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The Zetas and the Surfriders / 6 Plan to build desalination plant in Mexico is misguided by Paul Danish Pedaling to protest the Keystone XL pipeline / 13 Tom Weis and his yellow trike are on the road again by Christie Sounart VOTE! / 13 Our 2011 endorsements at a glance by Boulder Weekly Staff On the cover: Terrifying telecom tale / 14 Corporations bankrolling fight against local network measure — again by Jefferson Dodge

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Mystery music man / 18 Mum’s the word for Portishead’s Geoff Barrow by Quibian Salazar-Moreno Arts & Culture: Angry people fight over stamps / 23 Overtones: Singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch keeps getting love / 25 Overtones: One-handed piano star Leon Fleisher comes to Boulder / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Sophisticated Sex: Preventing erectile dysfunction / 33 CU Sports: Colorado football preps for Oregon’s electric offense / 34 Screen: Footloose; The Thing / 37 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 38 Cuisine: Celebrate Food Day by eating local / 40 Cuisine Review: Niwot Tavern / 41 Dessert Diva: White Chocolate Ginger Pumpkin Squares / 42 Elevation: It’s not just the weather that makes fall camping cool / 47

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departments Letters: Vote YES on Proposition 103; Forget Wall Street / 4 The Highroad: Fired CEOs get gilded goodbyes / 4 In Case You Missed It: Cain is a joke; MMJ dispensaries unionize / 10 News briefs: Buds for boobies; Tour of open space; A 10-year fiesta / 11 Boulderganic: Unsubstantiated organic health claims / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 50 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 53

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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Pamela White Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Editorial Interns, Blair Madole, Christie Sounart, Steve Weishampel Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Theo Romeo, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing Account Executives, Mike Cutler, David Hasson, Amber Hayes Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Francie Swidler Circulation Team Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 11-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo October 20, 2011 Volume XIX, Number 11 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com 2011

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Vote YES on Proposition 103 (Re: “VOTE,” cover story, Oct. 6.) Thank you for publishing your excellent Boulder Weekly edition of voter information. I always look forward to reading this section because I can’t seem to find good information on the candidates and issues facing Boulder voters that is so well-compiled anywhere else. I was particularly glad that you recommended voting “yes” on Proposition 103, which could provide some budget relief by raising income and sales tax slightly for five years to fund K-12 budgets, as well as those of public colleges. Revenue forecasts last September showed that the state will continue to make hefty cuts to K-12 education to balance its budget. These cuts will impact school districts throughout Colorado. Voting “yes” on Proposition 103 will help to offset some of those state budget cuts and enable all Colorado students attending public schools and public colleges to not be so adversely affected. This year K-12 took a $228 million cut, and the same is probable for next year. Joan Graff/Boulder

Forget Wall Street (Re: “Occupy yourself,” Uncensored, Oct. 13) Awesome article! Definitely,

the key is relocalizing our communities — local currencies, the whole damn enchilada. At the time of the Civil War, there were more than 300 local currencies in the U.S. Check out the Slow Money movement. Suggest that people invest in the local organic farms

The Highroad

n these times of nationwide job insecurity, with five applicants lined up for every job opening, CEOs warn workers that they’d better perform — or else. Or else they’ll be unceremoniously booted out the door. But what happens when the bosses themselves fail to perform? Well, they, too, are shown the door. But rather than getting a swift kick in the tush, they’re being given little golden kisses to soothe the pain of their failures. Actually, the kisses are not so little. For example, when Burger King’s board ousted its CEO in April for years of underperforming, his care package included a $20 million severance. That was on top of $29 million more in pension, deferred bonuses and stock payments. Likewise, Massey Energy, the reckless mining giant that killed 29 coal miners last year and now faces charges of deliberate-

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all around Boulder County, and when the U.S. dollar economy falls, we’ll have food locally, and if we all can eat and have water, we’ll build our local communities and won’t care if Wall Street goes to hell (not that we care anyway)! Thank you much!

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Fired CEOs get gilded goodbyes by Jim Hightower ly disregarding safety rules, handed its chief $34 million as a fond farewell for his ugly performance when he departed in June. Then there’s Hewlett-Packard, which supposedly is in the business of making computers, but seems to specialize in making outlandish payouts to failed CEOs. In 2007, Carly Firoina was sent packing with a $21 million severance, then her successor got

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$12 million to leave last year and, this September, his successor, Leo Apotheker, departed too, after only 11 months on the job. Apotheker’s payfor-failure totaled $13.2 million, including — get this — a $2.4 million bonus! Plus, HP is paying to relocate Leo to Europe and to cover the $300,000 loss he took on the sale of his house. Getting fired has never been so sweet — and shareholders are getting a tad miffed at seeing so much of their money going out the door in these gilded goodbyes. For more information, go to www. aflcio.org/corporatewatch/capital. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Danish Plan, Aug. 11.) People should vote for the best candidate for them without being subjected to endless corporately motivated and biased ads brainwashing people into believing whatever it is the corporations want them to believe, period. Citizens United is a clear attempt to foil this beautiful element of democracy, not (as you put it) “... rig American election laws in their [the Democrats’] favor.” Unless of course you (correctly) realize that thoughtful, well-informed voting is a trait common these days only to the Democratic side of the voters. Your argument for the case of corporate personhood is completely contradictory and ludicrous, not to mention reminiscent of the insane rightwing B.S. that has convinced the easily brainwashed people of this country to buy into the corporate takeover and gotten this country into such a mess in the first place. First of all, there is currently no debtors prison in America ... and there hasn’t been in 178 years. Although way to use fear tactics of non-existent threats to support your point. You make the claim that corporate personhood is at the root of the American economic system, however, need I remind you of the current state of the American economy? Our government is currently $14.3 trillion (and counting) in debt to foreign investors (fact: a vast majority of this thanks to our former Republican presidents). Most banks in this country and possibly the rest of the world would have failed if the government hadn’t “stepped in” and decided to put the burden of fiscal irresponsibility of Wall Street on the taxpayers’ backs. Inflation and unemployment are through the roof; we have no speakable health care in this country; and apparently to you, all of this is indicative of a healthy financial and corporate system that is functioning as it should, without the need for reform. You want us to feel sorry for these “poor” corporations who clearly have no concern for anything 6 October 20, 2011

but their own balance sheets because they might lose personhood and actually be held accountable for their actions, while all along, the only ones held accountable (so far) for these incredibly irresponsible (not to mention in many cases illegal) decisions being made on Wall Street are the people (the ones who have undeniable personal rights), the homeowners who did stake their credits, names and lives on the decisions these criminals were making on Wall Street, and the ones who eventually did end up losing all of this in the end because of decisions that were made out of reckless greed. I would present the possibility that maybe increased accountability is in order in the financial sector and, furthermore, that these corporations have no right to stand as human beings. If the very people who got us into this mess in the first place had to risk their own credit and names to create these junk investments and ARMs that they created, knowing nobody could actually pay them off, we would likely not be up a creek without a paddle the way that we are, because those gambles would never have been made. Lastly, you poke fun at the “chorus of angry leftists” who claim that corporations run the government, but I would ask you, if George W. Bush wasn’t taking cues from the corporate oil lobbyists that he is undeniably in bed with when he got us into the joke debacle of a war in Iraq, why then did he do it? To settle a vendetta with Saddam? Or, let me guess, you actually believe that (at that time) there was a connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam, that the 9/11 attacks were somehow connected to Saddam. Brian Ellison/Boulder

Vote Yes on 2B/2C Some are born here, some wander here, and some choose Boulder as a place to live. We chose Boulder from a short list of progressive communities

by Paul Danish

ities provide a lot of services, but only four of them are truly vital: Water, sewer, police and fire. (Add gas and electricity to the list in towns with municipal utilities.) Of the big four, water is hands down the most vital. If deprived of water, human beings will be on the fast track to the river Styx within three days, which alone is sufficient to make water the most vital urban service. Moreover, without water, a city’s sewage service will collapse and its ability to fight fires will be degraded to close to zero. When it comes to vital urban services, water is first among equals. That being the case, one would suppose that just about the last thing a city would like to see located in a foreign country is its water supply, especially if the government of that country was showing signs of losing control of parts of it to armed gangs and private militias. But four water utilities that supply San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and southern California are seriously thinking about building a major water desalination plant in Mexico instead of the United States. The utilities commissioned a study of the feasibility of building a 50-million-gallon-a-day (300 acre feet) desali-

nation plant, which could supply enough water for 100,000 people, in Mexico at Rosarito, south of San Diego. The study found no show-stoppers, and the utilities have commissioned a second study, which will include costs. Negotiations with the Mexican government are also under way. What’s more, a private company is considering building a 100-million-gallon-a-day plant in the same area and selling its output to the gringos. Why would American utilities even consider such a course, let alone pursue it? Why, indeed. About 10 years ago a company called Poseidon Resources set out to build a 50-million-gallon-a-day desalination plant at Carlsbad, Calif., near San Diego. A decade of studies, hearings and litigation ensued before the company finally won approval from the California state regulators. There may well be further challenges. The project’s main nemesis has been an organization named the Surfrider Foundation, an environmental group founded by Malibu surfers in 1984 that focuses on protecting beaches and marine water quality. Today it has 50,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide. In addition to the Carlsbad project, it opposes proposed desalination see SURFRIDERS Page 8

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“Egos are clashing, but this is participatory democracy in a little park.” —College student and political organizer Justin Strekal, who traveled to New York City from Cleveland to participate in Occupy Wall Street protests at Zuccotti Park “If U.S. officials have some delusions, [they must] know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation.” —Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, warning the U.S. to not act against Tehran over reports of a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. “It was like a movie scene which they try to make as gnarly as possible.” —Racecar driver Danica Patrick, describing the 15-car accident at a Las Vegas racetrack that killed driver Dan Wheldon on Oct. 16

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Pays for required engineering, legal, and financial work to finalize plans. Authorizes forming a municipal electric utility, only if financial, reliability, and environmental safeguards are met. (Gas service is unaffected.)

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“Approving 2B and 2C will allow us to determine the real costs, and ensure that if we go forward with a ‘muni’, it will be a sound decision both fiscally and environmentally.” – Susan Osborne, Boulder Mayor

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The Facts: We Are Protected on the Rates Boulder Can Run the Utility We’ll Get More Renewables and Less Carbon

Clean Power We can choose clean power at competitive prices. Let’s not spend our money on coal, the most highly polluting fuel.

This cost $3.8 million in 2010 (30 times the cost in 2007). Coal is a huge source of greenhouse gases and severely limits renewables.

Greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 60% to start with. No limit on renewables.

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We can use responsibly sourced gas-fired electricity. Unlike coal, gas integrates well with renewables, so we won’t have to turn off wind or solar.

Sticking with Xcel is a huge business risk. With Xcel we have essentially no control of our future, yet energy technology is changing very rapidly. Xcel has a history of constraining innovation.

“I am very impressed with the work that the citizens and City have done to move this effort forward. In my opinion, it’s a great demonstration of what our community can accomplish when we work together.”

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Dirty Power Increasingly, Xcel shuts off wind and burns coal instead. And we pay twice: once for the coal electricity generated and again to the wind farm owners for the time their turbines are shut down.

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“Boulder is a very creative community, but we’re being held back by Xcel. We can innovate in energy just as we have in open space, recycling, alternative transportation, and land use. We should take control of our energy future.”

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Xcel’s coal costs are going up at about 10% per year and they are passed through 100% to us. Xcel’s rates overall went up 20% in the last four years. A Federal carbon tax would add further costs.

Distant Management Xcel is headquartered in Minneapolis, overseen by the PUC, driven by profits. Xcel wasted enormous amounts of money on SmartGridCity and invested close to $1 billion in a coal plant in the face of global warming. The plant will be burning coal and limiting renewables until 2069.

Economic Benefit Increase local economic vitality and jobs. Boulder can keep some of the over $100 million per year that Xcel charges our community. Every $1 invested locally multiplies about 3.5 times for our local economy.

Rate Risk Reduced As we increase our percentage of renewables, our rates will be insulated from rising fuel costs. Rather than paying for dividends and CEO salaries, our savings will go toward reducing carbon emissions or to improving service.

Local Control Our utility will be headquartered in Boulder, overseen by a local citizen and business utility board, caring about Boulder. Our utility will be managed by professionals with appropriate experience and expertise. We can hire from the very best, and competitively bid generation and operation.

