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news & views Birth belongs to women, not doctors / 6 State legislators should renew midwifery statute by Pamela White On the cover: Boulder County’s homeless / 14 They’re not necessarily who you think they are by Jefferson Dodge

buzz Strumming the sacred steel / 18 Robert Randolph pushes a once-obscure instrument to the forefront by Brian Palmer Arts & Culture: Sam Jablon finds the fun in painting / 23 Overtones: Joshua Redman brings hand-picked trio to Macky / 24 Overtones: Lyrics Born has a calling / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 27 Sophisticated Sex: Love the one you’re with / 33 Elevation: 106-foot-high ski/snowboard jump rises in Denver / 35 Screen: The Dilemma; The Green Hornet / 38 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 40 Cuisine: Zone Denver offers healthy alternative for delivered food / 42 Cuisine Review: Pizzeria da Lupo / 43 Dessert Diva: Dark Chocolate Chunk Date Bars / 44

departments Letters: Tucson shooting; Psychos and guns; Mission impossible / 4 The Highroad: Judy Bonds: A model citizen / 4 In Case You Missed It: Arch-division on gays; Super-sized Starbucks / 11 Briefs: Heath hosts town hall; Nonprofits target depression / 13 Boulderganic: Pharmaca powers up with new solar technology / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 48 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 49 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Tucson shooting (Re: “War of words,” cover story, Jan. 13.) I think you guys used really poor judgment by putting this monster’s face on the cover this week. Christina Green, the 9-year-old victim, would have been a much better choice. Anything would have been better than giving this psycho any more attention — which is exactly what he wanted. I simply cannot believe you would choose to put this guy’s face all over our city for the next week. Very disappointing. Thanks for listening. Robyn Krueger/Boulder I applaud your conclusion, but I am afraid your use of examples along the way only gives readers too much to identify with their own beliefs, one way or another, exactly what is demonstrably inappropriate about this public circus. This was a post I made to my Facebook friends yesterday: “Politicians: left, right & center, media: executives, talking heads & personalities: liberal or conservative, gun control advocates & opponents, anyone who has anything to say about the tragedy in Tucson that hints at any agenda or feeling other than pure sorrow should be ashamed. Speculation and rhetoric are absurd wastes of time and denigrate the dignity of those who were lost. Just my opinion.” The underlying issue that has been bothering me for some time, but that has been raised to a much higher level by public responses to the event in Tucson,

is the blurring of metaphor and rhetoric with reality and reason. Emotion runs high on untested beliefs, fear based on what might have been implied by innuendo and allegation. Reasonable opinions, decisions and actions should never be taken based on rhetoric and metaphor, but this is the format of public address that is such common fodder today. Gary Holtorf/Longmont

The Highroad

hances are that an art museum, symphony hall, university building or other public edifice in your area is emblazoned with the name of some prominent rich man. His name is up there in shiny brass, we’re told, because he’s a model citizen for all to emulate. Of course, we know that his name is there only because he’s richer than Zeus and gave a bale of money to get the institution to immortalize him in brick and brass. And don’t even ask what he did to get so rich. The real model citizens, in my view, are not those who are publicly glorified, but regular folks across our land who rise up against greed and injustice, usually fighting with no public acclaim. Ironically, they’re often battling injustices perpetrated by the very same rich men whose names are so garishly splashed across our public buildings.

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Children in our public schools are continuously bombarded by claims that the planet (and their future) is doomed due to the greedy, ignorant behavior of their parents. And you wonder why antisocial behavior is prevalent among youth? Many Boulder adults are so sensitive that they need to see a psychiatrist every week, but they think it is fine to tell their children that their life is hopeless. Sarah Palin isn’t the problem. Boulder liberals

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Judy Bonds: A model citizen by Jim Hightower Sadly, we recently lost one model citizen with the death of Judy Bonds, a spirited woman from Marfork Hollow, down in the coalfields of West Virginia. Forced out of her ancestral home a decade ago by the profiteering barons of mountaintop stripmining, Judy became the barons’ worst nightmare: an enraged, fearless, knowledgeable, determined and eloquent grassroots activist. From the hollers of Appalachia to the halls of

are the problem. Tony Heller/Fort Collins

Psychos and guns The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall see LETTERS Page 6

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Congress, from town meetings to university lecture halls, this tireless champion of environmental justice took Appalachia’s dirty secret — the grotesque destruction that coal company greed is wreaking on the mountains, streams and people there — into the national spotlight. Passionate, funny and inspiring, Bonds was know as the Hillbilly Moses, rallying local coalitions to battle the greed and galvanizing a national movement to stop the ravages of mountaintop removal. Judy’s gone, but her spirit lives on in the movement she built. To connect with it, go to Coal River Mountain Watch at www.crmw.net. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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not be infringed.” Obviously, the need for a state militia has been replaced by the National Guard and Coast Guard, in which trained military personnel are entrusted with the defense of this country against domestic enemies. Their weapons are tightly controlled and safeguarded. The only two reasons for a citizen to own a firearm are for hunting or defense of the household from intruders. In either case, ownership of a handgun, shotgun or rifle is more than adequate to satisfy these purposes. There is absolutely no need for any U.S. civilian to own any weapon more powerful or sophisticated than these. Accordingly, all handguns, shotguns and rifles must be licensed and registered to the degree necessary to match weapon to owner at the click of a computer key. Furthermore, if we had prohibited the purchase of more sophisticated weapons (i.e., a Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol with an extended magazine), several innocent victims would not have died or been harmed during this tragedy, as well as those in shopping malls and on college campuses. The shooter is obviously disturbed by mental illness, and those defending the right to own sophisticated weapons exhibit the same qualities by showing a callous disregard for the safety and protection of their fellow citizens. Mental illness and guns are as bad a combination as alcohol and driving. Evidently we have the money to fight two wars overseas, but not the political will to treat the mentally ill who are not only a danger to themselves but to everyone else, as well. Joe Bialek/Cleveland, Ohio

Mission impossible State legislatures are faced with huge budget deficits that will have to be dealt with. Because of the massive federal cuts in state aid, states have had to cut state services. If voters have not already discovered this, there is also the reverberating negative effect that cuts in state aid have on municipalities or local governments. Given the GOP’s sole focus on spending cuts and total opposition to any tax increases, its “scorched earth” spending-cut policies will cause irreparable damage to vital state services that residents have come to expect and demand. Already local governments are faced with the prospect of raising taxes merely to keep functioning. The end result will be continued increases in taxes, whether federal, state or local — or a combination of all three! The task before state legislators is going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, if taxes are not raised. In my view, tax increases have become an imperative — it’s only a question of who will pay for those increases. 6 January 20, 2011

I would add that an increase in sales taxes is not the answer; it is one of the most regressive taxes, affecting primarily those in the lower to mid-range income brackets the most. It’s income taxes that must be raised (progressive taxation according to ability to pay). I’d also suggest four things that would go a long way towards reducing our deficits: the federal government should increase the marginal tax rate for those with multi-million-dollar incomes, increase the tax rate on unearned income from 15 percent to 25 percent, retain the estate tax on those with multi-milliondollar inheritances and scrutinize wasteful spending in the Defense Department budget. Over the past decade, the wealthiest of Americans have already had substantial tax cuts. It’s time they pay their fair share. Paul G. Jaehnert/Vadnais Heights, Minn.

Help save lives, trees One third of humanity is dependent on ever-diminishing supplies of firewood for cooking. Quality family time is lost to the long hours spent looking for this firewood. This also leads to deforestation, which in turn fuels global warming and reduces the oxygen that we breathe. Most of these people also do not have safe drinking water. These problems can all be solved inexpensively ($25 per family) and sustainably by the use of solar cookers. Their power comes from the sun, instead of from wood, and they can pasteurize contaminated water. They are provided by an organization called Solar Cookers International. Their address is 1919 21st St., Suite 101, Sacramento, CA 95814. A.M. Sokolow/Santa Monica, Calif.

Eating themselves to death If one were to walk into any fastfood restaurant in Denver they would find the dining area packed. Fast food consumers are lazy! Their excuse: It is too expensive and takes too long to prepare a home-cooked meal. In truth, it is lack of motivation and know-how keeping the hordes habitually coming back for their super-sized Big Mac. It is true that healthy food can be expensive and time-consuming to prepare. However, healthy food is the better alternative for both your wallet and your body. There are deals available if consumers take the time to look. Fresh fruits and vegetables can frequently be found at low prices. On my last trip to the market I found: quality, bagged salads for $2.50, a 10-pound bag of potatoes for $2.89, organic bananas for 69 cents a pound, whole chickens for 89 cents a pound, a dozen eggs for 99 cents,

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Birth belongs to women, not doctors by Pamela White

om defies doctor, has baby her way,” the CNN headline read. The news story described the ordeals that Aneka (who didn’t want her last name used) endured with the cesareansection births of her first two children — and her decision to have her third baby naturally at home attended by a midwife. Rather than showing up on the date of her scheduled C-section, she stayed home and waited for her labor to begin naturally, certain her body could handle the task of delivering a child despite the slight increase in risks that comes with giving birth vaginally after having repeated C-sections. Although her doctor told her that her pelvis wasn’t wide enough to accommodate a vaginal birth — the pretext used by the physician to justify her two C-sections — Aneka gave birth in due time to a 9-pound, 6-ounce son after 20 hours of unmedicated labor. Some hailed Aneka as a hero, a woman who bucked the controlling medical establishment to do what was best for herself and her baby. They understand that most women can safely give birth in the quiet safety of their own homes, and they support a woman’s right to place her trust in her body. Others decried her as an irresponsible woman who should have done whatever her doctor told her to do to ensure

her baby’s safety. Apparently, some folks believe a pregnant mother ought to yield herself to the will of her doctor as if she were a problematic vessel and birth were an emergency that uniformly demands machinery and expertise in order to produce a safe outcome. The debate over home birth is not new. It continues to rage in states across the country as increasing numbers of pregnant women reject the invasive hospital regimen — a regimen that carries its own risks — in search of a peaceful, natural birth that respects both the process of birth and the dignity of the mother. In hospitals, women are typically subjected to a range of “prophylactic,” or preventative, measures such as IVs, constant fetal heart monitoring, repeated invasive vaginal exams, unnecessary episiotomies, pitocin to speed labor, the breaking of membranes and so on. Women who give birth in hospitals are much more likely to endure unnecessary C-sections than women who give birth at home. Many hospitals prohibit women who’ve had C-sections from even attempting to give birth vaginally, meaning that one C-section can result in a woman having to endure C-sections every time she has a baby. (Boulder County hospitals contacted by Boulder Weekly all said they permit a woman to attempt a VBAC, or “vaginal birth after see BIRTH Page 8

