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Helpful New Year’s resolutions

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Offer a coal alternative

(Re: “Another lump of coal,” Danish Plan, Dec. 17.) While I found the article

by Mr. Danish amusing, he does nothing to propose where the computing center should have been built and thus what type of electrical generation should be used. Had the center been built here in Boulder, guess what? It would be powered by that same coal from Wyoming. But first that coal would have to be delivered (by diesel locomotive) to our lovely coalfired Valmont station from Wyoming!

Wind power sounds great, but, hey, there’s a whole lot more of that around Cheyenne than Boulder, as well. (You’ll notice windmills all around Cheyenne, but none around Boulder). I wouldn’t diss the solution without proposing a better alternative.

Jim Bryant/Boulder

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Other lost ski areas

(Re: “The lost roots of Colorado skiing,” Elevation, Dec. 17.) I enjoyed your article on the ski areas past … and I had not been aware of the one near Greeley.

Several years ago I ran across a framed poster on a condo wall in Vail that listed something like 50 or 60 deceased ski areas in the state. I was surprised at there being so many. I assume you know about Vail Meadows. Located just off the interstate in Minturn, those runs are still visible. Back in the 1970s, I skied Guanella Pass a few times. At one point, former Colorado Gov. John Love owned that

area, but it’s closed now, and I think the lifts have been removed. Also, Marble had an actual lift at one point and operated on a limited basis for a couple of years.

Stagecoach is sitting some 25 miles south of Steamboat. It’s very visible, and I think all the lifts are in place. It only lasted a few seasons, but there was actually a small area at Genesee, but as you might guess — snow issues!

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Think vegan

A novelty only 30 years ago, meat-free diets are rapidly becoming the fashion for people who care about their family’s and their planet’s health. Here are recent indicators: According to U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of animals killed for food in the U.S. this year is expected to drop by 6 percent from 2008.

Jonathan Foer’s Eating Animals and two other vegan books have made the bestseller list.

Meat industry exposé Food, Inc. is being considered for an Oscar nomination.

Cargill, ConAgra and other animal butchering empires, have launched a number of vegan food products.

In March, the respected National Cancer Institute reported that people who ate the most red meat were “most likely to die from cancer, heart disease and other causes.”

In July, the conservative American

Waits three days before issuing public statements about the attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas Day. His response was fine, but waiting three days makes him seem indecisive.

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n addition to working up my own list For more information on Jim of New Year’s resolutions, it occurs to Hightower’s work — and to me that some of the people running subscribe to his award-winning our country could benefit from my monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit suggestions for their lists. No need for www.jimhightower.com. them to thank me — happy to help.

Where better to start than with those proud-and-loud members of Congress who’ve adamantly opposed real health insurance reform for workaday Americans? Not only do I include the entire block of Republican lawmakers whose vocabulary consists only of the word “no,” but also those pathetic Democrats who’ve compromised the reform idea into corporate mush. Each of these stalwarts of the status quo should make this resolution: “Since I helped kill reform, I will give up the excellent, government-paid, socialized health coverage that I get so that I am in the same leaky boat as my constituents.”

And here’s a resolution for the barons of Wall Street, who continue to float on billions of dollars in government bailout money, yet are grabbing bonus payments for themselves, while pouting that the public is not showing them the love they deserve: “I hereby pledge to go through the 12-step detox program of Greedheads Anonymous to deflate my arrogance, cure my narcissism, and become a human being again.”

Let’s not forget the Obamacans, either! They came into office on an antiwar, anti-fat cat, pro-middle-class program, yet have expanded their war, catered to fat cats and offered the middle-class nothing but “a jobless recovery.” Here’s the resolution we need from Obama: “In year two of my term, I promise to Democrat-up by getting some economic advisors who’ve actually met a real worker. I’ll also download recordings of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to my iPod and require everyone in my administration to volunteer at least one loved one to go to war in Afghanistan.”

If we can only get those in charge to make these pledges, we’ll all have a happier New Year!

Dietetic Association has affirmed that “vegetarian and vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.”

In the November issue of World Watch magazine, two World Bank scientists have claimed that meat production may account for more than half of manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

The dawn of the New Year is a great time to explore the new dietary fashion and all the delicious, healthful vegan foods in our supermarkets.

Rudolph Helman/Boulder

Did we expect too much?

Question. Is it possible that we fierce-

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(Editor’s note: The weekly Obameter feature will be discontinued after this issue, marking the conclusion of the president’s first year in office. Look for a review of Obama’s first 12 months as president in our Jan. 14 issue.)

Signs off on increasing the national debt to about $12.4 trillion, a new record.

Gotta keep that bloated federal government running, right?

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“We don’t speak about politics because I have no competence at all.”

—French First Lady Carla Bruni, responding to reports that she exerts too much control over her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy “In all the time I taught him we never had cross words.”

—British teacher Michael Rimmer of Togo, regarding his former student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect accused of trying to blow up an airplane headed to Detroit on Christmas Day “When you cough blood, it’s something really bad.”

—19-year-old Oswaldo Juarez, who is visiting the U.S. to study English and who has the first case of drug-resistant tuberculosis in America

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ly loyal Barack Obama supporters may well have been, at best, extremely presumptuous and, at worst, a bit racist in assuming that he would be a more aggressive and assertive personality because he is black and athletic? Now we find out how mild a character and how faint of heart he can be when dealing with the very disloyal opposition Tories — oops, I mean reactionary Republicans — supporting the Patriot Act and making too many minimalistic, cosmetic changes. Now his charm and our naivety begin to wear off. It has, indeed, been disappointing. Nonetheless, I support the American president and applaud his efforts in general, while keeping my fingers crossed that he can/will for all of us be successful.

Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

Mourning America

America is being mourned the world-over this day. Nations around the globe that held America as the great hope of freedom, liberty, justice and the model for every human being to aspire to see that it has been doused by a greedy, power-hungry partisan political apparatus. Over 233 years of sacrifice for the ideal that we have a federal governsee LETTERS Page 9

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Copenhagen was a success — for the Chinese

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t would be wrong to say that nothing came out of the Copenhagen conference. Just ask the Chinese.

From the perspective of the Peoples Republic of China — and their allies in India, Brazil and South Africa — the Copenhagen conference was a howling, screaming success. They got everything they wanted out of it and a lot more.

Start with what they prevented from happening.

The conference produced neither a successor to the Kyoto Treaty, nor a binding treaty generally. This mattered big time to the Third World, since the Kyoto Treaty exempted Third World nations from limiting their greenhouse gas emissions.

The conference produced no longterm or short-term quantifiable targets for overall reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, nor any timeline for meeting

by Paul Danish them.

It produced no mention of a peaking year for greenhouse gas emissions, something that western governments considered essential for keeping global temperature rises below 2 degrees Celsius.

Western governments wanted 2020 to be the peak year.

The Chinese even prevented any mention in the final communiqué — the so-called Copenhagen Accord — of the targets for greenhouse gas reduction that had already been unilaterally adopted by developed countries.

More positively (if that’s the correct characterization) the Chinese and their allies succeeded in getting the UN to set up a registry where the countries of the world could list the steps they intend to take to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. Listing steps is completely voluntary, as is actually carrying them out. Creation of the registry will

allow China (and one suspects any number of Third World copycats) to register its policy of reducing the carbon intensity of each dollar of GDP it produces by 40 to 45 percent by 2020 — and thereby give the carbon intensity reduction strategy international legitimacy. The problem with this approach is that if China’s economy continues to grow at its current rate — 8 percent annually — for the next 10 years, China’s overall output of greenhouse gases in 2020 will be about 75 percent higher than it is today, even after the putative carbon intensity reductions.

China and its allies also got language inserted into the final accord explicitly stating that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries, which may be admirable in terms of social justice but means the see CHINA’S VICTORY Page 9

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ment “for all the people” have been shattered under the disguise of health care.

Our warriors by the hundreds of thousands have sacrificed, bled and died for all of America, not just part of America, not just for a few states, nor has America ever asked a few states to pick up the burden of freedom for the entire United States. A few dishonorable senators have milked the American people for their own selfish agenda, penalizing the bulk of America to fund special programs within selected states, at the expense of citizens of other states.

This is only the beginning of understanding the damage and cost to freedom included in the Senate and House of Representatives health care legislation. I personally condemn, reject and abhor the selfish action of Sen. Bill Nelson, my senator from Florida, for his despicable action in pursuing special favor for Florida at the expense of the remaining 49 U.S. states. Whatever happened to “E Pluribus Unum”?

Harry Riley/Crestview, Fla.

Throw penalty flag on NFL

The Wall Street banksters, company CEOs and our own government are not the only ones taking us down the road of hard knocks. The National Football League, along with paid TV, is also pushing the average American’s tolerance out of the playing field.

The facts are that our 2009 Christmas NFL game was on the paid NFL Network, all Thursday and Saturday games were televised on the NFL Network and all 16 Monday Night NFL games were on the ESPN paid network.

With half time over and the second half of the game continuing, here are more penalty flags. Future headlines will read: “Boy, Have We Got Something Good For You Football Fans!” Listen to this, all future NFL football games will be played on paid TV, and because you’re such loyal fans you can pay only $200 a month plus, plus … (Get the picture? No punts intended.)

Time out. We get our fill of car and pharmaceutical advertising, and on numerous occasions these commercials run overtime into the game playing on

the field. After the bombardment of commercials and finally back to the game, ads and highlighted text continue flashing over the beautiful scenery, the people in the audience and always over the cheerleaders, detracting from what used to be a great part of American football on TV. The unconscionable advertising mindgames go on continually throughout the game, with ads encroaching in different areas on our screen.

On the sidelines, loyal fans, old timers, along with the unemployed, are already on a dreary march to endless tailgating. Not only have the morally bankrupt elite trashed our economy, but now they are after our few pleasures in life, such as watching American football on TV, with a quarterback sneak from the Wall Street casinos.

Armchair quarterbacks living on very limited incomes, using antennas to watch TV with that “new black box” (another sore subject), are left on the dark side of the tube. The NFL, in conjunction with the paid TV kickbacks, leaves us no instant replay to review.

We are down to the two-minute warning. If we all boycott paid football networks on TV maybe we can get this bad call overruled!

Dave Johnson/Erie

Third World can treat reducing greenhouse gas emissions as a low priority.

China and its Indian, Brazilian, and South African allies essentially organized themselves as a gang of four, so to speak, to advocate for the foregoing policies, and they succeeded in rallying most of the Third World behind them. This may be the most important thing to come out of the Copenhagen conference. From now on it will be China and the Third World that call the shots on international climate change policies, not Europe and the United States.

China and its Third World allies also got Europe and the United States to agree to create a $100 billion a year fund to help poor nations adopt green technol-

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of Mojave Desert land off limits to development, derail plans for at least a dozen solar thermal power plants, and put California’s plans for getting a third of its energy from non-carbon sources at risk.

To be sure, an environmental case can be made for protecting the Mojave Desert and the desert tortoise that lives there.

But if that is put ahead of solar power development, it is pretty hard to make the case that global warming poses much of a threat.

Or, as one climate skeptic recently put it: “I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”

Confucius say.

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windmills, solar panels and nuclear reactors if the west is willing to pay for them.

The real threat, in their estimation, are the efforts of western greens to combat global warming, which they see as threatening their economic development. And that appears to have rallied and unified the Third World in ways that nothing has since the end of colonialism.

But then why should the Third World take the threat seriously? It doesn’t have to go very far to find evidence that environmentalists themselves don’t, never mind western climate skeptics.

Consider, for example, the bill introduced in Congress recently by Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, which, if passed, will put more than 1 million acres

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ogies and cope with the effects of climate change. To be sure, the chances of this fund actually materializing are improbable — the U.S. taxpayer and his or her elected representatives are apt to be reluctant to hand that kind of money over to the same folks who gave Hugo Chavez a standing ovation for bashing the United States — but the unfulfilled promise will become another pretext for the Third World doing nothing on climate.

What can we make of all this?

Self-evidently, China and most of the Third World do not see global warming as a threat to their countries, and they aren’t going to proactively lift a finger to do anything about it, although they will be more than happy to put up some

Obama is not a citizen

have split allegiance and split loyalties to foreign powers or foreign lands; nor cannot be blackmailed or threatened because of having immediate family in foreign lands.

Obama is born of a minor age American and a Kenyan (British) father.

Whether he was born in the U.S. is irrelevant — he is a product of two different citizenships. The sovereignty of U.S. citizens has been violated (as above) because of being born via two different citizenship alliances. It’s that simple.

Thus there is no way he can be eligible to be president of this nation, period.

So right now, at this moment in time, this country has no president, no leader, no commander in chief — only a usurper.

Any bill Obama signs, any veto, any treaty, any executive order, any and all of it, is illegal, invalid and void.

Rich Reamer/Crofton, Md.

Boulder Weekly

A basic foundational premise of the Constitution — that the president must be a “natural-born citizen” — has been in constant violation since Nov. 4, 2008.

Obama does not fit this Constitutional mandate. He is not now, nor can he ever be, a “natural born citizen” — he may be a “native born” citizen (born on U.S. territory), but can never be called “natural born.” The difference is this: “natural born” is all about sovereignty.

Sovereign rules of “natural law” are easily understood when you compare it to that of dog breeding; such as toy poodle breeds. Two authentic (certified) toy poodles that mate, in-turn, procreate a purebred toy poodle. This “pure-bred” toy poodle is a product of sovereign, natural law of breeds. Meaning, an authentic toy poodle mating with another authentic toy poodle begets an authentic, natural law born, toy poodle.

This is what the U.S. Constitution speaks of for the term “natural born.” It can be further understood as this — an authentic toy poodle mating with any other breed of dog violates the sovereignty of the breed, thus it is no longer a pure-bred (sovereign) toy poodle breed.

This same sovereignty of “natural laws” and “natural rights,” to be “natural born,” means you inherit your sovereign rights as a citizen through, and from, your parents. The occupation of the office of president of the United States was, and is, intended to be a natural right and not a legal privilege. That is why the Constitution framers specifically stated this office is to be filled by one who is natural born of U.S. citizenship, without ties, connections or parents of foreign descent. Thus the “president” would not

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first decade of the new millennium started on a humorous note, as millions of Americans hunkered down with caches of bottled water and canned food to ride out the anticipated chaos of Y2K. The stroke of midnight passed, and the world went on as it was. There’d been no need to party like it was 1999, unless you just wanted to party.

There’s a superstition in my family that the way you enter a new year shapes that entire year. Back in 1999, so many Americans were afraid that a Y2K catastrophe would strike that by New Year’s Eve, many local supermarkets were sold out of bottled water. If anything defines “the Aughts” it is catastrophe — or, perhaps more aptly, the fear of catastrophe.

Y2K turned out to be nothing but media-fueled hysteria. But true disaster lay not far around the corner.

On the second Tuesday in September, Boulder County residents arrived at work to learn that two planes had collided with the Twin Towers in New York. In disbelief, we watched the towers collapse, knowing that thousands of our fellow Americans had just died.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 still cast a shadow of fear over our country and are arguably the defining moment of the decade. From there, the nation descended into war. We remain at war, with far-reaching consequences that we can’t yet fathom.

This week, Boulder Weekly staff looks back at events that shaped the past decade. More than a time to reminisce, the new year and new decade give all of us a chance to reconsider what we’re doing and to resolve to do better from now on, both as individuals and as a nation. Here’s hoping that the Teens will see a nationwide shift away from fear, and the anger that inevitably comes with it, to compassion and compassionate action.

In the meantime, enjoy this look back — and Happy New Year!

Pamela White

2000 Election/Selection 2000 Scrambled election reviewed Nov. 16 nyone who went to bed early on Tuesday, Nov. 6, awoke to the unusual news that the presidential race was still undecided. Thus began more than a month of waiting, recounts and debates about hanging chads. Then on Dec. 12, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a per curiam decision that Florida’s method for recounting ballots violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling gave the state of Florida, and the presidency, to George W. Bush.

In his autobiography My Life, President Bill Clinton wrote, “If Gore had been ahead in the vote count and Bush behind, there’s not a doubt in my mind that the same Supreme Court would have voted 9 to 0 to [re]count the vote, and I would have supported the decision. ... Bush v.

Gore will go down in history as one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever made, along with the Dred Scott case.”

