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It’s about doggone time! / 6 Rangers ticketing those who don’t control their canines

by Pamela White On the cover: Sinking ship / 13 Sen. Rollie Heath wants to save education by raising your taxes

by Pamela White Astroland crashes / 14 Citing code violations, city officials shutter Boulder’s only D.I.Y. venue

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departments Letters: Turning a mirror on Danish; Corporate personhood / 4 The Highroad: The Enronization of presidential politics / 4 In Case You Missed It: Tainted words; A sad slide; Zombies for a cause / 9 News Briefs: Voter registration deadline looms; Bike counters needed / 10 Boulderganic: Creatively building community / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 50 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Correction: The Sept. 8 article “Cinematic climbing” stated that Craig Muderlak’s short film Our Office would debut at the Reel Rock Film Tour on Sept. 15. While the film is in the amateur film contest, it is not expected to earn enough votes to screen as part of the tour.

Turning a mirror on Danish

In his article “Ten years after 9/11” (Danish Plan, Sept. 8), Mr. Danish asserts: “You’ll know we’ve won the war on terror when the Islamic world is 1) reasonably democratic, 2) reasonably secular, 3) only modestly corrupt, 4) more or less committed to the rule of law, and 5) fights jihadists more fiercely than we do.

Alternatively, you’ll know that we’ve won the war on terror when the Islamic world stops treating its women like shit.”

Why, I ask, shouldn’t we hold our own government and country to the same standard? If one takes a moment to honestly assess things, all of these conditions are also quite applicable to our own country and government. It’s quite easy to point a high-powered intellectual opinion at others; it’s quite another thing to do the same to one’s self. Perhaps if Mr. Danish began by examining his own faults and hurdles he wouldn’t be so quick to dish out gross equivocations and reactionary pronunciamentos to the outside world.

Indeed, perhaps it’s time that we all look at how we contribute to the quality of the world we share by evaluating the

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morality we espouse and asking if perhaps it, too, isn’t just well-reasoned (wellto-do) immorality.

Richard Saunders/via Internet Webster’s Dictionary defines “random” as “a haphazard course without definite aim, direction, rule or method.”

The Highroad

n the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago, unregulated energy hucksters created an array of dummy financial funds so they could evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, the funds were given such names as Chewco and JEDI. While Enron’s house of cards collapsed, “Enron accounting” not only continues in Corporate America today, it is also infesting an endeavor that should never be tainted with such financial gimmickry: America’s democracy. Corporate hucksters, intent on political profiteering, are setting up dummy funds with such star-spangled names as Make Us Great Again and Restore Our Future.

These are Super PACs, created to amass millions of dollars in unrestricted corporate cash to back the candidacies of particular presidential wannabes.

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Paul Danish opens his missive (“Ten years after 9/11,” Danish Plan, Sept. 8) with “Random thoughts.” Mr. Danish has never so clearly stated his frame of mind as he has here. As he often does with his pontifications, they are as Webster’s defines them, haphazard and without direction. Thank you, Mr.

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The Enronization of presidential politics

by Jim Hightower of money — something the candidates themselves are barred from doing. Already, the dummy funds are becoming larger than the candidates’ own campaigns, allowing a few big-money interests to pervert our democratic process into their plutocratic plaything.

How few? As of August, more than 80 percent of the money in Super PACs backing Republican candidates has come from only 35 people writing six- and seven-figure checks.

Danish, for your honesty.

David Segal/Boulder

Corporate personhood I can think of nothing more fundamental to the seeming collapse of our see LETTERS Page 6

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Technically, these dummy groups must not coordinate their actions with the candidates they back, but this “ban” is a fraud. For example, Rick Perry’s Make Us Great Again PAC is headed by a corporate lobbyist who had been Perry’s chief of staff and is now both a major fundraiser and political advisor for Perry. Hello — the front group, the lobbyist, the fundraiser and the advisor don’t have to “coordinate” — they’re all the same person!

What these Super PACs represent is the Enronization of our politics — a legalized corruption that’s tantamount to a corporate takeover.

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country than the almost total control corporations have over most aspects of our lives and economy.

Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1864: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed.”

Why would our legal scholars and political leaders allow a system put in place that will destroy our democratic republic? I see only one reason — that they favor a system that fosters the accumulation of wealth and power. We give undue power to wealthy people and corporations. They write the laws that benefit them in ways that minimize the voice of ordinary people.

We are not listened to by our political leaders, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of Americans want GMOs labeled — we get no action; the majority want single payer health care — we get no action; the vast majority want a much more progressive tax policy — we get no action. I appreciate Boulder City Council’s decision to give us a voice by putting this on the ballot. Corporate personhood and unlimited campaign spending affect us all.

As corporations increase their domination over our nation, please support this issue and shine a light for others to see. We won’t be the first but we should stand tall with the 30-plus other cities that have done this. Vote yes in November on Boulder’s effort to oppose corporate personhood.

Bruce Robinson/Boulder

Nedfest nears zero-waste Congrats to Michigan Mike, who 6 September 15, 2011

just celebrated his 13th Nedfest.

This year, aligned with Nederland’s Envision 2020 commitment to sustainability, Nedfest initiated its first-ever recycling and compost collection effort and diverted an impressive two-thirds of our waste from going to the landfill.

We began by asking our vendors to supply only compostable serviceware (ie, plates, cups and utensils made from corn starches). We then placed three-bin waste stations throughout the festival grounds, encouraging our patrons to separate recycling, compost and trash. We collected six to seven cubic yards of recyclables, three cubic yards of compost, and five cubic yards of waste. If it weren’t for the efforts of our patrons and staff separating materials, all 15 cubic yards would have ended up as waste. We reduced our waste by 67 percent.

It’s confusing that an item like a cup can be manufactured from recyclable plastic, non-recyclable plastic or compostable corn starches. It gets even more confusing that a fork made from recyclable plastic cannot actually be recycled at Eco-Cycle due to the equipment’s inability to distinguish it from a flat piece of paper. So a big thank you to the Nedfest patrons who took the time to read labels and sort materials into the proper bins.

Your efforts reduced the amount of time and manpower needed to correct errors of misfiled materials. Campground patrons — you did the best of all — we rate you an “A” in proper separation and for keeping Chipeta Park clean.

The most rewarding outcome of our efforts cannot be measured. In our conversations and observations of Nedfest patrons and vendors, we noticed a heightened awareness regarding the cradle-to-grave dilemma of materials we use. Over the three days of the fest we saw increased participation in trash sepasee LETTERS Page 8

oulder County Parks and Open Space has decided to enforce dog rules up at Walker Ranch, issuing a “directed patrol” for the Meyers Homestead Trail. This means rangers will be patrolling the trail at all times of the day and will be issuing tickets on sight to people who let their dogs run off-leash.

“This concentrated effort is in response to numerous complaints made by the public concerning dogs off leash on this property,” reads an open space announcement on the subject. “While rangers prefer to give warnings first, offleash dogs have become a serious issue and are affecting wildlife as well as visitor experience.”

So, management at county open space has decided to enforce its already existing rules about dogs. That’s like the state patrol enforcing laws about speeding, reckless or drunk drivers. It should be greeted as a sign that they take their job seriously. But some dog owners, who not only want lax ordinances but apparently want to break them with impunity, view it as an affront.

While many dog owners are respon-

sible, taking time to clean up when their dogs shit on the trail, maintaining control of their dogs at all times, keeping their dogs from nosing people, jumping on them or tangling their legs in leashes, others are not. In fact, they seem to take pride in breaking our dog ordinances, telling us that it’s no big deal if a dog jumps on you or knocks your kid over or noses you in the crotch.

As a frequent hiker who grew up in Boulder, I’ve seen it all. Dogs chasing and attacking wildlife. Dogs chasing and attacking other dogs. Dogs with porcupine quills in their muzzles. Dogs knocking children over — my younger son was knocked down by an overly enthusiastic black lab when he was 6 and received scratches from the dog’s claws — not to mention elderly and even healthy adults.

I gained a new perspective on the danger that off-leash, uncontrolled dogs pose on trails over the past year as I’ve recovered from major spinal surgery on my neck. Last August, two vertebrae, damaged as the result of a broken neck I sustained many years ago, were removed see DOGS Page 8

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—Tennis player Serena Williams, reacting to umpire Eva Asderaki, who gave Williams’ U.S. Open finals opponent Sam Stosur a point after Williams hollered during a volley “I wouldn’t advise watching such shows on the way to school or any time they’re expected to pay attention and learn.”

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entirely from my neck and replaced with gadgetry — implants, bone grafts, titanium plates and screws. The surgery decreased the severe pain I’d been suffering in my legs and improved my nonexistent balance. However, I still have no feeling from mid-shin down, and my balance is badly compromised.

As part of the recovery process, the surgeon wanted me to get out and walk as much as I could. I’ve progressed from walking slowly with my mom on one side and my dad on the other to hiking alone with hiking poles, which help me keep my balance. Obviously, walking on rocky trails with feet you can’t feel and weak balance is a risky thing, especially given the fact that falling down could have severe consequences for me, including the failure of that surgery or need for an additional operation.

But it isn’t just my own feet and the rocks on the trail that I have to worry about. Dogs are also a consideration.

Having a big dog knock me over or tripping me with its leash could be disastrous. Because of that, I choose county trails over city trails because more county trails require that dogs be kept on leash at all times. Of course, that doesn’t mean dog owners comply.

Which brings me to the point: Dog owners create their own misery. Boulder

is doggy paradise. Although some dog owners act like they’re being persecuted, the fact is they can take their pets on most trails in city and county open space systems. On most city trails, they can even let their dogs off-leash — provided they’ve trained their animal well enough so that it remains under voice and sight control.

But that’s the problem. Too many dog owners are lazy, neglecting to train their dogs. Those same owners are then too lazy to control their untrained dogs when they take their pets onto public lands. They’re even too lazy to pick up their dogs’ excrement, leaving it to stink in the sun until the Dog Shit Fairy comes to pick it up.

And they wonder why an increasing number of Boulder County residents object to dogs on trails.

The county’s efforts to enforce dog regulations are welcome by many county residents and long overdue. Let’s hope the city, too, starts ticketing irresponsible dog owners. The problem for both the county and city is having enough rangers on staff. But that’s a different column.

In the end, more effective and stricter enforcement will make our trails cleaner, safer for everyone — and more welcoming for dogs and dog owners in the long run.

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ration, changes in vendor practices and dialogue within our community favoring recycling and composting. A special shout-out goes to Uncle Jim’s Dogs (Fort Collins) for switching slushie containers from Styrofoam to recyclable plastic, supplying only bulk condiment options, and for not supplying condiment cups (what a novel idea to reduce waste and costs simultaneously). Another notable vendor is Weezr’s Butter (Estes Park) for posting a collection station for Ziploc bags at her booth, for personally bringing them to be recycled at participating grocery stores, and also for her support of local businesses in ingredient purchasing.

Compostable service ware can cost two to three times as much as conventional plastic, so thank you to the following vendors that supported our sustainability effort: Fruta Smoothie, Seb’s Wood-fired

Pizza, The Smokeshack, Surf ’s Up Catering, Boulder Beer, Redstone Meadery and Lefthand Brewery.

And thanks to the volunteers: Tom Brophy, Mark Smith, Greg Wilson, Emma, Koby, Taylor and Eli. Thanks also to Eco-Cycle for providing free recycling stands and other assistance.

Diana Maggiore, Nedfest zero-waste coordinator/Rollinsville

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Tainted words In the wake of Westword’s interview with Phish drummer Jon Fishman (which briefly appeared on the paper’s website on Sept. 3), which was revealed to have been plagiarized from both Relix Magazine and Modern Drummer magazine, we thought we’d share Boulder Weekly’s rules of guidance given out to editors to try and spot plagiarism.

We’ll skip the boring ones and go to the most important ones: 1. Pray. 2. Pray.

3. Pray. 4. Pray.

Frankly, there’s not much else editors can do, other than hire responsible writers and trust them. Rather than berate Westword for failing to adequately factcheck (simply Googling the first sentence of the Q-and-A might have revealed the fraud), we feel that this case is indicative of the current state of media, a freefor-all in which overworked newspaper editors rely on poorly paid freelancers instead of full-time staffers to produce content for the Web. Plagiarism is the fastest way to torpedo a journalism career. In a climate where writers are willing to stake their reputations and professional careers on the few hundred dollars they might get for a story, editors have little time at their disposal to ensure every sentence, thought and turn of phrase a writer submits is original.

Our hearts go out to every other writer at Westword, whose work now bears the taint of one lazy, desperate journalist.

And just so we don’t get into the same trouble as Westword, we should mention that we lifted our “rules” from a 2004 Poynter Institute article.

A sad slide Disappointing to see CU-Boulder’s latest slip in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of colleges and universities.

CU went from 39th last year to 42nd this year.

Seems like just yesterday our hometown campus was ranked 26th. Oh, wait, that wasn’t yesterday; that was in 2000. Then we dropped to 28th, then to 31st.

Hung out in the 30s for the rest of the decade until this fall. Ugh. We can hear the university’s PR team now, dismissing the rankings as unscientific, or too limited in scope, or just plain unflattering.

But this isn’t the Princeton Review, which is definitely an easier target to take shots at when CU is named the number one party school in the nation. This is U.S. News and World Report, which is arguably one of the primary sources your run-of-the-mill high school junior — and her parents — turns to when assessing the quality of a college or university.

So what has gone on in the past decade to cause such a slide in academic quality at CU? Did the magazine change its criteria in a way that disadvantaged us? Was it the scandals of the mid-2000s and the subsequent shift away from academically qualified presidents?

Or was it simply that sucking sound we’ve been hearing as the university’s coffers have been systematically drained by state budget cuts?

After all, you get what you pay for.

Zombies for a cause Apparently, defending yourself against the walking dead can be good for atrisk youth.

A group calling itself Zombie Defense Tactics (ZDT) and a shop called I Want More Comics in Northglenn has joined forces to host a fundraiser to benefit a new approach to youth empowerment: outlasting zombies.

ZDT is holding classes and seminars that use the concepts of survival and zombies to teach adolescents and teens how to improve their surroundings by learning confidence, critical thinking and physical fitness.

The fundraiser for the effort, a screening of the AMC world premiere of The Walking Dead, a show dealing with survivors of zombie apocalypses, will be held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 16 at Cinebarre in Thornton, located at 10001 Grant St. So that’s how to get your 15-year-old to clean his room and give up drugs!

