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Frack tracks, revisited

(Re: “Frack tracks,” cover story, July 19.) There is an elephant in the room.

Show any photos of natural gas fields before and after and see the total devastation of the surface for decades to come.

Ask doctors in Garfield County about the effects of fracking chemicals on human health.

Jim Disinger/via Internet

Swooping is dangerous

I was a skydiving instructor at MileHi Skydiving from the late ’90s to 2004.

If you’re going to tell the story about “swooping” (“It’s not flying, it’s falling with style,” Adventure, July 19) you need to tell both sides of the story.

More than 85 percent of skydivers that kill themselves in this sport do it while trying to “swoop,” and they all do it just to show off to the people on the ground.

Skydiving is a very safe sport; you’re in more danger of being killed while driving home after work today then jumping out of an airplane. But those who choose to risk their lives to show off, such as Nick Batsch, are a very poor example and give the sport a bad name.

You, as well as your readers, need to understand this kid will eventually kill

himself, or someone that thinks it’s cool will try it and die in the attempt. The function of a canopy is to get the skydiver from the bottom of a skydive to the ground safely!

Your encouragement of this aspect of what is a great sport, without printing the risk or death toll from swooping, is not appreciated by those of us who have seen good friends die attempting this unnecessary and deadly stunt!

I’m willing to bet you don’t have the

balls to print this side of the effects of attempting this maneuver called “swooping”!

TJ McGinley/Longmont

Frack hack

The Danish Plan article “Fracking out of a recession” by Paul Danish in the July 12 issue of Boulder Weekly states: “Currently fracking in Colorado uses some 33,000 acre feet of water a year, less than 1 percent of the state’s water

resources,” which, if I do the math correctly, means that we are losing permanently 1 percent of the state’s water per year — please correct me if I’ve misstated. Wouldn’t a 50 percent loss of total water by 2065 be a disaster for an increased Colorado population, or am I missing something here?

Additionally, Mr. Danish continues, “What’s more, drillers are increasingly see LETTERS Page 11

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he high-rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast. Doing this, they assert, is genius work, entitling them to be paid more than anyone else. Two years ago, for example, each of the top 10 hedge fund dealers averaged Boulder Weekly

$175 million in pay — or about $84,000 an hour! are in the works.

Sure enough, their bets on corporate perforThe insights of these analysts are supposed to mance usually turn out to be winners. How do they be released only on a set date to the public at large, do that? Are they really Einsteins — or is someso no one investor gets an advantage. But the interthing else in play? nal documents of the big hedge Something else. The New York funds show that they’re getting an Times reports that a handful of big early peek, allowing them to make For more information on Jim hedge funds have been systematitheir investment bets before ordiHightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-wincally receiving insider tips from nary investors know what’s going ning monthly newsletter, The corporate analysts working at on. With these tips, the funds Hightower Lowdown — visit Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, make a killing, while non-priviwww.jimhightower.com. leged small investors often take a Merrill Lynch and other Wall hit.

Street stock brokerages. These Like Las Vegas hustlers, high-strutting hedge analysts, who are experts on the inner workings of particular corporations, have quietly been sending fund whizzes aren’t brilliant or deserving — and periodic insider updates on corporate performance certainly not ethical. They’re getting rich by gaming to a few favored funds. The under-the-table updates the system. reveal such key information as whether XYZ’s corRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com porate profits are heading up or down, or whether This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the management changes or other corporate surprises views of Boulder Weekly.

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uncensored Their rights, our rights

by Pamela White

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he universe is full of mysteries — such as why anyone would eat at Chick-fil-A in the first place. The fried chicken chunks chain found itself in the spotlight for its owner Dan Cathy’s anti-gay religious beliefs after posturing politicians, including Chicago Mayer Rahm Emmanuel and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, suggested Chick-fil-A had no place in their towns.

Cathy has publicly stated his opposition to gay marriage and donates some of the money his chain earns to what he calls “pro-family” charities, organizations that share his anti-gay views.

Locally, Masterpiece Bakery of Lakewood drew fire when its owner, Jack Phillips, refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because gay marriage goes against his Christian beliefs. It’s not the first time he’s turned down a gay couple, and it won’t be the last. Phillips has said that he’d rather shut his doors than abandon his religious beliefs.

Meanwhile, the Boy Scouts of America recently reaffirmed the organization’s anti-gay stance, choosing to stick with a long tradition of teaching boys bigotry over other values.

These instances of anti-gay sentiment

provoke strong emotional reactions from those of us who see gay rights as a subset of human rights, with the right to marry a spouse of one’s choosing as inalienable.

And yet the truth is that Cathy and the Boy Scouts are acting within their rights under the First Amendment. Phillips is on shakier ground.

The First Amendment has several parts. Among other things, it prevents the state from hindering free speech, freedom of the press, the right to exercise one’s religion and, implicitly, the right to associate with people of one’s choosing.

It also prohibits the state from “establishing” one religion over others.

So if a bunch of ignorant racists want to put sheets over their heads and proclaim their superiority — the very fact of which they disprove by doing such things — they have a right to do so.

In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Boy Scouts’ controversial ban on gay scouts and leaders in part because forcing the group to accept gay members would violate the organization’s implied right to free association.

Certainly, Cathy has a right to voice his opposition to gay marriage and to see UNCENSORED Page 11

quotes “Make no mistake, the ayatollahs in Iran are testing our moral defenses. They want to know who will object and who will look the other way. We will not look away nor will our country ever look away from our passion and commitment to Israel.”

—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, discussing his view that the U.S. has a duty to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons “Good evening, Mr. Bond.”

—Queen Elizabeth II to actor Daniel Craig, who was playing James Bond in a short film set in Buckingham Palace and featured in the July 27 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London “If the international community cannot act, they should support the opposition with anti-tanks missiles and anti-aircraft rockets. We seek international supporters to arm our uprising against the regime.”

—Syrian rebel leader Abdel Basset Sida of the Syrian National Council, asking for other countries to back his opposition group by providing support against the Syrian government’s heavy weapons

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commentary State of Colorado bullies Longmont on behalf of oil and gas industry

by Joel Dyer

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ongmont city council members knew that the state might sue their community over the new oil and gas regulations that they passed a few weeks back. But it was a risk that they were willing to take in order to protect their town’s residents’ health, property values and overall quality of life. And besides, the council and the people of Longmont still held out hope … they still believed that in the end the state might just show itself to be something other than a shill for the oil and gas industry.

Unfortunately, their hope was misplaced.

On Monday, July 31, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, by way of the Colorado Attorney General’s office, filed suit against the city of Longmont for the purpose of killing off the most important parts of the town’s new oil and gas regs, now known as Ordinance O-2012-25. The suit came only hours after the ordinance had officially gone into effect.

It was a disgusting display of politics for hire on the part of the state. By attempting to quash these new regulations that are no more than Longmont’s attempt to avoid being cast in a starring role in the sequel to Gasland, the state showed its true colors.

The lawsuit filed Monday has nothing to do with oil and gas extraction, mineral owners’ rights or even state tax revenue. Instead, it is all about the state helping a dirty industry that has come under great public scrutiny of late to prevent Longmont from setting a precedent, a precedent that says that people have the right to protect themselves and their property from being invaded by heavy

industry in the name of somebody else’s profit.

Consider this: The new Longmont oil and gas regulations do not prevent oil and gas companies from extracting a single drop of oil or cubic foot of gas from under any portion of the city of Longmont.

That’s right, every bit of the oil and gas that could have been produced before the ordinance was passed can still be produced. The only difference is that companies wanting to develop oil and gas under the city’s neighborhoods might have to horizontally drill a little farther to reach their target.

Longmont’s new requirement that companies site their wellheads and production platforms outside of neighborhoods in places that won’t cause as much loss in property value to nearby homes, while simultaneously reducing potential health risks to neighborhood residents, is simply common sense land use to anyone not sucking on the oil and gas tit.

In other words, only oil and gas companies, people working for oil and gas companies, or people being compensated by the industry, such as mineral owners, industry-funded researchers, PR hacks and politicians, could honestly think that Longmont’s ordinance will hinder production. At worst it will cost a company a little more time on a hole and a few extra feet of pipe to extract their millions of dollars worth of hydrocarbons from the ground.

And the city went even further to be fair and try to avoid being sued. The new rules say that if a company can actually see COMMENTARY Page 9

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demonstrate that the Longmont regs are keeping them from being able to get to their oil and gas, the city will give them an exemption to the rules so that they can drill anywhere that the state will allow. That’s pretty darned accommodating. So much so, in fact, that many local activists believe that the ordinance has no teeth and is overly industry friendly.

The bottom line is this: The willingness of Longmont to ensure that oil and gas can still be developed from under the city means that the state of Colorado won’t miss out on the collection of one oil-and-gas tax dollar because of the Longmont ordinance, not one dollar.

And yet, the state jumped at the first chance to sue Longmont for its effort to try to do what’s right for all involved.

From where I sit, only the desire for overflowing campaign coffers and the vain needs of politicians to move up the political food chain can explain such idiocy.

It should be clear to everyone by now that the state of Colorado’s only role in oil and gas industry oversight is that of industry lapdog. The state’s real intention is to use our own tax dollars to force us to accept every single thing the industry wants, no matter how destructive to our communities. If “destructive” seems too heavy-handed a term, then I suggest you take the “tour de frack” through Frederick, Firestone, Dacono and Erie.

When you get to Weld County Road 18, take a good look around. It looks like a Superfund site as far as the eye can see, minus the fence and barbed wire of course, at least in some places. Then ask yourself how much you would have to be paid to move your family into one of the houses in the area. You won’t come up with a figure.

The state is sending a message with its lawsuit. If anyone should have the audacity, like the good people of Longmont, to ask for even the smallest concessions from the oil and gas industry to help keep their families safe and healthy and prevent their property values from collapsing, the state will sue you on behalf of its industry keepers, because all that matters is the industry’s profits.

Wake up. The state doesn’t care if your lives, your family and your community have to be decimated in order to please the oil and gas industry.

So to all of you industry-deceived flag wavers who naively have been led to believe that Longmont’s regs are wrongheaded and somehow an assault on our national security because they will force us to buy oil from Middle East terrorists, you can finally relax.

You no longer need to attend city council meetings anywhere to make your Boulder Weekly

arguments. You no longer need to preach to the rest of us about how having a bunch of brown tanks and burners next to our kids swing-sets — tanks that spew two tons of hydrocarbon emissions per tank into the air every year — somehow makes us patriots. Besides, we have such a glut of gas that we have to sell it to China just to get rid of it. Real patriotic.

You can stop spouting the ridiculous rhetoric provided to you compliments of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA).

You can stop because you are no longer needed. You failed. You were Plan A to stop Longmont from doing the right thing, but the majority of council members, both Republican and Democrat, saw your ridiculous arguments for what they were, industry propaganda.

Only those members of council that still believe that they need the most radical, crazed base of the Republican Party and its oil and gas industry dollars for their impending reelection bids voted to allow Longmont to become the next Frederick, the next town where you can’t attend church, go to the library or to school or play in a public park or even open your windows at night without being exposed to heavy industry and its associated air contamination.

Plan A failed. The state’s lawsuit against Longmont is the industry’s Plan B. For the sake of everyone in this state and many other states as well, we have to hope that Plan B likewise fails.

Remember, this is not about keeping oil and gas from being developed from under our neighborhoods. It is simply about requiring the industry to produce its massive profits in a more responsible way that preserves the quality of life, health and property values of all involved.

If that’s too much to expect from our current state government, which has the power to responsibly regulate the industry as opposed to acting like the oil and gas industry’s legal department, then voters from all across this state need to have their own Plan B. One that starts with getting rid of those elected officials, from city councils to the governor’s mansion, whose ears have become so clogged with industry money and lobbyists’ gibberish that they can no longer hear the desires and heartfelt concerns of the vast majority of the state’s citizens.

Longmont must not be viewed as a lone guinea pig, but rather as the first round in a statewide fight to return land use decisions to local communities and counties. All of us have a critical role to play in this battle at the ballot box, and together we can change the outcome.

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DEATHS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED THIS MONTH Here again is our monthly take on those who have shuffled off this mortal coil: Alan Goodwin “Dex” Poindexter (Nov. 5, 1961 – July 1, 2012) was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut, a veteran of two spaceflights who had spent 28 days in space.

