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news & views Is Nablus Boulder’s sister? / 5 Think carefully before choosing next sister city

by Paul Danish Industry doesn’t give a frack / 5 Valuing clean drinking water over profits should be a no-brainer

by Pamela White On the cover: Behind the GMO curtain / 9 Big Ag threatens war on Boulder County

by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer

buzz Season’s greetings / 18 Pianist George Winston’s music changes with the weather

by Cory O’Brien Arts & Culture: BETC and Avenue Theater give the gift of laughter / 23 Overtones: Greg Harris of SuperCollider brings vibes to the front / 25 Overtones: Garage A Trois brings eclectic styles to Boulder / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Screen: Young Adult; The Sitter / 37 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 38 Cuisine: Strange bacon / 40 Cuisine Review: Korea House / 41 Elevation: High five: Colorado’s best skiing moments / 47

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departments Letters: GM no! / 4 The Highroad: A tiny bug spreads happiness / 4 In Case You Missed It: Support the homeless! (Just not here) / 7 Boulderganic: Contesting the rules of roadlessness / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 50 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

staff 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 15, 2011 Volume XIX, Number 19 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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GM no!

(The following is an open letter to the Boulder County commissioners.) I am a Boulder chiropractor, live in Boulder County and have attended two Boulder County cropland policy meetings which invited public comment concerning GMO agriculture on Boulder County publicly owned open space land. The first meeting was early in the 2000s, and the last was Thursday night. Both of these meetings were very similar, except Thursday’s meeting was bigger and there were proportionately more people attending this meeting from the agricultural community. Also, before Thursday night, the sustainable agriculture community had presented the commissioners their own sustainable agriculture policy that converts Boulder County open space farmland into organic farms dedicated to feeding the people of Boulder County rather than growing chemical-based GMO cash crop exports.

Both sides of the GMO issue were presented in the same way as before. The farmers said GMOs are safe and effective, and their suppliers are good guys that are helping them control weeds, increase their yields and feed the world. The sustainable agriculture community said GMOs have not been proven safe and effective by anyone, and that GMO suppliers are known, unethical business giants that own government and agricultural education, prevent independent GMO research, and themselves, have not demonstrated GMOs are safe and effective. The arguments for and against

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GMO agriculture has not progressed any over that last 10 years or so, except Boulder County residents are expressing more interest in sustainable, Boulder County agriculture. Also, the Boulder County farmers are now recruiting other farmers from outside Boulder County to help them stand up for GMOs. If you are planning to finalize the Boulder County Open Space Cropland Policy any time soon, I suggest you consider the interests of your constituents rather

The Highroad

reat news, people: a hot spot of nine-spotted ladybugs has been spotted in Amagansett, N.Y.!

This uplifting story is a rich organic mixture of state pride, nature’s resilience, America’s scientific pluck, teamwork, serendipity and bug love. In today’s hard times, we need this.

Let’s start with the bug. This ladybug is the classic Coccinellidae beetle, with exactly nine black spots on its red back. A benevolent and delightful creature, it’s beloved by everyone from children to farmers — so beloved that it is the Official Insect of New York State. Sadly (and somewhat embarrassingly), however, this state official had vanished entirely from the state that honored it, with the last recorded sighting in New York being 29 years ago. Apparently a victim of competition from imported Asian and European ladybug species, as well as pesticides and the loss of habitat, 4 December 15, 2011

than the interests of a small number of GMO farmers. Otherwise, you will be trading the good faith of the majority of your constituents for the friendships and other benefits you have developed in the GMO and non-sustainable agriculture industry and their lobby. If you could delay finalization of the cropland policy for just a bit longer, I suggest you take matters into your own hands and perform the due diligence that should have been done 10 years ago and certainly before Thursday night’s

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A tiny bug spreads happiness

by Jim Hightower only 90 of the native nine-spotteds have been seen in all of North America in the past decade.

But since 2000, a team of diligent Cornell University entomologists and volunteers have kept up the search through Cornell’s Lost Ladybug Project.

The searchers persisted, even when New York’s legislators tried in 2006 to abandon the bug that seemingly had abandoned their state. Luckily, though, leg-

meeting. Contact the GMO suppliers and ask them for independent scientific research proving that their agricultural products are safe and effective. Ask for animal and human feeding studies, and environmental studies. Ask them to produce scientific proof that the long-term increasing concentrations of agricultural chemicals within our environment from the continued release of these chemicals see LETTERS Page 5

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islative inertia killed that effort to replace the state insect, and the Ladybug Project kept faith and kept looking.

Then, this summer, lo and behold, a volunteer spotted one sitting pretty as you please in a patch of sunflowers on an organic farm in Amagansett. About 20 more were subsequently found on the farm amidst rows of carrots, beans and flowers — enough for the project to establish a reproducing colony, while also building confidence that more will be discovered.

To keep up with this bit of good bug news, go to www.lostladybug.org.

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Is Nablus Boulder’s sister?

by Paul Danish

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ccording to a story in last Sunday’s Camera, a group has emerged that wants to establish a sister city relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus.

Lovely city, Nablus.

On Sept. 11, 2001, as 3,000 people were being cremated in jet fuel or ground into bits of bloody hamburger by the collapsing towers of the World Trade Center, the residents of Nablus

were staging a howling, horn-honking, ululating celebration of the attacks and passing out trays of tea and sweets to the celebrants.

Guy Benintendi, the activist who came up with the sister city idea, is organizing a “Boulder-Nablus Strategic Planning Conference,” which will be held in Nablus Dec. 27-28.

“Part of the City Council’s requirements for approving a sister city relasee NABLUS Page 6

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into our soil, water, air and food, will not poison us, our soil, our water and our air.

Ask the people of Boulder County to help you compile your list of questions. I am sure they would appreciate your efforts to research the ethics of the GMO industry and the citizenship grade you give them on their report card.

Please make sure the GMO and chemical-based agriculture research you receive is good enough for you and for the people of the county before continuing the county’s current non-sustainable agricultural practices or adopting any non-sustainable cropland policy. Otherwise, please adopt a sustainable agriculture policy that is consistent with your agricultural mission policy: “To promote and provide for sustainable agriculture in Boulder County for the natural, cultural and economic values it provides.”

Ethically, the burden-of-proof that GMO and non-sustainable agricultural practices are safe and effective should not belong to the sustainable agriculture community, but it belongs to those who authorize GMO and non-sustainable agricultural practices. In Boulder County, this burden-of-proof belongs to you. The liabilities from continuing Boulder Weekly

Boulder County’s non-sustainable agricultural practices without due diligence belong to you. The liabilities for approving a non-sustainable cropland policy without performing this due diligence belong to you. At this time, with the growing collective awareness on corporate and political corruption and the concerns Boulder County residents are expressing about Boulder County open space farmland agricultural practices, I suspect there will be considerable assets and liabilities for you to consider. Please, let’s get big money and big politics out of this debate and act in the best interest of Boulder County and its residents.

Thomas D. Groover/Superior

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by Pamela White

s Colorado struggles with the increasingly pressing issue of fracking — short for hydraulic fracturing — news comes from Wyoming that fracking has been linked to groundwater pollution for the first time.

Residents who have the misfortune of living near fracking operations, where a compound of water, sand and chemicals is injected under high pressure into the ground to break rock and free gas and oil deposits, have long reported changes to their groundwater.

Predictably, their claims have been brushed off by the gas and oil industry and government. But this may change.

Just before this week’s Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission decision to approve rules requiring the disclosure of fracking fluids, on Thursday, Dec. 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shared its findings that chemicals related to fracking had been found in the groundwater near Pavillion, Wyo. EPA officials blamed the contamination on leaking pits, shoddy well casings and poor cement jobs. According to the report, the chemicals found in the water include: benzene, a known carcinogen; toluene, which though not believed to be a carcinogen is nevertheless classified as a hazardous pollutant because of its potential impact on the brain; ethylbenzene, another known carcinogen; and xylenes, exposure to which can cause both short- and long-term health problems, including fetal damage.

Have a nice, deep drink of that when you’re thirsty. Give some to your toddler.

Use it to brew your grandma a soothing cup of herbal tea. Or not.

While environmentalists say the EPA report proves there’s an urgent need to review regulations nationwide concerning fracking — and to demand greater disclosure and accountability regarding the chemicals used in fracking — the oil and gas industry is trying to downplay the EPA report, claiming there’s no proof the chemicals the EPA found came from fracking.

Meanwhile, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, a Republican, criticized the EPA’s findings, calling them “scientifically questionable” and warning that the

report could have an adverse affect on the oil and gas industry and thus his state’s economy. He’s marching lockstep with the GOP, which is fighting in Congress to kill The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, or FRAC Act, which would bring fracking under the regulations of the Safe Drinking Water Act — if it could find its way out of committee.

What Mead and the GOP don’t seem to realize is that there is no economy whatsoever without safe drinking water. Human beings need certain things to live. Safe, clean drinking water ought to trump the needs of any industry or any state’s economy. It’s suicidal, even homicidal, for any industry to put something as hollow as profit ahead of basic necessities like pollutant-free drinking water.

But the environment impact of fracking is only one piece of a bigger problem. And that bigger problem is this: We’re doing this all backward.

We trust industry, waiting for years, sometimes decades, for proof that a chemical or industrial process is harmful, rather than placing the burden on industry to prove that it isn’t.

Imagine if plastic manufacturers had been forced to prove decades ago that phthalates and BPA were safe before foisting them on a trusting public. There would be fewer plastics — and fewer estrogenic chemicals, which have been tied to a host of cancers, including breast cancer. Imagine if Monsanto had been required to prove that GMOs, Roundup and its other products were safe. At the very least, we’d have no Roundupresistant super-weeds. Imagine if the cigarette industry had been forced to prove that cigarettes didn’t cause cancer.

It would be a different world.

Some say that hamstringing industry in this way would not only damage our economy, but also result in the United States falling behind other nations scientifically and technologically. There may be some truth in that.

But right now we let greed lead.

That’s why a governor can get away with telling the press that we shouldn’t get too worked up about the cancer-causing chemicals in the groundwater because there’s money to be made.

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NABLUS from Page 5

tionship is demonstrating strong citiblood. myth that they are not anti-Semitic, zen-to-citizen support and involve“Another part of the exhibit gloribut merely anti-Zionist and anti-Israel, ment,” said Essrea Cherin, a Boulder fied the ‘martyrs’ who carry out suicide and pump out a river to anti-Semitic resident who is helping to lead the operations shown with a Koran and propaganda that might as well have group, according to the Camera. “So Kalishnikov in hand. A third section come out of Julius Streicher’s paper Der meeting with our partners in Nablus is depicted a Palestinian behind a rock Sturmer. In fact, some of it is clearly critical to our being able to establish placed in front of a mannequin of an plagiarized from there. Presumably those relationships.” ultra-Orthodox Jew, with a taped their student acolytes at An Najah are She also said the group plans to use recording broadcast on the loudspeakers cool with that. its time in Nablus to meet with officials saying ‘O believer, there is a Jewish man The ADL says the council “is at An Najah National University. behind me. Come and kill him.’” known for its advocacy of anti-Israel Lovely university, An violence and its recruitment of Najah.

Palestinian college students According to an entry at into terrorist groups,” and that the Anti-Defamation League’s it “glorifies suicide bombings Lovely city, Nablus: a bubbling database, a few weeks after the and propagandizes for jihad 9/11 attacks, students at the against Israel.” Hamas has cesspool of anti-Americanism, university put up a display celdescribed An-Najah as a ebrating one of the “greenhouse for martyrs.” anti-semitism and jihad.

