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news & views Buck’s misogyny / 6 Republican’s handling of rape case troubling for women

by Pamela White Ruffled feathers / 14 Flap over Boulder Creek Festival has nonprofit crying fowl

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz On the cover: Hip-hop, imported and exported / 19 Canadian k-os visits the nation that birthed his art form

by Quibian Salazar-Moreno Overtones: With a World Cup boost, K’naan’s sound spans the globe / 23 Overtones: The Walkmen make no bones about their influences / 24 Arts & Culture: Bart's is back / 27 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 30 Sophisticated Sex: Boulder mountain manscaping / 37 Elevation: Great Sand Dunes and the Spanish Peaks / 39 Cuisine: Local company sells gin-soaked raisins for arthritis pain / 43 Cuisine review: Andrea’s Homestead Cafe / 45 Dessert Diva: Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars / 47 Screen: Secretariat; Life as We Know It / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

departments Letters: Gays are people; Toeing the party line; America should go to pot / 5 The Highroad: Pop goes our anti-poppy policy / 5 In Case You Missed It: Spies, lies, and GPS; Boulder gets tough on snow / 11 News Briefs: Fire fund paying out; County needs male mentors / 12 Buff Briefs: Exhibit features Disney artist; Dust detector sets record / 13 Boulderganic: CU gridiron gets greener / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Gays are people Thank you, Pamela White, for your column, “Tyler Clementi died for your sins” (Uncensored, Oct. 7).

I happen to be heterosexual (not that it matters), but I’m in the theatre.

Probably 50 percent of my friends are gay. But, more importantly, as you point out, they are people!

I teach at the University of Delaware. One of my classes this semester is for freshmen. It’s called “First Year Experience” (FYE). The intent is to try to steer the kinder away from the minefields, particularly in their first semester/year. Tomorrow (they don’t know this yet), we are abandoning our syllabus and having a discussion about Tyler Clementi’s sorrowful end, their views of homosexuality, how they treat gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans-genders, issues of privacy, the legality of posting on YouTube, Facebook and other “social networks,” etc. I’ve made copies of your column as a handout. Thank you.

Perhaps interesting observations on left-handed folk: Our son was naturally left-handed, but forced by his firstgrade teacher to become right-handed.

I now regret, as a parent, not being more apparently outraged when this occurred some 20 years ago. Our grandson is left-handed, and we celebrate his difference. I myself, naturally right-handed, am a designer and scenic artist in the theatre, but have

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always been secretly jealous of lefthanded people, as they seem to be generally more creative and artistically adept.

You point out also that 10 percent of the general population is left-hand-

Toeing the party line (Re: “VOTE!” cover story, Oct. 7.)

The Highroad

ecently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song Poppy Fields Forever.

OK, John Lennon’s lyric was not about poppies, but strawberries. However, I started humming the song because I was thinking about our country’s multitrillion-dollar mission to build a viable central government and a new economy in Afghanistan. The White House and Pentagon tell us that one of the keys to success in this massive nation-building effort is to wean impoverished Afghan farmers from dependence on their only reliable money-making crop: poppies.

Yes, opium poppies. Afghanistan is by far the world’s No. 1 producer of this drug crop, which is bought by traffickers, who move it from remote Afghan villages to our streets, some 7,000 miles away. Not only are our troops defending a country

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ed. I find it interesting that the same statistic is attributed to homosexuality.

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Pop goes our anti-poppy policy

by Jim Hightower that routinely fuels America’s narcotics problem, but the Taliban forces that are killing and maiming our soldiers are largely financed by payments they extract from these opium traffickers.

Thus, it was good news when our officials proudly and loudly announced in September that poppy cultivation in Helmand Province dropped 7 percent this year, thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars we’ve spent to persuade farmers there to

What a disappointment. I picked up the Oct. 7-13 edition of the Boulder Weekly thinking I would learn enough about the candidates to intelligently see LETTERS Page 8

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switch from poppies to veggies.

But don’t get too high on this progress. Nationwide, this year’s production was as high as ever. Indeed, it increased by a third in Kandahar, a key province ruled by the Afghan president’s own brother, who is said to be getting a piece of the action.

Also, 2011 looks worse, as poppy prices have nearly tripled this year, enticing more farmers to abandon lower-paying alternative crops and return to planting the old standby.

Poppy fields might truly be forever. And that’s another reason to get our troops out of there, pronto.

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decide whom to vote for in November.

Instead, for each candidate endorsed by the Weekly, all I got was a vague, brief mention of where the endorsed candidate stands, followed by a long, detailed explanation of why the opposing candidates are dangerous whackjobs. Since this summary seems so focused on why I should vote against candidates, instead of why I should vote for the endorsed candidates, I plan to stay home and not vote at all.

Perhaps it is time to allow us to vote “none of the above” on the ballot, so we might be able to send a message that we prefer real, informed choices, rather than party line voting.

Dom Nozzi/Boulder

America should go to pot (“Oakland goes to pot,” The Highroad, Oct. 7.) Hopefully, it isn’t just Oakland going to pot, but rather the entire state of California with all of North America following them.

Californian citizens have an opportunity to vote yes on Proposition 19 this Nov. 2, effectively ending cannabis (marijuana) prohibition and extermination.

California was the first state to prohibit cannabis and could be the first state to re-legalize it, too.

Another reason to completely relegalize the God-given plant that doesn’t get mentioned is that it could open the door to allowing American farmers to grow hemp. If citizens may grow cannabis with THC, it’s reasonable to believe American farmers may grow hemp without THC. Communist Chinese farmers are allowed to grow hemp, but free American farmers are not, and that is unfair for American farmers who must compete in the world market.

Hemp farming could eliminate the need for foreign oil, uses far less water and pesticides than other crops and grows faster, requires factories and factory workers that cannot be imported to foreign countries, employs farmers, generates taxes and incomes, etc.

It’s time to re-introduce hemp as a component of American agriculture.

Stan White/Dillon

Voting ‘no’ on BVSD 3A I would like to know a little something about the curriculum at Boulder Schools before I vote to raise property taxes (part of the rent the working poor pay for shelter) to make up for the loss caused by what Boulder School Board President Ken Roberge refers to as the “financial crisis.”

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taught how American government works, or more accurately, who owns it? Anything about labor history — who died so that Americans could get weekends off, overtime pay, safe work environments (assuming they have jobs)? How about American foreign policy — anything about that? Is a student in a Boulder County high school given the resources to weigh the enticements of the school-invited military recruiter against reality?

In spite of the fact that we’re being taxed to pay for our endless borrowing of Chinese money to wage endless war, rescue the capitalists who crashed the economy, lavishly grant the military industrial complex its every wish (even though it did not defend us from an invasion of oil in the Gulf of Mexico), and in spite of the fact that our government continues to ensure we pay for the privilege of squirming on the end of the pike upon which health insurance companies have us impaled, let’s all sacrifice just a little bit more... for the good of the children. Including those children who will be sent to die in the latest war the capitalists have cook up for them.

Somehow, I don’t feel compelled.

Doug Richards/Eldorado Springs

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This is very important information to those of us in Colorado who are aware of Denver-based Cotter Corporation’s recent refusal to clean up its Schwartzwalder mine site in Jefferson County. The site is upstream of residential properties and currently poses a threat of contaminating Ralston Reservoir, Denver’s drinking water supply.

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by Pamela White

ive years ago, Ken Buck, district attorney for Weld County, declined to prosecute a rape case. His reasons for doing so ought to concern every woman in Colorado regardless of political party.

The case, brought to light by Progress Now, involved a young woman who was a student at the University of Northern Colorado. She drunk dialed a former boyfriend and invited him to come to her apartment. At some point after his arrival, the ex-boyfriend climbed on top of her and had sex with her despite the fact that she said “no” and drunkenly tried to roll away from him. According to the ex’s own statement, the victim was so intoxicated that he couldn’t wake her up afterward to apologize for what he’d just done.

It seems like a pretty clear-cut case of date rape. State law defines having sex with someone who is unconscious, helpless, or too intoxicated to give consent as rape. Period. Also, having a prior or even a current sexual relationship doesn’t mean that a man can’t be convicted of rape. If a married woman refuses to have sex with her husband and he compels her, it’s rape by law, even though the two share a bed every single night.

But Buck seemed to have forgotten all of this. At the time, he told the Greeley Tribune that “a jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer’s remorse.”

Well, let’s test that theory.

In an audio recording made by the victim without Buck’s knowledge — legal under Colorado law — Buck repeatedly tells her that he won’t prose-

cute because he isn’t convinced by the evidence and doesn’t believe a jury will be, either. He then proceeds to make the alleged rapist’s case himself.

Because the two had previously had a sexual relationship and because she’d let him into her home, Buck says, it seems to him that she was inviting him to have sex with her.

But let’s not put words in Buck’s mouth. Let’s let him hang himself with his own rope. Here are key excerpts from a transcription of that audiotape, available online: Victim: “His statement says [reading from report],… ‘When he finished, [he] tried to get the victim to wake… so he could apologize.’ How is that not ‘physically helpless, meaning unconscious, asleep or unable to act’?”

Buck: “Because when you look at what happened earlier in the night, all the circumstances, based on his statements and some of your statements, indicate that you invited him to come to your apartment… that you told him how to get in… It would appear to me, and it appears to others, that you invited him over to have sex with him.”

(Emphasis mine.)

Victim: “So you’re telling me that previous sexual relations is enough to provide consent, and you’re telling me that because of me calling him and because of previous sexual relations and because I invited him up and told him how to get in, that [I] invited him up for sex…”

Buck: “I’m telling you that’s what the circumstances suggest to people, see BUCK AND RAPE Page 8

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including myself, who have looked at it.

It seems clear based on Buck’s own Although you never said ‘yes,’ but the words that he was unwilling to prosecute appearance is consent.” (Again, emphasis this case because the victim’s lifestyle mine.) and the decisions she’d made rubbed The victim then reads from the him the wrong way — and because he police report where the alleged perpetra- was pretty certain a jury would feel the tor admits to a police officer that he same. The victim had had sex with the heard the victim say “no.” perpetrator in the past, had gotten pregVictim: [reading from police report] nant by him a year and a half prior to “‘He stated the victim did say no. He the alleged sexual assault, and, according does recall the victim rolling over and to him, had chosen abortion. saying no.’ That’s me saying ‘no’ during Way to be a DA, Buck. the act. That’s me not giving consent.”

Yes, it’s difficult to get rape convicBut Buck isn’t swayed. Because the tions from juries at times, because too victim was intoxicated and couldn’t many people are still ignorant and harremember saying “no,” he was ready to bor biases regarding rape and double dismiss the perpetrator’s own admission standards when it comes to women’s and stick with his sexuality. personal judgment But it’s a proseIt seems clear that the victim’s cutor’s job to based on Buck’s actions implied conschool the ignorant own words that he sent. and explain to a Buck’s sexual jury that, according was unwilling to politics clearly to the laws of our prosecute this belong to the state, there are no case because the Pleistocene era. In excuses for rape — this day and age, it’s not intoxication, victim’s lifestyle not OK for a man not previous sexual and the decisions to force sex on a relations, and cershe’d made semi-conscious tainly not inviting a woman just because man into your rubbed him the she invited him into apartment. wrong way.

If a DA can’t her apartment, stand in front of a whether she’d previjury and argue a ously had sex with case like this, he doesn’t belong in office. him or not. How could any prosecutor Of course, Buck isn’t running for drop a case when the alleged perpetrator himself admits that the victim said “no”? district attorney. He’s running for U.S. Senate, where his decisions will impact It’s an interesting question, and it was very much on the victim’s mind dur- more than a single rape victim in Weld ing this conversation. When she and her County. His extreme stance on abortion — he believes abortion should be illegal attorney attempted to push for prosecueven in cases of rape and incest and has tion, suggesting that they might file a waffled on Amendment 62, which motion to compel prosecution, here’s would give rights to fertilized eggs — what happened: sets him apart as a man who’s unsympaBuck: “Be aware of something. If thetic to rape and incest victims. But this… if you file this motion, it will this particular case shows a man who be very public... There are a lot of seems unsympathetic to women in genthings I have knowledge of, that I eral. would assume [name of suspect Women’s groups have long opposed redacted] knows about that they have Buck for his stance on abortion. And to do with, perhaps, your motives, for now it seems that stance influenced his [unintelligible]… and that is part of what our calculation has been in this.” handling of this case. At one point, the victim seems to believe she has to Victim: “I’m interested to hear more about that, my motives, for what this has defend herself against what is tantamount to an accusation from him — been.” that she’d had an abortion. She tells him Buck: “You have, you have had his it was a miscarriage, but it shouldn’t baby, and you had an abortion.” have mattered either way. That fact (Emphasis not mine.) ought to have been irrelevant.

Victim: “That’s false. That’s just So whom will Buck represent if false.” elected? Goaty old men with antiquatBuck: “Why don’t you clarify?” ed notions about women and sexuality?

Victim: “I did have a miscarriage.

Religious extremists? Frat boys? Hard We had talked about an abortion. That to say. was actually a year and a half ago…”

But this much is certain: He won’t Buck: “That would be something that represent me. He won’t represent rape you can cross-examine on, that would be something that might be a motive for try- and incest victims. And he won’t represent women. ing to get back at someone…”

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Cotter Corporation needs to clean up after itself and be held accountable, as it is the one that reaped the profits.

If they want to look at it from a profit-loss standpoint, they will lose a hell of a lot more if Ralston Reservoir is contaminated by their inaction and lives are lost.

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We need more ethanol Last month, an automotive engineering firm released an important study that found that moving from 10 percent ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent will mean little, if any, change in the performance of older cars and light trucks — those manufactured between 1994 and 2000.

This study, which analyzed the vehicles manufactured by six companies and which represent 25 percent (62.8 million vehicles) of light-duty vehicles on the road today, concluded

“that the adoption and use of E-15 in the motor vehicle fleet from the studied model years should not adversely affect these vehicles or cause them to perform in a sub-optimal manner when compared with their performance using the E-10 blend that is currently available.”

At present, the EPA is considering allowing (not requiring) the sale of higher-blend ethanol for newer cars.

