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news & views If you can count a crowd and keep your virtue ...

Could the size of rallies change policy?

by Paul Danish / 6 Growing pains / 10 School told to sit in corner and think about what it's done

by Mathew Klickstein On the cover: Fire fight / 15 Community shares loss, pulls together during Fourmile Canyon blaze

by Boulder Weekly staff

buzz Living the electronic dream / 21 STS9's Murph muses on the dynamics that make Boulder great

by P.J. Nutting Overtones: Boulder Philharmonic gears up for 53rd season / 25 Overtones: The foodchain and their measured rise to the top / 27 Arts & Culture: The Venture Bros. is back after abrupt hiatus / 29 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Sophisticated Sex: Getting jiggy with the G-spot / 37 Cuisine: Prime time to pick a peck of peppers / 43 Cuisine review: Zoe Ma Ma / 45 Elevation: A review of action sports video cameras / 39 Screen: Machete; The Tillman Story / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

departments Letters: Wombs are not soapboxes; Danish, terrorists and the NY Times / 5 The Highroad: Dirty coal money / 5 In Case You Missed It: Double D double entendre; Racing pigeons / 11 Boulderganic: Boulder company comes clean on green / 19 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Wombs are not soapboxes [Re: “Personhood revisited,” News, Aug. 26.] They’re at it again. They just can’t stay out of women’s wombs and couples’ bedrooms. They say they are protecting the unborn or preborn or whatever language they can dream up to cast one cell, two cells, a few cells as “persons.” There was a resounding “no” in 2008. But they will keep it up until they get some state, any state, to pass it.

They hope for a legal challenge so that they can take it all the way to the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade. As a Coloradan, I don’t appreciate being used and abused to advance someone’s or some group’s religious dogma.

Our young women don’t remember a time when a woman didn’t have the right to make her own reproductive choices. They don’t remember that it took two Supreme Court rulings to make it legal for women to use birth control. And they assume that Roe v.

Wade is the law of the land — and will remain that way.

But there’s even more to this than a religious belief. Those of us of a certain age remember the days when society supported the notion that the proper role for women was “to keep them barefoot and pregnant.” Most men and many women subscribed to the notion that a woman’s place was in the “house,” not the “House.” And there are those who still believe this and who are deter-

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mined to turn back time to achieve it.

Amendment 62 is a measure that if passed, would change the state constitution and insert the government into the personal, private health care decisions that women and their families make every single day. The amendment seeks to extend legal and constitutional rights to fertilized eggs. It would ban

The Highroad

ld King Coal — what a dirty old soul!

Not merely dirty in terms of the gross pollution, mountain destruction and mine worker deaths that the Appalachian coal giants are causing, but also in terms of the massive loads of campaign cash that they’re shoveling into America’s elections in a crass effort to get lawmakers who’ll do their bidding in Congress.

In a letter to his corporate colleagues in the industry, a top executive of International Coal Group cited the recent Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate funds to be spent for or against candidates of their choosing. Let’s do it, he said, calling on them to create a huge pool of industry money “to defeat anti-coal incumbents in select races, as well as to elect pro-coal candidates.”

By pro-coal, he means Congress critters who’ll Boulder Weekly

all abortion, including in cases of rape, incest and when the woman’s life is at risk. It could also ban emergency contraception and commonly used birth control.

So keep saying no to these people.

Say it loud and say it often. And make sure no judge ever sits on a bench that could rob women and families of their

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Dirty coal money

by Jim Hightower oppose tougher regulations that can save workers’ lives and stop environmental destruction.

Among the targeted races is Republican Spike Maynard’s West Virginia effort to oust Democrat Nick Rahall. Maynard is a notorious industry sycophant and a crony of Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, one of the biggest and nastiest of the coal corporations. In 2006, Justice Maynard was caught vacationing on the French Riviera with

rights to self-determination. Talk to your friends, your neighbors, members of your extended family. Make sure that when November’s votes are counted that the rejection of the amendment is larger than the last time. Keep saying no for as long as it takes. Only you can see LETTERS Page 6

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Blankenship, even as his court was about to consider a $50 million case against Massey Energy involving mine worker deaths. Later, no doubt refreshed by his jaunt to the Riviera with the coal baron, Maynard cast the deciding vote to overrule the $50 million judgment against Massey.

Now that’s the kind of “pro-coal” congressman the industry has in mind! Along with ICG, Massey Energy is behind the push to flood several November elections with industry money. It’s a blatant attempt to install unabashed servants who’ll coddle Old King Coal’s dirty soul.

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Danish, terrorists and The New York Times [Re: What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero,” Danish Plan, Aug. 26] When Paul Danish and like-minded right-wing demagogues write antiIslamic screeds dissing Sufi community centers near Ground Zero, they are disempowering Islamic moderates and boosting the recruitment numbers of hard-line terrorists. When ignorant crackers attack law-abiding Muslims with knives in New York, or burn down mosque construction in Tennessee, they are marching to Paul Danish and friends’ tune, further empowering the suicidal nut jobs we all are so afraid of.

Is Paul Danish a secret Islamofascist because he is providing material support to terrorists with his hate speech?

We don’t even have to know for sure to have him indefinitely detained. We just need a note from our president or the CIA or the NSA stating that he is a terrorist. Since we are not in Pakistan or Yemen, we don’t even need a drone or a hellfire missile. A couple of rent-acops in a van armed with a Tazer can whisk him to the nearest airport and off to Baghram for interrogation. No muss, no fuss, no trial, no recourse, no bother. How great is that? God bless America! Make sure it’s a white, Christian God doing the blessing. If the terrorists’ goal was to destroy America, we are helping them by gutting the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution. We are also helping them by sending billions overseas when we can’t afford jobs, education or infrastructure at home.

Since the Weekly is an independent, egalitarian newspaper, I look forward to hateful screeds directed at other religious and minority groups written by ignorant, privileged white guys in the weeks to come. In the meantime, we could consider dedicating Ground Zero to a memorial for all of the innocent civilians killed worldwide by us in the years since 9/11. It would be an ongoing jobs project, ’cause they keep on dying.

Hats off to the rebranding of the occupation of Iraq. We withdrew 4,000 combat troops and are hiring 7,000 mercenaries to supplement the 50,000 “non” combat troops we left behind. Is this a “responsible” end of the “war”?

See you at the parade.

Scott MacInnis/Longmont You guys should really send this [Danish column] in to the New York Times, this is nothing short of great.

Barb Karr/Boulder

Why the secrecy around 60, 61 and 101?

[Re: “60, 61 and 101 would be disastrous,” Perspectives, Sept. 2.] Who is behind the Bad 3? They are trying very hard to make sure you don’t know.

And they’re trying very hard to make sure you don’t know what damage 60, 61 and 101 would do to Colorado.

Reporting this week in The Denver Post opened a window on the backers of these intentionally misleading, jobkilling measures as they attack the process of creating the “Blue Book,” the state-prepared voter guide. The only backer of these initiatives who will speak refuses to do so publicly. In fact, she will only communicate with the state by e-mail. The Post says this is because “proponents were not interested in meeting in person.”

But the e-mails are instructive. In one, the backer likens the nonpartisan analysts in charge of developing the Blue Book to Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolph Hitler’s top lieutenants.

Seriously!

Pledge to vote no on the Bad 3.

The name on the e-mails is Natalie Menten, who bills herself as a champion of transparency. In 2009, when running for Lakewood City Council, she told The Denver Post that all workings of government “should be disclosed early on by using every method of notification available. Lack of information is misinformation.” If transparency is so important to her, why won’t she even show her face?

“Good governance depends on transparency, so Colorado voters ought to ask themselves why proponents of a trio of tax-slashing measures are so stridently arguing to keep a fact-based analysis of them out of view,” The Denver Post said in an editorial on Sept. 1.

The Post notes that the phrasing and use of capitalization in e-mails from Menten looks highly similar to two other e-mails the state received directly from Doug Bruce. That suggests Doug Bruce is just hiding behind Natalie Menten.

Bruce is accused of violating the state Constitution for failing to disclose who has financially backed the Bad 3.

He’s spent months making a mockery of our campaign finance laws — and the courts — by dodging process servers after repeatedly failing to appear in court.

The right wing is hell-bent on wiping out our campaign finance disclosure laws. Doug Bruce is their poster child.

Who is backing the Bad 3? Is it outof-state business interests trying to damage our economy to eliminate comsee LETTERS Page 9

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Danish Plan

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If you can count a crowd and keep your virtue …

by Paul Danish

D

uring the fall of 1964, I was director of the Collegiate Press Service, an operation that supplied content — or “news,” as we quaintly called it at the time — to 300 or 400 college newspapers.

Our big story that fall was the Free Speech Movement on the University of California’s Berkeley campus. The protests, which went on all fall and reverberated throughout the American higher education system, were sparked by a University of California decision to ban student political activity from the last sliver of university property on which it was allowed, a sidewalk along Bancroft Street on the south side of the campus.

That was the year of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and just about the time the university was shutting down the student political organizations’ tables along Bancroft, hundreds of Cal students who had spent the summer in Mississippi were returning to the campus. They were outraged by the crackdown.

On Aug. 31, campus cops arrested a student member of the Congress for Racial Equality who wouldn’t abandon his table, and hundreds of sit-in protesters immobilized the police car he had been taken to, the roof of which becoming an impromptu speakers’ platform. (The student, Jack Weinberg,

emerged from the car two days later and went on to coin one of the defining one-liners of the ’60s: “Don’t trust anyone over 30.”)

After that, there were protest rallies almost daily. The size of the crowds at the rallies was routinely estimated at 3,000 or 3,500. In December, there was an occupation of the administration building, followed by mass arrests, and crowds at the rallies visibly swelled.

Somebody — the press or the campus police — estimated attendance at one of the largest ones at 7,000 to 10,000.

Protesters howled that the count was being low-balled.

That prompted Herbert A. Jacobs, a Cal journalism professor, to obtain an aerial photograph of the rally, divide it into 1-inch squares, and, with the aid of a magnifying glass, count the crowd.

His final number was 2,804.

So that he wouldn’t have to repeat the exercise every time there was a subsequent rally, and to check his work, he acquired the dimensions of the space where the rallies were taking place (Sproul Plaza) so he could calculate the space they were occupying, and deduced the average square footage taken up by each student (about four square feet at a tightly packed outdoor event). Subsequent rallies confirmed his approach. see COUNT Page 8

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Dr. King’s rally in 1963?

The iconic photos of King’s rally, taken from about the same angles as the photos of Beck’s rally, show a crowd of roughly the same size. At the time, The New York Times estimated the crowd at 200,000.

I think it would be extremely interesting to count the crowd at King’s rally using the same techniques that were used to count the crowd at Beck’s. And, should the recount yield a lower number, to contemplate some unsettling questions: Would passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have had “the terrible urgency of now” that it acquired after King’s march on Washington, if the size of the march was known to have been less than half the size originally reported?

Would Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirksen have been able to push the bill through Congress in those circumstances?

Would the end of segregation have been deferred?

And, more broadly and most troubling of all: For good or ill, to what extent is national policy determined by our inability to count accurately?

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I’ve been very cautious about crowd estimates ever since.

What brought all this to mind was the flap that broke out over the size of the crowd at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally on Aug. 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. NBC News and The New York Times reported the crowd size at 300,000. Beck estimated attendance at his rally “at a minimum of 500,000 people.”

CBS News said, in so many words, “they’re dreaming.” The network had hired experts in crowd-counting to estimate the size of Beck’s crowd. The experts came up with an estimate of 87,000, plus or minus 9,000.

CBS’ crowd estimators arrived at their numbers using methods based on the ones Jacobs used at Berkeley. They strike me as credible. Beck’s 500,000 figure is wishful thinking.

CBS is to be commended for trying to get a crowd estimate based on more than guesswork, but it failed to address an angle of its story that should have been covered — particularly since Beck’s rally occurred on the anniversary of King’s. If Beck’s rally attracted 87,000 people instead of 300,000 to 500,000, how many people attended

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people like Doug Bruce, we don’t know.

What we do know is that Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 are opposed by Democrats, and they’re opposed by Republicans. They’re opposed by Colorado business, as well as labor. Liberals and conservatives. Rich and poor. The people pushing these attacks won’t show themselves, and they are counting on voters who are angry about the economy not looking any deeper than having taxes cut during a recession. That’s exactly what happened the last time Doug Bruce hornswoggled Coloradans into voting for one of his crackpot ideas — TABOR — during the Bush recession of 1992.

We have to put a stop to this. Pledge to vote against these destructive initiatives.

Mike Ditto/ProgressNow Colorado

Does anyone care about our sidewalks?