Palestinians’ most infamous As for the Nablus city terrorist attacks in Israel — government, 13 of the 15 the suicide bombing of the members of the city council Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, The exhibit was so rank that is was are affiliated with Hamas. They were which had occurred on Aug 9, 2001. It closed down a few days after it opened elected in 2005. There haven’t been any killed 15, including half a dozen chil— not by the university administration elections in Nablus or anywhere else in dren, and wounded 130 more. This is but on orders from Yasser Arafat, who the West Bank since then, because the how the display was described: was concerned by the potential for inter- Palestinian Authority lives in deathly “According to reports in the Israeli national blow-back in the wake of 9/11. fear that Hamas would win them. media and the Associated Press, the The ADL describes the An Najah Over the years Nablus has provided exhibition was comprised of a series of student council as “comprised of stumore than its fair share of assorted rooms. The Sbarro section of the exhib- dent groups known to be affiliated with human bombs and garden-variety terit was replete with body parts and pizza Hamas and Islamic Jihad.” rorists to the Palestinians’ assorted slices strewn across the room. The walls Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have jihads. The most recent turned up in were painted red to represent spattered largely dispensed with maintaining the south Tel Aviv on Aug. 28 of this year.

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His name was Muhammad Sa’afan, and he was trying to attack an Israeli nightclub with 1,000 teenagers inside.

Security stopped him, but not before he ran down two policemen with a stolen taxi and stabbed six other cops and club guards.

Cherin says the sister cities group’s trip to Nablus is an “essential, required step” because getting things done in Middle Eastern culture is based on making strong personal relationships.

Strong, personal relationships, with the folks at An Najah U., huh? Boy, that’s reassuring.

Cherin says that the Sister Cities group wants to talk with officials from An Najah about using technology to connect students in Boulder with students in Nablus. It kind of makes you wonder what’s going to come out of that pipe — and if the sister cities group plans to file an environmental impact statement before opening it.

We can have a long conversation about how Nablus and An Najah University got to be the way they are, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are what they are: Bubbling cesspools of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and jihad.

With sisters like that, you’re better off if you’re an only child.

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Support the homeless! (Just not here) The Boulder Homeless Shelter’s Housing First program taps into federal dollars to provide housing to the chronically homeless. The idea is that by getting transients off the street, you give them the stability they need to drag themselves out of their ruts and better their lives. In theory, it’s an easy idea to support, but one of the problems officials run into is finding landlords who are willing to take tenants with such checkered pasts and unstable futures.

So Housing First decided to bypass the middleman and build their own housing complex in North Boulder, where they could shelter the chronically homeless without dealing with nervous landlords. But neighbors of the proposed development showed up at the Dec. 13 Boulder City Council meeting to protest the building by dressing in white shirts. Proponents of the idea dressed in black shirts.

Hmmm.

Residents at the meeting claimed to be concerned about “lack of public process,” according to news reports from the meeting, but their reasoning is more than transparent: It’s OK to help homeless people; just don’t do it in my backyard.

It’s easy to criticize the North Boulder residents for being heartless, but considering the mindset (and socioeconomic status) of this city, who in Boulder would enthusiastically sign off on this in their ’hood?

Seems like yet another Boulder example of talking the talk and not walking the walk.

But unless a neighborhood steps up and welcomes Housing First’s building with open arms, we’re withholding judgment. A little public debate never hurt anybody.

Occupy this We’re glad to see that the county commissioners are not bringing down the hammer immediately on the Occupy Boulder tent dwellers camped in front of the courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall.

Sure, the commissioners have to try to treat everyone equally when it comes to rules about camping, but sometimes exceptions should be made, and this is one of those times. It may be putting the commissioners in an awkward position to have to pick and choose which situations deserve a hard-line stance, but Boulder Weekly

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hey, that’s why they were elected, to use good judgment.

Too bad the campers are still subject to the city’s idiotic camping ordinance, which requires the occupiers to take shifts sleeping so that someone can remain on alert to ensure that cops don’t

catch anyone with their eyes closed, God forbid.

How many people camping on the Pearl Street Mall would it take for the county and city to reconsider their rules when it comes to things like constitutionally protected assembly and home-

lessness? What if it were 100 people?

1,000? 10,000?

It will be interesting to see if this Occupy movement gains momentum when the weather improves in the spring, and what the government’s response is.

At some point, thanks to our founding fathers (and in no small part due to our right to bear arms), our elected officials must listen to the people — or face expulsion, one way or another.

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Behind the GMO curtain Big Ag threatens war on Boulder

Had

Keith Tucker

Dorothy and her dog stumbled into the Dec. 8 county commissioners meeting, where the issue of genetically modified crops on open space was the topic, she might have uttered the line, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Boulder any more.” And for good reason.

From the giant, green John Deere tractors parked at the entrance of the Longmont Convention Center like a couple of General Patton’s Shermans to the sea of green hats on the heads of hundreds of overalled and plaid-shirted farmers inside, it was clearly not your average Boulder County Commissioners gathering. The gauze skirts and creatively haired intellectuals were badly outnumbered this time around. But how to explain such a scene in a county where the number of organic tofu eaters on any given day dwarfs the number of active farmers, which is estimated at less than 800 total?

The meeting in Longmont was the final opportunity for public input into the county’s decision on whether it should allow six farmers to plant GM sugar beets on 960 acres of Boulder County open space. At previous cropland policy meetings where public comment was permitted, the anti-GMO crowd clearly had greater numbers than those from the pro-GMO agriculture faction.

So where exactly did that room full of green hats sporting the acronym F.A.I.R. come from, and what does F.A.I.R. mean, anyway? For a supposed grassroots farming organization that turned out in force for the purpose of influencing a decision by county government, getting the full story on F.A.I.R. was a surprisingly difficult task.

But it revealed that some powerful people are threatening Boulder County’s state funding if the GMO issue doesn’t go their way.

Boulder Weekly reporters interviewed more than 15 people at the meeting wearing the green F.A.I.R. hats, but not one person knew what the acronym they proudly had on their head meant. Some took a crack at it. One said, “Farmers at Integrated Research.” Turns out he was sort of close. Several offered, “Farmers Against …” before dawning a blank stare brought on by the difficulty of confronting the mysterious undefined I.R. written on their headgear. Another spit out the prophetic “Farmers against you,” but most just shrugged their shoulders.

Finally, in a room next door, where F.A.I.R. had met

Road, says that after the hearing, he shot off a scathing email to the Colorado Farm Bureau saying they hadn’t done enough. A group of no more than 10 local farmers began meeting at his house, Miller says, and that group began rallying their farmer friends and others to get a big turnout at the Dec. 8 event.

“I wore down three cell phone batteries the day before the hearing,” he says.

“The blogs say the whole thing was orchestrated by Monsanto, and it’s just not true. This was a farmer-generated response. When you start threatening somebody’s livelihood … Some are thirdand fourth-generation farmers, and there’s a lot of emotional feelings, and there gets to be a point in time when you say enough’s enough.”

He describes the acronym “F.A.I.R.” and the name Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources as kind of a lastminute decision.

“At the tail end, we felt like we needed to come up with a name, and we felt like we were being treated unfairly, so we chose that,” Miller says. “It’s not a formal, organized group, but we had to stand for something, so that’s what we chose.”

He adds that “integrated resources” is “a catch-phrase for trying to make everything co-exist.”

Miller and his son Scott paid for the hats, he says, and they paid for renting the room next door to the Longmont conference room where the hearing was held.

Still, the influence of Big Ag in the Boulder County GMO fight is beginning to show itself. Monsanto and other Big Ag fingerprints have been left here and there.

A bulletin board in the room listed many F.A.I.R. “sponsors,” including Monsanto, Syngenta, Colorado Farm Bureau, Colorado Corn Growers Association, Western Sugar Cooperative, plus approximately 30 farmers.

Miller says the long list of F.A.I.R. “sponsors” posted at the hearing did not actually give money, but gave permission for their name to be associated with the effort.

However, information obtained by Boulder Weekly shows that the Colorado Corn Growers Association placed the slick, full-color ads supporting GMOs that have been running in local newspapers. The ads say they were paid for by F.A.I.R. In 2009, Boulder Weekly uncovered the fact that dietician Mary Lee Chin had been paid by the Colorado

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earlier in the day, two employees of the Colorado Farm Bureau finally solved the riddle of the acronym. If the guys from Farm Bureau are correct — and there are several reasons to believe they are — then F.A.I.R stands for Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources.

It appears that the enthusiastic grassroots organization that turned out last week in support of GMOs on open space exists primarily in hat form.

‘treated unfairly’

Dick Miller, a member of the Boulder County Food and Agriculture Policy Council (FAPC), says that F.A.I.R. was a response to the fact that the Nov. 15 joint public comment hearing by the FAPC and the county Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee (POSAC) was dominated by the anti-GMO crowd.

“That pretty well fried my ass,” he says.

Miller, a farmer who leases county open space land for his Rock Creek Farm near Hwy. 287 and Dillon

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Farm Bureau to speak in favor of GMOs at a July 23, 2009, POSAC meeting regarding the sugar beet proposal.

But Miller and Colorado Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Troy Bredenkamp say they know of no one who was paid to speak to the commissioners, aside from regular employees of companies like Monsanto and Bayer.

Behind the curtain

“Our biggest concern is the welfare of our members and the welfare of agriculture in Colorado,” he says.

“Taking away a tool such as biotech would severely impact our industry, even if it was just in these 900 acres, because the moment you start not being able to produce as much, it all adds up. It may be one bushel, which could feed one more cow here, which could feed one more mouth here or abroad.”

Miller, the farmer, agrees that the commissioners’ upcoming decision on Dec. 20 is not just about those 960 acres where sugar beets are farmed.

“This is not a Boulder County issue,” he says. “It has far-reaching implications for agriculture across the U.S.”

consumers alike genetically modified food.”

CropLife America still exists today and may have found its way into the Boulder County GMO fight by way of a couple of its favorite politicians.

At its Oct. 27 annual meeting and awards ceremony in Washington D.C., CropLife America presented its “State Legislative Award” to two elected officials, both coincidentally from the GMO battleground state of Colorado. The winners were Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) and Sen. Greg Brophy (R-Wray). Rep. Sonnenberg’s connection to CropLife America took on more significance when Boulder Weekly discovered an ominous tweet from the representative dated Nov. 19, which read, “In Farm Bureau Policy discussion at their Slippery slope annual convention. Just passed policy to defund Boulder The many out-of-county farmers who attended County if they dictate how to farm.” It should be noted Thursday’s meeting came because they have been conthat Sonnenberg is a majority member of the powerful vinced that Boulder County is the battleground for the House Appropriations Committee. For his part, Sen. future, the edge of the proverbial slippery slope. If our Brophy sits on the Senate Finance Committee, among others. (For more on the threat to “defund” photo composite Boulder County, see story at right.)

So while the farmers and their solidarity on this issue exhibited at the recent meeting were quite real, the organization depicted on the green hats was merely an illusion, something more akin to the floating green head of the Wizard who screamed “silence” at Dorothy and her pals, sending kids scurrying behind the couch. When it comes to F.A.I.R. and the Dec. 8 well-orchestrated appearance of mass support for planting GMOs on county open space, as in Oz, there may be hands working the levers behind the curtains.

Many of the farmers at the meeting had drivDec. 8 GMO meeting en great distances to support their Boulder in Longmont County peers. They came from east and west, from Nebraska to Mesa County. It was a regional show of force. But why would people come so far to fight for the opportunity of six farmers to plant GMO sugar beets on 960 acres of Boulder County open space? Because it’s not just about Boulder County. It’s about precedence and fear.

Nick Colglazier, public policy director for state affairs at Farm Bureau Colorado, rallied the farm troops on an agricultural radio show called the BARN, urging farmers everywhere to attend the Dec. 8 meeting and speak.