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Spies, lies and GPS As we all know, getting bad news when you take your car in for service is just part of the joy of owning a vehicle. But for Yasir Afifi, 20, the news wasn’t just bad — it was bizarre.

According to Wired.com, Afifi, a marketing student at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif., took his Ford Lincoln LS in for an oil change. While the vehicle was on the lift, he noticed an antenna sticking out near the rear wheel. At his request, a mechanic took a look and found a strange contraption stuck to the car by a magnet.

After one of Afifi’s friends placed an image of the device on Reddit.com, Afifi learned it was a sophisticated GPS tracking device of the sort used by the FBI to track the movements of people its deems suspicious. Afifi, being a U.S.-born Arab-American who is ethnically half Egyptian, apparently fits the criteria.

Boulder Weekly reported back in July 2003 on a similar device that the FBI had secretly placed on the car of environmental activist Mike Nicosia, who aroused their suspicion by being roommates with Rod Coronado, member of the Earth First! movement. But back then, no one had really seen one of these gizmos before. Social networking was in its infancy, so rather than going online Nicosia brought the device to the paper. We took it to some experts who said federal agents probably used it to track Nicosia’s whereabouts.

Of course, the FBI denied it. In fact, the FBI spokesperson went ballistic on the phone when we called, actually raising her voice at us and accusing us of being paranoid.

But this time around, there was no denying that the device was theirs.

After photos of it went up on Reddit, two FBI agents showed up at Afifi’s home and demanded to have their expensive spying device back. They allegedly threatened to make things hard for him if he didn’t cooperate.

We’d like to think of the FBI as an organization made up of heroes who would never use fear to manipulate innocent people and would take great pains to defend the civil rights of the population they’re supposed to serve.

But when agents spy on American citizens and toss threats around, they lose hero status and end up being relegated to the category of thugs.

And for the record, we weren’t paranoid back in 2003. We were right on.

Boulder gets tough on snow The Boulder City Council voted on Oct. 5 to enact stricter rules for removing snow and ice from sidewalks. Property owners now have only until noon on the day after a snowstorm to get their sidewalks shoveled, and the cutoff time for a snowstorm is 5 a.m. So if it stops snowing at 4:59 a.m. and you’re one of the unfortunate few in Boulder who actually has a job and must go to work, you might find yourself getting ticketed unless you can fit in an extra hour to shovel the sidewalk.

OK, fine. We don’t want to see residents slipping and sliding their way to orthopedic surgery because people can’t get their walkways cleared. But seven hours seems pretty darned harsh, especially when you take into consideration how terrible the City of Boulder is at removing snow from the streets.

Here’s our challenge to City Council members. The next time we get a substantial snowfall, please get into your vehicles and drive east on county roads to Longmont. You will find that the county and Longmont governments kick Boulder’s butt when it comes to making the streets safe for motorists. In fact, you can tell the moment street maintenance shifts from the county to the city of Boulder because the roads become slick as shit.

Yes, we know the city would like us all to take buses or ride our bikes, but until we see City Council members wading through knee-deep slush piles to wait an hour and a half for a bus that doesn’t come, we’ll stick with our cars — and hope that Boulder can do a better job of keeping people safe this winter.

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Fairview events on tap Fairview High School is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend, starting with a homecoming tailgate party for alumni before the football game on Oct. 15.

On Saturday, Oct. 16, there will be an open house from 1 to 4 p.m., a faculty/staff reunion at 1 p.m., a choir reunion at 2 p.m., cake and music in the Student Center at 3 p.m., and a band reunion performance at 3:30 p.m. on the football field.

For more information, contact Jenny McCarthy at 720-561-5329.

In related news, the Fairview High School Speech and Debate team is hosting a pancake breakfast on Oct. 17 in an effort to raise money to support its travel throughout the state.

Participation in weekly speech and debate tournaments can cost upwards of $500 each weekend, so the team needs to raise about $15,000.

The breakfast will be held from 7:30 to 10 a.m. at Applebee’s Bar and Grill, at 1906 28th St. in Boulder.

The price is $7 for all-you-can-eat pancakes and eggs. For each ticket sold, the team receives $5.

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cines and autism, will be speaking in the Boulder Public Library Auditorium at 6 p.m. on Oct. 20. The event is free.

Once a rare occurrence, Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) now affects more than 1 in 100 children.

An association between childhood vaccinations, specifically the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism was suggested in 1998, when Wakefield and his colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital in London published a case study in a medical journal describing 12 children suffering from a combination of autistic regression and bowel symptoms.

The paper, and Wakefield’s subsequent recommendation that children be given single vaccines rather than combinations, created a national controversy in the U.K. Wakefield was hailed as a hero by parents of affected children, but at the same time came under attack by public health officials, the pharmaceutical industry and the General Medical Council in the U.K., which accused him of ethical violations.

His findings triggered a nationwide panic that saw a drastic decline in vaccination, which was followed by a measles outbreak that hospitalized more than a thousand children.

UCAR hosts veterans job fair Veterans in the Boulder-Denver area will be the focus of a job fair being held Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The event, co-sponsored by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and Workforce Boulder County, will take place at UCAR’s Center Green campus at 3080 Center Green Dr. Area companies need to fill about 200 positions over the next six to 12 months in manufacturing, security, transportation, administration, food service, custodial, computing and retail, says Nancy Wade of UCAR human resources.

Representatives from Abound Solar, University of Colorado, Home Depot, G4S Wackenhut, Express Employment Professionals, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Ball Aerospace and UCAR will be on site to talk with veterans about available and upcoming positions.

Workforce Boulder County Executive Director Tom Miller estimates that more than 600 veterans are unemployed in the area.

County needs male mentors Boulder County is looking for volunteers — especially men — willing to dedicate their time on a weekly basis to help local teens achieve positive life changes.

The Boulder County Community Services Mentor Program is seeking adults who can work well with teens, be a positive role model and commit to three hours of mentoring per week.

Volunteer time essentially consists of activities enjoyed by participants, whether it is going to a ball game, watching a movie or just grabbing a bite to eat.

Volunteers are required to complete training and commit to mentor a teen for one year. The training will be held the evenings of Oct. 19 and Oct. 21. Mentors will meet with their teens once a week for several hours according to a flexible schedule that meets their needs and the schedule of their mentees. Mentors can plan activities in line with their interests.

The deadline to apply for the program is Oct. 15. For more information or to sign up, contact Janice Allan of the Justice System Volunteer Program at 303-441-3718 or jallan@bouldercounty.org.

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BoulderWeekly.com Top 10 Stories Week of Oct. 7 - Oct. 13 1. Tyler Clementi died for your sins Dharun Ravi got to college to find out his roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, was gay and quickly shared that fact with the Twitterverse.

Clearly, he felt that Clementi’s sexuality was a significant enough issue to merit posting online. And he didn’t stop there.

2. For guv, Hick is our pick 3. Teddy Pendergrass widow and son at war over wills 4. Panorama (10/7) 5. The sex toy shoebox 6. Music, community and fire 7. Boulder Weekly’s 2010 ballot picks 8. Local author takes vegan message to the masses 9. Bennet for Senate 10. Astrology (10/7)

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Meet the spirits Historic Boulder’s biennial Meet the Spirits event will be held on Sunday, Oct. 17, from noon to 5 p.m. at Columbia Cemetery, at Ninth and Pleasant streets in Boulder.

This opportunity to meet some of Boulder’s most dearly departed will feature the “spirits” of Mary Rippon, Tom Horn, Eben Fine, “Rocky Mountain Joe” and Ladies of the Evening. Get into the Halloween spirit with Victorian mourners, funeral music and a vintage re-enactment of a solemn Masonic burial service by members of Columbia Lodge #14.

In the event of rain/snow, Meet the Spirits will be postponed until Sunday, Oct. 24, from noon to 5 p.m.

The event is sponsored by Historic Boulder Inc. and the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department, with proceeds to benefit Columbia Cemetery and Historic Boulder.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for seniors and children 16 and younger.

Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Historic Boulder office, 1123 Spruce St., or on the day of the tour at the Columbia Cemetery gate. For more information or to order tickets using a credit card, call 303-444-5192.

More information is also online at historicboulder.org.

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Fire fund paying out The Community Foundation announced its plans to pay out the more than $500,000 that have been pledged or given to the Boulder Mountain Fire Relief Fund by Thanksgiving.

The first round of grants was expected to be distributed this week.

Individuals and families affected by the fire can apply for assistance from the fund by visiting mountain fire stations or the foundation’s website, www.commfound.org.

Completed applications are due to the foundation by Oct. 25.

About $140,000 has been given by almost 500 individuals and families, including two boys and their mother, who brought in the $44.96 they raised at a lemonade stand.

Another $300,000 has been raised

by KBCO and concert promoters AEG LIVE in ticket sales from the Oct. 9 Fourmile Canyon Revival concert Other noteworthy contributions to the fund include $50,000 from the Amgen Foundation, $20,000 from Kaiser Permanente, $15,000 from Celestial Seasonings and $10,000 from the Greenlee Family Foundation.

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Exhibit features Disney artist Illustrator Willis Pyle, who attended CU until 1937 and sketched characters such as Pinocchio, Bambi and Mr. Magoo, is featured in an exhibit in the Heritage Center, the CU history museum on the third floor of Old Main, until Dec. 17.

The retrospective of Pyle’s work includes original drawings from his student days at CU, sketches for memorable Disney productions and a character from the Academy Awardwinning short, Gerald McBoing Boing, as well as his current post-Impressionist paintings.

At the University of Colorado, Pyle was the editor and illustrator of a humor magazine called Colorado Dodo.

He responded to a Disney recruitment poster and went to work for the company in Hollywood as an illustrator, especially on Pinocchio. He later worked on Fantasia, Bambi and Snow White. During World War II, he worked in the motion picture unit at the Hal Roach Studio for the Air Corps teaching program.

After the war, Pyle did art for magazines such as Vogue, Harpers and Gourmet. In 1947, he joined United Productions of America, where he received top animation credit for the Academy Award-winning Gerald McBoing Boing and the first Near Sighted Mr. Magoo.

Pyle, 96, still exhibits at New York City’s Montserrat Gallery.

The Heritage Center, which is free and open to the public, is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, call 303-492-6329.

Conservation efforts pay off Conservation efforts at three University of Colorado at Boulder buildings cut campus energy use by 645,000 kilowatt-hours, reduced carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1 million pounds and saved nearly $65,000 in utility costs during the 2009-10 fiscal year.

The savings, achieved at Norlin Library, the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building and the Mathematics Building, were a result of CU-Boulder’s Buff Energy Star program, which provides building proctors reduction goals, tracking tools and models to encourage occupants to parBoulder Weekly

ticipate in resource conservation practices.

The Buff Energy Star program has contributed to CU-Boulder’s 23 percent reduction in campuswide energy use and overall stabilization of greenhouse gas emissions since 2005, despite a 14 percent growth in campus facilities.

To be considered for Buff Energy Star status, building proctors must complete an energy audit, take action based on the audit, post energy and water conservation educational materials and show a 5 percent energy reduction over the prior fiscal year.

The building proctors being recognized this year for qualifying their buildings for Buff Energy Star status are John Culshaw of Norlin Library, David Nicoll of the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building and Donna Maes of the Mathematics Building. Each will receive a one-time $1,000 bonus.

For more information, visit www. colorado.edu/conservation.

Dust detector sets record A University of Colorado at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the distance record for a working dust detector traveling through space.

The instrument is named the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, or SDC, after an 11-year-old English girl who named Pluto more than 75 years ago. It reached record-breaking distance of 1.67 billion miles from Earth on Oct. 10.

Designed by a student team from CU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, SDC was launched in 2006 aboard the New Horizons spacecraft, which is now slightly beyond the orbit of Uranus.

Dust grains in the solar system are of high interest to researchers because they are the building blocks of the solar system’s planets.

The only other dust-detecting instruments to measure space dust beyond the orbit of Jupiter flew aboard NASA’s Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft in the 1970s.

For more information on SDC, visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/sdc.

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Flap over Boulder Creek Festival has nonprofit crying fowl

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long-simmering dispute between the city of Boulder and a local nonprofit group over the ownership of the Boulder Creek Festival is threatening to boil over.

The city of Boulder is expected to seek bids for the management of the Memorial Day weekend event, but Boulder Creek Events, the organization that has run the festival for a dozen years, is questioning the city’s motivation and legal authority to do so. The nonprofit claims ownership of the event and its name. Boulder Creek Events officials say they have been singled out by city staff for years, possibly in an effort to drive them out, and they are fed up.

City officials, on the other hand, say they are not requesting bids for management of the festival in an effort to get rid of Boulder Creek Events. They laud the job that the organization has done over the years. But they do maintain that the city owns the event and must perform due diligence every few years by inviting bids to ensure that it is getting the best bang for its taxpayer buck.

Both sides produce documentation they say proves their ownership of the festival and its name, and the matter may well end up in court.

In the end, the future of an event that has grown immensely popular over the years may depend largely on its past.

Troubled history The roots of the creek festival date back to 1984, when there was an event held to clean up areas along Boulder Creek. It received seed money from the Parks and Recreation Foundation, an entity created to support the city’s parks and recreation department.

Officials say the foundation’s board consisted of the members of the city’s parks and recreation advisory group, who were appointed by city council.

According to a March 2009 memo in which the city asserted ownership of the event, the first festival was held in 1987, but by the mid-1990s, it had outgrown the city’s parks and recreation department, and a group called Boulder Community Celebrations (BCC) was created to take over management of the festival. BCC was a legally independent nonprofit that consisted of community members, festival volunteers and participants, the memo says. But after man-

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of the festival and benefits EXPAND (Exciting Programs, Adventures and New Dimensions), a city program that helps people with disabilities improve their recreation and leisure skills, to give them a better quality of life. The event generates $22,000 to $30,000 for the program each year, officials say.

Also, as part of the original deal, the city agreed to pay the Daileys an annual salary of up to $65,000.

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aging the event for about two years, BCC had incurred a significant amount of debt and had to be dissolved.

By all accounts, that’s when Chris Dailey stepped up. Dailey started out volunteering for the event and had worked his way up to management positions.

