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departments Letters: Thanks, firefighters; Why aren’t supertankers fighting fires? / 5 The Highroad: Gouging consumers with high-flying fees / 5 In Case You Missed It: Do ask, do tell; Meat me at the VMAs / 11 Boulderganic: Day-long party coming to east Pearl Street / 21 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Thanks, firefighters I was writing to support those fighting the fires and the people who have been affected by them and lost their homes because of them.

I lived in Boulder from 1978 to 1981 and keep in touch with a former classmate and some teachers. I was back in 1999 last, and it is still beautiful, although it has grown and changed over the years.

I am 40 and work for the U.S. Postal Service in Pennsylvania.

Someday I would like to move out West or down South as it is generally less hectic and more cordial than the Northeast and parts of the Mid-Atlantic. I wish you and your staff the best of luck and hope all your goals and dreams come true.

Russell Landau/Lancaster, Pa.

Stop the wildfires with supertankers By any objective study of the disastrous history of the U.S. Forest Service, it becomes obvious that they have deliberately refused to stop wildfires for over 17 years by deliberately refusing to use any supertanker waterbombing aircraft (see “evergreen supertanker” on Internet). They have never, ever used a jumbo jet supertanker on any wildfire to this day, even when the Russian supertanker fleet (waterbomber.org) always offered to come in, and the Boeing-747 was under

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Hundreds of lives and thousands of homes have been horribly lost because of this criminal negligence, and it’s still going on, as the Station Fire investigation is exposing, I feel.

I certainly hope the Station Fire investigation in California will not

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hy do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies.”

For example, what does a ticket cost? The airlines won’t come clean even on this basic question. We do know that stated ticket prices have been steadily rising, with double-digit increases in the past year.

But that price is merely the starting point for today’s airline hucksters. The real gouging is in the frenzy of fees that airlines have invented, many of which are not even disclosed to us, and most of which are simply unwarranted.

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be white-washed by the fire officials involved, as they’ve tried to do already, and I urge the congressmen and senators involved to continue the investigation to a conclusion, and stop the destruction and killing of firefighters.

Meanwhile, let’s call in the supertankers and save Colorado and

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Gouging consumers with high-flying fees

by Jim Hightower ets into the corporate coffers.

Take the “ticket change” fee. If something comes up, forcing you to change a flight from the one you’d booked, you’re hit with a service fee of $150. Plus, you must pay the difference if your new flight is priced higher (which it will be). What a ripoff! This rebooking “service” is done by computer, costing the airline more like a buck-fifty, rather than a hundred and fifty. Also, notice that airlines themselves rou-

our country, and investigate why the supertankers were not used at the get-go. We’re being sold out by our own so-called fire officials for the profits of the fire industrial complex.

Ed Nemechek/ Adelanto. Calif. see LETTERS Page 6

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tinely cancel or delay our flights, forcing us into inconvenient and thoroughly unpleasant travel changes — yet they don’t pay us $150 for their changes.

American Airlines, however, has generously offered to cut its rebooking fee in half — if you pay a “flexibility” fee of $19 when you book your flight. Then, any changes you need to make later will only cost you $75. Yes, it’s a fee to reduce your fee!

These nasty gouges are infuriating and unnecessary.

Southwest Airlines, for example, refuses to charge for any service that’s historically been free to customers — and Southwest has consistently stayed profitable.

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Weekly missed some facts The informative Boulder Weekly cover article on county mismanagement of Eldorado Springs Sewer LID project failed to accurately explain the basis for a $1.8 million maximum election ballot cost. The casual description of a neighborly meeting straw poll did occur, but it is far from the accurate cost explanation. Not mentioned are the several professional experts involved with establishing this number.

The county’s sewer project engineering consultants developed the sewer project scope and $1.8 million cost. County attorneys wrote the 2004 election ballot language, before internal staff review and ultimate commissioner approval. A county request-forproposals stated this maximum cost.

The county’s selected project team proposed the same number. The county’s design-build construction contract contains a line-item construction cost estimate within the $1.8 million cost. All of these decision points occurred between mid2004 and mid-2005. Project intentions were good, but the process got corrupted along the way.

I am troubled that Boulder County would try to discredit their own election ballot language after the fact.

Alan Brown/Eldorado Springs

Beware global warming A recent Associated Press story outlining the so-called “plan” to attack the pine beetle epidemic is spouting nothing but pure lies and state propaganda.

The pine beetle epidemic is not caused by “natural cycles,” it is a direct result of global climate change and the warming of our biosphere.

Just take a trip up to Alaska and Canada and you will see millions of acres of dead forest land devastated by the bark beetle.

Every 1 degree increase in temperature at the equator translates into a 10-degree increase at the poles brought on by global warming — that is why the forest destruction is greater the farther north you go.

The epidemic will not be stopped by cutting down more trees and exterminating whole tracts of our beautiful and precious forestland. Just witness the human environmental ecodestruction and clear-cutting of forested areas on the Frisco peninsula and around the county commons area.

The perpetrators and politicians responsible for this act of environmental terrorism have literally annihilated precious bike path and recreational hiking areas that will never be 6 September 16, 2010

repaired. Those responsible for this attack on our environment (the U.S. Forest Service and the Summit County Open Space Department) need to be arrested, fined, prosecuted and jailed for their crimes. As well, all future plans to exterminate whole tracts of forest land in and around Summit County need to be scrapped and stopped immediately. The destruction must come to an end, now.

Spending millions cutting down dead trees is not only a complete waste of taxpayers dollars, it will not solve the pine beetle epidemic because it does not address the root cause of the problem: an excessive, wasteful, decadent and environmentally destructive American fossil-fuel economy spewing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which has led to the global warming responsible for this devestation. New young trees that grow after clear-cuts will only face the bark beetle again in their short lifetimes, killing all hope of reforesting already devastated areas.

Time to evolve and use some intelligence, folks.

We need to educate the masses about the supreme threat of global climate change and immediately create a “Manhattan Project”-type of global campaign that reduces and eventually eliminates our collective carbon footprint as a nation and as a species — otherwise, expect more devastation and destruction of our environment.

Steve Jonah/Breckenridge

Global warming is causing species to disappear all over the poles.

If we do not act now, they could be threatened by extinction.

Please, please, please help end global warming and save these animals.

Marika Sullivan/Boulder

Get your facts straight The banner page of MSN.com (Sept. 9) contained an article titled, “Stocks jump as joblessness eases.”

This article is based on the fact that reported initial jobless claims for last week was less than expected.

Now, the key word in that last sentence is “reported.” You see, nine out of the 50 states did not report initial jobless claims for last week to the Department of Labor, due to the Labor Day holiday (a fact verified by checking with the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Those nine states included the states of California and Virginia … two very heavy hitters … but this fact was (conveniently or otherwise) see LETTERS Page 9

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here was probably a I saw it on the faces of people who moment for all of us, in live west of Broadway and north of the hours and days that Spruce on Sept. 9, when the city followed the outbreak of warned those residents to fill up their the Fourmile Canyon fire, cars with gas, trim their tall grass and in which we stopped and thought be ready to evacuate because high about what we’d winds were throw in the car if expected that it happened to us. night.

Rarely are we After all, most It was espeof us lead fairly cially evident in faced with secure, soft, comthe faces of those immediate fortable lives, espewho had believed cially compared to the inaccurate peril, like some people in Third Tweets and of those folks in World countries — Facebook posts hell, even comthat day announcFourmile pared to parts of ing that parts of Canyon and the United States.

Boulder were, in We pick up our fact, being evacusurrounding cappuccinos and ated. (What a tesareas faced on lattes on the way to tament to the conwork, we are airtinuing need for Sept. 6. conditioned in our journalism traincars and homes, we ing, not just tech sit on our couches training. But that’s and watch movies, we browse store a whole ’nother column.) aisles looking for what tastes good or It was the face of fear — fear of what makes us look good. We play losing all of our possessions that we games on our iPhones and Tweet hold so dear, fear of losing the house about our bad hair days. All in all, that has been in the family for years. It especially in the Boulder area, we have was an overdue reminder that, yes, it pretty good. even in sheltered Boulder, it’s not just those crazy hippies in the hills who Rarely are we faced with immediface fire risk, it’s us lowlanders, too. ate peril, like some of those folks in Fourmile Canyon and surrounding see WAKE-UP CALL Page 8 areas faced on Sept. 6.

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And then there’s the flood danger.

What would you take with you if you had 10 minutes to leave your home, perhaps forever?

I asked my kids, ages 9 and 6, that question and, predictably, they listed their toys du jour, which are Lego Star Wars figures. My wife suggested taking the cat and the laptop, where we have stored so many family photos and videos. I thought of the older photos, you know, the paper ones, the ones in albums.

It’s funny, the things we don’t think of taking. The things for which we work so hard every day to be able to afford. The furniture, appliances and electronics. The extra car. The jewelry.

Well, maybe we might grab the jewelry, if it had sentimental value, or was particularly expensive.

The point is, the first things we throw in the car are our loved ones and the things that remind us of our loved ones, past and present. The photo albums. The chest of trinkets handed down from grandmothers.

It gives you some perspective, once

you force yourself to think about what truly matters.

It’s not about the things you can buy. It’s about the things you can’t replace.

Think about that the next time you are frustrated about work, the traffic, the finances, the in-laws, the taste of the coffee.

Usually, it can get a lot worse.

It’s nice to know that, as evidenced by the outpouring of support shown in donations of time, supplies and money to the victims of the fires, there will be strong hands to help you after you pack the car.

Despite our increasing addiction to iPods, television, Facebook and other things that tend to keep us from getting out and meeting with our neighbors face to face, there is still a sense of community that we share.

It’s just that sometimes it takes a disaster to bring us together again.

And sometimes it takes a disaster to remind us what is really important in life.

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At what point will the federal government and its minions in the mass media recognize the fact that the people of the United States need the truth in order to plan, prepare and adjust? I understand that it serves no purpose to run around screaming that the sky is falling, but providing an honest reporting of where we are is key to plotting what we need to do in order to reach where we want to be.

After all of the failed attempts to jump-start the economy over the last two years (at the taxpayers’ expense), one would think that the least the government owes us is the truth about where we are (economically speaking).

We have reached a point where we must understand that everyone falls back on their individual comfort zones, i.e. “doing what they do best” … proving once again we can only rely on factual research from the informed citizen/taxpayer and cleverly crafted lies from the politicians … but that is just my opinion!

Robert M. Collinsworth/Harrisville, N.H.

The choice is clear: Control or freedom?

They’re making precision medical equipment in Mexico now. The new health care bill imposes a tax on medical equipment and supplies. “Rareearth” metals vital for the production of computer chips are no longer mined in this country. Environmental regulations forced mining and, in effect, production, to China. Fifty years ago America produced televisions, refrigerators and almost all our consumer products, but not any more.

First, these politicians closed down the steel mills in the Northeast, then limited soft-coal mining in the Appalachian East; curtailed pesticide use and water run-off on Midwest and Southeast farms; and cut off water in California, the Southwest and Great Plains states. Now, they are stopping oil drilling not just in Alaska and California, but in the Gulf.

It’s not just regulation; it’s stupid union rules that add to the cost of production.

So you hear, “Tax the Rich”!

These are the people who own or invest in mining, farming, drilling and manufacturing and make (gross) more than $200,000 per year. The farm land itself is worth millions of dollars, and when the inheritance tax goes to 55 percent, the children will have to sell the farm!

Yes, lawyers can manipulate the loopholes, but the results are the same: going out of business!

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Without investment capital and employer profits, there will be no real and permanent jobs!

The choice: government control or free enterprise?

Michael McCarthy/Hayward, Calif.

Are you people journalists or Marxists?

It seems to most of us that you all are fronting and covering for these Marxists and their takover of America. Prove otherwise, or print this.

David Cook/Loveland

Obama sat on a wall and had a great fall There is an old nursery rhyme that reads, “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumbty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

With the continuing appointment of far-left ideologues, increasing awareness of his agenda, as well as dropping poll numbers, the “hope and change” that Barack Obama promised is no longer believed by a growing majority to be anything but a cloaked series of illusory deceptions in order to get elected.

Why the deception? Obama knew, as did his advisors, campaign managers and friends in the liberal media, that if he were candid about his background and intentions, he would never be elected.

The handwriting is on the wall for this president. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men will not put the Obama administration back together again.

His campaign lies about “transparency” and “bi-partisanship;” his Saul Alinsky-style of manipulating the system and using the media for his own ends; his disdain for America’s JudeoChristian heritage and Israel; his use of our military to pay off a political debt and satisfy special interest groups; and his foolish deprecation of America before our worst enemies has garnered the disillusionment and disgust of the nation, our allies, and worse, those in service to the country.

M.E. Goodwin/Los Angeles, Calif.

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It’s almost show and tell time Unless you follow the gay rights debate like a hawk, you might not have noticed, with all the attention being given to gay marriage these days, that a U.S. district judge ruled last week that the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy violates service members’ Fifth Amendment due-process rights and their First Amendment speech rights. The judge is expected to issue an injunction to halt the policy’s enforcement. So very soon our American service people will be able to ask their fellow warriors if they are gay without fear of retribution. And gay soldiers will finally be able to declare, “I’m gay,” with probably a similar lack of, let’s say, cautious panic and trepidation. And that’ll be the end of it, right? Things will just continue on as they were. Probably not, but it’s a start. Michael B. Keegan, president of People For the American Way, said pretty much everybody — including Obama, the leaders of the armed forces, the House of Representatives and the “overwhelming majority” of the American people — think the policy is a bad idea. He called for an immediate end to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But don’t expect sailors and soldiers to throw off their shirts and “say it loud” just because of one tiny court ruling. Gay people have heard this sort of thing before. One day you can get married, the next you can’t. It’s nearly as confounding as the pot laws in Colorado. Who can grow it? Who can smoke it? Where can they smoke it? Under what circumstances can they smoke it? Let’s hope this new ruling turns out to be genuine and simple: you can be gay, whenever, wherever, and it won’t affect your ability to serve, fight and even die for your country one bit. Seems like a pretty fair deal, doesn’t it?

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Week of Sept. 9 - Sept. 15 1. Dream Theater releases statement regarding drummer Mike Portnoy’s departure

The Fournile Canyon fire burned 6,181 acres, destroyed 166 homes and cost $8.3 million. We were there.

3. Panorama (9/9) 4. Community shares loss, pulls together during Fourmile Canyon blaze 5. Boulder restaurants offering free food, drink to firefighters, evacuees 6. Gallery: Gov’t Mule takes Red Rocks 7. Tasty amd cheap 8. Living the electronic dream 9. Video: Time lapse of Boulder forest fire

Her climbing could use some work, but her tenacity is spot on Sometime around 6 p.m. on Sept. 9, a 19-year-old climber bouldering at “The Dome” in Boulder Canyon had just a second or two to reflect on her decision to pick her way 40 feet up the rock formation without a helmet before gravity brought her crashing down on the trail below.

Just for perspective, the climber’s fall was like jumping out a third-story window onto the hard-packed dirt and rock below. It’s the type of fall one can easily die from. But this young lady didn’t die. In fact, she got moving toward the nearest road. Most Boulderites are pretty fit and could get back to their car in no time, even after a rigorous climb. But have you ever tried it after falling from the roof of a small office building?

