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November 26, 2009 Volume XVII, 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-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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(Re: “Medical association: Reconsider pot," In Case You Missed It, Nov. 19.)

While I’m thrilled that the American Medical Association has finally urged the federal government to rethink its prohibitionist stance on medical marijuana, I can’t help but wonder about their disclaimer, i.e., that this should not be not be viewed as an endorsement of marijuana legalization.

Does the American Medication Association believe that jail cells and criminal records are appropriate as health interventions? They certainly don’t work as deterrents. In 2008, there were 847,863 marijuana arrests in the U.S., almost 90 percent for simple possession. The end result of this ongoing culture war is not necessarily lower rates of use. The U.S. has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available.

At a time when state and local governments are laying off police, firefighters and teachers, this country continues to spend enormous public resources criminalizing Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis.

Robert Sharpe/Arlington, Va.

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To err or not to err

(Re: “With love from Boulder,”

Danish Plan, Nov. 19.) Get a clue!

Hamlet didn’t live in Copenhagen.

Sidney Shinedling/via Internet Editor’s note: Hamlet’s home was in Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, about 28 miles north of Copenhagen. The columnist was taking poetic license.

Thanks for hunting story

(Re: “My attempt to hunt was more harmful to me than the elk,” Nov. 19.)

Great article! Well presented from the “organic” perspective. I was happy to go organic with meat, ’cause it allowed me to hunt more! Thanks for an honest and fair perspective on our sport.

Brett Valette/Superior

Keep it down at library

It seems times have changed when it comes to being quiet at public libraries. When I was a child, librarians used to “shush” people for vocalizing anything louder than a whisper. At most libraries these days (particularly at the Boulder Central Library), people talk to their friends or yap on their cell phones at full volume, apparently without any regard to whether they are disturbing other patrons. I’m sure most people who frequent this establishment would concur with my opinion.

Tells NBC News that those offended by extending privileges of a civil trial to self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.”

OK, no matter how big of a scumbag Mohammed is, if Obama’s whole point of bringing him to New York City is to give him a fair trial, the president shouldn’t be publicly predicting the outcome. It tends to further prejudice the jury pool.

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Just the other day, I was using one of the Internet stations, with a child 7 to 8 years of age sitting right next to me. Another person sitting three chairs down from him was rambling on his cell phone about how much he enjoys the sex acts (in graphic detail) one of his

acquaintances performs on him. Every imaginable vulgarity was probably used during the course of this 15-minute, fullvolume phone discussion.

Although as a youth, I was somewhat see LETTERS Page 6

Joins NFL stars such as Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints and DeMarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys to shoot a TV ad on the White House lawn promoting the NFL’s Play 60 campaign, which encourages kids to play and be active physically at least 60 minutes a day. With alarming increases in obesity among Americans, this powerful spot was done for a worthy cause.

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http://www. anker” and “morality” are not concepts you would ever expect jimhightower.com For more information on Jim to find paired together, but Hightower’s work — and to some of the biggest bankers in subscribe to his award-winning Europe are rushing out to insist that, at monthly newsletter, The heart, they are all about morality.

Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

This unprecedented public profession of personal ethics has been prompted by the ongoing outrage that Europeans are expressing about the economic collapse bankers caused and the obscene bonuses that they’re now paying themselves. Americans are furious about the same thing here, but in Europe the greed is seen as a fundamental moral failure. The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, has even called on bankers to “repent” for their ethical sins.

Incredibly, several bankers are defending themselves by asserting that their outsized bonuses allow them to donate to charity, thus proving their moral soundness. This has generated nothing but guffaws and hoots of derision from the public.

Their charity defense reminds me of a story from Earl Long, former governor of Louisiana. It’s about a rich man who died and showed up at the Pearly Gates, demanding entry into heaven. But you can’t just walk in. An angel stands out in front of the Gates and reviews your life. Then St. Peter decides who gets to come in.

The Angel found that this rich man had been a selfish, no-good so-and-so his whole life. But, the man said, “Wait a minute, I actually have a consistent pattern of charitable giving.” He said he’d once tossed a nickel in a beggar’s cup. Plus, a poor woman he encountered needed help, and he gave her a nickel.

Then there was the time that he put a nickel in the Salvation Army kettle.

Hearing all this, the angel turned back to St. Peter and asked, “What in the world are we going to do with this man? And St. Peter said: “Give him back his 15 cents and tell him to go to hell!”

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“Where is the bailout for public education?”

— Sonja Diaz, a grad student at the University of California at Los Angeles, after the UC Board of Regents approved a student-fee increase of 32 percent “It’s Grinch-like.”

— Doug Isaacson, mayor of North Pole, Alaska, regarding the recent decision by the U.S. Postal Service to stop delivering letters addressed to “Santa Claus, North Pole,” which were answered by volunteers “I probably will not.”

— President Barack Obama, after being asked whether he intends to read Sarah Palin’s new book

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put-off by being “hushed,” I can now greatly appreciate the way things used to be, and I wish that the staff at the Boulder Library put a little more emphasis on keeping people quiet while they are in the building. I do appreciate how helpful and friendly our librarians are (no question there), but I just get the feeling sometimes that in these circumstances, no one wants to get involved.

So, just in case they don’t get a chance to read this, or decide it no longer falls under a librarians’ job description to police the activities of others, may I just say ... please, turn your cell phones off and keep them off while visiting a public library, and watch your language. I do hope that the library will choose to respond to this plea in some manner, for I must admit, I don’t think the people I’ve described here (the talkers) have the social graces to care one way or the other what anyone else thinks. Hence, a little enforcement is probably called for.

David Muhl/Boulder

Show us the birth certificate Lou Dobbs is hardly what some in the media have derisively called a see LETTERS Page 9

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Inspiring ideas missing in Palin’s book

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way forward,” should have been the most Republicans are bereft of ideas. Their he whole phenomenon of important. credibility as the party of fiscal responsiSarah Palin, I admit, is a mysThese days the Republican Party — bility was severely damaged by the Bush tery to me. and the political right in general — is years. Nothing comparable to the power She has built a large folmore united than it has been for some of supply-side economics, which helped lowing. She has powerful sup- time, thanks to the debacle unfolding in propel Ronald Reagan to the White porters in talk radio.

House, is on the She is incontestably horizon as a party sincere. She is driven What I read only reinforced the perceptions platform. and gutsy. In Alaska, So I was interestshe took on the old Palin created with her disastrous Katie ed in what Sarah bulls in her own party Palin might offer. and won. For many, Couric interview and the jarringly disjointWhat I found she embodies that ran for a mere 13 ed speech she gave this year when resignstrain of populism that pages, written in believes an ordinary prose that was uttering as Alaska’s governor. person, plucked from ly dead. She believes obscurity, can somein America and our times do extraordinary free enterprise systhings.

Washington. tem. The market should be allowed to And yet in Palin’s case, some vital eleBut beyond the immediate imperative work. Our foreign policy should be peace ment is missing. For example, the last of curbing the most disastrous impulses chapter of her book, the one charting “the of the Obama administration, the see PALIN Page 9

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birther. In fact, Dobbs has stated repeatedly that he feels that Barack Obama is probably president of the United States.

However, Dobbs is now $9 million poorer because he had the integrity and courage to ask a pivotal question that is unanswered, a question Barack Obama refuses to answer and a question that you apparently refuse to ask, namely, why hasn’t Barack Obama simply produced his actual birth certificate?

More to the point, why has Team Obama spent what may be as much as $1.4 million fighting efforts to compel him to produce his actual birth certificate, and why does Team Obama continue to contend that Obama has produced a birth certificate, when the document Obama has produced is not an actual birth certificate.

For years the media has excused egregious actions, invasions of privacy and outright lies by citing the worn-out adage, “The people have a right to know.” If that’s the case, the people have a right to know the answer to the question that Dobbs is $9 million poorer for asking. Is Obama resisting these efforts out of pure arrogance? Is he trying to hide something unrelated to his eligibility? Or would the release of his actual birth certificate bolster the argument that he might be ineligible to hold the office of president of the United States?

Shame on you for not asking the question. Asking such a question is not a conspiracy theory; however, your refusal to ask the question, and in Dobbs case, squelching the question, is cause for suspicion.

Margie LaFitte/Dayton,Texas Editor’s note: We haven’t asked that question because it would be a complete waste of time. By continuing to pursue this nonissue, the roots of which lie in bigotry, you squander time and energy better spent on resolving the real problems facing this country today.

Why reduce nukes now?

President Obama naively suggests the world can be free of nuclear weapons if the U.S. and Russia commit to arms reduction.

Obama is negotiating a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia in December 2009 that could reduce the U.S. and Russian operational nuclear warhead arsenals from more than 2,500 to 1,500 warheads each. The treaty assumes we can verify the Russians destroyed their 1,000 warheads. The treaty will also reduce the number of longrange missiles.

The reduction in U.S. nuclear/missile capabilities jeopardizes our national security because a number of other countries maintain nuclear weapons, including China, Pakistan and North Korea. Iran is currently developing nuclear weapons, and Syria desires to have nuclear capability.

The world will never be free of nuclear weapons because countries like North Korea and Iran are led by dictators who lust for the threatening power of nuclear weapons and the capability to use their nuclear arsenal against perceived enemies.

President Obama’s lofty rhetoric sounds wonderful to himself and the Nobel Peace (In Weakness) Prize Committee, but I doubt he will satisfy his appetite for appeasement and get the leaders of the nuclear armed countries around a campfire to toast the elimination of nuclear weapons and merrily sing Kumbaya.

Donald A. Moskowitz/Londonderry, N.H.

and congressmen and demand that they make no changes to our health care. The current administration wants, over time, to take total control of our heath care.

Our dollar is no longer backed by gold or silver. It is fiat money made legal tender by the federal government.

Furthermore, the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Bank, a private entity not responsible to anyone, determines how much money should be in circulation. We need to make a first true audit of this organization by urging Congress to pass H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009.

If we can get enough people to contact Congress about these two items, we will be well on the way to reining in our runaway federal government.

Edward Milton Ventresca/Canyon Country, Calif.

Health care for all

Our federal government is out of control. Most federal representatives completely ignore our Constitution, which they took a solemn oath to uphold. The feds are responsible, but the real blame is that we, the people, have allowed it to happen. And it will continue to get worse unless we stop it.

We can start by contacting our senators

Editor’s note: A portion of the following letter was inadvertently omitted in the Nov. 19 issue. Here it is in its entirety: Do we care about each other? Do we care about the least of our brethren, the ones who have the least resources? Do we care that all of us have health care? Then we can do it. It really is that clear-cut. If every other technologically advanced nation in the world can do it (and they do), we can, too. However, the pending legislation, if not changed, could be a

her stepping down doesn’t mean she’s a quitter, because she’s decided to “take a stand and effect change.”

Palin is sometimes compared to Reagan. Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard, a good writer and a usually reliable source, notes that the elitists dismissed Reagan as they dismissed Palin, because, like Palin, “he represented the provincial folkways of small town America.”

But the comparison is ludicrous.

Palin was yanked from obscurity to be John McCain’s running mate, and in retrospect the move was simply more evidence of McCain’s famously erratic nature.

Palin’s record, compared with Reagan’s, is thin. By the time Reagan

faced Jimmy Carter, he had spent years speaking and writing on the issues of the day. He had completed two terms as California governor. And he was thoroughly tested in national politics. In 1976, he nearly unseated Gerald Ford in the struggle for the GOP nomination.

Reagan was widely known and above all he had a superior rhetorical talent, meaning he had the capacity to persuade that every successful leader, and especially a president, must have.

Palin is mentioned frequently as a possible candidate for president, but it seems highly unlikely and it’s not clear she’s interested. She isn’t making any political visits in Iowa or New Hampshire.

Only 27 percent of the public see her

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massive windfall for certain corporations and a huge loss for everyone else.

The good news: There is a way to have good coverage for all, spend less than our country is spending now for health care and have better outcomes. We can only do this by taking the profit out of the financing of health care. (No other country uses for-profit health insurance companies.)

This could be a publicly determined transparent system of private not-forprofit insurance companies that all play by the same rules.

Contact your local and national representatives (Congress.org and type in your zip code). At least tell them to allow individual states to create their own health care system. Colorado could then be a vanguard (perhaps with some other states) to show the rest of the country that it can be done. See HealthCareforAllColorado.org.

Beth Williamson/Boulder

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in a positive light, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Among Republicans, her approval is 52 percent — a split that suggests why she is potentially a big problem for the GOP if she returns to electoral politics.

Politicians change and grow, develop and learn. Politics is fascinating because, like sports, the seemingly impossible can happen. So Palin could come forth in some future election displaying greater depth and offering an exciting program.

But that would be one heckuva comeback.

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through strength. Energy independence is critical. We need to get federal spending under control.

OK, agreed. But where’s the insight, the persuasive spark that might make a skeptical reader say, “I hadn’t thought of that”? What I read only reinforced the perceptions Palin created with her disastrous Katie Couric interview and the jarringly disjointed speech she gave this year when resigning as Alaska’s governor.

I read that speech again and was struck by the enormous gap between sound and sense. She had placed the stunning news of her resignation in an inappropriate package of happy talk about the wonders of Alaska and her accomplishments. And oh by the way,

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hey got the call in the afternoon on the day before Thanksgiving 2008. The man on the other end of the line — a veteran of World War II — told them that his heat had gone out.

He’d tried reaching his landlord and the utility company with no luck. Everyone seemed to be gone for the holiday, he said.

Staff at RSVP of Boulder County, still at work despite the holiday, listened as the man explained that he didn’t like to have to ask for help. His only experience in getting help from strangers came from his contact with the Veterans Administration, he told them. It went against his grain to have to rely on others, but he had no choice. He was cold.

RSVP contacted a volunteer, who went to the man’s home to check his furnace.

“We found him trying to keep warm by burning things in a coffee can,” says Maureen Ewing, RSVP’s executive director.

Soon, however, the volunteer was able to fix the man’s furnace, restoring heat to his small trailer — and perhaps helping him to regain some trust in people. And it didn’t cost him one red cent.

RSVP — an acronym for Retired Senior Volunteer Program — has been providing free safety-net services to elders in Boulder County since 1972, utilizing the time and skills of more than 1,000 volunteers. The goal of the program is to help the elderly, as well as disabled adults, live more independent, secure and comfortable lives, as well as to reduce the isolation that darkens the days of people who can no longer get out to socialize.