And in 1997, when the festival was in peril, he and his brother Nick agreed to take over the event’s management — and debt — from BCC. They formed an event production group called TeamFest, which later became Boulder Creek Events.

An Oct. 8, 1997, agreement shows that the deal included transferring all assets of the Boulder Creek Festival from BCC to the Daileys.

Dailey, now CEO of Boulder Creek Events, says that agreement transferred ownership of the event and its name to his organization. He has a letter from then-BCC board President Art Simmons affirming that an application was filed with the state in 1997 to trademark the name of the festival and that the assets transferred to the Daileys that year included all trademarks.

But the city counters in its March 2009 memo that the agreement does not list the festival itself among the assets transferred.

Dailey says that as part of the 1997 deal, in addition to taking on about $50,000 in festival debt, he agreed to send 25 percent of profits to the Parks and Recreation Foundation. In addition, the Daileys agreed to give the city the annual Great Rubber Duck Race, which is held the same weekend as part

But a few years ago, Dailey says, city officials filed at the federal level to trademark the name of the festival. In addition, he says, about five years ago, after the festival had gained significant popularity, the city’s contracts for Boulder Creek Events to run the festival began to include language asserting city ownership of the event.

Boulder Creek Events officials say they suddenly had to start paying sales tax on beverage sales, and they were subjected to a city audit. They say they feel singled out, all the way down to special fence-height requirements that the city was enforcing for the festival but not other events.

In 2004-05, the city put the management of the 2006 festival out for bid, and among the entities challenging Boulder Creek Events for the contract was Downtown Boulder Inc. Boulder Creek Events officials say they won the contract hands down and that there were even discussions with the city about settling the ownership question by turning the festival over to Boulder Creek Events in its entirety.

But that never happened, and in a proposal to the city advocating for Boulder Creek Events to become sole owner of the festival, the nonprofit admitted that it did not own the event.

“At the present time, the Boulder Creek Festival is owned by the City of Boulder and is produced by Boulder Creek Events,” the group’s officials wrote to the city manager in November 2005. “However, it is our contention that a change in ownership will be in the best interest of both the City of Boulder and Boulder Creek Events.”

That first sentence, according to city officials, is the smoking gun that proves the festival is owned by the city, not Boulder Creek Events. Dailey says that document was prepared with the understanding that the signed contracts had begun to include language

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about the city’s ownership of the event, and that such an admission was needed to secure ownership for Boulder Creek Events.

“We were tricked into this and did it under duress,” he says.

Dailey counters the city’s claim of ownership by producing the first page of a 1998 city license describing Dailey’s group as “doing business as Boulder Creek Festival.”

Mock’s take Former Boulder City Council member Don Mock is what you might call a key witness. Dailey says Mock was involved in the 1997 discussions that resulted in Dailey taking over the festival.

Today, Mock is president of the PLAY (Parks and Leisure for Adults and Youth) Boulder Foundation, which is the new name of the Parks and Recreation Foundation, which helped found the festival in the 1980s.

With all of the time and effort needed to plan the festival, Mock says the city is too late in opening up the bidding process for the 2011 event. Dailey and his team agree, saying they are already well into the planning process for the next festival.

For Mock, the question is not who owns the festival, because the city can always keep the event from occurring simply by refusing to issue a permit for use of the public land. In fact, he says, if there is any question of ownership, the Foundation should be in the conversation, since it originally financed the event.

But he says it is more a question of reaching some agreement between the city and Dailey, like a sole-source contract for Boulder Creek Events that includes a back-up plan if Dailey were to, say, drop dead of a heart attack. (A 1997 contract between the city and Dailey’s TeamFest says that if the nonprofit were to dissolve, then its assets would go to the Parks and Recreation Foundation.)

Mock says Dailey should be allowed to continue running it, since he was the one who bailed it out in 1997.

“He built it back up into a very strong and viable festival again,” Mock says. “I think Chris Dailey deserves it because he was the only one who lifted a finger to save it.”

Mock says “no one even talked about the term ‘ownership’” when he and Dailey were involved in the transition to BCC and, a couple of years later, to TeamFest.

“No one started using the term ‘ownership’ until about 2005, when the city started using it and Chris Dailey said, ‘Wait a minute,’” Mock says, adding that at the same time, the city stopped listing the PLAY Boulder Foundation as a beneficiary of the event.

Mock says city officials have been more tuned into public event ownership ever since they caught heat for giving away three Boulder running events, including the city’s Pearl Street Mile. According to media reports, some said the recipient, Barry Siff, made money off public assets when he included the rights to the races when he sold his racing company

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in 2009.

Mock sympathizes with Dailey’s desire to have some stability, to avoid looking over his shoulder to see who is gunning for his event.

“He doesn’t want to live year to year, wondering if it’s going to be taken away from him,” Mock says.

At the same time, he adds, the city feels responsibility for the event and is obligated to make sure it is being fiscally accountable by issuing a request for proposals.

“I symphathize with both sides,” he says. “I don’t think it’s in anyone’s interest for this to blow up and leave a sour taste in their mouths.”

As for the Boulder Creek Events claim that there may be pressures afoot to oust them from their managerial capacity, Mock says, “I haven’t heard of any outside pressure.”

Sean Maher, executive director of Downtown Boulder, Inc. (DBI), told Boulder Weekly that he had no idea the city was issuing a request for proposals (RFP) for management of the Boulder Creek Festival, and that he’s not sure whether DBI would submit a bid for the event or not.

No unhappiness Kirk Kincannon, the city’s parks and recreation director, says the RFP is being issued simply because the Boulder Creek Events contract is expiring. There is no ouster under way, he says, adding that the RFP is simply a way for the city to make sure it is getting “the best bang for your buck.”

“Chris has done an admirable job running the event,” Kincannon says. “I don’t think there’s any unhappiness based on what’s being provided. We’re just trying to see what we can do to enhance it, relative to green technology.”

He says that in the forthcoming RFP, there will be an emphasis on decreasing the carbon footprint of the event, through efforts like encouraging people to ride their bikes or take the bus to the festival instead of drive.

Kincannon confirmed that the city has a federal trademark for the festival’s name.

“The city’s position is that we do own the name of the event, and that promoters have been doing it on behalf of the city,” he says.

Asked about the 1997 agreement in which the BCC’s assets, including trademarks, were handed over to the Daileys, Kincannon replies, “That’s a good question. The city’s position is they have always owned the festival and the name.”

But he adds that there is no desire to get rid of Boulder Creek Events.

“I don’t think there’s anyone coming in, trying to take it over,” Kincannon says. “It’s just good practice to make sure we’re getting the best deal for the city. … It’s good to seek different ideas and do due diligence. It’s nothing against the existing promoter.”

Kincannon says the city plans to pick an event management firm by December, allowing “just enough time” for that group to plan the 2011 festival. But city spokesperson Patrick Von Keyserling told Boulder Weekly it is still unclear whether the

RFP will be issued for the 2011 festival or the 2012 festival.

Chris Dropinski, who was the city’s parks and recreation director when the event was transferred to Dailey in 1997, says she was not involved in the negotiations after the original transfer from the city to BCC, and that she doesn’t recall the details.

Other city officials involved in negotiations regarding the festival over the past decade were not available for comment.

Grease stains Dailey says that grease stains left on the ground by vendors after the 2010 event may be a lingering issue, since the city complained about it and slapped Boulder Creek Events with a hefty cleanup tab, even though he says his crew returned to clean it up. The matter went to arbitration.

“The day after the Boulder Creek Festival is the cleanest that park is all year long,” Dailey says of his track record on picking up after the event.

City Council member Lisa Morzel says she heard about grease stains left after last year’s festival, but that should not warrant issuing an RFP. “I think Chris does an amazing job of getting things cleaned up,” she says, adding that it is unfair to Dailey to wait until just a month or two before the festival to get a contract signed, which is what happened in 2009.

Morzel says Dailey’s contract should simply be renewed unless there are problems. “It comes up every year, and I just don’t know what is the point. … They have turned what was a failing venture into what is a very successful venture. They generate a lot of revenue for the city each year.

“If there’s some kind of problem, then tell me what it is,” she adds. “I don’t know why staff are interjecting themselves into it. Maybe it needs to come to council.”

In response to a request for comment, the city attorney’s office issued the following statement: “The city’s position is that the city owns the event and all the rights that flow from that ownership.

Regardless of any state trademark filings, Mr. Dailey is and has always been a licensee of the city, his use of the mark inures to the city’s benefit, and has no independent rights in the mark. State trademark filings convey no rights, and they don’t carry any evidentiary presumptions like federal trademarks do.”

When asked why the city applied for a federal trademark several years ago, the written response from the city attorney’s office was, “It is the city’s practice to protect all of its assets.”

In response to a question about the transfer of trademarks from BCC to Dailey in 1997, the city attorney’s office replied, “The city was not a party to the agreement between Boulder Community Celebrations and Mr. Dailey, therefore, we cannot confirm the validity of that agreement.”

“We’re not going to lay down,” Dailey says.

“We’ll take them to court if we have to. We’ve let them push us around too long.”

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by Charmaine Ortega Getz

he next time you’re heading in or out of Folsom Stadium on game day, pay attention to the fact there aren’t any trashcans on the premises.

No, this is not some costsaving measure, and you’re not being asked to haul away your own garbage.

This is about Ralphie’s Green Stampede, where it’s all about zero waste (and we’re not talking about scooping up after our favorite mascot).

There are typically about 30 recycling/composting stations dotted around the stadium where you can slip your emptied refreshment containers. And all but one of the stadium food vendors offer plates, cups, eating utensils and carrying bags made of compostable materials, so there’s little room for confusion.

But just in case you’re wondering, each station has a volunteer who will make it easy and show you what goes where.

“We even take those souvenir plastic pom-poms,” says Katherine Stuart, the wrangler for the Green Stampede volunteers.

Stuart works for the CU Environmental Center, a campus facility that’s been around since Earth Day debuted in the United States more than 40 years ago.

This is the third year of Ralphie’s

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Green Stampede, the zero-waste effort that focuses specifically on athletic events. And while the campus ROTC unit still does the cleanup in the stands after games, the Stampede is about getting the fans involved in a proactive effort.

Besides the recycling stations, look out for the information table with all the colorful visual aids to give you pointers on recyclables.

“That one, we’re still looking for regular volunteers to handle the questions,” says Stuart. “We’ve only got enough people to handle the stations, usually, and I’m running around so much I don’t even have time to follow the games.”

Once the recyclables leave the stadium, they are headed for the CU Recycling Center, also one of the

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nation’s oldest such campus facilities, founded in 1976.

During the 2009-10 academic year, CU Recycling stepped up into an Enhanced Dual System collection process that is able to accept its widest range of recyclables ever. The center offers a shredding service to CU departments and is even accepting things like wooden pallets, old cell phones and dead batteries.

The facility offers more than a way to process stuff; it also provides opportunities for students to learn the recycling business as volunteers through the work-study program or while earning academic credit.

“Even with the market being down last year, we made a little more than $50,000 just from the sale of the recyclables,” says Jack DeBell, development director of CU Recycling. “For the academic credit, we work with a number of different disciplines, although the School of Business leads. But wherever you’re coming from, it’s a great way to make a difference with your degree.”

All in all, CU’s green efforts are ensuring that little goes to waste on campus — and, yes, that includes the waste generated by Ralphie, the CU mascot. Even that is composted.

For more information, visit the Environmental Center’s website at http://ecenter.colorado.edu/index. php.

Thursday, Oct. 14 Take Back the Tap Kickoff Meeting.

7 p.m. UMC, Room 381, CU campus, 303-492-8308.

Lafayette Farmers’ Market — Final day. 4-8 p.m. Festival Plaza, Public Road and Chester Street, Lafayette, 303-6655588.

Saturday, Oct. 16

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303-910-2236.

Louisville Farmers’ Market — Final day. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Boulder, 303902-2451.

Monday, Oct. 18

Longmont Curbside Leaf Collection Begins — Free leaf collection through Dec. 10. To determine your designated week, visit www.ci.longmont. co.us/solidwaste/events/curbsideleaf.htm.

Water Resources Advisory Board Meeting. 7 p.m. 13th Street Conference Room, 1720 13th St., Boulder, 303441‑3203.

Tuesday, Oct. 19

Clean Energy Day. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

UMC fountain and Aspen Room, CU campus, 303-492-8308.

Wednesday, Oct. 20 Louisville Sustainability Advisory Board Meeting. 6:30 p.m. City Hall, Council Chambers, 749 Main St., Louisville, 303-335-4536.

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

The Exorcism of Emily Rose screens at the St. Julien on Sunday, Oct. 18.

Thursday, Oct. 15

A Taste of Fall — Benefit dinner for the Colorado Chautauqua Association. 6:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282.

Friday, Oct. 16

Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon — Hopefully this version doesn’t include potentially inflammatory imagery. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Saturday, Oct. 17

Shooting the Nude as Fine Art — A class for the betterment of the human condition. 1 p.m Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose — Creepy, ain’t it? 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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hat bothers Canadian rapper-singer k-os the most is artist fraud. The artist who projects one image in the music but lives an entirely different one.

“If there was a position in the CIA for artist fraud I’d be that guy,” says k-os, 38, whose real name is Kevin Brereton. “I’d be out there every day trying to show and expose the fraudulent artists. Why? Because it’s my biggest fear — to be fraudulent.”

It’s a prevalent issue in the world of hip-hop today, one that strikes a chord with k-os. Growing up listening to the music, he has had his fair share of disappointments and doesn’t want to be one of those artists whose authenticity might be questioned.

“I’ve been disappointed by art as much in my lifetime as I love it,” he says. “I’ve met artists that I’ve been fans Boulder Weekly

Monday, Oct. 19 of and been disappointed. I’ve loved albums by artists, and they come out with something I don’t like, and I took it really hard. The artist you love does something you wouldn’t think they’d do because of everything they did before that … either they were fake before or they’re fake now.”

