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news & views How to stop illegal immigration / 6 Conquering Mexico would address many of the problems

by Paul Danish Independents fight for a voice / 10 Lawsuit aims to eliminate discriminatory waiting period

by Pamela White Stripped of dignity / 14 Women inmates call strip-search procedure demeaning, traumatizing

by Pamela White

buzz On the cover: That devil music / 20 Diabolic Grateful Dead drummers just want to make you dance

by Ben Corbett Overtones: Dead Weather storm Denver / 24 Arts & Culture: CSF’s The Fantasticks does much right / 25 Arts & Culture: What’s in a video game? / 27 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Elevation: Head south to find winter when it’s hot / 41 Cuisine: The fast rise of ‘slow food’ / 45 Cuisine review: Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House / 47 Dessert Diva: Cinnamon Apple Crumble / 49 Screen: Predators; Despicable Me / 53 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 54

departments Letters: Peace center is irrelevant; Obama vs. capitalism; Vote Romanoff / 5 The Highroad: Return of the Katrina trailers / 5 News Briefs: BoulDurango tour rolls out; Walker Ranch in action July 25 / 11 In Case You Missed It: Misogynist Mel-odrama; Hey, hire us! / 13 Police Blotter: Elderly exploitation; Catalytic cons; Overdue hiker / 17 Boulderganic: Keeping recycling in the family / 19 Sophisticated Sex: The prostate pleasure principle / 39 Classifieds: Your community resource / 57 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Peace center is irrelevant (Re: “27 years of activism,” cover story, July 8.) There is no more irrelevant organization than the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, and I have to wonder why you wasted so much column space on this group of accomplishment-challenged earth muffins. Among their so-called achievements, they tout the shutdown of Rocky Flats. It was Ronald Reagan’s defeat of the Soviet Union and ending of the cold war that caused Rocky Flats to close its doors. In fact, a plan for the closure of Rocky Flats had probably been in the DOD files for at least 10 years prior to the protests.

You left out a few other key accomplishments of RMPJC. For example, they never met a Palestinian terrorist that they didn’t like. They idolize Muslim Palestinian suicide bombers who bravely targeted coffee houses and pizza joints, but organize three-person protests against Israel when she defends herself. Dan Winter of RMPJC tried his pacifist techniques with the Serbs during the Bosnian war. Unfortunately, those peaceful Serbs got his peaceful butt cornered, and he had to be rescued by nasty NATO troops. Each year RMPJC rolls out someone from Hiroshima to slam the USA for having the audacity to drop A-bombs on Japan to end WWII. They conveniently forget to protest Japan’s WWII atrocities, including the Rape of Nanking, where exponentially more Chinese civilians were murdered compared to the atomic

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bomb casualties. The RMPJC weenies wring their hands and tear their clothes at the idea that the USA and the West might preemptively do something to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, but are eerily silent when Iran hangs children as spies or sentences women to death by stoning for adultery.

According to the RMPJC, those wacky, misunderstood Muslims, whether in

The Highroad

hey’re baaaack. The Creepy Creatures from Hurricane Katrina are reappearing on the Gulf Coast, having been raised from the dead.

These creatures are the infamous contaminated trailers that federal emergency officials bought and set up in 2005 for tens of thousands of families who had lost their homes in the devastating storm. Unfortunately, the house trailers turned out to reek of formaldehyde — a toxic industrial preservative that can cause such unpleasantness as nasal cancer and possibly leukemia. The formaldehyde levels were so high that the government banned the trailers from ever again being used to house people.

Good! However, rather than destroying these contaminated creatures, the emergency agency decided to sell them in 2006, and more than 100,000 of them went to various buyers in public Boulder Weekly

Iran, Syria, Iraq or Gaza, can do no wrong, but the USA is the root of all evil.

I hope that RMPJC had a wonderful 27th birthday celebration complete with a sustainable, gluten-free, carbonneutral and fair-trade cake. I hope that Carolyn Bninski is able to quickly find another part-time job. I hear that Hugo Chavez is hiring.

Return of the Katrina trailers auctions. Each buyer was to inform any subsequent owners of the housing ban, and a formaldehyde warning label had to be prominently and permanently attached to the trailers.

But now they’re cropping up on the Gulf Coast again — not as tool sheds or some such, but as housing for workers involved in the clean-up of BP’s oil disaster. Yes, many of the trailers still reek of the toxic preservative, and, no, the workers living

Obama vs. capitalism (Re: “What would Sarah do?”

Danish Plan, June 17.) I completely agree with everything that Paul Danish wrote in this particular column.

However, as many of us know, Obama see LETTERS Page 6

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in them were mostly not informed of any danger, nor are the required warning labels still attached.

“These are perfectly good trailers,” asserts one contractor who’s selling them to workers who brought their families with them to the coast. “You know that new car smell?” asks the contractor. “Well, that’s formaldehyde, too. It’s not a big deal,” he says. Of course, he and his family aren’t living in one.

Meanwhile, federal health authorities have not even started the study they promised in 2006 on the health dangers faced by children who live in the trailers. So the disaster on the coast just keeps creeping along.

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never wants a crisis to go by the wayside. As a result, he is using this one to deflect concern over the economy, and he is successful in accomplishing that.

Also, since he wishes to destroy capitalism — for example, 30,000 more are now unemployed due to his moratorium — he will say he must now raise taxes to decrease the deficit. That, as any well-versed economist knows, will put the final nail in the coffin of capitalism. Once again Obama (and Soros) win and the U.S. loses!

Tawn Otrhalek/Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.

Romanoff, not Bennet Just before a definitive victory of more than 20 points at the Colorado Democratic State Assembly in May, Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of the Colorado House, gave a rousing speech blasting the corporate cash flow that stifles reform, “where we sell Senate seats to the highest bidder and turn Congress into a wholly owned subsidiary of the industries it’s supposed to be regulating.” Romanoff is the only candidate in this U.S. Senate race who refuses to take contributions from special interest groups.

Appointed Senate incumbent Michael Bennet is running on the tired cliché: “Washington’s broke, and I’m going to fix it,” while raking in special interest money that is the quintessential problem in Congress. He has received at least $1.14 million from special interests. Sixty-one percent of his contributions have come from out-of-state.

Bennet received $70,000 from oil and gas special interest groups, including BP, then voted in favor of oil and gas by voting against the Sanders Amendment, which would have closed loopholes that allow oil and gas companies to receive more than $35 billion in tax breaks. (Exxon Mobile made $19 billion in profit, paid no taxes and got a refund of $156 million.) This amendment would have reduced the deficit and invested in energy efficiency and conservation.

Bennet serves on the Senate Banking Committee and, of all the candidates running for U.S. Senate, he is the top recipient of savings and loans special interest money. He has received $800,000 from banking and finance interests. Bennet voted against a full audit of the Federal Reserve, voted against a plan to prevent banks from becoming too big to fail, and voted against legislation to prevent mortgage foreclosures and preserve home values, allowing families to save their homes.

He also received $80,000 from insurance interests and $76,000 from pharmaceutical and health care companies. Bennet raised $70,000 in donations as a “health care hero” on a prom6 July 15, 2010

ise to push for the public option. He broke that promise and then raised thousands more from the insurance industry for his campaign. He also voted against providing $250 payments to seniors who received no increase in Social Security.

As Denver Public Schools superintendent, Bennet was “touted as having returned DPS to fiscal solvency, but DPS is $654 million upside down when comparing its assets to liabilities …

DPS’ debt has risen … and standardized test scores only improved slightly,” reported Christopher Scott in the Huffington Post. Watch for more about Bennet’s involvement with huge losses to DPS teacher pension plans.

If we want our senators to solve problems, we need to limit special interest participation. A vote for Andrew Romanoff is a vote for the people of Colorado and a vote against the “payto-play” system that influences Congress.

Linda Petrie Bunch/Denver

Tax Lebron James This letter is in response to the infinite articles of drivel concerning the status of Lebron James. One of the most disturbing facts about our capitalist nation is the misappropriation of funds directed to the salaries of entertainers.

Everyone should agree that the value an athlete, movie star, talk-show host, team owner, etc., brings to the average citizen is very small. Granted, they do offer a minuscule of diversion from our daily trials and tribulations, as did the jesters in the king’s court during the Middle Ages. But to allow these entertainers to horde such great amounts of wealth at the expense of more benevolent societal programs is unacceptable.

They do not provide a product or a service, so why are they rewarded as such?

Our society is also subjected to the “profound wisdom” of these people because it equates wealth with influence. Perhaps a solution to this problem and an alternative to defeated school levies, crumbling infrastructures and programs created to help feed, clothe and shelter those who cannot help themselves would be to tax this undeserved wealth. Entertainers could keep 1 percent of the gross earnings reaped from their endeavor, and 99 percent could be deposited into public coffers.

The old ideas of the redistribution of wealth have failed, and it is time to adapt to modern-day preferences.

People put their money into entertainment above everything else; isn’t it time to tap that wealth? Does anyone think this will reduce the quality of entertainment? It seems to me that when entersee LETTERS Page 9

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How to stop illegal immigration

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have a modest proposal for solving the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico without building a fence along the border or granting amnesty to those here illegally.

Conquer Mexico.

You know. Kind of like conquistadors, only north to south this time.

Get together a big army, pour over the border, crush all resistance, occupy the country from the Rio Grande to the Rio Usumacinta, and annex it to the United States. Make English the official language and teach it to everyone.

Award NFL franchises to Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterey. Make everyone an American citizen. Add 31 new stars to the flag (one for each Mexican state), 62 new members to the U.S. Senate, and get on with life.

Illegal immigration? Mission accomplished. Problem solved.

There would be no need for a border fence, because there would be no border.

There would be no need for Mexicans to sneak into the United States to look for work, because they would already be in the United States. If they wanted jobs in the upper 50, they would just hop on a bus and head north.

Not that they would have to, because hard on the heels of the lead tanks would come swarms of companies, investors, entrepreneurs and real estate developers intent on doing business and creating jobs on the new frontier. They would be closely followed by the Army

Corps of Engineers, which would be there to build roads, bridges, schools, dams and water systems. Between the two, there would probably be more people heading south looking for work than heading north.

Labor unions would no longer nag Congress to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. roads, because every truck from Maine to Quintana Roo would be on a U.S. road. Besides, they would be too busy organizing workers in the former Mexico to care.

The business of smuggling Mexicans into the United States would collapse, because they would already be in it.

The business of smuggling marijuana into the United States would also collapse, for the same reason.

Democrats would no longer sneak around trying to turn 12 million illegal aliens from Mexico into citizens (and Democrats), because all 112 million Mexican would be instant U.S. citizens (and PRI, PAN or PRD voters). And so on.

But wouldn’t conquering Mexico require an army of 4 million to 5 million, which is about three times as many as the current Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines combined?

Absolutely. If we want to conquer Mexico, we’ll have to recruit, train, and equip an army of 4 million to 5 million, over and above the present armed forces.

It would probably take two or three see MEXICO Page 8

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years. So we better get started pronto.

But where would we find 4 million to 5 million volunteers? Hint, there are about 15 million people looking for work at the moment, and up to another 15 million who are under-employed or who quit looking. Just 15 percent of them signing up would do the job.

But wouldn’t annexing Mexico just mean that Mexicans would outbreed gringos and end up running the U.S.?

Not anytime soon if the CIA’s World Factbook is to be believed. The Factbook, which contains essential demographic information on every country in the world in case the agency has to change a regime on short notice, gives the population of Mexico as 112.46 million vs. 310.23 million for the U.S., so gringos would initially outnumber former Mexicans in the expanded U.S. by nearly 3 to 1.

Mexico’s birthrate is higher than the U.S. birthrate (19.4 births per thousand vs. 13.8) but it’s also falling faster than the U.S. birthrate. In the meantime, think of annexing Mexico as a way of keeping Social Security solvent for another generation.

But aren’t Mexicans and Americans so different that they could never be merged into a single nation, even voluntarily, let alone at sword’s point?

Again, data in the CIA Factbook

suggests otherwise. For one thing, Mexico is not the poor agrarian country Americans often think it is. Its annual GDP is $1.5 trillion. The Mexican per capita income was $13,500 in 2009, only a third of the U.S. per capita income of $46,400, but still 83rd highest out of 226 countries — and higher than the world average of $10,500.

That’s not too shabby.

More than 77 percent of Mexicans live in urban areas, compared with 82 percent of the U.S. population. Nearly two-thirds of Mexico’s labor force (62.9 percent) works in services, and nearly a quarter (23.4 percent) in industry. The comparable figures for the U.S. are 79.1 percent and 20.3 percent.

Mexico’s literacy rate is 91 percent.

The U.S. rate is 99 percent. Mexico actually spends a higher percentage of its GDP on education than the U.S. does (5.5 percent vs. 5.3 percent).

Sure, there are differences between the two countries, but these sorts of numbers suggest that if Mexico were annexed by the U.S., most Mexicans wouldn’t have any more trouble fitting in than, say, Texans.

Come to think of it, the overwhelming majority of the 12 million who are here illegally don’t. Why shouldn’t the rest of them?

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“Although the verdict still stands and is definite, the execution has been halted on humanitarian grounds.”

—Iranian official Malek Ajdar Sharifi, explaining the government’s decision to temporarily stop the execution (by stoning) of a woman found guilty of adultery, after international protest “There’s no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control.”

—White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, acknowledging that the Democrats could lose their current majority in the House during the elections this fall “We’re in a situation like nothing we’ve ever lived through before.”

—Juan Gallardo, school safety director in Tamaulipas, Mexico, where schools have started teaching children how to dive to the ground and cover their heads due to the increasing number of gunfights between drug gangs 8 July 15, 2010

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tainers received less income, the quality was much higher.

Joe Bialek/Cleveland

Lions are not food I was shocked to hear that lion burgers are being served at a restaurant in Arizona. I was even more upset to hear that this isn’t something new or out of the ordinary. That this meat is considered game meat and so easily obtainable is hard to believe since lions in Africa are a threatened species with only about 20,000 left. If we do nothing, they may be extinct by 2020!

Czimer Game & Sea Foods, the butcher who supplies this meat, was previously convicted in a landmark case of illegal underground animal trading. He was fined and served time in a federal prison, yet is still in business. Having purchased the carcasses of 16 federally protected tigers, four lions, two mountain lions, and a liger and selling them off as “lion” meat in the past, should we expect that he has changed?

With unregulated displays of lion and tiger cubs all over the United States, it’s easy to understand why previous investigations have shown that lion meat was being bred and raised right here in our country. Accredited sanctuaries are full, and there is nowhere for all of these big cats to go once they are too large and dangerous for exhibitors to house.

The fear is that many, if not most, end up as exotic game meats.

Inspectors are stretched thin. They can’t control whether or not lion meat is really from a lion. It may be tiger meat instead, which is illegally traded since tigers are an endangered species.

By banning the breeding of big cats in the private sector, it would make it impossible for U.S. dealers to acquire and sell this meat. Neither the USDA nor the FDA has the manpower to inspect, regulate and ensure the quality or origin of this food source. Please sponsor or co-sponsor a bill that would ban the breeding, buying and selling of big cats in the United States (other than AZA-accredited zoos).

Shawndra Hayes-Budgen/Arvada

resolution condemning China for the persecution of Falun Gong. We thank Colorado’s U.S. Congressman Lamborn for being one of the 81 co-sponsors of this resolution and the Colorado Congressmen/women for their vote.

