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news & views Save journalism education at CU / 6 Discontinuance process needs a closer look

by Jefferson Dodge Locals honored by PeaceJam / 13 Jared Polis and Ann Raisch earn kudos for helping youth

by Mitchell Byars Bleeding ink / 14 New details show J-School discontinuance in new light

by David Accomazzo

buzz Funky roots / 21 Motet plays Earth, Wind and Fire

by Dave Kirby Overtones: A kinder, gentler Ween / 25 Overtones: Cirque de la Symphonie adds visuals to orchestra / 26 On the cover: Documentary investigates the paranormal in Colorado / 29 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Sophisticated Sex: Denial is not just a river in Egypt / 37 Elevation: Cold-weather crags / 39 Cuisine: Blind Cafe returns to Boulder / 43 Cuisine review: Deli Darbar / 45 Dessert Diva: Yummy Mummy Cookies / 47 Screen: Conviction; Paranormal Activity 2 / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

departments Letters: Pass open-space measure; Vote yes on 61 / 5 The Highroad: Spreading weapons in the name of peace / 5 In Case You Missed It: Hall in hot water; Political gloves come off / 11 Boulderganic: Boulder nonprofit educating Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next leaders / 19 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Pamela White Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Katherine Creel Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Editorial Interns, Eli BooninVail, Mitchell Byars Contributing Writers, Ana Arias, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, April Charmaine, Oakland L. Childers, Ben Corbett, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Charmaine Ortega Getz, Jim Hightower, Gene Ira Katz, David Kirby, Heather May Koski, Elizabeth Miller, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Marisa Ware, Tom Winter, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, David Hasson Account Executives, Rich Blitz, Mike Cutler, Francie Swidler Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman General & Administrative Assistant to the Publisher & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Shey Behbahani Circulation Team Halka Brunerova, Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, Alan Jones, George LaRoe Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Lowell Schaefer, Karl Schleinig 10-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo October 28, 2010 Volume XVIII, Number 12 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Pass open-space measure There are many reasons Boulder County citizens should support open space by voting yes on 1B. One big reason is to support our local economy.

Make no mistake about it — investing in open space is key to our local business climate. It is a big part of the reason that Boulder County has been so successful in attracting employers.

I built my two high-tech companies in Boulder County because, like me, the talented people I need on my team to succeed are drawn to this place by the natural beauty our open space programs preserve and the access to outdoor recreation they provide. I have also invested in 10 startups, most here in Boulder County. If you look at the companies that provide primary employment in Boulder County — high-tech, biomedical, natural foods, clean tech and the outdoor industry — they all are drawn to places that have open space and a high quality of life — that is one big reason that the jobs are here.

It is also clear that open space protection is good for our real estate market. While we are not immune to the national trends, our local market has been far less impacted than the rest of Colorado. Please join me in support-

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ing our quality of life and our economy by voting yes on 1B. Andrew Currie/Boulder

Vote yes on 61 Is Amendment 61 a blunt instru-

The Highroad

ey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others.

For example: arms dealers. You’ve probably paid no attention to the hard fact that the global recession caused worldwide arms sales to plummet by 8.5 percent last year, pinching the profits of U.S. weapons pushers. The only saving grace in this downbeat news is that America’s glorious arms industry did retain its position as the number one supplier of weapons to the world. We still control nearly 40 percent of the global market, with Russia a distant second. But before you set off a mess of fireworks in celebration, note that U.S. sales in 2009 were down by more than $15 billion from the previous year.

On the up side, the developing world is still in a buying mood! Last year, such emerging nations as Boulder Weekly

ment? You bet!

When the horse you thought was taking you to a better place is charging off a cliff, the “horse whisperer” won’t work.

When your family, the beauty, the

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Spreading weapons in the name of peace

by Jim Hightower Brazil, Venezuela, Iraq, India and Vietnam poured billions into purchases of military playthings that go “Boom!” Again, U.S. dealers were the big winners, controlling a third of the arms trade in this robust market.

The greatest news for American purveyors of killing machines, however, is Iran. This rising Mideast power has spooked the U.S. and Israel, so, in the vague hope of countering Iran’s growing

very state of Colorado is being dragged into oblivion it’s time to unload the shotgun.

Shoot that horse — end this ride. see LETTERS Page 6

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punch, the White House and Congress are about to OK a blockbuster sale to the monarchial rulers of Saudi Arabia.

Some $90 billion worth of top-line fighter jets, helicopters, naval armaments and other sophisticated war machinery would go to the Saudis — the largest single sale of U.S. arms ever. The theory is that (somehow or other, maybe, possibly, sometime in the future) this escalation of military testosterone in the explosive Mideast might produce harmony.

Good luck with that. But, hey — if it jacks up profits for our arms dealers, what’s not to like about it?

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We can always get another horse — we will never get another Colorado.

Everyone needs to vote yes on Amendment 61.

The lesson? Dead horse saves Colorado. Vote yes!

Tony Burg/Broomfield

Send me stuff about Colorado I am sending this letter to you from Rhode Island. You see, I am doing a project for my geography teacher, Mr. Gilmore. We have to pick a state and do a project on it. Could you please publish this letter in your paper so that your readers could help me on my project?

My teacher explained that firsthand information from citizens of our chosen state would be much more helpful than information we gathered in books or off the Internet. If readers could send me info, pictures or tourist information it would help me so much with my project. Your readers could send the information right to my school. Thank you for helping with my project.

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Wakefield wronged Dr. Andrew Wakefield, quite possibly the most controversial doctor in the world, has just returned from Brussels where he addressed the European Parliament on vaccine safety issues. He recently spoke in Boulder.

In 1998, Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues published a clinical case study in the Lancet that reported inflammatory bowel symptoms in 12 children with autism, eight of whom began experiencing symptoms after receiving the MMR vaccine.

In the paper, Dr. Wakefield, who has published more than 140 scientific articles, book chapters and invited scientific commentaries, suggested the possibility that the MMR vaccine could be a factor in the children’s illness and called for more research.

Accused of scientific fraud by a journalist with powerful ties to the vaccine industry, Dr. Wakefield was brought to trial in the U.K. Charges of “fixing the data,” conflict of interest, improper funding and unethical behavior, although parroted constantly by the British medical establishment and the media, were never proven.

Despite this fact, Dr. Wakefield was found guilty of scientific misconduct and “callous disregard” for the alleged distress and pain suffered by 6 October 28, 2010

the children involved in the study and stripped of his license to practice in the U.K. Notably, the parents of the children in the study had no complaint against Dr. Wakefield and have issued a statement in support of him saying their children’s health vastly improved under his care.

Since it was published 12 years ago, the significance of Dr. Wakefield’s research, which has now been replicated in five countries, has been overshadowed by misunderstanding, misrepresentation and a concerted, systematic effort to discredit his work.

As Dr. Wakefield, who is not antivaccine, points out, “in this relentless and misguided effort to distract attention from vaccine safety issues, agenda-driven journalism has once again made a mockery of medicine.”

Shelly Benford/Boulder

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Save journalism education at CU

Hooray for smart women I woke up this morning to more banter and analysis of Sarah Palin and her ultimate trainee and political “daughter,” Christine O’Donnell.

These are a couple of intellectually depressing women if ever I’ve witnessed one ... or two. Neither seems very well versed, much less studied or competent, in the basics of the Constitution and/or American jurisprudence in general, much less in touch with an extremely complex contemporary American political and social scenario (where their “aw shucks” and cute little winks to their “man up” nonsense comments — as if they even know what it is to be a man — just doesn’t work when confronted by the least bit of serious inquiry).

But, OK, smart people know this.

So why, one might ask, do I seem to be so happy about it? Because the silver lining is that it’s beginning to bring out the truly politically serious thinking women in America, from the extremely astute Rachel Maddow on the left to the always challenging and charming columnist Kathleen Parker on the right, to challenge them. And female critics don’t play around. Think NBC’s Ann Curry’s incredibly rough and unexpected searing interview of Rajiv Gandi just before she was blown up on her return to Pakistan.

Most smart men know you don’t fight women period, because even if you win, you lose, as the saying goes.

My point, gentleman in particular, is that yes, you don’t fight women, you have other women, who seriously know their stuff, fight them.

And that is the silver lining ... that see LETTERS Page 9

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by Jefferson Dodge

t’s about time someone started asking some hard questions about the discontinuance of CU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

But in the spirit of full disclosure, I should tell you that I’m a proud alum of the school, and I teach a class there on occasion.

I’ve noticed that CU officials are fond of saying that “discontinuance is an unfortunate term” when they talk about the closure of the J-School. (And even though a committee is still considering that closure, I think it’s a done deal — they just have to study it for a few months to preserve the deliberative spirit of the university. Kind of like when they announced a study into whether Ward Churchill should be fired.)

CU officials bend over backwards insisting that, gosh, they hate to use the term “discontinuance,” because the journalism program is not necessarily going away. It is probably just getting moved to some sort of new college of technology, they say, and — sigh — the school simply must go through this “program discontinuance” process because regent policy requires them to when they want to merge programs under one roof.

What a bunch of malarkey.

If that were the case, why aren’t CU officials also discontinuing the other programs being considered for this new college, like computer science and communication? Why not just let the journalism school absorb the other departments and rename it a college, as was

done years ago when the business “college” was renamed a “school” because of a large donation? Why would you initiate discontinuance before it has even been decided whether — or how — journalism should be included within the new college?

CU officials answer these questions by saying that it would be too extreme to discontinue all of the other programs being discussed for this new college.

When asked why journalism is being singled out, they say it’s clear that the J-School is a central, key program for this new college. (Wait, I thought nothing had been decided yet.)

They don’t rule out the possibility of having the journalism school absorb other departments. They don’t rule anything out, even the possibility that the J-School will remain unchanged and no new college will be created.

But look it up. A significant chunk of the CU Board of Regents program discontinuance policy is about how to fire professors without getting sued. It is invoked when tenured or tenure-track faculty are likely to be canned, because it is a tricky legal process in which the university must give them a year’s notice and try to find jobs for them in other departments.

So, why would CU want to fire some of its journalism faculty? Because they have been a dysfunctional group for a long time? Because of the perception that they have been slow to embrace new media? Even if the latter see DODGE’S BULLETS Page 8

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is a valid concern, the faculty had just finished a year-long process of revamping the school’s curriculum, only to have the rug pulled out from under them.

Curiously, even if the goal is to get rid of “deadwood” that are just collecting their paychecks or are dragging their feet in embracing the 21st century, the discontinuance process actually protects tenured faculty, but not younger assistant professors and adjunct instructors — who presumably have the new media skills that students must now be taught.

Is this really about what CU officials say it’s about, which is simply the next logical step after a task force issued a report last spring on creating this new college?

Or is this about a disgruntled former employee, the previous advisor to the student paper, which in recent years was forced to convert to an online-only format, which was at the center of a bitter controversy over a student writer’s racial comments, and which was being told to vacate its space in the school and find offices elsewhere?

Is this about one of her allies, who happens to be a powerful alum, donor and (former) J-School advisory board member who thinks the dean is ineffectual and shared that sentiment with the powers that be?

Is this about losing a Pulitzer Prizewinning instructor who was lured away to another university because he got a more attractive offer than CU was able to provide? (For more on these questions, see David Accomazzo’s news story in this issue.)

Or is this about saving money in the face of budget cuts that could be as severe as 50 percent for the upcoming fiscal year?

(I am reminded of the quote used by CU spokesperson Ken McConnellogue when the university “discontinued” my old faculty/staff newspaper Silver & Gold Record: “We cannot afford to be in the newspaper business.”)

By the way, you don’t save much money by closing the J-School, since most of the funding is tied up in salaries — and it is the highest-paid, tenured faculty who are protected in the process.

Whatever the reasons behind this “discontinuance,” it doesn’t seem to be motivated primarily by what is best for training future journalists.

Some seem to believe that we don’t need traditional journalism education anymore because daily print newspapers are folding left and right. Some think that all we need to teach budding journalists now is how to create websites, send tweets, blog and post to Facebook.

I beg to differ.

When the telegraph was created, or the typewriter, did we create a new College of the Telegraph, or a new

College of the Typewriter? Just because the medium of news delivery is changing doesn’t mean there is no longer a need for the core skills behind newsgathering.

If anything, we need journalism education now more than ever, given the miles of prattle and blog swamp on the Internet. Without true journalism, how on earth would you differentiate credible news sources from Joey in his parents’ basement?

My biggest concern, assuming parts of journalism education are preserved in this new college, is what will be thrown out with the bath water? There are a host of skills that are still crucial to giving journalists the ability to compete in cyberspace with the only remaining coin of the realm: credibility.

Journalism ethics. Media law.

Interviewing. Research skills. Writing ability. Critical thinking. Copyediting skills.

Without these, what’s to keep a reporter from accepting gifts in exchange for positive news coverage?

Will all Web content be replete with typos, making it impossible to figure out whose information to trust? How will a journalist know what to do when a judge tries to bar her from a public court proceeding? Who will file open records requests to keep government accountable? Journalism is the only profession expressly protected in the Constitution, because freedom of the press is crucial to a healthy democracy.

Aw, let’s just discontinue it.

For those who say journalists can simply learn on the job and don’t need J-School any more, would you send a teacher into the classroom without an education degree or teaching certificate?

How about sending a lawyer into the courtroom without a law degree?

And why is the word “journalism” not in any of the titles that have been floated for the new college? Some say this doesn’t matter, but can you imagine the outcry if someone wanted to call the engineering college the School of Gadgetry?

Names matter. Words have meanings. Discontinuance means cease to operate.

The truth is, journalism is one of the most popular fields to study at CU. Only 62 percent of applicants to the J-School were admitted last spring, so this is not a question of flagging demand.

So what is it a question of? We may never know completely.

But, as with most questions, if anyone is going to try to find out, it will be the journalists.

If they still know how.

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the educated, hopefully mostly liberal, women will continue to begin to come out to challenge these colorful “characters.”

My point is that these “momma grizzlies” are gonna have their “grizzlies momma’d” by the vast majority of intelligent American women.

They aren’t coming out of these colleges — hell, these grade schools to grad schools, actually — in droves and beginning to outnumber the men for nothing. And these are not stupid women. I’m fortunate to know more than my fair share of them, gratefully.

They will be our salvation vs. this inane onslaught, is my belief.

Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

RMPJC’s election picks Here is the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center’s (RMPJC) take on some of the 2010 ballot issues.

