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ON THE COVER: THE PREDATOR AMONG US

The murder of Jessica Ridgeway

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7 LETTERS: Put DA story in perspective; Vote yes on 65; Danish and my head 7 THE HIGHROAD: A meek media 8 COMMENTARY: The Post supports marijuana legalization — before opposing it 10 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Star-studded fracking protest; Vote Ludwig 35 PANORAMA: What to do and where to go SCREEN: Argo; Sleepwalk with Me REEL TO REEL: Briefs of films showing locally TIDBITES: Food happenings around town FOOD REVIEW: Mediterranean Market APPETIZERS: Where to get your grub ASTROLOGY: By Rob Brezsny BOULDER MARKETPLACE: Your community resource

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Put DA story in perspective

In response to the article in both the Daily Camera and the Longmont Times-Call regarding the district attorney’s request for $1.7 million to remodel and upgrade the office, it may be helpful to put the district attorney’s remodel request in perspective and consider the amounts spent (or committed to be spent) in recent years on office space for other county-funded

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by Jim Hightower

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et us now assess the state of the free press in this land of ... well, of press freedom. The assessment? Pathetic. Not because of some government clampdown, but because of increasing press pusillanimity.

The latest decline in hard-nosed, investigative reporting is something called “quote approval.” It began with PR flacks for public officials and political candidates demanding that reporters agree — as a price of being granted an interview — to submit any quotes they intend to use from the interview to the

services: Parks and Open Space, $5.6 million; Recycling Center: $4.8 million; new facility for the coroner: $3.5 million; sheriff ’s office: $12 million for a new building, plus $2 million for a new shooting range; Probation: $1.3 million.

The DA’s office space has not been significantly improved since 1983. The current $1.7 million request ($300,000 of which is for necessary infrastructure

interviewee’s staff for approval. Thus, when Mr. Big blurts out something shocking, stupid or actually newsworthy, Mr. Big’s staff of bowdlerizers can tidy it up, or even erase it: zzzzzzzztt, it’s gone, as though it was never uttered.

It’s not surprising that today’s media-sensitive political figures (including Barack Obama and Mitt Romney) would demand this extraordinary editorial control over what comes out of their own mouths. But it’s utterly despicable that media bosses and reporters have so gutlessly caved in to the demand. It reduces reporters from hard-nosed diggers to brown-nosed beggars, and it makes a mockery of our democracy’s need for a free press. Yet many of America’s major publications have meekly surrendered their reporters’ freedom to this restraint.

upgrades, such as the electrical system) should be considered in this context.

Stan Garnett, district attorney/ Boulder

Vote yes on 65

The controversial 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case released a torrent of money from corporations and billionaires trying to see LETTERS Page 8

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And now, corporate executives have realized that — hey, we can emasculate the press, too. Wall Street barons, Silicon Valley hot shots, and even the bosses of media conglomerates are demanding (and getting) quote approval for stories about their operations.

The media columnist for The New York Times admits that he’s also succumbed to these demands: “If it’s [a quote] I feel I absolutely need,” he recently wrote, “I start negotiating.”

Never mind that it’s his independence and journalistic integrity he’s bargaining away.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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The Post supports marijuana legalization — before opposing it

by Paul Danish

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he Denver Post ran an odd editorial on Oct. 15 in which it averred its support for marijuana legalization, but opposed the passage of Amendment 64, which would legalize marijuana in Colorado.

Legalization should be done by the feds, not the states, the paper argues.

In a perfect world, the proper way to end the war on marijuana would be for Congress to end it. But this isn’t a perfect world, and it is especially imperfect insofar as the war on marijuana is concerned.

“It’s long past time for the federal government — both Congress and the executive branch — to move toward a less punitive and more realistic approach toward marijuana,” the Post asserted.

True enough — and the paper should have started its analysis by asking the obvious question that follows from that assertion: Why haven’t they?

Most members of Congress have known for decades that the war on marijuana was a multi-billion-dollar-a-year failure, that it was doing enormous violence to Americans’ civil liberties and to the respect for law generally, that it was infusing the twin poisons of tyranny and distrust throughout our national life, that it was fueling criminal enterprises as large as anything prohibition produced. They have also known that smoking pot is no more harmful than drinking beer, and that arresting nearly a million Americans a year on marijuana offenses was and is a monstrous injustice.

As for the executive branch, President Obama smoked pot like a chimney as a teenager, and it obviously didn’t keep him from succeeding later in life, either by killing his ambition or

making him stupid. He knows from first-hand experience that the most dangerous aspect of marijuana use is the risk of getting caught.

So why haven’t the feds acted?

No mystery there. When voting for president or members of Congress, most Americans don’t take a candidate’s views on marijuana into consideration. To most voters, the issue isn’t as important as national security, or jobs and the economy, or taxes and spending, or health care, or education, or the environment, or a host of other issues.

So most candidates for federal office duck the issue and go with the status quo ante; they take another snort of prohibitionist moonshine and ignore the ugly realities of pot prohibition behind the curtain.

When it comes to marijuana reform, both the president and most members of Congress are like alcoholics in denial, and they will continue to be until the American people do an intervention.

Which is one of the things that passage of Amendment 64 will do.

Legalizing marijuana on the state level will send a brusque message to Congress that the time has come for it to act.

More important, it would tacitly give Congress permission to act.

The Post seems to find this disconcerting, but state and local action before federal action is hardly unprecedented on social issues. And state action ahead of Congressional action is particularly appropriate in the case of marijuana law, since the states do most of the enforcing (about two-thirds) and pay most of the cost of enforcement.

The feds — both the executive branch and Congress — have made it abundantly clear that they won’t lead on marijuana reform, a point the Post

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essentially concedes. There is no reason for the states to defer to them. To do so would be like waiting for Godot (spoiler alert: he was a no show.)

The Post also frets that if Colorado “becomes an island with legal marijuana” by passing Amendment 64, it would attract marijuana tourism from other states. Well yes, but this would not necessarily be a bad thing — either for Colorado or the tourists. For many years the state of Nevada was a gambling island. It did wonders for the state’s economy and provided millions of Americans from other states with safe, honest places to gamble.

The Post claims that there would be no way to stop out-of-staters from coming to Colorado to stock up on pot to take home with them. Perhaps not, but why stop them? If they were buying legal marijuana from licensed distributors in Colorado, they wouldn’t be buying marijuana from drug cartels like the Zetas. That’s a big plus for everyone except the Zetas.

Moreover, chances are that if Coloradans pass Amendment 64, Colorado will not remain a marijuana island for long. Polling shows American public opinion is shifting in favor of marijuana legalization, and it’s widely assumed that if Colorado (or Washington or Oregon, which also have legalization

measures on the ballot this year) votes to legalize, others will swiftly follow.

The Post also objects to the fact that Amendment 64 is an amendment to the state constitution instead of an initiated law that the legislature could modify and perfect. The reason for that, of course, is that the Colorado legislature has more than once gutted citizenpassed laws in the name of perfecting them. That’s why there is a lot of stuff in the Colorado Constitution that in a perfect world wouldn’t be there.

The Post thinks fears that the legislature would do such a thing with Amendment 64 are unfounded, and that the sponsors of the Amendment are being overly paranoid.

That’s an astonishing assertion on the Post’s part, considering that not 30 days ago the Legislative Council, a standing committee of the legislature, censored the pro-Amendment 64 section of the voter guide that the state sends out to two million Colorado households by removing three of the supporters’ strongest arguments.

Putting Amendment 64 in the Constitution instead of enabling hostile politicians to mess with it isn’t being paranoid. It’s being prudent.

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of money spent on negative ads? Take back your power by voting “yes” on Amendment 65.

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12-year-olds to make his point that we liberals are ignorant dupes and anticorporatists. I’d like to find some kids in a playground who have Republican parents and ask them what they think about Ben Bernake’s fiscal and monetary policy and extrapolate their analysis on all conservatives.

Paul Danish, you have now stooped to a new low, and that is hard for you, sir.

David Segal/Boulder

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Hiding behind super PACs with benign-sounding names, the money fueling these assaults is not benign. It’s a cancer attacking the very fabric of our democracy.

In striking down sensible spending limits on campaigns, the Supreme Court gave too much control to a few wealthy interests. We’re left feeling 8 October 18, 2012

powerless. We can address this injustice by passing Amendment 65. With 65, Colorado voters have a chance to require members of Congress to support a federal constitutional amendment restoring government of, by and for the people. Once enacted, Coloradans could see common-sense contributions, spending limits and transparency.

Feeling disgusted, bombarded and disempowered by the cancerous flood

Danish and my head

Paul Danish hurts my head. He has written some crazy stuff before, but his piece in the Aug. 23 edition (“The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome),” Danish Plan) tops them all.

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STAR-STUDDED FRACKING PROTEST Hey, we’ve got to give a shout out to a big event being held in honor of one of our favorite causes, the anti-fracking faction.

From 3 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Civic Center Park on Capitol Hill in Denver, a coalition called “Frack Free Colorado” will attract the likes of Jakob Dylan (yes, Bob’s son, of the Wallflowers) and actresses Darryl Hannah and Mariel Hemingway.

Anti-fracking in Colorado finally hits the big time!

The event, modeled after the New York event “Songs Against Drilling” earlier this year, combines education with entertainment, and is a worthwhile cause, if you can make it.

Even our own local faves Elephant Revival and Sam Schabacker of Food & Water Watch will be taking the stage.

Let’s make some noise that even oil and gas shill John Hickenlooper will hear!

In the spirit of promoting those who share our ideals, we’re going to list the event sponsors that you should support if you agree: Patagonia, Prana, Black Diamond, New Belgium Brewing Company, Backpacker’s Pantry, Vibrant Planet, Conscious Global Leadership, The Invisible Spark, 1% for the Planet and Backbone Media.

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VOTE LUDWIG Around this time of year, we like to remind people that a regent is not some kind of Australian marsupial. It’s a member of the nine-person board that governs the University of Colorado.

And in this election, Boulder County residents will be able to vote for one. It is an at-large seat, meaning a regent elected by the whole state, and incumbent Democrat Steve Ludwig is running against Republican Brian Davidson, among others.

It is at this point that we like to remind folks that the Board of Regents has been dominated by Republicans since 1980. That’s not a misprint. The Dems have not held the majority on our flagship university’s governing board for 32 years, and that, more than anything else, explains why in the past decade we have turned toward hiring old, rich, white, Republican, male business tycoons and politicians with virtually no academic credentials as president.

The Republicans hold a narrow 5-4 edge on the board right now, and despite Ludwig’s faults, we can’t see voting for a Republican when the Dems are so close to regaining control. (Plus, Ludwig has a mildly amusing campaign video in which his ex-wife endorses him. Check http:// voteregentludwig.nationbuilder.com.)

The political balance on the board could flip any year now, paving the way for us to again see a woman with a Ph.D. — gasp — at CU’s helm. Hell, maybe even a woman of color.

Wouldn’t that shake up those good ol’ boys a bit?

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Making sense of Jessica’s tragedy

A memorial has sprung up just north of 82nd Avenue where Jessica’s body was found.

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n her way to school Oct. 5, Jessica Ridgeway disappeared.

The Westminster 10-year-old was abducted in the one-block walk from her home to a park, where she would meet a friend and walk to school.

Five days later, Jessica’s body was found in Arvada open space east of state Highway 93, more than five miles from her home. Hundreds of volunteers, hoping to find the girl alive, had been combing the area around Jessica’s home and the spot where her backpack was found in a Superior subdivision Oct. 7.

When police identified the body, they announced a shift in focus for the investigation, from finding Jessica to identifying her killer. Law enforcement is seeking tips from the community.

The public has reacted to Jessica’s death with disbelief. More than a thousand people attended a balloon release commemorating Jessica’s life, and memorials have sprung up throughout her neighborhood and at the place her body was found. Purple ribbons have taken on new meaning.

This package is intended to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of Jessica’s case, including incidents that could be related, statistics on child abductions and the possible psychology of her killer.

We also want to help. Parents are worried. We’ve assembled recommendations from schools and law enforcement on how to keep children safe and how to talk to them about Jessica’s death.

We hope this package contributes to our community’s understanding of this tragic event and raises awareness that not only leads to the capture of the predator, but reduces the chances of similar incidents in the future.

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Killer’s ‘awareness space’ may lead to clues

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ith the sad discovery of Jessica Ridgeway’s dismembered body last week, the task has now shifted from finding the 10-year-old girl to solving her murder as quickly as possible.

Speed is of the essence in this case, not only because Jessica deserves justice, but also because the evidence suggests that the perpetrator of this heinous crime will likely strike again.

Law enforcement officials from dozens of different agencies, including the FBI, have been gathering and analyzing forensic evidence from Jessica’s home, the location where her body was found and the area where her backpack and its contents were discovered. But unlike an episode of CSI, research on child abduction murder cases suggests that such forensic evidence will not be particularly useful in solving this murder case. In fact, in most cases of child abduction murder, the

8:25 a.m.: After eating breakfast with her mother, 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway calls her classmate and neighbor, and the boy agrees to wait for her at nearby Chelsea Park they would have to cross to get to school.