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SURFRIDERS from Page 6

plants in Huntington Beach and Monterey. The Surfrider Foundation’s main objection to the projects is that their intake pipes can suck in fish eggs and that they discharge concentrated salt brines that can also damage marine life into the ocean. The foundation also objects to the high-energy demands of desalination processes, presumably because the energy would come from burning fossil fuels. All three objections seem pretty weak. The brine and fish egg problems do not seem beyond the ability of civil and process engineering to fashion solutions. As for the energy issue — use wind, solar or nuclear. Of course, that might require the California greens who are fighting wind and solar power plants in the Mojave Desert and the power lines to connect them to the grid to lighten up. Shortly after he became energy secretary, Nobel laureate Steven Chu gave an interview in which he pointed to climate models that predicted global warming could result in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the source of most of California’s water, losing 90 percent of their snowpack by the end of the century. If Chu is right, the state of California would be looking at an annual water shortfall amounting to 35 million or 40 million acre feet at a minimum. (By way of comparison, California’s annual water consumption is around 70 million acre feet. Its draw from the Colorado River comes to six or seven

million acre feet.) It took California a hundred years to put in place its current water infrastructure. Assuming Chu is right, it needs to start building the successor system now, and central to the successor system is a massive commitment to desalination and waste-water recycling (which to a large extent will use desalination technology). Viewed from this perspective, the Surfrider Foundation is being irresponsible, or perhaps more charitably, selfabsorbed beyond words. Which raises a couple of questions: 1) Are environmental organizations like the Surfrider Foundation capable of distinguishing between what is important and what isn’t? Hint: Ensuring an adequate water supply for 38 million people in the face of impending climate change is more important than the welfare of a few square miles of fish eggs, just as the commercialization of solar and wind energy is more important than a few square miles of desert tortoise habitat. 2) If the country has so hamstrung itself with regulatory process and tolerance for greens gaming the system that public agencies responsible for the water supply think that contending with the Zetas in Mexico is a more attractive option than contending with the Surfrider Foundation in California, are we facing an environmental crisis of existential proportions — or a governance crisis of existential proportions? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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when my husband joined me in retirement last May. We feel good about finally having choices regarding recycling, opportunities to eat a healthy diet and finally being able to use public transportation and our recumbent trikes to reduce our carbon impact. Is the public transportation perfect? No, but it’s much better than we have experienced elsewhere, and we can work toward making it better. We like Boulder because people here are thinking about important issues and working toward solutions. I’ll restate that: People think about issues here, and a core of people are willing to work toward solutions. In

Boulder, these solutions have a chance of success regardless of huge industry money behind the status quo. The Boulder municipal utility initiative is a case in point. We support it and are willing to work toward it. We fully expect that citizens here will consider the issue carefully before they cast their votes. Give progress a chance, and vote “yes” on 2B and 2C. Our quality of life and that of our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren depend on the decisions we make now. Linda Hollingsworth/via Internet

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A clear look at 2B/2C Biases have clouded the debate concerning Boulder’s potential municipalization. Advocacy groups and special interests have flooded the airwaves, newspapers and public forums with emphatic articulations supporting their cause. As a result, information necessary to cast a reasoned and educated vote has fallen by the wayside. This is why the CU Energy Club, the university’s second-largest student group, is hosting an informational forum for students and the public on Oct. 25. Like the majority of Boulder’s residents, CU Energy wants sources of clean energy to play a greater role in Boulder’s energy supply. However, municipalization is a complicated issue that requires both consideration and balancing of multiple factors. Voting on this issue is too important to be based on biased arguments or pamphlets from Xcel or renewable advocacy groups. Therefore, we have tried to create an unbiased and objective forum to present essential information from both sides. Rather than holding a debate, we are hosting relatively unbiased energy experts who can explain the operations, economics, environmental impacts and governance that a municipal energy system would entail. No panelist will have a vested interest or have publicly advocated for one side or the other. This forum will be an information session rather than an adversarial debate. The CU Energy Club invites you to the Boulder Energy Municipalization Informational Forum at CU on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The event will be held in the Glenn Miller Ballroom from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Please join us for one of the final opportunities to discuss the topic before the Nov. 1 vote. Chris Reagen/Boulder

Is Hugo our next target? Research and development for the Gerald R. Ford, the first of the Navy’s next-generation aircraft carriers, is projected to be $5 billion. Construction is estimated at $9 billion, with commissioning set for 2015. A second ship is scheduled for 2019, and a total of 10 by 2058. Skipping past the sheer impact on our federal deficit and our assumption of the role of international cop, these new carriers are, primarily, attack weapons of war, capable of both missile and air strikes. An argument against carriers is that fully outfitted and armed, each would constitute upward from $20 billion worth of investment and equipment. Also somewhat discomfiting is that the Navy is reestablishing its 4th Fleet, headed by just such an aircraft carrier, for operations in the Caribbean “to support counter-terrorism efforts and Boulder Weekly

to protect our national interests” in Central and South America, regions in which our “economic interests” have frequently run counter to sovereign governments. Given our penchant lately for attacking prickly, independent rulers of oil-rich nations, one may question if perhaps Hugo Chavez and the oil fields of Venezuela might be next in our “counter-terrorism” sights. Robert Porath/Boulder

Obama and tree-huggers I know wealth is a dirty word, but

the fact remains that there are only three wealth creators! Mining, farming and manufacturing. Everything else — insurance, diners, beauty shops, retail chains — lives off of those things. Obama can talk all he wants about shovel-ready jobs, but the only way for America to survive is to be able to compete against the Chinese and others who have minimum environmental or work safety standards. Obama and the tree-huggers have done more to impede mining, farming and manufacturing than all of our enemies in all the wars which this nation

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s Tom Weis of Boulder pedals his bright yellow “Rocket Trike” the length of the proposed route of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline — 1,700 miles from Alberta to the gulf coast of Texas — the flag and bumper sticker attached to his transport clearly state his intentions: “No tar sands oil on American soil.” Weis is dedicated to educating the public about what he says are the detrimental effects that the pipeline will have on the nation if it is built. One week into his ride, he already has met with tribal leaders, landowners, farmers, ranchers, schools and the media to spread the word about his protest. “TransCanada’s project, the Keystone XL pipeline, is an affront to humanity,” he says. Weis learned about the pipeline while he was in Washington, D.C. in January after a successful 2,500-mile ride in his trike, raising awareness about turning the United States into a nation completely powered by renewable energy. His inspiration to protest the pipeline came after reading an article on the Keystone XL pipeline in the Washington Post. “I read the article, and I looked at the map [of the pipeline’s route], and I said, ‘There is no way we can let this happen,’” he says. “There is nothing about the Keystone XL pipeline that is remotely in America’s best interest.” Weis started planning the ride in earnest in the spring, and began his ride in Canada on Oct. 13. People have been very supportive, he says, and he was even followed by a tribal police escort for 18 miles, four days into his ride. “I’m talking to everybody I meet, and I tell them why I’m riding,” he says. “A lot of people don’t know the details [about the pipeline], and people are really open to hear it.” Weis’ largest concern with the pipeline is the possibility of oil spills leaking into the land. The current Keystone Pipeline, which runs from Alberta, Canada, to Oklahoma, has spilled 12 times in one year, Weis says. Boulder Weekly

“It’s not a question of ‘if ’ the Keystone XL pipeline would spill, it’s ‘when,’” he says. “A spill in the Missouri River would be disastrous. This is America’s breadbasket.” If built, the pipeline would transport tar sands oil that would contain toxic chemicals, Weis says. He is concerned about an oil spill contaminating drinking water in the Midwest and the farmland irrigation. “That’s an irreplaceable resource,” he says. Weis has encountered many people who are in favor of the pipeline, and he says he understands their reasoning. “You hear the promises of jobs, and that’s a hard thing not to get your attention,” he says. “On one level I can understand that. When I meet people like that, I really want to talk to them.” Weis is concerned that the pipeline won’t create as many jobs as hoped, and he says that he feels America should turn its focus on promoting renewable energy, and rely on things like electric cars and biodiesel. “Anyone who says we need oil to keep living, it’s not true,” he says. “We need to start making the transition now. We’re Americans. We do great things.” Weis says that he has become inspired by the Indian tribes he has encountered, and the general support he has received in the communities he visits. He has been working with several local organizations, and many grassroots groups support his ride, he says. On Oct. 17, he had the opportunity to talk to 300 K-12 students about the pipeline. “The kids were really receptive,” he says. “It was a really powerful experience.” Weis plans to continue to raise awareness about the hazards of tar sands oil and the pipeline in as many ways as he can, while simultaneously promoting renewable energy options as he pedals south in the upcoming weeks. He plans to keep going strong to the end of the year. “I’d like to be home by Christmas,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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a local example of what the Occupy Wall Street movement is railing about, big telecommunications companies are once again pouring cash into a campaign to defeat a measure that would allow Longmont to use its own fiber-optic network. Not unlike the way that Xcel is investing in a campaign to defeat the city of Boulder’s municipalization effort, 16 miles northeast there is a battle waging over Longmont’s 17-mile telecom network, which has remained largely unused over its 14-year history. The city of Longmont must ask voters to approve Question 2A due to a 2005 state law that prohibits municipalities from offering telecommunication services without sending it to the ballot. Some say that bill was passed at the urging of companies like CenturyLink (formerly Qwest) and Comcast because they saw municipalization as competition and a threat to their market share. The new anti-2A campaign, titled “Look Before We Leap,” has been sending mailers to all of the city’s registered voters, buying TV ads, sending canvassers door to door and calling residents by phone. In 2009, a similar campaign called “No Blank Check” was bankrolled to the tune of nearly $250,000, primarily by the telecommunications industry. That campaign, which was successful in defeating the measure, was labeled as misleading by city officials because it claimed money would be taken from police and firefighters to fund city telecommunications services. “It was actually just the opposite of what No Blank Check was saying,” Tom Roiniotis, director of Longmont Power and Communications, told Boulder Weekly this summer. “They were saying we were going to have to lay off police and firefighters. Nothing could be further from the truth. … In fact, telecommunications would actually generate money for those departments. But they had models dressed up as firefighters, looking very sad.” This time around, the flyers being mailed to residents opposing Question 2A are downright frightening. One, featuring Halloween-themed fonts, is titled “Terrible Telecom Tales” and features questions like, “Is Longmont whistling past the graveyard?” and “Want to hear a scary story?” The mailing then describes horror stories of other cities that have tried to 14 October 20, 2011

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Corporations bankrolling fight against local network measure — again by Jefferson Dodge launch municipal telecom services. The flyers call such endeavors “risky experiments” and “a money pit.” They claim that 2A gives Longmont the authority “to pour as much of your tax dollars as it needs into a highly speculative venture,” even though Roiniotis has said any municipal telecommunications entity will be entirely self-funded. The Look Before We Leap website features a large photo of a child in front of a swimming pool with a sad look on his face, as if concerned for his future. **** A trade group called the Colorado

Cable Telecommunications Association, of which Comcast is a member, is listed as the only contributor to the Look Before We Leap campaign and had donated $75,000 as of Oct. 15, according to city campaign disclosure records. But the campaign reported that it had accrued $210,896 in total unpaid expenses in the campaign as of Oct. 15. That amount included $12,260 to Holland & Hart for legal services, $15,000 to Drake Research and Strategy in Boulder for polling and $114,351 to SE2 for a TV buy, consulting services, website hosting, advertising and mailings.

