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Cain’s manager inhales / 6 Why Herman Cain’s smoking ad was a brilliant move

by Paul Danish

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buzz Art in all forms / 18 Ballet Nouveau pairs with RedLine to mix media, make impressions

by Steve Weishampel Arts & Culture: Donald Fodness’ art is like watching someone’s dream / 23 Overtones: Nothing but changes for restless Murs / 25 Overtones: Mastodon refuses to make formulaic metal / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Sophisticated Sex: Searching for the G-spot / 33 CU Sports: Disrespected Buffs out to prove doubters wrong / 34 Screen: The Three Musketeers; Puss in Boots / 37 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 38 Cuisine: What farmers do during winter months / 40 Cuisine Review: Saxy’s Cafe / 41 Dessert Diva: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies / 42 Elevation: Guided beer hikes / 47

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God’s gifts After reading the article titled, “We’re anti-anti-abortion” (In Case You Missed It, Oct. 6), I felt compelled to respond to such a misinformed article.

Consider, if you will, the fact of the gorgeous existence we are privileged to live in — the wonderful changing seasons, the beautiful colors, our mountains, seas, sun, and too many other outstanding attributes of our earth that we enjoy.

Then consider, if you will, our Creator, who gave all of this to us — we didn’t put in any effort, didn’t pay a dime, and daily we can enjoy this awesome creation surrounding us.

Then consider, if you will, the most fantastic creation of all that was freely given us — the only and absolute best of all other gifts — and that is we were created in His image and likeness. Life was given to us — again, freely and generously. We didn’t have to toil or draw out volumes of plans to create this image — again, it was a gift.

Now consider again — after all these wonderful gifts to us, that in our ignorance — not stupidity, just ignorance — due to not knowing or recognizing the truth, we set about destroying His gifts.

What an affront! But most of all, the worst would be to destroy His most precious creation — life!

We firmly believe if you research your mind, heart and scripture you, too, will comprehend the gravity of destroying His creation — especially human life. Perhaps that’s what the crosses on South Boulder Road are hoping to do

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Right-wingers hate women I like most women I meet. I really do. Aside from the obligatory battling with my older sisters and not understanding why the girls never got caned in boarding school, I hold no real resentment toward them either.

And when I do disagree with women, it still doesn’t mean I hate them.

Why do these conservative Republicans?

I understand that Mississippi is now in the process of implementing the strictest abortion law in the nation, which as we all well know will ultimately end up with mostly but not exclusively minority dead women in back alleys and all of the other horrors associated with

The Highroad

amie Dimon of New York City made a donation to the New York Police Foundation this spring. “These officers,” Mr. Dimon said at the time, “put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe.”

Yes, they do. But was this a nice gesture by a civic-minded citizen — or the purchase of special protection?

When Jamie Dimon says keep “us” safe, I doubt he means us hoi polloi.

Rather, I suspect he wants police officials to keep Wall Street bankers like him safe from us. Dimon is chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, the financial giant that helped crash our economy, took billions of banker bailout dollars from us, keeps paying outlandish executive bonuses, refuses to lend the capital our real economy needs to create jobs, is now gouging consumers with new fees, and is presently lobbying in Washington to kill regulations that would protect us from more

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by Jim Hightower banker greed.

The $4.6 million donation that Dimon delivered is the largest ever received by the police foundation.

He even got a thank-you note from police chief Raymond Kelly, expressaing “profound gratitude.”

But Dimon’s bank got its biggest thanks in midSeptember, when the Occupy Wall Street movement launched its protest. According to a member of

illegal abortion. Will these people ever learn? The Republican party really is becoming the party of death for women in this one respect, no doubt.

Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

Animal massacres I was deeply saddened by the needsee LETTERS Page 6

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Occupy’s legal team, the original plan was to base the protest’s encampment in Chase Plaza, right in front of the big bank’s Wall Street offices. However, no go. The NYPD was there in force ahead of the protesters, preemptively shutting down the plaza. Thus, the Occupy movement settled in at Zuccotti Park, well out of sight of the JPMorgan Chase honchos.

Ironically, this apparent purchase of police power is exactly the sort of corrupt coziness between corporate and governmental elites that has brought people into the streets. It just confirms the necessity for a democracy uprising in America.

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less massacre of 47 animals abandoned in Zanesville, Ohio.

Yet, these precious lives represent only a fraction of the 300 cows, pigs and other innocent sentient animals butchered for our dinner table every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

That’s 10 billion animals per year.

Unlike those in Zanesville, animals raised for food have no life before death.

From birth, they are caged and crowded, deprived and drugged, manhandled and mutilated.

Undercover investigations have shown male baby chicks suffocated in plastic garbage bags or ground to death.

The females are crammed for life in tiny wire-mesh cages that tear out their feathers. Pregnant sows are caged for years, unable to turn around.

At the slaughterhouse, animals may be dismembered, skinned, scalded and drowned while fully conscious. Nearly 10 percent die of injuries and diseases.

For folks who share my sadness at the Zanesville massacre, a vegan diet offers the only effective path to a guiltfree conscience. There’s no extra charge for the associated health and environmental benefits. Visiting LiveVegan.org, or typing “vegan recipes” into a search engine is a great start.

Rudolph Helman/Boulder

Thanks for hospice During the month of November, the medical profession recognizes National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and Gov. John Hickenlooper recently proclaimed November 2011 as Hospice Month in Colorado.

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details during this difficult time. Hospice is also there to support the family after their loss.

On behalf of Colorado Hospice, we would like to say thank you to hospice caregivers for the important work that they do each and every day.

Stephen Collins, Colorado Hospice/ Westminster

Avoid listeria, go vegan Authorities are blaming the listeria outbreak — which has affected at least 26 states, sickened at least 130 individuals, and caused at least 28 deaths — on infected cantaloupes, so many people don’t realize that meat consumption is the root cause of the problem.

Melons and other plant-based foods do not naturally harbor listeria, salmonella, or E. coli bacteria. These pathogens live in the intestinal tracts and feces of warm-blooded animals. When manure is used to fertilize crops or leaks into waterways, fruits and vegetables can become contaminated. (Crosscontamination can also occur when produce is placed on the same surface as meat or when someone doesn’t practice proper hygiene.)

In light of the outbreak — and concerns about contaminated lettuce in Alaska and California — the Food and Drug Administration has promised to continue conducting checks and notifying grocery stores about product recalls.

While these are important steps, there is a much better solution: Advise people to adopt a vegan diet. When more people switch to a vegan diet, fewer animals will be bred for food, lessening the threat of food-borne illnesses. For more information, visit www.PETA.org.

Heather Moore/Norfolk, Va.

Taxing jobs Protesters gather to bring down the “greedy capitalist “ but ignore that the “corrupt politicians” manipulate “the system.” The fact is you can’t have a job unless you have an employer. And see LETTERS Page 8

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lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president.

The ad was apparently posted on Cain’s website last August, but was discovered by the ever-alert mainstream media only a couple of weeks ago — after it went viral. It can be seen on YouTube, where it has gotten more than a million hits.

The ad features Mark Block, Cain’s chief of staff giving an impassioned 30 second pitch for his candidate — at the end of which he take a drag on a cigarette. The ad ends with a brief shot of Cain flashing a mischievous little smile.

The media’s initial reaction to the ad ran the gamut from “what does that have to do with anything?” to “has he taken leave of his senses?” Upon reflection, a more probing and profound analysis emerged: The ad was just a desperate stunt to get some free ink and air-time (which, stunt or not, it did).

Personally, I’m mystified by the media’s mystification. There is a perfectly direct explanation of the ad that should have occurred instantly to all those (formerly) hard drinking, hard smoking den-

izens of smoke-filled rooms, but inexplicably didn’t.

Surveys show that nearly four out of five adult Americans don’t smoke. But 21 percent of adults do.

That 21 percent works out to 40 million voting-age smokers. No one in either party will give them the time of day or even acknowledge their existence as anything other than a bad influence on children and one more problem on the nation’s agenda — let alone make a pitch for their support.

Smokers are routinely denigrated, demonized and humiliated by public officials. No one stands up for them.

And though three out of four smokers will acknowledge they should quit, chances are most of them harbor at least some resentment towards anti-smoking politicians and activists.

And then along comes Cain, who is making a virtue out of the fact that he has no prior political experience, running an ad that says to smokers in so many words, “I feel your pain. I believe in live and let live, and if elected I won’t nag you, upbraid you and humiliate you for my personal political or professional gain — as a lot of political and journalistic showboats routinely do.”

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lanche of votes from smokers, but it should get a lot of voters who feel put upon for smoking to prick up their ears and give him a closer look.

Cain doesn’t have to start an antianti-smoking movement to attract smokers’ interest. A simple wink and a nod will do.

And in case there was any doubt about what Cain was trying to do with the ad, he made it explicit when asked.

“One of the themes within this campaign is let Herman be Herman,” Cain told Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation.

“Mark Block is a smoker, and we say let Mark be Mark. That’s all we’re trying to say, because we believe let people be people.”

That’s a message that should resonate with more people than just smokers. Like libertarians for instance. Maybe with some of Ron Paul’s supporters, even. If Cain could split Paul’s support, which has been in low double digits lately, it could change the dynamic of the Republican race in his favor.

Polling shows the nation’s smokers tend to be disproportionately Republican, less educated and blue collar. So the ad

should resonate among Republican primary voters and caucus participants who smoke, and there are apt to be a lot of them. As for the less educated and bluecollar demographics, well that also describes Reagan Democrats, who appear increasingly primed to vote Republican in the 2012 election cycle. The ad gives them one more reason to do so.

Also, although the ad should win Cain some smokers’ support, it isn’t likely to cause him to lose much support among non-smokers — other than those who were predisposed to vote against him anyway.

Cain may have no experience in elective office, but as a pizza executive, chances are he has a lot of experience with marketing and sales, and with targeting advertising at overlooked demographics. Before the election is over, I think Cain will be found looking for votes in all sorts of unexpected and ignored constituencies.

The ad may be offbeat and edgy, but it is not ill-considered, and the media that doesn’t know what to make of it may not be nearly as smart as it thinks it is.

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employers can’t employ people if government spending, borrowing and regulating takes profits and investment capital from them and increases their costs.

Every year the federal government takes $4 trillion dollars out of the private economy. While government spending increases at 8 percent a year, our economy is growing at 1 percent.

Yet the U.S. Senate is unwilling to cut this annual increase and rejects balanced budgets passed by the House of Representatives. Senators would rather cut benefits than bureaucracy. And they want to make these cuts as painful as possible to provoke street protests and cause job losses that justify new spending and more borrowing.

The root of the problem is in the centralization of power in the federal government and the solution is “subsidiarity,” the return of power to the states, localities and the people. We do not need 80,000 new regulations every year,

and most functions of government can be managed at the local level.

Protesters in the streets and politicians in Congress are not going to create one productive, permanent, private sector job! Pray that our senators have the wisdom and fortitude to reorganize government and repay the debt. If they fail, the next time we “remember the poor when we vote,” we’ll be considering our own impoverished situation.

Michael McCarthy/Hayward, Calif.

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Don’t whine if you didn’t vote Some of the election outcomes this week were decided by very small margins. For instance, we went to bed thinking that one of Boulder’s municipalization measures, 2B, was going to be narrowly defeated. When we woke up, it had passed by a margin of only 141 votes. And up in Longmont, Dennis Coombs unseated incumbent Bryan Baum to become mayor by only 164 votes.

This election shows that your vote really does matter. If you didn’t vote, you can’t complain about who your elected officials are or what they do. You can’t complain if your utility bill ends up being a bit higher than it used to be, as Xcel claims will happen with municipalization.

Basically, if you didn’t vote, keep your mouth shut and live with the fact that you chose not to participate in the process.

