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Measuring municipalization (Re: “Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder,” Danish Plan, July 28.) Mr. Danish may be correct in his analysis of the Boulder municipal power plan. But his essay is just another volley in the back-and-forth debate, which can be fairly accurately summarized as: “It will be more expensive.”

“No, it won’t.”

“Yes, it will.”

“Won’t!”

“Will!”

Instead of just he said/she said, how about if the plan’s proponents offer some contingency options if it does turn out to be more expensive? Will it be feasible to undo it and invite Xcel back? Will anybody actually lose their jobs if it’s a fiasco? Are any of the politicians supporting the plan willing to bet their seats on its success? At exactly what price point do we bail out? Or will we just give a collective shrug and pass the costs on to citizens, as usual? “Oh, well, yet another expensive disaster. Anybody up for a tofu frappe?”

The most maddening aspect of Boulder politics is the tendency to jump into poorly considered schemes without any metrics for success or any contingencies if targets are not met. How about those unique crosswalks we have?

Clearly nobody ever suggested we link their continued existence to accident rates. (Seriously … who exactly thought it was a good idea for a city with as many visitors as Boulder to invent their own traffic signals?)

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What about BuildSmart and other new building regulations? Is anybody measuring the impact on the local economy, or the adverse environmental impact of the unintended consequences?

Even if it met its objectives, anybody do a cost/benefit analysis on the price per ton of carbon dioxide reductions? Or is it all just another plan that “sounded good” to the starry-eyed academics who came up with it?

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wo-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down crying, but they learn from it.

That’s the virtue of the “ouchie” that Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other big financiers got last year when they ran into the law after racing wildly through home foreclosure paperwork. They were caught falsifying thousands of documents and taking illegal shortcuts that were causing innocent families to lose their homes. They had to pay fines, make restitution, suspend foreclosures and pledge to clean up their act. But at least they learned their lesson.

Oh, wait — these aren’t 2-year-olds. They are wily bankers, and the only lesson they ever seem to learn is that shortcuts can be profitable — as long as Boulder Weekly

In the real world, expensive plans are measured and cancelled if performance targets are not met. But in Boulder we put unemployed environmental lawyers into decision-making roles, and the result is failure and waste. Symbolic resolutions opposing the personhood of corporations? I’d love to see a cost-benefit analysis of that one. Maybe there’s some measurable value to provincial smugness.

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Bankers keep running with illegal foreclosures

by Jim Hightower you don’t get caught. But, once again, they’ve been caught rushing through foreclosures, using the same old scam called “robo-signing.”

To foreclose on someone’s home, an authorized bank employee must sign the foreclosure document, swearing that the facts in it are true. But that requires hiring people to review each case. To avoid that cost, they take an illegal shortcut by signing the name of someone who has not read the document

There’s a saying in the business world: “Anything not measured is optional.” Boulder City Council and county commissioners apparently take this as a good thing.

David Rea/Boulder

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and might not even exist. In one Massachusetts county, for example, “Linda Green’s” signature has recently appeared on some 1,300 foreclosures.

Curiously, her signature was written in many different styles, and she had many different titles. Also, there’s no Linda Green presently working in the mortgage banking company involved. Meanwhile, state officials say that robosigning is, once again, “an epidemic” all across the country.

It’s a federal crime to do this, yet no bank or banker has even been charged. Until we put a CEO in jail, the banking barons will never learn their lesson.

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Banning corporate personhood would destroy U.S. economy LETTERS from Page 5

politics,” The Highroad, Aug. 4.) Your article on “breaking the corporate-control of politics” was spot on. You stated, “America could use a dose of this cleansing tonic, and I have no doubt that Americans would throw out all of our corporate-controlled politicians — if only that possibility was put to a vote.”

I agree that Americans, like Latvians, would end corporate control of politics by voting out all of our corporately controlled politicians with the power of the vote.

If we ever have the chance to vote out corporate controlled politicians, we would vote out John Boehner, Mitch O’Connell, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and, most importantly, Barack Obama, who in 2012 will be taking over $1 billion from corporate interests to run his presidential re-election campaign.

Again, thanks for your honesty and lucidity.

I want to see if you have the honesty to run my response, because our senators, our congressmen and our president are all controlled by big money. If not, where is Obama getting $1 billion for 2012? From $10 individual donations?

No, sorry, the math does not add.

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Ban GMOs from public land Please enact legislation that will ban the planting of GMO vegetation, raising GMO-fed livestock and future GMO livestock on Boulder County public lands. There is plenty of evidence that this form of agriculture is dangerous to the public health, the environment, our economy, politics and security.

Please promote organic agriculture that is dedicated to feeding the people of Boulder County and keeping us safe from economic, political and natural disasters that inflate food prices and impair nationwide food distribution.

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intensive monoculture.

Tom Groover/Boulder

Rocky Flats still toxic We need to bring more focus and clout to stop the proposed development around Rocky Flats. The original DOE report in 1995 stated that to clean up the site it would take 65 years and cost more than $37 billion. In 2005, only 10 years later and costing only $7 billion, it was declared cleaned up.

The job went to the lowest bidder, clean-up was minimal and, to seal the deal, it was declared a wildlife refuge.

That means that by more lenient standards set by the U.S. Division of Wildlife, the site needs only to be covered with three feet of soil and the buried contaminants can be left in place.

How can we get Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt on board with the current issues and have another demonstration? The proposed development around the site by Candelas is ridiculous.

Please help with public awareness.

The RMPJC and LeRoy Moore can do only so much.

Tony Zubricky/via Internet

Going green If nuclear energy is to be categorized as “green,” it should be qualified as “dayglo green” or, even better, as “day-glowin-the-dark green.”

Robert Porath/Boulder

Meat and potatoes Who would have thunk? Meat and potatoes, basic staples of the American diet, now held responsible for our growing obesity epidemic.

A federally funded Harvard University analysis of data collected over 20 years from more than 120,000 Americans found that meat and potatoes were the main culprits in weight gain, while fruits, vegetables and nuts prevented weight gain. The analysis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. see LETTERS Page 9

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bout the anti-corporate personhood referendum that might be on the Boulder ballot this November — I smell a rat. Several, in fact.

The ballot proposal put forward by Councilman Macon Cowles would put Boulder voters on record as favoring an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to “abolish corporate personhood and prohibit the granting of constitutional rights to any entity other than a human being.” The proposal also calls for the amendment to “clarify that the expenditure of money is not constitutionally protected free speech so that money spent to influence elections can be subject to reasonable regulation to promote equal protection under the law for all human citizens.”

Cowles and the proposal’s supporters say it is necessary in order to undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, in which the court ruled that a provision of the 2002 McCain-Feingold Act that kept corporations from buying radio and TV

spots within a certain number of days before candidate elections violated the First Amendment.

As a result of the ruling, corporations spent heavily during the 2010 election cycle, mostly on behalf of Republican candidates, many of whom won. Democrats and assorted other leftists immediately called for a constitutional amendment to undo the ruling.

If undoing the Citizens United decision was all that was involved here, Cowles’ proposal could be characterized as just one more attempt by leftwing scolds to “reform,” or more plainly, rig, American election laws in their favor. But Cowles’ proposal would do a lot more than that.

The concept of corporate personhood goes far beyond the Citizens United ruling. “Corporate personhood” is one of the defining characteristics of the corporation, and it is tightly bound up with a second defining characteristic of the corporation — “limited liability.”

The latter concept is what makes it possible for individuals to invest in a see PERSONHOOD Page 8

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business and not be held personally liable for its debts if it fails. Prior to the invention of the corporation imbued with virtual personhood — which was the legal instrument that made limited liability possible — investors in a failed business could land in debtors’ prison if they couldn’t cover the business’s losses.

So very few people invested. It was corporate personhood and limited liability that made possible the sort of investment and capital accumulation that gave birth to the industrial revolution and the modern economy.

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personhood would in effect ban corporations for being corporations — and stick a dagger into the heart of the American economy as we know it. The ability of American businesses to raise capital — especially the sort of highrisk start-up businesses that have powered Boulder’s economic engine for more than a generation — would be plunged back into the 17th century.

It strikes me as inconceivable that this point was lost on Cowles, who is one of the more intelligent and successful attorneys in Colorado. So it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that his

real agenda is not campaign finance reform, but an all-out attack on the American economic system.

That conclusion is certainly consistent with the letters to the editor in the

Boulder Weekly and the Daily Camera from Cowles’ amen chorus of angry leftists. They display a hatred of corporations that is poisonous, paranoid, conspiratorial and delusional (such as their repeated assertions that corporations run the American government), and that goes far beyond any rational outrage over Citizens United. When folks like that start proposing constitutional amendments — amendments that tamper with First Amendment protections at that — it’s a good idea to think through the implications of what would happen if they got their way.

Cowles’ proposed amendment doesn’t stop with an attack on the concept of corporate personhood, either. It also strips corporations of all constitutional rights. If that judgment seems harsh, how else can you construe the phrase “and prohibit the granting of constitutional rights to any entity other than a human being.”

If Cowles’ proposal actually became part of the Constitution, corporations would lose a lot more than the right to buy attack ads two weeks before Election Day. Like the right to not be deprived of life, liberty and property without due process of law, for starters.

They also conceivably would be subject to ex-post-facto laws and bills of attainder, since Cowles’ amendment explicitly excludes them from all constitutional protections.

Nor is Cowles’ proposal limited to trashing corporations. Look at that wording again; Cowles wants to “abolish corporate personhood and prohibit the granting of Constitutional rights to any entity other than a human being.”

In other words, he would deny constitutional rights and protections not just to corporations, but to partnerships, labor unions, churches and tens of thousands of special-interest associations — in short every organization in the United States with a membership greater than one.

Cowles’ amendment is not just attacking the free-speech provisions of the First Amendment as they apply to corporations; it is a sweeping attack on the First Amendment’s freedom of assembly provision as it applies to everyone.

If his proposal makes it to the ballot, Boulder voters should reject it like a disease.

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So much for the meat industry’s claim of high-nutrient density for their product. It’s more like high weight density.

So, the next time the fast food clerk asks if “you want fries with that,” tell him to hold the greasy hamburger and give you a nice salad instead.

Stanley Silver/Boulder

Fill the pot with pot At this point in time in 2011, all levels of government in the United States, including the federal government, are financially strapped, caused by a fouryear recession. Our collective governments’ usually reliable sources of tax revenue have either plummeted downward or dried up all together.

Solution: Legalize and tax America’s largest agricultural cash crop — marijuana. If we legalize and tax marijuana, nationally, via an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thereby bypassing the U.S. Supreme Court, all of America’s local, county and state governments, as well as the federal government, will get out of debt and into the black, overnight.

Marijuana is the key to getting America out of this crippling recession.

All 50 states are chafing at the bit to legalize and tax the one as-yet-untaxed commodity that we have, in place, ready to go. Not one single state among the 50 does not produce marijuana. To continue to keep America’s largest cash crop illegal and untaxed is positively irresponsible.

David Hornberger/St. Petersburg, Fla.

none for the rich, how is that “balanced”?

Here are two balancing ideas: 1) The Americans First Tax: When Big Business ships jobs overseas, which is “unpatriotic,” tax them those jobs’ American salaries plus all benefits. 2) Gabrielle’s Tax: Hike taxes on guns, bullets, clips, etc., but make gun safety devices tax-free.

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Council takes on personhood On Tuesday, Aug. 16, Boulder City Council will hold a public hearing on whether there should be a referendum on the city ballot in November regarding the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended constitutional rights to corporations and equated money with free speech.

The hearing on the referendum, which was proposed by Councilmember Macon Cowles in response to the court’s decision in Citizens United v.

Federal Election Commission, will be held at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the Municipal Building, at Canyon and Broadway.

For more information, call 303-4413002 or visit the City Council website at www.bouldercolorado.gov.

Weigh in on redrawing districts Members of the commission to redraw, or “reapportion,” state legislative districts will visit Boulder on Monday, Aug. 15, as part of a statewide tour to discuss their proposed State House and Senate district maps.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the University Memorial Center, Room 247, at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The Colorado Reapportionment Commission is hosting 24 events throughout Colorado in August and early September. Following the public hearings, a final map will be approved and submitted to the State Supreme Court for review by the Oct. 7 deadline.

The commission is established by law every 10 years, following the U.S. Census. It consists of 11 members appointed by the governor, the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and minority and majority leadership in the Senate and House.

Volunteer at Heil Boulder County officials are looking for volunteers to help maintain Heil Valley Ranch on Sunday, Aug. 14.

In exchange for breakfast and the beauty of Heil Valley Ranch, volunteers will be asked to help with a variety of projects designed to improve the ecosystem, including removing non-native weeds, raking duff from under pine trees, restoring a forestry stand, collecting native seed and repairing fences.

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The project will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The minimum age is 8, with adult supervision. To register, visit www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/ wildwork or call 303-678-6089.

Free cooking lessons Camp Culinary will offer free cooking lessons at the Boulder Farmers’ Market from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13, and from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Chef Michael DeBoer, owner of Camp Culinary Boulder, will be giving the lessons to teach market-goers how to prepare the produce they buy there.

“Ratatouille is one of my favorite vegetable side dishes to prepare because of all the different flavors that go into making it,” he says. “August is the best time of year to make this dish, because almost all of the produce used to make it is at the peak of its seasonality.

Summer squash and garlic is readily available, eggplant, sweet bell peppers and onions are starting to make their presence known, and tomatoes are not far away. So we have everything to cook up a classical dish from the Provencal region of France; add to that a bit of herbs and some olive oil, and we are off and running.”

Each demo is a free mini cooking class taught by a professional chef, using fresh Boulder Farmers’ Market produce, and when the lesson is over, the eating begins.

DeBoer volunteers four times a month to give cooking demos at the market.

For more information or to book with Camp Culinary, visit www.campculinaryboulder.com or e-mail campculinary@gmail.com.

Cabaret for a cause HealthLinks Foundation, the nonprofit arm of HealthLinks Clinic, will present its second annual fundraiser, Cabaret for a Cause, on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Boulder Theater.

“We had such a tremendous response last year and raised over $60,000,” says Trudy Turvey, director and founder of the clinic and foundation. “It is especially gratifying to know that the money raised went to help cancer survivors and others with chronic ill-

nesses get the treatment they need.”

7NEWS anchor Mike Landess, himself a prostate cancer survivor, will be this year’s master of ceremonies.

Additional performers include Chris Daniels and the Kings, Lisa Bell, Ron Ivory & One on One and L.A. singer/ songwriter Matt James. The evening will also feature a live auction and a dessert bar with assorted pastries and handmade chocolates.

The show starts at 8 p.m., but guests are encouraged to come early and enjoy the piano bar with pianist Dan Graeber.

An online “silent” auction is already under way. Interested shoppers can go to www.cabaretforacause.net to register for the auction and preview items that range from travel packages to jewelry to gift certificates. The bidding closes on Aug. 26.

Tickets for the event are $65 and include the dessert buffet and one drink.

They can be purchased on the website or at HealthLinks Clinic, 3101 Iris Ave., Suite 200, in Boulder. For more information, call the clinic at 303-4431937.

Hill Flea hosts attractions This Saturday, Aug. 13, the Hill Flea is hosting several special attractions, including a kids yoga program hosted by Core Power, a children’s story and song hour, a “Boot Camp Flash Mob,” live poetry by Innisfree, street food and an hour of local authors starting at 1 p.m.