Twelve hours after she started her trek she was found by a couple of climbers coming for an early-morning run at the Dome. She’d suffered a severe head injury and hypothermia but was alive nonetheless.

Although we can’t really condone climbing without at least a helmet, we can say this is one tough chick. That’s one hell of a bump to the noggin, and to crawl towards safety after something like that … well, it’s just plain ballsy.

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For residents who lost their home in the Boulder County fire, what’s next?

• Rebuild and never give up! 36% • Relocate. It’s not worth it. 24% • It’s up to the owner. 40% • Huh? What happened now? 0%

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Should the person responsible for starting the Fourmile Canyon fire be criminally charged?

• Yes. Someone needs to be punished.

• No. It was an honest accident.

• Maybe. What’s the sentence?

• Wasn’t it lightning that did it?

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Meat me at the VMAs Every couple of years someone has to test the limits of fashion and social acceptance of the minor insanity that is super-stardom by donning some hideous or outrageous garb and trotting out on MTV’s awards show to the gawking and false outrage of those in attendance or watching via satellite. This year’s shocker is Lady GaGa. When the pop princess marched up the red carpet at this year’s event she really let her meat hang out.

Seriously, she was clad in what looked like flank steak. PETA, of course, flew into a rage (who could blame them, really) while other celebrities, art professors and fashionistas jockeyed to have the most poignant and insightful opinion on Lady Gaga’s roast beast. Our take on it is simple: It might be shocking and headline-worthy now, but just like the pop star wearing it, sooner or later it’s going to start to stink.

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Fourmile Canyon Fire The largest fire in Boulder County history began on Labor Day morning and raged on for a week, burning 6,181 acres and destroying 166 homes. More than 3,500 evacuees returned home this week to neighborhoods devastated by the most destructive fire in Colorado history. Visit BoulderWeekly. com to get updates on the status of the aftermath.

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All areas reopened to residents, authorities mum on whether suspected fire starter will face charges

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uthorities reopened all areas of the Fourmile Canyon fire to residents on Wednesday, but they say it may still be several days before they decide whether to file charges against the 71-year-old volunteer firefighter suspected of causing the blaze.

Cmdr. Phil West of the Boulder County Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office told Boulder Weekly that there are still a number of interviews left for his office to complete before it is ready to make its final recommendation on whether charges should be filed. That evidence will then be presented to the district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, where the final decision on filing charges will be made. The process, West says, will take at least a couple of days.

Investigators believe that the origin of the fire was most likely a fire pit in the 7100 block of Fourmile Canyon.

Information indicates that the last fire in the fire pit prior to the Fourmile Canyon blaze had been several days before. At that time, the property owner attempted to extinguish the fire by dousing it with water and stirring the ashes.

Investigators say the wind reignited the embers and blew them out of the fire pit, causing the fire to spread on Sept. 6.

For criminal charges to be pursued, the responsible person would have had to act in a reckless or criminally negligent manner.

The definitions of criminal negligence and reckless behavior as defined under state law are: Criminal negligence: a person acts with criminal negligence when, through a gross deviation from the standard of care a reasonable person would exercise, he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or a circumstance exists.

Reckless: a person acts recklessly when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a result will occur or that a circumstance exists.

The property owner is a life-long member of the community, investigators say, and they do not feel he is a danger to the public.

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Even the lucky ones still face the prospect of smoke damage

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n a lot of ways Sue Norton and her husband, Noel, are the lucky ones.

Families all around them have run through their mental lists of all they lost in the Fourmile Canyon fire: the family photos, the irretrievable data on melted computers, the teddy bear that lulled a child to sleep every night, the house where so many of those family memories were made, and so much more.

And yet the Nortons’ house stood, virtually unscathed by the onslaught of flames. Had the Nortons been home, on their perch atop a Smoke billows from the hill at 401 Arkansas Fourmile fire Mountain Rd., they would have seen fire coming toward them from three sides, up from Fourmile Canyon on one side and windows and other tiny spaces into this Sugarloaf on another. once-pristine home, and nothing — not “It kind of enveloped our house,” even hard, seemingly impenetrable surSue Norton says. faces — has escaped its blackening The Nortons aren’t sure what spared patina and overwhelming smell. their home from the fire that took more “Everything you touch is smelly,” than 160 others nearby, but one factor Norton says. “It’s quite amazing.” certainly played a role: the mitigation Things she says she would never efforts the couple undertook to prepare expect an odor to attach itself to are for just such a fire. All around their almost unbearably permeated with the home is a perimeter free of trees, shrubs stink of burnt wood. and flammable grass that would have “I was transferring my computer brought attacking flames right up to from the house to our hotel and even their doorstep. Their house also sits the keyboard is smelly,” Norton says. near Bureau of Land Management land “Every single square inch of our home where extensive mitigation has taken is stinky.” place.

Wayne Dicksteen lives in Boulder So they are lucky to still have a Heights, up Lee Hill Road to Deer home, although it may be months Trail then further on up the mountain. before they can move back and months For a week he didn’t know if his house more before they can really settle in. was still standing or one of the smolThe couple has moved their living dering piles of ash and relics that used quarters down to Boulder, to a to be homes. He passed the time lend144-square-foot hotel room, a tight ing a hand at the Boulder YMCA, a space that is likely to be their home for makeshift shelter for those fleeing the the duration of the next phase of their flames. He and his wife stayed with lives as wildfire survivors: the cleanup. friends around town, waiting for news, While fire never breached the until last Friday, when the road to his Norton home, something else did. Like home was finally opened. What he nearly every other home that came per- found at the end of his driveway ilously close to destruction, smoke and shocked him. soot made its way through cracks, open “It looked like I was in a dream for

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seven days,” Dicksteen says, recalling the first look he got at his still-standing home. “It was weird, and I felt bad for the other people. I guess the fire has to stop somewhere.”

But he, too, is faced with being in the enviable position of still having a home and the not-so-enviable position of having to clean that home of the soot, ash and undetermined dust that blew in through open windows.

Initially, he thought he’d escaped totally unscathed.

“At first I told my insurance carrier I was one of the lucky ones because we seemed fine,” Dicksteen says. “The insurance people suggested we at least have a cleaning crew come up and check it out.”

What the Servpro team discovered was smoke-stained walls and floor, a patina of dust and other toxins on the surfaces of just about everything in the home, according to Dicksteen. “[Smoke damage] is often overlooked,” says Erik Olson, manager of Servpro of greater Boulder, a company that specializes in fire and water cleanup and restoration. “It’s not like everyone who didn’t lose their home can move right back in.”

Olson says he has a waiting list of

people with smoke-damaged homes that need some form of cleanup.

“We are anticipating having a few calls from [the fire],” Olson says.

The services Servpro provides depends on the level of damage smoke has done to a home. On the low end, the cost could be from $2 to $3 per square foot for a lightly soiled home. Repairing light smoke damage and neutralizing the smell might cost $1,000 total, while a major smoke problem “could be upwards of $25,000.”

Olson says the cleaning process starts with testing, to see what the extent of the smoke damage truly is.

“There are a lot of people who are unsure of the damage right now but want us to check it out to see what the damage is,” says Olson.

Olson says the company uses a dry, natural-rubber sponge on the walls of the home. The sponge attracts soot and smoke.

“If you wipe that on the wall and it picks up the soot and it’s really obvious, then cleaning is required,” Olson says.

Once that test or a visual inspection of an obviously smoked-out house is complete, cleaning can begin. The most common damage, according to Olson, is in the carpets, clothing and draperies in a home.

“In some of the more extensive situations, we’ll have to clean the ceilings and the walls,” he says.

Olson says dry removal of as much soot, smoke and ash as possible is the first course of action. The odor and soot seeps deep into fabrics and textiles.

With carpet and drapes the first step, as with most of the cleaning job, is vacuuming out the smoke and ash, Olson says.

“The first rule in odor removal is remove the source of the smell,” Olson says, emphasizing the need for a good vacuuming job upfront. see SMOKE DAMAGE Page 14

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Psychiatrist: Victims need to stay active, keep talking

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hose who lost their homes in the wildfires in Boulder and Larimer Counties over the past couple of weeks should try to stay active, talk about their emotions and guard against falling into long-term depression, according to a local psychiatrist.

Emily Bucy, a psychiatrist at Boulder Community Hospital, told Boulder Weekly the classic model of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) created by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross can be applied to a disaster like the loss of a Those who lost home in a wildfire, but with some differences. their homes are For instance, Kübler-Ross’s model was advised to be based on how a given individual deals with aware of PTSD symptoms. terminal illness, whereas major natural disasters like the Fourmile Canyon fire affect hundreds of people. That group dynamic, Bucy says, can offer some support, since the victims realize grief, but not necessarily in any particular order, and they are not on their own. for varying periods of time.

“The person is not alone, and that seems to help “People don’t go through them the same way,” she people in these natural disasters,” she says. explains. “People hop around. People may skip someAnd unlike other types of individual trauma, like thing.” child abuse or sexual assault, Bucy explains, there isn’t The fire victims may also be susceptible to postthe same stigma and secrecy associated with victims of traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Signs of PTSD natural disaster. The act was not done intentionally. It usually fall into three categories: re-experiencing (like happened by chance, and there is typically a great deal nightmares and flashbacks), hyper-arousal (being easily of community support being poured into assisting vicstartled, suffering from insomnia or acting hyper-vigitims of natural disasters. lant) and avoidance (staying away from fires, loud But those who have lost their homes will likely sounds or smoke, for instance). experience some of the same emotional roller coaster If someone who has lost their home to wildfire that victims of other types of trauma feel. Bucy says exhibits these symptoms beyond a period of three to they will likely exhibit some or all of the five stages of six months, Bucy says, it may be a sign of PTSD.

Those who have an “internal locus of control” — that is, they see the center of control as being within themselves — are less likely to suffer from PTSD, she explains. Those who feel a total loss of control are more likely to experience the disorder, especially if they feel no hope for the future.

Therefore, Bucy says, fire victims should try to do something active, no matter how small, to take back some control over what the fire has taken from them, whether that project is simply taking care of a pet or making plans to build a new home.

She also recommends getting back into a normal routine and restoring the social and family structure as soon as possible, because isolation can be detrimental as well.

“What you worry about is someone getting stuck in depression,” she explains.

Bucy says she has seen a couple of patients who were evacuated from the Fourmile fire but did not lose their homes, and for them, the period of not knowing what happened to their houses was the hardest part.

She says it is normal to feel the stages of grief, like the initial denial that one’s house succumbed to the fire, the anger (“Why me?”) and the bargaining, which often involves trying to make a deal with God. Bucy says communicating your feelings can help you avoid getting stuck in any one phase of the process.

“It’s good to talk about it with other people,” she says.

“Talking about it and sharing it is not a sign of weakness.

That’s part of the process to get through it.”

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“Then we come in with a hot water steam system,” Olson says.

These steps are repeated in some way through much of the house, including on clothing and hard plastics, Olson says, with generally good results.

“Then of course there’s the odor issue,” says Olson with a small sigh that lets you know this task is the trickier of the two. “Typically with the cleanup we can remove smoke, soot and odors, but there are occasions where painting [walls and other painted surfaces] is necessary.”

Olson says some materials in a home that you wouldn’t expect to be a problem, like hard plastics — are often some of the hardest to rid of fumes.

Other things are more obvious odor problems.

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“A lot of times furniture with heavy padding, it’s very hard to effectively remove odors from that,” Olson says.

Servpro offers several different methods for cleaning a smoke-damaged home. The most effective, according to Olson, is an ozone extraction process in which oxygen — O2 — is converted to ozone — O3 — so it is unstable and wants to shed the extra molecule. Olson says the extra molecule then attaches itself to the smoke particles and is sucked away.

The biggest downside of this process is that it seriously reduces the amount of oxygen in the home, to the point where no one can be in the house without breathing equipment.

Servpro offers another similar process that does much the same thing using hydroxyl. It is less effective,

Olson says, but also less expensive and residents can stay in the home while the cleaning takes place.

The final service involves spraying another smell, like lemon or cherry, through the home to mask the smell.

It’s the least popular of all the services, Olson says, and does nothing to rid the house of what’s causing the smell.

When the Servpro team returns to Dicksteen’s house, he’s confident the cleaning job will be effective. He’s had the windows open and a strong breeze, he says, has been keeping the odor down and drawing away some of the dust. But he still worries about the things he can’t see or smell, toxins that could have been in the smoke and might now be in his home.

“It makes sense,” says Dicksteen of the pollutants that likely linger in his

home. “You’re not just burning trees, you’re burning houses, and good Lord, who knows what’s in them?”

Effective cleaning is certainly on Sue Norton’s mind as she tries desperately to rid herself of a nasty smell that’s begun to cling to everything in her life. Despite thorough cleaning, the smell has attached itself to the few items she’s retrieved from her home, giving her hotel room the same, though less powerful, scent of her own house. Still digging through some rescued items, she’s finding very little that isn’t saturated with the acrid smoke smell of a week-long blaze.

“You wouldn’t expect a glass bottle to smell, but it does,” Norton says. “Is it really possible to get the smell out of the house?”

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County opens distribution center Move is among dozens of relief efforts

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elief for the victims of the Fourmile Canyon fire — and aid for the firefighters — has poured in since smoke first started billowing from the hills, and it has taken many forms, from shelter for humans and pets to donations of food, water and supplies.

The most recent addition to the assistance effort is a distribution center that Boulder County opened on Wednesday at 5395 Pearl Pkwy. in Boulder. It is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Items available to evacuees include donated clothing, bedding, housewares, household items, personal hygiene items and diapers.

The county is still accepting donations of certain personal and household items at its collection center, located at 3111 28th St. in Boulder (between Glenwood Drive and Valmont Road, across from the Puddle Car Wash). The hours of the collection center are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Only the following donations are being requested: • Water, sports drinks, laundry supplies and cleaning supplies, including household paper products • New underwear and socks, in all sizes, for all ages • Feminine hygiene items • New sheets, towels • Work gloves, boots and dust masks • Shovels and rakes • Gift cards for families from local restaurants, department or consumer product stores, DVD rental outlets, etc.

Gently used furniture may be donated at a separate warehouse location in Louisville at 707 East S. Boulder Rd. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The warehouse is not accepting used mattresses.

Call 211 to inquire about donation needs or volunteer opportunities.

In other relief efforts, local funk band Funkiphino, Twenty Ninth Street and the American Red Cross are hosting a benefit concert tonight, Sept. 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the mall.

Donations made at the event will benefit the Red Cross. Call 303-444-0722 for more information on the concert.

In addition, a samba-style parade/ march to honor the firefighters will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 19, at 15th and Pearl streets, as part of Boulder Green Streets. There will be a

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• Provided hundreds of bags and cans of food • Received and distributed truckloads of miscellaneous pet supplies, including litter boxes, cat litter, climbing trees, kennels, crates, toys, blankets, towels and leashes • Provided pet supplies, food, toys, etc. for pets being cared for at the Red Cross shelter at the YMCA.

YMCA of Boulder Valley Gov. Bill Ritter at a Sept. 10 briefing at the command center

drop-off site for donations benefiting victims of the wildfire and evacuations.

The University of Colorado Student Government has coordinated several relief efforts for displaced residents this week, including an online message board for temporary housing (http:// ocss.colorado.edu), as well as a donation center and a coin drive in the fountain area of the University Memorial Center.