When listening to k-os’ latest project, The Anchorman Mixtape, the words “fake” or “fraudulent” aren’t even in the same stratosphere. As with his full-length albums, Exit, Joyful Rebellion, Atlantis: Hymns for the Disco and Yes!, The Anchorman Mixtape is honest, straight-forward, in-depth and genuine. While most hip-hop mixtapes hitting the streets these days feature an artist rapping over instrumentals of hit songs and reciting throwaway lyrics that were left over from a previous album, k-os brings originally produced instrumentation, ranging from

Lunafest — Short films by, for and about women. 7 p.m Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Tuesday, Oct. 20

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

Wednesday, Oct. 21

Talk by Dr. Andrew Wakefield — The controversial physician who caused an uproar when he claimed vaccines contribute to autism. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., 303441-3100.

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head-nodding beats to guitar-driven rhythms fitting for any full-length album. And of course his signature thought-provoking and clever songwriting is littered throughout the project.

Topics range from his love-hate relationship with hip-hop to past relationships and heartbreaks, spruced with a spiritual sprinkle.

And it’s all available for free download.

K-os recorded the mixtape while on tour with hip-hop wunderkind Drake, inspired by multiple viewings of the Will Ferrell film Anchorman. Clips from the film precede the songs featured on the mixtape.

“Anchorman was a movie that came to me on the tour bus by my monitor man Matt Sullivan — we call him Sully. He basically brought this movie to me, and we watched it and watched it again and we started quoting scenes,” k-os says, adding that a lot of people in his circle hadn’t seen the film or even heard of Will Ferrell. “Maybe it wouldn’t be a movie that people watch in the ’hood, but I thought it was cool, that maybe if I put this hip-hop soundtrack to it, it would show how congruent and how the same everybody’s culture is.”

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Wayne’s Young Money imprint, and “I told my people, I don’t want to be k-os, an artist often labeled as alt-hipin a studio for two months or a month hop because of his musical range, hangworking,” he explains. “Hooking up ing out together? Although he finds the stuff, looking at a soundboard ... I’m question odd, he understands. done with that process. It’s boring me “Yeah, you dress different, yeah, now. Six months ago I said I wasn’t you’re on a different label, yeah, one guy going to make any more albums, and raps about cars the other guy raps about everyone freaked, like, ‘Oh, he said this stars in the sky,” he says. “Yeah, it’s difbefore,’ but little did they know that ferent with me, but really, we’re more that wasn’t some off-the-cuff statement. the same than somebody who drives a “I’ve already been preparing for that tractor or is a president of a country. and the mixtape is the perfect example, Artists are kind of a species of their because all of those songs could have own, and if you put it like that, it’s never been released on a monthly basis over really weird when any two artists get the next year, but I just decided, let’s together. Whether it’s Bing Crosby and just put them out. I’m just going to David Bowie or whether it’s Paul drop tracks on Twitter, my blog (tourMcCartney and Michael Jackson. I tv.com) and on Facebook and give it think hip-hop kind of separates that away to people who want to hear it.” because people don’t like to connect the One of the songs k-os is hoping to lucrative money side of hip-hop to the create and get out to the public is one anti-establishment roots side of hipwith Shania Twain. Yes, the Canadian hop. They like to keep it separate country singer. The rapper has his peobecause it’s a different artistic texture. ple trying to find her, and he scoffs at [When combined] this causes a creation anyone questioning how a hip-hop artist of confusion in the fan and the artist. I

find that the more records I make, I don’t have those confusions anymore because who I am is defined.”

In the meantime, k-os is preparing for his first U.S. tour as a headliner.

Although he’s toured the States on numerous occasions with The Roots, De La Soul and, of course, Drake, he’s never headlined a tour of his own. He admits he’s taken his time to get a major U.S. tour off the ground.

“America is the home of hip-hop, and I guess in some ways I’ve always been nervous and scared of America.

Not in a negative sense, but it’s just such a big sandwich to bite into,” he says.

“You want to come from the right angle.

I’m creating my own reality in America slowly, and I think the mixtape was part of the process. Sometimes people are skeptical. You got to go out there, and you wonder who is going to show up at the shows.

“But this is the music of my youth; this is hip-hop. And even though it isn’t a Canadian-created music, it’s still in my soul, and it’s guided me in my youth. So it really just came down to just loving hip-hop and having faith in that dynamic and letting that lead the way.”

There’s nothing fake or fraudulent about that.

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Worldwide rhythms

With a World Cup boost, K’naan’s sound spans the globe

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by Quibian Salazar-Moreno

omali-Canadian rapper K’naan just had one of the best summers of his career. Earlier in the year his song “Waving Flag” from his sophomore album The Troubadour was adopted by Canadian producer Bob Ezrin and the Young Artists for Haiti to raise funds for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. But the song really took off when it became the anthem for this summer’s 2010 World Cup in South Africa when Coca-Cola, a major sponsor for the tournament, used it in its World Cup-related campaigns.

“It’s been amazing,” says K’naan, 32, whose birth name is Keinan Abdi Warsame.

“It was a pretty remarkable experience. I can’t even explain it. The song went to No. 1 in 19 countries. That’s pretty remarkable in itself, but you know, it’s like my music is being sung in Korea to Brazil. That kind of exposure is pretty hard to get.”

The song is a touching ode to his early life living in Mogadishu, backed by a hip-hop beat and African rhythms. The original song, however, was a bit too “real” for the folks at Coca-Cola, so K’naan rewrote it to make it more of a national pride anthem for fans of the teams participating in the tournament. The original, though, spoke about poverty and violence rampant in K’naan’s homeland during his youth and to this day, which inspires a lot of his music.

He frequently shares the childhood story of how he, a cousin and a friend found a live grenade buried near their local school. Not really knowing what a grenade was at the time, the kids were playing with it, tossing it back and forth when one of them accidentally pulled the pin. They let it go just before it exploded, but it destroyed their school. Luckily, none of them were injured, and the school was empty. He

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was 11.

“I went back to Somalia in December,” he says.

“It’s the first time I’ve been back since I left when I was 13. It was a pretty moving experience. But it’s not a country that’s in a position, especially Mogadishu, to be visited like normal. I try to lend where I could, but it’s a lot more dire than just refugee problems. That’s one of them, but it’s everything. It’s a country that has completely fallen apart. So where do you start? There’s the violence. It’s one of most violent places in the world. It’s a very daunting thing, but that’s why music is a little bit helpful; it can kind of make things that are that grand a little bit more simple and bring a little bit more healing.”

K’naan released his debut album, The Dusty Foot Philosopher, in 2005, and it received praise for its amalgamation of hip-hop and African tribal sounds along with introspective lyrics that he says are inspired

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by everything from The Beatles to Tupac.

His follow-up, The Troubadour, dropped in early 2009 and followed the same themes and saw him collaborating with a wide variety of artists, like hip-hop legend Chubb Rock, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, Damian Marley and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. Fans are anticipating his next release.

“I won’t say I’ve started working on a new album, but I’ve been working on songs,” he says. “And they might be songs that may end up on the next album. I think that after the U.S. tour, I’m gonna get in the studio and focus on music. A lot has changed in my life, and if you can tell from Dusty Foot and Troubadour, I’m not an artist that shies away from talking about real issues that concern my life. There’s been a lot of travel and success and all of its perils. Success, to a degree, we always see from the bright side, but you know it has its dark side.”

In the interim, K’naan is preparing for his very first headlining tour in the United States. He has toured the states with Marley, Jason Mraz and Lenny Kravitz, but now he has the opportunity to spread his wings a bit. Working with a full-fledged band, K’naan says that the show is very energetic and a sight to see.

“Expect an experience, man. I’m not just saying that,” he says. “The show is as honest as possible. We make song lists — we don’t make set lists — in that we might put up a list of songs just so we could remember. But I’d be on stage and honestly go with wherever the show might take us. Some shows may end up being an hour and others may end up being two hours. Like we just don’t know what will happen.

And that’s what I love about music; it’s the experience of it.”

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The Walkmen make no bones about their influences

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amilton Leithauser is unapologetic about his taste in music.

“Tons and tons of different stuff,” says Leithauser, the singer for oddly retro rock band The Walkmen, “but I started with the Rolling Stones. My influences are classic rock, I would say, different ’60s and ’70s stuff.”

It’s no surprise. The Walkmen sound like they just pulled up in a Volkswagen van covered in peace graffiti to jump on stage with tube amps and nowvintage guitars and wow an acid-drenched crowd of muddy Woodstock goers. Their music oscillates between the moody, drifting wisps of late-’70s ballads and the raucous and fiery rock sound of the previous decade. There’s even a hint of the early reggae vibe of innovators like Delroy Wilson and Toots and the Maytals, when American soul was still the biggest influence on the genre.

And that throwback sound isn’t hurt by the fact that Leithauser sounds for all the world like a young Rod Stewart, with moments of Bob Dylan thrown in for good measure.

“I’m not trying to,” Leithauser insists. “The first guy to ever say that, I thought it was hilarious. But I don’t think it’s a problem.”

Clearly not. The Walkmen have certainly never dodged their ties to the past. They’ve embraced them so wholeheartedly that in 1996, shortly after releasing their album A Hundred Miles Off, the band recorded a song-for-song cover of the 1974 Harry Nilsson release Pussy Cats, an album famously produced by John Lennon. The album was meant to serve as a goodbye of sorts to the band’s personal studio, Marcata Recording, located on the property of Columbia University. The university wanted the property back, and The Walkmen had no choice but to comply.

The album elicited strong reactions from fans, some of whom loved the band’s take on the classic.

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“Some people didn’t understand why we even did it,” Leithauser says. “We did it faithfully, but I think it may have been presented wrong.”

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Studios], with the same guy [Chris Zane],” Leithauser says. “We worked much faster and happier, which was so much fun for us.”

Recorded mostly in Dallas, the album essentially exploded from the band’s instruments. The Walkmen finished 13 songs in five days, an amazing feat by just about anyone’s standard.

“The last actual recordings of those songs couldn’t have taken more than three or four hours each,” Leithauser says.

The album serves as a bridge between the bookends of The Walkmen’s career. The first two songs on the record were written earlier in the band’s career, while the rest are brand new. The final song, Leithauser says, has been part of the band’s on-stage repertoire for well over a year. “[The record] really spans about two years,” Leithauser says. “A lot of times it’s an 11th-hour thing, but when you’ve had the time to really work on a song it makes recording a lot easier.”

The band has also made a habit of stopping by the Daytrotter studio in Davenport, Ind., on just about every tour to record a live set for the Daytrotter website. The site offers free sessions from dozens upon dozens of bands of all genres. It’s something Leithauser says the band looks forward to.

“It’s fun to stop through because it’s in the middle of Indiana,” Leithauser says. “Usually, in places like that, you just drive in and drive out. The last time was really incredible. We went on the Fourth of July and they did a great job. It was in a big grain storage bar, way out in the corn fields, and they had a big party.”

Despite their classic rock sound, The Walkmen continue to draw in a varied crowd.

“It sort of weirdly varies from city to city,” says Leithauser. “In some cities it’s older people, and in some it’s college kids just going berserk.”

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aves of change rattled the record Katherine Creel store community in Boulder when Bart’s CD Cellar and Record Shop closed its doors this past Valentine’s Day. Now, Bart Stinchcomb, the original owner and namesake of the store, hopes to make another, if smaller, with his latest record-selling venture.

Stinchcomb sold the business to Value Music Concepts Inc. back in August 2006.

Shortly after closing Bart’s, Value Music filed for bankruptcy. This action also inadvertently reversed a “non-compete” agreement with Stinchcomb that contractually forbade the former owner from opening another store within 50 miles for five years.

Not content with selling records and CDs online, and freed from the contract with Value Music, Stinchcomb opened a new location this past who crave connection.” Schneidkraut also agrees that June. His present “project,” as he calls it, aptly named the importance of having a record store like Bart’s or Bart’s Music Shack, is a small trailer of sorts that bare- Albums is “people coming in for an education, to ly covers 400 square feet of 236 Pearl St. speak to someone who knows the music and can “Online sales weren’t enough for me anymore,” engage in discussion about it with breadth.”

Stinchcomb says. “I wanted a place where I could talk Whether in competition with Stinchcomb or not, to people.”

Schneidkraut also notes, “My best years were when “Boulder is a community that has always supported there were the most stores in town. Part of being a homegrown business,” says Andy Schneidkraut, who record collector is bitching about which stores you like runs and has owned 35-year-old Albums on the Hill and which stores you hate.” for more than two decades. “It’s amazing how quickly Doug Gaddy of Absolute Vinyl in North Boulder the physical space dedicated to music sales could says diversity of record stores is a good thing. shrink over the years in a place with such highly edu“I wanted a place where people can come, be comcated, music-loving people.” fortable, and just listen,” he says. “The store’s there for Schneidkraut feels a kinship to Stinchomb, whom people. I want it to be a resource. he considers a friend. Although he admits that Bart’s “In the old days, stores used to cluster,” Gaddy “big store” going out of business probably saved says. “There should be different personalities, different Albums on the Hill from closing, he believes there experiences in each store. People want to have that should be a variety of independent record stores in experience. areas such as Boulder for the same reason Stinchomb “It’s apples and oranges,” Gaddy says of prefers his new storefront to online sales.

Stinchcomb’s old location and the new one. “But, “People don’t want to be isolated,” Schneidkraut when he owned his old store, he was always so busy.

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go out and get Mexican food or a ‘non-beer.’ We’re both just record nerds, and we’re kind of doing this for Boulder.”

Regardless of the seemingly good vibes produced between storeowners, there’s also a definite sense of competition between storeowners, says Tom Peters, owner of the Beat Book Shop.

Peters has run his store, a few blocks east of where Bart’s used to be, for 20 of the 25 years he has lived in the area. It’s here where Peters sells both books and records alike.

Though he concurs that “record stores should be weird” and that they should be “places where people can engage with other people who are educated and can grant secret information,” he doesn’t feel that there’s an actual “community” which exists between his competitors and himself.

“The truth is record collectors are cutthroat and want the same record that another record collector might see at the same garage sale,” Peters says.

“Nobody sheds a tear when a competitor closes.”

As with Schneidkraut and Gaddy, Peters did “shed a tear” when Bart’s sold to Value Music, losing a lot of Stinchcomb’s original employees along the way, some of whom were Peters’ close friends.

Nevertheless, Peters doesn’t understand why, when it comes to local record stores, Bart’s is “the only thing anybody can talk about. He’s not the only one selling records.”

