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Audrey Tatou is fashion icon Coco Chanel

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AROUND TOWN Haunted house invades Jesters Diverse Perspectives Work by art faculty from Front Range Community College’s Boulder County campus; artists include John Pabor, Toby Huffman, Kristin Marine, Camille Rendal, Catherine Carilli, Lisa Michot, Rick Stoner, Scott Olson and Stephanie Lindsey.

EXHIBIT Today to Nov. 7 | The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont | Free | 303-772-7293 or www.longmont.the greatframeup.com

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"Bask," by Scott Olson, will be at the Front Range Community College faculty show at The Great Frame Up.

“Couples Retreat” “Bronson” “The Damned United” “An Education”

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A Salute to Abraham Lincoln

The Long Cold Walk

The Longmont Symphony Orchestra opens season with a tribute to the 16th president; featuring KVOD’s Charley Samson narrating Aaron Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait”; also includes Saint-Saëns’ “Symphony No. 3.”

A film by Warren Miller Entertainment that is a search for the historic roots of skiing, screened during the Lake Eldora Race Team’s Oktoberfest fundraiser.

LOVELAND — Niwot High School English teacher Terry Kroenung has published “Brimstone and Lily,” a novel described as “a wild and crazy Civil War fantasy adventure featuring a female Huck Finn named Verity and her smartaleck, pun-loving, shapeshifting, talking sword Jasper.”

The book was released

by Rare Moon Press. It was a recent finalist in speculative fiction at the Colorado Gold Writers Conference in Denver.

The book costs $12.95.

Visit www.legacystone .net.

SCREENING 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, with screening at 8 p.m. | Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St., Boulder | $20 | www.emsc.lertprograms.com

Coal Creek raises ‘Voice’

“Monsters Vs. Aliens” “Away We Go”

“I know what you’re saying: ‘I’ll be darned, Dave had sex.’”

Talk-show host David Letterman, in confessing past affairs

COVER SHOT A model is painted during a life drawing class at Longmont Free University.

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CONTACT US Features editor Travis Pryor, 303-684-5212 Day & Night listings Sarah Stevenson, 303-684-5218 Advertising Director John DiMambro, 303-684-5293

LONGMONT — Jesters Dinner Theatre presents “Cell Block Terror,” a haunted house open 7:30 to 11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October at the theater, 224 Main St. A less-frightening haunted house for younger children will be offered 3 to 5 p.m. Saturdays.

The haunted house also will be open 7:30 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays beginning Oct. 18.

Admission is $10 evenings, $5 Saturday afternoons.

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The famed artists, who are working on the installation “Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado,” plan to appear for a presentation and Q & A.

The local art teacher plans a free demonstration on acrylic landscape painting; she’ll paint an image based on a recent trip to Ireland and explain what she’s doing as she does it.

PRESENTATION 6:30 p.m. Oct. 15 | University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins | Free tickets | 970491-4TIX

CONCERT 7:30 p.m. Saturday | Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont | $12 to $16 | 303-772-5796 or www.longmontsymphony.org

DEMONSTRATION 6:30 p.m. Oct. 14 | The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont | Free | 303-828-3453

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Harvest Dance The dance and a community potluck is presented by Dances of Universal Peace and the Unity Center of Longmont; led by Mary Ellen Garrett, Britt Ripley and Jennifer Friedman; participants sing and dance together.

Singer/songwriter and resident of the local foothills plays foothills venue.

CONCERT 5 p.m. Sunday | Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill | Free | 303-443-6461 or www.goldhillinn.com

DANCE 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday | Longmont Free University, 505 Main St., Longmont | $8 to $15 | www.unitylongmont.org

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LOUISVILLE — Coal Creek Community Theater presents “Voice of the Prairie,” a John Olive play directed by Linda Orr, at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m.

Sundays, Oct. 16 through 31 at Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave. Tickets are $12 to $15.

Call 303-665-0955 or visit www.ccctheater.org.

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Appearance by guitar stylist Linsky BOULDER — Guitarist Jeff Linsky plans to perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave. Linsky is known for his approach to guitar improvisation. His playing involves classical guitar technique and elements of jazz.

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Call 303-443-5108.

Spring Creek in local show GOLD HILL — Spring Creek, the rising star of local bluegrass, plans to perform at 9 p.m. Oct. 16 at Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St. Tickets are $10.

The band is coming off official showcase status at the recent International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event in Nashville.

Visit www.springcreek bluegrassband.com.

‘La Traviata’ fully staged BOULDER — CU Opera presents “La Traviata,” Verdi’s classic opera, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23 and 24 and 2 p.m. Oct. 25 at Macky Auditorium on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A brown-bag preview of the production is planned for noon Oct. 21 in the Imig Music Building, and a pre-curtain talk about the show will occur one hour before each performance.

Tickets are $12 to $36.

Call 303-492-8008 or visit www.cupresents.org.

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Lowly coop as high art

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The Mountain Jumpers, including Paul Waitinas (bass), Dave Goldhammer (guitar), and Steve Remmert (mandolin), perform during Grass at the Grange at the Altona Grange Sept.

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Grange a favored venue for ’grass Jumpers. The next shows are planned for Oct. 17, when local stars Spring Creek and Ron Lynam and Cowtown LONGMONT — David Okay Patton take the stage, and Nov. 7, when the linewas in a group called Coal Creek Blueup includes Longmont-based Giddyup grass Band that several years ago was Kitty and Quickdraw. invited to play an event at the Altona “It’s a cool little venue,” said Kerry Grange west of Longmont. He saw imClaxton, Giddyup Kitty’s lead singer. mediately that the venue had potential.

“It’s a lot of fun, a little different ... It’s “As soon as we walked in I thought I kind of like playing for a hoedown. It’s could see Bill Monroe playing in there,” an intimate setting.” he said, referring Granges were to the father of originally founded bluegrass.

ALTONA SHOW as a way to orgaThe band enWhat: Grass at the Grange, a three-event nize farmers. The joyed performing series of bluegrass concerts Altona Grange is at the venue so said to have been much it came back When: 7 p.m. Oct. 17 and Nov. 7 established in 1891. and recorded a Where: Altona Grange, Nelson Road and live album there, Doris Gray, pres39th Street, west of Longmont released in 2004. ident of Colorado Cost: $14 Patton said Bluegrass Music Information: www.coloradobluegrass.org those shows helped Society, said the ignite interest in bands booked for the grange hall as Grass at the a place to present live music.

