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Clarification: A Feb. 2 story, “Valmont cemetery families say city in danger of digging up human remains,” said Western Disposal has a hazardous materials processing site to the west of the city of Boulder’s Valmont Butte property. The county’s hazardous materials drop-off site was relocated from the Western Disposal property farther south on 63rd Street last year. Western Disposal operates a transfer station directly west of the site.

Let Valmont series unfold

(Re: “How Reagan and the largest EPA scandal in history may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated,” The Ghosts of Valmont Butte series, Feb. 9.) Thanks for the excellent series on Valmont Butte. Today’s piece provides a whole new, much-needed dimension.

Carol Affleck and I both spoke about Valmont Butte at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. I urged Council members to read your series and, meanwhile, to get the city to slow down on the proposed cleanup, to give themselves a chance to become fully informed by what Boulder Weekly would reveal.

I told them they need to do what the city has never done, hold a public hear-

ing on Valmont Butte once your series is completed.

LeRoy Moore, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center/Boulder As a doctor of natural medicine and a scientist, nutritionist and master herbalist, there are some really effective ways to deal with this contamination [on Valmont Butte]. Protandim is a fiveherb formulation, studied in over 25 universities, that increases glutathione in the body, the master anti-oxidant that is a million times more effective than any oral or supplemental anti-oxidant and the master chelator — ie., removes metal toxicity from the blood.

Holly Fourchalk/New Westminster,

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n my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men.

Last year, the gang of GOP hucksters who control our state government pulled off a huge heist, covering it up with an equally huge boast: “We balanced our budget. Not by raising taxes but by cutting government spending,” bragged the gang 4 February 16, 2012

Slow the fracking monster

(“Differing views on hydraulic fracturing,” Opinions, Feb. 9.) Thanks for the two articles regarding fracking. I was surprised at Danish’s relative lack of vitriol. He mostly stated the facts about gas and oil drilling in Colorado. His only misrepresentation was using the track record of conventional drilling to prove the safety of fracking, which is a completely different process. See the movie Gasland, in which it is shown that 40 percent of existing wells are leaking.

With this much money at stake, corporations, politicians and even environmentalists are highly prone to ignoring

leader, Gov. Rick “Oops” Perry.

How’d they fill the $27 billion shortfall that they themselves had created by their previous budgetary mismanagement? By stealing money from already poorly funded programs — from education to parks — that ordinary Texans count on.

People here are justly proud of their 94 parks, but many are now understaffed, open fewer hours, and in disrepair because the Perryites whacked the system’s budget by 21.5 percent. But that was only part of the robbery. A state sales tax on sporting goods, dedicated by law to help finance the people’s parks, will generate about $236 million this year and next.

But the governor and his legislative henchmen also raided this pile of revenue, filching twothirds of it for the state’s general fund so they could claim that they “balanced our budget [with-

Political con men are shrinking America

by Jim Hightower

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the dangers and plowing ahead. No matter what. See the Facebook page Colorado Frack Attack (j.mp/ COFrackAttack) for articles showing how this is happening here and now. We will need a huge mobilization of resistance to slow this monster down. Once our groundwater is polluted, it won’t come back for many generations.

E. Scott MacInnis, Longmont

Eat well

2011 was not a good year for the meat industry.

There were more reports of devastating health impacts. In May, The World see LETTERS Page 5

out] raising taxes.”

To replenish some of For more information on Jim Hightower’s the money taken by The work — and to subPerry Gang, the Great scribe to his awardState of Texas is now winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower engaged in a shocking spectacle: public begging. Lowdown — visit www. jimhightower.com.

In a video played at 11 December press conferences in state parks across Texas, the chief of our parks department is reduced to shaking a tin cup, pleading for $4.6 million in donations. “Please act now to help keep our state parks open for all Texans to enjoy,” he beseeches.

Right-wing politicians across our country howl that they want to shrink government — but they are the shrunken ones, and the narrowness of their vision is diminishing what it means to be American.

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uncensored Foreskin follies

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Cancer Research Fund advised limiting meat consumption to reduce the risk of bowel cancer. The August issue of The Lancet projected that, on the current meat-based diet, half of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030.

Last August, Salmonella contamination forced the world’s largest meat processor Cargill to recall 36 million pounds of ground turkey. University of Florida placed the national financial burden of pathogens in meat products at $4 billion.

Then there were cruelty exposés. A March undercover investigation of the E6 Cattle Company in Texas showed workers bashing cows’ heads with pickaxes and hammers. In November, ABC News publicized atrocious egg production conditions at Iowa’s Sparboe Farms.

Bills attempting to criminalize such investigations were defeated in Iowa, Minnesota, Florida and New York.

Accordingly, the USDA projects that Americans will consume 12.2 percent less meat in 2012 than in 2007.

Every one of us can welcome this trend by resolving to cut our meat consumption in 2012. Entering “live vegan” in our favorite search engine brings recipes and tons of other useful information.

Rudolph Helman/Boulder I was delighted to read the new USDA guidelines requiring schools to

serve meals with twice as many fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less sodium and fat, and no meat for breakfast. The guidelines were mandated by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act signed by President Obama in December of 2010 and will go into effect with the next school year.

The new guidelines offer a welcome change from USDA’s tradition of using the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for meat and dairy surpluses. Not surprisingly, 90 percent of American children are consuming excess fat, only 15 percent eat recommended servings of fruits and vegetables, and one-third have become overweight or obese. These early dietary flaws become lifelong addictions, raising their risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

In recent years, Hawaii, California, New York and Florida legislatures asked their schools to offer daily vegetarian options, and most school districts now do. The Baltimore public school system offers its 80,000 students a complete weekly break from meat.

Parents should continue to insist on healthful plant-based school meals, snacks and vending machine items. They can consult www.fns.usda.gov/cnd, www. healthyschoollunches.org, and www.vrg. see LETTERS Page 7

quotes “Without going into details, we can identify exactly who is responsible for the bombing and we will not let it go unanswered.”

—Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, referring to the bombers who targeted workers in Israeli embassies in India and Georgia this week “There is no way around this. We’ve had a death in our family.”

—R&B artist L.L. Cool J, at the Grammy Awards, referring to the death of Whitney Houston “This is a disease that comes with no warning, and when they find it, it’s too late.”

—Corn harvester Wilfredo Ordonez, who has been diagnosed with a mystery epidemic in Central America that has killed more than 24,000 people over the past 12 years in Nicaragua and El Salvador Boulder Weekly

ast year, when I wrote a column supporting an end to routine circumcision of male newborns, I got a letter from a reader who blasted me for being hypocritical. How can you support freedom of choice for women, the reader asked, and not support freedom of choice for parents?

I explained what ought to have been obvious — it was her perspective, not mine, that was hypocritical. I support a woman’s right to choose contraception and abortion. And I support a man’s right to choose whether or not he is circumcised. Circumcision, I argued, ought to be left up to the man whose penis is being cut. His body, his choice.

This exchange came at what was a high point in Colorado in the fight against routine infant male circumcision. The state had just cut Medicaid funding for circumcision in order to save money, making Colorado one of 17 states that does not cover the procedure.

The decision resulted in sharp decrease in newborn circumcisions among Medicaid patients, who are required to cover the cost themselves if they choose to inflict the surgery on their newborns.

This wasn’t the ban on medically unnecessary circumcisions that I and many other Coloradans — many of them neonatal nurses who’ve witness circumcision, physicians who’ve performed them and circumcised men who’ve lived with lifelong complications from botched circumcisions — had hoped for, but it was a start.

Now, claiming to stand up for “choice” and “social justice,” liberal lawmakers, including Longmont’s Sen. Brandon Shaffer, are working hard to refund routine infant circumcision.

Senate Bill 90, introduced by State Sen. Joyce Foster, would restore Medicaid funding in Colorado for non-medically necessary circumcision.

But these lawmakers couldn’t be more misguided. They’re not supporting “choice,” but rather are eliminating choice for the one person who matters — the infant boy.

If they have their way, the state will spend another $250,000 it doesn’t have on a procedure that is not necessary and is rarely performed outside the United States.

These lawmakers claim that African studies show male circumcision has been proven to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections —

results which even they admit have not been corroborated in the United States.

In violently patriarchal parts of Africa where a woman can be beaten for asking her husband to wear a condom and where limited access to water can lead to less than optimal hygiene, perhaps circumcision offers medical professionals a tool they didn’t have before. (It is largely adult male volunteers who are undergoing circumcision there, not newborn infants).

But in the United States, condoms and good hygiene are less painful and more effective options for halting the spread of STDs. As one Scottish talk show host said, “So I can either wash it and wear a condom, or I can cut it off?” The laughter of his audience and his own facial expression indicated quite clearly which option made sense and which was ridiculous.

Research on circumcision and its long-term effects cleanly refutes any medical “need” for routine circumcision, leaving only three reasons parents might choose to put their newborn baby through an invasive, painful and potentially risky procedure. The first is a desire for Junior’s penis to resemble Daddy’s. The second is religion. The third is for cosmetic reasons.

Medicaid does not cover cosmetic procedures. Families cannot get their little girls’ ears pierced and expect Medicaid to pick up the tab, for example.

As for religion, practicing Jews don’t circumcise their sons at the hospital, but rather in a ceremony called a brit milah, or bris, so this bill doesn’t help them.

The desire to have matching fatherson penises, cited by Sen. Irene Aguliar, D-Denver, is nothing short of absurd.

What medical function does matching penises serve? What interest does the state have in spending money on that?

This is an intensely emotional issue for some, but the people who get no voice in the debate are the little boys whose lives circumcision most directly effects. Contact your representatives in the State Senate and House, and urge them to kill SB 90.

Let’s let adult men decide the fate of their foreskins.

Go to coloradonocirc.org for comprehensive information about circumcision.

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FINALLY DE-BRUCED Douglas Bruce in jail? Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

Bruce is the infamous Colorado Springs anti-tax crusader who brought us the 1992 Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, which has been blamed for strangling the state’s budget for years — even inhibiting Colorado’s ability to rebound from the recession.

He’s also the one who kicked a newspaper photographer at the state Capitol in January 2008 — during the morning prayer on the day he was sworn in as a state representative. As a result, he became the first legislator to be formally censured by the members of the House.

Yes, a real charmer.

Only fitting In December, a that he was senjury convicted tenced this week to Bruce of tax 180 days in prison evasion, filing a and six years of profalse tax return bation for … wait for and attempting it … tax evasion.

After sentencing, to influence a he had the gall to refer public servant, to himself as a “politiall of which are cal prisoner.” felonies.

In December, a jury convicted Bruce of tax evasion, filing a false tax return and attempting to influence a public servant, all of which are felonies. According to news reports, Bruce represented himself at trial, but attorney David Lane, who also represented Ward Churchill and the Fort Collins balloon boy’s father, represented Bruce at the Feb. 13 sentencing hearing.

Lane was quoted by the Denver Post as saying that Bruce was singled out: “There are those … primarily in government, who view Doug Bruce as satanic.”

Well, that’s probably a bit strong. Maybe an unstable lunatic.

Doug, enjoy your stay in one of our state’s underfunded jails. Maybe now you’ll get an appreciation of our tax dollars at work. Makes you wish you hadn’t cut funding to correctional facilities, huh?

SCROOGES AT CU Wow, after decades of CU lagging behind peer universities in terms of employee benefits, out of the goodness of their hearts, CU officials at the Boulder campus are going to let spouses and children of faculty and staff take a few classes for free — in the summer.

