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JARED LOUGHNER KILLS SIX AND WOUNDS 14 IN TUCSON. IS ‘VITRIOLIC RHETORIC’ TO BLAME?

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news & views Stopping massacres: What won’t work — and what will / 6 We should teach our citizens to fight back by Paul Danish On the cover: War of words / 14 Is ‘vitriolic rhetoric’ to blame for Loughner shootings in Tucson? by Pamela White

buzz The joy of circus / 21 Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría comes to 1stBank Center by David Accomazzo Overtones: Jamming at the disco / 25 Overtones: Boulder Philharmonic freaks out / 26 Arts & Culture: Haven in Innisfree / 29 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 31 Sophisticated Sex: Recovering the romance / 39 Elevation: Exploring Colorado’s backcountry huts / 41 Cuisine: Teacher keeps Native American foods alive for all / 45 Cuisine Review: Via Toscana / 47 Dessert Diva: Minneola Orange Toasted Walnut Cake / 48 Screen: The King’s Speech; Country Strong / 52 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53

departments Letters: Double standards for pot; Danish is medieval / 5 The Highroad: Does everyone deserve a lobbyist? / 5 Briefs: Bike to work in winter; Transportation meetings on tap / 10 In Case You Missed It: Getting the message; Reese’s piece / 11 Police Blotter: Targeting Target; Bad roommate; Kitty kicker / 17 Boulderganic: Making green work for you / 19 Classifieds: Your community resource / 56 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 59 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Double standards for pot Before starting, I would like to clarify two things. First, I am the owner of a medical marijuana center located in east Boulder and in operation since August of 2009. Second, I want it to be clearly understood that there has not been one day that I take for granted the enormous growth in acceptance of medical marijuana. That said, I have two major bones to pick with the Boulder City Council over recent comments (I also have a bone the size of a killer whale to pick, concerning the obese fees we have been forced to pay, but that’s for another letter). My first complaint is concerning the attempt of the City Council to regulate the way our industry advertises. The first thing my lawyer told me when I had the idea to open up a center was that we should advertise as if this was a medicine (which I hope everyone in the industry agrees with). He pointed out that we don’t see ads in the Boulder Weekly from Walgreen’s or Safeway bragging about how potent their Vicodin is, so we should not brag about the strength of our cannabis. From day one, we have had one small ad in the Boulder Weekly and nothing else. I also disagree with the centers who use sex or lies (what exactly is a 4 gram 1/8th? Is it like a 3,000lb. ton?) to sell their product, and therefore I do not use these methods.

Despite all of this, I do not think it is in the rights of the City Council to take offense and decide what we can and cannot say (unless of course, our ads are directed at underage children or non-patients). When I look at the

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went to law school for a week and a half, so I know that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how awful, has a right to be represented by a lawyer. But does everyone have a right to a lobbyist? Lanny Davis seems to think so. The former spinmeister for Bill Clinton left the White House to become a high-dollar influence peddler for corporations. Recently, however, Davis’ client list has gone from merely corporate to — as one of his adversaries calls it — “almost unseemly tawdry.” Start with those profiteering college diploma mills that were exposed last year for pressuring prospective students (often low-income people struggling to get ahead) into paying through the nose for degrees that have little value. Davis is their front man in Washington. Lanny’s also the lobbyist for an outfit that makes Boulder Weekly

Boulder Weekly and turn past the pages upon pages of ads for liquor and other products that have the potential to kill, I find ads in the back for prostitution. Sure, they call themselves masseuse, but look at the ter-

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Does everyone deserve a lobbyist? by Jim Hightower fatty-acid additives for baby formulas sold to poor families. The stuff is little more than a marketing gimmick that lets formula makers claim that their artificial concoction is “closest to human milk” — but Davis got Congress to keep subsidizing the scam. Then came Laurent Gbagbo, the dictatorial thug of Ivory Coast. He lost a November presidential election that he expected to win, but he simply

minology they use. One “California Blonde” promises “NY style in and out.” What could this possibly mean? Why is the City Council not consee LETTERS Page 6

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refused to leave office, clinging to power by military force. Condemned worldwide, Gbagbo didn’t seem to have a friend in the world — until Lanny Davis agreed to help him “seek a fair hearing” in the court of public opinion. The price of Lanny’s friendship was $100,000 a month. But this one was even too stinky for him, so he later withdrew, explaining that the thug wasn’t taking his advice. Davis spins his work as a noble calling, asserting that everyone deserves a voice. Yes, but avaricious corporations and tyrants already have excessively loud and abusive voices — why represent them, rather than giving voice to the people they harm? January 13, 2011 5

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cerned with an industry that is illegal on the local, state and federal level? My second complaint has to do with the smell of the Cannabis plant. While I think that it is one of the most pleasurable odors to ever grace my nose passage, I understand that not all people feel this way (although I can’t say that I’ve met more than a handful of people in my life). We personally do everything in our power — for security reasons — to cover up the smell, but who would it hurt if we didn’t? When I walk out the door of my center I am greeted twice a week by the smell of roasting coffee. I personally find this smell disgusting, like burning plastic. What can I do about it? If I call the police, will they shut down the coffee brewery? If the smell of burning plastic isn’t in the air, I can smell the burning flesh (if real meat is even being used) at the Wendy’s directly next door. While I am not offended by this smell, I know dozens of people who are. There are also tens of thousands of people who die from over-consuming this product every year, yet I never see a citybacked campaign to rid the city of the smell of death. Finally, when I look to the east, I see a giant smoke stack producing poisonous toxins being breathed in by all of us, against our will. Has Xcel ever been fined for this? Where are the front-page articles and city council meetings to rid this cancer from our community? I could probably write a book about all the unfair regulations and fees that are being passed our way (such as having to offset 100 percent of our electricity use, not being allowed to stay open past 7 p.m., having to get sales tax licenses for buildings not selling anything, and etc.), but the above two issues are what concern me most today. I’m sure that not everyone in the industry is here to help humanity, but I can personally guarantee that most of the people I have met are, indeed. Unfortunately, with these hastily thought-up regulations, only the rich will survive. Then again, maybe this was the plan from the beginning; after all, four or five big corporations will produce more for the ruling class than 100 or 200 small businesses. Ryan Hartman, Boulder Wellness Center/Boulder

Danish is medieval (Re: “A Nobel Prize for Assange?” Danish Plan, Dec. 16.) Sometimes I think Paul Danish is a medieval cardinal raging against the damned who kneel not to those whom God hath appointed over us. 6 January 13, 2011

When he rages he disregards facts. Julian Assange cannot be a “traitor,” as he is not an agent, citizen or resident of the United States. WikiLeaks turned their documents over to five newspapers, then posted the fraction they printed with their redactions. Private First Class Bradley Manning might be the source because privates have access to such documents, as they are at the lowest level of classification. Nobody went to jail for exposing Valeri Plame as a CIA case officer, although that exposed the network she had built. The Espionage Act being invoked is the law enacted in 1917 that criminalized opposition to war. The documents reveal little that has not been previously reported, but it is now undeniable that the generals and the White House all lie all the time and that their lying is to protect themselves from us. As for the “insane” START treaty (Danish Plan, Dec. 30), it reduces nothing, but changes the counting. Now a B-52H with two 3.5 megaton bombs in the bomb bays and 10 cruise missiles slung under wing counts as one nuclear weapon. The treaty is important because it reestablishes an inspection regime. The countries buying Russian reactors are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspects their facilities. The U.S. is selling reactor fuel to India illegally. This frees India’s enrichment plants to produce bomb-quality U-235. On Nov. 28, 1998, the world was within four minutes of nuclear omnicide because a clerk misplaced a piece of paper. The document was notice of a satellite launch in the North Sea. On radar it looked like a D-5 missile, the missile deployed to destroy Russia’s forces quicker than they could launch. Until the U.S. and Russia step back from launch-onwarning alert, the most trivial thing can kill everyone on earth. Instead, we are ringing Russia with interceptor missile batteries to take out what the D-5s leave. Gary Erb/Boulder

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Stopping massacres: What won’t work — and what will by Paul Danish

hat can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents? It’s easier to say what won’t work. 1. Gun control. Gun control won’t work, because there must be 100 percent compliance for it to succeed. If 99 out of 100 people go weaponless and the 100th shows up with a gun and the intent to commit mass murder, mass murder ensues. As it did at Virginia Tech in 2007. As it did in Tucson on Jan. 8. Beyond that, gun control won’t work for the same reasons prohibition didn’t work and then some: Trying to ban something people want and feel they have a fundamental right to own will result in tens of millions of people ignoring the law and in the emergence of a huge black market that supplies the banned item. 2. Speech control. Putting restrictions on incendiary speech, if not banning it outright, which a lot of progressives seem to favor, won’t work for the same reasons gun control won’t work. Americans consider speech a basic human right, and they will not long abide restrictions on it, even if it is rude and hateful. And in the age of the Internet, personal computer, cell phone, photocopier and fax machine (for starters), shutting them up is impossible,

short of transforming the country into a North American North Korea. As for the supposed coarsening of the country’s public discourse, America has a 234-year tradition of hard-edged political speech, and it’s not about to change. Live with it. 3. Nut control. Identifying whack jobs like Loughner and intervening (whatever that means) won’t work because even if we can identify the truly dangerous cases, there’s not much that can be done about them until they actually go crazy shooting. Detaining people because they might do something in the future conflicts with that pesky right of habeas corpus, among other things. 4. More cops. More cops might stop more burglaries or robberies, but they’re not much use against assassinations and massacres. Assassinations and massacres are surprise attacks, and police departments aren’t set up to prevent them. (When seconds count, the gallows joke goes, the police will be there in minutes.) Nor would you want them to try. The whole point of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ Congress on the Corner town meetings was to connect with the people she represents. That’s tough to do when you can’t convene a public meeting without the SWAT team sursee DANISH PLAN Page 8

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rounding you. The truth is, there is very little that can be done about attacks like Loughner’s, because the changes in law and in the way we live our lives that might make a difference are fundamentally incompatible with freedom as we know it. Freedom in the U.S. is understood to mean that ordinary people will have the right to their own things and to do things that empower them — and which are inherently dangerous and subject to abuse. Things like owning guns, talking trash, driving cars and being weird, to name a few. Only some of these are protected by the Constitution, and all of them are subject to some limits, but the fact remains: We define our freedom in terms of things and activities that are inherently dangerous and subject to abuse. Those things and activities are protected by the Constitution and by the law not despite the fact that they are dangerous, but because of it. So what can be done to prevent incidents like Loughner’s rampage? In the law, very little more than is already being done. Opening ourselves up to the sort of attack that occurred in Tucson is the cost of living free. Freedom isn’t risk-free. However, there is at least one thing

that can be done. And that is to instill in people the habits of self-defense and fighting back. In terror and massacre situations, the only first responders that can make a difference are the people who are on the scene when the crisis breaks. The most important lesson that came out of 9/11 was what happened on Flight 93. It was that ordinary citizens can not only successfully fight back against terror, but that they are the main line of defense. Government has been slow to acknowledge the lesson, but millions of Americans have taken it to heart. Tellingly, in the case of Loughner, it was citizens on the scene who tackled and disarmed him, not the police. However this sort of deterrence would be a lot more effective if the skills of fighting back were taught and practiced until they became civic habits. They should be taught to students in the schools, as the Burleson, Texas, school district has done, showing students an instructional video on how to swarm a gunman who enters a classroom. And they should be embraced by government as a fundamental duty of citizenship. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“No act, no matter how heinous, must be allowed to stop us from our duty.” —Incoming House Speaker John Boehner, responding to the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, and urging his fellow public officials to fulfill their oaths of office “Let’s be very blunt here. I think that there is very little doubt that Iran does not want to see any kind of negotiated peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.” —Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying that Iran is attempting to undermine Middle East peace efforts “We’ve uncovered the chemical word for no, or not now.” —Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who conducted a study showing that men who sniff women’s tears produce less testosterone and found females’ faces less arousing