And a commemorative poster is being sold to raise funds for the relief effort at campsteve.com.

Boulder County is providing a host of other resources to those affected by the fire, including sanitary and emergency response services as well as mental health and grief counseling. In addition to providing counseling services at the county assistance center at the Sundquist Building at 3482 N. Broadway in Boulder, those services will be offered at the Salina Little Church of the Pines in Fourmile Canyon, Sunshine Fire Station and Gold Hill Community Center.

In addition, the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County has established a new emergency fund to support victims of the fire and the local firefighters. The Greenlee Family Foundation has offered a dollar-for-dollar match for every donation made to the fund, up to $10,000.

To donate, visit www.commfound. org/news/FourmileCanyonFire.html.

The Red Cross, Salvation Army, YMCA of Boulder Valley and local humane societies kicked their coordinated disaster response plans into gear and met a variety of the victims’ needs.

A sampling of those efforts made during the first week that followed the start of the fire is below:

Red Cross • Sheltered 68 people for a total of 81 overnight stays at the YMCA of Boulder Valley (and at the Coors Events Center at the University of Colorado on Sept. 6) • Served 1,695 meals to residents and responders • Served 1,988 snacks to residents and responders • Provided 163 comfort kits containing hygiene items and other needs

The Salvation Army • Served 1,330 meals in the first 24 hours to first responders and incident command personnel • Distributed 90 cases of bottled water • Served 450 snacks, packages of cookies and pieces of fruit • Provided $1,725 in vouchers for clothing at Salvation Army Thrift Stores to evacuees

Longmont Humane Society • Sheltered 25 dogs, 21 cats and four birds for four to six days • Will continue to shelter 25 pets until further notice • Provided approximately 1,800 pounds of dry food, wet food, litter, treats, toys and miscellaneous items

Humane Society of Boulder Valley • Sheltered approximately 50 pets

• Provided a clean, comfortable facility for Red Cross shelter that welcomed 40 to 60 daytime evacuees and 12 to 19 overnight residents • Staffed front desk to provide information for evacuees and the public while maintaining regular operations • Provided space for emergency response teams from the major insurance companies • Set up mobile distribution truck in shelter parking lot to provide evacuees with clothing and supplies • Took in six animals for extended care (two overnight) • Provided short-term day care for 12 animals (three hours or less) “Recovery may take months as these families rebuild from the ashes,” says Liz DiPaolo, director of response for the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross. “What we hope is that the generosity and compassion we’ve witnessed immediately following the disaster will continue and these residents won’t be forgotten when the images of fire disappear from the news.”

At this point, authorities say, the best way the public can help those affected by the fires is to make a monetary donation to the organizations that have been providing disaster relief.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com FOR MORE INFORMATION Visit the appropriate agency’s website to make a donation online or find out more information about how to help: www.ColoradoRedCross.org www.boulderhumane.org www.coloradofriendship.org www.longmonthumane.org www.DenverSalvationArmy.org www.ymcabv.org

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Gold Hill Elementary needs help to survive fire

by Heather May Koski

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he Fourmile Canyon fire distressed more than just homes and businesses in Gold Hill — the Gold Hill Elementary School is also in jeopardy.

Although the historic two-room schoolhouse did not suffer visible fire damage, its program continuance is at risk due to its traditional local financial support. With the destruction of its homes and businesses, the Gold Hill community’s ability to provide funding for the oldest continuously operating public school in Colorado has been severely diminished.

Gold Hill Elementary School Principal Kelley King and other community members have been working closely with the Boulder Valley School District to organize a temporary relocation of the Gold Hill students to Foothill Elementary School in north Boulder.

King, who has been the principal at Gold Hill Elementary for four years, says there is immense gratitude among Gold Hill residents for familiar routine for their families during the fire crisis.

“They need something normal to hold on to right now, like getting their kids to school and getting them away

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from the constant drama the fire has caused,” King says.

A welcome orientation was held last week at Foothill Elementary to give Gold Hill students, parents and staff members a tour of the facility and a backpack filled with supplies for each Gold Hill student, donated by Impact on Education, a nonprofit foundation that supports Boulder Valley schools.

“People have really come together as a community and a support team,” King says. “All sorts of organizations have been donating clothes, shoes, school supplies and food.”

All 29 Gold Hill students attended their first day of school at Foothill on Monday, Sept. 13, thanks to the collaboration of the Foothill and Gold Hill staffs, parents and volunteer Impact on Education members.

“The kids thought of it as a field trip,” King says. “There’s so much help, love and support, and the kids are back in school and happy to be there.”

Elon Bar-Evan, a Gold Hill Elementary kindergartener’s parent, says the school’s budget was cut by 2.5 percent this year. The school decided to cut its School Resource Allocation, which covers consumables like paper, pens, cleaning

supplies, textbooks, art supplies, learning materials, the school ski program and field trips — elements needed to operate the school.

“The Parent Teacher Organization agreed to take this funding burden on ourselves because we were counting on our Fall Fiesta fundraiser to raise that money, as we have for many years,” BarEvan says.

The Gold Hill community donates about $15,000 a year to cover state budget cuts, but because the school now needs to help families rebuild their lives after the fire, Bar-Evan says he believes that number needs to increase to about $35,000 this year.

“Because our typical donation base of Gold Hill and surrounding communities has been so severely impacted, we feel we cannot possibly ask them for assistance at this time,” Bar-Evan says. “We are reaching out to the larger community to help us meet these increased expenses so our children have a smooth re-entry and rebuilding experience.”

Bar-Evan says Impact on Education is accepting all monetary donations to directly support the families and school staff impacted by the fires. Donations are accepted online at www.impactoneduca-

tion.org, and 100 percent of the donations will be distributed to the schools to support the families in need of financial support. Donors can also contribute by phone at 303-524-3865, ext. 1, or by mail at Impact on Education, 75 Manhattan Dr., Ste. 205, Boulder, 80303. Bar-Evan urges donors to specify Gold Hill Elementary School in the “Any comments or special instructions” box on the donation form.

King says as a result of the combination of the poor economy, state budget cuts and the fire, the Gold Hill community is seeking all the support it can possibly acquire.

“Our school didn’t burn down, so that’s a huge blessing, but it’s a challenge because our families are distressed and homes have been destroyed,” King explains. “Our capacity to do what we have traditionally done as a community to help the school has diminished, but we’re very blessed that the structure is still standing. There have been many blessings amongst the crisis, and we can’t forget those.”

For more information on how to help support the Gold Hill Elementary School, visit www.impactoneducation.org.

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A glimpse into firefighter camp

ore than 915 firefighters from around the nation joined the fire fight in Fourmile Canyon last week, with a good handful of them volunteer firefighters. In the first few days of the fire, volunteers from 35 regional fire districts jumped in, trying to save homes and contain the fire.

A majority of the firefighters were camping out in the canyon during off times to get rest, eat and sleep, while another group created a tent city at Boulder Reservoir. Boulder County officials made sure firefighters were fed, were well-rested and had everything they needed for the daily shifts in the burn zone. But just like full-time firefighters, the volunteers wanted in on the action too.

“I wanted to be part of the solution, not the problem,” says Anne, who declined to give her last name and who joined the Left Hand Canyon Fire Protection District in 2000. “It allows me to give back to my community. I’m not a person who likes

others, he says he relies on his training to stay alert just in case things turn for the worse.

“That’s always on your mind,” Ben says about the unpredictability of a wildfire. “You can never get complacent. I’ve been up there every night, doing night operations, and so far, the greatest challenge is staying awake, but that’s why you sleep during the day.”

Now that the fire is 100 percent contained and residents are heading back to their neighborhoods, volunteers are still patrolling the areas. A lot of the rubble could still be hot, and there still could be embers that are lit underneath destroyed structures.

“The area I was working had a dirty burn,” Anne says. “It was spotty with islands of unburned fuel, which has a potential for re-burning. So we were on patrol to make sure any potential heat from the fire is not impacting structures.”

Even if the fire’s gone, a firefighter’s job is never done.

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to feel helpless, so I wanted to be able to give back and not be in the way.”

Anne says she was motivated to volunteer after growing up in Boulder County and experiencing wildfires, including the Olde Stage fire in 1990.

That fire destroyed more than 10 homes.

“I was younger watching that from afar, seeing all the smoke,” she says. “I was at a friend’s house who had horses that were up in and near that area, and seeing how upset it made her, I just felt helpless; I couldn’t help her in any way.”

Ben, another volunteer firefighter from the Left Hand Canyon Fire Protection District who declined to provide his last name, was in the midst of the Fourmile Canyon fire battle since day one. And while the area he was working wasn’t as bad as some

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Smoke signals, via Twitter

by Mitchell Byars

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s the flames raced through northwest Boulder on Labor Day morning, concerned residents naturally jumped on their computers in search of news on the fire. But those who scoured through news sites found very little in the way of live coverage and updates.

Surprisingly, it was the people who went to check their Twitter accounts that found what they were looking for.

Especially in the early hours of the fire, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook were much more effective than traditional media sources at providing timely information for those being affected by the fire, with civilians taking to their laptops to relay what they knew across the Web. “Members of the public play a critical role in emergencies by providing current information,” says Leysia Palen, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and director of the ConnectivIT Lab. Palen is also leading a study called EPIC: Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis. The study, which is backed by a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant, looks at how social media is used in emergency situations. Palen says the study is finding that social media is especially useful in the early stages of an emergency when people need news specific to where they are.

“It’s hard for a paper like The Denver Post to be specific for that many people,” Palen says. “That’s where members of the public can be helpful in local situations.”

One of those members of the public Tweeting information about the fire was Sandra Fish, an instructor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at CU. Fish saw the smoke and smelled the fire, but when she went online she was unable to find any news of the fire.

“I got online to the Daily Camera and The Denver Post and I didn’t see anything,” she says.

She finally was able to find an online link to the county scanner and began listening for updates. At 11:30

a.m., around an hour and a half after the fire started in Emerson Gulch, she sent her first Tweet and continued to Tweet what she heard throughout the day. Fish gained 500 followers on her Twitter page that day, and at one point she used up the amount of Tweets she was allowed and was forced to stop for a short while.

“People were finding it useful, and as long as people were finding it useful I was going to keep doing it,” Fish says.

“If I saw the mainstream media jump in I would have stopped. Luckily other people stepped in when I had to go to school on Tuesday.

“I had conversations with a lot of people, and there was a real hunger for information about this.”

But not all Twitter users are Tweeting the right information, and that is one thing about which Palen said people exclusively relying on social media during emergencies need to be cautious.

“They need to find the people who are going to give good information,” Palen says. “People need to be smart about it, and I think they normally are.”

Fish says that because Twitter users form a sort of online community, they help to police each other and prevent false information from getting out.

“There was someone on Wednesday who was Tweeting inaccurate information and he got shouted off the planet,” Fish says. “The thing about Twitter is you can correct your errors quickly. I posted a wrong link, and people responded by pointing out the errors and I could fix the link.”

Now the question becomes how traditional media sources are going to respond to the growing use of Twitter in emergencies. Fish hopes that the mainstream media will start devoting more of their resources to using social media, and tries to make sure all of her students are familiar with it.

“Journalists need to be more nimble,” she says. “It’s hard to convince people in the mainstream media that it’s worth their time and it’s not just extra work. This was a chance to step up and do this, but nobody did.”

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Rogue firefighters sneak to save homes Police make one arrest, issue three DUIs at checkpoint

by David Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge

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or Eli Koehn, Colorado Mountain Ranch in Gold Hill and the family that own it are more than just employers. They’re like family.

So when Koehn heard the property was on the edge of the Fourmile fire, he knew he couldn’t stand around idly and let his beloved ranch burn down. Police had already closed down most of the roads into the ranch, but for Koehn, that just meant he had to get creative.

It’s an unusual problem for law enforcement — keeping people out of disaster areas. But the severity of the Fourmile fire prompted some homeowners and others to to break through police lines so they could fight in some way to try to protect their homes.

“Our first response is public safety and evacuation,” says Cmdr. Rick Brough, a public information officer for the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office.

Brough noted that although deputies would physically stop people from entering the burn areas, deputies wouldn’t forcibly remove people from their homes if they insisted on staying. But there was only so much the deputies could do to keep the most persistent people out of the burn area.

“I know there’s people that got up there,” Brough says. “Some people know that area very well and can hike up. … We don’t have the resources to treat it like it’s the border or something like that.”

Koehn, who did maintenance and other chores on the ranch for four summers, drove up into the mountains looking for a way into the ranch that hadn’t already been closed. He eventually ran into a checkpoint where several other “kindred spirits” were trying to find ways to get up to the ranch.

Knowing the woods as well as they did, they snuck off into the forest (“as if we were taking a piss,” Koehn says) and bolted towards the ranch. When they arrived, they joined owner Mike Walker and strapped on five-gallon water sprayers, which they 18 September 16, 2010

“Five acres went up in five seconds,” she says. “If the fire had decided to go where they were, with as much vengeance as it had, I don’t think they would have been able to do anything.”

One of the three who Firefighters toil at the stayed behind has a tractor Fourmile fire on Sept. 10 and was using it create fire lines. When he ran out of filled by hand, and started to put out hot spots and fuel for the tractor, she says, he managed to get a small flare-ups. call through to a friend who brought him more gas “Yeah, and for most of the time we were hiding by driving up Left Hand Canyon, past a “road from the sheriffs, because they didn’t really appreci- closed” sign and up some back roads. The friend ate us breaking through their roadblock,” Koehn then returned safely after making his delivery, said. “I feel like we made a difference. I’m very according to Bender. proud of it. ... The ranch is like family to me.

But aside from her three rogue firefighting They’ve stuck with me through good times and neighbors, she gives most of the credit for the saved bad, and it’s like my home. ... The Walkers are homes to the professional and volunteer firefighters exceptional.” in the area.

Holly Bender, who lives in the old Sunshine “They burned the grasses right up to my house town site at 1332 County Road 83, says a few of so that when the fire came, it stopped where they her neighbors may have helped save her house from had already burned it,” she says. burning down as well.

In the end, Bender explains that the blaze was a Bender explains that communication about the unique conflagration in which factors like plenty of fire has been a lot like the game “telephone,” dead wood, high winds and topography combined because accounts have gotten distorted in the retell- to create the perfect firestorm. ing. She and her neighbors held a meeting on Sept.

“Flames were twice as high as the trees,” she 12 and began to piece together the events of the says. “It was like a 100-year fire. There was so previous week. That meeting gave her a chance to much fuel in the woods. … Everything conspired to talk to at least one of the neighbors who likely make it pretty much impossible to fight that fire.” helped save her home.

Deputies arrested one man who Brough said She told Boulder Weekly that none of the three made repeated attempts to cross checkpoints. But neighbors are firefighters — two simply declined to Brough said the fire brought out another side of evacuate and stayed behind to defend the houses. people, too.

The third neighbor, Bender says, drove his fam“We had three DUIs, which was surprising,” ily to safety and was coming back to his house to Brough said. “We had people showing up at the get another load of belongings when he ran into checkpoints while intoxicated.” the other two neighbors and decided to stay as well.

Koehn helped start 4milefirerelief.org, a website The three used shovels to put out sparks, she where people can donate to the relief fund for fire says, “and as it was, they were able to save quite a victims. few houses.”

