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news & views Who killed Proposition 19? / 6 Californians unexpectedly nix marijuana legalization measure

by Paul Danish Foreclosure crisis hits home in Colorado / 14 Crestone man brings lawsuit against OneWest Bank

by Jefferson Dodge Twice bitten? / 14 Second Crestone resident claims foreclosure fraud

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Animals in church I am concerned about the “WILD” series of sermons that Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., is presenting. I was shocked to see that, with a full congregation in attendance, an adult, 500-pound caged male lion was wheeled onto the pulpit. This lion was pacing back and forth during the entire service, which caused the cage to move and rock. There was no barricade of any kind around the cage, only a man seated on a chair beside the caged animal.

A video clip can be seen at http:// vimeo.com/14911169.

It is very disturbing that this type of display is being allowed in a church setting. As I understand it, the next planned event will be using pythons as symbolic of original sin. Were city and county officials and wildlife officers advised in advance about this series of sermons featuring caged wild animals?

If it’s not a violation of zoning or animal welfare regulations, shouldn’t it be?

With the recent Jungle Island tiger escape, we’ve seen how quickly things can go wrong — dangerously wrong!

Though much scripture was quoted during this sermon, referring to this lion as the devil himself, I would like those charged with protecting wildlife to also consider Proverbs 12:10, “Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.”

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ic animals as stage props. It presents an unnecessary danger to the public and is a cruel life for animals who do not deserve this type of life in captivity. The king of beasts has been relegated to nothing more than an animal transport-

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f you google Google, you might learn that this Internet powerhouse once proudly promised to do no evil.

In CorporateWorld, however, ethics are often discarded like an old suit that no longer fits. Thus, this $24 billion-a-year, do-no-evil corporation is now a voracious tax dodger.

A Bloomburg News reporter reveals that Google transfers a big chunk of its annual profits to a subsidiary in Ireland. Then, prior to tax time, Google funnels these profits into a shell corporation in the Netherlands, from which they are bounced into yet another shell corporation in Bermuda. It’s not natural beauty that draws Google to the islands, but the fact that Bermuda assesses no taxes on corporate profits.

Bottom line: Google escapes paying a billion dollars a year that it ethically owes in U.S. taxes.

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ed around for people to gawk at, which is shameful!

Jeremy Possman, of Predators Unlimited, supplied this lion for the “show.” He is an alligator wrestler who admits that business has pretty much

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by Jim Hightower Meanwhile, such computer powers as Cisco and Oracle are lobbying furiously to reprise a tax flimflam that multinational corporations pulled on us during the Bush regime. They were allowed to pay a mere 5 percent tax rate on profits they had stashed abroad — in exchange for pledging to invest this money in American factories and jobs. They got their tax break, then reneged on their job-creation promise, with

dried up in that area. Therefore, he has turned to photo ops and traveling exhibits with wild animals. He was quoted in an AP story saying, “If you do see LETTERS Page 6

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many corporations actually grabbing the giveaway while firing employees.

Now, they’re demanding another tax holiday in return for bringing home a trillion dollars in profits they’ve squirreled away in foreign tax havens.

Amazingly, like rubes at a medicine show, Republicans in Congress are swallowing this same old snake oil, pushing legislation to let superrich corporations do it to us again.

Before GOP leaders give in, they should recall the words of George W., the guy who enabled the first scam: “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you,” he said. “Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”

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get bit, a lot of times that just means more business, because they’re going to come back to see if it’s going to happen again.” This is not a person who should be responsible for the safety of an entire church congregation potentially trapped in a room with a carnivore.

During the service, congregants were told the lion was there in order to “leverage animals to teach God’s lessons.” This lion was likened to the devil, saying, “He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.” Standing in front of the caged lion, the pastor admitted, “I’m shaking.”

He said, “How do you not run? He’s so big, his teeth are so large, he’s so strong.” He held up a gun, smiled and said, “I know you’ve been uneasy this whole service.” As the congregants should be!

Even though Florida accounts for only 6 percent of the national population, it accounts for 12 percent of the 602 reported incidents of killings, maulings and escapes since 1990. Other states, which have passed bans on breeding dangerous exotics, have seen these numbers drop dramatically, some to zero.

There are not enough inspectors to guarantee that even minimal standards of care are being met or that the public is properly safeguarded. It is time for the USDA and FWC to step up and ensure public safety and animal welfare by banning breeding of big cats — period!

Cate Lamm/Longmont Help with heating bills Beginning this time of year, as many as one in five Colorado households struggle to keep up with home energy bills. Too many seniors on fixed incomes and families with children must seriously weigh such dismal choices as keeping the heat on or doing without food or medical care.

Fortunately, help is available to keep these people safe and in their homes.

The Colorado Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP), a federally funded program administered through the Colorado Department of Human Services, provides energy bill payment assistance to income qualifying households. LEAP also offers a Crisis Intervention Program to help eligible households needing a repair or replacement of their home heating system.

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Center, Salvation Army and Home Front Cares. Energy Outreach was established in 1989 to supplement LEAP funding and provide warmth and security to those who may not qualify for LEAP or need additional assistance. Since then it has distributed nearly $123 million to fund energy bill payment assistance and energy efficiency upgrades for affordable housing in Colorado.

I strongly encourage anyone struggling to pay home energy bills to apply for help today by calling toll-free 1-866-HEAT-HELP or by going to www.EnergyOutreach.org/locator.asp.

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Skip Arnold, executive director, Energy Outreach Colorado/via Internet Peace in the Middle East I write to strongly urge continuing, unalloyed support by the United States for Israel, our most reliable ally in the Mideast, in the aftermath of the midterm elections.

Recent, abortive terror plots in our own country forcefully remind us that Iran, which operates through various proxies, notably Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Yemen’s Anwar al-Awlaki is still but a small player in comparison.

Tehran continues work to develop a nuclear-weapons arsenal and constantly reiterates its intention to eradicate Israel from the face of the earth.

Not alone, but very prominent, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps trains Muslim cadres in many nations and covertly supplies them with weapons to advance Islamist interests — including the murder of Americans.

The United States should press all of its allies to enact a new round of sanctions aimed at isolating the Iranian Central Bank, which finances and facilitates that state’s nuclear ambitions. All options, including military strikes, must remain on the table should sanctions fail.

In order for peace to be achieved for Irsael, Palestinians in Gaza — aided by Iran — must stop shooting rockets at Israel. The Palestinian Authority must live up to the agreements it has already signed and sincerely recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish nation. Jobs and freedom, not jihad, need to be the focus of all Muslim groups now currently hostile towards Israel.

William Eigles/Denver

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olls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana.

But that wasn’t the way things worked out on Election Day. Proposition 19 lost with 54 percent voting “no” and 46 percent voting “yes.”

California is still counting votes, but as of late last week the vote totals were 4,156,418 in favor of legalization and 4,864,612 against.

So why did it lose?

Well, for some of the same reasons that turn up whenever any controversial proposal is on the ballot, for starters.

First, when it comes to ballot proposals generally, the tendency is to vote no. When voters are uncertain about what a ballot measure will do — and they often are — they usually conclude that the safest course of action is to maintain the status quo by voting no.

Second, voters rarely decide how they are going to vote on initiatives on the weight of the evidence. A single weak argument against an initiative can trump several strong arguments in favor of it.

Third, as a result of the foregoing, ballot initiatives that have organized opposition — and Prop 19 did — are

almost always at risk of losing. And if their supporters do not answer the opponents swiftly and aggressively, well, they almost always do lose.

Beyond that, who voted “no” and why did they do so? And for that matter who were the people who voted “yes”?

Exit polls taken in California on Election Day certainly contain that data, but so far I haven’t been able to find a complete demographic breakdown on the Web. (The exception is how Californians voted on Prop 19 by age.)

However, a national poll on marijuana legalization done by the Gallup organization in early October may shed some light on the question.

Gallup found that nationally 46 percent of those polled favored legalizing marijuana, while 50 percent wanted to keep it illegal. Four percent were undecided. If you treat the undecideds as “no” votes, Gallup’s result exactly matches the actual vote on Prop 19.

Gallup did break down its results by major demographic groups. And in the one case where exit poll demographic data was available — the vote on Prop 19 by age group — Gallup’s results and the actual vote very closely see MARIJUANA Page 8

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Gallup found that the three groups Concern about the effect of the greater showing the stronavailability of pot gest support for on children and on legalization were family stability, Why would liberals (72 percent essentially the in favor), 18- to same reasons the Liv 29-year-olds (61 women supported ea Woodstock he percent), and prohibition a cenalth ier Democrats (58 pertury ago, probably. generation life cent). The three And why be groups in which would the Gallup found the Woodstock generdisinclined least support were ation be disinto support Republicans (29 clined to support percent), conservalegalization? Well, legalization? tives (30 percent), 50 percent of and those aged 65 Boomers are years or older (32 women, and a percent). large proportion of Boomers, women No surprises here. and men, still have teenagers in the Gallup also found that those in house or 20-somethings in college — in other words, kids at the age that the middle of the political spectrum were split: 49 percent of independents worry you sick, especially when the subject of drugs comes up. and 51 percent of moderates favored Who killed Prop 19? Bet it was legalization. So were those in the parents. middle of the age spectrum: 49 perProp 19 backers have already said cent of 30- to 49-year-olds favored they intend to try again in two years. legalizing pot.

At least two groups want to try legalAgain, not particularly surprising. ization initiatives in Colorado.

Gallup’s demographic breakdown If those efforts are to have any produced two highly interesting results, chance of success, the first order of however. The first was the figure for business for legalization proponents Boomers. Gallup found that among should be to start addressing the conthose aged 50 to 64, support for legalcerns of women and Boomer parents ization was 43 percent. The 50 to 64 age group consists entirely of Boomers. over legalization. Starting now. Not 30 days before the election.

The generation that made pot We’ll talk more about this next America’s favorite illegal drug doesn’t time. muster a majority for legalizing it.

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President Barack Obama’s bid to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is being challenged by the actions and inactions of Israel, the Palestinians and key Arab states. It is time for our president to demonstrate leadership again and follow through on his promise to hold all parties accountable for their actions.

In the past week, Israel moved ahead on multiple large-scale settlement construction schemes, including a provocative plan to dramatically expand one East Jerusalem settlement.

Settlement expansion stands in the way of peace and jeopardizes Israel’s viability as a Jewish and democratic state.

Moreover, settlement construction is the most glaring challenge to President Obama’s peace efforts.

American credibility is at stake. If President Obama fails to address the latest provocations in East Jerusalem, it will become increasingly difficult for America to get Israel, the Palestinians or Arab states to take any steps toward peace.

President Obama needs to face these challenges assertively. He must press Israel to stop construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. And he must push all sides into a meaningful negotiations process.

Make no mistake: standing up for peace is the best way to help Israel.

Peace is vital for Israel’s future and for American national security interests.

Evelyn Hutt/Denver Pancreatic cancer awareness November is National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. While pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, it receives very little public attention. And what’s worse is federal

funding for pancreatic cancer research lags far behind other leading causes of cancer death, stalling scientific advances for early detection methods and effective treatment options.

Pancreatic cancer is the only one of the top 10 cancer killers with a five-year survival rate still in the single digits — and the survival rate hasn’t significantly changed in nearly 40 years. We must work together to change this statistic and save lives, and it starts with increasing the visibility of pancreatic cancer.

Sadly, most families don’t even know what pancreatic cancer is until it affects them.

Sadly, this was the case for my family on two separate occasions. Six years ago my father-in-law was taken by this deadly cancer, and in 2008, so was my mother. The symptoms are so easily overlooked and easily dismissed as fatigue, flu/cold-like and, as in my mother’s case, mild heart condition.

It is imperative that people understand how deadly this cancer is and how important early detection is to survival.

The profile of this particular type of cancer can no longer be overshadowed by other cancers.

I invite you to join me in spreading the word about pancreatic cancer this November. Go to www.knowitfightitendit.org.

Everett Schneider/Denver

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Pedosexuals So, now we’ve got a pedophile book author in Pueblo. Well, that’s exactly what that city needed to raise its national profile.

Phillip Ray Greaves II, the author of The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, refers to these sickos not as pedophiles but as “pedosexuals,” in a feeble attempt to justify sexual abuse of a child as a legit lifestyle or sexual orientation.

We can hear the far-right wingnuts now, hollering about how this is what happens when deviants like homosexuals are given rights.

Um, hold the phone.

In one case, we have adults preying on helpless, emotionally and physically vulnerable children who have no real control over whether they are molested, and in the other case we have two consenting adults expressing their love for one another.

Big difference.

As for Amazon.com, we’re all for free expression and the First Amendment, but we applaud them for finally pulling the volume off its e-shelves. The guy can hawk his filthy book on the street corner, but there is no obligation for companies to sell it for him — or for consumers to buy it.

God bless the free market system.

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bugs have been making a stealthy comeback. In June, the National Pest Management Association reported a 71 percent increase in infestations since 2001.

Denver is listed among the U.S. cities that have been most affected by the return of the pesky little bloodsuckers.