By comparison, the political committee Moving Longmont Forward reported total expenses of $3,145 as of Oct. 15. Cory Nadler of Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach, who served as the field director of the No Blank Check campaign in Longmont in 2009, confirmed that his firm is being paid $35,250 for doing door-to-door canvassing for Look Before You Leap, but he was tight-lipped about the details. When asked what areas of the city his group is targeting, he replied, “I’m not really sure why that matters.” In response to a question about how many boots he has on the ground, Nadler said, “We’ve got a good team of folks out there, enough to get the job done. I don’t think it makes much sense for me to be publicizing our campaign plans and strategies now.” Campaign spokesperson George Merritt of Onsight Public Affairs, which had been paid $30,000 by Look Before We Leap as of Oct. 15, insists that the campaign is being conducted on behalf of the citizens and businesses in Longmont, not because of a threat to big telecom’s market share. He points out that about 200 people have signed on with the campaign and agreed to have their names used on the Look Before We Leap website. (The name of Mayor Bryan Baum, who supports 2A, was mistakenly included on that list initially, but it has since been removed.) When asked whether the Colorado Cable Telecommunications Association (CCTA) is pouring money into the campaign out of genuine concern for the people of Longmont, as opposed to being driven by concerns about losing profits to a new telecom competitor, Merritt says, “Certainly it includes contributions from the cable industry, but frankly the folks in Longmont are outgunned. They have the whole city campaigning for this, using city resources. That’s why we exist, to give a voice to these folks who are concerned.” He points to a pamphlet that the city mailed to residents, outlining the pros and cons of the measure. Merritt confirmed that the Look Before We Leap campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to the city and the secretary of state complaining about that pamphlet, saying the city was illegally using resources to campaign for 2A and sidestepping campaign finance disclosure rules by spending tax money on the materials. Merritt says the pamphlet gave Boulder Weekly

more space to the “pro” arguments, and the “con” arguments were not what his campaign would have chosen to use. The city has declined to halt distribution of the pamphlet, and Merritt says he is not sure whether the campaign will file a complaint with Secretary of State Scott Gessler. **** If Gessler does get involved, he is no stranger to Longmont politics. He was the attorney for an out-of-state conservative group called Western Tradition Partnership (WTP) that sued the city of Longmont over its campaign finance disclosure rules in 2009. WTP, represented by Gessler, also poured cash into a negative campaign — featuring what some described to as a slanted “push poll” — against left-leaning City Council candidate Karen Benker during the 2009 election season. WTP — now calling itself the American Tradition Partnership — is inserting itself into this year’s election as well. The group has spent $10,000, according to city campaign records, and has sent candidates for City Council a list of questions that one candidate, Ron Gallegos, told the Longmont TimesCall reminded him of a “push poll.” The questions, posted on the organization’s website, ask candidates things like whether they support use of tax money for energy-efficiency projects, “even if the project will never achieve the promised cost savings,” or whether they support the council’s recent decision to “oppose such publicly funded ‘bailout’ money for ‘green’ projects.” Donny Ferguson, the group’s spokesperson, told Boulder Weekly that his organization has not taken a position on 2A. Merritt insists that the primary driver behind Look Before We Leap is not the telecom industry, and he balks at the idea that voters were swayed by misleading information when the measure was defeated two years ago. He points to the fact that about 56 percent of the voters, in a 12-point margin, “voted to not go into the cable business with the city. It’s really an insult to the voters to think they are unable to examine and look at the materials and information available and make a decision on whether they’re going to vote yes or no.” The question remains whether Look Before We Leap is a grassroots effort or Astroturf, another example of corporate interests positioning their well-funded campaigns as being bottom-up. When asked why the people and businesses of Longmont aren’t putting the money into the campaign instead of the CCTA, Merritt replied, “I think what we’ve seen is people putting their name on this, and you have people supBoulder Weekly

porting it in town, businesses supporting it in town, and certainly cable is a part of the effort, for sure.” In July, Jeff Weist, executive director of the CCTA, told Boulder Weekly that his association’s concerns about 2A include the fact that the city plays a regulatory role, which could give it an unfair advantage because telecommunications firms “would have to compete against the entity that is also their regulator.” He also said that Longmont might be able to undercut prevailing industry rates by subsidizing its telecommunications service with other funding, such as tax dollars or revenue from its power utility. “Yes, we’re a little nervous about competing against a municipality that can use cross-subsidization,” he said at the time. Boulder Weekly asked Weist this week whether that issue is still a concern. “Yeah, it is, and I think our largest concern is that there are many unanswered questions about how this telecommunications system that Longmont is proposing would work. There have been very few details, so important questions like that have not been answered yet, and that is the major part of our concerns.” Comcast spokesperson Cindy Parsons referred questions to Weist. John Hall, spokesperson for CenturyLink, told Boulder Weekly that, as was the case with the similar measure two years ago, his company has not taken a position on 2A and is not involved in the campaign against it. “Certainly we’re paying attention to it,” he says. “But we think first and foremost it is the right thing for voters to have their voice heard. … I do think there is very heavy competition right now, and so having a municipality enter into that, I think there are questions as to whether that’s needed or if that makes sense, but some of those questions, just haven’t been answered yet.” Asked whether CenturyLink was involved in the passage of the 2005 law requiring cities to get voter permission before launching telecom services, Hall says, “I’m not intimately aware of our role in that, but we did support that measure.” Every member of the Longmont City Council and every council candidate contacted by Boulder Weekly have expressed support for the ballot measure. A pro-2A event titled “Gigabytes and Microbrews” is scheduled for 3 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, at the Left Hand Tap Room in Longmont. The Look Before We Leap website is lookbeforeweleap.org; proponents of 2A have set up their own site at longmontsfuture.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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pening again and again and again? Didn’t Bernie Madoff prove that even the worst of fraudsters can accurately fill out government forms? To his credit, Bill Clinton had anticipated the potential for such flagrant perfidy. He and the folks at the American Consumers Union wanted organic field testing back in ’97 and ’98 but, facing a stiff lobby from urban organic activists, field testing was effectively eliminated from the National Organic Program. There’s hope, mind you. Miles V. McEvoy, deputy administrator of the National Organic Program, says there will finally be field testing during his tenure. It’s more than a decade late, and he’s already three years into his job, but it’s worth supporting — with the following proviso: Organic food must be tested in the field, not after harvest or any time later. Many highly toxic pesticides and fertilizers dissipate within days and become undetectable. If McEvoy doesn’t test organic farms in the field at least once a year, fraudsters, cheaters and charlatans will continue to game the system. And, I predict, white-collar criminals like Madoff will turn green with envy (pardon the pun) as they watch through the bars of their jail cells. Mischa Popoff is an International Organic Inspectors Association-trained advanced organic farm and process inspector and is the author of Is it Organic? which you can preview at www.isitorganic.ca. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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not its Research, Inspection, Nutrition, Safety, Risk Management or Conservation services. Don’t consumers and the environment deserve a bit of scientific assurance? Asked why we don’t go beyond mere marketing in the multi-billion-dollar organic sector, Nestle’s response is to point to the added cost that something like organic field testing would entail. But field testing will cost just one-tenth of what the current system costs. So why not replace all the useless marketing paperwork with a simple annual lab test? Eliminate fraud and save a bundle in the process. What? Too simple? Sometimes simple is the only way. Commenting further on the Dannon case, Nestle says, “Yogurt is just food. It’s not a miracle. No food is a superfood.” Again, she’s right. And again, her comments underline the need to finally do something about all the phony-baloney organic food being sold at hefty premiums to trusting consumers. How phony-baloney, you ask? A company called California Liquid Fertilizer was finally shut down back in 2008 after years of selling prohibited synthetic nitrogen to unsuspecting organic farmers in California. They disguised it as natural nitrogen simply by (wait for it) switching the label. Yup, it’s really that easy to game this system in the absence of field testing. And they only paid a measly $10,000 fine. How exactly is paperwork supposed to prevent this sort of thing from hap-

1. Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder cally I’m just an American woman living down the street who decided to take some action to unite the people of Boulder to take action for this movement that is now sweeping across the country,” says Rebecca Sell, chief coordinator for one of the Occupy Boulder groups. “I’m no politician. I don’t claim to know or understand policies. My husband and I, we’re on food stamps, living in affordable housing, and I have an interview Wednesday for a $9-an-hour job.”

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t’s been almost a year since USA Today broke the story of yogurt giant Dannon’s overzealous marketing of its product as a miracle health food. The makers of Activia and DanActive yogurt had to pay a whopping $21 million fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for claiming their product could relieve irregularity and prevent the common cold. Marion Nestle, a New York University nutritionist and organic food activist, said the FTC’s response was “a shot across the bow that food marketers are going to have to stop using unsubstantiated health claims as marketing tools.” And she’s absolutely right. But wait a second … Couldn’t the same be said about the holiest of holies in the food biz? What about all the claims made about organic food? I’m big a supporter of the organic movement. I grew up on an organic grain farm and worked for five years as an organic inspector. And it saddens me to say that the certification of “organic” food is little more than a glorified marketing scheme. If you spend your hardearned grocery budget on organic food, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that there’s no guarantee whatsoever that you’re getting anything that’s purer or more nutritious than regular food. You see, the United States Department of Agriculture’s much-ballyhooed National Organic Program is administered under the rubric of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing service,

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The Golden Dragon Acrobats don’t care for the typical family bicycle design. They perform Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

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Dancing with Boulder Stars — Cheer on your favorite local celebrity as they tango, waltz or what have you. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Friday, Oct. 21

Historical Ghost Tours of Longmont — Life Stories of Local Legends. Get a head start on Halloween with a ghost tour, but don’t wear a mask. 6:30 p.m. 303-776-3611.

Saturday, Oct. 22

The Marriage of Figaro — Mozart’s opera has the lesser-known subtitle “The Day of Madness.” 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423.

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1994, Portishead dropped an album that would cement triphop as a legitimate genre of music and make stars out of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. Although the band detested the “trip-hop” label, their debut album Dummy defined the genre. Filled with dramatic, jazz-based melodies, chords and samples over mid-tempo, hip-hop-inspired breakbeats, along with Gibbons’ haunting vocals, Dummy inspired a plethora of bands in the mid-’90s, including Morcheeba, Sneaker Pimps and Cibo Matto. Tracks from the album were even sampled by hip-hop artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Timbaland and Canibus. Dummy was certified Gold in the U.S. and won Britain’s top music award, the Mercury Music Prize, in 1995 as best album of the year. The album is often named as one of the best albums of the 1990s. Portishead followed up Dummy with a self-titled album in 1997, which differed in sound from their debut — see PORTISHEAD Page 20

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Golden Dragon Acrobats — There’s no actual dragon in this show, but there are seasoned Broadway performers. 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845.

Monday, Oct. 24

Brad Goode Jazz Quartet — Much like food and sex, jazz is best experienced live. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Buds for Boobies — Benefit for Cannabis for Breast Cancer. Buds for Boobies will surely be followed by other events, like Tokes for Tits and Marijuana for Mammaries. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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fewer samples, more exploration with drums and a variety of new vocal stylings from Gibbons. Although the album was a solid project from the band, debuting in the top 10 in the U.K. and named one of the best albums of that year, it didn’t get as much attention as their debut. The band then took an 11-year hiatus. During their break each member had their side projects: Gibbons released an album, Out of Season, with former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb. Barrow launched a record label called Invada Records and, along with Utley, produced The Coral’s 2005 album The Invisible Invasion, among other production projects. In 2008, Portishead reconvened to create and release their third album, Third. As with their previous albums, Third went on to receive critical acclaim and was named one of the best albums of 2008. But when it came to touring the album, the band only did a European tour, with just one U.S. date, at the Coachella music festival. Three years later, they’re now traversing U.S. soil. “We released our last record and we toured it for a little bit, but we couldn’t tour it completely because there were personal plans like babies and stuff like that,” Barrow says. “So we couldn’t do

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North America as doing now.” On the Bill: Portishead plays the 1stBank Center much as we Even though on Thursday, Oct. 27. Doors at 7 would have liked; Portishead hadn’t p.m. Thought Forms open. Tickets we only played toured in three start at $50.70, fees included. 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, Coachella. Then years, Barrow 303-410-0700. we said, when it says that when it comes to the right came time to time, we will come back and try to do it rehearse for the U.S. tour, they didn’t more intentionally. And it’s just been need much time at all to shake off the the right time to do it.” rust. This year the band was chosen as “We actually only had about just the curator of two All Tomorrow’s over a week for rehearsal. It came back Parties (ATP) events, a festival where to us really, really quick, and we organizers ask a band to not only head- rehearsed when we did the tour in line the event but also pick the bands Europe, so it all came back really who will be a part of it. Portishead quickly,” Barrow says. “[The show] is headlined a London and New York about half and half old material and show where they chose everything from new material, but we’ve been playing hip-hop acts like Company Flow and with the same band since 1994, so it’s Public Enemy to indie bands like kind of like we know what we’re doing Deerhoof to punk bands like Swans. by now.” Barrow says the events were a catalyst While on tour, a lot of bands, profor promoters to take interest in bringducers and artists use their downtime to ing a tour to the states. write new music, talk concepts or ideas “That put us in a position to kind of for the next project, and maybe even to be out there again,” Barrow says. record a song or two in a studio at a “When we announced that we would tour stop. For Barrow and Portishead, be doing the ATP, loads of interest that’s not how things work. Although came from Europe about doing festiBarrow says he gets ideas on the road, vals, so we took them up because we he files them away to use at a later date. haven’t played the festivals in like, 11 “A tour is just not the place for us to years, and then that gave the chance to be considering new material,” he says. come here … and Australia and New “There’s so much focus on getting the Zealand as well. So that’s what we’re gear right and getting stuff right for the