Koehn also encourages people to join the But Bender adds that with the intensity of the group’s Facebook group at http://bit.ly/dbp9FR. fire, they were lucky it didn’t set its sights on them.

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boulderganic Day-long party coming to east Pearl Street

By Charmaine Ortega Getz

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Courtesy of Hillary Griffith

here will be many reasons to celebrate life at Boulder’s newest neighborhood event this Sunday, starting with a parade honoring firefighters.

From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Boulder Green Streets takes over Pearl Street between 15th and Folsom to echo a joyous community event that shuts down major roadways in many cities in the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico and farther abroad.

Called “Ciclovia” (“bike way”) “Ciclovia,” in Bogota, Columbia in Bogota, Columbia, where it originated, and known by many More information names elsewhere, the event aims Boulder Green Streets http://bouldergreenstreets.org/ to re-introduce residents to the pleasure of car-free streets.

Firefighters Parade/March Contact Alexia for details: 303-443-3697 More than 50 free activities and entertainments are planned Fire Victims Donation Drop-off Site The Cup Cafe, 1521 Pearl St. — art, food booths, live music, Contact Wendy for details: 303-449-5173 cycling-centric activities, a kayak tank, climbing wall, workshops The owner of Walkabout Studio, a and lessons in things like salsa dance, Boulder video production/photograyoga and martial arts. phy business, Griffith says she was A samba-style parade/march will fascinated by the creative mayors of begin at 2 p.m. at 15th Street, with Bogota — Antanas Mockus and suceveryone invited to join as a show of cessor Enrique Penalosa — who came support for firefighters battling the up with the Ciclovia and other greenFourmile fire. There will also be a minded, often humorous ways to govdrop-off site for donations benefiting ern and foster community. victims of the wildfire and evacua“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be wontions. derful to be able to fly to Columbia, The City of Boulder is a key event sit down and have a cup of coffee with sponsor, but the initiative comes from these guys?’” says Griffith, who has resident Hillary Griffith and a slew of worked “on the sidelines” of nonprofit volunteers. organizations.

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Her dream got better when she discovered that Penalosa was coming to speak in Boulder during an April 2009 U.S. tour.

“I wrote everybody in city administration I could to tell them about what he had done,” she says.

“When he came to speak at the Boulder Public Library, there were a lot of city staff members there, a lot of us standing around him when he was done speaking. I brought it up that we should agree right there to start a Ciclovia in Boulder. And we did!”

Between city staff and citizen volunteers, the event became Boulder Green Streets — a day that will begin with a free breakfast for kids (including gluten-free pancakes), free coffee for grownups and other goodies.

Inserted in this issue of Boulder Weekly is a “passport” that can be used to record event participation in various activities. Passports will be used in drawings for prizes such as gym memberships and an electric bicycle.

It’s all about fresh thinking for a better community.

“Innovation is not always about something like industrial design,” says Griffith. “It’s about politics and ideas, new ways to look at our public spaces and, in Boulder, access to the amazing resource we have of so many creative people.”

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Thursday, Sept. 16 Lafayette Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m. Festival Plaza, Public Road and Chester Street, Lafayette, 303-6655588.

Paul Gipe: Feed-in-Tariff and Wind Energy Expert. 7 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church; 1419 Pine St., Boulder, www.cleanenergyaction.org.

Friday, Sept. 17

2010 Blue and Green Ball. 7-10 p.m. Masonic Temple, 225 W. Oak Street, Fort Collins, 970-224-3247.

Saturday, Sept. 18

11th Annual Sustainable Living Fair. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Legacy Park, Fort Collins, 970-2243247. Through Sept. 19.

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

Longmont Farmers’ Market.

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd., Longmont, 303-910-2236.

Louisville Farmers’ Market. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Boulder, 303-902-2451.

Sunday, Sept. 19

11th Annual Sustainable Living Fair. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Legacy Park, Fort Collins, 970-2243247.

Sprout your Eats, Eat your Sprouts! 1:30 p.m. Harlequin’s

Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.

Wednesday, Sept. 22

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-910-2236.

To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Boulderganic.”

Open Space & Mountain Parks National Public Land Day September 25, 2010 8:30 am – 2 pm Volunteers needed for restoration project!

The city of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Dept. needs volunteers for a restoration project at the Dry Creek trail. Volunteers will revegetate stream banks and repair existing trails. NPLD is the nation’s largest annual single-day volunteer effort to improve America’s public lands.

For more information, visit www.osmp.org or call Kristin (303) 413-7632.

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO IN THE STREETS? Boulder Green Streets is a Ciclovìa program

A STREET LIBERATION PROJECT

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY, COMMUNITY & GOOD HEALTH!

FEATURED ACTIVITIES! 8 AM SUNRISE MORNING YOGA in the Park with YogaPod (Folsom & Pearl) 8 AM - 9 AM KIDS FREE BREAKFAST STATION, BIKE DECORATING, PARADE & RODEO 11 AM AFRICAN MUSIC MEET UP (15th & Pearl) 12 PM LIVE SALSA WITH QUEMANDO (Main Stage- Folsom & Pearl) 2 PM LIVE SAMBA DOWN THE STREET WITH GINGA (15th & Pearl) 2 PM FIREMANS PARADE! (15TH & Pearl) Join the a Citizen led Parade and March in honor of the Four-mile Fire Fighters & Boulder Community.

The most famous Ciclovìa occurs in Bogota, Colombia every Sunday when 70 miles of major roadways are shut down and two million people take to the street to walk, ride bicycles and play. The dynamic of challenging the presumption that major streets exist only for cars is powerful, as people rethink the use of public spaces. Many activities take place along the route, including music, food, art, and gatherings. A number of US cities have adopted this concept, calling them Sunday Parkways, Summer Streets, Sunday Streets and CicLAvia among others.

All of East Pearl is open for play!

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann of Yonder Mountain String Band will donate proceeds from their show at Planet Bluegrass on Saturday to Fourmile Fire victims.

Thursday, Sept. 16

Colorado Skies: Fall Skies — Get a sneak peak of what the fall skies will offer. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Friday, Sept. 17

Free Fish & Chips — For anyone wearing green. Just be sure to tip on the full amount. 11a.m. to 2 p.m. Baker St. 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Saturday, Sept. 18

Reel Rock Film Tour a homecoming for local filmmakers

by Marisa Ware

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hen Peter Mortimer premiered his first movie Scary Faces 10 years ago at the Boulder Theater, the local filmmaker had his doubts.

“We had no idea what was going to happen,” Mortimer says. “No one had ever done a big screening like that, and everyone was saying, ‘A climbing movie at the Boulder Theater? What’re you thinking?’”

Mortimer’s parents were so worried about low attendance that they bought 50 tickets for all their friends. Stressed by the pressure, Mortimer left town.

“On the opening night, I came back and saw a line of people literally winding around the block,” Mortimer says. “The show was entirely sold out.

There were such good vibes that we could’ve put anything up on the screen

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and everybody would’ve loved it.”

A decade later, Mortimer’s company, Sender Films, along with fellow film company Big Up Productions, will host the fifth annual Reel Rock Film Tour on Sept. 16 at the Boulder Theater. The largest climbing film event in the world, the Reel Rock tour will show at 150 different locations across five continents this year.

This time, the tour consists of five shorter films, including a look at Chris Sharma’s newest project in Catalunya, Spain; Daniel Woods’ and Paul Robinson’s efforts to advance the difficulty of bouldering; and footage of the little-known speed-alpinist Ueli Steck’s record-breaking ascents in the Alps.

Four cinematographers shot all the films, including Mortimer, fellow Sender Films founder Nick Rosen, Big Up Productions cofounder Josh Lowell, and cameraman Rob Frost.

The four filmmakers met 18 years ago as undergraduates at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Although none of them were studying film at the time, they all went on to pursue the obscure avenue of outdoor adventure films, eventually joining forces to create the Reel Rock Tour.

“The four of us make up a big portion of the people in the world who are making these cutting-edge climbing films right now, so it’s pretty strange that we were all at this tiny little school at the same time,” Rosen says.

After graduating, Lowell went on to found Big Up in 1997, inspiring Mortimer to divert from his scholastic path as a geologist and pursue film.

After the successful reception of Scary Faces, Mortimer made his second movie, Front Range Freaks, in 2003, using the profits to pay his way through film school at University of

Mabon Autumn Equinox Concert — Featuring Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann from Yonder Mountain String Band. Benefitting victims of the Fourmile Fire. 2 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303-823-0848.

Sunday, Sept. 19

Hometown Parade — To honor the Fourmile firefighters. 2 p.m.

15th and Pearl streets, Boulder, 303-443-3697.

Monday, Sept. 20

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

Tuesday, Sept. 21

Advanced Blogging — Lesson one: how to spell. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Wednesday, Sept. 8

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation — Learn a form of meditation and clear your mind. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319.

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Southern California.

“When I went to USC I thought I would never do another climbing movie; in fact, I was kind of embarrassed by it,” Mortimer says. “I later realized that because the climbing community was so psyched and supportive, I had found a niche. It developed from this embarrassing thing to this really cool thing.”

Mortimer completed school and returned to Boulder to establish Sender Films. Meanwhile, Rosen was working as a consultant specializing in international relations in New York.

“Pete just called me up and asked if I wanted to work as a writer for this film he was making,” Rosen says. “It seemed like an antidote for the crazy life in New York I was living, so I decided to come out to Boulder on a provisional basis for a few weeks.”

Weeks turned into months, and eventually Rosen surrendered to life in Boulder, phoning his roommates in New York and requesting they sell all the belongings he had left behind.

“I had to start from zero. I left this career that I had invested a decade of education and work in,” Rosen says. “It was never my objective to make climbing films; that was Pete’s thing. It is an incredibly romantic proposition though, this idea of the dirtbag hero

who goes out and executes these rivals, Big Up and Sender Films have Olympian feats in total obscurity often combined their efforts on films, because he loves it, not because there’s such as King Lines in 2007. They’ve money in it. Then he comes down and found that the success of one company cooks up some ramen in the back of only furthers public interest in climbhis car — it’s ripe for storytelling.” ing films, which ultimately benefits the Since Rosen and Mortimer joined other. forces, Sender Films “We’re all has won the World really good On the Bill: Reel Rock Film Tour shows at the Tour award at the friends, but we Boulder Theater on Thursday, Banff Mountain always make fun Sept. 16. Showings are at 6 p.m.

Film Festival, Best of each other’s and 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $18.50. 2032 14th St., Boulder, Climbing Film at work,” 303-786-7030. the Kendal Film Mortimer says.

Festival and an “Josh is much Emmy for Sports more of an artist Cinematography, among other awards. and a purist. He loves the physical athTheir most recent project, a six-part letic discipline of climbing, whereas television series co-produced with Nick and I are storytellers. We’re National Geographic International, interested in the psychological side, was recently released on DVD. The the adventures and the crazy characteam is currently working on a docuters.” mentary about the history of climbing While Big Up is located in the in Yosemite. media mecca of New York, Mortimer “Right now we’re doing more and Rosen have found Boulder to be a things simultaneously than we’ve ever superb location for Sender’s headquardone before,” Mortimer says. “It’s ters. Rather than being hindered by amazing how much the climbing film their distance from the entertainment industry has grown in the last decade hubs of the country, Rosen finds the and become a huge part of the climbspace refreshing. ing scene that didn’t even exist before.

“Increasingly, people can be part of It’s been really inspiring to help grow Hollywood or New York without actusomething out of nothing.” ally having to be there. I think we’re a Rather than seeing each other as good example of that,” Rosen says.

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“Those big media centers seem kind of tapped out and bereft of good ideas. I think that the notion that you have to be in L.A. or New York to be cool and creative is long gone. It feels good to be kind of an outsider from that and to be part of the galaxy of local filmmakers in Boulder.”

Mortimer agrees, noting that the entrepreneurial nature of Boulder combined with the strong presence of outdoor enthusiasts has resulted in a cache of other local outdoor filmmakers, including Warren Miller, Serac Adventure Films and the Ocean Preservation Society, makers of Oscarwinning documentary The Cove.

“In the end, as a filmmaker you can do the smartest thing, the most clever thing, or even the most beautiful thing and people won’t connect with it,” Mortimer says. “What people do connect with in climbing films is the metaphor. Someone has a vision or a dream and they go through this amazing journey internally and externally to achieve it. The people who appreciate that the most aren’t necessarily the hard-core climbers — they’re people like my grandma in New Jersey who’s like, ‘I get it!’ Anyone can connect with the journey of achieving a dream.”

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Building blocks of sound

Menomena comes back strongly with new album

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by Eli Boonin-Vail

ack in 2003, drummer Danny Seim was abusing employee perks at a Portland, Ore., Kinko’s. Using the store’s photocopiers, Seim produced copy after copy of the handmade flipbook he designed as packaging for his band Menomena’s debut album I Am The Blame Fun Monster. Three years later, their album Friend and Foe would feature Grammynominated album artwork by the award-winning graphic novelist Craig Thompson. But for the time being, Menomena knew nothing but obscurity.

A few months after their debut’s release, Pitchfork Media gave Menomena an unexpected rave review.

Seim, who had never heard of Pitchfork before he mailed them a copy of Blame Fun Monster, became acutely aware that his band’s profile was rising.

“We were all just 20-year-old kids from Portland, not really thinking we were going to make a career or anything. So it was kind of a magical thing when something as big as Pitchfork responded to a nobody with no label and no hype and no fans,” Seim says.

Suddenly, the trio of 20-somethings found themselves in as much of a national spotlight as an experimental band with only one album can get. Before they knew it, they were touring with bands like The National and working on their follow-up album, Friend and Foe. Rich with the unconventional instrumentation and production that Menomena established on Blame Fun Monster, the album built on Menomena’s ever-evolving sound and reached new heights. Critics continued to praise the band’s consistency in its experimentation.

“There was kind of a shift in the band at that point,” Seim says. “Once we’d signed to Barsuk to do Friend and Foe, we kind of became more of a band band. It was like, ‘OK, now we need to actually promote this and work for this and all these other things.’ ” Yet at the heart of things, Menomena remained true to their methods. Just like Blame Fun Monster, Menomena recorded and produced everything themselves. In addition, they continued to use unconven-

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tional instrumentation that often coupled guitarist Justin Harris’ saxophone skills with keyboardist Brent Knopf ’s glockenspiel and piano.

The band continued to use its recording/producing software, “Deeler,” to create its songs. Knopf developed Deeler as a college project before he came to Menomena. The program allows the three to use separate bits of improvised material recorded during jam sessions as the building blocks for their songs.

Using Deeler, one member of Menomena builds a song from scratch. He then turns the project over to another member to work on, who then turns it over to the third and final member when he’s had his share.

This process repeats itself until the band members are satisfied.

For Seim, this means that songs can form through group collaboration rather than through individual songwriting.

“We’re writing and recording simultaneously,” he says. “We’ve only got the headphones and we start playing things into the computer.”

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Menomena plays the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 21.

Doors at 8:30 p.m. Suckers and Tu Fawning open. Tickets start at $12. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

On the production of their most recent album, this year’s Mines, this process was essential to maintaining calm among band members. Failed marriages and heated disagreements haunted the album, and slowed its creation to a massive three years. But the band’s inherent level-headedness in the way they operate managed to salvage what at times seemed like a burnt-out album.

