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news & views Tyler Clementi died for your sins / 6 Homophobia isn't a benign prejudice

by Pamela White Reducing the budget / 8 A five-step plan for cutting government spending

by Paul Danish A challenge to end childhood hunger / 9 The Ending Childhood Hunger Challenge Act

by Jared Polis

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by Arsen Kashkashian Overtones: Boulder bands team up with Phish members for benefit / 33 Overtones: Lehnert Solo/Duo plays a final concert at CU / 35 Arts & Culture: New BMoCA exhibits express fragmented unity / 37 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 39 Sophisticated Sex: The sex toy shoebox / 45 Elevation: Fall is peak time for climbing / 47 Screen: The Social Network / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53 Cuisine: Local author takes vegan message to the masses / 57 Cuisine review: Pizzeria Basta / 59 Dessert Diva: Pear Crisp with Ginger Whipped Cream / 61

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Why can’t I stop?

(Re: “The devil and Lenin in Delaware,” Danish Plan, Sept. 23.) I wholeheartedly sympathize with Paul Danish in his effort to defend Christine O’Donnell against the depredations of the likes of Bill Maher.

To think that I have been a longtime fan of Maher’s show! I mean, sure, O’Donnell had an adolescent obsession with “witchcraft,” but one should not dismiss her just because she still thinks it’s real and that it’s something she thinks she has to seriously apologize for. And how could she be more dangerous than some guy who called himself a Marxist in college, being that she doesn’t believe in global warming or evolution, and thinks that America should quit having sex?

I mean, c’mon, who are we to judge? I would like to say that I quit watching Real Time, but I just can’t pull myself away and stop myself from laughing hysterically whenever Bill plays tapes of when he got her to say “politically incorrect” things. Why can’t I stop? What’s wrong with me?

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Vote yes on 3A We have an opportunity this election to stand up for Boulder Valley Schools!

Funding for Colorado K-12 public schools is complicated and complex.

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There are overlapping formulas, constitutional mandates and local restrictions in figuring out local property taxes for public schools. But one thing we do understand: Boulder Valley Schools are subjected to recent cuts in funding for

K-12 education at the state level. The time is now to take back our future and vote yes on 3A to provide the local support to restore funding to the classrooms, to the teachers and to broaden early childhood education.

The Highroad

n California, a surprising new union movement is growing like a weed, having taken root in a burgeoning economic sector that has enormous potential: marijuana.

The Golden State was one of the first to legalize the use of medical marijuana, and a network of licensed growers, dispensaries and other related businesses has since flourished. It turns out that pot is a labor-intensive product, and the producers, distributors and retailers of weed have become something of a hotbed for local job growth. These workers, as in any other industry, need a unified voice to achieve a living wage, decent benefits, training, job security, upward mobility and other elements of a shared prosperity that create a middle class. In a word, unions.

In Oakland, the first step toward a unionized workforce for medical marijuana businesses was

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by Jim Hightower taken this May when about a hundred retail employees voted to join Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. With a depressingly high unemployment rate, Oakland officials cheered this introduction of good paychecks, which will allow families to spread their increased incomes through the local economy.

Then, in September, Local 70 of the Teamsters Union added to Oakland’s marijuana momentum by

Why? Because it is simply the right thing to do. We owe our current students and our next-generation students all the resources we can provide to see LETTERS Page 6

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signing up about 40 gardeners, trimmers and other skilled workers employed by a local business that contracts to grow pot for medical marijuana patients in the area. The Teamsters negotiated a two-year contract that provides a $7 pay hike, health coverage, paid vacation and pension — the kind of jobs that can sustain a community.

Ironically, federal law still outlaws marijuana, but common-sense state and local laws are showing that, by literally going to pot, such legalized grassroots enterprises can give people and communities a new high.

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enhance the quality of their education.

Stability in funding year after year is necessary and essential to executing on the vision of our school board for all our public schools. Continuous cuts in funding erode the foundation to provide innovative instructional programs and competitive salaries for our teachers, staff and administrators. We value education! We value our teachers! We value our staff! We value our administrators! Eroding our foundation cuts right through our values … we have an opportunity to stop it!

Vote yes on 3A! You can have an impact on education!

Fran Ryan, CEO of Impact on Education/Boulder

The impact of tax measures Though many people understand the detrimental effect that initiatives 60, 61 and 101 will have on their lives, many are angry at having to pay such high license fees for the old heap that rarely leaves the driveway.

It is not obvious why the $35-perlicense fees were initiated, so I would like to tell the story of the FASTER bill put through the Colorado legislature in 2009. The federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) was established in 1956 to build and maintain the U.S. interstate highway system. By 2007, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) was receiving $500 million for maintenance and safety programs from the HTF, but then in 2008 the fund became insolvent due to changes made in 2004 in how the fund could be invested and spent.

CDOT found itself going from week to week, getting capital infusions from the state general fund to just keep basic services afloat. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s stimulus money became available, and CDOT embraced it fully, using it to do any projects that were shovelready and in the pipeline. But still CDOT needed to find an annual funding source that could replace the $500 million HTF, and requested the FASTER legislation from the legislature. FASTER was projected to supply $225 million yearly. The license fee passed, and now affords CDOT $165 million a year for its safety projects.

If Proposition 101 takes this away, it will further deteriorate CDOT’s ability to maintain its already dismal schedule of safety upgrades for bridges around the state.

As for Amendment 61, most people understand that the public bonds held by towns and municipal districts will all need to be collapsed from their current 25- to 30-year amortization to 10 years. But few understand that this will include the full 6 October 7, 2010

30-year interest accumulation, so that a $2 million, 25-year bond with a debt service of $127,000 a year will then be liable for $390,000 a year. This will bring many municipalities, fire, school and library districts, already on tight budgets from the weak economy, to a critical juncture.

Vote thoughtfully.

John Hoffmann/Carbondale

Republican traitors I am writing to express great concern and disappointment in certain elected Republican state legislators. As a life-long Republican and current precinct leader, to find that these Republicans have abandoned the party and their constituents to support a third-party candidate is intolerable.

The party expects loyalty, which is required to advance the cause of conservatism and policies best for our state and country. These Republicans violated our trust and abandoned all loyalty for party and are directly contributing to the election of John Hickenlooper.

The consequences of this betrayal will be the lost opportunity to establish a more conservative state Supreme Court, the likely turning over of redistricting to the new Hickenlooperappointed liberal progressive Colorado Supreme Court and the inability to make any inroads on illegal immigration through bills to be introduced in the coming legislative session.

Also, I want to inform you that thousands of voters in Colorado will be watching very closely the voting records and behavior of all GOP officials. The party cannot stand if it refuses to stand together.

John Hickenlooper will be a disaster for the people of this state. These party officials are enabling that disaster to take place. He can be defeated with party unity, but it is obvious that his election and all the negative consequences it will bring is of small matter to these House and Senate members.

I respectfully ask that the members be contacted and asked to reconsider their inappropriate and damaging decision. Actions have consequences. For the good of the party and future of Colorado, action must be taken.

Joseph J. Balas/Colorado Springs

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Tyler Clementi died for your sins

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harun Ravi got to college to find out his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, was gay and quickly shared that fact with the Twitterverse. Clearly, he felt that Clementi’s sexuality was a significant enough issue to merit posting online.

And he didn’t stop there.

As we all know, he later used his webcam to stream live video online of Clementi having sex with another male and invited others to join him in this gross violation of privacy.

“Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again,” Ravi tweeted.

Clementi discovered this, and, in a surge of despair, left campus, drove to the George Washington Bridge and jumped, ending a life full of promise — only one of five gay teens to commit suicide in recent weeks.

While people debate the role Internet technology and changing notions about privacy played in this tragedy, the real underlying cause is Ravi’s discomfort with Clementi’s sexuality. Rather than respecting Clementi’s privacy, Ravi treated the act of two men making love as if it were a freak show.

But what Ravi did wouldn’t have mattered much if it hadn’t happened in the context of a society that agrees with him. Allow me to explain.

I’m left-handed. About 10 percent of human beings are born left-handed.

There was a time left-handed people were burned at the stake and consigned to hell. That fell out of favor for a more tolerant approach: shame and silence.

For centuries, left-handed people were

forced to conceal their difference or made to learn to function as right-handed people. This continued into my lifetime.

My first-grade teacher at Park Primary School in Boulder’s Martin Park neighborhood used to take perverse pleasure in humiliating me in class.

“Look, everyone, Pamela is writing with her left hand,” she would say, taking the pencil out of my left hand and putting it in my right. “But we don’t do that. We write with our right hands.”

My parents eventually told her to knock it off, and the school was forced to buy left-handed scissors and other implements that enabled me to participate in classroom activities not as a converted rightie, but as a left-handed child.

Being left-handed is a difference. It is an aberration. It is not normal. But for those of us who are left-handed, it is completely normal.

Imagine if one of my coworkers — rabble-rouser Jefferson Dodge, for example — went online and tweeted about how he’d seen me writing with my left hand. Imagine that he rigged my office with a webcam and streamed live video of me writing with my left hand.

People would be utterly underwhelmed by such an offering, and they would probably conclude that he — not I — had issues.

Live streaming video of someone writing with her left hand? Who cares?

And what’s wrong with the guy who posted this?

That’s how this should have played out. Live streaming video of some college kid having sex with another man in see HOMOPHOBIA KILLS Page 8

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Reducing the budget

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couple of weeks ago President Obama challenged Republicans who are calling for less federal spending and a smaller federal government to state exactly what they would cut.

Well, I’m not a Republican — I’m an independent these days — but I have a few modest proposals along those lines myself: 1) Repeal Obamacare. That will save, depending on the estimate, $1 trillion to $3 trillion over the next 10 years, or $100 billion to $300 billion a year. (Actual savings would be somewhat less, because some aspects of Obamacare, like the ban on refusing coverage for a prior condition, would survive any serious attempt at repeal.)

Repealing Obamacare is an obvious place to begin cutting, because a) the savings are large, b) over time it will make a bad budget situation ghastly, and, most important, c) a majority of the American People — up to 60 percent in some polls — favor repealing it.

Cutting federal spending and big government is popular in principle, but finding programs in the federal budget that a majority of the people actually want to cut is almost unheard of. That puts Obamacare in a class by itself.

2) End the war on drugs.

Specifically, repeal federal laws against marijuana and leave drug policy to the states — just as alcohol policy was left to the states after prohibition. Allow the states to make hard drugs like heroin available to registered addicts, as Britain does. Dismantle the Drug Enforcement Administration and pardon nonviolent offenders in federal prisons for drug crimes.

According to the website Drugsense, the feds spend about $20 billion a year on the drug war, so getting rid of it will save $200 billion over the next 10 years. A federal tax on legal pot would bring in a few billion more a year. (If states followed the federal lead, they would free up about $400 billion over the next 10 years.)

3) Put NASA into suspended animation. Granted, NASA has been a source of enormous national pride, and it does really great science experiments, like sending men to the moon, building a space station and putting big telescopes in orbit. But until we bring down the price of space flight by a cou8 October 7, 2010

ple orders of magnitude, NASA’s $18 billion-a-year budget — at least $180 billion over the next decade — is a luxury we can’t afford. So until space flight becomes as practical and economical as air travel, or, minimally, as practical and economical as DC-3-era air travel, put both NASA and its space station into moth balls.

4) Privatize the war on terror. Don’t demonize companies like the security company previously known as Blackwater. Issue them Letters of Marque and Reprisal (as provided for by the Constitution) and let them have a go at privateering against Iranian oil tankers. At $80 a barrel, the cargo of a big crude carrier would be worth more than $300 million. Uncle Sam could ask for, say, 50 percent of the booty in return for issuing the letters. If the concept of privateering were broadened beyond shipping — and what concept in the Constitution hasn’t been broadened over the years? — to, say, seizing Pakistani nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles, large parts of the war on terror could be outsourced and, in some cases, turned into profit centers.

5) Produce and sell the oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ditto the outer continental shelf.

There are an estimated 10 billion barrels of crude in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. At current prices, $70 to $80 a barrel, they would fetch between $700 billion and $800 billion.

The federal government shouldn’t grant leases to oil companies in return for royalties that are relative pittances.

Instead, it should have the Army Corps of Engineers produce the oil and sell it on the world market. The ensuing gusher of petrodollars should go into a sovereign wealth fund, which is what countries like Norway and Kuwait do with theirs. The proceeds from the sovereign wealth fund could be used to offset the expected cost increases of Social Security and Medicare as the Boomers go geezer.

And in order to ensure that the wildlife in the wildlife refuge aren’t the big loser in this, for every square mile of land taken out of the refuge for oil production, add five square miles somewhere else.

Cutting the federal budget isn’t rocket science. Except in the case of NASA, of course.

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HOMOPHOBIA KILLS from Page 6

his dorm room? Who cares? And what’s wrong with the guy who posted this?

Unfortunately, two realities converged. The first reality is America’s Puritan obsession with sex. If one or more people are having sex with anything or anyone, Americans want to watch it online.

The second reality is more sinister.

Americans are by and large still in the business of shaming and silencing gays.

As a result, Ravi’s decision to stream Clementi’s sex life to strangers carried weight, especially with Clementi, who must have felt shamed and humiliated beyond all redemption.

But it’s not Clementi who should feel ashamed. It’s Ravi and fellow Rutgers student Molly Wei, who allegedly helped him, and every person who tuned in to watch Clementi’s private life unfold online. More than that, society itself should feel ashamed.

Too many Americans cannot accept that some men are attracted to men and that some women are attracted to women and that for these individuals this difference — this aberration — is completely normal.

When I confront people who dislike gays, they’re always quick to explain that they do not hate gays. They’re certainly not homophobic. They become angry at the very suggestion. There’s nothing wrong with them, after all. It’s gays and lesbians who have the problem.

Then they tell me that being gay is unnatural, gross, disgusting and even repugnant to God. They show up in droves at the polls to prevent same-sex couples from having the same rights as heterosexual couples — the right to marry, to inherit, to have spousal job benefits. And somehow they deceive themselves into believing that they are taking a stand on behalf of decency and goodness.

But in truth what they’re doing is dangerous and deadly. Their bigotry, their ignorance, their arrogant, self-satisfied morality tell gay and lesbian kids that they should be ashamed of what they cannot help but be.

The same Internet that enabled Ravi to stream his anti-gay bigotry live for the world to see also preserves a glimpse of Clementi for those of us who didn’t know him. Watching him play his violin, something he did with skill and passion, it’s clear that we as a society have lost something precious. But our loss is nothing compared to the agony his parents must feel. He was so young.

Of course, this is a free society.

People can hate gays, lesbians, blacks, Jews, women, etc., if they so choose. But the rest of us have an obligation to denounce their intolerance and to do it loudly so that gay teens grow up hearing that they are cherished, not feared, not hated, not alone.

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“Grandsons! Get off me!”

—80-year-old Anna Mburano of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was raped in her home by four men on July 30 during a rebel attack in which more than 200 women were sexually assaulted “This is not the same breed of cat, man.”

—Vice President Joe Biden, discussing the Republican Party and the effect of the Tea Party movement

“There’s this massive gap between men’s perception and women’s reality.”

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mproving access to quality education is the single greatest investment we can make in our country, but for children to succeed in the classroom, we must first make sure their basic needs are met.

Two years ago, I ran for Congress to make a difference in children’s lives and to create hope and opportunity for all Coloradans. That is why I have introduced H.R. 5480, the Ending Childhood Hunger Challenge Act, which would challenge states to end childhood hunger by 2015. This is an ambitious goal, but with the right investments and innovative public-private partnerships, this goal is achievable and can improve the lives of countless children.

Hunger and malnutrition affect people of all ages but are particularly devastating for children. Kids don’t have any say over what kind of family they are born into, and for every child to have the opportunity to succeed, it’s important that their nutritional needs are met. Even short-term episodes of hunger can cause lasting damage to a child’s development, increasing the risk for cognitive, behavioral and physical problems throughout life. While nearly one in four U.S. children (16.7 million) is at risk of hunger, millions of children are eligible for, but not enrolled in, federally funded nutrition programs.

Of the 19.5 million low-income kids growing up in families that can barely afford to put food on the table and receiving free or reduced-price lunch in school each day, less than half (46 percent) receive breakfast and only 11 percent participate in the Summer Food Service Program. Some of these children cannot participate because their community does not provide the program; others lack transportation to programs, or their families are unaware that they are eligible or that a program exists in their community.

To help fight childhood hunger, the Ending Childhood Hunger Challenge Act: • Encourages states to make progress against childhood hunger by improving program access.

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tion programs; increases access and participation in federal nutrition programs; and improves the coordination of federal, state and community efforts to combat hunger.

• Promotes projects that employ a comprehensive and innovative strategy to reduce childhood hunger; includes public/private partnership-specific performance goals and annual assessments to measure progress; and requires an independent evaluation of the impact of child food insecurity, to hold states accountable for results.

In addition to the federal policy changes and investments that Congress must undertake in the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, we need states to partner with the federal government and the private sector in fighting child hunger by improving coordination. Thanks to compassionate and forward-thinking leadership, Colorado has set the standard for how such innovative partnerships can have a major impact on children’s lives.

The Campaign to End Childhood Hunger is a statewide, public-private coalition working to eliminate child hunger in Colorado. Launched by Gov. Bill Ritter, Share Our Strength and Hunger Free Colorado, the campaign is working to ensure that all children have nutritious food at home, at school and in their communities by increasing children’s access to two federally funded child nutrition programs: the School Breakfast Program and the Summer Food Service Program. The campaign works with schools and community members to implement breakfast-serving methods that increase access, such as serving breakfast in the classroom and offering it free to all students, to meet the goal of increasing participation by 15,000 children this year. Similarly, the campaign is working with schools to help start summer food programs, launch a summer food outreach strategy that will inform families where healthy food is available, and assist existing programs to increase participation in the Summer Food Program by 10,000 children this summer.

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Colorado is one pissed-off state Based on a poll of battleground states, Fox News has concluded that Colorado is the “angriest” state of the bunch when it comes to dissatisfaction with the federal government.

Apparently, the switch from red to blue was too much for some Coloradans, and now they’re frothing at the mouth, ready to exact their revenge at the polls and turn the state red again.

The reaction reminds us of last year’s Longmont City Council election where the town’s power elite temporarily lost control of City Council to Democrats and found themselves on the outside, perhaps for the first time in the town’s history. They were angry, too. Boy, howdy, were they ever!

And they managed to wrest majority control from Democrats once again.

But here’s something conservative Longmontians and Coloradans need to remember: that red-blue gap isn’t nearly as big as it used to be, and it’s shrinking. So get mad if you want. Vote in a host of candidates who play your strings by saying things like “small government” and “cut taxes” with no intention of shrinking government or cutting your taxes. Pretend like the mess our federal government is in wasn’t started by eight years of GOP rule.

Assuming that this information from Fox is accurate, which in itself requires a leap of faith, it’s an interesting commentary on how divisive politics have become in Colorado.

You know how you can’t think straight when you are furious? You get all red-faced and speak or act without thinking.

Kind of explains why the Republicans are nominating — and, in some cases, even voting for — the likes of Dan Maes and Ken Buck.

The really livid ones are so red-faced they are voting for Tom Tancredo.

But blue is the color of your future. Not that we’re terribly excited by that, either, truth be told. Green, anyone?

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Guys not so great in bed after all This certainly won’t come as a surprise to women, but heterosexual men aren’t as good in bed as they think they are.

According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, conducted by the University of Indiana, 84 percent of men said the last person they’d slept with had an orgasm, but only 64 percent of women agreed.