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5. Local company sells gin-soaked raisins for arthritis pain 6. Astrology (11/11) 7. CU turns the heat up on pests 8. Book of rhymes 9. Deep space climb

Free Fido’s feelings You, or your dog, may want to take advantage of a new operation in town that is offering emotional healing — not just for people, but for pets and even places!

The HEAL Transformation Center held its grand opening on Nov. 13. They describe their approach as a “Curves” fitness club for holistic healing.

“We are partnering with the Boulder Humane Society to provide emotional clearing sessions for ‘unadoptable dogs,’ to facilitate clearing the animals’ subconscious emotional blocks that are keeping them from true positive expression,” they say in a press release.

So that’s why Fifi keeps shitting on the floor and Rover won’t stop chewing on the furniture! They just have some emotional blockage keeping them from more positive expression, like fetching the newspaper! Good to know.

And to think of all that money we threw down the drain on training programs and switching foods.

The new center is also offering residents of the Boulder Safe House the opportunity to visit its “Energy Medicine Healing Bay” for “quick elimination of post-traumatic stress patterns.”

At the grand opening, the center augmented the healing with live soul music, caricatures, food, beer and wine.

Check them out at www.healatheal.com, or call 303-440-HEAL. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Huevos with a side of racial profiling The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has gone to bat for two Colorado residents who were arrested in an Omaha, Neb., restaurant after an agent from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) overheard them speaking Spanish and decided that they must be in the country illegally.

Arquimides Bautista and Rosalba Artimas, both U.S. citizens, are active vendors of Amway products. On the evening of April 1, along with several dozen other Spanish-speaking distributors, they boarded a chartered bus to travel to an Amway convention in Omaha. Arriving early the next morning, the bus stopped at a fast food restaurant so the passengers could eat breakfast.

Unfortunately for Bautista and Artimas, an ICE officer happened to be getting breakfast at the same time. Apparently, the officer assumed that a busload of Spanish-speaking individuals constituted probable cause. Bautista and Artimas were arrested and searched, together with several legal immigrants.

“This is a case of racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping at its very worst,” said Mark Silverstein, ACLU legal director, in a press release. “An ICE agent targeted our clients for speaking Spanish in an Omaha fast-food restaurant.

Speaking Spanish is not a crime, nor does it provide any basis for immigration officers to start demanding papers or otherwise launch any investigation.”

Hey, ICE, that is so not cool!

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

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Business online The city of Boulder has launched a new business portal website to make it easier for individuals to find the information they need to successfully start and run a business in Boulder.

Designed to make doing business in Boulder simple, the portal offers easyto-find information about the city’s business services. Before launching the business portal, information about Boulder’s business regulations and services was found only under individual city department webpages. The new portal centralizes important city resources from Community Planning, Licensing, Taxes, Economic Vitality and Environmental Action into one easy-to-navigate source. The portal also features access to a wide range of business resources provided by the Boulder Library and other area business partners.

The business portal has resources tailored for current, expanding, relocating and new businesses. Using the portal, businesses can find up-to-date information about incentives provided through the Economic Vitality and Environmental Affairs programs, and city staff contact information for business assistance. The business portal also offers an FAQ page based on suggestions from the local business community. There is also a new “doing business WITH the City” Web page, which includes information about requests for proposals, how to rent public facilities and special event regulations.

The new business portal can be accessed at www.bouldercolorado.gov/ business or by clicking “Business” at the top of the city’s home page, www. bouldercolorado.gov. For more information, contact Liz Hanson, economic vitality coordinator, at 303-441-3287.

Kim and Jakes’ new holiday menu Kim and Jake’s Cakes, a Boulder cake shop, just released their holiday menu. Designed to make the holidays less stressful, customers can choose between several specialty cakes and homemade pies, as well as items on the regular menu. Kim and Jake will be hosting a Holiday Open House on Friday, Nov. 19 from 3–6 p.m. Stop by

the shop, located in the Table Mesa Shopping Center at 641 S. Broadway, to sample the holiday menu. Free of charge, this event will allow you to get ahead of the game by pre-ordering your holiday desserts. For more information, call 303-499-9126.

Heatherwood wins $5,000 grant Heatherwood Elementary is one of five U.S. schools that will receive a grant from Green Works naturally derived cleaners for successfully tracking their walk-to-school habits and collectively earning the most green footprints.

During the month of October, in honor of International Walk to School Day, elementary and middle school students and their families across the country laced up their sneakers to walk or strapped on their bike helmets to pedal to school instead of riding in a car. Participating families tracked their progress on the Green Works Facebook page to earn green footprints by recording their walking, playing games to win points, and offering green tips to their friends. The five schools with the most green footprints were chosen as winners.

Tea time Enjoy a Lafayette tradition, the Annual Holiday Tea, on Dec. 5 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the library. Discover an afternoon of tea and treats, live music and a special potpourri of holiday tales presented by storyteller extraordinaire Susan Marie Frontczak. Tickets are $9 for adults and $6 for children (children ages 8-17 are welcome) and seniors (60 and older). Tickets are available at the library’s Check Out desk. The Lafayette Public Library is located at 775 W. Baseline Rd.

Volunteer for naturalist program Boulder County Parks and Open Space is now accepting applications for the 2011 Volunteer Naturalist training class. They are looking for people with a passion for nature, some knowledge of local natural history and a strong desire to learn more and share their knowledge and enthusiasm with the public.

Volunteer Naturalists lead interpre-

tive nature hikes in county parks, present public natural history slide programs, and provide hands-on environmental field experiences for Boulder County schools. A 10-week training program is required. Training includes an overview of the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department, including history, mission, and resource management; Native American history; geology; plants and ecosystems; forestry; wildlife and birds; agricultural lands and weed management; water resources; and interpretive programming and resources.

Training classes take place on Thursdays, Jan. 13 through March 17, 2011, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Longmont. Participants must be at least 18 years old and attend all training sessions. Because many of the requested programs are scheduled Monday-Friday during daytime hours, applicants must have some ongoing weekday availability.

Contact Larry Colbenson at 303678-6214 or lcolbenson@bouldercounty.org for information. Application deadline is Nov. 19, 2010. There is limited space in the training course, so all applicants will be interviewed.

Say cheese Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, and of course, the annual Holiday Pet Photos at Longmont Humane Society.

This year residents will have two days to choose from, Nov. 20 and 21. Professional photographers lead by Marsha Steckling of Life Exposed Photography will be taking the portraits. Children and families are welcome, with or without pets. There will be two winter scenes to choose from, and Santa Claus will be available for both if requested.

Sessions will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both days at the Longmont Humane Society dog-training center, 9595 Nelson Rd. The $20 cost includes photo session, digital CD copy of all photos taken and permission for personal use.

For more information, visit www. longmonthumane.org, or call Julie Kunkel at 303-772-1232, ext. 235.

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Canceled race still raises $200K Not only did Boulder County’s Fourmile Fire destroy more homes than any fire in Colorado history, it threatened scholarships for 100 students at the University of Colorado.

That’s because the fire forced the cancellation of the annual Buffalo Bicycle Classic, which is the single largest source of scholarships in CU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

But thanks to the generosity of the event’s sponsors and riders — most of whom donated their registration and sponsorship dollars — the event that didn’t occur still raised $200,000 for scholarships, which is more than 80 percent of the event’s goal this year.

Elevations Credit Union, the ride’s title sponsor, gave an additional $25,000 to support the scholarship fund and to encourage riders to donate their registration fees instead of seeking refunds.

Almost every other sponsor followed Elevation’s lead and also left their financial support intact. Additionally, about 75 percent of registered riders donated their fees for scholarships, and some individuals not registered to ride even donated to the cause after the ride’s cancellation.

Todd Gleeson, dean of arts and sciences and one of the event’s founders, expressed relief.

“Had the ride occurred, we were hoping for $225,000 to $250,000, so $200,000 is pretty darned good for a non-event!”

This year’s Buffalo Bicycle Classic was scheduled for Sept. 12. As the Fourmile Fire raged, Boulder County and the event’s organizers worried that riders might impede the access of emergency crews to the Fourmile Fire and breathe very smoky air. They were also concerned about already-overtaxed lawenforcement officials who would be asked to monitor the event.

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are on track to meet the aggressive 2012 conservation goals outlined in the governor’s executive order,” said campus conservation officer Moe Tabrizi.

“STARS has helped us pinpoint necessary work, benchmarks and improve our

performance going forward.”

STARS also functions to better inform the many rankings, grades and opinions offered each year by various magazines and organizations.

“Our STARS gold rating is based on

credible, transparent data that documents CU’s leadership and dedication to sustainability,” said Dave Newport, CU Environmental Center director and STARS team leader. “We look forward to the near future when all organizations use STARS to guide their efforts and benchmark with peers.”

Other universities currently collecting data to submit for a STARS assessment include Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Rice and UCLA. To view a list of STARS registrants, available reports and confirmed ratings, visit https://stars.aashe.org/institutions.

CU first to gain environmental gold The University of Colorado at Boulder is the first in the nation to rank “gold” for its environmental leadership through the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Ratings System, or STARS. STARS is a self-reporting method developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. It provides colleges and universities a common set of measurements for gauging progress toward sustainability. Since its launch in January 2010, 234 schools have registered with STARS. CU-Boulder was rated high in all three categories of the STARS assessment, including operations, education and research, and planning, administration and engagement.

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s more and more reports of banks mishandling foreclosures sweep the nation, Colorado may prove to be the next horror story, judging by claims from a man in the tiny town of Crestone who has filed a federal lawsuit against the bank that handled the foreclosure of his home.

In a case that could be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to paperwork being massaged in Colorado foreclosure cases, Bruce McDonald alleges that OneWest Bank was not the holder of his mortgage when it foreclosed on his Crestone home earlier this year. He says banks are constantly transferring loans to other banks, and when it comes time to foreclose on a property, lax Colorado mortgage laws allow banks to conceal the fact that they don’t even own the loans they are foreclosing on.

“You have to prove you own the loan before you can foreclose,” McDonald told Boulder Weekly. “They’ve been doing this so long they think it’s OK and it’s legal.”

The allegations are expected to become part of the multi-state investigation that Colorado Attorney General John Suthers recently joined to examine claims that lenders and their agents are signing off on thousands of documents without verifying the accuracy of representations made in that paperwork.

Fraud and racketeering In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court on July 22, McDonald accuses OneWest Bank of a host of possible violations of laws involving fraud, racketeering, money laundering, robbery and extortion. The case is being heard by none other than retired U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch, who presided over the Oklahoma City bombing trial.

In the lawsuit, McDonald produces evidence showing that his $198,000 loan, originally issued by IndyMac Bank in May 2003, was sold to Freddie Mac in September 2004. IndyMac folded in July 2008 and was later reopened as OneWest Bank, the bank that foreclosed on McDonald’s house.

OneWest asserts that it assumed all of the assets held by its predecessor, IndyMac. And according to the lawsuit, OneWest Bank assumed the servicing rights to the loan from IndyMac. But McDonald claims that since the loan had been sold to Freddie Mac years earlier, OneWest could not possibly be the legal holder of the promissory note or the deed of trust.

In its simplest terms, the argument is that if someone loans you money, under the law, another person shouldn’t be able to collect on that loan. In other words, the bank foreclosing on the loan should be the true aggrieved party, the entity that holds the note and is actually owed the money that is past due.

“If you are not a damaged party, you cannot waltz into court and say that you are,” McDonald told Boulder Weekly. “If you don’t own something, you can’t seize it. And [the banks] are saying, ‘Yes we can, because we got the laws rewritten to allow us to.’”

In his lawsuit, McDonald acknowledges that he stopped making his mortgage payments in April 2009 after being notified that the loan servicer had been changed to OneWest, and after OneWest failed to provide him with evidence that they now owned his note and deed of trust.

After he stopped making his payments, OneWest hired the Denver-based debt-collection law firm Aronowitz & Mecklenburg to pursue the matter, McDonald says. Under Colorado law, banks don’t have to produce the original note and deed to foreclose on a loan; they can produce copies of those documents accompanied by a “certification of qualified holder,” a document generated by firms like Aronowitz & Mecklenburg attesting that the bank has the right to foreclose on the loan. McDonald questions how much due diligence such firms do to verify which bank actually owns the loan.

Representatives of Aronowitz & Mecklenburg did not return calls by press time.

McDonald notes that other debt-collection law firms around the country have been accused of misdeeds, including the Law Offices of David Stern in Florida, where an office manager has testified to signing as many as 1,000 docsee LAWSUIT Page 15

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Twice bitten? Second Crestone resident claims fraud

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nother Crestone resident, Wooddora Eisenhauer, says that she, like her neighbor Bruce McDonald, has been victimized by banks’ predatory foreclosure practices.

Eisenhauer, who was in the real estate business for more than 16 years as a broker and owner, says she has seen firsthand how corrupt the foreclosure business is. Beginning at the end of 2006, she says, she had a growing number of second-home owners grappling with whether they should foreclose or declare bankruptcy, and the rise of foreclosures forced her to shutter her own real estate business at the end of 2009.