“None of us had any idea if this album was even going to come out,” Seim admits. “I mean, a year or two into this thing we’re just like, ‘What’s going on?

What’s broken about this?’”

Despite their personal troubles, the experimenters released Mines in late July. The album, packed with 11 fantastic tracks, proved as intricately complex as its title suggests, with vast and expansive varieties of sound. Once again, critics have reacted positively — Pitchfork gave the band an 8.2 out of 10.

Playing their songs live has always presented challenges to the band because of their dense instrumentation. In the past, Knopf used MIDI samples on his laptop to substitute for the instruments the band couldn’t play themselves. This year, they’ve added a fourth man to their tour so that they can get the most organic sound possible. Since Menomena writes their songs using Deeler, which is based off of improvisation, the band needs to learn their own songs before going on tour. Sounds complicated? It is.

“It’s always funny to be a cover band of yourself,” Seim says.

There are a lot of things about Menomena that make them surprising. Their coherent experimentation, diverse instrumentation, complex lyrics and raw talent add up to make a massively interesting band that’s constantly moving forward without getting off track. They have the enviable challenge of facing the problems that we would all have if our little experiments suddenly spiraled into massive successes, and they have managed to get past them again and again with the time-tested strategy of determination.

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Rogue Sound around town Meet some unknown veterans of Boulder

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here was a time when college bands were real bands with real instruments. It’s hard to believe if you live on the Hill and see DJs every weekend, but things used to be done sans laptop and it was awesome, better, back when the most expensive drum machines sounded the most like a real drummer; lately, the exact reverse is ideal, and drummers work hard to sound just like drum machines.

Rogue Sound is a band that wants to do it all. They’ve definitely given it a try over the last 10 years of collaboration — performing at more than 25 bars and venues across the Front Range, and with more than 20 appearances at the Fox already, the collective has had a lot of opportunity to give some new things a try.

On Sept. 16, opening for hip-hop experts Zion I, they are more than ready to show the Fox never be, defined by any single group member or that rhymes can be delivered with real instruments. artistic vision.

That merengue can be pretty fly Boulder is a small town, and dance music. That bossa nova swimming in a small pond has and reggae dub fit pretty tight taught the members something On the Bill Rogue Sound opens for Zion I at together. That a whole lot of about keeping it fresh. Guest the Fox Theatre on Thursday, Sept. things could happen. musicians can sometimes run 16. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are Drummer Matt Smart and the number of on-stage per$20. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. guitarist Mingus Fine formed formers up to eight or 10 — it Rogue Sound in 2000 and waded all depends on who’s around. through lineups and style trials They recently played a show at until a strong ska and reggae rhythmic backbone the Boulder Draft House and recruited a somewhat emerged. Things got more serious in 2004 when spontaneous horn and drum section for the gig. And Smart and Fine recruited regular help on horns from despite the sudden collaboration, the band fit right in Andrew McNew. Now that new “core” members Otis on the dance floor next to the DJ, Red Lion.

Lande on bass and Tonie G on vocals are tightening “We have lived in the same town playing this all the knots, Rogue Sound has evolved into a hipmusic for 10 years,” Smart says, “and the only way hop collaboration that never has been, and likely will that we can keep doing that is to switch it up over

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and over and over and over. That’s probably why we have such a big sound, always just involving so many different musicians. You can’t just have the same songs and expect people to keep coming back.”

That’s the beauty of hip-hop. You can sample pretty much anything, and as long as the drum thumps and the bass blasts, you’ll have a full dance floor.

Rogue Sound describes itself as somewhat bilingual. Either from the years that Smart spent living in Mexico or the proficient lyricism of Tonie G, the band has a taste for musical styles south of the border. It’s not uncommon for a band with roots in reggae and ska (or hip-hop, really), but Rogue Sound is really not afraid of it. Kumbia, merengue, banda, Mexican ranchera music, todo está bien.

The upcoming show at the Fox will showcase Rogue Sound in its element, and it also presents a chance to show what they can do after a decade of cutting their teeth in bars all over Colorado. They have opened for diverse, international acts such as Kool Keith, Eek-a-Mouse, Granola Funk Express and the Rebirth Brass Band, and with a variable, capable sound to support any of the above acts, Rogue Sound is more than able to compete with Zion I’s intelligent production and positive vibrations.

For Fine, “It’s actually meaningful because Zion I is like growing — they’re getting huge — and it’s positive hip-hop.

“Good music,” Fine continues, “means good dancing, good dancing means good loving, and everybody needs some good, sweet loving.”

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Former Boulderite’s new book of poetry focuses on life’s “white noise”

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here must be something in the mountain air. More and more young writers are coming to Boulder from far-flung American locales, unlearning who they thought they were as artists and people, and then (usually) moving on, spreading the cool, creative calm of Colorado elsewhere.

Naropa University graduate Jen Marie Davis, author of the beautiful new handstitched collection Sometime Soon Ago (Shadow Mountain Press, Golden), is a great example. Davis, an Ohio native, initially thought of herself as primarily a prose writer — and then primarily a self-chronicling poet-essayist when she first began dabbling in poetry. Davis’ time in Boulder, she says, taught her to slow down and not only appreciate but also chronicle what she calls life’s “white noise”: ordinary details we tend to overlook as unimportant but actually come to define our experience over time.

These days, Davis lives in Santa Fe, N.M., where she works as a book artist, co-edits Fact-Simile Press and engages in fairly complex poetic exercises that bloom out of the intense passion and focus she affords her craft. Sometime Soon Ago, however, presents both Davis’ debut solo effort and a time when she was just getting acquainted with her voice as a poet.

In brief moments such as “After Taos,” which follows below, Davis deftly and pleasingly opens the reader’s imagination vis a vis place, time and subject.

Instead of pointing us toward a concrete setting with a fixed meaning, Davis succeeds at conveying a feeling, and a range of possibilities.

After Taos What separated the morning from noon was not the stretch; instead, proximity: the well-placed promenade and song between drags of riverbed.

The short, succinct and unlocked poems of Sometime Soon Ago include references to New York cafes, dance classes, ornithology and the day-to-day struggle to keep a relationship vibrant. These passing flashes of a seemingly normal life stimulate the imaginations of patient, curious readers and suggest fluid and tantalizing implications that grow with each reading.

How Davis plays with tense, shape and sly pronouns — the word “she” is painted all over the proverbial walls of this book — nixed my preconceptions about poetry and meaning as I read Sometime Soon Boulder Weekly

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Ago last week on an airplane from New Mexico to Maine. In a recent chat, the poet herself told Boulder Weekly the profound elusiveness I discovered in her poems was no accident.

Boulder Weekly: It was surprising, after repeatedly hearing you read your more complex and abstract work in Boulder a few years ago — which I assumed was your older work — to read these charming Frank O’Hara-esque koans.

Jen Marie Davis: These were actually the very first poems I’d ever seriously written. I had been interested in the compression of time and memory and had written about it in longer [prose] forms. The synchroneity of form and content is very important to me; it seemed wrong to write about compression in a long form — I wanted to successfully communicate an idea or multiple ideas in as few simple lines as possible. At this time, I hadn’t read much poetry, either; certainly not Frank O’Hara — I’m glad to say that I have since.

So I was moving from prose — to be more specific literary journalism/creative nonfiction — to these poems, which actually began as the seeds of essays. So, instead of developing these “seeds” into essays, I decided to see if the ideas or themes translated simply in just a few lines. Eventually, with more reading, writing and understanding poetry and language, I was able to move from these to what you referred to as my previous work.

BW: How did your time in Boulder affect you as a person and as a writer?

JMD: Before I moved to Boulder, I had the mindset that unless I was working — writing, reading, researching — I was not being productive as a writer.

My time in Boulder slowed me down; I learned contemplative practices and mindful behavior. Noticing what I noticed and why I noticed became just as, if not more, productive for me as “working” and began to inform my writing. The poems in this chapbook all reflect what I would call short “non-moments” — the

kind of things that regularly happen to a person or the thoughts that may cross a person’s mind that tend to go unnoticed.

The “white noise” of life. Being in Boulder taught me how to be present and listen to and engage with the “white noise.”

BW: This writing seems much different from what outsiders generally consider the stereotypically free form and messy poetry Naropa writers produce. How did you transcend that style?

JMD: I’m not really sure what “stereotypical Naropa poetry” is. During the time I spent at Naropa, I encountered such a variety of aesthetics. I remember one poetry class in which no one was writing in a similar manner, everyone had different concerns, but everyone responded respectfully yet critically despite the differences. That’s actually one of the reasons I really love Naropa and is one of the most important skills that I learned there — how to read and respond to a variety of work. If my work is different from typically Naropa poetry, I would owe it to a background in magazine journalism/creative nonfiction. I read a lot of MFK Fisher, John McPhee, Annie Dillard, Anne Carson and philosophy. [Before coming to Boulder] I had never read On the Road, any Ginsberg, really no Beats at all.

BW: One of the most striking moments in Sometime Soon Ago is an opening line that reads, “She interrupts life to write it down.” Is the overwhelming urge to write ever a curse?

JMD: The curse of forgetting what I wanted to write down always outweighs the curse of writing.

BW: Who is she?

JMD: “She” is an eye, a lens and a position. After taking a lot of workshops in the personal essay and reading a lot of “I”s, I became bored with close personal experience, which led me to become interested in the gap that exists between a writer and third-person narration. Can I write essays in a third-person narration? What shift in perspective happens with the change of position?

BW: How did this project come about?

JMD: [Shadow Mountain Press publisher] Travis Cebula was familiar with my work and asked if I would submit a manuscript. I wrote most of these poems two and half years ago and knew that Travis had read and enjoyed them, so I thought that they would be a good fit. I’m very pleased with the book.

Marie Larson, a very talented poet and artist, designed the cover, which I think resonates very well with the contents. My biggest concern when I make a book through my press [Fact-Simile] is that the form resonates with the work. With Marie’s cover, the artisan paper and hand-stitched construction of the book, I think Travis achieved that aim.

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Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

Trauma: How Do We Care for Veterans, Refugees and Other Traumatized Persons? 11:30 a.m.

Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 720-304-6446.

The Wood Cut Print Exhibit. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Through Sept. 25.

music 18 Switchbacks. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Bill Kopper Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

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

Colin Robinson & Ramaya. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

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

James & The Devil. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Jason Vigil. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300.

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-5864116.

Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Steve Law. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Cafe, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003.

Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

events 5th Annual Reel Rock Film Tour. 6 p.m.

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

Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tango-

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Atomic Circus Salon Series. 7 p.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Living, 1637 28th St., Boulder, 303-476-8543.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com.

Boulder Business and Professional Women Meeting — With Theresa M. Szczurek. A Spice of Life, 5706 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-415-3780.

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

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Husbands. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Buffalo Belles Luncheon. 11:30 a.m.

Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU campus, 303492-8422.

Colorado Skies: Fall Skies. 7:30 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

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

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

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign Part 1. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Healing Meditation with Alan McAllister. 7-8:30 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Ste. 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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Akash Mital Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

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

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

Bonnie and Her Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Curly Taylor. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Dave Johnston of Yonder Mountain String Band. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Hippie Tendencies. 9:45 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-9749490.

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

Hot Soup & Smack Thompson. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Ironwood. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science.

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

Charles Deas & 1840s America — Oil paintings.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Nov. 28.

Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess — Various artists.

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Sept. 13.

Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Oct. 31.

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Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-530-1442.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Paintings by Melinda Myrow. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Sept. 30.

NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings

by Roger Mordhorst. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Sept. 25.

Shape and Spirit: The Lutz Bamboo Collection.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 19.

Shaped by Culture: New World Landscapes —

Photographs by Edward Ranney. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 26.

Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 9.

A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

Whimsy — Various artists. Rembrandt Yard OpenArts Gallery, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-1862.

The Wood Cut Print Exhibit. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Through Sept. 25.

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The LaPorte Brothers. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Laura Tsaggaris. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

Laurie Dameron. 6 p.m. Cafe de Paris, 908 Main St., Louisville, 303-665-9761.

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

Lynn Cassell. 6:30 p.m. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961.

Melissa Ivy. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Mike Mangione & The Union. 9 p.m.

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

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

Oakhurst. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

The Pines — With Justin Roth. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Zivanai Masango and Pachedu Africa.

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

events Adobe Photoshop: Compositing and Montaging. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com.

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427.

Disappear Here — Dance and video performance. ATLAS Building, CU campus, 303735-4577.

Free Fish & Chips — For anyone wear-

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Tuesday, Sept. 21 Gary Hart’s The Thunder & The Sunshine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, Sept. 22 Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel’s The Power of An Open Question. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Laser Dave Matthews Band. 9:30 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

Laser Red Hot Chili Peppers. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Many Faces of Hubble. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

PLAN Boulder Forum: What’s Likely In Store for SODA? 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, www.planboulder.org.

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

Snowboard on the Rocks. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, Sept. 18

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

Blind Child. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Bluez House. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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

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

Hot Soup & Smack Thompson. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Logo Ligi. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Mabon Autumn Equinox Concert — Featuring Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann from Yonder Mountain String Band.

Benefitting victims of the Fourmile Fire. 2 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303-823-0848.

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

Mojomama. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Peter Mulvey — With Danielle Ate the Sandwich. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

The Say-So Crazies. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Synergy. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Top of the Hill Faculty Series. 8 p.m.

Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696.

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com.

Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib

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theater Boulder Improv Collaborative: Improv Sampler. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sept 18.

Guys and Dolls. Presented by Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Through Sept. 23.

An Ideal Husband — Presented

by Upstart Crow Theatre Company.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-

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Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Presented by Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 24.

Sunset Boulevard. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Oct. 10.

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House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427.

Boulder Improv Collaborative: Improv Sampler. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance.

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

Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-9102236.

Fast Filmmaking. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Venturing Outside Photoshop. 10 a.m.

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

Sunday, Sept. 19

music Acoustic Jam. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Alberta Cross, Dead Confederate. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Blue Mountain Ranch Hands. 6 p.m.

Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Devon DeJohn. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Glenn Roth. 8:15 p.m The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Jazz At Johnny’s. 7 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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

Jeff Lambert. 9:45 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

New Cosmic Americans. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main Street, Gold Hill, 303-4921503.

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

events

Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.avery-

brewing.com.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:306:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303447-9772.

Families Celebrate Their Births — With Birth Assistants of Boulder. 12-3 p.m.

Foothills Community Park, 800 Cherry Ave., Boulder, 303-570-7942.

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

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

Hometown Parade — To honor the Fourmile firefighters. 2 p.m. 15th and Pearl streets, Boulder, 303-443-3697.

Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m. For more information, call 720-3013993.

Sunday Afternoon Tea ­— Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

Wine and Chocolate Tasting. 6 p.m.

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

The Yoga Journal Colorado Conference. YMCA of the Rockies, 2515 Tunnel Rd., Estes Park, 800-561-9398.

Through Sept. 26.

Yoga Rocks the Park. 2 p.m. Central Park, Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, Boulder, 970-390-4318.

Monday, Sept. 20

music Before the Fall — With others. 7 p.m.

Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-4636683.

Jazz Jam with Brad Goode. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-4435108.

Pete Kartsones. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

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

BoulderCountyAA.org.

