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news & views Ten years after 9/11 / 6 Our successes and failures in the war on terror

by Paul Danish The racial wounds of 9/11 / 9 Backlash and harassment continue for Middle Eastern people

by Deepa Iyer On the cover: 9/11 Blind / 12 Ten years after the Twin Towers attacks, we’re still fighting wars in its name

by Tom Hayden

buzz Cranking up the Colorado sound / 21 Dovekins, Paper Bird carry bluegrass-folk banner

by Steve Weishampel

Register Now for Our Upcoming Fall Spanish Courses Beginning the Week of September 19th Online at: spanish-institute.org 2850 Iris Ave. Boulder, CO • (303) 350-5533

Overtones: Despite the burly voice, William Topley keeps it classy / 25 Overtones: Explosions in the Sky successful with unconventional music / 25 Arts & Culture: Jesters brings Lerne and Loewe’s classic to Longmont / 29 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Sophisticated Sex: The skinny on hormones / 37 Elevation: Boulder filmmaker works to combine climbing and art / 39 CU Sports: Resilient Buffs charge ahead; Yelin finds life after Kentucky / 43 Cuisine: Local teen hopes to become the next Thomas Keller / 46 Cuisine Review: Tacos Don Jose / 47 Dessert Diva: Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cheesecake / 48 Screen: A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy; The Debt / 53 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 55

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departments Letters: A moot point?; Insulting Christians; GOP anti-intellectualism / 5 The Highroad: Tea party Congress: ‘Power to the Corporations’ / 5 In Case You Missed It: Work. Breathe. Die.; Those damned kids! / 11 Boulderganic: Taking life into your own hands / 19 Classifieds: Your community resource / 58 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Pamela White Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Editorial Interns, Blair Madole, Christie Sounart, Steve Weishampel Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Theo Romeo, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Mike Cutler, David Hasson Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Circulation Team Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 11-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo September 8, 2011 Volume XIX, Number 5 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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A moot point?

I’ve been following the stories about GMO plantings, and I have a question that I’m not seeing brought up in the public debate, though I have heard it in private conversation, to wit: Isn’t the argument already a moot point, given the dispersal ratio of pollen?

That is to say, if any GM plants are planted in the county anywhere, which, indeed, they already have, has not the pollen from these GM plants already reached public land, and has it not been doing so for some time now?

If this is true, then all the posturing and posing about GMO Free Boulder is a waste of time. Please note I say “if this is true.” Is it?

Peter Johnson/Longmont

More bricks, please

(Re: “Buffs ready for Hawaii,” CU Sports, Sept. 1.) This was an engaging piece. I enjoyed reading it. I like Mr. Pronk’s writing. I hope to see more of it.

I hope to see more painted bricks in the Dal Ward Center, too.

Go Buffs!

Tom May/via Internet

CU women’s sports I can’t tell you how pleased I am that your paper has made the decision not just to cover football, but also to feature articles about the many talented

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women athletes at our flagship university.

While the football team through the years has brought a lot of negative press to CU, along with a few big wins and trophies, the women’s teams have performed like true student-atheletes, working hard at their sports, mostly

Insulting Christians (Re: “Blame God,” In Case You Missed It, Sept. 1.) I’ve come to expect a certain level of snark from Boulder

The Highroad

ood grief — the genuine populist fury of grassroots tea partiers is now being perverted into anti-populism by the very Tea Party Republicans they elected to Congress.

Tea Party House members have become the Koch brothers’ plutocratic dream. They’ve voted to keep giving a $4-billion-a-year government subsidy to Big Oil, to privatize and slash Medicare, to let Wall Street banksters keep ripping off consumers and investors, and to put Social Security on the congressional killing floor. Is this what grassroots voters meant by “Power to the people?”

Take Tea Party Congressman Austin Scott. Only, you can’t — he’s already been taken by corporate lobbyists. This Georgia Republican won election last year by waging a full-throated campaign against forBoulder Weekly

out of the limelight. They deserve every bit of coverage they receive.

Mary Roderick/Longmont

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Tea party Congress: ‘Power to the Corporations’

by Jim Hightower eign workers who enter the country illegally. Throw ’em all out, he ranted — those jobs belong to U.S. citizens. But, curiously, Scott did not applaud on July 29 when Legal Service lawyers won a case to stop a corporation in his district from illegally firing U.S. workers and replacing them with Mexican migrants.

Far from applauding, this tough-on-immigrants Tea Party stalwart abruptly shifted sides, favoring the corporation’s illegal hiring practices against his

Weekly when it comes to matters of faith, but to refer to conservative Christians as the “American Taliban” was absolutely tasteless, particularly this close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, a day when Americans died as a see LETTERS Page 6

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own constituents who’d been thrown out of their jobs. Indeed, only three days after Legal Services won its case against the corporation, Scott rose up on his hind legs and introduced H.R. 2774, a vindictive, one-sentence bill that says: “Be it enacted... in Congress assembled, that the Legal Services Corporation Act is repealed.”

Scott’s hypocrisy is as subtle as a hammer to the head: He professes to be for the people then tries to kill a program that helps poor people pursue justice against corporate elites. “Power to the Corporations” is his motto.

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result of Islamist hatred. Talk about insensitive.

How you can compare American Christians with the Taliban I can’t say.

Do you seriously believe there’s any moral equivalency between the average American who goes to church on Sunday and the AK-toting men of the Taliban, who are known to beat women with canes simply for appearing in public? The very idea is insulting.

You choose extremists like Pat Robertson to make your point. He doesn’t speak for most Christians and is more of an entertainer, in the business for himself and not for Christ.

But the average conservative Christian knows better than to blame human atrocities on God. Most of us are simple people trying to live bibically moral lives. Somehow that seems to offend you deeply.

We’ve buried a lot of Christian young men in the past month after Taliban fighters shot down that Chinook chopper, men who took up the challenge of defeating the Taliban to make our nation safer. You just spat on their sacrifice by comparing them to the men who took their lives.

You might ask yourself next time you want to take a swipe at Christians what you hope to gain by insulting an entire community of Americans.

Robert Gordon/Fort Collins

The battle begins (Re: “The power struggle,” Boulderganic, Aug. 15.) Thanks for your continuing coverage of the municipalization issue and Xcel. It’s a complicated topic, and I felt your writer did a good job of breaking it down for the reading public.

The arguments for and against are bound to become heated and emotional as the elction nears. But as concerned as I am about the expense, 6 September 8, 2011

known and unknown, of our city taking over Xcel’s job, do you know what will happen if the city doesn’t take the reins and push us toward a greener energy future? Nothing. I find that prospect even more frightening.

Keith Zimmerman/via Internet

GOP anti-intellectualism I must admit the thought of Barack Obama not being re-elected or, even more importantly, that any of these Tea Party or Tea Party heavily influenced Republicans would be elected instead is rather depressing.

Additionally tragic is his having been blocked domestically by Congressional conservatives. That is to say, had he been able to assert his fairly subtle yet fairly exquisite geopolitical understanding and timing (as in the Somali pirates stand-off, the killing of Osama bin Laden and support of the Arab Spring via Libya in particular) to our domestic issues in a similarly effective way, there would of course be no question as to his re-election.

We solid Obama supporters — some of whom, including myself, are still upset with the cowardly way in which he behaved when it came to supporting labor in the crucial Madison showdown, among other things — will be out there nonetheless in order to stop the country from being taken over by people who don’t believe in some of the intellectual basis of our modern societies, from Darwin’s theory of evolution (ergo science itself, some would say) to global warming. [They] will go to great lengths to alter the facts in general to fit some of their more outlandish claims, which is an even more frightening proposition.

And there is no need for my even beginning to list some of those differsee LETTERS Page 8

andom thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11: Since 9/11, we have liquidated the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Ba’athist regime in Iraq; shot bin Laden and thousands of his excitable boys; dragged Saddam out of a hole and enabled his hanging; stood up a working, if not exactly flourishing, democracy in Iraq; foiled dozens of terror plots and prevented another terror attack of 9/11 proportions from taking place in the American homeland; and, by example, advice, and discrete assistance, helped enable the revolutions of the Arab spring. And, compared to what we could be doing, we haven’t begun to fight. Still, not a bad start.

And make no mistake — it’s only a start. The war on terror is not like the Vietnam war. We can’t just declare victory and go home. If we do, the jihadists will follow. They think they’re on a mission from god. The only way for us to end the war is to win it.

How can we tell when we’ve won the war? 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.

The aspect of the war on terror we have most neglected has been energy.

From the beginning we should have taken aggressive action to break the global price of oil, which would defund the global jihad by defunding the governments that sustain it.

Breaking the global price of oil is different from ending U.S. dependence on imported oil, but ending U.S. oil imports it would break it. If the U.S. ended oil imports, it would create a 3 billion-barrel-a-year crude glut in world oil markets and drive down the price of petroleum for a generation. The way to do this is by increasing domestic oil production and by developing substitute fuels like natural gas, ethanol, bio-diesel and gasoline made from coal and natural gas. Gains from conservation are real enough, but will largely be cancelled out by population growth.

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most likely to object to any action that would increase domestic energy supplies are also the ones who are most likely to have a “no blood for oil” bumper stickers on their SUVs? Although they won’t say it (Ward Churchill was an exception) a lot of American leftists’ view of 9/11 is that the U.S. had it coming because of its support for repressive regimes throughout the Middle East. But if the United States is responsible for bringing these regimes into existence and sustaining them, as the left routinely claims, doesn’t it have a moral responsibility to rid the world of them? And if that is the case, why does the left always upbraid the United States when it attempts to do so?

The most important security lesson of 9/11 was that the passengers are the main line of defense against future 9/11 attacks.

The TSA claims it doesn’t use profiling; I bet the passengers do.

A lot of people sneer at the airport security for searching people who “obviously” aren’t threats, like babies and grandmothers. They shouldn’t. A drugged baby’s diaper would be an ideal place to hide a box-cutter, if it became known that the TSA didn’t search infants. And grandma’s knitting would be a good place to hide a bomb if the TSA gave grannies a pass.

People who would exempt babies and grannies from airport searches are engaging in a variant of profiling.

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ent claims or various interpretations of reality because one can just listen to the leading Republican candidates do so themselves. Anti-intellectualism, along with anti-technologically sophisticated and well-trained people will, indeed, have us falling out of first place for real if we keep it up.

Grant Cyrus/Boulder

Remember Osama Don’t forget in November: Republican Bush ignored August 2001 intelligence, Osama got us, then Bush let him go.

Democrat Obama acted on August 8 September 8, 2011

Profiling is a useful tool, but that doesn’t mean all terrorists will fit the profile.

The best ones won’t.

The most promising development in the 10 years since 9/11 has occurred in the past six months: The revolutions of the Arab spring. They offer a real alternative to the existing secular and sectarian pathologies that pervade the Middle East and were the true incubator of 9/11.

A lot of people think these will transmogrify from democratic movements into Islamic ones or into new secular tyrannies. That’s certainly a possibility, but there might be one saving grace we have been overlooking in the rush to predict that these revolutions will end badly: When contemplating whether to transform their countries into Islamic republics, the Arabs have the example of Islamic Republic of Iran to consider. In 1979, the Iranians had no idea what life in a real, functioning Islamic republic would be like. The Arabs do.

It’s not just the Sharia law, the pervasive oppression, the suppression of women, the increasingly corrupt clergy, and increasingly weak economy. There is also the matter of the Iraq-Iran war, with its 500,000 dead. Religious zealots get into fights; it flows from their intrinsic intolerance and inability to compromise.

Arabs contemplating the Islamic option will have to ask themselves: “Do I want to sign up for that?”

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2010 intelligence, we got Osama, and we took his body.

So who’s better at defending our country next year?

J. Andrew Smith/Bloomfield, N.J.

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n Sept. 11, I was a 28-year-old attorney working for the Department of Justice. I remember being evacuated from my federal office building that morning, and later heading across the 14th Street Bridge to my home in Arlington, Va. I could hardly believe the sight of the Pentagon building with smoke billowing from it and a large hole in its side.

As I mourned the loss of life on that day and tried to comprehend what had happened, I also began to hear about acts of bias, backlash and violence directed at South Asians, Muslims, Sikhs and Arab-Americans around the country.

Overwhelmed with stories from community members experiencing discrimination, I, along with several colleagues at the civil rights division of the Justice Department, began to collect and investigate these incidences.

In every context — the workplace, the schoolyard, the airport and the borders, and even in places of worship — community members reported increased levels of harassment, bullying and surveillance. Many recounted their hesitation to contact law enforcement or government agencies even in the wake of violent crimes for fear of being investigated or detained.

The post-9/11 experiences of South Asians, Muslims, Sikhs and ArabAmericans have been likened to those of Japanese-Americans in internment camps in World War II, of AfricanAmericans who have been racially profiled, and of Latinos who have felt the sting of anti-immigrant sentiment.

Yet, there still remains a perception that the post-9/11 civil rights abuses are part and parcel of living in today’s world.

Violating the rights of a Muslim passenger at an airport, bullying a Sikh child, monitoring activity at mosques or targeting immigrants from South Asian or Middle Eastern countries for questioning are often seen as the price that some need to pay to preserve the national security of the country as a whole.