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main role of forensic evidence such as DNA is to help secure a conviction once the murderer has been caught by other means.

When it actually comes to solving child abduction murder cases, the research suggests that the two most important elements, barring an eyewitness to some portion of the crime, is determining the relationship between the murderer and the victim and examining the murderer’s “awareness space.”

As for the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, this can run the gambit from family members to complete strangers. Police have already announced that Jessica’s parents have been cleared of any wrongdoing. In the vast majority of cases of child abduction murder, the victim and perpetrator are at least familiar with one another, having actually met or at least noticed each other at school, church, a friend’s house, walking within the neighborhood or

n Friday, Oct. 5

8:30 a.m.: Jessica says goodbye to her mother, Sarah Ridgeway, and leaves her house. It would be the last time she was seen.

She was wearing a black and pink jacket, blue jeans, purple eyeglasses and boots with pom-poms carrying a backpack with the word “Victorious” etched on the back.

along some route or transportation corridor that the victim frequently traveled.

The most rare type of relationship in child abduction murder cases is that of complete stranger.

Criminologists believe that murderers fall into one of two categories: the organized offender and the disorganized offender. Murderers who are complete strangers to their victims tend to fall into the organized category, as do murderers who take steps to make a victim’s body more difficult to locate or identify through tactics like mutilation or the scattering of body parts to different locations. Serial killers also typically exhibit traits that lead them to be classified as organized.

In the Jessica Ridgeway case, it is too early at this point to say what the relationship between victim and murderer will turn out to be. We do know that the See SUSPECTS Page 13

n Friday, Oct. 5

4:30 p.m.: After reportedly sleeping through calls from Witt Elementary School about Jessica’s unexcused absence, Sarah Ridgeway searches for her daughter at friends’ and relatives’ houses before reporting her missing.

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Large map key: Jessica Ridgeway disappears at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 5 on her way to meet a friend and walk to school. She disappears in a one-block area.

Maps courtesy of Google Maps

Jessica’s backpack is found Oct. 7 on the sidewalk at the corner of Andrew Way and Alpha Court in Superior. The backpack is reportedly placed carefully and standing upright.

Jessica’s body is found in the afternoon of Oct. 10 in an open space on W. 82nd Avenue east of Highway 93.

She is found by two men picking up trash by the side of the road.

Jessica’s body is identified at 4 p.m.

Oct. 12 at the Westminster Public Safety Center. Chief of Police Kevin Baker says that DNA was used to identify the body.

Three attempted child enticements have occurred in the past two months.

From west to east, the attempts occurred Sept. 9, Sept. 12 and Oct. 4.

The western two involved a blue fourdoor sedan; the eastern one a white van.

Inset map key: The approximate location of Jessica’s home.

Chelsea Park, where Jessica was going to meet her friend the morning of Oct. 5. She disappeared between her home and the park.

Witt Elementary School, Jessica’s school.

Ketner Lake, called Ketner Reservoir on Google Maps. Two attempted abductions of adult women have occurred at Ketner Lake since 2010. In both cases, the women escaped a white male, 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8, with brown hair. No arrests have been made in those incidents.

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gruesome condition of the child’s body when discovered exhibited the characteristics of an organized murderer, having been dismembered and left on the roadside lacking certain identifying elements, which made her identification more difficult and time-consuming for authorities. The horrific condition in which Jessica’s body was found is a primary reason why both law enforcement and criminal profilers believe that her killer is likely to strike again.

At this point, perhaps the best path

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to solving this particular murder rests with the ability of law enforcement’s geographic profilers to identify the killer’s awareness space, which is defined as that geographic area that individuals have become familiar with over their lifetime.

It is composed of those places that have been incorporated into a person’s memory by repeated exposure.

A person’s, including a criminal’s, awareness space is centered around those locations that are most important to them, starting with their home and

n Friday, Oct. 5

9:20 p.m.: Westminster Police tweet that an Amber Alert for Jessica Ridgeway is forthcoming.

including other locations such as work, a friend’s house, the primary stores where they shop, favorite walking paths, etc. It is also composed of the transportation corridors used to connect those locations to one another.

Defining the perpetrator’s awareness space is critical to solving Jessica’s case, because in the vast majority of child abduction murders, as well as other crimes, researchers have found that the perpetrator lives within his awareness space, commits his crimes close to home

n Saturday, Oct. 6

Police and volunteers search for Jessica throughout the day. At times, 800 volunteers were scouring the area around Jessica’s home.

and within that awareness space, and disposes of his victims and other evidence at the outer edges of the awareness space, generally along the space’s transportation corridors.

This is because when it comes to operating in our comfort zones, criminals, even sociopaths who murder children, have been found to be just like the rest of us. We tend to operate within the areas that we know best.

See SUSPECTS Page 17

n Sunday, Oct. 7

Sometime after midnight: A Rock Creek resident and his wife notice Jessica’s backpack while returning from a night out.

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Sketches of a killer Profilers, criminology studies piece together information to describe suspect

By David Accomazzo and Elizabeth Miller

O

ne of the starkest aspects of the Jessica Ridgway murder case is the lack of evidence and clues. That no one saw anything smacks of either cold professionalism or blind tragedy.

But even the basic, gruesome details can reveal certain aspects of the crime.

Police say Jessica’s body was “not intact.” She was taken in broad daylight, in a neighborhood with potentially dozens of witnesses who might have (but tragically didn’t) witnessed the abduction. Her backpack appeared miles away from both the body and the abduction site. Investigators can form theories and scenarios based on all of these facts.

The odds of any child being kidnapped or killed by a stranger are slim.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 697 children age 11 and younger were murdered in 2010.

Estimates for kidnapping annually hover in the low 100s — fractions of a percentage that any one child would be abducted by a stranger.

When children are taken, studies show, there’s often little time in which to act to save them when the abductor is motivated toward homicide. In 74 percent of cases, the victim is killed within three hours of abduction. It’s probable that Jessica was dead even before her mother woke up and realized she was missing.

Statistically, according to “Sexually Motivated Child Abduction Murders,” Jessica was more likely a victim of opportunity than a deliberate selection.

School age girls are three times more likely to be the victims of an abduction, and elementary school children like Jessica are often taken within a mile of home. Her killer also may live nearby.

But a key component to solving the crime lies in determining whether Jessica was just in the wrong place in front of the wrong predator at the wrong time, or a victim of a targeted abduction, says Mary Ellen O’Toole, a former FBI profiler. Jessica’s abduction was riddled with risk. She was kid-

n Sunday, Oct. 7

napped in the busy part of the morning in the middle of a neighborhood, leaving the smallest of windows to successfully abduct her. The killer dismembered her body, which O’Toole says means spending more time with the body and increasing the likelihood of dropping a hair or some other sort of identifying DNA onto the body. The killer left her backpack in the middle of a Superior suburb, where someone could have seen the suspicious car. The sheer boldness of her abduction could reveal either an extremely impulsive killer, who happened to be in the neighborhood that Friday morning, or someone familiar with the area who intimately knew Jessica’s routine — and carefully planned the abduction.

Though as of press time the Westminster Police Department has not released a cause of death, studies on similar incidents suggest that the statistical likelihood is for a physical method of murder, like strangling.

Details from the medical examination of Jessica’s body, which police will likely not release, could shine light on what type of person kidnapped and murdered her.

“All we know is what the police have said, which is that she was ‘not intact,’” says Mark Safarik, a former FBI profiler who now operates a criminology consulting firm out of Virginia.

“They haven’t discussed, which they won’t in an open investigation, the aspects of that. But that’s a critical piece of information, and you can learn a lot from that kind of information. For instance, you can have a very organized, thoughtful sexual predator who has thought this out, perhaps watched her on previous trips to the park, or you can have a guy who’s just acting on impulse.

The way, in fact, that she was dismembered can tell you a lot about that.”

O’Toole talks about three reasons why a killer might dismember a body.

One could be to delay identification of a body — for example, removing the head or the hands. The second would be to make the body easier to transport.

1 p.m.: A Rock Creek man emails the town’s listserve with a message saying he found a backpack containing a water bottle bearing Jessica’s name. After someone responds pointing out the significance of the name, the man calls 911.

After receiving the tip, police search shifts more than six miles towards Superior.

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And the third would be some sort of pathological reason, if the killer was getting some sort of psychological thrill from dismembering the body.

Given the dismemberment and other details of the case, O’Toole says all signs point to someone who lives in the area. Dismembering a child’s body is extremely rare, she says, and it is an extremely risky way to destroy and dispose of a body.

“Dismembering a person takes a lot of time. It’s not easy,” O’Toole says.

“You’ve added one more step to the [homicide]. That one more step takes time.”

Then there’s the backpack. Reports say it was placed prominently on the sidewalk, but had the man who found it discovered anything indicating murder, he would have called 911 immediately instead of sending a message to the Louisville listserve. “[It says,] ‘Look over here. Look in this neighborhood; don’t look in my neighborhood,” says freelance criminal profiler Pat Brown. “To me, that would indicate that he lived close to the family.”

Safarik agrees. He says he doubts the backpack was intended for anything other than misdirection.

“It’s a backpack placed to mislead law enforcement in the opposite direction of where the body was placed,” he says.

Police said at a press conference they would not be giving out any additional details on the case. In lieu of a description of the suspect, an FBI spokesman said, “It could be your boss, it could be your friend, and ultimately it could be your family member.”

That description irks Brown.

“It’s vague and they give that one out for every serial killer out there,” she says. “It has nothing to do with the evidence at all.”

Brown says anyone who would abduct, murder and dismember a 10-year-old girl is a psychopath, and police should release a description of psychopathic traits to look out for.

“They should list the traits of a sexual psychopath — pathological liar, manipulation, it’s all about him, they need to list those for people,” Brown says.

Profilers refrain from speculating about characteristics of her killer because the police haven’t released the information and there’s only so much

n Wednesday, Oct. 10

Afternoon: Two maintenance workers discover a body near Pattridge Park Open Space in Arvada. Later revealed that body is “not intact.”

9 p.m.: Body removed.

n Thursday, Oct. 11

During the day: Divers search Standley Lake, less then a mile south of Jessica’s school.

that clues from her medical examination could suggest in the way of the make-up of her murderer.

Where their assessments end, criminology studies step in to hypothesize on her killer based on what we know about killers who have gone before.

Statistics outline her abductor as likely a white male in his late 20s or 30s, without a girlfriend, a wife or children. In the demographic study “Nonfamily Child Abductors Who Murder Their Victims,” which compiled information from detailed interviews with 25 convicted child abductors who murdered their victims, 72 percent were younger than 30, 76 percent were Caucasian, 60 percent were not married, 56 percent had no children. It’s possible a recent conflict with a female, or legal problems, triggered his predatory drive.

Though almost half of the offenders were employed at the time of the murder, it was likely unskilled work. They reported little education beyond high school, 40 percent of them dropping out before graduation.

Only 36 percent had a psychiatric diagnosis before the offense and only 28 percent of offenders reported being sexually assaulted or molested as a child.

He was, likely, an isolated child with few friends and, possibly, a history of bed-wetting, raised by both biological parents in a home environment he would describe as stable. A lonely child has probably grown to a lonely adult who lives on the margins of society.

There’s a 49 percent chance he had selected that tree by the side of the highway as where he would leave her body before he’d kidnapped her, and a 22 percent chance he has returned, or will, to the site where he disposed of her remains. There’s also a 21 percent chance he’s already left town.

If he’s like the majority of the offenders in the study, he would still score below the threshold for classification as a psychopath on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which is used by researchers and clinicians to diagnose risk for violence. Perhaps not because he’s not psychopathic, but because he’s learned to mask those traits, able to hide even in the full sunlight of a Friday morning.

Alyssa Hurst contributed to the reporting for this package of stories.

n Friday, Oct. 12

4 p.m. At news conference, police confirm body as Jessica’s. DNA tests performed by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation provided the identification.

n Saturday, Oct. 13

All day: Police continue searching the area near Highway 93 and West 82nd Avenue.

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Local schools respond to Jessica’s death

Officials suggest talking to kids, staying vigilant by Elizabeth Miller

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he first thing kids often ask in the face of a tragedy is, “Why?” Unfortunately, that’s the same question adults have a tough time answering.

In communications that Boulder Valley School District sent to parents after the announcement that the body found near Arvada on Oct. 10 was Jessica Ridgeway’s, counseling staff encouraged parents to talk to their kids about the questions without trying to answer them.

“It is very important not to focus on trying to answer the why, but to listen to their feelings, to bring [kids] back to how they are feeling, and to what we can do to help the child feel better,” Andrew Tucker, BVSD counseling coordinator, said in a notice to parents.

