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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer 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 Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Michael Callahan, Alyssa Hurst, Hayley Proctor, Adelina Shee Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Joe Fuchs, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Jamie Peterson CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo November 15, 2012 Volume XX, Number 15 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-holdsbarred 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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Follow Longmont’s example

Boulder County as a whole needs to follow the example of Longmont and pass a ban on fracking throughout the entire county. Article 2, Section 3 of the Colorado Constitution states: “Section 3. Inalienable rights.

All persons have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned the right of

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Highroad The dirty little secret of private equity profits

by Jim Hightower

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xecutives in private equity firms — such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts — tend to be peacocks who think quite highly of themselves.

Fanning their splendid tail feathers, they unabashedly claim to be the ultimate free-enterprise risk takers — worth every dime of the multimillion-dollar paychecks they award themselves each year. Excuse me, but the risks taken by

enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; and of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.” (emphasis added).

We citizens are seeking to protect our community and our environment from the toxic and lethal effects of this vastly underregulated industrial activity. To those property owners who pro-

test that they have a right to exercise their mineral rights, and lease their property to the gas companies, I say this: you do not have the right to poison your neighbors’ land, to sicken them, their children and their animals, nor to lower their property values, just to enrich yourselves (and potentially

these self-anointed “heroes of the market” are done with other people’s money, not their own. But here’s a revelation that really ruffles their feathers: They appear to have been gathering their riches not with bold competition, but with old-fashioned collusion.

An antitrust civil lawsuit filed in federal court against 11 of the biggest equity firms includes emails in which they agree not to compete. In 2006, for example. The head of Blackstone sent an email to the co-founder of KKR: “We would much rather work with you guys than against you. Together we can be unstoppable, but in opposition we can cost each other a lot of money.” The KKR honcho happily emailed back a one-word response: “Agreed.”

Collusion, of course, perverts the marketplace they pretend to worship,

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artificially lowering the market price they’d otherwise pay. In the 2008 takeover of the giant HCA hospital chain, for example, KKR expressly asked its market rivals “to step down on HCA” and not bid. Agreeing to this blatantly illegal collusion, one rival wrote in an email: “All we can do is do unto others as we want them to do unto us.”

Of course, by cozying up with each other, they’re really doing it unto you and me. The equity outfits even have an insider term for their mutual back scratching: “Club deals,” they call them.

Forget about the vaunted free market — when the big boys want to profiteer, they keep it inside the billionaires club.

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epublicans have started a conversation on why they lost the election and on what they have to do to win the next one.

As a recent convert to the party, I have a few thoughts on that.

1. It wasn’t the economy, stupid.

Everyone said the election would be fought out over the economy. But the truth is the votes that killed Romney were driven by culture war issues — abortion and immigration especially, but others as well. (More about this later.)

2. It was the candidate.

Mitt Romney was not the ogre that the Obama campaign tried to make him out to be, but he was still a fatally flawed candidate.

The flaw? Take your pick: He was a chameleon, a shape-shifter, an artful dodger, an Etch-a-Sketch with legs, or, to paraphrase Johnny Cash, he was the one on the left who was on the right Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the one on the right who was on the left Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

It wasn’t that Romney was for ObamaCare before he was against it. It was that he invented ObamaCare before he was against it — and couldn’t offer a plausible reason for the shift other than wanting to win the Republican nomination.

People noticed.

Mitt didn’t seem to notice that people noticed. He kept asking them to trust him, apparently blissfully unaware that the shape-shifting had defined him as untrustworthy.

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Samuel Goldwin supposedly said, “Sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

Mitt couldn’t.

Romney had some stupid gaffes, and the Romney campaign made its share of strategic and tactical mistakes, but I tend to attach less importance to these in explaining his loss. Most political campaigns are pretty chaotic affairs shot through with missteps and pratfalls. Except in very close elections, which this one wasn’t, they don’t amount to much.

To be sure, the gaffes and blunders hurt Romney, but the fatal flaw was that all the shape-shifting defined him as untrustworthy and left people wondering if some part of the guy’s character was missing — and that was the deal breaker.

Could he have done something about it, given his political history?

Sure. If you’re going to repudiate your political past, start with three words: “I was wrong.” Then tell people how and why you were wrong, and what you would do differently now that you know better.

3. It was the enemies, stupid.

In politics, friends come and go.

Enemies accumulate.

A big reason for Romney’s loss, and the biggest problem the Republican Party will face going forward, is that it has accumulated too many enemies over the last few decades.

Item: The party’s absolutist stands on immigration have alienated a lot of Hispanics. Romney got only about 30

as k me t h a t l l a g a i n, a n d I’ p u nch yo u ! percent of the Hispanic vote. Before the issue came up, the GOP was gaining Hispanic voters. In 2004, Bush got about 45 percent of it. The difference represents several million voters.

Item: The party’s strong hostility to gay marriage (and gay rights generally) has driven most gays out of the Republican Party, not that there were many there to begin with. Still, the Gallup Organization recently concluded (based on about 100,000 interviews) that about 3.4 percent of the country’s adult population is gay. That works out to about 7 million voting-age Americans, most of whom won’t be voting Republican any time soon.

Item: The party’s absolutist opposition to abortion has clearly cost it the support of a large proportion of women, and single women in particular, as evidenced by the fact that this year’s balloting produced the largest gender gap ever measured in a presidential election. That also represents several million votes.

Item: Thanks to Richard Nixon and Nancy Reagan, the Republican Party pretty much owns the war on drugs. In the past, it has been assumed that this

has not cost the GOP many voters, if for no other reason than that the Democrats have always meekly gone along with drug prohibition and offered no alternative to it. Think again. More than 10 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana in the last 40 years. Chances are those of them that vote aren’t exactly beating down the doors of the party of “Just say no.”

And so on.

A couple million votes here, a couple million votes there, it adds up.

Notice that all these examples represent cases of Republicans losing voters and making enemies by virtue of wanting to use government to push people around.

The damage this does goes beyond making enemies. It makes a mockery of the Republican claim to be the party of limited government, a claim that is crucial to how the GOP defines itself.

The most important thing Republicans can do if they want to win elections going forward? Easy. Quit making enemies gratuitously. Show some tolerance.

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CU’s response to football scholarship article

egarding “Backdoor Buff Bucks” (cover story, Nov. 8), I would like to set the record straight on a few points, some of which may have been miscommunicated to the Weekly by me as CU-Boulder spokesperson.

The Presidential Scholarship II — later renamed the “Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship” in 2009 — did have specific criteria for student-athletes to meet: student-athletes receiving the scholarship were required to be nonresidents, holders of an athletic scholarship and subject to the NCAA-mandated grade point average standards listed by the Weekly on page 13 of its story.

In a point made several times to the Weekly, the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship was merged seamlessly 6 November 15, 2012

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into CU athletic scholarships — commonly known as “full” or “partial” scholarships. The funds were awarded as part of, not in addition to, allowable NCAA scholarship amounts, and all of it is and has been reported to the NCAA. Second, a point also made to the Weekly: the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship was separate in concept, execution and intent from the academic Presidential Scholarship proposed by then-President

Brown, it simply had a similar name. The tone of the Weekly’s story suggests that the athletic scholarship was a set aside from the academic scholarship, and that is not accurate.

Third, it seems clear that I did not offer a careful explanation to the Weekly regarding how student-athletes receive the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship. Here is how it works: the head coach of a team determines whether or not a student-athlete receives an athletic scholarship. The director of athletics eligibility then selects the nonresident student-athletes in good standing who are getting a full or partial scholarship for the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship, based on having see SCHOLARSHIPS Page 8

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certified their nonresident and enrollment status. The scholarship is then merged into the student-athlete’s full or partial scholarship as one award by our Office of Financial Aid, which works to ensure that a team doesn’t exceed its NCAA scholarship limit or that the student doesn’t receive an award amount that exceeds the allowable individual NCAA scholarship amount.

The awards are not targeted by sport, but in order to reduce administrative burdens, sports that have student-athletes who receive full athletic scholarships are evaluated first. If we are unable to spend all of the allocation on this population, we then start reviewing student-athletes in sports that award partial scholarships. Since the inception of the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship program, student-athletes from 12 sports have been represented in the distribution of the awards – numbers and percentages vary by year across different sports. Note: the Weekly also reported on page five of the story that the $1 million represents about 25 percent of the athletics department’s total [scholarship] budget. I believe I explained to the Weekly that the figure represents about 25 percent of the scholarship support for football scholarships, not all athletic scholarships.

Any student-athlete who receives (or received) the Athletic Merit UCB scholarship must be eligible by NCAA standards to receive an athletic scholarship.

Students returning from either academic probation or disciplinary suspension by the University, once cleared to return to the team and to the University, would have had their Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship restored as a part of the restoration of their athletic scholarship funding. Again, any combination of athletic aid cannot exceed the NCAA award maximums, and we work to ensure that all student-athletes meet all NCAA standards at all times.

Finally, the suggestion in the Weekly’s piece, both in artwork and in reporting, of an under-the-table financial arrangement for student-athletes is both inaccurate and unproven by the evidence put forth in the story. The University, due to the dictates of the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA), is unable to comment on scholarship awards to any specific student-athletes.

What I can assure your readers is that the University of Colorado Boulder made a comprehensive set of athletic reforms in the early part of this decade under Chancellor [Phil] DiStefano.

Those reforms have continued, and among them are a strict adherence to reporting scholarships to the NCAA and adhering to that body’s rules on distributing them.

—Hilliard is the director of media relations and spokesperson for CU-Boulder.

Editor’s note: The Presidential Scholarship II was, in the words of its creator, former CU President Hank Brown, intended for “exceptional students who made contributions to the university.”

CU-Boulder’s own rules say it was intended for those who remain “positively involved” in athletics. It was then renewed for students who had been arrested and charged with crimes like assault. In addition, despite the fact that CU’s own scholarship rules say that students must be continuously enrolled to continue receiving the scholarship, BW’s report showed at least two instances where this was not the case. Regardless of how the original award was later splintered to include things like the Presidential Scholarship II, at its inception it was a single program approved by the Board of Regents with the understanding that it would require recipients to “demonstrate adequate progress and commitment to excellence.” Documents indicate that the scholarship was improperly awarded to some. BW stands by its report.

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poison yourselves and your property in the process). The total costs that society and the environment would have to endure if such individuals allow fracking on their property, is why this precedent exists in environmental law, and has been dramatically applied in the past, from the halting of the Storm King Mountain power plant in 1965 to the Love Canal disaster in the 1970s.

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public opinion on this issue. They had best realize which way the political wind is blowing, and realize that forcing their will, and the will of the giant oil and gas companies behind them, is only going to work against them in the end. The way fracking is being pursued is wrong, both morally and environmentally. The Halliburton Loophole that exempts fracking from environmental regulation was achieved see LETTERS Page 9

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by political subterfuge, and the day is surely coming when the American people nationwide will recognize this, demand it be closed and have fracking regulated by the EPA, if it is not banned outright. We should be building the infrastructure for a sustainable future, and stop investing in this suicidal direction, which only worsens the eventual consequences of global climate change.

Rick Casey/Lafayette Our Colorado Constitution states all individuals have “the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.” Congratulations, Longmont, for doing just this in voting Yes on Question 300!

Humans cannot survive without clean air and water, and no amount of money is worth trading these basic needs.

Fracking violates our constitutional rights by endangering our health, water and air. The state is squashing our rights by allowing fracking next to schools, hospitals, churches, parks and homes. Municipal government grants home-rule cities the authority to regulate land use, ensuring protection of the environment in a manner consistent with Constitutional rights. The COGCC has been seeking a court ruling on complete preemption of municipal control for years, intending to dissuade Colorado citizens from asserting their constitutional rights. Neither the courts nor the COGCC have adequately addressed the Oil and Gas Act’s legislative mandate to “foster the responsible, balanced development, production, and utilization of the natural resources of oil and gas in the state of Colorado in a manner consistent with protection of public health, safety, and welfare, including protection of the environment and wildlife resources.”

Our community right to defend our environmental quality should supersede any oil and gas development the state, Hickenlooper or the COGCC wants.

Now, it’s time to follow Longmont’s lead and assert our fundamental right to a clean and safe environment. We need to stop allowing the COGCC to tell us legal precedent “preempts” local citizens’ rights.

Mandi Papich/Lafayette Boulder Weekly

Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to the Boulder County commissioners.

Despite the overwhelming body of evidence that shows fracking poses serious health consequences to people living in the vicinity of well sites, nonetheless you’ve decided against extending the moratorium on oil and gas drilling within Boulder County.

You were elected to represent county residents and protect our air, water, quality of life and property values.

Instead of standing up for your constituents, you fold to the money and political pressure of the state-supported oil and gas industry. This is gross negligence of the responsibilities of your position. People came out en masse to oppose regulations being considered, and your advisory board has overwhelmingly recommended a continued moratorium, yet you choose to ignore facts and recommendations and put profits over people. No one in Boulder County wants heavy industry setting up shop next to our homes or schools beside people employed by the industry or profitting from it. Your claim to be environmentally conscious but not to extend the moratorium is outright hypocrisy. Please remember, it is the people of Boulder County who you serve and not the oil and gas industry.

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And, in reference to Miller’s article “Blue Colorado” (cover story, June 14) Dr. Connie Sanchez wrote a letter, and I am responding.