Stick your arms out, moan and walk real slow!

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briefs Voter registration deadline looms Residents who plan to cast a ballot in the 2011 election have less than a month to register.

The deadline to register for the 2011 coordinated election, which will be conducted by mail ballot, is Oct. 3. Boulder County voters can visit bouldercountyvotes.org to register to vote, request a mail ballot, or check and update their voter registration. They can also call 303-413-7740 for more information, or visit one of the three Boulder County Clerk & Recorder’s Office branches: 1750 33rd St. in Boulder, 529 Coffman St. in Longmont, or 722 Main St. in Louisville.

Election Day is Nov. 1, but voters will begin receiving ballots in midOctober.

Remembering the Fourmile Fire The Maria Rogers Oral History Program and the Carnegie Library for Oral History will present “Remembering the Fourmile Canyon Fire: One Year Later” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 20 at the Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, at 1000 Canyon Blvd. in Boulder.

The event will feature two short films about the fire, Packed and Saving Gold Hill: The Story of the Fourmile Canyon Fire, as well as live music by Ray Smith, followed by comments from the audience about their experiences since the fire. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call Susan Becker at 303-441-1981.

Bike counters needed The Boulder County Transportation Department is seeking volunteers to take bicycle counts around the county from 9 to 11 a.m. on Sept. 24-25.

Volunteers will be rewarded with a one-year Boulder B-cycle membership and a custom thermos. The bicycle counts will provide county officials with information in five areas of study: conditions and trend analysis, network planning, demand forecasting, safety and usage.

The deadline to volunteer is Sept. 22. Contact Brandon Smith at 720564-2667 or bcsmith@bouldercounty.org for more information.

Candidate forums on tap PLAN-Boulder will host the second of its three city council candidate forums from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16, in the Boulder Public Library’s Creekside Community Room.

The forum will feature Mark Gelband, Tom Johnston, Suzanne Jones and George Karakehian. The forum will be moderated by David Grimm.

The final forum, which will be moderated by John Tayer, will be held at the same time on Sept. 23 and will feature Fenno Hoffman, Stephen Keenan, Dan King and Lisa Morzel.

Burn prescribed for Hall A prescribed burn has been planned for the Hall Ranch Open Space between Sept. 21 and Oct. 31.

The proposed burn area is approximately 66 acres and is located near the Nelson Loop Trail, just west of the prairie dog area.

Weather conditions will determine the exact dates of the burn. Regular updates will be posted at http://bit.ly/HallBurn.

Officials say the burn is intended to help maintain an open ponderosa pine forest and help reduce the severity of damage from a wildland fire.

While the prescribed burn is in progress, officials advise nearby residents to keep their windows closed and pets indoors, and arrange to be elsewhere if possible. The park will be closed during the burn.

For more information, contact Chad Julian at 303-678-6202 or cjulian@bouldercounty.org.

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New institute advances biosciences The University of Colorado Board of Regents has unanimously approved the creation of a systemwide CU Biofrontiers Institute, which will focus on bioscience research and educating future interdisciplinary scientists.

The institute was developed from the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB), which began in 2003 as a student collaboration to work across disciplines on significant challenges in bioscience and to translate new knowledge into biotechnology solutions.

The CU Biofrontiers Institute will include faculty members from across the CU campuses and from several departments, such as chemistry, biology, physics and applied mathematics.

The director of the institute is Nobel Laureate and CU-Boulder Professor Thomas Cech of the chemistry and biochemistry department.

The Biofrontiers Institute headquarters will be in the new Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building on CU-Boulder’s East Campus, and is scheduled to open in early 2012.

Learning more about solar flares NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is carrying $32 million worth of University of Colorado Boulder instruments, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than thought.

Solar flares are bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots and are seen as bright areas on the sun. Their energy can reach Earth’s atmosphere and affect operation of orbiting communication and navigation satellites.

Over the course of a year and using SDO’s ultraviolet Extreme Variability Experiment instrument designed and built at CU, scientists observed that radiation from solar flares sometimes continues for up to five hours beyond the initial main phase of a solar flare occurrence. The new data also shows that the total energy from this phase of the flare sometimes has more energy than that of the initial event.

The new capability provided by SDO observations is giving scientists a more accurate estimation of the total energy input into Earth’s environment.

SDO was launched on Feb. 11, 2010, and is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun.

CU to celebrate Constitution Day The University of Colorado Boulder is commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution with several campus events this week.

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advisors to campus. The event will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building.

CU’s Center for Western Civilization also will host a free public talk by best-selling author Thomas Woods of the Ludwig von Mises Institute on Thursday, Sept. 15. Woods’ talk, “Small is Beautiful: The Neglected Case for Human Scale in a World of Megastates,” will be held at 6 p.m. in the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building, room 252.

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hen Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, speaks of Colorado’s budgetary woes, he speaks of Band-Aids that can’t stop the bleeding, wounds that are hard to heal and rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. He’s particularly worried about public education.

“After voting on the ’10-’11 budget, which cut education by roughly $260 million and took a considerable amount out of higher ed — I voted for it, but I never felt very good about it — and I’m thinking to myself, ‘Something’s wrong with this picture,’” Heath says. “Colorado is among the 10 wealthiest states in the nation. Yet in 40 years we’ve gone from a state that really invested in education to one that’s at the bottom of the barrel, literally, in its funding for preschool through higher ed. I said to myself, ‘I’m not going to sit here in 2012 voting on the 2013 budget and vote on another horrendous cut to education without doing something about it.’”

That something is Proposition 103, the only statewide measure to make it onto this year’s ballot.

If passed by voters in November, Proposition 103 would raise the state income tax from 4.63 percent to 5 percent and the state sales tax from 2.9 percent to 3 percent, returning them to 1999 levels for five years.

The revenue generated — an estimated $3 billion — would go toward funding education in Colorado.

Proposition 103 is the latest attempt to deal with Colorado’s worsening state budget crisis, which has been exacerbated by the combined impact of the Gallagher Amendment, Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) and Amendment 23, all of which were passed by voters. Gallagher was passed in 1982 after Colorado property owners demanded that the state legislature do something about increasing property taxes. It requires a 45/55 percent split between residential and business property through the state and sets rules about how property values are assessed, among other things. TABOR, passed 10 years after Gallagher, requires a vote of the people before government can raise taxes and sets limits on how much money the state can keep. Amendment 23, an attempt by voters to circumvent TABOR, requires the state to fund K-12 education at the rate of inflation plus 1 percent.

The 1 percent provision expired a year ago, while budget difficulties during the recession have resulted in cuts to areas of K-12 funding that an administrative ruling determined aren’t protected under the language of Amendment 23.

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not raise a penny,” Heath says. “All it did was rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. We have done nothing to increase the revenue.”

A study released by University of Denver researchers earlier this month offered a grim outlook on the state’s economic future, predicting that the state’s current funding gap will eventually consume the budget across the board. By 2025, the money in the state’s general fund won’t even cover Medicaid, prisons and schools.

In other words, Colorado is in trouble.

The report suggested approaches to improve the outlook, including a variety of tax increases and budget cuts.

“The key point in there is that there’s no way we’re going to grow out of this,” says Heath, who chaired the commission that ordered the study. “The structural problem is so deep. There’s such a deep hole that no matter how good the economy gets, there’s no way we’re going to grow out of it.”

Heath cautions that Proposition 103 won’t solve the problem either. That’s why he decided to limit its reach to five years.

“We don’t want to give people the impression that this is going to solve our problems, because it’s not,” he says. “All this does is replace the funds that we’ve cut the past two years.”

Jon Caldara, president of the Libertarian think tank Independence Institute, opposes Proposition 103.

“The economy is growing at perhaps 1 percent,” he says. “I think it’s a pretty fair question to ask why the state government should get an 8 percent increase in its revenues on this slow growth … Why an 8 percent increase in taxes when our anemic economy is only

growing at 1 percent?

“Income tax increases like this are anti-employment. If we want people to have jobs, then employers and people who buy goods and services who need employees to do it — they need to have more money in the economy. Talk about killing a fragile economy. This proposal would do just that.”

But Heath disagrees. Supporting education fosters economic growth, he says.

“I know from practical experience that the key to attracting companies to this state, to attracting people that you want in this state, is education,” he says. “Invariably, one of the first or second questions you get are, tell me about your schools. Tell me where my kids are going to school. How good are they? And then tell me about the schools where I’m going to hire my employees.”

Heath says arguments that Proposition 103 would hurt the state’s vulnerable economy don’t hold water with him.

“People would argue to me that taking it back to where we were in 1999 is going to devastate the economy and jobs. I just can’t buy it because we know we did very well when taxes were at that level,” he says.

The time to act is now, he says.

“We’re not going to solve the structural problems in the next three years,” he says. “In the meantime, we’ve got kids suffering while the adults are trying to figure this out. And five years is a lifetime in a kid’s life.”

A number of groups and organizations have signed on to support Proposition 103, including the Colorado Council of Churches.

Gov. John Hickenlooper, however, is not taking a position on Proposition 103.

“The governor made a commitment to the people of Colorado when he ran for office that he would not campaign for a tax increase this year, and he intends to keep his word,” Eric Brown, Hickenlooper’s director of communications, told Boulder Weekly. “While he has no plans to endorse or oppose this proposal, he respects Sen. Heath’s passion to keep education a funding priority in Colorado. Like any grassroots effort, this is a question for the voters of Colorado to decide.”

Despite the down economy, Heath feels optimistic about Proposition 103’s chances at the polls.

Coloradans care about education, he says, and across Colorado parents are feeling the sting of education cuts, as some rural districts drop to four school days a week. But the biggest sign of support came in the 142,000 signatures volunteers gathered to get the proposal on the ballot, he says.

“What we’re going to find out is whether there are enough people out there who’ve felt the pain enough to realize how significant this is — the injustice we’re doing to our kids — to support it.”

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new kid in the skinniest jeans ever moves into town. Right away he scares the neighbors because all he wants to do is dance. Then all the parents start to worry because they know what dancing leads to: sex! And everyone knows what sex leads to — underage drinking and driving off bridges.

Wait. No. Boulder isn’t Bomont, Tenn., and this isn’t Footloose.

Or is it?

Maybe all that the kids want to do is cut loose.

As of early September 2011, the D.I.Y. (do it yourself ) space Astroland, located at 4415 N. Broadway, has closed.

Astroland was an all-ages art and music venue for the community to have a place to convene and exchange ideas. It was also a venue for emerging artists — one of the few in Boulder supportive of all genres of music. Whether Astroland will re-open is still in question.

The official reason for the closing, according to city environmental and zoning enforcement office records, was a building code violation. Simply put, zoning rules do not allow large groups of people to gather inside the building.

“This is a space that is not originally intended or meant to be used as an assembly-type occupancy,” says Jimmy York of Emerald Management, which manages the North Boulder property occupied by Astroland, quoting a letter from Fire Marshal David Lowrey.

Neighbors complained about big parties and “raves,” so the city investigated. The fire department, the buildings department and the police all came to inspect. The fire marshal found that the warehouse failed to meet city code for “assembly” in several ways, and that in order to be brought up to code, Astroland would have to improve “egress” — how people enter and exit the building — and add sprinkler systems. They also found evidence that the wiring inside the warehouse had been altered in a way that didn’t meet the building code.

“It’s not necessarily a shutdown of the building or condemnation,” York says. “It’s more of a, ‘Please fix these code [violations].’”

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Citing code violations, city officials shutter Boulder’s only D.I.Y. venue

by Krystal Baugher building in that state. The dispute is yet to be resolved, which leaves the only official D.I.Y space in Boulder unoccupied and show-less.

Typically, D.I.Y. venues don’t bring in the capital or the consumerist culture that the city of Boulder thrives on financially. No one is making any money, neither the people throwing the events nor the city that might tax them or force them to buy permits. From the artists to the audience to the people working the door, everyone is contributing and creating and having a good time, but that might not be enough to pay the bills.

“This is a labor of love and collective interest,” co-organizer Chad Wallace says. “The system is so forprofit; we need to establish interest in the non-commercial arts movement here in Boulder.”

Though there is a large population of young people here, many see themselves as temporary residents attending school as opposed to members of the community.

“Many students don’t feel this is their ‘home’ and often don’t take the time or effort to make investments in the town,” says co-organizer Erica Dixon, pointing to Boulder’s lack of a cohesive art and music scene.

Underage drinking was the other big issue Astroland faced. The venue, at first, allowed those of legal drinking age to bring their own alcohol to the show. The organizers thought their actions were legal, since they viewed the show as a private party. After a run-in with the police at the Titwrench show last June resulted in some minors being ticketed for alcohol possession, they learned differently.

“We didn’t have a guest list, an RSVP list that made it a private party,” co-organizer Justin Forthuber says. “So, to the police, it was like drinking beer on the street.”

After the Titwrench incident, Astroland organizers did everything

they could to make the place compliant.

“We went substance-free. We soundproofed the space and didn’t go over the sound code. The cops had no reason to hang around,” Dixon says.

But they did. According to Dixon and other organizers at Astroland, the police would come up to the parking lot and flash their lights on even though they weren’t arresting anyone or investigating anything.

“It was intimidation,” Dixon says.

“People would get here and then turn right around.”

Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kobel did not respond to requests for comment by deadline.

Though they’ve been through plenty of struggles, it hasn’t all been bad. In fact, the Astroland community has experienced plenty of amazing nights, from the intimacy of the first big snow of the year at an art show last winter to the jam-packed 13-band show at Halloween (selected by Westword as one of the best Halloween parties of the year).

“When people come up to me and thank me and tell me that this space means so much to them, that’s meaningful,” Dixon says.

Astroland provided the opportunity for the development of an extended network of creative alternative-thinking people, a community.

“Before [Astroland], unless you met in class, how else would you engage with these other people?” Dixon says.

The most significant example of the growth and closeness of this emerging arts community happened last February when Astroland was robbed during a concert. Someone who attended the show stole the venue’s cash box, which contained $700 for that month’s rent, according to news reports. Astroland put out a call for help on Facebook, and the community responded.

“It was incredible to see such a powerful response from everybody,” co-

organizer Zack Roif says. “Random people from different states contributed hundreds of dollars.”

Within 48 hours they had collected enough money to cover what had been robbed. This reaction is proof, they say, that there exists an active community of people in Boulder who care about supporting these types of venues.