“I’m one of the ones that lost the game,” she says. “The mortgage and banking industry is so corrupt, and has specifically, strategically and systematically been put into place by laws that keep the individual from having any control over the powers that be.”

Eisenhauer, who has had two of her own personal properties foreclosed on and is in the middle of her third, says the system is rigged.

“The legalities of them being able to foreclose are totally tainted,” she says.

“The courts look at banks as being those who render the truth and get the benefit of the doubt.”

The first of her foreclosures was done appropriately by a small, local bank, Eisenhauer says.

But her second property was foreclosed on by a big national bank, which “supposedly” had bought it from Countrywide, she says. “Any time a note changes from one bank to another, I’m going to be suspicious.”

The third and current foreclosure involves her primary residence, a 650-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath home that Wells Fargo is attempting to foreclose on after buying the loan from Washington Mutual, Eisenhauer says. At her March 1 Rule 120 hearing, the administrative procedure held to determine whether a house can be foreclosed on and sold, she claims that Wells Fargo “showed up with a forged document.” see FORGERY Page 15

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uments a day without reading them and without witnesses present, according to media reports.

“They’re just nasty,” McDonald says of debt-collection firms that issue such certifications without verifying the ownership of the loan. “Their modus operandi is intimidation. They should be disbarred.”

Rule 120 hearing McDonald’s case went to what is known in Colorado as a Rule 120 hearing, an administrative court proceeding in which a county judge determines whether to authorize the foreclosure and sale of a property when payments are past due. McDonald says that few Colorado homeowners are Courtesy of Bruce McDonald aware of this hearing, which is their main opportunity to contest the foreclosure. But the hearings are very limited in scope and usually only deal with whether the borrower is delinquent on his or her payments, not whether the bank has committed fraud or forged documents (see related story on Page 14).

Once the Rule 120 hearing is done, it is nearly impossible to appeal the decision, McDonald says, aside from filing a civil suit, like he did.

According to McDonald’s lawsuit, OneWest used “alleged” copies of his deed and trust, along with the “certification of qualified Bruce McDonald holder” from Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, to convince a Saguache County District Court judge to authorize the foreclosure and sale of McDonald’s property last spring.

McDonald claims the bank knew full well that the loan had been sold to Freddie Mac years earlier, and misrepresented to the court that it was the sole holder of the note and deed.

“If you indicate to the court that you hold a note and you don’t, I just don’t think that fits with our American jurisprudence,” says McDonald’s attorney, Gary Fielder. “It’s just not right. … Someone ought not

imply they own the note in court when they do not.”

McDonald produces several documents to back his claim, including a Feb. 26 letter from OneWest confirming that “the investor on your loan is Federal Home Loan Mtg. Co. [Freddie Mac]” and that OneWest “is responsible for the servicing of this loan.”

McDonald also has a March 1 letter from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), attesting that Freddie Mac purchased and owns the deed of trust and that OneWest is only the servicing agent. The FDIC also provided a screen shot from OneWest’s own records showing the transfer of the loan to Freddie Mac in September 2004.

McDonald even questions what Freddie Mac does with the loans it acquires. He cites a letter dated Oct. 15, 2009, written by Freddie Mac official Robert Bostrom, in response to a Florida Supreme Court ruling. (The Florida Supreme Court issued a ruling establishing that a foreclosing party must prove it owns the underlying loan before foreclosing on it, McDonald says.)

Bostrom writes in the letter, “We fulfill our mission by purchasing mortgages in the secondary market and securitizing them into mortgage-related securities that can be sold to investors.”

McDonald’s question is, what happened to his loan after it was sold to Freddie Mac? Was it securitized and sold to investors? If so, who is now the proper owner?

“Freddie Mac doesn’t want to sully their hands, because they don’t want people to know what they’re doing with the note,” Fielder says. “Someone’s pulling some strings on some really weird business.”

In a curious twist, on March 25, after foreclosing on McDonald’s home, OneWest turned around and sold its interest on the property to Freddie Mac for $10.

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their claimed losses are. I’m saying, by God, give that to me. I’m livid. I’m mad as hell, and I’m not taking it anymore.”

Eisenhauer, 70, claims that the whole mortgage/ foreclosure system was put into place over time, creatively, to undermine the majority of the public.

“If we haven’t felt like slaves already, we are going to find out what true slavery is,” she says. “Don’t ask what your government can do for you, ask what you can do to stop your government from doing this to you. … The banks have been operating as if none of the rules apply to them.”

Eisenhauer says that despite the unsettled status of her foreclosure, Wells Fargo sent people to her home to change her locks and mow her lawn, even though she doesn’t have a lawn.

“The bank doesn’t own the property yet,” she points out. “Something is desperately wrong about this.”

Tom Goyda, vice president for communications for Wells Fargo, acknowledged that the bank has

agreed to file supplemental affidavits for about 55,000 foreclosure cases nationally in which “appropriate procedures weren’t followed.” But he told Boulder Weekly that all of those cases are in 23 “judicial” states, not Colorado (which, as a “nonjudicial” state, has the administrative Rule 120 hearing to approve foreclosures).

Goyda also acknowledges that, in the case of Eisenhauer’s property, Wells Fargo did send an inspector to “maintain and secure” the property, as it does with all of its properties where payments are more than 60 days past due, but when the inspector learned that the residence was still occupied, he and the bank backed off.

He denied claims that such efforts are a tactic intended to intimidate a homeowner into abandoning the property and any efforts to challenge the foreclosure, as has been alleged by some (see www.illegalforeclosures.com, a site that claims the foreclosure rate in

McDonald told Boulder Weekly that it is more profitable for banks to foreclose on properties than it is to work out a payment arrangement with the homeowner because they can claim a loss — based on the value of the original loan, which was often artificially high due to the housing bubble — and regain 80 percent of that loss from the FDIC. (See http://www.larryhotz.com/fdic-pays-bank-to-foreclose.)

In his lawsuit, McDonald requests a jury trial and seeks economic damages for the loss of his home, damages for pain and suffering, and attorney’s fees.

Fielder says the outcome of the case could have national ramifications.

“Whatever Judge Matsch says on the McDonald case is going to be big,” he says.

While OneWest and its public relations firm, Sard Verbinnen & Co., declined to comment on the case when contacted by Boulder Weekly, OneWest has filed a motion to dismiss McDonald’s suit, responding to some of his claims.

In that motion, OneWest attests that it followed Colorado laws in the foreclosure process, since it was certified by its debt-collection law firm as a “qualified holder” of the loan. The bank claims it produced “the original note and deed of trust” for the Rule 120 hearing. OneWest also points out that, under Colorado law, to foreclose on a property, a lender needs only a copy of the note and a certification of qualified holder.

“Notably, the qualified holder need not be in actual possession of the promissory note to foreclose,” the motion says. “Contrary to McDonald’s contentions, OneWest need not be a holder of the original evidence of debt in order to foreclose.”

OneWest also claims in its motion that in this case, a federal court does not have jurisdiction over a matter that has already been decided by a state court. The motion goes on to pick apart McDonald’s claims of fraud, racketeering and other laws, but remains silent on the question of whether his loan was sold to Freddie Mac in 2004.

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She and her attorney, Erich Schwiesow of the law firm Lester, Sigmond, Rooney and Schwiesow in Alamosa, argue that the first page of the promissory note clearly did not match the rest of the document, in part because it didn’t have the same fax stamp. In addition, they claim, the initials and signature on the document do not match Eisenhauer’s handwriting.

“It was clear it was manufactured,” Schwiesow says, adding that a local judge agreed and denied authorizing the sale of the property. Wells Fargo initially filed a motion asking the judge to reconsider the decision, but dropped that motion this week.

“I will do everything humanly possible to stop this foreclosure process on my primary home,” Eisenhauer says.

Like Bruce McDonald, Eisenhauer argues that banks have a financial incentive to foreclose.

“They make more money foreclosing,” she says.

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“We need to pull all of our money out of the big banks and use the local banks and credit unions,” McDonald says. “That would stop this shit dead in its tracks. We have no idea what they’ve done. They have created so many ways to generate revenue off your loan. Most banks don’t have anything invested in the properties they are foreclosing on.”

Nationally, several banks have suspended their foreclosure proceedings amidst claims of faulty documentation.

And, according to media reports, it’s not the first time OneWest has been accused of taking an illegal approach to foreclosing on properties it inherited from IndyMac. According to Wikipedia, for instance, judges have issued temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions “preventing OneWest from foreclosing on properties where the borrower claims OneWest failed to follow proper procedure in foreclosing on the property or otherwise violated the borrower’s rights.”

In early February, after a widely circulated Internet video characterized the 2009 sale of IndyMac’s assets to the private investors behind OneWest as a sweetheart deal, the FDIC issued a terse response. In that Feb. 12 statement, the FDIC asserted that while there is an 80/20 loss-share agreement between OneWest and the FDIC, OneWest must shoulder the first 20 percent of those mortgage losses, to the tune of $2.5 billion, before the FDIC will pay a dime, which at that time it hadn’t.

Carol Snyder, public trustee of Adams County, says that under Colorado law, even banks that are simply the servicing agent for a loan, as OneWest claims to be in the McDonald case, have the authority to foreclose on loans. But the bank must have been lawfully granted that servicing authority, and it is the law firm issuing the “certification of qualified holder” that must do its due diligence to verify that.

“The attorneys are putting their license on the line,” she told Boulder Weekly, explaining that the law firms are

certifying that the bank is either the holder of the loan or authorized to service the debt. She quoted language from a “certification of qualified holder” document in her office that seems to set the bar for exactly how much due diligence a firm is required to do. It states in part that “the following is true and correct to the best of our knowledge, following reasonable inquiry.”

When asked about the McDonald case, Snyder says the foreclosure probably would not have gone forward if McDonald had simply continued making his payments while challenging OneWest’s authority in court. If his lawsuit then proved successful, she says, he could have been repaid.

“There isn’t a free, make-no-payments law,” Snyder says. “You have to pay, or something happens. You signed a promise to pay, and you don’t get out of those payments just because you have questions about who to pay.”

Jan Zavislan, Colorado deputy attorney general for consumer protection, is involved in the multi-state investigation into foreclosure procedures.

When asked whether McDonald’s questions will be part of the investigation, he says, “There’s no part of the process we won’t eventually take a look at.”

Zavislan says he views the Colorado foreclosure law that allows for copies of the deed/note, accompanied by the “certification of qualified holder,” as a compromise struck by the Legislature that allows banks and other servicers to get by without having the original documents — while also protecting against having multiple entities attempting to collect on the loan.

The “qualified holder” document provides indemnification in case another bank later lays claim to the promissory note, Zavislan explained.

But he says the question of whether a bank or loan servicing agent must actually own the loans it forecloses on is still somewhat of an open question.

“It’s an issue we’re still exploring,” he told Boulder Weekly. “It’s one of the things we want to understand fully before we reach any conclusion.”

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Colorado is double the national average).

Goyda says banks like Wells Fargo must step in to maintain and secure properties to ensure that vacated homes aren’t vandalized or left in disarray, devaluing its property value and those of adjacent homes.

“Nobody in the neighborhood wants vacant property with an overgrown lawn, or people breaking in and taking copper, or whatever they might do,” Goyda told Boulder Weekly.

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details surrounding Eisenhauer’s claims of forged documents, and knows of no cases in Colorado where Wells Fargo did not follow procedures.

When asked about the sister case in Crestone, the Bruce McDonald lawsuit (see story above), Eisenhauer attorney Schwiesow says similar illegal foreclosures are probably going on all over the state.

“It’s just that Bruce McDonald is not rolling over for them,” he says.

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Kids, close your eyes City of Boulder police arrested a man on Nov. 6 after he was reportedly seen masturbating in his home, next to a window, while children were outside. He was expected to be charged with felony indecent exposure.

Police said the 47-year-old stood naked in the window of his apartment in the 5600 block of Arapahoe Ave. and began to masturbate. The man had two earlier convictions for the same crime and two outstanding arrest warrants, the report said.

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Boulder police issued five summonses for conspiracy and criminal mischief after a fraternity scavenger hunt in which players were required to steal various items around town.

Officers were on a routine patrol near McCaddon Cadillac, at 2460 48th Court, on Nov. 10 when they noticed two men running. When they stopped the two men, the officers discovered they were participating in a fraternity scavenger hunt and had stolen street signs, hood ornaments and several other items, and had vandalized other property while playing the game. Three other men believed to be participating were also later issued summonses.

Just not his night A Boulder man was assaulted on two separate occasions on Nov. 12.

Boulder police say the first incident happened at a party in the 1300 block of College Avenue. He reportedly was assaulted by a man and several of his friends after he danced with the suspect’s girlfriend.

After he left the party, a man approached him and asked to borrow his cell phone, according to a police report. After making several calls, the suspect began to walk toward an alley in the 1100 block of Broadway with the phone. When the victim followed him, the suspect reportedly punched him and told him to get on the ground, where he kicked him before taking his wallet.

The victim had some scratches and bruises, but no serious injuries.

Police say there is no apparent connection between the two incidents.