Boulder Weekly had its own take on the election and the wrangling that would follow. In “Election 2000: It may get uglier,” Editor Wayne Laugesen explored the impending legal battle resulting from the controversial election and examined the fears of many that the upcoming mayhem would result in bribes and violence.

Media critic Norman Solomon took the television networks to task for their half-assed coverage of the debacle in “TV networks compound the voting crisis.”

Solomon discussed how competitiveness and the priority of profits over accuracy fed the fiasco.

But this issue of the paper is best remembered in the newsroom for the art on its cover. If folded correctly, the cover headline changed from the wordy, “No shortcuts to liberty. We must never forget. Scrambled election reviewed,” to the succinct, “No liberty. We get screwed.”

Better yet, the image of the Liberty Bell transformed into a large dildo. Yes, a dildo.

Art Director Sue France, who designed the cover, was inspired to create the folding cover by her favorite magazine, Mad Magazine.

Whether you agree that the Supreme Court screwed us all or not, there can be little doubt that this court decision has had consequences that we are feeling still.

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2001 9/11 Why are we so hated?

Hatred kills thousands. Who is to blame?

Sept. 13 oulder Weekly staff arrived at work on Sept. 11 to the shocking news that two hijacked planes had collided with the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers. While the nation and the world reeled in shock, Publisher Stewart Sallo called an editorial meeting to brainstorm how the paper should cover the story. For him, it boiled down to one critical question: Why is America so hated that people would do something like this?

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Pamela White, who attended the meeting as a freelancer, took up the challenge of seeking answers to that question. She spent the next 24 hours interviewing experts about the United States and its interactions with the other nations and cultures of the world.

David Barsamian, host of the nationally broadcast program Alternative Radio, told her that risk to American lives comes as a result of rage generated by U.S. foreign policy. But he went on to say the United States also aggressively exports its own culture through Burger Kings, Starbucks and Hollywood films to places where such things are unwelcome and offensive.

Ira Chernus, a CU professor of religious studies, said U.S. policies designed to protect American citizens often extend far beyond U.S. borders, with the result that America is seen as trying to “organize the world.”

Joel Edelstein specifically tapped U.S. policy regarding the Middle East as a source of hatred toward the United States, while activist Scott Silber pointed to economic policies that enrich U.S. corporations at the expense of the poor in other nations.

The article that grew out of those interviews was titled, “Why are we so hated?”

It received a flood of letters from around the world, some of them accusing the paper of bashing the United States, the other half praising the paper for addressing the horror of 9/11 in a meaningful way.

“Looking back, I take a lot of pride in how the paper approached 9/11,” White says. “The first thing you want to think about in the wake of a tragedy is how to prevent it from happening again — if you can. When our government takes an action, that action sets other things in motion. That’s not to say that the United States deserved to be attacked or that the attacks are America’s fault. The terrorists are to blame. But Americans who are concerned about our position in the global community can’t continue to be ignorant about foreign policy or to assume that we have the last word when it comes to the politics of other nations or regions of the world.”

In the weeks that followed Sept. 11, the United States had the sympathy of the world. But that was not to last, as hardliners in the Bush administration saw the attacks as an opportunity to launch a neo-conservative political agenda.

“I see the months after Sept. 11 as a wasted opportunity for the United States to take the high road,” White

says. “Unfortunately, fear prevailed over reason and compassion, polarizing American society and sharpening the edges between the United States and other nations.”

In the coming weeks, as the nation mourned, the paper turned to the topic of healing in “Love and kindness in troubled times: finding peace through conflict resolution,” before moving on to an issue that would dominate much of the rest of the decade: the Bush administration’s War on Terror and its consequences.

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March 27 n early 2003, the message coming from the mainstream media was clear: Most Americans support launching a pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein. The White House took it a step further, claiming that there was very little opposition to the war.

Boulder Weekly set out to measure the veracity of those statements, which seemed more like pro-war PR than fact. After months of watching the Bush administration manipulate the American people with propaganda about WMDs, yellowcake uranium and Iraq’s ties to al Qaeda — there were none at the time — we were suspicious.

The paper had opposed the war from the moment the Bush and crew hinted that it was on the horizon, but in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the paper made a concerted effort to keep the topic in the public eye.

Editor Pamela White wrote a column, titled “Baghdad tonight,” about the innocent Iraqis — men, women and children — who were alive at that moment but would die if the United States and its “coalition” allies attacked.

“It was an appeal to compassion,” White says. “The rhetoric surrounding the proposed war focused on Saddam and terrorists. It ignored the fact that we would be killing a lot of the human beings we claimed to be liberating.”

In the days immediately preceding the invasion, which began on March 20, Boulder Weekly staff and freelancers attended dozens of protests, speeches, meetings and public forums in an effort to record the reaction of Boulder County residents to the war against Iraq. The information was put together in the form of a timeline that juxtaposed the local response to the war with the unfolding of international and national events.

While most papers covered a single anti-war event, Boulder Weekly reported on almost every war-related event that occurred during that seven-day period. The coverage served as proof that the attack on Iraq was undertaken against the wishes of many educated, wellintentioned Americans.

The article also described the emotional conflict so many Boulder County felt when they saw their president and their nation embark upon a morally unjustifiable course of action — one that has cost more than 4,000 American lives, together with unknown hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. The outcome of the conflict there is still uncertain, and U.S. troops continue to die.

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2005 Ward Churchill American Dissident In an in-depth interview, Ward Churchill speaks on his writing, the media and the solution to terrorism Feb. 10 t started when a group of conservative students from Hamilton College in New York, hoping to block University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill’s scheduled talk at their school, protested an essay Churchill had written on Sept. 11, 2001. In the essay, titled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill, an American Indian activist and scholar, framed the terrorists’ attacks as inevitable, the natural result of years of oppressive U.S. policies, which he outlined at length. He also compared the stockbrokers, lawyers and government employees who died in the attacks to Nazi “technocrat” Adolf Eichmann for their role in supporting U.S. actions abroad.

The students’ protest caught the attention of rightwing pundits, who pounced on Churchill and his controversial essay with rabid ferocity. The result was a national furor that finally diverted attention away from the football scandal of the year before. For weeks, the corporate media fanned the flames of rage, even questioning Churchill’s ethnicity. Paula Zahn interviewed Churchill — but barely let him speak. MSNBC, Fox and MTV carried the story. Denver talk radio couldn’t get enough of the topic, one radio host declaring Churchill’s essay treasonous and suggesting that Churchill be executed.

Media attention prompted reactions from members of Congress, who contacted Gov. Bill Owens, demanding a response. Owens, in turn, condemned Churchill’s writings and called for university officials to fire him — something he later tried to deny. The Colorado General Assembly then picked up the issue and passed a resolution renouncing Churchill’s point of view, and the CU Board of Regents held a special meeting and apologized to the nation for the essay. Then they authorized a committee to investigate his scholarship to see whether he could be fired. The situation eventually prompted the resignation of former CU President Betsy Hoffman.

In the midst of the controversy and before CU fired him, Boulder Weekly met with Churchill at his home and interviewed him about his essay, the role the media played in vilifying him and the best ways for the United States to respond to terrorism. Rather than paraphrasing the interview, the paper printed it in Q-and-A format so that his answers to our questions would be untainted by interpretation.

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A perfect union We’re talking about a marriage revolution May 20 hese days, an image of two men engaged in a passionate kiss might not turn many heads, but just five years ago, it was considered highly controversial. Same-sex couples had begun to gather serious steam in their fight for equal marriage rights. Only four years earlier, Vermont had established legal same-sex unions that gave gay and lesbian couples many of the same rights enjoyed by heterosexual couples. And two months earlier, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that denying gay and lesbian couples full and equal rights to marry was unconstitutional. City officials in San Francisco and county officials in Sandoval County, N.M., began issuing marriage licenses for gay couples.

The battle lines were drawn. Boulder Weekly stepped into the fray, interviewing some of the 28 local couples who converged on the County Clerk’s office to demand marriage licenses, only to be denied on the basis of state law, which prohibits same-sex marriage. The article, “A perfect union,” gave their personal and poignant reasons for wanting to marry and outlined some of the rights they’re denied as couples because they can’t.

That edition of the paper featured one of the couples — two Boulder men — locked in a heated kiss. It rankled some readers, but others praised it, saying that gay and lesbian couples ought to feel as comfortable holding hands and kissing in public as heterosexual couples do.

Little did anyone know at the time that the cultural divide over GLBTQ rights and attempts by gay-rights activists to address the issue of gay marriage on the ballot would energize conservative, religious voters, helping Bush to win a second term in the Oval Office. One of the most provocative issues of the Aughts, gay marriage is still fiercely debated with no resolution on the horizon.

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Silence on Terrorism Free Speech? Not in my backyard Jan. 3 he impact of 9/11 was still fresh in everyone’s mind as 2001 ended and a new year began. The military effort dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom was already under way in Afghanistan. But Taliban in Kandahar and Jalalabad weren’t the Bush administration’s only targets.

For Boulder Weekly, 2002 began with the cover story, “Silence on Terrorism,” which reported disturbing incidents from across the country where those who opposed the Bush administration’s tactics or the use of military force were bullied by right-wing pundits, university presidents and conservative groups into silence and accused of everything from lack of patriotism to sympathizing with terrorists.

Bush had already proclaimed, “You are either with us or against us,” setting the stage for conflict rather than thoughtful public dialogue.

Then it became clear that 9/11 was being used as a pretext to delve into the activity of U.S. citizen activists.

As Boulder Weekly reported on March 28, associating with an environmental group left Americans vulnerable to intelligence gathering on the part of law enforcement.

With the expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act, federal agencies and law enforcement were suspected of surveilling not just people with ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban, but also progressive activists and even peace groups.

On the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the paper took a look at the sobering change in American society itself. David Kopel, a Boulder author and attorney, examined the government’s use of Facial Recognition Technology and its use in general surveillance in public places, such as sports stadiums and public streets. Did it not disturb the average American that their faceprint might be included in a law-enforcement database without their knowledge?

Wayne Laugesen looked at the new alliance between liberal Jews and conservative Christians.

In “Freedom for safety,” Nick Gillespie reported that Americans seemed only too eager to trade civil liberties for an illusion of safety, with few questioning the provisions of the PATRIOT Act or moves toward national ID cards.

“By nightfall [of Sept. 11, 2001], it seemed, we had changed from a nation that placed a uniquely high value on privacy and freedom to one that embraced security and safety as first principles,” he wrote.

The year closed with a Dec. 19 article on the arrest of eight Boulder peace activists who’d staged a sit-in at the office of Sen. Wayne Allard to demonstrate their opposition to any military action in Iraq. The article, written by Joel Warner, a freelancer who later joined the editorial staff, offered an overview of the peace movement that compared it with the peace movement of the Vietnam war era, finding it just as strong and well organized — and perhaps a bit wiser.

But could the peace movement prevail in an atmosphere of fear?

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rounding Churchill continued to grow.

Faculty investigators eventually alleged that Churchill had committed acts of academic misconduct, including plagiarism and fabrication. But of all the faculty who served on the three committees that reviewed the case, the majority recommended a sanction other than dismissal. Ignoring that determination, former CU President Hank Brown and the regents decided to fire him.

He sued the university, claiming the firing was retaliation for his essay, his free speech. A jury found in favor of Churchill last spring, and awarded him $1. But a judge reversed that finding, ruling that the regents enjoy governmental immunity in such cases.

2006 The toll on U.S. soldiers Operation Iraqi Freestyle U.S. soldiers use hip-hop to document their war experiences May 11 fter three years, the war in Iraq was taking its toll, not only on the U.S. economy, but also on the men and women serving in our military. Boulder Weekly explored the war’s impact from a variety of perspectives, starting on March 3, with a compilation of sobering statistics, graphs and facts titled, “Iraq three years later: the war in numbers.”

Then on May 11, Vince Darcangelo, a former arts and entertainment editor, reported on how some soldiers were turning to hip hop was a way to channel the horror and grief of their war experiences. Tracks like “Some Make It, Some Don’t” — found on Voices From the Frontline, a 24-track collection of music performed by U.S. soldiers who had or were currently serving in Iraq — expressed the pain soldiers felt at the death they witnessed all too frequently.

“One convoy I was on ... a soldier passed away, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. I came back, and I met my man [Deacon]. He told me, ‘Why don’t we go cypher.’ I was like, ‘Not tonight man.’ We ended up going out there, and we did it a cappella. ... We ended up, both of us, with a face full of tears just because every emotion you could possibly have, that was the only way to extinguish that pain that you felt,” Sgt. Christopher Tomlinson, aka Prophet, told the paper.

In our June 2 issue, we looked at the plight of lesbian women in the Army in “A woman’s place.” Two weeks later, on June 16, we visited a special training site in Colorado where U.S. soldiers were being trained to deal with conflict in urban Iraq.

Then on Dec. 15, freelancer Terje Langeland took us inside the ever-expanding U.S. role in Iraq in his cover story “Misson Creep: The U.S. military’s growing involvement in domestic affairs in Iraq.”

Though Bush had proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” three years past, it was clear that U.S. soldiers were bound long-term to a conflict that was far from over.

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2007 Climate change efforts Getting warmer It’s been 10 years since the Kyoto Accord was struck. Why has so little been accomplished?

Dec. 20 t Boulder Weekly, this was the year of writing about climate change and environmental efforts. Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth had just come out the year before, and cover stories included “Green gear: The outdoor industry works toward a new environmental ethic” on May 10 and “The global warming debate:

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For three weeks, EcoArts and other Boulder nonprofits hope to spark dialogue about the impact of climate change,” on Sept. 6.

And at the end of the year, Boulder Weekly finished 2007 with two more cover stories devoted to climate change and those trying to stop it.

In “Getting warmer,” Bill McKibben opened with a question. “The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its 10th anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate?”

Those 10 years were the warmest on record, and in those 10 years we learned that we had underestimated the speed and size of that warming. Despite the passage of local and state laws targeting carbon emissions, there was deafening silence from the nation’s capital, McKibben wrote.

But there was some good news. He cited technological advances such as hybrid cars, the popularity of Gore’s movie and the rise of environmental activist groups.

He concluded with the cold, hard truth: “Chemistry and physics don’t bargain. They don’t compromise. They don’t meet us halfway. We’ll do it or we won’t. And 10 years from now, we’ll know which path we chose.”

In “Behold the power of science” on Dec. 27, which was about Boulder Weekly’s first-ever Person of the Year, Pamela White interviewed Boulder atmosheric scientist Susan Solomon, who was chosen to co-chair Working Group 1 of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Gore that year. She is also credited with discovering the cause of the ozone hole, an achievement that earned her the National Medal of Science, the United States’ highest scientific honor. In the interview, Solomon described the findings of the IPCC, the scientific research process and her role as a leading woman in science.

2008 Obama elected president We are better than we know Nov. 6 n the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” This quote from Barack Obama graced the front cover of Boulder Weekly on Nov. 6, two days after he was elected president.

Our coverage of the historic election included an editorial by Editor Pamela White and a question-andanswer piece with presidential history expert William E. Leuchtenburg, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Leuchtenburg was asked to compare and contrast Obama with former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, including the situations they faced when taking office.

In her article, White reflected on the results of a survey only two years earlier in which the majority of respondents said they didn’t think it was likely that the U.S. would elect an African-American as president.

“After all,” she wrote, “it’s only been 143 years since the 13th Amendment was ratified, finally outlawing slavery, and only 90 years have passed since President Woodrow Wilson conceded to pressure and made a public statement against lynching. Not racism, but lynching.

The struggles of Rosa Parks, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil-rights marchers are relatively recent events, having occurred in the lifetimes of many who cast votes on Nov. 4.

“With that as our history, it was hard to imagine two years ago that Americans would flood polling places to elect an African-American man as president, especially when that man had a weird name like ‘Barack Hussein Obama.’ And yet, last night Barack Hussein Obama was chosen by the American people to be our 44th president.”

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witnessed firsthand the impact of the outcome. “On Election Night, when Obama was declared the victor, Ben watched an elderly African-American couple hug and kiss and cry and got choked up himself, imagining how long they must have waited for this moment. Then the couple surprised him, turning to him and drawing him — a white boy from Boulder — into their embrace.”