“We’re doing something here not many other places can,” Roif says. “To see people actively coming out and giving their own money and contributing it to a place that they care about — it was a really awesome, sentimental moment. I realized we really are doing something for the community. It’s a family feeling; everyone is a part of it.”

Other Astroland goers shared similar reactions.

“I think that one of the best things about Astroland is that it really precipitated this mingling between communities in Boulder that are disparate. Young Boulder natives and older townies, CU freshmen and Naropa [University] grad students, ravers, punks, hippies and poets all found an outlet in our space,” says Andrew Cohn, an Astroland volunteer. “There have been musical collaborations between people who might have never met if not for Astroland. I think that’s what the founders were striving for all along.”

York told Boulder Weekly that as of Tuesday, Emerald Management has begun the process of evicting Astroland.

“We served [the tenants on the lease] a three-day notice for compliance or possession, so if they don’t pay the rent, then we’ve got to take them to court in order to kick them out,” York says. “We’d just rather them pay and take care of the business, and we’re waiting on them to respond.”

Dixon says that the experience of operating a D.I.Y. venue was eyeopening.

“We are all planning on pursuing the curation of creative spaces throughout careers, but for now we need to step back and focus on finishing school and developing our personal artistic pursuits. I hope the Boulder creative scene continues to grow, and I’m sure we will all continue to do things to facilitate this. But for now we will all be greatly relieved to leave Astroland in the past,” Dixon says.

David Accomazzo contributed to this report.

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county cropland advisory group is poised to make its final decision on the use of genetically engineered crops on open space this week.

The nine-member Cropland Policy Advisory Group (CPAG) is scheduled to discuss the topic for the final time at a 5:30 p.m. meeting on Tuesday, Sept.

20, in the Parks and Open Space Building in Longmont, at 5201 St. Vrain Rd. CPAG, which was appointed by the county commissioners after an outcry over a proposal to plant genetically engineered sugar beets two years ago, has been meeting since February to create recommendations for the commissioners to consider in forming a new comprehensive cropland policy.

On Aug. 17, the last time the group discussed its policy recommendations for using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on county open space, only two of the nine members spoke in favor of an outright ban on GMOs. Another two members said they were interested in the possibility of decreasing the use of GMOs on county land.

The majority of the group appears to be solidly in the camp of “co-existence,” an arrangement in which organic, traditional and GMO farmers are permitted to use open space for their crops as long as they undergo a county approval process and do their best to prevent the spread of negative impacts to their neighbors.

The apparent GMO-tolerant lean has some anti-GMO activists speculating about possible conspiracies, from GMO manufacturing giant Monsantofunded infiltrations to a board of county commissioners that could have stacked the deck to favor GMOs. But County Commissioner Will Toor says nothing could be further from the truth.

“There is no conspiracy here,” he says. “I’ve never heard from anybody at Monsanto.”

Toor says that when the board appointed CPAG, the commissioners tried to strike a balance, with three Boulder Weekly

organic farming representatives, three conventional farmers, and three openminded, thoughtful people who didn’t have a strong opinion either way.

“That’s just not the way that it works,” he says of the notion that the commissioners stacked the deck. “If we had wanted to do that, it would have been a heck of a lot easier to make a decision on sugar beets two years ago.”

CPAG member and organic farmer Ewell Culbertson told Boulder Weekly that he was never asked about his stance on GMOs when he was interviewed by the commissioners. Toor says the board was well aware of Culbertson’s anti-GMO stance, though.

Culbertson points out that CPAG is only one of many inputs the commissioners will consider when making their decision on GMOs. Toor agrees, saying those inputs include the Food and Agriculture Policy Council, the Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee, public comment periods, county staff recommendations, a literature review and the commissioners’ own scientific research.

When asked how much weight CPAG’s recommendations will carry, Toor says that for him, it will come down to the quality of the arguments and analysis supporting all of the recommendations the board receives.

“I think it’s too early in the process to say where I’m going to come down, and I can’t speak for my colleagues,” he says. “I do think it is a much more complicated issue than I originally anticipated it to be.”

An informal poll conducted this week on the Pearl Street Mall and the CU-Boulder campus revealed that more than half of the people contacted did not know what GMOs are. “[GMOs] reside in guts and cause major increases in food allergies and immune deficiencies,” Christian Lepanto of Boulder told Boulder Weekly on Sept.

12. “The problem is a Frankenstein that will not easily be put down. We’re opening a Pandora’s box.”

Blair Madole contributed to this report.

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Boulder could be.”

The Ciclovia is focused on promoting sustainability while also giving residents a chance to engage with one another and have a day to play ­— for free. The route will feature zero-waste stations, a Chautauqua series discussing issues of sustainability and free pedicabs to transport people along the route.

“Our goal is bringing the community together,” Griffith says. “It is also about focusing on health, showing people the benefits of cycling and walking as a form of transportation, showcasing the great organic and sustainable food available in Boulder, and pointing out conscious, positive and sustainable living practices.”

A similar message can be found at the Sustainable Living Fair in Fort Collins this weekend. The fair is a larger-scale version of Boulder Green Streets. It will host 250 vendors and exhibitors over the course of the weekend and convey a message of social responsibility and healthy, sustainable living. Day passes to the Sustainable Living Fair are $8 for adults and free for children under 12 years old.

Though the Boulder event is smaller, the Ciclovia team still expects to see 10,000 to 15,000 guests throughout the day. For more information on Boulder Green Streets, visit bouldergreenstreets.org.

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jetliner crash into the Twin Towers on that Sept. 11 morning, a friend of mine’s wife and 7-year-old daughter fled to their nearby Manhattan loft and ran to the roof to look around. From there, they saw the second plane explode in a rolling ball of flaming fuel across the rooftops. It felt like the heat of a fiery furnace.

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by Blair Madole for cars, and to cause people to rethink the use of public space.

For more active Boulderites, the event offers several meet-up locations for biking, running and hiking.

Additionally, the Ciclovia will host a climbing wall, a kayak tank, yoga lessons and dance lessons ranging from Zumba to Bollywood style, all free of charge and taking place in the middle of Pearl Street.

A food pavilion will showcase natural, organic and eco-friendly products and restaurants. Vendors include Rudi’s Organic Bakery, Rush, Bhakti Chai and Horizon Organic.

Other events throughout the day include a free breakfast, a children’s bike parade, an eco-fashion show, a people-powered parade and a concert to end the day.

Boulder is one of the smallest communities to host a Ciclovia and is competing against the massive budgets of cities like Los Angeles and New York.

However, Griffith sees the smallerscale as an advantage because the Ciclovia relies more on volunteers and is thus more representative of what Boulder is really about.

“A lot of this goes back to my initial inspiration — that creativity and humor create change,” Griffith says.

“We’re trying not to take ourselves too seriously and have fun with it. We want to show what Boulder is, while also promoting change and seeing what

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Boulder’s Green Streets borrows from a Columbian tradition hough the general rule is not to play in the street for fear of cars, the pedestrians of Boulder will have the opportunity to take over a vehicular domain and do just that this coming weekend.

Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the east end of Pearl Street will be transformed into an urban playground for Boulder Green Streets’ second annual Ciclovia.

The idea for the Ciclovia originated in Bogotá, Columbia, where each Sunday, 70 miles of urban streets are closed down to give citizens a place to engage with their community. Though the Boulder Ciclovia is on a much smaller scale, only stretching from 15th to Folsom streets, the sentiment is the same.

“The theory in Bogotá is that humor and creativity create change,” says Hillary Griffith, the director of Boulder Green Streets. “In Boulder, we want to do something similar. We’re inviting the community to be imaginative and see what we could do with our city.”

The Ciclovia is not a festival, but rather a place for people throughout the community to come bike, run, skate, or enjoy many of the activities and food available in Boulder in a space not normally open to these kinds of offerings. The event is a way to show that urban roadways are not just

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S

eth Meyers is living the dream.

The 37-year-old New Hampshire native has an impressive résumé, starting with his tenure as a cast member and head writer on Saturday Night Live, and leading to his stints hosting the ESPYs and performing after President Barack Obama at this spring’s White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner. Throw in the occasional acting gig, and he says his current career situation is “perfect.”

He’s on top of his game while mocking deserving targets such as Donald Trump (“Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising because I just assumed he was running as a joke”) and Brett Favre (whose shadow, we’ve now learned “thanks to cell phone technology, is not as big as we originally thought”). Meyers talked with Boulder Weekly prior to his gig at the Boulder Theater about Boulder, Harry Caray and when jokes bomb on stage.

Q: So, you’re doing a stand-up tour right now. Is this a typical way you spend your time between SNL seasons?

A: Yeah, I try to do as many tours as I can, you know, obviously our summer is coming to a close here, and I’m heading off to [Los Angeles] for … that weekend, and it makes sense to stop on the way. I’ve been wanting to do Boulder for a really long time, and I’m just really glad it finally worked out.

Q: Have you ever been to Boulder?

A: I have. I’ve been to Boulder a lot. A lot of my college buddies — I went to Northwestern [University in Evanston, Ill.] — two of my best college friends lived in Boulder. I’ve spent a fair amount of time there.

Q Any special memories about Boulder when you were spending time here?

A: Yeah, I’ve got some special memories but I’m going to save ’em for the show. I’ve got some things to tell the people of Boulder about the way they go about their business.

Well, it’s funny, there’s such an East Coast kind of kid, who their entire first 18 years of their lives is just waiting for the day where they can move to Boulder. I certainly had plenty of friends like that. It’s like Narnia for East Coast Phish fans.

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Thursday, Sept. 15

Beginning Flamenco Dance — Learn the well-known Spanish dance and don’t worry: Everyone else will look awkward, too. 6:157:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Friday, Sept. 16

Green Lantern — Thrill as Van Wilder fights fear and wears a ring. 9 p.m. Program Council, CU Chem 140, www.programcouncil. com.

Saturday, Sept. 17

Sustainable Living Fair — Time for Fort Collins to finally get on board with the whole “green living” concept. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Fort Collins, www.sustainablelivingfair. org.

Sunday, Sept. 18

The Princess Bride — Everyone’s favorite ’80s adventure. Bow down to the Queen of Putrescence. 8:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, Sept. 19

Lifepics Community Blood Drive — You’re not using all that blood yourself, are you? 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Bonfils mobile bus, 5777 Central Ave., Boulder, 303-4139500.

Tuesday, Sept. 20

Folk Dancing — We’re in a dancing kind of mood. Come show off your moves. 7-10 p.m. Boulder Civic Plaza, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

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Warren Miller Wednesdays — Ski season is just around the corner.

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A: Yeah, definitely. I mean, that’s the nice thing about having as many outlets as possible for comedy.

Sometimes you come up with an idea that’s not feasible as a sketch but would be good as a stand-up bit and vice-versa, so it’s nice when you’re doing SNL to keep a file of things that are better suited for stand-up. It’s really fun, especially at the end of the summer when I do a lot of shows. I’m very in the groove, which is nice.

Q: You did the ESPYs this year again. Did you find that athletes are a tougher audience than some of the other crowds that you perform to?

A: I do think that athletes are hyper-aware of people watching them watch [the ESPY monologue]. Does that make sense? I know for a fact, talking to some athletes after the ESPYs, that they were like, “Hey man, I loved that joke; I just couldn’t be seen laughing at it,” which is interesting.

The other thing is that the difference between the correspondents’ dinner and something like the ESPYs is that [at] the ESPYs, an athlete is hyper-aware when the camera is on them. You know, the cameraman literally comes up the aisle and sets up shop in front of them. … Whereas something like the correspondents’ dinner

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where it’s on CSPAN, nobody knows when the camera’s on them, so it makes it a lot easier, better for me.

Q: Do you have a preferred outlet for comedy?

A: You know, the thing I love the most about the stage is that you feel like you are in complete control. It’s a little more like fishing, where you’re aware of when to let out more line and when to start reeling it in, because you have a very immediate interaction with the audience. Your feedback is immediate.

Q: As far as performing on SNL goes, do you find that there are any hosts that sometimes get egos about the material?

A: Yeah, but very rarely, though.

The nice thing about how long the show’s been on the air is that I think hosts know what they signed up for.

Very rarely someone shows up and says, “Wait a minute … Are you making fun of my life?” I think the show, the reason why [ Justin] Timberlake or [Alec] Baldwin or Jon Hamm have been such good hosts is that they have a field day poking fun at their own persona.

The problem is that comedy is an underdog’s game, and those guys are all sort of favorites — you know, they’re handsome, talented guys, and yet they come out and they let us make fun of

any shortcomings they’ve ever had. And it makes the audience go like, “Oh, these guys are a lot more like us than we thought.”

Q: As head writer, does that give you a lot of freedom to write about what interests you, what topics are funniest to you?

A: I think every writer on SNL has that freedom. No one ever gets assigned anything. We try to to hire guys and gals who all have unique takes that no one else on the staff has, so we have a lot of different kinds of things to choose from. Head writer, the bigger thing is almost, as the week goes on, having to fill specific holes, like, oh we have nothing about this big story, so that’s a little bit the opposite of freedom, because I have to fill the gaps in the show.

Q: As a comedian, how do you react when a joke doesn’t go over well with a crowd?

A: You know, the funny thing on SNL is that you feel pretty good about them going on by the time we actually do it, so when they don’t, it’s kind of hilarious.

You try to mix it up a little bit, change the speed of your pitches. No comedian goes out and thinks they’re going to go out and throw a perfect game — I’m going to keep using baseball-pitching analogies for this answer.

You can’t go out and be like, “As long as everybody laughs at everything, this will be fine.”

Q: You’re a big baseball fan, right?

How was it preparing for singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at the Cubs game?

A: I can’t believe I agreed to do it. I think I got like, seduced by the allure of the offer, and then the day of, I was like, “What am I doing?” I hate singing, I hate singing while people watch me, and this isn’t the sort of thing where if you do well, it leads to something else — all you can do is fail.

They gave me good advice where if you lose your place or anything just wave your microphone like Harry Caray.

Q: Did you get to listen to Harry Caray call many games when you were at Northwestern?

A: I did yeah. I had a lot of love for Harry Caray.

My favorite thing I ever heard Harry Caray say on the air was that …

I think it was Derrick May ... [The Cubs] had someone whose last name was May, and Harry Caray was like, “Derrick May? His last name spelled backwards is Yam?” Interview conducted, edited and condensed by author.

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on’t be scared. It’s just a film And those perspectives aren’t always in evifestival. dence.”