Choreographed dance performances will be held at 2 p.m. throughout the market, coordinated by the Fringe Festival. Local live bands will be mixed in throughout the day.

The market, which specializes in supporting recycled, reused, upcycled and local products, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It features everything from vintage clothes to recycled school supplies and is a celebration of sustainability, art and entrepreneurship.

For more information, see thehillflea.com.

Fourmile fundraiser set for Sept. 7 A celebratory fundraising dinner, “A Night at the Gold Hill Inn,” will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Fourmile Canyon Fire.

The event, which will be held from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., is intended to acknowledge the devastation while honoring the lives and communities that were saved.

The dinner and fundraiser will feature the collective culinary talents of some of Boulder’s best-known chefs, as well as an auction and live music by Romano Paoletti and KC Groves.

Dinner will be a five-course tasting menu, and each chef will prepare one course and pair it with an appropriate wine. Tickets are $200 per person. The attire is mountain casual.

Participating chefs include Dave Query of the Big Red F Restaurants, Eric Skokan of the Black Cat, Hugo Matheson of The Kitchen, Bradford Heap of Salt and Colterra, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan MacKinnonPatterson of Frasca, and Janos Wilder of Janos Restaurant in Tucson, Ariz.

All proceeds will be directed to two areas: the Foothills United Way Fourmile Fire Recovery Fund Mental Health Program, which provides residents of fire-affected areas with trauma counseling and other mental health services, and the Gold Hill, Sunshine, Sugarloaf and Fourmile volunteer fire departments.

Reservations can be made at http:// bit.ly/fourmilefunds Back to school stress-free The Lafayette Public Library will host free workshops this month to help families deal with the stress of returning to school.

School registration forms to be completed; school fees to be paid; no more leisurely summer schedule; school supplies to be secured. It’s enough to frazzle the most organized and well-intentioned parent. During the workshops, participants will discuss “should-dos” and learn how to redefine the “shoulddo” list to fit their family’s needs and lifestyle.

The workshops, presented by educator and life coach Kanesha Baynard, will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, in the library meeting room and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 28, in the library conference room.

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County mulls changes in land use code to aid small organic operations

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ocal farmers are speaking up to have their wish list and their problems heard as the Boulder County commissioners begin reviewing agriculture land use codes for an update. Revisions may move more farmers out of the gray areas of ambiguous regulations and onto ground that could help them grow their operations.

Abby Shannon, senior planner with Boulder County land use, is heading the project to revise the agricultural land use codes, which apply to both public and private land.

“We are so early in the process we actually don’t have anything proposed right now,” Shannon says. “The project has been identified by the Boulder County commissioners as something they really want to pursue, but the scope of the project hasn’t even been finalized yet.”

The project is expected to take at least nine months, Shannon says, and will start with gathering information on what farmers are doing now.

“It’s been long identified as an issue to work on,” she says. “It seems like we review our agricultural policies every 10 years or so, and the code is constantly evolving, so I think this is just one of those things we’re trying to keep up with.”

She’s also working with the Boulder County Parks and Open Space agricultural division, the Cropland

Open space administrators have been passing along the wishes of local farmers and consumers, even when they violate current codes.

“We’re letting them know what we’re seeing people ask for,” says David Bell, agricultural division manager for open space.

On that list are farm stands, farm-to-table dinners, demonstration farms — the causes of eaters who want to bring local food home and perhaps grow it themselves.

Recently, the open space department has been adjusting its own picture of land use to include more small farms. The 25,000 acres of open space land put to agricultural use are managed with 140 leases. But more people are looking to start small organic farms on just a few acres. It wouldn’t be possible for them to parcel those all into five-acre bundles with independent leases, Bell says. Nor is it possible for farmers looking to grow organic farms to lease hundreds of acres at a time. Even a few dozen acres is well beyond reach.

“One acre looks pretty enormous when you’re on your knees,” Bell says.

And for the first three years, while farms work to establish organic status and are hand-weeding every row, an organic farmer spends a lot of time buried in

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Policy Advisory Group, the Food and Agriculture Policy Council and other stakeholder groups in the area.

“We’re just really early in the learning stage, trying to figure out what’s going on in the county and what the hiccups are and what the problems are,” she says.

“Right now I’m just trying to talk to people and get a really broad understanding of what they’re doing now and to try and see how it fits into the code or maybe how it doesn’t fit into the code, how the code isn’t addressing what they’re doing.”

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Expert: GMOs to blame for problems in plants, animals

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ne of the experts set to testify at Wednesday’s long-awaited meeting about the county’s policy for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on open space says scientists are seeing new, alarming patterns in plants and animals due to increased use of the herbicide Roundup.

Michael McNeill is an agronomist who owns Ag Advisory Ltd. in Algona, Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in quantitative genetics and plant pathology from Iowa State University in 1969 and 12 August 11, 2011

has been a crop consultant since 1983.

He was among three experts invited by county officials to testify at the Aug. 10 meeting of the Cropland Policy Advisory Group (CPAG).

CPAG, which has been meeting since February, serves as a sounding board for the county’s parks and open space staff as they develop a new cropland policy on matters like what may be grown on county land. The group has only touched briefly on the hot-button GMO issue in its past meetings; the Aug. 10 meeting was devoted entirely

to the subject.

McNeill told Boulder Weekly before the meeting that he and his colleagues in the industry are seeing serious, negative effects produced by the use of glyphosate, which is the primary ingredient in Roundup weed killer.

(Monsanto, the company that makes Roundup, has generated controversy by genetically altering crops to make them resistant to the herbicide.)

McNeill says that in the Midwest and other areas of the country, such as Louisiana and Mississippi, weeds like

water hemp, giant ragweed, lamb’s quarter and velvet weed have become Roundup resistant through natural selection, due to a particular genetic mutation that survived the poison and therefore reproduced successfully and wildly.

The problem is, farmers’ natural reaction has been to simply apply more Roundup to their crops, which is having deleterious impacts, McNeill says.

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the rows of just a couple of acres.

Bell has a 40-acre parcel set aside for organic farming and is still searching for someone to take a parcel that size. He’s been working to develop models to make more small farms possible on acreage typically leased out in large chunks, working with farmers interested in developing cooperatives, like the Gunbarrel Growers Association on Jay Road in Boulder. Bob and Janet Poley, of the Hoot ’n’ Howl Farm and founders of the Gunbarrel Growers Association, have leased 15 acres to launch a you-pick berry farm. Visitors wander through rows of raspberries, gooseberries and an experimental patch of blueberry bushes, filling their buckets.

Hoot ‘n’ Howl occupies just a few of their 15 acres. Bob represents the Growers Association to the county — his name is on the lease with them. He then subleases to other tenants — the Dew Farm and the Frogstar Farm.

To put up a hoop house, a plastic structure that increases the growing season, Bob and Janet had to undergo negotiations with neighbors who didn’t want to see agricultural structures from their houses. They’ve also had to agree to a 500-foot buffer between the residential neighbors and their rows of bushes.

Adjacent to the land Bob and Janet are farming is their personal home, part of another model open space managers are promoting that matches public and private leases to allow homeowners to lease the land next to their homes to start a farming operation there.

Mark Guttridge grew up spending time on what is now Ollin Farms, on North 95th Street in Longmont. It was his grandmother’s hobby garden and a place he did 4-H projects. He moved in five years ago.

“Our little hobby garden behind the house kind of evolved into not only wanting to supply quality food and experience for our kids, but realizing there’s a huge need in the community for accessing quality food and a farm experience,” Guttridge says.

He’s since added four acres of land leased from county open space to the six acres he owns and is about to open another 15 acres.

“It’s safe to say we’ve been able to grow our farm, but as you know, there’s challenges with open space with land use codes and zoning codes,” he says.

To incorporate that experience element and let local kids better understand where food comes from, Guttridge has launched youth farming classes. Kids come to the farm to spend a week learning how to care for the vegetables and the farm animals.

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“It’s just amazing to see how the week goes on, how much they kind of really feel like it’s their farm and start taking responsibility and connecting how everything works on the farm,” he says.

The kids stay mostly on the private land, thought they do cross onto public land, where the sheep pen is. Most of the infrastructure — stands and the shade structure that serves as a classroom — is on private land and has to be, according to the land use code.

“It’s kind of a gray area with open space right now about how much public access can be occurring on that land,” Guttridge says. “My guess is that we really wouldn’t be allowed to have our whole summer class on the open space at this time.”

He does what he can to be a good neighbor and prevent the kind of complaints that could get an operation shut down.

Farms operate on the margins of the rules when they have farm stands or teach classes on public land. One of the tools organic farmers have turned to are farm-to-table dinners, where guests come and have dinner on the farm grounds from produce harvested there, but those violate a list of open space regulations and can’t be held on public land. A farm-to-table dinner violates Boulder County codes for agriculturally leased open space by not being closed to the public, not closing at dusk, and allowing glass containers or alcohol, for example.

But the year he started farm-to-table dinners, the most convenient spot, with open, level space for tables, happened to be public land.

“We kind of knew it was a little under the radar, but that’s how most farms seem to need to operate these days to survive,” he says.

As the dinners have gained popularity, he’s moved above the radar and onto his private land.

“It’s not too much of our profit, but it’s a huge cornerpiece of our marketing,” he says. “When we first did it that first year, it was just amazing how many new customers the farm got. People come out to the farm, meet your family, eat next to the garden. … They feel a connection with you as a grower, and usually the same people show up at the farmers’ markets supporting you.”

Though his farm gets closer to supporting itself and his family every year, Guttridge says, he still relies on income from an engineering job to pay the bills.

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ing a living growing vegetables,” he says.

“To me, the model for a successful farmer in Boulder County is to be somewhere they can diversify, not just growing vegetables but the agri-tourism things — these educational things that really round out the balance.”

Land use codes need to be revised to make it possible for farmers who lease only public land to have these diverse options for markets, preferably without mountains of paperwork.

“It’s a huge immediate need right now. The only thing getting publicity in the open space land is the GMO debate, but to me, that’s a microcosm of the big picture of what can really help local agriculture,” he says. “If you really want to help farmers succeed and turn agriculture in Boulder County back to being sustainable, the land use code needs to really change.”

Roadside stands need to be fully legitimate on open space lands, he says, and farmers need to be allowed to do

dinners and summer camps and have bed and breakfasts. Boulder County could be the next Napa Valley, he says, with agri-tourists hopping from farm to farm, dining between zucchini and broccoli and learning to tend a farm.

“We have numbers of talented growers, but right now the land use code isn’t written to really allow the farms to get those enterprises the way they need to be,” he says. “Most of them are just kind of operating in the gray area, which adds an element of risk. That’s a big part of your income and a big part of your business model.”

That public/private interface is key to raising the next generation of smart eaters, says Cindy Torres, a seasonally hired local food resource specialist hired by the open space department.

“I can’t stress enough how valuable it is to have that civic engagement grounded in the realities of local food,” says Torres.

But she urges some caution with the

idea of growing your own food or zealously pursuing local markets for that food.

“I know there’s a huge push for the local food movement, but it’s so important to have access to diverse markets,” says Torres. “You want diversity in markets just as well as you want diversity in the fields.”

She’s working with farmers to diversify their markets and include programs like farm-to-school programs, and take advantage of the best prices for their produce.

“Agriculture is this balance between, almost like art and science,” Torres says.

“You really have to know what you’re doing.”

One unwashed tomato or poorly rinsed leaf of lettuce could shut the whole movement down if someone gets sick, she says.

To know what they’re doing, the agricultural division is continuously going back to the farmers.

“There’s a lot of knowledge that comes from these guys that have been farming this land,” Bell says. “We’re still learning.”

“One of the things we have heard from those who are farming now is that they’re just looking for more flexibility to do the things they need to do in order to make a living,” Shannon says.

The process is likely still going to come down to use classifications, and farmers can apply to change their classifications in a process that takes six weeks to six months or more, depending on the size of the operation.

A planning commission meeting on Aug. 17 will be held to introduce the agricultural codes, establishing what they cover now before discussions begin on what to change. The study session, to be held at 3:30 p.m. in the commissioners’ hearing room, is open to the public, although public comment will not be taken.

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state are on the decline.

He explains that the overuse of glyphosate means that oxidizing agents are on the rise, creating oxides that plants can’t use, leading to lower yields and higher susceptibility to disease.

McNeill acknowledges that Monsanto could simply find a new chemical that kills the newly resistant weeds, but the weeds will simply find a way around it again.

“It’s mother nature’s plant breeding program,” he says. “It’s very widespread, and it’s a serious problem.”

McNeill says the situation is causing “sudden death syndrome” in soybeans, which means they are dying at increased rates when they go into their reproductive phase. He adds that corn is showing a higher incidence of Goss’s wilt, which has been a problem in Colorado since the early 1970s, and

studies show that glyphosate causes a rise in both diseases.

And the problems are not limited to plants, it’s extending to the animals that eat them, according to McNeill.

He says he and his colleagues are seeing a higher incidence of infertility and early-term abortion in cattle and hogs that are fed on GMO crops. He adds that poultry fed on the suspect crops have been exhibiting reduced fertility rates.

McNeill, who works with universities, the federal government and private companies, says his advice to his farmer clients is to rotate chemicals — or don’t use them at all. While it is more laborintensive, organic farmers usually cut their weeds as an alternative to herbicides. He says he consults for about 160,000 acres of conventional farmland and 5,000 to 6,000 acres of organically farmed land.

“My clients are my farmers, and I want what’s best for them,” he says.

“And my clients are the consumers who consume the farmers products, and I want what’s best for them.”

McNeill compares the Roundup situation to the way science eventually caught up to another poison: Just as DDT was initially hailed as a miracle pesticide and later banned, researchers are beginning to discover serious problems with glyphosate.

“Some issues are starting to arise with technologies that probably needed more research before we started using them,” he says. “It’s a moving target.”

The other two experts invited to the CPAG meeting, Kent Davis of Crop Quest and Phillip Westra of Colorado State University, did not return calls by press time.

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product, but as with anything, if you abuse it, it can have negative effects,” he says.

McNeill explains that glyphosate is a chelating agent, which means it clamps onto molecules that are valuable to a plant, like iron, calcium, manganese and zinc.

“When you spray glyphosate on a plant, it’s like giving it AIDS,” he says.

The farmers’ increased use of Roundup is actually harming their crops, according to McNeill, because it is killing micronutrients in the soil that they need, a development that has been documented in several scientific papers by the nation’s leading experts in the field. For example, he says, harmful fungi and parasites like fusarium, phytopthora and pythium are on the rise as a result of the poison, while beneficial fungi and other organisms that help plants reduce minerals to a usable

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Telling secrets

Attorneys, legislators argue against confidential public votes

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ne of the lawyers on the losing side of last week’s court decision allowing public bodies to vote in secret says his legal team will ask the Colorado Supreme Court to review the ruling, and some state lawmakers are considering legislation that would reverse the decision.

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Aug. 4 that the Fort Morgan City Council did not violate the state’s open meetings law when it took a vote by secret ballot. The court ruled that because the Colorado open meetings law doesn’t specifically exclude such votes, they are permitted. Critics say that constituents can’t properly hold their elected officials accountable if their votes aren’t public.

Steven Zansberg, a partner at Levine, Sullivan, Koch and Schulz in Denver, told Boulder Weekly that his firm’s client, Ronald Henderson, wants to file a petition asking the state Supreme Court to review the case, although the court has the discretion to decline the request.