Not much of a perk, that one. It’s like waiting tables and a party of 10 leaves you some spare change as a tip and you run after them and thrust it back into their hands, saying, “You forgot your change.”

OK, so we’re still recovering from that one. It’s amazing, they make 12-step programs for everything these days.

CU officials preach about how they need to throw big raises to their already overpaid administrators to retain them and remain competitive — using tuition money, no less — but when it comes to compensating their rank-and-file employees with a benefit that most of their peer schools offer, the reply is, “Sorry, peons, can’t afford it.”

Nice priorities, CU. To remain competitive, especially when trying to retain the good faculty who actually carry out the mission of the university, it’s time to start walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.

Maybe some of that money going to administrators’ salary increases could be used to expand this oh-so-generous benefit to the fall and spring semesters.

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The Congressional Budget Office said it “expects no significant royalty payments would be made until 2022” from Arctic Refuge drilling.

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etting a few minutes with the inimitable Beeck sisters — the founding mothers of the Boulder International Film Festival — in the weeks leading up to BIFF isn’t easy, even if you’re sitting across from them in the festival’s downtown-Boulder offices. Phones ring and are quickly answered. Assistants’ fingers flail away on keyboards.

Deadlines loom. But for a few moments here and there, the smiling Beecks seem a little like Forever Came Calling, the young, desperate, nowhere-California punk trio featured in the unforgettable Warped Tour documentary No Room for Rock Stars (showing at the Boulder International Film Festival this weekend), when they’re finally allowed to perform for an audience: elated to be living their dream. And hyper-aware of what it took to lasso that dream.

Look up the word “busy” and you might see a photo of Robin and Kathy Beeck during BIFF, and the days leading up to it, each year. “We go big or go home,”

involved with the issues dealt with in the BIFF films up for discussion.

According to Robin Beeck, “It was so great that we had to get a bigger tent.”

And that’s where our recent conversation at the BIFF offices just off Pearl Street began.

Kathy Beeck: We have more Call 2 Action films this year. So that’s become a nice centerpiece of the festival and a great differentiation between us and other festivals. We have 14 fabulous movies that are either environmentally focused or about breast cancer, the government’s wild-horse roundups … just a wide variety of different issues people are really passionate about. We love being able to present local community groups that work on these issues and can help inspire people to actually do something to help with the issues.

People like the opportunity to contribute, whether it’s signing a petition or signing up with a volunteer group. They like the ability to do something about a film that has really captured the issues in a certain problem. People are activists in Boulder.

Boulder Weekly: But Boulder is such a bubble. Did you actually see any heated discussions between people with different viewpoints?

KB: One of the more controversial topics was the film Mother, about the population explosion. That issue tends to be a little bit of a taboo issue, because it has a lot to do with religion and government and politics. There wasn’t a heated discussion, but we do pick films that are not always black-and-white, as in “everybody’s going to agree with this.” We like to expand the horizons of our audiences and see films they may not agree with. We’re seeing this year, with Cape Spin, that even a subject like wind turbines, which are a great energy source, can be a really controversial issue.

BW: Since this is an election year, is there more of a need for political films and political discussions?

KB: Cape Spin is much more about politics than about wind turbines. Patriocracy is very timely for the election year because it is about how far the left and the right really are from each other anymore, and it really tackles the issue head-on of how people are arguing poli-

Hollywood, Colorado For BIFF founders Kathy and Robin Beeck, festival is a dream realized

by Adam Perry

Kathy says.

Travel arrangements must be made for countless directors, A-list celebrities, producers, etc. The big, complex schedule of films must be finalized (this happens later than you might think), and this year they made sure not one film overlaps another, despite all the different venues. Quote-hungry journalists like myself come knocking. Hundreds of volunteers must be organized.

And internal preparations must be made for the thrill of hanging out with superstars like James Franco and Chevy Chase.

At this point, last year is the last thing on the Beeck sisters’ minds, but I can’t help thinking how powerful the addition of the Call 2 Action tent was in 2011, BIFF’s seventh year. After seeing an incredibly moving film like The Green Wave — about Iran’s violent reaction to a wave of free speech among its citizens — BIFF filmgoers were able to engage in discussion not only with each other but in many cases with the filmmakers themselves.

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Kathy and Robin Beeck

tics and how that’s evolved over the years to where we’re at today. And then there’s Pink Ribbons…

Robin Beeck: It blows the pink lid off of a lot of these corporations that do a lot of things like, “If you send in this many caps we’ll get money to breast cancer.”

It just kind of gives you a little more reality about how much money is going towards research rather than prevention. It is so powerful, this film, and there will be a big discussion afterward with the president of the Colorado Breast Cancer Research Fund. And we’ll talk about how there’s nothing “pink” about breast cancer.

BW: But BIFF also has so many funny and entertaining films every year.

KB: We have a lot of really impactful films at BIFF each year that make you laugh and cry and really think.

RB: We’ve got so many great films this year that are just gonna blow your mind. It’s gonna be exciting. [Last year] was a blast. Oliver Stone was so much fun. It’s just incredible to sit there and watch one of our legends in filmmaking tell all these great stories.

BW: How many films do you watch each year?

RB: I think I watched up to 500 films this year altogether, between going to film festivals and watching entries. We’ve got a selection committee that watches a lot of films.

KB: Combined, everybody watches well over 1,000.

But she gets the good stuff.

BW: How has BIFF been growing since the first year?

KB: We have a lot of new things this year. We were happy because even in the first year we had a lot of people, but we’re growing in audience numbers every year.

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Pam Grier

Foxy lady Pam Grier, the ‘baddest one-chick hit squad in town,’ comes to Boulder

by Quibian Salazar-Moreno

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n her memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, Pam Grier shares a life of love and tragedy and success and heartbreak. She describes her life living in Denver, London and California. She writes about her entry into the world of Hollywood and the experience of working on classic films from the ’70s like Coffy and Foxy Brown and on her career-defining roles in Quentin Pam Grier, 1973. From Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and the the movie Showtime series The L Word. She “Coffy” peels back the curtain on the intimate relationships she’s had with well-known celebrities like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Freddie Prinze and Richard Pryor, plus her battle with cancer in the ’90s. And she shares, with heartbreaking and terrifying detail, the two times she was raped, at 6 years old and 18 years old.

But one event that isn’t shared in the book is a third attack when she was 21 that Grier says was the turning point that pushed her toward an acting career.

When Grier moved to Los Angeles in the early ’70s, her goal was to work and save enough money to get into film school. During a lunch break at one of her three jobs, she was planning to meet with a potential mentor for some career guidance. But apparently that’s not what he had planned.

“It was a family friend who was going to give me

advice on classes to take and was supposed to check on me for my family, and he attacked me,” she tells Boulder Weekly. “This was going to be the third time and by then I wasn’t having it. I was so afraid and so upset. He was doing it because he assumed I wouldn’t tell my parents and if I did, he would deny it and I would be a liar. But I wasn’t having it. I fought, fought, fought for my life. I broke furniture, I didn’t care. I just knew I was going to walk out of there alive.

“Afterward, I ended up walking back towards Sunset Boulevard to my job, and I walked past [director] Roger Corman’s office. A week prior he had offered me a job to go to the Philippines and I wasn’t going to take it because I would be leaving my three jobs, my focus and my goal to get into school. Only because of this attack, I was so frustrated with the attack, I was frustrated with Kareem, who wanted me to convert to Islam, I went in the office and told them I’d take the job. If I didn’t have that attack, I don’t think I would have made it this far.”

It’s an unfortunate event that not only moved her toward acting but also partly inspired some of her most action-oriented scenes in her early films. The reason why she kicked so many asses in her movies wasn’t because she was trained on how to fight.

“During a fight scene, I’ll never forget it because I’m now revisiting an attack, I had moments of hyperventilating and intense fighting,” says Grier, who is considered by many to be Hollywood’s first female action star. “Director Jack Hill [of Coffy and Foxy Brown] said, ‘Hey, you did that really well, like you’ve done this before.’ Yeah, I have. I kind of recreate those

moments with the reality and authenticity, and people are moved by it. When I fight, because I’m fighting for my life, I’m seriously fighting you.”

These days, Grier lives on a ranch north of Colorado Springs near Black Forest. She’s far from the Hollywood lifestyle and is more at home living in rural Colorado. She’s full of energy, funny, has a million stories and gets excited about simple things like shoveling snow off her property.

“We got a little dusting down here but we’re still digging out as it melts, and if you don’t move it, it becomes, like, a foot of mud,” she says. “So you have to use equipment to move the snow. And I try to keep the horses clean because when they see the mud holes, they just want to roll through it!”

Grier says she rarely watches her old films or even her recent work. If it’s on, she may take a look, but she doesn’t go out of her way to watch them.

“I’ll watch them to see what I’ve learned and what I’ve forgotten, if there’s anything new or different,” she says. “And there’s always something that comes to mind.”

On Saturday, Feb. 18 at Muenzinger Auditorium at 7 p.m., she’ll be joining a bunch of University of Colorado Boulder students for a screening of Jackie Brown as part of the International Film Series and Boulder International Film Festival. After the screening, she’ll share her experience working with Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Robert Forester and Michael Keaton, along with stories and anecdotes from behind the scenes. see PAM GRIER Page 12

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dance. Every year we add a few things here and there. This year we’re using the Boulder High School theater again. It’s a big theater and it’s very comfortable. This year we have a shuttle that’s going to go between the Boulder Theater and Boulder High School. That’s gonna run on Saturday and Sunday between those venues, just in case the weather’s bad or people just don’t want to walk.

RB: If you’ve been drinking, it’s a good idea. (Both laugh) BW: What are you looking forward to most?

RB: The narrative film about [Nobel Peace Prize Winner] San Suu Kyi. I just lost myself in this film when I saw it in Toronto.

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I’m so happy that we were able to get that film. William H. Macy. I met him a few years ago in Telluride, and he is a wonderful person. We’re so excited to be bringing him here to Boulder. And on closing night we are going to be doing an evening with Martin Sheen and will be presenting him with the Master of Cinema award. We love having special guests of that caliber here. I think he’s been in almost 70 films. I’d give you his resume but it’s too heavy.

BW: [Emcee] Ron Bostwick probably won’t ask him about Charlie.

RB: Who knows what’ll come up?

That’s the exciting part of the festival. Oh my gosh. Ron researches every one of these celebrities. He reads their books, he

watches their films, he puts together the retrospectives, he knows every intimate detail of their lives, and they’re always shocked when they get here. They’re stunned at the level of research Ron puts into these interviews. He’s intimately knowledgeable about every detail of their lives. He’s just really dynamic and professional. Oliver Stone was like, “Wow, that guy was great.” He knows everything.

BW: I see all these pictures of you gals at past festivals with people like Alec Baldwin and Chevy Case. Are you still star-struck?

KB: We’re too busy for that. We’re too dang busy. No, I’m always star-struck.

(Laughs)

RB: I grew up watching Martin Sheen films, for instance. So it is kind of stunning at first to meet them and have the opportunity to hear what they have to say. But, for example: Alec Baldwin, we’re still in touch with him. We ran into him at Tribeca. They’re really very special people. But we have a lot of other exciting people coming. I’m excited to meet [legendary producer-director-screenwriter] Lawrence Kasdan. These are the people behind the films.

KB: And even our local ones. We’re star-struck by the Chasing Ice people.

You’re gonna be hearing a lot about that film over the next year.