But these are exactly the types of situations that demand adherence to the principles on which our country was founded. As Martin Luther King Jr. wisely noted, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Sadly, 10 years since, our communities are still experiencing a level of xenophobia and racism that is reminiscent of the days and months after Sept. 11. The Park51 interfaith center controversy in Manhattan and the proposed Quran burnings of last summer, the restrictions on mosque constructions from New Jersey to Tennessee to California, the congressional hearings on MuslimAmericans held by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, Boulder Weekly

Perspectives

includes the perspectives and leadership of these communities.

Americans have much to remember and reflect upon as we mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, but we also have an opportunity to forge a more inclusive and democratic future.

Deepa Iyer is the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a national, nonprofit organization based in the Washington, D.C., area.

She wrote this for Progressive Media Project, a source of liberal commentary on domestic and international issues.

—MCT

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The racial wounds of 9/11

by Deepa Iyer R-N.Y., and the inflammatory language used by some elected officials or candidates for political office are fueling negative opinions about Muslims and those who are perceived to be Muslim.

The experiences of Muslim, South

Asian and Arab-American communities over the past decade make up the latest chapter of racial injustice in the United States. All of us who are committed to civil and human rights must embrace a vision for racial healing and equity that

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“Derby-tante” Ball. The She recently spent a Saturday with Boulder County Bombers the league, taking a team photo, some will be hosting an event that’s part small groups and individuals. She’s too meet and greet, part dance party. busy for the league, Woods says, so The league’s founder, Courtney this is her way of participating in the MacArthur, is a veteran derby girl from team. the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls who “I was really excited once I heard had to swap her skates for running her philosophy about derby and what shoes after the move to Boulder made she hoped to bring to Boulder attending the two or three weekly County,” Woods says of her first meetpractices in Denver impractical. ing with MacArthur. “It was definitely “I started running, which was OK a competitive sport but with a supuntil I started having dreams about portive female sisterhood, which is derby,” says MacArthur, who skates as how I build my business, I’m a pho“Super Cali tographer and info ‘Agilistic’ my clients and The Derby-tante Ball is slated for Expialidocious.” my friends 10 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Bácaro Venetian Taverna, and is USOShe teamed and my themed, including a costume up with another friends are my contest, raffle and photo set. Drink group trying to clients and it’s specials are likely to feature drinks with titles including “bomb,” launch a roller definitely a like Yeager-bombs. derby league in sisterhood.”

Boulder. Their In its first new recruit night had 35 aspiring renewed incarnation, roller derby has skaters. become more athletic, more fast-paced, “People in Boulder know about and less about the brawls the 1970sderby, so that’s half the battle,” era derby was known for. It draws MacArthur says. women from age 18 to 60-something The Derby-tante ball is designed to (and, yes, there is a men’s league, too) introduce the derby to the local comfrom all backgrounds, with one thing munity and to the other neighboring in common, MacArthur says: “They’re derby leagues, including the Rocky fierce.”

Mountain Rollergirls, Denver Roller Leagues are a little bit athletic Dolls and FoCo (Fort Collins) Girls club, and a little bit social club. Part of Gone Derby. a league’s responsibility is also to give “It’s so exciting. I love Colorado back to its community, and the derby because we have some amazing Bombers have been skating the teams,” MacArthur says. The Rocky Boulder Creek path, picking up trash Mountain Rollergirls were the 2010 as they go along, and plan to work Womens’ Flat Track Derby Association anti-bullying recognition into every national champions. This years national “bout,” their competitive events, championships will be hosted in which are expected to start in Broomfield on Nov. 11-13.

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“I think it’s a wonderful way to get “There’s a saying. They say, ‘Roller or stay in shape, to be a part of a team, derby saved my soul,’” she says. “It’s so to have a sisterhood, and I think it’s empowering. It’s a feeling you can’t get just something wonderful for the comanywhere else. It’s embracing who you munity,” says Iman Woods, owner of are and peeking behind the mask of Iman Woods Creative Pin-up your fellow woman — and it keeps me Photography and the league’s photoin really good shape.”

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Work. Breathe. Die. Closing Gitmo. Bringing our troops home from Iraq. Ending military tribunals. Real health-care reform. Global climate change. The list of reasons to be disappointed in President Obama keeps growing. Now we can add smog to the roster.

Obama withdrew proposed regulations that would have protected the breathing public from the harmful health impacts of smog after industry greedheads and GOP knuckle-draggers raised a stink, claiming the rules would kill jobs and harm the already weak U.S. economy.

The regulations would have reduced concentrations of ground-level ozone, the main component in smog — that brownish-yellow haze that lingers over cities and which can cause a host of lung ailments, including asthma. The goal wasn’t to harass industry, but rather to protect human health.

But Republicans were having none of that and did what they did any time Obama has threatened to move the United States forward — blocked, bullshitted and bullied. Human health?

Who cares? If they had their way, they’d dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency altogether, a move they believe will save money.

Great. So money saved, jobs created.

Now, who’s going to work those jobs when the earth is so toxic that we’re all dead?

Those damned kids!

Every year, the rest of the city has to hear the complaints of University Hill residents, who perennially shake their canes at students throwing house parties and keeping the neighborhood awake at night.

The University Hill homeowners aren’t going to take the injustice of living next to young people sitting down, never mind that they were most likely aware of the university’s proximity when they bought their houses. During the past few years, The Hill homeowners have managed to shut down any business that wants to serve alcohol after midnight, and from time to time, they have managed to convince the city to crack down on student partying.

They even have one of their own — Hill resident Ken Wilson — serving as deputy mayor.

The problem is, the steps that Wilson and homeowners want the city to take will not solve any problems.

Homeowners are now complaining about the city’s new registered-party system, which debuted last fall. The program allows students to register parties with police, and should the police receive a complaint about the party, Boulder Weekly

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officers will call the students and ask them to shut things down before sending an officer to the premises.

Homeowners complain that it lets too many naughty students off the hook, and Wilson dutifully placed the issue

on the City Council agenda.

Party registration saves limited police resources by allowing officers to focus on policing serious crimes, rather than luxury problems such as noise complaints. The program empowers

students by giving them increased responsibility, positioning them as members of a community instead of pests needing elimination. Ostracizing students with Draconian enforcement strategies will do nothing to stop them from drinking, but treating them like responsible adults just might stop them from partying loudly, especially if you politely ask them to keep it down.

Repealing the program would be a step in the wrong direction.

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fter witnessing the first jetIn any event, only a single member liner crash into the Twin of Congress, Barbara Lee of BerkeleyTowers on that Sept. 11 Oakland, voted against the war authorimorning, a friend of mine’s zation, and only a single senator, Russ wife and 7-year old daughter Feingold, voted against the Patriot Act. fled to their nearby Manhattan loft Were we not blinded by what hapand ran to the roof to look around. pened on 9/11? Are we still? Let’s look From there, they saw the second plane at the numbers we almost never see. explode in a rolling ball of flaming fuel across the rooftops. It felt like the heat Fog of war of a fiery furnace.

As to American casualties, the figure Not long after, the girl was struck now is beyond twice those who died in with blindness. She rarely left her New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, room. Her parents worked with theraD.C., on 9/11. The casualties are rarely pists for months, trying various techtotaled, but they are broken down into niques including touch and visualizathree categories by the Pentagon and tion, before the young girl finally Congressional Research Service. recovered her sight.

There is Operation Enduring “The interesting new development,” Freedom, which includes Afghanistan my friend reports, “is that she no longer and Pakistan but, in keeping with the A gift from President Vladimir Putin, “Tear Drop,” by artist Zurab Tsereteli, was commisremembers very much, which she told Long War definition, also covers sioned and installed by the Russian government to honor those who died in 9/11. The me when I asked her if she would be Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, teardrop is lined up with the Statue of Liberty. willing to speak with you.”

Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and That’s what happened to America itself 10 years Uzbekistan. Second, there is Operation Iraqi Freedom wars over a span of 50 to 80 years, or 20 future presiago this Sunday on 9/11, though it might be charged and its successor, Operation New Dawn, the name dential terms. The taxpayer costs of this Long War, that many of us were blinded by privilege and hubris adopted after September 2010 for the 47,000 U.S. also shadowy, would be in the many trillions of dollars long before. advisers, trainers and counterterrorism units still in and paid for not from current budgets, but by generaBut 9/11 produced a spasm of blind rage arising Iraq. The scope of these latter operations includes tions born after the 2000 election of George W. Bush. from a pre-existing blindness as to the way much of The deficit spending on the Long War would invisibly Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the world sees us. That in turn led to the invasions of Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. force the budgetary crisis now squeezing our states, Afghanistan, Iraq, Afghanistan again, Pakistan, Yemen cities and most Americans.

These territories include not only Muslim majoriand Somalia — in all, a dozen “shadow wars,” accordties but also, according to former Centcom Besides the future being mortgaged in this way, ing to The New York Times. In Bob Woodward’s cru- civil liberties were thought to require a shrinking prop- Commander Tommy Franks, 68 percent of the world’s cial book, Obama’s Wars, there were already secret and er to a state of permanent and secretive war, and so the proven oil reserves and the passageway for 43 percent of petroleum exports, another American geo-interest lethal counterterrorism operations active in more than Patriot Act was promulgated. All this happened after that was heavily denied in official explanations. (See 60 countries as of 2009.

9/11 through democratic default and denial. Who Michael Klare’s Blood and Oil and Antonia Juhasz’s From Pentagon think tanks came a new military knows what future might have followed if Al Gore, The Bush Agenda for more on this.) doctrine of the “Long War,” a counterinsurgency vision with a half-million popular-vote margin over George arising from the failed Phoenix program of the Bush, had prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court instead Vietnam era, projecting U.S. open combat and secret of losing by the vote of a single justice? see BLIND Page 13 12 September 8, 2011

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A combined 6,197 Americans were killed in these wars as of Aug. 16, in the name of avenging 9/11, a day when 2,996 Americans died. The total number of Americans wounded has been 45,338, and rising at a rapid rate. The total number rushed by Medivac out of these violent zones was 56,432. That’s a total of 107,996 Americans. And the active-duty military-suicide rate for the decade is at a record high of 2,276, not counting veterans or those who have tried unsuccessfully to take their own lives. In fact, the suicide count for past year was greater than the American death toll in either Iraq or Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has long played a numbers game with these body counts.

Accurate information has always been painfully difficult to obtain, and there was a time when the Pentagon refused to count as Iraq war casualties any soldier who died from his or her wounds outside of Iraq’s airspace. Similar controversies have surrounded examples such as soldiers killed in non-combat accidents.

The fog around Iraqi and Afghan civilian casualties will be seen in the future as one of the great scandals of the era. Briefly, the United States and its allies in Baghdad and Kabul have relied on eyewitness, media or hospital numbers instead of the more common cluster-sampling interview techniques used in conflict zones like the first Gulf War, Kosovo or the Congo.

The United Nations has a conflict of interest as a party to the military conflict, and acknowledged in a July 2009 UN human-rights report footnote that “there is a significant possibility that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is underreporting civilian casualties.” In August, even the mainstream media derided a claim by the White House counterterrorism adviser that there hasn’t been a single “collateral,” or innocent, death during an entire year of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, a period in which 600 people were killed, all of them alleged “militants.”

As a specific explanation for the blindness, the Los Angeles Times reported on April 9 that “Special Forces account for a disproportionate share of civilian casualties caused by western troops, military officials and human rights groups say, though there are no precise figures because many of their missions are deemed secret.”

Sticker shock of war Among the most bizarre symptoms of the blindness is the tendency of most deficit hawks to become big spenders on Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until lately. The direct costs of the war, which is to say those unfunded costs in each year’s budget, now come to $1.23 trillion, or $444.6 billion for Afghanistan Boulder Weekly

and $791.4 billion for Iraq, according to the National Priorities Project.

But that’s another sleight-of-hand, when one considers the so-called “indirect costs” like long-term veterans’ care.

Leading economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes recently testified to Congress that their previous estimate of $4 to $6 trillion in ultimate costs was conservative. Nancy Youssef, of McClatchy Newspapers in D.C., in my opinion the best war reporter of the decade, wrote recently that “it’s almost impossible to pin down just what the United States spends on war.” The president himself expressed “sticker shock,” according to Woodward’s book, when presented cost projections during his internal review of 2009.

The Long War casts a shadow not only over our economy and future budgets, but our unborn children’s future as well. This is no accident, but the result of deliberate lies, obfuscations and scandalous accounting techniques. We are victims of an information warfare strategy waged deliberately by the Pentagon.

As Gen. Stanley McChrystal said much too candidly in February 2010, “This is not a physical war of how many people you kill or how much ground you capture, how many bridges you blow up. This is all in the minds of the participants.”

David Kilcullen, once the top counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, defines “international information operations as part of counterinsurgency.”

Quoted in Counterinsurgency in 2010, Kilcullen said this military officer’s goal is to achieve a “unity of perception management measures targeting the increasingly influential spectators’ gallery of the international community.”

This new “war of perceptions,” relying on naked media manipulation such as the treatment of media commentators as “message amplifiers” but also hightechnology information warfare, only highlights the vast importance of the ongoing WikiLeaks whistle-blowing campaign against the global secrecy establishment.

