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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Director of Sales & Marketing, Hassan Evans Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Intern, Michael Callahan Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Andrea Craven, Joe Fuchs, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Jamie Peterson CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 13-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo December 20, 2012 Volume XX, Number 20 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Don’t give in to oil and gas

A letter to the Boulder County commissioners: As a concerned citizen keeping close to the issue of fracking, I can tell you that if you think the public outcry has been bad thus far, it’s been nothing compared to what it will become if you give in to the oil and gas industry.

Granted, the old regulations are outdated. So you update those, but don’t stop there — nobody wants the unrest that is certain to develop if (a)

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the current moratorium is not extended, and (b) fracking is not banned in the county before either this moratorium or an extended moratorium expires.

Each of you will have legacies of public service to live with. And this matter of fracking might be the most definitive issue for each of your careers.

You do not want to be defined and remembered by your constituents on this issue if you give the O&G operators permission to threaten our health

and permanently destroy so much of our land and our water. No one will be able to reverse the damage done by fracking — you know that and you do not want what will come from that: the environmental mess, the public response and owning the actions that your constituents will hold you responsible for as commissioners. O&G does not care about you or us or our county, and

Is that asking too much?

Obama essentially admitted that allowing corporations to purchase the inaugural is wrong when he tried to sugarcoat his decision by assuring us that every corporate donor will be vetted by White House lawyers to make sure they have no conflicts of interest. Does he think we have sucker wrappers around our heads?

As pointed out by the vigilant watchdog group Public Citizen: “There’s no corporation which has no conflict of interest.”

Even as presidential staffers were publicly pledging there would be no favoritism for the corporate powers that write big checks, they were privately promising potential donors that the three days of inaugural festivities would include exclusive “benefactor brunches,” allowing the elite to hobnob with top administra-

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President Obama, reversing his own honorable precedent for his first inaugural, has chosen this time to have corporations pay for his big hoo-rah.

This multimillion-dollar infusion of corporate cash is a crass intrusion by favor-seeking private interests into what ought to be a purely public occasion.

Why can’t we have even one corporate-free day in Washington every four years?

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tion officials. Getting your ticket punched for a presidential brunch, you see, buys you a rich serving of political access.

Incredibly, Obama is trying to cover over this special-access ugliness by declaring that the day before his official swearing-in will be a “national day of service.” How noble! As a symbol of America’s commitment to the common good, he’s calling on all of us to spend time serving meals to the homeless or picking up litter — except for checkwriting corporate chieftains, who’ll be busy munching on Eggs Florentine, sipping from champagne flutes, and helping themselves to plates of power.

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commentary Tycoons and their taxes

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orporate fat cats are prowling the halls of Congress and scratching up all the furniture. These tycoons are peddling the old line that if they get tax cuts and subsidies, they will create jobs for us. That hasn’t worked yet. They say ordinary Americans should “lower their expectations,” but their plans actually propose to shred the social safety net.

They call for “shared sacrifice,” which sounds reasonable until you realize that the rewards haven’t been shared in the last few decades.

Each year, the top 1 percent of taxpayers gets more income than the bottom 40 percent. They have more wealth than 90 percent of Americans. But their tax rates are almost the lowest in postWorld War II history. Multinational corporations based in the U.S. pay the lowest effective tax rates in the developed world.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has an answer to them called “The Deal for All” (http://cpc. grijalva.house.gov/deal-for-all/): “(1) No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits; (2) Must contain serious revenue increases, including closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing individual income tax rates for the highest earners; (3) Significantly reduce defense spending to focus the United States Armed Forces on combating 21st century risks; and (4) Promote economic growth and expand economic opportunity by including strong levels of job-creating federal investments in areas such as infrastructure and education, and by promoting private investment.”

None of the Colorado Democrats in Congress support this resolution, including Rep. Jared Polis, who is a CPC member. He seems to be more involved with the New Democrat Coalition (the congressional affiliate of the now-defunct Democratic Leadership Council which was mocked

by Jesse Jackson as “the Democratic Leisure Class” because of its big business funding and political positions).

When an NDC leader was asked if he supported significant cuts to the social safety net in the “fiscal cliff ” negotiations, he said his group is “open to everything.”

Polis can be quite liberal on most issues. But sometimes on economic

issues, he seems like a Republican.

Here is an example. In the 2011 debt ceiling debate, Obama and the Democrats were pushing hard to eliminate the “carried interest” loophole.

Polis and another House Democrat sent a letter to Obama begging him to preserve it. “Such a tax increase,” they wrote, “would not only damage our already fragile economic recovery, but it would also cripple the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that makes our country so strong.”

During the presidential campaign, this tax loophole came up again when it was revealed it saved a lot of money for Mitt Romney. In an article in The New Republic, Matt O’Brien explained “carried interest”: “Capital gains generally only apply to profits investors earn from risking their own capital. This is not so with carried interest. Indeed, the magic of carried interest is that some financiers book capital gains far in excess of any capital they ante up — or, put differently, they get to count performance fees as capital gains. This is an enormous boon due to the low taxation of capital gains.

After equaling the top marginal rate of 28 percent at the end of the Reagan years, the capital gains rate has fallen to 15 percent over the past two decades (versus a top marginal rate now of 35 percent). This is why the über-wealthy — the top 0.1 percent earn half of all capital gains — have had their effective tax rate plummet over this period. This lower rate is usually justified due to the double taxation of capital from corporate income taxes, but this isn’t necessarily true. It’s well-known that many corporations pay little or no income tax, and there are certain corporate structures called “pass-throughs” that avoid all tax as well. Private equity funds like Romney’s Bain Capital are, of course, organized as pass-throughs.”

Senate Democrats have tried and failed to force these executives to pay normal income tax rates in recent years, a change that would bring in about $17.7 billion in new revenue over 10 years.

This income is effectively a salary and should be taxed as such.

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

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everyone knows that. This is our home, commissioners — the people of Longmont have spoken, and now the people of Boulder County are speaking, loudly and clearly. Think long-term and stop fretting about being sued by the state. Stick to the business of protecting what we have, and know that the people will not rest while the state turns our health, our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools and our lives over to Encana and Noble. We will not quietly allow O&G to turn Boulder County into the sacrifice zone that Weld County has become.

Yes, we need to develop alternative energies and gain independence from foreign oil. But let’s not kill ourselves doing it.

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Dyer right, Danish wrong

Some comments about your latest issue (Dec. 13): 1. I was very encouraged by Joel Dyer’s rebuttal to Vince Carroll’s disparagement of Boulder’s anti-fracking protestors. He explains calmly and clearly Carroll’s warped apologetic for the corrupt oil and gas industry and the state “regulators” on its payroll.

2. The article by Paul Danish, “Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv,” really bemused me. Did you actually pay him to fly to Israel to engage in meandering speculation that any of us here back home could do? Perhaps you could post him there permanently as an embedded Zionist apologist, presumably for the benefit of Boulder’s large Jewish community. He could rename his column Danish Patsy, a take off on that favorite Jewish treat, Danish Pastry. I Boulder Weekly

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“Decimated,” “dangerous,” “devastated.” By the sound of Dyer’s alarm, see LETTERS Page 11

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TIME FOR A BAKE SALE What a shocker. The Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) is suing the city of Longmont over its voter-approved fracking ban.

Now might be the time for a national fundJefferson Dodge raising effort to generate badly needed revenue for the legal battle, since it’s likely that the city will be outgunned by the industry group and its overflowing coffers.

We think another video like the one that Our Longmont trotted out before the election is in order. You know, the one that makes fun of the seven former Republican mayors who came out in opposition to the fracking ban. It’s still online at http://bit.ly/7mayors.

Maybe do another one of those bad boys, an even better one, and we all agree to tweet and Facebook post the shit out of it, and, presto! It goes viral, and it’s got a PayPal donation link accompanying it. We could raise (almost) as much as the oil and gas industry is going to pour into this thing!

Elizabeth Allen of Boulder at a Dec. 13 county commissioners That, or we have to place our trust in the meeting on oil and gas rules. justice system and pray the judge isn’t in the industry’s pocket. Wonder why COGA chose to sue in Weld instead of Boulder County, where Longmont has its city charter?

Either way, it’s a sad day when an industry takes a city government to court because its citizens voted to protect the health and safety of its families.

THE FRACKING DEBATE SIMMERS In related news, we’ve got to give the county commissioners some kudos for opening the much-anticipated, police-laced Dec. 13 meeting on the new oil and gas regulations with speeches making it clear they would prefer to be enacting an outright county ban on fracking.

The speeches seemed to defuse the situation a bit. (That and the dozen deputies posted around the doors to the hearing room.)

While the new Jefferson Dodge land use code on oil and gas development does not go as far as many of us would like, the commissioners’ comments — especially those of Will Toor and Deb Gardner — made it clear that they truly believe not approving the new regs would revert the county back to its 1993 code when the moratorium expires, Diana Caile, at right, stands up during last week’s county creating a drilling commissioners meeting after she and others placed duct tape on their mouths to protest fracking as well as new rules free-for-all. on behavior at the board’s meetings.

Let’s hope Toor’s successor, Elise Jones, is even more committed to the cause.

Sure, there is some hysteria about fracking that may be unwarranted. But the point is, we don’t know all of the dangers and risks yet, and until the scientific research about its effects catches up, we should put the brakes on.

And kudos should also go to the fractivists, whose silent protest consisted largely of wearing signs on their shirts and putting duct tape over their mouths, which neither the cops nor the commissioners seemed to think qualified as a “disturbance” under the new rules they implemented after the beginning of the previous week’s meeting was hijacked.

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one would have thought that maybe the commissioners had been allowing the paving of our roads with spent uranium.

Silly me, I had been thinking that this was a real newspaper.

Charlie Danaher/Boulder

Fossil fuels bad

On Dec. 2, over 1,100 students and Boulder citizens participated in a campaign event about the most important moral issue of our era.

Bill McKibben, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Winona LaDuke and others gave us the stark facts: Fossil fuel corporations have five times more oil and coal and gas in known reserves than climate scientists think is safe to burn if we wish to prevent climate catastrophe. Almost every government in the world has agreed that global warming above a 2°C (3.6°F) rise would be unsafe. Already we have raised the temperature 0.8°C, and even that amount has caused a third of the summer sea ice in the Arctic to disappear and brought us ever more severe weather, such as the severe droughts in our grain belt, superstorm Sandy, and here in Colorado a dearth of snow and a fire season that has no end.

All this is happening with only a 0.8° rise in temperature. To raise the temperature further would be a malicious attack on all of us and on all of Earth’s life forms. But this attack is precisely what fossil fuel companies plan to commit, in many cases subsidized by our tax dollars.

We in Boulder can be glad that we are making some climate progress through our Climate Action Plan. We can be encouraged that we are making progress on municipalization of our electric supply, with the prospect of freeing ourselves from Xcel’s ongoing commitment to coal. And yet we need to keep moving on reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. In order not to blow past the 2°C target, with our present trends of burning fossil fuels, we only have about 16 years left, around the time today’s preschoolers will be graduating from high school.

I urge everyone to get informed and get involved. Go to http://gofossilfree.org.

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Two nights ago I watched the documentary Chasing Ice (now playing in Boulder, and if you don’t believe we are contributing to climate change I strongly suggest you see it).

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the diversion rate (how much is diverted from the landfill by reducing, reusing, recycling and composting) is only 35 percent (compared to San Francisco at 85 percent); Boulder, a town where Ecocycle was one of the first organizations in the country to start a curbside recycling program way back in 1976 and has a reputation internationally as a leader on environmental issues; Boulder, a small town crowded with SUVs; a community where we still use thou-

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Downtown Boulder Gift Cards Gift cards can come in handy for avid shoppers. Downtown Boulder Gift Cards can be purchased online or in person at the Downtown Boulder, Inc. office or at the Visitor Information Center. The gift card can be used at more than 180 businesses in downtown Boulder, including retail stores and restaurants.

A $50 gift card entitles customers to a buy-one-get-one-free admission coupon from the Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza. Similarly, customers who spend $100 or more will receive an Ice Rink coupon and a “Downtown” beanie.

This gift card offer lasts until Jan. 4. Downtown Boulder Gift cards can be purchased in amounts ranging from $10 to $2,000.

Wine Wine is a popular choice of beverage around the holidays and at dinner parties. Manuel Sanchez, owner of the West End Wine Shop on Pearl Street, says red wine is a common choice to bring to someone else’s Boulder Weekly

home, particularly in the winter months.

“I would look for medium- to fullbody cabernet or shiraz,” Sanchez says.

“Most people prefer domestic wines to show support for some of the local businesses and local wine makers in California, Washington or Oregon.”

When it comes to white wine, however, it may be a gift that’s a little more personal. A buyer should know the type of white wine the host or receiver would like, Sanchez says.

Price is another feature to look out

for when presenting a bottle of wine to the host of a house.

“Generally, $10 to $15 as a gift to go to somebody’s house is acceptable,” Sanchez says. “I like the Cannonball brand, made in Napa, Calif., which makes [chardonnays] and sauvignon blancs. It has a good price range, between $15 and $20, and it has a nice package; that’s one brand that I like.”