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Shooting from the lip mously and drawing sweeping conclusions before any meaningful information was available. For some of that he shooting of Rep. time, it wasn’t clear whether Giffords Gabrielle Giffords is, of was dead or alive, or who shot her or course, both heartbreaking why. Despite that, few seemed to have and depressing. It’s been any doubt whatsoever about what had years since our country has happened and what it all meant. It’s a been through the trauma of a political sad commentary on the state of disassassination attempt, and it’s no woncourse, on the mood of the nation, on der that even the suggestion of one puts all of us. us on edge and stokes our fears. There were, of course, voices of saniNevertheless, the sane and rational ty. “Some of the posters here are real approach to such an event is to stop, morons,” wrote madsircool at 12:19 on take a deep breath, listen to the facts — latimes.com. “The name of the suspect and above all, to condemn violence in hasn’t been released.... We don’t know the harshest possible the possible motive terms. of the shooter. All That, however, of you frothing at We are both was not the immethe mouth from ashamed and diate reaction of your unfounded many Americans, as speculation should embarrassed anyone who was calm down and at the surfing the news wait till the facts unreasoned Saturday morning is come out.” aware. Within minWe entirely and utes, hundreds of agree (especially intemperate commenters were at with some early commentary work across the reports suggesting Web loudly seeking the shooter may we read to appropriate the be more deranged Saturday. story for their own than political). On purposes, in many the 15th annivercases fanning it for maximum fear, and sary of the Oklahoma City bombing, injecting it into the roiling narrative of former President Clinton noted that we anger, partisanship and paranoia that are living today in a contentious and has taken over so much of the national partisan time. “We are more connected political conversation. than ever before,” he said, “more able to Some of the comments were vitriol- spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger ic, bordering on scary. “So and fears. As we exercise the right to Congresswoman Giffords,” wrote one advocate our views, and as we animate commenter on latimes.com, “how’s that our supporters, we must all assume Obamacare vote working out for you?” responsibility for our words and actions On the Washington Post’s website, a before they enter a vast echo chamber commenter wrote: “Too bad it wasn’t and reach those both serious and deliriHoward Dean or Al Gore. But a ous, connected and unhinged.” Demokrat is a Demokrat.” Free speech is one of this page’s The left, for its part, was adamant most fundamental values; we wouldn’t about who was to blame. “This was a suggest for a minute that it should be political assassination promoted by the curtailed for fear of its consequences. tea party and Sarah Palin,” said a not But we agree with Clinton that people atypical comment on the L.A. Times should assume responsibility for what site. Then there was the paranoid they say, and we are both ashamed and fringe: “2 and { hours since she was embarrassed at the unreasoned and shot and NO WORD on the ‘gunman.’ intemperate commentary we read Dontcha wonder why???????” Saturday. All day, these voices dominated the —MCT online debate, opining mostly anonyRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Jan. 10:

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Bike to work in winter Registration is now open for the city’s third annual Winter Bike to Work Day, which will be held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19. Breakfast will be served at eight locations, and participants will be entered into a drawing for prizes. Breakfast stations will be located at Acupuncture Works, at 1723 Canyon Blvd.; Page Two, at 6565 Gunpark Dr. in Gunbarrel; Rally Sport Health and Fitness, at 2727 29th St.; Dushanbe Teahouse, at 1770 13th St.; Community Cycles, at 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 100; the CU Environmental Center, at Broadway and Euclid Ave.; Moe’s Broadway Bagel, at 2650 Broadway; Moe’s Bagels on Arapahoe, at 3075 Arapahoe Ave.; and Pedal to Properties, at 1949 Pearl St. Cyclists must begin and/or end their trip within the City of Boulder to participate. Last year, nearly 1,000 riders participated. To register, or for maps and information, visit www.GOBoulder.net. For more information, contact Sue Prant at 303-564-9681 or bikesue@ gmail.com. For Winter Bike to Work Day shirts, mugs and other items, visit www.cafepress.com/Boulder_Bike. Transportation meetings on tap Boulder County is hosting a series of public meetings this week to discuss a countywide transportation master plan that is being developed. The meetings, which will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., will take place Jan. 13 at the Boulder County Transportation Department at 2525 13th St. in the large conference room on the second floor; Jan. 19 at the Centaurus High School Student Center at 10300 S. Boulder Rd.; and Jan. 20 in the Longmont Public Library at 409 Fourth Ave., meeting rooms A and B. The Jan. 13 meeting in Boulder will focus on transportation issues in the western portion of Boulder County. Feedback from the meetings will be considered by the Sustainable Transportation Task Force — which was convened last summer to guide the master planning process — and presented to the Boulder County Planning Commission and Consortium of Cities in February. For more information, visit www. bouldercounty.org/pages/trmeetings. aspx or contact Transportation Planning Manager Julie McKay at 720-564-2662 or jmckay@bouldercounty.org. 10 January 13, 2011

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PLANning the legislative agenda PLAN Boulder County is holding a Friday Forum at noon on Jan. 14 to discuss what the city of Boulder wants from the Colorado General Assembly during this legislative session. The forum will be held in the Boulder Creek Room of the main Boulder Public Library. Carl Gastillo, the city of Boulder’s government affairs director, State Rep. Deb Gardner, D-Longmont, and Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, will be panelists at the forum. Compost Christmas trees curbside Western Disposal customers can have their Christmas trees picked up for free until Monday, Jan. 31. Residents subscribing to Western’s curbside compost collection service can put the tree either inside or next to their curbside compost cart on their normal collection day. It’s best to put the tree directly into the cart if it fits, even if the lid does not close. Remove all decorations from the tree before putting it out for collection. For those who do not have curbside compost collection, trees can be dropped off for free at the city’s Yard Waste Drop-off site located at Western Disposal, 5880 Butte Mill Rd. Trees picked up as curbside compost or dropped off at the yard waste site will be chipped into mulch or turned into compost instead of dumped into a landfill and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, Western Disposal collected more than 54 tons of trees. For more information on the Yard Waste Drop-off site, visit www.western disposal.com. Educate! hosts ball Educate! will hold its second annual ball, For the Future of Africa, from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Feb. 12 in the Avalon Ballroom at 6185 Arapahoe Rd. in Boulder. The Valentine’s Day-themed event will include live African music by Selasee and the Fafa Family, a silent auction, dancing, and appetizers and refreshments from local vendors. Proceeds from the event will go towards empowering Ugandan students to find solutions to their communities’ problems of poverty, disease and environmental degradation. The event will feature a presentation by L.

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Learn Series will be held at Brookdale Senior Living (The Villas at the Atrium) at 3350 30th St. The cost is $15 per session, and lunch is provided. For more information or to register, call 303-441-3148 or 303-441-4150. Online registration is available at www. boulderseniorservices.com. Outdoor research grants available The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department is offering small grants for research and biological inventories on open space lands. The research projects help the department monitor management practices, and improve natural resources and park visitor experiences. Grants will be offered in two categories: up to $5,000 and up to $10,000. The deadline for proposals is Thursday, Jan. 27, by 4:30 p.m. Boulder County Parks and Open Space has identified 19 research topics as priority needs for natural resource and visitor management, including post-Fourmile fire rehabilitation effectiveness, mountain pine beetle infestation in ponderosa pine stands, wildlife species comparisons between treated and untreated ponderosa pine or lodgepole pine forests, and preferences of older adults for recreational amenities on open space lands. For more information and proposal guidelines, visit the department website at http://bit.ly/osmp-grant. PeaceJam issues 2012 film PeaceJam has released a documentary debunking the myths of 2012, featuring Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, who visited Boulder on July 8. The film, 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, incorporates five years of interviewing Tum about 2012 and filming her work in the Mayan community, plus interviews with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Colorado and Denver Museum of Nature and Science. There are also appearances by the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The filmmakers say this is the first documentary in which the Mayans disclose the five things that need to be done to best survive this coming change in eras. The film is available online for $1.99 per download, and proceeds go to PeaceJam and Mayan education and leadership training. To donate the $1.99 and download the movie, go to http://bit.ly/peacejam. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ared Lee Loughner, a 22-yearold with a history of mental problems, buys a Glock 19 at a sporting goods store on Nov. 30. On Saturday, Jan. 8, he pops an extended magazine into the weapon and fires 31 rounds into a crowd of people who came to greet Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, 40, a moderate Democrat. He kills six people, including a 9-year-old girl, and gravely injures Giffords and 13 others. His killing spree comes to a premature end when a 61-year-old woman tackles him, preventing him from reloading. And for a moment, Americans stop to grieve in shared anguish over the senseless loss of life and suffering. Then, during a press conference, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik calls for the nation to do a bit of soulsearching and denounces the “vitriolic rhetoric” that dominates our radio and television programming in the United States. This is followed by a swell of outrage directed at far-right pundits, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement over hostile remarks and images that seemed to suggest violence — and which in some instances specifically targeted Giffords. The right answers swiftly with outrage of its own, together with a bit of dog-wagging, trying to turn the tables on liberal pundits, such as Keith Olbermann, who demands that the public repudiate politicians and pundits who refuse to lay aside violent imagery and language. While the maelstrom surrounding his actions and motives rages, Loughner sits in a jail cell, silent, leaving us to wonder. Did the “vitriolic rhetoric” that the right aimed at Giffords play any role in this shooting? And what impact, if any, does nasty political hyperbole have on our democracy?

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The power of words “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” So goes the popular child’s rhyme meant to deflect the childhood pain of name-calling. But words have power. They can create an environment of fear and intimidation. And the wrong words in the right ear at the right time can sometimes incite those who are unbalanced to act out violently. Our laws recognize this, limiting free speech to exclude, for example, the use of “fighting words.” In the world of politics, however, it seems that almost anything goes. During the 2009 Longmont City Council election, an anonymous conservative blogger posted a cartoon image of Democratic candidates and Democratic council members as chickens about to be decapitated. The violent image was the most extreme local example of hostility in an election that included hostile blog posts and resulted in a call for civility from candidates, some of whom found the decapitation imagery unsettling. Former CU professor Ward Churchill knows first-hand how “vitriolic rhetoric” can affect a person’s life. Churchill came under fire by conservative commentators after an obscure essay he’d written on Sept. 11, 2001, was unearthed and dragged into the spotlight. In the essay, titled “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill compared some who worked at the World Trade Center to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, suggesting that, like Eichmann, they were complicit in perpetuating an unjust and immoral political and economic system. Television personality Bill O’Reilly went on a crusade against Churchill, pounding on the issue night after night, repeatedly calling him a traitor and suggesting he be tried for treason.

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So did Denver radio talk-show hosts Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. Farright radio host “Gunny” Bob Newman went so far as to argue that Churchill should be executed. “I got well over a hundred death threats in less than 60 days,” Churchill told Boulder Weekly on Monday. “I got massive amounts of ugly stuff, but stuff with some kind of explicit threat — more than 100 in less than 60 days. That’s not customary.” Critics of Sarah Palin were quick in the aftermath of the Tucson killings to connect the event with Palin’s harsh rhetoric during the 2010 campaign. In particular, they cite a map Palin published on her website in March 2010 that features crosshairs, such as those seen through a rifle scope, over the districts of 20 Democrats that Palin and the Tea Party were hoping to unseat. Palin announced the map with the following post on Twitter: “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD. Pls see my Facebook page.” The imagery of both the tweet and the map is unmistakably related to firearms. One of the targeted districts was Giffords’. A short time later, Giffords’ district office was vandalized. Giffords was concerned enough to say on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown, “The rhetoric is incredibly heated. The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they have got to realize there are consequences to that.” But then the 2010 election seemed replete with references to arms, especially among Tea Party candidates. Giffords’ opponent, Jesse Kelly, invited supporters to come shoot a fully automatic M15 with him in a message about removing Giffords from office.