Consider just what we have learned about Iraq and Afghanistan because of WikiLeaks: tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq never before disclosed; instructions to U.S. troops not to investigate torture when conducted by U.S. allies; the existence of Task Force 373, carrying out night raids in Afghanistan; the CIA’s secret army of 3,000 mercenaries; private parties by DynCorp featuring trafficked boys as entertainment; and an Afghan vice president carrying $52 million in a suitcase. The efforts of the White House to prosecute Julian Assange and persecute Pfc. Bradley Manning in military prison should be of deep concern to anyone believing in the

public’s right to know.

The news that this is not a physical war but mainly one of perceptions will not be received well among American military families or Afghan children, which is why a responsible citizen must rebel first and foremost against The Official Story. That simple act of resistance necessarily leads to study as part of critical practice, which is as essential to the recovery of a democratic self and democratic society.

Read, for example, this early martial line of Rudyard Kipling, the English poet of the white man’s burden: “When you’re left wounded on Afghanistan’s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains / Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains / And go to your God like a soldier.” Years later, after Kipling’s beloved son was killed in World War I and his remains never recovered, the poet wrote: “If any question why we died / Tell them because our fathers lied.”

A hope for peace An important part of the story of the peace movement, and the hope for peace itself, is the process by which hawks come to see their own mistakes.

A brilliant history/autobiography in this regard is Dan Ellsberg’s Secrets, about his evolution from defense hawk to historic whistleblower during the Vietnam War. Ellsberg writes movingly about how he was influenced on his journey by contact with young men on their way to prison for draft resistance.

The military occupation of our minds will continue until many more Americans become familiar with the strategies and doctrines in play during the Long War. Not enough Americans in the peace movement are literate about counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and the debates about “the clash of civilizations” — i.e., the West versus the Muslim world.

The writings of Andrew Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran and retired Army lieutenant colonel whose own son was killed in Iraq in 2007, is one place to begin.

Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, has written The New American Militarism and edited The Long War, both worth absorbing.

For the military point of view, there is the 2007 Army-Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual developed by Gen. Petraeus, with its stunning resurrection of the Phoenix model from Vietnam, in which thousands of Vietnamese were tortured or killed before media outcry and Senate hearings shut it down. David Kilkullen, Petraeus’ main doctrinal adviser, even calls for a “global Phoenix program” to combat Al Qaeda-style groupings.

These are Ivy League calls to war, Kilcullen even endorsing “armed social

science” in a New Yorker article in 2007.

For a criticism of counterinsurgency and defense of the “martial spirit,” Bing West’s recent The Wrong War is a mustread. West, a combat Marine and former Pentagon official, worries that counterinsurgency is turning the army into a Peace Corps, when it needs grit and bullets. “America is the last Western nation standing that fights for what it believes,” he roars.

Not enough is being written about how to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but experts with much to say are the University of Michigan’s Scott Atran (Talking to the Enemy) and former UK envoy Sherard Cowper Coles (Cables from Kabul). Also there is my own 2007 book, Ending the War in Iraq, which sketches a strategy of grass-roots pressure against the pillars of the policy (the pillars necessary for the war are public opinion, trillions of dollars, thousands of available troops and global alliances; as those fall, the war must be resolved by diplomacy).

The more we know about the Long War doctrine, the more we understand the need for a long peace movement.

The pillars of the peace movement, in my experience and reading, are the networks of local progressives in hundreds of communities across the United States. Most of them are citizen volunteers, always immersed in the crises of the moment, nowadays the economic recession and unemployment. Look at them from the bottom up, and not the top down, and you will see: * the people who marched in the hundreds of thousands during the Iraq War; * those who became the enthusiastic consumer base for Michael Moore’s documentaries and the Dixie Chicks’ anti-Bush lyrics; * the first to support Howard Dean when he opposed the Iraq war, and the stalwarts who formed the anti-war base for Barack Obama; * the online legions of MoveOn who raised millions of dollars and turned out thousands of focused bloggers; * the voters who dumped a Republican Congress in 2006 on the Iraq issue, when the party experts said it was impossible; * the millions who elected Obama president by an historic flood of voluntary enthusiasm and get-out-the-vote drives; * the majorities who still oppose the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and want military spending reversed.

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private military contractors and an entire Republican Party (except the Ron Paul contingent), all of whom benefit from the politics and economics of the Long War. But consider the progress, however slow. In February of this year, Rep. Barbara Lee passed a unanimous resolution at the Democratic National Committee calling for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan and transfer of funds to job creation. The White House approved of the resolution. Then 205 House members, including a majority of Democrats, voted for a resolution that almost passed calling for the same rapid withdrawal. Even the AFL-CIO executive board, despite a long history of militarism, adopted a policy opposing Afghanistan.

The president himself is quoted in Obama’s Wars as opposing his military advisors, demanding an exit strategy and musing that he “can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”

At every step of the way, it must be emphasized, public opinion in congressional districts has been a key factor in changing establishment behavior.

In the end, the president decided to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by next summer, and continue “steady” withdrawals of the rest (68,000) from combat roles by 2014. At this writing, it is unclear how many remaining troops Obama will withdraw from Iraq, or when and whether the drone attacks on Pakistan will be forced to an end.

The Arab Spring has demolished key pillars of the Long War alliance, particularly in Egypt, to which the CIA only recently was able to render its detainees for torture.

Obama’s withdrawal decision upset the military but also most peace advocates he presumably wanted to win back. The differences revealed a serious gap in the inside-outside strategy applied by many progressives.

After a week of hard debate over the president’s plan, for example, Sen. John Kerry invited Tim Carpenter, leader of the heavily grass-roots Progressive Democrats of America, into his office for a chat. Kerry had slowly reversed his pro-war position on Afghanistan, and said he thought Carpenter would be pleased with the then-secret Obama decision on troop withdrawals. From Kerry’s insider view, the number 33,000 was a very heavy lift, supported mainly

by Vice President Joe Biden but not the national security mandarins. (Secretary of Defense Gates had called Biden “ridiculous,” and Gen. McChrystal’s later ridicule of Biden helped lose the general his job.)

From Carpenter’s point of view, 33,000 would seem a disappointing too little, too late. While it was definite progress toward a phased withdrawal, bridging

the differences between the Democratic liberal establishment and the idealistic progressive networks will remain an ordeal through the 2012 elections.

As for al Qaeda, there is always the threat of another attack, like those attempted by militants aiming at Detroit during Christmas 2009 or Times Square in May 2010. In the event of another such terrorist assault originating from Pakistan, all bets are off: According to Woodward, the United States has a “retribution” plan to bomb 150 separate sites in that country alone, and there are no apparent plans for The Day After.

Assuming that nightmare doesn’t happen, today’s al Qaeda is not the al Qaeda of a decade ago. Osama bin Laden is dead. Its organization is damaged, and its strategy of conspiratorial terrorism has been displaced significantly by the people-power democratic uprisings across the Arab world.

It is clear that shadow wars lie ahead, but not expanding ground wars involving greater numbers of American troops. The emerging argument will be over the question of whether special operations and drone attacks are effective, moral and consistent with the standards of a constitutional democracy. And it is clear that the economic crisis finally is enabling more politicians to question the trilliondollar war spending.

Meanwhile, the 2012 national elections present an historic opportunity to awaken from the blindness inflicted by 9/11.

Diminishing the U.S. combat role by escalating the drone wars and Special Operations could repeat the failure of Richard Nixon in Vietnam. Continued spending on the Long War could repeat the disaster of Lyndon Johnson. A gradual winding down may not reap the budget benefits or political reward Obama needs in time.

With peace voters making a critical difference in numerous electoral battlegrounds, however, Obama might speed up the “ebbing,” plausibly announce a peace dividend in the trillions of dollars, and transfer those funds to energy conservation and America’s state and local crises. His answer to the deficit crisis will have to include a sharp reduction in war funding, and his answer to the Tea Party Republicans will have to be a Peace Party.

After more than 50 years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden is a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and reforming politics through a more participatory democracy.

Read this article, together with Tom Hayden’s endnotes, on Boulder Weekly’s website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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Dance-a-thon to honor local heroes Mountain’s Edge Fitness is holding a dance-a-thon on Sept. 11 to honor local first responders and raise money to help the Fourmile Fire Department rebuild.

“I was driving in my car and what hit me on NPR was that the first responders were not getting invited to Ground Zero on 9/11,” says Grace Porritt, marketing director for Mountain’s Edge. “It just seemed appropriate to do something here for first responders here.”

The event morphed to focus on local first responders who were involved in the Fourmile Canyon fire last year.

“When I called the fire chief I said, ‘Can you give me something to strive for?’ and he said, ‘A garage door is $3,000.’ I said ‘Perfect, we’ll try for that,’” Porritt says.

The door is for the Salina Fire House, which burned in the Fourmile Canyon fire.

A Mountain’s Edge staff member, Shannon Derby, teaches a bump and grind dance workout class, and she and her class had discussed doing a dance marathon.

Roughly 20 people have signed up to fundraise at a rate of $1 per dance/song for up to 55 songs. Some have signed up for the whole marathon from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Others are forming teams. Anyone can drop in, Porritt says, whether they have a gym membership or not, and dance a song to raise a dollar.

Donations are also welcome, no booty-shaking required.

Contraception is focus of campaign Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ (PPRM) health centers will be raising awareness about emergency contraception (EC) the month of September through educating clients and social media. Additionally, PPRM’s Boulder, Fort Collins and Durango health centers will be offering EC at a discounted price of $30 on Sept. 19.

The National Institute of Reproductive Health recently found that lack of awareness of EC is a major barrier to access. Some 79 percent of respondents cited a lack of knowledge of how or where to get EC, and 64 percent noted the high cost of over-thecounter EC as being the reason they haven’t accessed it in the past.

EC can prevent pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex. Also Boulder Weekly

known as emergency birth control, backup birth control, and by the brand names Plan B or Next Choice, EC is available without a prescription for men and women 17 and older.

Women’s health advocates recommend keeping EC on hand as a backup.

The Planned Parenthood health center at 2525 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder will be offering $30 EC on Sept. 19.

Club helps kids explore nature The Nature Detectives Club at the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department offers a free family activity for children 11 and under. Families can join the club by participating in selfguided tours and activities on Boulder County Open Space. Each Nature Detectives Mystery Guide takes children on an exploration of a specific trail and includes activities that highlight the natural surroundings and history of each location. When they complete three mystery guides, children receive a prize and a certificate.

Two new mystery guides are now available at Heil Valley Ranch and Mud Lake. Other mystery guides can be found at Betasso Preserve, Caribou Ranch, Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm, Meyers Trail at Walker Ranch, Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat and the Agricultural Heritage Center. Families can also request mystery guides to be sent to them by calling 303-678-6201 or visiting the Nature Detectives Club online at www.

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Scott Carpenter goes to the dogs The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department is hosting “Dog Dayz” through Sept. 18 at Scott Carpenter Pool at 1505 30th St. as a chance for dogs to swim and play in the pool.

The cost is $5 per dog, per session, or $30 for unlimited entries by one dog during the 2011 Dog Dayz season. A Dog Expo featuring dog-friendly products, vendors and organizations also will be held at the pool from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, where organizations from around the county will be on hand with samples, prizes and information.

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Stephanie Loveless’ distrust of the meat industry led her to take up hunting.

Taking life into your own hands

A Boulder couple decides to ditch grocery store meat and kill their own

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ast November, outside of selves arguing with three strangers, all Craig, Colo., Brazilianholding guns, over who the elk’s rightborn Leo Zacharias ful owner was. removed a loaded .45-caliLoveless and Zacharias may not be ber pistol from his belt part of a large movement, per se, but and handed it to his girlfriend, they certainly could be. Their hunting Colorado native Stephanie Loveless. If trip was a result of a growing distrust the strange man she was being left of industrial agriculture, grocery-store behind with tried anything, Zacharias meat, and the source of much of the told Loveless, she food they ate. must defend herself.

“Over time, When Zacharias learning where Stephanie tells the story nowameat comes from, Loveless ate days, his girlfriend I got to the point laughs it off. For where I was like, meat, and she someone who wasn’t ‘I don’t want to in that situation, it eat the meat from realized she seems over-cautious stores anymore,’” needed to know to hand a girl a says Loveless. loaded weapon in “You can be in what it was like the event she has to control of all of defend herself from your food, if you to kill an a day-glow clad put the right kind animal. hunter from of thought into Colorado Springs. it.”

But a few hours They have before the handoff, Zacharias had just space to plant a small garden, but not shot his first elk — a cow, or female. room to raise livestock, chickens or And not so long after the wounded elk goats. dashed into the brush, another hunting Loveless has had an interest in food party had shot her again. She was dead, sustainability for years, she says. In coland Zacharias and Loveless, two lege, she started picking apples off the Boulder residents who had never done trees in the neighborhood and canning anything like this before, found themthem.

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After a trip to Montana to see her father, where she shot a gun for the first time, Loveless decided she would take the idea of providing her own food a step further. She ate meat, and she realized she needed to know what it was like to kill an animal.

“My mom would say, ‘I can’t believe you are going to kill animals,’” Loveless says. “‘The thing is,’ I would say to her, ‘You’re killing animals, too, just not with your own hands.’ It comes from some CAFO [Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation].”

