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news & views Ratifying START was insane / 6 Obama rolls over for Russia

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WikiLeaks and Ward (Re: “A Nobel Prize for Assange?”

Danish Plan, Dec. 16.) What do Roman Polanski, Richard Nixon and Julian Assange have in common?

The Wikileaks saga illustrates the fact that just because somebody does something worthwhile (make brilliant films, open relations with China, expose murder) doesn’t mean that all of their acts are noble or heroic.

Julian Assange’s exposure of the infamous helicopter footage was (despite his Michael Moore-esque editing) a laudable act. The release of the Iraq memos was more questionable; while it revealed questionable behavior by U.S. and Iraqi forces, some of the exposures were at best reckless and at worst sociopathic. An ironic situation for somebody who cloaks himself in the mantle of righteousness.

Now with the diplomatic leaks, we really have to wonder about his motivation. Did those cables contain any indications of illegal or even unethical behavior? As Paul Danish points out, those leaks embarrassed the U.S. and probably set back diplomacy, with no discernible benefit. I’m all for transparency and accountability in government, but smiling at Putin while calling him names behind his back is hardly a crime against humanity. Mr. Assange was either too lazy to do the work of curating the trove, or he is merely on

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an anti-U.S. vendetta, driven by his own megalomania. Or both.

Speaking of megalomania, what of Mr. Assange’s attempts to spread his seed, without consent of the recipients? If governments are pursuing rape charges with extra vigor

because they can’t nail him on espionage ... well, Mr. Assange might want to have a chat with Ward Churchill.

The lesson for would-be antagonizers of the Establishment is: Keep your nose clean because they will looking for ways to get you. But that doesn’t

The Highroad

he signature phrase of America’s booming goodfood movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable.”

Good! The phrase suggests great quality, strong environmental stewardship and a commitment to keeping our food dollars in the local economy. If you support the local-economies movement, as I do, no doubt you’ll be thrilled to hear that a new, local food store is coming soon to your neighborhood. In fact, it’s even named Neighborhood Market.

Only, it’s not. It’s a Walmart. Yes, the $400-billion-a-year retail behemoth, with 2 million employees laboring in 8,500 stores spread around the globe, now is putting on a “local” mask. The giant is promising to buy 9 percent of the produce it’ll sell from local farmers. Big whoopie. This means that 91 percent of the foodstuffs offered in its “Neighborhood”

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by Jim Hightower chain will come from Wayawayland.

But even the 9 percent number is a deceit, for Walmart says that it defines “local” as grown in the same state. Excuse me, but in California, Florida, Texas and other such sizable states, that can be a mighty long truck haul away. Not exactly what us locals would call “local.”

As for being sustainable, Walmart is bragging about a billion-dollar investment it’ll make to shrink

mean anti-heroes should be exempt from all laws.

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its environmental footprint a bit.

That’s a nice gesture, but come on, this outfit has humongous feet that bestride the whole world, and even a billion bucks won’t shrink that footprint. Also, it’s made no commitment to organic production, nor did it rule out peddling genetically engineered Frankenfoods as part of its “sustainability” gimmick.

Who does Walmart think it’s fooling? It’s not coming to our neighborhoods to be local and sustainable, but to drive out our home-grown enterprises and extract profits from our own communities.

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defended Clarence Thomas 19 years ago.

It is entirely possible to support some of WikiLeaks’ earlier actions, despise vermin like Rush Limbaugh, question the recent leaks and condemn rape ... all at the same time.

“The phenomenon of dusk does not invalidate the difference between day and night.”

David Rea/Boulder

Cannabis cash (Re: “Skunky money,” cover story, Dec. 9.) My wife and I are considering entering the industry and found this article more than interesting.

One question on the banking is that the state has taken in millions from owners and patients alike. How are they handling the depositing of these monies, as wouldn’t they also be scrutinized under the same banking laws causing the dispensaries so much hassle?

Kevin Reifenschneider/Westminster

Loko not the problem (Re: “Finding Loko locally? Good luck,” news, Dec. 9.) I work at Central Washington University, and read your article on Four Loko.

While I thought it was a nicely written article, your facts are not entirely accurate regarding the Roslyn party.

If you read the Cle Elum-Roslyn Police Department report from that night, there is clearly something else going on. Additionally, the girl passed out in the grocery store parking lot that night did not even have any Four Loko. Neither did at least one more person of the nine hospitalized.

We are so quick to pass judgement on Four Loko, yet it wasn’t the problem at the Roslyn party.

Underage drinking (all were minors), along with hard alcohol and poor choices, were more the culprit. While Four Loko is a potent and harsh drink, it seems that it shouldn’t be blamed for this problem. Of the nine hospitalized, from my understanding, not one of them solely drank Four Loko that night. They were pouring hard liquor into the Four Loko, drinking other beers, smoking marijuana and taking other drugs.

Just like to clear the air a bit on this issue, since it has gotten so blown out of proportion and no one seems to know the facts.

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Democrats lack cojones Obama’s tax compromise with the Republicans is a betrayal beyond measure. First and foremost, the Democrats legitimized Republican 6 December 30, 2010

blackmail and hostage-taking as a respectable negotiating tactic. Taxing the super-rich while holding the middle class harmless should have been a no-brainer. Yet the Dems paid the ransom and the ransom was us.

This travesty comes atop of a raft of unholy Dem capitulations regarding nearly every important issue arising over the past two years. The most recent deal twice cuts taxes for the super-rich (the income and estate taxes), increases taxes for the poorest workers by eliminating the Making Work Pay tax credits, and compromises the Social Security tax base by reducing the payroll tax for one year, which the GOP, with likely Dem acquiescence, will make permanent.

Pork thrown in, to sweeten the deal, is paltry compensation for the massive long-term costs to the government’s revenue base and accelerated debt accumulation. I expect the Dems will also go along with a permanent cut for the super-rich two years from now. Down the road, the Republicans will use the bloated deficits and national debt as an excuse to gut valuable domestic programs, again with likely Dem acquiescence.

Perversely, 99ers, those whose benefits have lapsed after 99 weeks, were left out of the unemployment insurance part of the deal. For those who still qualify, meager UI payments will last a paltry 13 months, compared to two years of massive cuts for the ultra-rich. I expect those payments to end permanently when Democrats and the Republicans forge yet another “compromise.”

In summary, the tax deal is a piece of sewage that should have been flushed the moment it floated to the top of the legislative cesspool, yet Democratic pols ate it up like a funnel cake at the carnival.

With that said, I am ending my role as a Democratric Party activist.

This is not the first time I have hinted at quitting party activism. Despite my growing disgust, I have dutifully pounded pavement and made phone calls on behalf of the party and its candidates. No more.

My attention will turn to community projects and support for progressive candidates; including progressive primary challengers running against incumbent Dems in Colorado and elsewhere. I might even support a credible primary challenge against Obama.

The way I see it, the Democrats have willfully cut people like me loose. I no longer have a reason to support Dem candidates just because see LETTERS Page 9

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he START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified.

Embracing the START treaty required the Obama administration, the U.S. Senate and most of the country’s foreign policy establishment to ignore an ugly little fact — that while Russia may be agreeing to reduce its own nuclear arsenal under START, it is actively engaged in enabling virulently anti-American rogue states to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

The North Korean, Pakistani, Iranian and Syrian strategic weapons programs are shot through with Russian nuclear and ballistic missile technology. (So were the Iraqi and Libyan programs before Presidents Bush 41 and Bush 43 liquidated them).

Moreover, Russia has used its diplomatic leverage, particularly at the U.N., to prevent meaningful international cooperation to stop rogue state programs.

(The Chinese are also playing this game, but we are not contemplating a strategic arms limitation treaty with China at the moment, so set that aside for now.)

The kindest thing that can be said about START is that it is a solution to a problem whose time has passed — the threat of all-out nuclear war between the U.S and the U.S.S.R.

However, the likelihood of the United States and Russia directly engaging in a nuclear war is minuscule at the moment. It isn’t going to get any smaller just because both sides have agreed to reduce their stocks of strategic nuclear bombs to 1,550 each, down from 2,200 each, as called for by START. It wasn’t getting rid of a lot of redundant nukes that reduced the risk of nuclear war with Russia and, previously, the U.S.S.R. It was getting rid of communism and the U.S.S.R. Or so we thought.

It turned out Russia didn’t entirely abandon the arms race and the Cold War with the U.S. It outsourced them to a clutch of Third-World crazies.

So while the U.S. peels away its strategic arsenal and nascent anti-missile systems to make nice with the Russians, a growing number of Russian-enabled rogue states builds up theirs. Within a few years the United States could be looking at half a dozen or more hostile nuclear mini-powers, each with a nuclear arsenal ranging from a few dozen to a couple hundred atomic bombs, while having hamstrung its ability to deploy a credible deterrent or a credible defense.

Agreeing to draw down strategic arms with Russia to reduce the risk of a nuclear exchange that is unlikely to happen — while ignoring the real strategic arms problem, their acquisition by see START Page 8

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enemy rogue states and Russia’s complicity in it — is insane. But that’s what the Obama administration and 77 U.S. senators have done.

Pretending that ratification of START might induce Russia to help rein in the rogues — as the Obama administration and START’s supporters in the Senate have argued — is delusional. Enabling Third-World thug states hostile to the U.S. to acquire weapons of mass destruction is, self-evidently, a Russian strategic priority. Watch what they do, not what they say.

Russia isn’t going to change course just because the U.S. ratified an arms reduction treaty. Quite the opposite.

Chances are Russia will actively support Hugo Chavez’s nuclear and ballistic missile wet dreams, having concluded (probably correctly) that Obama is no James Monroe, let alone Jack Kennedy.

The worst part of START is that it doesn’t limit just nuclear bombs. It also limits the missiles used to deliver them.

The problem is that ballistic missiles can be fitted with non-nuclear warheads as well as nuclear ones, some of which — fuel air explosives, for instance — begin to approach nuclear explosives in their destructiveness. That, together with improvements in guidance, means even conventionally armed

ballistic missiles take on a strategic dimension. For example, China is reportedly developing ballistic missile systems capable of attacking aircraft carriers.

This may not be all that hard to do in the age of GPS. And don’t think the fact that the global positioning system is American-controlled will save us. Both Russia and China are building their own GPS systems. They aren’t doing it to compete with Garmin.

And while it might take states like Iran or North Korea a decade or more to build up a substantial nuclear arsenal, their ballistic missile arsenals already number in the hundreds if not the thousands and are growing at an accelerating pace.

So while the United States limits the number of ballistic missiles in its arsenal, Russia’s cutout states are adding thousands to theirs — mostly based on Russian designs.

That the Obama administration would enter into START without even raising the issue of Russian complicity in the spread of nukes and ballistic missiles, let alone resolving it, is an act of political malfeasance of stunning proportions. This is the sort of thing that gives peace a bad name.

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they are running against Republicans.

The differences are just getting too small to bother, George W. notwithstanding.

I am well aware of what has transpired over the past two years. I also understand what the word “compromise” means (Obama’s condescending use of that word to belittle progressive positions pisses me off, so he can just shove it). Rather than compromise, I characterize the past two years as a litany of premature capitulations demonstrating a complete absence of principles and a pitiable lack of cojones. The tax deal was the last straw for me.

And too bad the public has been hoodwinked into accepting the monumental shaft job they have been given.

I believe perceptions will change by 2012, as the weak stimulative effect of the tax deal is barely noticed, the bankers get richer and more arrogant on Obama’s watch, his wars spin out of control and a variety of problems beset the nation as Democrats continue to bend over and spread ‘em for the Republicans.

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More on body art flap Thank you for Elizabeth Miller’s excellent article “Body Art Battle” (cover story, Dec. 23). She did a lovely job of condensing tons of information into a very clear and concise piece of journalism. That being said, I would like to illuminate a couple of points.

We (Enchanted Ink) were, indeed, open by appointment only on the day that we were cited for refusing inspection. The key point, however, is that we were not open and operating for tattoo or piercing appointments. We see clients (not for body art) on a highly confidential basis for another business which we work with.

We told the inspector numerous times that we were not operating as a tattoo business on that day, yet she insisted that we were, even though she had no evidence to base that on.

Now you tell me, if you were a confidential client and a government inspector showed up, how would you feel if she came traipsing through the business? We were simply trying to protect our client.

To another point, I would like to thank the inspector, Melissa Ellis, for her memorable quote in said article regarding why some businesses get cited for certain violations, while she gives others a pass. She said, “I’ve had other businesses say to me, ‘Melissa, this is a really bad time, so I’ve left … but this wasn’t a nice Boulder Weekly

request.’”

Bless her, out of her very own mouth she proved one of the main points that we were trying to get across: That the inspections are not consistent and that the inspector uses her own biases in doling out penalties.

Since when is it acceptable to cite and fine a business because the inspector perceives that they weren’t nice? Isn’t that rather subjective criteria?

Until the Boulder County Health Department hires and trains inspectors who actually know what they are doing in our businesses, there will only continue to be problems. We are only asking for competency and accountability in exchange for the exorbitant fees, which continue to rise.

Is that too much to ask?

Tara Gray-Wolfstar/Boulder

Go vegan in 2011 This has not been a good year for the meat, dairy and egg industries.

In January, ABC News provided extensive coverage of cow abuse by the dairy industry.

The BP oil spill in April called attention to an even larger Gulf “dead zone” caused by the massive amounts of animal waste dumped every day by the Mississippi River. A month later, a U.N. report urged a global shift towards a vegan diet to reduce world hunger and climate change.

In June, the FDA asked factory farms to stop routine use of antibiotics that lead to drug-resistant bacterial infections in humans.

August witnessed the largest-ever recall of more than half billion eggs harboring Salmonella.

Finally, this month, President Obama signed into law the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act to replace fatty animal products and other junk foods in school lunches and vending machines. According to the School Nutrition Association, 65 percent of U.S. schools now offer vegetarian lunch options.

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Rocket trike arrives in D.C. You may recall seeing a dude in a yellow, torpedo-like bike thingie on our cover back in September.

We wrote about Tom Weis, who was planning to ride his German-built Go One Rocket Trike to Washington, D.C., in an effort to build awareness and support for his dream of a United States completely powered with renewable energy by 2020.

Yeah, probably just another one of those Boulder wackos, right?

Well, he made it to Washington.

