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news & views Health care, one more time / 6 Democrats and Republicans are still worlds apart

by Doyle McManus A modest proposal to protect members of Congress / 6 Just increase their numbers by hundreds

by Paul Danish On the cover: Crackdown / 14 ‘Dragnet’ may fend off Arizona-style immigration law

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz Fearsome gravitational pull / 18 Buoyed by Boulder scene, Big Gigantic keeps growing

by P.J. Nutting Arts & Culture: Patti Smith horses around NYC in memoir / 23 Overtones: Old 97’s haven’t let success get in the way of innovation / 24 Overtones: Davy Knowles is ready for his close-up / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 27 Sophisticated Sex: Successful sex is a journey, not a destination / 33 Elevation: New shop specializes in sports bras for the well-endowed / 35 Screen: The Company Men; Blue Valentine / 38 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 40 Cuisine: A mile high and growing / 42 Cuisine Review: Erhard’s European Café and Bakery / 43 Dessert Diva: Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes / 44

departments Letters: Crime or tragedy?; The limits of free speech / 4 The Highroad: The war on cold medicine isn’t working / 4 In Case You Missed It: A really, really nice logo; Model mammaries / 11 Briefs: Library offers career workshop; A fundraising pARTy / 13 Boulderganic: Eco-internships give career seekers green boost / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 48 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 49 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Crime or tragedy?

(Re: “Stopping massacres: what won’t work and what will,” Danish Plan, Jan. 13.) Mr. Danish is perpetuating the fear and terror that has poisoned politics and the quality of life not only here at home, but all around the world. This is understandable as long as the scope of individual perspective is limited to how the world functions in relation to one’s self. The true question is how we want to view random acts of violence, how we want to view those who perpetuate them, and whether or not we want to let the trauma of these acts shape the way a human being experiences the world.

What words shall we choose to color the events of Jan. 8? One word would be “crime,” in which innocent victims’ lives were ended by a criminal — a fairly black and white, simple and very convenient picture for you and I as we remain uninvolved and free to judge from a distance. I would challenge anyone who contemplates the Tucson shooting to begin from the word “tragedy.” A tragedy for all involved — those who lost their lives, those in mourning for them who have the need to heal in order to return to a manageable quality of life, and all who are in fellow citizenship with every person on the scene that day.

In order to truly understand the event requires uncompromising empathy. For the wounded? Surely. For the dead? Only as far as we can comprehend. For the guilty? Jared Loughner

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was a seemingly ordinary individual, but found meaning in his own experience of separation from the rest of the world. A perverted righteousness.

Shall we perpetuate his pain in ourselves and allow it to take control? Or should we recognize it for what it is, only pain, in ourselves and in each other? This knowing is the key to coexistence and can help illuminate how to act with compassion, the only

The limits of free speech (Re: “War of words,” cover story, and “Stopping massacres: what won’t work and what will,” Danish Plan, Jan. 13.). Right-wing talk radio does not deserve free-speech protection any more than corporations do. It is a

The Highroad

uch of the success of American law enforcement can be traced to this important reality: Criminals tend to be stupid. In other words, they catch themselves.

On the other hand, much of the failure of American law enforcement can be traced to another important reality: Our criminal laws tend to be stupider than our criminals.

Take the Combat Meth Act of 2004. It prompted various states to set up electronic systems for limiting and tracking sales of pseudoephedrine, the widely used cold medicine. These pills are good for easing the dripping and sniffling that come with colds and allergies, but pseudoephedrine is also good for making something bad: methamphetamine, the savagely addictive drug that is a scourge of communities across the country, especially in rural areas.

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The war on cold medicine isn’t working

by Jim Hightower Thus, banning over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine and rationing the amount each customer can buy was well intentioned. But restricting its sale has created a very lucrative black market for the pills, luring thousands of new peddlers, hustlers and opportunists into the illicit meth underworld. Meth brokers and producers recruit legions of friends, homeless people, college kids eager for quick cash, and even their own children to go pharmacy to

well-established corporate propaganda monopoly. In most parts of the country there are no free alternatives for politics while driving or working, and call screeners ensure the lies and threats cannot be challenged in real time. Limbaugh and the other RW talkers are coordinated on national issues, often reading the same talking see LETTERS Page 8

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pharmacy, with each “smurfer,” as they are called, buying the limit on the pills.

Using store specials and even clipping coupons, they can buy a box of pseudoephedrine for $8, then sell the pills to meth producers for $50. That’s a nice profit for 30 minutes or so of their time.

So, while this drug war on cold pills has added inconvenience to legitimate customers and expense to pharmacies, it has failed to curb the meth trade and has created a booming new network of black market criminals for the police to chase. Can we now admit that this is stupid and try something else?

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Health care, one more time

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n the most important domestic issues of the day, our two political parties don’t merely lay out competing arguments; they inhabit alternative realities.

The chasm was apparent most recently as the House of Representatives churned relentlessly toward its vote to repeal President Obama’s health-care law. The two-day debate, carried out in a marathon series of two-minute speeches, remained civil. But it was clear that civility alone won’t lead to consensus.

To listen to Republicans, the healthcare law will destroy as many as 1.6 million jobs; to hear Democrats, it will create jobs.

Republicans say the law will bust the national budget and deepen the federal deficit; Democrats say the law will reduce the deficit by $230 billion over the next 10 years and even more after that. As usual, of course, the facts are more complicated than either side acknowledges.

Will the law kill jobs? In raising insurance costs for some businesses, it could deter some hiring. But by making health coverage portable, the law should also make the economy more efficient and so promote job creation in the long run. Will the law deepen the deficit or reduce it? That depends on whether Congress is brave enough to enforce cost controls on Medicare and Medicaid in the future, action that could mean lower payments to physicians and healthcare providers and restrictions on available treatments.

Unfortunately, as is usual in floor debates, the discussion didn’t get into the nuances of these real-world dilemmas.

Instead, members on each side spent their allotted time reinforcing their parties’ incompatible worldviews.

To Republicans, the law will “fundamentally change the doctor-patient relationship,” freshman Rep. Ben Quayle, R-Ariz., son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, asserted in his maiden outing on the House floor — though given his two-minute limit, he didn’t spell out exactly how. To Democrats, the law “is a moral imperative. ... We are our brothers’ keepers,” said Rep. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn.

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What the House did, of course, wasn’t really legislation; it was politics.

The new Republican leaders of the House know that the Senate, still in Democratic hands, isn’t going to give repeal a chance to get to the floor, much less pass. Instead, this was merely the opening round in a long re-litigation of the health-care debate that dominated the last Congress.

That’s why the Republicans relied on what they see as their strongest argument: the fear that extending health insurance to more of the uninsured will be too costly for small businesses and taxpayers. And that’s why the Democrats relied on theirs: the voter-pleasing consumer protections that the law enacted.

To listen to the Democrats, you’d think the cornerstone of the law was the clause that lets children stay on their parents’ insurance policies until they’re 26. On both sides, the goal isn’t to design a new health-care system but to create new political facts. The Democrats want a chance to resell a law they sold poorly the first time around and to create new vested interests around provisions that block insurance companies from denying coverage to customers with preexisting conditions.

The Republicans want to impede implementation of the new law (by blocking funding of its main provisions, among other means) long enough to win a majority in the Senate and perhaps even the White House in 2012 — their best hope for really repealing the law.

Public sentiment is still up for grabs.

Several Republican members of Congress called the law “wildly unpopular” this week, but they’re wrong. Some news reports have said the public is “evenly split” on the issue, but they’re wrong, too. An even 50 percent of the public told pollsters for ABC News last week that they favor repealing the bill, but that included 13 percent who want it repealed because they don’t think it goes far enough. The poll showed that partisan voters, like their members of Congress, live in two parallel worlds: Most Republicans say they think the law will destroy jobs; most Democrats think the opposite. But feelings about some see HEALTH CARE Page 9

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A modest proposal to protect members of Congress

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have a modest proposal for increasing the security for U.S. Congressmen without isolating them from their constituents anymore than they already are.

OK, it’s a bit non-intuitive.

First of all, forget about 24-hour security details, Kevlar body armor or even teaching Congressmen defensive shooting skills. They’re not cost-effective, and they serve to sow the seeds of distrust between the member and his or her constituents.

The way you increase the security of Congress members is to reduce their attractiveness as targets — both to militants and to wackos. And the way you do that is by increasing their numbers.

Currently there are 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Based on the 2010 census, that works out to one Congressman for every 709,760 Americans.

Why 435 members? Because in 1929 Congress passed a law permanently fixing the membership of the House of Representatives at 435.

(Actually, the House has had 435 members since 1911, when the population of the U.S. was less than a third of what it is now.)

As the number of constituents of each congressman has grown, so have the responsibilities, influence and celebrity of individual members.

Congressmen are big shots, and each passing year makes them bigger shots.

And bigger targets.

So taking a shot at a U.S.

Congressman is a big deal. News networks tear up their regular programming and go into crisis mode, which of course only encourages terrorist and political exhibitionist wannabes.

But what if each congressman only represented 50,000 people instead of 709,760, and if instead of 435 members in the House of Representatives there were 6,176?

If you were in Congress, and someone took a shot at a Congressman, the odds of your number coming up would be 6,176 to 1 instead of 435 to 1. It works for ducks, wildebeests and prairie dogs — there’s safety in numbers.

Beyond that, being a member of Congress wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal as it is today, and neither would taking a shot at one.

Chances are the press wouldn’t make nearly as much out of shooting a congressman as they do now, and a lot of would-be assassins wouldn’t consider shooting a Congressman worth their time, if it occurred to them at all.

Hey, there are probably about 20,000 county commissioners in the country and you hardly ever hear of anyone taking a shot at them. And even when someone does, it’s usually to settle a grievance, not to make a political statement. Chances are if you tried to make a political statement by shooting a county commissioner, people would just laugh at you. Trust me on this. see CONGRESS Page 9

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points from their 1,000-plus radio stations. When they threaten and name someone in politics or media or a Conference on World Affairs speaker at Boulder High, they wield much more power than someone blogging on the Internet, where changing pages is even easier than with a newspaper.

The argument that 95 percent of talk radio is right-wing because it reflects the opinions of most Americans is absurd. Limbaugh and Hannity get hundreds of millions of dollars to represent billionaires, not for advertising local restaurants and

plumbing services. The only reason they were successful limiting health care reform and action on global warming, deregulating Wall Street, and lying us into trillion-dollar wars is that most Americans still believe the lie that they are independent political entertainers.

The talk-radio monopoly has set the hateful tone of American political discourse over the past 20 years. Radio has made the GOP what it is today.

And even after the Arizona tragedy, bipartisanship will be impossible as long as Republicans fear Limbaugh

more than they want to do the right thing. Sheriff Dupnik is right about talk radio and is getting hell from the right because he called out their most important media tool.

Paul Ericson/Lyons While the debate following the shooting in Arizona has rightly focused on inflammatory rhetoric, gun laws and national neglect of mental health care, an apparently taboo concern is the growing official acceptance of assassination as an integral weapon of our military and intel-

ligence arsenal.

By its nature, the war on terror is an undertaking in which national borders are irrelevant, but “justice” is now exclusively being served not by law and the courts, but by the gun.

The first publicized predator drone attack was against a suspected Al Qaeda leader in Yemen. A nuclear scientist is assassinated in Iran. What began as grasping-for-signs-of-success reports of “body count” in Vietnam and saturation bombing in Cambodia has morphed into missile strikes targeting suspected Taliban leaders in Pakistan. “Winning hearts and minds” has been superceded by again trying to kill our way into victory. And again cavalierly dismissed is the accompanying death of innocents and increased hatred of our presence in foreign lands.

In military terms, the death of Christina Taylor Green would be but collateral damage. Standards set at the top inevitably filter down.

Robert Porath/Boulder

Our violent diet The shootings in Tucson are a reminder that we are one of the world’s most violent societies. Violence governs our foreign relations, our sports and video games and our diet.

Yes, our diet. Desensitization to violence begins in the home, when parents assure their naturally inquisitive, animal-loving children that chickens “give” eggs, cows “give” milk and that pigs “give” their flesh for us to eat. The horrific daily violence and barbaric slaughter visited on these innocent animals and subsidized by us at the checkout counter gets buried in our subconscious mind.

Once our kids have learned to live with the violence of their diet, how much of a stretch is it to while away their idle hours on video games like Mortal Kombat, Manhunt or Grand Theft Auto? How likely is this experience then to govern how they resolve a social confrontation in their neighborhood or a military one in an Afghan village?

Most of us abhor violence, but we don’t know how to prevent it. Giving our kids an honest answer when they ask, “Mommy, where do hamburgers come from?” is certainly a great start.

Stanley Silver/Boulder

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Full disclosure: When I was on the county commission, we did have security in the courthouse, but it wasn’t standing between the commissioners and the public. Most of the time, it was standing between the public and a parking space. The only thing between me and the public was the receptionist.

Generally if people wanted to see me or the other two commissioners, they just dropped in, often unannounced.

Which is as it should be.

A larger Congress would also make it much harder for a crazed assassin to influence policy by offing a particular member, because each member would have much less influence personally. It would also make it much harder — and more expensive — for a crazed lobbyist to buy enough members of Congress to make a difference, but that’s another story.

But wouldn’t a 6,176-member Congress be unworkable?

Actually, it might even be more efficient than the present Congress, because members would have to do much more of their business with computers. You could probably have a much better discussion of a complicated bill in a moderated blog than you ever could on the House floor.

