ministry’s doing.” Harry thereby illustrates the virtue of independence.

Do the religious themes of immortality and self-sacrifice reveal the core message of the novels, or (as I believe) do they actually clash with the stories’ fundamental values?

These questions merit some time at the dinner table.

The stories offer thrilling literature alive with dragons and magical duels.

But readers miss a great deal if they ignore the rich themes of psychology, politics and philosophy. Harry never had parents able to share these discussions. Your children do.

Ari Armstrong is the author of the newly expanded book, Values of Harry Potter: Lessons for Muggles.

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Sluts strut their stuff Sluts showed up in force in Denver’s Civic Center Park on Saturday, June 2, to protest sexual assault and victimblaming at an event aptly titled SlutWalk Denver. Many participants chose to dress provocatively — corsets, bras, short shorts, miniskirts, lingerie — to drive home the point of the protest: nothing a person wears excuses or justifies rape.

SlutWalks have been held in more than 75 cities worldwide with organizers and participants working to reclaim the word “slut,” a word the ignorant and bigoted use to shame and blame rape victims. The first SlutWalk was held in Toronto earlier this year in reaction to a Toronto police officer’s bogus assertion that if college women don’t want to get raped, they shouldn’t dress like “sluts.”

Organizers — Emerald Green, 23, Felicia Sheumaker, 24, and Bethany Feret, 24 — hoped the event would help to shift the focus of our public dialogue about sexual assault from teaching women what to do to not get raped to teaching men how not to rape.

Although it was great to see so many women, many of them rape victims, standing strong against victim blaming, it was even more gratifying to see so many men representing at the event.

One man carried a sign that read, “My dick has good manners.”

Another had painted his body with the words “Her slut” with an arrow pointing to his female partner.

Another carried a poster that read, “This is me not raping the hot chick.

See how easy it is?”

Next year’s event promises to be even more exciting.

Cars instead of kids If you live in India and you’d give your left nut for a car, then you’re in luck. Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan have launched a campaign to reduce population growth in their drought-prone, overpopulated region.

Hoping to lure both men and women onto the operating table, the government is offering big prizes, including kitchen appliances, televisions, motorcycles, and, yes, cars to those who are willing to undergo permanent sterilization.

Granted, the car they’re offering isn’t a Porsche — it’s an ultra-compact Tato Nano, the world’s cheapest car — but it is still a car. And it gets 60 MPG, which is better mileage than most of the crap we drive here in the United States. And you won’t ever have to change its diaper.

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of wealthy political candidates are unfairly burdened by Arizona’s 1998 Citizens Clean Elections Act. The Arizona law gave candidates the option of funding their campaigns with public money, giving them additional tax-funded cash infusions if their privately funded opponents — the rich

guys — spent more.

But in its ruling on Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett, the court tossed out a key provision of that law. Now, thanks to the court’s Citizen United ruling that gives corporations the same rights as people, rich candidates who whore themselves out to Big Money will be

able to buy more votes than ever, while those with less money but perhaps more wholesome ideas will be left to hold bake sales.

It’s clear with these two rulings — Free Enterprise and Citizen United — that the Roberts court is a friend of the super-rich and that dirty, corporatfunded politics is going to remain the order of the day here in the United States. Too bad, because we were hoping to see our nation become less of an oligarchy run by corporate robber barons and more of a democracy.

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problem, rooted in speculation and international markets,” he said in a March statement. “Continuing to fight for increased efficiency standards, transportation alternatives, ending wasteful oil and gas subsidies, smart growth and renewable fuels is the only way we will end our addiction to foreign oil for good.”

He’s a supporter of natural gas vehicles and other alternative fuels as a way to reduce emissions and dependence on foreign oil, according to his spokesman, Christopher Fitzgerald, but he has not signed as a co-sponsor of the act.

“The NAT GAS Act fails to address the fact that, while cleaner burning, natural gas remains a fossil fuel that contributes to climate change, any taxpayer-supported incentive for natural gas vehicles should go hand-in-hand with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to ensure that natural gas development is safer,” Fitzgerald said in an emailed statement.

The act’s list of tax credits also includes tax subsidies benefitting big energy companies.

“The NAT GAS Act would also provide significant tax incentives to the oil and gas industry at a time when they’re earning record profits and Americans are paying record energy prices,” Fitzgerald said in the email.

Polis has received just $500 from groups supporting the act, a fact attributed to his refusal to accept money from political action committees, Fitzgerald said, “a key way in which corporate interests attempt to influence elections.”

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by Elizabeth Miller then the manufacturers incentives to make it,” said Perlmutter’s deputy press secretary, Christopher Votoupal.

Perlmutter and Rep. Diana DeGette, also a Colorado Democrat, have both signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.

“It’s going to help wean us from foreign sources of oil, and we can use a domestic, cleaner burning fuel, and obviously that’s very good for Colorado,” Votoupal said.

Though there are consumer perks, the bill focuses largely on industrial use — diesel-run semi trucks that move much of the country’s freight.

“Based on all the meetings we’ve had, policy discussions, industry group meetings, you name it, natural gas is a natural fit for our trucking fleet right now,” Votoupal said.

It’s an affordable fuel — a gallon going for about $1.95 in January, according to the Department of Energy — that can power big trucks in a way electric batteries cannot. There’s an estimated 100year supply of natural gas domestically.

Perlmutter is responding to the requests of his constituents to decrease prices and increase domestic fuel use, according to his staff.

Perlmutter has also reported $41,400 in campaign contributions from interest groups that support the bill, according to MapLight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in the U.S. Congress.

Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, is vice chairman of the House’s Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition.

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omewhere down the line, after the budget appropriations bills at the top of the agenda for the extended session in Congress this week, is the optimistically named “New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011,” HR 1380, the NAT GAS Act. It’s been high on the Library of Congress’s list of most-researched bills for the past couple weeks, though the bill was referred to the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power on April 6 and hasn’t moved since then.

Colorado legislators with long-standing interests in the environment and clean energy are divided on the act, arguing that it provides either the only feasible solution for cleaning up the trucking industry, or that it doesn’t do enough to clean up air quality and put those costs on energy companies instead of taxpayers.

The NAT GAS Act creates or extends tax credits for the purchase or manufacture of vehicles powered by liquefied natural gas, and allocates funding for improving natural gas vehicles. The bill also requires the secretary of energy to provide funding to “improve the performance, efficiency and integration” of motor vehicles powered by natural gas. The multi-pronged approach is designed to meet the needs of manufacturers, consumers, gas station owners, according to the office of Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colorado.

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s Boulder leaders ponder whether to put a symbolic measure opposing “corporate personhood”

on the ballot this fall, Longmont officials may again be facing a reallife uphill battle against well-funded corporate interests when it comes to an election initiative.

Boulder City Council is poised to decide whether to place a resolution on the Nov. 8 ballot opposing the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the court said the First Amendment prohibits limits on corporate funding of political broadcasts in candidate elections. The decision prompted an outcry from some who said it equated money with free speech and gave companies carte blanche to outspend the competition on ads, skewing the democratic process even more toward the corporate elite.

On July 19, Boulder City Council is expected to take up councilmember Macon Cowles’ ballot measure calling for a Constitutional change establishing that only humans, not corporations, have constitutional rights, and that money is not equivalent to free speech.

And 16 miles northeast, Longmont officials are hoping that corporate campaign cash doesn’t again derail a plan to finally start using a hightech network that has lain largely dormant since it was built 14 years ago.

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In the November 2009 election, Longmont voters were asked to allow the city to begin offering telecommunication services using a fiber-optic network the city installed in 1997. About 90 of the 144 fibers in the 17-mile network are “dark,” or unused. The city does use parts of the network for municipal communications, and it does lease out some fibers to firms with the technical wherewithall to link into them.

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broader, user-friendly service to its citizens from its own network. That requirement is due to legislation passed in 2005 that prohibits municipalities from offering telecommunication services without sending it to the ballot. Some say that bill, SB 152, was passed at the urging of companies like Qwest (which is now changing its name to CenturyLink) and Comcast, which reportedly saw municipalization as competition and a threat to their market share.

At the time, Qwest was opposing municipalized telecommunications nationally.

“Qwest believes it’s wrong to use taxpayer money to subsidize a private company to compete with existing businesses,” John Stanoch, Qwest president for Minnesota, said in a prepared statement after the Minneapolis City Council voted in 2006 to build a municipal high-speed wireless network, according to the Rocky Mountain News.

And in an April 2005 Rocky op-ed, Old Colorado City Communications founder Dave Hughes of Colorado Springs characterized the bill not only as corporation-backed, but bad for rural cities and towns where needs like Internet access are underserved by the big corporations, which tend to focus their infrastructure investments on higher-profit metropolitan areas.

“Qwest and its little brother, Comcast Cable, want only to cherry-pick the fat-cat suburbs, big businesses, downtown Denver, and other big metropolitan areas,” Hughes wrote. “And block everybody else from competing. … The bill should be titled The Qwest Monopoly Protection Act. …

[It] effectively prohibits local governments, including entire counties, from serving their own citizens in the absence of the willingness or ability of the private sector to do so.”

Tom Roiniotis, director of Longmont Power and Communications, says the state law and delays associated with seeking voter approval were likely the reason the city lost to Kansas City, Kan., in a bid to host an ultra high-speed broadband system Google was deploying.

(The two main sponsors of the bill, former Sen. Jennifer Veiga, D-Denver, and Rep. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, did not respond to Boulder Weekly inquiries about the bill by press time.)

