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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Contributing Editor, Pamela White Editorial Interns, Blair Madole, Christie Sounart, Steve Weishampel Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Theo Romeo, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing Account Executives, David Hasson, Amber Hayes, Don Patterson Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Francie Swidler Circulation Team Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 11-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo December 1, 2011 Volume XIX, Number 17 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Inhumane society?

(Re: “Surviving shelters,” cover story, Nov. 10). The last comment I saw about Boulder’s humane society included this statement: “Boulder Humane actively exhausts all options before considering euthanizing an animal.”

Obviously this person doesn’t have the facts straight. What happened to the akbash with the skin condition was not exhausting all of their resources.

They clearly didn’t want to deal with a simple skin condition and give meds. I agree with the person that said if the veterinarian deems a dog “unadoptable” because of a treatable skin condition, he/she needs to find another job.

Please read the facts about the dogs Elizabeth wrote about. Those were adoptable dogs. Just because Humane Society Boulder Valley (HSBV) claims a 91 percent adoption rate doesn’t mean they are treating the other 9 percent fairly and compassionately.

If you want to defend what HSBV does, that is fine. Yes, we can see what they have done, and Elizabeth pointed those positive things out in her article.

But don’t overlook the facts about the animals that suffer or don’t get a chance because of a lack of compassion for dogs that enter the shelter scared, who are still subjected to a temperament test within hours of arriving.

Don’t overlook the animals that came in crying for help and didn’t behave that well and HSBV put them on the e/c list. And most of all, don’t ignore

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what other volunteers and staff have said they saw firsthand.

What you are mad about is that Elizabeth pulled up the rug and showed these ugly creepy crawlies that Boulder Humane, or apparently you, doesn’t want to look at. Get honest about what is happening and help them make better decisions with their $5 million budget. I agree they could be so much better if they just looked into the sad eyes of a dog who doesn’t

The homeless pet population is not

The Highroad

n response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that “big money has plucked our eagle.”

Yes it has — and the Powers That Be tell us that we shouldn’t even try to undo this theft of our people’s democratic authority, but should just try regulating corporate money, like maybe requiring them to disclose how much they’re spending on campaigns. Now there’s a bold stand for democracy: “Give us campaign finance reporting regulations or give us death!”

Come on, we’re bigger than that. Here are just a few actions for real change that you can take, teaming up with others right where you live: AMEND. Two major coalitions are organizing to overturn the court’s corporate money edict by amending the Constitution. One is FreeSpeechForPeople.

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want a plastic hand in his food after not eating for days, and said to the dog, “Let us help you and we will exhaust all our options to do so,” instead of, “You don’t deserve to live because you failed the test.”

If they truly were “exhausting all of their options,” we wouldn’t be in such an uproar.

Jan Mitchell/Boulder

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‘We the People,’ not ‘We the Corporations’

by Jim Hightower org and the other is MoveToAmend.org — and both have action kits for raising the issue locally, petitions to be circulated, video and other good graphics to educate people in your community, and a wealth of other organizing ideas.

LOCALIZE. Pass your own local and state laws to stop the wholesale corporate purchase of our government. These include outlawing any corporate

well-served by inaccurate and incomplete articles such as the one by Elizabeth Miller.

For a weekly giveaway paper to try and present a fair and balanced image of the shelter and rescue worlds is ludicrous. The result is not helpful and actually harms critical relationships necessary to reach the true goal — helping safely rehome as many pets as see LETTERS Page 5

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claim of personhood in your area, providing the alternative of public financing for your local and state elections, and banning campaign donations by corporations that try to get government contracts and subsidies. For information and help, check our PublicCampaign.org and ReclaimDemocracy.org.

CONFRONT. Yes, get in the face of power. Ask all candidates where they stand on corporate personhood and demand that top executives of big corporations located in your area publicly agree not to spend corporate cash on your elections.

Remember, the Constitution plainly says “We the People,” not “We the Corporations.”

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possible. I volunteer for breed rescue as well as Boulder Humane. The cases mentioned had a chain of responsibility that started long before the dogs came to Boulder Humane. Many factors contributed to the difficult situation for the dogs, including poor breeding practices, improper gift of a pet, and failure of follow-through.

Boulder Humane was left to pick up the pieces and make the best decision in light of their constituents. Those decisions are complex. It is unfair and unhelpful to create controversy that does not or should not exist. It is our job to find the best solutions for the pet overpopulation issue, and that means solving problems others have created.

There are many more homeless dogs and cats than can be absorbed into our society. It is up to us to find forward-thinking solutions that address the problem from beginning to end. Simply complaining about who should have done what during a few isolated incidents diverts energy and resources away from the serious problem at hand.

Alexis Lee/Boulder

I so appreciated Elizabeth Miller’s accurate article “Surviving shelters.”

As a volunteer for Nederland-based Mountain Dog Rescue, I personally picked up from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley each of the three dogs chronicled in Ms. Miller’s article, and none of them were “untreatable or unmanageable,” the standard HSBV uses to justify euthanasia. Trill, the cute-but-hyper little puggle, is a total sweetie pie who just needs basic training and an outlet for his energy. Trill’s behavior was obviously situational, a result of the stressful shelter environment, and he is now doing great in foster care. Sawyer is a big honey and I could barely find the minimal hair loss on him, and in no place did he have bloody, raw skin. And Rafa, the 12-week-old puppy, was high-energy, cute as a button and friendly with everyone he met.

As a progressive, animal-loving community, we need to look at the 9 percent who are killed at HSBV. Dogs like Sawyer, Trill and Raja should not be being killed for treatable, trainable see LETTERS Page 6

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“Imagine how we would feel if it had been 24 American soldiers killed by Pakistani forces at this moment.”

—Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, responding to the recent NATO attack in which at least two dozen Pakistani soldiers were killed “It’s very difficult to say how angry I felt that my 5-year-old’s school was no longer a place of complete security from journalists.”

—Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, speaking at a United Kingdom hearing about media standards about a reporter who tucked a note into her daughter’s school bag

“The ruling generals have fought us with guns; now they are fighting us with propaganda like these ‘elections.’”

—Egyptian medical student Marwan Ahmed, describing the skepticism that protesters occupying Tahrir Square feel about the parliamentary elections that began this week Boulder Weekly

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ou are a living filter.

Every time you urinate, you send a bit of yourself into the environment.

This includes an array of chemicals, organic and artificial, that your body produces and absorbs — hormones, antidepressants, antibiotics and chemicals from plastics, beauty products, food additives and cleaners.

There is mounting scientific evidence that the chemical cocktail in your urine may be bad for the environment and human health. A recent study published in the journal BMJ Open, a product of the British Medical Journal, found a correlation between high use of hormonal contraceptives and high rates of death from prostate cancer.

Researchers looked at mortality rates from prostate cancer and rates of contraceptive use in 88 countries and found that those with the highest use of hormonal contraceptives also had the highest rates of prostate cancer mortality. It’s not the first study linking prostate cancer and estrogen exposure. Nor is it the first study linking oral contraceptive use to environment impact.

Here in Boulder in 2006, Professor David Norris, a CU researcher, found “feminized” male fish — male fish that had developed female sex characteristics — in Boulder Creek where water from the city’s wastewater treatment plant emptied into the creek. Norris found that male fathead minnows looked and behaved like female fish after only seven days of exposure to a mixture of effluent from the treatment plant, which was found to contain estrogen from birth control pills, and water from upstream.

But estrogen isn’t the only contaminant causing concern, and fathead minnows are not the only species impacted by human reliance on pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. How much of this chemical cocktail makes it into the average city’s drinking water? How does that affect human health over a person’s lifetime? How can these substances — called “emerging contaminants” — be safely kept from the environment?

No one has the answers yet.

The city of Boulder, like cities across the country, is working on the issue. In 2008, a multi-million-dollar upgrade of the Boulder Wastewater

Treatment Plant focused in part on this growing problem — and with much success.

According to Science Daily, Norris studied fathead minnow populations after the upgrade and found that male fish in a tank of pure effluent from the plant didn’t begin to show feminine characteristics until 28 days of exposure — a dramatic difference if not a complete resolution of the problem.

We know without a doubt that the water leaving the city is cleaner than it was before. But what about our drinking water?

Bret Linemfelser, water quality coordinator for the city, says the water that comes into the city is pretty clean prior to treatment, in part because Boulder is so high up in the watershed, getting about 80 percent of its water from Barker Reservoir and the Silver Lake/Lakewood watershed on North Boulder Creek. (The remaining 20 percent comes from Boulder Reservoir.)

To ascertain exactly how clean that water is, Linemfelser says, the city is currently monitoring the water supply to determine what kinds of emerging contaminants it might contain. Results from the study, undertaken jointly with the Northern Colorado Water Conservation District, should be available in about three months, he said.

In the meantime, the message we should take away from this growing body of research is that what we put inside ourselves matters, whether it’s chemicals from shampoo, soap, household cleansers, food additives or pharmaceuticals. Buying cosmetics, skinand hair-care products free of phthalates and parabens, eating unprocessed foods, drinking hormone-free milk, taking antibiotics only when we need them, using environmentally friendly cleaning products, limiting our reliance on pharmaceuticals by taking care of our health — these are all small individual steps that, if undertaken by many, could have a longlasting impact on the environment and all the creatures that depend on it, from fathead minnows to human beings.

With 7 billion people on the planet, we can’t afford for each one of us to be a chemical spill.

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Climate change: U.N. takes on wrong problem — again

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by Paul Danish

he United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions.

The Kyoto Protocol was supposed to cut annual greenhouse gas emissions to a rate 5.2 percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2012. It failed. Today the world is dumping about 30 billion metric tons of CO2 a year into the atmosphere, up from 21.6 billion metric tons in 1990.

The conference will fail, of course — just as the Kyoto Protocol failed, and for pretty much the same reasons: 1) The U.S. isn’t about to cut its CO2 emissions unless emerging countries like China, India and Brazil cut theirs.

2) China, India and Brazil aren’t about to cut their emissions, because doing so would interfere with their economic growth and shared goal of achieving a First World way of life for their 2.5 billion citizens.

3) The First World isn’t about to pay the Third World to go green.

(Given the E.U.’s imminent financial implosion and the failure of a growing list of heavily subsidized alternative energy companies — like Solyndra, Stirling Energy, SpectraWatt, Evergreen Solar and Beacon Power —

chances are the First World isn’t going to pay for the First World to go green for much longer, either.)

4) No sane politician — Left, Right or Center; First, Second or Third World — is about to invest either political capital or national treasure in climate “solutions” that will produce no discernable results for 200 years or more, but which may very well compromise his nation’s economy.

And so on.

The Durban conference’s biggest problem is that it’s focused on the wrong problem.

The conference is focused on reducing the rate at which greenhouse gases are put into in the atmosphere in order to slow the rate of global warming — which is a fool’s errand. Assuming human-generated greenhouse gases are warming the planet — let’s stipulate that much for the sake of the argument — global warming is a done deal. Even if CO2 emissions were to be reduced to pre-industrial revolution levels (fat chance on a planet with an insatiable appetite for electricity and automobiles) it would be at least two centuries before global temperatures would start to go down.

Global warming? Learn to live with it.

Which is what the conference should really be focused on — learning to live with global warming and finding ways to adapt to it.

It should be focused on questions

like: • How to secure an adequate water supply in a hotter, dryer world that is urbanizing and industrializing hell-bent for leather, whose population is growing at the rate of 80 million a year, and where a number of critical agricultural areas are increasingly gripped by unrelenting drought. Hint: Start building desalination plants as fast as the Chinese build coal-fired power plants.

• How to secure the food supply in a world where some of the major agricultural areas are being rendered unviable due to heat and drought but where other huge tracts of northern land may become farmable. Hint: Develop a portfolio of genetically modified crops that are heat- and drought-resistant for lower latitudes, and optimized for the far-north photo-cycle of higher latitudes.

• How to secure a global energy supply sufficient to sustain the Third World’s economic expansion (currently 6 percent to 9 percent a year for the largest Third World economies), accommodate population growth of 80 million a year (or about a billion every 12 years), and most important, accommodate the enormous increase in energy consumption that adapting to global warming will require. Hint: People won’t take global warming lying down.

Better build enough power plants to run two or three billion additional air conditioners for openers. Second hint: Quit arguing coal vs. gas. vs. oil vs.

nuclear vs. wind vs. solar vs. conservation and efficiency. Do everything. The demand will be that great and greater.

And so on.