“Are [GMOs] completely safe?” he told radio host Brian Allmer. “Probably not, because nothing in this world is completely safe. …

Unfortunately, these people have a very antiGMO stance, and they’re very ready to let people know and push their agenda onto other people.”

When asked why people around the state or nation county commissioners say “no” to GMOs on 960 acres, should be concerned about little old Boulder County, then what is to prevent any government entity anywhere Colglazier said, “This could set some very, very large from saying “no” to GMOs? Much of the farming comprecedent. The ramifications for this are much larger munity is convinced that their very way of life will be than just our farmers in Boulder County. This could be taken from them if they fail to stop the anti-GMO seen sparking debates and sparking new regulations movement right here, right now, in Boulder County. In across the country for places that would like to see bioone interview after another in the lobby of the conventech crops banned not on just public land that’s owned tion center, the sentiment was the same: If the antiby the county, but they would like to ban them comGMO activists win here, I’m next. It is a fear shared by pletely outright.”

Big Ag. In the BARN interview, Colglazier even took credit Consider what happened in 2003 when another for a pro-GMO petition created by F.A.I.R., saying, county government, Mendocino County, Calif., became “We’ve actually set up an online petition. We would real- the first government to attempt to prevent the planting ly encourage anybody who can’t be there to share their of GMO crops on its property as well as on private voice, share their support, so that we can have their name lands. The opposition was more obvious in Mendocino down and show that to the Boulder County commisCounty because, unlike in Boulder County, the citizens sioners.” were allowed to vote on the issue — and where there is But he downplayed the Farm Bureau’s involvement voting, there is a money trail. in the effort in a subsequent interview with Boulder Under the guise of a group called CropLife America, Weekly. biotech and chemical companies including Monsanto, “F.A.I.R. was completely developed by the farmers of Dupont and Dow spent nearly $700,000 in a failed Boulder County,” Colglazier says. “We had nothing to attempt to defeat the county’s effort to go GMO-free. do with F.A.I.R.” That’s a lot of money in a county with only 87,000 peoHe also backpedaled on the wide-ranging impacts ple at the time. It turned out to be $55 for each “no” the decision could have outside Boulder County. vote.

“I don’t know if we view it as a threat necessarily,” In a 2003 interview with Boulder Weekly, Doug Colglazier says. “It’s taking away somebody’s right, it’s Mosel, then campaign coordinator for GMO-Free just as absurd as taking away somebody’s right to proMendocino, said, “The amount of opposition and the duce crops organically.” level of spending to defeat such a measure is some indiWhen asked if it would set a dangerous precedent, cation of the desperation of the bio-ag industry to take there was an 11-second pause. control of the food system, and to force on farmers and 10 December 15, 2011

Joined at the top

To understand the connections within Big Ag, you must understand the structure of the Farm Bureau system, which is a membership organization for farmers that provides services such as insurance, lobbying and educational opportunities. It is an extremely powerful political force in rural America. As a trusted advisor to the agricultural community, the Farm Bureau system has also become a significant partner and pitchman for Big Ag’s major players.

The organization is a giant umbrella. Every county has a Farm Bureau made up of local farmers. All of the counties fall under the umbrella of their state organizations, such as the Colorado Farm Bureau, and the states are each a part of the national organization, The American Farm Bureau Federation. The Farm Bureau system is no small player.

In fact, one of the more interesting connections between the Farm Bureau, Monsanto, Dupont, John Deere and other major agriculture players is a newly formed organization called the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), which describes its mission as a “collaboration to lead the dialogue and answer American’s questions about how we raise food.”

Translation: The USFRA has launched a $30 million campaign to convince us that our food is safe. In other words, GMOs, pesticides and antibiotics in meat, etc., are a good idea and perfectly safe. In another example of just how important the Farm Bureau is to the Big Ag agenda, Bob Stallman, the current president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, was also named as the president of USFRA. But why now? What has triggered this need to spin the food safety debate?

In a report for Grist examining why the USFRA had come to exist, Anna Lappe went straight to the heart of the matter by asking a representative from Ketchum, the public relations firm hired by the USFRA, why the major ag players had come together. The answer was short: “Food Inc., and movies like it.”

Monsanto and others, including the Farm Bureau, have also created their own controversial television series on agriculture. Controversial in that those who are trying to prevent its airing on public television claim it puts forward an unduly positive image of industrial agriculture.

What this web of financial and political connections see GMO Page 11

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Lawmaker’s tweet: County funds threatened if GMOs banned

by Jefferson Dodge

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Farm Bureau policy discussion at their annual convention. Just passed policy to defund Boulder County if they dictate how to farm.”

This is a tweet sent by Colorado state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg on Nov. 19 at the annual convention of the Colorado Farm Bureau, one of the agricultural powerhouses involved in generating the huge farmer turnout at the Dec. 8 cropland policy hearing.

It is an apparent threat to state funding for Boulder County, should the commissioners decide to ban or phase out the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on open space land.

Nick Colglazier, the Colorado Farm Bureau’s director of public policy for state affairs, retweeted Sonnenberg’s tweet not once, but twice, from two different Twitter accounts.

But for some reason, he couldn’t tell Boulder Weekly what that tweet was about.

“There was no policy to defund Boulder County,” he began. “I’m not sure exactly what you’re referring to.”

When reminded that he retweeted the message twice, Colglazier said, “I don’t recall any policy to defund Boulder County specifically, no.”

When asked what “defund” means, he said, “I don’t know.”

Finally, he recalled that it was Sonnenberg’s tweet. “You would have to contact him on that one,” he said, adding that he doesn’t remember tweeting it because “those few days are kind of a flash in the whole grand scheme of things.”

In response to a question about whether the policy would be explained in the minutes of the meeting, he said, “I don’t know if we would make them public, to tell the truth.”

And when asked if there was anything to hide, Colglazier replied, “No, it’s just that it’s not a governmental, or any other organization that is funded by the government. We are completely private, we are a nongovernmental organization. It’s not that we have anything to hide, but we do have to respect our members in that, so I can’t say that we would let that out, or I can’t say that we wouldn’t. That’s not up to me.”

Colglazier offered to contact Sonnenberg and have him respond to the inquiry. The legislator never did, even though Boulder Weekly also left messages at his home and office num-

bers. Colglazier also referred questions to his Colorado Farm Bureau colleague Brent Boydston, who didn’t return calls either. Neither did Boulder County Farm Bureau President Jules Van Thuyne.

Finally, Boulder Weekly located another Farm Bureau retweeter of the Sonnenberg message, Nathan Weathers of Yuma, who serves as president of the Yuma County Farm Bureau. Weathers laughed when asked about the tweet, then confirmed it meant that if the commissioners end up limiting or banning GMOs — and if there were future legislative efforts to withhold state funding for Boulder County — the

If the commissioners do decide to take away farmers’ rights to grow what they need to grow on that ground, if they’re going to take away people’s rights, then the state can take away money.”

When advised of the tweet and how its intention was described, Boulder County Commissioner Will Toor said he was not aware of the threat.

“I have to say, it sounds rather silly,” he told Boulder Weekly. “If you wanted to make a threat, you’d probably have to communicate that threat to the people you’re making a threat to. I’ve never heard anything like that.

And it’s not the sort of thing I would be worried about. I don’t think that there’s any chance that a majority of the state legislature would decide they’re going to punish an individual county for decisions that a county would make about how they’re going to manage their lands. I just don’t think that’s reasonable.”

Toor added that such —County Commissioner Will Toor a threat wouldn’t make a difference anyway.

“We’re going to make the decision based upon Farm Bureau would support those our assessment of what’s in the best efforts. long-term interests of the people of “One of our members felt strongly Boulder County, and it’s going to be enough that, he thought that if the based on all of the public input county commissioners approved that, we’ve gotten on all sides, the reading we should, if there was legislation that we’ve done in the literature, the came about, defund some of the state analysis we’ve gotten from staff, and money that goes to Boulder County,” the recommendations we’ve gotten he told Boulder Weekly. “That’s not from our three advisory boards.” exact, but basically that’s the gist of it.

County Commissioners Cindy

By Colorado Farm Bureau having that Domenico and Ben Pearlman both policy in our policy book, if sometold Boulder Weekly that they had not thing were to come through the state heard of the threat, either.

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“If you wanted to make a threat, you’d probably have to communicate that threat to the people you’re making a threat to.”

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makes clear is that what is happening in Boulder County is about far more than a vote by our commissioners over the future of GM sugar beets on 960 acres.

For the biggest companies that can only continue to maintain their profits as long as the push towards industrial agriculture — including patented GMO technology — continues, what happens in Boulder County may turn out to be as significant on the political front as Food Inc. was on the educational front.

So when the Farm Bureau votes to “defund Boulder County ” based on its farm policies, and that vote gets celebrated with a tweet out of the meeting by a Colorado politician on the House Appropriations Committee who just so happened to have received a national award by a Big Ag-funded organization with a history of spending Boulder Weekly

big bucks to fight governments opposed to GMOs, it should be taken very seriously.

Monsanto’s take

According to Lisa Drake, Monsanto’s Englewoodbased lead for state and local governmental affairs, her company had nothing to do with generating farmer attendance at the Dec. 8 hearing. She describes the crowd as “one of the biggest turnouts I’ve ever seen. … It absolutely was a grassroots effort.”

Drake says the only people paid by Monsanto to attend were herself and Daniel Goldstein, a senior science fellow for the company who testified. She acknowledged that “a number of people reached out” to the faculty from Colorado State University who defended the use of GMOs at the hearing, but some

“showed up of their own volition.”

She acknowledges that Monsanto and the Farm Bureau share the same interests, but she says there are wildly inaccurate claims about Monsanto, such as the report that the company regularly sues farmers for being in possession of Monsanto seeds that have drifted onto their property through no fault of their own.

“We sure don’t make it a practice of suing our own customers,” Drake says.

She downplayed the idea that a GMO ban on Boulder County open space would set a dangerous precedent for the industry.

“We were there because the farmers asked us to be there, and because there is so much misinformation out there about Monsanto,” Drake says.

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Here are a few ideas that will get your thoughts cooking and will give your friend’s kitchen skills a boost.

Some of these items also have some unexpected benefits and dual purposes that may come in handy.

Cast Iron Skillets These are a popular item around the holidays, according to Pat Rochford of Peppercorn. They are heavy, come in a variety of sizes, and make pretty much everything taste better after a few uses.

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hat do you get for the beer lover in your life that has everything? Or more appropriately, has tried every Kölsch, Baltic porter and barleywine money can buy?

The winter months in Boulder bring about a flush of seasonal beers, each tailor-made to be enjoyed during the cold weather. The holidays also bring a glut of high-gravity seasonal beers, made in small batches and available only until they’re gone.

These are expert-level only: These beers are complexly flavored heavy hitters, not for the inexperienced beer drinker, and should be approached with caution. But should one of your loved ones have a serious hop addiction, you can’t go wrong with one of the beers listed here. And if you have someone in mind who’s a little more adventurous yet still somewhat of a novice, a great entry point into the world of high-gravity beers is Boulder Beer’s Killer Penguin.

Weighing in at a hefty 10 percent alcohol (a regular beer is around 5 percent), Killer Penguin is a barleywine-style ale and is one of the best-known beers from Colorado’s oldest brewery. Yet despite the sophistication and complexity of the ale’s citrustinged, hearty, roasted flavor, Killer Penguin is actually

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Peppercorn carries the Lodge cast iron line, and prices range from $7.50 for a mini skillet to $41 for a 12-inch skillet.

With proper care, these babies will last a lifetime, says Rochford.

An added bonus is the self-defense aspect of a cast iron skillet. Tom and Jerry weren’t exaggerating all that much with the effects of a good swing, and if that zombie apocalypse ever does come, your friend’s new skillet will stop the undead in their tracks and, if swung properly, is guaranteed to keep the family alive at least through breakfast.