And sure enough, in 2009, when Longmont voters were asked to authorize municipal telecommunication services that would run on an existing fiber-optic network that was already bought and paid for, the initiative failed, in no small part to an extensive negative ad campaign funded by the telecommunication industry.

According to city records, opponents spent

nearly $250,000 — the most ever spent on election ads in Longmont’s history — on the “No Blank Check” campaign, which painted the initiative as a tax guzzler that would reduce funding for local police officers and firefighters. According to reports, the primary campaign contributor was the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA), which counts Comcast among its members.

The measure was defeated, 56 percent to 44 percent, in part because the city couldn’t fight back effectively. State campaign finance laws prohibit municipal funds from being spent to campaign for or against a ballot initiative once a city council votes to send it to the ballot. Election materials must be balanced, with arguments for and against.

Some wonder whether parallels might be drawn between this situation and Xcel’s anticipated public relations effort to convince Boulder voters that municipalization is a bad idea.

MISLEADING CLAIMS

Roiniotis says the “No Blank Check” claims were misleading, to say the least, because any cityowned telecommunication service would operate as a self-funded enterprise, relying solely on the fees it collects instead of tax dollars.

“We run it just like a business, but we’re nonprofit,” he says.

If anything, Roiniotis says, it would make money for Longmont’s emergency services, because it would send 8 percent of its revenue to city coffers in the form of a franchise fee.

“It was actually just the opposite of what No Blank Check was saying,” Roiniotis told Boulder Weekly. “They were saying we were going to have to lay off police and firefighters. Nothing could be further from the truth. That’s never been proposed. In fact, telecommunications would actually generate money for those departments. But they had models dressed up as firefighters, looking very sad.”

Now the city of Longmont is preparing to send the question back to the ballot for the Nov. 1 election. On June 14, city council directed staff to prepare an ordinance that would re-establish the telecommunications authority the city had prior to the 2005 legislation. Only city councilmember Katie Witt voted against the move, which still must be passed by the council on two readings before it lands on the ballot.

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city would offer and how it would be funded.

“As a rule, I don’t like government competing with private industry,” she says, adding that Longmont now enjoys decent service. “What are we lacking in our telecommunications portfolio?”

Witt says that while she has not received any funding from the telecommunication industry, she has received calls from CenturyLink and Comcast urging her to oppose the measure.

Witt acknowledges that SB 152 appears to have been passed “at the behest of the telecommunications companies,” and that No Blank Check’s claims two years ago that the initiative would take money away from firefighters was “disengenuous.” She also thinks the new measure has enough council support to pass.

“If I was a betting girl, I’d say it will be on the ballot,” Witt says.

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One question is, with one hand tied behind its back by campaign finance law, how will the city get its side of the story out if the cable/telecomm industry tries to buy the election again?

Roiniotis says city officials plan to make the language of the ballot question clearer and hold study sessions on the matter to inform the public, before the city council votes to put it on the ballot. In addition, city council members can lobby on their own time, and

the council as a whole is permitted to pass resolutions for or against ballot measures.

But council recently passed a new higher threshold for campaign finance reporting that might make it easier for telecommunication groups to conceal how much they are spending to defeat the measure.

Assistant City Attorney Jeff Friedland told Boulder Weekly that a previous ordinance required “issue committees” to file reports revealing any contributions over $200; the new regulation allows those groups to spend up to $5,000 without filing a disclosure.

Theoretically, the opposition could form multiple committees and keep each one’s contributions under the radar, at less than $5,000. Friedland says the change was made to align with a recent 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling prompting the state to raise its own campaign reporting threshold from $200 to $5,000.

Comcast spokesperson Cindy Parsons told Boulder Weekly that generally speaking, attempts to create cityoperated telecommunications services “have not been successful in other municipalities.”

In response to a question about what plans Comcast has to lobby against the new measure if it lands on the ballot, she says, “I think it’s too early to tell on that piece.”

She downplays the competitive

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KGNU jam is July 24 Slow-cooked, Texas-style barbeque, salads, homemade desserts and microbrew beers will accompany acoustic music at the Gold Hill Inn for the 23rd annual Charles Sawtelle KGNU Mountain Jam on July 24.

The “Charles” is named for Hot Rize guitarist Charles Sawtelle, who helped start the event in 1989. When he passed away in 1999, the station renamed the festival in his memory.

The festivities start at 11:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m., featuring music by Tim O’Brien, Open Road and Romano Paoletti.

Tickets are $15 for KGNU members, $20 for non-members and will be available by calling KGNU at 303-4494885 between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. weekdays, or online at brownpapertickets.com. Children 12 and under are free; food and beverages will be available for purchase.

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For more information, contact Shawna Sprowls at 303-449-4885.

County needs volunteers Boulder County is seeking volunteers who would like to voice their opinions and help guide decisions on matters ranging from the aging community to land use planning and mosquito control.

The county is recruiting residents to serve on 14 advisory boards and commissions. Advisory boards and commissions provide recommendations to the Boulder County commissioners and give residents the opportunity to have their voices heard within county government.

The deadline to submit applications is Friday, July 29, at 4:30 p.m. To view

threat to the company’s market share when asked about the reasons behind Comcast opposing the initiative.

“We are in the very early stages of learning more about the new proposal, but let me reinforce Comcast’s commitment to a healthy and robust competitive environment which typically results in more choices for consumers and faster innovation of products and services,” Parsons said in an email.

When asked why, given that commitment to competition and choice, the company wouldn’t want to add another provider to the market, she replied, “Again, Longmont already has a vibrant competitive broadband and telecommunications marketplace with consumers having at least four choices on how to obtain their TV services (Dish, Direct TV, Comcast, over-the-air) and multiple providers of Internet and telephone services offering a wide variety of service tiers.”

Jeff Weist, executive director of the CCTA, told Boulder Weekly that his association’s concerns about the proposal include the possibility that Longmont would be able to undercut prevailing industry rates by subsidizing its telecommunications service with other funding, such as tax dollars or revenue from its power utility.

“Yes, we’re a little nervous about competing against a municipality that can use cross-subsidization,” he says.

Weist adds that the city plays a regulatory role, which could give it an unfair

advantage because telecommunications firms “would have to compete against the entity that is also their regulator.”

His association has not yet taken a position on the proposed initiative, he says, but the ballot question two years ago was too broad — for instance, it did not specify that the city’s service would be entirely self-funded.

John Hall, public relations manager for CenturyLink, responded to a request for comment via email.

“CenturyLink continues to work with city leadership to determine how the company, as a private sector leader in providing a full range of services, can work to meet the City’s needs without putting the financial risk on the backs of Longmont residents,” he wrote.

“CenturyLink has not seen final language of a proposed ballot measure in Longmont; however, municipalities have an overwhelmingly unsuccessful track record in entering what is a capital-intensive, highly competitive market. It is imperative that residents of cities desiring to enter this space understand how these networks will be built, operated, maintained and funded. That is why industry supported SB 152 in 2005. It is unclear at this time how the city anticipates funding this operation and whether it is necessary for this investment to be made by a government entity, given the existing level of service in the city.”

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descriptions of the various boards and commissions or to download an application, visit www.bouldercounty.org and click on “boards and commissions.” For more information, contact Carrie Haverfield in the Boulder County Commissioners’ Office at 303-441-1688 or chaverfield@bouldercounty.org.

County seeks art for open space Boulder County Parks and Open Space is soliciting design submittals for original sculptures to be placed at the entry to Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat.

See the sketch and photo at http:// bit.ly/WaldenArt for details on the entry monument concept. Artists are to submit up to three drawings of their proposed artwork, including material specifications. Only original work is eligible.

Inspiration for the artwork should be drawn from the plants and animals on the site. The project budget is limited to $3,500, including design, fabrication, transportation and delivery. Proposals are due by Friday, July 15, and should be submitted to Emily Greenwood at egreenwood@bouldercounty.org. Contact Greenwood at 303-678-6369 or via

email for more information.

Care for elderly relatives The National Caregiver Training Program, a course designed to equip family caregivers with the information and skills they need to provide safe home care for older family members, will begin this month and continue through the summer. Classes begin July 12.

The 21-hour course, sponsored by Boulder County Aging Services, is taught by a registered nurse and provides participants with take-home materials, demonstrations and hands-on practice with safe wheelchair use, medication management, nutrition, fall prevention and more.

The course is open to Boulder County residents who are providing unpaid care for relatives, partners or friends over the age of 60 (or over the age of 50 for those with dementia).

Pre-registration is required, and registering is free, but donations are welcome. For more information, contact Emily Cooper at ecooper@bouldercounty.org.

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Go see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Sunday at 8 p.m. at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder. Voldemort compels you.

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2011 Linguistics Institute — Get your verb on. Various times. CU campus, Boulder, www.verbs. colorado.edu/LSA2011. Through Aug. 2.

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he Avett Brothers are a band whose passionate energy, earnest talent and off-the-hook performances inspire great dedication among their fans. Few who have experienced the pretty mea culpa “Shame,” heard their plea to “kill the doubt that strangles my selfworth” on “Sanguine,” or been swept up in their raucous live “hoedown” spirit come away unconverted.

It doesn’t hurt that the titular brothers, Seth and Scott, and their bassist buddy, Bob Crawford, are tremendously talented players who in their nine years together have developed musical telepathy.

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back for a few more weeks in Europe at the end of the summer.

Things haven’t let up for the North Carolina trio the last several years. Not only have they grown in number — from a three- to a five-piece — but they’ve jumped to the big leagues.

Rick Rubin signed them to his label, American Recordings, and produced their 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You. Working with Rubin was a trial of sorts because they’d been a string band for so long.