It’s a big mission. Demand for RSVP’s services have grown dramatically over the past year as aging Baby Boomers and economic troubles combine, swelling the ranks of senior citizens who struggle to make ends meet.

At the same time, corporate donations are down.

But the staff and volunteers of RSVP are determined to persevere, and they’re succeeding at doing just that.

And it’s a good thing, too. For many of Boulder County’s low-income elderly, the services that RSVP provides not only make it possible for them to continue living in dignity in their own homes, but may even save lives.

Volunteer ‘angels’ The statistics concerning older residents in Boulder County aren’t pretty. About 6 percent of those who live in poverty in the county are seniors. About 8 percent of all seniors in Boulder County — more than 3,000 people — live on fewer than two meals a day and rarely have access to fresh fruit and vegetables. Many struggle to remain independent, determined to live on their own and yet challenged by activities that others take for granted. One in five report suffering from depression and a sense of isolation. Nationwide, the fastest growing rate of suicide is among older adults, particularly men aged 75 and older.

A Nixon-era program, RSVP steps into that picture

with a range of programs designed to meet the specific needs of the elderly, including transportation, help with household repairs, and support with food and companionship.

Alamar Hernandez, 60, was managing her life fairly well — until she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Faced with surgery and chemotherapy, she found herself needing to get to numerous medical appointments but was unable to drive. Although she has a big family — seven children and 13 grandchildren — she and her husband live in Boulder County, while the rest of the family lives in Texas. Her husband wasn’t always available to help her.

At first she tried getting to her appointments using Special Transit, but found that difficult to coordinate. Also, there were often people on the Special Transit bus who were ill, and she couldn’t afford to get sick. She turned to RSVP. “I am so grateful for them,” she says. “They saw me through my cancer. They were there for my appointments. They were there for me for everything I needed. I am so happy for this program. I’ve been so sick and been hospitalized. I have so many appointments. They came to my rescue because I can’t drive.”

Volunteers not only drove her to her appointments and to the pharmacy, but they also contacted her doctor’s office and kept up to date on her appointments themselves to make sure she didn’t forget one.

“They’d call to remind me that they were coming the next day,” she says.

As Alamar came to know the volunteers, they became a support system for her during a difficult time, giving her less to worry about and decreasing her sense of isolation during her illness and recovery.

“I’m so glad God has these angels watching over us,” she says.

One of those angels is Eleanor Hoffman, 92, who has volunteered for RSVP for about eight years.

Hoffman answers the phones, does filing and other office work.

“I don’t do windows, and I don’t do floors,” says Hoffman, who also volunteers for Circle of Care, Community Table, the city’s senior centers and the library.

Asked why she volunteers for RSVP, Hoffman says, “I’m with people. I’m with young people all the time. I enjoy doing this. I enjoy coming out of the house and

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Eleanor Hoffman, 92, has volunteered for RSVP for eight years.

being able to do what I’m doing, too. It’s nice because everyone is so young and nice here.”

About 90 percent of RSVP’s volunteers are themselves above the age of 55. Many are retired and have extra time on their hands — and lots of experience solving problems. The too-often overlooked talents of seniors — and their willingness to help — have played a key role in RSVP’s continued presence in the community.

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Ewing agree that it’s important for seniors to spend time with people of all ages. It’s also important for younger people to learn from their elders and to experience the world through their eyes.

“Most of my friends are younger than me,” Hoffman says, adding, “Of course, anybody could be younger than me.”

Though RSVP once had a companionship program, Boulder County Aging Services now heads that effort, working in cooperation with RSVP to arrange social visits between volunteers and seniors who can’t get out.

Volunteers spend a few hours a week playing cards, drinking coffee or just talking with clients who need that most basic of all requirements — human contact The feeling of isolation that many seniors experience gets worse during the holiday season, Ewing says.

She recalls getting a call from an elderly woman in Boulder County who had no surviving family.

“She said, ‘I just want a Thanksgiving dinner, and I can’t find anyone to bring it to me,’” Ewing recalls.

“That just broke my heart.”

Ewing brought her Thanksgiving dinner, and the two became friends. The woman is now 96. Ewing brings her KFC — her favorite — and pops in to visit from time to time.

“She’s alone every day, not just Thanksgiving, but that feeling of loneliness intensifies during the holidays,” Ewing says.

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Although demand for RSVP services continues to increase, funding hasn’t. After last fall’s economic meltdown, the nonprofit saw a drop in donations from corporations and smaller foundations. Corporate donations alone dropped by 25 percent. RSVP ended last year $30,000 in the red.

“Even though we have the same budget, we’re serving double the amount of clients,” Ewing says.

Faced with cutting services that mean so much to their clients, staff decided instead to freeze hiring and salaries and to make some tough cuts.

“We discontinued our janitorial service,” Ewing says.

“So the staff are in here vacuuming, taking out the trash and cleaning toilets. We just decided to cut back on luxuries like that. We were able to not cut any services.”

Ewing, who started working with seniors when she was 22 and got a job in a nursing home, says she never thought she’d devote her career to working with seniors.

“I was a little apprehensive at first coming on,” she says. “I thought maybe it would be really sad. Then you meet all these characters.”

Instead of finding the experience depressing, Ewing found it uplifting. She’s worked with seniors ever since and finds herself inspired by them.

“What’s most inspiring to me is that they’ve seen their children die. They’ve seen their spouses die.

They’ve had really traumatic things happen to them,” she says, “and they’re still so full of joy.”

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remain active in the program through city communication resources, RSVP is taking over the logistics and management of the program. The transition will save the city money and is expected to provide greater reach for those needing assistance through RSVP’s volunteers.

While demand for the Fix-It and Medical Mobility programs has surged, the number of clients participating in RSVP’s Carry-Out Caravan, which brings groceries to house-bound clients, has dropped by 6 percent. When RSVP looked into this, they discovered that people still Doubling demand had the same need for help grocery shopping, but they were running out of money and were unable to afford Since its inception in 2007, the Medical Mobility groceries. They were going hungry instead. program that has been such a help to Hernandez has “At the end of the month is the most heartbreaking provided more than 2,000 car trips for elders who time because that’s when the Social Security checks are couldn’t drive themselves. According to Ewing, the drying up,” Ewing says. “So we might be serving 150 clidemand for services has doubled since last year. Only ents the first couple weeks of the month, then at the end about 20 percent of the clients who receive these services of the month it might drop down to between 75 to 100.” can pay the $2 fare. Those who can’t pay are not required RSVP has been working with other county agencies to do so. to get emergency food boxes to those who need food assistance and to help The Fix-It Program has seen a similar jump, them sign up for food Ewing says. In October stamps, a process that 2009, RSVP received can be a confusing some 1,000 calls for help. “nightmare” for seniors Ewing attributes this with impaired vision or increase in part to the who are unfamiliar with economic situation and in navigating their way part to the aging of Baby through the system, Boomers.

Ewing says.

During the holiday “People aren’t able to RSVP of Boulder County is currently seeking season, RSVP partners afford professional servicvolunteers for the Holiday Fruit Basket Drive on Dec. with an array of county es so they’re coming to 12. There will be two volunteer sites — one in Boulder at agencies, including us,” she says.

Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., and the other in ElderShare and Boulder Volunteers for the Longmont at the Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Housing Authority, to Fix-It Program are able Ave. To participate or learn more about the program, call deliver 900 baskets of to complete basic house303-772-2262 for more information. fresh fruit to lowhold repairs and can also To learn more about RSVP, to make a donation, for income seniors. The install railings and grabservices or to volunteer, call the Boulder office at baskets, which are bars, simple equipment 303-443-1933 or the Longmont office at 303-772-2262. donated by Denverthat can make a big difOr go to www.RSVPBoulder.org based Volunteers of ference for seniors who America, are delivered want to stay out of nursby volunteers over the ing homes and live indecourse of a single pendently.

Saturday. This year’s “Falls are the leading Holiday Fruit Basket Drive will take place on Dec. 12. cause of injury-related deaths for people over the age of While these programs address the specific needs of 65,” Ewing says.

RSVP’s clients, they also help to combat an insidious, The program expanded last year to include Elder Energy, a program designed to help decrease seniors’ util- debilitating problem that afflicts in particular the elderly and disabled — isolation. ity bills by, among other things, replacing incandescent Volunteers are encouraged to offer a kind word and a light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights and installing friendly smile to the clients they’re helping, whether low-flow showerheads. The materials used by volunteers they’ve stopped off with a fruit basket or have come to were donated by Longs Peak Energy Conservation and tighten the screws on a loose railing. The benefits go are available to RSVP clients on request. both ways, volunteers say. Many volunteers end up buildThis year, RSVP is taking over the city of Boulder’s ing enduring friendships with RSVP clients.

Ice Busters program. Ice Busters provides senior citizens Although most volunteers are seniors, Ewing says and physically disabled people who are unable to clear RSVP has volunteers as young as 9, and that its prosnow from their sidewalks assistance to meet the city’s grams often bring generations together. Hoffman and snow removal ordinance. This winter, while the city will

Wendell Schuler, a Fix-It volunteer, leaves a client’s home in better shape than he found it.

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ccording to the nonprofit Earth Pledge, today some 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used throughout the world to turn raw materials into textiles. Domestically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that one-quarter of all pesticides used nationwide go toward growing cotton, primarily for the clothing industry. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers many domestic textile manufacturing facilities to be hazardous waste generators, and lax standards and enforcement in developing countries, where the majority of textiles are produced, means that untold amounts of pollution are likely being deposited into local soils and waterways in regions that can hardly stand further environmental insult.

Luz Claudio, writing in Environmental Health Perspectives, considers the way Americans and Europeans shop for clothes as “waste couture:” Fashion is low-quality and sold at “prices that make the purchase tempting and the disposal painless.” Yet this sort of socalled “fast fashion” leaves a pollution footprint, with each step of the clothing life cycle generating potential environmental and occupational hazards.

According to Technical Textile Markets, a quarterly trade publication, demand for man-made fibers such as petroleum-derived polyester has nearly doubled in the last 15 years. “The manufacture of polyester and other synthetic fabrics is an energy-intensive process requiring large amounts of crude oil,” reports Claudio. In addition, she says, the processes emit volatile organic compounds and solvents, particulate matter, acid gases such as hydrogen chloride, and other production by-products into the air and water.

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safety do not apply only to the production of man-made fabrics,” says Claudio, citing subsidies to the pesticide-laden cotton industry that keep prices low and production high.

In an effort to green up the industry, Earth Pledge launched its FutureFashion initiative in 2005 to promote the use of renewable, reusable and non-polluting materials and production methods.

Besides putting on its own FutureFashion showcases, the group organized the January 2008 New York Fashion Week, encouraging designers to create and showcase greener clothing on their runway models. Green-leaning designers can also pick through Earth Pledge’s library of 600 sustainably produced textiles, including organic cotton as well as exotic materials such as sasawashi, pina, bamboo, milk protein and sea leather.

Another effort under way to speed the fashion industry into a carbon-constrained future is the Ethical Fashion Forum, which provides a variety of tools and resources and runs training sessions and networking events to help facilitate moving the industry towards more sustainable practices.

One stumbling block to the greening of fashion is that only a small number of consumers — some analysts say less than 1 percent — will pay more for a greener shirt. But if the industry itself can improve its footprint from the inside and drive the costs of more eco-friendly materials and processes down, the benefits will trickle down to consumers, whether they are bargain-conscious or fashion-conscious.

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Broadway project half-finished The Broadway reconstruction project between Pine Street and Iris Avenue is halfway done, and all roadway lanes between North Street and Balsam Avenue are expected to be reopened this week. The next segment of construction, Balsam Avenue to the North Boulder Recreation Center, has begun, and the entire project is expected to be complete by late summer 2010.

In celebration of the project’s midpoint, the city of Boulder; the property owners of the Ideal Shops, Ideal Market and Community Plaza; and adjacent businesses on Broadway are partnering to sponsor a “Holiday Gift Certificate Giveaway.” More than 70 $25 gift certificates will be given away over a threeweek period. Drawings will be held on Dec. 5, 12 and 19. Entry forms are available in participating stores. For complete giveaway rules, entry forms and a list of participating merchants, see the project newsletter, available on the Broadway reconstruction website at http://tinyurl. com/y8ruxcu.

Volunteer monitors needed The city of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks department is looking for volunteers to help monitor nest sites for rare birds of prey along the Front Range — falcons, osprey and eagles. Volunteers should be skilled at bird identification and be able to make a four-hour commitment each week.

Hiking to nest sites can be strenuous, although a few sites can be observed from a car. Nests are typically occupied from February until late July. For more information and an application, visit www. bouldercolorado.gov/osmpvolunteers.

In addition, Boulder County Parks and Open Space is now accepting applications for its 2010 Volunteer Natural Resource Monitor program. Volunteers collect scientific data about wildlife, forestry, plant ecology and noxious weeds.

Ideal candidates have a background in natural resources, experience collecting field data, and familiarity with the scientific method. Knowledge of local flora and fauna is preferred.

For additional information, visit www. bouldercountyopenspace.org/volunteering or contact Michael Bauer at 303-6786219 or mbauer@bouldercounty.org.

RMSE to host Holiday recycOil 2009 Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises is hosting its third annual Holiday recycOil event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 28. Organized to help individuals and families recycle their waste fryer oil after Thanksgiving, the event is expected to divert hundreds of gallons of used cooking oil from landfills and municipal sewer systems throughout the region. Participating municpalities include Boulder, Erie, Lafayette,

Louisville and Loveland. For event locations and more information on Holiday recycOil visit www.rmse.biz.

Youth-adult art show coming High school students on the City of Boulder’s Youth Opportunities Advisory Board (YOAB) are organizing the fifth annual juried youth-adult art exhibit.

Applications are being accepted through Dec. 4. Youth artists must be high school age and must live or attend school in the city of Boulder. Adult artists must live or work in the city of Boulder. Voices V: Perspectives of the Artistic Soul will take place Jan. 8–15 at Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., in Boulder. The application is available online at www.yoab.org. For more information, call Alice Swett at 303-441-4349.

Boulder firm launches search site Boulder-based PublicEarth has launched a new website, www.publicearth.com, that serves as a sort of “Wiki for Places” and features up-to-date information in a personalized way. Users can search for interesting locations worldwide that aren’t associated with businesses and restaurants in web searches.

The site has information on more than 4.7 million locations, and that number is growing by the hundreds each week.

