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departments Letters: Particle physics, prophecies; Easily offended; Recall must go on / 4 The Highroad: Breaking corporate control of politics / 4 In Case You Missed It: Contraception for all; ROAR over art project / 9 News Briefs: Durst at KGNU fundraiser; Benefit set for Lyons family / 11 Boulderganic: The other atmospheric aerosols / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 50 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Particle physics, prophesies (Re: “Chasing the ‘God’ particle,” In Case You Missed It, July 28.) At the end of this commentary is written, yet again, the erroneous statement that the Mayans (or the calendar they use) are predicting the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012. Many Mayans argue that such prophecies are false, and this date simply marks a time of great transition.

A wise Mayan lady, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, has said that after Dec. 21, 2012, humanity will begin a fifth cycle of 5,200 years that will be the feminine and masculine energies in balance for the very first time (after four alternating cycles of feminine, masculine, feminine, masculine). Maybe the end of a 5,200-year masculine-dominated cycle will seem like the end of the world to some, but as Tum says, “I have great hope for the future.” Considering the lack of thinking for oneself so prevalent in the world today, as a media source you ought to be more careful about what ideas (the end of the world 12/21/12) you put into people’s comfortably numb heads. The prediction of feminine and masculine in balance (finally) gives me great hope for the future as well.

R. Lawrence/Boulder Editor’s note: A program about the 2012 prophecy aired by National Geographic featured an interview with a traditional Mayan woman who had a different take on 2012, as shared with her by her grandmother. There appears to be more than one Mayan concept of what the date

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Easily offended I read with interest Pamela White’s most recent column, “Women are not farms” (Uncensored, July 21). However, I must admit to some puzzlement over her outrage at the words, “A child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first AfricanAmerican president.”

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magine if a couple of national leaders dared to stand up to the corporate powers that have taken control of government. Imagine if one of them came right out and said, “I [am] fed up of living in a country ruled by lies, cynicism and greed.” And imagine if these leaders arranged for the people of the country to be able to throw out all political parties that “represent oligarch interests or vote in the interests of oligarchs.”

Impossible, you say? Not so — in fact, it just happened. Not here, unfortunately, but in Latvia.

Located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, the people of Latvia broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991, but a handful of powerful insiders formed corporations that grabbed oligarchic control of public assets, making them billionaires. Using their corrupt fortunes, they literally “privatized democracy,” 4 August 4, 2011

As an experiment, I tore that paragraph out of your paper and over a couple of days I read the words to friends and acquaintances around Boulder and asked them, “Who said that, a Democrat or a Republican?” The final tally was exactly split 50:50. Perhaps more tellingly, fully half of the respondents said, “I can’t tell,” and even those who chose an answer admitted they didn’t have a strong conviction. The general consensus was that the topic is a socially and politically risky one to approach, but the statement in itself is

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by Jim Hightower buying political parties and control of parliament.

The oligarchs then pushed through laws that further enriched themselves, while knocking down the incomes of regular people and ruining the Latvian economy.

Sound familiar?

What’s not familiar to us is that a former president and the current prime minister of Latvia decided they’d had enough of corporate rule. This spring

not racist or biased. While my sample size was small, it was heavily tilted toward the political left.

Perhaps the exact words Ms. White quoted were taken out of context, and the following sentence was clearly racist. Or perhaps the statement is not in fact true, which is a different sort of offense. But perhaps it is also possible that Ms. White, as well as the commentators to whom she refers, take offense simply because the author was see LETTERS Page 6

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they launched a public campaign to break the culture of graft between politics and the corporate powers, and in May they called for a national referendum to dismiss all 100 members of the corrupt parliament. The vote on that proposition is now in, and the result is stunning, revolutionary and historic: 95 percent of Latvians voted to throw the bums out! New parliamentary elections are set for Sept. 17.

America could use a dose of this cleansing tonic, and I have no doubt that Americans would throw out all of our corporate-controlled politicians — if only that possibility was put to a vote.

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Michele Bachmann, whose purpose in citing the data is to support policies these observers don’t like, and that they therefore infer meaning (perhaps completely justifiably; we are talking about a right-wing nutcase, after all) that is not actually present in the language.

David Rea/Boulder Editor’s note: The sentence in question was not written by Michele Bachmann, but by the people at The Family Leader, a conservative Christian political organization. To read the full document, including the sentence in question, simply search online for “The Marriage Vow” and download the PDF. As the column noted, the sentence pertaining to slavery has been removed from the current version; however, the language about “robust childbearing” that was the focus of the column has not.

Recall must go on National right-wing organizations are sending mailers to strongly Democratic households in Wisconsin that would prevent progressive voters from having their votes counted in next

week’s recalls.

The national media organization Talking Points Memo explains the two ways right-wing organizations are misleading voters in advance of these critical recall elections. Read the full text at bit.ly/WiscKoch.

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Rebuild American Dream On July 16-17, people came together at house parties and meetings throughout America to talk about progressive ideas to rebuild the American Dream. At the meeting I attended in Boulder, most people were disenchanted with the way their Democratic leaders are prepared to make bad compromises with Republicans on Social Security and Medicare. They are upset that corporations are taking over our democracy. They are concerned that the rich are getting richer while paying lower taxes, the middle class is shrinksee LETTERS Page 8

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“Compromise makes a comeback.”

—Vice President Joe Biden, responding in a tweet on July 31 to the announcement that Congress had agreed on legislation to avert a government default “Now our women are fighting for their right to wear less?”

—Anil Ruhila, who attended a SlutWalk in New Delhi, India.

SlutWalks have been organized around the world to challenge the myth that women who dress conservatively have a lesser chance of being sexually harassed or assaulted.

“It is a long and winding road from tongue stud to tiara, but one that she has successfully negotiated.”

—Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir, reflecting on the marriage of Zara Phillips, the Queen of England’s granddaughter and 13th in line to the throne, to Mike Tindall, an English rugby star 6 August 4, 2011

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by Pamela White

ome Colorado hospitals may not be up to the task of treating rape victims.

That’s one possible conclusion after the recent release of the arrest affidavit in the rape case against Denver Bronco cornerback Perrish Cox. Cox is accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at his home last September after the woman passed out, possibly the result of being drugged.

The woman had gone out with a female friend and three Broncos — Cox, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas and defensive back Cassius Vaughn. She told police she had four drinks, but became uncharacteristically sleepy and disoriented. She says she vaguely remembers going with the others to Cox’s place and recollects Thomas kissing and touching her, but that she then passed out on an air mattress on the floor.

She awoke the next morning still in Cox’s apartment feeling sick and uncomfortable in her vaginal area, and says Cox pressed her to take a shower.

She refused. Because she remembered kissing Thomas, who was no longer there, she feared that he had raped her.

He denied having done so. But feeling ill and still afraid something had happened, she went to a Denver hospital — the name of the hospital is being kept from the public — to have an exam.

And the hospital failed her.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the nurse who saw the alleged victim informed her that she would have to file a police report or pay $500 if she wanted to have a rape kit done.

“Rape kit” is the term used for a forensic exam that gathers evidence from a woman’s body in the aftermath of sexual assault. Because the alleged victim, a waitress, could not afford the $500 on top of the $300 that hospitals charge to let someone walk through the ER door, she left the hospital without the forensic exam.

Although she thought of filing charges, she told detectives she had no proof that anything had happened, and, knowing that any case involving a Denver Bronco would be high profile, she didn’t want to accuse anyone falsely of anything. So she went through the

next several weeks in a state of anxiety.

If what she told police is true, the hospital not only impeded the alleged victim’s ability to figure out what happened to her that night and thus begin the process of healing, but it also broke state law.

In Colorado, law enforcement agencies are required to cover the cost of rape kits, whether the victim files a report or not. The law was passed so that no rape victim would be deprived of justice simply because she cannot afford an exam. It also helps police get sexual predators off our streets and is therefore in the best interests of public safety.

This is not a new law, so the hospital has no excuse for failing to ensure that its emergency room staff was aware of proper procedure. But apparently this wasn’t the hospital’s only mistake.

When the alleged victim said she believed she’d been drugged and asked about getting a blood test, the nurse reportedly her that it wouldn’t do her any good because more than 24 hours had elapsed. Forensic experts say the alleged victim ought to have been tested regardless, as evidence might still have been in her bloodstream.

The substandard quality of care the alleged victim received raises a number of troubling questions. Were the nurse’s actions the result of poor training and supervision at this specific hospital?

(The name of the hospital was redacted from the affidavit.) Do nurses and doctors sometimes harbor a bias against rape victims that causes them to dismiss the victim’s very real need for quality care and to take their responsibility as caregivers less seriously? Is it possible that this is not an isolated case and that other victims have been forced to pay for rape kits or turned away for inability to pay? And, given how inept the staff at this hospital was, is it possible they broke another law as well?

That law, passed in 2007, requires hospitals to offer alleged victims of sexual assault emergency contraception (EC) in order to prevent a rape-induced pregnancy. Given that the woman left the hospital without being fully treated, it’s entirely possible this option was not see RAPE Page 8

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When the DNA test came back, the report states, she was shocked and very upset to learn that Cox, with whom she’d believed she’d had no contact, was

to blame for the pregnancy.

How fitting that the indisputable byproduct of Cox’s alleged actions — he told police he’d never had sex with the alleged victim — may be the very proof that lands him in prison.

Regardless, it’s clear that a major education campaign is needed for Colorado hospitals. The ideal solution would be to require every hospital to keep a sex assault nurse examiner (SANE) on duty, someone specially trained to gather evidence of sexual assault and other forms of violence

from the human body. SANE nurses often mean the difference between a victim seeing her assailant punished or watching him walk free. In this case, a SANE would have known procedure

and would have given the alleged victim the care she deserved. She wouldn’t have been left to discover the truth herself by taking a pregnancy test weeks later.

But, given that forensic nurses are hard to find and expensive to train, perhaps including certain criteria for the treatment of rape victims in a hospital’s accreditation process would help. The law is already in place; what’s needed is education and enforcement.

Rape survivors deserve the most compassionate and professional medical care we can give.

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ing, and more people are sinking into poverty.

The top priorities were sent to our elected officials in Washington, D.C. The top choices were: Stop paying corporations to offshore American jobs.

Put Americans back to work. Stop the war on workers. End all Bush-era tax cuts. Make Social Security solvent.

Stop corporate tax haven abuse.

Invest in public education. Implement the affordable health care act with a public option. Substantially reduce military spending. Eliminate corporate personhood.

Reinstate common-sense rules for Wall Street. Slam shut the revolving door in Washington between lobbyist and government officials.

These meetings were some of the first steps in a grassroots, progressive movement.

To find out more and get involved, go to Rebuildthedream.com and MoveOn.org.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

We the people must tell our leaders what we expect from them.

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Affordable contraception for all

By Jan. 1, 2013, women with health insurance or Medicaid will receive birth control without copays under new guidelines from Health and Human Services (HHS), which this week classified birth control as preventive health care. Although many insurance policies cover birth control pills and emergency contraception to some degree, most women pay copays that range from $15 to $50 per month for the pill or up to $1,000 for the implantation of an intrauterine device (IUD). Low-income women often find themselves unable to afford the cost — a real problem, as they are also the least likely to be able to afford obstetrical care, new babies or, alternatively, abortions.

Now contraception will fall in the same category as other preventive care, like vaccinations and annual physicals.

The HHS decision recognizes that women are healthier when they can plan and space their pregnancies. This is the closest this country has ever come to establishing universal access to contraception and will surely help to decrease the number of unplanned pregnancies, decreasing the abortion rate.

But in their eternal quest to limit women’s sexual freedom, religious conservatives are up in arms about the decision, claiming falsely that the policy covers abortion drugs and telling everyone that pregnancy is not a disease but something women’s bodies do naturally.

Pregnancy isn’t a disease, but neither is it a benign condition. It can and does cause physical injury, disease and death.

As for “natural,” tell that to a woman who’s in her 30th hour of back labor.

The HHS decision is good news in a year when so many state legislatures, dominated by religious extremists, have passed or are trying to pass anti-abortion measures that would make executed Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, an ardent foe of contraception and abortion, proud.

Art project makes some ROAR Some people just have too much damn time on their hands.

You may have heard about Over the River, a project in which artists known only as Christo and Jeanne-Claude plan to stretch panels of fabric over the Arkansas River between Salida and Cañon City. We’re talking about 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric stretched over a 42-mile stretch of the river. The artists plan to exhibit the “piece” during a two-week period in August of 2014, and the Bureau of Land Management issued a final environmental impact statement for the project on July 28, which some say clears the way for a final OK by the BLM this fall.

The project is proving controversial for obvious reasons. On their website, Boulder Weekly

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www.overtheriverinfo.com, Christo and Jeanne-Claude vow to be ultra-sensitive to all impacts associated with the project, environmental or otherwise.

On the other side, an opposition group called ROAR, which is the acronym for the clever title “Rags Over the

Arkansas River,” has a website of its own at www.roarcolorado.org.

According to that site, the group filed a lawsuit on July 22 charging the Colorado Board of Parks and Outdoor Recreation with violating its own regulations “by permitting the artists to use the

Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area Parks facilities, for up to five years, for a ‘large-scale, industrial’ art exhibition over the Arkansas River.”

ROAR also claims that in the artists’ “Valley Curtain” project near Rifle Gap in 1971, “tons of concrete and structural steel ‘I’ beams were used and remain at the site to this day.”

Even if there are no impacts at all associated with Over the River, it’s worth asking what lengths we’ll go to in making accommodations for the use of public land in the name of art.

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Durst performs at KGNU fundraiser Comedian Will Durst will perform at a benefit for KGNU Community Radio at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, at the Ozo Coffee House at 1015 Pearl St. in Boulder.

Boulder’s own “Hippieman,” John Novosad, will open the show.