Yvonne Bond Miller (July 4, 1934 – July 3, 2012) was the first African-American woman to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia. At the time of her death, the day before her 78th birthday, she was the longest-serving woman in the Virginia Senate.

Eric Sykes, CBE, (May 4, 1923 – July 4, 2012) was a British radio, television and film writer who frequently wrote for or performed with Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Johnny Miller Speight. He was noted for his work on The Goon Show scripts and appeared with Hattie Jacques in BBC comedy television series.

Anthony L. Sedlak (April 12, 1983 – July 6, 2012) was a Canadian chef, the host of Food Network Canada’s The Main and author of a cookbook by the same title. He won the Food Network’s Superstar Chef Challenge at the age of 23. Sedlak was 29 at the time of his death.

“Uncle” Lionel Batiste (Feb. 11, 1932 – July 8, 2012) was a jazz and blues musician and singer from New Orleans, the longtime bass drummer for the Treme Brass Band.

Donald J. Sobol (Oct. 4, 1924 – July 11, 2012) was an American Sedlak award-winning writer best known for his children’s books, especially the Encyclopedia Brown mystery series, which has been translated into 12 languages and never gone out of print.

Roger Payne (July 16, 1956 – July 12, 2012) was a British mountaineer. Payne had been an avalanche instructor since 1977 and a mountain guide since 1983. He took part in more than 20 expeditions to the Karakoram and Himalayan ranges, including K2 and the north face of Changabang. Payne was killed with eight other climbers while traversing Mont Maudit on the Mont Blanc massif near Chamonix.

Payne Sage Moonblood Stallone (May 5, 1976 – c. July 13, 2012) was an American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was the elder son of Sasha Czack and Sylvester Stallone. His acting debut was alongside his father in Rocky V. Initial reports suggested his death, at age 36, was accidental.

Eddy Sixten Jernberg (Feb. 6, 1929 – July 14, 2012) was a Swedish cross-country skier who won four World Championship gold medals and nine Olympic medals. In 12 starts over three consecutive winter Olympics, ending with the 1964 games, he never finished worse than fifth.

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950), and originating the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943).

Stephen Richards Covey (Oct. 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) co-wrote the Academy Award nominees Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke and wrote Academy Award winner Dog Day Afternoon. He was also a consulting producer for the TV series Mad Men. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman to enter into low-Earth orbit in 1983.

Thelma Glass (May 16, 1916 – July 24, 2012) was secretary of the Women’s Political Council in 1955 and she and other members of that organization helped to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest.

Lupe Ontiveros (Sept. 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012) acted in numerous films and television shows, most often playing a maid or, more recently, an all-knowing grandmother; she once estimated that she had played a maid at least 150 times on stage and screen.

She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives and received critical acclaim for her role in Chuck and Buck.

Ontiveros The information in these obituaries was compiled from death notices posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2012.

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donate his money to whatever causes most appeal to him.

Phillips, on the other hand, has basically hung out a shingle that says, “Gays not served wedding cake here.” He told the press that he’ll be happy to take GLBT people’s money for birthday cakes and other baked goods, but not for wedding cakes. By refusing service to a specific group of people, he may have run afoul of the state’s anti-discrimination law, which prohibits any places of “public accommodation,” such as a retail store, “to refuse, withhold from, or deny to an LETTERS from Page 7

reclaiming and recycling the water they use,” which seems to be “good news,” but I did a little “drilling” (yes, I meant that as a pun) for more information and found that the best efforts of the reclaiming and recycling is good only up to six times. In other words, sooner or later, the water used in fracking is unusable. Period.

Can Paul or any of his sources offer a better solution to this problem? I am not satisfied with this kind of easy, offthe-cuff coverage of what seems to be an essential question of collective survival. Are you?

Do you think the 10-year-old children today when they are 60 (in 50 years) will be?

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Since the Aurora shooting, there has been a widespread outpouring of emotion (from President Obama on down) saying that we, as a society, are “with the victims.” This isn’t true.

As individuals, we undoubtedly feel for the victims. But as a society, we support the right to own and use almost any kind of gun we can think of (including assault rifles and pumpaction shot guns). So when a deranged person exercises that right, we make no attempt to restrict or curtail it.

We know there’s a price to pay for this right, since every so often we suffer a massacre — Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine. The sympathy we feel for the victims is therefore tempered by our knowledge — and acceptance — of the fact that someone has to pay. We’re genuinely sorry it was you, we say to the victims (as we hug our loved ones, glad that, this time, it wasn’t us), but your loss is not as important as our right to bear arms of almost any kind.

We shouldn’t kid ourselves. We are a democratic legislating society. As long as we keep our current gun laws, we may, as individuals, be “with the victims.” But as a society, we prefer to support the rights of the shooters.

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individual or a group, because of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry, the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, [or] services…”

While time will tell whether Phillips faces sanctions, the First Amendment, which protects his right to believe whatever repugnant thing he chooses and shields the Boy Scouts and Dan Cathy, also provides us with the ability to respond according to our consciences.

And the public has been responding by boycotting Chick-fil-A and

Masterpiece Cakes, by staging protests at Phillips’ bakery, by publicly decrying the bigotry of the Boy Scouts in letters and words and by withdrawing from the organization.

We might have to tolerate people like Cathy and Phillips and put up with organizations like the Boy Scouts — but we don’t have to pretend to respect them.

And here’s the good news: Day by day, we are winning.

Views about gay marriage have been shifting rapidly in the United States over the past few years. Despite the universal

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failure of gay marriage to pass in statewide elections, a recent SurveyUSA poll in Washington showed a 50 percent to 43 percent margin of voters is now in favor of marriage equality for gay couples.

Views toward gay marriage are especially positive among younger voters.

One day, those who discriminate against gays will be viewed in the same light as those crazy racists who wear sheets on their heads.

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dditional questions have emerged around the financial disclosures filed by Boulder City Council members.

In addition to the examples previously reported by Boulder Weekly about city council members George Karakehian and Ken Wilson being less than accurate on their forms, BW has uncovered irregularities in other members’ paperwork.

The growing evidence that city officials have some serious problems disclosing information needed to avoid potential conflicts of interest, or at least the appearance of impropriety, only adds ammunition to claims by local critics who fear that some on council may be operating out of self interest or for the gain of their friends and business partners.

The latest round of questions involve filings by council members Macon Cowles, KC Becker and Suzy Ageton.

Cowles, for example, failed to list on his 2011 disclosure form the capital gain from the sale of his house at 1680 Wilson Court, a property that made headlines in 2010 and 2011 after Cowles appealed the county assessor’s value of his house. The Camera reported that he later sold the house for $1.57 million, nearly twice as much as the assessor’s revised value.

Cowles told BW this week that not listing the capital gain from the sale was an oversight. In the instructions on the form, “capital gain” is specifically spelled out as one example of the types of sources of income that must be included.

In response to a request for an opinion on the matter, City Attorney Tom Carr said via city spokesperson Patrick Von Keyserling that since the form allows council members to omit their primary residence from the “Real Estate Interests” section, it is unclear whether they need to report capital gains from the Boulder Weekly

sale of such properties.

Like Carr has done in previous situations where he has defended inaccurate information provided by council members, he seems to be saying that the form itself — or council’s inability to grasp its requirements — is at fault.

Von Keyserling says Cowles’ omission is one of the gray areas that will be clarified in the next couple of months as Carr, at the request of Mayor Matt Appelbaum, reviews ways to revamp the process council uses for members to disclose possible conflicts of interest.

Von Keyserling acknowledged that the city’s code of conduct, contained in the Boulder Revised Code, definitively requires capital gains to be reported.

“Because of that discrepancy, those would be the types of issues the city attorney’s office is looking at to standardize and make sure both the form and the current law are in line with each other,” he says.

Becker’s 2010 and 2011 forms illustrate another possible omission. Under the “Business Interests” section of her 2010 form, she lists herself as an investor in “1240 Cedar LLC,” one of the entities that county records show sold a property for $2.5 million on Sept. 3, 2010, six days before the date of Becker’s disclosure form. She does not list any revenues from that sale on her 2010 or 2011 forms, and even if she rolled any profits back into the LLC, the LLC is not included on her 2011 paperwork.

Possibilities include that Becker was still part of the LLC when she filled out her 2011 form and failed to disclose it, or had liquidated her interest in the LLC and failed to disclose that source of income on the form.

Secretary of State records show that 1240 Cedar LLC was still an active entity at the time her 2011 form was filed, even though the property located

at 1240 Cedar had been sold more than a year earlier.

Becker did not respond to requests for comment by phone or email during the three days prior to press time. She was not at Tuesday night’s council meeting, so she may be out of town.

Before the city issued a restraining order against him, local political gladfly Seth Brigham had raised other questions about Becker, including the appointment of one of her business partners, Scott Holton, to the Boulder Housing Partners board in March 2011. That appointment was made by then-Mayor Susan Osborne and did not involve a council vote. Osborne told BW that she was not aware of the relationship between the two at the time of the appointment, and that she doesn’t recall whether she consulted with Becker regarding the appointment. She did say, however, that Holton applied for the post, like any other prospective board member.

While apparent irregularities on Ageton’s forms are more easily explained, they further highlight the need for the city to rework the process it uses for council members to disclose possible conflicts and appearances of impropriety.

For example, on her 2010 and 2011 forms, Ageton doesn’t declare the home that she owns under “Real Estate Interests,” and while the form allows council members to omit such assets, other council members, such as Cowles, list such properties. When those assets are not placed under the real estate section, it is unclear whether the home address listed in the form is rented, owned — or their parents’ basement.

Ageton agrees more clarity is needed.

“I’ve gone back and forth on [listing] that, and it seems to me this is a small, maybe insignificant, example of why I think the form is not well-designed,” she told BW. “To me, there ought to be consistency. I think that’s a place where we could clean up this form and just automatically have every council member list their residence.”

On her 2011 form, under “Sources of Income,” Ageton lists a “real estate sale,” but she lists no property owned on the previous year’s form. She does list an “estate distribution” on her 2010 form, and she explained to BW that she received partial ownership of an out-ofstate property as part of an inheritance that year, and that property was subsequently sold. Ageton says she consulted with city staff on how to list that estate

distribution, and followed their guidance.

(Council members are not required to list dollar figures on their forms.)

But she points out that a flaw in the form is that it calls for including revenue from all properties sold — even when they are out-of-state and have no relevance to council duties.

“So again, this is a place where we need to be clear about what is the purpose of the financial disclosure form,” Ageton says. “That sale, I, in no way, could influence by an action as a Boulder City Council member. If the intent of the financial disclosure form is to allow people to see where there are financial business interests that I might be able to influence as a council member, this particular piece of my financial history is totally irrelevant.”

She suggested creating a closer connection between the code of conduct and the disclosure forms required to be filled out every year by sitting city council members and by candidates running for council that year.

“I think the community does deserve to know what financial interests, business properties or personal properties that we have that we could potentially, by a legislative action, influence,” Ageton says.

But when asked why she, unlike Wilson, failed to list prominent clients of her consulting business in the “other information” portion of the form, Ageton says that while such disclosures should be considered, “there is a line between providing relevant information that allows the community to make the assessment about whether or not you are acting appropriately, and opening up your entire life to people so that they can do or say whatever they feel like with regard to the clients, some of whom they may like, and some of whom they may not like.”

When asked about the allegations regarding Karakehian and Wilson, she says, “the two that you have highlighted, I know those to be good, honest people. I don’t have any reason to believe there was any intent to deceive. I think this form is not easy.”

Ageton suggested that an independent, third party, like a consultant, could be used to regularly review the disclosure forms privately, “and something could be cleared if it needed to be. … I’m not interested in playing a game of ‘gotcha.’

If someone is intent on hiding something, they can do it, probably. But that’s true with so many things in life.”

She cited ambiguous language in the city’s code of conduct that asks council members to disclose “close” friends who have a “substantial interest” in a transaction with the city.

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group of immigration activists who protested at the state Capitol this week and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle have something in

common.

They both want Colorado’s version of Arizona’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants overturned.

SB 90, passed by the state legislature in 2006, requires police officers to report suspected undocumented foreigners who are arrested on a criminal offense to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The law has elicited protest from the immigrants’ rights community, which claims that it forces officers to resort to racial profiling when making the determination of whether to report someone to ICE. The Colorado law wasn’t quite as expansive as the 2010 Arizona version, SB 1070, which authorized officers to not only check “papers” and judge someone’s citizenship status upon arrest, but during “lawful stops” and “detentions.”