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by David Accomazzo pretty easy to drink for a high-gravity beer, making it great for an adventurous beginner. Available only in 22-ounce bombers and for a limited time, Boulder Beer kicks the class up a notch with this one. Each bomber is hand-dipped in wax and affixed with an emblem denoting the vintage (that’s wine-speak for “year made,” if you were wondering). The beer takes three months to make, as opposed to the standard two to three weeks, says brewmaster and part-owner David Zuckerman.

“The time to drink Killer Penguin is with your wife and friends. It’s a snowy night. No one’s going anywhere and you pour some Killer Penguin,” Zuckerman says. “[The flavor] is like peeling an onion. But there are no tears. It’s tears of joy.”

Want a great gift idea? Zuckerman suggests buying five bottles of KP each year and letting them sit in

Any frequent cook will tell you that a good, sharp knife makes a huge difference in the kitchen.

Suddenly slicing a raw potato or beet won’t require half your friend’s body weight to get the blade through, and chopping an onion won’t make them cry as much. Also, if your friend is a little clumsy, sharper knives are actually safer than dull ones — they are less likely to slip, and if they do catch a finger, the cut will be thin and typically less damaging. So, by giving your friends a nice kitchen knife for the holidays, you will not only cut their prep time in half, you will also save them tears and possibly digits.

Peppercorn has a wide variety of knives suited for multiple skill levels.

You can start your friend out on a Zyliss, an affordable option at $8.95 for See KITCHEN Page 14

your fridge. Try one this year, buy five next year, try one from each year, and compare the beer’s flavor from one year to the next as it ages. If Killer Penguin doesn’t appeal, then try one of these other seasonal offerings from local breweries. (All info courtesy of the respective beer company.)

Twisted Pine Brewing Company Name: Northstar Imperial Porter Style: Double Baltic-style Porter Color: Black International bitterness units (IBU): 30-35 Alcohol by volume: 9.1 percent Availability: Winter seasonal Info: Northstar gives off an aroma of toffee and dark fruit laced with licorice. It has notes of chocolate-covered raisins, which harmonize well with subtle traces of roasted nuts and molasses.

Avery Brewing Company Name: Maharaja Style: Imperial IPA Color: Deep Amber See HOPPED Page 14

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a single knife and $14.99 for a set of three. It comes in pretty colors but is still sharp, according to Rochford. You can also send them to the big leagues with a Shun, a brand of knives that gets most cooks drooling and range from $69.95 to $150.

Crockpots and Slow Cookers Crockpots and slow cookers may be old-fashioned, but oh my goodness do they make life easier and tastier. The beauty of a crockpot is that in the morning you just toss in the ingredients you need to make your dish, turn the

setting on low or high, depending on how long you are planning on being gone, and when you return at the end of the day, your house will smell heavenly and dinner will be ready to serve.

These are definitely ideal presents for the busy cook and, if the previously mentioned zombie apocalypse does come around, having a meal ready after a day of trying to stay alive will be very much appreciated by your friend.

Crockpots can be found at McGuckin’s and range from $19.99 to $54.99.

If you feel like getting a little fancier

with your slow-cooker gift, check out the Le Creuset Dutch Ovens at Peppercorn. These are a bit more expensive, ranging from $199 to $250, but they will last for a very long time. If your friend is pretty well-versed in the cooking world, excited shrieking is to be expected with this one.

Accompaniments To go with all this cookware, include a cookbook from the Boulder Bookstore. The shop stocks a wide variety of cookbooks and has a staff picks section for suggestions. The Art of

Simple Food is a helpful book with a lot of easy recipes good for the new cook, and the Healthy Baker or Big Vegan offer a lot of recipes for the gluten-free and vegan cooks. Food 52, a cookbook compiled of the best home-cooked recipes from a contest, is another popular option, says Stephanie Schindhelm of the Boulder Bookstore.

For your locally minded friend, look at Colorado Organic, a cookbook filled with recipes inspired by local and seasonal products.

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Contesting the rules of roadlessness

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to 562,000 acres.

“As opposed to the 2001 rule, the Colorado Roadless Rule is tailored to Colorado’s needs of conserving land areas and encouraging economic development and job growth and continuing use,” a U.S. Forest Service document says about the Colorado Roadless Rule.

Colorado’s rule also provides an exception for the North Fork coal mining area, which includes parts of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, and for ski resorts that may want to expand.

After a 90-day public comment period this summer, the proposed rule was sent to the federal government for approval. That process is expected to conclude in 2012 with a decision on the rule.

The Colorado Environmental Coalition, Colorado Mountain Club, Earthjustice, High Country Citizens Alliance, The Pew Environment Group, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Rocky Mountain Wild, Sheep Mountain Alliance, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Western Colorado Congress, and the Wilderness Workshop have been running ads requesting people to petition President Obama to overturn the state plan.

“Roadless forests are some of the most important areas in the state for our drinking water sources, for wildlife habitat, for backcountry recreation,” says Elise Jones, executive director of Colorado Environmental Coalition.

“These are really some of the gems, and it’s really important that we have the strongest possible protections.”

Now that it’s been defended by the courts, the national roadless rule is the best tool to provide strong protections for the forests, Jones says.

“The vast majority of people who work in forest conservations would prefer not to have a state rule but to have a national rule that covers all the forests so that there’s consistent protections,” Jones says.

There’s a question of how other states might handle their own roadless rules, Steve Smith says, a process that could leave the doors open to development. So far, Idaho is the only other state that has written its own rule.

“Because we have something in hand that’s reliable, that’s solid, that’s good protection, we’re reluctant to give it up for who knows what,” he says. “In Colorado, we do know what’s proposed; that’s why the other half of our message is, if you are going to do a state rule in the name of customizing it, then make sure you get it right.”

These conservation organizations have submitted, both during the public comment period and after, suggestions they argue would strengthen the rule at least to the level of the national rule, such as clarifying the distance from town for wildfire buffer tree-cutting and requiring rehabilitation at construction zones for pipe line and power lines. The Colorado Environmental Coalition has also identified 2.5 million acres that qualify for upper-tier protection.

The conservationist groups have also called out 86 leases that were granted when the Bush administration put a hold on the roadless rule, and asked that those leases add explicit roadless stipulations, which require oil and gas companies to use any possible means to access oil and gas reserves without making a road and to reclaim the area afterward.

“We have to team up to be sure that we’re very clear, as a state, as citizens, as governments, which places are going to get some solid protection,” Steve Smith says. “If there is going to be a state rule, it must be at least as protective as the nationwide rule. It’s got to meet that standard.”

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Week of Dec. 8-Dec. 14 1. Bad seed It’s never easy being a Boulder

County commissioner. In the best of times it’s a cross between housekeeping and playing referee. And then there are times like we’re having now when an emotional issue — in this case the expanded use of genetically modified crops on open space lands — has turned once-routine meetings into something more akin to cage fighting.

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Do you think the county commissioners will approve more GMOs on open space?

• Yes. The bastards. 57% • No. But they should. 14% • Not sure. But I trust them. 14% • W ho cares? We’re all gonna die anyway! 14%

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Do you think Big Ag was behind the huge farmer turnout at last week’s GMO meeting?

• Yes. Big Ag is scared!

• No. I believe those farmers care.

• Not sure. But it was packed!

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ix years ago, in the interest of protecting Colorado’s pristine wilderness areas while the national roadless area rule was being contested in court, the state began development of a roadless rule. Two drafts and 200,000 public comments later, local conservation organizations are now looking to scrap that rule and go back to the national roadless rule, which has since been validated twice by circuit courts, including the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver in October. Not only is a state rule no long necessary, conservation groups say, the Colorado roadless rule doesn’t offer protections for Colorado’s forests that are as strong as the national rule. They’re putting pressure on the Obama administration to block the proposed Colorado Roadless Rule.

“The national rule, because it was so thoroughly prepared and it does include so many thoughtful accommodations for special needs for community safety and good forest management and healthy forest and road building for existing valid rights — because all that stuff is there, roadless areas and Colorado’s other needs are well protected under this newly affirmed national rule, so that’s the standard we need to uphold,” says Steve Smith, president of the board at the Wilderness Workshop.

“The proposed Colorado rule diminishes protections, takes lands out of protection compared to the nationwide rule, so it’s not as strong. … It would end up with Colorado having a rule that was weaker than what other states have.”

Roadless rules provide specific directions for the conservation — in terms of road building, tree cutting and construction zones — of 4.2 million acres of National Forest lands in Colorado and 60 million acres across 39 U.S. states.

In response to criticisms that Colorado’s proposal didn’t offer tight enough protections, the U.S. Forest Service added an “upper tier” designation for lands in need of a high level of conservation. That distinction applies

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Great American Taxi and friends perform at the Mark Vann Foundation benefit concert on Dec. 16.

Thursday, Dec. 15

Matisyahu — Reggae just in time for Hanukkah. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

George Winston

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rowing up in rural Montana, pianist George Winston didn’t have a lot of entertainment options.

“We didn’t have any TV stations growing up,” Winston says.

“And we only had one radio station. The seasons were our entertainment — playing in the leaves in the fall, sledding in winter, baseball in the spring.”

Out of that early isolation, Winston crafted a musical style that evokes Eastern Montana at every turn. From the stark, plaintive beauty of winter on the frigid plains to the bouncy jubilance of the first spring thaw, Winston’s compositions are deeply rooted in the rustic landscape of his childhood.

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Nutcracker Tea — A benefit for the Boulder Ballet. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Even today, Winston is most commonly known for his early records dedicated to the seasons. Autumn (1980), Winter Into Spring (1982), December (1982) and Summer (1991) were love letters not just to the seasons but to the landscape that made the seasons such an integral part of Winston’s development. In a land of such extremes, everything, even music, can be easily described by what season it resembles most.

“Even when I was a boy, I would hear a song on the radio and say, ‘Oh, that’s an autumn song,’ or ‘That’s a spring song,’” Winston says. “I never knew what genre anything was supposed to be. I think genres are imaginary. It’s an arbitrary nicksee WINSTON Page 20

Monday, Dec. 19

Brad Goode Jazz Quartet — Tradjazz in a coffee shop. Bring your Nietzsche book. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Tuesday, Dec. 20

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5:50-7 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

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name of songs that sound remotely like each other. To me, a song always sounded like itself.”

The seasons weren’t the only form of entertainment for young George Winston — he also had his record collection. He is no longer content to just listen to the records, however. In order to fully appreciate an album, he says he now has to play it himself, and try to make it work with his voice.

“When I was a kid, when I would get into something I would need to get the record,” Winston says. “But now, I need to play it. Of course, I’ll own the record too, but to really get the music, I need to play it on the piano. It’s kind of the next level of being into a record for me, is playing it myself. Sometimes I’ll fail, but even then I learn something from trying to play it.”

This approach to music has left Winston with an incredible catalog of songs to pull from. Winston grew up listening almost exclusively to instrumentals and cut his teeth playing songs by jazz pianists such as Fats Waller and Jimmy Smith. But his need to be an active participant in the music he loves has led him to record songs by artists as diverse as Pete Seeger, Sarah McLachlan, Randy Newman and Johann Pachelbel.

That doesn’t even mention the

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three albums Winston recorded dedicated entirely to another artist’s catalog: Linus and Lucy (1996) and Love Will Come (2010), both of which celebrated the music of Peanuts composer Vince Guaraldi, and the 2002 album Night Divides the Day — The Music of The Doors.

The marriage between Winston’s playing and Guaraldi’s music makes perfect sense. In the ’60s, while other teens were getting swept up in the British Invasion, Winston was falling

for the sweet, bouncy, piano-driven jazz standards written by Guaraldi.