Money scams galore Boulder police took a call from a

woman on Nov. 9 who said she wired more than $11,000 to multiple people after she had received an e-mail saying she had won $1.5 million in a sweepstakes.

The victim told police that she wired the money over several days to various people in Costa Rica after she got the e-mail. She said the e-mail told her somebody would be by to drop off the money at her house, but the money never came.

In an unrelated case, Boulder police contacted a woman who said her live-in nanny had stolen her identity. The nanny ran up $15,000 in charges with the victim’s credit card since January, the report said.

No arrests have been made in either case.

Assault amnesia On Nov. 9, a man was admitted to Boulder Community Hospital with abrasions on his face, a broken nose and a cut lip. Physicians said his injuries were more consistent with an assault than a fall, but the man did not remember being assaulted.

Later in the day, a passerby in the 1300 block of Canyon Boulevard noticed a wallet on the ground with a lot of blood in the area. Police were able to trace the wallet back to the victim at the hospital.

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bout 70 percent of Mothership Earth is covered in water, most of which is so saline it is useless for drinking, showering, agriculture and the like. The remaining 30 percent is in constant danger of going from pure to polluted in a heartbeat.

The danger doesn’t always come from a big oil infusion, as recently happened in the Gulf, or toxins washing into our streams and rivers from factories.

Nope, it comes from the stuff routinely put down our storm drains — anything from discarded antifreeze and restaurant grease to cleaning products, fertilizers and pet poop.

Boulder County is one of Colorado’s regions that restrict what goes down storm drains because there is no treatment process that keeps outdoor waste from swirling into our waterways.

“In the city of Boulder, for instance, if you throw your old motor oil down a storm drain, it will wind up in Boulder Creek,” says Bill Hayes, team leader of the county’s Partners for a Clean Environment (PACE) program.

So will all the other stuff the rain washes off of parking lots, driveways, roads, construction sites, gardens, etc.

Much of this pollution is inevitable. It’s for the preventable that the Boulder County Public Health Department has the Keep It Clean Partnership. KICP works with cities to help keep whatever isn’t rain out of storm drains.

Among other things, it contracts with PACE, the program that trains businesses to reduce their environmental impacts in 10 minutes. Once a business learns to, say, pressure-wash a restaurant patio without harmful chemi-

cals, it is added to the PACE Allies list, posted on its website and shared with businesses looking for certified service providers.

“The certification came with the business when I bought it in January,” says Marc Anievas, owner of X-Stream Clean in Boulder. “Whether it’s a hospital or a restaurant grease pit, we can handle it with the same green cleaning products and techniques. The customer may not care that it’s green, but I do, and it feels good!”

KICP also has residential interests covered. Its website points out the three common sources of pollutants and how to handle them — pet poop (dispose of in the toilet), fertilizers (use organic products and minimally) and vehicle maintenance fluids (recycle at the Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste center).

When washing your car at home, park it on the lawn rather than in the driveway. It’s not just cleaning products that run off but vehicle residues — oil, grease, fuel and traces of metals. Grass will absorb all this much better than our waterways.

By the way, if you notice a spill or illegal discharge headed for the storm drains — such as fuel or waste from a traffic accident, or a floor drain from a building leaking into the street — you can get the right attention paid to it by calling the Illegal Discharge Reporting Hotline at 303441-4444.

For more information, visit the Boulder County Household Hazardous Waste website at www.bouldercounty.org/recycling/hhw/hhwhome.htm, or call 303441-4800. Also check the KICP and PACE sites at keepitcleanpartnership.org and www.pacepartners.com.

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Fashion Show for a Better World. 7 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Louisville Planning Commission Meeting. 6:30 p.m. City Hall, Council Chambers, 749 Main St., Louisville, 303335-4536.

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FACE OFF: The Flying O.H.N.O. Twins — Art performance. 7 p.m.

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Una — Multimedia theatre/ dance performance. 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-4920844.

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ear-fatal car crashes, naked arm wrestling, runaway girlfriends and drummers, and even the unfortunate deaths of two dear friends. That’s the short story of Ego Vs Id’s debut album, Taste (Abattoir Records), recorded next to a strip club in Boulder over the past two years. But to see outspoken young singer/guitarist Nate Cook lead his raucous Thursday night acoustic sets at the Speakeasy, you’d think being in one of Boulder’s most promising bands was all whiskey and roses.

“Performing acoustically for three-and-a-half hours, it’s kind of a playground,” Cook, 24, says of the weekly, off-the-cuff residency that began as a sort of solo rehearsal and now often features his bandmates and other special guests.

“Playing acoustic opens up the world of subtlety, which is something that we’re not necessarily known for,” Cook tells Boulder Weekly. And that’s an understatement.

In concert, Ego Vs Id has evolved into one the tightest, most professional-sounding rock groups in Colorado, the volatile Cook jumping all over the stage while EVI slashes its way through a brash,

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earnest and surprisingly original brand of countrified indie-rock and a few choice covers. In person, the band’s three core members — Cook, guitarist/ singer Robbie Steifel and bassist/singer Jesse Parmet — are the kind of frank, hard-partying guys you’d expect from their simultaneously heartfelt and decadent lyrics. But in the studio these past few years, Cook and Co. became somewhat workobsessed, nearly to the point of destruction. At first, however, the work environment while recording and mixing their debut LP was a little too much of a playground.

“We were so green going into it that we made some pretty classic mistakes,” Cook says. “Especially in treating it like a party towards the beginning, and I wish we hadn’t done that. The next record will probably take a month and it’ll be raw and ‘balls to the wall,’ but this one — I’m glad we did it that way.”

“Spending so long in the studio as we did really wasn’t intentional,” Steifel adds. “I have a feeling that, looking back in 10 years, Taste will be the most produced of all our music … but I guess in the end we came out with a record that sonically and artisti-

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Magical Mexican Mondays — Magician Erica Sodos combines the best of wonderment and tacos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hope you’ve been trimming that goatee properly. Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji AkpoSani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

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Swing Blues Dance Lesson — Get your funky foxtrot on. 7 p.m.

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cally rivals bands that are on major labels, and I think we can perhaps use that to our advantage.”

A Pandora’s box of rock ’n’ roll ambition, it’s impossible to describe Taste — which traverses mellow ballads, punk-influenced rock and poetic Southern rock — with blanket statements, although a few media outlets have already tried. “All American Love” and “Lenny Bruce,” two lyrically and musically vigorous tracks that previously appeared on a self-released EP, showcase Cook and Steifel’s individual talents for writing and playing mid-tempo rock that juxtaposes heavy subjects and mercurial music. Cook wrestles with the English language like James Joyce observing a modern hipster bar, while Steifel takes a more straightforward approach that has been compared to Springsteen and Tom Petty, only with a lot more drug references. Overall, Taste is a grab bag of intensity, pop satire, tongue-in-cheek beauty and self-loathing debauchery.

Taste has been called over-produced, and a few tunes certainly did lose the bombast that makes Ego Vs Id so entertaining in concert, but the majority of the album’s 13 tracks feature distinctly poignant moments that represent what Cook describes as “an amalgamation of our influences.”

“Our tastes are always evolving and changing,” he says. “Maybe some people think listening to Phoebe Snow and then listening to the Slits creates a lack of focus, but I think it just adds more dimension to the music.”

Ego Vs Id — and especially the layered harmonies and overdubs of Taste — are obviously not trying to impress Denver hipsters or earn the opening slot on Ani DiFranco’s next tour. Taste isn’t for everyone, and pleasing everybody was never a goal, according to Cook.

“We’re not really trying to be one thing,” Cook says. “We’re just trying to be a band that makes music we want to hear, and because we’re all involved in every song there’s kind of an implied continuity to it all. We always wanted to be a good band and make good music, so that didn’t change [in the recording process]. We lost some of the assholishness of thinking it all had to be recorded in-room and analog; we kind of came around on some of that stuff.”

Perhaps most interesting, however, is how glaring an irony it is that after almost two years in a professional recording studio, using some of eTown’s priceless guitars, Ego Vs Id struck gold with the lovely “National Disaster,” the only song on Taste entirely recorded live. It’s a sure-fire radio hit a la U2 and Wilco — if the band can get it out to

the right people — and also the track the band spent by far the least amount of time on.

Whether the album would’ve been better as a whole if such a minimalist recording technique was used on its other 12 songs will always be a mystery, but Cook says he wouldn’t change a thing.

“We’re known as a raw live band and we wanted to kind of round out what we were doing and even see for ourselves if we were capable of doing it,” Cook says. “The only real goal was to make the best music we can and that’s what we did. You can make a great record in three weeks, and we’ll probably make the next record in three weeks, but primarily we were just trying to make the best record we could, and something like that takes time.”

Over-production arguments aside, for some it will take significant time just to process Ego Vs Id lyrics such as “bombastic plastic men carry guns of fantastic calibers / made by native sons and gentlemen giving pearly dreams to all the girls / who wait all day on iron trains playing doctor and familiar games / and everyone wakes up or they don’t.”

It’s not too much of a stretch to call those Cook-penned lines slightly Dylanesque — “you used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat / who

carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat,” anyone? — But in a town where 3OH!3 is the only real breakout band of late, one wonders if the simultaneously P.C. and dance-party-obsessed Boulder is the right place for Ego Vs Id. “I’m completely baffled by 3OH!3 and that’s the honest truth,” Cook says.

“People like it; they can dance to it; it has that appeal to the ‘tween’ market, [but] our music is kind of heady in a way; it’s not simply love songs or songs about just getting pussy or whatever. I do my best to find the worst parts of myself and try to explain them to myself, you know?”

“We thought the hipsters were going to be our fanbase,” Cook says, “but we’re a rock ’n’ roll band. Trying to be cool sucks.”

Having your music called “boring as fuck” indie-rock that “treads water and ends up nowhere” by Westword must also suck, but for now Cook tries to take the criticisms and compliments equally un-seriously.

“We don’t have to pull a cat’s tail, add some fuckin’ reverb, play it in reverse and then sing over it to make interesting music. And we’re not in it to make friends,” Cook says. “My mom always said, ‘It takes a carpenter to build a barn and it takes a jackass to knock it down.’”

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Killers frontman goes solo

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fter six years of almost non-stop concert tours, with more than 15 million CDs sold, Las Vegas band The Killers decided they needed a break. Their hiatus, except for an upcoming Christmas single, has provided the opportunity for their charismatic lead singer, Brandon Flowers, to release his own solo album Flamingo, an exhilarating, melody-rich collection of material that easily rivals the best of his band’s well-loved music.

The 29-year-old Flowers has described his early musical influences as British groups like New Order, The Smiths, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Oasis; in fact, it was a live Oasis concert Flowers attended as a youngster that convinced him to pursue a career in music.

He has stated, “I was pretty alienated as a kid. … It was really weird because other kids were buying Tool and Nirvana and I was buying The Cars and The Psychedelic Furs.”

His first band, a synth-pop outfit called Blush Response, left him behind in 2001 when he chose not to move to Los Angeles and leave his beloved Las Vegas, which he refers to as the jewel of the Mojave.

After hooking up with guitarist Dave Keuning, and a succession of short-lived sidemen, a solid group finally came together in 2002 with the addition of bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci. They named themselves The Killers, after a legendary fictional bass drum. Their 2004 debut album, Hot Fuss, sold more than 5 million copies and earned the No. 1 position on many record sales charts internationally.

Flamingo easily reached the No. 1 spot in the U.K. shortly after its late summer 2010 release, selling a million copies and earning British gold. The album has placed as high as No. 8 on the U.S. charts and garnered a wide spectrum of public response ranging from high praise like “an absolute triumph” and “a doozy of a debut … [a] soul-stirring event that never goes soft” to lesser notice such as those who call it “a beautiful mess” or a selection of “lackluster … ’80s rock clichés.”

Garnering comparisons to artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Joe Henry and even Devo, some critics have noted that this solo offering really bridges the gap left by The Killers’ current hiatus, which is expected to last until sometime in 2012.

Indeed, the 10 tracks on Flamingo (plus an additional five on the deluxe edition) were actually all composed for The Killers, and while some have suggested that these tunes may have been rejects, according to Flowers, that is not the case. These were all apparently slated for future recordings by the entire band, but the front man decided that rather than staying put for a couple of years with the rest of The Killers, he would go ahead and record these songs himself.

In the opinion of this reviewer, it was a great decision that will no doubt help promote and maintain Flowers as one of the premier artists in contemporary rock, even beyond his well-deserved recognition as the voice of The Killers.

Working with three different producers, Flowers laid down most of the tracks at Las Vegas’ Battle Born Studios, just a stone’s throw from the strip, where Elton John, Motley Crue, Aerosmith and Third Eye Blind, among others, have also recorded. In an industry blog interview, Flowers joked that not only was the studio a comfortable place to record, but “it’s a decent excuse for me to keep working, [and to be able to tell] my wife, that I’m just going down the street.”

Spin magazine named Brandon Flowers one of “The 15 Best Shows of the Summer” in 2010 for his solo show in Vegas. Spin also listed him as one of “The 25 Best Fall Tours” and “ Must-See Fall Tours” of 2010. Flowers appears with full back-up band, featuring special guests including Stuart Price, Andy Summers and Fran Healy.

