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ON THE COVER: The season of giving — and giving back

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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Hassan Evans Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Michael Callahan, Alyssa Hurst, Hayley Proctor, Adelina Shee Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Joe Fuchs, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Jamie Peterson CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo November 21, 2012 Volume XX, Number 16 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Corrections: • A Nov. 8 story, “Backdoor Buff bucks,” stated that the $1 million the University of Colorado Boulder gives to the Athletic Merit UCB Scholarship represents about 25 percent of the athletics department’s total scholarship budget. It represents 25 percent of the football scholarships budget.

• An avalanche photo used with the story “Basic Training” in Winter Scene

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Highroad Bosses gone berserk

by Jim Hightower

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he sky is falling! The end times are upon us! It’s all over for America! And it’s all because of you — you, the execrable voters.

This is the wretched wail of a few corporate chieftains who claim to be somewhere between flummoxed and furious that Barack Obama is back in the White House. With his diabolical Obamacare and tax-the-rich attacks on us wealthy job creators, they moan, this president is out to destroy American business. “There’s a tsunami coming,”

2012 should have been credited to Richard Armstrong.

Homeless kids in Boulder

November is Colorado Homeless and Runaway Youth Awareness Month.

At least 1,500 youth and young adults ages 12 to 25 are homeless in Colorado.

Here in Boulder, there are as many as 200 youth without a safe place for the night, and statistics show that within 48

cried one, so we must save ourselves.

How do these trembling titans of free enterprise intend to do that? By firing employees, thus sending a message to workers that voting for Democrats is bad for their health. “Elections have consequences,” exclaimed a Las Vegas boss, after offing 22 workers the day after Obama was reelected. Echoing this self-serving political ethic, a Georgia executive told C-SPAN that his fear of Obamacare made him fire enough workers to exempt his business from providing health care. “I tried to make sure that the people I had to lay off voted for Obama,” he noted, spewing spite.

Then there’s Papa John’s, the billiondollar-a-year fast food chain. John Schnatter, the present “papa” of Papa John’s, had warned this summer that he’d

hours of running away, 30 percent of homeless youth are recruited for sex and other forms of human trafficking. With children making up 27 percent of the U.S. homeless population (and the fastest-growing segment), the time is now to start factoring teens into our local conversation of homelessness. Living amidst our privileged and beautiful see LETTERS Page 8

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

jack up the consumer price of the chain’s pizza if Obama won, because he wasn’t going to eat the cost of assuring health coverage for employees. Post-election, however, Schnatter has decided not to slap his customers, but to slap Papa John’s workers instead, by cutting their hours to part-time so he doesn’t have to pay for their coverage. “That’s what you do,” Schnatter snapped, “you pass on costs.”

Yeah, that’s what bosses like you do — and what an exemplary way for the millionaire boss to boost productivity, loyalty and morale of those who do the actual work that make customers want to buy Papa John’s pizza — or not.

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An attempt to infiltrate a closed meeting of a Boulder County board

Really Bad Ideas

by Joel dyer & dave Kirby

I’d sure love to see Romney’s face when he finds out why we re ally voted for Obama— he gave us all a free turkey.

by Jefferson Dodge

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ne key role of the press is board (two members appointed by each to serve as the eyes and major party plus the clerk and recorder, ears of the public at open who certify the results of the election) meetings. are not open to the public. But “media After all, most folks observers” like myself are welcome to have jobs and families and better things attend and, curiously, free to spread to do than sit through a boring county every excruciating detail of the votecommissioners hearing or city council checking process far and wide, to many study session. So we reporters do it for more people than would have actually them, and then share the items we attended the meetings had they been think would be interesting or important open. to the public.

The closure of the meetings (except Sometimes, public officials try to to media observers and certified keep the media out of meetings, or cen- “watchers”) is the latest in a series of sor information in other ways. what election integrity activists have About 17 years ago, in my first jour- labeled as less-than-transparent nalism job at a small weekly newspaper approaches employed this election seain Clear Creek County, a judge tried to son by Boulder County Clerk and tell me I couldn’t report what went on Recorder Hillary Hall and her staff. at a preliminary My interest hearing for a was piqued by murder trial. the fact that Since there seemed to be He even went trusted media a geniune debate about so far as threatlaw expert and the matter, I decided to ening me with Colorado Press jail if my paper Association show up to the canvass printed the attorney Steven board meeting, not weardetails of the Zansberg of ing my reporter’s hat, public proceedLevine Sullivan ing — even Koch & Schulz but as a member of the though he disagrees with public, just to see what didn’t put the the county’s would happen. same gag order position that on the other the canvass members of the board’s meetpublic who ings are not attended. (Of open to the course, back then, those members of the public. He says that despite the fact public didn’t have Facebook, Twitter that the board has no decision-making and other modern methods of mass power and includes only one public communication that could have really official (Hall), it qualifies as a “formally compromised the suspects’ ability to get constituted body” of a political subdivia fair trial.) We ended up publishing a sion of the state, like an advisory comstory anyway, and the judge backed mittee, and is subject to the Colorado down after it was pointed out to him Open Meetings Law, the “Sunshine” that if he was worried about pretrial law. publicity tainting the jury pool, he had Since there seemed to be a genuine to try other methods — like moving debate about the matter, I decided to the trial — before gagging the press. show up to the Nov. 16 canvass board But it’s rather unusual for public meeting, not wearing my reporter’s hat, officials to allow the media into a meet- but in my capacity as a member of the ing and not the public. public, just to see what would happen. I So that’s what compelled me to fell in line behind the canvass board show up at what would otherwise be an members as they were led to the inner incredibly boring proceeding: a Boulder sanctum of the ballot processing center County canvass board meeting. Turns on 33rd Street in Boulder, but on the out, our local election officials are see PUBLIC MEETINGS Page 8 asserting that meetings of the canvass Boulder Weekly

commentary Jobs, not cuts

by Dave Anderson

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his is a dangerous time. In Washington, the country’s Richie Riches are stirring up a panic about a so-called “fiscal cliff.” If they succeed, we’ll get a “grand bargain” that will give them millions in corporate welfare while America’s meager “social safety net” is destroyed. This will be called “shared sacrifice.”

A group of 350 economists has released a letter warning lawmakers that the fragile economic recovery is being threatened by “obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties.” (http://jobsnotausterity.org/) They argue that deficit-reducing measures will not allieviate the “mass unemployment, rising poverty, and declining wages” that are holding back the recovery.

The economists say Congress should focus on public investments that will boost job and economic growth. The letter continues: “Yet too many in Washington are fixated on cutting public spending to balance the budget, not on how to put people back to work and get our economy going. There is no theory of economics that explains how we can deflate our way to recovery. Businesses are not basing investment decisions on how much Congress cuts the debt in 2023. As Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and Greece have

shown, inflicting austerity on a weak economy leads to deeper recession, rising unemployment and increasing misery. ...

“The budget hawks have the sequence backwards. Public outlay for jobs and recovery come first, growth is restored, and revenues follow. Budget cuts in a deep slump lead only to a deeper slump.”

Right now, a coalition of the largest corporate firms and advocacy groups is lobbying in Washington for wide-ranging cuts in government spending. The group, which includes 80 of the country’s most powerful CEOs, is called “The Campaign to Fix the Debt.” It was cofounded by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, previously the co-chairs of President Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

The Institute for Policy Studies just released a report entitled “The CEO Campaign to ‘Fix’ the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks.” (www.ips-dc.org/reports/ceocampaign-to-fix-the-debt) They note that the 63 “Fix the Debt “ companies could gain as much as $134 billion in windfalls if Congress approves one of their main schemes — a “territorial tax see DEBT Page 8

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way in, election official Mary Beth Schuh noticed that I wasn’t wearing a badge on a lanyard like the others, and she asked who I was. When I replied that I was a member of the public, she stopped me from entering. Deputy Clerk Molly Tayer was on our heels, and when I told her my first name, she seemed to recall that I had been invited as a media observer, so she escorted me back up to the front desk so that I could get the proper credentials. I wasn’t allowed to attend in my capacity as a member of the public, only as a media observer. Another woman, Margit Johansson, also tried to get access to the meeting as a member of the public, but was denied entry until she acknowledged that she was a certified watcher and obtained her own card-on-a-lanyard.

Bearing the proper identification, we were led into a secure area with alarm-equipped doors, and we joined

the canvass board members as Hall and other election officials led them through the audit process, in which a batch of ballots are re-scanned to verify that the equipment was tallying votes correctly.

At one point, I fired up the video camera on my smartphone and was admonished; later I tried to use my phone to look up directions to my next appointment and I thought Schuh was going to confiscate it. One watcher violated the rules by bringing in a closed tumbler of coffee.

In theory we were there to observe the process, but we were made to stand at a doorway about 25 feet away from where the canvass board was interacting with Hall, so we could neither hear nor see much at all. When we pointed out that we couldn’t properly observe the proceedings, Tayer assured us that the distance between us was policy, and besides, it was just a tour, not part of the

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were excluded from monitoring the public’s business.

Hey, I realize that security measures must be put in place at ballot-counting facilities to ensure the integrity of the election and preserve the confidentiality of voter identities. But we should also have assurances that the election workers — the government itself — is playing by the book.

Hopefully, by the time the next election rolls around, our state legislators will have cleared up some of this silliness so that we can have the utmost confidence in the transparency of the process in which our representatives are elected, while protecting the anonymity of voters, as our forefathers intended.

Next time, I hope I don’t need my reporter’s hat to assure myself of that.

And you shouldn’t need one either.

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system.” Under this system, companies wouldn’t have to pay U.S. federal income taxes on foreign earnings when they bring the profits back to the United States.

The CEOs backing “Fix the Debt” personally received a combined total of $41 million in savings last year due to the Bush-era tax cuts. The top CEO beneficiary of the Bush tax cuts in 2011, Leon Black of Apollo Global Management, saved $9.9 million on the Bush tax cuts. The private equity fund leader reaped $215 million in taxable income last year just from vested stock.

Of the 63 “Fix the Debt” CEOs at publicly held firms, 24 received more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in federal corporate income taxes. All but six of these firms reported U.S. profits last year.

I got put on an email list of this “Fix the Debt” coalition by Rep. Jared Polis after I attended a Boulder workshop in July on balancing the federal budget that was sponsored by Polis. A representative of the Concord Coalition ran the event. Ari Berman in The Nation described the Concord Coalition as “penny pinching, anti-government and pro-corporate ideologues with a board filled with K street lobbyists and corporate executives.”

The workshop was pre-packaged and limited any genuine discussion with Polis. Nevertheless, participants kept bringing up the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s “People’s Budget” (http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/the-peoples-budget/), which could balance the federal budget in 10 years, and preserve

formal meeting. Hall replied, “I’m sorry, I’m talking as loud as I can.” Luckily, a couple of canvass board members came over periodically to let us see the materials they were examining.

At least we were able to ask Tayer a few questions while the canvass board did whatever it was doing. Tayer confirmed that people like BW Editor Joel Dyer who blacked out the bar codes on their mail ballots — after serial numbers in some counties were traced to individual voters — still had their votes counted. Tayer said votes on ballots with blacked-out codes were simply transferred to new ballots with different codes.

I had to leave after about an hour, and I escaped with my illicitly obtained video footage. Just on principle, we’ll put that scintillating clip of Schuh asking me for my media credentials on the BW website so that you, too, can see what excitement you missed when you

Of the 63 “Fix the Debt” CEOs at publicly held firms, 24 received more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in federal corporate income taxes.

the “social safety net.” Polis (a member of that caucus) wasn’t too interested, said it is “just one of many” budgets.

Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been circulating a dear colleague letter in the Senate declaring that Social Security benefit cuts should not be a part of any “grand bargain.”

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet have yet to sign the pledge.

This is upside down. Expand Social Security and Medicare and give people jobs.