Zansberg argues that secret votes are not consistent with the intent of the Colorado Sunshine Law. “Our position is that the open meetings law, although it doesn’t expressly prohibit this type of voting procedure, does say it through clear implication,” he says. “It makes clear that meetings at which public business is discussed, and decisions are made, are to be open to the public, and no decision should be made outside of an open meeting. Our position is that means casting a secret ballot, whereby the public does not know who voted which way, is not a public meeting.”

As evidence, he cites a section of the state open meetings law that says “the formation of public policy is public business and may not be conducted in secret.”

“We believe that the formation of

public policy includes voting,” Zansberg says.

He also quotes language in the law that says “no resolution, rule, regulation, ordinance or formal action of a state or local public body shall be valid unless taken or made at a meeting that meets the requirements [set forth in the law].”

“Our view is that what an open meeting means is that the public be allowed to observe the process by which a public body makes decisions, and passing notes that makes secret those decisions is not consistent with that legislative text,” Zansberg says.

Another strong argument that the intent of the law is to disallow secret votes is that while public bodies can engage in secret, executive sessions on specific topics like legal matters, personnel actions and real estate deals, they are required to re-emerge and take votes in public, he says.

Like other state legislators who have since weighed in on the issue, Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, agrees.

“The whole point of saying you have to come out of executive session before you take the vote is so the public knows how its representatives actually voted,” she told Boulder Weekly. “I think [the ruling] is inconsistent with the law.”

Levy says she would likely support legislation making secret votes illegal, “but I’d want to hear from the local governments about why they feel they shouldn’t be.”

She adds that she’s never seen legislators attempt to conceal their vote on any matter.

“We go there to represent the people, and we ought to be proud of how we’re voting and confident that we can explain it to our constituents,” Levy says. “I thought the court decision didn’t make any sense, so I certainly would be willing to look at doing legislation that would reverse the outcome.”

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But somewhere in between attending prayer rallies, abortion protests and watching O’Reilly, they ought to read the entire report. S&P blames the downgrade on inflexible conservatives, those willing to drive the nation into the abyss for the sake of upholding their own special ideals.

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The national budget crisis is largely the result of a budget deficit caused by efforts to bail out Wall Street and stimulate the U.S. economy. The need for the bailout and stimulus is the result of an economic collapse caused by unsafe Wall Street investment schemes that were enabled by good credit ratings issued to companies like Lehman Bros.

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One of the “brides” was 14 at the time she was raped and became pregnant by Jeffs. The other was 12.

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cried when he told her to take off her clothes.

“Just don’t think about the pain,” he told her. “You’re going to heaven.”

And that’s our advice to Jeffs right now.

Just don’t think about the pain, Warren. You’re going to prison, where there may be any number of “spiritual husbands” waiting for you right now.

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Birthers Times are tough. We heard this week that there are even some online scams for birth certificates floating around. Yes, birth certificates. People are getting desperate.

State officials warn that some online services are charging people up to $120 to help them apply for a copy of their birth certificate through the state, when the state itself only charges $17.75, plus $9 for its online application service VitalChek.

State Registrar Ron Hyman (yes, that’s the last name of the guy in charge of the birth certificates, stop snickering) says, “There is just one official Web service for Colorado, and anyone using an online service other than VitalChek is paying far more than they should.”

And no, he doesn’t work for the Department of Labor.

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Yeah, we hear you. Didn’t know that one existed.

Apparently, there are like 38,000 wild horses and burros roaming around 10 Western states, untethered, unsaddled. And this group, like, protects them.

Herds of wild burros? Somehow doesn’t seem as Westernly romantic as a group of galloping stallions.

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P

eople would just start shaking, and the room would go quiet,” a man known as “Cajun” Dave Harbour says of those long-ago Friday nights when Grande Rojo, a gigantic miner, would stride through Nederland’s historic bar, the Pioneer Inn. If you were a cheat, a thief, or a wife-beater, Grande Rojo would hear about it and dispense bare-fisted frontier justice.

“He hit one guy so hard he flipped over twice,” Harbour says That was back in the ’70s, when Nederland had just one cop and Grande “was the original Nederland therapist.”

That was also the era when Caribou Ranch, the legendary recording studio, attracted a staggering list of rockers to the small mountain town and consequently, to the Pioneer Inn, or PI, as locals call it.

“It’s a capsule of music history in Colorado,” says Bunny Spangler, who opened the Pioneer Inn nearly 40 years ago.

Talk to some of the guys who lived in Nederland at the height of James Guercio’s nearby Caribou Ranch recording studio, and it sounds like the Wild West never really died, it just met the hedonism of the music scene from the 1970s to mid-’80s. Jimmy Buffett passed out on the bar. Dan Fogelberg once worked behind it and played a little show. Womens’ underwear hung off the antlers of the stuffed deer, and drugs piled up on the pool table.

“Bunny was an extraordinary woman to have made it through all that,” says Cindy Shaw, who, with her husband, Dave Lyons, recently bought the bar. “But that’s not the way it is here anymore.”

The soul of the Pioneer Inn is still the food and the close sense of community, she says, adding, “It’s like the ‘Cheers’ of Nederland.” And, as PI celebrates its 40th anniversary on Aug. 20, it’s especially about the music.

“We don’t have all those famous musicians anymore, but there are, per capita, more artistic, talented people here than anywhere else,” she says.

‘Special character’

“When I first moved to Ned in February of ’71, the population was less than 500 people: miners and cowboys,” Spangler says.

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Ned’s musical legacy

Locals recall Pioneer Inn’s wild days as it turns 40

by Tate Zandstra cized, were true in the sense that the spirit was one of tough-minded individualism, she says.

“It was old Colorado. ... A lot of those people are long gone, in one way and the other, but Nederland has maintained as a very unique mountain town,” she says. “The townspeople want to keep our special character.”

Musician and producer Guercio hit town just a couple years prior to Spangler, buying up the 4,000-acre property called Caribou Ranch and opening the eponymous recording studio in an old barn. No one, perhaps not even Guercio, knew how successful the studio would become, or how integral the Pioneer Inn would be to its success.

“It was great, what can I say?” John Carsello, Guercio’s long-time studio manager, says of the early days at the Pioneer. “Some of the best music in the world came out of Caribou, but when these stars would go into the Pioneer, just to hang out between sessions, their egos were just gone, and these were people that played these giant stadiums.

They would just mix with the local people. They were almost locals.”

The ranch was off limits to locals, and that was where the Pioneer came in — the stars would come to the locals instead of vice versa. But according to Carsello, some locals were as good, or sometimes better, than the stars.

“Man, some of these guys could

hang with anyone in the world,” Carsello says. “Michael Roach would blow your mind. He played the blues better than Clapton. I’d take the stars in there to see him play, and they were just mesmerized. He was one of the greatest blues guitar players I’ve ever seen.”

Carsello says that musicians moved from all over the country to be a part of the Nederland scene.

“Musicians would move to Ned because they just wanted to be in a scene like that,” he says. “It was totally unique. I mean, where else can you walk into a place in the middle of nowhere and there’s Billy Joel sitting at the bar?”

“It was the mainstay of Nederland, the one consistent, reliable place,” Spangler says of those early days, when the musicians whom Guercio had at the Ranch needed a place to hang out between recording sessions.

But the locals weren’t too keen on “longhairs.”

“The culture was very much miners and cowboys, and they didn’t particularly like the influx,” she says.

They eventually got used to the newcomers, though. As Harbour tells it, “They didn’t like the hippies, but they couldn’t chase them away.”

A regular customer for the past four decades, he hops behind the bar and pours himself a drink as he tells stories of the good old crazy days when Guercio’s recording operation was at its peak, and all the excesses of the music scene of those heady times visited Nederland and the Pioneer Inn. Michael Jackson once rode up to the bar on a horse, looking terrified.

Another night everyone but Stevie Wonder was too drunk to drive.

“Oh, we put him behind the wheel, then I went and called a cab,” Harbour says. “But he made it home!”

The stories roll on. There was the time that, in a dispute over a bar tab, or because he wasn’t allowed to chisel free the deer lodged in the stonework wall, one miner threw dynamite on the roof, but the explosion didn’t bring the place down, and everyone kept partying.

Another night, there was a harmless drive-by shooting.

“Everyone hit the floor,” he says, adding that the shooter pulled over, reloaded his pistol and drove by, shooting, again. “Even the bartender hit the floor that time, and he wasn’t afraid of nothin’.”

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The studio attracted big-name musicians to the small town. Figures like Elton John (whose first album recorded at Caribou was named Caribou), John Lennon, Billy Joel, Waylon Jennings, Michael Jackson, U2, Rod Stewart and a list of other iconic musicians recorded at Caribou Ranch and hung out and played at the PI. “The Pioneer, without question, started the whole music scene in 1972,” Spangler says. “And year after year it was built on and of course was a main source of musicians. Incredible talent started out from the Caribou Ranch, and that built on itself and attracted more and more musicians.”

It couldn’t last forever, though. Like the frontier mining town it was named for, Caribou Ranch Records was gutted by fire in 1985. Guercio had been in the music and motion picture industries most of his life, and after the fire he never rebuilt the studio and instead began either developing, selling off, or converting his vast ranch to conservation easement. He moved into other business dealings — cattle ranching and mining — and he even bought and sold an entire television network, Country Music Television.

“Sometimes he talks about bringing it back,” Spangler says, “but things have changed. We’ve gotten old.”

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Caribou roots A few miles up a dirt road outside Nederland lie its roots: the remains of the 1860s silver boomtown of Caribou.

There are a couple of stone structures there, some collapsed wooden houses, and here and there closed-off mine shafts. It’s so sparse the place barely qualifies as a ghost town, but its richest mine made Nederland.

There weren’t any Tombstone-like shootouts, nor the debauchery of Dodge City or Deadwood, at least not as recorded by historians, but by the early 1870s, Caribou had some 3,000 residents — more than Nederland has today. But at 10,000 feet, the climate was harsh, and the small town of “Middle Boulder,” a couple thousand feet lower, with smelters, railroad connections and a post office, became a favored place to conduct business.

Miners, of course, came first, followed by the attendant species of frontier characters: general store owners, iron workers, preachers, newspapermen, saloon-keepers and, presumably, even a few single ladies.

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“Cajun” Dave Harbour and Cindy Lyons

Sometime between 1871 and 1873, the Caribou Mine, nearly played out, was sold to the Nederland Mining Company for about $3 million. By 1877, when William Henry Jackson snapped a tintype, the only known photo of the town, Caribou was an outpost on the decline. The photo shows several miner’s cabins, a few saloons, a church and heaps of tailings scratched out on a cold, treeless and windblown bit of high country.

The mine was sold to Colorado entrepreneurs, but Caribou’s fate was already sealed, and in 1879, much of the town burned down. Some hardy miners hung on, but Caribou’s popula-

tion remained fewer than 50 until the 1920s, the last time anyone cared to count. Gradually everyone left, and Caribou became a ghost town.

Legacy lives on The demise of Caribou Ranch didn’t spell the end for Pioneer Inn’s musical legacy.

“If you look at the long list of people who have played here from the end of the recording studio ’til today, you’d be very surprised,” Spangler says of the post-1985 PI. “I have calendars with, for instance, Big Head Todd, from the days when no one knew of them outside of this very local market, and it

goes on and on, so it’s always been ‘the place.’”

Nearly four decades was enough, however, and a couple years ago Spangler began looking for someone to take over for her. But not just anyone — Spangler was selling her life’s work.

“Wonderful Cindy [Shaw] and Dave [Lyons] came along, and they really love it, and they are very experienced in the restaurant and music industry, and I couldn’t have asked for better new owners.”

“When I first came in here, of course, I couldn’t conceive of it,” Shaw says of being the owner of the same bar, restaurant and music venue where she met her husband, Lyons, some 16 years ago. “I just walked in one A patch cutnight and on Gold...

Lake there he was, playing.

I thought he Road was very talented and cute, and evidently, he liked me, too.”

Shaw, who moved to Colorado 20 years ago from Wichita, says her first job in Colorado was at the Stage Stop, another old bar, checking guns at the door. It was her husband’s dream to own a venue from which he could advance his own music, as well as the bands he works with at his recording studio, School House Records.

Lyons, who has played the PI for the past 25 years, finally decided to buy the place.

“If I’m going to keep playing gigs here, I might as well own the place,” he says.

He and Shaw, however, bought a business that had been in steady decline for the past 10 years.

“We need to legitimize the Pioneer for the kids,” he says. “Thursday, hiphop night, is our biggest night. It’s packed, and it’s not gangster rap. It’s great music. They sing about social issues and local, everyday life.”

He says that people come up from Boulder for the “mountain rappers.”

“Twelve weeks ago when we took over, there was music one night a week.

The place needed help,” Lyons says.

“We’ve started to turn it around. Now we have live music every night.

Without music, no one would come here. There’s no reason for the Pioneer to exist without great music.”

John Carsello agrees.

“Leftover Salmon and some other great bands came after the studio burned, but even today the music scene is great. It’s carrying on in Ned, and it’s all because of the Pioneer Inn.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com See www.boulderweekly.com for a slideshow of photos from the era.

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by Theo Romeo been trying to find green products that the Asian Festival. are only moderately more expensive or The organizers decided that everycost-competitive,” she says. thing needed to be compostable. The You’d be surprised what she can dig planners met with Eco-Cycle, formed a up. partnership, and have seen results.

“I found a green banner for events,” “Last year, we diverted 90 percent of she says. “It biodegrades in five years.” the trash, about 1,500 pounds of materiAnd for an upcoming event in Los al,” Pigao Pearson said.

Angeles Powell has been doing planThe organization went out of its way, ning and public relations for, she figspent valuable time and money, and ured that one way achieved a On the Bill she could make a zero-waste difference was by event three Boulder Asian Festival 11 a.m-5 p.m., Aug. 13-14 not going. years running.

Pearl Street Mall, In Front of the “I’m suggesting But beyond a Boulder County Courthouse Greenovation Through Partnership that they don’t fly quick mention ribbon cutting 12 p.m.–1:30 p.m. me out,” she said. on the group’s Monday, Aug. 15 South Boulder Recreation Center “That will save a website, the 1360 Gillespie Dr., Boulder lot of emissions festival doesn’t and money.” advertise it.

Powell isn’t alone in green event “We want to do it. It’s as simple as planning. Many organizations try to that,” she said. “Sure, we run on a tighter make parties, festivals and ribbon cutbudget, but it’s the right thing to do.” tings more sustainable. But many of According to Powell, aggressively them don’t advertise it. communicating how green an event is “The companies that truly believe in not all that common, or classy. walking the talk are going to do it even if “You’d have to put a banner up or they don’t get kudos for it,” she says. hand out a flyer about how we greened “The event planners know we spent an event,” said Powell. “You see this at more on the banner, but the attendees conferences sometimes, but not so much don’t. Mostly, you don’t tell attendees at events.” how you greened the event.”

It’s in a company’s best interest to be Take, for example, the upcoming communicative about how sustainable an Boulder Asian Festival, a free two-day event is, she said, but you don’t want to event on the Pearl Street Mall starting seem like you’re exploiting the fact that a on Saturday, Aug. 13. Back in 2008, the decision was made with the environment festival decided to become zero waste. in mind.

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In 2009, after working with the City of Boulder Climate Action Plan, Powell started Project People, which provides sustainable marketing and event planning for the renewable industry.

After the basic objectives for an event are clear, Powell starts looking at how everything can be as sustainable as possible: paperless invites, caterers that source locally and even transportation.

