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news & views Open letter to the members of the 112th Congress / 6 After 38 years, it’s time to do something about our oil problem

by Paul Danish On the cover: Frankenfoods / 14 Will recent USDA approvals of GMOs spread to Boulder County?

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz Drum and bass and metal is massive / 19 Pendulum keeps swinging forward

by P.J. Nutting Overtones: DeVotchKa makes music for 100 Lovers / 23 Overtones: Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents little-known classics / 24 Arts & Culture: Local horror film fest proves red isn’t just for roses / 27 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Sophisticated Sex: Stepping into orgasm / 37 Elevation: Silverton Mountain is the best of both worlds / 39 Cuisine: Local chef to host Valentine’s ‘pop-up’ dinner / 43 Cuisine Review: The Pinyon / 45 Dessert Diva: Tropical Fudge Brownies / 46 Screen: Sanctum; Biutiful / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

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departments Letters: Dogs and open space; Whining about poor kids / 5 The Highroad: Congress slumps back to Tom DeLay ethics / 5 In Case You Missed It: Camera deal gone awry?; 4giv me fathr / 11 News Briefs: Legislative forum; Land exchange bill / 16 Boulderganic: Hands-on help for gardening, beekeeping / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Correction: The Feb. 3 story “Seeing Stan with one’s own eyes” should have credited Jerry Aronson for the photo of Stan Brakhage.

Dogs and open space I want to voice my support for Pamela White’s “Uncensored” piece in response to the complaints about restricting dog access in the open space (“Why people growl about dogs on open space,” Feb 3). I think her points are spot on and wanted to add my own personal experiences.

My girlfriend and I are both runners, her being much more serious and running five to 20 miles most days. She enjoys running the hilly trails around Boulder and often encounters dogs.

Leashed dogs rarely cause a problem, but dogs off leash will sometimes run at her and trip her up. She has been injured quite a few times with twisted ankles, bruises and scratches from getting knocked over by dogs.

If she asks the owner to please be mindful of their dog, they will often say the dog is just being playful. They don’t seem to consider the intrusiveness of the behavior. Some owners are so hostile that she has been yelled at and called a bitch for voicing her complaint.

The fact is that there are a lot of responsible dog owners in the Boulder area. I know several personally.

Unfortunately, there are also quite a few irresponsible owners who allow their dogs to run around without consider-

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ation for the impact on wildlife and other trail users. I encourage the responsible owners who feel the new restrictions are unfair to more actively police the irresponsible owners who led to the change.

Tim Roth/via Internet Poorly trained dogs and their rude irresponsible owners are undoubtedly a problem in Boulder. Pamela White’s recent Uncensored article enumerated the compelling reasons why many Boulderites want and deserve to have dogs banned from more Open Space

The Highroad

his new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old ethics-be-damned House run just a few years ago by the convicted money-launderer, Tom DeLay — only more so.

Back when DeLay was the GOP’s corrupt majority leader, he got caught hustling campaign funds from an energy corporation whose legislation he then helped pass. This flagrant cash-for-legislation exchange was so stinky that even DeLay’s pals on the ethics committee had to slap his wrist, ruling in 2004 that a Congress critter should not engage in fundraising “that gives even an appearance that donors will receive ... special treatment.”

Now, fast forward to last year, when the independent investigative arm of the House ethics committee charged two Republicans and one Democrat with DeLay-style money hustles. The investigators Boulder Weekly

and Mountain Park (OSMP) trails.

However, Boulder’s OSMP trails are hardly the only zones where dog/ human conflicts abound.

This past summer my girlfriend and I were out enjoying an evening bike ride near Centennial Middle School. A group of three people, a man and two women (college students by the looks of them), were out walking a rambunctious golden retriever on a leash. We gave them a wide berth and continued on our way. A moment later I heard my girlfriend shout as her bike hit the ground. The dog had yanked the leash

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Congress slumps back to Tom DeLay ethics

by Jim Hightower found compelling proof that these powerful members collected checks from Wall Street lobbyists just before voting their way on regulatory reforms.

E-mails and other incriminating documents show that one of the eager check collectors even left the Capitol while the House was debating the reforms so he could attend the fundraiser being thrown for him at a lobbyist’s home. He then returned to the floor to vote against the reforms, exactly as his grin-

out of its owner’s hand and lunged up, slamming my girlfriend sideways into the asphalt. I quickly circled back to find her sitting down crying as she picked gravel out of bloody gashes in her elbow and knee.

The trio continued walking onwards with nothing more than a nonchalant “sorry” tossed over their shoulders.

After helping my girlfriend up and checking her and her bike, I helped her to a grassy area so she could collect herself and see if she was able to finish ridsee LETTERS Page 6

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ning Wall Street donors wanted.

The punishment for these miscreants? None. In one of its first acts this year, the “new” ethics committee merrily dropped all charges against their delighted colleagues. In an Alice-inWonderland moment, the committee declared on Jan. 26 that there was no connection between the vote and the cash, adding that no “reasonable” person would see even an appearance of impropriety in the exchange.

Excuse me for being unreasonable, but it appears obvious that what the committee has done is to set an ethical standard for this Congress that’s even lower than the dark days of Tom DeLay. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com February 10, 2011 5

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ing home. I then gave the unperturbed dog walkers a loud piece of my mind.

This was met with a collective “What’s your problem, dude?” sort of look. Our interaction ended there.

No concern was voiced, no further apology, nothing.

So here’s my vote. After decades of hiking and having my crotch snoutjammed, having my pants muddied by wet paws and noting the ubiquitous trail-side plastic bags full of feces, I say let’s keep dogs where they belong: in designated dog parks, in their owners’ back yards and on tightly held leashes.

And while I’m on the subject, let me add one more sentiment to the many dog-friendly sayings, such as “Love me, love my dog!” Sometimes I loathe with equal contempt dogs and their owners, too. That’s just how it is.

Tim Gale/Boulder I have just read the news in Boulder Weekly, and I must say I am disappointed. I have read both sides, and my opinion is that we cannot keep trying to change things by implementing more and more restrictions. It is like trying to cut something that somebody doesn’t want to see or experience and it has never proved to do any good, like taking the medicine just to try to get rid of the symptoms without knowing the reason of the sickness. Only by wanting to see where the problem is stemming from one can do appropriate changes, cures. Otherwise there is always going to be somebody who doesn’t like something.

I can say that I do not like annoying people with their annoying attitudes on the trail, and then what? Who is going to put restraint on that? Who is going to stop them from entering some of the trails? I like to have at least one trail where I would not meet these kinds of people. And believe me, these types of people are quite often out there.

So how are we going to change this? Are we going to seclude at least one trail where I would not meet loudly speaking people (that disturbs nature) on the cell phones that I am forced to listen to and their annoying conversation, people who are trying to catch your attention for no matter what and only just because they are people and nobody can stop them from going out to nature?

Well, if my voice would count, I am suggesting that society should not be so corrupt by having you pay for a green tag, and then letting you have it only by watching the video online. I would suggest they use that money properly and have some kind of evaluation of the dogs’ behavior before they give the tag away. This way people with little puppies and dogs that do not listen well would not have access to the green tag 6 February 10, 2011

until they actually teach their dogs how to listen. Unfortunately, I am afraid that nobody would want to do this, because it actually makes people learn and do something, and nowadays people are lazy. Whatever organization is giving out those green tags is lazy, too, because it would take some higher management to apply this rule. So they just take the money and let the people do what they want to do with their dogs, and then other people are angry and want to close the trails.

So, how about put the restriction on the proper place by not giving out green tags so easily before we will go ahead and restrict the hell out of everything else? It is very easy to close the trails without wanting to learn the proper way. Here in America everything is ruled by what is the easiest way.

All one has to do is to pay, and they are allowed to have whatever they want — degree, position, green tag, on and on.

Again, how about to pay for a green tag, prove that your dog listens, and then let dogs loose, as any being “should” be. If people would not agree with this and there are trails going to be closed for dog owners anyway, I want to have some trails to be closed for annoying people, too! Just to be fair.

After all, aren’t we humans further away from nature than dogs are?

Autumn Leigh Rae/via Internet Pamela White is the voice of what?

The typical white, upper middle-class American woman who pushes so many of us to become ex-pats, running as far away from her kind as possible. Her whining is the norm nowadays when you go for coffee, enter the pharmacy, walk down the street or even while driving in your car. One has to deal with these women who think their “children and elders” are some sort of excuse for them to be annoying and give them a right to voice brainwashed opinions and demand that the rest of us listen.

Anytime I go for a hike with my dog, who follows all the rules of the ‘Green Tag’ and who doesn’t have any interest in these types of people, their children, elders or even their dogs, I find myself being annoyed by many people overreacting and playing volunteer ranger. They are trying to fulfill a need to prove to the world that they are somehow important and needed.

And I must say I am very bothered when I go for a hike and have to overhear their loud voices, penetrating my privacy more than a dog jumping in my crotch. This I consider a bigger poo than the one on the ground. It is a mental pollution. The fact that Pamela was allowed to be published doesn’t see LETTERS Page 9

Danish Plan

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Open letter to the members of the 112th Congress

by Paul Danish Dear Members: How many times do We the People have to tell you something before you get it through your big, fat heads?

Oh, dear, there I go coarsening public discourse again.

Well, it can’t be helped. Being civil with you guys doesn’t seem to get us very far.

For the past 38 years we’ve been telling you we want to be free of foreign oil and the international cartel that produces most of it and fixes its price. And for the past 38 years you’ve been saying you were going to do something about it.

And for the past 38 years American oil imports have been going up, and OPEC has done pretty much as it’s pleased.

Thirty-eight years of empty promises, dissembling excuses and pious bullshit, and nothing changes. Who the hell do you guys think you are? Hosni Mubarak?

Last year we imported 4.25 billion barrels of crude oil and refined products, at a cost of $337 billion, an average of about $79.29 a barrel. In case you haven’t noticed, the price of crude oil is back up to more than $100 a barrel, and it’s heading north fast. And it will head north even faster, maybe past the record $147.30 a barrel set in July 2008, if the nascent revolutions in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East end badly — and unfortunately the scenarios in which they end badly are more plausible and more numerous than the ones in which they end well.

The upshot may well be gasoline selling at $4 or $5 a gallon or more by

this summer and a double-dip recession next year. And a windfall of petrodollars for jihadists from Gibraltar to Mindanao.

So why don’t you guys get off your sorry butts and do something meaningful this time about getting the country free of oil imports?

Something besides throwing boatloads of money at wind and solar alternative energy projects that produce electricity, not gasoline, or at alternative transportation projects like high-speed rail that have a barely measureable impact on America’s automobile use.

Why not do something that will drastically cut U.S. crude imports, or short of that, will permanently destroy OPEC’s ability to fix oil prices?

For openers, you could start by passing the Pickens Plan, T. Boone Pickens’ proposal for substituting domestically produced natural gas for diesel and gasoline as the fuel for the country’s 18-wheel trucks and fleet vehicles (like buses, taxis and medium-duty delivery vehicles). Pickens reckons that doing this could cut crude imports by a third.

Just as important, it would mean that the country’s commercial vehicles, the ones directly involved in the production of goods and services, would no longer be held hostage to imported energy price-fixing.

Legislation to implement the Pickens Plan has been sitting on your desks for the past two years (during which time we have spent more than see FOREIGN OIL Page 8

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$600 billion on oil imports). Passing it would be a good start.

But there’s a way you could permanently get the country off imported crude.

The technology for turning both coal and natural gas into gasoline and diesel fuel has been available for decades. The technology is mature, and as a result of nearly a century of incremental advances in chemical and petroleum engineering, it is financially competitive with conventionally produced gasoline and diesel at today’s prices.

If you want to break OPEC and its co-conspirators, build a couple dozen synthetic fuels plants using these technologies, each with a capacity of, say, 500,000 barrels a day. Figure that each would cost about $10 billion to $15 billion to build, about the same as a stateof-the-art nuclear power plant or aircraft carrier. Funding two of them a year would cost $20 billion to $30 billion annually, not exactly chump change, but not a budget-buster either. At that rate, all 24 could be funded in a decade.

That would give the United States the capacity to produce 12 million barrels a day of synthetic fuels from domestic coal and natural gas, or 4.38 billion barrels a year, an amount slightly greater than the total amount of oil and petroleum products the U.S. imported in 2010.

What might the fuel coming out of these plants cost? Judging by the experience of Sasol, the South African company that pioneered modern gas to diesel production processes and which has operated a 25,000-barrel-a-day plant in Qatar since 2006, it would be about $25 a barrel — if the cost of building the plant isn’t rolled in. Of course, Sasol has to sell its product at a price that covers the cost of building the plant. A government-funded plant built for national security purposes wouldn’t have to.

Building those plants means that the

United States could cut its fuel bill by 75 percent or more, which would do wonders for the economy. And reducing demand in the international oil markets by 12 million barrels a day would drive the price of Middle Eastern crude into the ground (so to speak), which would effectively defund the global jihad and force Islam’s excitable boys to get to heaven the hard way, by getting jobs and being decent human beings instead of human bombs. It would also defund several petro-pests; Hugo Chavez comes to mind.

And just having the plants would probably be enough to keep oil prices reasonable (and jihadists defunded) without ever having to fire them up.

Just having the ability to produce 12 million barrels of oil a day at the flick of a switch would make it possible for us to make our extortionist pals in the Middle East an offer they couldn’t refuse: Set the price of oil at a point where both you and us and everyone else in the world will prosper, and we’ll continue to buy from you and not destroy the value of your resource (provided you quit sponsoring jihadists and bring us the head of Osama bin Laden, of course).

But wouldn’t having the government deploy a fleet of synthetic fuel plants be socialist? Sure — in the same way as maintaining a navy to defend the country instead of relying on privateers is socialist.