—Anderson is a retired CU librarian and a member of Democratic Socialists of America.

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community is a hidden population of unaccompanied youth who are alone, afraid, without family and safe shelter.

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Dust in the wind

Is it possible that the big oil and gas industry could wash up the dead at the historic Old Town Erie Cemetery with their so-called safe hydraulic fracking procedures? You be the judge: Erie’s historic cemetery has a panoramic view of Old Town Erie with the great Rockies as a beautiful backdrop.

The rustic old boot hill (currently known as Mount Pleasant Cemetery) is located on nine acres of hilltop land. In 1882, because of the 100-year flood, coffins and skeletons were washing up from Erie’s first graveyard, which was then relocated to its present location.

There are 274 unknown souls buried in the Erie Cemetery with no grave markers because they died from a flu epidemic called the “Black Death” in the 1800s, and relatives not wishing to be exposed to the disease any longer than necessary hurriedly disposed of their dead in this mass grave site. Will the ground shaking from the fracking disturb boot hill and these forgotten souls?

I hear a voice in the wind. As the dust blows through boot hill, the voice is crying: “Aren’t 400 oil and gas wells in Erie enough?” Another voice crying from the grave, “What’s happened to all the wildlife that roamed our open space?”

My heart cries silently as I watch a road and miles of pipeline pass close to the historical Erie Cemetery. They call it progress. I call it greed.

In reviewing the controversial claims about hydraulic fracking, let me quote from different oil and gas researchers: “Each fracking job uses 48 to 70 million gallons of water.”

What!? When we already have a shortage of water for agricultural use and the farmers can’t buy water for crops because we’re in a record drought?

“The chemical compounds of each fracking scene where risk is involved of contamination to the environment see LETTERS Page 11

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UNSAVORY ETHNIC STUDIES We’re going to guess that very few of you were shocked when you heard that the Republicandominated Board of Regents criticized a proposal for a new Ph.D. degree in ethnic studies at CU-Boulder. Or that two right-wingers voted against a proposal for an ethnic studies degree at the Denver campus.

For those of you who were surprised that our flagship university’s governing board questioned such degrees on Nov. 14, here’s a little background.

You may remember a guy named Ward Churchill.

He was that professor who got canned because of what he said about 9/11 — er, scratch that, we mean because of the research misconduct investigation prompted by what he said about 9/11.

Anyhoo, details, details.

Well, Mr. Churchill’s department was ethnic studies, which just happened to be one of those lefty fields that national ultra-right-wing groups like the American Council of Trustees and Alumni was urging its Republican cronies on higher ed governing boards to stamp out in favor of good old [white] American disciplines like Western civilization and critical thinking and civics, subjects that any proper, God-fearing [white] patriots should be taught, by gum.

Heck, even when the witch hunt against Churchill was just getting under way, when the regents were bending over backwards to apologize to the nation for hiring someone who had the gall to suggest that American foreign policy might have played some role in the cause of 9/11, former Regent Tom Lucero took the opportunity to bash ethnic studies.

He called for a thorough analysis of the core curriculum to determine “whether or not it is necessary to eliminate courses and departments of questionable academic merit,” and everyone knew that ethnic studies was among the units he was referring to.

So now that it’s been almost eight years, there are still questions about ethnic studies, and we’re supposed to believe that politics has nothing to do with it?

Prove us wrong, right-wing regents. Prove us wrong. Especially you old, white Republicans. Approve this Ph.D. program and legitimize a field that is long overdue in deserving legitimization, at least at CU-Boulder.

DON’T FIRE EMBREE Wow, that was convenient timing, CU releasing those study findings that firing one’s college football coach doesn’t make teams better.

Maybe it’s just coincidence that the 1-10 Buffaloes are getting buffaloed every week and people are calling for Coach Jon Embree’s head.

After all, the research was started in 2008, so we can’t reasonably assert that this was a hastily thrown together study that was planted by the university’s public relations department in an effort to call off the dogs that are hounding Embree.

We would never suspect such a thing. Just really, really good timing.

The study, which focused on college football teams that replaced their coach for performance reasons between 1997 and 2010, showed that firing the coach resulted in a small but short-lived improvement in team performance. (Hey, at this point, we’ll take anything.) It also showed that the records of mediocre teams that won about half their games in the year before canning their signal-caller actually became worse the following season.

Hey, that’s good enough for us. Give Embree an extension. He may just be the latest in a long line of football coaches who needed several years to get the ball rolling.

Either that or CU needs to shell out some cash for a big name that can attract some top recruits.

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include unstable vapors in the air, leaking storage pits, and hazardous carcinogenic chemical compounds that migrate into our fresh water aquifers.”

Big oil says, “If you don’t like it, move!”

In conjunction with the dead souls in Erie’s historic cemetery, are our health, our lives, our properties and our livelihoods worth risking? According to documented sources, benzene leak sites flow directly into our water resources daily, along with numerous other unknown chemicals.

Why don’t we citizens have the right to ban fracking before it ends up like the black death of the 1800s? It is sad, but according to our Erie mayor and Board of Trustees, we have no say because fracking is state and federally regulated.

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What has happened to America’s independence and our rights as citizens?

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Betty Ball of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center points out a book by thenSen. John F. Kennedy in the center’s new thrift store.

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couple of years ago, a group that got its start in the late 1970s blocking railroad tracks in a successful effort to close Rocky Flats ran into some budget trouble.

The Boulder-based Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) had to lay off some of its staff due to budget constraints.

Now, the center seems to have found its financial footing, in no small part thanks to last month’s creation of a thrift store on its premises. It’s not a major source of income yet, but it’s already earned enough to pay the rent. Plus, the store pairs well with core RMPJC values like sustainability, social justice and environmental responsibility.

Betty Ball of the RMPJC says the shop, which bears the name “Rockin’ Betty’s Community Thrift Store,” is not just a steady source of income.

“It seems like it really fits in with our mission, too,” she says. “Give people what they need, keep things out of the landfill and encourage people’s recycling habits.”

Thrift stores like the one at the RMPJC seem to be playing an increasingly important role in the Boulder County economy as more and more people turn to reuse — even when they can afford to buy new.

And at this time of year, when the fervor of holiday shopping fever reaches a frenzy, thrift stores that benefit local nonprofits and our neighbors in need seem to be an especially logical choice.

It takes the whole “shop local” theme a step further.

It’s “shop local, and for a good cause.”

Ball’s diminutive frame belies her fiery spirit. The longtime expert on nonviolence smiles brightly while giving a tour of the small thrift store, which is housed in the RMPJC offices near Quince and Broadway.

“Lucky’s is the anchor at the west end, we’re the

p.m. Monday through Saturday.

The RMPJC thrift store is only one of many local options for giving back to the community when giving presents this season. And it seems to be a growing trend.

HospiceCare & Share Thrift Shop

Thrifting local: The season of giving — and giving back

by Jefferson Dodge and Steve Weishampel anchor on the east end,” she laughs, a twinkle in her eye.

She says the shop is a good way to “introduce people who are not familiar with our work to the issues.”

In addition to the protests at Rocky Flats, which included the likes of Allen Ginsberg, over the years those issues have included GMOs, fracking, the contamination of Valmont Butte, single-payer health care, the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israel/ Palestine conflict and corporate personhood.

Among the new items for sale at the thrift store are RMPJC canvas bags and T-shirts (including a Rocky Flats version). The eclectic array of gently used items includes a copy of The Strategy of Peace by then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, sterling silver cordials, a set of Norman Rockwell mugs, a German mantel clock and a 1908 $2.50 gold piece set into a ring. Ball describes the variety of available clothes as “everything from your grubbies to dress wear.” Store manager Sheri Proctor says she’s willing to haggle a bit when it comes to prices.

But the RMPJC needs more than the community’s donations and patronage at its new store. It also needs volunteers. And volunteers get 50 percent off items in Rockin’ Betty’s. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 6

It takes the whole “shop local” theme a step further. It’s “shop local, and for a good cause.”

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“I think people’s perception of thrifting has changed,” says Lynn McCullough, manager of the thrift shop for HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties.

McCullough has been at the store, located in east Boulder, since it opened in 2005. She says that recently she’s seen more people embrace secondhand shopping.

“It’s become so much more accepted, green — people actually realize there’s upscale things they can buy in thrift shops,” she says.

“So it’s been good.”

The HospiceCare & Share Thrift Shop benefits a nonprofit that has been providing affordable end-oflife care since 1971.

HospiceCare provides a range of services to the public, says Mary Chokran, the organization’s director of development and communications. The services cover three areas: patient care, counseling and education.

“Grief services are free to the community, and our educational programs are free, mostly,” Chokran says.

She notes that the occasional educational event will include a fee to offset the nonprofit’s costs. “Our services in terms of education and grief are the way we give back to the community.”

Patient care might as well be free, too.

“We never turn away anyone who needs us, whether they have the ability to pay for it,” Chokran says.

Since hospice provides end-of-life care, Chokran says she hopes patients are old enough to be covered by Medicare, but in cases when they aren’t, HospiceCare provides its services for whatever patients can afford.

The organization’s grief counseling is available to everyone in the community, including those who haven’t been interacting with the hospice in any way before their loss — including a children’s grief camp in the summer.

HospiceCare assists people in its 10-bed location in Louisville as well as in people’s homes, offering everything from intensive care to palliative care and Boulder Weekly

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help with end-of-life decisions.

Chokran says HospiceCare serves 350 people a day.

“We have a care center in Louisville, so that’s beds, what you would think of as maybe a hospice location,” McCullough says, “but we also care for people in their homes, wherever home may be. So we care for people in nursing homes, at their residence, wherever they live.”

The store operates much like a typical thrift store, McCullough says, starting with donations from the public.

“We rely 100 percent on donations from the community,” she says. “What sets us apart is we do a large furniture business as well as a large book business.” large appliances, sinks, toilets, carpeting, “The name ‘Boulder and Broomfield hardwood, furniture.” counties’ is a little misleading because Indeed, the list of items accepted at we’ve expanded out beyond,” the ReStore reads like a home improveMcCullough says. ment to-do list, including building HospiceCare maintains offices in materials like plumbing, lumber and tile.

Louisville, Lafayette, Longmont and The store operates entirely on donaBoulder and serves Broomfield and tions from the public, and all proceeds Adams County. “We started as ‘Boulder from the ReStore go directly to Habitat County’ and sort of worked our way out for Humanity’s operations, Baksa says. from there,” McCullough says.

And Lisa Gills, the co-executive The Share & Care is located at 5565 director of the Flatirons Habitat for Courtesy of Sister Carmen Community Center Arapahoe Ave. in Humanity, says the Boulder. It’s open ReStore’s proceeds every day 10 a.m. – will go toward a new 5:30 p.m. program designed to help low-income Flatirons homeowners mainReStore tain and repair their Books and furnihomes. ture might be the “We’re getting specialties of the Care ready to do a project in Broomfield, kind & Share, but for the of a pilot project real heavy lifting, that we’re calling Habitat for community preserHumanity has the vation and restoraanswer. Flatirons Family fun at tion. It’s ownerHabitat for Sister Carmen occupied critical Humanity, which Thrift Store. covers the Boulder home repair,” Gills Valley School District says. as well as the City and County of The project is intended to assist Broomfield, supplements its mission of homeowners, an expansion of Habitat’s providing housing to low-income famimission of providing housing to lowlies with the Flatirons ReStore. income people.

The ReStore, a converted “We’re starting it early next month,” Broomfield warehouse, could adequately Gills says. “We’ll be looking for volunbe described as a Goodwill on steroids. teers to come out early next month.

Sprawling and varied, the multi-story This is a new undertaking for us, it’s store offers a huge range of donated another way of trying to support and items to shoppers, from thrift store staserve hardworking low-income famiples like dishes and clothing to larger lies.” items.