For instance, on Aug. 15, Powell is promoting a ribbon-cutting at the South Boulder Recreation Center, celebrating the installation of 711 kilowatts’ worth of solar thermal equipment and two electric vehicle charging stations. The event begins at the University of Colorado Boulder’s law school, then relocates to the recreation center, which will result in a convoy of vehicles driving across town.

“We’ve recommended that people take the bus or carpool,” she says. “It’s small, but it makes a difference.”

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

Stop Making Sense shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday, Aug. 15.

Thursday, Aug. 11

Danny Schafer — One of Boulder’s most prolific songwriters, Schafer is as local as the Flatirons. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Friday, Aug. 12

Boulder Asian Festival — Be bombarded by wondrous elements of another culture. Pearl Street Mall, 14th and Pearl, Boulder, 303-499-0108.

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The Legendary 4-Nikators — Party like it’s the ’50s ’60s or ’70s. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

f the goal of music truly is to bring people together, then eTown may be the ideal music program. A combination of live performances and artist interviews (as well as a few other goodies thrown in along the way), eTown has been breaking down walls between artists and audiences for 20 years now. Through eTown, we learned that Neko Case has a killer sense of humor, that Charlie Louvin “isn’t a tree-hugger” and that Steve Earle loves his First Amendment (OK, so we probably already knew that one). In a world where everything needs to fit into a pre-determined format, eTown allows artists to talk openly about their music, their childhoods, their politics or anything else that they feel like sharing, and then actually play their music.

This isn’t AM or FM radio — it’s eTown. And while AM and FM radio are losing ground to new media,

eTown is quietly humming along, connecting a million listeners to their favorite artists every week.

“I think the interviews really change the audience’s experience with the music,” says Nick Forster, who founded the show back in 1991 with

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There are two eTown shows this week, both at the Boulder Theater. The Civil Wars and Sarah Jarosz will play on Friday, Aug. 12. The show is sold out.

The Tedeschi Trucks Band and Joseph Arthur play on Sunday, Aug. 14. Tickets are $27. For more details, visit www. bouldertheater.com. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

his wife and fellow host, Helen Forster.

“The artists reveal themselves, and they humanize themselves a little bit, and it makes the connection deeper. When the listener hears that next song, they get a sense of context. What’s the perspective of that songwriter, and what was their life experience that made that

song happen? It’s not typical.

Everything else is designed to put the artist out of reach.”

In a way, eTown has become even more important with the advent of new media — in addition to humanizing genre heroes, it reminds listeners of the vast scope of music that may exist outside of their own bandwith. It’s much easier now to become lost in one genre; music blogs, Pandora and other digital radio stations all specialize in helping fans find music that sounds similar to stuff they already listen to. For the casual music listener, trekking out into the unknown can be overwhelming. But weekly eTown broadcasts offer two different artists, usually varied in sound and almost always a little under the radar. It’s all in an attempt to build a community

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Sunday, Aug. 14

La Festa Italiano — Spicy. 11 a.m. Louisville Society of Italian Americans at Louisville’s Memory Square Park, Spruce St. and Jefferson Ave., Louisville, info@louisvilleitalianclub.org.

Monday, Aug. 15

Film on the Rocks: Stop Making Sense — Quite possibly the best concert film ever made. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Tuesday, Aug. 16

Megan Burtt and The Cure For Love — Cures what ails ya’. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Wednesday, Aug. 17

Salsa in Boulder — Salsa dancing makes you forget the ills of the world and cut loose. Like alcohol but without the hangover. 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

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somewhere between the limitless expanse of the digital world and the shrinking playlists of the analog one.

“Music has the opportunity to open people up in ways that not all art forms can. It’s not uncommon for people to feel, on a Sunday evening as a festival is wrapping up, to feel a sense of wistfulness, a sense of loss,” Nick says, explaining the unanimity of the festival experience that he hopes to recreate, on a smaller scale, week to week. “I’ve been part of something, and I’m about to lose it. When I go home, I’m not going to have it anymore. That’s a big part of the eTown DNA.” In the next year, eTown will take another huge step toward community building with the opening of the eTown Hall. The multipurpose building, converted from an old church in downtown Boulder, will ensure that eTown stays in the city for years to come. The hope is that it will also become a cultural hub, with an intimate stage for eTown performances, a recording studio, a smaller basement venue for classes and local performances, and a small coffee shop.

The Forsters are hoping the venue will house workshops, lectures, children’s theater, open mic nights and anything else that could contribute to the cultural center of Boulder. It’s been a massive undertaking, conceived 19 years ago and

just now inching towards completion, but when finished, eTown Hall should stand as a reminder that while the eTown brand is centered on music, its focus is on the community that gathers around the music.

“We see it as a real necessity to expand eTown’s reach as sort of a beacon of information, hope and inspiration,” Helen says. “We intend to have a lecture series with various experts in sustainability and social issues. Boulder is already known as a hub of information in that way, and I can see eTown Hall becoming a unifying factor for that.”

From its inception, eTown has always mixed environmental and social issues with music. Part of that is because the show gives artists a platform to discuss whatever comes to their minds.

Whether it’s Louvin expressing his reservations about environmentalists or Earle telling censors where they can shove it, eTown’s guests don’t pull any punches. But the show also mixes political issues in via their weekly E-Chievement award, which highlights ordinary people and organizations around the country who are doing good in the world.

Helen says eTown has a kind of “ripple effect.”

“We kind of toss out the little pebble in the lake, and from that it goes to our

listeners, and they turn to and help those organizations that are feeding the hungry and housing the homeless and cleaning up the rivers and working with atrisk kids,” she says.

It goes back to building community.

Nick talks about the E-Chievement Award as a great equalizer. Through the interviews with musicians, legends are humanized, and through the E-Chievement Award, ordinary people are spotlighted. The end result is a show that highlights that everybody is doing their part to make the world a better place — not in some New Age, everybody-wins way, but rather in a way that emphasizes the individual’s place within a community.

It all culminates in the most fitting way possible: a weekly jam between the two guests, sharing the stage and joining together to play a song they had 30 minutes to arrange and rehearse. Perhaps the best way to demystify heroes is to take them out of their comfort zone and allow them to let themselves make mistakes. Sometimes it all comes together perfectly — Nick remembers a really killer collaboration between Willie Nelson and Angelique Kidjo that made for a once-in-a-lifetime moment — sometimes it doesn’t, but it always makes for compelling radio, even if it is a compelling mess.

“Generally speaking, there is a certain amount of terror that goes into every one of those performances, because everyone is out of their comfort zone,” Nick says.

“But I think radio is one of those mediums … I find it to be very personal. It’s engaging because you don’t see the whole picture. You’re not watching it on television. You get sucked into the imaginary reality of being there, and my experience of listening to radio is that energy becomes much more palpable. You can kind of tell when something is exciting or when something is scary or when something is not working or when something is really happening, and I think the little bit of terror that is underlying most of the finales gives it a little extra boost of energy that I think is palpable on the radio.”

Out of necessity, eTown is moving forward. The show is moving to a new place where it will be possible to record artists, edit in-house, produce videos and take the show into the brave new future.

But it’s nice to know that their vision is still tied so closely to the past, a past where families gathered around radio sets and watched the radio, each member imagining it a little bit differently.

It’s nice to know there is still a place that recognizes that even though no two people see it the exact same way, we all share the same experience.

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Kalyn Heffernan of Wheelchair Sports Camp rolls with confidence

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hold open the door at Illegal Pete’s for Kalyn Heffernan as she rolls her electric wheelchair inside. At least a dozen people are eating in small groups, and everyone almost instinctively takes a turn to give Heffernan the same stare. It’s a quick glance that retreats into a complete lack of eye contact, a one-two combo of interest and avoidance.

Under the loud music and bar chatter, the employees can barely hear her order steak tacos. They lean over the counter and ask three times for her choice of salsa. Heffernan’s small voice strains to project from where she sits far below the counter.

Then the eyes of the cashier behind the register pop wide open, and her voice explodes.

“Oh my god! You’re from Wheelchair Sports Camp!” she screams. The flow of the burrito line grinds to a halt. “I haven’t had the chance to see you live … but I did buy your CD at Independent [Records and Video in Denver]!”

“Really?” Heffernan pauses. “I think only two people bought it — you must be one of them!”

Heffernan gives the cashier a guest list spot at her next show; the burrito is on the house.

The 3-foot-6-inch Heffernan looks up at me. “You want a margarita? Dinner was free tonight!”

Such is the dichotomy of interactions between Heffernan and the rest of the world. To most, she looks like she’s struggling against daily life; to others, she is a hero who is completely kicking life’s ass.

There’s a lot about her that goes beyond appearances, way more to the 24-year-old MC beyond the tidbits that she’s female, homosexual, disabled and a

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Low profile, high standards

randi Carlile is one of those rare musicians who gets it. She’s not up on stage every night trying to be a rock star, the tabloids aren’t all that interested in her, and she’s not constantly making a ruckus or ticking people off with her grandstanding or childish behavior. For Carlile, being a musician isn’t about trying to be cool or popular, and making records isn’t an easy way for her to achieve massive fame and fortune without putting significant effort into her craft. For her, music goes much deeper than any of those things.

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rising hip-hop talent. We post up at a table and spend our first 20 minutes debating the merits of dubstep, then move on to gangbanging, graffiti, classical guitar, her thoughts on Timmy from South Park, and all the times she’s been kicked out of sports camp for smoking weed and causing trouble.

Growing up right outside of Los Angeles, Heffernan was born with with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Her mom first realized something was wrong when Kalyn accidentally broke her arm while eating breakfast, a small movement that caused 25 fractures.

She is able to walk very small distances, and although her walking range would increase with regular practice, Heffernan admits she’s accustomed to getting everywhere without any effort.

“I’m pretty lazy,” she concedes. “I could use more exercise. But so could everyone.”

Every year, she’s still invited back to the wheel-

chair sports camp, and she decided to name her hip-hop group after it without a hint of irony. Not only has the Denver group been featured in SPIN magazine, Wheelchair Sports Camp made a splash at South By Southwest, landing spots on the lists for top 25 hip-hop acts to catch and almost won the title for Most Offensive Band Name.

However — no pun intended — that’s how she rolls. She wants spinners on her wheelchair. Her lyrics are razor-sharp and take ownership of reality, always filled with a sense of humor and observance. Sage Francis wore a WSC shirt during his SXSW performance, and he remarked, in reference to the group getting busted in Texas with marijuana and graffiti paraphernalia, “I hope they don’t get into more trouble.”

Sometimes, disadvantages can be someone’s greatest asset. On top of an indestructible sense of lightness, Heffernan has no illusions about the advantageous role her disability has played in her career.

Heffernan says she now embraces her disability, a disadvantage she turned to her favor. She went backstage for the first time at Summer Jam as a preteen, somehow getting a hook-up from Ludacris. Since then, she has met her choice of rap stars, spitting a rhyme for Kanye, pining over Eminem and T-Boz, who is in one of her most admired groups, TLC. “I was a born scam artist,” Heffernan admits. “They didn’t really question me because I was in a wheelchair.”

I prep to ask her an uncomfortable question, and she urges me to spit it out — is she worried that

release, Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony. And this wasn’t even the first time they had undertaken such an endeavor.

“I play with other symphonies all the time because I love doing symphony shows,” she enthuses. “It’s the most intense form that our music has ever been presented in, and to me it’s kind of a realization of what the songs should sound like anyway. When I’m writing songs, I hear strings and orchestration, whether they’re really there

Brandi Carlile built her reputation the hard way

by Brian Palmer “It’s so woven into the fabric of who I am,” Carlile explains. “It’s happening all the time in my head. It was never a decision I made, to pursue music, but it would have been a decision not to pursue it. It’s one of the things that I define myself by.”

Live shows are a big deal to Carlile and her band, and this fact becomes apparent when they do shows with symphonies, as they did on her most recent

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or not.”

And she doesn’t fool around once she gets on the stage to practice with the symphony for the first time, or once she finally gets on stage for the actual performance.

“Oh yeah, it’s very, very important to me,” she says, practically laughing in all her seriousness. “I get dressed up. I don’t just walk out there in my flannel shirt. I have a lot of respect for the process.”

Playing with 30 or 40 accomplished musicians poses its own set of potential logistical problems, but for Carlile the opportunity is usually far too rich for her to pass up.

“These musicians, they’ve got your songs figured out more intrinsically and in more detail than you ever could. I’ll play a minor chord instead of a major, or a major instead of a minor, and have a violinist stop me and let me know, ‘That’s not the right chord,’” Carlile says with a laugh. “Or they’ll say the tempo isn’t acceptable. And I think that’s really cool, you know?”

Live shows with a symphony have the potential to be enormous events, as Carlile knows. Whether it’s the sheer number of extra musicians who all have to stay on track, or having a heavy emotional response to the realization that the instruments she has heard throughout her life are now accompanying her John — and it’s brought the same live on stage, Carlile always takes each weight and gravity and beauty to their show seriously. music. So it’s pro“You need to be found for me to On the Bill prepared for what’s hear it as accompaBrandi Carlile opens for the John Butler Trio at the Fox going to happen that niment because it’s Theatre on Thursday, Aug. night. You’re standing what I hear in my 11. NeedToBreathe also there playing a song, heart of hearts when plays. Doors at 7:30 p.m.

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to put on the album (“We had a lot of discussion about what this album was.

Is it an album or a show? Should we put mostly original songs on there?”) and becomes almost solemn when saying how important it was making up the charts for each song. But she’s not so serious that she can’t laugh at herself.

“I never thought about the fact that this was being recorded the whole time.

It’s amazing the things you forget when you’re standing in front of 3,000 people,” she says. “It’s amazing, it just slips your mind! It’s like all of a sudden all that matters is that you don’t fall down.”

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patronization is what attracted the spotlight more than talent or hard work?

“We’ve only been on one tour, and on that tour we went to three out-ofstate cities,” she says, like the answer is obvious. “Do you think a group like that deserves to be in SPIN?” She apologizes before pointing out it’s the media that makes the biggest deal around her disability. Heffernan doesn’t know if she’d still be in SPIN with bad raps.

“That might be true, but that’s not enough for me,” she says. “I’m OK with being the best female MC, or the best lesbian MC or the best disabled MC, but I know personally, I can hang as the best MC. Period.”

She’s breaking the mold with an exciting band that includes live drums and saxophones as well as DMC regional finalist DJ B*Money. She shows her sense of humor in the lively, jazzy beat of “Party Song” with rhymes like, “I’m with Stephen and we’re hawking out here / We’re in the middle of the break circle rocking our chairs.” But most importantly, she’s got the attitude and confidence that are prerequisites for effective MCs. “If you’re an MC, what are you gonna rap about other than yourself?” she asks.

Since Heffernan couldn’t fight with her body, she fought twice as hard with her words.

“I wasn’t able to beat people up, but I could beat people up with my mouth,” she says. “My mom had quite a pottymouth, so that was how I grew up. I was probably the first 6-year-old to say ‘fuck’ at my preschool.”

“I loved rapping ‘motherfucker.’ I loved saying that, like ‘Fuck you cops!’”

Heffernan says, lifting her middle finger and cracking a smile. “Had I not been born into my disability, I’d probably be a lot more worse off, like hanging out in the wrong groups and being on the wrong path. Hip-hop was my way to still feel like a badass and still feel part of it.”