Sanchez says he is also a fan of wines made by Castle Rock Winery, which are made in the state of Washington. Castle Rock produces a variety of wines, including cabernets, merlots and pinot noirs, with prices ranging from $10 to $12.

All of these wines are available at the West End Wine Tavern, located at 777 Pearl St., Boulder.

Holiday greeting cards They say pictures say a thousand words, so why not give a festive greeting card to a loved one? Using pen and

watercolor designs, Heartstrings Card Company owner Kristin Sheldon designs her cards with cartoon drawings paired with short and sweet phrases.

Heartstrings Cards are sold in sets of 10 cards with envelopes. The cards are 4¼ inches by 5½ inches and are sold at $10.50 per set. These cards are available at various locations in Boulder, including Pharmaca on Broadway, Boulder Nordic Sport and Boulder Cycle Sport. Heartstrings Cards can also be purchased online at www.heartstringscards.com.

Chocolates No holiday season is complete without the sweet accompaniment of chocolates. At Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory on Pearl Street, there are boxes of assorted chocolates just for the holidays. Priced at $19.95, this decadent box of chocolates holds everything from chewy caramels to butter creams, along with Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory’s signature White Bear pecan-andcaramel patties. Boxes of fudge are also available for $14.95 per pound.

At Piece, Love & Chocolate on the west end of Pearl Street, owner Sarah Amorese recommends buying the six- or 12-pack boxes of house chocolates at $2 per piece. Amorese says that customers who come into the store have more than 60 different choices to See LAST-MINUTE Page 14

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“Our salted liquid caramels are the most popular,” she says. “They come in our eco-love box, which is primarily red and has hearts on top of it.”

Gourmet marshmallows that Piece, Love & Chocolate sells could be a great topping for hot chocolates, Amorese adds.

These marshmallows come in different sizes with seasonal flavors. December’s marshmallows are available in salted caramel, peppermint and chocolate. Other quick gifts that can be grabbed from Piece, Love & Chocolate include peppermint barks and chocolate-covered nuts and espresso beans.

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If there is a certain gourmet in your life who loves spending time in the kitchen, a gift certificate to a local cooking class might be just the right thing.

Simple Spoon Cooking Classes offers courses for people with varying levels of cooking expertise. Classes are an hour long and are taught based on themes such as Cocktail Party and Happenin’ Latin. All classes are $65 per session.

As for aspiring little chefs, Stir It Up Cooking School offers cooking

classes for ages 5 to 16 as well as for adults. Children can participate in after-school, weekend, holiday and school break programs. Kids get the chance to bake, cook and even work on some gardening. Classes are offered at $26 per session.

Fresh flowers A carefully crafted bouquet of flowers can brighten up any home.

Locally owned and eco-friendly Boulder Blooms creates floral arrangements for the different seasons as well as for specific occasions. Their winter collection ranges from $48 to $150 and features festive flowers like deep red roses and poinsettias as well as bright green ferns, occasionally with seasonal flourishes like fresh cranberries. For a brighter feel with a softer feminine look, check out the Femme collection, made up of big bright daisies and pastel-colored flowers. These bouquets are priced from $69 to $135. Boulder Blooms also provide deliveries for orders placed on the same day. Visit www.boulderblooms.com for more details and information.

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SIGNSANDSUGGESTIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD BY BOULDER WEEKLY STAFF

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ell, it’s here. We’ve finally reached the end of the Mayan calendar. Now we will finally know with certainty whether the world is going to come to an end on Dec. 21, or if the guy chipping away the dates simply ran out of room for adding more days on his rock.

Either way, this whole “end of the world” has raised some very important philosophical questions such as, “Can a Mayan make a calendar so big that he can’t lift it?” We may soon have an answer.

Whatever happens this week, we decided it would be helpful to our readers to explore the issues surrounding the end of the world. We have provided an important list of things to look for as signs the world is ending. We’ve made suggestions for what to do with your last day. We’ve even offered up some benefits of the world coming to an end. And finally, for those of you who have a hard time thinking clearly in the last hours of your existence, we’ve provided suggestions for the best locations from which to watch the whole planet be destroyed.

It’s not every day that the world ends, so be sure to get out and enjoy this oncein-a-lifetime opportunity.

By these signs you will know that the end is near: n You will drive by an empty retail space somewhere in Boulder County and in the window you will NOT see a “For Lease by Tebo Development” sign.

What’s that sound in the distance? I think it’s three, no, make that four, horses. n Finally torn loose from its moorings and foundation, the blue demon horse at DIA begins galloping across the plains, killing people with its laser eyes. As we have said many times since its artist met with an untimely death, “It has killed before, and it will kill again.” n Political gadfly Seth Brigham returns to the city below the Flatirons and proceeds to do a series of somersaults and pirouettes in front of city council while singing Jackson Browne’s “Before the Deluge.” n The Denver Broncos acquire the greatest quarterback in NFL history and 16 December 20, 2012

will be marching effortlessly towards a long overdue Super Bowl victory. Of course the world would end now, just when Bronco fans are finally able to cheer again. But know this: If there is an NFL heaven, Tim Tebow will most likely get the start.

After acknowledging that his puritan values are not in tune with the community, considering recent crackdowns on alcohol and pot, Boulder City Attorney Tom Carr steps down, citing personal conflicts with carrying out job duties. Council members George Karakehian and Ken Wilson follow suit, but not until after they authorize a seven-figure performance bonus for Carr that they forget to run by the rest of council for approval. At which point the rest of council breaks out the booze and marijuana hidden under their long desk. n CU announces it has decided to throw campus gates wide open to the annual 4/20 smokeout, as a symbol of one of the principles the university was founded on: free and unfettered expression in a marketplace of ideas.

Chancellor Phil DiStefano and President Bruce Benson lead a processional of pot smokers across Norlin Quad for opening ceremonies. n Councilwoman Lisa Morzel decides that there are actually some trails within the city limits of Boulder that should be opened up to those newfangled contraptions the young folk call mountain bikes. Sadly, Boulder Weekly Publisher Stewart Sallo and Boulder Mountainbike Alliance’s Jason Vogel are hit by a giant meteor just before making their first ride to Royal Arch. The end of the world is so unfair. n Members of Boulder City Council finally complete the revision of the financial disclosure form they are required to fill out each year in order to avoid conflicts of interest. The new form has only one paragraph, which states, “Please list all of the businesses you are involved with in any way, all of the real estate you have

any interest in, even if it’s only as an investor in an LLC, or any other legal entity designed to hide your connections from the public eye, and finally, list every person who owns an interest along with you in any business or real estate you own, including LLCs that you have designated for retirement, your kid’s college fund, or any other arbitary reason that

about personal accomplishment, not necessarily enjoyment. There have got to be some busts on Backcountry’s tap and bottle list — after all, it spans eight letter-size pages and covers every imaginable combo of water, barley, hops and yeast. But it’s a journey we know would be worth traveling.

Take Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales.

You know, the crown jewel of Dexter, Mich.? OK, we don’t know them either. But we wish we had had the chance.

Backcountry carries 11 of their beers, out-repping New Belgium, Odell, Avery and Upslope combined. They’ve got a Spanish beer, a Swedish, a couple Norwegians, two New Zealand…ish? They’ve got ABV ranges from 3.2 to 19.3.

Somewhere they’ve probably got a beer that glows bright blue and must be eaten with a fork. We’re sad to miss out on that one the most.

Things we wish we had done before the world ended:

n Dumped a load of fracking fluid on Hickenlooper’s front lawn. How good would it feel to borrow a tanker full of carcinogenic fracking fluid and drive it straight to the governor’s mansion and proceed to make crop circles on the lawn by dumping the toxic brew as you drive around, just like the oil companies do all over our fields and back roads every day.

The best part, when Hick starts to complain, you’d get to explain to him that pouring benzene and 500-plus other types of lethal crap on his lawn — the same stuff that just made his dog turn paws up faster than it could take a leak on a mansion rose bush — is pretty much legal. That’s because it’s been immorally exempted from the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and pretty much every other law designed to protect the environment, for purely political reasons. It wouldn’t hurt to also remind the guv that his blind support for this dirty industry is most likely why the Mayans put an end to their calendar in the first place. Unlike Frackenlooper, they could see the writing on the wall.

n Tried every beer at Backcountry Pizza. OK, maybe this one is more

n Bought more Flagstaff House meals on credit card (and invited

you wrongly believe makes those investments exempt from Colorado’s election laws.” In the end, City Attorney Tom Carr declares that the new one-paragraph form is too long and complicated for city leaders to grasp, and five council members refuse to fill out the new form after declaring that such information would make them unelectable and of far less value to their developer friends. n Someone finally figures out that Longmont City Council member Bonnie Finley’s day job with the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry actually requires her to recuse herself from all votes regarding the oil and gas industry and other business entities for which the Chamber acts as a lobbying arm.

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friends). You know, gotten a couple of rounds of drinks first, then appetizers, multiple courses, and don’t forget dessert! If you decide to do this on the last day, the view of that glow in the east should be outstanding. Runners up for more credit card debt include Frasca, SALT and The Bitter Bar. n Ran naked down the Pearl Street Mall. Especially wearing a pumpkin on your head — oh wait, people have already done that. Maybe we would have mixed it up a bit by wearing something else on our head, like underwear or fruit. n Eaten all of the samples at Cheese Importers in one visit. This Longmont purveyor of cheese and other goodies from all over Europe always has plenty of tasting trays. (On Friday, their giant walkin cooler might provide some temporary protection against the advancing flames.) n Taken a deep drag on Pearl Street. An impending ban from Boulder City Council will stub out smoking on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, but while we have the time, we’re lighting one up on the mall, health risks be damned.

It’s a shame we won’t get to see Pearl Street beautified by the ban, which supposedly will reduce litter and air pollution. We all know, if you want to make Pearl Street less ugly, you need a dress code. Unfortunately, with the world ending and all, city council won’t get their chance at that one. n Held more three-margarita sessions at the Rio. Yes, they say the limit is three, and yet sometimes we thought it was prudent to stop at two. But there were so many fun, crazy things that happened after three, especially when we took the party across to the Walrus for some pool! And maybe, just maybe, one four-margarita night, just to have finally tasted the forbidden fruit … with a designated driver of course. n Discovered ZIP Code Man’s secret. This guy’s got to develop a 10-step learning program in his next life, if there is one. It’s just scary how accurately he can describe the burger joint on that corner in Paducah, Texas.

fun spots. We’re talking about places where we often held back and just watched the kids, like the fountain in front of the Courthouse, the WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette and the Pinball Museum in Lyons. Also would have done more creek tubing. n Watched NHL hockey again. The National Hockey League is in the midst of its fourth labor stoppage in 20 years, and with the world ending, we’ll never watch another NHL game. Oh, wait.

That’s true even if the world doesn’t end. The league might come back to us, but we aren’t coming back to the league. n Gotten Boulder’s voice and sight dog tags. Golly, this one just slipped our minds.

We sure do love Boulder’s dog tag program, which provides a valuable and relevant service to citizens. And we just couldn’t wait to watch a video, sign a document and lay down $15, thereby completing the globally recognized steps to becoming a good dog owner.

Unfortunately, the world’s ending before we could get around to it. Now we’ll have to find some better use for our $15, if there is any in the whole world. n Yelled “go wild and free” to my dog on a crowded Boulder trail as proof that the crazy little fellow is under voice control.

Upsides to the end of the world: n No more fracking. Yes, the evils of hydraulic fracturing will come to an end, although the fumes may make for quite a show as fire sweeps across the land. We sure wish we had some of that hydraulic fracturing water back, to put out some of these flames. n Monsanto no longer exists. So it turns out the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) we’ve been consuming were not, ultimately, what killed us after all. In fact, if anything survives beyond Dec. 21, it will most likely be the superbugs that Monsanto created as a result of turning the world into its own private GMO testing ground.

n Had more Italian sub sandwiches.

Yeah, so there were a lot of times we brought that leftover garbanzo bean salad or hummus pita sandwich from home for lunch, but in hindsight, nothing satisfies like a bunch of meat and other goodies between two rolls, washed down with a soda. Especially at our local dives, like Snarf ’s, Salvaggio’s and Half Fast Subs.

n No more losing seasons for CU football. In addition, the Buffaloes will never hire another much-ballyhooed coach who doesn’t deliver. Plus, no more CU football players will get into legal trouble, and the athletics budget deficit will become immaterial. But, as a side note, even after the world ends, CU will still be paying off the contracts of Gary Barnett, Dan Hawkins and Jon Embree well into eternity.

n Spent more time frolicking at our

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spoken in hell by the members of Congress who pushed the rest of us over its edge. n Donald Trump, reality TV, the Tea Party, countries that stone women, idiots that think God gave them the right to own an assault rifle, people who think global warming is made up, Humvee owners, academic morons like Jay Rosen who think that “crowd sourcing” can replace the Fourth Estate, Jerry Jones, Lindsay Lohan, people who watch Entertainment Tonight, boy bands, toy poodles cut to look like shrubbery, gay bashers, racists, white men who think the playing field is level, companies that pay women less than men, people who text and drive or drink and drive or just drive like crap, Walmart and even the loud guy at the end of the bar with his button undone to show his gold chain, will all be gone forever.