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Bill Plympton

The life of an indie animator

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Bill Plympton eschewed Hollywood, and the results can be disturbing

by Hadley Vandiver

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ill Plympton is a cheater. He admits it freely. He even brings up the fact without being asked. Bill Plympton is a cheater because he doesn’t draw an animation for every frame of a movie, but rather for every three frames.

When you consider that he has drawn six full-length animated feature films completely by himself, the fact that he cheats suddenly doesn’t seem so bad.

“I do every drawing that you see on the screen,” Plympton says. “That’s me.

I think I’m the only person in the world who’s ever done six animated feature films and done every drawing.

It’s either cool or it’s crazy — I can’t decide which it is.”

His colored-pencil animation is sometimes grotesque. In the film Hair High, a smoking high school teacher coughs up his internal organs on the desk, and the class must help shove them back down his throat. It is also often crass, as seen when a school mascot runs around a football game in a chicken suit with a raging boner, humping everything in sight.

At the same time, his films also contain characters who are endearing.

His favorite character to draw is one he calls “the dog,” a squat yellow pup whose well-meaning adventures usually end in disaster. In Horn Dog, the enthusiastic canine sees the girl dog of his dreams in the park. He devises different ways to woo her, but imagines each of his ideas going horribly wrong.

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swarm of flying clams. Eventually, he settles on playing her a sonnet on the violin, but accidentally lets go of his violin bow and it flies into the air, coming back to stab girl dog’s owner squarely in the back. Horrified, the dog tries to pretend that nothing has happened, propping up the owner’s dead body and holding her face in a smile.

Girl dog notices that her owner is dead when her limp body falls, gushing blood, with the violin bow still stuck in her back. Girl dog then proceeds to chase the dog around the park, dragging the dead owner along with the leash.

After watching a couple of Plympton’s films, guts, gore and boobs are no longer surprising to see onscreen.

Plympton grew up in Portland, Ore., and he thanks the city’s notoriously rainy weather for getting him into drawing.

“I always just drew on a rainy Sunday morning by myself,” Plympton says. “I mean, that was my playtime and I just loved it. I brought sketchbooks around wherever I went and was always drawing people or animals or cars or whatever intrigued me that week.”

Plympton says he fell in love with animation first through watching Disney cartoons and drawing Mickey Mouse. He dreamed of someday working for Disney, but his interests soon turned to cartoon characters with a little more attitude than the standard Disney mouse.

“I think Daffy Duck was my favor-

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ost of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension,” photographer James Balog says in his 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk.

“Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions —

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even the unconscious at times — and of course the aesthetic. Science tends to look at the world through the rational, the quantitative — things that can be measured and described — but it gives art a terrific context for knowledge and understanding.

“In the Extreme Ice Survey, we’re dedicated to bringing those two parts of human perception together, merging art

and science to help us understand nature and humanity’s relationship with nature better.”

For the Extreme Ice Survey, Balog placed 30 cameras at 15 glaciers in Montana, Alaska, Iceland and Greenland, programmed to take photographs once every daylight hour. His time-lapse photography, which has been

two or three films right there.”

Plympton and his “Plymptoons” will grace Boulder this week at the Boulder International Film Festival, with the film Adventures in Plymptoons! A documentary by director Alexia Anastasio, Adventures in Plymptoons! is different from Plympton’s other movies in that the animator himself stars in it.

“I’m hoping that this documentary will not only get my name out there as an independent filmmaker, but also inspire younger artists and animators that they don’t have to work for the big studios,” Plympton says. “They don’t have to work for Pixar or Disney or Dreamworks. They can make films on their own and still be successful, and

do something that’s different and more imaginative and more interesting.”

The documentary will show at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, at the Boulder Theater, and those in attendance will receive an original drawing of “the dog.” Plympton says that there will be some sneak peeks of his newest projects as well.

“It’ll be a wonderful time, and I hope we get a good turnout,” Plympton says. “I think the lifestyle of Boulder really lends itself to animation. I think there are a lot of animation fans that live there because they want something a little different, a little offbeat, kind of out of the Hollywood mainstream kind of films.”

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would reach over and wipe the tears off my face because it kind of bothered him; he didn’t like seeing me so upset.”

As far as recent work, in the next year or so you can see Grier in the films Mafia starring Ving Rhames, Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day with Blair Underwood and Sharon Leal, and the highly-anticipated Man with the Iron Fists, a film written, directed by and starring The RZA from hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan.

“He studied under Quentin,” Grier says about The RZA. “He asked me to be his momma, and we’re going to shoot in China? I had to do it. But he’s superb as a director. It’s under wraps, but this Man with the Iron Fists is a classic!”

But as far as another movie with Quentin?

“You have a crystal ball or something?” she asks. “I don’t know, but he is contemplating something.”

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ite character back when I was a kid, even though he wasn’t a Disney character,” Plympton says. “I just thought his humor was so surreal and anarchical that I just really gravitated towards that kind of humor.”

Today, Plympton draws inspiration from heaping servings of ridiculousness he sees at home in New York City.

“New York is such a crowded city, and it’s kind of a cartoon city because people just wear whatever they want,” he says. “So you have a lot of kind of crazy characters wandering the streets, and I find a lot of inspiration from that, the hairstyles, the clothing styles, the weird ways they walk and the crazy movements. Just walking two or three blocks down the street, I get ideas for PAM GRIER from Page 9

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“During the shoot [for Jackie Brown], one of my dogs passed away,” she says. “And in the film there’s a scene where we’re negotiating the deal where I’m gonna be Ordell’s [ Jackson’s] manager. That scene is hilarious and I was crying the whole damn day. I’d be doing the scene and in a moment of enlightenment, there’s just tears flowing down my cheeks in the middle of the scene. Sometimes, when the camera was behind me, Sam

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displayed at Denver International Airport, and his still images, which were hung in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, tell a compelling story of climate change.

“Ice is the canary in the global coal mine,” he said in that same TED talk.

“It’s the place where we can see and touch and feel climate change in action.”

But before Balog first set out for Greenland in 2007 to set up his first camera to capture images of melting glaciers, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski decided the story behind documenting the glaciers was one worth capturing, and he came with video cameras. It was years before Orlowski realized that what he had recorded (in now almost 400 hours of footage) was more than just a record. It was documentary film. And Chasing Ice, Orlowski’s first feature-length film (at age 27), got plenty of buzz at its Sundance premiere and will screen again on Sunday, Feb. 19, at Boulder International Film Festival.

“In some ways it feels great, in some ways it feels obvious,” Orlowski says. “It was such an obvious story that needed to be captured, and I was the right person in the right place at the right time.”

Balog himself started as a climate change skeptic. It was years of melting ice that changed his mind. He calls it the tangible, visible proof the world needs.

“The public doesn’t want to hear about more statistical studies, more computer models, more projections,” he says in the film. “What they need is a believable, understandable piece of visual evidence. Something that grabs them in the gut.”

Chasing Ice does that. The illustrations of waning glaciers are jaw-dropping, the massive calving events caught on film cover-your-mouth horrifying.

Balog’s photos and the film are both shot often with a human, occasionally with a helicopter, in the frame for scale.

It’s a dazzling view of inverse proportions: Something so small is changing something so huge.

But the film is far more than a story about watching ice melt.

“It’s a story about climate change

that you can experience through James and his character,” Orlowski says.

Balog’s story is that of an obsessive, committed to work through trial and error that can take months to resolve, tweaking camera systems to last hurricane-force winds and -40 F temperatures.

“James has pushed himself to the limits to create evidence that this is going on,” Orlowski says. “His art and his work is a response to the culture that we live in, and the world we’re living in is one where people are still debating whether climate change is real. … James is just trying to say this is what’s going on.”

The film’s all-star-packed production team includes Paula DuPré Pesman, who also produced The Cove, and Jerry Aronson, who directed The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, as producers. Both are previous recipients of Sundance Film Festival awards.

“I saw some footage and was immediately hooked on the film,” says DuPré Pesman, who knows Balog personally.

“I came home and told my husband I have to do this movie, this is for our kids.”

She continues, “I’ve always been drawn to stories about people and why they do things, and I was very engaged in following James’ journey, his sacrifices, the things that he personally has given up — time with his family, his health and his safety, he puts a lot of things on the line to tell this story, and I feel like that’s an important piece of the story.”

The film’s visceral, visual evidence of climate change looks like it’s going to play to a full house at BIFF, and it will screen again at the Austin multimedia festival South by Southwest, and on television — National Geographic just purchased the television rights for the documentary.

“The story I was hoping the film could tell is to show again that, as James learns, as humans, we have the amazing ability to change things for the worse, as is happening now,” Aronson says, “and also to change things for the better.”

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he son of Indian immigrants, Vikram Gandhi’s relationship with faith is fairly typical for someone with his upbringing.

His parents raised him in Hindu traditions, but the religious rituals he became immersed in served more as a reminder of his familial history than a strict religious doctrine.

“I think it’s more that it was an immigrant family to carry on the traditions that would kind of be lost,” he says.

As a kid, he would joke about the rituals, and though he spent considerable time as a child learning religious rites and memorizing texts, he drifted away from the religion as he got older.

As he turned to filmmaking, he became fascinated by the West’s obsession with his native culture: Yoga was everywhere.

And leading the way were gurus, people who claimed to have the answers to life’s biggest questions and who were eager to share their wisdom with the world, maybe for a price. Gandhi wanted to make a documentary about them.

“These people insisted they were somehow different from everybody else in some inexplicable way,” Gandhi says in his documentary Kumare, showing at the Boulder International Film Festival on Feb. 18. “But none of them seemed any different to me.”

Every guru seemed to be out-guruing each other, Ghandi noticed, and he had an idea: “Could people find the same peace in a made-up religion that they did in a real one?”

So he became the guru named Kumare. He grew out his hair and beard, adopted his grandmother’s Indian accent, put on a sarong and moved to Tucson, Ariz.

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ing for answers that no one is more spiritual than anyone else. That spiritual leaders are just an illusion, that we are the ones that decide who or what is real.”

He cultivated a small following of devoted disciples from all walks of life and with varying levels of education and economic success. He invented chants, philosophies and yoga moves (including one that looked like doing a Pete Townshend windmill on air guitar) and taught them to his students.

The reactions to these completely fabricated moves, captured by the camera crew, are jaw-droppingly genuine and heartfelt.

At some point Gandhi has a realization. He had been lying about his identity to prove a point about the hackery of modern-day gurus, but to his students, he was an important force in their lives. His philosophies and teachings might have been fake, but the desperate nature of his students’ unanswered spiritual questions was not.

He felt compelled to live up to his students’ perception of him, or else he would be committing the same sin as the gurus he set out to expose.

The documentary focuses on how Gandhi feels about this realization, and the results may not be pretty, but they are fascinating. The project not only affected his disciples, but Gandhi himself.

One of his teachings involved manipulating some sort of blue light (whether the light is actually real or just figurative is unclear) while seated in a yoga pose. He realizes that to his disciples, the energy was real.

“And for the first time,” he narrates, “I felt the blue light.”