While the store is located in “We compare pretty closely to a typ- Broomfield, its proceeds benefit the ical thrift store,” says Adam Baksa, gen- Flatirons Habitat for Humanity, which eral manager. “But where we are really includes much of Boulder County. There different and a little bit more inclusive is is a ReStore in Longmont as well. we sell construction material. We do Baksa points out that people who Boulder Weekly

news demand is still high and sales are up 20 percent over last year, according to Ackerman. She suggests that some families may still be coming back even though they don’t need to because they now appreciate that thrifting is a good option. The establishment has some returning regulars.

“Most of my customers are waiting outside the door every morning,” Ackerman says.

Among the improvements to the thrift store is a more convenient drop-off site that features a covered drive-through. Ackerman says the store’s donations come The ARES Thrift Store in Boulder, entirely from the local community just before Halloween and a couple of local retail partners. can’t volunteer for Habitat can assist the The Sister Carmen thrift store non-profit by donating to the ReStore. is open Monday through Saturday from “It’s another way that people can 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from help give, as opposed to building on the noon to 6 p.m. construction site, they can donate to the store and that money goes directly to ARES Thrift Store what we’re trying to do,” he says.

The ARES Thrift Store, with locaThe Flatirons ReStore is open 9:30 tions in Longmont and Boulder, benea.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through fits Boulder County’s needy directly — Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s by letting them shop for free. located at 6900 W. 117th Ave., Jennifer Greany, who has been the Broomfield. The Longmont location, at owner and manager of the Boulder store 1351 Sherman Drive, is open 10 a.m. to for the past two years, says clients of the 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Safehouse of Boulder County, the Boulder Homeless Shelter, the Sister Carmen Thrift Store Emergency Family Assistance The Sister Carmen Community Association and about a dozen other Center, which offers a variety of services local organizations receive vouchers that to needy residents of Lafayette, can be redeemed for goods at the store, Louisville, Superior and Erie, recently whether it’s a Christmas present or a finished remodeling its thrift store space winter jacket. at 701 W. Baseline Road and doubled The store attracts plenty of paying its space. shoppers as well, Greany says, and all of It has come a long way from its early the store’s stock is donated locally by days, when it was started in a garage in people who view it as a good way to the 1970s. recycle and reuse the items they are Store Director Karen Ackerman says done with. the renovation and expansion didn’t She says the store prepares for the result in higher prices: New adult cloth- holiday gift-shopping season all year ing sells for $2 apiece, used adult clothes long by setting aside new, wrapped are only $1, and kids clothes are 50 items for this time of year, for those cents. who want to give an unopened, All proceeds are dedicated to Sister unused gift. ARES also offers free gift Carmen, and the shop provides about bagging throughout the holidays, one-third of the organization’s operating Greany says. budget, Ackerman says, making it possiThe Longmont store is located at ble for the center to provide those in 818 Coffman St., and the ARES in need with everything from food to rent- Boulder can be found at 2536 Spruce al assistance to bus tokens. There are St., between Folsom and 28th streets. only seven paid employees; Ackerman See www.boulderthriftstore.com for says the shop is primarily staffed with daily specials and hours. dozens of volunteers and workers fulfillOther non-profit thrift stores include ing court-ordered community service. the Association for Community Living, the She adds that the economic decline Birds of Prey Foundation, Goodwill, the forced a lot of formerly middle-class Humane Society of Boulder Valley, families to begin shopping at the Sister Longmont Humane Society and the Carmen store in recent years. While the Salvation Army. economy seems to be improving, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 22, 2012 13

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Lexi and Chris Weaver have been together for three years.

‘A hand up’

Lexi Weaver’s due date is two weeks away, and for now, she’s still living on the street photos and story by Joel Dyer

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he Weaver family is running out of time.

And with a new addition due any day, things are getting pretty desperate. For Lexi, Chris and their two dogs, CJ and Mayday, there’s no room at the inn — at least no room that a homeless family like them can afford right now, even though they are saving every penny they can and trying to find work. Despite their efforts, a manger is starting to sound like a viable option.

As it stands right now, Lexi will be giving birth sometime in the next 10 to 20 days. She’s due in early December. That’s a pretty scary proposition for a 25-year-old woman living on the streets of Boulder in December when temperatures typically drop into the teens or single digits every night.

Lexi hopes her child will be born with a roof over his or her head. She also wants her husband Chris by her side holding her hand, but the pair will need their luck to change for that to happen. They could use some help. “Not a handout, a hand up,” says Chris.

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ground in winter, worrying continuously about what’s going to happen when the time finally comes, when the contractions are for real. And that torment isn’t Lexi and Chris’ only concern. It’s just another worry heaped on top of what to eat, how to keep safe and where to sleep so that the City of Boulder doesn’t write them a ticket for illegal camping, a ticket they can ill afford, especially now.

It’s easy to be judgmental. The couple hears the disapproving words and feels the condemnatory stares all the time. They’ve been told they shouldn’t be having a baby, and worse. Lexi says she’s been told she should abort her child or give it up for adoption because she’s homeless. It seems Boulder Weekly

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people in Boulder aren’t shy with their opinions. She says she also gets told that she should get away from Chris; just leave him because he isn’t providing for her.

To hear the pair describe it, Boulder’s sidewalk inquisition tends to be long on advice and short on understanding. Lexi and Chris wish people could understand that they are just a normal family, that they have chosen to be together and take care of one another and are doing the best they can in their circumstances.

Maybe it’s just not possible for most folks living more traditional lives to grasp what Lexi and Chris provide to one another.

Maybe to understand the strength of their relationship and commitment, you have to know the paths they have traveled alone and together to get to where they are today.

Lexi has chosen to live outdoors for years.

And while she says that she loves nature and the calming and artistic aspects it brings to her life, her choice is more a matter of her survival. Lexi has dreams, bad dreams.

“When I sleep inside,” she says. “I wake up screaming and have to get outside. I dream about women being raped and beaten, murdered. It’s terrible, blood everywhere. Even after I wake up I can smell and taste the blood, it’s so real.”

Lexi says the dreams are so frequent and horrific when she lives indoors that she decided years ago to just stay outside, on the street. She says she can handle the dreams better now that she’s with Chris. He calms her.

When asked about the source of her dreams, Lexi shrugs shyly and says she isn’t sure why she has them. It’s clear that she doesn’t feel comfortable talking about her family or childhood. As a teenager she bounced around in foster homes in Utah until she came home one day and found her few belongings in the front yard of her last foster home and was told to beat it. Since then, it’s been the street for the most part. But still, those dreams come from somewhere.

When asked if she was sexually abused as a child, Lexi takes a long, uncomfortable pause, then says she isn’t sure and doesn’t want to know. She finally opens up a bit. She says, “My mom was a prostitute. My sister and I went to work with her every day when we were little. We watched everything she did. That could be part of it.”

It’s clearly difficult for Lexi to talk about. It’s safe to say that she’s had a challenging time in her young life, more challenging than most of us can imagine.

Finding someone to share your life with when you’re too terrified to live indoors isn’t an easy proposition.

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met Chris hanging out on the Pearl Street Mall and liked him immediately. “He was really funny and nice,” she recalls. After checking with other friends who told her that Chris was a good guy and wouldn’t hurt her, Lexi decided to camp with Chris. She thought she could trust him and she knew she would be safer camping with him, and she was. But more than that, she quickly found that she enjoyed his company, and over time the two fell in love. They have rarely ever slept apart since that first night. “He takes really good care of me,” she says.

Chris is a pretty big guy. He’s 30 years old, a few inches north of six feet, with a dry sense of humor and a laugh that makes you want to join in. He grew up in Florida and he, too, has a pretty strained relationship with his family. Chris has had a variety of jobs in his life, including construction work and serving as a sous chef, which he says he really enjoys.

Like Lexi, he embraces living outdoors, albeit for somewhat different reasons. He doesn’t have nightmares.

“I like living outdoors most of the time,” he says.

“I like to say I’m home-free, not homeless.”

It’s fair to say that both Chris and Lexi are free spirits. Both are artists and sell their work on the street. They prefer selling art to panhandling. They say they like giving people something positive and beautiful. Lexi also reads poems and has worked with kids, leading reading groups and teaching crafts. The couple also shares a love for traveling.

They still get around a fair amount, only now they do their sojourns as a family, including the dogs.

When Lexi first came to Boulder, she did so intending to meet up with a friend who had invited her to walk across America. The ultra-hike didn’t materialize, but still it speaks to her mindset when it comes to seeing new places.

In a perfect world, Chris and Lexi dream that one day their family, including their soon-to-arrive child, will travel the country in a food truck selling healthy dishes they’ll prepare using fresh, local ingredients from the region they’re visiting at the time. Such a lifestyle would fit well with Lexi’s need to be outdoors to escape her nightmares. It’s a nice dream, a great dream, really. And describing it seems to take the cold edge off of the morning for the pair as they sit outside of Alfalfa’s in their warmest clothes. There are still patches of snow on the ground, and it takes a while to shake off the night’s chill.

But this is not a perfect world, and these two expecting parents are also realists who, for now, would gladly trade their food-truck dream for a roof over their heads and a job for Chris. They understand the gravity of their situation better than you’d think, better than they want to. You see, they’ve been here before.

Just like now, a couple of years back, Lexi found out that she and Chris were expecting a child. Then, too, they were really excited about the prospect of raising a family, and they set out to find a home and settle down to parenting.

As Lexi begins to describe the birth of their first child, Chris steps away for a smoke as the tears begin to run down her cheeks. “The day little Chris was born was the most beautiful day ever,” she says.

“We had him at home, in a little house we were living in, in Nederland. It was perfect. He was so beautiful.”

She wipes at the tears with her sleeve.

“Everything was going fine,” she says, “and then I noticed his feet started turning purple.”

Chris returns in time to add, “I thought he must be cold or something. I thought it was hypothermia because of the purple. I know what that looks like.”

They headed for the hospital, but it wasn’t hypothermia.

Little Chris had a strep infection throughout his newborn body. The couple claims he had also been exposed to deadly black mold that was growing in the house where he was born. Little Chris ended up at The Children’s Hospital, where he was placed into intensive care. Lexi tries to describe how the surgeons opened up her baby’s abdomen to try and get rid of the infection and mold. In the end she just says through her tears, “It looked so horrible.” At 10 days old, little Chris was gone. The couple’s first child had passed away.

Chris then recounts how the hospital called the couple the next day demanding $30,000. “They See HOMELESS Page 17

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here is an Army Reserve than homeless people?” he asks. building on Table Mesa Cummins envisions the shelter Drive that has long sat being open 24-7, 365 days a year, unlike empty, and a couple of local the Boulder Homeless Shelter, in an activists would like to put it effort to give food and shelter to the to good use for some of Boulder’s less estimated 600 homeless people in the fortunate. city who can’t be accommodated by the Tom Cummins, a local Occupy existing shelter and the church-based Boulder activist, wants to use the longwarming centers. abandoned facility known as “The What’s more, he and Coccoli plan to Armory” between Tantra Drive and make good use of the property’s 4.5 acres, South 46th Street as a homeless shelter planting a large organic garden and using until its long-term development plans its harvest not only for food served at the come to fruition. shelter, but to raise money at the Boulder The property was in the spotlight in County Farmers’ Market. In addition to 2009 as a graffiti-tagged eyesore that relying on grant support, Cummins sugwas to be converted gests that shelter resinto a controversial idents with artistic 41-unit residential talent could sell crafts Contributions can development, but it at the farmers’ marbe sent to has languished since ket, devoting a perthe U.S. Army centage of the proAmericans for Reserves vacated it ceeds to shelter operSocial Justice, P.O. years ago. ational costs.