Durst is a five-time Emmy nominee and recipient of seven consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up of the Year. Novosad is a stand-up comedian based out of the Comedy Works in Denver who grew up in Boulder.

Advance tickets are $10 for KGNU Listener Members and $15 for the general public and at the door.

For more information, call 303-4494885, or see www.kgnu.org.

Benefit slated for Lyons family A benefit concert will be held at Oskar Blues Grill and Brew in Lyons at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 10, to raise funds to help a local family who was hit by an uninsured drunk driver on July 10.

The concert will feature regional favorites Bonnie & the Clydes, Crow Radio and Interstate Stash Express.

Dan Lee, Tracey Sobel and their two children were returning from a softball tournament in Colorado Springs July 10 when a car crashed head-on into the family vehicle, sending all four members to the hospital.

All of the musicians are donating their time and resources, and all proceeds will help pay for the family’s extensive hospital bills and loss of work while both parents recover. The suggested donation for the event is $10, and Oskar Blues will match the total door take. Donations may also be made to the Lee/Sobel Family Fund, 1st National Bank, P.O. Box 578, Fort Collins, CO 80521.

Longmont plans transit station The City of Longmont is moving forward with plans for a Regional Transportation District (RTD) transit station at the site of the old flour mill near First Avenue and Main Street.

The city has contracted with the transit/land use planning firm of Steer Davies Gleave to conduct a 10-month study and draft the plan. The project team is expected to engage the public in the coming months for input on various design options.

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For more information about the plan, contact city Transportation Planner Phil Greenwald at firstandmain@ci.longmont.co.us or by phone at 303-651-8335.

Dog Daze events on tap The Boulder History Museum will host a Dog Daze of Summer Family (and Dog) Day from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 7.

The event is being held in conjunction with the current “Nature of Dogs” exhibit.

The public is invited to bring their leashed dogs to the free event, which will feature an agility course for amateurs, an Adopt-a-Pet van, booths for local service-dog organizations and dog-related businesses, a doggie treat bar and doggie crafts for the kids.

The museum is located at held at the museum at 1206 Euclid Ave. For more information, see www.boulderhistory.org, or contact Susan Linde at 303449-3464 or slinde@boulderhistory.org.

In related news, a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6 at Boulder’s Natural Animal Hospital, at 685 S. Broadway.

The event, co-hosted by the animal hospital and Out-U-Go! Boulder, will feature professional canine massage, fresh-baked canine cookies from Paws Barkery, professional pet photography, “doga” (yoga for dogs) and hot dogs and drinks for the humans, all for $5.

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In the program, which is free to all state residents 18 and over, participants weigh in at the kiosk quarterly and receive cash incentives for positive results, as well as prizes for maintaining a healthy weight.

“Lafayette is proud to provide the community with convenient access to this innovative program,” Lafayette Mayor Frank Phillips says. “Who isn’t motivated by the prospect of getting paid to lose weight?”

For more information, see www. weighandwin.com.

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ome Boulder County employers are airing concerns about Groupon and similar group discount programs, citing costs that they say can be debilitating to small businesses.

Groupon and similar outfits, like LivingSocial and Best of My Town, are pitched as a way for businesses to get their names out there and create repeat customers by getting people in the door with significant discounts — 50 percent or more — on products and services.

“It’s been the single worst business decision I’ve ever made,” Rachel Bacchus, owner of Boulder-based ELDO Esthetics and Waxing, says of her experience with Groupon.

Bacchus says she wanted to offer $20 worth of waxing services for $10, but a Groupon sales representative talked her into offering $40 of services for $20.

After the offer ran in June, Bacchus says, every time a customer walked in with a Groupon, she lost money, because Groupon’s 50 percent take meant she saw only $10, which didn’t cover her costs.

She says her customer service suffered because she was inundated with clients.

“We were in survival mode,” she says.

Ted Palmer, owner of the Roundhouse Distillery in Boulder, is more optimistic about the Groupon special he ran last week. He’s offering a distillery tour and tasting that includes two cocktails, valued at $10, for only $5. He told Boulder Weekly that after two and a half years of being in business, the distillery wanted to raise awareness about its presence in town, which the Groupon offer is intended to do.

“Groupon is just a way to get people in the door,” he says. “If you’re using Groupon to actually sell your product, and you’re discounting heavily, you’re probably not going to see much return on the investment.”

Palmer acknowledges that he will take a loss with the cost of the drinks and tour (Palmer is getting half of the $5 and splitting the cost of Groupon’s credit-card fees.) But he also says one in three visitors buys a bottle of the gin, agave or coffee liqueur that the distillery makes. If that trend holds up, he says, it Boulder Weekly

by Jefferson Dodge will be a profitable arrangement.

Coupon shoppers But some say the type of client attracted by Groupon is the person who is not likely to spend more than the amount of the coupon — and who is not likely to return to the business unless there is another deal.

“They’re not spending the money like they should,” says Frank Kaven, owner of Martini’s Bistro in Longmont, which has used Groupon and a couple of similar programs offered by local daily newspapers. “I’ve had people leave that didn’t even spend the entire coupon. … I can tell you my employees don’t like it, because they’re not getting tipped on the entire bill the majority of the time. And I’m getting the sense that most are coupon shoppers and are not coming back.”

(Groupon vouchers advise customers to tip on the full amount of the bill.)

The amount that Groupon collects is subject to negotiation. In Kaven’s case, the deal was $15 for $30 of food/drink.

He secured a deal in which he keeps more than 50 percent of the coupon price, $8.50, and he flat-out declined to cover Groupon’s credit-card fees.

“I said, ‘Heck no,’” Kaven recalls. “Are you going to come over here and all of a sudden pay my credit-card fees when these people come in?”

He says he also balked when Groupon wanted to take 60 days to pay him his share, even though the deal was only running for 24 hours. (Groupon officials say they pay out over a period of time because sometimes they have to give refunds, and they also want to avoid cash-strapped businesses looking for a quick fix.)

“The way they structure the program is not the best, because you have to play by their rules,” Kaven says, adding that he wishes he could have excluded Fridays and Saturdays from coupon use, to funnel customers into days when business is slower. “Unless you stand your ground with Groupon, you can be taken advantage of.”

He says that after expenses, he expects to have discounted his product by 40 to 45 percent in the Groupon deal.

“Aug. 26 is my last day for Groupon,

thank gosh,” Kaven says. “It’s great that all of a sudden you may have some money up front. The problem is, it’s an ongoing expense until it’s done. A new business, for sure, would not want to get involved in this type of program, because it’s just too expensive.”

“We don’t do Groupon, because it’s ruining our industry,” says a representative of the Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop in Longmont who declined to give his name. “It’s complete trouble. You gonna make your guide go out and guide clients for $15? Guides can’t make a living on 15 or 20 bucks.”

He says a guide could take on dozens more people for each fly-fishing trip, “but then people don’t get a good, quality guided trip, so we do not participate.”

He adds that the Laughing Grizzly did try a Best of Longmont deal, with the condition that customers could not use coupons for trips or licenses.

“It’s been OK,” he say of that program.

“It’s just a way to get your name out.”

But there are some satisfied customers. Deena Garcia, who co-owns the Boulder County cleaning company Simply Clean with her husband Anthony, says they were quite happy with their LivingSocial deal, primarily because 83 percent of the coupon customers are re-booking with the company for cleaning services.

“It’s hard, though, when you figure they get half of your money,” she says.

“But the whole point of it is you don’t have to do a whole lot of advertising, because you’re in the door at a lot of places where you probably wouldn’t have been with other advertising, so there are ups and downs.”

Garcia adds that LivingSocial is not charging her for any credit-card fees.

When asked about Groupon, she replies, “Their fees are just stupid.”

Groupon responds Groupon Director of Communications Julie Mossler told Boulder Weekly that it’s logical for businesses to cover Groupon’s credit-card fee because Groupon is generating customers for them, and Groupon must cover its costs, especially since businesses are not paying anything up front for the service.

In response to the concerns voiced by Bacchus and others who say they are losing money with each transaction, Mossler says, “There is a way to beat that, and it’s that you have to do your homework on the front end. It is really important to set up the right deal structure, and we do everything we can to encourage that, but there are a lot of blanks for you to fill in.

“And a lot of business owners don’t know that information, so they just say, ‘Give me a deal you think would work.’

And that doesn’t really work, because ultimately you know your business better than we do.”

In the Bacchus case, Mossler says she spoke to the Groupon representative who worked with her and maintains that the guidance given was sound, based on the information provided by the business.

Mossler adds, however, that the information provided by a business, like how much the average customer spends, can sometimes be inaccurate, because the data is not tracked or the business owner is being optimistic, for example.

“If a certain deal structure was pushed towards, it’s because the rep was operating with the information the business gave her,” she says. “It should be noted that we’ve reached out to the business owner several times to help correct the situation. Certainly, if she’s in that bad of a financial situation — I mean, we’ve offered to change the split that we take or even extend the expiration date or anything that will help, and we haven’t heard back from her.”

She says businesses need to optimize the opportunity of the new customers by boosting the retail section, for example, training staff in a hair salon to recommend products or encouraging customers to set up their next appointment before they leave.

When asked whether Groupon sales representatives have an incentive to make more money by upselling clients from, say, $20 worth of goods to $40 worth of goods, Mossler responds, “I think that’s a very simplistic way of looking at it. We are driven to give the most compelling deal to a customer. We know that a $10 see GROUPON Page 15

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Clear-cutcase Elizabeth Miller

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by Elizabeth Miller

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the homemade sign on the Peak to Peak Highway, painted in road-cone orange on plywood says it all: “U.S. Forest dis-Service. Locals say: Stop logging.”

It’s not the first comment the Forest Service has received from locals in the Ward area, nor is it likely the harshest.

Residents in the Ward area have been involved in the process for the fire mitigation programs currently underway since planning started back in 2003. As the project approaches half completion, they’re starting to complain that this isn’t the treatment they were told their forests would get. This isn’t fire mitigation, they say, this is clear-cutting.

“The word I use is ‘carnage,’” says Justine Sanchez, who has lived in the area for 10 years. “It’s huge swaths. It’s clear cuts.”

Residents point to other areas near Ward where the fire mitigation looks less destructive. The fire mitigation near Gold Hill has thinned out the pine forest, cut the lower branches and small trees called “ladder fuels.”

“It looks like a swept forest. It looks really nice,” Sanchez says. “I support fire mitigation, I understand it’s important. I don’t understand why they have to clear cut.”

When the James Creek Fuel Reduction Project planning started in 2003, the fire to fight was the Overland Fire, a crown fire that burned 3,500 acres (more than half the acreage in the Fourmile Canyon Fire last fall) and destroyed 12 homes in a single day.

Crown fires burn through the canopy of the forest and typically depend on ladder fuels to ignite.

The planning team included wildlife and fish specialists, botanists and natural resource specialists — and the public.

“We had a lot of public involvement,” says Mark Martin, who was the Forest Service team leader for the development of the James Creek Fuel Reduction Project. “A lot of people in Boulder County are very 14 August 4, 2011

A patch cut on Gold Lake Road

interested in what’s happening in the forest.”

Responses and the advice given were all over the board, he says.

“Our overall goal was to reduce the possibility of crown fire,” Martin says.

Wind carries the fire, and so prevention requires creating gaps in the canopy. Those gaps come either through traditional techniques, like clear cuts or patch cuts, or by thinning from below. Typically, a 25- to 40-foot break in the trees provides an effective gap, Martin says.

Hillsides near Ward host a blend of trees — lodgepole, ponderosa and aspen stands, according to Martin.

Each needs a different system for fire mitigation. From one slope to the next, the advised method and available implementation — whether you can even get a bulldozer there — varies.

“We have a variety of treatments,” says Kevin Zimlinghaus, implementation silviculuturist for the James Creek Fuel Reduction Project. “In our ponderosa pine stands or our mixed stands, [we] try to enhance or maintain a diverse structure of trees, [and] like to have a combination of small, large and medium trees.”

That’s why one hillside looks like it’s been tidied up a bit, and another looks like, as one resident describes, someone’s building ski runs there. Some of the prescribed treatments do call for patch cuts, a clear-cut of five acres or smaller.

“In the area where we have our lodgepole pine stands, the best treatment to have for those would be patch cuts or clear-cuts,” Zimlinghaus says.

“Lodgepole pine is a tree species that likes to grow up together, die together and then burn up together.

That’s just kind of how they work.”

They’re maintaining more small trees in the manual cut areas — less than five inches in diameter — because they anticipate those trees will be more resistant to pine beetle than large trees, he says.

“In James Creek back in the day in 2003 and 2004, we had some thinning prescriptions,” he says. “We’re finding that it’s kind of silly to go out and thin dead trees or dying trees.”

The methods they’re employing have been developed through modeling. No fire has yet tested them.

“I think that what was presented as to how the mitigation would happen is not what is happening in reality by the people who were hired out,” says a 40-year Ward resident who asked to remain anonymous. “This is not the way it was described to us. This is not what was planned.”

The anonymous resident attended the Forest Service planning meetings and read the paperwork, and says the work she’s seeing on Gold Lake Road doesn’t fit the mechanical or manual prescriptions described at those meetings.

“There are some good people at the Forest Service who are really trying to pay attention, but I don’t think they’ve really paid attention here. Maybe they would come up and say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s exactly what we expected,’ but it’s not what we expected,” the resident says. “It’s not at all what we were expecting.”

These areas look different than other fire breaks, she says, adding that it looks like the Northwest.

Coincidentally, some of the crews hired are from the Northwest.

The Forest Service has hired a single contractor with a 10-year contract that they’re not yet halfway through, according to Zimlinghaus. That contractor subcontracts labor and has hired crews from all over the West.

“We pay them. There is no value really in the wood,” he says. “If it were a full-blown timber sale, he’d be purchasing wood from us.”