That’s 21 percent of men who are sexually clueless.

No, sorry boys, you can’t chalk this up to gay guys. The researchers report that the difference is too large to be accounted for by some of the men having had male partners at their most recent shagfest.

Experts say that part of the problem is men’s disinterest in their partner’s pleasure or their perception of what women should enjoy. If a man gets off on vaginal intercourse, he might think his partner should, too. But here’s something that guys might want to write down: a woman’s clit is not inside her vagina. All that robust ramming — it makes a guy feel like a stud, but some women might as well read a magazine for all the good it does them.

The survey’s authors pointed out that women are more likely to climax through a variety of sexual means — oral and manual stimulation or the use of vibrators, for example. (Is this really news to anyone? Apparently so.)

But if 21 percent of men are lame in bed, about 21 percent of women are stupid. What’s the point of faking an orgasm? You’re fooling him at the expense of your own pleasure. (Cue image of Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally.)

A guy can’t learn what you don’t take the time to teach him.

Like, “A little to the left, honey.”

Or, “Time to replace the batteries, sweet lips.”

Or simply, “Your elbow is digging into my back.”

And finally, there’s always, “You’re too damned fat, let me get on top.”

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If you had a ranch in the mountains, would you risk your life to save it from a wildfire?

• Yes. It’d be worth it. 23% • No. It’d be too dangerous. 23% • Depends on how big the fire is.

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Who are you voting for in the governor’s race?

• John Hickenlooper • Dan Maes • Tom Tancredo • John Elway (write-in)

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VOTE 2010 The Nov. 2 election is chock full of controversial ballot measures and hotly contested races, and we are proud to bring you Boulder Weekly’s analysis and endorsements in our annual VOTE edition.

From tax-cutting measures and another effort to make abortion illegal to wild races for governor and U.S. Senate, the state’s election landscape isn’t dull. Check it out online.

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he Nov. 2 election is chock full of controversial ballot measures and hotly contested races, and we are proud to bring you Boulder Weekly’s analysis and endorsements in our annual VOTE edition.

From tax-cutting measures and another effort to make abortion illegal to wild races for governor and U.S. Senate, the state’s election landscape isn’t dull.

Locally, we are voting on tax measures at the county and municipal levels that deal with a host of issues, including open space, Boulder’s Xcel franchise fee, human services, hotels and height limits on solar panels. Even tiny Jamestown has a couple of questions on the ballot, including one related to medical marijuana.

We also get to elect a slew of local leaders at the county level, including a commissioner, the clerk and recorder, the treasurer, the coroner and the assessor.

Finally, there are proposed tax increases for school districts and fire districts.

It is a very full ballot, and, as always, it is your opportunity to have your say in how your government is run. As far as we’re concerned, you lose your right to complain about the way things are if you don’t exercise your right to vote.

As for our endorsements, we were disappointed to find that we endorsed a slate made up entirely of Democrats.

We try to evaluate individuals on their merits, not their politics. We tried our best to find some Republicans and independents to endorse. But with everyone on the right wearing their anger on their sleeves and trying to Tea Party harder than the competition, we had no choice but to go with Democrats.

At the heart of the issue are tax cuts.

When a Republican or Libertarian calls for more tax cuts in a state that has already seen millions of dollars slashed (and more to come), it strikes us as a bit unrealistic and even dangerous.

While it may seem tempting to keep a little more money in your pocket, it would be irresponsible to do so in a state where TABOR has left local governments starved of revenue for even the most basic programs. Though the right pretends that government is the enemy, it is government that plows the snow off our streets, puts out fires and protects us from crime.

We suggest that you check out www.voteboulder.org for information about your voter registration, mail ballots, assigned polling places and early voting locations.

We hope you find this edition of the paper useful. We encourage everyone who is registered to vote to make full use of that privilege.

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Bennet for Senate WE WERE HOPING TO be voting for Andrew Romanoff in this Senate race, but incumbent Michael Bennet will have to do.

In addition to Democrat Bennet, this is a race that includes Republican Ken Buck, Maclyn Stringer (Libertarian), Bob Kinsey (Green), Charley Miller and J. Moromisato (unaffiliated), Jason Napolitano (Independent Reform), and three write-ins — Bruce Lohmiller, Michele Newman and Robert Rank.

Kinsey and Stringer might pick up a percentage point or two, but this is a race between Bennet and Buck, and polling has been tight between them. We support Bennet, partially due to Buck’s hardright platform, but Bennet does bring something to the table — including family history.

Bennet’s grandfather held a position in the FDR administration, and his father worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations. Bennet has a law degree from Yale, served as counsel to the deputy attorney general, was the managing director of the Anschutz Investment Company, served as Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s chief of staff and was superintendent of Denver Public Schools before being appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2009. So Bennet does have experience in law, finance, education and the political world.

Bennet came to the Senate at a difficult time — as the financial collapse was live news and shortly before the health care debate began raging in Congress.

He voted for the health care bill, saying that it didn’t matter if that vote cost him his Senate seat. On the fiscal side, he has supported stimulus funding — until he recently expressed opposition to the president’s latest $50 billion proposal.

Whether or not Congress continues to see stimulus packages as viable options, Bennet is focusing on other ways to get the economy working again. He’s cosponsored and voted for legislation to make small-business loans more accessible. He’s introduced legislation on tax incentives for businesses in rural areas and voted for incentives for the clean-energy economy. He’s on the leading edge of responsible school reform and favors increased job training for clean-energy industries of the future. And he’s a social moderate, something we can’t say about Buck, who opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

While Bennet’s dealings with the Denver Public Schools retirement fund while he was DPS superintendent were called into question right before the primary, he is certainly more qualified and in touch with reality than Buck.

Buck earned his law degree from the University of Wyoming. He went on to work on the Iran-Contra investigation in 1986, serve in the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office as chief of the criminal division, and teach law before winning his election for Weld County district attorney in 2004. It’s a nice resume, but not as rounded and diverse as Bennet’s.

And his platform is questionable, to say the least. Buck has at least men-

tioned support for overturning Roe v.

Wade, privatizing the Veteran’s Administration, keeping the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy in place, posting the 10 Commandments in public places, eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and at least partially privatizing Social Security.

Politicians can’t accomplish anything if they don’t get elected, and Buck needed Tea Party support to beat the wellconnected Jane Norton in the primary.

However, Buck now faces a general election, and campaigning on extreme positions is political poison. Voters should be aware that he’s downplaying or modifying positions he took during the primary — a strategy the website ColoradoPols. com has aptly named “Buckpedaling.”

For example, he expressed support for repealing the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which put into place direct election for the very U.S. Senate position he’s running for — yet he was quoted in the Huffington Post as saying “it wasn’t a position I held a day later … when I reflected more on it.”

He also supported Amendment 62, which would give full constitutional rights to fertilized eggs. Then he reversed his position there, saying that while he opposes abortion, he didn’t realize the amendment would render many forms of birth control and some fertility treatments illegal.

Candidates have a right to change their minds or soften a position, but with Ken Buck, you still get hard-right positions on many issues, no matter what he’s saying at the time. Vote for Bennet — the only candidate who can keep Buck from winning.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Polis is slam dunk for U.S. House THIS RACE FEATURES Democratic incumbent Rep. Jared Polis, Republican Stephen Bailey, Libertarian Curtis Harris, Jenna Goss of the American Constitution Party and write-in Henry Raibourn.

U.S. representatives serve two-year terms, and the 2nd District stretches roughly from Boulder County to Eagle County. It would be an upset of unbelievable magnitude for Polis to lose this race, due to the large Democrat edge in voter registration.

Polis has two years under his belt as a congressman and a term as a member of the state Board of Education. He’s got no problems with name recognition or money, having earned a fortune in the private sector, and he’s used a lot of that money for philanthropy and progressive candidates and issues. He’s started his own schools. He’s been active on education issues in Congress and serves on the House Education and Labor Committee, the House Rules Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.

Polis’ probable closest opponent, Republican Stephen Bailey, put honor on his resume by serving in the U.S. Air Force and succeeded in the software industry, but he hasn’t held elected office, and he probably won’t win support from most residents of Boulder County with his positions.

Bailey claimed on his website that the federal health care act will reduce life expectancy and reduce quality of life. He wrote that climate change has been within historical norms, and that tactics against climate change are being pushed to curtail liberty. He won’t take earmarks and would repeal the estate tax. He discussed the national debt without mentioning that it tripled under Reagan and doubled under Bush the Second — and somehow, he still supports low taxes and cutting the debt at the same time.

Bailey is trying to appeal to Tea Party anger, but that won’t win him a race in the 2nd District. Harris and Goss might earn single-digit percentages at best, and if they do, their votes will probably just hurt Bailey. Vote for Polis.

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Send Markey back to Congress THIS RACE FEATURES Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, Republican state Rep. Cory Gardner, Doug Aden of the American Constitution Party and unaffiliated Ken Waszkiewicz. The 4th Congressional District is primarily the eastern plains of Colorado, including Fort Collins and Greeley, along with portions of Boulder County and Longmont.

Markey earned the thanks of many progressives in 2008 by taking down the ultra-conservative former U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, and we’ll endorse her again in 2010.

She’s got a small-business background, having cofounded Syscom Services, an Internet consulting firm. She also has a master’s in public administration and served as former U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar’s regional director for northern and eastern Colorado

from 2005 to 2007.

In Congress, she was the primary sponsor of the Targeted Deficit Reduction Act, which would establish periodic goals for managing the deficit.

She’s been a strong supporter of environmental legislation while representing a conservative district. And in an act of political courage, she voted for the amended federal health care act after having opposed earlier versions of it. This vote has certainly been used in anti-Markey attack ads, but we hope at least a small majority of the 4th District will recognize that she voted for it in the best interests of many people.

Gardner has been in the state House since 2006, and served as the House Minority Whip. He has a law degree from the University of Colorado, has worked with his family’s small business, Farmers Implement Co., and has served as general counsel

and legislative director for former U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard. He’s got a nice political resume going, but we can’t support many of his views and some of his actions.

Gardner claims that human activities aren’t responsible for global warming. He’s said that capand-trade legislation will “kill the emerging energy industry,” and he attended a D.C. fundraising event co-hosted by a BP lobbyist during the time that BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil well was fouling our ocean and coastline. He said in March of this year that he’d “work and vote to repeal” the federal health care act.

Then we won’t work or vote for putting Gardner in office.

Neither Aden nor Waszkiewicz will play much of a role in this race, unless it’s as a “spoiler.” Still, polling on this one has been tight between Markey and Gardner, so vote Markey if you live in the 4th.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

For guv, Hick is our pick IT’S BEEN A WILD ride in this year’s campaign for governor of Colorado, and it hasn’t been pretty on the right-wing side. We’re proud to support Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat.

Hickenlooper has as much pertinent experience as most non-incumbent candidates for this office, and you’ve probably heard the basic story. He’s an ex-geologist who turned his life around after being laid off. He built a successful business in the Wynkoop Brewing Company and was a major force in getting downtown Denver renovated. For those of you who are new to Colorado, this area was pretty seedy until just a couple of decades ago.

Hickenlooper won his first foray into politics, a tough campaign for mayor of Denver against some formidable foes. He’s managed a city of some 500,000 people since 2003 and did a great deal of work in bringing the Democratic National Convention to Denver in 2008. He’s got regional, statewide and national connections, and there’s no

Amendment P Gaming regulations Yes

✓ ❑ No ❑

Amendment P was referred to the ballot by the Legislature, and it would amend the Colorado Constitution. It would transfer licensing authority for games of chance, such as bingo or raffles, from the Department of State to the Department of Revenue. Also, it would allow the Legislature to change rules regarding the overseeing department and to change a requirement that Boulder Weekly

doubt that he’ll bring his business ethic and salesmanship to the Capitol.

On the unsavory side, Republicans have had a really bad trip in 2010. Front-runner Scott McInnis recently disproved any notion that “any press is good press” by getting nailed for “authoring” papers on water policy that he didn’t actually write. His political stock sank like a snitch wearing custom-fitted cement shoes to the harbor.

Dan Maes won the Republican primary, thanks to Tea Party support and anti-McInnis sentiment, but a lot of people now wish he hadn’t. He’s a political neophyte who simply isn’t ready to be governor — which is one thing — but his past few months have also featured one political embarrassment after another. We’ll spare you the list, but his comments about Denver being in danger of falling under United Nations control because of its bike program were enough for most of us.

Republican Tom Tancredo put out an ultimatum — if both Maes and McInnis didn’t drop out, he’d run as a third-party candidate. They stayed in, and

a gaming organization must operate as a dues-paying organization for five years to qualify for a license.

On one hand, the Department of Revenue already handles the licensing for other forms of gaming, so transferring games of chance to that office would put gaming under one roof — which should lead to efficiencies. On the other hand, there would be a onetime cost, estimated at $116,000, and opponents question this expense during a tough fiscal time. It’s a fair question, but we’ll favor Amendment P on the

Tancredo entered as a new member of the American Constitution Party. Readers should check out the ACP platform — they advocate U.S. withdrawal from the UN and NATO, no foreign aid for any reason, the return to a gold and silver monetary standard, no federal role in education, etc. — but Tancredo’s basically a long-time Republican who needed a party to run with.

Tancredo has lots of pertinent experience as a former U.S. representative, as well as having served in the state House and on the state Joint Budget Committee.

He’ll beat Maes, but he entered the race way too late, and he’s too strident on social issues — especially on his trademark, illegal immigration — to capture the popular vote. He’s also too much of a verbal loose cannon for many of us to feel comfortable with him as head of our state, and having Maes and Tancredo both running will splinter the right-wing vote — as Tancredo himself warned earlier in the campaign.

Other candidates include Libertarian Jaimes Brown, unaffiliated Jason Clark, Paul Fiorino and Michael Moore, and write-ins Willie Chambers, Peter Carr and Holly Cremeens.

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efficiencies angle, and because navigating the state’s bureaucracy is tough enough without having similar operations in different departments.

Amendment Q Temporary emergency move of Legislature Yes

✓ ❑ No ❑

Amendment Q is a measure referred to the ballot by the Legislature that would amend the Colorado Constitution. Passing it would make it

constitutional for the state to temporarily move its seat of government from Denver in case of an emergency, such as a natural disaster or an act of terrorism.

Currently, there are statutes and rules that would allow the Legislature to meet elsewhere, but nothing in the Constitution.

Hopefully there would never be a need for such a move, but stuff happens, and there’s no good reason to vote against an amendment that simply makes a move that’s already in law constitutional.

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BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 l BOULDERWEEKLY.COM Amendment R Exemptions on property tax on possessory interests Yes

✓ ❑ No ❑

Amendment R is a measure referred to the ballot by the Legislature that would amend the Colorado Constitution. It would exempt individuals or businesses operating on government-owned property (possessory interests) from paying property taxes if the value of the real property used is less than $6,000. For example, a rancher grazing cattle on federal land could be seen as having a possessory interest.

On one hand, it could eliminate small amounts of paperwork for certain businesses and even the state. It’s possible that the cost of tax notification and enforcement could exceed the revenue collected in certain cases, since only small amounts of property tax are collected in those situations. Also, small businesses could save small amounts of money.

On the other hand, it could cost local governments small amounts of money from property tax revenue, and the state might need to replace small amounts of property tax money that would otherwise fund K-12 education.

Also, this tax elimination would go into the Constitution, so under TABOR, another statewide ballot measure would be necessary to bring the tax back.

This one’s worthy of some careful consideration, but we’ll favor it. It would work in the favor of small agricultural operations, and it would reduce administrative burdens.

Amendment 60, Amendment 61, Proposition 101 Reducing taxes and government spending Yes

✓ No ❑ ❑

Technically, 60, 61 and 101 are separate ballot issues, but most observers see them as a package, and we urge you to vote against this ill-advised package.

In brief, they are designed to cut taxes, limit government spending and limit government borrowing. In practice, they’d damage education funding, cost Coloradans jobs, and needlessly prevent or delay bonding.

Two of them (60 and 61) would go straight into the state Constitution if passed. Also, drastic reductions in tax rates under 101 would trigger TABOR (Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights) limits if there’s ever a need to re-implement taxes or fees to fund services that 101 would eliminate or slash.

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his role or lack thereof in bringing these three measures to the ballot, 60, 61 and 101 smack of “Bruceism.” They demonize government spending — while not acknowledging when people benefit from services that the spending pays for — and attempt to cut taxes without care for the consequences. Voters have defeated every statewide Bruce initiative since TABOR passed on the third try, and we should do the same here.

Colorado already ranks near the bottom of states in terms of its support for higher education. It’s a financially strapped state, not because the resources aren’t there, but because of TABOR. Passing these measures means thrusting Colorado deeper into a budget crisis that won’t serve anyone’s interests.

Amendment 60: Property Taxes • Cuts local property taxes used for K-12 education in half over 10 years.

• Repeals past local elections that allowed local governments to keep property tax revenues in excess of TABOR limits (“De-Brucing” measures).

• Imposes new property taxes on previously untaxed public enterprises (such as CU), and reduces other property taxes by the amount of the new taxes.

Amendment 61: Borrowing • Prohibits all new state borrowing, including its public enterprises (such as CU).

• Allows local borrowing only with voter approval, but bonded debt must be repaid within 10 years.

• Requires government entities to reduce tax rates once bonds are paid off, by the amount of average annual payments.

Proposition 101: Tax and fee reductions • Reduces the state income tax rate from 4.63 percent to 4.5 percent in 2011, and reduces it an additional 0.1 percent every year that state net income increases by 6 percent or more, until the overall rate is 3.5 percent.

• Reduces vehicle registration fees to $10, eliminates or reduces vehicle-specific ownership taxes, eliminates auto rental fees and taxes, and eliminates most taxes and fees on telecommunications.

• Increases on most vehicle or telecommunications fees in the future would be considered tax increases.

Amendment 62 Rights for fertilized eggs Yes

✓No ❑❑

Amendment 62 seeks to extend the definition of person to include a fertilized

egg “from the beginning of biological development.” It is almost a direct repeat of 2008’s personhood initiative, as both supporters and opponents agree. By legally defining a fertilized egg as a person, with all of the same legal and constitutional rights entailed therein, abortion in any circumstance would be criminalized, as would several forms of birth control, including the pill and the IUD, as well as stem cell research. The amendment would also affect some fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, and possibly hundreds of laws.

Supporters, like Colorado Right to Life, say this would protect “little boys and girls” and that any turmoil in the legal system will just have to be dealt with later. Tellingly, National Right to Life does not support the measure.

Imagine if every woman who miscarries has to endure a forensic vaginal exam, in which doctors search for criminal evidence that she caused the miscarriage herself. Imagine victims of incest and rape forced to carry pregnancies to term, enduring nine months of emotional torment and the suffering of childbirth on top of the crime that impregnated them.

Imagine having only sterilization, condoms and other barrier methods to prevent pregnancy — and no options at all if one of those methods fails.

That’s the world that Amendment 62 is trying to create.

Opponents, such as Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center, say the measure is extreme, allowing judges, lawyers and lawmakers to intrude on private health care decisions. Lisa Radelet, communications director at Women’s Health, says the measure is invasive and that even if it passed, the amendment would face legal challenges “almost immediately,” costing the state money. She also points out that in 2008, Colorado voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar amendment.

“Coloradans think this is a bad idea, and I don’t think that’s going to change,” she says.