Still, a delegation calling itself “Americans-in-Waiting” stopped at the state Capitol in Denver on July 31 to protest Colorado’s SB 90. It was the second stop on a national tour called “No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice.”

At the group’s first stop — in Phoenix to protest against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s alleged racial profiling — four protesters were arrested July 24 during what they described as a peaceful disobedience action outside the sheriff ’s trial.

While it may be for different reasons than the immigration activists, Boulder County’s own sheriff agrees that Colorado’s version of the law is unnecessary. Pelle told Boulder Weekly

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by Jefferson Dodge that, given the statewide implementation of the Secure Communities program in May, SB 90 is redundant because Secure Communities requires the fingerprints of every arrested person to be submitted to ICE for a citizenship check. It removes the guesswork for law enforcement, because all are treated equally, Pelle says.

If all arrestees’ fingerprints are now submitted to ICE under Secure Communities, he explains, there is no longer any need for officers to attempt to determine citizenship according to SB 90.

“It’s so we’re not making decisions based on people’s skin color or language or English skills,” Pelle says. “The other thing I like about [Secure

t’s 1:00 in the morning on Tuesday night. It’s been a few hours since I found out that Gore Vidal died.

They say it was complications of pneumonia. I have no doubt he would have preferred something far more spectacular, an ailment with a fantastic name, a bizarre accident or at least a mystery illness, just something more fitting a life so big as his. He would have told you he deserved it.

It was just about this time of night in 2001 that I had my first encounter with Vidal. I was mostly asleep when the phone in my kitchen rang. I could hear someone leaving a message but I couldn’t make out the voice. Finally, Ellen poked me in the ribs and said she heard the name Gore Vidal. That woke me up, at

Communities] is —maybe they’re from Canada or Burma or Australia — it treats everyone the same.”

It’s now superfluous to have the subjective, judgment-based process for law enforcement required under SB 90, he says.

“Now that Secure Communities is here, I would like to see the reporting requirement lifted from county jails, because Secure Communities automatically takes care of the reporting, and does it in an unbiased, totally fair way. … The efforts are being duplicated. My hope is that if Secure Communities remains in effect, maybe we could get rid of Senate Bill 90.”

Pelle has also said that Secure Communities could head off any effort

least enough to stumble down the hall.

I grabbed the phone before he could hang up and then stood there in my underwear for the next few hours having a conversation with one of the great literary figures of our time. It was as odd as it sounds.

In between our discussions of a Vanity Fair project on which he wanted to collaborate, and our dissecting of the mind of Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh, with whom we both had a certain relationship, he took the time to correct my grammar, something involving “me and I” or “he and me.” I can’t remember now.

Whatever it was, I found it pretty pompous in the middle of the night, considering that he had called me and I wasn’t even wearing pants. I would later come to

to bring an Arizona-like law to Colorado, a move that he and the head of a statewide sheriffs’ association have said they oppose because it asks deputies to serve as immigration officers, which is beyond their purview.

Secure Communities had been used as a pilot program in a few Colorado counties since former Gov. Bill Ritter announced in 2011 that Colorado would become one of the 35 states using the program nationally. (The Boulder County commissioners objected to the move.)

The program has been controversial, in part because of concerns that it could have a chilling effect on undocumented immigrants’ willingness to report crimes, especially victims of domestic violence, who are often arrested when there are no witnesses or when both parties have injuries and it is unclear who was the perpetrator.

To its credit on that front, Colorado’s SB 90 had an exception for domestic violence cases: Suspected undocumented immigrants arrested on charges of domestic violence were not reported to ICE until conviction.

But the law did not require counties to provide that exception, and Boulder County doesn’t delay reporting to ICE in domestic violence cases, Pelle says, in part because about 90 percent of all such offenders are no longer in custody at the time of their conviction, in most cases because they are out on bond. He has said that law enforcement agencies would have to set up a separate tracking system just for suspects to have their fingerprints sent to ICE at the time of conviction rather than the time of arrest.

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appreciate such exchanges. It was pure Vidal, he intimidated the heck out of me back then, which he both knew and relished.

I wanted to hang up on him that first night, but I couldn’t. He was inviting me for a glimpse into his world and I knew I had to look. And now, 12 years later and contemplating his death in the middle of the night looking across that same kitchen, I’m glad I stayed on the phone.

For me, getting to know Gore Vidal was like walking into one of his historical novels, only his real life was far more enthralling than any fiction.

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. dropped from the womb and literally into the midsee GORE Page 16

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dle of 20th century history on Oct. 3, 1925. He was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

His father, Eugene, was an important figure in early aviation, having started several airline companies, including T.W.A. Eugene was eventually appointed by family friend President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the first director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, the predecessor to today’s Federal Aviation Administration.

Gore’s mother, Nina, was the daughter of Thomas Pryor Gore, the first Democratic senator from Oklahoma. Sen. Gore was famous mostly for being blind. Gore often described his mother as a drunken socialite. They weren’t real close. In 1935, Eugene and Nina divorced, which only deepened Vidal’s exposure to fame and aristocracy.

His father had been romantically involved with fellow aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart for some time, and after the divorce Gore was able to spend more time with Ms. Earhart, whom he liked, a rarity. As for his mom, she remarried to Hugh Auchincloss, the stepfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Growing up as Gore Vidal obviously had its moments. For instance, when he struggled in school, he was personally tutored by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt, and he struggled in school a good deal, so the two became close.

Vidal hated school. He didn’t fit in and he didn’t care for the structure. It wasn’t because he wasn’t smart. Gore read War and Peace while skipping school and hiding in his grandfather the senator’s attic when he was only 8 years old. He had an incredible photo-

graphic memory that I can attest to firsthand. It was still fully functional as recently as just a few years ago when I was working with him while he was in his late 70s.

With his intellect and his connections, it is not an exaggeration to say that Vidal could have done anything he wanted. He wanted to write and be a bigger than life personality. He succeeded at both. He published his first novel, Williwaw, in 1946 and quickly followed that book with his second offering, In a Yellow Wood, a year later.

At that point, Vidal’s books were modestly successful. His publisher wanted another similar book in order to grow his audience, but Vidal had other plans.

He wanted to write the book that he wanted to write, a book about homosexuality in the 1940s. His publisher was not enthusiastic, explaining to the young Vidal that it would be career suicide.

But Vidal didn’t like structure or authority. So in 1948 he rolled the dice and published The City and the Pillar. It was the 1940s version of a coming-out story. Vidal dedicated the book to J.T., which stood for Jimmy Trimble, who was Vidal’s real-life first love. Trimble was killed in the Pacific during World War II and Vidal never fully got over his relationship with him.

At the time, The City and the Pillar was beyond controversial. It was banned as pornography and panned by critics as too immoral to be worth reading. The New York Times in particular found the book offensive, which started Vidal’s famous life-long feud with the Grey Lady. Vidal claimed that he was blacksee GORE Page 17

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tation of Secure Communities was painless for Boulder County because the sheriff ’s office already sends fingerprints of all those arrested to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and it’s CBI that’s sending the prints to ICE. “It doesn’t impact us at all,” he says.

“There’s nothing on our end we do or see differently. … There’s no opting in or out, there’s no equipment, there’s no extra work, nothing. It’s unseen and unknown to us that this is occurring. It doesn’t make any difference in booking time or anything else.”

Pelle adds that under Secure Communities, he hasn’t yet seen any spike in the number of “detainers” that ICE is placing on suspected undocumented immigrants who are arrested.

(In the case of a “detainer,” as a cour-

tesy to ICE, the sheriff ’s office will keep a suspect in jail up to 48 additional hours past the point they are due to be released, giving an ICE agent the opportunity to interview those suspected of being in the country illegally.)

Deputies only report about 10 percent of arrestees to ICE as required under SB 90, and of those, only 100 to 200 are placed on a detainer by ICE, Pelle says.

He adds that the practice of reporting those suspected of being undocumented immigrants to ICE was not new to Boulder County when SB 90 passed in 2006; it has been a practice the sheriff ’s office began more than two decades ago, under former Sheriff George Epp. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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listed by the NYT and as a result couldn’t get his books reviewed in major newspapers for decades, an accusation that the paper doesn’t wholly deny.

Until his dying breath he spoke harshly of the NYT as often as he could find an excuse to work the newspaper into conversation.

It wasn’t just the NYT that irked Vidal, he was famous for his feuds and seemingly never forgave anyone who crossed him. His confrontations with Truman Capote, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Mailer are legendary.

He once came to blows with Mailer backstage at the Dick Cavett Show.

And when he spoke to me about Capote in recent times, it was as if the two had been at each other’s throats just the day before, instead of the decades it had actually been since their last sparring match.

In all, Gore Vidal published 25 novels, two memoirs, several plays for theater as well as a good many screenplays for television and film. He also was well known for his many essays, which tended to be both political and often conspiratorial in nature.

Gore Vidal lived large.

I eventually stopped feeling intimidated by Vidal as I came to appreciate his acerbic wit and understand that his ego was justified and earned. But I never stopped being in awe of him.

When he would start a story with the words “that reminds me of,” you were always in for a good name-dropping tale.

As I look back now, I think Vidal was just as kind and loyal to those he chose to include in his life as he was degrading and mean-spirited to those he disliked.

We worked together on a few different projects for a couple of years.

One day he called out of the blue to tell me that he was “making” his publisher in Italy translate and publish my first book, Harvest of Rage, in that country.

He was living in a villa on the Italian Riviera at the time and just thought it was a good idea. He said he thought there were parts of the book that might Boulder Weekly

embarrass the Vatican, which was always a pet project of his. Such bravado.

He wrote a very kind endorsement for my book that filled the entire back cover. I would never have asked him or expected him to do such a thing, which I’m certain is one of the reasons he did it. That was just how he was, at least with me. If he thought you had something important to say he was more than willing to use his clout and name to help you get the word out. That’s a rare quality and not one that I have seen anyone attributing to Vidal on this, the day of his death. But it was true for me.

All I can think of sitting here at my table in the middle of the night is that he showed me great kindness, yet I don’t know why. After all, Vidal is the man that the NYT reported had described himself this way: “I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”

He would no doubt accuse me of being disgustingly sentimental if I were to offer a differing point of view, so I won’t. But to this day it still feels like he randomly picked me out of the air and aided my writing career for no better reason than because he could.

We talked about writing a book together on the Oklahoma City bombing, or perhaps the hyper-conservative catholic militias that so intrigued his conspiratorial mind. But we always ended up pushing it off, as other subjects like 9/11 and Bush-era politics seemed to trump all else for Vidal. I wish now that we had found the time.

I’m sure it would have been a good read, but more importantly on this day, it would have given me more stories to remember and share.

I don’t know where Vidal is this morning, but if he is in an afterlife, I am sure that he’s reading the NYT to Truman Capote at the Vatican. I’m just not sure if that means he’s in heaven or hell. He did love his feuds.

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Bold Doors repurposes refuse to make high-end art

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“Secret Koi Pond” by Jennifer Mosquera

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Conservation clear out its inventory

tiative began a year ago.

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of a silent auction. The event finishes on Saturday,

The mission of Bold Doors was threefold: making use of some of the building supplies at the Center for ReSource Conservation that might otherwise find their way to landfills, generating some financial support for professional artists and boosting the creative community so it draws more creative industry professionals.

Bold Doors put out the call for artists to take a door — any kind of door, from a cabinet, a car or the front of a home — and create artwork out of it in a contest to win cash prizes. Some of the more than 100 doors on display as part of Bold Doors could still function as doors. Some could be confused with any other painting. Two have been turned into art decoinfluenced end tables.

Aug. 4, with a Door Jam celebration that will bring

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building collaboration of artists and is drawing visitors into surprising corners of Boulder. The Bold Doors tour reinvented about 100 doors as artwork that is now on display in shops around town and part

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Beth Van De Water’s “River”

“Closing the door ... Forever”

by Joan Wolbier

The pieces are now on display at 65 locations around Boulder in a route that meanders from the west end of Pearl Street to the Twenty Ninth Street mall (with an ulterior motive here of showing those who do decide to walk the stretch how easy a distance it is to cover on foot).