The wood they remove is sent around the country to be converted to animal bedding or buck and rail fences. A few logs are sent to mills. Much of it is burned — though not in the wood burning stoves common in Ward homes.

“Our trees are so small here, and the wood really has no value,” he says.

Zimlinghaus says a Forest Service administrator visits the area to check on the project three or four see CLEAR-CUT Page 15

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times a week — typically the same administrator, though there’s an alternate who fills in.

Manual treatments cost $600 to $700 an acre, Zimlinghaus estimates, and mechanical treatments cost $1,000 to $1,200.

“I do support it. I do see that it’s needed, I’m not one of those that says ‘Oh just stop logging,’” says Gregg Burch, who finished a cabin on Gold Lake Road in 2002 and spends most of the year there. “I support it, but I also support it being done in an environmentally sensitive way.”

Burch bought his way out of a fiveacre patch cut listed on the initial plan for some of the 40-plus acres he owns by saying he would either sue or spend that $20,000 to develop and implement a fire mitigation plan for those acres.

The final plan from the Forest Service doesn’t include any patch cuts on his land, he says. But patch cuts are still basically in his backyard.

“I’ve been watching the work going on, and it just breaks my heart,” he says.

For a $3,000 fee from a forestry consultant, Burch purchased a 10-year plan for his property. The trees he’s taken out were hand-marked by that forestry consultant.

He says he’s spending 10 times per acre what the Forest Service estimates it spends.

“The prescription also says to leave a certain percentage, leave some of the wood in there,” Burch says. “But the ways in which they are done is just really unattractive because the ways in which it’s done is on the cheap.”

Zimlinghaus says there have been some complaints, but he attributes some of that to turnover in the community (none of the people quoted in this article moved in after 2003), and to it being easier to handle the idea of cutting down trees when they’re not in your backyard.

“A lot of people in Boulder County haven’t seen that equipment being used and … some of our local neighbors, I think they were unaware of what all was involved,” he says. “Yeah, we want to have fuel reductions, and we want to have these treatments, and once it’s in their backyard they get a little concerned.”

Once there’s a contractor in place, he says, there’s little they can do — except modifications for environmental changes like the mountain pine beetle.

“I totally understand the need for us to manage the forests, if you look at the history, how we’ve controlled fires so now there’s a lot of fuel and, you know, with the pine beetle and trees, there are many different factors and I accept that, but it’s a question of how it’s done. And I really don’t think it’s being done appropriately,” says the anonymous resident.

“We’re very lucky to have the beauty of the mountains here, and, yes, we need to preserve that, and, yes, we need to do some management here, but there needs to be some control,” the resident says.

“It’s our forest, you know. These national lands belong to the people, and so I think it’s important that we people are paying attention and doing what we can,” she says. “It’s our land. It’s our forest, and we live up here.”

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Mossler says the company is selective about which businesses it works with, and delivers an educated, high-income demographic, the vast majority of whom spend more than the coupon value when it comes to restaurants, for instance.

She says businesses that are unhappy with Groupon “shouldn’t go to the media with their complaints, they should come to us first. If we did something wrong and it’s the wrong deal structure, we will gladly cut you a check and fix it. If someone were to say, ‘I’m going out of business because of my Groupon deal,’ we would talk to them about reconciling some of that damage.”

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The goal, she says, is to attract people who haven’t tried your product or service and get them to come back or find something else they like while they are there.

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by Elizabeth Miller The study combined data from various tools on the ground that measure the sun and atmosphere and match that with information on the atmosphere collected by NASA satellites, which offer a brief glimpse of the globe.

Over the past decade, as aerosols in the stratospheric atmosphere have nearly doubled, they’ve applied a cooling effect of about 0.1 watts per square meter, offsetting some of the 0.28 watts per square meter warming effect from carbon dioxide in that same period.

“Aerosols are kind of a major uncertainty in what’s going on, and they are highly variable from many different sources, both natural and manmade,” he says. “They’re difficult to characterize, as opposed to gas molecules that are fairly well identifiable and understood.”

They come in different sizes, shapes and quantities, which makes it difficult to quantify their atmospheric impacts.

What they saw during the 2000s, he says, most likely come from natural volcanic sources. Possible human sources for increased aerosols include coal-burning power plants, though they are less likely to have had a significant cooling effect, and not one that outweighs the detriments to the atmosphere of the carbon dioxide they emit, according to Dutton.

“There’s a lot of concern about burning coal as well as producing carbon dioxide, which is the main culprit in the global warming models,” he says.

“It probably won’t have much of an impact changing the way that people

think about coal.”

Because volcanoes and their outputs, the main player in this effect, are by nature unpredictable, it would have been difficult for climate-modeling scientists to have included this variable in their predictions, and, even knowing that they have an effect now, it’s impossible to estimate what their future impact will be.

“It’s certainly something interesting.

I think the biggest potential societal impact is probably on some of the debates as to how well some of the climate predictions have been faring and how the public has accepted some of these suggestions as to what the climate might be doing because of the greenhouse gases,” Dutton says. “Over the last decade or so the temps haven’t increased as much as those projections, […] and it’s not because there’s anything wrong with the basic theory of global warming.”

The study offers an alternate, physically based observed phenomenon to explain why the climate hasn’t changed to match models that weren’t aware of this variable.

“It’s still a good idea to keep working toward renewable energy applications to help reduce the carbon footprints,” Dutton says.

And those infamous aerosols of the ’80s are still not a great idea — stylewise or environmentally. The fluorocarbons they contain have a chlorine compound that eats through the atmosphere.

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ncreasing particles in the atmosphere may be slightly slowing climate change, according to a study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These particles, called aerosols — which have nothing to do with hair spray or spray-on deodorants — have been shown to reflect sunlight back into space and have decreased the expected temperature increases.

“The models in the past have included aerosols, but when the projections were run for the 2000s or in the big climate report that came out in 2007, those model projections were unaware of the effect,” says study coauthor Ellsworth Dutton, who works in the global monitoring division of the Earth System Research Laboratory at NOAA and has been involved with aerosol research for years. “[This study] partially offers an explanation as to why those models haven’t worked out as expected.”

The aerosols at hand are particulate matter — dust or smoke particles.

Their effect is small, but in a scenario where a 2-degree change is expected to have a dramatic effect, they could amount to a change of 0.1 to .15 less per decade than predicted, John Daniel, a physicist at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and an author of the new study, says in a press release.

“We are continually collecting information from our observatories that are spread around the world, and we just noticed this developing trend over the last several years,” Dutton says.

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Are you concerned about the fire mitigation taking too many trees in the forest?

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• No. We need advantages over fires.

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Andrew Bird polishes up work on sixth solo album by chris parker

istening to Andrew Bird’s music, one is struck by its tender grace.

Bird’s eclectic instrumentation helps infuse the songs with baroque beauty abetted by sunny, hook-laden pop warmth. Running through it all are Bird’s quirky, adventurous musical sensibilities, feeling out a balance between hook-laden directness and fanciful flights of music flair.

We catch up to Bird on a family farm three hours outside of his native Chicago, where he often goes to clear his head and compose songs. In this case, he’s there to record the follow-up to 2009’s Noble Beast and 2010’s corollary Useless Creatures, which featured instrumentals from the Noble Beast recording sessions.

Those two albums represent bifurcated versions of his competing impulses, something he’s been trying to unite on the new album.

“It’s really hard to pull off. I’ve tried different ways,” Bird says, describing Noble Beast as the “concise pop album” to Useless Creatures’ “indulgent instrumental album.”

“I think I went a little too far in the last couple records as far as saying I’m going to write these very concise pop songs and put my impulse to improvise on the back burner,” he continues. “This record is bringing them back together again. There’s a new song called ‘Give It Away’ which goes from wild instrumental to the most unpretentious, straightforward, direct kind of song without feeling disjointed.”

Bird and his three bandmates — drummer Martin Dosh, guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker and bassist Mike Lewis — came out to Bird’s farm three months ago, where they recorded the new album in less than a week. The songs were see BIRD Page 20

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DeVotchka will soothe the Fox Theatre audience on Aug. 10 with their smooth Gypsy melodies.

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recorded live to tape, with no opportunity for instrumental overdubs. Nor was there a lot of practice beforehand. They were basically learning the songs on the run.

“It has a very loose, fresh, improvisational feel. It doesn’t sound like any other record I’ve made,” he says. “It’s got more exuberance than other records, where you do it more multi-tracked.

This was an anti-production production, but it sounds very rich and saturated.

And there’s a lot more improvisation, a lot more wild playing on it than other records, too. I’m kind of proud of that.

You don’t hear very many good solos anymore in pop songs, and this one has some really wild, weird solos in it.”

But then, Bird’s always been one to go his own way. He first began making up songs when he was 6 years old, and he confesses surprise that he lasted until college on the button-down path of a classical music violinist. Eventually he realized that world wasn’t for him.

“I wasn’t happy with any world that was too institutionalized,” he admits.

“When I started playing Irish music in a band when I was 19, it was fun until people around me took it too seriously.”

It was this idea of playful, lighthearted enthusiasm that drew him to the Squirrel Nut Zippers. He played on their album Hot, which, almost miracu-

lously, produced an enormous hit, “Hell,” almost a year after its release, propelling them to meteoric success and an equally steep decline. The whole experience was educational for the 23-year-old Bird, who, though he played with the band on the album and tour, never officially joined.

For one thing, he learned that despite the apparent out-of-nowhere vibe of their popularity, it was cultivated by endless promotional events and a small army of PR flacks. But there was something even more important that he discovered.

“I learned to put on a show,” says Bird. “I was more familiar with the classical world view, where there’s a bit of contempt for the audience. And here’s this band from the South that’s less a part of the swing revival than that tradition of freaky bands from the South, and they just put on a really energetic show. It wasn’t particularly good jazz at all, but it was good pop music and a good show.

“They were also on a different trajectory than me. I was coming from a more schooled thing turned on by the more direct pop thing, and they were going in the other direction. They thought, well, maybe we should get more pros to play with us, and [it] started to lose its scrappy heart. So it was a

funny lesson.”

A lack of scrappiness is not an accusation you’d level at Bird or his bands.

Their live shows always possess a wildeyed glee aided by their improvisational, ever-tinkering approach. You can hardly expect any of their songs to sound like they do on the album.

And it’s not over-production. Bird’s always tried to adhere to an ethos that only records what can be recreated live. (“There can be no whistling at the same time I’m singing. That’s untruthful,” he says.) It’s more about continually changing things up and toying with the songs lest they become rote and suck the freshness out of the performance.

“Playing every night of the week, invariably what happens is you get into muscle memory, and next thing you feel like you’re phoning it in. Unless you put some wild cards in there you’re going to burn out,” he says.

Another thing Bird does to keep it fresh is play live solo shows, particularly during the recording of a new album, when it’s easier to get out for a couple one-offs on his own. These solo performances are really a sight to behold as Bird uses sequencers to loop a variety of instruments into a full-bodied song from the ground up, much like watching a baker craft a magnificent wedding cake.

“There’s no bigger thrill than trying

something new in front of an audience,” Bird says. “That flush of embarrassment when you’re like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work.’ The solo shows are like a cooking show with the haphazard cook.

Forgetting to throw something in and throwing it in a little too late, but it’s fun.”

Bird’s a wonderful multi-instrumentalist, and it’s a wonder to hear him live, but the pleasure goes beyond his skillful playing. It’s the spirited vitality he brings to it, which probably goes back to the fact that music’s been woven into the deepest part of his soul for as long as he can remember. It certainly contributes to his appreciation of subtlety and nuance in his arrangements.

“I’ve always been very into tone and resonance as much as melody,” he says.

“Growing up, the sound of a pedal steel guitar would always make me carsick, and I have visceral reactions to many musical textures.”

Perhaps you don’t need a constitution as sensitive to the pluck and pull of music to make something that resonates on a deeper level. Yet you can’t help but feel the intensity — even if sometimes whimsical — and wholeheartedness with which Bird pursues his muse in the supple craftsmanship and captivating quirkiness.

It makes him an equally arresting artist from the stage to your audio player.

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Jen Lewin’s “Light Harp” will be on display at the Museum of Outdoor Art in Englewood until Feb. 25. Admission is free. 1000 Englewood Parkway, Suite 2-230, Englewood, 303-806-0444.

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by Krystal Baugher

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ur current society is obsessed with the visual — especially our entertainment — from film to print to contemporary art. We absorb so many images daily that we have prioritized one sense and left many of the others behind. But what about our other senses? Because it’s our era’s popular choice, most artists still seem to use sight as the main avenue to relay their messages to an audience.

But not Boulder artist Jen Lewin. She wants to move you. Literally. And without your movement, her work is not complete.

Lewin started out as a dancer. At 18 she realized she no longer wanted to be a ballerina and changed paths. She earned a degree in architecture; it was a way for her to mix two fields she really loved — art and science. But Lewin didn’t walk a straight line to the art world; instead she Jen Lewin’s “Light Harp” moved to Palo Alto, Calif., and got in with the computer boom. It was only after a felt-absence of the hands-on that Lewin detoured back to the art 19 and discovering that it sounded terrible. world and has been there ever since.

“It had no resonance,” Lewin says. “I decided I However, her experiences as a dancer, an architect wanted to build one without any strings.” and a computer whiz have been vital to the creation of Her stringless harp became a hit in New York. She her current work. Most of what she does are largerealized that without any strings, she could build a scale computerized sculptural pieces like “The Moths” harp any size she wanted; she could make it huge.

— three huge translucent robotic moths programmed Individuals can walk through the harp with their to move based on how a person moved under them — entire bodies or swing their hand through to play or the almost quarter-acre-sized piece called “The notes by breaking the light beams. What’s even more Pool,” 120 wireless circular pads that changed color as fascinating is that the harp can tell how fast a person people jumped on, collaborated with and interacted is moving and where they are moving, which allows with them. the instrument to create intricate, emanating sounds.