Of course, it is hardly necessary to hold an international conference for all of the foregoing to get done. If water shortages get bad enough, desalination plants will be built — as is currently happening in Australia and Israel. If agricultural areas get too hot and dry to grow current crop varieties, companies like Monsanto and DuPont will develop new heat- and drought-resistant varieties, which will be swiftly adopted.

When it comes to fighting global warming, people don’t have a very good handle on the sheer size of the task, how long it would take, and what it would cost. The same is true about adapting to global warming.

The difference is that fighting global warming is discretionary, and people are disinclined to sacrifice their lifestyles for a discretionary fight against something they can’t change in their lifetimes and in any event is largely a problem for future generations.

Adapting to global warming, on the other hand, is mandatory. Your options — or more to the point, your kids’ options — are adapt or die.

Civilization’s options are adapt or collapse. Adapting to global warming merits the attention of an international conference. Fighting global warming doesn’t.

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movement to be “no kill,” which means only extremely aggressive dogs and medically untreatable dogs are euthanized. They could use their $5 million dollar budget and their supportive Boulder community to help all the animals that come through their doors.

Boulder should be a model for the rest of the country, but instead lags behind other shelters even in our own state.

I know for sure that Sawyer, Trill and Rafa all deserve to live. Our community has poured our tax dollars, donations and volunteer hours into this shelter, and it is now up to us to make sure they fulfill their stated mission of “saving more animals’ lives” by

providing all animals in their care the opportunity for a new home.

Emily Wolf/Nederland

shelters in the country is incredible, considering the individual needs of every animal and human the comes through the BVHS doors.

Dave Georgis/Boulder

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or situational problems.

The majority of the dogs that are killed at HSBV are dogs from within the Boulder community (owner surrenders or strays that they must take because of their county contract, paid for by taxpayers). The transfer dogs that come in on the Petsmart Charities wagons are pre-screened for health and behavior issues, so far less of them are euthanized.

HSBV kills close to one dog per day. Euthanasia should be the absolute last option, used only after tremendous consideration, utilization of foster homes, working to find rescue, etc.

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I am disappointed with the way BW presented the story on the Boulder Valley Humane Society. The first impression that one gets by looking at the BW cover is that the shelter is needlessly killing animals. The story that lies within is that the shelter gives deadlines for other individuals or organizations to make decisions about unadoptable dogs. Yawn.

The relevant story here is that the 91 percent successful adoption rate that makes BVHS one of the best

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Safety whizzin’ For those of you who have recently been exposed to Santa and/or his reindeer delivering a not-so-catchy anti-drunk-driving slogan from a poster plastered above the pisser in your favorite watering hole, there is an explanation for the odd nature of the ramblings.

First a recap: The reindeer tell urinators, “Don’t drive if you’re tipsy, buzzed or Blitzen.” Cute, but it lacks the poetry of Santa’s pee-hole warning: “He knows when you are drinking. He knows when you’re .08. Designate a Driver for Goodness Sake.”

Yep, he really says that. Like it was too complicated to come up with a third rhyming sentence, but we digress. So just how did the collective genius of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol and law enforcement agencies statewide come up with their anti-alcohol Yuletide warnings? It seems the whole sordid concept was loaned to us by the Texas Department of Transportation. Now it all makes sense. Ho, ho, hold that cab.

No need to make stuff up There has been a controversy brewing across the pond of late. It seems our British friends are up in arms over the Discovery Channel’s decision to not air the seventh and final episode in David Attenborough’s splendid documentary series “Frozen Planet.” Episode seven dealt with the issue of global warming. Discovery bought the six-show version being offered by BBC, stating it had a scheduling issue the seventh week.

And now, conspiracy time.

As a result, the British press has been reporting that Discovery killed the seventh episode out of fear of backlash because most Americans don’t believe in global warming. Nice theory if it were true.

If you want to hate America there are plenty of good reasons. We sometimes fake intelligence to go to war. We kill each other over Black Friday shopping deals. We enjoy British royal weddings more than the Brits. And we gave the world McDonald’s. But the truth is, 90 percent of U.S. citizens believe that global warming is real. Even the majority of Fox News watchers believe it’s real. They just don’t think it’s bad enough for government to disrupt commerce.

We have enough trouble being in charge of the entire planet without having to worry about you little countries making stuff up.

Degree degradation?

CU is once again turning its attention to getting rid of the 4/20 smokeout on campus. It seems that each year there is a new reason for why the smokeout must be terminated. There’s the safety issue, the health thing, and of course the legal questions. But this year, the CU Student Government has gotten involved and is offering a new excuse: CUSG wants to boost the value of a CU diploma by protecting the integrity of the degree from the negative national image projected by the 4/20 event. Really?

This from a campus that fires its faculty for being too conservative or too liberal; a place that actually employed Gary Barnett, author of the “if she didn’t want to be abused she shouldn’t have been slower than the football players” philosophy; an institution whose students force the city to spend millions on Broadway underpass construction because apparently the little “walk/don’t walk” signs are too complicated. Under the circumstances, we think a CU degree can surely survive a little smoke.

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State defends loophole in fracking disclosure rules Heath seeks re-election to state Senate

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ritics of new state rules that would require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” say the proposed regulations contain a massive loophole that will allow corporations to keep their ingredients secret.

But state officials with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) disagree.

The new rules, which will be the subject of a hearing on Monday, Dec. 5, allow companies to keep trade secrets confidential. If approved by the commission, Rule 205A would go into effect on Feb. 1 and would define “trade secret” as “any confidential formula, pattern, process, device, information or compilation of information that is used in an employer’s business, and that gives the employer an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.”

Critics of fracking in Boulder County and around the state say the practice of shooting a high-pressure cocktail of water, chemicals and sand deep into the earth to extract oil and gas poses serious environmental risks, and they say the loophole leaves the new rules toothless.

“In essence, this trade secret rule means that there is no disclosure,” says Sam Schabacker of Food and Water Watch in Colorado. “The industry doesn’t have to fill out a form to claim trade secret and there’s no review — by

Michigan Mike was Nederland fixture

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An oil and gas operation near Firestone

anyone — of these claims. There’s no regulation, no accountability, and no way for citizens to oppose the trade secret designation.”

But Dave Neslin, COGCC director, points out that companies have already voluntarily disclosed the chemicals they use in about 1,300 wells, approximately half of the wells in the state, on fracfocus. org, a hydraulic fracturing chemical registry created by the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.

“Companies are asserting trade secret claims infrequently in Colorado,” Neslin told Boulder Weekly. “And even if a

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ike Torpie, widely known as “Michigan Mike” and the founder of NedFest, was found dead in his car while parked outside of the B&F Mountain Market in Nederland last week. No foul play is suspected.

The coroner had not released any details about his death at the time of publication.

Torpie was 43, a Nederland resident for almost 20 years.

His raison d’être weaved directly into the evolution of Nederland’s music scene. An aging hippie with a wry smile and a generous demeanor, he was an incredible source of community

chemical is claimed to be a trade secret, the operator still has to disclose that information to us and to health professionals upon request, for purposes of our investigation or a health professional’s diagnosis or treatment of a patient.”

He adds that if there is misuse of the trade-secret provision, the COGCC will address it.

“If it becomes apparent that operators are abusing the trade-secret process, we can take appropriate action, which might include challenging those trade-secret claims, bringing enforcement actions or amending the rules,” he says.

Neslin counters critics’ suspicions that the commission is not tough enough when cracking down on the possible environmental impacts of fracking.

“We think our existing regulations provide appropriate protection for public health and safety, and we think these proposed disclosure rules will add to that process,” he says. “They will provide additional information to the public and additional transparency, and hopefully generate greater public confidence in the safety and oversight of this industry.”

The COGCC accepted written public comments about the new rules until Nov. 25, and there will be a public comment period at Monday’s hearing, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. in the State Land Board Conference Room, at 1127 Sherman St., Ste. 300, in Denver.

For more information, see cogcc. state.co.us.

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tate Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, formally kicked off his 2012 reelection bid on Wednesday.

Heath, who represents Senate District 18, was the primary proponent of Proposition 103, the unsuccessful state ballot measure that would have inched up state income tax and sales tax for five years to generate $3 billion in funding for education.

Heath took office in 2009. He has been a prime Senate sponsor of more than 50 successful bills and resolutions, and was a member of the 2008-09 Joint Select Committee on Job Creation and Economic Growth. He chaired the 2009 interim Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission.

Among his bills signed into law was 2010 legislation aimed at bolstering mobile home park residents’ rights and park owner responsibilities.

Heath was the vice-chair of the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee and served on the Education and Finance Committees in 2009. He was named the chair of the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee in 2010, and served on the Education and Appropriations committees in 2010 and 2011.

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motivation and his legacy will echo in town for decades to come.

“He was a really good friend,” says Denver resident Donna DuBois. “He always knew exactly the right thing to say. Everywhere I went in Nederland, I knew I could count on Mike being there and having a friend.”

Back in August, Boulder Weekly ran a feature on NedFest and met with Michigan Mike. In excellent spirits with mere weeks to go before the fest, Torpie spoke about how this year’s NedFest was the best yet and that the festival was always his yearlong labor of love. He admitted with a laugh that he was only willing to delSee MICHIGAN MIKE Page 9

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Torpie, left, with musician Sam Bush

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KGNU hosts annual ‘secret show’ fundraiser

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or the second year in a row, KGNU Independent Community Radio is hosting a “Secret Show” and is announcing only clues about the identity of the performers who will appear at the Dec. 8 concert.

The mystery musicians will perform at 8 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Lodge, at 1543 Pearl St. in Boulder.

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egate work at the last possible minute.

“He was a big part of the fabric of what Nederland is,” DuBois says. “He represented a huge contingency in the music community and had friends across all walks of life. Just a lovable, really good friend.”

Torpie was a college radio DJ in Michigan when Leftover Salmon caught his ear, prompting him to follow the band on tour as their unofficial videographer and eventually move to Boulder. Inspired by the scene, he began throwing backyard parties that evolved into the first NedFest, befriending local bands such as Yonder Mountain String Band, The Motet, String Cheese Incident and Leftover Salmon and mobilizing the jamgrass scene into the local treasure it is now.

“He was a model of democracy for the rest of the country, a model of how to participate in your community,” says Vince Herman, Nederland resident and founding member of Leftover Salmon. “And that’s why the community is feeling guilty as hell, that we somehow let it slip through our fingers. We’re pissed, we’re guilty, we’re sad, we’re everything.”

Torpie’s effect on Nederland is literally written into the town’s legislation. He was a casual but adamant politician, changing how the city views overnight camping for events (namely NedFest) and helping to overturn the city’s anti-marijuana stance. His latest push involved legalizing golf carts as a means to reduce pollution and traffic.

And his legacy will absolutely live on with NedFest, the details of which will be sorted out when his family arrives in town this week.

Chris Perret, who worked security for NedFest for years and worked with Torpie when he was a trustee during Perret’s time as mayor, assured that everything will be done to continue NedFest in the wake of Torpie’s death.

“He put his heart and soul into NedFest and in the last four years just started breaking even,” Perret says. “We’ll take his baby and we’re gonna run with it.”

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unusual,” says Sam Fuqua, KGNU station manager. “We ask people to buy a ticket and take a chance on what we describe as an evening of beautiful music. And last year we were pleasantly surprised when the event sold out in advance.”

KGNU scrambles the true identities of the performers as anagrams and posts them on the station’s website. Last year, headliner Gregory Alan Isakov and supporting act Porlolo went under the names

“Yak Gives a Long Roar!” and “Or Pollo?”

This year, KGNU has announced the line-up as “Bad Ripper” and “The Holy Otter Clan Rangers.”

“The clues aren’t impossible,” KGNU Music Director John Schaefer says. “Well, The Holy Otter Clan Rangers is really hard. But even if people don’t figure them out, I know they will be pleasantly surprised to hear these bands in such a small and unique space.”

Tickets are available at www.kgnu. org. Doors open at 7 p.m., and limited seating is available.

The volunteer-powered, listener-supported radio station has been broadcasting since 1978 with a mix of news, culture and eclectic music. KGNU can be heard in Denver and Boulder on 88.5 FM, and a large part of the Front Range on 1390 AM. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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A tale of two cities

Taking ‘shop local’ beyond the slogans

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othing says “holidays” quite like revisiting the Goldschmidt Hypothesis at this time of year. At least that’s how you might see things unfolding this shopping season if you were a rural sociologist or economic

anthropologist.