This sentence from the Declaration of Independence written 234 years reminds me how lucky I am to be a citizen of the United States.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Vivian Lam/Denver

Conservative hypocrites How hypocritical it is for self-styled conservatives to want government at any level to preserve or even support “social values.” Yet that is precisely what I believe divides the city where I live, and for that matter the country.

Conservatives often criticize liberals for wanting government to solve problems.

Some, for example those associated with the “Tea Party” movement, say they want to eradicate government.

Does any inconsistency pop out at you?

Don’t these folks realize that it is not

only undesirable, but impossible, to legislate morality? Except for the Taliban.

It’s time to give this matter some thought.

Gregory Iwan/Longmont

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Falun Gong oppression A decade after the Vietnam War, I immigrated to the U.S. because of the corruption of the Communist government that represses its people and does not allow any freedom of speech or spiritual belief.

Not long ago, I started practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation practice that promotes the traditional values of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. Within months, my overall mind and health improved greatly.

Unfortunately, the Falun Gong practitioners in China have been brutally persecuted for 11 years this month.

In March, the U.S. House passed a Boulder Weekly

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Independents fight for a voice

he number of independent voters is growing nationwide, and as their numbers increase, so does their desire to be full participants in elections that are currently dominated by two parties.

Leaders of two groups representing independent voters, Independent Voters for Colorado (IVC) and the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, Inc. (CUIP), on Tuesday filed an amicus brief in Curry v. Buescher, the expedited appeal that seeks relief from discriminatory waiting periods imposed on independent candidates. State Rep. Kathleen Curry is the plaintiff in the case.

The brief was filed on behalf of Jacqueline Salit, president of CUIP (also known as IndependentVoting. org), who leads a national association of independent voters with organizations in 40 states, and Joelle Riddle, a La Plata county commissioner and founder of Independent Voters for Colorado.

Riddle, like Curry, was a former Democrat who disaffiliated to become an independent. When she attempted to run for public office, she found that state law prohibited her from doing so.

Colorado imposes a 17-month waiting period for those who disaffiliate from their parties before they can run for office. The Curry suit challenges the constitutionality of this law.

The amicus brief states “…the district court approached the issues before it solely from the vantage point of the interests of the Democratic and Republican parties, and more broadly, the system which they dominate. There is little, if any, recogni-

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or a town without a golf course, an increasing number of golf carts are being driven around Lyons, prompting the town’s de facto police chief to issue a set of guidelines for their use.

Sgt. Kevin Parker of the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office estimates that between 15 and 20 golf carts are used regularly to get around the small town.

But there have been a couple of cart operators charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, in addition to general confusion about where the vehicles can be driven legally.

So Parker issued a memo on July 13 clarifying, among other things, that, yes, you can get a DUI while driving a golf cart on public streets or property, just like you can get one for riding a bike, or even a horse, under the influence. (Parker told Boulder Weekly he once issued a DUI to a man who was riding his bike drunk down the middle of the Diagonal Highway at 3 a.m.)

The Lyons cart craze seems to have been prompted in part by Sam Tallent, who co-owns The Stone Cup coffee shop with his wife, Mindy. Tallent says they were the first in town to adopt a 10 July 15, 2010

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tion of the legitimacy of independent alternatives, nor of the rights of American citizens to participate in the political process as they choose, whether or not that is consistent with the interests of the parties.”

An amicus brief is a written statement prepared and filed by a person who is not a party to a lawsuit but who has a strong interest in the subject matter of the suit and its outcome.

“There are a lot of people in this country who are very unhappy with the political parties and their intense partisanship,” Salit says. “Some are voters, and some are officeholders. But whatever their status, they should have the right to leave a political party and become an independent without being penalized. The parties shouldn’t be allowed to run the political process to suit their own purposes. The bottom line here is democracy, and that’s what Kathleen, Joelle and I are asking the court to see.”

According to the Pew Research Center, about 40 percent of American voters now consider themselves to be independent — the highest level in 70 years.

Independents played a significant role in recent elections, including the election of President Barack

Obama. An estimated 19 million of those who voted for Obama in November 2009 identify as independents.

But advocates for independent voters say the nation’s political system discriminates against them in favor of a two-party system by, among other things, excluding independent voters from primary elections and leaving redistricting up to the Democratic and Republican parties. Independent voters are working together to change the system and eliminate what they see as inherently unfair policies.

In California, voters recently passed Proposition 14, which opens primaries to all voters. Now, rather than having Democratic and Republican primaries in which Democrats and Republicans vote for the candidates who will represent their parties in the general election, all candidates, regardless of affiliation, will be placed on a single ballot, and all voters will be able to vote. The two candidates who garner the most votes in the primary election will go on to oppose each other in the general election, regardless of their party preference.

In Colorado, however, the battle now revolves around enabling citizens who become independents to run for office without the penalty of a waiting period.

“It is time that the court give voice to independent voters and candidates who are asking for something different, outside of the partisan boundaries that often hold hostage the very issues and concerns that matter to us the most,” Riddle says. “We ask for the opportunity to offer more choice and a truer democracy to the people of Colorado.”

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Golf carts becoming hot wheels in Lyons

by Jefferson Dodge golf cart as a primary mode of transportation, and that was four years ago.

About a month ago, they had solar panels added to the roof of the cart.

“I haven’t been plugged in since, and I drive it a lot,” Tallent says of the solar power.

He uses the cart for the occasional coffee delivery, as well as runs to the post office, bank and grocery store. It has a cargo area in the back that is perfect for hauling the coffee shop’s compost, and the vehicle comes in handy when thousands descend on the town for one of the music festivals at Planet Bluegrass, Tallent says.

“It did not make sense to jump in the car every time,” he explains.

And he is saving money on gas.

“I think we calculated that, with all of the driving we were doing, it paid for itself in about two years,” he says.

Tallent has started a side business

buying old golf carts and selling them to locals. He says he has sold almost a dozen of them, has a few more on order, and knows of 18 electric and five gaspowered carts in town.

Tallent suggested to Sgt. Parker that Lyons consider a new ordinance allowing the carts on town streets, so that he could drive his legally.

Parker says he copied Lyons Ordinance 849 from one adopted by nearby Berthoud. It covers both electric and gas-powered carts.

He says that aside from the DUIs, his cart-related activities have included no citations, just educational efforts.

(Lyons does not have a police department and instead contracts with the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office for Parker’s services.)

Parker cautions that children shouldn’t be driving the carts, since operators are required to have a driver’s

license, and that young children in a golf cart are subject to the same carseat requirements as they would be in an automobile. He also says the carts should have a sign on the back saying “slow-moving vehicle.”

While they can be operated on town streets if they follow traffic rules, other areas are off-limits. Golf carts can be driven across state highways like Colorado 36 and Colorado 66 at intersections, Parker says, but they can’t be operated along those highways, because state law does not allow for them to be registered. Golf carts cannot be driven on bike paths, pedestrian bridges or sidewalks, either. Still, Parker likes the emerging transportation trend.

“With gas prices, it’s an efficient way to go to the store and get around town,” he says. “It makes sense, rather than firing up the family sedan. … To me, and the town, it’s a great way to reduce vehicle emissions and reduce traffic in the process.”

But Parker stops short of endorsing the idea of cop carts.

“I’d hate to run out of battery power halfway up the St. Vrain Canyon,” he says with a laugh.

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BoulDurango tour rolls out On July 19, 10 brewercyclists from local breweries Avery Brewing Company and Oskar Blues, as well as Durango-based Ska Brewing, will depart on their bicycles from the Avery brewery in Boulder to kick off the Second Annual Tour of BoulDurango, a five-day, 470mile trek over six mountain passes from Boulder to Durango.

En route, they will stop at craft breweries and brewpubs in an effort to bring together Colorado brewers, raise money for local charities and encourage a spirit of collaboration and camaraderie in the craft beer industry.

Each evening, after the days riding is finished, the brewers will team up with other craft breweries along the course to hold fundraising parties, with profits from pint sales, raffles and auctions going to local charities.

Participating breweries along the route include Tommyknocker Brewing, Breckenridge Brewery, Eddyline Brewpub, The Brick Oven Restaurant, Ourayle House Brewing, Colorado Boy Brewery and Ska. A Kickoff Release Party will be held July 18 for Wheelsucker Wheat Ale, a collaboration beer brewed by Ska and Avery to commemorate the ride.

The party, which will raise money for Boulder bike charity Community Cycles, will take place at the Avery Tap Room in Boulder from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The ride concludes with a Finish Line Party at 5 p.m. on July 24 at Ska Brewing in Durango. Proceeds from that event will go to the La Plata County Safe Roads Coalition.

Chef Season 5 winner and Jax Fish House Chef Hosea Rosenberg at 11:30 a.m. on July 17. Rosenberg’s StrEat Chefs’ airstream trailer will be serving fast, delicious food, made with top-quality, local ingredients throughout ArtFair weekend. Also new this year is a kids’ activity tent hosted by Boulder’s Clementine Studio. On July 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., kids can participate in a recycled materials sculpture project and on July 18 kids can explore a variety of ways to make portraits, including collage and deconstruction.

Attendees will also enjoy a sneak peek at this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival. Fringe performers will entertain crowds with live poetry readings, music, painting and performance art.

For more information, call 303449-3774, or visit www.boulderartfair. com.

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Forum on Conoco Phillips coming PLAN Boulder County will host a forum on Friday, July 16, on the impact that the Conoco Phillips development will have on the cities of Louisville and Boulder and the rest of Boulder County.

The forum will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Meadows Branch of the Boulder Public Library. Attendees are encouraged to bring their lunch.

Panelists will include Louisville City Manager Malcolm Fleming, Louisville Director of Planning and Building Safety Troy Russ and Louisville architect and historic preservationist Peter Stewart. For more information, call 303-447-3280.

Help the aspens Volunteers are needed to help protect budding colonies of aspen trees at the Reynolds Ranch open space area near Nederland on July 24.

Volunteers will assemble a temporary fence that will shelter aspen shoots from cattle and elk that graze nearby.

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The minimum age is 14, with adult supervision. The project runs from noon to 4 p.m.

To register, e-mail WildWork Volunteers@BoulderCounty.org, or call 303-678-6216 by July 21.

Walker Ranch in action July 25 If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at churning butter or chinking a log house, this is your chance.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 25 at Walker Ranch, costumed volunteers and visitors will participate in several chores, including making wooden shingles, churning butter and doing laundry the old-fashioned way.

In the vintage “base ball” game, a long-time crowd favorite, the Walker Ranch Boys will take on their rivals, the Denver Bluestockings, at 1 p.m.

Other activities include story-telling at 11:30 a.m., a school session, blacksmithing, historical games, log house cooking, calf roping, a barn dance and log hewing/wood cutting.

To get to the Walker Ranch homestead, go approximately 7.4 miles up Flagstaff Mountain Road, west of Boulder, and follow the signs.

Dogs and bicycles are not permitted, but visitors are invited to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at nearby Walker Ranch Open Space picnic sites.

For more information, call 303776-8848, or visit www.BoulderCounty OpenSpace.org.

Children’s fest arrives The Children’s Health & Harmony Festival, where Boulder families can learn about classes, products and services being offered in the community, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 18 in Central Park. The event will feature more than 40 booths and interactive areas that feature Boulder’s children and family businesses.

For more info, visit www.childrens harmony.com or 303-345-4869.

ArtFair celebrates 32nd year Downtown Boulder’s 32nd annual ArtFair will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on July 17 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 18 on Pearl Street Mall, between 10th and 16th streets.

This year’s juried event will host 120 artists whose works span mediums from watercolor, acrylics, photography and jewelry to large sculptures and works of fiber.

New to ArtFair will be a culinary demonstration by Bravo TV’s Top

Boulder companies win awards Two companies from the Boulder area were winners in the 8th Annual American Business Awards, which were presented at a June 21 ceremony in New York City.

Namasté Solar was named Best Overall Company of the Year among companies with up to 100 employees.

PureEnergy Solutions received the New Product or Service of the Year award in the consumer products category.

For a complete list of the 2010 American Business Award honorees in all categories, visit www.stevieawards. com/aba.

New pool for CAC-Boulder The Colorado Athletic ClubBoulder has started construction on a $1.6-million, 25-meter, six-lane, outdoor saline pool with a heated deck for year-round use, as well as a 1,500square-foot kids splash pad and pool.

The new facility will allow CAC to offer a masters swim, water fitness classes, easy-in/out locker rooms and lap swim. In addition, there will be zero-depth aqua play areas and water toys for kids, USA Swimmingsanctioned teams and meets, private and group swim lessons and junior development training.

The facility will also have the latest in stroke and endurance technology, including Dartfish Swim Analysis and the Vasa Ergometer dry-land training.

The first phase of construction on this project, moving all utility lines for the Twenty Ninth Street Mall, was completed June 23, and construction of the pool began the next day. The facility is expected to open in the fall.

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Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam informed the Boulder City Council that she has approved $50,000 for the hiring of an outside consultant to study the process by which the Integrated Pest Management subcommittee approves the use of synthetic chemicals on city property.

Apparently, no one in the city manager’s office is capable of inviting the subcommittee’s members to a meeting and asking, “Hey, how do you guys make up your minds about this stuff?”

So the cash-strapped city is now going to pay an outsider to come in and ask that question for them.

Doesn’t anyone downtown keep track of these things? Does the city have a manual of standard operating procedures, or are city staff buried in TPS reports?

We’d like to make the city an offer. Pay us, the reporting staff of Boulder Weekly, a measly $30,000, and we’ll handle everything. We’ll study the absolute hell out of integrated pest management and how the subcommittee functions. Then we’ll explain it all to the city manager in a very slick PowerPoint presentation titled, “Integrated Pest Management in Boulder: WTF?” The city will save $20,000, and the newsroom staff will finally get that month drinking on the beach in Tahiti.

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Misogynist Mel-odrama Maybe you’ve been on an expedition through the Candelaria Caves in Guatemala and haven’t heard about Mel Gibson’s latest meltdown — or series of meltdowns.

The actor/director is once again a victim of his own foul mouth.

Recordings released by RadarOnline.com reveal someone who sounds a lot like Gibson, 54, coming shockingly unglued and shouting disturbing misogynist and racist crap while arguing with his former girlfriend and babymama Oksana Grigorieva, 40.

In the series of recorded rants, Gibson blasts Grigorieva for having breast implants and for dressing like a “pig in heat,” telling her that if she gets raped by a “pack of fucking niggers” she’ll deserve it.

He also threatens to fire the person who’s helping Grigorieva with childcare for their 9-month-old daughter Lucia. “I’ll report her to the fucking people that take fucking money from the wetbacks, OK?” At one point, he tells Grigorieva that she should “fucking smile” and “blow” him.

In yet another recording, he seems to admit to hitting Grigorieva in the face twice while she was holding the baby. When she confronts him about the alleged assault, Gibson replies: “You know what? You fucking deserved it.”

When Grigorieva replies by telling him he’ll pay for striking her — he is being investigated for domestic violence — Gibson makes what sounds like a death threat.

“I’ll put you in a fucking rose garden, you cunt!” he shouts.

Take this together with his previous rant insulting Jews, and it seems the only people that Gibson hasn’t yet insulted are Asians, Protestants and conservative white male Catholics, like himself.