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Best places to watch the end of the world: n From the top of the Third Flatiron, or from any of those pullouts along Flagstaff Road, really. The advancing armies of death should be quite visible from there. Plus, you will get to witness the fireballs and subsequent pops as the oil and gas wells in Weld County go up in flames. n From the top of Valmont Butte.

From here, if the source of destruction comes from, say, Los Angeles, you will have a great view of the black cloud working its way over the mountains.

Hey, at this point it doesn’t matter if you breathe the contaminated air at the butte. Hell, go ahead and let the kids make mud pies in that radiated soil while you’re at it. n From one of Boulder’s downtown rooftop patios. There are now so many to choose from, each with a slightly different view of melting Flatirons while enjoying cocktails, and, when the shit really starts to hit the fan, shots of Jägermeister. And best of all, you can tell everyone that you’ll pick up the tab knowing it won’t cost a penny, unless, of course, the Mayans were wrong. n From the International Space Station. Good luck with this one.

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Lessons from the sky

earing hardhats and safety goggles, a group of college students from Colorado huddle in the control room at the Four Corners Coal Power Plant in Farmington, N.M. They prod at the equipment that provides energy to 300,000 households.

Almost all the employees at the plant are Native American.

The students left the confines of their classrooms for one week to participate in Flight Across America, an allexpenses-paid trip to trace the story of the Colorado River from the air. The ambitious group flies in small planes piloted by the Aspen-based company Eco Flight along the Upper Colorado River Basin in an effort to understand why it is drying up. The program takes an aerial look at water and its relation to the health of ecosystems, energy development, urban planning, recreation, agriculture and wildlife habitat in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. But along the way, it’s the person to person connections, particularly with the Native American tribes, that seem to drive home the lessons of water use and, because energy is a primary player in the water economy of the West, how energy production shapes water consumption.

While water conservation concerns citizens, conservationists, sportsmen and farmers, Native Americans are uniquely affected because power plants and natural gas pads are often built in their communities.

Environmental racism — a concept that refers to geographic relationships between environmental degradation and low-income or minority communities — is often cited by conservation groups in attacks against the industry. Some say the communities lack the resources to fight back or the education to choose alternative livelihoods that mean not working in the power plants.

During their tour of the Four Corners power plant, one student asks the tour guide if he sees a shift to renewable energy sources happening soon.

“It’s inevitable,” the tour guide replies. “The question is what will happen to these jobs. Many people have worked here their entire lives.”

That night, after the tour, the group dines with Navajo high school students at a popular Italian restaurant in town. The students gather around long tables full of bread and pasta. A go-around of “likes” and “dislikes” breaks the tension, and brings out a unified wish from the group: a strong desire for a more sustainable future.

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his flute, that really got me.”

“It can be really depressing, and hard to wrap your head around the big issues,” says Jody Fairbanks, a student at the Colorado Mountain College and parttime ski instructor. “It’s not enough to be well-informed, and it’s not enough to care.

You actually have to do something.”

Not all of the students take for granted the more liberal points of views. Tyler Hutchinson, also of Colorado Mesa University, comes from a prominent family in the energy development sector. He has a photograph of his grandpa, a famous scientist, standing in front of the explosion from the first atom bomb test.

“What I’ve learned from this trip is that conservation and energy are both important in this world,” he says.

“Without collaboration, it’s a bunch of lawsuits and time wasted. We need to get to know each other on a personal basis, so the conservationists can feel how the energy people feel and vice versa. We need to work together.”

Bruce Gordon, founder of Eco Flight, barged into the motel room during a peak in the emotion, and jokingly called for everyone to put their hands in the air like it’s some kind of stick-up.

“Umm, Bruce,” Jane Pargiter, vice president of Eco Flight and Gordon’s long-term partner, begins, “It’s kind of a spiritual moment.”

The group laughs like they’ve known each other longer than the four days that are about to come to an end.

Gordon shifts gears, and clasps his hands and tells the students how proud he is of them.

“The best part for me on these trips is I am so inspired by the students — by your intellect, curiosity, enthusiasm and responsibility,” he says. “These are not traits that I see much.”

Gordon has spent his life as a pilot and has witnessed firsthand the drastic changes in landscape in a short period of time.

“I wanted to fly students because every time I took a politician or a decision-maker up in the air, nothing changed,” he says.

Part of the agreement between Eco Flight and the selected students is that they return to their universities and engage by writing articles and giving presentations.

“From the air, the Colorado River courses through the arid West like a bunch of veins. And those veins are drying up,” Basta says. “We fall asleep in our daily lives to how connected everything we do is to water. It’s our responsibility to do something about it.”

Cayte Bosler is a University of Colorado student and was a participant in this year’s Flight Across America.

Students on Flight Across America learn about water in the West — by airplane

by Cayte Bosler old Navajo boy named Leo, won a running competition put on by the town.

“That’s huge!” she says. He shyly smiles.

By the time the bread is snatched up, she learns that his grandfather died from cancer after a lifetime of working in the uranium mine.

“Their lives and families are wrapped up in the generating stations and mines,” Basta says later. “The boy I sat next to at dinner, I made the assumption that he was anti-mining because his grandpa had died, and then learned that his dad works at a mining plant. He made a distinction between coal and uranium mining as good and bad. They are so close to these issues, so to be able to fly [with] them, well, I’ll never forget their smiles.”

Fifteen Navajo high school students boarded the small planes the following morning. For many of them, it was their first time in a plane.

“I could see my home,” says one. “It was pretty cool.”

Tom Riggenbach, the students’ social studies teacher and founder of Navajo Yes, a nonprofit that organizes outings for Navajo youth, watched his students emerge from the planes with a proud smile. Hands in pockets, rocking back and forth, he speaks to the Flight Across America students about the status quo that pervades generations on the reservation.

“Almost half the students have a connection to coal and oil. It’s good livelihood for folks, but some of the issues present another side,” he says, referring to issues like environmental degradation and health concerns. “It’s a trick to balance those out. We are facing 50 percent unemployment on the reservation. Any time there is an opportunity for a new plant, it has a lot of appeal. I ask myself, why another coal mine? Why not a bed and breakfast hogan, or guided mountain bike tours?”

Flight Across America students spend hours deliberating each night in motels, sharing their thoughts and experiences. For many, after a day of asking tough questions and grappling intellectually, they get emotional.

“My boyfriend of four years has seen me cry maybe once, but even trying to talk about flying with the Navajo students, I just want to bawl,” says Skyler Nelson, a student at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. “I thought it was special, watching Jimmy play

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onathan Byers has blogged about repeat photography working like a time machine — he finds old photographs of the mountains, sometimes in books worth more than his camera, maps out where they were taken, hikes in to that spot, holds up the historic photo and travels to the past for a moment. Then, he takes a picture of the present, one that shows how the face of these peaks has changed — the snow thinned and the glaciers retreated.

This winter, he’s traveling through South America to concentrate his time in a region subject to ongoing debates about building dams that would change the face of the region forever and could have residual effects on the world’s second largest ice cap, found in the Chilean region of Patagonia.

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Cerro Fitz Roy, Ventisquero del Rio Blanco. A.M. de Agostini, 1945

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The following text and photos were submitted by Byers from South America. This piece is the first in a series that will cover Byers’ trip, reporting on his work recording changes to glaciers and snowpack in and around Patagonia National Park and, finally, on his attempt at Mount Fitz Roy, near El Chalten in southern Patagonia. First climbed in 1952 by French alpinists, the 11,020-foot-tall peak is still considered one of the most technically challenging on the planet.

People who spend time in the mountains are often the ones who notice the changes happening there. Every year there seems to be less snow for

skiing than I remember growing up. Likewise, the rivers seem to be running lower. I can remember having trouble crossing them on previous backpacking trips. And where I once crossed a river of glacier ice to get to a peak there is now a jumbled moraine.

While none of this is scientific proof, we’ve all seen it.

A few years ago, while I was working as a teacher in Yosemite National Park, a friend and I got the idea to find historic photographs of alpine areas and go out and repeat them to show the changes that have happened on a longer time scale. Using our skills as backpackers and climb-

ers, we could get to these places where early photographers once stood and come back with a current photo to show how they have changed. From this, we started the Alpine of the Americas Project, a citizen-science-based organization to have people see these changes for themselves by repeating photos, to provide valuable information for climate scientists and powerful visuals of the changes that are occurring. Over the last year, we’ve led trips, walked hundreds of miles, and repeated over 50 historic photos in the Sierra Nevada in California and the Andes in Patagonia. see PHOTOS Page 22

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or whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet acheived by other realms of the art world.

This observation, made by University of Colorado Boulder professor and acclaimed experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon, comes from his decades of experience making and teaching art films for an ever-small audience.

“Lots of filmmakers are trying to cross over into the [non-film] art world, because the experimental film world is kind of dead,” Solomon says. “[After] all these years of teaching and showing and great

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work, it’s about the same amount of people at these shows. It’s 30, or 40, maybe 10, 20 that are interested. Even though every filmmaker I know is interested in photography and painting and poetry, very few people from the other arts know about experimental film.”

Despite this, an organization called United States Artists recognized Solomon’s work this month when it awarded him a $50,000 grant. The organization, formed in 2005 with money from major philanthropic foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller, Prudential and Rasmuson, honors artists from all sorts of disciplines and awards 50 grants

each year. Solomon recently attended the organization’s gala at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Tim Robbins introduced a clip from a Solomon film to an audience of well-to-do patrons, including Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt.

“Tall drink of water, he is,” Solomon says of Robbins. “He actually said to me that he wanted to see the rest of it. He did me a nice turn.”

The award is much-deserved. Solomon first arrived at CU in 1991. Wooed partially by the prospect of working with Stan Brakhage, the experimental filmmaking legend and distinguished CU professor who died in 2003, Solomon had studied Brakhage’s work in college and been deeply influenced by it. His first encounter with the man went poorly. While Solomon was in school, Brakhage, 20 years Solomon’s senior, came to give a lecture and screen films. Brakhage in his younger days was a Boulder Weekly

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fiery and defensive advocate of experimental film, Solomon says, and Brakhage mistook a question of Solomon’s as an attack.

“He just basically slammed his hand on the desk and said, ‘Can’t you understand even simple street language?’” Solomon recalls, laughing. “He scared the hell out of me.”

The encounter shook Solomon and inspired him to make a film, “Rocketboy vs Brakhage,” about tearing down your heroes. When he later accepted the job at CU, the first thing he did was meet the man who had shouted at him from the lectern so many years ago. A star student, South Park co-founder Trey Parker, dropped him off for a lunch meeting with the man Solomon had studied, built a golden idol of and subsequently torn down. It was love at first sight, he says.

“Stan was waiting for me with a big bear hug, and we went out to lunch with his wife and his child,” Solomon says. “I think he was looking for a best friend. I was warned that he was going to burn through me like he did so many other people. It came close early on — we had a little tiff — but once we passed that, it never happened again.”

Solomon is best known for his work with celluloid. His painstaking process involves chemically manipulating the film stock and using an optical printer to re-photograph every frame. The resulting aesthetic stands alone in the experimental filmmaking world.

Watching his films is like gazing into the mouth of a volcano and glimpsing images bubbling up through the churning magma below. Faces and recognizable places briefly appear, only to be subsequently swallowed by the experimental emulsions for which he is known.

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A still from “Last Days in a Lonely Place” (2008)

“A figure in a Solomon film never entirely vanishes into the primordial soup, but is instead subjected to an oscillation between presence and absence, wherein his or her physical boundaries and the surrounding space become intertwined,” wrote film scholar Michael Sicinski.

A feature filmmaker Solomon is not. His filmic works mostly range between 10 and 40 minutes and contain no dialogue. Some films have a dark, menacing soundtrack, while others contain recognizable, popular songs; others still have no sound at all. The levels of abstraction — that is, the ease with which you can recognize the images he is manipulating with his emulsions — varies.

“My works are for the most part quite serious,” Solomon says. “Call them elegiac. I think that cinema is uniquely suited to express loss, because of the uncanny feeling that it’s happening as you’re watching it, by definition it’s lost. You’re already watching something that’s gone, including people who are

dead. It’s an apparition machine. It’s ghosts; it’s a conjuring machine.”

Solomon uses a mixture of his own footage and found footage to construct his images, and he blends the two almost imperceptibly. You get the feeling the camerawork is not the focus of his films.

Instead, Solomon creates meaning from pacing, from editing, the chemical processing of the film, and the images he selects for his emulsion experiments.

Though he makes abstract films, he grew up watching narrative films. He knew of Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, and he loved American films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and The Graduate. He says his films contain narratives, and his work, though incredibly abstract and lacking anything resembling a traditional story, is filled with intent and meaning.

“I do think my films are narrative,” Solomon says.

“They have figures in them. They’re not just abstractions; they’re more allegorical. One of the reasons I didn’t make those kinds of films is that I never would have believed them. I would have seen the actors … I would have remembered the arguments on set. I would remember it’s fake.”

But using other people’s footage doesn’t feel fake to him.

“I found found-footage as a way of substituting, because I found a truth value in it,” Solomon says. “If I had contrived myself it would have not felt true. I have that one extra layer of distance.”

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“He creates works that I think pull us in psychologically at the same time they’re getting us to think about the structure of what’s going on the screen,” Sicinski says. “They’re works that get us emotionally invested, and I think that’s something that avant-garde for many years has been suspicious of. ... I think Phil is one of the few avant-garde filmmakers that has made challenging, intellectual work that can call on all those emotional elements without sacrificing formalist [elements].”