The buzz over vibrators Feminist writer Jill Filipovic had a surprise waiting for her in her suitcase when she went on a trip. It was a note, written by a TSA screener, that said, “Get your freak on girl.” The screener had, it seems, discovered the vibrator she’d tucked in her luggage.

Filipovic tweeted about the experience, unleashing a maelstrom in response. TSA promised that the screening agent in question would be fired. Sex-positive people cheered Filipovic’s openness about this violation of her privacy. But others, a lot of them guys, found a variety of creative ways to suggest that Filipovic needed to “get a man.”

Apparently, these folks are living in the sexual dark ages. Vibrators are no longer relegated to the status of the sexless woman’s secret. Lots of married and partnered women also have vibrators.

They use them not only when their lover is unavailable, unwilling or unable, but also use them when they’re having sex with their partners to add variety.

Some guys are still insecure about vibrators, apparently secretly afraid they can’t measure up to a big piece of battery-operated plastic. To feed their insecurities, here are 10 ways vibes are better than men: Vibrators keep going as long as you do.

Vibrators don’t make a mess; no one has to sleep in the wet spot.

Vibrators can’t get you pregnant.

Vibrators can’t give you diseases.

Vibrators don’t expect you to pick up their dirty clothes and cook their dinner.

Vibrators don’t come with baggage (they fit in baggage).

Vibrators don’t snore or smoke cigarettes afterward.

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But the recent explosion of headlines about the issue, with almost every major news outlet on the planet jumping on the 7 billion bandwagon, is almost comical. After all, we didn’t reach 7 billion people overnight.

It’s too bad that most articles present the issue with photos of little brown babies. The poor African woman living in a mud hut with her eight kids has less of an impact on the environment than the average American. It’s less about the 7 billion and more about what those 7 billion consume.

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representative from the anti-municipalization campaign in Boulder is claiming that a former canvasser misrepresented himself when he was hired to go door-to-door.

Cory Nadler, owner and partner of Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach (RMVO), which was hired by the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition to canvass against municipalization prior to this week’s election, claims that a Boulder Weekly letter-writer was not completely honest about his ties to a pro-municipalization campaign when he was hired by the other side as a canvasser.

It was one of the final salvos in an election battle where both sides claimed they were victims of dirty pool.

Landon Bain, in an Oct. 27 letter to the editor printed in Boulder Weekly, describes his experience going door-todoor for RMVO, which was also hired to canvass against the city of Longmont’s telecommunications ballot question. Bain wrote that shortly after being hired, he began to think he and the other canvassers were “just indoctrinating people with an expensive misinformation campaign.”

He and others quit working for RMVO, he says, because of a feeling that they were being asked to “spread lies.”

Nadler says Bain’s description is false.

“My company, Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach, takes both the written and unwritten rules of politics very seriously with regard to every single campaign we work on and project we run,” he wrote to Boulder Weekly.

Nadler claims that Bain, who has volunteered and written for New Era Colorado, which backed the municipalization effort, took the job just to infiltrate the canvassing organization and learn about its tactics.

“If a volunteer for the Renewables Yes campaign can ‘lie’ his way through two weeks of fake work for the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition, what else might he and his fellow (truthful?) volunteers be misinforming Boulder about?” Nadler wrote.

“The truth is that Landon has been playing the dirtiest kind of politics anyone can play. He spent much of the month of September pretending to be someone he Boulder Weekly

was not. A close look at Landon’s blogging and Twitter account show Landon’s connections with New Era Colorado (one of the main groups working in favor of 2B and 2C), and the Renewables Yes campaign. Landon Bain was no political newcomer; he weaseled his way on to the staff of the campaign he was fighting against and pretended to go out and speak with voters on behalf of a campaign that he was trying to sabotage all along.”

Bain denies the claims. He says he saw the job opportunity on Craigslist and didn’t know what he was getting into.

“When I first started, I had absolutely no awareness of the issue at all,” Bain says, adding that he actually agreed with the anti-municipalization stance initially.

Bain adds that he had never written about or volunteered for the pro-municipalization effort, and that New Era had not jumped into the debate when he took the job. He says his work for New Era has consisted primarily of getting University of Colorado registered to vote.

Bain also says he did nothing to sabotage the anti-municipalization campaign; he stuck to his script going doorto-door. “Never at any point did I do anything that would get me fired from the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition,” he says. “I just decided at some point that it wasn’t the right side to be on.”

Nadler counters that Bain did not include his work for New Era in the employment history section of his job application and gave no reason for quitting; he just stopped showing up for work.

Bain says he didn’t include New Era on his application because it was volunteer work, not a paid position or internship.

Nadler also accuses Bain of attempting to get RMVO canvassers to switch sides and campaign for 2B and 2C. Bain says he never tried “poaching” anyone, but he acknowledged that he shared his views on the issue with the friends he made.

“I really don’t think he went into it with any intention of being a mole,” says New Era Executive Director Steve Fenberg.

Unofficial election results show that 2B and 2C passed with slim majorities.

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“It’s coming from the feel That this ain’t exactly real, Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there …

Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.” — Leonard Cohen, Democracy

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o the U.S.A.? No, Cohen’s got it all wrong.

As our leaders loudly preach, democracy is something that we export to the rest of the world — to certain monarchies and autocratic regimes that rule Arab nations, for example. And it’s understandable though regrettable, they tell us, that there would be eruptions of pent-up anger at aloof upper classes in India, Greece, Spain and Israel.

But a genuinely populist uprising to bring democracy, both economic and political, to the U.S.A.?

No way! Yet, there it is: the sassy, brassy and savvy Occupy Wall Street movement, rapidly spreading to every ZIP code.

It is real. Yes, it’s youth-driven, broad-based, determinedly democratic and deeply grounded in the most basic of American values of economic fairness, social justice and equal opportunity for all. It’s not about left-right ideologies, but top-down realities. It’s focused directly on the narcissistic greed of today’s financial and corporate elites and on their gross corruption of our political system by a flood of money from corporations that now masquerade as persons.

Is it exactly there? No, not by a long shot; but it has a shot. The spunk, motivation, idealism, creativity and passion of these young people are genuine, not the product of partisan consultants, think tanks, rich funders or large organizations. So the movement’s direct street action is turning out to be the spark that millions of disgusted grassroots people have needed to stop moaning and start acting, which is why Occupy Chicago, Occupy McAllen and hundreds of other Occupies have sprung up spontaneously across the country within weeks of the Wall Street initiative. These people are on target and on the move.

If you doubt it, note the edgy tone of Mitt Romney, who recently expressed alarm about the rising rabble who’re daring to confront the corporate order: “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare.”

This was hardly the first plutocratic pronouncement

by Romney, a dedicated warrior for the corporate class.

In August, the well-heeled seeker of the GOP presidential nod, dressed in preppie-casual togs, hopped atop a hay bale at the Iowa State Fair. He looked as natural as a goose in a tuxedo. But then, after a somewhat testy exchange with fairgoers who had challenged him to end corporate tax breaks rather than cut benefits for people, Romney blurted out one of the stranger tenets of right12 November 3, 2011

wing theology: “Corporations are people, my friend,” Romney said, with a little condescending chuckle.

Actually, corporations are nothing but pieces of paper issued by state governments. Nonetheless, the rising supremacy of America’s corporate plutocracy is based on courts and politicians having blind faith in the legitimacy of the corporations-are-people idolatry. It is not, however, something that its disciples wish to take to the people as an election issue, because, well, because it’s pure poppycock, and it would be resoundingly rejected if it were ever put to a direct vote. So, let us praise this chucklehead for inadvertently injecting the rightwing fiction of corporate personhood directly into the 2012 presidential election.

The good news is that across the country, the overwhelming majority of people (i.e., us living, breathing humans) despise the anti-democratic domination of our elections and, therefore, of our government, economy, media and environment by a relatively few self-aggrandizing corporate behemoths. This public anger has intensified since the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Corporations are people? Who came up with that?

Sam Alito, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas. On Jan. 21, 2010, these five Supreme Court justices defied the Constitution, common sense, the expressed will of the American people and nature itself to distort hundreds of

years of judicial precedent in a case titled Citizens United v FEC. The five decreed that — shazam! — artificial, lifeless corporate entities are entitled to the First Amendment rights of people, and are endowed with more electioneering rights than us real-life persons, enabling them to buy public officials and intimidate others by dumping unlimited sums of corporate cash into our elections. In one abrupt blow, these five men reversed more than a century of campaign-finance law and more than 200 years of broad public agreement that corporate interests should be subjugated to the public interest. Talk about your judicial activism.

Now, not only can the living, breathing executives of corporations continue dumping millions of their own dollars into elections — money that totaled more than a billion dollars in the 2008 election cycle — but henceforth, the trillions of dollars held by the corporate entities themselves can also be poured into electioneering ads and other forms of speech. All bigmoney corporations, from Wall Street to Wal-Mart, now have permission to open the spigots of their vast corporate treasuries and funnel unlimited sums of cash into campaigns to elect or defeat candidates of their choice for any and every office in the land.

Rather than merely influencing our elected federal, state and even local legislators with direct campaign donations from company executives, corporations can now utilize their often billion-dollar-plus corporate treasuries to intimidate the people elected to serve all of the people. Big Insurance, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Box Store, Big Banking, Big Whatever have suddenly been armed with the unlimited, devastating spending power of their practically bottomless corporate treasuries. Their lobbyists can bluntly say to a lawmaker, governor, mayor or other official, “After you support this little bitty tax break for us, we will spend a million bucks to re-elect you. If you don’t, we’ll spend the same amount to see you defeated.”

Ironically, Citizens United v FEC has united America’s citizenry in broad, deep and vehement opposition to the absurd notion that a corporation is entitled to inclusion as one of us, as in We the People. This was evidenced this week in Boulder, where voters overwhelmingly approving ballot question 2H, decrying corporate personhood.

In poll after poll, huge majorities consistently scream against the ruling and demand strong action against it.

A Hart Research survey in January 2011 — a year after the Court’s edict was issued — found that public opposition remained fervent, with 87 percent of Democrats, see DEMOCRACY Page 13

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82 percent of independents, and 68 percent of Republicans favoring passage of a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and to make clear that corporations do not have the same rights as people.

Supreme Court cases and arcane matters of campaign finance don’t usually move the needle of public awareness from “Huh?” to “Hot damn!” But the perversion of our politics and government by deep-pocket corporations has been like sticking the public’s tongue in an electric socket. People are energized by it, and they’ve turned such terms as Citizens United, the Roberts Court, the Koch Brothers, SuperPACs and corporate personhood into curse words. The issue has even become a comic punch line: “If corporations are people,” asked a letter writer to The New York Times, “can I marry one? Is General Electric single?” And here’s one from my state: “A corporation is not a person until Texas executes one.”

Waiting for the Powers That Be In response to such strong public outrage, our elected stalwarts in Washington have risen up and responded decisively, by doing exactly nothing.

Republican leaders, long wedded to the corporate plutocracy by ideology and money, openly cheered the Court’s move.

President Obama squawked briefly about the judicial hijacking of our democracy, and the Democratic party’s congressional leaders flapped their arms in anger for a while — but then they just let it go, slinking quietly away from the issue.

(Importantly, a feisty Progressive Caucus in Congress continues to push the issue aggressively.)

The new tea party Republicans, who had barged into the congressional club with thundering claims that they had come to “take our country back” and “restore power to the people,” have been conspicuously silent on this most fundamental issue of the people’s power.

Instead, they’ve slipped comfortably into it, with not a peep of protest over the fact that five unelected government officials have dictated that Big Money is a person with political rights to buy our government.

Now comes 2012, and tea partiers, Republicans and corporate Democrats alike can be seen scurrying around like hunger-crazed squirrels in a frenetic grab-fest for the tens of millions of dollars — even hundreds of millions — that Mitt’s people are gleefully throwing around.

