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news & views Why people growl about dogs on open space / 6 Irresponsible dog owners have themselves to blame

by Pamela White U.S. needs to be on the side of the Egyptian people / 6 Uprisings are aimed against oppression, tyranny

by Moustafa Bayoumi

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buzz From the hills (kind of) / 18 Mountain Man’s harmonies cascade into town

by Adam Perry Arts & Culture: Series spotlights renowned filmmaker Brakhage / 23 Overtones: Amos Lee’s musical success almost never happened / 24 Overtones: Paper Bird teams up with Ballet Nouveau Colorado / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 27 Sophisticated Sex: Mindful love-making / 33 Elevation: The heaven on earth that is Monterosa Ski / 35 Screen: The Rite; The Mechanic / 38 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 40 Cuisine: Local bar serves up Packer pride, Wisconsin fare / 42 Cuisine Review: Gindi Cafe / 43 Dessert Diva: Spicy Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies / 44

departments Letters: Illegal representation in Congress; Alternative to solar farms / 5 The Highroad: Wall Street’s journal / 5 In Case You Missed It: Let them eat nothing; Check out CU salaries / 11 Boulderganic: Boulder County Girl Scouts greening the globe / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 48 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 49 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Illegal representation in Congress (Re: “Crackdown: ‘Dragnet’ may fend off Arizona-style immigration law,” cover story, Jan. 27.) There is a paradox to illegal immigration that is not discussed.

States may gain additional congressional representation because of their population of illegal immigrants. How many congressional representatives was Colorado awarded (in the 2010 reapportionment) because of the state’s population of illegal immigrants? Is it in the best interest of illegal residents to be counted in redistricting/apportionment and not allowed to vote? These additional House seats can now be used against the undocumented. This harkens back to slavery and the 3/5 clause that gave Southern states additional representation in Congress.

In a radio interview (WNPR, Dec. 15) recently retired U.S. Sen. [Christopher] Dodd, D-Conn., said he would change congressional apportionment/redistricting if given the opportunity, but did not specify how.

My upcoming book Vote Thieves: Illegal Immigration, Redistricting, and Presidential Elections argues for changing our basis of apportionment from total population to voters. Might this provide an impetus for true immigration reform if states such as Colorado, Texas and California were to lose congressional representation because illegal immigrants are excluded?

A similar proposal was made in January 1941, but was then forgotten after the country entered World War II.

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Our current method of apportionment creates an incentive for illegal immigration and polarizes our political system. Historically, it caused the end of the Federalist Party, bolstered slavery, disenfranchised African Americans after Reconstruction, fostered segregation in the South, denied voting rights to women, and disenfranchised voters in the presidential election of 2000.

See www.votethieves.com.

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There is understandable local opposition to the construction of large solar “farms” in rural Colorado. The greatest demand for electricity is, after all, in urban areas, and the resulting miles of transmission lines, while once seen as a sign of progress, are now regarded as unwelcome intrusions upon a growing environmental aesthetic of open, untrammeled land in the West.

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edia tycoon Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal last year, and in short order he has turned it into a tongue-clucking sympathizer with and proselytizer for the biggest of big businesses — not only on its editorial pages, but also in its news stories.

For example, a recent report on the economic trouble of America’s financial giants was so saccharinely sympathetic to the bankers that you could practically see teardrops on the page. The opening paragraph wailed that the banking industry is “racked by the financial crisis and facing slower revenue growth.”

Nowhere in the story was there even an allusion to the crucial fact that the “racking” was brought upon the poor bankers (not to mention the rest of us) by — guess who — the bankers themselves. Instead, the Journal wrote admiringly of Wells Fargo, Boulder Weekly

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by Jim Hightower American Express, State Street and other powerhouses of finance that are nobly struggling “in challenging economic conditions” to cut costs and “become more efficient.”

Would this admirable drive for efficiency include any sacrifices in salary, perks and bonuses of the absurdly pampered top bankers? Holy Gordon Gekko, get real! No, no, sacrifice is for others. As the title of the Journal’s article puts it, “Lenders See

their valuable resources, be it water, oil and gas, their children, and now treasured vistas, being drained into the seemingly insatiable metropolitan lifestyles they eschew. Apparently overlooked by the power brokers is that there are thousands of acres of roofs, already connected to the grid, in the very areas in need of additional electricity. A combination of private and govsee LETTERS Page 9

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Little Choice: Layoffs” — and Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is not about to be so rude as to mention that if his banker chums really want to become leaner, they could start by looking in the mirror.

Indeed, in deference to the tender sensibilities of Wall Street, the Journal doesn’t even refer to the offing of thousands of bank workers as firings. Rather, these people are soullessly termed “head-count reductions.”

In word and tone, Rupert Murdoch is boiling journalism out of the once-proud news pages of the Journal, reducing the paper’s proper name to Wall Street’s Journal.

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U.S. needs to be on side of Egyptian people

by Moustafa Bayoumi

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’m Egyptian, and like every foreign policy. Egyptians know only too other Egyptian person I know, I well how the United States supported have been mesmerized and dictator Hosni Mubarak all along. inspired by the images of the Washington lavished $1.5 billion of Egyptian people rising up. foreign aid a year to the Egyptian We all knew this day would come, regime, with a whopping $1.3 billion of but the mobilization of people power in that in direct military aid.

Tunisia, which led to the departure of And this funding supported a true the autocrat there, Zine el-Abidine Ben police state.

Ali, has accelerated the inevitable.

In recent days, a popular image cirTyranny simply cannot last forever. culating among the demonstrators in In Egypt today, the people are loud- Egypt has been of a spent tear gas canly saying no. They are saying no to dic- ister shot at the demonstrators. The tatorship, no to political oppression, no image has focused on the line that to police brutalireads: “Made in ty, no to systemthe USA.” The Years of atic torture, no to United States rigged elections, now needs to admonishing no to 30 years of establish the Arab states for emergency rule, Egyptian peono to runaway ple’s trust. Years their lack of inflation, no to of admonishing democracy while cronyism, no to Arab states for corruption, no to their lack of propping up their sectarianism, and democracy while dictators has left no to hopelesspropping up ness. But they are their dictators the United States also saying yes. has left the with little crediThey are United States cheering on a with little credibility among the new Egypt — an bility among the Arab masses.

Egypt defined by Arab masses. the whole of its Moving people rather against the will than the interests of a few. They are of the Egyptian people will bring demanding an open political system nothing but resentment and conflict and real economic opportunities. for years to come. By being on the side Make no mistake: This is a diverse of the Egyptian people, the United and pluralistic movement, initially driv- States has the chance to forge a comen by the youth from across the counmon destiny with the country based on try, but now encompassing people of all dialogue, cooperation and mutual ages. Labor movements, youth associarespect. tions, professional unions, judges and The United States must support the journalists, opposition parties, bloggers democratic aspirations of the Egyptian and their followers, the middle class people. Not only is it the right thing to and the poor, men and women, do. It’s also the smart thing to do.

Muslims and Christians — all are unitMoustafa Bayoumi, a professor of ing for a new Egypt.

English at Brooklyn College, is author of This is far from an Islamist takeover How Does It Feel to be a Problem: of Egypt. In fact, the Muslim Being Young and Arab in America Brotherhood was slow to participate in (The Penguin Press). He wrote this for the demonstrations, and reports indiProgressive Media Project, a source of libcate that chants of “Allahu Akbar” eral commentary on domestic and interna(“God Is the Greatest”) are being tional issues; it is affiliated with The Progressive magazine. drowned out by “Muslims, Christians, (c) 2011, Moustafa Bayoumi we’re all Egyptians!” (It rhymes in —MCT Arabic, too.)

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Why people growl about dogs on open space

by Pamela White

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he dog — a mix of some kind — stepped out of the undergrowth, padded through the small stream that bisects the Mesa Trail just south of Chautauqua and caught up with its owner. Its face was full of porcupine quills.

The dog’s owner saw this and said, “Oh, what did you do?”

But the answer was obvious. It had done what dogs, being dogs, often do.

It had seen wildlife — in this case a porcupine — and, not being restrained by a leash, it had given chase.

I grew up in Boulder. My father, who during my childhood was an avid rock climber, mountaineering instructor and member of Colorado Mountain Club, helped construct some of the trails we hike on today. When I became an adult, it seemed right to give back to the mountains that had always meant so much to me and my family.

I spent some time volunteering for what was then Boulder Mountain Parks. This entailed hiking about 12 weekend hours a month to serve as the eyes and ears of the rangers, who can’t be everywhere at once. Of all the problems I encountered during those hikes, dogs were by far the most serious and numerous.

There was the dog with the porcupine quills in its face. There was the dog owner who wandered along the

Gregory Canyon trail calling to her pet and crying because it had disappeared.

There was the dog that spotted a coyote and — flash! — jumped a fence and vanished from view in a matter of seconds while its irresponsible owner called feebly from the trail. There was the dog that ran uphill growling and barking at a deer, which bolted and ran.

There was the dog that knocked my then-6-year-old son flat on his back — but whose owner insisted it was “just being friendly.” There was the dog that bared its teeth, growled and charged my leashed puppy, biting my hand when I picked the puppy up to keep it from harm.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg. It doesn’t take into account the stinking piles of dog excrement or the plastic bags of poop left beside the trail or the other environmental impacts dogs can have. Dogs aren’t wildlife, after all; like us, they are visitors to open space. They ceased being a part of the ecosystem when they were domesticated and allowed to become so numerous.

Some dog owners are upset because they now have access to a mere 95 percent of the trails in Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP).

Some go so far as to claim that the Community Collaborative Group (CCG), which was set up to gather see DOGS Page 8

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public input for the West Trail Study ers, nosing them in the crotch, jumpArea (West TSA), ignored the needs ing on them or rubbing against their and desires of those who like to hike clothes? Has your dog ever chased with off-leash dogs. But here’s what wildlife or run so far away that you they’re missing: couldn’t see it? Has your dog barked There are a lot of us in Boulder — and charged at other hikers, growled at perhaps a majority — who wanted other dogs or exhibited what someone these restrictions. We want the city’s might interpret as aggressive behavior? wildlife to be free of harassment from Do other hikers have to ask you to call dogs. We want to be able to raise our your dog away? Has your dog ever eyes to the chased a mounFlatirons, instead of tain biker on At its heart, the watching our feet to county trails? Do make sure we don’t equestrians have conflict over step in a pile of dog to ask you to dogs on trails is crap. We want to restrain your barktake our children ing dog? an issue of and elders hiking If so, your dog consideration, without worrying should be kept on and there are that they’ll be a leash. frightened, knocked And if you’re still far too down, scratched or not responsible many irresponbitten. enough to keep it At its heart, the on a leash, or sible dog conflict over dogs unwilling to clean owners. on trails is an issue up after it, then of consideration, you shouldn’t be and there are still far too many irrehiking with it in the first place. sponsible dog owners, people who do It’s unlikely that we’ll ever have the not have their animals under voice and level of enforcement we need to make sight control and yet who view hiking certain that only well-trained dogs are with an off-leash dog as their right. allowed off-leash or that dog owners Like parents who permit their kids maintain 100 percent compliance when to be noisy and disruptive in a restauit comes to picking up excrement. And rant, there are too many dog owners that’s why so many of us urged the who don’t seem to understand that CCG to provide us with more places we can hike without having to worry their “wards” are diminishing other about encountering someone’s out-ofpeople’s experience.

Just like kids, dogs can be annoying. control dog.

Dog owners are not the only trail And in both cases, it’s the fault of the users who have a voice. Far from ignoring guardians. public input, CCG actually listened.

Here’s a test for dog owners: Does Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com your pet routinely run up to other hik-

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ernmental incentives and directives could create a modern, state-of-the-art, decentralized power-generating network that would both serve our needs and preserve our Colorado landscapes.

Germany, a country with far less sunshine than here, has done exactly this with remarkable success.

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Pennies for Penney J.C. Penney announced last week it is closing six stores, its catalog business, and its call center, plus consolidating its outlet stores and customdecorating business. Hundreds more jobs will disappear. Is it a coincidence that two heavy-hitting investors just joined the Penney board? They did the math. This will boost company earnings by seven cents a share and cost eight.

The corner office is having so much fun it’s no wonder many college grads are choosing “management” positions instead of, say, petroleum engineering (when a real job is offered at all). At the Colorado School of Mines, arguably the best university in the state academically speaking, except perhaps the Air Force Academy, 18 percent of 2009 and 2010 graduates had found full-time work in their field by last Thanksgiving.

Here’s the rub: The ranks of petro-engineers are thinning — many are approaching retirement. And the lowhanging fruit in the oil forest is all gone.