We agree. Whether you support the right to choose or you consider yourself a pro-lifer, defining a fertilized egg as a person is taking things to absurd extremes. Consider the ramifications: Would miscarriages have to be investigated as a possible negligent homicide? Can an egg inherit property and pay taxes?

Should a 12-year-old who becomes pregnant by her own daddy be forced to carry that pregnancy to term? Would pregnant women automatically get to use the HOV lane? Is every sperm truly sacred?

Give us a break!

Like 2008’s personhood initiative, Amendment 62 is absurd and insulting to women. We strongly urge you to vote NO on Amendment 62.

Amendment 63 Mandatory health care purchases Yes

✓ No ❑❑

Amendment 63 is a citizen initiative that would amend the Colorado Constitution and would prevent the state of Colorado from enforcing purchases of health care coverage under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which mandates that people buy health insurance and fines those who don’t. The registered proponents of 63 are Boulder’s own Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute in Golden, and Linda Gorman from the same organization.

It’s been suggested that 63 is a largely symbolic measure, since federal law trumps state amendments, although you will find debate about that in the blogosphere. Also, 63 cites the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says the federal government only has powers specifically enumerated to it in the Constitution, while others say the Commerce Clause gives the feds the right to implement the PPACA. Well, we’ll see you in court on this debate for a long, long time.

Caldara and Gorman are running the initiative on the right of health care choice, but they won’t mention a few other “rights” that ordinary people don’t want. The right to be denied coverage.

The right to watch your premiums go up until you can’t even afford high-deductible coverage. The right to be denied bankruptcy when your medical bills ruin your life. The right to lose coverage because you lost a job. The right of Americans to pay much more for coverage as a percentage of GDP than other Western nations with worse health outcomes.

These are among the reasons that Obama won in 2008, and while the extended battle in Congress over PPACA sapped his political capital, a lot of ordinary people will eventually benefit.

Opponents say 63 would cost private premium-holders, since the cost of providing care to the people who will remain uninsured will be passed on to premium bills, although proponents differ with that. The amendment would also prevent Colorado from implementing a statewide system such as the one Massachusetts currently has, according to proponents.

Opponents say 63 would lead to costly lawsuits. Worse, it would go into our Constitution if approved, ending the debate about health care before we have a true solution. Of course, that’s what the health insurance industry wants. They’re concerned with their profits, not your mother’s cancer treatment.

Vote NO, and let’s keep working to find a better solution.

Boulder Weekly

BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 l BOULDERWEEKLY.COM Proposition 102 Bail bonds and pretrial release Yes

✓ No ❑❑

Proposition 102 is a statutory citizen initiative. In short, it would prohibit releasing defendants to pretrial release programs, except for first-time, nonviolent misdemeanor-level suspects. We oppose 102 because it appears to be on the ballot primarily to benefit the bailbond industry.

Many law enforcement officials and agencies also oppose 102, in part because it would lead to increased costs and demand on prison beds. Poorer defendants simply won’t be able to afford bond, which means they’d be locked up at public expense. The Colorado Legislative Council estimates that 102 will increase jail costs by $2.8 million per year. Judges currently have the option to use pretrial release instead of jail or bail bonding, which can save money. But 102 supporters say this allows criminals to get out on the streets — silly scare tactics.

Proposition 102 appears to be another in a line of Colorado initiatives with connections to out-of-state interests. The Durango Herald reported that one of two registered proponents, M. Paul Donovan, is the government affairs director of the Pennsylvania-based Bail USA, the largest bail bond underwriter in the nation. The other, Matthew Duran, was linked to an organization called Virginians for the Preservation of Bail. Both men list the address of 2910 N. Powers Blvd. in Colorado Springs on the initiative, and the Herald reported that this is actually the address of a strip mall.

Whether the proponents have the best interests of Colorado at heart or not, enough Coloradans signed petitions to get 102 on the ballot. Still, voters ought to know where our initiatives come from, and they should have a good chance to understand if a measure is being pushed out of financial self-interest.

Vote NO on 102, and we can reexamine pretrial release at a later time if need be. n SECRETARY OF STATE Bernie Buescher

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The players in this contest are Democratic incumbent Bernie Buescher, Republican Scott Gessler and Amanda Campbell of the American Constitution Party. The secretary of state oversees a number of key state functions, including elections, licensing and business functions such as transactions, filings and trademarks. The winner earns a four-year term.

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solid resumes. Buescher earned a law degree from CU, spent 11 years in private practice, was the president of West Star Aviation, earned two terms in the state House, served on the state Joint Budget Committee and was executive director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Gessler earned an MBA from Northwestern and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice, is a private election law attorney, managed a family construction business, taught election law at CU, and served in the Army Reserve.

But Gessler had a hand in what some say was some dirty politics last fall in Boulder County. He represents Western Tradition Partnership (WTP), a conservative group that has been accused of funding attack campaigns against Democratic candidates. WTP contributed to Republican Katie Witt’s campaign for Longmont City Council by funding a “push poll” against Witt’s opponent, Karen Benker. He also was the attorney who successfully sued the city of Longmont to overturn campaign regulations aimed at ensuring transparency in disclosing candidates’ donors. Not necessarily the kind of guy we want controlling our state’s elections.

The next legislative session will likely feature a battle over redistricting, and Gessler fought as an attorney against a court-ordered redistricting plan in 2002 and beyond — as the Republicandominated Legislature adopted an alternative plan in 2003 that Democrats decried as the “midnight gerrymander.”

Buescher worked on a bill in 2010 that included allowing same-day voter registration, an option that has been roundly criticized by Gessler and other Republicans.

The court-ordered redistricting plan stayed in effect, the midnight gerrymander was found unconstitutional, and the bill including same-day voter registration was never formally introduced.

We’re endorsing Buescher. n STATE TREASURER Cary Kennedy

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This is a race between Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy and Republican Walker Stapleton. There are no minor-party candidates, and the winner will serve a four-year term.

We’ll support Kennedy, and part of it

has to do with her resume. She’s served as a budget analyst in the Office of State Planning and Budgeting and as a fiscal analyst with the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. She was a co-author of Amendment 23, which has kept the state’s K-12 funding from ranking near last or last in the nation. She worked on the coalition to pass Referendum C, which helped the state fund key services over the past five years. She’s been treasurer since 2006.

In other words, she knows the state’s financial structure inside and out. She’s also handled the state’s investment pool in a small-c conservative manner, and Colorado has maintained good credit ratings in spite of the tough economy. She’s increased the state’s financial transparency, in part through online services such as Colorado Tax Tracks.

Stapleton is a second cousin of former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush the First), and the great-grandson of former Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton. He’s got an MBA from Harvard and a graduate degree in business economics from the London School of Economics. He’s the president and CEO of SonomaWest Holdings, a real estate investment firm.

Voters should at least check out the “issues” section of Stapleton’s website. He lists only two. And in the section on “budget and taxes,” he primarily discusses tax limitations such as TABOR and rails against government spending.

It’s also somewhat troubling that his information appears to be outdated and, in some cases, inaccurate. In the “budget and taxes” section, he mentions the “Arveschoug-Bird” 6 percent limitation on budget increases, but it was amended during the 2009 legislative session — and only pertained to the general fund budget anyway. Also, he refers to Pinnacol Assurance, the state’s worker’s compensation insurer, as a “private company,” when in fact it is a quasi-governmental agency.

Perhaps his website just needs an update sometime before the election, but those would have been some significant omissions or mistakes to begin with.

Vote for Kennedy. She knew that stuff a long time ago. n ATTORNEY GENERAL Stan Garnett

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This is a race between Republican incumbent John Suthers and Democrat Stan Garnett, the district attorney for

Boulder County. The attorney general represents and defends the legal interests of Colorado, and the winner earns a four-year term.

Suthers has spent a great deal of his career in the public sector, although he spent seven years with the private firm Sparks Dix, P.C. He earned his law degree from CU, became the deputy and chief deputy DA for Colorado Springs, and was elected DA of El Paso County in 1988. He served as executive director of the state Department of Corrections, then became U.S. attorney in 2001. He was appointed AG in 2005, and was reelected in a race against Boulder’s Fern O’Brien in 2006.

Garnett also earned his law degree from CU. He has spent 22 years in private practice as a trial lawyer with the Denver-based firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. He worked for the Denver DA’s office from 1981 to 1986, and served as treasurer and president of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education before winning the 2008 election for DA. Suthers could have been unopposed in this race, but Garnett decided to challenge him after Suthers joined a multistate lawsuit against the federal health care bill. Suthers claims that the federal government overstepped its authority relative to states’ rights. Meanwhile, Garnett has noted that many major steps in our nation’s history — including the Civil Rights Act — have been criticized or opposed on the basis of states’ rights before they gained acceptance.

Many people will base their vote on this issue, and in this case, we agree that Suthers took this legal action despite legitimate public opposition.

Both men are accomplished attorneys with the ability to manage large cases.

Garnett helped settle a water dispute that delayed the Great Sand Dunes from becoming a national monument, and settled a $39 million embezzlement case.

Suthers settled a $35 million case regarding environmental damage at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal site, and wrapped up cases regarding Rocky Flats and the California Gulch Superfund site while in office. Both men are clearly capable of doing the job.

So once again we have a race between a Boulder County Democrat and an El Paso County Republican, and this race could boil down to ideology once again. We support Garnett partially because of Suthers’ health care decision, but also because he’s one of ours, and we believe he’s up to the challenge.

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BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 l BOULDERWEEKLY.COM n REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, AT LARGE Melissa Hart

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Simply put, this is the one regent race that is really up for grabs in the university’s political landscape, considering that the 4th District seat is likely to stay Republican and the 1st District seat is likely to stay Democratic with incumbent Michael Carrigan.

Sorry to say it, but Libertarian Jesse Wallace is probably not a major factor in this race, unless he pulls some votes away from Republican Steve Bosley.

We appreciate the fact that Bosley’s extensive experience and background in banking and finance may give him the upper hand in addressing the budget crises that CU is wading through. Given that background and the fact that he is the incumbent, he demonstrates thorough knowledge of what needs to be done to get the university out of this financial calamity alive.

But Melissa Hart is a brilliant mind. She clerked for the Supreme Court and graduated from Harvard Law School. She is a faculty member in the CU School of Law, meaning that she will bring some actual education experience and faculty values to the board, something that has been lacking for some time now.

Republicans have held the majority on the Board of Regents since 1980, and it’s time to put an end to the rightwing agendas that have silently plagued CU for years. It’s time for a changing of the guard.

Vote for Hart. n STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 2ND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Angelika Schroeder

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We’ve got an easy decision in this race. Vote Democrat Angelika Schroeder, the incumbent and a former member of the Boulder Valley School District Board of Education.

Schroeder’s opponent, Republican Kaye Ferry, has one problem — a lack of experience in education. Ferry’s platform calls for focus on commitment, engagement and accountability (educa16 October 7, 2010

tors everywhere are now saying, “Wow, never heard that before!”). But demanding accountability isn’t such a bad thing, until you consider this excerpt from her nomination acceptance speech in May 2010: “So what will I do? I don’t have specifics yet, but starting next month I’ll be attending the State Board of Education meetings to try to get ahead of the curve.”

Schroeder’s already ahead of the curve, so why waste time waiting for Ferry?

Schroeder’s resume includes eight years on the BVSD board, serving as a parent representative to the Teacher and Special Services Professional Standards Board, and serving on the boards and executive committees of the Colorado Association of School Boards and the Alliance for Quality Teaching. She is presently a member of the Teacher Quality Commission, the liaison to the Colorado Association of School Boards and a board member of the Public Education and Business Coalition. Give her your vote. n REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, 4TH DISTRICT Robert Bishop-Cotner

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Given the demographics in this district, Sue Sharkey will likely win this race because of the “R” next to her name, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to convince you fine folks in Longmont to consider Robert Bishop-Cotner instead.

Both candidates are running on a platform of making CU more affordable.

But Bishop-Cotner, who goes by “BC,” is a high school teacher and, what’s more, he actually has a college degree.

His opponent does not.

For some elected offices, it might not matter that someone lacks a college degree, but when that post involves governing a university, this is relevant. Also, given that the Board of Regents has been dominated by right-wingers for three decades, the last thing we need is another Republican complaining that CU faculty are too liberal or that there should

be a department of Western civilization.

Sharkey seems to think that people who go to college tend to get liberalized, and she’s out to change that.

Hmm. Instead of having another politically motivated conservative join the board, why not a high school teacher? The board already has a banker and a PR type, not to mention attorneys, so how about someone with some experience in K-12 education? We think BC would bring a valuable perspective to the board, given his work with the very population that CU is trying to attract. n COUNTY COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT 3 Cindy Domenico

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Cindy Domenico, the incumbent, lists among her goals providing open government, restoring funding for human services, supporting the recovery process for people affected by the Fourmile Canyon fire and preserving open land for wildlife habitat and recreation, as well as for farming and ranching to enhance local food production.

Eva Kosinski wants more openness in county government by making minutes and reports available promptly online and rescheduling meetings and webcasts to make it easier for working folks to watch them.

She argues that the board should have five members instead of three, in part because it “sneaks under the radar of Sunshine laws.” She wants to protect property rights and believes that dictating home sizes is “just wrong.”

Kosinski also implies that the commissioners and city of Boulder government are in cahoots too often. She says “it’s time to take a closer look at the historically interwoven coordination of decisions between the county commissioners and the city of Boulder to create a fairer balance and ensure that the interests of all of the county’s residents are considered in every decision.”

Dick Murphy has a Ph.D. and a strong financial background, having served as deputy treasurer and chief investment officer for the state of Colorado in the 1970s, a general partner at Boettcher and Company in the 1980s and chief financial and operating officer of the Boulder Valley School District in the 1980s.

All seem like strong candidates, but Domenico has done an admirable job, and there is no compelling reason to

vote her out. n COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER Hillary Hall

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We certainly appreciate Republican Daniel Martin’s desire to increase efficiency and accountability in counting votes (not to mention his taste in music — he lists Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles among his favorites). But his call for no more mail-only elections and the elimination of serial numbers and barcodes on ballots seems a bit extreme. We are as cynical as the next guy when it comes to election fraud, given the way Shrub won his first election, but there has to be some way of tracking where the votes have gone, if for no other reason than to ensure against shenanigans.

While there have been some delays in Boulder County election tallies in the past decade, the administration of Hillary Hall has taken measures to correct the mishaps and has made vast improvements over previous votecounting operations.

“We have enhanced our testing and election preparation to address potential issues, and we are proud of our auditing and verification processes,” Hall says. “We have also implemented online vehicle registration, improved the auditing and canvassing of our elections, and improved our recording system. We are especially proud that we have executed all of these responsibilities under budget.”

Hardworking Hall has made enough improvements to be re-elected. n COUNTY SHERIFF Incumbent Joe Pelle, a Democrat, is running unopposed, and we support him. Pelle takes a sincere and compassionate interest in the wellbeing of county residents, demonstrated every day in his actions and those of his staff. On top of that, he’s a badass.

We’re glad to be able to keep him around. n COUNTY SURVEYOR So the surveyor is that dude who makes sure your property lines are correct and also maps out things like topography and buildings. Democrat Jason Emery, the incumbent, is running unopposed.

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BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 BOULDERWEEKLY.COM n COUNTY TREASURER Robert Hullinghorst

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Republican Marty Neilson wants to bring “a reflection of liberty and selfdetermination” to Boulder County government, which she says is “rife with tyranny of single-party rule.”

Ouch. We never knew oppression could go unchecked for so long without someone saying something.

Neilson’s goals seem noble enough: ensuring riskaverse investments of taxpayer money to fulfill the county’s financial obligations, effective management of the treasurer’s office, great customer service. She also wants to implement other counties’ online tax lien sales programs to generate cost savings and a more user-friendly environment for buyers.

But Robert Hullinghorst, the incumbent, has a strong track record that includes creating a lean government training program called “SLIM.” Hullinghorst says his office is now serving 50 percent more taxing authorities, has a higher tax collection rate and is collecting more taxes, all without an increase in staff.

Also among his accomplishments he lists various pieces of legislation his office has initiated to benefit seniors, members of the Colorado National Guard and Army Reserve, churches, nonprofits, small businesses and local governments.

Then there is the customer service program his staff created. “To add fun like the famous Seattle Fish Company, but without throwing fish, we start Fridays with a dance,” he says.

We’re going with Hullinghorst, despite the tyranny. n COUNTY ASSESSOR Jerry Roberts

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Incumbent Jerry Roberts, a Democrat, has more than 30 years of experience in the field and is a licensed appraiser. He says his opponent does not have experience in appraisal or real estate.

“I don’t think the voters of Boulder County would consider voting for a sheriff without law enforcement experience, or a coroner without forensic experience, or the county surveyor without a surveying license,” he says.

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has won three distinguished assessment jurisdiction awards from the International Association of Assessing Officers, which he says “is more of these awards than any jurisdiction in the world.”

Republican challenger Joel Champion describes himself as a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a retired small business owner and corporate executive. He says he has more than 40 years of experience as “a practicing leader and manager.”

Champion holds a Ph.D. in management and organization theory and has taught at the university level.

While Roberts deservedly caught some heat after his office drastically underestimated the value of the home of Boulder City Council member Macon Cowles, he is clearly more qualified than his opponent. n CORONER Daniel Pruett

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Tom Faure is out, so either way we’re getting some new blood into the coroner’s office, so to speak. And that’s a good thing. It took Faure weeks to perform autopsies.

Both candidates are unaffiliated.

Emma Hall has training and experience as a crime scene investigator, evidence analyst, autopsy technician and death investigator. But since she has only worked in this field intermittently since 2005, she has a fraction of the experience possessed by her opponent. Daniel Pruett has 20 years of full-time experience as a medicolegal death investigator in Boulder and Jefferson counties. He is currently chief deputy coroner of Jefferson County. He also has eight years of experience as a paramedic prior to his coroner experience.

While Pruett’s statement to Boulder Weekly that he “can keep the same quality of death investigation going in Boulder, if not better” is not exactly inspiring, his experience trumps that of Hall, whose claim to fame seems to be that her family has lived in the county for more than 130 years and owned Hall Ranch in Lyons, where she grew up. n BOULDER COUNTY ISSUE 1A Funding for human services

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Ballot Issue 1A asks voters to approve a $5.4 million annual property tax increase of 0.9 mills for five years to backfill deficiencies in state funding for county human services programs.

In short, the county has found a way to stop the decay of its child and family safety net after the state stopped paying its share. Without 1A, human services programs for the most needy among us will be in even worse shape than they already are.

The language of 1A is clear that if the state ever recovers from this budget crisis and gets its you-know-what together, the county will lower the tax and let the state restore funding.

For now, though, the state isn’t going to come to the rescue of battered women, hungry children or anyone else with an immediate, emergency need, so it would be negligent of the county to leave them in the lurch. Everyone knows this isn’t the best time for a tax increase.

But it’s also not a good time to be in need of emergency help. Suck it up, and vote for this relatively small tax increase to make sure no member of our community is left behind in these difficult times. Vote YES. BOULDER COUNTY ISSUE 1B Funding for open space Yes

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This tax increase — equal to a penny and a half on every $10 purchase over the next 20 years — will be used to purchase the last large open space sites on the county’s 30-year wish list. These areas of land are around the Heil, Hall and Caribou ranches and contain major wildlife habitat, stream corridors and trail connections crucial to the county open space plan.

It’s tough to ask citizens to fund open space purchases during a recession, but this may well be the only time these key properties — family-owned ranches — will be available to the county as open space. The families who own the lands need to sell them now, and if the county doesn’t purchase them, developers will.