But the decision to hunt her own food didn’t simplify things. You can’t just buy a gun and wander into the wilderness and shoot a plate of sausage.

“We didn’t know what the hell we were doing,” says Loveless. “We watched YouTube videos and went to hunter safety. We actually spent a lot of time at Bass Pro Shop — more than I was comfortable with.”

Loveless and Zacharias bought guns, equipment, took a safety course, and got licensed. All told, they spent upwards of $6,000 just preparing to go out and hunt. And, best-case scenario, that only gets you a carcass.

You need to know what to do with the body.

Loveless learned how to cure meats — think salami — at El Mondo

Vechio, a meat processing company in Denver with an emphasis on sustainable and regional food sources. She read books, like Primal Cuts, by Melissa Guggiana, about how to butcher animals, where to find choice cuts of meat, and what to do with them.

The tense hunting trip last November resulted in about one-third of a full-grown female elk for Zacharias and Loveless. They came to an agreement with the other hunting party that had shot the animal to share the meat and had hauled the carcass, piece by piece, out together.

“We ended up being friends with the other hunters,” says Zacharias.

“They were cool.”

Loveless and Zacharias butchered and processed the meat themselves.

They still have a freezer full.

And she now knows what it’s like to kill an animal.

“Three days after we first ate our elk steak, we’re sitting there, and we’re really enjoying it, and then we started to cry,” says Loveless. “We said, ‘Three days earlier, [the elk] was running around,’ and that did it. We were in tears.”

Theo Romeo is executive editor for Cleanenergyauthority.com.

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From left, Dovekins members Griff Snyder, Blake Stepan and Stelth Ulvang

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f there’s a “Colorado sound,” it might be the soft babble of a mountain stream as it trickles through grass and boulders on its way to the St. Vrain or the Gunnison or the Green. The wind whispers through trees as larks call to each other and deer graze quietly. Also, in the background, traffic on I-70.

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Snyder, a founding member of Front Range-based gypsy folk group Dovekins, says a “Colorado sound” is emerging in music that’s starting to gain recognition.

There’s definitely a “Colorado sound” developing, Snyder says. He cites Colorado bands DeVotchKa and 16 Horsepower for developing “dark folk,” drawing on some punk and indie influences, which he says Dovekins and other Colorado bands are expanding on.

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“You can have space to develop your own sound.”

Dovekins’ bluegrasstinged folk tunes are laced with handclaps, scores of instruments and catchy choruses. They largely inhabit a joyous, bouncing, infectious world of travel, growth and discovery.

These days, the travel takes the form of New Belgium’s Tour de Fat, which Dovekins is playing for the second time. The group’s taking a detour to play at the Boulder Theater Sept. 8 with Paper Bird, a fellow practitioner of Snyder’s “Colorado sound.”

“The Colorado sound that’s happening is totally awesome. We’ve got so many different talented people,” says Jason Hecker, one of the facilitators of Long Spoon

Dovekins, Paper Bird carry bluegrass-folk banner

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Records, a collective founded by members of Paper Bird and Dovekins, among others.

They don’t just share a label and a genre. The two bands have a relationship as layered and complex as their songs.

“They’re like our family,” Snyder says. “There’s just a lot of connections.

We’ve lived with them; we’ve toured with them. When Dovekins started, we were really just trying to imitate Paper Bird.”

“Their music is based in the friendship,” Hecker says. “I remember when Griff was writing the first songs for Dovekins and bringing them over to the house Paper Bird and I lived in, in Boulder.”

Hecker credits Boulder’s atmosphere for creating the friendship.

“It’s not like L.A. or New York where there’s a band every 10 minutes and nobody cares about each other,” he says. “Everybody supports each other here.”

Dovekins member Stelth Ulvang says the groups are one big happy family. So the sensation he wants to evoke at the concert is no accident.

“The feeling that people have at weddings? That. I would love for people to experience that at live shows,” he says. “A very strong bond with everyone

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that’s around us.”

“We want people to have fun,” Snyder says. “There’s so many shows that suck because bands don’t know their own identities.”

Sounds simple enough, until you ask Dovekins members just what their own identities are.

“I’d come up with a realGriff Snyder — Laura Goldhamer Maxwell Blake Stepan — Stelth Ulvang Barcelow — guitar, mandolin, — accordion, — banjo, guitar, upright bass, ly arrogant term,” Ulvang drums, bells, piano, trombone, piano, flute, kazoo, electric bass, says. “Texturalist. whistles, kazoo, vocals cello, kazoo, kazoo, mandolin, percussion, vocals vocals vocals clarinet, vocals “Sometimes people say, ‘You play a lot of instruments,’ and it’s awesome the band, taking up every instrument ments,” Ulvang says. “We hype ourthat they think that. I play all the from piano to banjo to timpani. selves up too much sometimes at the instruments that one wouldn’t want to And at the Boulder Theater, the big shows.” hear for an entire set: mandolin, flute, stage will get even more crowded.

But he adds that playing in Boulder trumpet, trombone.” with familiar faces should help the band “I’m sure we’ll make that happen,” Ulvang could easily keep on listing; Ulvang says of members joining the other relax. kazoo, accordion and clarinet still don’t Following the Boulder show, band onstage. He says both bands welcover his full repertoire.

Dovekins and Paper Bird will rejoin the come a chance to accompany each other Snyder, meanwhile, starts off Tour de Fat Sept. 10 in Denver. Then and play where they feel comfortable. straightforwardly: “I’m primarily a guiSnyder also says he’s excited to Dovekins is off to California on the tar player,” he says. But it’s not that return to Colorado, where the band tour, carrying the torch of the easy. started and all the members live, “Colorado sound” and the attitude that “I’ll play keyboards and trombone though he and Ulvang say the venue goes with it. too,” he admits after a pause. “And we “It’s about not taking ourselves too might be too nice for them. all sing.” seriously,” Snyder says. “I like the “My least favorite shows are generColorado sound because we’re trying to No member of Dovekins is tied ally at nice venues,” Snyder says. be profound, but we’ll make a joke if down to just one noisemaker. Blake “Although, the Boulder Theater is my we’re starting to get too serious.”

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t had been a few years — well, more like eight years — since we had last caught up to William Topley, and prior to our transatlantic chat, we thought we’d have a look at the British singer’s upcoming gigs. We noticed a monthly gig for the ex-Blessing frontman at Arcangel, a decidedly upscale bistro/pub located on Kensington High Street in west London, deep in one of the city’s busiest shopping zones and not far from the Royal College of Art, which counts Ian Dury, Ridley Scott and Adam Ant among its alumni. The Arcangel’s dress code warns that “no hoods, no caps, no scruffy trainers” will be granted admission.

Curious thing that Topley, the burly voiced singer/songwriter steeped in Americana vocal stylings and big on soulful, hyper-literate ruminations on love and redemption and the eternal struggle for a more perfect mortality, should find a monthly bit of peace on a little downstairs, low-ceilinged stage in London, even if the scruffy-trainer brigade has to wait outside.

“Yeah, I’m very fortunate actually,” Topley says. “I was looking around to try to do some kind of residency thing, not always for a full band. … We found this place. … It’s opposite a big hotel, and the room is not particularly used midweek. So they offered me one night a month at this place, and we’ve been doing it for two years.

“What’s interesting for me is that it’s become a focus for sort of disparate Blessing fans from all over the world. Last gig, there was a couple from Hong Kong — he was American, and she was English.

We’ve had people from Germany, New Zealand and even Uganda, where apparently they were playing ‘Drink Called Love’ [from Topley’s first solo CD] on Radio Free Kampala.”

Topley returns to the Arcangel later in September, but not before he renews his episodic near-residency in Boulder, gigging the Fox Sept.

10 with a full band (unlike his last few Boulder appearances, which have been acoustic dates) in support of the justreleased South On Velvet Clouds.

Boulder has long been Topley’s most consistently solid stateside gig, in part due to the durability of The Blessing’s “Delta Rain” on KBCO’s rotation, and Topley’s now-lengthy history of stirring live shows.

The new CD offers a full bounty for the devoted Topleyhead — the woozy, half-speed stomp of the opening ode to bruised humility, “Only So Much You Can Do,” the poised and touching “Sleepy London,” and the gritty, toss-itall whiplash riffing of “No Tomorrow,” featuring longtime Topley cohort guitarist Luke Brighty in full grind and Topley in high-register strain like Bob Seger mainlining Red Bull, exulting “Got 20 bucks / got beer / fool’s paradise / is right here.”

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hen speaking with Michael James, one of the guitarists for Explosions in the Sky, you quickly discover that two things are at the forefront of his mind with respect to the band: time and communication.

Sometimes things happen quickly and easily, like when you meet someone for the first time and you hit it off. Other times though, things evolve at a glacial pace.

Take, for instance, the time it took the band to record the tracks that make up their latest postrock release, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.

Released in April, there came a point back in 2009 where the band had to take a break from the writ-

The obscurely titled “The Man Who Lost America” seems not to be about anyone losing America, but a nameless loser-at-love protagonist adrift in a state of melancholy. After a lengthy dissertation about how he and Brighty construct their songs, finding chords and changes and general temperament, then mining it all for a melody and finally lyrics, Topley promptly concedes that this one came from a clever line all by itself.

“That’s an example of what I wasn’t talking about before,” Topley says, laughing a bit at his own expense, “where I heard the phrase ‘the man who lost America,’ which is to do with the man who was prime minister of Great Britain at the time of American independence. He was perceived by his opposition MPs over here as the man who was responsible for the British Empire losing its greatest asset. That’s where I started the song from — the actual song I’d written has very little to do with all that.”

One risks the deep water sparring with Topley over historical figures, but wasn’t losing America really just one of a long string of events in the centurieslong decline of the Empire? Between the floods and the plummeting dollar and the toxic, Fellini-esque performance art playing out on the 24-hour political news cycle, one wonders if the Crown is, in the final analysis, better off without us.

“But you see, I’m not one of those people who believe that,” Topley insists.

“I’ve always been sort of Atlantic-centric. I figure the higher up you go in the power tree in Britain, the more they tell you about the importance of our relationship with America. It’s sort of easy to be young and carefree and rail against it, but the older and more … sensible you become, you realize that you need to be with the right people. And I think that’s a good thing.”

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ing process because it wasn’t going anywhere.

“Usually we can mess around with something, argue about it, put it through 50 different variations and we’ll know what we’re going to do with it all in about a month’s time,” James says. “With this one though, every song took several months for us to really find the place that was good for all of us.”

Enter the concept of communication at this juncture. Without it, you will never reach mutually satisfying ends, but as James notes, this isn’t always the end of the story.

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strong ideas of what we think is good, and the thing that I think can really make music interesting is all of these voices coming together and making a unique sound. It can be really great, but it can also be a double-edged sword.”

Add to this the fact that the band is making the sort of music you rarely hear on the radio — instrumental rock songs that sometimes swell to lengths of more than 10 minutes, and with no lyrics — and the need for good communication becomes paramount.

When the band is trying to create new music they have to make sure they are on the same page about pushing themselves creatively and not just recycling what has worked for them before.

“We’ve been a band for 12 years and we’ve got five albums, an EP, a soundtrack — we’ve written a lot of music together,” James says. “And when you’re known for having a very distinct sound like we are, the concern is always that you don’t want to repeat yourself. You don’t want to write the same songs over and over. As an artist you want to try new things and experiment with new ways of getting your ideas across.”

The trick, of course, is taking the right amount of time to properly communicate whatever message you wish to send to your audience.

“You don’t want to change your sound entirely,” James says. “You don’t want to forget what makes you good as a band and what people like about your band. So it’s kind of about finding a balance between all those things and making yourself happy with growing as an artist and also trying to write music that people will enjoy because at the end of the day that’s what we want. We 26 September 8, 2011

want to try and reach people with the music.”

The band seems to be doing just that, as evidenced by their album debuting in the top 20 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. Part of the reason, of course, is because people enjoy the music: the guitars, the drums, the atmospherics — it is all done in such an ensnaring, hypnotic sort of way that you either can resist or you can’t. But another reason is likely because the band understands who their audience is and has some sense of what they like and are willing to accept.

“People who really like our music, they’re already listening to 10-minutelong instrumental songs. It’s not like they have to be introduced to that.

They’ve already jumped the chasm with us,” he laughs. “So yeah, I think a lot of our fans will certainly be willing and interested hopefully to listen to different sounds and different ideas with us.”

Time and communication have also led to one final thing for the band.

“Having been in a band for so long, every single aspect of the band has changed,” James says. “All of our lives have changed dramatically, and the profile of the band has changed, too. You know, we were great friends 12 years ago, but now we’re pretty much the best friends that people can be. We’re friends with each other’s wives. We work together. We do everything else together, and, of course, that affects how we interact as well. I can’t really think of anything that’s still the same except for the fact that we’re still getting together to write these albums and go on tour and play music together.”

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o, you owe me. Yes, you, the reader of this review who will not have to endure the gastronomical atrocities that I, Christ-like, have suffered for thee.