In Boulder, we support 2B, which will replace the funding lost when the Boulder City Council decided not to sign a franchise agreement with Xcel.

2B will help make renewable energy Boulder’s major source of electricity in the future, while protecting the city’s ability to deliver essential services now.

The RMPJC supports Boulder County Ballot Issue 1A, which will increase the property tax to provide greater support for human services.

This funding is urgently needed because many people need more help as a result of the recession.

The RMPJC also supports Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B, which will impose a sales and use tax to acquire or preserve open space. Open space is crucial for our well-being.

It is critical to acquire certain parcels of open space before they are developed. The county must ensure, however, that open space is available and accessible to all people, not just to the privileged.

The RMPJC opposes state ballot measures 60, 61 and 101. These measures would result in drastic cuts in funding for education, human services and physical infrastructure, Boulder Weekly

which will negatively affect almost everyone in the state. For more details on “the 3 bads” go to www.donthurtcolorado.com.

Vote. Your well-being and the community’s well-being are at stake.

Carolyn Bninski/Boulder

Racist standardized testing I spoke to the state Board of Education and the Denver school board about standardized testing and “Colorado’s New Assessment System” last week.

For years, students of color have been made to feel inferior by “standardized,” invalid, culture-bound, scientifically racist tests that were designed to maintain the Anglo-“minority” achievement gap.

Since Colorado is about 37th in the United States in state K-12 public school funding and last — or about last — in state funding for public higher education, the new “World Class Assessment System” proposed by the state Board of Education and the Colorado Commission (Department) of Higher Education will increase the Anglo-“minority” achievement gap unless significant funds are found to coach, tutor and intensively educate students who, historically, have not played the testing game well.

The loss of $175 million in “Race to the Top” funds was a disaster, and if public local and state funding is as close to the bone as we have been told, a moratorium on new, expensive testing should be called. World-class testing/assessment, ethically, demands world-class funding.

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Hall in hot water We are having second thoughts now about our endorsement of Hillary Hall for Boulder County clerk and recorder, given the major boo-boo her office made this week in printing the language of one ballot measure under the title of another. Seriously. This is about having the correct language on the ballot, arguably the most basic, important duty that the clerk and recorder has.

The language of the county’s open-space measure was printed under the title of the city’s ballot question on the Xcel franchise fee. Anyone doing even the most cursory job of proofreading the ballot should have caught that.

Whether it was her fault or one of her staff members, the responsibility falls on Hall’s shoulders, and while this may be a moot point if the franchise fee question is decided by a large margin, it should never have happened.

Political gloves come off We must be in an election week.

There have been all sorts of carefully timed attacks on candidates, just so they will be fresh in voters’ minds when they head to the polls.

Even a race for University of Colorado regent has not escaped mention.

Granted, this is the one regent race that matters, the one between CU law Professor Melissa Hart, a Democrat, and incumbent Steve Bosley, a Republican. This is the race, as we’ve pointed out in these pages, that could turn the Board of Regents blue for the first time since 1980, if Hart is elected.

So the Colorado Democratic Party sends out a press release on Oct. 25, pointing out that despite’s Bosley’s claim that he doesn’t get paid as a regent (it’s true, they don’t receive salaries), he has collected more than $24,000 in expense reimbursements during his six years on the board.

Yes, Dem party Chair Pat Waak is right that former banker Bosley could probably afford to pass on reimbursements when he can loan his own campaign $42,000, especially considering steep tuition hikes at CU every year.

But Bosley correctly counters that he chaired two presidential searches during that time, which involved traveling around the state to gather input on what people wanted in a president, traveling around the country recruiting candidates and being reimbursed for purchasing gifts for the search committee members. He asserts that there were plenty of other times that he declined to be reimbursed for expenses (including the past six months, during his campaign) or stay overnight in hotels when he didn’t have to.

If anything, this simply highlights the fact that there is not much incentive for CU officials and employees to carpool when you can get 45 cents a mile. A round-trip drive from Boulder to the Colorado Springs can put about $80 in your pocket, but uses less than half a tank of gas.

Regardless of who wins the election, this needs to change. It’s not right to reimburse CU brass at ridiculously high rates while students get swindled on tuition.

WikiLeakage The recent case of WikiLeaks releasing thousands of classified documents about the Iraq war reminds one how important it was that our country’s founders protected the power of the press in the First Amendment.

Yes, in some cases, it might endanger national security when media outlets circulate the content of sensitive information. That’s why the government should closely guard its most secret documents, like strategies, in a time of war.

And it’s why news organizations should act responsibly when deciding how to use such information when it is leaked to them.

But there is usually a reason something is leaked to the press in these cases, and it usually involves some sort of wrongdoing or, at the very least, carelessness, by our government. Otherwise, there would be no motive to release it.

We hope the latest WikiLeaks release does not prompt stronger regulations that inhibit the press’s ability to gather and disseminate news.

After all, that’s one of the reasons we’re here, to serve as a watchdog for the people, to make sure our democracy stays on track and that our government is held accountable for its actions. The Pentagon shouldn’t be allowed to use its power to bury its shit in secret.

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Election session set for Nov. 1 Boulder County Clerk & Recorder Hillary Hall will host an informational session about the general election in Boulder County at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 1.

The session will be held in the Ballot Processing Center in the Boulder County Clerk’s Office, at 1750 33rd St. in Boulder.

Members of the public, political parties, campaigns and media are invited to attend. Hall will discuss a variety of topics during the session, including ballot processing procedures, audit procedure and election night details. She will also answer questions.

No RSVP is necessary to attend. For more information, call 303-413-7766. or e-mail Vote@VoteBoulder.org.

Group launches FB voter guide Boulder-based New Era Colorado and the Bus Federation have launched a Facebook voter guide called MyBallot that gives voters a chance to see their 12 October 28, 2010

The plan will be a focus topic at the next three Boulder Matters meetings: 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive; 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6, at Foothills Elementary School, 1001 Hawthorne Ave.; and 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at the West Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave. Participants will have the opportunity to use clicker technology to instantly register their preferences during the presentation, as well as opportunities to provide written and verbal feedback to city and county staff. Input gathered at these meetings will be used to develop potential updates to the comprehensive plan, which will then go to through a review process with the city’s planning board, the county’s planning commission, city council and the county commissioners in spring 2011. For more information, go to www.bouldervalleycompplan.net, or contact Chris Meschuk at 303-441-4293.

Coupons for bike lights It’s the time of year when the days are getting shorter, and local organizations are teaming up for the third annual “Lighten Up! Boulder” campaign to encourage bike riders to equip their bikes for night riding.

GO Boulder/City of Boulder, the University of Colorado and local merchants have joined forces for the campaign, which highlights the importance of using a bike light for night cycling and encourages bike light use by providing discounts (10 percent to 30 percent) on bike light accessories at participating merchants.

Coupons can be printed from GOBoulder.net and redeemed at one of the 15 different retailers listed on the coupon. They are valid through Nov. 19.

“Cycling without a light at night is a $50 fine,” said GO Boulder Bike/ Pedestrian Transportation Planner Marni Ratzel. “We hope that through this campaign more cyclists will put lights on their bikes, making the Boulder community safer for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers.”

Business planning series offered The Boulder Green Building Guild has teamed up with the Boulder Small Business Development Center to offer local businesses an opportunity to attend a low-cost, comprehensive fivesession business planning series.

Sponsored by Boulder County and Colorado Lending Source, the series aims to assist small retrofit and green building businesses, especially Energy Retrofit and Weatherization businesses who plan to participate in Boulder County’s BetterBuildings program.

“One of our goals for the residential BetterBuildings program is to stimulate our local economy. We want to ensure that our local contractors and building professionals are well positioned to take advantage of this stimulus money and be successful once this program ends in three years. We think this business development program will help our local businesses make profitable and sustainable business decisions and continue to play an integral role in the health of the county’s economy,” said Ann Livingston, Sustainability Coordinator for Boulder County.

The series starts Wednesday, Nov. 10, and ends Saturday, Dec. 4. For more details on times and cost, visit www. bgbg.org.

A $100 rebate will be given for completion of a Business Plan at the end of the series.

Input sought on Boulder plan The City of Boulder is seeking community input on changes to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, which is the guiding document for development, redevelopment and social and environmental policies for the Boulder Valley.

Week of Oct. 21 - Oct. 27 1. Eyedea - innovator 2. Tea Party crashers Will the upstart movement spoil hopes of Colorado Democrats in Nov. 2 election?

The tight races for governor and U.S. Senate have some wondering what effect the Tea Party movement in Colorado will have on those contests and certain ballot initiatives.

3. Boulder Weekly’s 2010 ballot picks 4. Careful before you kiss and tell 5. Monsanto takes a tumble 6. Boulder’s real weed problem 7. Boulder’s eponymous sport 8. Glee-fully mistaken 9. Pumpkin craze returns to Boulder Country 10. A kitchen that deserves the hype

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“We know people take cues from their friends and family when it comes time to decipher their ballot,” says Steve Fenberg, executive director of New Era Colorado, which developed MyBallot before working with the Bus Federation to spread it across the country. “We thought harnessing the social connections of Facebook and letting people share their own ballots would prove useful for busy young people.”

The application uses a voter’s ZIP code to prepare a ballot loaded with races for Congress and statewide office, as well as the ballot measures voters will decide on Nov. 2. In addition to a short description of the race and a list of candidates, each race will show the voter’s Facebook friends’ positions.

Once a voter has filled out her ballot, she can submit it, sharing it with her own friends on Facebook.

MyBallot can be found by searching on Facebook or at www.thisismyballot.org.

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County ponies up sewer funds Boulder County officials have agreed to cover cost overruns associated with the installation of a new sewer system in Eldorado Springs.

Boulder Weekly published an account of the standoff between residents and county officials over the cost overruns on Sept. 2. Eldorado Springs property owners insisted that they should only be charged the $1.8 million they approved in a 2004 ballot measure, because extra costs were caused primarily by county mismanagement of the project. They also claimed that their $1.8-million price tag should be reduced by the $400,000 in grant money they received for the project. County officials had agreed to pay for the portion of the overruns they felt responsible for, but argued that it would be inappropriate to use additional county taxpayer money to benefit only a tiny subset of the county’s population.

In the end, it looks like the $1.8 million won’t be reduced by the $400,000 in grant money, but the county is covering all extra costs above that $1.8 million. In an Oct. 15 letter sent to Eldorado Springs property owners, county project manager Jeffrey Callahan announced that the county will be covering all $276,866 in cost overruns.

A hearing on the tax assessments is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the Boulder County Courthouse.

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Winter Scene 2010 With snow dusting the Flatirons and lights twinkling along the Pearl Street Mall, it’s hard to deny that winter is one of the most beautiful seasons in Boulder County. And while the temperature can get downright brutal in the coming months, there’s plenty to keep you warm, from tail-busting snow sports to a cup of hot cider at your favorite café. Check out our winter guide!

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wo Boulder residents are being honored for their efforts to inspire children to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Rep. Jared Polis and Ann Raisch will both be awarded the 2010 PeaceJam Hero Award at the PeaceJam Hero Awards Luncheon on Nov. 15 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. PeaceJam is a worldwide organization that seeks to inspire kids to make a difference in their community by having Nobel Peace Laureates speak and work with kids to address the issues that they face today and in the future.

Polis and Raisch will be honored at the luncheon for their part in helping PeaceJam achieve that goal.

“We came to the realization that there are so many people who are involved with Peace Jam that work so hard,” says Ryan Harschen, development and program coordinator. “We did this to honor those who have gone above and beyond and recognize them publicly and deeply thank them.”

Polis, who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, has donated resources to PeaceJam, including computers. He also helped them start their website. Raisch has been an active volunteer with PeaceJam since its start 15 years ago.

“They have been a beacon of support,” says Kate Cumbo, program director with PeaceJam. “He [Polis] really supported us and is still involved to this day. Ann has been with us since the very beginning, and her family has been very involved in PeaceJam. “ Raisch said that she was surprised to hear that she was being honored by PeaceJam. “I’m just totally overwhelmed,” she says. “I can’t think of another organization it would mean more for me to be honored by.”

Raisch first got involved in PeaceJam when a friend asked her to help the organization raise $5,000 for an event. She agreed to help on two conditions: that her two sons could be involved and the organization did work with Native Americans, a cause that Raisch said she is passionate about. She was able to round up that $5,000, and she has been helping in any way she could ever since. She has helped fundraise, organize activities and has even hosted a few of the Nobel Laureates during their stays.

“Whatever they needed, if I was available I would do it,” she says. “For me it’s a labor of love. I really care about youth, and I am concerned about the world they’re coming into.

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Many of them started out just like these kids, and when they see them, the students think, ‘If they can do it, then I can do this.’”

Oscar Arias, the former president of Costa Rica and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 1987, will be the featured guest speaker at the luncheon and will be discussing how Costa Rica became

the happiest country in the world in 2009, according to a study by New Economics Foundation. The ballroom will be decorated to look like a Costa Rican rain forest, with plants from the Denver Botanical gardens and animals from the Denver Zoo. The menu will also feature Caribbean cuisine.

“This luncheon gives us the chance to honor all these people who support us all year long and just have a wonderful day together.”

Tickets start at $100 each and can be bought at www.peacejam.org or by calling 303-455-2099.

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bleeding ink New details show J-School discontinuance in new light

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ore details have surfaced about the behind-thescenes factors that contributed to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s move to discontinue its journalism school.

The details emerge as part of the latest chapter in a controversy that has devolved into allegations of incompetence and in-fighting, and heated public meetings, discussed in previously undisclosed documents critical of the school’s faculty and dean.

On Aug. 25, officials at the University of Colorado announced that the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC), one of the university’s most popular degree programs, was to undergo a process called “discontinuance” — potentially marking the end of the journalism school in its current form. The reasons, as given in the university’s statement, were “strategic and budgetary realignment.”

The move to discontinue, or axe, an entire academic school attractive to so many undergraduates raised a few eyebrows, and the university quickly pointed out that the move was mainly for procedural purposes. CU officials said discontinuance was an unavoidable step dictated by academic bylaws necessary to fulfill the university’s true goal: the formation of a new “interdisciplinary academic program of information, communication and technology.”

The idea to reform the journalism school into a technology-oriented academic discipline had been in the works for some time, university officials said, pointing to schools that had undergone similar makeovers, such as the University of California at Berkeley and Cornell University.