Harry Truman once said, “The only thing new in this world is the history that you don’t know.” And so it is with the current push to “shop local” that has been embraced by small retailers, the Occupy movement and progressive communities from Maine to California, including Boulder. But what is often missing from the discussion about how we spend our money is the history and research that supports the position that keeping dollars local is not only a good idea but may, in fact, be the largest single contributor to our quality of life. Enter Walter Goldschmidt.

The year was 1947, and anthropologist Walter Goldschmidt had just published his landmark research on the impacts of consolidation in his aptly titled paper “As You Sow.” The publication had been delayed for several years by the influence of the powerful companies whose actions Goldschmidt had documented critically. While the anthropologist’s findings were damning of the direction America was headed in the ’40s, they also offered a blueprint for a better way, a blueprint for keeping it small and local. Goldschmidt’s research told a tale of two cities.

Here’s the short version. For most of a century, there wasn’t much difference between the California communities of Dinuba and Arvin. The towns were similar in size, population, age, etc. But over time, agricultural consolidation began to impact Arvin, and not Dinuba. A few large industrial farms consumed all of the land around Arvin, whereas Dinuba held on to its many small family farms.

Goldschmidt found that this difference in agricultural structure expressed itself in startling ways, as the small farmers continued to plow their money back into the

local Dinuba economy, as opposed to the fewer industrialized farmers of Arvin who either banked their profits or shipped them to a home office elsewhere.

As a result, Dinuba supported no fewer than twice as many businesses as the corporate-farming Arvin. Not only did Dinuba have twice the businesses, it had a 61 percent greater retail volume. Arvin residents were found to have an overall lower standard of living despite their commitment to technological advancements in agriculture. And the differences didn’t stop there.

Dinuba residents enjoyed more civic organizations, newspapers, recreation centers, parks, schools and churches. Even the style of government in the two towns evolved differently. Small-farming Dinuba commonly made town decisions through popular vote.

Arvin, on the other hand, had most of its decisions dictated to its residents by county and city officials. Arvin became a town of haves and havenots with a nearly

nonexistent middle class, whereas Dinuba maintained economic and social homogeneity throughout its entire population.

Goldschmidt’s revelations on the power of keeping things small and local should have made him the father of the shop local movement and a hero to Occupy Wall Street. But alas, he seems to have been so far ahead of his time that he was forgotten even before he was discovered. The anthropologist died in 2010 at the age of 97.

Goldschmidt’s research lives on in the work of his peers who have applied it to the community impacts of large box stores such as Walmart and Target, as well as to measuring what happens to towns when large corporations purchase water rights from small farmers. There are dozens of studies Boulder Weekly

being conducted in cities and towns across America on the impact of shopping local, and all have confirmed at least the concepts of Goldschmidt to one degree or another.

So remember Walter Goldschmidt the next time you read something like this quote from the Occupy Denver website: “We are in the midst of this financial crisis largely because everything in our homes is currently manufactured overseas. This shift in manufacturing has deteriorated the United States labor market and eliminated our foothold as the most dominant economy in the world.”

Keep it small and local. Our future and quality of life depend on it.

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Research that supports shopping locally The following are findings from across the United States that examined the impact of spending money locally. This information was provided by “Buy Local Berkeley.” Links to the various studies can be found at www.buylocalberkeley.com/node/36#industry.

1. San Francisco: The San Francisco Retail Diversity Study, May 2007.

This study found that a slight shift in San Francisco consumer purchasing behavior — diverting just 10 percent of purchases from national chain stores to locally owned businesses — would, each year, create 1,300 new jobs and yield nearly $200 million in incremental economic activity. The reverse is also true — a 10 percent shift away from local merchants would have a negative impact of equal but opposite magnitude.

2. Austin: Economic Impact Analysis: Local merchants versus chain retailers, December 2002.

The key finding was that for every $100 in consumer spending at a national chain bookstore in Austin, Texas, the local economic impact was $13. The same amount spent at locally based bookstores yielded $45, or more than three times the local economic impact.

3. Chicago: Andersonville study of retail economics, October 2004.

This study found that every $100 spent with a local firm left $68 in the Chicago economy; $100 spent at a chain store left $43 in Chicago. For every square foot occupied by a local firm, the local economic impact was $179, versus $105 for a chain store.

4. Santa Fe: Santa Fe Independent Business Report, November 2003.

Research found that small businesses accounted for 90 percent of all businesses in Santa Fe and employed 30 percent of all private sector workers. Dollars spent at independent businesses delivered twice the economic impact of those spent at national chains. However, national chains in Santa Fe were growing 2.5 times faster than independents and bringing new competition and pressure to the small business community.

5. Midcoast Maine: The Economic Impact of Locally Owned Businesses vs. Chains, September 2003.

This study found that locally owned businesses spent 44.6 percent of their revenue within the surrounding two counties, and another 8.7 percent elsewhere in Maine, largely on wages and benefits paid to local employees, goods and services purchased from other local businesses, profits that accrued to local owners, and taxes paid to local and state government. Big-box retailers returned an estimated 14.1 percent of their revenue to the local economy, mostly as payroll. The rest left the state, flowing to out-of-state suppliers and back to corporate headquarters.

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n the spirit of creating and supporting community, many Boulderites ignored the Black Friday buzz and made the decision to allocate their gifting dollars to local businesses and artists this holiday season. In an effort to foster commitments like these and to promote community and simplify local holiday shopping, Firefly Handmade is again offering the Boulder community a one-stop, local shopping experience.

The 2nd Annual Firefly Handmade Holiday Market is coming to the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Dec. 9–11. Firefly Handmade brings to the BMoCA more than 70 Front Range “handmakers” who specialize in creating high-quality, indie-style crafts, ranging in price from $2 to $200.

Kristin FitzGerrell, one of Firefly’s “flygals,” a title that the three owners lightheartedly use to refer to themselves, explains that the word “craft” shouldn’t deter anyone from stopping by and making a dent on their holiday shopping list.

“This is not your grandmother’s craft sale,” says FitzGerrell. “It’s really fresh, top-notch, high-quality craftsmanship, and you’re sure to find something for everyone on your gift list, at every price point.”

Firefly’s Holiday Market will showcase a variety of

small-batch goods, ranging from art to accessories and stitches to stationery, all offered directly from the maker.

The first 50 shoppers each day will receive a special gift, and all attendees can enjoy a kids craft area, a self-serve wrap station, specialty drinks and sweets, as well as participate in a raffle to benefit Firefly Autism, a nonprofit with a mission to inspire bright futures for children with autism from the ages of 18 months to 18 years.

“At our Firefly market, holiday shopping is fun again,” says FitzGerrell. “We hope people will come out and join us for a great time and for handmade gifts that they’ll feel good about buying and giving.”

Three local artists, FitzGerrell of Studio 22,

Helping others buy local — where it’s needed most

by Jefferson Dodge

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hile a lot of emphasis is placed on buying local and keeping our hard-earned dollars in Boulder County this holiday season, there is another way to give a meaningful gift without pouring money into the coffers of giant corporations.

And it helps stimulate economies in underdeveloped countries.

It’s a program called “Spread the Joy” from the nonprofit Opportunity International that allows people to buy gift cards online to fund microloans for entrepreneurs in Third World nations.

The cards, which can be given as gifts in increments of as little as $10 and as much as $350, are targeted to a cause of the recipient’s choice.

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Gift givers visit opportunity.org/giftcard to purchase the tax-deductible card, which can be printed, emailed or mailed. Gift recipients then visit the same website to redeem the card and fund a loan to an entrepreneur profiled on the site whose business they’d like to invest in. Users can select from hundreds of people around the world operating a wide variety of businesses in 20 different countries. And once the gift card is redeemed, the recipient can receive updates on the entrepreneur whose loan they funded.

Mary Schweitzer of Boulder, who serves on the Board of Governors of Opportunity International for Colorado, says about 85 percent of the loans are

Allison Bozeman of BirdDog Press and Holland Seydel of Haute Nature, started Firefly Handmade just over a year ago. The three women began the company with the vision of creating an opportunity for local artists to connect with Boulder County patrons. So far, the response from the artisan and patron communities has been overwhelmingly positive, and the flygals have been thanked for bringing this opportunity for artists and shoppers to

Boulder.

“We’re excited,” says FitzGerrell. “Boulder is ready for something like this. There is so much creative talent in the community, and we’re excited about creating a supportive environment for handmakers to make a go of it.”

The BMoCA will be presenting Firefly Handmade’s handmakers and their goods from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 9 and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 10 and 11. There is a $2 admission cost to benefit BMoCA. Check out some of the goods in advance online at http://fireflymade.squarespace.com/gallery/giftguide-2011/.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com awarded to women in poverty-stricken areas because they tend to be the most marginalized, are most likely to repay the loan, and usually re-invest what they earn in their communities.

For instance, Schweitzer says, a woman starting a small business might hire a neighbor to help her, creating a positive economic ripple effect that spreads around the community.

She visited Colombia in 2009 to see the results of the loans up close.

“It was so heartwarming to see these people,” she told Boulder Weekly. “They are so enthusiastic and work so hard. … A lot of them couldn’t afford to put their children into school.”

For example, one woman in the Philippines who sells clothing needed $350 to purchase more ready-towear clothing and a tricycle to grow her business. Another woman in Nicaragua started a tortilla business with her loan and used proceeds to build a See MICROLOANS Page 14

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A gift that’s all Boulder Unique among gift basket offerings, “Boulder’s Best Organics” hand-packed gift collections are filled with gourmet and artisan products from local businesses. The gift collections are presented in illustrated, keepsake gift boxes featuring the Flatirons of Boulder and other local scenes painted by Colorado artist Jim Freeheart. Also included in each gift set is a full-color storybook sharing the stories of many of the local producers featured in the gift boxes. These gift boxes of local and Colorado goods are available at Alfalfa’s Market. Prices vary by basket.

Kosher-friendly for Hanukkah Whether you spell it Hanukkah or Chanukah, the kosher-friendly “Hanukkah Rocks!” gift basket collection is perfect for any time of year, and features all organic and certified kosher treats, including Teatulia Peppermint Tea and a hand-crafted ceramic teacup made in the USA. Snacks include kosher-certified Clif Bar energy bar and kosher Justin’s Peanut Butter Cups with dark chocolate. $47 Gluten-free, yes you can For that special someone who is gluten-free, the “Fabulous and Gluten-free” basket has got you covered with a great gathering of treats that sacrifice gluten, not taste. Boulder Granola Gluten-Free/Dairy Free original granola is amazing, as are delicious Grizzlies Organic Curry Cashew Trail Mix and Fearless Chocolates Exploding Coconuts and other Gluten-free treats. $42.75 Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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roof on her home and send her kids to school.

The loans range from $25 to $350, and the average amount is $150.

Recipients pay interest equal to the going rate in their country, and they meet with other loan recipients weekly to make payments and encourage one another. Once the entrepreneur repays the loan, the money is loaned again to change the life of another entrepreneur.

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savings accounts through the program.

“It’s very empowering,” Schweitzer says. “I’m really passionate about this work because it’s making transformational changes in the developing world.”

About 2.5 million people have received loans from Opportunity International over the organization’s 40-year history. For more stories about the recipients and how they used their loans, see www.opportunity.org/give.

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tep away from the shrimp cocktail and the Akutan’s pile is the thickest. smoked salmon spread. Even fisheries that “Part of the waste pile has been around for years, sell products stamped with the seal of decades, or longer,” Martich says. “It ranges from possiapproval from the Marine Stewardship bly 10 to 15 feet thick. The historic waste pile, as we Council, an international nonprofit that understand it, is about eight acres in size, and the rest promotes solutions to overfishing and certifies fisheries of the 50 acres is much thinner, it almost pancakes out and seafood products as sustainable or environmentally into this thin layer all around that eight acres.” friendly, have been the source of some oceanic nightSavvy consumers take the credit for much of the mares. reform in the fishing industry, according to Kelly Earlier this year, Trident Seafoods Corporation, Roebuck, sustainable seafood campaign manager for which produces pollock, salmon, herring, cod and crab, the Living Oceans Society. agreed to pay a $2.5 million fine to resolve Clean “In the past five years we have seen the retailers and Water Act violations near its Alaska processing plants, and Trident products are still sold with the Marine Stewardship Council sustainable seafood seal.