Grange are all “I’d say we rediscovered that venue,” CBMS members and from Colorado. She he said. said people come from throughout BoulFor the second year, the Colorado der, Lyons and Longmont to the shows.

Bluegrass Music Society has organized “Most people like bluegrass music, “Grass at the Grange,” a three-event se- whether they know it or not,” Gray said. ries of concerts at the grange that serve “It’s really uplifting music.” as fundraisers for both the society and Gray said she hopes the concert series the grange. Patton emcees the events. remains an annual event.

The first show this year occurred in

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BOULDER — Too bad chickens don’t have bigger brains. Then we could ask them what they think of all the fuss we’re making of them.

Longmont recently played its part in the nationwide mania for backyard chicken coops when the City Council approved hens for some households. Clucking is heard over neighborhood fences from California to the Carolinas as farm fresh, locally produced, organic, green, non-GMO foods have for some people become a way of life. This month the backyard chicken claimed the cachet of official recognition by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum last week opened a new exhibit that is a celebration of the chicken coop. Duchamp had the urinal. Johns had flags. BMoCA has the coop.

These are not your redneck grandpa’s chicken coops. This is a high-minded arts institution. A sleek half-circle coop greets visitors before they even get in the door.

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CHICKEN COOPS What: Urban Chicken Coop Projects by the University of Colorado, Boulder When: Through Jan. 17 Where: Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder Cost: $5 Information: 303-443-2122 or www.bmoca.org

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MOVIE GUIDE “The Invention of Lying”

BOX OFFICE 1. “Zombieland” $25 million 2. “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” $16.7 million 3. “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2” in 3-D $12.5 million 4. “The Invention of Lying” $7.4 million 5. “Surrogates” $7.3 million 6. (tie) “Capitalism: A Love Story” $4.85 million 6. (tie) “Whip It” $4.85 million 8. “Fame” $4.8 million 9. “The Informant!” $3.8 million 10. “Love Happens” $2.8 million

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Audrey Tatou stars as Coco Chanel in Sony’s biopic of the fasion icon.

‘Coco Before Chanel’ | Portrays independent, strong-willed young woman who from behind the clouds of her cigarettes regards the world with unforgiving realism ambition

By Roger Ebert Universal Press Syndicate We talk about people “inventing themselves.” That assumes they know who they want to invent. “Coco Before Chanel” begins with an abandoned orphan girl, watches her grow into a music hall chanteuse, and then sidestep prostitution by becoming a mistress. All the while from behind the clouds of her cigarettes she regards the world with unforgiving realism and stubborn ambition. She doesn’t set out to become the most influential fashion icon of the 20th century. She begins by designing a hat, making a little money, and striving to better herself. She wants money and independence.

One suspects she would have been similarly driven if she had invented a better mousetrap and founded a home appliance empire.

The naturalism of Anne Fontaine’s film would be at home in a novel by Dreiser.

Her star, Audrey Tautou, who could make lovability into a career, avoids any ef-

###1/2 Rated PG-13 for sexual content and smoking 110 minutes fort to make Coco Chanel nice, or soft, or particularly sympathetic. Her fashions may have liberated women from the hideous excesses of the late 19th century, but she creates them not out of idealism, but because they directly reflect her inalterable personality. She didn’t put women in sailor shirts out of conviction. She liked to wear them.

Perhaps because of its unsentimental approach to Chanel’s life, “Coco Before Chanel” struck me as less of a biopic, more of a drama.

It’s not about rags to riches but about survival of the fittest. Is Coco, young and poor, used by the rich playboy Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde)? Perhaps he thought so early in their relationship, but she uses him as well. She likes him, but she signed aboard for money, status and entree, not merely sex and romance.

She sees theirs as a reasonable transaction. She isn’t a brazen temptress but a capitalist, who collects on her investment.

Through Balsan she meets the bold actress Emilienne (Emmanuelle Devos) and Boy Capel, an Englishman. It’s clear that to Chanel, love with a man or a woman is pretty much the same, but Boy truly does love her, and this is a unique experience for Coco. Things might have proceeded quite differently in her life if that relationship had survived.

Baron Balsan, not blinded by love, sees Boy as exactly what he is — something Coco, for once, hasn’t done.

Tautou isn’t stereotypically beautiful but more fetching. It’s her spirit as much as her face and the tilt of her upper lip more than her curves. She is above all a disciplinarian of herself; at the end of the film we learn she died in 1971 — “on a Sunday,” at work, just as she worked every day of her life.

It would be such a joy to bend the truth and say that “The Invention of Lying” lives up to the potential of its inspired premise. The conceit — that an alternate universe exists where everyone tells the truth all the time — sets up an uproarious beginning, but then the movie plummets precipitously. It’s not just the high-concept gag wears thin, which it does. The bigger problem is that Ricky Gervais, in his directorial debut (alongside co-director and co-writer Matthew Robinson), zig-zags awkwardly between dark humor and heavy melodrama. One character is suicidal and another is on the verge of dying, both of which are played uncomfortably for laughs. It certainly doesn’t help that “The Invention of Lying” is lighted so hideously, everyone looks like death — even Rob Lowe and Tina Fey. This is especially obvious given Gervais’ fondness for cutting back and forth between close-ups his actors, which he does with distracting frequency. On camera himself, he’s likable enough as Mark Bellison, a wisecracking sad sack who discovers the unheard-of notion of lying one day and explores its many benefits.

But sharing scenes with him are Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton and Jason Bateman, who go to waste in barely-there cameos.

Comedians like Fey, Jeffrey Tambor and Louis C.K. get a bit more time on screen but their characters are flatly onenote. Gervais deserves credit for approaching the idea that God and heaven are part of an elaborate lie meant to assuage the masses — a bold move for a big-studio comedy with lots of stars — but then backs off, as if he and Robinson hadn’t thought it through all the way.