Voters have two choices: approve the tax and complete the plan that county leaders established more than 30 years ago when they established the open space program, or scrap the plan and allow developers to have their way with once-pristine forests and meadows.

Personally, we’d rather be able to hike from Boulder to Lyons in a beautiful natural setting than watch wealthy developers tear it apart for nothing more than their own profit. We’re voting in favor of this one. Vote YES.

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City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2A would increase the accommodations tax from 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent “to fund improvements and services to the residents and visitors of the city and to promote increased tourism in Boulder.”

Up to 20 percent of the revenues produced from this tax would go to the Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau and be specifically earmarked for promoting tourism and pimping Boulder to the rest of the world. The other 80 percent would go into the city’s coffers to cover budget gaps. The increase in revenue would raise up to $1 million each year and would never expire. The Boulder Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board supports the measure, as does the Boulder Hotel and Motel Association as a whole. While some hoteliers fear the increase in room rates could discourage visitors, others, including a majority of BHMA members, say more money is needed to promote tourism and are in favor of the issue.

We suggest voting in favor of Ballot Issue 2A because, quite frankly, the city could use the money, and an extra 2 percent — which would mean an extra two dollars for every hundred spent on a hotel stay — is a pretty small premium to pay for staying in one of the greatest cities in the nation. Plus, it’s not costing us residents anything. Vote YES on Issue 2A. n BOULDER BALLOT ISSUE 2B Five-year utility occupation tax to replace lost franchise fee revenue Yes

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Ballot Issue 2B is a bit tricky to explain, but easy to vote for. When energy provider Xcel was under a franchise agreement with the city of Boulder, Xcel paid a franchise fee of about $4 million each year to use our roads and rights-of-way. Like any good corporation, they passed that cost directly onto consumers in order to protect their bottom line, and Boulder residents have paid this fee for years as part of their monthly energy bill. A bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but apparently it got the job done.

When the City Council decided to axe the franchise agreement with Xcel,

the franchise fee went out with the bath water. The $4 million-a-year bath water, that is. To make up the lost revenue that Xcel was paying by way of residents’ wallets, the city wants to put a new tax in its place — a replacement tax, you might call it. If Ballot Issue 2B passes, the city will tax the public utility company serving Boulder (for the meantime, that’s still Xcel). And like the franchise fee, this new tax would be passed on to consumers.

That means you’d be paying the same amount of money each month, just with a different name. Chances are, you didn’t even notice you were paying it in the first place, but the city sure did. Losing that much money would hurt nearly every city department, including police, fire, public works and parks and recreation.

The ballot issue also includes language instructing the city to develop a plan for increasing Boulder’s renewable energy use. Not only would the replacement tax keep Boulder from going broke, supporters say, it would get us started down a path of truly sustainable energy. Vote YES on 2B. n BALLOT QUESTION 2C City of Boulder height limit exception for renewable energy improvements Yes

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What do spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys and silos have in common?

They are all on a list of exceptions to Boulder’s 55-foot building height limit.

Ballot Question 2C asks whether rooftop renewable energy improvements, like solar panels, should be on that list, too. Allowing renewable energy “appurtenances,” as they’re called, to exceed the 55-foot limit means more homes and businesses could take advantage of the 300 days of sunshine and reduce their carbon footprint.

Sounds good to us.

And while these structures would be exempted from the 55-foot limit, that doesn’t mean we’d suddenly have gigantic, unattractive solar panels and turbines obstructing Boulder’s beautiful vistas. There are still requirements that any additions be no larger than absolutely necessary and as unobtrusive as possible.

“In most cases these solar panels aren’t going to be all that visible anyway because of the angle they have to be at,” says Karl Guiler, a planner with the city’s land use review department.

Vote YES on Ballot Question 2C. Boulder Weekly

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City of Louisville Ballot Issue 2D asks voters to approve a 3.5 percent use tax to replace the city’s current 3.375 percent use tax. The increase would allow the city to collect an additional $1.5 million annually. The extra funds will be used for open space, historic preservation and other uses to be determined by the Louisville City Council.

Louisville has been named the best place to live in the country by Money Magazine and the book Best Places to Raise Your Family, but it won’t make any lists in coming years if something doesn’t change. Low revenues have forced the city to cut some services and abandon altogether its 2010 fireworks display, a genuine small-town tradition.

This relatively small tax increase will help restore some of Louisville’s charm without digging too deeply into residents’ pockets. Vote YES on Louisville Ballot Issue 2D. n TOWN OF JAMESTOWN BALLOT QUESTION 2E Publication of ordinances Yes

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To save money, the Town of Jamestown is proposing a ballot question that would allow the city to publish proposed ordinances by title only, instead of printing them in full in a newspaper, as they are required to do now.

While the Town of Jamestown is to be commended for seeking cheaper solutions to some of its duties, the publishing of ordinances is too important a part of the democratic process to abandon.

We certainly understand that municipal budgets are tight, if not shrinking, in this economy, and we can sympathize with the desire to save money.

But by publishing the titles only, the city would force residents to do further research to understand an ordinance.

The law was put in place originally to give residents easy access to the public business of its town council, and hindering that process in any way would come at the expense of the liberty of the people of Jamestown.

We’re sympathetic to the need for Jamestown to save revenue, but the public’s business — especially a city’s ordinances — need to be available to the public in their entirety. Vote NO on Town of Jamestown Ballot Question 2E.

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n TOWN OF JAMESTOWN BALLOT QUESTION 2F Prohibition of medical marijuana operations Yes

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Jamestown Ballot Question 2F would prohibit the operation of medical marijuana centers, cultivation operations and facilities for which a medial marijuana-infused products manufacturer’s license is required.

With more and more municipalities approving the use of medical marijuana, it stands to reason that there will have to be places where the stuff is grown, manufactured and distributed. Putting up barriers to such inevitability is pointless, as the residents of Jamestown doubtless already know.

Medical marijuana is a valid way for those who suffer from chronic health conditions to seek relief. It’s also a form of grassroots health care reform because marijuana isn’t controlled by Big Pharma, hospitals or the insurance companies. We need to support, not inhibit, the growth of this alternative health industry.

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Yeah, paying taxes kind of blows, but so does a crippled education system.

And considering all the cuts coming down the pipeline from the state, our schools are going to need a serious crutch. The Boulder Valley School District mill levy override, Ballot Issue 3A, would increase property tax revenue by a total of $22.5 million in 2010, for collection in 2011.

BVSD has already cut $11.7 million from its 2010-11 budget, and while some of those cuts were restored by federal emergency funds, that’s only a short-term solution. Ballot Issue 3A would increase 2011 residential property taxes about $130 on a $350,000 home, or a little more than 35 cents a day. The money would go toward early childhood education, teacher and staff compensation and keeping class sizes down.

Supporters of the measure warn that without 3A, programs and services will have to be cut and class sizes will increase. Education really is the most important gift we can give our children and the best way to invest in our future.

Vote YES on Ballot Issue 3A.

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n STATE SENATE DISTRICT 16 Jeanne Nicholson

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Tim Leonard, who acknowledges that he has never been elected to office, touts the typical Republican company line: decreasing taxes, lifting burdens on the free market, reducing regulations, fewer bureaucrats in the government wasting our money.

This wouldn’t be such a bad idea if Colorado had a bloated state budget, but the opposite is true.

And unfortunately, when it comes to undocumented immigrants, he sounds like Tom Tancredo.

“Illegal immigrants should not be given the economic incentives to come or stay in Colorado based upon taxpayer-paid free benefits,” he says. “Free social welfare only attracts free-loaders. In addition, Colorado needs an Arizona-type law making it illegal to reside in our state illegally.”

Jeanne Nicholson seems to be more in tune with reality and mainstream values. She has a good handle on a variety of issues, from water and transportation to education and renewable energy. Nicholson believes Colorado should have one nonprofit health care system that treats everyone equally. She believes that reproductive health decisions should be made by the individual and not the government.

And she believes that homosexuals should have the same rights as everybody else.

Plus, she thinks marijuana should be legalized, regulated and taxed.

Amen, sister. Vote Nicholson. n STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 10 Democrat Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, the incumbent, is running unopposed.

Plus, she has a cool name. n STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 11 Deb Gardner

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Republican Wes Whiteley agree on at least one thing: that improving the state’s economy and creating new jobs are the highest priorities for Colorado’s Legislature. They just disagree on how to get the job done.

Gardner talks about investing in education, because it results in the development of new technologies and new business.

Whiteley says cutting taxes and reigning in spending will jump-start Colorado’s job market.

Um, last we checked, the state budget has been slashed by millions over the past couple years, and any fat that existed before has been trimmed, along with a fair amount of muscle and bone. There’s simply nothing left to cut.

We happen to agree that investing money — not that there is any — in education will ignite the economic recovery more than additional state budget cuts.

We prefer Gardner in this budget environment, because anyone who says we need to cut taxes further in a lowtax state like Colorado should have his or her head examined, especially considering what TABOR and Amendment 23 have done to strangle the public coffers in the past decade.

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This race actually gave us pause.

Matt Jones has the experience, having served in the Legislature before, but he was accused of engaging in a type of negative campaigning known as a “push poll” earlier this year against his opponent in the Democratic primary, Jake Williams.

Jeffrey Ilseman, to his credit, con-

centrates on solutions to economic recovery in his talking points, instead of veering into some of the more controversial stances taken by many of his Republican colleagues, but he implies that taxes need to be cut further in a state that is in a financial straitjacket.

Bo Shaffer is not as extreme as some of the other Libertarian candidates and rightly points out that Jones has already had his chance to change politics as usual in the Legislature, and that Ilseman has no experience in the political arena.

But he accuses Democrats of almost bankrupting us with taxes “to pay for socialist programs,” which is a bit out there.

It was a tough call, but we’ve got a slight lean toward Jones. He has pioneered energy conservation legislation, beaten cancer twice, prioritized funding for education, and he serves as a wildland firefighter. n STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 13 Claire Levy

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Republican Robert Houdeshell says voters can let an “out of control state government tax more, regulate more and kill more jobs, or they can vote for relief.”

This state government, if anything, is out of control only in the sense that it can’t afford to cover basic expenses any longer. To imply that the state government is taxing more in an environment in which massive budget cuts have been and are being made to essential public services is ludicrous.

“We cannot ignore the facts and pretend that Colorado can provide the services its residents need while cutting taxes at the same time,” says Democrat Claire Levy. “The families in House District 13 want excellent schools. They

want public safety. They want a functioning transportation system. They want the state to police the big insurance companies, banks and mortgage lenders that have grown rich while others suffered. The legislature has made responsible and balanced decisions under extremely difficult circumstances.

Colorado continues to rank among the top five business-friendly states.”

Levy helped sponsor legislation expanding the use of alternative energy with “solar gardens,” not to mention the Boulder Weekly-inspired law regulating the shackling of female inmates in labor.

We will be voting for Levy. n STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 33 Dianne Primavera

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Like most of the candidates, Don Beezley wants to create jobs and economic opportunity. But he says the “legislature has shown it is sorely lacking in basic common sense in these areas,” and wants to pursue legislation that “sets the foundation for creating real, lasting jobs so we can create opportunity for Coloradans while watching our budget and growing our economy.”

So, once again, we have a Republican who insists we need to cut even more from a state budget that has been slashed by millions already and is barely able to fund minimal public services. Granted, it may be tempting for those who are cash-strapped in this economy to be attracted to the idea of keeping more in their pockets, but how about roads, education, prisons and health care? We are already scraping bone here, people.

Dianne Primavera is a seasoned veteran who has already supported a jobs tax credit for companies and recently sponsored a job fair in the district. She claims to have saved taxpayers $140 million by eliminating corporate tax giveaways, and as a four-time cancer survivor, she’s been tough on insurance companies, passing legislation that bans them from handing out bonuses for denying claims.

Our pick is Primavera.

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BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 l BOULDERWEEKLY.COM n FOURMILE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BALLOT ISSUE 5A Yes

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The Fourmile Fire Protection District currently receives an annual mill levy of 7.292 for general operating expenses. The district wants to increase that annual mill by 4.708. One mill amounts to $1 for every $1,000 of property value in the district. The district encompasses 22 square miles that include the towns of Orodell, Crisman, Salina, Summerville, Wallstreet and Sunset, with a total population of 2,200.

There are four fire stations in the district that are staffed by 40 volunteers and house seven emergency vehicles: three engines, three water tenders and one Humvee brush truck.

During the recent Fourmile fire that burned more than 6,000 acres, the district exhausted its resources within the first couple of days of the fire and required assistance from neighboring districts and eventually state and federal support. The district also lost one of the four stations in the fire.

This is a no-brainer. Vote YES. n LYONS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BALLOT ISSUE 4A Yes

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The Lyons Fire Protection District wants to spend up to $870,000 on a structural/wildland urban interface engine and water tender truck to replace outdated vehicles, as well as a quick-response vehicle and firefighting and fire protection equipment, including a portable diesel pump and a portable generator. There will be a maximum

repayment of up to $1.5 million and an annual tax increase of up to $150,000 in the district.

With the recent wildfires in the area, we think this is a worthy cause to invest in. It’s not a question of whether there will be another big forest fire here in Boulder County, only a question of when. Vote YES. n SUGAR LOAF FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BALLOT ISSUE 5B Yes

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The Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District is asking for the mill levy that was approved by voters in 1996 to be extended. The levy, which is used to cover basic fire prevention capabilities and replacing capital equipment, is set to expire at the end of 2010. The Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District covers 17 square miles and includes parts of Colorado Hwy. 119, Sugar Loaf Road, Magnolia Road, a water treatment plant for the City of Boulder, Boulder County Open Space, City of Boulder Mountain Parks and several thousand acres of Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest. Thirty to 40 volunteers staff the district year-round, using three stations and 10 emergency vehicles. The Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District also helped in fighting and containing the Fourmile Canyon fire.

Considering that fire and its impact, who wouldn’t vote to extend this useful tax? Vote YES. n JUDGE RETENTION As usual, there will be a whole slew of questions on the ballot about whether to retain state and local judges. None

Ballot Issue 3C for Park School District R-3 asks voters for a $2.5 million total debt increase for the district, with a repayment of $2.7 million and no increase in property taxes.

But this measure would only go into effect if Amendment 61 passes.

(Amendment 61, as you might know, is one of what is being called the “Bad Three” and could have disastrous consequences for school funding.)

Measure 3C would basically give the school district authority to borrow extra funds if needed, providing a safety net in the event that the state’s no-interest loan program is suspended. If Amendment 61 fails, then it’s business as usual and the school district doesn’t have to borrow any extra money. Not only is this measure a good idea in and of itself, but we also have to applaud the district’s forward thinking. Better to have a plan and not need it than to be caught with your pants down. Vote YES on Park School District Ballot Issue 3C.

Bob Wilson and Lorraine Anderson are competing for the RTD Board of Directors for District L. The directors are elected to terms of four years. District L includes portions of Arvada, Broomfield, Louisville, Superior and Westminster.

A major focus for both candidates is kick-starting the FasTracks program, specifically the Gold Line, which would run from Denver to Arvada/ Wheat Ridge. Both Anderson and Wilson say that while a tax increase will almost certainly be needed to help pay for the project’s completion, grants, loans and other “creative” sources of funding need to be found as well.

Lorraine Anderson has worked with local government for 24 years and has represented Arvada on the Denver Regional Council of Governments for 17. Anderson says she has good relationships with local and regional leaders and will be able to build strong coalitions with a variety of groups.

Wilson stresses that he is a candidate, not a politician. A professional engineer registered with the state, he says he will use his experience in power systems engineering, along with his understanding of infrastructure engineering, project management and land use to finish the FasTracks project quickly. He also stresses the importance of making FasTracks and other projects “green,” and says he has the expertise to help make this possible.

We’re going with Bob Wilson.

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of the judges deserve the boot. The Colorado Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation, which monitors judges in the state, has ruled that all of the judges and justices that are on this year’s ballot in Boulder County merit retention, and we’ll go with their recommendation. n PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT BALLOT ISSUE 3C Yes

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John Tayer is running unopposed.

Obama will triumph — and so will America

by Frank Schaeffer BEFORE HE’D SERVED even one year, President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted left and engendered the white-hot rage of the hate-filled right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right-wing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter — are sticking with our president. Why? Because he is succeeding.

We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us.

Obama’s steady supporters will be proved right.

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Obama’s critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst.

The context of the Obama presidency Not since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any president led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any president faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition — from both the right and left.

As the president’s poll numbers have fallen, so has his support from some on the left who were hailing

him as a Messiah not long ago; all those lefty websites and commentators that were falling all over themselves on behalf of our first black president during the 2008 election.

The left’s lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling “prophecy” — snipe at the president and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn’t have anything to do with it!

Here is what Obama faced when he took office — none of which was his fault: • An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries • Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral see OBAMA Page 24

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• The worst economic crisis since Limbaugh. the Depression The utterly discredited Roman • America’s standing in the world at Catholic bishops teamed up with the the lowest point in history utterly discredited evangelical leaders to • A country that had been misled denounce a president who was trying to into accepting the use of torture of pris- actually do something about the poor, oners of war the environment, to diminish the num• A health care system in free fall ber of abortions through compassionate • An educational programs to help system in free fall women and to care • A global envifor the sick. And in ronmental crisis of Congress the The president’s history-altering proRepublican leadercritics, left and portions (about ship only knew one which the Bush word: “No!” right, all had one administration and In other words, thing in common: the Republicans had the reactionary done nothing) white, rube, uneduimpatience laced • An impasse cated, crazy with little to no between culture American far right, warriors from the combined with the sense of history (let right and left educated but alone reality) • A huge finanobtuse neoconsercial deficit inherited vative war monthrown in for good from the terminally gers, religious right measure. irresponsible Bush shills for big busiadministration ness, Libertarian And those were Fed Reserve-hating only some of the problems sitting on gold bug, gun-loving crazies, childthe president’s desk. molesting acquiescent “bishops,” frontier loons and evangelical gay-hating ‘Help’ from the Right? flakes found one thing to briefly unite them: their desire to stop an uppity What did the Republicans and the black man from succeeding at all costs. religious right, Libertarians and halfbaked conspiracy theorists — that is ‘Help’ from the Left? what the Republicans were reduced to by the time Obama took office — do to What did the Left do to help their “help” our new president (and our coun- newly elected president? Some of them try) succeed? They claimed that he excoriated the president because they wasn’t a real American, didn’t have an disagreed with the bad choices he was American birth certificate, wasn’t born being forced to make regarding a war in here, was secretly a Muslim, was a Afghanistan that he’d inherited from white-hating “racist,” was secretly a the worst president in modern history.

Communist, was actually the AntiOthers stood up and bravely proChrist and was a reincarnation of Hitler claimed that the president’s economic and wanted “death panels” to kill the policies had “failed” before the president elderly. even instituted them. Still others said They not-so-subtly called for his that since all gay-rights battles had not assassination through the not-so-subtle been fully won within virtually minutes use of vile signs held at their rallies and of the president taking office, they’d even a bumper sticker quoting Psalm been “betrayed.” (Never mind that 109:8. They organized “tea parties” to Obama’s vocal support to the gay comsound off against imagined insults and munity is stronger than any other presiall government in general and gathered dent’s has been. Never that mind he to howl at the moon. They were led by signed a new hate crimes law.) insurance industry lobbyists and Those who had stood in transfixed deranged (but well-financed) “commen- legions weeping with beatific emotion tators,” from Glenn Beck to Rush on election night turned into an angry

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BOULDER WEEKLY l VOTE 2010 BOULDERWEEKLY.COM mob saying how “disappointed” they were that they’d not all immediately been translated to heaven the moment Obama stepped into the White House!