Whether or not Peters is correct in his dismissal of an area record store community, he shares with his competitors — including Stinchcomb — an abiding love of records that will never be matched by the convenience of iPods or mp3s, a passion that they all want to share with new generations of music listeners.

“All I know is when I see a record, I get really happy,” Peters says. “Records have this warmth. …

You’re going to have an emotional experience, and nothing is ever going to replace that. I hope all of the stores thrive and do well.”

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A Taste of Fall — Benefit dinner for the Colorado Chautauqua Association.

6:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282.

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

Bill Kopper Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Cody Crump and the Little Giants.

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

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

Illa J and Frank Nitt. 9 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace. com/astrolandd.

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

Josh McWilliams. 6-9 p.m. Alley Cat Bar and Grill, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-6666224.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

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

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-5864116.

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

Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night.

Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344.

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

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

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

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance.

9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Robert Schaller Program. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Buffalo Belles Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.

Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU campus, 303492-8422.

Colorado Skies: Lunar Science. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-

Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Charles Deas & 1840s America — Oil paintings.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-8655000. Through Nov. 28.

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft — Drawings by Marc Brandenburg. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 20.

Edits — Paintings by Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 30.

Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Oct. 31.

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Dancing with Boulder Stars. 7:30 p.m.

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

Flatirons Photo Club. 7 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

International Film Series — Valhalla Rising. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

Repousse Metalworking Class. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

arts arts Moments In Between — Paintings by Barbara Shark.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30.

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

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Photographs by George Vago. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through

Brent Loveday Band. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Brethren Fast. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Buffalo 5 Piece. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Crowboy. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

David Williams and Wildgrass. 8 p.m.

Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Dechen Hawk. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Donnie Mortimer, Paul Kimbris, Shannon Curtis. 7:45 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Evan Cantor. 7 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Frogs Gone Fishing. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

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

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

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

Jonathan Edwards. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

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

Mary Russell Band. 9 p.m. Alley Cat Bar and Grill, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-6666224.

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

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NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Mixed media by Barbara Bueller. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Nov. 30.

Shut Your Face Off! Mixed media by Donald Fodness & Alvin Gregorio. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through

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Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 9.

A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

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Octopus Nebula, An-Ten-Nae & Dubskin — 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Phil Robinson. 6 p.m. Jill’s at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

Selasee and the Fafa Family. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

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

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GLBT Resource Center’s 15th Anniversary Celebration. 2 p.m.

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International Film Series — Valhalla Rising. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

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

Laser Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon.

10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Light the Wick. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Ones and Zeros Film Series — Grindhouse. 8 p.m. Smokey Banana Tattoo/ Bananelope Coffee, 1405 U.S. Hwy. 287, Broomfield, 303-466-2170.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5440008.

Saturday, Oct. 16

music 18 Switchbacks. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Accordian Crimes — With Carol Cleveland Sings and others. 8 p.m.

Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

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words Thursday, Oct. 14 James Howard Kunstler’s Witch of Hebron. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Vicki Myron’s Dewey’s Nine Lives.

7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St, Denver, 303-436-1070.

Sunday, Oct. 17 Conversations in English. 10 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, Oct. 18

Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Darkness. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

“So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

Tuesday, Oct. 19 Erin Blakemore’s The Heroine’s Bookshelf. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

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Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4435108.

Blue Canyon Boys. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Boulder Blues Mafia. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Boulder Concert Band Fall Season Premiere. 7 p.m. Manhattan Middle School for the Arts and Academics, 290 Manhattan Dr., Boulder, 303-530-7633.

Chris McGarry and the Insomniacs. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Coffeehouse Concert: Anasazi Classical String Quartet. 7:30 p.m.

Venue: Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave, Louisville, 303-666-4361.

Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Dubtonic Kru. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

Hafla — With Yallah! and Inactivists. 7 p.m.

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

Interstate Stash Express — With Hot Soup. 8 p.m. Dicken’s Opera House, 302 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Jon Weiss. 8 p.m. Alley Cat Bar and Grill, 817 Main St., Louisville, 303-666-6224.

Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

Mythica — Benefit for Universal Unitarian Church of Boulder. 7 p.m. 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, www.MythicaMusic.com.

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

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

Tannahill Weavers. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

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

Wadirum. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance.

10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-9102236.

Cohousing Bus Tour. 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.Various locations in Boulder and Denver, www.cohousing.org.

The Emotional Cinematographer. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Legend of the Tarantula — Travelling exhibit. The Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave., Westminster, 303-469-5441.

Through Nov. 28.

Murder 1929: Will Power — Murder mystery theater. Gold Hill Inn, 390 Hill St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Oktoberfest at Twisted Pine. 6-10 p.m.

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

Shooting the Nude as Fine Art. 1 p.m

Jubal & the Rude Boys (Reggae/Funk/Rock)

Sat Oct 16 • 8pm

Interstate Stash Express w/ Hot Soup

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Fri Oct 22 • 9pm

Sammy Dee

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Sat Oct 23 • 8pm

The Bill McKay Band w/ The McKay Brothers

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Fri Oct 29 • 9pm

The Long Run (Colorado’s Premier Eagles Tribute Band)

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The 39 Steps. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Arapahoe and Speer, Denver, 303-893-4100.

Through Nov. 14.

Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St.,

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

Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Yoga with Horses — Free demonstration. Sunnyfield Farm, 8550 N. 39th St., Longmont, 303-579-5926.

Sunday, Oct. 17

music Acoustic Jam. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

The High Country Triptones. 6 p.m.

Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Irish Session. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Jazz Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5460886.

Superstar Runners. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

Thom Sandrock Quartet. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Waiting on the Trail. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

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2nd Annual Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser. To benefit the Fairview Speech and Debate Team. 7:30-10 a.m.

Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 24.

MFA Dance Concert – Shifting Tides and with/out/others. Charlotte York Irey Theatre, CU campus, 303492-8181. Oct. 15-17.

Applebees Bar and Grill, 1906 28th St., Boulder.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:306:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Boulder WordPress Meetup. 3 p.m.

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

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

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to noon.

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

Meet the Spirits. 5 p.m. Columbia Cemetery, Ninth and Pleasant streets, Boulder, 303-444-5192.

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m. For more information, call 720-3013993.

Monday, Oct. 18

music

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

Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

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

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

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303443-5108.

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Boulder Public Library Film Program — Rock Prophecies. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Feed the Future 2010 — To support the September High School financial aid program. 6:30 p.m. Restaurant 4580, 4580 Broadway, Boulder, 303-443-9933.

Lunafest — Short films by, for and about women. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

and Friends. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Knocean.

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

Somewhere in L.A. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

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

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

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Tuesday, Oct. 19

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Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

The Girlfriend Season, Bird by Bird.

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

Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

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

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

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

Tony Medina’s Songwriter Showcase.

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

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Audio for the Visual World. 6 p.m.

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

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

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

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

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted

by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

Wednesday, Oct. 20

music

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

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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

Cannabis Medicine-Making Class.

6:30 p.m. Best Western Boulder Inn, 770 28th St., Boulder, 877-420-4205.

Correcting Your Photos the Right Way in Photoshop. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Crumb. 8 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/ astrolandd.

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

International Film Series — Metropolis. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

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The North Face Speaker Series — With Karina Hollekim. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Tea, Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993.

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

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Oct. 14 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

Friday, Oct. 15

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

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

Saturday, Oct. 16 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Sunday, Oct. 17 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Monday, Oct. 18 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m.

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

Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m.

Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, Oct. 19 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, Oct. 20 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

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Boulder mountain manscaping

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by Dr. Jenni Skyler

avid and Jessie do a monthly date to get waxed. At 5 p.m. they hit up happy hour for a margarita. Then they drive over to the wax salon at 6 p.m.

Relaxed bodies and brains ready them for their appointments. Jessie gets a Brazilian bikini wax in one room; David does his back and shoulders in another. They are done by 6:45, home by 7, and eagerly ripping each other’s clothes off by 7:01.

“I encouraged David to start manscaping,” Jessie admits. “But now he’s hooked. I suppose the post-wax blow job certainly helps too!”

In a society that currently asserts that back hair is not sexy, many men are starting to manscape — reducing unsightly body hair with trimmers, razors and wax for a more groomed appearance. Yes, even in Boulder.

Brian, a 32-year-old triathlete, admits, “I’m used to shaving my legs for swimming and biking. Letting the razor wander to other areas was easy.

And excellent for my sex life with my wife. After I shave, we slip around like velvet.”

Though not a competitive Boulder athlete, Dan, 45, states, “I shave both balls and pubes because I like my women to as well. It would be a double standard if I didn’t.”

Max, a 25-year-old rock climber, states, “I don’t shave anything at all. It feels pre-pubescent.” To him, his body and facial hair signify a rugged sex appeal, and keep him warm in winter.

Brian, Dan and Max reflect on how manscaping can define the type of masculinity a man subscribes to. Dan feels that modern men must take care of themselves if they are going to attract and keep a partner. Yet he has lived in Boulder a long time.

“In this town, my beard is superimportant to me, but so is my beard trimmer,” he says.

The question becomes, what’s acceptable hair and what’s not? When it comes to manscaping, the general consensus is to wax the back, but keep the beard; shave the scrotum, but trim the happy trail. It doesn’t hurt that manscaping enhances muscular definition and makes the penis appear larger.

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While the beard trimmer is many a man’s best friend, others prefer to have a professional do the dirty work.

Noreen, a cerologist (waxing specialist) waxes just as many men as women.

“Metro men often come in for a more stylized wax,” she says. “Mountain men tend to come in to keep the beard and neckline trim.”

She notes that Boulder’s athletic scene accounts for a huge portion of the business, including whole-body waxing of arms, underarms, legs, back and chest. Other men wax for anniversaries and special occasions. And a smaller portion of men get waxed for their drag-queen shows or cross-dressing fun.

While shaving cuts hair off at the skin, creating a faster and more concentrated re-growth, waxing pulls the hair from the root, allowing it to grow back slower and finer. Men can do a bikini wax (removal of pubic hair that sticks out of the briefs), or a Brazilian bikini (removal of all pubic hair on the pubic mound and surrounding areas; includes butt crack, but no shaft or scrotum).

The penis shaft and scrotum have a thin and stretchy skin that is too sensitive for wax or creams. Hair in these areas is best removed with razors or trimmers.

Usually if a man trims, shaves, or waxes, so does his partner. Betsy, Max’s girlfriend, supports his abstinence from manscaping. “I like a fully natural look.

Body hair separates men from boys, and I like men — hairy and wild.”

Gloria is a 24 year-old CU grad student originally from Los Angeles.

She prefers a more metro-mountain look. “My man needs to be well-maintained — thick but sculpted eyebrows, trimmed and suitable face stubble, tidy arms and legs, and zero hair on the chest, back and below the belt.”

And then there is Sally, a 43-yearold Boulder native who states, “I like my men like I like my trails — rugged but not overgrown.”

Metro and mountain men alike, what matters most is when you look in the mirror and like what you see. Plus, you won’t complain if your partner also likes how you feel when sliding into the sleeping bag with you.

Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org

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Friday, Oct. 15

Local Recreation with the Colorado Mountain Club. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Saturday, Oct. 16 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, Oct. 17 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

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s the first snows dust the Front Range with the promise of winter, we bid farewell to the summer hiking season. Trekking in the chilly air has its own charm to be certain, but if you still hanker for one more summer-style weekend, head south to the impressive Spanish Peaks and Great Sand Dunes National Park.

Besides jaw-dropping scenery courtesy of the Sangre De Cristo peaks, the unique geography is accented by the soaring dunes. Bring your cameras get ready to roam — starting with the Spanish Peaks.

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Monday, Oct. 18 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:306:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-5656019.

Natural First Aid and Survival Tips. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Tuesday, Oct. 19 GPS Basics. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

Natural Panama. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program.

5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, Oct. 20 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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James Dziezynski

West Spanish Peak The twin Spanish Peaks cut an impressive profile over the farmland below. Unlike the Front Range where mountains slowly rise from glaciated foothills to massive domed summits, the Spanish Peaks rise like a enormous fortress, giving the illusion they are considerably higher than their mid-13,000foot elevations. Far enough away from the metro area to feel remote but close enough for a modest drive (2.5 to 3 hours from the Boulder area), the Spanish Peaks are something of a local secret. This micro-range consists of two main peaks, the lower East Spanish Peak at 12,683 feet and James Dziezynski big brother West Spanish Peak, which tops out at 13,626 feet. What makes this duo so unique is their volcanic heritage in a region that is mostly shaped by plate tectonics.

Of the two, West Spanish is the more popular hike, particularly because of the stunning 360-degree views from the summit. The standard trailhead begins from Cordova Pass, which splits off of Colorado Route 12. CO 12 begins roughly seven miles from Walsenburg and travels 22 miles past the small town of La Veta and the dormant Cucharas ski area before intersecting with Cordova Pass. From here, it is six miles up a well-maintained dirt road to the top of the pass where the trail starts. A small campground with a half-dozen car camping sites is available for $6 a night, but there are no water sources, so be sure to bring enough for your camping and the hike.

A modest $4 fee gets you into the Spanish steep sections near the summit. The hard granite Peaks wilderness area. While the road is not plowed, walls of the Spanish dykes were formed deep within the pass is typically open until November due to the the earth and pushed to surface when tectonic plates warmer southern Colorado climate. shifted. Their symmetry is incredible to behold from The hike to the top of West Spanish is a modest the lofty perch of West Spanish Peak. If you’re con3.3 climb on a class 2 trail, though there are a few sidering a traverse over to East Spanish Peak, be

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prepared for a long day. It’s five miles summit to summit, so round trip out and back is 16.6 miles — certainly doable for strong hikers, but still an all-day effort. It’s only 6.6 miles round trip if you only ascend West Spanish Peak.

Great Sand Dunes National Park

A bit more low-key but no less incredible is Great Sand Dunes National Park. Enormous dunes, some more than 700 feet high, sit at the foot of the Sangre De Cristo’s flagship massif, the Blanca formation (which includes three of the states famous 14ers — Mount Blanca, Ellingwood Point and Little Bear Peak). Roaming the undulating hills offers a snapshot of desert terrain, minus the expansive, barren stretches of larger deserts. These dunes were formed from strong winds blowing across the flat lands to the west and depositing the soil at the bottom of the mountains. Unlike so many other natural formations, the dunes are actually growing with each year rather than eroding.