Over the course of five years, the Savvy consumers Environmental Protection Agency notified take the credit Trident of its violations in a series of letters, and for much of the received replies that ranged from no response to reform in the agreements to comply — which were not folfishing industry, lowed, according to Tara Martich, compliance according to the officer for the EPA’s national pollutant discharge elimination system. The company was cited with Living Oceans 480 Clean Water Act violations at 14 processing Society plants, according to the EPA. Trident discharged the waste from processing fish fillets without permits, exceeded discharge limits, failed to comply with permit restrictions on discharge locations (dis- major buyers really pick up the issue and start to charging near two National Wildlife Refuges) and crerespond,” Roebuck says. “Back in 2008, only three ated oxygen-depleting zones and underwater piles of retailers in North America had sustainable seafood polwaste at its facilities in Akutan, Cordova, St. Paul and icies. Now all but a few don’t.”

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Consumers shopping and dining at restaurants with The result at Akutan is a 50-acre dead zone. tools like the Monterey Bay Aquarium wallet guide or “It’s equivalent to almost 38 football fields,” app for iPhone and Android, which provides regionMartich says. “It’s this carpet of gelatinous goo, and it specific advice on best choices, alternatives and seafood suffocates the sea life on the sea floor, so it creates these products to avoid, has helped enforce the power of the dead zones.” pocketbook in changing the retailers. Both Kroger and In the ocean ecosystem, the sea floor is home to the Safeway foods have a sustainable seafood plan shared bottom of the food chain. When those species suffowith the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, cate, it kills everything on up the line. a group of 16 conservation organizations promoting

healthier oceans and freshwater ecosystems.

“We’ve seen awareness of sustainable seafood and fishing and aquaculture issues really become just a broad awareness in the consumer community,” Roebuck says. “When people are shopping, they’re more aware than what they would have been 10 years ago for sure.

“And we can see that the retailers have taken notice and now there’s a lot of collaboration between environmental NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and retailers, and we’ve really seen that there are movements and progress happening with major buyers in North America.”

Because there are so many nuances to know, Roebuck says, it’s hard to apply one rule to all occasions. With some fish, like shellfish, fish farms are the best, or even the only, option.

“It really depends again from fishery to fishery,” Roebuck says. “Typically lower on the chain means they are a more resilient species so they’re quicker to mature and they reproduce in larger numbers.”

Smaller fish, including squid, oysters, mackerel, sardines and mussels, are more plentiful and contain less mercury, according to the National Resources Defense Council, which recommends eating those species over larger, less plentiful ones.

And, keep watching for changes. Part of Trident’s agreement with the EPA was to spend $30 million updating its fish processing facilities so that fish waste currently going to the ocean floor can be converted to fishmeal, which could reduce fish processing discharge by more than 105 million pounds each year. At least one of the two plants is expected to be operational by 2015.

“We’re really excited about all of those changes,” Martich says. “We hope that as Trident moves forward implementing these changes to their practices, it will help other processors make changes as well, and as a whole just really improve the compliance level of the whole industry.”

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

See the 2011 Oscar-nominated short films on Wednesday, Dec. 7.

Thursday, Dec. 1

“Thanks for nothing” — Rally at Congressman Jared Polis’ office.

12 p.m. 4770 Baseline Rd., Ste. 220, Boulder, moveon.org.

Friday, Dec. 2

Choreographer’s Showcase — Talented dancers and intriguing choreography. CU Theatre & Dance, University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181.

Saturday, Dec. 3

The Gift of Art — Creating handmade gifts. Broke? Too busy occupying to work? This is the workshop for you. 1-4 p.m.

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

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one knows for certain why some bands connect with the public and others don’t. It’s a mystery that musicians and critics have argued about for ages. No Doubt wallowed in obscurity for almost a decade until Gwen Stefani began writing accusatory songs about her breakup with bassist Tony Kanal and their album Tragic Kingdom finally propelled them into the mainstream. The Red Hot Chili Peppers started off as a punk/thrash band, but it wasn’t until Flea and Anthony Kiedis teamed up with more learned musicians and softened their sound that they found a large following. My personal theory is that the magic tipping point comes when songwriters achieve artistic honesty and surround themselves with musicians who know how to channel the emotional content of their material into a soundtrack that expresses the sorrows and triumphs of their audience.

But then again I’m a music writer. We tend to roman-

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ticize this sort of shit.

I first met Yawpers frontman Nate Cook in 2009 at an after-party following a marijuana festival that I helped organize (long story). One of the musicians who performed at the festival was a member of the local Odd Fellows Hall, and he invited a small group of people to convalesce there when the event was over. This took place at around one o’clock in the morning.

It was a small party but an eclectic one. In attendance, there were burlesque dancers, trapeze artists, musicians, journalists and one possible transvestite that I flirted with shamelessly for most of the evening.

Oh, and much to everyone’s surprise, Jello Biafra, the former lead singer of Dead Kennedys, showed up out of nowhere. He stayed for about an hour, insulted several people in his weird, nasally voice, and then disappeared see YAWPERS Page 20

Sunday, Dec. 4

The Nutcracker — Presented by Boulder Ballet with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. 2 p.m.

Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Monday, Dec. 5

Ashtanga Yoga Class — beginner to advanced classes with Anne-Alex Packard. 7 a.m. Soul Tree Studio, 422 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-665-5244.

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Wednesday, Dec. 7

Night of Oscar Shorts with FLIC — 2011 Oscar-nominated shorts.

“The Thing” is the best of the bunch. 6 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, www. flicboulder.org.

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West” and we don’t even have any good depressing country bands to cry over.

Why is that?

Here is my theory: Boulder, you’ve gone soft.

There was a time when this town was a lightning rod for artistic innovators and social rebels. People came here from all over the country to shake things up. Talk to any Baby Boomer who was living in the People’s Republic during the hallowed 1960s, and they will tell stories of war protesters blocking major highways with flaming tires and psychedelic poets who consistently raged against the dying of the light.

Boulder was plugged into the national consciousness. It was relevant.

But, alas, that Boulder is no more.

Somewhere along the way the culture began to curl in on itself like a set of crusty, yellow toenails that had gone unclipped for far too long. The long hair and tie-dyed clothing of yesteryear eventually became costume pieces that local teenagers wore as part of a nostalgic Passion play designed to remind everyone of the good ol’ days. Openmic poetry nights filled up with Ginsberg wannabes and Kerouac ripoffs. The true social malcontents who wanted to change the world were driven out and replaced with affluent nirvana seekers who wanted to change their gluten intake.

And in all that time, the soundtrack

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into the night as mysteriously as he came. So it was that kind of party.

At the time, Cook was the driving personality behind a local rock band called Ego vs. Id, which had been the closing musical performance of the festival. I’d been aware of EVI for several years, but I had never seen them live. I was impressed by their confident swagger and substantial musical chops, and when I shook Cook’s hand at the afterparty, I told him I thought his band was going to be a huge hit in Boulder.

He leered at me and said, “That’s nice of you to say, but I think it’s probably bullshit. Boulder hasn’t really warmed to us. We can’t even find a paying gig in this town.”

It turns out he was right.

Cook and I became friends following that initial introduction, and I monitored the progress of the band until it finally broke up in 2011. Those who were close to the group were not surprised when they called it quits.

Plagued with drug addiction, psychological dysfunction, bad relationships and suicidal tendencies, Ego vs. Id might just as well have amputated the first two words from their moniker right from the get-go. It was fairly obvious that the Id was going to win.

However, I was still shocked that they never found a place in the hearts of local audiences before they burned out. In my opinion, the angry, wretched, passionate music produced by EVI filled a void in this prosaic little bubble that will be sorely missed.

It must be stated here that I have never really cottoned to the Boulder music scene. I have been writing about arts and entertainment in this town for more than five years, and although I’ve been consistently impressed with the talented folk singers, mandolin pickers and world-music aficionados in this fair city, I cannot for the life of me figure out why there aren’t any thriving rock, punk or metal bands around.

(Yes, yes, I know and love Rose Hill Drive, but allow me a moment of hyperbole here.) I mean, we live in “the

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never altered. The jambands of the ’60s and ’70s were gratefully dead, but the jambands of the ’80s and ’90s lived on.

The rest of the nation began to search for the future of music, but in Boulder the new millennium featured the same tired folk and bluegrass of the past.

Nothing changed.

Ego vs. Id was one of the more interesting bands that Boulder produced in the past decade, despite the fact that they were essentially ignored into oblivion. C’est la vie, fellas. We hardly knew ye.

Fortunately, the story doesn’t end there. After hitting a rocky, whiskeysoaked bottom, Cook managed to find his voice again, a new voice, a better voice. This one is a little more humble, a little more serious and a hell of a lot more authentic.

The Yawpers are named after the famous line in Walt Whitman’s filthy, narcissistic, histrionic, wonderful ode to himself, “Song of Myself.”

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

With those words, Whitman posted a challenge to the American transcendental poets of his day, who he believed had gone soft and a little stale.

Put up or shut up, he said.

In less than six months, The Yawpers have achieved more success

than EVI in their entire five-year career. The quiet, unassuming Jesse Parmet has taken over lead guitar duties with nary a flinch, and the new addition on drums, Adam Perry, has provided a grounding musical and psychological influence that has changed the entire direction of the trio. The sometimes-disreputable Mr. Cook has finally put both his ego and his id aside, and the songs on The Yawpers’ debut EP, Savage Blue, out Dec. 2 at the band’s CD release party at Shug’s, reach into the depths of his soul, where he will most certainly find darkness, rage, longing and (hopefully) redemption.

Compared to past musical projects, The Yawpers’ rise has been positively meteoric. Local label Adventure Records has signed them to a deal, and they’re performing several nights a week in venues all over the Front Range. Cook’s surreal country ballad, “Jesus Car,” which is about the Messiah coming back as his father’s ’67 Nova Super Sport, is getting some airplay and might just turn into one of those underground indie classics. The Yawpers have even managed to put together a tour, delighting audiences in Nebraska, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California with their foot-stomping cowboy rock.

But will The Yawpers find a home in their own hometown? The jury is still out on that one. I can only tell you this — people are finally paying attention. Their gigs are still small, but Boulderites are starting to show up to the party.

Perhaps it’s the raw, honest sound of the new band, or maybe it’s the changing direction of the country itself — the rumblings of a new international youth movement, the promise of a financial and cultural revolution in the wind — but whatever the case Boulder is going to have to make a decision, and soon: remain stuck in the past or tune in to the soundtrack of the future.

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tories about people overcoming obstacles are uplifting and inspirational and all that. A new film on people with disabilities aims higher: It’s designed to start a movement.

The Movement, coming to the Boulder Theater Dec. 7, follows a former skier who returns to the slopes years after an injury caused paralysis. But its subtitle — “One Man Joins an Uprising” — points to a larger purpose, chronicling and encouraging a trend of people with disabilities building confidence through sport.

The film covers the sport of monoskiing — or sit-skiing — which uses a single ski with both feet attached and smaller armmounted stabilizers. Athletes must keep their balance while seated on the way down the mountain.

It’s produced and co-directed by Kurt Miller, son of famed ski filmmaker Warren Miller, whose charity Make a Hero helps connect people with disabilities to organizations that can help them participate in the sports they love.

Kurt Miller hopes the documentary will cause ablebodied people to reconsider how they view people with disabilities.

“A lot of times people look at people with disabilities and they look away,” he says. “[The movie is] almost saying, embrace them: ‘Hey, that’s great, you’re going skiing.’ Reach out to them and say, ‘That’s exciting.’ It really gives them the confidence to do other things in their lives.”

The Movement follows Rick Finkelstein, a Hollywood executive paralyzed from the waist down, as he learns to monoski at the Snowmass resort in 2010.

For six years after his injury Finkelstein didn’t return to skiing, a sport he once enjoyed. Miller says he wanted to help Finkelstein get a chance to return to the slopes.

“Through luck I met Rick and began selling him on the concept of, ‘Hey, let’s take you back to the mountain,” Miller says.

“Even at 62, he had some athleticism, and I really think he had the desire and the passion of skiing and wanting to learn how to ski,” Feeney says. “He even says, ‘I don’t have the fear anymore. I just have the frustration.’”

Miller says Finkelstein’s return to skiing is a dramatic moment in the film, but he’s also happy with sequences of accomplished monoskiers shredding at the Canyons resort in Utah.

“People are blown away with the true athleticism of these individuals,” Miller says of long-time monoskiers Chris Waddell, Mike May and Jim Martinson.

Finkelstein’s story, meanwhile, is about overcoming obstacles and regaining control of one’s life.

Miller says audiences so far have embraced that message.

One of the struggles that newly On the Bill: The Movement screens on Wednesday, “For all of the disabled people face is with building conDec. 7 at the Boulder Theater. Doors at years that I owned fidence to rejoin activities they once loved.