Her most current piece is the 12th version of her The complexity of the harp makes moving and play“Light Harp” series, currently on display at the Light ing with the piece all the more fascinating for the Supply show at the Museum of Outdoor Art in audience.

Englewood. The light harp located at MOA is 10 feet Play is central to her work. tall and 22 feet long. Lewin came to build these mas“Whether I use sound, light, or motion, my goal is sive harps after building a regular harp when she was to create a situation where the participants are partici-

pants. Where people can play and become part of the art piece,” Lewin says.

Another fundamental element to her work is audience interaction.

“I have a very strong desire to create an experience I want other people to have; I want to bring people together, groups together,” Lewin says. “I like things that remind us of being children, art that has a magical and playful quality.”

Currently Lewin is collaborating with the world-renowned pop-sculptural artist Claes Oldenburg (known for making large food sculptures like the spoon and cherry in Minnesota, blueberry pie in New York, etc). Together, for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, they are building a 53-foot-high sculpture in the form of a paintbrush.

“We will create several glowing forms embedded in the Oldenburg sculpture which will glow and change organically,” Lewin says. “Claes has never worked with lighting in this way.”

The work will be revealed in the fall.

What’s great about these large-scale outdoor pieces is that they include everyday people, not just collectors and gallery aficionados.

“Art needs to broaden its perspective,” Lewin says.

“It needs to become more public.”

Her pieces have definitely found a broad audience, from her “Light Harps” at Burning Man to the “The Pool” at the Electric Daisy Festival to her current “Light Harp” right in the civic center of Englewood.

The work exists not just to look at, but to pull a person in, to make a person a part of the art itself.

Her art triggers multiple senses, from hearing to touch and, yes, to sight. But most importantly, it reminds us to play, to slow down, to marvel in new experience.

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t was that kind of afternoon, so we caution Jon Gray, trumpeter/vocalist for the local jazz septet Supercollider, that we were going to start our interview in the middle.

“Groovy. I’m all about it,” he counters.

Jazz bands. Seems like, over the course of jazz music’s more-or-less 100-year history, the music has alternately promoted bands as bands, then soloists fronting bands, then bands again … then soloists again. Duke Ellington, John Coltrane. Miles Davis, then the cult of fusion — bands like Mahavishnu Orchestra, ostensibly bands but built around the soloist.

Well, OK, maybe that’s a lumbering over-generalization (apologies — it was that kind of afternoon), but as arguably the frontman of a septet, bred in an environment of both trad jazz and the vigorously collectivized jam-band ethos of the People’s Republic, we wondered how Gray viewed his own outfit.

“So … OK,” Gray draws a breath, trying to find a way to answer a non-question by referencing the avantjazz Brooklyn group Kneebody.

“They’re a band of guys who should all be leaders,” he says. “But they all sort of diplomatically fall under this one thing. There’s a lot of that that’s around.

“There’s not a whole lot of bands like ours, that are a ‘band.’ I know what you mean. Jazz is kind of like a soloist’s art, a lot of times. … If you’re talking in reference to our group, our group is a jazz band in two different ways. We have horns, but also improvise a lot. …

It’s a blues band when we’re playing blues, a fusion jazz band when we’re playing that stuff, kind of a singersongwriter band when we’re doing that.”

We can’t be sure, short of asking them, whether the Tuesday night crowd at the Laughing Goat really thinks they’re a trad jazz band, or something hyphenated, or if it really matters. Taking in the band’s current trademark piece, for example, the two-part “Stars

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Sean Kelly’s long road

or Sean Kelly, being back at altitude wasn’t really all that.

“Honestly, right now, I’ve been on the road since spring, and I got to go home once, and I’m really in need of getting home,” Kelly told us earlier this week from his hotel room in Denver, sounding a bit like a guy balancing gratitude for being able to keep steady work in a broken economy with the frustrations of a guy for whom the endless tour has lost its appeal. Feeling homesick is a bittersweet condition when you feel like you’ve actually got a home to miss.

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Collapse,” there isn’t much doubt — a passage of simmering murmurs giving way to a poised, chest-out, horn-driven lead line, for some reason reminding us of Tom Scott’s ballsy earlier work leading the L.A. Express. There are probably better points of reference here that escape us: tightly arranged brass carried over perfectly dropped changes, inflection and flourishes at the right places. Post-cool swing, unforced inertia.

This is, even for gifted and practiced musicians, a lot harder than it looks. Keeping the burn alive while playing into charts and hearing the song as its own entity, not just as a vehicle for maniacal soloing.

“The way Supercollider has always worked,” Gray explains, “is, I’ll write the music, but I’ll keep it super sparse. I’ll bring in a lead sheet, and I’ll have a couple of ideas for the horns in my head, and everyone will kind of fill in their parts. … And most of the time, what they put in there, just works.”

We’ve heard strains of this before, or something like this, in the Boulder Valley. The band was Fat Mama, the shockingly successful fusion/jam-band/funk outfit born from the CU College of Music in the mid 1990s and

educated on the road through about 2001, including heavy touring on the East Coast.

The lure of Boston-D.C. corridor work eventually claimed some of their members, keyboardist Erik Deutsch among them. Gray held the trumpet seat in the outfit and went on to play again with Deutsch and nowSupercollider reedman Jon Stewart in the luminous folk-jazz outfit County Road X. But Gray, who divides his time between playing, composing and studies up in Fort Collins, insists that even his frequent trips to play with Deutsch (who is finishing up a new CD) in New York doesn’t really tempt him for the Big Move. Occasional sit-in guest Ron Miles, one of the Denver area’s undisputed jazz treasures, was similarly tempted at one time by the promise of steady work and jazzrag visibility in the Big Apple, but resisted and stayed in the area. Gray (among many others) is glad he did, and shares his preference for Rocky Mountain time. “[Stewart] and I both go to New York to play with Erik a lot of the time, and I ask myself that. Y’know, you get out there and you do all this stuff, and you get used to the pace. And about three days in, I just crash. I was raised in the South and just used to a slower pace.

Yeah, I think it’d be nice to live in New York at some time in my life, but right now it’s just not worth it.”

For now, Supercollider has eased off their weekly gigs at the Goat.

“We did that gig once a week, for over a year, and recently, around the end of the school year, we scaled it back to once a month. Luckily, all the guys in Supercollider are in like nine other bands. I think we felt like we were over-exposing ourselves a little bit. Playing once a week, and I was in school, so we couldn’t really get together to practice, so all the new material we learned we kind of had to learn on the bandstand. On the fly. But I think all of us really liked the time we put in there.”

Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com waste of good music if we’re not out there playing. Try to keep it going to some extent.”

It certainly wasn’t a lack of work that prompted Kelly to step back from touring The Samples.

“It was the offers,” Kelly says.

“Whatever version I was in at the time, people kept asking, ‘Will you please play, will you please play?’ but I wanted to get off the road. That was all a bit much for me. I had been through a string of three bad managers, and just said, ‘That’s that.’ A little easier to handle those issues when it was just me. I didn’t have the 21-year-old in me anymore. And of course, the

The Samples frontman on exhaustion, nostalgia and refocusing the dreams of youth

by Dave Kirby ried, Boulder-founded, pop-reggae franchise, last year, at least as a full-time touring outfit. Sheer exhaustion and some bad business experiences had taken their toll, and Kelly was ready to call it a day.

“That was very true at the time,” Kelly explains. “I just do scattered Samples dates now; there’s not many.

I do far more solo dates now. But sometimes it’s a

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economy went into the shitter, it just record), he did report that the Samples wasn’t possible to head out in the bus gig that he staged at last year’s Mile anymore.”

High Music Festival with the original Kelly released a 39-song solo album members went off well. earlier this year, B-Sides and Outtakes, a “It was interesting,” Kelly says. “At collection of new songs alongside some the time I had been playing with these solo-revisited Samples tunes like “Birth other guys, who I made several albums of Words,” “Feel Us Shaking,” “Still with and who I desperately wanted to Water” and the endearing pop-reggae play that gig in that version. But they gem, “Did You Ever Look So Nice,” didn’t want that — they would only do it rendered on solo acoustic guitar, sound- if it was with the original guys. ing like a prayer to the past.

“So it was seeing them for about four Oddly, the CD days. We had two days’ kicks off with a deeppractice, and we did it.

On the Bill The Samples play Nissi’s woods baritone ballad And everyone disapBistro on Friday, Aug. 5 at 8 called “Caroline” sung, peared. Everybody’s p.m. Tickets are $15 in not by Kelly, but by doing their own thing advance, $17 at the door.

2675 N. Park Drive, Bud Huntsinger, the now, in their place …

Lafayette, 303-665-2757. father of sometimesand it worked. When Kelly collaborator/ you play that long drummer John together, you don’t Huntsinger, with Kelly harmonizing need that much practice. It was very cool. gently in the background. If you spend Very nostalgic, but very fast. We got a nice much time talking to the 46-year-old reception. No hard feelings on any level. …

Kelly about his life now — immersed in We did what we were supposed to do, and the subtle joys of being home (in that was that.”

Southern California), around his girlBut isn’t it a little weird, going back friend and her two small kids, after two to do something you did years ago, at a decades of plowing interstates and twodifferent stage in life? lanes and watching his contemporaries “A little bit,” Kelly says. “It’s like grow up and into family life — you get someone telling you to go on a date why this song, even in another man’s with your old girlfriend. It brought up voice, should spearhead this collection. the best part of our relationships together, all of us, for a day or two.”

There’s a cabin in the pines / In the But Kelly still counts himself as a hills of Caroline / And a blue-eyed girl fan, even if he can’t live in that world that’s waiting there for me. full-time anymore.

“There’s about 10 new songs on it,” “The songs, as far I’m concerned, he says. “I dug up some older tunes that have always been underrated in the I had, but kind of revamped them. Did sense of not really having a shelf life,” it all on my own, kinda quick. … It Kelly says. “[I still get] endless emails came out really neat, like something about how some of these tunes have you’d listen to on a long road trip.” touched people’s lives. Y’know, I gave While Kelly stages his Aug. 5 up my fight to be something — or, Nissi’s gig with a klatch of Denverbased players he’s had most recent asso- whatever ‘fight’ it is when you’re younger — and just want to play music. ciations with — Dave Preston, Rich Roth, John Schaller and Ben Loshin — That’s pretty much it. I’m not trying to impress anybody, I’m not trying to get a and who form the core of the band record deal. I’m done with all that.” nowadays (Kelly says they’re edging Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com him toward making a new Samples

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music Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m.

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Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Cameron Powers — With Gilly Gonzales, Lisa Wimberger of Luna Fire, Lil Sumn Sumn. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Esther Sparks. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Felonius Smith. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

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

James Speiser. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

My Morning Jacket, Amos Lee. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Open Stage — With K.C. Groves. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Rhythm on the Rails — With One on One. 6:45 p.m Whistle Stop Station, Niwot, www. niwotcolorado.com.

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

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

First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

events Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Comedy Works Presents Deacon Gray.

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

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Indie-folkster Paleo, aka David Strackany, makes music that is pleasing enough to the ears on the first listen to warrant further exploration, and subtly complex enough to make those second and third plays worth the effort. The Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303443-3133.

Contact Improvisation. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617.

Disco Bowling. 9 p.m. The Connection at University of Colorado Boulder, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6338.

Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:30-9 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamencoboulder.com.

Lafayette Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m.

Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-499-2494.

Laser: Brief Mystery of Time. 1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center. 2414 Regent Dr., University of Colorado Boulder, 303-4925002.

PechaKucha Night. 8 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

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to Know — Free seminar. 7 p.m. 4450 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 100, Boulder, www. collaborativedivorceboulder.org.

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

Friday, August 5

music Adam Bodine — with Kalin Capra. 7 p.m.

Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Ben Knighten, Mockingbird 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Bonnie and the Clydes. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

The Bucky Walters. 9 p.m. The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.

Catfish Kray Blues Band. 8 p.m. Boulder

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Boulder/Denver Area A Haiku Moment. Canyon Gallery at Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28.

Abstract Delight — Selections from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921320. Through Aug. 18.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art — Gustavo Artigas’s Relay(Endless): A Race for Diversity, Laleh Mehran & Chris Coleman’s W3fi, Seth Wulsin’s Wishing Well,

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Through Sept. 11.

The Dairy Center for the Arts — Amy Guion Clay’s The Far Shores of Being, John Fleming’s Sign Language, Gayle Gerson’s Forest for the Trees, Annette Coleman’s DreamScapes. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through Aug. 19.

Denver Art Museum — Joe Zucker’s Watching Me Watching You, various artists in Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Aug. 28.

NCAR Community Art Program — Photographs by Dan Baumbach, paintings by Lael Har. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408.

Through Sept. 30.

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

Virginia Wood, Sophie Brown, MaryLynne Schumacher, Lynne Jacobs.

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

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

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

The David Mayfield Parade — With Ted Wendler and Mortimer. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Flamenco Show, Noches Tropical. 7 p.m.

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

Friday Afternoon Concert Series — Judge Roughneck. 5:30 p.m. Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3850.

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

Hamilton Loomis. 5 p.m. Louisville Downtown Street Faire, Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, www. downtownlouisville.com.

KC Groves. 7:30 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116.

The Longest Day of the Year — With Tommy and the Tangerines. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

Paleo. The Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133.

The Samples. 8:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Thom Sandrock. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-RIBS. Tom Weiser & Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Warped Tour. 11 a.m. Invesco Field, 1800 Bryant St., Denver, vanswarpedtour.com

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theater Cats. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Through Sept. 24.

The Little Prince — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

University Theatre, CU campus, 303-4920554. Through Aug. 14.