The impetuses that would shape Bold Doors began last year at a gathering of about 20 leaders in Boulder’s art community, including Open Arts, the Dairy Center for the Arts and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, who were asked what could be done to promote sustainable art. But there was also a push for boosting Boulder’s image as a city driven to sustainable options in all endeavors.

“If you walk around and see public art, or art that’s on display around the city — if you were to drop from Mars and say ‘OK, what does this city care about?’ I don’t think sustainability would quite capture peoples’ attention,” says Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Nolan, who cocreated Bold Doors with Linda Olsson.

“Overwhelmingly, people felt that it would be fantastic to start perhaps a multi-year initiative that would show just how committed Boulder as a community is to making art sustainable, meaning not wasting materials, finding creative ways to reuse, but in a way that is really sustainable,” Nolan says. “I think we felt that, in general, culture has moved [away] from cute projects with garbage bags or whatSome are made using other reused materials, like ever that entertain for a while but still end up at the the glass bottles in Beth Van De Water’s “River,” landfill. So we felt it’s really about beautiful fine art, which shows circles of glass embedded in the winit’s about pieces that people want to treasure for years dowpanes of a door, or in Al Mowrer and Chad to come, and this is the second Blecha’s “The Still,” which reused life of the doors, or any other all manner of materials to create material, for that matter.” a birdhouse on the front of a Door Jam Celebration 4-7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 4 The message of sustainabilidoor and a re-cycling water founTwenty Ninth Street Mall Community ty reverberates through much of tain. “The Still” won first place, a Room 1685 29th St., Boulder. $5 admission at the artwork, and carries beyond $1,000 prize, in the juried profesthe door (includes one drink ticket and the use of that one door. sional artists contest. free appetizers) In some, like Joan Wolbier’s In Jennifer Mosquera’s “The “Closing the door … Forever,” Secret Koi Pond,” in contrast, the message is readily apparent: The four-paneled recycled glass all but vanishes in an ornate creation of folding door shows silhouettes of passenger pigeons, a glittering, reused glass pieces, some of which were once-abundant North American species that is now unusable shards she melted down in a glass kiln. That extinct. Wolbier painted a single portrait of Martha, the canvas was ever a door can be spotted only in its the last known of the species, with a note identifying wood framing and the leftover brass latch. Mosquera her and her death in a Cincinnati Zoo on Sept. 1, is more often a painter, and began working with 1914. repurposed materials as a way of using up leftover

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“If you take a moment to think about how much we waste and how much beautiful artwork was created out of this, it’s kind of staggering,” Mosquera says of Bold Doors. Artists are often creative with what’s around them, she adds. “In some ways, I think it’s our job to share that with other people. … In some ways it makes us teachers or examples of what is possible. So that is something that’s kind of motivating or inspiring to me when I see other people’s work. I think the whole contest is a sampler plate of that.”

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hat got Rebecca Much into cycling has a similar thread to what she does now that she’s retired from a competitive cycling career that included National Cyclocross Championship and National Time Trial Championship wins.

It’s about what bikes can do that has nothing to do with how fast you pedal them.

Much started riding at around age 12 when she got a bike to compete in a triathlon. But it wasn’t long before she looked at the bike and saw its options outside the competirudy.bw.2for1.left page.3.pdf

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“I grew up in downtown Chicago, so the school I went to was probably eight miles away and I had to take a couple different forms of public transportation to get there,” she says. “With traffic in a big city, you would see bikes riding by you all the time and I was just like, I’m not going to sit on the bus anymore.”

The kids she visits when she goes to Africa to see the organization she works for now, World Bicycle Relief, in action, don’t have buses as an option, or much traffic to worry about. They’re walking for hours each day to get to school, often arriving late and probably already exhausted. By the time they walk the hours home, finish a string of chores like the one they started the day with, they’ll

have little energy or light left for studying or homework.

World Bicycle Relief works to get bikes to those kids and other members of their rural communities to ease access to schools, markets, clean water and healthcare. They’ve put 107,931 bikes into the field since being founded in 2005, initially to serve Sri Lanka and other areas affected by the tsunami in December 2004.

A baseline study of 602 households in rural areas of Zambia targeted for their Bicycled for Educational Empowerment Program showed 37 percent of students regularly missed school and 100 percent of students living over one hour from school see BICYCLES Page 24

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adventure Bikes allow students to complete chores like fetching water in a quarter the time they took on foot.

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arrived 30 to 60 minutes late for school started in 2009 with a goal of distributtwo the five days a week. ing 50,000 bikes to students in Zambia “I’d been telling the story of World and Zimbabwe, and aiming to make 70 percent of the recipients girls, who have Bicycle Relief for several years before I was able to go visit our programs and it a higher dropout rate. They delivered 7,000 bikes in just the first year. was really cool to just walk into exactly Give a kid a bike, and attendance the picture you had drawn for yourself,” improves by 22 percent for both boys Much says. “I thought that was super and girls. A three-hour walk becomes encouraging that what we had 45 minutes of pedaling down dirt roads. described with how the program had “We’re really focused on areas where worked had all been exactly what we walking’s the real explained.” option for transportaWhat seeing it all tion. There’s no public really made clear, Bash for Bikes 7 p.m. Aug. 3 transportation system, though, was just how Colorado Multisport a car’s not really in the rough the paths these 280 Canyon Blvd. #M-2, picture, and then the kids were walking to Boulder www.world roads haven’t been set school are, she says. bicyclerelief.org up that well, so pretty “You can see kids poor transportation having to walk five infrastructure overall, so walking’s the miles to school one way and why that would be a burden, because your school best way to get around,” she says.

In the health care branch of the is not five miles down one road, you World Bicycle Relief program, they take several twisty paths to get there,” partnered with RAPIDS (Reaching she says. “It’s a really rough five miles HIV/AIDS Affected People with away, and just the fact that kids are Integrated Development and Support) really walking that distance to school, and their volunteer caregivers. The proyou could see why there’s tremendous dropout rates. You could see why a fam- gram was suffering a high dropout rate among individuals trained as caregivers ily’s going to think, ‘Oh it makes more for people living with AIDS/HIV that sense for them to just stay home.’ We was largely attributed to the travel dishave so many other children here who tances required in visiting patients. need to be taken care of, we have so “Sometimes patients are 15, 20k many other needs. Education could be (nine to 12 miles) away, so that’s a kind of dropped down in priority, but whole day trip just to visit one patient,” then education is the most empowering Much says. With a bike, those caregivthing you can receive, and it’s particuers can do their morning chores, visit a larly powerful in the case of girl stupatient, and come home and see still dents because they’re the first to get more patients. pulled out of school.”

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says. “Then also carrying capacity is increased about five times when you have a bike, so farmers, entrepreneurs who are taking goods into market, can take much more when you’re on a bike.”

There are other organizations that ship bikes to Africa, or build bikes in Africa — and some of them cost less than half of what a WBR bike costs.

But WBR bikes were made with Africa in mind.

They focus distribution on rural areas, Much says, “places where really walking is the only option, and then the bikes — there’s not going to be a lot of replacement parts available, not a lot of tools to make sure the bikes are up and running all the time. So the bikes have been really designed with all of that in mind. They’re really robust, low maintenance, really high carrying capacity for taking goods to market.”

The bikes are tested to haul up to 220 pounds of “milk, maize, charcoal, goats — anything,” Much says.

Even a sibling can easily be carried on the back rack on the bike.

It’s $134 for a bike, which covers $70 in parts plus transportation. All the bikes are assembled at centers in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa — employing 85 people. And each bike is given in a two-year study-to-own or work-to-own agreement.

And, just in case, for every 50 bikes sent into the field, a mechanic is trained to keep the bikes up.

Much started working with World Bicycle Relief five years ago, and came on board as an athlete and volunteer fundraiser.

“Just wanted to kind of give back a little bit through racing,” she says. “It’s great, in the long run, you feel like it’s a Boulder Weekly

selfish thing, there’s not anything you’re really doing sometimes, so I think racers have great opportunities to give back through sport.”

The attraction to World Bicycle Relief was immediate once she became familiar with the layout of the organization, she says, and she enjoyed it enough that she started working at World Bicycle Relief full time two years ago.

To support their ongoing efforts, World Bicycle Relief will be hosting its second annual benefit night, the Bash for Bikes, on Aug. 3. The event invites other cycling athletes to participate in a Q&A. This year’s lineup includes triathletes Craig Alexander, Mirinda Carfrae and Tim O’Donnell as well as cyclist Tom Danielson.

“It was time for me to try and use what I have, my name and whatever I have, to put my weight behind some sort of cause,” says Carfrae, who has won multiple 70.3 ironmans, or half ironmans, and who attended last year’s Bash for Bikes as well. “There’s so many out there to choose from, and this one really struck a chord with me.”

The focus on educating girls in Africa was the central part of that attraction, she says.

“I just really appreciated that they’re giving these bikes to young people and enabling them to go to school and get an education and make something of their lives,” Carfrae says. “It felt like a basic human right to go to school and follow whatever path. The sad reality is it’s not a reality. It’s not a basic human right in so many places in the world.”

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hen Chinese government officials unexpectedly detained controversial artist Ai Weiwei — keeping him for 81 days in an undisclosed location — it ignited a firestorm of protests across the world that reinforced Ai’s calls for democracy in China.

Ai rose to international prominence for his role as the chief architect of the Bird’s Nest stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. But he soon denounced the games and refused to attend the opening ceremony after Chinese officials displaced more than a million citizens to make way for tourists and initiated what Ai perceived to be a propaganda campaign.

Later that same year, after the devastating earthquake in the Sichuan province of China that killed more than 70,000 people, Ai openly spoke out against the see DISSIDENT Page 28

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“tofu construction” of buildings that contributed to such a high casualty.

When the Chinese government neglected to release the number of students who had died in their school buildings, Ai helped launch an investigation to find out how many had perished.

It was around this time that Alison Klayman, director of the new documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, began to follow the dissident artist. What started as a simple video promo for the opening of Ai’s latest gallery quickly turned into a more in-depth piece on the increasingly socially active artist.

“He was just such a charismatic figure, but also enigmatic too,” Klayman says. “I really wanted to know more about why he was so bold and what he was going to do with his upcoming earthquake campaign. It seemed like he was not afraid to confront authorities, and I wanted to see how was that going play out in China.”

Less than a year later, Ai had accumulated 5,385 names of students who had died in the quake, publishing the list and displaying the names on his office wall.

But his investigation came at a price. Ai’s blog was shut down, and police cameras were installed just outside his studio. Three months later, Ai was allegedly assaulted by a police officer when his hotel room was raided. In Klayman’s new film, the officer presumed to throw the strike can be heard saying: “Who saw it? No one saw it.”

In a “pen is mightier than the sword” moment, Ai took a picture of the encounter and posted it on Twitter, the photo going viral overnight and his support blossoming. Less than a month later — presumably as a result of being hit — Ai was hospitalized with internal bleeding and required major brain surgery. He chronicled the entire experience through his Twitter page.

“Once those things happened, it was

clear this project was going to be much more action-packed than I had anticipated,” Klayman says of Ai’s attack and subsequent hospitalization.

Despite the authoritarian regime’s efforts to silence Ai by shutting down his blogs, he has consistently bypassed the “Great Firewall of China” — named for China’s extreme measures to censor the Internet — and used Twitter and transparency as a weapon to battle injustices he sees in his country.

Even with government censorship online, Klayman says there’s always a way to be heard.

“There are all kinds of tricky ways that people find to express themselves online,” she says. “If a word gets banned, citizens use a similar-sounding word, or a code word. There is a lot of exciting dialogue that is happening in China all the time on the Internet, and the authorities are always aware and trying to ban words as they get popular.

And they’re talking about things they don’t want people to talk about.

Authorities have plenty of people posting pro-government things on message boards to sway the conversations.”

Short of turning off the Internet — which government officials have done in provinces like Xinjiang, where a communication blackout went into effect after 2009 riots — the government is limited in its censorship of ideas online.

“I think as long as people have the will to say what they want to say, it’s always easier to stay one step ahead of the censors, rather than the censors staying one step ahead of the people wanting to speak their mind,” Klayman says. “The way technology works and the way things proliferate, as long as that will is there to be creative and get yourself heard, that’s what I’d put my bet on, rather than the censors.”