6:30 p.m. Tickets are $14. VIP tickets are Warren Miller But there’s no doubt Feeney has some of $50. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Entertainment, we that confidence and is an inspiration to all would also have a those he taught. After his 1988 accident, segment about people with disabilities,” Kurt Miller he started racing competitively as a monoskier, but he says. “It’s something we thought always inspired ablesoon followed his passion for teaching and joined the bodied individuals to appreciate what we have and National Sports Center for the Disabled in Winter Park, motivate people with disabilities to go to the mounwhere he now makes his home. tains.”

Feeney wasn’t exactly joining a massive staff of One of the instrumental members of Finkelstein’s monoski instructors. team was Matt Feeney, an experienced instructor in “At that time, there were very few. I may have been monoskiing. A Colorado skier who’s been paralyzed the only one in a monoski teaching,” he says, noting since 1988, Feeney has taught about a thousand people that disabled instructors were so rare that he was taught with disabilities to ski with adaptive equipment, he by able-bodied people. “I think I kind of opened the says. door so others could see what was possible. In 1993 Miller says Feeney’s experience was invaluable to there might have been one other guy, but I was the Finkelstein’s learning. only one in Colorado and the only one at the National “It was great because he could speak to Rick from a Sports Center for the Disabled.” disabled point of view, like, ‘Hey, it’s not going to be Miller says the 40-minute film will be preceded by easy,’” Miller says. a 15-minute presentation, and a 20-minute question Feeney says Finkelstein’s age could have been a fac- and answer session will follow the movie. tor, but Feeney didn’t think it slowed him down much.

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It’s one of the most splendid openings ever written. And it’s part of possibly the greatest classical piece you’ve never heard.

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, which is as popular in Germany as Handel’s Messiah in the United States, hasn’t been performed in the Denver-Boulder area for 18 years. Can you imagine 18 years without a single Messiah performance?

Neither can I. Thankfully, the local drought for Bach’s score ends this weekend, when Pro Musica Colorado of Boulder and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir of Denver combine forces to present the Christmas Oratorio in Denver on Friday and in Boulder on Saturday (see details in sidebar on page 26).

Conducting duties will be shared by the two groups’ leaders: Pro Musica’s Cynthia Katsarellis will conduct the first three cantatas, the first half of the performance; St. Martin’s Tim Kreuger will conduct the remainder of the work. Soloists will be tenor Daniel Hutchings as the Evangelist (narrator) along with aria soloists Amanda Balestrieri, soprano; Marjorie Bunday, alto; Jacob Sentgeorge, tenor; and Robert W. Tudor, bass.

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Beyond that, the choral parts of the oratorio are fiendishly difficult. It requires first-rate vocal soloists.

It was written not for a single performance, like Messiah and Bach’s better-known passions, but as a series of separate cantatas for six days of the Christmas season. That and the differing orchestrations of the six cantatas makes it look like a compilation. And it calls for specialized Baroque instruments, such as the “oboe d’Amore.”

But Katsarellis, music director of Pro Musica Colorado, has no doubt that the oratorio belongs among Bach’s greatest works.

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“I believe it is a masterpiece of the same caliber as the [St. Matthew and St. John] passions, I really do,” she says. “I think that there are logistical issues that make it a little harder to program and produce. But Bach definitely conceived it as a whole. He called the six an oratorio, he made the keys work and the drama of it work in one whole, and there was a whole historical basis of [musical] works based on the nativity.

“So there’s no question that he composed it as one big dramatic work. And I think it is just as great as the passions. The music is fantastic. It tells a great story — and a familiar story — with some of the best music ever written.”

If you have heard one of Bach’s passions, the structure and musical content of the Christmas Oratorio will be familiar. The text consists of several layers, including the Biblical narration of the Christmas story, told by the Evangelist; text that is sung by individual characters in the drama, such as the angel and the shepherds; individual reflections upon the meaning of the story, sung as solo arias; and settings of traditional Lutheran chorales that represent the response of the congregation to the story.

Also like the passions, the score calls on all the musical styles of the Baroque era to dramatize the story and delineate the layers of text: operatic recitasee CLASSICAL Page 26

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e’ll never begrudge a rapper moving beyond the cheap sensationalism of bitches, banging and bling, but we also don’t need a loquacious, underemployed PBS viewer schooling us on life’s finer points, as is the custom of many socalled “conscious rappers.”

While The Grouch isn’t above dropping a little science, his manner’s more lighthearted and self-aware. You can hear it on “I Used To Be a Vegan,” which pokes gentle fun at health-food trends and our wavering will.

“It’s something I’m aware of and that I pay attention to when I’m making music. I like to speak on real topics and serious issues, but I don’t want it to be like that all the time. I want there to be some sort of playful balance,” The Grouch says from his Hawaii home. “I’m not a gangsta and I can’t play that role, so I’m just really being me because that’s part of my character, you know? I find humor in a lot of this life that we live, and I just want to include it in my music.”

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tive for the narration, where the text needs to be easily heard; elaborate arias; traditional four-part choruses; and complex contrapuntal choruses, each as the dramatic situation requires.

“He’s used everything,” Katsarellis says. “He’s used Vivaldi’s kind of concerto, he’s used the antique style of the [a capella] motet, he’s used aria forms from Italian opera, he just uses everything.”

One decision every conductor of Bach’s cantatas and oratorios faces is the issue of performance style. Today, these works are performed and recorded by historical performance ensembles, with copies of 18th century instruments and techniques, duplicating the sound of the composer’s own era.

That will not be the approach in Denver and Boulder, however. Pro Musica Colorado makes music of the 18th century one of its mainstays — Haydn and Mozart symphonies, for example. But they are, unapologetically, a modern instrument ensemble.

“We are doing it with a modern orchestra and modern pitch,” Katsarellis explains. To put together a full orchestra of historically trained performers, with 18th-century instruments, “you pretty much have to be in a major center for that.”

Nevertheless, “we’ve got the dream team, between the chorus and the soloists and our orchestra,” she says. “We’re going to enjoy telling the story, and I hope people are going to enjoy hearing it.”

But if you miss it, you might have to wait 18 years for your next chance.

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he calendar of holiday events by Boulder County’s classical music organizations heats up this weekend with Pro Musica Colorado and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir’s performances of Bach’s rarely heard Christmas Oratorio (see story at left). 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Denver, and on Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Boulder. For tickets visit www.promusi cacolorado. org/buy_tick ets_donate or www.stmartin schamberchoir. org.

Also this weekend, the University of Colorado presents its annual “Holiday Festival” concert, featuring the College of Music choirs, orchestra and other ensembles. There are four performances of this popular program, which generally sells out all four performances in Macky Auditorium: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4. For tickets visit cupresents.org/default/index. cfm?action=Details&eventID=87.

The Boulder Symphony, an amateur community orchestra for Boulder County, will join with Boulder’s First Presbyterian Church Choir to present “The Glory Of Christmas.” Jim Keller, director of music at First Presbyterian, will conduct a program of holiday favorites and sing-alongs at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, First Presbyterian Church, Boulder. For tickets, visit bouldersym phony.org/category/2011-2012-season.

The Longmont Symphony Orchestra will present its annual “Candlelight Concert” at the First

Methodist Church in Longmont. Robert Olson, also the director of Colorado MahlerFest in Boulder, will conduct the Longmont Symphony and soprano Maureen Sorensson in a program of special and traditional music for the holiday season. Starts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13 at First United Methodist Church, Longmont. For tickets, call 303-772-5796.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra and conductor Bahman Saless continue their seasonlong “Road to Mastery” with “Festivity.” As with other concerts this season, Saless says, the program reflects both the title of the individual concert and the overall progression of the season. “Festivity” features flute soloist Cobus du Toit and includes Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor and Torelli’s “Christmas Concerto,” both works that fit the theme of the concert. Shows are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, at First Congregational Church, Boulder, and 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, at Jefferson Unitarian Church, Golden. For tickets, visit www.boulderchamberorchestra. org/concerts/201112.html.

Boulder Ballet has already presented performances of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet in Boulder, but there are still more opportunities to see this Christmas favorite, beloved by American audiences for generations. Boulder Ballet partners with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra for performances at Vance Brand Auditorium in Longmont. Starts 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4. For tickets, call 303-772-5796.

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culture, the DIY spirit of which inspired a slew of talented like-minded artists such as Murs, Sunspot Jonz (aka BFAP) and Eligh, who’ve made music together in various formations, including the appropriately named Living Legends.

They’d hang out on campuses and in parks in regular locations at certain times, selling their tapes like their own roving retail store. Their success inspired other crews, like Hieroglyphics and Hobo Junction, to forsake the majors as well.

“It was like a store. You could kind of like walk down a block or two and get hit up by different kinds of music,” he recalls. “We would set up little boomboxes to listen to the music and then they could walk to the guy next to us and listen to his music on some headphones. It was a cool time.”

It inspired a hard-working, self-reliant attitude that’s allowed them to cultivate strong underground followings. Over the last 16 years, he’s released more than 30 albums as a solo artist or with others. His 26 December 1, 2011

latest is Heroes in the Healing of the Nation, recorded with the group Zion-I (MC Zumbi and DJ AmpLive). It’s sort of the follow-up to their 2006 collaboration, Heroes in the City of Dope.

“Healing of the Nation was just trying to bring more positive music to the people. We felt like they needed it really bad when we made that album,” he says. “We’re trying to uplift people and get them thinking and knowing that they’re powerful individuals, even though they might feel defeated by the system. Or feel like they can’t achieve their dreams. We’re trying to turn that idea around and let people know that they are divine spirits and we all have power inside of us. If we harness it we can make a lot of things happen.”

As part of the accompanying tour,

they invited community activist and outreach organizations to speak and put up booths to help raise money and consciousnesses. For this, his fifth annual “How the Grouch Stole Christmas” tour, he won’t be doing anything as extensive, but will be soliciting gifts for Toys for Tots and canned goods for local food banks. He’ll be joined

by Zion-I and his old buddy Eligh, who just last month released Therapy at 3.

Though he’s living in Hawaii now, The Grouch still feels a kinship with Oakland, and the Occupy Wall Street protesters there.

“I’m proud to see people standing up and recognizing that things are not right and recognizing that they had a voice,” he says.

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Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

Acoustic Open Stage — With K.C. Groves.

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

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

Bobby K Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

Emma Back. 7:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Eric Wiggs. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. eTown — Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Nicole Atkins. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Jenn Cleary. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Rd. #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Mr. Anonymous. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

Nostalgia Music Group. 7:30 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee. 5-7 p.m.

Folsom St. Coffee Co. 1795 Folsom St. 303440-8808.

The Rye Shooters. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

Satterfield Solo. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers & Jon McLaughlin. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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During last year’s ourmile Benefit concert at the 1stBank Center, Big Head Todd surprised the jamgrass fans in attendance with a rip-roaring, bluesy set, including a wonderful rendition of “Friend of the Devil” featuring Vince Herman and Drew Emmit, and the band proved it had the chops to hang with anyone. It’s an interesting preview to their eTown appearance, and maybe we’ll see Todd and Co.’s folksier side once again. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

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

Exploring Spiritism — What Spirits Sense.

7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Ste 1A, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

World AIDS Day Vigil at the State Capitol. 5:30 p.m. West Steps of the State Capitol, 200 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, www.plannedparenthood.org/rocky-mountains.

Grassroots. 7:30 p.m. International Film Series, ATLAS 102, CU campus, 303-492-1531.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St. Ste. 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Holiday “Friendraiser” for Friendship Bridge. 6 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Salsa Social. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

“Thanks for nothing” — Rally at Congressman Jared Polis’ office. 12 p.m. 4770 Baseline

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Boulder/Denver Area All Artists Exhibition. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Rd., Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

Through Dec. 10.

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.

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Gerard Mortier. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. Through Dec. 31.

Burning Issues — The Fourmile Canyon Fire.

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303492-6892. Through Jan. 26.

CU Art Museum — Points of View: Selections from Colorado Collections; The Anxiety of

Wyoming Triumph — A workingman’s ski & snowboard feature. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Friday, Dec. 2 music

Aspen and Spies. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Blue Mountain Jam.

From Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery Influence: from CU’s ceramics collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921320. Through Dec. 17.

From Hippie to Hip — 40 Years of Artists Growing. Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-520-4931. Through Jan. 6.

NCAR Community Art Program — Ken Schmeelk and Erin King. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-4972408. Through Nov. 30.