The money dump is well under way, and it’s massive. The tip of this destructive iceberg is a legalistic gimmick known as the SuperPAC. Authorized by Citizens United, these are super-sized, super-energized political action commitBoulder Weekly

tees. Unlike the regulated PACs of yesteryear, SuperPACs can — and will — invest tens of millions of dollars right out of corporate coffers — as well as from unions and individuals, but corporations are the monster players — and put the whole load directly into ads and other efforts to elect or defeat any candidates they choose.

How big of a load? Just one of these money monsters, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, raised a whopping $28 million from corporate interests to elect Republicans in last year’s elections. But that’s a mere trickle compared to the tsunami now headed our way; Rove’s Crossroads PAC is amassing a democracy-shattering $240 million for 2012.

Every major presidential candidate has at least one of these things sacking up and spending money specifically on their behalf. Rick Perry, for example, has six of them. Technically, SuperPACs are independent entities that must not coordinate their spending with the candidates they’re supporting. This legal prohibition against coordination is absolute. And it’s absolutely a farce and a fraud.

Perry’s top SuperPAC, modestly named Make Us Great Again, intends to put $55 million behind the Texan’s effort to win the GOP presidential nomination.

It was created and is headed by Mike Toomey, a top corporate lobbyist in Texas before sliding over in 2002 to be Perry’s gubernatorial chief of staff. In 2004, Toomey slid back into lobbying, using his tight ties to Perry to become Austin’s preeminent corporate influence peddler and a fundraiser for the governor.

This year, Toomey helped Perry set up his presidential campaign, serving as both advisor and fundraiser. Now he runs the Make Us Great Again outfit, insisting that it is entirely separate from Perry’s campaign. Helloooo! The PAC and the campaign don’t have to coordinate, because both are embodied in Toomey.

It’s up to us. We are it.

Do politicians think that people can’t see their cynical and deliberate scamming of our democratic process? If so, they might peek at some of the letters, emails, and Facebook messages I get practically every day. Not only do folks see it clearly, they’re looking to join in some serious butt-kicking: • “CEOs represent a clear and present danger to the overall well-being and security of our country. Big money has plucked our eagle.” — Larry • “We need to get under one umbrella. How can we do it? I’m so angry at the state of things. Still, I’m trying to stay positive.” — Melody • “I like the idea of petitioning to reverse the Citizens United decision. I would be pleased to help with the petition in Kansas if it gets going, or to start

one. Where does one begin?” —Robert • “The most effective campaign to launch is to get every org to focus lobbying, dollars and message on the one issue: End corporate influence and power.” — Christine This is not just another issue. It is central to practically every one of our issues, for it amounts to surrendering our democratic authority to, in Jefferson’s words, “the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations.”

The Court and the political elites have forced you and me into another of those when-in-the-course-of-humanevents moments that Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration of Independence. This is a time in which ordinary people are called forth by history to do what our leaders won’t: Assert the American people’s independence from authoritarian rule by corporate plutocrats.

Just say yes The Powers That Be want us to believe that this effort is hopeless, that we can’t really undo the legal scaffolding of artificial personhood that the corporados have erected over us flesh-and-blood citizens. Rather than attempting to deconstruct the Brave New America, they tell us, we should be satisfied with softening its rougher edges with things like campaign finance reporting requirements.

Now there’s a rallying cry for an angry public: “Give us campaign finance reporting regulations or give us death!”

How insulting to say that Americans today are too small to achieve big democratic results. And how erroneous. As a friend of mine notes, those who say it can’t be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Here’s a partial menu of actions that are under way or that you could start right where you live: 1. Amend. Two major coalitions are aggressively organizing grassroots power from coast to coast to demand and pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit corporations from buying our elections.

Yes, this is a difficult and lengthy process, but as an old Spanish dicho puts it, “Big maladies require big remedies.” The people have passed amendments before and we can again, especially for a cause that starts with such broad and passionate public support.

2. FreeSpeechForPeople.org proposes a straightforward amendment to repeal the Supremes’ infamous Citizens United ruling. The coalition’s battle cry is: Citizens United against Citizens United.

MoveToAmend.org proposes a broader amendment to declare that only human beings, not corporations, are persons with constitutional rights.

Both coalitions have grassroots organizers, do-it-yourself toolkits for raising

the issue locally and getting others involved, petitions to be circulated and sent to public officials, videos and other graphic materials for getting people informed, sample resolutions for local and state officials to pass, ways to connect people to each other and to the national movement, and a wealth of other organizing ideas and resources.

3. Uncover. One of the little-noticed and unfulfilled promises included in the Court’s Citizens United ruling is that, corporations should at least have to disclose to shareholders and the public how much political money they spend on whom. Congressional Republicans, however, have blocked proposals to implement this minimalist democratic gesture, and President Obama so far has not issued administrative rules to shine even a little sunlight on secret electioneering by corporations.

But you don’t have to wait on Washington. Citizens groups in Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin and Boulder have pushed disclosure requirements into law, and at least nine federal courts have ruled that these requirements pass constitutional muster. Groups in Los Angeles, Fort Wayne, Chicago, New Mexico, Connecticut and elsewhere are pushing conflict-of-interest laws to ban or restrict campaign donations by corporations that seek government contracts.

In addition, employees and shareholders of some big corporations, along with other innovative citizens, have launched their own do-it-yourself disclosure campaigns. Using both inside tips and the occasional leak of secret corporate donations, they are publishing the information á la wikileaks and holding protests at corporate offices to expose publicity-shy executives who’re funneling shareholder funds into elections.

4. Impeach. At least two of the corporate-coddling Supremes — Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — had undisclosed ties to the Koch brothers and other secretive corporate plutocrats at the time the Court was considering the Citizens United case. Two national organizations have extensive information about the justices’ blatant disregard of basic ethics and are collecting petitions to hold them to account. CommonCause. org seeks a Justice Department investigation of the two and proposes that Supreme Court members be subjected to the Judicial Code of Conduct that applies to all other federal judges.

RootsAction.org goes farther, calling for impeachment proceedings against Thomas for accepting gifts from participants in cases before him and for filing false financial reports.

5. Connect. It’s not all bad news in Washington. Many members of Congress are pushing policies to end or see DEMOCRACY Page 14

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at least curtail the corrupting power of corporate political cash. It’s important to have an inside-outside strategy on these policies, linking grassroots strength (ideas, courage, energy and numbers) to those fighting inside for real reform. One of the best points of connection is the Progressive Caucus, co-chaired by Reps.

Keith Ellison of Minneapolis and Raul Grijalva of Tucson. Find them at cpc.grijalva.house.gov.

6. Confront. The time to get the attention of congress critters is now, when they’re running for office. Every candidate — incumbent, challenger, Republican, tea partier, Democrat, et al.

— should be confronted politely but insistently on the corporate money issues: Citizens United, corporate personhood, public campaign funding, etc. Make appointments, attend their campaign events and town hall sessions, send queries and disseminate their responses as broadly as possible, even if all you get from them is gibberish.

7. Localize. All across the country, clean election coalitions have passed laws to give local and state candidates the alternative of using a public pool of money to finance their campaigns rather than having to kiss the ring of corporate interests. Learn about these successes and how you can launch a similar effort where you live by going to PubliCampaign.org.

Likewise, get information and inspiration from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (poclad.org) and ReclaimDemocracy.org about local communities that are restricting or outright rejecting the fiction of corporate personhood. From such small towns as Arcata, Calif., to cities like Pittsburgh, people are uniting to prohibit

assertions of a corporate right to run over them. As Pittsburgh city council member Doug Shields said of a successful effort last November to ban natural gas fracking in his city, “It’s about our authority as a community to decide, not corporations deciding for us.”

8. Enjoy. Whatever you do, think fun: How could this be more humorous, more lively, more entertaining, more welcoming, more engaging and, therefore, more effective? As much as possible, turn your meetings, work sessions and events into parties with a little food and drink, music, videos, cartoons, puppets, skits, stunts, contests, stories and whatever else the group can think of.

Whether it’s the Arab Spring or the American Autumn, democratic progress doesn’t come on the winds of history, but on the shoulders of a determined people.

Occupy Wall Street offers millions of strong shoulders with which to shove corporate money out of our politics and make “people power” more than an empty slogan. While the Constitution says “We the People,” not We the Corporations, the people themselves must make that distinction real.

The organization MoveOn.org Civil Action has planned a “Make Wall Street Pay” protest at the Wells Fargo on the Pearl Street Mall at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, to demonstrate how banks are hurting the economy and encourage people to move their money to small banks and credit unions.

Author, radio commentator, and allround populist agitator Jim Hightower has spent the past four decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers that ought-to-be. His monthly Hightower Lowdown is available by going to.hightowerlowdown.org.

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et’s get to organizing. A coalition of folks around the country are organizing to do two key things: 1) Focus social and traditional media attention on raising public awareness (and blood-boiling outrage) about the usurpation of our democracy by corporate money; and 2) Connect this rising awareness/outrage directly to some grassroots actions that people can take to stop this hijacking for once and forever.

The truth might not set you free, but it can get you moving. To help mad-as-hellers move effectively, the We the People Campaign is working with dozens of excellent progressive groups that are ready and able to enroll local folks to help bring corporate arrogance to heel, coordinating with them on a range of actions to get corporate money out of our politics. The groups are seeking to sign up a million Americans to join with them and other democracy fighters in this historic cause. To connect with the groups, get information about the issue and the campaign, and sign We the People’s Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule, go to WeThePeopleCampaign.org or Facebook.com/wethepeoplecampaign.

Follow the campaign on Twitter @peep_power.

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“I feel as artists we’re really dedicated to pushing through that imaginary fourth wall,” she says. “We want the audience to exist with us.”

For the upcoming show, performances will also challenge the audience to rethink the division of performance and visual art.

“The goal is to blur the lines between performing arts and visual arts,” says P.J. D’Amico, the executive director of RedLine, which operates as a nonprofit. “Knowing that art can manifest in many forms and across forms, we integrated their choreographers with our artists to come up with pieces of work that cross over.”

Ammon says the two companies want to present the two media in a way that enhances both.

“We share a lot of common ideas about how art can be created in new ways and shared with our communities, he says. “We love to open the door to that conversation and hope people say, ‘I need to go to the gallery or see ballet more often.’”

Now in her eighth season at Ballet Nouveau, Tallman will be dancing and choreographing for the show. She says the process of pairing artists was fast and efficient.

“We went through a speed dating process with the interested artists at

RedLine,” Tallman says. “We had eight strong mediums coexisting,” she says. minutes to talk to them about our ideas “It’s great as a dancer to work with and what motivated us. From there it these kinds of things and it’s really awewas a very natural progression; you kind some as a choreographer. You just sudof understood who you fit with.” denly realize all the possibilities that Tallman says she decided she fit exist.” with sculptor Virginia Folkestad, whose “You’ll see five distinctly different works of various materials, like wax, works that each have that particular aluminum and steel, have been featured pairing as the driving force,” Ammon in exhibits says. “Rather across the than one eveOn the Bill: country. ning of a speA Shared Experience in Art plays from Nov. “I’d seen cific experi4 to Nov. 6 at RedLine at 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, and from Nov. 11 to Nov. 13 at her work a ence, you’ll the Performing Arts Complex at PCS at year ago at see five very 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver. Tickets range [Denver’s] different from $15 to $44. Call 303-466-5685 for more information.

Republic responses to a Plaza, and I collaborative was like, ‘Oh, I just want to touch this project.” stuff.’ I don’t tend to want to touch art, Ammon himself choreographed one but I really wanted to get involved with of the pieces, which will be paired with her work. I found it visually stunning, artist Theresa Clowes’ large fabric panel and I was curious about her and the installation. process she went through to produce “It really has been a true collaboraher work.” tion,” Clowes says.