The National Association of School Psychologists recommends being reassuring and emphasizing human resiliency, highlighting the compassion and humanity in other people (like the thousands who attended memorials for Jessica around the city in the days after her death), maintaining continuity and normalcy, and doing something to help others in need.

“Our coordinator for counseling services says the key for children is to let them know that they’re safe and that their life will return to normal, and that in this case Jessica did not do anything wrong to warrant this,” says Briggs Gamblin, director of communications for Boulder Valley School District.

Gamblin says he hasn’t seen as much heightened concern as he expected in response to Jessica’s case, but that it may just not be visible yet.

“The person who did this has not been caught. That’s going to be high stress, and the brutality of the crime and the randomness of it — we’re told by law enforcement and by psychologists that it is extremely rare, so that only heightens the concern,” Gamblin says. “The fact that we’re right on the border with Jefferson County, the business with the backpack in Superior — I think Jefferson County is the most impacted, but of the adjacent school districts, we have a connection that others don’t, and I think that’s added to the stress.”

In a typical school year, Gamblin estimates that his office handles two or three instances of “stranger danger” over 10 months. They’ve already managed one incident this year.

A Southern Hills Middle School

sixth grader reported being approached and offered a ride by a man and a woman in a black car similar to a Cadillac at around 4:30 p.m. on Sept.

25. The student was riding her bike home on Table Mesa, west of Vassar Drive, when the couple pulled up next to her and offered her a ride. She declined, and they followed her farther and asked again. The suspects were described as a young couple, late 20s to early 30s. The woman, who was driving, had reddish-brown hair, and the man in the passenger seat had dark hair, a moustache and a goatee. The middle schooler biked home and reported the incident to her parents, who notified her school and filed a police report.

“My understanding is she felt more empowered than frightened by the experience,” Gamblin said of the girl.

“That said, as a parent, it has to be one of the most frightening things you can hear. … I think the hardest thing to cope with as a parent, and this is speaking more as a parent, is that we can’t be — if they’re going to grow up and be confident young people and grow into young adults ready for the world — we can’t be with them every moment and we can’t be over them every moment, but we can take reasonable precautions. We can talk to them.”

The incident has changed the way schools in Boulder Valley handle these incidents. Previously, the principals of area schools notified one another of those incidents, and those principals notified the schools’ parents at their discretion. In this case, parents at the student’s middle school, Southern Hills, and two neighboring elementary schools, Bear Creek Elementary and Mesa Elementary, were notified. But complaints came back from parents who had students enrolled in schools on the east side of the county through open enrollment but who lived in the neighborhood where the incident occurred. Almost 40 percent of BVSD students are open enrollment, so the superintendent, Bruce Messinger, decided to revise the system, and reports of these incidents are now sent district-wide.

St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont has also already had two incidents reported. On Sept. 19, two ninth-grade female students walking on Clover Basin in southwest Longmont on their way home from school reported being followed by a red truck and being chased by its driver. The truck had slowed while passing them, then

stopped, so they walked to a house, making it look like they lived there.

When the truck left, they continued home, and the truck driver found them again and pursued them on foot. They went to a second home, and an adult there eventually walked them home.

They described the driver as a white male, 40 years old or older, possibly hunchbacked.

In a second incident at 4 p.m. on Sept. 20, a 7-year-old girl was approached as she was walking home from school on Mountain View. A sedan she described as blue or green pulled alongside next to her, and the driver, a white or Hispanic male in his late 40s with short black hair, asked if she would help him look for a puppy.

She said, “No, thank you,” and he drove away.

The reassuring, recurring theme in the cases reported in Boulder and Longmont area schools this year is that the children knew what to do — they run or bike away from strangers, yell, or approach other adults.

“It’s about messages of prevention and common sense continuing, and listening to our kids if they’re nervous or worried, and not every danger to a child, unfortunately, comes from a stranger, so that’s another reason to listen and build relationships of trust, as opposed to relationships that are based in fear and scaring the child about the world they live in,” Gamblin says. “But letting them know that there are risks in the world, and as the adults in their life who care about them and love them, we are people they can come to, and whatever we’re doing, no matter how busy we are, if it’s that important, we’ll stop, and they come first.”

“We take safety and security extremely seriously every day, our teachers, our administrators, our campus supervisors, our volunteers, our bus drivers, we’re all on a high alert all the time,” says John Poynton, director of communications for St. Vrain Valley School District. “This is a tragic situation, but I think that our job as adults never ends in terms of being vigilant for safety and security for our kids.”

Each day, 28,000 students go to school in the St. Vrain school district, and 29,000 attend Boulder schools.

Looking at the scale, Poynton says, school is one of the safest places in the country your kids can be.

“I’m a parent, and I’m concerned, and I would expect that not only parents See COUNTY Page 19

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In the case of Jessica Ridgeway, we can start to see at least a portion of her killer’s awareness space depicted on the maps on page 13, based on where Jessica was abducted, where her backpack was found and where her body was ultimately dumped.

While the location where Jessica’s backpack was discovered, in a Rock Creek housing subdivision in Superior, at first seems disconnected from the locations of her abduction and where her body was found, driving among these three locations, within the murderer’s likely awareness space, actually provides a sense of connectedness among the three locations.

While there is no way to know where Jessica’s killer lives, statistically, based on research of other abduction murder cases in North America and England, it is more likely than not that the murderer lives in the same area of town as Jessica, possibly within a few blocks. This same research found that a surprising number of child abduction murderers even lived on the same street as their victims.

If, in fact, Jessica’s neighborhood is near the home of her killer, then looking for the transportation corridors out of that neighborhood that offer the quickest, least-inhabited, least-traveled and therefore safest pathways away from the neighborhood and into more secluded settings where disposing of evidence could occur would make good sense for investigators.

As can be seen on the maps, there are nearly continuous open space lands west of Jessica’s neighborhood, bordered by 82nd Avenue on the south, Marshall Road on the north, Highway 93 on the west and McCaslin Boulevard and Indiana Street on the east.

From Jessica’s neighborhood, both 82nd Avenue going west and McCaslin Boulevard going north fall along natural transportation corridors away from the neighborhood and possible home area of the killer. Both the body and the backpack were found along these transportation corridors, near the edge of these open lands. The body was located along an uninhabited section of 82nd Avenue, just about a half-mile from where that road would have connected to the more heavily traveled (and therefore less desirable) Highway 93. The body’s location was just 5.25 miles, as the crow flies, from Jessica’s point of abduction, which occurred somewhere in a 650-foot stretch of Moore Street between her home and Chelsea Park, where she was supposed to meet a friend before walking to school. The backpack was found four miles from Jessica’s point of abduction, just a block off of McCaslin Boulevard, on the east side of these same open lands.

The subdivision where the backpack was found may have offered a more private setting for the killer to throw the pack from a vehicle, or it may have been Boulder Weekly

placed carefully where it was found because child murderers are sick individuals and often seek to mislead or even taunt the law enforcement officers trying to track them down.

What matters in this case is that the research of other child abduction murder cases places the highest probabilities on the assumptions that both 82nd Avenue and McCaslin Boulevard are likely transportation corridors used by the killer because they are within his awareness space. Of course, these are all assumptions based on profiling, and may well turn out to be incorrect in Jessica’s mur-

der case, but it does give insight into how investigations move forward with little to go on, and it also helps to explain which other criminal acts investigators will be looking into to find potential connections to this case.

Awareness space explains why law enforcement is looking carefully at several other criminal acts that have occurred in and around Jessica’s neighborhood.

For example, there have been at least two attempted assaults in recent years at Ketner Lake Open Space, which is located literally across the street from Jessica’s neighborhood school, Witt Elementary.

In fact, third-grade students from Witt have adopted the property and help clean up trash around Ketner Lake.

Police are believed to be circulating the description of an assailant who attacked women in their 20s who were jogging at Ketner Lake in July 2010 and Memorial Day this year.

According to media reports, in the most recent incident, a 22-year-old woman reported that while jogging on the path that circles the small lake at 1:15 p.m. on May 28, she passed a man who was walkSee SUSPECTS Page 19

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ing the opposite direction on the trail. across the street from an elementary When she rounded the loop again, the school in sight of potentially many witman had turned around and was walking nesses in broad daylight is extremely the same direction that she was running. disturbing and exhibits a predatory She told police that when she passed him, character with almost no regard for he grabbed her and tried to put a chemipotential consequences. It has been cal-soaked rag over her mouth. She fought theorized that the two unsuccessful free, ran away and called 911. attempts to attack grown women in The victim described the man as their 20s could give such a failed white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with brown attacker cause to seek a younger, more hair and an average build. He was weardefenseless target, such as a 10-yearing a blue cap, black T-shirt, jeans and old child. small-rimmed sunglasses.

The other two incidents being examIt is similar to the ined by law enforcement description of a man who that likely fall within chased and tried to grab Jessica’s killer’s awareness another jogger at Ketner space involve a man who Lake in July 2010. police say tried to entice Westminster police children into his blue refused to release the sedan with offers of report on the May 28 candy. One of the inciincident to BW, saying it dents occurred on Sept.

9, less than a month is still an open investigabefore Jessica was tion. abducted, at Quaker What likely makes Acres Park. these two Ketner Lake It should be noted incidents of interest to Police sketch of the Arvada that if you were to stand those investigating suspect in the two blue sedan child enticement cases. at the site on 82nd Jessica’s abduction and murder is not only the Avenue where Jessica’s extremely close geographic proximity to body was found and look directly to the the girl’s home and school (see inset map south, you would be looking across page 13), but also the brazen character of Pattridge Open Space to a housing subthe crimes. division on the hill above. Quaker Acres Ketner Lake is a small body of water Park is just down the other side of that in the center of a neighborhood park. same hill from the homes that can be The trail that circles the lake and that seen from where the body was found, a was the location of the jogger attacks, for disturbing coincidence at best. the most part, is nearly in the backyards The other attempted child enticeof surrounding homes and is virtually ment that authorities believe involved the always in clear sight of dozens of homes same suspect and blue sedan occurred and the surrounding streets. three days later, on Sept. 12, at On a recent excursion, BW staff Fitzmorris Elementary School, which is hiked around Ketner Lake and found approximately five and a half miles only a couple of short stretches of trail, directly south of where Jessica was no more than 10 to 15 feet in length, abducted. In both cases concerning the where an assault could have taken place blue sedan, the perpetrator is described without easily being seen from nearby

by Arvada police as “a white male, homes and passing cars, and even those approximately 5’9”, thin build, sandy or locations were hardly private. The idea brown hair and late teens to late 30s in that an attacker would attempt to age [see police sketch].” Again, it is abduct a woman in this open area worth pointing out that this description

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Cmdr. Rick Brough of the sheriff ’s office says his department always increases patrols on Halloween, and currently there is no plan to have more deputies on duty than usual during the holi-

of the man in the blue sedan is nearly identical to that given in media accounts for the man who attacked the jogger at Ketner Lake in May. At this point, the proven connections between the blue sedan incidents, Ketner Lake attacks and Jessica’s abduction and murder are solely the geographic locations

day. But he adds that “you’ve got to watch your kids when they go out.”

Pelle went a step further, saying that while his department is not changing its approach to Halloween, parents should.

“I would just suggest that parents need to do things differently,” he told Boulder Weekly. “I think parents need to accompany their kids this year, and probably in the future, but particularly this year.”

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of the attacks, and some similarities in the physical description of the perpetrators.

But when it comes to solving child abduction murder cases like that of Jessica Ridgeway, such geographic profiling is one of the most essential tools used to catch the killers.

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but everyone in our community, regardless of whether or not they have children, is very concerned,” Poynton says.

“Jessica Ridgeway[’s case], for obvious reasons, caused a lot of fear, so I think it’s always important for parents and children to be vigilant. I think it’s always important for kids to have safety planned, to have some ideas, so they’re not trying to think about what to do if something happens to them,” says Jeff Satur, public information offi-

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s first reported in Boulder Weekly, the oil and gas industry is bankrolling an effort to defeat Longmont’s proposed ban against hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Records filed with the city of Longmont confirm that the campaign to defeat the proposed prohibition against fracking within city limits, known as Question 300, has been backed by some heavy hitters.

According to documents submitted to the city clerk on Oct. 16, the group initially known as “Longmont Taxpayers for Common Sense” — which subsequently changed its name to “Main Street Longmont” after a Washington, D.C., group challenged the original moniker because it had the same name — has received $447,500 in contributions to defeat the anti-fracking measure.

The money has come primarily from oil and gas companies and industry associations.

Entities that have contributed at least $30,000 to the campaign include Halliburton, Encana, the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, Noble Energy, Chevron and the American Natural Gas Alliance.

Several others have contributed five figures, including the Colorado Petroleum Association, the KP Kauffman Company, PDC Energy, DCP Midstream, the Bill Barrett Corp. and Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.

BW previously reported in its Sept. 27 edition, that the Main Street Longmont campaign has hired one of the state’s top political consultants, Rick Reiter, whose firm Reiter & Associates has worked on some of the state’s most prominent campaigns, including the 2008 defeat of Amendment 58, a measure that would have increased severance taxes assessed to oil and gas companies and would have directed most of that money to college scholarships.