Romeo & Juliet — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 13.

events Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427.

Boulder Community Blood Drive.

10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303363-2300.

Frequent Flyers: Aerial Dance Festival. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Laser: Michael Jackson. 10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center. 2414 Regent Dr., University of Colorado Boulder, 303-4925002.

Lindy on the Rocks Swing Festival. 8 p.m.

Denver Turnverein Ballroom, 1570 Clarkson St., Denver, lindyontherocks.com

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words Thursday, August 4 John Hughes’s Distance Cycling: Your Complete Guide for LongDistance Rides. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Thursday Night Poetry Reading — With Michele Batiste. 7 p.m.

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

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

Rocky Mountain Land Series with Edward Larson’s An Empire of Ice. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore,

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Tuesday, August 9 Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

The Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting: Dhaka Dust. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, August 10 Daniel Joseph Watkin’s Thomas Benton: Artist/Activist. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Scriprov. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver, 303-321-5925. Through Aug. 13.

The Shape of Things. Silhouette Theatre Company at The John Hand Theater, 7653 E. 1st Pl., Denver, 303-999-9143.

Through Aug. 13.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. CenterStage Theatre Company at The Louisville Arts Center, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720-320-6692. Through Aug. 14.

Opening Reception for A Haiku Moment.

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

Opening Reception for Santa Fe Indian School exhibition. 5 p.m. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock Street, Denver, (303) 620-4933 Opening Reception for Sergey Cherep. 5 p.m. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Will Durst, comedian — with “Hippieman” John Novosad. 7 p.m. Ozo Coffee House, 1015 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-4885.

Saturday, August 6

music The Amends. 10:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Benefit for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society — With Guitarsaurus, Chordzilla, Taking Issue. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Brian Dolzani, Host Bodies. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

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

David Tiller and Dan Rodriguez. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Drop Top Lincoln. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

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

Gertrude Stein. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Ginga. 9 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-748-7631.

Glowing House — With You, Me and Apollo and the Sunshine House & Churchill. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

James Frye. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Madziva Mana Marimba. 6 p.m. Ozo Coffee Company, 1015 Pearl St., Boulder, madziva.mana@gmail.com.

Mighty High Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Primal Mates — featuring Kailin Yong. 8 p.m.

Sandbox Theater at The Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133.

Radical Knitting Circle. 3 p.m. Boulder Beer, 2880 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 303-444-8448.

The Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Slightly Stoopid. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Tommy and the Tangerines. 10 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Twenty Ninth Street LIVE — With Buckner Funken Jazz. 6:30 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-4440722.

The Whiskey Bottles. 9 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036.

The ZydeCoasters. 9:30 p.m. Whistlers Cafe, 161 Jefferson, Nederland, 303-258-0614.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

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

Cultiva! Harvest Dinner. 4:30 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 720406-8786.

Denver Roller Dolls — versus Detroit Derby Girls. 7 p.m. 1stBank center, 11450 Broomfield Ln., Broomfield, www. denverrollerdolls.org.

Doga — Doggy yoga for charity. 1 p.m.

Boulder’s Natural Animal Hospital, 685 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-974-7090.

Frequent Flyers: Aerial Dance Festival. 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Hafla — Evolution of belly dance styles, with Yallah! 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

International Pole Dance Competition Showcase. 4 p.m. The Oriental Theater, 4335 W 44th Ave., Denver, 303-455-2124.

Japanese Flower Arranging. 11 a.m.

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

Lindy on the Rocks Swing Festival. 6:30 p.m. The Loft at Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, lindyontherocks.com Memorial Butterfly Release. 10 a.m. Mountain

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

West African Drum and Dance. 8 p.m.

Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, Kissidugu.org

Sunday, August 7

music After Midnight. 9 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-748-7631.

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Fat Man and Little Boy. TIME? Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Kristina Murray Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Marc Cohn. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m.

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

Kristen Graves, Honeycutters.

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

Tower of Power — With Supercollider. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

events Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Breath of Light — Chakra Breathing for Accelerated Healing. 10 a.m. The Old Gallery, 14863 Highway 7, Allenspark, 970-527-3810.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Dog Daze of Summer — Family (and dog) Day. 12-4 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., 303-449-3464.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Frequent Flyers: Aerial Dance Festival. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Lindy on the Rocks Swing Festival. 10 p.m.

Denver Turnverein Ballroom, 1570 Clarkson St., Denver, lindyontherocks.com

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Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Adult Dance Free Week — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The School of BNC, 3001 Industrial Ln. #12, Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

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

Film on the Rocks: Jurassic Park. 6:30 p.m.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Forecast for Human Health, Energy & the Car Behind You. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction.

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

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Naturally Boulder Networking Night.

5:30 p.m. Fuel Cafe, 3455 Ringsby Ct. #105, Denver, 720-220-4142.

Paint and Indulge — Painting class. 6 p.m.

Bean and Berry, 305 McCaslin, Louisville, 720-328-6890.

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

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

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — One dollar of each pint sold goes to Kiwanis Club. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

The Ultimate Beer Experience — Bus tour of three Boulder breweries. 5:30 p.m., The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.

Tuesday, August 9

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

Blues Jam — With Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Clusterpluck — Open jam. 9 p.m. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303998-9350.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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

Open Mic. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782.

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

Prohibition Six. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel,

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Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

Stevie Nicks. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494 Supercollider Presents Brad Goode Quartet. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

events Adult Dance Free Week — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The School of BNC, 3001 Industrial Ln. #12, Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

Babies & Blockbusters: Life As We Know It. 12:30 p.m. Canyon Theater. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Boulder Community Blood Drive.

10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. CU Engineering Center, 1111 Engineering Dr., Boulder, 303363-2300.

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

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

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

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

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

Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m.

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Photography Hike. 5:30 p.m. Sawhill Ponds, west of 75th and north of Valmont, www. naturehikes.org.

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Bands on the Bricks — With Fierce Bad Rabbit. 5:30 p.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Benefit for Dan Lee Family — With Bonnie and the Clydes, Crow Radio, Interstate Stash Express. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

Brett Dennen, Matt Nathanson, DeVotchka. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Eric Wiggs. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Rocky Mountain Jewgrass — With Tom Scharf. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Willie Houston Blues Band. 7:30 p.m.

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

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events Adult Dance Free Week — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The School of BNC, 3001 Industrial Ln. #12, Broomfield, 303-466-5685.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

Swing Blues Dance Lesson. 7 p.m.

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

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m.

Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, August 4 Science Kitchen. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Friday, August 5

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

Renaissance Adventures Reading. 11 a.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Saturday, August 6 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Young Creative Writers. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, August 7 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Play-Ground Theatre presents The Wild West Show. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, August 9 Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Folk Dancing for Children. 6:15-7 p.m.

Boulder Civic Plaza, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Gateway Park Fun Center, 4800 28th St, Boulder, 303-442-4386 Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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

Wednesday, August 10 Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drop-in Storytime. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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here’s something timeless about a good Western. Sprinkle in scary aliens, stunning special effects, and a terrific cast, and the mash-up film Cowboys & Aliens turns out to be a highly entertaining summer adventure.

Set in sparsely populated 1875 New Mexico, the film starts with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) waking up in the middle of nowhere, injured but with amnesia. Stuck on his wrist is a strange metal bracelet, one that is built of technology far beyond what he’s ever seen. Three ruffians show up and try to jump him, saying, “Son, this just ain’t your lucky day,” but they’re wrong. It’s their unlucky day, and Jake demonstrates he hasn’t forgotten his fighting skills.

Heading into the sleepy, impoverished town of Absolution, he has a scuffle with local bully Percy (Paul Dano) and ends up in jail. Just as they’re about to leave for federal court in Santa Fe, Percy’s dad, Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), appears, followed by alien spacecraft.

The juxtaposition of the mythic Old West with the technology and frightening visage of the aliens are at the heart of this movie, and Iron Man director Jon Favreau doesn’t disappoint. The creatures are reminiscent of Predator, with some internal plumbing all their own.

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he good news about the big-screen 3-D version of The Smurfs is that it’s not the insipid — and some say “socialist” — Smurfs you remember from 1980s TV. Yes, they’re still tiny and blue. They still use “smurf ” as a verb, adverb, swear word, etc.

“Where the smurf are we?” “We’re up the smurfing creek without a paddle.”

And they’re still socialists, living in a village “where each Smurf has his place” and his place is defined by his or her name — Baker Smurf, Jokey Smurf, Gutsy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf.

In mocking the Smurfcentricity of that original show, the movie rises above its source material just enough to dull the dread many adults share in realizing their kids will want to see it.

Clumsy Smurf (voiced by Anton Yelchin) blunders into revealing the hidden Smurf Village with its tiny mushroom houses to the evil wizard Gargamel, Boulder Weekly

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We know the cowboys are going to win in this epic battle against the aliens, but will the Indians help? That’s a central theme in the film: In times of trouble, disparate people band together to fight a shared enemy.

Lonergan finds out that the chunky metal bracelet stuck on his arm is actually a weapon, and he manages to shoot down one of the alien craft from the sky. The creature from the alien vessel bolts into the scrub and Lonergan, Col. Dolarhyde, Mexican worker Nat Colorado (Adam Beach), saloon barkeep Doc (Sam

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by Roger Moore played to the hilt by Hank Azaria — in the flesh. As mushrooms are stomped and Smurfs scatter into the forest, a half-dozen of the little blue darlings are sucked into a “blue moon” vortex. Clumsy, Gutsy (Alan Cumming), Grouchy (George Lopez), Papa ( Jonathan Winters), Brainy (Fred Armisen) and Smurfette (Katy Perry) find themselves in Central Park in New York.

And who among the Big Apple masses can see little blue people? Patrick (played

by Neil Patrick Harris), who’s a marketing exec working for a tyrant (Sofia Vergara, overthe-top and funny) that threatens him with unemployment at every turn.

That’s scary, because Patrick and his wife, Grace ( Jayma Mays of Glee), are expecting. Patrick has to

Rockwell), the town preacher Meacham (Clancy Brown), and the beautiful and mysterious Ella (Olivia Wilde) join a posse to track it down.

While the narrative is surprisingly well assembled, there are still some core questions that left this reviewer a bit befuddled. Chief among them is why the aliens kidnapped and enslaved humans in the first place. The explanation given made no sense, and given the dramatic disparity between the human and alien firepower (think a bow and arrow against a fighter jet), why don’t the aliens just wipe everyone out?

Harrison Ford was playing his recent type: crusty old guy. Craig was similarly wooden in his role, but as the 21st-century stand-in for legendary Western actor and tough guy Yul Brynner, his role was more suited to someone with minimal emotions. Young actor Noah Ringer overshadowed them both as Emmett Taggart, the grandson of Sheriff Taggart.

In the heat of summer, there’s a place in the cinema for a fun, mindless action adventure, and with the combined talents of producer Steven Spielberg, director Favreau, James Bond (Craig) and Indiana Jones (Ford), Cowboys & Aliens delivers. Recommended.

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help the Smurfs determine when the next “blue moon” is and where they can find the formula to a magic potion that will send them home.

The movie, based on Belgian artist Peyo’s characters, manages cute jabs at corporate culture (Patrick’s tie looks like a “leash” to a Smurf ) and the blue all around us. They hide in Blue Man Group posters and Blu-ray disc ads and chase guys talking on their Bluetooth earpieces.

Perry’s Smurfette faces awkward questions about being a rare female Smurf and blurts out, “I kissed a Smurf, and I liked it!”

Harris gets to make wisecracks about how annoying “The Smurf Song” is, and Azaria gripes, “Do not be fooled by their cuteness!” Neither actor lets on that this is just a job, with Azaria, in particular, letting it all hang out in scene after scene.

The slapstick is very small-kid friendly, and even the most adult-friendly jokes are pretty mild stuff.

Yeah, the Smurfs are still sickeningly sweet and upbeat. But if you’ve got kids, it’s not nearly as torturous to sit through as you might have feared.

I smurf you not.

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Mediterranea at La Scala while maintaining its strength and colors, and the sense of travel through the musical cultures of the countries that face each other on the Mare Nostrum. Musical genres range from popular Turkish music to Ligeti and Mozart to archaic Grecian melodies. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Unable to afford the vacation he’d dreamed of, recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) takes a gig at a local amusement park, only to learn that the dead-end job is actually good preparation for the real world. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Another Earth In the sci-fi drama Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child with his loving wife. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Art of the Steal A not-to-be-missed look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection at the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, The Art of the Steal chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 10:25, 11:20, 1:10, 2:25, 4:10, 5:20, 7, 8:05, 10, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 10:30, 12:20, 1:45, 4:45, 6:40, 7:50, 10:45 Cars 2 Thu: 10:40, 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:15, 4:10 The Change-Up Thu: 12:01 a.m. Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 10:35, 11:30, 1:20, 2:10, 4, 5, 6:40, 7:45, 9:20, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 9:50, 10:50, 12:30, 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8, 9:25, 10:50 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 10:50, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30, 11:45 Fri-Wed: 10:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Friends with Benefits Thu: 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:30, 5:20, 8:20, 11 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 10:30, 11:15, 1:35, 2:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:40, 8:45, 10:35, 11:40 Fri-Wed: 9:55, 12:50, 3:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35, 10:20 Horrible Bosses Thu: 11:25, 2:05, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 FriWed: 11:55, 2:40, 5:35, 8:30, 11:05 Midnight in Paris Thu: 7:05, 9:30 Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Fri-Wed: 9:45, 11, 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7, 8:10, 9:45, 10:55 The Smurfs Thu: 10:35, 11:10, 1:05, 1:40, 3:30, 4:10, 6, 6:45, 8:30, 9:15, 11 Fri-Wed: 9:45, 10:20 11:10, 1, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:15, 7:20, 8:45, 10, 11:10 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 11:50, 3:25, 7:05, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 6:50, 10:15 Winnie the Pooh Thu 10:45, 12:40, 2:35, 4:50 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Buck Thu: 9:50, 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 10:50, 12:20, 1:55, 3:20, 4:45, 6:10, 7:45, 9, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 10:20, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:55 The Change-Up Thu: 12:01 Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 10:05, 11, 11:55, 12:50, 1:45, 2:40, 3:35, 4:30, 5:25, 6:20, 7:15, 8:10, 9:05, 10 Fri-Wed: 10, 10:55, 11:50, 12:45, 1:45, 2:40, 3:35, 4:30, 5:25, 6:20, 7:15, 8:10, 9:05, 10:20, 11:05, 11:55 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45 FriWed: 10:05, 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Friends with Benefits Thu: 11:35, 2:15, 4:50, 7:50, 8:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:05, 12:40, 3:15, 6:05, 8:55, 11:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2: Thu:

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Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Beginners

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As if the original run of four movies wasn’t enough, Hollywood kicks off another series of films by reinventing the story from beginning.