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cesarean.”) C-sections are major surgery, of course, and come with their own significant risks. With our nation’s current C-section rate hovering around 30 percent, that’s a lot of women who are undergoing major surgery unnecessarily. Aneka was told her pelvis was too small, a common reason doctors give for suggesting C-sections, but that turned out to be patently false. She pushed a 9-pound baby through that pelvis of hers in 20 minutes. At home, by contrast, there are no IVs, and a hand-held Doppler works just as well to monitor the fetus’s heart rate, freeing the mother to move around and keeping that often painful monitor belt off her belly. There are no strangers rushing in and out of the room, no episiotomies, and internal exams are limited. Though pain medication isn’t available, the focus of a home birth is the mother’s comfort and dignity, not onesize-fits-all hospital policies based on fears about litigation. If complications arise that actually do require medical intervention, women can be transported quickly to a nearby hospital. But having a home birth, though statistically quite safe, isn’t always easy. Doctors and most certified nurse midwives (CNMs) won’t attend home births, and direct-entry midwives face obstacles in many states. In some states, direct-entry midwives are still prohibited from catching babies. That used to be the case in Colorado. It wasn’t until 1993 that the centuries-old practice of direct-entry midwifery was legalized in our state. Although direct-entry midwives operated in Colorado before then, they did so in the shadows, illegally. Though women were permitted to give birth at home alone, they weren’t allowed to have a direct-entry midwife beside them. The situation was so stupid that even state lawmakers understood something needed to change. But the statute that enables directentry midwives to practice in Colorado is “sunsetting” this year and must be renewed if pregnant women are to continue to enjoy the benefits of midwifery in their homes. There’s little doubt the law will be

renewed. The Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), which has the job of regulating midwives, supports renewing the law for another five years with a new sunset date of 2016. DORA also recommends that the state give limited prescription privileges to midwives so that they can administer intramuscular shots of vitamin K to newborns, Rho(D) immune globulin to Rh-negative mothers, and antihemorrhagic drugs to women who show signs of excess bleeding. Direct-entry midwives already undergo training for these simple intramuscular shots, and DORA believes it is in the interests of women and their babies that direct-entry midwives be able to administer these sometimes life-saving medications, as they do in many other states where direct-entry midwives practice under state regulation. DORA’s recommendations make sense and deserve the full support of state lawmakers. The only thing standing in the way might be the medical lobby, which views birth as the territory of physicians, hospitals and CNMs. Though certainly some of their concern about home birth is the result of emergencies they’ve witnessed as doctors, a portion of it is based on financial interests. To put it bluntly, if every woman who was capable of giving birth safely at home under the skilled care of a midwife did so, those fancy hospital “birth centers” would find themselves hurting for cash. Any opposition they express toward home birth or home VBACs must be understood in this context. In the end it comes down to one question: Can a woman decide how she wants to give birth and whom she wishes to have attend her, or is she subject to the demands of physicians and hospitals? The answer ought to be obvious. For more information on direct-entry midwifery in Colorado, including current legislation, go to www.coloradomidwives. org. To witness and compare the dignity and gentleness of home births and hospital births, including home VBACs, go to pregnancyvideos.googlepages.com. For more information on VBACs, contact the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) at www.childbirth.org/section/ ICAN.html. Boulder Weekly

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and that was simply the beginning. I work two jobs and attend school full time, yet I manage to find the time and money to feed my family of two on less than $200 a month. That is less than $25 a week for each of us (breakfast, lunch and dinner). That same $25 wouldn’t last more than a couple days at any given fast food chain. University of Washington researcher Adam Drewnowski said, “When you suggest that people buy rice, pasta and beans, you presuppose that they have resources for capital investment for future meals, a kitchen, pots, pans, utensils, gas, electricity, a refrigerator, a home with rent paid, the time to cook. Those healthy rice and beans can take hours; another class bias is that poor people’s time is worthless.” For the most part this is true. But personal experience has shown me that a homeless mother can provide delicious, healthy, hand-prepared meals for her four dependent children, for more than a month, using nothing more than a fire pit dug in the sand. Housing and transportation are grave issues that demand attention and, for the average individual, these would prove to be too large a challenge to overcome. For this reason, “assuming a kitchen, a stove, running water, etc., cooking is not that time-consuming — it can be done while performing other household chores, or for that matter by using a slow cooker, which takes almost no time at all, since it’s almost entirely unattended.” Cookware can be expensive. Nonetheless, there are these wonderful places commonly referred to as “thrift stores” where $10 can go a long way towards stocking the kitchen with needed supplies. For the financially challenged, $10 can be difficult to spare and yet, when one consid-

ers the long-term benefits of eating healthy, $10 is a trifle compared to the savings. It is the fast-food connoisseur’s inability to recognize and defeat their laziness that has doomed them to eat themselves to death. Some of the detrimental side effects of the fast food diet are malnutrition, high cholesterol and weight issues that lead to obesity, diabetes and blindness. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI): “When you count the costs of a healthier diet, don’t forget to tally the costs of being overweight ... ‘Cholesterol drugs can cost you $100 a month, and being admitted to a hospital can cost you hundreds per day. So is it really worth it to eat fast food?’ Healthier diets could save Americans more than $200 billion a year in medical costs, lost productivity and expenses caused by death.” The argument is familiar: It is cheaper and easier to super-size a heart attack in a bag than to prepare a healthy, delicious meal of lean meats and vegetables. And yet, one by one the burger junkie’s excuses, for their slothful form of existence, fall before logic and reason. Until they are left with a choice: take the initiative to better their lifestyle or continue down the path of self-destruction. Elena Thomas/Westminster

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Heath hosts town hall Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, will host a town hall meeting from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25, at the Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Rd., in Boulder. Heath will discuss some of the key issues facing the state and the Legislature in 2011. His top issues include job creation and retention, fiscal and constitutional reform, education, the budget and redistricting. He was recently named a co-chair of the state’s bipartisan Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, and he will talk about the basics of redistricting and the mandatory public hearings to be held in each of Colorado’s seven congressional districts. He will leave time for questions and comments from attendees. The meeting is open to the public. Library director finalists announced The four finalists who have been selected from a nationwide search for Boulder Public Library director will be meeting with the public and giving their perspectives on national library trends at a presentation from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23, in the Council Chambers at the Boulder Municipal Building. The four finalists are Gerry Garzon, associate director of the Oakland Public Library; Pam Kiesner, library director of the Bellingham Public Library in Washington; Debbi MacLeod, Colorado Talking Books library director and state publications library director of the Colorado State Library; and Greg Mickells, assistant library director at Lincoln City Libraries in Nebraska. There will be a public reception to meet the candidates after their presentations, and comment cards will be available to aid city officials in making their decision. Nonprofits target depression Three local nonprofit organizations have joined together to raise awareness of mental health issues in the community, especially depression, at an event on Feb. 4. Mental Health Partners, the HOPE Coalition and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Boulder County will host a community breakfast called “Beyond Blue” from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at The Plaza Hotel in Longmont at 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd. Boulder Weekly

The event will feature keynote speaker Susan Polis Schutz, Boulder poet, filmmaker and co-founder of Blue Mountain Arts. Polis Schutz chronicled her own experience with depression in her poetic memoir, Depression and Back: A Poetic Journey Through Depression and Recovery, and she released a documentary shown on PBS called The Misunderstood Epidemic: Depression. Beyond Blue is sponsored by John F. Truhlar and Betty Hoye. All proceeds benefit Mental Health Partners, the HOPE Coalition and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Boulder County. Tickets are $25 per person and $225 for a table of 10. For more information contact Kristen Tucker at 303-413-6287 or ktucker@mhpcolorado.org.

ly, dealing with depression, communicating effectively with family and health professionals and learning how to evaluate new treatments. One program started on Jan. 19 and will meet from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Feb. 23 at the Lafayette Senior Center, at 103 S. Iowa Ave. A Boulder program runs during the same time on Fridays from Jan. 21 to Feb. 25 at Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave. The program is free, although donations are accepted. Participants receive a supplemental course book and relaxation CD upon course completion. Class size is limited to 15 and registration is required. Contact Marja Johnson at 303-441-3599 or mjohnson@bouldercounty.org for more information and to register.

Writers club hosts guest speaker The Boulder Writers Alliance will be hosting guest speaker Barbara Stoker for a Jan. 25 presentation called, “The Possibility Curve: Creating Possibilities Through Innovation and Risk-Taking.” Stoker’s expertise is in leadership, new business/product development and intelligent risking. She has 30 years of experience as an executive for Hallmark Cards, Mattel Toys, Coors and Walt Disney, and is the author of Intelligent Risking for Women, A Woman with a Minute… and Positive Risk. The presentation will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Boulder Public Library’s Boulder Creek Room, 1001 Arapahoe Ave. A pre-meeting happy hour will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the St. Julien Hotel bar, at 900 Walnut St. in Boulder. To register, go to bwajan2011.eventbrite.com. All BWA presentations are free and open to the public.

Open space art show on tap A new art competition benefitting the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Foundation and featuring the county’s open spaces will be held in June. The foundation and the county’s “plein air” art community are hosting the show, which will feature a combination of invited and juried artists. Along with four invited artists, a panel of jurors will choose additional artists to participate. “Plein air” is defined as the act of painting outdoors. The painting is usually done in one block of time in the field. The four local artists invited to participate in the art show are WF Daniel, Molly Davis, Jason Emery and Carol Jenkins. Both professional and non-professional artists are encouraged to participate. Artists will participate in a twoweek “paint-out” to be held between June 1 and June 14. They will have access to Boulder County Parks and Open Space as well as certain restricted open space areas during that time. Artists must be residents of Boulder County; use pencil, pastel, oil, watercolor or acrylic; and submit three digital images of their outdoor/en plien air art with their entry form, which is due by March 30. The entry fee is $20. An exhibit featuring the work will be held at the Old Firehouse Art Center in Longmont from Aug. 19 to Sept. 3rd. For more information, visit www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org.

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They’re not necessarily who you think they are by Jefferson Dodge

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hen most of us think of the homeless, we picture the bearded, scroungy old man on the corner, holding a hand-scrawled message on cardboard. Sitting in our nice warm car, we probably avoid eye contact, thinking he’s probably just some guy who took the bus from Denver or somewhere else in hopes of making some cash from rich Boulder types. He’ll probably just spend it on booze, anyway, we say to ourselves. McDonald’s is surely hiring, so A teenager on the he could get a job if he wanted Pearl Street Mall who wanted to be identified to, we think. Then the red light only as “Maxxx” turns green, and we drive on, quickly forgetting the man and going on with our harried lives. But the stereotype isn’t entirely accurate. Local facilities for six days, then moved on to a friend’s experts say most of Boulder County’s homeless are house. not standing on the street corners. They are not visible Jim Rianoshek, executive director of Attention to most of us. Many of them are families and young Homes, says stories like this one are not unusual. He people, and they live here, not just in Denver. says that on any given day, there are about 200 homeBy some accounts, there are now about 900 homeless kids on the street in Boulder County. Nationally, less students in the Boulder Valley School District. about 20 percent of children run away from home According to the “Point-in-Time Homeless Count,” before the age of 18, and 30 percent of those will be last conducted in 2009, almost 27 percent of the recruited for sexual exploitation or other types of homeless in the Denver metro area were children human trafficking within 48 hours of leaving home. under the age of 18. The 2007 survey put the number Most local residents don’t think Boulder County of homeless people living in Boulder County at about has a homeless problem, Rianoshek says, but the facts 1,200, and 82 percent of those said they had been livspeak for themselves. ing in the community before they lost their housing. Attention Homes was founded in 1966 in an Local experts say those numbers have likely effort to provide kids with “attention, not detention,” increased, given the state of the economy and the loss he explains. The organization is expanding to meet of low-wage jobs over the past few years. the growing need caused by the economic downturn This week, on Jan. 24-25, in an effort to update and cuts to Boulder County’s housing and human serthose figures and learn more about this invisible popvices department. Attention Homes recently merged ulation, a team of Boulder County volunteers will be its substance abuse and residential facilities, then among those conducting the biennial point-in-time opened a drop-in shelter in October. Last month, it added a new emergency shelter. survey of homeless in the Denver metro area. According to Dougal Neralich, runaway and homeless youth program manager for Attention **** Homes, the organization’s facilities offer three tiers of Several weeks ago, a teacher arrived at Erie High service. The residential facility provides intensive care School to find a girl sleeping outside on the steps. and shelter, in close coordination with social services, It was cold. The girl was homeless. So the teacher in cases where youth are having serious problems. The called a local organization called Attention Homes, which offers shelter, food and other services to home- emergency shelter allows runaways and homeless less youth. The girl stayed at one of Attention Homes’ youth to stay up to 60 days, but they must provide 14 January 20, 2011

their name and date of birth, and their parents are contacted. The drop-in shelter is open just during the day and allows kids to remain anonymous and stop in to do their laundry or get a meal, a shower or clothing. Attention Homes has an active outreach program in which staff like Neralich hit the streets looking for homeless kids, striking up conversations, building relationships, handing out brochures and trying to get them to come in for basic medical services or just some socks, water, maybe a tarp. Rianoshek says homeless kids’ top needs are food, washing their clothes and communication (including Internet service). Attention Homes is in need, as well. The organization receives some funding from foundations, but officials say their reliance on private donations will likely increase by about 70 percent in the next year. They also need more volunteers. **** Chris Mitchell was one of the homeless when he came to Boulder four years ago. Now he feeds and clothes them. He arrived from South Carolina by chance — he was hitchhiking, and when his ride stopped in Boulder, he stayed. “I didn’t pick Boulder, Boulder picked me,” he says. “This is where I ended up. I tried to leave a couple of times, and it pulled me back.” Mitchell didn’t stay homeless for long; he got a place in Rollinsville and a job as a cook in Nederland, then moved to Wondervu, where he worked as a dishwasher at the Wondervu Café. After moving to Boulder about a year ago, he began volunteering at the Carriage House, which provides food, clothes and services to the homeless. Then he started working with an emergency warming center created by local churches and the Carriage House, and things just grew from there. Today, he is manager of operations for Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow (BOHO), an organization that gives meals and shelter to the homeless at six local churches when it is especially cold and the Boulder Homeless Shelter is full. Boulder Weekly