His 10-week “Ride for Renewables” finished at the Jefferson Memorial earlier this month after traversing 11 states and more than 2,500 miles. Weis even met with U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., who took the rocket trike for a spin through the halls of Congress.

“Our nation has a serious addiction to fossil fuels,” Polis said in a press release, “and it’s going to take innovative initiatives like Tom’s ride to break the habit and turn our country around.”

“Almost everyone I met during this ride wants to see a modern-day, greenenergy moon shot for America,” says Weis, president of Climate Crisis Solutions.

Weis is still in D.C., hoping to meet with other Congressional leaders, if not President Obama and the First Lady, to share what he learned on Main Street America.

Check out www.rideforrenewables.com for his video blog and more information about how to get involved.

In related news, the former president of Shell Oil said in a recent interview that Americans can expect to pay $5 a gallon for gas by 2012. But don’t worry, we’ve also received notice that the Environmental Protection Agency is on the case. The EPA has announced that its timeline for developing nationwide limits on global warming pollution from power plants, the largest single source of global warming pollution, won’t be proposed until July 2011, and we won’t see final standards until May 2012. Ain’t government bureaucracy grand?

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Fourmile flattery What is that saying about the sincerest form of flattery? Well, we sure felt flattered after seeing Fox 31 News in Denver poach our Dec. 23 story about underinsured victims of the Fourmile fire, without even a passing reference to the publication that did all the legwork.

Usually, when reporters see another media organization doing a story they are interested in pursuing as well, they try to find another angle, maybe a new source.

In this case, however, it was the same sources and the same storyline. Pretty lazy.

We guess we shouldn’t expect much more from TV broadcast news, given the sad state of affairs at media outlets where complicated stories have to be watered down to 15 seconds of sensationalistic drivel.

And they wonder why we need a journalism school at CU. At least the broadcast further raised awareness of the insurance plights of these Fourmile fire victims.

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The Lord taketh Speaking of, did you hear about the Dallas pastor facing charges of burglarizing a parishioner’s home on Christmas Eve? According to reports, Sandy McGriff, 52, said she saw two men on the side of the parishioner’s house and when she went to check it out, she said she saw a broken kitchen window. McGriff reportedly said she made a foolish mistake and went in through the window to make sure the parishioner’s belongings were secure.

One of the neighbors called police, and when officers arrived, they said they found McGriff carrying out two fur coats. The parishioner’s laptop computer and several purses were in McGriff ’s Jaguar, parked in the driveway, police said.

McGriff said she was just trying to protect valuables in case the men came back. She was expected to face charges of burglary of a habitation and resisting arrest.

Thou shall not lie, nor mix communion wine with egg nog.

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t had been a quiet, relaxing Labor Day morning for Bruce Honeyman, chief of the Sunshine Fire Protection District. He was reading the newspaper, wearing his favorite comfy sweat pants and orange Crocs, both of which his wife hates.

Then the alert came. A small wildfire had been reported in Fourmile Canyon.

Honeyman jumped in his car wearing what he had on, drove to the fire station, left his car there and responded to the scene in a fire truck.

It wasn’t until the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 7, after 30 straight hours of fighting the inferno that consumed his house and scores of others, that he finally returned to the station to retrieve his car, which had been spared. He drove to meet his wife and son after changing back into the sweats and orange Crocs, the only clothes he had left.

Honeyman recalls his wife looking at his attire and asking, “Of all the things to survive the fire, why would it have to be those?”

Current and former fire chiefs involved in the Fourmile fire include, top row, from left, Norm Bowers of Indian Peaks, Bret Gibson of Fourmile, Bruce Honeyman of Sunshine and Chris Finn of Gold Hill. In the bottom row, from left, are Miles LaHue of Sugarloaf and Brett Haberstick of Sunshine.

* * * * In our annual Person of the Year edition, Boulder Weekly decided to honor the county’s wildland firefighters for their efforts to combat the Fourmile Canyon fire, the most damaging in the state’s history in terms of property lost, and the smaller Dome fire that threatened the outskirts of Boulder on Oct. 29.

While we primarily interviewed chiefs of the fire districts most affected by the Fourmile fire, they stressed that the honor should not go to them, but to the county’s rank-and-file firefighters Boulder Weekly

— both volunteer and professional — as well as the slurry-plane and helicopter pilots and other firefighters from outside the county who responded to the flames. Not to mention the support staff who fed them, kept them hydrated and kept their tanks fueled. And that doesn’t even take into consideration the outpouring of support and donations from the surrounding community.

In the accounts that follow, we talked to chiefs and other key leaders of the Fourmile firefighting effort about their recollections of the blaze, lessons learned, reactions from homeowners

and images imprinted in their minds.

Almost to a person, they agree that the county is fortunate that no one died in the aggressive fire that claimed about 170 structures and more than 6,000 acres. * * * * Honeyman first heard about a structure fire in the 6000 block of Sunshine Canyon Drive at around 4 p.m. on Sept. 6, the day the fire started.

His address is 6101 Sunshine. But he told himself that such second-hand reports are sometimes inaccurate.

“You kind of hope against hope,” he

says.

But the next day, after arriving at the incident command center at Boulder Reservoir, he heard that his home was likely among the 50 that had been lost so far in Sunshine Canyon.

Most of the fire chiefs interviewed for this story agreed that the strong, swirling winds and the dry conditions made it a fierce blaze that was virtually unstoppable once it got going.

“There was nothing anyone could have done to stop our house from burning,” Honeyman says. “But it’s different when your own community is burning. When you know the people it’s happening to, it’s more immediate.

We couldn’t save our own homes, but we could save someone else’s home. We just kept going because we knew we could make a difference in other people’s lives.”

While the fire chiefs say a few residents who lost their houses to the fire have lashed out at firefighters for not doing more to save their homes, they are far outweighed by the number of residents who have expressed support and appreciation.

Honeyman recalls one of the first community meetings after the fire, where people said things like, “Thanks for doing what you could do. Glad you are safe.”

“It’s an amazing thing to have only the clothes you are wearing,” he says.

“It’s like having a big reset button pushed. … It’s given me a visceral understanding of what happens to many people in this world. We’re still really struggling, not financially, but emotionally. And a lot of people are December 30, 2010 13

much worse off than we are.” * * * * Brett Haberstick, who succeeded Honeyman as Sunshine fire chief a few weeks after the Fourmile fire, says that while his community has been going through the common stages of grief, the fire has also brought Sunshine residents together as they support each other.

“We continue to get people walking up to us and saying thank you,” he says.

“Naturally, there’s been some anger on the part of residents who lost their homes. But we’re moving past that.”

One of the main images of the fire that sticks out in his mind is the frozen pine needles — needles frozen not from cold, but from heat. Haberstick says there are areas where all of the sizzled pine needles point in the northward direction the fire was traveling, frozen because the intense heat and speed of the fire evaporated moisture from the needles so quickly. He says the wall of fire was 200 feet high in some places.

“A fire like that, you protect life and deal with what happens afterwards,” Haberstick says. “The thing that sticks out for me is that nobody died.”

Asked what, if anything, could have been done differently, he explains that the Fourmile fire has spawned improvements to organization, response patterns, relations with neighboring fire districts and planning for equipment.

“But you can never prepare completely for something like this,” he adds. * * * * Chris Finn, chief of the Gold Hill Fire Protection District, says images from the Fourmile fire continue to haunt him.

“I can’t sleep at night still,” he says. “I was run off by fire three times that day.”

He describes what firefighters call “trigger points,” life-threatening situations in which you have to give the order to completely pull your firefighters out of an endangered area.

Finn says the first of the three trigger points on that first day occurred at the top of Emerson Gulch, at Dixon Road, when he pulled his crew out of the area after the fire threatened to loop around behind them, blocking their escape route. The second came as a firefighters were performing a backburn to save the main lodge at Colorado Mountain Ranch.

“You get in a situation like that and you have to make choices,” Finn says.

“You look at this big, beautiful, 100-year-old building and you say, ‘We’re going to save that.’”

But they had to retreat when the fire grew and blocked one of the last two exit routes for the 10 to 15 fire trucks on the scene.

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The third trigger point occurred in Gold Hill, as their four exit routes dwindled to one.

“There were flames coming at us that we could not see the top of,” Finn recalls, adding that as they left Gold Hill, he worried it would be the last time he would see the town standing.

Then, as they were making their way down Lickskillet Road, their last way out, Finn says he saw the smoke change directions, indicating a shift in the wind, and that gave him hope that Gold Hill might be spared. Sure enough, that change in the winds was enough to allow the first air tankers to begin dropping red slurry on the fire, after they had been grounded all day due to the conditions.

Finn’s crew was refilling their tanks with water at Left Hand Creek when salvation came.

“All of a sudden, we see the tanker,” he says. “It put a line of slurry on the south side of Gold Hill on its first run.

One guy’s deck, half of it was blackened and half was red. That house was seconds away from burning.”

Finn and his crew returned to Gold Hill and held the line that had been set by that first slurry drop.

“Two weeks later we got the pilot and his crew up here and got them drunk,” he says with a laugh.

Mike Tombolato, chief of the Rocky Mountain Fire District, says that wind shift and first slurry line saved the day.

“That brought such a big relief compared to what we’d gone through all day,” he recalls. “We were able to cheer a little bit.”

In addition to the wind shift and the slurry bombers, Finn says the fact that neighboring Indian Peaks Fire Protection District responded to the fire “is a big reason why Gold Hill is still here.”

Indian Peaks Fire Chief Norm Bowers, whose district borders Gold Hill, says the initial call that went out for the Fourmile fire was understated.

“We were called out to a ‘small wildland fire,’” he recalls. “That’s what the tone said.” * * * * Bret Gibson, as chief of the Fourmile Fire Protection District where the fire started, was the de facto incident commander during the first couple of hours of the blaze. As with any kind of fire call to volunteers, he says, the initial phase is “organized chaos,” as firefighters respond from the grocery store, their kids’ soccer game, or wherever else they happen to be. Then, depending on where they are driving from, they decide via radio which members should swing by the station and pick up the trucks on the way to the

fire, Gibson says.

“When I arrived at the scene of the fire, it was an ‘oh shit’ moment,” he recalls. “I realized we had a rapidly developing situation.”

Soon, he says, his concern switched from trying to stop the fire to trying to save the lives of residents and firefighters. He went from an offensive approach to a defensive approach, and called for evacuations of surrounding homes, many of which were occupied because it was a holiday. At one point, he was asked how far the evacuations should extend.

“And in my head, I was thinking, ‘All the way to Boulder,’” Gibson says.

He says local firefighters had talked for years about how the area’s worst fire was one that had not yet happened, one that would start in the canyons of Fourmile.

“It was going to be one of those unfightable fires and you just get the hell out of the way,” Gibson says.

“They used good common sense and realized getting back to their families was more important than trying to save another home,” Tombolato says of the firefighters. “They gave everything they could but their lives, thankfully.”

Within about two hours, realizing the size of the inferno they were dealing with, Gibson turned his incident command duties over to the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office.

Finn describes it as a matter of resources.

“The fire gets to a certain point and we call them because they have a bigger checkbook than we have, and then they call the feds because they have an even bigger checkbook,” he says.

At one point during those first few hours, Gibson says, he and three companions were feared dead because they had lost radio contact with the rest of his crew.

He notes that the reverse-911 calling system is not perfect, and there were homes that the firefighters could not access to give the evacuation order, so in some cases they just hoped that people saw the smoke and got out.

“The mere fact that nobody died is a true blessing,” Gibson says. * * * * According to Gibson, one striking image of that day was “the contrast in the sky. Everything west of us was crystal blue, Boulder County sky, and you turn your head 10 degrees and you have deep, black, ugly smoke of an intense, dangerous wildfire. You have embers coming down and burning the paper in your hand and starting little fires around you, and you know that everything east is going to experience this fire.”

The other thing that sticks out in

his mind is his arrival at the command center at the Boulder Reservoir.

“The way they were looking at me was with that deep compassion, that deep concern,” Gibson remembers. “It’s a little like seeing yourself in the mirror, but there’s no mirror. That’s an image that hurts. They look at you with that ‘Are you OK?’ look.”

He also mentions the look in the eyes of the firefighters who were heading into the fire, just as he was coming out.

“That emotional handoff, it’s all by eye, it’s unwritten and unspoken,” Gibson says. “A lot of these people didn’t know where their family members were.”

When asked about lessons learned, he lists communication first.

“You can’t have 500 people try to talk at once,” he says, referring to the first firefighters responding to the scene.

But he adds that communication with the displaced residents could have been better, too, even if it’s just to report to them what you don’t know yet.

“It was difficult to convey to people why they couldn’t go home,” Sheriff Joe Pelle told Boulder Weekly. “People were angry with me.”

Gibson acknowledges that a few people have asked why he couldn’t save their house.

“But for each one of those, I’ve had a couple hundred smile at me or give me a thumbs-up,” says Gibson, whose vehicle is easily recognizable to the community. “One guy threw a $20 bill through my window as he drove by.”

Tombolato, who is deployed to disasters around the country due to his expertise and experience, says firefighters feel guilty when homes are lost.

“They’ve been entrusted to protect their community, and it’s a lot of burden to carry,” he says, recalling the 2002 Walker Ranch fire, after which he wondered how he could look his neighbors in the eye. “I was terrified, because I felt so responsible for not letting people’s homes burn.”

Several of the fire chiefs lauded the job that Sheriff Pelle did in managing the fires, in part thanks to a new emergency response team that was used for the first time in the Fourmile fire.

Pelle, on the other hand, gives credit to the firefighters, calling them “selfless.”

“There were people who had lost their homes and were still out there fighting the fire,” he says. “Most of us would get paid to do that job. These guys are volunteers, they lost a lot, and they were still working hard for their neighbors.”

The fire chiefs agree that the fire taught people about what’s really important in life.

“Family and community — without that, what are you?” Finn asks.

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by Charmaine Ortega Getz

f you’ve decided that a New Year’s resolution to drive greener just isn’t doable, park that thought. You don’t have to drive a hybrid or even reduce driving to make a difference.

“The number one, with a bullet, most conscientious thing a car owner can do for the environment, and especially for our air quality, is to properly maintain the vehicle,” says Christopher Dann, public information officer for the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division.

It’s not just the smoke-belching clunker that affects our air quality.

“When temperatures go down, even new automotive engines are not as efficient. They all have to work harder, and that means putting more pollutants into the air,” says Dann.