Sadly, it seems many are attracted by prospects such as J.P. Morgan, which provides food-stamp debit cards for 26 states and Washington, D.C. J.P. Morgan is paid by the case. But the new grads need to watch out: J.P. Morgan’s customer service center is in India!

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Now that the anticipated Arizona-type legislation on illegal immigration has been introduced in the Colorado Legislature, opponents of such sweeping reforms may have a new, unlikely ally: the controversial Secure Communities program recently adopted by former Gov. Bill Ritter.

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Check out CU salaries Ever wondered how much the muckety-mucks at CU make?

Well, we stumbled across a handy website that is quite illuminating when it comes to salaries at the university.

It can be found at www.cusys.edu/budget/cusalaries, and while it doesn’t have people’s names, it carries their titles, so you can figure out who’s who pretty easily. The nice thing about the site is that you can choose to view only positions that earn more than $100,000 a year.

A few years ago The Denver Post upset CU employees when it had the gall to post a searchable database of the (primarily tax-funded) salaries of state workers on its website. Why the outrage about airing this public information? Geez, it’s almost like they don’t want us to know how well many of them are paid. And it creates salary envy when the peons at CU see how much some of the more incompetent university administrators make.

Here are a few basic observations about this online database, taken completely out of context. At CU-Boulder, 675 of the 6,851 positions, or about 10 percent, collect more than 100 grand a year. Many of these jobs are probably held by faculty who are excellent and require compensation at the market level to avoid being lured away to another university. Many are paid, at least in part, with research dollars and donations.

The stats for the CU system offices are a bit harder to justify. These include the president’s office and departments that serve the whole CU system, like the payroll and benefits office. Here, 60 of the 367 jobs, or about 16 percent, make more than $100,000 annually. These must be really good administrators who are in danger of being lured away to another university, right?

Meanwhile, tuition continues to rise and budgets continue to get cut.

Draw your own conclusions.

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Do you think Colorado needs an Arizona-style law to deal with immigration?

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Let them eat nothing Food for the state’s neediest children. You’d think it’s a cause lawmakers from both parties could rally around. Alas, no.

In a party-line vote, members of the Colorado Joint Budget Committee ( JBC) rejected additional funding for Smart Start, a state program run by the Colorado Department of Education that provides free breakfast for children from families that live below the poverty line.

Because the number of Colorado families living in hardship has increased, the department requested an additional $124,000 to keep the program fully funded through the end of the school year.

But Sens. Kent Lambert, Cheri Gerou and Jon Becker, all Republicans, voted against the additional dollars, purportedly because the state is broke and just can’t afford it. As a result, poor families will have to pay 30 cents per meal for food they’ve been getting for free. That’s $1.50 per week per child — a significant financial blow for parents already struggling to provide shelter, food and clothing for their children.

“As a family guy myself with children and grandchildren, I take a very strong responsibility to earn money to feed my own family,” Lambert told The Denver Post.

Is Lambert saying that poor parents don’t take feeding and caring for their children seriously?

There’s nothing like listening to a privileged white man tell us how he skillfully handles all the hardships of life.

Although it’s true that Colorado is financially strapped, we shouldn’t balance the budget by taking food from the mouths of poor children.

If you can’t get enough of our Boulderganic special editions, you can keep up daily with our Boulderganic blog. The blog not only features content from past Boulderganic issues and our weekly column, but also other local and national news and articles about living green and building a sustainable future.

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Susan France

ean Paschall sits at the computer in his office, sifting through e-mails from residents concerned about mountain bikes, dogs and horse access.

“We received thousands of e-mails,” says Paschall, manager of public process and communications for Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP).

For the past 16 months, Paschall and the other OSMP staff received e-mails from the public voicing their praise, concern and disdain for the recommendations proposed by the Community Collaborative Group (CCG) for the West Trail Study Area (West TSA).

One of the most frequent subject lines: dogs.

On Jan. 19, the City of Boulder Open Space Board of Trustees (OSBT) voted unanimously to pass the CCG’s recommendations for the West TSA, which covers 11,250 acres west of Broadway and State Highway 93 and stretches from Eldorado Springs Drive to Linden Avenue.

These recommendations came after 15 community-elected CCG volunteers spent 16 months researching and evaluating trail use and listening to concerns from residents about conservation and recreation issues. The CCG prepared a 33-page document that included recommendations for dog and horse use, as well as suggestions for trail closures and openings for conservation and recreation groups.

The recommendations outlined opening nearly 16 miles of new trails, closing numerous “social” trails and rerouting and fixing several miles of trails, including the Royal Arch and Mesa trails.

The recommendations also included closing 12 trails to dogs and closing 26 percent of the West TSA to equestrians.

On Feb. 1, OSMP staff released the Draft West Trail Study Area Plan, which recommends that mountain bikes not be allowed in the West TSA. OSMP staff said they were continuing to work on acquiring land in hopes of creating a

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mountain bike trail along Chapman Drive.

“We’re working on access for Chapman and Eldorado to Walker,” Paschall says. “We hope to have access in the very near future.”

Jason Vogel, president of the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance (BMA), says he was disappointed with the OSMP’s decision.

“We had two primary objectives,” Vogel says. “One was connectivity, being able to get from where we live to the places we ride. …

The second was accessibility for people in the city — families with children and students — to trails close by. Right now, access is still one and a half hours away if you are fit and fast, and you have to jockey with traffic.”

Vogel says it is unclear what value access to Chapman Drive would have for mountain bikers but that he is hopeful the OSMP staff will dedicate the resources necessary to give mountain bikers a decent trail.

The City of Boulder Open Space Board of Trustees will discuss the OSMP staff recom-

mendations, including recommendations on mountain bike access, at a meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. on Feb. 9 in the Municipal Building, at 1777 Broadway.

“I wish that the CCG would have come up with some sort of recommendation for this,” Paschall says, referring to mountainbike access. “There are huge numbers of people on both sides of the issue that will weigh in. It’s clear that we’re not going to be able to please both sides.”

Volunteers in the CCG were elected through neighborhood caucuses to reflect the concerns of residents living near open space.

Volunteers were also elected to represent various groups, including conservationists, dog enthusiasts, climbers, equestrians and mountain bikers.

“Our hope with the CCG was to have this sort of transparent process that people could see the mechanics of all the way through,” Paschall says. “It is the most meaningful engagement when the public can actually help develop that plan and we accept the work the public did.”

Not all community members were happy with the CCG’s efforts.

Sue DeRose and members of the Save Our Dog Access (SODA) activist group expressed their disappointment with the CCG’s recommendations at the Jan. 19 meeting and felt slighted when, directly after the public input session, the board cast its vote.

“We expected trustees to accept the package,” DeRose says. “We didn’t expect it [public input] to be completely ignored.”

Tony Gannaway and DeRose say access for dog walkers has been increasingly restricted over the past 10 years, with more than 50 trails being closed to canines. “[The OSBT] have purchased 20,000 acres since 1995, and they have opened nothing,” DeRose says.

“The only way they think is restrict,” Gannaway says. “No one is thinking about opening new areas. They don’t think outside the box.”

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experience as other visitors,” DeRose says. “But it’s not the same.”

Dog owners say there are reasons why it’s important to them to take their pets with them when they hike.

“I have a hunting dog, and he constantly points to wildlife that I wouldn’t see,” Gannaway says. “Women will frequently go out with a dog when they hike alone to protect against predators. Just going out with a friend is a much more pleasant experience than hiking alone.”

Gannaway, who owns a German pointer, defended offleash policies in open space.

“There are some steep areas on those trails, and if you’re tied to a dog you might end up in a mess,” he says. “Dogs are part of nature, and they should be free to experience it. When I see people with leashed dogs in the voice and sight areas, to me it means they do not trust their dogs.”

Gannaway and DeRose raised concerns that with continued restrictions, more incidents between dogs and humans would occur.

“The dog owners in general feel like they have been driven out,” DeRose says.

OSMP staff says this is not true.

“Dogs have access to 95 percent of trails,” Paschall says. “Doesn’t it make sense that some percentage of the system be available for a dog-free experience? The CCG has heard that, and we tried to identify some areas where you could at least have one loop where you could hike without encountering dogs.”

With the new CCG recommendations, dogs retain access to more than 80 miles of trail in the West TSA. Nine miles of trail along the Tenderfoot/Chapman loop and Saddle Rock Trail that previously allowed dogs will no longer allow canines.

“We’ve had so many occasions where a

impact would be minimal, and it wouldn’t be a big deal.”

Paschall says there are a lot of people in the community who don’t own dogs.

“And there are a lot of people who just don’t like hiking with dogs,” he says. “They’re asking for just a few places where they can go up and hike without getting nuzzled in the crotch.”

Paschall says the OSMP’s hope for involving the public through the CCG was to alleviate disappointment among residents once decisions for the West TSA were made.

“Typically land management agencies will work internally and generate some sort of plan and roll it out to the public,” Paschall says. “The public looks at what they created and doesn’t understand all the elements that went into that and they’ll look at the product and hate the product and say, ‘This is wrong. That’s wrong.’

And so the agency will then take that back and will make some modifications, and nobody likes it.”

Now, the CCG members have completed their recommendations and returned to their daily lives, and the OSMP staff have reviewed the recommendations and proposed a plan for implementation, but the work is far from over.

“We like to talk in terms of a 10-year planning horizon,” says Paschall, adding that implementation of recommendations for Eldorado Springs and Marshall Mesa only took two to three years.

The public is invited to provide feedback on the plan before the Feb. 9 meeting, which will be preceded by a 5 p.m. open house in the Municipal Building.

Until then, Paschall will work on clearing his inbox.

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dog comes up and greets us and the owner is no where in sight,” says Boulder resident George Oetzel.

Oetzel, 74, says that on a recent weekend he encountered a dog too far away from its owner to be controlled by voice.

“It came past me and turned around and smashed into me,” Oetzel says. “It was not a big dog, but it wasn’t a tiny dog either. Pretty stout. It might have weighed 20 pounds or something. I assume he was just being playful, but that’s an unpleasant sort of playful.”

Pete Taylor, a ranger with OSMP, says dogs take up most of the rangers’ time in the West TSA. “We get calls about dogs biting, dogs killing other dogs, dogs killing deer, fawns,” Taylor says. “It’s too bad, because there are a lot of responsible dog owners.”

Taylor, who has been a ranger for almost 19 years, says that dogs affect the environment in the West TSA. “The West TSA is rich with wildlife,” Taylor says. “Dogs, humans, everything impacts the environment. But if people would be more responsible with their dogs, the

Horse access in West TSA

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hen the city of Boulder first set aside land for open space, the city adopted a charter saying that access for mountain bikes, fishing and equestrians would only exist where designated.

According to Dean Paschall, manager of public process and communications for Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP), no one ever designated trails for horses until the latest round of recommendations from the Community

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Collaborative Group (CCG).

“We were sort of operating under the agreement that if we didn’t say you couldn’t go there, then they just went there,” Paschall says. “So it was sort of this inverse relationship where they felt that ‘Well, unless you say I can’t go there, I’m going to go wherever.’”

After 16 months of work, the CCG announced its recommendations for the West TSA, including the ruling that 24.9 miles of trail be designated “Horses Not

Allowed.”

Originally the number of closures to horses recommended by the CCG was much higher.

“We say all of the area that is east of the divide, these are all relatively flat and good trail systems, so we’ll designate that, and the places we feel that you cannot safely take a horse, we’ll say those are closed to equestrian use,” Paschall says. “Well, the equestrian community came out and said, ‘Well, you just screwed us. We

had 100 percent of this before, and now we have 60 percent of what we had before.’”

Paschall says the CCG and OSMP staff met with equestrians and worked to develop a third category, “Horses Allowed — Designed Use Pedestrian.”

“Most of the system is open to equestrian use,” Paschall says. “We should have designated use in ’64, but we didn’t, so we’re just getting around to it now.”

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Boulder County Girl Scouts greening the globe

by Charmaine Ortega Getz

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s a Junior Girl Scout, my troop’s walk to a manicured suburban park was called a “hike.” We were taught how to bake cookies from packaged mixes and what to do for someone who’d fainted. And, of course, we sold those famous boxes of cookies mass-produced elsewhere.

It was a far cry from the Girl Scouts of the early 1900s. Back then, members commonly learned “nature skills” to use while forest camping, telegraphy and how to put a tourniquet on a spurting wound.

The Girl Scouts of Boulder County today are still selling those cookies — but they’re also using “zerowaste” methods at events and preparing to learn construction.

“We’re working with the ReSource Tool Library in Boulder to set up workshops for the girls,” says Katie Doak, manager of membership at the organization’s Fort Collins Service Center. “We would like to see them learn how to handle all kinds of tools for building, cutting tile and installing dry wall.

The ReSource conservation center is a great place for their education about all the discarded construction material that is one of the largest generators of waste in our landfills.”