The university created an exploratory committee, consisting of eight professors from outside the journalism school (SJMC faculty were left off the committee to avoid potential conflicts of interest), tasked with investigating ways to restructure the journalism school into a new academic entity better suited to teach a tech-savvy style of journalism consistent with the modern, rapidly shifting media landscape dominated by constant changes in technology.

“We want to strategically realign resources and strengths currently existing on the CU-Boulder campus to ensure that course and degree offerings meet the needs of students, the labor market, our campus mission and the communications needs of a rapidly changing society,” Chancellor Phil DiStefano said in a press release. “News and communications transmission as well as the role of the press and journalism in a democratic society are changing at a tremendous pace. We must change with it.”

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a policy set by the Board of Regents.

Officially defined as “formal termination” of an academic unit, discontinuance can be initiated for educational reasons, budgetary reasons, or for strategic realignment. The chancellor, the vice chancellor for academic affairs, the president and the Board of Regents can all request that a program or school be discontinued; in this case, the move came from the chancellor. The discontinuance committee’s first report to the provost is due Oct. 31. The university expects the chancellor to make the final recommendation on program discontinuance to the regents in early 2011. Students currently enrolled in the SJMC will be able to complete their degrees.

The driving force behind discontinuance, says Provost Russell Moore, is strategic realignment of the university’s resources — the other two reasons, educational and budgetary, come into play naturally.

However, the “budgetary” realignment aspect of the discontinuance is what might have some SJMC faculty nervous. In the private sector, a company lays off employees. In the world of CU academia, tenured professors must be “discontinued.”

When asked if tenured faculty might lose their jobs as a result of the discontinuance process, Moore tells Boulder Weekly it is too early in the process to say.

“You wouldn’t think there would be much of a danger of that if you’re realigning current assets,” Moore says. “That said, everything is on the table.”

The SJMC has undergone serious changes in the past few years, which raises the question of why discontinuance was necessary. The journalism school recently completed a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum, and the faculty was about to start overhauling the graduate curriculum.

In addition, in September 2009, then-provost and now-chancellor DiStefano and then-interim Provost Stein Sture formed the College of Information (COI) Task Force, a 20-person committee charged with crafting a plan to create a “School of Information” that would include aspects from many academic departments on campus, including journalism; business; computer science; law; and the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society. The task force submitted its report to DiStefano on April 14.

Nine days earlier, the chancellor had received a seething “white paper” about the SJMC authored by SJMC alum and donor Doug Looney, who worked at Sports Illustrated for more than two decades.

“Chaos reigns. Distrust and surliness are rampant,” Looney wrote in the document, which was

marked confidential. “The SJMC and its dysfunctional faculty are hopeless. Prospects for improvement are non-existent. It should be closed.”

Looney saved his harshest words for the school’s dean, alleging that his management is responsible for the school’s plight. He also wrote that he intended to sever ties with the SJMC, including pulling donations he’d made to the school.

A few weeks after the task force issued its report, DiStefano received another letter recommending closure of the journalism school. This time, it was from the SJMC Advisory Board, a group of alumni and others who issue non-binding recommendations to the school.

Signed by 10 board members, the letter said the SJMC in its current form lacked the necessary structure and resources to adequately prepare students for journalism in the 21st century.

“We acknowledge the checkered reputation our school has, its past accreditation problems and the overall budget woes of the entire university,” the letter said. “We propose that select curriculum within the SJMC — our best classes, our core classes — be consolidated with ATLAS into an academic unit that is steeped in the core values of journalism and media ethics, and embraces the positive nature of change and entrepreneurship.”

It was in the context of these reports that DiStefano convened the exploratory committee alongside the discontinuance process in August. A university press release said the the new exploratory committee was convened because the COI Task Force report did not address the future of the journalism school. The provost tells Boulder Weekly that having both committees operate at once allows the university “maximum flexibility.”

Moore says that the white paper and the letter from the advisory board were two of many pieces considered as evidence by the chancellor before he initiated the discontinuance process. Many factors informed the decision, Moore says, including how other universities have redesigned their journalism and communications curricula.

“I can’t say that the letters and the white paper had nothing to do with it, but it’s one of many, many pieces that informed that process,” Moore says. “That said, there was nothing from the letter from the advisory board and the white paper that we Boulder Weekly

hadn’t heard before, but it provided more weight to what we had been hearing.”

At an Oct. 20 public forum hosted by the exploratory committee, Linda Shoemaker, an SJMC alumna who serves on the CU Foundation Board of Trustees, wondered why the chancellor “rejected” the COI report.

“The public has not been told [why],” Shoemaker said at the meeting. “I don’t really know, of course, but here’s what I understand from talking to some of the people involved. The task force vision, while bold, was not bold enough; it was too focused on computer science and didn’t include journalism. Why didn’t it? Because too many SJMC faculty were either unwilling, or unwanted, partners in the task force vision.”

Moore says that the task force’s report had good and bad qualities and noted that, at the very least, the report made clear it was time to restructure the way media journalism was taught on campus.

“The problem with the College of Information Task Force is that while a number of positive things were recommended, other things were missing from the report, not the least of which was a broad interdisciplinary requirement for these kinds of things to go on campus,” Moore says.

Paul Voakes, dean of the journalism school, served on the COI Task Force as co-chair.

Discontinuance wasn’t even on the minds of the COI Task Force members as they made their report, Voakes says, noting the task force focused more on using existing academic resources and relationships between departments to form their vision for the College of Information, thinking existing units would continue to function regularly with additional responsibilities in the new college.

“The assumptions were always that whatever academic units you see now would continue to be around,” Voakes says.

The new school to be created by the twopronged process of discontinuance and exploration has some worried that the core of journalism taught by the SJMC — ethics, reporting, research, storytelling — could be weakened as other departments influence the new journalism curriculum.

Dan Pacheco, an SJMC advisory board member, now regrets signing the letter recommending discontinuance.

“I feel the advisory board was duped into believing that closing the journalism school was a necessary step to create something bigger that would bring journalism together with other disciplines,” Pacheco writes in an e-mail to Boulder Weekly. “Now that there’s an exploratory committee that has no journalism representation at all ... I question CU’s original intentions.

“I feel their real agenda all along may have been to completely remove journalism from CU.” The Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists wrote an open letter to theatre and dance Professor Merrill Lessley, chair of the exploratory committee, offering the SPJ’s guidance in creating a new academic program.

“Students still need a basic and thorough grounding in objectivity, fairness, ethics and media law,” the letter read. “As journalism programs add more courses in technology and delivery methods, Boulder Weekly

it’s critical to emphasize reporting skills and ethical standards.”

SPJ Colorado Pro President Cara DeGette told Boulder Weekly that as of last Friday, the exploratory committee had not yet contacted the SPJ. On Aug. 25, SJMC faculty members gathered for the first faculty meeting of the fall semester and were greeted by TV cameras and reporters.

“We were at a faculty meeting, and Nelson Garcia and a cameraman from 9News walked in and I thought, ‘Hmmm, this is different,” says Professor Elizabeth Skewes, who teaches courses in reporting, political communication and ethics.

“Then we got told at noon when the provost came to our meeting that we were going to undergo the discontinuance process.”

It’s unclear who tipped off 9News.

Both Looney, the former SJMC advisory board member who wrote a white paper to the chancellor recommending discontinuance, and Shoemaker, who also supports discontinuance, have expressed the desire for a new dean to oversee the new direction of the journalism school, whatever that may be.

Shoemaker called for the creation of a digital media college with a powerful new dean.

“You’d need to do a nationwide search for a dean capable of fulfilling this vision,” she told the exploratory committee.

In his white paper, Looney questioned Voakes’ actions during a controversy involving the CU student newspaper and asked the chancellor to request that Voakes step down as dean. He also called for the media studies program to be eliminated, saying, “It’s our phys-ed major.”

Voakes’ handling of the student newspaper was particularly vexing to Looney. In February 2008, the Campus Press (as the student newspaper was formerly called) reporter Max Karson wrote a failed satire piece called “If it’s war the Asians want ...” in which he said Asian students on campus should be rounded up with butterfly nets, “hogtied” and “forced to eat bad sushi ... with forks.” Various groups on campus perceived the piece as racist and reacted furiously, and CU officials were quick to denounce the piece.

Soon the journalism school moved to cut ties with the paper, and myriad changes occurred. The paper changed names. Students could no longer receive course credit for a semester spent at the paper. And some faculty members suggested the CU Independent (CU-I) move out of their current location inside the Armory Building on the northernmost side of campus.

Looney tells Boulder Weekly that had the CU-I forced been to move from its room on campus, it would have killed the paper, which was already dealing with financial problems.

“It’s atrocious,” Looney says. “What kind of journalism school doesn’t want a place where the students can practice journalism?”

The CU-I is not moving anywhere anytime soon. The paper simply can’t afford to operate outside the Armory, Voakes says.

“Ideally in the future, [the paper] would be independent enough that they could afford their own digs independently,” Voakes says. “I think the only decision to be made here is to let them stay for as long as they need to.”

Regardless, Voakes says, the student paper’s newsroom in the Armory was made possible by a donor. Forcing the CU Independent out of the Armory would violate that donor’s intent, Voakes says.

Still, the issue of donor intent didn’t come up at a March 30 faculty meeting, when the issue of the CU Independent moving out of the Armory appeared on the agenda — as a “discussion” item, not an “action” item, Voakes points out.

By several accounts, which Voakes disputes, the faculty became hostile after then-adviser Amy Herdy and a student editor showed up at the meeting. Looney, who also attended the meeting, and Herdy describe a very hostile environment, in which professors openly ridiculed the student paper.

Herdy says several professors alluded to better uses of the space occupied by the CU Independent.

“It was horrifying to watch this crazed man go nuts,” Looney wrote in his white paper of a professor at the meeting. “I was appalled.”

Looney also criticized the dean for failing to keep Pulitzer Prize-winner Jim Sheeler employed as a faculty member at the journalism school. Sheeler left Colorado for a job at Case Western University in Cleveland.

Looney told Boulder Weekly why the loss of Sheeler was frustrating.

“There was a position open. Sheeler applied, He was not one of seven finalists selected by the faculty,” Looney says. “Seven finalists? Come on.

We didn’t all just ride into town on the back of a turnip truck.”

Voakes says leaving Sheeler off the semi-finalist list was a grave mistake, and the SJMC did in fact offer Sheeler an assistant professor position, something Sheeler himself confirms.

“CU did offer me a tenure-track position as an assistant professor, but it wasn’t comparable to the Case Western Reserve job, which included the opportunity to join the faculty as a full professor in an endowed chair at another esteemed university — a rare opportunity that, in the end, I couldn’t pass up,” Sheeler writes in an e-mail to Boulder Weekly.

• • • The school has long taken heat for not adequately adapting to the changing media landscape.

“Despite a few incremental improvements [during the last four years], the pace of change has been abysmal when compared to what’s happening outside the halls of academia,” Dan Pacheco wrote in a blog post on his website.

Still, it’s too early to tell what sort of academic Frankenstein the two-headed discontinuance/ exploratory process will create. But Moore thinks this is an exciting opportunity for the university.

“I have a feeling that, quite frankly, journalists are sometimes hooked into this term ‘discontinuance’ and are looking for a juicy story,” Moore says.

“I’d say over 90 percent of people on campus, including members of the faculty of the school of journalism and mass communication, are very excited about the opportunity to build something that is truly unique and is better suited to serve students moving to the future. That’s just my personal thought on it.”

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More threats at Boulder High Boulder police have reported several threats were written on bathroom walls at Boulder High School.

A similar incident occurred at the school in early February.

On Monday, Oct. 25, school resource officers found one threat in a third-floor men’s bathroom and another threat in a bathroom on the second floor. The threat targeted Boulder High School students, Latinos in particular, and the writer threatened to bring a gun to school on Friday, Oct. 29.

The threats appeared to be similar in writing. No arrests have been made. School resource officers, security officers and other police officers will continue to be stationed at the school.

Anyone with information about these threats should call the police immediately at 303-441-3333.

Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call either the Colorado Safe2Tell line at 1-877-542-7233 or Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Another officer assault A city of Boulder police officer suffered minor scrapes on his leg while trying to arrest a suspect early in the morning on Friday, Oct. 22.

The officer had responded to a caller on the 1200 block of 13th Street who said he had been assaulted. When the officer went to confront the suspect, he fled on foot.

The officer chased him to the front porch of a house in the 1100 block of 10th Street. When the officer started up the steps, the suspect lunged at him, causing the officer to fall down the steps.

The 18-year-old male was arrested on numerous charges, including second- and third-degree assault, underage possession of alcohol, harassment and resisting arrest.

Things go ‘bang’ in the night Boulder police officers were sent to Mineola Court on Monday, Oct. 25, after a male reported that he had accidentally shot himself in the knee — while he was asleep.

The man said that he was sleeping when he woke up to a “bang.”

After investigating the scene and talking to the victim, officers determined the shooting was accidental and most likely happened while the 16 October 28, 2010

man was sleepwalking. He had no clear memory of what happened and was transported to Boulder Community Hospital for treatment.

Almost perfect getaway Boulder police responded to reports of a man setting off a car alarm while trying to break into a Lexus on Friday, Oct. 22. When officers arrived, they found the suspect entering the car through the front window. The man took off on foot when officers confronted him, but the chase ended abruptly when the suspect ran into a tree.

The 21-year-old was medically cleared by Pridemark paramedics and booked for first degree trespassing and obstructing a peace officer.

Lighting the way Police arrested a 50-year-old woman for second-degree arson on Saturday, Oct. 23, after witnesses reported seeing her light several things on fire in the Pearl Street area.

Officers first responded when witnesses said they watched her light two trashcans on fire in the area of 11th and Pearl streets. Another witness said that a woman matching the suspect’s description lit a kiosk on fire near 13th and Pearl streets.

Two arrested for car break-ins Two men were arrested around 2 a.m. on Oct. 20 in connection with a rash of vehicle trespasses in Superior.

Boulder County sherriff ’s deputies responded when a witness reported seeing a vehicle trespass in the Sieber Court area of Superior.

When they arrived, the deputies pulled over a black SUV with two people inside, and during questioning, the passenger left the car and fled on foot. The driver was arrested, but deputies were unable to catch the passenger. After learning the name of the passenger, deputies located him at a home in Denver and took him into custody.

It is believed the two suspects had broken into nine cars in the neighborhood, and several stolen items from those cars were found in the black SUV, which is also believed to have been stolen in Westminster.