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TRADING PLACES Strange days, indeed. Two Boulder County cities have become like that movie Freaky Friday, where a mom and daughter switch bodies.

Longmont used to be a Republican bastion of rural conservatism, bashing lefty Boulderites at every turn. Boulder used to be a hornet’s nest of liberal activism.

But with Longmont residents’ recent vote to ban fracking, and its city council’s approval of new progressive regulations on oil/gas operations, not to mention its exploding arts scene, affordable housing, and ethnic and economic diversity, this Boulder County L-town has become a model for even the most die-hard leftist rabblerousers in Boulder. Why, at the Nov. 13 county commissioners meeting and the fracking protest that preceded it on the Pearl Street Mall, the word “Longmont” was uttered more times than the word “granola,” which is a first.

Meanwhile, in Boulder, certain city council members have gone all old-school prohibitionist on us, cracking down on alcohol served in the University Hill area and trying to restrict drinking there and on Pearl Street. They’ve also cracked down on 4/20 protest, passed measures to make life harder for the homeless and even flirted with making it illegal to protest without permits issued by the city. The only rights Boulder civic leaders seem to care about these days is the right to an uncluttered Flatiron view.

Maybe someday soon we’ll come full circle, and no one will be able to afford to live in Longmont, and we can all live in surrounding communities and commute into our Longmont jobs. Who could have imagined we’d ever see this?

MITT’S HITS They only ever liked him because they thought he would win.

At least, that’s the suggestion of “Disappearing Romney,” a website dedicated to tracking the Facebook Likes of failed Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney. The site combines the odd fascination of a watching a graph update in real time with the evil joy of watching born winner Romney lose. There’s also a not-funny Photoshop of Obama.

The page’s title might be a pretty accurate prophecy: Romney has stated he’s leaving politics after the election. The last time a losing — or, we should say, “losing” — candidate didn’t have a political office to return to was Al Gore, who has remained active in politics. But Gore has turned to vocal advocacy for the environment; we fear to think what Romney’s pet issue would be. (Hedge fund welfare? Investmentism?

Yachts’ rights?)

Of course, history tells us there will be diehard Facebook fans. Even John McCain’s Facebook page still has more than 800,000 likes as it admirably maintains the illusion that McCain updates the page or has any understanding what Facebook is.

In the span of writing this, by the way, Romney lost 180 more fans. It’s OK, Mitt.

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SCUM OF THE WEEK Longtime Boulder Weekly readers will remember that nearly 20 years ago we used to pick a “scum of the week” in every issue. Now we aren’t about to resurrect that tradition on a regular basis — let’s just say that sitting in the publisher’s office every week listening to some pissed-off citizen or politician or unscrupulous business owner who had just won the honor scream at us got a little old after a while.

That said, we just can’t pass up the opportunity to pull the old scum award out of mothballs this week and present it to the 17-year-old dickhead who had the incredibly poor taste to put on a Joker mask inside one of the theaters at the Twenty Ninth Street mall on Saturday night during the screening of a horror film.

The idiot, who shall go unnamed only because he is a juvenile, terrified a group of five women at the theater so badly that they fled, believing their lives were in danger. The theater has banned this moron for life and he got off lucky.

Just think what could have unfolded if a few moviegoers had been amateur pistol-packers hell-bent on stopping another Aurora.

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he miscalculations at Valmont Butte continue, apparently.

City of Boulder officials have announced that the $5 million cleanup of the contaminated 103-acre property the city bought 12 years ago is over budget by more than $1.4 million and will be completed three months late.

According to a staff memo requesting a supplemental budget appropriation that Boulder City Council will be asked to approve tonight, Nov. 15, the project has encountered some unanticipated costs and time delays.

The cleanup, which was to be completed in December, is now projected to be finished in March and will come in 28 percent over budget.

The city has been splitting the cost of the remediation project with Honeywell, which acquired a company partially responsible for years of contamination at the site. The city will bear half of the additional cost, $722,000, with Honeywell paying the remainder.

Of the city’s amount, $361,000 will come from the general fund, $288,000 will be drawn from the Wastewater Utility Fund, and $72,000 will be provided by the Open Space and Mountain Parks Fund.

The reasons for the cost overrun and delay seem varied. According to the memo, the added expenses are for “asbestos abatement, prairie dog fencing, removal of invasive trees, additional soil excavation, rock cap adjustments and contingencies.”

But the bulk of the overrun is not being driven by those “construction costs,” the memo says. A total of $1.2 million is needed for “archaeological monitoring, prairie dog management, perimeter air monitoring, building asbestos inspection, legal services, and independent oversight, sampling Jefferson Dodge

Valmont cleanup delayed, $1.4 million over budget

by Jefferson Dodge and reporting.”

On top of the $1.4 million in additional cleanup costs, the city attorney’s office is requesting another $150,000 for the project.

The budget increase request is part of the council’s “consent agenda,” which is the collection of items approved as a package because they are perceived to be of little consequence, requiring only a quick rubber stamp. (The purchase of the property in 2000 was approved the same way.)

It is unclear whether any of the additional work required is a result of Boulder Weekly’s 10-part series earlier this year about the history of contamination at the site and associated debacles, including the city’s purchase of the parcel.

When asked how Honeywell officials felt about the cost overrun and delay, company spokesperson Victoria Streitfeld referred BW to city of Boulder officials.

City spokesperson Jody Jacobson says the cost increase represents the culmination of many factors.

“There was not one big additional cost, it was a lot of multiple unanticipated costs, which is not unusual to have with a construction or mitigation project,” she told BW. “You have a lot of unknowns that end up getting addressed in the field. It really wasn’t a change in scope, or anything like that.”

Jacobson says examples of those unknowns include the amount of asbestos in old mill buildings that needed abatement, which cost an additional $77,000.

“We weren’t sure there was going to have to be abatement until we got in there,” she explains, adding that there was more archeological work than

expected as well. “We didn’t know what we would find until we found it. I know they found some things, and whether it was real archeological artifacts or not, we still had to do the monitoring and documenting of everything found. There were some things found, and those have been documented.”

Those items include a circle of rocks with a cross-shaped rock formation in the center that city workers found in April and removed, a decision that was met with protest by local activists, including representatives from the adjacent Valmont Cemetery, who feared it was a grave. City officials insisted that the archeologist and tribal monitor hired for the project ascertained that it wasn’t a grave. City Attorney Tom Carr even suggested that the marker was a hoax and balked at the idea of making photos of the marker public.

When asked what was done with any other possible artifacts found, Jacobson says she hadn’t read the project’s archeological report yet. She attributed the need for $150,000 in additional legal fees to the cost of hiring an outside attorney.

“With a construction project, especially a mitigation project, you often don’t know until you’re in the field what exactly you’re going to need,” Jacobson says.

After consulting with Bill Boyes, the city’s facilities maintenance program manager who is heading up the Valmont remediation, she provided further information via email.

An additional $900,000 will be needed for the rock cap designed to keep prairie dogs from burrowing into contaminated soil. Jacobson wrote that the cost increase was not due to an extension

of the cap footprint, but the increased volume of rock needed to make the cap thicker — after a “test cap” showed that the original thickness would not have effectively deterred the rodents.

There were no areas of contamination found that were previously unknown, she says. As for conflicting accounts about the location of radium buried by the city at the butte in 1971 — and questions raised by BW about whether the proposed cap would cover that radium — Jacobson wrote, “The location of the radium material was known prior to remediation and is included within the area of the cap.”

In response to a request for comment, Valmont activist LeRoy Moore, a founder of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, said via email, “Again, as before, we can rely on the Boulder Weekly, not officials of the City of Boulder, to inform us of shenanigans regarding Valmont Butte. This time we learn about an unexpected 28 percent increase in the city’s share of the cost for the cleanup of the contaminated Valmont Butte site. On a matter for which we’ve had no voice, we the taxpayers are expected to pick up the tab.

The comedy of errors continues.”

When asked to comment on the discovery of the archeological items, Lori Windle of the Valmont Butte Heritage Alliance said via email, “I believe this is news to the Native community in the Denver metro area, so until we have more information from the City of Boulder we are uncertain how to react.

We have been concerned all along that the City was not paying sufficient attention to protecting potentially culturally sensitive areas, especially on the east side of the Butte property. But until we have more information we are not certain whether our concerns have been realized.”

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Stricter oil/gas regs may hinge on setbacks

by Jefferson Dodge

A Laura Koschade, left, and Grace Noel hold up a banner at the Nov. 13 fracking protest on the Pearl Street Mall.

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s Boulder County officials mull tougher regulations on oil and gas operations such as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a key component will be setbacks, the minimum distance between wells and sensitive areas.

And in the new land use code that the county commissioners began considering this week, much will hinge on

whether companies will voluntarily embrace significant setbacks and stringent air and water monitoring in exchange for an expedited approval process for their permits.

The proposed code changes create two avenues for oil and gas companies to pursue, county staff told the commissioners at a Nov. 13 public hearing.

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The first is an expedited process that will be fast-tracked but involves adhering to stricter guidelines than state or federal rules require, and the second is a slower, standard process in which each permit will be considered subjectively on a case-by-case basis.

In the expedited process, the Boulder County Planning Commission recommended requiring a 1,000-foot setback Stele Ely of Boulder from occupied strucmakes his tures, while county staff feelings about fracking recommended a 500known at the foot setback. The comprotest before the Nov. 13 missioners are expected commissioners to make a decision on meeting. that question and the rest of the code changes on Dec. 13, after a second public asked Mike Matheson, another exterhearing on Dec. 4. nal consultant hired for the project, When Commissioner Will Toor whether the county would really be asked why the staff recommended a asking too much of industry to conless-stringent distance, special counsel form to the new land use code, as Jeff Robbins, who was hired to consult Encana and Noble claim. on the project, explained that the Matheson replied that many opera1,000-foot setback might scare compa- tors “are doing all of these things now,” nies away from choosing the expedited and that the county is asking for “a process, the avenue that is likely prefvery high level of compliance, but it erable for monitoring environmental can be done and is being done.” effects, among other things.

He added, “Is it cheap? Is it He noted that Encana has submiteasy? No. It will cost the operators ted a letter with more than 40 pages of money.” concerns about the new regulations, Several citizens who spoke during and the other oil/gas company with a the public hearing called for an extenmajor local presence, Noble Energy, sion of the county’s moratorium on submitted a similar document. Among new oil/gas permits and asked the the companies’ many concerns are the commissioners to intervene on behalf proposed setbacks, Robbins said, and of Longmont as that city gets sued by they are even balking at the shorter the state for its new oil/gas regulations.

500-foot distance.

Commissioner Will Toor told Robbins explained that the county BW that Longmont officials have has to calibrate a balance between pro- indicated to county attorneys that tecting public health and safety while there isn’t much interest in having still making the setback feasible for the county intervene, and that doing operators. He said staff believe the so could have negative, binding conshorter setback is worth it, considering sequences if Longmont loses. the host of objective, delineated stan“We would be bound by the dards that companies will have to meet results,” Toor says, adding that, with in other areas, like air and water quali- no offense intended to Longmont, ty monitoring, if they opt for the expe- “is that necessarily the case we want dited process. Alternatively, Robbins to be bound by?” said, if operators are deterred from the As for extending the moratoriexpedited process and choose the stan- um, he says it is important to dard process, the county will have to approve the county’s new code create more flexible environmental before the state makes further monitoring plans suited to each partic- changes to oil/gas regulation, both ular situation, and companies will only to get the new code on the books be required to meet less-stringent state and to hopefully affect the direction and federal setbacks. the state takes.

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n what election integrity activists say is yet another example of transparency problems at the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, a top election official told a canvass board member this week that the group’s meetings are not open to the public.

Republican Daniel Martin, who ran unsuccessfully against Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall in the 2010 election, is one of four rogue members of the canvass board, which is charged with certifying the results of the Nov. 6 election. The four — two Republicans and two American Constitution Party (ACP) members — hold the majority over Hall and the two Democrats thanks to the votes secured by gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo two years ago, which were enough to secure major-party status for the ACP. The four swore themselves in when they started meeting weeks before the election and have been vocal critics of what they say is a lack of openness and oversight in Hall’s election procedures. Hall refused to recognize their status as the canvass board until after the election.

The full seven members met for the first time on Nov. 10, and according to ACP appointee Mary Eberle, the rogue members phrased their formal swearing in by Hall as a “reaffirmation” of their charge. Eberle described the meeting as “tense;” Martin described it as “détente.”

Two days after the meeting, Martin asked Eberle via email to “continue to send me and the others notices of upcoming Canvass Board Meetings, which are all open to the public, so I can post them on the public Canvass Board Website.”

(The four rogue members have taken great pains to act as a public body, recording their sessions, inviting the media and following Robert’s Rules of Order.)

But Molly Tayer, deputy clerk and elections coordinator, who was copied on Martin’s message, replied via email the same day by saying, “The Canvass Board is an appointed committee and the meetings are not public. Certified watchers may attend, as provided for in Rule 8.6.5.”

Martin replied with his arguments, backed by state statute, for why canvass board meetings should be considered open.

And in response to a BW inquiry about the canvass board’s activities this week, Hall spokesperson Brad Turner supplied a schedule of the board’s meetings and invited a reporter to attend.

Tayer told BW that reporters are Boulder Weekly

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by Jefferson Dodge welcome to attend the meetings as “media observers,” but the Sunshine Law and other statutes cited by Martin do not require the meetings to be open to the general public, because there is

only one public official (Hall) present, and there is no policy-making or decision-making done. She describes the canvass board as a “working committee,” a reviewing body, and she adds

that members of the public who wish to attend can become certified watchers.