Yes, more than a third of After only inviting female filmmakers in the movies at this year’s the festival’s first two years, English decided Moondance Film Festival to accept entries from men as well. are foreign. Yes, many of the films at the “I make sure that men and women are Boulder event, happening Sept. 16 to Sept. as close to equal as I can, but I won’t juggle 18 on the CU campus, sound deadly serithem to say, ‘Oh, gee, a woman’s missing ous: The Way of Justice, Oil Factor, The Road here,’” she says.

Home, Tales of Woe. No, you can’t crack “And I don’t have a winner in every catopen a box of Junior Mints and start texegory,” she adds. “If it’s just not good ting your friends. But it’s not meant to be enough, it’s not going to win.” scary.

That’s good news for Damon Mohl. An “Most of the public thinks that film art instructor at three local colleges, Mohl Damon Mohl’s The Dust Machine will show at the Moondance Film Festival. fests are just for filmmakers,” says will take the impossibly named Colorado Elizabeth English, the festival’s founder Ocean Award this year for his short film and executive director. “And that’s as far The Dust Machine. He says he started the from the truth as can be. We want all of the public to “The audiences who come to see the films, they film as a master’s thesis project at CU, and after quite be aware of the work and enjoy it.” don’t walk out,” she says. “I’ve been to many film fests a bit of work — two years of constructing sets and English says one of her goals as director is to draw where the audience will get up and walk out. another year finishing post-production — it took off, eventually. in the public and engage in conversations. One way Moondance people don’t walk out.”

“It was nominated for a 2011 student academy she tries to accomplish this is by picking films that Since English started the festival in 2000, one of award, which is how Elizabeth found out about it,” are, you know, good. the core values she has instilled has been respect. She Mohl says.

“She saw an article and gave me a call. She “Entertainment is first and foremost. If a film’s says she felt — and still feels — that, like Aretha just had me drop off a copy on her porch.” entertaining, I don’t care what it’s about,” she says. “I Franklin, women filmmakers deserve more of it.

Mohl says he agrees that the public should feel don’t care if my mother sends in a film, it’s not going “I started Moondance out of a sense of frustration welcome at Moondance.

He says people can benefit to win unless it’s top quality.” that women were not being represented in the film from film festivals, particularly short films like his, English has previously defined the festival’s basic industry, women writers and filmmakers,” English because of the variety they offer. standard as “a good story, well-told.” She says aside says.

“The interesting thing about short films is that from screening films she actually likes watching, she She points to Sundance, the Utah festival that they can be absolutely anything,” Mohl says. “It hopes Moondance’s atmosphere will draw in visitors.

Moondance draws its name from, which hadn’t given doesn’t have to fall into a three-act morality play. It “It’s very casual and very equal. Everybody’s treatmany awards to females when English started ed equally,” English says. “It’s a friendly, we’re-gladMoondance. She says Sundance is indicative of a can be a joke. It can be just dealing with optics. Or you’re-here kind of thing. We pay attention.” broader trend in the industry. poetic works, no characters, just the visual image.

She says this stands in contrast to her experience “The films or scripts produced in Hollywood, if “A short film can be anything, and that should be as a member of the public at other screenings, where there was one woman it’d be a shock,” English says. the excitement,” he says. “Because you never know she has “felt kind of ignored.” Moondance is much “But we have something to say that shows a different what you’re going to get.” more respectful, she says. perspective on events or on the world or about a story.

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For more information on the season’s classical music offerings, visit the websites of the following groups: CU College of Music Faculty Tuesdays music.colorado.edu/ events/faculty-tuesdays Boulder Philharmonic boulderphil.org Takács Quartet bit.ly/takacsquartet Boulder Bach Festival www.boulderbachfestival.org Boulder Chamber Orchestra www.boulderchamberorchestra.org/concerts.html

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Programs meant to resonate with Boulder audience

by Peter Alexander

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The classical music season is off and running in Boulder.

The College of Music Faculty Tuesdays series, which has some especially tempting offerings this year, is already under way. Boulder Philharmonic opens its season Saturday in Macky Auditorium, and the Takács Quartet follows in Grusin Hall Sept. 18-19.

Only a little further down the road are the Boulder Bach Festival, with new music director Rick Erickson and a program of Brandenburg Concertos on Sept. 23 and Sept. 25, and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. (See links above to more information on all of these organizations and programs.)

Saturday’s Boulder Philharmonic concert launches a season the orchestra calls “Spirit of Boulder.” If that sounds like a platitude, Music Director Michael Butterman knows what it means for him.

“We hope that every concert has something about it that is either Boulder-specific or that resonates with the kind of place that Boulder is,” he says.

Boulder-specific might refer to a soloist, as in the first concert when CU faculty member Hsing-ay Hsu will play a Bach concerto on the piano, or the final concert of the year next April, when the Takács Quartet joins the orchestra.

“When we are able to get this blend of a wellknown masterpiece along with something that is a discovery for people, that seems to work well,” Butterman says. “People are excited about hearing something that they know they are going to like, and yet if they had come to a concert that was entirely straight ahead, our sense is that they miss being challenged.”

The Sept. 17 concert misses that mark, since both composers — Bach and Mahler — are very familiar through local festivals devoted to their music.

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Yes, “there are entities in town that lay some claim to these composers,” Butterman notes. “I’ve been respectful about territories — we have not done Mahler since I’ve been with the orchestra. And yet, last year and this year being successive Mahler anniversary years, Mahler should be fair game.”

For Mahler, Butterman chose what he calls “The greatest ‘first symphony’ ever. … I just find it amazing that Mahler was mid-20s as he’s writing this; his mastery of the orchestra at that age is quite remarkable.”

Paired with that will be the Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, performed by Hsu on the modern concert grand. The piano part has been arranged

by Ferruccio Busoni, an early 20th-century pianist and composer who made Bach’s keyboard part more brilliant for the piano.

“This is not historically informed Bach,” Butterman observes. “It’s Bach through an early 20thcentury prism. We are using a sizeable string section to balance the fact that it’s not a harpsichord or fortepiano but a nine-foot Steinway.”

Over at the College of Music, the Takács Quartet

Hanson stays ahead

How the former pop superstars keep on the cutting edge of the music industry

By Steve Weishampel Boulder Weekly

H

anson is the future.

I know. You don’t believe it. You remember their 1997 hit — yeah, the one that just got stuck in your head — and you think they’re the past, the long-gone past.

That’s OK. You don’t know. You don’t know that after the group’s first album thrust them onto the international stage, Hanson hit a wall. Caught up in a record company dispute, the band wrote more than 80 songs that their label rejected. They went on tour on their own money. They were adrift.

So they innovated, launching an independent label in 2003. Then they innovated again, releasing iTunes-only podcasts documenting the making of

starts its season Sunday and Monday with a program of quartets by Haydn (The Lark), Dvorák (Quartet No. 10 in D-flat major) and Benjamin Britten (No. 1).

After that, all the other concerts this season will include collaborations with guest artists: double bassist Paul Erhard in the Dvorák Quintet with string bass Oct. 30 and Oct. 31 and, in the spring semester, various collaborations with pianist Margaret McDonald, horn player Michael Thornton, violist Erika Eckert and cellist Ralph Kirshbaum.

“There’s so many great performers here on the faculty, and it’s nice to be able to work with them on our series,” Edward Dusinberre, the Takács Quartet’s first violinist, says. “Sometimes it’s a little bit hard to coordinate with our touring repertoire, but this year it’s been quite easy.”

The first concert, traditional in its outline of one classical and one Romantic quartet, plus something different to fill out the program, still holds some surprises. Chamber music fans know that Haydn’s tuneful Lark quartet is one of the most popular works in the quartet repertoire, but neither the Britten nor the Dvorák are familiar to many listeners.

“The Britten First Quartet is a new piece for us,” Dusinberre notes. “It’s a very humorous, absolutely beautiful piece. Both the second and fourth movements are very lively, quite virtuosic. The third movement is a very calm, ethereal piece, and the first movement has a bit of everything in it.

“The particular Dvorák Quartet we’re playing is not played as frequently as others. Quite a lot of people who know Dvorák aren’t very familiar with it, but it’s a great piece. It has the classic second movement Dumka with its beautiful melancholy themes and lively contrasting sections, and a rip-snorter last movement.”

And they’re off!

Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com their music. Then they did it again, and again, and again.

The band you thought was history is still making history — and making albums, including the soulful and super-catchy Shout It Out in 2010. On its current tour, which swings through the Fox Theater Sept. 17, Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson are letting fans vote online for the set list they want to hear — the band will play an album of fans’ choice front-to-back live.

“We’ve had, in some cases, 30,000 votes on a single show,” says Isaac, the oldest brother. “A lot of people have been very excited about this concept. see HANSON Page 26

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We’ve allowed people to vote on encores, Twitter requests. We’ll continue to do that because we think it’s about engaging the fan base no matter what.”

That’s just scratching the surface of how Hanson’s trying to listen to its audience. Since they hit the global stage, the group’s made it a priority to communicate with fans. Hanson.net was like a band’s Facebook or Twitter page years before those networking sites existed. And Isaac says the band’s biggest ideas are still in the works.

“We’ve alluded to the possibility that this may be our last full-length record,” he says. “We’ve been feeling for a very long time that the medium of a full-length album released every two or three years is not the way the public consumes music.”

If fans can buy songs separate from albums online, Isaac says, there’s no point to releasing a full-length disc.

“The audience just wants the three good ones,” he says. “They’re not gonna pay for the other nine.”

And they’re not gonna wait around, either.

“It’s a very quick-response type of world out there. You have to constantly create interest,” Isaac says. “Every three to six months, you have to be doing something that is interesting.”

Other artists would be wise to listen — Hanson’s been ahead of the curve on social networking, live streams of concerts and many other promotional strategies.

“I think bands coming up need to stop releasing records. And they’re starting to do this,” Isaac says. “Look, put out three to five songs every six months. It’s four, five, six times harder to get 12 songs right than it is to get 26 September 15, 2011

five, four or three right.”

Getting it right doesn’t always come easy for Hanson, as brotherly love has sometimes given way to brotherly frustration. Isaac says it’s a struggle that Hanson continually tries to resolve.

“There is a long history both of less-than-productive relationships and very productive relationships of brothers in bands,” he says. “It’s personal time, but also job time. It can get messy.

“Anybody that knows us knows there’s plenty of tension between the three of us. But for the most part we leave it on the sidelines,” he says. “Playing a show, you might have been pissed off, but by the end of the show you’re playing the songs going, ‘This is the dream.

Every band wishes they had this, and we have it. So this doesn’t suck.’”

What sucks is when your brothers team up on you — usually. But Isaac says it can resolve conflicts in the band.

“The fact that there are three of us actually helps. One way or another somebody’s getting teamed up on,” he says. “Majority rules. Two of the guys are telling another guy, ‘Dude, get over yourself.’”

For a band that had tons of success early, Hanson has gotten over itself. It has done so by maintaining a laser-like focus on the driving element of its success: its fan base.

“The key is listening to your audience,” he says. “That is one of the most basic, straightforward things you can do. If you do it, the audience will respond.”

Fans can pick from three of Hanson’s five albums to hear at the Fox Sept. 17. Vote for Shout It Out, Middle of Nowhere or This Time Around on Hanson.net.

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Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

Back to the Woods. 8:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

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

Eugene Sings the Blues. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Holden Young Trio. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m.

Folsom St. Coffee Co. 1795 Folsom St. 303440-8808.

Paul Russell. 6 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 N. Jefferson, Nederland, 303-258-0614.

Sherrie Scott. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Sub Swara — With The Rainbow Wheel of Death & Mikey Thunder. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

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

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

events Fire in the Mountains — Understanding Fire History and Fire Dynamics in Colorado. 6 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303-4926892.

Green Building 101 for Professionals — With the Boulder Green Building Guild.

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. City of Longmont building, 1251 S. Bowen St., Longmont, 303-447-0901.

Green Fire — Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. 6 p.m. Louisville Middle School, 131 Main St., Louisville. cbalchburnett@defenders. org.

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Old-timey music played with great skill and character. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Farmageddon. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303492-1531.

Reel Rock Film Tour. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303443-8696.

Small is Beautiful: The Neglected Case for Human Scale in the World of Megastates — With Thomas Woods of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, CU Hellems Arts and Sciences Building, Room 252, www. colorado.edu.

Friday, September 16

music Acoustic Showcase #2 — Hollow Young with Clay Rose. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, http://nomadstage.com.

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

Blackdog with the Horns. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Blind Child Rockin Blues. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303443-3322.

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

Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Haystack Mountain Golf Course, 5877 Niwot Rd., Longmont, 303-530-1400.

Great American Taxi. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Ground Up. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Josh Quinlin Doctor of Music. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427.

Miss Shevaughn & Yuman Way, Dreams Are For Rookies & Ramaya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-

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Boulder/Denver Area Art on the Walls — Call for Artists. www. bouldercountyarts.org.

Burning Issues — The Fourmile Canyon Fire Exhibition. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Canvasses of Light — Plein Air Art Show. 4 p.m. Sept. 17. Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-746-6266.

Cole Thompson — Ghosts of Auschwitz. Old Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave.,

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CU Art Museum — Points of View, selections from seven Colorado collections. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921320. Through Oct. 22.

The Dairy Center for the Arts — Sara Rockinger’s In/Visible, Jess Larson’s Look and Learn, Little Girl, Monique Crine’s Tony James. The Dairy Center for the Arts.

2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through Sept. 30.

Edition to Clay: Certamic Artists as

Printmakers. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. Through Nov. 13.

NCAR Community Art Program — Photographs by Dan Baumbach, paintings by Lael Har. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Sept. 30.

Overneath — CU Integrated Media and Film graduate students, closing reception Sept. 16, 5 p.m. CU Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder.Through Sept. 17.

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Matt Miller. 6 p.m., Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Rd. #20, Boulder, 303449-2911.

Mr. Anonymous. 10 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

Silent Bear & John. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Smallhouse. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303443-5108.

The Steel Wheels from Indiana. 8 p.m.

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

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

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Art Night Out. 6 p.m. Festival Plaza, intersection of Public Road and Chester Street, Lafayette, www.cityoflafayette.com.

Blue and Green Ball. 7 p.m. The Sustainable Living Assocation, Center for Fine Art Photography, 406 N. College, Fort Collins, www.blueandgreenball.org.