Granted, there may be other ways of getting the country off imported oil. If you have any, instead of sending me the usual form letter response, why don’t you tell me, with precision and candor, exactly what you would do to replace 12 million barrels a day of imported crude.

I don’t mean to be unkind, but after watching your performance for the past 38 years, I’ve come to doubt whether you folks know how to go about solving big problems anymore, including this one.

Go ahead, surprise me.

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“People here treat us so different compared to out there. People here don’t care.”

—Richard Heene, the “balloon hoax” father, who left Colorado and now lives in Florida “Life is our priority.”

—Craig Hynes, emergency chief of Perth, Western Australia, in regard to the bushfires that blazed through the city’s suburbs, forcing hundreds from their homes and turning the area into a disaster zone “When he is released, he will become the living hero of this revolution.”

—Egyptian magnate Naguib Sawiris, about the probable detention by government forces of Google executive Wael Ghonim 8 February 10, 2011

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leave me with much hope.

Overall, I would like to say that a dog owner pays quite a bit of money in this county for owning just one dog. If we are to pay these annual fees and for green tags then I would like to know where that money is going. Does it make any sense to own a dog, to pay so much for it to exist with you and then to be restricted from so many angles — mostly just to take them into the nature when they are animals!

This is becoming so ridiculous. I wonder how so many states in the EU can live without these absurd rules and complaints and still be able to enjoy the mountains and nature. Somehow they know how to coexist, and here it is all about castration, fees, control and whining. I would advise Pamela to look into her own life and change her own behavior rather than preaching and trying to restrict others.

Darsej K. Rae/via Internet

is not only apparently helping to liberate the masses in modern-day Egypt, but perhaps shaking up all of the other military regimes and dictatorships in all of the Arab world, as well.

Absolutely incredible.

I think it also probably speaks to a definite American greatness in that we continue to construct, secure and support a unique creative and intellectual atmosphere that fosters, nurtures, motivates and I’d say even protects those like Zuckerberg, Jobs, whomever. Yeah, any old way you look at it

this is one helluva country, mon, and I think I’m pretty glad Dad immigrated here from Barbados. Amen.

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Whining about poor kids (Re: “Let them eat nothing,” In Case You Missed It,” Feb. 3.) You complain that the state government is failing in their responsibility to feed poor children: “… poor families will have to pay 30 cents per meal for food they have been getting for free.”

Here’s a news flash: Nothing is free! It is the taxpayers paying for that “free” food. You think that government is the answer to everything and they should be able to take as much as they want from those who provide and give it away to those who do not.

How about you stand on your hind legs for once in your life and do something besides whining and sniveling?

Why don’t you go to your local school and donate a few bucks to the “free” breakfast program? Do you smoke? If you stopped a pack-a-day habit you would have about $40 a week you could donate to your local school. That would feed 133 kids every week. There are other ways you could lead by example also — too many to list. I’m sure they escape you.

Government and taxes are not the solution. They are the problem. You exacerbate the problem because you sit back, watch, snivel and whine and do nothing, while espousing the everexpanding reach of government.

Pounding a keyboard writing diatribes on the failings of everyone but yourself will not feed anyone. It is time to grow up, take the bull by the horns, and finally actually do something yourself instead of directing everyone else to do it for you. What a concept, huh?

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4give me fathr 4 i hv sind Who says the Roman Catholic Church is an antiquated institution?

From the Pope on down, the Catholic hierarchy is embracing digital technology. The Vatican has had its own YouTube channel since 2007 and has been a presence on Facebook since 2009. And now it has given its blessing to an iPhone app designed for penitents.

The app doesn’t replace the traditional trip to the confessional — priests aren’t going to be sending out absolution via text message any time soon — but it does explain the steps of the sacrament, in which the faithful disclose their sins. It also enables sinners to track their transgressions, which comes in handy when you want to make sure you’re not forgetting anything that might land you in hell.

Let’s say you want to make sure that you really are masturbating less this month and that you aren’t just imagining all this pent-up sexual energy. The app can help you out, provided you’re religious about noting each and every session of sinful solo sex.

Not sure if you’re sinning? The app has got you covered there, too, talking you through the commandments. Does the Sixth Commandment — which in Roman Catholic doctrine is “Thou shall not commit adultery” — include fornication? Is oral sex fornication? And what does it mean to covet your neighbor’s wife or her ass or her ox?

With Ash Wednesday only a month away, you’d better get online and download this now. What’s the point of Lent if you can’t feel guilty?

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There has been a strange silence emanating from those involved in the Daily Camera/Colorado Daily/Denver Post parent company’s planned takeover of the Longmont Times-Call and its sister papers.

Rumors are circulating that the deal, announced on Jan. 21, didn’t close as planned at the end of January, but Boulder Weekly’s calls to the principal players have gone unreturned this week. We’ve even tried calling the big man, MediaNews Group Executive Chairman Dean Singleton, about a dozen times over the past few weeks, to no avail.

Dean Lehman, who is still listed as Times-Call president and editor on the newspaper’s website, did not return calls, and other Times-Call employees contacted by BW referred all questions to him. Even Daily Camera Publisher Al Manzi is lying low, despite talking to us about the deal the week it was announced.

Back then, Manzi balked at the idea that further concentrating the corporate ownership of the county’s daily papers would result in fewer newsgatherers and less diversity in the news that, say, Longmont residents, are currently receiving. The MediaNews Group behemoth is known for gobbling up papers in a single geographic area and not just consolidating things like printing/advertising operations, but shrinking editorial staffs so that you can read the same stories in the Denver Post and Daily Camera and the Colorado Daily. Will those same stories now be reprinted in the Times-Call, we asked? Manzi acknowledged that there would be some content-sharing, but he didn’t like the suggestion that the deal would reduce news diversity.

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WILL RECENT USDA APPROVALS OF GMOS SPREAD TO BOULDER COUNTY? BY JEFFERSON DODGE

ecent decisions by federal authorities to allow the unregulated planting of genetically modified alfalfa and sugar beets have some fearing that the approvals may take root in Boulder County’s own approach to the genetically engineered crops.

On Jan. 27, the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised environmental activists’ hackles by announcing that it will not regulate alfalfa that has been genetically modified to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup. Both the alfalfa and the pesticide are made by biotech giant Monsanto.

Then, the following week, the USDA announced that it is partially deregulating genetically modified (GM) sugar beets due to a predicted sugar shortage, a decision that seems to fly in the face of an August decision by a federal district court judge in San Francisco to revoke approval of the beets until an environmental impact study could be completed.

Meanwhile, closer to home, last week the group charged with developing a set of recommendations for Boulder County’s own regulations on planting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on county-owned open space held its first meeting.

Some say the feds’ recent rash of approving GM crops could sway that committee — and ultimately, the Boulder County commissioners — when it comes time to vote on those regulations late this year.

The issue of planting GM crops on county open space reared up during the summer of 2009, as the commissioners weighed requests from local farmers who wanted to plant genetically engineered sugar beets. After holding hearings, the commissioners delayed a decision on the matter, instead rolling it into the development of the countywide cropland policy being drafted this year.

Some farmers have adopted the use of GM crops because they can be sprayed with Roundup, which kills weeds, but not the mutant plants.

Proponents argue that GM crops are more sustainable because they require fewer pesticides. However, weeds have

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become more resistant to herbicides, and studies show that their use has actually increased. Critics say there have not been enough studies — or time — to properly assess the toxins or allergens that GM crops might propagate. And they point to the aggressive — some say sinister — tactics that Monsanto has been accused of in films like Food Inc., as it simultaneously spreads and protects its special seeds and the herbicide they withstand.

Since Boulder County is home to a host of organic food companies, it could prove to be one of the main fronts in the battle over keeping organic food sources separate from the spreading tentacles of Monsanto.

And that battle may boil down to something as simple as labeling.

Organic infighting The USDA’s Jan. 27 decision to grant “non-regulated status” to GM alfalfa was accompanied by assurances from federal officials that the genetically engineered crop poses no risks.

“After conducting a thorough and transparent examination of alfalfa through a multi-alternative environmental impact statement (EIS) and several public comment opportunities, [the USDA] has determined that Roundup Ready alfalfa is as safe as traditionally bred alfalfa,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a press release.

But the announcement triggered a fiery response from Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association, who said “a self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite” — Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm — had betrayed the entire organic industry by capitulating to Monsanto.

Cummins wrote in a blog post that the three organic food companies had surrendered to Monsanto by endorsing a plan for the “co-existence” of GM crops and organic plants.

“Beyond the regulatory euphemism of ‘conditional deregulation,’ this means that [Whole Foods] and their colleagues are willing to go along with the massive planting of a chemical and energy-intensive [genetically engineered] perennial crop, alfalfa,”

Cummins wrote, adding that the Frankenfalfa is “guaranteed to spread its mutant genes and seeds across the nation; guaranteed to contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals; guaranteed to lead to massive poisoning of farm workers and destruction of the essential soil food web by the toxic herbicide, Roundup; and guaranteed to produce Roundup-resistant superweeds that will require even more deadly herbicides such as 2,4-D to be sprayed on millions of acres of alfalfa across the U.S.” Executives at Whole Foods and the other two companies shot back with blog posts of their own. Stonyfield President Gary Hirshberg called Cummins’ piece “a thoroughly inaccurate, irresponsible and deeply misguided attack.”

“Leaving aside the baseless interpretations and accusations by a person who was not present for any of the deliberations he critiqued, the real question is why someone who supposedly wants to stop the Monsanto steamroller from its pernicious campaigns to deregulate genetically engineered crops would turn his venom on allies as opposed to this very obvious and powerful adversary?”

Hirshberg wrote. “The divisiveness and distractions sown by Cummins’ factfree rant come at the exact time when all who oppose last week’s demoralizing USDA decision to completely deregulate genetically engineered alfalfa must unite and focus on the immediate actions necessary to stop this new policy from going into effect.”

Hirshberg and representatives of the other organic companies defended their endorsement of what they say was the lesser of the only two available evils.

The deregulation of GM alfalfa was a foregone conclusion, they argued, and the only palatable option being considered by the USDA was to endorse a form of deregulation that would have been accompanied by restrictions and conditions, including compensation for organic farmers whose livelihood was damaged by Monsanto.

But in the end, the USDA didn’t take even that route, instead opting for complete deregulation based on the

determination that GM alfalfa poses no “plant pest risk.”

“It is difficult to express how disappointed we are by the USDA’s decision to completely deregulate genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa without restrictions,” Whole Foods execs said on their website. “While Whole Foods Market and other advocates for non-GE and organic foods feel the USDA’s deregulation decision is a setback, we will continue the fight for the protection of non-GE food, as we have ever since genetically engineered crops first appeared in the marketplace.”

In his biting critique of Whole Foods, Stonyfield Farm and Organic Valley, Cummins urged supporters to shift their efforts to securing a requirement that GMO foods be labeled as such. He quotes a Monsanto executive who, when GMOs first came on the market, said, “If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it.”

He encouraged people to visit the website for his group’s truth-in-labeling campaign, titled “Millions Against Monsanto”: www.organicconsumers. org/monsanto.

Attack ill-advised?

Industry observer Steven Hoffman, who spent nine years as editorial director at the Boulder-based magazine Natural Foods Merchandiser, now runs his own communications firm, Compass Natural, and co-owns Boulder’s Best Organics. He told Boulder Weekly that Cummins’ attack may have been premature.

“I think he jumped too soon on the very leaders who are trying to find a solution,” Hoffman says, adding, however, that he agrees with Cummins’ assertion that there can be no compromise when dealing with Monsanto and the spreading scourge of GM crops.

He, like Cummins, tells people to tell their congressional representatives and the White House that they want GM crops labeled as such, because GM foods have quietly infiltrated the majority of foods in conventional supermarkets, but there is no way to tell them

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apart from other products. Even products labeled with the widely abused misnomer “natural” can contain GMOs, experts say.

“Labeling will solve everything, because that will give consumers the choice,” Hoffman says. “Right now they have no choice. They don’t know it’s in 80 percent of their grocery-store food.”

As for the USDA’s recent decisions on alfalfa and sugar beets, Hoffman says the companies that Cummins refers to as a cabal were stabbed in the back after the feds invited them to the table for negotiations.

“I think they were betrayed by the USDA,” he says. “I think they were surprised at the sudden turnaround.”

And the driver of that betrayal, as with so many others, is probably money.

“I think there is tremendous pressure from large agribusiness special interests,” Hoffman says. “They have very well-financed special interests.”

If the infiltration of GM products continues, he explains, the next logical step is the contamination of the animals we eat, like cows that consume the Frankenfalfa and then pass along its effects through its milk or meat. There is already a push to gain federal approval for GM salmon that grows twice as fast as normal salmon.

Hoffman says the recent USDA decisions could be used by Boulder County officials as justification for approving GM crops on taxpayer-funded open space.

“I think the organic consumer community is very vibrant and must be extremely vigilant, because I think the county commissioners are going to try to approve this thing, and we cannot let them,” he says. “Not on our open space land.”

Cropland committee convenes But it will be many months before the commissioners are faced with that decision.

The committee charged with making those and other recommendations to the board is the Cropland Policy Advisory Group (CPAG). That committee, which held its first meeting on Feb. 2, includes three local conventional farmers, two organic farmers, an organic dairy farmer, and three at-large representatives.

Tina Nielsen, special projects manager for Boulder County Parks and Open Space, says the group will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays of the month at the county parks and open space offices at 5201 St.

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Vrain Rd. in Longmont, and the public is welcome to attend. She says CPAG is expected to issue its recommendations

by October.

According to Nielsen, after the sugar beet hearings held in 2009, county officials hosted additional opportunities for public comment last year, including an open house in May, four “bus tours” from June through September and a forum on sustainable agriculture in November. She expects to have a similar format for public feedback this year, plus additional opportunities after the recommendations are issued. The cropland policy will be considered by the county’s Food and Agricultural Policy Council as well as the Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee before it goes to the county commissioners for a vote.