But Eberle says the county officials should err on the side of transparency.

“It’s better to be an open, communicating public body than do things behind closed doors,” she says.

Martin added, “When you shine the flashlight under the sink, all the bugs scurry.”

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he heat of climate change has been felt with intensity here in Colorado. This summer, fires like the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs and Boulder’s Flagstaff Fire ravaged the state.

According to Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) fellow Tim Seastedt, the burns of the past will likely be an active part of the future.

Looking southwest down Though climate change mesSpruce Gulch, where a sages can often come off as dire fire has reshaped the landscape warnings, Seastedt says he sees the effects as changes that require adaptation, not panic.

The main concern in Colorado is the fact that our “dry down,” a move toward a more arid climate, is contributing directly to a rise in wildfires.

This could be attributed to a lack of precipitation, but Seastedt points to evaporation as the culprit.

“It’s not that we’re getting less precipitation; it’s the warming that simply causes effects of fires have begun to take form, but not on a more evaporation, which makes us a more semi-arid large enough scale. state,” he says.

“They’re realizing that structures can function as Though Seastedt says that people have come to trees and actually be part of the canopy fires,” he acknowledge this change, we haven’t yet begun to says. “Slowly, there will be the transition towards accept it and react appropriately. building with materials that don’t contribute to the “These extreme events need to be dealt with in a canopy fires and can resist them better.” more proactive manner,” he says. “The wildfires we The primary problem now is that those who saw in the last couple of years aren’t going to go already own homes built with flammable materials like away.” wood and asphalt aren’t necessarily able or willing to Seastedt says that some efforts to mitigate the convert their houses to ones made of stucco and tile.

The option of controlled burns would likely present the greatest contribution to controlling such damaging fires, but according to Seastedt, this option is not viable because of public pressure and money.

“There’s some irony here because the public is not ready to jump back into controlled burning, but the time we spend discussing it ups our vulnerability because the fuel load is quite large,” he says. “You have to have an incredible fire protection plan anytime you control burn, but ultimately, the costs are going to restrict our burns.”

This problem is noted by others as well, including Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.

“There is a very clear fingerprint of climate change, but this is not simply a matter of it getting hotter and drier,” he says. “One of the major factors is actively suppressing fires.”

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by Boulder Weekly staff COFFEE PRODUCTION COULD BE SHAKEN BY CLIMATE CHANGE

The world’s most consumed coffee species, Arabica, could be pushed to extinction in the wild in 70 years by the hand of climate change, according to a new study.

This isn’t to say that the coffee will no longer be available, because much of the Arabica coffee we drink in America is made from descendants of the plant. But the lack of wild crop could leave domestic crops genetically vulnerable to a host of enemies and thus lead to lower quality crops as well as higher coffee prices for consumers, according to National Geographic.

The study, conducted by London’s Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, concluded that the prospects of the crop are

“profoundly negative” and that even in the best-case scenario, two-thirds of suitable growing locations would cease to exist by 2080 when accounting for climate change alone. Ethiopia is the third-largest producer of Arabica coffee in the world and the mean annual temperature has risen by 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1960, according to National Geographic. Arabica species are already living on the edges of ecosystems, and so the plants have nowhere to go when the temperatures rise.

The study identifies areas where Arabica has a chance to survive until at least 2080, and recommends a plan for conservation in these areas.

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DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR STREAM LIFE

High temperatures paired up with lower flows in a majority of Northwest streams are creating extreme conditions that could negatively affect fish and other organisms in the water, according to a recently published study by researchers at Oregon State University.

Snow melting earlier in the spring and snowpack levels decreasing has caused the phenomenon. Peak stream flows are coming earlier in the year, which increases the length of time at which river flows are low.

“The highest temperatures for streams generally occur in August, while lowest flows take place in the early fall,” Ivan Arismendi, lead author on the paper and a research professor in OSU’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, said in a press release. “Each period is important because it is a time of potentially high stress on the organisms that live in the stream.

If they occur closer in time — or together — they could create double trouble that may be

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He also adds that climate change appears to play a role in this development.

— Adelina Shee

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As in Boulder, Fort Collins city leaders are deciding whether to ban plastic shopping bags or require shoppers to pay extra for each bag they get from the store. This initiative is a part of the city’s efforts to reduce its environmental footprint and to cut the number of plastic bags that get caught in trees and fences.

City staff conducted a $5,000 study to examine how other cities have approached “bag bans.” The study looked into a “triple bottom line,” a term commonly used by cities to address the economic, environmental and social consequences of going green.

No final decisions on the matter have been made yet, but the Fort Collins City Council is scheduled to discuss the issue later this month.

— Adelina Shee

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is to develop plans that are more compatible with the future,” he says.

“That’s clearly what we needed to do and we need to get good at that.”

Clean-up plans employed after fires like the High Park Fire and the Fourmile Fire involve stabilizing soil, benefiting watershed and working to prevent future fires, according to Ed Self, executive director of Wildlands Restoration Volunteers.

“When we suppress wildfires, we

end up with these dense tree stands that would have naturally burned,” Self says. “We simulate what nature would naturally do when we cut down trees in those areas.”

Seastedt says that the growth of wildfires mixed with fire suppression areas are dramatically changing the landscape of the state.

“The fire transformative event could have impacts within a decade.

We’ll be having open meadow with

patches of forest rather than forest with patches of open meadows,” he says.

The consequences aren’t all negative. On the positive side, Seastedt says that residents could get the chance to see and interact with a greater range of species of plant and animal life.

“From an ecologist standpoint, it actually could up the heterogeneity, the variability,” he says.

The changes are significant, and

they are fast approaching, but research in places like Spruce Gulch by people like Seastedt offers a picture for the future.

“We have to adapt our lifestyles into living with the new systems rather than trying to return to the old one,” Seastedt says. “It’s not a doom and gloom story, it’s just a ‘here it is’ story, and we should look for opportunities amidst the issues.”

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T

he Book is a result of sweat.

Of struggle. Of pain and mishap and, ultimately, of success. The Book is, says Palmer Hoyt, “how I learned how to ski again.”

Hoyt is no ordinary skier. The coach of the Colorado Freestyle Ski team is an accomplished athlete — as you would expect of the guy who is leading the defending national champions — and he’s a ripping skier. But he’s also an intellectual.

The guy who was smart and motivated enough to write The Book.

But before we talk about The Book, and the long road that Hoyt took, we should first talk about the University of Colorado’s Freestyle program. Hoyt has overseen the team since 2005. Last year the team clinched its third national championship. It’s a program built on success and dedication. As a club sport there’s precious little funding for the organization from CU and even less recognition in the media.

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“We get minimal support from CU,” says Hoyt. “About 25 percent of the actual costs come from the athletes, fundraising is always a challenge and, of course, there’s the substantial cost of skiing.”

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“Everyone comes to CU to ski,” notes Hoyt, saying that Boulder in general and the university in particular attracts a wealth of talented youngsters who are at home on see FREESTYLE Page 22

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While the team originally started to cater to mogul skiers who had no place in CU’s powerhouse alpine racing program, the offerings on tap have evolved as the sport of skiing has changed.

Today a comprehensive freestyle program includes big-mountain, park, bigair and halfpipe coaching. The latter is bolstered by the inclusion of halfpipe skiing in the 2014 Winter Olympics, hosted by Sochi, Russia.

With the exception of big-mountain events, competitions are sanctioned by the United States Skiing Association (USSA), the same governing body that oversees more traditional disciplines such as mogul skiing and alpine racing.

Athletes compete in United States Skiing Association events across the Rocky Mountain region and in collegiate events sanctioned by the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA).

According to Hoyt, the athlete mix is about 50-50 between big-mountain athletes (who this year will be competing in Freeride World Tour qualifying events overseen and sanctioned by the Freeride World Tour, big-mountain skiing’s global event organization, and which are separate from National Championship boasting rights) and the United States Skiing Association athletes who will be showcasing their skills

at the association’s slopestyle and halfpipe events as well as events sanctioned by the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association.

With a fourth national championship up for grabs, you can expect these athletes to lay it on the line. But what you won’t know is that their ability to do so, safely and at the highest levels of competition, is based on The Book.

The Book is an accident. Literally.

Hoyt, a competitive mogul skier, was en route to an event when his car became stuck on a high mountain road in an intense blizzard. While working in the whiteout to get his vehicle moving again, Hoyt was struck by a snowplow.

The injuries were intense and lifethreatening. Hoyt had to learn to walk again, and doctors told him it was doubtful that he’d ever be able ski at the levels he enjoyed prior to the accident. Hoyt was not deterred, and started to work on regaining his skills.

“I had to teach myself to ski again,” he says. “I wrote the book for myself, to break down the fundamentals of skiing, and relearn the sport step by step.”

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According to Hoyt, by breaking down skiing into basic movements while also focusing on the physical attributes — from agility to strength — needed to compete at the highest levels, everyone from raw beginners to the most seasoned experts can improve as skiers. By implementing the SAFE program during preseason training, Hoyt says that the CU athletes he coaches go into the season well-prepared. With more strength and agility, they ski better, while the emphasis on flexibility and endurance means that they’re less prone to injury. And the fact that the team is the defending national champion speaks to the effectiveness of the program.

Still, despite the glory that comes with winning national championships, Hoyt is quick to point out that he’s merely continuing down a road of success that was paved by those who preceded him.

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structure of the team,” he says. Noting that while athletic success is nice, the team has always had a tradition of focusing on success as a much bigger concept than merely taking home medals.

“They are skiers and they’re college kids,” he says, laughing. “Of course they’re going to get rowdy. But our coaches provide role models and leadership to the kids. We teach them that by using self discipline they can succeed not just as skiers but as people.”

And for Hoyt, it’s the latter that is more important than any other element in the program.

“Skiing can be used as a metaphor for life,” he says. “You break the fundamentals down and then start to work on the little things. We make it a point to the athletes that you can always improve.”

With three national championships in the bag, CU is the favorite to take top honors again this year. But as nice as a repeat would be, Hoyt will be just as happy if his athletes find success in the most important event of all, the game of life.

“The aim is to create not just great skiers,” Hoyt says. “But to create great skiers who also contribute to society.”

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Sometimes it’s best to remember that out of the randomness of life comes the predictable emotions we all experience. Like bipartisan support for Amendment 64 or Tim Tebow winning a playoff game, we may not know how things work together, but we enjoy the sum of the parts. Such is the case with RNDM, who despite their moniker are virtually certain to appear Nov. 18 at the Fox Theatre.

Boulder Weekly

RNDM was formed by Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, drummer Richard Stuverud and guitarist/vocalist Joseph Arthur.

Ament and Stuverud have worked together for more than 20 years, and met the songwriter Arthur when his solo gig opened for their side project Three Fish in New York 13 years ago. After a jam session earlier this year turned into a creative feast, the three knew they had something special going. see RNDM Page 26

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Arthur fed his songwriting prowess and artistic talents (he’s also an accomplished painter) into the hard rock and roll filter Stuverud and Ament have forged over the years. The resulting creative spark stoked excitement within the group for what was at hand.

After four days together, Pearl Jam engineer Brett Eliason was brought in to record their progress. The result is the band’s debut album, Acts, 12 tracks that grow on you with repeated listening.

Tracks that jump off the album include the peppy opener “Modern Times” and the exercise of “Walking Through New York.” In songs such as “Darkness” and “Hollow Girl,” Arthur dishes out copious helpings of emotion while Ament and Stuverud deftly tease out the rhythm. Rocking selections like “Look Out” and “The Disappearing Ones” deliver enough pace to make the album flow rather seamlessly. Since this is a new band, audiences will get to hear most of Acts on tour. It suits the members of the outfit just fine, since they seem to enjoy this phase of their careers.

“Richard is an amazing force — he’s pretty intense,” Arthur says. “Of course Jeff is super-strong as a bass player, and together they have great chemistry. It leaves me a great foundation to build on. When I go into a guitar solo or something like that I just feel completely supported.”

Ament seems to relish his foray from arena rock god back into the smaller venues of America, driven by his understanding that true chemistry between bandmates should be allowed to grow organically. After participating in the fullness of sound that Pearl Jam brings to a stage, he truly seems to enjoy the task of making his trio fill in 26 November 15, 2012

the void.

“It’s super-creative, you know?”

Ament says. “Everybody sings backup vocals. [Arthur] might add a loop texture over the song on the fly. There’s a handful of songs where the rhythm section is extra busy because there is so much space to fill. You can also go completely to the other side of it and play sparsely and leave those spaces, so it’s kind of fun.”

While the band was excited about their work in the studio, they were still kind of unsure of what they had. The album was released on Oct. 30, and the band is taking advantage of breaks in their individual schedules to participate in the ongoing 16-stop tour.

“The whole reason that I’m out touring with this band right now is because I feel like we made a kind of phenomenal record in about four or five days,” Jeff Ament says. “I felt like there was a real connection between us. It’s totally a learning experience. You not only feel the growth as a group of three guys playing together but you also feel some sort of growth as a musician and probably even as a human being.”

Despite the kickoff of the tour coinciding with the recent East Coast perfect storm, RNDM is already seeding the clouds of creativity with new collaborative moisture. Only days into the tour, the band is already playing three new songs and testing the waters with other creations. The taps of music-making are constantly flowing.