The Girls Scouts are aiming to participate in the St. Vrain Valley Habitat for Humanity’s “Women Build” house project in the spring.

While older Girl Scouts will help with outside construction, younger girls will contribute with indoor finishing work.

“We’re hoping the womenfocused project will attract girls who haven’t had previous experience with Girl Scouts,” Doak says.

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participating in the 2010-11 membership year, and the door is always open. While many girls have traditionally discovered Girl Scouts through their schools, even the home-schooled have troops just for them.

“I know of several in Boulder County,” says Suzanne Picard, a coleader of Junior Troop #1363. “Ours participated in a zero-waste campout organized by another troop, and we did a field trip to EcoCycle in ’09, where one of the girl’s parents works.

They really got interested in also doing a zero-waste event.”

They’ll get their chance this year by acting as the host troop for the Girl Scouts’ World Thinking Day in Boulder County on Feb. 20. The event is an international one where the focus is on cross-cultural friendships and awareness of how the rest of the world lives.

Zero waste, as the EcoCycle website explains, is about encouraging alternative manufacturing for products that would have to be recycled or dumped.

For instance, it promotes the use of disposable tableware made of compostable corn starch for outdoor events.

Boulder County’s 2011 World Thinking Day will feature international games and dancing, food, crafts, nonperishable food-donation collection, ecology-related booths and demonstration bins for worm composting.

The event will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Feb. 20 in Gunbarrel, on the grounds of the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, at 7077 Harvest Road.

For more information, contact Katie Doak at 970-231-0575 or check out the Girl Scouts World Thinking Day website at http://bit. ly/gscouts.

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we were practicing. Creating an inti“All three of us grew up singing mate space in a larger room to 1,000 intuitively with our families, which I people is much more difficult than believe is why people often think that singing in someone’s living room, but we are influenced by Appalachian folk sometimes we get it right.” or other older forms of music. I am sure Typically, Meath says, Mountain we have been in small ways, but when Man’s three vocalists write all of the we began we did not have the intention band’s music by simply singing togethto sound like any sort of genre. The er, and never really write it down. An music we make is just what it sounds early demo, “Bath Tub,” features a com- like when Molly, Alex and I sing manding acoustic guitar and only brief- together.” ly flashes the trio’s hypnotizing threeAlthough Meath, a New England part harmonies, but Made the Harbor is native, calls Vermont “beautiful,” she a compelling downsays it hasn’t realhome vocal clinic — ly shaped On the Bill: and an album on Mountain Man’s Mountain Man opens for the Decemberists on Tuesday, Feb. which imperfections music.

8. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets endear. The pitch “Molly is are sold out. 2032 14th St., isn’t always perfect, from Santa Cruz Boulder, 303-786-7030. and the sound of and Alexandra is throats being cleared from St. Paul, introduces a few difMinnesota,” she says. “Being in Vermont is wonderful ferent tracks, but it’s all part of the and makes you truly appreciate nature, group’s inimitable charm. but it is not the motherland for anyone “Just feeling each others’ voices vibrating in our own bodies and filling in the band except for me.” the room up,” Meath told NPR last Influences aside, when Mountain summer, “[is] a feeling of, like, total ela- Man’s three singers mention “soft skin” tion.” and hands moving up sleeves — at one When I asked Meath whether the point asking listeners, “Can’t you group’s influences are as old-timey as its understand I’m trying to be a good enchantingly minimalist songs suggest, woman?” — it’s hard not to believe the she alluded more to a lifetime of musithree talented vocalists are experiencing cal passion just now bearing fruit in and describing romantic love for the public. first time. Most moving, however, is the

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group’s ode to the prospect of motherhood, called “Mouthwings.”

Being regaled by Made the Harbor’s sweet ballads has been a part of my 13-month-old daughter’s bedtime routine since its release, but “Mouthwings” — and its lines “I will grow a baby / oh he will move me so swiftly / to hold me completely” — has a special place of its own in our household.

Amazingly, Meath — not yet a parent herself — furnished poignant child-rearing advice when I mentioned the lyrics. “‘Mouthwings’ is about being able to bear and raise the love of your life,” she says. “If done with intention, you can raise a child that will love you more than anything else, and you them. I think that is an amazing and heartbreaking idea.

Because here you are, with a partner who is wonderful, and with them or without them — or at least involving them — you create this creature that you love so much more. It is kind of like the dialectic — our children surpass. That’s their job.”

Not surprisingly, Mountain Man’s growing fanbase already includes a large number of little ones.

“We have very quickly become aware of it!” Meath exclaims. “Lots of new humans are into our music, and most of our favorite shows that we have played have had kids present. Our

music is pretty kid-friendly, I suppose.

Harmony is naturally a calming and comforting thing. Our shows are for everybody. Kids and grandparents and dogs included.”

Children and young love come up again and again on Made the Harbor’s mostly a cappella tracks, but animal references — from “warm amber eyes of a lion” to “the bright baby eyes of a chickadee” — certainly stand out among Mountain Man’s many imaginative uses of metaphor.

“Animals are easier to relate to humanity than humans are,” Meath says, “and there is something magical about them because we do not fully understand them — or at least we do not understand them as much as we think we understand humans.”

It would be easy to understand the psychology of any intimidation Meath and Co. could be experiencing while opening for the Decemberists, a Portland, Ore.-based folk-rock group whose new album, The King is Dead, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. But, as has been true at many of the concerts Mountain Man has opened for bigger-name bands over the past year, much of the audience will no doubt be at the Boulder Theater just to check out the opening act.

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On the Bill

The Stan Brakhage Film Series — Celebrating Stan starts on Sunday, Feb. 6 and runs on the first Sunday of every month until May 1. Screenings start at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. Screenings are in ATLAS 100 on CU campus.

Seeing Stan with one’s own eyes

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Series spotlights renowned filmmaker and former CU professor Brakhage

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t all started with a walk. I had arrived in Boulder the night before for my film studies job interview, and my first official engagement, I was told, would be “breakfast with Brakhage.” I can’t say I slept too well. While I knew all about the legend — the shaggyhaired Dog Star Man of Rollinsville who had changed the course of cinema — I knew nothing about Stan Brakhage the man. I expected a grilling. I saw myself holding forth — while I dug into my chicken omelet — on the subtle delicacies of meat-ineffable. Or the profound mysteries of hypnagogic vision. Or the sublime ecstasies of hand-painted visual music. All integral to his cinema.

Instead we went for a long walk and found out that we had been friends all along.

In later years, he would laugh and say, “It was love at first sight!”

Apart from our passion for film and art, we discovered, during that walk, that we were both hard-core poetry buffs. Stan’s idols were Pound, Olson, Duncan, McClure, Zukovsky; mine were an eclectic bunch: Rilke, Tagore, Cavafy, Lorca, Vallejo. Over the years, many books would pass through our hands, but our most treasured gifts to each other were books of poems.

When Stan died in 2003 in far-off Victoria Island, I read poetry out to him that night and, on the day of his memorial service at the University of Colorado, I read Cavafy’s “Voyage to Ithaka” — there was no better way to say goodbye.

As soon as I moved to Boulder, Stan asked me to join the tiny group which met every Sunday night in a classroom in what was then the Fine Arts Building.

This was the Brakhage salon where we watched not only his films, but those by his friends and contempo-

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raries. My rite of passage was the mammoth four-anda-half-hour epic, Art of Vision, Stan’s most ambitious work, which encompasses virtually every aspect of his experimentations with film. When the lights came on, the audience had dwindled to two.

“You stayed!” Stan exclaimed loudly, and I knew I had passed the test.

The salon shifted within a couple of years to a more homey setting — Stan’s apartment. We now watched films sitting on the living room floor, with the projector perched on the dining table, while his children played around the portable screen. It was a very happy time and I was, at first, a little sad when the salon moved back to CU to become a public event. For nearly 10 years, anybody could walk in on Sunday night to the visual feast Stan provided for free.

When I created the Stan Brakhage Film Series — Celebrating Stan in 2003, a few months after he passed

away, I had no desire to reinvent the salon.

Instead it was meant to be an homage to my dear friend and mentor, a way of saying thank you for all the years of blessedness, for the endless gift-giving in words and films, and for having simply been there for all of us. I was looking for a way to give shape to that feeling. So, for the last eight years, we’ve met on the first Sunday of each month during the semester to celebrate Stan. We watch his films, talk about them informally, and go home — I like to think — with a sense of having been touched by something infinitely greater than what we are or can comprehend. I do not announce the titles before each show — Stan hated the notion of formal programming — but I provide a list at the end of the screening. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. in ATLAS 100 on the CU campus. All are welcome.

This past summer I was invited by the Musee National d’Art Moderne — the Centre Pompidou — in Paris to curate and present three Brakhage programs.

Every show was sold out, and the Q&As stretched well into the night. In the audience were Sorbonne students who were writing their M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations on Stan. It was all very profoundly moving. I couldn’t help but smile at the memory of our first walk — how it all started — and how I was, of course, still walking with Stan. The walk will never end.

Editor’s note: Suranjan Ganguly teaches film at the University of Colorado Boulder and is the founder and curator of the Stan Brakhage Film Series. Stan Brakhage taught film at CU for 22 years, retiring as a distinguished professor shortly before his death in 2003. He made more than 350 films, published 11 books on film and helped revolutionize cinema as an art form.

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Amos Lee’s success as a musician almost never happened

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lenty of young musicians decide to put college on hold to take a shot at having a career writing songs and performing.

Amos Lee never really gave music much thought until after he had his degree and had been teaching in the Philadelphia area for a couple of years. Even Lee knows his path into music is a bit unusual.

“It’s kind of funny that I’m doing what I’m doing now, because I wasn’t even considering it as, I don’t know, a career option or anything like that, or even a dream per se,” Lee says.

“I just sort of fell in love with [music],” he says.

“But I didn’t know anybody that was necessarily pursuing that kind of thing. In my family, everybody just kind of works. There are people who are artistic, but none of them really have pursued that as a profession or whatever. To me it wasn’t even an option. I guess I just sort of decided to blaze my own path.”

With hindsight being 20/20, perhaps Lee should have known that one day, music would become not only his passion, but perhaps something more.

He readily admits that he was a big music fan growing up, pointing to one of his first musical memories as a sixth-grader as an example.

“I heard this song by Luther Vandross called ‘Here And Now,’” he says. “I just got super-transfixed on the tune. So I taped it over and over again on both sides of a 90-minute tape and would just sing along to it, like by myself in a room for like hours. I don’t really know what drew me to do that. It was just kind of an obsession of mine to like listen to him sing and sing along with him.”

When he got to college at the University of South Carolina, he fell in with a group of fans that played guitar and this prompted Lee to take up the instrument and try his hand at songwriting.

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But it wasn’t until he found himself dissatisfied with teaching that he decided to see if he could make a go of music.

Lee certainly received early indications that he had made the right career choice by switching to music. With the 2005 release of his self-titled debut CD, Lee was touted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the year’s “10 artists to watch,” and the CD caught on commercially, selling nearly 500,000 copies.

Lee hasn’t reached those commercial heights since, but his next two CDs, Supply and Demand and Last Days at the Lodge, have both been warmly received in the press, and Lee has continued to build his audience.

Ironically, before recording this latest CD, Lee reached a point where he wondered if he was still truly cut out for the life of a professional musician, a situation that he now knows was partly a function of the fast pace of his career.

“I think there were a few things at play,” Lee says.

“Personally I was trying to figure out what was going

on because I’d spent the previous five years, like, pretty much on the road non-stop. I just needed to figure out where I was, because I couldn’t tell.

And I’m still trying to figure it out, but I feel a little bit more solid now than I did then… I’m in a good place. I’ve got people that are interested in the music I’m making. And I mean, I still love doing it.”

With his enthusiasm for his second career renewed, Lee took a markedly new approach to album-making with Mission Bell by working with the band Calexico on the CD. The result was a far more collaborative experience than Lee had ever had in the studio, and a CD that widens the scope of Lee’s soulful brand of folk-pop. Lee, whose songwriting is sharper than ever, credits the band with bringing a range of textures and subtle complexities to his songs that make Mission Bell his richest work to date.

And clearly songs like “El Camino,” with its gentle horns, and the slight country touches that sneak through the breezy first single, “Windows Are Rolled Down,” reflect a more imaginative approach to the way Lee’s songs were treated.

Lee considers Mission Bell to be at least the equal of his debut in terms of presenting a cohesive, fully formed cycle of songs. His satisfaction with the CD is apparent in that he plans to play upwards of eight Mission Bell songs nightly on tour with his newly expanded, eightpiece band. And now that he has four CDs to his name, he feels he’s starting to be able to present the kind of multi-faceted live show he’s always wanted.