Is there anyone at all in charge of enforcing sidewalk laws in Boulder? My limited knowledge of overgrowth and low-hanging trees in north Boulder makes me think that no — no one even cares. On Iris alone, there are at least four instances of extreme overgrowth from Broadway to 28th Street.

What is the chance that violators could be fined? Wouldn’t it be nice if the fine money could be used to support our schools? After all, it is the schoolchildren who use the sidewalks.

And speaking of schoolchildren, I noticed that the very costly renovation of Casey Middle School has a front staircase that has two trees impeding travel down the steps. The trees are planted directly in the middle of two sections of the stairs at the bottom. Students would definitely be strangled by the wires holding them up, should they be unaware that the stairs end at a tree. Isn’t this a safety issue? And why are administrators forcing trees into the faces of students who walk down the steps?

Linda Nelson/Boulder

Tancredo’s third-party run a disgrace I am writing as I am concerned that Tom Tancredo is getting a free pass on issues and how destructive his third-party run is for Colorado.

Tancredo has made a career out of being the champion against illegal immigration, yet his third-party run will certainly destroy any chance of reform in Colorado.

This legislative session, State Rep. Kent Lambert (R-Colorado Springs) is introducing a bill modeled off of the Arizona law, a bill the majority of Coloradans support. Logically, this is an issue that Tom Tancredo should be fully behind, and he should be doing whatever Boulder Weekly

Boulder Pain Management Solutions he can to ensure its passage, but his thirdparty run will split the vote, ensuring a John Hickenlooper win and destroying any chance of reining in illegal immigration and its destructive impacts on the state’s economy.

The media is missing the real impacts of the third-party run. Even if a newspaper’s “slate” is to support John Hickenlooper, all are missing the real story of just what Tom Tancredo is doing to skew the coming election and his seeming vendetta against the GOP. Don Rodgers/Colorado Springs

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Obama stretching military resources too thin “Last combat brigade leaves Iraq,” said Obama last week. The newspapers dutifully printed what he said, but Obama was lying. The truth is that Obama is waging four wars, a fact that he wants to hide from the Democrats, especially before an election.

A couple of days later, Gen. Petraeus, talked about the 56,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Both military and civilian casualties are rapidly increasing.

About six months ago, Obama ordered the invasion of Yemen with what our military is calling a “modest” sized expeditionary force. An article in the Wall Street Journal said that an increase in the number of U.S. troops there is being considered.

Obama is also furiously bombing Pakistan with drones and cruise missiles.

A news article gave details about one of our drone attacks on a building that had 20 children in it.

Obama’s four-war strategy is militarily unsound and economically disastrous.

No nation can wage four wars and win.

Neither can we afford to wage four wars.

Our national debt is officially at $12 trillion. The actual figure is closer to twice that. Niall Ferguson, the keynote speaker at the Aspen Institute symposium last month, flatly predicted that the American economy will collapse under our debt load within two years.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Either you go out and put pressure on Obama to stop this madness, or the economy will shortly bring the problem home to you.

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The Longs Peak Industrial Park is home to Front Range Community College, a phalanx of small businesses and Flagstaff Academy, a pre-K to eighth grade charter school.

In a lawsuit filed in March, Capital Circle — the company that manages the property in the park — alleged that Flagstaff Academy “is in chronic violation of provisions … regarding parking and loading. As a result of the inadequate parking and loading facilities at the Academy, large volumes of pedestrian and automobile traffic spill … into the streets and other private properties in the area.”

“Students and their parents routinely engage in unsafe, annoying, and illegal behaviors such as jaywalking, trespassing, and illegal parking,” the lawsuit says.

It also states that parents and other caregivers loading and unloading students at the school “engage in double-parking, unsafe backing, and other rude, unlawful, and unsafe parking-related activities.”

Parents and caregivers “react rudely when confronted regarding their inappropriate driving, parking and pedestrian behaviors,” the suit claims.

The school filed a legal response in April, denying the claims and calling for a jury trial.

Kory Cash of Capital Circle declined to comment on the case.

Andrew Moore, 33, who took over as principal in spring 2008, says the everswelling student body forced the school to move to larger digs only a few blocks away after only six years of operation.

Moore says Capital Circle was made well aware of the school’s intention to grow, since Flagstaff obtained its larger plot of land directly from the property management company.

“We’ve been completely up front about growing at breakneck speed,” Moore says. “There have been no shenanigans on our part.”

After being warned by Capital Circle

last year about possible parking/traffic violations, Moore says he has done everything possible to assuage neighboring businesses’ concerns. That includes bridging gaps with the city, architectural innovation, parental/caretaker assistance and technological improvements.

One strategy is to cut traffic through “incentivized rideshare,” as Moore calls it, in which carpooling drivers may to go to the front of the line in the parking area.

Flagstaff also minimizes parking and traffic by using an Apple iTouch system in which students wait in classrooms and are notified when their ride arrives.

Moore himself has remained out in the parking area for the past 18 months, diligently admonishing parents not to block the passageways of the school. He’s assisted by new stoplights, striped crossing walks and a fence that simply serves as a statement that the Academy is trying to be as complicit as possible with area parking regulations.

“We’re feeling proud for what we’ve done,” Moore says. “It’s really very confusing.”

What truly confounds Moore is the fact that there is plenty of nearby space available. The trouble, he says, is that Capital Circle refuses to allow Flagstaff Academy to purchase, lease, or rent more property for purposes of parking.

Moore says some businesses in the park are simply mad there’s a school nearby. He says last year one tenant complained to Capital Circle about a possible liability issue with students’ foot traffic over their property.

“The tenant was absolutely livid,” Moore says. “[Capital] felt [they] had to back the guy.”

Now that the city has ensured Flagstaff has the resources it needs to manage a streamlined parking system, along with the efforts by the school and parents/caretakers, Moore feels confident that the lawsuit will be easily shot down.

“I just can’t believe there will be any action by the courts,” Moore says. “[Circle Capital] thought we weren’t doing enough, fast enough. But now we have such a great system, we should be fine.”

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Double D double entendre A Colorado man was banned from his local Safeway last week after making what a store employee considered crude remarks about chicken parts. The 61-year-old man says he ordered chicken breasts, and when the employee asked which pieces he’d like, his reply was “I like the large ones.”

The next time he returned for more “large ones,” another employee allegedly treated him rudely, prompting the man to complain to store management. Big mistake. The manager called police, who met the large-breast lover at the door and issued him a trespassing notice. No chicken breast, large or small, from that Safeway for a year.

We think the punishment was a little soft, and we’re not buying his “poor, innocent, misunderstood chicken lover” act for a second. The comedic value of chicken breasts usually fades at about age 12 for most boys, but for some, maturity takes a little longer. He knew what he was implying and most likely thought he was pretty clever because, hey, what’s a minimum wage earner at Safeway going to do about it if I make lurid comments about her tits? Good for her for standing up for herself, and shame on this breast man for taking advantage of what he thought would be an easy target. Too bad his parents didn’t name him Dick. That has two meanings as well.

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Do people really still race pigeons?

What won’t idiots do to helpless animals? Apparently there’s not much, even here in the tofu and soymilk capital of the world. It seems PETA is asking Dale Case, director of the Boulder County Land Use Department, to urge the Boulder County Board of Adjustments to reverse a decision naming pigeons as pets instead of nondomestic animals. PETA argues that homing pigeons are not kept as “household pets” but rather as racing birds.

The practice, they say, is cruel to the birds, and involves unregulated gambling — both violations of Colorado law.

Maybe PETA has a point, and keeping large birds as pets when they are meant to fly free does seem absurd and cruel. What’s bugging us the most though is who the hell still races pigeons? Seriously, it sounds like a summer dalliance for Mr. Darcy and his high-fallutin’ friends in Pride and Prejudice.

Wake up, pigeon racers! Those are dirty, trash-eating sky rats you’re messing with. Get a real hobby that doesn’t involve making a small animal miserable. Elizabeth Bennet would be proud of you.

And OJ technically still gets to keep his Heisman?

By the end of this month, former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush will have been stripped of his Heisman Trophy, the greatest honor a college football player can receive.

And what egregious crime did he commit to warrant this draconian punishment? He accepted gifts, money and some other perks while playing for USC. So OJ, who maybe killed his wife and a friend but definitely marred the good name of the NFL, the Buffalo Bills, USC, the Heisman and everyone he ever knew gets to keep his trophy (technically), but Bush doesn’t? In the words of fashion guru Mugatu in the hit film Zoolander, we feel like we’re taking crazy pills!

We think it’s absurd that college players aren’t allowed to make money doing what they do best while playing college ball. What’s the harm?

Money has already corrupted every aspect of professional sports, so why wait until these young men reach the pros to show them what the game is really about?

Allowing college athletes to get paid while they are still in school could have a positive side, too. If a young superstar could make money while in college he might be encouraged to actually finish his education and further hone his skills on the field instead of jumping at the first chance at fame and fortune that comes his way. So let him keep the money, the trophy and whatever else he got.

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s the Fourmile Fire continues to burn across more than 6,000 acres, stories from those who fear or know they lost homes are emerging from the haze, and community assistance efforts are ramping up to help those in need.

The fire has destroyed at least 140 structures, and the Boulder Outlook Hotel and other local hotels are offering special rates for evacuees and displaced families.

The Outlook, located at 800 28th St., is also a designated as a drop-off location for donated items (products, services, even lightly used clothing in good condition).

Stephen Schein says the least he can do to help out during the fire is to make food available to those displaced by the blaze and the firefighters risking their lives to save property in the mountains. After all, he does own Half Fast Subs on the Hill.

But he may have lost another asset recently. On Wednesday night, he got what he calls conclusive evidence that his home and all his possessions burned in the blaze.

“A neighbor of mine who works for Digital Globe was able to pull up a satellite image,” Schein says.

“Unfortunately it was very clear. It was devastatingly clear.”

Schein and girlfriend Melissa Pruitt have the clothes on their backs, their two dogs and two bicycles.

Everything else is gone, as far as Schein knows. All his family photos. Every object with sentimental value.

“Melissa and I literally lost everything we had,” Schein says. “It’s your life. It’s very sad.”

Still, he’s oddly calm and seemingly upbeat about his misfortune. His outward appearance, however, masks the ugliness of what’s really going on inside his head.

“I think in a way I intellectually understand what’s happened,” says Schein. “But I don’t know that I’ve emotionally digested it yet. I’m having conversations with myself, trying to stay positive and focused and move forward. When the impact comes I’m sure it won’t be good.”

That impact could come when Schein and Pruitt are

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n addition to the homes that were directly affected by the flames, the impact of the smoke from the wildfire in Fourmile Canyon was felt countywide.

And it wasn’t just limited to humans, but pets as well.

Schools kept kids inside for recess, and afternoon sports practices were canceled due to health officials’ advisories about possible dangers associated with smoke inhalation.

The county’s public health department issued an advisory for Wednesday suggesting that schoolchildren be kept indoors as much as possible, and that pregnant women minimize smoke exposure as well. People have been Boulder Weekly

Community shares loss, pulls together during Fourmile Canyon blaze

by David Accomazzo, Oakland Childers and Katherine Creel finally allowed back into their neighborhood. Schein says he tried to get up there on Monday and Tuesday, but with no luck.

“I went up there [Tuesday] and there was a sheriff blocking the road,” says Schein. “I’ve heard that area isn’t going to be open for a while. It’s still dangerous.”

Schein is looking to the future and wondering where he will be living in the years to come. Rebuilding is an option, he says, depending on the condition of the surrounding area.

“I’m [expecting] to be horrified by what I see,” says Schein. “It depends on what the land looks like up there. It was the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen in my life.”

‘Engulfed us’ Brooks Fisher heard of the mandatory evacuation and was packing some things into his car outside his home at 11780 Gold Hill Rd. when the situation suddenly became much more urgent.

“We were getting stuff in the car, and the smoke just kind of came out of nowhere and sort of engulfed us,” Fisher says.

Suddenly, they had no choice but to flee. They got in the car and drove as fast as they could towards the Peak-to-Peak Highway.

“We couldn’t see anything,” Fisher says. “We were just running for our lives. Black smoke just came in. It wasn’t the white smoke that you see from the trees; this

was black smoke you see from the buildings.”

As of now, Fisher thinks his house has not burned.

Kate Walker’s family has owned and operated Colorado Mountain Ranch, on 10063 Gold Hill Rd., since her grandparents started it in 1947. The flames are licking the edges of the property, and her father, Mike Walker, is still up at the ranch fighting the flames with a backhoe.