Before you start flipping pages or reviewing the table of contents, this is not a restaurant review. You are safely ensconced in the theater review you, presumably, meant to be reading. This review is of Brigadoon at the Jesters Dinner Theatre in Longmont, and thus it addresses both the “dinner” and the “theater” aspects of the experience.

You’ll thank me later.

When I made my reservation to see Brigadoon at Jesters, I was asked if I wanted to attend just the show or if I also wanted to have dinner. The question took me aback because in all my years as a theatre critic I have never had a dinner theater offer the “show only” option. A slave to journalistic integrity and a firm believer that a night of dinner theater should rightly include dinner and theater, I opted for both.

Without getting elbow deep into the gory details, suffice it to say that — short of finding myself literally starving and with no other refuge during the initial furor of the zombie apocalypse — I will not be eating at Jesters Dinner Theatre again.

Now, I’m no foodie. I am, in fact, one of the few people I know who truly enjoys Little Caesar’s pizza, if that helps you gauge the sophistication of my palate, so you know I’m not criticizing Jesters’ “food” from some Bourdain-inspired ivory tower. But seriously, how do you fuck up fried cheese sticks? The answer, it turns out, is that you microwave them.

Having survived dinner, if only barely, my companions and I turned our attention to Brigadoon.

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case, the cast and crew at Jesters find themselves on par with the material and, thus, Brigadoon is a serviceable lark, neither horrible nor heroic. For the “show only” price, it’s worth it for anyone who adores the story or has never seen it and wants to expand his or her theatrical horizons. It is best, however, not to arrive with inflated expectations.

Brigadoon opens with two modern day Americans, Tommy ( John Sosna) and Jeff (Kevin Gilliam), traipsing around Scotland on a hunting trip. The two men stumble upon the village of Brigadoon, a village that we soon learn (SPOILER ALERT) is stuck in time. Due to the omnipotence and seeming benevolence of God at the behest of a preacher worried that the wickedness of the outside world would infect the people of Brigadoon, the village has undergone a Star Trek-ian dimensional shift and now exists at right angles to the universe. For every day that passes in Brigadoon, 100 years pass for the remainder of the world, which means Brigadoon is only visible to the rest of us once every century.

As this isn’t ’Nam, there have to be rules, so no one from Brigadoon may leave the town lest it disappear forever. Luckily for Tommy, who has developed quite the crush on one Brigadooner (Brigadoonite?), Fiona (Hannah Denckla), an outGene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Brigadoon is a B-grade sider may join the village if he loves someone in it. As Broadwayer. Its story is simple, yet its plot becomes Brigadoon’s one visible day moves along, convenient unnecessarily convoluted. It presents a set of rules that conflicts arise and are resolved, if somewhat hamdefine its fictional universe then it disregards them handedly. completely in order to reach its sentimental denouement. It contains only one semi-famous, hummable Do you suppose that Tommy and Fiona live happily tune, “Almost Like Being in Love.” ever after? They might or mightn’t. You’ll have to find A great musical acts as a safety net for less-thanout for yourself, but unless you suffer from an acute stellar performances. An average musical like case of culinary masochism, eat at home or at one of Brigadoon requires exceptional performances (along the many restaurants near Jesters on Longmont’s main with expert direction, costuming, lighting, etc.) in drag, then head over for the show. order to overcomeSupporting its inherent shortcomings.

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

Charlie Hunter Duo. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

The Doug Yager Trio. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

Douglass Shaw and Friends. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Floof & the Time Bandits, Paul Beveridge & Co, Gabriel Jorgensen. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Girls on Top! 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

The Holler. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922

events College Night — Performances by In The Buff, DJ Cola. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Fashion’s Night Out. 6 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, 1300 block of Pearl St., www. fashionsnightoutboulder.com.

The Kingdom of Survival. 7 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303-492-1531.

Panel Discussion on Boulder’s Energy Future — Hosted by Boulder Green Building Guild. 12 p.m. REI Community Room, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-447-0901.

13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

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

Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Juniper Trees, Melissa Cox & Mythica. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Maynard Mills Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303443-3322.

Paa Kaow’s By All Means Band. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

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

STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9). 7:30 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda

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

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art — Gustavo Artigas’s Relay (Endless): A Race for Diversity, Laleh Mehran & Chris Coleman’s W3fi, Seth Wulsin’s Wishing Well.

1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through Sept. 11.

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

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Cole Thompson — Ghosts of Auschwitz. Old Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont. Through Sept. 3.

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.

Erin Dertner — SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Nancy Anderson. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504

Hygiene Rd., Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

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.

CU Art Museum — Points of View, selections from seven collections; Through Soviet Jewish Eyes; The Anxiety of Influence: from CU Ceramics Collection; Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921320.

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Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Wild Women of the West — With Hazel Miller Band, Rebecca Folsom Band and Dakota Blonde. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration. 8 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, Lyons, 303-823-0848.

Zeppephilia, Junk Drawer. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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theater Cats. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Through Sept. 24.

The Night of the Iguana. Miner’s Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Oct. 23.

Playback Theatre West — A Night of Improvisational Theatre. Dairy

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2B, 2C Campaign Kickoff Party — By Boulder Light & Power. 5 p.m. Dushanbe Tea House patio, 1770 13th St., Boulder, www. renewablesyes.org.

A Weekend of Remembrance, Healing and Wholeness — Various events. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, www.fumcboulder.org.

Dining Out Days benefit for Boulder County AIDS Project — At Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600.

Free Introduction to Shamanism. 7:30 p.m., Edie Stone's office, 2027 Broadway, Boulder, 303-415-3755.

Freedom — The Film, the DVD and the North American Clean Energy Tour. 7 p.m. CU Cofrin Auditorium in the Atlas Building, 1125 18th St., www.thefreedomfilm.com.

Ghost Stories of Historical Downtown — Lifestories of Local Living? Legends. 6:30 p.m. Downtown Longmont, 303-776-3611.

Laser — Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's at 9:30 p.m., Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine at 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

Nostalgia for the Light. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303-492-1531.

Super 8. 9 p.m. Program Council, CU Chem 140, www.programcouncil.com.

Teas, Talks and Transformation — With

Linda Lawson. 2 p.m. For details, call 720-3013993.

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music Adam Bodine and Kalin Capra. 7 p.m.

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

Bill & John McKay. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Black Water. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Blues Torch, Hazardous Matthew, Squidlick. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bluezhouse. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

Harmonius Junk. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

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

Jenny Shank’s The Ringer. 7 p.m., Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Friday, September 9 Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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Stephanie Barron’s Jane and the Canterbur y Tale. ­7 :30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder,

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Notes & Oats. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303443-5108.

Rebecca Abraxas’ Monthly Woman’s Songwriter Night. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Reed Föehl and Haunted Windchimes. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

Sammy Dee Morton Blues Band. 9:30 p.m.

Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9). 7:30 p.m.

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

Todd Adleman and the Lovehandles. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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

William Topley and the Black River Band — With Darden Smith. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Uncle Vanya. Upstart Crow Theatre Company at the Dairy Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 17.

303-447-2074.

Tuesday, September 13 Living Poets Society — Mark Doty’s The Source. 7­p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Wednesday, September 14 Marcia Dechen Wangmo’s Confessions of a Gypsy Yogini. ­7:30 p.m.

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

Rocky Mountain Land Series — Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

A Weekend of Remembrance, Healing and Wholeness — Various events. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, www.fumcboulder.org.

Hands on Digital Photography Instruction.

10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival — Celtic Parade. 9:30 a.m. Stanley Park Fairgrounds, Estes Park, 1-800-90-ESTES. Paris Street Market. 9 a.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, www.aparisstreetmarket.com.

Pieces in Perspective — Oracle Performance Ensemble. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

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

Trailer Loading Clinic. 10 a.m. Colorado Horse Rescue, 10386 N. 65th St., Longmont, 720494-1414.

Sunday, September 11

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Simson, College of Music Faculty. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th and Euclid, 303-492-8008.

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

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

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The BrownChicken BrownCow String Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Jaspers — With KC Groves. 8 p.m.

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

Holly Hathaway. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Shenandoah Davis — With Golden Ghost and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

events 9/11 Chalk4Peace & Stories of Peace and Compassion. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-5513196.

9-11 Memorial Stair Climb. 7 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

A Weekend of Remembrance, Healing and Wholeness — Various events. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, www.fumcboulder.org.

Bill Cunningham New York. 7 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU, 303-492-1531.

CU Soccer — CU vs. University of Denver, 1 p.m. Prentup Field, Colorado Ave. & 33rd St. CUBuffs.com Derech Chayim — “A Way of Life,” 6 p.m.

Boulder’s Rabbinic Council at Har Hashem Congregation, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, contact Jodi for more details at 503-780-7470.

Hatch Green Chile Festival and CookOff — To benefit the Sunshine, Gold Hill, Fourmile and Left Hand fire protection districts. 11:30 a.m. Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, www.hatchboulder.com.

Meditations and Music: Heart Awakening — Linda Lawson, facilitator; William Marsh, sitarist. 2 p.m. 2595 Spruce St., Ste. B, Boulder, 720-301-3993.

Megamind. 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.

Sunday Afternoon Tea Dance — Lesson at 1 p.m., dance 2 p.m. 20th Anniversary potluck garden party 11 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962.

The Ultimate Beer Experience — Bus tour of three Boulder breweries. 5:30 p.m., The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

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Urban Permaculture Workshop. 10:30 a.m. Altona Grange, corner of 39th and Nelson Rd., Niwot, 303-530-1415.

Welcome to Longmont Tea and Tour. 5 p.m. Thompson House Inn & Tea Room, 537 Terry St., Longmont, 303-651-1121.

Monday, September 12

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

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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, 303-443-5108.

events Ashtanga Yoga Class — beginner to advanced classes with Anne-Alex Packard. 7 a.m. Soul Tree Studio, 422 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-665-5244.

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

Discover the Meaning, Magic, and Power of Your Dreams. 7 p.m., Edie Stone’s office, 2027 Broadway, Boulder, 303-415-3755.

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

Tuesday, September 13

music Blues Jam — With Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Neil Bridge Trio — Feat. Karen Lee. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

The Thurston Group. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

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

events Boulder County Boardmatch. 5 p.m. Spice of Life Event Center, www.svpbouldercounty. org.

Conversations with Extraordinary People — With Patty Limerick and Charles Wilkinson. 5:30 p.m., Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282.

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

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Wednesday, September 14

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

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

Eric Wiggs. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

Mike Pinto Band. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Tribute to Johnny Cash. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

events Design Walk. 4 p.m. Workshop 8, 1720 15th St., Boulder, 303-442-3700.

FLIC — Food + Libation + Independent Cinema presenting Heartbreaker. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, http:// flicboulder.org.

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Pitch Slam — Cocktail Party, Dinner, Awards Ceremony and Pitch Slam Finals to follow. 2:30 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, www. naturallyboulderproducts.com.

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

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

Friday, September 9 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, September 11 Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Go Club. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, September 12 Boulder Folders Origami Workshop. 6:30 p.m. South Pulse Point, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3196.

Tuesday, September 13 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

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

Tactile Tuesdays. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, September 14 Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Collectible Card Gaming. 4:30 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Dear Dr. Jenni, I am 36 years old and giving birth to my third child next month. My husband and I are finished having kids, so I am thinking of putting in an IUD after delivery. My only concern is that they have hormones that might affect breast milk. I was also considering the minipill, but again that contains hormones.

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if projecting rock climbing routes — the multiple attempts climbers put into mastering a particularly tough route — weren’t enough of a challenge, local filmmaker, artist and rock climber Craig Muderlak has set a goal to visually represent more than the physicality of climbing. He wants to capture the climbing life, and to represent, in his art, that life as a work of art.

“I’m not concerned with cutting edge climbing, but more the human experience of climbing and how that is an art form in a way and trying to show that human experience,” he says.

Longstanding interests in combining art and climbing, or music and video, are colliding in his ongoing film project, The Backyard Project, a film he’s making on climbers who bicycle to climbing routes, and a parody film, Our Office, that will debut at this year’s Reel Rock Film Tour, which premiers in Boulder on Sept. 15.

“I think a lot about humans and our Boulder Weekly

connection to adventure and how that is lost in society right now,” he says. “We don’t have, necessarily, adventure in our daily lives. … We have to seek it out, so I think climbing is kind of like our a contemporary way of replacing the adventure that’s lost. And I think biking kind of has broadened that adventure to make it more full circle, like the bike to the climb is kind of an adventure.”

He has released an early cut of The Backyard Project on his blog, blownminds. blogspot.com. It shows Muderlak preparing his meal, drawing, sorting his gear, packing up and pedaling out to a climb, then projecting that climb. The mood for the video is set by music Muderlak composed and plays.

“I think at some level it’s about thinking of life in general as a work of art,” he says. “That whole process of getting ready, biking to the route, that adventure is kind of like a work of art, it’s not just the climbing, it’s the whole process.”

He patches in time-lapse photos of

himself drawing the route he’s projecting, using a chalkboard, anything to get his hands into the film, literally and figuratively.

“I’ve always despised digital media, and I still kind of have a love-hate relationship with it, but it seemed to be a way to capture all of my interests,” he says. “But it seemed like a way that I could like. I could paint, write music, draw, do all this stuff and capture it on video.”