Deputies are still looking for a third party who they believe was involved in stealing the SUV. Compiled by Mitchell Byars Boulder Weekly

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Drive benefits Fourmile Fire victims Ball Corporation and University of Colorado at Boulder Recycling Services have teamed up to collect and recycle aluminum beverage cans to benefit victims of the Fourmile Canyon fire.

The “Cash for Cans” can drive, which began on Oct. 23 at the Buffs’ home game against Texas Tech, will run through CU’s home game against Iowa State on Nov. 13. During the games, volunteers from Ball and CU collect empty cans at Franklin Field during pre-game tailgating and during half time.

CU is also providing special canonly collection stations during this time at the recycling center next to the Dal Ward Athletic Center and in the University Memorial Center. Ball Corporation will match the money raised by recycling the cans, and the combined funds will be donated to the Fourmile Canyon fire relief effort.

For more information, contact the Environmental Center at 303-4928308.

Diversity summit on tap The University of Colorado at Boulder’s annual campus diversity summit, “Expanding Our Minds: Encompassing Diversity and Practicing Inclusion,” will be held Nov. 2-3.

All events are free and open to the public.

The keynote speaker, Luoluo Hong, is vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Hawaii and a nationally recognized expert on violence prevention. She will speak on Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 9 a.m. in the University Memorial Center Glenn Miller Ballroom about gender and gender violence and its intersection with race, class and other social identities, and how to prevent gender violence on college campuses.

Also, on Nov. 2, Philip Piket, professor emeritus of sociology, will present a plenary session titled “Viewing Religion Using Sociological ‘Lenses’: Beyond Us vs. Them,” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the UMC center ballroom.

On Nov. 3, plenary sessions include “Privilege and Activism” by sociology Professor Joanne Belknap and “Conflict Transformation in the Inclusive Environment” by communication Professor Stan Deetz. Belknap will speak from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and Deetz from 1:30 to 3 p.m., both in Boulder Weekly

the center ballroom.

A performance by the Interactive Theater Project titled “Rise up!” will be held on Nov. 3 from 12:20 to 1:20 p.m. in the UMC center ballroom and will address how to respond to hate when it occurs in one’s presence.

A complete schedule of diversity summit events is available in the Events Calendar at http://tinyurl. com/DiversitySummit2010.

Faculty land CAREER awards Two CU faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, awards.

Assistant Professor Nils Halverson, who holds faculty appointments in both the astrophysical and planetary sciences department and the physics department, was awarded $875,415 over five years from NSF to support detector development and data analysis for cosmic microwave background studies with the South Pole Telescope.

Cosmic microwave background is relic heat from the Big Bang that scientists can detect with microwavewavelength telescopes. The light is slightly polarized, much in the way sunlight is polarized when it is reflected off the surface of a pond.

The polarization signal is expected to contain tiny ripples from gravitational waves set in motion a small fraction of a second after the Big Bang, said Halverson. By measuring the signal, astrophysicists can begin to understand the physics of the universe during its birth.

Assistant Professor Amy Palmer of the chemistry and biochemistry department received $831,720 from the NSF over five years to support her research to provide a powerful new approach to illuminate disease-causing bacteria like salmonella that invade host organisms and can produce harmful — and sometimes lethal — effects.

Many bacterial pathogens use a set of proteins called “effectors” to invade and infect host cells, cooperatively working to hijack cellular signaling and to reprogram the host cell to enable bacterial survival. Palmer and her team are developing a new method that will directly tag a broad spectrum of effector proteins with fluorescent molecules to visualize their movements during infection of a host cell.

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boulderganic Boulder nonprofit educating Africa’s next leaders

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by Charmaine Ortega Getz courtesy of Educate!

year shy of Eric Glustrom, right, talks graduating with an Educate! student. from Boulder’s Fairview High School, Eric Glustrom went to Uganda in 2002 to make a documentary about the plight of thousands of refugees from surrounding warring nations. He met an orphaned youth about his age, Benson Oliver, whose one wish was for an education to help his community and his homeland. students must buy their uniforms, Glustrom helped Oliver get into a books and study materials. They may school, and came back to the United have to pay for room and board at States determined to do more. some facilities.

Educate! is now an established non“The schools are in different kinds profit with a unique solution for the of communities, rich or poor, Muslim, challenges of war, poverty and disease.

Catholic, whatever,” says Maya This year, 415 Ugandan high Ellman, director of U.S. operations school students will be the first gradu- and communications. “Each student ates of an Educate! program to bring has the power to create change practical, sustainable solutions to their according to what each community communities’ problems. needs, but it’s all equally change.”

“Uganda has the youngest populaAmong many things, the protion in the world,” says Educate! gram’s students learn social responsiPresident Boris Bulayev. “More than bility, how to start small businesses half of the people are under the age of and micro-lending programs, how to 15. A quarter of them are in primary organize community efforts, and how school.” to teach others. Educate! pays for the The two-year program at 24 “part- mentors and teachers at participating ner schools” in Uganda provides these schools to teach the two-year empowyoung people with leadership training, erment training, as well as provide mentoring and experience in problem- alumni network support and postsolving. Education in Uganda includes graduation mentoring. private and public schools. But even The government of Uganda has when there is no fee simply to attend, asked Educate! to incorporate its pro-

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gram into its public school curriculum, says Bulayev. With growth, of course, comes more expense, even with grants and funding such as the $40,000 partnership recently awarded by the Vancouver-based povertyfighting agency Global Agents for Change.

“We are a very small nonprofit with 24 staff members, 15 of them the mentors and teachers in Uganda,” Bulayev says. “Some of our U.S. people work half-time, and we depend a lot on volunteers. Our two biggest challenges are raising money and keeping up the quality of the program.”

Donors can contribute as little as $25 a month to fund an Educate!

Scholar through the entire two-year program. One-time contributions are welcome, of course, and there are a number of other ways to help out, including attending the annual Ball for the Future of Africa on Feb. 12, at the Avalon Ballroom in Boulder.

Where’s Glustrom today? As executive director of Educate! he spends a lot of time in Uganda, where he was at the time of this writing.

By the way, he managed to graduate from Amherst College in 2007 with a degree in biochemistry.

For more information on Educate! visit www.experienceeducate.org. To learn more about Global Agents for Change, check out www.globalafc.org/ Global_Agents_for_Change/Home.html.

Thursday, Oct. 28 Boulder Matters Public Meeting. 5 p.m. East Boulder Community Center, Senior Center Commons, 5660 Sioux Dr., Boulder, 303-441-1880.

Producing Useful Scientific Information For Policy. Noon.

CSTPR Conference Room, CU campus, 303-492-8308.

Friday, Oct. 29 National Geographic Public Lecture. 7 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC, CU campus, 303492-8308.

Saturday, Oct. 30 Boulder Farmers’ Market.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303910-2236.

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

Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303910-2236.

Monday, Nov. 1 ENVS Club Weekly Meeting. 9 a.m. UMC Room 425, CU campus, 303-492-8308.

Wednesday, Nov. 3 BGBG Commercial Brown Bag Series — Boulder County Commercial Energy Efficiency Programs and Rebates. 11:30 a.m.

REI Community Room, 1789 28th St., Boulder, www.bgbg.org.

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The Sacrifice screens on the CU campus on Wednesday, Nov. 3.

Thursday, Oct. 28

funky roots

Motet plays Earth, Wind and Fire

by Dave Kirby

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or a guy who makes his living — hell, draws nearly his every breath — from da funk, it was only a matter time before Dave Watts made this pilgrimage.

This year’s series of Motet and Friends trib gig finds Watts fronting a 12-piece band, playing the music of what many consider the absolute sine qua non of ’70s funk ’n’ soul ’n’ R&B, Maurice White’s Earth, Wind and Fire.

It may be hard to overstate the utterly foundational importance of EWF, now nearly 40 years since the beginning of their classic period. Picking their cues from

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Motown and jazz artists like Ramsey Lewis (for whom EWF founder Maurice White played drums in the late ’60s), and playing counterbalancing sweet-pop craftsmen to George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic chaotic genius, EWF redeemed the promise that all their influences made in the 1960s — velvet-smooth vocal harmonies, massive horn charts, accessible and enduring songwriting, and fiendishly detailed rhythm sections.

And for all of that, they went on to become one of the most popular and storied pop acts of the ’70s — at their best, during their heyday of Open Our Eyes (recorded at Caribou Ranch) and That’s The Way of the World, the band could reel off blistering dance numbers, breezy and effortless ballads and marksman-precise R&B-pop with alchemistic

Freaque’s Show — Boulder High School haunted house. Since annual racist threats aren’t scary enough. Boulder High School Auditorium, 720-561-5313.

Through Oct. 31.

Friday, Oct. 29

Murder 1929: Will Power — Murder mystery theater. Get your Agatha Christie on. Gold Hill Inn, 390 Hill St., Gold Hill, 303443-6461.

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Becoming the Type of Man I Want MY Daughter to Marry — The title speaks for itself. 10 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-2450552

Sunday, Oct. 31

Spirit Meet & Greet — Because spirits are real, man. 4-7 p.m.

Mountain View Cemetery, 620 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-7763611.

Monday, Nov. 1

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, Nov. 2

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

Wednesday, Nov. 3

International Film Series — The Sacrifice. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303492-1531.

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ease. Before gradually succumbing to disco’s dreary, corrosive influences around the turn of the 1980s, EWF had established itself as a generational hallmark.

Great pop music, for the most part, typically owes its durability to simplicity, but as Watts learned once he dove into the material, EWF managed that rare feat of being both AM-radio friendly and a deeply musical musician’s band.

For Watts, the only real way to explore the band’s versatility and range was to plow into the live recordings.

“One reality is that EWF didn’t play one version of all these songs,” Watts says. “If you listen to their live recordings, they changed these songs up every year they went out on tour, so there are so many possibilities of how to play this material. So, I basically just sat there and dug into all the live stuff I could find and just put together all my favorite moments from all these songs, and created our own arrangements. It was pretty heavy.”

“For a funk band,” Watts continues, “this is just the most involved, most musical group that was ever out there. … I think it was structured around a lot of different aspects, ’cause there were a lot of different writers in the group.

Some songs came from the keyboard player and had a lot more jazz fusion, some came from [Denver native] Philip

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The Motet plays the Fox Theatre Bailey, which really ist/collaborator on Sunday, Oct. 31. Doors at focused on the Jans Ingber to 8:30 p.m. Raw Russ opens. vocals, and some handle lead vocals, Tickets are $20. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. came from Maurice, along with Paul and that was really Creighton, who heavy rhythm stuff. heads up the “And they did a lot of group songPortland-based R&B/pop band writing too, which is why every song has Intervision and who also sang at last so much going on. Everybody put their year’s Motet Sly tribute shows, and solo two cents in. They were literally a band vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Jarrod for 10 years, with the same lineup, so Lawson, also from Portland, the latter they really had this group dynamic to two on Ingber’s recommendation. All of how they wrote this material. It wasn’t these singers are plainly and profoundly just one thing — every song had all this influenced by the EWF/Stevie Wonder harmony going on, all this melody, all axis of ’70s soul-pop. this rhythmic stuff.”

“Jans … has had some trepidation Watts concedes that it took him a over the years over how to make it haplittle bit of time and torqueing up the pen,” Watts says, “so once he was gungconfidence in himself, his group and his ho with his crew of guys, I knew it was co-conspirators to take this thing on. In going to happen. I mean, for years, we’d part because of the deep reverence he be in the car traveling together, just talkhas for the music and the legacy, and in ing about how great it would be and part because this stuff is just a bruising how we could make it work. And workout to play. Or, at least, play right.

Garrett [Sayers], our bass player, he’s “Literally, it’s been 10 years in the been listening to this music since he was, making. I decided the day after last like, 3. He was born and bred on this Thanksgiving that we were doing this stuff; his parents nurtured him on this show. And I’ve been working ever since music. They’re so excited, they’re actually putting this music together. Every year, flying out to catch the Denver gig.” it’s been, ‘Phew, we’re not ready for this.’

The logistics had us a bit baffled. … Just between the horn players, the Watts writes up charts, hands them singers, the material, it’s just so dauntout … but how soon until all dozen can ing. But, you can only say no so many actually be in one room, playing this times. So, it’s like, ‘OK … do it.’” stuff. Like … rehearsing?

Watts tapped erstwhile Motet vocalWatts laughs.

“Oh, that won’t happen until two nights before the first show. But I actually flew out to Portland to do a rehearsal with the singers, and we’re doing a couple of rhythm section rehearsals, and I did a rehearsal with the horn players, so all the sectionals really help. Everyone being on the same page with the arrangements, it just means it’s a matter of everyone doing their homework.”

And it’ll be a blaring, bright, falsetto-spiked spectacular, decked out in afros and mood rings and hip-hugger bells and shining stars. And musically, we reckon, a pretty wide distance from his day gig’s recent vibe, the deep burgundy cool of lightly sampled, underspoken electro-ambient/afro-Cuban house, engraved across last year’s elegant and beguiling Motet release Dig Deep.

“That kind of stuff is always in our blood, y’know?” Watts says. “No matter what we’re doing. We might be doing some electronic house, psychedelic — whatever. But I mean, in my mind, when I see people dance, I still feel the ’70s funk, ’cause that’s what I grew up on. To me, you can’t take it out. No matter what’s happening with what we play, I’ll always have that feel in my backbeat.”

At some level, maybe, we’re all James Brown’s kids.

“Ha! I’m sure he’d love to hear that,” he says.

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A kinder, gentler Ween

Band’s sound changes again as it enters middle age

by Oakland L. Childers

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t’s hard to picture the two guys who wrote “Waving My Dick In The Wind” and “Spinal Meningitis” settling into suburban family life, but time has a way of imposing its will on everyone, even Gene and Dean Ween.

It’s been three years since Ween released their most recent album, La Cucaracha. That time has seen the members of Ween make babies, do the parent thing full-on and generally surrender to the realities of adulthood.

“It’s fucking totally exhausting,” says Aaron Freeman, aka Gene Ween, from his brand new house on a horse farm in New Jersey. “Mickey [Melchiondo], my partner, is an avid fisherman and I’ve been being Mr. Dad. Between that we haven’t been getting together too much.”

Having family obligations has also changed Ween’s touring style immensely. Where once the pair would head out for months at a time, the band now focuses on short tours throughout the year, pulling from its vast, 11-album catalog.

“Basically we’ve been doing these showcases,” Freeman says. “We’re all 40 now and none of us want to be away from our families for very long. We’ve been doing like four- and five-day stints. It’s a cool way of [touring].”