Constitution Day — American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado hosting Louis Fisher, author of Presidential War Power.

University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2255 E. Evans Ave., Room 180, Denver, 303777-5482 x101.

Farmageddon. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303492-1531.

Garrett Ammon & Michael J. Henry's Intersection. 8 p.m. Ballet Nouveau Colorado, Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-466-5685.

Illuminations — Annual Fundraiser. 6:30 p.m.

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

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Through Sept. 24.

Bye Bye Birdie. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303772-5200. Through Sept. 24.

The Night of the Iguana. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden,

PLAN-Boulder County — Forum for City Council candidates Tom Johnson, Suzanne Jones, George Karakehian, Mark Gelband. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-551-3196.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema — Video Installation opens at 6:30 p.m., dance shorts & live performance at 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Building, Black Box Theater, 1125 18th Street, B2, CU campus, www.SansSouciFest.org.

Seth Meyers. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Snowboard On The Rocks. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Teas, Talks and Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 2 p.m. For details, call 720-3013993.

Saturday, September 17

music Boulder Philharmonic Opening Night — Genius and Power. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, www.boulderphil.org or 303-449-1343 x2.

Funkology — Feat. Jill Carr. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s,

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Margaret Coel’s The Perfect Suspect. ­7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Poetry Reading — Chris Hoffman. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

A Discussion of Paradise Lost Book 1 — With English professor David Glimp.

2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Friday, September 16 A Conversation With Linda Leonard, Author of The Wounded Woman. ­7:30 p.m.

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

Saturday, September 17 Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. 3 p.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-551-3196.

Tuesday, September 20 Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wednesday, September 21 Julia Colwell’s The Relationship Ride: A Usable, Unusual, Transformative Guide. ­7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Dominique Browning’s Slow Love: How I Lost my Job, Put on my Pajamas & Found Happiness. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

303-935-3044. Through Oct. 23.

Ragtime. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Oct. 2.

Uncle Vanya. Upstart Crow Theatre Company at the Dairy Center for the Arts.

2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Through Sept. 17.

2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Hanson — With Meiko. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Hellfire and the Mother Dog, Stealth Hippo, Firemouth. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Jockamo — With Jill Watkins. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303443-3322.

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

Kathy Nelson, Janis Kelly, Amanda Grover.

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

Kyle Ussery. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Matt Miller. 10 p.m. Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Mike Mangione and Dave Tamkin. 8 p.m.

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

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

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

Ronnie Shellist & Bob Pellegrino. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Stripe Stripe Fiasco, Portobello Road. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The Zydecoasters. 10 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036

events Attack of La Niña — MSP Films. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Bloggy Boot Camp — With The Sits Girls. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Hyatt Regency, Denver Convention Center, 650 15th St., Denver, 310-795-9810.

Box Turtle & Tortoise Hibernation Workshops. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Colorado Reptile Humane Society, 13941 Elmore Rd., Longmont, 303-776-2070.

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

Feathered Friends — Todo Sobre Aves Dia de la Familia — All About Birds Family Day. 1 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

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Intersection. 8 p.m. Ballet Nouveau Colorado, Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-466-5685.

Pro AM Craft Beer Fundraiser — Benefits for Trip for Kids. 2 p.m. Coalesce Design & Fabrication, 1930 Central Ave., Boulder, http:// proamcraftbeerfundraiser.wordpress.com.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema — Video Installation opens at 6:30 p.m., dance shorts & live performance at 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Building, Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., B2, CU campus, www.SansSouciFest.org.

Sustainable Living Fair. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fort Collins, www.sustainablelivingfair.org.

Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. www.TangoAmongFriends.net.

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes — Photography, War and the Holocaust. 7 p.m. CU Art Museum in the Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder, http://inthemix.colorado.edu.

Viva Riva! 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303-492-1531.

The Yi Jing — Divination and Prophecy with Ken Cohen (Gao Han). 10 a.m. Academy of Chinese Martial Arts and Culture, 1750 38th St., Boulder, 303-507-3800.

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Sustainable Living Fair. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Fort Collins, www.sustainablelivingfair.org.

Women in the Dirt — At Moondance Film Festival. 11 a.m., Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr., Boulder, http:// moondancefilmfestival.com.

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

50/50. 9 p.m. Program Council, CU Chem 140, www.programcouncil.com.

Dinner with a Critic — Straw Dogs with Christian Toto & Dave Taylor, www. dinnerwithacritic.com.

Lifepics Community Blood Drive. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Bonfils mobile bus, 5777 Central Ave., Boulder, 303-413-9500.

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Extending the Growing Season. 1:15 p.m.7 p.m. Willow Way CSA, 6481 N. 63rd St., Niwot, 303-530-1415.

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

Planetary Healing and World Harmony Meditation — Global teleconference facilitated by Linda Lawson, Miles Moody. 8 a.m. Jewelcoach.org. Call 720-301-3993 for details.

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The Upstart Crow Studio, 2131 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1415.

Doug Benson — Baked on Stage Tour. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Business of Arts — Grant Clinic. 6 p.m.

Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50-7 p.m.

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

Remembering the Fourmile Canyon Fire: One Year Later. 7 p.m., Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-1981.

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music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

The Clamdaddys. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Driving Karma, Jacob Larson. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Jenn Cleary and Friends. 4 p.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 1900 13th St., Boulder.

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

The Statue of Liberty, The Get Down Easy’s. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events For the Birds — A Flock of Writers Read About All Things Avian. 7 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

The Reunion 2011 — Annual Kick-off the Snowboard Season. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Magic Trip. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Warren Miller Wednesdays. 8:30 p.m.

The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m.

Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, September 15 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.

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

Saturday, September 17 French Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Sunday, September 18

Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Nature of Kids & Parents — Calling All Rock Hounds. Meet at Flagstaff Nature Center, on Flagstaff Summit Road, www. bouldercolorado.gov.

Monday, September 19 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Tuesday, September 20 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Gateway Park Fun Center, 4800 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-4386.

Wednesday, September 21 French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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n a season that is shaping up to be a difficult one for the Colorado Buffaloes, quarterback Tyler Hansen and wide receiver Paul Richardson are providing a bright spot for fans at Folsom Field.

The duo had a national coming out party of sorts on Saturday in an outing that saw Colorado outgain California by more than 200 yards and still fall in overtime. Hansen and Richardson connected 11 Tyler Hansen times during the course of the afternoon, totaling 282 yards, a school record. as through the air, Hansen used his Richardson, a speedy sophomore out of legs wisely, running for 26 yards on Gardena, Calif., also managed to find seven carries. the end zone twice, giving him four In the 100-plus years of University touchdown catches on the year. of Colorado football, fans have been “He has this look to him during a treated to many dynamic combinations game or practice where you know he’s at Folsom Field. The I-bone option in the zone,” Hansen said of his star duo of Darian Hagan and Eric wide receiver. “He had that look again Bieniemy led CU to their national today; he’s a special player.” championship in 1990. Kordell Stewart Hansen, in addition to his two and Michael Westbrook teamed up fretouchdown tosses to Richardson, found quently in the 1994 season, including a wide-open Ryan Deehan for the “miracle in Michigan,” one of the Colorado’s first touchdown of the most iconic plays in collegiate football’s afternoon. The 474 passing yards long history. All that being said, Hansen amassed was good enough to Hansen and Richardson are arguably as break Mike Moschetti’s mark of 465, prolific as any duo ever at CU. accomplished in 1999 against San Jose “Paul Richardson is a star in the State. Proficient on the ground as well making, and we are seeing it,” said

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head coach Jon Embree. “If he touches [the ball], he catches it. It is always great to have that as a quarterback and as a head coach.”

Embree and his players are well aware that if they don’t start winning, having an explosive pair in Hansen and Richardson will go down as an opportunity missed.

“I don’t want to diminish what the kids have done, but we came here to win,” a visibly dejected Embree said after the loss to California. “We prepared and trained to win. Not to be close, not to [say] ‘Oh, next week’ — it’s too much work, and it’s too hard, and ‘so close’ ain’t it.”

Next week brings in-state rival Colorado State (2-0), as the Buffs take part in the Rocky Mountain Showdown at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver. Colorado comes into the game having won three of the past four meetings against their foes from Fort Collins. The Rams are expected to be a much-improved team from years past, as 6-foot, 5-inch sophomore gunslinger

Game schedule n Friday, Sept. 16 Soccer vs. Auburn Denver, 3 p.m. n Friday, Sept. 16 Volleyball @ #1 California Berkeley, Calif., 8 p.m. n Saturday, Sept. 17 Football vs. Colorado State Denver, 11:30 a.m. n Saturday, Sept.17 Volleyball @ #3 Stanford Palo Alto, Calif., 8 p.m. n Sunday, Sept. 18 Soccer vs. Cal State Bakersfield Denver, 3 p.m.

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fter starting strong and winning the inaugural edition of the Colorado Cup, CU women’s soccer finds themselves in a rough patch where they can’t seem to find the back of the net.

The Buffs, who scored eight goals in their first two games, have proceeded to notch two goals in their past four games, both coming in a 3-2 loss at the hands of No. 21 Illinois. What’s more alarming is both of the goals came directly off a free kick and a penalty kick, respectively. Colorado has failed to put enough meaningful touches together in the open field to score without the assistance of the referee’s whistle since their Aug. 21 meeting against Northern Colorado.

“As excited as this team was early about, ‘Boy, we’re going to score goals,’ we have completely flipped it,”

said Coach Bill Hempen. “Now it’s wearing on them on the other side — probably a little bit of overconfidence [after the first two games] and now, no confidence.”

Despite their staggering offensive ineptitude, CU has found themselves in each and every one of their four losses during the scoring drought. In no game has CU’s opponent outscored the Buffs by more than one goal. In their latest loss at the hands of archrival University of Denver, the Buffs allowed an early goal in the seventh minute, but couldn’t manage to equalize, even though they outshot the visiting Pioneers 17-8.

“It was early enough where you think, ‘Come on, we’re going to get our chances,’” said Hempen. “We did, but we didn’t score.” see SOCCER Page 35

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Matt Sparkman (2-0): Colorado, 41-14 Colorado stops the bleeding with a drubbing of the Rams at Mile High.

Hansen and Richardson continue to connect, and Eric Bieniemy calls his second straight superb game at offensive coordinator.

Guest Picker (1-1) – Kelly Lyell, Fort Collins Coloradoan: Colorado, 24-17 Although the Buffs are 0-2 and the Rams 2-0, CU has played better football against better teams than the Rams have so far this season. It’s going to come down to a key play somewhere late in the game, and I think the Buffs have more playmakers on their roster this year than the Rams do.

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Pete Thomas is coming off one of the best years a Colorado State quarterback has ever seen — as a freshman. Head coach Steve Fairchild brings a stout defense to Denver, as his Rams have only surrendered 24 points on the season.

CSU boasts wins at New Mexico and at home against Northern Colorado, much easier competition than Colorado (0-2) has faced, but this

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doesn’t matter, according to Embree. All that does matter is getting that elusive first victory of the season — and of Embree’s head coaching career.

“CSU does not feel sorry for us at 0-2,” Embree said. “The showdown at Mile High, we have one team undefeated, we have one team coming in without a win — so let’s go. Let’s go.”

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Colorado’s failure isn’t in creating tion. Hughes, whose sheer speed in chances; it’s in finishing them. In all attack adds a dynamic piece to CU’s but one of their losses, CU outshot offense, started the first three games at their opponent. The Buffs’ best chance forward and then switched to the back against DU came on a cor- Courtesy of CU athletics line after the first half ner kick off the boot of against Wyoming. She Caroline Danneberg that returned to the forward bounced around in Denver’s spot against Purdue, but 18-yard box before it was was taken out of the startcleared away by what ing lineup for the following looked to be a Denver game. Hughes returned to defender’s hand. Tough the Buffs’ back three against breaks like these have been Denver to counter the speed of the Pioneers’ star commonplace for the Buffs’ forward, Kristen Hamilton. booters, but if CU wants to Bill Hempen Up next for the Buffs is be taken seriously in a the Denver Invitational, tough Pac-12 Conference, where CU will face a talented they’ll have to learn to finish in front of Southeastern Conference foe in the goal.

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CU finish“We really need [a shot] to hit es the tournament by playing Cal-State somebody in the knee and go in,” said Bakersfield on Sunday, Sept.

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All Hempen. “If we can get that, maybe games will be held on the campus of it’ll change. Maybe it’ll be a momenthe University of Denver.

The Pac-12 tary relief, but we’re hoping things will season starts on Friday, Sept. 23, as change for us.”

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irector Steven Soderbergh knows how to keep calm in the face of a global pandemic.

He’s the anti-Michael Bay, the un-Roland Emmerich. No fake-documentary “realism” here; Soderbergh values the silence before the storm, or a hushed two-person encounter in which one or both parties are concealing something.

Written by Scott Z. Burns, Contagion — likely to provoke a widespread outbreak of midscreening antibacterial hand gel usage — contains little in the way of on-screen mass panic beyond a drugstore looting sequence.

Shot all over the world with major stars, yet more like an independent project in its vibe, Contagion imagines the speed, breadth and elusive riddle of a virus that causes flu-like symptoms, followed by seizure and brain hemorrhage and then, as we see in a single, chillingly offhanded middle-distance shot, mass graves.

Contagion doesn’t hype its own terrifyingly high stakes or body count, even as the body count heads into the millions. The result is not quite medicine and not quite cotton candy. But it works. It’s made for grown-ups. After this summer’s onslaught of highly variable superhero fodder, Contagion arrives as a welcome antidote.

It begins with a title card announcing Day 2 of the problem. The first thing heard on the soundtrack is a cough. Someone is sick. A Minneapolis businesswoman (Gwyneth Paltrow) reroutes her trip back

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from Hong Kong through Chicago where, we learn in an airport phone call, she has rekindled an affair with an old boyfriend before returning home to her husband (Matt Damon) and their two kids. Her death comes very early in Contagion.

A Tokyo bus passenger suffers a similar seizure.

Captured on cellphone video, the incident goes viral, though not as fast as the virus itself. The video feeds the outrage and Web traffic of a San Francisco blogger (a twitchy Jude Law) who flogs various conspiracy theories regarding the pandemic.