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n 2010, to celebrate the 10-year egory as well before I met anniversary of Eric Weihenmayer’s these guys. … I had no idea ascent of Mount Everest as the what they go through.” only blind man to climb the world’s Not a lot of lessons learned tallest mountain, the same team in war translate when a soldier who went with him reassembled to do a comes home. Very little, in commemorative trip. Their first ascent fact, of what a person learns was completed in what director Michael when that person becomes a Brown, who made the documentary on soldier transfers effectively to Weihenmayer’s climb, called a time of the return to civilian life, innocence, just months before Brown says. Mountaineering September 11th, 2001. For the anniverleans on similar lessons, but sary trip, he says, they wanted to give with different intent. something back to the millions of sol“The veterans were willing diers who have been deployed in the to talk to us — we were part of wars that have chased the heels of the this big team together and they events of that day. respected all of us on the guidSo he and his team found 11 vetering side and the filmmaking side because ans willing to fly to Nepal and attempt we all had been up Everest,” Brown says. the summit of Lobuche, a 20,075-foot “And even though that’s not war, that’s Himalayan peak. Three of the veterans one of the closest analogous things in the civilian world. One of the most imporare amputees, and one is blind. tant differences there though, of course, The documentary that resulted, is that the mountains, even though they Brown says, tells a simple story of what can kill you, they don’t do it with malice, it’s like to come back from war. and that’s a profound difference.”

“We climb this mountain, and that’s Chad Jukes previously climbed with sort of a backdrop that provides someWeihenmayer, and Weihenmayer thing to keep the story rolling along,” recruited him to the trip.

Brown says. “As we go higher and closer to the mountain, we peel back the layers “It was not about a personal goal of of who they are and spend time with climbing a mountain. It was about a each veteran getting to know their back team goal, it was about being able to go story, getting to know who they are, out there and have this experience with what they’ve been through, where they this team,” Jukes says. “It was phenomeare now — just through their own nal to be able to complete such a task words. They just tell us stories and tell us with all of these other people who had about how they feel.” suffered in their own ways.”

It’s not meant to be anti-military.

Some of those were visible — Jukes Just honest. was one of the three amputees on the “It’s not what most people expect. As trip — and some not so tangible: a matter of fact, I’d say most people have Veterans talk, in their interviews, of no idea what it’s like to be a veteran traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic rudy.bw.2for1.left page.pdf PM coming home from war,” Brown says.1“I 2/13/12 stress 1:02 disorder, and survivor’s guilt. One certainly would have fallen into that cat- of the veterans had been told she would

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“All of the veterans had aspects of their lives, physically or mentally or psychologically, that had held them back in one way or another,” Jukes says. “And everybody figured out how to overcome those obstacles not only to do the normal things in life but to do this extraordinary thing, to go climb this mountain that other people wouldn’t dream of climbing.”

The film started as a project for the Outside Adventure Film School. Then Brown had a chance to show the trailer from that footage to Don Hahn, a producer for The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, and Hahn decided to get involved.

Brown went back to the veterans about a year after their summit and interviewed them and collected footage shot by fellow soldiers while on tour. Their experience together on the mountain created the mutual respect and trust necessary for Brown to get incredibly raw and candid footage of these people discussing their

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injuries from another lifetime. By then, some of them had grown their hair far beyond the military issue limits. One was still in uniform. Some still introduced themselves with their rank.

The audience Jukes says he hopes will be inspired by the film is not just the millions of veterans and the millions of disabled people, but all able-bodied civilians out there who think they could never do something as challenging as climb to 20,000 feet.

And perhaps change a few minds about what disabled people can do and how to approach them.

“People feel like they need to feel sorry for someone with a disability, and that isn’t always the case,” Jukes says. “I feel like what I do, and what I’ve proven capable of doing, can change people’s minds on that.

People realize that I’m not somebody they should feel sorry for. I’m not severely limited. I can do whatever I want to do — for the most part, I think tap dancing would be out of the question, but for the most part, I can do anything I want.”

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‘Bitter Seeds’ leads a call to action against GMOs

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n the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack sells everything he owns — one cow — for a handful of magic beans. It works out for Jack. He takes on the Giant, wins, and returns home to a happy mother (though she may not send him to market again responsible for the sale of their only livestock).

The story that unfolds in the documentary Bitter Seeds, featured at the Boulder International Film Festival, is about farmers who wager it all on what are promised to be miracle seeds, but land dust and failed crops rather than a magic bean pole. Their ending is far more grim.

A quarter of a million farmers in India have committed suicide in the last 16 years, according to Bitter Seeds. This equates to one farmer killing himself every 30 minutes, all because the miracle cotton seeds they were sold with the promise they would increase yield drove them into debt and failed to produce an ample return. In this tale, the giant they faced is GMO seed producer Monsanto, and they lost.

Historically, Indian farmers have cultivated their own seeds each year. However, when genetically

modified seeds were introduced into the market after the World Trade Organization forced India to open its doors to foreign seed companies, things changed. According to Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha X. Peled, Indian farmers were told that, although the seeds are exorbitantly priced, they would produce double the farmers’ normal yield and resist pests. The farmers were not told that the seeds required large amounts of water rarely found in India.

Farmers sought loans from the bank or, when that option failed, signed over their land for a loan from illegal moneylenders who charge extremely high interest rates. They were left relying heavily on a high yield of crops in order to keep their land, and when the crop failed, as it so often did because of lack of water, the farmers had nothing to keep them going.

The film is included in BIFF’s Call 2 Action program, which aims to bring global issues home with local action points, and will be introduced by Mary VonBreck, the campaign manager of GMO Free Boulder. An informational discussion, hosted by the

director and GMO Free Boulder, will be held after the film.

“This is a heartbreaking film,” VonBreck says.

“When I saw it, I knew this was such an important issue to raise awareness on. I knew we were doing important work.”

There are three parts to the call to action, VonBreck says. First, the group wants citizens to be very vocal at their grocery stores by asking what foods contain GMOs. The belief is that vocalization of these concerns will lead to the second part, which is labeling foods that contain GMOs. “The first two come under something consumers can use to take a stand on the human rights issues behind GMOs,” VonBreck says. “I mean, how can you boycott something if it isn’t labeled?”

The final part of the call to action is banning GMOs from Boulder.

“Monsanto has already started pulling out of Europe because they have labeling for their GMOs,” VonBreck says. “The labeling makes it so no one buys their products, so there isn’t a market over there. It is time for us to do the same. We have got to push it through.”

Mark Retzloff, co-founder of Alfalfa’s, is joining the call to action with a new program in his store that will identify which products could have GMOs. “[Labeling] is absolutely the right thing for people to be doing,” Retzloff says. “When you have surveys that show 85 to 90 percent of people want their products labeled, then retailers need to listen. Alfalfa’s wants to see that done.”

“Here is a documentary that shows what is really happening because of GMOs,” VonBreck says. “It is time to make a stand against them.”

Bitter Seeds will be shown at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 at the Boulder Theater. The informational session will be held after the film in a tent on Pearl Street Mall in front of the County Courthouse.

“Boulder is special because we have a very proactive community, and we don’t want GMOs,” Retzloff says. “What we do is something other people in the country could do. Our actions could set an example for others.”

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hen 71-year-old Phil Lesh, founding member of the Grateful Dead and widely acknowledged as one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest bassists, called Boulder Weekly a few weeks back, there was a hint of satisfaction in his voice.

“I’m in San Rafael [Calif.],” Lesh says proudly. “I’m in our new offices at Terrapin Crossroads.”

Terrapin Crossroads, of course, is Lesh’s new venue/restaurant, a joint project he opened with his wife, Jill.

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mination of decades of dreaming and planning, as well as a nifty little retirement plan for the septuagenarian bassist.

“Basically, that’s what Terrapin Crossroads is all about,” he says. “I’m not going to slow down, but I’m just not going to travel as much. It’s like 10 minutes from my home, so that will cut down on my travel time considerably.”

He plans on sitting in with his sons and with local musicians (“the Terrapin All Stars, we’re going to call see LESH Page 20

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That doesn’t mean Lesh is done touring. He and his recently reanimated project, Phil Lesh and Friends, will come to the 1stBank Center in Broomfield Feb. 16-18, for a one-off performance with an all-star lineup, the first Phil and Friends show since the creation of Furthur, the post-Grateful Dead group he formed in 2009 with GD rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Joining him on stage will be Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, virtuoso jazz guitarist John Scofield, guitarist Jackie Greene, Furthur drummer Joe Russo and Furthur keyboard player Jeff Chimenti.

Lesh studied trumpet in college before meeting Jerry Garcia, who invited him to play bass in his new rock band. The rest is history. With a classical and jazz background and no preconceptions of how a bass player should sound, Lesh went on to develop a unique and melodic style of playing bass, influenced more by Bach and Wagner than any preconceptions of how the instrument should sound in the context of a rock band.

Deadhead culture is as fanatical as it is ubiquitous. Get any two Grateful Dead fanatics into a room, and you’ll hear debates over which decade produced the best jams, which lineup had the best “Scarlet Begonias,” and more.

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Boulder Weekly: I was doing some digging and I couldn’t find out if you had played with this exact Phil and Friends lineup before.

Phil Lesh: Warren and Scofield have played with me before, and Jackie has played with me before, but not with Warren or Sco’.

BW: Why Broomfield for this oneoff performance?

PL: Broomfield is a really cool venue and location. Furthur has had a really good experience there the last couple of years, and I wanted to reintroduce Phil Lesh and Friends, since I haven’t done a Phil Lesh and Friends show since Furthur has been in existence, so this is just kind of like reintroducing the whole thing to the listening public, if you will.

BW: It’s interesting that you’re playing with Warren and Scofield, because you have one guy who’s coming from a jazz background and one guy who coming from a blues background.

Is it fun, as a bassist, to mesh with both those styles?

PL: You know, I don’t pick the

musicians because of their styles, really.

It’s kind of the level of commitment and interest they can bring. Warren is the kind of musician that can really play anything, and Sco’ is the same way.

They just, they’re just willing to step out of their comfort zone — step away from the blues and step away from jazz — and bring that same sensibility to Grateful Dead music, which is basically my prime directive. Find musicians that can actually come to Grateful Dead music, even if they’ve never heard it or know much about it, and bring their own perspective to it, essentially add to it. It’s like fairy tales. Every version of a fairy tale is true. Every version of “Dark Star” that we play, with 50 different lineups, is all true. They just all add to what the song basically is.

BW: When these other guys are playing, bringing their different sensibilities to the music, does it alter how you play, too?

PL: Well yeah, that’s basically what improvisation is all about. Collective improvisation, anyway. What you’re doing is that you’re moving through time and you’re reacting and actually spitting out ideas that have to do with what’s going on in the moment. They don’t have to do with anything that has been composed previously necessarily, or that has ever been played before.

That’s really the whole idea, is to take these songs and use them as a springboard, to take us to places that allow us to create music that has never been played before.

BW: A lot of Deadhead culture revolved around taping at the shows, and trading around these tapes of the live performances. I don’t know if you’ve been following it, but Internet piracy has been in the news recently.

What are your thoughts on the attempts to pass anti-piracy legislation?

PL: The thing about piracy is that the whole concept of piracy is driven by the record companies, who have something to lose. They paid for the recordings that are being pirated.

They’re trying to squash it. The Grateful Dead, we didn’t give a shit.

Jerry famously said, “We play it; we’re done with it. You can do what you want with it.” And that’s our attitude to this day. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a studio recording. As far as I’m concerned, if I make a studio recording, and somebody wants to give it, wants to take the CD, wants to buy the CD and make a bunch of copies of it and give it to their friends, that’s great.