Gibson’s racist epithets have garnered a lot of well-deserved condemnation.

But more than racism, what the rants reveal is Gibson’s misogyny. Sadly, most media outlets are focused on the racist taunts, seeming to overlook the fact that all of this hatred is aimed directly at a woman.

In the recordings, Gibson repeatedly calls Grigorieva a “bitch,” a “whore,” a “fucking cunt” and, apparently needing to mix things up a bit, tosses in “fucking cunt whore,” for good measure. In fact, he seems incapable of saying anything to her unless his raving is accompanied by some combination of those words.

Together with his attempt to control what she wears, his apparent admission of violence and the astonishing threat to bury Grigorieva, the rants reveal a man who has no respect for women — at least women who aren’t virgins named Maria.

It’s time for the Pope to stage an intervention.

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WOMEN INMATES CALL STRIP-SEARCH PROCEDURE DEMEANING, TRAUMATIZING BY PAMELA WHITE

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eing strip-searched has long been a part of incarceration. But inmates at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF) say a change in their strip-search procedure subjects them to undue humiliation and leaves some of them traumatized, particularly those with a history of sexual assault.

Boulder Weekly has received 10 hand-written letters from inmates at DWCF describing their experiences with the new strip-search procedure, which requires women to part and lift their labia and to pull back their clitoral hoods to prove that they aren’t hiding contraband in their vagina or vulva.

Some of the inmates complained that the new procedure is causing them great distress due to past trauma.

Others state that contact with and comments by a lesbian correctional officer (CO) have left them feeling demeaned. Still others write they are considering curtailing their visits with loved ones, as well as their involvement in prison programs, in order to avoid being strip-searched this way.

Inmate Krystal Voss writes, “I’ve been through daily strip searches as a condition of my job in the print shop for 2-1/2 years. It did not bother me much until the ‘new procedure’ began.

“The first time I was told to spread my labia for a search, the CO doing it grinned and acted very pleased to see my inner folds. She is apparently a lesbian and very masculine,” Voss continues. “I thought it was just her demeanor that upset me, but it continued to feel like a violation.

Each time, no matter what the CO does to give the order, I feel violated, anxious and humiliated.

I am one of the few who has never been raped or molested. I’m sure it is much worse for those who have been.”

Tanya Martin-Hayes writes that depending on which correction officer is performing the strip search, an inmate might be required to do more than part her labia; she might be required to pull back on her clitoral hood for visual inspection. see STRIPPED Page 16

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“We are being forced to submit to further humiliation, degradation and violation by staff,” she writes.

Those who refuse may face “physical force and intimidation,” as well as the loss of prison jobs, housing assignments and family visits.

One inmate writes that not only does she find the procedure “humiliating, frightening and unnecessary,” she is also concerned about hygiene issues and the possible spread of sexually transmitted infections by hand.

“There is no place to wash our hands in the strip-out room, and with the high rate of diseases such as hepatitis C and herpes in the prison population, I feel this puts us all at risk,” she writes.

Several of the letters received by Boulder Weekly were written by women who say they are victims of past sexual violence and feel further traumatized by the invasive nature of this procedure.

“I am a survivor of incest,” writes one DWCF inmate. “… [W]hen this subject is talked about, I have a near panic attack. I start crying, and I have to walk away. I haven’t experienced the new ‘strip-out’ procedure yet. My children/grandchildren are planning a special visit to see me, and I want to call them and say, ‘Don’t come.’”

The inmate writes that she doesn’t want to participate in any prison program that might require random stripsearching of participants for fear of having to go through the procedure.

Several of the inmates who contacted the paper say that many of the guards are as uncomfortable with the new procedure as they are and have asked them to write up grievances about it in hopes that DWCF will return to less invasive methods of strip-searching.

According to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti, the procedure inmates have been experiencing since January isn’t a new procedure. However, it wasn’t being used in Denver. DWCF wasn’t being consistent with the procedure followed at La Vista Women’s Correctional Facility in Pueblo.

“There was conversation between the two women’s facilities, and everybody came into compliance,” Sanguinetti says. “Now we follow our policy very strictly, and that does not include squatting and coughing. It’s completely a visual assessment.”

She says it’s important to note that women are never strip-searched by men, nor are male inmates stripsearched by women.

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She also says that if a lesbian guard were to say or do things during a strip-search that made inmates feel uncomfortable, DOC would want to know about it “absolutely.”

“If they’re not comfortable reporting it with their names, we have an anonymous tip line they can call,” she says.

When asked how guards would respond to an inmate who refused to comply with the strip-search, Sanguinetti said most likely the inmate would be cuffed and placed in an observation cell — a dry cell — where prison staff could talk to the person.

But one letter writer claims that an inmate who refused had a can of pepper-type spray held in front of her face and was told to comply or risk getting doused.

Sanguinetti defends the invasiveness of the procedure, saying it is necessary to curtail the introduction of contraband into prison. In the few weeks prior to DWCF’s implementation of this procedure, there were instances in which inmates had smuggled contraband between their labia.

“It could be cigarettes, drugs, razor blades — things like that,” she says.

Though she has never heard of women being required to pull back their clitoral hoods and could not say what a woman might be able to smuggle there, she says that, on the men’s side, male inmates are made to retract the foreskins of their penises during a strip search.

As for re-traumatizing survivors of sexual assault, Sanguinetti says DOC has mental-health staff available to work with inmates.

“Our mental health is very aware of it and very able and willing to address those issues as they come up,” she says.

But some question the wisdom of enforcing a blanket procedure on a population in which high numbers have experienced sexual trauma, suggesting that perhaps the more invasive strip search should be restricted for inmates who break rules and are at risk for smuggling contraband.

“I have had a [certain] job for three years, and in my five years that I have been incarcerated, I have been writeup free,” writes one inmate, who did not want her name published. “It is a requirement of my job, as well as having to strip out every day. I have never had a problem with that until they added the new labia lift procedure. I feel like I am being punished for following the rules. I don’t believe this new procedure is necessary for people who don’t get in trouble ever.”

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Elderly exploitation Police arrested Ollie Eddington on suspicion of committing wrongs to at-risk adults and theft on July 7.

Eddington allegedly invited himself into the backyard of a 93-year-old female on June 11 and tried to convince her he was there to repair her roof, police said. When she did not believe him, he reportedly told her he could trim her tree. She agreed to allow him to trim the identified trees and after trimming four to six small branches, he told her she owed him $2,400, according to the police report. She told him that was an outrageous price, the report said, and he allegedly offered to reduce the price, so she wrote him a check for $2,200 because she said she felt scared.

On July 8, an 86-year-old man living in unincorporated Boulder County told police he was also a victim of Eddington. According to the report, Eddington knocked on the man’s door and offered to clean his gutters for $45, then told the victim he had to have his tree trimmed. After cutting a few low branches on the tree, Eddington told the man he owed him $1,045, police said. The man said he wrote a check for the full amount, and that Eddington was on his property for about one hour while he cleaned the gutters, trimmed the trees and cleaned up the debris.

Police said Eddington is on probation in Georgia for exploitation of the elderly. Part of his conditions of probation in Georgia is that he is banned from the state of Georgia except for Echols County and that Eddington does not do any work or invoices for anyone over the age of 70, according to the report. The Longmont Police Department and the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office say further investigation has revealed several more complaints against Eddington throughout the area, including in Englewood, Denver and Loveland, the report said.

Anyone with information on other work done by Eddington or his business, “Tree Guys,” should contact Det. Stephen Desmond of the Longmont police at 303-7744590, Det. Ali Thompson of the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office at 303-441-3643, or Det. Randy Wilber of the Boulder County Boulder Weekly

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Catalytic cons More than 100 cases of catalytic converter theft have occurred throughout the greater Denver metropolitan area since January, according to the Colorado Information Analysis Center (CIAC). In fewer than 60 seconds, a two-person team can remove a catalytic converter from a targeted vehicle using an electric saw. A catalytic converter is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal combustion engine.

Late-model Toyota Tacomas and Toyota 4-Runners are the primary targeted vehicles for catalytic converter theft. Compared to other cars, such vehicles sit higher off the ground and have catalytic converters that are more easily accessible to thieves.

The majority of catalytic converter thefts have occurred in public parking lots, such as grocery stores, RTD Park-n-Ride stations and employee parking lots. Preventative or protective measures do exist: Cages or other fixtures can be installed around the catalytic converter to prevent removal. Traceable identifiers are also available to mark the converters.

Anyone who has information pertaining to this crime, or has been a victim of this crime, is urged to report the theft to local law enforcement agencies first and then to contact the CIAC at 1-877-5092422 or via email at ciac@ciac.co. gov.

Overdue hiker Authorities received a report of a possible lost hiker in the area of 500 Taylor Rd. in the early evening of July 11. A Lyons woman had gone hiking at about 10:30 a.m. and was expected to return about three hours later.

Members of various local rescue teams and the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office responded to search for the woman. They began their search at 7:30 p.m., and rescue team members located her around 9:30 p.m., thanks to the air horn she was using. She had become disoriented and had decided to wait until daylight to find her way home. She was uninjured.

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fter he retired from Most of their customers are regumasonry construction lars — contractors of every kind, towin 1989, Robert Barlow truck drivers (they get to keep cars if decided he’d use his customers don’t pay), machine shops, free time for a little small manufacturers, renovators and business, buying and selling cans and do-it-yourselfers, as well as 60 to 70 other discarded aluminum. people a day with five or more The modest Boulder business pounds of aluminum cans each. soon expanded to cover other Charmaine Ortega Getz kinds of metals, but it has the same name today: Western Aluminum Recycling.

It remains in the same place it began — 3280 Valmont Rd., Unit C. And it’s not the classic junk yard you would expect — it’s part of a small industrial strip.

Every day except Sunday, through two small warehouses and a tiny office, flows a stream of metals, from bags of soda cans to just about anything else metallic that doesn’t attract a magnet.

They accept screws, slidingdoor tracks, copper pipes, car parts, weather-stripping, storm windows and more. No electronics, please.

Sons Brad and Dale left the construction and engineering trades, respectively, to join their father.

Prices currently range from about “I have a degree from the School a dime a pound for the lowest grade of Mines,” says Dale. “Made way of cans to as much as $8 per pound more money than I do now as a minfor carbide tools. When metal coming engineer, but it was a desk job. modities prices change, so do what Hated it. Knew I had to be outside scrap metal recyclers pay and get paid. more, and doing something physical.”

Small dealers such as Western are Robert’s widow, Marlene, still the first rung of the commercial recykeeps the books, sans computer. No cling ladder — buying scrap metal website, no big signs out front. locally and selling it to bigger recy-

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clers who resell to markets that need loads of materials to send to smelters and foreign countries.

Western attracts people who want more than a tax deduction for bringing in their old metal.

And when times get tough, some people resort to stealing anything for a quick buck: copper wiring torn out of municipal streetlights, catalytic converters snipped off the undersides of cars, parts taken from construction yards and more.

So scrap metal recyclers often get tips from law enforcement and companies that know the first place certain missing goods turn up will be on their doorsteps.

“If we’re really suspicious, we just don’t buy,” says Dale.

“For new customers, we get a photocopy of an ID, their license plate numbers and make of car. Fortunately, we’ve had very few instances of things turning out to be stolen.”

For the Barlows, recycling is not just a living.

“It’s a neat thing to have been a mining engineer, where we were digging metals out of the ground,” says Dale. “And now I get to send off the end products to be recycled.”

Recycling hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. For more information, call 303-447-0251.

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was one of his funny little remarks after we got off the stage,” says former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, explaining how Jerry Garcia gave the Grateful Dead’s percussion section its name. “It was like, ‘You guys sound like devils.

You’re rhythm devils.’ It was one of those kinds of moments. And it kinda stuck. People started calling the drums and space part of the show ‘Rhythm Devils.’”

The Rhythm Devils segment of Grateful Dead shows began in the mid-’70s, when percussionists Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart began doing extended drum sessions that tied the first set of the performance to the second set. While some audience members took the opportunity to get beer, the bulk of the crowd remained glued in their seats, transfixed at the sheer display of power issuing from the stage.

The whole phenomenon known as “The Rhythm Devils” gelled in the public mind when Francis Ford Coppola approached the two musicians to lay down a percussion-based soundtrack for the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. After experiencing a Grateful Dead performance at the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco, Coppola was captivated by the primeval and transcendent qualities of 20 July 15, 2010

the band’s percussion section. The film — based on Joseph Conrad’s classic, Heart of Darkness — captures a river journey penetrating the dankest depths of jungle — symbolizing the descent of the narrator into the primordial tangles and recesses of the unconscious mind.

If all of this sounds Jungian, that’s because it is. On the Grateful Dead stage, the Rhythm Devils reproduced this journey every night during the “drums/space” segment of the performance, but using percussion instruments as the transportation vehicle rather than literary symbolism. Anchoring the film with the Rhythm Devils’ percussion score became the perfect marriage of visuals and sound, resulting in one of America’s most celebrated cinematic masterpieces.

“It was a great honor to be part of that amazing movie,” Hart says. “It was a thrill. Francis thought that music itself was 50 percent of the emotional payload that you need to get from a film. He was different from everybody else; he thought that sound was really important.

This moved the experience in the theater up quite a few notches.”

Downtown Boulder’s 32nd Annual ArtFair — Lots of art happening this weekend. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303449-3774.

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

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Films on the Rocks — Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With music by Jonny Barber & The Rhythm Razors. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Hart explains that Coppola was so concerned about the sound element that he even went so far as to install new state-of-the-art Meyer sound systems (the same system used by the Grateful Dead) in theaters where the movie was opening. For Hart and Kreutzmann, the experience opened a wealth of new avenues to explore with percussion. The existing repertory of available instruments proved to be too limiting for the Rhythm Devils, forcing them to design and build original percussion instruments just for the film.

“The Beast” — one of the Rhythm Devils’ most well-known instruments played religiously during Grateful Dead performances — was born during those sessions, along with a mountain of other instruments. Even today, from using tangled knots of centuries-old grapevine root to innovating high-tech sound devices, Hart remains a passionate instrument builder. And he attributes the tradition to Apocalypse Now. “When Francis showed me the movie, there were no drums that existed on this planet that could really coexist with the visual component of that film, so we had to build them. [Grateful Dead roadie] Ramrod and I made these big giant steel drums and put ’em up in the air, and that’s what we used for the air strike at the end — the last six min-

utes with all those monstrous sounds.

So I learned how to be an instrument builder as well during the Apocalypse Now sessions.”

The outtakes from the film were released in 1983 as The Rhythm Devils Play River Music, an album that’s emblematic of the most developmentally visionary epoch of the Grateful Dead’s long, strange trip. After Jerry Garcia’s 1995 death, the Rhythm Devils disbanded, with Kreutzmann playing sporadically with different musicians as he pursued his other passion as a digital artist. Meanwhile, Hart continued on with his world music ensemble, the Global Drum Project, when he wasn’t working with the Smithsonian Institute preserving archaic recordings of world music and Americana. Eventually, Kreutzmann and Hart would reunite in the new millennium to tour on the Furthur Festival with The Other Ones, and later for The Dead, which continued into 2009.