That leads to more Action Days during what the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment calls our “winter high pollution season” (Oct. 31 to March 31). Action Days are when the air quality is bad enough that the public is advised to stop residential wood-burning and unnecessary driving.

So, all the things you’ve heard about making your car run cleaner and better remain as important, if not more so, for the winter as during summer.

“By keeping pretty much to the manufacturer’s guidelines, you can keep your car maintained quite well,” says Bill Bender, owner of Boulder’ 25-year-old Independent Motors automotive repair shop.

“There are some tweaks to keep in mind. I’ve come to the conclusion you don’t always have to change the oil below 5,000 miles from the last change. But that’s typically for newer cars. Older than five Boulder Weekly

years, I recommend checking that dipstick every 2,500 to 3,000 miles.

If you’re as much as a quarter-low, you can top it off. But you have to do the check regularly, so you don’t wind up with a burned-out engine and a huge repair bill.”

One of the advantages of having a pro change the oil is that the shop can dispose of the used product in an environmentally conscious manner. If you’re going to change the oil yourself, take the used goo to an accommodating auto shop or hazardous waste collection center.

If you use a tire gauge, be aware that even the more expensive models aren’t guaranteed, so keep an eye on how your car is handling and how your tires look.

Also keep the interior filter in mind. Even without the air conditioning on, pollutant-laden air is drawn in and processed through this device.

“That’s a feature that gets very neglected and not replaced often,” says Bender. “Think about what you’re breathing in, even with your windows rolled up.”

Manufacturer’s maintenance recommendations are found in your owner’s manual. If you can’t find it, don’t panic. Boulder County libraries have computers dedicated to catalog and database use. The database ALLDATA provides factorycorrect information for automotive technicians, which is also freely available to you at the library. **** In related news, the Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste facility is now closed. A new facility will replace it in late February at 1901 63rd St. in Boulder. More information is available at http://bit.ly/i1c8QF. Respond: letters@boulderweekly. com December 30, 2010 17

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T

o quote John Lennon, “Another year is over and a new one just begun,” which means we meet again for Boulder Weekly’s annual “Best Albums of the Year.” A lot of truly great new music blessed our ears in 2010, but let me start by admitting 2010 didn’t exactly represent an epochal time for rock ’n’ roll, especially for those of us who consider the cover of Kanye West’s hit album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which features a naked white angel straddling a drunken West, to be the only thing notable about it.

Several of North America’s most extraordinary musical artists — including Joanna Newsom, Dr. Dog, Broken Social Scene and Midlake — followed landmark releases by serving up uneven, stilted or simply unremarkable dis-

appointments. Several of the notable new releases I ended up listening to most often were retrospectives, such as Neu!’s big and fabulous boxed set and Phil Manzanera’s guitar clinic The Music. And one of the most entertaining new albums was a guilty-pleasure mash-up masterpiece, the seamless All Day from Pittsburgh’s Girl Talk.

Perhaps most telling, near the top of my list of 2010 favorites was our very own Devotchka’s beautiful new gypsy-romance album 100 Lovers, which isn’t even out yet.

Mark my words, it’s their best release to date.

Despite those caveats, out of the 1,000-or-so albums sent my way in the past year there were more than enough diversely interesting and exciting releases to fill 10 spots.

Have fun reading and listening — and please do write us with your own favorites, too.

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10. Cee-Lo Green — Lady Killer

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Right up until my deadline, I was deciding between Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore’s touching bluegrass/folk project, Dear Companion, and folk-popper Doug Paisely’s Constant Companion (featuring Feist) for the 10th and final spot on this list. Then suddenly I heard the irreverent, giant-voiced Gnarls Barkley singer Cee-Lo Green’s cover of Band of Horses’ “No One’s Gonna Love You More Than I Do” and found myself addicted to the head-bobbing, lustcrazed, belly-laughing world of Cee-Lo’s heroically carnal album, Lady Killer. If the Reverend Al Green ever chooses to ameliorate his relationship with Satan by collaborating with Ween, it’ll probably sound something like “Fuck You,” which was Cee-Lo’s generous early Christmas gift to us all.

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Bring your canned food donations to the Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza for discounted admission on Tuesday.

Thursday, Dec. 30

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Happy New Year at Happy and the Bitter Bar — Three-course dinner and optional drink pairing.

Happy Noodle House, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050.

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Tuesday, Jan. 4

One of the most remarkable strengths of Los Lobos over the past 30-plus years has been their progressive penchant for successfully experimenting with different genres, instruments and production techniques in the studio. Tin Can Trust — a pleasing jaunt through slow, dark psychedelic blues-rock; upbeat cumbia and norteño numbers; and even a rambling instrumental fuzz-guitar rave-up — features wildly different drum sounds on nearly every track, and a profound intensity that’s fluid through even the most drastic changes in tempo and instrumentation.

David Hidalgo’s lyrics kick dirt on the past during “Burn It Down,” while a simple, driving acoustic guitar and stand-up bass exercise builds into a Sonic Youth-style distorted-guitar explosion. It’s hard not to be moved by that kind of musical brashness, especially from a bunch of guys in their 50s.

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3. Here We Go Magic — Pigeons

8. Deer Tick — Black Dirt Sessions

Scruffy young Deer Tick frontman John McCauley told me back in October that he has no goals other than wanting to “make albums we can all be happy with and see the world.” The “we” McCauley spoke of was himself and his band, but in another decade — say, the ’70s — an impressive collection of deep, honest and countrified rock ’n’ roll such as The Black Dirt Sessions (Deer Tick’s third LP) would’ve been played on major radio stations and appealed to the larger “we” in a big way. For now, Deer Tick is our secret, but that’s changing quickly.

I came across Here We Go Magic’s Myspace page back in May, and I instantly decided the Brooklyn art-rockers’ pleasant, fastpaced, Feelies-esque “Collector” would be the song of 2010, and then certainly didn’t hear anything more thoroughly enjoyable in the following months. In short, this stylistically diverse LP, at its best, sounds like Graham Nash fronting Neu! During tracks like “Vegetable or Native,” Pigeons gets Mothers of Invention-style incoherent — and generally not in a good way — but overall this album effectively presents an eccentric buzz band that’s more than worth the hype.

7. Foals — Total Life Forever

“Blue Blood,” which kicks off Foals’ second album, Total Life Forever, like an ode to My Morning Jacket, initially sounds like a startling departure from the undeniably danceable postpunk of the English group’s previous work. Truth is, Foals has just grown up. It only takes a while for the Nintendo-meets-Paul Simon guitar duels and pounding Gang of Four drums to kick in, and suddenly singer-guitarist Yannis Philippakis — who most memorably sang about tennis on 2008’s Antidotes — is utilizing Dave Sitek’s (TV On the Radio) more spacious and lush production to get lyrically inventive and emotional. Combined with Foals’ addictive Remain in Light beats, thick bass lines and aforementioned Graceland guitars, Philippakis’ dense poetry about mankind eventually succumbing to the will of machines makes Total Life Forever a must-listen.

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6. Cotton Jones — Tall Hours in the Glowstream

After falling in love with the lo-fi Maryland group’s debut LP, Paranoid Cocoon, and then witnessing Cotton Jones perform their positively devotional Southern soul music for 200 lucky souls in the bowels of Red Rocks last fall, I was initially frustrated with Tall Hours in the Glowstream. Its most passionate moments — such as the hymnal refrain of “Come on, baby / let the river roll on” during “Somehow Keep it Going” — aren’t as immediately inviting as Cotton Jones’ more invigorating earlier work. But a closer listen reveals a band now able to wield its soulful powers with a slow and effectual Southern ease that comes on like a gradual flood of sweet sounds one wouldn’t mind dying to. What’s a glowstream? Who cares?

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5. Bruce Springsteen — The Promise

As a kid, all I knew of Bruce Springsteen was that my yuppie aunt and uncle loved the Boss and Jimmy Buffett equally, so naturally I equated “Born to Run” with utter bullshit like “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” But now, with big-time indie bands such as Arcade Fire and Dr. Dog unabashedly wearing their substantial Springsteen influence like a badge of honor, it’s well past time to admit that Jersey’s arena-rocker laureate has written and recorded many, many amazing songs. The stripped-down Dylan-meets-Kerouac LP Darkness On the Edge of Town (1978) is one of Springsteen’s best, and The Promise boasts two discs of previously unreleased material from the Darkness sessions, including an improved “Racing in the Street” and Springsteen’s own take on “Because the Night.”

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4. Avi Buffalo — Avi Buffalo

Believe it or not, young indie guitar-rockers Avi Buffalo, led by still-under-age singer-guitarist-songwriter Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, may eventually transcend everything the legendary Sub Pop label has ever released. Sweetly juxtaposing late-’90s Sonic Youth trippiness and guitar flourishes equally Marquee Moon and Live/Dead, euphoric tracks like “Remember Last Time” quickly go from “pretty good for a 20-year-old” to “holy shit, this kid is amazing” in minutes.

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2. Arcade Fire — The Suburbs

At this point the release of a new Arcade Fire album is practically a cultural event, and on The Suburbs the sprawling Montreal collective does not disappoint. Texasbred 30-year-old singer-guitarist Win Butler continues to illustrate America’s sociological and developmental sins with startling clarity, pouring out his own demons in the process; this time, however, Arcade Fire mostly take a more tempered approach, with the help of Final Fantasy’s mesmerizing string arrangements and the unrepentant Springsteen influence I previously hinted at. Beyond existential rock, there are also flashes of New Order, SST hardcore and even ABBA here — all perfect weapons for “shouting through the suburbs.” Infallible they’re not, but Butler and Co. arguably represent the most powerful rock band of our time.

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1. Mountain Man — Made the Harbor

Out of nowhere — and I mean no disrespect to their home state of Vermont — the three young ladies of Mountain Man stole the hearts of many a music geek in 2010. Made the Harbor is mostly just their heavenly voices and one humble acoustic guitar, and a cappella tracks such as “Mouthwings” — with its stunning lyric “I will grow a baby / oh, he will move so swiftly / to hold me completely” — “Honeybee,” “Babylon” and “How’m I Doin’” invite listeners into a dusty, long-forgotten world of pastoral vocal bliss.

Equally haunting and harmonious, Mountain Man nurtures old-style musical integrity like Fleet Foxes collaborating with the Carter Family. And they play the Boulder Theater in February.

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Johnny O’s blues sky

Playing the blues with 300 days of sunshine

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omeone once said that the relative dearth of blues musicians around here is actually a weather thing; who can sing the blues under 300 annual days of sunshine?

Hmmm….

To be fair, John Ohnmacht isn’t doing it here all the time. In between gigs as frontman and guitarist/songwriter for the Johnny O Band, Ohnmacht trundles himself down to Brazil (another sunny climate, we note) where he picks up backing-band electric and solo acoustic gigs, an erstwhile departure from the slightly dangerous Chicago-meets-Big Easy hybrid blues-funk he and his trio band tour with around Colorado and stateside during festival season.

Brazil?

“My father lives down there half the year,” Ohnmacht explains. “I started going down there 10 years ago, and I hooked up with a good buddy who’s a producer/manager type guy. He’s been putting these little tours together for me. He’s connected with a lot of the top acts in Rio, and all the top clubs.

“And, y’know, they really dig the blues. There’s blues bands down there, but no one really doin’ it like … I dunno, a good American player can,” Ohnmacht chuckles.

It’s not as if the cats down there can’t play the guitar, of course. Brazil has a deep and treasured history of astounding musical talent, especially specific to the guitar. But there’s something endemically American about the blues — a kind of cultural DNA, maybe.

“We grew up with soul music and stuff; there’s a whole different school that we’re comin’ from. So a guy like me that spent a lot of time in New Orleans and spent a lot of time studying Southern music and soul music … they understand it and they hear it.”

And inspired by his trips to Rio, Ohnmacht has also just released (pretty quietly) a solo CD called A Volta, a selection of 12 acoustic instrumentals, with Mark Diamond and Christian Teele lending rhythm section support.

But Ohnmacht’s bread ’n’ butter is the Johnny O Band, a trio he first assembled back around 1997, only a year or two after his gig with the eclectic Boulder-based Band Du Jour wrapped up.

Aficionados of Gov’t Mule, Tommy Castro, Stevie Ray and the T-Birds find common ground with Ohnmacht’s blues, which itself retains a bit of the backbeat funkiness that resonates from Band Du Jour’s heyday in the early and mid-’90s, minus a little of the genre-colliding madness that BDJ spread during its marathon touring years in the southeast and along the West Coast.

Paired with longtime veteran drummer Marion Edwards and Jamaican bassist Ian Anderson, the band is a mainstay at the Outlook and various stages in Denver, as well as the bigger stages up at the

mountain towns during spring skiing season, but also carries its gig around the country as a reliable and well-respected draw. After better than a decade of working it, three well-received CDs and a seamless stage gig, it’s that weird combination of being a “local act” when they’re playing around here, and a stout, counterpunching contender out of state, that perplexes.

“Yeah, that’s the case sometimes, but we get good gigs around here, too,” Ohnmacht says.

“We opened up for Robert Randolph a few years ago and played for 5,000 people up at Breckenridge. I mean, it’s a work in progress, and it’s not the goal; it’s the journey.

“And I know a lot of these bands in these other places [like Chicago, California and New York] that struggle. If you live out in California, yeah you can get gigs, but the cost of living is three times as much. Same with New York. Y’know, it’s a pretty good scene, with blues festivals that hit in the summer. And, y’know, we’re established. We have a great rapport with dozens of venue owners around the state, and if you move to a place like California, you don’t have that.”

It’s a fine thing, living in Colorado and playing the blues, even if it’s a far cry (and a decade and a half ) removed from Band Du Jour’s swan song.

“We played 27 states the last year we were on tour together, we were just touring like mad. And I got a good taste for it, and I’d love to be on the road like that with this band.

“I go down to Rio and we’re killin’ them. And they’ve never seen a band like I have here. … I mean, they have some awesome drummers down there, but they don’t have anyone that can touch my man Marion.

“The band has been hittin’ on a new level and continues to get better. There’s going to be a bustin’ point.”

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Pictureplane’s goth beats are taking flight

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hat do you get when you have a downtown warehouse with little city enforcement and a group of tenants whose primary addiction is art? You get Rhinoceropolis, a Denver D.I.Y. art establishment and anarchist commune that has been the city’s most fertile breeding ground for new art projects. And with Rhinoceropolis you get Pictureplane, aka Denver-based performer Travis Egedy, who has been a longtime tenant and co-curator for all things underground.