The sudden loss suffered by Damon’s character provides the emotional access point in a deliberately distanced picture. The script makes dominant, clear-

headed but human-scaled heroes and heroines out of representatives of the World Health Organization (Marion Cotillard plays an epidemiologist scrambling to re-create the Paltrow character’s last hours) and the Centers for Disease Control (Kate Winslet’s Dr. Mears risks her life with the other first responders, while her superior, played by Laurence Fishburne, considers how much information to release, and when).

Burns’ script is very sly about loading up just enough information regarding the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic (50 million dead) and such without sending the average moviegoer brain into tune-out mode. Soderbergh zips around from Geneva to rural China to Minneapolis and Chicago and other cities while the major characters struggle to keep the losses from mounting.

Contagion’s implacable tone has its drawbacks. The movie is almost pathological in its avoidance of messy emotion. In the 105-minute final edit, some of the storylines, particularly the one anchored

by Cotillard, fail to fully activate. And while one can see why the story focuses increasingly on the relationship between Damon and his teenage daughter (the honest and unaffected Anna Jacoby-Heron) in the later stages, I’m not sure Soderbergh and Burns believe in their own sentiment.

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

Karate chop to the throat

he feverish mixed martial arts infomercial Warrior opens up so many cans of emotional whup-ass that after a while you think: Enough! It’s whupped! It’s whupped! And yet the tears will flow by the gallon.

Every time you start resisting, somehow the film makes the sale again. Director and co-writer Gavin O’Connor is a full-throated entertainer, meaning he goes for the throat every second. He’s also an escape artist, writing his characters into outlandishly clichéd corners and then charging his way out against unbelievable odds.

The acting elevates it, even when the narrative doesn’t. After a 14-year separation, Iraq War veteran Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns to the Pittsburgh home of his father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), who is nearly three years sober. Paddy did an awful lot of physical and psychic damage to his family before drying out, however. In dribs and drabs Warrior leaks the details regarding how Paddy’s ex-wife and Brendan ( Joel Edgerton), Boulder Weekly

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by Michael Phillips Tommy’s older brother, fled the toxic home, while Paddy and Tommy stayed behind and suffered.

Tommy’s trust in his abandoning brother turned to ash; Brendan married his high school sweetheart, played by Jennifer Morrison.

Years later, with kids and bills in his life, Brendan teaches high school physics and brawls, MMAstyle, for cash on the side. The bank’s due to foreclose on the house in 90 days. Solution: Compete in the event called Sparta, “the Super Bowl of mixed martial arts,” in Atlantic City.

That would be enough for a lot of films, but Warrior is a lot of films in one. Brendan’s estranged brother, Tommy, returns from combat with a major secret provoking all that rage and self-loathing. Though his brother doesn’t know it, Tommy, too, is after the $5 million MMA purse, and has his sights set on one of the 16 middleweight slots. Does the final match come down to brother against brother? I

wouldn’t rule it out.

Over-the-top performances would’ve destroyed Warrior by the second scene.

But O’Connor encourages a naturalistic low simmer, even though his story beats are all about kettles boiling over (and over). Tom Hardy, formidable in Bronson and soon to menace Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, plays the combustible veteran Tommy. Hardy, who is English, isn’t without his mannered edge, but he’s full of heat and unpredictable fire and responds well to the workingclass Pittsburgh milieu. Australian-born Joel Edgerton brings a decency and likeability to Brendan. The characters never seem like real brothers (they’re movie brothers through and through), but the actors commit.

And it’s gratifying to see Nick Nolte do everything in his grumbly, shambling power to make a fully dimensional character out of Paddy.

O’Connor scored a popular success with the Olympic-hockey rouser Miracle and then fared less well with the drunken-father/dueling sons police melodrama Pride and Glory. Warrior lands somewhere in between in terms of quality.

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

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel as women in 1960s Mississippi who form an unlikely bond that shatters societal mores of the era. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

Apollo 18 On a top-secret moon mission in 1973, two astronauts uncover a deadly secret that explains why NASA never went back. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT

Higher Ground Acclaimed actress Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) makes her directorial debut with this look at a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatre

Attack the Block Attack the Block follows a gang of tough innercity kids who try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Horrible Bosses

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Michael Rapaport sets out on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008, when they reunited to perform sold-out concerts across the country.

The film captures the story of how tenuous ATCQ’s relationship has become, and how personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to threaten their creative cohesion. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Bauhaus: Model and Myth The film looks at the post-World War I origins of the Bauhaus and its revolutionary influence.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Straw Dogs

It’s not that you can’t go home again; just don’t go home again for this big-city couple in the remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 drama.

A military experiment transforms a scrawny soldier into a patriotic superhero. Rated PG-13.

At Flatiron. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

The Debt

Anthropomorphic automobiles head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix. Rated G. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Two retired Mossad agents receive shocking news about a mission they were presumed to have accomplished decades before, and they might need to finish the job. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

City of Life and Death

Drive

On Dec. 9, 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army laid siege to the Chinese capital of Nanking, beginning a reign of terror that killed as many as 300,000 civilians. This film is a visceral, heartbreaking portrait of life during wartime and an unforgettable masterpiece of contemporary world cinema. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

A stunt driver for Hollywood movies who moonlights as a wheelman for robberies must use his skills behind the wheel to protect the woman he loves. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Considered by many to be the world’s greatest chess player, Bobby Fischer personified the link between genius and madness. His trajectory propelled him from child prodigy to world chess champion at age 29 and then into a nosedive of delusions and paranoia. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Colombiana

A girl sent to live with her father and his girlfriend, who are restoring an old mansion, unleashes evil creatures lurking in the dark. Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Brighton Rock

See full review on Page 53. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony, and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda (Nicolas Cazale), a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Cowboys & Aliens

The Guard

Jon Favreau directs this Western about an amnesiac (Daniel Craig) in 1873 who stumbles into an Arizona town ruled by a ruthless rancher (Harrison Ford) who doesn’t take kindly to strangers. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang — one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straight-laced FBI agent. At Mayan and Century.

— Landmark Theatres

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

After discovering his unfaithful wife wants a divorce, a straight-laced 40-something tries to readjust to single life under the tutelage of a young ladykiller. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

In the new film, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is still hunting Horcruxes, which contain amounts of Voldemort’s (played by Ralph Fiennes) soul. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Michael Phillips

Creature

The Help

Friends battle a swamp monster. Rated R. At Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer

Blood into Wine Hard rock fans know Maynard James Keenan as the frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. But in this intriguing documentary, Christopher Pomerenke and Ryan Page profile Keenan the winemaker as he works to transform an arid stretch of Arizona desert into a lush vineyard. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Bobby Fischer Against the World

Brighton Rock embraces the classic elements of film noir and the British gangster film to tell the story of Pinkie, a desperate youth who is hellbent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Buck Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy, travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatre Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star A grocery bagger going nowhere in a small town discovers his straight-laced parents used to be adult-film stars and heads to Los Angeles to follow in their footsteps. At Flatiron and Century. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT Captain America: The First Avenger

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Cars 2

A woman who witnessed the murder of her parents as a child has grown up to be an assassin and hunts the mobster responsible for their deaths. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Contagion

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Le Grand Voyage

We’ve all had them. We’ve all had to suffer their indignities — or else just quit our jobs.

But three friends come up with an alternative to dealing with their monstrous bosses with the help of an ex-con. Rated R. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez I Don’t Know How She Does It A financial executive tries to balance her marriage to a recently laid-off architect, her two young children and her high-stress job. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Lion King A 3-D version of the classic animated film about a young lion cub who must overcome his devious uncle to lead their kingdom. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Magic Trip Magic Trip is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ legendary LSD-fueled cross-country road trip in the psychedelic Magic Bus (named “Further”). At Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater Midnight in Paris This new romantic comedy from writer/director Woody Allen tells the story of a family that travels to the picturesque French capital on business. It is the story about a man’s great love for Paris, and the illusion that a life different from one’s own is always better. Rated PG-13. At Boedecker, Century and Mayan. — Boedecker Theater Mozart’s Sister Accomplished singer, harpsichordist and violinist Nannerl is Wolfgang’s (David Moreau) elder by five years. Originally held up as the family’s child prodigy, she has now been forced to accompany the star of the family, her younger brother. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres One Day This movie follows a man and woman’s relationship over 20 years, revisiting them each year on the exact day that they first entered each other’s lives. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Our Idiot Brother Our Idiot Brother has a menage a trois, nudity, pot use and profanity. But the unfailing sweetsee MOVIE REVIEWS Page 39

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AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Apollo 18 Thu: 1:20, 3:30, 5:50, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Thu-: 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 8:20, 10:40 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:35 Contagion Thu: 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 1:30, 4:10, 7:15 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Creature Thu: 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Drive Fri-Wed: 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 The Help Thu: 1:40, 5, 8:20 Fri-Wed: 9:55, 1, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Horrible Bosses Thu: 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 12:50, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 I Don’t Know How She Does It Fri-Wed: 10:10, 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:20 The Lion King 9:55, 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:30, 9:50 One Day Thu: 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Our Idiot Brother Thu: 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:20, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Shark Night Thu: 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 The Smurfs Thu: 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 10:15, 12:40, 3:10, 5:40 Spy Kids:All the Time in the World Thu: 1:15, 3:25, 5:40 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:50 Straw Dogs Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:45, 5:20, 8, 10:40 Warrior Thu: 2:15, 5:20, 8:30 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Apollo 18 Thu: 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:55, 6:35 Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Thu: 12:20, 3:10, 5:35, 8, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 4:10, 8:55 Colombiana Thu: 11:55, 2:40, 10:30 Contagion Thu: 12, 1:15, 2:35, 3:50, 5:10, 6:25, 7:45, 9, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 12:05, 1:25, 2:45, 4:05, 5:25, 6:45, 8, 9:20 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 12:45, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 The Debt Thu: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Drive (2011) Thu: 12:01 Fri-Wed: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10

local theaters The Globe Theatre Presents Henry VIII Thu: 6:30 The Guard Thu: 11:25, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Thu: 12:10, 3:15, 6:10, 9:05 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 3, 6:15, 9:10 The Help Thu: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 I Don’t Know How She Does It Thu: 12:01 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 The Lion King Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:15 Midnight in Paris Thu: 11:15, 1:35, 4, 6:20, 8:45 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:35, 4, 6:20, 8:45 Our Idiot Brother Thu: 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 FriWed: 12:45, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:15 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Senna Thu: 6:35, 9:15 Shark Night Thu: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Spy Kids:All the Time in the World Thu: 11:40, 2, 4:15 Straw Dogs Thu: 12:01 Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Warrior Thu: 12:15, 3:30, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 11:55, 3:05, 6:10, 9:25 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-926-0661 Apollo 18 Thu: 1:40, 4:50, 8 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:50, 8, 10:25 Cars 2 Thu: 1:30, 4:25 Colombiana Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 Contagion Thu: 1:15, 4:30, 7:10 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:15 Creature Thu: 12:55, 3:50, 7:05 The Debt Thu: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45, 10:35 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Thu: 7:20 Drive (2011) Fri-Wed: 2, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 1, 4, 7 Fri-Wed: 12:55, 4, 6:55, 10 The Help Thu: 1:05, 4:15, 7:25 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 The Lion King Fri-Wed: 1, 3:50, 7, 9:30

Our Idiot Brother Thu: 1:50, 5, 7:40 Fri-Wed: 7:40, 10:10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 12:50, 3:40, 7:30 FriWed: 12:50, 3:40, 7:30, 9:55 Shark Night Thu: 1:20, 3:55, 7:50 Spy Kids:All the Time in the World Thu: 2, 4:20, 6:50 Fri-Wed: 1:50, 5 Straw Dogs Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:50, 10:30 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Buck Thu: 4:45, 9:45 Magic Trip Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Mozart’s Sister Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:35 Sarah’s Key Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 The Tree of Life Thu: 7 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-3521992 Higher Ground Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 The Last Circus Fri & Sat: Midnight Senna Thu: 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 4:45, 9:45 TheTree of Life Fri, Mon-Wed: 7 Sat-Sun: 11:15, 7 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Brighton Rock Fri-Sun: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Electric Daisy Carnival Thu: 9 The Guard Thu: 5, 7:30, 10 Fri-Sun: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 MonWed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Midnight in Paris Thu: 4:15, 7:10 Fri-Sun: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed: 4:15, 7:10 Project Nim Thu: 4, 7, 9:45 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303820-3456 Attack the Block Thu: 2:30, 4:45, 9:45 Fri: 2:30, 7:45, 9:45 Sat: 7:45 Sun: 2:30 Mon-Wed: 2:30, 7:15 Bauhaus: Model and Myth Thu: 7 Bobby Fischer Against the World Fri & Sun-Wed: 2, 4:30, 7:15 Sat: 11:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 Blood Into Wine Tues: 7

Le Grand Voyage Wed: 7 Look Who’s Talking Now! Mon: 7 Romeos Fri-Sat: 2:15, 5, 7:30, 9:40 Sun: 5, 7:30 Mon-Wed: 2:15, 5 Shaolin Fri: 4:45 Sat-Sun: 11, 4:45 Mon-Wed: 4:45 Silent Film 101 Sun: 2 Skatetown USA Fri: 10 The Tree Thu: 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:30 Underground Adventures Sat: 2 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-6512434 Apollo 18 Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 9:45 Colombiana Thu: 1:25, 4:25, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 1:25, 4:05, 7:15, 9:45 Contagion Thu: 1:30,4:30, 7, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4, 7:10, 9:40 Cowboys & Aliens Fri-Wed: 1:15, 7:05 Creature Thu: 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 9:40 Drive (2011) Fri: 1:50, 4;50, 7:40, 9:55 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Thu: 7:10, 9:40 I Don’t Know How She Does It Fri-Wed: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Lion King Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Our Idiot Brother Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 2, 7:45 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 9:50 Shark Night Thu: 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 4:45, 10 The Smurfs Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:35, 6;50, 9:40 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Thu: 1:35, 4:35 Straw Dogs Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:35 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826 Beats, Rhymes & Life:The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Wed: 7 p.m.