Nielsen says alfalfa is one of the crops that local farmers commonly rotate on their fields, because it can act as a fertilizer, restoring nitrogen in the soil. The county has received at least one request from a farmer to use GM alfalfa on county open space, she says, but current county policy only allows genetically engineered corn. The commissioners decided to allow the use of GM corn on county open space in 2003, following the recommendation of a GMO technical advisory committee.

One member of that committee who was in the minority in voting against allowing GM corn on county land was Mark Retzloff, chairman and co-founder of Alfalfa’s, which is poised to re-open at its original Boulder location at Arapahoe and Broadway.

Retzloff agreed that Cummins is off base in his criticism of the “Organic Elite” caving in to the USDA. “The organic industry is standing together on this,” he says. “He wasn’t even at the discussions. I know these companies, and they have consistently supported the regulation of GM crops.

We haven’t given up at all. But we are facing a formidable foe in Monsanto and the biotech industry. … Biotech has spent half a billion lobbying Congress over the past 10 years, and $71 million last year alone.”

Retzloff says the organic community needs to fight each GM commodity as it comes before the USDA, because “if we can be victorious with one of them, that can set a precedent.”

The fact that the USDA approved the limited use of GM sugar beets despite a federal judge’s order to the contrary “speaks to the strength that the biotech industry has in Washington these days,” he says.

“The problem is, the genie is out of the bottle,” Retzloff continues, explaining that more than 80 percent of today’s corn and soybeans are genetically modified.

If nothing else, Retzloff says, the USDA decisions and recent uproar about GM crops will cause the county commissioners to consider the new cropland policy carefully. And while he says local farmers have used the USDA’s stance on GM crops as ammunition in the past, he’s not placing any bets on whether the commissioners vote down GM sugar beets or revoke their approval of GM corn.

“They’re listening, more than ever,” he says. “But do I think they’re going to change their policy? I’m not sure.”

“I think our hope is to come up with a broad policy approach, as opposed to duking out every individual seed species,” County Commissioner Will Toor told Boulder Weekly. “I don’t know that the latest decisions from the USDA really impact that broader policy discussion, although they certainly may [affect] how whatever we decide might impact the planting of individual species.”

Up the chain Retzloff, who is also in the organic dairy business, says he can’t feed his dairy cows GM alfalfa and still call it organic milk, but the spread of the genetically engineered alfalfa is hard to stop, even in cases where a four-mile buffer between the natural and altered crops is enforced.

“Alfalfa is pollinated not by the wind, but by bees,” he says. “Four miles is not very far for a bee to go.”

Retzloff adds that he hopes his natural grocery store can avoid GMOs for the most part.

“There may be some we will not be able to get away from, but we’ll let you know on our labels that we can’t validate that, so people can make a choice,” he says. “The bottom line is people have to be able to make a choice.”

Asked whether we will ever see a day when the feds require foods with GMOs to be labeled as such, Retzloff replies, “I think the food industry will fight that as long as they possibly can.

It will be a battle they will never stop fighting.”

Another member of the committee that recommended approval of GM corn on county land in the early 2000s says the anti-GMO crowd is being alarmist. Andrew Staehelin, a retired University of Colorado biology professor, argues in favor of using GM crops.

“We have 23 years of experience

with these plants, and the world is still standing,” he says.

Staehelin says only a handful of studies, most of them poorly done, have raised health concerns about GM crops, and yet they get a bunch of publicity despite being based on “bad science.”

He claims that in some cases, organic foods are less healthy than GM foods.

As an example, Staehelin points to the holes created in corn by bugs known as corn borers. Those holes are then susceptible to fungus, including a toxin called fumonisin that has been linked to cancer as well as spina bifida. He says studies in European countries show that levels of fumonisin in GM corn are 10 times lower than in traditionally grown, pesticide-treated corn, and hundreds of times lower than in organic corn.

“Natural foods can kill you, too,” Staehelin says, calling organic farming “19th century agriculture” that doesn’t address the need to feed a growing population.

He also points to the development of a Hawaiian papaya that was resistant to naturally occurring viruses. People have been cross-breeding plants and animals for decades in an effort to develop strains with desired genetic traits, he says, so why not do it faster, through genetic engineering? **** Meanwhile, Cummins is sticking to his guns and his original criticism of the Organic Elite. He told Boulder Weekly that Whole Foods isn’t fighting GMOs as hard as it could because a percentage of the food it buys and sells contains GMOs, so it relies on genetically engineered crops for a portion of its profits.

“It’s an inconvenient truth that the industry has to face,” Cummins says. “If you take a stand, there will be consequences in the marketplace. … We’re all Monsanto’s minions right now because we’re inadvertently buying their food.

Someone’s got to lead the way and take a risk. For those putting the bottom line ahead of ethics, it’s not going to pay off in the long run.”

He adds that labeling GMO foods may be the last line of defense.

“We all know darn well that Congress and the White House are not going to pass mandated labeling,” Cummins says. “Let’s get beyond organic infighting. Let’s get down to a strategy to defeat Monsanto and the biotech industry, and we think that’s truth in labeling.

“It’s time to draw a line in the sand.”

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Reps. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Longmont, and Deb Gardner, D-Longmont, will talk about their plans for the session and have a conversation about the new political landscape at the Capitol. Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, will attend as well.

The group plans to hold the meetings regularly on the second Saturday of each month through May. Land swap bill proposed by Udall On Feb. 3, Mark Udall introduced the Sugar Loaf Fire Station Land Exchange Act of 2011 to facilitate a land swap between the Sugar Loaf Fire District and the U.S. Forest Service.

The bill is co-sponsored by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and contains similar language to legislation Udall introduced in 2009.

Under the bill, the fire district would obtain 5.08 acres of land under two of its three fire stations in exchange for 5.17 acres in unincorporated Boulder County.

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Workshop participants 60 and older can attend sessions free of charge at any of the following locations: in Longmont at Cinnamon Park, 1335 Cinnamon St. on Tuesdays, through March 29, 2 to 4 p.m.; in Lafayette at the Lafayette Senior Center, 103 S. Iowa Ave. on Tuesdays, Feb. 15 through April 5, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and in Boulder at the YMCA, 2850 Mapleton Ave., on Tuesdays, March 1 through April 19, 1

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Beading for a future BeadforLife, a nonprofit group that unites women in Uganda with women around the globe in an effort to eliminate poverty, is launching its March Out of Poverty Challenge.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8, BeadforLife is encouraging women everywhere to host BeadParties, the proceeds of which will go to providing 150 Ugandan women with the opportunity to earn a steady income for one year.

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Guthrie was one of two students in the state of Colorado to be honored with the award.

Heart disease lecture on tap According to the Lafayette Recreation Department, only 57 percent of females are aware that heart disease is the leading cause of death among women.

In an effort to raise awareness about the risks of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and the development of heart disease, the Recreation Department is holding free educational lectures.

The first of the lectures took place earlier this week, and the next will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at the Bob L. Burger Recreation Center.

Admission to the event is free, and participants can call ahead to reserve a seat at 303-665-0469.

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idn’t you resolve that this would be the year you’d finally give vegetable gardening a try, maybe even do a little beekeeping? Or maybe it’s your kids who have been campaigning for one of these projects.

Either way, lack of experience or help with the labor doesn’t have to be a drag on your goals. If you could use some hands-on assistance to accomplish them, there are affordable and convenient options to use as your “training wheels.”

Nonprofit Growing Gardens of Boulder County has been “cultivating community” since 1998. Besides partnering with other organizations in the Boulder Community Food Project to teach needy families to grow their own organic produce, it sponsors nine community gardens and offers education and support for do-it-yourselfers.

The same folks also run one-off gardening workshops on all the how-to items, from figuring out where to grow a few rows of veggies in your yard to improving your soil.

There’s even a workshop for gardening with kids.

In addition, there are two ongoing programs for the under-agers: The Children’s Peace Garden for ages 4-10 has gardening activities, field trips, an after-school program and a summer camp. Cultiva! is a market garden operated by youthful participants ages 11-19 who learn to raise crops and run a small business.

A series of Saturday beekeeping classes covers everything from set-up to turning bees’ wax into craft products. Experienced beekeepers can drop in on the class of their choice.

Bee wrangler Julie Finley Ridinger can even come to your home for an hourly fee to check out your hives and offer advice.

“There’s been a lot of demand for the kind of knowledge Growing Gardens offers,” says Ridinger. And she says the organization tends to see a rush “once those seed catalogs start coming in the mail.”

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That is why Growing Gardens has opened registration earlier than usual, so if you’re interested, lose no time. Visit www.growinggardens.org or call 303-443-9952, ext. 2.

In addition, Lifelong Learning, through the Boulder Valley School District, has a vegetable gardening class on March 3 for the beginner to the tried-and-frustrated. Catherine Harley teaches the Square Foot Gardening Method — growing the maximum amount of veggies in the minimum amount of space, with no tilling, digging or weeding required.

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Harley and partner Dale Zigelsky, owners of Personal Family Farmers, will even install the same type of low-maintenance garden in your yard. For about $313, they’ll put in a four-feet-by-four-feet raised vegetable section that includes frame, soil and plants or seeds, plus present you with a spreadsheet/map of your plot. Additional options such as a trellis, drip irrigation, critter deterrence and vacation “garden-sitting” are available.

Personal Family Farmers’ clientele also get ongoing support and tips via e-mail. Free consultations and pre-season discounts are available at www.personalfamilyfarmers. com, or by calling 720-495-7154.

You can also consider a multi-use landscape with the help of someone like Laura Ruby of Yummy Yards, who specializes in permaculture design, installation and maintenance.

Permaculture is a holistic approach that utilizes edible plants as well as other elements — such as the chicken coops, aquaponic set-ups, goat pens and bee hives you might have seen on Boulder’s first Tour de Coops backyard safari organized by Ruby last year. Check out http://yummyyards. org or call 303-908-3054.

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Son of the Sheik — because nothing says authentic like Arabs played by white people.

Thursday, Feb. 10

Domaine Carneros Wine Dinner — Sample some fine Napa wine. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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PENDULUM KEEPS SWINGING FORWARD BY P.J. NUTTING

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endulum is, in one UK-inflected word, massive. So massive that the rock-electro hybrid, consisting of three core members and three touring live musicians, will spend nearly every day of February splitting up across the globe to facilitate heavy-hitting live shows in the States and DJ sets squeezed in wherever globally possible. Bassist/DJ Gareth McGrillen was “just chilling in Montreal” when Boulder Weekly caught up with him on the phone. McGrillen had just finished a DJ set alongside group member Paul Harding after an appearance at Madison Square Garden and a sold-out headlining show at Irving Plaza in New York.

Pendulum cultivates an incredibly accessible sound by way of NASA-grade, airtight production that allows head-banging and ass-shaking to merge into one.

“Most of our members come from a producer background,” McGrillen says, “and Rob [Swire, vocalist/producer] is one of the best engineers I’ve ever known. It’s the most important thing; that’s what consumes our life. And that’s why, first and foremost, everything we do is self-produced and self-engineered.”

It takes a fleet of buses and an entire Peterbilt truck to

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haul Pendulum’s live show across America, a full trailer of instruments, guitar cabs, preamps and processing units. Their live shows are some of the most hardware-intricate in today’s electronic music: The group reverse-engineers its albums onstage to perfectly replicate its studio sound.

“We take the whole show into the studio and we remix the instruments to have it match how it does on the album,” McGrillen says. “In a sense, we take the entire mix, piece by piece and channel by channel, and transpose it into the live rig. We’ve got ProTools Venue System out front so all the mastering and presets are done by MIDI, so right down to the obscure, third-party plug-ins we use on certain vocals and guitars, we’re literally recreating it live.”

The result is unique. In the last year, Pendulum showcased their accessibility through support slots at huge festivals on both sides of the pond. In one weekend, Pendulum opened for Tiësto at London’s Victoria Park, then for Iron Maiden and 80,000 metal fans at the Sonisphere Festival.

“To do that was a bit of a pinnacle kind of moment for us,” McGrillen says, “because it showed us, the world and our see PENDULUM Page 20

Don’t Kill Bill: A Dog Lover’s Night Out — An aerial dance show benefitting Up For Pups, a nonprofit benefitting man’s best friend. 7:30 p.m.

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Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class — Because nothing says love like hula. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

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Zolo Southwestern Grill Valentine’s Day Dinner — Bring your sweetie to one of Boulder’s best yet oddly located restaurants. 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4490444.

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Real Happiness — It starts, of course, with author Sharon Salzberg’s book. 12 p.m. Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

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Chautauqua Silent Film Series: Son of the Sheik — 7:30 p.m.

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fans really how much we span both 2006’s Hold Your Colour. But their breakgenres. through sophomore album, 2008’s In “And to be honest with you, the set Silico, also going platinum in the UK, didn’t really change a whole lot. … We was then declared traitorous as the band just shuffled some songs around, really,” sought to bring back its rock roots.

McGrillen says, citing dance-y tracks “In Silico was tough. It was self-confrom the band’s 2008 album In Silico for flicted second-album syndrome and we the Tiësto crowd and newer, more bomkind of chased our tails. In a way, we bastic tunes like “Self Vs. Self ” (featuring hate that album,” McGrillen laughs. “We vocalist Anders Fridén from Swedish love it for what it’s worth, but as an metal group In Flames) getting two album it was so difficult to write. The horns up from Sonisphere. “It did change whole idea behind that album was like, but it didn’t change drastically,” let’s do an electronic album but let it be McGrillen said. “It influenced by On the Bill: wasn’t like two differwhat we’re listenPendulum plays the Ogden ent bands on two ing to, like Led Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

Doors at 7 p.m. Must be 16 to different days. It was Zeppelin and surf enter. Innerpartysystem and DJ still us.” rock, and heavier Fury open. Tickets are $33.75 The dual-identity rock like including service charges.