Box 17356, Cummins says he Coccoli, who was in talks with city specializes in helping Boulder, CO 80308 officials about using homeless veterans, the building as a says he is open to homeless shelter, but considering other now a sign in front of the property shows vacant buildings for the shelter if the that it is slated to become an assisted liv- Armory doesn’t work out. The point is ing facility. Still, Cummins is not holding to provide the homeless with a safe place his breath, since he says that project is where they can store their belongings not expected to get under way until 2016. without having to worry about having In the interim, Cummins and his partner them stolen, providing them with in Americans 4 Social Justice, Mike enough security to not have to worry Coccoli, have a vision for the building. about where they are going to sleep or It would not be like the Boulder what they are going to eat.

Homeless Shelter, with case managers Coccoli points out that it’s hard and “well-paid staff,” Cummins says. enough to find a job in this economy “We’re talking me and a couple of secueven when you do have food, a home, a rity guards and Mike.” computer, a telephone.

Those who want to stay at the shelAt the holidays, Cummins says, it’s ter would have to take on chores to help important to remember that most homeless people don’t fit the shaggy, dishevtake care of it, Cummins explains, and eled stereotype. They look like you and after being there a month, residents will me. He cites a former IBM employee have to pay the shelter a dollar a day.

Then, when they leave, he says, they will who showed up at a recent forum and acknowledged that he had been homeget all of their money back as a startup less for two weeks. fund for their new life.

“If you look into his eyes, he looks Cummins plans to ask local churches scared to death,” Cummins says. “Not and synagogues for assistance as well, everybody has family to turn to, or perhaps allowing religious organizations friends to turn to. The camping ban is to adopt and furnish rooms in the not hurting Occupy Boulder. It is hurt15,000-square-foot facility.

It doesn’t have to cost much to outfit ing the homeless.”

Cummins and Coccoli can be reached at a place, he says, noting that Coccoli a4sj123@gmail.com, and contributions can recently helped a homeless veteran furbe sent to A4SJ, P.O. Box 17356, Boulder, nish an apartment for 75 cents, thanks CO 80308. to donations and Dumpster-diving.

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couldn’t even let a few days pass. The day after our baby dies,” he says emphatically, shaking his head, “they call to get their money … the day after.”

Lexi and Chris understand how important it is to be in an appropriate living situation when their second child is born in a matter of days. They want to stay together for the birth and after that as well. While both appreciate the places in Boulder that can help them to one degree or another — such as the homeless shelter and Mother House — they point out that most places aren’t geared to letting the couple stay together. Lexi says she can’t imagine not having Chris there to support her during and after the birth.

“I need him with me,” she says.

What they want is a place of their own to rent, a place where they can raise their child.

Chris says they haven’t saved quite enough to get into a place yet, but he hopes that they can put together the money they need before Lexi goes into labor. He says he could sure use a job,

and fast.

Lexi and Chris may not be a family that resembles most of those in Boulder County. But they make no apologies for that. They have chosen to be together and have stayed together through difficulties and tragedies that would have broken up many couples living under more traditional and comfortable circumstances.

“I know we’ll make really good parents,” says Lexi. “People who know us say that too.”

Most of us will be celebrating our good fortune with our families this Thanksgiving. Lexi and Chris aren’t all that different. They will be celebrating their soon-to-be enlarging family as well this holiday, and hoping that better things are just ahead for them. We hope so too.

If you have any desire and ability to help out Lexi and Chris, you can contact them through Tom Cummins, who can be reached at a4sj123@gmail or through Americans 4 Social Justice, P.O. Box 17356, Boulder, CO 80308.

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any stores in Boulder County will be opening early on Thanksgiving and on the days that follow. They include:

Thanksgiving, Nov. 22 Target: 9 p.m. – Friday 11 p.m.

Walmart: (Lafayette and Longmont): 8 p.m. – Open 24 hours

Black Friday, Nov. 23

Apple: (Twenty Ninth Street mall): 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Apple: (Flatiron Crossing): 5 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Art Mart: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Athleta: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Barnes & Noble: 9 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Best Buy: Midnight – 10 p.m.

Billabong: 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Boulder Book Store: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Common Era: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Crocs: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Dick’s: (Flatiron Crossing and Longmont): Midnight – 10 p.m.

Eddie Bauer: Midnight – 9 p.m.

Goldmine Vintage: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.

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he next time you consider systems by boats and boating equipment. ways of getting rid of a pet “As people enjoy boating and go to fish, dead or alive, know that different waterways they can sometimes dumping it into the nearest transfer those [species],” Churchill says. lake or flushing it down the “They’re so tiny. Even the remnants of toilet are not valid options. these little snails, veligers are what they’re The recent removal of koi goldfish called, can attach to the prop or different from Thunderbird Lake in East Boulder little hiding crevices on a boat.” is just a small example of the types of New Zealand mud snails are particuproblems presented by the introduction larly hazardous because of their ability to of non-native aquatic nuisance species in reproduce in large quantities and clog up Colorado waterways. water treatment facilities. Boats used in The koi goldfish were reportedly waterways that contain New Zealand mud introduced into the lake illegally somesnails can transfer the species if the boat time over the past year and were removed isn’t properly cleaned and inspected before on Monday, Nov. 19 due to the harm entering another waterway or fishery. they pose to the aquatic ecosystem.

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Division of Wildlife field workers, shown here in the Animas River near Silverton, gauge public information officer for Colorado For this reason, Colorado Parks and the health of a fish population by weighing and counting fish that have been tempoParks and Wildlife northwest region. “So rarily stunned by electrofishing equipment. The fish, in this case trout, are then returned Wildlife has implemented mandatory we really ask people not to do that or not to the river. boat inspections throughout the state. to dump any pets they don’t want any “In the last two or three years, more or any aquatic species into our Colorado Parks and Wildlife is doing waterways –– it can really be very detrivery stringent inspections of those boats,” mental to fisheries and the health of the Churchill says. “So there’s a lot of spots water in general.” in the state where you actually have to These non-native species can ruin a have your boat inspected before you’re fishery through the introduction of disallowed to go on the water.” ease, or the fish may become predators of A list of inspection sites, including the Boulder Reservoir, can be found on the species already stocked in the fisheries en closure to public areas and affect the benefits of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website.

by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. healthy aquatic ecosystems benefits to the community In addition to boat inspections, Colorado Parks and “We have yet to test the koi for fish diseases, but koi at large,” says Matt Claussen, urban resource manager for the Boulder Parks and Recreation Department.

Wildlife biologists monitor most lakes and streams every are among the most highly susceptible and known to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say they recfive to 10 years though fishery surveys. High priority carriers of VHS [Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia], bacognize the illegal introduction of non-native fish into waters such as Chatfield, Pueblo and Horsetooth reserterial kidney disease, and a variety of viruses,” says Ben Colorado fisheries as a “significant and rapidly growing voirs and the Gunnison River are surveyed annually, Swigle, Colorado Parks and Wildlife aquatic biologist threat,” according to a press release. Some other recent according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website. for the Fort Collins and Boulder areas. “We do not examples of this illegal practice include the introduc“We use a combo of electrofishing and netting to want potential further contamination resulting from gauge the health of fish [populations] throughout the additional movements of these illegally introduced fish.” tion of Northern pike and smallmouth bass in the Yampa River in northwest Colorado, which has comstate,” Swigle says. “The surveys ultimately determine The threat of disease and the disruption of healthy promised the populations of native species there future stocking rates, angler regulations, and habitat aquatic ecosystems can also have an effect on residents through predation, according to Swigle. manipulation measures we can use to improve the fishand anglers in areas in which these fish are introduced.

The introduction of non-native species is not always ery for both angler use and the general health of the “I can’t speak to what may be direct threats to resiecosystem and fish community.” dents, but in general, the spread of fish disease can cer- intentional. Invasive species such as the New Zealand mud snail and crayfish can be transferred between ecoRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com tainly impact recreational fishing opportunities, threat-

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This was the question asked by two University of Colorado students, Pete and John Gaston, brothers from Aspen and the founders of Strafe Outerwear. The small brand based out of Aspen is quickly gaining a big reputation for quality and performance.

The Gastons were not your normal students.

“We were pretty unique in our freshman year in college,” John Gaston says. “We didn’t spend a single weekend in Boulder.”

“We lived in Aspen in the winter,” adds Pete Gaston. “We’d go down [to Boulder] Monday and on Thursday we’d be headed back to the mountains.

We commuted. All four years.”

Their commute was made easier knowing that it was a sacrifice to be close to their passion, skiing, and that they’d have pole position on weekend

he one-piece ski suit. It’s an object of ridicule. The preferred garb for gaper days and end-of-the-year parties. The kind of outfit that evokes pity when seen on a Texan and scorn from locals in Vail lift lines when the wearer paid north of $1,000 for the latest fur-trimmed Bogner design from the boutique at the base of the gondola.

But consider the other side of the one-piece.

They’re warm. They keep the snow out when you fall. They’re worn by arctic explorers and fighter pilots. What would happen if someone could make a one-piece for skiing that’s cool? Something hip and fun and designed for the raddest skiers on the mountain, with high-tech fabrics and pockets in the right places and no stupid fur trim or leather fringe?

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This region, with myriad big and small resorts, rich history and epic descents, is a cultural touchstone for skiing. It’s impossible to be in love with skiing and not be deeply influenced by a visit here.

In the Arlberg, the past mingles with the future, providing a vision of what skiing was and what it can be. It is a powerful environment, where the landscape oozes the culture of the sport.

With inspiration from Austria’s legendary home of alpine skiing, the brothers were galvanized to take the risk of creating their own brand. They aimed to manufacture high-quality outerwear for a core consumer — the kind of people who live to spend their days outdoors in high alpine environments and who aren’t afraid of charging into a blizzard to score powder turns.

But the famed slopes of the Arlberg weren’t their only influence.

“When we were commuting, it was so we could ski Aspen Highlands,” says John. “It is where we learned to ski and it’s a little unique, with the bowl, and you hike and earn your turns.”

According to John, Aspen Highlands provided “the foundation of where our designs came from,” including an emphasis on breathability to handle the exertions that skiers and snowboarders are subjected to when hiking to terrain like Highlands Bowl.

“The first designs came about in 2009,” John Gaston recalls. “We spent almost 14 months in development, making different prototypes and designs, and then did a mini production run in 2010.”

And in an unlikely move, one of these first designs was their interpretation of the much-maligned one-piece ski suit, dubbed The Sickbird.

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it looks ridiculous!”

But it’s ridiculous in a good way.

Designed with “a looser fit to make something we like,” says Pete, the suit has now become an iconic part of the Strafe line up, and is worn by some of the world’s best skiers, including Oakley White-Allen, a top competitor on the Freeride World Tour and the founder of eco-conscious bamboo ski pole company Panda Poles.

“The one-piece is fun and crazy, and it has complete functionality,” says White-Allen. “It’s my favorite piece of clothing to ski in.”

White-Allen rocked the suit this last summer when he was part of an elite group of athletes competing in the Swatch Skier’s Cup, held in Valle Nevado, Chile. The colorful garment suited the high alpine environment of the Andes, and it stood out, making White-Allen one of the most recognizable athletes at the event.

But while the Sickbird one-piece is the most iconic item in the Strafe line, it would be a mistake to think that the brand is being built around a single garment.

There are four items in this year’s lineup, from jackets to pants, all of it inspired and influenced by serious ski time.

“We all ski 100 days a year,” says John. “We have a pretty diverse group at Strafe. Some are park, some are big mountain, so we can tap into as many different opinions as possible.

“From a product perspective, we make sure that our gear is lightweight,” he adds. “To have some looser, comfortable gear that is the same weight as what is offered by a technical mountaineering brand is pretty inspiring to us. We like to lap chairlifts, or tour all day, so the versatility is key for us.”

The Gastons also take as much feedback as they can so the brand reflects not just themselves but their staff and their customers.