The shelter has 130 beds for walkins, plus 30 more that are reserved for a fee, but those aren’t enough, especially in the winter. BOHO typically housed about 33 people a night last winter, and is averaging 55 people this winter. Mitchell expects that number to double soon. “I’m expecting 100 to 110 by February,” he says. “We’ll be close to matching the shelter’s numbers. … We had zero fatalities last winter because of the warming centers.” He bases the decision on whether to open the church shelters on the weather conditions. The shelters are available from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. when the temperature dips to 32 degrees or lower, or when there is precipitation and it’s 38 degrees or colder. “I kind of have to be a weatherman,” Mitchell says with a laugh. BOHO serves breakfast and dinner, and hands out everything from socks and coats to backpacks and books. The books are checked out on an honor system. “That shows them we trust them,” he says. “It’s all about building people up.” Both Mitchell and Neralich agree that they are seeing more homeless families because of the economy, many of whom live out of their cars after losing their houses. “Families would choose to stay together, even if it’s on the street,” Neralich says. Mitchell adds, “When you get to that point, your family is all you have.” He says the common stereotype of the homeless is not always accurate. While a significant number have had substance abuse problems in the past, many are now clean. “Everyone thinks all homeless people are drunk or a drug addict, and they’re not,” Mitchell says. **** Joy Eckstine, executive director of the Carriage House, says the image of the dirty, alcoholic, middle-aged white guy represents only 10 percent or 20 percent of the homeless population. “That’s the tip of the iceberg,” she says. “That’s the part of the iceberg you see.” About 60 percent represent local families, according to Eckstine, and most of that group is composed of women and children, many of whom have been victims of domestic violence. She adds that there are a host of contributing factors to homelessness aside from addiction issues, including mental illness, abuse, job loss, personal vulnerabilities and other socioeconomic factors. One of the biggest misperceptions, she says, is that the homeless in Boulder County aren’t from here. She points to a Carriage House survey of Boulder Weekly

homeless people in which 50 percent of respondents said their last place of residence was in Boulder County. The idea that most homeless people take a bus here from Denver or elsewhere is simply misleading, Eckstine says, noting that it is costly for a homeless person to travel by bus between Boulder and Denver. Contrary to the myth that homeless people can make a pretty penny by begging, the Carriage House survey of its clients found that the average monthly income among homeless was $219. “No one’s getting rich on disability,” Eckstine says. On the other hand, she explains, the perception that most homeless people begging on the street corner are going to use the money to buy booze is probably pretty accurate. If you want to give them something, Eckstine says, keep some granola bars or other items in your car to hand out at the intersection. If they are grateful, they probably weren’t going to use the money for booze. “You can tell a lot by someone’s reaction when you give a granola bar,” she says. In addition, the Carriage House sells vouchers that can be given away to the homeless and redeemed for goods and services at many local vendors — and they can’t be used to buy alcohol or tobacco. She also encourages people to make eye contact with homeless people they encounter, and to smile at them, because they feel ashamed, and it means a lot to simply be acknowledged. She says her homeless clients beam when they tell her that someone spoke to them. “Homeless people are despised, loathed and hated,” Eckstine says. “We use language to describe homeless people that we wouldn’t use to describe another race. … We fear that which is ‘different’ and ‘other.’” The Carriage House is a day shelter and resource center that also runs the “Community Table,” a nightly meal at downtown churches. Breakfast and lunch is served on weekdays at its 1120 ½ Pine St. facility, which also houses a computer lab, clothing and other supplies for the homeless. The Carriage House serves more than 3,000 different clients a year, distributing basic supplies like toiletry items as well as offering an array of services, from medical care to an art group to addiction recovery to job counseling. Getting a job can be difficult, Eckstine says, since employers are wary of hiring a homeless person. So the Carriage House has a collection of nice clothing that can be borrowed for job interviews and a voicemail program that lets homeless clients have their own

personalized message when prospective employers call. These things help put them on an equal footing with others when job-hunting, she explains. According to Eckstine, the Carriage House saw a 16 percent increase in the number of people it served in 2009. On the other hand, Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement (HOPE), an outreach organization based in Longmont, saw its caseload double between 2008 and 2009. **** HOPE Executive Director Bray Patrick-Lake was serving as a Longmont police officer when she saw firsthand the need for an organization like the one she now leads. “I used to work the graveyard shift,” she says. “That’s where I saw the need. I would see a lot of the same people, and realized they were not getting the resources they needed.” HOPE was formed in 2007 after a winter in which five homeless people in the county died from exposure to the elements. “We felt like, for our county, that was completely unacceptable,” PatrickLake recalls. Now, her organization uses a network of 250 volunteers who work in shifts to distribute basic supplies (and food prepared by the group’s “Soup Angels”) to Longmont’s homeless between 5:30 and 10 p.m. Their truck hits the roads seven nights a week in the winter and six in the summer. Patrick-Lake says the team truck has a regular stop at the city’s police complex at 225 Kimbark St., then spends the rest of its shift driving the streets in search of people in need. The team also works closely with police, providing them with backpacks stocked with supplies to hand out during HOPE’s offhours and taking intoxicated homeless people to the hospital for detox when necessary. HOPE is funded primarily through foundation grants and donations from individuals and groups; only about 10 percent of its revenue comes from city and county sources. Another Longmont organization, the Outreach United Resource (OUR) Center, has been helping the homeless — primarily families with children — move toward self-sufficiency since 1986. The OUR Center provides emergency food, transportation, utilities, furniture, minor medical prescriptions, referrals for emergency shelter and homeless-prevention help, including rent and utility assistance. **** An increase in homeless numbers is likely to be reflected in the “point-intime” count being conducted this week

not just because there are more unemployed due to the economy, but because it is expected to be a more thorough count: This year the county has assigned two employees to work on it instead of one. Agatha Moya, who has worked at the OUR Center, is coordinating the count in Longmont, which has the county’s highest percentage of homeless people. Leslie Gibson is handling the rest of the county. They say they have been working closely with police and the above-mentioned agencies in recent months to identify areas where homeless people congregate. They are dividing up those areas among the volunteers who will be administering the surveys in two-hour shifts over the 24-hour period. Gibson and Moya have also enlisted the help of the homeless organizations and dozens of other groups to distribute point-in-time surveys to their clients. They are also working with local school districts. The data will be used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to determine the allocation of funding for transitional housing, shelter care and permanent housing for homeless in Colorado. Moya says the Hispanic homeless community has likely been under-represented in past counts, so she has brought in more Spanish-speaking volunteers. All volunteers undergo training on things like how to approach homeless people without alienating them. “It’s a very sensitive and delicate issue,” Moya says. “They’re very suspicious. They ask, ‘What are you going to do with this information?’” As an incentive to complete the survey, respondents will receive a kit with basic necessities like toiletry items. The anonymous survey includes questions about where people spent the previous night, what prompted their current situation and demographics like age and race/ethnicity. Gibson says surveys will be completed only by those who identify themselves as homeless. She explained that some people don’t think they are homeless — they view their car or a spot near the creek as their home. Echoing the county’s other advocates, Gibson stresses that while substance abuse is among the many factors that commonly contribute to homelessness, these people are not all drunks. But some are. She says one told her that he didn’t become homeless because of alcohol. He said he started drinking to forget his current situation. For more information about the pointin-time survey, visit the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s website at mdhi.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 20, 2011 15

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he 1970s oil industry crisis and shortage of fossil fuels inspired a surge of enthusiasm for new solar technology that put gigantic, chunky, photovoltaic panels on many a U.S. home. But the solar cells didn’t always work well, and the installation and up-keep expenses were high. As the energy crisis passed, people went back to their former usages. Disused panels became an eyesore. When invited to view 20 new solar panels on a Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy building, I’ll admit I had a momentary mental image of antiquated slab-like objects on the roof, catching rays. The modern reality at the Pharmaca at 1647 Pearl St. in Boulder is a single row of flat, slim panels forming a semi-transparent awning over the front doors. “It’s kind of a prototype for a small commercial business,” says Steve Schoo, marketing communications director for Independent Power Systems, based in Boulder. “But we’ve done hundreds of custom installations on residences and much bigger commercial buildings in three states. This one will provide about 5,400 kilowatt hours a year for this store, and offset about 100 tons of carbon dioxide.” It’s a good fit for a business chain built on complementary medicine and a design style of environmentally friendly features such as bamboo flooring. The solar panels are 3.72 kW Sanyo Hit Double panels. Their design allows electricity to be generated from direct sunlight on the panels’ fronts, as well as the ambient light reflected on the back surfaces. At the front of the store, monitors display information about energycollection data and the carbon offset. Schoo says this kind of photovoltaic awning can easily be installed on

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most buildings in less than a week. The various current energy incentives, plus Xcel Energy’s rebates for solar system installations, he says, will pay for half or more of the system’s costs. “These systems will pay for themselves in about eight to 10 years for residences, about five years for commercial buildings. Of course, that’s tied to the cost of energy rates. Right now, the rates are relatively low in Colorado, compared to, say, California. We expect they’re more likely to continue to rise.” These types of power systems are not meant to get you off the grid, mind you. Rather, they’re tied into the existing electricity utility and “cooperate” with the grid, Schoo says, like an energy bank. When snow and lack of sunshine keep the solar panels from generating electricity, all the extra power that has been going to the utility can be drawn for use, at no extra cost. The panels are warranted for 25 years and are maintenance-free. Independent Power Systems was founded in 1996 by Tony Boniface. The company has installed its technology on the Montana State Capitol building and the Coors Field scoreboard in Denver. In Boulder, other installations can be seen on condominiums at 1505 Pearl St. and 1155 Canyon Blvd., as well as in the Holiday Neighborhood. For more information on Independent Power Systems, visit www.solarips.com or call 303-4430115. Respond: letters@boulderweekly. com

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Walk the Line plays at the St. Julien Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 23.

Thursday, Jan. 20

Colorado Skies: Dwarf Planets — Learn what to look for in the night sky. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303492-5001.