Babe: Pig in the City After winning the sheepherding contest, Babe comes home to the reality that Farmer and Mrs. Hoggett may lose their land. The prize porker and Mrs. Hoggett go to the big city in a desper-

ate attempt to save the farm but become separated. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Ballet: Mediterranea Mauro Bigonzetti renews the production of

local theaters 10:30, 12:30, 2, 3:30, 5, 6:30, 8, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 10, 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Horrible Bosses Thu: 11:45, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 FriWed: 10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 8, 10:25 Midnight in Paris Thu: 10, 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9, 11:20 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Fri-Wed: 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:05, 11:15 Sarah’s Key Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Fri-Wed: 11:05, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 The Smurfs Thu: 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Winnie the Pooh Thu: 10:15, 12:15, 2:10, 4:05, 6:05 FriWed: 10:35 Zookeeper Thu: 10:35, 1:15, 3:45 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-9260661 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu: 1:10, 1:55, 4:10, 4:50, 7:15, 7:45, 10:10, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 1:10, 1:55, 4:10, 4:50, 7:15, 7:35, 10:10, 10:20 The Change-Up Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 1:05, 3:50, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 3:50, 7:25, 10:05 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:15, 7:50, 10:35 Friends With Benefits Thu: 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 FriWed: 1:50, 5, 7:40, 10:15 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 Thu: 1, 1:20, 1:40, 4, 4:20, 4:40, 7, 7:20, 7:40, 10, 10:20, 10:40 FriWed: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7: 7:30, 10, 10:30 Horrible Bosses Thu: 12:50, 3:40, 7:35, 9:55 Midnight in Paris Thu: 1:25, 4:25, 8, 10:25 Fri-Wed:Thu: 1:25, 4:35, 8, 10:25 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Fri-Wed: 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 7:45, 9:50, 10:40 The Smurfs Thu: 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:40 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu-Wed: 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992

Beginners Thu: 4, 7 9:30 Fri:-Sat 1:30, 7 Sat-Sun: 1:30, 7, Mon-Wed: 7 Buck Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Fri: 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Sat: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Sarah’s Key Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Fri: 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun: 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Vincent Wants to Sea Fri: 4, 9:30 Sat: 11, 4, 9:30 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-3521992 Tabloid Thu: 4:45, 7:15 Fright Night Fri: Midnight Snow Flower and The Secret Fan Fri: 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sun: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed: 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Terri Thu: 9:30 The Tree of Life Thu-Fri: 5, 8:15 Sat: 11, 2, 5, 8:15 Sun: 11, 2, 5, 8:15 Mon-Wed: 5, 8:15 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Another Earth Fri: 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Sat-Sun: 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Mon-Wed: 5, 7:30, 10 Beats, Rhymes & Life:The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Thu: 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sat: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Sun: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Mon-Wed: 4, 7, 9:45 The Inner Room Thu: 7 The Man Who Fell To Earth Thu: 4 Midnight in Paris Thu: 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Fri: 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Sat: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Sun: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed: 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303820-3456 Adventureland Wed: 7 Babe: Pig in the City Sat: 11 A Better Life Thu: 2:30, 5, 9:40 Fri-Sat: 5, 9:40, Sun: 5:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed: 5, 9:40 Carrie Tues: 7:30, 10 Crime After Crime Fri-Sat: 2, 4:30, 7:10 Sun-Wed: 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Independence Day Wed: 9:30 The Grapes of Wrath Sun: 2

Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion and surprises of love. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father, Hal, has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who — following 44 years of marriage — came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Carrie Carrie (Sissy Spacek) may be ostracized, but the

Nora’s Will Thu: 4:45, 7:20 Fri & Tues: 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Sat: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Sun: 4:45, 7:20 Mon: 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 Wed: 2:15, 4:45 Page One: Inside the New York Times Thu: 2:15, 4:30, 7:10 Fri-Mon,Wed: 2:30, 7:30 Tues: 2:30 Predator Thu-Sun: 9:30 Terminator 2: Judgment Day Fri-Sat: 10 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-6512434 Captain America:The First Avenger Thu 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Cars 2 Thu: 1:10, 4:10 The Change-Up Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15 Cowboys & Aliens Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7:20, 10 Crazy, Stupid, Love Thu: 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Friends with Benefits Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 4:15, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 1:10, 3:45, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 The Smurfs Thu: 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Transformers: Dark of the Moon Thu: 12:50, 4:25, 7:50 Fri-Wed: 12:40, 4:25, 7:50 Zookeeper Thu: 6:50, 10 Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826 Art of the Steal Sat: 2 Sun: 4:30 Ballet: Mediterranea Sun: 1 Opera: Nabucco Tue: 1:30, 7 Page One: Inside the New York Times Thu: 4:30 Fri: 6:30 Sat: 4:30, 8:30 Queen of the Sun:What the Bees are Telling Us Wed: 4:30 White Material Thu: 7 Fri: 4:30, 8:30 Sat: 6:30 Winter in Wartime Wed: 7 Zazie dans le Metro Sun: 7 As times are 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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shy teen has the ability to move objects with her mind. So when the high school “in crowd” torments her with a sick joke at the prom, she lashes out with devastating — and deadly — power.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback, travels the country for nine months a year helping horses with people problems. Buck follows Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

In the new film, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is still hunting Horcruxes, which contain amounts of Voldemort’s (played by Ralph Fiennes) soul. The so-called Elder Wand, stolen from the crypt of Harry’s mentor Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), must be put into the right hands. Smart yet not slavish direction, and the still-perfect casting from way back when, make this final chapter an entertaining and satisfying success. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Captain America: The First Avenger

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Steve Rogers is a scrawny guy who is transformed into a World War II super-soldier in Captain America: The First Avenger, the latest comic book adaptation to invade theaters.

Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Detroit Free Press/ MCT

We’ve all had them. We’ve all had to suffer their indignities — or else just quit our jobs.

But three friends come up with an alternative to dealing with their monstrous bosses with the help of an ex-con. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

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Cars 2 Anthropomorphic automobiles head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix in this sequel to the 2006 animated film Cars. Rated G. At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT The Change-Up Two friends — a married lawyer and a freewheeling slacker — somehow switch bodies and try to avoid ruining each other’s lives. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Los Angeles Times/MCT Cowboys & Aliens See full review Page 37. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Crazy, Stupid, Love Think Eat Pray Love for guys. This comedy centers on a happily married Cal (Steve Carell), whose world unravels when he finds out his high-schoolsweetheart wife (Julianne Moore) is cheating on him and wants a divorce. Suddenly Cal must learn to navigate the treacherous waters of the dating pool, with the help of his overeager wingman Jacob (Ryan Gosling, in a rare comic turn), who believes there are possibilities for romance everywhere. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Friends with Benefits “No relationship. No emotions. Just sex!” So says the website art director played by Justin Timberlake to the executive headhunter played

by Mila Kunis. She’s up for it. Why not throw in some intercourse? The script has a serrated edge, and the filmmakers try to make something more authentic than we’re used to seeing in this genre. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square, and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Fright Night When 17-year-old Charley (William Ragsdale) discovers that his handsome, charming next-door neighbor Jerry (Chris Sarandon) is actually a bloodthirsty vampire, he enlists the aid of Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), a has-been horror film actor who now hosts “Fright Night,” a local TV show. Together, the duo set out to rid Charley of his coffin-dwelling neighbor. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Grapes of Wrath John Ford’s version of John Steinbeck’s novel is deeply atmospheric. It was filmed by the great Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) and it’s made with great feeling for the dispossessed. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Independence Day When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth’s atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save the planet from total devastation and destruction. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Man Who Fell To Earth Space oddity David Bowie lands on late-20thcentury Earth from a drought-stricken planet, seeking water and help for what remains of his civilization. His highly advanced technology allows him to become a wealthy industrialist (a forerunner to certain Californian entrepreneurs), but American decadence — including television, booze, sex and stock issues — proves to have a much stronger gravitational pull. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Midnight in Paris A lark, a souffle, a delightful shaggy-dog story with Owen Wilson as its shaggy hero. What’s he doing in a Woody Allen movie about a B-list screenwriter who time-travels from the present to the Jazz Age? Disarming the audience with his wistful joie de vivre, that’s what. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Mayan. — Carrie Rickey Nora’s Will Nora had a plan. It would bring her ex-husband, Jose, and the rest of their family together for a magnificent Passover feast. But there is a flaw in her plan — a mysterious photograph from the past, hidden under the bed, which leads Jose to reexamine their relationship and rediscover their undying love for each other. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Opera: Nabucco Nabucco follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted, conquered and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the King Nabucco.

Historical events are used as background for a romantic and political plot. At Boedecker Theater.

— Boedecker Theater Page One: Inside The New York Times In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Page One: Inside the New York Times deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry. At Boedecker and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax­. — Landmark Theatres

Two real-life governors — Arnold Schwarzenegger (Dutch) and Jesse Ventura (Sgt. Blain) — use their muscled intellects to pursue a force more sinister than state budget crises: an otherworldly creature deep in the jungle. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

In this third installment, we learn that the NASA space program was a cover-up that allowed the crew of Apollo 11 to explore the alien ruins on the dark side of the moon. Michael Bay continues to offer up soulless and frenetic trash. PG-13 At Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Rise of the Planet of the Apes Genetic experiments on primates lead to them developing intelligence and eventually battling humans for supremacy. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT Sarah’s Key Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard — their secret hiding place — and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty-seven years later: Sarah’s story intertwines with that of an American journalist investigating the roundup. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Smurfs See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In 19th-century China, 7-year-old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong — or “old sames” — bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Tabloid Thirty years before the antics of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears were regular gossip fodder, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney made her mark as a tabloid staple ne plus ultra. Academy Awardwinner Errol Morris’ documentary follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe, into jail, and onto the front page. At Esquire­. — Landmark Theatres Terminator 2 A sequel to the sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects.

At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Terri A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Terri, directed

by Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man) and produced by the team behind Blue Valentine and Half Nelson, is a moving and often funny film about the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the loquacious but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who reaches out to him. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

The Tree of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Vincent Wants to Sea Embattled by the embarrassing symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome, Vincent (Florian David Fitz) has just lost his mother. His burdened father (Heino Ferch), an ambitious politician running for office, sends him off to a rehabilitation clinic where he will learn how to manage his twitches, tics and ill-timed but unpremeditated verbal outbursts. At the clinic Vincent finds solace in Marie (Karoline Herfurth), a feisty anorexic whose partiality for spontaneous adventure happens to coincide with Vincent’s objective of getting to the Mediterranean Sea to spread his mother’s ashes and fulfill her last wish: to see the water one last time.At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Winnie the Pooh Disney’s latest revival, and musical homage, to A.A. Milne’s loveable bear is longer on charm than it is on laughs. Or length. The bear is out of honey, “and a Pooh bear takes care of his tummy.” But Pooh also has “a very important thing to do.” Sad old Eeyore (voiced by Bud Luckey) has lost his tail, and the gang makes various plans to round up a replacement. Rated G. At Flatiron, Century. — Roger Moore Winter in Wartime Nazi-occupied Holland, 1945. In a snow-covered village, 13-year-old Michiel is drawn into the Resistance when he aids a wounded British paratrooper. Michiel‘s boyish sense of defiance and adventure soon turns to danger and desperation, as he is forced to act without knowing whom to trust among the adults and townspeople around him. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater White Material From Claire Denis, the incomparable director of Beau Travial, L’Intrus, and 35 Shots of Rum, comes White Material — a rich and thrilling account of a woman driven to the edge. An official selection of the Venice, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, the film is a riveting exploration of the complexities of racial conflict and the limits of human will.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Zookeeper Kevin James stars as the title character, a guy getting questionable romantic advice from the talking animals in his care. A comedy that smells like the monkey house. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — David Hiltbrand Zazie dans le Metro This merry farce depicts a satirical view of French society. Twelve-year-old Zazie must stay for two days with her relatives in Paris so her mother can spend time with her lover. Zazie escapes her uncle’s custody, setting out to explore Paris on her own. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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Alfalfa’s takes coffee to a new level

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hatting with Alfalfa’s Christina Thompson, one imagines that coffee runs through her veins: freshly brewed fair trade, single-origin, micro-roasted coffee, the kind that infuses her work and life with boundless enthusiasm.

Thompson has decided to marry her lifelong passion (she had six to 12 espresso shots daily in high school) and her 10 years of professional coffee experience with Alfalfa’s values-driven culture. On the eve of a long-awaited promotion, Thompson gave it all up for the opportunity to build Alfalfa’s coffee bar from the ground up. She turned in her Starbucks title of “coffee master” and left Austin, Texas, and the world’s largest coffee corporation, for the corner of Broadway and Arapahoe in Boulder.

Thompson and others in the devotional, nearobssessive world of what’s known as “third-wave” artisanal coffee have obviously found their calling.