935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, crisis has proven the Meshuggah and 303-830-2525. easiest with which to In Flames. fault Pendulum. The “We were band has survived its always so afraid most unforgiving years. From the start, that we were going to be stuck on an icetheir first incarnation as a nu-metal berg floating in between two countries, group instantly stirred boos and hisses one of them being drum and bass and from those in the dance community. one of them being rock, and that no one Then, smitten with the sounds of early was going to swim out and meet us,” drum and bass acts like Konflict, Shy FX McGrillen says. “We just had to bite the and Goldie, the core trio moved from bullet and understand it was a risk we Australia to London in order to dive were taking and just stick to our guns headfirst into the genre, subsequently and make what we want to make. We championing the scene with the platilearned a lot of lessons on that album, so num release of Pendulum’s first album, when it came time to do Immersion it

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wrote itself, basically. It was a lot of fun, and it wasn’t angst and anguish.”

Immersion immediately claimed the No. 1 spot in the UK, outselling Glee the Music, Vol. 3, by almost 14,000 records, and sent their highest-ever charting single “Watercolour” to No. 4 on the UK charts. The album also showcases collaborations with prog-rocker Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree and Liam Howlett of The Prodigy as well as In Flames’ Anders Fridén.

Drum and bass has caused Pendulum the lion’s share of drama, but it has become an irrevocable part of their heavy brand of sound. McGrillen agrees it’s like being married to a really sexy alcoholic.

“Definitely,” McGrillen responds.

“You have to take the good with the bad, and she’s got a great ass.”

Drum and bass is still America’s dark corner of electronic dance music — possibly because it’s such a London cultural product, and London culture, especially when backed against Boulder culture, has a much more in-your-face attitude.

However, the same goes for dubstep, which has blown up Boulder’s college scene in recent years. McGrillen argues that there’s a definite reason for that.

“Dubstep was always going to beat drum and bass to the pop, because it instantly appeals to everybody,” he says.

“Hip-hop culture is so massive because

of America, and when you get a beat that’s crunk like that, it’s just gonna instantly appeal to everyone. You’re gonna get black people, white people, Hispanic people; they find that crunk kind of hip-hop-esque vibe really appealing. “[Drum and bass] is fast, and it’s got an aggressive energy. People that like rock and metal seem to be attracted to it.

And it’s an electronic genre, I think it’s the most intense, palatable electronic genre, and it’s very diverse as well. It can be dainty jazz or it can be death metal.

In a way, it’s just a tempo, and you can work within the confines of the tempo and do anything with it.

“England is so small, and the amount of drum and bass going on weekly was just massive, whereas I think a lot of the bigger drum and bass artists weren’t visiting America a lot. The drum and bass scene has kind of always been as big as it is in London, because that’s a popular destination but no one in drum and bass is really often visiting Tucson, Arizona, or Minnneapolis. … Because America is such a big place, the scene nationwide is never really able to grow that big. It’s always going to be big in L.A. It’s always going to be big in New York. It’s the middle bit that really defines the genre.”

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DeVotchKa plays the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 12. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

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Tickets start at $35.25. 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-1482.

DeVotchKa makes music for 100 Lovers

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by Dave Kirby

hile most of America was dealing chips and cracking cold ones in anticipation of the Super Bowl last Sunday, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata was at home, catching his breath from an afternoon band rehearsal. The iconoclastic Denver quartet had a Valentine’s gig coming up — something of a tradition for the band, but juiced a little this year by the Denver release of 100 Lovers, the band’s eagerly awaited fifth long-player that sees a national release on March 1.

Unlike most of their prior releases, this one took the band 12 calendar page flips to get in the can.

“Yeah,” Urata says, “it’s not like we’re the Beatles and we were in the studio every day, but, yeah, it did take a year and change to get it together. We didn’t really tell anyone that we were going to do it, but we kind of decided that we would let the songs … ferment and take on their own life.”

DeVotchKa has matured into an impressive expression of craft, moving well beyond the Romaniburlesque quirkiness that first endeared them to indie rock audiences years ago. Their influences now are fully absorbed and less self-consciously applied — the pumping accordion lead and accents dueling with Shawn King’s skittering snare figures throughout the rocking “The Man from San Sebastian,” the plaintive acoustic guitar and tambourine exuding Beatles-esque pop simplicity on “Exhaustible,” the whistled melody line like a ghostly, forgotten Gypsy work song.

And, of course, the broad, cinematic burners opening the CD: the crescendo-cadenced “The Alley” and the galloping “All the Sand in all the Sea,” both drawn around impossibly yearning lead melodies, with Urata’s voice soaring with lachrymose intensity.

This is the stuff of elusive redemption, and if DeVotchKa makes it sound instinctual … well, we asked Urata about rehearsing a bit like “The Common Good,” a fiendishly gnarled little piece four cuts down

in the program. String flourishes yield to syncopated handclaps, dissolving into a thundering bass-heavy rock motif, collapsing again into North African string figures, exiting in colliding, disturbed dissonances.

Urata chuckles a bit when we bring that one up.

“Yeah, that one’s going to be hard to pull off,” he says. “We were talking about the general approach to the album — ‘dysfunctional’ is a way to describe some of these songs. We, of course, loved playing it and loved re-arranging it. But we had to … seriously spend a long time making many versions of it before we ended up with what you heard on the album.”

Like, bits and pieces and shards of melodies someone loved too much to let go — it reminded us of how someone once described a camel. A horse designed by committee. Urata laughs.

“Yeah, you should have heard it before we edited it.”

DeVotchKa spent a good part of last year touring with Gogol Bordello — we had visions of Urata throwing back shots of Stoli with Eugene Hutz (“Yeah, there was a little bit of Vodka on that tour … but Eugene

and all those guys are very accomplished musicians that work their asses off, and we really love playing and collaborating with them.”) — and the upcoming year promises another full festival season. The foundation for the band’s festival-draw popularity was probably laid by the exposure they got doing the soundtrack to the endearingly offbeat film Little Miss Sunshine in 2006, and solidified by the EP Curse Your Little Heart and the critically acclaimed follow-up CD A Mad & Faithful Telling.

But Urata is a self-confessed second-guesser, and we lost track of how many times in 20 minutes he told us he hoped people liked their new record.

So, we couldn’t resist sharing a comment posted on YouTube to the official video of 2004’s “How It Ends,” one of the band’s now-trademark and welltraveled torch numbers.

“I spent 2009 in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army.

Funny thing, my grandmother gave me a small pocket Bible that my uncle had carried with him in Vietnam, and my father in the first Gulf war. Inside the Bible was a small bullet-resistant metal sheet. I carried it in my left breast pocket for my entire deployment. During the summer, a lot of bad things happened; this song really helped me come to grips with accepting my fate, whatever it might be. I don’t think I can ever thank DeVotchka enough.”

The message here, was that while the mechanics matter, the production and the sequencing and song selection to an album matter, and worrying about how it plays in the press and the fanbase matter … but nothing matters more than people finding humanity in the music. Urata hadn’t seen it.

“Geez,” he says. “Y’know, I couldn’t think of a more important reason to work on a song. I always kinda think, getting to play live, and getting press accolades or whatever, that’s great, but actually connecting to somebody’s life is the best reward for doing this stuff.”

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Boulder Chamber Orchestra plays concerts on Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. The Friday show will be at the First Congregational Church in Boulder, and the Saturday show will be at the Broomfield Auditorium. For tickets, visit www.boulderchamberorchestra.org.

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asadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not usual résumé material for orchestral maestros.

But Bahman Saless, who leads the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO) in concerts Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, is not your usual maestro.

Saless holds a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Colorado Boulder. He taught physics at CU and at the Colorado School of Mines. He was a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Center and, yes, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And with his wife, he owns an Internet venture that provides income well beyond what he can make with the BCO. Obviously, this is only half the story for a professional orchestral conductor. Saless studied violin from childhood. He played in the Boulder Philharmonic when he was in graduate school. While in Pasadena, he studied film composition at UCLA, and later worked for Universal Studios composing for film trailers and nature documentaries.

Saless explains what happened next: “When we moved back here in ’94, Boulder Philharmonic had undergone a change, from a community orchestra to a professional one. So a lot of the community players were orchestra-less. Because I knew so many of them, we got together and played chamber music. And then the idea would come, ‘You know, we don’t really have a chamber orchestra, we don’t have a community orchestra any more, and, hey, Bahman, by the way, why don’t you put an orchestra together?’”

Saless says that the musicians picked him because “I had a little bit of experience conducting ... with Universal Studios, and I probably had the biggest knowledge of the repertoire. I used to play ‘name that tune’ since I was like 6 or 7 years old. So I had a huge knowledge of the repertoire.

“So one night late, [at] 1 or 2 in the morning, I decided to cruise the Internet to see if there are any conducting workshops that could actually tell me if I should quit my day job.”

Saless settled on a workshop in Graz, Austria — partly because he had never been there before — where he studied with Robert Culver from the University of Michigan and William LaRue Jones from the University of Iowa.

“I was told, ‘You have a great idea, it seems like the community is going to support you, and you definitely have the talent to pursue this if you want to.’”

With that encouragement, Saless started BCO in 2004. Their first concert, in Boulder’s First Baptist Church, was standing room only, and within days Saless was getting calls from professional musicians who wanted to join his group.

“I said I’d love to [hire the professional players], but I don’t have any money yet!” Saless says. But the orchestra’s rise quickly lived up to the conductor’s career in jet propulsion.

“By the second year, we were at 20 to 25 percent professional, and now we’re at 80 to 85 percent pro-

fessional,” Saless says, adding that many of the original amateur community orchestra members have moved on to work on the board or assist the BCO in other functions.

Saless sets a clear goal for BCO’s programming: “Our job is to play pieces that are not played enough [but] deserve to be heard.”

This weekend’s concerts fit that formula.

The program includes Stravinsky’s rarely heard Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, modeled on Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto, and the relatively obscure Nonet by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. In addition to those little-known works, the concert will feature the original small-orchestra version of Aaron Copland’s beloved Appalachian Spring, and the Serenade for Small Orchestra by Rossini, which Saless calls “the silliest, coolest piece you can think of.”

Beyond unfamiliarity, each piece has its own reason for being on the program. Saless points out that the Stravinsky and the Copland fit well together because they require very similar instrumentation and are both 20th-century pieces that are enjoyable for the general public.

As for the Martinu Nonet, “It’s a favorite of all the wind players. They had been begging me for a long time, ‘Oh Bahman, it would be so great to do the Nonet!’”

And the Rossini is another piece Saless has always wanted to play, “because I love to showcase [the musicians], and this is a showcase piece. It’s nine people sitting together and each of them has a solo. It’s just goofy, silly music. You want to have a glass of wine with it, maybe.”

The wine will have to wait, but until the BCO adds table service to its concerts, the musical menu is plenty flavorful and diverse.

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Great Books, Great Movies

Lectures by Professor Joel Salzberg are at 7 pm and screenings are at 8 pm At the Boulder JCC $15 for lecture, film and refreshments; $10 for film only Reservations appreciated but not required

“The Chosen” : Chaim Potok Saturday, February 19 Published to acclaim in 1967, “The Chosen” follows two young men coming of age in New York in the 1940s. The story deals with the strength of friendship, the importance of father-son relationships, the validity of faith in a modern secular world, tensions between branches of Judaism, Zionism and assimilation. The 1981 film captures the poignancy of Potok’s rich and profoundly Jewish story.

“Enemies, a Love Story” : Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Saturday, February 26 Set in New York City in 1949, Singer’s novel follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder, now married to the Polish servant who saved him and engaged in an affair with another Holocaust survivor. A ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi, his problems are compounded by the arrival of his first wife, thought to have died in the Holocaust. Paul Mazursky directed the superb 1989 screen adaptation, starring Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston and Lena Olin.

"Goodbye Columbus" : Philip Roth Saturday, March 5 The title story of Philip Roth's 1959 novella, which won the 1960 National Book Award, launched the author’s career - and raised some Jewish hackles because of its unflattering portrayal of several characters. The 1969 film starring Ali McGraw and Richard Benjamin is a classic examination of class, materialism and assimilation, sharply observed and bitterly funny.

"The Caine Mutiny" : Herman Wouk Saturday, March 12 This 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel grew out of Herman Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in WW II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea. Humphrey Bogart campaigned to play Captain Queeg in the 1954 screen adaptation, which earned seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor - Humphrey Bogart lost to Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront.

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NEW WORLD CELEBRATIONS Sat., Feb. 19 - 7:30 PM, Macky Auditorium Sun., Feb. 20 - 3 PM, St. Luke’s Methodist Church, Highlands Ranch

Leonard Bernstein–Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town” Aaron Copland–Clarinet Concerto Bill Douglas (Boulder composer/pianist)–Afro-Cuban Baroque and Feast Antonín Dvořák–Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”

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My Bloody Violent-tine Film Festival happens on Friday, Feb. 18 and Saturday, Feb. 19. Festivities start at 7 p.m. For more information, visit http://mbv.razorbill.info. 3 Kings Tavern, 60 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-7352.

The terror of St. Valentine

Local horror film fest proves red isn’t just for roses

by P.J. Nutting

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et’s face a simple fact about Valentine’s Day: there are fewer things less romantic than being forced to be romantic along with the rest of the world. Instead of crowded restaurants and run-of-the-mill flower bouquets, forget the Hallmark holiday spirit this year and embrace campy chainsaw massacres with the My Bloody Violenttine Film Festival, a very antiValentine’s Day party that will showcase horror films made by Colorado filmmakers.

Razorbill Productions will hold the event at the 3 Kings Tavern in Denver the weekend after Valentine’s Day, and Colorado filmmakers are invited to submit their homemade horror films under 20 minutes in length — categories include thriller/suspense, monster, sci-fi, gore and slasher.