But the optimism Klayman and Ai share in creating a more transparent society was shaken on April 3, 2011, when Boulder Weekly

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Almost immediately, social media sites were ablaze with mention of Ai’s disappearance, as citizens across the globe protested his unwarranted detention. High-profile figures, including Hillary Clinton, took time to denounce the Chinese government’s actions and urged authorities to release the artist. In an effort to silence free speech, the Chinese government instead propelled Ai and his fight for freedom nationally and abroad.

Ai was finally released 81 days later, after Chinese authorities said he had confessed to tax evasion. Ai’s sister later told the Washington Post that her brother was detained in a small room with constant light and two guards watching him at all times.

Klayman and her crew were there to capture Ai’s return, showing the onceoutspoken critic turned timid and suddenly shy, denying all requests to speak to reporters as he retreated into his home.

Klayman says that as Ai has gotten back into his art and activism, he hasn’t forgotten the isolation and psychological toll of his experience.

“I think that if anything, it’s certainly underscored and redoubled his beliefs in the importance of what he has been fighting for,” she says. “At the same time, he’s pushed the boundaries since he’s been released and slowly gone back to social media after a little bit and started doing interviews again. You can just tell if you knew him from before, he is being more careful. Even sometimes it doesn’t look like it, and he’ll say things in the press that still shocks me because of how direct he is in his criticisms. But he also can’t help but be affected by that experience and by the fact that he’s under much more consistent surveillance. People meet up with him on a much more regular basis to remind him that he could be put away at any time.”

Klayman says that sobering reminder is something Ai has to take into consideration when fighting against oppression.

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lake Rooker, lead singer and guitarist from the Boulderbased West Water Outlaws, responds a little cautiously when we press him to share some highlights from the band’s recent swing through the steamy Southeast, a sure sign that the big noise/big beat blues-rock quartet was probably doing the dive-bar mini-tour thing right.

“I’m trying to think of what I’m allowed to tell without embarrassing someone,” he says.

Ha! What about Savannah, Ga., four nights at the Retro on Congress?

“Yeah, that was awesome,” he says.

“We went to the beach a lot. We had a big, gnarly mob of people out on the beach one night until sunrise. And families were getting out to watch the sunrise and people were out metal detecting, and we all there standing next to this big forest of beer cans, looking all haggard, just scarin’ people.”

What about Birmingham, Ala.?

Gotta wonder what a gig at a Birmingham bar is like in July.

“We played at this place called ‘The Nick,’ and it was a Sunday so we didn’t have that many people to play for, but we had a great time anyway.

“So, we’re playing this place, and our bass player Vince [Ellwood] keeps coming up to me while we’re playing, and I’d think he’d had his hands full with playing, but he’s pointing out cockroaches to me on the stage and jumping as high as he can and stomping them while I’m trying to focus.

That was great.

“And we had a huge turnout in Charleston, [S.C.,] but we had to stop the show early because someone got alcohol poisoning. They were, like, cart-

ed out, so we had to stop an hour early. The cops were there and the bartenders were all freaking out. We were talking with some of the people and we just said, ‘Eh, maybe we ought to just call it night.’”

These are the tales that weave legends, ugly as some of them may be (not to mention the stories he didn’t tell us), but ON THE BILL: West Water it’s all part of the narrative.

Outlaws plays the Fox Theatre on After winning a CU battle of Thursday, Aug. 2. Doors at 8:30 the bands in 2010, the band p.m. Branded Bandits and A Good Day in a Bad Town open. started gigging in the BoulderTickets are $10 in advance, $12 Denver area, scratching togethday of show with a $2 charge for er a small but devoted following being under 21. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. around their brash, elbowthrowing roadhouse blues attack built on two guitars, a rock rhythm section and a very sly sense of craft lurking beneath the chassis grease. An EP, Crooked Angel, followed in March 2011, and the band threw together its first Southeast tour later that spring, pivoting around a key gig in Memphis that June. This year’s run was designed to build on the buzz they left in their wake, and the bly already made that statement. band’s upcoming gig at the Fox “No, it’s not there’s anything wrong Theatre, which re-opens after a few with any of that [jamgrass music],” months of renovation downtime, will Rooker says. “It’s just nice to be a little unveil the band’s second EP, Real Killer. different here in town. At first it was a It’d be a little too easy and kind of little harder. Everyone likes to go with not altogether accurate to say that the the sure thing, and we really had to try band, bred within the confines of hard to prove ourselves. But I think it’s Jamgrass Central, is out to prove a almost more rewarding when you come point that success for a Boulder band from a different genre that’s not the doesn’t require a mandolin player or a main thing that’s happening now.” laptop. Rose Hill Drive, some of whom But paradigms are all about the have history with the WWO guys macro view. Bandcamp and software are extending back into school days, proba- fine, but old-school blues-rock requires

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presence.

“I was born in Memphis, [Tenn.,] so a lot of this stuff is kind of innate for me,” he says. “When I was growing up, my dad raised me on a steady stream of classic stuff, and for a long time that was all I would listen to. In high school, I wouldn’t listen to anything new. I just got so fed up with some of the stuff that was coming out that I kind of got mad about it.

“It was just kind of the music we all liked.”

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The program, “Mighty Fifths,” includes a world premiere and an unfamiliar symphony, along with one of the most familiar pieces any orchestra can play. Given the title, you might guess that the familiar is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a guaranteed way to end on a triumphant note.

You probably wouldn’t guess that the other “mighty fifth” is the Fifth Symphony of Jay Greenberg, an see FIFTHS Page 32

The Colorado Music Festival’s orchestra will perform composer Daniel Kellogg’s The Gates of Paradise as part of its season finale.

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American prodigy who has barely left picking a composer that the audience his teens. His Fifth Symphony was prefers. (Visit http://comusic.org/click completed in 2005, when the composer to help select next year’s winner.) was only 14 and just a year after he was With only nine months to deliver a introduced to the American public on piece eight to 12 minutes in length, the CBS’ 60 Minutes as “a prodigy of the the composer is under a lot of pressure. level of the greatest prodigies in histo“From the very basic brainstorming ry.” to completing the final details of each Of the wellindividual part, it’s a known composers, massive project,” only Mozart had Kellogg says. “It’s not ON THE BILL: The written more syma long piece, but it’s Colorado Music Festival’s finaphonies by age 14. still a 37-page score. le concert, “Mighty Fifths,” Like the young Writing for orchestra takes place at Chautauqua Auditorium on Thursday, Aug. Mozart, Greenberg is very involved.”

2, and Friday, Aug. 3, at 7:30 has extensive knowlAround the time p.m. Tickets start at $12. For edge of the music he received the comtickets and more information, visit http://bit.ly/CMFTickets or and styles of other mission, Kellogg was call 303-440-7666. composers. And like planning a trip Mozart, he is selfabroad. assured in their com“We had been pany. reading about the art and history of “The Symphony pays (sometimes Italy,” Kellogg explains. direct) tribute to the works that share He came across a description of the its numerical designation,” he wrote, gilded doors the artist Ghiberti created “including the fifth symphonies of for the Baptistery of St. John in Beethoven, Nielsen and Prokofiev.

Florence, known as the “Gates of There are also references to Brahms Paradise.” and Vaughan Williams in its primary “I’m always sort of keeping my eyes and ears out for a great title,” he says. motives, but all of the material is in “A good title can direct you musically, fact original.” it can inspire, and I just thought, The symphony, recently released on ‘That’s a phenomenal title.’

CD, has received widespread critical “The notion of paradise exists in so acclaim, including this from the many cultures and myths and religions, Baltimore Sun: “There’s a clear sense of and it’s totally captivating, the idea that direction and purpose to the work, a there will be these huge, imposing build-up of drama and tension that ends with a blaze of high-spirited ener- doors.”

But that was only part of Kellogg’s gy. … Greenberg creates real music, inspiration. fresh music.”

“I was very deliberately thinking The Boulder audience is likely to be about Chautauqua, and when you stand even more interested in the program’s on the lawn and look up at the world premiere. For one thing, the Flatirons it really is a magnificent view, composer, Daniel Kellogg, lives in these immense rocks that just come Boulder and teaches at the University of Colorado. For another, his piece, The up,” he says. “So I was thinking about the Colorado landscape and Gates of Paradise, was commissioned by Chautauqua, and how that fits into my the CMF audience through the innoown imagination of the gates of paravative Click! Commissioning program.

And it is partly inspired by the Boulder dise.”

“The piece begins with soft clouds landscape. of sound,” he explains. “Gradually a The Click! program gives concertlow meditative melody emerges in the goers the opportunity to support the bass that builds until we have these commissioning of a new piece — norvery striking trumpet announcements. mally the privilege of wealthier donors As I imagined it, we’re coming through — and to select the composer. Each the clouds and we sense this gigantic year, Christie, the musical director, thing but we don’t see it, and then sudchooses three candidates for the comdenly it emerges. mission. Their bios and excerpts from “Then the piece picks up momenpieces they have written are posted on tum and builds and builds [until] it the CMF Web page. ends fast and loud.

The public gets to vote for their “It’s a time-proven way to end.” favorite by clicking on a link to make a Indeed: Just ask Beethoven and $10 donation. Each person may vote as Greenberg. many times as they want, both helping Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to raise funds for the commission and Boulder Weekly

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or centuries, humans have been inspired by witnessing their fellow citizens attempt to fly. Despite a lack of wings, we have been awed and amazed when people propel themselves off the ground and into another dimension. A popular 19th-century folk song captures this thrill with the words, “He’d fly through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze.”

Now ask yourself this question: Would the young man in the song be “daring” if he had been clinging for dear life on the bar? More like “terrified” while surviving a dangerous act. It is that the man flows with “the greatest of ease” that makes his feat seem exotic and therefore perfect for the adventursome folk of Boulder County.

Boulderites ON THE BILL: Tickets to love to exert the Aerial Dance Festival themselves, and are available through the Dairy Center box office at we appreciate the 303-444-SEAT or at www.frededication it quentflyers.org. takes to become a world-class talent at something. So it should come as no surprise that Boulder is practically ground zero for an activity that combines the strength of a rock climber with the grace of gymnast.

It combines aspects of art and dance into brilliant physical displays that are increasingly wowing audiences around the globe.

Frequent Flyers Productions in Boulder has provided an outlet for aerial artistry for nearly 25 years. Its Aerial Dance Festival, now in its 14th year, has become a renowned event in modern dance circles and for anyone involved in the art. Running through Aug. 11, the an apparatus that allows dancers’ feet 2012 ADF will be highlighted by show- to leave the ground and fly through case performances Aug 3-5 at the Dairy the air. These apparatuses range from Center for the Arts. Company founder ropes to fabrics to chains, and even Nancy Smith says she has seen the pool other humans. Low-flying trapeze and of artists grow since first landing in bungee cords stretch the possibilities Boulder decades ago. even further. Aerial dance has roots in “When I started Frequent Flyers, the circus arts, where the grace of there were only a handful of us in the movement is sometimes sacrificed in world doing this,” Smith says. the name of entertainment. Yet where The current festival has grown from the circus atmosphere lends credence modest beginnings in 1999 and spread to the death-defying nature of these out to four studios in three locations, acts, aerial arts embrace the flow of the with classes running from morning to body and the natural beauty of movenight. By bringing in top professionals ment. in their field to the area each year, “Circus arts, which have been Frequent Flyers has been on the leading around for a long time, require tremenedge of the aerial dance movement since dous skill, strength and artistry,” Smith its inception. Smith wrote a book on the says. “What’s different about aerial genre in 2008. dance is it leans a little more towards Aerial dance grew out of the modthe dance aesthetic. The dance aesthetic ern dance movement, and often uses is about effortlessness a lot of the time.”

Birds of a feather

Aerial artists flock to Boulder

by Michael Callahan

Boulder Weekly

Perhaps the most stunning takeaway from these types of performances is the ability of the artists to make incredibly difficult poses, moves and lifts appear smooth throughout an entire five- to eight-minute performance. It’s equivalent to a few rounds of boxing, with the discomfort and bruising to go along with it.

Like any exercise, repetition leads to strength. And in this art niche, strength can mask just how hard the movements actually are, given the graceful performance that is the final product.

“The thing about aerial work is a lot of it can be painful, but over time your body stops feeling the pain,” Smith says, though she admits it’s sort of a chicken and egg conundrum. “I’m not sure if it stops hurting or your brain just gives up on telling your body it hurts.”

Despite the obvious strength necessary, subtle movements and technique

can temper the need for brute force that can tire out any performer. Mastery of terms like centrifugal force, spinal propulsion and gravity are essential for success in aerial arts. It makes the endeavor as much cerebral as physical.