Friday, Jan. 21

Winterfest on the Mountain Music Festival — With Wicked Messenger, Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann Duo, Billy Nershi and many more. Nederland Community Center, Nederland, www.silverfoxpresents.com.

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Fusion Dance Weekend — With American Vernacular Dance. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, 303-449-5962. Through Jan. 23.

nyone who has followed the career of Robert Randolph & the Family Band knows that they love giving people a good time. From their legendary, epic shows at The Wetlands, to the insanely catchy groove of tracks like “Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That,” to the Sly & the Family Stone-tinged sound of songs like “I Need More Love,” Randolph, his steel-pedal guitar skills and his band have spent years building an incredible fan base by giving people a chance to have some fun for a couple hours. Sometimes, though, a Robert Randolph show does more than that. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten e-mails from people who were poor or on the verge of being suicidal or even killing somebody because of something that happened,” Randolph

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says. “And these people came to a show and now they’re like, ‘Man, I just feel like I want to be a different person.’” Moments like this help make the journey more worthwhile and reinforce his belief about why he makes music to begin with. “I’ve come to sort of accept the fact that this is the reason why I’m here on this earth,” he says. “To play music and use the influence I have from church and things like that, to connect with the world and uplift people. I think that’s just why I’m here.” With respect to his most recent release, We Walk This Road — a collection of gospel, blues and rock tunes that includes covers of songs from Bob Dylan, Prince and John Lennon, among others — his experiences in church proved to be see RANDOLPH Page 22

Sunday, Jan. 23

Walk the Line — See the story of Johnny Cash as played by weirdo Joaquin Phoenix. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, Jan. 24

Free Open Class — Get your Zen on. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Tuesday, Jan. 25

Cornhole League — Well, if adult kickball leagues exist, might as well make cornhole leagues, too. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-530-1381.

Wednesday, Jan. 26

Le Marche Wine Dinner — Fine dining to banish those winter chills. 6:30 p.m. Arugula Bar e Ristorante, 2785 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5100. Boulder Weekly

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both a help and a hindrance to him. Growing up in a House of God community may have helped give him his moral center, but as he admits, it also limited his access to music. “There’s a lot of music that I sort of missed out on. I mean, I wasn’t alive for it anyway,” he adds quickly with a laugh, “but I just never really thought about going back and looking into stuff.” And this is where producer T-Bone Burnett played such a crucial role, not just in terms of helping Randolph create the tone and scope of this record, but also in terms of helping Randolph see what he had missed, and what many others are still missing today. Burnett brought in archival songs for Randolph to listen to that went as far back as the 1920s, and doing so allowed Randolph to not only connect blues with rock and gospel, but also to connect a sense of the past with the present. “T-Bone helped tremendously,” Randolph says, “by getting me to go back and really study a lot of this stuff and understand this was the earliest form of American music. And that this is what artists — over time — can become: great artists. You know, like Dylan, Zeppelin and Muddy Waters. American music has really sort of stalled these days, mainly by kids not

looking back to the old stuff.” more serious album — a marked conHaving this experience, being able trast from the overwhelmingly upbeat to absorb so many songs from so many jam sessions, party songs and overtly artists from the recent and distant past, positive messages that are found on his has proved to be eye-opening for first two studio releases, Unclassified and Randolph. Colorblind — was not made lightly. In “It was great to fact, in some listen to the music ways it was a On the Bill: and really try to sort project that was Robert Randolph & the Family Band play the Ogden Theatre of open up this new borne out of on Saturday, Jan. 22. Doors at 8 world for me, musinecessity rather p.m. Must be 16 to enter. The cally and creatively,” than simply Constellations open. Tickets are $25. 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, Randolph says, a wishing to 303-830-2525. hint of awe in his change the musivoice as he remical dynamic of an nisces. “Listening to it has just brought album and try going in a new direction. so much energy to my brain, you “T-Bone was a big Obama supportknow? This is one of the most fascier during recording, so we were all into nating things that’s ever happened to these debates while we were in the stume.” dio,” Randolph says. “We were watchRandolph also freely admits that ing Obama versus McCain and listenever since the recording sessions were ing to both guys, and watching America completed, he has had a field day on sort of saying, ‘Look, man, we just want iTunes — to the tune of more than the truth. We just want a guy that’ll tell $1,000 — updating his collection. us the truth.’ That’s what we were all “Everything from Blind Willie looking for at the time, so listening to Johnson to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to all all these guys and listening to a lot of the old blues stuff. I mean there’s so these debates really fueled a bunch of much, man,” he says enthusiastically these serious songs, serious lyrics and before laughing some more. “All I know things like that.” is, I have all this stuff on my iTunes Seeing what people were going and I turn it on and just gain all this through — and are still going through newfound creative energy.” — felt like a call to Randolph for him Randolph’s decision to record a to do something to help turn the tide,

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even if just a little bit. And despite his easygoing demeanor, it is clear this is one call he is willing to take up, one responsibility he is proud to have. “I like having that sort of burden on my shoulders of being a guy who’s gonna use music and use songwriting to really uplift people,” he admits. “These are depressing times we’re in. A lot of people are sort of looking for a show they can go to or something they can do to seek an answer. I just like inspiring people and giving people this outlook that I had a chance to witness and be a part of, growing up in church and whatnot. Everything is sort of heavensent and it’s all a part of life and the growing process of each person. Sometimes bad things happen for the future of the good, you know, and you’ve just got to learn to accept that because that’s what it is.” Randolph does not like to back down from a challenge when there is something he can do to help via his music, but music is such a driving force in his life that he probably would not be able to sit on the sidelines during troublesome times even if he wanted to. “Music is what keeps me going!” Randolph exclaims. “It keeps me happy. It keeps me … sane, I guess. Can’t live without it.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Finding the fun in painting

Sam Jablon’s featureless faces come from a happy place

by Adam Perry

ther than his perpetually paintstained clothes, Binghamton, N.Y., native Sam Jablon cut a deceptively ordinary figure during his four years (2005-09) at Naropa University, where he graduated with an interdisciplinary degree in writing, meditation and visual art. A quiet and friendly long-haired young man with obvious talent and a penchant for keeping mostly subdued — but focused — in class, Jablon candidly expressed himself in art, poetry and conversation. On and off campus, he subtly connected with established artists and writers who gave him wisdom and opportunities. Now, living and working in Brooklyn, the 24-year-old Jablon is using a lot of what he learned in Boulder to keep moving forward in his life and career as an artist. “Brooklyn is a whole different world,” Jablon said in a phone conversation from Binghamton just after Christmas. “When I started out at Naropa it was really warm and welcoming and it was easy to set up a life and make friends and meet people. Brooklyn is hard and cold and there’s 100,000 people trying to do the exact same thing that you’re doing. It’s really competitive. It’s expensive. It’s also amazing, though.” Face It, Jablon’s latest exhibition of works on wood and paper, features vibrantly colored oil and oil pastel paintings produced in the past year. As in many of his Boulder-era paintings, undecipherable or covered-up poems and darkly cartoonish heads — either sans faces or with seemingly vacuous features — consistently appear throughout Face It, which will line the walls of Naropa’s Nalanda campus from Friday until March 1. The vacant heads often seem simply amusing at first glance, but the exhibition is really about looking at life through a fearless lens, according to Jablon. “In my current work, sometimes faces are kind of obscured and lost in all the colors, but they’re always part of the painting,” the artist explains. “[Face It] is about facing reality, facing whatever’s in front of you. If there’s a theme to the show, that’s it: going right into whatever’s in front of you and not shying away or backing away because of fear or because you don’t want to look at it.” Moving from Boulder to Brooklyn was a jarring experience for Jablon, although invitations to study and create art have already taken him from Vermont to Berlin to Greece and — in a few months — China. “New York’s hard, but I love it,” he says, “It’s the complete opposite of Boulder and Naropa, and witnessing a more urban life has definitely changed my work. Plus there’s so many different kinds of artists Boulder Weekly

and so many different kinds of art that, for me, it’s really opened my mind to the possibilities of what you can do. I find it really inspiring, and it’s a great place to be in your 20s.” After meeting several prestigious East Coast artists and poets, such as the eccentric spoken-word artist Bob Holman, through Naropa’s Summer Writing Program, Jablon was able to instantly connect with the New York scene when he arrived. He’s been working with Holman and others in Manhattan and helping design sets for the TV show Hell’s Kitchen, and recently he even curated a Bowery Poetry Club exhibition for emerging artists. Jablon says getting involved is much easier than most young people think. “I’m finding that people are really friendly. If you want to talk to some famous artist and you just see them out — because they’re all over the place — and you just go up and talk to them, they’ll probably give you a minute or two. And I find that if you’re willing to step up to the plate and play, even if you fail, New

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York will play with you.” In Boulder, Jablon worked as an assistant to the Argentinean artist Ana Maria Hernando, who he says taught him “how to function as an artist,” and he’s excited about seeing her this week. The exhilarating ranges of orange and pink in Colorado’s dynamic sunsets are also still a huge influence on Jablon’s paintings, which often juxtapose the whimsy of Picasso and a more psychedelic, drip-heavy version of Mark Rothko’s bold lines. But perhaps the most consistent influence on Jablon’s work has been Jean-Michel Basquiat. The late New York neoexpressionist painter’s marriage of unruly graffiti, high art and urban symbology has served as an inspiration for Jablon’s work since the young artist heard of Basquiat as a teenager. “He’s someone I’ve always understood,” Jablon says. “I’ve always understood what the work is about and it’s always spoken to me. Every time I look at his work I find something new. So I feel we share a lot of similarities, but his work’s much more angry than mine. There’s a violence to it that I don’t feel like my work has. There was a complexity to his work that I would like to be able to use without copying Basquiat. I don’t want to just be a copy of Basquiat, but he’s one of the first artists I looked at and really went, ‘Wow.’” Jablon’s most recent works, including the giant 72-inch-by-48-inch “Who Knows 2moro,” reveal his respect for Basquiat by merging wild streaks of color and intense faces with brutal depictions of city life. For “Who Knows 2moro,” Jablon even incorporated found objects — such as a bottle cap found on the street during a nasty brawl in his neighborhood, a subway ticket and pieces of exhibition flyers — into the painting. Not surprisingly, however, Susan Jablon — a renowned Binghamton-based mosaic artist — continues to be her son’s biggest inspiration. Sam and his mother (who first taught him how to paint at age 2) often collaborate on public art projects and mosaics for Hell’s Kitchen as well as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. But it’s the younger Jablon’s artintense childhood that resonates so strongly to this day. “My mom’s awesome,” he says. “She showed me that art is fun, and that’s still where I go when I’m painting. I grew up in this massive studio just throwing paint at the walls, and that really shaped how I still see painting. I have a much better control of color now, what colors I want and how I want them to fall, but the influence I have from being a young child painting, I think I’m still going for the same thing.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com January 20, 2011 23

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Joshua Redman brings his hand-picked trio to Macky by Jon Ross

oshua Redman is drawn to collaboration. For his entire career, the tenor saxophonist has surrounded himself with the best musicians in modern jazz, creating a true give-and-take on the bandstand and breaking out of the standard leader-accompanist mold. Redman, who is equally adept at soprano saxophone, takes great strides to develop true musical partnerships with his bandmates. “I try to put together bands of musicians that are way better than I am. That’s how I learn, and that’s how I grow,” Redman says, chatting on the phone from his San Francisco Bay-area home. “Being a leader, at the end of the day, just means you write the checks; if the gig gets canceled, you still have to pay the cats.” Redman brings his longtime collaborators, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Macky Auditorium Sunday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $30. The group will be performing in a saxophone trio format, a small ensemble Redman has used with increasing frequency since 2004. The piano-less tenor saxophone trio is embedded in the history of jazz. First introduced to a wide audience by Sonny Rollins on his 1957 recordings Way Out West and A Night at the Village Vanguard, the saxophone-bass-drums combination has been explored by some of the music’s most notable players. Younger saxophonists like J.D. Allen and Marcus Strickland have also released trio recordings in the last few years. Redman’s first foray into the form came with 2007’s Back East, which he recorded with Penman and Hutchinson. The saxophonist expanded on the trio in 2009 by combining two small groups — two drummers, two bassists, one saxophone — on Compass. Unlike artists who have viewed trio-playing as a passing accomplishment, Redman has stuck with the three-piece ensemble.