These songs dripped with the same nostalgia and melancholic optimism as the Peanuts cartoons — they were simultaneously quirky and sad and uplifting. Winston absorbed Guaraldi’s quirks, his sadness and, most importantly, his optimism into his own music, so that when Winston sits down to play Guaraldi, it sounds like two old friends reunited.

Re-imagining the music of The

Doors, however, proved to be a little more troublesome.

“Sometimes you just have to change it,” Winston says of trying to make a Doors song fit with his style, “because when The Doors played a song, it always sounded like The Doors. … I feel like each song has its essence. I can keep the essence, but sometimes I have to make up an intro or slow it down or change a key, or sometimes it just plain doesn’t work.”

Night Divides the Day finds Winston pushing himself into darker territories. When Winston plays Guaraldi, it sounds like the light, airy sadness of the dying days of summer.

When he plays The Doors, it’s with the impending doom of a brutal December storm.

With Winston, it always comes back to the seasons. Other artists may tour in the winter, but Winston has a Winter Tour, one that is very different from his Summer Tour or his Spring Tour. He carefully chooses a set list that matches the unique mood that accompanies each season. When it comes down to it, Winston is still the same Montana kid at heart — driven by the seasons, lost in his record collection, a solitary man politely pounding at the keys of his obsessions.

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was the week before Christmas, and all through the town, some people means that were up while others were down. its success or failure Some loved the snow and the cold depends almost entirely on the and the lights; some felt the whole performance of the lone actor occupying the thing just wasn’t right. Whether this time of year stage. Geoffrey Kent, a Boulder theater veteran, is makes you joyful or crass, the holidays can be one big more than up to the challenge. He’s played David in pain in the ass. So take a quick break from the candles all three of BETC’s SantaLands, and you can see and and bows, and enjoy a guffaw from these thespian pros. hear the ease with which he slips back into the role.

With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa mere His timing is outstanding, he imbues both the outradays away, I think it’s safe to say that we are smack dab geous and the semi-serious moments with equal crediin the middle of the most wonderful time of the year. bility, and he even improvs adeptly when necessary People can choose to celebrate the birth of Christ, the (like when a reference to a certain Jesus-lovin’ Denver miracle of the oil or the traditions of Africa, or they sports star was met with both cheers and boos from can Scrooge all over the season. Either way, we’re all the crowd). lucky to have so much excelGive credit for SantaLand’s lent yuletide theatre to staying power to director enhance — or distract us from Stephen Weitz as well. With — all the holiday hullabaloo. an annual performance, it’s On the Bill: For the third year in a row, easy to get lazy, but Weitz The SantaLand Diaries (tickets: $15-$24) Boulder’s own Boulder makes just enough tweaks to plays through Dec. 24 at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St. in Boulder.

Ensemble Theatre Company the production to keep it interSanta’s Big Red Sack (tickets: $17-$25) (aka BETC, or “Betsy” when esting and energized. Weitz, plays through Dec. 24 at the Avenue spoken) brings forth the modKent and the rest of the cast Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave. in Denver. ern classic, The SantaLand and crew have given us not Diaries. They say, “Write what only a great night out at the you know,” and The SantaLand theater but also the beginnings Diaries proves the value of that maxim. Years before of a Boulder holiday tradition. fame and fortune came along, then-struggling actor If the trials and tribulations of an elf in SantaLand David Sedaris was forced to take a job as an elf in aren’t really your bag, you might go for the sketch SantaLand at Macy’s in Manhattan. His experiences comedy that is the Avenue Theater Group’s Santa’s Big in the green tights and velvet smock serve as the basis Red Sack. Also in its third year, Santa’s Big Red Sack is for this gut-bustingly funny, warmly Grinchy show. another production seemingly vying for the status of From the moment he decides to apply to be an elf, holly-jolly mainstay, and judging from the complete David (Geoffrey Kent), embraces the surreality of the absence of empty seats and the raucous laughter that experience. As a stoner, he won’t pass the requisite filled the theater from beginning to end, I’d say it’s drug test, right? Wrong. His acid tongue and complete well on its way. disinterest will get him fired during elf training, he The cast — who according to the program have, reasons. Not so much. His first day officially elf-ing in variously, worked together, acted together and/or marSantaLand arrives, and neither he nor the audience ried one another over the course of many years — is can quite believe that he’s actually embarking on a made up of Jane Shirley, Derek Hartman, Jeff Kosloski month-long descent into holiday hell. and Dave Shirley. These four not only sing and act in The SantaLand Diaries is a one-man show, which Santa’s Big Red Sack, but they also wrote it. The show Boulder Weekly

has such a genuine, low-fi feel to it (kind of like a more professional version of the plays you and your cousins used to put on for the rest of the family after Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner) that you can’t help but be sucked in from moment one.

Moment one, in this case, is a rendition of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” in which the expected examples of good will toward men are quickly replaced by some less likely and less savory candidates.

When a show’s opening number marries the charity of Christmastime to druggies, thieves and whores, it’s making a promise that it’s going to go balls out, so to speak, to earn your laughs. Santa’s Big Red Sack keeps that promise and then some.

Christmas and Hanukkah are compared and contrasted in the context of the small subset of Christians who simply can’t understand Hanukkah as anything other than “Jewish Christmas.” Broadway mainstay A Chorus Line gets a North Pole makeover. As one might expect, Jesus makes an appearance, and yes, he’s in fine spirits. We find out what happened to Cindy Lou Who after she grew up and moved out of Whoville, and we even get to hear one character’s comically sublime explanation of how “Christmas” is Spanish for “more Christ.”

I loved everything about Santa’s Big Red Sack!

(Hmm? I’m not sure that came out right. Or that.)

The cast seems to be enjoying the hell out of sending up the holidays. The writing is crisp, the performances strong and the pace brisk. With sketch comedy, you expect some duds, but Santa’s Big Red Sack never sags. Even the costuming astounds. I’ve never seen camouflage choir robes before, and I will never forget them.

Whether you decide to take a trip to SantaLand or cozy up to the big guy’s Big Red Sack, you’ll definitely get what you wanted this Christmas.

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Greg Harris of SuperCollider brings the vibraphone to the front

Super slash Hybrid supergroup Garage A Trois brings eclectic styles to Boulder

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hen vibraphone player Greg Harris took his New World Citizen Quartet out to play a couple of months ago, opening for Baaba Maal at the L2 Arts and Culture Center in Denver, he positioned himself behind a Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee), a 14-key xylophone indigenous to the African nations of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. For an experienced and fluid vibraphone player like Harris, it’s not a huge leap, but then again, the material, the technique and the whole balance between percussive and har-

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Greg Harris Vibe Quintet plays The Laughing Goat on Tuesday, Dec. 20. Show starts at 8:30 p.m. There is a $5 suggested donation. 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

f you’ve been waiting to see jazz/ Garage A Trois plays the Fox Theatre on Friday, Dec. 16. funk/rock group Garage A Trois Doors at 8:30 p.m. Hot Soup in concert, you’ll have to forgive also plays. Tickets are $15 in the quartet for being so busy. advance, with a $2 fee for those under 21. 1135 13th St. in After all, each member is spinBoulder, 303-443-3399. ning multiple plates, which is why they’re so popular in the first place. Yet Skerik wouldn’t have it any other way.

Skerik is the saxophonist who comprises one quarter of the group that also features Marco Benevento, Stanton Moore and Mike Dillon. If those names seem familiar, that’s because they are — with each member representing a diverse, dynamic body of work.

“Variety is the spice of life,” Skerik says, “but it can be kind of a curse as well.

But I don’t think I could get everything I want out of just one band. I’ve always had a bunch of things going at once, so I’ve never tried it any other way. But it just makes sense this way musically. If you love different types of music, then why limit yourself to one kind?”

For example, Skerik says he’s currently putting together a new band with members of Martin, Medeski and Wood, and he mentions three other bands besides Garage A Trois that he’s involved with. Simply put, Skerik’s a player in demand on a number of levels. Certainly the rest of the band could say the same.

Moore is the drummer for Galactic and is busy with a new record there.

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monic instincts were rooted in the cultures the instrument came from.

We asked Harris last week about the experience, and whether or not playing the gyil forced him into a new mode of musical thinking.

“Well,” he says, “one of the main things I learned is that music is all about energy, the energy you put into whatever instrument it is, whether it be melodic, harmonic, percussive or purely rhythmic. That’s one of the things that bridges the gap.

“But you kind of have to get yourself into a little different headset, you have to put yourself into the instrument. Obviously I’m not a West African guy, but I’m very interested in the music and the ethno-music evolution of it ... how it came about.”

Harris relates his first real “lesson” in gyil.

“I was in West Africa, and I was supposed to meet my teacher — his name was Kakraba Lobi, he actually just passed away, a revered master xylophonist from Ghana — I saw him Boulder Weekly

at the university where I was taking a couple of classes. He told me to take the trotro, which is this shabby little bus with a hole in the floor … and get off at this bus stop outside Accra, the capital of Ghana. Then go past the lady who sells pineapples, and his house would be there.

“It actually took me three or four times to find the place, it was monsoon season and it was raining, and all these little kids in the street said they knew where the xylophone teacher lived, and there were all these little monkeys in the alleyway playing with the kids. And I get there, and he has these beautiful daughters and all these monkeys jumping around.

He kind of grumbled a lot, and I couldn’t really understand him, but he sat me down in front of a xylophone right across from him, and he just starts to tear it up and go crazy.

“And then he stopped and said, ‘OK, your turn.’”

But for the time being, Harris may be pushing his more Western music, as his Vibe Quintet released their third CD Glass Gold around the middle of last year, and their label, Dazzle (the label franchise started by the groundzero Denver jazz club of the same name, where Harris is a regular marquee) is making a radio and print promotional push with the release, one of the first of several they plan to release.

The CD has garnered positive press for its silky, post-Miles groove and the transcendent vocal stylings of Venus Cruz, with whom he also gigs in Future Jazz Project.

The Quintet is a well-tenured and musically mature outfit, replete with articulate horns and unafraid to dip into ballads, a hallmark of bands who have grown confident of their material and trusting of their audiences. They are familiar faces at both Dazzle and The Laughing Goat in Boulder, so we

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tried to get Harris (who also plays both rooms with SuperCollider) to compare the two venues, but he wasn’t really comfortable singling out a favorite.

“Well, Denver and Boulder are both great listeners,” Harris says, “Boulder crowds want to have a good time, you just want to play good, honest music for them, and they’ll respond. But … Denver too.”

We recall a quote from a jazz guy — regrettably, we’ve forgotten whom — who once remarked to us that you could tell the quality the crowd by how

well they took to the ballads. Anyone can play hard and flake the plaster from the ceiling and own a crowd with horsepower, but turn it down and slow it down and see if they follow you in.

We asked Harris about that.

“Yeah, I think that’s very telling …

Man, I love playing ballads, but I can tell you that in this day and age, it is harder to pull people in, definitely.

“But, I don’t know. I just love playing jazz vibraphone. It’s about my favorite thing ever.”

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Dillon’s usually busy touring with Les Claypool, Ani DiFranco or Galactic. To say that Garage A Trois is an accomplished group would be an understatement.

Yet when the four finally carve out the time to write some new songs, Skerik says that music flows freely.

Their new album Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil came out last spring and represents a body of work that Skerik describes as greater than what any of the band could do individually.

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When pressed for an example, Skerik mentions the alt-folk of Fleet Foxes as a group of artists making a meaningful stamp on the music scene.

He’s excited about the future of music and where it’s going based on the output of groups like Fleet Foxes and the accessibility to great music today.

“I was watching Fleet Foxes videos last night and this one song was very modal in how the vocals were going over the bass line and guitar, but it was so powerful how he was shaping it,” Skeric says. “It totally reminded me of John Coltrane. It’s basically the same thing, even if they don’t realize that.