Folkestad’s installation “Drift” will Dancers will interact with her fabric be a part of Tallman’s choreographed installation in various ways in a perforpiece. “Drift” features aluminum-mesh mance that Clowes says is full of tension. spheres of various sizes, and Tallman “Mine includes a live cellist who’s says the sculpture has added greater playing Bach, but it’s kind of rough,” depth to her choreography. she says. “The whole thing’s got this “The dancing stands on its own and interesting tension to it. It’s beautiful, the art stands on its own, and it’s beaubut kind of eerie in a way.” tiful to see them interacting. It’s two Dancers and visual artists alike said

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the performance is about much more than just telling a certain story. The goal is to reach the audience emotionally.

“What we’re trying to express are the inner workings of the mind and the heart, giving external expression of who we are as individuals,” he says. “The most interesting things about people are the things they try to hide from the world, and we want to give an external expression of those things.”

Performances of A Shared Experience in Art open at RedLine’s studio in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver before moving to the Pinnacle Performing Arts Center in north Denver. For the shows at RedLine, Tallman says, choreographers have to be ready for another level of possibilities: Performances will take place in the round, with audience members on all four sides of the dancers.

“That’s something to consider choreographically,” she says. “I feel like my work turns into an installation in a sense.”

Installation, performance, or both, the performers aim to combine art forms to reach out to viewers.

“We want the audience to feel something very genuine and real,” Ammon says. “We want people to feel inspired.”

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Donald Fodness’ art is like watching someone’s weird dream

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oldilocks enters the three bears’ home with an excited curiosity; she sneaks around knowing she doesn’t quite fit in, but enjoys the exploration nonetheless.

That interactive narrative is exactly what University of Colorado Boulder art school alum Donald Fodness seeks from his viewers.

“I want people to be able to bring themselves to the work and enter the narrative in their own way, so it’s interactive, but at the same time they feel like they’re in someone else’s house — like entering someone else’s brain,” Fodness says.

Fodness was born in Minnesota, but moved to a farm in northern Colorado as a kid, then found his way to a career in art after high school by working in a bronze-casting foundry.

“I didn’t like a lot of the stuff we were casting and I was curious as to how it fit in the world and the importance of it, so I started taking art history classes,” he says.

This led to a degree in art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. After a series of transitions, Fodness was accepted into CU’s master of fine arts program, where he earned his degree in painting.

Much of his work uses “leftover” materials like discarded items from thrift stores, garage sales and dumpsters — consumption reduced, reused and recycled in striking, eclectic, color-bursting scenes. The moods he creates offer a morbid fascination into the weird and the well-crafted. Within these large installations, every unearthed piece he utilizes is meticulously thoughtthrough, down to the placement of plastic bottles and where the wires hang off the wall. The worlds he builds are teeming with the messy and the surreal; it’s like what would happen if one experienced a physical thoughtexplosion, mystic dream-vomit that makes the audience feel uneasy and enraptured at the same time.

Now he, along with several other CU MFA alums (including Rebecca Vaughan and Conor King), are cur-

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2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-296-4448. He will also participate in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s “White Space” event on Friday, Nov. 11, at 6:30 p.m. 1750 13th Street, Boulder, 303-443-2122.

and animation, has been at the RedLine a month and already has a piece in “AU: Exchange,” opening Nov. 11.

Each artist was given 2.5 grams of gold that they could either sell, trade or use in any manner to create a piece of work. The exhibition is intended to show the relationship of the artists to the material and the economy, and reveal the open nature of gold in both form and concept.

Fodness sold his 2.5 grams of real gold to buy that amount in fake gold.

His work in the “AU: Exchange” show is a 2-D black and white drawing of two distorted characters set over a desolate landscape. Just a touch of gold — a dollar-sign sunrise — is a central element in the work.

The same night as the “AU: Exchange” opening, Nov. 11, Fodness will be participating in “White Space” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of a fundraiser for educational programming at the museum where six artists are given an Eames rocker to transform into a work of art in front of an audience. People bid on the art while the work.

Fodness has lived and worked as an artist in Colorado for several years, and understands the positives and negatives of the state.

“Not only does the Colorado art world have less pressure and less structure than places that have a bit more attention, but it also has less cultural and arts-related activity than, say, L.A. or New York,” Fodness says.

“The West, physically, has a lot of space, and that can be good, depending on the type of artist you are. The connections here are tight-knit, intimate, friendly and engaging.”

His work mixes the grotesque and the surreal with fine-crafted beauty; it’s like entering someone else’s dream world and realizing how much more is out there.

It’s trippy, it’s gorgeous, but it’s also really weird.

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RedLine is also about community activism. It is a space designed to make contemporary art more accessible to the public. Studios have open hours where anyone is welcome to come in and watch the artists at work.

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ome guys worry about success and how to make it happen. Others simply do, channeling their ambition into creation, believing hard work and passion will take them wherever they need to go. Los Angelesborn rapper Nick Carter, aka Murs, is the latter such artist, someone who’s not only a fine storyteller, but punctures rap’s typical air of bravado and superiority to sing about everyday things and people.

“It’s part of my talent to bring some excitement or an interesting perspective to the things that some people may consider mundane,” Murs says.

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, he dropped out of school as a teen less out of boredom than the assurance that he knew what he wanted to do. In the mid-’90s, he sold homemade tapes from a spot on the Cal-Berkeley campus, like it was his office. It’s grown from there.

Over the last 15 years, Murs has become one of rap’s most prolific artists and collaborators, releasing at least two dozen albums solo, in groups Living Legends and 3 Melancholy Gypsys, or with artists 9th Wonder, Slug (from Atmosphere) and Terrace Martin.

While he has never achieved large-scale commercial success, he has slowly built a sturdy grassroots following with an unquenchable flow of releases and tours. In a corner of the music industry typified by short-lived careers, Murs has established himself as an underground institution.

“I’ve had a longer career than some of my contemporaries, just because I worked way hard to build it. So

I appreciate that,” Murs says from his new home in Tucson, a move that caps several years of change.

Not only has Murs gotten married and left his longtime home Los Angeles, but ended an uncomfortable relationship with Warner Brothers after one album, embarking on a new one with BluRoc Records, started by Roc-A-Fella records co-founder Damon Dash. In October they released Murs’ seventh studio album, Love & Rockets, Vol. 1: The Transformation. It’s the first in an anticipated three-part album cycle, tentatively planned to be followed by Declaration and The Emancipation.

The beats are courtesy of BluRoc house producer Ski Beatz, whose band, The Senseis, provides tight, funky live backing on the album and the current tour. Much of Love & Rockets is scored to jazzy fusion and ’70s soul, as Murs gets nostalgic for music inspiration (“Eazy-E”), his family as he takes the wedding plunge (“Dream On”), and his own musical drive to reach higher (“Reach Hire”). It’s an album about what brought him here, and seems to reflect the 33-year-old’s recent artistic, geographical and life changes. He even shaved his trademark dreads.

“It was time for a change. There was really no significance to it. I’ve just been starting to get rid of a lot of things,” he says.

Of course, one of the biggest things ditched was Murs’ relationship with Warner Brothers, which released 2008’s Murs for President. After a dozen years of releasing music, signing to a major label suggested he was stepping up to the big-time, but he says all their promises of

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promotion and video money dried up as quickly as the economy that fall. After 18 months, Murs finally extricated himself from his contract and planned a releasefilled 2010 with 10 10-track albums, full of music accumulated while on Warner. Those plans got scratched when his and his wife’s laptops were stolen last year. His lone release was Fornever, with 9th Wonder.

But Damon Dash stepped into the picture, and Murs is back up to speed. Besides releasing Love & Rockets and The Melrose (with Martin) this year, he recorded a punk rock record — which he says has been held hostage by the producer since the band broke up.

He created a comic book, Merch Girl, with Josh Blaylock of Devil’s Due Publishing, and a book on The Making of Love & Rockets. There’s also another collaboration with 9th Wonder in the offing, and he’s started a new band called White Mandingos with journalist Sacha Jenkins and Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer.

“Damon Dash really encourages us to have as many releases as possible. Just encourages the creativity. It’s all about content, creativity and a constant flow,” Murs says.

“I wish I had Warner’s budget and could do the things that we’re doing now, but at least I’m finally with a group of people that I understand and understand me.”

He is excited by the new label relationship and believes it may have borne fruit already in this tour’s sponsorship by adidas, which he takes as a sign of his continuing relevancy.

“It means the world because I don’t sell enough records to affect anything, but I think [adidas sees] what we’re doing is progressive and that we’re trendsetters. That we’re in fact the generators that make pop culture go,” Murs says. “The mainstream’s water comes up from an underground source.”

Little surprise then, that Murs keeps bubbling to the surface.

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Whereas Mastodon’s previous you know, busting through all these efforts were heavily thought-out consongs. It’s kind of a blast.” cept albums, The Hunter contains no Mastodon is also known for making such storyline. Sanders described the creative, entertaining videos, from the album in an interview as a “Mastodon insane clown circus of “Blood and mixtape,” and it’s a fairly accurate Thunder” to the violent puppet maydescription. The Hunter is a loose, hem of “Deathbound” (think Sesame relaxed album, containing none of the Street directed by Hannibal Lecter), in ebb and flows or transitions one expects which Dailor dons a button-down from a concept album. When Boulder sweater and stars as a Mr. RodgersWeekly talked with drummer Dailor type. The video for “Curl of the Burl,” last week, he the second track called The Hunter off The Hunter, is On the Bill “a bunch of looseequally absurd, Mastodon plays the Ogden Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 9. leaf songs” that and equally Doors at 7 p.m. Must be 16 to was “a little easier” entertaining. enter. Dillinger Escape Plan and to make than “‘Curl of The Red Fang open. Tickets are $37.

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Dailor says, sigh“This time ing. “Well, it’s around, because of the fact that there sort of, like, a meth head out in the were a bunch of stressful things hapwoods. … He snorts a bunch of wood pening outside of the band, when we chips and saw dust, and [then] he’s got would get into the practice space, we arms coming out of his shirt, whatever. really didn’t want that spot to be a place Kind of makes him nuts. Then he goes where there was going to be any stress,” out and he finds some mushrooms, and Dailor says. “So, we simplified things.” he smokes these mushrooms and turns The album that preceded The into Paul Bunyan. He goes out into the Hunter, 2009’s Crack the Skye, was a forest. He picks up a tree and throws it heavy concept album that took a lot out at the sun and kills the sun, and then he of Dailor, who drew upon the experistarts hallucinating, and the trees turn ence of his sister’s suicide to write some into these stripper chicks who eventualof the lyrics that appeared on the ly turn him into a piece of wood and set album. He struggles to find the words him on fire with their breasts. So that’s when asked to describe the difference the basic synopsis of that video.” between playing songs from The Hunter Turns out, Dailor was the creative and Crack the Skye, but he admits that source for the video. the songs from The Hunter take a little “The idea came out of anger, less out of him. because we started seeing all these “Crack the Skye was a hard album to treatments coming in and it just wasn’t play live. I think I remember going right,” Dailor says. “I was kind of hopthrough those songs and really trying to ing that someone else would come in sink all this emotion into it, because with a cool idea, but everything else some of the lyrical content in it was that was coming in was all this Lord of really close to some personal situations the Rings stuff. It was weird, you know. that I’ve experienced in my life, and it … I just got pissed off, and this idea sort of came out of necessity. We had to was … it was tough, man. It was a have something.” tough record to get through,” Dailor Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com says, slowly. “This is just a lot different,

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Thursday, November 3

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

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

Chandrika Tandon — With Soul Chants. 6 p.m. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-865-3976.

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

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

K.C. Groves’ Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Holly De Hoog. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Martin Gilmore’s Picking Circle.. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Molly Greacen and the Sweet Life Band.