City of Life and Death Thu: 7 Fri: 4, 8:30 Sat: 6 Midnight in Paris Wed: 4:30 Passione Sun: 1,Wed: 1 Le Quattro Volte Sun: 4:30, 7 Ready, Set, Bag! Thu: 4:30, Fri: 6:30, Sat: 4, 8:30 As times are 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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ness of Paul Rudd’s lead performance makes what could have been another raunchy and rude R-rated farce a bracing change of pace in a summer of aggressive comedies about aggressive people. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore/MCT Passione A tribute to the songs and singers of Naples, Italy, John Turturro’s documentary combines sensuality with raw emotion, mixes heartbreak with ecstasy, acknowledges the hard realities of poverty and soars above them. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Project Nim In the 1970s, Nim, a chimpanzee, became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Le Quattro Volte Inspired by Pythagoras’ belief in four-fold transmigration, by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docuessay traces the cycle of life through daily rituals in the southern Italian region of Calabria. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Ready, Set, Bag! Every February, competitive grocery baggers from across the country meet in Las Vegas to vie for the title of National Best Bagger. At

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Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Rise of the Planet of the Apes Genetic experiments on primates lead to them developing intelligence and eventually battling humans for supremacy. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Romeos Lukas, 20, is right in the midst of male puberty — medically triggered — for he was in fact born a girl. Full of zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw-up: Recruited for community service, he is the only male in a female nurses’ residential hall. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

A group of college students expecting a weekend of fun at a Louisiana lake island cabin find themselves terrorized by sharks. Rated PG-13.

At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

to prepare the family home for sale after her father’s death, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts with the locals re-emerge.

Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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As warlords feud in China, a cocky young lord must reconsider his ways and join forces with Shaolin monks to make a stand against his rivals. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Charlotte Gainsbourg (I’m Not There) stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. At Denver Film Center. — Boedecker Theater

Skatetown U.S.A. Enjoy this gooey relic of a by-gone time that most of us can’t remember (and some of us are trying hard to forget). At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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The Smurfs

Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they arrest Jewish families. To protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard and promises to come back for him when they are released. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

A Smurfs movie was probably inevitable. But doesn’t this feel as if it’s arriving a decade late?

Rated PG. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Senna

A retired secret agent who has her hands full with a new baby and twin step-kids is called back into action to battle a supervillain. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Brazilian Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained. At Century and Esquire.

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Straw Dogs

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The Tree of Life follows the journey of a family’s eldest son through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years. At Chez Artiste and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Space Land and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm

Most recognized for the iconic Texas land-art piece Cadillac Ranch, the 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. This is the first film to delve into the work of these renegade explorers in both architecture and performance art. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Warrior See full review on Page 53. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron and Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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For most people, this passion can resonate very closely to their personal list of favorites, but she has taken it a step further and has made chocolate her career. On March 15, she opened her own eclectic chocolate shop on the west end of Pearl Street.

Amorese aims to make Piece, Love & Chocolate more than the typical sweet shop around town. In fact, she wants every customer to leave the shop with more than just chocolate.

“People kept asking me ‘What do you sell?’ and I would always answer, ‘I sell chocolate!’ but I realized that it’s more than that,” she says. “We create things with love. I think it shows.”

The atmosphere of the shop is one that promotes happiness and relaxation. As the smells of fresh-baked chocolate and pastries waft over the store, customers are soothed with music from around the world and, often, sounds from the rainforest. Amorese also constructed a lifesized replica of a cacao tree, the tree that produces the citrus-like fruit that encases the seeds used to make chocolate.

She wants the shop to be a place where people can have fun, she explains, and she often observes that her customers come in to relax. They sometimes even break out in dance. She extended the hours on Friday and Saturday nights as a way to invite crowds looking for a place to hang out.

“It’s been such a fun connection with people,” she says. “We are building this neat food community.”

Amorese is a Longmont native whose parents

owned a pastry shop. She began to develop an interest in the chocolate business when she was preparing for her wedding in 1995. She couldn’t find the one thing she was looking for the most: a wedding cake made completely out of chocolate. Then she lived in Europe for four years with her husband, further piquing her interest in the eclectic world of chocolate.

To make her dream of opening a chocolate shop come true, Amorese went to culinary school at what is now the Art Institute of Colorado and worked as a pastry chef. With a background in advertising, design and artistry, she combined her skills and advanced her chocolate knowledge by following various chocolatiers around the country. When it came time to open the shop, she had no doubt in her mind about the location.

“It was pivotal to come to Boulder,” she says. “It throws us out there.”

After 16 months of searching for the space, Amorese finally found the perfect location for Piece, Love & Chocolate at 805 Pearl St. She chose downtown Boulder with the idea that tourists can balance a slower summer season with the abundance of locals looking for chocolate the rest of the year.

Piece, Love & Chocolate sells homemade truffles and pastries, in addition to chocolate from local bakers and around the world. Some are so vibrantly colored and delicate that they look like glass pieces rather than delicious chocolate. The outside chocolates in her “Exotic Bar Armoire” are handpicked by Amorese to ensure that only the best chocolates make it into customers’ hands. Some chocolates even come gluten-free and sugar-free.

If Amorese hears a repeated request from customers, she will do her best to stock her shop with it.

“We’re still newbies trying to figure everything out,” she says. “But we always have such exciting things. I want to appeal to everybody’s senses.”

The shop has nine employees working to ensure the best quality of chocolate is always served.

Amorese says she and her “cocoa coordinator,” Genevieve Fetherston, are constantly crafting new ideas.

“We are always thinking, ‘What else can we do with chocolate?’” she says. “We have yet to be stumped.” see CHOCOLATE Page 43

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ne of the required price their offerings on par with controlled American barbecue trail substances. pilgrimages is Dallas’s Tim had the brisket plate, while I opted Sonny Bryan’s, a joint for the pulled pork. Once one leaves the renowned for its meltingly Southern/Midwest BBQ belt, you’re more tender beef brisket. There are several localikely to find bad versions of these stalwarts tions scattered throughout the city, but the than good ones. The best preparations draw cognoscenti know that the food is best at upon slow smoking to transform inexpenthe original shack on Inwood Road. sive cuts into marvels of flavor and texture.

Inside, you’ll find undersized school desks Both meats fit into this category, enhanced for seating, recycled beer bottles filled by proper seasoning. Proof of smoking was with sauce perched atop hot plates, and a visible in the brisket’s coloring, and the closing time based on when the meat runs smoke flavor correctly mingled with the out. seasoning. The brisket was a paragon of Longmont’s Georgia boys BBQ shares tenderness, and the shredded pork went a much with Sonny Bryan’s. This eatery’s step further with a velvety, melt-in-yoursituated in an old house nestled among mouth quality. warehouses a stone’s throw from downThe Georgia boys’ sauces further comtown. It’s an order-at-the-counter operaplemented the meats’ flavor. While the tion with limited picnic table seating — fire sauce packed a punch, one could also most of their business is takeout. Like detect hints of smoke and sweet before Bryan’s, their hours aren’t strictly defined, the heat intensified. My favorite was the but when I visited for dinner, closing time medium, a tamer melding of peppery, was nigh, as the kitchen was nearly out of tangy and sweet. Lastly, the double side of everything. beans was shockingly good. Rather than ulled pork, according to Stephen Raichlen’s excellent The menu consists of $6 sandwiches, generic brown glop, this version was an cookbook The Barbecue Bible, is a specialty of Carolinas$9.95 plates with sides, and the sides intriguing three-bean mix enhanced by style barbecue. Raichlen explains that this dish consists of tenthemselves, which range from $1.75 to pickled peppers. We could have easily had der shoulder that’s been smoked and shredded by hand, these as a meal by itself, and all of us were $3.95. Available meats include pulled although sometimes the pork is chopped. In North Carolina, motivated to return to try the other selecpork, pulled chicken and brisket, with saua vinegar-based sauce is often served with pulled pork, and tions, based on the strength of these sage and St. Louis-style ribs showing up it’s thin and clear versus the thick red stuff that most people beans. as specials. The rotating sides include coleassociate with barbecue. Personally, I’m not a fan of the vinMy only issue with Georgia boys BBQ slaw, mac and cheese, potato salad, casseegar-centric sauces, and am more partial to the versions that is that I have to put thought into the timhave had a little tomato thrown in, which Raichlen identifies roles (one a green bean number, the other ing of my visits to avoid disappointment. as a western North Carolina approach. featuring sweet potatoes) and beans.

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I have fuzzy Talk about warm and In food profuzzy feelings — this cessor, combine feelings just place makes you feel flour, sugar, bakthinking about like you have been ing soda, baking them, and I hugged by your best powder, salt, friend. They are the vanilla and buthaven’t even inspiration for my ter. Pulse until had my coarse crumbs treat this week. Every morning form. Add in morning, they had lemon zest and the best little scones I mimosa yet. blueberries. have ever tasted. I In small bowl, combine egg and wanted to snatch about 10 and stick sour cream until smooth. Add to them in my pocket for the day ahead, dough. Pulse until ball forms (it will be but I’m a lady (stop laughing), and I a bit sticky). Turn out onto floured surneeded to act accordingly. Plus, I didn’t face, flour your hands and press into want to be kicked out of my fabulous approximately an 8-inch circle. Sprinkle cozy room — that would have been a top with 1-1/2 tsp. sugar. Using a sharp dessert diva disaster in the making.

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BOOM Yogurt Bar opens BOOM Yogurt Bar opened its doors on Sept. 10 at the corner of Iris Avenue and 30th Street.

It offers locally made natural yogurt, cottage cheese and frozen yogurt. The topping list includes local, organic seasonal fruits; barks; granolas; a variety of nut mixtures; local chocolates; sauces; and daily, freshly baked toppings from Kim and Jake’s Cakes.

The yogurt bar was inspired by years of international yogurt eating by the owner, Matty Reed, a 2008 Olympian.

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Flagstaff House turns 40 To celebrate Flagstaff House’s 40-year anniversary, the restaurant will be holding an anniversary gala on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 5 p.m.

A multi-course dinner will be created by chef and partner Mark Monette along with many of his friends and colleagues, such as Dave Query of Big Red F Restaurants, Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson of

Frasca Food and Wine, Jon Platt of Q’s, Eric Skokan of the Black Cat Bistro, Jim Cohen of The Empire Lounge and Restaurant and Pizzeria da Lupo, Antonio Laudisio of Laudisio’s Italian Restaurant, Tony Hessel of The Mediterranean and Radek Cerny of L’Atelier. Birthday cake and live entertainment will follow the dinner.

A portion of the proceeds from the gala and silent auction will go to benefit the Davis Phinney Foundation, a national organization based in Boulder dedicated to improving the lives of people living with Parkinson’s disease.

Founder Davis Phinney will speak at the gala.

The event is $125 per person, and reservations are required. To make a reservation, call the restaurant’s main phone number at 303-442-4640.

2nd Bombay Bistro opens in Vancouver Paul and Pari Gill, the owners of Boulder’s Bombay Bistro restaurant, have opened a second location in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The restaurant, Sutra, serves modern Indian food. Opening the second restaurant was a quest for the chefs to return to their Canadian roots while remaining committed to the vision of a contemporary Indian dining experience.

They opened their doors in Vancouver a little less than a month ago, and have attracted the same sort of customers that defines Bombay Bistro. Sutra plays on Bombay Bistro’s romantic decor with a traditional Indian flair, along with a unique fusion food and drink menu.

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Amorese has big plans for Piece, Love & Chocolate this fall. She intends to hold different educational classes in the shop, ranging from a basic cooking class to a wine, beer and chocolate tasting. The shop makes custom chocolate cakes for any occasion, including weddings, and is available for dessert catering. She also says that people can rent out the shop after hours for private parties. She says the first group to rent out Piece, Love & Chocolate was a local Boulder dentist office.

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Despite the difficult economy and burden of the recession looming over small start-ups, Amorese is confident in her business.

“Chocolate is an affordable luxury!” she says.

Piece, Love & Chocolate is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. More information is available at pieceloveandchocolate.com.

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he quintessential taqueria, Longmont’s Tacos Don Jose serves up tasty and reasonably priced Mexican in a bright setting.

The menu ranges from gorditas to shrimp cocktails, and unsurprisingly, one of the highlights is the $1.50 taco plate, available with such fillings as tongue and carnitas, and simply garnished with cilantro and onion. The sopes, a $3 street snack resembling a tostada with a thick tortilla base, is enough for a light meal on its own.

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othing screams summertime more than cuisine from warm-weather climes, cool drinks and al fresco dining, all of which are available at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace. Centro serves up ceviche, tacos, tortas and platters featuring such specialties as chicken enchiladas with an optional fried egg, a suave avocado salsa dip and the Fresno chile lemonade.

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he menu at the new Shug’s Low Country Cuisine reflects diverse European, African and Caribbean influences, as well as the pervasiveness of such Southern staples as greens and macaroni and cheese. There’s also a nod to the Low Country’s easy access to seafood in the shellfish Po’ Boy sandwiches. But one of the main stars of the show is the first-rate gumbo, brimming with meaty shrimp, perfectly-textured okra and pleasing earthy flavor.

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ositioning itself as a Brooklyn-inspired sandwich shop, there is a definite East Coast ambience at Boulder’s Deli Zone. There are dozens of menu options, including baseball-themed breakfast sandwiches served all day, classic hot deli selections such as Reubens, cold Italian heroes and veggie sandwiches. East Coast transplants and fans of deli fare will want to make a beeline for the Chicken Parmesan and the New Yorker, a classic blend of corned beef and pastrami.

Pickled Lemon 1155 13th St., Boulder 720-353-4442

he dollar-to-flavor ratio at Pickled Lemon on The Hill is impressive, as this fast-casual locale offers flavor-packed Middle Eastern plates priced at well under $10. Favorites like beef and lamb kabobs are given new life with such toppings as spicy-sweet Moroccan carrots, incongruous but flavorful Korean kimchi and the namesake pickled lemon. The herbed falafel is another noteworthy item, as these fried chickpea delights have a remarkably delicate coating and light interior.

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ly a focus on swift service for time-constrained diners, menu offerings all less than $9, and a family-friendly emphasis. The kids menu features dishes priced at $5.95, and includes such dishes as a scaled-down version of the Kitchen’s famed pulled pork sandwich. For adults, the lamb sandwich with mint sauce, perfect with a side of roasted beets, is a fine choice, as is the salmon salad.

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The dinner menu reads like a greatest hits album of British Isles specialties, including bangers and mash, fish and chips and shepherd’s pie. The Lancashire Hotpot is a compelling preparation of lamb braised in Guinness over mashed potatoes, and desserts such as the fruit-infused trifle and Guinness chocolate cake provide an ideal Commonwealth ending. Definitely worth the drive to Broomfield.