“I can’t imagine Denver without Rhinoceropolis,” Egedy says. “It would be a different place, with all the things that happened and relationships that formed here. It’s really positive for the community.”

Originally a visual artist, Egedy became a resident DJ of sorts, helping to book performers in Rhinoceropolis and beyond, and filling in where he could. Now he’s landed a spot opening for Crystal Castles on New Year’s Eve at the Boulder Theater, a connection he made after developing his brand of electronic music over four years of living at the art space.

“My room is pretty small, but the space itself is an art paradise,” Egedy told Boulder Weekly. “There’s art hanging off of every surface, lots of piled weird junk everywhere, lots of music equipment, some chill spaces … and yes, a backyard with a beautiful junkyard view.”

This was the setting for the creation of “witch house,” a genre of electronic music that made some of the biggest waves in the indie world in 2010. Egedy explains that people misuse the original meaning: Last year, he half-jokingly came up with witch house as a genre to describe the music he and his friends created.

To him, the music was like a cult based around dance music, “like a magical house music,” as he puts it.

Within the last six months, witch house has been recontextualized to describe slowed-down goth lo-fi, a sort of shoegazer’s version of chopped-and-screwed.

But the original intention was dance music, and Pictureplane’s heady and heartfelt interpretation is currently doing it best.

“I’m really interested in contemporary dance music. I’m a pretty big nerd about it,” Egedy says. “I follow EDM [electronic dance music] pretty religiously, but there’s not a dancing purpose for Pictureplane. I don’t make it to be club-ready. I’m always in this weird gray area of making electronic music that’s not fully dance music, but it’s not indie rock, either.”

Without any visual cues, you would never know Pictureplane had any curiosity about blood rituals and demonic chants. The music itself is an uplifting, energizing sound that conjures the wonderment of youth within fuzzed-out memories of summer vacation — definitely not ghostly possession or evil malintent.

“Cult-based music doesn’t have to sound negative,” Egedy counters. “I’m just sort of interested in magic and affecting the world in a magical way. Even though the music is positive, there is a dark aspect to it, even though I always end up making happy kind of stuff.”

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Underlying dark elements will especially shape Pictureplane’s newest album, which is tentatively due for release this spring.

“Dark is a relative term. I just like to have it more like a poetic, post-goth approach, y’know, a classy darkness to it, a noir aspect to it,” Egedy says. “Dark music is always sexier than shinyhappy pop songs. All the new stuff is a lot darker, and conceptually is about physicality and sexuality and gender dynamics within people and physical touch and sensations.”

What likely won’t change is Egedy’s ability to create music that inspires all kinds of dancing, whether it’s getting down to straight house beats or swerving in circles with your arms around your friends. Egedy also isn’t afraid to be a part of the crowd during a performance, occasionally setting up his collection of samplers and mixers right in the center of the audience pit, forcing the crowd into a circle around him. It all adds to the effect of Pictureplane being beyond manufactured club music: The inspiration is to feel feelings, not to buy more drinks.

With plenty of new bands gaining relevance by aligning as quickly as possible with a new, buzzworthy genre, this independent approach to sound will likely be Pictureplane’s strongest asset within the indie music scene.

Bandwagon genres are the opposite of relevance, where artists fizzle out exactly in time with that genre, as if their contract with Satan for 15 famous minutes has expired.

“The goal of what I’m doing with Pictureplane is sort of to affect people’s worlds, to change things and push things forward — to make people understand that anything is possible. I know it sounds really pretentious, not a lot of people talk like that, but I want it to be that big. Change is on a relative scale, so if I only affect one person’s life, that’s great.”

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s of Dec. 24, Boulder photographer Peggy Dyer had captured the images of 4,340 people, leaving 995,660 to go in her mission to photograph a million faces. For the last two years, Dyer has been steadily amassing what she hopes will be the “single most extensive collection of portraits taken by a single photographer.”

The idea occurred to Dyer, a professional photographer, in February 2009 while she was listening to Bon Jovi in her car.

“I’d heard this song a thousand times, but when I heard him sing, ‘I’ve seen a million faces and I rocked them all,’ this magnificent idea just sort of downloaded into my brain,” Dyer says. “I saw these giant collages up on the walls of the Getty and I could just hear my shoes clicking down the marble floors of the museum. Two days later, I started taking pictures.”

Since then, Dyer has traveled across the country and the state, setting up her camera at parties, events, outside of grocery stores, and anywhere else she feels inspired. She carries with her a small white board and encourages her subjects to write a message on it to be photographed with.

“Maybe it’s a motto they have or just a favorite quote, but I invite them to think of the message as a kind of a time capsule,” Dyer says. “What would they want people to know about them in 10 years, 50 years, or even just next year? To meet someone in an instant and ask them what they care about, what they have to say, and then to genuinely tell them it’s OK to express that — it has a really empowering vibe.”

When the task at hand of taking a million portraits starts to seem overwhelming, Dyer remembers the positive effects that her project has had on those who have participated. She particularly calls to mind the 13-year-old boy who was inspired to be openly gay after seeing a photo of two men kissing in one of her slideshows.

“Every time I tell that story, I totally get goosebumps. I’m forever linked with that kid, even though all I did was stand there and say, ‘It’s OK to feel that,’” Dyer says. “There’s all these messages out there about what’s not OK and how you shouldn’t be. I don’t think there’s enough authentically positive messages that encourage people to be OK with themselves right now, exactly how they are, here, present, perfect.

That’s a very deep message that I’m trying to bring forward with this project.”

Earlier this month, Dyer photographed 233 peo-

ple in two and a half hours at an event at the Boulder Theater.

As her project continues to gain momentum, Dyer recognizes that by jumping straight into her inspiration two years ago, she slightly neglected to consider certain logistical components necessary to chasing her vision.

Important elements like money and organization have been a learning process for her as the project has evolved.

While the set up, editing and post-production processes can be exhausting, when Dyer is photographing, she says she feels endlessly energized.

To share that energy, Dyer has partnered with several charities, including The Davis Phinney Foundation, which aims to improve the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease. Dyer traveled around the country interviewing and photographing people with Parkinson’s disease for the Foundation to make an educational booklet.

“We’re all connected; that’s what I want the project to show,” Dyer says. “I want people to look at the work and feel connected to each other and their community. That way, if they see they’re blessed and have all this abundance, maybe they’ll turn to the person next to them and say, ‘Here’s my hand; how can I help?’ Maybe they will share a meal or a laugh, or even just a moment of being truly present with each other.”

Dyer’s work can be seen in Boulder at the Walnut Cafe and Mountain’s Edge Fitness and will be displayed at Studio Shakta on Jan. 7 during Denver’s monthly First Friday Art Walk.

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Boulder Absinthe House New Year’s Party — One all-inclusive price gets you into the hottest NYE party in Boulder. Enjoy music from DJ Dimitri and DJ Ricard, party favors and a FULL OPEN BAR ALL NIGHT for only $55 per person! Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Alba’s New Year’s Dinner — Join Alba Restaurant and Wine Bar for a special chef’s tasting menu to ring in the new year.

They will also be serving their regular menu.Visit www.albaboulder.com for a full menu, or call 303-938-8800 for more information. Alba Restaurant and Wine Bar, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

Asher Brewing Company’s New Year’s Eve Shindig — Ring in 2011 with Colorado’s first certified organic brewery, Asher Brewing Co., and Interstate Stash Express, the pyschedelic rock jam power trio of the Rocky Mountain region! No cover charge or pricey party packages here! The Tap Room opens at 3 p.m. on Dec. 31. Interstate Stash Express will jam out starting at 10 p.m. and ring in the new year at midnight! We’ll have food too!

Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Suite 104, Boulder, 303 530-1381.

Baker St. Pub New Year’s Eve — Music by the Worthingtons and a champagne toast at midnight. Baker St. Pub, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

BMoCA New Year’s Eve Party — Celebrate the future at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Dance, eat and drink 2010 away. Then count down to 2011 with an Art Drop performance. Champagne toast included. Members who are 21 and older receive a complimentary drink. Cash bar provided. Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre New Year’s Eve Show — Dinner, show, champagne and dancing all under one roof! Let the talented performers at BDT entertain you with a special performance of Hello Dolly, and then enjoy dancing on the stage for the rest of the evening and a champagne toast at midnight. Each table will receive a complimentary bottle of champagne. Tickets start at

$85 per person. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Centro Latin Kitchen — Ring in the New Year with some heat! The four-course dinner is $50, with an optional $25 champagne cocktail pairing. Call for reservations. 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771.

Crystal Castles. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Gold Hill Inn New Year’s Celebration — Dinner buffet and dance featuring Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams with special guests The Mary Russell Band. Doors at 7 p.m. with a light buffet from 7-10 p.m. Music starts 8 p.m. Tickets are $29 and include food and music. ($2 service charge for phone orders.) Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Holden Young & HY3. 10 p.m. Pearl St. Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Hotel Boulderado New Year’s Eve Dance Party — Dressed in Black and Funkiphino provide the music for one of Boulder’s biggest and most elegant New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Taking place at the historic Hotel Boulderado, the Gala Ball dinner and dance package includes a buffet dinner and dancing in the lobby, and guests can also choose overnight packages. Ticket prices vary. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Hotsoup New Year’s Eve Concert. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Lucky Me New Year’s Eve Concert. 10 p.m. Trattoria On Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

New Year’s Eve Dance Party at Avalon — Ring in the New Year dancing with friends in the Avalon Ballroom. Doors at 7 p.m. The dance orchestra plays a variety of couples dance music from 7:30 to 11 p.m., champagne toast at 11 p.m. and DJ music throughout the night. Cost is $27 per person. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962.

New Year’s Eve Surprise! You don’t know what you’re going to get, but you can bet it’ll be awesome! Live music (the line-up is secret) and great food and drink will make this an evening to remember. Cost is whatever you can or want to pay.

Capacity is limited, so RSVP to admin@rocknsoulcafe.com, or call for more info. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

New Year’s Eve Apres Ski Party. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

New Year’s Eve Dinner — Enjoy a gourmet, six-course dinner in a beautiful setting. Reservations are required and limited tables will be available for guests without reservations. 5:30-10 p.m. Jill’s at the St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4067399.

New Year’s Eve Dinner and Music — With John Beacher and Meniskus. 8 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

New Year’s Eve Package With Delta Sonics. 8 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

New Year’s Eve Celebration with Elephant Revival.

Elephant Revival plays two shows at Nomad Theatre. The Shook Twins join them on Dec. 30, and the Sally Van Meter Trio opens on Dec. 31. Tickets are $20 for Dec. 30 and $30 for the Dec. 31 show. Both shows start at 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Polar Plunge 2011 — Shake off that New Year’s hangover with a plunge in the Boulder Reservoir to help raise funds for Alzheimer’s education, counseling, support groups and the 24-hour Helpline provided by the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. Cost is $20-$25. Registration is 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and the plunge starts at 11:30 a.m., New Year’s Day. For more information, visit www.alz.org/co.

Rio Grande New Year’s Eve Party. Enjoy a complimentary midnight champagne toast, party favors and more at the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant. No reservations necessary. 1101 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-3690.

Rose Hill Drive New Year’s Show. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Sambadende New Year’s Eve Bash — Enjoy a classy New Year’s Eve celebration at the St. Julien Hotel. Dance to the rhythms of Brazilian roots band Sambadende and raise your glass at midnight for a champagne toast. Tickets are $30 per person in advance, $35 day of the show. 8 p.m. Xanadu Ballroom at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Arvada The Teaching — With DJ Chonz. 8 p.m. to midnight. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Who’s Tommy. 8 p.m. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044.

Denver Annual Erotic Poetry Festival — Accompanied by Tribal Belly Dancers. For something a little different on New Year’s Eve. 7-9 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 9:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Casselman’s Good Life New Year’s Eve Bash. 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-2428923.

Champagne Hotel. 9 p.m. Marriott Denver Tech Center, 4900 S. Syracuse, Denver, 303-779-1100.

Comedy Works Downtown Presents Ralph Harris.

Three shows, at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. The 10 p.m. show includes champagne and party favors. Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Comedy Works South Presents Brad Upton. Three shows, at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. The 10 p.m. show includes

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New Year’s Eve Guide Tango du Masque — A black-tie option for New Year’s Eve with NYE Glitter Balls — Come ring in the new year with Top 40 champagne and party favors. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark dinner and dancing. Tickets are $90 per person or $720 for a table dance mashups by DJ Skylar, go-go dancers, free champagne at midPl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800. of eight. 1555 Grant Ave., Denver, 303-877-6019. night and more! 8 p.m. Mo’s, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party. Grand Hyatt Tavern NYE Olive Drop. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Passport New Year’s Eve. Suite 200, 1427 Larimer St., Denver, Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.

Market St., Denver, 303-299-0100.

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Diamond After Dark. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. 511 W. Colfax Ave., The White Rose Gala — Tickets start at $59 and include a balRailroad Earth — With Great American Taxi. 9 p.m. Ogden Denver, 720-690-1045. loon drop with $2,000 in cash at midnight. Guests are encouraged to Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will wear white. 9 p.m. Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, 7800 E. Tufts The Sensual City Vaudeville Show. 8 p.m. Bar Standard, take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first Ave., Denver, 303-779-1234.

1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222. show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more inforWidepsread Panic. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, Denver, 877-686-5366.

Singles New Year’s Eve Party — Rocky Mountain Singles has mation, call 303-534-6161.

Viernes De Reventon New Year’s Eve Fiesta — Swing rented out Jazz @ Jack’s for a private, singles-only party. 8 p.m. to 1 Global New Year’s Eve — Featuring the Triad Dragons, with your hips into the new year and celebrate 2011 Kostas, Dragon, Trajikk, Hycloud and Jontron on Latin-style with the sounds of salsa, merengue and the main floor. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., more. 9 p.m.Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303Denver, 303-832-3528.

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Gora Gora Orkestar. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, Zoo Year’s Eve. 5 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.

Greensky Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Cervante’s Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Rollinsville Hazel Miller Sings in the New Year — Mountain Standard Time — With Smooth Tickets are $55 each or $100 per couple and Money Gesture. Stage Stop Inn, 60 Main St., include a spectacular coffee and dessert buffet and Rollinsville, 303-258-0649 a midnight champagne toast! Sherman St. Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-778-0916.