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With a sponsored athlete stable that includes White-Allen, Katrina Devore, Whit Boucher and Baker Boyd, the brand isn’t starved for feedback, or toptier testers. “Our athletes are really important,” says John. “They ski as much and as hard as anyone, and they are tough on their gear. Their comments help us refine our designs.”

For John Gaston, this refinement is an ongoing process of re-evaluation of what the brand stands for, tweaks to existing products and the development of new ones.

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“It’s beneficial for us to be as close to the environment that we are building the brand [for],” says John. “We didn’t want to be a brand without a face. We are members of the community, and we wanted to create a hospitable environment, with a little lounge area to come and talk skiing.”

Or better yet, a place where those who love the sport can stop by and pick up the latest must-have item in ski wear: the reinvented one-piece. Which proves that some things in skiing — like powder days — never go out of style.

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buzz Building a different future

Assemblage pieces together messages of artist

story and photos by Michael Callahan

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n most cases, walking into an art gallery and proclaiming that the exhibit looks like garbage would be considered rude. But in Boulder, such criticism only earns you thanks.

A Rocketman Crashes and Rises in the West is an exhibit of assembled art by artist Jimmy Descant on display through Dec. 1 at the Dairy Center for the Arts. A believer in the messages told by art, Descant’s pieces shed insight into a self-described “Woody Says ‘Let’s Eat!’ (Here)” “severe reconstructivist” and the life that he has lived.

Evoking space travel of a time before, Descant says, “They made the space shuttle look like a Toyota,” the exhibit is a colorful array of assemblage art where something new can be discovered with each viewing. It’s all stuff that might come from a junkyard, a flea market or your messy closet. None of it is welded together, yet Descant somehow finds a way for each piece to fit into a bigger picture. The result may be an intricate-looking rocket ship fashioned out of an old Thermos bottle, a washboard and antennas, adorned with tile spacers, flickering electric candles and billiard balls. Pictures don’t do the exhibit justice, as each piece seems ready to take flight from the wall of repurposed junk upon which it is perched.

Descant has no formal art training, and has pieced together his dream job by working through the school of life. Years ago, after spying his first rocket ship — an old vacuum cleaner — at a flea market, Jimmy knew that his future would involve sifting through nuts and

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by Jimmy Descant. Showing with vintage pinball with the parts that I through Dec. 1 at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut machines and worked use could have been St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, www. in the music business around for 80 years thedairy.org. as a tour manager, already, and they’ll sound man and guitar last forever.” tech.

Most of Descant’s “Vote and/or Die” At first, Descant work revolves around would just buy all the a large operating junk he could find, table where he lays scouring thrift stores, out his pile of junk. garage sales and back Through trial and alleys. Now he gets error, each piece loads of material eventually builds dropped anonymously itself through the at his residence. vision of the artist.

Finding pieces isn’t “It’s just putting the problem. It’s things together to finding the right fit. see what will step “All the parts down or step up in come from different the right form in the places, so [my art is] process,” Decant finding things that fit says. “The inspiratogether perfectly tion can be from a that have never seen single piece, or it can each other before. It’s a mix and be an idea or a title that I’ve had. match,” Descant says. He has learned These days I know pretty much when how to sift past the everyday junk that I start laying things out where it’s seems to consume so much of the gonna lead to.”

American life.

It’s been described as steam punk “So much that’s manufactured is art by some, which evokes 19th century just instantaneous junk, and I have to simplicity fabricated with intricate iron go through a lot of stuff to find the and steel work. But since Descant only good quality stuff that works. It always uses materials culled from what he calls

the Golden Age of American manufacturing — the sturdily built utilitarian machinery of pre-space age time but of futuristic thinking — his works take on a more organic appearance while still evoking strong messages.

“Steampunk is more H.G. Wells, whereas I’m more of a Buck Rodgers,” Descant says of his style.

As for a message, Jimmy says that since 2000, the American way and the politics of life created a darker theme.

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed the New Orleans native’s home and belongings, he became more focused.

“I think I became more intense after losing everything,” Descant says. “All my early art, the things I never wanted to sell. The emotions I went through, I just became more intense and more critical of the world around me.

“There are a lot of artists that use a lot of modern pieces and parts in their assemblage to comment on the modern world. But my comment is not just about vintage, it is about the modern world and it’s about ideals and culture/ space/time ideas and ideals with the quality of life or the quality of the vision behind the sculptures.”

Settling into Salida has helped to mellow the intesity and underscore the positives for Descant. Native American and Western influences regularly dot his work. But for the artist, the biggest thing is looking for the message in his creations.

“It’s not only the beauty, it’s the statement. It took me a little while to get to what I was actually trying to do as an artist rather than just a craftsman,” Descant says.

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I don’t know much about Saskatchewan, but judging from its general flatness and its central location, I imagine it must be Canada’s super-polite version of the KansasNebraska area, just with a different accent and more snow.

Rah Rah is an infectious and poppy indie-rock band from Regina, the province’s capital, and the group embodies just the sort of approachable, joyous rock you’d expect from the frozen prairie of our friendly neighbors to the north. The band has just released a new album, The Poet’s Dead, its third, and is starting its first major U.S. tour. Needless to say, the band is excited.

“We’re going down to California and stuff at the end of the month — we’ve never been there,” says cofounder and singer-guitarist-keyboardist-drummer Erin Passmore.

“It’s amazing! It’s going to be warm!

In our town right now, there’s like two feet of snow.”

Despite the tumbleweed origins of the band (well, not exactly — Regina is a city of 193,000), Rah Rah tries its best to make its live show an exotic experience.

“We still switch instruments a lot; we sort of incorporate that into our antics,” Passmore says. “We try to surprise the audience, piñatas and stuff. Giant Mylar balloons. It’s like a child’s birthday party onstage.

“We have these giant robot cats that we acquired from different thrift stores that take C batteries and they move around and meow and stuff. It’s actually ridiculously creepy now that I’m talking about it.”

What is now Rah Rah began in 2007 when high school friends Passmore and Marshall Burns started writing songs together. Burns was still in high school and Passmore in her first year “at university,” as goes the Canadian vernacular, and the songwriting chemistry was evident right away. Passmore, a piano player, hopped on drums out of both curiosity and necessity.

They started playing shows, and eventually one of the gigs was big enough to warrant a publicity poster.

With the need for a poster came a need for a name, and they came up with “Rah Rah” and haven’t looked back since.

The band subsequently added Kristina Hedlund (violin, keys, accordion, vocals) and Erin’s brother Joel Passmore on bass. Leif Thorseth (guitar) joined as well, and Rah Rah recently absorbed its newest member, Jeff Romanyk (drums, keys, guitar).

Rah Rah released Going Steady in 2009 and Breaking Hearts in 2011. A remix CD, Rahmixes, followed shortly after, and on Oct. 22 the band released its third full-length album, The Poet’s Dead.

The new album marks several firsts for the band.

Whereas they had previously enlisted a friend to

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“I 100 percent feel like this is our best record, handsdown,” Passmore says. “I don’t know, it just makes us sound like a real band, you know?”

All the band’s members contribute songwriting, lyrics and lead vocals, so it’s a testament to the band’s camaraderie that the lyrics are so thematically similar. The record finds the band looking back at their years on the road, dealing with the shifting expectations and future-gazing that comes with getting older. “Art & A Wife” traces Burns’ progression as a musician, from a clueless kid with a guitar to where he is now. “I used to have a song / I would sing for every girl” but “now I just want a life / full of art and a wife,” he sings. On “20s,” which grips you with a desperate urgency, the singers sing, “I’ll spend my 20s on rock ’n’ roll / I’ll spend my 30s feeling old.” The song “Fake Our Love” deals with the loneliness of the road and the impermanence of relationships formed during twoor three-night stays in a city; the lyrics go, “I’m just in town for the night / but I’ll put you on the guest list for the show / we’ll get drunk / fake our love / then I’ll go.”

The band is now embarking on its first major tour of the United States, and the press accolades are rolling in. Relix named them an “on the verge” band, and other magazines have heaped praise on the new album. The accolades are encouraging for Passmore as the band tries to navigate the comparably enormous American market.

“For me personally [the press] really helps, because sometimes you’re like, ‘What am I doing? What am I doing with my life?’” she says. “I’m so poor, I’m sleeping on couches for six months out of the year, but then you know, especially the people that you sort of convert throughout your set that come up to you afterward and they tell you to keep going, ‘You’re amazing, and keep doing what you’re doing,’ all of [that] totally helps me. I don’t know, sometimes you just need that information.”

Passmore is looking forward to seeing parts of the United States she’s never visited before.

“We’ve toured Canada so much it’s kind of nice to go down south and just sort of tour these places that are new and different. We get made fun of because we have accents even though we can’t really hear them.

Everything’s the same but completely different,” Passmore says. “We’ve never played Colorado, but we’re going down there too. It’s really nice having that opportunity. We’re from a small town in Canada. Not a lot of people get to do that.”

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record and engineer their albums (he took a “lo-fi” approach to the production, Passmore says), The Poet’s Dead marks the first time the band has worked with professional producers. They enlisted storied indierock gurus Gus Van Go and Warner F (most famous for their work with Canadian indie rockers The Stills, as well as Hollerado and Priestess) to lead the way, and their methods brought a much-needed jolt of professionalism to the band.

“We actually went through this sort of boot camp scenario,” Passmore says. “[Van Go] actually came to our town for about a week to do some pre-production, like real pre-production, which we had never done before. So it was sort of a wake up call as far as, ‘Oh right. We shouldn’t be practicing in a basement where you can’t hear anything except for this wall of sound.

Maybe we should be listening to each other.’ Or, ‘I don’t actually know what I’m playing in this song.’ It was a little bit of an ‘oh shit’ moment.”

The results are stellar, though. Van Go and Warner F have created an incredibly full-sounding 10-track album that manages to create wave after wave of heavily layered pop-rock without sounding over-produced. Synths and multiple guitar parts form a dense base underneath the band’s infectious hooks, and the band’s strong songwriting shines like it never has before.

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Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, right, made a cameo in the 1996 film version of Cannibal! The Musical.

A stage version of the movie is now running in Denver.

he University of Colorado Boulder boasts many distinguished alumni.

Famous scientists, authors and professional football players have all graduated from this hallowed institution. For many, including myself, the most noteworthy CU alumnus is by far Trey Parker, the co-creator of the subversive and long-running Comedy Central hit South Park.

More recently, Parker helped bring to life the Broadway sensation The Book of Mormon. But before he killed Kenny for the first time — you bastard! — or sent Mormon missionaries to Africa for a laugh, Parker wrote and directed the musical comedy Cannibal! The Musical.

While still a student at CU, Parker, with the help of future South Park co-creator Matt Stone, decided to mine an odd bit of Colorado history for every ounce of humor no one thought it possessed. He took the tale of Alferd Packer, one of the few Americans ever to be officially accused of cannibalism, and turned it into, well, not exactly theatrical gold but certainly not theatrical pyrite. How about theatrical molybdenum?

In 1874, Packer led a group of prospectors from Utah to Colorado. Their destination was Breckenridge, where vast amounts of gold were reported to be just waiting for the taking. After the ill-advised decision to start crossing the unforgiving Rocky Mountains in the dead of winter, Packer and his group found themselves lost and snowbound.

Accounts differ, and recent forensic analysis even seems to indicate that Packer may have been completely innocent of the crimes for which he was ultimately convicted, but two facts remain unchallenged.

The prospectors ran out of food, and some of them, possibly including Packer, went all Donner Party on

Craptabulous!

as an artist. Cannibal! showcases the influences of Mel Brooks, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. It ON THE BILL: also foreshadows Cannibal! The many of the comedic Musical plays tricks-of-the-trade through Dec. 1 at the Bug that Parker would Theatre, 3654 later incorporate into Navajo St. in his more well-known Denver. Tickets are $15. For tickworks, including juveets or informanile, often gross-out tion call 303-477humor, the inclusion 9984 or visit www.bugtheof Broadway-style atre.org. show tunes and the use of neologisms, specifically the nebulously defined and multi-linguistically utilized “shpadoinkle.”