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oulder’s new Cuba Cuba Sandwicheria spotlights $7 Caribbean-inspired sandwiches, as well as $6.50 rice bowls topped with a choice of vegetables, beef, pork or fish. For $5.75, you can have a fresh Caesar or watercress salad, or a kids plate consisting of either a scaled-down bowl with juice or grilled ham

and cheese. Each item represents good value for the money, particularly the meatless Boulder Cuban, featuring grilled veggies and goat cheese, and the delicious and addictive Mahi sandwich garnished with spicy garlic habanero aioli.

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un by the same folks who operate the neighboring Arugula Ristorante, the recently opened Tangerine is bound to become a top North Boulder venue for breakfast and lunch. Compared to the brunch bill of fare, Tangerine’s lunch menu is relatively modest, featuring entrée salads such as an albacore nicoise, and classic sandwiches including Reubens and BLTs. The brunch menu is where the action is, as it includes delectably moist lemon ricotta pancakes topped with blueberries, and outstanding chicken and waffles.

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he Niwot Market dishes up a Friday night supper that’s as much a community happening as it is an enjoyably casual dining experience. Menus vary from week to week, so it’s best to call ahead to find out what’s cooking. On some evenings the entrée might be fried chicken or steak, on another night, clam pasta. One recent evening, it was a wonderfully executed barbecue dinner featuring both brisket and ribs, sided with extraordinary collard greens as well as macaroni and cheese.

921 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-4888

nder the supervision of Executive Chef Fabio Flagiello, Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna serves winning Italian small plates and entrées to a West Pearl Street crowd. Especially noteworthy is their monthly bike ride and lunch, which affords an opportunity to try several menu options. These include first-rate fried calamari sided with both tangy marinara and luxurious aioli, fresh-flavored bruschetta and al dente pasta and risotto.

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ruly good Italian-American cooking is surprisingly hard to find locally. That’s a shame, because many crave the simple comforts of garlic bread, an unfussy salad, pasta and an Italian sweet.

Fortunately, Lafayette’s Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro rises to the occasion with first-rate interpretations of red sauce standbys. Simple spaghetti and meatballs are a top choice here, as is the chicken marsala. Start with cheesy garlic bread and end with a cannoli, and you’ll have a near iconic meal.

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nder new ownership, Boulder’s Naraya Thai and Sushi occupies the former Siamese Plate space. Though the old proprietor is long gone, the new incarnation provides a similar menu and ambience. The Thai lunch specials are a fine value, providing entrées with a choice of protein in the $7 to $8 price range. Excellent choices include the shrimp Pad Thai and a fine chicken red curry, distinguished by perfectly cooked corn, zucchini and eggplant that retain pleasing texture and fresh, individual flavors.

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Thursday, September 15 Rock Climbing in the Poudre Canyon. 8 p.m.

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Friday, September 16 Mountain Meteorology Workshop. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-5839970.

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here are more than 23 million acres of public land in Colorado, from dizzying mountaintops to lush valley bottoms, dusty canyons to glassy lakes, where in a few hours’ drive you can escape the noise and traffic of city life for a weekend wilder-

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With so much green space on the state map, people often don’t know where to go to find their favorite activity in a place where camping is plentiful.

Fortunately, we do.

Summer is at an end, but it’s not too late to get out of town for a weekend. Here is your guide to spots you can get to within a couple hours and stake your claim. We’re noting one activity at each for which that spot may be ideal; needless to say, there are plenty of activity options at each.

Take a short hike Location: The Crags, Pike National Forest Reason to go: This is one of the best short hikes in the area, three miles round trip, without too much elevation gain, and with plenty of interesting rock formations and great views. You can also climb Pikes Peak from the trailhead.

Camping: The Crags Campground at the trailhead, $12 a night, is first-come, first-served and fills up on weekends. There is pull-off camping along the road. Just make sure you aren’t on private property.

Get above timberline Location: Guanella Pass Reason to go: The road tops out at 11,669 feet, so a lot of your hiking work has been done. From the east side of the road you can hike to the top of fourteener Mount Bierstadt, and from the west side you can hike to Square Top Lakes.

Camping: Roadside camping is available on the south side of the pass, and you can make reservations for the Geneva Park Campground.

A hiker makes his way through the Chicago Basin in the San Juan Mountains near Needleton.

(Mark Reis/The Colorado Springs Gazette/MCT)

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Climb four fourteeners Location: North of Buena Vista, see FALL CAMPING Page 48

Saturday, September 17 2011 Hike MS Winter Park.

8 a.m. Near Grand Park Community Recreation Center, 303-698-7470.

Castlewood Canyon State Park Service Project. 8 a.m.

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Chicks on Bikes — bike commuting basics for the ladies. 9 a.m. Boulder Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Sunday, September 18 Newcomer’s Hike — Open Space 101. Meet at Sawhill Ponds, east of Boulder on west side of 75th Street, 0.6 miles north of Valmont Road. www.bouldercolorad.gov.

Monday, September 19 Dinner and Bikes Tour. 7 p.m. Boulder Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Tuesday, September 20 Beautiful Switzerland.

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

Map and Compass Basics.

6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

Wednesday, September 21 Colorado Mountain Club Boulder Group Open House. 7 p.m. The Clubroom, 633 S. Broadway, Unit N, Boulder, 303-554-7688.

Peace Corps — Life is Calling.

6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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San Isabel National Forest Reason to go: Four fourteeners, mountains higher than 14,000 feet, can be accessed from this road: Mounts Belford and Oxford (usually climbed together in a day), Missouri Mountain and Huron Peak, as well as a back-door approach to La Plata Peak. It’s in the majestic heart of the Sawatch Mountains in the center of Colorado, with summit views of mountains in every direction.

Camping: Free roadside camping is plentiful for miles along Chaffee County Road 390, and it gets better the farther in you go. Not far past the ghost town of Winfield the road becomes four-wheeldrive, where the best campsites hide. If it’s Saturday night and not much is available, there’s a large field at Winfield that serves as an overflow camping area.

Just relax in the woods Location: Rampart Range Reason to go: If all you need to be happy is a shady spot in the woods, the Rampart Range northwest of Colorado Springs is your closest bet. These arid foothills are full of roadside sites with fire rings.

Camping: Free sites are all around Rampart Range Road and the side roads, many of which can be navigated in passenger vehicles. Camping around Rampart Reservoir is limited to two reservable campgrounds, Thunder Ridge and Meadow Ridge.

Bring the kids Location: Mount Princeton Road near Buena Vista Reason to go: There are five national forest campgrounds along this good road, with easy access to town, rafting, hiking trails, fishing and the Mount Princeton Hot Springs.

Camping: No dispersed camping is allowed along the road, but three of the campgrounds, Mount Princeton, Chalk Lake and Cascade, are reservable at www.recreation.gov, a good idea if you are heading out to this popular area on a weekend. If you get there and can’t find a campsite, try going back to Buena Vista and taking Chaffee County Road 306 (West Main Street) toward Cottonwood Pass. Turn left toward Cottonwood Lake and look for free campsites past the lake.

Take a swim Location: Pueblo Reservoir Reason to go: There aren’t many places to swim comfortably in Colorado — most lakes are frigid mountain pools — but Pueblo Reservoir is an exception.

With summertime water temperatures in the mid-70s and a swimming beach, it’s a great place to take a dip and appreciate Colorado’s brief summer. The swimming beach is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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Camping: There are three campgrounds with 400 campsites in Lake Pueblo State Park, but on weekends they are certain to be full, so make reservations at www.parks.state.co.us.reservations.

Climb some rocks Location: Shelf Road Reason to go: The limestone cliffs of Shelf Road are among the most popular in Colorado, known for solid rock and a wide variety of technical climbing routes (1,000 and counting).

Camping: It’s a stunningly beautiful area for camping, with two campgrounds run by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, The Bank and Sand Gulch, 29 campsites between them.

Take a short backpacking trip Location: Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Reason to go: This wilderness area is dominated by the Buffalo Peaks, humped 13,000-foot mountains. But the real gem here is Buffalo Meadows, a serene network of open meadows at the high point of an 11-mile loop trail.

Camping: Choose a campsite in the trees around Buffalo Meadows — plenty are available with established fire rings — and enjoy the solitude.

Take a long backpacking trip Location: Lost Creek Wilderness Reason to go: This wilderness area abounds with backpacking opportunities, from one-night in-and-back trips to epic multi-day loops. It’s temperate, compared with many of the higher mountain ranges, with hidden valleys that protect bizarre rock formations as well as pinnacles and barren mountaintops that can be reached without snow gear well into fall.

Camping: Too many great backpacking campsites to mention. Some of the best are along the McCurdy Park Trail.

Some nice campgrounds are Twin Eagles and Goose Creek — first-come, firstserved — and Spruce Grove, where reservations are accepted. There is also ample free car camping along the many dirt roads off Park County roads 77 and 31.

Go fly-fishing Location: Elevenmile Canyon (not Elevenmile State Park) Reason to go: The narrow canyon lined with high cliffs is a hidden gem of the area, and that stretch of the South Platte River is said to rank among the best fly fishing in the state.

Camping: There are five designated campgrounds in the canyon, all reservable at www.recreation.gov. They fill up on weekends, so reservations are recommended. (c) 2011, The Gazette (Colorado Springs) —MCT Boulder Weekly

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March 21-April 19:

“An awakened Aries would rather err on the side of making a daring, improvisational mistake than cuddle up with passionless peace,” writes astrologer Hunter Reynolds. “He or she knows that creative conflict can be a greater unifying force than superficial harmony.” This is an excellent keynote for you to keep in mind during the coming days. But make sure your motivations are pure and humble, please. If the daring improvisation you launch is fueled by arrogance or the urge to dominate, your efforts to shake things up for the greater good will fail. Fight against what Reynolds calls “terrified niceness” — but do it with fierce compassion, not sneering rage.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Back in 2009, John Allwood, an Australian melon-picker, used his head to smash 47 watermelons in 60 seconds. That broke the previous world record of 40 in a minute, also set by him a couple of years earlier. I’ve chosen him to be your role model for the coming week, Taurus — for two reasons. First, you’re primed to outstrip a personal best you achieved some time back. So do it! Second, it’s a perfect time to use your head in fun and creative ways.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

According to April Winchell’s book Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF, here are some of the treasures you can find for sale at Etsy.com: a toy pig made from a root beer can; a “juicy enchanted pouch” for holding runes; a handmade hornet’s nest; a stuffed feral goat fashioned to resemble a unicorn; fake tapeworms that are actually spray-painted fettucine; and a “haunted Ouija board Las Vegas casino-style blackjack roulette poker chip.” I would absolutely love it if you designed something like this and hawked it on Etsy, Gemini.

Your skill as an idiosyncratic creator will soon be peaking, as will your capacity for marketing the most unique aspects of your shtick and style.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

“Specialization is for insects,” said science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, pitch manure, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently.” I bring this thought to your attention, Cancerian, because it’s an excellent time for you to broaden your understanding and expand your repertoire. How many of the things that Heinlein names can you do? Make a list of your talents, and try to add some new ones to that list in the coming weeks.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

A veterinarian in Nashville was asked to do something he had never done: diagnose and treat a wounded whooping crane. Experts devoted to safeguarding the endangered species advised him to wear a billowy white suit. That way the wild bird would be more likely to accept his attention. “You learn very quickly how to communicate dressed as a marshmallow,” the vet said after completing his work. Be prepared for a metaphorically similar encounter, Leo. You, too, may face a prospect that resembles interspecies conversation. I hope you’ll be as adaptable as the vet.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“Everything is unique,” said the 19th-century authors known as the Goncourt brothers, who wrote all their books together.

“Nothing happens more than once in a lifetime. The physical pleasure that a certain woman gave you at a certain moment, the exquisite dish that you ate on a certain day — you will never meet either again. Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled.” Of course this is always true. But I suspect you will be more intensely aware of it in the coming days than you have in a long time. In part that’s because the sensations and experiences headed your way will be so piquantly unique, so exquisitely fresh. And in part it’s because you’ll be wide-awake to the novel pleasures that are possible when you appreciate the fact that everything changes all the time.

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“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul,” said environmentalist Edward Abbey. The “ruin” doesn’t happen all of a sudden, because of a single small failure to translate

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

I would of course never advocate burning all copies of the book Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself. I’m a staunch defender of freedom of speech, even if the speech offends my moral sense.

On the other hand, my freedom of speech allows me to advise you to strenuously avoid that book and any influence that resembles it. In my astrological opinion, you need to actually become a better person in the coming weeks, not just pretend you are. Here’s a good place to start: Don’t just pay lip service to the idea of supporting others’ freedom of speech. Help them claim and express that freedom, even if it makes you uncomfortable.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Every one of us is born with up to 150 new mutations that make us different from both of our parents. Most of those genetic alterations are neutral in their effects. Some are negative, and a few may be beneficial. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when it’s possible to take more advantage of your positive mutations than you ever have before. Can you guess what they are? Try to, because you’re primed to tap in to their fuller potential.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Dictionary.com says there are 19 words in the English language with no perfect rhymes. Among them are six words that are useful in constructing this week’s horoscope for you: cusp, glimpsed, depth, rhythm, gulf and opus. I like the fact that none of them rhyme because it’s symbolic of the task you have ahead of you. You’re on the cusp of a shift in your rhythm that will take you out of your depth, compelling you to close the gulf between you and a resource that will be crucial for you to have access to in the future. You’ve glimpsed what needs to be done — the creation of a new opus — but in order to accomplish it, you will need to be motivated by a frustration that feels like having to rhyme unrhymeable words.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

The Jerusalem Syndrome is a temporary psychological phenomenon that on rare occasions overtakes travelers who visit Jerusalem. Under the influence of ancient holy sites, these people may become obsessed with religious themes or experience delusions that they are characters from stories in the Bible or Koran. I don’t expect you to fall under the sway of such an outbreak, Aquarius, but I do suspect that you will soon have some intense spiritual stirrings. To ensure that they will enlighten you, not dishevel you, stay well-grounded. Have regular meals, please. Sleep well and exercise now and then.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

My Pisces friend Rana Satori Stewart coined some new words that happen to be perfect for you to begin using and embodying. “Blissipline,” she says, is “the commitment to experiencing a little or a lot of bliss every day; the practice of expanding one’s capacity for bliss and being open to receive it in any moment.” A “blissiplinarian” is “someone who enforces pleasure and invites opportunities for more pleasure,” while a “blissciple” is a person who aspires to master the art of blissipline. I encourage you to be a blissciple, Pisces, because it will put you in sync with the effervescent invitations the cosmos has scheduled for you.

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