As for debates, most Congressional

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debates today are managed affairs, in which managers for each party line up a limited number of members to speak on a bill and then allocate each of them a limited amount of time in which to speak. Even on important bills, most members don’t speak on the floor. That sort of debate can take place as easily in a 6,176-member body as it can in a 435-member one.

But wouldn’t we need to build a new House chamber to seat 6,150 members? I suppose. It wouldn’t have to be much bigger than CU’s Coors Events/Conference Center or any of a number of museums on the Mall.

Alternatively, House meetings could take place outdoors on the Mall west of the Capitol, with members standing throughout sessions, as the citizens of the Swiss canton of Appenzeller do during their cantonal meetings. That would keep them focused on the business at hand.

Especially in the winter. And the summer.

Or better yet, the House could meet in the Washington Nationals arena when the team is on the road.

Congress only works four days a week as is, so there shouldn’t be much of a scheduling problem.

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parts of the law actually cross party lines.

Most people like the provisions that protect patients from insurance companies, but they don’t like the individual mandate that requires people to buy insurance whether they want it or not. And most people worry about cost.

That’s why Republican leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., one of the fiercest opponents of the health-care law, promised that his party wouldn’t merely repeal the Obama bill but would also produce new bills of its own to guarantee the new rights that patients already hold dear.

“Republicans care about health care,” Cantor told reporters Tuesday, sounding almost plaintive.

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spring on their own ideas for health-care reform — proposals Cantor promised will protect patients, give more people access to insurance, lower costs and reduce the deficit — the debate will turn interesting again. Then, in the committees of the House, we’ll get a chance to hear reasoned arguments on what the true costs of the new law will be and whether insurance can be expanded without imposing that unpopular individual mandate.

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A really, really nice logo When we last wrote about the University of Colorado’s $785,000 branding/ marketing study in April, the results were already nine months late. (CU’s contract with consultant Landor contained a deadline of June 30, 2009.)

Back then, despite a Boulder Weekly open records request, CU officials refused to cough up the logos and other artwork that the consultant had created, calling it “work product” that hadn’t yet been approved by the Board of Regents.

Now it’s nine months later, and CU has finally released this long-awaited logo. We were really expecting something impressive, considering how long it took and how much money was spent. Maybe a new, intricate, interlocking CU in 3-D, embossed in real gold?

Um, no. The new logo looks pretty much like the old one.

And the groundbreaking change in university nomenclature? Calling CU-Boulder the “University of Colorado Boulder.” Yes, that’s right, no hyphen, no “at,” no comma. You would have to pay even more if you actually wanted to hire people who know how to use the English language, apparently.

Oh, sure, CU officials will bray about how no tax dollars or tuition revenue were used to pay for the project, and about all of the other great “deliverables” they got for that price tag, like an “identity standards manual.” Ooooh. Aaaah.

The cash and time wasted on this project proves that image is everything, but it just looks bad to spend 28 months and $785,000 on this at a time when tuition continues to skyrocket and the university could be facing another deep budget cut.

As former Regent Tom Lucero put it when we interviewed him last April, “We could have used those dollars elsewhere.”

Model mammaries Victoria’s Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr gave birth on Jan. 6 to a 9-pound, 12-ounce baby boy, whom she and hubby Orlando Bloom named Flynn. On Jan. 18, the happy new mother posted a photograph of her nursing her newborn on her blog at KORA Organics. And the blogosphere exploded.

The photograph is sweet. The side of Kerr’s breast is visible, but the rest is blocked by her baby’s head. No nipple. Still, haters ranted that Kerr should have kept the photo private because it was immodest and inappropriate.

Has the world gone insane? Kerr is a Victoria’s Secret model. Her day job consists of being photographed while naked or nearly naked. Until Jan. 18, it seemed the world couldn’t get enough of Kerr’s breasts. But the moment she feeds her baby — the most important function of the female breast — it’s a scandal. How absurd!

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It was just a matter of time before someone caught new Secretary of State Scott Gessler in a conflict of interest, but we didn’t think it would happen this quickly, just a few weeks into his term.

Gessler wants to moonlight with his former law firm, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if that firm weren’t so active in the state’s election laws. Gessler says he needs the side work because his Secretary of State gig only pays about $68,000 a year. Didn’t he know the salary before he ran for office?

Gessler and his cronies have been involved in some campaign tactics around the state that have been questionable, to say the least. Even in Boulder County.

He was the attorney representing the right-wing group that sued the city of Longmont over campaign transparency regulations aimed at disclosing candidates’ donors. Gessler also represented Western Tradition Partnership, a conservative group that runs attack campaigns against Democrats and bankrolled the dirty tactics in the Longmont City Council race between Katie Witt and Karen Benker. We pointed all of this out in our endorsement of his opponent in last fall’s election, Bernie Buescher, but Colorado voters elected Gessler anyway, inexplicably.

Now Gessler wants to work 20 hours a week for the very firm in which he did a lot of his dirty work. The problem is, his primary job now is to oversee the state’s elections.

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Library offers career workshop The Boulder Public Library, in cooperation with the Colorado Career Development Association, will host Career Checkup, a free workshop for job seekers, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 4.

Career Checkup offers one-on-one sessions with career counselors for jobhunting tips and assistance with a resume. Participants are asked to bring a draft of their current resume, if possible. No registration is required.

Career Checkup will be held at the Main Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., in the South Pulse Point on the first floor. For more information, contact the library’s Reference Department at 303-441-3194.

A fundraising pARTy The Boulder-based arts education nonprofit OpenArts will be hosting its first fundraising “pARTy” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 4.

The event will take place at Rembrandt Yard, located at 1301 Spruce St. Participants will be able to bid on art created by artists of all ages and vote for the featured image of the 2011 Open Studios commemorative poster. Guillaume’s Catering will provide food for the pARTy, and beer will be supplied by the Avery Brewing Company.

Tickets can be purchased for $45 online at www.openartsboulder.org, or by phone at 303-444-1862. Proceeds from the fundraiser will go to several programs conducted by OpenArts, including the Clementine Scholarship Fund for arts education. For more information, e-mail info@openartsboulder.org.

Columbine teachers certified The Boulder Valley School District Board of Directors recently honored four teachers from Columbine Elementary for achieving the advanced teaching credential of National Board Certification.

The Columbine teachers, Silvia Latimer, Melissa Oviatt, Jeanette Scotti and Anne Upczak-Garcia, all achieved certification on their first try by successfully finishing a voluntary assessment that recognizes teachers who meet high standards.

National Board Certification can be achieved in several different subject areas and student developmental levels.

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BDA opens coworking facility Boulder Digital Arts will host an open house event on Feb. 3 to celebrate the grand opening of its new coworking facility in Boulder.

Coworking is an emerging trend in which freelancers and other independent contractors work together in an open office environment or public place.

The event will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Boulder Digital Arts Arapahoe Studio at 1600 Range St., Suite 100. The open house, which is free and open to the public, will also serve as the opening-night reception for BDA’s new Mid-Winter Digital Art Show, featuring work by local artists.

There will be music entertainment by DJ Audrey and complimentary refreshments.

The new coworking space is expected to be the first of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region to be specifically geared towards building a community of individuals involved in the creative and digital industries. BDA’s new coworking space is available for daily, weekly, and monthly use. For more information on how to reserve a desk or private office in Boulder Digital Arts’ new coworking facility, contact BDA at info@boulderdigitalarts.com, or visit the BDA website at www.boulderdigitalarts.com.

New crisis service opens A Metro Crisis Line has been created for the seven-county metro Denver area to provide assistance with mental health and substance abuse issues.

The line operates 24 hours a day, every day of the week, and is professionally staffed.

Every incoming call at Metro Crisis Line is answered by a licensed mental health professional, each of whom has at least one master’s degree or doctoral degree and an average of seven years experience after completing his or her schooling.

The Metro Crisis Services website is www.metrocrisisservices.org. The phone number of the hotline is 888885-1222.

Erie Chamber offers scholarship The Erie Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for its annual college scholarship.

The chamber awards two $1,000 scholarships to Erie High School seniors or Erie residents who are seniors

at another high school. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required, and completed applications must be received at the Chamber office by 5 p.m. on March 11.

The application forms are available online at www.eriechamber.org.

CU hosts The Yes Men The University of Colorado’s Conference on World Affairs Athenaeum Series will host a free public event, “The Yes Men: Fixing the World One Hoax at a Time,” with sociopolitical satirists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno of The Yes Men, at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1 in the University Memorial Center Ballroom.

The Yes Men raise awareness of social and political issues through largescale hoaxes that often include impersonation of corporate and government representatives, as well as the creation of mock websites and press releases.

They have produced two films documenting their work: The Yes Men and The Yes Men Fix the World, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

The CWA Athenaeum Series is a student-run offshoot of the Conference on World Affairs. The Sixty-third Annual Conference on World Affairs will take place April 4-8.

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Anyone may nominate individuals, families or organizations that have made outstanding contributions in Boulder County in one of the following categories: land conservation, environmental stewardship, historic preservation and partnership.

People may not nominate themselves, nor are they permitted to nominate organizations of which they are an officer or director. Official projects of federal, state, county, special district and municipal government agencies are not eligible to be nominated.

The application can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/land-awards, or contact Vivienne Jannatpour at vjannatpor@ bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6277 for more information.

The Boulder County commissioners will present the awards on April 13 at 3:30 p.m. at the county parks and open space headquarters in Longmont.

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• SPECIAL IMMIGRATION SERIES • PART V OF A FIVE-PART SERIES

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ow that the anticipated Arizona-type legislation on illegal immigration has been introduced in the Colorado Legislature, opponents of such sweeping reforms may have a new, unlikely ally: the controversial Secure Communities program recently adopted by former Gov. Bill Ritter.

Undocumented immigrants are already afraid of law enforcement, fearing that any contact with police could lead to their deportation. As a result, immigrant advocates say, anything that inflames that fear will lead to fewer crimes being reported from that community.

The new Secure Communities program that Ritter adopted for Colorado in a Jan. 4 executive order does just that, those advocates say, because it serves as a “dragnet” that requires the fingerprints of anyone booked into jail to be sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to check immigration status.

But Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle says Secure Communities takes the guesswork out of deciding whether to send an arrestee’s fingerprints to ICE, and the program may just deflate the effort to adopt a law in Colorado similar to Arizona Senate Bill 1070.

Currently, he says, after arresting someone, his deputies have to make a judgment call on whether their prints should be sent to ICE. If they have “reasonable belief ” that an arrestee is an undocumented immigrant, they are required to report him or her to ICE. Under Secure Communities, which has been implemented in 35 other states and is expected to be nationwide by 2013, all fingerprints of those booked into jail are submitted to ICE. Pelle says that puts all suspects on an even playing field and, if anything, reduces the chances of racial profiling by local law enforcement.

After all, the current decisions on whether to report arrestees to ICE are based on things like language skills, which is not an ideal situation.

If Colorado were to adopt Senate Bill 54, which was patterned after Arizona’s legislation and introduced into the Colorado Senate on Jan. 19, it would authorize police to be more proactive in their

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approach, arresting people whom they suspect of being in the country illegally.

Pelle says he and most sheriffs around the state oppose that approach, in part because it effectively converts them into immigration agents and gives them additional duties and responsibilities currently held by federal officers.

He says opponents of the Arizona-type legislation could use Secure Communities to argue that SB 54 is not just extreme, but unnecessary, given Ritter’s recent action.

Despite undocumented immigrants’ fear of having any contact with police, Pelle says, they are only in danger of being reported to ICE if they are arrested.

While police may ask witnesses of crimes for identification, the failure to produce an ID card is not an offense for which someone can be deported. While a valid driver’s license is required to drive a car, deputies are not submitting suspects’ fingerprints to ICE after routine traffic stops, Pelle says. Suspected illegal immigrants are reported only when they are arrested and booked into jail.

“It’s not our intent to alienate the public or cause them to fear reporting a crime,” he says. “That’s the last thing we want. The best advice is, if you don’t want to get reported to ICE, don’t commit a crime.”

Currently, the decision on whether to report a suspected undocumented immigrant to ICE can be made easier with one question.

“First we ask them where they were born,” Pelle says of the booking process. If suspects list another country, the decision to submit fingerprints to ICE is automatic. But if they say the United States, the decision becomes subjective. If a suspect has no identification and doesn’t speak any English, he says, he or she will likely be reported. He adds, however, that there are suspects who speak perfect English and who have an ID card and would not be reported to ICE if they did not admit being born in another country.

Pelle explains that about 10,000 people are booked into the Boulder County Jail each year, and deputies only report about 1,000 of those to ICE. Out of that 1,000, he says, ICE puts “detainers” on between 100 to 200, giving an ICE agent the opportunity to inter-

view those suspected of being in the country illegally.

In the case of a “detainer,” as a courtesy 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 (after they post bond, for instance, or any charges are settled).

But Pelle says his officers do not enforce federal immigration law, they are not experts on determining citizenship, and the county jail is not a federally licensed facility for ICE. He says he doesn’t want it to be; it is already full most days.

“We bump up against maximum capacity constantly,” he says.

Having an Arizona-type law “changes the ball game,” Pelle explains, because any contact with someone suspected of being an illegal immigrant — even routine traffic stops or in interviewing witnesses of a crime — could result in an arrest. It would also likely mean that local law enforcement would have to go through additional training.