Attendees of the showcase performances, being held at 8 p.m. on Aug. 3-4, and 2 p.m. August 4-5, will be entertained by a unique roster of performers — the instructors for this year’s festival. Multiple formats of aerial artistry will be on display by professionals from across the country. With performances using the full gamut of apparatuses available to the sky artists, the showcase promises a buffet of bite-sized options for those intrigued by the power and grace involved in this emerging genre.

“There are 11 different pieces in the show, and they’re all completely different,” Smith says. “There’s no overarching theme, we just invite the artist to bring a piece to perform. Work the artists are performing is often work that has never been seen before, so an audience will never get to see this kind of show with these different artists at this moment in time.”

With the Olympics going on in London right now, and the diverse geographic background aerial arts has cultivated, is there any chance this unique mesh of athleticism and creativity one day becomes a judged competition worthy of medals and anthems?

“I don’t know if it ever will be an Olympic sport, but aerial events are very popular for entertainment at events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and even musical performances. It’s become more mainstream, and we’re seeing it as part of big entertainment events,” Smith says.

“It’s the combination of mind/body/spirit that makes a complete artist when doing this work. It takes tremendous physicality, it takes mental focus, and then it takes the creative spark for the artistry — the ability to convey whatever you’re trying to convey as an artist.”

In the past it was enough to awe audiences with the appearance of ease.

As our thrill-seeking culture has searched out ways to increase levels of entertainment, it is somewhat ironic that aerial arts have come full circle in highlighting the grace of the human form.

No matter the future of aerial artistry, the physicality, mental focus and creative spark necessary to convey a vision will only continue to push the boundaries of this burgeoning movement.

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Mestizo Hybridity — Tony Ortega. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Through Aug. 11.

DePolo Collective. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Artists’ talk at 4 p.m. Aug. 3.

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Nov. 25.

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

West Water Outlaws. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. events Colorado Brazil Fest — Brazilian music and dance. Venues throughout Boulder. www.Coloradobrazilfest.org.

Lindy on the Rocks — Swing dances and workshops. 6-12:30 p.m. Denver, www.lindyontherocks.com.

Vic Alejandro and Talon Saucerman — Comedy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Friday, August 3 music Alexis Pastuhov. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Brazil Music Festival — With Ginga. 8 p.m.

Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis — With MilkDrive.

8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003 x2.

Chuck Hughes Band. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

El Javi Trio. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Epilogues — With the Hits and Bonnie & the Bang Bang. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

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

Goldensole. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Joe Bonner, Barbara Paris and Vince Wiggins — Tribute to Billie Holiday and the Blues. 8 p.m.

Trident Bookstore and Café, Sandbox Theater, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133.

Johnny Long and Lionel Young. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

Keystone Bluegrass and Beer Festival — Kickoff by Oakhurst with the Farewell Drifters.

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My Morning Jacket — With Band of Horses & Trombone Shorty. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720865-2494.

Prospectiva Profundo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Richard III. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 2.

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Women of Will. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 12.

Am I My Lover’s Keeper? The Jewish Obligation to the Other — Dinner and lecture with Professor David Shneer. 7 p.m. Bonai Shalom, 1527 Cherryvale Road, Boulder, office@bonaishalom.org.

Colorado Brazil Fest — Brazilian music and dance. Venues throughout Boulder. www.Coloradobrazilfest.com.

Friends with Benefits 1st Anniversary. 8 p.m.

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

Geology of Boulder OSMP — With Ray Bridge, author of Geology of Boulder County and the forthcoming Geology of the Denver Area. 6:30 p.m. REI Community Room, 1789 28th St., Boulder, www. naturehikes.org.

Lindy on the Rocks — Swing dances and workshops. 2 p.m. – 4 a.m. Denver, www.lindyontherocks.com.

Native American Affairs in the Nixon White House: From Alcatraz to the return of Blue Lake — A talk by Bradley H. Patterson. 7 p.m.

The Old Gallery Arts & Welcoming Center, 14863 Hwy 7, Allenspark, www.allensparkoldgallery.com.

The Samples. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Rocketman — Show tent and music. 2-8 p.m.

Sweetbird Studio, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303440-9891.

Selasee and the Fafa Family. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Saturday, August 4

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The Call of Sedona — by Ilchi Lee. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

“So, You’re a Poet” — an open poetry reading.

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

Lawrence Gladeview — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-

Saturday, Aug. 4 Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse — by Daniel Rirdan. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Sunday, Aug. 5 The Infinite Tides — by Christian Kiefer.

5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, Aug. 7 100 Years Up High — by Jan Robertson & Walter Borneman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Line of Fire — by Stephen White. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Wednesday, Aug. 8 Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History — by Deanne Stillman. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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

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

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Something Underground — With The Kevin Dooley Trio. 6:15 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street mall, 29th St. & Canyon, Boulder.

Stuart Davis. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Sunflower Colonels. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. events Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m.

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

Aerial Dance Festival 2012 Performance Showcase. 2, 8 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Bears, Bears, Bears! — With Ranger Brian Litwin. 8 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org.

Keystone Bluegrass and Beer Festival. 9 a.m.

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Boulder Outdoor Cinema — The Muppets, with The Whiskey Bottles. 7:30 p.m. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 855-BOC-YEAH.

Les Merveilles de Guinea. 8 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Colorado Brazil Fest — Brazilian music and dance. Venues throughout Boulder. www.Coloradobrazilfest.org.

Li’l Red & Big Bad. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Mile Markers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Hayes Carll — With Joe Pug. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

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My Morning Jacket — With Band of Horses & Trombone Shorty. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720865-2494.

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

Cultiva Harvest Dinner — All-star chefs preparing a gourmet lineup for a five-hour dinner. 4:30 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1639 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 303-443-9952, Door Jam Celebration — Closing auction for Bold Doors. 4-7 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Community Room, 1685 29th St., Boulder, 303-9993820.

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Lindy on the Rocks — Swing dances and workshops. 9:40 a.m. – 4 a.m. Denver, www. lindyontherocks.com.

Medical Qi Gong and Astrology — With Adam Sommer. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., 720-252-3962.

Power Within — Dance-Climb Fusion Workshop.

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Women’s Beer Tasting — With pairings by Cured, to benefit Wildlands Restoration Organization. 6-8 p.m. The Upslope Tap Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

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

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

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

William Garrison. 6 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

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

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

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

Singer/Songwriter Open Stage. 7:30 p.m.

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

Gustafer Yellowgold — Library Concert Series. 1, 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Helicopterbear — With Daphanie. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Keystone Bluegrass and Beer Festival. 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Various locations, Keystone, 877-204-788 Les Merveilles. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

Neil Young & Crazy Horse. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Sunday Music School. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Wendy Woo. 6 p.m. Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-5460114. events Aerial Dance Festival 2012 Performance Showcase. 2 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Lindy on the Rocks — Swing dances and workshops. 12 p.m. – 2 a.m. Monday. Denver, www. lindyontherocks.com.

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

Blackberry Bushes. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Monday, August 6 music Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

The Heavy Pets. 9 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Wednesday, August 8 music Bands on the Bricks — Chris Daniels & The Kings. 7 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Nokuthula — With Keaton Herzer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

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

The Paul Hart Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Science of Ice Cream. 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

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Understanding CSS. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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screen Who watches ‘The Watch,’ man?

People who laugh at genital jokes

by Ryan Syrek

S

eeing as how it has an extraterrestrial plot, let’s describe The Watch using an astronomical metaphor. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade are like comedic planets that orbit a central, burning sun. And that sun is made entirely of penis jokes.

Someone spent $70 million to make a movie in which aliens only die if you shoot them in the pee-pee, in which an alien is killed by having his thingie ripped off and in which the funniest moment is a Spanish version of Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.”

Sadly, nobody can smoke any more weed since, apparently, writers Jared Stern, Evan Goldberg and (for shame) Seth Rogen smoked it all while creating what is essentially two hours of product placement and junk jokes punctuated by Vaughn, Hill and Ayoade accidentally making something funny happen. And no, leaving Stiller out of that list was not an accident. Because the gang used up all their cleverness inventing the alien’s

weakness, the rest of the plot is simple.

Stiller plays Evan, a gung-ho go-getter who manages a Costco and is so enthusiastic about his small community he starts a billion stupid groups. In the wake of one of his employees being disemboweled, he starts a neighborhood watch made up of a violent psycho (Hill), a dad in need of dude time (Vaughn) and a British nerd (Ayoade). They find out aliens are invading earth through a device in the Costco.

The end.

You are not prepared for the amount of stillborn attempts at character development in this movie, including bizarre secret infertility and father struggles that seem to justify murdering your daughter’s potential sex partner. But the most irritating thing about The Watch is how boring it is. Strike that; the most irritating thing is remembering the times

Vaughn had you clutching your sides, the movies where Hill had you doubled over, the fact that Ayoade chose this as his American introduction, and the era when Stiller wasn’t the bland, tofu-flavored screentime suck he has become.

That said, there will be no refunds, because you get what you pay for: Vaughn spews fast improv, Hill cracks dark and wry jokes, Ayoade is delightfully awkward and Stiller is every bit the star of two Night at the Museum movies.

What’s sad is that this is another massive sci-fi comedy failure, again leaving the first Ghostbusters to die alone. Given the limitless potential of that imaginative

genre, it continues to be shocking that nobody can find a way to play in that arena and actually be funny.

In all honesty, things like the male-memberbased humor is less offensive than it is a sign of laziness; it would take more energy to be bothered by this movie than to just forget it. The film was renamed from The Neighborhood Watch to The Watch in the wake of the horrifying Trayvon Martin tragedy. In any other year, this tepid, drab film would have been the worst event associated a local watch organization.

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

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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ is why they make movies

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hey should hand out oxygen tanks before each screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild because writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film takes your breath in the very first scene and plays keep away with it for more than 90 minutes. When people kvetch about the abundance of remakes and sequels while whining about how “there are just no new ideas anymore,” tape their eyes open and play this movie on repeat. This is an affirmation of the value of the medium, a finger on humanity’s collective pulse and a reminder that there are always, always, always new ways to tell old stories.

So, yeah, I kind of liked it.

As is alarmingly infrequently the case, our protagonist is a fierce, brilliant, confident, young black girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). It remains unclear if Wallis was cast in the role or was simply willed into existence to play this part. Hushpuppy and her daddy, Wink, played by a non-professional actor who Boulder Weekly

will reportedly never act again named Dwight Henry, live in a sort-of-swamp known as “The Bathtub.” The year may remain a mystery, but the place is clearly the Delta region of America, a region threatened by rising waters and poverty.

But Zeitlin transforms the physical space into an imaginary world where boats are made of old truck beds, where children are stalked by mythical and ancient beasts and where the conflict isn’t just poor versus rich or young versus old but humanity versus its own home.

Wink, who is quite obviously seriously ill, refuses to leave his natural habitat despite raging waters that promise death. Although he has struggled to raise his 6-year-old girl in the absence of her mother, he has made one decision about her fate: she will not grow to be a sheltered coward but a powerful creature in tune with this world.

From the hazy, faded visuals to the practically impossible performance of Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild is

an allegory of poverty and the most unique coming-ofage story in decades, wrapped in visual poetry. It isn’t even self-indulgent, clocking in at a mere hour and a half and never overstating its themes. Zeitlin’s narrative is all simple sophistication, with each tiny action revealing such bracing character insight. It bristles with honest purpose and, when necessary, spouts revelations in shorthand. For example, take Hushpuppy’s vague dream of her mother manifest in an old basketball jersey, or the final release of Wink in a bite of alligator meat.

Perfection.

Trying to explain Beasts of the Southern Wild is like explaining your dream to someone else: It’s meaningless until you experience it on your own. In the decade I have been reviewing movies for The Reader, I would guess I have discussed more than a thousand flicks. While it may be impossible for me to tell you which of those is the finest I have seen, one thing is certain: I am not prepared to cross Beasts of the Southern Wild off that list.

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

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reel to reel THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Peter Parker gets a new look (and an origin story) in this Marvel remake of everyone’s favorite web slinger. Unlike Toby Maguire’s emo-esque rendition of the wall-crawler, actor Andrew Garfield’s portayal hopes to bring Spidey back to his roots with more wit and fewer tears. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

KUMARÉ

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Kumaré is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumaré, however, is not real — he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi who impersonated a spiritual leader for the sake of a social experiment designed to challenge one of the most widely accepted taboos: that only a tiny “1 percent” can connect the rest of the world to a higher power.