“We were able to save 75 percent of the ranch, but the barn where we had the horses is gone; my parents’ house is gone,” Kate Walker says. “We were able to get all the horses into Longmont [at the Boulder County Fairgrounds]. ...They were able to save the structures — the cabin, and the lodge. ... We will be able to house and feed people when the rebuilding begins.”

The animals are safely housed at the Boulder County Fairgrounds, but Walker says they and other horse owners could always take hay donations.

At a Sept. 8 press conference, evacuated residents expressed their frustration with the slow flow of information from the sheriff ’s office and fire department.

“Why aren’t we getting information on residences that have burned?” asked Bob Hodgetts.

“If I knew my house had burned, that’d be fine,” he said, explaining that then he could at least start making plans. “And if I knew it hadn’t, that’d be even better.”

Sheriff ’s Office Cmdr. Rick Brough said deputies will be investigating affected areas this week and an updated list of damaged and destroyed homes will be available online at www.boulderoem.com.

Laura McConnell, spokeswoman for the Boulder County Incident Management Team, said firefighters were focusing on point protection — protecting structures in immediate danger. Some hazards facing the more than 200 firefighters working to contain the blaze include propane tanks, downed power lines, steep roads and debris. No injuries had been reported, however.

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advised to avoid exercising outdoors until the smoke clears.

On Wednesday, those suffering from lung or heart disease within 50 miles of the fire were told to evacuate to areas outside that perimeter. And those with pre-existing respiratory conditions were told to expect symptoms like coughing, shortness of breath, chest discomfort and shortness of breath.

The county advised those who can smell smoke to stay inside if possible.

Even veterinarians were suggesting

Look for hourly updates on the Fourmile Canyon fire online at www.boulderweekly.com.

that pet owners treat dogs and cats like people, keeping them indoors.

Especially if they have pre-existing respiratory problems.

“If you or I can get affected by smoke, animals can in the same way,” says veterinarian Clint Kay of the South Boulder Animal Hospital.

Kay says his clinic has only seen a few dogs and cats in the last few days that have been having problems with wheezing or coughing.

Lee Woods, a vet at the Broadway

Animal Hospital, on the other hand, says he is not attributing any of the pet ailments he’s seen this week to the smoke, but his facility’s boarding areas are nearly filled, and regular clients are being solicited to act as foster homes for animals.

Like people, Woods says, pets’ outdoor exercise should be limited, because the smoke can contain chemicals like hydrogen cyanide, from household materials being burned.

“It’s probably not a good time to do extended mountain biking or exercising,” he says.

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filter masks are not necessary, since they are intended to protect against gases.

But he says people should just use common sense, and that conditions differ across the county.

“I live in north Boulder, and it’s been brutal,” Bjerke says. “We couldn’t see the sun, we couldn’t see anything.”

He adds that exercise only exacerbates the effects of the smoke.

“You may be taking in five or 10 times as much as when you’re sedentary,” Bjerke explains. “Go to a rec center, do something indoors for a few days. … It’s just common sense to protect yourself for what we hope is only the few days needed to knock this back.”

He notes that he and his partners at BCH have not treated any healthy people for smoke-related complications yet this week, although a few emphysema patients have been admitted.

“If you get a fever or start coughing up colored mucous, get that checked,” Bjerke says, adding that his own throat has been sore in the mornings. “But just a scratchy throat is not enough to get treated.”

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dren, says Jose Luis Jimenez, an air pollution researcher at the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

He says that for people with preexisting cardio-respiratory ailments, “it may push them over the edge.”

Jimenez says it’s well documented that mortality rates increase during high pollution and events like forest fires. But this fire, he says, is not the sort of event that is likely to trigger such an increase in mortality.

“I’m not a doctor, but I personally think that right now only people who are particularly susceptible should leave,” says Jimenez. “If it gets thick again, it’s better for people to not be in it.”

Randy Bjerke, a pulmonary disease specialist at Boulder Community Hospital, suggests running air conditioning or other air-circulation systems in the home, since they usually have filters that can help counter the smoke’s effects. He also says those who have pre-existing conditions may want to wear simple painter’s masks if they have to go outside.

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said he has been “awed” by the community response to the fire and the amount of support offered to evacuees.

“People are coming out of the woodwork,” he said, adding that friends and acquaintances from as far away as Australia have contacted him to see if he was all right.

He said he understood the slow trickle of information and the need for the continued evacuations. For him, the evacuation was mostly an inconvenience because he was “95 percent certain” his

home was still standing. “If my house was on that list I’m sure I’d be reacting very differently.”

Evacuees are being asked to e-mail edonaghey@bouldercounty.org and provide their full name, the address of the affected residence, whether it is a primary or secondary residence, whether they’ve been notified if the residence has been damaged or destroyed, the phone number where they can be reached, and whether they need long-term housing assistance.

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IF YOU NEED HELP Boulder County has established a victim assistance center for people affected by the wildfire at Boulder County’s Sundquist Building, 3482 N. Broadway, in Boulder. It be contacted at 303-441-3560.

That victim assistance center is not a shelter. The Red Cross shelter is located at the Boulder YMCA, at 2850 Mapleton Ave. The victim assistance center is offering services related to mental health, food and basic needs assistance, longer-term housing options, insurance claim advice, medical case management, senior services for those age 60 and older, and coordination with local nonprofit organizations to provide clothing and other basic needs. The hotline to check on animals/pets within the evacuation area is 720-564-2942

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hen Greg Macchia of Boulder told his wife, Courtney, that he was going to start a cleaning business, she laughed.

As you might guess, Macchia was not noted for his domestic housekeeping.

But an MBA and a canny eye for business told him he could fulfill his dream of business ownership by filling a gap in the Colorado service industry.

“It was a running joke with my friends that they couldn’t keep a good housecleaner or find a reliable The Macchias with their son Braeden plumber,” Macchia says. “Which More information gave me the idea to have a steady Clean Conscience service business, something not Cleaning Service www.cleanconscience.net seasonal. No one seemed to spe303-495-2444 cialize in a cleaning service using Cleaning For A Reason www.cleaningforareason.org eco-friendly products for chemiGreen Seal cally sensitive or allergic clients.” www.greenseal.org So Macchia kicked off Clean Conscience three and a half years ago, happy that it wasn’t a very “capithey have been shipping around the tal-intensive” start-up. He relied heavi- country, and when it is empty they recly on the Eco-Products line then, and ommend that you discard the spray now mostly uses products manufacbottle even though it still works fine.” tured by the PortionPac Chemical It also took study and experimenCompany, which since 1964 has protation to come up with methods that duced pre-measured, concentrated would clean and disinfect without detergents formulated for worker safeendangering the environment — or his ty. clients.

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Word of mouth expanded his initial wait list, and today Macchia supervises six employees and conducts business all over Boulder County.

With success came a desire to give back. Macchia’s mother and sister are cancer survivors, which inspired him to become a local chapter member of the Cleaning for a Reason Foundation.

Started in 2006, this national nonprofit organization matches women undergoing cancer treatment with participating local companies such as Clean Conscience.

“If you’re undergoing chemo, there’s not a lot of energy for housekeeping,” says Macchia. “We can offer up to four free cleaning visits per client for up to four months. We can accommodate as many as four women at a time, and we’ve only got a couple right now. So, if anyone in Boulder County is interested, I recommend applying through the foundation.”

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Wild Night for Wildlife! — To benefit Greenwood Wildlife Center. 5 p.m. Glen Miller Ballroom, UMC, CU campus, 303-545-5849.

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

Low-Tech Greenhouse Design and Operation. 1 p.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.

Sunday, Sept. 12

Longmont Household Chemical Drop Day. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 375 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-772-7300.

Permaculture Site Tours. 12:30 p.m. Willow Way Wellness and Permaculture Farm, 6481 N. 63rd St., Boulder, 303-530-1415.

Wednesday, Sept. 15

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

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

When Harry Met Sally shows at the St. Julien Hotel on Sunday.

Thursday, Sept. 9

Colorado Skies: Our Dynamic Sun — Learn about the wonders of the solar system with sweet lasers. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Friday, Sept. 10

Tomato-Basil Festival — Nothing like fresh-grown produce to give summer a proper send-off.

Isabelle Farm, 10029 Isabelle Rd., Lafayette, 303-817-4588.

Saturday, Sept. 11

oulder is no Hollywood — and it’s best we leave it that way — but celebrityspotting is just as possible in this town if you’ve got the right star map.

Someone who should definitely have a spot on that map is David Murphy, a recent transplant to Boulder known affectionately as Murph. He’s commonly found while out at Pearl Street nightspots, and easily recognized if you know he’s the bassist for one of Boulder’s favorite electronic bands, Sound Tribe Sector 9.

Though Santa Cruz, Calif., is the real headquarters for STS9 and their star-studded self-run label, 1320 Records, Murphy has spent the last year and a half resting his head at his south Boulder home. Resting,

B

of course, is a relative term.

Murphy’s time in Boulder has overlapped with one of the band’s most successful periods in its 13-year history.

formed at the University of Denver that defied the popular notion that Tribe is mortally dependent on laptops.

The band also met its goal of raising $150,000 last April to build a home in New Orleans with the Make It Right Foundation.

Proceeds from ticket sales, special events and a remix album of 2008’s Peaceblaster (courtesy of around 30 collaborations) helped the band reach the lofty goal. STS9 had always embraced various social causes throughout the years, but funneling its effort into a single goal proved to be as successful as it was ambitious.

Since the Tribe formed in 1997, Boulder has welcomed the electronic pioneers with open arms. It’s only recently that Murphy truly validated

STS9’s Murph muses on the dynamics that make Boulder great

by P.J. Nutting

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STS9 will perform two nights at Red Rocks this weekend in their sixth headlining appearance at the venue, celebrating the addition of Ad Explorata to their 10-album discography. A month ago, the band released Axe the Cables, a live recording of their first all-acoustic set per-

Savor the Flavor of Boulder — Get yourself a taste of Boulder’s finest on the mall. 12-3 p.m.

Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303484-2126.

Sunday, Sept. 12

When Harry Met Sally — They just don’t make romantic comedies like they used to. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, Sept. 13

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos.

Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

Tuesday, Sept. 14

Avery Tap Room — Cold brews, warm atmosphere. 4 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Wednesday, Sept. 15

Pearl Street Runners — Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s. Never too late to finish your first run of the season. 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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this dynamic by claiming Boulder as his new home, a city that in the last decade has become a reliable litmus test for electronic acts of all kinds.

So what makes Boulder so special to Murphy?

Was it the college audience that elevated Tribe’s brand of “livetronica,” or was it the band’s touring preference for Colorado that gave Boulder its place on the map?

“It’s kind of been a second home for us,” Murphy told Boulder Weekly. “Anywhere we go around the country, people think we’re from Boulder. People say, ‘Oh, so you’re from Boulder originally?’ Yeah, just because we’ve shared such great success out here, they just assume that’s where we’re from.”

Murphy is actually the only member of the quintet that doesn’t live in Santa Cruz. However, living and working in Boulder, cranking out sound, and enjoying the company of local musicians has treated him well.

“I have, in the last year and a half, made some great friends,” he says. “Just the scene, the vibe, and the group of people that exist here, it’s just really neat.

“What it’s done for me is pulled me out of my shell,” he says of his own Colorado party experiences, “my bubble I was living in a little bit. Not like you lose sight of things, but the more you exist in a bubble without realizing that you do, you close yourself off.

It’s kinda made me realize that our concerts, our shows — they’re parties. People are coming to have a good time. So what can I do to make that the best time for them? What can I do to make it the best party?”

Since the band’s beginning in 1997, STS9 has done a lot to their sound. As with any group more than a few years old, there are plenty of long-time Tribe fans

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On the Bill:

STS9 plays the Boulder Theater on Thursday, Sept. 9, and plays Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Friday, Sept. 10, and Saturday, Sept. 11. Tickets to the Boulder Theater show are sold out.

Tickets for the Red Rocks shows are $42.50 plus service charges. For more information, visit http://www.sts9store.com. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

who complain about the band’s new artistic choices.

The most offending change to the formula? The band’s switch to using pre-recorded loops instead of actual instruments (Murphy calls them “live PA shows”), a departure from the live instrumental jams that made the band famous.

Was it Boulder’s saturation of DJs and laptoppers that influenced this change? Murphy does often pair with DJ Rootz, a Boulder resident and ’Round Midnight regular, to perform DJ sets as Rootz vs.

Murphy (the act recently sold out the Fox and will return on Sept. 24.)

Murphy points out that band scheduling conflicts, such as the recent birth of percussionist Jeffree Lerner’s daughter, sometimes make it necessary to find another musical outlet.