Muderlak and his friends Tim Davis and Josh Merriam discovered the Reel Rock contest just weeks before the deadline.

Muderlak had been spending days out at Castle Rock in Boulder Canyon, projecting a series of routes there — Country Club Crack (5.11c), then Englishman’s Home (5.11+). He started to refer to the place as his “office,” and suggested making a video about those climbs. But while he was thinking of the area’s historic boot-shoed climbers like see ART Page 40

Sunday, September 11 Buffalo Bicycle Classic. 7 a.m. Begins near Folsom Field, University of Colorado. www.buffalobicycleclassic.com The Lions of Boulder County. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-5839970.

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Royal Robbins, his friends were thinking of staplers in Jell-O. “Then we heard about the Reel Rock Tour two minute film series. We had two weeks, and we decided to go for it,” he says.

The experience, he says, was frustrating.

“We have hours of footage and making a two minute film was almost impossible,” he says. “There’s so much footage that we have that wasn’t used and is super funny. We put a lot of effort into it, and I think all of us who worked on that feel like the video does not do it justice.”

He says he hopes to do a five-minute cut of the 80 gigabytes of footage on his computer that will better tell the story.

Only the winners of the people’s choice and judges’ choice categories will screen at the festival, two of about 10 films on the Reel Rock tour’s website, open to voting until Sept. 10. In addition to being seen at more than 200 locations around the world, the winners will receive a package of prizes that includes tuition to the Outside Adventure Film School.

On the grand scale, Reel Rock Film Tour screens the latest films by Big Up Productions and Sender Films in an event designed to draw the local climbing community together to scream and cheer for these films. In 2010, the films played to more than 55,000 audience members around the world, often in partnerships with retailers, gyms and university clubs, or as a fundraiser for the Access Fund or the American Alpine Club. This year, it’s expected to show at 250 locations.

“It all launches here in Boulder, so the Boulder premiere is really the biggest show globally and the launch of the tour,” says Pete Mortimer, creator of Sender Films, who co-founded the festival with Josh Lowell, creator of Big Up Productions. The amateur contest started as a way to get more people involved.

“It’s been great. Every year we get a diversity of films,” Mortimer says. “The ones we had last year probably elicited the biggest responses from the audience.”

This year, almost everything entered in the festival took a humorous spin on an otherwise often take-yourself-tooseriously sport. They received more than 20 submissions and posted half of them on their website.

“The ones that we’ve been really liking… they’re really low budget and homemade, but they have this quirky, funny feel, sort of like The Office,” Mortimer says.

The featured films cover the latest push for a record-setting ascent on a Yosemite cliff, explore the relationship of a young climber and her coach, and showcase the craziest of the crazy daredevils doing backflips on lines hundreds

of feet off the ground.

Visually, capturing climbing gets tough because it’s small details — the size of the hold or the slipperiness of the rock — that make the difference between good climbers and great climbers. Climbing filmmakers have to look beyond the sport for compelling cinema.

“The biggest thing about climbing is that each climb is this incredible story that anyone can relate to,” Mortimer says.

“You come up with the goal and you come up with the vision and sometimes these guys spend years and years trying to achieve this one climbing dream. And I think that is something that everyone can relate to… You have to tell that story to make it at all interesting, and I think in that conflict, in that challenge, in that struggle are amazing stories.”

Progress on The Backyard Project is expected to be slow, Muderlak says, both because he’s an amateur, working around his schedule as a NOLS instructor, painter and graphic designer, and because he’s working with other climbers on a volunteer basis. They’re his friends, which takes some of the pressure off, he says, but “climbers usually just want to climb. They don’t necessarily want to do video.”

Boulder is uniquely positioned to make the film possible; Muderlak has biked to climbs in Eldorado Canyon, Boulder Canyon and on the Flatirons.

The final film is likely to include footage of three climbers, including Muderlak, working on their climbing projects, and then culminate with the three of them bicycling to Longs Peak and climbing a route up the Diamond.

“I kind of treat my photography and climbing as like a professional hobby. I sometimes think it would be awesome to make a living doing it, but simultaneously I think that it would ruin it at some level,” Muderlak says. “It would change my style, and I would like to create a body of work that I can look back on and be proud of and more treat as like a diary I think than become somebody who makes a living full time as a cinematographer or photographer. I think it keeps my work fresh, and … I don’t get sick of it. I take breaks because I can, and then it allows me to come back to it when I’m psyched.”

And sometimes, he says, that means setting down the camera and just climbing.

Amateur films in the Reel Rock Film Tour are at www.reelrocktour.com.

Muderlak’s work is at http://blownminds.blogspot.com and a link to his Kickstarter campaign to fund the Backyard Project is at kck.st/rockfilm.

The Reel Rock Film Tour premieres at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Boulder Theater.

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on Embree and the rest of the CU coaching staff knew there was only one option after the team lost to Hawaii in the season opener: to move forward and continue to improve.

“Kids are resilient,” Embree says. “I’ve put it behind me, and I’m ready to get going against Cal.” Colorado hosts California on Saturday, a matchup between two Pac-12 teams that won’t count towards each team’s conference record. CU scheduled the game when the team was still part of the Big 12 conference, so Colorado’s move to the Pac-12 puts the Buffs and the Bears in the unusual situation of playing a non-conference game against a conference opponent.

The Golden Bears bring in an offense with a solid receiving core, featuring sophomore Keenan Allen, Punter Darragh O’Neill and senior Marvin Jones. Their running game is inexperienced, with first year starter Isi Sofele getting off. He had a run against Fresno — I the nod at tailback. CU struggled think it was about a 50-yarder — and defending the running game of Hawaii that was pretty impressive to watch him quarterback Bryant Moniz, traditionally go.” not a running quarterback, giving up As if Embree’s Buffs didn’t already 121 yards and two touchdowns. Come have enough to prove, CU carries the Saturday, the Buffs should be more pre- added motivation of being recently pared to deal with Cal’s dual-threat shellacked by the Golden Bears. quarterback, Zach Maynard.

Playing in Berkeley in 2010, Cal ran, “Maynard does a good job in getthrew and stomped all over the unpreting on to the edge,” says Embree. “He pared and bumbling Buffaloes, destroyis more deceptive because of his long ing them by a score of 52-7. stride. Once he gets it going, he takes “Lack of effort — that disturbed me

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the most,” Embree says, assessing the debacle in 2010. “I don’t feel that we competed very well last year. I felt like we were just hoping for the clock to run out so we could get off the field.”

Colorado does have some positives to build off of from the opener. After falling flat in the first half and failing to put points on the board, CU responded by putting two impressive drives together in the third quarter, both culminating in Tyler Hansen to Paul Richardson touchdown passes. Another bright spot is the performance of the special teams.

Freshman Will Oliver connected on his only field goal of the night from 34 yards, and freshman walk-on punter Darragh O’Neill delivered the most striking display of punting seen by Buffs fans in recent memory, averaging 44.9 yards on his seven punts.

Defensively, the Buffs were mostly solid, reaching Moniz for seven sacks. Missed opportunities tarnished what would have been a relatively golden night, as a dropped interception by Travis Sandersfeld in the fourth quarter would have given CU a chance to drive down the field and tie the game.

Teaching points are certainly easy to come by for Embree’s staff. The Buffs committed seven penalties on the evening, costing them 58 yards. The

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olorado volleyball assistant coach Leonid Yelin has likely the most distinguished résumé of any assistant to come to CU in any sport.

In January, Yelin announced his retirement from the University of Louisville. The program’s head coach for 15 years, Yelin led the Cardinals to 14 NCAA tournaments, including four appearances in the Sweet Sixteen. Many expected Yelin to land a head coaching job at a BCS conference school, so it came as a surprise to many when Colorado head coach Liz Kritza announced in June that she would be bringing Yelin on board her staff.

“I retired from Louisville, but I’m not retired from volleyball,” said Yelin, 61. “I’ve known Liz Kritza for a really long time, so when this opportunity came, I

decided that it would be nice to be here. [It’s a] good school, a good conference and a good town.”

While Yelin spent the past 15 years at the same job, he is no stranger to abrupt changes in scenery. In 1989, Yelin fled his native Uzbekistan, where he was the country’s national women’s volleyball head coach, two years before the nation gained independence from the Soviet Union. He took a job at Division II Barry University, in Miami Shores, Fla. At Barry, Yelin started a trend that would become a theme throughout his career — winning. He transformed a Barry team that went 8-17 in his first season into one that would win the Division II national championship five years later.

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While the penalty bugaboo affected the Buffs against Hawaii, California saw even more laundry on the field, as the Golden Bears were penalized 11 times against Fresno State, totaling 90 yards.

After spending fall camp preparing to coach from the press box, Colorado’s always-passionate offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy spent his Saturday on the sidelines. It remains to be seen whether Bieniemy will stay on the sidelines for the duration of the season.

California will play its home games at the San Francisco Giants’ baseball field, AT&T Park, due to massive renovations to Memorial Stadium in Berkeley.

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So far, both BW sports writer and our weekly guest picker are tied 1-0.

This week, John Crumpacker of the San Francisco Chronicle joins us.

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offense struggled mightily in the first half of play, gaining less than 100 yards.

The pass protection wore down as the game progressed, allowing five sacks for 30 yards of damage. While the blame would instinctually be placed on the offensive line, Embree suggests that Hansen should shoulder some of the responsibility.

“Unfortunately, the offensive line gets a lot of blame when the quarterback gets sacked, but sometimes it is

not their fault and not their issue,” said Embree. “The quarterback has to get rid of the ball.”

CU is heading into one of their few relatively winnable games. Adrenaline will be running wild for the home opener. Should the Buffs come out on top, reaching a bowl becomes much more of a possibility. Lose, and winning more than three games suddenly becomes a significant challenge.

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1995, he was named Louisville’s head coach. Wins came to the Cardinals right out of the gate, achieving a 28-5 record in Yelin’s first campaign as head coach. His most successful seasons in Courtesy of CU athletics the Bluegrass State came in the mid2000s, where he won 30 games in both 2004 and 2005, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen in both years, but Yelin’s mantra at Louisville was consistency. He missed the NCAA tournament only once in his 15 years, and won 20 games in all but four of his seaLeonid Yelin sons at Louisville.

He retired ranked 16th on the NCAA all-time wins list.

Part of the reason Colorado is so attractive to Yelin is the conference they play in. The Pac-12 is considered by many to be the most competitive volleyball conference in America. With that distinction comes a heavy challenge for the Buffs. Already rebuilding, CU has to step up even more to secure

a .500 record and a chance at an NCAA berth.

“It’s going to be really tough,” Yelin says. “They were building their program in the Big 12, which wasn’t an easy conference. But now, in an even stronger conference, you have to step up everywhere. The athletes have got to be better.

Everything has to be better, because it’s such a strong conference, so everything has to be close to perfect.”

It’s not certain where Yelin will go from here. He hinted that Boulder may just be a stepping stone and that he’ll evaluate his options after the season ends in December. Should he decide to head coach again, he would be highly sought after. But one thing’s for certain: Yelin brings experience to the CU huddle that will be sorely needed, especially when the program hits the grind that is the Pac-12 conference.

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aron Kirschner’s current dessert on the Black Cat menu is a beautifully plated dish of rose-scented peaches, peach granita, thyme syrup, peach powder and vanilla mascarpone mousse.

Aaron is 14 years old.

He began his foray into the world of food two years ago when he discovered the Food Channel. Since then, he has read countless books by well-known chefs like Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz, scanned the Internet for plating concepts and menu ideas, coordinated a Junior Flatiron Chef Competition at Q’s restaurant, and begun interning at Black Cat. Aaron has been working at Black Cat since June and has had several dishes featured on the menu, which, he admits, has inflated his head a bit.

“I definitely have an ego,” says Aaron, “but I feel I have the talent to support it now. However, a good chef needs to be humble … I’m still working on that.”

That talent has risen under constant support from Aaron’s parents, Tracy and Jan Kirschner, who say they couldn’t be more thrilled with their son’s accomplishments. That enthusiasm is understandable when they get to see the joy their son gets from cooking, not to mention enjoy the meals he cooks at home involving sous vide salmon or braised beef short ribs.

The staff at Black Cat has also made an effort to encourage Aaron’s skills by pushing him hard and avoiding preferential treatment. Questions like “Junior, what are you doing over there?” and “Junior, don’t wander around in here, what do you want?” are voiced frequently in the kitchen, but Aaron, or Junior, accepts the orders and questioning as part of being an intern.

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“They definitely treat me like I am one of the team,” Aaron says. “I don’t know how a 14-year-old is normally treated, but they respect my ideas and definitely expect more out of me than from some of the other interns.”

In fact, Aaron was recently named manager of the interns, giving him the opportunity to teach some of his skills to other aspiring cooks, all of whom are older than he is.

Aaron tends to brush off comments about his age — very reminiscent of the young teen who insists on being 14-and-a-half rather than merely 14. When patrons of Black Cat stop him as he walks into the kitchen, asking whether he is head chef Eric Skokan’s son or commenting on how young he is to be cooking so well, Aaron responds, “Well I’m 14, but I don’t know if that is young.”