That’s how our audience grew. People were making tapes at the shows and giving them to their brother, or best friend, or mom and dad. Hey, listen to see LESH Page 21

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BW: They ago, ’95 maybe, Tickets are $61.25. 11450 Broomfield Lane, did your marketand said, well, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. ing for you. do you want to PL: Yeah, try to do this? exactly. That way you didn’t have to pay And I thought, geez, I may want to the radio stations. (Laughs) At the same rewrite some of it, or something, but I time, that worked for us, because we decided I’d rather do something new, were not a recording band. We were a and I never got around to it, and you live band, and uh, the records were just, know how those things go. maybe in a way they were ads for the BW: You’ve been into classical music live band, whatever. They were definite- for a very long time. How do you think ly of lesser importance to us. that comes out in your bass playing?

BW: Right, right. Do you ever PL: That’s interesting, because W n CI o O y think about what it would be like if the really don’t music for PENdraw on popular ibrar in Lbigger NorlMy Grateful Dead had come up in a time the way thataIt play. influwith the Internet? ences are Bach and Wagner and PL: Well, that’s an interesting point, Mahler in terms of the bass lines. But because a lot of people consider the it’s more like pure music, you know tape traders as the first social network. what I mean? It’s just, I just, I study these masters and deduce general prinBW: Makes a lot of sense. ciples from them and apply them to my PL: I’ve read analyses of the phenomenon that single out the tape trad- playing. That’s what I’ve always done, ers as the very first social network. So I yeah.

BW: You’re not one of those guys don’t know. The thing is that fundawho plays in the pocket, that play the mentally the Grateful Dead are a ’60s same thing over and over again. phenomenon. I don’t think the Grateful Dead could have happened in PL: Repetition is anathema to me. anywhere near the same way at any It bores me shitless. So, that was how it other time. In that sense, we’re defifelt from the very beginning, from the nitely tied to our period of history, and first time I ever picked up the instruthat said, the music seems to be strong ment and played it with the band, I did enough to transcend that and to keep not want to play the same thing over going. and over.

BW: You guys were never really Luckily, they softened to indulge overtly political throughout your career, me in that. right?

BW: You have any tips for bass PL: Not particularly, no, although players that are trying to improve their I’m a lifelong Democrat. I vote technique or improve their musicality?

Democratic.

PL: The best thing you can do, I BW: It’s interesting that you guys think, is to play with other musicians. came out of such a period of political And frankly, play with, and this is not turmoil and social upheaval, but you something I did, but I would suggest guys kind of stayed clear of that. that they play with as many different PL: Yeah, because we weren’t about musicians as you can, because the more politics, we were about opening up condifferent people you play with, the more sciousness. We wanted to transcend poli- variety you’ll be able to bring to your tics, really, is what we really wanted to do. own playing.

BW: Back then, did you imagine that BW: Are you still learning new 50 years later you’d still be playing that things on the bass? type of music to such a large audience?

PL: Yeah, hopefully every time I pick PL: You know, I didn’t know or care it up, hopefully there’s something new if I’d be playing it in the next 10 mingoing to come out. Then, of course, utes. The nature of it is that it’s in the because I’ll be playing along and then I’ll moment, and it brings everybody else say, shit! I’m boring myself! I’m playing into the moment too, that point where the same old shit over and over again! So there’s no past, no future, there’s just I’ll consciously try and break out of it. now. And it, all we cared about was That’s an ongoing thing for me. staying there as long as possible.

BW: Do you ever go back and listen BW: I went to a message board the to your older stuff? You’ve got 50 years other day and said I was going to be of material out there. Do you ever go interviewing you, and somebody wanted back and listen to it? me to ask you about the symphony you PL: That would be crazy! Where wrote for four orchestras. would I start? (Chuckles) I would have PL: (Laughs) Ha ha! No kidding! to think to myself, OK, I want to see BW: How’s that coming along? what I played on this song back then. I PL: Well that was in the ’60s! I still don’t really have time for that! I’m have the score. Actually Kent Nagano, about moving forward. who was conducting the Berkeley Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Not your average stoner movie Jeff, Who Lives at Home focuses on pothead metaphysics

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raduating college can be rough. Some find it hard to break into the real world and instead find themselves sleeping in their parent’s basement. Jeff, Who Lives at Home, showing at the Boulder International Film Festival this week, follows Jeff ( Jason Segel) as he focuses on something more philosophical than finding a job.

Written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, whose previous work include Bagheads and Cyrus, explores the stereotypical family dynamics. Jeff ’s mom (Susan Sarandon) wants him to get a job, and his brother (Ed Helms) wants to stop picking up Jeff ’s slack.

Jay Duplass talked to Boulder Weekly about his new movie and the point when the 30-year-old sleeping on the couch just isn’t cute anymore.

“Inspiration came from, not the concept of living at your mother’s house, but people who move sort of laterally to

college or basements in order to ponder the greater meaning of the world and maybe smoke marijuana and not get anything done in the decade after their college experience,” Duplass says.

People may call it a stoner film, Duplass says, but Jeff is a character that transcends the genre. In the movie, Jeff spends a day trying to follow through with his grandiose ideas about destiny and the universe.

“We are in awe of and admire those people who live and operate in magical realms,” Duplass says. “We see them as heroes because they live more momentto-moment and allow themselves to see more. Jeff is kind of a hero character that we haven’t seen before.”

The script was written seven years ago, when the brothers were around the same age as Jeff. The movie was put on hold until they could get enough money — the budget for one scene involving a car crash exceeded budgets of entire movies they had done in the past.

“We’re the opposite of most movie directors because we’re constantly scaling our budget down as much as possible,” Duplass says. “The most important thing we want to do is make a movie that is great, and second, we want to make it as cheap as possible.”

That’s a hard task considering the list of celebrities they’ve worked with, which includes Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei. Duplass says they’ve been lucky to have actors approach them and want to do their movies. One reason may be their unique approach to filmmaking, which includes long takes and complete improvisation.

“We basically write a script to organize the ideas and get funding,” Duplass says. “When we get on set we don’t improvise structure or plot, but we just throw the words away. We try to get our actors to let go of the script and truly be in the moment. It’s fun and it’s

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The brothers tend to take funny people and put them in dramatic roles, but this partly has to do with the actor’s normal-looking appearance.

“I don’ t know why, but Jonah, John, Ed and Jason all look like guys who grew up on the same street with us — they feel like us,” Duplass says.

All of these techniques allow the brothers to achieve their goal of authenticity. Duplass says he wants the characters and the movie to look and feel real. Part of that includes throwing curve balls at the actors.

“We empower them to become their characters and do what they have to do,” Duplass says. “It’s very artistic and in the moment, but it’s nervewracking and uncomfortable because you don’t have the answer. But it works in our type of film making because our characters don’t have the answer either.”

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overtones Snowed into the Fox Soulive’s three-day string at the theatre should be impressive

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ric Krasno doesn’t know what’s going to happen this weekend. Neither do you.

And to hear the Soulive guitarist explain it, that’s what makes Snowlive a must-see event this weekend at the Fox Theatre.

Krasno is one-third of Soulive, the fantastic jazz/funk trio from Buffalo, N.Y., that’s among the best in the biz.

They’ve played with Dave Matthews, the Rolling Stones, the Roots, Stevie Wonder, Common, John Mayer and a multitude of others. (Interestingly enough, the drummer for Krasno’s other band, Lettuce, now plays with Pretty Lights.) Regular guests at their live events include Talib Kweli and Derek Trucks. In short, they’re rather well connected.

Those connections come from an excellence in their craft. Since 1999, the trio has carved out a soulful niche that makes both the studio and live experiences compelling. Maintaining an organic approach allows Krasno to still be surprised after all of these years.

“The great thing about it is that I don’t really know what to expect,” Krasno says. “It’s pretty spontaneous, and we never know what’s going to occur. We like to do some planning, but we also leave things open for improvisation and cool things to happen. It’s

exciting for us, which in turn I think makes it exciting for the audience. We’re all watching it unfold the same way they are.”

Part of the magic comes from blending varied elements together into the same mix to see what greater flavor emerges.

“In one night, you’ll have Talib Kweli come on stage and rap and then 20 minutes later, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi came on stage,” he says.

“It’s really eclectic musically, but it somehow makes sense. If you saw those names on a bill together, you might not get it. But when it’s all part of this big mix, it’s all really soulful and it works. It all flows really well.”

Snowlive comes to Boulder this weekend, and it’s a version of the same event they’ve held at the Brooklyn Bowl called “Bowlive” the last three years.

Since they love the eclectic mix of the shows, the goal is to bring them to new places. Lake Tahoe is also getting a version of the event later this year.

Even though the band is a well-

Dusting off forgotten classics

Seicento Baroque Ensemble gives oft-overlooked works new life

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ON THE BILL: Soulive plays at the Fox

Theatre Feb. 17-19. JJ Grey & The known act Hartswick Horns open. Doors at 8:30 p.m. and a wellTickets are $23 in advance each night or oiled $26 day of show, add $2 for those under 21. 1135 13th St., 303-443-3399. Visit foxmachine — are also busy with theatre.com for tickets. their own label, Royal when it Family Records. comes to While it’s mostly a home for Soulive stage chemistry and experience, Krasno projects, they’re also slowly getting into says he continues to grow as a live artist development — a passion that musician. In fact, practicing for the Krasno says is quickly becoming his upcoming Boulder shows helped him primary interest. sharpen his skills.

“There’s so much great talent being “I learn every single day,” says Krasno. “Today I was listening back to overlooked,” he says. “A lot of the some live stuff from a couple years ago, major labels that still exist are only because I was sending out music to signing a certain type of artist. It’s genhorn players who will actually be with erally pop, and a lot of it is based on us in Boulder. I was listening and I was image. We just want to make great, suddenly embarrassed. ‘Oh, I’m playing soulful music, and I think a lot of artway too many notes there. Oh, I’m too ists and bands don’t have the ability to excited here. My tone there is wrong.’ get their music out there. We not only offer the recordings experience, but I’m always nitpicking myself. I rarely we’ve been touring so long that we can ever listen to it, but when I do, it sets help with that as well. Festivals and me on a path to better myself.” events that we play can help give others The members of Soulive — which that chance.” include brothers Alan and Neal Evans Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com on drums and keys/organ respectively

oulder has a new group playing old music.

Seicento Baroque Ensemble gave its very first concert in November. An auditioned chamber choir, Seicento (the word means “17th century” in Italian) will present its second-ever concert program three times this weekend, Feb. 17-19: Friday in Boulder, Saturday in Cherry Hills Village and Sunday afternoon in Estes Park.

The program will feature the works of three Baroque composers with low name recognition but great historical connections: Heinrich Schüetz, an important predecessor of Bach and Handel in the

German tradition; Heinrich Ignaz von Biber, a predecessor of Mozart in Salzburg; and Friedrich Kuhnau, the direct predecessor of J.S. Bach in Leipzig.

As its full name indicates, Seicento presents selections of the Baroque period in music, roughly 1600 to 1750. The group was founded by its director, Evanne Browne, a professional singer who studied Baroque performance practice at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. She and her family came to Boulder from the East Coast, where she had a very busy early-music career (including performances with the Washington see BAROQUE Page 26

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Bach Consort), because they were seeking “someplace healthier,” she says.

“It was a hard decision,” Browne acknowledges. “I did have a nice career there, and also in the Netherlands. But I have a husband and a son, and my husband had the luxury of bringing his job, so we moved here while he stayed employed.”