The cost of hiring Reiter does not yet appear to be included on the financial disclosures required to be filed by the city, but additional forms are due each week before the election. Declared expenses on the form submitted by the group, at the time it was calling itself “Longmont Taxpayers for Common Sense,” total $71,516. Those expenses include $33,860 for “research/polling” by Alabama-based Hill Research Consultants, as well as $18,000 to WR Communications and $9,000 to Katy Atkinson & Associates for “campaign consulting.”

The expense report filed by the newer entity, Main Street Longmont, shows no contributions but about $265,000 in expenses, all paid to Colorado Media & Mail, which has been paid for duties related to the campaign’s website, photography, advertising, graphic design, yard signs, contractors and research, according to the filings.

Among other efforts, the campaign has mailed Longmont residents a full-color flier featuring seven former Republican mayors who are opposing Question 300.

The documents show that Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, the proponents of the fracking ban, has raised $12,873, and has spent $9,938 on things like petition drives, promotional material, fliers, filing, handouts and newspaper ads.

“The oil and gas industry has done their utmost to intimidate Longmont residents by spending an astonishing $300,000 dollars to defeat this citizen-led effort to protect health, safety and property,” Sam Schabacker, Food & Water Watch’s mountain west director, told BW via email. “The oil and gas industry is hiding behind a slick PR firm and former Longmont mayors. This report makes it clear that Halliburton, Chevron and Encana are willing to spend massive amounts of money to keep Longmont residents from voting ‘Yes on 300’ to prohibit fracking next to their homes and schools.”

Bill Ray, spokesperson for Main Street Longmont, replied via email, “If this was a ban on soda pop, then no one would be surprised that Coke and Pepsi are supporting the campaign.”

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he awe children have for sea life, the blissful indulgence of the beach and the intrigue of Scuba diving deep into the sea — that’s all part of the ethos feeding the second annual Making Waves ocean symposium, hosted by the Colorado Ocean Coalition on Oct. 20 and 21. Making Waves gathers scientists, activities, educators, artists and community members to engage in conversations about ocean issues and policies.

“This year’s theme is a little more on what we can do in Colorado to save oceans, so it will go beyond just the water flow we’re getting into some of the issues like climate change and ocean acidification,” says Boulder resident Vicki Nichols Goldstein, founder of

the Colorado Ocean Coalition. Goldstein is among a growing number of ocean conservationists keen to make people understand that we’re all connected to the oceans by our waterways and atmosphere, and carbon dioxide pollution here leads to ocean acidification.

This year’s event will feature TedX style talks and “Dive-ins,” short presentations following by opportunities to ask questions and engage with speakers, as well as an Ocean Film Festival of selections from the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, a keynote speech by ocean activist and explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau — the son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau — and an art installation and a luncheon focusing on threats at fisheries in the European Union.

Making Waves has also added more kid-centered programming, involving kids in creating decorations and repurposing materials.

“We feel that the children are the generation who’s going to grow up and really tackle these issues, so we wanted to bring in a youth component,” Goldstein says.

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The average time in this year’s Run Rabbit Run 50-miler was 11:50:26.

That’s 12 hours of running uphill.

It’s common for men to finish the race in tears.

Before dawn on Sept. 15, more than 25 runners were missing from the sixth annual Run Rabbit Run 50 Mile’s starting line in Steamboat Springs. By the time the final runner finished at 10:20 p.m., many more would have wished they had also just slept in that morning.

But an ensemble of 180 sports-watches still beeped at 6 a.m., signaling the race’s start in the pre-dawn darkness, and the runners took off at a shuffle up Steamboat’s ski resort, a swarm of LED fireflies floating in the darkness.

In the fray were Leadville 100 podium finishers, ultramarathon veterans and greenhorn rookies attempting their first “ultra.” University of Colorado graduate Cameron Clayton, a CU cross-country veteran with blond hair bleached neon after countless hours in the sun, was also making his ultramarathon debut. But up until this moment, he had never competed in a race farther than 10 kilometers.

“I’m not worried about finishing the 50,” Clayton said before the race. “But finishing it well? That’s another story.”

While many serious runners would be satisfied with just finishing a 50-mile race, Clayton would not. There are no finisher’s medals on the Clayton mantel, and a white flag bearing the Olympic rings hangs on the wall above his bed. What he worried about was finishing in a way that counted.

Since 2007, Clayton has been running farther in a day than most Boulderites drive and faster than they ride their bikes. As an NCAA Division I student-athlete, he regularly logged more than 100 miles on his running shoes per week. In 2010, Clayton helped CU take second in the Big XII cross-country championships and 15th at the NCAA national championships as CU’s fifth-fastest runner during the 2010 season.

Reflecting upon the last five years, he describes his career as “satisfactory.”

Going into the 2011 season, he reached even higher records for weekly mileage, often one-upping his roommate and teammate Andy Wacker in a contest to see who could run the most miles per week.

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recalling a time he told Clayton he was on track to run 125 miles in a week.

Clayton ran 132 miles that week.

But after this unprecedented summer of training, injury plagued Clayton throughout his final season. He watched his teammates win CU its first-ever Pac12 championship and secure the thirdplace trophy at the NCAA championships from his computer screen in Boulder.

When he graduated in May, there were no lucrative sponsorships for him like there have been for CU alumni such as Adam Goucher, Dathan Ritzenheim and Jenny Simpson. In August, Wacker secured a modest sponsorship from the Boulder Running Company and Adidas.

A poignant NCAA commercial states that there are more than 400,000 NCAA student-athletes and most of them will go pro in something other than sports.

However, some do not leave sports easily.

“I dreamed of running professionally under a full-paid contract, as most people who are recruited to go to CU kind of dream about,” Clayton said.

After graduating, Clayton and Wacker moved into a new house and began training for ultramarathons, races requiring runners to cover more than the 26.2 miles of a marathon, with a new roommate, Ted Howard. Howard, who had completed three ultramarathons, encouraged Clayton to compete in the 50-mile Run Rabbit Run with him.

Clayton continued training much like he did in college, but with a 27-mile-long run once a week.

After training for the Olympics for five years, he could have continued training on his own like his friend Wacker had, racing similar distances to the courses he competed on in college, or moved up to marathons. Why ultramarathons?

“If you look at a marathon, it’s stacked. It’s way more competitive than ultramarathons,” Clayton explained. “And I love winning.”

Running up the Steamboat ski slope, Clayton surged to the front with 49.5

miles to go.

Zeke Tiernan shared the lead with Clayton through the first six miles of dirt trails. Tiernan, a fellow CU cross-country alum and Division I 10K All-American on the cross-country course in the late 1990s, also turned to ultramarathons after college.

Only a few months before Rabbit Run, he took second place in the Leadville 100 Trail Run, finishing in a blistering 16 hours, 44 minutes and 20 seconds.

When the two crested the first large hill — 3,000 feet above the starting line — Tiernan asked, “You wanna go ahead?” feeling Clayton pushing the pace.

“Yeah,” Clayton responded, and began to pull away.

At the second aid station, at 13.2 miles, Clayton jogged into the tent, shuffled through the buffet of energy snacks and sports drinks, stuffed two handfuls of gummy energy chews into his mouth, and slurped a syrupy energy drink. He ran back onto the trail with an extra kick in his stride as Tiernan, who had reduced the lead Clayton placed on him, followed seconds behind.

One of the unexpected challenges for Howard in his first 50-miler was eating during the race.

“I definitely blew the wheels of the bus in my first 50-miler,” he said.

In their hotel room the night before, he and Clayton had sifted through their race snacks on their hotel coffee table like finicky children after Halloween night in preparation for the race.

Through the 27-mile checkpoint — approaching more mileage than Clayton had ever continuously run before, yet just more than halfway to the finish — Tiernan was following, but still within striking distance. Howard jogged up, stopped and began unpinning his number.

At 27 miles, he was out with hip pain.

Watching Clayton run through the halfway mark in the lead, Wacker decided Clayton could win.

“Cameron is a talented guy,” Wacker said. “He’s run some of the fastest 20-mile training runs that any CU runner has

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Beside the CU cross-country team, Clayton also is a member of an elite category: “The Wing Kings.”

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“An ultramarathon is a 50-mile eating contest,” Howard said somberly the week before the race.

Around 1:30 p.m., race officials spotted the first 50-miler racing down the mountain toward the finish line.

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With a first-place finish at the Run Rabbit Run 50-miler comes automatic entry into one of the most prestigious and competitive ultramarathons in America: the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run. Although he’s never run a 100-mile race before, Clayton remains optimistic about his chances, will race Club Cross this fall, and will begin training for Western States, which is in July.

“I went into running because I was kind of good at it and could win,” he said.

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hen listening to blues vocalist Janiva Magness, there are a lot of words that come to mind that could describe her sultry and lilting interpretations. Whether uplifting or drifting into darkness, one word that never comes across when hearing her voice is “fake.” This girl is more real than Brazilian currency.

“The word that I hear get tossed around a lot these days is authenticity,” Magness says. “I think of it as the truth.”

Magness has been grinding out a living on the touring circuit for years with her bluesy interpretations and smoky vocals. To close your eyes and listen is like riding an emotional roller coaster about to careen off track. Opening those lids reveals problems that are still right there in front of you.

“I think life is in session, and some of that is really joyful, and some of it is just the day-in/day-out on life’s terms, and some of it is really challenging,” Magness says.

Even while covering songs by other tunesmiths, Magness brings her own baggage — good and bad — onstage with her travelling ensemble nearly 200 nights a year. With her new album, Stronger For It, now part of her repertoire, listeners gain insight into some of the tribulations that go into making it in the music business.

“Songs are like little stories or movies, at least that’s my perspective on it. And I have to be able to bring myself into that. I have to be able to tell the truth. So there isn’t really a separation between the experience of the story [and my singing],” Magness says of the original songs she wrote for the new record.

It’s a continuation of some sage advice the singer received at a tender age.

“The first time I got into really big trouble, I was 13 years old,” she says. “And my father sat me down and said to me, ‘The truth is going to set you free.’ And I see MAGNESS on Page 28

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thought to myself in all of my 13-year“I quit a thousand times. There’s an old, hormone-enraged arrogance, ‘You element, or maybe several elements, old fool.’ But you know what? He was that I cannot explain as to why I have right.” not died. Why I didn’t stay quit. Why I Magness is not shy about sharing kept coming back, kept trying,” her life story, and her bio doesn’t read Magness says. “I laughingly make the as one loaded with opportunity. She statement that there’s something wrong was sexually abused by a family member with me because I won’t stop. And as a child. Both her parents passed away there is a push in me, inside of me that while Magness was a teenager, leading just won’t let it be.” to a bohemian lifestyle in and out of That wherewithal shows in the foster care and psychiatric institutions. highs and lows a Magness show proShe had a baby and gave it up for adop- vides. While astute enough to know she may not be changing lives on stage, she tion. Substance abuse and suicide does enjoy the synergy between her and attempts dot her calendars past like the audience. birthdays or graduations in other, more “Sometimes it helps people understable lives. stand that they’re “The first 14 not alone in whatyears of my life I ever they’re in. had not had that Sometimes it just experience of really lifts our spirits being connected to when there’s a the world,” she connection going says of trying to on. I don’t want to understand such a make it heavier harsh environthan it is,” ment. “It took a lot Magness says. “But of hard knocks for I do think that is me to finally realthe job. Sometimes ize that I can’t it’s just a connecprotect myself by tion that happens being hardened. because you’re celBelieve me, I tried. ebrating and relatIt’s an illusion. … ing to the stories You get hurt.” and the songs and Yet one night the music.” opened her up to a ON THE BILL: Janiva Magness perDecades down new direction, one forms at the Outlook Hotel and Suites on Tuesday, Oct. 23, and Wednesday, the line, a father’s that helped shape Oct. 24. Tickets are $10. 800 28th St., words resonate the long career arc Boulder, 303-443-3322. through the trials that is now bearing and tribulations fruits of success. life has handed “I didn’t really Magness, steeling the will of an emoeven understand what happened. All I tional and entertaining performer. knew is whatever the fuck happened to “People seem to connect with the me that night that connected me to the truth, the authenticity, and that gives world,” Magness says of the night she me encouragement and support, and saw legendary bluesman Otis Rush peroddly and strangely, it has set me free.” form. “That experience with Otis like That authenticity shows in her live flipped me out. All I know is that I startperformances, two of which will be ed to chase that experience. Whatever Oct. 23-24 at the Boulder Outlook happened, I needed more of that thing.”

Hotel. Magness and her band stay true The process of becoming an interto the heartstring-tugging blues emapreter of blues wasn’t an overnight nating from the pipes of a rising siren transformation. Chasing that Rush of of the genre. Connections to the sounds an experience turned into a youngster’s are inevitable. obsession, and eventually led to the “What you hear on the radio or courage and desire to follow that dream when you buy the download is what professionally. She got a break when you’re gonna get from the live perforsomebody recognized her singing and mance. Anybody can make a record encouraged Magness to follow her these days, but that doesn’t mean that devotion. The reasoning is still someyou can pull it off live,” Magness says. thing that puzzles the singer.