But I started looking for this Coltrane song to send to them. That’s an example of how a band can be fun in that way — to put their own stamp out there and develop those things.”

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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, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 29.

Burning Issues — The Fourmile Canyon Fire.

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ing. Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-520-4931. Through Jan. 6.

25th Annual Fine Art Market Show and Sale and Arvada Center Educational Studios. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 18.

Street Cred — Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through Jan. 22.

CU Art Museum — Points of View: Selections from Colorado Collections; The Anxiety of Influence: from CU’s ceramics collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1320. Through Dec. 17.

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Chimney Choir. 7 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Monday, December 19

Gayl Gray’s Vintage & Artistic Homes of Boulder. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

“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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Tuesday, December 20

The Caffeine Forzafied Poets. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

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

Annie Booth. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Erick Crumb’s Psychedelic Jamboree. 9 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Fairview High School Holiday Concert.

7 p.m. Fairview High School Auditorium, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, www.fairviewhs.org/ sites/choir.

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

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

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

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John Statz, Ross Martin & Grant Gordy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Matisyahu. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Mozingo Paradiso. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

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

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Colorado Trail Foundation Holiday Reception. 4-7 p.m. American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, ctf@coloradotrail.org.

Orchestrating Leadership — Hosted by Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Denver Water. 5:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. The Studio Lofts, Ellie Caulkins and Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver, 303-458-0220.

Friday, Dec. 16 music

900 Pound Gorilla Cypher. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Christmas Faves — P’zazz Children’s Choir and Dynamix Singers. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, 720-542-9209.

December Vistas — Christmas with Ars Nova.

7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165.

Eugene Sings the Blues. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, www. boulderindependentbusiness.org.

Festivity. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, Boulder, www.boulderchamberorchestra.com.

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

Hansel & Gretel. Arts Coalition of Erie, 600 Briggs St., Erie, 303-839-2349.

Through Dec. 16.

It’s a Wonderful Life. Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. 7 p.m.

University Theatre, CU campus, 303492-0554. Through Dec. 24.

Phantom. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre,

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

Great American Taxi & Friends. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985.

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

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

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

Paa Kow’s By All Means Band. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Real Life Actual — With Bob Molly and Two Nuts. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036.

Silver & Gold — A Holiday Extravaganza. 7 p.m.

Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.brownpapertickets. com.

Soul 2 Solstice. 7:30 p.m. The Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Blvd., Ste. 1, Boulder, 303-4465108.

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

Stephen Thurston. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000 x4. Through Feb. 18.

The Ride With Santa. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Dec. 18.

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

The SantaLand Diaries. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-665-1841.

Through Dec. 24.

West Side Story. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 992 14th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Jan. 1.

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The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau Colorado. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-450-3985.

Saturday, Dec. 17 music

Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922

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

The Carbon Family. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Christmas Revels — 11th Anniversary Production, with Rocky Mountain Revels. 1 p.m. & 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

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Flamenco Navidad. 7:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.

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

Girls on Top — Bad Santa holiday dance party.

7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Our Labyrinth, Our Journey, Our Community — Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Labyrinth. 11:30 a.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

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Kristina Murray and Two Hearted Jones. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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

Max Wagner. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Power Lung Rangers. 7 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Winter Solstice Concert — With Jayme Stone and friends. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Her Many Voices Haiti Relief Concert — With In Due Time, August on the Equator. 7 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Outdoor Boot Camp. 10 a.m. Take It Out Fitness and Play Boulder Foundation, Boulder City Park, 13th and Arapahoe, Boulder, 573-424-7168.

The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau Colorado. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-450-3985.

Nutcracker Tea — A benefit for the Boulder Ballet. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Richard Lindsay Trunk Show. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Rd., Hygiene, 303-651-1106.

Monday, Dec. 19 music

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

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top Open Stage. 6:30 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.

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

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

“So,You’re a Poet” — Open poetry reading.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Last Chance Gift Fest. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 720-272-7467.

Tuesday, Dec. 20

Our Labyrinth, Our Journey, Our Community — Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Labyrinth. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Sunday, Dec. 18 music

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

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

Kort McCumber & High Road. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Meryl Romer. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Derech Chayim — “A Way of Life” 6 p.m. Boulder’s Rabbinic Council at Har Hashem Congregation, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, contact Jodi for more details at 503-780-7470.

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

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

Blues Jam — With Randall Dubis. 7:30 p.m.

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

Bob’s Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

George Winston. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

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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.

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

Wednesday, Dec. 21 music

Ayo Awasiko. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Noah Peterson. 6 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Santa and Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847.

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

Saturday, December 17 French Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Sunday, December 18 Go Club. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, December 19 Ballet Demo Classes. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Kid’s Hula Dance. 5 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st. St., Boulder, 303-447-2566.

Tuesday, December 20 Discovery Days — Shadows. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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

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

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

White Christmas — Presented by Colorado Caroling Company. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

2012:The Prophecy = 1 Year From Today. 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-264-9895.

Discovery Days — Shadows. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Salsa in Boulder. 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303443-8600.

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

Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-4495962.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, December 15 Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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t’s not easy being mean, as Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody’s latest project, Young Adult — directed by her Juno collaborator, Jason Reitman — goes about illustrating with an intriguing, unsettled blend of pity and pitilessness.

Thirty-seven-year-old borderline alcoholic Mavis Gary, handled with unsentimental aplomb by Charlize Theron, may have left her hometown of Mercury, Minn., for the exotic urban center of Minneapolis.

But emotionally and psychologically, she’s still in high school, honing her worst social instincts to a needlepoint. Ghost-writing young adult novels for a living, Mavis is defined by what The Descendants author Kaui Hart Hemmings referred to when describing someone as having “carried her juvenile meanness into her adult life.”

The mission, as Mavis sees it and is only too happy to accept, is simple: Return to Mercury wielding a dubious excuse (something about a real estate transaction); ignore her parents as long as possible; reconnect with her sweet-natured high school boyfriend, Buddy (Patrick Wilson); and bag him for keeps. Buddy is married (winning Elizabeth Reaser plays his enviable wife, the special-ed teacher) and has a newborn. But Mavis knows what she wants.

Narratively this is a simple tale, hinging on the misfit-musketeers alliance of Mavis and an unpopular former classmate, played with lovely tact and shrewd timing by Patton Oswalt. True to Cody’s darker comic instincts, this character — crippled for life by “those jocks” in a hate-crime incident back in high school —

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ildly funny adventures in extreme baby-sitting, director David Gordon Green’s The Sitter finds its emblematic moment in the scene of Sam Rockwell, playing a Brooklyn drug dealer, joking around and then suddenly blasting one of his minions in the foot in a realistically painful way. That’s Green for you. He’s the man behind Pineapple Express. Hahahahaha and suddenly there’s blood on the floor.

If it were up to Green, every movie would ride on the careening mood swings of a ’70s picture such as Freebie and the Bean. He’s an interesting director of considerable talent — he made the beautiful, patient dramas George Washington and Snow Angels — so even when he’s just delivering an 82-minute star vehicle, fast, cheap and on a modest budget, at least there are things to discuss. And at least The Sitter is built around Jonah Hill, who has what it takes to anchor a stupid, crude comedy. Unlike Danny McBride, who served as the nominal center of Green’s stupider, cruder Your Highness.

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is identified by Mavis as “that hate-crime guy.” Later she gripes to her confidant with the crutches: “Could you walk any slower?”

This is train-wreck human misbehavior all the way. You watch Young Adult horrified by Mavis’ delusions. Cody has created a role offering Theron a lot of room and plenty of casual venom.

Yet Mavis isn’t so different from the small-minded vampire seductress played by Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body, also written by Cody. The anti-heroine in Young Adult is held up for our voyeuristic amusement and, finally, our contempt. Her impulses are patly explained away by the carefully timed revelation of a painful secret. Theron nails the specifics of her character, all the distress signals, from the nervous hair-pulling to the relentless default sarcasm. I wish, though, Reitman (whose own instincts are to find ways to tenderize dislikable people or situations) had found a way to give Young Adult more of a motor. Cody’s a fast wit, and Young Adult is not Juno, which proves she can write in more than one key. Yet Cody would likely acknowledge she’s working through her own contradictory feelings toward her protagonist — and that she may have been a draft or two away from shaping those feelings into a terrific black comedy, rather than a pretty interesting one.

—MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

by Michael Phillips

The brisk first scene in The Sitter establishes a great deal in just a couple of minutes, introducing Noah (Hill) with his sometime/not really girlfriend (Ari Graynor), whose interest in cocaine sends Noah on a dangerous, all-night mission with three kids in tow. The eldest (played by Max Records of Where the

Wild Things Are) is an anxiety-riddled wet blanket; the adopted El Salvadoran middle child (Kevin Hernandez) is a pyromaniac who likes to blow up toilets; the youngest (Landry Bender) is a female preteen dangerously into looking like a trashed-out celebrity en route to the Betty Ford Clinic.

These kids and their overbearing insecurities need Noah’s tough love, according to the slapdash script by newbies Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, and if The Sitter finds an audience, it’ll be thanks to the movie’s collision of nastiness and sentimentality. That’s how a lot of comedies are these days, some more amusing than The Sitter, some less. I hope Green one day finds a way to bridge the style and rhythm of his early pictures (the ones that didn’t make money) and the bumper-car approach of The Sitter.

—MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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42nd Street This classic musical, released in 1933, saved Warner Brothers from bankruptcy. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

Mozart’s Sister

Speculating on the life of the older sister and fellow music prodigy who was forced to cede the spolight to her brother.

A group of talking chipmunks and their human companions get shipwrecked on a remote island. Rated G. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Ballet: The Nutcracker A magician with secrets, an enchanted gift, a battle with the Mouse King, a guiding angel and a visit through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets: it must be the seasonal favorite. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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The Descendants The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes 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 when his wife suffers a life-threatening boating accident off of Waikiki. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within The slum that towers over Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, and as the head of Rio’s BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) has seen his share of intense situations. When a BOPE mission to stop a jail riot ends in violence, Nascimento finds his job on the line — and BOPE accused of a massacre by human rights activists. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Happy Feet Two A dancing penguin must help his young son find his rhythm while also setting things right in Antarctica. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Hugo 38 December 15, 2011

A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire and brother-inlaw John. 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.