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‘Couples Retreat’ | Movie happens according to ages-old sitcom formulas

The movie depends for excitement on a shark attack during a scuba- diving exercise, featuring clueless sharks and an enormous pool of blood apparently leaked from a tiny superfiBy Roger Ebert ## cial scratch. Salvadore Universal Press Syndicate Rated PG-13 for sexual charms the wives somewhat ambiguously with his oiled content and language “Couples Retreat” tells pecs and bottles of pineapthe story of four troubled 107 minutes ple-rum drinks. couples and how they’re The men don’t bond so healed by sitcom formulas.

Favreau) and Lucy (Kristin much as stand together onWhy are they troubled? Be- Davis); and Shane (Faizon screen and exchange bondcause the screenplay says Love) and Trudy (Kali ing dialogue. so.

Hawk). Their troubles: (1) There is a twin resort It contains little comedy Parenting duties distract named East Eden, which except for free-standing from romance; (2) Joey’s has all swinging singles as one-liners, and no suspense wandering eye; (3) Shane opposed to troubled couples. except for the timing of the has split from wife, is datobligatory reconciliation. It ing 20-year-old bimbo.

It’s a party scene every doesn’t even make you think night; as nearly as I could They fly to the Eden reyou’d like to visit its island tell, our four couples are the sort, which uses locations paradise. only clients on West Eden, on Bora Bora, a truly enso no wonder there was a 50 The couples are apparent- chanted place that’s repercent off deal, despite ly all from Buffalo Grove, duced to the beach party Cstanley’s talk of the long which supplies nothing visu- level. Eden is run by Monal except for a T-shirt. sieur Marcel (Jean Reno), a waiting list.

Among the better things Three of them think martial arts mystic, and in the movie, I count they’re reasonably happy, managed by Cstanley (PeVaughn’s well-timed and but their friends Jason (Ja- ter Serafinowicz), who exsmart dialogue; the eccenson Bateman) and Cynthia plains his name is spelled (Kristen Bell) beg them to with a C. Other staff include tricity of Love and Hawk in contrast to the cookie-cutter join them for a week at a re- Salvadore (Carlos Ponce), couples; and Serafinowicz’s sort devoted to healing rela- doubling for a model on the meticulous affectations, tionships (if four couples go, cover of a lesser romance which suggest psychotropic it’s half price). novel. medication.

Jason and Cynthia are anThe formula itself might The concluding scenes guished because they have supported hilarity, but are agonizing in the way haven’t had a child. The oth- the story lacks character they march through the er couples are Dave (Vince specifics. Each couple bestages dictated by an agesVaughn) and Ronnie (Malin haves relentlessly as an illustration of their problem. old formula.

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kids to three-time state basketball champions. With his first film, director and co-writer Kristopher Belman combines old home videos and TV news footage with fresh interviews with James, his buddies and their coach, Dru Joyce II. Feelgood speeches and proclamations abound, frequently accompanied by the swell of uplifting music. ("Our kids just had a never-say-die attitude,” recalls the coach, speaking in one of many sports cliches, even though the tears in

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“More Than a Game” An inspiring story that works very hard to remind you it’s an inspiring story at every opportunity. “Hoosiers” looks subtle by comparison — and this is a documentary. “More Than a Game” traces the origins of LeBron James before he was an NBA superstar, when he and his high school teammates rose from being scrappy Akron, Ohio,

his eyes at the memories seem genuine.) Too often, Belman also states the obvious; we could have figured out for ourselves, for example, that Joyce served as a father figure to James, who was raised in the projects by a single mother who gave birth to him at 16. The fact that James’ talent and discipline allowed him not only to overcome his childhood hardships but thrive on a stratospheric scale is a compelling story in itself — and to his credit, he’s not the sole

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Robert Olson, Conductor 2009 Super Conductor Candidates Abe Lincoln – A Likeness in Symphony Form Bennett: Copland: Lincoln Portrait Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 (Organ)

Kenrick Mervine, Organist Charley Samson, Narrator Preconcert talk with Dr. Olson at 6:30 p.m. in the he commons area.

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focus of the film, even though he’s an executive producer.

“More Than a Game” also takes plenty of time to let us get to know his teammates, their back stories, and how they found a way to work together and win.

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“A Serious Man” It’s hard to put a finger on exactly what a Coen brothers movie is. That’s part of the allure of them. As writers and directors, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen don’t just pump out the same movie over and over, as so many filmmakers do.

From the comic antics of “Raising Arizona” to the noir of “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” the goofballs of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” to the outlaws of “No Country for Old Men,” they’re all strikingly different. They surprise us. But there are some thematic threads that frequently run though them, which get tangled together here in the Coens’ most personal film yet. Basically the point is that the universe is random, it gives you insurmountable challenges, and there’s nothing you can do about it. The concepts of justice and karma are irrelevant: Things happen to people whether their behavior is good or bad, and you can question them all you like, but good luck finding any answers. You could invoke “The Big Lebowski” in trying to explain this philosophy: They’re nihilists. But the Coens are clearly having a little fun in making life so difficult for the nebbishy Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor raising his family in a predominately Jewish suburb of Minneapolis in 1967. Larry tries to do the right thing at home and at work — tries to be a serious man — but out of nowhere one day, the troubles start piling up until they reach an absurd level. Watching and wondering how and when he’ll snap provides laughs, but also a mounting sense of unease, and it should provoke lengthy debate about the nature of faith.

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“Whip It” Drew Barrymore has forged a persona as both an actress and producer with movies that exude a playful sense of girl power, so it only makes sense that her first feature as a director would share that same sort of vibe. What is surprising, though, is Barrymore’s ability to find just the right tone all the time, which would be a difficult feat for any first-time filmmaker to achieve — even one who’s had the benefit of spending her entire life on movie sets. “Whip It” is funny without trying too hard to be wacky, sweet without being overly sentimental. It has an appealing sort of low-budget, ’70s-style kitsch. And after a recent string of femalecentric films including “All About Steve” and “The Ugly Truth” that wallow in the worst kinds of stereotypes, it is such a relief to see women depicted as strong, smart, cool individuals. It’s also a joy to see Ellen Page play a character other than the impossibly clever smart-alecks she’s become known for in movies like “Juno” and “Hard Candy.” Here, Page stars as Bliss Cavendar, a misfit growing up in the nowhere town of Bodeen, Texas, and working as a waitress at the local barbecue joint. Bliss is reluctantly following in the footsteps of her beauty-queen mother (Marcia Gay Harden), but on a visit to the big city of Austin, she sees a flier for the local roller derby league and is immediately intrigued. Not only does she secretly try out, she makes it and becomes the league’s petite, speedy star. Kristen Wiig, Alia Shawkat, Juliette Lewis, stuntwoman Zoe Bell and Barrymore herself are among the solid supporting cast.