“We do it when we want to be out doing something, but the opportunity to do an STS9 show isn’t

there,” Murphy says. “I think it wasn’t like, ‘Well, we could do an STS9 show, but let’s do a live PA show instead.’ … It takes a lot to get this whole machine up, to go and do a show that’s at the level of the expectations that the fans have right now. We don’t ever want to shortchange them and bring something that’s half-assed. We’re a band, and that’s what people want to see, and we know that. People want to see us with basses and guitars and our full shit, they don’t want to see us try to reinvent ourselves.”

It isn’t just the fans that were influenced by the group’s original power instrumentals, described with terms like hippie-rave, electro-noodle and experimental, instrumental, cerebral needle injection of sound and light. Whether they were the originators of the sound, there is a family of fellow artists who have benefited from STS9 paving the road.

The best thing STS9 ever did for the scene was to approach it with the knowledge that it functions better as a family rather than a popularity contest.

“I think the environment here is cohesive to a family vibe,” Murphy said. “Everybody wants to help everybody else, and you feel that here. I’m friends with Octopus Nebula and love the guys in that band, and I want them to succeed. I want Lotus to succeed; I want the Disco Biscuits to be as big as they can. I want them to be successful — Pretty Lights, Big Gigantic — the more success they have, the bigger we grow this scene and the more there is to support all of us.”

And there you have it. Boulder isn’t East Coast vs.

West Coast. It’s where we all meet in the middle.

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Making waves

The Boulder Philharmonic gears up for 53rd season

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he Boulder Philharmonic opens its 53rd season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11, in Macky Auditorium with a program titled “Heroic Portraits.”

In recognition of the concert date, the orchestra will play music that was inspired by heroes: Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” written to honor the unsung heroes of World War II; his “Lincoln Portrait,” narrated by Boulder story-teller Bill Mooney; and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3,” known as the “Eroica.” The concert will open with a new work by American composer Jeff Tyzik, “Bravo Colorado.”

According to Musical Director Michael Butterman, the entire 2010-11 season has been designed to “celebrate our community in ways large and small.” Calling the season “Bravo Boulder!,” the orchestra will include works by composers from or associated with Boulder in addition to popular works chosen from the standard orchestra fare.

To further the Boulder connection, there will be local soloists, works chosen for their appeal to Boulder audiences and, on opening night, a special tribute to local heroes.

The season comprises six themed concerts, each offering some kind of twist on traditional orchestral programming, plus a production of the popular “Nutcracker” ballet with Boulder Ballet in November. (See www.boulderphil.org for details.)

Butterman says he and the program committee try to embrace the diversity of Boulder audiences — what he calls “folks that are traditionalists and folks that are looking for experiences.”

Now in his fourth season as music director, Butterman recalls that “when I first came to Boulder I had the impression that it was a place that was quirky, that [audiences] wanted anything but the usual fare. But what I’ve found here is that yes, people want something that is interesting, that is different, and yet, especially when it comes to classical music, boy oh boy, people sure enjoy something that is tried and true. It is not the sort of place where you can just do a kind of fringe program.

So [on each concert] we have something for the experience seekers and something a little more traditional.”

Certainly the first concert is not out on the fringe.

And yet Butterman is clear that it will appeal to the “experience seekers” in the audience.

“On the first half [we have] what I would call a concert enhancement,” he says. “I’m a pretty big believer in finding ways to enrich the concert experience, especially for people that are less familiar with sitting and listening to abstract sounds for a couple of hours at a stretch.”

For Saturday’s concert the enhancement is “photochoreography,” a shifting series of photographs that are projected on screens above the orchestra and timed in coordination with the music. The technique has been developed by James Westwater, whose photochoreography for Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” has already been performed by several orchestras around the country.

Butterman has not seen Westwater’s “Lincoln Boulder Weekly

by Peter Alexander Bravo Boulder!

Boulder Philharmonic 2010–11 season Michael Butterman, music director Saturday, Sept. 11: “Heroic Portraits” Music by Jeff Tyzik, Aaron Copland and Beethoven Friday, Oct. 29: “Cirque de la Symphonie” Music by Musorgsky, Saint-Saëns and others Friday–Sunday, Nov. 26–28: “Nutcracker Ballet” Richard Oldberg, conductor, with the Boulder Ballet Saturday, Jan. 15: “Rach ‘n’ Roll” Music by Frank Zappa, Astor Piazzolla, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others With David Korevaar, piano soloist

Portrait” live, but he has seen it on the Web. He found the combination of music, narration taken from Lincoln’s speeches and photochoreography very effective, something like a Ken Burns documentary.

In fact, he liked it enough to ask Westwater to create new photochoreography for the Boulder Phil’s performance of “Fanfare for the Common Man.” “We struck on this idea [that since] we’re talking about Lincoln as a hero, maybe we can focus on the unsung heroes in this community,” Butterman explains.

“We approached a dozen or so social service organizations in and around Boulder and asked them if they would provide photos of the work that they do. We got probably a couple of hundred [photos] and sent them on to James. He is taking those and deciding according to his artistic sensibility how they would work with the Copland fanfare.”

The local groups that provided photos to be shown during the performance include Boulder County AIDS Project, Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, Care Connect Boulder County, Carriage House Community Table, Community Foundation, Imagine!, Intercambio, NeckLace 4 Life (American Cancer Society), Providers Advancing School Outcomes, Sister Carmen Community Center and Turning the Wheel.

Jeff Tyzik dedicated “Bravo Colorado” to Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, who owned a home in Beaver Creek. Butterman describes the score as “a glorious new work … that presents vivid sonic impressions of our state’s stunning mountains, beautiful alpine meadows and thundering whitewater rivers.”

The concert will conclude with a classical work that will appeal to the traditional symphony audience, Beethoven’s Third Symphony.

Beethoven had dedicated the symphony to Napoleon until the French general crowned himself emperor.

Saturday, Feb. 19: “New World Celebrations” Music by Bill Douglas, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Dvorák With Richard Stolzman, clarinet soloist Saturday, March 19: “Reflections in Glass” Music by Philip Glass and Tchaikovsky With the Colorado Saxophone Quartet Saturday, April 30: “Season Finale: Heavenly Orbits” Music by Martin Lauridsen and Gustav Holst With the Ars Nova Singers All Performances in Macky Auditorium. For performance times, program details and tickets: www. boulderphil.org.

Infuriated at this repudiation of democratic principles, Beethoven angrily scratched out Napoleon’s name and re-dedicated the symphony “to the memory of a hero.”

Today it is known as the “Eroica” Symphony, and it is regarded as the first work in what is known as Beethoven’s “heroic” style.

The rest of the season offers plenty of opportunities for both audiences Butterman identified. For the second concert (Oct. 29), some familiar classical pops — Musorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain,” music from Bizet’s “Carmen” — with Cirque-du-Soleil style aerial fliers, acrobats, jugglers and dancers performing onstage during many of the pieces. With Halloween-themed programming and the visual “Cirque du Symphonie” spectacle, this promises to be a program that appeals more to the audience’s sheer sense of enjoyment than their intellect.

The two audience streams will be most evident on the third concert on Jan. 15. The wildly divergent program will be titled “Rach ’n’ Roll,” as in Rachmaninoff ’s Third Piano Concerto, performed by pianist David Korevaar, and as in popular dance music, including pieces by Argentina tango king Astor Piazzolla and the notso-poppy “Be-bop Tango” by Frank Zappa.

“New World Celebration,” on Feb. 19, will include music by Boulder composer Bill Douglas, along with Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony, and “Reflections in Glass” (March 19) will combine music by practicing Buddhist and sometimes-visitor to Naropa University Philip Glass with music by Tchaikovsky.

The season ends April 30 with “Heavenly Orbits,” featuring “Lux Aeterna,” a choral work by contemporary composer Martin Lauridsen for the experience seekers, and Gustav Holst’s popular suite “The Planets” for the traditional audience.

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Brothers in songs

The foodchain and their measured rise to the top

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olorado hip-hop group The foodchain have barely been together a year and a half, but they’re continually gaining notoriety. Consisting of four emcees, two producers, a DJ and a percussionist, The foodchain released their debut album, Corpses, in February, a followup to 2009’s self-titled EP. Their sound is difficult to define but can range from dealing with the stresses of life to trying to understand women over melodic, mid-tempo neck-snapping beats.

Since the release of Corpses, which also features hip-hop heavyweights like Talib Kweli and Big Pooh, the crew has been wheeling and dealing to get their music out to a bigger audience. One of the biggest results of that hustle is a digital distribution and marketing deal with well-known DJ Statik Selektah’s Showoff Digital, a spin-off of the DJ’s record label Showoff Records.

“We originally had some conversations with Statik around the time Corpses dropped in February,” says Mic Coats, one of the four emcees in The foodchain.

“Nothing progressed from it. We kept moving forward and entertained some distribution deals from some other areas. Then a guy that we work with, Johnny, was out in New York and happened to run into Statik.

He asked how everything was with us, because he loved the music. We then revisited the conversations and we worked it out.”

The deal will give Corpses digital distribution worldwide as well as assist in marketing and promotion online, which includes song placement on radio, blogs and online magazines. It’s a one-album deal that lasts for five years that also gets their songs in the hands of Statik’s DJ networks. The crew will re-release the album through Statik’s digital label in the next few months with a bonus song.

“I just felt like their music was really dope and felt like their music wasn’t being heard as much as it should, ya know?” Statik says. “Their style reminds me

of Little Brother, Slum Village and groups like that.

There’s not much out there that sounds like it so it’s dope to hear. So, Showoff Digital is a way to help independent artists, like The foodchain, get their stuff all over the place like iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster and all that.”

While The foodchain, consisting of rappers Mic Coats, C1, Champ, and F.L., producers Mass Prod and Mo Heat, and DJ Louicide, have done a decent job getting exposure for themselves, this deal takes it to another level with hopes of setting up a European audience. In the meantime, the group is preparing for their imminent coming out party. Mo Heat recently joined the crew to add depth to the in-house production team, adding a new layer to the group’s sound.

Mass Prod was the lone producer on Corpses and looks forward to what he and Mo Heat will be cooking up.

“The new album is going to be really big, we’re going to have a really big sound,” says Mass Prod, who counts hip-hop producers DJ Quik, Just Blaze and J Dilla as just a few of his many musical influences. “Me and Mo Heat aren’t just going to have my tracks on Colorado’s award-winning restaurant and music venue for adults of all ages. We can also host your business meeting or private event.

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there and his tracks on there, we’re collaborating on tracks. When me and Mo get together and do music, it sounds nothing like what we do individually. We’re all excited about it.”

The addition of Mo Heat also brought a new dynamic to the group’s live show. The outfit experimented with a live band earlier this year with hopes of bringing out a different side, but the crew found the musicians they were working with couldn’t really capture The foodchain sound. Instead, they brought in drummer Alex Armstrong, had both Mo Heat and Mass Prod play live keys and DJ Louicide live on the bass keyboard.

“The band was something we always wanted to do; we just didn’t know how to piece it together,” rapper F.L. says. “Things just kind of snowballed when we created Corpses. We were getting a lot of exposure and we just wanted to develop that live set. It started off separated because of the pre-existing band, they already had their vibe and we couldn’t really gel with them. Then we just looked within ourselves and the talent that we had, that’s what brought out the sound we wanted. Truth be told, we probably could have done that from the beginning, but sometimes it just takes that struggle and determination to achieve that goal.”

And even with seven to eight fulltime members of the group, they’re able to overcome any egos and disagreements they may have. The crew consistently keeps their eyes on the greater purpose.

“We’re all really close but every now and then each individual will have their moment where somebody is just… holding their balls, ya know?” Mass Prod says.

“We just let it happen, but when it’s all over we just sit down and say ‘look man you’re trippin’.’ But we’re all comfortable with it and it’s nothing like we ever have sour feelings for each other because we’re all really close. We’re like brothers.”

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How the other half lives

The Venture Bros. is back after an abrupt, unannounced hiatus

by Oakland L. Childers

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o say loyal viewers of The Venture Bros. were left hanging this season is an enormous understatement.

Halfway through season four, episode eight to be precise, kaboom! No more episodes. Since each of the previous three seasons was, on average, 13 episodes, fans felt a little gypped.

On Sept. 12, redemption and closure are the order of the day as Adult Swim begins airing the second half of The Venture Bros., season four. When last we left the Hank, Dean, Dr. Venture and crew, The Monarch, Dr. Venture’s archenemy, was zeroing in on his target. The Monarch is obsessed with Dr. Venture for crimes (some real, some imagined) that occurred decades ago, when they attended the same college.