Boulder Public Library Film Boulder Weekly

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Program — The Forgotten Village. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Eating to Fuel Young Athletes. 6:30 p.m.

Bauman College Boulder, 1128 Pine St Boulder, 800-987-7530.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

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

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

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

“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.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted

by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wednesday, Sept. 22

music Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

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

Focus! Focus! 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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

Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Weapons

Tuesday, Sept. 21

music

Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m.

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

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam.

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

Gullbeats, A New Day in a Bad Town. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

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

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

Tony Medina Showcase. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Advanced Blogging. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Avery Tap Room. 4 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4404324.

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.

CyberKnife Neurosurgery Seminar.

6:30 p.m. Fort Collins Marriott, 350 E. Horsetooth Rd., Fort Collins, 303-448-4620.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

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

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

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of Mass Creation. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

Rupert Wates. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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

events Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel’s The Power of an Open Question. 6 p.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

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

Performance Film Screening: Circle Describing a Cone. 7 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www. myspace.com/astrolandd.

Tea, Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St.,

Boulder, 303-449-0319.

WordPress: Customization. 6 p.m.

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

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Sept. 16 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Sept. 17 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303442-1665.

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

Saturday, Sept. 18 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Sunday, Sept. 19 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.

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

Wednesday, Sept. 22 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Monday, Sept. 13 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m.

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

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

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

Tuesday, Sept. 21 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

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

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

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The stimulus for sex

by Dr. Jenni Skyler

L

arry lost his house in the fire last week. Everything was gone — art, clothes and furniture. Everything expect for Rebecca.

Rebecca and Larry have been married for 33 years and have three kids and five grandkids. They feel blessed to have the most important thing to them — their family and each other.

Larry and Rebecca evacuated to a friend’s house in Denver. That night they made love. That evening, sex signified comfort, connection and reassurance. It was the best sex Larry has experienced in more than 20 years. For him, sex always means closeness, and showing love to Rebecca. For Rebecca, however, sex oftentimes feels like a sense of duty. She wants to give him a gift and knows that sex feels good to him. But Rebecca doesn’t define sex in the same manner as Larry.

Sex means different things to all of us, and thus, we all have various motives for engaging in it. A study in Sexuality & Culture found 237 reasons people gave for having sex. The classic top three include procreation, pleasure and to show love to a partner.

The study illuminates the concept of body-centered sex versus personcentered sex. Body-centered sex accentuates having sex for corporal pleasure while lacking an emotional backdrop.

Person-centered sex emphasizes the relationship and the emotional connection with a partner. Regarding gender differences, body-centered sex is found to be manifested more by men, while person-centered sex is more common with women. It’s like the old adage: women fall in love with people; men fall in love with genitals.

The redemption in this overstated stereotype is that as we age, the relationship becomes more important to men, while women learn to fully accept physical pleasures of the body. Sex therapist David Schnarch similarly points out that during adolescence and young adulthood we may hit our genital prime, where hormones are in the driver seat.

Yet in later adulthood, we awaken to our sexual prime, whereupon we assign more meaning to sex.

David, age 30, notes that he is initially drawn to have sex based on a visceral attraction for another. Yet when that attraction settles in deeper, sex Boulder Weekly

becomes love-making.

On the other hand, Shanna Katz, resident sexuality educator at Fascinations, is deeply connected to her bodily pleasure. She states, “When I orgasm during a certain activity, I feel almost spiritual, like I’ve taken off from the earth, and am flying among the planets, riding a shooting star. Nothing else has ever made me feel that way.”

Arielle, 28, has sex to give her vibrator a break and because she likes being naked with someone else.

Katie, a 46-year-old mother of three, loves sex for the connection and to remind her husband that she adores him.

Rita, 65, is engaged to Ralph, 70, and has sex twice a day for the multiple orgasmic pleasure Ralph gives her.

Ralph has sex to keep up with Rita.

Scientist Jared Diamond, author of Why Sex is Fun, explains that human beings are the only species having regular sex for reasons beyond procreation.

We have sex with various partners irrelevant of breeding, whether with the opposite gender, same gender, or alone. We have sex although we have no idea when we are ovulating. We have sex although we have stopped ovulating (menopause). Even when not lactating, female breasts are engorged with fat for visual stimulation and attracting a mate. And human penis size is uselessly too large. While a gorilla’s erect penis barely pushes one inch, and an orangutan gets a whooping 1.5 inches, the male human boasts an average erect penis of five inches even though he has a much smaller body compared to the neighboring monkey species. Human male penis size is unnecessary for complex sexual positions or for sexual stamina. The petite penis orangutan outnumbers us in intercourse endurance, and even performs a radical variety of copulatory positions while hanging from trees.

If size is irrelevant when executing necessary duties of urination and ejaculation, the only explanation is that the human penis is a symbol of virility — and thus, a symbol of why we have sex.

At the end of the day, as Jared Diamond says, sex is fun.

Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org

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Jennifer Jordan’s The Last Man on the Mountain. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

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ne of the more poignant memoirs I’ve read concerns a group of French soldiers in World War I. The men lost their way en route to the battlefield and mistakenly ascended a high, steep ridge. From that unintentionally safe vantage point, they witnessed the horrendous slaughter of their comrades in the valley below.

The soldier who recollected the incident contrasted the haven of the hills with the murderous scene below in graphic detail and dreamlike serenity. Captured in that moment was the provocative, helpless, bittersweet grace of immunity.

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By no means do I aim to invoke the gravity of trench warfare when describing the recent catastrophic Fourmile fire. However, my own experience shares a similar theme: vibrant, anxious isolation and a jarring sense of safety echoing in small degree the sentiment of those misguided soldiers.

It was Sept. 6, and I had just summited Bard Peak out of Watrous Gulch in the company of my border collie, Fremont. Our goal was to traverse four 13,000-foot peaks, and from the summit of Bard, we could see our final destination, 13,352-foot Engelmann Peak. The cloudless sky blazed a bright, ozone-blue and a fierce wind bullied us as

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Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303494-9735.

Organized Travel & Packing Tips Clinic. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7868406.

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

Wednesday, September 22

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

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we trekked from ridge to ridge. No trails, no other hikers, only the demoralizing and malicious wind keeping us company. Gusts generated by a recent cold front roared up west-facing gullies, producing an unnerving, menacing, deep hum. While casually orienting myself to our proposed summits, I first saw the enormous plume of smoke seemingly superimposed on the deep blue canvas of sky to the east.

The momentary shock of the unexpected scene gave way to analysis of the choking cloud, whose hue was rapidly shifting from soft, gray fluff to grim, uniform black. The gradient into darkness was particularly disturbing; it meant more than trees were caught in the inferno. I struggled to place the fire — too far east to be Winter Park, too close to be Boulder. Maybe somewhere south of Nederland? All I knew was I was miles away and safe beyond measure. Vivid red plants and green grasses blended with the deeply saturated blue sky, creating a dreamlike, alpine atmosphere. We continued our hike, the ever-growing cloud looming like a bad memory on the eastern horizon.

In this era of instant information, I was without connection to the outside world, yet I had a unique and unexplained view of something profound as it unfolded. Smoke pumped from the crucible with profane indifference and I, free of threat, bore witness to the incineration of irreplaceable memories.

The conclusive sensation was that of simulated enlightenment, a sentiment I had first acknowledged as a child imagining gazing down from the lofty clouds of heaven on the soulless pets and friends I loved, eternally bound in the fires of hell. Having shed those illusions of youth, the empty reward of safety still wells up when passing car wrecks or in the company of the terminally ill. There is undoubted gratitude, the selfish “better him than me” mentality, but also sympathy and injustice.

Much like the French troops, I was completely safe, a mere observer to misery. Going home meant to confront the darkness and to detach myself from the mountainous sanctuary — to wander into battle. Impregnable safety in an unsophisticated notion, one that evolves into daring empathy.

Mountaintops only offer us glimpses of elevated awareness; we cannot stay. Home was somewhere in the billowing smoke, and I took a deep breath of clean, unpolluted air before descending to the beacon that enigmatically draws one willingly into chaos.

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n Sept. 19, the first-ever Colorado Cycling League mountain bike race will be held at Chalk Creek Ranch in Nathrop.

Club cycling teams from 14 regional high schools, including a team from Wyoming, will be competing in the race.

Committee Chair Kate Rau helped bring high school cycling to Colorado, modeling the league after high school programs in northern California.

“I am absolutely thrilled that the mountain bike community, coaches, riders and parents are supporting this endeavor with such a high level of involvement,” says Rau. “I believe this will be the largest field of mountain bike racers in grades 9-12 in Colorado history. I’m super-excited for this first race!”

There will be local school-based teams from Boulder, Lyons, Monarch and Fairview, and highschool-aged riders are encouraged to enter even if their schools do not sponsor a team. The first event in Nathrop features 128 riders.

“Riders that want to race can do so as independents,” Rau says.

“Races are a fantastic opportunity for riders, volunteers, and supporters to connect.”

Organizers say the Colorado Cycling League fills a void in varsity sports. With the state’s rolling hills, diverse single track and cycling heri-

tage, the only surprise may be that it took so long to come into being.

Rau sums up the importance of this new outlet.

“I’m a huge proponent of any outdoor activity for youth,” she says.

“Mountain biking at the high school level is bound to influence kids in many ways, from being physically active, making healthy choices, instilling independence and confidence, creating a positive peer culture, to having a blast! This type of program is an excellent way for the community to support youth. I think that prevention is much cheaper than intervention.”

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

Colorado Cycling League Schedule: (www.coloradomtb.org/race/ index.htm) Sept. 19: Race 1 Chalk Creek Ranch, Nathrop Oct. 3: Race 2 Devils Thumb Ranch, Fraser Oct. 17: Race 3 Bear Creek Lake Park, Lakewood Oct. 31: Race 4 (state championships) Peaceful Valley, Elbert

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estaurants large and small are donating food, money and more for firefighters and evacuees affected by the Fourmile Canyon Fire.

Chris Rosen, owner of downtown tea and coffee shop Atlas Purveyors, turned his café into an unofficial drop site for food and toiletries on the Wednesday after the fire. He got the message out via Twitter and has personally donated about $250 worth of goods — including 100 pounds each of cat food, dog food and cat litter.

And when he learned volunteers at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley were working late into the night, Rosen sent over an assortment of refreshments from Atlas, including coffee, tea and pastries.

As for giving out food at the café, however, Rosen says most people coming in are looking for an hour or two of ordinary.

“Everyone who came in here who was evacuated has refused to accept anything,” Rosen says. “This is just me editorializing, but I think they want one part of their day to be normal.”

Rosen says he plans to keep accepting donations as long as they’re needed.

On the other end of Pearl Street, Spruce Confections has been reaching out as well. Owner David Cohen, who was also evacuated, says his shop provides free coffee and pastries to evacuees, and will continue to do so for as long as need be.

“We’re going to play that by ear for now,” he says.

When he found his home had escaped almost all damage from the fire — one bedroom had moderate smoke damage — Cohen decided to help those who hadn’t been so lucky.

“We just took in a family, and we’re expecting them [to stay] for 45 days,” he says.

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ner for firefighters based at the Boulder Reservoir and free entrées for fire evacuees.

According to Bryce Clark, spokeswoman for Big Red F, the restaurants have fed about 500 evacuees.

In addition, Zolo donated $1,250 in cash from a coin margarita special.

The restaurants also donated sales from food and drink specials over the Sept. 11-12 weekend, but figures for how much money was raised weren’t immediately available.

Local restaurants and cafes donating food, money or services to residents and firefighters include:

Cohen says he’s also baking 600 cookies for a picnic event being held Sept. 16 at the Chautauqua Green for evacuees, firefighters, volunteers and their families. The event is organized by Hugo Matheson, head chef at The Kitchen. Other participating chefs and restaurants include Big Bang Catering, Chef Bradford Heap of Salt, Chef Lachlan MackinnonPatterson of Frasca and the Big Red F restaurant group. For more information on the event, visit www. fourmilefirehelp.com.

Boulder Big Red F restaurants — The West End Tavern, Zolo Southwestern Grill, Centrino Latin Kitchen, Jax Fish House and Happy — have donated more than $13,000 worth of food, including din-

Atlas Purveyors, 1505 Pearl St. Centro, 950 Pearl St. Modmarket, 1600 28th St. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St. Half Fast Subs, 1215 13th St. Happy, 835 Walnut St. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St. Ozo Coffee Company, 5340 Arapahoe Ave Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Suite F Salt the Bistro, 1047 Pearl St. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway St. Spruce Confections, 767 Pearl St. StreatChefs, lunch at 1606 Conestoga, 5-7 p.m. at Chautauqua West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St. Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Ave. Whole Foods Market, 2905 Pearl St., 1651 Broadway, 2584 Baseline Rd., 2031 30th St., 1275 Alpine Ave., 1821 30th St. For updates to this list, visit www.boulderweekly. com.

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aving recently spent the last butter infused with fine herbs. Although I several weeks catching up grew up on sloshing these toothsome on Mad Men, I was craving leaves through Best Foods mayonnaise, a decadent lunch with a this rich dip perfectly balanced the luxuritouch of the old school. ous qualities of the butter with the slightly Granted, I wouldn’t be having a threesharp-tasting herbs. The tender but not martini repast, but I was seeking someinsipid texture of the artichoke leaves thing with a sense of tradition and a soupthemselves was dead-on, and I realized con of ring-a-ding-ding comfort. Where that most of my home attempts at preparthen, to indulge my inner Roger Sterling? ing this thistle are woefully overcooked.

Downtown Boulder’s Brasserie Ten Going whole-hog decadent, we split Ten appeared to be just the ticket. It posthe $69.95 brasserie platter, a split-level sesses wood panels, a full bar and an overtray of seafood that will adequately feed all ambience that isn’t just typical moderntwo people. On the top layer was a martini ist minimalism. Moreover, some of the glass (Roger would approve) loaded with crowd here shares the professional tie-andsalmon tartare. Asian influenced, these button-down wardrobe in evidence among diced bits of chilled fish were marinated in the partners at Sterling Draper Cooper shitake, sesame oil and orange. This dish Pryce. Traditionalism’s also in evidence on had a refreshing taste, although the earthy the menu: onion soup topped with cheese, quality of the mushroom presented a jarescargot, steak frites and seafood platters. ring contrast to the fish’s delicacy. Chilled Other items such as a hot dog dressed mussels and cocktail shrimp consisted of with mornay sauce and gruyere cheese as he French dip sandwich likely originated not in Europe, but muscular specimens that were unquestionwell as French dip sandwiches (these likely in Los Angeles. Two restaurants lay claim to being the birthably fresh. originated in L.A.) may not be strictly place of this classic, Philippe’s and Cole’s Pacific Electric The stars of the show, 18 Chesapeake authentic. Yet they are still consistent with Buffet. Philippe was actually French, which lends legitimacy to and Kumomoto oysters, didn’t disappoint. the brasserie’s comfort food tradition. his claim that he accidentally invented the sandwich after a The Chesapeakes were the larger of the Vegetarians can find satisfaction in the roll fell into a pan of roasting juices and his policeman customtwo, and lent themselves well to a smidgen Parisian Pasta with its asparagus, fennel er said he would take his roast beef with the dipped bread. of fresh cocktail sauce to complement their and goat cheese, and there’s also a meatless Cole’s story is that the sandwich originated at the request of a fresh, briny taste. Even better were the crepe. customer who had just come from the dentist and found the more diminutive Kumomotos, whose Feeling decadent, friend Kuvy and I undipped roll too hard to eat. inherent sweet-salty qualities rendered any began lunch with an appetizer of $10.95 garnish superfluous. While this brasserie filet mignon steak tartare. I figured this platter isn’t inexpensive, it’s a worthwhile raw beef starter would approximate something Don suspect the restaurant did the responsible thing and splurge considering the quality and quantity of seaDraper and Roger would enjoy at Manhattan’s veneromitted the traditional raw egg. Nevertheless, this food. Couple that with the casually elegant setting, able 21. The usual pros and cons of filet manifested preparation amply satisfied my annual craving for and you have a brasserie appropriate for everything themselves in this dish: velvety tenderness on one uncooked beef. from a Mad Men business lunch to an intimate assighand, and a milder flavor than cheaper cuts on the Next up was a lighter appetizer of $6.50 steamed nation. other. The caper flavor overshadowed the beef, and I artichoke, neatly trimmed and presented with a dip of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town

Smoke, heat can spoil food Boulder County health officials are warning that food exposed to fire, even indirectly, can be dangerous. Heat from the flames can activate bacteria in canned food, causing spoilage, and smoke fumes can contaminate food in permeable packages. Also, the chemicals used to fight fires contain toxic materials that can contaminate food. Power outages can also lead to food spoilage. When in doubt, throw it out, health officials say.