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“Zombieland” You’d be justified in thinking you’ve visited “Zombieland” before. There’s been no shortage of zombies at the movies in recent years, just as there’s been no shortage of vampires. And within that genre, a crop of zombie comedies has arisen, from “Shaun of the Dead” to “Zombie Please see MOVIE GUIDE on 10

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COOPS: Urban chicken homes as art make out exactly what it is, but based on academically dense artist statements posted nearby, it has something to do with chicken coops, and also art.

The fenced-off installation includes three freestanding chicken coops, two of which, with their angular construction and unorthodox arrangements, appear as if Frank Gehry had a hand in their design. Straw covers the ground and farm implements are arrayed as props.

The village is the work of the BASELINE GROUP, a class of fine art students at the University of Colorado at Boulder taught by assistant professor Richard Saxton.

“The mission of Chicken Shack Village is to heighten awareness about local landscapes and raising hens in an urban setting,” says an artist statement. The installation, says another statement, takes Colorado’s “vernacular architecture” into account. One of the coops has a false front — a chicken residence with purely decorative elements.

This is taking ethical treatment of animals to a whole new level.

Another item in the exhibit is a prototype for a coop kit designed by Jeff Troutman, who’s also a CU student. The prototype is meant to be affordable and easy to assemble for home owners eager to install chickens next to the swing set. With its silver chicken

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“The Proposal” Sandra Bullock is back in form as a tyrannical boss from Canada who is threatened with deportation and commands her long-suffering assistant (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her.

Predictable, of course, but charming. Betty White and Mary Steenburgen sparkle.

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“Land of the Lost” Will Ferrell plays a scientist with a scheme for importing fossil fuels from a parallel dimension and lands in one himself, with Anna Friel, Danny McBride and Jorma Taccone (as a Missing Link).

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“Adoration” A boy hears a story in class, retells it in terms of his own life, and sets in motion a series of meetings in life and on the Internet that coil through reality, virtual reality and fantasy. An underlying account of a failed terrorist plot generates ripples of factual and fictional meaning.

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“Every Little Step” A backstage documentary about the auditions for a recent Broadway revival of “A Chorus Line.” Beginning with a line reaching down the street at an open call, the film follows dancers through every step of an arduous and often heartbreaking ordeal. Ironically, that’s what the musical is about. Powerful.

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“Year One” Jack Black and Michael Cera playing themselves, as tribal hunter-gatherers who advance all the way to royal security guards. Dreary and cheerless slapshtick.

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“My Life in Ruins” Nia Vardalos stars as an American tour guide in Greece who lectures to busloads of tourists who are walking cliches. Vardalos has misplaced her infectious charm in “My Big

wire on black-painted wood, the apparatus is slightly futuristic.

This is at least the second exhibit in the area this year that focuses on a mundane form of infrastructure. The Boulder Public Library and the Dairy Center for the Arts jointly presented The Ditch Project, which through interpretive and art features extolled the value of the region’s water ditches.

What might local artists do with the subject of traffic abatement measures, or parking garages, or electrical transformers?

The precedent for such explorations has been hatched in Boulder.

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nakedbeauty Life drawing group presents first-ever exhibit

By Quentin Young Longmont Times-Call

UNWRAPPED ARTISTS

LONGMONT — Leonardo da Vinci’s interest in the human form far exceeded that of most artists. He was so curious about the lines and curves of bodies that he dissected them. At one point he made a series of drawings of the body while working, historians believe, with a professor of anatomy. When he turned to portraits or biblical figures, he knew precisely the architecture under the skin he shaded in.

The nude, after centuries of disfavor, was a common subject in the Italian Renaissance, whose artists looked back to masters from ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. They put this renewed interest in the nude to powerful effect. Imagine Michelangelo’s “David” in a tunic. It just wouldn’t be the same.

A group of local artists participates in this tradition. Known informally as the Friday Longmont life drawing group, it typically meets three Fridays a month to make drawings from life — that is, draw from a hired nude model.

Members work in several media, including charcoal and paint. The group includes some of the area’s most prominent artists, including Scott Fraser, Gaynor Nelson, Dwayne Wolff and Jason Emery. Membership is bestowed on a selection basis.

These artists are looking forward to a significant milestone this month. Their first-ever group exhibit opens today at

Artists participating in the Muse exhibit: Grahame Atkinson, Anne Boettcher, Susan Crouse-Kemp, Mario Echevarria, Jason Emery, Claire Evans, Scott Fraser, Robert Goldsworthy, Dan Groenewald, Dan Hollingshead, Susan Mara, Gaynor Nelson, Cheire Nobilette, Dru Marie Robert, John Taft and Dwayne Wolff

EXHIBIT What: “UnWrapped: Expressions of the Human Form,” an exhibit from a Longmont life drawing group When: Opens today, through Nov. 7; with a 6 to 9 p.m. opening reception today Where: Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont Cost: Free Info: 303-678-7869 or www.arts longmont.org

Above: Jason Emery paints model Annabel Reader.

At right: Annabel Reader models for a life drawing class on Sept. 25 held at Longmont Free University.

Muse Gallery’s WestEND space.

The show includes work in various media by 16 of them.

The artists value the life drawing sessions for the challenge they present.

“This is the hardest thing I do,” said Fraser, who’s best known for oil still lifes of eye-popping realism. “It’s very noticeable if you get it wrong with the figure.”

Nelson said drawing the human body is one of the best ways to study shadows and lines. The vertical curve of the neck leading to the platform of the shoulder and down the rounded arm — rendering this requires the artist to notice all kinds of edges. Is it sharp? Blurred? Something in between?

“Modulation of the edge makes it feel real in space,” Nelson said.

sculpture, called “Triangle,” has since been moved.