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Imani Winds throws expectations out the window

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tango-like serenade from Argentina? Check.

Music by a jazz musician?

Check.

Straight-up Americana?

Russian primitivism? Jewish celebration music?

Check, check and check. Add a piece by a local composer, and the program by the Imani Winds has just about every cultural tradition you could fit into one concert.

But that’s part of the point with the Imani Winds, which will perform that program at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, in Macky Auditorium as part of the CU Presents concert series.

In fact, the distinctive woodwind quintet was founded on the ideal of breaking new ground, both in its makeup — all five members are musicians of color — and in its programming, which joins traditional European concert music with music from other cultures, especially African-American and Latin American.

The quintet was started in 1997 by their flutist, Valerie Coleman. She did what a lot of musicians do when they are just starting a career in New York: She made phone calls to some other young freelancers and put together an ensemble. It’s sort of a “Let’s put on a show!” rite of passage for musicians.

But Coleman had a larger vision before she even made the first call. As the group’s clarinetist, Miriam Adam — whose heritage includes Egyptian and Mexican — explains, “Valerie’s original desire was to champion the music of underrepresented composers that were not strictly Western European, and to bring a new interpretation of classical music from our perspective, as musicians of color.”

But Adam quickly adds, “When this group started we had no way of making money, so it really was a leap of faith — which is what Imani means.”

From that original leap of faith, Imani Winds has prospered to the point that the group represents a full-

time job for the members. They have toured major concert venues across the country and recorded five CDs. Just this month, Boston Globe critic Harlowe Robinson wrote that the Imani Winds are “recognized by many as the leading wind quintet in America,” noting that the group “revels in challenging preconceptions about ‘classical’ music and musicians.”

As the ensemble has matured and earned more success, the focus has changed.

“Now it’s really about the music, and it’s about the energy and the spirit that we bring to chamber music,” Adam says.

One thing that’s definitely “about the music” is Imani’s desire to expand the repertoire for woodwind quintet, to get beyond the classics and present music that reflects contemporary styles. In particular, they have worked with musicians from outside the classical mainstream, including jazz artists Stefon Harris, Wayne Shorter and Paquito D’Rivera.

As an outgrowth of their interest in new repertoire, Imani recently established their Legacy Commissioning Project. Starting as a celebration of the ensemble’s 10th

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“It’s the idea of having wind quintet repertoire that will live beyond our lifetime,” Adam says. “That’s how [the Legacy Project] was born, and it continues.”

To return to that checklist of different cultures, Friday’s program will open with the “Serenata” of Argentinean composer Carlos Franzetti, followed by one of the Legacy Commissions, “Cane” by jazz pianist Jason Moran. A striking and highly personal work based on his family’s history, “Cane” was Moran’s first work for classically trained musicians. Also on the program will be American composer Samuel Barber’s “Summer Music,” a movement from “Suite Cantabile” by Boulder resident Bill Douglas, Jonathan Russell’s arrangement of music from Stravinksy’s 1913 ballet “Rite of Spring,” and a pair of Jewish Klezmer dances arranged by Gene Kavaldo.

Nothing on the program may be more startling than the “Rite of Spring” arrangement. Written for a large orchestra, “The Rite of Spring” was so violently expressionistic that it created a riot at its Paris premiere. It’s not a likely piece for a chamber concert.

“It’s what we call a chop-buster,” Adam admits. But, she says, “we are a rock ’n’ roll ensemble, dynamic-wise, and we can really create a big sound. I think that’s why ‘The Rite of Spring’ works.”

But in the end, more than the sound, or the repertoire, or the musicians’ identities, Imani performances are about reaching an audience.

“One thing we tell students all the time,” Adam says, is that “chamber music, at least in our niche, has 100 percent job satisfaction. You know, we’re doing what we love to do, we’re doing what we were allowed to develop a passion for, and that always is infectious. It always is.”

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even years ago, in a small Despite a drained bank tent in the midst of a account and occasional snowstorm in the homelessness, Renan Ozturk believes he is living Himalayas, climber and the dream. From “Living photographer Jonny The Dream,” produced/directed by Renan Ozturk.

Copp drafted the idea for the Adventure Film Festival on a handful of scratch paper. Since then, the idea has grown into an international festival of independent films addressing everything from environmental activism to extreme sports.

Now in its sixth year, the Adventure Film Festival will be showing in Boulder from Nov. 18 to Nov. 20.

The festival consists of 25 films hand-picked by a committee of professional athletes, activists, photographers and filmmakers out of 140 submissions from around the world. The subject matter ranges from skiing in the Antarctic friends and community in Boulder,” Aimee Copp says.

Peninsula, to the mysterious disappearance of honey“People have been very excited to continue to support bee colonies worldwide, to the struggle for survival of and grow Adventure Films in honor of my brother. It’s a little-known tribe of Kyrgyz nomads in so important for our family to continue his dream so Afghanistan’s High Pamirs mountains. that his legacy lives on through this festival.”

“There’s a little of everything for everybody,” says For many, like Boulder climber, artist and filmAimee Copp, sister of Jonny Copp and member of the maker Renan Ozturk, carrying on Copp’s vision festival’s board of directors. “It attracts the everyday means continuing to document his adventures to person that’s not a climber or a skier or an adrenaline inspire others. Ozturk has two films in this year’s fesjunkie because it’s full of thought-provoking films tival, including “As It Happens,” a real-time adventure with powerful stories.” about a climbing journey into the Nepalese Himalayas Jonny Copp’s vision to bring together film, activthat was produced on location with solar energy and ism and adventure has become a family and commubroadcast via satellite modem. nity mission since his 2009 death in an avalanche on “Being outside and creating things to share with the Tibet-China border.Climber Micah Dash and others has always been crucial to the way I express filmmaker Wade Johnson also died in the accident. myself,” Ozturk says. “I think people really connect to “Obviously last year was an extremely hard year, adventure films because they are looking for a glimpse not only for our family but also for all of Jonny’s of inspiration to spark change in their own lives. Most

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Vance Howard, a Boulder fine-arts photographer and filmmaker, agrees with Ozturk about the ubiquitous humanity in adventure films that appeals to so many.

“Adventure films are fun, both to watch and to make,” Howard says. “I think of it as being similar to our ancestral elders returning to the campfire from an ancient hunt for game and sharing stories of the journey. It’s the same idea now, only we have the glow of HDTVs replacing the sparks and embers of the campfire.”

Howard will be moderating a filmmaker workshop on Nov. 19, hosted by Adventure Films, at the REI store in Boulder. The workshop will be led by multiple Emmy Award-winner Michael Brown, independent filmmaker Marcus Lucas, director and producer Jeff Orlowski and Oscar-winning producer and cinematographer Michael Ramsey. The panel will discuss the latest equipment, shooting techniques, production development and marketing, as well as how to make films with stories that are compelling and meaningful.

“I think that the story is by far the most crucial component of a good adventure film. Conveying the emotional and physical struggle of an adventure is hard to do, but when it’s done well it can really take a film to the next level,” Ozturk says. “For me, the biggest reason to convey the spirit of adventure is that it develops understanding of how fragile the planet is on a deep emotional level.”

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7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine, 210 Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-492-1503.

International Film Series — Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1. 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303492-1531.

PLAN-Boulder County Forum — Jefferson Parkway proposal. Noon. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Una — Multimedia theatre/dance performance. 6:30 & 8:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0844.

Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, Nov. 20

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Beard and Mustache Showdown — With Bonnie and The Beard, Acoustic Mining Company, Oakhurst. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Cyndi Harvell, Jeremy Dion, Jah Spirits.

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

Circle Pit,Thee Octaves. 8:30 p.m.

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

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

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Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewery Tasting Room, 1265 Boston Ave,, Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

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

Joshua 3 Band. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Kindred Spirits. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Music on the Mezz — With Holly and the Husbands. 5-9 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

New Cosmic Americans. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine, 210 Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-492-1503.

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

Serenade in Blue. 1 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

William Elliot Whitmore. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

The Art of Being Human Opening Reception. 6-8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-443-8211.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing. com.

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

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Dracula. King Center for the Performing Arts, Metro State Studio Theatre, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver, 303-556-2296.

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Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

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Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol — Presented by OpenStage Theatre. Art Lab, 239 Linden St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730. Through Dec. 19.

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Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617.

National Day of Play. Grandrabbit Toys 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-0780.

Spirits, Ghosts & Immortality — Talk with Dori Spence. 12:30 p.m. Le Peep Restaurant 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-775-7137.

Turkey Shoot Free Throw Contest — Win a turkey! 9 a.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303665-0469.

Sunday, Nov. 21

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

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Buffalo 5-Piece. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Creekside Entertainers. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

David Reynolds,Tara Linda,The Key of Joy. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

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

Magnolia Row. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

John — Presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Co. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Nov. 27.

Seven Brides for Dracula — Presented by Jester’s Children’s Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Through Nov. 27.

Una — Multimedia theatre/ dance performance. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, CU campus, 303-303-492-0844. Nov. 18 & 19.

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m.

Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

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

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

Swallow Hill Music Board of Directors Concert. 6 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

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

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

The Holiday. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Monday, Nov. 22

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

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

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

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

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Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Getting Started with Final Cut Pro. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

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

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, Nov. 23

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Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350.

Hacks, Misadventure. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Jill Watkins and Red Train. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings.

12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

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

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

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

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m.

Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 4 p.m. to 1 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m.

The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

The Panorama. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

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music Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Danny Meyer Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

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

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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

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

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

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

Reggae Wednesday. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

events Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m.

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

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-5564740.

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

Swing Blues Dance Lesson. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing — 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Nov. 18 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

Friday, Nov. 19 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Saturday, Nov. 20 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, Nov. 21

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

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

Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, Nov. 22 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m.

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

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

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

Tuesday, Nov. 23 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303441-3120.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Wednesday, Nov. 24

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

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

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elcome back to Sophisticated Sex. This week we are changing the format of the column to incorporate your most juicy, burning or embarrassing questions about sex, intimacy and relationships. To submit your questions, see contact information at the bottom of the column.

Dear Dr. Jenni, My husband and I are expecting a baby boy. It is our first child, and we are deliberating as to whether we should have him circumcised or not. My husband is circumcised and is eager to have the same procedure for our son. I am skeptical if this is needed. Is it cleaner to have him circumcised? Will it reduce his sexual pleasure in the future?

Concerned Mom-To-Be Dear CMTB, It’s fabulous that you are asking this question and having this important conversation with your husband.

Circumcision is usually performed for religious, cosmetic and/or hygienic reasons; however there is no medical indication for the procedure. Removal of foreskin does make it easier to clean the penis, and research shows that those who are circumcised have a slightly lower risk of getting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). That said, a daily shower, including a good scrub-down of the foreskin and entire genital area, can handle the hygiene issue, and it goes without saying that condoms are enormously more safe and effective in preventing STIs than circumcision.

As for sexual sensation, the research differs. It’s safe to say that most adult men, circumcised or not, derive great pleasure from their penis and find their head to be highly sensitive. Yet, we know for sure that the foreskin is chock-full of nerve-endings. Because of this, some experts claim that circumcision shortchanges sexual sensation, as the penis skin has had to develop a tougher exterior in the absence of foreskin protection.

This may be evidenced in men who need harder thrusting during intercourse to obtain maximum physical sensation.

On the other hand, studies of adult men who have lived part of their life with their foreskin and part of their life without it do not demonstrate considerable loss of sensation upon circumcision.

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At the end of the day, you may want to defer this important decision to your soonto-be son and empower him to make his own informed choice when he gets older.

Dear Dr. Jenni, I have really uneven labia. One side is quite small and seems to have a normal appearance, while the other looks beefy and juts out. Is this weird to have such misshaped labia? I’ve only had sex with one person and did so in the dark because I was embarrassed.

Misshaped and Embarrassed Dear M’n’E, Don’t stress! The shape, size and color of the entire vulva — including the inner and outer labia, the clitoris, the clitoral hood and the vaginal opening — differ from woman to woman. Think of your vulva as a fingerprint. They are each unique and each normal. The inner lips may be beefier and bigger than the outer lips, or the other way around. One lip may be bigger than the other. Or all lips may be small and symmetrical or full and fabulous.

I highly suggest looking at the labia and anatomy sections on the site www. the-clitoris.com. There you will find a plethora of pictures with various vulvas. I encourage women to explore these pictures, as it normalizes the idea that vulvas really do come in many shapes, sizes and colors. Like a magazine cover, we rarely see more full-figured women or women with freckles or scars. If all women were to look like the flawless stick figures of Vogue, then there would be no room for other types of beauty. Same can be said for vulvas. We rarely get to see what other types of vulvas exist — beyond the small, shaved labias of Playboy. I encourage you to explore these pictures to see that there is a very varied world out there — and it’s all beautiful.

Then turn on the lights and get some mirror time to start looking at yourself and your vulva. Make friends with her so that you can feel more comfortable sharing her with a partner — with the lights on. Once you can accept and then love your labia, then so will the lucky partner who gets to be with you next.