Republican candidate Sharron Angle made news during her failed campaign against incumbent Sen. Harry Ried, D-Nevada, for suggesting that if the Tea Party movement didn’t get its way, there might be violence. “You know, our Founding Fathers put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government,” she told listeners on a radio talk show. “In fact, you know, Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying, ‘My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?’ And I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.” Perhaps it’s not surprising that in the wake of Obama’s election the Department of Homeland Security reported that right-wing extremism was on the rise, or that during the 2010 campaign threats against members of Congress surged by 300 percent, according to Politico.com. CNN anchor Dan Lemon discussed Palin’s tweet and her Facebook post, as well, debating back in March 2010 whether it could be considered incitement to violence. Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University participated in that discussion and told Lemon, “This is wholly irresponsible for anyone who prides him or herself as a political leader. I mean, you have crosshairs on a map. You have gun language, militaristic language and the sort of inciting towards violence. That’s a very problematic thing.” Palin rejected that analysis at the time, telling reporters, “That’s not inciting violence. What that is doing is trying to inspire people to get involved in their local elections and this upcom-

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ing federal elections (sic). It’s telling people that their arms are their votes. It’s not inciting violence. It’s telling people, don’t ever let anybody tell you to sit down and shut up, Americans.” She did not, however, deny that the crosshairs on the map were crosshairs. In the aftermath of the Jan. 9 shooting, however, Palin aide Rebecca Mansour attempted to reject allegations that Palin had done anything irresponsible, claiming the crosshairs were meant to be “surveyor’s marks like you’d see on a map.” Perhaps the Palin faithful believe her. But actions speak louder than words, and, tellingly, the map was removed soon after the shooting.

News vs. entertainment The media response to Loughner’s shooting spree will one day make an interesting case study for a sociologist or journalism professor. Dupnik’s criticism of the “vitriolic rhetoric” common to radio and television talk shows seemed to resonate with enough people to provoke a wide response. A CBS poll shows that 19 percent of Republicans, 42 percent of Democrats and 33 percent of Independents believe that harsh political rhetoric played a role in last Saturday’s shooting. Olbermann delivered a passionate rebuke to conservative pundits and politicians, naming Palin, O’Reilly, Angle, Kelly and Glenn Beck, demanding that they repudiate violent language and imagery and calling for Americans to “repudiate” pundits and politicians who refuse. Olbermann’s call was answered with fury. Rush Limbaugh repeatedly called Dupnik “Sheriff Dipstick” and tried to deflect liberal concerns about violent rhetoric by making jokes about Democrats, then suggesting that Loughner has the full support of the Democratic Party. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R.-N.C., told the Winston-Salem Journal that Loughner was a communist and “the liberal of liberals.” Palin’s aide likewise referred to

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Loughner as being left-leaning, and Palin herself accused liberal commentators of “blood libel” for blaming her for the shooting, sparking outrage from some Jewish leaders. Conservative bloggers suggested that Daily Kos should be blamed, rather than Palin, for criticizing Giffords for voting against Nancy Pelosi as House speaker in a blog. “My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me,” the blog’s Jan. 6 headline read. This was a theory liberal pundits weren’t quick to embrace, preferring to point their fingers at the right. Before the bodies of the shooting victims were put to rest, the rhetoric machine was in full production again. Rather than presenting the public with information, left and right seemed to be locked in a blame game, a verbal fistfight. How did the political conversation in the United States grow so strained? Elizabeth Skewes, an associate professor at the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, sees a couple of problems. “The first is the volume, and by that I mean both the intensity of the rhetoric and the amount of it,” Skewes says. Because so many people now get their news from television and the Internet, a lot of people confuse commentary — i.e., opinion — with news. “Bill O’Reilly is commentary,” she says. “Rush Limbaugh is commentary. Keith Olbermann is commentary. But increasingly we have let it all fall under the label of journalism.” Though she hasn’t done an academic study of this, she says she suspects that people give the pronouncements of commentators more credence than they otherwise might if they understood that what’s being said is just one person’s opinion. “It keeps getting notched up so that it’s more vitriolic and it’s angrier. It’s more pointed toward the other side,” she says. The mainstream media doesn’t help matters.

“Instead of talking about the opinions in the middle, which is where the vast majority of Americans fall, we find the person who’s pretty far on the right and pretty far on the left and let them shout at each other for a while,” she says. “And the rest of us are just supposed figure it out when, in fact, those more extreme viewpoints probably don’t represent what most people think. But it’s what we’ve come to believe is the truth about American politics.” Skewes suspects that a great many moderate Americans wonder where they fit in because they’ve been led to believe that the extremes of opinion are more the norm. And those extremes are sometimes meant not as a literal representation of what’s out there, but as entertainment, intended to draw ratings. “Look at Ann Coulter — the outrageous things she will say, the inflammatory things that she will write,” Skewes says. “I think she laughs all the way to the bank, and I think it actually increases her profit margin to be that outrageous.” Skewes says that, thanks in part to the Internet, speed seems to have replaced accuracy as the goal of much reporting, with media organizations focusing on the next tweet or the next blog post as they compete for clicks and scoops. “We have to stop doing breathless journalism and do reasoned journalism,” she says. “Journalism is supposed to give us the information we need to be free and self-governing. That’s its primary purpose. In fact, if that’s what I need, I don’t need to know this nanosecond. I can wait for you to get it right.” The second part of the media problem involves the public. “We don’t want to do the heavy lifting that’s required of democracy,” she says. “This is a form of government that requires us to be active participants and understand a few key issues, but instead we’d rather watch American Idol or Jersey Shore. I’ve got a colleague up at Colorado State who says that the god that we most worship in this

nation is convenience. I think he may be right. We go for the low-hanging fruit.” In the Internet age, this increasingly means choosing media sources we already agree with, reinforcing our own beliefs, rather than seeking facts and challenging our perceptions. If Limbaugh or O’Reilly can digest the issues for us and tell us what we want to hear, then we don’t need to pick up a newspaper or seek facts for ourselves. “People can now very much selfselect so that they don’t have to read anything that they might disagree with that might create any headache for them,” she says. “But if they do take the time to read something else, they do it with their preconceived notions and say, ‘This is all poppycock.’” She cites a study in which different demographic groups were given the same article to read and then asked to respond. Republicans saw a pro-Democratic Party bias in the story, while Democrats saw a pro-Republican Party bias. The experiment was repeated with an article about religion. Catholics saw a pro-Protestant bias, while Protestants saw a pro-Catholic bias. When the article involved labor issues, union members saw a pro-management bias, and management saw a pro-union bias. “We layer on our perceptions,” Skewes says. “We’ve got what we bring to the media.” With regard to Loughner and the Jan. 8 shooting, Skewes says it concerns her that so many people are speaking about Loughner and his motivations without having facts. “We don’t know enough to say anything, and yet everybody’s talking about how he wasn’t this and he wasn’t that,” she says. “We don’t know why he did what he did. We may not know for months.” Skewes says her broader concern with regard to heated media rhetoric isn’t that it might spawn violence — no reasonable person would interpret crosshairs on Palin’s website as a call to go shoot someone, she says — but that this climate of rage is making it more difficult for the American people to

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Who’s to blame? Loughner isn’t one of those killers about whom we’re likely to hear, “He seemed like such a nice man.” He made others afraid. He had repeated contacts with police at Pima Community College (PCC), which he attended from September 2005 to Oct. 4, 2010, for being disruptive in class and in the library. After that he made a strange video, in which he declared that the school was illegal under the U.S. Constitution. According to a PCC news release, the college suspended him, refusing to let him return until he got mental-health clearance “indicating, in the opinion of a mental health professional, his presence at the College does not present a danger to himself or others.” He tried to enlist in the Army, but was rejected. Clearly, those around him saw warning signs that something was wrong. There are other indicators, as well, including bizarre YouTube videos in which he rants about government mind control, the need for a new currency and his views on illiteracy. He made contact with Giffords before, attending a 2007 political event and asking her, “What is government if words have no meaning?” He reportedly did not like her answer and, according to a report in Mother Jones, which interviewed a friend of Loughner’s, had a grudge against Giffords ever since. These facts are inconvenient for those who wish to assert that our political climate played any role at all in Loughner’s actions. No one knew who Palin was in 2007, a year that also predates the Tea Party movement and much of the extreme anti-liberal rhetoric that accompanied Barack Obama’s rise to the White House. But the facts will also frustrate those on the right who try to ascribe some kind of leftist agenda to Loughner’s actions. Loughner is registered as an Independent and didn’t vote in 2010. He includes Mein Kampf, the fascist tome penned by Adolf Hitler, among his favorite books, but he also includes Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Other 16 January 13, 2011

than vague online references to government mind control, the need for a new currency and illiteracy, he has yet to explain his motivation for the shooting. If one were to examine the facts and then speculate, one would have to surmise that mental illness is the most likely culprit when it comes to Loughner’s motivation. Unless and until evidence surfaces that he saw Palin’s map or listened to a Tea Party activist and took murderous inspiration from them, that’s all we have. And even if angry partisan rhetoric played a role in his decision, the responsibility for pulling the trigger rests solely with him. But you won’t hear this theory discussed much on talk radio or on television talk shows because it doesn’t draw as many viewers or listeners as does two opponents blaming each other’s political parties and shouting each other down. Nor does it move as many papers as would heated accusations about crosshairs and gun metaphors. Still, if channeled correctly, the conversation about our “climate of hate,” as Paul Krugman called it in his opinion column on the subject, might result in improvements in how the media operate and how politicians reach out to their public. Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fox News Channel, claims to have taken steps to turn down the volume. “I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually,” Ailes told GlobalGrind.com in an interview posted Monday. “You don’t have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.” Skewes believes that the media need to refocus on ethical considerations rather than market concerns. “What we need to do is turn down the entertainment value and ratchet back up the informational value,” she says. “In the short term, they might lose some money, but in the long term — maybe I’m just idealistic — I have to believe that if we can swing the pendulum back, people might actually value some rationality in their information.” Rather than getting caught up in the heated argument over who is to blame for the shooting, Americans might be best served by doing what they did during those first hours in the immediate aftermath — setting aside their partisan anger and turning their thoughts toward Loughner’s victims. At the end of the day, one truth remains: an American murdered Americans. And that is a heart-breaking tragedy that should be above the pettiness of our political squabbles. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Spoons: not just for eating A 55-year-old man was arrested on Jan. 7, on suspicion of first-degree assault after he allegedly stabbed another man in the eye with a spoon. Police said the two had been involved in an argument and shoving match before the incident, which occurred in the 3100 block of Airport Road. The victim will need surgery to repair the damage around his eye, according to police. Targeting Target Three men were arrested Jan. 7 after what police believe was a spree of Target store thefts in the Boulder area. Police said they apprehended the men after they exited a Superior Target branch while pushing a shopping cart filled with stolen electronic merchandise. Police say they believe the suspects have been stealing from various Target locations since Dec. 22. The matter is still under investigation by the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office. Where our tax money goes The City of Boulder took a $40,000 loss this week after a city maintenance employee reported the theft of several copper and brass irrigation backflow preventers. He said he believes the theft took place sometime between Dec. 29 and Dec. 30, with the use of a pipe cutter, according to a Boulder police report. The theft was reported to police on Jan. 4. Bad roommate According to Boulder police, a 49-year-old male was arrested on Jan. 6 on suspicion of seconddegree assault and false imprisonment. Police said he allegedly attempted to strangle and threatened to kill his roommate at their residence in the 3600 block

of Hayden Place. Steal car, go to bar Boulder police arrested a 25-year-old male on Jan. 6 after responding to a report of a stolen vehicle at 11th and Walnut Streets. The victim said he returned to his car after leaving it unlocked and running for a few minutes to find the suspect driving away in the vehicle, the report said. He eventually located the suspect, who attempted to knock the phone from the victim’s hand as he called the police, according to the report. The suspect ran into a bar and was later found by police. Kitty kicker A woman reported on Jan. 8 that her boyfriend’s roommate had kicked her cat, causing it to bleed from the rectum. Boulder police officers were dispatched to the Emergency Pet Clinic at 1658 30th St. The cat did not suffer any broken bones or internal bleeding, but the 19-year-old suspect admitted to injuring it because he was stressed and exhausted from traveling. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of harassment and cruelty to animals. Broken glass, faces A man threw an object at a glass door of a residence in the 900 block of Broadway on Jan. 8, witnesses told Boulder police. The object shattered the door, and when one witness attempted to confront the male, the suspect allegedly punched her twice in the face before assaulting three other people, according to the police report. Each of the victims suffered head or facial injuries, and two were brought to Boulder Community Hospital. The suspect left the scene before officers arrived, according to the report.