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have never liked filet mignon. I don’t have much feeling for Armani or Chloe. And I certainly can’t stand Cy Twombly or that dude who covers castles and rivers and whatnot with white sheets.

I believe the only way to drink coffee is black.

Crocs should be banished from the planet. And Fiona Apple should put out a record more than once every 10 years.

I could (if I had the time, energy and column space) go through my entire history of experiences to determine why I feel the way I do about these particular things.

But we each have our own histories and encounters that have, over time, developed our tastes for certain things over others. (That is why some people are perfectly content in Crocs while others cringe at the sight.)

Both the media and our education system do a good job of influencing our opinions. As the saying goes, those in power control the knowledge — this is also true for art.

But when it comes to art, why should a few people get to decide what the majority of people should like?

Or even see? What (or who) gives them the authority over taste?

The Boulder International Fringe Festival is about giving up the authority and instead gives independent artists a chance to take risks and get noticed.

This year, from Aug. 17 to Aug. 28, there will be more than 350 un-juried events at 15 venues throughout Boulder and Denver. The first 25 percent of the artists are automatically approved by early-bird registration; the other shows/artists are selected by a lottery — no one auditions, no one specifically decides what goes on.

There is a wide range of acts including music, dance, theater, films, workshops and parties. The Fringe brings artists and visitors from as far away as Ireland

by Krystal Baugher Everything is centered around the notion. Spinoff programs start. Schools get involved. The art scene propagates itself.”

In other words, it becomes the big deal.

And it should be the big deal. Fringe offers more to Boulder than your regular art space with kitschy paintings of mountains; artists strive toward connection with audiences on a deeper level.

“As a secular culture, art is all we have; there is no dictated story that binds us together. What we have is Hollywood, theater, performance art, YouTube, flash mobs, the Fringe,” Ortolano says.

Some of the promising upcoming Fringe shows include Kelsie Huff ’s Huffs — last year Huff ’s Bruiser sold out nearly every night, mostly due to its hilarity and Huff ’s ability to be both shocking and relatable at the same time. This year her show is bound to be a hit again.

Same with the woman who brought us Woe to the Conquered, Claire Patton. She is back with Smite Smote Smitten, a techni-color comedy about the righteous and the wicked.

Alison Whittaker goes behind the scenes of our current health care system in Vital Signs, a show about a registered nurse at a major urban hospital. According to the program description, it’s going to be gross, shocking, absurd and heartwarming — imperative descriptive traits for a strong and likeable theater performance.

What we see at Fringe are the stories of human spirit — both triumphs and failures, hardships and happiness that unite us. As audience and artist we are taking part in something vital to our humanity — creation. This creativity helps to reveal our connections to each other, to this planet, irrespective of our individual tastes (even those unfortunate souls walking around in rubber clogs).

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Kelsie Huff stars in Huffs at the Boulder International Fringe Festival.

and East Prussia and showcases plenty of local talent.

“Art is the framework of society,” says David Ortolano, the festival’s executive producer. “Art, ideally, is a sampling of how we live.”

The first Fringe Festival started right after World War II in Scotland. Artists who were not officially invited to perform in the Edinburgh International Festival came anyway. They performed on stairways, in alleys, on rooftops, in cabs and buses — essentially they crashed the party. A journalist at the time said, “I’m spending more time at the festival fringe than I am at the festival itself.” The name was coined and a movement started. Since 1946, the festival has gotten bigger and spread around the globe.

This year marks the seventh year Boulder has hosted a fringe festival.

“We’ve always had a good turnout, but people here haven’t quite gotten what Fringe is about,” Ortolano says. “These festivals usually take over the city they’re in. People immerse themselves in art for 12 days.

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Thursday, August 11

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

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

Aural Elixir, Saint Anyway. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Bluegrass Pick — Hosted by Martin Gilmore.

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

Bonnie and Taylor Simms. 8:30 p.m. Lyons Fork, 450 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-5014.

Chris Lee and Colleen O’Brien. 6:30 p.m.

Treppeda’s, 300 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-1606.

Greyhounds — Featuring JJ Grey, Mofro, Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

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

Duke Robillard. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

John Butler Trio, Brandi Carlile, Need to Breathe. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Lissi and Bobby Long. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Outdoor Stage, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.

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

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

Open Stage — With K.C. Groves. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m.

First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland,

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Two singer-songwriters on the rise. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Outdoor Stage, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

303-258-0782.

Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The Yawpers Showcase. 6 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

You Take the Stage — Karaoke. 8 p.m.

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

events Adult Dance Free Week — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The School of BNC, 3001 Industrial Ln. #12, Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

11 a.m.–11 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Contact Improvisation. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Creativity for Peace — Young Israeli and Palestinian women leaders speaking about their work for peace. 7 p.m. Congregation Bonai Shalom, 1527 Cherryvale Rd., Boulder, 303-442-6605.

Disco Bowling. 9 p.m. The Connection at University of Colorado Boulder, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6338.

Gallery Open House with the Artists. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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. 7:30-9 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamencoboulder.com.

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Boulder/Denver Area A Haiku Moment. Canyon Gallery at Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28.

Abstract Delight — Selections from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921320. Through Aug. 18.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art — Gustavo Artigas’s Relay (Endless): A Race for Diversity, Laleh Mehran & Chris Coleman’s W3fi, Seth Wulsin’s Wishing Well,

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Through Sept. 11.

The Dairy Center for the Arts — Amy Guion Clay’s The Far Shores of Being, John Fleming’s Sign Language, Gayle Gerson’s Forest for the Trees, Annette Coleman’s DreamScapes. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through Aug. 19.

Denver Art Museum — Joe Zucker’s Watching Me Watching You, various artists in Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

NCAR Community Art Program — Photographs by Dan Baumbach, paintings by Lael Har. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Sept. 30.

Sergey Cherep — SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Virginia Wood, Sophie Brown, MaryLynne Schumacher, Lynne Jacobs.

Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Rd., Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

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Lafayette Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m.

Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-499-2494.

Liquid Flow Yoga — With Simon Park. 5:30 p.m. Tadasana Mountain Yoga, 20 Lakeview Dr., Nederland, 303-258-9642.

PechaKucha Night. 8 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Salsa Social. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

Through Sept. 24.

Faithful. The Edge Theatre Company, 9797 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, 303-2320363. Through Aug. 28.

The Little Prince, Romeo & Juliet — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 14.

Scriprov. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th

Friday, August 12

music

THE BE GOOD TANYAS Thu 08.18

@ L2 Arts & Culture Center $24 advance

IRIS DEMENT w/Stephanie Bettman & Luke Halpin Sat 08.20

$30 advance

TITO MALAGA Fri 08.26

$14 advance

MARY FLOWER Fri 08.27

$18 advance

REED FOEHL & HAUNTED WINDCHIMES Sat 09.10

$15 advance

CROOKED STILL & THE BEE EATERS Thu 09.15

@ L2 Arts & Culture Center

$20 advance

TUCK & PATTI Sun 09.18 @ 7pm

$26 advance

THEWOOD BROTHERS

w/Clay Cook Fri 09.23

@ L2 Arts & Culture Center

$20 advance

COLIN HAY Sat 09.24

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Aakash Mittal Trio. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Bonnie and The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Bossa Nova Trio. 6 p.m., Niwot Market, 7890 Niwot Rd., Longmont, 303-652-0919.

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

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

Danny Shafer. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-7869270. eTown — With The Civil Wars and Sarah Jarosz. 5 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Fitz and the Tantrums, Jeff Bridges and Trombone Shorty, Orleans Avenue. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.

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

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

Hot Club of Cowtown. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill,

71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Jonny Lang, JJ Grey and Mofro. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Joseph Arthur, Scars on 45. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Outdoor Stage, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

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

Steven Quiry and Lea Holz. 7:30 p.m.

Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303443-3934.

Stray Grass. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home

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

Wayne Lee and Maggie Snyder's Louisville: At Home in a Small Town.

7 p.m., Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849.

Saturday, August 13 A Night of Music and Poetry ­— With Bradley Hathaway. 6:30 p.m. City on the Hill Church, 7483 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-883-5279.

Monday, August 15 “So You’re a Poet” ­— Open mic

poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

“How to Keep Your Book Alive” — With Christopher Boucher, author of How to Keep Your Volkswagon Alive. 6 p.m. Boulder Writers’ Workshop at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, www.meetup.com/ boulderwriters.

Poetry Reading — With Jeffrey Dolven. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Tuesday, August 16 Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Ave., Denver, 303-321-5925. Through Aug. 13.

The Shape of Things. Silhouette Theatre Company at The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. 1st Pl., Denver, 303-999-9143.

Through Aug. 13.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. CenterStage Theatre Company at the Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720-320-6692. Through Aug. 14.

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

Ten Pound Elephant. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

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

Travis Grode Band, Sharla Jackson Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Adult Dance Free Week — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The School of BNC, 3001 Industrial Ln. #12, Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

11 a.m.-11 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.

Boulder Playback Theatre. 7:30 p.m., Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433133.

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

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

Dancin’ Divas. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-931-5654.

Intuitive Motion. 8 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

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.

Saturday, August 13

music 21st Century Energy Superheroes — Jeff Kagan CD release concert. 4 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

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Boppin’ at the Vineyard. 6 p.m., Balistreri Vineyards, 1946 E. 66th Ave., Denver, 303-2875156.

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

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

Dave Tampkin. 10:30 p.m. The Brick House, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Dechen Hawk & Kara Hesse — 8 p.m.

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

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

Holden Young Trio. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Idlewhile. 5 p.m. Lefthand Brewing, 1256 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Janine Gastineau — With Bill Kopper. 7 p.m.

Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The John Butler Trio — With Trevor Hall and Gary Clark Jr. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

The Legendary 4-Nikators. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Mj bka Michael Jones. 10 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

Notes & Oats — with Bug. 10:30 a.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Pretty Lights. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE — With Chase N The Dream. 6:30 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Wheelchair Sports Camp — With Wandering Monks. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4435108.

Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696..

African Dance. 4 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020 21st St., 303-586-1763.

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

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

Beginning Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

B Strong Cycling Event — With Chris Daniels and the Kings, Jeff Brinkman and the Wendy Woo Band. Celestial Seasonings, 4600 Sleepytime Dr., Boulder, www.bstrongride.com Bonjour Boulder — A Paris Street Market.

9 a.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-877-9457 Boulder Asian Festival. Pearl Street Mall, 14th and Pearl, Boulder, 303-499-0108.

Bradley Hathway — A night of music and poetry. 6:30 p.m. City On The Hill Church, 7483 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-883-5279.

Build-A-Brickbuster Pixelfest. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, www.buildabrickbuster.com Camp Culinary — Free cooking lessons. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Boulder Farmer’s Market, 13th Street between Arapahoe and Canyon, 303449-4212.

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

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

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Denver Creative Movement Rebirth Show — With Lucida Tela, The Daggermouth Spectacular, Free Electric Band, and ALYY. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

La Festa Italiano. 11 a.m. Louisville Society of Italian Americans at Louisville’s Memory Square Park, Spruce St. and Jefferson Ave., Louisville, info@louisvilleitalianclub.org.

Frequent Flyers: Aerial Dance Festival Student Repertory Show. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Hill Flea — One-day flea market.10 a.m.

University Hill, 13th and Pennsylvania Streets.

540-661-7755.

Phoenix Rising Equine Assisted Communication and Sensitivity Training. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gateways to Transformation Farm, 9993 N 65th St., Longmont, 303-859-7385.

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

Sunday, August 14

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.

Chris Kroger. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Esther Sparks, Dave Tamkin. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. eTown — With Tedeschi Trucks Band and Joseph Arthur. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Blues Jam — With Lionel Young and Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Queen City Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-748-7631.

Reggie Waits. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

School of Rock Kids. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Thievery Corporation, Ghostland Observatory. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

events Boulder Asian Festival. Pearl Street Mall, 14th and Pearl, Boulder, 303-499-0108.

Build-A-Brickbuster Pixelfest. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, www.buildabrickbuster.com Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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

Monday, August 15

music

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

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 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.

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com.

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.

Film on the Rocks: Stop Making Sense.

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

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction.

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

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

Made in Hungary: A Life Forged by History — With Maria Krenz. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Paint and Indulge — Painting class. 6 p.m.

Bean and Berry, 305 McCaslin, Louisville, 720-328-6890.

Reapportionment public hearing. 6 p.m., University Memorial Center, Room 247, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, colorado.gov/redistricting.

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

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

The Ultimate Beer Experience — Bus tour of three Boulder breweries. 5:30 p.m., The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Tuesday, August 16

music 311, Sublime with Rome. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494 Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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

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

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jay Ryan’s Acoustic Showcase. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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

Megan Burtt and The Cure For Love.

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

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

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

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Ten Dollar Pony, Poet in the Pit. 8 p.m.

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

Wendy Woo and Angie Stevens. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

events Camp Culinary — Free cooking lessons. 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Boulder Farmer’s Market, 13th St. between Arapahoe and Canyon, 303449-4212.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-5564740.

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

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

Salsa in Boulder. 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St.,

Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Silent Films — Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm with Hank Troy on piano. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Swing Blues Dance Lesson. 7 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Tea, Talks, Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993.

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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.

Breakfast with BIBA — Boulder Independent Business Association. 8 a.m.

Boulder Creek Market, 1801 13th St., Ste. 120, Boulder, 720-565-3854.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50-7 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

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

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

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

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

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

Bands on the Bricks — With Rebecca Folsom Band. 5:30 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

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.

George Nelson Band. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

Incubus. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494 Jami Lunde and Friends. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Open Blues Jam — Hosted by Dan Treanor Band. 7:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, August 11 Science Kitchen. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s

Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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, August 12 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Eat Well — With Ollin Farms. 10 a.m.

WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Renaissance Adventures Reading. 11 a.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Play Well — With Ballet Nouveau Colorado.

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

Saturday, August 13 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder

Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Young Creative Writers. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, August 14 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

The Lesson Studio — Fall lessons for Rock Band, Show Choir and String Ensemble begin.

The Lesson Studio, 3200 Valmont Rd. #8, Boulder, 303-543-7777.

Monday, August 15 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, August 16 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. 10:30 a.m. Gateway Park Fun Center, 4800 28th St, Boulder, 303-442-4386.

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, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, August 17 Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

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help decipher if he has a brain injury, which may alter his treatment dramatically, as well as give you more answers to the changes in personality you seem to be facing. A counselor can help both of you facilitate a discussion around his experiences and potential injuries.

Consider this time an opportunity to learn about each other all over again.

Eventually you can decide to go on dates, ask new questions and court one another. The more you learn, the more you are able to move forward and grow together.