For those who embrace the amateurish charm of the original film, Next Pony’s Cannibal! The Musical is a must-see. This stage version is virtually a scene-forscene remake of the movie. As in the original, the cast shows itself to be a group of dedicated, excited but at best marginally trained actors. The costume and set design is slapdash, and the special effects are purposefully hokey.

If you’re looking for a polished production, however, steer far wide of this Cannibal! It’s one thing to embrace the low-rent nature of the show, but it’s another when many of the cast fail to project their spoken or sung lines beyond the first few rows. And if you know you’re presenting a slapdash production, for the love of Dionysus please don’t protract it unnecessarily with more scene changes than a top-line Vegas revue.

If you’re a Parker completist and haven’t yet experienced Cannibal! The Musical then you owe it to yourself to get down to the Bug before the current run closes. Some will leave with sides a-achin’ while others will simply just leave. And that is the very definition of “craptabulous.”

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by Gary Zeidner the others. Packer survived the ordeal, stood trial multiple times and was eventually imprisoned. Fun fact: After his parole, he worked away his later years as a guard at The Denver Post.

Cannibal! The Musical tells Packer’s story from Parker’s uniquely mad perspective. Characters burst into song at a moment’s notice, and the lyrics of those songs more often than not border on the absurd. The members of the prospecting party anachronistically put each other in “time out” when they become too surly. The only love interest is Packer’s horse, Liane.

And the helpful Indians they meet along the way are played by Japanese actors in the original film version of the musical and are portrayed as a tribe of flaming homosexuals in the Next Pony production currently at the Bug Theatre in Denver.

One of the most interesting aspects of Cannibal!

The Musical is the historical insight it gives not into Packer’s misadventure but into the evolution of Parker

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Thursday, November 22

Mono Verde. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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Neptune’s Only Daughter. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Jill Sobule — With Megan Burtt. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Soul X. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Kort McCumber and High Road. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Trance Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Leftover Salmon — With Andy Hall (of The Infamous Stringdusters). 8 p.m.

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

Vinegar Tasters. 10 p.m., Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Los Bohemios. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

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Mike Robinson. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Thanksgiving Buffet. 12-4 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

Thanksgiving Brunch. 10 a.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Thanksgiving Candlelight Dinner. 4:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Friday, November 23 music Bill McKay Band. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Damon Wood Harmonious Junk. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Enchanted Evening — Tree Lighting Ceremony. 6 p.m., Second Avenue in Old Town Niwot, www.niwot.com.

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

Grant Farm. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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A Spice of Life, 5706 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.facebook.com/highpeaksholidayartfair.

Holiday Open House — With harp music by Kathy Moore. 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303772-3454.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet.

4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343.

Playback Theatre West — A Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

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The Hitching Post Enchanted Evening — 2nd anniversary celebration. 6 p.m. The Hitching Post, 121 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-4165.

11-foot Fall. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jenn Cleary. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewery, 1501 Lee Hill, Boulder, 303-4492911.

Al Chesis and Bob Pelligrino. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

L Town All-Stars. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

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

Leftover Salmon — With Jason Carter (of el McCoury Band)�������������� . 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Eric Lambert and Friends — With Maggie Crossett. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Long Run — Eagles Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Gumbo Le Funque. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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My Old School. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Otis Taylor’s Trance Blues Jam Festival. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Parlin Lot. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

Ryan Chrys, Tequila Mockingbird, Gata Negra. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

The Troubadours. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, www.shineboulder.com.

events Bowling Ball 4 and Bar Olympics — Annual fundraiser with Flobots, DeVotchka, Churchill, The Fray and One Republic’s Ryan Tedder. 5:30 p.m.

Punch Bowl, 65 Broadway, Denver, www.bowlingball.flobots.org.

Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Holiday Open House — With harp music by Jeffrey Rogers. 1:30-3:30 p.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Holiday Parade & Santa’s Visit. 11:30 a.m. Second Avenue & Murray St., Niwot, www.niwot.com.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet. 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343.

Teddy Bear Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303see PANORAMA Page 34

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Abandoned — Photography by Mark Ivins. The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center. 400 Quail Road, Longmont. 303-651-8374.

Through Feb. 17.

November

Tuesday

Texas Holdem’ Poker Free To Enter – 7pm $50 in Prizes

Thursday

Ladies Night

Fri., Nov 23rd

Sun., Nov 25th • 9pm

22 Big Screen TVs – Fire Pits Heated Rooftop Patio

The Louisville Rex

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

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

EVERY TUESDAY! $3 Premium Drafts all day $5.00 Cheeseburger & Fries after 4pm

Daily Lunch Special

Monday-Saturday 3pm-6pm And All Day Sunday $2.25 Bud Light Coors Light PBR $3.50 All Other Drafts House Wines Single Wells

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

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

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

LIVE MUSIC every Sun, Mon, & Wed @10pm & Fridays @ 5pm

Keith Summers

Happy Hour

The Geography of Looking — Painting, drawing and cut felt by Malinda Bray. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Through Nov. 30.

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

$10 Open Bar For The Ladies

M-F 11am-2pm $7.95 – 20 Items $10 with any house drink

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

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Nov. 25.

Monday Night Football Drink & Food Specials Free Chips & Salsa

“Between Here and There” by Marius Lehene in Random Walk with Drift at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

Open Stage

Mon., Nov 26th

George Nelson Quartet Wed., Nov 28th

The Bottom Line Fri, Nov 30th - Crowboy Mon, Dec 3rd - George Nelson Quartet Wed, Dec 5th - Rogue Sound Fri, Dec 7th - David Tiller Sun, Dec 9th - Open Stage • 9pm Mon, Dec 10th - The Heavy Cats Wed, Dec 12th - Third Steam Fri, Dec 14th - Hotfoot

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

Through Dec. 22.

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

Through Jan. 27.

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

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

The Eye Awake — New works by Ian Fisher and Matthew Harris. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 2.

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

Through Nov. 30.

Feats and Flights — Sculptural works by MaryLynn Schumacher, Linda Korstad and Liz McCombs. Boulder Public Library Canyon Gallery, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Nov. 25.

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

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Sunday, November 25

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

music

Patrick Dethlefs & Martin Gilmore. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Seth Glier. 7 p.m. The Kitchen, 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5973.

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

Sugar Plum Tea Party — With Longmont Dance Theatre. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. DBarn, 136 S. Main St., Longmont, 303-772-1335.

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

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Holly and the Husbands. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Lunde Station. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Women’s Songwriter Showcase. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Holiday Open House — With harp music by Jeffrey Rogers. 1:30-3:30 p.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Holiday Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet. 2 p.m.

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Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303449-1343.

Monday, November 26 music Delta Force. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Erik the Viking. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Open Stage — With Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

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Pathways to Parenting Success. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Faculty Tuesday — Michael Thornton, horn. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, 18th St. and Euclid Ave., Imig Music Building, Boulder, 303-492-4247.

Pricing and Selling Wedding and Portrait Photography, Part 1. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

Tuesday, November 27 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Blues Jam with Gretchen Troop. Players welcome.

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

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

Jazz Night — With Ink Freethinker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Marlo & Farm. 10 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Open Mic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. see PANORAMA Page 36

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

Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 30.

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

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

Through Dec. 16.

Greetings — Presented

by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9353044. Through Dec. 23.

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

Through Nov. 25.

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas — Presented by the Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex Buell Theatre, 14th St. and Curtis St., Denver, 303-893-4100.

Through Dec. 24.

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On the Edge: A Festival of New Plays Vote Now! boulderweekly.com/poll-124.html — Presented by The Edge Theatre Company.The Edge Theatre, 9797 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-232-0363. Through Dec. 2.

Syndicated Buntport: Magnets on the Fridge. 7:30 p.m. Buntport Theatre Company, 717 Lipan St., Boulder, 720-9461388. Through Nov. 20.

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tRUNks — Comic book serial. Buntport Theatre Company, 717 Lipan St., Boulder, 720-946-1388. Every other Saturday. Next show on Dec. 1.

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When We Are Married — Presented by the Denver Center Theatre Company.

Denver Performing Arts Complex Stage Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 16.

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Lisa Wimberger will read from New Beliefs, New Brain at the Boulder Book Store on Nov. 27.

Monday, November 26

E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-436-1070.

So You’re a Poet? — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

New Beliefs, New Brain — By Lisa Wimberger.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-447-3946.

Park Hill Promise — By Phil Goodstein. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-4361070.

A Winter Dream & the Christmas Bow — By Richard Paul Evans. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch. 303470-7050.

Tuesday, November 27 I’m a Good Dog: Pit Bulls, America’s Most Beautiful (and Misunderstood) Pet — By Ken Foster. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526

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

From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — Reading Wolf Hall. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-3946.

Wednesday, November 28 Game of My Life: Denver Broncos: Memorable Stories of Broncos Football — By Jim Saccomano. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Letters from Berlin — By Kerstin Lieff. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-447-3946.

PANORAMA from Page 35 Trio con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events Get the Credit You Deserve — Copyright and trademark protection for your art, with Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Fine Arts Legal Muse, LLC. 5 p.m.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

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

Wednesday, November 28 music Action Bronson — With Tiron and Ayomari, Cobraconda, Matty Mac. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Blues Jam featuring The Firebreathers. 10 p.m.

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

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

A Musical Soiree with Aldo Rangone — With Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

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

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

Statue of Liberty — With The Outside Alliance. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

events Dine Out for Homeless & Runaway Youth. 5-10 p.m.

Foolish Craig’s, 1611 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-955-8791.

Getting Started with Adobe Dreamweaver. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Mephistopheles’ Avery Tap Room Release Party.

6 p.m. Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Ave. Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Niwot Now & Then Lecture Series — “Bringing the Water Down: Local Irrigation Ditches.” 6:30 p.m. The Left Hand Grange, 2nd Avenue and Franklin St., Niwot,

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Quiksilver Presents Few Words: A Candide Thovex Film. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

KIDS CALENDAR Friday, November 23 Nature’s Bounty — Nature collage making. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Saturday, November 24 Nature’s Bounty — Nature collage making. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Radio play of The Wizard of Oz. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, November 25 Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Radio play of The Wizard of Oz. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, November 26 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, November 27 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Wednesday, November 28 Family Garden Story and Song Time. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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screen Emancipation examination In the end, ‘Lincoln’ is more about an act than a man

by Ryan Syrek

A An Ang Lee masterpiece ‘Life of Pi’ succeeds at every level

by Dave Taylor

B

eing stranded in the middle of an unforgiving ocean is a theme that’s been explored in films as diverse as Swiss Family Robinson and Hitchcock’s surprisingly tense Lifeboat.

But being cast adrift for more than 200 days in a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger? It makes an empty lifeboat seem like a positive luxury, but that’s the journey that young Piscine Militor Patel — “Pi” for short — embarks on after the freighter he’s on sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Based on a best-selling book by Yann Martel, Life of Pi comes to the screen beautifully, thanks to the vision of director Ang Lee. Whether it’s a floating mangrove island overrun with meerkats, a magical sea of bioluminescent jellyfish, or just the frightening snarl of Richard Parker, the tiger, everything works well. The performances, and particularly that of Suraj Sharma, who plays the stranded Pi, are superb.

There is a niggling problem with the film, though, one that is a common complaint with big-budget cinema: 3-D. Lee was passionate about the 3-D process and cites groundbreaking movies like Avatar as an inspiration, but there are too many cheap 3-D effects in Life of Pi. Sticks that wave at the camera, the tiger leaping at the viewer, they’re not just trite clichés that beg the viewer to admire the effect but effects that also break the narrative spell, bringing us out of the story.