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he new year is a great time to turn over a new leaf and make some eco-friendly resolutions. In this week’s column, we’ve gathered a few suggestions for making your home a greener, healthier place to live.

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Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría comes to 1stBank Center by David Accomazzo

irque du Soleil is a curious success

story in the entertainment business, one that started in Quebec in the early ’80s and grew into an international success of epic proportions, propelling the once-maligned circus arts into the same prominent spotlight shared by the world’s most famous musical, cinematic and theatrical stars.

Alegría, which comes to the 1stBank Center from Wednesday, Jan. 19, to Sunday, Jan. 23, is one of the company’s older shows, having debuted 16 years ago. Like all Cirque shows, the main attraction here is the whimsical way the directors loosely weave acrobatics, gymnastics, choreography and more around a common theme. But let’s not kid ourselves here: No one goes to Cirque du Soleil for the story. That’d be like a teenager reading Playboy for the articles, or Sarah Palin reading anything. It’s just not plausible. No, Cirque du Soleil is all about exposing audiences to physical feats they never imagined in the most fantastic way possible. Part of the main attraction of Cirque du Soleil is that most audiences have simply never seen anything like it — the clowns, the power track acts, the trapeze artists — and never

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

50 First Dates plays at the St. Julien Hotel on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 13

Transportation Master Plan Public Meeting — Instead of just bitching about traffic, you can help do something about it. 5 p.m. Boulder County Transportation Department, 2525 13th St., Boulder, 303-4413900.

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The Twinberries — Bass and trumpet, a winning combination. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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in such an artistic, cohesive manner. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey? Prepare for a run for your money, because Cirque du Soleil just might be the greatest show on Earth. The current version of Alegría brings 18 trucks and 97 people to Broomfield, with 17 countries represented and 11 languages spoken on set. The show itself deals with themes of old and new, of the old guard clinging to the vestiges of youth as the youth prepares to become the new guard. Artistic Director Tim Smith, a Broadway veteran, spoke with Boulder Weekly about the challenges of using circus acts to make art and of the sheer uniqueness of working for a company like Cirque du Soleil. Boulder Weekly: So what’s it like as a director coming into a show with so much history behind it? What sort of creative influence do you bring to the show? Tim Smith: What’s most exciting, having the perspective of being 15 years in another entertainment commercial theater career, is that it’s different from the theater, mainly because of the uniqueness of Cirque. The mandate of the company is creation. And so, if you went to see Phantom of the Opera, say, that’s been open 15 years, you’ll see the same show start to finish that was created 15 years ago. That’s just the way

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theater works. [Cirque du Soleil] constantly evolves and constantly inspires the artist and entire production to uphold the initial creative ideas and themes, but it continues to grow every day. We put new things in and new acts and new images and new artists. It’s a 16-year-old production, but with the mandate of Cirque, it constantly evolves. BW: So how does one inspire trapeze artists to do a different act? Have you ever worked with these types of performers before? TS: Exactly. Not at all. The structure that Cirque has created, as unique as they are, is amazing, because they’re the only company doing what they’re doing. So they can’t look at other companies and say, oh, how do they do this — no, the structure that they’ve created and the success that they’ve created 25 years later is original and unique to them. So, yes, I am the artistic director; I have never been 42 feet in the air. And so, how do you manage that and direct that creatively? I work directly with the head coaches and the artistic coaches for each act to create and to inspire these disciplines … to do what I’d like to see happen, and they take it from there and make it happen and are up for the chal-

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lenge. And the next thing you know, we are doing it to music, and we need a flip here and we need something there. That’s the collaborative effort that’s really the structure that [Cirque has] put in place. BW: Can you tell me a little bit about the show? How is it structured? TS: Each production is very different. … Each show is different. Alegría is the Spanish word for joy, and it sets up the theme of the old generation, the old money, the old establishment … and their relationship, and their challenges and their collaboration with the new generation, which pushes the world forward and progresses it forward. How we move together into the next generation and how we give the world to the young that are going to move us forward and going to progress us forward: That is Alegría. BW: How do you as artistic director approach translating that concept into the circus performance in which Cirque specializes? TS: Exactly, I think the question is spot-on, and I just go back to the definition of what Cirque du Soleil has created and what they do best. These themes, these creative ideas for each show, are

just that — ideas inspiring the creators to come up with Alegría, but like any other theatrical event, they don’t really want to take you from point A to point B and drive you through the whole thing. They want you to have an experience that you individually can explore and be excited about. So you might see Alegría and although those are the themes that are on the ground or in the minds of the creators, you might see it and come up with a completely different concept. I might be sitting next to you and come up with a completely different storyline, because the pictures are so avant garde. As the artistic director, if you’re inspiring the show and holding true to the initial creative idea, yes, I need to keep those ideas as far as how to explain how to come at it as an artist, and yet the skill still needs to be there as far as flipping through the air. It’s a very interesting marriage, because you’re not just doing the skills; it needs to fall in and have the emotion and have the intent as to what we’re explaining. So that’s my job — to give this information to the artist, so it makes sense what they’re doing, as opposed to just checking boxes and thrilling you by what their skill set is. Cirque wraps a whole environment and world around that, which is different from just the circus. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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The show must go on for Disco Biscuits by Matt Conner

arc Brownstein is waiting at the doctor’s office, hoping he doesn’t have a case of the “disco flu.” While he’s joking and the check-up is standard after a season of touring, the setting seems appropriate when speaking with the Disco Biscuits bassist. In the last year, the uber-popular live act took a hit when multiple members missed shows due to injury. Vocalist/guitarist Jon Gutwillig broke his wrist and missed a couple of shows (and switched from guitar for several others), while drummer Allen Aucoin recently missed several gigs due to hospitalization from an asthma attack. In the meantime, the Disco Biscuits have called upon several friends who’ve filled in admirably and given their fans a “great show each and every night,” Brownstein says. He admits that the Biscuits aren’t the first jam band to move beyond injuries or, even worse, death, and that pleasing fans is the name of the game. “We’ve found that we can get through it,” Brownstein says. “I mean, look at the Grateful Dead. Someone dies and they still go on. They still manage to forge on in the end. Widespread Panic went ahead without Michael [Houser]. We’re just so lucky that it was just a broken wrist and a respiratory arrest. That gives us some perspective, and we’ve found out more about ourselves.” Brownstein explains that the ability to push through in the live setting is an obligation, something they feel quite thankful for yet responsible that they have to provide. After all, a Disco Biscuits fan is a

rabid one, usually the type to travel long distances and spend significant amounts of money to see them for the second, third or 10th time. “When you’re a band that people travel to see, you have to do what we do,” Brownstein says. “People come from out of town. They’ve paid for plane tickets, concert tickets and hotels. We just can’t cancel shows. You have to press on. It’s all about the fans for us. We have people using their vacation time and every last extra dollar on a show. So we’re going to make sure we blow it up.” The first time Brownstein realized the Biscuits had a different fan base than most was in the touring season of 1998, when he noticed 100 or so fans following the band from city to city. Those kids are now

having kids, so the audience is much more varied than it used to be, especially as the band has diversified its sound from its jam roots to a fusion of hip-hop and indie rock. Still, the fans remain as committed as ever, given that the two shows at the 1,000-person Boulder Theater have been sold out for some time. For a storied act like the Disco Biscuits, who first formed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, the touring life could become a rote exercise devoid of meaning. Yet Brownstein actually looks back at his earlier years and says he took it easy back then compared to his current regimen. The more time that passes, the more he’s grateful for the Disco Biscuits’ longevity. He’s determined to not take it for granted and he’s willing to work hard to keep the momentum. “I don’t know that we’re the hardest working band in rock ’n’ roll, but I know that we never stop working,” Brownstein says. “My wife hates me. I never stop working all day long. I don’t take weekends off. I don’t take other days off. I’m 37 years old now, and I’m just wanting to put everything I have into this music. I’m to that point where I know this is what I do and this is who I am. I don’t have time for anything else, nor do I want to.” While details aren’t officially available yet, Brownstein is also excited to confirm another round at Red Rocks in 2011. Fans should save their time and money to get in on an event he promises to be “mindblowing,” but unfortunately cannot yet say who will be featured in the line-up. Yet given the live history of the Disco Biscuits, it probably doesn’t matter who else is involved. Fans will be happy all the same. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Ensemble tackles Frank Zappa’s orchestral side by Peter Alexander

t seems like a typical night at the symphony: some light orchestral dances to open the program, a blockbuster piano concerto with a popular soloist and music by Frank Zappa. Frank Zappa? Yes, that Frank Zappa. And when the symphony is the Boulder Philharmonic, the answer is definitely yes. Zappa was not only the creCasey A. Cass ative force for the Mothers of David Korevaar Invention but also — perhaps less so — a serious composer of characteristically iconoclastic jazz, electronic and orchestral music. As Michael Butterman, the orchestra’s music director, explains, “The audience for classical music is an interesting mix of folks that are traditionalists and folks that are looking for experiences.” And that’s especially true in Boulder, he says. “People are looking for an experience, they want something that challenges them, that is different.” And yet, he adds, people also want to hear the “tried and true” classics. The program in the current season that best combines both interests will be the orchestra’s next concert, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium on the CU campus. Titled “Rach ’n’ Roll,” the concert combines Rachmaninoff ’s “tried and true” Third Piano Concerto (“Rach”), performed by Boulder’s own David Korevaar, with dance music (“’n’ Roll”) by Argentina’s tango master Astor Piazzolla, as well as two orchestral dances by Zappa, “Be-Bop Tango” and “G-spot Tornado.”

Butterman describes the program this way: “We are doing one of the great piano concertos featuring David Korevaar, a wonderful pianist. But there’s Frank Zappa on the first half, and Piazolla, this great tango composer. It’s all dance music of one kind or another. Most of it will be music that no one in Boulder has probably heard before, but it’s all very appealing. “So we have something for the experience-seekers on the first half and something a little more traditional on the second.” Unsurprisingly, neither of the Zappa pieces on the program started as orchestral pieces. “Be-bop Tango” was originally written for a rock band and appeared on the live album Roxy and Elsewhere in 1974. “G-Spot Tornado” was originally written for the synclavier, an early electronic synthesizer, and was released on the Grammy award-winning Jazz from Hell album in 1986. The orchestral versions of both pieces appeared in 1993 on The Yellow Shark, an album of Zappa’s orchestral music performed by the Ensemble Modern that was the final recording released during Zappa’s lifetime. If Zappa’s orchestral music remains an obscure realm for classical music lovers, few pieces are more familiar than Rachmaninoff ’s Third Piano Concerto. One Internet site lists more than 130 different available recordings. And yet, Korevaar, with a professional career of more than 30 years, has only recently performed the concerto. In fact, he admits that the performance with the

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Couple opens nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill

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he couple opening the nation’s third poetry-only bookstore on the Hill knew of the uphill battle they would face trying to make their living off an art form many consider stuffy and inaccessible. In fact, according to Brian Buckley, who coowns Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café with wife Kate Hunter, the couple was two hours late to the lease signing for the space on 1203 13th St. “I sat in a chair thinking about it,” Buckley says. “It was exciting and intimidating at the same time.” Innisfree Bookstore and Café is only the third bookstore in the country to devote itself exclusively to poetry, according to trade magazine Publishers Weekly. The south-facing store, located across the street from The Sink and Buchanan’s Coffee Pub, is a cozy 460 square feet lined with alder bookshelves filled with poetry volumes. A counter with three stools offers seats in front of the window, and a thin wooden table lined with dark wooden chairs runs through the center of the store from the door to the coffee bar, where patrons can order locally roasted Conscious Coffee and buy books. The couple wants the store to be a friendly place where anyone with an interest in the medium, be it casual or academic, can sit and enjoy poetry and good coffee. “I think that because we started the store, we’re supposed to be poetry gurus or something, but we’re not,” Hunter says. “We’re here to encourage people to find something they like in poetry, something that touches them.” Poetry brought the couple together. After returning from a Peace Corps stint in Thailand, Buckley enrolled in the University of Massachusetts in Boston and began working on his Master’s degree in English Literature, translating Thai poetry for his thesis. He

met Hunter in a poetry seminar there, and he devoted each of the 12 poems he had to write, each in a different style, to her. They married and began their careers, but they always idly talked about opening a poetry bookstore. They moved to Boulder after Buckley’s father passed away in 2009, and they realized the time was ripe to stop dreaming and start acting. “Seeing my parents pass away, and knowing the finite amount of time in life, I almost felt a responsibility to them [to follow my dreams],” Buckley says. He and his wife had moved here for the mountains, the school system and old friends, but they soon realized they had discovered a fertile nest of poetry readers, writers and educators — the perfect location for opening their poetry store. “It was like, ‘Oh my heavens, did we serendipitously land in a place where we could make this dream happen?’” Buckley says. “It was like a perfect finger pointing at yourself. … Are you going to regret not doing this in the future?” They scoured Craigslist and found the location on

13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The south-facing storefront, the high-traffic corner located right next to the university and the small space seemed perfect. They leapt at the opportunity. “It seemed like we could do it even though we just had [our second] child,” Hunter says. “It wasn’t easy, but we knew that it was going to depend on location, and we knew that it had to happen.” The store opened on Dec. 10, but the grand opening party won’t be until Saturday, Jan. 15. The response to the store has been overwhelmingly positive so far, Buckley says. On a recent afternoon there was a small crowd in the store, and Buckley says they have sold more books than he and his wife had expected. He attributes this partly to good selection, but perhaps even more to the buy-local, help-your-neighbor attitude so prevalent in Boulder. The town already seems to be rooting for the store, he says. Eventually, Buckley and Hunter hope the store will be enough to sustain their family of four and grow to the point where they can eventually move into bigger digs. But they also have a grander vision for the store. They want to provide a space to inspire people to discover poetry they love and realize that poems aren’t just for academics and elitists. One of the last conversations Buckley had with his father was about Seamus Haley’s “A Kite for Michael and Christopher.” His father never attended college but still found beauty in poetry. “His life would have been different if someone had tried to make him feel inferior to poets,” Buckley says. Hunter says, “Poetry is not this high art form exclusively. There are poets like that, just like there are painters like that. Any kind of field you go into, there are people in their field who only want to deal with experts in their field. We’re not like that in terms of what we’re putting together here. We want to help revive poetry.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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music Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Celestial Hoedown. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Chris Kroger Jazz. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Disco Biscuits. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Jackie Greene — With Kort McCumber. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Jubal. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Lionel Young. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. 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. Official Disco Biscuits After Party. 11:59 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. On the Sly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Open Mic Night. 5 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-4408808. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night. Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

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Reviving Cecilia. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Roots & Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

events Aging Advisory Council Meeting. 1:30 p.m. Baltic Room, Sundquist Building, 3482 N. Broadway, Boulder, www.bouldercounty. org Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.

averybrewing.com. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. Blogettes. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Gindi Cafe Gay Night — Every

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Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft — Drawings by Marc Brandenburg. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 20. Edits — Paintings by Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30. Moments In Between — Paintings by Barbara Shark. Boulder Museum of

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Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 30. Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection — By various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 28. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Paintings by Kathleen Lanzoni. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Jan. 31. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Tina Will. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table

Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Jan. 30. Shut Your Face Off! Mixed media by Donald Fodness & Alvin Gregorio. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 31. Orphan Paintings — Russian avantgarde paintings by various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Notes from a Quiet Life — Photographs by Robert Benjamin. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 29.

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music Acoustic Open Mic. 7-9 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Air Dubai. 8:30 p.m. Club 156, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Deja Blu. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dendrites. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Disco Biscuits. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. DJ Chonz and Friends. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. The Dream Doctors. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Full Belly. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. JT Nolan. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Kana Ka Pila Hawaiian Jam. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. Mack Balley and Rachel Levy. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Matt Lewis. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Max Wagner Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Minivan. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Mountain Trance Medicine Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Nadas — With Jason Spooner. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Official Disco Biscuits After Party. 11:59 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Conor

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O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Split Lip Rayfield. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Twinberries. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

events Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427. The Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. PLAN-Boulder County Forum — 2011 legislative outlook. 1:30 p.m. Boulder Public

Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5440008. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www. upslopebrewing.com.

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Don’t Dress for Dinner. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Jan. 14 through Feb. 27. Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Feb. 26.

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463-6683. El Ten Eleven, Pan Astral. 8:30 p.m. Old Main, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Emily Bedal, Idlewhile. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628. Floof and the Time Bandits. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Homeslice. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Lara Ruggles. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Maynard Mills Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Mestizo. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Notes & Oats Musical Breakfast — With Jim Tesone. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. Official Disco Biscuits After Party. 11:59 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Onda. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sammy Dee Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Serenade in Blue. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Tom Weiser & Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 8-11 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Wendy Woo and Nina Storey — With Katelyn Benton. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The Zimmermans — With the Whiskey Bottles. 10 p.m. The Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Zumba Dance Part. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. Disney’s Right “Hand” Man, David Hand. 4 p.m. Mamie Doud Eisenhower Library, 3 Community Park Rd., Broomfield, 303-410-2655. Rehearsals for Crimes of the Heart. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointment required. Longmont Theater Rehearsal Space, 314 Main St., Longmont, 303-823-9175. DIRECTED BY FRANCO DRAGONE

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p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4470475. Holly and the Husbands. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Kort McCumber and the High Road. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400. Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. Phunkadonic. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Free Open Class — Meditation instruction. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273. “So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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music Avey Bros. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-

443-3322. Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350. Faculty Tuesday Series — Paul Erhard,

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Monday, Jan. 17

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7-11 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985. Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-4636683. Jet Edison. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858. Open Mic — Celebrarting the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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events Avery IPA Release Party. 6-10 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. 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. Boulder WordPress Meetup. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m. Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464. Healing Space With Alan McAllister. 4-6 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8

p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder. Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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music Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Combo Showcase. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. eTown: Brett Dennen and Razia. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Ironwood Rain. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Philip Gibbs. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Taarka. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tribute to the Beatles. 7-11 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. WILD Foundation Benefit Night — Featuring Liebermonster. 15 percent of sales benefit WILD. 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

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Monday, Jan. 17 Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. 7:30 p.m. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 David Wann’s The New Normal: An Agenda for Responsible Living. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Drop-In Story Time. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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Friday, Jan. 14 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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303-463-6683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Monday, Jan. 17 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Twinkle Babies. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafaytte, 303-604-2424. Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Tuesday, Jan. 18 Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735. Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720-5656019. Wednesday, Jan. 19 Colorado Mountain Club Boulder Group Open House — New and prospective members invited. 7-8 p.m. 633 S. Broadway, Unit N, Boulder, 303554-7688. Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com, attn: “Elevation.”

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cherish these humble huts and modify them into cozy base camps. Europe’s prolific modern hut system has served as the spirit behind Colorado’s own impressive network of mountain cabins.

the demand but to honor his Army unit from If the word “hut” conjures up images of stone- World War II — the 10th Mountain Division. cold, thatched-roof cottages, it’s worth noting that Today, 10th Mountain is not directly associatmany of Colorado’s huts are comfortable, modern ed with the Army division, but the nonprofit and spacious cabins. While there are a few older group that manages the huts. Several of the huts huts that employ basic A-frames with minimal are named for soldiers in World War II who died amenities, most of the structures are more like in battle. (It is a common misconception that the mountain homes with beds, stoves, kitchens, heat- huts were built as training barracks for troops and ing systems and sometimes electricity, running later converted into cabins.) water and saunas. Composting toilets are either The first two 10th Mountain huts — attached to the hut or a very McNamara and Margy’s short distance away. — were built in 1982 and, Details, details Volunteers provide pre-cut since then, 10th Mountain For information on booking huts, wood for the iron stoves so has come to manage more what to bring, where to go, volunall you really need to bring than 30 backcountry huts, teering, maps and reservations, is a comfy sleeping bag, all of them built with recvisit the 10th Mountain huts page clothes and food (in fact, reation in mind. at www.huts.org. many of the huts can get 10th Mountain now quite warm even on the administers the largest coldest winter nights). network of huts in Colorado, which includes the The first dedicated winter cabins in Colorado Alfred A. Braun, Summit Huts and 10th were built in Rocky Mountain National Park, Mountain cabins. There are also dozens of priincluding Fern Lake Lodge, which was opened in vately owned huts that are available for rental in 1916. Subsequently, many old mining and shepthe winter. herd’s cabins were converted into makeshift winter huts. Billie Tagert was one of the first to build Visiting the huts a true ski hut in the late 1940s, just outside of It’s a good idea to plan your hut trip a few Aspen. Tagert’s passion for ski touring resulted in months in advance, especially if you’re planning to the Alfred A. Braun hut system, a network of huts link several huts together on a single tour. Many managed by Braun for more than 20 years, startpeople rent the huts for a few days so they can ing in the 1950s. stay in one place and enjoy ski touring, snowshoeAs hut trips increased in popularity, the need ing and other winter sports. To keep the areas to expand the system helped inspire Fritz around the hut sanitary and peaceful for wildlife, Benedict to organize new huts, not only to meet most huts do not allow dogs. Huts can sleep any-

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where from six to 20 people comfortably, though the more people you invite the more likely you are to have a rampant snorer in the group — consider yourself warned! Because the huts are wellequipped, modern buildings, you don’t need to worry about packing in cookware, stoves, water filters, air mattresses or silverware. Food, sleeping bags and clothes are the bare minimum you’ll need to provide, though a few other items like clean pillowcases and thin bedsheets are a good idea. It is essential that the group have winter backcountry travel experience, including knowledge of avalanche conditions and how to use avalanche beacons. While a few of the huts are short treks of under three miles, many high-country huts sit at more than 11,000 feet and require crossing dangerous terrain along the way. The farthest huts are almost 10 miles in, one-way, which is a long day of skiing or snowshoeing (most huts do not allow snowmobiles). Guide services are available as well for those completely new to winter backcountry travel. Generally, a hut is booked as a group, though there are sometimes spaces available to individuals. The booking calendar online at the 10th Mountain website has details on hut availability. It is worth noting that there are smaller, firstcome, first-served huts that are not part of the 10th Mountain huts, such as the Arestua Hut and the Tennessee Mountain Hut, close to the Eldora ski area. Privately owned huts will have their own booking and reservation policies. Visiting Colorado’s huts in the winter is a magical experience and the ideal way to explore the incredible backcountry terrain. While winter camping is always an option for the hearty, most of us would agree that returning to a warm cabin with soft beds and good food is pretty sweet. The huts are open in the summer as well, for mountain biking and hike touring. To learn more, visit the 10th Mountain website at www.huts.org, where you can find information for both 10th Mountain and privately owned huts and yurts. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Teacher keeps Native American foods alive for all by Bill Daley

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he American menu today is crowded with many cuisines: Italian, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Ethiopian, Irish, Vietnamese. With so many kinds of cooking, it can be easy to forget what is the most important cuisine of them all, that of American Indians. These foods from throughout the Americas are the foundation of what we eat today. “American cuisine is a combination of immigrant cuisines in conjunction with Native American cooking,” says Lois Ellen Frank, a chef, author, teacher, food historian, culinary anthropologist and photographer working to keep the foodways of American Indians alive and thriving. Frank, based in Santa Fe, N.M., has a valid point. Just think what our kitchens would be like without tomatoes, beans, squash, chocolate, vanilla, pineapples and, most of all, corn. These foods of the New World rapidly circled the globe after 1492, in what’s called “The Columbian Exchange.” She believes eating indigenous foods is not only good for you but good for the planet because many of these foods can be locally grown or sourced, often by American Indians. To that end, she seeks to encourage the incorporation of traditional Indian foods into modern life via her books, including the James Beard Award-winning Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, articles, classes and a catering company. Her thrust was clear during a recent talk at the Association of Food Journalists conference in Santa Fe. The title: “Seeds of Health: The Return to The Ancestral Diet.” While touting the benefits of indigenous food, Frank doesn’t snub foods introduced into the Americas. One of her fall cooking classes also made

Frank personifies the analogy. She is half American Indian. Her mother is from the Kiowa nation, which was relocated to a reservation in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the mid-19th century. Her father is a Sephardic Jew, whose mother came from Europe as a small child. Frank, born in New York City, grew up on Long Island. Today, indigenous foods are a part of all Americans, no matter where their ancestors came from. For Frank, what’s important now is to make sure the foods, and the recipes, are accessible to all and enjoyed. “Recipes only remain alive if people cook from them,” she says.