She concluded with the following: “After disappointing the world by seeming to support Bush’s failed policies, America took a step on Nov. 4 toward redeeming itself and living up to its promise as a nation, a promise that has always given people around the world something to believe in. When we fail, we let not only ourselves down, but everyone who cherishes the ideals of freedom and government by and for the people. On Nov. 4, we surprised ourselves and the rest of the world, reminding ourselves and everyone else just how powerful and amazing the American people can be.”

2009 Medical marijuana Prosperity in prohibition How federal restrictions created Colorado’s medical marijuana industry Aug. 13 his past year, a new growth industry sprouted up in the state, especially in Boulder.

While Colorado voters approved Amendment 20 back in 2000, it wasn’t until this year that medical marijuana dispensaries began spreading like, well, weeds.

In his Aug. 13 cover story, David Accomazzo outlined the events that led to the free-for-all. For years, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had enforced an informal patient limit on caregivers, prohibiting caregivers from having more than five patients at a time. That changed in July 2007, when Sensible Colorado successfully sued the state and convinced Denver District Judge Larry Naves to grant an injunction temporarily removing the patient limit from caregivers. And at a state Board of Health meeting last July, after hours of testimony in front of a crowd of hundreds, the board made those changes permanent.

Without a limit on the number of patients they can serve, caregivers (and by extension, dispensaries) were given infinite room to grow.

Marijuana distribution and possession is still prohibited under federal law, but dispensaries got what amounts to another green light this year from the administration of President Barack Obama, who directed federal agents to refrain from pursuing marijuana cases in states that have medical marijuana laws, effectively letting those states make their own rules.

The thing is, there is quite a bit of confusion about what Colorado’s rules are. In “Growing confusion” on Nov. 12, Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge explored various interpretations of what defines the relationship that caregivers should have with their patients. An Oct. 29 Colorado Court of Appeals ruling defined a caregiver’s “significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient” as going beyond simply providing marijuana to patients, prompting some dispensaries to begin offering other services, from housekeeping to lawn-mowing. In early November, the Board of Health held an emergency hearing to rescind its more permissive definition of “significant responsibility,” but that meeting and that action were successfully challenged in the courts, effectively restoring the more permissive definition and leaving people to wonder whether they should follow that guidance or the ruling issued by the Court of Appeals.

The pot, er, plot is bound to thicken this spring as lawmakers try to pass a bill making sense of the situation — and possibly enacting more stringent regulations on dispensaries.

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Winter Bike to Work Day coming The second annual Winter Bike to Work Day will be held on Jan. 20, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., GO Boulder recently announced. Winter Bike to Work Day will be celebrated with breakfast and hot chocolate stops at six locations and prizes for participants, all supplied by event sponsors. Last year, about 800 riders turned out for the event, and this year, organizers have set a goal for 1,000 riders.

The city of Boulder places a priority on keeping its trails and multi-use paths open throughout the year, even after significant snow storms. In fact, the city often clears 60 miles of paved multi-use paths and 76 underpasses as quickly as streets for bike commuters.

“The average high on Jan. 20 is 44 degrees, and the low averages 19 degrees.

People would be surprised how rewarding, safe and comfortable winter riding is once you get going,” said Sue Prant, event director.

Breakfast and refreshment stations will be located at Applebee’s, at 1906 28th St.; the City Municipal Building, at 1777 Broadway; Moe’s Broadway Bagel, at 3705 Arapahoe Ave. and 2650 Broadway; Pedal to Properties, at 1949 Pearl St.; and the University of Colorado, at 18th Street and Colorado Avenue.

Registration for Winter Bike to Work Day begins Jan. 4 at www.GOBoulder. net.

Museum re-opens bank exhibit WOW! (World of Wonder) Children’s Museum in Lafayette will celebrate the grand re-opening of its Elevations Credit Union exhibit at 11 a.m. on Jan. 5. In addition to checking out the new look of the exhibit, visitors will have the opportunity to meet Rags (the Rags to Riches mascot), go home with special giveaways, and open a Rags to Riches account for children ages 12 and younger.

“It’s never too early to teach kids about financial matters,” says Dennis Paul, assistant vice president of community and business development at Elevations Credit Union. “The WOW! Children’s Museum is an incredible community resource.”

“WOW! Children’s Museum is very grateful and appreciative of Elevations Credit Union’s continued support, as well as their interest in educating young children about money and financial responsibility,” says WOW! Children’s Museum Executive Director Lisa Atallah.

Founded in 1996, WOW! Children’s Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that offers educational and interactive exhibits for children — bringing families together in a safe environment that sparks imagination, inspires learning

and nurtures growth through play.

Compost your Christmas tree Boulder residents who have curbside compost collection service can compost their Christmas trees by putting the tree either inside or next to their curbside compost cart on their collection day. If the tree is taller than six feet, it needs to be cut down to six-foot (or smaller) pieces. Remove all decorations and tinsel from the tree before putting it out for collection. Those who do not have curbside compost collection can take trees to the city’s Yard Waste Drop-off site, located at Western Disposal, 5880 Butte Mill Rd., at no charge. The former brickyard location, east of the main Western Disposal entrance, is under new ownership and no longer available for Christmas tree drop-off.

Trees will be chipped into mulch or turned into compost instead of dumped in a landfill and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.

For more information, visit www. westerndisposal.com.

NREL unveils climate site for campuses The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Boulder and Cornell University have launched a website to help campus-based institutions develop clean energy and carbon-reduction strategies.

The website, Climate Neutral Research Campuses, is available at www. nrel.gov/applying_technologies/climate_ neutral.

Drawing on NREL’s experience, as well as the best practices at other research campuses, the site provides campuses with a process to establish a baseline carbon inventory and develop and implement their own climate action plans. The core of the site is a resource center that describes 24 specific climate action options. For each action, the site provides a leading example of the related technology and reference links. It also offers guidance on selecting the right technology options for an individual campus. The site was developed with Randy Lacey, Cornell’s university engineer, who worked for three months with sustainability experts at NREL. NREL developed the site with support from Labs21 — a joint venture of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Be aware of falling trees The U.S. Forest Service is urging forest visitors to be aware of falling, dead trees and other hazards during this winter season, because the mountain pine beetle epidemic increases the risk of falling trees.

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CU launches sustainability certificate To meet the demand for professional development for sustainability coordinators and consultants, the Sustainable Practices Program at the University of Colorado’s Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies is launching a new certificate in January. The sustainability management certificate is expected to help professionals put a “green” edge on their existing expertise.

The program is hosting a free public panel discussion, “Defining Sustainability: People, planet and profit?” on Jan. 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the Continuing Education Building at 1505 University Ave. More information about the sustainability program is available at http://conted.colorado.edu/sustainabilitymanagement.

Top 10 Stories Week of Dec. 24-30 1. No more New Year’s Eve shows for Yonder Mountain String Band The bad news is that the upcoming three-date stand in Boulder and Denver will include the last foreseeable edition of the Yonder Mountain String Band’s traditional New Year’s Eve show in Colorado. The good news? They’ll be special.

2. New Year’s Eve calendar 3. [Video] Ukulele boy is a hit 4. BVSD report shows gap between whites, Hispanics persists 5. 2009 People of the Year 6. [Blog] ‘Ironman 2’ trailer 7. Lease disagreement leads to closure of Sidney’s Cafe 8. A question of journalistic ethics 9. ‘Imaginarium’ a disaster, incomprehensible 10. Burnt Toast closes, to reopen as Cafe Aion

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Volunteers needed to shovel snow RSVP of Boulder County, a nonprofit that specializes in doing volunteer services for seniors and disabled adults, has taken over the city of Boulder’s Icebusters program this year. Icebusters matches volunteers with seniors or disabled adults who need their walks shoveled each time it snows significantly (five inches or more).

RSVP is overwhelmed with the number of clients who need to be matched with volunteers. Currently, almost 100 clients are on the waiting list, and RSVP is actively seeking more volunteers. Some volunteers are reportedly taking on three or four different assignments to help carry the weight of this massive need.

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millions of acres of dead trees. Dead trees appear red or have no needles. They are also known as hazard trees because they can, and do, fall without warning,” said Steve Sherwood, director of recreation for the Rocky Mountain region of the Forest Service. “We have had several close calls, and our highest priority is for folks to be safe while enjoying their public lands.”

Tips for avoiding danger include never recreating alone and always letting someone know where you are going and when you plan to return. Occasional closures may occur as the Forest Service clears hazard trees. Check with the local Forest Service district office, carry a map and plan an open and safe route.

For general information about the mountain pine beetle epidemic, see www. fs.fed.us/r2/bark-beetle. Land management agencies have developed a site devoted to the bark beetle happenings on the Front Range at www.frontrangepinebeetle.org.

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Gosh, we wish we felt strongly enough about anything to put explosives in our underwear in hopes of blowing up a plane. We really like certain football teams and foods and friends and all, but think about it.

Seriously, is there anything that would make any of you do that? Maybe to save the lives of certain family members? But how many of you would do that for your religion?

The whole terrorist plot of Christmas Day has again raised the alert level to red or orange or whatever, prompting cries of strengthening airport security again to deal not just with shoe bombs but boxer brief bombs. There is talk of using those scanners that can see through your clothes. Um, traveling by train is sounding better and better.

And once again, as on Sept. 12, 2001, we are faced with the question, “To what degree do we sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of increased security?”

How long will it be before we have to pass through a metal detector on the way into a grocery store?

Some say we should stop the knee-jerk reactions to the terrorists’ latest method of delivery and just take the fight to them, shock and awe or aw shucks or whatever it is called, in Pakistan or Afghanistan or Yemen or wherever, to take out the heart of the octopus instead of just so many tentacles.

Others say that would be too much of an unwarranted pre-emptive attack, making us no better than the terrorists.

OK, this may not even be relevant, but the $10 million question is still, almost a decade after 9/11, where is Osama bin Laden, and why haven’t we captured him? Wasn’t that what we were all jazzed up about in fall 2001? That night after the attacks, we remember watching Bush on TV and getting all jacked up on patriotism, but not to go kill Iraqis. It was bin Laden we were after, remember? Don’t we have some — as Eddie Murphy put it at the beginning of Trading Places — “Green Beret Special Unit Battalions Commando Airborne Tactics Specialists” who can just go in there real quiet-like, infiltrate or whatever, and take those top dudes out?

Yeah, as Eddie said, it will be real hush-hush. “I was Agent Orange, Special Agent Orange, that was me.”

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lowed the lead of many European and Canadian cities in switching over to harmless ozone instead of chlorine to disinfect its municipal water supply.

As for getting rid of the chlorine that your city or town adds to its drinking water on your own, theories abound. Some swear by the method of letting their water sit for 24 hours so that the chlorine in the glass or pitcher will off-gas. Letting the tap run for a while is not likely to remove any sizable portion of chlorine, unless one were to then let the water sit overnight before consuming it. Another option is a product called WaterYouWant, which looks like sugar but actually is composed of tasteless antioxidants and plant extracts. The manufacturer claims that a quick shake of the stuff removes 100 percent of the chlorine (and its odor) from a glass a tap water. A year’s supply of WaterYouWant retails for under $30.

Of course, an easier way to get rid of chlorine from your tap water is by installing a carbon-based filter, which absorbs chlorine and other contaminants before they get into your glass or body. Tapbased filters from the likes of Paragon, Aquasana, Kenmore, Seagul and others remove most if not all of the chlorine in tap water, and are relatively inexpensive to boot.

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There’s a new term circulating among middle-class homeowners these days: strategic foreclosure. If you’re one of the people who bought your house when the housing bubble was at its bubbliest, your house might not be worth shit compared to its purchase price. Some people have decided that continuing to pay their mortgage when they’re underwater on the value of their home isn’t worth the effort. They’re packing their things and giving their homes back to the bank so that they pursue opportunity elsewhere.

Not surprisingly, the banks don’t like this. They call it fiscally irresponsible and exaggerate the shame and humiliation a person must endure if their home is taken away due to nonpayment. “Why would any red-blooded American walk away from their debts?” they ask with feigned shock.

These same banks are the working places of those CEOs who turned to taxpayers for bailout money when their hair-brained schemes for getting richer quicker blew up in their faces and tanked the global economy. Rather than allowing the free market they worship to correct them for their greedy transgressions, they held out their palms without even a hint of irony and begged.

Congress, ignoring the will of most taxpayers, forked over billions, and this holiday season, these CEOs were pocketing record bonuses.

But when it comes to the suffering and struggles of the middle class, these beggar billionaires preach fiscal responsibility and the need to stand by your financial decisions, even the bad ones. Their false financial piety is sickening.

Of course, most homeowners are doing their best to pay their mortgages, even when they’re upside down on the value of their homes. But some — those who get better jobs elsewhere and can’t sell their homes for anything near the balance of their mortgages, for example — are doing what’s best for them. Any bank CEO who has issues with that needs to take a good, hard look in the mirror before wasting our time with guest editorials and public whining.

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Dear EarthTalk: I am very concerned about the amount of chlorine in my tap water. I called my water company and they said it is safe just let the tap run for awhile to rid the smell of the chlorine. But that just gets rid of the smell, perhaps, not the chlorine?

—Anita Frigo, Milford, CT housands of American municipalities add chlorine to their drinking water to get rid of contaminants like nitrates, arsenic and pesticides. But this inexpensive and highly effective disinfectant has a dark side.

“Chlorine, added as an inexpensive and effective drinking water disinfectant, is also a known poison to the body,” says Vanessa Lausch of filter manufacturer Aquasana. “It is certainly no coincidence that chlorine gas was used with deadly effectiveness as a weapon in the First World War.” The gas would severely burn the lungs and other body tissues when inhaled, and is no less powerful when ingested by mouth.

Lausch adds that researchers have now linked chlorine in drinking water to higher incidences of bladder, rectal and breast cancers. Reportedly chlorine, once in water, interacts with organic compounds to create trihalomethanes (THMs) — which when ingested encourage the growth of free radicals that can destroy or damage vital cells in the body. “Because so much of the water we drink ends up in the bladder and/or rectum, ingestions of THMs in drinking water are particularly damaging to these organs,” says Lausch.

The link between chlorine and bladder and rectal cancers has long been known, but only recently have researchers found a link between common chlorine disinfectant and breast cancer, which affects one out of every eight American women. A recent study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found that women with breast cancer have 50-60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorine by-products) in their breast tissue than cancer-free women.

But don’t think that buying bottled water is any solution. Much of the bottled water for sale in the U.S. comes from public municipal water sources that are often treated with, you guessed it, chlorine. A few cities have switched over to other means of disinfecting their water supplies. Las Vegas, for example, has fol-

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major political summit, but the band’s symphonic affirmations of love and life actually make the most sense on headphones. If you spent the ’00s on another planet, slept through them, or were simply too busy to discover new music, it’d be tough to find a track that’d better sum up the audio glory of the past 10 years than “Do You Realize??” from the Flaming Lips’ 10th LP. Partly a fantastical concept album about a robot-fighting Japanese woman, Yoshimi finally made these Oklahoma oddballs a worldwide sensation, and “Do You Realize??” is a psychedelic koan that will be intriguing Earthlings (and maybe others) for a long time.

Honorable mention: Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People

albums of the decade

2000: PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea — “I just feel like it’s the end of the world,” English singer-songwriter and riot-goddess PJ Harvey sang on “Big Exit,” the blistering first track from her diversely breathtaking fifth album.

Dynamic professions of bold love — from “I’m immortal when I’m with you” to “with you I wait to be born again” — are delivered via Harvey’s emotive vocals, which recall Patti Smith, Nick Cave and even legendary blues queens like Mahalia Jackson. Harvey called Stories “my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work” in 2001, and part of

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the album’s breakout success was due to a streamlining of her more explosive previous work, but this captivating record’s elegant aggression made it soar.

Honorable mention: Air The Virgin Suicides 2001: Radiohead Amnesiac — Many people will surely slam me for not including Dr. Dre’s comeback success (Chronic) 2001 anywhere in this list, but then they’ll inevitably take a moment to look up from their bongs and realize 2001 was actually released in 1999. Radiohead’s psychedelic electro-rock classic Amnesiac, however, was released to widespread acclaim in the summer of 2001, debuting on the U.S. charts at #2. Recorded at the same time as their more abstract 2000 collection Kid A but released eight months later, Amnesiac began with tentative techno swirls and hostile lyrics — “get off my case … you’re looking in the wrong place” — probably aimed at fans and critics expecting the arena-rock follow up to OK Computer that was eventually delivered by Coldplay. Instead, Amnesiac listeners swam with black-eyed angels, shoved mice in their mouths, and enjoyed 11 weirdly beautiful songs that juxtaposed technological creativity with lyrically daring and comfortably numb garage-rock.