It’s just that kind of back-story that makes The Venture Bros. not just an awesome visual experience, but also a uniquely cerebral one as well. The basic plot of the series goes like this: Dr. Venture is a washed-up super scientist who is constantly living in his father’s shadow. He has two boys, Hank and Dean, who have been killed, cloned and re-cloned so many times Dr. Venture has lost count. The boys are clueless to their true selves but go on living their lives as viewers enjoy the obvious homage to classic cartoon characters. The whole show is one giant homage, in fact, with pointless villains with a neverending supply of ridiculous plots to capture or kill their enemies, story lines that mimic those of oncegreat cartoons, and clothes that, once again, hark back to the aforementioned classics. In addition to fantastic writing, The Venture Bros. is a memory-jarring look back at the absurdity of the Saturday morning cartoons we were raised on.

Of late the Monarch is becoming more and more

obsessed with Dr. Venture, while simultaneously abandoning his duties as leader of a swarm of henchmen. Dr. Venture, on the other hand, remains blissfully uninterested in the Monarch’s constant plots, and so continues to plot his return to greatness, a feat apparently just out of reach but actually well beyond his grasp.

The writing is tip-on, and very little goes unexplained. And there is a lot to explain in this dramatic/comedic masterpiece. With dozens of main and secondary characters, the web of relationships and past lives is mind-boggling.

Jackson Public, the creator of the show and its main writer, created the cult classic animated series The Tick in the 1990s. Those who recognized his genius in that show followed his career and almost certainly became fans of The Venture Bros. Those fans have helped support an artistically superb cartoon as well as the accompanying merchandise line, offering everything from vinyl figures to high-quality prints.

“The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider,” the first new episode, begins in total chaos. Bullets are flying and Dr. Venture is unconscious while the three

Ventures and their new bodyguard, Sergeant Hatred, are pursued by the Monarch’s flying flagship cocoon. We soon find out (sort of ) what’s ailing the good doctor and Brock (the old Venture bodyguard and current member of the mysterious Sphinx paramilitary unit), while Hatred and the boys go on a fantastic voyage to save the elder Venture. The results are classic Venture Bros., with twists and turns and backstory revelations around every corner.

Meanwhile, Henchman 21, a former coward and lay-about who has of late become the real fighting force behind the Monarch’s legion of fighters, has had it with the shoddy equipment and poor planning plaguing the hunt for Dr. Venture. The Monarch is nowhere to be found, off indulging a somewhat lurid fantasy-cometrue. With both the main characters essentially out of the picture, “The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider” allows secondary and even tertiary characters to step up and have their own personalities explicated, imbuing The Venture Bros. with continued depth and endless side stories, all of which would be worth exploring.

So is the second half of season four worth the ridiculously long wait? Without a doubt. Fans of the show will pick right up with the increasingly complex and ever-intertwining plot, while newcomers have a whole lot of old episodes to cull through to understand just what the hell is going on. All four seasons are available on iTunes, and most are also sold on DVD through the Adult Swim store. No matter what your choice of delivery, all of the past seasons are worth the price. If “The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider” is any indication, the remainder of season four will be no exception. Now begins the wait for season five.

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27 7:00 PM

BEANIE NIGHT

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 19 6:00 PM

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BOSTON

SUNDAY JANUARY 2 6:00 PM

MONDAY JANUARY 10 7:30 PM

SATURDAY JANUARY 22 1:00 PM

GAME 12

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ALUMNI NIGHT 2

GAME 10

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ANAHEIM

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5 1:00 PM

GAME 11

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music Charlie Hunter. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. ibash-i Deportation Fundraiser with Weapons of Mass Creation. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

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

Jason Vigil. 9:34 p.m. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., Boulder, 720-974-9490.

Jeni and Billy. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Cafe, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Laurie Dameron. 6:30 p.m. Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante, 300 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-1606.

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.

Matt Clark Band. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116.

Peaches & The Groove Doctors. 8 p.m.

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

Rhythm on the Rails Concert Series — With The Fables. 6:45 p.m. Whistlestop Station, First Avenue and Murray Street, Niwot, www. niwot.com/events/.

Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m.

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

Stephen Thurston Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475.

events Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado.org.

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Charlie Hunter —

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

of the Rockies. ATLAS Building, CU campus, Blacksuncinema@gmail.com.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Buffalo Belles Luncheon. 11:30 a.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU campus, 303-492-8422.

Colorado Skies: Our Dynamic Sun. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-4925001.

Five @ Five — 5K to benefit Foundation for a Future. 5:30 p.m. 5920 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-257-7287.

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop.

6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night.

Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720242-8961.

Healing Meditation with Alan McAllister.

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

IBMC Longmont Campus Open House.

6-9 p.m. 2315 N. Main St., Longmont, 303651-6819.

Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www. flamenco-boulder.com.

Trek the Bars — To benefit GlobeMed. Various bars in Boulder, www.globemed.org/ cuboulder.

Friday, Sept. 10

music !!! (Chk Chk Chk). 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. b.bixler. 5-7 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-440-8808.

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Ben Pu and Crew. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

The Brown Sisters,The Dashing Suns. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Charlie Hunter. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

The Drew Emmitt Band. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-4437510.

Empty Affair. 11 p.m D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

George Christianson. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

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

Jubal and the Rude Boys. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Lionel Young Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

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

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

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

STS9. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

events 7th Annual Taste of Orthodoxy — Greek festival. Sts. Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church, 5640 Jay Rd., Boulder, www.tasteoforthodoxy.org. Through Sept. 12.

Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9

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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, 303-298-7554.

Through Sept. 13.

Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists.

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

Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various art-

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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. Rembrandy Yard OpenArts Galley, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303444-1862.

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

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Sue Frederick’s I See Your Dream Job. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Conversations in English — For non-native English speakers. 10 a.m.

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Breaking Into Freelance Magazine Writing Workshop. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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

Laser Pink Floyd:The Wall. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

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

Searching for Distant Worlds. 7:30 p.m.

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

Tomato-Basil Festival. Isabelle Farm, 10029 Isabelle Rd., Lafayette, 303-817-4588.

Saturday, Sept. 11

music Austin Lounge Lizards. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

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

Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra Presents Opening Night: Heroic Portraits. 7:30 p.m.

Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-444-7328.

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

The Drew Emmitt Band. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-4437510.

Icarus Thump, Firebird 4000, Off Color. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

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

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

Laurie Dameron. 5:30 p.m. St. John’s Boulder Art Gallery, 1419 Pine St. Boulder, 303-882-6089.

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

Matt Fuller Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

Monday, September 13 Jasmin Cori’s The Emotionally Absent Mother. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

“So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

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

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Monome Tour! — Workshops from 2-6 p.m., music from 8 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

Mountain Holler and Steel Pennies. 7 p.m.

Altona Grange, 9386 N. 39th St., Longmont, 303-443-3099.

My Friend Tom. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Serenade in Blue. 3 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

STS9. 7 p.m Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Wendy Woo Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb. 7 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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, 303-910-2236.

Cause for Paws Doggie Dash — Run/walk to benefit Humane Society of Boulder Valley.

7:30 a.m. 2323 55th St., Boulder, 303-442-4030.

Gemstone Energy Medicine Workshop.

9:30 a.m. Wesley Chapel Lounge, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-525-0161.

Savor the Flavor of Boulder. 12-3 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303-484-2126.

Nelsen’s Old Town Car Show. Old Town Square, Fort Collins, 970-484-6500.

Sunday, Sept. 12

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Singa. 8:30 p.m. Astroland, 4415 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.myspace.com/astrolandd.

Bakersfield Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Celtic Woman. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. eTown: Shawn Mullins & Cloud Cult. 6 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

George Nelson. 6 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

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

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

Joe and Vicki Price. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Just Married, John Statz, Jesse Terry. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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2nd Annual Women’s Adventure. Boulder Reservoir, Boulder, 970-331-9979.

6th Annual Fiesta de Esperanza. 5-8 p.m.The Empire Lounge & Restaurant, 816 Main St., Louisville, 303-823-6495.

Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Boulder WordPress Meetup. 3-5 p.m.

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

Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m.

For more information, call 720-301-3993.

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.

When Harry Met Sally. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Yoga Rocks the Park. 2 p.m. Central Park, Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, Boulder, 970390-4318.

Monday, Sept. 13

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

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

Paramore — With Tegan and Sara and others.

6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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

Boulder Public Library Film Program — The Hollywood Librarian. 7 p.m Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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

Getting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303444-0190.

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

Video Production One-Week Certificate Program. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Through Sept. 17.

Tuesday, Sept. 14

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

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

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350.

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

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome.

8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

events Benefiel Fundraiser. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Gawn Git Suum Wit Us. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

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

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder.

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

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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. 10

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, 303-442-1665.

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

Saturday, Sept. 11

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

Kids in Space. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001.

Sunday, Sept. 12 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

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

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

Monday, Sept. 13 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, Sept. 15

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

Dick Prall and Nick O’Connor. 7:30 p.m.

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

Forever Growing, The Starlings. 8:30 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

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

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

John Prine Tribute Night. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

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

Reggae Wednesday — With Rudie Clash and DJ Ziontist. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

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

StrEAT Chefs at Frasier Meadows Retirement Community.11 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Fraiser Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Pl., Boulder, 303-499-4888.

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, 303449-0319.

WordPress: Customization. 6-9 p.m.

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

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Tuesday, Sept 14 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.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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theater The Dinner Detective — Murder mystery show and dinner. Embassy Suites Hotel, 7525 E. Hampden Ave., Denver, 888-575-3884. Sept. 11.

Guys and Dolls. 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, 303-4421415. Through Sept. 25.

Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 24.

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

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Getting jiggy with the G-spot

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ebbie, 44 years old, just found her G-spot. She has always enjoyed clitoral orgasms — alone and with a partner. She had heard about the elusive G-spot, but never found it until Jeremy. She married Jeremy five years ago, and as their marriage flourished, he suggested they explore internal orgasm. Hesitantly, Debbie agreed. Jeremy set the mood with vanilla-scented candles and satin pillows on the bedroom floor. He aroused her with a full-body massage, and licked her vulva until she was near climax. Touching her cheek and maintaining eye contact, Jeremy asked permission to insert his finger into her.

Feeling safe and loved, Debbie allowed him to enter.

Debbie felt an immense wave of pleasure, accompanied by the urge to urinate.

Because she trusted Jeremy, she communicated this feeling. He assured her this was a normal sensation, and guided her to relax and bear down on his finger as if pushing it out. Debbie allowed herself to melt into Jeremy’s touch and experienced her first G-spot orgasm.

Many women like Debbie feel like they are going to urinate during G-spot stimulation. This is because the G-spot, a quarter-size area inside the vagina, sits next to the urethra. Anatomically, the G-spot is really the urethral sponge, and pleasurable pressure can make some women ejaculate. The urethral sponge swells with colorless fluid from the Skene’s glands, moves through the paraurethral ducts, and is expelled through the urethra. It’s not urine and it doesn’t stain, but you may want a towel!

However, not all women ejaculate or experience G-spot satisfaction.

Miranda, 29 years old, has been orgasmic since self-pleasuring in her preteens. Today she is multi-orgasmic and experiences a minimum of three to four clitoral orgasms in one sitting.

Having trained her vagina with Japanese Ben Wa Balls (the smaller, weighted kind), Miranda was able to strengthen muscles in her pelvic floor. She claims this has changed the quality of her orgasms, as she can feel a rippling of pleasure throughout her whole genital region. When with a male partner, she can isolate her muscles, controlling how Boulder Weekly

she squeezes the bottom, middle or top of the shaft, as if playing a flute.

However, G-Spot orgasms are not for her. She has to contort her body in uncomfortable positions and bear down so hard on one spot that by the time she has an orgasm from this area, she is so exhausted she cannot have another.

While Miranda knows her G-spot exists, she prefers to leave it alone to emphasize her clitoris. Sophia, age 62, on the other hand, has questioned the existence of the G-spot her entire life.

She was elated to read the latest study from a team of scientists at King’s College London confirming that the G-spot is not a feature every woman must experience. Examining 1,800 female twins, the study did not find a genetic basis for the G-spot, as some twins reported having one, while some claimed not to.

While able to experience a clitoral orgasm, Sophia’s G-spot eludes her. In her late 20s, she sought answers from a Freudian psychoanalyst who attempted to help her explore why her “immature girl” orgasms on the clitoris could not evolve to an internal “mature woman” orgasm. For years she chalked it up to unresolved childhood issues. When she finally abandoned the Freudian orgasm myth, she and her husband tried to find it again at a Tantra workshop on female sacred spot massage.

The G-spot still remains a mystery to Sophia. But she teaches her own daughters that sexual satisfaction comes in an assortment of colors in various erogenous zones. This lesson is refreshing, and also vital. Women get jiggy with the G-spot in their own unique ways. Debbie has fallen in love with hers at 44. Miranda knows it’s there, but prefers her multiple clit-gasms. And Sophia has come to understand that the G-spot is just another type of stimulation that may not be for everyone.