If you have spoiled food caused by the fire, you can dispose of it at the Western Disposal Transfer Station, located at 5880 Butte Mill Rd. and open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For more information, call 303-441-1457.

Halfway to St. Patty’s On Friday, Sept. 17, to mark the halfway point to St. Patrick’s Day, the Baker St. Pub in Boulder, located at 1729 28th Street, will offer a complimentary basket of fish and chips from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The only catch is you have to be wearing green. For more information, call 720-974-9490.

Salt’s birthday dinner Salt Bistro opened in Boulder one year ago, and to honor that event, as well as to thank the community for its support, it is offering a three-course dinner showcasing both organic and local produce, for $31 a person through Sept. 23. The first course is a choice of organic corn chowder with Long Family Farm bacon, roasted beet salad or basil pesto flatbread. For the second choice, guests can choose a selection of summer vegetables, Colorado

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striped bass or Gold Canyon nevernever hanger steak. The two dessert choices are dark chocolate caramel salt tart or an organic Colorado peach cobbler. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit The School Food Project. Salt is located at 1047 Pearl St. For more information, call 303-444-7258.

Boulder’s own beer ‘fest’ Big, sour, hoppy, crazy, complex, interesting, odd and world-class, beers of all varieties will be at the Avery Tap Room for the week of the Great American Beer Festival. Avery will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day through Sunday, Sept. 19, with special tappings every day at noon. For a list of which beers will be tapped each day, visit www. averybrewing.com.

As always, 21 other Avery beers will also be on tap, including many brews only available at the Tap Room. Avery Brewing Company is located at 5757 Arapahoe Ave. For more information, call 303-4404324.

Six-packs for everyone Anheuser-Busch is sending more than 51,000 cans of drinking water to Boulder to help residents affected by the Fourmile Canyon fire. The water arrived in Denver on Monday, and the American Red Cross is working with the National Donations Network System to ship donations to those who need them.

A central warehousing operation is being set up in Louisville.

Anheuser-Busch donated more than 5 million cans of drinking water to victims of natural disasters in 2008 and 2009.

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y beloved football and enjoy the game. season is back in Oh, one last reason they rock for full swing, and I, football, you only need one hand to for one, can honenjoy them (no fork, no spoon) thus estly say, “Yes, leaving you a free hand for your beer.

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My work here is done. Now, folFall and football make me happy, low the directions, put some love into so I’m whipping up a “manly man” it and invite me over when it’s done. treat to make you happy, too: Broncos Brownies. Real creative, I Broncos Brownies know.

1/2 cup unsalted butter I’m actually not sure about the 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips manly meter on a brownie, but rest 1 tsp. instant espresso powder assured these babies will be chock (optional) full of goodness and something you 1 tbsp. cocoa powder can really sink your teeth into. I 1 cup brown sugar guess we could call them Buffs 1 tsp. vanilla Brownies as well, with fingers 3 eggs crossed that the Buffs are manly men 1 cup flour this season. There are batches of 1/4 tsp. salt brownies in it for 1 cup peanut butthem if they are. ter chips I’m Brownies make 1 cup sliced great treats for almonds whipping football parties as 1 cup roughly they are great chopped walnuts up a grab-and-go despowdered sugar for ‘manly serts, and once dusting they are ready and man’ treat Preheat oven sitting on their platter, which I to 350 degrees. to make Butter or lightly assume might be a you happy grease an 8x8-inch fancy plastic footbaking pan (or line ball-shaped thingwith foil with extra amajig, you don’t edges to easily lift have to worry out brownies). about them. No heating up, adding Melt butter and chocolate in garnish or keeping refrigerated. And medium saucepan on low, stirring if you are enjoying the game at a constantly. Add in espresso powder friend’s house, these travel very well. and cocoa powder and stir until disHere’s hoping the Buffs can do the solved. Take off heat and stir in same this season. Ba-dum-ch. brown sugar and vanilla. Add in eggs I am stuffing these brownies full of semi-sweet chocolate chunks, pea- one at a time, and stir until well combined. nut butter chips, walnuts and sliced Mix in flour and salt. Fold in peaalmonds. The great thing is, once you have the recipe for the brownies, nut butter chips, almonds and walnuts. Pour into prepared baking pan. you can add whatever you like.

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Dust with powdered sugar. Serve at You noticed I didn’t proclaim my room temperature. Enjoy! love for the New York Jets yet. I got You can watch the Dessert Diva every read the riot act from a few readers Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel 2. To last year, so I will try and keep it contact Danette at the station, visit under my apron this season. I’m not 2thedeuce.com, and click on Daybreak making any promises, though. For now, I’m all Broncos and Buffs, and I on the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments and suggestions, write to jdrohope that whatever team you supmega@aol.com. port, you whip up these brownies

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Zoe Ma Ma 2010 10th St. Boulder 303-545-MAMA

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here’s not exactly a San Francisco-style Cantonese menu at Zoe Ma Ma, which features authentic Chinese street and home-cooking. Sure, they have pot stickers and steamed bao, the pork-filled dim sum white buns. But there are also northern Chinese noodle dishes and zong zi, a sticky rice-filled Chinese tamale wrapped in bamboo leaf and freighted with pork. One standout is the special Sichuan Braised Beef noodle, a mix of melt-in-your-mouth meat and impeccably prepared pasta.

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Hush www.hushdenver.com

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ush is an intriguing concept, a private supper club with no fixed address.

The aim is to spotlight up-and-coming chefs in a non-restaurant setting. Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area was held at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured smoked tomato gazpacho and port-braised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush plans to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list by registering at www.hushdenver.com.

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Restaurante 100% Mexicano 2850 Iris Ave., Boulder 303-440-4141

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The menu includes staples like tacos with freshly made corn tortillas, quesadillas, tamales with various stuffings, and torta sandwiches. There’s also a selection of platos, such as tequila-sautéed shrimp and a carne asada platter.

Rueben’s Burger Bistro 1800 Broadway, Boulder 303-443-5000

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lending the disparate elements of cycling, Belgian gastronomy and burgers, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a recent addition to the downtown Boulder scene. The menu highlights burgers, such as the bacon-bleu cheese Spoke, and all are available with a choice of proteins, including natural beef, buffalo, house-made veggie and poultry.

Other features include entrée salads, mac and cheese, and mussels, along with an array of Belgian draft beers.

Jet’s Espressoria

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2116 Pearl St., Boulder 303-247-0124

et’s Espressoria is an inviting Pearl Street spot that serves up full-bodied, fair-trade organic coffee with subtly spicy tones. In addition to the java, the other star attraction is the baked goods crafted on site, including scones, muffins and other pastries, notably the exemplary chocolate chip cookies. These are enticingly plump treats, dripping with buttery flavor and tantalizingly melted chocolate chips, served warm straight off the cookie sheet.

Basil Flats 1067 S. Hover Rd. Longmont 303-776-1777

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inspired menu. It includes flatbread pizza, sandwiches, tapas such as hummus, and beer and wine to drink. It’s one of these places where there are choices for both vegetarians and carnivores, and the tapas menu encourages sharing. Highlights include the arugala salad pizza, textbook perfect fries and grilled flatbread meatball grinders.

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ormerly Heaven Star, Broomfield’s Newport still serves up some of the finest Chinese around at exceptional prices.

Where else can you get a whole lobster cooked with ginger and scallions atop a platter of succulent yee mein noodles for $15.95? You can also request the classic Chinese-American tomato beef chow mein, as well as roast duck and several kinds of fried rice. They still serve dim sum, and their tea brunch is likely the best in Colorado.

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achi Sushi is an honest-to-goodness sushi bar nestled within the Niwot Market.

This isn’t a place for prepackaged, preservative-laden hand rolls prepared elsewhere.

Here, raw fish is sliced on demand, and the hot items are cooked to order. The reasonably priced menu features sushi, traditional donburi rice bowls, curries and some fish and meat entrees. Menu highlights include the grilled mackerel dinner, an elegantly simple choice, and the chirashi, a filling assort-

Sun Deli, Pizza & Liquor 2299 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-1128, 303-938-1078

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oulder Organic Pizzeria is a new, downtown establishment devoted to featuring organic and local ingredients, simply presented.

This space also offers gluten-free and vegan options at no additional cost. Menu items include salads and appetizers and, of course, pizza, available whole and by the slice. Top selections include a refreshing salad of baby arugula topped with real crab and drizzled with a unique dressing of olive oil and lemon.

The pizzas here feature such top-shelf ingredients as a truly sensual mozzarella, locally sourced Hazel Dell mushrooms and silky prosciutto.

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hile the Sun Deli still retains its selection of hot and cold sandwiches, pizzas, cheese steaks and other items that delight the carnivore, it’s also making great strides in broadening its menu for the meatless diner. This eatery draws upon a substantial palette of meatless ingredients to create vegan and gluten-free pizzas, as well as strombolis stuffed with herbivorous sausage and pepperoni. Parmesan sandwiches are also available in meatless versions, with the faux chicken interpretation being a particularly delicious and filling selection. Give it a try.

Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House

Sachi Sushi 7980 Niwot Rd., Niwot 303-652-0238

he Mediterranean Restaurant is the proverbial old reliable of Boulder eateries. Its voluminous assortment of Southern European pastas, sandwiches, tapas, salads and main plates means that anyone’s dietary restrictions or plain old pickiness can be ably accommodated.

Highlights include tapas items like bacon-wrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts such as crème brulee.

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oulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House takes Mexican fare to a more elevated plane by offering memorable ambience, a gourmet experience and prices to match. But the food does match up to the prices, and includes a first-rate chicken mole as well as a sophisticated shrimp tamale that balances the taste of corn with delicate seafood. End with a coconut flan, and you’ve got an elevated “south of the border” experience.

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he menu here is a blend of traditional pub grub and breakfasts as well as more contemporary sandwiches and small plates. Entrées top out at $11.99 and include such UK stalwarts as fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and pot pies.

Sandwiches include standard-issue clubs and Reubens, while the Euro small plates offer sophisticated tastes of seared tuna, roasted piquillo peppers and an exquisite Thai shrimp skewer.

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he robbers work with a confident, brutal and bracing efficiency. And the same could be said of their director.

Ben Affleck’s The Town is the work of a filmmaker with an eye for faces, an ear for dialect and a light hand on the editor’s shoulder. It’s the best heist picture since Heat, and it confirms Affleck, who co-wrote the adaptation of a Chuck Hogan novel, is no Gone Baby Gone fluke.

Set in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, The Town is about a profession that has consumed generations there — bank robbery. Doug (Affleck) picked it up from his dad, who’s in prison for life. His pal Jem (the terrific Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker) was born into the biz, too. Their crew knocks over the occasional armored car or bank. Not too often, mind you. They don’t need the cash, or the hassle of the FBI getting close to them.

They splash bottles of bleach all over crime scenes, sweep up hair from barber shops to leave in their stolen getaway vans — which they then torch. DNA evidence?

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As unlikely as all this seems, Affleck makes it work.

Though he can’t resist the occasional personal confession delivered with the far-away eyes of a soliloquy, the romance’s bizarre nature never takes center stage. This is a movie about a milieu and the hard people who inhabit it.

Renner brings a Cagney-like short-guy/chip-on-hisshoulder intensity to Jem. Blake Lively plays Jem’s toohot/too-stoned younger sister. And the great Pete Postlethwaite is the “florist” who sets up these robberies, and has for decades. Guys with thick Boston accents break down the code that these men live by — “Did his time like a man.”

And the robberies, from the opener to the “one last job” that heist pictures have lived off of for decades, are as fast and furious as the real thing. This crew arms itself and gears up, but this isn’t Takers, with its overthe-top “How can you turn a profit spending that much on a caper?”

Best of all is the movie’s sure sense of place, as Affleck shoots chases through the narrow streets and tentative, romantic dates in the distinct, off-the-touristtrack corners of the city.

He’s directed and starred in a thoroughly involving, perfectly entertaining thriller, and one that celebrates the rough edges of his Town without polishing them off. (c) 2010, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.).

— MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Comedy, with flashes of Hughes

he ghost of John Hughes smiles upon Easy A, a film that freely and giddily borrows from and pays tribute to Hughes’ famous Holy Trinity of ’80s teen angst comedies.

Like those films — Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — Easy A taps into teen insecurities, teen posing, the maddening melodrama of teen life. And it takes that angst seriously — serious with a bemused, arched eyebrow.

Emma Stone (Paper Man) is our heroine, Olive, an Ojai, Calif., teen who suffers that curse of high schoolers — anonymity.

She’s got a busty, bombshell best friend, Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka). And she has a boy she’s had a crush on since eighth grade (Penn Badgley), a guy who dresses up as the school mascot.

What Olive needs is “an identifier,” Rhiannon declares. But what Olive settles on throws her whole world for a loop. She invents a boyfriend and a night of hot sex. In the Twitter and text universe of high school, word travels faster than ever. As the school’s resident holy roller Boulder Weekly

It’ll be the wrong DNA. They’re not geniuses. They’re just drawing on generations of experience.

But one robbery puts Claire (Rebecca Hall of Vicky Cristina Barcelona) in their way. She’s pretty, which Doug notices through his disguise. She’s local, which he picks up on. She works for the bank and tripped the alarm, which he hides from the others.

And when they kidnap and blindfold her, he’s the one who whispers, “No one’s going to hurt you.”

The feds, led by an intense Jon Hamm of Mad Men, can’t get much out of her. But Jem, a two-time loser, isn’t in the mood to take chances. Doug isn’t hearing it.

“She’s already scared,” he says.

“Maybe not scared enough,” Jem spits back.

Thus, an unlikely, far-fetched “relationship” begins — the still-traumatized Claire, who has no clue that this charming working-class Joe she met in a laundromat had once held a gun on her, and the good-hearted bank robber who has this great big lie hanging over his hopes for the woman of his dreams.

by Roger Moore Marianne (Amanda Bynes) fumes, Olive’s a “trollop.”