tour. So we don’t really do that. I don’t use Macs or Logic and stuff. I got to go into the studio and write. I can’t write in airplanes on a Mac. I don’t have any interest in that. If I get hit by like an idea, it kind of sticks with me and starts to grow. I don’t go into the studio until it feels really right; I usually remember a concept or something. Like when I was in Greece two years ago, I heard some incredible music on the radio there and recorded it on my phone. So that’s there now, and somewhere down the line I may want to use it.” So when can fans expect a new Portishead album? “Well, I’m going to start writing it in January, so you know … that could take 10 years,” Barrow jokes. “But everyone is totally committed to record new material, it’s just everyone wants it to be good, that’s all. I think we got a low opinion of ourselves in our capacity to actually write, and we think a lot of stuff is shit. And the stuff we don’t use on the album will never get released as bonus tracks because it’s shit. It’s not good enough. And I think if you heard it, that everyone would mostly agree. It’s just our standards are just … interesting. It just has to feel right. It has to be that way for us.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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id you know that Mauritius is (Lindsey Pierce), who stubbornly claims a tiny island just east of sole ownership of the stamps. Is all of this somewhat diverting? Madagascar? Neither did I. Certainly. Is it a nail-biting, goose-fleshThat Mauritius was the sole, inducing rollercoaster of unexpected revelanative home of the now tions and unforeseen double crosses? Not extinct Dodo bird, and that Mauritius was nearly. Though Jackie is the most central only the fifth country ever to issue postage character, Dennis is truly the fulcrum of the stamps, were also facts that had, until now, play. Jackie and Mary’s wants, as well as eluded me. While there is nary a mention of Sterling and Philip’s needs, all pass through the noble Dodo in Theresa Rebeck’s Dennis as variously negotiator, partner, Mauritius — an omission that both saddens friend and foil. Folkins deserves credit for and baffles me — the island’s place in philathe most nuanced and recognizably human telic history forms the core of this oddly performance in Mauritius. Veterans Sandoe inert drama. and Hunt each have moments of genius, When most people think of philately, or despite the one-note nature of their charac“stamp collecting,” as those of us who have never won a spelling be usually refer to it, ters, and Watson maintains an appropriately their feelings are most likely ambivalent. Leah Watson, Brian Landis Folkins and Jim Hunt perform in the Boulder Ensemble guarded and furious demeanor throughout. Theatre Company production of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius. The idea of coming across a rare stamp in Even if the cast had done the best work your grandmother’s attic, a stamp worth of their lives, Mauritius would still suffer hundreds of thousands or even millions of from Rebeck’s unimaginative plotting and dollars, appeals to the inner-capitalist in all of us. Yet Philip, a rather bitter and condescending man, can’t be Mamet-lite dialogue. As long as it fits the character by and large, non-philatelists judge stamp-collecting bothered even to take a look at it. Dennis (Brian and setting, I always appreciate when a playwright and its devotees to be less-than-thrilling at best and Landis Folkins), a struggling collector who, apparentembraces profanity. That said, having middle-aged mind-numbingly boring at worst. Stamp collectors at ly, spends his days parked inside Philip’s establishment men use the phrase “fuck you” as an interrogative, a cocktail parties are generally met with the same mild hoping and praying for some rare stamps to walk declaration and semantically null filler — often over smile and quick disengagement as proselytizers of through the door, reviews Jackie’s collection and spies the course of one exchange — does not, in and of macramé or bullet reloading. what could be one of the brightest stars of the philatitself, confirm gravitas or even validity on the proMauritius, the play, engenders a very similar ely firmament. ceedings. response. Though it contains a handful of humorous Dennis doesn’t tip his hand to either Philip or Mauritius, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s exchanges and some flashes of inspired performance, Jackie, but instead takes his hunch to Sterling ( Jim sixth season opener, is a play about stamp collecting. it is, at its heart, a drama about stamp collecting. Like Hunt), a wealthy, semi-legitimate businessman and Really, what more needs to be said? (Yes, of course, philately itself, Mauritius offers the postal currency collector who starts salivating like Pavlov’s dog at bell virtually any subject can be made to compel; this play layman a brief, marginally interesting, but ultimately time over the possibility of obtaining the Holy Grail just doesn’t manage it.) Mauritius features four very forgettable, diversion for a couple of hours. No more. of postage stamps. The two men must overcome some angry people and one opportunist, all aggressively No less. sordid history to recruit the expert Philip for their looking after their own best interests. Profanity is When Jackie (Leah J. Watson) enters Philip’s plan to purchase Jackie’s collection at a fire-sale price. hurled along with a few punches, but the end result (Sam Sandoe) stamp collecting shop with a collection Meanwhile, Jackie faces her own obstacle to financial will, like philately, appeal only to a select few. she inherited from her recently deceased mother, independence in the form of her half-sister Mary Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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lexi Murdoch does his own thing. It just happens to be getting picked up by the mainstream and put on national TV. In a U.S. tour that includes just six stops before jetting back to destinations like Helsinki and Rome during a two-month period, Murdoch will grace the Fox Theatre with his presence. And grace is just about the most fitting word to apply to this singer/songwriter, known for heart-tweaking lyrics and melodic lines that call back nostalgia and loss and all those poignant themes leaned on heavily in television dramas, independent films and commercials. Murdoch’s reputation has at least been partially built on placements he’s had nothing to do with. His music has appeared in films and television shows as divergent as Grey’s Anatomy and Real Steel. “For the most part I’m kind of, I’m a little bit out of the picture — if you’ll excuse the pun — with all that kind of stuff,” he says. “I hear about it because people say, ‘Hey, I heard your song in such and such,’ but, for the most part, I don’t know too much about it.” And maybe that’s for the best. The epic “Orange Sky,” from the 2002 EP Four Songs, calls forth the drama of a lifetime. It has its own story; it didn’t need Prison Break, or The O.C., or Garden State or Dawson’s

Creek — all of which used the song — to give it meaning. “I think probably if I sat and looked at a lot of the places where the music gets used I might be horrified,” says the man who reportedly spends his free time at his home in Scotland working on a small wooden sailing boat. “In an ideal world, I suppose I would keep the music completely separate from all of that, but it’s not an ideal world. And I guess also maybe I’m not actually that convinced about that, because I think that maybe people have become so used to receiving their music that way that they’ve kind of started to develop an ability to separate the kind of narrative of whatever advertisement they’re watching at the time and the music that’s being used to kind of facilitate that. … So I would hope that the music kind of comes out mainly, for the most part, unadulterated by the whole process.” And there are worse fates than having his songs appear in an advertisement — like actually having to advertise for himself. “I find that way too embarrassing,” he says. For an artist who has been self-released from the start, these spots have eased his way into sold-out concert tours. And while he’s stayed self-released to protect his artistic priorities and allow for a slow, methodical process, he mixed the procedure up for his latest

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A disease left piano star Leon Fleisher unable to play with his right hand, but that didn’t stop him by Peter Alexander Boulder Weekly

hen pianist Leon Fleisher and the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) comes to Boulder next Tuesday, be prepared for fireworks. Literally. Their last tour together was interrupted by a volcanic eruption. “Last year I did a little tour of Ireland that was ended by the Icelandic volcano,” Fleisher reports. “We couldn’t get out of Dublin for about a week.” A volcano may be the only thing that stops Fleisher from touring. At 83 and one of America’s most distinguished pianists, he continues the grueling life of a touring artist (for example, concerts on successive nights in Laramie, Wyo., Boulder and Ames, Iowa) because he still enjoys it. For the current tour, Fleisher will be playing the

record, Towards the Sun. Much of what went on the record came from a single session of recording with a tape deck. “It was completely different from the previous effort in that the previous effort was this kind of long, drawn-out battle,” he says. “This time around, I was just convinced I wasn’t going to get into that kind of quagmire again.” He hadn’t planned to make a record, just to commit some ideas to tape. When he reviewed it later, he found himself “pleasantly surprised to find that there was something kind of very true to me about how the songs sounded. “Obviously in this day and age, it’s become sort of standard to expect people to sort of, you know, crank out stuff every year,” he says. “But I guess when you step back from it and realize, it’s not like we’re in desperate need of another album, you realize that, in fact, you have to just kind of give into the process and focus more on what you’re going to put on the record rather than just making sure you have a record out there every year.” Despite tortuous spaces between records and next to no self-promotion (his Twitter feed is thin, to say the least) Murdoch’s U.S. tour is nearly sold out. “It’s always a real surprise to me,” he says. “Every time I go out on tour, I’m always very skeptical about the whole process, and I always assume that nobody’s going to show up.” What he has to guess, he says, is that those other media, the television shows and movies, have drawn the people to the music. “I don’t feel like I’ve kind of used some kind of method to pull people in,” he says. “It feels like the music has kind of gone out way ahead of me and done that work for itself.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 4 for Left Hand and orchestra. Considered one of the young lions of the piano in the 1950s, Fleisher saw his career curtailed in 1965 by the development of focal dystonia, a rare neurological affliction, in his right hand. Little understood at the time, the condition directed him into a career playing music for left-hand alone — of which there is quite a bit, due to commissions by Paul Witgenstein, a pianist who lost his right arm in World War I. Fleisher has also pursued careers as a conductor and teacher. More recently, he has received treatment that restored some use of the right hand, although two-handed performances remain relatively rare. see PIANO Page 26

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Interestingly, of all the challenges better known in the United States than and career-changing experiences he has the concerto, but Fleisher thinks they faced, it is conducting that had the are as worthy as the Scottish Chamber greatest impact on Fleisher the musiOrchestra and other European ensemcian. bles that have earned a reputation in “Working with 40, 60, 100 people this country. is a vastly different experience than the “They’re wonderful,” Fleisher says quite solitary playing of a soloist,” he of the orchestra. “They should be explains. “By nature an orchestra has a known. They should be heard.” certain amount of skepticism. They all In addition to the Prokofiev, the started out to be soloists, so they always orchestra will play Termon (“Place of look at a conductor with a half-raised Sanctuary”), a new piece by Irish comeyebrow. But if you can convince them poser Míchael ó Suilleabhain that was of the validity of your vision and can written to commemorate the 10th entice them to go along to achieve that anniversary of 9/11. Termon is scored vision, that’s an unbelievably gratifying for strings with Uillean pipes, the charexperience.” acteristic bagpipe of Ireland. In comThe Prokofiev Concerto for the parison to the somewhat raucous sound Left Hand is one of the more familof the commissions iar Scottish bagOn the Bill that Witgenstein pipe, the Uillean Leon Fleisher plays with the Irish Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday, never played. After pipes have a Oct. 25 at Macky Auditorium. receiving a copy sweeter and genShow starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets from the composer, tler sound. start at $12. 1595 Pleasant St., 303-492-8008. For more info, visit he wrote back that The soloist on http://cupresents.org. he didn’t underthe Uillean pipes stand a single note will be Pádraic of it. Even today it’s not well known, Keane, recent winner of Ireland’s Young although Fleisher thinks it deserves to Musician of the Year and member of a be more popular. prominent Irish musical family. “I think it’s a wonderful piece,” he Two symphonies complete the prosays. “It has a kind of lightness and elegram: Haydn’s Symphony No 96, gance, and it has an imagination and a known as “The Miracle,” and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony — the kind of courage that you don’t find that often in Prokofiev. It’s a four-movement second of at least three performances of this exuberant symphony in Boulder concerto, and the last movement is a this season. Boulder Chamber kind of recollection of the first moveOrchestra presented the Seventh on ment that evaporates into nothingness. “Most people, when they write con- their opening concert Sept. 30, and the certos, they like to end it with a big tri- Boulder Philharmonic will join in with its own interpretation in March. umphant reconciliation between soloist The Seventh, chosen for the cliand orchestra, or triumph one over the mactic scene in the Oscar-winning other. But this just disappears.” It’s also very difficult, which may be “The King’s Speech,” is a famously propart of the reason that Witgenstein put pulsive piece with great rhythmic drive. it aside unplayed. “I have to be perfect- Nonetheless, in Boulder it is unlikely to trigger a volcanic eruption. On Tuesday, ly honest with you, it is not easy,” it will be up to the musicians on stage Fleisher admits. to provide that level of energy. The Irish Chamber Orchestra and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com their conductor, Gérard Lorsten, are no

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music Blue Scholars. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Emma Henry. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Ginga. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Holly DeHoog. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Jarrad Manard, Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Kingman Brewster. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Liza Oxnard & GoGo Lab. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. Princess Music. 9:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036. Smack Thompson. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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The Afronauts. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Annie Booth. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Big Drum/Small World — Feat. the Metta Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845. The Bimarinal Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blackdog — With Sally Van Meter. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blue Krewe. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. Gregory Alan Isakov. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Jababa. 9 p.m. First Street Pub, 35 E. First

BIBA Gets Happy at BAC. 4:30 to 6 p.m. Boulder Arts & Crafts, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-565-3854. Compassionate Friends Meetings — For families following the death of a child. 2 p.m. First Presbyterian Church 1820 15th Street, Boulder, 303-747-2415. Dancing with Boulder Stars. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303443-8696. JUNO Mission to Jupiter. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5001. Sacred Sound Immersion — Healing Sound meditation. 7 p.m. Double Rainbow Ranch, 6541 N. 63rd St., Niwot, 317-9857622. Zumba for Charity. 12 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., 720-442-1368.