“[The trio] is something that a lot of saxophonists at some point in their musical lives gravitate to, and some might see it as a rite of passage for a tenor saxophonist. I never looked at it that way,” Redman says. “I love the freedom of the saxophone trio. When things are going well, when everyone is focused and locked in, it can be one of the freest and the most spontaneous and most exhilarating formats for me to play in.” The piano is usually seen as the anchor of any ensemble — a chordal instrument that grounds the rest of the group in a specific key and provides rhythmic encouragement during solos. Simply put, the piano usually keeps the band on track. With the trio, Redman plays double duty, paying acute attention to melody, harmony and the overall structure of each tune. In trio mode, Redman’s band moves organically through each piece, seamlessly blending the opening melody into the solo section. The instruments work together to navigate the peaks and valleys in each

tune. This fluidity derives from relationships Redman has developed during the past 20 years. While he usually performs as a trio with Penman and Hutchinson, he also plays with another bassist and drummer. The four artists know Redman as a musician as well as he knows them; the saxophonist won’t attempt trio performances with anyone else. “I always want to play with the best musicians, but when you’re playing just saxophone, bass and drums, for me I really have to have the A-plus-plus-plus list cats,” he says. “There’s a very small handful of musicians with which I feel comfortable going into battle playing saxophone trio; if I can’t get one of those guys, I’ll generally try to put some sort of other band together.” Redman’s collaborative efforts don’t stop at trios. He’s been working in a duo format with pianist Brad Mehldau, and he joined the collaborative James Farm — which unites pianist Aaron Parks, Penman and drummer Eric Harland — in 2008. The group finished mastering a new album this month that is due out sometime in the spring. Redman also was the first leader of the eight-piece SFJAZZ Collective, a revolving cast of musicians that now features Mark Turner in the tenor spot. Even surrounded by his trusted musical friends, who all know by now how to work in their roles, Redman pushes to keep things fresh. Searching for new material might lead to a live performance of Coldplay’s “Clocks” or a Led Zeppelin hit nestled into a set of original compositions and jazz standards. While some listeners point to this penchant for blending pop into jazz as a statement on the music’s future, for Redman, it’s simply one more way to keep things interesting on stage. After all, presenting engaging, exciting music is his main goal, whatever the format. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Lyrics Born has a calling by Matt Conner

he term “holistic” doesn’t seem appropriate when describing a Friday night hip-hop show, but it’s strikingly apt when describing the experience of attending a Lyrics Born concert. Generally speaking, the audience comes for a good time, and the Bay Area rapper certainly plans to “throw down” and “party hard.” But after several years in the music industry, Lyrics Born has provided as much inspiration as perspiration — and it’s that aspect of his career that’s most important. “When I first started, it was an excuse for me to get high, meet girls, party and all that stuff,” says the Japanese-American artist. “It still is fun and it should be fun, but somewhere along the way, I realized that what I have is a gift. I realized that gift comes from somewhere. It’s my belief that it’s a gift from God. At that turning point, I realized that music and the ability to create art and affect people is a spiritual thing for me. It’s something that I have to respect.” The turning point came after a few years in the game when he recorded a single called “Balcony Beach.” After several typical party singles, LB found the typical post-show banter changing as the audience absorbed his material at a different level. “The comments I’d get after a show started to change,” he says. “It wasn’t like, ‘You’re dope.’ It was more like, ‘Wow, this song really helped me through some rough shit.’ They were describing my songs with adjectives that were much deeper than before. People were finding what I do to be multidimensional, and at that point I realized it was affecting people in a way I never intended. I really liked it and it made it feel like I was doing some-

thing more important than before.” Lyrics Born’s latest album, As U Were, was released late last fall and should reap similar comments, given its context and meaning for both rapper and listener. LB calls the album a coping mechanism for himself and his fans, saying it was named after his ability to stay the course and be himself in the

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midst of a rough couple of years. Songs that speak to such themes are bound to resonate with the listener long after the last beats pulse and pound. Despite success that’s carried him to top selling status on iTunes and collaborations with Jurassic 5, Kasabian, DJ Shadow and others, it’s the emotionally enduring quality of the work that keeps him going. As he says, “It’s so incredible when you can take the things that have negatively affected you and thrown you for a loop and reroute that energy through art and turn it into a song that affects the world in a positive way.” The upcoming Denver appearance is part of a tour heading eastward after spending the fall up and down the West Coast. Lyrics Born spent the latter part of 2010 with a heavier-hitting line-up of Chali 2na, Rakim and Dilated Peoples, whereas in 2011, he will be carrying the load alongside upand-coming Canadian hip-hop trio Keys N Krates. That’s good news for longtime fans of LB, considering he says he’s reaching all the way back to his first LP (1997’s Latyrx) and beyond. The live band of Keys N Krates and the DJ element provided by LB’s Mixed Re-View (his backing band of vocalist Joyo Velarde and DJ D-Sharp) craft a musical blend that Lyrics Born says he’s been waiting at least eight to 10 years to put together. “If you’re asking me for any surprises, the answer is ‘yes,’ since I’ll surprise myself with what we play,” he says with a laugh. “But we’ll definitely come and throw down, because all we want to do is come and party incredibly hard. And Denver never disappoints.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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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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Acoustic Open Mic. 7-9 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Back to the Woods. 5-7 p.m. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-440-8808. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bobby K Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Boogie Machine. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Catfish Kray. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Danya Prado. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. David Williams — Part of the Winter Concert Series; $5 cover. 7 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Dechen Hawk and a Murder of Prose. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. DJ Chonz and Friends. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Drifter Band. 4 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108. Ground Up. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Influence. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108. The Key of Joy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Matt Flinner Trio & Grant Gordy Quartet. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Mikee Tiernan. 9:30 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Mr. Right — With Places and Nautical Mile. 8 p.m. Old Main, CU campus, 303-492-7704. Orion’s Bow. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Perpetual Groove. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Quemando: Salsa Fiesta. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Terra Blu. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Three Squared CD Release Show. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985. Tori Sparks,The Alan James Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Tyler Farr Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Chez Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Whiskey Bottles. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Winterfest on the Mountain Music Festival — With Wicked Messenger, Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann Duo, Billy Nershi and many more. Nederland Community Center, Nederland, www. silverfoxpresents.com.

events Boulder Creative Commons Meetup. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Comida Mobile Mexi-Feast. 4:30-7 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court,

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theater Art of Murder. Nonesuch Theater, 216 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-224-0444. Through Feb. 12. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. OpenStage Theatre & Company, Masonic Temple Proscenium, 225 W. Oak St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730. Through Feb. 13. Don’t Dress for Dinner. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224

Boulder, 303-530-1381. Laser Nine Inch Nails. 9:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Laser Tool. 10:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Many Faces of Hubble. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Saturday, Jan. 22

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. BB King — With Hazel Miller Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Big Jim Adam & John Stilwagen. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003. Chris Webb,Travel By Skylark. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Felonius Smith & Jeff Gagliardi. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jubal and the Rude Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Kate & Brent Jazz. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Maura O’Connell. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. MLOW Garage Show Band. 1 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Music Train Family Concert Series. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. The Martian Acres Band. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044. Jan. 14 through Feb. 27. Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 26. Imitation of Wife — Benefit for Boulder County AIDS Project. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Jan. 21 & 22.

Notes & Oats Musical Breakfast — With The Drifter Band. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108. Reckless Red. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Rhythm Allstars. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. The Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Shakedown Street — Performing the 7/8/78 Red Rocks show. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. That Eighties Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Winterfest on the Mountain Music Festival — With Wicked Messenger, Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann Duo, Billy Nershi and many more. Nederland Community Center, Nederland, www. silverfoxpresents.com. Wonderlic. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617. Fusion Dance Weekend — With American Vernacular Dance. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder, 303-449-5962. Through Jan. 23. So You Think You Can Collaborate? — Competition final round. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Town Hall Meeting with Sen. Rollie Heath. 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-866-4872.

Sunday, Jan. 23

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Monday, Jan. 24 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

303-485-9400. Halden Wofford & The Hi-Beams. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Holden Young Trio. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Joshua Redman Trio — With Matt Penman & Gregory Hutchinson. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8423. Kristi Stice. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Laser: Symphony of the Stars. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Mellow Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Windfall. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Winterfest on the Mountain Music Festival — With Wicked Messenger, Adam Aijala & Ben Kaufmann Duo, Billy Nershi and many more. Nederland Community Center, Nederland, www.silverfoxpresents.com.

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Asher Bluegrass Pick. 4-6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court., Boulder, 303530-1381. Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Fusion Dance Weekend — With American Vernacular Dance. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962. Walk the Line. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, Jan. 24

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7-11 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Getting Started with InDesign, Part 1. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-

Tuesday, Jan. 25 Shaking the Family Tree with author Buzzy Jackson. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303900-3387. Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Wednesday, Jan. 26 Drop-In Story Time. 11 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

0276. Itchy Hearts. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Free Open Class — Meditation instruction. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Tuesday, Jan. 25

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. Digital Video Camera and Lighting Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Faculty Tuesday Series — David Korevaar, piano. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. James Speiser. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic Night — Music, comedy and poetry. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757. Salsa Night — Every Tuesday night. 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. She’s a Keeper. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tommy Staudt Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Cornhole League. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Co., 4699 Nautilus Court, Boulder, 303-530-1381. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. 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. PLAN Boulder County Forum: How Will the B-Cycle Program Work in Boulder? 7 p.m. Sherpa’s Adventure Restaurant, 825 Walnut St., Boulder, www.boulderbcycle.com.

Wednesday, Jan. 26

music The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Greybeard. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Pendulum New Music 10th Anniversary Concert. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. People Under the Stairs. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Pete Wernick & Flexigrass. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. Singer/Songwriter Night — Open stage.7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Art for Lunch. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Beer and Belly Dancing — Learn to belly dance and have some great beer. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing, 4699 Nautilus Ct. #104, Boulder, 303530-1381. Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Preparing Your Year-End Financials Using QuickBooks — Webinar training session. 12 p.m. www.asecondoffice.com/trainingservices. html. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

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p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Jan. 21 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Saturday, Jan. 22 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Kids in Space. 2 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Eve Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424.