“We don’t want to be in the position of being ICE agents,” he says, adding that rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrants would prove costly. “It could bankrupt sheriff ’s offices and county governments.”

Pelle says that at a recent meeting of the County Sheriffs of Colorado group, sheriffs from around the state expressed concerns about the prospect of an Arizona-type immigration law, not just because the measure has prompted a lawsuit and cost that state a lot of money, but because it would hamper crimereporting.

“That does destroy any trust we have, particularly with the Hispanic community,” Pelle says. “They won’t report crimes. They could be victimized by unscrupulous employers, victimized sexually.”

Don Christensen, executive director of the County Sheriffs of Colorado, says his group would oppose any legislation making immigration enforcement mandatory.

“I don’t want an officer to have to divert from a higher-level incident to handle an immigration issue,” he says.

The language of SB 54 is phrased as conditions under which an officer “may” arrest a person.

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Hans Meyer, policy director of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, told Boulder Weekly that Secure Communities is just as flawed as SB 54. Asked which he would prefer if he had to choose one, he replied, “Neither.”

He says his group and many others have called for changes to Ritter’s version of Secure Communities to make it less extreme and more consistent with the model being implemented nationwide. For instance, Meyer says, if the intent of the program is to catch those convicted of dangerous crimes, it should be narrowly tailored to capture just those criminals, not a wide “dragnet” that could mistakenly ensnare many victims of crimes as well.

CIRC asserts that fingerprints should be sent to ICE at the time of conviction, not at the time of arrest, and that the program should be reserved only for those “convicted of serious criminal offenses,” as ICE says in its stated goals for the program.

The group is calling on new Gov. John Hickenlooper to rescind Ritter’s memorandum of agreement with ICE and replace it with one that has several amendments, including a clause stipulating that only subjects convicted of Level 1 offenses will be screened

by ICE as part of Secure Communities. (Level 1 offenses include felonies, two or more class 1 misdemeanors and other crimes defined as “aggravated felonies” by the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to CIRC.) CIRC also claims that there is not enough protection for victims of domestic violence. The group points out that an existing 2006 law requires police to report arrestees they suspect of being illegal immigrants carries an exception for domestic violence.

Suspects in domestic violence cases may be reported to ICE at the point of conviction, not at the point of arrest, in part because sometimes multiple people — including the victim — are arrested after domestic disputes. CIRC has called on Hickenlooper to create the same exception for Secure Communities.

In a press release issued the same day as Ritter’s executive order, CIRC quoted an undocumented domestic abuse survivor identified only as “Jazmin” as saying, “With a law like Secure Communities in place, I won’t call the police anymore — not just for a crime against me, but for a crime against anyone. When I was a victim, I was more scared of the police than the person that I was reporting.”

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is being used, which to a debatable degree was included in Ritter’s version, and a clear process allowing jurisdictions to opt out of Secure Communities if they wish.

Meyer cautions that the program could be used by anti-immigration police officers to round up undocumented immigrants through trumped-up, minor charges like exceeding curfew.

“If you want a dragnet deportation program, this is it,” Meyer says. “But don’t call it a focused Secure Communities initiative. Call it a round-up.”

The Boulder County Commissioners are among the many groups that have sent letters protesting Ritter’s executive order, airing concerns similar to those raised by CIRC. But Pelle is sticking to his guns in his support for Secure Communities.

While his view on the issue differs from the stance of the county commissioners, who set his budget, he has explained his position to them and they’re not pressuring him to change his tune.

Pelle says he doesn’t think the increase in the number of fingerprints sent to ICE will result in an increase in deporatations, simply because of ICE’s limited resources.

As for CIRC’s positions on domestic violence cases and screening at the time of conviction instead of arrest, he says that about 90 percent of offenders are no longer in custody at the time of their conviction, in most cases because they are out on bond.

Law enforcement agencies, which use different computer database systems, 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.

In addition, he says, if the screening were done only for serious crimes, it would allow those arrested for minor offenses to remain under the radar even if they were repeat ICE offenders.

“It sounds like a simple issue, but it’s not,” Pelle says, adding that his department doesn’t even wait until conviction to report domestic violence suspects to ICE currently, because the 2006 law doesn’t preclude them from doing so, it just gives them the option of waiting until conviction.

“They’re asking for a lot based on good, moral and ethical reasoning, which isn’t flawed, but the way these data systems work, they’re asking for something really complicated,” Pelle says.

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t’s an old complaint. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a job.

Even in today’s newer greenrelated industries, teenagers discover this on their first round of job applications, and so do many adults when they try to change careers.

Internships help bridge that gap.

In Boulder County, now is a good time to look at some of the environmentally focused opportunities out there, particularly as some have imminent deadlines for applications.

Boulder County Youth Corps — Designed for that first foot-in-thedoor demographic, teenagers ages 14 to 17. Since 1996, the Corps has been paying teenage teams, supervised by adults, to work on summer outdoor projects.

Last summer, 176 teens and 36 adults gathered debris from dead tree removals, maintained hiking trails, repaired picnic tables and constructed fences, among other things.

“They’re doing real, tangible projects that will benefit the county,” says Judy Wolfe, program manager.

And in the process, they gain a work ethic, hands-on skills and knowledge about environmental issues, sustainability and teamwork.

Applicants are rated by points given for a number of factors, such as time availability and references (school grades are not considered).

“Being able to commit to the whole eight-week program scores high,” says Wolfe. “Also needed are willingness to follow the rules, interest in working with a team, and a great attitude.”

Hiring information for teens, and adults to lead them, will be available online on Monday, Jan. 31 at http://bit.ly/fFKIsp. 2011 Boulder County Building Farmers, Market Farm Program — This program offers mentorships/ internships for serious beginning farmers. A hard copy of application and $90 program fee is due no later than 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 31.

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9595 Nelson Road, Box B, Longmont, CO 80501. Or, drop applications off at the extension office, Natural Resources Building, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont. Call Adrian Card at 303-678-6383 for more information, or visit http://bit.ly/ fch9up for details and an application ReSource Boulder — This group offers unpaid, ongoing internships.

Currently openings include donation assistant, community outreach assistant and deconstruction research assistant. Details are available at http://bit.ly/dSJHX9. E-mail cover letter, and resume to Shaun LaBarre, ReSource director, at slabarre@ resourceyard.org or 303-419-5427.

Boulder Green Building Guild — This guild offers the latest information on education, training, jobs and internships in the green building industry. The upcoming intern openings at BGBG are in marketing, the website and the radio show, for college credit or membership. Details will be available online on Monday, Jan. 31, at www.bgbg.org/classifieds.

EcoCycle — This local recycling center has occasional internship openings. For more information, call 303-444-6634 in Boulder, 303-7727300 in Longmont or 303-243-5820 for Spanish speakers. Or e-mail recycle@ecocycle.org. More information is available online at www.ecocycle.org.

Growing Gardens — This Boulder-based organization educates with sustainable gardening programs.

Spring semester internships begin Feb. 15 (for college credit). Stipends are available for summer internships; details will be available at the beginning of February. Contact Annie Sweeney, intern supervisor, at 303440-8409. See http://bit.ly/i8sv8N for more information.

Agriculture internships — Boulder County’s organic/sustainable farms and ranches often offer internships. Compensation, housing and other terms vary. See the LocalHarvest online directory at http://bit.ly/eMBgRb.

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Eat green chili for charity on Sunday at the Oriental Theatre in Denver.

Thursday, Jan. 27

Poetry Reading with Shin Yu Pai — Kick off Innisfree’s Thursday poetry readings with a bang. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Friday, Jan. 28

Laser Outkast – Laser light precision and verbal incision. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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Silent Film Night: Don Q, Son of Zorro. 7 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-356-2555.

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Buoyed by Boulder scene, Big Gigantic keeps growing by P.J. Nutting

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here is only one way to describe Big Gigantic’s success, and it doesn’t require a half-assed play on words. The duo’s highly anticipated show at the Fox Theatre, which sold out months ago nearly within a day, marks exactly two years since producer/saxophonist Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken first appeared together alongside fellow Boulderites Rootz vs. Murphy at the B-Side Lounge.

Winning a hefty ally in jamtronica in the form of STS9’s David Murphy, and in a town that continues to ravenously support the genre, it wasn’t long before Big Gigantic took their booming jazz-hop sound from basement clubs to the fields of summer festivals. Their live setup (an unbelievably heavy combo of drums, saxophone and computer production) resonated with STS9’s 18 January 27, 2011

label, the highly influential 1320 Records, and the rest fell into place.

“I think it’s a whole scene thing — it took everyone doing everything that they were doing at the time they were doing it,” Lalli laughs over the phone with the Boulder Weekly, “all the way up to this moment right now, with us talking, for everything to happen the way it did. I don’t think it was us or them: It was the whole deal, the whole package, everything together.”

And whether it’s Lalli’s expert-yet-accessible saxophone style or his pursuit of explosive bass production that defined the band’s unique sound, it gave Big G the opportunity last summer to tag along as Sound Tribe nearly sold out a two-day run at Red Rocks, and turned see BIG Page 20

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a seemingly doomed gig at Camp Bisco (run by oddball jamtronica champs The Disco Biscuits) into a surprise blowout that even had the Wu-Tang Massacre urging for an encore.

“The Wu-Tang Massacre was billed after us and showed up late,” Lalli says, “so they were yelling at us on the side like, ‘Keep going!’ And we turned around to get off and they were [making shooing motions with their hands] and we’re like ‘OK, we’ll play another one!’ We played for like, an hour and a half, and in front of a huge crowd.”

“We lucked out,” Salken adds.

“Somebody was on our side, because it went from shit-show rain to clearing up, and people just came out of nowhere. We thought we were getting screwed. At a festival, I’m not doing shit at 3 p.m., I’m not awake.” Salken laughs, pointing out that the video of the band performing “Limelight,” now at the top of their MySpace page, chronicles this unexpectedly rowdy tour stop.

Now in full throttle for 2011, and fresh off of a performance on the Jam Cruise, (“basically the best festival you’ve ever been to, but it’s even better because it’s on a boat,” Lalli says), Big Gigantic is getting a breath of air before their long-overdue headlining premier in Boulder, a winter tour

across the nation that joins Umphrey’s When I was at music school, everyone McGee, and a still-unnamed EP in the was up until 5 in the morning in the works. practice room, trying to work on stuff, Fans with tickets can expect a live to get better, to get gigs, to write premier of Big G’s latest work, a remix music. And really, Alex was the first of Wiz Khalifa’s “Black and Yellow.” guy I met around here that had that Created in collaboration with kind of drive. I was like, ‘Cool, this Boulderite and guy, this is what member of opener I’m talking On the Bill: Fresh2Death, Ben about. This is Big Gigantic plays the Fox Samples, it’s just how we do it.’”

Theatre on Friday, Jan. 28. stereotype reinforceWith any of Doors at 8:30 p.m. Fresh2Death and Raw Russ open. Tickets are ment that Boulder is the band’s three sold out. 1135 13th St., Boulder, still a good place for studio releases, 303-443-3399. ripe bass. all offered for “A lot of places free on their we go, everyone’s saying, ‘Oh Boulder! website, two constants are the speakerColorado!’ Everyone’s trying to get punishing pulses and the musicianship that going wherever we’re at, trying to you would expect from a genre preget that scene happening like we do fixed with “jam.” In it, you can hear here,” Lalli says. some of the most intriguing and Fellow laptopper and Boulderite annoyingly catchy melodies you can Alex Botwin was a huge influence on find in electronic music. how Big Gigantic came to utilize elec“With the music I’ve been writing, tronic sounds, and he critically adoptit’s definitely been using that melodic ed Lalli as a student to show him content and using more chops-orientwhere to find the “sick” knob on his ed stuff as well,” Lalli says. “We will mixer. still add some of those bass-heavy ele“The reason why me and Alex ments to the new stuff, but in a tastebonded so well — one, it’s funny that ful way that is conjunction with the we have the same birthday — and two, sound.” when I was living in New York, Basic things like song structure, y’know, it’s just a whole different vibe chord changes(!), and melodic weight, out there. Everyone’s grinding hard. with even obscure lines like the riff

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from “Thinking Out Loud” becoming the fans’ instrumental karaoke, it seems unnatural for Big Gigantic to also embrace the “filth” idealized by dubstep and most other types of bass music. Even though filth is intrinsically not catchy or pleasant, and with a saxophone not offering much help, Lalli said he and Salken aren’t avoiding anything.

“When I first think about filthy, I think of dirty, raw, grimy kinds of beats, more kind of makes you have a face that’s like ‘ugh,’ but it’s in a good way,” Lalli laughs. “But everyone uses it differently and expands on it, so a filthy set can just be, ‘They killed it.’

Boulder likes those big drops; that’s for sure. And with our stuff, that’s one part of the whole thing for us, but definitely a part that we love a lot.”

“That’s one part of why people like some of that music,” Lalli continues, “it’s the juxtaposition of the melody with the grimy and dirty. You’ll notice it in a lot of tracks: There’s beautiful vocals and this woman singing, and then it builds up and drops into the most absurd, rowdy shit.”

“Especially when I’m making a build-up into the drop, I’m like, ‘How is this gonna hit? Red Rocks … uhhhkay, gotta make sure it’s big.’”

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oday, Patti Smith — widely considered the godmother of punk — is a Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Des Lettres in France, and an acclaimed author whose fascinating new book, Just Kids, is a recent National Book Award winner and has been atop the New York Times best-seller list for paperbacks since last fall. In July of 1967, however, Smith was just another starving 20-year-old hippie sleeping on a stoop in Brooklyn.