St., Nederland, 303-258-0782. Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. JC and the Water Walkers. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Lee Johnson. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Mark’s Midnight Carnival Show. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696. Paul Glover. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427. Pete Kartsounes Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. ReZen. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Robert Randolph & The Family Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder,

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Boulder/Denver Area Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art — Zach Reini’s Suburban Lawns, Thomas Scharfenberg’s Obvious Invisible, Amanda Marie Ploegsma’s Purity & Credence. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 29. CU Art Museum — Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography,War and the Holocaust; Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1320.Through Sept. 22. NCAR Community Art Program — Nancy

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1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3883. Through Nov. 18. Uncommon Ground: Impact and Influence. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 11. The Urban Landscape. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Opening reception 6 p.m. Oct. 20. When Space is Open. Manifest Art Gallery, 108 2nd Ave., Niwot, 303-652-0952.

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303-443-8696. The Stereofidelics. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, 303449-2911. Ten Pound Elephant. 9:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720398-9036. Todd Adelman and the Love Handles. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now!, and Joseph Torres of Free Press will visit Denver on their US book tour as a benefit for KGNU, in support of their book News for All the People: the Epic Story of Race and the American Media. Thursday, October 27, at the Highlands Church in Denver. $10/members and $15/ general public. A limited number of private reception tickets will be sold for $100. More information available at kgnu.org

Ama’s Journey — A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Evolving Doors Dance — Dis-Guise. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Flamenco Show. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Friends of Longmont Library Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, www. friendsofthelongmontlibrary.org. Historical Ghost Tours of Longmont — Lifestories of Local Legends. 6:30 p.m. 303776-3611. Introduction to Modern Shamanism. 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Boulder Marriott, 2660 Canyon Blvd, Boulder, 303-517-7662. The Marriage of Figaro. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. MileHiCon — Science Fiction Literary Convention. Hyatt Regency Tech CenterDenver, 7800 E. Tufts Ave., Denver, www. milehicon.org. Through Oct 23. A People’s History of Colorado — Benefit for Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. 7 p.m. Boulder Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-444-6981,

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music John-Alex Mason. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. Biodiesel. 9:30 p.m. Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-398-9036. Chris Kennedy & the High Plains Drifters, Ali Grayson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

Thursday, October 20 Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. T.A. Barron’s Merlin: the Book of Magic. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, October 21 Josh Berman’s Maya 2012. Book Release Party. 7 p.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-4153900.

Saturday, October 22 Boulder Literary Salon. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Writers Workshop at the Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Dustin Burley, Kristina Murray & Jamie Davie Duo. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Evan Cantor. 10 a.m. Erie Farmers’ Market, Erie, 303-499-1829. Fundraiser for “Dr. Phil Good” Dyer — Feat. The Grant Farm, Holden Young Trio & Vince Herman with Elephant Revival. Noon to 1 a.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303258-0649. Kenny Perkins Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Mac Miller. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Max Wagner. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Molly Greacen & The Sweet Life Band.

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theater 14. CU Theatre & Dance, Loft Theatre at University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181. Through Oct. 23. Mauritius. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Through Oct. 29. Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 8), A Parody. Theater Company of Lafayette, The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson

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St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 12. The Road to Mecca. Creede Repertory Theatre at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 6. The Rocky Horror Show. 11 p.m. 73rd Avenue Theatre, 7287 Lowell Blvd, Westminster, 720-276-6936. Through Oct. 29.

Sunday, October 23 Local Author’s Afternoon. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, October 24 Art Lande, Michael Wojczuk & Chuck Ceraso’s Art Tarot. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, October 25 From our Shelves Fiction Bookclub — By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Tuesday Night Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Monocle. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Pete Kartsounes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Refugees — With Liz Clark and Tessa Perry. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The Riot. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Robinson Quintet. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Soldier’s Story — Pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m., concert at 7:30 p.m. Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Pl., Boulder, 720443-0565. Todd Adelman & The Lovehandles. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Topsy Turvey Halloween Spooktacular Hafla — With Yallah! 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. West Water Outlaws. 8:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Broad Comedy — Fundraiser for Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Dead Artists Ball — Lafayette Cultural Arts Commission’s costume party. 7 p.m. Indian Peaks Golf Course, 2300 Indian Peaks Trail, Lafayette, 303-665-5588. Evolving Doors Dance — Dis-Guise. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Friends of Longmont Library Used Book Sale. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 4th Ave., Longmont, www. friendsofthelongmontlibrary.org. Introduction to Modern Shamanism. 9

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a.m. to 6 p.m. Boulder Marriott, 2660 Canyon Blvd, Boulder, 303-517-7662. La Fiesta! — Hosted by Intercambio: Uniting Communities. 7 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, www.intercambioweb.org/ fiesta.php. The Marriage of Figaro. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. School Fair — Denver metro-area private and charter schools. 9 a.m. Calvary Temple Auditorium, 200 S. University Blvd., Denver, www.5280.com/page/school-fair-2011. Stories on Stage— A Colorado Collection. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

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Beth Wilberger & Wolftones. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder School of Rock — Tribute to The Doors. 1 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Chris Kroger. 6 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Dotsero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Giddup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. March Fourth Marching Band. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Old Soul, Hezekiah Goode. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Dead Winter Carpenters. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

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events Call for Artists — Deadline for 16th Annual Lafayette Community Art Show. www. cityoflafayette.com/communityartshow. “So, You’re a Poet” — Annual Jack Kerouac memorial reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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music Irish Chamber Orchestra — With Leon Fleischer, piano. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Jessica Hayoun & Stephen Thurston. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Orgone. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Power of Two, Dimestore Philosophers. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Advanced Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Derech Chayim — “A Way of Life” 6 p.m. Boulder’s Rabbinic Council at Har Hashem Congregation, 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, contact Jodi for more details at 503-780-7470. Engaging Harm’s Touch — A self-care and wellness retreat for professionals who assist survivors of interpersonal violence. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, 835 North St., Boulder, 303-4498623. Frankenstein — Hike from scene to scene. Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado. 3 p.m. Chautauqua, Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-440-7666. Golden Dragon Acrobats. 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pwky., Lakewood, 303-987-7845. The Marriage of Figaro. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, 17th Street & University Avenue, Boulder, 303-492-8423. Outdoor Boot Camp. 10 a.m. Take It Out Fitness and Play Boulder Foundation, Boulder City Park, 13th and Arapahoe, Boulder, 573424-7168. United Nations Day — Celebrating the 66th Birthday of the United Nations. 2 to 4:30 p.m. Naropa University, Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, unaboulder.org.

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Colorado Spirit Chorus — Weekly rehearsals and auditions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder

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Randy Reeman. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303443-5108.

events Alpha Zeta Wine Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Amaro Drinkery Italia, 2785 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303443-5100. Buds for Boobies — Benefit for Cannabis for Breast Cancer. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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Boulder, 303-447-0475. Alexi Murdoch. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Big Tree. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Catfish Cray Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Clamdaddys. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Matt Woods and Pete Stein. 8 p.m. Cactus

Wheel, 701 Main St., Louisville, 720-629-4982. Pendulum New Music. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th and Euclid, 303-492-8008. Quantum Jazz. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events Art Opening — James Mathers. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder,

303-440-4628. Creating Gourd Creatures. 6:15 p.m. Sturtz and Copeland, 2851 Valmont, Boulder, 303-442-6663. Ghostly Parlor Tales. 7 p.m. Thompson House Inn & Tea Room, 537 Terry St., Longmont, 303-651-1121. Job Club for People with Disabilities — Support for getting employment. The Center for People with Disabilities, 1675 Range St., Boudler, 303-442-8662 x10. Your Brain on Art — Neuroasethetics. 6:30 p.m. Boulder museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, October 20 Flying Owls, Swooping Bats — Children’s Story Hike at Chautauqua. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Friday, October 21 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Saturday, October 22 Where are the Bears? 2 to 3:30 p.m. 1/2 mile hike from Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Grant and Baseline, www.naturehikes.org.

Sunday, October 23 Go Club. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Prairie Saga — With puppet mistress Maureen Lawry. 2 to 3 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Grant and Baseline, www. naturehikes.org.

Monday, October 24 Calacas! Skeletons! — Make and decorate your own paper calaca. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 720-251-1419. Kid’s Hula Dance. 5 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st. St., Boulder, 303-4472566.

Tuesday, October 25 Creekwalk — Getting Ready for Winter. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Read to the Dog! 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. Tactile Tuesdays. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, October 26 Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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s Colorado licks their considerable wounds after a 52-24 shellacking at the hands of Washington, Oregon comes to Folsom Field with their innovative and dynamic offense operating at full force. The Ducks are coming off a nationally televised, primetime 41-27 crushing of thenNo. 18 Arizona State, without their speedy running back, LaMichael James. Chip Kelly, Oregon’s offensively inclined head coach, plugged Kenjon Barner into the starting lineup, and Barner did not disappoint, running for 171 yards. “No disrespect to LaMichael — he’s a great back — but Oregon is at the point where they put in some guys like that, and they keep the production up,” CU Coach Jon Embree says. “I believe they had almost the same amount of yardage [last week] as their average was. I think Barner had about 170 yards, and that is about what they average per game and LaMichael was averaging. Not a big drop off.” James, who is expected to be back in action this weekend, is just part of

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an offense that emphasizes the utilization of the entire field. Oregon averages close to 50 points per game, good for first in the Pac-12 and third in the nation. The Ducks also put up 539 yards of offense per game. Those numers are nearly unfathomable in video games, let alone real life. “The thing that jumps out about them is their speed,” Embree says. “They have great speed at all of their skill positions. They do a tremendous job of making you defend the whole field, vertically and horizontally. They

run essentially option football, and so you have to be assignment-conscious, and we have to be very disciplined on defense to limit big plays and try to force them into situations where we can have the upper hand on the defensive side.” Saturday’s showdown against the Ducks is the third game in a fourgame stretch where the Buffs play likely the best four teams in the conference. After being systematically

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Colorado’s total of six turnovers on the season is good enough to tie for sixth place in the NCAA. CU’s single-season record for fewest turnovers came in 1956, when the Buffs coughed the ball up only 11 times. Oregon Coach Chip Kelly took over for veteran head man Mike Bellotti in 2009. Bellotti resigned his position and took up Oregon’s post as athletic director. Bellotti has since quit and was rumored to be a candidate for the CU head coaching position in December. Colorado’s last appearance in a BCS bowl game came in 2002 against Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl. The Buffs were coming off a 10-2 season and a Big 12 championship when they were trounced 38-16 by the Ducks. Colorado may have been suffering from a lack of intensity, as the Buffs were expecting to compete in the national championship game, but were passed over in favor of Nebraska, which CU beat 62-36 in the regular season.

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destroyed by both Stanford and Washington, CU is in the unfortunate position of being without three of its best players due to injury. Linebacker Doug Rippy will miss the remainder of the season due to torn ligaments in his knee. Rippy’s cousin, running back Rodney Stewart, should be on the sidelines until November with a sprained knee. Both injuries were sustained Sunday in Seattle. Wide receiver Paul Richardson is also likely out with a sprained knee. “Injuries are part of it, and I just figure that at some point it is going to even out for us,” Embree says. “Unfortunately, it will not be this year.

We are going to go out and compete. We are going to go out there and whoever is representing the University of Colorado on the field, do it to the best of your abilities. Play with great effort, and we’ll see what happens.” Effort has never been questionable for the 2011 edition of the CU football program. However, the talent isn’t at the level it needs to be for the Buffs to compete with teams like Oregon and Stanford. Only hard work by the staff on the recruiting trail will remedy what is a very apparent lack of ability. Saturday’s contest with Oregon should only reinforce this fact. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Frustration boiling over for Hempen, Buffs by Matt Sparkman

hen soccer coach Bill Hempen slammed the gate as he exited Prentup Field during the University of Colorado’s matchup with Oregon, it was clear to all in attendance that a difficult season for the Buffs had just reached its boiling point. Hempen was issued a red card after a shouting match with officials when they started play as CU’s Bianca Jones, one of the Buffs’ three healthy defenders, was doubled over in pain. The game was a microcosm of Colorado’s season. CU possessed the ball for the majority of the game and held a 10-2 advantage in corner kicks, but still managed to lose fairly decisively, by a score of 3-1. “It’s just a shame, watching them give that kind of effort [and still lose],” says Hempen. “If we get anything out of this season, it’s all those little girls who watch these kids play hard. I’m hoping somebody’s getting something out of it.” The loss on Sunday moved the Buffs back to 0-5-1 in the Pac-12. The competition only stiffens as CU goes on the road to take on a tough California team before they hit Palo Alto to face Stanford, the number one team in the nation. If there are any positives going into what will most likely be a long weekend for Hempen and his Buffs, it’s that CU gets defender/forward Hayley Hughes back after she served her one-game suspension for her red card against Washington State. CU had hoped Hughes would return for the Oregon game, appealing the red card to the Pac-12 office. The conference ruled that the foul did not merit a red card, but Hughes still had to sit on Sunday. “You take one of your best players off the park,” Hempen says of Hughes’ absence. “Then Caroline gets hurt.