Where was the “change”? Contrary to their expectations, they were still mere mortals.

And the legion of young new supporters was too busy texting to pay attention for longer than a nanosecond … “Governing?! What the hell does that word, uh, like, mean?”

The president’s critics, left and right, had one thing in common: impatience laced with little to no sense of history (let alone reality) thrown in for good measure. Then, of course, there were the white, snide know-it-all commentators/talking heads who couldn’t imagine that maybe, just maybe, they weren’t as smart as they thought they were and certainly not as smart as their president. He hadn’t consulted them, had he? So he must be wrong.

The Obama critics’ ideological ideas defined their idea of reality rather than reality defining their ideas — say, about what is possible in one year in office after the hand that the president had been dealt by fate, or to be exact, by the American idiot nation that voted Bush into office … twice!

Meanwhile, back in the realitybased community — in just 12 short months — President Obama: • Continued to draw down the misbegotten war in Iraq • Thoughtfully and decisively picked the best of several bad choices regarding the war in Afghanistan • Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights • Restored America’s image around the globe • Banned torture of American prisoners • Stopped the free fall of the American economy • Put the USA squarely back in the bilateral international community • Put the USA squarely into the middle of the international effort to halt global warming • Stood up for educational reform • Won a Nobel peace prize • Moved the trial of terrorists back into the American judicial system of checks and balances • Did what had to be done to start the slow, torturous and almost impossible process of health care reform that seven presidents had failed to even begin • Responded to hatred from the

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right and left with measured good humor and patience • Stopped the free fall of job losses • Showed immense personal courage in the face of an armed and dangerous far-right opposition that included the sort of disgusting people that show up at public meetings carrying loaded weapons and carrying Timothy McVeigh-inspired signs about the “blood of tyrants” needing to “water the tree of liberty” • Showed that he could not only make the tough military choices but explain and defend them brilliantly But none of these were good enough for his critics.

Other than those “disappointing” accomplishments — in one year — President Obama “failed.” Other than that, he didn’t “live up to expectations.”

Who actually has failed ... are the Americans that can’t see the beginning of a miracle of national rebirth right under their jaded noses. Who failed are the smart-ass ideologues of the left and right who began rooting for this president to fail so they could be proved right in their dire and morbid predictions. Who failed are the movers and shakers behind our obscenely dumb news cycles who have turned “news” into stupid entertainment for an entertainment-besotted infantile country.

Here’s the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the help of his lefty “supporters” or hate-filled Republican detractors.

The future looks good After Obama has served two full terms (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts — with a canny and calculating eye to the possible — succeeds (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: Let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.

Just because we didn’t get everything we wanted in the first short and fraught year Obama was in office, not all of us gave up. Some of us stayed the course. And we will be proved right.

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times best-selling author whose most recent book is Crazy For God. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ork party” sounds like one of those deals where an afternoon of labor for a friend results in a few pizzas and beer.

But on Oct. 10, a wave of work parties around the world has a bigger pay-off in mind — nothing less than the salvation of the global climate.

The event, known as “10/10/10,” is the brainchild of activist group 350. org, co-founded by environmental author Bill McKibben in 2007. And a number of volunteers are working to ensure Boulder will be counted among the more than 50 participating Colorado towns, along with towns in every American state.

Volunteers Sarah Reed, Chelsea Hodge and 1Sky Colorado regional organizer Micah Parkin are the main organizers of what will be a day-long series of events, including workshops, a march, a rally, a raffle and an expo of green products and services, finishing off with a party at the St. Julien Hotel.

Their efforts are joined by a core group of more volunteers and a number of sponsors led by the City of Boulder Community Planning and Sustainability department.

“Bill McKibben specifically asked that this event be more about teaching and workshops, rather than activism like marches and demonstrations,” says Nathaniel Janowitz, the student sustainability coordinator at Naropa University.

So McKibben should be pleased with the more than 40 workshops that will be held on the Naropa campus, the University Memorial Center at CU-Boulder and other locations (some events are free, others require a fee).

The workshops range in subject from gardening to ocean preservation, lowering home utility bills to solar energy, making eco-products for home and personal use, and more.

The city of Boulder and Longs Peak Energy Conservation are also sponsoring a “Neighborhood Energy Sweep” as part of 10/10/10. Volunteers will visit an area where the residents have already been notified they are eligible for the free installation of energy-saving items and other services (volunteers will get free pizza out of that one).

Then there’s the “Carrotmob Party” at the St. Julien Hotel from 5:30 to 11 p.m. You can cavort for free to the music of several bands of various genres.

Half of the evening’s profits from food and drink sales will go to carbon-reduction initiatives.

Obviously, it’s going to be a long, busy day with something for everyone, from kids to elders. Yes, you can still volunteer and, no, you won’t be required to participate through the whole thing. One way or another, on this one day you can be part of the solution for climate change’s most threatening impacts.

You’ll have to go to the group’s website to see all of the workshops available and sign up for what you’re interested in. You’ll find the schedule there, links and information on volunteering.

On 10/10/10, events like these — in more than 170 countries — are meant to send a very loud and pointed message to our political leaders: “We’re working on the problem; what are you doing?”

For more information, check out http://boulder350.org.

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Arrests in scrap metal thefts Boulder County Sheriff ’s deputies arrested two men on Sept. 23 in connection with thefts of scrap metal from homes that were destroyed in the Fourmile Canyon fire.

Deputies responded at around 9 a.m. to the 5400 block of Sunshine Canyon after callers reported seeing two men loading scrap metal from destroyed homes into the back of their pickup truck. The truck was intercepted about one and a half miles up Sunshine Canyon and was stopped at Sunshine Canyon Drive, near Mount Sanitas.

The suspects, Cesar Antonio Ayala, also know as Cesar AyalaMorales, 20, of Longmont, and Jorge Salgado, 35, of Lafayette, are expected to be charged with trespassing and felony theft.

The sheriff ’s office has received several other reports of people taking scrap metal from the burn areas.

Even though the homes are destroyed, they are still private property, and anything located on the property still belongs to the owner.

Neighborhood watch Boulder police were called to the 5800 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Sept. 26 after someone reported that it appeared that a neighbor had been in an accident.

The caller said that his neighbor came home with heavy damage to the front of his car and had both front airbags deployed. The driver had run into a steel-filled pipe on 55th and Pennsylvania Avenue before driving home. The 39-yearold male was uninjured but was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, careless driving and operating an uninsured vehicle.

Copying the cops On Oct. 3 officers responded to the 3700 block of Wonderland Hill when someone reported that a man was impersonating a police officer.

The caller and her son were riding their bicycles when they were stopped by the suspect, who told them that it was against the law to ride without lights. When the victim asked for identification, the suspect refused, saying that he didn’t have to show it to her. The 53-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of impersonating a peace officer and driving under the influence.

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Unattended death investigated On Sept. 27, at around 4:45 p.m., Boulder County dispatch was notified of a deceased person in the 4700 block of White Rock Circle.

A roommate came home and found a 65-year-old who appeared to have committed suicide. The Boulder Rural Fire Department, Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office, detectives and the coroner’s office arrived on scene to investigate further. Officials do not suspect foul play but are continuing their investigation.

Two climbing rescues Two separate rescues were performed in Boulder County on Sept.

25.

The first was a 27-year-old woman who was injured while climbing in Eldorado Canyon State Park. Rocky Mountain Rescue Group and Eldorado Canyon State Park rangers were able to assist the woman and her climbing partner to the ground and provide medical assistance.

The second rescue occurred in Boulder Canyon when a 31-year-old man climbing in the Boulderado area fell 20 feet to a ledge below.

Rocky Mountain Rescue Group and Nederland Fire Protection District were able to reach the climber.

Both climbers suffered numerous injuries and were evacuated to receive medical care.

Hot air balloon crash?

On Sept. 24 Boulder County Sheriff ’s deputies, Colorado State Patrol and Boulder Rural Fire responded to a report of a hot air balloon making an emergency crash landing in a parking lot.

At 9 a.m. reports came in of hot air balloon landing in a parking lot in the area of Habitat Drive and White Rock Circle. Residents of the nearby apartments had made the 911 calls.

However, the pilot of the hot air balloon told officials that the balloon, owned by Sunny Day Come Fly Away Hot Air Balloon Company, did not crash, but had to land after it could not gain enough altitude due to a lack of wind. None of the nine people on board the balloon were injured and no property was reported damaged in the landing.

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

The Big Lebowski shows at the Boulder Theater on Wednesday.

Thursday, Oct. 7

Argentine Tango — Dance the sexiest dance in the world. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado.org.

Friday, Oct. 8

Laser Tool — If James Maynard Keenan were dead, he might be rolling in his grave. 10:45 p.m.

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

Yuri

Popovich sits silently in the lotus position on Mars, his heart registering just one beat a minute, as Robert Dresner’s thought-provoking evolutionary novel ReGenesis opens.

Editor’s note: This article contains a number of spoilers for the Astral Imperatives trilogy.

Popovich, the lone survivor of the original mission to Mars, has completely retreated into himself and has sat in his seemingly unconscious state in a cave for 12 years as new settlers come and gawk at him.

In a moment of desperation, Richard, another astronaut who has been stranded on Mars for more than a decade and is feared and ostracized by the other colonists, pleads with the meditating man to help him save the petty, earth-centered colonists from themselves. He doesn’t expect an answer but gets one. Yuri simply states, “I am here.”

Richard is startled. He asks, “What happened to you Yuri?

Where did you go? Tell me, please, if you can. I need to know. What did you see?”

Yuri’s answer is simple, but sets Boulder Weekly

up the fantastic plot to this concluding book in Dresner’s Astral Imperative trilogy: “God. I saw God.” The questions of the existence of God and the possibility of another level of consciousness permeate this novel, set in 2053, because our existence on Earth has become so tenuous and our means of escape so limited. Environmental catastrophes, combined with rampant nationalism and runaway technology, have threatened the viability of the human race.

Depending on the character’s point of view (and to some extent the reader’s), Yuri is either a savior or a charlatan.

“Yuri was the one who had to bear witness on our human existence,” Dresner says. “He inhabits different realms and realities. Is he delusional? Do you believe him or don’t you? What happened to Yuri is not out of the realm of human expe-

rience. In my travels to India, I met people like that.”

The Yuri of the first two books did not seem a likely character for enlightenment. An astrobiologist by training and a world-renowned poet, he spent much of his time involved in all-too-human entanglements on the ship to Mars and on the red planet’s primitive space station. His conversion to a spiritual state did not occur until a battle between the colonists broke out at the end of the second book. Slowly, Yuri begins to reveal to the other characters just what he has seen during his 12-year sojourn communing with the divine.

“I’ve seen so much; I’ve lived so many lives and still live them. I’ve seen so much violence between beings, between countries, between worlds, between entire solar systems — even galaxies that demand more space to expand at the expense of other galaxies. I’ve seen suns that are

Saturday, Oct. 9

Boulder Farmers’ Market — Often, pickings become slim at the Farmers’ Market this time of year, but good weather means there’s plenty to pick through this time. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Sunday, Oct. 10

Run the Rocks — For the masochistic folk among us. 9:30 a.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Monday, Oct. 11

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. Bring your black turtlenecks and berets. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Tuesday, Oct. 12

Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-9342028.

Wednesday, Oct. 13

The Big Lebowski — Start abiding.

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

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jealous of one another’s light.”

Gradually, some of the colonists’ curiosity turns to revulsion as they learn just how radical Yuri’s visions were and just what they may mean for their own existence. Is he a madman or a prophet?

It’s a question that has been asked for centuries on Earth. It’s not an easy question for the reader when we hear Yuri get to the base of his creed.

“God is movement. God is evolution.

God is war. God is peace. God is raping and killing children. God is suffering for the sins of other beings in this life and in other lives, and dying for them . … And the greatest sin of all is when we are consigned to see the half of it, when the light of creation is divided into good and evil, and right and wrong, between what is divine and not divine, when we choose sides instead of choosing life when your very lives are at stake.”

For Yuri, the highest purpose of God is simply survival. Nothing truly dies. Our energy must be put into the effort to survive. Of course, for much of the novel, the very continuance of the human race is in doubt.

“Implicit in the movement to destruction is the will to survive,” Dresner says. “So far humanity, by the narrowest sliver, has moved ahead on the evolutionary scale. We always choose to live, even if we aren’t con-

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Robert Dresner will discuss his scious of how we sense that techthird novel ReGenesis at the make that choice.” nology will conBoulder Bookstore on Thursday, Dresner’s Earth is tinue to march Oct. 7. Talk starts at 7:30 p.m.

Free admission. 1107 Pearl St., still recognizable, on, producing 303-447-2074. with a few tweaks. everyday gadgets Nationalism, especialon one hand and ly a powerful Russia and China, still potentially destroying the human race dominate the political landscape despite on the other, imbues the novel with a the fact that most of the world’s probsense of fatalism. lems transcend geographic borders. Our “Like it or not, the next evolutionary worst fears of global warming won’t pre- step will be bio-technology,” Dresner pare us for his vision of 2053, where ter- says. “Our physiological beings will be rible earthquakes and fierce storms have married to tech expertise. That’s what visited the globe. Many parts of the can take us out of the solar system. A world experience perpetual summer, lot of the story is predicated on whether while Western Europe and the East we are prepared for that evolution.”

Coast remain mired in deep winter conOn Earth, the charismatic Fritz ditions all the way into May. Things are Kreiger believes that we are not ready to degrading so quickly that even the man make the evolutionary leap into space. in the moon can see our problems.

After reaching prominence during the “The view of Earth from moon orbit first manned mission to Mars as an was not as beautiful as it once was opponent of the program, he disapbecause of the smoke bellowing out of peared during the following years. The Australia and Africa, which clung to awakening of Yuri, an event that has as passing clouds and turned them gray,” many repercussions on Earth as on Dresner writes.

Mars, forces Krieger out of his anonyEven simple conversations in the mous life and back into the forefront of future are changing in subtle ways with the battle to save mankind. the emergence of techno-glasses. These Krieger visits the man who helped eyeglasses act as computer screens as create the powerful Dream Machine well as communication and recording that is housed on the Mars colony. The devices. They make today’s laptops, Dream Machine started as a simulated iPods and Bluetooth headsets seem holographic game in the first novel, but downright clumsy and obtrusive. The has now achieved sentience and has

either communed with the divine or been hijacked by an alien intelligence.

As Yuri and the Dream Machine set off from Mars to return to Earth tensions build between nations vying for control of the all powerful computer. It is Krieger, one of Dresner’s most balanced and finely drawn characters, that tries to take the lead in the response.

The question of just who Yuri is becomes paramount. In a world that is even more skeptical and cynical than ours it is certainly hard to accept Yuri at his word as he speeds towards Earth with something more powerful than all the bombs on the planet. The Dream Machine contains the power to both destroy and save humanity.

“We don’t have seers. We are such a regimented culture that we are losing our seers,” Dresner says. “Sometimes the greatest transformations of enlightened beings are discovered at the bottom of despair. How do you get to that bottom on Prozac or Ritalin? We are denying humanity the full range of experience.

When you have hooded instincts and padded senses, it is easy to get blind.”

Perhaps as readers contemplate some of the technological, ecological and spiritual issues that Dresner raises in ReGenesis, they will begin to see just a little more clearly into the future.

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Music, community and fire Boulder bands team with members of Phish for Fourmile benefit

by David Accomazzo

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eftover Salmon’s Vince Herman found out about the Fourmile Canyon fire while touring — his Nederland house was in the evacuation zone, but didn’t burn — and since returning to Boulder, he has yet to survey the now-torched land.

“I haven’t had the nerve to even drive through the area. It’s always been a really special place for me up there, and it’s kind of too much for me to handle looking at,” he says. “My personal favorite spot on the planet Earth is up there — a little place called Crow’s Nest. And from what I understand it’s charred completely.

“You can see Boulder and [U.S. Highway] 36 and all that traffic, city life down there, and then you turn the other way and it’s just mountains — no street lights. It’s a perfect yin-yang spot to watch the sun set and the moon rise. It’s just the center of the universe to me. I just can’t bring myself to go up there yet.”

The “Big Four” Boulder bands of the ’90s and ’00s — The String Cheese Incident, a suspiciously Leftover Salmon-like combo billed as “Vince Herman and Drew Emmitt & Friends,” Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Yonder Mountain String Band — will join for a concert to benefit Fourmile Canyon fire victims on Saturday, Oct. 9, at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield.

Joining the Big Four will be Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page McConnell and Trey Anastasio — the members of legendary jam band Phish, billed as “Very Special Guests.”

No one will say for sure if the Phish guys will play a set, and the press release announcing the show didn’t specify if all four members would play as a group at the same time.

“It’s going to be a fantastic event,” says Don Strasburg of AEG Live. “We’re sure unique musical

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of people. Even if just for clothes, hotels in the meantime … The band is obviously behind it right from the beginning.”

Aijala also adds that there is a possibility of mix-and-match jam sessions between the bands. He says such collaborations would be “hell for the guy doing the sound,” but that the musicians would most likely look forward to it. Nevin agrees.

“I think there’s probably going to be a bunch of collaborations,” Nevin says.

“Everyone is kind of talking about sitting in with each other. I don’t think anything’s been Leftover Salmon solidified.”

Bassist Keith Moseley of String Cheese Incident (SCI) also lives in the Fourmile opportunities will arise; we’re just not sure what those evacuation area, and he has friends who lost their will be.” homes. He says he instantly started thinking about how Tickets for the show sold out minutes after going to help once the fire started burning. on sale. “[SCI guitarist Bill Nershi] and I started talking Brian Nevin, drummer for Big Head Todd and the Monsters, lives around Fourmile Canyon, and his home about doing a benefit concert right after the fire and contacted our management about it,” he wrote in an was in the evacuation zone. He didn’t lose his home, but he knows people who did. He says he and the other e-mail to Boulder Weekly. “A few days later we heard back from them that KBCO was wanting to put someband members jumped at the opportunity to help. thing together and that other bands were also wanting “These are our friends and neighbors, and a good portion of these bands live up in the foothills of Boulder to play. I am really proud and excited that this event has generated so much community support and hope County,” Nevin says. “When we were looking for what that it will go a long way towards helping the folks that can we do to help, it was kind of a no-brainer.” need it the most.”

For Adam Aijala, guitarist for Yonder Mountain All proceeds will go to the Boulder Mountain Fire String Band, the decision to play the show was easy.

“Obviously, some of us live in the mountains — my Relief Fund, which supports the volunteer fire departwife and I have lived in the mountains for 10 years, and ments and burn-area residents that were affected by the fire. as any area when there’s some sort of disaster, the local Nonprofit Conscious Alliance will also host a food community always tends to get together and help in drive at the show to benefit Boulder Community Food any way, and that was pretty much one of the first thoughts we had when the fire was still burning,” Aijala Share. Those bringing 10 non-perishable food items will receive a limited-edition poster by artist Richard says. “The idea of doing a benefit was pretty much Biffle. right off the bat.

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40 years of music

The Lehnert Solo/Duo plays a final concert at CU

by Peter Alexander

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swald Lehnert is making plans.

After more than 40 years teaching violin at the CU College of Music and literally hundreds of concerts worldwide as half of the Lehnert Solo/Duo with his wife, pianist Doris Lehnert, Oswald will retire from the university at the end of the current year. But he intends to stay busy.