Sunday, Jan. 23 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Monday, Jan. 24 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, Jan. 25 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Tactile Tuesday. 9-11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303604-2424. Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, Jan. 26 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

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here are lots of jumps that can rival the buildings in downtown Denver for height — but not many that are actually right next to those buildings. That jump is being built right now in Civic Center Park, and on Jan. 25 and 26, it will be the host to a lot of big air. Big Air Denver is one of a series of ski and snowboard events held around the world, usually at ski resorts, but recently occurring in larger city settings. The most recent was held in Spain, in addition to events in London, Stockholm and Seoul. Now Denver is the setting for the 106-foot-high, almost 300-foot-long jump, in conjunction with Mile High Snowfest, going on Jan. 25–30. A collaboration between the Fédération Internationale de Ski (FIS), the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), and the Metro Denver Sports Commission, Big Air is an event unlike any other. “The idea isn’t to bring another skiing event to the mountains, but to have it in a young, fun event in the city,” says Sue

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Baldwin, director of new business development for the Metro Denver Sports Commission. There are two nights of competition. The first, held on Jan. 25 from 5 to 8 p.m., is the Nature Valley Big Air Challenge featuring the Battle of the Brands. This event features three-man teams in a head-to-head single elimination challenge. The three brands committed to sending skiers so far are Icelantic, Armada and Volkl. Athletes competing for each team have yet to be announced, though Tom Wallisch, Freeskier’s Skier of the year for 2010, has committed to the event. The second night will feature the LG FIS World Cup Snowboard Big Air. This event is unique because it’s the first snowboard World Cup Big Air to be held in the United States. It will be an individual competition, with teams from Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Switzerland and the United States all sending competitors. “That’s kind of exciting because it is the first World Cup Big Air in the U.S,” says Eric Webster, event coordinator for USSA. “People

are coming from all over the world to compete in Denver.” USSA, the national governing agency for skiing and snowboarding, is handling the competition aspects of the event, and in doing so, hopes to encourage more slopestyle events. “The effort on our side is to support FIS freestyle events in North America with a long-term goal of getting slopestyle into the Olympics,” Webster says. Slopestyle events are those in both snowboarding and skiing where participants try to land tricks with style and height. Slopestyle has gained popularity, and is especially popular at the X Games, another ski and snowboard competition, which will be held in Aspen Jan. 27 through Jan. 30. Many athletes will fly into Colorado for both events. As far as Big Air goes, though, participants should be able to get a lot of air — and a lot of exposure. As many as 10,000 tickets can be sold to the event, and it looks like the park will fill up, Baldwin says. “Denver is a last-minute market,” she says. see JUMP Page 36

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Backcountry Film Festival. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866. Trekking in the Everest Region of the Himalayas. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866.

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Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

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Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303875-2241.

Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735. Uncover the Secrets of Laos. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7868406.

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“As soon as that construction started, it’s been mad here.” Adding to the madness, Big Air just announced concerts to accompany the events. The ski competition on Tuesday will feature Switchfoot after the awards, and the snowboard competition has OneRepublic as its top billing, playing between the heats of the competition and the finals. The SnowSports Industry America Snow Show will also be going on Jan. 27-30. Not open to the public, the SIA Snow Show is the largest snow sports retail exhibition in the world, and garners a lot of attention and around 19,000 exhibitors hungry for more snowgoing activities. “SIA was looking for more activities around that time,” Baldwin says. So Big Air, nestled between the Snow Show and the X Games, is ideal for observers, but not as great for athletes. “The USSA has done a Herculean effort of lining up practice and event schedules so that if the athletes wanted, they can do both,” Baldwin says. “It’s not ideal for them to be one day apart, but it really works around SIA.” Between Big Air, the SIA Snow Show and X Games,

Colorado is cementing its reputation as a hotbed for snow-related activity. “It only helps to grow skiing and snowboarding’s profile into a bigger community,” Baldwin says. “Our goal is to make the event a little more mainstream, and widen the fan base.” Tickets to the event are available at www.bigairdenver.com, and are $45 for each night, or $80 for both nights. The Denver Sports Commission has issued a promotion to Boulder Weekly readers that takes $15 off the ticket price, and offers a $99 family four-pack, hoping to widen that fan base even further. Enter “15offbigair” in the promo code box on the website before making any purchases. Big Air promises to be a big event for anyone interested in skiing and snowboarding, or just for an event unlike any other Denver has seen before. “In normal cases, [Big Air events] are at a resort,” said Webster. “Because this is a steel structure in downtown Denver, it brings a lot more attention to it. It really sets this apart from other events scheduled throughout the season.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.

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nexpectedly sour, The Dilemma barely qualifies as a comedy. Though it offers plenty of larky scenes, such as Vince Vaughn and Kevin James man-dancing together at the Green Mill (the popular Chicago jazz club) or taking in a Blackhawks game, it’s darker than any of the ads suggest. Audiences deserve the truth going into director Ron Howard’s film, which is fundamentally misdirected — or rather, directed in a style to be named later — and all over the place in a way Howard’s films rarely are. It’s a Vaughn vehicle foremost, and like the recent Adam Sandler hit Grown Ups, The Dilemma allows the Vaughn character to treat everyone around him like an inferior species, swan around with a smirk and get the last word in every sequence. Chicago is full of guys like Vaughn, albeit shorter. You know: sports-mad, agreeably insensitive, sweet-underneath lugs, all wishing their Vince Vaughn patter will somehow end up charming the likes of Jennifer Aniston. Vaughn and co-star Kevin James play Ronny and Nick, best pals and business partners in a Chicago engine-design firm. Ronny is dating a chef ( Jennifer Connelly) who has seen Ronny through his gambling addiction and is cool, we’re told, because she wears a Cubs jersey. Nick, insecure and ulcer-prone, is married to live wire Geneva (Winona Ryder, who never needs

much encouragement in the overacting live-wire direction) whom Vaughn’s character, Ronny, once slept with in college. By accident, Ronny spies Geneva making out with an apparent paramour (Channing Tatum, playing somebody who’s either an idiot, psychotic, a puppy dog or something else entirely; hard

Poorly timed gun fetishization

lipping into a funk while watching half of Los Angeles get shot up in the second half of The Green Hornet, I was struck by the sheer unluckiness of this film’s timing. In the wake of the recent massacre in Tucson, Ariz., it’s suddenly, temporarily, a little harder to laugh off scene after scene of obsessive gun fetishization and mass slaughter in a superhero vigilante lark. I’m as much of a hypocrite as any moviegoer on the issue of diversionary screen violence. I’ve lapped up more than my share. I appreciate the comic impulse behind this $120 million bauble; director Michel Gondry’s action comedy at least has the nerve to seek out more comedy than action. But the script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, tailored for Rogen in the title role, rides a streak of blasé raunch and overscaled action smack into a series of walls, each spray-painted with phrases beginning with “Too.” Too much. Too numbing. Too coy. And ultimately, too violent. By the time the underworld villain played by Christoph Waltz of Inglourious Basterds gets his eyes gouged out and the auxiliary villain (no spoilers) is impaled by a falling car, the fun has been sidelined altogether. Too bad, because there are some grace notes along the way. Unlike Batman or Superman, the Green Hornet is a niche figure, with which contemporary filmmakers can do whatever they like. Gondry’s sense of the fantastic, mixed with his attention to everyday 38 January 20, 2011

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to say). What to do about it? Allan Loeb’s screenplay sets itself up as a farce but almost instantly begins collapsing into therapy. As Ronny wrestles with the decision to tell Nick about his wife’s infidelity, endangering their progress on a make-or-break engine-design project, Loeb’s script takes the easy way out, demonizing Ryder’s character in such a way that an 11th-hour attempt at re-humanizing her does not work. The jokes, when and where they can be found, are puerile, and continually give Vaughn the moviestar catbird seat. Loeb can write; I enjoyed a lot of his work on Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street 2 and even the unpopular rom-com The Switch. Here, in flashes, you see the movie that should have been: Vaughn handles a key, wry moment (Ronny’s illadvised anniversary toast to his lover’s parents) with the panache he’s known for. Elsewhere, though, it’s hard even to track the intentions of a given scene, and Howard’s indecisive pacing clarifies little. The movie was originally called Cheaters, which hints at the story’s notion that we all harbor secrets in a relationship, some of them white lies, some of them toxic. It’s a fine starting point for a lively, challenging commercial comedy. I hope someone makes it. — MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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reality, has led in previous projects to the glory that is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in addition to the more mixed but stimulating Science of Sleep and Be Kind Rewind. Gondry was pegged to direct The Green Hornet years ago, in an earlier incarnation; his time eventually came, and, with Rogen aboard, a straightforward, predictable result was virtually un-guaranteed. Rogen and Goldberg, who wrote Superbad when they were still teenagers, retool The Green Hornet for a world overpopulated with superheroes and superhero movies.

Britt Reid (Rogen) is the playboy son of an L.A. newspaper baron (Tom Wilkinson) who dies by bee sting, leaving Britt in charge. Because he has nothing better to do — the script works more by whim and caprice than compelling plotting — he teams up with one of his father’s employees ( Jay Chou, waging a touching, occasionally decipherable struggle with English) to become the Green Hornet, aided by faithful, patronized sidekick Kato. What works here? The little things. When Kato invents a “gas bomb” that puts its victims to sleep, the first version knocks out Britt for a full 11 days (he wakes up with a considerable beard). That’s funny. It’s funny to see Kato in his underfurnished studio apartment updating his resume after his battle with Britt. The car — the tricked-out Black Beauty, with machine guns embedded in the doorframes and an ancient LP player for atmosphere — looks fantastic. But Gondry’s action sequences tend toward the lengthy and the shapeless. The post-production 3-D is just about useless. And the enjoyment one gets from the body count, the scenes of people being crushed, pummeled or machine-gunned, well ... this isn’t the week for The Green Hornet, at least for me. The film is pretty messed up even without a recent tragic event hanging over its head. — MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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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

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 captures the emotion and complexion of this real-life unsolved mystery. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax — Denver Film Society

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Another Year The newest film from Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake), master of in-depth characterization, is cause for celebration. Another Year is a touching and beautifully nuanced drama of a year in the life of a happily married middle-aged couple, and the less well-adjusted people who gather around them; little seems to happen, but much does. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres 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

Bland ole opry OK, Gwyneth Paltrow can sing. Did you really need to waste two hours of our lives to tell us that, movie?

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

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-

A California lawyer fights for the little man. His charisma and integrity get him noticed by the Democratic Party machine and he is persuaded to run for the Senate against an apparently unassailable incumbent. He’s mainly running to bring certain political issues into the open, although he never actually plans to win. It’s agreed he can handle it his own way, on his own terms, but once he’s in the race and his prospects begin to improve, the deal starts to change. As time goes by, he realizes that whether or not he wins, he might not be able to hold on to his values. This film, shot in only 41 days, is one of the great motion pictures about the world of politics, demonstrating how an idealistic and inexperienced young man can get trapped by the media. At the Boulder Public Library. — BPL Casino Jack 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-the-

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 Black Swan Thu: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:35 FriWed: 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Country Strong Thu: 10:25, 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10 The Dilemma Fri-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 11:10, 2:10, 5:20, 8:10 Green Hornet Thu: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:15, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Gulliver’s Travels Thu: 11:20, 1:55, 4:05, 6:30, 8:45 Fri-Wed: 11:15, 1:40, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30 The King’s Speech Thu: 11:50, 2:40, 5:30, 8:20, 11 Fri-Wed: 10:35, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 Little Fockers Thu: 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 10:25, 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 No Strings Attached Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:20, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Season of the Witch Thu: 11, 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 11:20, 4:40, 9:45 Tangled Thu-Wed: 10:50, 1:35, 4:05, 6:30,9:10 The Tourist Thu-Wed: 2, 7:15 Tron: Legacy Thu: 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Wed: 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 True Grit Thu: 11:40, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:40 FriWed: 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:35 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Black Swan Thu: 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 FriWed: 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Blue Valentine Thu: 10:30, 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 The Company Men Fri-Wed: 11:05, 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Country Strong Thu: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4, 6:50, 9:55

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The Dilemma Thu: 12, 2:40, 5:20, 7, 8, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 12:30, 3:10, 6:05, 8:45, 10:05 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 12:35, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 Fri-Wed: 12,3:15, 6:15, The Green Hornet Thu: 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:05, 3, 4:50, 5:45, 7:35, 8:30, 10:20 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Thu: 12:10, 6:20 Fri-Wed: 2:30, 8:45 The King’s Speech Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:30 Little Fockers Thu-Wed: 11:45, 6:10 No Strings Attached Fri-Wed: 11, 1:40, 4:20, 7, 9:35 Tron: Legacy Thu: 12:45, 3:35, 6:45, 10:05 FriWed: 11, 2, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 True Grit Thu: 11:10, 2, 4:40, 7:15, 10 FriWed: 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 10:40 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:25, 7:05 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 The Dilemma Thu-Wed: 12:55, 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 The Fighter Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10 The Green Hornet Thu-Wed: 1:15, 2:10, 4, 5 7:05, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 The King’s Speech Thu-Wed: 1, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 Little Fockers Thu: 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:40 FriWed: 3:40, 9:55 Season of the Witch Thu-Wed: 12:50, 7:30 Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:30 Tron: Legacy Thu-Wed: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10 True Grit Thu-Wd: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Another Year Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 7. 9:50 Black Swan Thu: 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 2, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Casino Jack Thu: 7:30 p.m. I Love You Phillip Morris Thu: 4:45, 10 The King’s Speech Thu: 4:15, 7, 9:40 FriWed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-352-1992 The King’s Speech Thu: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4, 7:05, 9:40 The Lollipop Girls in Hard Candy Fri: 7:15, 11:59 p.m. Rabbit Hole Thu: 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:15, 9:50 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 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: 2:20, 4:30, 7:25, 9:40 Casino Jack Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Enemies of the People Fri-Wed: 2:30, 7:30 Evangelion 1.0:You Are (Not) Alone Thu: 9:45 p.m. Evangelion 2.0:You Can (Not) Advance Fri-Wed: 5, 9:45 Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench Thu: 2:30, 7:30 The Horde Sat: 11:59 p.m.