“In some ways it was like a tempo boot camp,” Seth says.

“We’d always been just a fullscale boogie. We have seldom stopped to consider anything about rhythm.”

Seth and Scott had been playing since the late ’90s in the rock band Nemo, with whom they released three albums before forming the Avett Brothers. It

was initially a non-electric kitchen hootenanny occurring after Nemo shows where they’d hang out with each other and friends strumming the banjo and acoustic guitars. It evolved into a side project, and they released a selftitled EP in 2000. Then it moved to the foreground when Nemo broke up. But it was the addition of Bob Crawford — who auditioned for them in a Best Buy parking lot in 2002 — that helped solidify the band.

The growth was organic, starting with nothing. They were scraping by as late as 2004, struggling through that period where you’re touring enough that you can’t hold a job, but not making enough money to live. They received three big breaks. They secured a bunch of well-paying college campus gigs through a see AVETT Page 16

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ANILLA — No, that’s not a typo.

It’s the latest and greatest show from Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Sunday, July 10

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

Monday, July 11

Elizabeth Engelhardt’s Republic of Barbecue — Where is that?

Hint: It rhymes with “shmexas.” 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Tuesday Night Poetry Reading — Admit it: You could use some more culture in your life. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

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Just Sit — You heard the man.

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

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NACA (National Association for finding out what’s working and what’s Campus Activities) convention, got a not working and why it doesn’t work slot on Merlefest where they killed, and yet, then figuring out a way to get it to met Dolph Ramseur, who became their where it’s working. Sometimes that will manager. involve how you’re playing it — if “There were about two years where you’re being too complex with your things were really hard financially,” playing, if you’re being too busy with it, Crawford says. “Those were the three or if the playing is technically good, but things at the time that we needed to there’s no soul to it. It was a great keep going.” learning experience, and there will Things progressed considerably over always sort of be ‘before’ and ‘after.’” the next three years from their second I and Love and You broke the and third fullBillboard Top 20, lengths, 2004’s and its more polOn the Bill: Mignonette and ished sound engenThe Avett Brothers play the 2006’s Four Thieves dered a little backBoulder Theater on Friday, July 8. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are Gone: The lash from overprosold out. 2032 14th St., Boulder, Robbinsville Sessions, tective fans, who 303-786-7030. to 2007’s maybe wish they’d Emotionalism. Their return to the loose, harmonies tightened, and they gained a raw, tossed-off brilliance of their earlier, firmer reign on the moody ebb-andmore bluegrass-inflected albums. Seth flow rhythms. Perhaps most of all, Seth understands the sentiment, “but you and Scott’s songwriting matured from can never regain that era. And that’s a their initial meditations on pretty girls beautiful thing. It’s what makes those to witty self-indicting confessionals like eras special.”

“Paranoia in B Major” or meditations “Bands that start out and have a raw on “The Weight of Lies.” Yet even as element, part of that raw element is much of a leap forward as Emotionalism that they aren’t yet where they want to was in terms of its rich melodic warmth be, and as they get to where they want and crisp, fetching songs, 2009’s I and to be musically, they run this risk of Love and You felt like an equal advance. being sellouts,” he says. “We can no Seth gives a lot of credit to Rubin. more think in terms of people’s reac“Rick’s big on breaking a song down tions than we can what kind of money and building it back up from scratch — we’ll make off of something. It can’t be

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in our minds, because if it is the artistry is going to be affected.”

Instead, Seth’s thinking about their next album. They’ve already cut 23 tracks in four different recording sessions during the past six months. They’re 90 percent finished with tracking, and he’s very excited about the results. While he doesn’t want to disparage I and Love and You in any way, he feels they’re in an even better place this time, particularly since they’ve had a year to get comfortable with new drummer Jacob Edwards.

“I feel we were learning a lot at the time, but I feel like any downfall of that album comes from the transition of attempting to go from being a good band to being a great band,” he says.

“It feels very much to me like the beginning of a second era.

Emotionalism is sort of the pinnacle of the first eight years, and I and Love and You was a little bit of a transitional record to where we may be headed.

We’re more assured in that kind of recording process, and it allows us to be more ourselves and to bring more of the genuine personality to the record.”

They’re working with Rubin again, though the process is a lot different.

“It’s been almost more of an administrative kind of deal. We had a session, and then we hung out listened to the music together, talked, and he

made suggestions. We’d have these powwows periodically, and we’d go to his house [in Los Angeles] or email back and forth,” Seth says. “That would not have been possible on I and Love and You, where he was in the studio every day for seven or eight hours.

But he had to sort of hold our hands on some of the things we wanted to do. He had to be there, but a lot of those things are behind us now and made it possible for us to be like this.”

But just because they’re on their way to rock stardom doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten their fans. Indeed, it pains them they don’t have the chance to talk personally to everyone after the shows like they did for so many years (the absence of which has further inflamed the “sellout” contingent).

“There’s nothing but the most sincere gratitude. It’s tough to make it sound sincere when all you can just say is thank you. We’re very aware that the fans are what make it possible for us to present our art and to have the time and the venue to do that. That’s part of why we’re doing the show in Boulder before Red Rocks,” Seth says.

“It’s not just a warm-up for us. It will serve as that, but Boulder’s been great to us, the Boulder Theater has been great to us, and it’s a perfect opportunity for us to try to say thank you.”

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Colorado Music Festival presents program of classical, barnyard and tango f the months-long Colorado Music Festival (CMF) were a gourmet restaurant, the spécialité de la maison would be the mini-festival that each year occupies a central place in the schedule.

In past years, the specialty has been either a composer (Beethoven, Brahms) or a genre (piano concertos). This year it is the virtuoso violin.

Big, bold concertos by Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven? Yes, but also fiddler Mark O’Connor with his quartet and an unusual pairing of Vivaldi with Gabrielle Revere Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla.

“It just was actually quite an easy pick,” Michael Christie, the CMF music director, says of this year’s mini-festival.

“The violin really was the natural follow-up to the piano two years ago.”

Virtuoso Violins, scheduled for the week of July 10-17, takes a deliberately diverse view of its subject. There are the Karen Gomyo expected concertos, spread across three concerts and featuring three different soloists.

On Thursday, July 14, Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud will perform the Sibelius and Mendelssohn concertos with the Festival Orchestra.

The next night, it will be Chad Hoopes, the 16-yearold violin phenom and veteran of performances with the Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras, the Pittsburgh and San Francisco symphonies, and the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, who will perform the Tchaikovsky concerto with the CMF orchestra. And

on Sunday, July 17, it will be Canadian violinist and award-winning recording artist James Ehnes to perform the Beethoven violin concerto with the CMF Chamber Orchestra.

But not so expected is the inclusion of Mark O’Connor among the Romantic concertos, a choice that both recognizes the virtuosity of fiddling and reflects the eclectic character of the CMF. Scheduled as part of the World Music Series as well as Virtuoso Violins, O’Connor’s performance will be on Tuesday, July 12.

“You know,” Christie says, “it just struck me, as we were planning, that there’s this whole thing about fiddle music and what the violin means to America. We’ve had O’Connor here before, and he presents such a different feel in that improvised, relaxed and also just devilishly fast music that you get from barnyard fiddling, that I thought it would be just a really great way to keep our eye on American music.”

The week of Virtuoso Violins opens Sunday with a program that parallels the rest of the festival through stylistic juxtaposition: Eight Seasons, pairing the familiar “Four Seasons” of Vivaldi with Piazzolla’s exotic “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” will be performed by violinist Karen Gomyo with the CMF Chamber Orchestra.

It’s hard to imagine styles more dissimilar than the motoric rhythms and violin fireworks of Vivaldi’s Baroque “Seasons” and the jagged, steamy rhythms of Piazzolla’s tangos. Yet the two works are often paired, • Juried art show • Over 100 artists • Artists’ Demonstrations • Zero Waste Beer/Wine/Margarita Garden • Main Stage with performances by Boulder Ballet, Boulder International Fringe Festival, Girls on Top and more

ever since Gidon Kremer first brought them together in his 2000 CD recording “Eight Seasons.” Originally written for Piazzolla’s quintet, the “Seasons of Buenos Aires” has been rescored by Leonid Desyatnikov for the same string orchestra as Vivaldi’s concertos.

Gomyo has been fascinated by Piazzolla since her mother introduced her to his music when she was about 14.

“I was immediately captured by it and completely drawn into it and I thought, ‘OK, this is something I really want to explore,’” she says. “I’ve been playing his ‘Four Seasons’ since the music was available.”

She has performed them together with Vivaldi’s “Seasons” in various contexts, including in alternation with a Baroque violinist, but, she says, “This will be the first time that I play all eight seasons myself.”

Just like the Kremer recording, Gomyo will alternate between the two works, so that Vivaldi’s “Spring” will be heard directly next to the Piazzolla “Spring,” and so forth.

“The Baroque sound and this contemporary percussive and soulful Piazzolla sound are very different,” she says. “It will be a challenge for me to keep switching back and forth in a matter of seconds.”

Gomyo hopes that the juxtaposition of the two works will bring out commonalities as well as the contrasts. The orchestra arrangement helps that process, with subtle echoes of the Vivaldi “Seasons” in the orchestra part.

“Desyatnikov added the link by using some quotes from Vivaldi, in actually a very brilliant way, I find, and sometimes very subtle,” Gomyo says. “Unless you looked at the score you wouldn’t realize that some of the rhythms in the orchestra part actually come from Vivaldi.

“I hope the listeners find it interesting to go back and forth. I’d be interested to see feedback about what new connections they saw, or what new thoughts they had.”