ON THE BILL: Seicento Baroque Once in Boulder, Browne Ensemble plays Friday, Feb. 17, at Grace Lutheran Church. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. landed a job as music director of Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for seniors and the First United Methodist $17 for general admission. 1001 13th St., Church, where she has directed Boulder, 720-301-7747. Visit seicentobaroque. org/Concerts.html for more information. performances of several major choral works. But the turning point

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for her and Seicento came in 2010.

That year was the 400th anniversary of one of the great landmarks of the early-music repertoire, Claudio Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers. “I had been a soloist for the Vespers several times,” Browne says. “Nobody was doing it [in Colorado], and I needed to hear the Vespers in the 400th anniversary year.

“That was a huge turning point.

Boulder has many singers who are interested in doing unusual major works. So it’s been fun for me to bring in works that are not often done, and then in 2010 to say, ‘OK, you want to do Monteverdi Vespers? I think we can pull this off.’”

The success of that performance led Browne to establish a standing choir dedicated to the performance of Baroque music. Today, Seicento is ensemble in residence at the First United Methodist Church.

Like the Monteverdi Vespers two years ago, the upcoming program started with music that would be new to Colorado audiences. The fall concert had featured early Italian Baroque and English composers, so Browne wanted to turn to another tradition.

“Looking at Germanic composers, the Biber Requiem is a piece I’ve always wanted to perform, “ she says. “And the Schütz Musikalisches Exequien is something that I’ve sung many times. I don’t know that it’s been done here, and it’s a fabulous piece of music. The text was in a collection to be engraved on a coffin. The whole thing is fascinating to me, and it’s a beautiful piece of music and perfect for Seicento.”

To those two pieces about death Browne added a sunnier cantata by Kuhnau that she says is “beyond pretty, it’s gorgeous.” Written for the same liturgical tradition as Bach’s cantatas, it is a predecessor to those better-known works.

To fill out the instrumental ensemble, Browne has brought in two experienced early-music performers: Baroque violinist Mimi Mitchell, who performs with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and other early-music ensembles; and Baroque cellist Rene Schiffer, principal cellist of the prominent ensemble Apollo’s Fire.

In addition to the choral works, Mitchell will lead the string players in two dances by Samuel Scheidt, another early-Baroque composer from the German tradition.

Looking to the future, Browne plans to expand the Seicento season to three concerts next year. She has been in touch with professional players of the sackbut and cornetto — two predecessors of modern brass instruments. “There’s so much fabulous brass music,” she says excitedly.

Clearly Browne is not going to run out of repertoire any time soon. Her enthusiasm is almost palpable as she adds, “There’s just so much music we’re not exploring.”

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INVST Community Leadership Program Photo Exhibit. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.Through Feb. 19.

Cocktails and Casseroles: Entertaining in the 20th Century.

Lisa Michot. KGNU Radio Station, Radius Gallery, Lakewood 4700 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Heritage Center, 801 S. Feb. 29.

Yarrow St., Lakewood, iFS(((UNDERGROUND))) iFS(((UNDERGROUND Arts and 303-987-7879.

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GO TOBoulder ifsFan.com FOR THIS WEEKS Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, CU Art Museum — 4. I O N A I N TThe ER N AT O N A L 866-656-2667. Through I N T EMarch R N AT Anxiety of IInfluence: Red Light — Tragic Beauties and From CU’s ceramics collection. CU Other Objects of Desire. manifest Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, ART gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-492-1320. Through June 25.

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Georgia Landman’s photographs.

OSCAR NOMINATED High Society is playing at Lakewood Cultural Center through Feb. 26. wEDNESDAy

Amante Uptown, 4580 Broadway, Boulder, 303-448-9999. Through March 29.

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

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Chris Daniels and the Kings. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Mars Revealed — Explore Mars with panoramas and vistas from the Mars Exploration Rovers.

7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr., Boulder. 303-492-5002 My Life after My Death — A lecture on a dramatic military near-death experience. With Robert Caplan. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1A, Boulder, 303-449-3066. neXus 2012. 7:30 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU campus, 303-492-8181.

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Secrets from my Grandma’s Garden. 11 a.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Phantom. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000 x4. Through Feb. 18.

Spirituality and Dreams — With Jeremy The Shape of Things. Devil’s Thumb Taylor, D.Min. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Productions, The Wesley Chapel, Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066.

1290 Folsom St., Boulder, brownpapTruth and Fallacies about 2012: What the ertickets.com. Through Feb. 25.& FRIDAy ThuRSDAy Ancient Maya Knew — John Major Jenkins. 7 MARCh 8-9 @ 7 & 9:15 PM p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, 5001 PennsylShipwrecked! Boulder Ensemble vania Ave., Boulder, 720-304-6254.

Theatre Company, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.Through Feb. spring — break?

Yoga for Trauma and Addiction For coun25. selors, therapists and other professionals. 6 p.m.

SPAN Outreach Center, 835 North St., Boulder, The Turn of the Screw. Living Room chelsea@safehousealliance.org.

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March 2, 2012 : 7 pm Featuring National Slam Poetry Champion

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Also featuring 14 local youth and adult performers

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Keith Martin-Smith discusses the life of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 at the Boulder Book Store.

Thursday, Feb. 16 Eric Burger, Sigman Byrd, Charles Doersch, David Rothman. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder,

Contents May Have Shifted — by Pam Houston. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

A Heart Blown Open: The Life & Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi — by Keith Martin-Smith. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, Feb. 21

Sunday, Feb. 19

Local Dollars, Local Sense — by Michael Shuman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Buddha Walks Into a Bar —

by Lodro Rinzler. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading.

7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

Monday, Feb. 20

Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Angie Stevens. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Womans’ Songwriter Night — Presented by Rebecca Abraxas. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Benefit for Music International. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Escape Goats. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Jaden Carlson & Chris Sheldon. 8 p.m.

Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Joy — Mozart, Biber, Diamond, Tchaikovsky. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

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

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

Meryl Romer/Bill Kopper Jazz Duo. 7 p.m.

Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-447-0475.

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

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

Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn as Soul Salvation. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Soulive — with JJ Grey and Hartswick Horns.

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

T. Moody. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

University Symphony Orchestra — William Tell Overture by Rossini, Symphony No. 5 in E Minor by Tchaikovsky. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium,

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“So,You’re a Poet” — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

events As the Crow Flies. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Boulder Ballet: Stepping Out 2012 –– 8 p.m.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. neXus 2012. 7:30 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU campus, 303-492-8181.

Occupy Boulder Colorado People’s Assembly — Statewide conference. 9:30 a.m. meet and greet, 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. assembly. CU Boulder Duane Physics and Astrophysics Building Room B1B30, occupyboulder.org.

Sunday, Feb. 19 music

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

Bonnie and the Beard. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Devorchestra, Isabelle Davis. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

Jam Party –– With Sherrie Scott, John Bertram Trio and Friends. 4 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-447-0475.

Rubber Soulive — Music of the Beatles. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Spring Swing Concert. 2 p.m. Macky Audito-

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

Rachel Eisentat, Flower Jacket. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

events 9th Anniversary of D Note Salsa Dancing.

8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. neXus 2012. 2 p.m. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, CU campus, 303-4928181.

Poetry is for Everyone! Readings — With Jack Collom. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, Feb. 20 music

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

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

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

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Roster McCabe. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

events Fundraiser for the children of Afghanistan — With music

by Boxcar Daisies, Dechen Hawk and Ramaya. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Painting Party — Led by Karen Adler. 6-9 p.m. manifest ART gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 music

Cassie Taylor. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

The Fall Line. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Fat Tuesday Celebration with Jockamo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Fat Tuesday Dance Party — With Hot Soup. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Fat Tuesday Party with the Zydecoasters.

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

Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Whitewater Ramble — with Joey Porter and Joe Lessard. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

events A Conversation with Michael Shuman. 5:30 p.m. Sterling Rice Group, 1801 13th St., Suite 400, Boulder, shumanattheepicenter.eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 music

Dylan and Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Mary Bridget Davies CD Release Party. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St.,

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events Dances for Future Ancestors. The Planet Motion Community Dance Troupe presents a journey of music and motion. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Opera on Tap. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Tremble Clefs Boulder Class — Singing class for anyone with Parkinson’s disease. 11 a.m.Valmont Community Church, 3263 61st St., Boulder, 303-830-1839.

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Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Feb. 16 Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

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Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, Feb. 18 French/English Storytime.

10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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

Trickster Tales — Coyote tales. 1-3 p.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, NE of Lyons on N. 55th St., Lyons, 303-678-6214.

Sunday, Feb. 19 French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

SunSational Exhibit Activities. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Monday, Feb. 20 Day Off Dance Camp — For ages 7-11. 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Ballet Nouveau Colorado, 303466-5685.

Fun with Singing. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

SunSational Exhibit Activities. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Watercolor Wednesdays. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Take away the 3-D shots of berries bouncing off Dwayne Johnson’s vibrating pecs, and you have a pretty scrawny experience.

Slop disguised as fun

by Michael Phillips

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n its own sweetly bombastic way, the 2008 remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth did the job, the job being a 21st-century 3-D bash starring Brendan Fraser — an actor who gives his all to the green screen, every time — and loosely based on the 19th-century Jules Verne adventure, a natural for the movies. Its script proceeded from the idea that Verne, science fiction visionary, was in reality writing about real places and genuine fantastic phenomena only disguised as fiction.

Now comes the Fraser-less sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. And it’s only disguised as fun.

Take away the 3-D shots of berries bouncing off Dwayne Johnson’s vibrating pecs, and you have a pretty scrawny experience. Director Brad Peyton takes the reins for Journey 2; previously he gave us Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, one of the tougher sits of recent epochs.

The visual quality of Journey 2 is such that while Peyton and company filmed on the Hawaiian island of

Oahu, the results resemble H.R. Pufnstuf or the AMC theater chain’s concessions promo, the one where placid teenagers hoisting 188ounce cups of Coke are transported to a world akin to Avatar.

Carrying over from the ’08 film, a newly beefed-up Josh Hutcherson returns as Sean, now 17 and more sullen than ever. He has survived his journey to the center of the earth, but now his uncle, the Fraser character, is out of the picture. Sean’s ex-Navy stepfather ( Johnson) hasn’t yet breached the boy’s defense mechanisms.

The carnage gets fairly absurd toward the end, just when you don’t want your spy thriller to get that way.

Bloody interesting

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arly on in the derivative but fairly absorbing blur titled Safe House, set in Cape Town, South Africa, Denzel Washington’s Tobin Frost, a spy in from the cold, is brought to a Central Intelligence Agency safe house so that he can be asked a few questions about the super-secret intel he has in his possession. Wordlessly, Washington sits in a chair, as a supporting player (Robert Patrick) prepares for the waterboarding, and in one five-second progression Washington smiles, drops his head, lifts it back up — and his face has morphed into that of a man who has killed and will be killing again very soon.

The moment may or may not have been scripted, but you certainly appreciate it. You also appreciate how Swedish-born director Daniel Espinosa Boulder Weekly

Then comes a cryptogram from Sean’s geographically distant grandfather (Michael Caine, decked out like a veteran member of the Indiana Jones fan club) containing news that Verne’s mysterious island was no imaginative figment. Sean and stepfather Hank take off to the South Pacific to investigate and hook up with an islander (Luis Guzman) who has a helicopter, a teenage daughter with college aspirations (Vanessa Hudgens) and a penchant for the broadest, most infantile brand of mugging. Guzman’s usually a lot better than this, but then, so is everybody in Journey 2.