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top 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, 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. 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 Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Company Men Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life-coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner), and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. Rated R. At Century. — Landmark Theatres

posed of episodes of his career during the time he was shooting Sytricon. Included is a visit to the set of an abandoned film project The Voyage of G. Mastorna, journeys with Fellini through Rome and along the Via Appia and a visit to Marcello Mastroianni’s house. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL 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. This film is one of the year’s best. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back. At Muenzinger Auditorium — Landmark Theatres.

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A faded country music star (Gwyneth Paltrow) mounts her big comeback with the help of her husband-manager and an up-and-coming songwriter. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

See full review on Page 38. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

The Dilemma See full review on Page 38. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. Enemies of the People Enemies of the People exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experience, however, Enemies of the People is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them. Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society 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. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance The landmark anime Evangelion evolves, reaching new heights of intensity in the new feature film, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. In an explosive new story full of brutal action and primal emotion, a group of young pilots maneuver their towering, cyborg Eva Units into combat against a deadly and disturbing enemy. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Fellini: A Director’s Notebook A seminal work in Fellini’s canon, this film is comBoulder Weekly

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, 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 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, and a member of the local police force. That is, until he has a severe car accident that leads him to an 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, the sensitive, soft-spoken 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. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Ip Man An occupying Japanese general (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) challenges Chinese men to duels so he can prove the superiority of the Japanese. Ip Man (Donnie Yen) — a Chinese martial arts master forced to work in the mines — refuses to fight, but can resist for only so long. Revisit the early days of Ip Man, who gained later fame as an early trainer of Bruce Lee, in director Wilson Yip’s action-packed biopic set during the Sino-Japanese War. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society The King’s Speech Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both Oscarworthy in this heartfelt, funny, gripping story. Firth plays Bertie, the second son of King George V, afflicted with a stammer and overshadowed by his confident older brother. Bertie’s loving wife Elizabeth has tried everything to help him, and finally discovers something that works: maverick Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Rush). Initially the enthusiastic, ultra-casual Logue and the repressed, oh-so-formal Bertie clash, but neither will give up, and ultimately they become good friends. When Bertie’s brother becomes King Edward VIII in 1936, he refuses to give up his lover (American divorcee Mrs. Simpson), resulting in his abdication and Bertie’s extremely reluctant ascension to the throne as King George VI, leading a nation facing the horrors of looming war. At Chez Artiste, Esquire, Colony Square and Flatiron. — Landmark Theatres Little Fockers Greg and Pam Focker are now the parents of 10-year-old twins, and Greg’s uptight father-inlaw 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 No Strings Attached Lifelong friends Emma and Adam try to maintain a purely physical relationship without any emotional expectations or entanglements. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Rabbit Hole A husband and wife are eight months into the emptier lives they now lead after losing their son. 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) 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. 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. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Somewhere 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 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. But when Kenji solves a 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. 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 Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the worldfamous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez January 20, 2011 41

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Zone Denver offers healthy alternative for delivered food by Kaely Moore

t the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, people everywhere tend to make a lot of promises to themselves — resolutions to eat healthier or work out more, reduce personal stress or enjoy living. It’s mid-January, and many of those profound resolutions are already succumbing to the practicalities of everyday life. With work and school, family life, social life and everything in between, it can be difficult to find the time to chip away at personal goals. This is especially true for the goals that require planning and preparation, such as coordinating a diet. Often people just don’t take the time to sit down to a healthy meal, opting for an easy out of drive-throughs and frozen dinners. Zone Denver, a diet delivery service that came to Colorado in 2008 and operates a kitchen in Boulder, offers one solution to the great debate of fast food and fatty versus homemade and healthy, delivering freshly made food to doorsteps all along the Front Range, including Boulder County. Jeff Sherman, president of Zone Denver, says that his company aims to provide people with the help and guidance they need to stick to their resolutions. “Eating well is not simply eating,” Sherman says. “You have to plan for it, you have to prepare it, you have to eat at certain times.” Sherman says he believes that many people who start a diet are successful primarily because the beginning stages are filled with the excitement of

shopping and preparing different foods. Three weeks down the line, it is for these same reasons that dieters begin to feel bored or inconvenienced. Zone Denver, Sherman says, cuts out the planning and delivers nutritional meals fresh the day they are made. “You wake up in the morning, open your door and there’s your breakfast, your lunch, your dinner, a snack — everything you need for the entire day,” he says. “You don’t have to do a darn thing except drink a lot of water.” Sherman, inspired by his time as business manager for the original Zone Diet delivery service in New York City, started his Zone service in Seattle in 2002, and then later expanded to San Francisco and Los Angeles. He subsequently sold those companies in favor of bringing the business to Colorado. Zone, he says, utilizes local chefs and kitchen facilities in any market it opens in.

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Menu options at Zone Denver are consistently rotated, Sherman says, so that customers are always given variety. From breakfasts of whole wheat French toast to lunches of chicken Caesar salad and dinners of lemon pepper red snapper, meals are tailored to the tastes and nutritional needs of each client, with a 40-30-30 ratio of carbohydrates, lean protein and favorable fats. “Our people are successful — they lose weight,” Sherman says. “But not everybody that comes on the program is doing it for weight loss.” Nancy Speck, a 63-year-old Denver resident who used Zone Denver last fall, says that she started with the program because she was tired of cooking. “When you’re just cooking for one person, it gets pretty boring sometimes what you end up cooking for yourself,” Speck says. Speck says that she enjoyed the variety and gourmet quality of Zone Denver, as well as the ability to specialize her menu options. She also says that eating better — and not stressing about what to cook — increased her energy levels and helped her to lose weight, even though that wasn’t what she was looking for. “I wasn’t really doing it for a diet to lose weight so much as just to eat healthier, but I did end up losing about five pounds,” Speck says. Speck says that she will likely start with Zone Denver again in a couple of weeks, after she’s gotten herself settled into the new year. see ZONE Page 45

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A slice of the upper crust

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he latest entry in the Boulder Those desiring something more subgourmet pizza sweepstakes is stantial would be wise to sample the pizza, Pizzeria Da Lupo, a collabowhich starts at $9 for the straightforward ration between chef Jim Margarita of basil, tomato and mozzarella. Cohen and partner Ken Wolf The more deluxe numbers come in at $13, of Louisville’s Empire Lounge. Friend Zoe featuring such premium ingredients as and I made our way into this casually welshrimp and pancetta. Each should feed two coming eatery, located not far from moderately hungry people or a solitary resMcGuckin Hardware, for lunch recently. taurant reviewer who skipped breakfast. The menu is relatively simple, with a I followed the advice of our informaspotlight on antipasti, sandwiches, salads, tive server, who recommended the Saliche daily specials ranging from roast chicken to as a traditional choice. This pizza’s topsalt cod, and pizza baked in a wood-fired pings left nothing to be desired and I oven. After taking our seats, we noticed a appreciated the use of the delightful fenstaffer hauling a cart loaded with firewood nel-scented sausage as more of a seasoning for the pies. While we waited for our than overly heavy main attraction. Too courses, our server presented us with a much meat would have made it more diffismall plate dotted with pinches of sea salt, cult to savor the distinctive flavors of verred pepper and oregano. dant rapini (a.k.a. broccoli rabe) and Zoe started with a $7 Brussels sprout creamy fresh mozzarella and ricotta. The salad with walnuts and sheep’s milk pecoridepth of the ricotta made other versions no. While some find the texture and flavor seem insipid by comparison. But as good of this cabbage cousin off-putting, these as the toppings were, they took a backseat sprouts were shredded like a slaw, making to what may be the best pizza crust going hickpea flatbreads are a regional specialty in Italy, and for a pleasingly crisp feel. The understated in Boulder. A perfect balance of firmness farinata is the name of the Ligurian variation that’s tradiflavor of the vegetable melded well with and chew, it didn’t droop at all and artfully tionally served with such simple seasonings as salt, pepper and the toasted nuts and the surprisingly flarosemary. In Genoa, there’s a variant called panissa that balanced the bready and crisp. vorful, but not overly pungent, cheese. resembles polenta in thickness and texture, and versions of this We ended with an $8 chocolate tart, or While the lemon dressing was fresh-tastpreparation can be found as far afield as Gibraltar. Cecina is boudin, shot through with dark cocoa flavor. ing, a little less of this seasoning would a specialty of the Tuscan coast, and it’s noted for having a While the dessert was a bit on the pricey have better allowed other flavors to shine slightly crispy outside crust with a moister, creamier interior. All side, all the other items in our meal reprethrough. of these are relatively easy to make, with the basic ingredients sented fine value, considering the quality of While Lupo doesn’t currently serve a simply consisting of water, olive oil and chickpea flour. the ingredients and preparation. Premium pizza has been a hot local trend for the past gluten-free pizza crust, it does offer ceciyear or so, and there’s little sign that this nas, chickpea-based flat breads, with a movement will be going away any time soon. Pizzeria variety of toppings. Reasonably substantial, the cecina additions. She would have enjoyed it even more with reminded Zoe of a hefty slab of polenta. She opted a touch more eggplant, and we agreed the cecina, cou- da Lupo is positioned to distinguish itself in this market, due in no small part to its outstanding crust. for the $8 version topped with roasted melt-in-yourpled with a salad or antipasti, would make for a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com mouth eggplant and mozzarella, simple but satisfying decent light lunch.