“The rumors of my promiscuity have been greatly exaggerated,” Olive protests, in private. But guys with image issues call on her, and finding out that her lover was fake convinces them to talk her — or bribe her — into pretending she hooked up with them. Thus, the girl studying The Scarlet Letter in class becomes the only one to “get” what Mr. Griffith, her teacher (Thomas Haden Church, droll as ever) is talking about. She dons bustiers and ever-shorter shorts and wears, with pride, a scarlet “A.” Olive finally has a reputation, and it’s a bad one.

The dialogue is sharp and funny, the language often high-school coarse as Olive discovers the consequences of the little lies that have “put me on the map.”

Her parents (Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci) are far hipper than the out-of-touch adults of John Hughes films. Olive can talk to them because their favorite expression is “no judgment.” Will they ground her?

“I wouldn’t know how to be grounded any more than you’d know how to ground.”

Screenwriter Bert V. Royal, an alumnus of Dave Chapelle’s TV show, peppers us with snarky wit and sarcasm, mixed in with tiny truths — “Let’s not mistake popularity for infamy.” One thing he and director Will Gluck stumble over is the whole narration by webcast thing — Olive sitting at her PC, telling this story to the World Wide Web. But they’ve cast and cut Easy A to be the sassy, modern equivalent of those much-loved Hughes films of yore. Everybody in this scores laughs, from the tart-tongued kids to the parents, teacher, guidance counselor (Lisa Kudrow, perfect) and zero-tolerance school principal (Malcolm McDowell).

Maybe there’s a third-act sag as Easy A shifts into full consequences mode. But it’s delightful to see a movie that listens to kids the way Hughes did and that shares the same life lessons Hughes taught.

In the end, it’s still only high school. You’ll get over it. (c) 2010, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.).

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Alpha and Omega Two mismatched young wolves must work together to make the long journey home to prevent war in their wolf packs. With the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — MCT/Los Angeles Times

Brotherhood

Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group.

Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.

Winner, Best Film, Rome Film Festival. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

The American As an assassin, Jack (George Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town. While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact, Mathilde. Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara. Jack and Clara’s time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Landmark Theatres Animal Kingdom In the Melbourne underworld, armed robber Pope Cody is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody, is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade while the youngest Cody brother, Darren, naively

Cairo Time

Resident Evil: Afterlife

This franchise has been re-animated more times than its undead monsters, but hey, at least we get to see Milla Jovavich kick ass again. navigates his way through this criminal world — the only world his family has ever known. When tensions between family and police reach a peak, cousin Joshua finds himself at the center of a coldblooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Around a Small Mountain On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he

speeds off. Later in town, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family’s travelling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little, is ingratiated into the circus and the lives of its performers. At Starz. ­— Denver Film Society Borders Lifted, Voices Raised In October 2009, Coloradans For Immigrant Rights and the American Friends Service Committee invit-

Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three-week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Centurion

The brutal and exhilarating action adventure Centurion is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the second-century Roman conquest of Britain. A gripping survival thriller set against a background of conquest and invasion, Centurion is written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers). At Starz. — Landmark Theatres Desperately Seeking Susan

Roberta seeks vicarious thrills through other people’s personal ads. But via a jacket, amnesia and mis-

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 Alpha and Omega Fri-Wed: 10, 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:25, 9:40 The American Thu: 1, 4:30, 7:05 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Devil Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:50, 3:55, 6, 8:10, 10:15 Dinner for Schmucks Thu: 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:50 Easy A Fri-Wed: 10, 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 12:55, 4, 7, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 1, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Going the Distance Thu: 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Inception Thu: 1:45, 5, 8:15 FriWed: 3:20, 6:45, 10 The Other Guys Thu: 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2:20, 5:10, 8, 10:35 Resident Evil: Afterlife Fri-Wed: 12:45, 2:10, 3:15, 5:45, 7:05, 9:35 The Switch Thu: 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 12:50, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 The Town Fri-Wed: 10:10, 1:10, 4:05, 7, 10:10 Vampires Suck Thu: 5, 7:10, 9:15 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 3:40, 6, 8, 10 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815

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Alpha and Omega Fri-Wed: 11:55, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:55 The American Thu-Wed: 12:20, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Animal Kingdom Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7:35, 10:15 Devil Fri-Wed: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 Easy A Fri-Wed: 12:55, 2:10, 4:40, 5:55, 8:25, 9:40 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 12:40, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 The Expendables Thu-Wed: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Get Low Thu: 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30 Fri-Wed: 12:25, 3:40, 7:20, 10 Going the Distance Thu-Wed: 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 Inception Thu-Wed: 12:30, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40 The Last Exorcism Thu: 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 10:35 p.m.

Machete Thu-Wed: 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:45 Nanny McPhee Returns ThuWed: 12:45, 4:05, 6:55 The Other Guys Thu-Wed: 11:50, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50 Resident Evil: Afterlife Thu-Wed: 1:30, 3:55, 6:25, 9, 11:35 Restrepo Thu-Wed: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 The Town Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1, 2:35,

4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 The American Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 Easy A Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Eat, Pray, Love Thu-Wed: 3:40, 7:05, 10:10 The Expendables Thu-Wed: 2:20, 5, 8, 10:30 Flipped Thu-Wed: 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:40 Going the Distance Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Inception Thu-Wed: 3:20, 7, 10:15 Machete Thu-Wed: 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Nanny McPhee Returns ThuWed: 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 The Other Guys Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Resident Evil: Afterlife Fri-Wed: 2, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Salt Thu-Wed: 1:40, 7:35 The Town Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4, 7:10, 10:20 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-3521992 Cairo Time Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Farewell Thu: 9:30 p.m.

Lebanon Thu: 7:15 Mao’s Last Dancer Thu-Wed: 4, 7, 9:40 Winnebago Man Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Get Low Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:20 The Kids Are All Right Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Animal Kingdom Thu: 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Girl Who Played with Fire Thu: 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 I’m Still Here Thu: 4, 7, 9:30 Mesrine: Killer Instinct Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 The Tillman Story Fri-Wed: 4, 7, 9:30 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-820-3456 Around a Small Mountain FriWed: 4:45, 7:30, 9:45 Borders Lifted,Voices Raised Sat: 3 p.m.

Brotherhood Thu: 5:15, 7:30, 9:35 Centurion Thu: 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Desperately Seeking Susan FriSat: 10 p.m.

Dogtooth Thu: 5, 7:15

Far From Heaven Tue: 6:30 p.m.

Restrepo Thu 4:45, 7:20 A Vida E Um Sopro Wed: 7 p.m.

UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 The American Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05 Easy A Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 12:50, 4, 7, 10 Going the Distance Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Inception Thu-Wed: 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 9:50 The Last Exorcism Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Machete Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Nanny McPhee Returns ThuWed: 1, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Resident Evil: Afterlife Thu:-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 The Town Fri-Wed: 1:05, 4, 7, 9:45 Vampires Suck Thu-Wed: 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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taken identity, Roberta comes to believe she’s Susan, a wild SoHo vamp wanted by the mob. Dez falls for “Susan” (Roberta); the real Susan has no idea she has a double; and Roberta’s husband, Jim, is thrown for a loop. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Devil The devil is among a group of people trapped in an elevator. At Flatiron and Century. Rated PG-13. — MCT/Los Angeles Times Dinner for Schmucks This remake of a French farce has a lot of funny people going for it. In it, a wealthy businessman hosts a monthly soiree for which his employees must bring an idiot to dinner, and the best idiot wins. Tim (Paul Rudd) feels conflicted about this, but into his life (and off the front of his car) bounces a pluperfect dolt, played by Steve Carell. While cast members like Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis play well, this schmucked-up American edition does the chortling for us and then scolds us for laughing. Or, in my case, not. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Dogtooth A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents’ isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen — an inscrutable scenario that suggests a warped experiment in social conditioning and control. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days devising their own games and learning an invented vocabulary — until a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the son’s libidinal urges, starts offering forbidden VHS tapes in return for sexual favors. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Easy A See full review on Page 51. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Eat, Pray, Love Ryan Murphy, creator of TV’s Glee and Nip/Tuck, directs this adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir about a woman (Julia Roberts) who realizes she is unfulfilled, divorces her husband and goes on a trip around the world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Expendables The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s all-star mercenary movie, is a deliriously retro ride into Reaganera blockbusters. The brawn and testosterone drip off the screen as Sly, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews and Randy Couture go out rootin’, tootin’ and shootin’ black and brown people in various Godforsaken parts of the world.

Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Roger Moore Farewell Engaging, emotional and riveting, Farewell is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history — about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Far From Heaven When she finds her husband with another man, a Connecticut housewife finds herself dealing with infidelity and the racial tension that epitomized the late 1950s at the advent of the Civil Rights movement in America. As a coping mechanism to deal with the emotional turmoil, she develops an unlikely friendship with her African-American gardener, who’s full of sage wisdom. At Starz. — Denver Film Society 54 September 16, 2010

Get Low For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). One day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral — a “living funeral,” in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Rated PG-13. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres The Girl Who Played With Fire Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon.

Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Going the Distance This film tells the story of a recession-era long-distance relationship and its hurdles, complete with calculated sexual raunch (mostly verbal), something like a real-world setting and delightful lead actors.

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March 21-April 19:

My friend Alana suffered from a mysterious ailment for months. Symptoms included vertigo, stomach pains and numbness in her legs. After being treated unsuccessfully by six health care practitioners, both mainstream and alternative, she went to see Dr. Ling, a Chinese herbalist recommended by a friend. Ling was a dour woman who made no eye contact. Her office was dingy, cramped and windowless.

Alana felt a bit depressed by the visit. Yet when she took Dr. Ling’s herbs, she felt better. In three weeks she was cured.

The moral of the story, Aries: The restorative agent you need may not come in the most inviting form.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

A spider spun gorgeous cobwebs on my car’s back window.

Anchored on the window wiper, they’re artfully woven spiral tunnels decorated with white flower petals sent by the wind.

This sculpture is so beguiling that it caught the attention of a stranger who was walking through a parking lot as I was getting in my car, and we struck up a conversation that led to him inviting me to a party where I had maximum fun. So kudos to me for not mindlessly sweeping away the cobwebs.

My decision to honor the spider’s small masterpiece proved fortuitous. I encourage you to learn from my example in the coming week. Be alert for nature’s subtle gifts.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

The band Tinariwen is from the Sahara Desert. Its members describe themselves as “soul rebels.” Their influences include traditional West African music, Santana, Jimi Hendrix and the Berber music of northern Algeria. I listen to them whenever I’m feeling wan and spiritually tired. Their infectious melodies and serpentine rhythms have a medicinal effect; they toughen me up, fueling the rowdy love I need to keep fighting for truth and justice. They’re your featured artist of the week, Gemini. As you face down the dangers of apathy, you could use the shot of courage and audacity they might provide. Listen here: tinyurl.com/ToughSpirit1 and tinyurl.com/ToughSpirit2.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Afghanistan is a wasteland of desert and rocks, right? Well, no, actually. It harbors huge deposits of minerals that are critical to the industrialized world. There’s a complication, though. To succeed, the arduous business of mining such minerals needs lots of water and electricity as well as political stability and a good infrastructure — all of which are in short supply in Afghanistan. In offering this scenario for your consideration, Cancerian, I’m suggesting that you make a comparable re-evaluation of a certain situation in your own life.

According to my reading of the omens, someone or something you’ve considered barren may in fact harbor resources that are useful to you. Here’s the rub: Are you in position to get access to them? If not, what would it take to do so?

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

For years I’ve been in love with a woman who is also in love with me. Hooray! But when I was younger, I sometimes got embroiled in obsessive adorations for unavailable women.

One didn’t want me, another was already in a committed relationship, still another lived 6,000 miles away, and a fourth was a lesbian. The pain of those impossible attractions eventually prodded me to retrain myself so as to not keep repeating the pattern. Can I convince you to learn from my hardship? According to my reading of the omens, the next few months should be a time when you put a strong emphasis on allies who are available, not on the other kind.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

I’ve been playing with a fun hypothesis lately: that absolutely everyone in the world has the power to heal someone else.

At one end of the spectrum are the doctors and shamans and therapists who can summon the means to cure lots of people. At the other end are individuals with the power to improve the health or smooth out the distortions in just one other person. Wherever you fit in this range, Virgo, I’m happy to tell you that your healing mojo is now at a peak.

Please invoke it in all of its intensity and point it in the direction of whomever can benefit.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

As I studied the astrological configurations for you, I realized I had to leave the bubble of my office. The omens suggested that you would benefit from escaping your usual frames of reference, and I felt I had to do the same if I

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wanted to get the best oracle. So I hiked out to my favorite boulder, where the creek forks into two streams. I sat down and addressed the spirits: What’s the advice Libras need most? Soon, a dragonfly landed on my shoulder. For the next 10 minutes I asked it questions about how you should proceed. Here’s the gist of its telepathic message: “I gently shatter illusions. My power is graceful and lilting. I sew up the wounds of snakes. Nothing eludes my uninhibited vision. I don’t bite. I am a professional and primeval transformer.”

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Of all the noses of all the famous actresses in the world, my favorite is Cate Blanchett’s. It’s strong and forceful, yet buoyant and irregular. It’s wider and fleshier than most noses that are considered “feminine,” but sensual and seductive. Best of all, it has so many different aspects, and looks so varied from a variety of angles, that it seems to shift its shape as you watch it. It’s gorgeous! Please take a cue from me as you evaluate the unacknowledged beauty in your own sphere, Scorpio. It’s crucial that you rebel against our culture’s absurdly generic standards.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

“The best guide in life is strength,” said Swami Vivekananda.

“Discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I’m making that your rallying cry. You not only have the right to align yourself with only the most potent, life-giving sources; you have an urgent need to do so. So be audaciously discerning as you evaluate each person and situation that comes before you. Ask, “Will this feed my vitality or will it not?”

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

What happens in your bedroom, Capricorn? What stories swirl around in your mind while you’re there? What secrets simmer and ferment? What feelings do you gravitate toward? Judging from the astrological omens, I’d say it’s time to expand your notion of what goes on in that sanctuary. How about embarking on a new playtime activity or introducing a pleasurable commotion you’ve never tried?

At the very least, unleash your imagination while relaxing there. Give yourself permission to have bigger fantasies. Tell yourself more epic stories, develop a more active relationship with your secrets, and welcome unfamiliar feelings.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Last May, rioters in Santa Cruz, Calif., trashed 18 buildings in the downtown area. But for one store owner, the mayhem brought unexpected blessings. She was able to tap into a city fund that not only paid for her broken front window, but also allowed her to make several improvements, like adding fresh paint, a new awning and better lighting. “I never would have thought when I got that call at one in the morning that this was going to turn into such a wonderful thing for us,” Diane Towns told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I predict a similar progression for you, Aquarius. An event that seemed like bad luck at the time will ultimately lead to good luck.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

French painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) declared early in his career that he wanted to “conquer Paris with an apple.”

He meant that he wanted to become a major force in the art world by revolutionizing the way that still-life paintings were done. He must have been successful, because two prominent modern painters, Picasso and Matisse, referred to Cezanne as “the father of us all.” Your assignment in the coming months, Pisces, is to make a splash in your own chosen field with an innovation that’s as simple and basic as Cezanne’s reconfigured apple.

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