Born in Chicago in 1946 and raised in unremarkable slices of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Smith — wearing an old grey raincoat and carrying a copy of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations — had taken a one-way bus from Philadelphia to New York with about $30 in her pocket and no promise of a job or a place to live. One year later, Smith and her new companion in art and love, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe — whom she’d met that first day in Brooklyn — fled their New York apartment in the wake of a brutal murder outside their door.

Mapplethorpe’s gums were abscessing, and he was showing signs of gonorrhea. The talented but penniless couple checked into a crummy motel on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan called the Allerton, the kind of place where — as Smith writes in Just Kids — “half-naked guys [tried] to find a vein in limbs infested with sores” and the pillows were covered in lice.

Mapplethorpe and Smith made love just to draw sweat from Robert’s shivering body, and at dawn a toothless junkie — who Smith calls a “morphine angel” — helped the art-obsessed couple flee the Allerton without paying the bill.

Portfolios in hand, the artists’ next stop was the Chelsea Hotel, where hotel manager Stanley Bard had a history of giving rooms based on the artistic brilliance of his typically cash-strapped tenants.

Soon Mapplethorpe and Smith were inhabiting Room 1017, the smallest in a now-legendary building that then featured residents including Harry Smith, William Burroughs and Johnny Winter, not to mention constant visits by big-time pop stars such as Janis Joplin and Leonard Cohen. The rest, as they say, is history.

Just Kids, beyond its chief role as perhaps the definitive book about young lovers inspiring each other while struggling just to survive, confirms the wisdom in the age-old axiom, “Who you know gets you there; what you do keeps you there.”

“There,” in Smith’s case, was among the most iconic poets, musicians and painters in 20th century America. In New York, she befriended icons like Boulder Weekly

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Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Allen Ginsberg and many others, wanting nothing more than connection but slowly becoming a bona fide star herself.

Smith wrote record reviews in Creem Magazine in order to sell the free records for food money — the unfortunate routine of many music critics even today — and wrote intensely passionate poetry energized by Bob Dylan, Rimbaud, William Blake and the darkly sexual mosaics Mapplethorpe was creating. She dined and partied with New York’s elite artists and, encouraged by friends who had urged her to read her poems aloud (to considerable success), finally put her words to music in front of an audience on Feb. 10, 1971, at St. Mark’s Church on the Lower East Side.

Lenny Kaye added guitar accompaniment and young poet Anne Waldman, just a few years before co-founding the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, provided a stirring introduction. Horses, Smith’s game-changing debut album — No. 44 on Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time — was not

released until 1975. But Feb. 10, 1971, at St. Mark’s Church represented the proverbial “shot heard ’round the world” for not only punk, and not only women in hard rock music, but also arguably the first earnest juxtaposition of poetry and pop, Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan be damned.

Looking back almost exactly 40 years later, Waldman — still a Naropa stalwart — calls Smith’s musical debut at St. Mark’s Church “a signature blast from a raw talent who even then conveyed both a penetrating orality and palpable vulnerability.”

Waldman, who remembers Smith that night as “being modest and a little nervous, but confident too,” is co-hosting an anniversary benefit of Smith’s legendary 1971 performance next month at St. Mark’s Church. She calls Just Kids “a magical journey, somewhat like a tale by the French novelist Honore de Balzac in scope.

The classic story of the young artists coming to the big city to seek their fame and fortune.”

“It’s beautifully written,” Waldman tells Boulder Weekly, “deeply moving, honest and visionary. And it’s a wonderful source of belletristic history, including portraits of some of our counter-cultural greats — Ginsberg, Burroughs, Harry Smith — who all have a history, by the way, at [Naropa].”

Before checking into the Chelsea Hotel that night in the summer of 1968, Patti Smith and Mapplethorpe had nothing but passion, talent and grit — and in Mapplethorpe’s case, a venereal disease. Both became internationally renowned artists due to their visionary creativity and unstoppable drive in the early ’70s.

Mapplethorpe passed away in 1989 due to complications related to AIDS, but his photographs — such as the iconic cover of Horses — are gaining more admiration by the day. In 2006, a Mapplethorpe print of Andy Warhol sold for $640,000. And without his substantial inspiration, Smith may well have remained another hippie on the streets of New York.

Instead, Smith has released 10 albums and more than a dozen books of poetry, paving the way for female rockers such as Exene Cervenka, PJ Harvey, Ani DiFranco, Kathleen Hanna, Karen O and countless others.

“Patti remains relevant because she has a bead on this crazy war-mongering culture and a wisdom eye and voice that is expansive, imaginative and generous — and true,” Waldman concludes. “And she keeps Blake and Rimbaud alive in her psyche. She’s tracked and metabolized the desires and aspirations of several generations of seekers through her poetry and performance, and now this memoir.”

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Old 97’s with Langhorne Slim play the Boulder Theater on Thursday, Jan. 27. Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $24.50 in advance, $28 day of show.

2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Old 97’s haven’t let success get in the way of innovation

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ometimes, it’s the simplest advice that turns out to be the best.

The Old 97’s spent the last half of the ’90s giving country music back its swagger, infusing Texas twang with rockabilly spirit and punkrock smarminess on the genre-defining albums Wreck Your Life (1995) and Too Far to Care (1997). The band formed during the dark days of country, when Billy Ray Cyrus and his Hall of Fame mullet ruled the airwaves with “Achy Breaky Heart.” By 1993, the genre had become a musical punch line, a tacky, bloated self-parody of what it once was. Setting out to sound like “Johnny Cash meets the Clash,” the Old 97’s reminded everybody that country music could still be dangerous, it could still surprise and yes, it could still be cool. Wreck Your Life and Too Far to Care made it OK for rock ’n’ roll kids to listen to country music again.

But by 2004’s Drag It Up, the band found itself prematurely slipping into the role of the elder statesmen. It was a good album, but also uneven and moody, replacing the rambunctious punch of their early work with melancholy songs of self-reflection in the vein of Elvis Costello’s collaborations with Burt Bacharach or Joe Strummer’s albums with the Mescaleros. Drag It Up was unfairly met with a shrug by longtime fans, and the 2006 release of the greatest hits record Hit by a Train seemed to only confirm fans’ fears that the band’s days as a relevant recording band were coming to an end.

Then producer Salim Nourallah gave the band some advice that made so much sense, it’s a wonder that more bands don’t take it to heart.

“I remember Salim saying, ‘You’re a rock band,’” says Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller. “‘You need to rock.’”

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With Nourallah at the helm, the band is back to sounding like the runaway train that inspired their name. On their seventh album, The Grand Theatre Volume 1, Miller and company return to doing what they do best. Nearly all of the tracks were recorded live, creating a rollicking and loose album that stands in contrast to the high production values that sucked some of the energy out of their middle-period albums.

“The biggest thing we wanted to do with this album was capture the sound of us playing live because we exist in our purest state as a live band,” Miller says. “We just wanted to cut everything in a full band setting, which is kind of unheard of these days.”

The result is an album that combines the maturity of their more recent work with the energy of their early releases, liberally drawing on their many influences more cohesively than any of their previous albums. On past records, the band tended to pick a sound and stick with it for the much of the album.

Hitchhike to Rhome is their most traditional country-

rock album, Wreck Your Life is their most punkinfluenced, Satellite Rides is their pop album, and so on. But on The Grand Theatre Volume 1, the group pulls all these sounds into one album, and does so without sacrificing the unifying spirit that ties a great album together. “Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)” is a driving, catchy-as-hell power-pop anthem, “A State of Texas” is a pumped-up country rock song that would sound right at home on Too Far To Care, and “Let the Whiskey Take the Reins” is a slow-burning ’60s-rock-via-the-OKCorral track that would fit nicely on the wider ranging, more experimental Drag it Up. They even borrow the tune to Dylan’s “Desolation Row” on “Champaign, Illinois,” reworking one of the greatest songs of the 20th century with such mystery and wit that even Bob Dylan himself gave it his seal of approval.

The Old 97’s will never make another album like Too Far to Care. That album perfectly combines the attitude of a rock star, the wit of an English major and the vulnerability of country’s most heartbroken crooners. It is a classic album that will sound as new and fresh to our children as it did to us. But as the release of The Grand Theatre Volume 1 shows us, it’s a good thing they won’t make another Too Far to Care.

It shows they aren’t content simply being the elder statesmen. They are still striving to build on their legacy.

“Everything we have done has been a departure from the previous record,” Miller says. “We’ve lost fans with every record and we’ve gained fans with every record. I thought early on, I’m not going to care about it or we’ll end up chasing our own tail. I just don’t want to be a band that keeps making the same record over and over.”

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Davy Knowles is ready for his close-up

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here’s a great moment from an audience video shot last October at the Rock ’n Roots fest in Amsterdam of Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth and Davy Knowles gangtackling the old blue-rock warhorse “I’m Going Down,” one of those easy-to-rehearse standby numbers that gets festival showcase guitarists together onstage for last-encore artillery practice.

After a couple of verses, Satriani turns the spotlight over to Landreth, who peels off a gruesomely beautiful and utterly incomprehensible slide solo, chittering and screeching and yowling with blackened mystic ferocity. Satriani leans over to Knowles and says something, and they both crack up.

“I have to confess,” Knowles told us last week, “we’d just polished off a good bottle-and-a-half of wine before we did that. I don’t think it affected Joe at all, but it may have affected me a bit.

But during Sonny’s solo, Joe leans over to me and says ‘Aw man, I’ve got no idea what to play after that!’

“And as soon as he said that, I had this thought in my head, ‘I’ve got no idea what I’m even doing up here with these guys.’”

Knowles, of course, absolutely hammered his 24 bars, and there probably wasn’t a single audience member who went home that night doubting that the 23-year-old guitarist belonged in that company.

But maybe it’s little surprise after all. Ever since

Knowles and his original Back Door Slam released their debut Roll Away in 2007, the British guitarist/ singer has been foisted as the heir apparent of the blues guitar-hero mantle. Disbanding the original trio, reforming and moving to Chicago (where else?), Knowles now has an impressive solo CD to his name (2009’s Coming Up For Air), and at this point, the world is this guy’s oyster.

Chops aplenty, a maturing sense of nuance and old-soul vocals make this kid the complete package, two generations removed from the days of Alexis Korner and John Mayall and the heralded procession of guitarists bred from that pedigree.

It’s not always easy carrying that thing around.

We asked Knowles about his solo acoustic 2009 opening slot on Jeff Beck’s tour, the kind of gig that might make any young guitarist trying to simultaneously embrace and not get strangled by the plaudits and praise, or wither under the weight of expectation and Davy Knowles awesome tradition.

“One thing I’ve found hanging around the few musicians of that sort of caliber is that you tend to be more intimidated by the legend,” he says. “You find that that they’re just a person and you spend your time trying to see what they’re actually doing, and when you look at it like that, it gets to be more relaxed, you know? Plus, you’re up there trying to do your job and what you’re there for, and trying to stay focused on that.”

Knowles makes an appearance this weekend at the

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Boulder Theater as a ringer with the Pearl St. All Stars, a gig he managed to land when he struck up a friendship with Funky Meters bassist and All Star regular George Porter Jr. on a jam cruise, while Knowles was holding down the guitar seat with The Rhythm Devils.

The Rhythm Devils? Davy Knowles playing Dead tunes?

“You know, I have to say, I didn’t really understand it when I first started listening to ... y’know, the long, long pieces. ‘Dark Star,’ ‘Terrapin,’ all of that. But my tour manager Evan, who’s a huge Deadhead, said, ‘No, no, no, you have to listen to it, the live stuff,’ and once I really did, I saw the beauty in it.”

For Knowles, it’s really just another piece of the process of becoming ... well, Davy Knowles. Who, by the way and by full intention, is not just a blues guitarist. For anyone who looks past the marquis, this is not such a great surprise — Coming Up For Air’s center of gravity is blues-favored mainstream rock, acoustic ballads, shades of Celtic folk. Stevie Ray Knowles this isn’t.

“This is something that’s always confused me. I will never forget the blues or blues music. I’m the biggest blues nut; I’m obsessive about it. It’s where I come from; it’s who I am. But I’ve always been a fan of songwriting ... Irish songwriters, acoustic songwriters.

And I tried to put a few things like [that] on Roll Away, and people still said, ‘Oh, this is a straight blues record,’ and I’m thinking, ‘No, it’s really not.’ And I kinda got hold of that, and tried to do it again on Coming Up For Air, and people said, ‘Aw, you forgot your blues.’ ... I actually think it was more bluesy than the first one, but fair enough ...

“So, it’s a really scary thing. You don’t want to alienate yourself from it, but at the same time you can’t really figure out who you are just because some people say you ought to be playing straight blues all the time.”

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Thursday, Jan. 27

music Annie Booth Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

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

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

Jim Adams and John Stilwagen. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

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

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

Old 97’s — With Langhorne Slim. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Open Mic Night. 5 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-440-8808.

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

Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night. Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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

Rogue Sound — With Euforquestra. 10 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

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

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

Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2580782.

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

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver HandsOn Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

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

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m.

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

Colorado Skies: Lunar Science. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop.

6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night.

Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720242-8961.

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

HeartMind Shiatsu Training: Meridian Magic. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Bodywork Bistro, 1100 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-319-2188. Through Jan. 30.

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Boulder/Denver Area Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan.