At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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La Bayadère (“The Temple Dancer”) is the final major work of Rudolf Nureyev, legendary dancer, choreographer and director of the Paris Opera Ballet. It tells the story of impossible love set against the backdrop of lush, exotic India. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

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See full review page 45. At Century and Mayan.

MOONRISE KINGDOM

BERNIE Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset) returns to his Texas roots for this delightfully poker-faced black comedy — based on a true story — about East Texas assistant funeral home director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black). Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Driven by her cruelty to put four bullets in her, Bernie goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that she’s still alive. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith) decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel, they arrive to find the place a shell of its former self. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BRAVE Brazenly red-headed Merida, princess, skilled archer and general nuisance at the royal dinner table, accidentally unleashes a curse on her kingdom. She then fights bravely — get it? — to defend her kingdom. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

A CAT IN PARIS

An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, A Cat in Paris is a beautifully hand-drawn caper set in the shadowdrenched alleyways of Paris. Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico — a slinky cat burglar with a big heart. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater DARK HORSE

Writer/director Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse) enters somewhat more upbeat territory with this quirky, tragicomic romance between eager underachiever Abe (Jordan Gelber) and insecure, over-medi46 August 2, 2012

While it would be great to think that a movie about male strippers would be for women what movies like Striptease and Showgirls were for men, the loose threads of a plotline here suggest that Magic Mike really is just about encouraging more men to womanize and more women to fall for their ploys.

Rated R. At Colony Square.

cated Miranda (Selma Blair). In his mid-30s, Abe is an avid toy collector who still lives with his parents (the wonderful Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow), and resents working for his father. His older brother Richard’s (Justin Bartha) success as a doctor only feeds Abe’s jealousy and frustration over his own failures. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

story and a trip into hidden history, Hysteria is an exploration of women’s passion and a celebration of the forward-thinking spirit that has always kept human progress buzzing. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D The endless chase for that acorn has continental ramifications. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Once more, writer/director Wes Anderson dips his stylish pen into murky, melancholy tales of whimsy. This time out, the Royal Tenenbaums auteur follows a young “Khaki Scout” who flees from his troop and troop leader (Edward Norton) while camping on an island to unite with his prepubescent and troubled gal pal. Her parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, and the island cop (Bruce Willis) give chase in this Instagram fairy tale. At Century and Mayan.

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Director Christopher Nolan’s D.C. superhero legacy comes to an end as unwelcome and reluctant hero Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) dons his cape and deepens his voice once more. Batman battles for the future of Gotham against ruthless criminal Bane (Tom Hardy) with the help of the “catty” Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway). Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

THE INTOUCHABLES The Intouchables, by French writer/directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, is the inspiring true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Thirty-four-year-old Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a fortunate but deeply troubled man battling drug addiction. As part of his rehabilitation program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview, but instead uses the opportunity as a way to drift around and revisit old friends. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

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The latest installment based on the popular books sends the wimpy kid off on appropriately wimpy summer mis-adventures. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square.

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax — Denver Film Society

As an abandoned otter pup is rescued and returned to the wild, we follow a young marine biologist as she learns about the plight of sea otters, the ocean ecosystem, and the efforts to save this species from the brink of extinction. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater

EASY MONEY

The Swedish thriller Easy Money layers three stories of illicit drugs and organized crime, all leading to an explosive finale. Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder on The Killing) stars as JW, a poor student who lives a double life within the wealthy Stockholm elite. He falls in love with an upper-class girl and is soon lured into a world of crime. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres HOOK

Steven Spielberg directed this delightfully grown-up fairy tale about an adult Peter Pan and his evil nemesis, Captain Hook.

At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres HYSTERIA

Hysteria tells the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness. A feisty love

KLOWN

In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), Klown follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries. Hopelessly wrongheaded Frank “kidnaps” the 12-year-old nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential to join sex-crazed Casper on his secret adulterous weekend canoe trip. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

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Polisse follows the daily lives of a tight-knit team of men and women working in the Child Protection Unit of the Parisian police.

Based on a script from real child investigation cases, the actors convey the emotional strain of the work with gritty realism. At Boedecker Theater — Boedecker Theater THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

Directed by lauded filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield (Thin), The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the Boulder Weekly

reel to reel innate virtues and flaws of the American dream. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres

four-hour extravaganza did just that. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

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A visually stunning adventure by bike: Reveal the Path explores the world’s playgrounds in Europe’s snow-capped mountains, Scotland’s lush valleys, Alaska’s rugged coastal beaches and Morocco’s high desert landscapes. Ride along and get lost in the wonders of the world. Enjoy the authentic locals living modest yet seemingly fulfilling lives, leading us to question what it means to live an inspired life — however humble or extravagant. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

A would-be professional dancer gets entangled with a flash mob leader and joins a campaign to save the world from capitalism — by dancing. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks.

ROAD GAMES

Hollywood’s Stacy Keach stars in Australia’s Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society RUBY SPARKS

In the romantic comedy Ruby Sparks, Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing — as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby (Zoe Kazan), in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted. At Esquire — Landmark Theatres SACRIFICE

For generations, the Zhao family has wielded power, even extending over the king. In a well-planned coup, their mortal enemy Tu’An Gu (Wang Xue Qi) slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. However, a solitary Zhao baby survives the massacre, and is hidden and taken home

by Cheng Ying (Ge You), the doctor who delivered him, to live with his wife (Hai Qing) and their own newborn baby. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

In the scrappy romantic comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle Magazine employees to look for the story behind it. They discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society SAVAGES A Mexican Baja Cartel threatens three close friends and their prime marijuana-growing operation. Rated R. At Colony Square SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS

On April 2, 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden.

LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near Boulder Weekly

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When Margot (Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine) meets handsome artist Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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While Rome is a city abundant with romance and comedy, To Rome With Love is about people having adventures that will change their lives forever. Directed by Woody Allen.

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In chasing the problematic premise of implanted memories, this remake of the Schwarzenegger classic trips over its own action sequences in ways likely to make it totally forgettable. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.

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erhaps you round out your child’s lunch with healthy-sounding extras like cereal bars, fruit roll-ups, mixed fruit cups and fruit drinks. Most of these products contain synthetic food dyes, and a single item might contain as many as four or five.

Most modern synthetic food dyes (aka artificial food colors) are manmade concoctions from petroleum, and several studies suggest these dyes worsen symptoms in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The connection to ADHD prompted Britain to phase out synthetic dyes by the end of 2009, and the European Union now requires that products containing certain dyes sport a warning label saying the food “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.”

Not so in the U.S., where an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded an inquiry into the safety of synthetic food dyes in April 2011 and decided there was insufficient evidence to warrant tightening of regulations. The inquiry was prompted by a petition from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), to ban all synthetic dyes in foods, based on research suggesting they pose cancer and allergy risks as well as hyperactivity in children.

From candy to salad dressing

The FDA does not set limits on how much dye is allowed in foods, stipulating only that the amount should not exceed what is needed to achieve the desired effect. Consequently, the food industry adds more than 15 million pounds of synthetic dyes to processed foods annually, and per capita consumption has

risen five-fold since the 1950s. The FDA’s primary form of oversight is to ensure that legal levels of contaminants like lead, arsenic and benzidine are not exceeded.

Although it should come as no surprise that vividly colored products like Lucky Charms cereal or M&M’s candy contain an array of synthetic dyes, they are actually added to most processed foods. Jell-O chocolate pudding mix contains Blue 1, Yellow 5 and Red 40. Kraft Macaroni & Cheese has Yellow 5 & 6. Maraschino cherries get their “day glo” red hue from Red 3 or Red 40, and even salad dressings can be dyed —Ken’s Steak House Lite Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette contains Blue 1 and Red 40.

The nutritional abyss

CSPI released a report in 2010 titled “Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks” that summarizes the available health safety studies in animals and humans.

In addition to the body of evidence linking the dyes to hyperactivity in children, eight dyes have either been linked to cancer directly or through their contaminants. CSPI points out that children’s bodies are still developing, so they are particularly at risk.

Synthetic dyes have no known nutritional value.

Their chief purpose is to increase visual appeal.

They’re also generally cheaper, brighter and more stable than so-called natural food colorings derived from plants, minerals or animals. The list of FDA-approved

sources for natural colorings is long and includes beets, carrots, grapes, tomatoes, elderberries, purple corn, red cabbage, sweet potatoes, annatto tree seeds, turmeric, paprika, chlorophyll, iron, titanium dioxide and a bug called Coccus Cacti L. Any argument from the food industry that synthetic dyes are indispensable is easily countered by the fact that they have been largely replaced with natural alternatives, or simply eliminated, in Britain and Europe. For example, McDonald’s colors its strawberry sundaes with Red 40 in the U.S. but uses only real strawberries for color in Britain. Similarly, beetroot, paprika and annatto substitute in Britain for the three artificial dyes used in Kellogg’s Strawberry NutriGrain Bars sold in the U.S. It’s up to consumers to express their preference for natural coloring agents — or no added colorings — by scanning product labels before purchasing. Because law requires that only artificial flavorings (not colorings) must be labeled on package fronts, look for the ingredients label where colorings are listed. And several brands of processed foods are marketed as free of all artificial ingredients and post labels to that effect right on package fronts.

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Really, really freezing

used to mess with my friend Andrew by feeding him iquid nitrogen is false reports that a popular an extremely cold substance burger and milkshake chain with a boiling point had set up shop in of -346 degrees Colorado. As it turns out, that Fahrenheit. Scientific chain now does have a Denveruses include cryopreservation, which basically means freezing blood area outpost, but it’s far enough and other cells to a point that reactions that would ordinarily kill off tissues are halted. Making a milkshake with liquid nitrogen is relatively away to require advanced plansimple, with the most challenging issues being the acquisition and safe ning, and who wants to deal with handling of this substance — contact with skin can cause frostbite. that?

Essentially one needs to create a custard, much like when one makes Consequently, we decided to normal homemade ice cream. Placing the custard in a mixer, one stick closer to home and visit the pours in liquid nitrogen to create a shake. sleek new Pearl Street branch of H Burger, which originated in Denver and is the cousin of T/ ACO. (Eureka! I now understand this dairy connoisseur. taqueria’s name!) Beef is in ample eviAndrew went for the $12.50 dence here, but there’s also veggie, turBoulder Burger, consisting of a whopkey and buffalo burgers, as well as ping seven ounces of grassfed beef, other sandwiches. Salads are also avail- nearly double the amount of meat in a able for the less carnivorous, but if we Whopper. Toppings included greens, wanted that we would have gone to S avocado, tomato, fontina cheese and a Salad, if such a place existed. reduction of chile, onion and mango.

Each of us deeply enjoyed our $4 The reduction’s flavors were tough to onion rings. Garnishes were small-sized portions of the signature detect, and the other additions didn’t Mediterranean-influenced, as the localmilkshakes. Frozen with liquid nitromake for a taste that seemed different ly sourced meat was supplemented by gen, these treats arrived at the table from any other burger. On the plus feta cheese, peppery aioli and beefsteak colder and thicker than normal. A side, the beef had all the silky mouthtomato. Arriving at the table at the spoon easily stood up in the serving feel and clean-tasting qualities one requested medium rare level of doneglasses, but these beverages quickly associates with a top-notch grassfed ness, the assertively flavored meat may thawed to a drinkable consistency. product. The included handcut fries be too much for the lamb novice.

Andrew’s chocolate shake was as good should appeal to the lover of crisp However, someone like me, who orders of an example of this treat that you’ll spuds. We were equally enamored with lamb whenever it’s on the menu, will find; it hit all the right notes of viscous our $7.95 fried artichoke appetizer, appreciate the earthy pungency of the texture and full cocoa taste. My strawfeaturing hot and tender veggies with patty. While the goat cheese was an berry mint shake was a lovely hotcreamy dipping sauce. appropriate foil, the flavors of the aioli weather refresher, with plenty of fresh Taking a less traditional tack, I and tomatoes were a bit lost against the tried the $11.95 Colorado Lamb fruit flavor and bright herbal accents. lamb. I couldn’t complain about the Burger, absorbing a $2 upcharge for These were can’t-miss treats for the

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onion rings though, as these were piping hot and perfectly breaded.