Honorable mention: Bob Dylan Love and Theft 2002: The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots — World peace might literally be attained if one of the Flaming Lips’ climactic concerts — such as our ecstatic evening with them at Red Rocks earlier this year — took place at a

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serviceable definition I recently came across for the word “best” was “of the most excellent, effective, or desirable type or quality.” As a journalist, the job regularly includes the hopefully tasteful, relevant use of superlatives, but incorporating the word “best” into writing about art will always seem at least partly phony. In particular, creating a year-end “Best Albums” list is theoretically impossible unless your dependable scribe has scoured the Earth to not only find but competently listen to every album released over the past 12 months, and it has been reported that 105,000 albums were released last year in the United States alone. Even then, to pen and publish a “Best Albums of the Year” list, it seems a writer must believe that he or she possesses taste so good and true that it denotes the capability to tell the world which excellent sounds they should effectively desire.

Me? I’m just a hopeless music lover who gets a kick out of turning people on to the music that finds its way inside my bones and stays. Plus, the end of this year is special, as it signifies the end of arguably the second-most (to use another superlative) interesting decade of rock music ever, behind only the 1960s. So here’s my list of favorites — one for each of the past 10 years — that might’ve moved you too. Check them out, and feel free to e-mail us your own opinions.

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2003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell — The label that gave us Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson in the ’90s went on to expose the masses to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a volatile New York City art-rock trio who exploded into the mainstream with Fever to Tell in 2003. “Maps,” propulsive singer Karen O’s romantic plea to her rock-star lover to stay home, became an MTV hit; however, the real story here was that raucous alt-punk tracks like “Black Tongue” and “Rich” strikingly turned up-front sexuality upside down, finally giving the music world a female Iggy Pop. Honorable mention: The White Stripes Elephant 2004: Arcade Fire Funeral — Who could forget this Montreal-based collective’s hauntingly uplifting debut, which ranks among the most impressive debut albums of all time? Funeral, inspired somewhat by the passing of several band members’ relatives, is both solemn elegy and a heartrending celebra-

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New Year’s Eve Grand Ball — With so many things to do on New Year’s Eve, why not celebrate in style at the Stanley Hotel? Enjoy a dinner buffet and music by the Steve Manshel Band.

The Stanley Hotel, 333 Wonderview Ave., Estes Park, 970-577-4004.

Friday, Jan. 1

Polar Plunge 2010 — Is that New Year’s Eve hangover still nagging you? Jump into Boulder Reservoir, it might help.

Plus, it’s for a good cause. Registration funds go to the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Reservoir, www.alz.org/co.

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Quemando & Unleashed Dance Studio’s Afro Salsa — The holidays may be over, but it’s still Saturday night! Get down to some Latin rhythms with the band and DJ Ryflecks. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Sunday, Jan. 3

Jesse Hunter — Chill out and relax before life returns to after-holiday normalcy with some neo-jazz. 5–8 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Monday, Jan. 4

Boulder Blues Club — Once again, Paul Söderman has the blues. You should join him. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Tuesday, Jan. 5

FACE — After getting some “face” time on NBC, Boulder’s favorite a capella group returns for a hometown performance. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Wednesday, Jan. 6

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz — Are you a geek? Do you drink? Win beer and prizes at the pub quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

tion. Famously veered towards stardom by perhaps the most positive Pitchfork review ever written, Arcade Fire’s youthful army of multi-talented musicians came storming out of the gate with Funeral’s thoughtfully anthemic choruses, which frequently transitioned from lines about the death of childhood to stunning wordless chants. NME made Funeral their No. 2 album of the 2000s, but it’s my No. 1.

Honorable mentions: Danger Mouse The Grey Album; Joanna Newsom MilkEyed Mender 2005: Spoon Gimme Fiction — Texas gave us numerous great bands in the last decade, from The Black Angels to Midlake to Explosions in the Sky, but none of those bands have given us a truly great pure rock album that stays fresh from start to finish with every listen like Gimme Fiction, Spoon’s fifth album. You might remember the head-bopping poise of “I Turn My Camera On” from a Simpsons episode, or the thumping wisdom of “My Mathematical Mind” from the (great) movie Stranger Than Fiction, but Gimme Fiction is best appreciated as one seriously cool piece of melodically and lyrically thematic smart-rock.

Honorable mention: Animal Collective Feels

2009: Andrew Bird Noble Beast/ Useless Creatures — Even for an allaround virtuoso like Andrew Bird, a master-whistler and phenomenal violinist whose lyrics mystify as deftly as they engage the intellect, Noble Beast was an astonishing artistic success.

Songs like “Oh No” and “Nomenclature” made the standard edition of this album a linguistic and musical showcase for Bird’s idiosyncratic genius, tempering playful pop-rock and wordplay like “from inside me grows a man who speaks with perfect diction as he orders my eviction” with stunning bursts of world-class violin. Useless Creatures, a bonus disc of skillful and imaginative instrumentals, could be the album of the year on its own. If you’re game, curl up with “Carrion Suite” on a snowy afternoon and forget your troubles.

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2007: Animal Collective Strawberry Jam — Baltimore-, NYC- and Lisbonbased freak-poppers Animal Collective reportedly recorded some of their seventh album under the influence of Salvia Divinorum, an over-the-counter psychedelic.

Whatever effect that drug had, at least musically, seems to have actually helped focus the band’s stereotypically gorgeous fragments of

2008: Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes — At this point it’s pretty tough to say anything original about the truly breathtaking beauty that still is the Fleet Foxes’ picturesque debut LP, which quickly underwent a metamorphosis from underground revelation to Starbucks ubiquity. If you haven’t yet, try listening to the woodsy charm of “Sun It Rises” and “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” while hiking through the Flatirons at dawn; don’t forget on your harmony-enhanced walk that socially anxious front-kid Robin Pecknold was only 21 when Fleet Foxes was recorded, though his voice was already timeless.

Like the bulk of Midlake’s own masterpiece Van Occupanther, these organically stoic tunes about forests and ghosts could’ve found a similarly receptive audience in 1808.

Honorable mention: Jolie Holland The Living and the Dead

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2006: Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther — Midlake’s first long-play, 2004’s Bamnan and Silvercork, revealed what Midlake basically were at the time: a bunch of music majors transferring their stilted classical and pop talents to transparent attempts at mimicking Radiohead and the Flaming Lips. On their next album, however, Midlake utilized the early 70s production of records by artists like Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young to lushly support a collection of songs about a rural scientist presumably born in 1891. The result was unforgettably beautiful, from the band’s intricate use of many-part harmonies, finger-picking and violins to mesmerizing lyrics about log cabins and deer. How these boys from Denton, Texas, will follow up an accomplishment like Van Occupanther, we’re still waiting to hear.

Honorable mention: Sonic Youth Rather Ripped

deranged harmonies and melodious noise.

Strawberry Jam (sort of an Aoxomoxoa for the 00s) finally succeeded in juxtaposing Animal Collective’s brilliantly weird lyrics (i.e. “it was the clouds that carved the mountains/it was the mountains that made the kids scream”) and mad musical experiments with more accessible pop arrangements.

Honorable mention: Dr. Dog We All Belong

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Top 10 Films Of The Decade

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he first decade of this millennium has been an uncertain one. Terrorist attacks, wars, and financial meltdowns have made us feel vulnerable.

Technological advances outpaced the controlling laws, urging the film industry to revamp its business model to keep up.

Often, the result of this uncertainty is a lazy reliance on known moneymakers, so the 2000s have seen their share of remakes, sequels and recycled superhero movies.

Coincidentally, there have also been some outstanding films, notably by auteur filmmakers, who have forced us as an audience to confront the insecurities of our time.

The ten best films of the decade are: 10. Dancer In The Dark (2000, dir: Lars von Trier) — Björk gives a heartbreaking performance in this genre mélange musical grandeur. Von Trier, with unflinching bravado, invites the audience to soar with our protagonist from her dismal existence to a dreamlike ecstasy before the inevitable and devastating emotional ruin. To create such beauty for the sole purpose of destroying it can be cheap manipulation, but this film evolves the concept from simple formula to stunning originality, transcending the typical tragic-drama into something much more overwhelming.

chalked with potent action and suspense, subtle existentialism reigns importance, demanding serious reflection from the audience to achieve closure.

8. 28 Days Later (2002, dir: Danny Boyle) — Director Danny Boyle’s accomplishment in creating a unique and genuine horror film was a much-needed breath of fresh air from the morbid stench of pointless remakes and sequels, which unfortunately continue on today. Using the grittiness of cinéma vérité — minus the nausea and cheap tricks — the atmosphere reaches a disturbing scale of both intimate and global proportions.

Devising this style to inject terror while remaining awe-struck at the screen is a technique achieved by the true classics.

7. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004, dir: Michel Gondry) — There’s something within the execution of this film that affected me like no other love story has done, and it left me walking out of the theater feeling both sad and optimistic. Jim Carrey, who gives a stunning performance, plays an unconscious man trying to save the memories of his ex-girlfriend from being erased by a company he hired to do so. Although this concept is endlessly depressing on so many levels, the outcome leaves on an ambiguous high-note.

6. Memento (2000, dir: Christopher Nolan) — This breakout feature by now infamous writer-director Christopher Nolan is not only the greatest puzzle-films of the decade, but perhaps of all-time. Our protagonist, who has somewhat tried to cheat short-term memory loss by tattooing his life goal of retribution across his body, lives in constant confusion and perplexed

detection. Nolan similarly handicaps the audience by flipping the narrative, presenting the scenes in reverse order. As we share his disadvantage, confusion turns into fascination and the detection becomes a shocking discovery.

5. There Will Be Blood (2007, dir: Paul Thomas Anderson) — With refined style and unprecedented maturity by P.T. Anderson, this 2007 Oscar-winning tour de force offered an unequivocal and often damning look into some of the basic human emotions and motivations. Set in the earlier years of the 20th century around one oil prospector’s life, the film grants an intimacy into his conquests, personal relationships, and a side of Darwinian brutality that shocks the conscience. What is achieved can only be described as harrowing realism, scaled on a Kubrick-esque level of depth and authenticity.

4. Caché (2005, dir: Michael Haneke) — Austrian filmmaker Haneke’s love of uncertainty is most effective here in the appropriately titled dramatic thriller Hidden. Similar to his other films, the mystifying component of anonymous packages being left on the step of a family’s home is a red herring, but a successful tool that quickly engages the mystery. As it progresses, the constant changes in perception turn the psychological treatment into a series of decisions that the viewer ultimately must make. It frustrates some audiences to leave vague explanations without total finality, but the films that don’t tell us everything are the ones remembered.

3. American Psycho (2000, dir: Mary Harron) — This overlooked and misun-

derstood masterpiece earns the title of most captivating and unparalleled character study of the 2000s. It documents the identity crisis of a businessman who has reached the pinnacle of success, wealth, social appeal and physical prowess. With delicate narration he confesses deep dissatisfaction with existence; a desire to evolve has initiated his ongoing search for greater knowledge. Attempts to grasp this level of consciousness within the bourgeoisie include scenes of confounding insanity coupled with ferocious emotion — even brutal murder.

2. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, dir: Wes Anderson) — Wagner knew that the Great Art Form would be comprised of a fourth dimension; this magnum opus about a dysfunctional family demonstrates film as the medium that can attain this idea. In its conception, Anderson applied every primary artist expression to accomplish a lyrical emotion that radiates from the timeless world. This multi-leveled drama incorporates adult humor and gloomy subject matter triumphantly.

1. Mulholland Drive (2001, dir: David Lynch) — Artist David Lynch has used film for more than 30 years as his primary artist expression, providing heavily dosed tales with campy enjoyment and deeply intense surrealism. Here, Lynch uses the character of a heartbroken, failed actress to tell his story without any narrative. Instead, we dive into her subconscious, encountering things that didn’t necessarily happen the way we see, but the way she likes to perceive they did. The story is profoundly thoughtful, beautiful, devastating, and already taken its place in the history books.

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9. No Country For Old Men (2007, dir: Joel & Ethan Coen) — The Coen Bros. acclaimed status was built on consistency with great storytelling, unforgettable characters and genre-bending acrobatics. Along with these attributes, valuable innovation and artistic courage raises No Country high above their many other endeavors the past decade. Despite a tremendous storyline

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Local jamgrass vets Leftover Salmon celebrate 20 years together

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ince was like, ‘Let’s just call it Leftover Salmon,’ and I said, ‘Okay, sure. Why not?’

That’s how it all got started,” Drew Emmitt reminisces about the Salmon’s first show at the Eldo Brewery and Taproom in Crested Butte back in 1989. “Since we were calling it ‘Slamgrass,’ people took it really literally and slam-danced to our music. That was pretty crazy. I’d never seen anything like that. People just went ballistic. It was amazing.”

Twenty years is a long time for any band to stick together. Just ask Emmitt or Vince Herman, co-founders of Leftover Salmon—the motley pride of the national jamgrass movement that keeps one foot dancing in the Boulder foothills with the other boogying in Crested Butte. Celebrating their 20th anniversary this week, the band has wreaked musical havoc on stages ranging from grungy urban bars to mountain brewpubs, while bouncing around prestigious summer affairs like Del McCoury’s annual DelFest and the High Sierra Music Festival.

More than anything, Leftover Salmon’s twenty-year longevity is probably because of the ongoing semi-haitus that began in 2005, following an announcement on the band’s website that read in part, “As of right now the future of Leftover Salmon is uncertain but the band is not breaking up, just taking a break.” That break lasted until June 2007, when the band played the Telluride Bluegrass Festival billed as “Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman and Friends.” Since then, Leftover Salmon has continued to perform a handful of sporadic shows here and there each year to a growing throng of fans thirsting for

their special hybrid aptly titled, their 2007 reunion, you can still count “Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass.” the number of performances they play Or as Emmitt explains the band’s each year on both hands. But as for side melding of styles: “Vince was really into projects, things are blossoming for both the cajun thing and difHerman and ferent kinds of ethnic Emmitt, which no On the Bill music, and I was really doubt brings an Leftover Salmon plays Boulder Theater on Dec. 31 into the bluegrass and added energy and and the Ogden Theatre on the rock thing. So it was freshness to those Jan. 2. Doors open at 8:30 a term that Vince came few Salmon shows p.m. Contact the Boulder Theater (303-786-7030) and up with of loosely that do occur. the Ogden Theatre (303describing what we do.

“Vince has 830-2525) for Basically it just means been doing his ticket information. that we play whatever thing with Great music we want to play; American Taxi,” we throw it all into the pot and see what says Emmitt, “[and] I put out a record happens.” with [The String Cheese Incident’s] Bill In other words, it’s one of those Nershi that came out in September — things you have to experience to appreThe Emmitt-Nershi Band. That’s been ciate. A live band through and through, going real well. We did a huge tour in Salmon shows are coveted affairs for October; we basically did the whole die-hard fans, and for good reason; since country. So our main focus has been

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Meaning more of the same as far as number of Leftover Salmon performances?

“Exactly,” says Emmitt. “We’ve just kinda been doing a few shows here and there — mostly just festival one-offs — and focusing on our side projects. But it feels like we’re cranking Salmon up a little bit. We’re not gonna tour really — we’re doing a couple shows in the spring in [San Francisco] and one show in Salt Lake City. And then we’re doing the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which we’re really excited about. We’re starting to break out a little bit, but there’s definitely no real plan to get on a bus together at this point. We’re trying to keep it a special thing right now and not overdo it. That seems to be the plan.”

Meanwhile, the 20th anniversary celebration began at the Eldo in Crested Butte on Monday and will continue at the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, wrapping up at Denver’s Ogden Theater on Saturday. On top of the shows, fans can tap into the Leftover Salmon 20th anniversary celebration page at JamBase. com where, as Emmitt says, “It’s like twenty years of Salmon you can download — there’s interviews and all kinds of cool stuff on there, so that’s kind of our big thing right now. It’s the closest thing to people being able to get a new Salmon record.”

“It’s really significant for us to come back to Colorado and play since this is where we started,” he continues. “The New Years shows in 1989 were the first shows we did as a band. Every year it’s a milestone for us, but this is very significant because it’s 20 years. It’s a big milestone.”