Those who caught The Dead on their last tour were treated to a new twist in the Rhythm Devils performance when Mickey Hart introduced one of his current projects, “Rhythms of the Universe,” which sonically transported fans to various celestial bodies — or what Hart calls “events” — across the cosmos. Working with leading

physicists, computer scientists and NASA, Hart’s idea is to transpose light waves into sound waves, giving listeners a glance at exactly what the universe sounds like.

“In a way it’s like playing with the sound of God,” says Hart. “That’s my perception of it all, ‘the hand of God’ — whatever you want to call it — it was the creational force that blew us all into existence. It’s really a lot of fun, to say the least. We started with the Big Bang and wound up on earth. We went to Saturn, to Jupiter. We went to Mars. In 23 days we went to 23 different zones.”

While Hart continues to refine this project, Kreutzmann has been staying busy touring and recording with his new band, 7 Walkers, which boasts among its ranks guitarist Papa Mali, multiinstrumentalist Matt Hubbard and bassist Reed Mathis. But if you go to the Rhythm Devils show, don’t expect to hear anything from Kreutzmann’s or Hart’s many side projects. As Hart says, “It’s not that kind of zone.”

What to expect? Back in 2006, the Rhythm Devils toured for the first time with a full instrumental band that included Phish bassist Mike Gordon, guitarist Steve Kimmock, vocalist Jen Durkin (Deep Banana Blackout), and Nigerian percussionist Sikiru Adepoju.

A huge success, that tour featured songs

that ran the gamut from percussionbased strains of classic Dead tracks to a handful of brand new songs written by Jerry Garcia’s longtime songwriting foil, Robert Hunter, who has also penned a mixed bag of new material for the current tour.

“They’re Bob Hunter at his finest,” Hart says. “Just impressive words. He can spin a great story. It’s very powerful lyrically, and it goes really well with our new music.”

Joining the Rhythm Devils this time around are guitarist Davy Knowles from Backdoor Slam and bassist Andy Hess. Meanwhile, multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams will be fronting the band on the summer half of the tour, with Tim Bluhm from The Mother Hips taking up residence for the justannounced fall leg.

“It’s new territory for us,” Hart says.

“We’re playing with different players, and we’re also exploring some new spaces. A little more electronic. It’s like riding a real comfortable horse. You’ve got the blues. You’ve got rock ’n’ roll.

You’ve got this world music component to it. It’s kind of an interesting brew. A lot of spice. I don’t know what you’d call it, but it makes you dance and it makes you smile, and that’s really what we’re after.”

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would say it’s magic,” Dead Weather singer Alison Mosshart says when asked how her fledgling band has created two critically acclaimed albums in less than a year. “The whole fact that there’s this band now called the Dead Weather is pretty bizarre to all of us, you know. None of us had time to do this or plan this or knew what this would become.”

But the band has become a seemingly unstoppable beast, a Frankenstein of misplaced musicians, the latest burst of genius to come from the endless depths of mind of the new Mad Hatter of Rock, Jack White.

“Working with Jack is incredible. He’s a man that has 25 ideas a minute and endless amounts of energy and enthusiasm,” Mosshart says. “He’s inspired from everywhere, and he’s so involved in everything. He’s a great person to make stuff with, and he’s incredibly encouraging and incredibly interested in your opinion, and he’s really a team player. I don’t think that many people realize that about him.”

Though the details vary depending on the day and the storyteller, the basic facts suggest that the Dead Weather essentially began on a 2008 tour with one of White’s other projects, the Raconteurs, who were touring with The Kills, Mosshart’s other band. White had a sore throat, and he asked Mosshart to fill in on vocals. Something clicked. After the tour, Mosshart grabbed a bus to Nashville and met White and two of his fellow Raconteurs, keyboardist Dean Fertita and bassist Jack Lawrence, at White’s studio and started making music.

That’s when the aforementioned magic started.

With White manning the drums and Fertita grabbing the guitar, they recorded six songs in 15 hours, Mosshart says, songs that made it to their first record, Horehound. They knew they had something. Finding

just one person you can make music with can be a monumental, life-changing discovery for a musician; to simultaneously find three other players with whom you breathe and act as a single musical organism was breathtaking.

“We don’t have to have conversations about what we’re trying to do, what we’re trying to make, it just happens,” Mosshart says. “The music kind of tells us everything. We play it with astonished looks on our faces, you know?”

The music they have produced — two stellar, critically acclaimed albums in nine months — is similarly astonishing. They are blues-rock at its rawest. Fertita’s grizzled guitar lines weave with White’s spastic drumming and Lawrence’s distorted bass to create the perfect backdrop for Mosshart’s snarling vocals and vaguely suggestive lyrics. Their second, equally ferocious album, Sea of Cowards, came out in May of this year.

“To me, it was a record written for the stage,” Mosshart says. “It’s kind of daredevil shit, and the whole record is sort of filled with it. A lot of the stuff on it is

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like, recorded, half-recorded, when we have a day off in Nashville or two, and we’d go in and record 45 seconds of something and then leave again and come back to it and be like, ‘That 45 seconds was so bad-ass we have to keep it, but it’s not a song, so what do we do?’ We need to make it into a song but we don’t want to lose it, so we start playing along with that 45 seconds, we’d get another tape machine in there so we could run two reels of tape at once and try to play along with ourselves and try to turn the song into a song, and so all these songs, they feel like they’ve got this kind of weird life. They kind of start in this one way, then they grow and then they grow and they grow and they become what they are.”

The music feels gritty and vintage, like a worn album cover. Since both Dead Weather albums are recorded on tape, not digitally, all the pops, hisses and barely audible mistakes are still there in the final versions of all the songs. The tracks that were good enough for the album were selected for their musical accomplishment, not their audiophile perfection. It’s a simpler way to record, free from the daunting infinity of tweaks and options included in a box of Pro Tools, and it seems to be the way Mosshart likes it. “[Using analog] makes the recording process a little bit more like the performance process,” she says.

“There’s a human feeling to it, you know what I mean? You can’t go through and get rid of every little crackle or every little mess-up. And I think those things are beautiful, and that it gives character to records and songs and makes them human, and people can relate to them more.”

Mosshart also has found time to work on the Kills’ newest album, which she expects to finish by the end of September, though she didn’t want to speculate on a release date.

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usicals require many different things lines with cadence and lyricism, much like a of a theater company, compared to Shakespeare play. The plot revolves around two young their song-less counterparts. You people, 16-year-old Luisa (Emily Van Fleet) and have to get instrumentalists. You 20-year-old Matt (Nick Henderson), who are desperhave to find actors who can sing. ately in love despite their parents’ seeming hatred of You have to figure out where to place the band on the each other. In reality, we learn as the play unfolds, the stage, how to coordinate parents are actually friends who Glenn Asakawa rehearsals between the band have concocted said hatred in and the ensemble. Musicals an attempt to manipulate their are simply more complicated children into falling in love — far more so — than plays. with each other. They even sing And while the Colorado a song about the effectiveness Shakespeare Festival has of reverse psychology (“Never impressively performed say ‘No’”). They hire bandits to Shakespeare for decades, after kidnap Luisa, opting for the seeing their rendition of Tom “first-class one” when the brigJones’ The Fantasticks, just the and El Gallo presents them CSF’s second musical, I’m not with options, in song. convinced they’ve worked out In a hilarious fight scene the all the kinks involved with CSF pulls off superbly, Matt putting on a musical producsaves the day, and the families tion. attempt to live happily ever after.

That’s not to say The But as their frustration with Fantasticks was bad. There each other and their children were plenty of great moments. grows, they eventually reveal the It’s just that on the night I farce. The lovers’ passion shatattended, the vocal perforEmily Van Fleet, left, plays Luisa and Nick Hen- ters as the illusion of heroism derson plays Matt in The Fantasticks mances from the actors were, dies, and the first act ends. across the board, marred with The second act turns from minor mistakes — a surprising whimsical to bizarre, practically deviation from the high quality we’ve come to expect avant-garde. Head-in-the-clouds romantic Matt from the CSF. leaves Luisa to go see the world, and El Gallo (Seth The Fantasticks has the great honor of being the Panitch) sends his actors after him to “teach” him the longest-running off-Broadway musical (42 years) of painful realities of life. After Matt leaves, Luisa begins all time. I’m not sure why. It’s delightfully weird and to fall for El Gallo’s rugged good looks, and El Gallo fun, but it seems very far from the mainstream to have becomes semi-omnipotent as he takes Luisa to watch such broad appeal. Jones based the story off The Matt getting tortured.

Romancers, by Cyrano de Bergerac scribe Edmond It’s a strang scene. When Luisa holds a mask to Rostand, and the actors deliver sometimes-rhyming her eyes, the torture becomes gleeful fun. When she

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removes the mask, she sees the torture for what it is. I can imagine some sort of metaphoric interpretation about growing out of childhood innocence and naivete, but regardless, it’s an undeniably odd way of expressing it.

There is plenty to praise in the CSF’s production of The Fantasticks. Van Fleet is an excellent Luisa, playing the starry-eyed girl with convincing teenage enthusiasm and self-obsession. Her voice is stellar, though not immune to the occasional crack and hiccup that seemed to plague the cast the night I attended.

Henderson plays Matt with equally blind romanticism.

Panitch is a dashing El Gallo. Together, the cast combines to deliver an extremely entertaining performance.

My main criticism is of the music, and my criticism comes in two forms. First, the score. The original score,

by Harvey Schmidt, is sparse, manned only by a piano and a harp. If you come to The Fantasticks expecting a Chicago-style orchestra itching to rock your socks off, you will be sorely disappointed. I think it’s high time someone updated the score to include a full orchestra; at times, listening to a piano accompany the singers felt a little too much like watching a costumed rehearsal.

Secondly, the musicians just didn’t have their A-game the night I attended. Not a single cast member had a knockout performance; their voices, at times, sounded tired, unable to handle the deceptively tricky melodies of the score. Panitch must have dazzled Director Sands Hall with his acting skills, because his voice couldn’t quite produce the resonance necessary to make the low notes in “Try To Remember” sparkle. The low notes sounded like they pretty much bottomed out his range.

“Plant a radish, get a radish,” bemoan the parents in The Fantasticks. As far as musicals go, it seems like The Fantasticks could have used a little more fertilizer.

The final harvest is tasty enough, but with proper care, it could have been much better.

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What’s in a video game?

Impossible to ignore, the question arises: Are they art?

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s children, many of us spent hundreds of hours competing against the computer, and our parents’ patience, playing epic action-adventure video games.

At this point, presumably, none among us understands exactly what that incredible amount of time and energy did to our minds and bodies. Still, I presume you, too, can feel pretty good knowing that your childhood video-game habit didn’t progress into playing Grand Theft Auto for 30 hours straight while binging on cocaine as an adult.

Tom Bissell, a Guggenheim Fellow and awardwinning author of Chasing the Sea and The Father of All Things, wasn’t so lucky.

Bissell is a writing professor at Portland State University and has written for Harper’s and The New Yorker; his curious rise to literary prominence has seen him traverse penning fake DVD commentaries to detailing his experience as the son of a Vietnam veteran. All the while, Bissell has never beaten his virtually life-long addiction to video games, which has been so feverish in the past few years that Bissell missed then-President-elect Obama’s November 2008 acceptance speech because he couldn’t stop playing Fallout 3. He’s eagerly fallen in love with every gaming system from the original Nintendo to the Xbox 360, and believes that video games represent modern culture’s creative evolution from the novel form. In short, Bissell is hooked.

In the just-released Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, his fifth book, Bissell describes the “unprecedented inventiveness” of early games such as Super Mario Bros, noting that “in film and literature, such surrealistic fantasy typically occurs at the outer edge of experimentalism.” Enthusiastically walking us through every inch of his favorite recent titles, he passionately delineates the video game’s startling and — for gamers like Bissell — endlessly fascinating and engaging evolution, from staring contests like Pong to the allconsuming (and morally reprehensible) “open world” mayhem of Grand Theft Auto.

Whether video games qualify as art — or potentially profound art — is a topic that’s gained some steam lately. Roger Ebert, arguably America’s most beloved film critic during the past few decades, put in his two cents recently on the Chicago Sun Times’ website, stating: “I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form.”

Ebert caught fire from video game proponents over the winter for previously asserting that “no one Boulder Weekly

by Adam Perry has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers and novelists.” I would agree, with the caveat that film, for instance, was also not worthy of comparison to literature when it first appeared. Anything can happen. However, some video game enthusiasts take the argument to another level, claiming that some recent games open up a spiritual world all but unavailable to modern youngsters.

Last month, an old San Francisco friend of mine named Matt Dillon — who is now a graduate student in religious studies at Rice University — spent a weekend with my family and me. He said that, “In an era in which huge swaths of the youth population are neither brought up in a religious atmosphere … nor particularly literate, certain video games can open portals to the unconscious.” He said that role-playing video games such as World of Warcraft can expose the spiritually lacking 21st century layperson “to the imaginative realization that there are larger, more spacious, more curious dimensions to the universe than they typically acknowledge.”

World of Warcraft urges participants to create a character and sustain an ongoing battle-filled life inside the game. Some claim that there is little difference between playing these bloody video games and past generations reading about carnage in books by Homer and Tolkein. In these spiritually empty times, we must derive meaningful excitement and emotional progress from anything at our disposal, they say.

Still, consciously choosing to engage in destructive behavior in games like Grand Theft Auto, even under the assumption that it’s OK to zoom in with a sniper rifle and blow the head off a helicopter pilot if it’s only a video-game helicopter pilot, is a far cry from reading about Perseus beheading Medusa. Yes, it can be astoundingly fun to spend an idle hour inside the make-believe spaces of video games, where there are no real-world consequences beyond, say, unemployment and obesity. But it’s hard not to wonder: If the modern make-believe world we choose to inhabit is simply detritus, and life may well be no more than a narrative we tell ourselves, which is the world in which our actions don’t count?

There aren’t a lot of people with time and savings enough to literally play video games from dusk ’til dawn every day of the week in order to come to a conclusion such as Tom Bissell’s: “a presiding intelligence exists within [video games] along with you, and it is this sensation that invites the otherwise unworkable comparisons between games and other forms of narrative art.”

Sadly, there are millions of people who would join Bissell in relishing the time when, while playing Grand Theft Auto IV, he joyfully “sniped the pilot of a zooming-by news chopper while standing on [a] building and watched it whirlingly plunge down into the street and explode.” Bissell sincerely called this one of his “fondest memories,” along with running over a man repeatedly with a truck while playing the same game.

On that note, I recently spoke with Phil Solomon, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker who is on the film studies faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder and who has a history of fascination with video games. Solomon mostly commented on “firstperson shooter” games, which interestingly make people like Bissell giddy and others concerned about what Solomon calls “morality issues.”

Solomon thinks that violence in video games has changed since Grand Theft Auto’s controversial San Andreas edition.

“There has been a noticeable shift in how injuries and dying are depicted by the victims,” he says. “The characters now appear to suffer. They bend over, apparently racked with pain, sometimes run away hunched over, or fall and slump down slowly. It can really harsh any violent high you might be getting, I should think.

“As the verisimilitude increases from game to game, the cartoonish, guilt-free run-amucks now feel just a bit different, as if they are inviting some degree of digi-empathy from more realistic considerations of consequence. ... I’d be very curious to know how young people are finding these changes, and whether or not it affects their gaming dispositions.”

Whether the video game is an authentic art form and whether video games truly desensitize us to violence are separate arguments, but to give video games credit, every profound form of art has run up against ethical issues. Solomon thinks the motives and tendencies of game designers are evolving in ethically and psychologically interesting ways.