“It’s getting to a point, four records and some covers we haven’t released, [that] the set list feels pretty easy to write,” Lee says. “In the past it was sort of challenging because you wanted to make sure you paced the set properly and everything. But this time out, I think it will be well on its way.”

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“Carry On” plays the Lakewood Cultural Center Feb. 4-6 and the Performing Arts Complex at PCS in Denver Feb. 11-13. Tickets start at $17, $15 for child/student/senior. For more information, visit www.bncdance.com/ carry-on-2011/

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Paper Bird teams up with Ballet Nouveau Colorado

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hat began as a coincidence has become a ballet. After being serendipitously featured together in both Westword and 5280 magazines, Denver band Paper Bird and Ballet Nouveau Colorado have joined forces to create “Carry On,” a full-length, multimedia performance that will be presented Feb. 4-6 and Feb. 11-13.

BNC choreographer Garret Ammon’s interest was piqued when he read reviews of Paper Bird in the same magazines in which his dance company was featured.

“When I read a description of their music that included every genre of American music you can think of, I had to hear it. I went and bought all of their music and just fell in love with it,” Ammon says. “To seamlessly bring together all of those genres in a very genuine way like they do is just such a beautiful thing.”

When Ammon approached Paper Bird about collaborating, the band emphatically agreed. The sevenmember folk/Americana band then embarked on a several-months-long period of songwriting and intense practice, which ultimately broadened the scope of their sound.

“When you have a band that’s doing something right, you tend to just stick with it, but for these shows we wanted to really push the limits of this selfimposed formula we’ve been working with,” says Macon Terry, who plays the upright bass for the band.

“We saw it as an opportunity to really stretch our creative means and bring out different elements or ideas that we’d been kicking around for awhile.”

To increase the breadth of its musical exploration, the band decided to bring in two new members for

the shows. Between them, they’ll bring accordion, percussion, piano and clarinet to the band’s auditory arsenal.

“The sound is going to be so much bigger,” Terry says. “There are some songs that are reminiscent of what we’ve done before, but people who know our music will notice that there’s a lot more depth. Having two more people has allowed us to get into different genres that we might have hinted at before but weren’t able to completely pursue. It’s a different side of us; we’re practically a different band at times.”

Having never written music for a ballet before, the band began its creative process by watching videos of ballets and listening to dance scores. While Ammon had given them some vague outlines to work with, he mostly wanted them to have free reign to follow whatever inspiration stuck them. The band ended up writing about an hour of new music, most of which is

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seamlessly segued with instrumental sections.

As the band worked on the new music, unplanned thematic elements began to emerge. Themes of impermanence, travel, tranquility and the ocean manifested lyrically, while certain melodic motifs appeared as well.

When the music was complete, the band sent it off to Ammon, who then interpreted the music into movement and worked out the choreography with the nine dancers from the company who will be performing. While the dancers are all classically trained ballerinas, the movement in “Carry On” falls under the contemporary dance genre. It’s only been within the last few weeks that the band and dancers have begun rehearsing together.

“It’s unreal,” Terry says. “It’s collaboration on a whole new level that I don’t think any of us in the band have experienced before. At points, the dancers visually and literally represent the lyrics, like when we’re singing about the ocean and they form waves.

At other times they’re moment to moment involved in every beat we’re doing; they’re right there with us.”

That sort of cross-disciplinary collaboration is what Ammon is most passionate about. During his time with BNC, he’s worked with poets, visual artists and even a jazz quartet to blend dance with a variety of art forms.

“This show is a must-see for any Paper Bird fan, dance fan or anyone who enjoys great local live music,” Ammon says. “The hope is that we’ll have some dance fans that become Paper Bird fans and vice-versa, so that people can see how these different art forms really complement each other so well.”

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Boa and The Constrictors. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Honey Island Swamp Band. 6 p.m.

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

Jesse Manley & Patrick Dethlefs. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill , 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

John Lake Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m.

Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

Mac Miller. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Megan Burtt. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Open Mic at Folsom St. Coffee 5-7 p.m. Folsom St. Coffee Co., 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-440-8808.

Open Stage — With KC Groves. 8 p.m.

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

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

Thursday Night Bluegrass Pick. 9:30 p.m.

First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-0782.

Voice of the Wetlands — With Tab Benoit, Anders Osborne, Cyril Neville and others.

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

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Dirty synths and sharp beats. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Boulder Digital Arts Coworking Open House. 4-8 p.m. 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

The Clean Energy Slam:Visions for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future. 6:309:30 p.m. West Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-554-5717.

Colorado Skies: Apollo 13 — A Successful Failure. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Comedy Works Presents Chris Voth and Matt Baca 7:30 p.m. Nissis’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Poetry Reading with Allan Mandrake. 7

events Advanced Adobe Dreamweaver HandsOn Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

Friday, Feb. 4

music 18 Switchbacks. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

Acoustic Open Mic. 7-9 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Back to the Woods. 5 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-4408808.

Bob Marley’s Birthday Celebration with Trichome. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview

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Boulder/Denver Area An Instinct Toward Life — Sculptures by Dario Robleto. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Through May 15.

Bloodlines — Paintings by Hermann Nitsch. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29.

Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption — Photographs by Chris Jordan.

BioLounge, CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

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Freundschaft — Drawings by Marc Brandenburg. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Feb. 20.

Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — By various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Oil paintings by Lair.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Feb. 28.

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Gallery II — Art by Paula Gillen.

NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through March 31.

Orphan Paintings — Russian avantgarde paintings by various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554.

Piece Work — Sculptures by Allison Smith. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through May 29.

Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 29.

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Bonnie and the Clydes. 7-9 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Denver Ukefest 2011. 10 a.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Boulder, 303-777-1003.

DJ Chonz and Friends. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Faux Punk — The Ultimate Daft Punk Tribute. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

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

Interstate Stash Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303443-5031.

Kristina Murray. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Mawue Mensah CD Release Party. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Music on the Mezz — With Scott Dale Trio. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m.

Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

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

Something Underground. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tyson Ailshe. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Tom Weiser & Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Zero. 8:30 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303492-7704.

events Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Beyond Blue — Depression and mental health awareness event. 7:30-9:30 a.m. The Plaza/Longmont, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-413-6287.

Boulder Designers Group for Women.

6-8 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Jackass 3. 9 p.m. Chemistry 140, CU campus, 303-492-7704.

Kelly Schruger Art Opening. 6-9 p.m.

Anthony Grant Studio Gallery, 917 Front St., Louisville, 303-408-5533.

Laser:The Offspring 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Laser: Red Hot Chili Peppers 10:45 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Little Black Dress Gala — With artist Dia Kline. 2-5 p.m. Manifest Art Gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

Mars Revealed. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Nowhere Boy. 9 p.m. Chemistry 140, CU

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Through Feb. 12.

Camelot. The Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Through April 17.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. OpenStage Theatre & Company, Masonic Temple Proscenium, 225 W. Oak St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730. Through Feb. 13. campus, 303-492-7704. pARTy — OpenArts Fundraiser to Support Art Education Scholarship. 6-9 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-1862.

PodCamp Boulder. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Red Dress Campaign Kick-Off — Women’s heart health campaign. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

The Second City Touring Company Comedy Show. 8 p.m. 2032 Boulder Theater, 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Warren Miller’s Wintervention — Presented by the CU softball team. 7 p.m.

Math 100, CU campus, 720-987-9512.

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music Above Timberline, Raul 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave. Ste. 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Amos Lee 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Bonepony 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-443-5031.

Danny Shafer 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd. Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Denver Ukefest 2011 10 a.m. Swallow Hill , 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Gora Gora Orkestar. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

Jenn Cleary with Mad Dog. 2 p.m. Eldora Mountain Ski Resort, 2861 Eldora Rd., Nederland, 303-440-8700.

Johnny O Band 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

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

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

Mitch Lehn Folk Trio, Jake-Leg Shakers,

Don’t Dress for Dinner. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Feb. 27.

Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Feb. 26.

Playback Theatre West’s Night of Improvisational Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Feb. 5.

Andy Hackbarth. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Music on the Mezz — With Molly Greacen and the Sweet Life Brazilian Jazz Band. 5 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Notes & Oats Musical Breakfast — With Dan & Yoshi. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Pete Kartsounes Trio. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Robinson Quartet. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Serenade In Blue. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

She Grooves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The ZydeCoasters. 10 p.m. Whistlers Cafe, 161 Jefferson, Nederland, 303-258-0614.

events Cirque du Musique — A gala benefitting the vocal programs at the CU College of Music. 5:30 p.m. Westin Hotel, 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, 303-735-2865.

An Evening to Benefit the Longmont Symphony Orchestra. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 302 Main St., Longmont, 303709-8631.

HOTA Presents A Taste of Chocolate — Sample local chocolates. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Introduction to Holacracy. 9 a.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder, 303-449-5417.

Joyful Yoga Community Co-Op Open House. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4593 N. Broadway, Suite B 205 Boulder, 505-506-1110.

Laser: Space Odyssey. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Lyons Old-Time Square Dance and Snack Pot-Luck. 7-10 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall, 4th and Main streets, Lyons, 303-823-0816.

The Planets Uncovered. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

PodCamp Boulder. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

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for Happiness and Extraordinary Relationships. 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. UMC, CU campus, 305-763-9244.

Stars and Lasers. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Tango Among Friends — Social drop-in tango class. 1 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.Tango AmongFriends.net.

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Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Guest Recital — Carl Dixon, percussion.

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

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

events Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Joyful Yoga Community Co-Op Open House. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4593 N. Broadway, Suite B 205, Boulder, 505-506-1110.

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Monday, Feb. 7 Cindi Myers’ Work of Heart. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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

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Thursday, Feb. 3 Children’s Story Time. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Louise Nayer’s Burned: A Memoir.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985.

George Nelson Quartet. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9399900.

Tuesday, Feb. 8 Revealing Raskolnikov: Demystifying Crime & Punishment — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Jay vs Turtle: Punk Rock Off! 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

events Cornhole League. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-5301381.

Web Design Transitions Certificate Program. 6-9:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Tuesday, Feb. 8

music The Dead Kenny G’s. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Guest Recital — David Amram, horn. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-4928008.

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

Look! Our Hero. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

University Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

events Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People: David Barrett.

5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Production And Lighting Techniques for Video. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Women’s Heart Health Seminar. 6:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

Wednesday, Feb. 9

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

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The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Constitution. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

The Decemberists — With Mountain Man. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Ekstrand Graduate Student Performance Competition Finals. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-4928008.

Fat Wednesday Party — With Sammy Dee Morton Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Megan Burtt. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home

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Poets at the Modern Life Exhibit: Integrating Science and Poetry. 7 p.m.

Museum of Natural History, CU campus, 303492-6892.

Ryne Doughty, Jared Bartman & Dasterdly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events Adobe Photoshop for the Web. 6-9 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Ignite the Inner Life with Regina Sara Ryan. 7-8:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Feb. 3 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to

5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Feb. 4 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, Feb. 5 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Laser: Peter and the Wolf. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Eve Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Sunday, Feb. 6 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

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

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, Feb. 7 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.

Twinkle Babies. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Tuesday, Feb. 8 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. 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.

Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

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

Wednesday, Feb. 2 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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I love know it best. Many theintimacyinstitute.org. my boyfriend deeppeople enjoy sex ly and don’t want to during altered leave our relationstates of body and mind. This has been a common practice ship, but I don’t know what to do with this crush. I’m too scared to tell him, or for centuries. Still, an altered state is do you think I should? What do I do just that — altered. When your boywith these feelings? friend states that he feels disengaged —Crushing On Another Man from you, it’s because he’s getting an altered you. You may want to ask yourself how many times you are having sex Dear COAM, in your altered state versus how many It’s really common to have crushes! times you are making love sober. If you You are certainly not alone. What you are mostly, or only, having sex in an do with these feelings is another matter. altered state, you may want to ask your- If you have an agreement to be sexually self if you are escaping from something, exclusive with your boyfriend, then actbe it intimacy with your boyfriend, or ing on these feelings will obviously ghosts in the bedroom from times past. breach that trust. But if you have both Try the practice of conscious love-mak- agreed that friendly flirting is a permising. Breathe deeply and connect with sible activity, then enjoy yourself. how each body part is feeling. If this is Ask yourself why you are scared to foreign to you, pick just one body part tell your boyfriend your feelings. Will and focus on that. Next time focus on he get mad? Will he leave you? Once another body part. The time after, add you can settle into your fear, you may them together and proceed until you want to tell him just that — that you are really feeling sensation in and are scared to share these feelings, and through your whole body. Don’t worry though you love him deeply, you also about how long this takes you. Just find yourself attracted to his friend. He enjoy the journey of waking up to your- may surprise you and say the same self and your partner. about one of your friends! It may become a joke with the two of you Dear Dr. Jenni, where you tell each other how hot soI apologize for such an outlandish and-so looks, then use that fuel to get question. I’m a 48-year-old man, and your own bedroom activities roaring. over the holidays I accidently walked in If you don’t want to share, that’s on my parents (77 and 80 years old). I’m fine, too. Do what feels right for you. sort of aghast and also terribly curious if And always feel free to fantasize. Many other people that age still have sex? people make monogamy work by get—Curious George Walks in on Elderly ting their sexual variety through fantasy.