Englewood The Informants — With GT & The Warlock Pinchers — With Il Cattivo, Bobby C Sidewinders. Ticket price includes midnight chamSound TV, MegaJive. 8 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. pagne toast and party favors! 9 p.m Soiled Dove, Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.

7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001.

Jet Hotel — Ring in the New Year downtown at Estes Park the Hollywood Paparazzi Ball. Dress as your FEATURING TWO FABULOUS BANDS & OPTIONAL BUFFET DINNER: New Year’s at Marys Lake Lodge — Join favorite celebrity for the VIP affair. Tickets are $30 Wendy Woo in the Grand Room or Dennis in advance.1612 Wazee St., Denver, 303-572-3300. $40 Entry ($60 after Dec 27th) $35 Sumptuous Buffet featuring: Tobias in the tavern for a musical start to the new The Knew Year’s Eve Party — With The Chef-Carved Beef Tenderloin, Seared year. Marys Lake Lodge, 2625 Marys Lake Rd., Knew, American Tomahawk and DJ Nick Sullivan.

Petite Norwegian Salmon, Cheese “Dressed in Black” Estes Park, 970-586-5958.

Free champagne at midnight. Larimer Lounge, Tortellini, and an Array of Other From Frank Sinatra to Aretha 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Delicacies ($45 after Dec 27th) Franklin Fort Collins Masquerade Ball with Bop Skizzum. The New Years Eve Party — With The Honey Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-997-9911.

Special Prices for Overnight Gitters & Constitution. 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and Mercury Cafe’s NYE Dinner. Dinner from 5:30 “Funkiphino” Packages include a champagne toast and late-night buffet. p.m. to 12:30 a.m., accompanied by soft classical Colorado’s Funk Sensation Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason St., Fort and jazz music. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Collins, 970-493-5555.

Denver, 303-294-9281.

Milk New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Milk, 1037 Lafayette Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.

New Year’s Eve Party with The Vintage The Motet and John Brown’s Body — With Rock Band. 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Juno What?! and Tatanka. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s 303-297-1772.

Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, refreshNew Year’s Eve at Impulse Theatre and ments, musical performance at 11 a.m. by local Wynkoop Brewing — Enjoy an Impulse Theater musician Eric West and special countdown at Comedy show, dinner at the Wynkoop Brewing noon! All included with museum admission! 110 Company, a champagne toast with dinner and a N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. mead toast at midnight. Dinner is 7-8:30 p.m.

Packages are $70. Impulse Theater, 1634 18th St., Longmont Denver, 303-297-2111.

A Grand Night for Singing. Tickets $23-$32.

New Year’s Eve Gala — A portion of the pro2115 13th Street, Boulder, CO | 303.440.2880 Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, ceeds benefits the Tennyson Center for Children.

303-682-9980. www.boulderado.com Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court She Groovez. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Place, Denver, 303-893-3333.

Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, New Year’s Eve with Basslab and Bass.Code 303-485-9400. ­— City Hall hosts Basslab and Bass.Code. Tickets a.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000 are $40 (with a $5 service fee) in advance. 9 p.m. City Hall, 1114 Niwot Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Broadway, 1144 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Niwot Tavern New Year’s Party — Enjoy dinner and midColfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

New Year’s Eve with Lannie Garrett’s Swingin’ Big night champagne toast at Niwot Tavern. 7960 Niwot Rd., Niwot, Smash Putt Miniature Golf Apocalypse! Smash Putt, The Band. Doors at 8 p.m. $125 per person. Lannie’s Clocktower 303-652-0200.

Miniature Golf Apocalypse, destroys Denver with six weekends of Cabaret, 16th St. Mall, Denver, 303-293-0075. mechanized mayhem beginning New Year’s Eve. Launch balls at movNight in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Lyons ing targets! Putt past accelerator pads! Dodge devilish actuators!

Orchestra — Spend a classy New Year’s Eve with the Colorado Peaceful Valley Ranch New Year’s Package — Includes Press the giant glowing button to scramble the course as your oppoSymphony Orchestra as they perform waltzes, polkas and classics. lodging, meals and New Year’s Dinner and Dance! Peaceful Valley nent takes a swing! Open New Year’s Eve from 6 p.m. Runs Fridays 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Ranch, 475 Peaceful Ranch Rd., Lyons, 303747-2881. through Sundays from Dec. 31 to Feb. 6. 2762 Walnut St., Denver, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876.

Spring Creek Band. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., www.smashputt.com.

Noon Year’s Eve. Come see the Children’s Museum of Denver Lyons, 303-823-6685.

STS9 — STS9 takes over the sector known as the Fillmore transformed into Times Square! The ball drops at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Auditorium for three nights, Dec. 29-31. Show at 7 p.m. The Fillmore noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Free for members, $5 for non-members.

Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.

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New Year’s Eve Guide Tango du Masque — A black-tie option for New Year’s Eve with NYE Glitter Balls — Come ring in the new year with Top 40 champagne and party favors. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark dinner and dancing. Tickets are $90 per person or $720 for a table dance mashups by DJ Skylar, go-go dancers, free champagne at midPl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800. of eight. 1555 Grant Ave., Denver, 303-877-6019. night and more! 8 p.m. Mo’s, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party. Grand Hyatt Tavern NYE Olive Drop. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Passport New Year’s Eve. Suite 200, 1427 Larimer St., Denver, Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.

Market St., Denver, 303-299-0100.

720-560-4433.

Diamond After Dark. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. 511 W. Colfax Ave., The White Rose Gala — Tickets start at $59 and include a balRailroad Earth — With Great American Taxi. 9 p.m. Ogden Denver, 720-690-1045. loon drop with $2,000 in cash at midnight. Guests are encouraged to Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will wear white. 9 p.m. Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, 7800 E. Tufts The Sensual City Vaudeville Show. 8 p.m. Bar Standard, take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first Ave., Denver, 303-779-1234.

1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222. show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more inforWidepsread Panic. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, Denver, 877-686-5366.

Singles New Year’s Eve Party — Rocky Mountain Singles has mation, call 303-534-6161.

Viernes De Reventon New Year’s Eve Fiesta — Swing rented out Jazz @ Jack’s for a private, singles-only party. 8 p.m. to 1 Global New Year’s Eve — Featuring the Triad Dragons, with your hips into the new year and celebrate 2011 Kostas, Dragon, Trajikk, Hycloud and Jontron on Latin-style with the sounds of salsa, merengue and the main floor. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., more. 9 p.m.Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303Denver, 303-832-3528.

506-8078.

Gora Gora Orkestar. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, Zoo Year’s Eve. 5 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.

Greensky Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Cervante’s Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Rollinsville Hazel Miller Sings in the New Year — Mountain Standard Time — With Smooth Tickets are $55 each or $100 per couple and Money Gesture. Stage Stop Inn, 60 Main St., include a spectacular coffee and dessert buffet and Rollinsville, 303-258-0649 a midnight champagne toast! Sherman St. Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-778-0916.

Englewood The Informants — With GT & The Warlock Pinchers — With Il Cattivo, Bobby C Sidewinders. Ticket price includes midnight chamSound TV, MegaJive. 8 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. pagne toast and party favors! 9 p.m Soiled Dove, Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.

7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001.

Jet Hotel — Ring in the New Year downtown at Estes Park the Hollywood Paparazzi Ball. Dress as your FEATURING TWO FABULOUS BANDS & OPTIONAL BUFFET DINNER: New Year’s at Marys Lake Lodge — Join favorite celebrity for the VIP affair. Tickets are $30 Wendy Woo in the Grand Room or Dennis in advance.1612 Wazee St., Denver, 303-572-3300. $40 Entry ($60 after Dec 27th) $35 Sumptuous Buffet featuring: Tobias in the tavern for a musical start to the new The Knew Year’s Eve Party — With The Chef-Carved Beef Tenderloin, Seared year. Marys Lake Lodge, 2625 Marys Lake Rd., Knew, American Tomahawk and DJ Nick Sullivan.

Petite Norwegian Salmon, Cheese “Dressed in Black” Estes Park, 970-586-5958.

Free champagne at midnight. Larimer Lounge, Tortellini, and an Array of Other From Frank Sinatra to Aretha 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Delicacies ($45 after Dec 27th) Franklin Fort Collins Masquerade Ball with Bop Skizzum. The New Years Eve Party — With The Honey Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-997-9911.

Special Prices for Overnight Gitters & Constitution. 9 p.m. Tickets are $10 and Mercury Cafe’s NYE Dinner. Dinner from 5:30 “Funkiphino” Packages include a champagne toast and late-night buffet. p.m. to 12:30 a.m., accompanied by soft classical Colorado’s Funk Sensation Avogadro’s Number, 605 S. Mason St., Fort and jazz music. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Collins, 970-493-5555.

Denver, 303-294-9281.

Milk New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Milk, 1037 Lafayette Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.

New Year’s Eve Party with The Vintage The Motet and John Brown’s Body — With Rock Band. 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Juno What?! and Tatanka. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s 303-297-1772.

Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, refreshNew Year’s Eve at Impulse Theatre and ments, musical performance at 11 a.m. by local Wynkoop Brewing — Enjoy an Impulse Theater musician Eric West and special countdown at Comedy show, dinner at the Wynkoop Brewing noon! All included with museum admission! 110 Company, a champagne toast with dinner and a N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. mead toast at midnight. Dinner is 7-8:30 p.m.

Packages are $70. Impulse Theater, 1634 18th St., Longmont Denver, 303-297-2111.

A Grand Night for Singing. Tickets $23-$32.

New Year’s Eve Gala — A portion of the pro2115 13th Street, Boulder, CO | 303.440.2880 Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, ceeds benefits the Tennyson Center for Children.

303-682-9980. www.boulderado.com Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court She Groovez. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Place, Denver, 303-893-3333.

Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, New Year’s Eve with Basslab and Bass.Code 303-485-9400. ­— City Hall hosts Basslab and Bass.Code. Tickets a.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000 are $40 (with a $5 service fee) in advance. 9 p.m. City Hall, 1114 Niwot Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Broadway, 1144 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Niwot Tavern New Year’s Party — Enjoy dinner and midColfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

New Year’s Eve with Lannie Garrett’s Swingin’ Big night champagne toast at Niwot Tavern. 7960 Niwot Rd., Niwot, Smash Putt Miniature Golf Apocalypse! Smash Putt, The Band. Doors at 8 p.m. $125 per person. Lannie’s Clocktower 303-652-0200.

Miniature Golf Apocalypse, destroys Denver with six weekends of Cabaret, 16th St. Mall, Denver, 303-293-0075. mechanized mayhem beginning New Year’s Eve. Launch balls at movNight in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Lyons ing targets! Putt past accelerator pads! Dodge devilish actuators!

Orchestra — Spend a classy New Year’s Eve with the Colorado Peaceful Valley Ranch New Year’s Package — Includes Press the giant glowing button to scramble the course as your oppoSymphony Orchestra as they perform waltzes, polkas and classics. lodging, meals and New Year’s Dinner and Dance! Peaceful Valley nent takes a swing! Open New Year’s Eve from 6 p.m. Runs Fridays 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Ranch, 475 Peaceful Ranch Rd., Lyons, 303747-2881. through Sundays from Dec. 31 to Feb. 6. 2762 Walnut St., Denver, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876.

Spring Creek Band. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., www.smashputt.com.

Noon Year’s Eve. Come see the Children’s Museum of Denver Lyons, 303-823-6685.

STS9 — STS9 takes over the sector known as the Fillmore transformed into Times Square! The ball drops at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., Auditorium for three nights, Dec. 29-31. Show at 7 p.m. The Fillmore noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Free for members, $5 for non-members.

Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.

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music Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Dechen Hawk and a Murder of Prose. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Elephant Revival — With The Shook Twins. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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

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

Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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.

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

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

Open Stage. 8 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, 303-4424344.

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

Smooth Money Gesture. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

events 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 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-

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Rose Hill Drive is making a comeback, though the band’s situation might not meet the definition of the word. After taking more than one year off from making music, the homegrown trio has added a fourth member and is back performing New Year’s Eve shows at the Fox. This year, they’re covering Elephants, the classic White Stripes album. Hearing an astoundingly proficient four-piece taking on the simple two-piece music of the White Stripes should be extremely entertaining. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m.

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

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night.

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

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

Friday, Dec. 31

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

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

Crystal Castles. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Delta Sonics — New Year’s Eve party. 8 p.m.

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

Elephant Revival — With Sally Van Meter Trio.

7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

John Beacher. 8 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Hotsoup — New Year’s Eve party. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Meniskus. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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New Year’s Eve Surprise! 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Sambadende New Year’s Eve Bash. 8 p.m.

St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

She Groovez. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

The Teaching — With DJ Chonz. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

The Vintage Rock and Soul Band — New Year’s Eve party. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

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, 303-442-7427.

Happy New Year at the Happy and the Bitter Bar — Three-course dinner and optional drink pairing. Happy Noodle House, 835 Walnut St, Boulder, 303-442-3050.

New Year’s Eve Dinner. 5:30 p.m. Jill’s at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

New Year’s Eve and Friday Night Fever. Bacaro Venetian Taverna, 921 Pearl St, Boulder, 303-444-4888.

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

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

Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours.

4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

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Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science.

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

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

Edits — Paintings by Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30.

Moments In Between — Paintings by Barbara Shark. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30.

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Light Leaks — Paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders.

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Through Jan. 9.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Collages by Gerda Rovetch. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Dec. 31.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Tina Will. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Jan. 30.

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

2122. Through Jan. 31.

Slides of a Changing Painting — By Robert Gober. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through Jan. 16.

Swimming in Cola — Sculptures by Dewane Hughes.

UMC Art Gallery, CU campus, 303-492-6161. Through Dec. 17.

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

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

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

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

Pete Kartsounes Trio — CD release party.

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

Magnolia Row. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neil’s, 1922 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St.

Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

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

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

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617.

Sunday, Jan. 2

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

Amy Schmidt, Orion Walsh, Kristin Myers.

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

Annie Booth Trio. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N.

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2011 Shakespeare Theatre Association of America Conference: Wild and Whirling Words ­— Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-4920554. Jan. 5-8.

A Grand Night for Singing.

Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Dec. 31.

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

Schoolhouse Rock Live!

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Dec. 30.

Scrooge. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Dec. 30.

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Monday, Jan. 3 Children’s Story Time. 10:15 a.m.