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t could well be that Nautical Mile’s EP release at the Fox Theatre this weekend represents a watershed moment — the young band’s second release, headlining a premiere venue among well-regarded local bands, secure in its lineup and coasting on a decent club following and critical buzz.

But a chat with guitarist and band co-founder James Anderson the other day left us with the inescapable sense that the band is still deeply committed to the callousbuilding toils of working the local stages, maturing their sound — sometimes the hardest thing for a band to keep its focus on — and for now, maybe not much else.

It all started quickly, back in 2009, when Anderson submitted an entry for a spot on KTCL’s Big Gig, more or less as a Hail Mary.

“It was kinda scary, getting on that first Big Gig,” Anderson remembers. “I honestly submitted a song, saying, ‘There’s no way we’ll ever get into this. We don’t have a chance.’ I mean, we were brand new, we’d literally played, like, four or five shows before that first Big Gig … and then I find out we’re in the top 10, and then a couple of weeks later I find out we’re fourth, and we’re playing that show.

“We had, like, no experience playing live shows at all. I felt like a lot of people had a lot of expectations

for us. It was scary how quickly it got going because of the radio’s promotion.”

That was summer of 2009, back when lead singer Rachel Hamilton was fronting the group. Countless local spots later, Nautical Mile has weathered a few personnel changes, notably the replacement of Hamilton with Janaya Spink, whose full-on belting delivers the band into somewhat darker and heavier territory.

“We played our CD release last year at the Fox and right after that we found out our old singer Rachel didn’t really want to continue on with the band,” Anderson says. “So we held some try-outs and found our new singer.

“Some of Rachel’s songs we’re still playing. … We had a couple of radio singles that we kind of had to keep — one of them [“Hourglass”] we re-recorded — and a couple of others are still in the set for now.

“We really wanted to redefine our sound when we went into the studio this time. I feel like our first album was just kind of a straight-up pop-punk album. ... I mean, we were really happy with it. We got good stuff done with that first album, but we really wanted to make something different, something a little more ‘us’ this time. We went into the studio without a producer — we just self-produced the album with the

engineer. It’s a little more rocking, I think there’s a little more of our musical influences.”

The Fox crowd, hanging through a three-band opening bill, shouldn’t be disappointed. We were particularly impressed by the sprawling “Two Roads,” a multi-sectioned piece assembled from low-register metal-riffing hooks, wall-punching guitar breaks and Spink’s alternately urgent and pleading vocals, equal parts rock classicism and post-indie abandon, even summoning a hint of soul.

Comparisons between Hamilton and Spink will be inevitable, and by now they are mostly reconciled by the band’s local devotees — Hamilton brought a keen and incisive pop sensibility to the group, but Spink confronts the band’s heavier instincts and sings into the music, teasing its heft and coaxing it to follow.

Anderson promises that the Fox gig will feature some new music (both from the EP, which is accessible on the Fox’s website, and new material as yet unrecorded). Any Fox gig for a younger band is always a treat, but if Anderson is sensing a building tailwind, he isn’t letting on. For now, talk of a label deal or outof-town touring is just speculation — Anderson wants to get through this gig and isn’t treating it as a gimme.

“I feel like we got a lot of pressure on us for this show, too,” he says.

“We picked all the bands to play with us on the CD release show, and we have some really good bands. The Heyday, they’ve been around forever, they’ve been really good for a really long time. And Sundown Social, they played with us at our CD release last year, so they’re at a really high level too. …

So we got really, really good bands playing with us, it’s a lot pressure following up acts like that. We gotta be on par with these guys.”

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BMoCA exhibit explores diversity in the community

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by Krystal Baugher

hat does diversity mean? There are the obvious diversities — cultural, racial, economic — and the not-soobvious — intellectual, political, spiritual.

Should a place — a school, a town, a city — strive for diversity? And if so, what does that entail?

Anyone who has lived in Boulder for more than a few days has heard the term “too Jordan Robbins white,” as in, “This city is too white.” Yes, there are a lot of white people here (87 percent percent according to the U.S. Census), but why are large groups of white people in general bad?

And would throwing in some people of color really fix the issue? Is it an issue that needs to be fixed?

The “too white” statement that many of us hear regularly has less to do with skin color and more to do with guilt — the guilt of unrecognized privileges.

It’s a privilege to own a home, a car, a computer. It’s a privilege to go to college, yoga, coffee shops. It is a privilege to live right next to beautiful mountains, to have the time to bike to work or, even better, work from home.

And yes, it’s a privilege to go to art museums.

Questions about diversity haven’t stopped the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art from trying to address the issue.

From June 23 to Sept. 11, BMoCA is exhibiting BIODOME: An Experiment in Diversity. The show is based on the 2007 Community Dialogue survey taken by Boulder residents that revealed a value for an

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outdoor active lifestyle and a concern about elitists and intolerance. Four artists were selected for a twoweek residency during which they learned about the Boulder community and developed works based on the hopes and concerns brought up in the survey. The show addresses three of Boulder’s most popular attributes — technology, sports and spirituality — then attempts to address the overall topic of diversity through those aspects.

Many of us have the luxury of “Wishing Wells”

by Seth Wulsin Internet access here in Boulder, and it becomes even more obvious when we step into Laleh Mehran and Chris Coleman’s “W3fi.” The entire front gallery features work on our interconnections in the virtual world, including a topographic table of Boulder County with a digital display of wifi use, cell phone towers and mobile data use.

“Boulder is a huge technology hub,” Mehran says. “It’s the perfect space to start this movement.”

The movement is about changing our views from the S3LF to the W3F, Mehran adds.

“It’s a shift from individual narcissism we culturally have adopted to a more human narcissism that pays attention to how everyone around us is affected,” Mehran says.

It’s about balance — for every couple of tweets about one’s self there should be a tweet acknowledging or showing kindness to someone else. Coleman and Mehran believe it’s time we all start respecting each other in both real and virtual space.

They make that point by using open-source programs like Processing and Arduino in many pieces.

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“Hundreds of people work together to create the tool,” Mehran explains, “but then we use the tool to program the parts of the show.”

This open sourcing highlights their ability to work collaboratively — not just with each other, but with an entire community. There is beauty not just with the aesthetics on the wall, but also with the never-quitecomplete process, with the ever-changing spaces of our current technology.

“Diversity is heavy,” Gustavo Artigas says. “That’s why I try to balance it with playful situations.”

The execution of Artigas’ “Relay (Endless)” comes off as simplistic; it’s a minimal installation, one racetrack built around the gallery space. The concept behind “Relay,” though, is much more elaborate.

“It’s about running together, not from each other,” Artigas says.

Boulder residents (and visitors) have the opportunity to “pass the baton” and keep the circle of connection going. “Relay” participatants write what they think diversity means and give their own solutions, which are then shared on the wall. (It’s interesting to note the numerous definitions of diversity posted after the show had only been open a few days.) “Relay” opens a dialogue and helps reveal areas that need improving while allowing the community to “play” and learn together.

In “Wishing Wells,” Seth Wulsin’s mirrored icosahedrons are remarkable in both design and philosophy. Twenty sides symbolize the water element, and just like water, the two pieces reflect and overlap moments in time. The pieces resonate an inner space that connects people who are there with those who were there before and with those who come after. The icosahedrons reveal that though there may be a physical outer limit (the body) there is unlimited internal expansion (the spirit). With the fragments infinitely reflecting and bouncing off of each other, one feels a sense of the complexities we individually and collectively possess.

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

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

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

Jelly Roll Bakers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Kenny Chesney, Billy Currington, Uncle Kracker. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

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

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

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

Nell Robinson & Her All-Star Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

The Neil Bridge Trio. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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.

Outdoor Music Series — With Wendy Woo. 7 p.m. Rock Bottom Brewery, 10633 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, 720-566-0198.

Rhythm on the Rails — With Rebecca Folsom. 6:45 p.m Whistle Stop Station, Niwot, www.niwotcolorado.com.

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

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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.

Comedy Works Presents Dave Testroet, Ryan Lowery, Mc Bill Leblanc. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

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.

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Bachata. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview

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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.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Photographs by Richard Greening. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through July 31.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Kevin Singleton. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through July 31.

Relay(Endless): A Race for Diversity — By Gustavo Artigas. Boulder Museum of Contemporay Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 11.

Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan. BioLounge, CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

W3fi — By Laleh Mehran & Chris Coleman. Boulder Museum of Contemporay Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 11.

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.

Wishing Well — By Seth Wulsin.

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

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

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

By All Means Band. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Classified, Kidz in the Hall. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

DJ Spooky. 10 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/ astrolandd.

James Frye. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

John-Alex Mason. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

John Bonner, Kirwan Brown, & Tony Black.

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

Kenny Chesney with Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

Owen Kortz Trio. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Silver String Theater. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

Slothpop,The Constant Tourists. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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

Take 2 Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801

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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-

13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Visit. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Wendy Woo. 8:30 p.m. The Exchange Tavern, 11940 Bradburn Blvd., Westminster, 303-4690404.

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours.

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

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Kate Thompson’s Therapeutic Journal Writing. 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.

The Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Tuesday Night Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

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

Monday, July 11 “So You’re a Poet” ­— Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Wednesday, July 13 John Hughes’ Distance Cycling. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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.

Saturday, July 9

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

Ascetic Winter,The Wild Gnome. 7:30 p.m.

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

The Avett Brothers with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

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

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

Lara Ruggles. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

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

Notes & Oats with Boulder Ukulele Group. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Serenade in Blue. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE — With Hot Lunch. 6:30 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

WadiRum. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

ANILLA — Presented by Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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.