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Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880.

New Year’s Eve Grand Ball — Lavish dinner buffet and music by Steve Manshel Band. The Stanley Hotel, 333 Wonderview Ave., Estes Park, 970-577-4004.

New Year’s Eve Party at The Blending Cellar — Flight night & Brazilian music by Joao Junqueira. 3 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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Capt. Quirk — Performs the music of The Who’s Tommy. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Chris Daniels & The Kings. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

David Booker Band — With Heidi and the Rhythm Rollers. 8:30 p.m./7:30 p.m. doors, Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Elephant Revival — With Jubal and John Beecher. 8 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Farewell Boulder Celebration NYE 2010 with Communikey — Feat. Noah Pred and b.side’s favorite DJs Royale, Papyrus, Josh23, Brandon Brown and Story.

9 p.m. The b.side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303-473-9463.

Fizakat. 10 p.m. First Street Pub & Grill, 35 E. First St., Nederland. 303-258-0782.

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

The Informants — NYE Celebration includes an hors d’ouevres buffet and champagne toast. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Josh Blackburn. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Leftover Salmon — Three full sets of LOS. 8:30 p.m./7:30 p.m. doors, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Mountain Standard Time. Stage Stop Inn, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-3270.

New Year’s Eve — With the Richie Furay Band, including a dinner buffet. 6 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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The band’s live show can range from indie rock and reggae to folk and Scottish/Celtic tunes. It’s a great way to spend New Year’s Eve. With Jubal and John Beecher. 8 p.m.

Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

PANORAMA PICK Blues Bash. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Pepper — With Passafire and B-Times. 9 p.m./8:30 p.m. doors, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Romano Paoletti Band & Blue Mountain Ranch Hands. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Sambadende — Featuring members of Ginga and Bateria Allegria. 9 p.m. The Xanadu Ballroom, St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

White Water Ramble. 10 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-5864116.

events BMoCA’s Silver Screen Ball — With live music, video art installations, desserts and drinks. 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-2122.

Dance Party at Avalon Ballroom — With Boulder Ballroom Dance Orchestra. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962.

New Year’s Eve Dance Party — Welcome 2010 in style with dancing, disco lights, games and loads of food and drinks. 8 p.m. The Boulder Integral Center, 2805 Broadway, Boulder, 303-541-1540.

New Year’s Eve Gala Ball — With a decadent five-course dinner and dancing in

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

Holiday Art Show — Featuring paintings by Maria Valladarez. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985, through Dec. 31.

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell — A Retrospective of Paintings & Sculpture.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000, through Jan. 10, 2010.

Musing — By Alicia Bailey, Melinda Laz and Nyla Witmore. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-449-0483, through Feb. 1, 2010.

Only in Boulder — A celebration of Boulder’s

150th anniversary. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464, through May 23, 2010.

Pears and Angels — By Judith Babcock.

Christine Marguerite Designs Inc., 1721 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2344, through Dec. 31.

16th Annual Judaica Show — A fundraiser for the Boulder Jewish Community Center.

Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683, through Jan. 10, 2010.

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

Time Machines — Sculptures by Randy Mulder. Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410, through

March 28, 2010.

Twirling Dali’s Moustache — Regional artists show work that honors Salvador Dali. Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410, through Feb. 14, 2010.

Urban Chicken Coop Projects — By CU-Boulder. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through Jan. 17, 2010.

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

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Boulder/Denver Area Dali Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy —

By Salvador Dali. Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410, through Jan. 21, 2010.

Down on the Farm: Chickens, Fresh Fruit and Vegetables — By Jill Musser. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683, through Jan. 3, 2010.

Drawings, Anyone? — By contemporary artists Steve DiBenedetto, Rebecca Horn and others. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000, through Jan 24, 2010.

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

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Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz.

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

Cameron Hicks Quartet. 6 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Chris Daniels & The Kings. 7:30 & 10 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Go Go Lab. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Hot Cheeze Soup. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

John Alex-Mason and Lionel Young. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Mono Verde — CD Release Party with Pawn Ticket Trio. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Mic — For poets, comedians and musicians. 7 p.m. 8 Port Coffee & Tea House, 1727 15th St., Boulder, 303-955-2221.

She Grooves. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Polar Plunge 2010 — Registration funds go to the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Reservoir, www.alz.org/co.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5440008.

Saturday, Jan. 2

music After Babylon. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz.

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

Everhopefuls, Big Universe and The Pan Handle Daddys. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Greg Greer. Q’s Restaurant, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880.

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

Hazel Miller Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Justin Donavan Duo. 4:30-6 p.m. Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd., Longmont, 303-7761914.

Quemando & Unleashed Dance Studio’s Afro Salsa — With DJ Ryflecks.

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

Ramaya — With Dechen Hawk. 8:30 p.m.

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

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

The Shuffletones. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Beginning/ Intermediate Hoopdance.

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

Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 888-5753884.

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

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

Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours — Open 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, 303-960-8494.

Sunday, Jan. 3

music Acoustic Jam — With Jax Delaguerre.

11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Dango Rose & Joseph Tonelli. 8:30 p.m.

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Monday, Jan. 4 Arabic Literature — Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Arapahoe Room, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4414941.

LoDo Book Club — Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

by Tom Robbins. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.” The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, http://boulder-wadg.org.

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Conversations in English Book Club. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Jason Sheehan — Cooking Dirty. 7 p.m.

Broadway Book Mall, 200 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-744-2665.

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

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

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Jesse Hunter — Neo-jazz. 5-8 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Long Road Home. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 1 p.m. Tuft Theatre at Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Open Mic — 2:30 p.m. Hosted by Hotfoot. Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-4404324.

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

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Financial Peace University — A 13-week program with Dave Ramsey. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Valley Christian Church, 7100 S. Boulder Rd., Boulder, 720-872-8792.

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

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

Salsa Dancing Lesson — With music from La Candela. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Sunday Afternoon Tea — With live traditional Asian music. 1:30-4 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3612.

Monday, Jan. 4

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

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

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

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m./6:30 p.m. signup, D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

Conor O’Neill's, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

“So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Tuesday, Jan. 5

music The Atomic Pablo Band. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

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

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

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

Jazz Night — With Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

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

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

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

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Papers. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

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

Getting Started with Final Cut Pro. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St. Ste. 202, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Monhegan Island — Join Marilyn Wertheimer on an exploration of Maine’s remote and rugged Island. 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Salsa Dancing Benefit for Kick Start My Heart — Lesson with Joseph Snowhawk. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Bluegrass Pick — With K.C. Groves.

6:30-8:30 p.m. Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd., Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Christine Barbossa con Cruzados.

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

The Clam Daddys. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Kamikazee Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

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Reggae Wednesday.10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

Scott Martin — Jazz piano and vocals.

7-10 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Singles Night — Dinner buffet with music by Jeff Finlin. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

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events Fundamentals of Web Design. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St. Ste. 202, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Just Sit. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303444-0190.

Rhythm Sanctuary. 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-618-0401.

Kids’ Calendar Friday, Jan. 1 Pajamarama Storytime. Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-442-1665.

Sunday, Jan. 3 Amelia Bedelia's Story Time and Coloring. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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Go Club — Learn to play the ancient and mysterious board game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, Jan. 4 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m.

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

Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m.

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

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HONK! — Children’s theater production. The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200, through Jan. 3.

Mile Hi-Larity — Improvisational comedy troupe. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver, 303-321-5925, on Jan 6 at 7:30 p.m.

Nuncrackers —The Nunsense Christmas Musical. 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980, through Jan. 10.

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

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Baby Time — Explore language and books in a fun and intimate setting. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Children's Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:305:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Teen Collectible Card Gaming Night. 5:30 p.m. The Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-6855222.

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Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Garner Galleria Theater, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303893-4100, through Feb. 21.

The Haunted Man. Heritage Square Music Hall, 18301 W. Colfax Ave. D-103, Golden, 303-279-7800, through Dec. 31.

A Hillbilly Christmas Carol. 73rd Avenue Theatre Company, 7287 Lowell Blvd., Westminster, 720-276-6936, through Jan. 4.

kindergarten and up. 4 p.m. The Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Top 10 TV Shows of the Decade

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he 2000s signaled a new day in television. Gone were the mushy family sitcoms of yesteryear, as new, sarcastic comedy took their place. The hour-long, tear-jerking dramas were replaced by gritty, hard-edged realism while sentimental characters were consumed by a perpetually flawed, and sometimes downright rude lead. Still, the 2000s arguably produced some of the best television writing and acting the small screen has ever seen. Before you get your underwear in a bunch over the list, all of these shows began airing in 2000 or later (so sorry, no Sex & the City, Sopranos or South Park). Let the great debates begin.

10. Everybody Hates Chris — As he regularly joked in his stand-up routines, Chris Rock’s childhood was the source of comedic genius. His series chronicles the hilarious antics of a young Chris, who struggles to maintain his sanity at an all white school, while surviving the trials that come courtesy of a loving, but quirky family, is part Wonder Years, part Cosby Show, but all Chris. This show brought back the idea of a family sitcom to the small screen.

Air Dates: 2005-2009

8. The Game — A spin-off from UPN’s popular comedy, Girlfriends, The Game took drama to an entirely new level.

Created by Mara Brock Akil and starring Tia Mowry, the show’s realistic portrayal of the lives of football player’s girlfriends and wives and the ups and downs of relationships and sport’s life made it a fan-favorite, despite lackluster viewership. Smart, sassy and witty, The Game made such a rumble that fans took to the Internet to bring the show back when the CW cancelled it after three seasons (the network had placed it in the “death slot” — Friday nights). Word is, BET is picking it up in January for a fourth season.

Air Dates: 2006-2009 7. American Idol — Yes, the neverending tears were sappy and Paula Abdul’s slurring praise for mediocre performances was just plain weird.

Nevertheless, American Idol revised reality television and the pop charts all in one Simon Fuller-infested swoop. The show made Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson and even host, Ryan Seacrest, household names. But more importantly, corny as it may sound, it made dreams come true.

Air Dates: 2002-Present 6. Mad Men — Although AMC’s critically acclaimed hour-long drama debuted without much fanfare, it has quickly become one of TV’s most coveted. While the stylish drama definitely is appealing to the eye, the plot, acting and superior writing are what set this show, depicting the inner-making of a '60s ad

agency and the drama of their everyday lives, a decade winner.

Air Dates: 2007-Present 5. The Office — A paper supply office in Scranton, Pennsylvania gets filmed for a reality TV show. Boring much? Despite the drab set-up, The Office was arguably the funniest 30 minutes on television.

Based on the British sitcom of the same name, and propelled by Steve Carell’s understated comedic handlings, The Office actually deserves the title of “must-see” TV. Air Dates: 2005-Present 4. Six Feet Under — The idea of living in a house that also operates as a funeral home is a little creepy. A show about its occupants’ dreary lives sounds even creepier. But underneath HBO’s award-winning dark drama was heart, soul and humanity that extended well beyond the after life. Poetic storytelling, complicated characters and superior acting was the fire behind Alan Ball’s creation. Add that to the most creative death scenes ever at the beginning of each show, and one of the best finales in television history, and you have a series that was literally to die for.

Air Dates: 2001-2005 3. Chappelle’s Show — Remember Rick James, bitch? How about the blind KKK member who didn’t know he was black? Or what about the time Wayne Brady had to choke a bitch? With the intelligent storytelling of Richard Pryor and the social perception of Chris Rock, Chappelle’s Show became the best thing to ever hit Comedy Central and a

certified pop culture phenomenon when it first aired in 2003. $50 million, a murdered contract and one voyage to Africa later, Chappelle remains one of the funniest, most original shows of the decade.

Air Dates: 2003-2005 2. Curb Your Enthusiasm — What do you get when you make a show starring the award-winning writer of Seinfeld?

Comedic genius. Larry David’s brand of hilarity was off-kilter, politically incorrect and full of enough sarcastic wit to make even his writing on Seinfeld pale in comparison.

Air Dates: 2000-2009 1. The Wire — Forget that this HBO phenom featured what was probably the best writing on a television show ever. Forget that the acting was enough to make you forget “Stringer Bell” was just a character in the gritty, multi-layered drug drama. Forget the award snubs and the consequent craze when the final fifth season was released. The reason why The Wire (created by David Simon) is the best show of the decade is simple — the mixture of drama and socialpolitical commentary is unparalleled.

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9. Entourage — Based very loosely on the life of the show’s producer, Mark Walhberg, HBO’s Entourage was this decade’s guy-version of Sex & the City.

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ndustry rule number 4,080, as set forth by A Tribe Called Quest on The Low End Theory, is still true. Record company people are still shady. Luckily, record company people hold dwindling influence over what hip-hop music you get to hear.

This year’s crop of free mixtapes drove home a point that grows more clearly true each year: the traditional record-company-as-gatekeeper-and-tastemaker model is, and always was, inadequate. A few hip-hop artists — Raekwon, UGK and others — dropped worthwhile major label albums in 2009, but hip-hop’s true current is carried forward on the hundreds of blogs that drop mixtapes, tracks and videos every day. What started as a trickle of freeness years ago has grown into a torrent, pun intended. While the unsigned-and-online business model is still an unsolved mystery — those labels are shady, but the money ain’t bad — the worthiness of much of the free content outdoes the stuff in stores.

Many artists with label backing do their best work in the unregulated online market. That said, you should support good artists financially when you can. Most of these people are much less rich than you’ve been led to believe.

Below are my preferences for the top five free hiphop mixtapes of 2009. They should still be available on sites such as datpiff.com or 2dopeboyz.com. A note to readers: I didn’t pick Drake’s So Far Gone because I don’t think it’s especially great. Sorry. 50 Cent was omitted because his music is terrible.

5) Donnis, Diary Of An ATL Brave — Lil Wayne’s tapes have illustrated the Darwinian beauty of the online market, where laws don’t apply. Atlanta newcomer Donnis recently released a nasty specimen of the other kind of mixtape: the complete album no label has been smart enough to release. ATL Brave is a fully formed work of atomic southern bounce, complete with a cameo from the beloved Bun B. Donnis ain’t Big Boi (of Outkast), but he brings a charismatic drawl to tracks that would have been pop radio-ready if a label had moved in time.

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chiefly by a laudatory write-up in The New Yorker, making Gibbs the first Gary, Ind., MC to travel John Updike’s turf. Both tapes feature unadulterated throwback gangster rap, almost all of it antisocial and sexually aggressive. Gibbs spits cool, competent rhymes at a galloping cadence, asserting himself between the bass hits of the beats. Check “G.I. Pride” for a manifesto and cursory history of the neglect visited upon his hometown. See “Bussdown” for his embarrassingly explicit — and totally awesome — version of a club banger. Lest you doubt his lyrical ferocity, listen to Gibbs abuse the Big L jam “Flamboyant.” In these two mixtapes, Gibbs put out two of the best hip-hop albums of the year. We miss you, MJ. Freddie Gibbs, we’re glad you’re here.

1) Lil Wayne, No Ceilings — Lil Wayne is, indeed, the best rapper alive, and this year, praise God, he released a mixtape that involves lots of rapping. After experimenting with his less-developed skills — guitarnoodling, singing, crew-mentoring, getting arrested — Weezy this year recorded a killer mixtape that returns to his true gift: stealing other rappers’ beats and using them to make better songs. Before Weezy turned the world on with The Carter III, he changed the rap game with the greatest mixtape of all time, Da Drought 3. The formula works again on No Ceilings, as Weezy spits his beautiful, nonsensical, lyrical collages about Martians and glocks and oral sex and pro football over teenybopper hits and Jay-Z rip-offs. To hear him on other rappers’ beats is to remember how much more inventive and clever he is than everybody else alive right now.

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by Dan Hinkel Illadelphonics — Before Canadian songstress Melanie Fiona dropped her enthusiastically reviewed debut album, The Bridge, this fall, she teamed with a live band and Roots overlord ?uestlove on a disc of remixes and covers. She covers a stripped version of Sam Cooke’s immortal “Cupid” with virtuoso soul and warmth. She rips through torch songs and reggae with equal competence, backed by ?uestlove’s chugging funk drums. Download it and you may end up buying her album.

3) Lupe Fiasco, Enemy of the State — The Chicago MC packed away the profundities and story songs, for once, and went for heads on this brief, potent gift to fans. Over tastefully jacked beats, Lupe serves notice that, in addition to his talent for making coherent thematic hip-hop, he brings punch lines better than anyone who is not Lil Wayne.