Lamb-Stuffed Chiles with Tomato Puree Prep: 45 minutes; Cook: 55 minutes; Makes: 6 servings

Teacher Lois Ellen Frank preparing traditional Native American foods.

use of lamb, goat cheese and wheat flour. An Indian medicine wheel serves as a symbol to her of the intermingling of people, cultures and foods. “One-quarter of the wheel is yellow, white, black and red,” she says. “Mix the colors together and it becomes speckled corn. Most of us are speckled corn.”

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fter a long flight back from pop out a bit more, but I had little to gripe California, I needed someabout. thing comforting yet not My entree was the $16 gnocchi special complicated to facilitate my adorned with skinless chicken breast and post-holiday re-entry to the basil. The potato-based pasta was filling working week. Consigliere Keith had been and rich, and Toscano wisely paired this kind enough to give me a lift from DIA, with red sauce instead of something overand Louisville’s Via Toscana, an old standwhelming like an Alfredo. This sauce was by, was on the way home. Moreover, its solid, although I suspect a zingy puttanesca elegantly rustic setting would serve as a or even the addition of red pepper flakes serene antidote to bustling airport termiwould make for a livelier dish. The chicken nals. A combination of heavy woods and breast was tender and tasty, and I’d order cloth tablecloths, Toscana also has little in this dish again. the way of windows facing outside. But the While the dark sauce accompanying neat trick is that the effect is cozy rather Keith’s $14 chicken marsala made me than claustrophobic, and it’s easy to forget wonder if the poultry had been mistakenly you’re dining in a strip mall. splashed with a heavy dose of balsamic While the menu here consists of vinegar, the flavor indicated otherwise. straightforward Italian fare, this isn’t just This was one of the better marsalas I’ve another spaghetti and meatballs joint. The sampled, possessing a perfect balance of most expensive entrée is the Steak buttery flavor and sweet wine against the Florentine, a $25 number consisting of a backdrop of tender chicken. As a matter of half-pound filet mignon melded with fact, this preparation could easily have mushrooms and Alaskan crab. More modpeaking of things San Franciscan, my latest culinary obsession come from an Italian family restaurant in est — but perhaps equally satisfying — is authentic sourdough bread, and I’ve been reading up on San Francisco’s North Beach. choices include simple angel hair pasta the subject in Dr. Ed Wood’s tome, Classic Sourdoughs. Wood Dessert was the supremely decadent $6 with tomato, basil, garlic and olive oil. This also acquires and sells starters, the cultures necessary to give Venetian mousse, edged by a delightful has been a favorite on past visits. There are sourdough its distinctive taste, at his website www.sourdo.com. Of chocolate cookie crust. The whipped also calzones, cioppino seafood stew and particular interest is the San Francisco starter, the unique product mousse itself is a complex and ultimately pasta served up in child’s portions. Pizza of wild yeast and bacteria found in the Bay Area. Contrary to gratifying affair, juxtaposing the flavorful choices range from $12 to $13 and tend popular belief, Wood argues that the San Francisco starter can depth of dark chocolate with pleasant towards more gourmet toppings such as retain its distinctive qualities in an environment like Colorado and milky tones. For the chocolate lover, this is arugula, goat cheese and artichoke. that local organisms would not knock out the California culture. a must-have. Our first courses were solid choices, Toscana has come a long way from its ably fulfilling the desire for something beginnings as utilitarian pizza parlor comunfussy. Despite the inexpensiveness of the be a meal by itself. Colorful describes the $4 house plete with video games. It’s grown into a $3 minestrone, it outshines more costly versions. salad, with its vibrant freight of fresh mixed greens, sophisticated trattoria that can accommodate modest Hearty in both flavor and texture (some may recall my Haystack goat cheese, tangy roasted red pepper and to more extravagant budgets with ease, while leaving constant gripes regarding watery versions of this oregano dressing. A touch more acid, such as a squirt all diners satisfied. soup), this interpretation, coupled with bread, would of lemon in the dressing, would have made the flavors Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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h January, you’re a cold one, but you have been very good to me. I know it’s early, but so far so good for 2011. I’m so happy with my pal January that I think I will share a recipe that will make you happier than a Kardashian in a room full of diet pills. How about Minneola Orange Toasted Walnut Cake? This is a tasty one. Of course, a large variety of oranges are in season right now, so although it seems like your typical, obligatory January dessert, this one’s so good, the only thing you will feel obligated to do is make this baby again and again. The Minneola is a variety of a tangelo, which is a hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit. Did you follow that? What a job, cross-pollinating fruit. Sounds intriguing, and I’m sending in applications as we speak (or read). I like the Minneola, named after Minneola, Fla., just so you know, because it has the sweetness of the tangerine, but then a nice blast of tart from the grapefruit side. It’s extremely juicy, and easy to peel, which makes it convenient when you are using multiple oranges to bake with. This little fruit is also adorable, not in the ittybitty clementine kind of way, but rather in its deep reddish-orange color and distinctive bell-like shape. It’s so pretty you don’t want to eat it, just admire it in your fruit bowl. But you must work through your admiration and rip off those thin peels and sink your teeth into it or you will never know how tasty this cake is. The toasted walnuts are a perfect complement to the Minneolas; they have a slightly bitter taste, which makes for a nice combo. The bit of crunch they add makes for a perfect crackling sensation for your taste buds. Darn, I’m happy about this cake. You know, I just must add that Cointreau would be the perfect addition to the cake. Just reduce a bit of juice and stir it on in, or you can enjoy it in a little snifter on the side, which is how I’ll be rolling. Minneola orange goodness all

around. Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? Come on, that’s funny. Now follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

Minneola Orange Toasted Walnut Cake 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. baking powder Pinch of salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened) 1 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup sour cream 2 eggs 1/4 tsp. almond extract Zest from 2 Minneola oranges 1/4 cup orange juice (one orange) (you will use the other orange in the glaze) 1/2 cup chopped and toasted walnuts (Toast for five to seven minutes in 350-degree oven) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8-inch, round baking pan. In small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Stir in sour cream. Add in eggs and almond extract. Zest your oranges (use a small cheese grater if you don’t have a zester) and add to mix. Cut orange in half after zesting, and squeeze out juice (about 1/4 cup). Fold flour mixture into wet mixture and stir until just combined Pour into prepared baking pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes until top is turning brown and toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Take out and let cool 25 minutes. Run a small metal spatula around edge of cake. Flip cake over onto serving platter. Poke holes with fork all over cake. Pour glaze over top and let run down sides. Top with toasted walnuts. Garnish with orange zest if desired. Let set. Cut into slices. For the orange glaze, combine 1 ½ to 2 cups powdered sugar and juice from one Minneola orange (1/4 cup). Stir until smooth. Enjoy! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

TIDBITES Food happenings around town Ultimate dinner for beer geeks The West End Tavern is joining Boulder resident beer geek Peter Archer for their Ultimate Beer Dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 6:30 p.m. The event features 20 beers from 20 different breweries, and a three-course meal by Chef Chris Blackwood. The event starts with a classic street food course, a southernstyle course, and a barbeque, all paired with Archer’s favorite beers. The event is $65 per person, and reservations can be made at 303-4443535. Centro chef goes low-carb Chef Ian Clark, of Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, has been chosen as one of five chefs in the nation to create low-carb recipes for Atkins consumers. As the Latin-cuisine expert, he created 10 recipes featured on the Atkins’ website. Clark helped open Centro in 2007, and brings many of the Centro flavors to his Atkins menu. To check out the recipes, visit www. atkinschfrecipes.com.

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Connecting with new foods In an effort to introduce more food lovers to independently owned restaurants in Boulder, Culinary Connectors is launching supper clubs every second Tuesday of the month. The most recent of these clubs was held at Pizzeria Basta, and the next will be held at Bacaro Venetian Tavern on Feb. 8. The dinners cost $59 a person for three or four courses with wine, beer or cocktail pairings. Make reservations at www. culi naryconnectors. Chef Ian com/tours/supperClark of Centro club. The Pinyon now open for lunch The Pinyon, known for its use of fresh and local ingredients, is now open for lunch. Lunch will be served Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in addition to their happy hour, dinner, and late night menus. The Pinyon is located at 1710 Pearl St., and reservations can be made at 720-306-8248 or online at www. ThePinyon.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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1/2 tsp. pepper Tomato sauce and topping: 1 tbsp. olive oil 6 cloves garlic, minced 1 1/4 pounds tomatoes, coarsely chopped Sour cream (optional) Roast the chiles, turning often, on a stove-top grill until charred on all sides, about 15 minutes; peel. Cut off stem; slice chiles lengthwise to open like a book. Remove seeds. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook onions, stirring, until translucent, about 4 minutes. Add the ground lamb; cook, stirring, until browned, about 15 minutes. Drain off the excess fat. Add tomatoes, garlic, bay leaf, bread crumbs, tarragon, salt, thyme and pepper. Reduce heat to simmer; simmer 15 minutes. Cool. Boulder Weekly

Meanwhile, for the tomato sauce, heat oil in a saucepan over mediumlow heat. Cook garlic, stirring, 1 minute. Add the tomatoes; cook, stirring often, until the liquid evaporates and the sauce is reduced, 15 minutes. Pour sauce through fine sieve. Keep warm. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spread chiles open on a work surface. Top each with lamb mixture. Close chilies around lamb. Place the stuffed chilies open-side down on an oiled baking pan. Bake until hot, about 10 minutes. Serve with the tomato puree. Garnish with sour cream. Nutrition information Per serving: 249 calories, 46 percent of calories from fat, 13 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 38 mg cholesterol, 21 g carbohydrates, 14 g protein, 303 mg sodium, 3 g fiber (c) 2011, Chicago Tribune. —MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 13, 2011 49

Café Aion 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 303-993-8131

he key to Café Aion’s success is in its ability to take the familiar and make it seem new, primarily through top-notch prep and ingredients. Serving all three meals, its offerings include an endearing selection of tapas such as chicken liver pâté sourced locally and such continental standards as paella and grilled hanger steak. Breakfast standouts include fresh-baked croissants and donuts, and one can’t go wrong with the house-cured ham, bacon or sausage.

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May Wah 2500 Baseline Rd., Boulder 303-499-6477

ay Wah is the archetypal Chinese- American restaurant, featuring a reasonably priced menu that holds few surprises. The most expensive a la carte options consists of $13.95 seafood offerings. Lunch specials start at $6.95 and work their way up to $8.50. While the menu may seem typical, May Wah doesn’t take its customers for granted, as exemplified by flavorful Mongolian beef and crisp sesame chicken.

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he modernistic locavore philosophy that influences most local restaurants is also readily apparent at Salt. But this establishment parts company from the others by way of a heavy emphasis on comfort foods, albeit prepared with artisan ingredients. Menu highlights include ahi nicoise salad featuring local green beans, lamb meatballs, chicken pot pie and the can’tmiss-it salted caramel chocolate tart.

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sions, and the raviolis, which are great paired with tomato cream sauce. The availability of sauces and noodles to go is a blessing for the cook desiring Italian at home.