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8:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

The Christmas Story — With Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Pre-concert talk. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-4430565.

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CU Holiday Festival. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

David DiGioia, Marc Perreault. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

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Thursday, December 1 Don Campbell’s Healing at the Speed of Sound. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Dechen Hawk. 5 p.m. The Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Fox Street All-stars. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Poetry Reading — With Maria Melendez. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Girls on Top! Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

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Tuesday, December 6 Sylvia Bernstein’s Aquaponic Gardening. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Hell’s Belles. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

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

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Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

B.L.A.M. 4.0 — Group art show. 5:30 p.m.

Prana Store, Yoga Gallery Space, 1147 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-2199.

Open Wall. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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

Boulder Downtown Coffee and Pastry Tours, Dining Tours. 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Call for details 303-909-5747.

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

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Sambadende. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Stone Soup. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

Tom Weiser & Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Choreographer’s Showcase. CU Theatre & Dance, University Theatre Building, 303-4928181.

HoliDairy Party. 6 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Mile High Business Alliance Party — With The Big Little and Danielle Ate the Sandwich.

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

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The Man Who Rented Christmas.

The Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-422-4090.

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The Merchant of Venice. Upstart Crow Theatre, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2390 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4421415. Through Dec. 3.

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Saturday, Dec. 3 music

Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder County Holiday Farmers’ Market. 12 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont.

CU Holiday Festival 2010. 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-4928008.

GJ Glass & The Shadow River Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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The 1940’s Radio Hour. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 23.

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Yellow Rabbit Productions Trunk Show.

6-9 p.m. Manifest Art Gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

Dan & Bonnie from Elephant Revival. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Parade of Lights. 8 p.m. Downtown Denver. www.denverparadeoflights.com.

Phantom. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000 x4. Through Feb. 18.

The Ride With Santa. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

A Rocky Mountain Holiday. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 22.

The SantaLand Diaries. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-6651841. Through Dec. 24.

The Grouch, Zion I & Eligh. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Honey’s 5th Annual Benefit for Blue Star Connection — Matt Hill Blues. 8 p.m.

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

Hudson, Ali Grayson. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Juno What?! 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

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

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

Roots and Rhythm. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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

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The Jaspers — With K.C. Groves. 6 p.m.

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

African Dance. 4 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020 21st St., 303-586-1763.

Beginning Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Bubbles Dinner — Five courses of chefcrafted cuisine paired with bubbles from around the globe. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4880.

8:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

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

Moors & McCumber. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Creating a Sustainable American Culture One Neighborhood at a Time — Presentation by Jim Leach. 1 p.m. Nomad Common House, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, 303-4493232 x203.

Gingerbread Teas. 3 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Gift of Art — Creating handmade gifts.

1-4 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Graduate Student Showcase. CU Theatre & Dance, University Theatre Building, 303-4928181.

Holiday Bazaar Teas — Local artisan and crafter showcase. 12-1:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Home for the Holidays. 11 a.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, www.lafayettecolorado.com.

Lights of December Parade. 6 p.m. Reviewing stands at 14th Street and Walnut Street and 11th Street and Pearl Street, Downtown Boulder, 303-449-3774.

The Nutcracker — Presented by Boulder Ballet with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.

7 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Occupy 2012 — Women Who Glow in the Dark, presented by Vox Feminista. 8:30 p.m.

Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Peacemaker of the Year Awards Ceremony and Holiday Celebration — Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center honoring Leslie Glustrom and Boulder Earth Guardians.

5 p.m. Unity Church of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-444-6981.

Tree Lighting and Carolers. 4:30 p.m.

Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Rd., Lafayette, www. lafayettecolorado.com.

Winter Wow — A weekend of workshops: dance, yoga and meditation. 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sol Vida Dance Studio + Community Space for the Arts, 4926 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-224-5990.

Sunday, Dec. 4 music

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

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

CU Holiday Festival 2010. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

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

Holden Young. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5460886.

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Annual Holiday Tea. 2 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303665-4248.

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Colorado Spirit Chorus — Weekly rehearsals and auditions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Valley Liv Christian Church, 7100 South Boulder Rd., foremore a information contact Nicci at 303-460-8651 or h e alth Joy at 303-641-4122. i Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Fareed Haque and Math Games. 10 p.m.

Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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.

events Ashtanga Yoga Class — With Anne-Alex Packard. 7 a.m. Soul Tree Studio, 422 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-665-5244.

Dining Out Days — To benefit the Boulder County AIDS Project. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

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

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

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

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Twinberries. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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

Brandi Carlile — Alone and live. 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

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

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

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

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

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

Call of the Horses — Three Women Who Followed Their Life’s Calling. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Colorado Gives Day — To benefit Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, www. givingfirst.org.

Compassionate Friends — Positive grief resolution for families. 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-652-3274.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50-7 p.m.

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

Folk Dancing. 7-10 p.m. Boulder Civic Plaza, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

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Dechen Hawk. 9:30 p.m. The Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050.

Eliot Lipp & Slim Thugz. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

First Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Mark Zito Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322.

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Songs from the Silo — With Felonius Smith.

8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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

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

The Movement — One Man Joins an Uprising, narrated by Robert Redford & Warren Miller.

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

Night of Oscar Shorts with FLIC — FLIC (Food, Libations, and Independent Cinema). 6 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, www.flicboulder.org.

Salsa in Boulder. 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

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Kids’ Calendar Thursday, December 1 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, December 2 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Saturday, December 3 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Crane Wife — A puppet theatre performance. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Story Hour and Hike — With OSMP naturalist Ellen Orleans. 11 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org.

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Monday, December 5 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

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Tuesday, December 6 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-6855200.

Kindermusik. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Wednesday, December 7 Children’s Storytime. 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.

Sunday, December 4 The Crane Wife — A puppet theatre performance. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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irector Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is a movie that succeeds wonderfully as a children’s fable and simultaneously offers a surprisingly deep exploration of love, family and what it means to be human.

Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is a scruffy orphan who lives in forgotten spaces hidden in the walls of Gare Montparnasse, a bustling train station located in the center of Paris. It’s 1931 and memories of The Great War are fresh, even as everyone tries to resume their normal lives.

Early on we meet Hugo’s father ( Jude Law), a watchmaker and tinkerer.

His mother has long since vanished, and Hugo clearly adores his happy, upbeat father. They tinker with an automaton that they’ve salvaged from a museum until one day when his father dies in a mysterious fire. Hugo is then adopted by alcoholic Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone) and moves to the station. His job: keep the station clocks working.

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Yes, that Méliès, one of the pioneers of cinema and most famously the director of the groundbreaking 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon.

The intertwining stories of Hugo’s experience at Gare Montparnasse, getting by on his own wits while outwitting the comical and tragic Station Inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), his budding romance with perky Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) and his earnest passion for repairing the automaton in the hopes it hides a secret message from his father all combine to create an extraordinary — if occasionally long-winded — fantasy world and heart-warming film.

Hugo’s passion to rebuild his automaton is both literally and figuratively the heart of the story. Indeed, the 2/3 scale human-like clockwork figure can’t work until a heart-shaped key is inserted into the center of its chest, a key that Isabelle is unknowingly wearing, having borrowed it from her guardian, Jeanne

verge on boring. For children taken to this film based on its “children’s story” marketing, these passages are going to cause the little ones to squirm uncomfortably, yawn and wonder when the “real film” is going to start again.

With that said, I loved Hugo. It’s one of the most delightful films I have seen in ages. Even the 3-D was well done and added to the magic of the film (a definite rarity), and the Parisian soundtrack by veteran composer Howard Shore perfectly fit the mood and underlying whimsy of this surprisingly profound and thoughtful film.

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Nostalgic puppets to the rescue

frisky new film showcasing some old pals made out of felt, charm and some kind of genius, the Disney release The Muppets overcomes a jaded streak reflecting its makers’ nervousness about selling Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the gang to an audience unfamiliar with Sesame Street (a Muppets chapter conspicuously left out of Disney’s production notes) or The Muppet Show or the best of the earlier featurelength films, The Great Muppet Caper being my favorite.

Hence, The Muppets deploys a bit of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and a string of ’80s jokes about Molly Ringwald and Benson.

The film’s naive, sincere streak, happily, is wider than its subversive one. It’s fun to spend time with these characters again. And in the nicest way, the Muppets’ human co-stars, Jason Segel and Amy Adams, are sort of Muppety themselves, especially when they’re wide-eyed and grinning.

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(Helen McCrory), Méliès’ life-long companion and true love.

It is in Hugo’s earnest, heartfelt quest for meaning that the film operates on a deeper level. He has lost his parents to tragedy, and just as France is recovering from the horror of The Great War, he too is trying to understand his place in a world defined by the arrival and departure of steam engines and the simple predictability of clockwork and giant gears.

As he seeks understanding, the gears turn, the hands tick and he travels a road towards family, love and life itself.

I also have to offer a criticism: If you don’t love cinema, if you aren’t wellversed in the early history of movies, there are a number of sequences that

by Michael Phillips A clever idea holds this reboot together, as simple as making one brother (Gary, played by Segel) human and the other (Walter, voiced by Peter Linz) a Muppet in love with the Muppets legacy. (He sports a Kermit wristwatch.) The locale is Smalltown, USA, which Gary and Walter introduce to us in the opening number, “Life’ s a Happy Song.” Gary, his schoolteacher sweetheart, Mary (Adams), and Walter journey to Los Angeles for a vacation.

Touring the old Muppet Studios facility, the trio learn of the plan to raze the historically significant and sentimentally priceless structure.

There’ s oil under the ground, see, and the weaselly millionaire (Chris Cooper) after it doesn’t give a Gonzo’s patoot about nostalgia.

To preserve the old homestead the visitors must gather together the Muppets from various locales and

raise $10 million in a save-theMuppets telethon. Written by Segel and Nicholas Stoller, and directed by Ali G and Flight of the Conchords alum James Bobin, The Muppets positions its marquee nonhuman stars in a place of early 21st century cultural irrelevance. Over and over, Kermit and others say things like “People forgot about us.” One song lyric laments: If we had “another chance to entertain, would anybody watch? Or even care?” Cooper’s dastardly oilman sneers: “You’re relics, Muppets. You’re dead!” I’m a sensitive fellow, I admit, but a little of this bring-down goes a long way.

At its best, though, The Muppets cuts back on the ’80s-flashback self-consciousness and believes in the dream. By the time we’re treated to straightforward versions of “Rainbow Connection” (written for the first Muppet movie more than 30 years ago) and the fantastic end-credits ditty from further back, “Mah Na Mah Na,” those of us who’ve had Muppets in our memory since childhood will find ourselves in a state of contentment.

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Arthur Christmas is not a perfect gift, but it does feature enough holiday cheer and silly fun to make it more entertaining than 10 lords a-leaping. It helps that the film has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for efficiency’s sake. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rick Bentley/MCT

A movie about a band started by a couple that got together because of a movie about them being in a band. Confused yet?

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters among children across the globe. Meet the unlikely man behind the puppet — the heart and soul of Elmo — Kevin Clash. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Boedecker Theater

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From Alexander Payne, creator of the Oscar-winning Sideways, comes a humorous and tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney), a distracted husband and back-up parent to two girls who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a lifethreatening boating accident. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

A musical mode born out of early 19th century Lisbon, and characterized by long, ornate, emotionally heavy ballads lamenting lost loves and shattered dreams, the “Fado” began to experience a stunning and unpredicted resurgence in the early 21st century. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Grassroots The story of a grassroots campaign for Seattle’s city council that centered on a public transportation campaign led by a man frequently spotted in a polar bear costume. At International Film Series.