More affordable housing funding The Boulder Housing Partners Foundation has received a $5,000 grant from the U.S. Bancorp Foundation to support affordable development projects that have significant funding gaps caused by changes in economic conditions.

“Affordable housing is one of the top priorities for the city of Boulder,” said BHP Executive Director Betsey Martens.

“This funding will go directly toward these efforts, which are very crucial right now, as the demand for affordable housing far exceeds the supply.”

For information about help with housing needs, contact BHP at 720-564-4610.

Bank gives Sister Carmen $5,000 The Sister Carmen Center recently announced that it has received a $5,000 gift from Great Western Bank to assist residents in eastern Boulder County served by the center.

The gift is a part of the bank’s Greater Than CD program and will be used to assist families in crisis with housing and utility costs.

The Sister Carmen Community Center provides families with emergency assistance through their wide offering of community support services and the center’s emergency food bank.

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Wow, the wingnuts on the right are are really getting desperate, really starting to push some boundaries.

First, there was the owner of the Wheat Ridge car dealership who decorated a billboard with a caricature of President Barack Obama wearing a turban, with the words, “President or Jihad?”

In large print appeared the words “Birth certificate,” followed by “Prove it” and “Wake up America! Remember Ft. Hood!”

Nice. At what point are these kooks going to resort to publicly using racial epithets to describe the president? When does the line get crossed? How much will the American public tolerate? A Colorado state senator has already compared Obama to those who hijacked one of the planes on 9/11. What’s next?

Oh, and the name of the Wheat Ridge dealership to blacklist is Wolf Automotive.

Free speech is protected and is a great thing, but there are consequences, as Ward Churchill found out.

The scary part is that there are probably people who will start taking their business to Wolf because of this.

Don’t forget that more than half the country voted to re-elect George W. Bush.

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World Toilet Day on Nov. 19.

We didn’t, and the porcelain gods unleashed their vengeful wrath against us by rendering the women’s toilet at the B-dub office useless. We arrived on the morning of the 20th and discovered that the flushing mechanism had been savagely ripped in two, due to our failure to pay proper homage to the can.

But seriously, this World Toilet Day

thing is for real. Apparently, it is recognized internationally as a day to raise awareness for the 2.5 billion people in the world who do not have access to proper sanitation.

To mark World Toilet Day, according to an e-mail from WTD Global Coordinator Jenny Steeves, everybody was supposed to be “going to malls, offices, parks and other public places and

squatting. For one full minute. (Which is really difficult if you’re not used to squatting.) We’re calling it the Big Squat.”

This may strike you as funny, but Steeves says it’s to recognize that squatting is what 2.5 billion people have to do to relieve themselves.

“It’s undignified,” she says. “It’s unsanitary. And it’s why 1.8 million people die of diarrhea each year, including 5,000 kids a day.”

You, too, could have started a “Squat Squad.” See www.worldtoiletday.com.

Next year we’ll have to pay more attention to our crapper karma. You should, too.

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One of the latest incidents in this string of lowball moves from the right is this whole e-mail hacking thing by the climate-change deniers.

E-mails from Boulder’s own Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research were among files that hackers stole from a university in England, according to the Associated Press, and Trenberth says he thinks the intent was to pull comments out of context to undermine scientists’ findings that humans are contributing to global warming.

And that’s exactly what they’re doing in opinion columns and blogs around the world. Right-wing British pundit James Delingpole wrote a blog titled, “Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming?’”

The final nail? Hardly. Delingpole and others like him seem to think that they’re in the majority and that those who believe humans are contributing to climate change are on the fringe. In fact, the reverse is true.

Wingnuts seem to be sinking to new depths each week, as if there were some kind of competition going on. Who’s going to be craziest this week? The birthers? The folks who insist Obama is a Muslim? Global warming deniers?

These goofballs must still be mad about those eight years of well-founded criticisms of George W. Bush. But here’s the thing: When liberals insisted that Bush was deceiving the nation about Iraq and pushing us into an unnecessary war, they were right.

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Nancy Cranbourne will discuss dance at the Boulder Public Library Wednesday.

Thursday, Nov. 26

Annual Thanksgiving Day Buffet — Not going to lie, here. There’s not much to do on Thanksgiving besides eat turkey. Happy Turkey Day, everybody.

Hotel Boulderado Ballroom, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

Friday, Nov. 27

Get-out-of-the-House Day and Avoid Leftovers — A happy hour with wine deals and tapas. Great for turkey hangovers. 3-6 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

Saturday, Nov. 28

Amy Goodman KGNU Benefit Talk — Host of “Democracy Now!” and asskicking journalist Amy Goodman comes to Boulder, with all proceeds benefiting the best independent radio station in Colorado. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-449-4885.

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he Foothills are alive with the sound of music — painting and cinema to boot. There is a renaissance in Boulder County, where the cinema, and the performing and visual arts are thriving.

But how do we house all these artists in our ever-expanding art scene? Boulder’s Dairy Center, the Longmont Performing Arts Center and Louisville’s downtown have plans to expand their artistic quarters up through the summer of 2011, giving artists the space they need to flourish in Boulder’s already vibrant, synergistic art scene.

The Dairy Center seems like it has everything: three theaters, three art galleries, dance studios and a large music school. But there was something missing, something the Dairy wasn’t offering Boulder residents: a way to satiate

their cinematic palate.

Recently Crocs founder George B. Boedecker Jr. donated a very large — and undisclosed — sum of money to create a theater to show independent cinema in a block of unused space within the Dairy.

The Dairy already has two blackbox theaters — a 100-seat and 80-seat theater — used for live theater performances, and they’re booked all winter long with half a dozen theater group performances, one after another.

Resident organizations like Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, CenterStage Theatre Company and Upstart Crow Theatre Company have booked performances that will each last around six weeks long. Woof! Theatre Productions will also perform throughout the winter. This leaves no time for film showings. The new art-house the-

ater, which will be called the Boedecker Theatre, will be almost exclusively a cinema for independent films.

The art-house theater will be built in the northeast corner of the Dairy, next to the existing box office. The 2,000-square-foot space is currently unused and at one time housed the Boulder Community Access television station. This area will be demolished and reconstructed to suit the needs of the roughly 130-seat cinema with high-definition digital projection. The theater will also have a film booth in the back, but won’t invest in a celluloid film projector. Instead, filmmakers can bring in 35 mm film projectors to show their films. The size of the screen is yet to be determined, according to Richard Harris, the Dairy Center’s executive director.

Harris estimates that construction

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Monday, Nov. 30

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

Tuesday, Dec. 1

Wine Tasting — Get the lowdown on holiday wines with resident expert David Miller. Before you know it, you’ll be the know-it-all your friends grudingly ask for pairing advice. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Wednesday, Dec. 2

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Lives Lived in Dance, a film and interview series highlighting local dance luminaries, with guest artist Nancy Cranbourne. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197.

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will begin in February or March. It will take three to four months for the city to do the site review, examining architectural plans for the theater. The Dairy submitted their application for a site review on Nov. 16, and from there, the city moves at its own pace, leaving a wavering date for construction to begin. Once the Dairy gets the city’s approval, Harris estimates that the theater’s construction will take between three to five months. And the grand opening? Harris anticipates “within a year and hopefully much less than a year.”

Boulder is a rich area for film. The International Film Series, Boulder’s first art-house series, has the longest independent film track record in the area, starting screenings in 1941. IFS brings more than a hundred international and independent films to Boulder every year, showing them on the University of Colorado’s campus.

“It can only help to have another place showing quality foreign and independent films in the community,” says IFS Director Pablo Kjolseth.

Although the IFS provides cinephiles with an ample selection of independent films, the series uses auditoriums on the University of Colorado at Boulder’s campus. Boulder lacks a dedicated theater for independent films. The last venue that consistently showed art-house films in Boulder was Landmark Theaters, which closed in 2007. Since then, there hasn’t been a permanent venue for independent moviegoers, although there are plenty of independent movie festivals and showings.

“There is a lot of film in Boulder, don’t

get me wrong,” Harris says, “but there is not a steady venue for independent film.”

The IFS doesn’t show films during holiday breaks and the summer because it’s student-run, while the Dairy will have a film presence 365 days a year.

Longmont Performing Arts Center The Longmont Performing Arts Center is planning on receiving some cosmetic surgery, as well. The theater was an Art Deco movie theater that the Longmont Theatre Company, the building’s current occupants, renovated into a playhouse in 1991. The historic theater, initially called the Fox Theatre, was built in 1939 and then sold and renamed the Trojan Theatre in 1960. The theater, the oldest theater in northern Colorado, was dubbed the Longmont Performing Arts Center in 1990 when the Longmont Theatre Company purchased the building.

The Longmont Theatre Company is talking with the Longmont Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) about the possibility of working together to renovate the building once again.

The plan is to revamp and expand the lobby area, get new seating — the theater still retains its vintage chairs, expand the stage and install a new backstage fly system, which allows the technical crew to move set pieces, lights and microphones in between scenes.

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figure. The time frame is still up in the air as well. Stephen Carver, president of the theater company’s Board of Directors, thinks that this project could break ground in summer 2011. He hopes that renovations will mean that the Longmont community will start using the space more for other events, as well as bringing more people to visit the downtown area.

“The idea here is just to make the building more than a theater company space — to make it a performing arts space so more people in the community can use it,” Carver says. “Our service is really to the community and to do that we need to grow and go to the next level, and that’s with the help of the city and fundraising.”

Louisville’s Artville Louisville is planning a city-within-acity — a so-called “Artville” in the downtown area. Inspiration for Artville struck Lori Jones, executive director of Louisville’s basement art center, the Art Underground, and she coordinated with local art organizations and artists to get the idea up and running.

In June 2008, leaders from five art organizations — CenterStage Theatre Company, Coal Creek Community Theater Company, Louisville Art Association, Louisville Cultural Council and the Art Underground — met to discuss creating an art community in the area.

Since then, the ArtsHub blog/calendar (www.theartshub.org) has been created as a communications and marketing tool for

artists in the area. Next step: creating the actual art district.

“The geography of Historic Downtown Louisville is ideal for establishing an art district,” Jones says. “The downtown area is conducive to the development of an art district, given its charm, walkability, and strong sense of community in the downtown area.”

Jones says that there will be an increasing art presence in downtown come 2010.

Art organizations there are in the process of increasing the number of permanent spaces for artists to exhibit their work downtown.

Right now Jones, local artists and art organizations are in the process of defining what Artville will be — what the art district is and how it will be organized.

They’re also deciding how to brand the idea of an art district.

Mark Zaremba, president of the Downtown Business Association and owner of branding company Zaremba, is lending his branding and marketing expertise to developing Louisville’s art city. The name for the art district is still up in the air, but the operating name is “Artville.”

Jones has already organized two initial meetings, and the next is schedule for Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Art Underground to launch plans for 2010. The public is welcome to attend the meeting and contribute ideas.

Zaremba estimates that they are six months away from having a definition and direction for creating Louisville’s art district.

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Edward Sharpe saves humanity via gypsy-folk

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p from Below, the debut full-length album from the ecstatic Los Angeles musical cult known as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, is in many ways a revelation. The group’s aciddrenched science-fiction is a welcome throwback for older hippies (reformed and not) who loved psychedelic concept albums like Jefferson Starship’s spacey 1970 classic Blows Against the Empire, the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour and even David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust.

The Magnetic Zeros’ music is pure (and uplifting) gypsy folk, but much of the communal band’s charm is not that this eccentric troupe (who introduce themselves as fictional characters even in their official press release) effectively imitate the sounds and appearances of the bygone era that spawned both the Manson Family and the Laurel Canyon songwriter scene. The real story is actually more captivating and profound than the Magnetic Zeros’ straight-faced, musically enhanced claim that their frontman Edward Sharpe is a messiah “sent down to Earth to heal and save mankind.”

The appeal of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is not just that their catchy Mamas and the Papas/ Jefferson Airplane-esque tunes like “Home” and “Desert Song” effectively reenact the dark side of the ’60s like Yeasayer interpreting Tommy. What’s really surprising is the ensemble’s ability to enrapture listeners into enjoying a make-believe world where a messiah named Edward Sharpe has materialized to “wake you all” and reveal “all that you need to see,” which is presumably in the desert somewhere.

But wait, who is Edward Sharpe? Basically, former Ima Robot frontman Alex Ebert went through a bad breakup, entered Alcoholics Anonymous, experienced what you might call a psychological crisis, and emerged with a story and a vision for a band. Initially touring the U.S. in 2007 with a school bus a la Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, the dozen-member Magnetic Zeros have become a left-field sensation with Ebert at the helm as Edward Sharpe. Their music is more powerful and interesting than you’d imagine from such a madcap outfit — sort of like Arcade Fire meets Jesus Christ

Superstar — and Ebert is curiously mum about the whole fantasy/role-play angle in interviews, sticking to explanations of his creative rebirth.

“I was at a place where I was becoming disconnected and needed life badly,” he told the Austinist this fall. “I remembered back to when I was a child, my heroes then, what I wanted to be, and the music my father would play when taking me on these long road trips ’cross the West.

It all culminated in a giant upheaval and shift to the grander and golden aspirations of my childhood.”

Enter Edward Sharpe and the grandiose psychedelic folk of the Magnetic Zeros, who have thrived at staying in character as far as we can tell, putting on trailblazing Polyphonic Spree-type concerts that have made their current tour a huge success.

Impressively, Ebert & Co. were humble enough to hire an opening act that may put on an even better show than they do. The Magnetic Zeros have brought along fellow L.A. residents Fool’s Gold, a rather large collective who juxtapose infectious African soul melodies and rhythms with ’80s dance vibes and inspirational vocal workouts that happen to be sung almost exclusively in Hebrew. Frontman Luke Top told the Village Voice recently that Fool’s Gold originally wanted to embody what he calls “international pop music.” Surprisingly, he

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Tickets are $17. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

told Boulder Weekly that the idea had nothing to do with Paul Simon.

“Paul Simon has had very little direct influence on me, as far as I am consciously aware of,” Top noted. “I have seen The Graduate a ton of times, though! We’re at a place where influences just find a way to reveal themselves on their own terms. There is a special kind of magic that happens between the band and audience, and it is utterly addicting.”

Fool’s Gold’s eponymous debut is a dance-party on disc, and full-time members include indie veterans from the Fall, We Are Scientists and Foreign Born.