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ou’d be hard-pressed to find a superior alternative to Longmont’s Aunt Alice’s for an affordable coffee shop breakfast. This eatery has retro charm and features overstuffed omelets such as the Works: four eggs, bacon, sausage, cheddar cheese, mushrooms, onions and bell peppers. Other choices range from simple oatmeal to surprisingly good steak and eggs. The lunch and dinner menu features old favorites like patty melts and fried chicken.

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l Pastaio’s a petite spot near the 30th Street King Soopers. The menu relies heavily on fresh pasta, ranging from ribbons of fettuccine to delicious stuffed ravioli, topped with anything from creamy Alfredo to herbaceous pesto. Of note are the hearty lasagnas, available in meatless, turkey and beef ver-

oulder’s Pupusas Sabor Hispano decamped a few months back from the west side of Broadway to bigger, more posh digs across the street. Fortunately, one can still enjoy the restaurant’s namesake Salvadorean pupusas and staples typically associated with Mexican cuisine, such as menudo, burritos and tacos, at moderate prices. Vegetarians will enjoy the flavorful bean pupusa, while the carnivore will delight in the rich pork versions.

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oulder’s Harpo’s Sports Grill is a casual joint spotlighting affordable drink specials, tavern staples ranging from wings to burgers, and big-screen TVs perfect for watching games. Menu highlights include the delightfully crispy fish and chips with dill-scented batter, and the Boulder Burger, a half pound of beef topped with bacon, roasted red pepper and pepper jack cheese.

ituated not far from the Louisville multiplex movie theater, Delhi Darbar serves a classic Indian menu, including a reasonably priced luncheon buffet. There are vegetarian specialties such as an okra bhindi, which matches this unique vegetable with onion. Other worthwhile choices at this establishment include a pleasing lamb stew and a delicious, fresh-from-theoven Tandoori chicken.

The Kitchen 1039 Pearl St., Boulder 303-544-5973

elf-described as a “community bistro,” The Kitchen prides itself on using such sustainable local ingredients as Long Farm pork, Monroe Farm veggies and Fox Fire lamb. The diverse menu includes charcuterie and cheese platters, as well as melon salads and heirloom squash soup. Those with small appetites will appreciate petite servings of fries and other starters, while the famished can enjoy full-bore entrees like meatless red wheat berries and Long Farm pork chops.

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Salvaggio’s Italian Deli 2609 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-1981

alvaggio’s won’t win awards for ground-breaking sandwiches, but that isn’t the point. In this case, a predictable menu is a virtue. Fans of textbook deli-style sandwiches will be content here, and the generous portions and classic flavors will put the diner in a comfortable frame of mind. Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mortadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry, with a delicate herbal taste.

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rendy is not how one would describe Andrea’s Homestead Café in downtown Lyons, with ambience that seems to be a cross between a hunting lodge and a European relative’s home. Indeed, this establishment has a definite Teutonic vibe, as evidenced by the ample selection of dinner menu schnitzels and old country bric-a-brac. The morning menu features standard bacon-and-egg breakfasts with such flourishes as German-style potatoes and vegetarian green chile. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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magine you’re second in line for the throne of England, right behind your selfish, womanizing brother, your father the King is in ill health, and you have a terrible stutter. Your father despises you for the impediment, your country is poised to enter World War II, and that older brother is determined to marry an American divorcee. Except the King of England can’t marry a divorced woman, so you’re next in line for the throne. The King’s Speech is a powerful and beautifully produced film about the challenge that the Duke of York (Colin Firth) faced when he was pushed into the public eye. The film opens with the Duke addressing the public, painfully stumbling through his written speech, one stutter and pause after another, a scene that’s surprisingly affecting, provoking great anxiety. Fortunately for history, his faithful wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) finds the unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) and convinces her husband to work with him to try and cure the stutter. Masquerading as “Mr. Johnson” for his visits to Logue’s run-down Harley Street office, Firth perfectly portrays the conflict between the desire to get better, the anger and frustration at having the affliction and the embarrassment of having a disability. The simplistic speech therapies of Logue and their miraculous results were more than a bit reminiscent of

ountry Strong writerdirector Shana Feste has said that country music has “nothing small or subtle” in its bones. So, right off I question her opinion and suggest that she revisit Crazy Heart some time, or Tender Mercies. She’s true to her word, though. The first five minutes of Country Strong go for nothing small or subtle. (Neither does Black Swan, a far juicier backstage melodrama, which may as well carry the title Urban Crazy.) Six-time Grammy Award-winning country superstar Kelly Canter, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, has checked into rehab for alcohol and pill problems after a disastrous flameout in Dallas that caused her miscarriage. Her hard-driving husband and manager (singer and actor Tim McGraw, lately of The Blind Side) walks in on what looks like a rehab-love-nest situation between his wife and rehab staffer Beau, played by Garrett Hedlund in full, entertaining Kris Kristofferson growl. Beau’s an aspiring singer-songwriter himself, as well as Kelly’s Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and a little something more. The triangle bluntly established, Country Strong proceeds to take Kelly back on the road for a comeback tour, with opening acts and romantic complications provided by Beau and by a 52 January 13, 2011

the psychological treatment that Ingrid Bergman offers Gregory Peck to astonishingly positive results in Hitchcock’s Spellbound. Quick, simple solutions make for satisfying cinematic stories, but it was difficult to believe that even after he realized that “Mr. Johnson” is the Duke of York that Logue would have insisted on calling him Bertie and behaving towards him as one would to a friend at the corner pub. The performances in the film were universally strong, with a nod to Rush, who did a splendid job of portraying Logue, though it was puzzling why he had no Australian accent. I also found King George V (Michael Gambon)

compelling as a dying monarch who is so clearly disappointed in both his sons, seeing neither as suitable to ascend to the throne. The King is an angry, unsympathetic man who pushes and browbeats the Duke after inviting him to read a speech that the King has just given and having him fail, stuttering and faltering over syllable after syllable. But was the stutter caused by this embarrassment, this lack of nurturing and love that the Duke experienced as a baby and child? Perhaps it doesn’t matter whether stuttering can be so simply diagnosed after a few informal chats, but while the performances were excellent, the story itself does lack some verisimilitude nonetheless. Watching a film that’s this well crafted, it’s easy to overlook particular elements, so both cinematographer Danny Cohen and art director Netty Chapman deserve credit for their superb job of creating a wistful, slightly nostalgic mood with lighting that enhances the regal mood of some scenes while emphasizing the intimacy of others. Rarely do we get to see films where every person in the production hits their mark and where the story is interesting, compelling, mature and thoughtful. The King’s Speech is one of those rare films and it’s one that’s well worth seeing and discussing afterwards. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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beauty pageant warbler with stage fright and a few secrets, played by Leighton Meester. This is Paltrow’s first leading role in several years, and it offers the Oscar-winning actress a lot: heartache, discreet trysts with good men and bad, drunken misbehavior and heart-of-gold moments where we see the human being beneath all the tabloid noise. To

address your questions: Yes, Paltrow can sing. And yes, she’s more than able to pull off a portrayal of an unstable Nashville icon at war with her demons. But, my God, is this script predictable. Each relapse and betrayal shows up announced, and then announced again, a little louder, by the dialogue equivalent of an aggravating doorman. When, for example, Kelly arrives at the recording studio only to find that the interloping up-and-comer played by Meester has stolen her song, the scene carries almost no impact. I realize what Feste is suggesting about the notion of subtlety in this universe. But plenty of terrific songwriters have found ways to invest real subtlety, real human feeling — the telling, off-handed detail tucked inside the heart-on-sleeve sentiment — in their work to see familiar country-and-western mythologies reduced to corn syrup this way. The movie’s well acted. Almost everything else about Country Strong is weak. “You belong on stage, singing in front of thousands of people,” McGraw tells Paltrow early on. We hear it, but despite Paltrow’s sincere and often touching efforts, we never fully buy what happens offstage, before and after the singing. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Inspired by the most notorious missing person’s case in New York history, All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Produced and directed by Andrew Jarecki (director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Capturing the Friedmans and producer of Catfish), the film was inspired by the story of Robert Durst, scion of the wealthy Durst family. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife, Kathie, who disappeared in 1982 and was never found. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella as the powerful patriarch, and captures the emotion and complexion of this real-life unsolved mystery. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society Black Swan Mainlining Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet score like a drug addict, this film pushes Nina (Natalie Portman), a Manhattan ballerina devoted to her craft, to the brink of insanity and then a couple of subway stops beyond. Director Darren Aronofsky’s film is with her all the way. Portman’s performance as the dying swan is formidable in its nerve-racking expressivity. It is a racked nerve personified. This is Aronofsky’s most interesting film to date, and there’s not a more exciting fairy tale for grownups in theaters now. Rated R. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

Yogi Bear is a boo-boo Want to make this picture even creepier? Imagine Justin Timberlake doing the voice. And that’s apparently one of the movie’s good points.

Blue Valentine Blue Valentine depicts a working-class marriage hanging by threads of resentment, contempt and love, a very tricky braid to unravel. At its best, the drama captures little bits and pieces of a relationship, the telltale signs and clues to its undoing. In the end, it sympathizes more with the wronged, childlike hus-

band than with the numbly exasperated wife. At least, that’s the way it’s written; as performed, thankfully, it’s more intriguing. Rated R. At Mayan and Century. — Michael Phillips Casino Jack Two–time Academy Award-winner Kevin

Spacey gives the performance of a lifetime in Casino Jack, a riotous new film starring Spacey as a man hell-bent on acquiring all that the good life has to offer. He plays in the same game as the highest of rollers and resorts to awe-inspiring levels of conning, scheming and fraudulent antics to get what he wants. Inspired by true events that are too over-thetop for even the wildest imaginations to conjure, Casino Jack lays bare the wild excesses and escapades of Jack Abramoff. Aided by his business partner Michael Scanlon (Barry Pepper), Jack parlays his clout over some of the world’s most powerful men with the goal of creating a personal empire of wealth and influence. When the two enlist a mob-connected buddy (Jon Lovitz) to help with one of their illegal schemes, they soon find themselves in over their heads, entrenched in a world of mafia assassins, murder and a scandal that spins so out of control that it makes worldwide headlines. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Director Michael Apted tackles the third installment in the series of beloved novels by C.S. Lewis, in which the Pevensie siblings and their young cousin return to the magical land and sail to the edge of the world alongside Prince Caspian. There will be dragons. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu: 11:50, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:35 Country Strong Thu: 10:45, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 The Fighter Thu: 11:10, 2:15, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-Wed: 11:10, 2:10, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55 Gulliver’s Travels Thu: 10:20, 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:55, 4:05, 6:30, 8:45 The Green Hornet Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 The King’s Speech Thu: 11, 1:55, 5, 8, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:40, 5:30, 8:20, 11 Little Fockers Thu-Wed: 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:40 Season of the Witch Thu: 11:45, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Tangled Thu: 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:35, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 The Tourist Thu: 11:55, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2, 4:50, 7:20, 10 Tron: Legacy Thu: 12:10, 1:35, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 True Grit Thu: 10:40, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:40 FriWed: 11:40, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:40 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Black Swan Thu: 1:45, 3:15, 4:35, 7:30, 9, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 Blue Valentine Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Country Strong Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 The Dilemma Fri-Wed: 12, 2:40, 5:20, 7,

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True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Casino Jack Thu-Wed: 4:45, 7:30 I Love You Phillip Morris Fri-Wed: 10 p.m. Sat-Sun: 11:30, 10 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fri-Sat: 11:59 p.m. The King’s Speech Thu: 2:25, 4:15, 5, 7:05, 8, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 Rabbit Hole Fri-Wed: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1, 4, 7, 9:45 Blue Valentine Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:30, 10 I Love You Phillip Morris Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10 Somewhere Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Denver FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-820-3456 All Good Things Thu-Wed: 2:20, 4:30, 7:25 Evangelion 1.0:You Are (Not) Alone Mon-Wed: 9:45 p.m. Foxes Fri: 10 p.m. Sat: 11:55 p.m. Goodbye Solo Sun: 2 p.m. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench Fri-Wed: 2:30, 7:30 Inspector Bellamy Wed: 7 p.m. Mile High Sci-Fi: Queen of Once in Afghanistan Thu: 7 p.m.