The main park entrance is located 35 miles from Alamosa, and there is camping available in the area. A $3-per-person fee gets you into the park, and if you’d like to camp, call ahead for reservations and availability (www.nps.gov/grsa, or call 1-888448-1474). When combined with the hiking adventure of West Spanish Peak (which is roughly an hour’s drive away), the Great Sand Dunes provide a wonderful contrast in eco-systems from the high peaks. This pocket of unique geography makes for a great adventure anytime of the year but is especially good for those hoping to squeeze in one more ice-free outing.

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Local company sells gin-soaked raisins for arthritis pain

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by Mitchell Byars

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or years, Larry Wright struggled with arthritis pain in his hands. Then he found an unusual remedy for his pain in gin-soaked raisins, and now he’s trying to spread the relief to others.

Wright has started a company based in Lafayette called DrunkenRaisins, which sells gin-soaked raisins online.

Wright himself started using the raisins about four years ago when conventional methods weren’t working for the pain he was experiencing in his hands.

“The doctors prescribed me painkillers and even suggested an operation, and I thought, ‘There’s something wrong with this picture,’” Wright says. “That was about the time my life-partner Trudy told me to look at this article about gin-soaked raisins.”

A popular folk remedy for arthritis for years, ginsoaked raisins are made by soaking white raisins in gin for around two weeks before being dried out in a “sobering” process. While it seems there have been no formal studies on their effects, most people believe that the relief comes from the anti-inflammatory effects of juniper berries — the ingredient in gin that gives the drink its flavor — and the sulfates that give white raisins their bleached color.

Wright looked up the recipe online and began to make his own gin-soaked raisins. When he began eating the raisins, he immediately noticed the pain in his hands subsided.

“I would take 12 on a day when my hands were hurting, and in about 15 minutes I would feel relief,” he says.

Soon, Wright was making and selling the raisins to his friends and making his own changes to the recipe. But he always wondered why there was no place to buy gin-soaked raisins on the market.

“When I started to improve the recipe and was

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making them for my friends I asked, ‘Why doesn’t someone make these and sell them?’” Wright says.

One thing led to another, and DrunkenRaisins was born. In addition to soaking the raisins in gin, Wright also coats the raisins in cinnamon and honey to improve the taste. Cinnamon and honey are also rumored to have anti-inflammatory effects of their own.

“The honey and cinnamon took it a long way toward making it something more palatable,” Wright says. “I wanted to make it a tastier morsel so that people don’t have to have arthritis to appreciate them.”

While the honey and cinnamon add a sweet flavor, the gin is still the dominant taste in the raisins, and while it is not possible to get drunk off of the raisins, Wright says that non-drinkers might need to get used to the flavor.

“My impression is that people who don’t drink find it a little offensive,” he says. “Other people who will drink from time to time will not be offended.

Then there are some people who love to have them after dinner with some wine.”

For those who don’t exactly enjoy the flavor of gin, Wright says to think of it as taking medicine. Eight to nine of the raisins a day should do the trick, but people who are just starting to eat the raisins might want to start out taking twice that amount in the first two weeks to kickstart the effect of the raisins.

“Some people notice immediate results, for some people it can take a little longer,” Wright says. “But in excess of 80 percent of people have had positive results. Besides, it’s food, so if it doesn’t help, there is nothing lost.”

As far as how to eat the raisins, you are limited only by your own imagination.

Wright says that in addition to eating them as is, he has put them in oatmeal and in smoothies. But he has also heard of people who have put them on ice cream, on chocolate and even in the classic ants on a log (raisins in peanut butter on a stick of celery). The only limitation: cooking the raisins will negate their anti-inflammatory effect, so baking them into your oatmeal cookies won’t work.

DrunkenRaisins are sold by the pound exclusively through drunkenraisins.com. Orders range from one pound at $24.95 to 10 pounds at $179.50, with one pound equivalent to a month’s worth of raisins at the prescribed dose. Wright is hoping that people dealing with arthritis pain will find the same relief he did in the gin-soaked raisins.

“Before, I had a hard time buttoning buttons and zipping zippers,” Wright says. “Now, my golf game is as good as it’s ever been.

“It’s always fun to run into someone who says they know someone who is trying this and is getting relief.

Hopefully this can come alive again, because I think it can help a lot of people.”

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eeling a chill in the morning did not disappoint. Sure, the filling was air, I decided to take advanlikely canned fruit, but that didn’t prevent tage of the remaining warm us from enjoying the juxtaposition of the weather days by venturing up fruit’s tart and sweet qualities. The crust to Rocky Mountain National was in a class all by itself — flaky, delicate Park for some wildlife photography. and possessing more layers of thin pastry Anticipating the taxing nature of this than one might have thought possible. adventure, I sought ample morning susteTertia and her mom, Pat, enjoyed siminance with friend Tertia and her family at larly Southwestern entrees, the $10.50 Andrea’s Homestead Café on the main Santa Fe Muffin and the $9 Huevos drag in Lyons.

Rancheros. The muffin was a variant on Trendy is not how one would describe the Benedict, consisting of a muffin topped Andrea’s, which possesses a homey, hospiwith scrambled eggs, sausage, cheese and table air. We sat out on the comfortable green chile sauce. The huevos was similar, porch, which faces away from the main swapping out the muffin for corn tortillas, street, making for a more peaceful experiand sans sausage. Each of these choices ence than I had anticipated. The ambience was amply sized, and the chile stood out is a cross between old-school hunting for having a peppy flavor that wasn’t lodge, complete with big game trophies, unpleasantly spicy. and the home of a relative who moved here Like all other dishes, the $9.50 biscuits from Europe. Indeed, this establishment and gravy, touted as a house specialty, was has a definite Teutonic influence, as evisolid. While Andrea’s version didn’t break denced by the ample selection of dinnery introduction to the concept of Wiener Schnitzel came any new ground, it did offer up a gravy menu schnitzels (15 is my limit on schnitfrom the Der Wienerschitnzel fast food chain, which actuthat was neither too salty or overly mudzengruben) and old-country bric-a-brac. ally didn’t serve Wiener Schnitzel, but instead featured frankdled with flour. The biscuits had a decidThe morning menu features standard furters. Wiener Schnitzel is a boneless piece of veal or pork, edly rough-hewn texture reminiscent of bacon-and-egg repasts with such flourishes sometimes flattened by a rolling pin, and breaded and fried. homemade, and the overall effect was preas German-style breakfast potatoes (which Austrian law requires that Wiener Schnitzel be made from veal, dictable but comforting. Add in the aren’t all that different from home fries) and one can only imagine the legislative debates on that included scrambled eggs, and I had enough and smoked pork chops. There’s also a nod issue. The traditional presentation includes a lemon slice with a energy to ascend Long’s Peak. to the American Southwest, with some side of potato salad or spuds dressed in butter and parsley.

If you’re seeking fancy locavore fare dishes highlighting vegetarian green chile.

While popular in Germany and Austria, it’s thought this dish and boutique coffees, Andrea’s isn’t the The spirit of family friendliness is reinoriginated in Italy. place for you. If you want a solid American roadside breakfast with subtle German forced by having items such as French twists, you’ll be more than happy. You toast and pancakes available in child’s pormight find similar meals for a buck or two cheaper tions. unguarded picnic basket. Fortunately, my friends elsewhere, but you might not experience the hefty Upon entering, I couldn’t help but notice a small restrained me from running off with the platter, portions or enticing baked goods. You’ll also miss out stack of cherry turnovers, dusted with powdered sugar, although we did request some of these $2.50 treats as on Andrea’s Old World charm. resting atop a silver platter. My initial reaction to this soon as we sat down.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Cuisine for a cause An Evening for Tibet, the third annual benefit dinner for the Tibetan Village Project, is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 24, at Tibet’s Restaurant in Louisville. A $60 donation per person covers Tibetan entertainment, a ritual blessing, a delicious Tibetan and Indian dinner, an auction and prizes. This spring and summer, the Tibetan Village Project provided earthquake relief to victims of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit Yushu County, Qinghai Province, on April 14. For more information about the projects or the dinner, visit www.tibetanvillageproject.org.

Drink pink In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Baker St. Pub & Grill in Boulder, located at 1729 28th St., will offer three unique pink cocktails: Jack’s Pink Bull, the Rose Rita and the French Kiss. A portion of the sales from the pink concoctions will benefit Breast Cancer Charities of America, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about breast cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.

If a pink cocktail isn’t your cup of tea, patrons can still support the charity by purchasing pink ribbons for $1, $5 or $25. For more information, call Baker St. Pub & Grill at 720-974-9490.

Awards from Naturally Boulder Naturally Boulder, a local organization that aims to nurture start-up natural foods companies, honored promising members of the local natural products industry at its fall awards celebration on Sept. 30.

The Fall Awards Celebration kicked off with the Naturally Boulder Pitch Slam, in which 22 entrepreneurs presented their natural products business ideas and start-up scenarios in a two-minute business pitch before a panel of industry veterans.

White Girl Salsa, a Colorado-based small-batch all-natural salsa producer, won the grand prize package, which included more than $10,000 in business services from Naturally Boulder partner companies and a New Hope 360 prize to attend and exhibit at the Natural Marketplace trade show in 2011.

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went to Bhakti Chai. Rudi’s Organic Bakery received the company of the year award, and Ramona Clark of Growing Gardens received the local hero award. The award for Lifetime Achievement in the Boulder Natural Products industry was presented to Steve Demos, founder of White Wave Foods and NextFoods.

For more about Naturally Boulder, visit www.naturallyboulderproducts.com.

Drink and donate On Oct. 18 from 3-9 p.m., the Twisted Pine Brewery will be hosting a benefit for Gerald, one of its regular customers. Gerald is in the care of Imagine!, a nonprofit that provides support for people with developmental disabilities, and he has never had a vacation before. Twisted Pine is hoping to raise money to help Gerald get to Las Vegas. His caregiver has volunteered to pay her own way and take care of him on the trip. Twisted Pine will donate $1 from every pint to the cause. Gerald will be there as well. For more information, call 303786-9270.

ZisBoomBah wins national honor Boulder business ZisBoomBah, an interactive nutrition website for children, has been awarded the Grand Prize in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Apps for Healthy Kids competition.

The competition was aimed at games and apps that encourage healthy eating and physical activity and contribute to ending childhood obesity within a generation.

ZisBoomBah has been developing software tools for family nutrition since 2008, but launched its first free online tool — and winner of the competition’s grand prize — in March.

The tool, Pick Chow!, allows children to create a healthy meal online and provides nutritional information on their chosen foods.

ZisBoomBah competed against nearly 100 technology teams from across the nation for the grand prize of $10,000. The business will invest the money in promoting nutrition awareness among children in schools, camps, communities and homes.

Visit www.zisboombah.com to experience the Pick Chow! tool.

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ell, looks like my autumn dance worked.

It wasn’t pretty to watch, I’m sure, but Mother Nature listened, or didn’t want to witness the dance again. Whatever. Fall is here and I’m a happy baker.

This week, you’ll all be happy bakers. Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars. Sounds delicious, tastes delicious and easy-peasy to make. This treat is one you will want to keep in your holiday back pocket for years to come. It’s hard to beat toasted pecans and chocolate on any level, but imagine kicking it up with a layer of gooey ooey (it’s a word) melted dark chocolate over a sweet shortbread crust, topping it with rich pecan pie filling, then hitting it with more dark chocolate goodness. Food porn? I think so!

Now, many a pecan pie recipe includes bourbon, and we all know I love baking with the libations. This recipe, however, I prefer without.

That’s not to say I don’t sip the bourbon while making it, just to make it feel a bit more authentic. In fact, the more I “sip,” the better my fall dance looks — to me at least, maybe not to those around me. Wait, I think it’s the more you drink, the better I look.

Anyhoo, I’m excited about this week’s dessert and plan on making it more than once this season. I love the whole hold-in-your-hand thing, no utensils required. I don’t know where my aversion to sweets on a plate comes from, but I find I’m always patting myself on the back when I make a grab-and-go dessert.

I will have to examine the root of that obsession and get back to you.

Of course, I do always like a free hand to hold my bourbon. I think I just answered my own question.

OK, all you dark-chocolate, pecan-toasting Boulderites, jump on my bourbon bus (not to be confused with Banjo Billy’s Bus) and bake a treat that will have you and yours doing your own happy fall dance.

Just hold off on the winter dance for a a couple of months longer, please and thank you!

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1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 1/4 cups flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup unsalted softened butter 1 tbsp. unsalted butter 3/4 cup dark chocolate (chips or bar cut up) 1/4 cup chopped pecans 2 eggs 1 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 tbsp. unsalted softened butter 3/4 cup light Karo corn syrup 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup dark chocolate chips, chunks or bar that has been cut up 1/2 cup pecans (not chopped up)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray an 8 x 8-inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.

In bowl, combine first four ingredients — granulated sugar, flour, salt and butter — until dough forms.

Press down into prepared baking pan until even, and slightly coming up sides of pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes until it starts to turn brown. Take out. Leave oven on.

Melt 1 tbsp. butter and 3/4 cup dark chocolate in pan over low heat or slowly in microwave. Stir until smooth. Spread over baked crust.

Sprinkle chopped pecans over chocolate. Set aside.

In large bowl, beat eggs. Add in brown sugar, softened butter, Karo syrup and vanilla. Mix until well combined. Fold in dark chocolate.

Pour mix over chocolate crust.

Arrange pecans over top of mixture.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until bubbling and top is golden brown.

Take out and let cool completely.

Run a knife around edges to loosen (it can be sticky). When ready to serve, cut into bars. Dust with powdered sugar or serve with whipped cream if desired. Enjoy!

Note: This dessert needs to sit awhile before cutting.