Susan Crouse-Kemp, a member of the life drawing group and organizer of the Muse show, noted that the United States is a country whose former attorney general, John Ashcroft, had a Justice Department sculpture of The group serves a purpose be- group’s artists was said to have yond the chance to practice art. drawn complaint when it was dis- a bare-breasted woman, the played as part of a Longmont Stu- “Spirit of Justice,” covered with “Artists are alone a lot,” Neldio Tour exhibit at the Longmont $8,000 drapes. son said. “It’s good to come here The Muse Gallery, however, Museum & Cultural Center. The and meet other artists.” “didn’t even hesitate” to accomOld Firehouse Art Center, a cenFraser added: “We’re very modate the group, Crouse-Kemp tral institution in the local arts tight knit, and we’re great said. scene, does not allow any nudes friends.”

Joanne Kirves, executive dion its walls, ever.

The center’s diThe group has made a point not rector of the Longmont Council rector of art, Paula Peacock, exto advertise its existence, wary for the Arts, which operates plained: “We don’t show nudes, that it could attract negative atMuse Gallery, has a background tention in the community, Fraser because we’re an art center. We have children’s classes, and chil- in fine arts, and she said life said. With the Muse exhibit, the drawing is a fundamental part of dren go through the gallery all group not only declares itself, it any arts education. the time.” also puts its work on display in a “This really gets to the core of In 2006, Loveland made nation- what is the shape of a shoulder, of highly visible downtown venue al news when a public art sculpfor anyone to enjoy — or conthe muscle structure of an arm ture of three nudes installed in demn. or what happens when a body the middle of a traffic circle “This is kind of a test, actualtwists,” she said. caused an uproar among resily,” Fraser said.

Kirves acknowledged that the dents who thought it was obscene show might “challenge” some There is, perhaps, cause for and harmful to children. The viewers, but she said that’s not a concern. A piece by one of the

bad thing. Besides, she believes in the exhibit’s quality.

“The images are incredible,” she said.

In terms of sexuality, the works are at most mild, based on a reporter’s visit to one of the life drawing group’s recent sessions and on several images in the show that were released by Muse in advance of the opening. Justice Potter Stewart, famous for knowing obscenity when he saw it, would find nothing to object to here.

Crouse-Kemp works in encaustics and fiber, and figures, let alone nudes, are mostly absent from her work. But her drawings from life help her with her other art.

“If you can master those things you can pretty much let loose on the rest of the world,” CrouseKemp said. “And, of course,” she added, “it’s God’s beauty.”

Quentin Young can be reached at 303-684-5319 or qyoung@times-call.com.

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Model Annabel Reader is painted during a life drawing class Sept. 25 at the Longmont Free University building.

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‘Demon’s Souls’ will make even grown gamers cry At first glance, “Demon’s Souls” looks simple enough: just another action/roleplaying game with a fantasy setting, cool enemies and pretty graphics.

Then you die.

During the tutorial.

Your first death stings a little as you’re transported to the Nexus, where you learn how to navigate to the five worlds, buy and sell items and generally survive as much as you can.

In typical RPG fashion, players choose from several different character classes, including some unusual choices like Royalty, a balanced class with some interesting abilities.

Your character is then immediately thrust into action, fighting off demons and, upon their demise, collecting the souls they’ve captured.

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erything from buying medicine to paying for repairs on your weapons, something you’ll do often.

Every kill yields souls. In addition to paying your way through the game’s shops, the number of souls you collect also determines your character’s level.

Oh, did I mention that each time you die, you lose all the souls you’ve retrieved, but haven’t spent?

You can get them back, though. All you have to do is revisit the bloodstain where you died. You know, the one next to the giant nightmare that killed you.

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As you inch forward, your character grows stronger.

Persistent players will appreciate the feeling of accomplishment for every new room they explore and boss they destroy.

However, less-experienced players may be too frustrated to ever fully immerse themselves in the game’s rich world.

Those who stick around will appreciate the system that developers incorporated to help others struggling through the game.

At any point, a player can hit the select button and send a message to other players. These messages, which appear as shining spots on the floor, can warn players of upcoming danger and even pass along points of strategy.

You’ll also see the other players’ bloodstains littering the battlefield. Examining them provides a view of the other player’s actions leading up to their death.

Smart players learn from those who came before them.

Players can even send their characters to another player’s world as a phantom, either to help them

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“ D EMON’ S S OUL S ” Publisher: Altus Rated: M Who it’s for: Hardcore gamers with mad skills only, please Grade: B along in their journey or to attack them.

While “Demon’s Souls” may sound like a pure hackand-slash adventure, the game actually features tremendous depth.

Those who proceed strategically will get farther, faster. Your strategy must include how you’ll outfit your character; which weapons accommodate your playing style; when to retreat and bank or spend your souls, rather than risk losing them.

Consider how to approach the game’s beasties, especially the major demons, before tackling them. Large battles play out like a bloodsoaked ballet. If you don’t know your steps, you’re sure to fall off the stage.

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bizarre while still remaining rooted in contemporary reality.

Jesse Eisenberg stars as an uber-nerdy college student who’s managed to survive a viral zombie outbreak by adhering to a strict series of rules, which are inspired by his innate fear of everything. While trying to get home to Ohio to see what’s become of his parents, he runs into a fellow survivor (Woody Harrelson) who’s his brash, butt-kicking opposite. They come to regard each other by their destinations — Columbus and Tallahassee — rather than their real names to avoid forging a personal relationship, should potential zombiedom force either of them

“Demons Souls” requires patience and the willingness to hone your gaming skills. More than any other previous RPG, I felt like my own level was raising along with my character’s.

There are a few minor problems with the game itself.

Sometimes I found my character merging with a wall or standing in empty space (a glitch known as clipping), which occasionally made fighting disorienting.

Objectives aren’t always clear, and an auto-map would have improved navigation tenfold. Actually, any in game map would have been appreciated.

Finally, movement while dodging attacks sometimes felt clunky, with my character not responding as smoothly as I would have liked. Perhaps this reflects more on my aging reflexes more than it does on the game, but I can’t be sure.

Despite its flaws, “Demon’s Souls” shines as an example of an unapologetically hardcore game. The expansive setting, wondrous environments and relentless gameplay offer a rewarding experience for those up to the challenge.

Marc Camron can be reached at mcamron@msn.com.

to take drastic action against the other. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star as Wichita and Little Rock, sisters who join them in hopes of staying alive.