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Mozart’s ultimate bad boy meets his match in Anna Netrebko. Starring Peter Mattei as the philandering Don, with Bryn Terfel as his sidekick Leporello. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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A young African refugee is thrown by fate into the path of a well-read bohemian working as a shoe-shiner, who, with innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, stands up to the officials pursuing the boy for deportation. At Boedecker Theater and Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater

A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. He openly smoked, drank and had intimate relations with students — yet his teachings are recognized as authentic, vast and influential. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Breakout Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, the Pusher trilogy) throttles into the fast lane with the precision-crafted action caper Drive, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Breslin). At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

find his rhythm while also setting things right in Antarctica. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Hugo See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT Immortals When a power-hungry king rampages across ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a brave young stonemason assembles a band to stop him. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Inni Inni is Sigur Rós’s second live film following 2007’s hugely celebrated Heima. Whereas that film positioned the enigmatic group in the context of their Icelandic homeland, providing geographical, social, and historical perspectives on their otherworldly music, with uplifting results, Inni focuses purely on the band’s performance, which is artfully and intimately captured by FrenchCanadian director Vincent Morisset. At

Esquire. — Landmark Theatres J. Edgar Director Clint Eastwood’s film, featuring a valiant performance from Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar), is a subtle and muted portrayal of a mysterious figures. Molded by his smothering mother (Judi Dench), Hoover ran the FBI from 1935 until his death in 1972. Between Eastwood’s objective stance and DiCaprio’s bold acting, you’re in capable hands here. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS Jack and Jill A successful advertising executive with a beautiful wife and kids dreads the annual Thanksgiving visit of his passive-aggressive twin sister. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Janie Jones Rocker Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola) and his band are on the comeback trail when a former flame (Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue) drops a bomb in his lap: their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones (Academy Award nominee Abigail

Martha Marcy May Marlene A young woman rapidly unravels amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Melancholia In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Metropolitan Opera: Rodelinda Live broadcast of Handel’s Rodelinda from The Met on Dec. 3 only. At Century.

Midnight in Paris 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. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Mill and the Cross Rutger Hauer and Michael York star in this story of Pieter Bruegel’s epic painting “The Way To Calvary.” From among the more than 500 figures in Bruegel’s canvas, The Mill and the Cross focuses on a dozen characters whose life stories unfold and intertwine in a panoramic landscape populated by villagers and red-caped horsemen. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Boulder Weekly

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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. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore/TMS The Revenge of the Electric Car In 2006, thousands of new electric cars were purposely destroyed by the same car companies that built them. Today, less than five years later, the electric car is back — with a vengeance. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Skin I Live In Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Boulder Weekly

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ajra Rich looks like a mad scientist, complete with messy hair, a glint in his eyes and beakers and circular heaters that look like they belong in a chemistry lab. He doesn’t work with obscure chemicals or create monsters though. He makes coffee.

Boulder isn’t exactly lacking options for a shot of caffeine in the morning — in a four-block stretch of Pearl Street, there is The Laughing Goat, The Cup, Atlas and Boxcar Coffee Roasters.

However, while Boxcar has a normal menu offering traditional items like Americanos and cappuccinos, it is taking the concept of a neighborhood coffee shop to a whole new level.

Boxcar Coffee Roasters is owned by Vajra and Cara Rich, a husband-andwife duo. The shop features exposed brick walls, bold metallic signs and a marble-topped coffee bar where patrons can sit and watch the brewing process.

The real twists to the shop are the beakers and heaters used to brew the coffee and the funky-looking espresso machine jerry-rigged by Vajra using a Synesso, a “totally awesome” espresso maker, according to Vajra, and a La Marzocco espresso machine from 1983. Oh, and there is the elephant-sized coffee roaster in the back of the store.

Boxcar roasts its own coffee three to four times a week in the back of the shop. The bean options vary by season and include popular varieties from Sumatra and Guatemala and house blends such as Empire and Stella Espresso. Bags of the beans with flavor descriptions are available at the shop, or patrons can order a cup to be individually brewed using an intriguing technique Vajra calls “cowboy coffee.”

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by Blair Madole “I was inspired by making coffee while camping at 8,000 feet,” Vajra says.

“Up there, water boils at a much lower temperature, so it is harder to get really hot water, which you need to get a quality cup of coffee. I got pretty good at making cowboy coffee, which we do over a campfire, and I got some really good results. It eventually dawned on me that this would be the best way to make coffee down here.”

In the high-tech version of cowboy coffee, each cup of coffee is brewed separately. The beans, which are ground once an order is placed, are put into a large, specially made glass beaker, and a measured amount of hot water is poured over them. Next, the beaker is placed in

a circular heater that fits snugly around the glass, which enables the coffee to be evenly heated as it rises to a boil. After a few seconds of a light boil, Vajra removes the beaker, takes a whiff to make sure the coffee is done, and adds a few ice cubes to stop the brewing process. The coffee, which is pretty dang strong, is then split between a mug and a small pourer and served on a wooden plank.

The process makes about two cups of coffee, and it can be split between two people. As one patron remarked, “I’m going to split it with my friend because I would like to be able to sleep in the next 48 hours.”

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tion,” Vajra says. “Coffee is a constant problem, because it is not easy to brew a decent cup. It takes a lot of knowledge and experimentation, and up here there are a lot of obstacles to overcome. I wanted to know why a cup of coffee tastes so good, and figuring that out and how to brew a great cup is why I got into coffee in the first place.”

Vajra stays up all night, buzzed from tasting cups of espresso and toying around with new ways to make a cup of coffee, while Cara works on the hospitality and management aspects of Boxcar. Cara is the cool and collected counterpoint to Vajra’s nuttiness and eccentricity, and is responsible for the trendy vibe of the shop. Also, the ladies can thank Cara for the vests and collared shirts the male baristas wear.

“We wanted to combine a playfulness and old-world imagery in Boxcar,” Cara says. “We are serving specialty coffee, and we take it pretty seriously, so we wanted to relate that in our presentation.

We could have done t-shirts or collared shirts, but we wanted something with style, so we went with the vests.”

From the décor to the service, Cara has made an effort to portray their passion for coffee and concern for quality.

She and Vajra make a good team and have worked together to achieve their vision of what coffee should be, she says.

“This has been the craziest thing I have ever done, I think,” Cara says. “[Starting Boxcar] is definitely the closest thing we have had to a life-changing event, other than the birth of our daughter. There have been all-nighters, and working seven days a week, but I think it is a good tradeoff, because the work and time you put in to a place shows.”

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Jefferson Dodge o you use Fox’s U-Bet syrup in your unpalatably sweet. Here, the ingredients egg creams?” I asked, in the manner were impeccably balanced, with enough of a character in a spy movie probing chocolate and milk to give it suffithe bona fides of a new but unproven cient richness without going overcontact. board, and the water added just “Is there any other kind?” replied the man behind the right measure of refreshing the counter at Longmont’s Brooklyn Deli. sparkle.

We nodded sagely at each other, both understandA $3.95 cup of chicken ing that the correct answer was proffered. matzo ball soup featured a Friend Carin and I recently visited this spot for a clear, clean-tasting broth that weekend lunch. Despite the Rocky Mountain strip seemed to possess near-theramall location, the Brooklyn Deli brings more than a peutic qualities. Carin had to touch of the Big Apple to Boulder County. The dinermake some adjustment to this like interior features tiled surfaces, refrigerated deli soup, as the versions she had cases stuffed with everything from éclairs to potato growing up lacked this interpresalad, and lively, order-at-the-counter service.

One of this deli’s distinguishing characteristics is a heavy reliance on East Coast suppliers. For example, there’s smoked whitefish and lox together the myriad flafrom Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish, ost attribute the creation of the egg cream in the late 1800s to Louis vors and textures. Carin considall-beef hot dogs from Sabrett and Auster, who ran a string of Brooklyn candy stores that housed soda ered the grilled bread the finishthe indispensable Fox’s U-Bet chocfountains. Back then, milkshakes were more likely to have relatively expensive ing touch on this sandwich. olate syrup. The lunch menu spotegg and cream as ingredients instead of ice cream. Some believe that the My $8.95 lox bagel came lights such venerable New York absence of egg and cream from the “New York” egg cream reflected this with plenty of velvety and not sandwiches as pastrami or corned drink’s station as a less costly alternative to a milkshake. Auster also develtoo briny salmon from Brooklyn beef on rye, chopped chicken liver, oped his own chocolate syrup recipe, which was tightly held by his family, as well as cream cheese, correctly and assorted heroes and gyros. and his preparation predated Fox’s, which came to market in the 1900s. garnished with piquant capers Breakfast is also available, featuring and onion. The owner explained egg sandwiches, not very New York that while H&H bagels are burritos and omelets. Dinner specials include sandavailable here in some flavors, most now come from tation’s payload of vegetables. Nevertheless, this tonicwiches, burgers, ribs and brisket.

Long Island-based A&S. My A&S plain bagel wasn’t like starter could just as well have been prepared by a overly dense, while retaining a subtly chewy feel.

Evoking Mike Myers’ Linda Richman, the $2.95 relative from an old family recipe, and the matzo balls The homesick New Yorker, connoisseur of East egg cream, true to form, contained neither egg nor were pleasingly light.

Coast fare and curious deli novice would be hardcream. Discuss. The classic egg cream consists of nothCarin particularly enjoyed her $7.95 Reuben with pressed to do better than visiting the Brooklyn Deli. ing more than the above-mentioned U-Bet syrup, fizzy salty but satisfying corned beef. While the meat wasn’t Whether one desires a black and white cookie or an water and milk. While the ingredient list is short, the stacked jawbreakingly high, there was enough to give egg cream, this Big Apple outpost has the right tricky part of making this drink is getting things in the this sandwich a hearty feel, and the salt balanced out answers. right proportions. Too much seltzer, and the beverage the tang of sauerkraut and Thousand Island dressing.

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by Danette Randall

om Turkey was delicious once again. He never disappoints, and symbolizes the start of the shopping and hoopla frenzy.

December is a fun month, a busy month, a slow-the-jingle bell-downyou-are-going-too-fast month. Which means we need a fun, simple fa-la-laddity-la treat to ring in the festivities.

Now, don’t hate if I start out with a candy cane lover’s dream. I know that isn’t the most subtle start of the holiday month treat explosion, but I said it was going to be fun, so fun it shall be.

Double Chocolate Candy Cane Brownies. Come on, that’s simple, fun and sure to be a taste explosion in the ol’ kisser. And everyone needs something cute and tasty before all the fights and flipping of the bird over parking spaces commences. Who can resist a chocolateey brownie? I think they are the one dessert that appeals to one and all. These are moist brownies, with a touch of peppermint added. Then we go balls to the wall with the topping. A hard-to-resist ganache topping, with crushed candy canes over top.

Shut up! Yes, they are going to be tasty as all getout.

Now, if you feel that candy canes go against everything you believe in, well then I can’t help you. Oh, I’m kidding, I can help.

Just use those little round peppermint candies.

Simple solution.

You are doing yourself and your people a solid by not using a boxed brownie mix.

None of those ingredients you can’t pronounce, just straight up butter, sugar and eggs, yo! I find it so easy to make a homemade brownie, there really is no need for a box ever. These brownies are a one-bowl (saucepan) recipe. Melt, measure, stir and wham-o, you are done.

The one thing people screw up with this recipe (not you, of course) is the over-baking. It’s not just this recipe, actually, it is any brownie recipe. It is going to look a tad underdone people,

this is what you want. This will make your holidays merry, this is the brownie that could solve all the problems in the world. A lot of pressure for a brownie, but it’s up to the challenge, are you?

Now, follow the directions, put some love into it, and invite me over when it’s done.

Double Chocolate Candy Cane Brownies

1/2 cup butter (unsalted) 4 tbsp. cocoa powder (I used Ghirardelli) 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs 3/4 tsp. pure peppermint extract 3/4 cup flour 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. baking powder 3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream 1 tbsp. unsalted butter 3 crushed candy canes

Preheat oven to 350. Line an 8- or 9-inch square baking pan with parchment paper or foil, hang extra over sides, to make lifting out of pan easy. Butter or spray lightly with non-stick spray.

In medium saucepan over low/medium heat, melt butter, stir in cocoa powder and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time.

Mix well. Add peppermint extract, flour, salt and baking powder, stir until smooth.

Pour into prepared pan, smooth top.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Take out and let cool.

In small sauce pan over low heat, melt chocolate, add whipping cream and butter and stir until smooth. Let cool to room temperature, and then spread over brownies that have cooled and have been lifted out of pan.

Smooth frosting. Top with crushed candy canes. Cut into squares and serve.

Enjoy!

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Greenbriar hosts ‘Open Cellar Night’ The Greenbriar Inn has begun its Open Cellar Night series, which will take place every Wednesday night.

All bottles from the restaurant’s wine cellar will be 20 percent off. In addition, a multi-course menu will be offered starting at $38, and will include specially priced wine flights, featured bottle selections and wine cellar tours.

Reservations for the Open Cellar Night are suggested, and can be made by calling 303-440-7979.

Northstar Imperial Porter returns Twisted Pine Brewery’s seasonal Northstar Imperial Porter will be released to the public Dec. 2.

The beer is a Baltic-style porter that is 9.1 percent alcohol by volume.