As for the euphoric live shows that Fool’s Gold is becoming notorious for, Top claims the group’s creative outlook on performing is pretty organic, although they’ve been enlightened by everything from MTV to the NBA. “We hope to be selfless and truthful to ourselves while we perform,” he said. “We try to shed our inhibitions and fully submit to the music in the reality of the moment. I think sometimes the audience is able to tap into that energy and push themselves a little bit too.”

Top couldn’t think of a modern musical artist whose performances informed what Fool’s Gold does live, but said he’s “certainly watched a ton of Adam and the Ants and Smiths videos. And the great Kanda Bongo Man. And Colorado’s own Carmelo Anthony dancing through the air in crunch time.”

Fool’s Gold songs like “Ha Dvash” and “Yam Lo Moshesch” fit nicely between lines previously drawn by Orchestra Baobab and Simon’s Graceland (whether intentionally or not), with a hint of Kirtan for spiritual flavor.

“This is, at the end of the day, music to feel and to dance to,” he explained. “Generally, people will connect to our music viscerally first and then might dig into the cultural questions later. I feel very fortunate for that. It is a really beautiful thing when people who might not speak the language are singing along. To me it’s the ultimate form of trust and acceptance.”

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From country ghettos to orange blossoms JJ Grey relaxes on new album

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range Blossoms, the new album from JJ Grey & Mofro, has a more relaxed and soulful feel than its predecessor, 2005’s Country Ghetto, which displayed a decidedly grittier edge.

But don’t look to Grey for a whole lot of insight on why Orange Blossoms took on this personality, or for any predictions about whether this is a sign of a stylistic trend for the talented songwriter.

“I think it’s down to chance, honestly,” he said in a recent phone interview. “For whatever reason Orange Blossoms is not quite as angsty as Country Ghetto.”

And at this point, Grey thinks his next project could go in either direction musically.

“I’ve got the makings for two different-sounding records, just listening to the material,” he says. “So I could even do a record now, the next record after Orange Blossoms, and make it pretty aggressive and in your face, even more so than Country Ghetto. Or it could be another way. We’ll just have to wait and see how that goes. But the idea of what I mean by all that is you never know how the record is going to go until you hear enough songs, and you say this grouping of songs matches together, and I’m going to make this a record, and put this name on it because it typifies what’s going on.”

That was certainly the approach Grey took on Orange Blossoms.

It wasn’t until after the fact, as Grey was doing paperwork for the writing credits, that he realized just how deeply he had dipped into his pool of material in choosing the songs for the album. “[I was] asked for the original copyright date, in other words, when you wrote it and recorded. I was pretty stunned at some of the dates,” Grey says. “Like one of the songs, ‘What You’re Looking For,’ or ‘WYLF,’ I kind of named that like radio call letters for the hell of it. But I wrote that song in 1998. So it’s 10 years old. And then, let me think, ‘Orange Blossoms,’ I wrote that two years ago; like at the end of the ‘Country Ghetto’ sessions. ‘The Devil You Know’ was probably 2005 when I wrote that. So I was like, wow, a lot of

these songs were written awhile back. ‘On Fire,’ I wrote that three or four years ago. Probably the only song written in 2008 was ‘I Believe (In Everything),’ the last song on the record.”

Grey made wise choices for the songs on Orange Blossoms. It’s a cohesive work, as the album moves easily between the punchy and soulful title song and the gritty “The Devil You Know” and smoother, more laid-back tracks such as the string-accented ballad “She Don’t Know” and lovely mid-tempo tune “The Truth.”

Because Grey is constantly writing songs without regard to a particular album project, it’s only natural that

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he doesn’t predetermine the direction of his albums.

For him, a key to being a good songwriter is to get out of the way of the song and let it become what it wants to be.

“I try not to think about [the direction of albums], and when you do that, if you get out of your own way, the next record happens on its own, so to speak,” he says. “If you get lucky enough to surround yourself with players like the guys that I played with, you know when you hit the studio, they can do it. They can get it done. They can make your dreams come true.”

While the playing on Orange Blossoms is tasty, the secret is in the songs themselves. And Grey has been steadily improving as a songwriter as he has amassed his catalog of songs.

The Jacksonville, Fla., native has been recording and touring with Mofro since 2001. Signed to the indie label Fog City Records, Grey recruited guitarist Daryl Hance and several other musicians to make the 2001 album Blackwater. Today’s lineup includes Grey on guitar, keyboards and vocals, Hance, bassist/organ player Adam Scone and drummer Anthony Cole.

The band’s popularity continued to grow after the release of the second project, Lochloosa, in 2004, but it was with the highly acclaimed Country Ghetto, his first album after moving to Alligator Records, that Grey really came into his own as a songwriter.

Orange Blossoms is nearly as good.

Grey’s current live sets are as uncalculated as his approach to his albums. He noted that only recently did he realize how much his set lists pulled from all of the Mofro albums.

“I’ve never really made it a point to do it on purpose,” he says. “One day I kind of looked down at the set list. … To make a long story short, I just looked right down and realized there’s always a mixture. There are songs off of every one of the records in the show, usually. It just kind of works out that way. I’ve never really thought about it.”

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Thursday, Nov. 26

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

events Annual Thanksgiving Day Buffet. Hotel Boulderado Ballroom, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-2880.

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

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Raw emotion, powerful lyrics dredged out of a tormented psyche, a fascinating and compelling back-story — it’s all there. With Fresh2death. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Acme Band. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Bemused, My Friend Tom and Stan Jones Band. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Big Sky Radio. 7 p.m. Super Joe Specialty Coffee, 100 Superior Plaza Wy., Superior, 303494-1380.

CAGE — With Fresh2death. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz. 7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

Danny Barnes Trio & Spring Creek — With Honey Don’t.

8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

David Booker. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Hazel Miller Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 South Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Mary Redente. 8:30 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Open Mic — For poets, comedians and musicians. 7 p.m. 8 Port Coffee & Tea House, 1727 15th St., Boulder, 303-9552221.

Pete Wernick & FLEXIGRASS. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Santa’s Other Ball — An evening of naughty, not nice! With DJs: mLe, Milkman, Earth and Christopher. 9 p.m. The b.side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303-473-9463.

PANORAMA PICK Zivanai Masango & Pachedu Africa. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events A Christmas Cactus — Theater opening. 7:30 p.m. The 73rd Avenue Theater Company, 7287 Lowell Blvd., Westminster, 720-276-6936, through Jan. 3.

CU Buffs’ Biggest Tailgate Party — Live broadcast of the game on a 14-foot screen. 10:30 a.m. Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850.

Get-out-of-the-House Day and Avoid Leftovers — Happy Hour with wine deals and tapas. 3-6 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet and the Boulder Philharmonic. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-449-1343.

PsychicSpeak Talk: Gratitude — With Heidi Petersen.

The Bead Lounge, 320 Main St., Longmont, 303-545-5562.

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

Aaron McCloskey Duo. Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd., Longmont, 303 776-1914.

Acme Band. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Blackdog — With Sally Van Meter. Oskar Blues, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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

Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz.

7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

Cliff Eberhardt & Chris Daniels. 8 p.m.

Daniels Hall at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003, www.swallowhillmusic. org.

Duke Street Kings — With Delphic Tone.

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

Flowers from Ashes. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

Juno What?! — With Mr. Anonymous. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors.

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

The Long Run — A Tribute to the Eagles. 7:30 & 10 p.m.

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

Oakhurst. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 South Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Quemando’s Flor de Cana — Bringing the best salsa to Colorado. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

The Troubadours Collective — Feat Slow Rosa, Ramaya Soskin, Dechen Hawk and Reed Foehl. 8 p.m. The b.side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303-473-9463.

Wafflehouse Funk. 8:30 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Pears and Angels — By Judith Babcock. Christine Marguerite Designs Inc., 1721 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2344, through Dec. 31.

Sacred Shrines — Mosaics by Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, through Nov. 27.

Sublime Surfaces — Fiber art by professional members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, through Nov. 27.

The Surface and Beneath — By Heather Wilcoxon & Vintage Carnival Folk Art. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through Jan. 17, 2010.

Urban Chicken Coop Projects — By CU-Boulder. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122, through Jan. 17, 2010.

Weaving Memory: Monotypes — By Melanie Yazzie. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-6892, through May 30, 2010.

Woven Art — By Betsy Blumenthal. NCAR Gallery, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408, through Nov. 28.

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Fountain — By Andrea Modica. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through Jan. 17, 2010.

Holiday Gift Boutique — Original art from resident artists.

Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869, through Dec. 23.

The House of Strange Magic — By Mark Soppeland. Art + Soul Gallery, 1615 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5803, through Nov. 30.

Millefiori Glass Installation — By Angelo Ambrosia. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869, through Dec. 23.

Oil Paintings — By Linda Armantrout. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408, through Nov. 28.

Only in Boulder — A celebration of Boulder’s 150th anniversary. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464, www.boulderhistorymuseum.org, through May 23, 2010.

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Boulder/Denver Area Achievable Art — Paintings, jewelry and sculpture by 35 Colorado artists. osmosis gallery, 290 Second Ave., Niwot, 303652-2668, through Nov. 30.

Beyond the Earth Mother — New works by Grahame Atkinson. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-6787869, through Dec. 23.

Celebrating Clay: 40 Years with the Boulder Potters Guild — Ceramic work by guild members. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-0310, through Nov. 29.

Down on the Farm: Chickens, Fresh Fruit and Vegetables —

By Jill Musser. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683, through Jan. 3, 2010.

Dali Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy — By Salvador Dali. Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410, through Jan. 21, 2010.

Elemental Transformations — By Vickie Mastron Cody. The Art Center of Estes Park, 517 Big Thompson Ave., Estes Park, 970-586-5882, through Dec. 31.

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events Afternoon Tea. 1 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Amy Goodman KGNU Benefit Talk — Host of Democracy Now! Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-449-4885.

Antique Show & Sale. 9-5 p.m. The Ranch, Larimer County Fairgrounds and Events Complex, First National Bank Building, 5280 Arena Cir. Ste. 100, Loveland, 719-596-8839.

Beginning/ Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd. #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877.

Beginning to Meditate — Introductory talk, discussion and workshop. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1434 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 888-575-3884.

Golden Saturday Christmas Bazaar — Shopping with local vendors and artisans.

McCreery House, 746 Washington Ave., Loveland, 970-278-1848.

Music and Mimosas — Every Saturday 9-11 a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet and the Boulder Philharmonic. 2 & 7 p.m.

Macky Auditorium, CU campus, Boulder, 303449-1343.

Soul Enrichment Holistic & Well Being Event for the Holidays — With a variety of readers and wellness practioners. 10-5 p.m.

Bead Lounge, 320 Main St., Longmont, 303665-5275.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — Open 12-6 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St. #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270, www. twistedpinebrewery.com.

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

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Acoustic Jam — With Jax Delaguerre. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

George Nelson — Singing blues, jazz and classics. 5 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl

40 Oz to Freedom —

Sublime’s Bradley Nowell left a massive hole in the hearts of music fans across the country with his tragic, untimely death in 1996. Easily one of the most universally liked bands of all time (how many people do you know that can sing “What I Got” word for word?), it was inevitable that tribute bands would pop up, and this is one of them.

With Apex Vibe. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Hot Soup. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5460886.

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

Indigent Row. Oskar Blues, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m.

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

Lisa Bell’s Very Jazz Christmas Show.

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

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

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

Opus Two — Free show with violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197.

TAARKA. 10 p.m. Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St., Denver, 303-388-2337.

events Antique Show & Sale. 10-4 p.m. The Ranch,

theater Boulder/Denver A Christmas Cactus. The 73rd Avenue Theatre Company, 7287 Lowell Blvd., Westminster, 720276-6936, Nov. 27 through Jan. 3.

The Christmas Rescue. Heritage Square Music Hall Children’s Theatre, 18301 W. Colfax D-103, Golden, 303-279-7800, through Dec. 30.

Communicating Doors. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200, through Nov. 21.

The Comedy of Errors — With Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328, through Dec. 5.

HONK! — Children’s theater production. The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through Jan. 3, 2010.

It's A Wonderful Life! A 1940’s Radio Play.

Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave.,

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Golden, 303-935-3044, through Dec. 20.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through Dec. 27.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet and Boulder Philharmonic. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-449-1343, Nov. 27 through Nov. 29.

Riverdance. Temple Buell Theater, 1031 13th St., Denver, 303-446-4829, Nov. 24 through Nov. 29.

SantaLand Diaries — With the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328, Dec. 2 through Dec. 20.

Singin’ in the Rain. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303- 449-6000, through Feb. 14, 2010.

Larimer County Fairgrounds and Events Complex, First National Bank Building, 5280 Arena Cir. Ste. 100, Loveland, 719-596-8839.

Free Open House. 10:30-noon. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

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

Logo Ligi African Dance. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Playful Yoga — With Ashley Sargent. 4 p.m.

Vida Yoga, 2749 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-5625963.

Salsa Dancing — Lesson with live music by rotating DJs. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Sunday Afternoon Tea — With live traditional Asian music. 1:30-4 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

VIVA show — Theater production with the Society for Creative Aging. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197.

Monday, Nov. 30

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Acoustic Plug-In — Blues jam and open stage. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

40 Oz to Freedom — A tribute to Sublime with Apex Vibe. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m./6:30 p.m. sign-up, D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Open Mic. 7:15 p.m., Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

TAARKA. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

events CU College of Music Lecture — West African Drumming and Dance in American Universities: The Resurrection of a Suppressed Genre with George Worlasi Kwasi Dor. Imig Music, Chamber Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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Cunninlynguists —

Bad name aside, Cunninlynguists are one of the more entertaining acts in the underground hip-hop world. With Grieves, Budo, Looptroop Rockers and Tunji.

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

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. The b.side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303473- 9463.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

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

Getting Started with InDesign. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

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

Navigating the Current Market Turmoil — Strategies for investing in today’s market. 6 p.m. UBS Financial Services, 1801 13th St. Ste. 100, Boulder, RSVP at 303-441-5375.

The Nutcracker — With the Boulder Ballet and the Boulder Philharmonic. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4491343.

“So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Tuesday, Dec. 1

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

Atomic Pablo Band — Smooth Jazz. 7 p.m.

Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Blues Jam — With Dan Treanor. 7:30 p.m.

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303998-9350.