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By KEN MCINTOSH STAFF WRITER ICCA will be placing ads in newspapers, radio and running television spots this week asking people to bring in any old silver and gold coins made before 1965.

Those that do bring in their coins will be able to speak with collectors one on one and have their coins looked at with an expert set of eyes. With the help of these ICCA members, offers will be made to those that have coins made before 1965. Offers will be made based on silver or gold content and the rarity of the coins. All coins made before 1965 will be examined and purchased including gold coins, silver coins, silver dollars, all types of nickels and pennies. Those that decide to sell their coins will be paid on the spot.

If you are like a lot of people, you might have a few old coins or even a coffee can full lying around. If you have ever wondered what they are worth, now might be your chance to find out and even sell them if you choose.

They could be worth a lot according to the International Coin Collectors Association, also known as ICCA. Collectors will pay a fortune for some coins and currency for their collections. If they are rare enough, one coin could be worth over $100,000 according to Eric Helms coin collector and ICCA member. One ultra rare dime, an 1894S Barber, sold for a record $1.9 million to a collector in July of 2007. While that is an extreme example, many rare and valuable coins are stashed away in dresser drawers or lock boxes around the country. The ICCA and its collector members have organized a traveling event in search of all types of coins and currency. “Even common coins can be worth a significant amount due to the high price of silver and gold,” says Helms. Washington quarters and Roosevelt dimes and worth many times their face value. Recent silver markets have driven the price up on even common coins made of silver. Helms explains, “All half dollars, quarter and dimes made before 1965 contain 90% silver and are sought after any time silver prices rise. Right now it’s a sellers market.”

The rarest coins these collectors are looking for include $20, $10, $5 and $2 1/2 gold coins and any coin made before 1850. These coins always bring big premiums according to the ICCA. Silver dollars are also very sought after nowadays.

Other types of items the ICCA will be purchasing during this event include U.S. currency, gold bullion, investment gold, silver bars, silver rounds, proof sets, etc. Even foreign coins are sought after and will be purchased.

Also, at this event anyone can sell their gold jewelry, dental gold or anything made of gold on the spot. Gold is currently trading at over $1,300.00 per ounce near an all time high. Bring anything you think might be gold and the collectors will examine, test and price it for free. If you decide to sell you will be paid on the spot – it has been an unknown fact that coin dealers have always paid more for jewelry and scrap gold than other jewelers and pawn brokers.

So, whether you have one coin you think might be valuable or a large collection you recently inherited, you can talk to these collectors for free and if your lucky you may have a rarity worth thousands. Either way, there is nothing to lose and it sounds like fun!

For more information on this event visit the ICCA website at: www.internationalcoincollectors.com.

What We Buy: COINS Any and all coins made before 1965, rare coins, entire collections, Silver Dollars, Half Dollars, Quarters, Dimes, Half Dimes, Nickels, Three Cent Pieces, Two Cent Pieces, Cents, Large Cents, Half Cents and all others.

PAPER MONEY All denominations made before 1934.

GOLD COINS Including $20, $10, $5, $4, $3, $2.5, $1, Private Gold, Gold Bars, etc.

Here’s How It Works: • Gather items of interest from your attic, safe deposit box, garage, basement, etc. There is no limit to the amount of items you can bring • No appointment necessary • If interested in selling, we will consult our collector’s database to see if a buyer exists. 90% of all items have offers in our database • The offer is made on the spot on behalf of our collectors making the offer

INVESTMENT GOLD Kruggerands, Canadian Maple Leafs, Pandas, Gold Bars, U.S. Eagles and Buffalos, etc.

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SCRAP GOLD Broken and unused jewelry, dental gold.

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JEWELRY Diamond rings, bracelets, earrings, loose diamonds, all gem stones, etc.

PLATINUM Anything made of platinum.

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od is an Italian. Don’t think so? Here’s proof: The food, the wine and the weather. Want more? Throw mountains into the mix. And not just any mountains, but the massive three-valley complex known as Monterosa Ski. And it’s here, in the isolated villages that dot this region, that the provenance of the Almighty One is most evident.

After all, where else on earth can you ski acres and acres of empty terrain (on one of the busiest weekends of the winter), without standing in any lift lines and end your day eating divine antipasti while washing it down with a phenomenally good obscure vintage that is available no place else on the planet? Yes, the experience is, to coin a word, “heavenly,” but it’s merely par for the course here in Monterosa, where we were lucky enough to sample a bit of heaven on earth

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despite our proclivities for sin.

Being from Colorado, it’s easy to dismiss traveling to ski. The state is home to two of North America’s best resorts, Vail and Aspen. It has great mountains, ample snowfall and rowdy après ski. But as nice as all of these things are — and they are nice — part of the skiing and snowboarding experience has and always will be travel.

For a group of Rocky Mountain skiers and snowboarders, this year the destination of choice was

Monterosa Ski, a vast complex that includes the untapped freeride adventure zone that is Alagna, as well as the better-known ski areas of Champoluc and Gressoney. With their interconnected lift system and joint ticket, these three sectors anchor Monterosa Ski. They’re joined by Estoul, Bielciucken and Antagnod, three smaller stand-alone ski areas that share the joint pass but which aren’t connected via the lift network. With more than 30 lifts, the terrain on tap is phenomenal. But it’s the one-two punch of ample terrain and no one on it that makes Monterosa Ski a must-visit destination for the adventurous rider.

Throw in impeccably preserved Italian villages, great food and even better wines, and it’s one of the best-kept secrets on the planet.

It’s also a fairly affordable place to ski, something that can’t be said about many European destinations. Lift tickets have always been cheaper in Europe than North America, and with recent prices for single-day passes in the U.S. reaching an all-time high, like Vail Resorts’ $108 adult pass during high season, even the weak dollar can’t hide the fact that despite the exchange see ITALY Page 36

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Want to ski Italy? Of course you do. And despite what you may think, it’s actually pretty affordable. This journalist’s flight from Denver to Milan was approximately $1,000 round trip on Lufthansa, and includes a direct leg from Denver to Frankfurt.

Accommodations in Italy can be found on the Internet. Check out Internet Holiday Rentals (IHA.com) for self-catering options. The local tourist office’s website (monterosa-ski.com) also has a great overview of the area, including accommodations, weather and other news. And for general information on travel to Italy, you can’t go wrong by starting your research at www.italiantourism.com.

Finally, you can see a full array of webcams for Monterosa Ski at a cool website called Snow Eye (www.snoweye.com). If these cams as well as the others on the site (from ski areas across the Alps) don’t get you to resolve to go skiing in Europe, then you should probably give your skis to someone who will.

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rate to Euros, most European lift tickets are a real value by comparison.

Travel from Denver to Milan is easy via Lufthansa’s direct flight to Frankfurt. From that gateway city it is a short hop south to Italy. Tickets run approximately $1,000, and you can check two pieces of luggage (at up to 50 pounds each), including a ski or snowboard bag for free. From Milan’s Malpensa airport, we opted for a rental car (easier to haul skis and boards and to chase the snow) and headed north. In less than two hours we started to see mountains — big ones — and it wasn’t long before we were climbing out of the valley and into the snow zone. The season had started strong and conditions were still excellent.

We started our exploration in Frachey, a tiny village at the end of the road above our base camp in Brusson.

At 1,623 meters, Frachey is low-key and humble. There is a small parking lot, a couple of chalets, a bar and a short funicular that accesses the terrain higher up. Once there, two highspeed quads whisk you towards the Colle Bettaforca, a 2,727-meter-high point that divides the Champoluc/ Frachey sector from the Gressoney valley. On a map, it’s deceiving; Frachey’s Alpe Mandria lift serves a variety of runs that would be the envy of many a North American destination. Hidden pillow lines in trees, vertical chutes and groomed runs all vie for your attention. Jump on another, higher lift and suddenly you’ll find yourself face-to-face with the massive Monterosa itself, a glaciated behemoth that boasts numerous 4,000-meter peaks. On a clear day, it’s awe-inspiring, but you won’t want to linger long.

The descent to Stafal awaits.

It’s human nature to compare past experiences with new ones, to mark up emotions, moments and feelings with the pencil of history, to order and organize them in rankings and in importance. Some of the snapshots of one’s life experiences inevitably rise to the top of the list: Your wedding day.

The birth of a child. Graduation.

Each indelibly marked and ranked.

For skiers and snowboarders, it’s the same. But the watershed moments include other pieces of life: The first helicopter ride. An impressively violent fall that left the victim — miraculously — uninjured. The first season pass. A favorite snowboard. The ski boots that fit perfectly out of the box.

Thus shall the long descent from the Colle Bettaforca to Stafal be scored. Yes, you can ski down to the Stafal run on groomers. But you can also make a short hike and head beyond the manicured descent into a wild, untamed valley. On a sunny day with new snow, your first time in the Monterosa Ski, this will be the introduction that sticks in your mind, a thing of beauty and adrenaline. Then, after you take a hidden trail through the woods, dodging stumps and rocks, and suddenly pop out at Stafal, as snowshoers wish you “bonjourno!,” you will know you’ve arrived in Italy.

The problem, though, with descents like that one, is that they leave you wanting — no, needing — more. But that’s OK, the Gressoney sector of the Monterosa awaits. And then, after that, there’s Alagna, too.

Each larger than the biggest ski hills in North America (and those places you’ve left behind do, indeed, seem like “hills” from your new vantage point high on the Passo Salati or the Col d’ Olen).

And perhaps that’s the best reason to travel, whether you’re a skier or snowboarder or even just going for the culture. Because each of these new places gives us a new way to bookmark our own places, to see our own mountains in a new light and to appreciate not only how good we have it, but how good we can have it.

So while God is an Italian, God also has a soft place for the wanderers, the travelers and the seekers, those who chase their passion in the high mountains of the world. And that’s why you will feel, like we did, blessed to be in Italy and blessed when you ski Monterosa.

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by Michael Phillips

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ffering moderately scary Roman Catholic “gotchas!” to a global film audience of all creeds, The Rite comes from director Mikael Hafstrom, whose previous film was the stylish supernatural thriller 1408.

This one’s more conventional. But that’s the exorcism sub-genre for you. The crucifix-shaped shadow of The Exorcist hangs heavy over each new contributor to the mythology. At one point in The Rite, Rome’s most aggressive devil exterminator, played by Anthony Hopkins, answers his young protege’s mutterings with the retort: “What did you expect? Spinning heads?

Pea soup?” Someone had to acknowledge the vomiting, levitating elephant in the room.

Given its PG-13 rating, The Rite seems designed expressly to secure for itself some of the millions made by The Exorcism of Emily Rose, another medium-budget devil tale based loosely on a book designated as nonfiction. Truth and lies, this much we know from The Rite: Trouble will follow you in earnest if your father is a tight-lipped Midwestern mortician played by Rutger Hauer.

Young, brooding Michael, played by young, brooding Irish stage actor Colin O’Donoghue, opts out of the family business to become a seminary student but lacks the spiritual commitment to go all the way. Then a tragic accident and a slyly blackmailing

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he Mechanic is Arthur Bishop ( Jason Statham), a crack assassin who can kill his targets without leaving a trace, and even — as we learn later — implicate third parties in the crime. Impressive. Except as we watch Bishop blunder his way through target after target, he’s clearly amateurish, leaving fingerprints and clues at every crime scene, never having a backup plan if something goes wrong and relying on luck to escape afterwards. The end result is an action film that just doesn’t work.

There’s a predictable father-son relationship between Bishop and his “handler” Harry (Donald Sutherland), which is reinforced by Harry complaining to Bishop about his ne’er-do-well son Steve (Ben Foster). In one particularly odd scene, Bishop offers parenting advice to Harry, even though he prides himself on being disconnected from his own emotions.

Later — surprise! — Steve becomes Bishop’s apprentice, eager to learn everything about being a mechanic.

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priest (played by Toby Jones) conspire to send Michael to Rome on a training program for exorcists.

(This sounds funnier than it plays.) There he’s assigned to shadow Father Lucas, the Hopkins character, a wizened pro surrounded by stray cats and stray Catholics badly in need of Lucifer removal. The wakeup call for Michael’s disbelieving soul comes in the person of a possessed, pregnant Roman teenager given sharp, scary specificity by Marta Gastini.