“Horror movies rock for couples on Valentine’s Day,” says Razorbill founder George Climer. “It falls on the middle of the week this year, and this gives them something to do the next weekend. People love sitting on the edge of their seat and being sucked into something.” Unless that something is a boring relationship, of course.

The event will take place over two days. The “Screens with Screams” launch party on Friday, Feb. 18, will showcase the best 15 film submissions, while Sailor Jerry’s and PBR will serve up drink specials as guests are invited to drink and dance the night away, dress up as their favorite killer or victim, and take home professional photos of their favorite recreated horror scene courtesy of Paper Dolls Pinup Photography. The Fright Masters award ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 19, will give out awards for films by category, and for smaller feats

such as “Most Blood,” “Most Gashed Victim,” “Most Epic Scream” and the “Victim Darwin Award.”

“Halloween is Slut-oween now, and there is a trend on Valentine’s Day to make it a little more jaded, a little more twisted,” says Jim Narcy, founder of Paper Dolls Pinup Photography. “There’s 13 signs in the zodiac now. There’s a lot of upheaval in the cosmos, and I think its manifestation is that Halloween and Valentine’s Day have somewhat traded places.”

No one is more ready to tell St. Valentine to go to hell than a metal band, and the event will feature a strong contingency of local music. Denver-based metal group Black Lamb and Durango-based Thorn of Gethsemane will perform for the bar crowd after Friday’s film screening, and horror-punk acts The Royal Dead and The Insomniaxe will bring a campy, upbeat dance party on Saturday.

“We’ve got some death metal all the way from Durango, Colorado,” Narcy says of Thorn of Gethsemane. “I don’t know, there’s not much to do in Durango but play Ouija board and look for stray cats to sacrifice to Satan. I think it’s to be expected that you get death metal from that part of the state.

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“The overall goal is to give local filmmakers a place to go with our industry,” says Climer of the Denver film scene. “The biggest goal of the company is in the next five years to create a Hollywood here, a lot of industry leaders with a lot of experience because they want to see it get picked up, want to see local filmmakers, actors and musicians succeed.”

In Boulder, it’s easy to see that music promotion companies use social networking and flyers like they’re going out of style, but film doesn’t enjoy the same margin of exposure. Even during a time when album sales are plummeting, many recording artists make it work by taking a DIY approach to sound engineering and marketing. These same advantages apply to film, says Climer.

“Ninety percent of companies like Sony and JVC have created low-cost, economy-value, high-definition cameras that are affordable to just about anybody on any budget, and some of these newer cameras get the same exact quality as some of these huge rigs we have in the film industry,” Climer says. “You can spend 25 bucks to create your own dolly out of some PVC pipe and a skateboard. You can make it pretty cheap, and there’s a really nice outlet on YouTube called Indy Mogul that teaches first-time filmmakers simple little things on really cheap budgets.”

“Somebody can make a horror movie out of nothing — you got some corn syrup and some food coloring, there ya go, you got blood. You got a neighbor next door who has a daughter who’s 18 years old, you say ‘Hey, can you scream at the top of your lungs?’ That’s one of the nice things about horror: It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s fast, and people love it.”

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Thursday, Feb. 10

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

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

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

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

Dexter Payne Quartet. 8-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

James Speiser. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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.

Magnolia Row. 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 Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m.

Folsom St. Coffee Co. 1795 Folsom St. 303-4408808.

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

Peaches & The Groove Doctors. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9:30 p.m.

First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-0782.

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

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo — 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night.

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

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

Introduction to Digital Photography.

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

Women’s Health: Maintaining Your Energy and Vitality, PMS Through Menopause. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Colorado Skies: Stellar Evolution. 7:30

Friday, Feb. 11

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

Afro-Zep and 56 Hope Road. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

Brad Upton Quartet. 8-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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Boulder/Denver Area An Instinct Toward Life — Sculptures by Dario Robleto. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through May 15.

Bloodlines — Paintings by Hermann Nitsch. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29.

Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan.

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

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

Through Feb. 20.

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

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

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Oil paintings by Lair.

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

Through Feb. 28.

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Gallery II — Art by Paula Gillen.

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

Through March 31.

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

Piece Work — Sculptures by Allison Smith. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29.

Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin.

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

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WEEKLY EVENTS! Wednesday Karaoke Thursday Night Open Mic Open Band Night on Sunday

HAPPY HOUR - 7pm to 9pm

Fri Feb 11 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm • $10

RYAN Mcgarvey Sat Feb 12 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm • $15

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Fri Feb 25 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

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Sat Feb 26 • Doors 7pm, Show 8pm

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Cositas Buenas Flamenco Featuring Kevin Romero. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

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

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Full Belly. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jeremy Dion. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Keith Summers. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Melodic Daydream — Happy hour show. 4 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Punch Brothers. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Quemando. 9 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

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

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

events And They Lynched Him on a Tree. 7 p.m.

ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-4926511.

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

City of Stars. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

Laser: Pink Floyd — The Vision Bell. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

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Art of Murder. Nonesuch Theater, 216 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-2240444. Through Feb. 12.

Camelot. The Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Through April 17.

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

PLAN-Boulder County Forum — Community Foundation’s Civic Index Report. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, Feb. 12

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

Band of Randoms. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Chimney Choir. 9 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway Ave., Boulder.

Clay Kirkland’s Beat the Reaper. 8 p.m.

Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

Colcannon. 7:30 p.m. The Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, 200 East Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 800-341-7694.

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

Heavyweight Dub Champion and Mr. Anonymous. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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words Thursday, Feb. 10 Matteo Pistono’s In the Shadow of the Buddha. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Monday, Feb. 14 Carol Denker’s Autumn Romance:

Stories and Portraits of Love After 50. 5-7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

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

Tuesday, Feb. 15 Sharon Salzberg’s Real Happiness.

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

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Don’t Dress for Dinner. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Feb. 27.

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

Rent — Presented by CU Theatre & Dance. University Theatre Building, CU campus, 303-492-8181. Through Feb. 27.

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

The Jaspers — With K.C. Groves. 4:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Jenn Cleary. 2 p.m. Redstone Meadery, 4700 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-406-1215.

Kate and Brent Jazz. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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

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

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

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

Music on the Mezz — With Laurie Dameron Trio. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St. 303442-4344.

Notes & Oats Musical Breakfast — With Boulder Ukulele Group. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

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

Several Girls Galore. 8:30 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/ astrolandd.

Sooper Credit Union Fundraiser with Sentimental Sounds. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Zen Mustache, Stonebraker, Broken Parts. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events 52nd Annual Colorado Garden & Home Show. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-932-8100. Through Feb. 20.

Adobe Illustrator Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

Don’t Kill Bill: A Dog Lover’s Night Out. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Humongous Book & Media Sale — Fundraiser to benefit Boulder County AIDS Project. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Joyful Furniture, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-444-6121.

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

Nutrition and Health Workshop — Fundraiser for Boulder Humane Society. 12-3 p.m. Farfel’s Farm, 906 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4437711.

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

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

Ayo Awosika. 6-9 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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Celebration. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

The Library Concert Series Presents: Sand Between the Toes. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4414492.

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

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

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

Takács Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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

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

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

A Night with Spirits. 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Monday, Feb. 14

music Adam Bodine. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

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

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

Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. eTown: Martin Sexton and Nellie McKay. 7 p.m.

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

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

Takács Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

events The West End Tavern’s 6th Annual Beer Lovers Dinner. 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4443535.

Tuesday, Feb. 15

music Barbara Paris. 7-10 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

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

Gasoline Lollipops. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jay Ryan’s Acoustic Showcase. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

events Beyond the Red-Tailed Hawk — An Introduction to the Identification of Colorado Birds of Prey. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

Heart Healthy Lifestyles. 6:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Rd.,

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Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

Immigration and the American Divide: The Consequences of Inaction — With Maria Hinojosa. 7 p.m. UMC Ballroom, CU campus, 303-492-2515.

Wednesday, Feb. 16

music Back to the Woods. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

Ivan & Alyosha. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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

Rogue Sound. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

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

Tom Waits Tribute Night. 7-11 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

panorama boulderweekly.com/panorama Tuesday, Feb. 15 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Wednesday, Feb. 16 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.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

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

Welcome to Longmont — Tea and talk. 1:30 p.m. Historic Thompson House Inn & Tea Room, 537 Terry St., Longmont, 303-651-1121.

WordPress: Managing Content. 6-9 p.m.

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

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Feb. 10 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Feb. 11 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, Feb. 13 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Monday, Feb. 14 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

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Bacaro Venetian Taverna Valentine’s Menu.

Bacaro Venetian Taverna, 921 Pearl St, Boulder, 303-444-4888. Through Feb. 14.

Naropa University Presents The Vagina Monologues. 7 p.m. Paramita Campus, 3285 30th St., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

Twisted Pine Bachelorette Auction — Proceeds benefit Kick Start My Heart. 7 p.m.

Twisted Pine Brewing, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Be My Tangerine — Valentine’s show with Tommy & The Tangerines. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

events Boulder Blind Cafe Valentine’s Dinner and Concert in the Dark. 6 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 1-800-838-3006.

Educate!’s 2nd Annual Ball in Boulder. 6:30-

11 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-953-8758.

Naropa University Presents The Vagina Monologues. 7 p.m. Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

Sunday, Feb. 13

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Dakota Blonde’s Valentine’s Day Celebration. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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The Art of Self Love Workshop with Chris Tompkins. 1-4 p.m. Om Time 2035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-565-6115.

Longmont Theater Company’s Valentine’s Day Show and Dinner. Longmont Theater Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

Through Feb. 14.

Q’s Food and Wine Series: Pre-Valentine’s Day Champagne Brunch. 10 a.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Valentine’s Dinner and Dancing with Insideout. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Monday, Feb. 14

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A Valentine’s Concert and Sing-Along — With Pete & Joan Wernick and The Winstons. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Valentine’s Dinner and Dancing with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

events 9th Annual World Sound Healing Day. 5-6 p.m. Solstice, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4438181.

An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, www. devilsthumbproductions.org.

Cafe Aion’s Valentine’s Dinner. Cafe Aion,1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-9938131.

Camelot — Special Valentine’s Day performance and dinner. 6 p.m. The Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Centro Valentine’s Day Dinner. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771.

Happy Noodle House Valentine’s Day Dinner. Happy Noodle House, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050.

Japango’s Valentine’s Dinner. Japango, 1136 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-0330.

Jax Fish House Valentine’s Day Dinner. Jax Fish House, 928 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-1811.

Naropa University Presents The Vagina Monologues. 7 p.m. Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.

Restaurant 4580’s Valentine’s Day Dinner.

Restaurant 4580, 4580 Broadway, Boulder, 303448-1500.

Salt Bistro’s Special Valentine’s Day Menu.

5-10 p.m. Salt Bistro, 1047 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-SALT. The West End Tavern’s 6th Annual Beer Lovers Dinner. 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4443535.

Valentine’s Day at the Teahouse. 5-9 p.m.

Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, 1750 13th St., Boulder, Valentine’s Day Dinner at The Pinyon. 4-10 p.m. The Pinyon, 1710 Pearl St., Boulder, 3068248.

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Thursday, Feb. 10 Ski the Himalayas. 8 p.m.

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Saturday, Feb. 12 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, Feb. 13 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners. org.

Nature For Kids and Parents: Great Horned Owls. 1-3 p.m.

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

SILVERTON MOUNTAIN IS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS BY DAVID ACCOMAZZO

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here seems to be a natural progression that leads powder addicts from the cozy confines of corporate ski slopes to the treacherous mountains of the backcountry.

On weekends at ski resorts, powder is a rare commodity, and you have to get up barbarously early and get lucky with road conditions and traffic to even have a shot at one, maybe two runs of unspoiled powder. If you’re lucky enough to plan a weekday vacation at a resort on a powder day (or conniving enough to call in sick), then you might have some great days. Eventually, you get tired of driving three hours for snow that’s merely decent, and you start hiking.

For powder purists, the perfect

turn is something that must be earned the old-fashioned way: through sweat and long hikes straight up an ungroomed, unpatrolled mountain — front-country powder days be damned.

Even for the uninitiated, it’s easy to imagine what makes the backcountry so alluring. To paraphrase James Carville, it’s the powder, stupid.

But the problem with earning your turns in the backcountry is that the blissful ride you spent three hours of your life sweating for is over in a mere 10 minutes. That gap between effort and reward is enough to turn off the vast majority of skiers and snowboarders, and to make things more difficult, the skills you need to survive in the backcountry are a little

Monday, Feb. 14 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101.

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more advanced than getting on and off a chairlift. It’s incredibly dangerous. During the 2009-10 season, eight people died in Colorado backcountry avalanches, and three have already died this season. Even with proper avalanche training (classes start at around $130), the proper equipment ($30 for a probe, $30 for a shovel, $200-$300 for a beacon), and the proper know-how, accidents can certainly still happen. That’s why backcountry snowboarding, though growing in popularity, remains firmly entrenched on the fringes of popular winter recreation.

Silverton Mountain aims to provide the best of both worlds: the see SILVERTON Page 40

Tuesday, Feb. 15 Adventurous Bicycling On The Silk Road. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

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, Feb. 16 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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convenience and safety of ski resorts with the snow of the backcountry.

There’s only one lift, and you have to hike from the top to get to anything skiable. Owners Jen and Aaron Brill cap the number of skiers that can ride the mountain each day to 475, though Jen Brill says there are rarely more than 80 paying customers on the mountain at once. Best of all, the Brills carefully ration the mountain’s abundant powder so that even during a drought, paying customers will have nothing but jaw-dropping, grin-inducing runs all day long.

Let’s get one thing straight: Silverton Mountain is not for beginners. It’s a paradise for those who have put in their time at the ski resorts, but the terrain is much, much steeper than what you’d find at a resort. If the thought of doing double-blacks at Breckenridge intimidates you, you probably shouldn’t come to Silverton.