They carry her off. They carry [outside back Amy] Steiner off, and now we’re literally down to one sub. Yet we still find a way [to compete], because they know that’s it. There’s nowhere to turn, so they keep playing hard.” CU’s struggles can be attributed to their performance near both goals. One of the Ducks’ goals came on a penalty kick that was a result of a handball in the box on a non-threatening cross along the top of the 18-yard box. Colorado’s inability to finish is the result of a lack of a creative force in the Buffs’ attacking midfield and forwards, although the emergence of speedy walk-on freshman Storie Ledger is starting to change that. A shining star from Sunday is Annie Stuller, Colorado’s most consistent forward, who volunteered to play center back against Oregon. Stuller performed quite well, especially considering it was her first experience at the position at the collegiate level. Her stellar and selfless performance earned respect from her teammates. “The other day at practice our defense wasn’t doing very well, so Bill said, ‘Who wants to step up,’” says senior Kate Russell, who scored the Buffs’ only goal of the game. “Our leading forward volunteered to step into the back, so we had her at center back, and she did a great job back there.” The bottom line is the 2011 season has been fairly devoid of any semblance of luck for the Buffaloes. Unfortunately, as luck would have it for CU, their final five games come against tough teams, and only two will be held within the friendly confines of Prentup Field. “We’ve had so many games that we’re clearly in and that we can clearly win,” says Russell. “It is discouraging when we’re missing those opportunities to come out on top.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Dancing without chemistry by Michael Phillips

he country-twang remake of Footloose strives to give us a more down-home experience than the original film. But is a more authentic Footloose — with less dancing, yet — really the way to go? The first one’s fun largely because it’s hooey, as synthetic as most of the fabrics worn by Kevin Bacon. It boasts genuinely charming things like the dancing-feet opening credits sequence, and “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” (Bacon teaching Christopher Penn about rhythm). The ’84 model also features John Lithgow’s unexpectedly subtle portrayal of the reverend whose grief overcomes his good sense regarding what’s right for the underage citizenry of his Western mountain village. The new Footloose smooths out some of the more outlandish mood swings of the earlier telling. A real

time) isn’t around to scold everybody. Ren (Wormald), the new kid in town, is now a motherless child, attracting the attention (and vice versa) of the reverend’s daughter Ariel (Hough). A prologue shows us the fatal car accident, and the death of Ariel’s brother, which we only heard about in the first film. Some of the changes work and needed addressing. In the first film, when Ariel gets beaten up by her boyfriend, nobody even remarks on the bruises, whereas here the violence is treated more seriously. Brewer’s version, though, lacks a distinct personality of its own. When a film depends on feeling something between the photogenic but antiseptic Wormald and Hough, and you don’t, you realize why that film may come up short in ways unrelated to dance training. I write this as someone who enjoyed Step Up 3D, which is twice as bubble-gummy as Footloose, but also twice as lively and a lot smarter about how to film bodies in motion. That film employed the same dance director, Jamal Sims, as this one. He has talent. So does Brewer. Whether the two were destined to collaborate is another matter. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

A more engaging Thing

he slippery, effective new version of The Thing serves as a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film, explaining what went down, down in Antarctica, after the intergalactic thing thawed and began eviscerating humans and a husky or two. Those disinclined toward Carpenter’s version, as I am, may be surprised at how the new release nearly matches the gore levels the fright reached in an earlier, non-digital era of practical special effects. Yet this latest Thing doesn’t feel like one long autopsy the way Carpenter’s film (which may as well have been called “Blech”) did in its day. Several things in The Thing announce themselves as assets straight off. For one, it builds very cleverly in its first halfhour, as a Columbia University paleontologist played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead is recruited to join a research team in Antarctica. The group has made a significant discovery in the annals of UFOs. Which is to say, they’ve found one. Nearby, in its own hunk of ice, lies a frozen creature. The Dutch-born first-time feature director Boulder Weekly

director, Craig Brewer, who did Hustle & Flow, was hired to give the material some emotional grounding. In flashes — the way Brewer focuses on the female lead’s face after she decides to lose her virginity to a not-nice guy, for example — it connects with the audience. But the remake’s dance-trained leads, Kenny Wormald (a former Justin Timberlake backup performer) and Julianne Hough (a Dancing With the Stars alum), simply do not pop the way Bacon and Lori Singer did, underneath all their collective hair. The result is a film that feels hidebound. And nobody ever called a dance-driven movie “hidebound.” The action has been relocated to the most conspicuously and fabulously multiracial rural town in Georgia, where the kids gyrate like strippers in training at the local drive-in when the Rev. Shaw (Dennis Quaid this

by Michael Phillips Matthijs van Heijningen tightens the screws carefully, as the expedition leader (Trond Espen Seim, vaguely despicable in that Dr. Smith Lost in Space way) drills into the ice block to extract a tissue sample. We don’t know if something awful is going to happen immediately, or pretty soon, or what. Or to whom. Another asset: Winstead. She’s good. The coolheaded skeptic in a mass of bearded Norwegians, plus an American or two and an Aussie, she bristles at the implied patriarchy of the remote, wind-swept operation. She also wields a flamethrower (there’s a lot of flamethrowing in this picture — a lot) like a champ when The Thing gets busy replicating, impaling and gnashing its terrible, terrible teeth. The actress is just right for this sort of role; her dark eyes bring a seriousness of intent to the tasks at hand. Though her character’s deadpan underreactions to various ghastly sights sometimes recall her work in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, she brings a light, cool touch to heavy matters. This Thing, shot largely in northern British

Columbia, engaged me more than Carpenter’s. That’s not to say it can hold a candle to the superb 1951 The Thing From Another World, directed by Christian Nyby with contributions from producer Howard Hawks, featuring James Arness as the clawed, hulking, carrot-headed enemy from out there. That film is a marvel of indirection, of ensemble camaraderie in the face of the Cold War-era unknown. Compared with that picture, this new one’s just an entertaining, well-acted oozefest. All three Things, along with everything from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Alien, owe their central ideas to the Depression-era story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. There’s a rock-solid notion in that tale, that of an alien being able to take over a human body and cause pure paranoia in the populace. Who’s real and who isn’t? Why does so-and-so seem a little off today? And why is my dog looking at me funny? While I wish van Heijningen’s Thing weren’t quite so in lust with the ’82 model, it works because it respects that basic premise. And it exhibits a little patience, doling out its ickiest, nastiest moments in ways that make them stick. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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9000 Needles At 40 years old, Devin Dearth is a successful businessman, a loving husband and a father of three. He and his family live the ideal American dream until Devin suffers a devastating stroke. The stroke leaves him paralyzed on his right side and unable to walk. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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Visconti’s epic masterpiece can now be relived one-time only as a matinee show this Sunday at 2pm with a new 35mm print. It is widely considered one of the greatest of all historical costume dramas as it portrays the passing of a society whose feudalism is deplored while its elegance is mourned.At International Film Series. — IFS

50/50 Though it’s a cancer film, the tender and funny 50/50 addresses its subject with a refreshing lack of melodrama. Based on the true story of Will Reiser, a comedy writer, the movie follows Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who gets diagnosed with the C-word. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS

The Lion King A 3-D version of the classic animated film about a young lion cub who must overcome his devious uncle to lead their kingdom. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Ballet: Esmeralda This classic tale of love and loyalty triumphing over corruption is broadcast live from the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

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Within the sterile offices of a powerful multinational corporation, two women come to a faceoff in the mystery thriller Love Crime. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Three bird watchers engage in a fierce competition to spot the most specimens. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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Contagion Subtle, measured and chock full of major stars, this virus outbreak film exceeds without excess. A Minneapolis businesswoman (Gwyneth Paltrow) falls ill and dies soon after. Her husband (Matt Damon) reels as the resulting pandemic takes the world by storm. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS Courageous Dedicated law-enforcement officers vow to become better fathers and renew their faith after a tragedy in their community. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Dolphin Tale This heartwarmer based on a true story follows the tailless dolphin Winter (played by Winter) through all sorts of adversity alongside its human protectors, notably the troubled 11-year-old Sawyer (Nathan Gamble). Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS Dream House A New York publisher quits his job and moves his family to a New England town, only to discover their new home was once a grisly murder scene. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Drive A stunt driver for Hollywood movies who moonlights as a wheelman for robberies must use his skills behind the wheel to protect the woman he loves. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Finding Joe Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields, interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Joseph Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

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An ex-special-ops agent is lured out of retirement to rescue his mentor, which will require him to take on a group of assassins. Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Footloose See full review Page 37. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

the era. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence

Machine Gun Preacher The inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Magic Trip In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, set off on a legendary, LSD-fueled, cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair with “The Merry Band of Pranksters.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Metropolis

Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film The Human Centipede: First Sequence. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

All-new restoration, with 25 minutes of lost footage! Boedecker is showing this masterpiece with two soundtracks: the original orchestral score and the Giorgio Moroder classic of anthem-rock from the ’80s, featuring Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Loverboy, Adam Ant and more. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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After three years in prison, Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael (Harmony Santana), explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique’s grasp and understanding. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

In the hectic days before a tight Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary becomes embroiled in a political scandal that threatens his candidate’s shot at the presidency. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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Le Guillermic), a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming 12th birthday. At Chez Artiste and Boedecker. — Landmark Theatres

A documentary by German film director Lorenz Knauer that traces Jane Goodall’s journey from her childhood in England to her ongoing work in Tanzania. This film focuses on Goodall’s skills as a soft-spoken diplomat for peace and inspiration to future generations. At International Film Series. — IFS

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Atkinson returns as the bumbling British secret agent introduced in 2003’s Johnny English. Rated PG. At Century. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT

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Midnight in Paris, a new romantic comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, tells the story of a family that travels to the picturesque French capital on business. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Boedecker Theater Moneyball Director Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is based on the true story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, played remarkably by Brad Pitt. Somewhat of a renegade, Beane bucked the norm and employed a new statistical way of analyzing players. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS My Afternoons with Margueritte In a small French town, Germain (Gérard Depardieu), a nearly illiterate man in his 50s, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Opera: Salome The one-act opera, based on Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name, was an instant succès de scandale. Audiences were both outraged and enthralled by the obscure Biblical story of Salome, the step-daughter of Herod, being crushed to death after expressing necrophilic love for the severed head of John the Baptist. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

A father and crew chief for a sand-mining company begins having terrifying dreams about an apocalyptic storm. He channels his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in his backyard.At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Thing See full review Page 37. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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Third Star

Now that Saw has run its course, a new horror franchise steps in to spawn a sequel every Halloween. This third installment promises to be an origin tale — where did that demon come from, anyway? — and is rumored to be set in the 1980s. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT

James has terminal cancer and wants to make the most of this life. He invites his three closest friends to join him on a camping trip to West Wales. With no other skills for the outdoor life except making tea, the journey will test their strength, their friendship and their belief in what makes life worth living. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Pollock

The Three Musketeers

Tortured artist Jackson Pollock, played here by Ed Harris (who also directed), is alternately neurotic, misogynistic and brilliant. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson are the titular trio, made a quartet by the addition of the hot-headed D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) and facing off against baddies played by Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT

Real Steel The year is 2020. Human boxing is no longer; robot boxing rules. Charlie (Hugh Jackman) reconnects with preteen son Max (Dakota Goyo) at a low point in his career. The two prepare their junkyard robot for battle against a Russian-owned force of destruction. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS

Toast Based on the hilarious and touching memoir of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, this is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that turned a young boy into a lifelong foodie. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Return of the Living Dead

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil

Two employees of a medical supply company unwittingly release several zombies from cylinders in which they have been trapped for many years. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Nick Broomfield’s quest to unveil the “real” Sarah Palin follows the filmmaker as he speaks to school friends, family and Republican colleagues. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Senna A documentary that spans Formula 1 driver Senna’s opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna eschews many standard non-fiction filmmaking techniques in favor of a more cinematic approach. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Dark A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Special Treatment High-class prostitute Alice, fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, crosses paths with a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Stray Dog