“[Arthur] writes some amazing lyrics almost every night, so he’ll throw something at us and we’ll get a couple chords going and just kind of develop it as a band,” Ament says. “The good part is we kind of feel like we don’t want to create any rules for ourselves at this point. Any song or style could be a RNDM song.

“I feel like we’re really finding our feet. With a new band, new gig, it’s definitely a lot to work out and work through,” Arthur says. “We’ve developed a new thing, and it’s evolving. It’s definitely a living thing, and the band has this excitement to it that I think everybody who comes out to see us feels.”

“It just feels like a genuine band,” Arthur says. As in real relationships, “you can’t really decide when those happen, and the same thing with genuine band chemistry. You wander through life playing music with various people, so when things like this happen it is very special.”

“It’s that early period of a band where everybody’s really excited and kind of up for anything. It’s definitely still kind of the honeymoon stage as far as the creative side of it, so we’re just kind of going with it,” Ament says.

Arthur encapsulates the mentality of this RNDM project that is morphing into a more predictable force in commercial music.

“I’m pinching myself. I think we’re a really great band that could become amazing,” he says. “I can already sort of see our evolving in the new songs that we’re playing now. Not to take anything away from the record we’ve already made, but I just feel like the potential of the band is limitless.”

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f you mix the right ingredients, you will get pure gold.

Hungarian folk music — and the somber “Stabat That was the belief of the medieval alchemists, and it is Mater” by Pergolesi — a Baroque composer versed the belief of Bahman Saless, who mixes the musical ingrein classic counterpoint and opera. dients as director of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra.

“I thought it would be very cool for the audiWhen he realized the similarity between the medieval ence to hear Bartók and Pergolesi in the same conquest for gold and what he does in selecting a musical program, cert,” Saless says. he decided to call the orchestra’s 2012–13 season “Symphonic Having picked those two divergent pieces, Alchemy.”

Saless needed to complete the program with “All the elements in alchemy have a spiritual character, and so music that did not call for additional instrudoes music,” Saless explains. “I realized that it would be really cool ments in the orchestra. Once again, he chose to represent the musical season in a completely new vocabulary, something that contrasted about as deeply as [one that] gives you a connection between music and what alchepossible with Italian Baroque and Hungarian mists were obsessed by: how to create the perfect metal with elemodernism: heart-on-the-sleeve 19th-century ments that had spiritual connections.” romanticism, represented by Puccini’s To further the alchemical connection, Saless “Chrysanthemums.” named each program with arcane terms from Except for Pergolesi’s wellthe alchemical vocabulary. This weekend’s known “Stabat Mater,” which ON THE BILL: Boulder Chamber Orchestra plays the First unusual mixture of music by Puccini, Bartók currently has more than 60 Congregational Church in Boulder and Pergolesi, for example, is titled “Basilisk recordings in the catalog, the on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m, and and Ankh.” program will be an adventure the Mountview Presbyterian Church in Denver on Saturday, Nov. 17, at If you didn’t know, that’s “a symbolic creaof discovery for the audience.

7:30 p.m. For more information, visit ture [with] the head of a bird and the body of “The Bartók www.boulderchamberorchestra. a dragon” and “a hieroglyphic character [for] ‘Divertimento’ is very rarely org/concerts.html. the ascendancy of the life force.” Fortunately, played, because it’s a very the BCO program includes definitions — tough piece,” Saless says. “But although Saless admits that he selected the programs on musical it’s one of the most approachable Bartók pieces, grounds, then added the titles. one of the pieces you can’t take too seriously, “Alchemy represents the willingness to experiment, to come up because it was really written with the spirit of fun and dance and with the perfect metal,” he says. “So we are experimenting with folk music. putting pieces together that on the outside look completely unrelat“It has moments of Baroque harmony and simplicity, and it has ed, but once the audience leaves the concert hall, they see the moments of complete dissonance, where you have no idea what the chemistry between the pieces. heck is going on. I hope that we can have the audience really appre“You have a choice of whether you want the pieces you’re going ciate its complexity and its simplicity at the same time.” to play to be related, or do you want to produce a thought-provokDeeply rooted in Hungarian folk music, the Bartók presents ing experience. I thought it would be kind of fun to have more of a some special interpretive challenges, but the alchemist has some thought-provoking season.” special ingredients in his formula.

Thought-provoking is a good word for Saless’ programs, which “We have two of the best Hungarian musicians in our orcheshave never followed the well-travelled path. The current concert is a tra,” Saless says, referring to violinists Annamaria Karacson and perfect example. He started with two very different pieces: the Gyongyver Petheo. “They are what I call the Hungarian consulate “Divertimento” for strings by Bartók — one of the 20th century’s in Boulder. I consult both of them quite a bit about what the idimost individual modernists, writing in a spiky style shaped by omatic shapes should be with all the content.”

Out with a flash

Boulder Outlook Hotel wins prestigious blues award, will close in 2014

by David Accomazzo

28 November 15, 2012

T

he Boulder Outlook Hotel has won the Blues Foundation’s 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive award for a club — the only recipient in a nationwide contest. It’s bittersweet news, since by 2014, the hotel will most likely be demolished and converted into student housing.

“We are under contract to sell to a private group,” says hotel owner Dan King, noting that the deal is not yet final. “Their plan is not to put a shovel in the ground probably before 2014.”

King expects the deal with Austin-based American Campus Communities (ACC), a publicly traded company with more than

Boulder Chamber Orchestra

As for the Puccini, the title will probably not be familiar to most in the audience, but they may recognize the music.

“The piece is very well known, except people don’t know that they hear it all the time,” Saless says. “They have heard it in commercials, they have heard it in romantic movies.”

Puccini wrote it for the funeral of a friend and called it “Chrysanthemums” because the flowers are used for funerals. “It is one of my favorite strings-only pieces,” Saless says. “It’s such an incredibly powerful piece of music that really it deserves being heard more often.”

Alchemy aside, this is the real formula for BCO’s programming: Saless chooses his favorites and pieces he thinks deserve to be heard more often. Sometimes the blend is smooth, sometimes it is volatile, but it is rarely dull.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

$4 billion of outstanding shares, to close by the end of the year.

The Outlook property would mark an expansion of ACC’s holdings in Boulder; the company already operates Bear Creek Apartments and University Village at Boulder Creek.

In the meantime, King expects to operate the hotel and its blues venue on an interim basis until 2014.

“We know we’ll be here for at least another year,” he says.

When asked why the time was right to sell, King said, “Because people started offering us enough money. That’s frankly it. The price started going up.”

The Blues Foundation offers the Keeping the Blues Alive award to one club across the nation each year. In a press release, the foundation said, “The Boulder Outlook Hotel is an intimate, 120-seat room, which has presented the finest blues talent to its customers. ... In recent years, the roster of talent that has played at the Outlook is a who’s who in the blues.”

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ON THE BILL: Richard Marx

or a large segment of the there for musicians has just vanished. I plays the Boulder Theater on Sunday, Nov. 18. Tickets start at pop-music audience who made a living — a good living — as a $27.50. Doors at 6:30 p.m. 2032 14th graduated from the waning session musician and background singSt., Boulder, 303-786-7030. days of MTV video domier. I would do anything musical. I’d nance, Richard Marx, the produce people’s demos for 50 bucks.

Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/multi… I mean, there was just all this work instrumentalist, will probably be forever associated with a to be done. And now there’s not. lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits, soundtracks to “I don’t ever bitch about it from my standpoint. I’m brave, gotta-be-me rock anthem videos replete with softsuper lucky; I get to go and ride on a catalog of hits that I focus vixens and smoky dive bars. “Hold On to the Nights,” got in under the wire. But a new singer/songwriter doing “Don’t Mean Nothin,’” “Right Here Waiting” … Trust us, that, arguably, cannot make a living at it.” you know these songs.

His father was a successful commercial jingle writer in They were a time-and-place kind of thing, bearing their Chicago in the ’60s, and Marx’s earliest training was singown unique charms and resonating proudly on classic rock ing along to them at home. Getting it right — just right — radio these days, mostly sounding, it should be said, better was second nature for him, and still is. without the video accompaniment.

“Y’know, I come from an old school,” Marx says. “I But unlike a lot of his peers flapping lamely on the would work on a vocal, and keep working on it and punchbeach in the wake of the Great Flannel Tsunami, Marx had ing in until it was right. I do use Auto-Tune when I work a deeper bag of tools to draw from. Well before his own with other singers or other background singers, it’s sort of records sent him jetting around the world, Marx had an an industry standard, but I do everything I can, even on a extensive history in the music business, extending back to pop record, to just keep punching in until I’m happy with his years as a session background singer with Lionel Ritchie it, rather than use the machine.” and Madonna, and writing hit songs for people like Kenny Marx comes to town to play the Boulder Theater in a Rogers and Chicago, all the while hawking his own demo solo acoustic setting, performing some of the old stuff and to distracted, hit-hungry music biz suits. newer, adult-contemporary songs that have been his stock The hustling eventually paid off, of course, and Marx in trade for the last decade or so. enjoyed an extremely successful decade-plus solo run, eventu“I was definitely blessed,” Marx says. “When we evenally scoring 14 No. 1 hits across a variety of different discitually put out a record that just didn’t connect, I had two roads I could choose from: One was, I could contort myself plines — as a solo artist, songwriter or producer, defying coninto something we all thought would get me back on the tractions in radio programming and stylistic pigeon-holing charts, which felt false from the get-go, or I could sit back that killed off commercial artists faster than Hollywood could and go, ‘I live in Chicago, I’ve had 10 years of hits, I’ve sold produce them. He has the startling distinction of having writa shitload of records, I’ve had my turn, I’m going to stay ten or co-written No. 1 songs in four separate decades, and home and raise my kids.’ I’m still going to make music and lists recent collaborations with artists as diverse as Sugarland’s make records, but I’m not going to compete that way.

Jennifer Nettles and Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger.

“And what happened was that people started reaching But his success was only because Marx had skills and out to me, from all different genres of music. And I’ve been studio-smarts and pure musical ability, honed and refined busier and more productive in the last stage of my career in a way that’s becoming rare and undervalued these days. than the first, because I’m doing tons of music for a ton of “And thank God,” he told us when we caught up to different people. him last week, just before heading into the studio for “And I’m doing it because there’s nothing more fun. I love rehearsals for a holiday season special he does with to scare the shit out of myself … like this heavy rock band Chicago-area newscasters every year.

Red I’ve done some work with. People were looking at me in “I tell my kids [three sons, all young musicians themthe studio and going, ‘You know who he is, right?’” selves], they’re all grown now and figuring out their way, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ‘Man, you got gypped.’ Because the availability of jobs out

King and a number of investors purchased the hotel in December 2002. In 2005, the hotel began hosting live music.

Now, there’s music five times a week or more at the hotel, with an emphasis on the blues.

King doesn’t know whether he will look for another venue to operate. It was always a effort of passion, not business, for him, he says.

“I don’t make much money doing music here,” he says. “It really is about the love of the music and supporting the community.”

But the music side benefitted from the hotel’s business, King says. Musicians traveling from coast to coast could stay at the hotel and perform a show or two right next door. By offering a place for major acts to stop in for a few days, the hotel was able to attract major names, such as Tommy Castro and Janiva Magness, that rarely play in 120-seat venues.

“We’ve been very lucky and fortunate in that because we have the hotel, we’ve been able to get some headlining people that normally wouldn’t play a room our size, but we’ll pick them up on a Tuesday or a Wednesday night when they’re traveling out to California or coming back from California,” King says. “It gives them a break and they get to play a small room.”

As for the future of blues in Boulder, King is upbeat. The Colorado Blues Society also won a Keeping the Blues Alive award, for a blues society, and King credits a healthy local scene in part to the efforts of the society.

“The blues scene, for what it is, has really gotten strong in the last few years. It’s really changed since I started doing it, and since these guys have gotten more active, they have really good leadership out there,” King says. “The number of guys who are out there who are local doing music is just phenomenal.”

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overtones

Keith Bobo

The education of Richard Marx

Singer-songwriter has done it all in the music biz

Harmony via alchemy

by Dave Kirby

Boulder Chamber Orchestra makes symphonic gold

F

by Peter Alexander

I

f you mix the right ingredients, you will get pure gold.

Hungarian folk music — and the somber “Stabat That was the belief of the medieval alchemists, and it is Mater” by Pergolesi — a Baroque composer versed the belief of Bahman Saless, who mixes the musical ingrein classic counterpoint and opera. dients as director of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra.

“I thought it would be very cool for the audiWhen he realized the similarity between the medieval ence to hear Bartók and Pergolesi in the same conquest for gold and what he does in selecting a musical program, cert,” Saless says. he decided to call the orchestra’s 2012–13 season “Symphonic Having picked those two divergent pieces, Alchemy.”

Saless needed to complete the program with “All the elements in alchemy have a spiritual character, and so music that did not call for additional instrudoes music,” Saless explains. “I realized that it would be really cool ments in the orchestra. Once again, he chose to represent the musical season in a completely new vocabulary, something that contrasted about as deeply as [one that] gives you a connection between music and what alchepossible with Italian Baroque and Hungarian mists were obsessed by: how to create the perfect metal with elemodernism: heart-on-the-sleeve 19th-century ments that had spiritual connections.” romanticism, represented by Puccini’s To further the alchemical connection, Saless “Chrysanthemums.” named each program with arcane terms from Except for Pergolesi’s wellthe alchemical vocabulary. This weekend’s known “Stabat Mater,” which ON THE BILL: Boulder Chamber Orchestra plays the First unusual mixture of music by Puccini, Bartók currently has more than 60 Congregational Church in Boulder and Pergolesi, for example, is titled “Basilisk recordings in the catalog, the on Friday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m, and and Ankh.” program will be an adventure the Mountview Presbyterian Church in Denver on Saturday, Nov. 17, at If you didn’t know, that’s “a symbolic creaof discovery for the audience.