For an hour, The Rite, as scripted by Michael Petroni, delivers the expected, but with panache.

Shooting in Italy and Hungary, with a quick pass

through the Chicago area, director Hafstrom and cinematographer Ben Davis lend the locations a handsome burnished look. The supporting cast is unusually strong, with straight-faced, solemn-browed turns from Ciaran Hinds (as Father Xavier, one of Michael’s tutors) and from the eternally welcome Alice Braga, as the journalist looking to personalize the story of why the Vatican has redoubled its exorcism efforts lately.

Why? Because evil is everywhere, that’s why, and if evil is everywhere, then the actor who cannot seem to wriggle out from under the legacy of Hannibal Lecter can never be far away. Hopkins speaks a fair amount of workmanlike, subtitled Italian in The Rite, and he seems more focused and engaged for this assignment (after looking lost in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger). Sadly, though, his co-star — O’Donoghue — barely registers on screen. Going for low-key and quietly troubled, the actor ends up under-reacting to everything. There is, however, a crimson-eyed demon mule that makes an appearance. An epilogue title card tells us that Father Michael (fictional, based on a reallife California exorcist) continues his efforts at his parish “near Chicago.” Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to see a man about a demon.

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by Dave Taylor headstrong thug, it’s never established why Bishop is willing to give up his privacy and safety to become a mentor. Guilt over being tricked into an earlier killing?

Maybe, but that would require that Bishop actually have normal human emotions, and regret is a difficult one for an assassin.

In one memorable and oddly homoerotic scene, Steve is given the task of killing hulking killer Burke ( Jeff Chase) with an undetectable poison. Instead, he ends up fighting the far bigger man and makes a complete mess of the assassination. Bishop just shrugs it off and the film proceeds, something that made no sense given the fastidious nature of Bishop’s character.

Bishop also works for a private agency that contracts out its assassinations. Who are they? How did they find Bishop in the first place and how does he know some of his fellow assassins if they’re such a secret organization? There could have been an engaging subplot focused on the agency, but the film is

squarely focused on Bishop himself, so while at the beginning we see him search a rural online newspaper for an online classified advert to get a new assignment, every subsequent communication from the firm is via cell phone or courier.

There’s also the puzzle of why Statham was cast at all.

The producers said that they brought Statham on board because of his “charismatic qualities,” but his role in The Mechanic is so extraordinarily uncharismatic that they could have cast anyone who knew how to throw a punch and shoot a gun. I’ve really enjoyed some of Statham’s earlier films, notably The Transporter, but if he’s going to be cast because of his charm and precision fighting style, why not make sure they’re part of the role he plays?

I really like action films and was quite disappointed with The Mechanic. It’s a film that could have been exciting and engaging, but instead ended up a lifeless, unengaging mess fueled by film clichés and completely incomprehensible to people who pay attention to plots and storylines. And what’s with the complete lack of women in the film too?

If you want to see an interesting film about a retired assassin, there are a bunch of choices, including The Killer, Reds and Shooter. If you want to explore the story of retired assassin and mentor, try the original 1972 The Mechanic. As for the remake? There are better ways to spend your time.

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craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond. Director Darren Aronofsky’s film is with her all the way. Portman’s performance as the dying swan is formidable in its nerve-racking expressivity. It is a racked nerve personified. This is Aronofsky’s most interesting film to date, and there’s not a more exciting fairy tale for grownups in theaters now. Rated R. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

Set during the Great Depression, a fiery and beautiful Mexican cafe waitress aspires to one day be above her current standing in society by marrying a wealthy American man. Her plan is thrown into disarray when she meets an Italian-American, who is a struggling writer coming to Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill neighborhood to begin his writing career. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL

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Blue Valentine depicts a working-class marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs and clues to its undoing. In the end, it sympathizes more with the wronged, childlike husband than with the numbly exasperated wife. At least, that’s the way it’s written; as performed, thankfully, it’s more intriguing. Rated R. At Mayan and Century. — Michael Phillips

The newest film from Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake), master of in-depth characterization, is cause for celebration. Another Year is a touching and beautifully nuanced drama of a year in the life of a happily married middle-aged couple, and the less well-adjusted people who gather around them.

Little seems to happen, but much does. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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As You Like It A film version of Shakespeare’s play, and Laurence Olivier’s first on-screen Shakespeare (as Orlando).

Elisabeth Bergner plays Rosalind. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Bhutto Bhutto tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating characters of our time — Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called the “Kennedys of Pakistan,” Benazir was elected Prime Minister after her

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“And then I ate his liver with some communion wafers and a nice chianti ...”

father was overthrown and executed by his own military. Her two terms in power saw extreme acts of courage and controversy as she tried to clean up Pakistan’s corrupt political culture while quelling the fires of radical Islam that threaten to engulf the region.

A fascinating array of archival footage and interviews with family members and leading experts brings life to this tale of Shakespearean dimension in the country

the Economist calls “the world’s most dangerous place.” At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Black Swan Mainlining Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina (Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her

Kevin Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in Casino Jack, a riotous new film starring Spacey as a man hell-bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too overthe-top for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff. Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon, Jack parlays his clout over

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu: 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 FriWed: 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Country Strong Thu: 2:30, 5:15, 8 FriWed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 The Dilemma Thu: 2, 4:45, 7:20, 10 FriWed: 11:05, 1:55, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 The Fighter Thu: 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10 Green Hornet Thu: 2:10, 3:15, 4:55, 6, 7:40, 8:45 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Gulliver’s Travels Thu: 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:50 The King’s Speech Thu: 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 The Mechanic Thu: 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 No Strings Attached Thu: 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 The Rite Thu: 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 FriWed: 10:30, 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 The Roommate Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 6:20 Sanctum Fri-Wed: 11, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10 Tangled Thu: 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Tron: Legacy Thu: 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 FriWed: 11:55, 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 True Grit Thu: 1:40, 4:15, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Another Year Thu: 1, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 FriWed: 12:20, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Biutiful Fri-Wed: 11:50, 3;05, 6:25, 9:40 Black Swan Thu: 10:45, 1:25, 4, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:35, 6:10, 8:45

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Blue Valentine Thu: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 The Fighter Thu: 12:05, 3:15, 6:05, 9:05 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 The Green Hornet Thu: 12:35, 2, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 12:30, 3:30, 6:20 The King’s Speech Thu: 11:45, 2:45, 5:35, 8:45 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:35 The Mechanic Thu: 12:25, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 12:35, 3:15, 5:40, 8, 10:30 No Strings Attached Thu: 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Rabbit Hole Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2, 4:40, 7, 9:20 The Rite Thu: 10:55, 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 The Roommate Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:45 Sanctum Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 True Grit Thu: 12:15, 3:10, 6:15, 8:50 FriWed: 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 10

Sanctum Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25

Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10 The Green Hornet Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4, 7:05, 9:50 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 1, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 The Mechanic Thu-Wed: 12:55, 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 No Strings Attached Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40 The Rite Fri-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 The Roommate Fri-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30

Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 As You Like It Sat: 7 p.m.

Bhutto Wed: 7 p.m.

Casino Jack Thu: 4:30 Closely Watched Trains Sat: 7:30 p.m.

Czech Dream Fri: 7:30 p.m.

Evoking the Child Within Mon: 7 p.m.

Factory Girl Tue: 7 p.m.

The Firemen’s Ball Thu: 7:30 p.m.

Ip Man 2 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5 Night Catches Us Thu: 2:30, 7:30, 9:30 Shadow Sat: 11:55 p.m.

The Social Network Thu: 2, 4:45, 7:45

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Another Year Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7. 9:50 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 4:45, 7:30, 10 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Hedwig the Angry Inch Fri: 11:59 p.m.

The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4, 7:05, 9:40 Undertow Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:45 Blue Valentine Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Illusionist Fri-Wed: 1, 3, 5, 7:15, 9:30

UHF Fri: 10 p.m.

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 The Green Hornet Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 The King’s Speech Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 The Mechanic Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1:45, 4:44, 7:45, 10 No Strings Attached Thu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 The Rite Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Sanctum Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197

Ask the Dust Thu: 6:30 p.m.

The Hot Rock Mon: 7 p.m.

International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 Inspector Bellamy Sat: 7, 9:15 The Man From London Sun: 7 p.m.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Thu-Fri: 7, 9:15 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly. com.

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some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. At Chez Artiste. ­— Landmark Theatres Closely Watched Trains One of the greatest Czech films. A young man works at a small-town train station in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. He reaches sexual and political ecstasy within moments of each other. The film is funny and also devastating. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Country Strong A faded country music star (Gwyneth Paltrow) mounts her big comeback with the help of her husband-manager and an up-and-coming songwriter.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez Czech Dream From Stephen Holden in the New York Times: Maybe you have to have been brought up in a formerly Communist country to recognize and fully appreciate what might be called capitalist propaganda. What does it mean? It entails promoting a starry-eyed shop-tillyou-drop ethos in a population accustomed to deprivation. How easy that appetite is to stimulate is demonstrated in the cheeky documentary Czech Dream, whose creators, Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda, two students at the Prague Film Academy, used state money to stage an elaborate hoax. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Dilemma An automobile designer wrestles with his conscience after he accidentally sees the wife of his best friend canoodling with another man. To tell or not to tell? That is the question. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez Factory Girl In 1965, Edie Sedgwick, the beautiful and wealthy young party girl, drops out of Harvard and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And, like a supernova, she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly losing grip on reality. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Fighter This movie is an off-center but exceptional boxing film that feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies. Set and shot mostly in Lowell, Mass., this is the true story of welterweight Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his trainerbrother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), careening from addiction themes to brotherly love and familial crises. Nearly all of the acting performances are fantastic, including Amy Adams as Micky’s lover. This film is one of the year’s best.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips A Film Unfinsihed The Nazi propaganda machine’s mission was simple if despicable: Use carefully selected words and images to justify dehumanization and genocide.There’s nothing simple, though, about A Film Unfinished, a remarkable new documentary that reminds us of film’s inherent capacity for lying. Director Yael Hersonski takes familiar footage of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and turns it into a macabre and somehow poetic hall of mirrors.

Her ace in the hole: lost outtakes, recovered in 1998, showing how Nazi film crews directed Ghetto life to make it look tolerable. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS Green Hornet Michel Gondry directs this big-screen spin-off of the classic TV series, with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as the mask-wearing vigilantes. Inglourious Basterd’s Christoph Waltz co-stars as the crime kingpin who wants to take them down. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

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The Firemen’s Ball An absurdist take on a celebration in a small town in Czechoslovakia. Early Forman movies are wild, often hilarious, sometimes dumbfounding — and never boring. Among other things, it’s about politics, sex, smalltown life, bureaucracy and self-importance. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Gulliver’s Travels Jack Black stars in this contemporary reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s novel, playing a mailroom clerk who travels to the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself in a magical land where people are really, really small. Rated PG. At Flatiron. ­— Rene Rodriguez Hedwig and the Angry Inch Adapted from writer/director/star John Cameron Mitchell’s critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, this dazzling film tells the story of Hedwig, an “internationally ignored” rock and roll songstress hailing from Communist East Germany. Born a boy named Hansel, whose life dream is to find his other half, he submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American GI and get over the Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned “angry inch.” Through a collage of songs, flashbacks and animation, a bitter yet witty Hedwig tells her life story. Outstanding song score by Stephen Trask. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres The Hot Rock In this comic caper film a professional thief just out of prison is recruited for another job by his brother-inlaw. They meet with a wealthy ambassador of an African nation who financially backs their attempt to steal a priceless diamond from a museum that had been stolen from Africa during colonial times. The professional thief assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem.

Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grand Master International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in this martial arts spectacular. After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Foshan, China, Ip Man and his family have arrived in Hong Kong, which is living under the iron fist of British colonial rule. Ip wants to support his family by opening up a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style, but a corrupt cabal of Hong Kong martial arts masters, led by Hung Chun-nam (the legendary Sammo Hung), refuses to allow Ip to teach until he proves himself — and prove himself he does, in an intense series of fights against the masters showcasing a dazzling variety of martial arts styles. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The King’s Speech Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both Oscar-worthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story. Firth plays Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer and overshadowed by his confident older brother.

Bertie’s loving wife Elizabeth has tried everything to help him, and finally discovers something that works: maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush). Initially the enthusiastic, ultra-casual Logue and the repressed, oh-so-formal Bertie clash, but neither will give up, and ultimately they become good friends.

When Bertie’s brother becomes King Edward VIII in 1936, he refuses to give up his lover (American divorcee Mrs. Simpson), resulting in his abdication and Bertie’s extremely reluctant ascension to the throne as King George VI, leading a nation facing the horrors of looming war. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. ­— Landmark Theatres The Man From London The Man from London follows a railroad track-switcher, Maloin (Miroslav Krobot), who witnesses from his tower one man killing another over a briefcase full of British pounds, then fleeing without taking the money.