“Game designers seem to be interested in having moral choices made during gameplay affect the consequences to the character’s timeline,” he says. “If they can actually induce you to care about these characters, as we often do when watching a film, then I think the empathy factor will start creeping in and change the relationship of cause and effect: Actions will no longer just be an immediate release of dopamine, but will have ‘lasting consequences.’”

Imagine if all those extra minutes you spent bashing Mario’s head into blocks to get excess coins had resulted in the princess ultimately not wanting to be saved by such a greedy person.

“The superego,” according to Solomon, “is starting to insinuate itself over the immediate, but short-lived goal-oriented pleasures of the id controller.”

Art form or not, and ethical or not, video games are amassing extra lives of their own.

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From sedition to submission The CSF tames another Shrew

by Gary Zeidner Casey A. Cass

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ore than any other of his works, The Taming of the Shrew is a testament to Shakespeare’s genius and unbelievable staying power. It is easy to understand why plays like Hamlet, with its intrigue, action and quotability, and Romeo and Juliet, with its tragic love story and familial feuding, still draw droves to the theatre. Though written so long ago, these stories still resonate with modern audiences on a very basic level.

The Taming of the Shrew, on the other hand, concerns itself almost entirely with the forced marriage and forceful subjugation of the will of a wife by her husband.

You can’t find a rerun of All in the Family, a similarly politically incorrect show from a mere 35 years ago, on any of the 700 channels on your television, yet theatre companies perform The Taming of the Shrew, a 400-year-old play, all over the world to this day, and people continue to enjoy it.

Director Stephanie Shine chose not to update the setting, physically or temporally, of The Taming of the Shrew. Aside from the use of some modern music, including an early and perfectly calculated appearance of Rosemary Clooney’s “Mambo Italiano,” this Shrew appears much as it might have back in old Will’s day.

Anne Murphy’s costumes, particularly Petruchio’s crazed wedding garb, possess a wonderful Old World charm. They, even more than the set design, which is somewhat hamstrung by the need to share much of King Lear’s Western slat board construction, give the play its identity.

Given The Taming of the Shrew’s anachronistic and

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Augustus Truhn plays Petruchio and Karyn Casl plays Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.

possibly distasteful subject matter and the potential confusion caused by multiple characters pretending to be other characters, it would be easy for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of it to come off the rails. Thankfully, this Shrew stays fixed firmly on course and delivers a highly entertaining night — or day — out. Its success is due in large part to a few key, outstanding performances.

As written, our shrew, Kate (Karyn Casl), is for most of the play a terrifying harpy, her every word and action full of venom and spite. In the past, I have seen actresses play Kate in a very one-note fashion, which, as one might expect, drains her of much of her interest and prevents the audience from accepting her transformation into an obedient wife. Casl avoids this pitfall admirably. Her Kate appears at first to be a sort of proto-feminist rather than a raving bitch, and this

allows the audience to empathize with her as she is almost literally beaten into submission.

Kate’s husband, Petruchio (Augustus Truhn), is very much the lynchpin of The Taming of the Shrew. Given his initial motivation for wooing Kate (more financial than romantic) and his later treatment of her — starving her, using forced sleep deprivation on her, etc. — it takes a nimble performer to keep the audience on his side. Truhn seems almost effortless in his portrayal of Petruchio, and his performance elevates The Taming of the Shrew from good to great. He exhibits tremendous range as he tackles Petruchio as a self-assured gentleman, a sly comedian and a stern-but-loving husband.

The real surprise of The Taming of the Shrew is Geoffrey Kent’s turn as Petruchio’s servant, Grumio. I’ve seen Kent in a handful of productions, and he always delivers, but he takes it up a notch with his hilarious Grumio. He steals many scenes and nearly the entire show. He even banters effectively with the audience while remaining in character. He has really outdone himself this time around.

Finally, there is a bit of stunt casting in The Taming of the Shrew that deserves mention. The producing artistic director of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Philip Sneed, plays the part of Gremio, one of the suitors of Kate’s younger sister, Bianca (Alexandra Lewis). After a lightning-fast costume change between his pre-show introductions and his early-scene entrance, Sneed gives us a Gremio full of wit. He is a pleasure to watch.

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music Black Seeds & Katchafire. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Colorado Music Festival — Best of Brahms.

7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 6 p.m.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7201.

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

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

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

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

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m.

Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

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

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

O.A.R. — With Citizen Cope. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Rhythm on the Rails Concert Series — With Girls on Top! 6:45 p.m. Whistlestop Station, First Avenue and Murray Street, Niwot, www. niwot.com/events/.

Ron Miles Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

SacreBleu! — Gypsy jazz. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Stubborn Gray. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

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Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m.

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

events 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless. 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

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

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Cazadores Tequila Social. 6:30 p.m. Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-0444.

Colorado Music Festival — Talk Under the Tent. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Digital Salon: What’s New in Adobe CS5.

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Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-8655000. Through Oct. 31.

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Humor & Pathos — Artwork by Gary Sweeney.

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

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

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Arvada Center for the Arts, 901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 29.

Mi Frontera Es Su Frontera — Artwork by Tony Ortega.

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

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Oil paintings by Marie Channer.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303497-2408. Through July 31.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Sculpture by Jane Yamada.

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Pottery by Elizabeth Lazarus. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline

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Shape and Spirit: The Lutz Bamboo Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

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

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

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Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Kae Rader’s Appreciative Leadership.

6:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Friday, July 16 Heather McDonald’s You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again. 12 p.m.

Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

5-7 p.m. Gondolier Cafe, 1600 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-503-9755.

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Healing Meditation with Alan McAllister.

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

Bamsha Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Bottoms Up Blues Gang. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Ballyhoo!, Mike Pinto. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Buckner Funkenjazz. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Colorado Music Festival — Best of Brahms.

7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Cool Shooz. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 9 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Friday Afternoon Club Concert Series — With Jakarta. Benefits Center for Resource Conservation and Leave No Trace. 5:30 p.m.

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

Interstate Stash Express. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Monday, July 19 Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.”

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

Tuesday, July 20 Buzzy Jackson’s Shaking the Family Tree. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Wednesday, July 21 Rebecca Cantrell’s A Night of Long Knives. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Louisville Downtown Street Faire — With David and Linda LaFlamme. 6:30 p.m. Front and Spruce Streets in Historic Downtown Louisville, 303-665-3355.

Jamie Cullum. 7 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St., Denver, 720-865-3500.

Kosmos. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Lotus. 7 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970-482-4420.

Neptune’s Only Daughter. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Nick O’Connor, Pilgrim Road. 7:30 p.m.

Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Orchestra La Brava. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Portal. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Say-So Crazies. 10:15 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

events ArtWalk Longmont. 6-9 p.m. Third Avenue and Main Street, Longmont, 303-588-5157.

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

Boulder Playback Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Trident Cafe Sandbox Theatre, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-203-0335.

Global Dance Festival Colorado. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Through July 17.

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

Saturday, July 17

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

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — With Magic Kids and Pearl Harbor. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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

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

The Dead Weather. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Delusions of Grandeur: Body of Sound. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Doug Haywood. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-

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

Erica Brown and Lionel Young. 8 p.m.

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

Eric Levy. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Jockamo. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Johnny O and Mark Diamond. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

JT Nolan. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Lotus. 7 p.m. Mishawaka Amphitheatre, 13714 Poudre Canyon Hwy., Bellvue, 970-482-4420.

Lynn Cassell. 6-9 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601

Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Mark Diamond and Johnny O. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

New Cosmic Americans. 7:30 p.m. The Cannon Mine, 210 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, 303492-1503.

Phil Robinson. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Rob Eaton & American Beauty’s Legendary Dead Shows 11/15/71. 9 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Roy Book Binder & Walter Parks. 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Summer Party — With Lauren Silva, Friends of Adam. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Top of the Hill Faculty Concert Series. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE! With Chase N The Dream. 6 p.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303444-0722.

events Assay Office Museum Open. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 6352 Fourmile Canyon Dr., Boulder, 303776-8848.

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

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877.

Bird Walk. 8 a.m. Coal Creek Corridor Open Space, 1720 Elysian Field Dr., Lafayette, 303-6650469.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Boulder Outdoor Cinema — Princess Bride. 7 p.m. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 888-881-FILM. Build Your Own Kinetic Sculpture Workshop. Longmont Parks & Recreation Department, 7 S. Sunset St., Longmont, 303-6518406.

Downtown Boulder’s 32nd Annual ArtFair.

10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303449-3774.

Hackin’ Our Way Home Golf Tournament — Fundraiser for Longmont Humane Society. 1 p.m. Ute Creek Golf Course, 2000 Ute Creek Dr., Longmont, 303-772-1232, ext. 222.

Hot Standup with Bobby Crane. 10 p.m.

Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-0886.

Humane Society of Boulder Valley Mobile Pet Cruiser. 6 p.m.Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-4030.

Kenneth Wajda’s PHOTOJam. 9 p.m.

Courthouse Lawn, Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-4493774.

Twisted Pine 15th Anniversary Party. 12-8 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Venturing Outside Photoshop. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Sunday, July 18

music 22nd Annual Charles Sawtelle Mountain Jam. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303449-4885.

Brittany Riley. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made

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Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Colorado Music Festival — Best of Brahms.

7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

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

Delusions of Grandeur: Body of Sound. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

George Nelson. 6 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Holden Young Trio. 6 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m.

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

Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m.

Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

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

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

Lebra. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua Association, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Energetic Selfcare Class. 7-9 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303545-5562.

Film on the Rocks — Monty Python and the Holy Grail. With music by Jonny Barber & The Rhythm Razors. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-8652494.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk

and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303444-0190.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic

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

Tuesday, July 20

music 17th Avenue Allstars. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N.

Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

311,The Offspring. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Carbon Leaf. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

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

Colorado Music Festival — Ljova and the Kontraband. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

events Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Downtown Boulder’s 32nd Annual ArtFair. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Colorado Music Festival — Talk Under The Tent. 6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-449-1397.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Hot Standup with Bobby Crane. 10 p.m.

Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St., Denver, 303-3882337.

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

The Proposal. 8:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, July 19

music Colorado Music Festival — Violin MasterClass for ages 12-18. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., 303-4491397.

Jazz Jam with Brad Goode. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Laura Lorens. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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

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

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

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

Empty Affair. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

McKay Brothers. 6 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Tim Merkal. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Unity Tour 2010: 311 & The Offspring. 7 p.m. Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

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

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

Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m.

Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Wednesday, July 21

music Bands on the Bricks 2010 — With Kutandara. 7 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, www.boulderdowntown.com.

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

Brittany Shane. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

The Goodies, Jeff Kagan — Children’s show.

10 a.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Lords Of Acid/My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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

Neon Trees, Civil Twilight, Paper Tongues.

8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Shawn Colvin. 8 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua Association, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

Steve Bise. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Denny Driscol. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jack’s Corner Cafe, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Weapons of Mass Creation. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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Carousel. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through July 25.

The Fantasticks. Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Aug. 8.

King Lear. Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554.

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University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Aug. 6.

The Music Man. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 25.

Peter Pan. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Sept. 4.

The Taming of the Shrew.

Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 6.

1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Shady Grove Picnic Series — With Kate LeRoux. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Spring Creek, Henhouse Prowlers. 8 p.m.

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

Waneka Concert Series — With Zyzzyz Road. 7 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

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

Colorado Mountain Club Boulder Group Open House. 7 p.m. 633 S. Broadway, Unit N, Boulder, 303-554-7688.

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

Digital Video Camera Lighting Basics. 6 p.m. 1600 Range St., Ste. 100, Boulder, 303-8004647.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

Singles Night. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Tea,Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720301-3993 Tour de France Wine Tasting. 7-10 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

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

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, July 15 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

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

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New string-band music. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-0886.

Friday, July 16 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

Saturday, July 17 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Just Write — Creative writing for middle and high school students. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Sunday, July 18 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Children’s Health & Harmony Festival.

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Park, Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, Boulder, 303-3454869.

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

Go Club — Learn to play the ancient and mysterious board game known as Go. 2 p.m.

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

Monday, July 19 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, July 20 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder

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

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

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

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, July 21

Classically Kids. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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

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

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Surrender is an essential ingredient for orgasm, irrelevant of gender or sexual orientation. Upon orgasm, we surrender to our highest potential for pleasure. As a man, adding in the prostate elevates this threshold for sexual satisfaction. As a woman, being in the position of penetrator can feel very powerful and help access a deeper masculine energy. If wearing a strap-on, consider one that has an attached vibrating bullet for clitoral stimulation.

For those with fear of fecal matter, you can wear a finger cot (aka, the mini condom) and also ask your partner to wash before playtime. An actual condom works well too if using a strap-on, a toy or, obviously, a penis. Don’t forget to change the condom if you are moving from the anal area to another orifice. And, of course, use lots of lube— the thicker the better, as the anal cavity does not have a natural capability for lubrication.

Most importantly, have fun. The prostate is just another body part capable of offering pleasure. If you have not explored the potential of your own erotic back door, I encourage you to adventure into your own lands before you write off that which you have yet to try.

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p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303583-9970.

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early in the morning, so early that roosters are crowing in backyards. The clip-clopping of donkey carts accompanies the avian symphony — and we narrowly miss a burro as we turn onto a singlelane road bordered by small farms, ramshackle huts and the debris of a hand-to-mouth, agrarian existence. This near miss jerks us out of our early morning fog, and we start to notice the mountains.

Big mountains. With snow and cliffs and rocks, rising above a lush valley scattered with small farms.

If you want to get close with rural Chile, the road to Ski Arpa is the place to do it. The drive traverses hidden vineyards, microscopic villages and rumbling creeks before climbing up a lost valley toward the final destination: Ski Arpa, South rp.boulder.weekly.skymajor.pdf

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America’s only cat-skiing operation. After the close call with the donkey, we’re relieved to finally arrive at Arpa’s stunning alpine terrain, which includes views of Aconcagua, the tallest peak in the Western Hemisphere. The views get better on the way to the top, via an open-air ride in the back of the cat.

One particular vantage, onto a run called Avalanches, draws us like Santiago panhandlers to a bottle of pisco.

Arpa is the brainchild of Anton “Toni” Sponar, a hardcore Austrian skier who hasn’t slowed down despite more than 75 years on the planet. And it’s Toni who we meet first upon arriving in a muddy lot after an hour of white knuckling it up a onelane dirt road that’s better for goats than our 4x4

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SUV, his thick Austrian accent out of place in the wilds of the Andes. We’ll hear the story of his long, strange journey to this lonely spot later, over cheap beers in the tiny lodge here. But now, his voice fades into the background as we stand looking straight up, distracted by the massive peaks around us.

Sponar has Colorado roots. Like many European ski instructors, Sponar saw opportunity in the new world and left the Alps to teach and ski in less traveled mountains. He ended up in Aspen, where he quickly became known for not only his rock-solid skiing technique, but also as a gifted instructor, who not only could teach even the most difficult students, but also do so in several languages.

But in addition to his instructional skills, Sponar also had an entrepreneurial streak and a strong yen for adventure. With the Colorado resort industry maturing at a breakneck pace, Sponar again hit the road, ending up in South America (he still spends northern winters in Aspen), where he assisted in the development of Argentina’s Los Penetentes resort. One day, when he was flying over the Andes, he noticed a valley. Ski Arpa was born, at least as a concept, if not actual resort, because even now, approximately 30 years since Toni purchased 5,000 acres in the valley that caught his eye, the place remains wild and raw, an anomaly in the sport.