Cunninlynguists — With Grieves, Budo, Looptroop Rockers and Tunji. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — With Fool’s Gold and Local Natives. 8 p.m./7p.m. doors. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Friday, Nov. 27 Lila Greene — Pages - A Memoir, Musings Of A 75-Year-Old-Woman. 12 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Robyn O’Brien — The Unhealthy Truth. 11 a.m.

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Tuesday, Dec. 1 Cornelia Nixon — Jarrettsville. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Helen Thorpe — Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America. 7:30 p.m.

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Richard Starks & Miriam Murcutt — Along the River That Flows Uphill. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store Historic LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Wednesday, Dec. 2 Lucinda Scala Quinn — MAD HUNGRY: Feeding Men & Boys.12 p.m./ 11:45 a.m. arrival. The Peppercorn, 1235 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5847.

Open Mic. Burnt Toast, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-440-5200.

Ron LeMaster — Ultimate Skiing. 7:30 p.m.

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Shannon Sovndal — Cycling Anatomy. 7:30 p.m.

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Jay Ryan’s Acoustic Showcase. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Opera Scenes — With CU Boulder student performers. 7:30 p.m. Music Theatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Spencer Pelton — With Andrew Forbes.

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

Song Circle. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003, www.swallowhillmusic.org.

Weekly Bluegrass Pick. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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A CD release party, accompanied by some of Colorado’s tastiest brews. With Sally Van Meter. Oskar Blues, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Flamenco Technique. 5:45-7 p.m. Kakes Studios 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050.

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

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

Getting Started with Final Cut Pro. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Hiking the Greek Islands — 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Wine Tasting — Holiday wines with Wine Sommelier, David Miller. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Wine 101: Bubbles — Learn about the region, appellations, winegrowing and five tastes of bubbles, champagne and sparkling wines from different countries. 6:30-7:30 p.m.

The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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Thursday, Nov. 26 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30-5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Nov. 27 Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Sunday, Nov. 29 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

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

Go Club — Learn to play the ancient and mysterious board game known as Go. 2 p.m.

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

Madeline Storytime and Coloring. 1 p.m.

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

Tuesday, Dec. 1 Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

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

Wednesday, Dec. 2 Baby Time — Explore language and books in a fun and intimate setting. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Gymboree Storytime. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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

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Monday, Nov. 30 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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— Lives Lived in Dance, a film and interview series highlighting local dance luminaries, with guest artist Nancy Cranbourne. 7 p.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197.

Dan Hawkins Radio Show. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Holiday Wellness Tips with a Quantum Dimension! — With The Stoll Foundation for Holistic Health. Villa Vista Meeting Room, 5000 Butte St., Boulder, 303-527-2886.

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

Marketing with Social Media. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Rhythm Sanctuary. 7-9:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303618-0401.

SantaLand Diaries — With the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328, through Dec. 20.

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A Holiday Tribute to Frank Sinatra — With Derek Evilsizor. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003, www.swallowhillmusic.org.

CU in Broomfield — Homegrown Jazz! 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 13 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, 303-492-8008.

The Devil Wears Prada, All That Remains & Story of the Year — With special guests. 7 p.m./6 p.m. doors. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Jeremy Facknitz — With Marissa Russo.

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

James Pieper. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Kamikazee Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

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

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

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

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Split Decision

Kron’s latest divides, but will it conquer?

by Gary Zeidner

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can’t speak for any other critics, but for me the most difficult plays to review are those that rest in that nebulous in-between place, those that are formidably mediocre and thereby fail to inspire either serious praise or derision. If a play is exceptionally bad, it is easy to enumerate its faults, to eviscerate it with an in-depth discussion of its shortcomings. In the same vein, if a play is incredibly good, it is a fleetpenned pleasure to showcase its achievements and to laud author, cast and crew.

In the vast majority of cases, I can tell you within five minutes of leaving the theatre whether I consider a play good, bad or mediocre. Once in a great while, however, I am confronted with a play that fails to play by the rules and manages to elicit in me a sort of theatre critic multiple personality disorder. Lisa Kron’s latest, Well, is just such a play, and I feel firmly that it will divide audiences just as it has divided my mind.

On the one hand, Well is a well-crafted play that pushes the boundaries of classic theater. It is openly and proudly “meta,” as it begins with a fourth wallbreaking introduction delivered, of course, directly to the audience. Its first words are a promise of selfawareness that the remainder of the play fulfills in spades. Not only is playwright Lisa Kron (played by Kate Levy) the main character, she also brings along her mother, Ann (Kathleen M. Brady). Ann’s character appears, at first, to exist solely for comic relief as she offers the audience 7UP and root beer or as she corrects Lisa on misremembered elements of the many flashbacks describing events from Lisa’s youth.

Lisa and Ann are joined by four utility players,

denoted only as Actors A, B, C and D. These actors play roles ranging from the little girl who bullied Lisa as a child to the doctor and patients at the hospital allergy unit Lisa spent time in as a college student. In addition to acting out whatever parts Kron requires as she relates her life story, these actors (Rachel Fowler, Robert Jason Jackson, Shauna Miles and Erik Sandvold) periodically revert to their real-world selves and interact with Lisa and her mother as actors rather than characters.

Well is a nimble, witty, clever and quite cerebral play, and Kron’s ability to balance the “real” world of the play with the meta elements is commendable. Countless times during the play — often within the confines of

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individual scenes — she successfully manages transitions from comedy to pathos and from actors as characters to actors as actors and yet never loses or confuses the audience. For many, this achievement will be reason enough to love this show.

On the other hand, Well is essentially a oneperson show, albeit with other people on stage, and it succumbs to the most dangerous and most common pitfall of the one-person show: it is tremendously self-indulgent. Listening to Lisa repeatedly remind the audience that her mother isn’t a “theater person” made me chuckle every time, as Lisa, a white, upper-middleclass, liberal, intellectual lesbian, represents more than enough “theater person” stereotypes to cover herself, her mother and a busload of other people.

Beyond its extreme narcissism, Well nettled me with its utter failure to adhere to its own rules. As the play opens, Lisa assures her mother and the audience that Well is not merely an hour-and-ahalf-long venting session about Lisa’s mommy issues.

She promises us that, instead, Well will explore the concepts of wellness versus illness on not just an interpersonal but also a community level. Having taken Lisa at her word, I was more than a little disappointed when, at the end of the play, it became abundantly clear that, whatever its other aspirations might be, Well is just another one-person whine-fest about Lisa’s relationship with her mother.

Some will find it amazing, while others will wish they’d stayed at home. Either way Well will never be considered a middling trifle.

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Saturday, Nov. 28 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

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Sunday, Nov. 29 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

Monday, Nov. 30 Wrenching Wenches and Handy Trannies — Open shop night: learn some tips and tricks on fixing/maintaining a bike without the boys. 6-8:30 p.m.

Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl. Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Winter beckons

Try your hand at a number of winter sports

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ric Bader’s phone starts to ring more around this time of the year, seemingly linked to each inch of snow that sticks on the ground.

Late October’s 20-inch pounding over two days around Boulder County was no different. Boulder Outdoor Center, which is in its 29th year of booking outdoor adventure trips according to season, saw a spike in its reservations for snowbased trips and classes.

“Just like the ski areas see it, as soon as we get snow around here, people start thinking about winter and then the phone rings and the reservations come in,” says Bader, the company’s president.

This winter, Boulder Outdoor Center

by Ryan Casey (BOC) is booking four snow-based trips and two classes. Which means that rafting is probably out.

“Rafting’s not so popular right now,” Bader says with a laugh. “In the winter, our avalanche classes have been just booking up like crazy. I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot of folks up into the backcountry this winter.”

Snowmobile tours have also been a hot item, because drivers need only be 16 years old, as have BOC’s snowcat skiing trips, which allow skiers and snowboarders to plow through eight to 12 runs in backcountry powder.

“It’s like a moving living room,” Bader says of the snowcat trips. “You’d think, ‘Oh, it’s rough.’ No, it’s not. There are

captain’s chairs, and of course you’re looking out the window at a fantastic scene, and then you’ve got piped-in stereo music, heat — it beats a chairlift any day.

The ski areas don’t have anything to compare to it. It’s just awesome.”

Relatively new to the outdoor sport scene is snowkiting, where participants use a two- to five-meter kite to propel themselves across the countryside. BOC offers an instructional course.

“It’s definitely catching on this year more than ever,” Bader says. “It rocks.”

Book online at www.BOC123.com.

Trips available include: Snowmobile tours. These guided

Tuesday, Dec. 1 Colorado Mountain Club Cross Country Ski Clinic — 7-9 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Hiking the Greek Islands — Anne & Brian Hooker will take you to seven islands with particularly good hiking routes. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Tuesday Hiking. North Boulder Park, 7th and Dellwood streets, Boulder, 303494-9735.

Wednesday, Dec. 2 Avalanche Clinic: Terrain Selection — Presented by Alpine World Ascents. 7 p.m.

Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Moving Mountains with Wendy Booker — The Women’s Wilderness Institute annual fall fundraiser. 6-9 p.m.

The Denver Newspaper Agency Building, 101 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-9389191.

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

Winter Moonshine — Experience nature by night and hear legends, stories and hard science about our nearest celestial neighbor.

6-8 p.m. Sawhill Ponds, east of Boulder on the west side of 75th St., 0.6 mile north of Valmont Rd., 303-441-3440.

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trips are offered in the Breckenridge, Dillon, Frisco, Copper Mountain, Keystone, Silverthorne and Vail areas.

There are three areas of expertise: the standard two-hour tour, a two-hour advanced tour and a three-hour trip.

Rates vary per trip. Must be 16 to drive the snowmobile, 18 to carry a passenger. Kids ages 3 to 6 ride free.

Avalanche safety. A great introduction to snow safety, this class is taught on snowshoes. You’ll learn about the factors involved in an avalanche, how to analyze snow and proper avalanche beacon techniques. The class is separated into two sessions: an evening in a classroom and a day on the snow, which includes the use of beacons, digging snow pits and even mock rescues. Cost is $119, with gear rentals offered at an additional $20.

Snowshoeing. This class includes a two-hour classroom session followed by a day of snowshoeing at Rocky Mountain National Park. Included are discussions of proper clothing, hydration, route-finding and the use of GPS. Cost is $79, with rental packages costing an additional $10.

Snowcat skiing. These trips offer intermediate, advanced and expert skiers

and snowboarders a chance to explore backcountry terrain in the West San Juan Mountains. Average vertical run is 800 feet, but runs range from 400 to 2,000 feet. Each snowcat ride takes 15 to 30 minutes between runs. Cost is $290 per person or $2,500 to rent a private snowcat. Prices include lunch, K2 or Black Diamond powder skis, and avalanche beacon rental. Season runs Dec. 1-May 7.

Hut trips. Tucked away in the Elk Mountains, these trips give you the opportunity to ski or ride at your leisure during the day, retreat to a backcountry hut, and then do it all over again when you wake up. Trips range from two to five days, and prices are tiered accordingly.

Snowkite instruction. All the expansiveness of cross-country skiing at your fingertips, only faster. Speeds can reach up to 45 miles an hour when skiing or snowboarding with the two- to fivemeter kite you’ll be provided with. Most people can learn to snowkite within a day.

Beginning lessons are $249, and private/ advanced instruction is available in halfhour ($40 each) and hour-long ($75 each) increments.

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Helmets aren’t interchangeable

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ubstituting pricey ski equipment with other gear works in some instances. It’s fine, for example, to layer windbreaker pants over fleece pants instead of buying an expensive snowsuit.

Helmets are a different story. A bicycling helmet or rock climbing helmet cannot replace a helmet designed for snow sports. Different types of helmets are certified and tested for different uses.

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) regulates helmet standards and requires testing based on impact and retention. POC Sports, a Swedish athletic company, meets the ASTM standards with The Receptor Bug Series Helmet.

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The helmet has ventilation that can be closed on cold days. The helmet uses Ventilated-Double-Shell-Anti-Penetration (VDSAP) technology to funnel air between the inner and outer shells.

Custom features include foam padding that can be changed for personal fit and removed for cleaning. Sizes range from Extra Small, which fits a head circumference of 20 to 20.5 inches, to an XX Large, which fits between 24 and 24.4 inches.

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Cage shines as corrupt New Orleans cop

by Michael Phillips

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nything’s possible in this storm!” says the man with the badge in Werner Herzog’s delirious Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It’s a very loose remake of 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, in which director Abel Ferrara unleashed Harvey Keitel as a drug-addled spin cycle disguised as a police detective. The character of the drug-abusing cop, at work and play, has been relocated from New York to New Orleans, and in place of Keitel’s flaying fits of anguish, Herzog has found his ideal interpreter, a performer whose truth lies deep in the artifice of performance: ladies and gentlemen, Nicolas Cage, at his finest.

The storm the character refers to in the opening scene is a biggie: Hurricane Katrina. In the first scene of Bad Lieutenant, Cage’s Terence McDonagh dives into snake-infested, sewage-laced floodwaters to save a prisoner whose cell has been flooded. Is this a characteristic act of bravery or a rare exception to a rotten soul’s rule?

It’s up to us to decide.

Herzog is obsessed with obsessives, and Cage’s character — like the movie — will work best with those who, like Herzog, have a natural antipathy for the rabble-rousing clichés of the vigilante-cop genre. The script by William Finkelstein provides the groundwork, plus some ripe insults and turns of phrase, but Herzog keeps repaving that groundwork for the better. The film is cracked, yet whole, and while I have no idea what a general audience will make of it, I also have no idea what a general audience is in the first place.

Some scenes, such as the waterfront encounter between Cage and Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner (as a gangster behind a multiple murder), could be taken from any ordinary crime movie. Other scenes belong to this film and no other. In one of his cocaine-induced hallucinations, at a stakeout, McDonagh suddenly sees a pair of iguanas on his coffee table, leading to the natural question: “What

are these iguanas doing on my coffee table?” The other cops dismiss the non sequitur, casually — with McDonagh, even the sweatiest, most obviously chemically induced behavior is treated as just another day on the job in the post-Katrina mess. It’s one of the comic strengths of the picture: Even when he’s showing the audience things from an imaginary, metaphoric lizard’s point of view, Herzog’s film never tries to out-crazy the man in the middle of it all.

Shooting on location, Herzog gives the story a melancholy and naturalistic backdrop, which makes the hallucinations all the stranger. McDonagh’s father (Tom Bower), whose new wife ( Jennifer Coolidge) is a beer lush, struggles to stay sober with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, and just when you think Herzog and company are going to play the family-crises scenes for laughs, they don’t — or rather they do and they don’t.