“It’s a joy to work with this ensemble “How did that happen? I understand some of it, but I don’t understand and to be on the road with these guys.

It’s translating in the shows, and people all of it,” Magness says of her journey to becoming a musician, which at many are really digging it.”

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Kanchelli’s “Amao Omi.” Known as one “As I get older I’m less of the so-called “holy minimalists,” interested in hearing the Kanchelli is Georgia’s best known living same sounds over and over composer. His music is characterized by again,” he says. contrasts between long, subdued passages And as the director of Boulder’s Ars and more violent moments with brass Nova Singers, he’s in a position to do and percussion, often with an implied something about it. spiritual meaning. Although performed The program he chose for the group’s less in this country than in Europe, he upcoming concerts explores the unusual has composed a wide of variety of music, territory of music for saxophone and cho- including symphonies and other orchesrus (Oct. 19 in Boulder, with perfortral pieces, music for chorus and orchesmances throughout the weekend in tra, and chamber music.

Broomfield and Denver). The unique “I’m always interested things that can sound of saxes and voices might be provide the chorus with a unique sounds,” enough in itself to he says. “And this attract the musically piece is really wellON THE BILL: Ars Nova adventurous, but written that way — it Singers perform at St. John’s that’s not all. kind of goes back and Episcopal Church on Friday, Oct. The program, to forth between the 19. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 for adults, $17 for seniors, be performed by the saxophones accompa$12 for college students and $7 36-voice Ars Nova nying the chorus and for youth. 1419 Pine St., arsnovasSingers and the the chorus accompaingers.com.

Colorado Saxophone nying the saxoQuartet, is as advenphones.” turous as the rare combination of sounds.

The piece captured Morgan’s interest The featured work will be “Amao Omi” right away. “It’s pretty interesting because (Senseless war) by the Georgian (Eastern he uses little snippets of text that were Europe) composer Giya Kanchelli, who is chosen for their sound and not so much not widely known here. There will be a for their meaning, and essentially it’s world premiere of a work for choir by the almost a senseless text. There are themes Longmont-based composer Fred Jewell. that reappear in various guises, including There will be music from Philip Glass’s folk-song fragments. There’s this little score for the cult-classic art film alleluia theme that comes back. And there Koyaanisqatsi. And in the most unexpect- are wonderful speaking silences where ed development of all, there will be a there are questioning moments and then sacred motet by the Spanish Renaissance just absolute silence.” composer Cristobal Morales performed Morgan also enjoys the drama with an improvised jazz saxophone solo.

Kanchelli creates through music.

In a classic understatement, Morgan “There are a couple of places in the affirms that “there are sounds in this pro- piece that listeners should really be pregram that people will not expect.” pared to be surprised,” he says. “There are Boulder Weekly

a couple of just absolutely shocking moments, so while there are some really beautiful things that everyone will attach to, there are also some things that will really make people sit up.”

Closely matching the sound and style of Kanchelli’s score will be the music by Glass. Although he does not like the term, Glass is often identified as one of the original minimalist composers, known for music that unfolds slowly, with long repetitions of musical ideas that may be gradually varied over time in almost imperceptible ways.

One of the landmarks of the style was the music Glass wrote for Koyaanisqatsi, a plot-less art film that juxtaposes scenes of the natural world with ever-accelerating time-lapse images of factories, pollution and streaming traffic. Glass’s slowly-evolving music is a perfect match for the visual imagery, and its hypnotic effect has earned it a rapt audience apart from the film.

Morgan selected one portion of the score, “Vessels” for two saxophones, flute and chorus, both for its similar instrumentation and its stylistic compatibility with Kanchelli. And he notes, “This being [Glass’] 75th birthday this year, there’s been a good number of retrospectives of his work around the country.”

The music is challenging in many ways, but Morgan says both Ars Nova and the saxophone players have enjoyed putting the program together. “I had known a little bit about the Colorado Saxophone Quartet, and it really has been a pleasure to get together with them,” he says. “It’s been a rewarding experience for both for them and for us.”

And it is definitely not the same old sounds over again.

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d Sullivan isn’t around to introduce them, and you’re not gonna want to slug your partner every time you spot one. Yet for those who aren’t bugged by the sight of crawling creatures, a local exhibit showcasing an interesting and diverse culture will finally bring these deniMichael Callahan zens back into public consciousness. Ladies and gentlemen, the beetles!

A new traveling exhibit at the University Of Colorado Museum Of Natural History, Beetles opened recently in the BioLounge area.

On the lower level of the museum, the BioLounge is a combination of quiet workspace and changing exhibits. The area has seen foot traffic increase nearly tenfold in the past 18 months, museum officials say. With “Beetles,” population of the hall rises even further for the next year or so.

“We have really great collections here at CU, nearly 5 million objects between all the different departments,” says Andrea Robbins, public programs specialist at the CUMNH. “What we’re trying to do

at the end of the day is take these wonderful objects and get them in front of people to help educate them and give them a better appreciation.”

With 600-plus specimens adorning one wall of the exhibit, from tiny beetles the size of a pinhead to the gnarly jousting horns of the large Staghorn, Beetles gives insight into a world that goes mostly unnoticed, unless you have a fear of insects or spot a cockroach scurrying across the kitchen floor when you flip the light switch. It also showcases the research and artifacts gathered by the team at the museum with fact-filled panels and visual clues, and opens up these seldom-seen artifacts to a wider audience.

“Normally you have to call and make a reservation to see the collection. This is opening the collection up to everybody,” Robbins says.

The exhibit highlights similarities among the insects, and some of it relates to the roles humans have placed on these amazing creatures over the years. There is the story of how the ladybug (which is a beetle) got its name. And how Zuni and Cherokee Native Americans both note beetles in their history. One panel of particular local interest pertains to the continuing mountain pine beetle epidemic in Colorado that has decimated tree stands across the state.

A few of the questions answered by the exhibit include: Are beetles tasty? Would you have a beetle as a pet? What makes a beetle a beetle? The answers come in easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets displayed on colorful panels near the exhibits.

“The panels talk about the different roles beetles play, their ecosystems and so forth,” says Patrick

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“There are a couple of panels just about how people can take that knowledge and apply it to things like crime scenes and other things.”

Researchers have used information from the collections to chart things like climate change and for forensic analysis of human corpses.

In general, all beetles have chewing mouthparts, but some of them are plant feeders, some of them are carrion feeders or predators, and some are woodborers. Scarab beetles may have long protuberances to help fight for the right to mate with a female. Dung beetles tend to have longer front or hind legs to help roll their balls of processed waste.

Evolutionary camouflage presents itself in an array of different colors and patinas through the exhibit.

Ancient Egypt revered the dung beetle as a god for its perceived beauty and its mimicry of the sun god Ra, who Egyptians believed rolled the sun across the sky every day.

On the other hand, dour early Christians associated beetles with foulness and wickedness, and thought stag beetles carried embers in their mouths that could set a thatched roof afire.

“This is why we have collections,” says Dr. Deane Bowers, curator of entomology at CUMNH. “It’s not just cool-looking insects, it’s because of the information that goes with those collections.”

Beetles are the most common type of insect in the world, based on species number. Only 400,000 different types are catalogued out of an estimated 4 million to 8 million species.

“It’s hard to imagine this is just one group of organisms,” Bowers says. “You look at these guys, and it’s the same basic body plan, and yet the diversity of them is incredible.”

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s the world contains innumerably more shades of grey (way more than 50) than blacks and whites, there are virtually never just “two types of people.” Be that as it may, a foolish consistency is indeed the hobgoblin of little minds. So for the sake of this exercise there are two types of people: the type of person who tells his friend that his garlic, onion and Camembert breath is wilting the centerpiece at the office Christmas party, and the type who — for fear of embarrassment or loss of comity — lets Halitosis Harry walk right up to the CEO and regale him at close range with eyebrow-curling tales of his most recent vacation.

The second type of person is a coward, and we all know how many deaths a coward dies. Still, to be the first type of person is no cakewalk. Most people don’t like to hurt their friends’ feelings, even with good intentions. Yet, as in the potentially career-threatening example above, sometimes it is of necessity.

Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden has a remarkable track record of victorious productions. This award-winning theater company has been and remains one of my favorites on the Front Range.

With The Three Penny Opera, however, Miners Alley misses the mark. Their

ago. This timeless tune, which has been recorded by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Nick Cave and was at one time even the centerpiece for a semi-surreal ad campaign for Mel Horton, center, stars as McDonalds (see bit.ly/ Mrs. Peachum in Miners Alley MacTonight), opens the show Playhouse’s production of The Three Penny Opera. by painting a picture of a merciless murderer on par with Jack the Ripper. But while Mackie (aka Macheath) is shown to be a violent pimp and a criminal of the first order, he only unsheathes the legendary blade a handful of times and slashes nary a throat.

The King of the Beggars, Mr. brains rather than their hearts. Miners Peachum, sings and struts like he’s cock Alley’s version stumbles as it grasps at of the walk, but he’s shown on multiple overwrought emotion. Though its lips are speaking Brecht’s Bible that life’s a occasions to be more bark than bite. His bitch and then you die, its eyes implore daughter, Polly, secretly marries Mack. the viewer to feel for these cardboard One minute she’s a doe-eyed virgin characters. barely comprehending her husband’s The fact that Miners Alley’s take on criminal empire and blindly in love with the material falters and that this partic- him, the next minute she’s running his ular musical seems ill-suited to the gang like a teenage Ma Barker and company’s venue and style are not the more than content to let the love of her only reasons The Three Penny Opera left life hang high. me cold. The musical itself, as written Loud, long and labored, The Three by the master Brecht and scored by Penny Opera is a square peg in a round Kurt Weill, comes with its own built-in hole. But you know what they say: flaws.

“They can’t all be home runs.” I’m sure You might not know that the jazz Miners Alley’s next show, the holidaystandard “Mack the Knife” originated themed Greetings, will see them return as “The Ballad of Mack the Knife” in to their usually commendable form.

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by Gary Zeidner production is by no means the theatrical equivalent of apocalyptic bad breath, but it wouldn’t suffer from a mint or two.

Considered one of the more influential playwrights of the 20th century, Bertolt Brecht is a legend of the boards.

The effects of his work still reverberate loudly today. A German Marxist forced to flee the Fatherland during World War II, Brecht’s most widely recognized work is arguably The Three Penny Opera.

It is an epic musical demanding an epic presentation, and as such it is not the best fit for the cozy confines of Miners Alley’s theatre.

The Three Penny Opera was conceived as a social commentary as much or more as it was an entertainment.

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Thursday, October 18 music Anarchy Blues. 7 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

BIJA — With DJ Vonobo, DJ Nadi and DJ Snack Size. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Cherish The Ladies. 8 p.m. L2 Arts & Culture Center, 1477 Columbine, Denver, 303-7771003 x2.

Diverse Musicians Alliance. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall Room C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Dueling Pianos. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Elephant Revival. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-929-0077.

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

Greensky Bluegrass — With Joshua Davis.

8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399 Hip Hop Jams — Hosted by J-Kane. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

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

Kort McCumber. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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12-5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Cowboy Dave Band. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

Creepy Crawl — Ghost tours of Central City. Every quarter hour, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Century Casino, 102 Main St., Central City, 866-464-2626.

Whale Tales. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Dark Star Orchestra. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Delta Blues Force. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

He Said. She Said. They Listen — A Community Conversation Seeking Peace Between the Sexes. 7 p.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder, www.meetup.com/Playing-the-Field-at-0-10-Hertz.

The Artist. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Freedom Movement. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Backyard and Worm Composting. 5:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, backyardcompostlafayette.eventbrite.com.

Idlewhile Band. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Colorado Skies — Hunting the Higgs. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Jazz Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall Room C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Creative Celebration — By the Front Range Community College Art Club.

12-5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Jesse Winchester — Ashleigh Flynn. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Dancing with Boulder Stars. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Kort McCumber and the High Road. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

An Evening with Ed Viesturs — America’s Premier High-Altitude Mountaineer. The American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, www. bigcitymountaineers.org.

Kyle James Hauser — With Dechen Hawk & Ramaya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Gathering the Sparks Kabbalah Seminar. 7 p.m. Boulder JCC, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-661-9271.

Josephine Commons — Grand opening. 12:30 p.m. 455 Burlington Ave., Lafayette, 303-441-1405.

Fall 2012 Exhibitions Opening Reception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

A Living Legacy — A Conversation with the Founders of Nature’s Path Foods. 5:30 p.m. At the Epicenter, 1801 13th St., Boulder, http://naturespathattheepicenter.eventbrite.com.

Raising Happiness: Gratitude, Attitude and Resilience — A Lecture

by Parenting Author Christine Carter. 7 p.m. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, www.friendsschoolboulder.org.