Send questions for Jenni Skyler, PhD, to drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org. Skyler is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist who runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www.theintimacyinstitute.org.

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Thursday, Nov. 18 Cross Country Ski Gear Selection. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Norway: Cross Country Ski Paradise. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Friday, Nov. 19 Adventure Film Festival: The Filmmaker Workshop.

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Hailing from Wisconsin, this part-time the planet. I didn’t want to have the feeling that it’s Boulder resident (he’s in the process of relocating too late. I wanted to tell their stories and wanted here permanently from Minnesota) has always people to act, but not some huge action — just do been attracted to cold weather. Prior to the Save one or two little things.” the Poles expedition, which took him to both Adds Larsen, “I think it’s just creating a genends of the planet as well as its highest point, eral awareness of those places. I still get questions Larsen cut his teeth with a variety of ambitious like, ‘Is it really melting like they are saying?’ I dog sledding adventures, including trips across think it is important to bear witness. I’m not a northern Ontario and the Great Slave Lake in scientist. I’m just a normal person, and that has the Canadian really resonated with Northwest Territories. people. If that’s what He’s also climbed happens out of my Eric Larsen McKinley and had a Save the Poles trip, successful stint as a and the conversation musher, competing in is continuing to occur, Iditarod-qualifying then I’ve been sucraces, as well as workcessful.” ing as a guide.

Larsen says that, But Larsen was due to the remoteness always thinking about of the poles and high bigger things. And mountains from our the storyteller in him normal daily experiDetails, details If you’d like to learn more about how was driven to draw ences, it’s easy to you can take action to help save the attention to the become detached and world’s most remote places, read personal accounts from Eric about his changes that he’d perthink that you can’t trips, check out amazing photos from sonally witnessed durhelp save a glacier or Eric’s adventures, follow Eric on his blog or know when you can hear Eric ing trips to some of change the rate of speak in person, please visit the coldest places on melt of an ice cap. savethepoles.com. the planet. Those “But if you decide places weren’t as cold that you’re going to as before. The ice was melting. And Larsen was ride your bike one day a week, that can make a coming face to face with compelling visual evibig difference,” Larsen says. dence of climate change.

The belief that small things can effortlessly “The idea for the Save the Poles expedition add up to big things permeates Larsen’s approach started on a return to the North Pole in 2006,” says to life. And it’s a lesson that’s well taken when it Larsen over chai at a North Boulder espresso joint. comes to making little changes that can have a “There was much more open water, and it brought multiplier effect when many people start to act. home how dramatic the changes were. Living in It’s also an approach that has enabled Larsen to the United States, it was an issue that wasn’t being achieve success when it comes to his expeditions. talked about, and I realized that an expedition When it comes to working to mitigate your would be a powerful tool to talk about what was own carbon footprint or heading out on your happening. The Arctic Ocean was an iconic cold own adventure, Larsen’s advice is simple. place, as is the Antarctic and Everest. I decided to “Just take one step,” he says. “It’s amazing to do an expedition that combined all three, not only me how much I’ve learned from expeditions. Just to create awareness but also to stimulate action. take the first step.”

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for a long time before you achieve results, though. Larsen admits that despite support from sponsors, including Bing, Terramar, Goal0, Atlas, MSR, Optic Nerve and Boulder-based Sierra Designs (among others), he still lives an extraordinarily simple existence.

“My gear is all in my girlfriend’s basement,” he says, admitting that he doesn’t have a place of his own to store it.

In this regard, Larsen’s imminent move here will put him in good company, as he’ll join a cadre of elite local athletes who rely on significant others to help hold down the fort while they pursue lofty goals.

Still, with both the first step and the last step taken from his extraordinary adventure to both poles and the highest place on earth, the obvious question is what’s next for Eric Larsen? After all, the bar has now been set pretty high.

“A big part of my future is continuing to tell the story of the Save the Poles expedition,” says Larsen. “I’ll be doing presentations at schools, a book and documentary. I want to make sure that I do this story the justice it deserves. I’ll also be working with Michael Ramsey on a documentary of the Arctic Ocean, and I want to continue doing expeditions that highlight environmental issues. The platform of a journey has broad appeal. And for me, as someone who loves winter and loves cold, I want to continue to be an advocate of those places.

“For me it’s about storytelling,” continues Larsen. “It is sharing those beautiful places with people.”

And his take on the future of these places awash in a frozen beauty?

“I’m an optimist,” he says. “You have to be. I think there are a lot of examples in our history of us overcoming some major environmental crisis.

Unfortunately those are all examples of how we’ve responded to a crisis. And that’s the problem with climate change: It’s not impacting us in an immediate way. I’m very worried that by the time the crisis hits it will be too late. I feel we have the ability to change, but do we have the will?”

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he long, narrow plate arrived at her Gluten-free baconwrapped pork belly table, and, like any good food blogger, Shauna James Ahern paused to take it all in: roasted red piquillo peppers — plump with a lentil stuffing — alongside graceful strands of quick-pickled green beans and red onions, and emerald pools of cilantro-ginger sauce.

“When people hear ‘gluten-free,’ the reaction can be ‘poor thing,’ and I just want to say, ‘Look at what’s on my plate — does this look like deprivation to you?’”

In the blogosphere, Ahern, 44, is best known as Gluten-Free Girl. She’s a Pacific Northwest blogger who was diagnosed in 2005 with celiac disease, ending decades of mysterious ailments and endless medical exams. At one point, she was largely subsisting on Her blog has become an online coffeehouse for jarred baby food because she was too sick to cook for people who share the digestive condition, which herself. The crippling symptoms vanished overnight prompts the body’s immune system to attack the linwhen she stopped eating wheat, barley and rye and ing of the small intestine. But don’t expect a lot of anything else that contained gluten, she says. moaning and groaning and symptom-swapping. In “After I was diagnosed, I just kept it simple. I just fact, it’s easy to forget that the blog revolves around ate ‘real’ food. One of the first things I remember eat- gluten-free eating because there are so many gloriousing was a plate of spinach sauteed in garlic and olive ly decadent food photos. And because Ahern is deteroil and with a little salt. And I just remember looking mined to celebrate what she can eat — not what she down at how gorgeous it looked and the feeling of hot can’t. food going down my throat. I was so grateful for it.”

Same goes for her new cookbook, Gluten-Free Girl Harder, though, has been convincing skeptics who and the Chef, which is as much a guidebook for new greet the term “gluten-free” with an eye roll, or the cooks in the kitchen — it covers basics such as how to newly diagnosed who fear it is a culinary death senselect ingredients, properly season foods and make tence. They all turn to Ahern for answers. sauces — as it is a collection of gluten-free recipes.

She usually does it with a sense of humor: “I know Woven around dishes that celebrate seasonal eatthere are people who think, ‘gluten-free? That’s a fad, ing and locally sourced ingredients is her story: her it’s all about the celebrity,’ but I’m like, ‘Do you really illness and recovery, her romance with the titular chef, think I’d give up pizza and pasta unless I had to?’”

Danny Ahern, how he taught her to cook, their mar“I think of the day of my diagnosis as my birthday, riage and more. because life started all over for me again on that day,” “You know what it’s like when you fall in love. You Ahern adds. “Before, the food was making me sick. want to feed each other,” she says. “We had this Now, I eat better than I ever did before. I know food immediate connection through food.” in a way I never knew before.”

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“Never in my wildest dreams did I think people would want to follow along with all of this,” says Ahern, whose online popularity also led to the 2007 memoir, Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back ... and How You Can Too. Ahern is now a stay-at-home mom and full-time writer on rural Vashon Island in Washington, where her husband is the chef at a restaurant called the Hardware Store. He’s expanded the restaurant menu to include gluten-free dishes, such as those piquillo peppers.

“I’m a writer, so when I started the blog I just did it as an outlet, as a way to get my thoughts down and document this,” she says. “And then people started finding the blog — I have no idea how that happened — and I realized, ‘Hey, I can help people with this.’”

She says that before her diagnosis, life seemed like one revolving doctor’s appointment.

Today, Ahern keeps a gluten-free home and almost never yearns for the forbidden. Instead, she and her husband develop recipes that scratch that comfort food itch, such as chocolate-peanut butter brownies that use gluten-free oat flour. They are addicted to the trial-and-error of it all. He, after all, is a chef always in search of a new dish. And she’s a food writer who uses it as fodder for the blog. The pair toiled for months to develop their recipe for homemade pasta. (They use corn and quinoa flours.)

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either an homage to the fancy wings, look elsewhere; if you want silent (but perhaps most comforting predictability with a fair cerebral) of the Marx amount of meat on the bone, this is the Brothers, nor a clandestine choice for you.

Oprah operation, Boulder’s Keith’s initial assessment of his $9.89 Harpo’s Sports Grill is precisely what its Boulder Burger was that it had the appearname implies. It’s a casual joint spotlightance of “first-class bar food.” Certainly ing affordable drink specials, tavern staples bacon, roasted red pepper and pepper jack ranging from wings to burgers, and bigimpressively fulfilled the tavern quota of screen TVs perfect for watching games. fat and spice. This was a formidable sandAppropriately, the interior is textbook wich sided with a generous helping of sports bar with a soupcon of fraternity large, admirably crunchy onion rings. The basement thrown in. half-pound patty was formidable, and While posters and memorabilia clearly Keith noted that the only shortcoming was appeal to a testosterone-fueled football and the bun, which he likened to “a whiteUltimate Fighting crowd, the lunch hour is bread supermarket version.” placid, highlighted by an efficient and I had been on a fish-and-chips tear understated-yet-still-attentive server. after sampling the exemplary black cod Despite this space’s many owners over the and malt vinegar gastrique version at last couple of decades, friend and longtime Denver’s Euclid Hall. Perhaps it wasn’t fair Boulderite Keith noted that the interior of me to assess Harpo’s $10.89 offering hadn’t changed much at all over the last 20 after sampling that high-end interpretayears. For my money, the setting looked tion, but I was pleasantly surprised. The identical to the Pickle Barrel iteration of batter was properly crisped with the surthe mid-’90s. prising but logical addition of dill that The menu might be the same as well, hile he’s known for not speaking in the Marx Brothers movcomplemented splashes of malt vinegar. though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. ies, Harpo (born Adolph, then changed to Arthur) Marx Textural perfection was a hallmark of the Nachos and potato skins share the appetiz- was a gifted musician. As a wit, he held his own with the notorifries, although the cole slaw wasn’t particuer lineup with jalapeño poppers and mozous Algonquin Roundtable. What’s less known is his role as a larly memorable. In any event, you’d be zarella sticks. Burgers are available, as are covert operative, as recounted in Marx’s autobiography, Harpo hard-pressed to find a helping of fried fish other sandwiches, ranging from chicken to Speaks. At the conclusion of a 1930s goodwill tour, the this large for the price. grilled veggie. Entrée salads include a American ambassador asked Marx to smuggle a mysterious No, Harpo’s doesn’t break any new Cobb and a Cajun Chicken Taco Salad, packet of letters out of the Soviet Union. Marx’s mission was succulinary ground, and it certainly isn’t the which seems to suffer from an identity cricessful, although he had to endure a nerve-wracking moment place to take your snobbish foodie friends sis. Lastly, there are house specialties when he was pulled off his train by Soviet border guards. from out of town. But if you want a cold including enchiladas, pastas and sirloin one on special with some guilty pleasure steak with mashed potatoes. pub grub while enjoying a game (perhaps One thing that’s improved over past versions was dressing. While these were still a wee heavy on the while trying to relive a few glory days of youth), there our chicken-wing starter, $6.59 for a half dozen. vinegar, it was much better than the over-salted, over- are worse places to while away an afternoon or eveWhile there are several sauces available, we opted for ly acidic version that was the hallmark of the mid-’90s ning. the customary buffalo with a side of blue cheese Pickle Barrel all-you-can-eat special. If you want Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he countdown to Thanksgiving is on.

Finally there is a chill in the air, and I’m ready to plan out my menu and figure out who won’t be on the guest list.

Yes, my method is a little caddywhompus, but it helps to know that Large Aunt Marge will be going elsewhere. Nothing wrong with being large, and I could really care less about a person’s weight, however — and this is a big however — she didn’t get the nickname Large Marge for nothing.

It’s actually the difference between baking two pies or five. Lady likes her some desserts.

Who can blame her, with all the pumpkin treats floating around, but save some for the cousins, would ya?

This week Aunt Marge would be beside herself.

Chocolate Toffee Pumpkin Fudge.

After all, I am pumpkin crazy this month, so why not make a traditional fudge recipe with a pumpkin toffee twist? If you are a pumpkin lover as well, you will be right there with Aunt Marge, hoarding all the dessert love.

This treat is rich and creamy, with traditional pumpkin pie spices mingling delightfully with the chocolate toffee. You will love how simple it is to whip up a batch, but remember, patience is your friend with this recipe — bringing it to a boil a couple of times is necessary to reach that wonderful consistency that melts in your mouth.

You can easily substitute your favorite nut for the toffee. I just happen to like this combo. I do know you Boulder Weekly readers are creative, smart and know how to get your dessert on. So spread your pumpkin wings and let your dessert imagination fly. Just make darn sure to bake a few extra batches if Aunt Marge finds her way to your celebration.