7:30 p.m. For more information, visit ture [with] the head of a bird and the body of “The Bartók www.boulderchamberorchestra. a dragon” and “a hieroglyphic character [for] ‘Divertimento’ is very rarely org/concerts.html. the ascendancy of the life force.” Fortunately, played, because it’s a very the BCO program includes definitions — tough piece,” Saless says. “But although Saless admits that he selected the programs on musical it’s one of the most approachable Bartók pieces, grounds, then added the titles. one of the pieces you can’t take too seriously, “Alchemy represents the willingness to experiment, to come up because it was really written with the spirit of fun and dance and with the perfect metal,” he says. “So we are experimenting with folk music. putting pieces together that on the outside look completely unrelat“It has moments of Baroque harmony and simplicity, and it has ed, but once the audience leaves the concert hall, they see the moments of complete dissonance, where you have no idea what the chemistry between the pieces. heck is going on. I hope that we can have the audience really appre“You have a choice of whether you want the pieces you’re going ciate its complexity and its simplicity at the same time.” to play to be related, or do you want to produce a thought-provokDeeply rooted in Hungarian folk music, the Bartók presents ing experience. I thought it would be kind of fun to have more of a some special interpretive challenges, but the alchemist has some thought-provoking season.” special ingredients in his formula.

Thought-provoking is a good word for Saless’ programs, which “We have two of the best Hungarian musicians in our orcheshave never followed the well-travelled path. The current concert is a tra,” Saless says, referring to violinists Annamaria Karacson and perfect example. He started with two very different pieces: the Gyongyver Petheo. “They are what I call the Hungarian consulate “Divertimento” for strings by Bartók — one of the 20th century’s in Boulder. I consult both of them quite a bit about what the idimost individual modernists, writing in a spiky style shaped by omatic shapes should be with all the content.”

Out with a flash

Boulder Outlook Hotel wins prestigious blues award, will close in 2014

by David Accomazzo

28 November 15, 2012

T

he Boulder Outlook Hotel has won the Blues Foundation’s 2013 Keeping the Blues Alive award for a club — the only recipient in a nationwide contest. It’s bittersweet news, since by 2014, the hotel will most likely be demolished and converted into student housing.

“We are under contract to sell to a private group,” says hotel owner Dan King, noting that the deal is not yet final. “Their plan is not to put a shovel in the ground probably before 2014.”

King expects the deal with Austin-based American Campus Communities (ACC), a publicly traded company with more than

Boulder Chamber Orchestra

As for the Puccini, the title will probably not be familiar to most in the audience, but they may recognize the music.

“The piece is very well known, except people don’t know that they hear it all the time,” Saless says. “They have heard it in commercials, they have heard it in romantic movies.”

Puccini wrote it for the funeral of a friend and called it “Chrysanthemums” because the flowers are used for funerals. “It is one of my favorite strings-only pieces,” Saless says. “It’s such an incredibly powerful piece of music that really it deserves being heard more often.”

Alchemy aside, this is the real formula for BCO’s programming: Saless chooses his favorites and pieces he thinks deserve to be heard more often. Sometimes the blend is smooth, sometimes it is volatile, but it is rarely dull.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

$4 billion of outstanding shares, to close by the end of the year.

The Outlook property would mark an expansion of ACC’s holdings in Boulder; the company already operates Bear Creek Apartments and University Village at Boulder Creek.

In the meantime, King expects to operate the hotel and its blues venue on an interim basis until 2014.

“We know we’ll be here for at least another year,” he says.

When asked why the time was right to sell, King said, “Because people started offering us enough money. That’s frankly it. The price started going up.”

The Blues Foundation offers the Keeping the Blues Alive award to one club across the nation each year. In a press release, the foundation said, “The Boulder Outlook Hotel is an intimate, 120-seat room, which has presented the finest blues talent to its customers. ... In recent years, the roster of talent that has played at the Outlook is a who’s who in the blues.”

Boulder Weekly Boulder Weekly

ON THE BILL: Richard Marx

or a large segment of the there for musicians has just vanished. I plays the Boulder Theater on Sunday, Nov. 18. Tickets start at pop-music audience who made a living — a good living — as a $27.50. Doors at 6:30 p.m. 2032 14th graduated from the waning session musician and background singSt., Boulder, 303-786-7030. days of MTV video domier. I would do anything musical. I’d nance, Richard Marx, the produce people’s demos for 50 bucks.

Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/multi… I mean, there was just all this work instrumentalist, will probably be forever associated with a to be done. And now there’s not. lengthy catalog of late ’80s and ’90s hits, soundtracks to “I don’t ever bitch about it from my standpoint. I’m brave, gotta-be-me rock anthem videos replete with softsuper lucky; I get to go and ride on a catalog of hits that I focus vixens and smoky dive bars. “Hold On to the Nights,” got in under the wire. But a new singer/songwriter doing “Don’t Mean Nothin,’” “Right Here Waiting” … Trust us, that, arguably, cannot make a living at it.” you know these songs.

His father was a successful commercial jingle writer in They were a time-and-place kind of thing, bearing their Chicago in the ’60s, and Marx’s earliest training was singown unique charms and resonating proudly on classic rock ing along to them at home. Getting it right — just right — radio these days, mostly sounding, it should be said, better was second nature for him, and still is. without the video accompaniment.

“Y’know, I come from an old school,” Marx says. “I But unlike a lot of his peers flapping lamely on the would work on a vocal, and keep working on it and punchbeach in the wake of the Great Flannel Tsunami, Marx had ing in until it was right. I do use Auto-Tune when I work a deeper bag of tools to draw from. Well before his own with other singers or other background singers, it’s sort of records sent him jetting around the world, Marx had an an industry standard, but I do everything I can, even on a extensive history in the music business, extending back to pop record, to just keep punching in until I’m happy with his years as a session background singer with Lionel Ritchie it, rather than use the machine.” and Madonna, and writing hit songs for people like Kenny Marx comes to town to play the Boulder Theater in a Rogers and Chicago, all the while hawking his own demo solo acoustic setting, performing some of the old stuff and to distracted, hit-hungry music biz suits. newer, adult-contemporary songs that have been his stock The hustling eventually paid off, of course, and Marx in trade for the last decade or so. enjoyed an extremely successful decade-plus solo run, eventu“I was definitely blessed,” Marx says. “When we evenally scoring 14 No. 1 hits across a variety of different discitually put out a record that just didn’t connect, I had two roads I could choose from: One was, I could contort myself plines — as a solo artist, songwriter or producer, defying coninto something we all thought would get me back on the tractions in radio programming and stylistic pigeon-holing charts, which felt false from the get-go, or I could sit back that killed off commercial artists faster than Hollywood could and go, ‘I live in Chicago, I’ve had 10 years of hits, I’ve sold produce them. He has the startling distinction of having writa shitload of records, I’ve had my turn, I’m going to stay ten or co-written No. 1 songs in four separate decades, and home and raise my kids.’ I’m still going to make music and lists recent collaborations with artists as diverse as Sugarland’s make records, but I’m not going to compete that way.

Jennifer Nettles and Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger.

“And what happened was that people started reaching But his success was only because Marx had skills and out to me, from all different genres of music. And I’ve been studio-smarts and pure musical ability, honed and refined busier and more productive in the last stage of my career in a way that’s becoming rare and undervalued these days. than the first, because I’m doing tons of music for a ton of “And thank God,” he told us when we caught up to different people. him last week, just before heading into the studio for “And I’m doing it because there’s nothing more fun. I love rehearsals for a holiday season special he does with to scare the shit out of myself … like this heavy rock band Chicago-area newscasters every year.

Red I’ve done some work with. People were looking at me in “I tell my kids [three sons, all young musicians themthe studio and going, ‘You know who he is, right?’” selves], they’re all grown now and figuring out their way, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ‘Man, you got gypped.’ Because the availability of jobs out

King and a number of investors purchased the hotel in December 2002. In 2005, the hotel began hosting live music.

Now, there’s music five times a week or more at the hotel, with an emphasis on the blues.

King doesn’t know whether he will look for another venue to operate. It was always a effort of passion, not business, for him, he says.

“I don’t make much money doing music here,” he says. “It really is about the love of the music and supporting the community.”

But the music side benefitted from the hotel’s business, King says. Musicians traveling from coast to coast could stay at the hotel and perform a show or two right next door. By offering a place for major acts to stop in for a few days, the hotel was able to attract major names, such as Tommy Castro and Janiva Magness, that rarely play in 120-seat venues.

“We’ve been very lucky and fortunate in that because we have the hotel, we’ve been able to get some headlining people that normally wouldn’t play a room our size, but we’ll pick them up on a Tuesday or a Wednesday night when they’re traveling out to California or coming back from California,” King says. “It gives them a break and they get to play a small room.”

As for the future of blues in Boulder, King is upbeat. The Colorado Blues Society also won a Keeping the Blues Alive award, for a blues society, and King credits a healthy local scene in part to the efforts of the society.

“The blues scene, for what it is, has really gotten strong in the last few years. It’s really changed since I started doing it, and since these guys have gotten more active, they have really good leadership out there,” King says. “The number of guys who are out there who are local doing music is just phenomenal.”

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 15, 2012 29

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arts & culture

“Devourer” (2004)

“How we would talk” (2007) “Swimming, Smoking, Crying” (2009)

Rearranging the world

W

hat if, Dana Schutz asked herself, you remove the finite result from an action, the part where death would result from something like eating yourself, and the narrative of your life was freed from that inevitable end? She painted the answer in oil on canvas — slick, boldly colored images of the “Devourer” eating the fingers of his hands, or “Face eater,” a wide mouth swallowing the eyes off its own face.

It’s challenging work to view — though, perhaps, not as challenging as “How we would give birth,” part of Schutz’s series on how we would do things if a painting taught you how to do it, but gave the wrong information.

Needless to say, that would not have been a successful birth any more than “How we would talk” appears to be a successful conversation. The female figure, her back to the viewer and the phone handset magnetically attached to her head, is sliding her hand down the grimy glass of a phone booth, wiping the grit away to reveal a view of the hills in front of her, almost audibly lonely.

The Denver Art Museum’s exhibition Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels opened Nov. 11. It’s a survey of the last 10 years of her work — really, the only 10 years of her work. Schutz, who was born in 1976, was the winner of the 2011 Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize,

“The Autopsy of Michael Jackson” (2005)

seen a massive retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent’s work and is currently showing “Becoming Van Gogh” about the development and, coincidentally, 10-year career of one of the world’s best known Impressionists.

Schutz’s work is hailed as some of the most exciting coming from a young artist today, says Chanzit, who describes the paintings as unique and unbridled.

“I think a lot of what makes these so special is that Dana really lets us in on her own free process of imagination that’s absolutely fresh and original,” Chanzit says.

“She explores the sometimes bizarre threads that could follow from a quick flash of thought, sometimes an impulse that we would never actually act on, but the kind that we all have — we might not talk about them, but we have them. We ignore them, we repress them as we go about our everyday lives, but Dana’s not afraid of those. In fact, she grabs them. She grabs that passing thought or that impulse and explores it to see where it might lead, what situations might come about if we actually looked at the world anew and if we let our minds go. So her subjects are really fueled by this nonstop imagination completely open to all the possibilities, rational and not.”

To take in the work, Chanzit suggests that viewers give themselves over to the impossible and be open to

Dana Schutz’s paintings delve into a world of the uncomfortable and impossible

by Elizabeth Miller

Boulder Weekly

an award for an artist to put together an early career exhibition and catalogue. Denver Art Museum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Gwen Chanzit assembled the exhibition from that catalogue.

The exhibition chronicles 10 years of Schutz’s creative mind at play and of her becoming an artist, says Christoph Heinrich, Frederick and Jan Mayer director of the Denver Art Museum. Exploring the work of an artist in a set period of time is something of a theme for the Denver Art Museum in a year that has also

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“Gravity Fanatic” (2005) the outlandish or unthinkable.

From the earliest painting in the exhibition, “Sneeze,” completed in 2001, to the latest, “Lick a brick” in 2011, Schutz grapples with representing what we can never physically see and with the exchange between what she represents and what those who become witnesses to her work experience.

She describes the desired effect of her paintings as “contagious,” though art museum staff may hope that no viewer ON THE BILL: Dana Schutz: If the takes that literally in Face Had Wheels will be at the Denver the case of “Shaking, Art Museum until Jan. 13. 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, 720-865-5000. For Cooking, Peeing.” more information, visit www.denverartThe effect she’s seeking is palpable museum.org. in “Carpenter,” which depicts a large set of teeth scraping the varnish off a dry wood deck. The paint on the canvas has also been scraped away, and the response because it’s too angsty, it’s sort of bad to the image is similar to that fingertherapy,” Schutz says. “But then I nails-on-a-chalkboard flinch. She was, became interested in it, thinking about Schutz says, going for “the sense of how how it could work. If you did eat yourit would feel.” self, then you could remake yourself.