• • • • “I don’t have kids of my own, and it’s great to get them fully diapered, smart and respectful,” Solomon says of his students.

His students have gone on to fill all types of roles in the film world, from Hollywood directors to experimental filmmakers. Solomon calls Trey Parker his “first friend” at the University of Colorado, though he doesn’t keep in touch with him. Alexis Martin Woodall is the producer of Fox’s Glee. Dominic Aluisi has worked as the first associate cameraman for many Hollywood directors, including Ron Howard and Oliver Stone.

One former student that Solomon keeps in close touch with is Derek Cianfrance, the director of the acclaimed Blue Valentine and the upcoming The Place Beyond The Pines. Cianfrance, a Colorado native, grew up with a library of VHS tapes instead of books, and he was dying to go to a film school on one of the coasts that produced one of his idols. The costs proved prohibitive, though, and he ended up at CU. “I was a little bummed out, and I was a little disappointed,” Cianfrance says.

“That all changed … when I started taking the courses, and one of the most influential teachers that I had was Phil.”

Cianfrance’s 2010 film, Blue Valentine, took him 12 years to make, partially because the script seemed daunting to those in Hollywood, who didn’t know if a film without a happy ending could be successful. The film ended up making $12 million at the box office worldwide. Without Solomon’s guidance, Cianfrance doesn’t know what kind of films he would have made.

“My third semester there, I was making my first 16 mm student film,” Cianfrance says.

“I went into his office and told him

A still from “Crossroad,” made with Mark Lapore (2005)

what it was going to be about. I tried to make a vampire film and was going to call it ‘Suck.’ He was so disappointed in me and so put off by my title, that he told me that he refused to support anything I made that had the title ‘Suck.’”

So Cianfrance hounded Solomon’s office hours, and the two morphed the initial idea into an Oedipal tale about a man’s relationship with his mother. The final product had a level of depth that was practically nonexistent in the original version, Cianfrance says.

“All of a sudden Phil had me doing something that if I had worked on it on my own it would have been naïve, misogynistic, just embarrassing,” he says.

“He helped lead me, and he taught me firsthand how to think about things and how to respect your ideas and respect people and not put garbage out into the world. I’ve never said anything about this movie ‘Suck’ because I’m so embarrassed that I actually wanted to do that.

And I can only imagine what kind of films I would be making had I not gone to film school and met Phil. If I had, without his tutelage, without his guidance, I would have made a film called ‘Suck’ and I would have had to live with that for the rest of my life. And thank God he never let me do that.”

• • • • Solomon’s work underwent a drastic change in the early 2000s. Having established himself as a master manipulator of celluloid, he, like many of his peers, delved into video. The switch to video wasn’t as shocking as the source material: violent video games.

“I taught a class in post-modernism and was watching films like The Matrix, and I just felt like the space was so crazy,” Solomon says. “And I thought, this has to be video games. People who are making these know video games. So I thought I would check it out and teach it.”

A Best Buy employee recommended Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It’s a controversial game that allows the player to commit a wide array of extremely violent acts, from beating up old ladies to mowing down innocent civilians with a Boulder Weekly

machine gun to beating up hookers. But the game also offers a gorgeously rendered, fully immersive world in which to explore, full of secret beauty and endless possibilities. The “sandbox” element of the game is what caught Solomon’s eye.

“What amazed me about the video games was how beautiful they were,” Solomon says. “There would be things like grass blowing. That’s not going to help you murder anybody better or make it more fun to murder; it’s just there, out of creativity and art direction. They had something unique. They wanted to make a world that you can play in, which is every kid’s fantasy, to make up an entire world. … I went in there and looked around, just as I would in the real world.

I sat by a tree and watched the sunset, things like that.”

He and his friend, filmmaker Mark Lapore, would sit on Solomon’s couch for hours as Solomon controlled the character, and Lapore would give him directions — “go over here, look at the train, walk around the tracks.” They ended up recording several scenes and stitching them together. They added a soundtrack, and the piece became 2005’s “Crossroad,” a five-minute piece.

Lapore took his own life shortly after the two completed the film. Devastated by the loss of his friend, Solomon went on to make a trilogy in memoriam, all using found footage he concocted from Grand Theft Auto. The three videos, “Rehearsals for Retirement,” “Last Days in a Lonely Place,” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming,” made waves in the academic world for their dark beauty, as well as how they marked a jarring departure from Solomon’s previous work.

“The works that established his reputation — as both an image alchemist and a master conjurer of plangent, all-enveloping moods — are so intimately bound to the specific properties of celluloid and emulsion that the shock upon seeing these new works cannot be overstated,” a surprised Sicinski wrote in an essay titled, “Phil Solomon Visits San Andreas and Escapes, Not Unscathed.”

“Phil was probably the last avantgarde filmmaker who I would have expected to start making digital work,” Sicinski told Boulder Weekly. “His work was so informed by the physical properties of cinema, how images kind of pulse and thrive and come to life in celluloid through light and grain.”

The movies are dark works full of images of haunting beauty. Shadow envelops the storefronts and streets of a digital city; ghostly figures speed around a park. A hearse flies through a rainstorm and crashes into the ocean. The specter of 9/11 — Lapore took his life on Sept. 11, 2005 — runs through the videos. Though they appropriate a form Boulder Weekly

that art critics have denigrated for years as “not art” (most prominently by Roger Ebert), the works are deadly serious and, most importantly, unironic.

“The key to my work is that it’s using this built-in ironic form to make something that’s utterly sincere. I think that’s what people are picking up on and are surprised by,” Solomon says.

The ambition of the videos show a restless artist intent on exploring new territories, not content to be stuck in his ways.

“It’s so rare that you can find someone, especially in filmmaking … who gets better with age,” says Cianfrance, saying that Solomon’s ability to grow artistically is inspirational. “Phil has never gotten soft. I loved to see this transformation that is happening in his work. It lets you know that you can grow as an artist, that all your best work doesn’t have to happen in your 30s.”

Solomon’s video game phase is not over yet, he says. His house is filled with dozens of two-terabyte hard drives full of HD footage from various video games that he wants to work into another piece.

He recently completed “Empire,” an homage to Andy Warhol’s eight-hour art film of the same name. Warhol filmed the Empire State Building for eight hours for his work; Solomon found a similar perspective for Grand Theft Auto’s version of the tower and recorded one day in videogame time, exactly 48 minutes.

He recently finished what is likely to be his last film work, called “American Falls.” It is a triptych, juxtaposing three images side-by-side, requiring three HD projectors to properly screen. Solomon says it’s his criticism of the crucial points in American history.

“It’s the best thing — well, most ambitious thing — I’ve ever done,” Solomon says.

Solomon is currently on a one-year sabbatical that has him on half-pay, and he says he will use the grant money in part to cover living expenses. The rest he’ll use for travel and research and equipment for future projects, he says.

He might invest in printing Blu-Rays of his work and start circulating it for public consumption.

Looking back on his work, Solomon cites a reactionary element present in all avant-garde films that has driven him to make more thoughtful, deliberately paced pieces.

“My films are also gentle these days, not so much when I was younger,” Solomon says. “But they are softer. They use dissolves. They’re slow. They move slow. Fast cutting belongs to … commercials and TV. Speed was once the province of the avant garde, but now it’s the ultimate capitalist tool.”

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emembering the spirit of Christmas can get difficult when parking lot road rage and wrestling over smartphones overtake Santa and good cheer. In reality, it may be time to take a deep breath and count your blessings. And what better way to let off steam than listening to the misery of others?

Twenty years ago David Sedaris wrote The Santaland Diaries, a chronicle of his time as a struggling actor in New York City forced to take a job as Santa’s elf at Macy’s Department Store.

His cynical take on the franchise of Christmas has stood the test of time as an alternative to the gooey, religious fare that can hide the realities of everyday life.

Adapted by Boulder Ensemble Theater Company (BETC) for the stage as a one-man show, SantaLand 4.0 is essentially a series of short stories that gather together at the end. It tells the story of how Sedaris survived a season as Crumpet the Elf, herding thousands of people through a fabricated departmentstore-wonderland to visit Santa. Sedaris/Crumpet irreverently observes his surroundings and caustically judges others, all the while dressed in candy cane leggings.

“This is one of the few holiday pieces out there that gives people an alternative to the sort of ‘happyhappy-joy-joy’ or the 97th version of A Christmas Carol they’ve seen,” says Steven Weitz, producing ensemble director for BETC, which brings this year’s performance to the Dairy Center through Dec. 24. “I actually think its cathartic for people to be able to step outside of [the holiday madness] and laugh with it.”

The director posits that SantaLand resonates among audiences because it balances snark with some truth about why we put ourselves through so much

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trouble this time of year.

“I think what Sedaris is getting at with the piece are the absurdities of the season,” Weitz says. “It may be more relevant now than it was when it was written, as Christmas and the holidays have continued to grow into this massive industry that comes earlier and earlier every year.”

Matt Zambrano, a local actor getting his first crack at the role of Sedaris, had no performative text in which to create the character other than NPR recordings of the Diaries. A veteran of comedic acting and slam poetry, he spent time this fall in New York, retracing the steps of Sedaris a generation ago.

Zambrano finds it fun to delve into a character who “believes he is smarter than everyone else around him.”

Zambrano has been working with Weitz and BETC to season the production, peppering in contemporary references and local flavor while honoring the truth of the original text.

“Reading [Sedaris’] text, a lot of his descriptions of what the world is like and what the people are like are entirely accurate, and I would venture to guess haven’t changed as much since the time that he wrote it,” Zambrano says.

Weitz sees a connection between the writer Sedaris and the Boulder community, one that Zambrano can exploit by bringing the audience along for the ride.

By making viewers participants rather than merely observers, BETC is able to fire shots across the bow of good taste.

“We do spike things up,” says Weitz. “When you’re doing something comic like this, it’s important to know who your audience is, so we found a couple of places to make things Boulder- and Colorado-centric.”

So what is the over/ under on Amendment 64 references?

“That was pretty lowhanging fruit,” Weitz admits before further explaining. “It’s more about finding little hooks that the audience can use to contextualize it for this place and time, as opposed to a more generic experience.”

For his part, Zambrano is curious to see how the intent of Sedaris comes across to Dairy Center audiences. Despite staying true to what Sedaris wrote, there are certain parts of the text that may be a tad offensive or off-color.

“I think a lot of people come expecting to see a Christmas show, you know, a light-hearted GrinchStole-Christmas sort of tale,” Zambrano says. “Come to find out, it’s more Bad Santa than anything else.”

That doesn’t mean the humor will fly over the heads of local theatergoers.

“Most people I’ve met in Boulder are smart and willing to accept sarcasm and the sort of irony [SantaLand Diaries] brings,” Zambrano says.

And if they come away angry or offended at something?

“If they do, then great,” Zambrano says. “It starts a dialogue and gets people talking about theater, and that’s never a bad thing.”

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Gold Hill Inn New Year’s Celebration — Featuring Tommy and the Tangerines, with the Gasoline Lollipops. Doors at 7 p.m. with a light buffet from 7 to 10 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $29 and include food and music. ($2 service charge for phone orders.)

Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

New Year’s Eve [Upstairs] — Seasonal winter cocktails and specials on oysters and champagne. 4:30 p.m. to close. The Kitchen [Upstairs], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0092.

The Goonies New Year’s Eve Concert. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

The Great Gatsby Gala — A ’20s style gala with music by Dressed in Black, featuring Mark Diamond on bass, and Quemando. Start the night with salsa dancing lessons, then move on to a buffet dinner of New York eats, followed by dancing. 8 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Honeycomb. 9 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Johnny O Band. 7 p.m. Blues and Greens at the Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Miracle + Wonder — New Year’s Eve at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Includes music, fortune telling, dancing, live art performance and painting. 9 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

New Year’s Eve Open Poetry Marathon. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

[Next Door] New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — Boulder’s Community Pub transforms into Boulder’s hottest dance party with DJ Jahsonic. Doors at 9 p.m. No cover, and no reservations required. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-542-8159.

Polar Plunge 2012 — The 30th anniversary of the Polar Plunge.

Best costumes get to jump in at the front of the line. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. Cost is $25.

Registration opens at 10 a.m. The plunge starts at 12 p.m. New Year’s Day. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder. For more information, visit www.alz.org/co.

Thrive in the Age of Aquarius — With the Dec. 21 solstice, many believe a new age of unity and consciousness begins and we move from the Piscean age into the age of Aquarius. Cross over with dance performances and music by Buddha Bomb, Orpheus, Sundragon and Mantra Matrix. Tickets $12 in advance, $17 at the door. 9 p.m. – 2 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Yonder Mountain String Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

ARVADA Muskateer Gripweed. 8 p.m. to midnight. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

BROOMFIELD The String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.

DENVER All Gold Everything NYE Soiree — With DJ KDJ, Ciroc cocktails, champagne toast and ball drop at midnight. $25 general admission, $35 VIP. 9 p.m. Bar Standard, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-5340222.