“I want to do a lot of things with our family,” Oswald Lehnert says. “And do some benefit concerts for the homeless shelter.”

“He wants to do things for children,” Doris adds. “He talks about that a lot.”

“I’m sure I’ll teach,” Oswald continues.

“People ask me now about lessons next year.

And the Duo’s going to continue.”

In the meantime, there is a concert to rehearse — a celebration of Lehnert’s 42 years at the university. The concert, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12, in Grusin Music Hall, will feature Lehnert with a number of his faculty colleagues.

The performance is part of the College of Music Faculty Tuesday series, which presents free performances by faculty most Tuesdays during the academic year.

“We wanted to involve faculty members that we’ve played with throughout the years,” Oswald says. And so the program covers “a variety of relationships and experiences.”

To open the concert, the Lehnerts will be joined by three other members of the music faculty for a performance of Schubert’s popular and tuneful “Trout”: violist Erika Eckert, cellist Judith Glyde and double bassist Paul Erhard.

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pair of pieces with harpist Janet Harriman, and then two pieces by the Argentinean tango composer Astor Piazzolla with guitarist Jonathan Leatherwood.

“Doing something with the harp and doing something with the guitar is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Oswald says. Both are faculty colleagues whose playing he has admired, but with whom he has never had the chance to perform.

The grand finale and doubtless the highlight for fans will be the performance by the Lehnert Solo/ Duo. After 42 years in Boulder, they have become a much-loved fixture of the classical music scene. And while they have played on tour in Europe recently, this will be their first performance in Boulder in three years.

Oswald thought since it was his retirement concert, he should end with a big violin showpiece. He chose the “Carmen Fantasy,” a virtuoso tour through the most popular melodies from Bizet’s opera, in a version that was arranged for another violin legend, Colorado’s award-winning restaurant and music venue for adults of all ages. We can also host your business meeting or private event.

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The Lehnert Solo/Duo with other music faculty play Grusin Music Hall on the CU campus on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Free admission. Imig Music Building, Euclid Avenue and 13th Street, 303-492-8008.

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Jascha Heifetz. Of the many versions of the “Carmen Fantasy,” Oswald thinks it’s the best — and the hardest.

With so many different people to rehearse with, putting the concert together has been a complex task — new music to learn, teaching schedules to coordinate, rehearsal rooms to reserve — except, of course, for the “Carmen Fantasy.” For that familiar chestnut, Oswald and Doris just have to walk into their living room and get down to work.

That may sound easier than it really is.

When pressed, the Lehnerts admit that it’s not always smooth sailing, even after 52 years of working together. Like all chamber music groups, they sometimes have their differences.

“We fight like hell,” Oswald says.

“It’s much better than it used to be,” Doris quickly adds. “We always fought, mostly [about] volume. He would always say, ‘You’re playing too loud,’ you know. It was mostly a power struggle.

“Once the concert happens, we play, and everything is just fine. Because we don’t even think about the fights when we’re performing.”

One thing Oswald Lehnert does not plan to do for his faculty farewell concert is his traditional jump off the stage to play an encore in the audience. For one thing, he now has an artificial hip, and that flourish — long a part of the Lehnerts’ performances — “just doesn’t work” any more, Doris says. For another, Oswald doesn’t think the audience will want an encore.

“The program is so long already that I think that they will be happy to get out of there,” he says.

Considering that Boulder audiences have happily returned to the Lehnert’s recitals for more than 40 years, that may not be a safe bet. There’s no sign yet that they have had their fill of the Lehnerts.

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New BMoCA exhibits express fragmented unity

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t first glance, the three exhibitions of Colorado artists at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art appear to share little in common. Yet as the viewer ascends from the first to third floor of the museum, encountering the succinctly divergent worlds of each exhibition on its own separate floor, an integrative sense begins to pervade the seemingly differing style, content and subject matter of the artists. It’s ironically suiting that the unitive theme shared by these very different exhibits is that of fragmentation.

The first exhibit, Edits, by Stephen Batura, is a series of large-scale paintings based on fractured images. Batura makes collages from fashion and design photography, then delicately recreates the collages with paint on canvas. The result is a mix of realism with an almost Cubist abstraction.

“When I started this method, it was as more of an exercise to try something new, but as I made these collages, I realized that I was creating these mysterious forms that go in and out of recognizability,” Batura says. “Sometimes you can recognize part of it or you think you know what it is, but because you don’t have all the information, you’re not totally sure what you’ve seen.”

Viewing the paintings in Edits is similar to watching clouds in the sky that morph shape as they pass.

At first, the layered protean objects may look like pieces of colliding trains, but step back a few paces and they are vaguely redolent of a fabric study or a Rorschach test. Batura’s collage method transforms disparity into cohesion on the canvas.

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instead resigned to a shoebox in the back of a closet. For Shark, capturing those typically uninteresting scenes and addressing them with careful attention is a way to bring out the beauty and compelling details of any seemingly inconsequential or dull moment.

“When I started doing tai chi about 16 years ago, I learned that every move is equal, every move is important,” Shark says. “The way you get into a kick and the way you get out is just as important as the kick itself. As soon as I internalized that in my practice, I recognized that it was what I was interested in with my paintings as well.”

Donald Fodness and Alvin Gregorio, creators of the third exhibit, Shut Your Face Off!, fused different mediums and materials “Ars Longa” by Barbara Shark, 1998, oil on canvas, to deal with the complexity of contemporary 40-by-48 inches. Courtesy society. Through a purposefully hectic amalof the artist gamation of found objects, neon lights, video, drawings and sculpture, the duo’s installation splices splinters of memory and identity to dane nature. Her representational paintings depict create an environment for self-reflection. Their explofriends and family members in routine situations — sive aesthetic feels like stepping into a strange and having a relaxed conversation on a porch, driving in a cluttered childhood dream, overwhelming in intensity car, or arranging flowers in a kitchen. and stimuli.

“I’m not interested in the dramatic moments, “There’s fragmentation in the very act of collaboalthough I think the moments in between can be very ration,” Fodness says. “For Alvin and I there’s a lot of dramatic if you actually look at them and are aware of assemblage to turn the fragmented parts we each what’s happening,” Shark says. bring into a unified whole.”

Her images bring to mind the days before digital Associate Curator Petra Sertic notes that what’s photography, when the amateur photographer inevitaimportant to focus on isn’t the presence of fragmentably ended up with a stack of unsuccessful photos after tion, but rather what the artist does with it. each roll was developed — whether it was the random “It’s about how the artist collects fragments that snapshot of the passing stranger, the unsuccessful they bring together in their work, what they make of photo where the subject looked away, or the shot it and how they interpret it,” Sertic says. “It’s not just where the photographer accidentally caught his or her representations of the different pieces, but what they own visage in a mirror in the background. Shark’s create in the process of reflecting on those parts.” paintings, based on photographs she takes, are remiRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com niscent of those photos that never ended up framed,

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Thursday, Oct. 7

music Dan Treanor and Afrosippi Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Dave Devitt. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Hit List. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Holden Young Trio. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

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

The New Deal. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-5864116.

Open Percussion Jam. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

The Prohibition Six. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night.

Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344.

events Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado.org.

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

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30

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p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Under Rich Earth. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Buffalo Belles Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.

Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU campus, 303492-8422.

Colorado Skies: Cassini Update. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Comedy Works Presents Chuck Roy & Stephanie McHugh. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m.

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

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m.

Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Charles Deas & 1840s America — Oil paintings.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-8655000. Through Nov. 28.

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft — Drawings by Marc Brandenburg. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 20.

Edits — Paintings by Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 30.

Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Oct. 31.

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Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

International Film Series — The Sicilian Girl. 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.

Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

Introduction to HTML. 6-9 p.m.

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

Square Dance — With caller band.

7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Friday, Oct. 8

music 2:10 Special. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. $4 Shoe. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

7 Days Till Sunrise. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

arts arts Moments In Between — Paintings by Barbara Shark.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30.

Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-530-1442.

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

Boa and the Constrictors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Chris Miller,The Weatherfolk, Lara Ruggles. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

Conscious Elliot. 9:45 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Dechen Hawk. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Frokus. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Harp Blowout with Dan Treanor. 8 p.m.

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

Hot Club of Cowtown. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Jababa. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

James Piper. 6 p.m. Jill’s at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Levee Town. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

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

Neil Bridge 7+. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Opie Gone Bad. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

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

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427.

Free Metzger Social Media Breakfast. 7:45 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Mixed media by Barbara Bueller. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Nov. 30.

Shut Your Face Off! Mixed media by Donald Fodness & Alvin Gregorio. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through

Jan. 30.

Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 9.

A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

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Fourmile Canyon Benefit Concert — With Malcolm Watson, Something Underground and FACE. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-862-7321.

International Film Series — The Sicilian Girl. 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.

Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

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

Laser Tool. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Crowded Skies — Premier showing. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5440008.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

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

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

Saturday, Oct. 9

music 4-H Royalty. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

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

B.o.B. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Cornmeal — With Jet Edison. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Interstate Stash Express. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

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

Sunday, Oct. 10 Conversations in English. 10 a.m.

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

Query Letter Clinic. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

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Monday, Oct. 11 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

Tuesday, Oct. 12 Seth Chernoff ’s Manual for Living.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Katherine Leiner’s Growing Roots.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Steve Hoffman and the Organic Roots. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Harmonious Junk. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Kate LeRoux Band & Southern Exposure. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Mojomama. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Rich Ehrlich and Polka Mates. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

The Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Tempa and the Tantrums. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Fourmile Canyon Benefit Concert — With Malcolm Watson, Something Underground and FACE. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-862-7321.

Irish Session. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Lorrie Singer & Bradley Kopp. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-

665-2757.

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

Mason Brown. 9:45 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

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

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:306:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

The Birds. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Boulder Zydeco Dance. 7-10 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303440-8303.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

events Adobe Dreamweaver Hand-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

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

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance.

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

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-9102236.

Kathleen Spencer Johns’ Art Show.

12-6 p.m. 4395 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4409244. Through Oct. 10.

The Planets Uncovered. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

International Film Series — Life During Wartime. 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.

Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

Legend of the Tarantula — Travelling exhibit. The Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave., Westminster, 303-469-5441.

Through Nov. 28.

Triple Peak Challenge. 7:30 a.m.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Sunday, Oct. 10

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

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Blue Mountain Ranch Hands. 6 p.m.

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

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

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

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The 39 Steps. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arapahoe and Speer, Denver, 303-893-4100.

Through Nov. 14.

Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St.,

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

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

Kathleen Spencer Johns’ Art Show.

12-6 p.m. 4395 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4409244. Through Oct. 10.

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m. For more information, call 720-3013993.

Run the Rocks. 9:30 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Monday, Oct. 11

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-4636683.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-4435108.

events Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous — Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www.

BoulderCountyAA.org.

Boulder Public Library Film Program — The Minever Story. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

Marketing with Google AdWords — Free workshop. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce 42 October 7, 2010

Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 24.

Sunset Boulevard. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Oct. 10.

St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

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

Web Design One-Week Certificate Program. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Through Oct. 15.

Tuesday, Oct. 12

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

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

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

Illa J and Frank Nitt. 9 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace. com/astrolandd.

Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

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

Lance Canales and The Flood. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Producing the Documentary. 6-9 p.m.

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

Student Showcase — With Jack Gaffney and Emily Gould. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Jazz Night with Supercollider — 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Caffeinated Careers Club Fall Networking Event. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

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

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

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

Howl. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Kerosene Trio. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted

by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

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

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Backwords. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. b.bixler. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Boulder Weekly

Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Colin Hay. 8 p.m. L2 Arts & Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St., Denver, 303777-1003.

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

Greensky Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Janine Gastineau. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Balance and the JAH Disciples. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

Scott Martin Trio. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

events Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Big Lebowski. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People: Eric Cornell.

5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Compulsive Eaters AnonymousHOW. 6 p.m. Community United October 7, 2010 43

Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

Denver/Boulder Drupal Meetup. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister.

12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

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

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Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

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

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

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

Kids’ Calendar

Thursday, Oct. 7 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

Friday, Oct. 8

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

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

Saturday, Oct. 9 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Sunday, Oct. 10 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Monday, Oct. 11 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m.

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

Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m.

Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, Oct. 12 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

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The sex toy shoebox

by Dr. Jenni Skyler

S toy.

ara and Mark wanted to spice up their sex life. For their weekly date night, she suggested they venture to an adult store and buy a

“What kind of toy are you considering?” Mark asked.

Sara had no idea, having never made such a purchase. “Let’s just go into the shop and see what happens!”

A few days later, Sara and Mark found themselves at an adult store for the first time. It was packed with so many options they did not know where to start.

“I read an article that said sex-toy shopping is like buying a pair of shoes,” Sara said. “You have to follow your instinct on what feels most attractive and calls out to you.”

“How do we know if it will fit?”

Mark asked.

“Good question … maybe it’s one size fits all,” Sara suggested.

They decided to split up and find a toy that personally spoke to them. They re-grouped at the cash register to compare purchases. Mark found a large, rotating, dark blue dildo. Sara found a small, pink, multi-speed clitoral vibrator. They bought both and decided to name each. Mark chose “Steel Johnson”; Sara settled on “Bunny FrouFrou.”

Sara and Mark demonstrate a common challenge many couples face with regard to sex toys: To buy or not to buy … and if buying, which one?

Mark did not feel intimidated by Steel Johnson. In fact, he liked the idea of penetrating Sara with something besides himself. But many men feel threatened by big phallus-like sex toys, as if they are more powerful replacements for their own penis. But unless you strap it on, sex toys don’t come with a live person attached, and there is a lot to be said for eye contact and human touch.

Sara, on the other hand, was a little nervous at the prospect of Steel Johnson. She and Mark acclimated to Bunny Frou Frou first, then slowly introduced Steel Johnson. A few months later, they decided to get a toy specifically for Mark. Nervous, but intrigued by anal stimulation, they did some online research for prostate-safe Boulder Weekly

toys and settled on the Aneros toy, a male g-spot stimulator. Soon, they were making purchases for fantasy books, foreplay board games and toys for couples, including vibrating cock rings and a beginner’s bondage set with scarves and feathers.

Going to a local adult store can be an adventurous activity in and of itself.

You can hold the display toys or ask for advice from the friendly and knowledgeable employees. If you prefer more privacy, you can hire an expert consultant to host a sex-toy party with a close-knit group of friends. And if making your purchase in person still feels daunting, be an anonymous online shopper.

Keep in mind that buying a sex toy doesn’t mean your lover stinks in bed.

Buying a sex toy doesn’t mean that your own fingers, tongues or genitals don’t work well. Mark and Sara took a risk to open their sex life to items that would add seduction and sensation. These accessories were not substitutions for one another, but fun supplements to their sex life.

Like buying a pair of shoes, Mark and Sara learned that some activities call for running shoes, while some demand three-inch stilettos. One size may not fit all, but luckily there exists a plethora of toys to be used alone or in tandem, for various erogenous zones, gender or non-gender specific. And of course, it’s nice sometimes just to go barefoot!

“We really have started to learn that sex is so much more than basic penetration,” Sara states. “Our routine no longer follows a repetitive script. Steel Johnson and Bunny Frou Frou have since multiplied, and now sex is like a spontaneous dance where we can open our stimulating, sexual shoebox when we wish.”

Start adding to your shoebox tonight. Come to my free talk at Fascinations in Boulder at 7 p.m. on The Art of Oral Sex: A Guide to Fellatio and Cunnilingus, and get a free $10 gift card for in-store purchases. See you there!

Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Saturday, Oct. 9 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, Oct. 10 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

Turning Over A New Leaf — Nature program for kids. 10 a.m.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

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It’s one of the most beautiful and peaceful times to climb a fourteener. The crowds have thinned, the aspens are turning, and the threat of lightning has eased. But at 14,000 feet, autumn, like summer, is measured in weeks, not months, so the time to cash in on this golden season is running out.

About 500,000 hikers attempt to climb Colorado’s 54 fourteeners each year. The easiest peaks regularly see more than 400 hikers a day, according

by Dave Philipps to the nonprofit Colorado Fourteener Initiative.

After Labor Day, the number of hikers drops off dramatically. And with good reason. The summits usually get a good dusting of snow in the latter half of September.

Winter rolls in when the leaves are still green along the Front Range.

Once it’s here, only climbers with balaclavas, goggles and various pointy metal tools will be found in the mountains.

But there is a three- or four-week window in the fall when hikers can enjoy summer weather without sum-

mer crowds.

“I love climbing this time of year; all the people are gone,” says Eric Hunter, a guide for the Pikes Peak chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club. “Your pack needs to be just a little bit heavier because you need a few more clothes. The weather can be unpredictable.”

The fall often means fewer thunderstorms, although Hunter says, “Sometimes it just means you get snow and thunder at the same time.”

But generally, the skies are clear.

“The best part, though, is that the aspens are really starting to change,”

Monday, Oct. 11 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:306:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-5656019.

Natural First Aid and Survival Tips. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

Awesome Photography Of Namibia & Botswana. 7 p.m.

Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program.

5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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Hunter says, “so the hike up can be gorgeous.”

A peak-bagger’s packing list • Plenty of water and snacks (don’t assume you’ll find water above tree line) • Comfortable shoes (running shoes are fine for most easy peaks; sturdy boots should be used for more difficult peaks) • Thick socks • Raincoat and pants • Non-cotton clothing, including three top layers • Warm hat • Gloves, mittens or both • Sunscreen • Hat and sunglasses, ski goggles if you have them • Headlamp/flashlight, even if you’re not going overnight • First-aid kit • Map (usually photocopied pages of a guidebook will do) • Compass • Matches • Camera • Backpack • Gaiters (in case of snow)

Three of the easier climbs Mount Bierstadt A beginner fourteener with great summit views and minimal driving.

Elevation: 14,060 feet Elevation gain: 2,850 Round trip: 7 miles To get there: (Call 303-569-3251 before you go, because Guanella Pass was closed this summer from the Georgetown approach.) Take I-70 west. Drive just over 30 miles to the Georgetown exit (Exit 228). Drive through Georgetown and follow the signs to Guanella Pass. Drive 12 miles to the top of Guanella Pass (11,700 feet) and park in one of the two parking areas on either side of the road.

Mount Bierstadt is the large mountain to the east.

The hike: The trail starts near the

parking area on the east side of the road. Hike east on wooden bridges through a muddy willow thicket. The trail crosses Scott Gomer Creek after 0.5 mile. Soon the trail begins to climb switchbacks out of the willows to a point at 12,300 feet on the north end of the northwest shoulder of the peak.

The trail climbs south up the shoulder and becomes a bit more rugged. Gain the top of the ridge at nearly 13,800 feet.

Follow the trail left up the ridge to the summit.

Quandary Peak A straightforward, gorgeous peak with an easy-to-follow trail to an abrupt summit.

Elevation: 14,265 feet Elevation gain: 3,450 feet Round trip: 6.75 miles To get there: From Denver, take I-70 west. At Frisco, head south on Colorado Highway 9. After passing through Breckenridge, about two miles before the top of Hoosier Pass, turn right onto Blue Lakes Road (County Road 850). Drive a few hundred yards and turn right on the McCullough Gulch Road (County Road 851). There is a sign for the Quandary Peak Trail at the junction. Drive about a mile to a small, signed parking area on the right side of the road. This is the trailhead.

The hike: From the trailhead, walk a short distance up the road to a sign where the trail climbs left through the forest. Follow a great trail southwest through the forest. In less than a mile, it emerges above tree line. Cross a flat, open area near 11,600 feet and continue to the base of a steeper section near 11,700 feet. The summit will come into view a mile ahead.