When she started studying contemYou would digest yourself and you could porary art in the mid to late ’90s, she remake yourself to be any form you says, paintings were predominantly of a wanted to be, so it started to feel like photographic style. this very generative situation.”

“For me, it was really a big challenge The idea sparked a package of to think about how to come up with an paintings of people eating their own image, how do you begin to imagine an body parts, reinventing themselves by image that maybe didn’t exist before,” swallowing the contents of shelves holdshe says. Though she was concerned the ing noses, eyes and breasts. work might be considered regressive, “I was thinking about different ways she says, the direction she started to to generate images and lot of these ways head was toward painterly, subjective to generate images were coming from paintings in an abstract expressionist things that are maybe intangible in the style. Rather than capturing life as it world and sometimes language can work was seen, she chased after representing in this way,” she says. life as it is felt.

Her playing-with-words construcHer work roamed from massivetions also led to paintings around the scale paintings of female musicians to results for Google searches starting with an exploration of fictional and speculathe words “I’m into…”, which yielded tive locations, and to looking at what prompts like “I’m into navy blue,” and was happening in the media — an “I’m into shooting in natural environexperiment that resulted in her painting ments” (2008). Though the search itself “The Autopsy of Michael Jackson” would come back with results about about the disembodied study of a dead photography, Schutz went for guns, and celebrity years before Jackson’s death. painted a scene of a man seated in the Finally, drawings she had started makfragments of a living room, blindfolded ing during phone conversations and as and gripping a half-empty glass, while stress relief began repeating a motif of an attacker draped in a sheet points a people eating themselves. gun at the man’s head through a slot in “There was a moment where I the wall. thought, I can’t make this my work The wanderings in her career have

also included a series on verbs, in which she explores the challenge of representing an action in a static image without defaulting to the symbols we typically use to communicate that action.

“As I was writing down these verbs I was finding that some of them made really good pairs with each other in a way where they could make a poetic sense but also cancel each other out potentially,” she says.

She puts “Swimming, Smoking, Crying” together in a painting, and the actions themselves fail to signify the emotions they stereotypically do as swimming extinguishes or eraces the traces of smoking or crying.

“They fail to communicate,” she says. “They don’t work.”

For the self-eaters, she says, she approached the subject theoretically as well.

“If you take something finite like death out of the equation it’s like you all the sudden have a lot of narrative or fictive possibilities,” she says. But determining where to begin with painting something as impossible as eating your own face meant taking a step back. “I just thought, gosh, in order to paint something, you have to be able to imagine it, or have some kind of vague idea of how this could begin. … How would you begin to eat your face and then how would then you begin to paint that? So I thought maybe you would start from the bottom lip up, and then maybe the tongue could come in, but I was thinking about it, too, that if you just continued on, there would just be nothing.

The whole site for expression would just be completely blank and there would just be maybe a slit left, and that, to me, felt so much like an image eating its own image.”

Making that painting meant rearranging the logic of the world to create a fictional logic — not so much a narrative, as an imagined situation that requires re-imagining our reality, changing our experience of it. As Schutz says, the paintings become places where you can rearrange the hierarchies of the world.

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Acoustic Night Open Mic. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Boulder Voice Studio of Melissa Williams presents students in their fall recital. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Branden Sipes. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

I'm With Her — Featuring Angie Stevens and Haley Rydell. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Recycling Center Open House and Tours. 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Boulder County Recycling Center, 1901 63rd St., Boulder, 720-564-2226.

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Silent Bear and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

The Whale Tales. 4 p.m. No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303447-3278.

events Bouldering Poets Performance Series. 7:30 p.m., Shine, 2027 13th St., 303-449-0120.

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Spotlight on Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Baby Boomers. University of Denver-University College at Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, 2044 E. Evans Ave., Denver, www.ctrpl.org.

Wine & Brine — Thanksgiving Tasting.

4 p.m. Cured, 1825 B Pearl St., Boulder, 720-389-8096.

Working With Worry Workshop. 5:30 p.m. Crossroad Gardens, 1800 30th St. # 303, Boulder, 303-915-4421.

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

Papadosio — With Octopus Nebula.

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

Sleep Out for Runaway and Homeless Youth. 7 p.m. – 7 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, www. attentionhomes.org.

Workshop with Patrick San Francesco — Learning to heal others. 10 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, patricksfworkshops@ gmail.com.

Friday, November 16 music Basilisk & Ankh — Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

The By All Means Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Czech Mate! music for Singers, Strings and Sackbuts — Seicento Baroque Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, www.seicentobaroque.org.

Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Felonius Smith & Ronnie Shellist. 5 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Co., 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

Finnders & Youngberg. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303443-6461.

Highway 50. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

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

Jenn Cleary. 1:30 p.m. Redstone Meadery, 4700 Pearl St., Boulder, www. jenncleary.com.

Johnny O. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

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

The Last Waltz Performed by Polytoxic. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Matty Graziano. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Perspectiva Profunda. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Roniit’s EP Release — With Eldren and AdrienneO. 8 p.m. Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 720-570-4500.

State Radio — With Sarah Jaffe. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Alphabotanical — Pen and ink drawings by Michael Shernick. Mercury Framing, 4692 North Broadway, Boulder, www.AlphaBotanicalArt.com. Through Dec. 23.

MaryLynn Schumacher, Linda Korstad and Liz McCombs. Boulder Public Library Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Through Nov. 25.

AMP’D UP — Powering Longmont 1912-2012.

10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center. 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

303-651-8374. Nov. 17.

J.B Sullivan and Leigh Campbell. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 30.

Call for entries: Land Through the Lens — Photography of Boulder County parks and open space. Application deadline is Friday, Nov. 30. www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/photoshow.

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Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Nov. 25.

Homeless & Runaway Youth Awareness Month

Cover Story — Works by Daniel Pitín. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27.

Join Attention Homes to support the homeless youth in our community

Sleep Out Thurs, Nov 15

Dreaming of Africa — Photography from Kenneth Driese and paintings by Hanlie Wessels.

Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Nov. 30.

Join over 40 community and business leaders who will sleep out to raise awareness and support for homeless youth. Each participant pledges to raise $1,000 and will spend the night sleeping outside on the lawn between Attention Homes’ administrative office and First United Methodist Church near 15th and Spruce in downtown Boulder. Presented in partnership with First United Methodist Church.

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Mark the dates and dine out with us! Participating restaurants in Boulder will donate 15% of sales to Attention Homes’ Runaway & Homeless Youth Program on select Wednesdays in November.

- Nov 14: Kasa Japanese Bar & Grill, 1468 Pearl St, 5-10 pm - Nov 21: Pastavino, 1043 Pearl St., 5-10 pm - Nov 28: Foolish Craig’s, 1611 Pearl St., 5-10 pm

Shout Out Thurs, Nov 1/29

Attend a community meeting (breakfast included) to learn more about local efforts to help runaway and homeless youth.

- Nov 1 & 29 First United Methodist Church, Parlor Room 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, CO 7:30-9:00 am

Green Light Project

In November, porch lights across the country will glow green to show support for runaway and homeless youth. Obtain your green light bulb ($5 donation is suggested) by emailing ContactAH@AttentionHomes.org or visit us at 1443 Spruce St.

For more information and details on how to participate visit www.AttentionHomes.org or call 303.447.1206

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 30.

The Eye Awake — New works by Ian Fisher and Matthew Harris. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 2. Opening reception 5:30 p.m. Nov. 15.

Feats and Flights — Sculptural works by

Random Walk with Drift — Works by Marius Lehene. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27.

A Rocketman Crashes and Rises in the West — Assemblage sculpture by Jimmy Descant. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Nov. 30.

Scapes. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 25.

Terra Incognito: Imaginary Landscape — Paintings by Jamie Brunson, David Ivan Clark, Tracy Rocca and Maya Kabat. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Through Nov. 30.

Women of Influence: Colorado Artists and Curators; Intimate Dialogue: Seven Women, Seven Voices; La Mexicana; Female Icons in Mexican Culture. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 16.

PANORAMA from Page 35 The Well Diggers. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Zen Mustache. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

events Adobe Photoshop: The Heart of Color Correction.

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

City of Stars. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Evolution’s Purpose — An integral interpretation of the scientific story of our origins. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-4493066.

Holiday Wine Tasting. 6 p.m. Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada, www.winetasting.webconnex. com/Winetasting.

Laser: Radio Head. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Open Wall — One night exhibition of local artists. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th

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Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday — Selections from CU’s painting collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through Dec. 22.

St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Pastries on the Path. 8 a.m. Boulder Creek Path at 17th Street, Boulder, www.communitycycles.com.

Whole Body Vibration — Free drop-in demonstration with Dr. Ian Gainor, chiropractor. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Saturday, November 17 music Basilisk & Ankh — Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia St., Denver, 303-583-1278.

Ben Sollee Trio — With Luke Reynolds. 8 p.m.

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

Cannaversary Party — With White Buffalo. 8 p.m.

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

The Duke Street Kings — With Deborah Hill and The Sugardaddies. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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42nd Street. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb.13.

A Day for Grace — Presented by Boulder Storyhealers, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Nov. 16 & 17.

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A Doll’s House — Presented by Byers-Evans House Theatre Company.

Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933. Through Dec. 16.

Greetings — Presented by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044. Through Dec. 23.

Hide and Seek. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 25.

How the World Began — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Nov. 18.

Mame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Jan. 13.

On the Edge: A Festival of New Plays — Presented by The Edge Theatre Company.The Edge Theatre, 9797 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-232-0363. Through Dec. 2.

The Secret Garden. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Nov. 17.

Sherlock Holmes: John Watson’s Body — Presented by Theatre Company of Lafayette. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 17.

Sweet Tooth. Buntport Theatre Company, 717 Lipan St., Boulder, 720-946-1388.Through Nov.17. tRUNks — Comic book serial. Buntport Theatre Company, 717 Lipan St., Boulder, 720-946-1388. Every other Saturday. Next show Nov. 17.

Ethyl and the Regulars. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

James Pieper. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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

One on One. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Rick Estrin and Nightcats. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Sean Kottensette & Jeremy Farmer. 4:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

SHEL. 7:30 p.m. Sunrise Ranch, 100 Sunrise Ranch Road, Loveland, 970-679-4200.

State Radio — With Sarah Jaffe. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Sweet Land: Choices of Dignity — A musical reflection with Resonance Women’s Chorus, Sound Circle and others. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.

Tommy and the Tangerines. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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events Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Burrowed Time VIII — With the Humane Society of the United States’ Prairie Dog Coalition. 5:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-938-0788.

Clearwater Amazon Benefit — Featuring The Mosaic and the Meyer Kahn Snaider Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

I thought I saw an eagle — Raptor-watching field trip. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Rocky Mountain Raptor Program, 720-B East Vine Dr., Fort Collins, 970-484-7756.

Martin Sexton — With Adam Gontier. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Tease The Season — Holiday themed burlesque show. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, www. shineboulder.com.

Warren Miller’s Flow State — With former Vice President Al Gore and Olympian Ted Ligety. 6 p.m.

Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Pl., Denver, www. warrenmiller.com.

Sunday, November 18 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see PANORAMA Page 38

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Mark Bowden author of Black Hawk Down and The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden reads with Gregory Jonsen, author of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda and America’s War in Arabia

Thursday, November 15 The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking — By Edward Burger. 7:30 p.m.Tattered Cover Book Store 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Medieval Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book Store, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Friday, November 16

Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to Modern Age — Randall Heskett and Joel Butler. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Saturday, November 17 Best Summit Hikes in Colorado — by James Dziezynski. 2 p.m. Old Firehouse Books, 232 Walnut St., Fort Collins, 970-484-7898.

Best Tent Camping in Colorado — by Kim Lipker.

2 p.m. Old Firehouse Books, 232 Walnut St., Fort Collins, 970-484-7898.

So You’re a Poet? — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m.

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

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The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden and The Last Refuge: Yemen, alQaeda and America’s War in Arabia by Gregory Johnsen. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Phantom — Jo Nesbø. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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PANORAMA from Page 37 Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Monday, November 19

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

By All Means Band. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, 303-543-0886.

Country Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

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

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

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond — Players welcome.

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

“So, You’re a Poet” — Presents 25 Years Continuous Open Weekly Readings. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Peter Wernick & Flexiglass. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Women of the West Monday. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Prarie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tuesday, November 20

RNDM is Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, Joseph Arthur and Richard Stuverud — With Gull. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399

events “2012: 5 Weeks To Go” — “The ‘Prophecy’ is NOW” lecture by Marc* “The Arc.” 1:11 p.m. Boulder Public Library,1001 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-264-9895.

Free Form Yoga lead by Nicki Viera. 10 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Blues Jam with by Randall Dubis. Players welcome.

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

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

Richard Marx. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Jazz Night — With The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Mic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People: Otis Taylor. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Young Artists at Work — Thanksgiving Workshop. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Buffaloes Primetime — With Head Coach Jon Embree. 7 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Celtic Thunder — Voyage. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 14th and Curtis Streets, Denver, www. celticthunder.ie.

The Human Cabaret and Variety Show. 8 a.m., Shine, 2027 13th St., 303-449-0120.

NaNoWriMo: Come Write in Here. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Tuesday, November 20 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tactile Tuesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Young Artists at Work — Thanksgiving Workshop. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Wednesday, November 21

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

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Discovery Days — Reasons for Seasons. 10 a.m.