The easiest run is 30 degrees, which is comparable to all but the steepest slopes you’ll find at most resorts. The hardest slope is a downright terrifying 55 degrees. (For comparison, Arapahoe Basin’s infamous Pallavicini run is around 40 degrees.) Silverton’s location in the San Juan Mountains, a sevenhour drive from Boulder, offers ideal conditions. As of now, the mountain boasts a 135-inch base. Compare that to the Summit County mountains, which are all hovering around 90 inches. One time earlier in the season, when the mainstream resorts were freaking out about getting eight inches, Silverton was getting — and this is not a misprint — eight feet.

The terrain is so dangerous that you have to bring (or rent) an avalanche beacon, shovel and probe, and they make you sign not one, but two liability waivers. For the majority of the season, avalanche danger is so high you can only ski the mountain with a guide. If you are not up to the task of hiking at 12,000 feet and higher, get in

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shape before you come to Silverton.

The other members of your group will thank you for it.

The Brills, both snowboarders, opened Silverton in 2002. They bought a used two-person chairlift from California’s Mammoth Mountain and began giving guided tours up the mountain. Permits from the Bureau of Land Management kept the couple from giving tours to more than 40 people a day. Since then, the Brills have expanded to offer helicopter trips and have secured the government’s blessing to guide 475 people a day.

During the less-dangerous times of the season, you can explore the mountain unguided. They also are starting to offer heli trips in the Northwestern Chugach range in Alaska, provided you impress one of the guides enough to get a recommendation.

The mountain is about as low-frills as you can imagine. There are no warm and cozy lodges awaiting you at the end of the day, but rather a giant tent with no electricity or plumbing, heated by a wood stove. You can buy beer in the tent, but be prepared to use an outhouse should you drink too much.

At the beginning of the day, the guides siphon off the guests into groups of no more than eight. Guides give a short safety talk, making sure everyone knows how to use the avalanche beacons, and then everyone heads up the lift. My dad, brother and I got paired with a group of flatlanders from Minnesota. After a 40-minute walk that should have taken 20, one older gentleman in the group took one look at the 35-degree slope we were preparing to descend and turned around. A few of the flatlanders had some ski trouble that took some serious time to resolve, and so the rest of us skied down to the bottom, where a shuttle was waiting to drive us back to the chairlift.

We met a new guide, as the old one was still busy with the flatlanders,

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The skinny on Silverton Price: $139 for a guided day.

Heli drops can be bought for $159 each.

Chairs: 1 Peak of elevation: 13,487 feet Peak of Chair: 12,300 feet Base elevation: 10,400 feet Annual snowfall: more than 400 inches Skiable acres: 1,819 Lift Serviced Vertical Drop: 1,900 feet Hike-To/Helicopter Accessible Vertical Drop: 3,087 feet Trail Classifications: Beginner and intermediate: 0 percent.

Advanced and expert: 100 percent Guided group size: Eight or less per guide. Private guides available. Guides can take you beyond the unguided boundaries.

and ascended the mountain again, this time walking about 10 minutes to a run called “Splitski.” This run was the highlight of the day. Even though it hadn’t snowed for about 10 days, the snow was still deep and untracked. At the bottom of the run, we turned, panting, looked back up at what we had just ridden and gaped. It was an avalanche path, a steep white river carved into the blanket of pine trees of the mountain, something you’d look at and never in your life consider riding.

And then we went back up and did it a few more times. It was snowboarding nirvana: perfect snow, no crowds, and, thanks to the mountain’s steep fall line, nary a catwalk in sight.

There are a few lodging options in Silverton (check www.silvertonmoun-

Need: Liability releases are mandatory for anyone who wishes to participate (contact the mountain for a copy in advance). You will need your avalanche beacon, probe pole, and shovel (rentals available).

No avalanche training necessary.

Season: November through May? (Check for dates and times in April and May).

Easiest Run: 35 degrees; (30 degrees is a steep run at your average ski area) Contact: info@silvertonmountain.com, or call 970-3875706.

Closest town: Silverton (6 miles) Closest super store: Durango — Source: silvertonmountain. com.

tain.com for more info), and the town itself is very small and very dead in the winter. One exception is Montanya Distillers, which, oddly enough, distills its own rum in the middle of the San Juans. Check it out for some creative rum drinks.

Silverton Mountain is the ultimate inbounds, backcountry experience. It’s a small, mom-and-pop operation (literally, now — the Brills are proud parents of a new baby boy), and what it lacks in luxury it makes up for in powder. They may be aspiring to indoor plumbing, they may make you hike, and they may mess up your sandwich order, but the overall experience of riding Silverton Mountain is absolutely unforgettable.

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he next grand opening in Boulder for the foodie crowd isn’t a restaurant. Nor is it going to last more than one night. Or have a set menu.

It’s Simple Spoon’s “Valen’dine for a Cause” pop-up dinner on Sunday, Feb. 13, and runs only from 7 to 10 p.m.

The pop-up dinner, more popular in places like Los Angeles and New York, is a surprise-style restaurant, where the concept is to take dining to a place where you’d never expect to be eating, like a park or in the middle of Pearl Street.

“The super hardcore ones, they won’t tell you where it’s at beforehand, because it’s in a place that’s not OK,” says Casey Easton, founder of Simple Spoon catering. “Like, in the middle of Pearl Street and be like, boom!

Here’s a dinner. But there you’d probably get about two minutes into appetizers before you got shut down.”

Easton’s plans are much more legal — a penthouse on Pearl, on the fifth floor above Tahona Tequila Bistro — but no less of a surprise.

“It’s creative. You do it once. It’s fast, and then it’s over,” she says. “It’s not like a restaurant where you’re doing the same thing every day.”

And if you needed more motivation to attend the $100-per-person dinner, all the proceeds from the dinner will go to First Descents, a Denver-based nonprofit organization that provides free adventure therapy to young adults with cancer.

First Descents organizes whitewater kayaking, climbing and surfing trips for adults ages 18 to 39.

“Our programs really give our participants an opportunity to take back their lives,” says Rebekah Koenigbauer, the events manager at First Descents.

“Every person I’ve seen comes out with a renewed sense of who they are and are able to take on the challenges of their life in a much better way than they were able to before.”

thing like this. But I’m excited.”

Patrons have no need to be nervous about the food offered. Easton has been in Boulder as a personal chef for the past 10 years, and currently teaches cooking classes and is a small-event caterer through her company, Simple Spoon. The projected menu is online, with the caveat that it may change subject to Easton’s whims.

“I decided I have the right to change whatever I want,” she says. “I like cooking Southwestern or Latin food a lot, so no matter what I do it’s going to lean that way, but I just make stuff up all the time.”

For now, she’s most excited about the scallop ceviche, the first of the five courses that will be paired with wine for the “Valen’dine” celebration.

Casey Easton Although the day-before-Valentine’s dinner might be a perfect occasion to take your sweetheart out, Easton wants patrons to be aware that it’s Each program can cost between $20,000 and not going to be a one-on-one occasion. There will be $30,000 to put on, and the organization has almost doubled the number of programs offered last year, from community seating, with large tables where diners will eat together.

15 programs to this year’s 28 programs.

In addition to her desire to have more pop-up din“We’re very excited to be working with Casey on ners to help nonprofits, Easton also hopes to explore this and honored she’s doing something that benefits the boundless opportunities Boulder has for unexpected First Descents,” says Koenigbauer. “Absolutely the dining rooms. funding helps, but we also want to create more aware“I’d like to pull one off in one of the small parks in ness in the community. We really want to become a Boulder. My eyes are opened now. As I’m driving household name for adventure therapy.” around, I’m looking for places,” she says. “Ultimately it The pop-up dinner should help more people learn would be so cool to just do one every few months for about the organization, something Easton hopes for as different nonprofits that I like.” a supporter who’s also been a volunteer.

The pop-up dinner is an opportunity to be at the “I went up and cooked for one of the camps and it “flash mob of restaurants,” as Easton describes it. It’s a was just a really cool experience,” she says. “I think chance to be at a restaurant’s grand opening — and what they do is incredible. I like that they’re not conclosing — all in an evening, for a good cause. centrating on the disease; they’re concentrating on the For more information on First Descents, visit its webperson.” site at www.firstdescents.org. To make reservations for the Earning funds for a cause is something close to pop-up dinner, check out www.simplespoon.com, or call Easton’s heart, and she’d like to have more dinners for 303-349-5553. more nonprofits — if this first one is successful.

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hen they see a name classic rarely seen at nicer restaurants, like The Pinyon, Pearl fried chicken. Pinyon’s $15 take is Street passersby might inspired by traditional chicken-and-waffle mistake this newly platters, down to the glorious cornmeal opened venue for a griddle cake, essentially a coarsely texplace that serves Southwestern cuisine or, tured pancake, sided with real maple if one is a language scholar, a place to syrup. But the high point was the half transcribe Chinese characters. Neither of chicken itself, coated with an impossibly these descriptions is entirely accurate, as delicate gluten-free potato flour batter this inviting and airy venue specializes in dusted with piquant spices, including Old new takes on old classics, ranging from Bay Seasoning. The poultry itself was catfish po’ boys to hot fudge sundaes. But moist and meltingly tender all the way there’s more than a whiff of culinary through, something that I’ve seldom expesophistication here, as demonstrated by rienced. As a matter of fact, this may be such offerings as cola-braised kobe beef the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. and wild prawns with grits.

The meal ended with a pair of desFellow foodie Kuvy and I started serts, a $6 chocolate peanut butter opera, lunch here by sharing a seemingly expenand an $8 lemon lime chiffon. The opera sive $12 roasted root vegetable salad. would be a fine choice for Reese’s Peanut Even when split, this intriguing blend of Butter Cups fans, consisting of layers of taste and texture divided into decently almond cake, chocolate fudge and peanut sized portions for each of us. A study in butter, with a sprinkling of candied peacontrasts, this salad juxtaposed the vegnuts. It’s a solid choice, tasting pretty gies’ earthiness with a bright tarragon and hile the Pinyon uses Old Bay Seasoning on that quintesmuch how you would expect it to. mint-scented vinaigrette. But it was the sentially Southern specialty, fried chicken, the origins of However, it paled in comparison to the farmer’s cheese that stole the show in this this spice mix lie in the Mid-Atlantic region. Harking back to an opulent chiffon. This dessert was a citrusy dish. A house-made cousin to cottage era when Chesapeake Bay bars offered crabs as a free snack, mousse that was delightfully fluffy, and cheese, this creamy delight had the silky this salty seasoning was liberally sprinkled on crustaceans to had its mildly astringent qualities perfecttexture of chevre, albeit with milder flainduce thirst among bar patrons. Consequently, Old Bay is ly balanced by peppy candied ginger. vor. The mellower tones of this dairy commonly associated with seafood, and my first encounter By the end of our meal, any ambiguity product were a welcome alternative to with it was while enjoying the blue crabs and shrimp at about the Pinyon’s focus was laid to rest. goat cheese, which is often overused in Maryland’s Bethesda Crab House. For most East Coasters, it’s This isn’t a place to experience the flavors salads. also a critical component of crab cakes, and some use it to of Santa Fe or Beijing, although flavors We were more ambivalent about the flavor popcorn. from those locales may factor into the $13 entrée of mac and cheese. This isn’t offerings. Instead, this Pinyon firmly as much a criticism of Pinyon’s preparathe cheese-enhanced white sauce nicely balanced stakes its claim to offering comfort food tion, but an acknowledgment that you can only do so cream and tang, the dish would have benefited from beyond cliché. Exhibit A is the fried chicken, a much with this dish. The macaroni itself had an arriving at the table a few degrees hotter. prime example of superior preparation making an ideal al dente texture, and mushroom and tomato I was heartened to see that Pinyon has the stones old favorite new again. contributed color and respite from creaminess. While to go all in on the comfort food front by offering a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Let me help. Let me take you somewhere warm, where people frolic in yellow polkadot bikinis, and pretty drinks with umbrellas are available at every turn.

While this is just another Saturday night at my house, minus the polka dot bikini (I look much better in stripes), I realize many of you might have the winter blues right about now. How about we make something that will have us all singing Bob Marley and dreaming of ocean breezes blowing through our hair?

Tropical Fudge Brownies are the treat this week, and they have all the right stuff to cure the winter woes.

Chocolate to convince your brain that you are happy. Coconut, macadamia nuts and dried mangos to convince you it’s OK that you don’t live somewhere warm and breezy when you have tropical brownies at the ready. They are, again, just simple ingredients that taste and look great. Made in just a medium saucepan, they are low maintenance, leaving you more time to sip your cocktail.

Brownies alone are heart-warming, but add a bit of Caribbean pizzazz, and you’ve got a beach party in every bite. Now, I realize many of you probably experience this with many of the “brownies” floating around Boulder, but mine are minus the wacky tobacky and still take you somewhere special.

I add dried mangos to this little treat, but dried pineapple would also work. You could add both and really take it to another level, but I’ve found that too much dried fruit makes for a bit of a sore jaw — or maybe that’s just because I eat the whole pan in one sitting.

Either way, you will love them, and it is my hope they take you to a place where roads are plowed (that’s probably anywhere other than Boulder), waves are crashing, people

are frolicking and fruity drinks are flowing. That, my friend, is one magic brownie.

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

Tropical Fudge Brownies 1/2 cup unsalted butter 8 oz semi-sweet chocolate 1 tsp. instant espresso powder 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/8 tsp. salt 1/2 cup chopped toasted macadamia nuts 1/2 cup shredded coconut 1/2 cup dried and chopped mangos (plus a few extra for garnish) Powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Coat an 8-inch by 8-inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.

Melt butter and chocolate in medium saucepan over low/medium heat.

Stir until smooth. Add instant espresso powder, stir until dissolved.

Take off heat.

Mix brown sugar into chocolate/ butter mix. Add in eggs and vanilla.

Stir until smooth.