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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 also has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for efficiency. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rick Bentley/MCT

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

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mism and the solidarity of his community, stands up to the officials pursuing the boy for deportation. At Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater

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 Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Moneyball Based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who headed into the 2002 season facing a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland A’s have lost their star players (again) to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries), and he is left to rebuild his team and compete with a third of their payroll. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

To write off this dreamy, overwhelmingly beautiful movie as mere kids’ stuff would be an injustice. This adaptation of the children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret is as much of a personal Scorsese picture as Raging Bull or Taxi Driver. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT

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 and Colony Square. — Michael Phillips/TMS

Immortals

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

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. This story documents how she had to give way to Wolfgang as the main attraction as their father tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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The Muppets

In the genocide that swept though Rwanda in 1994, the Hutu ethnic majority killed almost a million Tutsis—a bloody tragedy that was the subject of the 2004 Oscar nominee Hotel Rwanda. Director Alrick Brown, a native Jamaican who studied filmmaking at NYU, has a different take on Rwanda’s agony. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

The oddest, sweetest movie you’re likely to see this season is The Muppets, a quirky little musical fantasy about plush frogs, diva pigs, friendship and dreams. Those who fondly remember The Muppet Show will get a kick out of seeing old friends again; those who don’t just might realize what they missed. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Moira Macdonald/MCT

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 Jane’s Journey Accompany Dr. Jane Goodall on her travels across several continents, and delve into her intense and exciting past. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater J. Edgar Director Clint Eastwood’s film, featuring a valiant performance from Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar), is a subtle and muted portrayal of one of American history’s most mysterious figures. Molded by his

Jack and Jill

Le Havre A young African refugee is thrown by fate into the path of a well-read bohemian working as a shoe-shiner, who, with opti-

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My Week With Marilyn The year is 1956 and Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her pin-up popularity, is makBoulder Weekly

ing a movie in London with master actor Laurence Olivier. Behind the scenes she is a complete mess — doped up, paranoid and suffocating in insecurities. Monroe finds solace in one of Olivier’s young assistants, Colin Clark. Rated R. At Century. — Tom Horgen/MCT

with bravado and precision. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Swell Season

On the last night of the year, the lives of people searching for love, hope, forgiveness and second chances intertwine in New York City. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

As the fictional romance of the stars of Once blurred with reality, they fell in love, recorded an album, and embarked on a world tour. Fueled by two years of exhilaration, performance, and psychological turmoil, The Swell Season is much more than a music documentary. It is a volatile and intimate portrait of a romance that fractures in the face of life on the road and personal tragedy. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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A kaleidoscopic showcase of the best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 3 to 6. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and decides to pass herself off as Mikael. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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NYICFF Party Mix A selection of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and visually stunning short films for ages 7 to 14. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Opera: Norma Bellini wrote Norma at age 30. It became his greatest achievement, and it is now regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater The Other F Word The Other F Word explores the life of Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of the skatepunk band Pennywise. The film follows Lindberg on his journey from belting out his band’s anthem, “F**k Authority” to embracing his ultimate pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life: fatherhood.At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Puss in Boots

This is no mere Shrek sequel. There is sex appeal in every syllable, swagger in every line. 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 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows The famous detective Sherlock Holmes meets his match in the criminal mastermind known as Professor Moriarty. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks.

The Sitter See full review Page 37. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Skin I Live In Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a plastic surgeon, has been obsessed with creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. At Century and Denver Film Center/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Sleeping Beauty This coolly shocking retelling of the classic myth poses its heroine as a sex-worker, confronting ideas of feminine sexuality Boulder Weekly

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Tower Heist After the staff workers at an upscale Central Park condo discover the billionaire in the penthouse has stolen their retirement money, they conspire to take back what’s theirs. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn In the first half of the conclusion to the Twilight series, human Bella and vampire Edward wed and conceive a child, with dangerous unforeseen consequences. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The Way Martin Sheen plays an American doctor who comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. He decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater The Women on the 6th Floor In this comedy of manners set in 1960 Paris, Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne.

The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Young Adult See full review Page 37. Rated R. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Young Goethe in Love This delightful romantic romp captures the magic — and heartbreak — of first love.

Director Philipp Stölzl (North Face) returns to the very wellspring of Romanticism — Goethe’s autobiographical masterpiece The Sorrows of Young Werther — and conjures up a beguiling and refreshingly innocent period romance. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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Strange bacon

by Blair Madole

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acon is one of those things that people say makes everything better. Wrap it around scallops or a filet or toss some on a sandwich and you have a very popular menu item. One local bartender even said bacon is the reason he stopped being a vegetarian. However, it is possible that the bacon craze has gone too far.

A study of locally sold bacon products and a week of tasting has the Boulder Weekly staff questioning some uses of bacon and likely eating salads for the next month.

Bacon Ice Cream This oddity is made by Ice Cream Alchemy, a local wholesale ice cream company owned by Peter Arendsen and his wife, Lori Winslow. Though the ice cream is not sold to the general public, restaurants in the Boulder/Denver area often offer some of the more common flavors, like the Cocoa Nibs ice cream at SALT. The bacon ice creams have made appearances at Lola, Solera and Jax in Denver and are mostly used for special dinners instead of the daily menu, Arendsen says.

According to Arendsen, many of his ice creams may seem weird on their own, but they add a unique twist to common desserts like flourless chocolate cake or apple pie. At Boulder Weekly, we experienced four bacon ice creams: plain bacon, maple bacon, bacon pis-

tachio and bittersweet chocolate bacon. Though we didn’t have a dessert item to pair with the ice creams, we were pleasantly sur-

prised.

The saltiness of the bacon had an intriguing effect on the sweet ice creams, and the bacon bits were small enough to add texture variance without being chewy. A spoonful of each ice cream was the most anyone could really handle. Each of the flavors was distinct and we could imagine enjoying a scoop on top of a piece of cake or pie. So, even though they sound strange, we say if you have the chance to try a bacon ice cream from Ice Cream Alchemy, be brave and go for it.

Bacon Jam This one may have been the strangest item we tasted. Found at Cured, the gelatinous and stringy-looking mess comes in a small tub and is suggested for use on cheese, sandwiches or just a spoon.

“The bacon jam is without a doubt one of the cooler bacon products out there,” says Will Frischkorn, co-

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owner of Cured. “At Cured, we have slab bacon, cut to order, but this stuff is ready to rock with nothing but a spoon. A crusty piece of toast, a healthy schmear of the Skillet Bacon Spread, and a slightly runny, sunny-side-up egg, and any day is off to a

good start.”

Though the texture of the spread is a little frightening at first, and the smell is a bit overpowering, this stuff doesn’t taste half bad. One staff member said it makes you want to strip down to your underwear and watch NASCAR. Luckily, that didn’t actually happen, but you get the point. Though we aren’t so sure about eating bacon jam with just a spoon, we agree it would be good on a bagel or sandwich in place of the typical condiments.

Bacon Bourbon The drink masters at SALT decided to infuse bourbon with bacon for a bloody mary to be served during Sunday brunches. Surprisingly, the bourbon isn’t overly cloudy and doesn’t have too many fat particles floating around in it, but best not to think about the latter point.

Assistant Bar Manager Ryan Arndt obligingly let us try the bourbon both on the rocks and in the housemade bloody mary mix, and included bacon garnishes with both drinks.

Drinking the bacon bourbon straight wasn’t the best idea. It was kind of exciting the first few sips, because the bacon infusion gave the bourbon extra see BACON Page 42

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y friend Auden was visitappearance in a thick pancake, sliced into ing from the Western wedges like a pizza. This preparation resemSlope, and it’s customary bled a cross between latkes and the turnip for us to visit an Asian cakes found in dim sum restaurants. A hefty eatery, since decent ones and satisfying choice, the cabbage contribare mighty scarce in his neck of the woods. uted crunch and a hint of garlic flavor, To be frank, things didn’t go so well the last although the dish could have been improved go-around. Attempting to prove our foodie with more red pepper. street cred to one another, we’d gone to a The same could be said of the tofu kimVietnamese restaurant and ordered conchi soup, which was a touch spicier than the gealed blood cube soup. Each of us tried to pancake, but not as potent as other versions be hospitable by insisting that the other polI’ve sampled. We also received a small side ish off this delicacy, but ultimately, much of of kimchi, which, in its defense, was much the bowl remained unfinished. This time, I crisper and fresher tasting than the preserdecided to play it safe by suggesting a visit vative-laden stuff found in grocery stores. to Boulder’s Korea House, located on 28th More heat, and this pickle would have been Street and Glenwood Drive. perfect.

This restaurant has been around for Gal bi, or marinated barbecued short many years, although one of the servers ribs, is one of the most classic Korean confirmed it’s been under new managedishes. Any minor quibbles with the rest of ment since last spring. The most obvious the meal were erased from our memories change is the upgrades to the décor, which with these impossibly tender morsels. The anchan is the Korean term describing shared small elevate the old Spartan ambience to a balance of flavor was dead on, with a plates, and it’s not uncommon to see a good half warmer, living-room type of atmosphere. grilled beef savor playing off the right dozen of these selections accompanying a main course.

What’s reasonably unchanged is the menu, measure of soy, garlic and sweet marinade.

Napa cabbage kimchi is the most familiar form of banchan, but other types of Korean pickles served up may which features a smattering of Japanese The quality was just as good as you’ll find include those made from daikon radish or scallions. Other choices like sushi and teriyaki, as well as in any other Colorado restaurant, and I’d choices may include cooked bean sprouts, stir-fried seaseveral Korean dishes, including $7.99 barcome back just for a lunch special of these food such as octopus, and the glass or cellophane noobecue chicken, beef and dumpling lunch ribs. dles known as japchae. While dishes like kimchi have specials.

We ended with refreshing green tea ice been a banchan staple for generations, one new addiAuden confessed he wasn’t as familiar cream encased in mochi, or rice cake, and tion to the small plate repertoire is none other than with Korean fare as he was with other cuitopped with whipped cream and, oddly American-style potato salad. sines. Consequently, we decided to splurge enough, parsley. Despite this quirk, our and ordered the set menu for two, priced at experience helped us to put the blood cube $42.99, including sake. We skipped the incident behind us. alcohol, since our respective employers While I’ll ask if they have a hotter kimprobably wouldn’t be too enthused about us spending was a cut above most Asian restaurant salads, as the chi next time, I felt that the overall quality of the the remainder of the day in a drunken stupor. We dressing was distinctively flavored without overfood is better now than it had been in past incarnastarted with a green salad topped with a ginger sesawhelming the greens’ freshness. tions.

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smokiness, but the thrill passed quickly and it became difficult to get through. In the bloody mary, on the other hand, the bacon bourbon was a nice touch and added a very light hint of smoky bacon on the tail end of the otherwise spicy and tangy cocktail.

So if you are at SALT for brunch, try the bacon bourbon bloody mary. Just do not order the stuff straight.

Bacon Donut Created by Eric Guthrie, owner of Dizzy Donuts, and sold either through home delivery or Vic’s Espresso on Table Mesa and in Longmont, the bacon maple donut seemed as though it would be pretty straightforward and a general crowd-pleaser.

It is a mapleglazed donut with a shiny, maple-glazed square of bacon on top — what’s not to love?

Well, for starters, one of the these may be impossible for a person to get through alone in one sitting. We definitely suggest splitting among friends. Yes, note the plural. Not you and one other person.

Multiple friends.

Another issue is that the donut tastes overpoweringly of maple with just a hint of bacon.

One Boulder Weekly staff member said it was similar to a McGriddle at McDonald’s. Another aptly phrased it a, “a triple bypass on a pastry.” Either way, the maple smell will permeate whatever room you are eating in and will not go away until you remove all traces of the pastry. Also, you will need a very long nap to recover after eating.

Yes, the donut is good for one or two bites, and if you have a sufficient source

of caffeine available it won’t affect your day too much, but this is definitely pushing the boundaries on when to use bacon.

Bacon Chocolate Made by Vosges Haut-chocolat and sold at the Boulder Bookstore, this thing is scary. It is literally a chocolate bar with bits of bacon inside. The staff at the store say the bar is popular and that they enjoyed small pieces of it, but one man did warn of potential chewiness.

The Boulder Weekly staff reaction was mixed. It tastes like a salty crunch bar with a hint of bacon, and though it has some chew to it, with prior warning it wasn’t unpleasant. Also, the men in the office seemed to enjoy it more than the women. So, if you are feeling brave, go for it, but we are hesitant to give something this strange a glowing recommendation.

Bacon Mints These are sold at Where the Buffalo Roam and come in a novelty tin with bacon images on the bottom and a fat pig face on the top. Tim McCormack, a staff member, says they are very popular gag gifts. That is the extent of the good in these things.

They taste vaguely like bacon at first and then slowly transition to an odd mint taste toward the end. We see no point in seriously consuming these and can only say they would make good stocking stuffers. This is certainly the biggest breach of normality of all the bacon products we tried and we have only one question — why?

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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.

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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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iffs Urban Fare occupies the former site of Boulder’s Bookends Café. Featuring small plates, Riffs also offers larger dishes like short rib ravioli and lobster risotto appropriate for an entrée or sharing. Soups, salads and sandwiches are also on tap, including a Colorado’s Best Beef Burger and a Kentucky Hot Brown, featuring cheese sauce over turkey. Top choices here include the tangy house-made pickles and a perfectly prepared duck confit worthy of a Parisian bistro.