The folks at Alfalfa’s don’t just want to catch this wave.

“We want to advance that cause [by creating] a destination coffee house within a natural foods market,” says Alfalfa’s co-founder Hugo Van Seenus.

The Dutch-born Van Seenus, one of four cofounders of the new Alfalfa’s, brings to the table his European sensibility and experience in founding three other natural food markets, including Boston’s famed Bread and Circus, to the task.

“Most everyone has the same equipment; we wanted to do something better,” says Van Seenus.

Alfalfa’s has invested $5,390 for two top-of-theline Malkonig grinders and $12,000 for two stateof-the-art, computerized Bunn Trifecta brewers. By comparison, a standard grinder and brewer might run $800 and $1,500, respectively.

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in retail use between the Mississippi and the West Coast, and they add to Boulder’s prominence on the national coffee map. (Boulder’s Boxcar Roasters uses a Trifecta for quality control.)

Like wine and cheese, coffee is trending increasingly locale-specific, with roasters not only sourcing from specific regions, but cultivating exclusive relationships with specific farmers. The idea behind Trifecta’s 10 computerized brew settings is to deliver on the promise of single-origin distinctive taste, as opposed to just reading about it on the package label. Temperature settings, agitation and pause

times are key.

“Never has a single-cup brewer with as many variables and parameters been available before,” says Rusty Angell, Trifecta field correspondent.

Also unique is an internal air pump that creates air infused “turbulence” and air-pressurized water extraction.

This decidedly high-tech approach is the counterpart to Thompson’s “Guest Rotation” program, which features coffees from out of town, including nationally prominent roasters such as Portland’s Stumptown, Chicago’s Intelligentsia, San Francisco’s Blue Bottle and Santa Cruz’s Verve.

Single-origin coffees from Indonesia, Ethiopia, Costa Rica and elsewhere are brewed in the Trifecta, each according to their own carefully dialed-in “recipe.” Noteworthy blends from these roasters with names such as “Hair Bender” and “Honey Badger” are for sale by the pound as well.

Exotic in a different way, the beans for Alfalfa’s cold-brewed iced coffee come from Big Bend Roasters in the tiny West Texas town of Marfa, which Thompson happened upon years ago on a road trip.

Many premium roasters, such as Stumptown, won’t sell their coffee to just anyone. It has an unusually thoughtful and relationship-oriented new vendor application process due to concerns that its carefully sourced and freshly roasted coffee not be served outside the seven- to 10-day “freshness window,” as well as about the manner in which it is brewed. Currently, Alfalfa’s is the only outlet serving Stumptown in Colorado, and according to Stumptown’s Chrissy Hoag, it was Thompson’s passion and knowledge that won them over.

How much does all this cost? Between $2.15 and $4.40 for a 12-ounce cup of Trifecta coffee, based on see COFFEE Page 43

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roomfield’s Wildflowers of bacon, which provided an enticing Restaurant is located off the smoky aroma. beaten path in the Hilltop Seafood made a starring appearance in Inn, a guest house situated a Kon’s $15 Fisherman’s Pie. This dish feastone’s throw from the airtured fresh-tasting scallops, shrimp and port. Inside, you’ll feel you’ve been transfish in a creamed sherry sauce. Two pieces ported to a homey British inn. Sure, the of airy puff pastry floated on top, contribtraditional antique furnishings and olduting crunch, and while the sauce was school fare may not be everybody’s cup of indisputably rich, it didn’t detract from tea, but for expats or home-cooked meal the delicate tones of the seafood. aficionados, this venue delivers.

Being a Wallace and Gromit fan, I Run by a British-American family, had to sample the $15 Lancashire Wildflowers serves breakfast, lunch, dinHotpot, a hearty lamb stew braised in ner and high tea. There’s also an impresGuinness and ladled over buttery mashed sive selection of scotches, beers including potatoes. The inherent bitterness of Tetley Cream Ale, the classic Bass, and Guinness makes it a difficult ingredient my college favorite, Strongbow cider. to work with, but Wildflowers’ gravy Unsurprisingly, the owners plan to open a lacked any whisper of harsh flavor. The pub this month. lamb itself was surprisingly lean, happily The dinner menu reads like a greatest lacking the fat one typically encounters hits album of British Isles specialties, in stew. including bangers and mash, fish and We ended with a $5 Guinness chocochips, and shepherd’s pie. The Welshman, late cake and a $6 trifle, also made from a which doesn’t involve Tom Jones, consists family recipe. The cake wasn’t overly hen used as a suffix, the term “shire” helps identify a particof slow-roasted prime rib over veg and sweet, and the beer contributed an earthy ular place as a county. For example, Lancashire combines mashed potatoes. Its cousin, the Irishman, complement to the chocolate. The fact this term and the name of the town known as Lancaster. One features house-cured corned beef prepared that the cake was served warm didn’t hurt surmises that if the colonials had lost the revolution, we might be in Guinness and whisky, with traditional anything, nor did a heaping whipped living in Bouldershire instead of Boulder County. Nevertheless, the cream garnish. Both decadent and cabbage and potatoes. Entrees come with county began to emerge as a political unit after the Norman refreshing, the trifle consisted of sherrya choice of soup or salad. Our amiable Conquest, and monarchs found it prudent to dispatch a royal soaked ladyfingers, custard, whipped server explained that the soups and dressofficer to oversee these jurisdictions. These officials were clerks, cream and strawberry puree, attractively ings, like most menu items, are prepared or “reeves.” Over time, such an official would become known as presented in a parfait-style glass. from scratch. a “shire’s reeve” and, eventually, as a “sheriff.”

More a spot for the traditionalist than Evidence of scratch cooking presentthe hipster, Wildflowers ably succeeds in ed itself in a Yorkshire pudding appetizproviding traditional British fare of exceptionally high er. This eggy popover arrived hot, and after friend Kon’s green salad was a straightforward affair, quality. Its secluded location doesn’t do it any favors, Kon and I cut them open, our server drizzled them although I am intrigued by the prospect of trying the but it’s worth a trip for the food-loving Anglophile. with brown gravy. The gravy had a distinct homeBass Ale dressing on a future visit. The family-recipe Of course, if one simply craves a substantial dish of made flavor, while the pudding was crisp and soft in clam chowder benefited from a dash of pepper, meat and potatoes, it’s also a rewarding stop. all the right places, serving as a welcome alternative although it was properly creamy and brimming with Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to bread. plenty of clams. The crowning touch was a smattering

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I mean hot for my weekly treats of course, and if you aren’t hot, then you are one of them there fancy people living in the lap of luxury with air conditioning. Blast! I said I wouldn’t talk about the heat anymore, but I can’t stop myself. The heat, the sugar and chocolate have gone to my head, and “it’s too freakin hot” has become the answer to all questions.

It has, of course, given me an excuse to sip on a wine spritzer every day of the week. I must keep my body temperature down, and if I have to drink a spritzer to do so, so be it.

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Yes please! No-Bake White Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares.

Keep those ovens off, people.

These cute little squares are so tasty, a flavor sensation in every bite. Peanut butter, oatmeal, brown sugar and white chocolate are the main ingredients, and that’s not too shabby. You just need one little burner, or, of course, you could use a microwave. Since I know there are a lot of you with microwave aversions, you can always go with the stovetop. But for all of you that don’t have the dreaded fear of microwaves, well, your kitchen will stay even cooler. Yay for you. It’s really all about the mixing with this dessert, and mixing is fun, don’t you think?

You will find this is such a simple recipe — it will become a go-to treat for all seasons, not just summer. I add a bit of cinnamon that really makes the oatmeal and white chocolate pop.

They are hearty, yet surprisingly light.

Pile them up on a cute summer platter, and watch the peeps come a-running. Don’t leave them out in this heat too long, though — you don’t

want the white chocolate dripping down your arm when you take a bite.

Or maybe you do. Nothing wrong with that, my friends.

These treats, of course, pair perfectly with a nice wine spritzer, which is often my criteria in coming up with recipes. A nice glass of Pellegrino works just as well. See how I offer something for everyone? Microwave, no microwave. Cocktails, no cocktails.

I am an equal dessert diva opportunist. I’m here for everyone! You’re welcome!

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

No-Bake White Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares 1 cup unsalted butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 cup chopped dry roasted peanuts 2-1/2 cups oatmeal (quick cook oats) 2 cups white chocolate chips 1 cup peanut butter Cover an eight-by-eight baking pan with parchment paper. In medium sauce pan, over low heat (or in microwave), melt butter. Add sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon and peanuts.

Stir well.

Mix in oatmeal. Press mixture down into baking pan. In small sauce pan (or microwave), slowly melt white chocolate chips.

Take out 1 tbsp. and set aside for garnish. Mix in peanut butter. Pour over top of oatmeal mixture. Smooth top. Drizzle extra white chocolate chips over top. Place in refrigerator for two hours or overnight. When ready to serve, take out and cut into squares. You can garnish with chopped nuts as well. Enjoy!

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Flagstaff wins another award The Flagstaff House Restaurant in Boulder has once again won the Wine Spectator Grand Award this year.

Flagstaff is the first Colorado restaurant to win the honor and is one of the few restaurants in the world that has done so every year since its inception in 1983.

There are only about 80 restaurants world-wide that have ever achieved the Grand Award designation.

“Wine Spectator’s reputation, extremely high standards and dedication to excellence makes this a real honor,” said Mark Monette. “It’s wonderful to be recognized for our dedication to wine, food and customer service.”

Pinyon goes backwards, man The Pinyon in Boulder has introduced a “Backwards Man Foraging Dinner Series.”

The dinners, held on Wednesdays, are based on the concept illustrated by the Pinyon logo, a man riding backwards on a horse.

Pinyon officials say the man is “looking back on our shared culinary heritage while still charging ahead with modern day technique and innovation. … We’ll introduce wild ingredients from the Colorado wilderness and construct plates that unwaveringly reflect micro-seasonality and the hard work of the many creative people we rely on to gather the ingredients.”

The dinners are $40, with cocktail flights for an additional $25.

For more information, see www. thepinyon.com.

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The cost is $80, excluding tax and gratuity.

The winery, located at 931 W. 5th Ave., can be reached at 303-736-8376.

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a four-tiered pricing structure.

According to Thompson, “people are digging it, especially Stumptown Sumatra.” In the three months since Alfalfa’s opening, Trifecta sales have grown to 20 percent of Alfalfa’s coffee flow.

For those who might be put off by the price, Thompson points out a more affordable way to sample Trifecta coffee: To maximize freshness, Alfalfa’s baristas make each cup of decaf to order in the Trifecta, but charge only the standard brewed cup price. zThe $1.40 standard cup of organic coffee, by design, is the lowest of any major retailer in town.

Seeking to balance the local and the exotic, Alfalfa’s features Boulder’s OZO coffee as its regular daily brew, as well as in its bulk section, and plans to spotlight other local roasters in the guest rotation.

Also in the works is an exclusive contract with a coffee farm in Biolley, Costa Rica, recently purchased by Boulder couple Chris Lites and Jennifer Long and designed to function for the economic benefit of the local population.

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that customer satisfaction and average ticket sales increased on her watch at Starbucks. She’s confident that through offering “legendary service” and by continuing to find ways to push the boundaries of customers’ coffee experience, she will once again foster that all-important “culture of recommendation.”

In doing so, Thompson pays homage to her idol, Starbucks’ Howard Schulz, and his notion of coffeehouse as neither work nor home, but “the third place.” She says she watched sadly as Starbucks drifted away from Schulz’s core vision.

Likewise, Alfalfa’s founders, pioneers of the natural foods movement, say they have watched corporate consolidation and a drifting away from the values of the movement they helped found. According to Van Seenus, Alfalfa’s seeks a return to the roots of natural foods with a “small is beautiful” philosophy.

A “Coffee 101” educational kickoff is slated for late August in collaboration with OZO, The Cup and other local vendors. Weekly coffee cuppings will follow, at 3 p.m. on Fridays.

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oulder’s new Cuba Cuba Sandwicheria spotlights $7 Caribbean-inspired sandwiches, as well as $6.50 rice bowls topped with a choice of vegetables, beef, pork or fish.

For $5.75, you can have a Caesar or watercress salad, or a kids’ plate consisting of either a scaled-down bowl with juice or grilled ham and cheese. Each item represents good value for the money, particularly the meatless Boulder Cuban, featuring grilled veggies and goat cheese, and the addictive Mahi sandwich garnished with garlic habanero aioli.

Radda Trattoria 1265 Alpine Ave., Boulder 303-442-6100

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self-proclaimed Tuscan-style neighborhood restaurant, North Boulder’s Radda Trattoria dishes out substantial fare that retains rustic roots while keeping a sophisticated flair in preparation and ingredient choice. The piccolo fritto appetizer is a triumphant blend of fried zucchini, onion, rock shrimp and citrus, with an appealing preparation style equaling that of the best tempura.

The brick-pressed chicken here is a standout, as is the pancetta-laden carbonara.

Tangerine 2777 Iris Ave., Boulder 303-443-2333

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un by the same folks who operate the neighboring Arugula Ristorante, the recently opened Tangerine is bound to become a top North Boulder venue for breakfast and lunch. Compared to the brunch bill of fare, Tangerine’s lunch menu is relatively modest, featuring entrée salads such as an albacore nicoise, and classic sandwiches including Reubens and BLTs. The brunch menu is where the action is, as it includes delectably moist lemon ricotta pancakes topped with blueberries, and outstanding chicken and waffles.

Two Dog Diner 645 Tenacity Dr., Longmont 303-772-2364

suave avocado salsa dip and the Fresno chile lemonade, a spicy-yetrefreshing beverage.