If learning more about G-spot stimulation piques your interest, I encourage you to join me at my free talk tonight at 7 p.m. at the Fascinations store in Aurora. For those who can’t make it, enjoy exploring at home!

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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Saturday, September 11 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

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Action sports video cameras let the world see the action through your eyes

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or the past several months I’ve been experimenting with POV (point of view) video cameras.

These devices are becoming increasingly popular and more affordable, as athletes of all kinds are realizing that strapping a camera to one’s helmet or body captures great video that’s easy to share via the Web.

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We tested two of these cameras on a recent trip to Chile, the venerable Go Pro and the just released Drift

Tuesday, September 14 How to Climb a 14er/High Altitude Hikes. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

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

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Wednesday, September 15 Colorado Mountain Club Boulder Group Open House. 7-8 p.m. Clubroom at Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-665-1310.

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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Innovation HD170. Go Pro has been a leader in this category, with a product that has so many accessories that you’ll lose track of all the attachments. The Drift Innovation HD170 ups the ante with a slick, waterproof design and plenty of options to attach the camera to head or gear, although not as many as the Go Pro. Both offer the one advantage that traditional video and digital cameras lack: point of view capabilities that capture the action as seen by the person doing it.

Go Pro HD Hero Go Pro broke into the POV market with its standard-definition POV video implied, what sets the Go Pro apart is camera a few years ago, and currently the vast array of accessories that you can priced at $99, it’s an affordable POV use the camera with. Our favorite for option that can shoot approximately 56 skiing is the chest mount, but if you’re a minutes of video as well as 5-megapixel cyclist, it’s easy enough to use the camphotos. But with high-definition video era on your handlebars or helmet. You becoming the industry standard, it’s can also mount the camera to a surfbeen superseded by Go Pro’s HD Hero board or kayak. In other words, this camera, which shoots professional 1080- puppy is versatile, and that’s why plenty pixel high-definition video at either 30 of action sports junkies like the product. or 60 frames per second. With the abiliStill, there are some failings. Both ty to record approximately 2.5 hours of the HD Go Pro and the standard-issue video on a single cameras lack a charge, the camera playback option, DETAILS has a capacity of which means that Go Pro HD Hero, $260, nine hours of video you can’t delete goprocamera.com Drift Innovation HD 170, on a 32-gig SD unwanted videos or $329, driftinnovation.com card. It’s also shockeven see if the conproof and watertent you’re shooting proof to 100 feet is good. This makes deep. The video forit hard to make mat is H.264 compression, saved as adjustments on the fly. Go Pro says that Windows- and Mac-compatible they’re producing a camera back for the MPEG4 (.mp4) files. The HD camera HD version which will allow on-camera is compatible with Windows Vista and playback, but you’ll have to pay extra for Windows 7 or Mac OSX 10.4.11 and this accessory (we bet it won’t be cheap) later. The HD also comes with a and there’s no word on when or if it will rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, a big actually be released. change from the company’s standard Furthermore, while the HD camera offering, which takes 3 AAA lithium has a 2.8 aperture, which is pretty good batteries. for low-light situations, it is not enough Obviously, all of these add up to a for really funky light conditions. It can big upgrade from Go Pro’s standard also be hard to tell when the camera is camera, and at $260, you pay for the on and when you’re shooting, and it’s HD Hero’s capabilities. But, as we’ve definitely not an intuitive system. You’ll

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need to read the directions and play with the camera before getting out into the field to fully understand the settings.

Still, we like the fact that this camera can take a beating, and the time-lapse function, which allows for photos every two, five, 10, 30 or 60 seconds, is really cool. Throw in Go Pro’s complete line of accessories and you have a POV winner.

Drift Innovation HD170 The first thing we liked about the Drift Innovation was the feel of the camera. Waterproof, with a nice “grippy” touch to the housing, it just felt good.

This camera has plenty of features. It’s the first POV action sports camera which films in full HD and has a playback screen and remote control. It’s also fairly easy to figure out — in fact in our “idiot test,” which involves turning on the camera and trying to use it without succumbing to reading the directions, it did fairly well, being much more intuitive than the Go Pro. This ease of use is one of the strengths of this offering, as is the fact that it has a playback screen.

After all, there’s nothing like being able to review video in the field and make adjustments then instead of coming home to a computer, watching the video you’ve spent hours shooting and realizing that if you’d just done something

different it would have been perfect.

Technically, the HD170 stacks up to the Go Pro, shooting in high-definition video at 1080p at 30 frames per second and in .MOV files. The camera comes with built-in memory of 32MB and can support memory cards of up to 32GB. The rechargeable Lithium-ion battery can be powered back up by connecting the camera to your computer, like an iPod (a nice feature), and the HD170 is compatible with Windows XP and Vista as well as with Mac OS 10.2. The list price for the camera is higher than the HD Hero, clocking in at $329.

We couldn’t complain about the functionality or the quality of the Drift HD170. In fact, the videos produced by the camera are excellent, and the lowlight/night setting even allows for shooting in some very difficult conditions. However, the rotating lens feature of the camera — you can spin the lens 360 degrees for shooting in any angle — did take some getting used to. In fact, while adding functionality for some users, it was annoying for others.

Purchasers of this camera will probably just figure out how to set the lens angle and leave it for their chosen activity when shooting POV with the HD170.

There’s also the drawback inherent with the camera’s shape. This isn’t the kind of camera that will work on a chest mount, but it will do just fine on a helmet or bike. And, with a remote control feature, it’s possible to put this camera on your helmet and leave it there, something you can’t do with the Go Pro. So, which one should you buy? That will depend upon your budget and how many sports you indulge in. With a wide variety of attachments, Go Pro will have an answer for almost any activity, regardless of the season. But if you’re just focusing on capturing video from a single sport, and want a high-end POV that includes features like in-camera playback, then there’s really only one option between the two, and that’s the HD170.

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he time is ripe to pick up a peck of peppers.

As a nation, we eat more peppers than ever, on average about 16 pounds a year. Of that, about 10 pounds will be bell peppers.

What to do with all those peppers? Skin, stuff, stir-fry, freeze, roast and, yes, pickle them. A building block of many cuisines, peppers come in a wide range of sizes, shapes and colors. Degrees of heat range from zero to off the charts.

How hot can they get?

Pepper heat, or pungency, is measured in Scoville units, named for chemist Wilbur Scoville. In 1912, Scoville came up with a highly subjective testing method, diluting liquefied pepper juice or pure ground chili with sugar water. He created a formula based on the drops needed to cool the heat to where it no longer burned a taster’s mouth. Instead of tasters, liquid chromatography now measures the Scoville units.

Peppers get their heat from the compound capsaicin (cap-SAY-ah-sin). Pure capsaicin rates between 15 million and 16 million Scoville units. The world’s hottest pepper is believed to be a hybrid Bangladeshi pepper, the Dorset naga, developed in England. It measures 1.6 million units.

Pepper heat register Habanero: Originally from Yucatan, these little pointy peppers became famous in Havana, Cuba; hence the name.

Heat range: 150,000-575,000 units Scotch bonnet: Native to the West Indies, this pepper’s name comes from its Tam o’Shanter shape.

Heat range: 1,000-2,000 Pepperoncini: Also called Tuscan, these very mild peppers are often pickled.

Heat range: 100-500 Banana pepper: Also known as yellow wax, these sweeties are homegrown favorites.

Heat range: 0 Bell pepper: Immature green bells are America’s favorite.

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Peel a pepper

Heat range: 150,000-325,000 Cayenne: Usually used dried, this very skinny 5-inch pepper looks like a red witch’s finger.

Heat range: 30,000-50,000 Serrano: Their name comes from serranias, which means “foothills”; they originated in the foothills north of Pueblo, Mexico.

Heat range: 8,000-22,000 Jalapeño: Looking like green and red Christmas tree lights, they’re named for the Mexican city of Jalapa in the state of Veracruz.

Heat range: 2,500-8,000 Anaheim: Actually a New Mexican chile in origin, this 7-inch favorite got its name from Emelio Ortega’s California ranch.

Heat range: 500-2,500 Poblano: A fresh favorite for stuffing from Pueblo, Mexico (where it gets its name); when dried, it’s called ancho or mulato.

Peppers peel easily if they are charred first. If using a broiler indoors, make sure the kitchen is well ventilated, because pepper fumes can be caustic.

Rinse peppers and poke with a fork so steam can escape. Place on hot grill or 6 inches under broiler. Char the outer skin until blackened and blistered, turning the peppers often with tongs. Put the charred peppers in a paper bag and fold down the top to seal. Let them sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Then, peel the peppers by scraping off the charred skins with a paring knife or running under water.

Other tips • Wear latex or plastic gloves when handling peppers. Capsaicin can burn skin and eyes. To remove capsaicin from hands, rub a little cooking oil on your fingers to break up the pepper residue, then wash hands with liquid detergent.

• When stuffing fresh peppers with a mixture that includes raw meat (such as sausage or ground beef ), bake until the internal temperature reaches 165 see PEPPERS Page 46

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s part of my ongoing efforts but with a pleasing textural contrast proto craft a taxonomy for vided by the rice coating.

Chinese restaurants, I Jon opted for the $6.95 Za Jiang Mian recently realized there are sans noodles, a hearty mix of ground pork, two main angles to categosauce and veggies. Decent on a waning rizing these eateries. The first is assessing summer day, this dish had a heft that will the formality and pricing of the place, be even more welcome on a cool autumn ranging from the come-one-come-all budday. Jon also enjoyed a $1.95 side of Asian get dive to the high-end banquet hall veggies, including a nearly creamy baby reserved for wedding festivities. The secbok choy, among other greens cooked to a ond, and perhaps more important, is fine crisp-tender consistency authenticity.

My main course was the special, At the low end of the scale, you’ve got $11.79 Sichuan Braised Beef Noodles. the sesame chicken chains that are about While it could have used more peppery as close to real-deal Asian as a can of heat, this dish was pleasantly perfumed Spaghetti-Os is to fine Abruzzo pasta. with cinnamon and star anise, and it Next up are more authentic but still reawasn’t too salty. The texture of the meltsonably priced spots where you’re likely to in-your mouth chunks of beef was remisee Asian families converge. Lastly, you’ve niscent of top-notch clay pot presentagot places like Zoe Ma Ma with milder, tions. The hefty noodles were perfectly more restrained flavors that are more cooked, making for the best Asian pasta ike the tamale, the zong zi has thousands of variations. In authentic than just about anything else preparation in town. the Bay Area, the versions I relished as a kid were typically available stateside, as the cooks likely While the flavors don’t replicate those pyramid-shaped, and bound up in either a lotus or banana trained in Asia. In this case, the owner’s of Chinese eateries from my youth, Zoe leaf wrapper secured with string. Inside was a generous dollop mom presides over the kitchen, which Ma Ma’s offerings possess their own set of of sticky rice dotted with either chunks of pork or lop cheong. makes for serious street cred. virtues.

Fresh flavors, skilled cooking and Lop cheong is a fatty but incredibly tasty sausage made with There’s not exactly a San Franciscoquality ingredients are all on display here pork or duck. I preferred the sausage version, as the fat would style Cantonese menu at Zoe Ma Ma. — just don’t expect boldly assertive flaliquefy during steaming and flavor the rice. Other embellishSure, they have pot stickers and steamed vors.

The main issue one might have with ments included steamed, salted, preserved egg and a dash of bao, the pork-filled dim sum white buns. this restaurant is price.

Sure, $11.79 is oyster sauce for garnish.

But there’s also chicken soup with pickled pretty hefty for a bowl of beef noodle vegetables, northern Chinese noodle dishsoup, but by the time you drove to South es and zong zi, best described as a sticky rice-filled get at Costco, was delicate in consistency and flavor, Federal in Denver or even Broomfield for something Chinese tamale wrapped in bamboo leaf and freighted in no small part due to a stuffing of both pork and at this level, you would have spent considerable time with pork. shrimp. The pearl meatball, a sphere of pork, shrimp and gas money. Perhaps most important, Zoe Ma Ma For starters, friend Jon and I sampled a pair of and water chestnut, came covered with grains of ups the ante on what constitutes quality Chinese $1.25 potstickers and a $1.25 pearl meatball. The steamed rice. Resembling a savory Hostess snowball within the Boulder city limits. classic dumpling, head and shoulders over what you’d cake, this had a light flavor similar to the potstickers, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Time for tomatoes and basil Isabelle Farm will be hosting its inaugural Tomato-Basil Festival on Friday, Sept. 10. Attendees will be able to tour the farm, eat dishes prepared using tomatoes and basil, and listen to live bluegrass music.