Sand Creek in Historical Context. 7 p.m. Native American Rights Fund, 1560 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Friday, October 19 music

Last Men on Earth. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Kundalini Yoga Workshop — With Onkar. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Lindy Diversion — Live swing-era jazz and blues. 7 p.m. – 3 a.m. Turnverien Dance & Cultural Center, 1570 Clarkson St., Denver, www.lindydiversion.com.

Photography with a Ranger. 5:30 p.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Longmont, 303-499-5083.

Saturday, October 20 music The Afronauts — With Ben Rogers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Bill & John McKay. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

Other Lives — With Indians. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Boulder Blues Trio — With Chris Engleman, Jay Forrest and John March.

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

Sammy Dee. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

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

Dark Star Orchestra. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-2587733.

events Bedtime Stories: A Legendary Haunted House. 7 p.m. Boulder High Theater, 1604 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 720-561-5313.

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

Brandon Shaffer with Leadership St. Vrain. 9:15 a.m. SVVSD Board Room, 395 S. Pratt, Longmont, www.shafferforcolorado.com.

Brian Parton. 8 p.m. No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4473278.

Civil Liberties Debate — With Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Fein and Jacob Hornberger. CU-Boulder Eaton Humanities Building Room 1B50, 1298 Pleasant St., Boulder, www.yaliberty.org/tour.

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Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer — Lecture by South African priest Michael Lapsley. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Megan Burt. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Amy Porter — Guest master class on flute. 4 p.m. Imig Music Building Room C199, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Corn Yeti — With Jake Sheeps, Eric Thorin, Grant Gordy, and Jordan Ramsey. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-

History & Mystery Tour — Stories of local legends. 6:30 p.m. Location with reservation, Longmont, 303-775-7137.

Creative Celebration — By the Front Range Community College Art Club.

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

Girls on Top. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Groundation — With Trevor Hall. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

JoJo Reed and His Zydeco Band — The Colorado Friends of Cajun and Zydeco Halloween show. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. see PANORAMA Page 36

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20th Anniversary Art Exhibit — With work by Russ Wiltse, Polly Addison and Dawn Siebel. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Oct. 19.

Alphabotanical — Pen and ink drawings by Michael Shernick. Mercury Framing, 4692 North Broadway, Boulder, www.AlphaBotanicalArt.com.

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Call for entries: Land Through the Lens — Photography of Boulder County parks and open space. Application deadline is Friday, Nov. 9. www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/photoshow.

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

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Denver Plein Air Arts Festival. The ByersEvans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933. Through Oct. 31.

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 30.

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Hockney and Hogarth — Selections from CU’s collection of British art. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 27.

J.B Sullivan and Leigh Campbell. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 30.

Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday — Selections from CU’s painting collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through Dec. 22.

Primal Seen — Selections from CU’s photography collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22.

Scapes. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 25.

Women of Influence: Colorado Artists and Curators; Intimate Dialogue: Seven Women, Seven Voices; La Mexicana; Female Icons in Mexican Culture. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 16.

PANORAMA from Page 35 Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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

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She Groovez. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Takács Quarter Master Class. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall Room C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928008.

Tim Crawford Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

events Archaeology Day. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Backyard and Worm Composting. 10 a.m. Boulder County Parks & Open Space, 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, backyardcompostlafayette.eventbrite.com.

Bedtime Stories: A Legendary Haunted House.

7 p.m. Boulder High Theater, 1604 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 720-561-5313.

Creative Celebration — By the Front Range Community College Art Club. 12-5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Creepy Crawl — Ghost tours of Central City. Every quarter hour, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Century Casino, 102 Main St., Central City, 866-464-2626.

Gettin’ Dirty in the Fall — Soil Preparation Class. 3 p.m. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266.

Greenscreen Video Techniques. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Hildegard’s Journey Through the Senses — Presentation on art by Jeannine Goode-Allen. 2 p.m. Creator Mundi Gallery, 2910 E. Third Ave., Denver, 888-6128189.

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History & Mystery Tour — Stories of local legends. 6:30 p.m. Location with reservation, Loveland, 303-775-7137.

It’s a Girl Thing — Mother-Daughter Book Club. 4 p.m.

Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Juliette Low Birthday Celebration — For the founder of the Girl Scouts, also commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the Girl Scouts. 12-4 p.m.

Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Kirtan with Kate Spear. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Late Night Ghost Tour — Stories of local legends.

9:15 p.m. Location with reservation, Longmont, 303775-7137.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado, 3 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Lindy Diversion — Live swing-era jazz and blues. 11 a.m. – 3 a.m. Turnverien Dance & Cultural Center, 1570 Clarkson St., Denver, www.lindydiversion.com.

Make a Difference Day — Volunteer for Boulder County Open Space. 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6216.

Making Waves 2012 — Presented by the Colorado Ocean Coalition. 1-10 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Piccadilly Circus. 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Boulder, www. thefuncircus.com..

ReWards Dinner & Auction — Hosted by the Center for ReSource Conservation. 5:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, conservationcenter.org/rewards.

Talking Past Talking Present — Improvisational Theater Performance. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303440-3682.

Valmont City Park Improvements Celebration. 10 a.m. Valmont and Airport roads, Boulder, 303-4137233.

World Home Movie Day — Bring home movies on 8 mm or 16 mm to be repaired, cleaned and screened.

2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Rachel Turner as Sally, Barret Harper as Charlie Brown, Alisa Schmidt as Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown 44 Plays for 44 Presidents — Presented by Square Product Theater. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Nov. 3.

Avenue Q. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 3.

An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe — Presented by Byers-Evans House Theatre Company. Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933. Oct. 12 through Nov. 10.

Fiddler on the Roof. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Oct. 28.

Hide and Seek. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 25.

Is He Dead? — Presented by Creede Repertory Theatre. Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Oct. 28.

Memphis. The Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Oct. 21.

Sweet Tooth. Buntport Theatre Company, 717 Lipan St., Boulder, 720-946-1388. Oct. 19 through Nov.17.

The Thugs — Presented by Band of Toughs.

The We’re House Performing Arts Center, 5673 Arapahoe Ave. Unit P, Boulder, 303-641-3872.

Oct. 19 through Nov. 3.

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown — Presented by Performance Now Theatre Company.

Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845. Through Oct. 21.

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music

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

David Bess. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, 303-543-0886.

American Music Goes to War — The role of big band music in World War II, and what happened to bandleader Glenn Miller. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Funktion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303546-0886.

Jeremiah and the Red Eyes — With The Cousins Project. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Open Stage. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Web Design Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

The Steel Wheels from Indiana. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Tuesday, October 23 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Angel Messages Circle. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Jaded Future — With Rosewood Harbor. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado, 3 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Janiva Magness. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Lindy Diversion — Live swing-era jazz and blues. 12 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. Auraria Campus, Speer Boulevard & Lawrence Street, Denver, www.lindydiversion.com.

Making Waves 2012 — Presented by the Colorado Ocean Coalition. 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wolf Law Building, CU-Boulder campus, Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Sacred Chant Workshop. 10 a.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720252-3962.

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

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Backyard and Worm Composting Workshop. 5:30 p.m. Boulder County Recycling Center, 1901 63rd St., Boulder, boulderrecyclingcenterworkshop2.eventbrite. com.

Neil Bridge 7+ — Featuring Karen Lee and Bob Harris on vocals. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Let’s Make Soup. 1 p.m. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266.

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Mike Coats. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Tribute to Guy Clark & Townes Van Zandt — With Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams, K.C. Groves and more.

7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-4436461.

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Sleigh Bells — With Araabmusik. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Is Google making us stupid? — Nicholas Carr, Boulder-based author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619.

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

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Singer/Songwriter Night — With Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events The 20 Best Tips for Nature & Landscape Photographers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Arapahoe Studio, 1600 Range St. Ste. 100, Boulder, www.boulderdigitalarts.com.

Open Stage. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see PANORAMA Page 38

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panorama Zhi Gang Sha will read from Divine Healing Hands at the Boulder Book Store

Thursday, October 18 Cairns: Messages in Stone —

By David B. Williams. 7:30 p.m.

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

Friday, October 19 Poetry Reading — By Brittney Corrigan. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book Store, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

On the Road Film Party — Presented by “So You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, October 23 I See Your Soulmate — By Sue Frederick. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Saturday, October 20

Wednesday, October 24

Teen Reads Week Author Extravaganza — With teen authors Emily Hainsworth, Donna Cooner, Tiffany Schmidt, Brenna Yovanoff. 6 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Kissed by a Fox — By Priscilla Stuckey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, October 22 Divine Healing Hands — By Dr. Zhi Gang Sha. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Annual Jack Kerouac Memorial Reading and

Sue Van Rae’s Book Release Party. 7 p.m.

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

Unbroken, a Critique of the Notion of Hero — With local author Clay Evans. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Saturday, October 20

music

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

It’s a Girl Thing: Mother-Daughter Book Club — Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Kids in Space. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Halden Wofford & The Hi'Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Janiva Magness. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Marlo and Farm Jazz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Rake’s Progress — Free preview. 12 p.m.

Music Theatre Room N1B95, Imig Building, 1020 18th St., CU campus, Boulder, www.music.colorado.edu/ events.

events Souper Bowlder — Fundraiser for the Boulder County AIDS Project. 7 p.m. 303 Vodka Distillery, 2500 47th St. Unit 10, Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Warren Miller Wednesdays — Ski People. 8 p.m.

West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., 303-444-3535.

Where the Trail Ends — Mountain biking film presented by Red Bull Media House. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, October 18 Musical Storytime with Alica and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, October 19 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

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Sunday, October 21 Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, October 22 Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, October 23 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 a.m Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303441-4390.

Tactile Tuesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, October 24 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road., Boulder, 303-441-4390.

French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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t’s easy to thrill people when they don’t know what’s coming.

OK, maybe not easy — paging Mr. Shyamalan — but certainly less difficult than whipping up tension in a film based on a decadesold actual incident, the resolution of which is but a Google search away.

Between that and having to painstakingly recreate 1970s mustaches, actor/ director Ben Affleck’s Argo faced several hairy problems. But for the third consecutive time, Affleck directs a home run, a feat his beloved and underperforming Red Sox are no longer familiar with.

Complete with a retro Warner Bros. logo, Argo is every bit a 1970s endeavor, not just in its setting but in its channeling of Sidney Lumetesque filmmaking. In a clever, thorough but non-preachy opening sequence, the motivation of the 1979 siege of the U.S. embassy in Iran is distilled into easily parsed context.

Basically, Iranian revolutionaries used the American hostages to barter for the return of their corrupt former leader, who was in exile stateside. Except six of the embassy workers got out and hid at the house of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber).

One does not simply walk into Iran, so intelligence agent Tony Mendez (Affleck) concocted what remains the single most “oh, no they didn’t” insane spy operation in history to retrieve them. With the aid of Hollywood producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and

O’Donnell (Bryan Cranston) and Hamilton Jordan (Kyle Chandler) are whittled down to their most breathless pace.

Argo is a masterclass in how you can use editing to shape reality into drama. Jam-packed with the same tense feelings you get from con-man movies or heist films when you think the plot is about to be foiled, the thrills are simultaneously diminutive and epic. Instead of car chases, hearts race as a phone goes unanswered.

Instead of a shootout, the film climaxes with a discussion about fake science-fiction storyboards in Farsi.

Still, there really isn’t a legitimate standout performance here. Even Arkin, who is receiving Oscar buzz, is just muted comic relief. And there’s no grand message to be gleaned. This isn’t an affirmation of the power of film or an indictment on political practices. It’s just a crackerjack thriller based on true events, which, to be fair, is damn hard to do.

After Gone Baby Gone, I predicted that Affleck’s career as a director would obliterate his acting work and that he would one day eclipse the much-heralded chair-talker Clint Eastwood in the pantheon of actorsturned-director. What I couldn’t have predicted is that he’d do it in just three films.

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Object of my Affleck-tion ‘Argo’ proves Ben is the real deal

by Ryan Syrek special effects guy John Chambers ( John Goodman), Mendez created a fake movie studio making a fake movie supposedly looking to shoot in Iran and convinced the real Iranian cultural department that the six real Americans were fake Canadian filmmakers. Let it sink in that this really happened.

Honestly, what Argo doesn’t do is almost as brilliant as what it does. Screenwriter Chris Terrio resists the urge to over-develop the characters of the six escapees and refuses to turn Mendez into either a tortured genius or superhero. Everything is tighter than a bad girl’s dress on prom night. Even the bureaucratic bickering from high-ranking officials like Jack

Comedians sleep standing up ‘Sleepwalk with Me’ gets real, funny

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note for the admittedly small subset of folks who swoon at the storytelling magic of This American Life and tingle at the mere mention of Ira Glass’s name: Sleepwalk with Me is charming public radio entertainment channeled into cinemas. Watch out Hollywood blockbusters, if there’s one thing mainstream movie audiences have demanded, it’s more material adapted from NPR. Writer/director/star Mike Birbiglia is a stand-up comedian gifted with telling the kind of low-key, softly spoken tales that populate NPR. What’s astonishing is that it actually works as a feature film equally well. Birbiglia fictionalizes his own life story, changing his name to Matt Pandamiglio, an aspiring comic at the point in his young career where he moves from “guy working at a bar in comedy clubs” to “guy bombing while he tells jokes at crappy venues.” He’s also sleepwalking, likely due to stress about his sputtering relationship with Abby (Lauren Ambrose), a beautiful and delightful creature he has dated for eight years without any promise of marriage on the horizon.