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

Conversations in English — For ESL learners. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

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

Tuesday, Jan. 4 Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Wednesday, Jan. 5 Drop-In Story Time. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

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

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

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

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Onda. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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

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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. 7:15 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, Jan. 3

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, 303-463-6683.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

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

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction.

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

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

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic

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

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Tuesday, Jan. 4

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, 303-443-3322.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Community Food Share Discount Day at the Ice Rink — Admission and skate rental for $5 when you bring a canned food donation. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-209-3722.

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

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

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

Wednesday, Jan. 5

music 1st Wednesday Music Club. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Barry Shapiro and the Fazz. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Paul Kimbris, The Naked Chips. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

Guest Sommelier Rajat Parr and Journalist Jordan Mackay at Frasca. Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4426966.

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 720301-3993.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Dec. 30 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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Friday, Dec. 31 WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Eve Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafaytte, 303-6042424.

Saturday, Jan. 1 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, Jan. 2 Baby Boogie. 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, 303441-3100.

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

Monday, Jan. 3 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

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

Tuesday, Jan. 4 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Wednesday, Jan. 5 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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

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

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Sexual health for the new year Dr. Jenni Skyler Dear Dr. Jenni, boundaries, fears and vulnerabilities.

I’m curious how you define a sexually healthy couple. My husband and I have Dear Dr. Jenni, sex once a week. We do a variety of posiI’m going to a huge New Year’s party tions and have adequate foreplay. I feel where rumor has it that people get kind leagues ahead of some of my girlfriends of crazy, and even naked. I’m super-nerwho claim they vous about this. I rarely have sex, or was thinking that to Questions rarely want it. If I prepare I might get Send questions for Jenni get honest with waxed or do the Skyler to drjenni@ myself, sex can vagazzling thing to theintimacyinstitute.org. sometimes be a little my nether region. stagnant, but for the Do you have other most part, I enjoy it. suggestions of what Does sexual health mean we all must I can do to prepare “her” before the big secretly resort to acceptable, average sex? party?

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Dear LFALM, Way to be honest! Most couples resort to acceptable, average sex because the alternative means that they must talk about how to make it better. And for many, that conversation can be petrifying.

But determining what qualifies as sexually healthy is an outstanding start.

We have measures of health for fitness, like ideal weight ranges and body fat percentages. We have measures of health for illness, like ideal cholesterol and blood sugar levels. We even have measures of health for our psyche, like perception of happiness and ability to assuage anxiety.

But when it comes to sex, health may not seem as straightforward.

Ask yourself this: If a miracle happened overnight and your sex life suddenly became a 10-plus (on a scale of 1-10), what would sex look like? Would you have more interest in having sex?

Would you be seduced in a different manner? Who would initiate, and how?

Would you have your partner touch and caress you differently? Would you have more powerful orgasms, in other body parts, over and over? Would there be fewer ghosts in the bedroom? Would there be more communication in the bedroom? More affection? More spiritual intimacy? More emotional bonding?

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Dear NABN, It’s very normal to feel nervous.

Women are often brainwashed into believing that the vulva smells like Tina the Tuna, or that your lopsided labias need vaginal reconstruction. When it comes to female sexuality, we are encouraged to keep ourselves as adolescent as possible. Douche inside, shave outside, and don’t take too long to come. The stigma is strong, and the market peddles a plethora of products to maintain this mindset. Whether it be hygiene, menstruation or hair removal, the message behind these products is that a vibrant vulva requires extensive maintenance.

Without the upkeep, the vulva is unruly and undesirable. Like the coyote ugly left at the bar, it has no chance of getting action without being properly primed prior to going out.

However, I suggest taking a different route for this party. Before considering your vulva, what do you first need to do to prepare you for the party? Perhaps create a little mental list of your boundaries — before you get intoxicated. Make a commitment to yourself to respect them so you don’t regret anything the day after. Then take a look in the mirror and see if you can embrace your vulva from the inside out.

Ask her what she needs to feel sexy. Most importantly, make sure that whatever action you take — be it trimming, shaving, waxing, vagazzling or unwaxed ’80s au natural bush — you are doing it for you!

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Saturday, Dec. 31 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

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Sunday, Jan. 2 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners. org.

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Monday, Jan. 3 Exploring the Backcountry in Winter. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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The festive cookies with lots of chocolate chips.

The brownies with plenty of ice cream. The roast beef for Christmas dinner. A second helping of that roast beef. And then, of course, the cocktails. And the beer and the wine. And now, what you’re left with is an already tight cocktail dress that’s gotten a lot tighter. A suit that’s getting stretched and a malady known as rp.boulder.weekly.swifty.pdf

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It’s OK, we’ve all been there. The demands on everyone during the busy holiday season often means that sometimes you have to wrap presents instead of unwinding your legs on a bike ride. But don’t worry, there are ways to beat The Bloat.

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Ski the Divide We all know that exercising at altitude is tough. Higher elevations make you work harder, you burn more calories and suffer a bit more. The payoff is that you end up fitter, stronger and faster. After all, that’s why so many elite athletes come to Boulder to train. But Boulder has nothing on Loveland Ski Area. Sitting at 10,800 feet at the base, and topping out at a rarified 13,010 feet on the Continental Divide, Loveland provides skiers and snowboarders an

Tuesday, Jan. 4 Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, Jan. 5 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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ideal venue to burn off the holiday fat while making turns on silky powder. Best of all, you can ditch the lifts and earn your turns out on the steep and deep terrain of The Ridge, where it’s possible to tap into untracked terrain with short hikes along the Divide. Working out has never been this fun.

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Walk the Mall Living in Boulder, it’s easy to forget that Pearl Street used to be chock-full of traffic. It still is, but now the cars have been replaced by pedestrians. If you believe that every journey starts with a step, then the first step to battling The Bloat is to take a leisurely stroll down Pearl Street for some post-Christmas window-shopping. Take your time and enjoy the scene. While street performers are thinner during the winter months, the people-watching is still fantastic. Best of all, if you do wear yourself out from the exertion, you can pop into a coffee shop to sit down and warm up. It’s OK to go with a cuppa Joe, but the mocha with whipped cream is off limits!

Cruise the Path Boulder is a city of bike paths. And the gem of the system is, without a doubt, the Boulder Creek Path. Winding under massive cottonwood trees, through diverse neighborhoods and even past a park or two, the trail attracts thousands during the summer. But those folks are staying home right now, which means that you can beat The Bloat and get your body back in motion via a cruise along the creek. The east-west route takes you from the base of Fourmile Canyon out into the eastern grasslands of Boulder. Along the way you’ll pass mothers strolling with the kids, parts of CU’s campus and plenty of bird-watching opportunities. The flat trail is fast and smooth and perfect for remembering that before you ate that Christmas dinner, you actually knew how to ride your bike.

March the Mesa There are trails, and then there’s the Mesa Trail. This superlative hike runs from Chautauqua to Eldorado Canyon, taking amazing views of the Flatirons as well as spectacular eastern vistas. During the winter months, sections of the Mesa can be surprisingly deserted, a far cry from the summer madness that sees tourists and locals alike swarm over the footpaths surrounding Chautauqua. But the best part of the Mesa Trail is the fact that the hike essentially contours along the mountains, meaning it’s easy to get back into your hiking groove. Sure, the short uphills may make you sweat out that extra cocktail or two you had at your work party, but those climbs are followed by long meanders through woods and open meadows. One hint, go in the morning, when the rising sun takes the chill off and the Flatirons glow.

Take the Plunge Remember the Summer Olympics? How about those Olympic swimmers? Well, if you’ve forgotten, we’ll remind you. Those swimmers didn’t exhibit any symptoms of The Bloat. In fact, they were as lean as, well, dolphins. But you don’t have to be a dolphin or an Olympic swimmer to take the plunge at the North Boulder Rec Center’s lap pool. Featuring eight lanes at 25 yards each, the lap pool is perfect for getting your swim on.

And at 87 degrees, it’s a lot warmer and nicer than the Boulder Reservoir at this time of year. Wrap up your workout with a soak in the adjacent hot tub and admire your new post-holiday body. After all, you’ve earned it.

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he new True Grit restores all the grit removed in the first version (the 1969 Henry Hathaway film starring John Wayne) of the 1968 Charles Portis novel. All of Portis’ sardonic wit has been retained this time, and then some.

The “then some” derives from this project’s writers, directors and editors, all of whom are Joel and Ethan Coen, who edit under a pseudonym and who have been making Westerns (of variously disguised sorts), film noir riffs and revenge tragicomedies their entire adult filmmaking lives.

Though this is a wintertime story, set in the 1870s, we’re quite close visually to the world of No Country for Old Men, the movie that handed the Coens their second Oscar (the first was for the Fargo script). The tale is set in Arkansas and what was then known as the Indian Territory (later, Oklahoma); the Coens and their crack cinematographer, Roger Deakins, shot True Grit in New Mexico and West Texas, where they photographed No Country.

The biggest change from the ’69 True Grit is the best thing about this formidably well-crafted picture.

Portis’ narrator and heroine, 14-year-old Mattie Ross, runs the show this time, not the one-eyed marshal.

Her flinty, Old Testament eye-for-an-eye search for her father’s killer guides the story every inch of the way.

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he strangely marginalized little Fockers in Little Fockers are played by Daisy Tahan, of Nurse Jackie, and Colin Baiocchi, who appeared in Couples Retreat and who clearly can’t get a break when it comes to big-screen ensemble work with anything like a shelf life. I’m not worried about the kid’s income; I’m concerned that he’s growing up on film sets more dedicated to star maintenance than decent situation comedy.

These little Fockers, despite the title (Little Fockers), remain sidelined in what passes for the comic complications of this third film in an extremely profitable series begun with a pretty good picture, Meet the Parents. The sole memorable scene involving a little Focker in Little Fockers, though memorable doesn’t mean amusing, involves Ben Stiller’s male-nurse character Greg Focker administering a needle full of adrenaline to his dyspeptic and unhappily aroused father-in-law Jack Byrnes, played by Robert De Niro, who has taken an overdose of Viagra-like pills, and in goes the needle, and there’s the pre-teen boy at the bathroom door, suddenly, not quite sure of what’s going on between his father and grandfather, and everybody screams in a comical way (that’s the intent, at least) Boulder Weekly

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veteran and U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, keeps his voice far, far back in his throat, back where the whiskey and gravel resides. In a distinct uptick from the ’69 version, Matt Damon plays the self-appointed dandy of a Texas Ranger, LeBoeuf, in a more confident vein (though the Coens push this character all the way into caricature territory) than Glen Campbell was able to manage.

More importantly, though, Hailee Steinfeld is a real find as Mattie. When Kim Darby played her in ’69, the actress was already in her early 20s; Steinfeld is still a teenager, in addition to being an appealing presence and a fine stoical observer to her character’s

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and the whole thing feels slightly ... off. PG-13 yucky, but yucky all the same.

The old gang’s back, dutifully, including Teri Polo (marginalized no less than her little Fockers) as Greg Focker’s generic wife, Pam; Blythe Danner as Jack’s wife, Dina, all patience and understanding; Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Bernie and Roz

fortunes. Though third-billed, Josh Brolin has little screen time as the scoundrel they’re after; Barry Pepper (as Lucky Ned) is no less scary as one of the killer’s compadres.

The results? Good. Not great. Throughout True Grit (and this isn’t the first time anyone has wondered this about a Coen brothers film) you’re engaged in a guessing game regarding how seriously to take what happens, or how seriously the Coens are taking it. They love Portis’ language, that much is clear, and they’ve hired clever, fullbodied actors who can mine that fancy 19th century verbal embroidery for all its dark comic value.

Near the end, I think the movie transcends its limitations, when we learn of Mattie’s fate. The tableaus and graceful, mournful transitions we see, taking us from the narrator’s childhood to middle age, from one century to the next, are as fine a series of images as these filmmakers have created. There is a sad undertow, which the novel had, as well as plenty of surface wit, also from the novel. It’s a better film version in all respects than the previous True Grit.

And it feels more like an assignment fulfilled than a passion pursued. But craft this strong — and, despite the tonal uncertainty, true — should not be taken for granted.

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Focker, the former a late-blooming flamenco enthusiast, the latter a host of a sex-therapy TV show, embarrassing her son on-air and in-person; and Owen Wilson, as the super-rich ex-lover of Pam, whose suburban Chicago mansion provides the locale for the climactic birthday party, which devolves into a slapstick melee between Focker and his father-in-law.

De Niro suffers most of the head-banging indignities in Little Fockers. The more he throws himself into the reaction shots and the mugging, the more you wonder if he’s really having a good time with this desperate material. Jessica Alba plays a minxy drug rep who tempts Stiller’s character, but all’s well in the end, though the preview audience didn’t laugh much, at least audibly — does pretend laughing count?

On second thought, “all’s well” doesn’t apply to this sequel. Paul Weitz directed it in a style flatter and more obvious than films such as About a Boy (co-directed with his brother, Chris) and In Good Company would indicate.

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127 Hours The latest film from Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) dramatizes the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who has to resort to desperate measures to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Rated R. At Esquire.

— Rene Rodriguez And Everything Is Going Fine And Everything Is Going Fine provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Director Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated with Gray on Gray’s Anatomy (1996), has sifted through rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. There are glimpses of Gray’s father, and of his son Forrest (who provides soaring music for the end credits), but mostly this is an inspired one-man show, a bittersweet display of Spalding’s playful and embattled intelligence, his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society Black Swan Mainlining Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina

Black Swan If you like watching beautful people go insane, then this ballet/thriller is definitely the movie for you.

(Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond.

Director Darren Aronofsky’s film is with her all the way. Portman’s performance as the dying swan is formidable in its nerve-racking expressivity. It is, in fact, a racked nerve, personified. This is Aronofsky’s most interesting

film to date, and there’s not a more exciting fairy tale for grownups in theaters right now.

Rated R. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Casino Jack Two–time Academy Award-winner Kevin

Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in Casino Jack, a riotous new film starring Spacey as a man hell bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants.

Inspired by true events that are too over-thetop for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff. Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper), Jack parlays his clout over some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. When the two enlist a mob-connected buddy (Jon Lovitz) to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a world of mafia assassins, murder and a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines. At Chez Artiste. ­— Landmark Theatres The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Director Michael Apted tackles the third installment in the series of beloved novels by C.S. Lewis, in which the Pevensie siblings and their young cousin return to the magical land and sail to the edge of the world alongside Prince Caspian. There will be dragons. At

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 12:30, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:50 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 10:10, 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Gulliver’s Travels Thu-Wed: 11:40, 2, 4:20, 6:45, 9:05 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Thu-Wed: 10:20 p.m.