Stay on the ridge and follow a clear trail to the summit. Above 14,000 feet, the slope begins to ease.

Mount Sherman The easiest fourteener: a high trailhead leading to a narrow summit that offers nice views of neighboring peaks.

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The boots also protect the dog’s feet from impact, which might help older dogs with hip problems. The boots feature uppers inspired by human shoes and a high-performance Vibram sole.

The problem with my dogs would be to get them to wear them without flipping all over the place and trying to get them off.

If your dog is into fashion you can choose between obsidian black or currant red. Price $59.95 (set of four). (c) 2010, The Idaho Statesman — MCT

Elevation: 14,036 feet Elevation gain: 2,000 feet to 2,800, depending on where you park on the road.

Round trip: 5.25 to 8.5 miles To get there: From Denver, take U.S. Highway 285 southwest, past Fairplay. After passing the intersection where Colorado Highway 9 hits 285 on your left, take the first right onto County Road 18 (Four Mile Creek Road). Drive 10 miles west to a parking area at 11,250 feet, just after a large mine building. This is the Leavick townsite. The road starts to get rough after this point, but passenger cars can slowly drive another 1.5 miles before the road gets harsh. There are some

small pull-offs before a gate at 12,100 feet.

The hike: Hike continues up the road, past the gate at 12,100 feet, and leads to a cluster of mine shacks at 12,300 feet. Turn right on the main road and follow the road as it winds northwest toward a clear saddle to the west and hooks back south to a prominent mine building. Shortly after the mine, look for a cairn and trail that turns right and climbs to the saddle.

From the 13,140-foot saddle, turn right and follow the ridge 1 mile north to the summit. (c) 2010, The Gazette (Colorado Springs) — MCT

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cross far too many stretches of our moviegoing lives, we see movie after movie without seeing one that really moves. At once stealthy and breathlessly paced, The Social Network scoots at a fabulous clip, depicting how its version of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made his billions, and, according to various allegations and two key depositions, whom Zuckerberg aced out of those billions, while following his digital yellow brick road. Is director David Fincher’s film the stuff of greatness? Not quite. But the picture is very, very good.

Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin do not, at first, appear to be a match made in heaven. Sorkin is few audience concessions, is to make the central figrelentlessly verbal, Fincher fastidiously pictorial. ure interesting without falling prey to cheap plays The meticulous, sinister mise-en-scene Fincher for our sympathy. brought to Seven, Fight Club and Zodiac informs the That night, drunk, Zuckerberg blogs about his atmosphere here, albeit in a subtler way. (The musi- ex, and in short order he hacks into the university’s cal score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross insinusystem to download female students’ pictures as part ates on the sly, making Zuckerberg’s ambition the of a “Who’s hot? Who’s not?” voting game. stuff of emptiness looking for fulfillment.) The Zuckerberg’s techno-acumen assured, he’s asked by worlds we see on screen, primarily Harvard the identical twins and future Olympic rowers Tyler University a few years ago and and Cameron Winklevoss the sweaty, sunny dot.com (Armie Hammer playing both Is director David Palo Alto, Calif. landscape a parts) to help create a little more recently, feel — Harvard-focused social netFincher’s film the deliberately — as remote and working site. On the downstuff of greatness? exotic as anything in Fincher’s low, Zuckerberg takes his mad Not quite. But the The Curious Case of Benjamin programming skills elsewhere picture is very, Button. and, with financial help from very good.

The movie begins with a Zuckerberg’s classmate nine-minute doozy of a scene, Eduardo (Andrew Garfield, a one-act play, really, set in a the film’s sympathetic connoisy Cambridge, Mass., bar. The boy-man destined science) something called “thefacebook” is born. The to create Facebook is about to get dumped. Harvard first scene’s prophecy becomes truth. Did undergrad Zuckerberg, played as an exquisitely Zuckerberg steal someone else’s idea? His line on ambiguous riddle by Jesse Eisenberg, sits across a that, in one deposition scene: “They came to me table from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara). The with an idea; I had a better one.” motormouth we hear in action, as Mark patronizes Justin Timberlake portrays Napster co-founder her non-Harvard self, bears out her characterization Sean Parker, who gets in on the Facebook action of him as “exhausting.” The scene ends with her and entices Zuckerberg with promises of billions, delivery of the thesis line: “You’re probably going to not to mention women, wine, song and drugs be a very successful computer person.” Then she (though Zuckerberg’s more or less disinterested in calls him an a-hole. The note is struck; the film’s all that; he lives to code). Timberlake is excellent at challenge, met with impressive confidence and very these sorts of bad boys. As good as Eisenberg and

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Garfield are, Timberlake is likely to attract the most attention. He is Zuckerberg’s siren, the father figure (not much older than Zuckerberg) who crows, “Private behavior is a relic of a time gone by!” in between cocaine-induced flights of paranoia.

Does the film play fast and loose with the facts? Yes. Most biopics do, and this isn’t even a conventional biopic. And that’s why it feels like something different. Its tone is rueful, skeptical, bittersweet. Sorkin’s facility with dialogue prevents the portentous visual quality from sitting on everything too heavily. Shot on digital video, the movie’s beautiful, as lighted in shadowy, oak-paneled tones by cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, but Harvard looks terrifyingly insular — like Hogwarts without the camaraderie.

Sorkin’s script owes a debt to his (unproduced) screenplay “The Farnsworth Invention,” which he later adapted for the stage. In that piece, a tantalizing new development in communications technology — television — becomes a battle for supremacy between a man with an idea, and a man with an idea of how to exploit it. Right down to its deft and multiple storytelling viewpoints, The Social Network works much the same ground. The people here aren’t larger than life; they’re so consumed by the project, and the speed at which it takes off, they become its servants, even as the money rolls in and the friendships run aground.

“People talk about Mark’s borderline Asperger’s, his horrific PR style, but I think that Facebook required someone with those kind of limited social skills,” Fincher has said. That’s the easy paradox of The Social Network: Antisocial geek creates globally popular social networking site, appealing to both social and antisocial types alike. One choice Sorkin line stays with me. “We lived on farms; then we lived in cities; and now we’re going to live on the Internet.” Gleeful overstatement, phrased just so.

The movies were made for that sort of talk, and an unlikely marriage of directorial and writerly sensibilities has produced one of the most stimulating films of the year.

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When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. At Chez Artiste and Starz. — Landmark Theatres

Alpha and Omega Two mismatched young wolves must work together to make the long journey home to prevent war in their wolf packs. With the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — MCT/ Los Angeles Times

Case 39 A social worker’s efforts to save a 10-year-old girl take a terrifying turn. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

The American As an assassin, Jack (George Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town.

While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact, Mathilde.

Savoring the peace he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of a local priest and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara. Jack and Clara’s time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Landmark Theatres Buried Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal) is not ready to die. But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there

Devil The devil is among a group of people trapped in an elevator. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. Rated PG-13. — MCT/Los Angeles Times Easy A

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Renee Zellweger shows off her intense acting skills in Case 39, a wouldbe thriller about a social worker and a creepy kid. or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival.

Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited. Poor reception, a rapidly draining battery, and a dwindling oxygen supply become his worst enemies in a tightly confined race against time — fighting panic, despair

and delirium, Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued before his worst nightmare comes true. At Mayan. —Chez Artiste Cairo Time

The story of a girl who gains a reputation as her high school’s No. 1 skank after her white lie about a boring weekend, Easy A is neither as smart nor as funny as it wants to be. Emma Stone’s character embraces her shame and the pretend shenanigans ensue. The movie is up-to-the-minute with text gossip and webcam narration, but a bit over the top. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Sheri Linden Eat, Pray, Love

Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a U.N. official working in Gaza, for a three-week vacation.

Ryan Murphy, creator of TV’s Glee and Nip/Tuck, directs this adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s mem-

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 Alpha and Omega Thu:12:25, 2:35, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 The American Thu: 2:30, 5, 7:25 Case 39 Thu: 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Fri-Wed: 10:15, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Devil Thu: 12:50, 3:05, 5:10, 7:35 Easy A Thu: 1:05, 3:20, 5:25, 7:50 Fri-Wed: 2:05, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 1:20, 4:15, 7:20 Fri-Wed: 9:40, 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Inception Thu-Wed: 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 It’s Kind of a Funny Story FriWed: 10:05, 2, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 12:05, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Life As We Know It Fri-Wed; 11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Let Me In Thu: 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2:15, 5, 7:30, 10:10 My Soul To Take Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 The Other Guys Thu: 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Secretariat Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Boulder Weekly

Alpha and Omega Thu: 11:45, 2:05, 4:15 Case 39 Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4, 7:25, 10:25 Catfish Thu: 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 3:55, 9:20, 11:35 Easy A Thu-Wed: 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Inception Thu: 7:05, 10:20 It’s Kind of a Funny Story FriWed: 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35 Jack Goes Boating Fri-Wed: 1, 3:15, 6:45, 9:50 Life As We Know It Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:15 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 8:45 Let Me In Thu: 12:55, 4:10, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 4:10, 7:40, 10:25 My Soul To Take Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Never Let Me Go Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:10, Secretariat Fri-Wed: 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:45, 7:55, 10:45 The Town Thu: 11:30, 1:05, 2:35, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu: 11:55, 3, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40

You Again Thu: 1:10, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 6:30 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Alpha and Omega Thu-Wed: 1, 3:40 The American Thu: 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 7:45, 10:25 Easy A Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Get Low Thu-Wed: 2, 5, 8, 10:35 Inception Thu-Wed: 3:30, 7, 10:10 My Soul To Take Fri-Wed: 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:40 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 2:20, 5:10, 7:35, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Life As We Know It Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10 Secretariat Fri-Wed: 12:50, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 The Town Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4, 7:10, 10:05 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 You Again Thu-Wed: 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303352-1992

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:40 Jack Goes Boating Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Last Train Home Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:20 Mao’s Last Dancer Thu-Wed: 4, 6:45, 9:30 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-3521992 Never Let Me Go Thu-Wed: 4, 5, 7, 8, 9:30 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Buried Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:30, 9:45 The Girl Who Played with Fire Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:45 It’s Kind of a Funny Story FriWed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 Cairo Time Thu: 4:55, 7:25 Fright Night Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

In My Sleep Thu: 5, 7:15 The Kids Are All Right Thu: 4:45, 7:20 Kings of Pastry Thu: 7 p.m. FriWed: 5, 7:30, 9:45 Peeping Tom Tue-Wed: 7 p.m.

Ready, Set, Bag Thu: 5:15, 7:30 Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Thu: 5, 7:35 Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo Fri-Wed: 5:15, 7:15, 9:30 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Alpha and Omega Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40 Devil Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Easy A Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Life As We Know It Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 My Soul To Take Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10 The Town Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7:05, 9:55 Secretariat Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:55 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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oir about a woman (Julia Roberts) who realizes she is unfulfilled, divorces her husband and goes on a trip around the world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron and Century. — Rene Rodriguez Fright Night Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), famed for portraying a ghoul hunter. Unfortunately for the would-be vampire slayers, Dandridge has set his sights on Charley’s girlfriend in this clever spoof of the horror genre. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate 28 years after his untimely death. His inimitable music and writing reveal an insightful world-view that we are still unraveling. Though there have been many documentaries about Gould, most are distracted by his eccentricities, focusing on the pills, gloves and scarves while missing the man and message behind the music. Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould pierces through the myths, revealing the man beneath the icon. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Get Low For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). One day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral — a “living funeral,” in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Rated PG-13. At Century.

— Landmark Theatres The Girl Who Played With Fire Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. At Mayan.

— Landmark Theatres Inception Blithely summarized, Inception’s plot would seem confusing and impenetrable. Confusing? No doubt, and that’s what makes the film so enjoyable, as we try to tease and puzzle out what is really going on.

Impenetrable? Hardly. Simply put, mainstream moviemaking just doesn’t get any better than Inception. Rated PG-13. At Flatirons, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers In My Sleep Marcus struggles with parasomnia, a rare sleepwalking disorder. After Marcus wakes up with blood on his hands and a knife at his side, he is startled to hear that a close friend has been found stabbed to death. Marcus frantically tries to put the pieces together — could he have murdered his close friend in his sleep to hide a secret between them? At Starz. — Denver Film Society

another 16-year-old displaced to the adult ward, the sensitive Noelle, who just might make him forget his longtime unrequited crush Nia. With a minimum five days’ stay imposed on him by the adult ward’s staff psychiatrist Dr. Eden Minerva, Craig is sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside as he learns more about life, love and the pressures of growing up. At Flatiron, Mayan and Century. — Landmark Theatres Jack Goes Boating Jack is a limo driver with vague dreams of landing a job with the MTA and an obsession with reggae.

He spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend and fellow driver Clyde and Clyde’s wife, Lucy. The couple set Jack up with Connie, Lucy’s co-worker at a Brooklyn funeral home.

Being with Connie inspires Jack to learn to cook, pursue a new career and take swimming lessons from Clyde so he can give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of. But as Jack and Connie cautiously circle commitment, Clyde and Lucy’s marriage begins to disintegrate. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatres The Kids Are All Right Doctor Nic and her longtime partner, Jules, have two teenagers from the same sperm donor. When the kids make contact with the donor behind the moms’ backs, Mark Ruffalo’s easygoing restaurateur Paul shows up to stir this family’s pot a bit.

Annette Bening and Julianne Moore have never been looser on screen, and Ruffalo is the perfect foil. Rated R. At Starz. — Michael Phillips Kings of Pastry Imagine a scene never before witnessed: Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best. This is the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition (Best Craftsmen in France). The blue, white and red striped collar worn on the jackets of the winners is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef – it is a dream and an obsession.

The finalists, France’s culinary elite, risk their reputations as well as sacrifice family and finances in pursuit of this lifelong distinction of excellence.

Similar to the Olympics, the three-day contest takes place every four years, and it requires that the chefs not only have extraordinary skill and nerves of steel, but also a lot of luck. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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Matt Reeves directs this English-language remake of the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In, about a lonely, bullied boy who befriends the strange little girl who lives next door. The new version is better paced and more horrific, but fumbles two of the most memorable scenes from the original. As far as remakes go, though, you could certainly do a lot worse. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Rene Rodriguez Life As We Know It Katherine Heigl continues her streak of movies we really don’t want to sit through, co-starring with Josh Duhamel as a romantically incompatible couple who must to learn to tolerate each other after fate forces them to raise their goddaughter together. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Mao’s Last Dancer From Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford comes the inspiring true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin and his extraordinary journey from a poverty-stricken boy in China to international stardom as a world-class dancer. Based on Li’s bestselling autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres My Soul To Take Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street) returns to the horror genre for the first time in five years and even gives the 3-D craze a whirl, writing and directing this thriller about a teenager (Max Thieriot) who is one of seven young people targeted by the serial killer stalking their small town. The bad news? The movie is not being screened in advance for critics, so start tempering those hopes now. Rated R. At Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez Never Let Me Go In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. Kathy, Tommy and Ruth spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Last Train Home Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration — an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Working over several years in classic verité style, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Emotionally engaging and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home’s intimate observation of one fractured family sheds light on the human cost of China’s ascendance as an economic superpower.

At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

It’s Kind of a Funny Story Bright 16-year-old Craig Gilner is stressed out from the demands of being a teenager. Before his parents and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital, a mental health clinic and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed — so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby, soon becomes both Craig’s mentor and protégé. Craig is also quickly drawn to

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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole A young owl must gather a mythic band of winged warriors to fight an evil army and save the owl kingdom. With voices of Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Peeping Tom Michael Powell directed this groundbreaking study in voyeurism, cinema and obsession. When Mark was a child, his father, a highly esteemed professor, used him as a form of laboratory rat in a series of experiments that tested various levels of fear. As an adult, Mark too maintains a fascination with terror, having matured into a psychopathic killer with a penchant for filming women on the verge of death. Since he works as a cameraman for a film studio, he easily indulges his fetish by luring aspiring actresses into isolated areas for “screen tests.” But then Mark meets Helen, a neighbor who wishes to become his friend ... and the tormented murderer’s downfall begins. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Ready, Set, Bag! Every February, competitive grocery baggers from across the country meet in Las Vegas to vie for the title of National Best Bagger. Ready, Set, Bag! explores the lives of eight state champions and follows these delightfully fun, quintessentially American characters from local contests to their moment on the national stage. Checkout will

never be the same. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Secretariat The luminous Diane Lane stars in this fact-based story of Penny Chenery, a housewife and mother who in 1973 took over her father’s horse stables and, with the help of a trainer (John Malkovich), produced the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Rated PG. — Rene Rodriguez Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim. A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Social Network See full review on Page 51. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.

In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. From 1940 to 2008, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary held an annual “Prison Rodeo.” Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it was one of the last of its kind — a relic of the American penal system. Within this strange arena, the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Town The Town is violent but soft-hearted and clearly digs the grungy allure of its Boston criminal world, where the bank robbers disguise themselves as ghoulish nuns. This is a one-last-job movie. Doug angles to make one last score with the gang and go clean. Hot-headed Jem wants the heists to continue. Everything gets complicated when a hostage doesn’t recognize her captors and becomes involved with Doug. All in all, an enjoyable film, if a tad too long. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gordon Gekko is released from prison into a brave new financial world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop Zhang Yimou transposes the Coen Brothers’ celebrated mix of dark humor and riveting suspense Blood Simple to a noodle shop in western China.

This black-comedy thriller is an exposé of how intense desires can consume humanity, and the irony that life never submits to our calculation. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres You Again High-school rivalries rear their ugly heads for a PR exec and her mother during her brother’s wedding. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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eave it to a Boulder resident to try to bring vegan into vogue.

Mark Reinfeld, an award-winning chef and author, will be hosting a twoday vegan cooking workshop Nov. 6 and 7 in Boulder as part of his nationwide tour to promote vegan cuisine.

Just in time for the upcoming holiday season, the courses will focus on a festive menu of 15 different vegan fusion dishes, ranging from Brussels sprouts hollandaise to raw pecan pie. In addition to teaching participants the recipes, Reinfeld says the workshops are great for people who want to learn some of the ins and outs of working with vegan ingredients.

“We will be going over all of the basics of vegan world fusion cuisine,” Reinfeld says. “It’s for all skill levels, from people who are new to cooking and want to learn some recipes and build some confidence to more experienced cooks who are unfamiliar with vegan ingredients.”

Reinfeld himself is plenty familiar with vegan ingredients. While he grew up on what he called the “standard American diet,” he became a vegetarian 20 years ago and has been working on vegan recipes for 15 years. Some people might think that eliminating animal products might restrict the things you can cook, but Reinfeld says that the move to vegan cuisine has actually allowed him greater freedom in his cooking.

“It really opens up a whole range of ingredients that you would not venture into unless you are not eating meat,” Reinfeld says. “I start experimenting, making different sauces and dishes. It inspires me to get creative.”

In 2002, while he was living on the island of Kauai in Hawaii, he opened up a vegan fusion restaurant

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called The Blossoming Lotus along with fellow author and chef Jennifer Murray. The Blossoming Lotus quickly became popular with the locals, and it won the Ilima Award for Best Kauai Restaurant in 2006. That same year Reinfeld was named the 2006 Platinum Carrot Award, a national award given by the Aspen Center for Integral Health to the top healthy gourmet chefs in America. In 2009, after the owner of the restaurant moved back to the mainland, Reinfeld moved the restaurant to Portland, Ore., where it is today.