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

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft — Drawings by Marc Brandenburg. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Feb. 20.

Moments In Between — Paintings

by Barbara Shark. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,

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Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — By various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Paintings by Kathleen Lanzoni. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Jan. 31.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Tina Will.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Jan. 30.

Shut Your Face Off! Mixed media by Donald Fodness & Alvin Gregorio.

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

Through Jan. 31.

Orphan Paintings — Russian avantgarde paintings by various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554.

Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 29.

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How Boulder County Addresses Health Care Issues: From Public Programs to Congregations. 11:30 a.m. Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 720-3046446.

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

Poetry Reading with Shin Yu Pai. 7 p.m.

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

Friday, Jan. 28

music Acoustic Open Mic. 7-9 p.m.The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Ash Ganley. 7-9 p.m.The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Aural Elixir. 6:30 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Back to the Woods. 5 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-440-8808.

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

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

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

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

Brad Upton & Joe Bonner Quartet. 8-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Catie Curtis, Robby Hecht. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

Dr. Harlan’s Amazing Bluegrass Tonic. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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

The Front Range Burners. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Highwater. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

Holden Young — With Pete Goldberg, Dr. Phil Good. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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

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

JT Nolan and Robin Hoch. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Kimmerjae Johnson. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Music on the Mezz — With Rebecca Folsom Trio. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m.Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

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theater Art of Murder. Nonesuch Theater, 216 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-224-0444. Through Feb. 12.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. OpenStage Theatre & Company, Masonic Temple Proscenium, 225 W. Oak St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730. Through Feb. 13.

Don’t Dress for Dinner.

Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224

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

events Adobe Photoshop: Embracing Your Creative Side. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

Comida Mobile Mexi-Feast. 4:30-7 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Ct., Boulder, 303-5301381.

The Crowded Sky. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Jackass 3. 9 p.m. Chemistry 140, CU campus, 303-492-7704.

Laser Outkast. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Laser Pink Floyd:The Wall. 10:45 p.m.

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

Metzger Social Media Breakfast. 7:45 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

RETool: Developing Business & Careers in the New Energy Economy. Leeds School of Business, CU campus, 303-492-4702.

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 12-9 p.m.Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours.

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

Saturday, Jan. 29

music 17th Mountain Sun Funky Good Times Feat. Pearl St. All Stars. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Acoustic Eidolon. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale

Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044. Through Feb. 27.

Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 26.

Life is a Cabaret — Presented by Next Season Dancers. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Jan. 29 & 30.

Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

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

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

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

The Digital Connection — With Balthazar and Zach Sammakia. 8:30 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303-492-7704.

Doug Haywood and Keith Curtis. 7:30 p.m.

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

Frokus. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Ira Liss. 7:30 p.m. Mohr Fire Performance & Recording Studio, 424 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-653-4336.

Jack Hadley Band. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Jeff Lambert, J.C. McKim. 8 p.m.The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Kendra Current. 8 p.m. Christopher’s Place, 1850 22nd St., Boulder, www.kendracurrent.com.

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

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

New Cosmic Americans. 7:30 p.m.The Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-492-1503.

Notes & Oats Musical Breakfast — With Dan & Yoshi. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Speaker Snacks Presents Flashlights, School Knights. 8 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

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Thursday, Jan. 27 Children’s Story Time. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Judy Converse’s Special Needs Kids Go Pharm-Free. 7:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, Jan. 30 An Afternoon With Local Authors. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

The Wailers — Performing Uprising in its entirety. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m.

Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9186617.

Flashback Films Presents — Beetlejuice, 6:30 p.m. Harold and Maude, 8:30 p.m. Harlequin Center, 990 South Public Rd. Lafayette, 720-6353083.

Silent Film Night: Don Q, Son of Zorro. 7 p.m.

Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-356-2555.

Stars and Lasers. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

Sunday, Jan. 30

music Acoustic Jam. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Asher Bluegrass Pick. 4-6 p.m.Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court., Boulder, 303-530-1381.

Ayo Awosika. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

Cahalen Morrison, Eli West. 9 p.m.The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Davis Jones. 8:15 p.m.The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Monday, Jan. 31 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, Feb. 1 Carol Turner’s Notorious Telluride & Notorious Jefferson County. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Meg Gardiner’s The Liar’s Lullaby. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727.

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

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

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

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Musica Therapia with Santiago Carhuancho. 1 p.m.The Star House, 3472 Sunshine Canyon Dr., Boulder, 719-966-2005.

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

Sherefe. 1-3 p.m. Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason St., Fort Collins, 970-493-5555.

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

events

5th Annual Meanest Green Chili CookOff and Sizzlin’ Jazz — Benefit cook-off for victims of the Fourmile Fire. 2-7 p.m. Oriental Theatre, 4335 Tennyson St., Denver, 720-475-1182.

2011 Boulder Wedding Showcase. 11 a.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Allure of Austin’s Pride & Prejudice.

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

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Imbolc, the Festival of Brigid. 2-3:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-415-3755.

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m. For more information, call 720-301-3993.

Monday, Jan. 31

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

Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

events Boulder Art Association Monthly Meeting.

6:30 p.m. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 3700 Baseline Rd., Boulder, Boulder Final Cut Pro Users Group. 6-9 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

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

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

Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m.

Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

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

The Whole Omega 3 Story Has Yet to Be Told — Presented by Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Wednesday, Feb. 2

music 1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign Part 2. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic

by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m.

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

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

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Bassline,Watch for Wildlife. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

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

Faculty Tuesday Series — Jennifer BirdArvidsson, soprano, with Ronald Land, piano. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

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

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

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

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

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

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

Bob Marley Tribute Night — With Jus Goodie and Band, Selasee and The Fa Fa Family and others. 8:30 p.m. Round Midnight, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Buddy Holly Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

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

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

Denver Pops. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, 720-887-2371.

Guest Recital — James Stearn, violin. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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

Smack Thompson. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Steve Aoki — With Sorry for Partying and others. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

Beer and Belly Dancing — Learn to belly dance and have some great beer. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing, 4699 Nautilus Ct. #104, Boulder, 303530-1381.

BGBG Commercial Brown Bag Series — Leveraging Federal Tax Incentives for Energy Upgrades. 11:30 a.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303444-0190.

Rupert Spira:The Essential Nature of Peace, Happiness and Love – Talks on the Non-Dual Nature of Experience. 7 p.m. Naropa University, 3285 30th St., Boulder. 720-984-7498.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Jan. 27 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Jan. 28 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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Saturday, Jan. 29

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

Laser Peter and the Wolf. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

Sunday, Jan. 30 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

Monday, Jan. 31

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

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

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

Tuesday, Feb. 1

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m.WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, Feb. 2

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

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

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

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m.WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

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Jealousy is very normal. Most, if not all, human beings have experienced the Dear CIBTC, green dragon of jealousy at some point.

Delayed ejaculation is a struggle Because there are no wrong or right feelmen of all ages can endure. Often expe- ings, you are fully allowed to feel jealous, rienced as anxiety, it can be a psychoeven if it seems irrational. What you do logical block that inhibits a man from with these feelings is another story. letting go and having an orgasm.

It may feel scary, but if you can let Orgasm is about surrender — about jealousy be your teacher, then you will trusting your partner, and yourself with learn a lot about yourself. Ask yourself, your partner, to let go. why are you jealous? What is the real I suggest having an open and honest fear underneath? Typically, people feel conversation about what your relationafraid. Either A, “I’m afraid I am not ship means to both of you. Because of lovable or good enough.” Or B, “I’m the distance, perhaps there is a part of afraid my partner will leave me.” you that fears she is not fully on board Is this a real, substantiated fear? If in the relationship, and therefore, your your fear is supported in that he may body is responding by withholding (in really leave, or not really love you, then this case, withholding ejaculation). It questioning whether to stay in the relacan feel uneasy when the pink elephant tionship is appropriate. But if he really in your bed is the unspoken discussion does love you, and he really does want to stay, then seeking his support around about what your relationship means. your fear may be a better place to start.

When it comes to sex, don’t make Because his buttons get pushed the goal be about ejaculation or orgasm, when you bring up this conversation, I make it about pleasure. Grant your suggest expressing your feelings of jealpenis permission to enjoy the journey. ousy in a different manner. Try to Without the pressure to ejaculate, you express the fear that resides under the may be surprised at the fun you can have. jealousy. Ask him how he feels hearing As for the condom, perhaps there is your disclosure. You may be surprised some truth to that. To test those waters how deep and vulnerable you can go somatically, practice oral and manual with this conversation, and then how stimulation with a condom to help train safe it feels to be more deeply connected. your penis to respond under latex cirIf you are able to articulate the cumstances. You can do this alone from deep-rooted fear under the jealousy, afar to get a jump-start on the process. then you are on your way to feeling Remember, it’s about the journey, safer and more comfortable in the relanot the destination. tionship.

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im Larson’s shop in Lafayette may raise some eyebrows from passersby — and cheers from those burdened with heaving bosoms.

BoulderFields, a “bra boutique” dedicated to helping big-breasted women, opened in October.

“My brother wanted to call it the ‘Knocker Locker,’” says Larson, who boasts a 34E rack on her otherwise petite frame.

BoulderFields specializes in athletic undergarments with sizes ranging from 28AA to 56N. “Most American retailers don’t typically size beyond double D,” Larson says. “They tend to cater to popular sizes.”

Larson says she is beginning to expand her store’s inventory to include underwires, swimsuits and even lingerie.

“We also feature ‘dimmers’ to help with headlights,” Larson says.

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“A lot of women runners were complaining that their high-beams were showing in their race photos.”

A tri-athlete, Ironwoman and tennis player since high school, Larson knows the struggles women with large breasts face.

“I worked with so many women, and they all had the same concern — what should I wear?” Larson says. “It’s so important to find the right bra.”

Larson says the wrong bra could lead to stretching of the Cooper’s ligaments, the connective tissue in the breast.

“Women who have been generously blessed by the Chest Fairy often complain about the physical discomforts that can accompany big bust size, such as back and neck pain,” says Rachel Palmer, founder of see SUPPORT Page 36

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By James Dziezynski

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he Boulder Mountainbike Alliance was formed in 1991 (originally called the Boulder Offroad Alliance) to give mountain bikers a unified voice in matters pertaining to Boulder County trail use. As advocates of responsible trail patronage, the organization has contributed to the creation and maintenance of many local mountain bike trails. The group also works to educate cyclists and to provide a social network to further encourage group rides while teaching responsible trail ethics.

As land management issues evolved in Boulder, so did the organization, adopting the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance moniker in 2006. Beyond simply building and establishing mountain bike trails, the BMA serves as a calm voice in the heated debates that arise when discussing the potential uses of open space land.

This year brings more changes to BMA, including the introduction of a new logo and the launch of a completely redesigned website at bouldermountainbike.org. The easy-to-navigate and smart layout brings a wealth of information to one place. Everything from trail maps and current conditions, community events, fundraisers, volunteer opportunities and social rides are listed on the site. There is also plenty of information on the organization itself as it has grown in the past 20 years.

Simply put, the new BMA website is the premiere resource for Boulder County mountain biking. If you’re looking for new trails or variations on old favorites, the BMA has you covered. The extensive amount of material available on BMA’s site is easy to find, easy to read and well-maintained. Even in the cold of winter, there are still accurate and up-to-date trail condition reports.

If you’d like to join the BMA or donate to the cause, visit the website or, better yet, make friends at the Sixth Annual Winter Banquet fundraiser being held on Feb. 4 at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder.

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Bigbustsupport.com, a website devoted to educating and supporting large-chested women. “A proper-fitting bra will make your shirts fit better and can actually slim your silhouette by bringing everything up into place.”

That, Larson says, is her main goal.

“I will do anything to help someone find the right bra,” says Larson, who started her business in Washington, D.C., in 2010.

“I used to shop at a boutique in Jersey,” she says. “I would drive from D.C. to Jersey every few months. I was working a lot of odd jobs, and I wanted to start my own business, so I figured a bra shop would be perfect.”

Larson says she strives to help women feel comfortable about find-

ing the right bra.

“I want women who generally can’t find bras to be able to come in,” she says. “I developed early, so I was very self-conscious.”

As she continues to grow her customer base, Larson has partnered with local women’s athletic teams and event companies, including the University of Colorado’s Alpine Club and Women’s Rugby team, She Does Tri and Team Z, a triathlon team based in Virginia.

Because BoulderFields is a onewoman operation, Larson encourages women to call for appointments or check the store website for hours.

For more information, call 301437-5907 or visit www.boulderfields.com.

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single spontaneous moment pops up in the otherwise obsessively well-ordered ensemble drama The Company Men, written and directed

by ER and West Wing alum John Wells. It’s a quick shot in a hotel room tryst of Maria Bello bopping back into frame, unexpectedly, with a wolfish grin on her face as her character — a corporate layoff specialist — bids farewell to her lover, a high-flying but soul-corroded executive played by Tommy Lee Jones.

The actors in this tale of recessionary morals, ethics and consequences are all very good, from Ben Affleck (as Bobby, the central figure, struggling with a grim job market and plummeting self-esteem) to Rosemarie DeWitt (terrific in Rachel Getting Married and on Mad Men, as the nurse married to Bobby) to Kevin Costner (as Jack Dolan, Bobby’s brother-in-law). The craft throughout in The Company Men is clean, organized and thorough. Cinematographer Roger Deakins lends an honest shine to every image. Deakins, truly, is a first-time feature film director’s best pal.