Aaron says he believes age should not hinder the

development of a refined palate. When his younger brother, Ezra, came into the restaurant for his birthday, Aaron created a dish designed specifically with his brother in mind. The dish included hamachi sashimi, compressed watermelon, pickled watermelon rind, and chili-infused mango.

Though this may seem beyond refined for a young boy, Aaron refuses to allow his younger brother to eat things like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

The boys were raised to have better taste than most kids and even some adults.

Aaron’s parents often let their children order off the regular menu at restaurants instead of what they call the “dumbeddown” kids’ menu. The kids were also encouraged to be adventurous in their food selections and to be accustomed to finer ingredients. In fact, when Aaron was 7, his favorite food was caviar.

Despite Aaron’s prodigious skill in the kitchen and fully loaded workweek, his parents say he is still very much a 14-year-old kid, though his mother occasionally has to tell him to “keep his kitchen mouth in the kitchen.” Aaron has online home schooling each week, goes out with his friends, and occasionally gets grounded, much like most boys his age. He even recently saw the final Harry Potter movie, though he says he spent the majority of the movie thinking about how closely Voldemort’s head resembled the goat testicles they had just gotten in at the restaurant.

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henever I go back to pair of $3 sopes, a textbook street snack. the Bay Area for family Each had a remarkably thick tortilla base visits, it’s inevitable I and tostada-like toppings, namely shredded stop by San Leandro’s beef, iceberg lettuce, tomato and sour Taqueria Los Pericos cream. The meaty heat pleasantly played with one or both of my brothers. I suspect off the cooling qualities of the veggies and our visits are equally driven by the quality dairy. Some might find the fried cornmeal of the food as well as having us be seen in foundation too heavy, while others may public for the purpose of establishing an find it contributes just the right amount of alibi. Regardless, my brothers introduced weight. Cami found one sope was more me to authentic street-style tacos, and I than enough for her and happily took the completely understand their loyalty to this remaining one home. proverbial hole-in-the-wall. Cheap prices, I made a beeline for a platter of $1.50 order-at-the-counter service, a selection of tacos. These were wrapped in soft corn vintage ’80s video games, and an expansive tortillas, garnished simply with cilantro salsa bar are just some of the features of and lime with a whole roasted chile and this fraternal hangout. cooked onion on the side. The sweet and While I haven’t found a local spot smoky pepper possessed a whisper of heat, that approximates Los Pericos, Tacos and I was able to enjoy it without worryDon Jose on Main Street in Longmont ing about my mouth becoming a fiery comes tantalizingly close. Prices are inferno. While I found the tortillas a bit extremely reasonable — tacos are a buck soggy, there were no complaints regarding and a half ­— and the sun-kissed décor, the flavorful carnitas and lengua, or tongue, fillings. Inferior preparations of counter service and overall vibe put it in these are typically overcooked or oversaltthe same ballpark as its Golden State peaking of beef, the grass-fed offerings from Our Pastures ed. Here, each was moist and tender with analog. On a recent lunch visit with are rapidly becoming a local fixture. Varied cuts now perfect seasoning that allowed the meat friend Cami, we were also happily struck appear on the menus at the Boulder Cork and the Med, as flavors to shine through. Although Don by the fact that many of the customers well as in the Alfalfa’s meat section. Grass-fed beef has less Jose doesn’t have a salsa bar, squeeze botappeared to be Spanish-speaking famifat and more Omega-3s than the grain-fed (think corn) equivtles of red and green hot sauce were fine lies. Alas, there were no Galaxian video alent, and has a cleaner, leaner flavor. One of the best ways condiments. games here. to sample Our Pastures beef is to try the juicy and flavorful $12 burger at Pizzeria Basta (3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303While Tacos Don Jose may not be an The menu is comfortingly predictable, 997-8775). To start, order Basta’s outstanding Munson Farms exact duplicate of my family’s favored and the choices solidify this eatery’s street sweet corn and Isabelle Farm heirloom melon soup.

Golden State hangout, both provide cred. Beverages include bottled Mexican decent value, quality and straightforward sodas, as well as sugary fruit-flavored authentic Mexican street fare. Fans of fountain drinks, including an addictive simple but satisfying cuisine will have pineapple refresher resembling a less much reason to rejoice here, and it doesn’t hurt that frothy Orange Julius. There are $6 and $9 bowls of tamale will set you back a mere buck. Other items two people can eat lunch here for well under $10 Caldo de Res, beef and vegetable soup, and on weekinclude humble gorditas and more luxurious shrimp apiece. ends, restorative menudo is available for the same cocktails.

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h, how I want to break out into September songs — you know, something like, “Do you remembaahh the 21st night of Septembaaahh,” or maybe slow it down a touch with September Song by Frank Sinatra. I love them both, and either one has me jumping for freaking joy that autumn is just around the corner. Turning leaves, lots of football and the best-smelling desserts of the year.

As I so often do, I am creating a special treat for a lovely Boulder Weekly reader.

I assume she’s lovely, and not emailing me from her dark, dank basement aparte ment that she never leaves, but regardless she wants a fruity cheesecake recipe, and that’s what she’s getting — Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Not very football-ey or autumn-like, but there is plenty of time for that, and, gosh darn it, my basement dweller demanded it.

This is a creamy, dreamy, flavor extravaganza of a dessert. Can’t go too wrong with cheesecake, but the vanilla bean/raspberry combo is one you won’t soon forget.

Do not be afraid of the vanilla bean pod. It is your friend. It means no harm; it just likes to give people a hard time now and then. Keeps its little life interesting. Using vanilla bean is simple: Cut down the middle and scrape. The smell that remains on your fingers is worth any problems you might encounter.

Nothing beats seeing those little specks of vanilla bean in any treat that you make. After I scrape out the seeds, I like popping the bean into some vodka (shocking newsflash) and letting it do its thing. You let that sit all day or over night and — holy libations! — you have one tasty cocktail. Talk about intoxicating aroma of deliciousness.

OK, back to the cheesecake. I use a little bit of lemon zest to add a fabulous freshness. I top the cheesecake with the raspberries, and they bake perfectly down into the cake. Be sure to save a few for garnish, and a few for your delish vanilla bean cocktail. Homemade whipped cream is how I roll with this dessert. It’s simple to make and really sets it over the edge. The ever-popular graham cracker crust adds the last piece, and I wouldn’t make this cheesecake

without it — a perfect match.

So all in all, you will love this recipe (and your cocktail, I hope), and hopefully my reader will dig what I did and finally make it out of the basement. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it, and invite me over when it’s done.

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Cheesecake 24 ounces cream cheese (three blocks, softened) 3/4 cup sour cream 1 cup sugar 1 vanilla bean 3 eggs 1/8 tsp. salt 1-1/2 tbsp. flour zest from one lemon 2-1/2 cups raspberries powdered sugar for dusting whipped cream Preheat oven to 350. Wrap foil around bottom of 9-inch springform pan.

Place pan on baking sheet.

Combine graham crackers, sugar and butter. Press down and slightly up sides of pan. Bake for 5 to 6 minutes. Take out and set aside. Keep on baking sheet.

In large bowl, whip cream cheese until smooth. Add in sour cream, sugar and vanilla bean that has been split down the middle and scraped. Add in eggs one at a time. Mix in salt, flour and lemon zest.

Whip batter until smooth and creamy.

Pour batter over top of baked crust.

Top with 2 cups raspberries. Bake for 45-50 minutes, until center is still jiggly.

Take out and leave cheesecake pan on baking sheet for 30 minutes, then place cheesecake pan on cooling rack. Let cool completely. Place in refrigerator for 2-3 hours.

When ready to serve, dust top with powdered sugar, remove ring and cut into slices. Garnish with leftover raspberries, and top with whipped cream.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Cook-off to benefit fire districts On Sept. 11 from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace will celebrate its passion for green chile and give competitors a chance to show off their family recipes. The outdoor chile harvest celebration will feature street food, restaurant specials and freshroasted chiles. Specials will include Hatch Pork Green Chile, bags of roasted Hatch chiles and corn on the cob slathered with Hatch green chile, butter and manchego.

Community members also can enter their own green chile in a contest where the top five and fan favorites will receive prizes.

Proceeds from the Hatch Green Chile Festival and Cook-off will benefit the Sunshine, Gold Hill, Fourmile and Left Hand fire protection districts. For more information visit www.centrolatinkitchen.com.

Chile entrance forms are available at Centro.

Twisted Pine takes the silver For the second straight year, Twisted Pine Brewing Company has come away from the Colorado State Fair a winner. In the Strong Ale category, judges for the event acknowledged Bough Breaker — an American-style barley wine released in July to commemorate the brewery’s 16th anniversary — and sent it home with the silver medal.

Bough Breaker was the only beer from Boulder to find its way into the winner’s circle at this year’s state fair.

The beer is also slated to compete at this September’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, in November’s European Beer Star com-

petition in Nuremburg and December’s 10th annual Walk the Line on Barleywine Festival, held in Dunedin, Fla. The winter seasonal beer Northstar Imperial Porter will be released to the public in November, when the brewery holds its annual vertical tasting. Until then, Mr. Brown’s Pumpkin Ale will be on tap at their alehouse later this month.

Pearl St. Porter will be available across Colorado in October.

Event to help fund scholarships The Metropolitan State College of Denver will host this year’s 7th Annual Denver Food and Wine (DFW) event on Sept. 9-10, giving the chance for more than 80 of Metro’s Hospitality, Tourism and Events students to gain hands-on event practice. The culinary showcase features more than 600 wines, signature spirits and cuisine from more than 40 of Denver’s restaurants.

The DFW event, which is the second largest festival of its kind in Colorado and the largest wine festival in the country held on a college campus, is good practice for tourism and events students, who will soon benefit from the College’s $45-million Hotel and Hospitality Learning Center opening next fall.

Proceeds for the event benefit Metro State hospitality student scholarships, as well as the Colorado Restaurant Association Education Foundation and The Denver Post Community Foundation.

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fold,” Jan says. “First, to help my kids find their gifts and develop them fully.

Second, to help my kids develop the skills to become excellent. Once they realize how to be excellent, they can take those skills into any area of life.

“Even if Aaron decides not to become a chef, he’s achieved that excellence, and he can apply that to whatever he does decide to do. If he burns out at 17, the worst that will happen is that he will eat well for the rest of his life and will have a skill that will really impress girls.”

As for the future, Aaron hopes to work with either Achatz at Alinea in Chicago or Richard Blais in Atlanta Boulder Weekly

over the winter break. He is also working to set up another competition, this time against another Black Cat intern, age 16.

Aaron says he is planning on staying with Black Cat as long as he continues to constantly learn and grow as a chef. He’s also hoping to graduate to the sauté station soon, though he admits it can be a bit dangerous with flying oil and hot pans.

To follow Aaron’s culinary adventures or drool over some of the dishes he has cooked and plated, visit his blog at www.aaronfood.blogspot.com.

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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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he dollar-to-flavor ratio at Pickled Lemon on The Hill is impressive, as this fast-casual locale offers up flavor-packed Middle Eastern plates priced at well under $10. Classic 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 possess a remarkably delicate coating and light interior.

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hree things distinguish The Kitchen [Next Door] from its namesake neighbor, namely 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.

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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.

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 firstrate 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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pecializing in bison-based selections, Ted’s Montana Grill is a culinary endeavor spearheaded by billionaire Ted Turner. The menu straddles the line between straightforward bar food and traditional steakhouse, with such unique offerings as bison nachos and a plethora of burgers and steaks. While not inexpensive, the bison burgers, such as the Blue Creek with blue cheese and bacon, are generously sized and are both lean and flavorful.

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here’s funny and then there’s funny, and A Good OldFashioned Orgy is neither. I suspect Contagion will be funnier.

Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck wrote and directed, and the results could in fact be retitled Contagion if only for the ruthless effectiveness of its anti-mirth toxins.

Prior to making A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy, Gregory and Huyck contributed to Spy magazine, which was often very funny, and for TV they’ve written for Letterman, The Larry Sanders Show, Frasier and King of the Hill. All good and funny, at their best. A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy isn’t just not funny, it’s totally just not funny.

Well, I like two things about it. One is Lake Bell, whose supporting turn as the tightly wound geek in No Strings Attached periodically saved that comedy. The other is a sight gag I’m embarrassed to have laughed at, that of Will Forte and Lucy Punch showing up at the climactic “Indian theme” orgy dressed as Native Americans instead of

East Indians, which really isn’t funny but in A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy it’s, like, beyond hilarious. The entire film is beyond hilarious. Also, it stars Jason Sudeikis, who doesn’t seem ready to star in any movie yet.

Sudeikis plays Eric, the ringleader. One by one, everyone gets on board with the plan for a final Labor Day weekend at Eric’s dad’s place on Long Island. Tyler Labine — who may remind you sliiiiiiiightly of Jack Black if Jack Black weren’t, at his best, funny — plays Eric’s best friend. Everybody else plays everybody else, and North Carolina plays Long Island, and Long Island didn’t miss a thing.

Gregory and Huyck want sincerity and pathos along with the jokes about sex toys.

But they’ve forgotten to make anyone actually funny or likable (beyond Ms. Bell).