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oulder’s new Tiffin’s showcases vegetarian Southern Indian street food at reasonable prices. What it lacks in ambience it makes up for with friendly service and unique, fresh flavors. Start with the dosa, a rice crepe served up with a pair of chutneys. 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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owntown Boulder’s tranquil Saxy’s Café is both coffee house and light-meal venue, serving up bagels, pastries and breakfast pressed sandwiches like the Fast Start, featuring egg and smoked salmon. Other items include vegetarian as well as prosciutto panini and entrée salads, featuring such ingredients as turkey, goat cheese and intriguing dressings exemplified by the maple balsamic vinaigrette. The tuna panini features albacore, capers and arugula on toasted foccacia.

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tional cuisine, with a variety of American, Salvadoran, Thai and Italian options. For lunch, choices include prime rib sandwiches, pad thai and jicama root topped with lemon and salt. Dinner choices include the rib eye with pan sauce over garlic mashed potatoes, and a chicken Marsala atop Parmesan risotto.

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

uLu’s is the latest local entrant in the barbecue sweepstakes, serving up Texasstyle meats smoked over oak for 18 hours.

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 macaroni and cheese and reliable beans.

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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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As with everything, some experiences stand out even among a field of great experiences. This winter, take the time to elevate your experience and give yourself a High Five: the best five experiences in Colorado skiing and snowboarding.

Vail’s back bowls on a powder day The story has become Vail legend, but it’s based on reality: When Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton, the founders of Vail, looked over the backside they knew they were onto something good — acres and acres of empty powder skiing. While things are a bit more tracked out these days and it’s no longer Seibert and Eaton’s secret playground, you can’t argue against hitting Vail’s back bowls on a powder day. First, there’s the terrain, a variety of bowls, gullies and open glades, hundreds of different pitches and enough elbow room for all. Most importantly, there’s the aspect. Mostly south facing, these bowls catch the midwinter sun on frozen days, meaning you can enjoy the kind of picturesee HIGH FIVE Page 48

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Friday, Dec. 16 Avalanche Terrain — Beyond the Basics. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866.

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Saturday, Dec. 17 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Ride.

9:30 a.m. Meet at Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Louisville Ugly Sweater Run. 11 a.m. 100 Main St., Louisville, www.humanmovement.me.

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Sunday, Dec. 18 Winter Dew Tour.

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Wednesday, Dec. 21 Peace Corps ­— Life is Calling. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303583-9970.

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perfect days you only ever see in movies and magazines. If there’s a drawback, it’s that other people have also figured out how good this terrain is, so try to sneak away to Vail during midweek storms, when the crowds can’t make it and you’ll be alone, with only your tracks for company. vail.com

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Arapahoe’s Pallavicini Lift Sure, you’ll want to hit Arapahoe Basin’s legendary Pallavicini lift on a powder day. But this chairlift isn’t just for deep snow. It’s a throwback to the days when lifts were slow, skis were long and snowboards had skegs. Well, maybe snowboards didn’t have skegs.

Arapahoe’s 1,329-vertical-foot testpiece serves up a heaping helping of some of the toughest terrain in the state.

Lines like North Glade, 3rd Alley and Rock Garden are steep, gnarly and will keep you coming back for more. And the ride back up to the top allows for conversation and contemplation, two activities that are all too rare on the high-speed quads that dot other ski areas. arapahoebasin.com Winter X Games The best athletes, great bands, killer after-hours events (if you can get into them) and the sparkly, shiny special place called Aspen. That’s Winter X in a nutshell, which returns to Aspen for the 11th time. Held Jan. 26-29, Winter X is a celebration of all things extreme, radical and cool. And it lives up to the hype.

This year, the skiing halfpipe and slopestyle events take on added meaning, as both disciplines have been named to the Olympics. Despite this, Winter X remains the standard in terms of importance for both skiing and snowboarding.

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Breckenridge’s Terrain Parks If Breckenridge’s terrain parks were a person, they would have already been named to the skiing and snowboarding hall of fame. Breck was there when it all started, building jumps, figuring out flow and hosting halfpipe comps. As the years have passed, the park and its features have changed and the scene has gotten bigger. But unlike some mountains, Breck’s park scene has remained relevant and progressive. Currently the de-facto home for some of the best in the game, Breck is the epicenter of early season training, the place where skiing and snowboarding’s global elite gather to dial in their tricks before the competition season kicks off. And speaking of com-

petition, Breck is no slouch in that area either, hosting the Winter Dew Tour Dec. 15-18 to showcase the competitive streaks of snowsport athletes Shaun White, Danny Davis, Louie Vito, Kelly Clark, Simon Dumont and Bobby Brown.

If park and pipe is your thing, Breck is the place to be. breckenridge.com Closing Day Some days, there’s no place like home, and when it comes to closing day, there’s no place like your favorite place to ski or ride. Closing days are special.

They’re a chance to look back at the season that’s passed and remember all the good times you’ve had with your friends, the powder days, the après beers and the lift rides. They’re also the chance to look forward, to anticipate the joys of summer. Usually they involve a deck and sunshine, but if it snows, that’s OK, too.

Best of the Rest: OK, so Colorado’s top five isn’t good enough for you? Greedy for more? Or been there, done that? These options will keep you busy this season — and next year, too.

Silverton Mountain One lift, no grooming and plenty of snow highlight this southern Colorado ski area that’s an expert’s playground.

While most of the terrain is hike-to, save up and get a heli lift ($159/run) to the big stuff. silvertonmountain.com New Sheridan, Telluride Built in 1895 after the original Sheridan Hotel burned, the New Sheridan is located smack dab in the heart of Telluride. With luscious rooms and a historic bar, this boutique hotel is the place to stay when you’re skiing the bumps of Spiral Stairs or the Plunge. newsheridan.com Powder Addiction Snowcats Close to Denver and Boulder, but a world apart, this snowcat operation runs out of Jones Pass, near Empire. The terrain is fantastic, and the guides aren’t afraid to cut customers loose when conditions are right. powderaddiction.com Kermitts At the junction of Highway 6 and Interstate 70, Kermitts is a biker bar in the summer but caters to skiers heading home in the winter. And no matter the time of year, Kermitts is as an authentic a roadhouse as you’ll find in Colorado. kermitts.com Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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March 21-April 19:

Jim Moran (1908-1999) called himself a publicist, but I regard him as a pioneer performance artist. At various times in his colorful career, he led a bull through a china shop in New York City, changed horses in midstream in Nevada’s Truckee River, and looked for a needle in a haystack until he found it. You might want to draw inspiration from his work in the coming weeks, Aries. You will not only have a knack for mutating clichés and scrambling conventional wisdom. In doing so, you could also pull off feats that might seem improbable.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

One possible way to tap into the current cosmic opportunities would be to seek out “storegasms” — the ecstatic feelings released while exercising one’s buyological urges in consumer temples crammed with an obscene abundance of colorful material goods. But I advise you against doing that.

It wouldn’t be a very creative solution to the epic yearnings that are welling up in your down-below-and-deep-inside parts. Instead, I offer a potentially far more satisfying recommendation: Routinely maneuver yourself into positions where your primal self will be filled up with sublime wonder, mysterious beauty, and smart love.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

I’m not an either-or type of person. I don’t think that there are just two sides of every story and that you have to align yourself with one or the other. That’s one reason why, as an America voter, I reject the idea that I must either sympathize with the goals of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It’s also why I’m bored by the trumpedup squabble between the atheists and the fundamentalist Christians, and the predictable arguments between dogmatic cynics and fanatical optimists. I urge you to try my approach in the coming weeks, Gemini. Find a third way between any two sides that tend to divide the world into Us against Them.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

No one actually looks like the retouched images of the seemingly perfect people in sexy ads. It’s impossible to be that flawless, with no wrinkles, blemishes, and scars.

Acknowledging this fact, the iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford once said, “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford.”

Our unconscious inclination to compare ourselves to such unrealistic ideals is the source of a lot of mischief in our lives.

Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to divest yourself, as much as possible, of all standards of perfection that alienate you from yourself or cause you to feel shame about who you really are. (More fodder to motivate you: tinyurl.com/SoftKill.)

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Barney Oldfield (1878-1946) was a pioneer car racer who was the first ever to run a 100-mile-per-hour lap at the Indianapolis 500. He was a much better driver while setting speed records and beating other cars on racetracks than he was at moseying through regular street traffic. Why? He said he couldn’t think clearly if he was traveling at less than 100 miles per hour. I suspect you may temporarily have a similar quirk, Leo — not in the way you drive but rather in the way you live and work and play. To achieve maximum lucidity, you may have to be moving pretty fast.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Back in August 2010, there was an 11-day traffic snarl on a Chinese highway. At one point the stuck vehicles stretched for 60 miles and inched along at the rate of a mile per day. In that light, your current jam isn’t so bad. It may be true that your progress has been glacial lately, but at least you’ve had a bed to sleep in and a bathroom to use, which is more than can be said for the stranded Chinese motorists and truck drivers. Plus I’m predicting that your own personal jam is going to disperse sometime in the next few days. Be prepped and ready to rumble on.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Here’s a joke from Woody Allen’s movie Annie Hall: “Two elderly women are in a Catskills Mountain resort and one of them says: ‘Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know — and such small portions.’“ Is it possible you’re acting like the second woman, Libra? Are

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

The Los Angeles school district dramatically downgraded the role that homework plays in the life of its students.

Beginning this fall, the assignments kids do after school account for only 10 percent of their final grade. As far as you’re concerned, Scorpio, that’s not a good trend to follow.

In fact, I think you should go in the opposite direction.

During the enhanced learning phase you’re now entering, your homework will be more important than ever. In order to take full advantage of the rich educational opportunities that will be flowing your way, you should do lots of research, think hard about what it all means, and in general be very well-prepared. The period between late 2011 and early 2012 is homework time for you.

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The Amazon is the second longest river in the world, and has such a voluminous flow that it comprises 20 percent of all river water in the world. And yet there is not a single bridge that crosses it. I love that fact. It comforts and inspires me to know that humans have not conquered this natural wonder. Which leads me to my advice for you this week, Sagittarius. Please consider keeping the wild part of you wild. It’s certainly not at all crucial for you to civilize it.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Emotion is the resource we treasure when we’re young, says poet Naomi Shihab Nye, but eventually what we thrive on even more is energy. “Energy is everything,” she says, “not emotion.” And where does energy come from? Often, from juxtaposition, says Nye. “Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy; rubbing one image against another.” That’s what she loves about being a poet. Her specialty is to conjure magic through juxtaposition. “Our brains are desperate for that kind of energy,” she concludes. I mention this, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be prime time for you to drum up the vigor and vitality that come from mixing and melding and merging, particularly in unexpected or uncommon ways.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Studies show that if you’re sharing a meal with one other person, you’re likely to eat up to 35 percent more food than if you’re dining alone. If you sit down at the table with four companions, you’ll probably devour 75 percent extra, and if you’re with a party of eight, your consumption may double.

As I contemplate your horoscope, these facts give me pause.

While I do suspect you will benefit from socializing more intensely and prolifically, I also think it’ll be important to raise your commitment to your own physical health. Can you figure out a way to do both, please?

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20: “Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul,” said psychologist Carl Jung, “human beings would rot away in their greatest passion, idleness.” To that edgy observation I would add this corollary: One of the greatest and most secret forms of idleness comes from being endlessly busy at unimportant tasks. If you are way too wrapped up in doing a thousand little things that have nothing to do with your life’s primary mission, you are, in my opinion, profoundly idle. All the above is prelude for the climactic advice of this week’s horoscope, which goes as follows: Give everything you have

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