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

Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Discovery Days — Reasons for Seasons. 10 a.m.

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

French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, November 21 music Blues Jam featuring The Firebreathers. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Green Genes — With Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Tribute to Neil Young. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Tyler Grant & Andy Thorn from Leftover Salmon.

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

events Dine Out for Homeless & Runaway Youth. 5-10 p.m. PastaVino, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9558791.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, November 15 Musical Storytime with Alice and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, November 16 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Saturday, November 17 Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Textile Workshop. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Sunday, November 18 Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Gobble, Gobble — Nature for Kids & Parents. 1 p.m.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org.

Monday, November 19 Discovery Days — Reasons for Seasons. 10 a.m.

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

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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reel to reel ANNA KARENINA Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright’s bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). Rated R. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres

young couple, playful and affectionate, hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek, and the three set off into a stunning wilderness. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres

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THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS See full review page 42. Rated R. At Century.

THE MASTER

ARGO Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979. Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage, six Americans escape to the home of a Canadian ambassador. A CIA agent comes forward to get them out of the country before they’re found. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN, PART 2

The best part of this movie coming out is that after it does, we won’t have to hear about the Twilight series anymore.

BELOVED Starring Catherine Deneuve and (her reallife daughter) Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama spans over three decades as it follows a mother and daughter’s misadventures in love. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater BEST OF THE NY INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL

Fabulous short subjects have been selected as the best in kids movies not cooked in the cauldron of Hollywood’s big studios. Kid Flix Mix is ideal for ages 4-8, with no advanced verbal or reading skills needed to appreciate their charm. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater CHASING MAVERICKS

FLIGHT Denzel Washington stars in this actionpacked mystery thriller as a seasoned pilot who saves his plane after a mid-air disaster, rescuing almost all his passengers. He’s dubbed a hero but learns that the plane’s malfunctions reveal something different.

Rated R. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

FUN SIZE

When 15-year-old Jay discovers that one of the biggest waves on Earth, the mythic Mavericks, exists just miles from his home in Santa Cruz, he seeks the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to help to train him to conquer it. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Wren, a high school senior eager to distance herself from her dysfunctional family, is forced to babysit her little brother on Halloween. Her brother goes missing in a crowd of trick-or-treaters and Wren seeks the help of her nerdy friends to find her brother before her mother finds out. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D

This overly ambitious tale covers six stories written and directed by three people and multiple actors in multiple roles. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving attempt to share intersecting tales of humanity and spirituality, some of which involve intergalactic travel and a cloned Asian woman who becomes a deity. The best art is unafraid to fail. This is definitely art.

Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

Dracula invites some of the world’s most famous monsters to celebrate his daughter’s 118th birthday at Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where humans will not be able to bother them. Rated PG. At Colony Square.

COMPLIANCE

Based on true events, we see how far an average restaurant manager goes when instructed by an “authority” in the investigation of an alleged crime. Further, the story shows how easy it is to surrender rights in order to keep a job. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL

This documentary chronicles 50 years of international fashion and Diana Vreeland as a visionary with the ability to invent and discover fashion ideas, designers, personalities and photographers. Rated PG-13. At Mayan and Esquire. –– Landmark Theatre.

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IN THE FAMILY A 6-year-old has two dads until one dies suddenly in a car accident. He is taken from his remaining father when the dead man’s will names a sister as guardian. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY Cult animator and Academy Award nominee filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has combined his recent “Bill” trilogy of short films into one seamless, beautiful, darkly comedic feature, blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society KILLER JOE When 22-year-old Chris finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to

dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie.

Rated NC-17. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres KISS ME Romance unfolds at the most inopportune moment when hetero-inclined Mia and selfaware lesbian Frida meet while celebrating the engagement of Frida’s mother and Mia’s father. Status as future stepsisters is a formidable obstacle‚ not to mention Mia’s own engagement to a man. Still, the two begin a passionate emotional and erotic dialogue.

At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater KEEP THE LIGHTS ON Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet on a cruising chat line, but find a deeper connection and become a couple. The narrative checks in on their relationship every few years over a decade.

At Boedecker. –– Landmark Theatres LABYRINTH In this sing- and quote-along version of the movie, 15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes that her baby half-brother be sent away to the Goblin King who will keep him if she doesn’t complete his labyrinth in 13 hours.

IFS at VAC Basement Auditorium LINCOLN Steven Spielberg directs this revealing drama that focuses on the president’s troubling last months in office. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest challenging character sketch is set against a backdrop of pseudo-Scientology, as Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled soldier fresh out of WW2, and Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a quasi-L Ron Hubbard. Depressing, challenging and muted, it’s guaranteed to spark discussion and mainstream teeth-gnashing. Rated R. At Esquire.

— The Reader of Omaha, Neb. NOBODY WALKS Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society THE OTHER SON

The Other Son is the moving and provocative tale of two young men — one Israeli, the other Palestinian — who discover they were accidentally switched at birth. Rated PG-13.

At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres THE PAPERBOY Lured by imploring letters from the beautiful siren Charlotte, handsome, hard-nosed reporter Ward James and his partner, Yardley Acheman, return to Ward’s hometown in Florida, to investigate the seemingly unjust imprisonment of Charlotte’s lover, alligator hunter Hillar Van Wetter. Rated R. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER A funny and touching coming-of-age story, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. Rated PG-13.

At Colony Square, Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THIS MUST BE THE PLACE This Must Be the Place is a visually striking, unpredictable dramatic comedy starring Sean Penn in one of his most unusual and acclaimed roles. Rated R. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres PITCH PERFECT

THE LONELIEST PLANET

Itty-bitty pretty Anna Kendrick stars as a college freshman sucked into the world of competitive college singing. With the aid of a group of misfits, an all-female group hopes to make it to the final bout and gain redemption and respect. And along the way ladies make snow angels in pools of vomit and talk a lot about sex. So it’s Glee and anti-Glee all at the same time. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

The summer before their wedding, Alex and Nica are backpacking through the scenic Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. The fit

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A LATE QUARTET When the beloved cellist of a worldrenowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance. Rated R. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres

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T

o walk in to The Man with the Iron Fists by choice is to give up your right to bitch about story and character.

This is a movie written and directed by The RZA, a member of the powerhouse rap group The Wu-Tang Clan; produced by Eli Roth, the guy who made Hostel; and overseen by Quentin Tarantino, whose grindhouse kung fu depravity knows no bounds. To claim you expected good acting and a consequential plot is to be either a dirty liar or wholly uninformed.

Set in “Jungle City,” a place where grown men call themselves things like “Silver Lion,” the film follows a shipment of gold closer than Ron Paul. To be sure, the gold is a red herring … or gold herring, whatever. But so long as people have an excuse for kung fu fightin’, all is forgiven. Silver Lion (Byron Mann) kills Gold Lion (Kuan Tai Chen) in order to steal said gold, which understandably angers Gold Lion’s son, sadly named Zen Yi (Rick Yune) and not Platinum Lion.

Meanwhile, the Blacksmith (RZA) is trying to earn enough to free his hooker gal ( Jamie Chung) from Madam Blossom (Lucy Liu). When Jack Knife (Russell Crowe) shows up, things get super intense, which is pretty much what happens every time someone named after a weapon shows up.

The ensuing conflict involves the loss of limbs, a man who can change his whole body to solid metal for no definable reason and lots and lots of hip-hop beats laid over physics-defying action.

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doesn’t go far enough. It fails to commit to either a campy or serious tone and flounders in an effort to complicate a story literally nobody came to see.

While The RZA clearly gets the genre, he was bitten by the “first-time director” bug, rendering him unable to leave the damn camera in one spot on a tripod and causing him to service wholly uninteresting subplots.

But this isn’t an entire miss. It has been too long since anybody stateside has seen a new unabashedly extreme kung fu movie with the right amounts of gore, humor and sexuality. And the way in which the hip-hop beats complement scenes, even when nobody is making with the punching and the kicking, is a testimony to what is The RZA’s greatest cinematic gift: an ability to deploy music with calculated precision.

The unrealistic, schlocky kung fu genre has been hurtin’ for the last decade. And while The RZA will not be the one to resurrect it, this doesn’t mean it isn’t a genre worth saving. It’s just that with Chung giving an almost impossibly bad effort, the cinematography feeling more messy than kinetic and a lack of commitment to tone, The Man with the Iron Fists is only good in sporadic spurts. Basically, it’s all fits and starts, not fists and heart, and the latter is what this type of movie needs to remind people that it is not only viable but sorely missed.

—This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Young-chan learned to speak as a child before losing both hearing and vision. Soon-Ho is half his height with a twisted spine and speaks to him through a language made up of finger taps. With no narration or interviews, we see them rely heavily on each other yet move through their lives with poetry and timeless grace. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater PRETTY SWEET The much anticipated new video from Girl and Chocolate skateboards will premier in Denver on Nov. 18. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society ROYAL OPERA HOUSE’S LE NOZZE DI FIGARO

Revolution is in the air in David McVicar’s wonderfully illuminating production of Mozart’s Figaro. And with an all-star cast, it’s no surprise that The Guardian raves: “The evening is remarkable.” At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater SAMSARA In Samsara, Sanskrit for “the ever turning wheel of life,” filmmakers search for the elusive current of interconnection. Filmed over nearly five years, in 25 countries, it dispenses with dialogue and descriptive text, and our own interpretations are inspired by sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater SMASHED Smashed is a dramatic comedy about fidelity — and what it means to be committed to someone, to love someone, and to need to change your life... when your partner isn’t capable of change. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Somewhere Between tells the intimate stories of four teenage girls. They live in different parts of the US, in different kinds of families and are united by one thing: all four were adopted from China because all four had birth parents who could not keep them, due to personal circumstances colliding with China’s “One Child Policy.” At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society THE SESSIONS Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the triumphant story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Mayan and Century. –– Landmark Theatres.

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS An ensemble cast that includes Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson and Tom Waits play a writer and his friends willing to go all ends necessary to help with finishing the screenplay “Seven Psychopaths.” Rated R. At Colony Square.

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e all know that cheese traditionally pairs well with wine. But as the dining scene continues to evolve, people are starting to explore different beverage options that complement this decadent food, and many have come to the conclusion that beer makes for a good partner as well.

Will Frischkorn is the owner of Cured Boulder, a small local shop that sells hand picked selection of cheeses, cured meats and table wines.

His latest endeavor is to taste cheese with beer, and he says that there is a notable difference from the wine/cheese pairing.

“The biggest difference is that with wine you’re generally pairing things based on contrast, and trying to find a wine to cut through the heavy cheese, or flavors that balance,” Frischkorn says. “But with beer, you’re really playing with similarities.”

Frischkorn likes the idea of experimenting and discovering the possibilities.

“It’s really fun to explore what works, what doesn’t work, and then discuss why,” he says.

Due to the wide array of cheeses and beers out there, most beers find their cheese partners quite easily, especially when they share similar flavors.

“You get a lot of the same malty, beefy, earthy characters in both,” Frischkorn says. “You get a lot of similar flavor profiles to play with.”

Although most people can be creative with types of beer-and-cheese

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pairings, Frischkorn has a proven list of types of beer and cheese that commonly make a good partnership.

“White or wheat beer goes well with goat cheese; they’re light, they’re bright, they’re really fresh; they both have a citrusy component,” he said.

“Cheddars are awesome with brown ales, and then if you go for really big beers, big stouts, heavy porters, triple cream cheeses that have really rich, buttery pieces are particularly fun. …

If the cheese is really big and heavy and the beer is really big and heavy, but the flavors are all from the same spectrum, they balance each other really well.”

But Frischkorn has come across some pairings that he might never try again.

“Blondes, like white beers, and bleu cheese seem like they always clash to me,” he says. “That’s one I would stay away from.”

Joe Osborne, the marketing direc-

tor at Avery Brewing Company, says that his personal favorite is the Gouda-and-stout pairing.

“I’m a huge fan of Gouda, so if I started with that and this time of the year with stout, it’s freaking fantastic,” Osborne says.

Osborne isn’t surprised at the idea of pairing cheese and beer.

“There’s a huge spectrum of beer flavors in the beer world, all the way through the pales and lagers,” he says.

“There are infinite possibilities with the flavors of beers, so it only makes sense people have started getting creative and pairing it with cheese.”

Working with beer is fundamentally different from working with wine.

Osborne says that beer and wine are made from completely different ingredients, and that allows for an array of possibilities.

“Wine is all grape-based, so you’re

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SIP SOME HOLIDAY CHEER

What better way to get into the holiday spirit than with some gingerbread and tea?

St Julien Hotel and Spa has announced the return of Gingerbread Tea events, featuring teas, scones, tea sandwiches, petits fours and gingerbread cookies. The event will also feature music by pianist Ralph Sharon.

Children are invited to decorate gingerbread men with one of St Julien’s chefs.

The Gingerbread Tea events will begin Nov. 24 and will be held every Saturday at noon and 2:30 p.m. through Dec. 29, and every Sunday at noon through Dec. 30. A portion of the proceeds from the Gingerbread Tea events will be donated to There With Care, a nonprofit organization that supports the needs of children and families facing critical illness. St Julien will also be collecting items for There With Care’s Wish List, such as diapers, toys, baby wipes and more.