In addition to his work as a chef, Reinfeld is the author of four recipe books on vegan cuisine. His latest book, The 30 Minute Vegan’s Taste of the East, which he co-authored with Murray, contains 150 Asian-inspired

vegan recipes, from noodles to desserts. Every recipe in the book is vegan and takes under 30 minutes of labor time to make. The book, which came out in July, is the second in Reinfeld’s 30 Minute Vegan series. His first book in the series, The 30 Minute Vegan, won several awards, including Cook Book of the Year from VegNews and Best New Cook Book from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Reinfeld says that the series is meant to help everyone prepare vegan meals, regardless of how experienced they are with vegan cooking or ingredients. The 30 Minute Vegan’s Guide to the East includes a guide to buying ingredients key to creating Asian vegan fusion cuisine as well as tips and tricks on cooking vegan dishes. The book is split into five different sections: Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and a Fusion section that features a collection of recipes from other Asian countries like Korea and Vietnam, as well as central Asian areas like Iran and Uzbekistan. Reinfeld says that his time living and working at the Blossoming Lotus in Hawaii, a state where there is a heavy Asian cuisine influence, was one of the inspirations for the book.

“Asian cuisine is one of our favorite ethnic cuisines, and I really wanted to do a book on it,” Reinfeld says.

Reinfeld says his next book in the 30 Minute Vegan series will focus on European cooking. In the meantime, he will be continuing his nationwide series of workshops as he tries to spread the gospel of cooking and eating healthy.

“A lot of people eat things without realizing it’s vegetarian or vegan,” he says. “It’s losing a lot of the stigma it once had. There is a growing interest for health reasons. People are just realizing that it’s healthier to make more dishes with vegetables.”

Reinfeld’s classes are $285 per person. To register, or for more information, call 808-822-0820 or e-mail info@veganfusion.com.

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by Michelin-starred Chef Michael Mina. oil and grano padano, a cousin of Boulder has its own take on this phenomeParmigiano-Reggiano cheese. However, eatnon, in the form of Pizzeria Basta, a gouring this pizza was akin to going on a date met pie spot, hidden in the Peloton resiwith an attractive person dosed out on cold dences off Arapahoe. medicine.

It’s one of those modern places with a Like a desirable partner, the pie looked lot of hard edges that do little to muffle good, but something was missing. I couldn’t customer conversations and noise. But it’s indict the ingredient quality or skillfully prestill a pleasant enough eatery, with friendly pared crust, but the pizza still felt incomservers and wood-fired pizza. On top of plete regarding depth or spicing. More fresh that, Chef Kelly Whitaker’s culinary backbasil would have helped; adding crushed red ground includes stints in Italy and pepper did, in fact, improve the flavor proAmerican Michelin-starred kitchens. file. I suspect I’d have a better pie by specifyDespite this formidable pedigree, the menu ing my own topping next time, which might features an unintimidating selection of startavender is a multipurpose herb, with ceremonial, culinary include Point Reyes blue cheese and red ers focusing on cheese and charcuterie, as and folk medicine applications. Commonly associated with pepper. well as pasta, salads and pizza. The $10 the Mediterranean, it was used by the ancient Greeks and Finishing this substantial meal, David’s lunch special represents excellent value, Romans for aromatherapy purposes, including playing a role $2 house-made spearmint ice cream was truly offering soup or salad with an entree of as a scenting agent in baths. It is sometimes an ingredient in impressive. It had a pure flavor not found in pizza, calzone or sandwich. the spice blend known as Herbs de Provence, and shows up in other mint-laden frozen confections, and the Colleague David began his lunch-special sweets, including hard candies, ice cream and chocolates. As spearmint provided an herbal depth lacking experience with a simple green salad of tenan herbal remedy, it’s been claimed as a curative for acne, in the usual peppermint presentation. der romaine hearts lightly dressed with insomnia and headaches. Lavender is even a tourist attraction Meanwhile, I destroyed the exquisite $6 lemon and olive oil. This bowl of fresh for visitors to the South of France wishing to view the brilliant Lavender panna cotta with tuile cookies and greens proved that a simple-but-correct purple fields. honey. The gossamer-crisp tuile possessed a hint of this purple herb, while the custard combination of ingredients is a thing of itself showcased the floral qualities of the lavbeauty. The right ratio of citrus to oil masender, which came alive with a drizzling of bees’ nectar. terfully rounded out the taste. Desiring something more David’s entrée was the calzone of the day, which All in all, these desserts were satisfying finishes at a ressubstantial, I enjoyed a warming bowl of red pepper spotlighted goat cheese, salami and tomato sauce, hold taurant that works equally well for a business lunch, casusoup. Sweet with piquant notes, this was a satisfying the olives. The crust was a rustic and handmade affair, soup greatly enhanced by the addition of that old can’thot from the oven with a nicely realized texture splitting al date, or low-key-yet-still-elegant evening out.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Musical meal for a good cause Colorado Music Festival and the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts will host Festa Italiana at Laudisio Ristorante Italiano on Oct. 23.

Highlights and festivities include fine wines and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a gourmet family style Festa Italiana, silent and out-loud auctions and musical entertainment from Ashraf Sewailam and Sarah Barber. Semiformal dress is suggested.

Tickets are $175 per person if you register by Oct. 11, and $200 per person after that. Proceeds benefit the Colorado Music Festival and RMCMA. Laudiso is located at 1710 29th St in Boulder. For more information, call 303-449-1397, or visit www.coloradomusicfest.org.

Anniversary dinner Colterra Food & Wine Restaurant opened in Niwot four years ago. To celebrate, the restaurant is offering a three-course dinner showcasing both organic and local produce, for $44 per person throughout the month of October.

The meal will feature a selection of locally sourced items, including Hazel Dell mushrooms and bacon from Long Farm. For more information or to make reservations, call 303-652-0777.

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For more information, call 720840-8056, or visit www.sebswoodfiredcuisine.com Delicious rewards In its October 2010 issue, Bon Appetit named Boulder the nation’s “Foodiest Town.” The criteria for

this coveted award are that the town be small (under 250,000 people), have quality farmers’ markets, concerned farmers, dedicated food media, first-rate restaurants, talented food artisans and a community of food lovers. Eateries that garnered special mention in the article include Dish Gourmet, The Kitchen, Salt, Frasca Food and Wine, Pizzeria Basta, Mateo, the Dushanbe Teahouse, Leaf, Café Aion, Kim & Jake’s Cakes, Happy, Sushi Tora, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery and the Boulder County Farmers’ Market. Congratulations, Boulder. We knew you had it in you.

To read more, visit Bon Appetit’s website at www.bonappetit.com.

Farmers’ markets winding down After a long and fruitful season, many of the local farmers’ markets are approaching the end of their year. If you’ve been meaning to get out and try some fresh, local produce, now is the time.

The Boulder Farmers’ Market already had it’s last Wednesday session on Oct. 6, but their Saturday markets will continue until Nov. 6, so you still have another month to enjoy the local bounty.

The Longmont Farmers’ Market will have its last day on Saturday, Oct. 30. Call 303-910-2236 or visit www.boulderfarmers.org for more information on both of these markets.

The Louisville Farmers’ Market will run through this Saturday, Oct. 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The market will be hosting a food drive, so bring your canned soup, cereal, dried pasta, canned meat and toiletries if you go. For more information, visit www.farmersmarketlouis. com.

The last day to visit the Lafayette Farmers’ Market will be on Thursday, Oct. 14, from 4-8 p.m.

The Erie Farmers’ Market ends Oct. 16, and the Niwot Farmers’ Market ends on Monday, Oct. 11.

For information on all three of these markets, visit www.naturespointmarkets.com., or call 303499-2494.

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1 tsp. allspice Just in case my dance “falls” short, 1/2 cup flour I have a back-up plan: Pear Crisp 1/2 cup brown sugar with Ginger 1/2 cup old-fashWhipped Cream. If ioned oats The that dessert doesn’t 6 tbsp. butter take you right to (cut into pieces) ginger your autumn happy 1 tsp. cinnamon whipped place, then you are Preheat oven not welcome in my to 350 degrees. cream apple-cinnamon Lightly grease a candle land. I will, 9-by-9-inch bakadds a however still share ing pan. Toss kick of this yummy dessert, pears, orange and hope it jumps juice, orange zest, spicy and into your recipe box sugar, cinnamon, and makes itself at ginger and allsweet home. spice in medium Pears are not bowl. Pour into only delicious but good for you, too, prepared baking pan. full of vitamin C and an excellent In small bowl, combine flour, source of dietary fiber. They are good brown sugar and oats. Cut in butter to eat right out of your hand, or used and mix until resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over pears. Top in sweet and savory dishes. I love to with tsp. cinnamon. slice up a pear and drop in a little Bake for 40-45 minutes until top Ketel One Vodka and cinnamon. is golden brown and pears are bubRefreshing and holiday-ensured, all bling.

Take out and let cool. Can at the same time. How you like my serve warm or at room temperature. special land now?

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The ginger whipped cream adds a Ginger Whipped Cream kick of spicy and sweet, pairing perfectly with the crisp oatmeal top. Not 1 cup whipped cream that there will be any left by morn1 tsp. vanilla ing, but I also enjoy this with my 2 tbsp. powdered sugar coffee in the morning. Nothing says the holidays are here better than des- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger crystallized ginger for garnish sert for breakfast! (optional) No one wants to see my fall You can watch the Dessert Diva dance, I’m sure, so allow me to suggest sipping a pumpkin latte, lighting every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel 2. To contact Danette at the station, your favorite autumn candle and visit 2thedeuce.com, and click on making this delicious pear crisp. Fall will come calling, and all will be well. Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments and suggestions, write to Now, follow the directions, put jdromega@aol.com. some love into it and invite me over

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Streat Chefs Various locations in and around Boulder 303-444-2433 www.streatchefs.com

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treat Chefs, the brainchild of Top Chef victor Hosea Rosenberg, is an Airstream trailer that moves around town to provide a winning mix of ethnic street food and American comfort classics. Use the operation’s website to track down its whereabouts and you’ll be rewarded with a more than credible Vietnamese banh mi sandwich or an outstanding grilled cheese.

The menu is constantly changing, but reasonable prices and high quality are certainly the norm.

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owntown’s Brasserie Ten Ten has a touch of the old school with its wood panels, a full bar and ambience that isn’t just typical modernist minimalism. Traditionalism’s also apparent on the menu: escargot, steak frites and seafood platters. Other items, like a hot dog dressed with mornay sauce and gruyere cheese, may not be strictly authentic, but are still consistent with the brasserie’s comfort food tradition.

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here’s not exactly a San Francisco-style Cantonese menu at Zoe Ma Ma, which features authentic Chinese cooking. Sure, they have pot stickers and steamed bao, the porkfilled dim sum white buns. But there are also northern Chinese noodle dishes and zong zi, a sticky rice-filled Chinese tamale wrapped in bamboo leaf and freighted with pork. One standout is the special Sichuan Braised Beef noodle, a mix of melt-in-your-mouth meat and impeccably prepared pasta.

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orth Boulder’s Restaurante 100% Mexicano is the latest local eatery to deliver an authentic “south of the border” street food experience. The menu includes staples like tacos with freshly made corn tortillas, quesadillas, tamales with various stuffings, and torta sandwiches. There’s also a selection of platos, such as tequila-sautéed shrimp and a carne asada platter.

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burgers, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a recent addition to the downtown Boulder scene. The menu highlights burgers, such as the bacon-bleu cheese Spoke, and all are available with a choice of proteins, including natural beef, buffalo, house-made veggie and poultry.

Other delicious features include entrée salads, mac and cheese, and mussels, along with a variety of Belgian draft beers.

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ongmont’s fast-casual Basil Flats features a tasty and affordable Mediterraneaninspired menu. It includes flatbread pizza, sandwiches, tapas such as hummus, and beer and wine to drink. It’s one of these places where there are choices for both vegetarians and carnivores, and the tapas menu encourages sharing. Highlights include

the arugala salad pizza, textbook perfect fries and grilled flatbread meatball grinders.

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oulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House takes Mexican fare to a more elevated plane by offering memorable ambience, a gourmet experience and prices to match. But the food does match up to the prices, and includes a first-rate chicken mole as well as a sophisticated shrimp tamale that balances the taste of corn with delicate seafood. End with a coconut flan, and you’ve got an elevated “south of the border” experience.

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ormerly known as Heaven Star, Broomfield’s Newport still serves up some of the finest Chinese around at exceptional prices. Where else can you get a whole lobster cooked with ginger and scallions atop a platter of succulent yee mein noodles for $15.95? You can also request the classic Chinese-American tomato beef chow mein, as well as roast duck and several kinds of fried rice. They still serve dim sum, and their tea brunch is likely among the best in the entire state of Colorado.

ush is an intriguing concept, a private supper club with no fixed address. The aim is to spotlight up-and-coming chefs in a non-restaurant setting. Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area was held at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured smoked tomato gazpacho and port-braised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush plans to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list by registering at www. hushdenver.com.

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achi Sushi is an honest-to-goodness sushi bar nestled within the Niwot Market. This isn’t a place for prepackaged, preservative-laden hand rolls prepared elsewhere. Here, raw fish is sliced on demand, and the hot items are cooked to order. The reasonably priced menu features sushi, traditional donburi rice bowls, curries and some fish and meat entrees. Menu highlights include the grilled mackerel dinner, an elegantly simple choice, and the chirashi, a filling assortment of sashimi topping a bowl of sushi rice.

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Highlights include tapas items like baconwrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts such as crème brulee.

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March 21-April 19:

Much of the reader mail I receive is friendly. But now and then I’ll get a message like this: “I’ve followed your horoscopes with pleasure for years. But I must say, you’ve really lost it lately. I can’t stand the garbage you’ve been slinging.

What happened to you?” My response is to wonder why the person never wrote to me while he was happy with my efforts. It reminds me of a quote by Leon Uris: “How often in life it is that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.” It also reminds me of how tempting it is to focus on what repels us and scares us, shortchanging the dreams that excite us. Your assignment in the next four weeks, Aries, is to reward what you like and pursue what you want. For now, forget about what you don’t like and don’t want.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

The worst painting in history is hanging in San Francisco’s De Young Museum. It is “Noel and Bob” by Joan Brown. It’s so awkwardly garish and trivially monstrous that I can only conclude Brown possessed what might be termed “negative genius.” It’s not just that she had no talent. She actually had the opposite of brilliant talent. And yet I must confess I had a good time gazing at this anti-artistic botch. I thoroughly enjoyed laughing at it, and was quite pleased at the jokes my companions and I made about it. I suggest that in the coming week you try something similar: enjoying the entertainment value and educational merit of clumsy, ungainly, out-of-whack stuff. Doing so will sharpen your wits for the not-too-distant future, when you will come into proximity to a lot of understated beauty and elegance and grace.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Is my enjoyment of the Temptations’ song “My Girl” diminished by the fact that it was used in a commercial for Sun Maid Raisins? Does Jose Gonzalez’ tune “Heartbeats” evoke less feeling in me because I know it was used as the soundtrack for a Sony TV commercial? Well, yeah, actually.

The songs haven’t been totally wrecked for me, but neither do they make my heart soar anymore. Is there anything like that in your life, Gemini? Some pure and innocent pleasure that has been tainted or watered down? Believe it or not, you could restore it to its original state in the coming weeks.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

For the moment, set aside your complaints about the transgressions of your original family. Cease your laments about the struggles you had to endure as a child. If you enjoy marinating yourself in those sorrows, you can always return to them at a later date. Here are the opportunities that are now available to you: to focus on the gifts that your early life blessed you with ... to acknowledge the resources bequeathed to you by the past ... to celebrate and access the primal power that has been yours to draw on since the day you were born.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Nose jobs are at an all-time high. Every year, American plastic surgeons cumulatively scrape away more than a mile of flesh and bone from their patients’ sniffers. I predict that in the coming weeks, the noses of the entire planet’s Leo tribe will shrink 10,000 times that amount, at least metaphorically. Why? Because I expect an epidemic of truthtelling to break out among you. There’s going to be a mass outbreak of the Pinocchio effect in reverse. Congratulations in advance for the candor you’re about to unleash. Be kind and diplomatic if you can, but insist on revealing the whole story.

VIRGO

What the supposedly professional astrologer told you is totally inaccurate. No one’s chart, ever, in the history of the world, indicates that they have no willpower. Astrology doesn’t speak in such stupid ways. Besides that, you and the Libran tribe will soon have an excellent window of opportunity to bolster your willpower. The fun begins now and lasts until at least November 18. Get ready!

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

“Is it a dragonfly or a maple leaf / That settles softly down upon the water?” asks Amy Lowell in “Autumn Haze,” a poem from her book Pictures of the Floating World. She doesn’t need to know the answer to her question; either would be fine. In fact, the luxuriance of the moment lies in its ambiguity. The lolling sweetness thrives because of her freedom from having to define its origins. She is simultaneously alert and relaxed; attentive to the scene in front of her but content to let it be whatever it is. I highly recommend that you enjoy extended excursions into this state of being several times in the coming week.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

This morning I had to interrupt my meditation on your horoscope. I’d studied the astrological configurations and said my usual prayer, asking for guidance to come up with the oracle you need most. But nothing had occurred to me yet, and it was time to leave the house for an appointment.

As I closed the door behind me, I was still in deep thought about you. Then my face hit something gauzy, and I pulled back. Overnight, a spider had spun a huge web spanning the entire porch frame. I’d knocked it a bit off-kilter, but it was still intact. “That’s got to be an omen,” I thought to myself as I stooped under it and continued on my way. An omen of what? A little voice in my head gave the answer: Sagittarius is ready to merge more directly with the great web of life.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

If you have been in tune with the cosmic rhythms these past ten months, you’ve been erecting bridges like a master builder. Your careful planning and guidance have conquered an abyss or two. Seemingly irreconcilable differences are no longer irreconcilable. Unlikely connections have bloomed.

You’ve combined ingredients that no one thought could be blended. Between now and your birthday, your good work should reach a climax. It’s time to inspect your craftsmanship, polish any rough edges, and be sure that your creations will last.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

I have no financial interest in the product known as Bacon Air Freshener (tinyurl.com/BaconAroma). When I urge you to consider buying it and placing it in your favorite environment, it’s not because I’ll get a kickback, but only because I suspect you’ll benefit from its specific aromatherapy effects.

In my astrological opinion, your yearning for delicious fatness needs to be stimulated; certain key elements in your future require you to feel excited about thick, rich, tasty sensations. I think this is true even if you’re a vegetarian, although maybe you’d prefer having an avocado, coconut, or chocolate air freshener.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

In Germany, people can pay the weather service to have a storm or weather system named after them. A normal rainstorm costs just over $250. That’s the kind of event I’d want to give your name to in the coming week, Pisces — not a full-on destructive tornado or hurricane, but rather a healthy squall that makes everything wet and clears the air. You definitely need to release some tension in a dramatic way, but not in a melodramatic way.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22

Many American towns with “burg” in their names used to end as “burgh.” In the late 19th century, a federal bureau demanded that they drop the silent final “h.” The people of Pittsburgh rose, up, however, and demanded the right to retain their precious “h.” Their wish was granted. I strongly advise you to be inspired by Pittsburgh’s adamant insistence on maintaining its identity, Virgo. Don’t let yourself be truncated, abbreviated, or standardized.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

“Dear Rob: A professional astrologer who read my chart told me that I have no willpower and that there is basically nothing I can do to change that. Any suggestions? I’m feeling helpless and passive at a time when I could really benefit from standing up for myself. — Listless Libra.” Dear Libra:

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