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Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300; www.aggietheatre.com TO Marcy Playground, 7 p.m.

SA Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, 7 p.m.

TU State Radio, 7 p.m.

WE Teton Gravity Research, 7 p.m.

TH High grade Tour, 7 p.m.

Anthology Book Co., 422 E. Fourth St., Loveland, 970-667-0118 TO Bhanu Kapil and Aakash Mittal, 7 p.m.

Avogadro’s, 605 S. Mason St., Fort Collins, 970-493-5555; www.avogadros.com TO The T Band Bluegrass Show, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Long Road Home, 8 p.m.

SA Peter Mayer, 7:30 p.m.

SU Big South String Band, 11 a.m.1 p.m.

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SA Arliss Nancy, 9 p.m.; Uncle Monk, 9 p.m.

TU Gordon Green, 8 p.m.

TH The Handymen, 8 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder WE Jazz Combos, 7 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030; www.bouldertheater.com SA Bodeans with the Trampolines, 8:30 p.m.

TU Paco Pena, 7:30 p.m.

WE Aimee Mann, 8 p.m.

Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Drive, Broomfield, www.broomfieldauditorium.com SA Boulder Chamber Music Society, 7:30 p.m.

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TU New Talent Night, 8 p.m.

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Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-443-2227 TO Kylesa, 8 p.m.

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Moe’s Original Bar-B-Que, 3295 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-781-0414 TO The Leftovers, 9 p.m.

Monfort Hall at Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave., Greeley, 970-353-1212; www.ucstars.com TO Lyle Lovett, 7:30 p.m.

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Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-830-2525; www.aeglive.com SA Yo La Tengo, 8 p.m.

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MO Acoustic Plug-In Jam and Open Stage, 7:30 p.m.

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Rialto Theater, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland, 970-962-2120; www.ci.loveland.co.us/rialto/rialto.htm TO Kickin’ it with Kirby Silver Creek High School, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-7472917; www.longmontconcertband.org SA Longmont Concert Band Fall Concert, 7:30 p.m.

Soiled Dove, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-366-0007; www.tavernhg.com/soiled_dove TO The Rippingtons featuring Russ freeman, 7 and 10 p.m.

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Summitview West Church, 1601 W. Drake, Fort Collins, 970-2239207; www.theblendchorus.org SA The Blend Chorus International Preview concert, 3 p.m.

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SA Suzy Bogguss, 8 p.m.

Tasty Weasel, Sunset and Pike streets, Longmont SA Kort McCumber, 4:30-6 p.m.

The b.side Lounge, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303-473-9463; www.thebsidelounge.com TO Casual Sinners and White As Night, 9:30 p.m.

University Center for the Arts Griffin Concert Hall, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins, 970482-4823; www.fcsymphony.org TO University Chorus & Women’s Chorus Concert, 7:30 p.m.

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Tuesday, free Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730; www.lctix.com • The Real Germany, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, $9 Rialto Theater, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland, 970-962-2120; www.ci.loveland.co.us/rialto/rialto.htm • Summer Hours, 7 p.m.

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Berthoud Public Library, 236 Welch Ave., Berthoud, 970-5322757; www.berthoudlibrary.org • Family Movie Monday: Ratatouille, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666; www.chautauqua.com • Vertigo, 7:30 p.m. Sat., $4-$8 Harmony Library, 4614 S. Shields

DANCE Loveland Associated Veterans Club Dance, Dick Zavodny will perform, 3-7 p.m. Sunday, Associated Veterans of Loveland, 305 N. Cleveland, $6, free for children younger than 14, 330-5422 Dancing with Boulder Stars, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, $36-$50, 303-786-7030; bouldertheater.com

Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796 SA Longmont Symphony Orchestra Concert: A Salute to Abraham Lincoln, 7:30 p.m.

Wildflower Pavilion on Planet Bluegrass, 500 West Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422 TO Boulder Acoustic Society and Gregory Alan Isakov, 8 p.m.

Hawaiian Hula Workshop, 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Dairy Center for the Arts / Boulder Ballet Studio, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, $15; $55 for 5 week punchcard, 303-447-9772; www.oconnor.gs/halau.html Double Vision: A Shared Dance Theatre Event, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, $14 adults, $12 students and seniors, 970-2216730; www.lctix.com

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‘Star Wars: In Concert’ blends lasers and an orchestra

By John Horn Los Angeles Times With the pop culture landscape cluttered with things like “Star Wars” Lego pajamas, a Princess Leia Slave Costume (just in time for Halloween) and the longago-banished “Star Wars Holiday Special,” is it any surprise that composer John Williams was a little nervous about a laser-filled “Star Wars” concert?

Williams has won five Oscars, a boatload of Grammys and, at 77, still stands atop Hollywood’s movie score food chain — he holds credits on the new “Harry Potter” and “Transformers” blockbusters. So when the producers of “Star Wars: In Concert” approached Williams several years ago with their plans for a live show that would wed Williams’ symphonic compositions with “Star Wars” footage and rock arena staging, he hardly leaped at the chance.

“John was very reluctant in the beginning. He was very skeptical; he didn’t want to do it,” said Steve Cohen, the director of “Star Wars: In Concert.” “His biggest concern was the quality of the performance.”

It wasn’t just that Williams wanted accomplished musicians playing his often complex orchestrations. Lucasfilm, the company controlled by “Star Wars” creator George Lucas, also needed to be assured there wouldn’t be

EVENTS Book signing: Jennifer Morey, Jennifer Morey will sign "Heiress Under Fire," her new romantic suspense novel, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, 5835 Sky Pond Drive, Loveland Pumpkin Pie Days Antique Show, 40th Anniversary of fundraiser for St. Vrain Historical Society. 80 exhibitors, cafe, Coldstone Ice Cream, glass grinder and repair service, gift certificates given away during show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, $4; children 12 and

dancing Stormtroopers.

“We took a no-compromises position,” Howard Roffman, the president of Lucas Licensing, said. “John Williams and George Lucas shared exactly the same concern — that the music had to be presented in the right way, with a great orchestra and with great acoustics.”

Four years later, it looks as if the conditions have been met.

After a two-performance tryout in London this April, “Star Wars: The Concert” is launching its national (and future worldwide) tour in Southern California this week.