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Pizzeria Basta 3601 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder 303-997-8775

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equestered in the Peloton residences, Pizzeria Basta features an unintimidating selection of starters focusing on cheese and charcuterie, as well as pasta, salads and pizza. The $10 lunch special is an excellent value, offering soup or salad with an entree choice of pizza, calzone or sandwich. A chef ’s special calzone stuffed with cheese, bright tomato sauce and salami is a winner, as are many of the desserts, which include house-made spearmint ice cream and a lavender-scented panna cotta.

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Sachi Sushi 7980 Niwot Rd., Niwot 303-652-0238

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achi Sushi is an honest-to-goodness sushi bar nestled within the Niwot Market. This isn’t a place for prepackaged, preservative-laden hand rolls prepared elsewhere. Here, raw fish is sliced on demand, and the hot items are cooked to order. The reasonably priced menu features sushi, traditional donburi rice bowls, curries and some fish and meat entrees.

Menu highlights include the grilled mackerel dinner, an elegantly simple choice, and the chirashi, a filling assortment of sashimi topping a bowl of sushi rice.

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Streat Chefs

1175 Walnut St., Boulder 303-999-3833

Various locations in and around Boulder 303-444-2433 www.streatchefs.com

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treat Chefs, the brainchild of Top Chef victor Hosea Rosenberg, is an Airstream trailer that moves around town to provide a winning mix of ethnic street food and American comfort classics. Use the operation’s website to track down its whereabouts, and you’ll be rewarded with a more than credible Vietnamese banh mi sandwich or an outstanding grilled cheese.

The menu is constantly changing, but reasonable prices and high-quality are certainly the norm.

Brasserie Ten Ten

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owntown’s Brasserie Ten Ten has a touch of the old school with its wood panels, a full bar and ambience that isn’t just typical modernist minimalism. Traditionalism’s also apparent on the menu: escargot, steak frites and seafood platters. Other items, like a hot dog dressed with mornay sauce and gruyere cheese, may not be strictly authentic, but are still consistent with the brasserie’s comfort-food tradition.

Zoe Ma Ma 2010 10th St., Boulder 303-545-MAMA

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here’s not exactly a San Francisco-style Cantonese menu at Zoe Ma Ma, which features authentic Chinese cooking. Sure, they have pot stickers and steamed bao, the pork-filled dim sum white buns. But there are also northern Chinese noodle dishes and zong zi, a sticky rice-filled Chinese tamale wrapped in bamboo leaf and freighted with pork. One standout is the special Sichuan Braised Beef noodle, a mix of meltin-your-mouth meat and impeccably prepared pasta.

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Restaurante 100% Mexicano 2850 Iris Ave., Boulder 303-440-4141

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orth Boulder’s Restaurante 100% Mexicano is the latest local eatery to deliver an authentic “south of the border” street food experience. The menu includes staples like tacos with freshly made corn tortillas, quesadillas, tamales with various stuffings and torta sandwiches. There’s also a selection of platos, such as tequila-sautéed shrimp and a carne asada platter.

Rueben’s Burger Bistro 1800 Broadway, Boulder 303-443-5000

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lending the disparate elements of cycling, Belgian gastronomy and burgers, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a recent addition to downtown Boulder.

The menu highlights burgers, such as the bacon-bleu cheese Spoke, and all are available with a choice of proteins, including natural beef, buffalo, housemade veggie and poultry. Other delicious features include entrée salads, mac and cheese and mussels, along with a variety of Belgian draft beers.

Jet’s Espressoria

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et’s Espressoria is an inviting Pearl Street spot that serves up full-bodied, fair-trade organic coffee with subtly spicy tones. In addi-

tion to the java, the other star attraction is the baked goods crafted on site, including scones, muffins and other pastries, notably the exemplary chocolate chip cookies. These are enticingly plump treats, dripping with buttery flavor and tantalizingly melted chocolate chips, served warm straight off the cookie sheet.

oulder Organic Pizzeria is devoted to featuring organic and local ingredients, simply presented. This space also offers gluten-free and vegan options at no additional cost. Menu items include salads and appetizers and, of course, pizza, available whole and by the slice. Top selections include a refreshing salad of baby arugula topped with real crab and drizzled with a unique dressing of olive oil and lemon. The pizzas here feature such top-shelf ingredients as a truly sensual mozzarella, locally sourced Hazel Dell mushrooms and silky prosciutto.

Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House 2845 28th St., Boulder 303-444-2922

Basil Flats 1067 S. Hover Rd., Longmont 303-776-1777

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ongmont’s fast-casual Basil Flats features a tasty and affordable Mediterraneaninspired menu. It includes flatbread pizza, sandwiches, tapas such as hummus, and beer and wine to drink. It’s one of these places where there are choices for both vegetarians and carnivores, and the tapas menu encourages sharing. Highlights include the arugala salad pizza, textbook perfect fries and grilled flatbread meatball grinders.

Newport 6700 W. 120th Ave. Broomfield, 303-635-1688

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ormerly known as Heaven Star, Broomfield’s Newport serves up some of the finest Chinese around at exceptional prices. Where else can you get a whole lobster cooked with ginger and scallions atop a platter of succulent yee mein noodles for $15.95? You can also request the classic Chinese-American tomato beef chow mein, as well as roast duck and several kinds of fried rice. They still serve dim sum, and their tea brunch is likely among the best in the entire state of Colorado.

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oulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House takes Mexican fare to a more elevated plane by offering memorable ambience, a gourmet experience and prices to match.

But the food does match up to the prices, and includes a first-rate chicken mole, as well as a sophisticated shrimp tamale that balances the taste of corn with delicate seafood. End with a coconut flan, and you’ve got an elevated “south of the border” experience.

Hush www.hushdenver.com

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ush is an intriguing concept, a private supper club with no fixed address. The aim is to spotlight up-and-coming chefs in a non-restaurant setting. Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area was held at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured smoked tomato gazpacho and port-braised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush plans to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list by registering at www. hushdenver.com.

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here is no suspense in Secretariat.

This is the one thing Disney’s new picture has in common with The Passion of the Christ and Titanic. We know the outcome. Studios rarely back movies about horses that place or show.

The animal that loved to preen for the cameras made all the magazine covers in 1973 after running away with the Triple Crown, though in the ’73 Kentucky Derby, Secretariat was back by nine lengths before finishing like a champ. With the facts of his triumph widely known, and his symbolic rebuke to Watergate-era cynicism so happily evident, the challenge faced by the makers of Disney’s Secretariat is clear. Can triumphal heart and soul carry the day?

Certainly director Randall Wallace’s picture boasts a skilled onscreen labor force. Diane Lane stars as the horse’s owner, Penny Chenery Tweedy, a Denver wife and mother who won the future champ in a coin toss, and who took over the Virginia horse farm owned by her dying father (Scott Glenn). John Malkovich lets his golf outfits do the talking in the role of the eccentric trainer Lucien Laurin, no less exotic a figure to the old money horsey-set atmosphere that Penny must learn to negotiate.

As scripted by Mike Rich and revised by Wallace, essentially this is The Blind Side with a quadruped. The

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ompared to 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth and Killers — The Ugly Truth and Killers being extra-specially evil benchmarks of how low modern romantic comedies can go — Life as We Know It does not crush your soul, does not turn Katherine Heigl into a shrill pain in the keister, only occasionally devolves into clumsy, poorly timed slapstick and outstays its modest but heartfelt welcome only by 10-15 minutes. Killers had a running time of 93 minutes yet somehow managed to outstay its welcome by 94.

I have a sinking feeling that me having had a not-bad time at Life as We Know It, which co-stars the appealing Josh Duhamel, means it’s destined to make less money than any of the above.

For a film deeply into formula, both of the baby and the screenwriting varieties, it’s just scrappy and off-center enough to alienate a sizable portion of the audience. To which I say: Good for you! At times like these we must remember what that great, great Hollywood mogul Henrik Ibsen said: “The majority is always wrong.”

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busy wife and mother, whose rebellious teenage daughter Kate is a chip off the old block, might be changing that horse’s life, but he’s also changing hers. Husband Jack (Dylan Walsh) might object to all the time she’s spending taking care of business, and brother Hollis (Dylan Baker) might contest some of those business decisions regarding the farm. But little occurs in Secretariat that suggests complicated human interaction, or even complicated human/equestrian interaction.

It’s a shame: Lane, in particular, is fully up to the task of portraying a three-dimensional character caught up in history in the making. The film works best in the

scenes between Lane and Margo Martindale (as Miss Ham, Penny’s longtime personal assistant). In their scenes the actresses see to it that more than mere dramatic points are being scored. The rest of the film hits its marks and moves on to the next race designed to qualify for the audience’s love.

It’s tricky, this idea of a movie featuring a horse burdened with symbolism and charged with brightening an entire nation’s mood.

Seabiscuit carried that burden rather better (at twice the budget, spent on depicting the prettiest little Depression you ever saw). From my lifetime, the horse movie I cherish remains Carroll Ballard’s The Black Stallion (1979), which is truly special, truly inspirational, truly cinematic.

Secretariat isn’t bad, but it’s precisely what you’d expect. The story belongs to Penny. The horse has to fight for his fair share of screen time, which is another thing the movie has in common with The Blind Side: The alleged subject of the film has been sidelined so that a good actress can strut her stuff.

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Not awful, at least

by Michael Phillips Heigl and Duhamel are playing safely within their grooves, to the extent that Heigl’s character, a baker and caterer, owns up to being “a bit of a control freak” (who doesn’t think of Heigl that way?) and Duhamel wears his baseball cap backward, signifying carefree lad-abouttown, and a boyman resisting the responsibilities of unexpected parenthood. (All that from a cap!) Premise: After their best friends die in a car accident, Holly (Heigl) and Eric (Duhamel), the godparents who can barely tolerate each other, learn they’ve

been named guardians of year-old Sophie. Uneasily they move in to their late friends’ spacious Atlanta home and begin playing competing versions of “house.”

The movie covers a year in their complicated lives, as they inch toward romance (a prologue set in 2007 establishes that they tried one blind date and failed). The telegramming of certain gags, certain baby vomit-and-poop-related gags, is enough to bring the telegram back into a second golden age. What’s different here is the mixture of tones. The movie begins with a tragedy and eases into a

more interesting blend of drama and comedy than we’ve gotten in this genre lately.

Director Greg Berlanti’s TV credits (Brothers & Sisters, Dawson’s Creek, Everwood) explain the attractive synthetic materials on display, but the script

by Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson takes time to establish the leads as fully functioning and reasonably likable adults who are (surprise) nothing like each other. Yet the movie doesn’t feel like a put-down of the female protagonist. It’s not about taming the shrew. This is a change from what audiences have come to expect from the usual Heigl vehicle. She’s quicker-witted and warmer than usual here, and she keeps Duhamel on his toes, even when the storyline drags its feet. Yes, there’s a dash to the airport to confess how much so-and-so loves so-and-so. But even that doesn’t play out according to the ancient blueprint, dating back to when movie characters ran to train stations more often than tarmacs.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited. Poor reception, a rapidly draining battery, and a dwindling oxygen supply become his worst enemies in a tightly confined race against time — fighting panic, despair and delirium, Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued before his worst nightmare comes true. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Alpha and Omega Two mismatched young wolves must work together to make the long journey home to prevent war in their wolf packs. With the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — MCT/ Los Angeles Times American Grindhouse Oscar-nominated actor Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) narrates this explosive toast to the American exploitation film, an admittedly lowbrow art form with undeniably high entertainment value — and a staple of so-called grindhouse cinema. Highlights include clips from long-forgotten gems, plus interviews with grindhouse aficionados Joe Dante, Jack Hill, John Landis, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Fred Williamson and more. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

Case 39 A social worker’s efforts to save a 10-year-old girl take a terrifying turn. Rated R. At Flatiron and Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Devil

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There’s nothing scarier than a group of teens wandering around in the woods at night, right? Wes Craven seems to think so.

Anton Chekhov’s The Duel The New York Times Critics’ Pick Anton Chekhov’s The Duel breathes new life into a classic Chekhovian tale. Working with the master cinematographer Paul Sarossy (The Sweet Hereafter), director Dover Kosashvili (Late Marriage) has made a gorgeously cinematic and accessible movie that is sensuous, passionate, dramatic and peppered with delightful moments of levity inherent to the great novella. Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n’er-do-well Laevsky (Andrew Scott) and his

The devil is among a group of people trapped in an elevator. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. Rated PG-13.

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illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya (Fiona Glascott). Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her. A brilliant ensemble cast of British and Irish actors strikes just the right balance. “The performances are excellent all around, with Andrew Scott mesmerizing and the gorgeous Fiona Glascott making vividly clear why her character drives all men to distraction.”

(Hollywood Reporter) “Adultery, betrayal, blackmail,

drunken antics ... the most successful literary adaptation I’ve seen since ... Lady Chatterley.” (The Village Voice). At Starz. — Denver Film Society Buried Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal) is not ready to die. But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why,

The story of a girl who gains a reputation as her high school’s No. 1 skank after her white lie about a boring weekend, Easy A is neither as smart nor as funny as it wants to be. Emma Stone’s character embraces her shame, and the pretend shenanigans ensue. The movie is up-to-the-minute with text gossip and webcam narration, but a bit over the top. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 Case 39 Thu: 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 1:55, 7:55 Easy A Thu: 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 FriWed: 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:25 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 9:40, 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 9:30, 12:25, 3:35, 8 Inception Thu: 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 12:40, 3:50, 7:30 It’s Kind of a Funny Story Thu-Wed: 10:05, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed: 11, 1:15, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 9:50, 12:05, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 FriWed: 11, 12:20, 2:45, 5, 8:10, 10:30 Life As We Know It Thu:11, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 1:05, 4:20, 7, 9:35 My Soul To Take Thu: 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Red Fri-Wed: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55

Thu-Wed: 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed: 12:14, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Life As We Know It Thu: 11:45, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:15 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:10, 4:15, 7, 11 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 8:45 My Soul To Take Thu-Wed: 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Nowhere Boy Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Red Fri-Wed: 12:40, 2:35, 4:20, 5:35, 7:15, 8:45, 10:10 Secretariat Thu: 12:55, 3:45, 6:35 Fri-Wed: 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40 The Town Thu-Wed: 1, 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 Waiting for Superman FriWed: 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:45 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu: 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 7:05

Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Alpha and Omega Thu: 11:45, 2:05, 4:15 Easy A Thu: 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 4:40, 10:20 It’s Kind of a Funny Story

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Inception Thu-Wed: 3:30, 7, 10:10 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 My Soul To Take Thu-Wed: 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:40 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu-Wed: 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Life As We Know It Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10 Red Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 The Town Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4, 7:10, 10:05 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 You Again Thu: 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 7:45, 10:25 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-3521992 The Freebie Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:20 Jack Goes Boating Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Last Train Home Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:20 Mao’s Last Dancer Thu-Wed: 4, 6:45, 9:30

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Never Let Me Go Thu: 4, 5, 7, 8, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:30 You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Buried Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Fri: 4, 9:45 The Girl Who Played with Fire Thu: 1, 4 Fri: 6:15 p.m.