Cage can be tiresomely crazy in some films, but here, the minute he starts trashing a pharmacy out of sheer impatience to get his next fix, you know you’re in the company of the right actor in the right role. Early on, we’re told McDonagh has a bad back; by the time the

picture has zigzagged to its midpoint, Cage is bent over and snarling like Richard III, with a badge. Then, for a while, Cage tries a new cocaine-, marijuana- and Vicodin-ravaged vocal delivery, alarmingly close to his adenoidal mole in G-Force. Somehow these strategies and effects add up. Cage’s instincts are on target in nearly every scene here, and to hear him mock a thug for his one-letter nickname, “G,” is to hear the very concept of sarcasm born again.

In a completely different stylistic vein, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which co-stars Eva Mendes as the coked-up call-girl lover of the antihero, reminded me of Orson Welles’ great Touch of Evil. Neither film really cares about who killed whom, or why. Their mixture of tones, from anguish to irony to grotesque slapstick to pathos, borders on the sociopathic or, at their peaks, the ecstatic.

Herzog’s achievement is far more modest than Welles’, but both swan dives into the cesspool ask the question: What happens when the enforcer becomes the exploiter? Without cheapening the memory of Katrina, Herzog sends McDonagh into a downward spiral in a city struggling to pull itself out of the drain. Ferrara’s ’92 Bad Lieutenant is steeped in Catholic guilt; Herzog’s is steeped in nondenominational hypocrisy. Cage is a gas; the movie’s a peculiar, lingering variation on the themes of corruption and addiction. Herzog has made a film to join his Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World in a fruitful decade of obsessional portraits.

“Vampires are lucky,” says one junkie to another in the original Bad Lieutenant. “They can feed on others. We gotta eat away at ourselves.” Cage’s itchy portrayal, a more stimulating creation than his Oscar-winning portrait of a self-destructor in Leaving Las Vegas, sells that notion in every fiber — real and synthetic — of its being.

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ow might a teenager protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies — the probe? If you weren’t thinking “champagne cork,” you were way off, according to the sci-fi kids cartoon

Planet 51.

A genial but generic riff on sci-fi movie history, Planet has barely enough slapstick to keep the kids interested. Children won’t get the many sci-fi movie references — or the cork gag — and adults probably won’t find them that funny.

But there’s an adorable Mars Rover-like robot named Rover who wags his antenna and chases rocks like a Jack Russell, and an alien Chihuahua shaped like the beast from Alien.

The big joke here — given away in the movie’s trailers — is that an alien has “invaded” a provincial and paranoid suburban town. And the alien is us, a NASA astronaut who touches down, bounces out with his American flag (humming “Thus Spake Zarathustra” from 2001), only to realize he’s interrupting an alien barbecue. Astronaut Chuck Taylor (voiced by Dwayne

Johnson) has discovered an alternate alien 1950s — with drive-ins, doo-wop music, “duck and cover” drills and VW hover-Beetles.

His first thought — “Kennedy’s gonna freak” when Mission Control hears about “sea monkeys dancin’ to the oldies.” But the “sea monkeys,” conditioned by years of “It Came From Outer Space” horror movies, are the ones

who freak.

Lem ( Justin Long) is the odd, antennaed E.T. Chuck talks into helping him get back home, evade the trigger-happy Army general (Gary Oldman) and the jumpy natives who are sure that the guy in the puffy suit wants to eat their brains.

This first offering from Spanish animation start-up Ilion is a good-looking movie, with a lush, retro-futuristic design. It’s just low on laughs. (An American Shrek alumnus scripted it.) The superior Monsters vs. Aliens covered some of the same ground, referencing earlier movies from Alien and E.T. to 2001, The Right Stuff and, naturally, Plan Nine From Outer Space. Some of those work. But spoofs, a couple of cute neo-dogs and lots of bouncy ’50s pop on the soundtrack can’t hide the fact that, whatever the magical code is to concocting a stateof-the-art computer-generated cartoon for kids these days, Ilion hasn’t cracked it.

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2012 Director Roland Emmerich’s disaster movie 2012 samples everything from Earthquake to The Perfect Storm to The Towering Inferno to the Bible. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson are among the actors pushing along whatever “story” you can find here. For visual noise by the ton, Emmerich is my kind of hack, the pluperfect blend of leaden self-seriousness and accidental-on-purpose self-satirist. Rated PG-13 (intense disaster sequences and some language). At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips A Serious Man Set in 1967 in the Minneapolis suburbs, A Serious Man is a tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties, a Coen brothers comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than No Country for Old Men but with a script rich in verbal wit.

Physics professor Larry Gopnik, (Michael

ground subculture of air-drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world. Power’s journey across America brings him face-to-face with his town’s greatest enemy, and allows him to discover the beat within his own heart. Not rated. At Starz. — Denver FIlm Society An Education

The Blind Side Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron star in this new sports-themed comedy/drama about a homeless teenager who becomes a star athelete.

Stuhlbarg) is God’s chosen sufferer, coping with a failing marriage, his son’s imminent bar mitzvah, a South Korean student bribing him for a better grade and a brother (Richard Kind) plagued by a literal pain in the neck. Rated R (language, drug use, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence).

At Mayan. — Michael Phillips

Adventures of Power Adventures of Power is an epic comedy about a mine worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill has turned him into the ridiculed “air drummer” of his small town. But when Power’s union-leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an under-

Novelist Nick Hornby’s screenplay for British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir sands a few edges off the corners of its heroine’s story, yet the film is awfully charming. It bops along with so much esprit and lively acting, and such an observant sense of the period (the early ’60s), you’re seduced by the results in the same way charming, slightly oily David (Peter Sarsgaard), entices young Jenny (Carey Mulligan) into his glamorous orbit. The film belongs to Mulligan, who showcases her comic range and natural authority.

Rated PG-13 (mature thematic material involving sexual content and for smoking).

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Lives Lived in Dance Wed: 7 pm

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Coco Before Chanel FriSun: 1 p.m. Fri-Thu: 6:45 p.m.

The Maid Fri-Sun: 1:30 p.m.

Fri-Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 New York, I Love You FriThu: 4, 9:20 Oh My God? Fri-Sun: 1:15 p.m. Fri-Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St, Denver, 303-3521992 Precious Fri-Sun: 11, 12, 1:30, 2:30 Fri-Thu: 4:15, 5:45, 7, 8:15, 9:30

Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303820-3456 Adventures of Power SatSun: 2:30 p.m. Fri-Thu: 4:45, 7:30 Fri-Sat: 9:40 p.m.

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Fri-Thu: 1:50, 4:25, 7:50, 10:10 Ninja Assassin Sat-Sun: 11:30, 1:55, 4:45 Fri-Thu: 1:45, 4:30, 7:45, 10:15 Old Dogs Sat-Sun: 11 a.m.

Fri-Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:30, 9:50 Planet 51 Sat-Sun: 11:05 a.m. Fri-Thu: 1:20, 4, 7:20, 9:45 The Twilight Saga: New Moon Sat-Sun: 10:40, 11:10, 2, 4:50, 10:30 Fri-Thu: 1, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Lousiville, 303604-2641 2012 Fri-Sun: 10:30, 9:00 Fri-Thu: 2, 5:30 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Fri-Sun: 10:10, 9:40 Fri-Thu: 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 The Blind Side Fri-Sun: 10:20 a.m., 10:20 p.m. FriThu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 Fantastic Mr. Fox Fri-Sun: 11:30, 10:05 Fri-Thu: 2:10, 4:50, 7:50 The Men Who Stare at Goats Fri-Thu: 11:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Ninja Assassin Fri-Sun: 11:10, 9:50 Fri-Thu: 1:50, 4:40, 7:30 Old Dogs Fri-Sun: 10:40,

A Serious Man Fri-Sun: 1:15 p.m. Fri-Thu: 4:15, 7:20, 9:40 An Education Fri-Sun: 1:10 p.m. Fri-Thu: 4:10, 7:15, 9:35 The Road Fri-Sun: 1 p.m.

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Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-4421815 2012 Fri-Thu: 10:35,12:20, 2:20, 5:45, 7:10, 9:20 The Blind Side Fri-Thu: 10:40, 12:10, 1:45, 3:10, 4:40, 6:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:50 Disney's A Christmas Carol Fri-Thu: 11:30,1:55, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fantastic Mr. Fox Fri-Thu: 11:45, 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05 The Men Who Stare at Goats Fri-Thu: 3:50, 10:40 Michael Jackson’s This Is It Fri-Thu: 8:05 Ninja Assassin Fri-Thu: 10:55, 1:25, 3:55, 6:25, 8:55 Old Dogs Fri-Thu: 10:20, 11:20, 12:35, 1:40, 2:50, 4, 5:10, 6:20, 7:30, 8:40, 9:50, 10:55 Pirate Radio Fri-Thu: 10:30, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Planet 51 Fri-Thu: 10:25,

1:10, 3:35, 6:35, 9:15 Precious Fri-Thu: 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 The Road Fri-Thu: 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 Twilight Saga: New Moon Fri-Thu: 11:05, 12:05, 1:05, 2:10, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 9:10, 10:05

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Antichrist A grieving couple retreat to “Eden,” their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.…Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg (winner of the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival) give brave, outstanding performances in the new provocation from writer/director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville). Antichrist is a totally uncompromising psychological horror film conceived and made while the director was experiencing emotional challenges in his own life. Not rated. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans See full screen review on Page 38. Rated R. The Blind Side Based on a book by Michael Lewis, this film fumbles a true story of an AfricanAmerican product of the Memphis projects who ended up at a Christian school and in the care of a wealthy white family, then went on to NFL glory. The star is Sandra Bullock, whose character is conceived as a steel magnolia with a will of iron. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), now a starting tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, has been sidelined in his own story. At its queasiest The Blind Side veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism.

Rated PG-13 (one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references). At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Michael Phillips Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day This movie gives so much a bad name: Irish pride, clumsy sequel titles containing colons, ethnic slurs and Judd Nelson’s inability to say “when” as an over-actor. In the original, the MacManus brothers (Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus) were sort of human. This time, they’re just glib killing machines, out to eliminate the gangsters (led by Nelson) responsible for killing a Boston priest. This loose flap of a sequel, which has arrived 10 long years after the original Boondock Saints made a pile in DVD rentals, is just the same auld, same auld. Rated R (bloody violence, language and some nudity). At Colony Square. — Michael Phillips Disney’s A Christmas Carol Robert Zemeckis has long been a filmmaker divided against himself, the technogeek warring with the storyteller. His newest work, Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens — demoted!), is an extravaganza of colliding intentions. But just when you’re ready to give up on it, Zemeckis reminds you that he’s capable of true visual dynamism, enhanced but not wholly dictated by the digital landscape he so clearly adores. Plus, Jim Carrey is good as Scrooge. There’s sur-

prisingly little shtick in his performance.

Rated PG (scary sequences and images).

At Century and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The House of the Devil This is a fine little old-school thriller set in the 1980s. A cash-strapped college student (Jocelin Donahue) accepts a babysitting job at a scary old Victorian home, but once she arrives, she discovers there’s no baby to sit; her charge is the unseen mother (shades of Psycho) of a lanky pair of creeps (Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov). It’s too bad writerdirector Ti West couldn’t have pulled a more surprising variation or two in the final scenes. But even the familiar tropes of The House of the Devil are familiar in the right way, like an old, bloodstained sweater. Rated R (some bloody violence).

At Starz. — Michael Phillips Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs In the coolest Ice Age adventure yet, Manny and the herd discover a lost world of ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky T. rex who’s got a score to settle with Sid! Meanwhile, Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte, but is she trying to win his heart or steal his acorn? Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Jane Lynch, Simon Pegg. Ages 5 to 12. Free showing at Starz. — Denver Film Society Lives Lived in Dance Lives Lived in Dance is a film and interview series highlighting local dance luminaries. Hear the intimate stories of individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field of dance — the successes (and failures) that formed their professional lives. The series is designed to show the interested dance public how professional dancers arrived at a career in dance and what they felt as they navigated this difficult path. The Dec. 2 guest is Nancy Cranbourne, teacher, choreographer, performer extraodinaire, and artistic director of Boulder’s 40 Women Over 40 Dance Company. At the Boulder Public Library.

— BPL Film Program The Men Who Stare at Goats Here’s a quirky comedic drama about one of the stranger aspects of the modern U.S. Army: a time when certain highranking officers felt that the New Age techniques and beliefs of the counterculture could transform military practice as we know it. Director Grant Heslov is unable to make Goats a completely successful film, but it’s still worth watching because it provides a showcase for a group of actors (George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey) who really appreciate this kind of farcical comedy. Rated R (language, some drug content and brief nudity). At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. ­— Kenneth Turan

Michael Jackson’s This Is It Produced with the cooperation of the Jackson estate, This Is It has no interest in telling the full story of anything, or the crumbling state of anyone. Director Kenny Ortega — Jackson’s partner in staging the London concert that never came to fruition ­— is simply trying to suggest in some detail what sort of overstuffed career retrospective Jackson was attempting. The film may be a court documentary, but as a heavily lawyered portrait of an artist, it’s still pretty compelling. Rated PG (some suggestive choreography and scary images). At Century.— Michael Phillips Mile High Sci-Fi Bad movies. Good comedy. Watch in awe as the true purpose of filmdom’s biggest flops, dogs and bombs is revealed—to provide fodder for the hilarious live running commentary that distinguishes this interactive series, as a team of local comics simultaneously skewers and salutes the much-maligned likes of Flash Gordon, Barbarella and Escape from New York. Not rated. At Starz. — Denver Film Society New York, I Love You The ongoing Cities We Love project that began three years ago with Paris, je t'aime continues its global exploration with New York, I Love You. Eleven directors and 16 screenwriters contributed to the omnibus affair. I like the idea of the film more than the film itself; the batting average with the Paris project was a good deal higher. Nonetheless, this one provides some compensatory satisfactions, thanks mostly to the actors as they make the most of a series of pencil sketches. The eclectic cast includes Natalie Portman, Ethan Hawke and Bradley Cooper. Rated R (language and sexual content). At Chez Artiste. — Michael Phillips Pirate Radio With nearly 60 classic cuts, this may be the coolest music video masquerading as a movie ever. Filmmaker Richard Curtis has written and directed a love letter signed, sealed, delivered to the early rock era just as a tidal wave of groundbreaking British bands began hitting. It’s hard not to feel the love as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans and others in the groovy ensemble spin this mostly tall tale of the English Parliament’s fight to crush rock radio and the rogue broadcasters who went to sea to keep it afloat.