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

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

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

Cody Taylor, Daniel Park,Tyler Jakes. 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.

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

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

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

Jon Kohne. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Sarah McLachlan with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

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

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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.

Monday, July 11

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole,

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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.

Republic of Barbecue. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Tuesday, July 12

music Benefit for Rise Above It — With Cellar Door, Even Hands, Tommy and the Tangerines. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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.

Emma Back. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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.

Film on the Rocks: Pineapple Express. 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.

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Bands on the Bricks — With Raising Cain.

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.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Haystack Mountain Golf Course, 5877 Niwot Rd., Longmont, 303-530-1400.

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

Jason Spooner Trio & Jessica Sonner. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Kevin Cott, Ian Stewart, Luc DiMarzio.

7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

The New Familiars. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators. 7-9 p.m. Estes Park Museum, 200 4th St., Estes Park, 303-573-4898, ext. 1151.

Naturopath Dan Fouts. 7-9 p.m. Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-422-4090.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

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

Saturday, July 9 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, July 10 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, July 11 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

Tuesday, July 12 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.

Science Kitchen. 10 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, July 13 Drop-in Storytime. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, July 7 Science Kitchen. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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, July 8 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Thursday, July 7 Alpine Climbs in Rocky Mountain National Park. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303499-8866.

Saturday, July 9 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Tread Safely in the Mountains — Guided hike. 8:30 a.m. Flagstaff Summit, 3.4 miles west from Chautauqua on Baseline Road, 303-441-3440.

Sunday, July 10 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m.

Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

Nature For Kids & Parents: Wildflower Bonanza. 10 a.m.

Flagstaff Nature Center, Flagstaff and Flagstaff Summit roads, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Monday, July 11 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101.

5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

W

e start early, as the eastern sun kisses the top of the Flatirons. The air is cool, but the crystalline Colorado sky hints at the heat to come. The valleys are still lush despite the summer. The spring rains lingered late this year, and the trail is still moist. We know we’ll see wildlife on our hike, but we’re not getting an early start in hopes of finding Bambi. Today we’re hunting wildflowers, and Boulder’s grand traverse, the Mesa Trail, promises to serve up a bounty.

The Mesa Trail is a gem, the big daddy of local hikes.

Other trails may go farther, or be steeper, but none has the allure of the Mesa. Traversing though several different ecosystems and crossing directly underneath Boulder’s most famous landmark — The Flatirons — the Mesa travels 6.7 miles from south to north.

The Mesa is great as a classic “traverse” style hike, running along the lower reaches of the foothills, but it also offers a nearly endless array of options and spur trails. In this sense,

Tuesday, July 12 Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-5656019.

Wednesday, July 13 Longs Peak: Easiest Routes.

6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303499-8866.

The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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The Mesa Trail runs 6.7 miles from the South Mesa Trailhead to Chautauqua Park. We chose to leave a car at the South Mesa Trailhead and do the hike from south to north. It’s also possible to go out and back or take advantage of the many other trails that link with the Mesa to create a “loop” hike, although on the southern end of the trail system, options are more limited than on the northern terminus. Regardless of how you approach Boulder’s grand traverse, water, food and a good pair of shoes will make the trip more enjoyable. Be sure to pick up a copy of the City of Boulder’s “Look Closely: Wildflowers.”

This guide to local wildflowers is available for download at http://1.usa.gov/qviML8. It’s a helpful guide to the local blossoms you’ll see on your hike. For trail information and other details, visit bouldercolorado.gov.

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the Mesa is the backbone of an extensive system that includes rock climbing access, bird watching, trail running and other activities, like today’s wildflower excursion.

We start at the southern end of the Mesa, appropriately named the South Mesa Trailhead. Accessed via Eldorado Springs Drive (Hwy. 120) from South Broadway (Hwy. 93), it’s in an area that, despite Boulder’s growth, remains relatively rural. The towns here, Marshall and Eldorado Springs, retain a simple vibe, one that harkens back to a time when the surrounding landscape was nearly devoid of homes. While this area has seen growth, the low grassy hills that rise to the west remain protected open space.

We’ll travel from this relatively empty landscape to the northern end of the Mesa, finishing our hike in Chautauqua Park, another timeless hamlet of simple cabins. A national historic site, these summer homes are a visible link to Boulder’s past and the historic restaurant the perfect finish to our journey.

Our hike starts, as so many do in Boulder, with a hill. The long climb out of the South Boulder Creek drainage isn’t too tough, though. It’s on a service road, which allows us to chat as we settle into a groove of one foot in front of the other, repeat and then repeat again.

The sweeping views distract us from the effort as we climb higher. Our goal is to reach the ponderosa forests and their welcoming shade before the sun climbs higher, along with the temperatures. Along the way we keep an eye out for our prey: wildflowers.

Because of the variety of ecological zones that the Mesa trail traverses, it’s an ideal hike for those who are interested in Colorado’s flora. In drainages and at lower elevations, wild plum, with its white flowers and distinctive bouquet, thrive. Golden banner, with yellow blossoms, add a bit of flash, and white salt and pepper (Lomatium orientale), which is related to the celery family, also can be spotted.

As one climbs into the ponderosa forests, with their open meadows, new types may appear: wild geranium, wild iris and yarrow can be seen blooming along with lupine, one-sided penstemon and bergamot.

And then there are the drainages.

The Mesa crosses over several canyons, including Skunk and Bluebell. These ecosystems feature more moisture and shade than the drier, east-facing meadows, and their hillsides are home to spring beauty, lance-leaved chiming bells and blazing star.

Today, we’ll see some of these flowers, but not all of them.

That’s the beauty of wildflower hunting.

Some blossoms appear in spring, some in early summer and some, like asters, in mid-July.

When you see the asters’ purple blossoms appear, you’ll know that the end of the wildflower season is on the way and it’s time to plan for other adventures, like hiking through golden aspen groves as fall sprinkles the high peaks with snow.

But as the hike levels out and we start heading north, snow isn’t on our mind. The climb and the growing heat of the day have warmed us up, and we’re grateful for the fact that although the Mesa trail does have its ups and downs, effectively we’re contouring across the eastern slope of the Front Range. The traverse makes for fast, easy hiking, and the views, wide open in the glowing morning, are fantastic.

At just under seven miles, this hike won’t take us all day. But that’s the point. Most grand traverses are multiday affairs. But on the Mesa Trail, we’re blessed to have a grand traverse that — due to the views and the location — is worthy of the name, but easy on the legs and back.

Some water, a few snacks and a decent pair of shoes — that’s enough to get us to our destination: The Chautauqua Dining Hall, which provides another experience that’s almost as grand as the Mesa.

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earl Street’s restaurant scene is wellknown for its farm-to-table mentality, which centers on produce brought to restaurants from nearby farms to ensure freshness, while supporting the local farming community.

Many independently owned restaurants around the Boulder area — including Black Cat, SALT and The Kitchen — share this philosophy and pride themselves on not being involved with large distributing companies.

But maintaining this mentality requires a lot of work, including building strong relationships with farmers, having access to delivery methods and planning around the seasonality of the produce.

The type of networking needed with small farms for long-term business relationships, along with the ability to work a small menu around the seasonality of produce, requires a lot of work, but as these restaurants are proving, it can be done ­— and done well.

So could a larger chain restaurant with a fixed menu shift to a farm-to-table method? Chipotle is trying.

Chipotle began its campaign to provide produce to its 1,100 restaurants from local farms in their areas in 2009 and has set the bar high this year, aiming for 10 million pounds of their produce to be local.

“Originally it started as a very small program and has grown over the years,” says Chris Arnold, Chipotle’s communications director. “Now around the country it would be probably 90 to 95 percent of all of our restaurants involved in the program, including all of them in Colorado.”

Black Cat’s Chef de Cuisine Jimmy Giesler says Chipotle’s program seems like a hefty challenge. From his experience, Giesler says, striving to support local businesses goes both ways between restaurants and farmers: Farmers tend to share the attitude of avoiding large distribution companies and not supplying to large chain restaurants.

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Carmen Almeda builds a burrito at the Twenty Ninth Street Chipotle.

“The one thing I know is when it comes to working with famers, my experience is you work directly with the farmers,” Giesler says. “Farmers tend to shy away from big companies like that. It’s just my experience. I don’t know if they’ll continue to find farmers who would work on such a large scale.”

Chipotle’s Colorado locations are being supplied produce from two of the state’s mid-sized farms: Petrocco Farms, Inc. and Grant Family Farms, where produce is picked and shipped to a distribution warehouse in Denver and then delivered to the restaurant locations around the state, Arnold says.

The Petrocco farm, a family-owned and operated 2,000-acre farm that consists of separate fields spanning more than 40 miles in Brighton, provides romaine lettuce, jalapeño peppers and red onions for Chipotle locations in the Denver metro area.

Kate Petrocco, Petrocco’s food safety and sales manager, says those working at the farm, which has

been involved with the program since its launch, were eager to be included in the partnership with Chipotle because they felt Chipotle wanted to create and sustain a partnership that focused on keeping fresh produce within the state.

“A lot of people are into the local piece just because it’s kind of a marketing avenue nowadays,” she says. “For major national companies like Chipotle, one thing that’s tricky is the logistics of the whole thing because really it requires a lot of work for them to adjust where they ship from and pack from. Frankly, for a lot of companies its easier to just buy lettuce out of California 12 months out of the year.”