We’ll hear all this later, once we finish our day on the hill. We’ll also hear about the lift that was buried in 1984, the first lift that Toni installed, and the lift that was completely wiped out by avalanches, nearly bankrupting the fledgling operation. We’ll hear about the idea of replacing the lift with cats, and how both snowcats showed up at the dock to be shipped down to Chile, only to wind up being inches too wide

for the containers. They had to be completely dismantled on the spot. We’ll hear about too much snow and not enough and how things would have been a lot more simple — and boring — if Toni had just stayed in Aspen.

And then, almost as an afterthought, we’ll hear about how this place is fully booked almost every single day of the southern winter.

The terrain here is massive. But despite the towering peaks, there’s something for everyone: think Vail’s Back Bowls on steroids. Most runs drop 3,000 vertical feet or more, with everything from mellow bowls to steep, twisting gullies sprinkled with cliffs and rocks.

It’s impressing and invigorating at first sight, especially since 48 hours ago we’d been in the heat of a Colorado summer, baking as we hiked McClintock trail in Chautauqua.

Anton “Toni” That’s one of the Sponar attractions of Arpa.

For Colorado skiers who just can’t get enough, times get hard — and hot — during the long summer days. But Chile has a full compliment of ski resorts large, small and some — like Arpa — funky.

Santiago is an easy trip from Denver, and jet lag isn’t an issue because the time change is minimal. Book your trip to leave on a Tuesday, and you can be skiing by noon on Wednesday.

The logistics of our trip don’t matter now, though, as we stare down the gut of Avalanches, an Arpa test piece. The line sits on a spur just down the ridge from the cat drop. Anton Jr., Toni’s son, leads us on a traverse across a saddle and a short, sweaty hike up to the spur. The sweating intensifies when I peer into the line and notice that it’s composed of several steep fins below a menacing cornice.

But Avalanches is a marquee run not for its technical difficulty (though certain

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Details, Details Chile offers snow-starved skiers the chance to beat the heat and get some turns in while waiting for Arapahoe Basin and Loveland to fire up their snowmaking, although to be honest, you’ll probably find that one icy run much less appealing after skiing mid-winter conditions in the Andes. Book your flight from Denver to Santiago, and expect to be on the snow by noon.

Ski Arpa Ski Arpa only has a day lodge. Stay in the town of Los Andes, about 45 minutes away. You can bring your own lunch or purchase basic snacks like empanadas and chocolate bars, plus cheap après-ski beers at the day lodge. Skiing/

parts can be dicey), but its length. Ski this one nonstop, and your guides might buy your first beer at day’s end. My stomach in knots, I pick a spine and drop in. The snow sloughs with every buttery turn, cascading over jagged cliffs.

The crux is a rush of speed and air that vomits me from the spine into an endless Andean gully, terrain that begs for opening up the throttle. The gully spits me out at the cat road with burned legs, 3,000 vertical feet below the cornice.

Later, back in the modest base lodge, we tip back buck-fifty Escudos, the local beer, and listen to Toni’s stories. Finally, as the sun paints the valley pink, we reluctantly fire up the SUV and leave, Avalanches looming above us and our tracks faint scratched in the dimming light.

Two days later we’re on a high-speed quad, with skiers, groomed runs and a gourmet lunch behind us. If you’re into concepts of ying and yang, or the power of opposites to attract, you can do a lot worse than couple Ski Arpa with Valle Nevado. Valle is, arguably, Chile’s most developed resort. And it’s a place with big plans, including a Rocky Mountainstyle base village and even more high-

snowboarding costs $195 per person per day, with additional runs at $25 per person. Reservations are required: skiarpa.com.

Valle Nevado The largest of the three ski areas outside of Santiago, Valle includes meals (breakfast and dinner) and lift tickets with your accommodation. Most rooms are ski in-ski out and the terrain is wide open, with plenty of options for skiers of all abilities. Currently the resort is offering a variety of specials, including a “kids stay free week” and a 50 percent discount on a second adult when booking a double room during selected dates in September: vallenevado.com.

tech lifts. With 7,000 acres served by 12 lifts and a joint ski pass that allows you to access the terrain of adjoining El Colorado and La Parva, it’s more like the massive ski stations found in the Alps than anything in North America.

The size as well as ease of access (it’s approximately two hours from Santiago’s international airport) means that it also draws Colorado skiers like moths to a flame. Within 10 minutes of checking into our ski-in/ski-out hotel rooms, we’ve seen several Summit County pros that are using the venue to tune up for the upcoming season.

But we’ll leave them all behind — the transplanted pros, the grooming, the lifts — when we depart the highest lift and head for a striated ridge above the resort. The hike is tough, given the snow that’s been falling over the past week. But we finally top out and look over Valle Nevado, the Rio Mapocho river valley and, far, far below us, Santiago. We think of our friends at home, of the tomatoes ripening on the vines and of cycling along Boulder Creek. Then we look at the pristine snow below us. Home can wait.

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oulder is all about doing things sustainably, and Growe Foundation that includes bringing sustainability to our tables. Slow Food Boulder is a local nonprofit founded in 1989 as part of an international movement against the prominence of fast food.

The goal of the movement, according to Slow Food’s website, is to bring awareness to the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and the social, economic and environmental impact of the food choices they make.

Carol Carlson, chair of Slow Food Boulder, says that this grassroots movement, with more than 100,000 members in 132 countries, is a way of living that is based on a healthy way of eating, linking the enjoyment and satisFood is trying to do this through international educafaction of food to a commitment to the environment, tion: What is inside the cardboard box that our food community and the world. comes in?”

“Slow Food Boulder’s mission is to celebrate, eduAccording to the Slow Food Manifesto for Quality, cate and strengthen awareness of our food: from the consumers orient the market and production with their farm, to the market, to the kitchen and to the table,” choices, and they assume new roles when they become Carlson says. “We promote stewardship of our land, aware of these processes. Consumption becomes part of sound food production policies and local, seasonal and the productive act, and the consumer thus becomes a organic foods. We support good, clean and fair food for co-producer. Producers are key players in this process, all.” working to achieve quality, making his or her experiCritics believe America’s attitude toward food is out ence available and welcoming the knowledge and of whack and needs to be transformed to create a more know-how of others. sustainable and equitable way of breaking bread.

Slow Food supports many organizations to keep the “We need to nurture ourselves, but not only that, idea of slow food alive and cooking, and to disperse the we also need to nurture our environment,” Carlson movement throughout the community. The Growe says. “Many people today are more aware that the earth Foundation in Boulder has aligned with Slow Food by is in bad shape because of the way we have been utilizpromoting the benefits of healthy and sustainable living ing it. We need to change how we grow food, and Slow using gardens to enrich children’s education.

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“We see a local, sustainable, organic food system as a solution,” says Bryce Brown, founder of the Growe Foundation. “Our mission aligns with the general philosophy of Slow Food to encourage people to use local food and give back by way of eating.”

To restore the cultural appreciation for slow food, there are Slow on Campus chapters for college students. People from Slow Food get involved with children in the garden and help with activities.

Other organizations Slow Food Boulder supports are the Twin Peaks Charter Academy Garden project, the Cultiva! Youth program run by Growing Gardens, and the community gardens project spearheaded by CU Going Local.

Many people in Boulder already recognize how important it is to ditch the drive-through doggie bag and to make food from scratch, from restaurants to at-home family dinners.

“Even chains such as Chipotle and Noodles & Company are sourcing local foods,” Carlson says.

“Noodles had a benefit in which 25 percent of proceeds went to Slow Food Boulder’s school gardens projects.

The Kitchen buys goods from organic local farms and donates 20 percent of all food sales from their weekly Community Night Dinner to The School Food Project and Growe Foundation. Hush Denver did a benefit for Slow Food Boulder, and we hosted an event with Arugula Restaurant on how to make a local dinner at the end of the winter in Colorado. These are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head.”

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wraps further enhanced this Bajahile most local influenced classic. These tortillas equaled Mexican restaurants good homemade versions shaped in a are affordable familypress and cooked over a heavy cast-iron style venues, there are frying pan. The benefits of this just-ina handful of restautime production method include a lack of rants in this genre gunning for something the sogginess sometimes found in restaurarefied. These locales up the ante with rant tortillas held in a covered container, memorable ambience, a gourmet versus and a firm but not rubbery texture. utilitarian experience, and prices to Isolde’s $13 shrimp tamales weren’t match. Boulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro something you see every day, and Agave and Tequila House ably fits this descripdoes a fine job of executing this selection. tion.

The shellfish had a pleasing consistency Agave’s interior wears its aspirations and savor that nicely played off the cornon its sleeve. A beautiful brass-toned firemeal in a fashion reminiscent of a good place is the understated centerpiece of the bowl of Southern shrimp grits. Speaking contemporary main dining room — no of carbs, rice and black beans are in sepakitschy strings of chile pepper lights here.

As we were seated, friends Ray, Isolde and rate square bowls, and while I encountered I were struck by the sleek cosmopolitan a clump of dry grains, the beans were bar, its bright white shelves lined with pleasingly firm without the leaden (or pricey pours of tequila and a flat-screen should that be larded?) qualities of the TV. usual refried side.

At first glance, the menu doesn’t eturning to the idea of lower-end Mexican fare, I recently My $14 chicken mole was one of the appear all that different from most other returned to the La Choza taco stand at 3365 Diagonal Hwy. better examples of this dizzyingly complex Mexican joints. There are obligatory staMy mission was to satisfy my curiosity regarding the $2.75 preparation. The ingredient list for this ples like rellenos, tacos, tamales and the Mexican hot dog and to see what distinguished it from a savory-yet-chocolate-scented specialty can tampiquena combination plate of carne Chicago frankfurter. No cardiologist would endorse this choice, easily exceed two dozen elements, and balasada and enchiladas. But upon closer but it’s a consummate guilty pleasure. Start with your typical ancing these tastes is a chef ’s challenge. perusal, one can’t help but notice a number hot dog and beef it up with a dollop of refried beans. Add a Some mole sauces are unpleasantly bitter, of aspirational choices such as guacamole generous ration of grated cheese and sliced jalapeños, and while others resemble Hershey’s syrup. prepared tableside and seafood-stuffed end with the smoky piece de resistance — a couple of strips of Here the flavors melded together harmotamales. And then there are the prices, bacon. Now that’s good eating! niously, and the sauce served as a first-rate which hover around $15 for entrees, a far complement to the moist and tender poulcry from a bargain family restaurant try. combo platter. wasn’t the typical ranchero or pico de gallo, but a rich, The food quality here matches up to the prices, Ray, feeling peckish, ordered two entrees, a $13 almost bisque-like concoction that resembled a satisalthough it may still be a bit of a psychological leap chile con arroz and equally priced fish tacos. Each was fyingly thick soup you’d encounter in a fine dining for some to pay the extra expense, given cheaper alterentirely satisfying, and the chile consisted of a tasty establishment. natives. But then, one will miss Agave’s laudable but not-too-spicy pepper that was pleasingly tender The fish tacos possessed a clean, delicate taste and attempts to transform familiar fare into something and stuffed with fluffy rice. But what really made this crisp garnishes. It’s worth noting that Agave prepares greater. chile stand out was an unexpected tomato sauce. This its tortillas to order, and the fresh nature of these Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Burritos and coffee Scooter’s Coffeehouses, located throughout the Midwest, now offer hand-rolled breakfast burritos from Longmont’s Burrito Kitchen. With 84 locations and growing, Scooter’s could become a significant distribution channel for the local burritos, which are already sold to wholesale food distributors, restaurants, cafes, country clubs, institutions and premium grocers.

Burrito Kitchens, founded in 1999, uses all-natural, locally grown ingredients and offers a wide range of healthy, handcrafted burritos.

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‘Chaice’ cream Some believe spicy foods cool the body during hot weather, and Boulderbased Bhakti Chai has sweetened the burn with its new chai ice cream. Using organic, fresh-pressed ginger juice, organic cardamom and its signature spice blend, Bhakti joined with Boulder Ice Cream to create Bhakti Chai Chip.

According to Bhakti, the new flavor has a “slight tingle” from the ginger and sweetness from the cardamom cream and chocolate chips.

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Current partners include Aspen Brewing Co., Avery Brewing, Backcountry Brewery, CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewery, Oskar Blues Brewery and Twisted Pine.

Turn spam into real food Through its “No Junk” campaign, Chipotle Mexican Grill is encouraging Americans to forward their junk e-mails to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com.

Each forwarded e-mail will help provide nutritious meals for school children around the country in partnership with the nonprofit organization The Lunch Box (www.thelunchbox.org).

For every 100,000 junk e-mails Chipotle receives, the company will donate $10,000 to The Lunch Box, which will help give approximately 32 million school children at 100,000 schools nationwide access to 100 school-tested, junk-free recipes created

by Chef Ann Cooper, also known as the Renegade Lunch Lady. The “No Junk” campaign is slated to run through August, or until Chipotle reaches its goal of receiving 500,000 junk e-mails.

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food eating as an alternative to massproduced food. Slow Food CU’s blog explains that their goal is not to change people’s dining habits, but to offer another method.

The Ark of Taste program protects foods that are in danger of becoming extinct.

“Various people name foods they want to support,” Carlson says. “In the Rocky Mountain region, we are protecting the Capital Reef Apple, the American Plains Bison, the Emory Oak Bellota Acorns, the Four Corners Gold Bean, and more.”

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food and celebrating what the earth is producing for us.

“It is not another gourmet food club,” Carlson says. “It is a place for people with a passion for safeguarding local farms, food traditions and artisan foods to gather and build culture and community. Slow Food is an activist movement that supports food quality that is good for the people who eat it, good for the people who grow it, in the sense of wages, and good for the overall environment.”

Upcoming Slow Food events can be found at slowfoodboulder.com.

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According to founder Phil Armstrong, the aim of this operation is to spotlight up-andcoming chefs in a non-restaurant setting.

Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area (previous engagements were in and around Denver) took place at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured such items as smoked tomato gazpacho and port-braised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush intends to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list simply by registering at www.hushdenver.com.

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The Mediterranean Restaurant 1002 Walnut St., Boulder 303-444-5335

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he Mediterranean Restaurant is the proverbial old reliable of Boulder eateries. Its voluminous assortment of Southern European pastas, sandwiches, tapas, salads and main plates means that anyone’s dietary restrictions or plain old pickiness can be ably accommodated. Highlights include tapas items like bacon-wrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts such as crème brulee and panna cotta.

Sun Deli, Pizza & Liquor 2299 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-1128, 303-938-1078

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hile the Sun Deli still retains its selection of hot and cold sandwiches, pizzas, cheese steaks and other items that delight the carnivore, it’s also making great strides in broadening its menu for the meatless diner. This eatery draws upon a substantial palette of meatless ingredients to create vegan and gluten-free pizzas, as well as strombolis stuffed with herbivorous sausage and pepperoni. Parmesan sandwiches are also available in meatless versions, with the faux chicken interpretation being a particularly delicious and filling selection.

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

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he menu here is a blend of traditional pub grub and breakfasts as well as more contemporary sandwiches and small plates.