Stir in flour, cocoa powder and salt, mix until batter is smooth and shiny. Fold in nuts, coconut and mangos. Pour into prepared baking pan.

Bake for 25-30 minutes (25 works perfect for my oven). Let cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar and garnish with extra mangos. Cut into squares and enjoy!

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

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Both Boulder locations are pubs with an in-house brewery and have been supplying all of the house brews for Vine Street Pub, as well as producing all of their own house brews. But recently, the owners broke ground on a 3,500-square-foot brewery at the Vine Street location, which they plan to finish by this fall.

To celebrate, Vine Street Pub will hold a benefit event, the “Smokin’ Hot Anniversary Party,” on Wednesday, April 20, from 4:20 p.m. until close.

Chef Rob Green will offer a special birthday barbecue, including smoked meats, burgers and brats.

This year’s anniversary beer release is Chupacabra, an imperial Mexican lager dry-hopped with mint leaves and aged in oak. Live music will be provided by the By All Means Band.

The party is free and open to the public, and all proceeds go directly to Denver’s Judi’s House, which helps children and families who have lost a loved one find hope and healing.

Panera’s soup donations This month, all 28 Panera Bread bakery-cafes in Colorado will donate 25 cents of all soup in a bread bowl purchases to Porter Hospice and St. Anthony Hospice as part of its involvement in “Soup for the Soul,” a fundraiser that brings together some of the best restaurants in Denver to showcase a wide array of gourmet soups and appetizers to benefit the two nonprofit hospice programs.

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Door to Door hosts Earth Day event Door to Door Organics will host an educational Earth Day event at Growing Gardens in Boulder on Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to noon.

In addition, during the month leading up to the event Door to Door Organics will offer an assortment of organic seeds from local vendor Bounty Beyond Belief, and will donate 10 percent of the proceeds from the seed sales to Growing Gardens.

“We strongly support the mission of Growing Gardens,” said Door to Door Organics President Chad Arnold.

“Their emphasis on environmentally sustainable gardening, education and community building aligns well with our business. As a delivery service that brings the freshest organic produce to people, making it easy to eat healthfully while feeling good about supporting sustainable food systems, we believe it’s important to inspire a connection between the land and the food we eat. We are proud to support Growing Gardens in their efforts to do just that.”

The Earth Week event on April 23 takes place at the Growing Gardens facility at 1630 Hawthorne Ave. in Boulder. Door to Door Organics’ customers and their friends and families are invited to tour the gardens and experience four garden learning stations in the Children’s Peace Garden, making butterfly masks, learning about worm composting, planting and participating in a tasting tour.

To RSVP for the Earth Day event, e-mail colorado@doortodoororganics.com.

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Gindi Café 3601 Arapahoe Ave. #181 Boulder 720-242-8961

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indi Cafe, located in Boulder’s Peloton residences, offers up a slate of such light-meal standbys as soup, salads and sandwiches. Dinner is available from Thursday to Saturday night with a reasonably priced menu in the $9.50-and-up range, featuring burgers, stuffed squash and ahi tuna. Breakfast features a three-egg special, and lunch highlights include daily soups like a winning rosemary chicken and the tuna salad sandwich.

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

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rhard’s European Café and Bakery is a low-key yet elegant cash-only business situated near the intersection of Baseline and Foothills in Boulder. Sandwiches, soups and sausage meals with potato salad make up the lunch choices, but the baked goods are perhaps the most distinctive items Erhard’s offers. Fruit turnovers, cookies and Linzer and marzipan tarts are just some of the tempting choices, in addition to the decadently rich chocolate croissant.

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

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

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hile the menu here consists of straightforward Italian fare, this isn’t just another spaghetti and meatballs joint. The most expensive entrée is the Steak Florentine, a $25 number consisting of a half-pound filet mignon melded with mushrooms and Alaskan crab. More modest — but perhaps equally satisfying — choices include simple angel hair pasta with tomato, basil, garlic and olive oil. There are also calzones, pizza, cioppino seafood stew and kids’ menu pastas.

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

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make it seem new, primarily through top-notch prep and ingredients. Serving all three meals, its offerings include tapas like chicken liver pâté sourced locally and continental standards like paella and grilled hanger steak. Breakfast standouts include fresh-baked croissants and donuts, and a highlight is the house-cured ham, bacon or sausage.

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

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

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

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as Palmeras is a classic family-friendly Mexican joint with all the staple items of the classic menu. Fajitas, burritos and rellenos are present and accounted for. There are also intriguing seafood dishes, such as shrimp wrapped in bacon and octopus in ranchero

sauce. The menudo here is comforting, with the spotlighted tripe cooked to ideal tenderness.

l Pastaio’s a petite spot near the 30th Street King Soopers. The menu relies heavily on fresh pasta, ranging from ribbons of fettuccine to delicious stuffed ravioli, topped with anything from creamy Alfredo to herbaceous pesto. Of note are the hearty lasagnas, available in meatless, turkey and beef versions, and the raviolis, which are great paired with tomato cream sauce. The availability of sauces and noodles to go is a blessing for the cook desiring Italian at home.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mor tadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry, with a delicate herbal taste.

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hotographed with the same imageacquisition technology James Cameron used on Avatar, the movie on which we can blame most of the cruddy 3-D films since, the new suspense thriller Sanctum, executive-produced by Cameron, presents images (underwater, generally) of pristine digital clarity, without the aggravating dimness of a movie shot in 2-D and then converted in postproduction.

So, it’s the high-type 3-D. The characters, the dialogue, the water-based peril — the stuff the 3-D is supposed to be supporting in the name of racking our nerves — well, Sanctum has some problems with those. An Australian production, the film contains a tiny kernel of “based on a true story,” that of a particularly rough underwater caving expedition undertaken by Sanctum producer and co-writer Andrew Wight, who’s a rock star in his field and a pal of diving enthusiast Cameron. That risky, dangerous 1988 expedition claimed no casualties. Grimmer than 127 Hours, this movie is like a remake of And Then There Were None directed by Jacques Cousteau.

To make things odder, at heart it’s a father-son bonding tale. The Ahab-like underwater cave diver Frank, played as a human growl by Richard

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Sensationalism, not drama

ne of the great mysteries of filmgoing relates to a question the medium has posed since its infancy: When is “too much” just right?

If a director’s obsessions connect with the ideal material, the effect is beyond logic, beyond rational experience — and certainly beyond whatever was on the page. Yet one person’s glorious excess is another’s indulgence. I found Shutter Island, which has plenty of admirers, exhausting in its bravura. Black Swan, similarly pulpy, struck me as even more exciting the second time. You never know.

This week’s too-muchness stars Javier Bardem as a desperate yet soulful Barcelona fixer scrambling through his last weeks on Earth. Bardem brings everything a fine, searching actor can bring to Biutiful. It’s the picture for which the No Country For Old Men Oscar-winner snagged the best actor award last year at the Cannes Film Festival. He received an Oscar nomination. For many, this central performance will be more than enough.

For others, the film will simply be too much.

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Roxburgh, is leading his intrepid crew deep into “the largest unexplored cave system in the world” off the coast of New Guinea. A terrible storm gnashes its terrible teeth, and communication with the rest of the team is cut off; the caves begin to flood, with the divers (including Frank’s teenage son, played by the appealing Rhys Wakefield) unable to use their original point of entry to escape.

The premise is strong with Sanctum, and for a while, you swim with it. Director Alister Grierson and cinematographer Jules O’Loughlin combine location shooting, digital effects and a considerable amount of

soundstage and water-tank footage. The sets start looking like a high-end water park only when the suspense sequences begin repeating themselves.

The writing really is bad in this film, and even talented actors such as Ioan Gruffudd (a Welshman, faking a generic American dialect) and his fellow adventurer played by Alice Parkinson (Australian, faking the same) come off as rank amateurs.

Everyone screams and panics and spews clichés, constantly, whether the context is hubris (“This cave’s not gonna beat me!”) or portents of doom (“This cave’ll kill you in a heartbeat”) or expositional duhs (“The cave is flooding!”) or, after the latest round of hypothermia or petty infighting, some hard-won advice to Those Who Will Go On To Tell The Story (“Trust the cave, and follow the river”).

Here and there an image of spectral beauty, assisted by the 3-D technology, floats into view and captures our imagination. But the script, which really should’ve been called Sanctimonium, has a serious case of the bends.

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by Michael Phillips the way to 20, director and co-writer Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s latest melodrama exerts maximum tension, maximum death-shrouded poetry, maximum maximalism. The man who made the bad-luck epic Babel, 21 Grams, and the more modest and infinitely richer Amores Perros is a prodigious craftsman. So, what is it about Inarritu’s technique that rivets some while striking others as highpressure fakery?

I think it’s because Inarritu is a sensationalist more than a dramatist.

Bardem’s character, Uxbal, isn’t just dying of cancer. He’s dying of cancer while his angelic children (the title comes from the way one of them spells “beautiful”) shuttle between patient, saintly Uxbal and the toxic influence of their bipolar prostitute mother (Maricel Alvarez). Uxbal makes his living finding illegal factory work for Chinese immigrants as well as assisting Senegalese newcomers to Barcelona.

But he has a sideline working as a spiritual medium, communing with the spirits of the recently deceased for a fee. Against a soundtrack of near-constant siren wails and infant squalls, we watch an increasingly frail

Uxbal set his affairs in order before succumbing to his disease as well as to his boisterous city’s final embrace.

Bardem does lovely things in the small moments, especially with Hanaa Bouchaib and Guillermo Estrella (as Uxbal’s daughter and son, respectively). Yet the character is more beleaguered than complicated. He is a victim of misfortune — in women, appliances, brothers, you name it. There’s an infinite amount of grief and tenderness and humanity to be mined in the role, yet the component parts of suffering fail to add up to a person.

Undeniably Inarritu knows how to jack up the tension, whether the scene involves a young child kicking a table leg or a disorienting, cocaine-fueled nightclub excursion. The filmmaker’s sense of parallelism is clangingly obvious, though. One second, the combustible wife is spilling red wine on someone’s sheets; the next, we get the visual bookend shot of Uxbal urinating blood. The style isn’t realistic; Inarritu has said he meant Biutiful to be a “sordid poem about an enlightened man.” The filmmaker and his colleagues spin busy, noisy variations on the theme of parents and children. But am I the only one who sensed trouble when the painfully methodical spacing and timing of the opening titles suggested the heaviest, most medicinal tragedy of this or any other year?

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Another Year The newest film from Mike Leigh, master of indepth characterization, is cause for celebration.

Another Year is a touching and beautifully nuanced drama of a year in the life of a happily married middle-aged couple and the less well-adjusted people who gather around them. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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Bhutto Bhutto tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating characters of our time — Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called the “Kennedys of Pakistan,” Benazir was elected Prime Minister after her father was overthrown and executed by his own military. Her two terms in power saw extreme acts of courage and controversy as she tried to clean up Pakistan’s corrupt political culture while quelling the fires of radical Islam that threaten to engulf the region.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Black Swan Mainlining Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina (Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond. Rated R. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Biutiful

See full review on Page 51. At Century.

AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu: 2:45, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 FriWed: 2:30, 8:10 Country Strong Thu: 2:15, 5, 7:45 The Dilemma Thu: 2:20, 4:55, 7:40 The Eagle Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 The Fighter Thu: 2:30, 5:15, 8 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 5:20, 10:40 Gnomeo & Juliet Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7, 9:20 Green Hornet Thu:1:50, 4:50, 7:50 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Just Go With It Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:45 Justin Bieber Never Say Never Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 The King’s Speech Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 The Mechanic Thu: 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10 FriWed: 9 p.m.

No Strings Attached Thu: 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 2, 5, 7:50, 10:35 The Rite Thu: 1:25, 4, 6:40, 9:20 Sanctum Thu: 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:45, 5:30, 8:20, 10:55 Tangled Thu: 1:35, 3:55, 6:30, 8:55 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:35, 4:05, 6:30, 9 Tron: Legacy Thu: 3:20, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 3, 6:15 True Grit Thu: 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Biutiful Thu: 11:50, 3:05, 6:25, 9:40 Black Swan Thu:12:45, 3:35, 6:10, 8:45 FriWed: 1, 3:45, 6:20, 9:05 Blue Valentine Thu:11, 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 The Eagle Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05 The Fighter Thu: 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 FriWed: 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25

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The Roommate

Its working title was Single White Female II: The College Years Blue Valentine Blue Valentine depicts a working-class marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs and clues to its undoing. In the end, it sympathizes more with the wronged, childlike husband than with the numbly exasperated wife. At least, that’s the way

it’s written; as performed, thankfully, it’s more intriguing. Rated R. At Mayan and Century. — Michael Phillips Catch and Release

After the sudden death of her fiancé, the would-be wife finds comfort in the company of his friends. In this romantic comedy, secrets about her supposedly perfect fiancé emerge, she comes to see new sides

local theaters Gnomeo & Juliet Fri-Wed: 12, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 The Green Hornet Thu: 12:30, 3:30, 6:20 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9 The Illusionist Fri-Wed: 12:35, 2:55, 5, 7:05, 9:25 Just Go With It Fri-Wed: 11, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:45, 6:05, 7:30, 8:50, 10:30 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never FriWed: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:45 The King’s Speech Thu: 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:35, 5:25, 8:15 No Strings Attached Thu: 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10 The Roommate Thu: 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 12:05, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10 Sanctum Thu: 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:30, 5:05, 7:50, 10:20 True Grit Thu: 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 10 FriWed: 12:15, 3:25, 6:35, 9:15 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 The Eagle Fri-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Gnomeo & Juliet Fri-Wed: , 3:40, 7, 9:40 Just Go With It Fri-Wed: 12:50, 4, 7:10, 9:50 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never FriWed: 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 1, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 The Roommate Fri-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Sanctum Thu-Wed: 2:10, 5, 7:45, 10:30 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992

AnotherYear Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 9:30 Black Swan Thu: 4:45, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 7 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animated Fri-Mon: 2, 7:30 Tue-Wed: 7:30 p.m.