Dear Lost, It sounds like you both need to start Dear Dr Jenni, having some honest heart-to-hearts to My girlfriend likes to pluck my chest uncover what is happening for your hair and beard. It seems very strange to husband. He may be experiencing me, plus it can be painful. I let her do depression and post-traumatic stress this from time to time because it makes disorder (PTSD), her giddy with and you mention excitement, and Questions that he might also honestly, it seems Send questions for Jenni have a brain injury. like she is more Skyler to drjenni@ Keep in mind that receptive to having theintimacyinstitute.org. veterans typically sex with me after she struggle to convey plucks. Is this some the severity and sort of fetish? complexity of their war experiences to —Tolerating the Tweezers non-veterans, which can result in feelings of isolation and silence. Because of Dear Tolerating, this, sex may be the last thing he wants Her behavior, though less than when feeling stuck in his darkness. If comfortable for you, is not abnormal. he has a brain injury as well, this can Grooming is common — businesses are also diminish sexual desire, and increase built around this, like nail salons and feelings of depression and/or inadequa- hairdressers. cy as a sexual person. Depression meds As for sexual preferences, she may can alleviate the darkness, but some enjoy the contact and closeness, which have side effects such as lowered sex inspires her to be open to sexual intidrive and erectile issues that only exacmacy; however, it doesn’t sound like a erbate problems in sexual intimacy. fetish. Clinically, a fetish is a physical Unfortunately, many in the military object or specific situation that a person return from overseas with little inforrequires for sexual stimulation. mation about how to re-enter intimate That said, while you are a patient relationships. The psychological impact and kind boyfriend, it sounds like part of losing close friends in combat can of you is trading sex for plucking. If make veterans hesitant or unable to this is not an arrangement you are willconnect to their loved ones because of ing to accept, then you might want to fear that other important people may look at other ways you can inspire be lost as well. This may be causing his desire for one another. emotional and sexual cut-off.

Send questions for Jenni Skyler, Ph.D., Ultimately, increased communicato drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org.

Skyler is a sex therapist and board-certition is required to understand how to fied sexologist who runs The Intimacy help your husband regain his sense of Institute in Boulder, www.theintimacyinself, individually and as an intimate partner. Don’t be shy to make use of the stitute.org. medical system if you can. A doctor can Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Thursday, August 11 Pilgrimage in the Himalayas.

6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Thursday Night Ride. 5:45 p.m. Boulder Cycling Club, meet at Restaurant 4580, 4580 Broadway #D-1, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Saturday, August 13 Bus Birding for Everyone — with Dave Sutherland. 8:30 a.m. Meet at Scott Carpenter Park, corner of 30th and Arapahoe, and bus out to Teller Farm Open Space, sutherland@bouldercolorado.gov.

Members Only Garage Sale.

9:30 a.m. R ­ EI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Pink Ribbon Climbers — Rock climbing for survivors and caregivers. 8 a.m. Meet at The Spot Bouldering Gym, 3240 Prarie Ave., Boulder, before heading to Boulder Canyon, 303-379-8806.

Sunday, August 14 SPAN the Rockies — Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence 200k, 130k and 75k bike tours. 6 a.m. Start at Elevations Credit Union, 2300 55th St., Boulder, 303-449-8623.

Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 8 a.m.

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

Monday, August 15 Boulder Cycling Club Monday Night Bike Ride.

5:45 p.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., #B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Performances in the Parks.

7 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4413440.

They are Colorado’s overlooked peaks. Hidden in the shadows of their larger cousins, Colorado’s 13ers number in the hundreds (637, to be exact). And while the 14ers get all the press, the diversity and challenges of these peaks are one of the state’s best-kept secrets.

The beauty of the 13ers is their sheer numbers. They’re everywhere. And with these numbers comes diversity. Highly technical routes vie with day hikes. Extended multi-day missions to the remotest heights compete with overnight camping trips ideal for families. And for those of us who live in Boulder, the proxsee 13ERS Page 44 see ELEVATION Page 44

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Tuesday, August 16 Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Five Senses Discovery Hike.

— With Ellen Orleans. 3:30 p.m.

Enchanted Mesa Trail, meet at Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Grant and Baseline.

Mountain Biking Basics. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Wednesday, August 17 Boulder Cycling Club Womens’ Ride. 5:45 p.m. Meet at Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 303-8752241.

To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Elevation.”

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imity of 13ers in our backyard makes it The twin mountains also make for a easy to catch the 13er bug: Numerous worthy end-of-the-summer goal for objectives are easy to reach and you can those who are building their mountain be back in town for happy hour. climbing resumes. Spend your weekOne of these objectives is Mt. ends tuning up your mind and your Audubon (13,223). Located in the body on shorter missions, with the goal Indian Peaks wilderness area, it’s a of the Arapahoes as a great way to wrap great day hike, a peak that rewards an up the summer summit season. early start with an early return to civiBut the traverse is not a journey lization, and the smug satisfaction of to be taken lightly. While only a half knowing that while the minions were mile from summit to summit, the slaving away in the sweltering confines average elevation of the crossing is of their cubicles down in Boulder, 13,500 feet, with plenty of exposure. you’ve been up high and cool, looking Those not comfortable with basic out over wildflower meadows, getting a rock climbing moves or who have a good workout and remembering why fear of heights may want to hire a you moved here in the first place. This guide and rope up. Weather is always popular peak is easy to access, with the an issue, although the dryer days of four-mile trip to fall can prothe top starting vide peak bagdirectly from the gers with The proximity of parking area at the increased con13ers in our Brainard Lake fidence, as a trailhead. With mid-summer backyard makes amazing thunderstorm it easy to catch 360-degree views on the trafrom the summit, verse would be the 13er bug. You including vistas a nightmarish can bag a peak into nearby Rocky experience. and be back in Mountain Finally, National Park, the there’s the town for happy summit is a great more obscure hour. place to linger on Piute Peak nice days.

(13,088).

A more chalSitting above a large basin with 12ers, Toll and Pawnee, lenging mission is the one-two punch Piute doesn’t get as much hype as the of North and South Arapahoe peaks.

Arapahoes or as much traffic as Topping out at 13,397 and 13,502 feet Audubon. It’s no less worthy an objecrespectively, these mountains bookend tive, though. Easy to access via the a key water source for our city, Mitchell Creek trailhead, it’s a peak for Arapahoe Glacier. Because of the those who want to linger in a spectacuimportance of the glacier, travel on it lar basin below the mountain after and in some surrounding parts of the they’ve chalked up the summit. Full of watershed is banned. (Skiing the glawildflowers, and featuring the sparkling cier in the summer is the ultimate waters of Blue Lake, the basin is the poach, but don’t try it unless you’re ultimate picnic paradise, a private oasis willing to pay a hefty fine. There are of mountain beauty that is worth a trip other legal options in the surrounding by itself and which is an easy, fast hike Indian Peaks wilderness that offer as from the trailhead. much of a challenge.)

Once you’ve sampled these local The beauty of the Arapahoe peaks 13ers there’s more. Much more. And is that they make for a long and chalperhaps that’s the strength in numbers: lenging day. The traverse between the heights is challenging on account of the more than 600 summits of all types and difficulty waiting for you and your terrain and the altitude, but the chance friends — enough mountains to create to bag two summits with a high alpine “crossing” is one that every serious peak memories for a lifetime.

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iding along the Cevennes mountain road, you can hear the gurgling boiling of Laguiole vegetables,” penned French cyclist Paul Fournel on the promise of enjoying a meal of local produce after a bike ride.

“Around Beauzac, where the road goes above the Valley of the Loire, you can already smell the green lentils of Puy, done in Tournaire style.”

While Fournel refers to the European countryside, local cyclists will have an opportunity to mirror his experiences closer to home, through the upcoming Tour de Farms rides. Part of EAT LOCAL! Week, these excursions are jointly organized by Transition Colorado, Slow Food Boulder, the Denver Botanic Gardens and Edible Front Range magazine.

Transition Colorado is a statewide organization fostering community action and awareness to address the challenges presented by climate change and peak oil. Its EAT LOCAL! Week seeks to educate the public on the benefits of supporting local agriculture, and the rides are an avenue for getting the word out.

Carol Carlson chairs the Boulder chapter of Slow Food USA, which works to enhance understanding around food and its relationship to the environment and community.

As a ride organizer, she says, “We hope to hold this every year, to bring awareness and education to the public about farms and the great options we have for buying local and organic produce.”

The first ride happens on Aug. 28 and consists of a roughly 15-mile loop beginning and ending at Lone Hawk Farm near Hygiene. The second outing is on Sept. 4 and follows a 20-mile round-trip route starting from Ollin Farms, located between Niwot and

Longmont. The timing is ideal for these rides, says event organizer and Transition Colorado agricultural policy staffer Lauren Richardson.

“The end of August, it’s the climax of the growing season,” she says.

Each ride, capped at 50 cyclists, will mainly take place on paved surfaces, with the possibility of limited travel on greenway paths and dirt roads. The pace promises to be leisurely and appropriate for all fitness levels and bike types. Sherri O’Hara, a Bicycle Longmont board member who also works for electric bike purveyor Small Planet E Vehicles, says, “It’s a tour, not a race.”

The August ride begins at Lone Hawk Farm, which counts corn, tomatoes, zucchini and Roma green beans among its crops. The operation is unique in that it relies on solar power to provide the juice for much of its agricultural equipment. Richardson is impressed by the gear here, saying that the “electric farm machines are quite fantastic.” But this spot’s charms aren’t just technical.

“Lone Hawk is out of this world as a farm,” says

Slow Food’s Carlson. “It’s beautiful out there.”

Stonebridge Farm, an organic operation known for viticulture workshops for aspiring winemakers, is the next stop on this leisurely paced tour. A vineyard tour will be the highlight of this visit, followed by non-alcoholic refreshment. After visiting one other farm, riders will return to Lone Hawk. Carlson says this destination’s Tuscan design motif and spacious yard makes it an ideal locale for a picnic. Cyclists will be able to test this hypothesis, as the ramble concludes with a European-inspired al fresco meal of salumi and cheeses from Cured, farmpicked tomatoes and cucumbers.

The Sept. 4 ride costs $20, and Richardson says the price “includes lunch, refreshments and dirt under your nails.” There will also be a limited number of electric bikes from Small Planet E Vehicles that can be reserved through the online registration process. The day kicks off at 8:30 a.m. with a farm tour at Ollin, a name that comes from the Aztec word for “transformation.” Noted for its farm dinners, Ollin also pursues a biological nutrient-dense farming model focusing on long-term soil sustainability.

Richardson praises Ollin for producing “the most amazing heirloom tomatoes I’ve ever had.”

The second stop will be at Pachamama Organic farm, the offerings of which are familiar to local farmers’ market patrons, as well as their community-supported agriculture shareholders. A farm-prepared lunch awaits riders at the next destination, Lone Hawk Farm. Upon return to Ollin, riders can buy fresh produce to take home.

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hree things distinguish The Kitchen [Next Door] from its namesake neighbor, namely a focus on swift service for timeconstrained diners, menu offerings all less than $9, and a family-friendly emphasis.

Open since June, this eatery succeeds on all these counts, although one suspects the current customer base consists more of hip foodies than literal small fry.

At least that’s the impression I had after lunch with colleagues Margot and Carin, who brought along her two young children, Maddie and Sam. During our visit, this cleanly designed venue was packed with customers, few children among them, who had the option of dining al fresco, or inside at a table or the bar. Nevertheless, an appealing aspect of the menu is a selection of $5.95 kids’ meals, and two dollars of the proceeds from each one go towards planting school gardens. The rest of the menu features shared starters, sandwiches, soups and salads, with sides or soup available with a sandwich for a reasonable $1.95.

We started with a $6.95 platter of addictive kale chips. Carin dubbed these “a Boulder mom’s dream,” as they had appealing crunchiness and enticing flavor comparable to potato chips, but in a much healthier package. She explained that kids “go to town on chips,” which is exactly what we did with this leafy green treat resembling toasted nori seasoned with garlic and olive oil. My enthusiasm was so great for these nibbles that I had to ask Carin if I had any on my face. She replied, “A little.”

Maddie seemed particularly enamored with the Long Farm ham in her kid’s plate lunch box. Other elements included carrot and celery sticks and organic cheddar. Sam displayed budding gourmet tendencies by sampling a scaled-down portion of the Kitchen’s pulled pork sandwich, noteworthy for its tenderness and depth of flavor. A side of cumin-scented carrots, marked by a caramelized sweetness, was a sophisticated addition to this child’s plate.

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ne other aspect of The Kitchen [Next Door] that Carin appreciated was the board in the back where her children could play with colorful vegetable magnets. This space provided a pleasing distraction while we wrapped up our meals, and the magnets are also available for sale to take home. Another intriguing initiative here is the zero-waste approach to wine service. The restaurant serves its wine from casks resembling beer kegs rather than bottles, thus eliminating waste.

Recycled bottles are available for diners desiring more than a single glass, and once empty, the casks return to the winery to be refilled. messy, but had a nice balance of earthiness and lively spicing. This flavor vibrancy wasn’t as apparent in Margot’s $6.95 beet burger. Yet this selection, also held together with egg, carried a surprisingly hefty texture. While we had expected Margot’s garlic smashers side would be a mashed potato variant, we were pleasantly surprised to discover these were aromatic flattened spuds fried in plenty of garlic.

This was the fourth time I’ve had the $8.95 lamb sandwich, which features remarkably tender pulled meat. On prior occasions this choice tended towards dryness, but this wasn’t a problem today. More of the mint sauce condiment would help in rounding out the flavor. However, there’s no disputing the meat’s quali-

ty or the bread’s fine rustic qualities. The quinoa side was more chewy than airy, although cinnamon-like tones added a bright note. I decided to reward my virtue in choosing this healthy grain with a predictably satisfying $3.95 dessert of vanilla gelato sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies.

Meals here are nicely prepared and healthful (with the possible exception of the ice cream sandwich), although some may expect more with respect to complex flavors and selection. But that may be beside the point, as the goal of the Kitchen [Next Door] appears to be providing an accessible and affordable community restaurant, which is exactly what it is.

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ell, I’m sticking to the no-bake theme this week.

Oh, yeah, if you have been paying attention, then you would know, this is the second week in a row with a no-bake dessert. I’m hoping two weeks constitutes a theme, because in my head, my own theme song is playing away, and it’s so much better than the voices that usually occupy that space. It’s a catchy tune, a cross between Three’s Company and “She Don’t Use Jelly,” by the Flaming Lips.

Yep, going to be big on iTunes. You can say you knew me when.

So, with this theme song on constant repeat in my head, time to sing loud and proud about the treat this week: Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie. I know you want to sing “God Bless America” right about now, but “God Bless Dessert Diva” will suffice. This pie is delicious. Cools you off, tickles your taste buds and doesn’t take any time to make.

Who doesn’t love chocolate and peanut butter? Something about those two ingredients together takes you back to childhood. I can’t put my finger on it, but I have seen grown men turn into little boys (like that isn’t an everyday occurrence) once they sink their teeth into this dessert.

I love the frozen aspect. I have made a similar dessert, more along the lines of a cream pie, but something about the frozen makes you feel like you are really indulging in something special and really just screams, “It’s summertime!”

Sorry that my food always screaming. Don’t let it scare you; it’s a happy scream. Kind of like a “you scream, we scream, we all scream for ... ” You get what I’m saying. There’s no “Have the lambs stopped screaming?” nonsense coming from my treats.

The chocolate component I have going on here is just the crust. A tasty chocolate crust is one of my favorites, and complements the filling in the best way a crust can. I would also suggest, if you really want to bump up the chocolate, drizzle hot fudge over the top when ready to serve. Hell

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I hope you come up with your own little theme song while making this awesome dessert. Baking is always better with (wine) music. I would let you borrow mine, but it’s top-secret for now. My recipes however, are never top-secret, and this is another one I hope you add to your recipe box, or iPad, documents, etc. Whatever you kids are doing these days. It’s a keeper.

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

Frozen Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie 2-1/4 cups famous chocolate wafer crumbs (about 40 wafers) 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted) 1 cup milk 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 cup peanut butter (I used creamy) 1/4 tsp. vanilla 1 1/4 cup whipped cream 1/2 cup chopped salted, dry roasted peanuts

In a medium bowl, combine chocolate crumbs (grind in food processor or blender) and butter. Press down bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie plate. Set in refrigerator and chill.