Turtle: The Incredible Journey Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream towards the Arctic, and swims around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and back. — Boedecker Theater The Way An American doctor travels to France to collect the remains of his adult son, who died while making a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, and then takes up the journey himself. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Weekend Weekend follows Russell, who, after randomly picking up artist Glen at a nightclub on a Friday night, unexpectedly spends most of the next 48 hours with him in bedrooms and bars, telling stories and having sex. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society !Women Art Revolution Director Lynn Hershman spent more than 40 years collecting hundreds of hours of interviews for this film, which examines the beliefs and values of the Feminist Art Movement and its influence on the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements. At International Film Series. — IFS The Women on the 6th Floor

Kurosawa adapted his own unpublished novel for this, his first detective film and the real beginning of the genre in Japan. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Breezy, ’60s-set tale of an uptight, unhappily married Paris stockbroker, who rediscovers his joie de vivre after he gets to know the raucous Spanish maids who live upstairs. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Tabloid

Zombie

Errol Morris uncovers the stranger-than-fiction tale of an ex-beauty queen accused of kidnapping the man she loves, holding him prisoner in a “love cottage” and forcing him to have sex. At International Film Series. — Steven Rea/MCT Take Shelter

Lucio Fulci’s worm-infested, violent voodoo masterpiece returns, digitally remastered from the original negative and completely uncut. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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he first annual National Food Day is Monday, Oct. 24, and, naturally, Boulder County has decided to engage in the effort with an Eat Local Challenge. Food Day is a national effort to promote healthy and sustainable food and start the process of creating a better food system in the country. The movement has six goals: to reduce obesity and diet-related disease, support sustainable farms, expand access to food, protect the environment and farm animals by reforming factory farms, promote healthy eating for kids, and support fair working conditions for farm and food workers. “There is a convergence of forces that has happened to create Food Day,” says Mary Collette Rogers, the executive director of EveryDay Good Eating and an organizer of Boulder County’s Eat Local Challenge. “We’ve had so many incredible books and documentaries that have brought attention to the inequities and failures of our food system. Also, with Michelle Obama coming along, and great chefs and restaurants supporting local food, it was inevitable that somebody would say, ‘Let’s bring this all together and do something that really focuses attention on the food system.’” Rogers says the Eat Local Challenge is a grassroots movement focused on the power of the individual. The goal is to engage Boulder County citizens and businesses to think about the benefits of eating locally by having them create events with friends, family and neighbors that focus on local food. Rogers suggests neighborhood potlucks, special menus for local restaurants, or simply visiting the Farmers’ Market and buying some local produce to cook a meal. Local restaurants like Arugula and Terroir are participating by providing educational information about the benefits of eating locally and by offering special locally focused menus for Food Day. “This grassroots campaign is right up our alley,”

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Melissa Newell, co-owner of Terroir in Longmont, says in an email. “That being said, our menu for Food Day, Oct. 24, will highlight the many farmers and ranchers that we work with on a weekly basis (Aspen Moon Farm, Guerrilla Farm, Colorado’s Best Beef, John Long and Isabelle Farm, to name a few). Additionally, our nightly changing, four-course chef ’s tasting menu will be designed using exclusively locally procured menu ingredients. Our menus are printed in-house daily and will, on this day, include a spot illuminating Food Day and the importance of eating sustainably and humanely produced/raised products.” Boulder County Public Health also played a role in organizing Boulder County’s Food Day and the Eat Local Challenge. Lane Drager, the consumer protection program coordinator for BCPH, says his department’s main focus for Food Day is to encour-

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age people to eat healthier, raise awareness of rising obesity in the county, and educate citizens about the benefits of eating locally for both the local economy and food safety. However, eating locally is not always easy, especially once the Farmers’ Market closes and available local produce is significantly reduced. “In the winter, we have to learn to shift the way we eat,” Rogers says. “We have to learn to eat food out of storage. We have to combine the vegetables we froze, canned or dried with the locally produced meats, cheeses, eggs, jams and jellies. When you think in those terms, it doesn’t become such a difficult and mountainous thing to eat locally during the winter. You won’t be able to do it all the time, but I see LOCAL Page 43

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henever I visit a high point was the accompanying dip, an place calling itself unusual but compelling mix of cucumber, ranch a tavern, I half dressing and wasabi. The clam dip drew raves expect it to be from both of us, as it was a more sophisticated populated by a cliaffair than the typical canned clams tossed into entele consisting of Revolutionary sour cream with onion soup mix. This version War colonists plotting their next was more casserole than dip, with plenty of move against the monarchy. More melted cheese and shellfish, and a liberal dash realistically though, I anticipate that a of Old Bay seasoning. Fried pita wedges came self-proclaimed tavern is an unfussy on the side, and their heft was better suited to spot where decent brews flow freely this starter than any mere potato chip. and bar food staples are abundant Cynthia followed the classic comfort food and reasonably priced. Such was the route with a $13.50 bowl of beef Stroganoff case with the Niwot Tavern, a spot large enough for two additional meals. remarkably free of conspirators plan“Definitely American-sized portions,” she said. ning to wreak havoc in Niwot While additional sour cream and sherry Harbor, during a recent dinner visit wouldn’t have hurt this preparation, it still poswith friend Cynthia. sessed hearty flavor and didn’t suffer from overNestled in a mall near downsalting, a common affliction. The wide noodles town, this eatery looks and feels like were thin and silky, and the sauce was notewora tavern should. Wood paneling and thy for its pleasant velvety texture. a cozy bar section evoke British pubs, My entrée was a rarefied $14.25 plate of and Cynthia was quick to declare the shitake mushroom-encrusted ahi tuna, cooked dining area “cute.” It did possess a perfectly rare, with an appealing ruby red center. noticeable degree of comfort, with While the side of mixed vegetables didn’t break muted but not dim lighting emanatn 18th century colonial America, taverns served as much any new ground, an Asian-inspired side of garing from the Craftsman-style lamps. more than watering holes, and housed everything from lic-infused rice noodles and julienned carrots The Tavern’s menu lived up to lodging for travelers to courthouses. Taverns were the centers was surprisingly compelling. A creamy wasabi expectations and even threw a few of town life, and patrons could come here to get a drink, ususauce was almost rendered superfluous, as the surprises our way. Offerings include a ally rum, and catch up on the latest news. In some instances, briny taste of the fish nicely played off the slew of burgers ranging from $8.50 to taverns had been built before government infrastructure, and earthiness of the mushroom crust. $12.50, with protein choices like that’s why they sometimes served as courtrooms and post We concluded with an eminently reasonbeef, chicken, bison, salmon and vegoffices. Paul Revere was part of an intelligence-gathering able and filling $4.95 warm brownie with caraoperation that regularly met in a Boston tavern, and members mel, pecans, vanilla ice cream and whipped gie patties. The basic Tavern version of the Continental Congress like George Washington and cream. This dessert captured many of the comes with grilled onions, while the Thomas Jefferson often met in these establishments. appealing points of this tavern. While it may more ambitious choices include a not provide fancy gourmet fare, the Niwot BBQ version with applewood bacon Tavern dishes out generous portions of reasonand cheddar. Dinner selections We took the slightly unusual route with two ably priced, hearty food in an ideal setting for a cool include expected choices of fish and chips and linunique starters, a $5.50 plate of deep-fried green fall evening. guine and meatballs, along with more unusual dishes beans and a $6.25 hot clam dip. The thickness of the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com such as a Japanese udon noodle bowl with miso broth. bean’s batter overpowered the legume’s flavor, and the

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uestion of the week: Are you sick of pumpkin yet? Hope the answer is no, because this little pumpkin is still rolling out the recipes for you to indulge in. I just can’t stop myself. I am up to my ears in pumpkin purée. The whites of my eyes are orange, which will work out fine for Halloween, or a trip down Pearl Street, but once I leave Boulder, I’m screwed. So let me put you out of your misery, and fill you in on the treat this week. White Chocolate Ginger Pumpkin Squares. Worth the orange eyes, believe me. I know it’s a long title, but I just had to get all the delicious elements in there. If this dessert doesn’t entice you to bake a pumpkin treat, then I give up. Well, not really. I still have a few more to share, just making idle threats for the fun of it. The white chocolate is really just the topping, but it adds a hit of flavor that is so smooth. Plus, it pairs perfectly with the ginger and pumpkin. Ginger is a bit spicy, and the chocolate mellows out the flavor without taking anything away. I am also using some gingersnaps for the crust, which add a wonderful crunch and texture to the treat. I am using walnuts with the gingersnaps to really make a solid crust — you will love the nuts in the crust. And feel free to use pecans, almonds, etc. I just love pumpkin and walnuts, so this would be an “all about me” dessert, I guess. Shocking! I also love crystallized ginger over the top of this. This is just an option, as it does get a bit spicy, but help me Rhonda, it is good. I will leave that decision up to you (nice of me). The center is very similar to a pumpkin pie, with just a few little tweaks to make it a tad different. I think this would be a great dessert for any party. You know how I like those transportable desserts, and this one travels just peachy (or pumpkin-ey). You, your family and friends will be quite happy with this treat, so

gather your grocery list and get to baking. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it, and invite me over when it’s done.

White Chocolate Ginger Pumpkin Squares Crust 1 cup gingersnap cookie crumbs (about 16 cookies) 1/4 cup walnuts (chopped) 3 1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter (cut up) Filling 1 1/4 cups pure pumpkin puree 1/3 cup whipping cream 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup maple syrup 2 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1 1/4 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1/2 tsp. ground ginger 1/4 tsp. salt 3/4 cup white chocolate chips (melted) Preheat oven to 350. Line an 8-inch baking pan with foil or parchment paper (leave some extra hanging over sides for easy removal). In food processor or medium bowl, combine crumbs, walnuts and butter, pulse (or mix with fingers in bowl) until mixture starts to bind. Press down into prepared pan, set aside. In large bowl, mix together pumpkin, whipping cream, brown sugar and maple syrup. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and salt until well combined. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 45-50 minutes until set. Let cool. Drizzle white chocolate over top of pumpkin dessert, and let set (about 1/2 hour). Firms up nicely in refrigerator. When ready to serve, pull out of pan. Cut into squares and serve. Enjoy! Note: Chopped up crystallized ginger, over the top, is great on this treat. Whipped cream is a nice topping, too. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Zpizza launches natural pepperoni In honor of National Pizza Month and the company’s 25th anniversary, Zpizza has launched “Pure Pepperoni,” which contains no MSG, preservatives or nitrites. For the month of October, Zpizza will donate $10 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for every case of pepperoni purchased by Zpizza locations, and will sell $1 pins to further help the cause. Zpizza is asking customers to help design its next pizza creation through the “Pure Pepperoni Design Your Dream Pizza” recipe contest, held until Oct. 31. To participate, customers create their own pepperoni pizza on the Zpizza Facebook page. The winning recipe, announced on Nov. 21, will be featured on the menu during January’s National Pizza Week, and may become a permanent menu item. The winner will also receive free pizza for a year. Chipotle foundation produces film The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation has produced a short film to help promote a Halloween fundraiser at all Chipotle restaurants. The film, entitled “Abandoned,” is designed to raise awareness about the economic hardship that family farmers face in the contemporary American agricultural system.

Chipotle’s “Boorito” fundraiser aims to raise up to $1 million for the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation and Farm Aid. Those who visit any Chipotle restaurant between 6 p.m. and closing on Halloween, while dressed in a costume inspired by the family farm, can purchase a burrito, bowl, salad or tacos for $2. Last Halloween, Chipotle donated $1 million to The Jamie Oliver Food Revolution. Details about the fundraiser can be found at chipotle.com/boorito.

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Wynkoop’s Beer of the Year Wynkoop Brewing Company will hold its Beers of the Year event from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22. The event is part of Wynkoop’s celebration of its 23rd birthday, and guests will be given the chance to sample nearly 50 beers. The event will also include a selection of beers from Breckenridge Breweries and Colorado Springs’ Phantom Canyon Brewing. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Tickets are available at www.wynkoop.com. Advance ticket buyers are entered into a drawing for two pairs of tickets to Wynkoop’s Parade of Darks beer tasting and fundraiser for local food pantry Metro CareRing on Dec. 3. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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think we can begin to shift it more that way if we support local forces now.” Rogers and Drager are both hopeful that the Eat Local Challenge will act as the catalyst for people to think about eating locally all year. “People can look at freezing fresh fruits and vegetables, they can look at getting resources on how to do home canning so they can do it safely, or buy things that have been canned safely,” Drager says. “There are ways to plan for having access to local produce throughout the year. We have a great global food supply, but the issue there is that the more food is handled and transported, the more food safety becomes a concern. With Food Day, we want to kick off the concept of people taking charge of their own health, supporting their communities, and knowing where their food comes from — and that it is safe.” Drager and BCPH are planning a Boulder Weekly

locally sourced potluck for Food Day, where Drager will be supervising for food safety assurance. Rogers is hoping to host an informational and healthy dinner party with friends, where she will focus on teaching them how to cook with fall and winter vegetables. Mayor Susan Osborne celebrated the event when she had her honorary last meal as mayor this week with the members of City Council. (Her term as mayor ends Nov. 15). The meal was made with local food. “It was just so obvious, here we are recognizing a local food day — it seemed absolutely appropriate to have a locally sourced meal before the meeting,” Osborne says. “I think Boulder is a place that is very aware of how great local food is, and it is a pretty darn amazing community in terms of what we have been able to do with agriculture.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com October 20, 2011 43

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uLu’s is the latest local entrant in the barbecue sweepstakes, serving up Texasstyle meats smoked over oak for 18 hours. This inviting Louisville spot even features a few meatless options, including smoked tofu and veggie kabobs. But the star attraction is the meat, and highlights include the moist beer-can chicken and the tender and flavorful slabs of ribs. Delectable sides include a creamy mac and cheese and reliable beans.