Sample: “If you ain’t million-dollar dreamin’ then we opposites/in high school I was voted the most Ted DiBiase-est.”

2) Freddie Gibbs, Mi dwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik and The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs — Two musicians from Gary, Ind., surprised the hell out of the world this year. The first was Michael Jackson. Freddie Gibbs, whose mother lives about a mile from the former Jackson homestead, offered a more pleasant shock than MJ, issuing two scorching mixtapes featuring the Interscope dropout’s hurdling Midwestern speed rapgrowl laid over thumping Southern bounce and languid West Coast funk. His notoriety surged in 2009, aided

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Lights GoMotion Light vest — As a runner, you’ve got two options for winter training: one involves spending a few dozen hours a week on a contraption designed to exercise gerbils, and the other involves the GoMotion Light Vest. Designed literally to “extend the day,” the GoMotion Light Vest is a low-profile, super-light-

Thursday, Dec. 31 Once in a Blue Moon — Two full moons during one month, only happens once in a blue moon! Say good-bye to 2009 under the radiant light of a “blue” full moon.

5-6:30 p.m. Sawhill Ponds, east of the Boulder city limits on the west side of 75th St., 0.6 mile North of Valmont Rd., 303441-3440.

Resolution 5K — Denver’s oldest and only New Year’s Eve running and walking event. 6 p.m. Washington Park, Denver, www.emgcolorado.com/race_resolution. html.

Saturday, Jan. 2 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, Jan. 3 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

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Sierra Designs Microlight Accelerator Jacket — Stay dry, warm and comfortable this winter with the Microlight Accelerator jacket from Sierra Designs. Blending a water-resistant, 100-percent nylon shell with a fast-wicking, brushed polyester “Accelerator” lining, this jacket quickly sheds light rain and melting snow, while drawing internal moisture away from your skin. More than just a shell, the Microlight’s brushed Accelerator lining offers just a touch of insulation to keep you warm on cool mornings or during high exertion winter activities. ($69.00, www.SierraDesigns. com) Woolrich Weatherchaser vest — Built to keep your core warm on cold days, the Weatherchaser’s 100 percent polyester quick-dry microfiber shell is quilted to an internal liner for excellent weather protection and warmth.

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weight, mesh pack with a sternummounted LED spotlight that can light up any road, path or trail. A high-performance safety light, the GoMotion LightVest has three different light settings and an adjustable focus that can widen or narrow the cone of light. ($99.95, www.gomotioninc.com) Primus PrimeLite Race headlamp — With a range of 125 meters, the PrimeLite Race is the brightest flashlight in the Primus lineup — a good thing when running outdoors after dark. An aluminum case dissipates heat for a stronger beam while a separate battery case can be stowed in a pocket for less weight on your head and better cold weather performance. Three light settings provide the perfect amount of light while maximizing burn time. (www.primuscamping. com, $85.00)

Shoes Ahnu FireTrail winter running shoe (men’s) — The name says it all! This shoe mixes performance and comfort into a design that braves harsh elements for outdoor winter training. A rugged Vibram sole prevents slipping on any sur-

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Accessories Origo Paso Pedometer watch — Accurate to within two feet per mile, the new Origo Paso Pedometer watch is a full-function watch with digitally integrated, smart detection pedometer technology that automatically switches between walk to run modes without reprogramming. Unlike standard pedometers, the Paso is worn on the wrist, providing instant access to distance traveled, calories burned, target step count, step timer, alarm and chronological functions on the fly. A broad LCD display provides superior readability. (www. origowatch.com, $40.00)

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Birds of Prey Slide Show — Learn how to recognize birds of prey in the winter skies. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-678-6200.

Monhegan Island — Join Marilyn Wertheimer on an exploration of the villages and hiking trails of Maine’s remote and rugged island. Changes in Latitude, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Dellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Youth “Earn-A-Bike” Program. 5:307:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Avalanche Clinic: Risk Managment in Avalanche Terrain — Presented by Alpine World Ascents. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Ste.A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

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

Simple Waxing for Touring — Learn simple waxing techniques for your touring skis. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Ste. A, Boulder, 303-4998866.

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Such is a common response when people hear about the new Colorado High School Cycling League coming to Colorado high schools in 2010. The cycling organization is part of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), a mountain-bike based initiative that has its roots in California. Starting with a simple grassroots approach to get mountain biking on the high school sports map, the program has flourished in California, where biking has become a legitimately funded varsity sport at several high schools.

Matt Fritzinger is the founder of the Northern California Cycling League (NorCal) which he spearheaded in 2001.

As the program became more polished, it became more successful and expanded to Southern California in 2008. In 2009, Colorado stepped up to be the first new state outside of California to take Fritzinger’s blueprint of the NorCal League and bring it to area high schools.

Kate Rau, Program Director of Singletrack Mountain Bike Adventures (SMBA) is the committee chair for the Colorado chapter.

“My involvement with Singletrack Mountain Bike Adventures afforded me the rewarding experience of seeing how much joy and confidence kids gain from mountain biking,” says Rau. “The camaraderie, positive peer culture, and appreciation of the outdoors associated with mountain biking is a natural venue for high school students. I discovered the NorCal League in 2006. In 2008, I attended the NorCal Leaders Summit and observed the California high school mountain biking state championships in 2009. I was convinced that this high quality program specifically designed to engage high school youth was perfect for Colorado.”

Getting rolling There are many obstacles to being accepted as a school-funded varsity sport in any high school. Besides all the legal approvals and district requirements, new sports must compete for interest and funding with established varsity activities such as football, baseball, track, volleyball and more. Add to that the tricky element that mountain bike trails are rarely established with the purpose of competitive riding in mind and almost never on school campuses.

The logical solution is to introduce

mountain biking as an organized club sport, thereby freeing it from the restrictions associated with school-sponsored sports.

“It will be a club activity and driven by motivated students, school staff and parents at each school,” Rau says.

“Categories will parallel current high school programs where riders will compete against similar age and levels such as freshman females, freshman males, up through varsity. Teams will represent their schools like in normal high school sports.”

The Colorado Cycling League will give mountain biking a legitimate and proven system. The initiative to create and coach teams will be the responsibility of the communities that choose to join the network. As the league evolves, Rau hopes that schools will consider making mountain biking part of the regular high school sports curriculum. There is interest from staff and athletes from all over the state. Areas where there is high interest include Ft. Collins, Boulder, Denver metro area, Colorado Springs, Vail Valley, Salida, Crested Butte/Gunnison, Aspen Valley and Steamboat. Teams can start registering in August 2010, and the race season begins early September.

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Because Colorado has such an active cycling community, road biking may be on the horizon, too. Closed circuit roadbike racing (criteriums) is the safest and most plausible place to start if road biking makes it into the program. The established California leagues focus solely on mountain biking, but as interest has increased — and, more importantly, the system has been proven to work — road biking is the next logical step.

As part of the bigger vision, Fritzsinger and Rau hope to have the NorCal model in all 50 states by 2020. A great deal of the success of the program depends on the investment of schools, students, volunteers and coaches.

“Those who are interested in coaching or leading rides should attend the June 2010 Leaders’ Summit,” says Rau. “Mark your calendars for the first annual Colorado League Cyclefest dinner and ride with Dave Wiens April 24 [at] Palettes at the Denver Art Muesuem and local ride April 25.”

For more information, contact Kate Rau at 720-272-9282 or email her at kate@coloradomtb.org.

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’ve been a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detail-oriented detective, Sherlock Holmes, for as long as I can remember. The Holmes canon is extraordinarily rich and directors as talented as Billy Wilder and Barry Levinson have tackled it with varying levels of success and there are more than 200 Holmes films and TV shows.

It was quite a challenge for director Guy Ritchie to reinvent Sherlock Holmes on the big screen, transforming him to the scroungy, intense Robert Downey Jr. who plays Holmes as a sarcastic ruffian who earns supplemental income as a warehouse pugilist, and Jude Law as a sophisticated and alarmingly violent Watson.

The result is a highly entertaining, visually stunning movie that doesn’t quite fire on all cylinders and reduces one of the best and most memorable fictional detectives in history to just another member of CSI: Victorian London or one of the Usual Suspects or any number of similar gritty, tough, unorthodox detectives.

The story revolves around the malevolent Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) seeking to take over the government of England and then restoring English dominance over America. A shadowy presence in the background is Holmes archenemy Professor Moriarty.

The film opens with a horse-drawn paddywagon galloping madly through the streets of a dirty, sepia London in a scene reminiscent of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Cut to Holmes and Watson ignoring Scotland Yard Inspector Lestrade (satisfyingly played as a bit of a

simpleton by Eddie Marsan) and sneaking into a ritual during which Blackwood is sacrificing a woman tied to a stone altar. They rescue her in the nick of time and Blackwood is sentenced to hang, but ...

The dialog is amusing and the repartee between Holmes and Watson is entertaining, but also contributed towards the sense of this as just another buddy cop film: In the stories, Watson is primarily Holmes’ chronicler, his “Boswell,” rather than an action figure with flying fists.

Doyle introduces Irene Adler in the Holmes stories thusly: “she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that [Holmes] felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler, however.” Ritchie decided that this doesn’t work in a modern action movie, so when Adler

(Rachel McAdams) shows up unexpectedly, Holmes has to hide her portrait and it’s clear he is indeed in love. At one point it’s also suggested that the relationship is consummated, even if as part of Adler’s evil plot against Holmes.

The exterior shots of Victorian London, the climactic fight between Blackwood, Holmes and Adler on the half-built Tower Bridge, and the many complex interior shots are beautifully done. The fight scene at the shipyard is a standout in terms of seamless integration of CG backgrounds and details.

Overall, the cinematography by Philippe Rousselot is stunning and worth the ticket price.

Then again, the unrelieved sepia color palette left me yearning for some splash of color from a costume, a painting on the wall, or anything. Even the flower bouquet in a later hospital scene was white lilies.

Sherlock Holmes is a fun action detective movie based loosely on the great fictional detective, but ultimately, it’s forgettable, yet another stylish action movie by a cast we’ve seen in these roles before, in a setting and era that’s a mainstay of modern cinema. Ritchie doesn’t bring much to the Holmes canon and Robert Downey Jr. often seems to be reprising his role as Tony Stark in Iron Man. See it in the theater for the cinematography and flawless production, but don’t expect it to be a reinvention of Mr. Holmes because it’s not.

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ilms are dreams, whether the director is aiming for hyper-realism or whether we’re allowed to fly through the odd, the dreamy, and the troubling of their imagination.

Director Rob Marshall’s Nine is a sexy, engaging, stylish and enlightening journey through the imaginative life of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his many loves.

At the beginning of the film, Guido, a famous Italian film director clearly modeled after Federico Fellini, explains why he doesn’t want to talk about his upcoming movie project: “You kill your film, mostly by talking about it. A film is a dream.”

The very first frames of Nine open with Guido sitting on the vacant set of his upcoming movie Italia, then seamlessly shifts into a dance number that introduces us to his major loves, his mother (Sophia Loren), his wife Luisa (Marion Cotillard), his lover Carla (Penélope Cruz), the blonde star of his new film Claudia (Nicole Kidman) and his muse Lilli ( Judi Dench).

Set in Italy in the mid 1960s, Guido is struggling with his next film project. It’s 10 days before shooting begins at Cine Cettá and he has no script, not even a real idea of the storyline, because he spends so much of his time in his head, in fantasy sequences within which women fawn over “Maestro Contini” and do steamy, sexy burlesque dance numbers in the skimpiest of costumes.

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Guido is an escapist and we see many scenes where he withdraws from the world around him and focuses on a poignant or intimate memory or whirls away in an astonishing fantasy sequence of perfect women who are perfectly willing. His films offer the same escape for his audience, but as is emphasized throughout Nine, his most recent films no longer hit the mark. Is he too wrapped up in his own world to even be able to share it anymore, maestro or not?

The tension between how he envisions life proceeding and the different ways that things actually unfold is the leitmotif of Nine, even as we in the audience can clearly see how everyone around Guido bends and forgives so

that the maestro has the creative space he so desperately needs to create his next masterpiece. “You’re just an appetite,” Louisa finally tells him, “no one can help you find your way.”

The film also operates as an homage to classic Italian cinema. From the outfits to the beautiful exteriors, the colors, the lyrical patter of dialog and in particular the wonderful music from composer Andrea Guerra, all help create a film that feels like, just maybe, it was made forty years ago.

Nine has extended black and white sequences and many of the fantasy dance numbers flip between black and white and a rich Technicolor. There’s a nod to the vérité style of classic Italian films too, with heads in the way of long shots, people walking past the camera during exteriors, and other touches of reality.

Nine is a film within a film, a story both of the challenge of creating art, of the dilemma of the artist finding inspiration in their imagination while having to live in reality. It’s also a film about making a film, about the art of filmmaking, not the business. With its superb music, sexy dance numbers and thoughtful storyline, it’s one of the best films of 2009 and we’ll hear it mentioned for at least one or two Academy Awards when they’re announced.

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Avatar The first 90 minutes of Avatar are pretty terrific — a full-immersion technological wonder with wonders to spare. The other 72 minutes, less and less terrific. Director James Cameron’s futuristic story becomes intentionally grueling in its heavily telegraphed narrative turn toward genocidal anguish, grim echoes of Vietnam-style firefights and the inevitable payback time and sequel setup. Cameron nonetheless has delivered the screen’s most anticipated and persuasive blend of live-action and motion-capture animation to date. Rated PG-13 (intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking). At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

This is a kids comedy that screams “Direct-toDVD.” It doesn’t help that it screams that in high, squeaky, three-part harmony. Whatever slim charms there were in the nostalgic, musically cute and slapstick-friendly first film of chipmunk mania are squished right out of The Squeakquel like so much rodent roadkill. The cast is cut rate, and the script needed a serious visit from a serious gag writer. Rated PG (some mild rude humor). At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore A Single Man Some films aren’t revelations, exactly, but they burrow so deeply into old truths about love and loss and the mess and thrill of life, they seem new anyway. This is one such film, one of the best of 2009. In adapting Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel to the screen, first-time feature filmmaker Tom Ford (better known for being a famous fashion designer) has put his admiration of the source material to excellent results. Ford also has facilitated a career best for actor Colin Firth, one of the screen’s great and subtle portraitists. Rated R (some disturbing images and nudity/sexual content). At Mayan.

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Avatar Director James Cameron’s futuristic film takes place on the distant world of Pandora, which is inhabited by the humanoid race the Na’vi.

An Education Novelist Nick Hornby’s screenplay for British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir sands a few edges off the corners of its heroine’s story, yet the film is awfully charming. It bops along with so much esprit and lively acting, and such an observant sense of the period (the early ’60s),

you’re seduced by the results in the same way charming, slightly oily David (Peter Sarsgaard), entices young Jenny (Carey Mulligan) into his glamorous orbit. The film belongs to Mulligan, who showcases her comic range and natural authority. Rated PG-13 (mature thematic material involving sexual content and for smoking).

At Mayan. — Michael Phillips

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Director Werner Herzog’s delirious new movie is a true feat of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It’s a very loose remake of the 1992 Bad Lieutenant, in which director Abel Ferrara unleashed Harvey Keitel as a drugaddled police detective. The drug-abusing cop has been relocated from New York to New Orleans, and in place of Keitel’s fits of anguish, Herzog has found his ideal interpreter, a performer whose truth lies deep in the artifice of

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Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Lousiville, 303-604-2641 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Sat-Sun: 10:15 p.m. Fri-Thu: 11:40, 2:30, 5, 8 Avatar Sat-Sun: 9 p.m. Fri-Thu: 10, 11:20, 1:40, 3:30, 5:20, 7:30 The Blind Side Sat-Sun: 9:55 p.m. Fri-Thu: 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7 Did You Hear About the Morgans? Sat-Sun: 10:20 p.m.