How Do You Know Thu-Wed: 10:20, 1:20, 4:30, 7:40 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2:10, 5:15, 8:10, 10:55 Little Fockers Thu-Wed: 10:30, 11:55, 1, 2:20, 3:30, 4:55, 6:15, 8:50, 10 Tangled Thu-Wed: 9:40, 12, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 The Tourist Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 11, 2:15, 5:20, 8:15 True Grit Thu-Wed: 9:30, 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Yogi Bear Thu-Wed: 10, 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:45, 3:15, 4:35, 7:30, 9, 10:15 40 December 30, 2010

The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2:10, 5:05, 6:25, 7:45, 9:10 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Gulliver’s Travels Sat-Wed: 11:50, 2:25, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 2:25, 4:40, 7:05 Little Fockers Thu-Wed: 10:30, 11:45, 1, 2:15, 3:40, 4:50, 6:05, 7:15, 8:30 Tangled Thu-Wed: 10:, 1:05, 3:35, 6:10 The Tourist Thu-Wed: 12, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 11, 2, 5, 8, 10:50 True Grit Thu-Wed: 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:46 Yogi Bear Thu-Wed: 11:35, 1:55, 4:10, 6:20, 8:40 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu: 11, 2, 4:35, 7:10 Fri-Wed: 11, 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10 Gulliver’s Travels Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:45 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Thu-Wed: 12:55, 6:55 How Do You Know Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 The King’s Speech Fri-Wed: 1m 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 Little Fockers Thu-Wed: 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 7

Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:30 The Tourist Thu: 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 4:15, 10:35 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10 True Grit Thu-Wed: 10:10, 12:50, 3:40 Yogi Bear Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4, 6:40, 9:30

7:15, 9:50 Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Thu: 5, 9:40 Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Thu-Wed: 2:10, 4:30 White Material Thu: 7:30, 9:45

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 Casino Jack Thu-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:30 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 7

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu: 10:20, 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 7:20 The Fighter Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 9:55 Gulliver’s Travels Thu-Wed: 10:50, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 How Do You Know Thu: 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10 Little Fockers Thu: 11, 1:25, 4:25, 7:05 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10 Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:15 9:50 The Tourist Thu: 10:35, 1, 4, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1, 4, 7:05, 9:35 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 10:30, 1:20, 4:20, 7:10 True Grit Thu-Wed: 10:45, 1:15, 4:15, 7 Yogi Bear Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 127 Hours Thu: 7:30, 9:40 The King’s Speech Thu: 2, 4, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 12, 1:15, 3, 4, 6:30, 7:05 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu: 2:30, 4, 5:15, 7, 8, 9:45, 10:30 I Love You Phillip Morris Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 And Everything Is Going Fine Everything Is Fine Fri: 5 p.m.

Kuroneko Thu: 2:30, 7:20 Picture Me Fri-Wed: 2:30, 9:30 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 2, 4:40,

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

The Tourist Johnny Depp is an American who travels to Italy to mend his broken heart. Angelina Jolie is the mysterious woman who enters his life.

Soon they are swirling in danger and intrigue.

She’s a trouble magnet, that Jolie. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Everything Is Fine Director Yves-Christian Fournier has lost four loved ones to suicide. Motivated by the incomprehensible tragedy, he decided to make a film that would address the painful mystery of teen suicide in a socially responsible manner rather than, in his words, “romanticiz[ing]” it at the risk of “inspiring copycats.” With Everything Is Fine, his feature debut, Fournier succeeds at just that, exposing the raw emotions of one teenager following the shocking deaths of his four closest high-school pals. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Fighter This movie is an off-center but exceptional boxing film that feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies. Set and shot mostly in Lowell, Mass., this is the true story of welterweight Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his trainer-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), careening from addiction themes to brotherly love and familial crises. Nearly all of the acting performances are fantastic, including Amy Adams as Micky’s lover, a performance with the sort of honesty and hard-shell truth we too rarely see. This film is one of the year’s best. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Gulliver’s Travels Jack Black stars in this contemporary reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s novel, playing a mailroom clerk who travels to the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself in a magical land where people are really, really small. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. ­— Rene Rodriguez Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat Voldemort.

With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Ralph Fiennes. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT How Do You Know The usually reliable writer-director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets) returns with his first movie in six years.

Reese Witherspoon stars as a former softball player caught in a love triangle with a majorleague pitcher (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd). Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez I Love You Phillip Morris Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) leads a seemingly average life — he’s an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann), and a member of the local police force.

That is, until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: He’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest — even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the state penitentiary, where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible Boulder Weekly

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The Fighter This movie was a sure bet for its producers. After all, who wouldn’t pay good money to see Mark Wahlberg get the crap beaten out of him?

con after another. Told with an uncanny sense of humor and a lot of heart, I Love You Phillip Morris is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide. Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, screenwriters of the cult hit Bad Santa. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

account features in-depth interviews with noted photographers and designers, and showcases personal footage shot by the models themselves, giving voice to those who are often seen, but rarely heard. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax ­— Denver Film Society

The King’s Speech

It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an “archeological” dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town! When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his father Rauno (Jorma Tommila), a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa’s elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare — a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern-day morality. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Geoffrey Rush (Shine) are both Oscar-worthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story. Firth plays Bertie, the second son of King George V (Michael Gambon), afflicted with a stammer and overshadowed by his confident older brother, the heir to the throne (Guy Pearce). Bertie’s loving wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) has tried everything to help him, and finally discovers something that works: maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush). Initially the enthusiastic, ultra-casual Logue and the repressed, oh-so-formal Bertie clash, but neither will give up, and ultimately they become good friends. When Bertie’s brother becomes King Edward VIII in 1936, he refuses to give up his lover (American divorcee Mrs. Simpson), resulting in his abdication and Bertie’s extremely reluctant ascension to the throne as King George VI, leading a nation facing the horrors of looming war. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. ­— Landmark Theatres Little Fockers In the third installment of this wildly popular franchise, Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam Focker (Teri Polo) are now the parents of 10-year-old twins, and Greg’s uptight father-in-law (Robert DeNiro) has learned to relax a bit. But when parenthood puts a dent in the family’s budget, the old suspicions come roaring back. Harvey Keitel, Laura Dern and Jessica Alba join the growing ensemble cast, which includes return appearances by Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez Picture Me A raw and personal video diary, charts model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Ziff and filmmaker, Ole Schell, co-direct the documentary, lifting the veil on the glamorous world of high fashion modeling, from photo shoots with celebrated photographers to runway shows in New York, Milan and Paris. The film considers the ever increasing demand for adolescent models, the pressure to stay thin, sexual harassment and drug use. This intimate

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The Social Network On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland, The Squid and The Whale) sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.

In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history ... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Club) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men) comes a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. Co-starring Andrew Garfield (Never Let Me Go), Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara and Rashida Jones.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ­­— Denver Film Society Tangled This witty and charming 3-D computer-animated adventure is loosely based on the legend of Rapunzel, the long-haired princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), and the intrepid thief (Zachary Levi) who frees her from her tower prison. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Remember the summer of 1982, when a movie featuring newfangled computer-generated effects was expected to rule the box office?

That never happened, but the prospects for this 3-D sequel seem a lot brighter. Have you seen the things they can do with computers nowadays? Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the world-famous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.

At Esquire and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres White Material

Director Claire Denis returns to Africa, where she grew up, for this haunting story of a stubborn woman (Isabelle Huppert) obsessed with staying on her coffee plantation even as an increasingly violent civil war threatens to engulf the area. Her listless son (Nicolas Duvauchelle) refuses to help, and becomes an out-of-control vigilante after encountering threat. Her ex-husband (Christopher Lambert) tries to sell the property behind her back.

Meanwhile, a wounded rebel soldier with a bounty on his head (Isaach de Bankole, who starred in Denis’ 1988 debut film Chocolat) is hiding on the premises. Huppert is a magnetic if enigmatic presence in a film whose oppressive atmosphere rivals that of Walkabout and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. At Chez Artiste and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Yogi Bear

Dan Aykroyd provides the voice of Yogi, and Justin Timberlake is Boo-Boo in this familyfriendly adaptation of the classic cartoon.

Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodgriguez

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Bread pudding for breakfast?

Strata adds sparkle to brunches

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read pudding conjures up sweet dessert memories for many people, but this homey dish has a savory side too. It’s called a strata, and you can even serve it for breakfast.

What’s cool about a strata is that you can use it to transform many of those odds and ends lurking in the refrigerator into the festive star of a brunch or luncheon. No one will accuse you of loving them less for serving leftovers when you present this deliciously custardy and cheesy bread pudding.

You can work most of the magic the day before, prepping the ingredients and assembling the dish, alternating bread, vegetables or meat and cheese (“strata” is Latin for “layers”) before pouring in the milk and eggs that will mortar it all together. Then, just pop the strata into a hot oven to bake an hour before you’re planning to serve. Add a simple salad and a pitcher of mimosas and you’ve got a party to remember.

Funny thing is, while television celebrity chef Sara Moulton reports individual strata showing up as side dishes at smart Manhattan restaurants, this homey casserole has never really enjoyed the spotlight like its ritzy cousin, the quiche.

“There are not a lot of strata-makers,” says Joanne Chang, the Boston restaurateur behind three branches of Flour Bakery+Cafe, and partner, with husband Christopher Myers, in a funky pan-Asian diner called Myers + Chang.

“It’s funny because I’ve been doing it since I opened the bakery 10 years ago,” says Chang, author of the new Flour cookbook (Chronicle, $35) with Christine Matheson. “When I told Chris [Parsons, Flour’s first chef ] I wanted to make a savory bread pudding, he thought I was nuts. A lot of chefs don’t think of it because it sounds like a pastry.”

But it’s so easy. A strata is essentially a baked custard or, as Chang puts it, a “shortcut way” to make a quiche without the need to make and pre-bake a pie crust or tart shell.

bread ample time to absorb the eggs, milk and seasonings, Moulton says, a strata can be left to soak for one hour or can be popped immediately in the oven, depending on your schedule.

What you bake the strata in will also affect the finished dish. A shallower container, like a gratin dish, will result in a crispier strata, Moulton notes, while a strata baked in a deep souffle dish won’t have the same degree of crunch.

Moulton says the big trick in making a strata is to ensure the dish doesn’t overcook or bake at too high a temperature. Too much heat will cause the eggs to curdle, she says.

Chang believes making a strata is a “good way to clean out your fridge” but cautions that you want to use ingredients that are still viable — don’t go with overthe-hill food.

“Really, this dish is meant to be created with the bits and ends of meats and veggies and cheeses,” she writes about her wild mushroom, greens and Parmesan strata recipe. “You won’t believe the delicious result from such humble beginnings.”

Like a quiche, a strata appeals because of its custardy, cheesy quality, says Moulton, whose latest book is Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners (Simon & Schuster, $35).

“Anything you throw cheese into is just superb,” says Moulton, who used to whip up many a strata as executive chef for the now-defunct Gourmet magazine. “A strata is yet another excuse to throw cheese into something.”

A strata is also a way to use up any surplus, stale, non-sweet bread. Chang recommends tossing any leftover bread directly into the freezer and stockpiling it for a strata.

While an overnight stint in the refrigerator gives the

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Prep: 30 minutes Chill: Overnight Cook: 40 minutes Makes: 10 servings Chang encourages improvisation when making this recipe. Some suggested variations: sausage, sage and heirloom apple (omit thyme, greens, mushrooms, garlic, shallots, Parmesan); or go Asian with ham, ginger, soy sauce and green onions (cut the nutmeg, cheese, thyme).

Leftover strata may be refrigerated for up to three days well-covered — reheat in 300-degree oven until heated through, about 10-15 minutes.

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owntown Boulder’s Salt The construction consisted of a disc of packs them in during weeklight, flaky pastry floating amongst the fillday lunches, and other resing rather than completely covering it. taurants would be ecstatic While some may pause at this aesthetically to have comparable crowds non-traditional approach, the execution of at Friday dinner. One downside of this this dish was beyond reproach. The gravy popularity is that consigliere Keith and I possessed winning buttery undertones, and weren’t able to get a proper table in this substantial chunks of tender white-meat venue, which emphasizes brick and found poultry enhanced the experience. The parsobjects. Instead, we sat at the counter overnips were a touch lighter than the usual looking the open kitchen. While most of potato and added a subtly sharper flavor. the spots here are likely fine, I found This dish would make Marie Callendar myself tightly wedged in between Keith pick up her culinary ball and go home due and the wall. It felt strangely like a cross to feelings of inadequacy. between yoga class and having a middle I enjoy lamb, particularly its gamier seat while flying coach. Nevertheless, my qualities, so I ordered the $13 meatballs inner food geek appreciated the opportunifeaturing this protein. These meatballs had ty to observe the cooks hard at work. a milder flavor than I expected, but I was Our friendly server quickly produced not at all put off by this, and most diners copies of the lunch menu, although there would probably prefer the less pungent was a noticeable lag before she took our taste. I especially enjoyed the chunky conorders. The addition of a server or two sistency of this entrée, and the wide ribwould prevent such delays, although we did bons of accompanying papperdelle served find comfort in a plateful of rustic bread. as a reminder of how velvety good freshrue aficionados of salt will want to make a pilgrimage to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Coarsely textured and slathered with sweet made pasta can be. Despite the restaurant’s outside of Krakow, Poland. Situated hundreds of feet underground, this mine probutter, this hearty baked good took the name, this dish also benefited from not duced salt as far back as the 13th century and only recently ceased sodium producedge off while we studied the reasonably being overly salty, which likely enables tion. Noteworthy features include an underground lake and extensive rock-salt carvcondensed menus. diners to more fully appreciate the exotic ings, ranging from reproductions of The Last Supper to unusual tableaux featuring stat- salts offered as condiments.