The roughly two-hour show represents an unusual combination — for many “Star Wars” fans, perhaps the first time they’ll be seeing a symphony orchestra.

But don’t expect contemplative silence between movements. Every instrument will be amplified (a lot), and in addition to the lasers, you’ll see flames and smoke — the staging is so elaborate, it takes 12 semitrucks to transport the show from city to city.

Belgium’s Dirk Brosse will conduct an 86-piece orchestra and an 80-voice choir performing a “Star Wars” montage that Williams assembled and, in some cases, re-orchestrated.

As the orchestra plays and the choir sings, a giant high-definition LED screen will show clips from all six movies, the footage

younger will be admitted free, 303776-1870; www.stvrainhistoricalsociety.org A Public Party for Boulder’s Arts Scene, food, champagne, and entertainment, 5-7 p.m. today, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328; www.thedairy.org Historical Ghost Tours, today, Downtown Longmont,$8-$12.50, 303-776-3611 Second Friday, art openings, live entertainment and retailer open houses, 6-9 p.m. today, Downtown Longmont, Main Street, between Third and Sixth avenues, Longmont, 303-651-8484; www.dolo.org

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John Williams sits for a portrait on the set of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

Williams has won five Oscars and composed the “Star Wars” theme, among many others. matched to the music. The footage unfolds in rough chronological order, but is also organized around musical themes — a little romance here, the rise of the dark side there.

For the first time, audiences will be able to see a fully digital Yoda in “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace,” as Lucas recently excised the poorly executed Yoda puppet that originally was part of the film. Anthony Daniels, who lent his voice to the golden protocol droid C-3PO in all “Star Wars” movies, narrates the proceedings.

“We tried to make a show that no one’s experienced before,” says Gregg Perloff, who is producing the pro-

gram with Another Planet Entertainment’s Spencer Churchill. “We wanted to put it together with a symphony mentality but in an arena with the scope of a rock-’n’-roll concert.”

The concert’s targeted audience includes three constituencies: “Star Wars” enthusiasts, older rock-’n’roll fans looking for a new kind of live show, and a distant third, classical music aficionados.

“If you look at the numbers, there are a lot more people today consuming ‘Star Wars’ than consuming classical music,” Lucas’ Roffman said.

Although it’s certain those music devotees will be in the minority, the show’s organizers are hopeful the

grown men who wear Darth Maul costumes to “Star Wars” conventions might somehow be smitten by an easy-to-digest taste of an adagio, glissando and rondo.

Lyons Outdoor Market, artisans, farmer and food vendors, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 446 Main St., Lyons, free, 303-444-8078; www.lyonsoutdoormarket.com

Helicopter rides will be offered Sunday afternoons, through Nov. 1, Fritzler Corn Maize, 20861 U.S. 85, LaSalle, 970-737-2129; www.fritzlermaze.com The Climb’s fall event, food, music, raffles and bio fuel/vegetable oil demonstrations, noon-4 p.m.

Saturday, Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461; www.goldhillinn.com Grant Farms 2nd Harvestival, Saturday and Sunday, Grant Family Farms, 1020 W. County Road 72, Wellington, www.grantfarms.com Artist Lillian Kennedy will demonstrate acrylic landscape painting, Lillian plans to paint an

image from her recent trip to Ireland, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, free, 303772-7293; www.longmont.thegreatframeup.com

2nd Annual World Card Making Day Stamp Camp, those attending can make 5 cards and 2 gift tags using the Big Shot manual die-cutting machine, and fill up a bag at the punch table, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Saturday, First Congregational Church, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, $25, 303-885-4529 Fritzler Maze, the Fritzler Maze and pumpkin patch will be open through Nov. 1. A haunted house and maze will be featured after Sept. 25.

“A lot of us are fans of symphonies but have never been to the symphony,” Perloff said.

“It’s like getting kids to eat their broccoli,” Daniels said of using “Star Wars” to expose classical music neophytes to what oboes, cellos and timpani sound like.

“Put a little cheese on it, and they won’t notice. People who come to this will realize that music does not just come off a silver disc or out of an iPod. I want people to see the work.”

Fort Collins Quakers’ Annual Gourmet Dinner, 6 p.m. Saturday, Greyrock Commons, 2265 Shooting Star Lane, Fort Collins, $25 per person, $45 couple Harvest Dance and Community Potluck, the Dances of Universal Peace are simple, meditative, joyous, multi-cultural circle dances that use sacred phrases, chants, music and movements from the many spiritual traditions of the earth to touch the spiritual essence within ourselves and

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EVENTS recognize it in others, 4-6 p.m.

Sunday, Longmont free University, 505 Main St., Longmont, $8-$15, 303-746-5191; www.unitylongmont.org Presentation: Ofrenda a Mictlancihuatl, Maruca Salazar, Director of the Museo de las Americas in Denver explores ancient traditions of honoring the dead during preColumbian times. Watch and learn as

KIDS’ FUN Berthoud Public Library, 236 Welch Ave., Berthoud, 970-532-2757; www.berthoudlibrary.org • Teen Tuesday, 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday • Storytime Wednesday: Owls, 11 a.m. children under 3, noon ages 3-5 Wednesday Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, 8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton, 303-973-3705;

EXHIBITS Artists on Santa Fe Gallery, 747 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-5735903; www.artistsonsantafe.com • In the Pink, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturdays, through Nov. 3, free Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200; arvadacenter.org • El Dia De Los Muertos / The Day of the Dead, call for details, through Nov. 15 • Continental Divide, through Thursday • Patrick Marold: Sculpture, call for details, through Nov. 15 Bead Lounge, 320 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-9966; www.beadlounge.com • Day of the Dead Exhibition, through Nov. 6 Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683; www.boulderartsandcrafts.com • Mark Johnson - Paintings, open daily; call for details, through Oct. 18 • Down on the Farm, through Jan. 4 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122; www.bmoca.org • Heather Wilcoxon: The Surface and Beneath, through Jan. 17, free • Andrea Modica, through Jan. 17 • Urban Chicken Coop Projects by the