The narrative structure of Life of Pi is complicated, a tale of his life as told by the adult Pi (Irrfan Khan) to a spiritually adrift writer (Rafe Spall) who has Boulder Weekly

been told that Pi’s story “will make you believe in God.” We then meet Pi as a young child (played by Ayush Tandon) experiencing difficulties in school due to his curious name: “Pissy,” as the other children tease. He renames himself Pi, the irrational constant of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and becomes a local hero. His childhood is characterized by his search for God, simultaneously encompassing Hindu, Christian and Muslim beliefs. His family owns a zoo, and when, years later, they fall on hard times as India goes through major political upheaval, Pi’s father (Adil Hussain) decides the best path is for them to emigrate to Canada, along with all their animals.

The last chapter of the book took Life of Pi from an interesting read to a profound exploration of the nature of reality, a provocative recast of the entire narrative, and this sense of wonder is retained in the cinematic retelling. It explores how we are destined to retell the story of our life in a manner that makes us a heroic figure rather than just a figure upon the stage of life.

Life of Pi is a wonder to behold, a reminder of the power of cinema, of the wondrous journeys that a superb filmmaker, cast and production crew can take us on as we sit in a dark theater, seeking escape. It’s a shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination for the Academy Awards and it’s well worth seeing, even with the occasionally overwrought 3-D. I’m eager to watch it again.

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humble suggestion: Force the chittering, self-serving partisans in Washington who increasingly prefer filibusters over floor votes to watch Lincoln. Director Steven Spielberg’s latest provides a character sketch, not of its titular president, but of America’s political process. While hundreds of thousands of sons and fathers killed each other mere miles from where the House of Representatives screamed at one another, men of integrity fought to forever change this nation; today, politicians debate modest tax increases with the intensity of emancipation. Fools.

Spielberg hitched a ride on Bill and Ted’s phone box and traveled back in time to pick up the actual Abraham Lincoln, or at least that’s how Daniel Day-Lewis makes it seem. His portrayal is breathtakingly nuanced and painstakingly researched. Liberated by a lack of video or audio evidence, Lewis was free to compose his artistic fiction about a real man; he presents someone unassuming but passionate, humble but aware of his place in history, a man of integrity but no saint. Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner don’t give honest Abe the sloppy wet kiss some expected, mostly because they’d rather make out with democracy itself.

Given the potential for this quasibiography to turn into cinematic racial messiah-making, it’s a good thing that Lincoln opens on two passionate black Union soldiers making the president’s shortcomings known. Sure, it would have been better if they were quality characters who showed up more than once, but it is an early sign that emancipation and not a man’s patience is the film’s focus. From the battlefield, to which we do not return until the film’s end, it is a hard right into political backrooms, as Lincoln argues against waiting until the South’s impending surrender to pass the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.

His closest political advisor, William Seward (David Strathairn) initially thinks it a stupid idea, but is per-

suaded to hire Robert Latham ( John Hawkes), W.N. Bilbo ( James Spader) and Richard Schell (Tim Blake Nelson) to acquire the votes they need by offering presidential appointments to lameduck congressmen of the opposing party who will soon be out of work. But with rumors of a peace offer from the Confederacy, Fernando Wood (Lee Pace) and his cronies dig their heels in and make one last stand.

Lincoln’s personal life only really surfaces when he is forced to deal with his manic depressive wife, Mary (Sally Field), and his son, Robert ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who wants to join the military. This isn’t to say we don’t see his character revealed, but it isn’t an insufferable, misty-eyed recap of his life. In fact, if anyone makes eyes mist, it’s probably Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, whose gruff and unwavering belief in equality has very personal roots guaranteed to get a sniffle.

Because it’s a Spielberg film, he tries very hard to ruin the ending, driving the point home with a ferocity that suggests he thinks we’re all idiots. In fact, the closest the film comes to sheer idolatry is in the last three minutes, when a somber walk that would have been a perfect final shot moves to a doe-eyed freedman looking at Lincoln like he just saw God. The take-home from Lincoln is that as wicked as government can be, it has the capacity for greatness. Squint, and this film about a critical-thinking, unflappable president lambasted by his own party for not progressing fast enough and accused of destroying the fabric of America by an opposing party determined to create gridlock feels a little familiar. But Lincoln isn’t a preachy message about today; it’s perhaps the first political history epic, crammed with brilliant performances and one botched landing short of perfection.

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screwed. What happens when Lola doesn’t get what she wants? She enlists Daddy’s help to throw a prom of her own, a prom where she is queen and Brent is king, whether he likes it or not.

At Sie FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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

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

The Tempest is the rarest of rarities, an English-language opera. Based on the Shakespeare play, this staging is the premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Not rated. At Century.

RED DAWN

As if the entirety of this super-patriotic film wasn’t already absurd, this is your reminder that Chris Hemsworth is Australian.

THE APARTMENT Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon sparkle in this multiple Oscar-winning dark comedy of corporate ambition and infidelity centered around the use of an apartment. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater BELOVED Starring Catherine Deneuve and (her real-life daughter) Chiara Mastroianni, this sly and exquisitely romantic musical drama spans more than three decades as it follows a mother and daughter’s misadventures in love. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater BON JOVI: INSIDE OUT This tour documentary pulls together performances by the New Jersey rockers from shows in London, the New Meadowlands Stadium in northern New Jersey and Madison Square Garden. Not rated. At Century.

CASABLANCA Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman rekindle their past and stir up wartime intrigue in the most popular screen romance of all time. Rated PG. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres CHASING ICE Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres CLOUD ATLAS

This overly ambitious tale covers six stories written and directed by three people and multiple actors in multiple roles. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess and Hugo Weaving attempt to 40 November 22, 2012

share intersecting tales of humanity and spirituality, some of which involve intergalactic travel and a cloned Asian woman who becomes a deity. The best art is unafraid to fail. This movie is definitely art.

— The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Rated R. At Century.

THE FLAT In his award-winning, emotionally riveting documentary, writer/director Arnon Goldfinger follows the hints his Israeli grandparents left behind to investigate long-buried family secrets and unravel the mystery of their painful past. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres FLIGHT Denzel Washington stars in this actionpacked mystery thriller as a seasoned pilot who saves his plane after a mid-air disaster, rescuing almost all his passengers. He’s dubbed a hero, but the plane’s malfunctions reveal something different.

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

HIGH GROUND Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000-foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. At Sie FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society IN THE FAMILY A 6-year-old has two dads until one dies suddenly in a car accident. He is taken from his remaining father when the dead man’s will names a sister as guardian.

Years of acceptance into the family unravel as the survivor searches for a path to peace with the grieving family and ways to be closer to his son. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater

IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY Cult animator and Academy Award nominee filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has combined his recent “Bill” trilogy of short films into one seamless, beautiful, darkly comedic feature, blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society KNUCKLEBALL!

MIAMI CONNECTION The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multinational martial arts synth rock band Dragon Sound has had enough, and embarks on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. At Sie FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Four years earlier, Ruby was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek. Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town, where her love now resides. At Sie FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

Knuckleball! is the story of a few good men, a handful of pitchers in the entire history of baseball forced to resort to the lowest rung on the credibility ladder in their sport: throwing a ball so slow and unpredictable that no one wants anything to do with it. At Sie FilmCenter.

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Jirí Kylián has been the artistic director and in-house choreographer of Nederlands Dans Theater, an elite group of dancers who are considered “the most balletic modern dancers in the world.” (The Times) At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater

When the beloved cellist of a worldrenowned string quartet receives a lifechanging diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres LIFE OF PI 3D See full review page 39. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

LINCOLN See full review page 39. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

THE LOVED ONES Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he’s

The 1947 holiday classic, featuring Maureen O’Hara, Natalie Wood and lots of mentions of Macy’s. Not rated. At Century.

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NOBODY WALKS Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake.

Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife. At Sie FilmCenter –– Denver Film Society THE OTHER SON

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reel to reel and their respective families. Rated PG-13.

At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER A funny and touching coming-of-age story, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up.

Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres QUEEN OF VERSAILLES A Sundance award-winner, this is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater RED DAWN

In this remake of the 1984 movie, a group of teenagers seeks refuge in the woods and forms a guerilla group of fighters when their city is attacked by foreign forces.

Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D

Childhood legends such as Santa Claus, Sandman and the Easter Bunny along with Jack Frost team up to protect the imagination and beliefs of children. Rated PG. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

SAMSARA In Samsara, Sanskrit for “the ever-turning wheel of life,” filmmakers search for the elusive current of interconnection.

Filmed over nearly five years in 25 countries, it dispenses with dialogue and descriptive text, and our own interpretations are inspired by sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites and natural wonders. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater THE SESSIONS Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the triumphant story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Mayan and Century. –– Landmark Theatres.

SIMON AND THE OAKS An epic drama spanning 1939 to 1952, Simon and the Oaks is the gripping story of Simon (played as an adult by Bill Skarsgård, son of Stellan), who grows up in a loving working class family on the outskirts of Gothenburg but always feels out of place. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres SKYFALL While Daniel Craig has provided some entertaining moments as the world’s most famous fictional spy, James Bond purists have grumbled that Craig’s two films departed too greatly from the 22-film tradition of the womanizing spyhero. Skyfall is a return to form for 007.

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SOMEWHERE BETWEEN Somewhere Between tells the intimate stories of four teenaged girls. They live in different parts of the U.S., in different kinds of families and are united by one thing: All four were adopted from China because all four had birth parents who could not keep them, due to personal circumstances colliding with China’s “One Child Policy.” At Sie FilmCenter.

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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE This Must Be the Place is a visually striking, unpredictable dramatic comedy starring Sean Penn in one of his most unusual and acclaimed roles. Rated R. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 In the ending to this romantic epic, the Cullens seek the help of other vampire clans to the newly born Renesmee and the family from the Volturi. Rated PG-13.

At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks.

WAKE IN FRIGHT The film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Rated R. At Sie FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society WRECK-IT RALPH (3D) When a video game bad guy (John C. Reilly) grows tired of having to be mean, he abandons his game in search of more, winding up in a first-person shooter with a no-nonsense soldier (Jane Lynch) and a kart-racing game with a child (Sarah Silverman). Sweet, fluffy and loads of fun, beware that this isn’t a game changer even if it features lots of game characters. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Rated PG. At Century and Twin Peaks.

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weet potato pie might be hitting some holiday dinner tables in a very different form this year — and it’ll be chewier, but a lot healthier. It’s just one of the flavors of fruit and vegetable leather created by Boulder’s own John and Lisa McHugh.

In July 2011, the couple, fresh off of a European adventure, decided to take the refined way of eating they learned in Europe and bring it not just to Boulder, but to the entire country. What started out as a kitchen experiment quickly turned into a fastgrowing business that fits snuggly in the nation’s growing organic food scene.

After graduating from college, the couple decided to forgo the corporate track that college and experience had prepared them for — John was an engineer and Lisa was a personal trainer — and spend some time working on organic farms in Europe, and somewhere along the way they found inspiration.

“They put food on such a pedestal, and here we don’t do that and that’s the problem,” John says. “Here, we don’t really care what the food looks or tastes like, we just want it fast. We wanted something that was really flavorful and mimicked those fresh flavors from the farm and the nutrients as well without adding any garbage to it.”

With a vague idea for a concept, a love of flavor matching and cooking, and a countertop food dehydrator, the couple set out to create an organic food to sell at local farmers’ markets. The original plan was to create some sort of

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“It only seemed natural to put vegetables in them, too,” Lisa says. “There aren’t any other brands of fruit leathertype items that have spices in them, either.”

John and Lisa are in the process of gaining an organic certification and just recently received a Non-GMO Project Verified seal for Veggie-Go’s. The nutritional snack accounts for half of a serving of both fruit and vegetables and, according to the couple, has about a third of the sugar found in generic brands of fruit leather.