Maloin retrieves the briefcase, hides it away, and

returns home to his angry, miserable wife (a bizarrely cast, Hungarian-dubbed Tilda Swinton) and dejected daughter (Erika Bok.) When a “famous English inspector” (Istvan Lenart) arrives to investigate the case, Maloin finds himself under suspicion, but the investigation is strangely vague — does the inspector really want to find the killer, or does he just want to keep the money for himself? This sounds like a thriller plot, but The Man From London is deliberately and rigorously unthrilling. It’s less interested in story than in allegory, as that hidden suitcase of cash becomes a symbol for the corrosive power of human greed. At Muenzinger.

— IFS The Mechanic See full review on Page 38. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

Night Catches Us In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus (Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker) returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival raises suspicion among his family and former neighbors, he finds acceptance from his old friend Patricia (Kerry Washington, Ray, Lift) and her daughter. However, Marcus quickly finds himself at odds with the organization he once embraced, whose members suspect he orchestrated the slaying of their former comrade-in-arms. In a startling sequence of events, Marcus must protect a secret that could shatter everyone’s beliefs as he rediscovers his forbidden passion for Patricia. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society No Strings Attached Lifelong friends Emma and Adam try to maintain a purely physical relationship without any emotional expectations or entanglements. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Rabbit Hole A husband and wife are eight months into the emptier lives they now lead after losing their son. Becca, played by Nicole Kidman in a surprisingly fullblooded, brittle and fuming performance, is a woman deep in the rabbit hole of grief and in denial about it. She can’t or won’t let go of her emotions and, as the cliché goes, “get it all out.” She is moving on but shutting down. Howie (Aaron Eckhart) is the one trying to fix things, to get them to support group meetings. He seems further along in the process, but is he? Maybe he’s just starting to resent the distance that’s come between them, emotional and sexual. Kidman sparkles in scene after withering scene. The marvel of Rabbit Hole is that it sets us up to judge and then upends those judgments. It’s a long journey back, the movie suggests, and any means you use to get out of that hole is allowed. That message, this script and these actors make Rabbit Hole one of the best films of 2010. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Roger Moore The Rite See full review on Page 38. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

The Roommate A college student (Minka Kelly) starts to suspect her new dorm roommate (Leighton Meester) is a crazy, deranged stalker. Single White Female II, anyone? Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Sanctum James Cameron produced this 3-D action thriller about a team of professional scuba divers who must contend with natural disasters while trying to reach the largest and most remote underwater cave on the planet. The Abyss II, anyone? Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Shadow Shadow tells the strangely ethereal story of David (Jake

Muxworthy), a young soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, who decides to go on a mountain biking adventure in Europe to forget his battle-weary past.

In the woods, he meets pretty young stranger Angeline (Karina Testa), and they team up to explore the picturesque surrounding area. Soon they learn of a mystifying local myth, a legend that will force David to face more shattering fears than he did during wartime. To meet the bloodthirsty butcher Mortis (Nuot Arquint) and to discover that reality is sicker than any nightmare. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. ­— Denver Film Society The Social Network On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. ­­— Denver Film Society Tangled This witty and charming 3-D computer-animated adventure is loosely based on the legend of Rapunzel, the long-haired princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), and the intrepid thief (Zachary Levi) who frees her from her tower prison.

Rated PG. At Flatiron. — Rene Rodriguez Tron: Legacy Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the worldfamous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez UHF Television executive R.J. Fletcher (Kevin McCarthy) tries to sabotage the wild success of a rival low-rent, wacky station run by slovenly dreamer George Newman (Weird Al Yankovic) and Bob (David Bowe) — leading to a telethon showdown. Only George’s on-air local misfits can help save the day. Jay Levey directs, and Victoria Jackson, Stanley Brock and Michael Richards co-star in this daring, out-there, over-the-top comedy. Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives In its most basic terms, the film joins dumpy, softlyspoken tamarind farmer Boonmee (gently played by Thanapat Saisaymar) as he takes metaphysical stock of his time on earth while he slowly, gracefully succumbs to kidney disease. As the film rummages through his subconscious, we meet friendly apparitions of his late wife and his son, the latter of whom has been crossbred with a monkey. We even get a glimpse of a past life when he inhabited the body of a horny catfish. The scene in which Boonmee descends into a sparkling cave and finally expires is the film’s most moving, not because of the stoicism with which he accepts his fate, but the simple way that Apichatpong depicts death as a fluid draining from the body and sinking back into the earth. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — IFS Undertow In this unique ghost story set on the beautiful Peruvian coastline, a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover with his town’s rigid traditions. Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a handsome, young and beloved fisherman, and his beautiful bride, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo), are about to welcome their first child. But Miguel harbors a secret. He’s in love with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a painter who is ostracized by the town because he’s both agnostic and gay. When Santiago drowns accidentally in the ocean’s strong undertow, he cannot pass peacefully to the other side. He returns after his death to ask Miguel to look for his body and bury it according to the rituals of the town. Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela — and the entire village. At Esquire, — Landmark Theatres

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Local bar serves up Packer pride, Wisconsin fare

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he stretch of Highway 93 between Boulder and Golden offers little in the way of civilization.

There is an expansive view of Colorado’s wide-open spaces and the foothills that serve as a doorway to the Rocky Mountains. There are few large structures, maybe a couple of gas stations, the skeleton of an old nuclear plant, and a roadside bar that many consider too ominous to bother visiting.

The bar, Rocky Flats Lounge on 11229 Colorado 93, appears on the horizon as a shabby tavern — a seasoned biker bar — that often inexplicably has a parking lot brimming with cars.

Especially when the bar’s home team, the Green Bay Packers, are on a playoff run.

The Lounge has stood for about half a century, according to its manager, Mike Bunn.

It began as the payroll office for the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in 1952, and was later transformed into a bar in 1959.

“A lot of people don’t come in here because it looks like a shady place,” Bunn says. “In spite of its looks, it’s still an amazingly friendly bar.”

Since the early 1980s, the Lounge has come alive on Friday nights for its Wisconsin fish fry. The Friday-night fish fry is typically a phenomenon found in the Midwest, and it started out as an event that catered to the Catholic tradition of forgoing all meat except fish on Fridays during Lent. According to Bunn, Lent also tends to be the busiest season for the fish fries at Rocky Flats.

Mick Coady, a Golden resident who has been to many fish fries in the Midwest, says those at Rocky Flats are “spot on” to what he would find back in Illinois.

“We love the atmosphere. We love the food, and it’s convenient for us,” Coady says. “It’s consistently good — that’s why we keep coming back.”

Fish fries at the Lounge start at 5:30 p.m., with a choice of walleye, perch or catfish all shipped in from the Great Lakes area and served with coleslaw, a baked potato or French fries, and garlic or rye bread.

And the Wisconsin spirit accompanying the introduction of the fish fries at Rocky Flats has been drawing in local Green Bay Packer fans every Sunday during football season for almost 30 years, Bunn says.

The Lounge’s walls are decked out with green and gold, its TVs topped with foam cheese heads. With the Packers’ successful playoff run this season and berth in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers, recent crowds at the Lounge have been even more boisterous than usual.

During Packer games, the bar features grilled burgers and brats on the back patio, as well as its topselling appetizer of deep-fried cheese curds.

Nick Gnant, a Boulder resident originally from Milwaukee, says that the food at Rocky Flats reminds him of home.

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“It’s the only place I know of in Colorado where I can get food that tastes like it’s from Wisconsin,” Gnant says.

Bunn, who is a Detroit Lions fan, says that one word to describe the fans of his Green Bay rivals is “die-hard.”

“They come out winning season, losing season,” Bunn says. “Good or bad, they’re out there watching.”

Despite his loyalties, Bunn says that everyone at the bar is always good-spirited and friendly.

Bruce Payne, a Rocky Flats regular from Boulder, says that he loves coming to the Lounge because of its genuine and welcoming environment.

“I’m addicted to this place because, as long as you’re upfront about who you are, people will accept you for it,” Payne says.

Packer games, Bunn says, are always a busy time for the bar. During especially important games, like the one played two weeks ago against the Chicago Bears, the parking lot fills up and people begin parking their cars along the highway.

For the Super Bowl, Bunn anticipates hundreds of customers, with many showing up at least an hour before the bar even opens and remaining there for the entire day. The Lounge will be taking extra measures to make sure things run smoothly on Sunday, with a beer stand outside and quadruple orders of everything.

“We’re as ready as we can be,” Bunn says.

Gnant, who has watched many Packer games at Rocky Flats this season, says that he will try to get to the bar early on Sunday to snag a table. The loyalty of true Packer fans, he says, is always incentive enough to make the trip out to the Lounge.

“It’s cool to be 1,000 miles from home and be surrounded by your own people, regardless if they’re from Packer Country,” Gnant says. “Go, Pack, go.”

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oulder’s Gindi Café has a salad on multigrain bread. Better than European influence exempliwhat Mom used to make, this version fied by offering both food and didn’t go overboard on the mayo and relied ambience best described as on the crunch of fresh celery and intrigufresh and modern. One is cering spicing. It had a cinnamon-like flavor tainly glad this eatery chooses to emulate that played nicely off the fish and the these continental qualities instead of, say, bread’s nutty qualities. those of the Inquisition or Serge I had a $4.50 half Cuban sandwich, Gainsbourg. served up panini-style. It’s hard to dislike Gindi offers up a lunchtime slate of the grill marks and crusty exterior of such light meal standbys as soup, salads pressed bread, and this was no exception. and sandwiches. Dinner is available from The pork filling was fine, although the Thursday to Saturday night with a reasonpromise of the meat being prepared inably priced menu in the $9.50-and-up house raised expectations higher than the range featuring burgers, stuffed squash and actual execution. It was hard to distinguish ahi tuna. The star breakfast attraction is this from any other sandwich stuffing. On the three-egg sandwich topped with balance, though, the sandwich was pleasing spreads that include sundried tomato and as a light repast. chipotle aioli. There’s also the all-imporA duo of $2.25 carrot and chocolate tant espresso bar to satisfy one’s caffeine bundt cakes provoked further childhood cravings. reminiscences — my Mom used to bake At the onset of our lunch, friend Kon these. Kon deemed these petite desserts briefly waxed nostalgic upon the arrival of “properly sized,” and I had to agree. These his $3.75 cup of rosemary chicken soup. were just enough of a sweet to cap off a He explained that his mother was German light lunch. Each had its own charms, and and made soups like this one with a clear the carrot cake had the right touch of European-style broth. The taste was clean, moistness without too much sugar. The hat we know as a bundt cake originated in northern Europe, and the first without a trace of fat or impurities. Bits of chocolate cake was in a more elevated catmention of it in the U.S. was in a 1901 cookbook. Yet the 1960s and 1970s represent its heyday. Baked in a ring-shaped mold, these distinctive ridged carrot were appealingly soft and sweet, and egory, with a dense bittersweet flavor of the herbal aroma gave it greater depth than cakes were originally prepared in a ceramic pan. A successful bundt entry in a midthe sort you’d expect to find at a more for1960s bakeoff touched off a bundt Renaissance, and Nordic Ware sold millions of alua typical broth. mal and expensive eatery. minum cake pans, surpassing even Jello mold sales. I remember that my Mom would When Kon and I meet, we typically Freshness and reasonable prices are bake cakes from a bundt mix, which probably weren’t different from regular mixes discuss healthy eating. Cardiac well-being the order of the day at Gindi Café. While except for the labeling. it may be perceived more as a neighborwas one of my drivers for ordering the hood hangout than a destination restau$6.50 chickpea and spinach salad. The rant, it’s worth a visit for a light lunch. spinach, rich in heart-healthy potassium Meals here are prepared with care, and it’s just the and folates, consisted of tender baby leaves dotted this spice, and the flavor overwhelms (too much place for someone wanting a healthy lunch that’s a with diminutive but creamy chickpeas. The dressing cumin can ruin chili), but here it was a perfect accent cut above. pulled this simple mix together with just the right to the less-assertive tones of the vegetables.

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ell, I know typically January is a low-fat, healthy, “I’m-going-tostick-to-my-resolution” kind of month. I, however, always think of January as a comfortfood kind of month — treats that soothe the soul and warm the heart.

This particular dessert might not scream comfort to you, but I think comfort means different things to different people (yeah, I’m observant like that). You might crave a warm slice of pie or a steaming cup of homemade cocoa, but for me it’s buttery goodness that melts in your mouth.

This week’s recipe is Spicy Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies.