Entrées top out at $11.99 and include such United Kingdom stalwarts as fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and pot pies.

Sandwiches include standard-issue clubs and Reubens, while the Euro small plates offer sophisticated tastes of seared tuna, roasted piquillo peppers and an exquisite Thai shrimp skewer.

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Mateo also offers a terrific bar menu with discounted items served from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Standouts on that menu include the cheese platter, featuring domestic and European selections, including a first-rate Italian goat’s milk blue. The moules, steamed mussels in a wonderfully balanced broth, melds licorice-like pastis with herbs and tomato.

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Half Fast Subs 1215 13th St. Boulder 303-449-0404

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easonably priced and tasty, Boulder’s Half Fast Subs’ sandwiches are a cut or two above chain-store offerings. There’s an abundance of meatless selections (tempeh cheese steak anyone?) as well as unique items like a compelling shrimp po’ boy sandwich. Deli staples such as Italian-style subs and classic BLTs are also offered here, as are beverages such as hurricanes and Long Island iced teas.

Brighton and Lafayette, Longmont’s Pinocchio’s offers comforting Italian in an elegant setting that belies the reasonable prices. Start with a pepperoni roll, a calzone-like concoction of cured meat and melted cheese. Follow it up with a classic pasta dish such as the homemade lasagna, and call it a day with the homemade Kentucky bourbon pie or lemon cake. For weekend breakfast, try one of the unique eggs Benedicts, including the signature version made with shrimp.

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La Choza

645 30th St., Boulder 303-938-9300

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arelli’s of Boulder successfully straddles the line between mom-and-pop and high-end Italian by offering a menu that won’t frighten off the old-school cuisine fan, while offering a swanky, contemporary setting. The menu will warm the heart of the traditionalist craving a bowl of minestrone, followed by a main course such as cacciatore, calzone, pizza or a parmesan sandwich.

Highlights include seafood risotto and fettuccine carbonara. Sandwiches, pastas and pizzas are also available in gluten-free versions.

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Pinocchio’s 210 Ken Pratt Blvd. #26 Longmont 303-827-8945

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hile the name of this basement foodcourt hangout emphasizes the traditional Japanese box lunch, ramen is the star of the show. Start with a bowl of the miso ramen, a formidable portion of sublime, soy-infused broth filled with bits of tender chicken or pork.

The noodles are expertly prepared, with a fine al dente texture and heft that puts instant ramen to shame.

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hile not inexpensive, Jill’s at the St. Julien Hotel and Spa is a superior spot for a special-occasion Sunday brunch in a modern-but-comfortable setting. Highlights include fresh-tasting crab legs and peel-andeat shrimp, as well as made-to-order omelets.

Sweets are also abundant here, including a candy-like toffee bread pudding and a can’tmiss chocolate fondue.

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he 1987 film Predator inspired a number of spinoffs, from the inane (Alien vs. Predator) to the ghastly (Predator 2), and it was definitely time for a reboot before the titular hunter became a tedious cliché. Predators is a nonstop thrill ride of an action film, laced with satisfying violence, exotic weapons and vulgarity.

Predators immediately jumps into the action with Royce (a terrific, pumped-up Adrien Brody) in freefall, without a clue how he got there. He deploys his parachute at the last possible second and slams into the earth. When he rises, he finds he’s been dropped into the jungle with a cast of killers including Central American guerilla fighter Isabelle (Alice Braga), Russian Spetsnaz soldier Nikolai (Oleg Taktarov), Mexican enforcer Cuchillo (Danny Trejo), Sierra Leon death squad soldier Mombasa (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali), escaped death-row convict Stans (Walton Goggins) and odd-man-out doctor Edwin (Topher Grace).

After evading some vicious traps and an attack from strange and unknown boar-like creatures, they realize they’re not on Earth at all and have been transported to an alien game preserve with strange creatures seeking to hunt and kill them, purely as sport.

Most man-against-nature films get derailed with back-story, narrative devices and a desire to build sympathy for the characters. Predators doesn’t waste the time. It’s an action genre picture boiled down to its essence, and it’s thrilling and suspenseful, even with the occasional plot hiccup.

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Royce (Brody) tries to come up with a survival strategy for the group, but as we’d expect with a tough mercenary, his strategy is to get himself off the planet, not to rescue everyone else.

With Predators the basic hunters have the same hulking, barrel-chested look and tentacle-framed faces that were in the original film, along with the same notquite-perfect camouflage. When there were Predator point-of-view shots, their infrared heat-sensitive view was right out of the earlier film. Homage, but not slavish devotion to the original source material.

The film still had lots of logical flaws and was a bit too formulaic to be a great movie. When you’re stranded on a hostile planet, food and ammunition are

Too much violence — despicable

espicable Me is a surprisingly violent animated movie that suffers from being released within a few weeks of Toy Story 3. Where Toy Story 3 has warm characters who seek to do well by each other, Despicable Me is populated by characters who constantly hurt each other, as the filmmakers clearly sought a cheap laugh and tried to string together a series of hit-or-miss sight gags.

The story has Gru (voice of Steve Carell trying to sound Russian) as an evil mastermind, ensconced in suburbia. Beneath his house is a vast subterranean lair where he’s plotting to (insert evil laugh) commit the perfect crime.

He’s created little yellow creatures known as minions, and while they have some amusing scenes, they treat each other in a slapstick violent manner that really got on my nerves and was far too aggressive for a children’s film.

Gru learns that his nemesis Vector ( Jason Segel) has stolen the Great Pyramid and is determined to regain the title of most evil criminal. He comes up with a plan to steal the moon. To fund his efforts, he goes to the Bank of Evil seeking a loan, just to bump into Vector, and the Spy-vs-Spy competition is on.

Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) are orphans, living at the Dickensian Miss Hattie’s Home for Girls. Miss Hattie (voice of Kristen Wiig) is a shrew and forces them to go door-to-door selling cookies and meeting Boulder Weekly

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going to be a problem, but the former is completely ignored, and while at one point Royce says, “Let’s do a shell count; we need to conserve ammunition,” in the very next scene they’re all-barrels firing at a creature, ammo be damned.

Predators is a parable about morality, and destiny too: There’s a certain symmetry to the humans all being killers taken out of their natural element and hunted by a far more formidable killer. Early in the film Mombasa suggests, “This place is hell.” The ending certainly makes sense in this context, and, yes, there’s the possibility of a sequel. Rodriguez is already exploring scripts for Predators 2.

Director Nimród Antal also did something I really appreciate in monster films: He left us hanging for a very long time before the Predator actually showed up on screen. In fact, the creature doesn’t show up for almost 45 minutes, a smart move that lets Antal explore our fear of the unknown.

As I said at the beginning, I really enjoyed Predators and think it’ll be a hit with its target demographic of 18- to 25-year-old men. If you like this genre of tough guys forced to work together to overcome a terrifying obstacle or simply miss those great monster films of the late ’80s, I will wholeheartedly recommend this film. I also look forward to a sequel, something I don’t say very often.

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their daily quota. If they don’t, they’re banished to a cardboard box, “The Box of Shame,” for hours. That’s supposed to be funny?

When they knock on the door to Vector’s lair, he’s delighted to buy cookies from them, which Gru observes. His plan to infiltrate Vector’s lair? Adopt the girls, have them deliver robot cookies, then return the girls to Miss Hattie’s. A suitably despicable and evil plan, no question, and it works perfectly.

What Gru doesn’t count on was the innocence and sweetness of the girls, who conclude post-adoption that he’s their new Dad and pour on the love and

wide-eyed adoration. Gru’s Mom (voice of Julie Andrews) has never shown him any affection, so he’s not prepared for it, as we learn in a series of scenes that vary from quite funny to fairly painfully unamusing.

The script-writing team clearly had a lot of fun slipping in gags. The Bank of Evil has a sign that says, “formerly Lehman Brothers.” When Gru says goodnight to the girls, he reminds them, “Don’t let the bedbugs bite: there are thousands of them and probably something in your closet, too.” And there’s a running joke of minions misunderstanding what Gru says and inventing the wrong weapon. “No, I said dart gun!” was one of my favorites.

What really upset me was the non-stop level of violence that the characters exhibited towards each other. I realize that’s part of the story, the “comic book slapstick violence,” but I was startled how each time a character would punch, kick, push, shoot or otherwise hurt another, the audience would laugh. That’s not my idea of a good kids film.

I left the film disappointed, and I wouldn’t take my children to see it. At one point I felt the urge to walk out, even as everyone else in the audience was laughing and clearly enjoying the movie. Your experience will undoubtedly vary, but I didn’t like Despicable Me much at all.

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tle of wits for the woman they both love — and it appears only one man can be left standing when it’s over. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Excuse me, I need to sit down, catch my breath and extinguish my singed eyebrows. I’ve just experienced The A-Team, a highly combustible concoction of testosterone, napalm and gunpowder, seasoned with cheesy comedy and served flambe. In what feels like a tryout for the next Mission: Impossible directing job, Joe Carnahan has made the reboot of the 1980s TV series an excuse to blow up every vehicle, prop and backdrop in a four-mile radius. The film is a relentless, unapologetic, in-your-face barrage of special effects and virtuoso stunts that roars into action in the pre-credits prelude and rarely downshifts. The main benefit of basing The A-Team on a pre-existing series is that it comes partially assembled, with the character quirks already in place. That way we can get to the detonations faster. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Colin Covert

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Cage plays a wizard in this new film inspired by Micky Mouse’s sorcerer in Fantasia. There’s even dancing mops. We are not making this up. américaine who casually sleeps with him and just as casually betrays him, Breathless is funny and daring and just as much a breath of fresh air today as it was on its release five decades ago. Audaciously reinventing the grammar of movies, Breathless transformed cinema overnight and instantly put Godard in the rarified company of Picasso, Joyce, Brecht, Stravinsky, et al. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Breathless, Rialto Pictures is presenting a stunning new 35mm restoration — the first ever in the film’s history. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Cyrus

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on

romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie, John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim at a party. To his and everyone else’s surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei). Their chemistry is immediate. The relationship takes off quickly, but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John’s house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly’s life: her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). A 21-year-old newage musician, Cyrus is his mom’s best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her.

Cyrus will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John. Before long, the two are locked in a bat-

Eclipse finds Bella inching closer to her decision to marry Edward and become a vampire, thus breaking the werewolf heart of Jacob. The wolves and the vamps must unite to take on an army of vampiric “newborns.” Already, Eclipse has garnered praise as the best and most action-packed of the series — which I don’t understand. For me it’s ponderous and sloppily directed and by far the most deadening when the dramatic necessity known as “talking” must be confronted in between battles. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Films on the Rocks: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Pythons Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation.

Throughout the irreverent adventures, the Python crew eschews realism in favor of anachronistic social satire. Melding the ridiculous with the sublime, the film quickly inspired a cult following, generated a host of quotes and even inspired a computer game 20 years after its release. The numerous songs and hysterical vignettes are sidesplittingly unforgettable. At Red Rocks Amphitheatre. — Denver Film Society

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 The A-Team Thu: 11:45, 2:30, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Despicable Me Thu-Wed: 10:15, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Eclipse Thu: 10:55, 11:25, 1:40, 2:10, 4:30, 5, 7:15, 7:45, 10:05, 10:30 FriWed: 11:20, 2:10, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Grown Ups Thu: 12, 2:35, 5:05, 8, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Inception Fri-Wed: 9:25, 12:15, 12:45, 3:30, 4, 6:45, 7:15, 10, 10:30 The Karate Kid Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Knight and Day Thu: 11:30, 2, 4:55, 7:25, 10 Fri-Sat: 11:55, 2:30, 5, 7:40, 10:15 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 9:40, 11:40, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Predators Thu-Wed: 9:55, 12:25, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Thu: 11:30, 12:20, 2:05, 2:55, 4:40, 5:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 9:40, 10:10, 12:40, 2:45, 3:15, 5:45, 7:45, 8:15, 10:45 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45

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Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Cyrus Thu-Wed: 10:50, 1:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Despicable Me Thu-Wed: 10:35, 12:15, 1:05, 1:55, 2:45, 3:35, 4:25, 5:15, 6:05, 6:55, 7:45, 8:35, 9:25, 10:15 Eclipse Thu-Wed: 11:50, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 The Girl Who Played With Fire Thu-Wed: 11:40, 3, 6:50, 9:45 Grown Ups Thu: 11:10, 2, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 I Am Love Fri-Wed: 10:45, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Inception Fri-Wed: 12, 3:30, 7, 10:30 Knight and Day Thu: 11:35, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:30, 5:05, 7:55, 10:35 The Last Airbender Thu-Wed: 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 6:10, 7:35,10:10 Predators Fri-Wed: 11, 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 The Sorceror’s Apprentice FriWed: 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Toy Story 3 Thu: 10:30, 1:10, 2:30, 3:50, 5:10, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10, 10:30 FriWed: 10:30, 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641

Despicable Me Thu-Wed: 10:10, 11:40, 1:20, 2:30, 4:10, 5:20, 7, 8, 9:30, 10:30 Eclipse Thu-Wed: 10, 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Grown Ups Thu-Wed: 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Inception Fri-Wed: 10:30, 11:50, 1:55, 3:30, 6:30, 7, 9:50, 10:15 Knight and Day Thu-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Last Airbender Thu-Wed: 11:30, 1, 2:10, 5, 7:35, 10:05 Predators Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice ThuWed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Toy Story 3 Thu-Wed: 10:20, 1:10, 4, 6:40, 9:20 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-3521992 Breathless Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 I Am Love Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:35 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Thu: 6:45 p.m.

Micmacs Thu: 4:15, 9:20 The Secret in Their Eyes Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 Winter’s Bone Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Thu: 4:30, 8 I Am Love Thu: 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 The Kids Are All Right Fri-Wed: 4:15, 5, 7:10, 7:45, 9:40, 10:15 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Cyrus Thu 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Fri-Wed: 4:30, 8 The Girl Who Played with Fire Thu: 4, 7, 10 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:45 The Killer Inside Me Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 8:The Mormon Proposition Thu: 4:45, 7:25 Bob Ray’s Down & Dirty Austin Film Tour Sat: 7 p.m.

Films on the Rocks: Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mon: 7 p.m.

Krush Groove Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

The Lottery Thu: 5, 7:15 The Misfortunates Fri-Wed: 5, 7:15 Rocaterrania Thu: 7 p.m.

The Thorn in the Heart Thu: 5:15, 7:30 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Despicable Me Thu-Wed: 11:30, 1:45, 4:25, 7:20, 9:40 Eclipse Thu-Wed: 11:25, 1:10, 2:10, 4, 5, 7:10, 8, 9:55 Grown Ups Thu-Wed: 11:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Inception Thu-Wed: 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10 Knight and Day Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10 The Last Airbender Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:10 Predators Thu: 11:15, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice FriWed: 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Toy Story 3 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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The Boulder District Attorney charged Jason with two felony criminal offenses, but had let the reckless snowboarder off, citing “resource” issues. On August 6, 2009, after a four-day trial brought by a team of top-notch felony-level prosecutors, a jury found Jason “not guilty.” He rolled out of the courthouse with his two pounds of marijuana, his yearlong Kafkaesque legal nightmare over. It smelled like victory.