The results can be appreciated for a lot of reasons, yet they’re frustrating. Wells casts a wide but synthetic net. An aura of well-intentioned generica muffles the dramatic impact of The Company Men, set among the survivors of a recently downsized Boston-based ship-

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et in Scranton, Pa., and Brooklyn, N.Y., Blue Valentine depicts a workingclass marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs and clues to its undoing. In the end, it sympathizes more with the wronged, childlike husband than with the numbly exasperated wife. At least, that’s the way it’s written; as performed, thankfully, it’s more intriguing.

None of its limitations has to do with Michelle Williams, who brought such straight-shooting truth to everything from Brokeback Mountain to Wendy and Lucy.

Here she plays Cindy, a nurse who harbored dreams of becoming a doctor. She’s married to Dean, a heavydrinking sweetheart who makes a living painting houses. Dean’s by far the showier role, played by Ryan Gosling, an actor with considerable emotional resources and a nagging showboat instinct to dazzle his way through a partially or largely improvised scene. But it’s Williams you never question, who makes every detail and close-up and impulse natural.

The movie, directed and co-written by Derek Cianfrance, begins with a search for a lost dog. It’s Dean who reassures the couple’s preteen daughter (Faith Wladyka) that their pet has “moved out to Hollywood to become a movie dog.”

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building and transportation company. Bobby, a marketing and sales expert, copes with crushing house payments and an increasingly distant relationship with his loved ones. (He’s saved, spiritually, by going to

Strangled love

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into our first flashback, to six years earlier in Brooklyn, (Cianfrance and his excellent cinematographer Andrij Parekh shot the present-day scenes on high-def digital video, contrasted with the flashbacks, shot on softer, warmer 16 mm film.)

The director has characterized the film as a love story in the flashbacks and a tragedy in the present, and the way the two halves are spliced together intentionally answers some questions and leaves others dangling. In the present, Dean and Cindy leave their daughter for a night with Cindy’s father (an emotionally abusive screamer, played well by John Doman) and head off for a night at a “theme” motel. There, in the eerily blue-

work temporarily for his blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth brother-in-law.)

“You want honesty, Maggie?”

Affleck says at a typical speechy juncture. “I’m a 37-year-old unemployed loser who can’t support his family.”

Maybe Wells has written too much successful series television for too long; he has talent, but not every line needs to be excerpt-able for promotional and sound bite purposes.

Wells is no crushing realist: He wants to offer a full dose of hope and comfort to America’s afflicted classes (middle and upper-middle especially) with his story.

“They were good people, Jim,” bemoans Jones’ conscience-stricken executive, regarding the recently canned.

“Not our responsibility,” replies the honcho, played with as much humanity as the writing allows by Craig T. Nelson. “We work for the stockholders now.”

I’d like to think the earnest sentiments and machine-tooled dramatic complications of Wells’ script could find a receptive audience. I’d like to think, too, that the mess we’re in demands a tougher, gutsier script. Darn good cast, though.

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soaked Jetsons-style room, they drink, despair, try to reignite what they once had. In the flashbacks, some of which are nicely observant and indirect and others heavily underlined, Blue Valentine gives us the story of how they met, how Cindy got pregnant, how amiable, directionless Dean always felt outclassed by the love of his life.

The movie caused a fuss late last year when it caught an NC-17 rating for sexual content, in particular for one brief scene of implied oral sex. Blue Valentine was later re-rated sensibly down to an R. The movie also has gained some notoriety for the intense rehearsal period the actors underwent, and for Gosling (at one point, during a scene shot on the Brooklyn Bridge) apparently taking some major-league chances at a great height, working without a net.

During Cindy and Dean’s first date, Williams and Gosling perform an impromptu duet (she tap-dances, he plays the ukulele and sings) to “You Always Hurt the One You Love.” In this scene, everything good and less good about Blue Valentine comes together. It’s charming.

Yet Dean’s strangulated falsetto (he has to “sing goofy,” he says, if he’s going to sing at all) feels like an audition piece. Did they have to pick a song freighted with quite so much ironically heavy-handed meaning? And yet: Watch the way Williams watches Gosling, and the way she makes you believe she’s falling, hard, for someone sneaking up on her affections.

—MCT, Tribune Media Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Dean Reed was an international superstar in much of the world. His records sold millions and the films in which he starred, wrote, or directed were the biggest box office hits behind the Iron Curtain. This film by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Will Roberts traces his odyssey from his boyhood in Lakewood, Colorado, to Hollywood, California, from South America to Helsinki, from Italy to Russia, and finally to East Berlin. At Boulder Public Library.

— BPL

as a man hell-bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too over-the-top for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff.

Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon, Jack parlays his clout over some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. At Chez Artiste. ­— Landmark Theatres

Another Year

The Company Men

The newest film from Mike Leigh (Happy-GoLucky, Vera Drake), master of in-depth characterization, is cause for celebration. Another Year is a touching and beautifully nuanced drama of a year in the life of a happily married middle-aged couple, and the less well-adjusted people who gather around them. Little seems to happen, but much does. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

See full review on Page 38. Rated R. At Century.

American Rebel: The Dean Reed Story

Black Swan Mainlining Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina (Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond. Director Darren Aronofsky’s film is with her all the way.

Country Strong

The Green Hornet Seth Rogen as a superhero is ridiculous enough, but Seth Rogen as a superhero in a green velvet suit? Thanks, Hollywood, we needed a laugh.

Portman’s performance as the dying swan is formidable in its nerve-racking expressivity. It is a racked nerve personified. This is Aronofsky’s most interesting film to date, and there’s not a more exciting fairy tale for grownups in theaters now. Rated R. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

A faded country music star (Gwyneth Paltrow) mounts her big comeback with the help of her husband-manager and an up-and-coming songwriter. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Blue Valentine

The Dilemma

See full review on Page 38. Rated R. At Mayan and Century. — Michael Phillips

An automobile designer wrestles with his conscience after he accidentally sees the wife of his best friend canoodling with another man. To tell or not to tell? That is the question. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Casino Jack Kevin Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in Casino Jack, a riotous new film starring Spacey

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu: 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 FriWed: 2:40, 5:30, 8:20, 10:55 Country Strong Thu: 11:30, 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:35 4:25, 7:15 The Dilemma Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 The Fighter Thu: 11:10, 2:10, 5:20, 8:10 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8:10, 10:50 Green Hornet Thu: 10:30, 1:15, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 12:10, 3:05, 4:30, 6, 7:20, 9, 10:20 Gulliver’s Travels Thu: 11:15, 1:40, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 1:50, 4:05, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 10:30, 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:50 The Mechanic Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2:10, 5, 7:30, 10:10 No Strings Attached Thu: 11:30, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 8, 10:40 The Rite Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Tangled Thu: 10:50, 1:35, 4:05, 6:30,9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 Tron: Legacy Thu: 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 True Grit Thu: 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 11, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Another Year Fri-Wed: 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Black Swan Thu: 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:25, 4, 6:35, 9:15 Blue Valentine Thu: 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30

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The Company Men Thu: 11:05, 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 The Dilemma Thu: 12:30, 3:10, 6:05, 8:45, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:35 The Fighter Thu: 12,3:15, 6:15 Fri-Wed: 12:05, 3:15, 6:05, 9:05 The Green Hornet Thu: 12:15, 2:05, 3, 4:50, 5:45, 7:35, 8:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 12:35, 2, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 The King’s Speech Thu: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:45, 5:35, 8:45 The Mechanic Fri-Wed: 12:25, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10:20 No Strings Attached Thu: 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40 The Rite Fri-Wed: 10:55, 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Tron: Legacy Thu: 11, 2, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 4:40, 10:05 True Grit Thu: 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 3:10, 6:15, 8:50 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10 The Green Hornet Thu-Wed: 1:15, 2:10, 4, 5 7:05, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 1, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 The Mechanic Fri-Wed: 12:55, 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 No Strings Attached Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40 The Rite Fri-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:30 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Another Year Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7. 9:50 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 4:45, 7:30, 10 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The Great Muppet Caper Fri: 11:59 p.m.

The King’s Speech Thu: 1:15, 4, 7:05, 9:40 Rabbit Hole Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 9:50 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri: 11:59 p.m.

Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 Blue Valentine Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Illusionist Fri-Wed: 1, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Somewhere Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Basquiat Tue: 7 p.m.

Casino Jack Thu: 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 FriWed: 4:30, 7:15 Enemies of the People Thu: 2:30 p.m.

Evangelion 2.0:You Can (Not) Advance Thu: 5, 9:45 Exorcismus Sat: 11:59 p.m.

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5, 9:45 Night Catches Us Fri-Wed: 2:30, 7:30, 9:30 The Secret to a Happy Ending: Thu: 7 p.m.

Skatetown USA Fri: 10 p.m. Sat: 11:59 p.m.

The Social Network Thu: 2, 4:40, 7:45 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:45 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 The Dilemma Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 FriWed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10 The Green Hornet Thu-Wed: 1:10, 1:50, 4:10, 4:50 The Mechanic Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 No Strings Attached Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Rite Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Tron: Legacy Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 True Grit Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 FriWed: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197

American Rebel: The Dean Reed Story Mon: 7 p.m.

Walk on the Wild Side Thu: 6:30 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 Sundance Shorts Thu-Sat: 7, 9:30

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

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

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Enemies of the People

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master

Enemies of the People exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experience, however, Enemies of the People is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them. Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in this martial arts spectacular. After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Foshan, China, Ip Man and his family have arrived in Hong Kong, which is living under the iron fist of British colonial rule. Ip wants to support his family by opening up a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style, but a corrupt cabal of Hong Kong martial arts masters, led by Hung Chun-nam (the legendary Sammo Hung), refuses to allow Ip to teach until he proves himself — and prove himself he does, in an intense series of fights against the masters showcasing a dazzling variety of martial arts styles. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance The landmark anime Evangelion evolves, reaching new heights of intensity in the new feature film, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. In an explosive new story full of brutal action and primal emotion, a group of young pilots maneuver their towering, cyborg Eva Units into combat against a deadly and disturbing enemy. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Exorcismus Fifteen-year-old Emma Hawkins is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don’t understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities, and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequences of her actions. Life seems to be carrying on as normal until one day Emma starts experiencing frightening fits. Her parents are convinced that her problems are either medical or psychological, but when doctors’ tests are unable to draw any conclusions, the family is forced to look elsewhere for answers. It all started off as a bit of fun. Emma never really believed it, but the truth is there is something dark and sinister within her, and it won’t take long to surface. At DenverFilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The Killers The taciturn Swede, hunted by hoodlums, refuses to flee his fate or provide any rationale for his imminent demise in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same name. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series

emptier lives they now lead after losing their son. Becca, played by Nicole Kidman in a surprisingly full-blooded, brittle and fuming performance, is a woman deep in the rabbit hole of grief and in denial about it. She can’t or won’t let go of her emotions and, as the cliché goes, “get it all out.” She is moving on but shutting down.

Howie (Aaron Eckhart) is the one trying to fix things, to get them to support group meetings.

He seems further along in the process, but is he?

Maybe he’s just starting to resent the distance that’s come between them, emotional and sexual.

Kidman sparkles in scene after withering scene.

The marvel of Rabbit Hole is that it sets us up to judge and then upends those judgments. It’s a long journey back, the movie suggests, and any means you use to get out of that hole is allowed.

That message, this script and these actors make Rabbit Hole one of the best films of 2010. Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Roger Moore The Rite The devil is back to his old tricks in this story about a young priest (Colin O’Donoghue) who travels to Italy to study at an exorcism school headed by a veteran Satan slayer (Anthony Hopkins). Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez

The King’s Speech

The Rocky Horrow Picture Show

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both Oscarworthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story. Firth plays Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer and overshadowed by his confident older brother. Bertie’s loving wife Elizabeth has tried everything to help him, and finally discovers something that works: maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush).

Initially the enthusiastic, ultra-casual Logue and the repressed, oh-so-formal Bertie clash, but neither will give up, and ultimately they become good friends. When Bertie’s brother becomes King Edward VIII in 1936, he refuses to give up his lover (American divorcee Mrs. Simpson), resulting in his abdication and Bertie’s extremely reluctant ascension to the throne as King George VI, leading a nation facing the horrors of looming war. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. ­— Landmark Theatres

The longest-running midnight movie of all time stars Tim Curry as the kinky yet endearing “transsexual from Transylvania” Dr. Frank N. Furter, Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as his hapless guests Brad and Janet, Meat Loaf as motorcycle-riding rough trade and author Richard O’Brien as the hunchbacked butler Riff Raff. It’s harmless musical fun—a delightful spoof of Hollywood horror movies and Old Dark House melodramas. At Esquire.