In a medium saucepan over lowmedium heat, add sugar and milk. Stir until sugar has dissolved. Take off heat. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla, mix well. Set aside, let cool down, stirring occasionally.

In large bowl, beat whipped cream until stiff peaks form. Gently fold whipped cream into cooled-down peanut butter mixture. Pour filling into chocolate shell and smooth.

Scatter chopped peanuts over top.

Freeze pie uncovered for 4-5 hours or overnight. Take out of freezer and place in refrigerator 20-30 minutes before serving. Cut into slices and serve. Enjoy!

Note: A dusting of powdered sugar looks nice! You can drizzle hot fudge or chocolate sauce over the top, if desired.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Heap starts catering company Bradford Heap, chef/owner of Salt in Boulder and Colterra in Niwot, recently launched a catering company to bring his local food and white-linen service into other venues.

The catering company opened for business on Aug. 1, and as of Aug. 5 had already done three events.

Bradford Heap Catering will offer flexibility with regard to eating habits, including making almost any dish on the menu vegetarian and providing gluten-free options. Clients can get Heap himself to cook at an event.

More information is available at www.bradfordheapcatering.com.

3 Margaritas opens in Boulder The Mexican restaurant chain 3 Margaritas has opened a new location in Boulder at 3390 28th St. The restaurant serves traditional Mexican fare and is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

The chain has restaurants in several other locations in Colorado, including Longmont and Louisville.

Aw, Shug’s Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, located at 2017 13th St. in Boulder, will host a grand opening this month.

From Friday, Aug. 19, through Sunday, Aug. 21, the restaurant will celebrate with live music and food and drink specials highlighting its dishes and a cocktail list. Musical acts will

include Mark Diamond with the Gretchen Troop Band, By All Means Band and The Yawpers.

Shug’s Low Country Cuisine offers a diverse menu featuring everything from fresh seafood to pork ribs.

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Reopening Whole Foods After an extensive renovation and expansion project, the Whole Foods Market Pearl Street store will host several events as part of a grand reopening celebration this month.

An official “Bread Breaking” and Grand Reopening will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 12, followed by live music, vendor demos and children’s activities from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13. Live music, vendor demos and children’s activities.

At noon on Sunday, Aug. 14, The Kitchen Chef Hugo Matheson will prepare a lunch benefiting the Kitchen Community. A “Boulder Born” vendor fair will also be held that day.

An outdoor benefit concert featuring Todd Park Mohr and Jeremy Lawton of Big Head Todd and The Monsters, with openers Mollie O’Brien and Danielle Ate the Sandwich, will begin at 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19.

Advance tickets are available at the Pearl, Tamarac and Belmar Whole Foods Markets for $15 each. All ticket proceeds will benefit the Boulder Valley School District’s School Food Project.

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On a similar note, O’Hara says one of the event’s goals relates to families.

“People are a generation removed from having a family farm to visit,” she says. “These rides present a chance to do that.”

Carlson adds, “Being out in the country, in a beautiful area, it gives you an opportunity to meet a farmer and see what they have to grow. It’s a deep Boulder Weekly

way of grokking where food comes from.”

Richardson notes that these rides will help cyclists embrace a “slower way of life.” In a sentiment that scribe Fournel would appreciate, she says that the events allow one to enjoy local bounty without regret, as the rides provide an opportunity to “earn those calories.”

But Richardson also taps into the deeper value of the rides, saying, “It’s a celebration of what we produce here.”

Online registration and information for the Aug. 28 ride is available at the website of the Denver Botanic Gardens (www.botanicgardens.org), which is cosponsoring the event.

For the Sept. 4 ride, go to www. transitioncolorado.org.

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The dinner menu reads like a greatest hits album of British Isles specialties, including bangers and mash, fish and chips, and shepherd’s pie. The Lancashire Hotpot is a compelling preparation of lamb braised in Guinness over mashed potatoes, and desserts such as the fruit-infused trifle and Guinness chocolate cake provide an ideal Commonwealth ending. Definitely worth the drive to Broomfield.

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un by the same folks who operate the neighboring Arugula Ristorante, the recently opened Tangerine is bound to become a top North Boulder venue for breakfast and lunch. Compared to the brunch bill of fare, Tangerine’s lunch menu is relatively modest, featuring entrée salads such as an albacore nicoise, and classic sandwiches including Reubens and BLTs. The brunch menu is where the action is, as it includes delectably moist lemon ricotta pancakes topped with blueberries, and outstanding chicken and waffles.

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he Niwot Market dishes up a Friday night supper that’s as much a community happening as it is an enjoyably casual dining experience. Menus vary from week to week, so it’s best to call ahead to find out what’s cooking. On some evenings the entrée might be fried chicken or steak, on another night, clam pasta. One recent evening, it was a wonderfully executed barbecue dinner featuring both brisket and ribs, sided with extraordinary collard greens as well as macaroni and cheese.

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For $5.75, you can have a Caesar or watercress salad, or a kids’ plate consisting of either a scaled-down bowl with juice or grilled ham and cheese. Each item represents good value for the money, particularly the meatless Boulder Cuban, featuring grilled veggies and goat cheese, and the delicious and addictive Mahi sandwich garnished with garlic habanero aioli.

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othing screams summertime more than cuisine from warmweather climes, cool drinks and al fresco dining, all of which are available at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace. Centro serves up ceviche, tacos, tortas and platters featuring such specialties as chicken enchiladas with an optional fried egg, a suave avocado salsa dip and the Fresno chile lemonade.

Bácaro Venetian Taverna

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nder the supervision of Executive Chef Fabio Flagiello, Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna serves winning Italian small plates and entrées to a West Pearl Street crowd. Especially noteworthy is their monthly bike ride and lunch, which affords an opportunity to try several menu options. These include first-rate fried calamari sided with both tangy marinara and luxurious aioli, fresh-flavored bruschetta and wonderfully al dente pasta and risotto.

Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro

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ruly good Italian-American cooking is surprisingly hard to find locally. That’s

a shame, because many crave the simple comforts of garlic bread, an unfussy salad, pasta and an Italian sweet.

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.

Naraya Thai and Sushi

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

Ted’s Montana Grill

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

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he menu at Louisville’s Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse consists of a variety of starters, sandwiches, salads and brick oven pizza. Sophisticated starters include winter squash purée and tapenade, and although you’ll find archetypical Italian grinder sandwiches here, there are also roasted veggie selections with smoked mozzarella. The roasted beet salad, which comes with goat cheese and candied pecans, is first rate, as is the wonderful Hazel Dell Wild Mushroom pizza, topped with fresh arugula and a whisper of truffle oil.

Radda Trattoria

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

The brick-pressed chicken here is a standout, 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 tasty corned beef hash and delicious eggs Benedict specials.

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

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hat if there was a research drug in the laboratory right now that had a good chance of curing Alzheimer’s but needed more testing on animals before it could be released for human trials? And what if that same drug made its research subjects smarter?

That’s the premise of the exciting and surprisingly thoughtful Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Will Rodman ( James Franco) is the lead genetic researcher working on the miracle drug for Gen Sys Corporation, but he has a driving motivation of his own: His father ( John Lithgow) is rapidly descending into dementia.

Clinical trials for the ALZ-112 drug go well, but when they inadvertently treat a pregnant chimpanzee then separate her from her newborn, she goes on a rampage and the project is shut down.

Rodman manages to save Caesar, a baby chimp.

Caesar turns out to be extraordinarily intelligent, but after an incident where he attacks a neighbor who was assaulting the now-cured father, he gets sent to monkey jail, the San Bruno Primate Shelter.

Caesar escapes, steals some of the more powerful ALZ-113 from Rodman’ s house, then goes back and exposes the 100 or so primates at the shelter to the

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nother Earth is quietly and movingly out of this world.

Director Mike Cahill has woven sci-fi imaginings and quantum physics theories of parallel universes into a provocative meditation on the prospect of rewriting your life history. It is no simple task to spin such abstract notions into smart entertainment, but there is such a strong, creative voice stirring in Cahill’s first feature that it’s easy to forgive the shortcomings.

The film stars the ethereal actress Brit Marling, who co-wrote and co-produced with Cahill, and the rock-solid William Mapother (Ethan on Lost). They are strangers whose lives are upended by tragedy on a night seemingly filled with endless possibilities brought about by the discovery of a replica of Earth, dubbed Earth 2, in our skies. What-ifs abound — what if there’s another you?

The shoulders carrying the weight of these worlds belong to Rhoda (Marling), a high school senior whose MIT future goes up in flames after a horrific mistake sends her to jail, and John (Mapother), a composer whose life goes into a tailspin after an unbearable loss. The major scientific and philosophic implications of Earth 2 are debated by TV talking heads, and there are brief narrative threads offered by Boulder Weekly

drug. The smart monkeys break out en masse and attack!

The original 1968 Planet of the Apes is an iconic science fiction film, with memorable imagery notably including Colonel Taylor (Charlton Heston) finding a half-buried Statue of Liberty on a beach in the monkey-dominated future Earth. I’d always wondered what events led to the burial of such an enormous statue, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes does a good

job explaining.

At one point in Rise there’s a TV news broadcast about the first manned mission to Mars, and it wasn’t until later that I realized it was the very mission that Taylor and his crew were on when they cryogenically froze for a few hundred years before crash-landing in the earlier film. Smart.

A number of scenes are shot in Muir Woods, and during those scenes it’s clear just what a good job actor Andy Serkis does as the model for Caesar.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes ultimately depends on whether the simians are believable or not, and in 95 percent of the shots they really do seem like chimps, orangutans, apes, etc. rather than CG creations or actors with heavy makeup.

Is it possible that humans will become the inferior race and genetically smartened chimpanzees become the rulers of Earth? Probably not. But as the basis for a smart, exciting film that both fills in the backstory of a classic science fiction tale and acts as a fun movie in its own right, Rise of the Planet of the Apes proves a film well worth seeing.

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a scientist the filmmaker met while working on the film, that serve to answer the kind of questions one would have if something like this actually happened.

By melding that collision of events, the filmmakers use the ordinary to examine the extraordinary, forcing the central characters to contemplate how a choice can change a life. The intimate telling puts Another Earth in the tradition of humanistic sci-fi

movies such as John Carpenter’s Starman and John Sayles’ Brother From Another Planet.

Set in the New Haven, Conn., area and moving between Rhoda’s un-mussed suburban neighborhood, John’s isolated rural house and the wind-swept Atlantic beaches that seem chilly year-round, the script takes us quickly from that fateful night to a present day four years later.

Rhoda is out of jail, her dreams of becoming an astrophysicist now shelved for a janitorial job at her old high school. In fact, cleaning up messes — both literally and metaphorically — is her new obsession.

John, meanwhile, is the living embodiment of a mess — drinking away the nights and days with piles of clothes, papers and dishes growing as his house and career deteriorate.

The heart of the film hangs on both the everyday and otherworldly. What will happen when Rhoda turns up at John’s door with a free trial offer from the Maid in Haven cleaning service, yet another level of her selfimposed penance, and will she win the essay contest for a life-altering spot on the space shuttle bound for Earth 2?

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routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer returns with this comedy about a pizza-delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) who is kidnapped by dimwitted criminals (Danny McBride and Aziz Ansari) and forced to help them rob a bank.

Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony, and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Independence Day When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth’s atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save the planet from total devastation and destruction. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Another Earth See full review Page 53. Rated PG-13. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. At Mayan and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Buck

Jules and Jim

Final Destination 5

The summer of sequels continues with the latest installment of the teenage death series that would not die.

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

on a happily married Cal (Steve Carell), whose world unravels when he finds out his high-schoolsweetheart wife (Julianne Moore) is cheating on him and wants a divorce. Suddenly Cal must learn to navigate the treacherous waters of the dating pool. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Captain America: The First Avenger

Crime After Crime

Steve Rogers is a scrawny guy who is transformed into a World War II super-soldier in Captain America: The First Avenger, the latest comic book adaptation to invade theaters.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Detroit Free Press/ MCT

In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years to life for her connection to his murder.

Twenty years later, as she languished in prison, a California law allowing incarcerated domesticviolence survivors to reopen their cases was passed. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Change-Up Two friends — a married lawyer and a freewheeling slacker — somehow switch bodies and try to avoid ruining each other’s lives. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT Circumstance A suspenseful tale of love and family upended by obsession and suspicion, is also a provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Cowboys & Aliens Jon Favreau directs this Western about an amnesiac (Daniel Craig) in 1873 who stumbles into an Arizona town ruled by a ruthless sheriff (Harrison Ford) who doesn’t take kindly to strangers. Then aliens come swooping down and start blasting everything in sight. Tell me this does not sound like the coolest movie ever. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Rene Rodriguez Crazy, Stupid, Love Think Eat Pray Love for guys. This comedy centers

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The Devil’s Double Summoned from the front line to Saddam Hussein’s palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper, An Education) is thrust into the highest echelons of the “royal family” when he’s ordered to become the fiday — or body double — to Saddam’s son, Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Final Destination 5 You would think by now, the makers of this wildly successful franchise would try something a little different. But why mess with a good thing? Once again, a bunch of teens who were supposed to have died but didn’t start getting visits from the Grim Reaper, resulting in spectacularly elaborate deaths. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Friends with Benefits “No relationship. No emotions. Just sex!” So says the website art director played by Justin Timberlake to the executive headhunter played

by Mila Kunis. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, and Colony Square. — Michael Phillips From Russia With Love In this, the second of the James Bond series of films, Bond (Sean Connery) travels to Turkey to meet a mysterious Russian woman (Daniela Bianchi) who claims to have fallen in love with his photograph. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie Haters, head for the door. But Gleeks? Get your Glee on. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie may be as spontaneous as a Pringles commercial, with cast members of the hit TV series re-creating — on stage — their biggest musical moments.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore/MCT The Happiness of Katakuris One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan’s prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 In the new film, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is still hunting Horcruxes, which contain amounts of Voldemort’s (played by Ralph Fiennes) soul. The so-called Elder Wand, stolen from the crypt of Harry’s mentor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), must be put into the right hands. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Michael Phillips The Help Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel as women in 1960s Mississippi who form an unlikely bond that shatters societal mores of the era. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez 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. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Rene Rodriguez

Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary director François Truffaut’s early masterpiece charts the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession over the course of 25 years. Talk back discussion after 7 p.m. screening. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Labyrinth While babysitting, teenage Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) makes a terrible wish — that her baby brother (Toby Froud) would be taken by goblins.

Her wish comes true when Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) whisks the boy off to his castle. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Life, Above All

Just after the death of her newly born sister, 12-year-old Chanda learns of a rumor that has spread like wildfire through her small, dust-ridden village near Johannesburg. The rumor destroys her family and forces her mother (Lerato Mvelase) to flee. Chanda leaves home and school in search of her mother and the truth. At Chez Artiste and Boedecker. — Landmark Theatres 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 Century and Mayan. — Carrie Rickey Nora’s Will Nora had a plan. It would bring her ex-husband, Jose, and the rest of their family together for a magnificent Passover feast. But there is a flaw in her plan — a mysterious photograph from the past, hidden under the bed, which leads Jose to reexamine their relationship. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Opera: Thaïs The monk Athanaël attempts to convert the beautiful courtesan Thaïs to Christianity, despite the many warnings of his friends. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Page One: Inside The New York Times

Illegal

With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax­. — Landmark Theatres

Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan.