The modernistic locavore philosophy ues of vaguely disturbing gnomes. The salt here is more grayish than the bright white that influences most local restaurants is Salt is perceptible in the $8 chocolate typically associated with table salt, and as a consequence, the sculptures more closely also readily apparent at Salt. But this estabcaramel tart, arguably the best dessert curresemble those carved from granite than the ubiquitous condiment. lishment parts company from the others by rently available in Boulder. Sodium and way of a heavy emphasis on comfort foods, caramel are a popular duo nowadays, and the resulting pairing perfectly balances sweet and salty albeit prepared with artisan ingredients. There’s $13 the classic Tom’s Tavern burger. If memory serves me fish and chips prepared with Oskar Blues pilsner batcorrectly, the original came with American cheese ver- with a whisper of unexpected complexity. This ability to take seemingly simple flavors and make them more ter, a $14 ahi nicoise salad highlighting local green sus the present incarnation’s decidedly high-end than the sum of their parts is one of Salt’s strongest beans, and a $15 vegetable plate featuring chard from Grafton Vermont cheddar topping. traits. nearby farms. Acknowledging this spot’s previous Keith ordered up the $12 pot pie, a robust mix of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com incarnation, Salt also offers up a $12 interpretation of rotisserie chicken, local carrots, parsnips and spinach.

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ell, I might have said last week was my final holiday recipe. But don’t worry, readers, I have one more left for ya.

I’m sure you are breathing a sigh of relief, as my recipes for the holidays have quickly become your family tradition. OK, maybe not, but let’s pretend and make my new year merry and bright.

This week it is Chocolate Peppermint Cake with Minty Glaze.

I have decided to help you unload all those extra candy canes you have. I’m sure it’s a major decision every year, right up there with how much weight should I drop this year, and the Mountain Sun or Southern Sun question. (Southern Sun, FYI.) Yes, I’ve made the decision on what to do: Smash those babies up and stick them in a cake. Genius, I know. I like the fact that you have to smash them up, get out all that aggression that built up over the last few months. Stomp on them (in a plastic bag, please), smash them with a rolling pin, or just smack the everloving life out of them on the counter.

You’ll be glad you did.

I use four smashed candy canes and then half of one in the glaze.

Using pure peppermint extract bumps up the mint factor, and I can’t tell you how much I love the chocolate/peppermint combo. You could throw a little peppermint schnapps in there too. Of course I add two shots — one for the cake, one for the diva — and my New Year’s celebration is always very, very happy. Just helping you out the best I know how.

I like this dessert as a New Year’s treat; it’s rich and smooth and especially great if you are planning some big sugar shut-out for 2011. I always say eat one piece, not five, and you should be OK, but whatever makes us happy is the way to go. I also suggest a little bit of whipped cream for the final touch — go decadent to set the tone for the new year.

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

Chocolate Peppermint Cake with Minty Glaze 2 cups flour 2/3 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 2 cups brown sugar 3 eggs 1/2 cup sour cream 1 cup water 1 cup canola oil 1 tsp. peppermint extract 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 4 candy canes crushed (about 1/4 cup) Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease a 10-inch bundt pan (grease liberally). Melt one cup chocolate chips in double boiler, or slowly in microwave in 20-second intervals. Stir until smooth, stir in crushed candy canes. Set aside.

In small bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

In large bowl, whisk brown sugar and eggs. Mix in sour cream. Whisk in water, oil and peppermint extract until well combined. Add in flour mixture and stir until batter is smooth. Do not over-mix.

Fold in chocolate-candy cane mixture until just mixed in. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 45 minutes.

Take out, and with small metal spatula, run around the outside and the inside of the cake to loosen. Let cool.

When ready to serve, flip over onto serving platter and glaze, let set.

Cut cake into slices, dust with powdered sugar if desired, and serve.

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1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream (you can substitute milk) 1/4 tsp. peppermint extract (you can add a touch more if extra mint flavor is desired) Whisk all ingredients in bowl until well combined, add more cream if you prefer a thinner glaze.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Bread-baking battle Food Fight, a Boulder-based food project, has announced the inaugural Boulder Baking Competition, to be held in early January.

The Boulder Baking Competition encourages bakers, food enthusiasts and anyone who enjoys a good time in the kitchen to share their favorite sweet bread recipe with the community.

“The bake-off will provide great exposure of Boulder’s love for food, our local and organic ingredients — not to mention our amazing local food companies,” says Alexandra Hanifin, founder of Boulder Baking.

Alternative baking methods such as gluten-free, vegan, organic and using local ingredients are encouraged as a way to personalize the breads and give the competition a Boulder touch.

Contestants will be supplied with a baking package and a score sheet listing the categories on which they will be judged. Contestants will bake at home and bring the final bread, in the compostable baking mold supplied, and a list of ingredients used, to the judges on Jan. 15.

Winners, who will receive cash prizes of $500, $200 and $100, will

be announced at an awards ceremony at Vermilion Design Agency in Boulder on Jan. 16. The online registration deadline is Jan. 7, and proceeds from the $15 entry fee will be donated to the School Food Project Fund and The Allergy Kids Foundation.

For more about the competition, visit www.organicfoodfight.com.

Scouting out cookies The holidays are almost over, and your new year’s resolutions are about to kick in, but there’s still one more reason to celebrate: On Jan. 7, Girl Scout Cookies go on sale across the state.

Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, Tagalongs and all the rest will be available until March 13, so don’t wait. Any extra boxes (if such a thing even exists) can be frozen for later.

Girl Scout Cookies cost $3.50 per box, and all money raised supports girls in Girl Scouts of Colorado, with a portion of the money going directly to the scouts themselves.

For more information, visit www. girlscoutsofcolorado.org, or call 1-877-404-5708.

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6 egg yolks 2 eggs 1/4 cup flour 4 cups half-and-half 2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. fresh thyme 1 tsp. black pepper 1/4 tsp. fresh grated nutmeg 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 clove garlic, smashed 2 cups lightly packed winter greens, such as escarole or kale, chopped 2 shallots, sliced 3/4 cup each: shiitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan Place bread in a 13-by-9-inch baking dish or roasting pan. Whisk together yolks, eggs and flour in a medium bowl.

Whisk in half-and-half, 1 teaspoon of the salt, thyme, 1/2 teaspoon of the pepper and nutmeg. Pour mixture over the bread. Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate overnight.

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high heat. Add garlic and greens; cook, stirring, until greens are wilted, 2-3 minutes. Season with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and 1/4 teaspoon of the pepper.

Remove greens from skillet; set aside.

Add remaining 2 tablespoons of the oil; heat on high. Add the shallots and mushrooms. Cook, stirring, until the mushrooms are browned, 4-5 minutes.

Season with remaining 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon of the pepper. Remove mushroom mix from skillet.

Add greens, mushrooms, shallots and 3/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese to the soaked bread. Sprinkle top evenly with remaining 1/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese. Bake until browned and set, 35-40 minutes. Let rest for 15 minutes at room temperature. Cut into squares; serve warm.

Nutrition information Per serving: 349 calories, 62% of calories from fat, 24 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 212 mg cholesterol, 21 g carbohydrates, 13 g protein, 871 mg sodium, 1 g fiber Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ongmont’s Las Palmeras is a classic family-friendly Mexican joint with all the staple items of the classic menu.

Fajitas, burritos, rellenos are all present and accounted for. There’s also intriguing seafood dishes, such as shrimp wrapped in bacon and octopus in ranchero sauce. The menudo here is comforting, with the spotlighted tripe cooked to ideal tenderness.

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

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

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

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efty’s is a New England pizza joint transplanted to Niwot. The bill of fare consists of the expected pizza, as well as subs, salads, calzones and pasta. Spaghetti and meatballs are affordable, with a wonderfully tangy marinara sauce and a side of buttery garlic bread. The thin crust pies have a fine texture, and those featuring the garlic and olive oil sauce pack a flavorful punch.

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

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

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heavily on fresh pasta, ranging from ribbons of fettuccine to delicious stuffed ravioli, topped with anything from creamy Alfredo to herbaceous pesto. Of note are the hearty lasagnas, available in meatless, turkey and beef versions, and the raviolis, which are great paired with tomato cream sauce.

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oulder’s Harpo’s Sports Grill is a casual joint spotlighting affordable drink specials, tavern staples ranging from wings to burgers, and big-screen TVs perfect for watching games. Menu highlights include the delightfully crispy fish and chips with dill-scented batter, and the Boulder Burger, a half pound of beef topped with bacon, roasted red pepper and pepper jack cheese.

Salvaggio’s Italian Deli 2609 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-1981

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alvaggio’s won’t win awards for ground-breaking sandwiches, but in this case, a predictable menu is a virtue.

Fans of textbook deli-style sandwiches will be content here, and the generous portions and classic flavors will put the diner in a comfortable frame of mind.

Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mortadella and provolone.

Chicken salad is another fine entry.

Pupusas Sabor Hispano

such sustainable local ingredients as Long Farm pork, Monroe Farm veggies and Fox Fire lamb. The diverse menu, which has attracted national media attention, includes charcuterie and cheese platters, as well as melon salads and heirloom squash soup.

Those with small appetites will appreciate petite servings of fries and other starters, while the famished can enjoy full-bore entrees like meatless red wheat berries and Long Farm pork chops.

Andrea’s Homestead Cafe 216 E. Main St., Lyons 303-823-5000

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rendy is not how one would describe Andrea’s Homestead Café in downtown Lyons, with ambience that seems to be a cross between a hunting lodge and a European relative’s home. Indeed, this establishment has a definite Teutonic vibe, as evidenced by the ample selection of dinner menu schnitzels and old country bric-a-brac.

The morning menu features standard bacon-and-egg breakfasts with such flourishes as German-style potatoes and fine vegetarian green chile.

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

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

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

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

Pizzeria Basta 3601 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder 303-997-8775

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equestered in the Peloton residences, Pizzeria Basta features an unintimidating selection of starters focusing on cheese and charcuterie, as well as pasta, salads and pizza. The $10 lunch special is an especially excellent value, offering soup or salad with an entree choice of pizza, calzone or sandwich. A chef ’s special calzone stuffed with cheese, bright tomato sauce and salami is a winner, as are desserts like the house-made spearmint ice cream and a lavender-scented panna cotta.

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

The Kitchen 1039 Pearl St., Boulder 303-544-5973

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elf-described as a “community bistro,” The Kitchen prides itself on using

Various locations 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 savory items like an authentic Vietnamese banh mi sandwich or an outstanding grilled cheese. The menu is constantly changing, but reasonable prices and high quality are certainly the norm at this mobile establishment.

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“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out. You will have to be vigilant to keep from getting swept up in the giddiness of big talk at the expense of practical action. You’ll have to push hard to make sure that seductive ideas are translated into concrete details. Can you do it? I think you can.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

In 1967, John McCain was a U.S. Navy pilot fighting in Vietnam. Shot down during a bombing mission, he was captured and jailed in the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was tortured. After being freed in 1973, he returned to the U.S. and eventually launched a political career. When he ran for president in 2008, his candidacy got an endorsement from an unlikely source: Tran Trong Duyet, the Vietnamese prison commander who had supervised his torture. In the coming months, Taurus, I expect you to experience a turnaround that will have comparable poetic justice.

I’m not sure how it will unfold. Maybe an adversary will praise you, a person who wounded you will make amends, or a force of nature that once opposed you will come over to your side. 2011 will be a Year of Vindicating Reversals.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Can you finally escape the pain you got imprinted with during adolescence? Is it a realistic possibility that you could triumph over the conditioning you absorbed before you knew how to talk? Do you have the power to do what few of us have done, which is to get out from under the weight of the past, shed the inertia of your memories and live brave and free in the raw truth of NOW? If there will ever in your life be a time when you can accomplish at least some of this noble quest, Gemini, it will be in 2011.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Decades ago, the U.S. built a network of sleek expressways to make it fast and easy for cars to travel between cities. But like many of America’s impressive engineering feats, this one took little account of what the human soul might enjoy.

Ugly buildings or empty spaces surround many of those roads. Visually, the difference between I-95 in Georgia and I-74 in Illinois is negligible. “The Interstate highway system has made it possible,” said Charles Kuralt, “to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything.” You cannot afford to let this be your operative metaphor in 2011, Cancerian.

Your potential for rapid, extensive progress is sizable, but it would be a mistake to barrel along with your eyes fixed on the prize in the distance as you neglect what’s happening along the way. Be both global and local; romance the details as you revel in the big picture.

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Fixing people’s teeth is one of Dr. Peter Kertesz’s specialties.

The British dentist has a thriving business in London. Now and then he’s also called on to practice an exotic variation: animal dentistry. Recently, he corrected the tooth problems of two tigers in a zoo. Other species he has helped include elephants, whales and pandas. In 2011, Leo, I suggest you consider branching out like Dr. Kertesz. What would be the equivalent, in your domain, of expanding the ways you use your primary skills?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“What can I do with this eternal longing?” That’s the first line of “Assouf,” a song by the African band Tinariwen.

During the rest of the tune, the singer never offers a definitive answer to that plea, but as he tumbles and rumbles over the possibilities, the band plays a lot of righteous music.

I suggest that you make Tinariwen’s cry your question of the year in 2011. It will be an excellent use of your time to meditate on how to call forth, nurture, and direct your ineffable, insatiable yearning. (Hear the song: http://tinyurl. com/Assouf.)

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Michelangelo didn’t think of himself as primarily a painter.

Sculpture was his first love. Yet in 1508 he was coaxed into painting prodigious frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. As he worked for four years, covering 12,000 square feet with sublime images, he sometimes complained and felt resentful. The project took him away from two large sculptures he would have preferred to be working on. He feared his enemies had convinced the Pope to give him this task in order to demonstrate how mediocre his painting was. But today his work at the Sistine Chapel is regarded as a masterpiece. I suspect that in 2011 you may face a version of Michelangelo’s dilemma, Scorpio: being offered a job you don’t consider your forte. It’s quite possible, however, that accepting this “diversion” will yield interesting results.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

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The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” You will have an excellent chance to cultivate that definition of a first-rate mind in 2011, Aquarius. According to my reading of the astrological omens, life will be conspiring to strengthen your brain. You will have everything going for you if you make it your intention to sharpen your wits, use language more precisely and see the world with greater clarity and objectivity. To get the fun started, make a list of what you could do to push your intelligence beyond its current limits.

PISCES

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“Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness,” said philosopher Bertrand Russell. If I had my way, Pisces, you’d write that on a note and tape it to your bathroom mirror for the duration of 2011. I think it would raise your appreciation for the power your personal gifts have to bestow blessings on both yourself and others. And I hope it would inspire you to spend a lot of quality time finding out all you can about what you’re good at and deepening your capacity to do what you’re good at.

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