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performance: Nicolas Cage, at his finest. Rated R (drug use and language throughout, some violence and sexuality). At Chez Artiste. — Michael Phillips

on sacrifice than showcasing strategy, and Woo manages to make it all work. Rated R (sequences of epic warfare). At Starz. ­— Christopher Borrelli

The Blind Side

The Road

Based on a book by Michael Lewis, this film fumbles a true story of an African-American product of the Memphis projects who ended up at a Christian school and in the care of a wealthy white family, then went on to NFL glory. The star is Sandra Bullock, whose character is conceived as a steel magnolia with a will of iron. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), now a starting tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, has been sidelined in his own story. At its queasiest The Blind Side veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism. Rated PG-13 (one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references). At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

It’s a miracle that this movie works at all, given the severity of its source, a 2006 Cormac McCarthy novel. The best thing about the film is Viggo Mortensen’s performance. He plays the man with no name, a survivor of the global apocalypse, making his way to the coast with his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) while scrounging for food and dodging cannibals and marauders. The good father and his saintly boy cannot help but tug at the heart, even as John Hillcoat’s direction struggles to find a rhythm. Rated R (some violence, disturbing images and language). At Mayan. — Michael Phillips

The Young Victoria This historical romance starring Emily Blunt is now showing at Chez Artiste in Denver.

The Blue Tooth Virgin Two writers must face a dilemma that is common to anyone who has ever had an artistic friend: what happens when you have to give feedback, and the news isn’t good? Sam, an aspiring screenwriter, and David, a successful magazine editor, have been friends for years.

When David doesn’t appreciate Sam’s latest script, it opens a fissure in their friendship, one that spreads through the rest of their lives.

Ultimately, both men must reevaluate their motivations to write, their need for praise and validation, and what it means to see yourself as you actually are. Not rated. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Broken Embraces Sleek and swank, director Pedro Almodovar’s latest movie is destined to be overlooked come awards time. Broken Embraces reworks a slew of noir plot lines for a stimulating story of an affair between a call girl turned actress (Penelope Cruz) and her director (Lluis Homar), and the prying eyes just off-camera. The movie putters near the end, but it’s a film lover’s delight. Rated R (sexual content, language and some drug material). At Esquire. — Michael Phillips

author, Roald Dahl. It’s also a matter of how the fox at the center has been turned into a more arrogant wiseacre, as voiced by George Clooney. Anderson fails to make Foxy’s glibness much fun, and the self-knowing irony seems illsuited to Dahl’s traditional story interests.

Rated PG (crude and sexual content, and for language including a drug reference). At Century and Starz. — Michael Phillips Invictus This stately, impressive film from director Clint Eastwood is anchored by its actors. Morgan Freeman plays South African president and revolutionary game-changer Nelson Mandela, and Matt Damon plays rugby captain Francois Pienaar. In the South African rugby team’s longshot chances for a victory in the 1995 World Cup Final, Mandela sees a grand opportunity. If the team, under Pienaar’s stewardship, can prevail, the country just may skip a step or two on the road to its democratic future. Rated PG-13 (brief strong language). At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips.

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It’s Complicated

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker play a Manhattan power couple on the brink of divorce. He cheated on her; she is not in the forgiving vein. He wants her back and proposes a trial reconciliation dinner — after which they witness a murder, which makes them targets themselves. They’re plonked into the witness protection program, and these liberal blue-state weenies mix it up with the red-state, red-blooded folk of Ray, Wyo. A lame script lets down the game cast members, with jokes repeatedly falling flat. Rated PG-13 (some sexual references and momentary violence). At Century, Colony Square, Flatirons and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

It’s Complicated isn’t: It’s pretty simple. It’s simply a good time, a relatively adult and easygoing conveyance for three ace performers of a certain age. The movie has three huge ringers: Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

The push-pull dynamic is between a woman who should know better and her wolfish but charming pursuer. Ten years after their divorce, Jane (Streep) and remarried Jake (Baldwin) strike up an affair. Is it love? Lust? Lustlove?

Meantime, the nice fellow overseeing Jane’s elaborate house remodel (Martin) has hopes for romance. MPAA rating: R (some drug content and sexuality). At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips.

Disney’s A Christmas Carol

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Robert Zemeckis has long been a filmmaker divided against himself, the techno-geek warring with the storyteller. His newest work, Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens — demoted!), is an extravaganza of colliding intentions. But just when you’re ready to give up on it, Zemeckis reminds you that he’s capable of true visual dynamism, enhanced but not wholly dictated by the digital landscape he so clearly adores. Plus, Jim Carrey is good as Scrooge.

There’s surprisingly little shtick in his performance. Rated PG (scary sequences and images).

At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

The Paris Opera Ballet is one of the world’s great ballet companies. The film follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Le Songe de Medée

by Angelin Preljocaj, La Maison de Bernarda by Mats Ek, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, Casse Noisette by Rudolph Noureev, Orphée and Eurydice by Pina Bausch, and Romeo and Juliette

by Sasha Waltz. The film shows the work involved in administering the company and the coordinated and collaborative work of choreographers, ballet masters, dancers, musicians, and costume, set, and lighting designers. Not rated.

At Starz. — Denver Film Society

Fantastic Mr. Fox So many clever visual felicities dot the landscape of Wes Anderson’s animated feature, I’m flummoxed as to why the movie left me feeling up in the air. Partly, it’s how Anderson’s sense of humor rubs up against that of the story’s

Martin’s Big Words Using quotes from some of his beloved speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in stunning collage art and vibrant watercolor paintings in this profound and important biogra-

phy about beliefs and dreams and following one’s heart. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his own words, will inspire and affect you, too. Narrated

by Michael Clarke Duncan, with music by Crystal Taliefero. Ages 5–12. Free showing at Starz. — Denver Film Society Nine See full screen review on Page 38. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square and Flatiron.

Our Town Thornton Wilder’s play about life and death in a small town, with William Holden and Martha Scott, and a score by Aaron Copland. It seems that every high school in America does the play a dozen times a year, but this film is quite beautifully nuanced and designed by William Cameron Menzies. Not rated. Tattered Cover free classic showing at Starz. — Denver Film Society Precious The first 20 minutes of Precious are so intense, you may not feel like sticking it out. Stick it out.

This is an exceptional film about nearly unendurable circumstances, endured. The story is about a teen living in 1980s Harlem, raped by her barely glimpsed father, abused by her unfathomably cruel mother (Mo’Nique). Precious is illiterate but bright, and she switches to an alternative school where she comes under the life-saving tutelage of Ms. Rain (Paula Patton).

There’ll be an Oscar nomination or two in this film’s near future. Rated R (child abuse including sexual assault and pervasive language). At Colony Square. ­— Michael Phillips The Princess and The Frog How can a good-looking animated feature with a Randy Newman song as kicky as “When We’re Human” end up being just sort of ... all right?

Featuring Disney’s first African-American princess, this movie lacks for nothing in setting and atmosphere (New Orleans, mostly in the 1920s, with side trips to bayou country) but comes up short where it counts: the characters. Human, insect or amphibian, their appeal is hard-sell and engineered. And the princess, oddly, is sidelined by her own story. Rated G. ­At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Red Cliff This is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chinese-language movie ever made. Red Cliff tells the story of the pivotal Battle of Red Cliff (as famous in China as the Battle of Gettysburg is here), which finds vile Prime Minister Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) leading an armada into the Southland of China to take on a rabble of rebellious warlords. It’s the rare war movie less concerned with putting a face

Sherlock Holmes See full screen review on Page 38. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon This much-anticipated sequel is actually pretty good — a tick better than the first Twilight, which wasn’t bad, either. The second film in the series is bigger, better in the effects and more vibrant visually. When last we left Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire boyfriend, Edward (Robert Pattinson), they’d come through a serious test or three of their endless love. New Moon separates the pair early on. Bella pines, then is pulled out of her funk by her pal Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who is sweet and hunky but also a werewolf. MPAA rating: PG-13 (some violence and action). At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Uncertainty Uncertainty, from directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End), thrusts Bobby Thompson and Kate Montero (Joseph GordonLevitt and Lynn Collins) into two alternate realities on the same steamy summer day in New York City. With the flip of a coin, the couple are sent in opposite directions — a delicate drama set in Brooklyn examines familial love, self-discovery, loss and the ordinary choices we make every day, while Manhattan offers a vastly different tale of intrigue, suspense and murder on the streets of Chinatown. Not rated. At Starz.

— Denver Film Society Up In the Air For a movie set in a sour economy, Up in the Air is very crafty about lobbing to the sweet spots of all concerned. It is smooth as glass, destined for a big audience and many awards. George Clooney stars as a well-tailored hatchet man for an Omaha firm specializing in delivering bad news to laid-off employees. Vera Farmiga plays the love interest he meets in a hotel bar one night, and Anna Kendrick plays the tightly wound whiz kid he’s forced to mentor. This is a well-polished star vehicle, and it’s easy to see how it could win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Rated R (for language and some sexual content). At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Young Victoria Starring Emily Blunt as the 18-year-old queen of England circa 1837, this delicious historical romance is a rich pastiche of first love, teen empowerment, fabulous fashion and fate.

Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee has captured that hot blush of pure emotion that comes before kisses, sex and heartbreak. Credit also goes to Blunt and to Rupert Friend, who plays the equally young Belgian Prince Albert. They have been given a lot to work with and make the most of it. Rated PG (some mild sensuality, a scene of violence and brief incidental language and smoking). At Chez Artisite — Betsy Sharkey

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ecades from now, when you reflect on what dining was like during the fledgling years of the 21st century, on a good day you will picture a heartening trend toward comfort food in the wake of Sept. 11 and a well-meaning push toward locally sourced menus.

But on a bad day, when someone asks what the worst restaurant trends of that first decade were, will you be able to shut up? One restaurant type cracked: “As long as we’re not naming names, I’ll talk. Because now that you ask this, specific chefs and self-important restaurants are coming to mind.”

Then there were those who, like It Boy and New York chef David Chang, when asked to name the worst trends of the decade, simply blurted: “The Cheesecake Factory. The Kobe beef movement was stupid — it was never meant to be a burger! Sliders are stupid too. Sorry, I mean to say ‘a trio of sliders’ is stupid. What else? Walls of wine bottles as decoration. The steakhouse craze — why does there need to be more than a couple of steakhouses in any metropolitan area?”

Then, when his outrage subsided, Chang made an excellent point: “Bad trends were usually good trends.

They just got watered down into a really bad, overdone trend.”

Which, in a way, is precisely how Tanya Steel, the editor-in-chief of Epicurious (epicurious.com), saw the decade unfolding: “The beginning and the middle were

just the height of obnoxiousness, very reminiscent of the 1980s — you call ahead for a table and they tell you ‘5:30 or 10:30’ though there are 10 empty tables at 8 p.m. There were restaurants, especially here in New York, that refused to list a phone number or have the name of the place outside. I would say the second part of the decade didn’t begin until September 2008, when the

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hile Louisville’s Huckleberry serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as afternoon tea, arguably its most popular meal is weekend brunch. At least that was my impression after waiting 45 minutes for a table on a recent late Sunday morning. Friend Tertia and I used the time to catch up before being ushered to a sunny window-side two-top in a room that’s a more contemporary take on the country kitchen. Think a little less Holly Hobbie and a little more David Hockney, and you’ll get the picture.

As it should be, the menu isn’t terribly

consisted of tender morsels of poultry in a light but bright-tasting — free of a surplus of flour or cornstarch — gravy redolent with sage. The classic vegetable trio of onion, carrot, and celery were also present, thoroughly cooked, but retaining some firmness. Surprisingly, the whole affair didn’t come confined in a bowl, and the only vessel containing this pie was the crust itself. Despite the crust’s obvious architectural heft, it was still light and flaky with decidedly buttery notes.

Light and flaky aren’t necessarily positive qualities in potato pancakes, and I found the $8.75 latkes with chicken sausage and eggs were dense and serious.

These deliciously filling patties possessed an endearingly crisp crust and appealingly The Huckleberry hot and fluffy interiors. Garnishes includ700 Main Street, Louisville ed sour cream and apple compote, which had the pleasant effect of resembling a 303-666-8020 not-too-sweet pie filling.

Speaking of pie, we couldn’t pass up $3.95 pie slices for dessert. Tertia ordered surprising, with the expected assortment the cherry, while I went for a combination erhaps the greatest moment in 1990s B-movie history involving of pancakes, breakfast burritos and egg of huckleberry and peach. We restrained huckleberries took place in Tombstone, the 1993 historical dishes. Standbys like chicken-fried steak ourselves by bypassing the à la mode Western epic. In one of the film’s climactic moments, outlaw and biscuits and gravy lend a Southern option, and simply requested that our desJohnny Ringo (played by Michael Biehn, best known for his porfeel, while lunches consist of such stalserts be heated, which helped bring out trayal of Kyle Reese in The Terminator and as a Navy SEAL in every warts as burgers, Reuben sandwiches and the fruit flavor. It took a while for our pie film with Navy SEALs) expects to meet up with Kurt “Captain Ron” macaroni and cheese. Homemade baked to arrive, although it was worth the wait.

Russell’s Wyatt Earp for a put-up-or-shut-up duel. Unfortunately for goods, namely fruit pies and cakes, also The cherry was a reminder of how Ringo, Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday (a more accomplished gunfighter occupy pride of place here. proper pie should taste, with a subtle tartthan Earp) shows up in his place, announcing his presence with We ordered a $5.25 starter of fried ness amidst a backdrop of pleasingly flaky an ominous, “I’m your huckleberry.” green tomatoes off the lunch menu, which crust. The huckleberry flavor resembled becomes available at 11 a.m. While we that of a blueberry and tempered the puzzled over how the Huckleberry was peaches’ sugar in an exemplary blend of able to find green tomatoes this time of of the accompanying lemony tartar sauce provided a sour and honeyed sweetness. One might year, we found the quality far less ambiguous. These tasteful contrast. say that the Huckleberry is just the huckleberry, particthick, silver dollar-sized items featured a crisp and pipTertia’s main course of a $9.25 chicken pot pie, ularly for baked goods such as the fruit pies. Although ing hot breading encasing a subtly tart and velvety another lunch item, came sided with lightly roasted wait times may be long, it lives up to its weekend tomato slice. The balanced tartness was similar to that tomatoes. This preparation exceeded Marie Callender brunch reputation. of a well-executed vinaigrette, and the creamy qualities or frozen Swanson’s versions by a country mile. It Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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oly Snickerdoodles — 2010 is upon us! Time for all that lovely resolution-making. I resolved long ago to stop making them (not Snickerdoodles, resolutions). So far so good. Yay for me. It’s so nice to know that when the end of January rolls around and I’m still spiking my coffee, watching bad reality TV and pretending to exercise, I can look in the mirror and not be disappointed with myself. … I’m OK, you’re OK. I’m just waiting for the advice column offers to pour in — I’m very inspirational, you know.

I do hope, however, to inspire you to make this week’s treat, Spiced Orange Chocolate Chip Cookie Loaf. It is so tasty and was a big hit down at the TV station. As I look at this title though, I’m hoping that the word “loaf ” in a dessert recipe doesn’t conjure up images of ground beef, bread crumbs and Worcestershire sauce. If it does, well then just make a meat loaf and call it a night — not until you have some dessert loaf first, though.

This dessert is somewhere between a quick bread, cookie and a brownie. Maybe I should have called it a Brookie. A Brookie. … I like that. Why do all the good ideas come to me as afterthoughts?

Darn the spiked coffee!

Anyway, I love the texture and the spiciness of this dessert. For some reason, orange just screams New Year’s to me, and is why I tend to make something orangeey this time of year. It could be the zesting. I love me some zesting, and the smell always seems festive. I must research and get to the bottom of the orange/New Year’s connection. Perhaps it is the mimosas on New Year’s Day, and, boy, is this treat scrumptious with a mimosa. Works well with coffee, too, as it has a bit of a biscotti feel to it. So, see, I have your New Year’s Day menu all planned out. Spiked coffee, Spiced Orange Chocolate Chip Cookie Loaf, meat loaf and mimosas. Not sure about the order, but it sounds like a party to me.

So make all the resolutions you want, but please don’t resolve to stop eating dessert. You will feel so much better about yourself come the end of January when

you are tearing into that triple chocolate brownie with no regret. Trust me … you will. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done. Happy New Year!

Before you start: You can use dark chocolate chips in this with great results. You can use an 9 x 9 square pan if you want more of a bar feel (bake about 10 minutes less). Use one large orange or 1-1/2 small ones. This is great served in the morning with coffee or mimosas and orange slices.