It’s Kind of a Funny Story Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Nowhere Boy Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:10, 9:30 Them! Thu: 7, 9:30 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 7th Annual Indigenous Film & Arts Festival Sat: 6:30 p.m.

American Grindhouse FriWed: 5:15, 7:40, 9:45 Anton Chekov’s The Duel FriWed: 5, 7:30, 9:40 Freakonomics Thu: 5:10, 7:25 It Always Rains on Sunday Tue-Wed: 7 p.m.

Kings of Pastry Thu: 5, 7:30 Nightmares Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo Thu: 5:15, 7:15 Welcome Wed: 7 p.m.

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Alpha and Omega Thu: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40 Devil Thu: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Easy A Thu: 1:45 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Life As We Know It Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05 My Soul To Take Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Red Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30 7:30, 10:05 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10 The Town Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7:05, 9:55 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 12:45, 3:45, 7, 9:55 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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Square and Twin Peaks. — Sheri Linden Eat, Pray, Love Ryan Murphy, creator of TV’s Glee and Nip/Tuck, directs this adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir about a woman (Julia Roberts) who realizes she is unfulfilled, divorces her husband and goes on a trip around the world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez The Freebie Darren and Annie have an enviable relationship built on love, trust and communication — they still enjoy each other’s company and laugh at each other’s jokes. But they can’t remember the last time they had sex. When a dinner party conversation leads to an honest discussion about the state of their love life, and when a sexy bikini photo shoot leads to crossword puzzles instead of sex, they begin to flirt with a way to spice things up. The deal: one night of freedom, no strings attached, no questions asked.

Could a “freebie” be the cure for their ailing sex life? At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Girl Who Played With Fire Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon.

Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Inception Blithely summarized, Inception’s plot would seem confusing and impenetrable. Confusing? No doubt, and that’s what makes the film so enjoyable, as we try to tease and puzzle out what is really going on.

Impenetrable? Hardly. Simply put, mainstream moviemaking just doesn’t get any better than Inception.

Rated PG-13. At Flatirons, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers It Always Rains on Sunday Another rainy Sunday in Bethnal Green, in London’s East End — and another dull one for Googie Withers: rapping on the bedroom wall to summon good stepdaughter to start the tea; nagging her decent but dull hubby to fix a broken window; battling with late-night-partying-with-married-man stepdaughter; and then running through the rain to the backyard bomb shelter/tool shed to find ... ex-lover John McCallum, fresh from his Dartmoor prison breakout. At Starz. — Denver Film Society It’s Kind of a Funny Story Bright 16-year-old Craig Gilner is stressed out from the demands of being a teenager. Before his parents and younger sister are even awake, Craig checks himself into Argenon Hospital, a mental health clinic, and is admitted by a psychiatrist. But the youth ward is temporarily closed — so he finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby, soon becomes both Craig’s mentor and protégé. Craig is also quickly drawn to another 16-year-old displaced to the adult ward, the sensitive Noelle, who just might make him forget his longtime unrequited crush, Nia. At Flatiron, Mayan and Century. — Landmark Theatres Jackass 3D Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the gang return for more gross-out, wince-inducing stunts, only this time the boogers and vomit are in your face. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Jack Goes Boating Jack is a limo driver with vague dreams of landing a 54 October 14, 2010

job with the MTA and an obsession with reggae.

He spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend and fellow driver Clyde and Clyde’s wife, Lucy. The couple set Jack up with Connie, Lucy’s co-worker at a Brooklyn funeral home.

Being with Connie inspires Jack to learn to cook, pursue a new career and take swimming lessons from Clyde so he can give Connie the romantic boat ride she dreams of. But as Jack and Connie cautiously circle commitment, Clyde and Lucy’s marriage begins to disintegrate. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Kings of Pastry Imagine a scene never before witnessed: Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best. This is the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition (Best Craftsmen in France). The blue, white and red striped collar worn on the jackets of the winners is more than the ultimate recognition for every pastry chef — it is a dream and an obsession. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Last Train Home Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration — an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Working over several years in classic verité style, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan (with the producers of the award-winning hit documentary Up the Yangtze) travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole A young owl must gather a mythic band of winged warriors to fight an evil army and save the owl kingdom. With voices of Helen Mirren, Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Let Me In Matt Reeves directs this English-language remake of the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In, about a lonely, bullied boy who befriends the strange little girl who lives next door. The new version is better paced and more horrific, but fumbles two of the most memorable scenes from the original. As far as remakes go, though, you could certainly do a lot worse. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

(Max Thieriot) who is one of seven young people targeted by the serial killer stalking their small town. The bad news? The movie is not being screened in advance for critics, so start tempering those hopes now. Rated R. At Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez Never Let Me Go In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. Kathy, Tommy and Ruth spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Nightmares Prepare yourself for the terror of four horror tales based on urban legends designed to scare you to death. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Nowhere Boy Imagine John Lennon’s childhood: Liverpool 1955. A smart and troubled 15-year-old is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi, the buttoned-up aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother.

Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock ’n’ roll, where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney. Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But a resilient young man finds his voice — and an icon explodes into the world. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Red Sure, this may look like another flashy, action-heavy adaptation of a graphic novel. But the casting of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as a team of ex-CIA agents targeted and framed for murder by their former bosses implies something more substantial than your usual shoot-’em-up. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Secretariat See full review on Page 51. Rated PG. At .

The Social Network An enthralling, near-perfect comedy of manners from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about the exhilarating creation and contested consolidation of Facebook. Rated PG-13.

At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. ­— Carrie Rickey

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Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo

See full review on Page 51. Rated PG-13.

From 1940 to 2008, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary held an annual “Prison Rodeo.” Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it was one of the last of its kind — a relic of the American penal system. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time.

Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Within this strange arena, the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

Mao’s Last Dancer From Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford comes the inspiring true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin and his extraordinary journey from a poverty-stricken boy in China to international stardom as a world-class dancer. Based on Li’s bestselling autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres My Soul To Take Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street) returns to the horror genre for the first time in five years and even gives the 3-D craze a whirl, writing and directing this thriller about a teenager

Them!

NM, giant, mutant ants terrorize a small town in the southwest desert of the United States. Two doctors from the Department of Agriculture are summoned to find the nest and destroy them — if they can.

Neat special effects add to the tension in one of the greatest sci-fi/horror films of the fifties. Also starring James Arness and James Whitmore. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Town The Town is violent but soft-hearted and clearly digs the grungy allure of its Boston criminal world, where the bank robbers disguise themselves as ghoulish nuns. This is a one-last-job movie. Doug angles to make one last score with the gang and go clean. Hot-headed Jem wants the heists to continue. Everything gets complicated when a hostage doesn’t recognize her captors and becomes involved with Doug. All in all, an enjoyable film, if a tad too long. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Waiting for Superman Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim’s devastating diagnosis of what’s wrong with American public schools and what it would take to heal them.

Rated PG. At Century. — Carrie Rickey Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Gordon Gekko is released from prison into a brave new financial world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Welcome

Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has struggled his way through Europe for the past three months, trying to reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped by authorities in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. Left with no other alternatives, he decides to swim across.

Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train, where he meets Simon, a middle-aged swimming instructor in turmoil over his imminent divorce.

Simon agrees to help Bilal, hoping to win back the affection of his wife, who does volunteer work helping immigrants. But what begins as a relationship based on self-interest develops into something much bigger than Simon could ever have imagined, as he, too, will ultimately risk everything to reach happiness. At Starz. — Denver Film Society You Again

High-school rivalries rear their ugly heads for a PR exec and her mother during her brother’s wedding.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie and Helena, and their daughter Sally and husband Roy, as their passions, ambitions and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine, Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg, while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia, a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.

Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache, irrationality and perilous hot water. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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March 21-April 19:

Until recently, no cricket had ever been observed pollinating a flower. All the evidence showed, in fact, that crickets don’t help flowers — they devour them. Then one night last January on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, researchers discovered that the species known as the raspy cricket was responsible for pollinating wild orchids. They even caught the magic act on film. I regard this turn of events as akin to an upcoming development in your life: Someone or something that you’ve never thought of as a fertilizing force for you will become one.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

My date and I decided to go see the film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. As we entered the theater, we passed a short, elderly Chinese woman in a brown uniform. She was bent over sweeping the floor. Suddenly she stood up straight, looked me in the eye, and extended her left hand toward me. Confused, I reached out toward her. She quickly pressed something in my hand, then returned to her sweeping. As I walked on, I unrolled the small paper scroll she had given me. It read, “Tell your Taurus readers they should be alert for helpful messages coming from sources they would usually ignore or neglect.” I’m doing what she suggested.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Of all the signs in the zodiac, you are currently the best at carrying out the following activities: gliding, flowing, leaping, skipping, twirling, undulating, reverberating, galloping and rub-a-dub-dubbing. I suspect that you will also excel at rumbling, romping, rollicking, cavorting and zip-a-dapdoodling. If all goes well, Gemini — which is to say you show how much you love your body and throw off any inhibitions you might have about celebrating your instinctual nature — then you will be at the low end of the scale in performing these activities: shuffling, drooping, mumbling, wallowing, pigeonholing and pussyfooting.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

A reader wrote to me bemoaning the fact that her new Cancerian boyfriend is addicted to safety. She speculated that since he is a member of an astrological sign renowned for its timidity, she should probably either get used to the suffocating lack of action or else bolt from the relationship now. In reply, I sent her a quote from one of the most heroic Cancerians of the 20th century, Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”

Moral of the story: It’s a ripe time for you to rise up and refute the people in your life who think you’re a brooding wallflower.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Helping your fellow humans can literally enhance your strength. A Harvard study (tinyurl.com/BeExtraNice) proved that people who did good deeds or even visualized themselves doing good deeds had increased physical endurance and willpower. Unfortunately, the study showed that those who harbor nefarious intentions are also able to draw on extra fortitude. In other words, you can boost your energy by either being compassionate or evil. I highly recommend the former over the latter, Leo, especially now that you’re entering a phase when it makes a lot of spiritual sense to build your courage, vigor and tonicity.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease,” said French philosopher Voltaire.

With this in mind, let’s evaluate your current discomfort.

From what I can tell, healing forces beyond your control and outside of your awareness are going to be working their mojo to chip away at your problem. But it will still be wise for you to occupy yourself in activities that you think will expedite the fix. Doing so will minimize your anxieties, allowing nature to do what it does best.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Usually you specialize in having a light touch. You’d rather nudge than push. Nimble harmony is more interesting to you than brute force. You prefer your influence on people to be appreciated, not begrudgingly respected. And I certainly don’t want you to forsake any of those inclinations. But I would love to see you add a dash of aggressiveness and a pinch of vehemence to your repertoire in the coming week.

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I’d be thrilled if you raised your voice a bit and gesticulated more vigorously and projected your confidence with an elevated intensity. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your refined approach will benefit from a dose of subliminal thunder.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Time magazine created a list of the 50 worst inventions.

Included among the most terrible creations that human ingenuity has ever come up with are plastic grocery bags, sub-prime mortgages, hydrogenated oils and pop-up ads.

Now let’s switch our attention to your personal equivalents of these monstrosities. To climax the atonement phase of your own astrological cycle, I recommend that you do the following: 1. Identify the three worst ideas you have taken seriously during the past decade. 2. Carry out one formal action to correct or make amends for the consequences of each bad idea.

3. Really, truly, forgive yourself as best as you can.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

For your assignment this week, I have borrowed from a list of suggestions offered by Sagittarius poet Kenneth Patchen in his book The Journal of Albion Moonlight. Feel free to improvise as you carry out at least three. 1. Discourage all traces of shame. 2. Bear no cross. 3. Extend all boundaries.

4. Blush perpetually in gaping innocence. 5. Burrow beneath the subconscious. 6. Pass from one world to another in carefree devotion. 7. Exhaust the primitive. 8. Generate the free brain. 9. Forego no succulent filth. 10. Verify the irrational.

11. Acquire a sublime reputation. 12. Make one monster at least. 13. Multiply all opinions. 14. Inhabit everyone.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Among Google searches starting with the phrase “who is,” the top-rated is “God,” while “Satan” is a distant tenth.

Running ahead of Satan but behind God are Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber. If I were you, Capricorn, I wouldn’t be Google-searching any bigger-than-life entities like those four in the coming week. The characters you need to research are non-divine, non-celebrity types who might bring interesting influences into your life — people who would have a direct influence on your access to resources and on your ability to call forth the best from yourself.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Explorers found a 30,000-year-old carved stone artifact in a German cave and brought it to the University of Tubingen for study. Experts there determined that it had a dual purpose for the ancient humans who made it. Phallic-shaped with rings around one end, it was obviously a sex toy. But other markings indicated it was also used to start fires by striking it against flints. I’d like to make this power object your symbol of the week, Aquarius. You’re in a phase when you should be alert for ways to mix business with pleasure and practicality with adventure.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

You’re not exceptionally scared of the dark, Pisces, but sometimes you seem to be intimidated by the light. You can summon the spunky courage to go crawling on your hands and knees through dank tunnels and spooky caves in quest of treasure that’s covered in primordial goo, but you may play hard to get when you’re offered the chance to unburden yourself of your cares in wide-open spaces. What’s up with that? Don’t get me wrong: I’m proud of your capacity to wrestle with the shadows in the land of the lost; I’m gratified by your willingness to work your karma to the bone. But I would also love you to get a share of rejuvenating rest and ease now and then. Do you think you could manage to have it both ways? I do.

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