Clay’s Obscurity Corner Farinata, panissa, cecina

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Dessert Diva Dark Chocolate Chunk Date Bars by Danette Randall

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ell, this week’s dessert isn’t the prettiest of treats, but looks aren’t everything, right? At least that’s what they tell me. This treat falls into the “but she’s got a great personality” category of the blind date set-up world. Speaking of dates, that’s what we are baking up. Dark Chocolate Chunk Date Bars. I love dates, and am excited about this dessert, but they sometimes get a bad rap. Lots of turned up noses when I whip out a date instead of a cookie for a snack. But I’m slowly convincing the people around me how tasty and nutritious they can be. Dates tend to be naturally sweet, and combining them with some dark chocolate chunks really balances out the flavor. Adding some pecans for crunch rounds out the texture and balances the sweetness this treat naturally provides. Maybe if you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places, these “date” bars can help you find your new one and only. I’m thinking you have a date-themed party. Lots of dated-themed dishes (they are great savory or sweet) and have all your friends invite some fresh blood for you to show off your baking talent. These bars are simple, so no need to worry about spending hours in the kitchen. Of course you can pretend you did — never hurts to make people think you spent a lot of time on them. I do it all the time. I’m thinking maybe spin the bottle would be nice to add to the date night. Make sure you eat one of these tasty bars before you go in for the kiss, and your mouth will have a nice hint of sweetness to it. Just here to help. Millionaire Matchmaker got nothing on me. So go plan your date night,

stock a little bubbly to help things along, and most importantly, give yourself permission to have a great time. Actually, most important, let me know how the date bars and the date night turn out. I’m very nosy, fill me in people! Now, follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

Dark Chocolate Chunk Date Bars 1 1/4 cup flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. salt 1 1/2 cups pitted and chopped dates 1 cup chopped pecans 3/4 cup dark chocolate chunks 1 egg 3/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup milk 2 tsp. vanilla Powdered sugar for garnish Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9-inch-by-13-inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt. Fold in dates, pecans and chocolate chunks. Set aside. In a large bowl, stir together egg and brown sugar. Add in milk and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture to wet mixture. Stir slowly and gently until well-combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake until top is golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Cool completely. Dust generously with powdered sugar. Cut into bars and enjoy! You can watch the Dessert Diva every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel 2. To contact Danette at the station, visit 2thedeuce.com, and click on Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments and suggestions, write to jdromega@aol.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Pork chops and hair chops February marks the 18th annual Stout Month and the 13th annual Chop Month at all three Mountain Sun pubs. Several owners and employees will chop their hair into unusual styles in preparation for the Denver and Boulder Chop King competition that will take place at the end of the month. Vine Street Pub in Denver will hold its Chop Month competition on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 10 p.m. Public voting on contestant hairstyles will be encouraged, and winners will receive prizes of pork chops, cash and beer. The event will also feature live bagpipe music and Stout Month drink specials. The Boulder version of the Chop Month competition will take place at 10 p.m. on Feb. 28 at the Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery. Rare food, rare experience Arugula Bar e Ristorante is hosting a Le Marche wine dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 6:30 p.m. The dinner, inspired by cuisine typical of the Le Marche region of Italy, will consist of five courses accompanied by a variety of unique wines. For $40 a person and a $25 optional wine pairing, Arugula Chef Alec Schuler and wine connoisseur

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Antonio Race of Bacco Imports will present and discuss each course and wine selection, from hand-rolled semolina ravioli to the rare Pignocco Rosso. For reservations, call 303-4435100. Juanita’s closing to reinvent itself Juanita’s Mexican Food, a Boulder landmark for almost 28 years, is scheduled to close March 1. Though the restaurant is closing, owner Roger Berardi and partners Michael and Annette Kretz aren’t going anywhere. The 1043 Pearl St. location will be renovated and reopened as a new restaurant that Berardi feels will have a unique atmosphere that’s more in tune with the times. Until then, staff ask that guests come in for one more chili relleno and “juanitarita.” Whole Foods delivers Colorado Chautauqua guests can now get Whole Foods groceries delivered even before they arrive at their room. Whole Foods will work with guests to determine a shopping list and will deliver food Monday to Friday from 4 to 5 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 3 p.m. The delivery service is free during those times, and additional delivery times are available for a $10 charge.

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Lynnette Campbell, a customer service specialist with Zone Denver, says the nutritional value of the Zone program is beneficial to a wide range of people — not just those looking to lose weight. For patients recovering from surgery, or elderly people who may not be able to make it out to the store, the delivery of a nutritional meal can be instrumental to maintaining overall health. Sherman says one thing Zone Denver strives for is to teach customers how to eat better on their own by recognizing healthier foods and correct Boulder Weekly

proportions. After people have been successful with the program, he says, they generally have more motivation to be on their own. “This day and age, I think most people know what’s healthy and what’s not, and how they should eat,” Sherman says. “If they don’t know specifically, they certainly have a good idea. It’s just a matter of, ‘Are you going to actually do this for yourself?’” For more information about Zone Denver, go to www.zonedenver.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com January 20, 2011 45

Via Toscana Ristorante 356 S. McCaslin Blvd. Louisville 303-604-6960

hile the menu here consists of straightforward Italian fare, this isn’t just another spaghetti and meatballs joint. The most expensive entrée is the Steak Florentine, a $25 number consisting of a half-pound filet mignon melded with mushrooms and Alaskan crab. More modest — but perhaps equally satisfying — choices include simple angel hair pasta with tomato, basil, garlic and olive oil. There are also calzones, pizza, cioppino seafood stew and kids’ menu pastas.

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Café Aion

Salvaggio’s Italian Deli

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.

1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 303-993-8131

Pupusas Sabor Hispano

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.

Salt 1049 Pearl St., Boulder 303-444-7258

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’t-miss-it salted caramel chocolate tart.

Las Palmeras 199 S. Main St., Longmont 303-848-0103

as Palmeras is a classic family-friendly Mexican joint with all the staple items of the classic menu. Fajitas, burritos and rellenos are present and accounted for. There are also intriguing seafood dishes, such as shrimp wrapped in bacon and octopus in ranchero sauce. The menudo here is comforting, with the spotlighted tripe cooked to ideal tenderness.

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

ay Wah is the archetypal Chinese- American restaurant, featuring a

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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.

Lefty’s Gourmet Pizza and Ice Cream 364 2nd Ave., Niwot 303-652-3100

efty’s is a New England pizza joint transplanted to Niwot. The bill of fare consists of the expected pizza, as well as subs, salads, calzones and pasta. Spaghetti and meatballs are affordable, with a wonderfully tangy marinara sauce and a side of buttery garlic bread. The thin crust pies have a fine texture, and those featuring the garlic and olive oil sauce pack a flavorful punch.

ingly good steak and eggs. The lunch and dinner menu features old favorites like patty melts and fried chicken.

II Pastaio

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 surpris-

Delhi Darbar

3075 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. B Boulder 303-447-9572

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 versions, 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.

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

Aunt Alice’s Kitchen 1805 Main St., Longmont 303-651-0495

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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The age-old question comes up for review once again: Which should predominate, independence or interdependence? The answer is always different, of course, depending on the tenor of the time and the phase of your evolution. But in the coming weeks, at least, my view is that you should put more emphasis on interdependence. I think you’ll reap huge benefits from wholeheartedly blending your energies with allies whose power and intelligence match yours.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

I find many of you Tauruses to be excessively self-effacing. It’s a trait that can be both endearing and maddening. Even as my heart melts in the presence of Bulls who are underestimating their own beauty, I may also feel like grabbing them by the shoulders and shaking some confidence into them, barraging them with frustrated exhortations like, “Believe in yourself as much as I believe in you, for God’s sake!” But I’m guessing I won’t be tempted to do that anytime soon. You appear to be due for a big influx of self-esteem.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

It will be good week to let your mind go utterly blank while slouching in front of a TV and sipping warm milk, or to spend hours curled up in a ball under the covers on your bed as you berate yourself with guilty insults for the mistakes you’ve made in your life. NOT! I’m kidding! Please don’t you dare do anything like that. It would be a terrible waste of the rowdy astrological omens that are coming to bear on you. Here are some better ideas: Go seek the fire on the mountain! Create a secret in the sanctuary! Learn a trick in the dark! Find a new emotion in the wilderness! Study the wisest, wildest people you know so that you, too, can be wildly wise!

CANCER June 21-July 22:

This would be an excellent week to grieve madly and deeply about the old love affairs that shattered your heart. I’ve rarely seen a better astrological configuration than there is now for purging the residual anguish from those old romantic collapses. So I suggest you conduct a formal ritual that will provide total exorcism and bring you maximum catharsis. Maybe you could build a shrine containing the photos and objects that keep a part of you stuck in the past, and maybe you could find the bold words and innovative gestures that will bid goodbye to them forever. Do you have any intuitions about how to create a rousing healing ceremony?

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

The History cable TV channel has a reality TV show called Ice Road Truckers. It documents the exploits of drivers who haul heavy loads in their 18-wheelers for long distances across frozen rivers and lakes and swamps in Alaska and northwest Canada. They bring supplies to remote outposts where humans work exotic jobs like mining diamonds and drilling for natural gas. If you have any truck-driving skills, Leo, you’d be a good candidate to apply for a gig on the show. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your levels of courage and adventurousness will be at an all-time high in 2011. May I suggest, though, that you try to make your romps in the frontier more purely pleasurable than what the ice road truckers have to endure?

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Pop chanteuse Katy Perry is renowned not only for her singing ability but also for her physical appearance. Her preternatural ability to sell her musical products can be attributed in part to her sparkling good looks and charisma. That’s why it was amusing when her husband, the trickster Russell Brand, Twittered a raw photo of her that he took as she lifted her head off the pillow, awakening from a night of sleep. (See it at tinyurl.com/RealKaty.) Without her makeup, Katy’s visage was spectacularly ordinary. Not ugly, just plain. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I urge you to do what Russell Brand did: expose the reality that lies beneath and behind the glamorous illusion, either in yourself or anywhere else you find a need.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

While I was growing up, I was taught to regard my analytical mind as a supreme tool for understanding reality. I’ve never stopped believing that. However, I eventually realized I had to add the following corollaries if I wanted to thrive: one, my imagination and intuition are as essential to my success as my analytical mind; two, I need to regularly

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

If you’re planning on spending any time hibernating during the next few months, this would be an excellent time to do it. Your reaction time is slowing down, which is a very healthy thing. Meanwhile, your allergy to civilization is acting up, your head is too full of thoughts you don’t need, and your heart craves a break from the subtle sorrows and trivial tussles of daily life. So go find some sweet silence to hide inside, Scorpio. Treat yourself to a slow-motion glide through the eternal point of view.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

“Dear Rob: All my life I’ve been passionate about the big picture — learning how the universe works, meditating on why things are the way they are and probing the invisible forces working behind the scenes. Too often, though, I’m so enamored of these expansive concepts that I neglect to pay enough humble attention to myself. It’s embarrassing. Loving the infinite, I scrimp on taking care of the finite. Any advice? — Larger Than Life Sagittarian.” Dear Larger: You’re in luck! Members of the Sagittarian tribe have entered a phase when they can make up for their previous neglect of life-nourishing details. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll find it as fun and interesting to attend to your own little needs as you normally do to understanding the mysteries of the cosmos.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

All the most credible studies say that the crime rate is steadily decreasing, and yet three out of every four people believe it’s rising. What conclusions can we draw from this curious discrepancy? Here’s one: The majority of the population is predisposed towards pessimism. In my astrological opinion, Capricorn, you can’t afford to be victimized by this mass psychosis. If you are, it will interfere with and probably even stunt the good fortune headed your way. I’m not asking you to be absurdly optimistic. Just try to root out any tendencies you might have to be absurdly gloomy.

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PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

In comedian Sarah Silverman’s memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, she confesses that she was still wetting her bed at age 19. Depression was a constant companion throughout adolescence, and she took a lot of Xanax. Yet somehow she grew into such a formidable adult that she was able to corral God himself to write the afterword for her book. How did she manage that? “This is so trite,” she told Publishers Weekly, “but … sex.” I predict that a comparable reversal of fortune is ahead for you, Pisces. Some part of your past will be redeemed, quite possibly with the sexy help of a divine ally.

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