Spiced Orange Chocolate Chip Cookie Loaf 1/2 cup melted butter 2 cups flour 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. cloves 1 tsp. cinnamon zest from one orange juice from one large orange (approx. 1/4 cup) 3 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Preheat oven to 350. Melt butter in small bowl, set aside.

In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and cloves.

Zest one orange into dry mix. Squeeze orange juice from zested orange into small bowl. Add eggs and vanilla and whisk lightly.

Add orange-egg mix into dry mixture.

Fold in melted butter, walnuts and chocolate chips and stir until well combined.

Pour into greased 9 x 5 loaf pan.

Bake for 40-45 minutes. Take out, and let cool. Cut into slices and serve.

Enjoy!

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

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and delicious at the same time,” Steel said. “Do I see it as a trend that will last?

No. As inspiration, maybe. But something feels disconnected when a chef has to buy a machine costing tens of thousands of dollars to cook. If anything, it’s ebbing and will spark a return to beautiful and simple ingredients.”

8. The $40 entrée — Not just at establishments sporting Beard awards and gravitas. At your neighborhood bistro. Enough.

7. The communal table — Said Michael Schwartz, the chef/owner of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in

Miami: the communal table “assumes people who don’t know each other want to sit together.”

6. Proudly obnoxious fast food options — Carl’s Jr.’s Big Carl burger (920 calories). Hardee’s Monster Thickburger (1,420 calories). KFC’s Double Down (bacon and cheese between fillets of fried chicken serving as bread). A dare? A brazen red-state response to blue-state delicateness? The genius was to market them not as mere meals but extensions of your civil rights. see WORST TRENDS Page 47

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Food happenings around town Burnt Toast to be replaced with Cafe Aion

Arugula open on New Year’s Eve

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he Hill restaurant Burnt Toast, located at 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., closed its doors on Dec. 24 and is expected to reopen as Café Aion in early March. Burnt Toast owners Ellen Dale and Buddy Kring sold the restaurant to one of its chefs, Dakota Soifer, on Dec. 21.

“Burnt Toast was a great community,” Kring told Boulder Weekly.

“People took real ownership of the place.” Soifer said he plans to remodel the interior, renovating the bar area and rearranging the seating to be more comfortable and intimate.

He explains that the new name of the restaurant is intended to recognize the bookstore of the same name that used to be there. Soifer, whose culinary experience includes serving as executive chef at the Kitchen, spent the summer working for Meadow Lark Farm Dinners. He says the connections he made with local farmers is helping him work up a new menu for Café Aion, which will primarily serve small tapa-style plates, incorporating Mediterranean and Californian themes. Soifer says he plans to concentrate on providing simple dishes with food grown by local farmers, and will initially emphasize the café’s dinner menu, since Burnt Toast was known primarily for its breakfast and lunch offerings.

rugula will be open on New Year’s Eve and is offering a four-course dinner. There will also be an à la carte menu for those who have a smaller appetite.

The New Year’s Eve dinner is $59/ person and includes a Prosecco cocktail. Reservations are recommended. To make a reservation, call 303-443-5100, or visit www.arugularistorante.com. Arugula will be closed the week of Jan. 3 to Jan. 7.

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Champagne ideas

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olleen Mullaney, entertaining guru and author of It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere, has simple champagne recipes that are perfect New Year’s Eve concoctions, such as the one below. For more delicious drink ideas, visit www.colleenmullaney.com.

Kir Imperial (Serves 4) • 4 oz. Cointreau • 4 oz. crème de framboise • 1 bottle brut champagne • Orange peel for garnish Pour a dash of Cointreau and crème de framboise into each flute.

Top with chilled champagne and garnish with an orange peel. Serve immediately.

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stay chefs and run excellent restaurants,” said Zagat, “but there are times when you wonder what a chef is supposed to be doing. TV brings people into their restaurant. But when do they find time to cook?”

1. Deconstruction — Said Joyce Goldstein, a San Francisco-based chef, cookbook author and restaurant consultant: “I do not want a poached egg on top of carbonara sauce and the pasta on the side. I don’t want the ingredients laid out before me anymore. I want a chef to show me how it is brought together.

Cooking has become an intellectual thing, but it’s not a sensual thing. We have all gotten so smart about food, we are losing touch with sex appeal.

Everything else is getting so exhausting — a lot of chefs saying, ‘Look at me,’ and ‘Look at this technique,’ and, next decade, I would prefer not to look at them for a while.” (c) 2009, Chicago Tribune.

—MCT

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5. Knee-jerk online reviews — Extreme Yelpers and likewise. “In particular, the opening-night blog reviewers,” said Don Lindgren, co-owner of Rabelais, a food-centric bookstore in Portland, Maine. “You can’t judge a restaurant from its opening night. It may be exciting to be there early. But to review it based on that first day is crazy and wrong.”

4. Foam — It’s suds. We guess we taste the kiwi-caramel tones. (Wait, no, we can’t.)

3. The menu as book — There is nothing wrong with “artisanal” or “local,” or “Vermont-raised,” and nothing wrong with identifying the source of the goat milk you are being served, but when menu items grow to entire paragraphs, it’s a bit much.

2. The chef as media whore — They cook, of course. They also sell shoes and star in reality shows. Sometimes they cook. Rocco DiSpirito, a middecade pan flash, is arguably the finest example.

“There are celebrity chefs who manage to

The Boulder Cork 3295 30th St. Boulder, 303-443-9505

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ome long-running restaurants are content to rest on their laurels with predictably stale menus. This isn’t the case with the Cork. Some of the more unique selections include crab cakes, fish “carnitas” and Asianinfluenced entrée salads. Of course, steaks and chops still occupy pride of place here, and the Cork’s memorable filet mignon is a perfect combination of tenderness and above-average flavor.

appetizers

just some of the specialties here.

Combine these delectable items with a bright home-style setting and reasonable prices, and you’ve got the makings of a fine morning meal experience.

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George’s Food & Drink 2028 14th St. Boulder, 303-998-9350

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

Korea House 2750 Glenwood Dr. #4 Boulder, 303-449-1657

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orea House won’t take a blue ribbon for upscale décor or taking adventurous flights of culinary fancy. But sometimes nothing sounds better than a big bowl of steamed rice with decently prepared vegetables and flavorful Asian barbecued short ribs, perhaps with some pungent kimchi on the side.

In that case, this craving for flavor can be easily satisfied here. Other unique choices include the bi bim bab, a onedish meal of rice, veggies, egg and seasoned beef.

Japango 1136 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-938-0330

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

Neapolitan’s 1 W. First St., Suite B Nederland, 303-258-7601

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ederland’s Neapolitan’s, or Neo’s, as it’s popularly known, dishes out firstrate East Coast-style Italian. Dishes with red sauce are the star of the show here, such as lasagna and the parmigianas.

However, this cozy eatery also excels in the details, as evidenced by the subtly garlicky rolls and an outstanding gorgonzolaladen salad dressing. Neo’s is a fine spot for casual and extremely satisfying Italian dining in the mountains.

Rincon Del Sol 2350 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, 303-442-0541

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estively decorated, Boulder’s Rincon Del Sol serves up California-style Mexican fare in a hospitable setting. Meals begin with chips, bean dip and first-rate salsa that you can enjoy while choosing from an array of tacos, enchiladas, burritos and combination plates. Chief among these is the Tampiqueña platter, a selection that you’re equally likely to encounter in both the U.S. and Mexico. This classic plate consists of flavorful carne asada garnished and a molé chicken enchilada, balancing tones of spice and chocolate.

Eggcredible Café 5397 South Boulder Rd. Boulder, 303-301-0005

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estled in Boulder’s Days Hotel, the Eggcredible Café serves up skillfully prepared egg dishes, such as an assortment of Benedicts, and sandwiches for breakfast and lunch. But what helps set the Eggcredible apart from the rest, besides its Eastern Europe meets

the American West ambience, is a variety of sweet and savory pierogi dumplings. For breakfast, one can enjoy these delicacies stuffed with sweet cheese or fruit, while savory lunchtime varieties come with fillings ranging from a threemeat combo to the zakopane, a mix of sauerkraut and mushrooms.

Smashburger 2755 Dagny Way Lafayette, 303-926-9700

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roviding higher quality sandwiches than its competition for only a few dollars more, the Lafayette branch of Smashburger follows the famed In-N-Out’s lead by serving cooked-to-order burgers made from fresh meat. Burgers, such as the Spicy Baja, come in either one-third or half-pound portions, and are accompanied by such fresh toppings as jalapeño peppers and garlic mushrooms. Other featured items include a stellar root beer float, crispy fried onions and Chicago hot dogs.

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

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self-described neighborhood restaurant, the interior of the North Boulder location of Murphy’s Grill bears more than a passing resemblance to the set of the ’80s sitcom Cheers. But unlike Cheers, Murphy’s displays considerable culinary prowess beyond chicken wings and nachos. Best bets include the expertly prepared walnut-crusted trout and the “smallest dessert in town” a sweet bargain consisting of a hunk of moist brownie and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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Two Spoons

3980 Broadway Boulder, 303-444-9100

1021 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-545-0027

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

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welcoming North Boulder neighborhood spot, O! Pizza dishes out thin-crust pie in the Philadelphia-style, which bears a close resemblance to its New York cousin. Civic origins aside, O! offers pie for every palate, ranging from a soy cheese and gluten-free crust version to a top-flight white pizza brimming with garlic, mozzarella, spinach and olive oil.

For dessert, try the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Big Daddy Bagels

The Buff Restaurant

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

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eed fuel for a hike or bike ride? Need a quick, reasonably priced and filling workday meal? Look no further than Big Daddy Bagels, which not only serves up its namesake, but also entrée salads, soups and pastries. The classicist will enjoy the New Yorker bagel sandwich, the timeless combination of lox, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes and capers. Try the flavorful portobello melt, which features marinated mushrooms, sun-dried tomato spread, as well as feta and provolone cheeses atop a bagel.

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

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lightly off the beaten path, Hygiene’s Crane Hollow Café provides a charming country venue for a leisurely weekend breakfast. Hearty corned beef hash, world-class biscuits and gravy specials, and fresh-from-the-oven fruit pies are

1725 28th St. Boulder, 303-442-9150

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

Bob’s Sandwich Shop

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820 Main St. Louisville, 303-665-1056

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

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March 21-April 19:

One of my favorite landscape painters makes a livable wage from selling her art. She’s had many gallery showings and has garnered much critical acclaim. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she feels obligated to keep churning out more landscape paintings — even when her muse nudges her to take a detour into, say, abstract expressionism or surrealistic portraits. Galleries don’t want anything from her except the stuff that has made her semi-famous. “Sometimes I fantasize about creating a series of ‘Sock Puppet Monkeys Playing Poker,’” she told me. If she were an Aries, I’d advise her to do what I think you should do in 2010: Listen to what your version of the sock puppet monkeys are urging you to do.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

My Taurus friend Jill had a dream in which she stopped by a blackberry bush on a summer afternoon. All the ripe blackberries were too high on the bush, just out of reach. She stood there gazing longingly up at them for a long time. Finally three people in medieval garb came by, as if having stepped out of a deck of Tarot cards — a warrior, magician and priestess. “I really want those blackberries,” she said to them.

“Could you give me a boost?” They stooped down to make their backs available. She climbed up, but still couldn’t reach the berries. “Oh, well, we tried,” she said. “Follow us,” said the priestess, and she did. After a while they came to another bush whose blackberries were lower and easy to pluck. Then the four shared the feast. After analyzing the omens for 2010, Taurus, I’ve come to the conclusion that Jill’s dream is an apt metaphor for your best possible destiny in 2010.

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May 21-June 20:

“We should not think of our past as definitely settled, for we are not a stone or a tree,” wrote poet Czeslaw Milosz.

“My past changes every minute, according to the meaning given it now, in this moment.” I suggest you make abundant use of this wisdom in 2010. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have unprecedented power to revision and reinterpret your past. Keep the following question in mind as you go about your work: “How can I recreate my history so as to make my willpower stronger, my love of life more intense and my future more interesting?”

CANCER June 21-July 22:

I think everyone should always have an improbable quest playing at the edges of their imagination — you know, some heroic task that provokes deep thoughts and rouses noble passions, even if it also incites smoldering torment. I’m talking about an extravagant dream that’s perhaps a bit farfetched but not entirely insane; a goal that constantly rouses you to stretch your possibilities and open your mind further; a wild hope whose pursuit makes you smarter and stronger even if you never fully accomplish it. The coming year would be an excellent time to keep such an adventure at the forefront of your awareness.

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July 23-Aug. 22:

A guy who goes by the name of “Winter” has made it his goal to visit every Starbucks in the world. According to his website, he has thus far ordered drinks in 9,874 stores. His project contrasts dramatically with an acquaintance of mine who calls herself “Indian Summer.” She is in the midst of a global pilgrimage to the hundreds of sites listed in Colin Wilson’s book The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites, including cave paintings, dolmens, medicine wheels and temples.

Guess which of these two explorers I’m nominating to be one of your inspirational heroes in 2010?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Scientific studies have proved what we all knew already: A person who’s only mildly interesting to you will probably become more attractive if you drink a couple of pints of beer.

What if I told you, Virgo, that in 2010 you could regularly create the same effect without drinking the beer? I have it on good astrological authority that this will be the case. Due to fundamental shifts in your relationship with the life force, and having nothing to do with how much alcohol you consume, the entire world will often be at least 25 percent more attractive to you than it ever was before.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Your limitations will be among your greatest assets in 2010.

Yes, you heard me right, Libra; I’m not speaking ironically or sarcastically. During the coming months, you will be able to benefit from circumstances that you might otherwise imagine would prevent you from operating with maximum freedom.

It might require you to look at the world upside-down, or work in reverse to your habitual thought patterns, but you could actually generate interesting opportunities, vital teachings and maybe even financial gain by capitalizing on your so-called liabilities.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

“Dear Rob: I sure don’t like so much God stuff mixed into my horoscopes. Can you cut it out, please? I understand it’s common for the masses to believe in an Ultra Being, but you? Pul-lease. You’re smarter than that. I just can’t abide all the ‘Divine Wow’ this and ‘Cackling Goddess’ nonsense that you dispense; it doesn’t jibe with the practical, sensible, unsuperstitious, non-mushy world I hold dear. — Sally Scorpio.”

Dear Sally: I predict that many Scorpios will have sensational, ongoing, up-close and personal communion with the Divine Wow in 2010. You’re free, of course, to call it something else, like an unprecedented eruption of creative energy or a breakthrough in your ability to access your own higher powers.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

You Sagittarians may wander farther and wider than the other signs of the zodiac, and you may get itchier when required to stay in one place too long, but you still need a sense of belonging. Whether that comes from having a certain building where you feel comfortable or a wilderness that evokes your beloved adventurousness or a tribe that gives you a sense of community, you thrive when you’re in regular touch with a homing signal that keeps you grounded.

According to my analysis, 2010 will be prime time for you to find or create or renew your connection to a source that serves this purpose well.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,” said American politician Everett Dirksen, “the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” That’s the kind of playful and resilient spirit I urge you to aspire to in 2010, Capricorn. I think you’re most likely to have a successful year if you regularly explore the joys of improvisation. The more empirical and less theory-bound you’re willing to be, the better you’ll feel.

Practicing the art of compromise doesn’t have to be galling, I promise you; it may even turn out to be more fun and educational than you imagined possible.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Who and what do you hold most dear, Aquarius? I encourage you to get clear about that. Once you do, I hope you’ll make a vow to bestow extra care and attention on them in 2010 — I mean literally write out a one-page oath in which you describe the inner states you will cultivate in yourself while you’re in their presence and the specific actions you’re going to take to help them thrive. Nothing else you do will be more important to your success in 2010.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

The philosopher Nietzsche said there was no middle ground: You either said “yes” to life or you said “no.” You either celebrated your vitality, enjoyed your power and thrived on challenges, or else you practiced constant self-denial, hemmed yourself in with deluded rationalizations and tormented yourself with indecision. I’m not sure it’s always as clear-cut as that. While I’m usually in the “yes to life” camp, I’ve gone through “no to life” phases, as well as some extended “maybe to life” times. What about you, Pisces? Whatever you’ve done in the past, I hope that in 2010 you will take maximum advantage of the cosmic rhythms, which will be encouraging you to give life a big, resounding, ongoing YES. To check out my expanded audio forecast of your destiny in 2010, go to RealAstrology.com.

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