This isn’t a warm, gooey dessert, but the spice will warm you from the inside out. They are actually wedges, but putting wedge in the title reminds me of cheese, or the everpopular heel on a women’s boot.

Those are visions I don’t need running through your head while contemplating making these heavenly, sent-from-above cookies.

Boy, I do put a lot of pressure on my treats, but I know these will live up to my expectations. Not only are they buttery with the perfect texture, but they are chock-full of cinnamon, which for me seals the deal in any baked good. The big surprise is the hit of chile powder that goes into the mix. Just enough to add a bit of heat, but not too much that you need a beer chaser to recover.

This recipe has just plain and simple ingredients, the best kind of recipe. If you really like to spice things up — and who doesn’t? — you should head to the Savory Spice Shop on Broadway and pick up its chile powder. They have a hot chile powder that is just perfect, smooth and easy, the stars-are-smilingdown-on-you kind of perfect. Pick up some cinnamon while you’re there too; it’s simply delicious.

See how excited these little treats have me? I guess it makes sense, since my dream for years was to be a

Spice Girl, but they just had no use for Shorty Spice. Whatever, who got the last laugh? Well, I guess them, but no worries, I’m happy baking for my peeps, and creating recipes that put a smile on your face.

So please, make these bad boys and validate my decision to bake instead of being a Spice Girl (because I had a choice, really I did).

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

Spicy Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies 2 cups flour 1/4 cup cornstarch 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. chile powder 1/8 tsp. salt 1 cup unsalted butter (room temp.)

1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Line two 8-inch round cake pans with foil, pressing foil smoothly into pan. Lightly grease the foil.

In small bowl, whisk flour, cornstarch, cinnamon, chile powder and salt. Set aside.

In large bowl, cream together butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Mix in flour mixture slowly. Dough will be a little stiff.

Gather dough into a ball.

Take half of the dough and press firmly down into one of the prepared pans. With lightly floured fork, press gently around the edges to crimp the dough.

Repeat with other half of dough.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until shortbread is golden brown and firm to touch. Take out of oven and gently score with a sharp knife into eight wedges (do not go all the way through). Let cool completely.

When cooled, pull out of pan, peel down foil and, using a serrated knife, cut wedges all the way through.

Dust with cinnamon or confectioner’s sugar if desired. Enjoy!

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town New restaurant coming in April A new restaurant called Tangerine will be hitting the Boulder breakfast scene in April.

Created by Alec Shuler, the chef and owner of Arugula Bar e Ristorante, and Phil Armstrong of Hush Denver, Tangerine is set to open at 2779 Iris Ave. The menu, inspired by the typical American brunch with a Mediterranean flair, will feature natural and healthy dishes like the caprese frittata, an open-face omelet topped with fresh mozzarella, sliced tomato, pesto and fresh arugula salad; or cassoulet and eggs, two poached eggs over baked white beans, pork shoulder, sausage, duck confit and tomatoes. Freshly squeezed tangerine juice will also be available.

Tangerine will be open for breakfast daily from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

More details will be posted at www.tangerineboulder.com.

Backcountry Pizza open The Boulder location of Backcountry Pizza and Taphouse finally opened its doors on Feb. 1.

With 54 craft beers on tap and a wide selection of pizzas, salads and sandwiches, the new location promises to be as popular as its original Nederland spot.

Backcountry Pizza is located at 2319 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder, at the former Dolan’s location, and opens at 11 a.m. daily.

For more information, call 303449-4285.

Go Big on V-Day You can go “Big” this Valentine’s Day with specialty menus offered by the Big Red F Restaurant group.

Restaurants that will have specialty menus for Valentine’s Day include Centro Latin Kitchen, Jax Fish House, Zolo Southwestern Grill and Happy Noodle House.

Centro’s four-course menu is $80 for two people, with an optional $30 wine or cocktail pairing. Highlights include chilled oysters, pan-roasted diver scallops and molten ancho-chocolate cake.

Jax has a five-course prix fixe dinner for $75, with an optional $25 wine pairing, featuring West Coast spot prawns, Dungeness crab bruschetta and pan roasted turbot, among other menu favorites.

Zolo has Valentine’s Day specials in addition to its regular dinner menu, as Boulder Weekly

well as live guitar music.

Happy Noodle House’s $49 menu, with an additional $35 drink pairing, features West Coast oysters, charred beef ribeye steak and chocolate coffee torte. An a la carte menu is available.

Reservations for Valentine’s Day are recommended for each of the restaurants. Full menus can be found at www.bigredf.com.

Keeping hearts healthy With a selection of Valentine’s Day goodies, Door to Door Organics is helping keep your heart — and your sweetheart — healthy and happy.

The Door to Door Organics delivery service is offering items from local Colorado companies Beautiful Sweets Organic Bakery and Seth Ellis Chocolatier, in addition to its regular selection of fruits and vegetables.

They’re also donating 10 percent of the proceeds from these special items to the American Heart Association.

Orders can be placed online through Feb. 13, and the Valentine’s Day goodies will be delivered directly to your door. For more information or to place an order, visit www.colorado. doortodoororganics.com.

Longmont Symphony benefit on tap The Longmont Symphony Orchestra is looking for support on Feb. 5 at its Evening to Benefit the Longmont Symphony Orchestra.

The 7 p.m. event at the Dickens Opera House includes a four-course meal, hors d’oeuvres, a glass of champagne and entertainment for $65 per person, tax and tip included.

A jacket and tie are suggested, and tickets are available at the Dickens Tavern and at the Longmont Symphony Orchestra office. For more information, call 303-772-5796.

Healthy reading The Vitamin Band, a book published in Broomfield, is aiming to teach children about eating healthy.

Written by Olena Burda-Lassen, Ph.D, the book features seven fruits and vegetable that get together to form a band. The book also teaches kids musical notes and how to read sheet music.

Burda-Lassen will be playing music and talking about fruits and vegetables from 1 to 4 p.m. on Feb. 12 at Baker’s Piano Center, 3111 Walnut St., in Boulder.

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rhard’s European Café and Bakery is a low-key yet elegant cash-only business situated near the intersection of Baseline and Foothills in Boulder. Sandwiches, soups and sausage lunches with potato salad make up the lunch choices, but the baked goods are perhaps the most distinctive items Erhard’s offers. Fruit turnovers, cookies and Linzer and marzipan tarts are just some of the tempting choices, in addition to the decadently rich chocolate croissant.

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he newest entry in the fancy pizza sweepstakes, Pizzeria da Lupo, features a relatively simple menu spotlighting antipasti, sandwiches, salads and daily specials ranging from roast chicken to salt cod. Of course, the main attraction is the pizza, which is baked in a wood-fired oven and has an outstanding crust. The Saliche pie is notable, topped with fennel sausage, rapini and first-rate ricotta and mozzarella.

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There are also intriguing seafood dishes, such as shrimp wrapped in bacon and octopus in ranchero sauce. The menudo here is comforting, with the spotlighted tripe cooked to ideal tenderness.

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Spaghetti and meatballs are affordable, with a wonderfully tangy marinara sauce and a side of buttery garlic bread.

The thin-crust pies have a fine texture, and those featuring the garlic and olive oil sauce pack a flavorful punch.

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Menu highlights include the delightfully crispy fish and chips with dill-scented batter, and the Boulder Burger, a half pound of beef topped with bacon, roasted red pepper and pepper jack cheese.

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Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mor tadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry, with a delicate herbal taste.

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Now and then, members of other astrological signs complain that I seem to favor you, Aries, above them. If that’s true, I’m certainly not aware of it. As far as I know, I love all the signs equally. I will say this, however: Due to the idiosyncrasies of my own personal horoscope, I have been working for years to get more skilled at expressing qualities that your tribe tends to excel at: being direct, acting fearless, knowing exactly what you want, cultivating a willingness to change, and leading by example. All these assets are especially needed by the people in your life right now.

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Why is everything so eerily quiescent right now? Should you be worried? Has the momentum been sucked out of your life? Have you lost your way? Personally, I think you’re doing better than you realize. The dormancy is a temporary illusion. To help give you the perspective you need, I offer you this haiku-like poem by Imma von Bodmershof, translated by Petra Engelbert: “The great river is silent / only sometimes it sounds quietly / deep under the ice.”

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SAGITTARIUS

I’ve found that even when people are successful in dealing with a long-term, intractable problem, they rarely zap it out of existence in one epic swoop. Generally they chip away at it, dismantling it little by little; they gradually break its hold with incremental bursts of unspectacular heroism.

Judging from the astrological omens, though, I’d say that you Tauruses are ripe for a large surge of dismantling. An obstacle you’ve been hammering away at for months or even years may be primed to crumble dramatically.

I saw ex-Poet Laureate Robert Hass read and discuss his poem “Etymology.” He said that while many of the fluids of the human body are named with English words, at least one isn’t: the moisture of a woman who is sexually aroused.

The Anglo-Saxons did have a word for it, he noted: “silm,” which also referred to the look of moonlight on the water.

“Poor language,” Hass concluded, bemoaning a vocabulary that ignores such an important part of human experience.

Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to correct for any problems caused by poor language in your own sphere. If you’ve been lazy about articulating your meaning or needs, then please activate your deeper intelligence. If there’s a situation in your life that’s suffering from a sloppy use of words, reframe its contours with crisper speech. You could even coin some new words or borrow good ones from foreign tongues.

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May 21-June 20:

My brother Tom and I used to be on a softball team in Santa Cruz. I played third base, and he was the pitcher.

For one game he showed up with a new glove that still had the price tag dangling. I asked him if he was going to snip it off. “Nope,” he said. “It’ll subtly distract the batters and give me an advantage.” That day he pitched one of his best games ever. His pitches seemed to have extra mojo that kept the hitters off-balance. Were they even aware they were being messed with? I don’t think so. In fact, my theory is that because Tom’s trick was so innocuous, no one on the opposing team registered the fact that it was affecting their concentration. I suggest you try a similar strategy, Gemini.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

A famous atheist named Edwin Kagin has incorporated performance art into his crusade against religious believers.

Wielding a hairdryer, he “de-baptizes” ex-church-goers who want to reverse the effects of the baptism they experienced as children. The stream of hot air that Kagin blows against their foreheads is meant to exorcise the holy water daubed there way back when. Could you benefit from a similar ritual, Cancerian? If you have any inclinations to free yourself from early imprints, religious or otherwise, you’re in a favorable phase to do so.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

In an old Star Trek episode, a woman visits the starship’s medical facility seeking chemicals she needs to start a hydroponic garden. The chief doctor, who has a high sense of self-worth and a gruff bedside manner, scowls at her.

Why is she bothering him with such a trivial request? “Now I know how Hippocrates felt,” he complains, “when the King needed him to trim a hangnail.” (Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is referred to as the “Father of Medicine” because of his seminal influence on the healing professions.)

I suspect that sometime soon, Leo, you will be in a position similar to the ship’s doctor. Unlike him, however, you should carry out the assignment with consummate grace. It’ll pay off for you in the long run — probably in ways you can’t imagine right now.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

In Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem,” he sings, “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” From what I can tell, Virgo, the week ahead will be one of the best times all year for welcoming the light that comes through the cracks. In fact, I urge you to consider widening the cracks a little — maybe even splitting open a few new cracks — so that the wildly healing light can pour down on you in profusion.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

When was the last time you created a masterpiece, Libra?

I’m not necessarily talking about a work of art; it might have been an exquisite dinner you prepared for people you love, or a temporary alliance you forged that allowed you to accomplish the impossible, or a scary-fun adventure you risked that turned you into a riper human being with a more authoritative standing. Whether your last tour de force happened seven weeks ago or seven months ago, my sense is that you’re due for another one. The cosmic rhythms are

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Stand-up comedian Arj Barker says that when he writes each of his jokes, he’s thinking that all he needs to do is make it funny enough to get at least three people in the audience to laugh at it. More than three is gravy, and he hopes he does get more. But if he can just get those three, he believes, he will always get a lot of work in his chosen profession. In accordance with the astrological rhythms, Capricorn, I urge you to adopt a similar approach. To be successful in the coming days, you don’t need an approval rating of 80 percent.

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The renegade spiritual sect known as the Church of the Subgenius values one treasure above all others: not salvation, not enlightenment, not holiness, but rather Slack. And what is Slack? It is a state of being in which everything flows smoothly — a frame of mind so unfettered and at ease that the entire universe just naturally cooperates with you. When you’ve got abundant reserves of Slack, you don’t strain and struggle to make desired events unfold, and you don’t crave things you don’t really need. You’re surrendered to the greater intelligence that guides your life, and it provides you with a knack for attracting only what’s truly satisfying.

Happy Slack Week, Aquarius! I suspect you will have loads of that good stuff, which means your freedom to be your authentic self will be at a peak.

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