In 2000, Colorado voters legalized marijuana for medical use, enshrining protections in the Colorado Constitution, Article XVIII section 14. A patient and/or caregiver must meet three requirements: (1) the patient was previously diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition; (2) the patient is advised by a physician (advice which need not be “previous”) that marijuana might be beneficial to address that condition; and (3) in possession

of such amounts of marijuana necessary to address the debilitating medical condition. The State-issued Medical Marijuana Registry card is optional.

The third prong generates the controversy. The Constitution contains non-binding guideline amounts of six plants, three of which are flowering, and two ounces of useable medical marijuana per patient, but provides for greater amounts if medically necessary.

Even a novice marijuana grower knows that the plants vs. ounce guidelines are internally inconsistent with each other; i.e., three flowering plants will nearly always produce more than two ounces, so it is impossible to follow the guidelines.

In Jason’s case, he had the previous diagnosis and physician’s advice, and the prosecution had zero evidence that Jason possessed more than was medically necessary. In every criminal case, the prosecution has the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Boulder County voters, suffering from a bad economy, will not long tolerate taking police off the streets to pursue many more of these wasteful victimless medical marijuana prosecutions, so the acquittal may stand as precedent indefinitely.

The jury foreman stated that Jason could have legally possessed “a ton” of medical marijuana. In light of the new District Attorney’s policy of increasing jury trials to discern “community standards,” in Boulder County possession of any amount of medical marijuana is legal, absent any specific evidence that the amount is excessive.

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A violent, exhilarating and faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller, with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the role of Lisbeth Salander, the punky, pierced, perturbed, cyber-hacking heroine. Not rated. At Esquire and Mayan. — Steven Rea The Girl Who Played With Fire

Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is a wanted woman.

A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), editor-in-chief of Millennium, will not believe what he hears on the news. As he fits the pieces of the puzzle together, he comes up against some hardened criminals, including the chainsaw-wielding “blond giant” — a fearsomely huge thug who can feel no pain. Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander’s past life. Committed to psychiatric care at age 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, this is a messed-up young woman who is the product of an unjust and corrupt system.Yet Lisbeth is more avenging angel than helpless victim. At Mayan and Century. — Landmark Theatres Grown Ups

Grown Ups is a sure thing — a film you feel as if you’ve seen before and probably saw somewhere a second time, so why not another? When Adam Sandler’s beloved middle-school basketball coach dies, the Hollywood agent and his far-flung pals (a comedy who’s who of Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite for the funeral back in New England. There, at a lakeside cabin over the July Fourth weekend, the guys relive all their old adolescent pranks and pratfalls, while their families look on, smiling. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips I Am Love

I Am Love tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes.

Eduardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono) and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres Inception

Finally, the summer movie party graces us with its presence. Christopher Nolan’s knock-you-out-ofyour-seat Inception is the blockbuster we’ve all been thirsting for, a sleek brain twister that makes the other 2010 mainstream releases look puny, drab and empty-headed in comparison. Blithely summarized, Inception’s plot would seem confusing and impenetrable. Confusing? No doubt, and that what makes the film so enjoyable, as we try to tease and puzzle out what is really going on. Impenetrable?

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complement it. Rated Simply put, mainstream moviemaking just doesn’t get any better than Inception.

Rated PG-13. At Flatirons, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers

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At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run are both competing for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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This highly acclaimed documentary takes the audience on a year-long ride with legendary comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life — peeling away the mask of an iconic comedian and exposing the struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. The film is an emotionally surprising and revealing portrait of one of the most hilarious and long-standing career women ever in the business. Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

There is incomprehensible, and there is inexplicable, and then there is The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s tale of tree-hugging blue people, this saga revolves around (I think) a war-torn future world waiting for a messiah to unite it. But the screenplay (also by Shyamalan) is cluttered with so much gobbledygook exposition and confusing action that it’s impossible to grasp what’s supposed to be going on for more than 15 seconds at a stretch. By the time the (mystifying) climax rolls around, the movie has come to resemble an unwieldy hybrid of Little Buddha and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Flatiron, Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — Christopher Kelly

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In this remake of the 1984 sleeper hit, Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan take over for Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita as the teenager being bullied in school and the wise kung-fu master who teaches him how to defend himself. Everything old is new again! Rated PG. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez The Killer Inside Me

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Co-starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker and Bill Pullman. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Kids Are All Right

“All right” doesn’t begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. Doctor Nic (Annette Bening) and her longtime partner, Jules (Julianne Moore), have two teenagers from the same sperm donor.

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Perky June Havens (Cameron Diaz) unwittingly becomes tethered to renegade Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) after bumping into him at the Wichita airport. The two cozy up while on a curiously empty flight that erupts into chaos (the funniest scene) once June visits the restroom. When she returns, she discovers that the dreamy guy with the killer smile is lugging around a carry-on stuffed with issues. Not only is he being hunted by CIA members pursuing a mysterious device called “The Zephyr,” but Roy appears to be cuckoo and triggerhappy. After so many bad romance movies, it’s a treat to see genuine sparks fly between two major stars. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers Krush Groove

In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker has all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove records, including Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces their records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn’t have the money to press

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In a country where 58 percent of African American 4th graders are functionally illiterate, The Lottery uncovers the failures of the traditional public school system and reveals that hundreds of thousands of parents attempt to flee the system every year. The Lottery follows four of these families from Harlem and the Bronx who have entered their children in a charter school lottery. Out of thousands of hopefuls, only a small minority will win the chance of a better future. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Micmacs

past life as a civil servant, he creates a true, moving and tragic story in which he was very directly involved — in 1974, his court was assigned an investigation into the rape and murder of a beautiful young woman. As he writes, his past rises up before his eyes and awakens all his demons, particularly those involving his past decisions, uncertainties and irreparable mistakes. Juan José Campanella directs this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Fully subtitled. Rated R. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres The Sorceror’s Apprentice

The biggest problem with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a lack of magic. Based loosely on “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” sequence from the 1940 animated classic Fantasia, the film tells the story of Balthazar (Nicolas Cage), an apprentice of Merlin, who is searching for a sorcerer with the skills of King Arthur’s magician. He finds the magical heir in the nerdish Dave (Jay Baruchel). The two team up to stop the sinister Horvath from releasing the even more sinister Morgana from her nesting doll prison.

There’s nothing special in Cage’s performance. He looks like a third-rate street magician with his long coat and mystical hand waving. Baruchel’s OK, but he is close to getting permanently typecast as a nerd who always gets the hot girl. Five screenwriters were involved with the film and it shows. It bounces from comedy to drama to love story for a mishmash that’s about as interesting as a magician trying to saw a lady in half. The opening flashback, in particular, looks like it was added from a different movie. It was an asinine decision to base the film on Mickey Mouse’s sorcerer in Fantasia. Except for the idea that a sorcerer has taken an apprentice and a sequence with dancing mops, the two productions have nothing in common. So why set yourself up for comparisons? Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rick Bentley

First it was a mine that exploded in the middle of the Moroccan desert.Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain. Bazil (Dany Boon) doesn’t have much luck with weapons. The first made him an orphan, the second holds him on the brink of sudden, instant death. Released from the hospital after his accident, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, our inspired and gentle-natured dreamer is quickly taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba’s cave. The group’s talents and aspirations are as surprising as they are diverse: Remington, Calculator, Buster, Slammer, Elastic Girl, Tiny Pete and Mama Chow. Then one day, walking by two huge buildings, Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons manufacturers that caused all of his misfortune. He sets out to take revenge, with the help of his faithful gang of wacky friends. Underdogs battling heartless industrial giants, our gang relive the battle of David and Goliath, with all the imagination and fantasy of Buster Keaton.

At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Michel Gondry is a filmmaker known for breaking new ground, be it in the world of commercial advertising, directing music videos for the likes of Bjork and The White Stripes or helming imaginative features like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dave Chapelle’s Block Party or the upcoming The Green Hornet. Gondry’s newest film, The Thorn In The Heart (L’Epine dans le Coeur), further propels his filmography into the realm of the unvisited with a personal look at the life of the Gondry family matriarch, his aunt Suzette Gondry, and her relationship with her son, Jean-Yves. During the course of filming the documentary, new family stories are unearthed and Michel uses his camera to explore them in a subtle and sensitive way. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

The Misfortunates

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A humorous tale of debauchery, pathos and growing up, The Misfortunates finds hope and resurrection amidst the moral depravity and lecherous behavior a teenage boy’s father and uncles indulge in on a daily basis. Gunther Strobbe (Kenneth Vanbaeden), 13, lives with this motley crew at his grandmother’s house. Every day he must cope with their drinking, fighting and shameful laziness. The family lives in the filthiest shack in an unsightly town, and every evening Gunther joins his father and uncles in the local bar. The arrival of Aunt Rosie and her daughter Sylvie is a welcome break in the drudgery of his daily life. For Gunther, Rosie and Sylvie are proof that there is life outside of his small town. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

If Toy Story 3 had sprung, Slinky Dog-like, from any creative think tank besides Pixar, it might be considered a classic. As is, it’s a good sequel. Young Andy is heading off to college, and the long-neglected toys are headed for the attic. After mistakenly getting thrown to the curb as trash, the gang — cowboy Woody, spaceman Buzz Lightyear, cowgirl Jessie, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and the rest of the principals — has to bust out of the day care center in which they find themselves. Make no mistake: This Disney/Pixar release represents a franchise taken seriously by its custodians. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Predators

Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence, The Burning Plain) as she confronts the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness to track down her father, who has put up the family homestead for his bail.

With a star-making performance by Lawrence, Winter’s Bone is one of the most critically acclaimed films of the year. Directed and co-written by Debra Granik. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Boulder Weekly

See full review on Page 53. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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SCORPIO

“Thou shalt not kill” is a crucial rule for you to follow, and not just in the literal sense. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should also be extra vigilant as you avoid more metaphorical kinds of destruction. Please be careful not to unleash ill-chosen words that would crush someone’s spirit (including your own). Don’t douse newly kindled fires, don’t burn recently built bridges, and don’t deprive fresh sprouts of the light they need to keep growing.

To put this all in a more positive frame: It’s time for you to engage in a reverent and boisterous celebration of life, nurturing and fostering and stimulating everywhere you go.

In a favorable review of Badger Mountain Riesling wine, Winelibrary.com said, “The sweet succulent aromas of bosc pears are woven with lilacs and just a hint of petrol.”

Meanwhile, Allure magazine named Sécrétions Magnifique as one of the top five sexiest perfumes in the world, even though its fragrance is like “floral bilge.” Petrol? Bilge? Both commentaries seem to suggest that greatness may contain a taint — or even that the very nature of greatness may require it to have a trace of something offensive. I’m guessing that’ll be a theme for you in the coming week.

March 21-April 19:

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

The baseball game was over. TV announcer Mike Krukow was describing the “ugly victory” that the San Francisco Giants had just achieved. The team’s efforts were sloppy and chaotic, he said, and yet the win counted just as much as a more elegant triumph. He ended with a flourish: “No one wants to hear about the labor pains; they just want to see the baby.” That’s my message to you this week, Taurus. All that matters is that you get the job done. It doesn’t matter whether you look good doing it.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Here’s the really good news: CIA director Leon Panetta says there are fewer than 100 Al-Qaeda combatants in Afghanistan. Here’s the utterly confusing news: The U.S has over 94,000 highly trained human beings in Afghanistan whose express purpose is to destroy Al-Qaeda. I bring this up as a prod to get you to question your own allotment of martial force, Gemini. You definitely need to make sure you have a lavish reserve of fighting spirit primed to serve your highest goals. Just make sure, please, that it’s pointed in the right direction.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

“Give us this day our daily hunger,” prayed French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. It was his personal variation on the “Give us this day our daily bread” line from the Lord’s Prayer. I suggest you use his formulation as your own in the coming week, Cancerian. It’s the high season for your holy desires: a time when your mental and physical health will thrive as you tune in to and express your strongest, most righteous longings.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

In a recent horoscope, I wrote about Christopher Owens, lead singer of the band Girls, and how he wore pajama bottoms during a show he did in San Francisco. A reader named Eric was disgusted by this, seeing it as evidence that Owens is a self-indulgent hipster. “Just another spoiled trust-fund kid,” he said in his email, “whose excessively privileged life has given him the delusion that he’s uninhibited.” With a little research, Eric would have found the truth: Owens was raised in an abusive religious cult by a single mother who worked as a prostitute to earn a meager living. I bring this to your attention in hopes it will inspire you to avoid making any assumptions about anyone. More than ever before, it’s crucial that you bring a beginner’s mind to your evaluations of other human beings.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

I want to see your willpower surge and throb and carry you to a ringing triumph in the next two weeks, Virgo. I hope to be cheering you on as you complete a plucky effort to overcome some long-standing obstacle, as you put the finishing touches on an epic struggle to defeat a seemingly intractable foe, as you rise up with a Herculean flourish and put the stamp of your uniqueness on a success that will last a long time.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

The Italian word terribilità was originally used by art critics to describe the sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo.

According to various dictionaries, it refers to “a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur,” “the sublime mixed with amazement,” or “an astonishing creation that provokes reverent humility.” In my astrological opinion, terribilità is a prerequisite for the next chapter of your life story. You need be flabbergasted by stunning beauty. Where can you go to get it? A natural wonder might do the trick, or some exalted architecture, or the biography of a superb human being, or works of art or music that make you sob with cathartic joy.

For extra credit, put yourself in the path of all the above.

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Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

During the grace period you’re currently enjoying, you have a talent for tuning in to the raw potential of whatever situation is right in front of you; you just naturally know how to establish rapport with circumstances you’ve never seen before. That’s why your spontaneous urges are likely to generate fun learning experiences, not awkward messes.

You’ll thrive as you improvise adeptly with volatile forces.

It may therefore seem like your progress will be easy, even a bit magical. Some people may regard your breakthroughs as unearned. But you and I will know that you’re merely harvesting the benefits that come from a long period of honing your powers.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

A few single friends of mine use the dating site OkCupid to meet potential lovers. One woman got the following notice: “We are pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid’s most attractive users. How can we say this with confidence? Because we’ve tracked click-thrus on your photo and analyzed other people’s reactions to you. ...

Your new elite status comes with one important privilege: You will now see more attractive people in your match results. Also! You’ll be shown to more attractive people in their match results. And, no, we didn’t send this email to everyone on OkCupid. Go ask an ugly friend.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Capricorn, you will soon receive a metaphorically comparable message, not from OkCupid, but from the universe itself.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

The liberation movement kindled in the 1960s wasn’t all fun and games. It ushered in expansive new ways of thinking about gender, race, sexuality, spirituality, music and consciousness itself, but it was fueled by anger as well as by the longing for pleasure and meaning and transcendence. A key focus of the rage was opposition to the Vietnam War. The adrenaline stirred by anti-war protests was an instrumental part of the mix that propelled the entire era’s push for freedom. I’m hoping that the oil hemorrhage in the Gulf of Mexico will become a similar beacon in the next 10 years.

Can you think of a comparable prod in your personal life, Aquarius? A gnawing injustice that will help awaken and feed your irresistible drive to emancipate yourself?

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Here’s a thought from Piscean poet W.H. Auden: “The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.” If what Auden describes is true for you, I suggest you try this experiment: Merge the two images; see if you can make them the same. You’re entering a phase in your cycle when you will have a tremendous opportunity to unify the inner and outer parts of your life. (And if Auden’s description is not true for you, congratulations: You are either an enlightened saint or well on your way to becoming one.)

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