Rated R (language, and some sexual content including brief nudity). At Century and Colony Square. ­— Betsy Sharkey Planet 51 See full screen review on Page 38. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Precious The first 20 minutes of Precious are so intense, you may not feel like sticking it out. Stick it out. This is an exceptional film about nearly unendurable circum-

stances, endured. The story is about a teen living in 1980s Harlem, raped by her barely glimpsed father, abused by her unfathomably cruel mother (Mo’Nique).

Precious is illiterate but bright, and she switches to an alternative school where she comes under the life-saving tutelage of Ms. Rain (Paula Patton). There’ll be an Oscar nomination or two in this film’s near future. Rated R (child abuse including sexual assault and pervasive language). At Century and Esquire. ­— Michael Phillips Turkey Shoot This low budget sci-fi movie from director Brian Trenchard-Smith (Dead End Drive-In, Stunt Rock, BMX Bandits) is a dystopic vision of the year 2000, where a totalitarian government indiscriminately sends people into horrific rehabilitation camps. When two of the innocent detainees, Paul (Railsback) and Chris (Hussey), are selected for the vicious Turkey Shoot, they must go on the run in order to survive as they fend off attackers and try to secure their freedom. Not rated. At Starz.

— Denver Film Society The Twilight Saga: New Moon This much-anticipated sequel is actually pretty good — a tick better than the first Twilight, which wasn’t bad, either.

The second film in the series is bigger, better in the effects and more vibrant visually. When last we left Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire boyfriend, Edward (Robert Pattinson), they’d come through a serious test or three of their endless love. New Moon separates the pair early on. Bella pines, then is pulled out of her funk by her pal Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who is sweet and hunky but also a werewolf. MPAA rating: PG-13 (some violence and action). At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Yes Men Fix the World

The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony websites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events — where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global injustice and satirize human rights abuses. They are the 21st century’s answer to Timothy Leary’s proselytizing for acid and Ken Kesey’s busload of hipsters. The big difference is that they care less about changing minds than changing policy. But announcing, as spokespeople for Dow Chemical, that they will at last take full financial responsibility for the victims of Bhopal, they create a media sensation that embarrasses the real powers that be. And, outfitted in their wacky “survival ball” getups, the Yes Men address a room full of straight-laced suits who don’t think there’s anything funny about going to insane lengths to assure one’s personal safety in the event of any and all calamities. The Yes Men don’t exactly speak truth to power. But their hearts are in the right place — right next to their funny bones. Not rated. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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The return of the giant squid From monster of the deep to monstrous entrée

By Mike Hale

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he Humboldt squid is the stuff of seafaring legend, something Captain Nemo would battle in a Jules Verne novel.

But Dosidicus gigas is not a figment of someone’s imagination. These fascinatingly grotesque creatures can reach 7 feet in length and weigh in excess of 100 pounds, are known cannibals and can tear off a fisherman’s hand with its razor-sharp beak, dousing its prey with prodigious amounts of black ink.

Terrifying, yes, but chefs are now turning the tables on these giant cephalopods, purchasing 30- to 50-pounders from fish mongers and using the product at their restaurants.

“That doesn’t surprise me,” said Lou Zeidberg, a marine scientist at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey who studies the giant squid. “There’s plenty of protein there. I personally eat it, and it tastes fine. A lot of seafood is just a means of conveyance for tartar sauce.”

The Humboldt squid showed up along California’s central coast en masse in 2002 during an El Niño weather pattern. Normally found in warmer waters off Mexico, the squid found the local waters to its liking and stuck around. According to Zeidberg, they thrive on hake, sardines, anchovies and market squid, the smaller Monterey calamari that diners are used to seeing on local menus.

Commercial fishermen, particularly in Mexico, target the Humboldt specifically (worldwide, 800,000 tons of jumbo squid were caught in 2006).

Along the California coast, the squid is showing up as by-catch in fishing nets, and on the hooks of adventurous sport anglers.

“Every time we go out (for a scientific observation) we see them,” said Zeidberg, who is part of a team investigating the behavioral patterns of this species in the ocean by tagging and releasing them.

According to Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, the Humboldt squid is a good choice and considered sustainable, although Zeidberg said the state of the overall population is unknown, and enforcement of fishery regulations is minimal. And Zeidberg’s

This giant squid ended up on the menu as “sea monster Bolognese” at Mundaka restaurant in Carmel, Calif.

data shows that their adaptable hunting strategies allow them to prey upon commercially important fishery species such as hake and anchovy.

“It’s my understanding they are eating everything in their path,” said chef Brandon Miller, of Mundaka, the first restaurant in Carmel, Calif., to serve Humboldt squid. “So why not eat a few of them?”

Miller saw Humboldt squid on the list of fresh seafood faxed by his fish vendor, and he ordered a 40-pounder to start.

“I’ve dealt with a lot of octopus and squid, so I wasn’t

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freaked out,” said Miller, who is having some fun with his first Humboldt dish, starting with its name: sea monster Bolognese.

“I wanted to start with something they do in Spain, making fish dishes look like meat dishes,” he said.

Miller said many peasant dishes use squid or other seafood to extend the meat and help create a softer texture. For his penette pasta with sea monster Bolognese, he braises the squid (it comes cleaned) for an hour to break down the protein. After cooling, he pulses chunks in a food processor until it resembles ground beef. Then he continues as if making a classic Bolognese. The result is a rich, savory concoction that does not taste fishy.

“It’s selling really well,” he said. “I think people are naturally curious.”

Miller plans to create other dishes with the product, including showcasing its natural texture and appearance.

“I’ve seen it whole-roasted in a pizza oven before,” he said. “There are a lot of different directions to go.”

Chef Chris Cosentino of Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, known as the “offal chef ” for his inclination to use all parts of an animal, has been cooking Humboldt squid for a few years now. One of his most popular preparations is “giant squid with chickpeas.”

He braises the whole squid with capers, garlic, parsley stems, lemon peels, anchovies and San Marzano tomatoes.

After two hours the squid releases its liquid and becomes tender.

He plates chunks of the 1-inch thick pieces with chickpeas, shaved fennel and onions. The recipe, along with a slide show, can be viewed at Cosentino’s blog at www.offalgood.com.

A similar recipe Cosentino has altered for the home cook is called Humboldt squid in umido (umido is a sauce in which a food is cooked and served, especially one made from the food’s own juices).

Cosentino said he learned the recipe from chef Gennaro Contaldo when he worked with him at his

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Café makes Eggcredible pierogi dumplings

By Clay Fong

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estled inside the Days Hotel (formerly Inn) off South Boulder Road, Boulder’s Eggcredible Café, which serves only breakfast and lunch, features a cozy log cabin interior suggesting wide open Western spaces. But look a little more closely, and you’ll also notice walls dotted with Eastern European folk art and scenic photographs of Polish cityscapes. This juxtaposition of East and West also carries over to the menu, which not only highlights omelets, pancakes and sandwiches, but also a unique assortment of pierogi dumplings.

Visiting on a snowy day, friends Jackie

Florentine Omelet, filled with tomato, mushroom, cream cheese and namesake spinach. The eggs were tender and fluffy, complemented by vegetables that had been heated enough to maximize their flavor, but not to the point of overcooking. The side of seasoned fried potatoes, which also accompanied the Benedict, possessed a pleasantly thin crust and sensually soft interior. Wayne astutely observed that these tubers were not from the steam table and had obviously been cooked to order.

I ordered the $9.89 Polish Pierogi Platter off the lunch menu. Bathed in a pungent garlic cream sauce and dusted with paprika, three varieties of homemade dumplings surrounded a scoop of potato salad. As a garlic lover, I was delighted by Eggcredible Café the sauce, and Jackie mused that it would have been a superior alternative to the 5397 South Boulder Road Hollandaise on her omelet.

Boulder, 303-301-0005 The first of the dumplings was the zakopane, a tangy mix of sauerkraut and mushrooms that were surprisingly hefty and Wayne and I began brunch with n America, the most significant celebration of Polish dumplings without being overwhelming. Similarly, Silver Canyon coffee drinks, which occurs at the annual Whiting, Ind., Pierogi Fest. The 2010 edition the richly flavored potato and cheese variarrived at the table promptly, thanks to will run from July 23–25, and it features an International Polka ety was filling, while still retaining a light our exceedingly polite server. Jackie opted Parade, a pierogi toss, and a (gulp!) pierogi-eating contest. Mr. texture. The three-meat version was a for a $3.79 latte, while Wayne enjoyed a Pierogi is the mascot of this event, and this individual, dressed as subtly accomplished blend of pork, chick$2.49 double espresso. I ordered up a a dumpling, serves as the city’s goodwill ambassador, posing for en and beef with each flavor supporting $2.89 Colorado Kawa (Polish for “cofpictures and presumably keeping the Dancing Pieroguettes in the other. I would certainly return for fee”), which blended coffee with hot line. Accompanying him is Miss Paczki, the personification of a these dumplings, and I’m also eager to chocolate topped with whipped cream. traditional dessert resembling a jelly donut. As the fest’s website sample the sweet fruit and cheese breakWhile these beverages lacked the fullproclaims, “She’s the queen of jelly-filled bismarks!” fast pierogi. bore taste of specialty coffee shop drinks, As we concluded our meal, Wayne they held their own against those served observed that if he was a guest at the at other breakfast joints. One couldn’t The weak link in the chain was the Hollandaise sauce, hotel, he would be pleasantly surprised by fault the jumbo size of the beverages, and watching marred by a watery texture and consequently wanting in the quality and breadth of the Eggcredible’s menu. I Jackie grapple with her oversized mug resembled someflavor. On the plus side, the poached eggs were perfectconcurred, and it’s also clear this unpretentious eatery is thing straight out of Alice in Wonderland. ly prepared with silky whites and a touch of runniness a worthwhile destination for the local resident seeking a Wayne requested the $9.89 Benedict de Mare, a in the yolk. Chopped bits of smoked salmon felt velvety hearty breakfast or lunch prepared with considerable well-presented composition of all-natural eggs and in the mouth without being overly salty. care as well as memorable pierogi. smoked salmon atop the obligatory English muffin.

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’m happy to report that this week will be another pumpkin dessert — please, please hold your applause.

This week, however, will be a good ol’ pumpkin pie, with a little twist, of course. White Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Pie. That is something to be thankful for. I must admit I love Thanksgiving more than any other holiday. Before all the craziness of the holidays sets in, it’s a day to just relax and enjoy what you have.

OK, so if you’re cooking all day, it might not seem that relaxing, but I find it comforting. I am also very thankful that I have no desire or friends that want to drag me off to participate in Black Friday.

I do enjoy hearing horror shopping stories on Saturday, though.

I love Thanksgiving because you can say just that —“Happy Thanksgiving.”

No blanket “happy holidays” statement to cover all the December festivities so as not to offend someone who might celebrate something that you don’t. I have no problem uttering "happy holidays," but I’m all for wishing someone Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa or whatever it is someone might celebrate or believe. I have a dear friend that lives in Tel Aviv who sends me Christmas wishes every year without blinking an eye ... just saying. I do, however, refuse to wish someone Happy Groundhog Day. I have to take a stand somewhere.

I love the tradition of pumpkin pie — yes, I know, I have made everything but pumpkin pie this month. I must give people pumpkin options. The custardlike filling full of sugar and spice is always a welcome ending to a food-frenzied day. There is something so soothing about a nice slice of pumpkin pie. It also symbolizes the end of the first feeding and the beginning of nap time. What other dessert can make that claim? You are going to love the combination of the white chocolate and pumpkin, and I’m sure you will be thankful you made this recipe, just as I am thankful I have the opportunity to provide recipes and my thoughts for you in the Boulder Weekly.

So I leave you with a big Happy Thanksgiving wish. I am thankful for my family, friends and the strangers I am sure to meet volunteering at one of the many Boulder outreach programs.

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you, that would suffice.” Geesh, I need to jump off my happy box and just give you the recipe already. Alright, now follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

Before you start: Make sure your eggs are at room temperature. You can substitute the walnuts for any nut you like. Do not over-mix, it can cause the pie to crack (just cover it with whipped cream if it cracks). If you want to make life a little easier, just use a pre-made pie crust.

White Chocolate Pumpkin Swirl Pie 1 1/3 cup all purpose flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1 tbsp. sugar 1/2 cup shortening (chilled) 3-4 tbsp. cold water 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/2 cup whipping cream 3/4 cup chopped white chocolate or white chocolate chips 2 eggs 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling) or 2 cups fresh pumpkin 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. ginger 1/2 tsp. cloves 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 cup whipping cream

In a food processor, combine flour, salt and sugar until combined. Add in cold shortening and pulse until mix resembles coarse bread crumbs. Add water in slowly, until you can pinch dough and it sticks together. Form into ball and place on sheet of Saran wrap.

Flatten into disc and put in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. While dough is chilling, heat up 1/2 cup whipping cream in small pan or double boiler until starts to simmer. Pour over white chocolate that has been set in small bowl. Stir until completely smooth and set aside.

After 30 minutes, take pie crust out and place on lightly floured surface. Dust rolling pin with flour and slowly roll out until fits 9-inch deep dish pie plate with overhang. Drape over pie plate and cut off or pinch and make a nice edge with dough. (You can do fancy or rustic.)

Sprinkle pecans on bottom of dough and press down. Place back in refrigerator.

Pre-heat oven to 350.

In large bowl, whisk eggs and brown sugar until well-combined. Add in pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt and mix well. Stir in 1/4 cup whipping cream and mix until smooth. Pour in white chocolate/whipping cream mixture, reserving about 2 tbsp. Make sure mix is well incorporated with pumpkin mixture.

Pour into chilled pie crust. Swirl remaining white chocolate/whipping cream mix over top of pumpkin mixture.

Bake for 50 to 55 minutes until pumpkin is set and white chocolate is bubbling on top. Let cool completely.

When ready to serve, slice and serve with whipped cream (fresh or canned whipped cream) and garnish with a dash of cinnamon.

You can watch the Dessert Diva every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel 2. To contact Danette at the station, visit 2thedeuce. com, and click on Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments and suggestions, write to jdromega@aol.com.