Vote for your favorite variety of tomato in the Great Tomato Tasting, or bring your own farm-grown tomatoes and enter them in the Backyard Tomato Contest. The event is free.

Isabelle Farm is located at 10029 Isabelle Rd. in Lafayette.

Twisted Pine Brewery takes medals The Twisted Pine Brewery came away from last week’s Colorado State Fair with two medals. Its Northstar Imperial Porter took first place in the Baltic Porter Category, while Le Petit Saison took third place in the Saison Category. The Brewery also has several entries in the upcoming Great American Beer Festival, which will take place Sept. 16-18.

In related news, Twisted Pine’s inaugural Twisted Mini Golf Tournament on Sept. 2 raised $700 for the Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center, which brings people with disabilities together with horses to help in the recovery process. The event was part of an ongoing series of community events that will continue throughout the fall. For information

on upcoming events, visit www.twistedpinebrewing.com How ‘bout them apples?

As part of its monthly series on state foods, the Colorado Department of Agriculture is highlighting Colorado apples in a Tomato Apple Gastrique recipe from Chef Jason K. Morse of the Valley Country Club in Aurora. You will need: Olive oil 2 cups grape tomatoes, whole 4 Fuji apples, peeled and diced 1 tsp. shallot, minced 2 tsp. garlic, minced 2-1/4 cups sugar 2 cups Cabernet Sauvignon 1-1/2 cups white balsam vinegar 3-1/2 cups chicken stock 3-1/2 cups veal stock 1 tbsp. butter Kosher salt White pepper Sauté tomatoes, apples, shallot and garlic in olive oil. Add sugar and cook until caramelized. Add wine and vinegar and reduce by half. Add both stocks and reduce until slightly thickened. Remove from heat, strain through chinoise and return to heat in new pan. Reduce stock until it coats the back of a spoon. Top with butter prior to serving. Adjust seasoning according to taste and serve with Colorado lamb loin.

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degrees, usually about 45 minutes to an hour.

• Peter Piper set the standard with his pickled peppers, but how many did he pick? A peck measures 9.31 quarts, so the number of peppers varies by size and variety. According to RoughEquivalents.com, a peck equals 139 fresh mini-sweet peppers, 456 pickled pepperoncinis or 493 pickled jalapenos.

Pepper prep Cooked vegetable stuffings such as ratatouille don’t need as much oven time, so parboil the peppers first. Drop cored peppers into boiling water with 2 teaspoons sugar and 1 tablespoon white vinegar. Reduce heat. Let peppers simmer for 5 minutes, then drain and stuff.

Fresh peppers are quick and easy to make in the refrigerator. Use white vinegar or white wine vinegar to avoid discoloring the peppers. Poke a hole in

each pepper to keep it from floating.

Combine two cups vinegar, two cups sugar, one teaspoon non-iodized salt, one teaspoon dill seed and 1/2 teaspoon mustard seed in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for five minutes. Put eight to 10 roasted and peeled Anaheim chiles (whole or sliced) in a quart jar. Add three cloves of garlic, cut into slivers. Cover tightly and refrigerate at least three days before using. The peppers will keep in the refrigerator for six months or more.

For the Anaheim chiles, substitute one pound whole and unpeeled jalapeno, serrano, banana, cherry, habanero or pepperoncini. Store four weeks before serving.

Source: The Complete Chile Pepper Book by Dave DeWitt and Paul Bosland (Timber Press, 2009) (c) 2010, The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.).

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That’s so nice of me to think of Cinnamon Orange Rice you and your souls. (I’m practicing Pudding positive self-affirmations.) You can 2 1/2 cups whole milk warm your soul right up with a shot 1/3 cup short grain rice of Southern Comfort, or you can 1/4 tsp. salt make my Cinnamon Orange Rice 1/4 cup sugar Pudding. De-freaking-lish! I say Zest from one small orange C W save the shot of Comfort for a cold 1 tbsp.OPjuice from orange r y on a EN at CU Buffs football game, and my 1 tsp. vanilla Norlin Libr pudding for all 1/2 tsp. cinnamon other times.

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Return to low heat and cook friends.

I like to use short grain rice, as it until the pudding thickens (5-8 produces a bit more of a creamy tex- minutes).

Take off heat and add raisins (or ture. With just some simple, pure ingredients you can make a treat that dried cranberries) and stir. Spoon will become a favorite for all seasons. pudding into serving bowls and cover with plastic wrap, then set in The hint of orange is such a welrefrigerator for at least an hour. come flavor, mixed with the dairy When ready to serve, garnish with and the cinnamon, it’s an instant cinnamon and whipped cream if pick-me-up. It also happens to taste desired. Enjoy! great in the morning, as well as for You can watch the Dessert Diva dessert. every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on I think September is going to be Channel 2. To contact Danette at the all Southern Comfort and Cinnamon Orange Rice Pudding for station, visit 2thedeuce.com, and click on Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat this diva. Comfort in full swing! I know you all can make this treat and and/or send comments and suggestions, write to jdromega@aol.com. that you will find much comfort in Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com doing so.

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

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orth Boulder’s Restaurante 100% Mexicano is the latest local eatery to deliver an authentic “south of the border” street food experience.

The menu includes staples like tacos with freshly made corn tortillas, quesadillas, tamales with a multitude of stuffings and torta sandwiches. There’s also a selection of platos, such as tequilasautéed shrimp and a generous $9.75 carne asada platter.

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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 baconwrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts such as crème brulee.

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 dining 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, chicken wings and mussels, along with an array of Belgian draft beers.

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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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ongmont’s fast-casual Basil Flats features a tasty and affordable Mediterraneaninspired 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.

Newport 6700 W. 120th Ave. Broomfield, 303-635-1688

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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.

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.

Sachi Sushi

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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 assortment of sashimi topping a bowl of sushi rice.

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.

Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House

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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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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.

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fter sitting through the enjoyable but mind-numbingly violent Machete, I’ve come up with a new movie category: bloodbath porn. From the very first scene in this Robert Rodriguez homage to ’70s action films, Machete’s body count surpasses everything since Rambo. Not into decapitation? Then this probably isn’t the film for you.

Machete is played by scary-looking character actor Danny Trejo, whose entire career is based on playing tough Latino hoodlums, as in the recent Rodriguez action thriller Predators. In this film, he’s a machete-wielding Federale who starts out trying to rescue a girl from evil drug lord Torrez (Steven Seagal).

He slaughters at least a dozen bad guys but is ultimately betrayed and left for dead after watching Torrez kill his wife in cold blood.

The next scene launches the viewer three years ahead to a Texas border town. The story changes to Senator McLaughlin (Robert De Niro) running for re-election on a draconian anti-immigration platform.

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Long-time Rodriguez collaborator Cheech Marin played Machete’s brother Padre, a priest whose parish church includes closed-circuit video monitoring and weapons stashed in a back room. The method in which Padre meets his demise was appalling, even for this jaded moviegoer. Be prepared.

There are lots of subtle sight gags in the film too, my favorite of which was Luz’s secret role as leader of Operation Network, with the figurehead of Shé. The posters, the art and the name itself were a clear nod to Che Guevara, the Argentine guerilla fighter. And yet, no one in the movie noticed the similarity. In another sight gag, one of the bad guys is burned to death, with a kitchen thermometer embedded in his eye (there’s a recurring theme of eye injuries). Zoom in and we see the temperature is “extra crispy.”

I really liked the visual design of Machete. The violence was generally acceptable for this type of film, but after a while I found myself numb and simultaneously amused and disgusted by the special effects.

Would I recommend it? Maybe if you’re into this sort of genre. But don’t be surprised by a half-baked story drowning in blood.

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Savage deception, revealed

mir BarLev’s previous documentary, My Kid Could Paint That, questioned the authorship of a little girl’s unusually sophisticated and lucrative canvases, and the role her father may have played in their creation. It was a detective story as well as a highly personal nonfiction essay, and it was a marvel.

Bar-Lev’s new film is The Tillman Story, and while self-effacing in its technique, it is no less superb. It is enraging yet nuanced, an elusive combination for any documentary, honoring a good man’s life while nailing the dishonorable way Tillman’s family was treated by the military and the Bush White House when questions regarding the 27-year-old’s death proved politically inconvenient.

In the days following the 2004 death of U.S. Army Spc. Pat Tillman near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan, a battle played out in the American media over a newly minted war hero’s symbolic meaning. Here was a pro football star who walked away from gridiron riches to sign up for a Boulder Weekly

Mexican day laborer to hurt, but not kill, him. It proceeds until they unwittingly tap Machete to play assassin. He decides to fight back against the system and predictable mayhem ensues.

Meanwhile, seemingly innocent taco-truck operator Luz (Michelle Rodriguez) secretly runs a sort of underground railroad for illegal aliens called “Operation Network,” while skeptical immigration officer Sartana ( Jessica Alba) keeps a close eye on things while she tries to crack the secret group.

Machete was spawned from a fake movie trailer buried in the earlier Rodriguez (and Quentin Tarantino) exploitation film-homage Grindhouse. The challenge was to turn an amusing three-minute spot into a 90-minute movie. Hardly an auspicious basis for a thoughtful film, but Machete isn’t very thoughtful.

The casting of Machete is part of its charm, if I can call it that: many roles were clearly written for the actors who played them. McLaughin’s troublemaker daughter April was played by Lindsay Lohan, for example, and her first scene has her strung out on

by Michael Phillips three-year hitch after 9/11, following in his military family’s footsteps. He was, from a U.S. propaganda perspective, gold.

The man behind the symbol resisted such reductive packaging. As an infantryman, Tillman found himself fighting his own disillusionment with the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq, which made no strategic or moral sense to him. Tillman was not alone, of course. That is why The Tillman Story packs the punch it does. The gentleman jock from the San Jose, Calif., suburb of Almaden, an avid reader of Emerson and Homer, saw the so-called war on terror in more complicated terms than his own president.

Before the facts of his death became known, Tillman was sold to the public as a classic wartime martyr, a man who died with a battle cry in his throat (“Let’s take the fight to the enemy!”). ThenBrig. Gen. Stanley McChrystal recommended him for the Silver Star. By the time of Tillman’s memorial, however, McChrystal had written a back-channel

memo advising the president not to discuss the allegedly rousing, recruitment-friendly circumstances of Tillman’s death.

McChrystal had gotten wind of the fratricide (Tillman was fired upon by three of his fellow Rangers in close quarters) and then went to considerable lengths to keep the friendly-fire investigation a secret from the family.

How the family responded to all this — how they chopped their way through the obfuscation and deception — fuels The Tillman Story. The heroics here are human-scaled but inspiring. From one perspective, the focus of the film takes us straight back to Greek tragedy. In any war there is a mother’s son, grieving yet determined to go on. As Tillman’s survivors, particularly his mother, Mary “Dannie” Tillman, take on Army and White House officials in a quest for verifiable, unvarnished information, the film retains a sharp point of view, but it is no propaganda piece. The original, factually challenged Tillman story — the administration’s — constituted propaganda at its most unseemly and, yes, un-American.

Pat Tillman, by contrast, was a richly contradictory American worth a dozen films, a hundred tributes.

Bar-Lev’s film will suffice for now. It reminds us to question what we hear during wartime, always.

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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 (Thekla Reuten). Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara (Violante Placido). 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

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 Cairo Time

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), a UN official working in Gaza, for a three-week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), 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.

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Animal Kingdom In the Melbourne underworld, armed robber Pope Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown (Joel Edgerton), wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of old-school banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speedaddicted and volatile Craig Cody (Sullivan Stapleton), is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade while the youngest Cody brother, Darren (Luke Ford), naively navigates his way through this criminal world — the only world his family has ever known. And into this world arrives their nephew, Joshua ‘J’ Cody (James Frecheville).

Following the death of his mother, J finds himself

George Clooney plays a spy trying to get a little down time in the moody, restrained thriller The American. living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf (Jacki Weaver), mother to the Cody boys. When tensions between family and police reach a bloody peak, J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Best Worst Movie Alabama dentist George Hardy’s brief flirtation with acting comes back to haunt him — playfully — in

this documentary about Troll 2, the horrifyingly inept horror movie that popular movie website Rotten Tomatoes rates at zero. Not a sequel to Troll, the bad-enough 1986 Sonny Bono vehicle, it isn’t even actually about trolls but rather goblins — goblins in the town of Nilbog (get it?) who transform people into vegetables and then eat them.