Ween will be in the midst of one of those mini tours Sunday when they play a Halloween show at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield. Freeman promises a show worthy of the holiday.

“It will be a Halloween show so we’ll probably …

I don’t know what the fuck’s going to happen,” he says. “We’re working on costume concepts. It’ll be weird and crazy.”

Song-wise, Freeman says fans can expect a smattering of favorites from throughout Ween’s career, though every show is different. With such a huge

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body of work from which to choose songs, the band has no problem finding material for a three-hour set.

“I like to play stuff we haven’t played a million times,” Freeman says. “I like weird stuff from [1991 album] The Pod. Lately we’ve been playing songs from our first record. We have our set, standard songs, but it’s always fun when we whip something out of the blue, and the people really appreciate it.”

As far as new material goes, Freeman says there’s not much to talk about — yet. But a new record is

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sure to surface relatively soon.

“I’ve just got to get back in the writing mode,” Freeman says. “It’s pretty much putting yourself in a position where you’re not distracted by anything and you don’t go get a banana for your son every 10 minutes. Just getting together, sitting there and spending time writing.”

While Freeman and Melchiondo sometimes struggle to find space in their lives for writing music (they typically rent a house, away from their families, and demo songs for a couple weeks when starting a new record), coming up with material has never been an issue.

“I’m always playing guitar and I’ve got 12 different jams in my head all the time,” Freeman says.

And there’s no telling what will come out of the collective mind of Ween. The pair has never limited itself to any genre of music, writing everything from country ditties to fullblown rockers. It’s part of what makes Ween unique, but also a matter of keeping themselves interested, according to Freeman.

“I’ve never, since the beginning, seen how a band could stick to one sound,” Freeman says.

“Playing a particular style of music, that kind of music, I can’t really imagine. The only rule we have is that it be a good song. It’s got to be a quality song as agreed to by Mickey and I.” So where is Ween — a band with no particular influence, direction or classification — heading?

“I want to get into soft rock,” says Freeman, without a hint of leg-pulling. “I’ve been saying that since I was a teenager. Like Al Stewart or Christopher Cross — some really lame shit that I love but no one else does. That’s the direction I’m hoping the next Ween record will be.”

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Symphony in a dream Cirque de la Symphonie adds visuals to orchestral performance

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veryone loves a circus.

Even at the symphony — in the temple of high culture?

Well, yes. It turns out that one of the hottest attractions on the orchestral circuit these days is not the latest violin prodigy or Russian piano phenom, but Cirque de la Symphonie, a troupe of aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers and strongmen who, in their own words, “bring the magic of cirque to the music hall.”

On. Oct. 29, the music hall in question will be Macky Auditorium as the Boulder Philharmonic presents a program of music for Halloween and other popular orchestral showpieces. About two-thirds of the pieces will be accompanied by Cirque de la Symphonie performers.

Music on the program will include such scary-season favorites as Saint-Saëns’ “Danse macabre” and Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bare Mountain,” performed by orchestra alone, as will be Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances.” With the cirque performers, the orchestra will play music from Bizet’s “Carmen,” Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Snow Maiden,” as well as Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance” and the Bacchanale from Saint-Saëns’ “Samson et Delilah.”

Adding acrobats, jugglers and aerial performers to such an appealing program turns a concert into a live version of Walt Disney’s classic 1940 animated film Fantasia. Considering that Fantasia made many standard classical pieces — Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” Dukas’ ”Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — widely popular, you have to wonder: Why did it take orchestras so long to think of doing this live?

In fact, it took the combination of an American producer, a Russian aerialist and a visionary pops conductor to bring the ingredients of Cirque de la Symphonie together.

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cirque performers in the United States for many years.

“I’m not going to take credit for everything here,” Allen says, “but I’ve always thought from when I was first in Moscow and saw a lot of cirque artists performing and I was listening to some classical music ... that’s the kind of music this art form [cirque] was meant to go with.”

Allen says the real “aha” moment came in 1997, when Eric Kunzel, director of Cincinnati Pops, saw aerialist Alexander Streltsov in a cirque performance Allen had produced. Kunzel came backstage afterwards and said he’d like to have Streltsov perform at a Cincinnati Pops concert.

“It was so well received that they showed it [on television] for five years,” Allen says. “We went on to do other collaborations. ... An artistic director finally asked me, why don’t you offer this formally, because all the orchestras would love to have something like this as part of a pops series or subscription series. And so that’s when Alexander and I decided that we would go ahead and incorporate, trademark the name and offer the program to orchestras.”

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Tickets start at $15.

Call 303-449-1341, ext 2.

Symphonie has appeared with more than 75 orchestras in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, ranging from small orchestras to some of the country’s major symphonies. Future bookings extend through 2013 and include the Boston Pops and return engagements with the Atlanta and Seattle symphonies.

With so many dates, Allen and Streltsov describe their touring schedule as “brutal.” After finishing the performance in Boulder, the company will take a 1 a.m. red-eye flight to Rhode Island for a performance on Saturday night.

Interestingly, music critics — not usually a kindly sort — seem to like what Cirque de la Symphonie brings to performances. In Pittsburgh, Mark Kanny wrote, “The only question after Thursday evening’s sold-out Pittsburgh Symphony Pops presentation of ‘Cirque de la Symphonie’ is: How soon will the musically adept circus act return to Heinz Hall?”

And in Baltimore, Tim Smith noted, “There’s always a lot of talk about the need to break down barriers in classical music, to rethink the concert format and put a fresh spin on the experience. This imaginative concert actually did that, and with a panache that whets the appetite for what’s next.”

Michael Butterman, music director of the Boulder Philharmonic, agrees.

“Cirque is a brilliant synthesis of sight and sound,” he says. “What I like about it is that the orchestra plays great staples of the classical music literature, pieces that are really written well for the orchestra and that people will recognize, and yet at the same time you’ve got this added element [with] these visuals going on. It’s great for young people especially, but at the same time the music that we’re playing is really substantial, serious stuff.”

So step right up! Come one, come all! The circus is coming to Macky Auditorium.

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ccording to the new documentary, Chasing the Shadows (chasingtheshadows.com), onethird of Americans believe in ghosts and more people in the United Kingdom believe in ghosts than believe in God. With many ghost-hunting reality shows, like Ghost Hunters on Syfy, Paranormal State on A&E, Ghost Lab on Discovery and Most Haunted on the Travel Channel, it’s no secret that we’re fascinated with all things ghostly. That’s why Chasing the Shadows Director Tim Schultz decided to dedicate four years of his life creating a documentary all about it.

“I’ve always been interested in ghosts, the paranormal and understanding the unknown,” says Schultz, who graduated from CU in 2004 with a degree in broadcast news. “I’ve always been interested in independent film and documentaries, too, so I just put the two interests together.”

Along with traveling to places like the Bardi Castle in Italy, Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana and the birthplace of voodoo in Benin, Africa, for the film, Schultz spent much time exploring the haunted places of Colorado. He spent the night in “haunted” Room 401 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, hung out at the Croke Patterson Mansion in downtown Denver, explored the Belvedere Theatre in Central City, took a tour of the Miramont Castle in Manitou Springs and investigated the Lumber Baron Inn in North Denver. To say the least, Schultz didn’t realize how much hard work went into paranormal investigations.

“I definitely believe in ghosts and life after death.

But what changed for me is that we went in a ton of different locations, and we didn’t necessarily have ghosts popping out of the woodwork as soon as we turned the cameras on,” Schultz says. “And when you watch a reality show about the paranormal, stuff happens right after the other. That’s what I expected it to be, but what I didn’t realize is that they shoot tons of hours of footage in order to get the key moments. So we shot hundreds of hours of footage that’s all melted

down into the documentary.”

Despite the waiting around, there were plenty of scary moments throughout the filming of the documentary. In the film, Schultz connects with paranormal investigator Christopher Moon, who owns a device that uses “E.V.P. (electronic voice phenomena)” to create what he calls a “telephone to the dead.” The device allows the ghosts to use local radio frequencies to speak to the living and answer questions. Skeptics may be quick to call the device an elaborate hoax, but it didn’t stop Schultz from getting a few chills.

“A lot of it is just normal radio signals, but when there are direct answers to questions, especially with words that are not broadcast on the radio, which makes you really wonder what the source of it is. Once it said ‘Tim,’ then it said ‘Timothy’ when I got closer to it,” Schultz says about using the device at the Belvedere Theatre. “Then I asked, ‘Is there someone that wants to

communicate with me? What is your name?’ Then there was a deep voice that said ‘Mike.’ Then I said, ‘Well, Mike, is there anything you want to tell me?’

Then it said, ‘Get out.’ Unfortunately, that moment wasn’t intended to be part of the film. But I did some further research after that and there’s supposedly a story about a ghost named Mike that haunts a building next to the theater, so I thought maybe that’s what that was. It certainly scared me.”

Schultz and his crew also toured haunted places in Boulder with Banjo Billy. The Banjo Billy Ghost Tour (banjobilly.com) happens every October on an old school bus. Staffers give a history of some of the famously haunted buildings in town, places like the Hotel Boulderado, where multiple suicides happened in Room 304; Macky Auditorium, where Elaura Jaquette was raped and murdered in 1966; and even the ArnettFullen House at Seventh and Pearl streets.

“The Arnett-Fullen House is pretty popular,” says Banjo Billy tour guide Drew Neilson. “And that’s largely due to the fact that the people who live there are really awesome and they put a mannequin in the window so people can get creeped out at night when walking by.

We talk about how people can put their hands in a cold spot; people have taken pictures of a floating orb who many people believe is Oliva Fullen of the Fullen family.”

Even the Boulder tour bus could be haunted.

Staffers think former Boulder resident Clinton Dumm, known for joining the Boy Scouts at age 36, being kicked out at age 46 and willing his house to Boy Scout Troop 71 after his death in 1970, may have had a presence on the bus.

“We had the people who were living in his house on the bus at one point and after they came on, all of our electronics went haywire,” Neilson says. “Then we’d take them to the shop and things would work there.

We take it out put it in the bus, they wouldn’t work.

Take it back to the shop, they would work. So that was kind of bizarre for us.”

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music Annie Booth Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Peace & Love & Jigs & Reels. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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.

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Boulder Public Library Film Program — The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Freaque’s Show — Boulder High School haunted house. Boulder High School Auditorium, 720-561-5313. Through Oct. 31.

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

Healing Meditation: Playfulness and Creativity — With Alan McAllister.

7-8:30 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Ste. 307, Boulder, 303-5455562. RSVP requested.

Kangoo Jumps Open House. 6:308:30 p.m. Body Dynamics, 2260 Canyon Blvd., Ste. A-4, Boulder, 303-440-5776.

Lunchtime Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St.,

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.

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International Film Series — Women Without Men. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

Portrait Photography. 6-9 p.m.

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

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

DeVotchka. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032

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

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

Duke Street Kings. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Elephant Revival Halloween Party — With the Mile Markers. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

Frogs Gone Fishing. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Gora Gora Orkestar. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

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

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

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

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

Revelation 19. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

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

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

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Camp Bow Wow Halloween Pet Parade. 12-2 p.m. 3631 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2261.

International Film Series — Women Without Men. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

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

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

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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

Jan. 30.

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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Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

The Batches, Katie J,Thrifty Astronaut. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

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

By All Means. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

The Defibulators. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

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

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

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

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

JD Kelly. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

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

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

events 26th Annual Animal Affair — To benefit Longmont Humane Society. 5:30 p.m.

Radisson Conference Center, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-772-1232 ext.

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Friday, Oct. 29 Anne Germanacos’ In the Time of the Girls. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Monday, Nov. 1 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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Ted Kerasote’s Pukka. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Wednesday, Nov. 3 Gene Stone’s The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

John Major Jenkins’ The 2012 Story.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Becoming the Type of Man I Want MY Daughter to Marry. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-245-0552.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance.

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

Boulder County Parks and Open Space 35th Anniversary Program. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Brave Souls and Dreamers: A Benefit for the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center — Featuring Resonance Women’s Chorus. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.

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

Through Nov. 28.

Louisville Community & Pet Appreciation Day. 3-6 p.m. Louisville Family Animal Hospital, 332 S. McCaslin Blvd., Louisville,303-661-0702.

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

National Geographic Young Explorers Grant Workshop. 9:45 a.m. University Memorial Center Room 235, CU campus, 303-492-3396.

UNC Opera Theatre Presents: Scences from The Marriage of Figaro. 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Union Colony Civic Center, Hensel Phelps Theatre, Greeley, 970-351-2200.

Sunday, Oct. 31

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

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams.

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

Hot Rize. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

events 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.

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.

Spirit Meet & Greet. 4-7 p.m. Mountain View Cemetery, 620 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3611.

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halloween Halloween weekend events Friday, Oct. 29

music D.I.Y. or Die Halloween Megafest. 5 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

DeVotchka — Halloween show. 9 p.m.

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

Elephant Revival Halloween Party — With the Mile Markers. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Freaque’s Show — Boulder High School haunted house. Boulder High School Auditorium, 720-561-5313.

Through Oct. 31.

Halloween Carnival for Kids. 3-5 p.m. South Boulder Recreation Center, 1360 Gillaspie Dr., Boulder, 303-413-7200.

Halloween Costume Party — With Sheryl Renee. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Halloween Party & Haunted House.

3:30-6:30 p.m. ESC for the Arts, 6560 Odell Place, Suite B, Boulder, 303-8476262.

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

Widow’s Bane — Halloween pre-party.

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

Saturday, Oct. 30 28th Annual Eerie Erie 5k/10k. 9:30 a.m. Old Town Erie, www. erie. optimistweb.org.

2010 Halloween Parade. 10 a.m. St Vrain Memorial Building, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404.

DeVotchka — Halloween show. 9 p.m.

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

Hallowfreaknween. 7 p.m. 1st Bank Center, 11450 Broomfield Ln., Broomfield, 303-410-0700.

Halloween Costume Party — ­With Quamando. 9 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Halloween Costume Party — With Homeslice Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Honky Tonk Halloween — With Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

GAGAween. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303440-2880.

Halloween Food Drive & PUMP-kin Workout — To benefit Emergency Family Assistance Association. 8:45 a.m.

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Howl-O-Ween Canine Costume Contest — To benefit the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. 1-3 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 28th Street and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-444-0722.

Lyons Hallowe’en Old-Time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall, 4th and High streets, Lyons, 303-823-0816.