Amon Tobin — With Eprom & Kastle. 8 p.m. City Hall, 1144 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Annual Erotic Poetry Festival — Accompanied by Bollywood Belly Dancers. Admission is $6. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Best New Year’s Eve-r — Impulse Theater comedy show, dinner at Wynkoop Brewing Company, champagne and sparkling mead toast, live DJ in the pool hall. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. shows.

Impulse Theater and Wynkoop Brewing. Impulse Theater, 1634 18th St., Denver, 303-297-2111.

Birds of a Feather. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

The Black Angels — With Snake Rattle Rattle Snake and Chains of Love. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3771666.

Brazilian New Year — With Ginga band, and flower offerings to the gods. $20. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Champagne Hotel 4th Annual. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com.

The Chick Sings Frank — A Tribute to Sinatra, starring Lannie Garrett, with the Justin Adams Trio. 8 p.m. $125 per person. Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 16th St. Mall, Denver, 303-293-0075.

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Doors at 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2635 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

End of the World Extravaganza Hosted by Billy Hoke Thurs Dec. 20, 7:30-10:00pm

Dan Treanor & Afrosippi Blues Jams Every Tuesday & 2nd & 4th Sunday Jazz Jams Every 1st & 3rd Sunday PLAYERS WELCOME Boulder Weekly

Sat Dec. 22 8:00-10:00pm

Rachel & The Ruckus Fri Dec. 21 8:00-10:30pm

Taylor Scott & The Big Payback Thurs Dec. 27, 7:30-10:00pm

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CALENDAR from Page 31 Tavern NYE Olive Drop & Fireworks Celebration — With complimentary champagne toast and party favors. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Market St. and the Cowboy Lounge, 1941 Market St., Denver, www.tavernhg.com.

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Doors at 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2635 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Comedy Works Downtown Presents Ryan Sickler. Shows at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Twista — Live performance for New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078.

The White Rose Gala — A Theatre de Marionette theme will take over the entire hotel. Featuring Kelli Said, DJ Ms. Vicious and Got Bass Cave with DJ Vinnie. Ten-story balloon drop, more than 40 performers, 10 DJs, a live band, human marionettes, five ballrooms. Elegant attire. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com.

Comedy Works DTC Presents Greg Warren.

Shows at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800.

Cracker — With The Yawpers. 9 p.m Soiled Dove, 7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001.

Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party — With Nacho Men, Dueling Piano and a dance party. Party-only tickets are $139. Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.

Zoo Year’s Eve — Zoo Lights and a family dance party. 5:30-10 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.

Dot Lunch New Years Party — With Dotsero and Hotlunch. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Sherman Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-443-1000.

ENGLEWOOD 3OH!3 — With the Epilogues, Chain Gang of 1974, My Body Sings Electric. 7 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.

Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more information, call 303-534-6161.

FORT COLLINS Elephant Revival — With Mandarin Orange. 8 p.m. Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300.

Five Iron Frenzy — With Project 86, Showbread and Eleventyseven. Doors at 6 p.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-242-8923.

LAFAYETTE New Year’s Eve — With She Groovez, threecourse dinner. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. seatings.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Howl at the Moon New Year’s Eve Party — Dueling piano bar. Packages from $40 to $100. 9 p.m. Howl Denver, 1735 19th St., Denver, 303291-0880.

WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, parade musical performance by Eric West at 11 a.m. and special countdown at noon. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Latin New Year’s Eve Fiesta. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-3528.

The Lumineers — With Shovels & Rope, Paper Bird. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Mancub — With Il Cattivo, Thee Dang Dangs, Black Amex. Doors at 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Milk the Clock New Year’s Eve Party. 8 p.m. Milk, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.

New Year’s Evening Dinner — A three-course tour of Scandanavian culinary heritage blended with modern American cuisine for $70 with optional alcohol pairing for $25. Seatings include a champagne toast.

Trillium, 2134 Larimer St., Denver, 303-379-9759.

A Night in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — A Viennese-style concert to ring in the new year with waltzes, polkas and marches. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876.

Noon Year’s Eve — The Children’s Museum of Denver recreates Times Square with glittery ball drops, confetti and arts projects. 9 a.m.

– 4 p.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.

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LAKEWOOD Oakhurst. 9:15 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Denver, 720-932-1700.

On the Spot — New Year’s Eve improv comedy shows at 4 p.m. for family, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Each show ends in time to catch the fireworks downtown. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722.

Otis Taylor. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

The Ricky Earl Band. Katie Mullens, 1550 Court St., Denver, 303573-0336.

Roaring ’20s New Year’s Eve at the Corner Office — A roaring ’20s party with the music of The Hot Club of Pearl Street Band. Dinner service starts at 4 p.m., live music at 9 p.m. Tickets are $30. The Corner Office, 1401 Curtis St., Denver, 720-889-4727.

World Music Night — With Boulder Chamber Orchestra. $25 general admission, $50 box seats. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7876.

LONGMONT The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged — A special New Year’s Eve performance of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $40-$60. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Bunkner Funken Band — Funky NYE party. 7:24 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Hey Lady — With the Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Singles Only New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — With party favors, champagne toast at midnight, cash bars. 7:30 p.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000.

LYONS

New Year’s Eve Party. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303997-9911.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

NEDERLAND

New Year’s Eve Party with BAD/HCO. Eden, 3090 Downing St., Denver, 303-832-5482.

Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Riff Raff New Year’s Eve Party — Free. The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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CALENDAR from Page 31 Tavern NYE Olive Drop & Fireworks Celebration — With complimentary champagne toast and party favors. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Market St. and the Cowboy Lounge, 1941 Market St., Denver, www.tavernhg.com.

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Doors at 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2635 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Comedy Works Downtown Presents Ryan Sickler. Shows at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Twista — Live performance for New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078.

The White Rose Gala — A Theatre de Marionette theme will take over the entire hotel. Featuring Kelli Said, DJ Ms. Vicious and Got Bass Cave with DJ Vinnie. Ten-story balloon drop, more than 40 performers, 10 DJs, a live band, human marionettes, five ballrooms. Elegant attire. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com.

Comedy Works DTC Presents Greg Warren.

Shows at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800.

Cracker — With The Yawpers. 9 p.m Soiled Dove, 7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001.

Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party — With Nacho Men, Dueling Piano and a dance party. Party-only tickets are $139. Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.

Zoo Year’s Eve — Zoo Lights and a family dance party. 5:30-10 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.

Dot Lunch New Years Party — With Dotsero and Hotlunch. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Sherman Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-443-1000.

ENGLEWOOD 3OH!3 — With the Epilogues, Chain Gang of 1974, My Body Sings Electric. 7 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.

Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more information, call 303-534-6161.

FORT COLLINS Elephant Revival — With Mandarin Orange. 8 p.m. Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300.

Five Iron Frenzy — With Project 86, Showbread and Eleventyseven. Doors at 6 p.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-242-8923.

LAFAYETTE New Year’s Eve — With She Groovez, threecourse dinner. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. seatings.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Howl at the Moon New Year’s Eve Party — Dueling piano bar. Packages from $40 to $100. 9 p.m. Howl Denver, 1735 19th St., Denver, 303291-0880.

WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, parade musical performance by Eric West at 11 a.m. and special countdown at noon. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Latin New Year’s Eve Fiesta. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-3528.

The Lumineers — With Shovels & Rope, Paper Bird. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Mancub — With Il Cattivo, Thee Dang Dangs, Black Amex. Doors at 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Milk the Clock New Year’s Eve Party. 8 p.m. Milk, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.

New Year’s Evening Dinner — A three-course tour of Scandanavian culinary heritage blended with modern American cuisine for $70 with optional alcohol pairing for $25. Seatings include a champagne toast.

Trillium, 2134 Larimer St., Denver, 303-379-9759.

A Night in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — A Viennese-style concert to ring in the new year with waltzes, polkas and marches. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876.

Noon Year’s Eve — The Children’s Museum of Denver recreates Times Square with glittery ball drops, confetti and arts projects. 9 a.m.

– 4 p.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.

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LAKEWOOD Oakhurst. 9:15 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Denver, 720-932-1700.

On the Spot — New Year’s Eve improv comedy shows at 4 p.m. for family, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Each show ends in time to catch the fireworks downtown. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722.

Otis Taylor. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

The Ricky Earl Band. Katie Mullens, 1550 Court St., Denver, 303573-0336.

Roaring ’20s New Year’s Eve at the Corner Office — A roaring ’20s party with the music of The Hot Club of Pearl Street Band. Dinner service starts at 4 p.m., live music at 9 p.m. Tickets are $30. The Corner Office, 1401 Curtis St., Denver, 720-889-4727.

World Music Night — With Boulder Chamber Orchestra. $25 general admission, $50 box seats. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7876.

LONGMONT The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged — A special New Year’s Eve performance of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $40-$60. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Bunkner Funken Band — Funky NYE party. 7:24 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Hey Lady — With the Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Singles Only New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — With party favors, champagne toast at midnight, cash bars. 7:30 p.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000.

LYONS

New Year’s Eve Party. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303997-9911.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

NEDERLAND

New Year’s Eve Party with BAD/HCO. Eden, 3090 Downing St., Denver, 303-832-5482.

Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Riff Raff New Year’s Eve Party — Free. The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Holiday Glamour Different stages to glamorize yourself Personal • Holiday Parties • NYE Events December 28th • 11am - 3pm

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 19

MADLIB & DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN W/ SHIGETO, JOE NICE, THE WIDDLER & BUKUE ONE

FEAT LUKE MILLER & CHUCK MORRIS OF LOTUS & BEARD-O-BEES FEAT JESSE MILLER OF LOTUS W/ COSBY SWEATER & TNERTLE

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THURSDAY DECEMBER 20

THE END OF THE WORLD

THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD PARTY & THE UNLIMITED ASPECT DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 SUB.MISSION & CERVANTES’ PRESENT

FEAT UNLIMITED ASPECT, OG STATUS, CLOUD-D, MHSM ORCHESTRA, KRUZA KID, ASSUAGE & DAMNESIA-VU

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FREE SHOW! P-NUCKLE & T.U.G.G. W/ SPECIAL GUESTS

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IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK & THE PIMPS OF JOYTIME

FRIDAY DEC 21

NOLAN MCINNIS DAVE TAMKIN & DICK PRALL SATURDAY DEC 22

MONDAY DEC 24

$6 BURGER & FRIES! TUESDAY DEC 25

KILLAGRAHAM & DIAMOND PISTOLS

W/ REBUDZ RESIDENTS, DUB GMC & MR. PEEBS

THURSDAY JANUARY 10

SALVA & BRENMAR W/ THORAZINE

FRIDAY JANUARY 11

PIGS ON THE WING

FEAT DAVID MURPHY OF STS9 PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF PINK FLOYD

SATURDAY JANUARY 12

NIGHT SLUGS TOUR

FEAT BOK BOK, GIRL UNIT, L-VIS1990 & KINGDOM

FRIDAY & SATURDAY JANUARY 18-19

CERVANTES 10TH ANNIVERSARY FEAT VERY SPECIAL GUESTS

FRIDAY JANUARY 25

ROBERT WALTER’S 20TH CONGRESS

FEAT CHEME GASTELUM, CHRIS STILLWELL & SIMON LOTT W/ KUNG FU & FROGS GONE FISHIN’ W/ THE HORNY TOADS (HORN SECTION)

SATURDAY JANUARY 26

GREAT AMERICAN TAXI

FEAT VINCE HERMAN OF LEFTOVER SALMON W/ POOR MAN’S WHISKEY

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2

SO-GNAR PRESENTS DUAL ROOM SHOW

WINTER SHREDDED BEATS

GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS

BROTHER ALI - PROF DANNY BROWN

TRIVIA NIGHT

OTT & THE ALL-SEEING

WEDNESDAY DEC 26 • 8:30pm

SERVING THE HIGHEST QUALITY INGREDIENTS REAL FOOD REAL PEOPLE • REAL MUSIC

EVIDENCE - MTHDS & DJ ABILITIES

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8 (LIVE BAND) W/ KILOWATTS

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9

VICTOR WOOTEN BAND W/ GARRETT SAYERS TRIO

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22

MACEO PARKER SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23

JUNO WHAT?!