Made by an Italian crew with a loose grasp of English, it has spawned numerous fan clubs, effectively becoming The Rocky Horror Picture Show of a new generation. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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. Michael Fassbender stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general. The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict’s most vicious and skilled warriors. A gripping survival thriller set against a background of conquest and invasion, Centurion is written and directed by

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acclaimed filmmaker Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers). At Mayan and Starz. — Landmark Theatres Despicable Me The world’s most nefarious villain (voiced by Steve Carell) is planning the greatest crime in history — stealing the moon — when three orphaned little girls awaken his paternal instincts. Julie Andrews, Will Arnett and Russell Brand round out the voice cast of this 3-D computer-animated comedy. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez 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, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — 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’s 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 (a salt shaker is a “telephone,” an armchair is “the sea”) — 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 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 (among other bulk-inducing substances) 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 Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — 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 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, Flatiron and Century. — Landmark Theatres 54 September 9, 2010

The Girl Who Played With Fire

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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

The First Lebanon War — June, 1982. A lone tank is dispatched to search a hostile town that has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force.

What seems to be a simple mission gradually spins out of control. The four members of the tank crew are twenty-something boys who have never fought in a war and are now operating a killing machine.

Trying to remain brave, the boys are pushed to their mental limits as they struggle to survive in a situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose their humanity in the chaos of war. At Chez Artiste. — 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.

A&R rep Garrett (Justin Long) falls for newspaper intern Erin (Drew Barrymore), and their late-summer fling turns into a commuter relationship, kept alive by awkward phone sex and frequent-flier miles. There’s no other way to say it: Barrymore’s a great broad and one canny actress. And this film is clever and worth the time. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips I’m Still Here The directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Casey Affleck, I’m Still Here is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I’m Still Here follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always riveting, the film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads. Defying expectations, it deftly explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Inception Christopher Nolan’s knock-you-out-of-your-seat Inception is the blockbuster we’ve all been thirsting for, a sleek brain twister that makes the other 2010 mainstream releases look puny, drab and emptyheaded in comparison. Blithely summarized, Inception’s plot would seem confusing and impenetrable. Confusing? No doubt, and that’s what makes the film so enjoyable, as we try to tease and puzzle out what is really going on. Impenetrable? Hardly.

Simply put, mainstream moviemaking just doesn’t get any better than Inception. Rated PG-13. At Flatirons, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Randy Myers The Kids Are All Right Doctor Nic (Annette Bening) and her longtime partner, Jules (Julianne Moore), have two teenagers from the same sperm donor. When the kids make contact with the donor behind the moms’ backs, Mark Ruffalo’s easygoing restaurateur Paul shows up to stir this family’s pot a bit. Bening and Moore have never been looser on screen, and Ruffalo is the perfect foil. Rated R. At Esquire. — Michael Phillips The Last Exorcism This faux documentary offers up a squirmy tale of demonic possession. Director Daniel Stamm’s film follows Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), a charming huckster preacher who intends to show the film crew how the fake exorcism business works by taking the case of a distraught, hyper-religious Louisiana farmer (Louis Herthum) who believes the devil has taken hold of his teenage daughter (Ashley Bell). While the wrapping-up feels obvious, for a good while The Last Exorcism makes for an atmospheric stab at movie fright night. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Robert Abele

Life During Wartime In writer/director Todd Solondz’s part sequel/part variation on his acclaimed film Happiness, three sisters and the people they love struggle to find their places in an unpredictable and volatile world where the past haunts the present and imperils the future.

The question of forgiveness and its limits threads throughout a series of intersecting love stories, offering clarity and, perhaps, alternatives to the comforts of forgetting. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Lottery Ticket It’s hard out there for a kid from the projects who scores a lottery payoff, but must wait for the claim office to reopen. Suddenly everyone in the projects is after him. One foot in fantasyland, the other in the real world, the picture isn’t out for anything except laughs, plus a little astute sociology. Virtually everyone on screen knows where to find those laughs, how to deliver them and how hard to push them. This effort from first-time feature filmmaking collaborators, screenwriter Abdul Williams and director Erik White, is good — it’s fast, deftly paced and funny. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Machete See full review on Page 51. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Mao’s Last Dancer From Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) comes the inspiring true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin (Chi Cao) and his extraordinary journey from a poverty stricken boy in China to international stardom as a world-class dancer. Based on Li’s bestselling autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Nanny McPhee Returns A fine, fat hit in the U.K., this film transports us back to WWII-era rural England where the farm belonging to the beleaguered Green family is on the brink. The three Green children are forced to play host to their snooty London cousins, all watched over by the supernatural presence of Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson). Shenanigans ensue. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Other Guys Two mismatched New York City detectives find themselves stepping into the limelight of the top cops they idolize. With Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchy Tribune Media Services Piranha Spring break on sleepy Lake Victoria is terrorized by scores of prehistoric man-eating fish. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchy-Tribune Information

Services Resident Evil: Afterlife The search for survivors of a deadly zombie transforming virus leads to a deadly trap in Los Angeles.

Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

Restrepo Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 94-minute deployment. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels, Scott Pilgrim is about a Toronto dweeb (Michael Cera — who else?) smitten by one Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a girl with punky Day-Glo hair and an attitude of studied indifference. There’s a catch. Ramona informs Scott that she has had a colorful romantic past and that to win her hand he must battle and defeat her “seven evil exes.” Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Robert W. Butler.

The Switch This film is all over the place. Single and ready for a kid, TV producer Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) decides on artificial insemination. Her longtime friend and long-ago lover, Wally (Bateman), does not get the nod. The title refers to a switcheroo that Wally pulls at the “insemination party,” substituting his own donation for the cause. Seven years later, Kassie’s son’s quirks appear to have more in common with Wally than the presumptive birth father.

At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Takers This frantic, entertaining heist film is noisy and unsubtle, but it gets the job done. Top-billed Matt Dillon plays a detective who’s chasing a quintet of stylish hoodlums played by the likes of Idris Elba, Tip “T.I.” Harris and Chris Brown. They’ve been persuaded by a former colleague, just out of the clink, to blow up part of a downtown LA street, boost an armored truck’s worth of banknotes, and get busy with the fruits of their labor. It’s an unpretentious time-waster. And I rather liked it. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Valhalla Rising For years, the fearsome figure known only as One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen, Pusher, Flame & Citron, Casino Royale) has defeated everyone he’s encountered, but he’s treated more like an animal than a warrior. The only person he has any relationship with is the young boy who brings him food and water daily.

Constantly caged and shackled, One Eye has drawn the attention of a new force now sweeping the countryside and displacing the society’s leaders: Christians. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Vampires Suck A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchyTribune Information Services

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March 21-April 19:

When teen pop star Miley Cyrus appeared on David Letterman’s late-night TV talk show, band leader Paul Schaeffer asked her if she lip-syncs to pre-recorded music during her performances. Miley replied that no, she never fakes it. For evidence, she said, anyone could go watch a Youtube clip from one of her concerts. Sometimes she sounds terrible, which proves that she’s risking the imperfection of actually singing live. I urge you to follow Miley’s lead in your own sphere, Aries. In the coming week, you really do need to be as raw as the law allows. Be your authentic self, please — with no auto-tune-like enhancements.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

Give the best gifts you can possibly give, Scorpio. Don’t hoard any of the intense blessings you have at your disposal.

It’s time to unveil the fullness of your idiosyncratic generosity, to bestow upon the world the naked glory of your complex mojo. Some people will be better able than others to receive and use your zesty offerings, and it’s OK to favor them with more of your magnanimity. On the other hand, don’t spend too long worrying about the fine points of how to disseminate your wealth. The important thing is to let it flow like a river fresh from eternity.

TAURUS

SAGITTARIUS

April 20-May 20:

Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Here’s your mantra: BIG GREEN LUCK EVERYWHERE. I urge you to say it frequently in the coming days. Sing it softly to yourself while you’re driving your car or riding on public transportation. Whisper it as a prayer before each meal. BIG GREEN LUCK EVERYWHERE. Chant it in rhythm to your steps as you walk. Murmur it to the tiny angel looking down at you from the ceiling just before you drop off to sleep. Yell it out as you’re dancing beneath the sky. BIG GREEN LUCK EVERYWHERE. It’ll work its magic even if you don’t know exactly why you’re saying it or what it means.

“Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment,” said Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen. Which leads me to say: “Do not think you will necessarily be aware of becoming a role model and potent influence.” The way I see it, either of those developments may happen in the coming weeks. Without suffering any pangs of self-consciousness, you could suddenly find yourself thrust into a higher, brighter, more powerful state of being. I doubt there’ll be any stress or strain involved. Rather, it will naturally occur while you’re being your strong-minded, expansive self, trying simply to rearrange the world to conform to your vision of paradise.

GEMINI

CAPRICORN

This is an excellent time for you to revamp your relationship with your body. All the cosmic rhythms are aligned to help you. How should you go about it? The first thing to do is formulate your intentions. For example, would you like to feel more perfectly at home in your body? Would you revel in the freedom of knowing that the body you have is exactly right for your soul’s needs? Can you picture yourself working harder to give your body the food and sleep and movement it requires to be at its best? If you have any doubts about how to proceed, ask your body to provide you with clues.

Soon it will probably be time for you to wrap up the Season of Exploration. You’ve surveyed the outlands and fringe areas enough for now, right? I’m guessing that you’ve reconnoitered the forbidden zones so thoroughly that you may not need to do any more probing. Or am I wrong about this?

Am I underestimating your longing to push out to the frontiers and beyond? Maybe your brushes with exotic creatures and tempting adventures have whetted your appetite for even more escapades. I’ll tell you what, Capricorn: I’m going to trust your intuition on this one. Are you ready to rein in your risk-taking, or are you hungry for more?

May 21-June 20:

CANCER June 21-July 22:

While growing up, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana for 14 years. The Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial commemorates his time there. When my friend Janet was 7 years old, her second-grade class visited the place. While strolling around outside, she found a Band-Aid on the ground and excitedly assumed it had once graced a booboo on Old Abe himself. She took it home and secretly used it as a talisman. When she rubbed it on her own wounds, it seemed to have magical healing properties. Only later did she realize that Band-Aids weren’t invented until 55 years after Lincoln’s death. No matter. The artifact had done a superb job. I predict you will soon find a comparable placebo, Cancerian.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

Afghan farmers grow a lot of poppies — more than anywhere else in the world. While most of the crop is converted into opium and heroin, it could just as well be used to create poppy seed bagels — as many as 357 trillion of them by one estimate. The way I see it, Leo, you have a comparable choice ahead of you. A resource that’s neutral in its raw or natural state could be harnessed in a relatively good cause or a not-so-good cause. And I bet you will be instrumental in determining which way it goes.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.” German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg said that, and now I’m offering it for you to use.

Are you game? Try this experiment: For seven days, divest yourself of your opinions. And I mean all of them: opinions about politicians, celebrities, immigration reform, rockabilly music, your friends’ choices in mates — everything. For this grace period, be utterly non-judgmental and open-minded and tolerant. Allow everything to be exactly what it is without any need to wish it were otherwise. By experiment’s end, you’ll probably feel more relaxed than you have in a long time.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

The Latin motto dulcius ex aspiris means “sweetness out of difficulty.” It has a different meaning from “relief after difficulty” or “character-building from difficulty.” It suggests a scenario in which a challenging experience leads not just to a successful outcome, but also to a delicious, soothing harmony that would not have been possible without the difficulty. This is what I foresee coming for you, Libra.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

When I was living in Los Angeles in the summer of 1986, I had a memorable dream. In the dream, I was dancing with God. As best as I can describe it, the Divine Wow was a female whirlwind exuding cool blue fire and singing ecstatic melodies. Now and then I caught a glimpse of something that resembled a face and body, but mostly she was a sparkling, fluidic vortex that I moved in and out of as we floated and tumbled and leaped. The contact was so vivid and visceral that from that day forward I never again said, “I believe in God.” My experience was as real as making love with a human being; “belief ” was irrelevant. I predict that you will soon have a comparable encounter with a primal force, Aquarius — whatever passes for “God” in your world.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

The eighth-century theologian known as the Venerable Bede compared our existence to a sparrow that flies in the window of a royal castle while the king is enjoying a winter feast with his entourage. Outside, a snowstorm is raging.

Inside, there’s a big fire in the hearth that keeps everyone warm. But the sparrow doesn’t stay in this welcoming place; it quickly flies out another window on the other side of the dining room, refraining from plucking any of the delicious scraps of food the revelers have discarded. Bede says that the sparrow’s actions are like ours in our own approach to living our lives. Well, guess what, Pisces: I don’t think that will be true for you in the coming months. Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect that once you fly into the feast room, you won’t depart like a restless, confused wanderer.

You will linger.

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