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

Play-Ground Theatre 21st Annual Halloween Musical Variety Show. 10 a.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St. Boulder, 303443-2122.

Women’s Resource Center 2nd Annual BOO BALL. 6 p.m. Fort Collins Hilton, 425 West Prospect Rd., Fort Collins, 970-407-7039.

Sunday, Oct. 31

music 15th Annual Trick or Treat on Our Street. 1-5 p.m. Alpine Avenue between Broadway and 13th Street, Boulder, 303441-3203.

Gold Hill Innfestation Party —With The Modniks. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 390 Hill St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Halloween Costume Party — With Groovin’ On. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Halloween Extravaganza — With Hot Soup. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Halloween Fun at WOW! 11 a.m.

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

Halloween Party with She Groovez.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Spirit Meet & Greet. 4-7 p.m.

Mountain View Cemetery, 620 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3611.

Mary Sue and Cari’s Halloween Concert. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Munchkin Masquerade. 2-5 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, www. boulderdowntown.com.

Spooktakular Race. 9 a.m. Spring Canyon Community Park, 2626 W. Horsetooth Rd., Fort Collins, 970-4190486.

Table Mesa Shopping Center Trick-or-Treat for Kids. 1 p.m. 693 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-494-5000.

Walking Dead Premier Party and Zombie Whack-A-Thon — To benefit Hopeful Tomorrow. 8 p.m.

Prime Bar, 1515 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-586-8888.

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Frozen Movement. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-4636683.

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, 303-4435108.

Quartet by David Lawrence Morse —

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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.

Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Wednesday, Nov. 3

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The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Doug Haywood and Dick Orleans.

7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

Euforquestra & Kinetix. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

George Nelson Band. 6:30 p.m . St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

John Statz. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

Featuring the Takács Quartet & the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-4928008.

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

BoulderCountyAA.org.

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

Digital Photography One-Week Certificate Program. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Through Nov. 5.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

Tuesday, Nov. 2

music Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam.

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

Combo Showcase — With Lauren Brombert, The Dirt Dogs. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Greg Hoy, Aloud, Gemini Trajectory. 9 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

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

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Kevin Dooley and Friends. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Boulder Final Cut Pro Users Group — Free. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Boulder Weekly

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

Modern Rhythm Project. 7:30 p.m.

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

Omara Portuondo. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Rude Boys. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Sarah Sample. Noon. Oskar Blues

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

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

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

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St.,

Boulder, 303-449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Oct. 28 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. 29

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Halloween Carnival for Kids. 3-5 p.m. South Boulder Recreation Center, 1360 Gillaspie Dr., Boulder, 303-4137200.

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

Saturday, Oct. 30 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Sunday, Oct. 31 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, Nov. 1 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, Nov. 2 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, Nov. 3 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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Most recently, football star Brett Favre got stuck in a scandal of cellphone seduction. There was talk of his retirement last season, but he will never retire from these allegations. And what will he do next? Probably repent and sign up for a sex addiction clinic. It’s a useful excuse to help salvage some of the public stigma. But none of these men suffer from sexual addiction.

They suffer from sexual ignorance.

Like so many of us, they are illinformed on how to discuss with their partners their desires, needs and wants — even if that means getting these filled elsewhere. Sure, we joke about blowjobs and the latest Lady Gaga outfit, but when did we ever talk about sex in an authentic and healthy way? When learning about pregnancy prevention, did we also learn that our bodies and pleasure are ours to own and explore?

When learning about algebra and chemistry, did we also learn that longterm relationships are hard and that we have to work at communicating with our partner should we desire to uphold an exclusive contract?

We often offer our kids silence, because that was what we were offered.

As if talking about sex automatically gives permission to be promiscuous, or opens the door to instant STDs and pregnancy. But if we say nothing, then we know nothing, and we eventually take our curiosity elsewhere and learn about sex from MySpace or porn sites.

Or late-night comedy shows, where hosts like Letterman are supposed to offer satirical commentary, not sleep with interns then make public apologies.

The downfall of countless leaders demonstrates that society fails to adequately deal with sexuality. It is almost a crime to deny ourselves and our children the information and education that we need to be sexually healthy throughout one’s lifespan. Doing so will only lead to continued consequences — as evidenced by numerous public figures who articulate one set of “family” values yet take action on others.

But our leaders are not the only ones

who experience the sexual itch. As sexual beings, we’ve all tasted the monotony of monogamy — especially in relationships stuffed with silence or deficient in sensual and juicy conversations.

I once asked a man how he managed to make his marriage succeed for 51 years. He replied that his love just deepened with the decades. Then he whispered, “And truthfully, all pussies are the same — they are wet and warm.

If I need to be with another woman, I’ll just close my eyes and fantasize about her.”

I later asked his wife if she considered her husband faithful. “Of course,” she replied. “I know he sometimes fantasizes about other women when we are having sex. But that’s OK. It has given me permission to fantasize about other men. And you know, this has only made our sex more passionate and frequent!”

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Leaders of our modern world, hear me loud and clear: Denial is not just a river in Egypt. We will only keep seeing more scandals if we continue to deny the integral role sexuality has in our lives.

When we start to talk about our desires, fantasies, struggles and sacrifices in a straightforward and sincere manner, we will begin to cultivate a healthier sexuality — as individuals and as a society. So go home and talk about sex!

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Thursday, Oct. 28

Climbing Carstensz Pyramid and Sumantri in Papua. 8 p.m.

Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Ste. A, Boulder, 303-4998866.

Saturday, Oct. 30

Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-8752241.

Dinosaur Day. 12-4 p.m.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Sunday, Oct. 31

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

Monday, Nov. 1

Chad Greedy climbs The Turning Point, V8, at the Satellites, a bouldering area below the flatirons.

Ladies Bike Mechanics 101.

5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Women’s Winter Backcountry Essentials. 7 p.m.

REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-5839970.

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et’s be honest. Being comfortable has never been one of the selling points of rock climbing. Between the ever-present ache of tight shoes, the exposure to the elements and the occasional torn and bloody fingertip, climbers are used to enduring a fair amount of suffering in pursuit of their passion. However, once that autumn chill touches the air and the snowflakes start to fall, even some of the most stalwart enthusiasts head to the gym rather than subject themselves to belaying in the cold.

Snowshoeing Basics. 7 p.m. REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, Nov. 3 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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Luckily, Colorado has a surplus of sunny, south-facing crags to break up the monotony of day after day spent pulling on plastic in the gym.

While there are definitely some days that no amount of hand-warmers in your chalk bag or copious layers of down on your body can keep you from sniffling miserably while you belay, less hypothermic conditions can usually be found by those bold enough to seek them. Those who do are often rewarded with the unbeatable friction and low humidity that create some of the best sending temps of the year.

“I’m from the south, so my blood still isn’t so used to cold weather,” says Anne-Worley Moelter, general manager of Movement Climbing and Fitness. “I’m always looking for the sunniest spots to climb once fall rolls around.”

Moelter often seeks her respite while bouldering at Flagstaff. On a clear day, the Monkey Traverse area at Flag usually guarantees warmth while it basks in the early to late afternoon sun.

Moelter’s husband Mike, on the other hand, prefers climbing in the Flatirons, where he uses a system of “scarves, a thermos of tea and a hot water bottle” to keep warm.

For those partial to traditional climbing, the West Ridge of Eldorado Canyon offers a couple hundred routes, both single and multi-pitch, from 5.6 to 5.12. Right in Boulder’s backyard, most of the routes stay in the sun from about noon until 5 p.m. Pro climber Nick Martino prefers the virtues of Eldo’s stellar Rincon Wall.

“The quality of the rock is incredible. Like many of the south facing walls in Eldo, the winter can actually be the best time of year to climb at the Rincon Wall,” Martino says. “On crisp sunny days you can trudge up there through the snow to find that the base and the routes are warm and dry.”

The Rincon Wall, which typically stays toasty from about 12:30 p.m. until dark, is stacked with classics from 5.9 to 5.13, including Over the Hill (5.10b) and Musta’ Been High (5.13c R/X).

Kevin Bains, operations manager at the Boulder Rock Club, makes the commute to Turkey Rocks Area in the South Platte to seek sun during the winter cold. Located about two hours away from Boulder, Turkey Rocks is part of the abundant deposit of granite that makes South Platte a popu-

lar destination for weekend warriors. Although it can often take a four-wheel drive vehicle to reach Turkey Rocks during the winter, the cliffs can be a haven of warmth even when there’s snow on the ground.

“The cliffs just bake in the sun all day,” Bains says. “It’s amazing granite, just splitter after splitter, and there are tons of choices from five-seven to very hard off-widths.”

Bains recommends Gobblers Grunt, three pitches of “super fun” 5.9 hand crack, as well as Whimsical Dreams (5.11-), and Drumstick Direct (5.10+).

Shelf Road, another popular favorite of many Colorado climbers, offers nearly 1,000 sport routes of vertical, pocketed limestone. Three hours from Boulder near Canon City, the extensive stretch of chalky golden rock is very beginner friendly, but even the more experienced climber can find some brilliant routes to dangle from. As long as the sun is shining, Shelf Road is a veritable oven, with its bright perpendicular cliffs acting as giant radiators.

I’ve spent many a pleasant winter afternoon climbing in shorts and getting a tan while on such Shelf classics as Lats Don’t Have Feelings (5.11d), The Gym Arete (5.12a), and I Claudius (5.11b).

If you’re out by Shelf and are in the mood for less vertical ascents, you might want to check out Newlin Creek, just south of Canon City. Although the area gets visited mostly for bouldering, it does have some trad and sport climbing as well. Sam Johnson, a project planner for REC Inc, recommends such problems as the classic Bear Trap (5.6), Jacques Cousteau (5.11), and The Nickness (5.10).

“It’s an awesome spot,” Johnson says. “The best thing about it is the rock quality. It’s all gneiss with really defined features and the lines are pretty obvious.”

Other great winter spots include bouldering at Morrison or Mount Sanitas, sport climbing on the north side of Boulder Canyon (facing south), the Catslab and Highlander Crag at Clear Creek Canyon, or the volcanic rock of Penitente Canyon.

So whether you only have time for an afternoon bouldering session at Flagstaff or are fortunate enough to make a weekend trip to Shelf Road, Colorado offers a variety of climbable winter crags to suit whatever style you’re interested in.

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he site www.climbupsokidscangrowup.com is base camp, of sorts, for individuals who take the initiative to start fundraising climbs, bikes, races and hikes to help kids in Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe with AIDS and HIV. The site encourages people and companies to start their own charity challenges and to find sponsors and recruit other participants. All funds raised benefit the American Foundation for Children with AIDS. AFCA provides medicine, supplies and food to children who have been infected with HIV in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. For more information: www.helpchildrenwithAIDS.org Some people organize trips for adventures such as climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. But, if you find yourself with more charity than ambition, one of their ideas is to organize a fundraiser at an indoor climbing facility. You don’t have to limit yourself to climbing, either. The site also includes ideas for bike or foot races.

The website includes information about other participants and their adventures, and gives you lots of tips on fundraising. You can also watch a video of the kids who benefit from your climb.

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With such a wealth of south-facing cliffs to choose from, us Colorado climbers should count ourselves lucky, put on another down coat, crack open some hand-warmers and greet the coming cold.

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lose your eyes.

Imagine a helpful guide escorting you through a pitch-black void of darkness.

Deeper and deeper into the darkness you shuffle with the help of your guide. Acoustic live music plays somewhere in this unseen, amorphous space before you. The music grows louder, as a scintillating smell of organic food wafts into your nose.

This is the experience that Rosh, a Bostonian Naropa graduate in his early 30s, wants to bestow upon patrons of Boulder — and eventually the world over — with his unique Blind Café experience.

“I’m still discovering what this event is,” says Rosh, who has organized the Blind Café in Boulder twice. “But the focus is building relationships, regardless of persons being sighted, visually impaired, or blind.

“The whole point of this event is communitybuilding,” he says. “We want to help people become more connected to themselves and to relate to new friends. The Blind Café creates a context for this interaction to happen.”

Along the way, Rosh says, Blind Café patrons can also enjoy food “that is designed to delight the senses.”

Chef Marcus McCauley is a dedicated member of Rosh’s team who originally hails from Pearl Street’s recently closed Bimbamboo. McCauley is very proud of his Oklahoma provenance and prepares food accordingly: farm-fresh goodies that range from persimmon pudding to poached pears served in pomegranate juice.

This upcoming Blind Café, referred to by Rosh as “Boulder Blind Café 3,” offers ticket-buyers a menu that is still in the works, with Chef McCauley flying in from a cooking study session in France.

“You can expect something French,” says Rosh proudly, who also notes that he does his best to allow McCauley to “express himself through his art,” while

also trying to stick to a gluten-free, nut-free, vegan and vegetarian mélange to keep the meal “as inclusive as possible.”

“When we go to Austin soon,” Rosh jokes, “we’ll probably have to have some meat. But for now, we want to keep it something-for-everyone.”

Rosh also mentions that the concept of bringing in locally grown, farm-fresh foods — this time “probably root veggies and something like squash or other seasonal vegetables, and there will definitely be some kind of dark chocolate dessert, of course” — is a large

part of the Blind Café’s central conceit: fostering a new sense of community.

For those who may be concerned about not knowing exactly what they’re eating, Rosh himself will make changes in advance to food preparations as needed.

“One person wasn’t allergic to mushrooms,” he says, “but was hugely ‘mushroom-phobic.’ So, I went to his table and changed his one meal right before the event. We try to accommodate everyone.”

In doing all he can to keep his Blind Café experiences all-inclusive, Rosh also accommodates sighted patrons by granting them visually impaired or blind guides who act as escorts to the room’s dinner tables.

These specialized waiters are, along with the chef, the only 30 or so staff members who are not volunteers.

After assisting patrons navigate through the dark café — fabricated in advance by Rosh’s “Master of Darkness,” Phil Norman — the blind waiters then engage with patrons in an open discussion forum.

Included in this round of Blind Café’s Q&A session will be Boulder’s own Gerry Leary of the Unseen Bean, who has become a master roaster of coffee beans despite being blind since birth. Aside from his involvement in the Q&A, Gerry has in past Blind Café experiences also engaged in walking around the room, while talking, to “show” patrons the general dimensions of what would otherwise be a shapeless abyss.

For Rosh, the Q&A session is one of the most significant components of the overall experience.

“A lot of people can’t handle the darkness,” he says, “and they have to leave. But one little 7-year-old girl was so brave, coming in and asking questions of our waiters.”