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Chocolate Toffee Pumpkin Fudge 3/4 cup unsalted butter (1-1/2 sticks) 3 cups light brown sugar 2/3 cup evaporated milk (5 fl. ounce can) 1/2 cup pure pumpkin 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. cloves 1/2 tsp. allspice 2 cups white chocolate chips 1 7-ounce jar marshmallow creme 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chocolate toffee bits plus 2 tbsp. for topping. (I used Heath brand)

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Line a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with foil. In large saucepan over medium-high heat, melt butter. Add brown sugar, milk, pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and allspice. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for 10 minutes or until candy thermometer reaches softball stage (10 minutes works perfect if you don’t have a thermometer).

Take off heat and immediately stir in white chocolate chips. Add in marshmallow creme, vanilla and stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is nice and smooth. Fold in 1 cup toffee bits.

Pour into prepared pan and smooth. Top with 2 tbsp. toffee bits.

Let cool on counter for at least three hours. Put in refrigerator completely covered.

When ready to serve, lift foil out of pan and peel down sides. Cut into 1- to 1-1/2-inch pieces. Enjoy!

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Salvaggio’s Italian Deli 2609 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-1981

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alvaggio’s won’t win awards for groundbreaking sandwiches, but that isn’t the point. In this case, a predictable menu is a virtue. Fans of textbook deli-style sandwiches will be content here, and the generous portions and classic flavors will put the diner in a comfortable frame of mind. Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mortadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry, with a delicate herbal taste that’s at home in a sandwich or atop a green salad.

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Fortunately, one can still enjoy the restaurant’s namesake Salvadorean pupusas and staples typically associated with Mexican cuisine, such as menudo, burritos and tacos, at moderate prices.

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There’s a listing of vegetarian specialties such as an okra bhindi, which matches this unique vegetable with onion. Other worthwhile choices include a pleasing lamb stew, as well as a sizzling, freshfrom-the-oven Tandoori chicken.

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

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here’s not exactly a San Francisco-style Cantonese menu at Zoe Ma Ma, which features authentic Chinese cooking. Sure, they have pot stickers and steamed bao, the porkfilled dim sum white buns. But there are also northern Chinese noodle dishes and zong zi, a sticky rice-filled Chinese tamale wrapped in

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lending the disparate elements of cycling, Belgian gastronomy and burgers, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a recent addition to downtown Boulder. The menu highlights burgers, such as the bacon-bleu cheese Spoke, and all are available with a choice of proteins, including natural beef, buffalo, house-made veggie and poultry. Other delicious features include entrée salads, mac and cheese and mussels, not to mention the variety of Belgian draft beers.

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et’s Espressoria is an inviting Pearl Street spot that serves up full-bodied, fair-trade organic coffee with subtly spicy tones. In addition to the java, the other star attraction is the baked goods crafted on site, including scones, muffins and other pastries, notably the exemplary chocolate chip cookies. These are enticingly plump treats, dripping with buttery flavor and tantalizingly melted chocolate chips, served warm straight off the cookie sheet.

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ith 127 Hours, the Oscarwinning director of Slumdog Millionaire proves it’s possible to make a supercharged, perpetually kinetic movie about a man who can’t move. It is something, this film from director Danny Boyle, who adapted Aron Ralston’s memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place with Slumdog collaborator Simon Beaufoy. I just don’t think it’s quite the right thing.

In April 2003, Ralston, an experienced hiker, like a lot of Colorado residents, took off solo on what he describes in his book as “a capriciously impromptu vacation,” by dirt bike and on foot.

Armed with food, water, a video camera, a dullish knife and a fairly light backpack, Ralston eventually squeezed into a tricky slot canyon in eastern Utah, 40 miles south of Interstate 70 but seemingly a galaxy away from the commercial imprints of the human race. He tested the stability of an 800-pound chockstone boulder before crawling underneath, and downward. The boulder dislodged and came crashing down, pinning Ralston’s right wrist to the canyon wall.

The movie rides on pure, dizzy sensation, and certainly there is a large slice of Ralston’s personality to support Boyle’s attack. The Midwest-to-Colorado transplant played by James Franco loved to hike, raft, climb and bliss out in high-altitude sunshine. He’d gotten in scrapes before but nothing like what was waiting for him in Canyonlands National Park. How

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he made it out of there constitutes no spoiler: If you know anything about Ralston, his book or the film, you know what he had to do to survive.

In the book, Ralston describes himself as “impatient,” and Boyle’s film seizes that quality. It is an adrenaline-fueled whirligig about an adrenaline-fueled character. Once he’s stuck (Page 27 in the 400-page book, fairly early on in the movie) Boyle keeps going.

His technique overemphasizes the racing thoughts and scrambled memories in Ralston’s mind. There’s a

fine and uncharacteristically quiet moment when the film’s title finally appears on the screen, starting the countdown. Boyle’s an entertainer of prodigious talent.

Which is not the same thing as prodigious judgment. Shot under tight but aggressively playful stylistic conditions by cinematographers Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak, 127 Hours never calms down. You suspect you’re only getting half the truth of what this ordeal must’ve been like. The movie shies away from any real opportunity for introspection under horrible duress; it’s too busy being too busy. Add to Boyle’s irrational exuberance the bombastic music of Slumdog composer A.H. Rahman, plus editor Jon Harris adding left hooks and right jabs, and well before you get to the part with the knife and the amputation you may think: Too much.

Many love it and find it an experience of unusual intensity. The craft is considerable.

Franco, the game and engaging star of a virtual one-man show, holds up his part of the bargain. In an early encounter with two female hikers, along with a rather predictable welter of flashbacks, Ralston’s shown to be a paradox —a nicely socialized loner, you might say. Franco conveys that quality, even as he’s throwing himself into the sheer physical challenge of the crisis at hand. My question for Boyle is simple. At what point does a director’s determination to activate a static scenario become dishonest?

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o matter how blue-collar or red-meat the story, director Tony Scott’s movies revel in his luxe, glossy yet easily distracted technique that ensures every shot is trailer-ready, and every fractured moment strives for maximum coolness. He’s an old-school cliche-hugger with a determined set of tricks that generally work for him, chief among them close-ups so close you feel like a dermatologist looking for warning signs.

The runaway train thriller Unstoppable is one of his better films. Even if you resist Scott’s brand of visual storytelling, proudly and persistently derived from TV commercials, this one charges down the track merrily unburdened by exposition. Unmanned freight train’s loose. Must be stopped. Veteran train engineer Denzel Washington and newbie Chris Pine are on the job. Questions? I can’t believe we wasted even that much time on the plot.

Scott’s previous film was the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. The train in that film mostly stayed still.

The train in Unstoppable does not. For the most part — spoiler alert — it cannot be stopped, not even by Scott’s insatiable lust for telephoto lensing, an approach that mashes whatever’s on screen at the moment (and “a moment” is the average shot length) into a dense pile-up of faces, machines, movement and menace.

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“very toxic, highly combustible” chemicals on its way, flying through crossings (170 crossings make for a lot of potential carnage!), grunting and wailing in its amped-up, snarly beast sound effects like a mechanical Kraken. (Ken J. Johnson provided “additional train sounds.”)

Only way to stop the unstoppable: with an oddcouple pair of Bickersons ready for a road trip, by train.

Washington’s character has a couple of daughters who work at Hooters. Why is this? Because if he didn’t, Unstoppable would be mostly shots of trains, or of Rosario Dawson talking tough as the yardmaster. Once the railroad company executives (shown golfing, in

carefree plutocratic manner) realize they may have some trouble on their hands, they attempt a planned derailment.

Frank, played by Washington, knows this won’t cut it. Most of Unstoppable has Frank and Pine’s moody cuss, named Will, going rogue and whizzing along in a locomotive in reverse, trying to catch up with the runaway and bring it to heel.

Why does the film work? Simplicity. In its slickedup way, Unstoppable likely will find favor with diversion-seekers (and train buffs) of various ages and political persuasions. The threats of unemployment, the roiling discontent with the recession, a hint of Tea Partystained rage: The movie, written by Mark Bomback in yellow highlighter, catches a distinct, nervous breeze, while (rightly) offering up its working-class heroes as, well, heroes. Washington couldn’t hit a false note if he tried; Pine, whose character is trying to get his marriage back together, keeps up solidly, and Dawson’s dispatcher brooks no weaselly nonsense from the company overlord played as a walking sneer (but subtly) by Kevin Dunn.

The real-life incident that inspired the film? In May 2001, a CSX Transportation locomotive chugged across 66 miles’ worth of northwest Ohio, with no one at the controls. Top speed: 47 mph. No injuries. Well. We knew that would never hold for the movie version.

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in the title role. Co-written by Assayas and Dan Franck, Carlos illustrates the evolution of contemporary terrorism as it examines the life of its title character, a Venezuelan whose real name is Ilich Ramírez Sánchez.

Tracing the arc of Carlos’ criminal activities across two decades and several nations, the film features a dynamic cast of international talent and was shot in numerous countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Lebanon and Morocco. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. ­— Denver Film Society

127 Hours See full review on Page 51. At Mayan.

Anchorman Will Ferrell is hilarious as Ron Burgundy, a big-shot news anchor in 1970s San Diego whose reign over the newsroom is questioned when a hardworking feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), shows up and rocks the station with her new ideas. At first, Ron pretends he’s hip to the changes, but when he tires of open-mindedness, the true-blue chauvinist within him declares an all-out war. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Army of Crime

Class of Nuke ’Em High Tromaville High just happens to be located next to a nuclear power plant. In this timeless classic of readin’, writin’ and radiation, the student body changes into horrifying mutations, a psychotic punk gang trashes the school, and a gigantic, slime-drenched monster escapes from the basement fallout shelter. Oops! At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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The taut, internationally acclaimed thriller Army of Crime is set during the early days of the French Resistance, a time when so many of the movement’s leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners — Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians — who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans. Armenian poet Missak Manouchian and his French wife Mélinée lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers against the German occupiers and their French allies. Varying in their actual homelands and in their reasons for joining the struggle, the one thing that unites them is

Strange lights appear above Los Angeles in Skyline, which plays more like a special-effects montage than a real movie. the understanding that the Nazis’ oppression will only increase unless it is squarely confronted. To that end, they hatch a plot to assassinate a general, and show that resistance is indeed possible, but their activity attracts the attention of the German high command, which decides to teach the French population a different kind of lesson.

At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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Olivier Assayas electrified the Cannes Film Festival with Carlos, his epic and definitive portrait of the notorious international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, who masterminded a wave of terror attacks in Europe and the Middle East in the ’70s and ’80s. Venezuelan actor Édgar Ramírez stars

Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother.

When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, ded-

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Conviction Thu: 12:50, 3:30, 6:20 Due Date Thu: 1:10, 2:05, 3:25, 4:25, 5:45, 6:45 FriWed: 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Fri-Wed: 9:30, 10:30, 11:15, 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 4, 5, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:30, 11:30 Hereafter Thu: 12:25, 3:10, 6 Life As We Know It Thu: 12:45, 3:10, 6:15 Fri-Wed: 1:55, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40 Megamind Thu: 12:40, 1:30, 3, 3:50, 5:20, 6:10 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Morning Glory Thu: 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:25, 5:20, 8, 10:55 The Next Three Days FriWed: 10:15, 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 RED Thu: 1, 3:45, 6:30 FriWed: 10, 1, 4:20, 7:20 Secretariat Thu: 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 Fri-Wed: 9:40, 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Skyline Thu: 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9 Fri-Wed: 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35, 11:55

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The Social Network Thu: 12:35, 3:15, 6:05 Fri-Wed: 10:10, 1:10, 4:25, 7:40 Unstoppable Thu: 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-4421815 127 Hours Fri-Wed: 12:35, 3:25, 6:15, 9:05, 11:55 Due Date Thu: 11:35, 12:45, 1:55, 3:05, 4:15, 6:35, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Fair Game Fri-Wed: 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Hereafter Thu: 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10 Fri-Wed: 9:55 a.m.

Inside Job Fri-Wed: 2:20, 5, 7:30, 10:05 Megamind Thu: 1, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:20, 7, 9, 10:20 FriWed: 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 Secretariat Thu: 12:25, 3:45, 6:35 Skyline Thu: 12:10, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 The Social Network Thu: 12:40, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 FriWed: 10:25 p.m.

Unstoppable Thu: 2, 4:35, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 3:45,

6:20, 8:45 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303604-2641 Due Date Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:20, 7:15 Megamind 3D Thu-Wed: 1, 3:40, 7, 9:30 Morning Glory Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:20 The Next Three Days FriWed: 12:55, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 RED Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:10 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 4, 6:50 Skyline Fri-Wed: 2, 5, 8, 10:25 The Social Network ThuWed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:35 Unstoppable Thu: 12:55, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:40, 4:35, 7:50, 10:15 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Army of Crime Thu: 4:45, 8:15 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Thu: 4:30, 8 Madmoiselle Chambon Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:25

Waste Land Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:35 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303352-1992 Class of Nuke ‘Em High Fri-Sat 11:59 p.m.