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

They Might Be Giants. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Two indie favorites hit the Fox Theatre, one well-established and one on the rise. Go for the girls in wire-rim glasses and thrift store clothes; stay for the tunes. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. scents. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

The Women’s Yoga Lab. 5 p.m. Kelly’s Blue Barn, 1360 Sumac Ave., Boulder, www. saraavant.com.

events Belonging in Boulder — Local Filmmakers’ Showcase. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Comedy Works — Andrew Orvedahl, Bryan Kellen, MC Bill LeBlanc. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Preparing for Divorce — What You Need To Know. 7 to 8:30 p.m. 4450 Arapahoe, Suite 101, Boulder, www. bouldercollaborativedivorce.info.

Satellite Taproom — Funkwerks Brewery.

6:30 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Sense BMoCA — With Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, interpreting art through blended

Friday, November 4

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

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

Cigar Box Guitar Jam Session. 5 p.m.

Manifest Art Gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-641-0917.

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

Dan Rodriguez & David Tiller. 5:30 p.m.

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

Havilah, Jeff Lambert and the J.C. McKim. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Hymn for Her Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Jannessa Ho, Author unknown, Reformers, Tequila Mockingbird. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Jon Kohne Band. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

Marlene Carvalho. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108.

Onda. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Boulder/Denver Area Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art — Zach Reini’s Suburban Lawns, Thomas Scharfenberg’s Obvious Invisible, Amanda Marie Ploegsma’s Purity & Credence. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 29.

Bryce Widom. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. Through Nov. 30. Painting demo 2-5 p.m. Nov. 5.

CU Art Museum — Points of View: Selections from Colorado Collections; The Anxiety of Influence: from CU’s ceramics col-

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lection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1320.Through Dec. 17. iPhoneography — by Siobhan Keleher. The Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933.

NCAR Community Art Program — Nancy Myer and Kit Hevron Mahoney. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Nov. 30.

Reflections & Traditions — A Journey Through Asia. 915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-3598543.

Small Press.­Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3883.

Through Nov. 18.

Uncommon Ground: Impact and Influence.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 11.

The Urban Landscape. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Through Dec. 10.

When Space is Open. Manifest Art Gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

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events Adventure Film — Boulder’s film festival. 5 p.m., 6 p.m., & 8 p.m. programs. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Auditions — For Arvada Center Children’s Theater Production of How I Became a Pirate.

12 to 4 p.m. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Black & White — Multi-media by Gabriel Masson with Tara Rynders. 8 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre, 303-735-4577.

Ms. Eda Bagel in Imitation of Wife. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Rocky Mountain Womens’ Film Festival. www.rmwfilmfest.org.

Rug Show — Part of First Friday NoBo Nite Out. Marisol Imports, 2516 Broadway, Ste. 100, Boulder, 303-442-3142.

A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 8 p.m.

RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-4665685.

Xanadu. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-5313.

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words Thursday, November 3 Poetry Reading — With Travis Cebula. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wade Davis’s Into the Silence. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, November 4 Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644

Saturday, November 5 Carré Otis’s Beauty, Disrupted. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Boulder Brew and Music Festival. 1 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Colorado Music Festival Kaleidoscope Concert Series — Wil Swindler’s Elevenet.

7:30 p.m. Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303-8395100.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

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

The Grant Farm. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Lara Ruggles. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St.,

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Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Miles Austin and Company. 8:30 p.m.

Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

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

Music of the Scottish Isles — With Julie Fowlis. 7:30 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845, Rebecca Abraxas’ Monthly Woman’s Songwriter Night. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Saint Louis Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Rosh & One Eye Glass Broken, Someone’s In for an Explosion, Mocking Bird. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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theater The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. CU Theatre & Dance, University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181.

Accomplice. Devil’s Thumb Productions, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 8), A Parody. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 12.

The Road to Mecca. Creede Repertory

Theatre at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 6.

Billy the Poet. 73rd Avenue Theatre, 7287 Lowell Blvd., Westminster, 720-276-6936.

Opens Nov. 4.

Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000 x4. Through Nov. 5.

Sunday, November 6 Andrew Tilin’s The Doper Next Door. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Creative Writing Workshop with Poet-in-Residence Jack Collom. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, November 8 Living Poets Society Bookclub — Here, Bullet. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

Synergy, Dwight Carrier. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

events

Adventure Film — Boulder’s film festival. 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. programs.

10:30 p.m. after party. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Mad Hatter Brunch & Fashion Show — A Lyme disease benefit. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Ms. Eda Bagel in Imitation of Wife. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

A Night of Improvisational Theatre — Presented by Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 8 p.m.

RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-4665685.

“So, You Want to Buy a Horse” Clinic. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Colorado Horse Rescue, 10386 N. 65th St., Longmont, 720-494-1414.

What Are You Hungry For? — One-woman theater performance by Beth Osnes. 7:30 p.m.

CU’s College of Music, ATLAS Black Box Theatre, 303-735-4577.

Xanadu — The Musical. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-5615313.

Sunday, November 6

music Acorn Project. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Big Jim Adam & Jon Stilwagen. 6 p.m.

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

Debora Stafford. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Ken Keusenkothen, John Runnels. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Kort McCumber & High Road. 6 p.m.

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

Lisa Bell Trio — With Dennis Wanebo. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

events

Advanced Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m.

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

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7 p.m.

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

Cinderella — Presented by Westwoods Center of Performing Arts Youth Ballet Company. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Derech Chayim — “A Way of Life” 6 p.m.

Boulder’s Rabbinic Council at Har Hashem Congregation, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, contact Jodi for more details at 503-780-7470.

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

Heads of State — Master Class Series. 12 to 4:15 p.m. www.thebelife.com.

Life in Motion — Cashore Marionettes. 2 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845.

Outdoor Boot Camp. 10 a.m. Take It Out Fitness and Play Boulder Foundation, Boulder City Park, 13th and Arapahoe, Boulder, 573424-7168.

A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 2 p.m.

RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-4665685.

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Tuesday, November 8

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

From the Heart — The music of Franz Liszt, presented by Jeffrey Siegel. 7:30 p.m. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200.

Katey Laurel. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900

Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Language of Love — Featuring CU music faculty. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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

Singshine Studio Recital. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing

Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

events

CU Greenhouse Tour — Led by Greenhouse Manager Tom Lemieux. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Raising Renee — Filmed by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steve Ascher, exploring the work of Veberly McIver. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow.

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

Monday, November 7

music

Blitzen Trapper & Dawes. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Colorado Spirit Chorus — Weekly rehearsals and auditions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Valley Christian Church, 7100 South Boulder Rd., for more information contact Nicci at 303460-8651 or Joy at 303-641-4122.

The Garret Sayers Trio. 10 p.m. The Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-0886.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top Open Stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

World Musics Concert — Featuring CU-Boulder performers in the Mariachi and African Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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How Can Smart Phones Help Poor Farmers? 7 p.m. CU-Boulder, ATLAS Cofrin Auditorium, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 720-4968809.

Jack Collom’s 80th Birthday Celebration — With readings and music by poets and writers, including Jack Collom. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Something from Alice. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Clamdaddys — Steve Schmiedbaur Family Benefit. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Sherrie Scott. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Megan Slankard & Jeff Campbell, Hilary Scott and the New County Line. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Percussion Ensemble — With guest conductor Dan Armstrong. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Purnell Steen and Le Jazz Machine. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

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

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11:11 Divine Name Workshop — With Andi and Jonathan Goldman. 7 p.m. Boulder Center For Spiritual Living, 805 Yale Rd., Boulder, www.healingsounds.com.

En Fuego Latino — Cuatro Lunas, Latin Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

EnergySmart Informative Session. 2 p.m.

U.S. Bank, 436 Coffman St., Longmont, www. energysmartyes.com.

Excavations at the Villa of Maxentius, Rome — With Professor Diane Atnally Conlin. 7 p.m., University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

FLIC — Tabloid, Boulder Spirals and Angel Organic. 6 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, www.flicboulder. org.

Job Club for People with Disabilities — Support for getting employment. The Center for People with Disabilities, 1675 Range St., Boulder, 303-442-8662 x10.

Sound as a Healing and Transformative Modality — A multimedia presentation. 7 p.m. Boulder Center For Spiritual Living, 805 Yale Rd., Boulder, www.healingsounds.com.

Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow.

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

Women, Wine and Wrenches. 6 p.m.

Green Garage, 3200 28th St., Boulder, 30399105650.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, November 3 Vote-Themed Story Time. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Friday, November 4 Musical Performance by Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts. Time TBD. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Saturday, November 5 Art Stop at BMoCA — Free, guided art activities during the Farmers’ Market. 9 a.m. to

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1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Children’s Story Hikes at Chautauqua.

11 a.m. Boulder Open Space Mountain Parks, Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Grant and Baseline, Boulder, 303-441-3440.

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

Splash! — For middle and high school students, with CU Engineering Honors Program students. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 530-3047958.

Sun Mural Installation. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Sunday, November 6 Batten Down the Hatches! — Hiking the Tenderfoot-Chapman trail with naturalist Lynne Sullivan. Realization Point, Boulder, 303441-3440.

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The Nutcracker — Storytime with the Boulder Ballet. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, November 7 Kid’s Hula Dance. 5 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st. St., Boulder, 303-4472566.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Tuesday, November 8 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Read to the Dog! 4:30 p.m. Boulder Pubic Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Super Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, November 9 Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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hen Linda Lappe posted the results of the Pac-12 preseason women’s basketball poll, which predicted the Buffs would finish 11th, on the door of her team’s locker room, the Buffs immediately became motivated.

“We were pretty hyped up about that,” said junior Chucky Jeffery. “It was kind of a shot at us. We take that to heart, and we’re going to come out with a chip on our shoulder, playing hard, because we have something to prove now.”

Lappe’s Buffs are coming off arguably the program’s best year since Ceal Barry roamed the sidelines at the Coors Events Center.

Colorado recorded a respectable record of 18-16 and appeared in the quarterfinals of the WNIT. The record is made even more impressive considering CU played most games with only nine healthy players. In the non-conference portion of the 2010-11 season, the Buffs often played with only seven or eight healthy players.

One of the healthy players was Brittany Spears, who started every game

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for the Buffs. Spears graduated in the spring and left CU as the Buffs’ all-time leading scorer, passing Lisa Van Goor in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.

“She brought work ethic,” Lappe said of Spears. “She got those extra shots

in every day after practice. She also wanted the ball in her hands when we needed to score.”

Candidates to replace Spears, who was a force on the boards, are Jeffery, who recorded a triple-double last year and is a mainstay in the Buffs’ offense, and Boulder native Meagan Malcolm-Peck, who has a deft shooting touch, along with strong size at 6 feet, 2 inches.

Even without Spears, Colorado should finish a little higher than 11th in a conference that is introducing six new head coaches. Lappe’s goal for her Buffs is to finish in the top half of the Pac-12.

“We should be in the top half of the league,” said Lappe. “If we’re not, I don’t know if we’re going to think of it as successful of a season.”

The Pac-12 is traditionally a top-heavy league, with Stanford leading the charge year after year.

This year should be no exception, with UCLA, USC and California factoring not far behind. Lappe believes the Buffs have what it takes to finish in the top six in the Pac-12, and her former see BASKETBALL Page 35

Game schedule n Thursday, Nov. 3 Volleyball vs. #3 Stanford Boulder, 7 p.m. n Friday, Nov. 4 Football vs. Southern California Boulder, 7 p.m., ESPN Soccer @ Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, 7 p.m. n Saturday, Nov. 5 Volleyball vs. #7 California Boulder, 1 p.m. n Sunday, Nov. 6 Women’s Basketball vs.

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The Colorado football team is playing its third straight ranked opponent (Oregon, Arizona State). The results were not pretty, as the Buffs fell in the first two by a combined score of 93-16.