One day, they are stopped on the street for a

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AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 30 Minutes or Less Thu: 12:01 Fri-Sun: 9:45, 11:10, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50 Mon-Wed: 11:20, 1:25, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:30 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 10:45, 12:50, 1:35, 4:30, 6:40, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun: 10:15, 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed: 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Cars 2 Thu: 10:55, 1:30, 4 Fri-Sun: 9:50, 12:20, 2:55, 5:40 Mon-Wed: 11:55, 2:50, 5:25 The Change-Up Thu: 11:35, 2:10, 4:45, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat: 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55 Sun: 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed: 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 11:10, 2, 7:45, 10 Fri-Sat: 10, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 9:55 Mon-Wed: 10:55, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 11:05, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 FriSat: 10:50, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 Sun: 10:50, 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Final Destination 5 Thu: 12:01 Fri-Sat: 10:05, 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Sun: 10:05, 12:40, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:10 Mon-Wed: 11, 1:20, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:20 Friends with Benefits Thu: 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sat: 8:15, 11 Sun-Wed: 8, 10:35 Glee:The 3D Concert Movie Thu: 12:01 Fri-Sun: 10:20, 12:30, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed: 11:45, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:20 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 10:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun: 9:55, 1:05, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed: 10:45, 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 The Help Thu: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:10 Fri-Sat: 9:45, 12:55, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Sun: 9:45, 12:55, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 MonWed: 12:15, 3:40, 7, 10:10 Horrible Bosses Thu: 10:25, 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sat: 9:45, 12:10, 2:40, 5:45, 8:20, 11:05 Sun: 9:45, 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed: 11:50, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 10:25, 11, 11:55, 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7, 8, 9:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun: 10:10, 11:40, 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5:10, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed: 10:45, 11:30, 1:10, 2:10, 4, 4:55, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 9:55 The Smurfs Thu: 10:35, 11:30, 1:40, 2:05, 3:35, 4:35, 6:15, 7:20, 8:50 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 6:30, 9:50 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 30 Minutes or Less Thu: 12:01 Fri: 10:15, 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45, 11:55 Sat-Sun: 10:15, 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45 Another Earth Fri-Sun: 10:05, 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40 Buck Thu: 1:05, 10:05 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 10:20, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:55 Fri-Sun: 10:10, 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40 The Change-Up Thu: 11:35, 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Fri: 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:45, 10:25, 12:01 Sat-Sun: 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:45, 10:25

local theaters Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 10, 10:55, 12:45, 1:45, 3:35, 4:30, 6:20, 7:15, 9:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun: 10, 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 10:05, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Fri: 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20, 11:50 Sat-Sun: 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Drum Corps International 2011: Big, Loud & Live 8 Thu: 4:30 Final Destination 5 Thu: 12:01 Fri: 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10, 11:20, 12:01 Sat: 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Friends with Benefits Thu: 10:05, 12:40, 3:15, 6:05, 8:55, 11:30 Glee:The 3D Concert Movie Thu: 12:01 Fri: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 Sat-Sun: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Thu: 10, 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun: 12, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 The Help Thu-Sun: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Horrible Bosses Thu: 10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 8, 10:25 FriSun: 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Midnight in Paris Thu: 11:15, 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9 Fri-Sun: 11:30, 1:55, 4:15, 6:40, 9 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:05, 11:15 Fri: 10:20, 11:40, 12:55, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 6:05, 7:10, 8:35, 10, 11:05 Sat-Sun: 10:20, 11:40, 12:55, 2:10, 3:25, 4:40, 6:05, 7:10, 8:35, 10 Sarah’s Key Thu: 11:30, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun: 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 8, 10:30 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Thu: 11:05, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 The Smurfs Thu: 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Sun: 10:25, 1, 3:30, 6:15, 8:45 Winnie the Pooh Thu: 10:35 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-926-0661 30 Minutes or Less Fri: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Sun: 10:15, 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 1:10, 1:55, 4:10, 4:50, 7:15, 7:35, 10:10, 10:20 Fri: 1:55, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun: 1:55, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed: 1:55, 4:50, 7:35 The Change-Up Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Fri: 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun: 10:40, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 Cowboys & Aliens Thu-Fri: 12:55, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05 SatSun: 10:10, 12:55, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed: 12:55, 3:50, 7:05 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1:35, 4:15, 7:50, 10:35 Fri: 1:35, 4:35, 7:50, 10:35 Sat-Sun: 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:50, 10:35 MonWed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:50 Final Destination 5 Fri: 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun: 10:45, 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed: 1:50, 5, 7:40 Friends With Benefits Thu: 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:15

Glee:The 3D Concert Movie Fri: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 10, 10:30 Fri: 1, 4, 7, 10 Sat-Sun: 10, 1, 4, 7, 10 Mon-Wed: 1, 4, 7 The Help Fri: 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 Sat-Sun: 9:50, 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed: 1:05, 4:15, 7:25 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu-Fri: 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 7:45, 9:50, 10:40 Sat-Sun: 10:20, 11:10, 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 7:45, 9:50 10:40 Mon-Wed: 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 7:45 The Smurfs Thu-Fri: 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun: 11, 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed: 2, 4:25, 6:50 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Beginners Thu: 7 Buck Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Fri: 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Mon & Wed: 4, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Tues: 4, 4:30, 9:50 Life, Above All Fri: 1:30, 4, 7, 9:30 Sat-Sun: 11, 1:30, 4, 7, 9:30 Mon-Wed: 7, 9:30 Sarah’s Key Thu, Mon-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Fri: 1, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun: 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Vincent Wants to Sea Thu: 4, 9:30 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-3521992 Labyrinth Fri: Midnight The Room Fri: Midnight Snow Flower and The Secret Fan Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed: 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 The Tree of Life Thu-Fri: 5, 8:15 Sat-Sun: 11, 2, 5, 8:15 Mon-Wed: 5, 8:15 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Another Earth Thu: 5, 7:30, 10 Fri: 2, 5, 7:30, 10 Sat-Sun: 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Mon,Wed: 5, 7:30, 10 Tues: 5 Beats, Rhymes & Life:The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 The Devil’s Double Fri-Sun: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Mon-Wed: 4, 7, 9:45 From Russia With Love Tues: 7, 9:45 Midnight in Paris Thu: 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Fri: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed: 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303820-3456 Beats, Rhymes & Life:The Travels of a Tribe Called

Quest Fri-Tues: 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 9:40 A Better Life Thu: 5, 9:40 Circumstance Thu: 7:30 Crime After Crime Thu: 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:30 Despicable Me Sat: 11 Dressed to Kill Tues: 7:30, 10 Happiness of the Katakuris Fri: 10 Illegal Wed: 7 Independence Day Fri-Sun: 9:30 Nora’s Will Thu: 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Page One: Inside the New York Times Thu: 2:30 Fri: 2:30, 7:30 Sat: 12, 7:30 Sun: 9:30 Mon: 2:30, 7:30, 9:35 Tues: 2:30 Wed: 2:30, 7:30 The Sleeping Beauty Fri: 5, 7:10 Sat-Wed: 5, 7:10, 9:30 True Stories Wed: 9:30 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-6512434 30 Minutes or Less Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun: 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7, 9:45 The Change-Up Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15 Fri: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 1, 4, 7:20, 10 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Final Destination 5 Fri-Sun: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Glee:The 3D Concert Movie Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: 12:45, 1:10, 3:45, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05 The Smurfs Thu-Fri: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Sat: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Sun-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 12:40, 4:25, 7:50 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826 Jules and Jim Sun: 5, 7 Opera:Thaïs Sun: 1 Queen of the Sun:What the Bees are Telling Us Thu: 7, Fri: 4:30, 8:30, Sat: 6:30 Stephen Sondheim’s Company Wed: 4 Winter in Wartime Thu: 4:30, Fri: 6:30, Sat: 4:30, 8:30 The Woodmans Wed: 7 As times are 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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Queen of the Sun: What the Bees are Telling Us This engaging and uplifting film weaves an unusual story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Rise of the Planet of the Apes See full review Page 53. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Room

they are released. Sixty-seven years later: Sarah’s story intertwines with that of an American journalist investigating the roundup. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Sleeping Beauty French provocateur Catherine Breillat continues her deconstruction of classic fairytales. While in slumber, this sleeping beauty comes of age through a series of vivid dreams. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Smurfs

Writer/director Tommy Wiseau stars as a successful banker with a great respect for — and dedication to — the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa (Juliette Danielle). As the film depicts friendships and relationships, it raises life’s most-asked question: “Can you really trust anyone?” At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

A Smurfs movie was probably inevitable. But doesn’t this feel as if it’s arriving a decade late?

Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara and Hank Azaria share the screen with the computeranimated little blue people, who are chased from their village by the evil Gargamel and wind up in our world. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Sarah’s Key

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families. To protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard — their secret hiding place — and promises to come back for him as soon as

In 19th-century China, 7-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong — or “old sames” — bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. At Century

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Stephen Sondheim’s Company

Vincent Wants to Sea

Neil Patrick Harris leads an all-star cast including Patti Lupone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer and Martha Plimpton. Company was nominated for 14 Tonys, winning Best Musical, Best Score and Best Lyrics. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Embattled by the embarrassing symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome, Vincent has just lost his mother. His father, an ambitious politician, sends him off to a rehabilitation clinic. His objective is to get to the Mediterranean Sea to spread his mother’s ashes. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Transformers: Dark of the Moon In this third installment, we learn that the NASA space program was a cover-up that allowed the crew of Apollo 11 to explore the alien ruins on the dark side of the moon. PG-13 At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Winnie the Pooh Disney’s latest revival, and musical homage, to A.A. Milne’s loveable bear is longer on charm than it is on laughs. Or length. Rated G. At Century. — Roger Moore

The Tree of Life

Winter in Wartime

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. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, 13-year-old Michiel is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

True Stories Talking Heads front man David Byrne co-wrote, composed, directed and stars in this quirky musical journey into the odder side of small-town America. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. —

The Woodmans A fascinating, unflinching portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist’s work and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and George.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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March 21-April 19:

Dr. Larry Dossey thinks we shouldn’t just automatically dismiss the voices that speak to us in the privacy of our own heads. Some of them may actually have wise counsel, or at least interesting evidence about the state of our inner world. Besides, says Dossey, “It is vital for our mental health to keep the channels open, because when the voices of the gods are shut out, the devils often take up residence.” This would be good advice for you to observe in the coming days, Aries. Don’t let the nagging, blustering or unhinged murmurs in your head drown out the still, small voice of lucid intuition. (Dossey’s book is The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps.)

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

What are you going to do to attract or induce the phenomena I name in the list below? At least three of them could come your way in the days ahead: 1. A “limitation” that leads to more freedom; 2. An imaginative surrender that empowers you to make a seemingly impossible breakthrough; 3. A healthy shock to the system that tenderizes your emotions; 4. a tough task that clarifies and fine-tunes your ambition; 5. a seemingly lost chance that leads to a fresh promise through the vigorous intervention of your creative willpower.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Thirteen will be your lucky number for the foreseeable future. In fact, a host of things for which the average person has an irrational aversion could be helpful to you. For that matter, influences that you yourself may have considered in the past to be unsympathetic or uncongenial could very well be on your side, and may even conspire to enlighten and delight you. At least temporarily, I urge you to shed your superstitions, suspend your iffy biases and dismiss your outworn fears.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Anne Cushman wrote a book called Enlightenment for Idiots. It wasn’t a how-to book, but rather a novel about a spiritual truth-seeker wandering through India. As far as I know, no one has written an actual instructional manual with the theme she named in her title. If anyone could do it, though, it would be you right now. Lately, you’ve been getting smarter by doing the most ordinary things. You’ve been drawing life-enhancing lessons from events that others might regard as inconsequential or unsophisticated. I suspect that this trend will continue in the coming days.

Through the power of simplicity and directness, you will succeed at tasks that might have defeated you if you had allowed yourself to get lost in complicated theories and overly-thought-out approaches. Congrats!

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

For 34 years, a diligent Californian named Scott Weaver worked on creating a scale model of San Francisco using toothpicks. Meanwhile, Eric Miklos, of New Brunswick, Canada, was assembling a 40-foot-long chain of bottle caps.

And in 2006, a team of artists constructed a 67-foot-tall gingerbread house, the world’s largest, inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. These are not the kinds of stupendous feats I advise you to get started on in the coming weeks, Leo. The astrological omens suggest that you’ll attract blessings into your life if you launch deeply meaningful masterpieces, not trivial or silly ones.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estes loves life’s natural rhythms just as they are. She says we can avoid a lot of suffering if we understand how those rhythms work. “The cycles are birth, light and energy, and then depletion, decline and death,” she told Radiance magazine. In other words, everything thrives and fades, thrives and fades. After each phase of dissipation, new vitality incubates and blooms again. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you are currently going through a period of dwindling and dismantling. The light is dimmer than usual, and the juice is sparser. But already, in the secret depths, a new dispensation is stirring.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Where do you want to be at this time next year? What do you want to be doing? I encourage you to fantasize and scheme about these questions, and be alert for clues about possible prospects. Here’s my reasoning, Libra: Some

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foreshadowings of your future life may soon float into view, including a far-off whisper or a glimpse of the horizon that will awaken some of your dormant yearnings. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these visions must be acted upon instantly. Instead, ruminate leisurely on them, regarding them as the early hints of potential long-range developments.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that you can’t get The Most Beautiful Thing. It’s out of reach forever. You simply don’t have the connections or wherewithal to bring it into your life. Could you accept that disappointment with a full heart and move on? Would you be able to forgive life for not providing you with your number one heart’s desire and then make your way into the future with no hard feelings?

If so, Scorpio, I bet you would be well-primed to cultivate a relationship with The Second Most Beautiful Thing.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

What images would be most helpful for you to fill your imagination up with? What scenes would heal and activate your subconscious mind, inspiring you in just the right ways? I invite you to make a list of at least five of these, and then visualize them often in the coming days. Here are a few possibilities to get you warmed up: peach trees filled with ripe fruit; the planet Jupiter as seen through a powerful telescope; a magnificent suspension bridge at dawn or dusk; a large chorus animatedly singing a song you love; the blissful face of a person you love.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Scientists have proved beyond a doubt that heavenly bodies cannot possibly exert forces that affect events on earth, right? Well, no, actually, according to research reported in the Dec. 24, 2009, edition of the science journal Nature.

It turns out that the gravitational tug of the sun and moon sends significant tremors through California’s San Andreas Fault, and could potentially trigger full-blown earthquakes.

Speaking as a poet, not a scientist, I speculate that those two luminaries, the sun and moon, may also generate a lurching but medicinal effect on you sometime soon. Are you ready for a healing jolt? It will relieve the tension that has been building up between two of your “tectonic plates.”

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

“Follow your dreams,” read the headline on some random blog I stumbled upon, “except for the one in which you’re giving a speech in your underwear.” In the comments section, someone named “Mystic Fool” had posted a dissenting view: “I would much rather have a dream of giving a speech in my underwear than of being naked and drunk and inarticulate at a cocktail party, trying to hide behind the furniture.” Mystic Fool’s attitude would serve you well in the coming week, Aquarius. Expressing yourself in a public way, even if you don’t feel fully prepared, will actually be a pretty good course of action — especially as compared to keeping silent and hiding.

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