T H E AT E R Art Lab: Gallery, 140 W. Mountain Ave., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730; www.lctix.com • Anton in Show Business, through Oct. 18, $20, $15 seniors and students, $13 matinee Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200; arvadacenter.org • Miss Saigon, days and times vary; call for details, through Oct. 18, $47$57 • Honk!, days and times vary; call for details, through Jan. 3, $8-$10 Bas Bleu Theatre, 401 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-498-8949; www.basbleu.org

LONGMONT TIMES-CALL | CALENDAR she builds a primitive altar and explains its symbolism, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, free, 303651-8374; www.ci.longmont.co.us/museum Fire Exhibit Grand Opening, 6-8 p.m. today, Loveland Museum/Gallery: The Sequel, Sixth Street and Lincoln Avenue, Loveland, free, 970-962-2412 Rocky Mountain Chiropractic Coat & Sweater Drive, through Oct. 31, Rocky Mountain Chiropractic, 2903 Aspen Drive Suite A, Loveland, 970-

663-4494 The 4th Annual Black & Blue Ball, 6 p.m. Saturday, Rollerland Skate Center, 324 S. Link Lane, Fort Collins, $10 in advance, $15 at the door Silver Leaf Artisan Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Silver Leaf Senior Apartment Complex, Maple Drive, Loveland, free 7th Annual Home and Remodeling Show, through Sunday, The Ranch First National Bank Exhibition Hall, 5280 Arena Circle, Loveland, free, 970-

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669-3004 or 303-883-5801; www.mile-high-productions.com Farmer’s Market, 3-7 p.m.

Wednesdays, through Oct. 31, Twin Peaks Mall/ northeast side, 1250 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-651-6454 Second Annual Heroes’ Celebration, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, University of Northern Colorado, 1862 10th Ave., Greeley Open House, 3-5 p.m. Saturday, Veterans Helping Veterans Center, 4720 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder

www.botanicgardens.org • Corn Maze, 4-10 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, noon-10 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 31, $4$10 • Haunted House at Chatfield, 7-11 p.m. today Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980; www.jesterstheatre.com • Haunted House "Cell Block Terror," 7:30-11 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and

Sundays, through Oct. 17, $10 • Haunted House, suitable for younger kids, 3-5 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 31, $5

a.m. today; 11 a.m. Tuesday; 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, free • Preschool Storytime, 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Tuesday

Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8472 • Teen Clinic Web site Launch Party, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, free

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390 • Storytime for Children, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Tuesday, free

Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2587 • Toddler Storytime, 10:15 and 11

The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454 • Giant Pumpkin Contest, Saturday

University of Colorado, Boulder, through Jan. 17 Cafe Luna, 800 Coffman St., Longmont, 303-702-9996 • Watercolor and Pen and Inks by Sandy Sanders, through Oct. 29 Colorado State University Art Museum, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins, www.sota.colostate.edu/ciipe/2009 • 16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, through Dec. 22 Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328; www.thedairy.org • Common Ground through Printmaking, through Oct. 30 Denver Art Museum, 100 E. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000; www.denverartmuseum.org • The Hopkins Family Quilt in Context, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fridays; noon-5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays, through Dec. 31, included with the cost of general admission • A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings • Drawings, Anyone?

Estes Park Museum, 200 Fourth St., Estes Park, 970-586-6256; www.estesnet.com/museum • Rocky Mountain Elk: A Local History, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays;

1-5 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 31 Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, 201 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-2787; www.fcmoca.org • The Masters ReMastered, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; noon-5 p.m.

Saturday, through Oct. 24, $5, $2 seniors; free for members, students and children Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293; www.longmont.thegreatframeup.com • Opening Reception for annual FRCC Faculty Show, 6-9 p.m. today • Front Range Community College Faculty Art Show, through Nov. 7 Lincoln Center Gallery, 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins • Loose Ends, through Oct. 23 Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374; www.ci.longmont.co.us/museum • La Ofrenda de los Muertos, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; 1-5 p.m.

Sundays, Saturday through Nov. 15, free Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410 • Memento Mori: The Deconstruction of the Nuclear Family, through Nov. 1, free • Faces of Hong Kong, 1966 Reception, 6-9 p.m. today

Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869; www.artslongmont.org • Opening Reception for UnWrapped: Expressions of the Human Form, 6-9 p.m. today • UnWrapped: Expressions of the Human Form, through Oct. 30

• Collected Stories, through Oct. 25, $10 to $22 Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970744-3747; www.coloradocandlelight.com • Phantom, through Nov. 8, $36-$59 Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-8934100; www.denvercenter.org • The Voysey Inheritance, days and times vary; call for details, through Oct. 24, tickets start at $18 • Girls Only The Secret Comedy of Women, days and times vary; call for details, tickets start at $29 Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-4224090; www.festivalplayhouse.com

• Curse of the Werewolf, 8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m.

Sundays, through Oct. 25, $13-$15 Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730; www.lctix.com • In the Mood, 8 p.m. Tuesday, $2939 Nonesuch Theater, 216 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-224-0444; www.nonesuchtheater.com • Bad Dates, 7:30 p.m. ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays, through Nov. 15, $20-$29.50 Union Colony Dinner Theatre, 802 Ninth St., Suite 200, Greeley, 970-3522900; www.ucdinnertheatre.com • The King and I, through Oct. 18, $36-$38

University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington St., Fort Collins, 970-4914849; www.csutix.com • (M)other, 8 p.m. today, free

National Center for Atmospheric Research Lab, Mesa Lab, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2408; www.ucar.edu/outreach/sss • Woven Art by Betsy Blumenthal, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 9 a.m.4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Nov. 28, free • Mixed Media by Gary Ciancio, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 9 a.m.4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, through Oct. 31, free Old Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787; www.firehouseart.org • Landscapes: Here and Abroad, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, through Oct. 17, free Plinth Gallery, 3520 Brighton Blvd., Denver, 303-295-0717 • I Want More and Then Some, through Oct. 30 Whole Foods, 2201 S. College Ave., Fort Collins • David Hobbs Art Exhibit, through Oct. 31

University of Northern Colorado Norton Theatre, 1862 10th Ave., Greeley, 970-351-2200; www.arts.unco.edu • The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday, $18, $16 seniors, $11 students, $8 UNC students Windsor Community Playhouse, 561 A Garden Drive, Windsor, 970-6741790 • You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, through Oct. 24, $15 adults, $10 seniors/students

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