The Trojans and the Buffs have met five times previously, with USC emerging the victor in every contest. The closest meeting came in 2000, when the Gary Barnett-led Buffs lost 17-14 in Los Angeles.

Friday’s game with USC marks one of 20 college football games this season being broadcast in 3D by ESPN. The additional technology requires an additional production crew and its own set of commentators.

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Matt Sparkman (7-2): Southern California, 58-31 “Colorado should get Rodney Stewart and Paul Richardson back, providing a boost in offensive production, but the defense remains just as inept as always, as USC slashes through the Buffs in yet another glorified scrimmage.”

Guest Picker (7-1) — Neal Ghosh, Fairview High School grad and USC student: Southern California, 38-10 “The Trojans will be anxious to play after a triple overtime loss to Stanford and will trample all over the struggling Buffs.”

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coach agrees.

“I think that Linda will have a team that will be right around the middle of the pack,” said Barry. “I think that she will be in the top six, but I think she will be on the lower end of that top six, but she can compete with Stanford. I mean, she did it as a player, so I think she will not have this fear of playing them. But Stanford is a long way off from us. It’s a process.”

The process will undoubtedly involve upgrading the talent level at Colorado, and Lappe appears to be doing a stellar job so far. Her first class contains a Parade All-American, the sister of a highly successful CU men’s player, and

two other proven winners at the high school level.

Jen Reese, Arielle Roberson, Jasmine Sborov and Lexy Kresl are the four members of Lappe’s inaugural recruiting class.

“Our freshmen are on the fast track in terms of learning our system offensively, defensively, and in terms of learning what it takes to be successful at the Division I level,” said Lappe.

The Buffs tip off the new season with an exhibition against Regis on Sunday.

Meaningful action begins on Nov. 11, as the Buffs take on Northern Arizona at the Coors Events Center.

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Boyle entering 2011-12 with added comfort

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year ago, Tad Boyle, men’s basketball coach at the University of Colorado, entered his first season with the knowledge that his team was talented, but he knew little else about his Buffs.

This year, despite the loss of NBA lottery pick Alec Burks and the program’s all-time leading scorer, Cory Higgins, Boyle says he feels more comfortable as the month of November begins, meaning college basketball isn’t far behind.

“Having one year under our belt as a coaching staff, having some veterans coming back into our program who know what to expect, makes you feel a lot more comfortable as a coach,” Boyle said. “Last year there were so many unknowns. Still, this year there are many unknowns, but I feel very comfortable with the guys who are in our program.”

Boyle led the Buffs to a programrecord 24 wins and an NIT semifinal appearance in New York City in his first year, but the season didn’t come without growing pains.

CU struggled to adapt to its new coach in the first few weeks of the season, losing to Georgia, San Francisco and Harvard.

Those losses came back to haunt the Buffs in March, as Colorado was excluded from the NCAA tournament.

On the eve of the new campaign, the Buffs are putting an emphasis on starting strong. Once again, it will be paramount to start strong, as CU competes in the Puerto Rico Tip-off, in San Juan.

The field is chock full of strong programs, including Purdue, Alabama, Maryland and Alabama, whom the Buffs lost to in the NIT. “Last year, a couple of the games that we lost in November and December came back to bite us,” said senior forward Austin Dufault. “We have got to show up and be prepared right from the

beginning of the season this year.”

Boyle’s increased familiarity with the team and its players should allow the Buffs to start strong and hit the ground running instead of needing to spend time acclimating to a new system.

“I wish I was at this point with last year’s team, but I wasn’t,” said Boyle.

“Our veterans understand that, hey, those games in November are just as important as the games in February and March. Our game in Puerto Rico against Wichita State is going to be looked at possibly in March [by the NCAA tournament committee], depending on the kind of season we have.”

Colorado will not only have to fill the void left by Burks and Higgins, but also compensate for the absence of Big 12 sixth man of the year Levi Knutson and consistent double-digit point recorder Marcus Relphorde.

Along to bolster the Buffs’ offense are Utah transfer Carlon Brown, who is eligible after sitting out last year per NCAA rules, freshmen Spencer Dinwiddie and Askia Booker, and junior college transfer Jeremy Adams, whom Boyle calls the “x factor” for the Buffs in 2011-12.

On the other side of the court, Colorado gets a boost with the return of Shane Harris-Tunks, who missed all of last season with a torn ACL. HarrisTunks, who is 6 feet, 11 inches, is the Buffs’ most aware interior defender, matching up well with other post players, as well as providing excellent helpside defense.

The Buffs start play on Nov. 11 against Fort Lewis College. Notable non-conference matchups include Georgia, which comes to Boulder after making a trip to the NCAA tournament last season, and Colorado State, which is on the rise under coach Tim Miles, on the road.

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he Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers still offers a thrilling adventure with the coming-of-age tale of D’Artagnan leaving home to join up with the fabled Musketeers, acting in the service of King Louis XIII against the evil Cardinal Richelieu. Sword fights, treachery, beautiful women, honor: It’s a truly epic tale.

With a story this familiar, the writers have to come up with a new take that weaves in the three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — and the familiar characters of Richelieu, Milady de Winter, the Duke of Buckingham and Rochefort with something new, something that’ll capture our modern sensibilities.

In this version, it’s an airship that the Duke of Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) uses to visit King Louis XIII (Freddie Fox). The King must have an airship of his own, but evil Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) instead secretly builds one for his own nefarious purposes, having stolen the plans from the Duke by way of the feminine wiles of the equally evil Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich).

While the cast is strong and the individual players have turned in solid performances in films like Lord of the Rings, Inglourious Basterds, Death at a Funeral and Robin Hood, none displayed more than minimal effort in this outing. It hurts the film, ranging from Fox’s

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reamWorks’ cunning casting of the silky Spaniard Antonio Banderas as a swashbuckling Puss in Boots pays off, brilliantly, in Puss in Boots, a star vehicle for the nursery rhyme kitty cat from the Shrek movies.

Thanks to Banderas and his Corinthian-leather purr and writers who know how to use it, Puss is the best animated film of 2011. This is no mere Shrek sequel. There is sex appeal in every syllable, swagger in every line.

And even kids get the joke of a voice that sensual and grand coming out of a kitty so small.

“I am but a humble gato [cat] looking for his next meal,” Puss insists.

But that’s after he has mentioned that, as a legendary lover and swordsman, “I am known by many names: the Ginger Hit Man, Chupacabra, Frisky Two Times.” So we know better than to take this con artist, thief and seducer seriously.

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painful performance as King Louis XIII to Jovovich’s disengaged attempt at one of the great femme fatales of the big screen, Milady de Winter.

There are a ridiculous number of plot holes and anachronisms, including one scene where Rochefort (Mads Mikkelsen) toys with a modern butterfly knife.

Did the prop-maker just not pay attention to the setting? Then there’s the scene where D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) finds that his horse has received a citation from Aramis (Luke Evans) for despoiling the city street. Unsure what it means, Aramis explains to him, “It’s a ticket.” Um, yeah.

Sexy puss

by Roger Moore His childhood pal Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) has a plan for stealing magic beans from the burly thugs Jack (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jill (Amy Sedaris). If Puss can pull off the theft, there are riches at the top of the beanstalk those beans will grow into.

“We go up the beanstalk outlaws; we come back legends!”

But first, he has to get past a competitor, a cat-suited cat-burgling kitty who turns out to be Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). Before you can yell “Catfight!” they launch into an epic 3-D flamenco dance-off.

Being cats, their moves include one any dog or cat owner will recognize: the butt scooch.

“How dare you do the Litter Box to me!”

More than that, though, there’s the whole storyline of warships of the air, invented by Leonardo da Vinci, with the plans long-hidden in a secret crypt more suited to Indiana Jones. Those plans are stolen by the Duke of Buckingham, and he figures out how to build one. They’re hot air balloons with the incredibly heavy weight of a full wooden ship — complete with cannons! — harnessed below.

Besides all the reasons that this wouldn’t actually fly, it also produces an extended aerial battle scene between the Musketeers — D’Artagnan, Aramis, Athos (Matthew Macfadyen) and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) — and Milady all on the Duke’s ship (which they’ve stolen without a peep from the British), and Rochefort and his minions on the larger French airship that’s a rip-off from the far more entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean.

That’s ultimately the great failing of this version of The Three Musketeers. The production team has managed to take a wonderful story and turn it into a demo reel for a special effects house, replete with anachronistic scenes, a wobbly narrative and action scenes that are completely unbelievable, even as they show off the latest CG capabilities. A completely forgettable version. Just skip it.

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This quest will test Puss, and may cost him his boots. But a gato has his principles, a code he lives by. They need cash. Maybe the local church?

“I do not steal from churches!”

Maybe from the homeless kids?

“I do not steal from orphans!”

Banderas vocally vamps this up in ways he never gets to do in live-action films. And the writers never forget how funny these words will be coming out of that voice inside that itty-bitty kitty cat.

A couple of dandy 3-D chase scenes suggest theme park rides to come, and the sight gags almost outnumber the verbal ones. In a flashback, Puss and Humpty remember the day they became “blood brothers” as kids, pricking their fingers and swapping blood — and yellow egg yolk. Humpty’s “plan” for climbing the beanstalk is written on a child’s pop-up book.

Director Chris Miller (Shrek the Third) never lets this settle into the lazy Shrek music videos and popculture riffs. The comedy comes from the characters, and the incongruity of that wondrous voice saying those dashing lines in the body of a small but not remotely “humble” gato.

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50/50 Though it’s a cancer film, the tender and funny 50/50 addresses its subject with a refreshing lack of melodrama. Based on the true story of Will Reiser, a comedy writer, the movie follows Adam (Joseph GordonLevitt), who gets diagnosed with the C-word. Rated R. At Century. — Michael Phillips/TMS

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas The world needs more Harold and Kumar like the world needs more Beavis and Butthead. Oh, wait...

Machine Gun Preacher The inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Airplane!

This now legendary comedy hit sends up the conventions and cliches of airplane-indistress disaster flicks. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Mia and the Migoo Created from an astounding 500,000 handpainted frames of animation. After a troubling dream, Mia sets off on a dangerous journey to find her father, aided by fantastical forest creatures. At Boedecker Theater.

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Anonymous In Elizabethan England, intrigue swirls around Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who in this film is the true author of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.Rated PG-13. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT Blackthorn It’s been said (but not substantiated) that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in a standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908. In the Western Blackthorn, Cassidy (Sam Shepard) survived and is quietly living out his years under the name James Blackthorn in a secluded Bolivian village. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Buck Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy, possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses — and people — with his understanding, compassion and respect. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Connected Connected explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time — the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights, the global economy. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatres Dolphin Tale This heartwarmer based on a true story follows the tailless dolphin Winter (played

by Winter) through all sorts of adversity alongside its human protectors. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS 38 November 3, 2011

The Fairy A night shift clerk in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre meets a mysterious woman who arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona, and she tells Dom that she is a fairy that can grant him three wishes. Fiona makes two of his wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who has fallen in love with her by then, searches for her everywhere. Influenced by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati, The Fairy uses stylistic art direction to provide a punch line to each gag and a colorful retro feel. At International Film Series. — IFS Footloose This remake of this ’80s classic misses a few steps, most notably when it comes to the dancing. While director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) adds weight, the leads simply don’t pop onscreen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Guard An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an inter-

Midnight in Paris, a new romantic comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, tells the story of a family that travels to the picturesque French capital on business. The party includes two young people (Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams) who are engaged to be married in the fall and have experiences there that change their lives forever. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Moneyball

national drug-smuggling ring. At Boedecker and Esquire. — Boedecker Theater

Director Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is based on the true story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, played remarkably

by Brad Pitt. Somewhat of a renegade, Beane bucked the norm and employed a new statistical way of analyzing players.

Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Michael Phillips/TMS

The Ides of March

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In the hectic days before a tight Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary becomes embroiled in a political scandal that threatens his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

In a small French town, Germain (Gérard Depardieu), a nearly illiterate man in his 50s, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. At Esquire.

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In Time

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In a future where time is the universal currency and the wealthy live forever, a poor young man stumbles into a fortune but is falsely accused of murder and tries to bring down the system. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

This live theatre production broadcast from London’s National Theatre takes a look into the high-pressure kitchen of an enormous restaurant in London’s West End. At Century.

Bolshoi Re-opening Gala The re-opening gala features opera greats Placido Domingo, Natalie Dessay, Dimitri Hvorostovsky and the principal dancers and soloists of the Bolshoi Ballet, including Natalia Osipova. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

about a young lion cub who must overcome his devious uncle to lead their kingdom. Rated G. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Johnny English Reborn Atkinson returns as the bumbling British secret agent introduced in 2003’s Johnny English. Rated PG. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT The Lion King A 3-D version of the classic animated film

The Names of Love A young, extroverted liberal lives by the old hippie slogan “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative proBoulder Weekly

Puss in Boots See full review on Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Real Steel The year is 2020. Human boxing is no longer; robot boxing rules. Charlie (Hugh Jackman) reconnects with preteen son Max (Dakota Goyo) at a low point in his career.

The two prepare their junkyard robot for battle against a Russian-owned force of destruction. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS The Rum Diary

Starz Denver Film Festival Nov. 2 through Nov. 14. Full schedule online at www.denverfilm.org. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Take Shelter A father and crew chief for a sand-mining company begins having terrifying dreams about an apocalyptic storm. He channels his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in his backyard. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Thing An alien creature frozen in ice is excavated in an isolated outpost on Antarctica, where it awakens and begins killing off researchers.

INTERNATIONAL Rated R. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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n the outskirts of Boulder, past the myriad car dealerships, pizza joints and other signs of urban living, lives a mysterious group of people whose wintertime actions are unknown to many Boulderites.

This group gives us fresh produce in the spring, summer and fall, but one wonders — what do they do in the winter? They don’t fly south or hibernate. No, the farmers of Boulder County continue to work hard, despite the unfriendly conditions outside.

The recent snow and impending closure of the 2011 Farmers’ Market have many asking where they will get local food for the next few months and what the farmers are doing in the off-season. Though some farm hands will use the time to travel, relax or get a job that is comfortably indoors, many local farms will continue to operate.

“Sometimes the winter almost feels busier,” says Jason Condon, co-owner of Isabelle Farm.

“In the winter, we don’t have as much help, we’re doing repairs on equipment, we’re figuring out how much of what to plant, and we’re Snow-covered chard at Cure Organic Farm making the decisions we have to live with for the next year.” effort to keep things going because the ground starts Isabelle Farm has several locations in Boulder freezing. It’s Colorado, and it’s winter, so we just let it County and covers a total of about 105 acres. In the go.” winter, Condon and the handful of farmers he keeps Many farms are able to stay open and continue working full-time mostly focus on basic maintenance producing greens and other veggies long after the first of the farm, like repairing fences or changing the oil snow. In fact, some farmers enjoyed the recent winter in the trucks and tractors. However, they will continue storms. to keep their farm stand running as long as possible.

“The snow is actually really nice because it acts as “The farm stand will be open on the weekends in added insulation,” says Anne Cure, farm manager of November,” Condon says. “In December, the stand Cure Organic Farm. “We cover a lot of our crops to will have Christmas trees, grass-fed local beef, some help keep them safe, so the snow on top actually greens depending on weather, potatoes and winter keeps them from completely freezing. The extra moissquash. By mid-December, it becomes more of an ture is also great. It is actually the dry cold that is

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Cure Organic Farm will provide produce through mid-December and offers a winter share program that runs for eight weeks. After that, the ground starts to freeze and there isn’t enough light to keep up the growth rate. The break around the holidays is nice, though, says Cure.

Condon and Cure both say the recent snowstorms weren’t really a problem. With the warm weather beforehand, the ground was able to maintain a higher temperature and their crops weren’t damaged. Unfortunately, the heavy snows weren’t so kind to the trees, according to Rowan Rozanski, a farmer at Jay Hill Farm.

Rozanski says the snow was hard on the trees that still had leaves, especially the pear trees. However, Jay Hill Farm will still function throughout the winter.

“We provide many types of greens throughout the winter, including chard, kale, arugula, mizuna, turnips and a greens mix of seven types of lettuce, arugula, mizuna and nasturtium flowers — as long as we can afford to heat our 10,000-square-foot greenhouse.”

Rozanski says. “We also make handmade crafts, such as embroidered tea towels and pillow slips, crocheted scarves and hats, and mixed media hanging art.”

Though there is minimal produce in the winter, the farmers try to stick to their roots as much as possible and eat local. Condon tries to eat as many squash, potatoes, beets and other storage vegetables as he can handle. Also, if Isabelle doesn’t have produce available, there are plenty of nearby farms Condon frequents. see FARMS Page 43

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he first impression of and home-style vinaigrette. When the server downtown Boulder’s brought our selections to the table, the artful Saxy’s Cafe is that of presentation of sandwich and greens was closer your typical college town to what one would expect in a sit-down restaucoffee shop with a ramrant versus a coffee shop. shackle, slightly lived-in feel. But a Amanda thoroughly enjoyed her $8.30 closer look reveals more luxurious Panino al Tonno, or tuna panini, which featured trappings epitomized by comfortable albacore and capers. Arugula and tomato transsofas and low coffee tables that give formed this sandwich into something resemthe spot a cozy living room ambience. bling a well-executed warm salad nicoise on Low-key, if not folksy, music plays on bread, although the generous helping of fish the stereo, deepening the mellow cofmade this a heartier choice. The foccacia was feehouse vibe. Folks engaging in pressed and toasted to perfection, with a crisp, quiet conversation enhance the feelgolden exterior. Amanda felt this was among ing of serenity, and it would be all the best tuna sandwiches she’s ever had, and I too easy to hide among the cushions had to concur. and take a discreet nap after lunch.

My selection was the $8.99 Panino alla Of course, one can also take a Bresaola. According to the menu, Bresaola is an meal at the high-top tables, and air-cured filet. On the sandwich, this salumi there’s a decent menu to do just variant manifested itself as lean beef texturally that. It includes bagels, pastries and similar to hard salami but without the assertive breakfast pressed sandwiches like flavor of its porcine counterpart. While its delithe Fast Start, featuring egg and he ingredient bresaola reminded me of the reference to cate taste was appreciated, it was drowned out smoked salmon. Additional offerby copious amounts of Buffalo mozzarella and brizzola in the James Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever. In ings include vegetarian as well as this book, brizzola refers to a cut of beef that doesn’t get refthe honeyed sweetness of fig and pear. I enjoyed prosciutto panini and entrée salads erenced in any other literature, and some fans feel author Ian these adornments, but it made me wonder if the featuring such ingredients as turkey, Fleming just made up this dish. The film version of Diamonds is sandwich would have been more successful goat cheese and intriguing dressings also remarkable for its bizarre cast, which includes sausage without the beef and instead presented as a exemplified by the maple balsamic magnate Jimmy Dean. Crispin Glover’s father plays a memodeluxe grilled cheese. vinaigrette. rable assassin, and the main villain, Blofeld, is played by The quality of the food here, as indicated by In addition to the obligatory Charles Gray, who also played The Criminologist (a.k.a. the the sandwiches, exceeds the prepackaged or complement of espresso beverages, man with no neck) in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. grab-and-go nature of the fare at lesser coffee there are several soft drinks, includshops. The java is also decent, which is no small feat in a caffeine-addled town such as Boulder. Lastly, ing GUS sodas at $2.08 a bottle. GUS stands for Americano made with Ink! Coffee, roasted in Aspen.

“Grown Up Sodas,” and I’ve grown fond of these bev- It was both full-bodied and smooth in taste with add- the fare is comparable quality-wise to a full-tilt restaurant, which only helps enhance Saxy’s strength as a erages since they are about half as sweet as a typical ing cream or sugar. tranquil retreat from the bustle of Pearl Street just a soda, with subtly dry flavors. I opted for a ginger ale, Friend Amanda and I ordered lunchtime sandwhich was predictably refreshing. Since this is a coffee wiches, each of which came accompanied by an appe- few feet away.

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ovember, you really This treat is a great one for the office snuck up on me. I love parties, family gatherings or just the cozy you for oh so many reanights by the fire that are sure to come sons, but none more up this month. Throw them out on a than the gobble in my cute pumpkin, turkey or pilgrim (oh, you wobble this time of year. can find them) platter and you have a Yes, I love Thanksgiving time, and simple Thanksgiving treat that is sure to the weeks leading up to it. The witches be “gobbled” up. Ha freaking ha! and warlocks are put away, and just the These would also be nice treats to pretty little pumppack up and kins and corn stalks send to someone The star is decorate the houses you love. and yards — oh, Nothing makes a pumpkin, but and my toes. Yep, I person’s day he shares his got a turkey and more than a box pumpkin pedicure (I of cookies in the title so lovingly have turned into one mail. Bills bad, of those girls.) Don’t cookies good. with cinnamon, judge. It’s cute.

OK, now folnuts and chips.

So this week, we low the recipe, are doing something put some love simple. Just a slight into it, and invite twist on an old American favorite. me over when it’s done.

Chocolate chip cookies are delicious, yes? Well, how about throwing in some Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cinnamon, toasted pecans, and, wait for Cookies it … pumpkin. Yes, this week’s treat is Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. I 2-1/2 cups flour would have added the cinnamon and 1/4 tsp. salt the pecans in the title, but my desserts 1 tsp. baking powder always seem to come with a long name, 1/2 tsp. baking soda and I know time is money. So I’m giv1-1/4 tsp. cinnamon ing you the gift of time, because, sure as 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened) 1-1/4 cups brown sugar (I used light) sunshine, I can’t give you money.

1 cup pure pumpkin puree Chocolate and pumpkin are one 1 egg tasty combo. I like the pairing of the chocolate chips instead of actually mak- 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups chocolate chips (semi-sweet) ing the cookies themselves chocolate.

1 cup chopped toasted pecans (350 on The star is pumpkin, but he shares his baking sheet, 5-6 minutes to toast) title so lovingly with cinnamon, nuts Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease and chips. cookie sheet, or cover with parchment He is a loving fruit, although many paper. Set aside. mistake him for a vegetable, due to his In small bowl, combine flour, salt, squashy family resemblance. He doesn’t mind, he knows who he is on the inside baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside. (seedy and squishy), and isn’t that all In large bowl, cream butter and that really matters? brown sugar until smooth. Mix in Cinnamon, we all know, pairs wonpumpkin. Add in egg and vanilla, and derfully with pumpkin, but cinnamon with chocolate is equally tasty and adds mix well. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, stir until just combined. another level of flavor that sends you Fold in chips and nuts. into holiday mode in seconds flat. I Drop by teaspoon onto prepared added the pecans — toasted, mind you baking sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes, — for texture, and mainly because I until lightly brown. Enjoy! love pecans and pumpkin combined.

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Trattoria will also include a cooking timeline to help patrons accurately Greenbriar Inn time their meal.

The meal costs $120, and patrons must order by noon on Nov. 21. Meals may be reserved by calling Trattoria at 303544-0008.

Greenbriar hosts turkey dinner The Greenbriar Inn is hosting a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, Nov. 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Inn will serve a traditional turkey dinner, complete with sides and access to the dessert bar.

The cost is $25 per person and $13 for children under 10 years old.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling 303-440-7979. For more information, visit www.green briarinn.com.

In other Greenbriar news, chef Brian Ferguson will cook at the

March of Dimes Chef ’s Auction at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield. Guests will enjoy signature dishes from chefs from within the community, as well as music, a program and a live and silent auction.