The characters are insufferable bores, and the orgy seems to go on forever. Other than that, I was grateful the film offered windows of opportunity for Proustian reverie on the topics of nostalgia, loss and the last comedy you saw that might’ve provoked quite such stunned quietude in an audience.

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hen Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds and this year’s breakout actress, Jessica Chastain of The Tree of Life and The Help, can’t make much out of a political thriller, you know something’s off with both the political and the thriller components.

A chaotic remake of the 2007 Israeli drama Ha-Hov, director John Madden’s The Debt contains enough narrative stuffing for two or three separate pictures or a six-hour miniseries. While it’s possible and even thrilling to see comparably loaded narratives succeed in the movies (Incendies most recently and vividly), it is not easy.

The Debt toggles between two time sequences. In 1997, three veterans of Mossad, Israel’s secret service, now revered as national heroes, are forced to revisit the truth behind their roughest assignment when the daughter of the agent played by Mirren publishes a book about her mother and what happened in 1965-1966 in East Berlin. This is the movie’s primary time and locale.

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agent, joining fellow Mossad agents played by Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington in the abduction of a Josef Mengele-like Nazi war criminal ( Jesper Christensen, straight from the Conrad Veidt school of theatrical villainy). How this mission plays out among the Mossad trio becomes a tangle of romantic tensions and warring instincts. How it plays out for the

audience becomes a matter of strategically withheld information that feels a little cheap.

Decades later, Mirren’s Rachel finds herself pulled back in for one last assignment to tie up an inhuman loose end and The Debt strains to find the right mixture of Holocaust revenge melodrama and moral reckoning. Heaven knows the actors are capable. In the mid-’60s East Berlin scenes, largely confined to one apartment, Chastain and her comrades are stuck with some awfully hoary writing, as their insidious Nazi quarry preys upon their vulnerabilities. Director Madden vacillates between treating the issues and historical context of The Debt seriously, and as the story demands, as pure, heavy-handed pulp.

The cast does what it can in the service of this assignment. But some jobs simply resist satisfying completion.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straight-laced FBI agent. At Mayan and Century.

— Landmark Theatres

30 Minutes Or Less A pizza-delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) is kidnapped by dim-witted criminals and forced to help them rob a bank. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Rene Rodriguez

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 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 Flatiron, Century and Colony Square.

— Michael Phillips

Antwerp Central Station Between past and present, between dream and reality, a mildly ironic and contemplative look at Antwerp’s Central Station. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The Help

Apollo 18

Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer star in this adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel as women in 1960’s Mississippi who form an unlikely bond that shatters societal mores of the era. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

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 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 Bad Teacher Cameron Diaz gets in touch with her bad self as the world’s worst teacher, an alcoholic, drug-using party animal who tries to seduce a wealthy new substitute (Justin Timberlake). Rated R. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Beaches of Agnes Agnès Varda explores her memories, which touch on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Creature

Yet another summer film critics weren’t allowed to see before its box office opening. A promising way to end the season.

Cars 2 Anthropomorphic automobiles head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square, and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT CB4 A rap version of This Is Spinal Tap, CB4 stars Chris Rock as Albert, a wanna-be rap star who, along with two friends, is trying in vain to break into the business. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society City of Life and Death

Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre

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

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

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Two brain-dead California teenagers (Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter) travel back in time to corral historical figures for a class presentation. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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 Flatiron. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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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

Conan the Barbarian A warrior’s personal vendetta turns into an epic battle against fierce rivals, monsters and supernatural forces. Rated R. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Contagion

A grocery bagger going nowhere in a small town discovers that 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

When a lethal airborne virus causes a pandemic, the medical community races to find a cure as people struggle to survive in an unraveling society. At Flatiron, Century, Colony, and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Captain America: The First Avenger

Cowboys & Aliens

A military experiment transforms a scrawny soldier into a patriotic superhero. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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, Century,

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Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Horrible Bosses

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

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

Creature Review unavailable. Rated R. At Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

See full review on Page 53. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

The film traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Denver Film Society

The Devil’s Double

The Interrupters

An Iraqi army lieutenant (Dominic Cooper) is thrust into the highest echelons of the “royal family” when he’s ordered to become the fiday — or body double — to Saddam’s son, Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper). At Esquire. — Landmark Theatre

In Chicago’s CeaseFire organization, reformed gang members protect their community from harm through a unique, dangerous and controversial method — by insinuating themselves personally into conflicts. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

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The Dairy Center for the Arts is partnering with Foothills Arts Center in Golden to bring you some of the best new documentary films available.

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A sleepy-eyed exurb of Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of two young Japanese tourists, stranded there with a broken rental car. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Don’t be Afraid of the Dark

Magic Trip

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 Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT

Magic Trip is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ legendary LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip in the psychedelic Magic Bus (named “Further”). At Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

Midnight in Paris

See full review on Page 53. Rated R. At Century.

The Guard

A family travels to Paris on business. Among them are an engaged couple who have lifechanging experiences. Rated PG-13. At Century and Mayan. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang — one, an

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local theaters 7:45, 9, 10:20 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 1:35, 6:30 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35 The Debt Thu-Wed: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Thu: 8, 10:30 A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Thu: 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 The Guard Thu: 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 Fri-Wed: 11:25, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Thu: 3:10, 6:05, 9 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9:05 The Help Thu-Wed: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:15 Midnight in Paris Thu: 11:20, 1:40, 4, 6:25, 8:45 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:35, 4, 6:20, 8:45 One Day Thu: 7:15, 9:50 Our Idiot Brother Thu: 12:20, 2:45, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Thu: 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:05 Senna Thu: 11;10, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 6:35, 9:15 Shark Night Thu-Wed: 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Thu: 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2, 4:15 Warrior Fri-Wed: 12:15, 3:30, 7:15, 10:20 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-9260661 Apollo 18 Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:50, 8, 10:25 Cars 2 Thu: 1:15, 4:25, 7:20 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:25 Contagion Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 12:55, 3:50, 7:05 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:15 Creature Fri-Wed: 12:55, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50 The Debt Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45, 10:35 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:10 Fri-Wed: 7:20, 9:55 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 1, 4, 7 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 10 The Help Thu-Wed: 1:05, 4:15, 7:25 Our Idiot Brother Thu: 1:50, 5, 7:40 Fri-Wed: 1:50, 5,

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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 and Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Opera: The Barber of Seville A truly Italianate spectacle performed on the classic stage of the Teatro Regio di Parma in Italy. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Our Idiot Brother Our Idiot Brother has a menage a trois, nudity, pot use and profanity. But the unfailing sweetness 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 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 Ready, Set, Bag! Every February, competitive grocery baggers from across the country meet in Las Vegas to vie for

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the title of National Best Bagger. At 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 The Room As the film depicts friendships and relationships in the lives of its five major characters, it raises life’s real and most-asked question: “Can you really trust anyone?” At Esquire. — Landmark Theatre Sarah’s Key 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 Senna 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. — Landmark Theatres

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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

The Tree of Life follows the journey of a family’s eldest son through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Shaolin 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 The Smurfs 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 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 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.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT The Tree Charlotte Gainsbourg (I’m Not There) stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. At Chez Artiste and Denver Film Center. — Boedecker Theater

Warrior Estranged brothers — a Marine with a tragic past and a physics teacher struggling to support his family — meet in the ring at a big mixed-martialarts tournament. At Denver FilmCenter — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Whistleblower Kathy (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Winning A professional race-car driver (Paul Newman) takes a breather from the racing circuit to focus on fatherhood after marrying a single mother with a 13-year-old son. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Yojimbo To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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SCORPIO

“Don’t be angry with the rain,” counseled author Vladimir Nabokov. “It simply does not know how to fall upward.” In the coming week, I advise you to apply that principle to a host of phenomena, Aries. Don’t get all knotted up about any force of nature that insists on being itself, and don’t waste your time trying to figure out how to disobey the law of gravity. It’s fine if you find it amusing to go against the flow, but don’t expect the flow to follow you in your rebellion.

“By the year 2021, the complete gratification of sexual desires will be as easy and stress-free as drinking a glass of water.” That was one of 25 prophecies delivered to me by a polite, well-spoken madman I met on a July morning in a cafe in Earls Court, London, back in 1990. Sixteen of his other predictions have come true so far (like “America will have a black president by 2010,” “You will become a famous astrologer,” “60-year-old women will be able to give birth”), so I’m thinking that the one about easy sexual gratification could turn out to be accurate as well. Until then, Scorpio, you may sometimes have to deal with periodic struggles in getting your needs met. Having said that, though, I’m happy to announce that the coming weeks are shaping up as one of your closest approximations to the supposed 2021 levels of erotic bliss.

March 21-April 19:

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Where will you be in the latter half of 2016? What will you be doing? Now would be an excellent time to fantasize and meditate about questions like those. You’re likely to have a good bit of intuitive foresight in the coming days — some ability to discern the embryonic patterns swirling in the mists. But even more importantly, you will have extra power to dream up potent visions for your best possible future and plant them as seeds in the fertile bed of your subconscious mind.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

I believe you’re close to getting permanent immunity from hell, Gemini. Take it as a metaphor if you like, but consider the possibility that there may soon come a time when you will never again be susceptible to getting dragged into the bottomless pit. You will receive the equivalent of a “Get out of jail free” card that forever guarantees you exemption from the worst of the nightmare realms. Please note: I’m not saying you will be forever free of all suffering. But if you simply keep doing the smart things you’ve been doing lately, you will tap into a reservoir of stabilizing poise so strong that “the devil” will have no further claim on your soul.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

In “The Blood,” an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, George tries to go for “the Trifecta”: eating a pastrami sandwich and watching TV while having sex. His girlfriend isn’t pleased about it, though, so the triple-intense pleasure doesn’t materialize in the way George had hoped. But something akin to this scenario could very well work for you in the coming week, Cancerian. You will have a knack for stirring up more fun and pleasure that usual through the inventive use of multitasking.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

In Wiccan circles, a “familiar” is a supernatural entity or magic animal that serves as a spirit ally. Some witches regard their cats as their familiars. In Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy books, the “daemon” (very different from a “demon”) plays a similar role: a shapeshifting creature that embodies a person’s soul. This would be an excellent time for you to develop a closer relationship with a familiar or daemon or any other uncanny helper, Leo. You have more hidden power at your disposal than you realize, and it’s a propitious time to call on it.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Wheel of Fortune is a TV game show in which players vie to guess a mystery phrase that is revealed letter by letter. On one episode not too long ago, a highly intuitive contestant solved the puzzle even though just one letter had been unveiled. The winning answer was “I’ve got a good feeling about this.” From what I can tell, Virgo, you’ve got a similar aptitude these days — an ability to foresee how things are ultimately going to develop simply by extrapolating from a few clues. I encourage you to make liberal use of your temporary superpower. (P.S. I’ve got a good feeling about this.)

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

You have about 100 billion neurons in your brain. That also happens to be the approximate number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Coincidence? I think not. As the mystic dictum reminds us, “As above, so below.” The macrocosm and microcosm are mirrors of each other. Everything that happens on a collective level has an intimately personal impact. The better you know yourself, the more likely you are to understand how the world works — and vice versa. I urge you to be alert for concrete evidence of this principle, Libra. Your week will be successful if you make it your background meditation.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

The beauty contests in Saudi Arabia don’t judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. A recent winner, Aya Ali al-Mulla, was crowned “Queen of Beautiful Morals” without ever revealing the face and form shrouded beneath her black head-to-toe garment. Instead, her excellence emerged during a series of psychological and social tests that evaluated her strength of character and service to family and society. I’d like to borrow this idea and apply it to you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could and should be a paragon of moral beauty in the coming week — a shining example and inspiration to all the other signs of the zodiac.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Filip Marinovich calls his poetry book And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow. I’m borrowing that title for this horoscope. So here goes: If you don’t go crazy in the coming days, Capricorn, I’ll meet you here again next week.

To be clear: There is an excellent chance you will be able to keep our appointment. The astrological omens suggest you’ll call on reserves of wisdom that haven’t been accessible before, and that alone could prevent you from a brush with lunacy. You’re also primed to be nimble in your dealings with paradoxes, which, again, should keep you from descending into fairy-tale-style madness. But even if you do take a partial detour into the land of kooky, I think it will have an oddly healing effect on you. See you next time!

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

There’s no better way to inform you of your task right now than to cite Hexagram 18 of The I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of divination. The title of the oracle is “Work on What Has Been Spoiled.” Here’s an interpretation by The I Ching’s translator Richard Wilhelm, with a little help from me: “What has been spoiled through human mistakes can be made good again through human work. It is not immutable fate that has caused the state of corruption, but rather the abuse of human freedom. Toil that is done to correct the situation bodes well, because it is in harmony with cosmic potentials. Success depends on diligent deliberation followed by vigorous action.”

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Breaking the rules could be a boon for your closest relationships if it’s done out of deep caring and not out of anger or boredom. Can you commit to that high standard, Pisces? I hope so, because it’s prime time to shake up and reinvigorate stale concepts about togetherness. You will never know how much more interesting your intimate alliances can be unless you put that vivacious imagination of yours to work.

Would you be willing to buy tickets for a joint excursion to the frontier? Go hunting for surprises that recalibrate the dynamic between you and yours? Take a collaborative risk you’d never want to face alone?

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