— Landmark Theatres The Secret to a Happy Ending

Ferrari to drive around in and a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with. Comfortably numbed, Johnny drifts along. Then his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny to face up to where he is in life and confront the question that we all must: Which path in life will you take? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Sundance Shorts Rob And Valentyna In Scotland: A lost American travels with his long-lost Ukrainian cousin to the Highlands of Scotland; My Rabbit Hoppy: Henry’s show-and-tell school project about his pet rabbit goes horribly wrong; Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln: On March 22, Jen Kirkman drank two bottles of wine and then discussed a historical event; Birthday: Sara loves her wife, Katarina. For her fortieth birthday, Sara wants to surprise her wife, unaware that Katarina also has a surprise for this memorable day; Wisdom Teeth: Nigel recently had his wisdom teeth removed. Mr. Okra: An intimate look at one of New Orleans’s most colorful characters: the charismatic vegetable salesman Mr. Okra, who provides a glimpse into the soul of an American city; Young Love: Clarity often exists in the eyes of strangers; The Six Dollar Fifty Man: Andy, a gutsy eight-year-old boy, is forced to break out of his make-believe superhero world to deal with playground bullies; My Invisible Friend: With the arrival of Andy, his invisible friend, an extremely shy Tomas starts to realize how much better his life would be if he were able to communicate with the people around him. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series Tangled This witty and charming 3-D computer-animated adventure is loosely based on the legend of Rapunzel, the long-haired princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), and the intrepid thief (Zachary Levi) who frees her from her tower prison. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Jason Statham plays a ruthless hit man who must train his new protégé (Ben Foster) in the art of the kill. The lessons include lots of double-crosses, car chases and explosions. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriquez

The Secret to a Happy Ending documents the Drive-By Truckers and their congregation of fans as they explore tales of human weakness and redemption. Filmmaker Barr Weissman followed the band during three critical years of touring and recording -- years in which the band struggles to overcome the trauma of divorce and survives a near breakup. The film features band interviews, behind-the-scenes footage on the road and in the studio, and legendary live performances. Reflective of the band’s roots in Alabama and Georgia, the film explores the changing American South — its culture, economy and history. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The Great Muppet Caper

Night Catches Us

Skatetown USA

Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear and The Great Gonzo are journalists who travel to England to investigate the theft of a gem known as the Baseball Diamond, which belonged to fashion maven Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg). But when Kermit meets would-be model Miss Piggy, he not only mistakes her for Lady Holiday, he begins falling in love with her! At Esquire. ­— Landmark Theatres

In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus (Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker) returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival raises suspicion among his family and former neighbors, he finds acceptance from his old friend Patricia (Kerry Washington, Ray, Lift) and her daughter. However, Marcus quickly finds himself at odds with the organization he once embraced, whose members suspect he orchestrated the slaying of their former comrade-in-arms. In a startling sequence of events, Marcus must protect a secret that could shatter everyone’s beliefs as he rediscovers his forbidden passion for Patricia. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Skatetown USA is about a time when disco was king and roller skates were thought to be the transportation of the future. The film tells the tale of a boy and girl caught in love’s embrace at the local roller disco and all of the good times the whole world seems to enjoy at the joint, except for the grumpy ringleader of a roller gang (Patrick Swayze in his film debut) who wants to come between the roller rink’s star crossed lovers. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

In Depression-era New Orleans, a handsome Texas dirt farmer hops a freight train and searches the city high and low for his lost sweetheart, unaware that she works in the Doll House, the most notorious and corrupt bordello in the French Quarter. He is aided in his quest by a runaway juvenile and a Mexican-American café owner, both of whom admire him and realize the nobility of his quest. When a young, immoral and thieving temptress gets involved things begin to unravel leading to scandal and tragedy. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

The Social Network

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ­­— Denver Film Society

William S. Burroughs was the most patrician of the Beat writers, a scion of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, but he was also the most scandalous. As filmmaker John Waters points out in Yony Leyser’s engaging documentary, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, the writer became famous “for things you were supposed to hide.” Openly gay decades before Stonewall, addicted to heroin and notorious for accidentally killing his wife, Joan Vollmer, he cuts a larger than life figure. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series

The Fighter This movie is an off-center but exceptional boxing film that feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies. Set and shot mostly in Lowell, Mass., this is the true story of welterweight Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his trainer-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), careening from addiction themes to brotherly love and familial crises. Nearly all of the acting performances are fantastic, including Amy Adams as Micky’s lover. This film is one of the year’s best. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Green Hornet Michel Gondry directs this big-screen spin-off of the classic TV series, with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as the mask-wearing vigilantes. Inglourious Basterd’s Christoph Waltz co-stars as the crime kingpin who wants to take them down. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Gulliver’s Travels Jack Black stars in this contemporary reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s novel, playing a mailroom clerk who travels to the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself in a magical land where people are really, really small. Rated PG. At Flatiron. ­— Rene Rodriguez Boulder Weekly

The Mechanic

No Strings Attached Lifelong friends Emma and Adam try to maintain a purely physical relationship without any emotional expectations or entanglements. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Rabbit Hole A husband and wife are eight months into the

Somewhere Actor Johnny Marco is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a

Tron: Legacy Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the worldfamous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Walk on the Wild Side

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ile High Organics has a surprising business plan. Get fresh, organic produce, and deliver it to customers in the most sustainable way possible.

“And then we do something nuts and actually sell it at a reasonable cost,” says CEO Michael Joseph.

Joseph founded the company in 2010 to “do things that no one’s doing right now,” and to follow his passions for cooking and educating the public in a healthy way about a healthy environment.

Mile High Organics works like this: Clients go online and order a reusable “bin” of food, which at its least expensive costs $22 and holds eight of the 63 fresh organic items available. Each “item” could be several items, though. For instance, this week, three Braeburn apples make up one item. The client can also “add on” items like coffee beans from Boulder-based Ozo Coffee, tea from Ku Cha Tea House and organic soup by Boulder Soup Works, among others. The bin is then delivered on a specific day, which for Boulder residents is Monday and for Boulder businesses is Wednesday.

The company delivers food from Colorado Springs to Loveland, though its office is located in Boulder.

The food is what Joseph considers “a higher tier” of organics, and customers agree.

“The kale is beautiful,” says client Kate Sciolino.

“All of the vegetables are really great.”

Sciolino, a student who doesn’t have time to visit the grocery store, gets a delivery from Mile High Organics weekly.

“I love using them, because anything to take running errands out of my life helps,” she says. “I don’t have time to run to the grocery store all the time, so I

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was eating all this unhealthy, unprepared food. Now I always have food in the house, and I don’t have to put in the effort. It’s just around.”

Mile High Organics even helps those who aren’t their clients have healthy options — they deliver their produce scrap to the Emergency Family Assistance Association.

“It helps a lot,” says Kim Rowland, the food bank manager at EFAA. “Our clients love to get fresh food instead of canned food.”

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The company donated 500 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to EFAA in November and 250 pounds in December.

“It averages out to be around 300 pounds a month,” Rowland says.

Donating to local families in need seems to be just one of the ways that Mile High Organics is trying to improve Boulder County and the world outside it. The company refuses to use any airfreighted produce in its selection.

“When you see expensive berries in the winter, those were flown here,” Joseph says. “It’s actually very environmentally destructive to fly food around, so we screen it out.”

They choose to boat items from overseas countries to Colorado instead. “Of the major three ways [to transport food], the least impactful are boats, then trucks, then airplanes. Airplanes are off the charts.”

You can also see where the environmentally transported items come from. Each is labeled on the Mile High Organics website with the city and state of its origin. This touch is likely due to Joseph’s upbringing — his father, Joel Joseph, was one of the founders of the Made in the USA Foundation and helped write the Country of Origin Labeling Act, which requires country of origin labeling on fresh produce, fish, meat and other food products in the United States.

“My first job, when I was 9, was licking envelopes,” he says. “That law was co-authored in my household.”

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Erhard’s European Café and Bakery 4800 Baseline Rd., Suite A109, Boulder 303-494-3635

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’m just old enough to remember that our $4.75 quiches. Tertia selected the veggie when my parents went shopping for version, which was perked up by minced bits groceries, their outings weren’t just of tomato and pepper. The ham and cheese limited to supermarkets. We’d go to variant used these elements to contribute flalocally owned specialty bakeries, provor without weighing down the dish. Each duce shops and butchers, many of which are quiche possessed a homemade and not overlong gone, although two of them, Saag’s ly processed texture that highlighted the and Just Desserts, have become noteworthy lighter custard qualities of prepared eggs. retail brands. Trendiness wasn’t the driver The crust was pleasantly understated, with for my parents’ patronage, it was the balance hints of butter and an appealing flaky, rather between quality and value that brought than heavy, consistency. them to these shops.

Next up was a $4.85 peach tart, set off Like most towns, Boulder seems to have by a latticed top crust that had an elegant lost these specialty shops, as evidenced by the yet still homespun appearance with a whisdeparture of Herb’s Meats to Broomfield. But per of sugar. While the sweetened fruit tastthankfully, there’s still a handful of these olded more like preserves than fresh, this minschool establishments. One notable example iature pie successfully evoked bright summer is Erhard’s European Café and Bakery, a flavors in the dead of winter. cash-only business situated near the intersecYoung Addie enjoyed the $2.85 chocotion of Baseline and Foothills in Boulder. late croissant, which her mom Tertia conSandwiches, soups and sausage lunches with sidered to be among the finest examples potato salad make up the lunch choices, but that she’d ever experienced. Some versions the baked goods are perhaps the most disof this classic feature the bare minimum of tinctive items Erhard’s offers. Croissants, fruit cocoa; this one had ample amounts of soft turnovers, cookies and Linzer and marzipan ugustus Gloop was one of the winners of the Golden Ticket chocolate filling that had a taste profile tarts are just some of the tempting choices in Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory resembling Nutella. As expected, the pastry that made me half expect to see Augustus and the resulting film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. itself was freighted with buttery tones, and Gloop come through the door here.

One of the bad kids in contrast to the almost saintly Charlie like the best preparations, it had a subtly My fevered imaginings of fictional glutBucket, Gloop was a gluttonous tyke who fell into the Wonka complex vanilla taste and velvety texture. tons aside, the actual customer base at factory’s chocolate river and got sucked through a pipe, renWhile Erhard’s focuses on a narrow breakfast seems to consist of those seeking dering him thin. Some theorize that the character of Uter from range of offerings, namely European baked both Old World tastes and community in a The Simpsons is partially based on Gloop. Both appear to be goods (they also do wedding cakes), it does welcoming and serene setting. On a recent German and share a love of chocolate, and Uter once made this exceptionally well. In this era of do-ita diorama based on Dahl’s book. all supermarkets, this establishment reinMonday morning, the bulk of the crowd forces the notion that small, independent, here consisted of older European gentlemen specialty food purveyors can provide excelwith the familiar demeanor of long-term lent value and quality. And Erhard’s accomplishes this regulars happily shooting the breeze. Furthermore, the a.m. repast with a brace of $2.90 cappuccinos topped in a tranquil and congenial atmosphere perfect for a attentive counterwoman was both kindly and informawith a delightfully frothy head of milk. The coffee was low-key but graceful morning meal. tive, enhancing the hospitable ambience. of decent quality and helped me awaken, as the counRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Friend Tertia, her daughter Addie and I began our terwoman, who had the air of a proprietor, heated up

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reakfast for dinner? That certainly isn’t uncommon for most of you, including my own loveto-eat-anything-anytime family. How about breakfast for dessert? That’s what I’m talking about. I guess it could be a breakfast for dinner and dessert combo, if you really want to get technical.

I’m whipping up some Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes this week, and why, you ask? Well, Jan. 28 is National Blueberry Pancake Day, and I, for one, am all over it. As if I really needed someone to tell me I should celebrate the pancake. I always knew pancakes should have their own day, but by adding some blueberries in there, personally, I believe it should be National Blueberry Pancake Week. One day is just not enough time, I say.

Most people have their favorite pancake recipe, and I’m not talking about people who go the (rhymes with misquick) route (not that I’m judging), but I’m giving you a delicious recipe that you will want in your breakfast/dinner/dessert/snack repertoire for years to come.

One of the most important components is the blueberries, and I use Driscoll’s berries. They never let me down and always remain plump and juicy. They are so pretty atop those sweet little cakes from heaven, you don’t even need butter and syrup — although they do add that little something special.

Yes, I might be a little too excited about blueberry pancakes, but we all have those things that make us happy and comfort the soul. See, you all thought it was the wine (OK, whiskey, vodka, etc.) that helped me self-soothe. Aren’t you relieved it is just little ol’ blueberry pancakes?

Actually, it’s my Driscoll’s blueberries that soothe me all on their own. I can sit down and eat handfuls without coming up for air. They are chock-full of antioxidants and make me feel good about my indulging.

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still be open and schools won’t close for this holiday, it still is a day — I mean week — of celebration for this dessert diva and her peeps.

Blueberries for everyone!

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

Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes 2 cups whole wheat flour 1/4 cup sugar 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 2 eggs 2 cups low-fat buttermilk (regular buttermilk is great, too) 1 tsp. vanilla 1/2 cup melted butter 1 pint Driscoll’s blueberries butter and syrup (optional of course)

In large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

In medium bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk and vanilla. Stir in melted butter. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until just combined.

Heat a non-stick griddle or nonstick frying pan over medium heat.

Place 1/4 cup of batter into pan.

Place 4-5 blueberries on top of each pancake. Cook for 2-3 minutes on each side (flip when edges start to dry out and tiny bubbles appear in batter). Repeat with batter until done. (You can take cooked pancakes and place on baking sheet on low oven to keep warm.)

Serve with butter and syrup, or dust with powdered sugar and top with a few extra blueberries. Enjoy!

You can watch the Dessert Diva every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel 2. To contact Danette at the station, visit 2thedeuce.com, and click on Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments and suggestions, write to jdromega@aol.com.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town From Italy with love Arugula Bar e Ristorante will be offering its Valentine’s Day menu on Feb. 11, 12 and 14.

The menu will feature oyster shooters, pork guanciale ravioli, a whole grilled rainbow trout and a house-made chocolate raspberry cake for two.