W/ DAM FUNK

FRIDAY MARCH 29

STOP MAKING SENSE

PERFORMED IN IT’S ENTIRETY BY THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE BAND)

SATURDAY APRIL 20

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 28

FEAT DJ LOGIC, MEMBERS OF TIGER PARTY & KINETIX & BILLY FRANKLIN’S SMOKE N BONES

FEAT MAGIC BEANS, TIGER PARTY, SUNSQUABI & COLD RIVER CITY SATURDAY JANUARY 5

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 23

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MONDAY DECEMBER 31 (NYE)

FRIDAY JANUARY 4

Acoustic open Mic

W/ YOUR BABIES DADDY & BROCK ELAM

SATURDAY DECEMBER 29

SHEBANGABANG 2013

THURSDAY DEC 20 • 8:30pm

SAM HOLT BAND

“SOUTHERN ANGELS” CD RELEASE PARTY

TIPPER & RANDOM RAB

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD

Beginning 9:30 Nightly

SATURDAY DECEMBER 22

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W/ ILL-ESHA, SEIED, TATANKS, VS, CUALI & ALPHA DATA

UPCOMING SHOWS

PAMLICO SOUND

W/ HIGHWAY 50 FEAT MEMBERS OF THE SAMPLES & BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS & SHRINK

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 30

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LUKE THE KNIFE

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STEEZ

W/ IN DUE TIME, ELEPHANT WRECKING BALL & DIGITAL BEATDOWN

FRIDAY JANUARY 4

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SATURDAY JANUARY 5

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FEAT SAM HOLT, TORI PATER, SPANKY, ERIC MARTINEZ & ANDY CLAPP W/ TURKUAZ

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ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT BADKLAAT & COFFI WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9

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THURSDAY JANUARY 10

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SOPHISTAFUNK W/ COLD RIVER CITY

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16

CONCERT FOR KIDS FEAT MINI WEAPON, RODWAY & LUCID VISION

FRIDAY JANUARY 18

THE REMINDERS

W/ PAA KOW’S BY ALL MEANS BAND, QUIZ & RAW RUSS (ELM & OAK) & DJ LAZY EYEZ

SATURDAY JANUARY 19

GRAVITY A

W/ WILL BERNARD TRIO

SUNDAY JANUARY 20

SPONGECAKE & THE FLUFF RAMBLERS W/ CLIFF HINES

THURSDAY JANUARY 24

SWEATSHOP UNION

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FRIDAY JANUARY 25

ANTHONY B

SUNDAY JANUARY 27

ROOKES “COLOSSAL CHRONICLES” ALBUM RELEASE PARTY FEAT DJ BLACKSHEEP

W/ HR PEOPLE, EPOCH WHEN & D STYLZ

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30

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T

o hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band.”

“It just kinda happened, really,” says Austin, who goes by the stage name C1 in the Denver rap group. “I was always more of a solo artist, and I was in and out of differON THE BILL: The Foodchain ent circles, but plays with a DJ set from 9th Wonder I was never Dec. 20 at the Bluebird Theater.

Myke Charles, Spoke In Wordz, DJ really tied to Chonz and SP Double open. Doors one particular at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15. 16 and group. With older only. 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

The Foodchain it just kinda happened — before I know it, we’re a group.”

The band’s hip-hop is a blend in many ways. The group — four MCs, two DJs, a drummer and a keyboardist — includes Midwesterners from Chicago and Milwaukee, and the lyrical style pretty well reflects a blend of East Coast, West Coast and Midwest, with some emphasis on the hard-hitting, internal-rhyme-heavy East Coast style. A guest spot from dexterous New York rap legend Talib Kweli on 2010’s Corpses feels perfectly natural.

Musically, the group’s chorus-based, extremely approachable hooks fit effortlessly with back-to-back verses from highly talented MCs. All of which means Foodchain faces a relatively common problem in hip-hop, and in the music industry in general: How do you get people to notice really good music?

“We released about 10,000 individual copies of the album,” MC Jayce Cabell, known onstage as FL, says of Foodchain’s first album. “We went right to the people and gave music out. We didn’t sell it to anybody.”

“No one knew who we were, so we compiled some songs and gave them to people, kind of swarmed the city with it,” Austin says. “It was tough, you know.

Foodchain members, left to right: C1,Champsoundkillablack, DJ Louiscide and Mic Coats perform at South by Southwest.

Hard to even give people a CD. They were expecting us to ask for some money.”

That included thousands of handout sessions in Boulder, where the group built a solid following, the rappers say.

“Self-promotion has worked out really well for us, especially in the beginning,” Austin says.

And a central part of Foodchain’s self-promotion was being willing to take a big risk, spending thousands on their music and then giving it away for free.

Austin brushes off the costs; he says expecting short-term revenue isn’t the way to build a band.

“We felt that if we have the resources to do that right now, why not let people know who we are?” he says. “We figure, if we continue to make good music, all of that comes with it. … Not only is it music, it is a business. But, you know, we weren’t expecting quick returns. We’re in it for the long term. So all that’ll come.”

In the meantime, the group’s building a following using both face-to-face handouts and social media like YouTube and Facebook, where you can find a link to download Foodchain’s Brunch for free. Meanwhile, the group’s chilled-out 11-song Summer Series is available free from SoundCloud.

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Boulder choir carols traditionally with atypical arrangements

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“We try to handle all the social media,” Austin says. “We really don’t got nobody doing that; we’re not outsourcing that. The self-marketing has been effective for us.”

“You gotta promote yourself,” Cabell says. “The Internet is only one aspect.

You gotta get out and pound the pavement, talk to people, show them you’re a normal human being.”

He says one of the benefits of being in a large group is being able to handle promotion without help.

“I see as the advantage, we do everything in-house,” Cabell says. “That’s a great benefit to what we’re doing independently. To create

music is not cheap.”

And the two MCs say the old standby of local promotion, radio, doesn’t offer many opportunities for promoting hip-hop.

“Radio plays a very little role in Colorado,” Cabell says, noting that most radio stations give airplay only to national Top 40 hits. “Somewhere like Basementalism” — the weekly CU-Boulder student radio program — “they do play local music, but it’s not as visited as 107.5,” a Denver station that plays Top 40 R&B. “The YouTube thing is more important than the DJ,” says Austin, “because when you put it on the net, that’s worldwide.”

And that’s the goal — a goal the group is approaching with its next album, he says.

“All the albums we put out previous is just practice. All the shows is just practice, preparing us for what’s to come next,” Austin says.

He says there was a moment recently when the band recognized how big it could become.

“Whoa, we do have something,” Austin says. “We can really perfect this. We’ve been playing around with it, but it’s serious now.”

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here are probably few choir groups that have ever performed with such emotion that they evoked tears from their audience, but in December 2010, caroler Debbie Giallombardo remembers a woman almost brought to tears by what she was singing on the Pearl Street Mall.

She, along with others calling themselves the Boulder’s Bike Underpass Choir, was not singing “We Wish You A Merry Christmas,” she was singing an a capella arrangement of the Zimbabwean National Anthem.

“We go roaming on the mall for

Christmas and we sing Christmas carols and African tunes,” Giallombardo recalls. “And a woman from Africa came up to us and she said, ‘I’ve been so homesick, then I’m walking in Boulder, Colo., and someone is singing the national anthem!’ It was really moving, she was really touched.”

Since 2009, this guerilla choir has been performing unannounced, impromptu “singing attacks” in the underpasses and storefront recesses around Boulder. Their choice in music, their background and the preferred see UNDERPASS Page 36

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venue make this group one of the most distinctive choirs caroling in Boulder this holiday season.

Composed of eight to 10 regular bike commuters who met through the Colorado Coalition for African Music, Dance & Culture, Bike Underpass’ members are as eclectic as their repertoire. Among the regulars are physicists, paragliding instructors and the occasional Boulder High School student.

Only one member, Sara Green, grew up listening to songs with names like “Danna Kameme,” “Tiregererei,” and “Shosholoza.” Born in Swaziland, the tiny, landlocked African country bordered on three sides by South Africa and the other by Mozambique, Green moved from South Africa to Arizona 11 years ago. She arrived in Boulder in 2005 and has been singing regularly with the group for the past nine months.

“I got to know these guys through playing marimba, and it satisfies a homesickness for me to hear the harmonies,” Green says.

What draws other members to the music is the challenging singing that African music presents serious carolers.

Sam Richman, a physicist at Research Electro-Optics in Boulder, is a member and past president of the Boulder Chorale. He says singing the African songs helps to expand his music capabilities.

“It stretches me musically,” he says.

“And there’s a little bit of an improvisational aspect; when we sing these songs, we tend not to perform them exactly the same way, and that’s different from a big score of sheet music.”

Members say that, unlike a traditional choir, Zimbabweans teach songs by ear, and in the underpasses only the newest members hold a binder filled with lyrics.

The vast majority of the songs they sing are traditional African songs, either from Zimbabwe or South Africa, although they occasionally mix in some traditional Christmas songs

and can break into a jazzy a capella arrangement of “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin at the drop of a scarf.

After performing together for three years, they have about 10 songs in their repertoire, and try to add three new songs each year. Besides African music, they’ve also learned an a capella version of a song by Crosby, Stills & Nash.

The group is so focused on South African music that it is regularly invited to Zimfest, a national Zimbabwean Music Festival.

What appeals to these musicians about underpasses is the natural acoustics.

Their favorite locations include the newly built underpass at Broadway and Euclid Avenue, the underpass that bridges the Hill and CU across Broadway and the underpass on campus at Regent Drive. Those present at the opening of the underpass at Broadway and Euclid Avenue in September might recognize Bike Underpass as part of the entertainment from that event.

“It sounds great, you can hear all the harmony and you don’t have to sing very loud,” says founder Lisa Seaman. “I really don’t like singing into microphones, and in the underpasses you can hear everything, and it’s not at the whim of how close the mic is.”

For a choir that is not exclusive to Christmas hymns and classics, Bike Underpass is surprisingly traditional.

During a holiday season where images of Christmas carolers dusted with recent snowfall traveling door-to-door are seen in magazine advertisements and on television, very few formal choir groups perform exclusively in the streets without a tip jar at their feet.

With group members scattered across the country this holiday season, Bike Underpass does not have any scheduled performances before Christmas, but a small group said they may go caroling on Christmas Eve. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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

Acoustic Open Mic. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303993-2094.

Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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End of the World Extravaganza — Hosted by Billy Hoke.

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

Face Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m.

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

Judge Roughneck. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1911 11th St., Boulder, 303-443-9902.

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Minor Melody. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill. 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

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

The People’s Abstract. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. events Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Danny Shafer and the 21st Century. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

End/Beginning of the World Party — With TeleDonna and Sweet Corn. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Fox St. All-Stars. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Hot Soup & Dead/Phish Orchestra. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Janine Gastineau & her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Jeff Scroggins and The Colorado Bluegrass Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Last Men on Earth. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

LeftFoot Green. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Nolan McInnis. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. see PANORAMA Page 40

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PK String Band. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

Rachel and the Ruckus. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Retro Radio. 5 p.m. Bogey’s Eatery and Spirits, 6525 Gunpark Drive #380, Boulder, 303-5307423.

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Santa Claus and Scott Von. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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events A Broadway Christmas Carol — Created by Kathy Feininger, presented by University of Colorado Theatre & Dance. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

From BroaDWaY To ParK aVeNue. iT’s classY! (Beside the Dollar Tree) 695 s. Broadway 303-494-1770 www.theatricalcostumesetc.com hours 10am - 7pm open 7 days a week

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gym built for kids!

D.D. LaRue — Visiting artist event. 2-6 p.m.

SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Equinox Party — Dawn of the Age of Aquarius.

7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Maya Millenia Masquerade Ball. 3 p.m. – 3 a.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, coloradosolstice.com.

Santa Solstice. 12 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Solstice Event — Led by Valerie D’Ambrosio.

5:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Saturday, December 22 music

Open gyms

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Dan Treanor — With Afrosippi. 7:30 p.m.

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

Dave Tamkin. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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David Booker Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

Dubwise Collective World Revival Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Esther Sparks and The Whiskey Remedy.

10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland,

Gasoline Lollipops — With Danny Shafer & The Broken Everlys. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

James Egbert & Ecto Cooler. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

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

Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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

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

Roscoe’s Dusty Bottle Boxcar Band. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. events A Broadway Christmas Carol — Created by Kathy Feininger, presented by University of Colorado Theatre & Dance. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

The Christmas Revels Winter Solstice celebration. 2 & 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Colorado Giftmas. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, www.coloradoevents.com.

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

Open House and Psychic & Healing Arts Fair. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center of Boulder, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2523962.

St. Nick’s on the Bricks — Free visits with Santa. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Downtown Boulder Visitor Information Center, 1301 Pearl St., Boulder, www.boulderdowntown.com.

Sunday, December 23 music

Caitlin Grace McDonnell, author of Looking for Small Animals, reads on Dec. 23 at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore

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Parties Schools Groups

ALL Ages & Abilities

Chris Daniels, The Kings and lots of friends.

8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

303-258-7733.

Friday, December 21

Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Boulder Bookies — Book discussion group on How it All Began, by Penelope Lively. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Sunday, December 23

Saturday, December 22 Lawrence King — Host of the radio show “Book Talk with Lawrence King.” 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St.,

Caitlin Grace McDonnell — Poetry reading by the author of Looking for Small Animals. 3 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, December 24 So You’re a Poet? — A Christmas Eve open poetry reading. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Kort McCumber. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Steve Manshel. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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DVS — With The Comedians and Honeytree Whiskey. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Dec. 23.

K.C. Groves & Arthur Lee Land. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

A Broadway Christmas Carol — Created by Kathy Feininger, presented by University of Colorado Theatre & Dance. 2 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Colorado Giftmas. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Boulder

County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, www.coloradoevents.com.

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

Night Before Christmas Eve Concert — Featuring Gregory Alan Isakov, Reed Foehl and Stewart Lewis. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Abandoned — Photography by Mark Ivins.

The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Through Feb. 17.

Alphabotanical — Pen and ink drawings

by Michael Shernick.

Mercury Framing, 4692 North Broadway, Boulder, www.AlphaBotanicalArt.com. Through

Becoming Van Gogh. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Jan 20.

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Feb. 10.

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

Dana Schutz: If the Face had Wheels.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb 13.

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

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

Histories from Eight Rectilinear Boundaries — Annaday Hiser. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Through Jan. 11.

Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday — Selections from CU’s painting collection.

CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303492-8300. Through Dec. 22.

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

Through Jan. 27.

Reunion: What Made You Start Again?

— By Jessica Knapp, Mary Pat LaMair, Christopher Lavery, Katie Queen, Polly Gates Simmons and Lori Warren. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Jan. 11.

Soma — Works in felt. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Jan. 11.

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Theatrical Costumes, Etc. Girls & Boys Costumes!

Huge Selection!

Parents, get your costumes now; only 4 days until Christmas!

Irving Berlin dolls up the holidays in White Christmas

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

Through Feb.13.

Boulder Fringe Festival — Applications for performances opened Dec. 15. www.boulderfringe.com or 303-803-5643.

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A Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex Stage Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100.

Through Dec. 30.

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Mame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747.

Through Jan. 13.

Miracle on 34th Street. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 23.

The SantaLand Diaries. Dairy Center for the Arts, 590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Dec. 24.

Scrooge. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Dec. 30.

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

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Neil Bridge 7+ — With Karen Lee. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Christmas Eve Dinner — A seasonal threecourse dinner. Black Cat Farm Table Bistro, 1964 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-5500.

Musical Storytime — With Alice and Melanie.

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

Christmas Eve Dinner — A three-course menu. OAK at Fourteenth, 1400 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3622.

Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

“So, You’re a Poet” — Christmas Eve open poetry reading. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Tuesday, December 25

Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

Amazing Ornaments and Gift Tags. 11 a.m.

WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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

Sunday, December 23

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

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

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

Wednesday, December 26 music Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Blues Jam — With The Firebreathers. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733.

Blues Jam — Hosted by Todd Johnson. 8 p.m.

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

Christmas Blues Jam. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Jack Hadley. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

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

Through Dec. 24.

Monday, December 24 Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.

Wednesday, December 26 Kwanza Crafts. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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

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

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Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — The Reader of Omaha Neb.

Amped-up violence meets political and economic commentary in this adaptation of George Higgins’ novel Cogan’s Trade, directed by Andrew Dominik. Brad Pitt plays chill hit man Jackie Cogan, who has been hired to catch three guys who have decided to rob a Mob-protected card game. Rated R. At Century.

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Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage, but six Americans escape to the home of a Canadian ambassador. A CIA agent comes forward to get them out of the country before they’re found. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

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Set in the snowy wilds of northern Michigan, this crime thriller abounds in action chases and gripping tension. Tooclose siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong when their car crashes, stranding them in the wilderness. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres

THE GUILT TRIP Before setting off on one of the biggest trips of his life, Andy Brewster makes a quick stop at his mom’s house and unexpectedly picks her up to join on his personal adventure. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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The remarkable and improbable story of I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, where 65 percent of the student body lives below the poverty level, yet it has the highest-ranked junior high chess team in the nation. The film’s heart lies in the journey of each of the students on the team. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Fans now can watch for the first time this digitally remastered and carefully restored version of what is considered to be the best Doors performance captured on film.

With interviews of the band, it will appeal to fans old and new. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock — cinema’s “master of suspense” and the extraordinary film icon known for orchestrating some of the most intense experiences of menace and intrigue audiences have ever seen — was a hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. At Mayan and Century. –– Landmark Theatres

CHASING ICE Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. At Century. –– Landmark Theatres CHICKEN WITH PLUMS From the creators of Persepolis, this is the story of Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day. Since his beloved violin was broken, he has lost all taste for life and decides to confine himself to bed to await death. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater CHRISTMAS IN ACIDLAND Fun for the whole family, with an extra dose of fun for the ironically inclined, this is a time-tripping harvest of quaint seasonal snippets and some bizarre holiday media detritus. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Boulder Weekly

ET: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Enjoy it the way we did the first time — the original theatrical version before CGI changes and rifles-becoming-radios redux.

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In this personal and entertaining piece of Americana, Ed Burns weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Over the course of a day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop.

At SIE FilmCenter. –– Landmark Theatres

GRAND ILLUSION It’s a WWI POW camp for French man-ofthe-people pilot Jean Gabin and aristocratic staff observer Pierre Fresnay after they’re shot down by equally aristocratic German Erich von Stroheim. This 1930s French film is one of the world’s great classics. At SIE FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society

See full review page 46. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

JACK REACHER The tough-as-nails main character of 17 Lee Child crime thriller novels is brought to the screen in this film, an adaptation of the book One Shot. The 6-foot-5 protagonist, portrayed by the 5-foot-7 Tom Cruise, uncovers a plot to frame an Army veteran.

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

Set in iconic New York City and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener as members of a world-renowned string quartet who, despite their passion for music, struggle to stay together when their patriarch is diagnosed with a terminal illness. The repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine, with power struggles and illicit affairs. Rated R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater LAY THE FAVORITE Beth Raymer is an intense, excited, beautiful girl with a huge heart who gives up stripping in Florida to realize her dream: to become a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas.

When she doesn’t land a job, she lucks into meeting Dink, an idiosyncratic sports gambler who sees potential and ability under Beth’s bubbly exterior. At SIE FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society LIFE OF PI 3D A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, coyly named Richard Parker. The film follows the odd couple’s lifeboat as Pi devises ways to stay alive and tame his beastly companion. Shot in 3-D, the film is a visual feast and is an almost certain to receive a Best Picture nomination. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. LINCOLN This is all about the creation of the penny.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is awesome by the literal definition of the word, in that its relentless action, staggeringly nuanced performances and wholly “lived-in” environment once more give cause to sit slack-jawed in awe. But since we’ve already seen writer/director Peter Jackson’s take on the series, the trolls that live in the blackest corners of the Internet or the least syndicated columnists have been patiently waiting with baited breath to feast upon a series that brazenly dared to be both critically and commercially successful.

Once more teaming with writer/producers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and adding first-time writer and onceproposed director Guillermo del Toro, the fear going in to this first of an announced trilogy was a fear of blubber, fluff and fat.

Basically, even if people were on board for Jackson once more feasting at the trough of Tolkien, taking three servings suggested greed and portended a cinematic sausage too stuffed with tasteless filling. If this first installment is any indication, nine hours may not be enough.

At a leisurely pace, we are introduced to a younger Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and reintroduced to Gandalf (Ian McKellen), who comes to the Hobbit’s Shire with an offer of adventure to reclaim a dwarf kingdom from a dragon. The dwarf posse may be small, but nobody should be Sleepy or Dopey on bad-asses like Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), the warrior king, or Balin (Ken Stott), the aged but savage, split-bearded ax-wielder. All parties get to know one another over a dinner with

far too much flatulence humor, leaving Bilbo with a choice to stay sheltered or venture out into a great big world for such a tiny group of fellas.

Once the journey begins, Jackson is relentless. Giant raging wolf-dog-things, bloated trolls and waves of orcs and goblins relentlessly pound the group, with only the briefest of respites here and there. McKellen, who should at least be given an Oscar nomination (since no one takes those seriously anymore) as a gesture for having created such a legendary and lasting character, is the glue here, but Freeman is the star. His charismatic everyman who is slowly becoming the best version of himself makes Elijah Wood’s Frodo from the Lord of the Rings trilogy look positively cartoonish.

In fact, Armitage’s Thorin may well be the action equivalent of Viggo Mortensen when things are said and done, which is just another example of the series not falling off as so many expected/wanted it to do. It’s just under three hours, but it doesn’t feel that way, so complaints about length were cocked and loaded prior to admission, and the breakneck pace certainly does away with any concerns about too much straying to fill a run time.

Honestly, it’s a better and more complete movie than Return of the King or Fellowship of the Ring; heck, it may well be Jackson’s best film ever. If the overwhelming criticism is “sure it’s good, but we’ve seen it before” or “it’s good but there is too much of it,” those are just what compliments look like in an age of cynicism. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is more of the same, and when “the same” is awesome, that’s a good thing.

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NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION With 25,000 lights on the roof, the SWAT team taking siege outside, and an exploding turkey on the dining room table, the Griswold family celebrates the holiday in true National Lampoon style. Rated PG-13.

At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres PLAYING FOR KEEPS A has-been soccer star tries to turn his life around by reconnecting with his son. As coach of his son’s soccer team, though, he catches the eye of a fleet of soccer moms.

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

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RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D Childhood legends such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny team up with Jack Frost to protect the imagination and beliefs of children. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW The longest-running midnight movie of all time stars Tim Curry as the kinky yet endearing “transvestite from Transylvania” Dr. Frank N. Furter. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres A ROYAL AFFAIR The epic historical romance A Royal Affair is based on the true story of an ordinary man who wins a queen’s heart and starts a revolution. The 18th century drama centers on the intriguing love triangle between young but strong Queen Caroline Mathilda, her deranged Danish King Christian VII and the royal physician, a man of enlightenment and idealism. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres ROYAL OPERA HOUSE’S THE NUTCRACKER Choreographed by Peter Wright after Lev Boulder Weekly

Ivanov, Herr Drosselmeyer sets in motion the events that will see his beloved nephew freed from the enchantment of the evil Mouse King by the resourceful Clara. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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THE SESSIONS Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the triumphant story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Mayan.

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SKYFALL While Daniel Craig has provided some entertaining moments as the world’s most famous fictional spy, James Bond purists have grumbled that Craig’s two films departed too greatly from the 22-film tradition of the womanizing spy-hero. Skyfall is a return to form for 007. Action, beautiful dames, interesting gadgets and snappy oneliners abound in this thriller. No surprises there. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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TRUE WOLF Born in captivity, Koani could only be a captive wolf. She becomes an educational ambassador for wolves and wilderness. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater TRAILER WAR Unleashed from the vaults of the Alamo Drafthouse, a selection of the best, strangest and most amazing coming attraction trailers in the world. From the high-flying, explosive metal mayhem of Stunt Rock to Thunder Cops’ disembodied flying head chaos, each three-minute masterpiece is like a beckoning portal to another dimension. Part of the Watching Hour series. At SIE FilmCenter. –– Denver Film Society.

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rt Maestas has the hands of a carpenter.

But it’s the warm welcome in his eyes and smile that are most striking when you walk into his Longmont restaurant, the Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Company.

He greets regulars with his firm woodworker’s handshake, then returns to the kitchen to use those hands for his new brand of artwork: the recipes for green chile, enchiladas and other New Mexican dishes handed down for generations on his mother’s side of the family.

After decades of carpentry work, the soft-spoken Maestas hung up his saw blades, router bits and chisels in April 2011 to return to his culinary roots, opening a restaurant in the South Main location previously occupied by Swanky Frank’s.

On first glance, the menu appears to feature run-of-the-mill American and Mexican standbys, but the origins of some concoctions stretch back hundreds of years, to the time when Maestas’ family first came to North America from Spain in the 1700s.

He says his father’s side arrived first, in Corpus Christi, Texas, and decided to head north to modern-day New Mexico instead of taking the more well-worn route to Mexico City.

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His mother’s family settled in the Santa Fe area, but in the early 1900s, his grandfather decided to head to a more rural area “because he thought Santa Fe was too big,” Maestas says with a laugh.

Even the small town of Española north of Santa Fe was deemed “too commercial,” and so they homesteaded in Ponderosa, a tiny northern New Mexico town.

And in the same way the Spanish settlers borrowed from the Native Americans when it came to architecture, using adobe bricks instead of stone, Maestas says his great grandmother probably adopted some ingredients from the Indians in creating the green chile and enchilada sauce that endures today

at his restaurant.

While he traces his roots to Spain and northern New Mexico, Maestas is no newcomer to Boulder County. His father moved the family from Ponderosa to Longmont when Art was only 5 years old, in search of better opportunities in the logging business. The young Maestas was educated at the “country school” outside of town — the building that is now the Buddhist Temple at the corner of Pike and Main — and attended high school in Johnstown.

After serving in Vietnam, he returned to Boulder County and dabbled in both construction and the restaurant business. Maestas was a bartender and waiter at the Flatirons Country Club in the early 1970s.

During that decade, he was involved in a handful of Boulder restaurants, including Casa Ortez at 15th and Pearl as well as two establishments near Boulder Community Hospital: Arthur’s and Tiffany’s, which is now the Hungry Toad.

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aint-Rémy-deProvence is a quaint village in the south of France, exuding considerable charm by dint of its vintage stone buildings and picturesque rustic landscape. Walking through the town center, one notices a stone facade marked “Jöel Durand Chocolatier.”