H Burger is not inexpensive for what it is, and one wishes there were something more unique about the offerings to justify the added cost. But certainly there’s no question that the ingredients are of high quality, and on paper, the ingredients are intriguing.

However, with our sandwiches, the flavors didn’t quite reach up to the promise of their menu description. That said, the shakes are among the best you’ll find in town.

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Longmont diners will be losing a local treasure later this summer as popular eatery Terroir will be closing Aug. 25.

The restaurant opened in historic downtown Longmont on New Year’s Eve 2007, quickly becoming a favorite with locally sourced ingredients and Mediterranean-tinged modern American cuisine.

Despite a continually thriving business, a hang-up renegotiating the lease at its Main Street location and an inability to find an appropriate location will force the eatery’s closure.

The restaurant will pair up with local businesses to host two more of their popular farm dinners after closing. Their final dinners will be Aug. 26 at Lone Hawk Farm and Sept.

2 at Jack Rabbit Hill Winery. Owners and staff expressed their gratitude to the area in a statement.

“Longmont has embraced Terroir, and we feel fortunate to have built a business that has thrived on the true essence of community — local food, regional drink, common gathering spot,” reads the statement. “We certainly will miss you.”

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For a donation of $15 to $60, the Farm Fest will offer healthy organic local produce and a gourmet organic dinner sourced from area farms. Tours of the Andrews farm will be available, as will a silent auction with an array of everyday and unique items. Entertainment includes special poetry and musical guest The Pretty Good Folk Band.

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Transition Colorado is trying to catalyze the already growing movement toward more locally grown food to foster health and well-being in the community.

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riginating in Palm Springs, Native Foods Cafe is a fast-casual chain restaurant featuring vegan fare, where various forms of meatless protein stand in for such items as chicken wings and gyros meat. This hospitable spot in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street features everything from meatless nacho starters to dairy-free cupcakes. The seitan-based meatball sub is a winner, as is the Soul Bowl, a surprisingly compelling take on Southern fried chicken sans poultry.

dhering to the ’50s eatery theme, the StarLite Diner and Lounge features burgers, sandwiches and pizza, as well as breakfast faves like French toast and Denver omelets. There’s also an assortment of ice cream treats, including milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes. New York pizza adherents will enjoy the thincrusted pies, and burger fans will appreciate the reasonably priced grass-fed offering.

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1535 Pearl St., Boulder 303-546-0886 Boulder favorite since the early ’90s, the Mountain Sun continues to dish out its winning combination of microbrews, salads and sandwiches. Burgers range from your standard-issue cheeseburgers to more distinctive selections like the brightly herbal basil blue cheeseburger. Other offerings, such as the tender Monterey chicken sandwich and hearty hummus starter, also hit the culinary mark.

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Noodle items include thick udon, as well as more svelte ramen, available in a variety of broths. Sushi selections are simple, eschewing such exotica as sea urchin roe in favor of crowd-pleasing staples like salmon and tuna. Can’t-miss selections include the $5 yellowtail and scallion sushi roll, as well as the shoyu (soy sauce) broth udon noodles.

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1175 Walnut St., Boulder 303-443-9468 he fundamental strength of this self-proclaimed “urban taqueria” is its strong respect for the original source cuisine, which is basic street-influenced Mexican. The guacamole here is impeccably fresh and epitomizes balanced flavor.

Amongst the tacos, clear winners are the decadent braised pork belly and the snapper, which evokes all the best qualities of this Baja California staple.

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3050 28th St., Boulder 720-328-4696 oulder’s recently opened Curry N Kebob features valuepriced Indian that’s served up quickly. At lunch, there’s a $7.95 special that includes a choice of one of about a halfdozen entrees — at least one is vegetarian — as well as rice, naan bread and dessert. Popular selections include the rich and herb-infused makhini, or butter chicken, and various kebobs, which include classic tandoori chicken and fish and shrimp variants.

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oused in the former site of Juanita’s on West Pearl, the new Pastavino is a winning exercise in fairly priced Italian classicism. Featuring entrees like veal legs, New York steak and baked fish cioppino, this eatery also unsurprisingly features a plethora of noodle dishes.

Daily pasta specials include the veal canneloni, a rich concoction of meat and cream sauce, and one can’tmiss item is the spaghetti vongole, featuring Manila clams in a perfectly balanced white wine sauce. The rare beef Carpaccio and Fritto Misto mix of fried cala54 August 2, 2012

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espite Thai Avenue Rice & Noodle’s humble appearance, quick service setup and rock-bottom prices, it unquestionably stands as one of Boulder’s top choices for Thai.

Located in a basement food court on University Hill, this order-at-the-counter spot dishes out heaping portions of top-notch Pad Thai, with subtle hints of tamarind and egg. The red curry stands out for its winning complexity of flavor, punctuated by the perfume of fresh basil.

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t’s easy to associate the West End Tavern with bar staples like chicken wings and beer, which are in fact available. But this association doesn’t acknowledge this eatery’s considerable acumen in replicating American cookout standards. Backto-basics choices like the Tavern burger, with its unpretentious pairing of Colorado’s Best Beef meat and aged cheddar, illustrate how the simple can create great satisfaction. Barbecued items from the smoker, such as pulled pork, beef brisket and ribs, are also worthwhile selections evoking summer tastes.

ongmont’s Comida Cantina, the bricks-and-mortar spinoff of its namesake Mexican food truck, is a vibrant destination for South of the Border street food.

Diners can choose from a number of gorditas, tostadas and tacos served in the traditional street style. Top choices include the pork, slow-cooked in Stella Artois beer ; toothsome arrachera, a take on carne asada; and the hefty chorizo gordita.

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LIBRA

MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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Go to RealAstrology.com to check out SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The astrological omens Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO On a spring day in 1973, suggest that you now HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE an engineer named Martin have a lot in common Cooper debuted the HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes with the legendary Most world’s first cell phone. He are also available by phone at 1-877Interesting Man in the placed a call as he walked 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

World — adventurous, along a New York City unpredictable, interesting, street. The phone weighed lucky, one-of-a-kind. To two and half pounds and create your horoscope, I resembled a brick. Later have therefore borrowed a he joked that no one would be able to talk very long on his few selected details from his ad campaign’s descriptions of invention, since it took a lot of strength to hold it against him. Here we go: In the coming weeks, you will be the life one’s ear. Think of how far that amazing device has come of parties you don’t even attend. Astronauts will be able since then, Libra. Now imagine some important aspect to see your charisma from outer space. Up to one-third of your own life that is in a rather primitive state at this of your body weight will be gravitas. Your cell phone will moment but could one day be as natural and fully developed always have good reception, even in a subway 100 feet as cell phones have become. Are you willing to work hard underground. Panhandlers will give you money. You could to make that happen? Now’s a good time to intensify your challenge your reflection to a staring contest — and win. commitment.

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Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim said the dreams we have at night are “the result of inner pressures which have found no relief, of problems which beset a person to which he knows no solution and to which the dream finds none.”

That sounds bleak, doesn’t it? If it’s true, why even bother to remember our dreams? Well, because we are often not consciously aware of the feelings they reveal to us. By portraying our buried psychic material in story form, dreams give us insight into what we’ve been missing. So even though they may not provide a solution, they educate us. Take heed, Taurus! Your upcoming dreams will provide useful information you can use to fix one of your longstanding dilemmas.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

When French composer Georges Auric scored the soundtrack for Jean Cocteau’s movie Blood of a Poet, he produced “love music for love scenes, game music for game scenes, and funeral music for funeral scenes.” But Cocteau himself had a different idea about how to use Auric’s work.

For the love scenes he decided to use the funeral music, for the game scenes the love music, and for the funeral scenes the game music. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Gemini, I recommend that you experiment with that style of mixing and matching. Have fun! (Source: A Ned Rorem Reader, by Ned Rorem.)

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In the coming week, you will lose some clout and selfcommand if you’re too hungry for power. Likewise, if you act too brazenly intelligent, you may alienate potential helpers who are not as mentally well-endowed as you. One other warning, Scorpio: Don’t be so fiercely reasonable that you miss the emotional richness that’s available. In saying these things, I don’t mean to sound as if I’m advising you to dumb yourself down and downplay your strengths. Not at all. Rather, I’m trying to let you know that the best way to get what you really need is to tailor your self-expression to the unique circumstances you find yourself in.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

For a while, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in a place that had no heat and almost no furniture. To enhance his environment, he resorted to the use of fantasy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote the words, “rosewood paneling with ornamental cabinet.” On another, he wrote “Gobelin tapestry with Venetian mirror.” Over the empty fireplace he declared, “Picture by Raphael.” That’s the level of imaginative power I encourage you to summon in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So much of what you’ll need will come from that simple magic.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened any more,” wrote A. A. Milne in his kids’ story Winnie-the-Pooh. That’s my prescription for how to evade the worrisome fantasies that are nipping at you, Cancerian. If no one has invited you to do some engaging and important labor of love, invite yourself. You need to be needed — even more than usual. P.S. Here’s what Rumi advises: “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

It’s an excellent time to overthrow false gods and topple small-minded authorities and expose fraudulent claims.

Anyone and anything in your environment that do not fully deserve the power they claim should get the brunt of your exuberant skepticism. When you’re done cleaning up those messes, turn your attention to your own inner realms.

There might be some good work to be done there. Can you think of any hypocrisy that needs fixing? Any excessive self-importance that could use some tamping down?

Any pretending that would benefit from a counter dose of authenticity?

LEO

AQUARIUS

You’ve been making pretty good progress in the School of Life. By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the etymology of the word “sophomore”? It comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “fool.” That’ll be a healthy way to think about yourself in the coming weeks. Be smart enough to know what you don’t know. Cultivate the voracious curiosity necessary to lead you to the next rich teachings.

In old China, people used to cool themselves by sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath, they buffed the excess water from their skin by using a wet towel. When greeting a friend, they shook their own hand instead of the friend’s.

To erect a new house, they built the roof first. You’re currently in a phase of your astrological cycle when this kind of behavior makes sense. In fact, I suspect you’re most likely to have a successful week if you’re ready to reverse your usual way of doing things on a regular basis.

VIRGO

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

A few years ago, a Malaysian man named Lim Boon Hwa arranged to have himself “cooked.” For 30 minutes, he sat on a board covering a pan full of simmering dumplings and corn. The fact that no harm came to him was proof, he said, that Taoist devotees like him are protected by their religion’s deities. I advise you not to try a stunt like that, Virgo — including metaphorical versions. This is no time to stew in your own juices. Or boil in your tormented fantasies.

Or broil in your nagging doubts. Or be grilled in your selfaccusations. You need to be free from the parts of your mind that try to cook you.

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PISCES

I’m really tired of you not getting all of the appreciation and acknowledgment and rewards you deserve. Is there even a small possibility that you might be harboring some resistance to that good stuff? Could you be giving off a vibe that subtly influences people to withhold the full blessings they might otherwise confer upon you? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to work on correcting this problem.

Do everything you can to make it easy for people to offer you their love and gifts.

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HELP WANTED Driver Wanted Lee Yuan Chinese Cuisine. Full time or part time. Call Nancy 303-494-4210

HAIR EXTENSIONS IYExtensions

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All ages / levels are now being accepted. Highly qualified instructor. Dr. Michael Barnett 303-818-2113

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REAL ESTATE Land For Sale Price Reduced!! 35.93 Acres just South of Fairplay. Beautiful mountain views. Easy access to Ski Resorts and Mountain Towns. All utilities accessible. $35,000. Contact: Adell Shrout @ 303-494-9167 Property listed by Cherryvale Realty Immediate Debt Relief We take over house payments/Buy cash 720-935-2736 Dare to Dream!

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For Sale By Owner 3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Garage $379,000 Available 10.1.10 RV parking. Central location near 55th and Baseline. Rent w/ option to buy available with negotiable down payment. Call 720-536-8869 or 307-699-0779

piano man Available for all occasions.

Acoustic or digital piano, with or without vocals Dave Grimsland 720-841-1940

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•12 Topicals • 33 Edibles • Pure, Clean CO2 extracted Oil of Cannabis 62 August 2, 2012

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SUMMER SPECIALS STRAINS OF THE WEEK:

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Check our website. www.newoptionswellness.com and Facebook page for daily specials August 2, 2012 63

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at Root Organic and The Farm Offer ends August 8th

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