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ocated in a mall near the multitating sharing. Ray, a man given to enjoyplex movie theater and home ing two entrees, tucked into the bhindi, a improvement monoliths of $9.95 meatless course of okra with onion.

Louisville, Delhi Darbar posGiven its sometimes unnervingly viscous sesses a provenance familiar to qualities, okra is a love-hate proposition. those who’ve been in the area for a while.

Fans of this acquired taste will enjoy this Run by the same folks who operated a dish, as the veggie’s texture eschewed popular West Pearl Street Indian eatery in mushiness in favor of retaining some firmthe ’90s, this establishment provides lowness, although it would have benefited key but attentive service and generous porfrom less oil. tions of comforting ethnic fare.

Ray’s $13.95 shrimp biryani consisted Sitting down with friends Ray and of crustaceans over rice. Found from the Isolde, I noticed that the comfortable Middle to Far East, this grain-based dish upholstered chairs and Indian music quickcan feature anything from vegetables to ly established Darbar’s cred as an inviting chicken. With meaty shrimp taking center spot for a leisurely dinner. The only drawstage, this version resembled a complex back was that I found myself slouching take on fried rice. More assertive spicing down in the overstuffed seating and feared would have made this course really pop, that I would slip so low that only my eyes although that may have obscured the deliwould be visible above the tabletop. cacy of the shrimp.

I was able to lift myself out of the Isolde’s $12.95 lamb curry required no comfy chair in time for the arrival of three fine-tuning. Endearingly tender meat was starters. First up was the $4 bhaji, essencomplemented by a sauce artfully blending tially Indian onion rings. Well-executed sweet and spicy. A standout cold-weather here, these had a sweet flavor nestled in t’s arguable that papadums and the traditional dips of tamadish that possessed the best hearty qualicrisp texture. The accompanying sauces rind and mint are analogous to chips and salsa with their comties of a home-cooked dish, one could subwere memorable, with the tamarind dip bination of crunch and spice. But unlike tortilla chips, papadums sist throughout the winter on this concocnicely balancing sweet, tart and earthy can be made from a wide variety of foundation ingredients. In tion over hot rice. tones. Even better was the mint sauce, the U.S., Indian restaurants typically serve versions made of lentil Equally compelling was the plate of which stood out thanks to the addition of or chickpea. However, rice, flour and potato also serve as com$11.95 tandoori murgh, or chicken atop a mild but still perky pepper. Crunchy $2.25 mon ingredients in this flatbread that can be toasted, baked, bed of onion. Served on cast iron, there papadums, legume-based crisps, served as fried, microwaved or even eaten raw after a being dried out in was no doubting that this had been prean addictive foil to these well-crafted dips. the sun. Smaller chip-like versions are a classic Indian restaurant pared in the classic high-temperature oven, appetizer, and are often paired with chutney. as the sound of sizzling poultry continued There’s also a far-reaching selection of for several minutes. A squeeze of lemon traditional naan flatbreads. We had the highlighted the freshly prepared chicken’s $3.50 kabli naan, which nicely split the difrestrained smoky qualities. This dish ference between your basic clay oven bread underscored Darbar’s strength as a top choice for soland more pungent interpretations loaded up with gar- adding a distinct accent without calling too much lic or onion. This variant arrived dotted with nuts and attention to itself or leading the diner to think dessert idly crafted Indian food in Louisville, as it provided fine execution of traditional fare. cherry, making for a texturally interesting and colorful had arrived early.

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Food drive with pumpkins Boot Camp folks at Fitness For Living are gearing up for their 2nd Annual Halloween Fitness Food Drive to benefit the Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA). A fun twist to this Halloween morning happening is that the entire workout uses a pumpkin in its exercises. The Food Drive Fitness event will take place at Scott Carpenter Park in Boulder on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 8:45 to 10 a.m.

“A pumpkin is a perfect substitute for a weighted medicine ball,” says camp trainer Terri Garden.

Participants are encouraged to wear a costume, and prizes will be awarded for best costume and spirit.

The PUMP-kin Workout is designed for both athletic beginners and seasoned athletes. Women are encouraged to bring a 5-10 pound pumpkin and men in the 8-14 pound range.

There is no charge to attend, but registration is require. Participants are asked to bring four non-perishable food items or a $15 donation.

To register or for more information, visit www.fitliv.com, or call 303-5503491.

Beers of the year Wynkoop Brewing Company will host its second annual liquid recap of the year, Beers of the Year, on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

At the event, Wynkoop staff will crack a reserved keg of every type beer created by head brewer Andy Brown and his team in 2010, a total of nearly 35 beers. Tickets for a tasting of all the beers are available for $20. For more information, call 303297-2700, or visit www.wynkoop. com.

Brass and brew A Taste of Great Brass & Great Brew, Denver Brass 5’s most popular event, will also take place at the Wynkoop brewery.

On Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m., guests can participate in a lively discussion of the aroma, color, consistency and flavor of specially chosen Colorado brews and listen to the vibrant sounds of the Denver Brass 5.

Tickets for beer tasting, hors d’oeuvres and concert are $39 per person, and tickets for the under-21 crowd are $29 per person. For more information, call 303-832-4676, or visit www.denverbrass.org.

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would be like when she lost her sight altogether.

“Even though no one could see each other,” says Rosh, “you could feel that each person in the room was touched by this.”

According to Rosh, these singular interactions happen often at the Blind Café events. His band, One Eye Glass Broken, with which he plays during the events, performs a live music showcase of eight to 10 songs, including popular covers.

But they also play some rather “dark and intense” songs, says Rosh, who revealed that there are some patrons who — because they can’t be seen in the dark — “feel more allowed to cry in a public social environment.”

In addition to producing and performing at the events, Rosh donates a portion of his profits to Boulder Guide Dog Puppy Raisers Club. He says he’s excited by the notion that these donations guarantee new harnesses — nor46 October 28, 2010

mally costing $300 each — to blind persons and guide dogs who need them.

Rosh’s long-term goal is to continue putting on the Blind Cafes nationally, and eventually go international, possibly bringing the experience to parts of India, where his events can occur as a philanthropic gesture to both enlighten and feed attendees for free.

He hopes to continue the Blind Café experiences as long as possible, and eventually with the assistance of grants or endowments, Rosh aspires to reach his goal of creating a worldwide arena for building local communities of people, regardless of sight abilities.

Boulder Blind Café 3 will take place on Nov. 4 and Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St. Tickets can be purchased online at www.BoulderBlindCafe.com and are $45 for general admission, $35 for students and seniors.

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ell, it’s that time of year again. Ghouls, goblins and high-fructose corn syrup.

I always look forward to all the creative costumes Boulder has to offer. Of course, there is never a shortage of hookers, playboy bunnies and Midwest farmers’ daughter costumes. I always went the other way, you know, furry costume from head to toe, leaving something for the imagination.

This year I might change it up a bit; I can’t decide between Lindsay Lohan pre-Mean Girls or the Lilo of the here and now … living on the edge, people.

One thing I know for sure is what the treat will be: Yummy Mummy Cookies. Probably nothing yummy about a mummy. I mean, the dead body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, in accordance with the practices of the ancient Egyptians? Not one thing appetizing about that, but it’s Halloween, and we are getting scaaaaryyyy ... bwaaaaa haaaa haaaa!

OK, as scary as one can get with butter, sugar, eggs and frosting.

These cookies are only the head of the mummy, so cute! Making butter cookies instead of sugar cookies makes for an uneven surface to frost, hence making the bandage-like frosting more true to life. Because I’m sure you might have been confused: “Is this a real mummy, or just a cookie?”

So I have my scary, tasty treat planned out, almost decided on a costume, got my Halloween hooch ready and waiting ( Jagermeister works well), now I need to decide what to pass out to all the little Lady Gagas and Harry Potters. I’m leaning towards Spam. They’re going to need some protein after all that candy, don’t ya think? The neighborhood kids just love me.

OK, back to trying on costumes.

Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap or Lindsay Lohan in the Betty Ford Clinic? Decisions, decisions.

Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Lightly spray a baking sheet or line baking sheet with parchment paper.

In large bowl, beat butter and sugar with electric mixer or by hand, until light and fluffy. Add in egg, vanilla and mix well.

Add flour, salt and baking powder.

Mix until dough forms. Dough will be a bit crumbly.

Drop dough by tablespoons (I do just a tad bigger than a tablespoon) onto prepared baking sheet.

Bake for 9-10 minutes until edges are starting to brown.

Let sit on pan 5 minutes before removing to wire rack or parchment paper. Let cookies cool.

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Buttercream frosting 1/2 cup softened butter 3-4 cups powdered sugar 1/4 tsp. almond extract 5-6 tbsp. milk or heavy whipping cream Mix all ingredients in bowl until light and fluffy. You may need more milk, depending on how spreadable frosting turns out. Add extra milk slowly.

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Add more white frosting above and below the black so eyes look hollow.

Leave cookie like that, or place 2 white chocolate chips on black frosting for eyes.

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The Kitchen 1039 Pearl St., Boulder 303-544-5973

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elf-described as a “community bistro,” The Kitchen prides itself on using such sustainable local ingredients as Long Farm pork, Monroe Farm veggies and Fox Fire lamb. The diverse menu, which has attracted national media attention, includes charcuterie and cheese platters, as well as melon salads and heirloom squash soup. Small appetites will appreciate petite servings of fries and other starters, while the famished can enjoy full-bore entrees like meatless red wheat berries and Long Farm pork chops.

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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 lavenderscented panna cotta.

Streat Chefs 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.

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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 melt-in-yourmouth meat and impeccably prepared pasta.

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ongmont’s fast-casual Basil Flats features a tasty and affordable Mediterranean-inspired 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.

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rendy is not how one would describe Andrea’s Homestead Café in downtown Lyons, with its ambience that crosses a hunting lodge with a European relative’s home. Indeed, this establishment has a definite Teutonic vibe, as evidenced by the ample selection of dinner menu schnitzels and old country bric-a-brac. The morning menu features standard bacon-and-egg breakfasts with such flourishes as Germanstyle potatoes and fine vegetarian green chile.

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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.

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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 addition 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.

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 ChineseAmerican 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.

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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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.

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onviction should have been a good film. After a woman’s beloved ne’erdo-well brother is convicted of murder in a tiny hick town, it’s up to her to exonerate him, first through the system and then by going to law school and becoming a one-client attorney. Better yet, it’s “based on a true story,” though how accurately the film reflects reality is unclear.

Instead of delivering a touching story on familial love and dedication, Conviction is a predictable, tedious and cloying movie that had me ready to walk out before we’d even reached the halfway point.

Kenny Waters (the always-superb Sam Rockwell) is the redneck brother of Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank). Set in the small rural town of Ayer, Mass., I felt like every single character in the film was an unpleasant stereotypical hillbilly — swearing, drinking, fighting and mistreating their spouses and children.

One of the flaws of Conviction is in director Tony Goldwyn’s portrayal of Kenny Waters as more of a mischievous rascal (such as when he and Betty Anne break into a neighbor’s mobile home, just to eat all their candy and have a nap on the bed) than as the community bully. There’s an alarming bar fight scene that aptly demonstrates this moral ambiguity: Kenny

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emons of mediocrity, be gone! Here we have a shrewd sequel a touch better than the original.

Set two months before the San Diego County hauntings of Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2 gives low-budget honor and modest, gorefree but nerve-wracking glory to ghost stories, sequels, prequels and the dark Hollywood art of the cash-in.

In crucial ways the second film is a lot like the first, which was released commercially last year (a slightly different version of Oren Peli’s picture was completed in 2007). The conceit remains the same. We’re watching home video and surveillance footage throughout, confined to the house and grounds of a pleasantly generic-looking two-story Carlsbad, California home.

In the original, young co-habitators Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat) installed a camera in their bedroom to record strange doings while they slept. Not much happened, and then gradually just enough happened to put the whammy on the audience.

Peli’s film wasn’t “about” anything (nor is the new one).

Its brand of fright wasn’t psychological or nuanced. It was, however, stealthy, patient and devoid of the customary 21st century viscera. For teenagers benumbed by the explicitness of the Saw and Hostel franchises, Peli’s monster success provided an antidote, a taste of something designed to spook them without assault.

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reacts far out of proportion to the situation, but ultimately everyone — notably Betty Anne — is amused and forgives his outburst.

Conviction ultimately rests on whether or not law enforcement officers are more trustworthy and believable than civilians and what happens if a police officer has a grudge against a local citizen. That’s the fundamental conceit of Conviction, that Kenny Waters was innocent and that the murder of Katharina Brow was pinned on him by a legal system gone awry.

The antagonist in the film is revealed to be officer

Nancy Taylor (Melissa Leo), but her motives are never explained, a lapse that hurts the film and contributes to the sense of tedious melodrama. What was her relationship with Kenny, and why would she have a vendetta against him?

Dramatic movies need to both entertain and inform to be successful, and Conviction fails on this ground. Kenny is not a sympathetic character — as Hitch would doubtless have made him — and since we never identify with him as an innocent man caught up by a grave injustice, I didn’t care whether he was stuck in prison or freed by the disturbingly obsessive quest for justice by his sister.

Which leads to my core problem with Conviction: Even though the story was about Kenny Waters, the film was ultimately focused on Betty Anne Waters and her decades-long quest to free her brother. But why was she so obsessed, even as he told her to let the case drop? Therein lies an interesting movie, but that’s not what Conviction is about. Betty Anne comes across as creepy and unbalanced, a devoted sister who would stop at nothing to free her brother. My advice? Skip Conviction entirely.

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Williams cannily expands the visual scope of the original without violating its found-footage aesthetic (hardly a fresh idea, but effective in the right hands). The focus in this prequel is on Katie’s sister, Kristi (Sprague Grayden), who returns home from the hospital with newborn Hunter. Katie comes by early and often. The sisters have experienced hauntings in their childhood, dismissed as hokum by Kristi’s jocular husband (Brian Boland). There’s also a maid (Vivis), who senses evil spirits; a dog, Abby, rightly protective of the infant; and a teenage daughter (Molly Ephraim) from the father’s

previous marriage.

Instead of one fixed surveillance camera, we get six, each stationed in different rooms, installed by the family after their house apparently is burglarized. The script by Michael R. Perry, Christopher Landon and Tom Pabst, with story help from producer Peli, improves on the original in its depiction of the central couple. (The bickering in the first film put the audience squarely on the side of the unseen demon.) Here, the banter’s looser, more relaxed. But the pacing remains methodical, so that when the kitchen cupboards and drawers suddenly fly open in union (a Close Encounters moment for sure) it’s pretty arresting.