Durand’s shop is one of the foremost purveyors of chocolate in France. His specialty is the signature chocolate alphabet, handmade cocoa tablets marked with a single letter delineating a featured ingredient such as ginger or lavender. If you’re lucky, you may meet the man himself, friendly but courtly, Alice Skok displays some of the products at Piece, Love & Chocolate. in his chef ’s whites. Despite the chocolatier’s amiability, there’s a serious gastronomic flavored with caramel and whipped marshmallow for vibe here, and an underlying sense of formality one an additional quarter was perfectly fine, but it paled in might encounter in a Michelin-starred eatery. comparison to the house sipping chocolate. Priced at In many ways, Boulder’s Piece, Love & $3.50 for a more-than-enough eight ounces, this luxuChocolate captures the gestalt of Durand’s atelier in a rious beverage can be consumed straight or with addifar more accessible setting. Here one finds drinking tional flavoring. I went for the densely flavored dark chocolate, handmade truffles, cookies and decadent, chocolate version augmented with lavender, a modest over-the-top baked goods, in a vibrantly cozy, if not homage to Durand. The floral tones accentuated the quirkily inviting, setting. The gregarious owner has pleasing dark cocoa bitterness. Akin to drinking a traded in the traditional white chef ’s garments for a melted chocolate bar, this decadent beverage is a real more Boulder-friendly tye-dyed version. One half treat, but one to be enjoyed in moderation. expects to catch a fleeting glimpse of an Oompa While this shop features truffles from outside supLoompa peering out from the back room. pliers, Carin and I made a beeline for an assortment Colleague Carin and I started with hot, cocoaof the $2 housemade numbers. We both thoroughly infused beverages. Her choice of a small $2.50 cocoa liked the salted liquid caramel, contrasting texturally

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esides chocolate, Saint-Remy-deProvence is also known for the St. Paul Hospital. The hospital’s most famous patient was Vincent Van Gogh, who voluntarily committed himself there in 1889, after the notorious incident where he cut his ear. While the extent of damage to his ear is still a matter of historic debate, what’s unquestioned is his artistic output during his stay. He created paintings of the building and grounds, as well as surrounding flowers. In the evenings, he would gaze out of the window of his room, painting what he saw from memory during the daytime, ultimately crafting Starry Night.

silky chocolate with buttery flavor. More pungent and best for the adventurous were the basil and ginger truffles; each perfectly spotlighted their namesake botanicals. The espresso confection was a double-barreled treat for the coffee addict, although the cinnamon holiday truffle was more pedestrian compared to the basil or ginger.

A final course, a $4.25 slice of salted caramel truffle chocolate torte, prompted Carin to remark that she wished she had known about this shop prior to purchasing her husband’s recent birthday cake.

Arguably one of the best cakes in town, it was anchored by dense, moist and not-too-sweet chocolate cake sandwiching a layer of caramel cream. This filling could have been cloying, but it struck the right juxtaposition of sweet with a hint of salt. Mini truffles dotted the exterior, making this creation both winning pastry and candy.

The bottom line is that there’s no better local purveyor of things chocolate, in particular the exceptional truffles and cakes. While it may be premature to draw comparisons between this friendly shop and Durand, or perhaps even California chocolate doyenne Alice Medrich, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Piece, Love & Chocolate reach comparable status in the long run. As it is, it’s a must-visit destination for the ardent chocolate lover.

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WAHOO’S CELEBRATES 25 YEARS

Wahoo’s Fish Taco, which has restaurants in Boulder and Longmont, will commemorate 25 years of bringing surf and food together in 2013. To celebrate the anniversary, Wahoo’s will offer special promotions every month throughout 2013.

New promotions will begin on the 25th of each month and will include offerings such as special discounts, new menu items and a visitor reward program tailored to loyal and new customers alike.

“The combination of our love for surf and food started out as a simple idea at a backyard party 25 years ago,” Wing Lam, co-founder of Wahoo’s, said of the restaurant’s Mexican/Brazilian/Asian menu delivered with a Hawaiian North Shore vibe.

There are 65 Wahoo’s locations throughout the nation, including stores in California, Colorado, Texas and Hawaii — with new locations recently opened in New York, Nebraska and Nevada.

For more information about Wahoo’s 25-year milestone and monthly promotions, visit www.Wahoos.com or call 949-631-3433.

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stop at Swanky Frank’s on his way to work, and when he heard it was for sale, it reignited his simmering desire to get back into the restaurant business — and his old family recipes.

The opening of the Santa Fe Coffee & Burrito Company allowed him to combine his two loves, since he and relatives remodeled the building themselves.

His brother did the stucco on the outside, creating the adobe-like appearance of his New Mexico childhood.

When Maestas learned the recipes from his mother, they weren’t handed down in writing, they were passed along the same way her mother had taught her, and he’s had them in his head ever since.

He describes it as “a little bit of this, a little bit of that.”

He hopes to add dinner entrees to his current breakfast/lunch offerings, and

he acknowledges that he might have to bump up his cheap prices in response to, of all things, diners’ demands.

“I have customers tell me my prices are too low,” Maestas laughs. “When your own customers tell you to raise your prices, that’s an indication.”

Maestas says he recognizes the parallels between carpentry and cooking — like attention to detail.

“I think I was that way ever since I was little,” he says with a smile. “I must have a little German in me.”

And then there’s the humble, attentive service, which Maestas exudes in spades and passes along to his employees.

“That’s one thing I stress to my staff,” he says as a regular customer seeks him out to say hello. “You have to make people feel like they belong here.”

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oulder’s 3 Margaritas is a local outpost of a Colorado-centric Mexican restaurant chain. A self-described family restaurant, this ethnic eatery features reasonably priced combination plates spotlighting classic tacos, burritos and enchiladas, presented alongside chips and salsa, as well as rice and beans.

Comforting selections including the chockfull-of-pork chile verde, and the complex chicken mole.

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afayette’s recently reopened Ting’s Place has all of the staples of Chinese-American cooking, such as sesame and lemon chicken and Kung Pao dishes of different stripes. But perhaps its strengths are in some of the more traditional and authentic offerings, such as the spiced duck with steamed buns, essentially a scaled-down Peking duck. Another top-shelf selection is the superlative steamed flounder, seasoned with such traditional Chinese aromatics as ginger, scallions and cilantro.

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fter nearly two years in business, Boulder’s Pizzeria Locale has solidified its position as a go-to spot for wood-fired, Naples-style pie. Starters such as arancini, an addictingly rich fried melding of risotto and cheese, and desserts like the sensual butterscotch budino, an upscale pudding, have also burnished this eatery’s reputation. First-timers might want to try the Margherita, perhaps the most emblematic of Naples pie, with buffalo milk mozzarella, basil and tomato.

ow-key and locavore, Niwot’s Colterra spotlights fresh takes on traditional fare in a homey yet elegant setting. Weekend brunch options feature oatmeal, griddle cakes and egg dishes such as a reimagining of the classic Benedict with proscuitto and polenta cakes.

Other top morning choices include a Long Farm sausage frittata and Grand Marnier beignets.

Dizzy’s Donuts

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onuts seem to have supplanted cupcakes as the retro sweet of the moment, and Boulder’s Dizzy’s Donuts is riding this wave by offering fresh takes on this pastry. Dizzy’s brews Ozo coffee alongside unique creations like maple bacon donuts. Other new-school selections include S’More and pumpkin cheesecake varieties, although classics like the first-rate apple fritter are more than satisfying.

Kasa Japanese Grill 1468 Pearl St. Boulder 303-938-8888

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

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Tangier Moroccan Cuisine

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espite its nondescript 28th Street strip mall location, Tangier Moroccan Cuisine is a sensual delight that makes one feel far from Boulder. Featuring North African specialties, this restaurant also has a visually rich ambience. Can’t-miss dishes include the bastilla, a delightfully flaky savory pie stuffed with either vegetables or chicken, and the flavor-packed couscous selections. Tagines, gluten-free North African stews, arrive piping hot and feature such intriguing combinations as lamb with apple and apricot.

Shaggy’s Famous Poutine

1310 College Ave., Ste. 210, Boulder 303-449-4265

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

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

Black Pepper Pho 2770 Pearl St. Boulder 303-440-1948

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oulder’s Black Pepper Pho is a spruced-up version of the typical Southeast Asian beef noodle soup joint.

Boasting a mostly gluten-free menu, this venue dishes out first-class spring rolls and a winning spicy green papaya salad. Pho is available with a half-dozen beef-based variants, as well as chicken, seafood and meatless versions.

Mustard’s Last Stand

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

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sual Mexican food suspects such as tacos, enchiladas and tamales are readily available at Boulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House.

But there are also more distinctive offerings such as grilled seafood plates and vegetarian dishes featuring breaded cauliflower and chile-simmered cactus. One memorable dish is the Tampiqueña, which combines tender carne asada with expertly prepared chicken mole enchilada.

Krishna Kafe

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rishna Kare is one of those cool ethnic finds that foodies live for, spotlighting chaat, or savory Indian street fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include gingerscented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soy-seasoned meatless dumpling.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.

But the time he spent as a member of the English Parliament was undistinguished. The only public comment he ever made while serving there was a request to close the window because he was cold. Basketball star Michael Jordan had a similar schism. In the prime of his outstanding career, he took a year off to try playing baseball, which he did poorly. After analyzing 2013’s astrological aspects, Aries, I’m guessing that you should cultivate a firm intention to avoid doing what Newton and Jordan did. Keep playing to your strengths and emphasizing what you love. Don’t get sidetracked by peripheral concerns.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

In 2013, I’d like to help you cultivate an even more reliable relationship with your intuitions and hunches than you already have. You may not need much guidance from me, since the astrological omens indicate this will happen quite naturally. There’s another kind of inspiration I hope to offer you in the coming months: clues about how to be “bad” in ways that will give your goodness more vigor. And when I say “bad,” I’m not referring to nastiness or insensitivity, but rather to wildness and playfulness and experimentation.

Here’s one further service I want to provide, Taurus: helping you build a greater capacity to receive gifts, blessings, and support.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In the year 1900, few people believed that human beings would ever fly through the sky in machines. Most scientists thought that such a feat was impossible. For years, the Wright Brothers had a hard time convincing anyone to believe their flights were actually taking place, even though they had photos and witness reports as documentation.

Although the leap you’ll be capable of in 2013 isn’t quite as monumental as the Wright Brothers’, it could be pretty important in the history of your own life. You may also have to deal with skepticism akin to what they had to face. Be true to your vision, Gemini!

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

In 2013, I predict you will see why it’s wise to phase out an influence you have loved to hate for far too long. Not coincidentally, you will also have a talent for purging emotional burdens and psychic debris that you’ve been holding on to since the bad old days. No later than your birthday, if all goes well, you will be free from a subtle curse you’ve been casting on yourself; you will finally be attending to one of your long-neglected needs; and you will have turned some rather gawky, half-assed wizardry into a smooth and silky magic.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In 2013, I pledge to help you raise your lovability. It’s not that you are unlovable now, of course, but there’s always room for improvement, right? And if people become even more attracted to you than they already are, then you’re likely to get a lot of collaborative and cooperative work done.

You will thrive as you and your allies work on projects that make your corner of the world a better and more interesting place. So what are the first three actions you could take to raise your lovability?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

First question: Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’m afraid I will never achieve my noblest dreams or live according to my highest ideas”? Answer: There’s a very good chance that in the coming year you will banish that fear from the sacred temple of your imagination. Second question: Have you ever wondered if maybe you unconsciously undermine the efforts of people who are trying to assist you?

Answer: In the coming months you should discover exactly what to do to prevent such a thing from happening. Third question: Do you know the single most important question you should be asking in 2013? Answer: I predict you will figure that out sometime in the next three weeks.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

In 2013, I will be encouraging you to journey into the frontiers and experiment with the unknown. I will seek to inspire you to go in search of teachings you’ve needed for a long time. Are you ready for this expansion, Libra? Are you feeling a natural urge to explore forbidden zones and discover missing secrets and mess with your outmoded taboos? As you might imagine, doing this work would motivate you to develop a healthier relationship with your fears. To bolster your courage, I suggest you find some new freedom songs to sing.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In 2013, I will do what I can to ensure that your fiscal biorhythms are in close alignment with the universal cash flow.

You should have pretty good instincts about this worthy project yourself, Scorpio. And so there’s an excellent chance that your wealth will increase. The upgrade will be especially dramatic if you are constantly scheming about how you can share your riches and benefit other people with your generosity. I think there will also be an interesting fringe benefit if you maintain maximum integrity as you enhance your access to valuable resources: You will develop a more useful relationship with your obsessive tendencies.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In 2013, I pledge to conspire with you to achieve more mixtures, connections, accords, and unifications than you ever thought possible. I will furthermore be a fount of suggestions about how you can live well in two worlds. I will coach you to create a peace treaty with your evil twin and your nemesis, and I will help you develop a knack for steering clear of other people’s bad ideas and sour moods. I can’t of course guarantee that you will never again experience a broken heart, but I swear I will do everything I can do to heal the broken part of your heart that you’ve been suffering from.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

When he was 21, the Capricorn writer Jack London set off to prospect for gold in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He had a rough time there. Malnourished, he suffered from scurvy and leg pain. To make matters worse, he didn’t find much gold, and returned home broke. On the other hand, he met scores of adventure seekers who told him stories of their travels. These tales served as rich raw material for his novel The Call of the Wild, published in 1903. It made him famous and is generally regarded as his masterpiece.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

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PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

The study of ancient Mayan civilization owes a lot to the fact that Americans started buying lots of chewing gum in the late 19th century. Huh? Here’s the connection: For a long time, chicle was one of the prime ingredients in Chiclets, Juicy Fruit, Bazooka bubble gum, and many other brands of chewing gum. Chicle is obtained from the sap of sapodilla trees, which grow in abundance in Central America and Mexico. Over the decades, workers harvesting the chicle accidentally found many Mayan ruins covered in overgrown vegetation, then told archaeologists about their discoveries. I foresee a metaphorically comparable sequence happening in your life during 2013.

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