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HOLIDAYS ON ICE Here’s a winter beverage to try: Ireland’s cream liqueur, Coole Swan, uses all-natural ingredients and is now being sold in four U.S. markets — Boulder being one of them.

Coole Swan is made from double cream and single-malt Irish whiskey. Coole Swan can be served alone in a chilled glass, or if you’re feeling adventurous this holiday season, shake up this holiday cocktail — the Candy Cane.

Ingredients: 2 oz. Coole Swan 1 1/2 oz. cranberry-infused vodka 1/2 oz. pomegranate syrup 2 shakes cinnamon Combine all of the ingredients together in a shaker with plenty of ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

Garnish with pomegranate seeds and flamed cinnamon or cinnamon stick. To flame cinnamon: Pinch and sprinkle ground cinnamon onto the top of the cocktail over an open flame to release the aroma.

A 750 milliliter bottle is around $27.

Visit www.cooleswan.com for more information.

ARUGULA’S THANKSGIVING FEAST Arugula Bar e Ristorante will be open on Thanksgiving and will be serving a prix-fixe fourcourse meal for $49 per person.

Choose two of 15 appetizers, salads and primi-sized portions of pasta, gnocchi and risotto. Main course choices are a vegetarian-vegan creation, sea scallops, turkey dinner, pork chop, rack of lamb and surf and turf. Main

courses will be complemented with sides, and then add a piece of cranberry, lemon, balsamic or chocolate-orange cake for dessert. Arugula will be open from noon to 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Visit www.arugularistorante.com or call 303443-5100 to make reservations.

THE POLISHED PRINCESS Looking for a delicious cocktail to mix up for guests at your holiday feast? Try the Polished Princess, created by worldrenowned mixologist and cocktail consultant Jonathan Pogash.

The Polished Princess uses Sobieski Vanilia combined with the yummy fall flavors of pumpkin and cranberry.

1 1/2 oz. Sobieski Vanilia Vodka 5 cranberries Pinch pumpkin spice 1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice 3/4 oz. simple syrup 1 egg white In the bottom of a mixing glass, muddle the cranberries and spice in the simple syrup and lemon juice. Then add remaining ingredients and dry shake. Add ice and shake again. Strain into chilled martini glass and garnish with three cranberries.

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amelized fennel sauce (it is raved about on the social dining site chowhound. com).

Internet searches unearth hit-andmiss anecdotes about cooking Humboldt squid, a beast full of muscles, connective sleeves and tendon-like tissue.

Many find the beasts simply too tough and rubbery.

However, in the hands of professionals, the Humboldt can be quite tasty. (c) 2009, The Monterey County Herald (Monterey, Calif.).

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London restaurant Passione. “Gennaro hails from Italy’s Amalfi coast, and this dish is typical of what would be served as a casual meal once the fishermen brought in their catch,” Cosentino said.

Another San Francisco restaurant using Humboldt squid is Aziza, a Michelin-starred Moroccan-food place.

Chef de cuisine Louis Maldonado said they use the body and not the tentacles to make their Humboldt squid with fennel, tomato and celery.

Cut into 1-inch chunks, the squid is said to be sweet and tender with the car-

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Murphy’s Grill 2731 Iris Ave., Boulder 303-449-4473

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his is one of those guilty-pleasure places that you can’t tell your foodsnob friends about. If they do find out, they’ll give you a hard time for patronizing a burger joint, let alone a chain. But the subterfuge and potential shame are worth it, as the payoff is the best fastfood fries you’ll ever have and a defiantly greasy burger that comes within striking distance of Southern California’s legendary In-N-Out.

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self-described neighborhood restaurant, the interior of the North Boulder location of Murphy’s Grill bears more than a passing resemblance to the set of the ’80s sitcom Cheers.

But unlike Cheers, Murphy’s displays considerable culinary prowess beyond chicken wings and nachos. Best bets include the expertly prepared walnutcrusted trout and the “smallest dessert in town” a sweet bargain consisting of a hunk of moist brownie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Two Spoons 1021 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-545-0027

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uickly glancing into its window, it’s easy to dismiss Pearl Street’s Two Spoons as a mere gelato shop. But as the temperature drops, this self-proclaimed “small-batch kitchen” shifts its focus from frozen treats to a more seasonally appropriate menu of warming soups and panini. While the soup selection frequently changes, two standouts are the chicken matzoh ball and sweet pea and asparagus selections.

Other menu winners include the organic salads and a simple-but-satisfying grilled cheese panini.

Big Daddy Bagels 4800 Baseline Rd., #8101, Boulder, 303-554-0193

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eed fuel for a hike or bike ride? Need a quick, reasonably priced and filling workday meal? Look no further than Big Daddy Bagels, which not only serves up its namesake, but also entrée salads, soups and pastries. The classicist will enjoy the New Yorker bagel sandwich, the timeless combination of lox, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes and capers. For those preferring something without meat, try the flavorful portobello melt, which features marinated mushrooms, sun-dried tomato spread, as well as feta and provolone cheeses atop a bagel.

Crane Hollow Café 7502 Hygiene Rd., Hygiene 303-776-1551

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lightly off the beaten path, Hygiene’s Crane Hollow Café provides a charming country venue for a leisurely weekend breakfast. Hearty

Amu 1221 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-440-0807

corned beef hash, world-class biscuits and gravy specials, and fresh-from-the-oven fruit pies are just some of the specialties here. Combine these delectable items with a bright home-style setting and reasonable prices, and you’ve got the makings of a fine morning meal experience.

George’s Food & Drink

the Philadelphia-style, which bears a close resemblance to its New York cousin. Civic origins aside, O! offers pie for every palate, ranging from a soy cheese and gluten-free crust version to a top-flight white pizza brimming with garlic, mozzarella, spinach and extra virgin olive oil. For dessert, try the homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350

The Buff Restaurant

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on’t let the fact that George’s Food & Drink is named after a friendly spirit said to roam the halls of the neighboring Boulder Theater scare you off. Instead, count on George’s to dish out screaming deals such as $2 barbecue pulled pork sliders and $3.50 well drinks at happy hour. Other compelling choices include a panko-topped mac and cheese, and the dazzlingly fresh entrée salads. However, some might be daunted by the availability of chocolate-covered bacon as a dessert.

Japango

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lthough The Buff Restaurant is attached to the Golden Buff Lodge, don’t think that this eatery caters only to folks passing through Boulder. The generous portions, friendly service and classic breakfast and lunch menu make this a locals’ favorite. Omelets include the Atlantic, which comes with everything you’d expect to find on a lox bagel, except the bagel itself. The California is another worthwhile effort, consisting of tomatoes, bacon and Swiss cheese.

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apango differentiates itself from the competition by providing economical yet filling bento lunches ranging from $7.50 to $9.50. For a price comparable to a takeout sandwich lunch, you can enjoy a meal of meat, fish or poultry, along with well-prepared rice, salad and miso soup.

Other bento features include California rolls and fresh-from-the-fryer tempura.

O! Pizza 3980 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-9100

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oulder’s Amu, the sister restaurant to the popular Sushi Zanmai, offers a unique dining experience.

Shying away from typical Japanese menus, this establishment features a variety of topshelf sakes and unusual small plates from land and sea. Simple dishes, such as chilled tofu, rise to another level with Amu’s garnishes of minced ginger, scallions and dried fish flakes. Sashimi and soft crab are also available, and meatless choices abound, including a winning salad of daikon radish and sprouts.

Tandoori Grill 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339

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ffering one of the better Indian buffets in town, the Tandoori Grill goes the extra step in interpreting Indian classics. The moist and subtly smoky tandoori chicken thankfully lacks the red dye prevalent in some other versions, and desserts such as the kheer rice pudding are seasoned by a pleasing mix of nuts, spice and citrus zest. Other notable attractions include the impossibly airy meatballs in masala gravy and a first-rate mango lassi with a dominant fruit flavor.

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his is one of the few local establishments where you can get something as simple as a decent club sandwich at a fair price. Bob’s features an lessthan-$5 menu with such items as a mini Philly cheesesteak sandwich, and many of the burgers go for less than a five spot. Higher-end items include the $8.95 blackened salmon and mahi sandwiches.

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One of the greatest superpowers a human being can have is the ability to change herself in accordance with her intentions. Let’s say you’re tired of feeling shame about something there’s no good reason to feel shame about, and you decide to do whatever it takes to dissolve that shame, and you succeed in doing it. Or let’s say you no longer want to attract bad listeners and flaky collaborators into your life, and you resolve to transform that pattern, and you ultimately achieve your goal. These are acts of high magic, as amazingly wizardly as anything a shaman does. It so happens, Aries, that this superpower is especially accessible to you right now.

I agree with football coach Lou Holtz, who said, “The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.” It’s possible to work around this difficulty, however. What you have to do, before you unleash your levity, is conjure up empathy for the sourpuss in question. You should also make sure that your intention is not to mock or poke at the person, but instead offer a potential escape from his or her locked energy. By my calculations, you could be an expert at this kind of psychic judo right now. For best results, practice on yourself. Whenever you’re headed toward a negative thought or emotion, nudge yourself away with a jest or wisecrack.

March 21-April 19: HERBAL HOLIDAY GIFT MAKING Wed., December 2nd, 6:30-8:00pm •Wed., December 16th, 6:30-8:00pm • Cost: $35.00 HERBS & ASTROLOGY Thursday, December 10th, 6:30-8:00pm • Cost: $25.00

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Your story is taking a hotter and wetter and more cosmically comical turn. The splendor and the rot are all mixed up. The line between your strengths and liabilities are hair thin. But have no fear. One of your dormant talents will activate in the nick of time. Your wild guesses will shed bright light whenever the darkness creeps in. And you’ll have even more emotional intelligence than usual. P.S. If your psyche tingles like a funny bone that has been tapped, it means that unanticipated help or useful information will arrive within 12 hours.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

“The more you do what you want,” says Santa Fe artist Erika Wanenmacher, “the more magic happens.” And what she wants, in part, is to be surprised by how life’s random events ask to be included in her creative process. During her long walks along the irrigation ditch near her home, for example, odds and ends on the ground call to her, suggesting that she use them in her art pieces — heart-shaped rocks, miniature liquor bottles, bent spoons, parts of toys. One of her gallery pieces, “Spell Wall,” consists of amulets made from this found stuff. “I’ll make whatever I want,” Erika says. “Out of whatever I want. About whatever I want.” She’s your role model, Gemini. Borrow from her perspective. Go in quest of unexpected clues that make you feel loose and free and fertile.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

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ASTROLOGY FOR BEGINNERS Astrology is a shorthand to figuring out your life purpose and life lessons. This class will teach you how to read your chart and further understand your personality. We will laugh together and learn in a very informative and entertaining way.

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Needing a creative disruption in my routine, I hiked into a forest I’d never visited. The late afternoon light was wan and the wind was chilly. In places, the trail narrowed to a scruffy rut barely big enough for me to walk on, leading me to wonder if I was reading my map wrong. Three times this happened, but always the wider path resumed. Were there bobcats here? When I spied a flash of fur in the distance, I wished I’d researched that subject before I’d come. Still I pressed on. Then I came upon a single segment of a wooden fence, inexplicable in this remote area. One end of its upper slat had come loose and fallen. Moved by a whimsical urge to insert order into the midst of my disorientation, I fixed the slat. My mood brightened, my anxiety dissipated, and the rest of my hike was filled with small epiphanies. Everything I just described, my fellow Cancerian, is an apt metaphor for your week ahead.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

I believe that in the coming weeks you’ll enjoy experiences that have an emotional resemblance to those referred to in this passage by French novelist Gustave Flaubert: “I want to cover you with love, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh . . . I want you to be astonished by me, to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports . . . When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours. I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.” Please note, Leo, that I’m not necessarily saying the pleasures you gather in will stem from an engagement with an actual lover. They might. But your delight may also have a more mysterious origin.

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Do you know what you’re really worth? Not as measured by your bank account and luxurious possessions. Not as reflected by your boss’s or parents’ or enemies’ images of you. Not as distorted by what you wish you were worth or fear you’re not worth. I’m talking about taking an illusion-free inventory of the skills you have that are fulfilling to you and useful to others. I’m talking about your wisdom more than your knowledge, your self-love more than your popularity, your ability to be good more than to look good.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

The surest way to beat the system, my dear, is to elude it and erect your own system. The strategy most likely to leave your competitors babbling in the mirror, sweetheart, is to go completely over their heads. That doesn’t mean, darling, that you should be a remote and grandiose narcissist who listens to no one but yourself. Smile sweetly as you describe why your way is the best way, you gorgeous genius. Enlist worthy collaborators through the irresistible force of your guileless charisma.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

“A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping,” wrote theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Your assignment is to uncover one of those secrets in yourself. It may not result in an instantaneous cure of your minor personality glitch, but it will be a potent first step that will set in motion a series of healing events. Be brave, Capricorn. I guarantee that any ugliness you might find lodged deep inside you will be entangled with surprising beauty.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Seventy percent of the world’s fresh water is locked away in Antarctica’s ice, which is 7,000 feet thick. Let’s hope it remains that way for the foreseeable future. If global warming melted that giant slab even a little, sea levels all over the planet would rise and coastal lands would be inundated. As for your frozen areas, however: I’d really like to see at least 30 percent of them thaw. Would you consider doing whatever it takes to release a mini-flood of summery feelings?

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

While walking in an unfamiliar neighborhood, I saw a huge red wooden chair on someone’s front lawn. It was big enough for a 20-foot-tall giant. An equally oversized martini glass was perched on the arm of the chair. Nearby was a sign that read, “I have flying monkeys at my command, and I’m not afraid to use them.” I assumed this scene was the handiwork of an adorable crazy person who’s an admirer of The Wizard of Oz mythology. I also flashed on how I could totally see you sitting in that chair. Metaphorically speaking, you too have flying monkeys at your command. I just hope you use them to accomplish good deeds, not evil ones.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

It’s not just our era that has a tormented relationship with time. Many cultures have been frustrated by its tyranny.

During France’s July Revolution in 1830, for instance, rebels shot guns at public clocks. While I think that’s too extreme for you, I do recommend that you perform a ritual to empower yourself as you wrestle with the passage of the hours and days and weeks. How about smashing a cheap alarm clock with a hammer? Or spending an entire day without ever referring to a timepiece? Or taking 10 deep breaths as you imagine you’re inhaling eternity and exhaling the grinding tick-tock? It’s a perfect moment to claim more freedom from temporality.

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