There are quibbles to be had. The movie doesn’t get the ending it needs (unlike the first one, which had help from an advisor named Spielberg). Paranormal Activity 2, like its predecessor, doesn’t advance the genre so much as strip it for parts. But I’m a fan. I like the restraint. The timeworn lessons apply. Those skeptical of the supernatural are doomed to suffer. And somehow, even after all these home-movie movies, where the narcissists on screen are intent on videotaping every single moment of their lives, the sight of a dog or a baby watching something the idiot with the camera cannot see ... well, I’m scared just thinking about it.

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com event, the estranged brothers find themselves under the same roof for the first time in years, unprepared to confront whatever it was that drove them apart in the first place. Since Tom has no date for the wedding, Sam decides they should hit the road to find Tom’s former flame. The problem is, he hasn’t seen her since the fifth grade. What ensues is a riotous road trip that starts off as Tom’s search for his old girlfriend, but ends up as Sam’s search for a last taste of freedom before he settles down for good. Combining classical elements found in the best odd-couple comedies and road movies, Douchebag has an edgy, kinetic, improvisational style all its own. At Chez Artiste. — 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 Colony Square. — MCT/ Los Angeles Times Brutal Beauties: Tales of the Rose City Rollers Roller derby has seen a nationwide revival in recent years. Brutal Beauty: Tales Of The Rose City Rollers tells the story of Portland, Oregon’s league, the Rose City Rollers. For more than a year and a half, an embedded film crew documented the thrills and spills of derby life. Through unlimited access to team bouts, practices and the private lives of the players, Brutal Beauty puts the viewer on the inside track to this high-contact, sometimes dangerous sport. In their own words, the Rose City Rollers tell how roller derby saved their souls. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Budrus Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-yearold daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s con-

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Imagine everything that made you physically ill from the first two movies in stunning 3D. Yeah, we don’t want to, either. tingent that quickly moves to the front lines.

Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring yet little-known movement that is still gaining ground today. At Starz.

— Denver Film Society Conviction See full review on Page 51. At Mayan and Esquire.

Douchebag Sam (Andrew Dickler) is a few days away from marrying Steph (Marguerite Moreau), a beautiful woman who is madly in love with him.

Everything is going well, but Steph simply doesn’t understand why Sam’s only brother, Tom (Ben York Jones), is not coming to the wedding. When she takes it upon herself to surprise Sam by driving Tom down for the

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, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Sheri Linden Enter the Void Oscar, a small-time drug dealer, and his sister Linda, a nightclub stripper, are recent arrivals in Tokyo. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister —

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 Conviction Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10 Easy A Thu: 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Hereafter Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Inception Thu: 12:40, 4, 8:15 FriWed: 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 It’s Kind of a Funny Story Thu: 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:35, 10 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 Jackass 3D Thu-Wed: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:15, 10:30 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu: 2, 4:25, 7, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Life As We Know It Thu-Wed: 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:25 Paranormal Activity 2 Thu: 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:20, 3:45, 5:55, 8:30, 10:45 RED Thu: 12:30, 3:15, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:15, 4:10, 7:25, 10:10 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 The Social Network Thu: 2:20, 5:10, 7:55 Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 The Town Thu: 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Wall Street: Money Never

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Saw 3D Thu: 8, 9:30, 11, 11:55 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 12:40, 1:55, 3:10, 4:25, 6:55, 8:10, 9:25, 10:40 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 The Social Network Thu: 12, 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 12:45,

4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Stone Thu: 2, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 The Town Thu-Wed: 7:35, 10:25 Waiting for Superman Thu: 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 12:10, 3:20, 6:50, 9:50 You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger Thu-Wed: 2:05, 4:30, 7

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Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Alpha and Omega Thu-Wed: 1, 3:40 Easy A Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:30, 7 Hereafter Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05 Inception Thu-Wed: 1:05, 7:10 Jackass 3D Thu-Wed: 2:10, 4:50, 7:40 Legend of the Guardians:The Owls of Ga’Hoole Thu-Wed: 3:50, 6:55 Life As We Know It Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:35, 7:20 Paranormal Activity 2 ThuWed: 2, 5, 8 RED Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:25, 7:20 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 4, 6:50 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:35 The Town Thu-Wed: 4:20 p.m.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:25 You Again Thu: 6:40 p.m.

Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Mao’s Last Dancer Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Never Let Me Go Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 4:30, 9:40 You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 7:15 p.m.

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Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Conviction Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Earth Vs.The Flying Saucers Thu: 7, 9:30 Inside Job Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:30 It’s Kind of a Funny Story Thu: 4:30 Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 Nowhere Boy Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 Brutal Beauty:Tales of the Rose City Rollers Fri-Sun: 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Budrus Thu: 5:15, 7:15 Enter the Void Fri-Sun: 5, 8

Freakonomics Thu: 5:10, 7:30 I Spit on Your Grave Thu: 5, 7:45 Last Train Home Thu: 4:45, 7:20 Nine Nation Animation Thu: 7 p.m.

Trick ‘R Treat Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Easy A Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Hereafter Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:50 Jackass 3D Thu: 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-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05 My Soul To Take Thu-Wed: 4, 10 Paranormal Activity 2 ThuWed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 RED Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:30 7:30, 10:05 Saw VII Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 The Social Network Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Thu-Wed: 12:45, 7 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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that he would never abandon her — refuses to abandon the world of the living. He wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted and nightmarish. Though destined to draw divided opinions, Enter the Void is a bold and incomparable cinematic experience. At Starz. — Landmark Theatres The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest In the third installment in the trilogy inspired

by Stieg Larsson’s novels, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is plotting revenge against the cretins who put her in the hospital. Rated R. At Century. — Rene Rodirguez 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 Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Hereafter Clint Eastwood’s late life/late career fascination with mortality, death and grieving devolves into a cheap parlor trick in Hereafter.

This wholly unsatisfying variation on “what lies beyond” shows him to be ill-suited to the subject and to the sort of tale that involves setting three disparate characters on a path toward one another for a finale that isn’t so much a payoff as a “Yeah, and?” Rated PG-13.

At Flaitron, Century and Colony Square. — Roger Moore 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 Inside Job From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight) comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres I Spit on Your Grave A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her.

However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away. As time passes, the men slowly stop searching for her body and try to go back to life as usual. But that isn’t about to happen.

Against all odds, Jennifer survived her ordeal.

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tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her — only much, much worse. 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 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, winceinducing 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 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 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, ChineseCanadian filmmaker Lixin Fan travels with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. At Starz. — 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 Life As We Know It Katherine Heigl continues her streak of movies we really don’t want to sit through, costarring with Josh Duhamel as a romantically incompatible couple who must to learn to tolerate each other after fate forces them to raise their goddaughter together. Rated PG-13.

At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez 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 (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 (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 Twin Peaks. — 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 Nine Nation Animation A cat and a mouse carry on a dysfunctional relationship in a futuristic landscape. A Chinese monk sets out on foot with a tiger during the Tang dynasty and happens upon the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two bluecollar workers dissect the meaning of “normal” life, as the world crumbles around them. A box of matches succumb, to their detriment, to the appeal of a cigarette. The World According to Shorts presents a selection of recent awardwinning animated short films from the world’s most renowned festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Annecy, Clermont- Ferrand and others.

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 and Century. — Landmark Theatres

based story of Penny Chenery, a housewife and mother who in 1973 took over her father’s horse stables and, with the help of a trainer (John Malkovich), produced the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks — Rene Rodriguez 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 Stone Norton vs. De Niro in a cage-match smashdown. Sounds like acting heaven. And it might have been, had Stone known what it wanted to be. This claustrophobic drama centers on a series of interviews between prison parole officer Jack (Robert De Niro), facing retirement and ambivalent about his job, and inmate Stone (Edward Norton), convicted in an arson/murder case in which he was mostly along for the ride. Rated R. At Century. — Robert W. Butler Trick ‘R Treat In writer-director Michael Dougherty’s fright fest, Halloween’s usually boisterous traditions turn deadly, and everyone in a small town tries to survive one night in pure hell … but who will still be alive in the morning? At Starz.

— Denver Film Society 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 and Colony. — 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

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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

RED Sure, this may look like another flashy, actionheavy adaptation of a graphic novel. But the casting of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as a team of exCIA agents targeted and framed for murder by their former bosses implies something more substantial than your usual shoot-’emup. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Saw VII Like death and taxes, a new Saw movie on Halloween has become unavoidable. This one throws in the 3-D gimmick — a sign even the filmmakers are running out of ways to milk this cash cow for a few more bucks. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriquez

You Again High-school rivalries rear their ugly heads for a PR exec and her mother during her brother’s wedding. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — 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. Despite the 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, Century and Flatiron. — Landmark Theatres

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March 21-April 19:

In the Chinese province of Fujian, there used to be people who believed they could communicate directly with the dead. If they slept on the grave of the person they wished to reach, their dreams during the night might lead to a meeting with the spirit of the departed. I propose that you consider something similar, Aries. Why? Because according to my reading of the astrological omens, you would benefit from communing with your ancestors. If you can’t actually spend the night near their final resting place, find another way to contact them in dreams. Put their photos under your pillow, maybe, or hold one of their beloved objects as you sleep. Halloween costume suggestion: the ancestor whose influence you need most right now.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

In an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, performance artist Marina Abramovic stared into the eyes of a succession of different strangers for 700 hours. Actresses Marisa Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among those who received her visual probes, as well as 1,400 less famous folks.

I think it would be fun for you to do a variation on her ritual, Taurus. In your case, you wouldn’t do it to show off or to prove an artistic point, but rather to get closer to the allies with whom you’d like to develop a deeper bond. Are you up for some deep eye gazing? Halloween costume suggestion: a mystic seer; a god or goddess with a third eye; a superhero whose power is X-ray vision.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Have you ever seen the edible fungi known as truffles? They are bulbous, warty clumps. Because they grow underground near trees, specially trained pigs and dogs are needed to sniff out their location. In parts of Europe their taste is so highly prized that they can sell for up to $6,000 a pound.

In my opinion, the truffle should be your metaphor of the month this November. I expect that you will be in the hunt for an ugly but delectable treasure, or a homely but valuable resource, or some kind of lovable monster. Halloween costume suggestion: a Frankensteinian beauty queen or underwear model, a rhino in a prom dress, a birthday cake made of lunchmeat.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Don’t try harder, Cancerian; try easier. Don’t turn your focus into a white-hot beam of piercing intensity; relax your focus into a soft-eyed enjoyment of playing around with the possibilities. Don’t tense your sphincter, marshal your warrior ferocity and stir up your righteous anger at how life refuses to conform to your specifications; rather, send waves of tenderness through your body, open your heart to the experiment of blending your energy with life’s unpredictable flow and marvel at the surprising revelations and invitations that are constantly flowing your way. Halloween costume suggestions: Mr. Smooth, Ms. Velvet, Dr. Groovalicious, DJ Silky.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

“I wanted to change the world,” said writer Aldous Huxley.

“But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” I suggest you adopt that as your operative hypothesis, Leo. Maybe in a few weeks it’ll make sense for you to shower your loved ones with advice, and maybe you’ll eventually get re-inspired to save humanity from its foolish ways. But for now your assignment is to fix, refine, and recalibrate your own beautifully imperfect self.

Halloween costume suggestion: hermit, anarchist, keeper of a gorgeous diary, do-it-yourself brain surgeon.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

In last May’s national election, none of Britain’s three political parties got a majority. For a while, the country had no leader. Eventually, the rightwing Conservatives and the leftwing Liberal Democrats formed a weird coalition, making Conservative David Cameron the Prime Minister. Some people had mixed feelings about the deal. “I said it was like a cross between a bulldog and chihuahua,” London’s mayor announced, “but what I meant is it will have a fantastic hybrid vigor.” I suspect that a certain merger you have in the works, Virgo, could yield similar feelings. Halloween costume suggestion: half-bulldog, half-chihuahua; part hummingbird, part-crocodile; equal mix of Gandhi and Napoleon.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

You could really use your own personal doorman or doorwoman — someone who would accompany you everywhere you go and help you gain entrance through the portals you encounter. In my vision of what you require, this assistant would go further. He or she would find secret camouflaged doors for you, and do the equivalent of uttering Ali Baba’s magic words “Open Sesame!” He or she would even create doors for you, allowing you to penetrate obstacles — going into carpenter mode and fashioning a passageway for you right on the spot. If you can’t find anyone to fulfill this role for you, do it yourself. Halloween costume suggestion: a doorman or doorwoman; a gatekeeper from a fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Is the highest form of courage embodied in a soldier fighting during a war? Irish poet William Butler Yeats didn’t think so. He said that entering into the abyss of one’s deep self is equally daring. By my astrological reckoning, that will be the location of your greatest heroism in the days ahead.

Your most illuminating and productive adventures will be the wrestling matches you have with the convulsive, beautiful darkness you find inside yourself. Halloween costume suggestion: a peaceful warrior.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

The average spammer sends out 12,414,000 emails before snagging the money of just one gullible dupe. You’re not going to have to be quite that prolific in order to get the word out about what you have to offer, but you’ll have to be pretty persistent. Fortunately, to improve your odds and raise your chances of success, all you have to do is purify your intentions. So please check in with your deep self and make sure that your gift or idea or product or service has impeccable integrity. Halloween costume suggestion: a holy salesperson; an angel hawking real estate in paradise; a TV infomercial spokesperson for free cake.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Sunlight may smell spicy or musky to you these days. The wind might have a flavor like chocolate liqueur or a ripe peach. The hum of the earth as it turns may sound like a symphony you heard once in a dream. Your body? Electric.

Your soul? Sinewy. In other words, Aquarius magic is afoot.

The hills are alive with future memories that taste delicious.

Your feet will touch sacred ground far more than usual.

Halloween costume suggestion: a character from a film that changed your life for the better.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

In the middle of the last century, avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger threw a masquerade party called “Come as Your Madness.” One of the invited guests was the Piscean writer Anais Nin. She appeared as the ancient fertility goddess Astarte, but with an unexpected wrinkle: She wore a birdcage over her head. This Halloween I urge you to be inspired by Nin’s decision to portray her madness as a goddess, but reject Nin’s decision to cage the head of her mad goddess. Find a disguise that allows you to embody the best and most beautiful part of your craziness, and let it roam free.

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