The mysterious island’s attractions include miniature elephants and giant ants, but the movie is weirdly uninterested in its own critter potential beyond the giant flying bees. These can be ridden like big, fuzzy, flying horses, but the magic isn’t there. The bees won’t give stop-motion effects master Ray Harryhausen, who created the giant crab and other beasties for the 1961 Mysterious Island, anything to worry about.

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

delivers harsh jolts a beat before you expect this car to smash into that car, or this character to calmly pull out a gun and murder that one. Editor Richard Pearson surely shares the credit for those jagged edges.

Make no mistake, though: No matter how much Safe House owes to the look, feel, concerns and cutting of Paul Greengrass’ The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, it’s closer in

quality to a Tony Scott movie, of which Washington has made several. For all its lip service to the human cost of brutal espionage tactics and murky geopolitical allies, screenwriter David Guggenheim’s movie wouldn’t have a reason for being without its brutality. The carnage gets fairly absurd toward the end, just when you don’t want your spy thriller to get that way.

Ryan Reynolds co-stars as Frost’s handler, the CIA operative who has languished for a year in Cape Town, disguising himself as a health worker while bugging his boss back at Langley, played by Brendan Gleeson, for a better post.

(Nora Arnezeder portrays his nominal French love interest.) Frost has been “off the grid” (the expression comes up a lot here) for a decade, but when an intel-for-cash transaction goes haywire, the wily ex-CIA star turns himself in and finds himself whisked off to the safe house. It is promptly attacked by mercenaries looking for Frost and his

precious intel, and from there the film becomes an extended, frenzied action sequence.

Following the Bourne template, those muttering back in the CIA headquarters control room cannot control a damn thing. Sam Shepard and Vera Farmiga lend easy authority to their basically functional roles. There’s a bit of a mystery regarding for whom the mercenaries are working. But you can probably figure it out. I did, and that’s saying something. Typically I am figuring things out in movies like Safe House even after the big revelation.

Director Espinosa shoots virtually everything in tight but wobbly close-up, and the human and vehicular combat often brakes right at the edge of visual incoherence. Just as often the brakes give out completely. Even at its most frantic and mechanical, the movie relies on Washington to provide a visual anchor, some sociopathic calm amid the storm.

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ALBERT NOBBS

This Means War

Glenn Close stars in this tale of a woman forced to live as a man, Albert Nobbs, in order to work and survive in 19th-century Ireland. After 30 years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

People you don’t care about having a fight over a woman you wouldn’t want to actually be with. (Sorry, Reese — not your best work.)

THE ARTIST Hollywood 1927. Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin is enjoying the good life. He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller, a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly.

With the advent of the talkies George’s career nosedives, while Peppy’s takes off. At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

LOOSIES

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BIG MIRACLE

After making a surprising discovery, three high school students develop uncanny powers and begin to lose control. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT A DANGEROUS METHOD Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships among fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them. At Esqure. — Landmark Theatres THE DESCENDANTS From Alexander Payne, creator of Sideways, comes The Descendants, a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney), a distracted husband and back-up parent to two girls who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a life-threatening boating accident off of Waikiki. At Century, Colony Square and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres EVERY LITTLE STEP Traveling behind the scenes of auditions for the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line, the film establishes a neat corollary between the events of the play itself and the offstage experiences of the aspiring tryouts. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE Stephen Daldry (The Hours) directs this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel about a young boy (Thomas Horn) trying to make sense of the world after his father (Tom Hanks) is killed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Rated 38 February 16, 2012

At a lavish European hotel, a handsome stranger tries to convince a lovely young woman that they had a passionate affair a year ago. When she claims not to remember him, he keeps trying to convince her, weaving a story that mixes memory and fantasy. Or is it all fantasy? At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

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A tour of the sold-out show Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery in London. At Century

A three-dimensional version of the classic animated tale about a princess taken captive by a monster who may be more than meets the eye. Rated G. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

CHRONICLE

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Amid the Cold War, a small-town reporter and his environmentalist ex-girlfriend lead an unlikely international coalition to save a family of gray whales trapped in the Arctic circle.

At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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International Film Series. — IFS

For a list of local movie times, visit boulderweekly.com/movie-times.html

PG-13. At Century, Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter, the supernatural antihero Ghost Rider risks everything to team with a rebel monk to save a young boy and himself.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Society HUGO In 1930s Paris, an orphan living in a train station tries to unlock a mystery left behind by his late father. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THE INNKEEPERS

Mikael Blomkvist and his heavily pierced colleague, Lisbeth, go about nailing a killer of women. All roads lead to a rich family led by Henrik Vanger, whose relatives have a lot to hide. Rated R. At Century. — Michael Phillips/ TMS

Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after more than a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England’s “most haunted hotels,” the last remaining employees — Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) — are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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THE IRON LADY

When their plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a group of roughneck oil rig workers struggle to survive injuries, the elements and a vicious pack of wolves. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT

This biopic presents a portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the only woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

HAPPY

Highly regarded as Tarantino’s masterpiece, this groovy crime-thriller of lowlife gallantry features brilliant on-screen chemistry by stars Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Rated R. At International Film Series. — IFS

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

This feature documentary takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. At Boedecker Theater.

— Boedecker Theater THE HELP Based on one of the most talked-about books in years, Best Picture nominee The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Academy Award nominee Viola Davis (Doubt) as Aibileen and Academy Award nominee Octavia Spencer as Minny — three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film

JACKIE BROWN

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D A family embarks on an adventure to a mysterious island in this sequel to the 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT KILL BILL (VOL 1 & 2) Kill Bill finds Tarantino reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory revenge movie that utilizes samurai sword action with a shifting Morricone score. At

The feature film screenwriting debut from Peter Facinelli (Twilight, Nurse Jackie), Loosies stars Facinelli as Bobby, a New York City pickpocket who roams the city disguised as a stockbroker. Bobby tempts fate with the law by lifting the badge of a NYC detective (Michael Madsen). At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society MY REINCARNATION

Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Denver Film Society MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

In the early summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. His diary account The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn. This is the story of that week. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres ONE FOR THE MONEY A newly divorced, recently laid-off woman lands a job with a shady bail-bond business and gets swept up in a world of murder and deception. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: ANIMATED This year’s Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: LIVE ACTION This year’s Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Animated Short. At Chez Artiste and International Film Series. — Landmark Theatres OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: DOCUMENTARY A program of the year’s Academy Awards nominees for best documentary films. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Los Angeles Times/MCT PINA When Roger Ebert said that 3-D is “unsuitable for grown-up films of any seriousness,” he probably didn’t reckon with the mind of Boulder Weekly

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SAFE HOUSE A rogue CIA operative who has been on the run for a decade forms an unlikely partnership with a frustrated rookie agent. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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WEEKEND Jean-Luc Godard’s scathing late-’60s satire is one of cinema’s great anarchic works.

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band you like is playing one of the two restaurant/music venues on the 2000 block of Boulder’s 13th Street, so you fire up Google Maps to be sure of where you’re going. In the glare of a summer sun, between beer delivery trucks, you can just spot a sign outside: RedFish. Or, wait, there: b.side.

Wait, no. Are you on the right block?

You would be. You’d just be back in 2009. These days RedFish is Shine, a two-month-old venture from the Emich triplets, who once ran Trilogy next door. Meanwhile, in the old Trilogy space, Southern food chef Sean Shelby recently closed the doors — or had the doors closed for him — at his latest eatery, Shug’s Low Country Cuisine.

Hit by a sudden drop in revenues and in debt to landlord Tebo/ Karakehian for more than $18,200, Shug’s was evicted from 2017 13th St. on Feb. 7, as first reported at boulder weekly.com. Shelby says Shug’s hit a sudden hole it couldn’t climb out of.

“We went from upwards of $80,000-plus in November to $38,000 in December and $36,000 gross revenue in January,” Shelby says. “So, a huge gap between the revenue loss and the reality of what our bills were.”

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I actually made these for a Super Bowl party, and there were only two snags.

Snag the first: One girl suggested that her friend scrape the “sweet stuff” off it.

“I like potatoes,” she said, keeping her eyes on Tom Brady as he wept on the 50-yard line. “But potatoes shouldn’t have sweet stuff.”

Eloquently put. She must be a fan of Wordsworth.

Snag the second: While enjoying the hors d’oeuvre, I overheard a news anchor talking about MIA’s gratuitous bird-flippage, and I was immediately ashamed to live in a country that still makes a big deal out of what is, ostensibly, a harmless hand gesture used mostly in traffic jams.

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Triple net expenses means picking up the real estate taxes, building insurance and maintenance as well — costs that Shelby says raised the rent to $12,000 at its highest point of the year.

The Shug’s space at 2017 13th St., and its neighbor, 2027 13th St., have seen at least seven businesses since 2009. Shine’s spot, 2027, was home to RedFish, Colorado Brewing Company/ Boulder Draft House and Los Oasis before the Emich sisters took over.

Meanwhile, 2017 held Trilogy and b. side before Shug’s signed a lease in April.

Why the turnover? Is it a bad location? Is the rent too damn high? Or are owners to blame?

To one former owner, there’s no mysterious curse on the spots. Jim Howser, former co-owner of Boulder Draft House, says 13th Street has the same chances of succeeding as any-

where else.

“I’m not a believer that a certain area is cursed,” he says. “In Boulder either you kill it or you don’t survive. You either need to have a concept that kills it, or you’re a great operator.

If you’re average, you’re not going to make it.”

He says Boulder Draft House closed for financial reasons that went beyond the rent.

“Our issue was never the landlord.

Our issue was the fact that we didn’t run our business properly,” says Howser.

“We had customers, we had a beer following. We just didn’t run behind the scenes very well. I think that’s the reason for everything.”

Howser doesn’t lay the problems at Tebo’s feet, but he admits he may not be objective.

“I’m a commercial real estate agent,” he says. “I specialize in restaurants, and I do deals with Tebo.”

At Shug’s, large, white Tebo Space for Lease signs fill the front windows.

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hen assessing the recently reopened Oak at Fourteenth, the lazy tendency would be to open with a sentence such as this: “Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, Oak has returned from months of rebuilding from a debilitating fire.” Given this tough history, it’s also tempting to go easy on them, as nobody takes any pleasure in knocking someone when they’re down.

Fortunately, Oak has bounced back with a vengeance, and it’s unnecessary to resort to tired clichés or lowered expectations when surveying the scene here.

Clean lines in a sparkling, sunlit space, coupled with attentive, denim-clad servers, give this higher-end establishment a foodie-meets-cowboy feel.

There’s undoubtedly an American roots vibe here, as evidenced by the presence of fried green tomatoes as well as grits and meatballs. Rotating dinner highlights include seldom-seen skate wing, house-

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made pasta and an opulent porterhouse steak for two. At lunch, there are small and large plates ranging from a grass-fed pastrami sandwich to a salad crafted from kale and Honey Crisp apples.

For lunch, pal Tertia and I kicked things off with $5 fried pickles with Green Goddess aioli. This modified mayo was much better than the stuff from the Seven Seas bottles populating the childhood refrigerator. The aioli’s creamy herbal qualities played nicely with the measured tart and briny qualities of the thin pickle slices. Fresh from the fryer, these hot and crisp morsels quickly disappeared from the plate.

Oak’s $11 burger lunch features double patties of Our Pastures grass-fed beef and surprisingly delicate Old Bay season-

ing-scented tater tots. The included house-made root beer was a touch sweet, but happily lacked the processed taste one typically associates with this product, instead offering “rooty” vanilla tones. If you could access Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine, you could likely go back in time and sample something similar.