Fair Game Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Tamara Drewe Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-3521992 127 Hours Thu-Wed: 3:30, 4:50, 6, 7:25, 8:30, 10 Inside Job Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303820-3456 Anchorman Fri-Sat: 10 p.m.

Carlos Fri-Wed: 12:30, 7 Hideaway Fri-Wed: 7:30, 9:40 The Kids Grow Up FriWed: 2:30, 5, 7:15 Nowhere Boy Fri-Wed: 12:45, 5:15

Hover Rd., Longmont, 303651-2434 Due Date Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:50, 8, 10:30 Easy A Thu: 1:40, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I Fri-Wed: 10, 12:40, 1:10, 3:50, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10:05 Megamind 3D Thu: 1:50, 2:10, 4:10, 7:20, 9:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Morning Glory Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 RED Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 Secretariat Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Skyline Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:20 Unstoppable Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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icates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18-year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pours through suspicious evidence mounted by small-town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny’s arrest. Belief in her brother — and her quest for the truth — pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny. At Century. — Landmark Theatres Due Date Robert Downey Jr. returns to full-on comedy mode for director Todd Phillips (The Hangover) with this story of an expectant father who must hitch a ride with an obnoxious aspiring actor (Zach Galifianakis) in order to get home in time for the birth of his baby. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Fair Game A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, Fair Game is a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts), whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was illegally exposed. As a covert officer in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Valerie’s husband, diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), is drawn into the investigation to substantiate an alleged sale of enriched uranium from Niger. But when the administration ignores his findings and uses the issue to support the call to war, Joe writes a New York Times editorial outlining his conclusions and igniting a firestorm of controversy. From Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity. At Esquire. — Landmark Theaters The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Audiences like this sort of thing, the third film based on the late Stieg Larsson’s bestselling books referred to as the Millenium trilogy. We like revenge stories, especially that of the borderline-superhuman heroine here, bisexual computer wizard and sexual abuse survivor Lisbeth Salander, who exacts bittersweet revenge on the men who very nearly destroy her. This wrap-up film is a rather wobbly blend of courtroom drama and loose ends tied, albeit rather leisurely. It is both formulaic and unformulaic enough.

Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Michael Phillips Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat Voldemort. With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Ralph Fiennes. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Cenutry, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Hereafter Clint Eastwood’s late life/late career fascination with mortality, death and grieving devolves into a cheap parlor trick in Hereafter. This wholly unsatisfying variation on “what lies beyond” shows him to be illsuited to the subject and to the sort of tale 54 November 18, 2010

that involves setting three disparate characters on a path toward one another for a finale that isn’t so much a payoff as a “Yeah, and?” Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Roger Moore Hideaway Mousse (Isabelle Carré) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful, rich and in love, but drugs have invaded their lives.

After Louis’ fatal overdose, Mousse soon learns she is pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse escapes to a beautiful beach house far from Paris and is soon joined in her refuge by Louis’ gay brother, Paul (French singer Louis-Ronan Choisy in his first screen appearance). The two strangers gradually develop an unusual and deeply moving relationship as famed French director Francois Ozon continues his unique exploration of the nature of family and blood ties. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Inside Job From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight) comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of more than $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships that have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Jackass 3D Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O and the gang return for more gross-out, winceinducing stunts, only this time the boogers and vomit are in your face. Rated R. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez The Kids Grow Up Block has filmed his daughter since the day she was born, but soon she’ll head off to college. Moving seamlessly between past, present and the fast-approaching future, Block has not only crafted a loving portrait of a girl transitioning into womanhood, but also an incredibly candid look at parenting and what it means to let go.This time of transition comes with its fair share of struggles. To his credit, Block does not shy away from these moments, nor from the insightful yet occasionally harsh analysis his wife offers. The result is a story told with such honesty and openness that a singular experience unfolds into a universal story of parenting, marriage and family — making this a film that parents, daughters and sons will appreciate. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.

— Denver Film Society Life As We Know It Katherine Heigl continues her streak of movies we really don’t want to sit through, co-starring with Josh Duhamel as a romantically incompatible couple who must to learn to tolerate each other after fate forces them to raise their goddaughter together.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez Madmoiselle Chambon Jean leads a pretty ordinary life: Like his father before him, he is a contractor who builds houses in a small country town. He is happily married to the beautiful Anne Marie, with an adored young son Jeremy. One day

when picking up Jeremy at school, Jean meets his teacher, the elegant Parisian Véronique Chambon. Both are struck by the meeting and, as they continue to encounter each other, the attraction they feel intensifies. Véronique invites Jean to speak to the class about what he does for a living, and his honesty, decency and straightforwardness with the children appeal to her.

Their struggle to keep their feelings from turning into a full-blown affair becomes a moving tale of unexpected romance. A modern-day Brief Encounter, crafted with enormous grace and subtlety by acclaimed French director Stéphane Brizé, who cowrote the César-winning screenplay. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Megamind 3D In this computer-animated 3-D adventure, the eponymous supervillain (voiced by Will Ferrell) finally defeats his heroic arch-enemy (Brad Pitt), then discovers that his life has no meaning without someone to scheme against. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Morning Glory Harrison Ford makes a welcome return to comedy as a famous anchorman hired by a TV producer to revive the sagging ratings of her station’s morning news show. But the egotistical newsman refuses to share the stage with his co-anchor. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Next Three Days Director Paul Haggis (Crash) sets aside social commentary with this deft thriller about a college professor (Russell Crowe) who decides to break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of prison after she’s sentenced to life for murder. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Nowhere Boy Imagine John Lennon’s childhood. Liverpool, 1955: a smart and troubled 15-year-old is hungry for experience. In a family full of secrets, two incredible women clash over John: Mimi, the buttoned-up aunt who raised him, and Julia, the prodigal mother.

Yearning for a normal family, John escapes into the new and exciting world of rock ‘n’ roll where his fledgling genius finds a kindred spirit in the teenage Paul McCartney.

Just as John begins his new life, tragedy strikes. But a resilient young man finds his voice — and an icon explodes into the world. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Paranormal Activity 2 An enigmatic story of a baby, a crib and a shadowy figure glimpsed in a doorway caught on a security camera. Rated R. At Flatiron. — Los Angeles Times/MCT RED Sure, this may look like another flashy, action-heavy adaptation of a graphic novel.

But the casting of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren as a team of ex-CIA agents targeted and framed for murder by their former bosses implies something more substantial than your usual shoot-’em-up. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Secretariat The luminous Diane Lane stars in this factbased story of Penny Chenery, a housewife and mother who in 1973 took over her father’s horse stables and, with the help of a trainer (John Malkovich), produced the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks — Rene Rodriguez Skyline The citizens of Los Angeles try to make sense of the strange lights that suddenly appear in the sky. Could they be evil extraterrestrials with highly advanced technology? Could they be planning to wipe mankind off the face of the planet? I’m betting yes.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Social Network An enthralling, near-perfect comedy of manners from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about the exhilarating creation and contested consolidation of Facebook. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. ­— Carrie Rickey Tamara Drewe Based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From the Madding Crowd), this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from Hardy’s Wessex. Tamara Drewe’s present-day English countryside is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton) sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara, once an ugly duckling, has been transformed into a devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations, jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into play using the oldest magic in the book — sex appeal. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Unstoppable See full review on Page 51. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Waste Land Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”— self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage.

However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. Winner of the Audience Award for Best World Cinema Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Co-winner, Best Documentary Audience Award, Seattle International Film Festival. Original music by Moby. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Boulder Weekly

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March 21-April 19:

“You don’t want to be the best of the best,” said Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. “You just want to be the only one who does what you do.” That’s always good advice, but it will be especially apt for you during the next few weeks.

You’re entering a phase when competing with other people will get you nowhere fast. What will get you somewhere fast is nurturing your unique talents and proclivities. Do you know exactly what they are? If you’re even a little fuzzy, make it your quest to get very clear.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

What is the “soul,” anyway? Is it a ghostly blob of magic stuff within us that keeps us connected to the world of dreams and the divine realms? Is it an amorphous metaphor for the secret source of our spiritual power? Is it a myth that people entertain because they desperately want to believe there’s more to them than just their physical bodies? Here’s what I think: The soul is a perspective that pushes us to go deeper and see further and live wilder. It’s what drives our imagination to flesh out our raw experience, transforming that chaotic stuff into rich storylines that animate our love of life. With the gently propulsive force of the soul, we probe beyond the surface level of things, working to find the hidden meaning and truer feeling. I’m bringing this up, Taurus, because it is Celebrate the Soul Week for you.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

“Nothing changes until it’s changed in everyone’s memories,” said poet Alice Notley. I urge you to keep that in mind as you move forward, Gemini. In recent weeks, you have helped untie a knot that once seemed impossibly tangled, and you deserve kudos for that. But your job isn’t done yet. Your next task is to work on loosening the snarls and smoothing the kinks that still linger in the imaginations of everyone involved.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

In the 1925 silent film The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin plays a prospector during the Alaska Gold Rush. After a series of adventures, he finds himself stuck in a remote cabin on Thanksgiving Day with a ruffian named Big Jim. They’re out of food, so Charlie gets resourceful, boiling his right shoe in a big pot and serving it up steaming hot.

What the audience doesn’t know is that the movie prop is made of sweet licorice, not leather. So while it may seem that dinner is a hardship, the actors actually had no trouble polishing off their meal. I see a similar scenario in your near future, Cancerian: something like eating a “shoe” that’s made of candy.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Lots of toddlers in Indonesia smoke cigarettes, not just the chain-smoking 2-year-old in the famous Youtube video (tinyurl.com/SmokerKid). But don’t you dare let your inner child get started on a similar habit any time soon, Gemini.

Make sure that sweet young thing is exposed to only the very best influences; feed him or her only the healthiest food, air, water, sounds, sights, images and stories. The innocent, curious, wide-eyed part of you is entering a phase when rapid growth is going to happen, one way or another.

It’s your job to guarantee that the growth goes in the right direction.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“We grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another; unevenly,” wrote Anais Nin. “We are mature in one realm, childish in another.” In you, Virgo, the discrepancies have been especially apparent lately. For example, your brainy insightfulness has been on a hot streak, while your gut wisdom has not. But I suspect this situation to shift in the coming weeks. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your emotional intelligence is set to thrive. It will be fine if you concentrate on that phenomenon with all your heart, even if it means investing a little less energy in being an analytical whiz.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote is constantly chasing after the Road Runner, a long-legged bird that prefers running to flying. Presumably, Coyote would eat the Road Runner if he ever caught him, but he never does; the bird’s too fast and smart. In one recurring motif, the Road Runner dashes into the entrance of a cave that’s cut into a wall of sheer rock. When Coyote tries to follow

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

I recently discovered a blues-gospel artist named Famous L. Renfro, who is also known as “The Flying Sweet Angel of Joy.” His soaring, gritty music had a medicinal effect. It seemed to say to me, “You have the power to change your life in the exact way you want to change your life.” Your assignment, Scorpio, is to find a new source of music or art or literature or film that has a similar effect on you: a flying sweet angel of joy that inspires you to do what has been hard for you to do. According to my reading of the astrological omens, such an influence is within your reach right now.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Your old self is the fuel you will use to burn your old self to the ground. This bonfire will liberate your new self, which has been trapped in a gnarly snarl deep inside your old self.

It’s only at first that you’ll feel freaked out by the flames.

Very quickly a sense of relief and release will predominate.

Then, as the new you makes its way to freedom, escaping its cramped quarters and flexing its vital force, you will be blessed with a foreshadowing of your future. The intoxication that follows will bring you clarity and peace of mind.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

“Do we love Heaven more than God?” asks poet Paula Cisewski in her book Ghost Fargo. I think that’s the kind of cryptic question you Capricorns would benefit from mulling over in the coming weeks. Your mind needs to get its customary categories shaken up and rearranged, needs its habitual grooves broken up and diverted, needs its easy certainties flushed and abandoned. Can you think of any other queries that will help you accomplish this noble work? Let me offer a few to get you started: 1. Do we love love itself more than we love the people we say we love? 2. Do we fear failure so much that we interfere with our cultivation of success? 3. Do we obsess on our longing to such a degree that we miss opportunities to satisfy our longing?

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

The Sanskrit word buddhi refers to the part of us that adores the truth. It’s good at distinguishing between what’s real and what’s false and is passionately attracted to liberation.

Although it may go into long periods of dormancy in some of us, buddhi never falls asleep completely. It’s always ready to jump into action if we call on it. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius, the buddhi aspect of your psyche will be extra special, big, strong and bright in the coming week. In my opinion, that’s better than winning the lottery.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

I like how snowboarder Graham Watanabe described his experiences at last February’s Winter Olympics. He wasn’t content with making a generic comment like “It was awesome!” or “No words could describe how great it was!”

Instead he got florid and specific: “Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That’s what it feels like.” As you break through your previous limits in the coming weeks, Pisces, I’d love to hear you summon some bursts of articulate jubilation akin to Watanbe’s.

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