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and personal life. With the help of a terrible agent, Matt is able to hit the road with new, selfdeprecating material while his union with Abby spews its death knell and his sleepwalking increases in its potential to harm him.

There haven’t been many great movies about stand-up comedy, likely because of the “hot dog” effect. Nobody wants to watch how a hot dog is made because it destroys the possibility of ever willingly eating a hot dog again. Although not as extreme, watching troubled folks battle through real emotions to arrive at things we laugh at kind of ruins the part where we laugh at them. What Sleepwalk with Me gets so very right is that it keeps us out of the sausage factory but still allows compelling insight.

Birbiglia lets himself come off as a jerk at times, which is refreshing. Seeing as how Ambrose’s performance makes it impossible for any heterosexual male to understand why he’d struggle committing to her, Birbiglia basically cops to the fact that it’s personal, indefinable screwing up that does their relationship in.

As sad as it is to watch a romance-centered movie with a couple whose destiny doesn’t seem uplifting, the film rubs a salve made of jokes on the wound.

If there is a problem, it’s the major conceit of the film. The sleepwalking doesn’t seem to be the compelling central staple everyone thinks it is. It comes and goes, is simply a distracting and obvious metaphor for his life and concludes in unsatisfying fashion. This isn’t to say the movie concludes that way, as the sum total of Birbiglia’s honesty, Ambrose’s charm, clever writing and copious comedian cameos is an entertaining indie that feels like a near documentary.

If you think NPR is something Charlton Heston used to run, Sleepwalk with Me may not offer the pace and plot to satisfy you. But if you like light, quirky tales of human interaction, it’s hard to dream up much better.

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reel to reel 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

A series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths are apparently affecting evolution. Two astronauts and their computer-controlled spaceship, Hal 9000, set out on a mission to locate a monolith on Jupiter after tracing a signal.

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HERE COMES THE BOOM A high school biology teacher turns to mixed martial arts to save his failing school’s soon to be closed music program.

Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

ADVENTURES IN PLYMPTOONS Filmmaker Alexia Anastasio returns to Boulder, bringing back this look inside the strange and wonderful mind of Oscarnominated animator Bill Plympton.

Anastasio will attend the Oct. 20 screenings for a Q&A. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater

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ALEX CROSS A young homicide detective/psychologist, Alex Cross, finds out that a member of his family has been murdered by a serial killer.

Cross meets the killer, and his revenge pushes him to the edge of his moral and psychological limits. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS WITH MARIA HINOJOSA In this “Need to Know” Election 2012 special, Maria Hinojosa visits one of the country’s most surprisingly diverse communities, a home to residents from more than 40 countries who speak more than 60 languages and dialects. At Denver Film Center/ Colfax. –– Denver Film Society ARGO See full review page 41. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 2

In the continuation of the film adaptation of the Ayn Rand book, the global economy is on the brink of collapse and brilliant creators are disappearing mysteriously. A woman discovers a motor that appears to be capable of powering the world, but it’s dead, resulting in a race against the clock.

Rated PG-13. At Century.

BALLET: L’ALTRA META DEL CIELO

Martha Clarke takes on an unusual challenge and stages a dance piece based on the music of aging Italian rock star Vasco Rossi, a man known for his drug use, racism and misogyny. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

Reinaldo Arenas grew up as a poor, illegitimate child. He joined Castro’s Cuban revolution and became an intellectual. After discovering his gay sexuality, his work and life become dominated by a mix of temptation, fear, betrayal and man-hunting in both senses. He finally makes it to Manhattan, only to get caught in another trap. Rated R. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater

BIG EASY EXPRESS

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Dracula invites some of the world’s most famous monsters to celebrate his daughter’s 118th birthday at Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where humans will not be able to bother them. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square.

Ethan Hawke has been missing from the Hollywood scene doing character research for this part as a novelist. No, really.

California. What results is a magical musical experience filled with joyous fans and endless music. IFS at Muenzinger.

BUTTER A tale of competition at its most cutthroat, Butter surveys the raw ambition of Laura Pickler (Jennifer Garner), the wife of Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell), Iowa’s long-reigning champion butter carver. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society CHINATOWN Murder, incest and corrupt water-rights management are among the crimes in this neo-noir classic with Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston. Rated R. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater CURTAINS A group of actresses up for a highly coveted movie role go to the director of the film’s mansion (which is in the middle of nowhere) to audition for the part. It isn’t all fun and games, though. As the tensions rise, so does the body count. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society DECODING DEEPAK Filmmaker and journalist Gotham Chopra spends a year following his father and spiritual icon Deepak Chopra, separating the man from the myth with a raw honesty only a son can have. What starts as decoding of Deepak becomes an examination of himself, and possibly an allegory of a world trying to make sense of itself. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society DETROPIA Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century — the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB Dr. Strangelove’s satire revolves around politicians and generals who are frantically trying to stop an insane general who starts a process leading to nuclear holocaust. IFS at Muenzinger.

END OF WATCH Two young police officers patrol the dangerous streets of south central Los Angeles and capture the action through handheld HD cameras. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

THE FILMS OF PHIL SOLOMON As a professor of film studies at CU-Boulder, Phil Solomon has exhibited in every major venue for experimental cinema in the United States and Europe. Join Solomon as he shares the Colorado premiere of the 2012 revision of his epic American Falls and other films. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society FRANKENWEENIE 3D Tim Burton applies his brilliant and grim creative palette to the story of a young boy who brings his dog back to life. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN This erotic thriller follows journalist Maria and wealthy philanthropist Sayer through a kidnapping in which predator and prey swap places. IFS at VAC Basement.

GIRL MODEL Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a 13-year-old plucked from her rustic

HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET A divorced woman and her daughter move into a house in a small, upscale, rural town.

Soon, they learn of the town’s chilling secret. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

KUBRICK’S ODYSSEY Kubrick’s Odyssey presents compelling evidence of how Stanley Kubrick directed the Apollo moon landings and how he secretly worked on the Apollo footage for NASA. IFS at Muenzinger.

LAST CALL AT THE OASIS The global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Last Call at the Oasis is a powerful new documentary that shatters myths behind our most precious resource. Rated PG-13. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater LED ZEPPELIN “CELEBRATION DAY” A documentary of Led Zeppelin’s Dec.10, 2007, concert in London O2’s Arena, headlining a tribute for friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmert Ertegun. Rated R. At Century.

LIBERAL ARTS Uninspired and 35, Jesse Fisher meets a beautiful young girl when he is given the chance to speak at his favorite college professor’s retirement dinner. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society LOOPER This time-travel tale features Joseph GordonLevitt as a young Bruce Willis. In the future, the mob sends victims back in time to be killed by special assassins, called loopers. But when “old Joe” (Willis) is sent back to be killed by “young Joe” (Gordon-Levitt), all hell breaks loose. Chock full of drugs you put in your eyes and telekinetic kids, this mostly clever sci-fi tale is another solid base hit for writer/director Rian Johnson, who could really use a home run. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Rated R. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest challenging character sketch is set against a backdrop of pseudo-Scientology, as Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled soldier fresh out of WWII, and Boulder Weekly

reel to reel Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a quasi-L. Ron Hubbard. Depressing, challenging and muted, it’s guaranteed to spark discussion and mainstream teeth-gnashing. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

and then be resurrected as an inspirational hero in a totally different country? Rated PG-13. At Century. –– Landmark Theatres

THE NEVERENDING STORY A boy is drawn into the fairytale land from a book he is reading. Rated PG. At Esquire.

A writer and his friends are willing to go to all means necessary to help finish a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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The Oranges is a comedy about two families who have been lifelong friends, and the hilarity that ensues when a rebellious daughter returns home for the holidays and causes a scandal. Rated R. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres

When a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, the father is possessed by an evil spirit that turns him dangerous and violent. IFS at Muenzinger.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4

A true crime novelist moves his wife and kids into the home of a murdered family, hoping to find clues on the whereabouts of the family’s missing daughter. Instead, he finds a box of home movies in the attic that calls a supernatural horror back into the house. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

In the fourth installment of this popular horror franchise, a suburban family witness strange events in their home and neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

SLEEPWALK WITH ME

Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte, handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James and his partner, Yardley Acheman, return to Ward’s hometown in Florida to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte’s lover, alligator hunter Hillar Van Wetter. Rated R. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres

See full review page 41. At Mayan and Boedecker Theater.

TAKEN 2 In this sequel, Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills. He and his wife are being captured in Istanbul by the father of one of the kidnappers he’d killed back in Europe while saving his daughter. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Based on a childhood fascination with his grandfather’s player piano, Pet Metheny commissioned and built The Orchestrion, a mechanically controlled mini-orchestra capable of responding to his touch on the guitar. At Boedecker –– Boedecker Theater

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A funny and touching coming-of-age story, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Rated PG-13.

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When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society

PITCH PERFECT Itty-bitty pretty Anna Kendrick stars as a college freshman sucked into the world of competitive college singing. With the aid of a group of misfits, an all-female group hopes to make it to the final bout and gain redemption and respect. And along the way ladies make snow angels in pools of vomit and talk a lot about sex. So it’s Glee and anti-Glee all at the same time. Rated PG-13.

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WE MUST REMEMBER Sixteen high school broadcasting students spend two years producing a remarkable film on the Holocaust. The documentary is a “film about a film” that documents the experiences of students as they interview survivors of the Holocaust and travel to film in former Nazi concentration camps.

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fter three days, nearly 50,000 attendees and more than 2,700 American beers, the 2012 Great American Beer Festival seems to have been a roaring success again. The 30 years since the inception of the GABF has seen craft-brewing grow into an $8.7 billion industry, with nearly 600 different United States breweries on tap to slake the thirst of local suds enthusiasts.

In between all the fun and excitement of tasting beer at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver was the Great American Beer Festival competition, a judging of the best beers in 84 separate categories and 134 distinct beer styles.

More than 4,000 beers were entered into the contest, which was overseen by 188 judges from 11 different countries.

As expected, the Napa Valley of beer represented well.

Colorado breweries garnered 35 medals in this year’s competition. Here is a look at local businesses that have outshone their peers at the GABF.

Boulder County winners

With seven medalists in this year’s competition, Boulder County continues to show why the GABF first originated here. Twisted Pine Brewing Company led with way, with two honors for its efforts. The brewery’s Big Shot Espresso Stout won bronze in the Coffee Beer category, while its West Bound Braggot bested 32 other entries to receive gold in the Specialty Honey Beer category.

Upslope Brewing Company showed why it has been growing exponentially over the past few years, winning the silver medal in the category of American-Style Brown Ale with its Upslope Brown Ale. Avery Brewing Company emerged from a pack of 50 entries to win a silver medal with White Rascal in the category of Belgian-Style Witbier. Showcasing the health-conscious lifestyle prevalent in Boulder, New Planet Beer Company won silver in the Gluten-Free Beer category with its Brown creation.

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery in Boulder entered its Got Beer selection, which won a gold medal for the franchise in the Indigenous Beer category. Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company got its hands on a bronze medal in the

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Ordinary or Special Bitter category with Sawtooth Ale.

Other Colorado medals

Outside our neck of the woods, yet firmly ensconced within the four corners of our state, Colorado brewers picked up more hardware.

Strange Brewing Company of Denver won bronze for Barley Wine-Style Ale with its Dr. StrangeLove entry.

Funkwerks in Fort Collins was a multiple winner, garnering gold for Deceit, its entry into the Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale category. Funkwerks also took home gold for its French- and Belgian-Style Saison beer, beating out Aspen Brewing Company for the honors in that category.

Bull & Bush Brewery in Denver won silver with The Tower E.S.B. in the Extra Special Bitter category, while Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project staved off most of the competition in the Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer category with its silver medal-winning Sentience. The silver for Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout beer went to the Barrel

DOOR TO DOOR LANDS AWARD

Lafayette-based business Door to Door Organics has been named Company of the Year by Naturally Boulder, a nonprofit organization working to enhance Boulder’s natural product industry.

In line with the popular farm-to-table movement, Door to Door Organics partners with farmers to bring fresh produce and natural groceries like locally sourced eggs, gourmet cheeses and humanely raised meats straight to homes, offices and schools.

Naturally Boulder Board President Doug Radi pointed to a commitment to health, the environment and conscientious business practices as the key qualifications that made Door to Door Organics its choice.