The cost is $65 a person. A limited a la carte menu will also be available.

For reservations, call 303-4435100, and for a full menu, visit www. arugularistorante.com.

Even more delicious Chy Thai is pairing restaurant renovations with a new name, “Aloy,” starting in February.

Aloy, which means “delicious” in Thai, will include new Thai fusion foods, as well as the same traditional Thai dishes Chy Thai served before.

The expanded menu, new name and restaurant renovations will be the only changes, as chefs, staff and location at 2720 Canyon Blvd. remain the same.

For reservations, call 303-4402903.

Pinyon, Avery host beer dinner The Pinyon is partnering with

Avery Brewing Co. for a beer dinner on Jan. 30.

There will be 12 micro courses and 12 rare Avery beers featured that evening, with dinner starting at 6:30 p.m.

The dinner costs $75 per person, plus tax and gratuity, and reservations are recommended, because seats are limited. Call 720-306-8248 for reservations and more information.

Valentine’s weekend at Trattoria Trattoria on Pearl’s Valentine’s Day celebration will last a whole weekend this year.

From Friday, Feb. 11, to Monday, Feb. 14, the restaurant will feature a four-course dinner for $39 a person, with the option of adding paired wines with each course for an additional $15. The menu for the weekend features appetizer, soup and salad, entrée and dessert courses for both vegetarians and meat-lovers.

Trattoria will also be participating in Denver Restaurant Week from Feb. 26 to March 11, with a threecourse meal for $26.40 per person, or $52.80 per couple.

Reservations for both events can be made at 303-544-0008 or online at www.trattoriaonpearl.com.

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Door to Door Organics, another local delivery service with which he now competes. After a conflict with business partners, Joseph opened Mile High Organics to take organic food delivery services in the direction he wanted it to go.

Customers appreciate the focus on sustainability.

“I think it’s so important,” Sciolino says. “It makes me feel good about being responsible as a consumer. It’s affordable and accessible, so that I can actually make that choice.”

On top of that, Mile High Organics refuses to use any geneticallymodified food or products.

“Not supporting genetically engineered crops is big to us,” Joseph says.

“We think that there are unknown things happening throughout the world because of them. That’s sort of frightening, doing that sort of experiment on humanity.”

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They also want their customers to know about all the choices Mile High Organics makes — and all the choices that their customers could be making, as well.

“People have a hard time making those decisions if they don’t have all the information pieces in front of them, so we’re trying to put them out there,” Joseph says. “I want to see — if people have this information and it’s not put in front of them in an aggressive way, what changes are going to happen.”

With a growing number of customers, the philosophy seems to be working.

“We have a healthy number of customers. Not just healthy, but growing,” Joseph says.

And that’s exactly what their business is based on — customers growing healthier with each bite.

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Pizzeria Da Lupo 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-396-6365

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he newest entry in the fancy pizza sweepstakes, Pizzeria da Lupo features a relatively simple menu spotlighting antipasti, sandwiches, salads and daily specials ranging from roast chicken to salt cod. Of course, the main attraction is the pizza, baked in a wood-fired oven, and possessing an outstanding crust. The Saliche pie is especially notable, topped with fennel sausage, rapini and first-rate ricotta and mozzarella.

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Menu highlights include the delightfully crispy fish and chips with dill-scented batter, and the Boulder Burger, a half pound of beef topped with bacon, roasted red pepper and pepper jack cheese.

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hile the menu here consists of straightforward Italian fare, this isn’t just another spaghetti and meatballs joint.

The most expensive entrée is the Steak Florentine, a $25 number consisting of a half-pound filet mignon melded with mushrooms and Alaskan crab. More modest — but perhaps equally satisfying — choices include simple angel hair pasta with tomato, basil, garlic and olive oil. There are also calzones, pizza, cioppino seafood stew and kids’ menu pastas.

Café Aion 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 303-993-8131

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he key to Café Aion’s success is in its ability to take the familiar and make it seem new, primarily through top-notch prep and ingredients. Serving all three meals, its offerings include a selection of tapas such as chicken liver pâté sourced locally and continental standards like paella and grilled hanger steak. Breakfast standouts include freshbaked croissants and donuts, and one can’t go wrong with the house-cured ham, bacon or sausage.

Salt 1049 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-7258

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he modernistic locavore philosophy that influences most local restaurants is also readily apparent at Salt. But this establishment parts company from the others by way of a heavy emphasis on comfort foods, albeit prepared with artisan ingredients. Menu highlights include ahi nicoise salad featuring local green beans, lamb meatballs, chicken pot pie and the can’t-miss-it salted caramel chocolate tart.

Las Palmeras 199 S. Main St., Longmont 303-848-0103

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of the classic menu. Fajitas, burritos and rellenos are present and accounted for.

There are also intriguing seafood dishes, such as shrimp wrapped in bacon and octopus in ranchero sauce. The menudo here is comforting, with the spotlighted tripe cooked to ideal tenderness.

May Wah 2500 Baseline Rd., Boulder 303-499-6477

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ay Wah is the archetypal Chinese-­ American restaurant, featuring a reasonably priced menu that holds few surprises. The most expensive a la carte options consists of $13.95 seafood offerings. Lunch specials start at $6.95 and work their way up to $8.50. While the menu may seem typical, May Wah doesn’t take its customers for granted, as exemplified by flavorful Mongolian beef and crisp sesame chicken.

Lefty’s Gourmet Pizza and Ice Cream 364 2nd Ave., Niwot 303-652-3100

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efty’s is a New England pizza joint transplanted to Niwot. The bill of fare consists of the expected pizza, as well as subs, salads, calzones and pasta.

Spaghetti and meatballs are affordable, with a wonderfully tangy marinara sauce and a side of buttery garlic bread.

The thin crust pies have a fine texture, and those featuring the garlic and olive oil sauce pack a flavorful punch.

Aunt Alice’s Kitchen 1805 Main St. Longmont 303-651-0495

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ou’d be hard-pressed to find a superior alternative to Longmont’s Aunt Alice’s for an affordable coffee shop breakfast. This eatery has retro charm and features overstuffed omelets such as the Works: four eggs, bacon, sausage, cheddar cheese, mushrooms, onions and bell peppers. Other choices range from simple oatmeal to surprisingly good steak and eggs. The lunch and dinner menu features classic old favorites like patty melts and fried chicken.

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l Pastaio’s a petite spot near the 30th Street King Soopers. The menu relies heavily on fresh pasta, ranging from ribbons of fettuccine to delicious stuffed ravioli, topped with anything from creamy Alfredo to herbaceous pesto.

Of note are the hearty lasagnas, available in meatless, turkey and beef versions, and the raviolis, which are great paired with tomato cream sauce. The availability of sauces and noodles to go is a blessing for the cook desiring Italian at home.

alvaggio’s won’t win awards for ground-breaking sandwiches, but that isn’t the point. In this case, a predictable menu is a vir tue. Fans of textbook deli-style sandwiches will be content here, and the generous por tions and classic flavors will put the diner in a comfor table frame of mind. Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mor tadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry, with a delicate herbal taste.

Pupusas Sabor Hispano 4550 N. Broadway Boulder 303-444-1729

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oulder’s Pupusas Sabor Hispano decamped a few months back from the west side of Broadway to bigger, more posh digs across the street.

Fortunately, one can still enjoy the restaurant’s namesake Salvadorean pupusas and staples typically associated with Mexican cuisine, such as menudo, burritos and tacos, at moderate prices.

Vegetarians will enjoy the flavorful bean pupusa, while the carnivore will delight in the rich pork versions.

Delhi Darbar 1132 W. Dillion Rd., Louisville 303-665-4848

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ituated not far from the Louisville multiplex movie theater, Delhi Darbar serves a classic Indian menu, including a reasonably priced luncheon buffet. There are vegetarian specialties such as an okra bhindi, which matches this unique vegetable with onion. Other worthwhile choices at this establishment include a pleasing lamb stew and a delicious, fresh-fromthe-oven Tandoori chicken.

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March 21-April 19:

What rewards do you deserve for all the good living and the hard work you’ve done since your last birthday? And what amends should you make for the mediocre living and the work you’ve shirked since your last birthday? If you choose this week to take care of these two matters with purposeful clarity, you will ensure the best possible outcomes. The reward you earn will be the right one, and the amends you offer will provide the proper correction.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Sometimes I fly in my dreams. The ecstasy is almost unbearable as I soar high above the landscape. But there’s something I enjoy dreaming about even more, and that’s running.

For years I’ve had recurring dreams of sprinting for sheer joy through green hills and meadows, often following rivers that go on forever. I’m never short of breath. My legs never get tired. I feel vital and vigorous and fulfilled. Does it seem odd that I prefer running to flying? I think I understand why. The flying dreams represent the part of me that longs to escape the bonds of earth, to be free of the suffering and chaos here. My running dreams, on the other hand, express the part of me that loves being in a body and exults in the challenges of this world. Given your astrological omens, Taurus, I think you’re ready for whatever is your personal equivalent of running in your dreams.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

An interviewer asked me if there’s any special ritual I do before writing these horoscopes. I told her that I often say a prayer in which I affirm my desire to provide you with these three services: 1. that what I create will be of practical use to you; 2. that it will help you cultivate your relationship with your inner teacher; 3. that it will inspire you to tap into and use the substantial freedom you have to create the life you want. I hope I’m doing a good job, Gemini, because in the coming weeks your inner teacher will be overflowing with practical clues about the art of liberation.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

“Spring dawn: Turning toward the storm cloud, I lost sight of the bird.” Let this haiku-like poem by Julius Lester serve as a cautionary tale, Cancerian. You’re at risk of getting so fearfully fixated on a storm cloud that you may lose track, metaphorically speaking, of a rare and beautiful bird. And the thing is, the storm cloud isn’t even harboring that big a ruckus. It will pour out its flash and dazzle quickly, leaving virtually no havoc in its wake. That’s why it would be a shame for you to let your perverse fascination with it cause you to get separated from a potential source of inspiration.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Shockwaves of toxic misinformation pulse through the Internet on a regular basis. One of the latest infections attacked the subject of astrology. An astronomer in Minneapolis proclaimed that due to the precession of the equinoxes, everyone’s astrological sign is wrong. He was perfectly mistaken, of course, for reasons I explain here: http://bit.ly/AstroHoax. But few journalists in the major media bothered to check the accuracy of the sensationalist allegation before publishing it, and soon the collective imagination was on fire. Hundreds of thousands of people suffered unnecessary identity crises and felt emotions that were based on a fallacy. In the coming week, Leo, you should be on high alert for a comparable outbreak or two in your personal sphere. Be vigorously skeptical — not just toward the stories other people tell, but also toward the theories and fantasies that rise up in your own brain. Don’t believe everything you think.

VIRGO

good reasons to move away from long-held opinions about the nature of romance and intimacy. Your subconscious mind will be stirring with new dispensations about how best to deal with and express your life-giving longings. All in all, the process should be pretty enjoyable, especially if you relish psycho-spiritual riddles that impel you to probe deeper into the mysteries of togetherness.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

“Dear Rob: I am a professional obsesser. I mean I obsess on things a lot. But here’s the thing. When I do obsess on something and work with manic intensity to achieve it, I am changed in the process — frequently to the point of no longer desiring what I was once obsessed by! This makes me crazy! Any advice? — Flagrant Scorpio.” Dear Flagrant: This is a gift, not a problem. Figuring out what you don’t want is a key factor in developing self-knowledge. And often the only way to do that is by pursuing what you think you want. Ultimately you’ll be purged of your lesser longings and superficial wishes and be able to crystallize a clear vision of what you truly desire more than anything else.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in such a way that will allow a solution,” said philosopher Bertrand Russell. In other words, the words you use to describe your dilemma are crucial. If you’re lazy or pessimistic about framing your big question, you minimize your chances for finding a useful answer. If you’re precise and creative, you’re more likely to attract the information and inspiration you need. This is always true, of course, but especially so for you right now.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

A “karma whore” is someone who performs an abundant number of favors and acts of kindness in the hope of accumulating extra good karma. Judging from the astrological omens, I’m thinking this week will be prime time for you to flirt with being such a person. Why? Because the blessings you bestow in the near future are more likely than usual to generate specific blessings coming back your way. You don’t necessarily have to go to ridiculous extremes — holding the door open for five people behind you, allowing ten cars to merge in front of you on the highway, flinging out casual but sincere compliments with reckless abandon. But from what I can tell, the more help you dole out, the more you’ll get in return.

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I’ll be interested to see how you shift your attitudes about love in the coming weeks, Libra. Fate will be bringing you

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I’ve never been a fan of gurus. My view is that everyone should be his or her own guru. But there was one guy whose antics were pretty entertaining. He was one of those crazy wisdom types who borrowed liberally from the trickster archetype. This is what he told his followers about how to interpret their dreams in which he appeared. “If you dream of me and I’m not kicking your butt, it wasn’t really me.” I’ll say the same thing to you, Pisces: The only teachers worth listening to, studying and dreaming about in the next two weeks will be those who kick your butt.

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It’s one of your specialties to take care of little necessities.

You often know what to do in order to fix mistakes and messes caused by the imprecision of other people. For now, though, I encourage you to take a break from all that. In my opinion, you need to regenerate and replenish yourself, and a good way to accomplish that is to let your mind go blissfully blank. At least consider it, please. Give yourself permission to space out about the intricacies. Steep yourself in the primordial ooze where everything is everything.

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