“Our product is made with whole fruits and whole vegetables,” John says.

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Other such products exist, but in slightly different forms. A company called Montana Leather Creations has three different flavors of 100 percent natural, no-sugar-added fruit and veggie leather that is available in several states, though not yet in Colorado.

Trader Joe’s has a fruit and veggie flavor of organically made leather that has its own distinguishing factor. Their healthful snack is made with psyllium husk, flaxseed and inulin, adding a great deal of fiber to the mix, both in nutrition and taste.

When dreams of landing a spot at Boulder’s “cutthroat” farmers’ market were not quite realized, the couple says,

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fed Mara donuts until she wept.

Well, not really, although we ceroughnut or tainly did a fine job of indulging donut? This culiourselves at Dizzy’s Donuts, nary question of Boulder’s newest venue serving nomenclature dates fresh takes on old-school baked goods. back to the early 19th century, when Donuts are big nowadays, akin to where the first cupcakes were a few years ago. written references to Trendy spots like Oregon’s Dizzy’s Donuts this pastry initially Voodoo Doughnuts, which 1606 Conestoga appeared in offer pastries anchored by American literature.

St., Boulder Washington Irving, of everything from Captain 303-494-5331 Sleepy Hollow fame, Crunch cereal to bacon, are in described doughnuts the vanguard of this culinary in 1809 as “balls of trend. sweetened dough, fried in hog’s Dizzy’s, located near 55th and fat.” Approximately 80 years later, Arapahoe, is fairly spartan, featuring utilitarian tables and chairs, with a smattering of plastic Adirondack seating thrown in for good measure. A backgammon set and other amusements for customers provide a welcoming accent. What Dizzy’s lacks in decor is offset by the cheerful service, which included attentive topping off of coffee and an eagerness to answer our many questions.

The shop posts its rotating menu of coffee shop pastries. donuts on Facebook early every mornSpeaking of coffee, Dizzy’s serves ing. Popular items run out fast and, local Ozo brew and has an espresso alas, friend Mara and I arrived too late machine to whip up various lattes and for the maple bacon donut. Other cappuccinos. We were happy to see unique offerings include key lime, that high-quality coffee is available pumpkin cheesecake and frosted black- here, and I say that as someone who berry. Prices for each donut start at still doesn’t understand all the hubbub around two dollars, making the cost surrounding Dunkin’ Donuts java. more than competitive against typical Flashy might best describe the

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner A spelling debate author George Peck, in his Peck’s Bad Boy book series, made mention of the “donut” as a companion to coffee. Another theory holds that a baking equipment manufacturer shortened this sweet’s moniker so that it would be easier to correctly pronounce in non-English-speaking countries buying their wares.

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$2.50 S’more donut. While the base donut had mild chocolate tones, I wondered if things might be slightly improved if the bakers had fully committed to full-bore cocoa flavor. Mara described the top as “incredible,” with its freight of crumbled graham cracker, marshmallow creme and distinct taste of Hershey’s milk chocolate.

For $2, the PBJ was an interesting

update of the classic jelly donut.

Lacking the dusting of powdered sugar of its ancestor, this number made up for it with the addition of smooth and creamy peanut butter. Just the right amount of grape jelly prevented things from sticking to the roof of one’s mouth, and I’d be shocked if the blend of flavors doesn’t trigger fits of nostalgia. The $2.50 double chocolate was a simpler selection, made intriguing by a texture somewhere between a Danish and an old-fashioned donut, sprinkled with cinnamon.

Mara’s favorite was the $2.50 apple fritter, and it’ll likely be a popular item among the donut traditionalists. Most fritters have a sugary glaze thick enough to fossilize a trilobite in, but happily, Dizzy’s version was much more restrained. The fresh apple flavor shone through, in no small part due to the hefty chunks of fruit, the largest either of us had ever tasted in a fritter.

Dizzy’s provides a far better product than the chain donut shops of old.

Most of the offerings from mass market outlets have an overprocessed if not chemical-laden taste. Dizzy differs in that each creation seems to be more of an artisanal baked good made with quality ingredients. With its early morning opening, I suspect Dizzy’s will become a popular spot to grab a sweet on the way to skiing or other sporting activity.

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Limited releases of Orin Swift wines will be presented by sommelier Chad Pare at Arugula at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4. The wines will be paired with a five-course meal prepared by local chefs Alec Schuler of Arugula and Sven Hedenas of Tangerine Boulder.

The menu will feature dishes such as a warm “Red Wagon” baby kale salad with roasted local winter squash, fried capers and pumpkin seeds in apple cider vinaigrette, topped with crispy-skinned, Coloradoraised striped bass. Other dishes will also have an array of local products that will complement the flavors and aromas of each wine.

The cost of the event is $79 per person for both the dinner and wine, including tax and tip. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 303-443-5100. For more information on the wines, visit www.orinswift.com/wines.

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they decided to go a different route and worked to get their Veggie-Go’s on the shelves of grocery stores.

Armed with hand-cut snacks in bags with home-printed labels, John and Lisa found their first success with the organic grocery store Alfalfa’s.

From there, Veggie-Go’s made it to the shelves of independent grocery store Lucky’s Market and into the Vitamin Cottage system. After many emails and one very successful meeting, the McHughs landed a spot with the national chain Whole Foods in January.

“As soon as she tried them, she wanted them in the store,” John says of the store representative who tasted the product. “We had a whole sales pitch ready and we didn’t even have to give it.”

Months later, Veggie-Go’s have become available across the United States, in small, scattered independent grocery stores, at farmers’ markets and through the addition of Whole Foods’ southern region.

Throughout the many different states where their product can be purchased, John and Lisa say they have enjoyed the response, particularly among moms.

“One mom was mad at us because

we were causing after-school fights,” John says. “The kids were fighting over the last one.”

The couple says that fruit and veggie leather makes a great after-school snack for kids, but ringing in at only 20 calories, it’s also a smart way for adults to snag a bite at the office, or for personal trainers like Lisa to recommend to clients.

More importantly for Lisa, though, is that Veggie-Go’s offer the pair a platform for education on organic, nonGMO foods.

“I would love to start doing talks in schools or in a corporate kind of setting, really focusing on the educational side of it,” she says. “That would touch home for me; not just promoting the product, but being an educator on the subject. There’s more and more media on it, so people are finally starting to catch on.”

John and Lisa’s company, The Naked Edge, is expected to add new flavors to the existing flavors — cinnamon beet, sweet potato pie, carrot ginger and mountain berry spinach — as soon as the expansion plans slow down a bit.

“We plan to be the next in a long line of Boulder companies that are national brands,” John says.

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fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include ginger-scented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soyseasoned meatless dumpling.

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asa Japanese Grill is unmatched in its design aesthetic and hospitable service.

This Asian eatery offers all the standbys of Japanese cuisine, including fried tempura options, donburi rice bowls, yakitori skewers, noodles and, of course, sushi. Attention to detail is evident in offerings such as the perfectly steeped Sencha green tea and the agedashi tofu appetizer, and the bento lunches provide fine value.

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Shaggy’s Famous Poutine

very so often, you just crave a hot dog, and Mustard’s Last Stand is Boulder’s best venue to enjoy authentic Chicago-style sausage. Like the best Windy City dog purveyors, Mustard’s uses natural casing Vienna beef sausages, steamed poppyseed buns and a classic mix of condiments like peppers, celery salt and mustard — ketchup need not apply. Other treats include Italian beef sandwiches, garnished with jus “gravy,” peppers and onions.

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haggy’s Famous Poutine brings Canada’s foremost contribution to guilty pleasure chow to Boulder’s University Hill. Poutine is a mix of french fries, gravy and cheese curds. Shaggy’s dishes out filling portions of basic poutine, as well as sophisticated versions featuring jalapeños, chili and guacamole. One offering is the French Tickler, poutine featuring beef gravy and Montreal-style smoked meat.

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oulder’s Mediterranean Market serves up simple, reasonably priced gyros and falafel near the corner of Bluff and 28th. Both the baba ganoush and hummus feature a remarkably silky texture packed with fresh flavor, and the gyro has a pleasing lamb savor that’s a cut above other versions. Sweets include a flaky, honeyed baklava that surprises with a gentle rosewater accent.

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

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

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ygiene’s Crane Hollow Cafe is an endearingly rustic breakfast and lunch spot that may more closely resemble a friend’s countr y cottage than anything else. Offerings here are simple and satisfying, and the menu features such old standbys as corned beef hash and a standout biscuits and gravy.

There’s also a full complement of espresso beverages and homemade pies, including a top-notch mixed berr y number.

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rattoria on Pearl continues to please lunch patrons with its high-value, $10 power lunch. Consisting of a choice of beverage (including house wine), organic green salad or minestrone, and an entree of pasta or hot sandwich, this meal can be enjoyed in less than an hour if you’re pressed for time. Top selections include the tasty eggplant parmigiana or the unapologetically decadent spaghetti carbonara with egg and pancetta.

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

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“Don’t think about making art, just get it done,” said Andy Warhol. “Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” I encourage you to adopt that mini-manifesto for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Aries. If you’re not an artist, simply substitute the appropriate phrase for “making art.” It could be “creating interesting relationships,” “exploring exotic lands,” “changing corrupt political institutions,” “fixing environmental problems,” or even “making money.”

The main point is: Focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning, and forget about what people think of it.

“Sapiosexual” is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence.

Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: “I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want a sapiosexual.” In the coming weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to fitting this definition than you’ve ever been before.

The yearning that’s rising up in you is filled with the need to be stimulated by brilliance, to be influenced by wisdom, to be catalyzed by curiosity.

TAURUS

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

A Jungian writer whose name I have unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: “In a man’s psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, filled with violent and irrational processes of generation and destruction. But to a woman’s psyche the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the secret unity of all life.” After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: You have the chance to get a vivid, visceral understanding of how true this description of the female unconscious is.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Let’s talk about the Decision. I’m referring to the choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet the requirements of being intelligent, responsible, and fun. Of those seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun, and enduring. Of those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring, and the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

I’m not necessarily asserting that you need to edit yourself, Cancerian. Only you can decide that. But I will state unequivocally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your life might benefit from being condensed, corrected, and fine-tuned. It’s also true that the rectifications you do in the coming weeks will be relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please.

Should you calm your blame reflex? Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed some emotional baggage?

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

SCORPIO

In 2007 the band White Stripes did a tour of Canada. One of their final gigs was outdoors in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

They came on stage, played one note — a C-sharp — and declared the performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from the current astrological omens, Scorpio, I’m thinking it would be a good time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the potential to be extremely concise and intense and focused in all you do. I urge you to fulfill that potential. Pack every speech, gesture, and action with a concentrated wealth of meaning.

NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you’ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-resolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally remastered simulation of your first kiss. You’re almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius! The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be flying high and looking very, very good.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The plot twists will be intriguing. The actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be happening simultaneously, and the line between wisdom and craziness could get blurry. There’s not nearly enough room in this little horoscope to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes. Are you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn, because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Psychologists have done studies that suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of fictional characters we read about or see in movies. That’s not a problem if those characters are smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours. But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the role models you allow to seep into your imagination. You’re especially susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: Expose yourself intensely to only the very best fictional characters who embody the heights you aspire to reach.

VIRGO

PISCES

A medical research journal reported on a British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her stomach for 25 years. When surgeons finally removed it, they were surprised to find it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect, though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and find use for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.

“The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.”

So said the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca, and now I’m passing it on to you. It’s an excellent time for you to think about the issue. Ask yourself: Have you been cooperating with fate so that it has maximum power to shepherd you?

Have you been working closely with fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints and timely nudges? Or have you been you avoiding fate, even resisting it out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and righteous.

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