Oscar Nominated Shorts Films 2011: Live Action Fri-Wed: 4:45, 9:40 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Blue Valentine Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 The King’s Speech Thu: 4, 7:05, 9:40 FriWed: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Undertow Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Blue Valentine Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Cedar Rapids Fri-Wed: 1:15, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 The Illusionist Thu-Wed: 1, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:30 Raging Bull Tue: 7, 9:45 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 Bhutto Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Dream Home Sat: 11:59 p.m.

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In Miguel Arteta’s new comedy Cedar Rapids, Tim Lippe was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just didn’t. He’s been living in sleepy Brown Valley, Wisc., his whole life, still “preengaged” to his seventh-grade teacher Millie Vanderhei, while selling insurance to protect other people’s dreams. But now, Tim’s stalled life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he’s headed to a “major” metropolis — Cedar Rapids, Iowa — where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be entirely nonconventional. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Country Strong A faded country music star (Gwyneth Paltrow) mounts her big comeback with the help of her husband-manager and an up-and-coming songwriter.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez The Dilemma An automobile designer wrestles with his conscience after he accidentally sees the wife of his best friend canoodling with another man. To tell or

The Strange Case of Angelica Thu: 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:30 The Social Network Thu: 2, 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Wed: 4:30, 9:40 Violet Tendencies Fri-Wed: 2, 9:45 A Walk Into the Sea Tue: 7 p.m.

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UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 The Eagle Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10 Gnomeo & Juliet Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 The Green Hornet Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Just Go With It Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 The King’s Speech Thu: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 FriWed: 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50 The Rite Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 FriWed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:10 The Roommate Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:05 Sanctum Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197

Catch and Release Mon: 6:30 p.m.

Odyssey of a Naturalist Thu: 7 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 Enter the Void Sat: 7 p.m.

Every Man for Himself Wed: 7, 9 Touch of Evil Sun: 7 p.m.

Last Train Home Thu-Fri: 7, 9:15 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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not to tell? That is the question. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez

rise of the former YouTube celebrity. Rated G. — Rene Rodriguez

The Eagle

The King’s Speech

Kevin Macdonald directs this epic adventure about a Roman soldier (Channing Tatum) and his dutiful slave (Jamie Bell) who fight to restore a legion’s honor in war-torn Britain. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both Oscar-worthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story. Firth plays Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer and overshadowed by his confident older brother.

Bertie’s loving wife Elizabeth has tried everything to help him, and finally discovers something that works: maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush). Initially the enthusiastic, ultra-casual Logue and the repressed, oh-so-formal Bertie clash, but neither will give up, and ultimately they become good friends.

When Bertie’s brother becomes King Edward VIII in 1936, he refuses to give up his lover (American divorcee Mrs. Simpson), resulting in his abdication and Bertie’s extremely reluctant ascension to the throne as King George VI, leading a nation facing the horrors of looming war. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. ­— Landmark Theatres

Enter the Void

Oscar, a small-time drug dealer, and his sister Linda, a nightclub stripper, are recent arrivals in Tokyo.

One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister — that he would never abandon her — refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted and nightmarish. Writer/ director Gaspar Noé shoots the film from Oscar’s point of view, so when Oscar takes a psychedelic drug, we see the hallucinations he is having. At Muenzinger. — Denver Film Society

Last Train Home

redraws the trip of a European traveller confronted with Famadihana customs (a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar). At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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. — Rene Rodriguez

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Live Action

Touch of Evil

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Live Action Short! Program includes: The Confession (UK), the story of a quiet and sincere 9-year-old boy who is worried about making his first confession; The Crush (Ireland), the story of an 8-year-old schoolboy, in love with his Second Class teacher, who challenges her boyfriend to a duel — to the death; God of Love (USA), in which a lounge-singing darts champion finds his prayers are answered when he receives a mysterious package of passioninducing darts; Wish 143 (UK), the story of a 15-year-old boy with only months to live who asks for one wish from the Dreamscape Charity: an hour alone with a naked woman; and Na Wewe (Belgium), which relates a sadly frequent episode of Burundi’s fratricidal conflict in the 1990s: the attack by rebels of a minivan carrying ordinary citizens. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The desperation expressed by the title is felt by three Swiss citizens: Denise (Nathalie Baye), an itinerant novelist who bikes between jobs; Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), a prostitute exploring her options; and Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc), a director at the crossroads between film and video and wavering between fatherhood, an ex-wife and his disenchanted mistress. Each character crosses borders from what they know to searching for the uncertain satisfaction they desire — in love, work and life. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS

The Canadian-produced documentary Last Train Home idly, even blandly opens with titles superimposed on a massive crush of people informing us that, during the new year festivities, 130 million Chinese workers travel from their jobs in the big cities to their homes in the country — a once-per-year journey that is the largest migration of human beings in the world. This casual observation is the trigger for an extraordinary debut film by Lixin Fan, who serves as director, cinematographer, and co-editor (with Mary Stephen) of a movie that treats upon topics as broad as the dire fate of the Chinese working class in the face of global economics, and as specific and painfully universal as the agony of a mother who fears she has ruined her children’s lives. At Muenzinger. — IFS

The Fighter

The Mechanic

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 trainerbrother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), careening from addiction themes to brotherly love and familial crises. Nearly all of the acting performances are fantastic, including Amy Adams as Micky’s lover. This film is one of the year’s best.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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

A husband and wife are eight months into the emptier lives they now lead after losing their son. Becca, played by Nicole Kidman in a surprisingly fullblooded, brittle and fuming performance, is a woman deep in the rabbit hole of grief and in denial about it. She can’t or won’t let go of her emotions and, as the cliché goes, “get it all out.” She is moving on but shutting down. Howie (Aaron Eckhart) is the one trying to fix things, to get them to support group meetings. He seems further along in the process, but is he? Maybe he’s just starting to resent the distance that’s come between them, emotional and sexual. Kidman sparkles in scene after withering scene. The marvel of Rabbit Hole is that it sets us up to judge and then upends those judgments. Rated PG-13. At Century and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Roger Moore

No Strings Attached

Raging Bull

Lifelong friends Emma and Adam try to maintain a purely physical relationship without any emotional expectations or entanglements. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT

Robert De Niro gave an Oscar-winning performance as crazed middleweight boxing champ Jake La Motta in this no-punches-pulled cine-bio.

Consistently chosen as one of the best films of the 80s, Raging Bull co-stars Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Every Man for Himself

Gnomeo & Juliet

Shakespeare’s best-known tragedy gets a kid-friendly, computer-animated reimagining, with a pair of star-cross’d garden gnomes (voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt) trying to live happily ever after despite the ongoing feud between their respective families. Rated G. — Rene Rodgriguez Green Hornet Michel Gondry directs this big-screen spin-off of the classic TV series, with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as the mask-wearing vigilantes. Inglourious Basterd’s Christoph Waltz co-stars as the crime kingpin who wants to take them down. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in this martial arts spectacular. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Just Go With It

In order to convince the girl of his dreams that he’s a family-oriented guy, a man (Adam Sandler) enlists the help of a single mother (Jennifer Aniston) and her kids. Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

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Odyssey of a Naturalist

A brief look into that tiny world of living things that we seldom pay any attention to! An immature Lady Bird Beetle or two and some caterpillars who turn into lovely butterflies! Or an immature adult Tiger Beetle drilling its hole in the sand! A look at some hunting ants and carrying their prey back to the home in the sand! And a close-up look at just how a brightly colored caterpillar becomes a lovely butterfly right in front of your eyes! In his long and vivid life with a camera, director Fran Hall lectured with his nature films for the National Audubon Society, and helped the Walt Disney Studios make nature films. His screenings were characterized by his live narration. He passed away Dec. 2, 2010. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animated

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short and more! Program includes: Pixar’s Day & Night (USA), the story of the sparks that fly when Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods; The Gruffalo (UK/Germany), the magical tale of a mouse who takes a walk through the woods in search of a nut; Let’s Pollute (USA), a modern satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong; The Lost Thing (Australia/UK), about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature and sets out to find a “place” for it; and Madagascar, Carnet De Voyage (France), a journey diary that

Rabbit Hole

Orson Welles’ classic film noir was restored by Universal in 1998 and remains one of the best examples of its genre. Great performances, seedy locations, and oozing with corruption — the cinematography alone is worth the price of admission.

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A college student (Minka Kelly) starts to suspect her new dorm roommate (Leighton Meester) is a crazy, deranged stalker. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson’s personal inquiry into the truth behind her uncle Danny Williams’ mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol’s lover and a promising young filmmaker. The discovery of 20 neverbefore-seen films William’s made during his time at the Factory — and whose many subjects include Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Billy Name and what may be the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground — reveals a luminous talent and a stark gap in the historical record. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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March 21-April 19:

“Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else — to no one.” Have you ever experienced a sense of being dispossessed like that, Aries? A sense of there being nowhere and nothing in the world that you can call your own? And have you ever fantasized that your emptiness could be remedied by the intimate presence of a special companion? I wish for you to have that consoling experience in the coming week. In fact, I predict it. Happy Valentine Daze!

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

You’re very familiar with the inexhaustible longings that you harbor in your depths. Your primal hungers for love and connection are never far from your awareness. But the sad thing is that you often regard this as a problem — as a vulnerability that disempowers you. This Valentine season I’m asking you to change all that. I’m urging you to see your enormous yearnings as strengths, to celebrate them as essential fuel for your vitality, to treat them as crucial ingredients in your lust for life. Take it from someone who has seen too many people crippled by their lack of passion: You’re lucky to be so well endowed with desire.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! Here’s my prescription for making best use of the current cosmic currents: Be enchanting, but in an understated way. Be slyly charismatic and innocently flirtatious and serenely wild. Show how sexy it is to be sublimely relaxed. Make judicious use of small acts of friendly mischief. Be affectionately unpredictable, always in the service of showing how much you care.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Your love story has elements of a farce mixed with a soap opera, fairy tale and ghost story. For a normal human being, it might be too intense and convoluted to deal with; it requires so much willing suspension of disbelief and involves so much letting go of certainty that no one in their right mind would agree to its demands. Luckily, you’re not a normal human being these days, and you’re not particularly in your right mind. That’s why I say unto you: Ride this snaky tale for all it’s worth. Enjoy every plot twist and riddle as if you’ve been given an epic myth you can ponder and learn from for the next 10 years. Happy Valentine Daze, Cancerian!

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

“I think, therefore I am,” declared the philosopher Descartes.

Couldn’t he have equally said, “I feel, therefore I am” or “I sense, therefore I am”? During this Valentine season, I suggest that you put the emphasis on those other proofs of identity, not Descartes’. From what I can tell, intimacy is most likely to thrive if you liberate it from excessive thinking and lubricate it with generous amounts of trans-rational contact. For love’s sake, empty your head of abstractions, opinions, and theories. Make lots of room for the aroma of freshly washed hair, the shimmer of peaceful excitement, the shuddering solace of moist skin, the zing of poignant empathy, the wisdom of wandering hands and the telepathy of shared perceptions.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! What’s the best way for you to celebrate the season of love? In accordance with the astrological omens, here’s a good suggestion: Write haiku-like poems on scraps of red paper and leave them around for a special someone to find. You can borrow the following samples, adopted from the work of Raymond Roseliep. 1. “mist on my mouth — air you touched.” 2. “I tried to bring you that one cloud in this cup of water.” 3. “black raspberries — your name breaking in the soft burst.” 4. “love song: I enter your mirror.”

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LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Happy Valentine Daze, Libra. It’s my astrological opinion that you need more jokes, comedy and humor in your romantic adventures. If you’re too serious about seeking the pleasures of love, you can’t get what you want. To inspire your efforts, I present the winning entry from last year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. It was judged the worst possible opening line for a novel, but it’s perfect fodder for the project I’ve assigned you: “For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss — a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo

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lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

This Valentine season, you have considerable potential to bring more lyricism into your close relationships. To stimulate you in that noble effort, I’m borrowing from the poetry of Andre Breton. See if you can adopt this style of expressing yourself (or steal the actual words) as you reach out to a person you’d like to be closer to: “Your neck is pearled barley. Your hair is a wood fire. Your mouth is a bouquet of stars. Your eyelashes are a child’s first stroke of writing. Your eyebrows are the edge of a swallow’s nest. Your shoulders are dolphins’ heads under the ice. Your fingers? The ace of hearts. Your armpits? Beechnut and midsummer night.

Your arms are the sea foam and flood gate foam. Your feet are bunches of keys.”

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CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! Borrowing words from poet Amy Lowell, I’ve created the nucleus of a love note for you to use as your own. Feel free to give these words (and others you write yourself ) to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more intimately together with yours. “Your shadow is moonlight on a plate of silver; your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; the mystery of your voice, a chime of bells across the windless river air. The movement of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun.

Young horses are not more limber than your thoughts. Your laughs are bees buzzing around a pear tree. I dare to reach to you. I dare to touch the rim of your brightness.”

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

When some Westerners hear the term “tantra,” they think it’s a New Age codeword for lavish sex. But in its original form, tantra is a philosophy that advocates spiritual union with all of creation, not just erotic union with an attractive partner. Tantric practitioners might engage in metaphorical “love-making” with lizards, birch trees, clouds, toasters, rivers, and quirky friends, among other wonders. I recommend that you experiment with this perspective, Aquarius. I bet you’ll find that cultivating lusty compassion for the entire world will enhance your personal intimacy with the people you care about. Happy Valentine Daze!

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In many of the weddings I’ve been to as a guest, the love birds have sealed their vows with a chaste kiss — a formal gesture that wasn’t imbued with much spontaneous passion.

But in a recent marriage ceremony I attended, the new husband and wife showed little inhibition at the climax.

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