The award comes on the heels of Door to Door’s August announcement that it would receive a $2 million investment from Boulder’s Greenmont Capital, and its designation as a B Corporation. The designation places Door to Door among a group of companies that meet standards of social and environmental performance. see TIDBITES Page 46

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Trappings here are basic and functional, and true to this establishment’s name, it’s as much grocery store as it is eatery.

Service is order at the counter, and diners seat themselves at tables scattered about the front of the store. While you wait for your meal, you can browse the grocery offerings, which include halal chicken and lamb, pomegranate molasses, yogurt-based sodas and lokum candy.

The menu is straightforward, focusing on pita-based sandwiches, notably gyros, as well as tried-andtrue spreads of hummus and baba ganoush. Dolmas, salads and fries are also on tap, and Mediterranean there’s an available assortMarket ment of sweets covered in 2690 28th St., plastic wrap. Another point Boulder in the Mediterranean 303-448-9552 Market’s favor is the extremely reasonable prices, making it easy to enjoy a meal for well under a ten spot.

Friend Keith’s $7 Number Two combo served as exhibit A with respect to this restaurant’s value. It consisted of a sandwich, in this case a classic gyro, a side and a fountain drink. The gyros came atop slightly puffy flatbread garnished with plenty of lettuce. Unlike other gyros, the meat was cut thick, which made for a more satisfying steak-like experience than thinner versions that bear an unfortunate resemblance to jerky.

While all gyros meat tends toward salty, and this was no exception, the sandwich also had a pleasant, earthy

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okum, also known as Turkish delight, is a slightly chewy candy with a gel-like base.

Some, like myself, first became aware of this confection after reading C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Others may have been introduced to this sweet via Aplets and Cotlets,

which is essentially domestically produced lokum. Flavorings can vary from citrus fruits to rosewater, and some versions may incorporate dates and nuts such as pistachio. It’s likely that lokum is an ancestor to other gummy fruit-flavored candies such as gumdrops as well as to the interior of a jelly bean.

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`lamb savor. For a side, Keith went with hefty falafel balls that featured balanced but more assertive spicing than a chain restaurant equivalent.

These were also endearingly crunchy on the outside, with an almost nutty flavor on the inside.

I pursued the Number Four combo, also priced at $7, consisting of a sandwich and three sides — in this case salad, hummus and dolma. Baba ganoush anchored the flatbread sandwich, bringing with it a wonderfully silky mouthfeel. This roasted eggplant puree filling, however, would have benefited from a lighter hand with the lemon juice, as the citrus notes distracted.

The sides, though, were beyond reproach. The hummus had a velvety texture similar to the eggplant, and the earthy tones of the chickpeas shined through. The Greek-style green salad satisfied, with adornments like whole, not-too-briny olives and creamy feta. Sometimes, dolmas, stuffed grape leaves, have a sour taste and an almost leathery wrap. Here,

they did not, and instead had a delicate leafy cover and tender, cool rice on the inside.

We ended on a high note, a prewrapped serving of $2.99 baklava. It was far better than its packaged appearance would indicate — flaky and honeyed without being overwhelming. Often these pastries come with an overabundance of honey, and in these instances you half expect you’ll get rolled by a swarm of angry bees seeking revenge when you’re through. This was definitely not the case here. Even better, the measured sweetness made space for a subtle and surprising scent of rosewater flavoring.

There’s no unnecessary flourishes at the Mediterranean Market. It’s an understated place, with prices that beat fast food joints. More important, it presents a winning alternative to higher-priced restaurants living on the culinary cutting edge. Those experiences can be fine, but sometimes less complicated is best.

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WEST END CELEBRATES 25TH BIRTHDAY

On Oct. 27, West End Tavern is inviting customers to party like it’s 1987, the year that the Boulder institution first opened its doors.

As part of the birthday celebration, visitors can take part in the debut of two specialty beers, West End’s Beaver BRU and Odell’s West End Porter. In addition to the new beers, West End Tavern will debut Old Weller Antique 107, its newest single barrel bourbon.

West End Tavern will provide complimentary birthday cake and party favors to everyone in attendance, and promises a “fabulous prize” to the winner of the ’80s costume contest. Live music will be performed by the Matt Flaherty Trio.

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Echo Brewing Company of Frederick won bronze for Balefire Red, its entry in the Irish-Style Red Ale class.

Other medalists from Colorado include Milk Stout from Rock Bottom Westminster in the Sweet Stout category, and in the German-Style Altbier category, Loveland-based Grimm Brothers Brewhouse took bronze for its Little Red Cap. NBB Love Felix, a GermanStyle Sour Ale from New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, also won bronze. Rock Bottom Westminster added to its haul with a bronze in the English-Style Brown Ale category with its Molly’s Titanic Brown Ale. Milton Waddams of Office Space would be proud of Trinity Brewing Company in Colorado Springs, as its TPS Report won a bronze medal for American-Style Brett Ale. Dry Dock Brewing Company of Aurora and The SandLot of Denver took home multiple awards. Dry Dock

won a bronze in the English-Style Mild Ale category for its S.S. Minnow Mild Ale, and gold in the Fruit Beer category for Dry Dock Apricot Ale. The SandLot took two gold medals, one for Move Back in the Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest category, and one for its Wildpitch Hefeweizen in the category of German-Style Wheat Ale. Other Colorado gold medal recipients at the 2012 GABF included Knight Ryder Munich Dunkel from Equinox Brewing Company in Fort Collins for European-Style Dunkel.

Fort Collins-based CB & Potts Restaurant and Brewery won gold with its 6X Helles, a Munich-Style Helles.

Bambastic, from Fort Collins Brewery, won the Smoke Beer category.

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oulder’s Black Pepper Pho is a sprucedup version of the typical Southeast Asian beef noodle soup joint. Boasting a mostly gluten-free menu, this venue dishes out first-class spring rolls and a winning spicy green papaya salad. Pho is available with a half-dozen beef-based variants, as well as chicken, seafood and meatless interpretations.

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Krishna Kafe

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rishna Kare is one of those cool ethnic finds that foodies live for, spotlighting chaat, or savory Indian street fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include ginger-scented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soy-seasoned meatless dumpling.

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ygiene’s Crane Hollow Cafe is an endearingly rustic breakfast and lunch spot that may more closely resemble a friend’s countr y cottage than anything else. Offerings here are simple and satisfying, and the menu features such old standbys as corned beef hash and a standout biscuits and gravy. There’s also a full complement of espresso beverages and homemade pies, including a top-notch mixed berr y number.

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ot’s Diner on the Hill’s offerings include a full complement of egg dishes, ranging from single egg, bacon and toast kids specials for $4 to $8 jumbo-sized helpings of huevos rancheros.The usual suspects of grilled cheese and BLTs with avocado share space on the lunch bill of fare alongside meatless specialties like Gardenburgers and a tempeh Reuben.The abovementioned huevos are adorned with particularly flavorful red and green chiles, and the Monte Cristo sandwich serves up sweet and savory satisfaction.

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rattoria on Pearl continues to please lunch patrons with its high-value, $10 power lunch. Consisting of a choice of beverage (including house wine), organic green salad or minestrone, and an entree of pasta or hot sandwich, this meal can be enjoyed in less than an hour if you’re pressed for time. Top selections include the tasty eggplant parmigiana or the unapologetically decadent spaghetti carbonara with egg and pancetta.

earl Street’s Cured, a small and welcoming shop, is the perfect spot to indulge cravings for fine wine, cheese and charcuterie. This open brick-and-wood space also includes the sublime Boxcar Coffee’s retail outlet. Cured is a go-to destination for topnotch gourmet sandwiches artfully combining the best crusty baguettes in town with artisan charcuterie, like prosciutto and salami, and small-batch cheeses. For a special occasion or picnic, signature platters of charcuterie and cheese are just the ticket.

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ramble and Hare, Boulder’s new self-styled farmhouse kitchen and pub, distinguishes itself by offering locavore small plates as well as a relatively affordable prix fixe menu. A spinoff of its next-door neighbor, the Black Cat Bistro, this restaurant also spotlights ingredients from Chef Eric Skokan’s farm. Menu highlights include the full-flavored and tender-smoked Mulefoot pork, as well as the duck liver “doughnut” set off by a remarkable orange marmalade.

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

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nown for lunch, dinner and happy hour, Boulder’s Brasserie Ten Ten has added weekend brunch to its list of accomplishments. The expansive morning menu includes Belgian waffles, hot sandwiches such as French dips and Reubens, entree salads and a plethora of omelets and egg dishes. The Bordeaux Scramble winningly combines eggs, arugula and a herbed biscuit, and the beignets are memorable, closely resembling cream puffs.

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When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro laid waste to Peru in 1532, his soldiers found green stones on the land. Were they emeralds? A priest who was traveling with them gave them bad advice. He said that the way to determine whether they were merely colored glass or else precious gems was to test their hardness by pounding them with hammers.

In this manner, many actual emeralds were shattered into fragments. Learn from this mistake, Aries. Make sure you recognize treasures for what they are. And don’t force them to submit to unwise tests that misconstrue their true nature.

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Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting. I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you’re ready to shed the disguises that have been making it problematical for you to reinvent yourself. Who is the New You? Stripping down to the bare essentials in your dreams will help you see raw truths about your waking life.

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I felt like I was being cured of problems I didn’t even know I had. Many hours went by until finally I was able to pull myself out of the vortex. How did this happen? — Freaked Out.” Dear Freaked: I was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, and it so happens that the people of my tribe are currently emanating an intriguing and inscrutable aura. We’re at the peak of our ability to attract and seduce. Many of us are using our power benevolently, but our mysterious mojo could still be a bit unsettling.

Everyone has some kind of power. What’s yours? In the coming days, I suspect there will be some crisis and opportunity regarding how you use it. Maybe you will be invited to assume more authority or exercise greater influence.

Maybe your ability to wield your particular clout will be questioned or doubted, and you will be challenged to either stand up and express it with more integrity and purpose, or else relinquish it. For best results, take a moment right now to visualize the precise power you would love to command.

The past is headed your way bearing gifts, Leo. I recommend that you make yourself available for its blessings, which may be delivered to you in unexpected ways. For example: The spirit of a dead loved one could impart an enigmatic but useful tip in the middle of the night. An abandoned dream you assumed was gone forever might return from limbo to grant you a wish. A favor you did for someone long ago could finally be repaid. Are you ready to let history reward you in its own unique style?

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Not that you would ever be as cold-blooded and predatory as they are, of course. But it might be energizing to your ambitions if you add just a bit of shark-like thinking to your repertoire.

As you cross the great water in search of the unknown treasure, navigate by the light of the clouds. That’s your dreamy oracle, Sagittarius. What does it mean? Well, the work you do to figure it out is essential to activating its potential, so I don’t want to give away too much. But here are three further hints to inspire you on your quest. 1. Be willing to go a long way to find a secret you don’t even know you’re looking for. 2. Consider the possibility of cultivating faith in a goal that you don’t quite yet grasp in its entirety. 3. Rely on shadows and reflections to give you accurate information you can’t get directly from the thing that’s casting shadows and being reflected.

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“Dear Rob: I really enjoy reading your horoscopes. You feel like a friend I’ve never met. When I try to picture what you’re like, I keep getting a vision of you as being fat, short, and bald with a strawberry blond moustache. Am I right?

- Curious Aquarius.” Dear Curious: It’s great that you’ve decided to do a reality check. This is an excellent time for all you Aquarians to see if what you imagine to be true is a match for the world as it actually is. To answer your question, I am in fact tall and thin, don’t wear a moustache, and have an abundance of long silver hair.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

I’ve got just the right message to set the tone for you in the weeks ahead. It comes from writer H.P. Lovecraft, and captures the essence of your astrological omens. “Pleasure to me is wonder,” said Lovecraft. “It’s the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” Now get out there, Pisces, and gather up all the mysterious marvels you have coming to you — all the bracing encounters with uncanny grace.

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THE STATE OF THE UNION FOR MEDICAL CANNABIS (Q4 2012 – Q1 2013) This is a very important year for medical cannabis programs around the county. The following is what we are seeing from the front lines. Colorado has been left mostly untouched by the Federal Government due in part to the Constitutional vote that legalized medical cannabis in Colorado illustrating the will of the voters of Colorado.

Additionally, we owe a debt of gratitude to some wise and brave State legislators and the Governor of Colorado as well as many in the law enforcement community for creating the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division to guide and regulate the industry as it continues to develop the best practices for providing medical cannabis to the patients of Colorado. Lastly we should consider the people on the front lines. The 8,000 badged employees and over 500 Colorado medical marijuana dispensary owners that continue to provide medical cannabis to their member patients in spite of the massive uncertainty relative to the lack of commercial banking, effective 65% combined state and federal tax rates, potential risk from criminals and thieves, the risk of federal prosecution resulting in huge mandatory minimum prison terms, and the constant reality that the entire program along with the millions of dollars of investment and time could be eliminated at any moment by the Federal government.

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