Petrocco says while the Petrocco farm may be larger than the typical local farms providing produce to restaurants, their farm fits the philosophical ideal of local for the Chipotle restaurants, while being able to provide the large volume of produce needed.

“Chipotle did the work to identify what kind of family farms would have the resources and the amount of acreage and that sort of thing in place, so they knew that we would be able to supply them continuously,” she says.

But the size of the farms supplying produce to Chipotle is relative to both the state’s size and the number of restaurant locations therein, Arnold says.

While the Colorado farms may be large, Chipotle has farms located in areas like Long Island, N.Y., that are only around 20 acres.

Arnold says while Chipotle has been working hard to embody the farm-to-table philosophy and the program has been successful since it began, it is not without its difficulties — seasonality being the biggest.

“In an independent, chef-owned restaurant where you have the ability to vary the menu, you have more opportunities to use locally grown produce and other local ingredients,” Arnold says. “But in a restaurant see LARGE SCALE Page 34

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othing screams summertime more than cuisine from warm-weather climes, cool drinks and al fresco dining, all of which are available at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace.

Drawing from Central and South American traditions, Centro serves up ceviche, tacos, tortas and platters featuring such specialties as huevos rancheros and enchiladas. Paul, a Chicago transplant, joined me for a weekday lunch on the sun-drenched patio there while things were hopping, although the amiable servers satisfied the crowd’s needs with aplomb.

As we were at a refreshment palace, it wouldn’t do to just have a glass of water. Both of us were intrigued by the $3 lemonade augmented by Fresno peppers, crimson chiles ranking a couple of notches above jalapeños on the Scoville heat scale. Even without this novel addition, this beverage was first-rate, prepared like a proper cocktail with freshly muddled lemons.

The pepper’s heat didn’t quite register at first, and then the most interesting taste transition took place.

The chile’s understated fire merged with the lemon zest’s astringency, taking an initially familiar flavor and amplifying it until one couldn’t help but notice a peppery zing on the tongue.

We started with the $9 avocado salsa, a.k.a. guacamole. The chips were fresh, crisp and a little thick, which was helpful for scooping up the dip. A chunky texture was set off by smooth flavor — this was a balanced preparation in which neither garlic, chile nor citrus juice dominated. In other words, one could fully appreciate the creaminess and delicate flavor of ripe but not mushy avocado. Both of us noticed something unusual about the diced tomato before it dawned on us that it had been marinated in lime, an unusual touch that heightened the flavor.

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ne can argue that Boulder’s Dushanbe Teahouse can lay claim to being a refreshment palace of a different stripe. What isn’t up for argument is that this local landmark, by way of Tajikistan, will host the 12th Annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival on July 23-24. Offering something for tea connoisseurs and budding enthusiasts alike, the agenda includes Oolong tastings, Brigitte Mars speaking on Herbal Healing teas, and a presentation on Puerh, the complex Chinese brew.

Teahouse operators Sarah and Lenny Martinelli will offer presentations on blending tea and cooking with this beverage. Additional information is available at www.boulderdushanbeteahouse.com/teafest.html. chicken enchilada platter made even more decadent with the addition of a fried egg for a buck. It would have been even better if it had arrived at the table at a higher temperature. That would have improved the flavor and consistency of the otherwise delicious creamy red pepper and goat cheese sauce. The use of chicken thighs was a fine touch, as this cut possesses the assertive flavor and moist texture appropriate for a hearty enchilada preparation.

Feeling like something a little lighter, I opted for a $10 tortilla salad. At first glance, I was mildly disappointed by the presentation, expecting a bit more color than varying shades of green stemming from assorted lettuces and avocado. My visual dismay quickly abated as I realized the flavor profile was far more complex than initial appearances indicated. This preparation

was liberally shot through with addictive escabeche, bits of tangy pickled vegetable common to better taco trucks everywhere. Small but potent chunks of pepper and carrot nicely upped the flavor quotient, working in tandem with a perfectly rationed, mildly acidic vinaigrette. Tortilla strips provided crunch, while tasty morsels of pulled chicken contributed heft.

Nearly every dish we had included a pleasing, unexpected touch that worked to the meal’s benefit.

These ranged from the surprising chile in the lemonade to the salad’s peppy escabeche (which would also be a great name for a comic book character). These appetizing touches indicate an attention to culinary detail that makes Centro a must-visit destination on the summertime eating trail.

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I’m shocked that I don’t even mind slaving away in my hot kitchen, baking up all my Dessert Diva treats. It makes me feel old school, when blood, sweat and tears was what it took to get things accomplished.

Wow, the heat must have really gone to my head, or perhaps it was the bourbon, but either way, summer is here, the heat is on. I’m not complaining for once, and I have no-bake treats up the ying yang, to keep your kitchen cool. The “Hell, yeah, we don’t need our oven” recipe of the week is Fresh Blueberry and Banana Popsicles.

All right, maybe not that exciting, but they are simple, good for you, and brother, they are mighty tasty. I think this might be a fun one for the kiddos to take part in. No sharp knives or hot stoves to contend with. After you get this recipe mastered (which will take all of five minutes), you and the kids can use your imagination and come up with your own recipes.

Maybe that could be a project this summer: Come up with a “It’s hot in here, so let’s cool it off ” cookbook. One condition — you must share all the recipes with me, as I do with you. Don’t worry, I will give you the credit.

I love making my own popsicles, since you can control the amount of sugar and really make them as healthy (or not) as you want. I have the popsi-

cle molds, which are quite easy to find — the supermarkets have them, so that’s not a problem. But if you really want to go old school, how about Dixie cups and good ol’ popsicle sticks? Doesn’t that just scream summer?

I like the whole process of gently inserting the popsicle stick into the Dixie cup and then ripping off the paper when they are all nice and frozen.

Brings back memories of sprinklers, lawn chairs and aunts who cocktail in the afternoon hours. Awww, that’s where I get it!

So enjoy this cool treat, make it as a family, couple or by your own sweet self. You won’t be sorry — it’s hot to be cool, wait … It’s hip to be square.

Something along those lines.

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

Fresh Blueberry and Banana Popsicles 2 cups plain yogurt (can use vanilla) 1 cup blueberries 1/2 cup mashed banana 1/2 cup low-sugar apple juice In food processor, blend yogurt and fruit until smooth. Add apple juice and blend well.

Pour into popsicle molds (or Dixie cups) and freeze for at least four hours.

Un-mold and enjoy!

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like ours, where customers have this expectation of great consistency yearround, it’s a little bit more difficult.”

The produce season for Colorado averages between the months of June and October, and Arnold says Chipotle works to acquire as much produce as it can during the season and look to farms in Texas and California for produce during the off-season.

Arnold says that while the varying seasons present a challenge for Chipotle’s farm choices throughout the year, the company is working to maintain food specifications and consistency as much as possible.

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do as much with local farms as we can without compromising quality or changing the ingredients that our customers expect from us,” he says.

Gielser says the idea of bigger chain restaurants having access to the same fresh produce as restaurants with a farm-to-table philosophy sounds beneficial — if local farmers are willing to work on a larger scale.

“I imagine they’ll find some people to work with. Farmers need food on their tables, too,” Giesler says. “I think it just depends on the farm and the philosophy and the stance of whomever they work with.”

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Ted’s Montana Grill 1701 Pearl St., Boulder 303-449-5546

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Caffè 1720 Pearl St., Boulder 303-442-9464

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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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Fortunately, Lafayette’s Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro rises to the occasion with first-rate interpretations of red sauce standbys. Simple spaghetti and meatballs are a top choice here, as is the chicken marsala. Start with cheesy garlic bread and end with a cannoli, and you’ll have a near iconic meal.

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

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The brick-pressed chicken here is a standout, as is the pancetta-laden carbonara.

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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 moniker by virtue of being a hospitable neighborhood restaurant. Blending Italian-American with Old World influences, the menu includes pizza, lasagna and unique offerings such as brick-pressed grilled chicken. The wild boar pappardelle is especially memorable, with a satisfying cacciatore-like flavor.

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Noteworthy dishes include artfully prepared seared scallops with risotto and a classic macaroni and cheese. Parents can enjoy these dishes while youngsters frolic in the restaurant’s downstairs play area.

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f you’re a fan of special effects and seek entertainment on the big screen, a few hours of escape and some righteous butt-kicking and loud explosions, and if you’ve already enjoyed Transformers and have forgiven Michael Bay for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, you’ll love Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

The story starts out with a conspiracy that reaches back 50 years to the Cold War, the Apollo program and even the disastrous meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. With overlap from X Men: First Class and the yet-unreleased horror film Apollo 18, the first 45 minutes or so were really good, far better than I expected. Then the entire film collapsed into incoherence propelled forward just as much by setups for sarcastic repartee and embarrassing homophobic jokes as by anything to do with the increasingly absent storyline.

Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBoeuf ) is back as the clumsy nerd-done-well, now living with gorgeous Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley). Inexplicably, they’re in a relationship and sharing a funky warehouse apartment that has enough space that Autobot Bumblebee can actually ride up a freight elevator and park in the living room.

The mythos of the Transformers series revolves around distant planet Cybertron, which was home for both the Autobots and Decepticons until a battle tore

the planet asunder and destroyed the Autobots, except those who made it to Earth. Boss Autobot Sentinel Prime, it turns out, invented a secret weapon to preserve his race but crashed into the far side of our moon on his way to Earth. Oops.