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The dinner will feature wines from the estate of Marchesi di Gresy, which is located in the Langhe and Monferrato zones of Piemonte. The menu consists of five courses and includes spaghetti squash soup, veal ravioli with roasted tomato, charred sturgeon, rib eye roast and tiramisu.

The cost is $79 per person, plus tax and gratuity, and seating will be limited to 35 people.

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“We store a lot of our own food by canning or freezing it,” Cure says. “We also change the way we eat in the winter. Instead of buying lettuce we eat radicchio, spinach and chard. We also eat more stews and soups and beans, which isn’t hard because it is what we’re craving in the winter. By February we are usually craving some fresh greens, but you can store a lot of cooking greens by blanching them and freezing them.”

Cure says the best way for people to eat local in the winter is to get them thinking about storing the seasonal produce they are buying now. To help with this, the Winter Farmers’ Market and Holiday Gift Show will be held at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont on Dec. 3-4 from 9 a.m. to Boulder Weekly

3 p.m. Patrons will be able to buy local winter produce like bulk potatoes and greens, which they can then store to sustain them through the season.

Though the temperatures will continue to drop and the ground will eventually freeze, the local farmers will continue to work hard to ensure we have a great Farmers’ Market in 2012.

“The thing about farming in Boulder is that the weather is never really good or bad, it is just the way it is,” Condon says. “You have to be creative to farm here. It is a matter of making lemonade out of lemons, dealing with what has been given to you. It is Colorado and it is supposed to snow, so you just have to keep going.”

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oulder’s Backcountry Pizza and Tap House ably builds on the foundation of its Nederland parent. The menu spotlights buildyour-own (with a gluten-free crust option) and specialty pizzas, ranging from the all-encompassing Meat Grinder to the Vegan Love. One satisfying option is The Works, a classic combo of mushrooms, sausage, ground beef, banana peppers, black olives and feta. There are also burger, sandwich, salad and entrée options, like meatloaf and veggie pasta.

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ake a wish,” said naturalist Paul Gayer.

I wished for a beer.

Sure, the steep hike up Catamount Trail near Colorado Springs, in the heat of Indian Summer, had left everyone thirsty.

But this was more than a longing for some suds.

We had spent the entire hike talking about beer. In fact, we were learning that beer was all around us, just waiting to happen.

It was the sixth in a series of hikes known as Beers Made by Walking, organized by homebrewer Eric Steen.

Guided by a brewer and a naturalist, hikers explore different ecosystems of the Pikes Peak region, learning what plants and

herbs can be used to brew beer.

Using the ingredients identified on the hike — ordered from a natural-foods store, not picked, because foraging isn’t allowed in parks and national forests — the brewer makes a batch of beer.

The best part: A few weeks later, hikers get to try the beers.

“I’m interested in the way our landscape can tell us so much about where we live,” said Steen, who runs the blog Focus on the Beer. He saw the program as a natural meeting of his love of beer with love of the outdoors.

“I really do think of [brewing] as an art form, and ultimately it brings people together, and beer does, too,” he said. *** “I was a little wary, but I was pleasantly surprised.”

That is hiker Zenia Brink’s take on the beers from the first several hikes, introduced to the beer-drinking public at a tasting in August.

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pink prickly pear wheat, a Belgian IPA with chokecherries, a smoked brown with piñon pine nuts, and an amber with juniper, three-leaf sumac berries and ponderosa pine needles.

As we strolled the foothills above Green Mountain Falls, I was surprised how much of the flora is edible. The region’s topography and overall climate help create many micro-climates where a variety of plants thrive.

Tom Brown, a brewer at Trinity Brewing Co., had used rose hips in beer, but otherwise had little experience brewing with ingredients from the wild.

“It’s good to know, if I’m stuck out in the middle of the woods, what can I eat along the way,” said see BEER Page 48

Saturday, November 5 Adventure Film Festival Family & Kids Show. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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First Monday Adventure Films — Australis: An Antarctic Ski Odyssey. 7:30 p.m. ­Patagonia Boulder, 1212 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-479-2387.

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Monday, November 7 Fire Series — The role of weather in wildland fire behavior.

6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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Ski and Board Tuning & Waxing Basics. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303583-9970.

Wednesday, November 9 Know Boundaries — Build Your Backcountry Skill Set, with Ian Macintosh. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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Brown, the brewer along for our hike. will eventually give you hallucinations, He originally considered an amber and your heart will stop.” brew, flavored with flowers found on Nervous laughter followed that bit the hike. But the north side of Pikes of wisdom. Juniper berries were used Peak in early autumn offered no petin one of the group’s first beers, als, so he is making a wheat beer with though Gayer said it was far below the bee plant, evening primrose, tansy dose that could poison someone. mustard, amaranth and rose hips.

So, what could you eat locally in *** the wild to survive?

“Don’t eat it yet.

“Acorns.”

Kevin Kreck/The Gazette/MCT That is the last way to *** find out if something is It’s easy to think of edible.”

Colorado’s pine and That’s Gayer’s warnaspen forests, the tuning to one hiker, as the dra and the scrubby naturalist points out plains, as simply scenic what could be edible playgrounds, places berries. They could also hikers, cyclists and be deadly. hunters go to exercise For every edible and escape the pavemustard, there is a hemment and traffic of city lock, hellspawn or death life. camus, plants poisonous But walking these Hikers passed this waterfall to humans. Hellspawn areas with eyes to the during the Beers Made by Imperial Stout might ground made me realize Walking hike up Catamount have a nice ring to it, that the wild places, Trail near Colorado Springs on Sept. 24. but don’t expect it on even those that look the menu at a tasting. barren, are rich ecosysEven with extensive tems that sustained life education, Gayer isn’t comfortable eatlong before “Pikes Peak or Bust.” In a ing a wild plant unless he can see the pinch, they can even sustain ours. flowers in spring and analyze the plant It also made me, as previously statwith a computer. Too much in nature is ed, very thirsty. deceptive, and even with detailed guideThis summer’s hikes were fully books, fatal mistakes occur. booked, and while they are over for “People believe they understand the year, Steen hopes to hold the hiknature and they read books and they ing series again next year and expand can be experts. We come out here, we the program to other beer-loving citknow the outdoors, but we don’t know ies. it like the pioneers who came out here Joked Steen, “Drink as much as and lived off the land,” he said. you want, or until you die from juniEven juniper berries, eaten since per poisoning.”

OutThereColorado.com Biblical times, can be fatal.

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Filmgoers can catch one of the 12 Boulder shows for $22 a ticket, while each of the nine Denver screenings will cost $25 a person. Ticketholders will also receive a free lift ticket to participating mountain resorts and discounts at local ski shops. Ticketholder benefits can be found at www.warrenmiller. com.

This year’s film will be screened in more than 240 cities on its U.S. tour.

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Welcome to the autumnal garden of earthly delights, Taurus. It’s a brooding, fermenting paradise, full of the kind of dark beauty that wouldn’t be caught dead in a spring garden. There’s smoldering joy to be found amidst this riotous flowering of moody colors, but you won’t appreciate it if you’re too intent on seeking bright serenity and pristine comfort. Be willing to dirty your hands and even your mind.

Feel the moss on your back, the leaves in your hair, and the mist on your bare legs. (P.S. If you like, you can take what I just said as an elaborate metaphor.)

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May 21-June 20:

Here’s a vignette described by columnist Thomas Friedman: “Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you 97, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking with is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.” I’d like to suggest, Gemini, that for you right now the whole world is like the man who swears 2 plus 2 is 97. At least temporarily, you are on a very different wavelength from your surroundings. In order to understand what’s coming toward you, you will have to do the equivalent of standing on your head, crossing your eyes, and opening your mind as wide as it’ll stretch.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

If you want to grow vanilla beans, you have to pollinate the plant’s flowers within 12 hours after they bloom. In nature, the only insect that can do the job is the Melipona, a Mexican bee. Luckily, humans can also serve as pollinators, which they do on commercial vanilla farms. They use thin wood splinters or stems of grass to perform the delicate magic. I’m thinking that you resemble a vanilla bean right now, Cancerian. It is the season when you’re extra receptive to fertilization, but all the conditions have to be just right for the process to be successful. Here’s my advice: Figure out exactly what those conditions are, then call on all your resourcefulness to create them.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Even our most sophisticated drilling machines have barely made pinpricks in the earth’s surface. The deepest hole ever dug was 40,000 feet, which is just 0.2 percent of the planet’s 20-million-foot radius. I offer this up as a spur to your imagination, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plumb further into the depths of anyplace or anything you’re intrigued by — whether that’s a subject you’ve always wondered about, a person you care for, the mysteries of life or the secrets of your own psyche.

You could reach the equivalent of five million feet into the Earth’s innards.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

National Geographic speculates that most of the species on Earth are still unknown and unnamed (tinyurl.com/ UnknownLife). While 1.2 million life forms have been identified by science, there may be as many as 7.5 million that are not, or 86 percent of the total. I suspect that this breakdown is similar to the situation in your life, Virgo. You know about 14 percent of what you need to know, but there’s still a big frontier to explore. The coming months should be prime time for you to cover a lot of new ground — and now would be a perfect moment to set the stage for that grand experiment.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

I suspect that you will have a minor form of good luck going for you this week. It probably won’t be enough to score you a winning lottery ticket or earn you a chance to get the answer to your most fervent prayers. But it might bring you into

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

“Try to be surprised by something every day,” advises Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. That’s an inspirational idea for everyone all the time, but especially for you Scorpios right now. This is the week of all weeks when you have the best chance of tinkering with your rhythm so that it will thrive on delightful unpredictability. Are you brave enough to capitalize on the opportunity? I think you are.

Concentrate your attention on cultivating changes that feel exciting and life-enhancing.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

“Dear Rob: I was born on November 30 and am quite attached to having it as a birth date. But there’s a complication. While in Iraq in 2006, I was half-blown up by a bomb, and had a near-death experience. When I returned from my excursion to the land of the dead, I felt I’d been born anew.

Which is why I now also celebrate September 24, the date of the bombing, as my second birthday. What do you think?

Two-Way Tamara.” Dear Two-Way: I believe we’d all benefit from having at least one dramatic rebirth in the course of our lives, though hopefully not in such a wrenching fashion as yours. In fact, a fresh rebirth every few years or so would be quite healthy. If it means adding astrological identities to our repertoire, so much the better. Thanks for bringing up the subject, as it’s an excellent time for Sagittarians everywhere to seek out an exhilarating renewal.

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Social climbers are people who are focused on gaining higher status in whatever circle of people they regard as cool, even to the point of engaging in fawning or ingratiating behavior. Soul climbers, on the other hand, are those who foster the power of their imagination, keep deepening their connection with life’s intriguing enigmas and explore the intersection of self-interest and generosity toward others. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could go far in either of those directions during the coming weeks, Capricorn — but not both. Which will you choose?

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An Australian man named Daniel Fowler has more giraffe tattoos on his shoulders than any other human being on the planet. So says the Universal Record Database at Recordsetter.com. Meanwhile, Darryl Learie is now the only person to ever be able to insert three steak knives into an inflated balloon, and Billy Disney managed to inject a world-record 31 sexual innuendoes into a rap song about potatoes. What could or should be your claim to fame, Aquarius? This would an excellent time to try to establish your reputation as the best at your specific talent.

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Feb. 19-March 20: “You have to know how far to go too far,” said poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I reckon that’s good advice for you right now. You’re at a phase of your astrological cycle when you really can’t afford to keep playing by all the rules and staying inside the proper boundaries. For the sake of your physical and psychological and spiritual health, you need to wander out beyond the limits that you’ve been so faithfully respecting. And yet, on the other hand, it would be a mistake to claim you have a right to stop at nothing. Know how far to go too far.

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