In addition to statewide availability in Colorado, this year’s Northstar will be sold in Texas, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska and Louisiana. Visit twistedpinebrewing.com for more information on Twisted Pine and Northstar Imperial Porter.

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The Cured gift boxes range in size, with names such as “Daytripper,” “Weekender” and “Sojourn.” The gift boxes range from $75 to $250.

If the largest gift box, the “Sojourn,” is bought by Dec. 1, a “Sidecar” gift box, which contains crackers and other non-perishable items, will be added to the order for free.

Organic spirit sales boom at Altitude Boulder-based Altitude Spirits has had a record amount of organic spirit sales this year.

The company’s organic vodka, Vodka 14, was so successful that Altitude began importing Papagayo Organic Rums, Juniper Green Organic Gin, Highland Harvest Organic Scotch and UK5 Organic Vodka.

Altitude Spirits has posted a variety of cocktail recipes on its new blog, pouredpure.com.

Olive Garden promotes education The Olive Garden Restaurant is asking writers in first through 12th grade to submit a short essay for its 16th annual Pasta Tales Essay Writing Contest, answering the question: “If you were given $5,000 to support education in your local community, how would you use it and why?”

The contest runs through Jan. 29, and the grand prize winner of the contest will receive a three-day trip to New York City and a $2,500 savings bond. In addition, Olive Garden will provide a $5,000 grant to support education in the winner’s local community. The winners in each grade category will be awarded a $500 savings bond and a family dinner at Olive Garden.

Pasta Tales entry forms and rules are available at www.olivegarden.com and at local Olive Garden restaurants.

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nooze, a self-described “a.m. eatery” that originated in Denver, now has a Pearl Street outpost. The menu includes a variety of Eggs Benedict interpretations, like the delightful Upstream, featuring a hunk of delicately honeyed smoked salmon. There are also several $7.50 pancakes, which include the usual suspects, like blueberry, as well as more unique selections like a dessert-like pineapple upside-down version. Of course, a full complement of egg dishes, ranging from omelets to huevos rancheros, are available, as are oatmeal, granola and French toast.

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onsider trying the traditional Japanese breakfast available at the Alfalfa’s Market food court. The Obaa-Chan option is the Asian equivalent of a grand slam, serving up steamed rice, a salmon filet, miso soup and a variety of vegetables. Lighter appetites may go for rice in a green tea broth, enhanced by seaweed and flaked salmon. The menu also has healthy alternatives to the standard eggand-bacon breakfast.

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Tiffin’s 2416 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-442-2500

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The samosa chat features a potato and vegetable-stuffed turnover smothered with onion, cilantro and curry, and is a more than satisfying choice. The Bhel Puri, a puffed rice, noodle and vegetable “trail mix,” is a citrusy counterpoint.

Saxy’s Cafe 2018 10th St., Boulder 303-786-8585

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(503) Cafe 103 1/2 N. Public Rd., Lafayette 720-583-2596

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Backcountry Pizza and Tap House 2319 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-449-4285

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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.

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Moongate also offers several Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese selections, including pad thai, sushi and Saigon soft-shell crab. Don’t-miss items include the udon noodles, with a hearty mushroom-infused broth, and the classic ChineseAmerican starters of coconut shrimp and crab Rangoon.

ongmont’s Georgia boys BBQ has the feel of an old-school barbecue, right down to its location in an old house nestled among warehouses a stone’s throw from downtown.

Available meats include pulled pork, pulled chicken and brisket. Both the pork and brisket are outstanding preparations, adroitly balancing spice, smoke and meatiness, while even a typically mundane side like BBQ beans becomes noteworthy once the Georgia boys have laid their hands on it.

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This inviting Louisville spot even features a few meatless options, including smoked tofu and veggie kabobs. But the star attraction is the meat, and highlights include the moist beer-can chicken and the tender and flavorful slabs of ribs. Delectable side dishes at this establishment include a creamy mac-

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Summit climbing, especially on our fabled 14,000-foot peaks, makes perfect sense in a state with so many wonderful destinations. But for those who want something a little different and equally epic, check out pass bagging. The term “pass bagging” may not inspire visions of brazen mountain climbing, and yet, as it turns out, there are some legitimately beefy climbs on the pass list.

Any good quest needs a tempting checklist. The standard amongst those who have taken a shine to pass bagging is to go for all the mountain passes over 12,000 feet. Colorado has 129 officially named passes that meet this criteria. Two passes are located on private, inaccessible property (Culebra and Whiskey Passes) so for legal intents that leaves 127. That’s more than double the number of 14,000-foot peaks (even if you go by the high-end count of 58 14ers), and that means lots of amazing parts of Colorado to explore. see PASSES Page 48

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Perhaps the first mistake people make (including this writer) is believing that the passes are either paved or boring 4x4 roads or subtle dips between more exciting mountains. Consider this: Only four of the 129 passes in Colorado are accessible by passenger car. Compare that stat to the 14ers, which have two paved drive-ups, meaning you can drive to the top of approximately 3.3 percent of the 14ers and only 3.1 percent of the passes. Minor victory for the passes! In fact, the majority of the 12,000-foot passes are on hiking trails or completely off-trail — in other words, they are not found on any kind of road. And many of the passes that are on 4x4 roads are rugged and remote enough to enjoy just as much as any other high-altitude hike.

There are two wonderful books to aid the potential pass bagger: Hiking the High Passes by Bob Martin and Crossing the High Divide by Sallie Varner.

Martin’s book is a collection of 50 passes, most of them over 12,000 feet.

Varner’s book is a more focused project that explores 81 passes, all of them over 12,000 feet. Together, these books serve as excellent companion pieces.

It must be noted that not every saddle between peaks is considered a pass.

Varner’s definition is simple: A highaltitude pass is a gap that serves as a division between two watersheds.

There is a lot of appeal to getting up Colorado’s passes. None of them are technical hikes by their easiest routes (class 2 or easy class 3 scrambling), meaning many of the passes are accessible year-round by foot. Versatility is another hallmark of pass bagging. If hiking isn’t your thing, you can try mountain biking many of the passes or skiing them when there’s snow on the ground. One more bonus: Hiking Colorado’s passes offers a lot of dogfriendly adventures.

For those who think that passes are simply too tame and easy, might I suggest taking a crack at such challenging

destinations as Boulder-Grand Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park and Knee-Knocker Pass in the rugged Gore Range. Both involve tricky, off-trail navigation and entail some very steep terrain. Passes in the southwestern San Juan Range are high above treeline, and some, such as Stony Pass, make a strong case for being placed in the most beautiful region in the Rockies. Hunchback Pass, out of the ruins of the ghostly Beartown, leads to an area in the remote Grenadier Range, one of the deepest pockets of true wilderness in the state. Don’t forget that many of these passes denote the start of ridges that lead to magnificent summits, so in the course of getting your passes you can also grab many of Colorado’s best peaks along the way.

The highest official pass is 13,207foot Argentine Pass, not far from the popular Front Range classic Grays Peak. Aspen and Leadville are particularly good areas for high mountain passes, with each area boasting more than a dozen classic passes. Rocky Mountain National Park has some rugged gems, such as the challenging McHenry’s Notch. And for sheer beauty, the passes in the San Juans are often flush with wildflowers and rolling carpets of colorful alpine grasses.

Pass bagging may be a niche quest in contrast to 14ers, or even 13ers, but like other adventures, it can be addicting. Chances are, if you’ve spent any time in the mountains, you already have a few passes under your belt. Pass bagging is broader in scope than the 14ers and is an ideal task to complete over the course of a few years — and gives yet more reasons to explore different parts of Colorado. Not many people have heard of Virginius Pass or Three Step Pass, and that is part of the allure.

Beyond the heavily trodden trails await a collection of unique destinations that are worthy goals for those ready to look beyond the mountaintops.

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This would be an excellent week to head down to Pucón, Chile and hire a daredevil to fly you in a helicopter into the caldera of the active Villarrica volcano, whereupon you would bungee-jump out of the copter down to within 700 feet of the molten lava. If that’s too extreme or expensive for your tastes, I urge you to come up with a milder adventure that will still bring you a close encounter with primal heat and light — and maybe even some divine fire.e

TAURUS

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As a mouse looks for food or shelter, it is flexible enough to fit through a hole as small as a quarter of an inch. You would really benefit from having a talent like that right now, Taurus. Of course, even if you are as slippery and pliable as you’ll need to be, you will also have to be on high alert for the inviting possibilities, some of which may be brief or subtle. For example, let’s say you spy an interesting-looking person with whom you’d love to chat.

The window of opportunity may be open for less than ten seconds. Seize that moment! Refuse to get hung up in shyness. Don’t convince yourself that another chance will come along later.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

One of my Gemini acquaintances, Tara, has been playing a slow-moving game of tag with three friends since they were all in second grade together. They’re 27-years-old now, and still live in the same city. Currently, Tara is “It,” and has been so for quite some time. But she confided in me that she plans to make a move this week. She says she’ll sneak up on one of the other players during his lunch break at work, tag him, and run away before he can tag her back. I told her she’s likely to meet with success, since this is an excellent time for you Geminis to gain an advantage in pretty much any kind of game you’re playing.

CANCER

June 21-July 22:

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know,” wrote philosopher Eric Hoffer. This is a good idea for you to contemplate right now. I realize it may be a challenge for you to figure out what you would rather not know and are afraid to know and might even be allergic to knowing. Still, I hope you’ll make the effort. Maybe you could enlist a smart ally who’d be skillful in helping you uncover the taboo truth. And maybe you could formulate an intention to be as objective as you’ve ever been.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Biologists say there are 680 species of trees and shrubs in the U.S. and Canada. By comparison, Lambir Hills National Park on the island of Borneo is the home of 1,175 species on its 128 acres. I suspect you will feel right at home in places like Lambir Hills in the coming week, Leo. Your own creative urges will be running hotter than usual, and are most likely to thrive in contexts that are themselves teeming with lush fertility and rich diversity.

Please surround yourself with inspirational influences, thereby giving yourself the best possible chance to express yourself with vivid imagination.

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“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home,” wrote philosopher Dagobert D. Runes. Your assignment, Virgo, should you choose to accept it, is to refute that assertion. In other words, I’m inviting you to travel to all of your usual haunts and treat everything that happens there with the attitude of a first-time visitor. Just assume that the familiar people and places in your life have stimulating gifts to give and lessons to impart. Remember, though, they can’t do that to the fullest unless you expect them to.

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Gamblers love astrology! Get in touch. — Sagittarian Wheeler Dealer.” Dear Wheeler Dealer: Thanks for your interest, but I’ll pass. I don’t like to encourage anyone to focus their gambling urges on trivial matters like card games, sports events, and lotteries. I prefer they direct that mojo to high-minded stuff like daring themselves to excel, pursuing exciting and idealistic adventures, and doing brave things to help save the world. By the way, it’s prime time for you Sagittarians to ratchet up your commitment to those kinds of gambles.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

I hope you’re not so perversely attached to your demons that you’re inclined to keep providing them with a comfortable home. Why? Because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to permanently banish them from the premises. Yes, I know it may seem lonely at first without their nagging, disruptive voices chattering away in your head. But I really do encourage you to bid them adieu. By the way, as you plan your exorcism, you might want to include a humorous touch or two. They’re allergic to satire and mockery, you know.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

The Beauvais Cathedral in northern France has been called “the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture.” Its soaring facades, carved wooden doors, stained glass windows, and astronomical clock demonstrate high artistry. There’s a problem with the place, however — it has never been completed. Work began in the year 1225, and experts are still talking about how to solve certain ongoing difficulties with its construction. I don’t know when this happy ending will occur, Aquarius, but I do expect that in 2012 you will be able to put the finishing touches on your own personal version of the Beauvais Cathedral. And now would be a good time to formulate definite plans to do so.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

In my prayers, I’ve been negotiating with the Goddess to grant you the power to change the course of rivers, at least in a metaphorical way. I’ve also beseeched her to show you how to overthrow the Puppet Master and convert overwrought hawks into savvy doves. The Goddess seems to be seriously considering these appeals and has even hinted she might offer you instructions on how to shape a new Adam out of one of Eve’s ribs, mythically speaking.

In return, she does have one request: that you do what you can to make sure the sun rises on schedule for the next 10 days.

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Does pain have you feeling alone during the colder winter months?

December Community Drive DONATE 3 CANS OF FOOD: RECEIVE A MEDIBLE OR J! DONATE A NEWER COAT OR NEW TOY ($10 VALUE): RECEIVE ENTRY TO WIN A $50 GIFT CARD ON 12/31/2011

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