Zoom forward to 2011, and the Autobots are working in parallel with the American military from their secret NEST headquarters in the middle of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Sam is trying to get a job, girlfriend Carly is working for handsome, crazy wealthy and predictably evil biz CEO Lennox ( Josh Duhamel), and Sam’s parents Ron (Kevin Dunn) and Judy ( Julie

White) visit just long enough to be annoying and start the homophobic humor that contributes to the film falling apart. Smart-aleck New Yorker Simmons ( John Turturro) is back too, though this time he’s part of the military-industrial complex, which is odd given his anti-establishment personality in the prior films.

There’s always some cliché establishment bureaucrat in these sort of films, and this time it’s Secretary of Defense Charlotte Mearing ( Julie McDormand).

There’s a great cameo in the film from NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin (playing himself ). I can only wonder about his opinion of how the film wove his Apollo mission into the storyline.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon isn’t a complex story, however, but beautiful women, sexy cars (including a sweet Mercedes SLS AMG), jive-talking robots — though this time we have English street thug Transformers rather than the far more offensive African-American racist stereotype Transformers from T2 — and big, bam, boom, explosions and destruction in glorious 3D. In that regard, it’s a complete success.

The film is visually amazing, from its scenes on the moon to the occupation and destruction of Chicago.

Two stars because of the great visual effects, not because of the story or acting.

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he best romantic comedies have a blithe, take-it-orleave-it spirit. Larry Crowne has the opposite.

It’s the neediest movie of 2011, and one of the phoniest.

Set in an American middle class only vaguely like the real one, Larry Crowne co-stars Julia Roberts as a community college instructor of public speaking and English (I think; the script is vague) who rivals the Cameron Diaz layabout in Bad Teacher in aggressive slackerdom. The main star, though, is the co-producer, co-writer and director, Tom Hanks, who has made all sorts of potential dullards on screen worth watching. So why does Larry Crowne go flooey?

Co-scripted by Nia Vardalos (whose monster hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding was produced by Hanks), the project grew out of Hanks’ story notion of a decent middleaged man thrown for a loop by economic circumstance and returning to community college to begin a new life. This is a fine Boulder Weekly

by Michael Phillips idea for a screenplay; anyone who has attended (or taught in) community colleges knows the diversity of most student bodies goes every which way, ethnically, socioeconomically, generationally.

But straight off it’s clear Larry serves as a flat emblem of a situation, rather than an interesting character in a situation. A recently divorced, financially strapped Navy veteran, with an underwater mortgage, he’s laid off from his team leader position at the local U-Mart bigbox store. Reason? A wobbly one: He’s told he lacks the college degree required for management positions.

So it’s back to school, somewhere in the Valley region of Los Angeles.

When we first meet Larry, he’s in his

comfort zone as a backslapping, hailfellow hunk of niceness at the U-Mart.

Yet in his first public-speaking attempt in class, he’s a different man, stilted and tongue-tied, bearing no resemblance to the Larry of the earlier scenes. This isn’t complexity; it’s just inconsistency.

The borderline alcoholic played by Roberts, whose character is married to a porn addict (Bryan Cranston), has given up all hope in her romantic life and her career.

Larry represents hope and resilience and Nice Guys Finish First. Scooter-driving Larry’s fellow students, who include a dishy scooter enthusiast played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, barely register as comic stereotypes, let alone something richer.

Most films make no bones about where they’re going and how they’re going to get there. Larry Crowne, whose screenplay is too close to the quality level of Vardalos’ recent I Hate Valentine’s Day for comfort, offers zero surprises, but — fatally — no wit, and only the thinnest sort of synthetic charm. Bleached of any real-world emotional wrinkles, Hanks’ character coasts on the actor’s world-class likeability. Larry’s neighbors, played by Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson, are generic in the extreme, which becomes the paradox of the film itself: How can a generic product provoke such resistance?

Had Hanks directed two unknowns in the leads, rather than himself and Roberts, it’s possible Larry Crowne wouldn’t carry the same air of A-list slumming. Yet I wonder.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com performs landscaping work for wealthy clients across town. As he tries to make ends meet, he struggles to keep his son Luis away from gangs and immigration agents. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Africa United Three Rwandan children sneak onto a bus and set off to Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali, to audition for the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup — but it’s the wrong bus and they end up in the Congo. Armed with ingenuity, determination and blind optimism, their travels through Rwanda, Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa reveal a side of Africa few people ever see. Africa United is a story of joy, laughter, hope and generosity — the ‘ubuntu’ spirit in which the children make this incredible journey together. At Boedecker Theater.

— Boedecker Theater

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

Babies and Blockbusters: Babies See popular movies in the Canyon Theater with your little one in tow! Babies are free to cry, fuss and coo. Admission is free, and all baby-tolerant adults are welcome. Babies, directed by Thomas Balmes, is a visually stunning and joyful new film that simultaneously chronicles the lives of four of the world’s newest human inhabitants — in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo, respectively — from first breath to first steps, on a journey at once universal and amazingly original.

At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Bad Teacher Cameron Diaz gets in touch with her bad self as the world’s worst teacher, an alcoholic, drug-using party animal who tries to seduce a

AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Bad Teacher Thu: 10:55, 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 10:10, 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Cars 2 Thu: 9:30, 10:30, 12, 1:15, 3, 4, 5:45, 6:45, 8:30, 9:25, 11:05 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Green Lantern Thu: 11:30 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 7:15 The Hangover Part II Thu: 10:45 p.m.

Horrible Bosses Fri-Wed: 10, 12:20, 2:45, 5:20, 8, 10:35 Larry Crowne Thu: 11:50, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:20 Midnight in Paris Thu: 10:40, 12:55, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10, 12:35, 3, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Monte Carlo Thu: 11:40, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu: 11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:45 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Thu: 9:05 p.m.

Super 8 Thu: 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 FriWed: 11:05, 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 11:05, 2:30, 6, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 11:55, 3:30, 7, 10:25 X-Men: First Class Thu: 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50 Fri-Wed: 10:20, 4, 10:05 Zookeeper Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Bad Teacher Thu-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 Thu-Wed: 9:55, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Bridesmaids Thu-Wed: 10:30, 4:20, 10:20 Cars 2 Thu-Wed: 10, 12:45, 3:25, 6:05, 8:45,

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You can either complain about how many commercials there are during a movie on television, or you can go to a theater and pay $10 to watch a two-hour commercial. Your choice. wealthy new substitute (Justin Timberlake).

Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez 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. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres A Better Life Carlos is a gardener living in East L.A. who

local theaters 11:30 Green Lantern Thu-Wed: 11:35, 5, 7:40, 10:45 Larry Crowne Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Midnight in Paris Thu: 9:50, 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Monte Carlo Thu-Wed: 10:45, 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Super 8 Thu-Wed: 11:40, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 12:05, 1:15, 3:35, 4:45, 7:05, 10:35 Tree of Life Thu-Wed: 12, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Bad Teacher Thu-Wed: 1:15, 3:40, 7:20, 9:45 Cars 2 Thu-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Horrible Bosses Fri-Wed: 1, 4:35, 7:45, 10:25 Larry Crowne Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Midnight in Paris Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:50, 10:35 Mr. Popper’s Penguins Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4, 7:05, 9:30 Super 8 Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Fri-Wed: 3:30, 7, 10:20 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Beginners Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Fri: 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Buck Thu-Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:30 Page One Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4, 7:30, 9:50

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The Tree of Life Thu-Wed: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8:15, 10 Viva Riva! Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 A Better Life Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4;15, 7:10, 9:45 The Godfather Wed: 6:15, 9:45 Midnight in Paris Thu-Wed: 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 The Trip Thu: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1, 7 Trollhunter Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 4, 10 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Children of Men Wed: 7 p.m.

Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop Thu: 3, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Esther Sun: 2 p.m.

General Orders No. 9 Thu: 7:20 p.m.

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Wed: 9:30 p.m.

The Human Resources Manager Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:40, 7:10 I AM Thu: 2:15, 5 Intimate Grammar Tue: 7 p.m.

Lacrosse Clinic and MLL All-Star Viewing Party Sat: 5 p.m.

Muppets from Space Sat: 11 a.m.

Oldboy Fri: 10 p.m.

Rejoice and Shout Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:20 Risky Business Thu-Sun: 9:30 p.m.

Submarine Thu: 2:30, 4:45, 7:30, 9:45

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 Cars 2 Anthropomorphic automobiles head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix in this sequel to the 2006 animated film Cars. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Cave of Forgotten Dreams A breathtaking new documentary from the incomparable Werner Herzog, who follows an exclusive expedition into the nearly inaccessible Chauvet Cave in France, home to the

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Bad Teacher Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:05 Cars 2 Thu-Wed: 12:50, 1:20, 4, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Green Lantern Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:45 Horrible Bosses Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Larry Crowne Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 9:55 Monte Carlo Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 FriWed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10 Transformers: Dark of the Moon ThuWed: 12:30, 1, 3:45, 4:15, 7, 10:15 Zookeeper Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7;15, 9:45 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Africa United Wed: 4:30 p.m.

Ballet: Children of Paradise Sat: 11:30 a.m.

Sun: 1 p.m.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams Thu: 4:30 p.m.

Fri: 7 p.m. Sat: 4:30 p.m.

The First Grader Wed: 7 p.m.

Potiche Thu: 7 p.m. Fri: 4:30, 9 Toast Sat: 9 p.m.

Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197 Babies and Blockbusters: Babies Dodes’ka-den Thu: 6:30 p.m.

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun Mon: 6:30 p.m.

Teen Outdoor Movie Night Sat: 6 p.m.

As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand.

Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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most ancient visual art known to have been created by man. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Children of Men Alfonso Cuaron directs this Oscar-nominated film version of P.D. James’ classic dystopian novel, a futuristic drama set in a world in which humans have lost the ability to reproduce and subsequently face certain extinction.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC’s Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien hit the road with a 32-city music-and-comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. Filmmaker Rodman Flender’s resulting documentary, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, is an intimate portrait of an artist trained in improvisation, captured at the most improvisational time of his career. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The Hangover Part II

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

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. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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 and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that’s exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner fix money can buy: White Castle hamburgers. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Horrible Bosses We’ve all had them. We’ve all had to suffer their indignities — or else just quit our jobs.

But three friends come up with an alternative to dealing with their monstrous bosses with the help of an ex-con. Sounds promising. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Dodes’ka-den

The Human Resources Manager

Akira Kurosawa’s film depicts episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum dwellers. A mentally disabled boy brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar. Children support their parents by scrounging or by tedious, low-paid employment, and schemers drink sake and plot or dream of escaping their poverty. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

The human resources manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery is stuck in a job he hates. But when one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and he is sent to the victim’s hometown in Romania to make amends. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn’t even know, the HR manager fights to regain his company’s reputation — and possibly his own humanity. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Esther This film tells the Old Testament story of Esther, who does not reveal that she is Jewish when she is chosen by King Ashasuerus as his wife. Upon discovering a plot against her people, she manages to save them. Using this myth of survival and resistance, Amos Gitai also narrates the revengeful exterminations perpetrated by the Jews against their enemies. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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 practitioners. At Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

Muppets from Space When Gonzo’s breakfast cereal tells him that he’s the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Oldboy Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter. But after a drunken night on the town, he is locked up in a strange, private prison for 15 years. The imprisonment lasts until one day when Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise roof. He’s determined to discover the mysterious enemy who had him locked up. While he’s eating in a Japanese restaurant, his cell phone rings and a voice dares him to figure out why he was imprisoned. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Page One: Inside The New York Times In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Page One: Inside The New York Times deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres 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. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

The First Grader

Intimate Grammar

In a small, remote, primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children jostle for a chance at a free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One applicant creates a stir when he knocks on the door of the school — Maruge, an old Mau Mau veteran in his 80s. After having fought for the liberation of his country, Maruge is desperate to learn how to read at this late stage of his life — even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside 6-year-olds. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the militant Israeli that will not go through another Holocaust. Aharon, a 13-year-old with a highly developed inner world, does not quite fit the mold. His soul seeks refinement, art — everything he is unable to find at home. As an expression of protest he doesn’t grow an inch in three years and embarks on a dangerous journey: to cross the boundary dividing childhood and adolescence. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ­— Denver Film Society

Potiche

General Orders No. 9

Larry Crowne

Rejoice and Shout

General Orders No. 9 contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South. The stunning culmination of more than 11 years’ work from first-time writer-director Robert Persons, General Orders No. 9 marries experimental filmmaking with an accessible, naturalist sensibility to tell the epic story of the clash between nature and man’s progress, and reaches a bittersweet reconciliation all its own. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ­— Denver Film Society

See full review on Page 39. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Rejoice and Shout traces the evolution of gospel through its many musical styles — the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into gospel, the emergence of soul, and the blending of rap and hip-hop elements. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Green Lantern This adaptation of the DC Comics series about a human recruited by aliens to wield a ring that gives him superpowers looks, well, a little ridiculous. Then again, Thor didn’t seem all that promising either, and look how that one turned out. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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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, Century and Flatiron.

— Carrie Rickey Monte Carlo Three girls go on vacation to Paris, where one is mistaken for a famous British heiress.

Instead of telling the truth, the girls decide to go with the flow and see how the other half lives. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Catherine Deneuve plays a submissive, housebound “trophy housewife” who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. At Boedecker Theater. ­— Boedecker Theater

Risky Business

coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — 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 platform, 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 Teen Outdoor Movie Night Teens participating in You Are Here (the 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 soda will be served. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Toast Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield, Toast is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. A saucy new house cleaner, played by Helena Bonham Carter, sets her sights on Nigel’s father, and cooking soon becomes the key weapon in the battle between them for his father’s affections. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Transformers: Dark of the Moon See full review on Page 39. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT 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. 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 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, 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 Trollhunter

With his parents on vacation, high schooler Joel turns opportunity into disaster as he transforms the family home into a brothel, sees a Porsche end up in Lake Michigan and watches his Princeton dreams fade. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The government says there’s nothing to worry about — it’s just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don’t believe it, and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Submarine

Zookeeper

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

Talking animals at a zoo teach their beloved caretaker the rules of courtship. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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March 21-April 19:

It’s my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and that seems to give us license to override messages from our bodies for the sake of ambition, laziness or convenience. Having acknowledged that, I must say that I know men who are highly sensitive and responsive to somatic cues and women who aren’t. Whatever gender you are, I believe that in the coming weeks it’s crucial for you to be acutely aware of what’s going on inside your beloved flesh-and-blood vehicle. This is one time when you need to be intimately aligned with its needs.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

One of the greatest kings of the ancient Persian Sassanid Empire was Shapur II (309-379). Shortly after his father died, he was made king while still in his mother’s womb.

Since he could not yet wear his crown, officials set it upon his mother’s pregnant belly. He ruled from then until the day he died, 70 years later. I’m naming him your patron saint for the second half of 2011, Taurus. My sense is that the seed of some great accomplishment is already germinating within you. It may take a while to be fully born, but I suggest we consecrate its bright future now.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

I’ve got no problem with the real world. I spend a lot of time there, enjoy its chewy riddles and take it quite seriously. But I also consider myself a militant lobbyist for all the Other Worlds — the domain of everything that’s invisible to the naked eye and irrelevant to the schemes of the rational ego.

These alternate realities consist of the unconscious, the dreamtime, the spiritual sphere, the intelligence of nature and the realm of the ancestors. In my astrological opinion, you’re due for a major upgrade in your relationship with these dimensions in the next 12 months. Now would be a good time to get started.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

While listening to the sound collage radio program “Over the Edge” on KPFA, I learned that a new primary color has been detected. Quite different from red, yellow, or blue, it has its own distinct hue that’s impossible to describe. You really have to see it to appreciate its essence. The discoverer of this marvel is Dr. Wohan Squant, who has named the color “squant.” (Full details here: bit.ly/Squant.) I wish I could predict you’re about to create or find something equally revolutionary, Cancerian, but I can’t go quite that far. Nevertheless, you’ve entered a phase when you have the power to tinker with and even transform fundamental laws of your universe. So who knows? Maybe you’re on the verge of a shift almost as revolutionary as the discovery of squant.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Are you feeling the sting of disappointment, railing at life for reneging on one of its promises to you? Are you in the throes of unleashing a great accusation, suffering the twisty ache that comes from having your pet theories disproved?

Maybe you should consider the possibility that you are simply getting an opportunity to correct a misunderstanding — that life isn’t being mean to you and you’re not being punished. I’d like to propose that you are, in fact, in the first phase of your healing. Listen to Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore: “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“The more one dwells on oneself,” says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book Going Sane, “the more one is likely to suffer.” He thinks people need encouragement to avoid excessive introspection. “My project as a psychoanalyst,” he writes, “is to free them to not have to think about their lives so much.” While I feel he overstates the case, I do suspect his message would be good for you to heed in the coming weeks. For maximum success and robust mental health, take a generous portion of your attention off yourself and focus it on living your life with compassion, curiosity and concern for others.

LIBRA

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“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering,” proclaimed author Madame de Staël (1766-1817). I beg to

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

I accompanied a friend and his family to a small fairgound where a local school was having a fundraiser. There were rides and games for younger kids. Right away we came to a challenging activity that involved climbing a ladder made out of rubber and coated with some slippery substance. One girl, about 7 years old, was having a moment of rowdy bliss as she tried to ascend. “It’s impossible — but fun!” she cried out to her mom. Your assignment in the coming week is to find an adventure like that: one that’s impossible but fun.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape,” wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “It is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.” With this quote, I’m alerting you to the fact that a new truth is now floating into your world, Sagittarius. It’ll be misty and sparkly, yet somehow also decisive and lucid.

It will comfort you and yours, but also be a bit shocking. It will be sharply tonic, like good, strong medicine that has a pungent yet oddly delicious flavor you’ve never tasted before.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

If there were a useful website with the domain name AmIAGoodPersonOrNot.com, I would advise you to go check it out. The same is true if there were websites like AmIAuthenticOr Not.com, AmIYummyOrNot.com, AmIEnlightenedOrNot. com, or AmIAGorgeousGeniusOrNot.com. What I’m trying to tell you, Capricorn, is that this would be an excellent time for you to find out more about yourself from objective sources — or any other kind of sources, for that matter.

Solicit feedback, my beautiful darling. Ask for updates on how you’re doing.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Ninety-six percent of all adults say they would change something about their appearance if they could. That statistic is one factor that leads philosopher Jonathan Zap to make this observation: “Suffering associated with body image has reached such epidemic proportions in our culture that it must be counted as one of the greatest spiritual plagues ever to be visited upon mankind.” That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that the coming months will be an excellent time for learning to be at more peace with how you look. I invite you to formulate a three-point plan that will help you come to a perspective in which you will love your body exactly the way it is.

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Wandering around a county fair, she went to a reptile exhibit where she encountered an animal trainer who had an alligator resting serenely on his lap. She asked him why the creature was so well-behaved. “I pet it daily,” he said. “If I didn’t, it would quickly be wild again and wouldn’t allow this.” Apply that lesson in your own life, Pisces. Bestow regular tenderness and loving touch to the feral, untamed, primitive influences in your life — including any that may reside within you.

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