For more information, visit www.stjulien.com or www. therewithcare.org. see TIDBITES Page 46

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ou’d be hard-pressed to find sisted of skewered fish glazed with teria restaurant in Boulder with yaki sauce. Texturally, the salmon was ost of us are a more conscious design meaty and firm, but not overcooked.

Glutamic acid familiar with such aesthetic than the Japanese From a flavor perspective, the salmon common taste sensaeatery known as Kasa was more strongly flavored than other tions as sweet, salty Japanese Grill. Decor here is anchored preparations of this fish might be, and and bitter, and each of these are shows up in such preparations as by leafy trees painted monochromatic these skewers may not appeal to those easily identifiable. seaweed-based broth, cured desiring delicacy. Joe’s side dishes were white, setting off light hardwood The sensation meats, cheeses like Parmesan quite appealing though, and these floors in a cheerful, sunlit space. known as umami, and fermented products. These included a vegetable croquette featuring The attentive employees enthusithough, is harder include soy and Worcestershire zucchini and tempura-style breading, as astically greet diners upon enterto define, sauces. Garum, an ancient although it origiRoman sauce, and likely anceswell as a light potato salad and bright, ing, setting a hospitable tone nates with glutor of Worcestershire, contained gingery sprouts. from the get-go. Both atmosphere tamic acid, which high levels of glutamic acid.

When I’m not opting for a meal and people combine to build a comwhen combined with These levels probably had someexclusively consisting of sushi, I often fortable, welcoming experience. salt, becomes monosodi- thing to do with its main ingrediorder a chirashi bowl, a mix of various Kasa’s menu is exactly what you’d um glutamate. Glutamic acid ent, fermented fish. sashimi cuts and egg scattered atop expect from a standard Japanese restaulightly vinegared short grain sushi rice. rant. There’s a sushi bar, of course, and Kasa’s $19.95 take is a little expensive the standby mix of noodles, donburi rice for what you get. Given the restaubowls, fried tempura options, teriyaki rant’s emphasis on design, the symentrees and yakitori skewers. Even with metrical presentation of the raw fish the ancillary items, such as a $3.50 servwas pleasing. But the mix of tuna, ing of sencha tea, the most popular varisalmon, yellowtail and omelet-like egg ety in Japan, there’s obvious attention to prepared tamago-style didn’t distindetail. The tea arrived in an attractive guish itself from more inexpensive ceramic pot, piping hot, perfectly sashimi. Not to say there was anything inherently steeped and ready to drink. offers miso soup as a run-up to the main course. wrong with the fish, it’s just at that price, I would For an appetizer, friend Joe and I began with Included in both our meals, this restaurant’s take was expect the flavors and textures to be demonstrably $5.50 agedashi, fried tofu cubes, in a soy-based sauce remarkably satisfying, tending more towards sweet sprinkled with the fish flakes known as shaved bonito. than salty. It perfectly captured that elusive taste qual- above average.

On balance, Kasa presents a pleasant Asian dining A properly prepared agedashi lets bean curd put its ity known as umami, not quite salty, but hauntingly experience. Dishes like the agedashi, and even some best foot forward; Kasa’s version doesn’t disappoint. brothy. Joe’s lunch also came with salad, a fresh-tastof the sides in the bento boxes, have few rivals. But The sublimely thin fried coating gives way to a hot ing and fresh-looking blend of greens more sophistithere’s still some space for improvement on more custardy interior, and the savor of fish and balanced cated than the iceberg and unsubtle ginger soy dressexpensive choices, especially given the prices on items salt of the soy livens up the relatively blank canvas of ing once common in Japanese restaurants. like the chirashi. tofu.

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THE THANKSGIVING DINNER HONOR SYSTEM

Do Thanksgiving a little differently this year and head over to Black Cat for a farm-inspired meal created by chef and farmer Eric Skokan.

The difference is, the cost is entirely up to you. A donation box will be set up for guests to pay what they feel their meal was worth, with the option to pay a little extra to help out someone less fortunate. A portion of the proceeds earned from the event will go to Boulder’s Community Food Share.

The event is Thanksgiving starting at 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.blackcatboulder.com.

TEDDY BEARS AND TEA

To kick off Hotel Boulderado’s Holiday Tea Series, the hotel will be holding a Teddy Bear Tea event to benefit The Children’s Hospital.

Starting at noon on Saturday, Nov. 24, each child who attends the event will receive a teddy bear. Children will also be able to select from the children’s tea menu, which includes a choice of some of the fancier tea sandwiches, or the traditional peanut butter and jelly.

Gluten-free options are also available. Of each ticket sale, $10 will be donated to The Children’s Hospital. Holiday Tea Series events are held on Saturday and Sunday between noon and 1:30 p.m. through Dec. 23.

For more, see www.boulderado.com/afternoontea.html.

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always focusing on the grape,” he says.

“With beer there are a lot of elements of yeast involved, and essentially it’s something new; it’s a lot more variety.”

In contrast to cheese and wine pairings that match opposing flavors, Osborne and Frischkorn agree that beer and cheese with bold flavors typically work well together.

“Our [Avery Brewing Company’s] sales director swears by a really stinky … bleu cheese with an IPA because they’re two really powerfully flavored profiles, so they both bring each other out,” Osborne says. “They’re really different from each other too, so it’s a cool contrast.”

While beer and cheese pairing seems to be gaining the approval of both beer and cheese enthusiasts, the classic marriage of wine and cheese still holds strong in kitchens and tables around town.

Carlin Karr is one of the sommeliers at Frasca Food and Wine, an Italian restaurant on the eastern end of Pearl Street. According to Karr, pairing wine with cheese has been a tradition in many winemaking parts of the world.

“It is a cultural thing,” says Karr.

“The oldest regions for cheese production are all also usually wine regions.

The wines that pair best with the cheese are usually from the same region.”

There are some tried-and-true combinations of cheese and wine that have proven themselves through the centuries, but Karr acknowledges that some beers could complement certain types of cheese better.

“Sharp cheddar or English cottagestyled cheese are classic pairings with English or Scottish ales,” she says.

“Strong bleu cheeses would go well with dessert wines and sweet wines, but black lager or stouts also work as an alternative to the traditional wine pairing.”

But even though some beers can replace wines when it comes to complementing the wide selection of cheeses, Karr maintains that there are some wine and cheese pairings that are simply irreplaceable.

“A goat cheese paired with Sauvignon Blanc — there’s nothing more classic than that,” she says. “I would be hard-pressed to find a beer that would bring out the same kind of flavor. It’s like they’re made for each other, because the same people that make that cheese make that wine. It’s so regional.”

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ow-key and locavore, Niwot’s Colterra spotlights fresh takes on traditional fare in a homey yet elegant setting. Weekend brunch options feature oatmeal, griddle cakes and egg dishes such as a reimagining of the classic Benedict with proscuitto and polenta cakes. Other top morning choices include a Long Farm sausage frittata and Grand Marnier beignets.

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espite its nondescript 28th Street strip mall location, Tangier Moroccan Cuisine is a sensual delight that makes one feel far from Boulder. Featuring North African specialties, this restaurant also has a visually rich ambience. Can’t-miss dishes include the bastilla, a delightfully flaky savory pie stuffed with either vegetables or chicken, and the flavor-packed couscous selections. Tagines, gluten-free North African stews, arrive piping hot and feature such intriguing combinations as lamb with apple and apricot.

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Black Pepper Pho

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oulder’s Black Pepper Pho is a spruced-up version of the typical Southeast Asian beef noodle soup joint. Boasting a mostly gluten-free menu, this venue dishes out first-class spring rolls and a winning spicy green papaya salad. Pho is available with a half-dozen beef-based variants, as well as chicken, seafood and meatless versions.

Mustard’s Last Stand 1719 Broadway, Boulder 303-444-5841

very so often, you just crave a hot dog, and Mustard’s Last Stand is Boulder’s best venue to enjoy authentic Chicago-style sausage. Like the best Windy City dog purveyors, Mustard’s uses natural casing Vienna beef sausages,

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

sual Mexican food suspects such as tacos, enchiladas and tamales are readily available at Boulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House. But there are also more distinctive offerings such as grilled seafood plates and vegetarian dishes featuring breaded cauliflower and chile-simmered cactus. One memorable dish is the Tampiqueña, which combines a tender carne asada with an expertly prepared chicken mole enchilada.

Krishna Kafe

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rishna Kare is one of those cool ethnic finds that foodies live for, spotlighting chaat, or savory Indian street fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include ginger-scented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soyseasoned meatless dumpling.

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ramble and Hare, Boulder’s new self-styled farmhouse kitchen and pub, distinguishes itself by offering locavore small plates as well as a relatively affordable prix fixe menu. A spinoff of its next-door neighbor, the Black Cat Bistro, this restaurant also spotlights ingredients from Chef Eric Skokan’s farm. Menu highlights include the full-flavored and tender-smoked Mulefoot pork, as well as a duck liver “doughnut” set off by a remarkable orange marmalade.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20:

You’re a bit like a professional jet pilot who is operating the pirate ship ride at an amusement park. You have resemblances to a top chef who’s shopping for gourmet ingredients in a seedy convenience store. In other words, Gemini, you may feel slightly off-kilter or dispossessed, even though you have a lot going for you. Here’s the best possible thing you could do while you wait for the fates to show you how to make a correction: Make it your intention to feel centered, poised, and at peace exactly as you are right now.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is currently enough food available to feed everyone on the planet.

The problem is, it’s not distributed efficiently. Some people get far more food than they need, and even waste a lot of it, while less fortunate folks go hungry. I invite you to think about whether you might have a metaphorically comparable situation in your own life, Cancerian.

Is there a part of your psyche that’s well-nurtured but a different part that receives meager shares of love and support? Are you overstuffed in one way but starved in another? The coming weeks would be an excellent time to correct such an imbalance. (More on food: tinyurl.com/ HungryWorld.)

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

This horoscope is not an advertisement for ceremonial shovels. I am receiving no payment from a ceremonial shovel company for suggesting that you procure a customized engraved gold digging tool for your own personal use.

And I will feel fine if you don’t actually get a real one, but instead merely imagine yourself wielding a pretend version.

The fact is, Leo, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do a groundbreaking ritual: to dig up the first scoop of metaphorical dirt in the place where you will build your future dream house, masterpiece, or labor of love.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

I don’t think you’re fully aware of the game you’ve been immersed in. You may even be in denial that you’re playing it. If I’m right about this, please make it a priority to acknowledge what’s going on and identify the exact nature of the game. You can’t afford to be innocent about the subterranean forces that are in motion. It’s especially important not to be too nice and polite to see the complicated truth. Please note: There’s no need to be a cynical shark — that would be as inappropriate a response as being a sweet little lamb. But you should definitely activate your jungle senses.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

On Reddit.com, someone asked members of the community the following: What is your best unanswerable question? Among the more serious offerings were “What is love?”, “What is magic?”, “Why is there something as opposed to nothing?”, and “What is the meaning of life?” Then there were more avant-garde possibilities: “Where do squirrels go during hurricanes?”, “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?”, and “If I asked you to sleep with me, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?” After evaluating the current astrological omens, Libra, I urge you to pose your own best riddle — a query that will provide maximum stimulation as you meditate on it during the next four months.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

An environmental organization in New Zealand found that the local fishing industry wastes about 70 percent of its haul.

In contrast, Iceland manages to use 96 percent of every fish caught. For example, New Zealand companies throw away most of the liver, roe, and heads of the fish, while Iceland has come up with ways to take advantage of all that stuff.

Judging from your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I conclude that it’s crucial for you to take your cue from Iceland rather than New Zealand in the coming weeks. Be inventive, efficient, and thorough in harnessing the power of all your raw materials.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

“They will say you are on the wrong road,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “if it is your own.” I suspect you may have to deal with wrong-headed badgering like that in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. In fact, you could experience a surge of discouraging words and bad advice that tries to shoo you away from the path with heart. Some of the push may come from enemies, some from friends or loved ones, and some from deluded little voices in your own head. I hope you won’t be demoralized by the onslaught, but will instead respond like a brave hero who uses adversity as a motivating force.

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

I’m sure you’ve got thousands of practical details to attend to. Your schedule may be as busy as it has been in months.

But I hope you will find time to do what I consider essential to your well-being, and that is to wander and wonder. In fact, let’s make that your motto: to wander and wonder.

Even if it’s just for a few stolen moments between your serious appointments, allow yourself to meander off into the unknown and marvel at all the curious things you find.

Be on the lookout for high strangeness that thrills your imagination, for exotic pleasures that titillate your lust for novelty, and for fertile chaos that blows your mind in all the right ways.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

James Joyce was a great novelist but not much of a fighter.

He picked a more imposing and athletic buddy to go drinking with, though: Ernest Hemingway. If the two men encountered any alcohol-induced trouble, Joyce would slink behind his friend and yell, “Deal with him, Hemingway, deal with him!” I don’t anticipate that you’ll be in the vicinity of any bar scuffles in the coming week, Aquarius. But I do think you would benefit from having a potent and persuasive ally on your side. It’s time to add some heft and clout to your arsenal of resources.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Is it possible that you have been too receptive and empathetic for your own good lately? I mean, I love how attuned you are to the ebb and flow of subtle energies — it’s one of your most winsome and powerful qualities — but I fear you may be going too far. As heroic as it might seem to be the most sensitive and responsive person in a ten-mile radius, I’d rather see you work on being more self-contained right now. That’s why, for a limited time only, I’m recommending that you turn the full force of your touchy-feely solicitude on yourself.

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