Bácaro Venetian Taverna

Niwot Market 7980 Niwot Rd., Longmont 303-652-0919

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he Niwot Market dishes up a Friday night supper that’s as much a community happening as it is an enjoyably casual dining experience. Menus vary from week to week, so it’s best to call ahead to find out what’s cooking. On some evenings the entrée might be fried chicken or steak, on another night, clam pasta. One recent evening, it was a wonderfully executed barbecue dinner featuring both brisket and ribs, sided with extraordinary collard greens and macaroni and cheese.

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othing screams summer time more than cuisine from warmweather climes, cool drinks and al fresco dining, all of which are available at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace. Drawing from Central and South American traditions, Centro serves up ceviche, tacos, tor tas and platters featuring such specialties as decadent chicken enchiladas with an optional fried egg.

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nder the supervision of Executive Chef Fabio Flagiello, Boulder’s Bácaro Venetian Taverna serves up an assortment of winning Italian small plates and entrées to a West Pearl Street crowd. Especially noteworthy is their monthly bike ride and lunch, which affords an opportunity to sample several menu options. These include first-rate fried calamari sided with both tangy marinara and luxurious aioli, fresh-flavored bruschetta and wonderfully al dente pasta and risotto.

Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro

Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace 950 Pearl St., Boulder 303-442-7771

and tapenade, and although you’ll find archetypical Italian grinder sandwiches here, there are also roasted veggie selections with smoked mozzarella. The roasted beet salad, which comes with goat cheese and candied pecans, is first rate, as is the Hazel Dell Wild Mushroom pizza, topped with fresh arugula and a whisper of truffle oil.

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2770 Arapahoe Rd., Lafayette 303-664-1275

ruly good Italian-American cooking is surprisingly hard to find locally. That’s a shame, because many crave the simple comforts of garlic bread, an unfussy salad, pasta and an Italian sweet.

Fortunately, Lafayette’s Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro rises to the occasion with first-rate interpretations of red sauce standbys. Simple spaghetti and meatballs are a top choice here, as is the chicken marsala. Start with cheesy garlic bread and end with a cannoli, and you’ll have a near iconic meal.

Naraya Thai and Sushi

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nder new ownership, Boulder’s Naraya Thai and Sushi occupies the former Siamese Plate space. Though the old proprietor is long gone, the new incarnation provides a similar menu and ambience. The Thai lunch specials are a fine value, providing entrées with a choice of protein in the $7 to $8 price range. Excellent choices include the shrimp Pad Thai and a fine chicken red curry, distinguished by perfectly cooked corn, zucchini and eggplant that retain pleasing texture and fresh, individual flavors.

Ted’s Montana Grill

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1701 Pearl St., Boulder 303-449-5546

pecializing in bison-based selections, Ted’s Montana Grill is a culinary endeavor spearheaded by billionaire Ted Turner. The menu straddles the line between straightforward bar food and traditional steakhouse, with such unique offerings as bison nachos and a plethora of burgers and steaks. While not inexpensive, the bison burgers, such as the Blue Creek with blue cheese and bacon, are generously sized and are both lean and flavorful.

Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse

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he menu at Louisville’s Lucky Pie Pizza and Taphouse consists of a variety of starters, sandwiches, salads and brick oven pizza. Sophisticated starters include winter squash purée

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estled in Longmont’s New Urbanist Prospect neighborhood, Two Dog Diner has the feel of a popular locals’ hangout, successfully blending elements of the old and new. Traditional enough to offer blue-plate specials, it’s also forward-thinking enough to make one of these diner classics a platter of grilled fish tacos. Weekend brunch is popular as well, and can’t-miss items include corned beef hash and eggs Benedict specials.

Arabesque 1634 Walnut St., Boulder 720-242-8623

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rabesque, open for breakfast and lunch, is the place for some of the most authentic Middle Eastern fare in Boulder. The baba ghanoush is without peer, a melding of roasted eggplant, citrus and olive oil. Arabesque’s chicken shawarma features white-meat poultry with a pleasantly tangy taste. And the cups of thick and potent Arabic coffee make for a fine conclusion to a meal here, especially with the housemade baklava.

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pen from 4 p.m. until midnight, Boulder Baked is a no-frills joint with a slightly funky feel. It’s also one of the best places to enjoy comfort foods such as chili and grilled cheese sandwiches, though baked goods are the star attraction. Can’t-miss selections include the strawberry shortcake cupcake and creamy cheesecake.

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Backpacking with Your Dog. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Boulder Road Runners Track Meet. 6 p.m. Potts Field, 3101 Discovery Dr., Boulder, 303-931-4690.

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LaSportiva Eldora Trail – 11K. 7:30 a.m. Eldora Nordic Center, 2861 Eldora Ski Rd., Nederland, 303960-8129.

Peak Steward Training. 9:30 a.m. R ­ EI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Sunday, August 7 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 8 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners. org.

Monday, August 8 Boulder Cycling Club Monday Night Bike Ride. 5:45 p.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., #B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Live By Living. 6:30 p.m. ­REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Meadow Music: Nature Hikes and Songs. 5:30 p.m.

Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Performances in the Parks. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

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Wednesday, August 10 How to Climb a 14er. 6:30 p.m.

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Boulder Cycling Club Womens’ Ride. 5:45 p.m. Meet at Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 303-8752241.

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with a substance that is a key plot point for the Harold and Kumar movies.

For many, the best part of living in Boulder is the Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) system, which features peaks over 8,000 feet, abounds with wildflowers in the spring, and has trails that range the spectrum from easy strolls to challenging jaunts that can take most of the day to complete. The Open Space system is a reason why many Boulderites still call the People’s Republic home.

There are many miles of trail to be found in Boulder, but here a few highlights.

The after-work challenge Mt. Sanitas is only three miles round trip, but with a 1,400-foot gain in the first 1.5 miles, it provides a challenging hike that has great views at the summit.

Sanitas is on the site of an old sanitarium. Trail runners will often whiz by on the uphill, leading some to wonder if the sanitarium may still exist.

The trail is located near downtown, which makes for convenient post-hike dining out. Mt. Sanitas is also a popular trail for those who like to exercise rather than eat during their lunch hour.

An all-day hike For many, the Bear Peak-West Ridge hike is the favorite hike in the open space system. Gaining nearly 3,000 feet and 8 miles round-trip, this strenuous hike — one of the toughest Trail runner’s delight in OSMP — is a The 6.5-milechallenging one for Sanitas is on long Mesa Trail most people, so the site of an old begins at come prepared Chautauqua and with lots of water sanitarium. Trail ends near Eldorado and snacks, as well runners will often Canyon in south as sturdy boots. whiz by on the Boulder.

Start at NCAR This trail is the and head up the uphill, leading backbone of the Mesa Trail to Fern some to open space system Canyon, where the wonder if the and leads to many words “stair stepother runs or hikes, per” will spring to sanitarium may such as the chalmind. Enjoy the still exist. lenging Mallory view on the 8,500Cave Trail. Famous foot summit all throughout the the way to Pikes country for being a Peak on a clear premier trail run, this trail also makes day. Go down to the West Ridge and a good introductory hike to open enjoy views of the Continental Divide, space, with its moderate and rolling and then head back to NCAR. A good, terrain and good views of Boulder solid hike right here in town. below and the peaks above.

The Sunday stroll A little bit of Moab in Boulder The eastern part of the Open Space The Royal Arch Trail is a moderately system is often ignored in favor of the challenging trail that starts near the top higher peaks to the West. Which is fine. of the old Chautauqua access road and That leaves little gems such as Walden ends at a natural arch that looks over Ponds less crowded.

Boulder below.

Stroll around the reclaimed gravel No red rocks, but this arch is still pits that now harbor marshes and many visually impressive, and you don’t have varieties of birds and animals, such as to make a multi-hour drive to enjoy it. herons, osprey, foxes and beaver. Enjoy Watch out for poison ivy along the the cottonwoods and views to the trail, and listen for the lilting downward Continental Divide. Or just sit on a conspiral of notes that make up the song of venient bench and read a book. the tiny canyon wren, which lives in the Some hikes are better enjoyed at a gullies along this trail. slow Sunday pace.

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March 21-April 19:

Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it.

The Grail is a golden chalice filled with medicine that could open what needs opening in you. Luckily, you will soon come into possession (symbolically speaking) of a big, thick magical wand that can give you a new advantage. Here’s what I conclude: Use your wizard stick to locate the cup of wonder so you can take a big sip.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

Much of the work you’re doing right now is invisible to the naked eye, maybe even to your own naked eye. You’re learning a lot while you sleep, drawing sustenance from hidden reservoirs even when you’re awake, and steadily improving yourself through the arts of creative forgetting and undoing.

Continue this subtle artistry, Taurus. Be cagey. Be discreet.

Don’t underestimate how important silence and even secrecy may be for you right now. The healing transformations unfolding in almost total darkness should not be exposed or revealed prematurely; they should be protected with vigilance.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

they feel it’s a sin to look for reasons to be cheerful. One especially dour critic said that after reading a few pages of the book, he took it out in his backyard, doused it with gasoline and incinerated it. You may face similar opposition in your attempts to foment redemption, smoke out hope and rally the troops, Libra. I urge you to be extra fierce in your devotion to peace, love and understanding.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Of all the adversaries I will ever face, my ego is the supreme challenge. It tries to trick me into thinking its interests are exactly the same as my own. It periodically strives to bamboozle me into believing that I should be motivated by pride, competitiveness, selfishness or judgmental evaluations of other people. When I’m not vigilant, it lulls me into adopting narrow perspectives and subjective theories that are rife with delusions about the nature of reality. Don’t get me wrong: I still love my ego. Indeed, being on good terms with it is my only hope for keeping it from manipulating me.

I bring this up, Scorpio, because it’s prime time for you to come to a riper understanding of your own ego so you can work out a tougher, more no-nonsense agreement with it.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Either Way I’m Celebrating. That’s the title of a poetry comic book by Sommer Browning, and I suggest that you consider it as a worthy title for your life in the coming days. The adventure you’re in the midst of could evolve in several possible directions, each with a different rhythm and tone, each with a distinct lesson and climax. But regardless of what path you end up taking, I’m almost positive you will have good reasons to throw yourself a party at the end. Having said that, though, I also advise you to decide which version of the story you prefer, then make it your strong intention to materialize it.

Sagittarian author Derrick Jensen wrote the book A Language Older Than Words. He weaves together the tale of his abusive childhood with an angry analysis of the damage human beings have done to the earth and each other.

It’s a wrenching text, but in the end it offers redemption.

A review by Publisher’s Weekly says that “Jensen’s book accomplishes the rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart.” I invite you to pursue a similar possibility, Sagittarius. Summon the courage to allow your heart to be broken by a blessed catharsis that will ultimately heal your heart so it’s even stronger and smarter than it was before the breaking.

CANCER

CAPRICORN

June 21-July 22:

During the skunk mating season, two robust members of the species made the crawl space beneath my house their trysting place. The result was spectacular. Siren-like squalls rose from their ecstasy, spiraling up into my kitchen accompanied by plumes of a stench that I imagined the Italian poet Dante, in his book The Inferno, might have identified as native to the ninth level of hell. Being as instinctively empathic as I am, I naturally appreciated how much delight the creatures were enjoying. At the same time, I wished they would take their revelry elsewhere. So I called on the Humane Society, an animal rescue group, to flush them out without harming them. If anything resembling this scenario takes place in your sphere, Cancerian — if someone’s pursuit of happiness cramps your style — I suggest you adopt my gentle but firm approach.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle rejected the prevailing scientific theory that life on this planet emerged by accident from a primordial soup. The chance of that happening was as likely as “a tornado sweeping through a junkyard [and assembling] a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.” I do think that something less amazing, but still semi-miraculous, is in the works for you, Leo. What do you imagine it might be? I’m getting a vision of a windy thunderstorm blowing through a junkyard in such a way as to assemble an impressionistic sculpture of you wearing a crown of flowers and X-Ray Specs as you ride confidently on the back of a lion.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road symbolizes a path leading to all of life’s answers, to a place where fantasies can be fulfilled. Dorothy and her companions follow that road in the belief it will take them to the all-powerful Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City. While I don’t mind you playing with the idea that you may eventually find your own personal yellow brick road, for the immediate future I urge you to adopt the attitude Elton John articulated in his song, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”: “Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.” It’s time to add more nuts-and-bolts pragmatism to your pursuit of happiness.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Some readers get enraged about the “crafty optimism” I advocate in my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia.

Given what they regard as the miserable state of the world,

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Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Right now you may be feeling especially squeezed by one of the apparent contradictions in your life. But I’m here to tell you that it’s not as contradictory as you think. Its seemingly paradoxical elements are in righteous harmony with each other at a higher level of understanding. Can you rise to that higher level so as to see what has been hidden from your view? I believe you can. For best results, let go of any temptation you might have to act as if you’re oppressively defined by your past.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Psychologist and priest David Rickey counsels people who are about to be married. “You are perfectly mismatched,” he likes to tell them. “As much as you think you have chosen each other because of beauty or shared interests, the deeper reason is that unconsciously you know the other person is going to push your buttons. And the purpose of relationships is for you to discover and work on your buttons.” I share Rickey’s views, and offer them to you just in time to make maximum use of their wisdom. You see, Aquarius, you’re in a phase when you have extraordinary power to learn from and adjust to the challenges that come from having your buttons pushed by those you care about.

PISCES

WASTING ENERGY STAYING COOL? WE CAN HELP.

Feb. 19-March 20:

In his song “Crazy,” British singer Seal repeats the following line numerous times for emphasis: “We’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.” I recommend it as a mantra for you to rely on in the coming days. Your emotional health will depend on your ability to laugh at yourself, play along with absurdity and cultivate a grateful reverence for cosmic riddles. Being a little crazy will not only keep you robustly sane; it will also allow you to enjoy and capitalize on the divine comedy life presents you with.

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