Outer Space Fri-Sat: 8 p.m. The Social Network Thu-Wed: 2, 4:40, 9:50 Summer Wars Thu: 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed: 4:45, 9:30 Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Thu: 2:10 p.m. UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Black Swan Fri-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu-Wed: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 7:20 The Dilemma Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 The Fighter Thu: 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 9:55 FriWed: 7:05, 9:50 The Green Hornet Fri-Wed: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Gulliver’s Travels Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 How Do You Know Thu: 4, 9:35 Little Fockers Thu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10 FriWed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10 Season of the Witch Thu-Wed: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 9:55 Tangled Thu: 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:35 The Tourist Thu: 1, 7:05 Tron: Legacy Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:50 True Grit Thu-Wed: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Yogi Bear Thu: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Country Strong See full review on Page 52. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. The Dilemma An automobile designer wrestles with his conscience after he accidentally sees the wife of his best friend canoodling with another man. To tell or not to tell? That is the question. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone After the second impact, all that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, a city that’s being attacked by giant creatures that seek to eradicate the human kind, called Angels. After not seeing his father for more than eight years, Shinji Ikari receives a phone call, in which he is told to urgently come to the NERV Headquarters, an organization that deals with the destruction of the Angels through the use of giant mechs called Evas. Shinji’s objective is to pilot the Eva Unit 01, while teaming up with the Eva Unit 00 pilot, Ayanami Rei. The dramatic thriller received Animation of the Year and Best Director Award at Tokyo International Fair in 2007. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society The Fighter This movie is an off-center but exceptional boxing film that feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies. Set and shot mostly in Lowell, Mass., this is the true story of welterweight Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his trainer-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), careening from addiction themes to brotherly love and familial crises. Nearly all of the acting performances are fantastic, including Amy Adams as Micky’s lover, a performance with the sort of honesty and hard-shell truth we too rarely see. This film is one of the year’s best. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Goodbye Solo Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize, Goodbye Solo traces the brief but life-changing friendship between a reserved, Southern good ol’ boy and a warm-hearted, extroverted taxi driver. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Green Hornet Michel Gondry directs this big-screen spin-off of the classic TV series, with Seth Rogen and Jay Chou as the mask-wearing vigilantes. Inglourious Basterd’s Christoph Waltz co-stars as the crime kingpin who wants to take them down. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Gulliver’s Travels Jack Black stars in this contemporary reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s novel, playing a mailroom clerk who travels to the Bermuda Triangle and finds himself in a magical land where people are really, really small. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is about the often uneasy but always beautiful relationship between music and love. It tells the story of a young Boston jazz musician who drifts from affair to affair, his trumpet the only constant in his life. He makes a promising connection with an aimless introvert named Madeline, who immediately takes to his music. Their relationship is cut short, however, 54 January 13, 2011

when Guy leaves her for another, more outgoing love interest. The two separated lovers slowly wind their way back into each other’s lives, through a series of romances and near-romances punctuated by song. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat Voldemort. With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Ralph Fiennes. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT How Do You Know The usually reliable writer-director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets) returns with his first movie in six years. Reese Witherspoon stars as a former softball player caught in a love triangle with a majorleague pitcher (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd). Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez I Love You Phillip Morris Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) leads a seemingly average life — he’s an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann), and a member of the local police force. That is, until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: He’s gay, and he’s going to live life to the fullest — even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the state penitentiary, where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another. Told with an uncanny sense of humor and a lot of heart, I Love You Phillip Morris is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide. Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, screenwriters of the cult hit Bad Santa. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Inspector Bellamy Two of the giants of French cinema, Claude Chabrol and Gerard Depardieu, team up for the only time for the director’s 50th and final feature film, a wry thriller about a police commissioner trying to balance professional instinct with family duty. Once again, Paul Bellamy (Depardieu) and his wife are spending their vacation at her family home in a quiet town. But just as they’re settling into their reassuringly predictable holiday routine, his perennially troubled younger brother shows up, joined by a mysterious stranger seeking Bellamy’s protection. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society The King’s Speech See full review on Page 52. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. Little Fockers In the third installment of this wildly popular franchise, Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam Focker (Teri Polo) are now the parents of 10-year-old twins, and Greg’s uptight father-in-law (Robert DeNiro) has learned to relax a bit. But when parenthood puts a dent in the family’s budget, the old suspicions come roaring back. Harvey Keitel, Laura Dern and Jessica Alba join the growing ensemble cast, which includes return appearances by Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez

Rabbit Hole In Rabbit Hole, a husband and wife are eight months into the emptier lives they now lead after losing their son. Things aren’t “nice” any more, and possibly never will be nice again. It’s a Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars movie. Becca, played by Nicole Kidman in a surprisingly full-blooded, brittle and fuming performance, is a woman deep in the rabbit hole of grief and in denial about it. She can’t or won’t let go of her emotions and, as the cliche goes, “get it all out.” She is moving on but shutting down. Howie (Aaron Eckhart, very good in a turn pitched as a practical, more emotional counterpoint) is the one trying to fix things, to get them to support group meetings. He seems further along in the process, but is he? Maybe he’s just starting to resent the distance that’s come between them, emotional and sexual. Kidman sparkles in scene after withering scene, rolling her eyes and then exploding at other grieving parents for going on and on about how “God must’ve needed another angel” as a way of coping with their loss. Becca’s story arc will take her back to the source of their loss. The marvel of Rabbit Hole is that it sets us up to judge and then upends those judgments. It’s a long journey back, the movie suggests, and any means you use to get out of that hole is allowed. That message, this script and these actors make Rabbit Hole one of the best films of 2010. Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Roger Moore Season of the Witch Nicolas “I’ll play any role for a paycheck” Cage stars in this fantasy-adventure about a warrior who returns from the Crusades and is assigned to help determine whether a young girl is a witch. The film is not being screened in advance for critics — almost always the reliable sign of a stinker. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Social Network On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history ... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Club) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, A Few Good Men) comes a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

2,056-digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake. This intriguingly intelligent cyberpunk/sci-fi story is a visual tour-deforce, with the amazing world of Oz as the highlight. Like the Internet as conceived by pop artist Haruki Murakami, Oz is a hallucinatory pixel parade of cool avatar designs, kung fu jackrabbits, toothy bears and a bursting rainbow of colors. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time). At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society Tangled This witty and charming 3-D computer-animated adventure is loosely based on the legend of Rapunzel, the long-haired princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), and the intrepid thief (Zachary Levi) who frees her from her tower prison. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Tourist Johnny Depp is an American who travels to Italy to mend his broken heart. Angelina Jolie is the mysterious woman who enters his life. Soon they are swirling in danger and intrigue. She’s a trouble magnet, that Jolie. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Tron: Legacy Remember the summer of 1982, when a movie featuring newfangled computer-generated effects was expected to rule the box office? That never happened, but the prospects for this 3-D sequel seem a lot brighter. Have you seen the things they can do with computers nowadays? Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the world-famous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund costars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

Actor Johnny Marco is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a Ferrari to drive around in and a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with. Comfortably numbed, Johnny drifts along. Then his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny to face up to where he is in life and confront the question that we all must: Which path in life will you take? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forwardthinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment. At Esquire and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

Summer Wars

Yogi Bear

In the award-winning Japanese animated feature Summer Wars, Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job — passing himself off as Natsuki’s boyfriend for four days during her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a

Dan Aykroyd provides the voice of Yogi, and Justin Timberlake is Boo-Boo in this familyfriendly adaptation of the classic cartoon. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodgriguez

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What empire are you building, Aries? What master plan are you in the midst of carrying out? As you gaze out upon your realm, are you content with the way it’s evolving? Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say it’s an excellent time to ponder questions like those. And if your inventory reveals that you’re missing some pieces of the big picture’s puzzle, I suggest you set out on a quest to locate them.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

In a famous psychology experiment, test subjects watched a video of six people passing basketballs to each other. Their assignment was to count how many passes were thrown and caught by the three people wearing white shirts, while ignoring passes between the three wearing black shirts. But there was a trick embedded in the exercise. Midway through the video, a person wearing a gorilla suit ambled into the scene, thumped his chest, and quickly departed. Half of the test subjects did not notice this intrusion. They were too focused on the task of counting the passes made by the players in white. (Watch it here: tinyurl.com/TrickGorilla.) In the coming week, Taurus, I expect that you will experience at least one similar trick. Look for the unexpected.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Astrologer Hunter Reynolds says that when you are at your best, you Geminis specialize in “enlightened impatience.” You don’t get trapped expressing polite deference in situations that drain your energy. You don’t tolerate boring experiences just because they’re supposed to be good for you. You’d rather “err on the side of learning-through-toomuch-movement” than get bogged down in “principled sluggishness.” But while that’s how you are when you’re at your peak, you can also be susceptible to the dark side of this talent. Sometimes you abort a potential breakthrough by prematurely fleeing a useful but difficult scene. I suspect you may be prone to that kind of behavior right now. My advice: Be skeptical of your escape reflex.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

In her poem “Heathen,” Lesley Wheeler describes a young boy who puts his ear up against his mother’s ear “so that the god in your head can talk / to the god in mine.” The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to try something similar with people you care for. It’s a ripe moment to raise the stakes in your intimate life … to get closer than you’ve dared to get before … to retire the familiar stories you and your allies are in the habit of exchanging so that you can tune in to the deeper hum of each other’s wilder truths.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

There’s a guy on the Internet — calls himself Tian — whose mission is to correct Westerners who misunderstand and misuse Chinese characters. Many of the people who write to him for advice are Americans who have come to suspect that the Chinese characters they got tattooed on their flesh don’t really mean what they were led to believe (bit.ly/ WrongTat). For example, Tian informed one person that a tattoo whose character supposedly says “to learn as much as possible” actually means “empty, hollow, bare, deserted.” I offer this up as a cautionary tale, Leo. In the coming days, make sure you’re not under a misapprehension about what you’re taking on and taking in. Choose only the very best imprints — and verify that they are what you think they are.

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Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

I regard 2011 as an excellent time for you to cultivate your unique talents, some of which may still be latent or undiscovered. With that in mind, consider these thoughts. Ernest Hemingway said a person had to have “the guts of a burglar” to develop his or her talent. Neurologist and author Dr. Alice W. Flaherty believes that the drive to use one’s talent is even more important than the amount of raw talent one has. And here’s novelist Erica Jong: “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that ‘talent’ to the dark place where it leads.” P.S.: If you do venture into those dark places, you’ll eventually uncover ten suns’ worth of illumination.

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

When I arrived at my acupuncturist’s waiting room, there were just two magazines on the table next to my chair: The celebrity rag People Style Weekly and the spiritually oriented Shambala Sun. The first offered articles on “hot new handbags and shoes under $99” and “easy ways to get gorgeous hair, skin and nails.” The second provided a “guide to mindful living,” with advice about how to get centered, focused and relaxed. I thought that was metaphorically similar to the choice you will face in the coming week, Scorpio. It’s up to you: Which way do you want to go?

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

I can almost categorically guarantee that in 2011 you will have no encounters with fire demons, wart-ridden vampires, two-headed dogs, moaning ghosts, wayward werewolves, or extraterrestrial robots. Nope. You can pretty much go ahead and make plans based on the assumption that you won’t have to account for intrusions like that. But I can also assure you that the lack of crazy encounters with unhinged monsters does not mean your life will suffer from blahs or boredom. On the contrary: I think this could be one of your most interesting years in a decade. To prepare yourself, make sure you don’t unconsciously equate adventure with chaos; imagine what it would be like to experience mystery and intrigue that uplift you.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

If you want to be healed, whether from a physical malady or a psychic wound, there’s one prerequisite you have to meet: You have to be willing to learn a lesson that your suffering has invited you to study. I would go so far as to say that no one, no matter how skilled a healer, can help cure you until you have taken that first step. So what teaching is it that you would need to explore in order to transform your distress into wisdom?

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