The burger was so tall I contemplated a preemptive call to a TMJ specialist.

Happily, medical intervention wasn’t necessary to savor the clean grass-fed flavor.

It was darn near perfect, especially with the melted gruyere. If the kitchen had dialed back the garnish peppery harissa aioli and cooked the meat a little less, this could easily be the best burger in town.

My shrimp grits benchmark is the sausage-accented version from Columbia, S.C.’s Blue Marlin restaurant, located in the shadow of Adluh Mills, that eatery’s grits supplier. Oak’s $16 version eschews the sausage and uses grits from Adluh’s cross-town rival, Anson Mills. There’s another key difference: Oak’s version might be better than its Southern antecedent. The sheer quality of the Royal Red Key West Shrimp in this dish is reason enough to order it, although the grits’ deep creaminess didn’t hurt either.

While neither of us are Dessert Diva Danette Randall when it comes to such matters, we thoroughly enjoyed the $8

here’s a certain delicious irony regarding the ascension of humble grits to high-end gourmet fare. Traditionally considered poor people’s food in the South, this ground corn staple traces its lineage back to American Indian tables. Anson Mills, which supplies Oak with its grits, has been at the forefront of reviving both Carolina Gold heirloom rice, a staple of Southern coastal cooking, and ground corn. When I had grits as a child, the only option came out of a questionable-looking supermarket box. Today Anson offers a full half-dozen varieties, including a version made from Cherokee Nation blue corn.

cremoso. This dessert skillfully blended olive oil with dense milk chocolate mousse, garnished with marshmallow and a Cracker Jack mix of nuts and Boulder popcorn. The oil added sheen and velvety mouthfeel, and provided a decadent ending to an exquisitely prepared meal.

Like a phoenix rising … never mind.

In any event, the newest incarnation of Oak hasn’t been slowed down by past misfortune, and it has proven it can already hold its own in Boulder’s top tier of dining.

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“Like” Rudi’s Facebook page to receive a coupon good for any Rudi’s Organic product. Additionally, fans can enter to win daily prizes by clicking on the giveaways tab on the Facebook page. Prizes include Gaiam yoga DVDs, a digital camera from Kodak and Rudi’s Organic products.

Rudi’s hopes that the contest will “inspire others to live life to the fullest, including making smart, healthy eating

COMIDA TRUCK GETS PHYSICAL (LOCATION)

Following on the heels of the success of the COMIDA food truck, the Comida Cantina will open at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in the Prospect neighborhood of Longmont.

The restaurant will be open six days a week starting at 4:30 p.m. and will serve tacos, gorditas and tostadas, plus salads, soups and family-style whole roasted chicken dinners. According to the Comida Cantina, “prices will be modest, and the integrity of our ingredients and efforts will be at an all-time high.”

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The Greenbriar Inn will host a fundraiser dinner for the Lyons Youth Baseball & Softball Association on Friday, Feb. 24.

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Tebo/Karakehian, and he’ll say there’s nothing unusual about the turnover along 13th.

“I would say they’re very standard,” Tebo says. “The spaces are not inherently bad spaces.”

He cites a common figure for restaurant failure.

“Eighty percent of restaurants go out of business in the first five years.

And that’s nationwide,” he says.

But that number’s hard to confirm.

Businessweek magazine puts the number at 60 percent for the first three years — still high, but “on par with the crossindustry average for new businesses,” the magazine wrote in 2007. In other words, restaurants don’t fail any more often than art galleries, convenience stores or any other new businesses.

Researchers at Cornell and Michigan State universities studied the question and came up with 60 percent for restaurants’ first five years, Restaurant Startup & Growth magazine reported in

2004.

Even if the rate was 80 percent, the two venues are beating that by a wide margin. Tebo says the reason comes down to the proprietor.

“It’s 100 percent dependent on the operator,” he says, pointing to the Emich sisters’ Trilogy as a success story.

The sisters sold the restaurant after operating it for nine years, and Jill Emich says the decision was driven by a need to change.

“For us, it was a matter of timing,” she says. “We’d had it for nine years and we were just ready for a change.”

Shelby wasn’t. But change came anyway, and Shug’s now joins that percent, whatever it is, of restaurants that don’t make it five years.

Tebo says he’s received at least four proposals for the Shug’s space, but wouldn’t release any details. He says he doesn’t know when the building will have a new tenant.

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“I used to hate this country for its freedom. Now, I just feel sorrowful for it.”

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ROASTED GARLIC AND LEEK BLINIS

1 lb. potatoes (gold or russet) 2 tbsp. flour 3 tbsp. Greek sour cream 2 eggs 1 egg yolk 4 cloves of garlic One whole leek Peel the potatoes and place into boiling water.

While you wait for the potatoes to cook, chop the leek and put it into a saucepan with a generous amount of olive oil and a dash of salt. Cook the leek on medium low, until it is soft.

Preheat the oven to 325. On a small baking sheet, put the garlic cloves and cover in olive oil. Add salt and pepper, and put a sheet of tin foil over it.

If you have a potato ricer (I don’t), rice the cooked potatoes in a mixing bowl. If you don’t have a ricer, use a wire strainer and push the potato bits through with a spoon.

Add the flour, eggs and sour cream and mix until combined. You must add the flour while the potatoes are hot or it will go lumpy.

Mince the leek and crush the garlic into a paste. Reserve the garlic’s olive oil for later. Add the leek and garlic to the blini batter.

Salt it to taste.

In a nonstick pan, set to medium low, spoon batter into circle molds (or directly on the pan). Be patient. They take a bit to cook.

TOMATO MARMALADE

About 10 peeled, seeded roma tomatoes (or a large can of peeled romas) ½ of a white onion Two cloves of garlic 1 cup of red wine vinegar ¼ cup of brown sugar Preheat the oven to 350. Rough chop onion and garlic and place in an oven-safe pan. Add enough olive oil to completely saturate the mixture. Cook for about an hour, stirring every 20 minutes.

Add the vinegar and brown sugar. Cook another 20 minutes.

Rough chop the tomatoes and add to the pan. Cook another hour, stirring every 20 minutes.

Blend the mixture and set it in the refrigerator to cool.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND WALNUT TOPPING

About 10 Brussels sprouts ¼ cup walnuts Put the reserved olive oil from the garlic into a frying pan set to medium high. Remove the first layer of leaves and rough chop the Brussels sprouts. Add to oil.

Once the sprouts begin to darken in color, add the walnuts. You want caramelization to occur on the sprouts. Salt and pepper to taste.

Plating: On each blini, spread a tablespoon of marmalade, then sprinkle the Brussels sprouts and walnut mixture. Press the topping into the marmalade and drizzle a bit of olive oil. Serve. Enjoy. Leave the sweet stuff on.

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Richly marbled, sweet and tender, the Wagyu filet’s a good way to go, especially after one of their smooth martinis. The adventurous can start their meal with chicken-fried sweetbreads, but more sedate choices like duck confit also tempt.

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oulder’s Shine is the newest venture from the Emich triplets, late of Trilogy fame. Shine is a bar and restaurant as well as a performance and gathering space showcasing everything from world music concerts to yoga classes. The menu features healthful offerings ranging from locally sourced, grass-fed beef burgers to meatless jackfruit tacos. There’s also a selection of housemade beer, and various elixirs and potions flavored with herbs and touted for their restorative qualities.

or those desiring a lighter, reasonably priced meal combining bar standards with a touch of gourmet, try the small plates menu at the North Boulder location of Murphy’s. Marked down for happy hour, this menu includes south of the border specialties like Six Bite Nachos, larger than the name suggests. Other winning options include the falling-off-the-bone Caribbean pork ribs with habanero mango sauce and the smoked salmon with brie on crostini.

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ormerly Chy Thai, Aloy Thai Cuisine claims the same ownership and food as its predecessor with an upgraded dining room. Indeed, the solid Thai selections of the old venue live on, and the lunch menu provides an opportunity to enjoy several classic choices for less than $9. Lunch highlights include the red roast chicken curry and Pad Kra Pow, a basil-scented stir-fry.

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ocated at Folsom and Arapahoe in Boulder, Tossa Pizza functions as a typical fast-casual, order-at-the-counter joint during lunch. Come late afternoon, it switches to table service throughout dinner and until closing. This affordable Italian-accented eatery dishes out pizza, salads, pasta and panini of a quality that’s pleasantly surprising for the price. Highlights include the macaroni and five cheeses and the arugula and mushroom pizza.

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What do you typically do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. Without exaggeration, you could say they are sacred times when you’re poised in the threshold between the two great dimensions of your life. I’ll ask you to give special care and attention to those transitions in the coming week. As much as possible, avoid watching TV or surfing the Internet right up to the moment you turn off the light, and don’t leap out of bed the instant an alarm clock detonates. The astrological omens suggest you are primed to receive special revelations, even ringing epiphanies, while in those in-between states.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Have you ever gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk allows them to have a field of vision that extends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans’ puny 160-210 degrees. They can also see better at night than we can.

Goats are your power animal in the coming week, Taurus.

Metaphorically speaking, you will have an excellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to make that happen.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In the animated film The Lion King, two of the central characters are a talking meerkat named Timon and a talking warthog named Pumbaa. Their actions are often heroic.

They help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his rightful role as king. The human actors who provided the voices for Timon and Pumbaa, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, originally auditioned for the lesser roles of hyenas. They set their sights too low. Fortunately fate conspired to give them more than what they asked for. Don’t start out as they did, Gemini. Aim high right from the beginning — not for the bit part or the minor role but rather for the catalyst who actually gets things done.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him,” says a Dutch proverb. Ancient Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro articulated a similar idea: “The longest part of the journey is the passing of the gate.” I hope these serve as words of encouragement for you, Cancerian. You’ve got a quest ahead of you. At its best, it will involve freewheeling exploration and unpredictable discoveries. If you can get started in a timely manner, you’ll set an excellent tone for the adventures. Don’t procrastinate.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

You’re so close to finding a fresh perspective that would allow you to outmaneuver an old torment, Leo. You’re on the verge of breaking through a wall of illusion that has sealed you off from some very interesting truths. In the hope of providing you with the last little push that will take you the rest of the way, I offer two related insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1. If you get too fixated on solving a certain problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that problem.

2. If you intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a situation that’s right in front of you, you will be less likely to see a good idea that’s right behind you.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Thirty-two carrier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have preferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give them goodies they would actually love to receive, not meaningless gold stars or abstract accolades. It’s time to honor and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well.

LIBRA

ic symbol of metamorphosis that it has become a cliche. And yet I’d like to point out that when the graceful winged creature emerges from its chrysalis, it never grows any further.

We human beings, on the other hand, are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorphosis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our changing circumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to do so.

Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.”

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This would be an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for exceptional human beings. You’re in a phase when you could derive tremendous inspiration by closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is doing it with liberated flair.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

A person who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to produce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. That’s one way to metaphorically illustrate my bigger point, which is that making a dramatic show of emotional agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness. Please take this to heart in the coming week, Capricorn. If you do fall prey to a frothy eruption of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to maintain your poise. Better yet, abort the tumult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy and wise.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills.

Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius.

Your assignment is to pick an accomplishment you’re really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph, or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it’s in a modest or mysterious way.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

A sign outside the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick, invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we’d be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.)

Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind.

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