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onsider the traditional Japanese breakfast available at the Alfalfa’s Market food court. The Obaa-Chan option is the Asian equivalent of a grand slam, serving up steamed rice, a salmon filet, miso soup and a variety of vegetables. Lighter appetites may go for rice in a green tea broth, enhanced by seaweed and flaked salmon. The menu has healthy alternatives to the standard egg-and-bacon breakfast.

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its location in an old house nestled among warehouses a stone’s throw from downtown. Available meats include pulled pork, pulled chicken and brisket. Both the pork and brisket are outstanding preparations, adroitly balancing spice, smoke and meatiness, while even a typically mundane side like BBQ beans becomes noteworthy once the Georgia boys have laid their hands on it.

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he quintessential taqueria, Longmont’s Tacos Don Jose serves up tasty and reasonably priced Mexican in a bright setting. The menu ranges from gorditas to shrimp cocktails, and, unsurprisingly, one of the highlights is the $1.50 taco plate, available with such fillings as tongue and carnitas, and simply garnished with cilantro and onion. The sopes, a $3 street snack resembling a tostada with a thick tortilla base, is enough for a light meal on its own.

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he menu at the new Shug’s Low Country Cuisine reflects diverse European, African and Caribbean influences, as well as the pervasiveness of such Southern staples as greens and macaroni and cheese. There’s also a nod to the Low Country’s easy access to seafood in the shellfish Po’ Boy sandwiches. But one of the main stars of the show is the first-rate gumbo, brimming with meaty shrimp, perfectly textured okra and pleasing earthy flavor.

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strained diners, menu offerings all less than $9, and a family-friendly emphasis. The kids menu features dishes priced at $5.95, and includes such dishes as a scaled-down version of the Kitchen’s famed pulled pork sandwich. For adults, the lamb sandwich with mint sauce, perfect with a side of roasted beets, is a fine choice, as is the salmon salad.

un by a British-American family, Broomfield’s Wildflowers Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner and high tea. The dinner menu reads like a greatest hits album of British Isles specialties, including bangers and mash, fish and chips and shepherd’s pie. The Lancashire Hotpot is a compelling preparation of lamb braised in Guinness over mashed potatoes, and desser ts such as the fruitinfused trifle and Guinness chocolate cake provide an ideal Commonwealth ending. Definitely wor th the drive to Broomfield.

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he dollar-to-flavor ratio at Pickled Lemon on The Hill is impressive, as this fast-casual locale offers flavor-packed Middle Eastern plates priced at well under $10. Favorites like beef and lamb kabobs are given new life with such toppings as spicy-sweet Moroccan carrots, incongruous but flavorful Korean kimchi and the namesake pickled lemon. The herbed falafel is another noteworthy item, as these fried chickpea delights have a remarkably delicate coating and light interior.

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un by the same folks who operate the neighboring Arugula Ristorante, the recently opened Tangerine is bound to become a top Nor th Boulder venue for breakfast and lunch. Compared to the brunch bill of fare, Tangerine’s lunch menu is relatively modest, featuring entrée salads such as an albacore nicoise, and classic sandwiches including Reubens and BLTs. The brunch menu is where the action is, as it includes delectable lemon ricotta pancakes topped with blueberries, and outstanding chicken and waffles. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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he shoulder season could use a PR makeover. Too many people think autumn is a time to stay home between summer camping and winter skiing and snowmobiling. They pack up their camping gear after Labor Day and wait for the snow to fly. But it really makes no sense. Hunters have long known that fall is one of the best seasons to be in the woods, and not just because it’s a great time to chase critters. It’s just a great time to be outdoors. The scorching summer heat is gone. The crowds have thinned, and the forest takes on an entirely different feel. On some mornings, there’s a frost on the ground like a hint of the first snowstorm. The leaves turn fiery red, orange and gold, like the foliage is putting on a still-life fireworks display. Evenings are brisk, maybe even chilly. But you know what? Adding another layer of clothes and tossing a big log on the fire feels so good after sweating all summer and wishing for cooler weather. Mornings? No doubt, they’re nippy and sometimes even frosty. It can see CAMPING Page 48

Tuesday, October 25 Bike Maintenance Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Boulder Cycling Club Women’s Only Ride — Approximately 20-mile route. 5:15 p.m. Meet at Boulder Beer, 2880 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 303-875-2241. Costa Rica. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7868406. Wednesday, October 26 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Elevation.”

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don’t be surprised if you start yawning a couple hours before your normal bedtime. The campfire’s dancing flames and soothing heat will make you drowsy. Crawl into your sleeping bag with a headlamp and a book or magazine, but don’t be surprised if you doze off before you finish a chapter or article. You will sleep soundly in the cool night air. When the morning sun peeks back over the ridge, creep out of your sleeping bag and brew a cup of coffee or make some hot chocolate. There’s another day ahead, and lots more to do. But first, rekindle the campfire and let the warm drink chase away the morning chill. Listen to the songbirds waking up and the squirrels and chipmunks chattering in the trees, and ask yourself, “Why do they call this the shoulder season?” Fall camping tips — Pitch your tent or park your RV where there’s direct morning sun. Mornings are typically the coldest part of the day, and shady spots warm slower. Avoid camping right next to lakes and streams, because colder air settles there at night. — Have a good sleeping bag or add a fleece liner. Liners usually keep you warmer than adding a blanket over your sleeping bag. — Check out the desert. The nights are cool, but the days are usually sunny and warm. — Travel on roads suitable for your vehicle in any weather. You may encounter heavy rain or snow in the fall, which makes dirt roads sloppy and slick. If rain or snow are likely, camp near a paved or gravel road so you won’t get stuck. — If the weather forecast looks iffy, camp at a state park or a place with electric hookups and bathrooms with running water. It’s a luxury to run your furnace in your RV and not have to worry about draining your batteries. A hot shower is also nice in cool weather. — If you’re planning to camp at a Forest Service campground, call the local ranger station to make sure it’s still open. Some close after Labor Day weekend. — Fall is hunting season, so expect to see hunters and hear gunshots. If you’re a non-hunter, it’s still safe to do outdoor activities, but wear bright colors so you’re easily recognizable. —MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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If you have been resisting the command to go deeper, now is the time to surrender. If you have been hoping that the pesky little voice in your head will shut up and stop bugging you to get more involved, you’d better stop hoping. If you’ve been fantasizing about how to escape the growing pressure to give more of yourself, I suggest that instead you fantasize about how you could intensify your commitments. The time has come to explore what has been missing and what needs more love.

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Did you know it is illegal to break into prison? That was the charge leveled against a Georgia man, Harry Jackson, who was arrested as he tried to sneak back into the jail from which he had escaped only a short time before. During his brief taste of freedom, Jackson allegedly stole 14 packs of cigarettes from a nearby store. Maybe that was his intention from the beginning — to do an errand and return “home.” Please don’t be like him in the coming weeks, Taurus. If you do manage to spring yourself from a trap or bust out of your servitude (and I expect you will do just that), don’t come crawling back later and beg to be allowed back in.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

As I was meditating on your horoscope this afternoon, I gazed out my window at the creek flowing nearby. The tide was coming in, which meant that the current was surging swiftly south. Row upon row of small waves were coursing through the water. Then I spied a lone duck swimming north against the tide. I couldn’t imagine what her motivation was. Why not just relax and float downstream? She wasn’t in a hurry and wasn’t in the least flustered. Ever forward she went, determined to push on. And then it struck me, as I thought of your current astrological omens, that her approach would also suit you quite well right now. Go steadily and casually against the flow, Gemini.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Herbert Kitchener served as the British Consul-General in Egypt early last century. He wasn’t impressed with the creativity of the ancient nation’s art. “I can’t think much of the people who drew cats the same for 4,000 years,” he remarked. Is there an equivalent to this lack of development in your own life, Cancerian? Among your own activities, are there any whose history has shown no progression? Did you reach a certain skill level in some area of your life and then stop pushing to improve? This would be an excellent time to identify that knot of excess stability and then get started on dissolving it.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

I’m not warning you to cut down on all the leaping and cavorting you’ve been doing lately; I’m just saying that maybe you should add some ballast to your foundation and some gravitas to your demeanor. And I don’t mean to guilt-trip you into toning down your lust to connect with everyone and everything that tickles your synapses. But I do suggest you consider the possibility that beginning very soon variety will not be quite as spicy as it has been; your deft zigzags may need to be carried out with gentler zigs and slightly more cautious zags.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

The autocorrect feature sometimes distorts the text messages people send on their smart phones. It tries to fix supposedly misspelled words that aren’t really misspelled, thereby creating awkward variations that can cause a ruckus when they’re received, like changing “I don’t want to leave” to “I don’t want to live.” Damn You, Autocorrect! is a book documenting some of the most outrageous examples, many NSFW. Be vigilant for metaphorical versions of this wayward autocorrect phenomenon, Virgo. Be sure that in your efforts to make things better, you don’t render them worse or weird. Consider the possibility that stuff is fine just the way it is.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

Meraki is a Greek word that refers to the bliss you feel when you’re engaged in a task that’s important to you and that you’re doing really well. It’s your theme right now, Libra. According to my reading of the astrological omens, everything’s in place for you to experience meraki in abundance.

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Your nightly dreams provide useful clues about your waking life. They can show you hidden patterns and unconscious motivations that your daytime mind hasn’t noticed. On rare occasions, they may even offer more literal guidance. That’s what happened for David Brown, a British man who one morning woke up from a dream of seeing a mysterious phone number. As an experiment, he sent a text message to that very number: “Did I meet you last night?” Michelle Kitson, the stranger on the other end, responded with a text, and then Brown texted back. More exchanges ensued, followed by a face-to-face encounter, and eventually the two were married. I can’t guarantee anything quite as dramatic for you, Scorpio, but I do expect your dreams will be unusually helpful.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

In addition to reading your astrological omens, I did a Tarot reading, consulted the I Ching, and threw the runes. They all gave me the same message: The coming week would be a good time for you to spend quality time mulling over the Biggest Mystery of Your Life. It’s not mandatory that you do so. You won’t cause a disaster if you refuse. Still, wouldn’t it be fun? Life is inviting you to get re-excited about your personal version of the quest for the Holy Grail. Your future self is calling and calling and calling for you to dive into the ancient riddle you’ve been working on since before you were born. The mists are parting.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

In Sue Allison’s theater piece Lies I’ve Told, two actors take turns telling each other some classic whoppers. Here are a few: 1. “It would be no trouble at all.” 2. “This will only take a second.” 3. “I didn’t get your message.” 4. “I have no idea how that got here.” 5. “I thought you said ‘the 16th.’“ 6. “Would I lie to you?” See if you can avoid fibs like those, Capricorn. I’m not asking you to be a superstar of candor — that’s unrealistic — but I do encourage you to cut back on white lies and casual dishonesties as much as possible. This is a time when you really need to know the whole truth and nothing but. And the best way to work toward that goal is to be forthright yourself. That’s how karma operates.

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AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Last June, Northern California artist Mary Sobrina Kuder did a gallery show of her paintings. She called it Offerings of Grace and Mischief. That would be an excellent title for the story of your life in the coming week, Aquarius. I believe that you will be receiving offerings of grace and mischief, and I hope you will also be making such offerings. For best results, remember this: The grace and mischief are not contradictory or at odds. In fact, they need each other and belong together.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Do you realize how many connections to remote places you have? Are you aware of how routinely you are touched by distant events? As science writer David Bodanis reminds us, “We inhale many hundreds of particles in each breath we take. Salt crystals from ocean whitecaps, dust scraped off distant mountains, micro bits of cooled magma blown from volcanoes, and charred microfragments from tropical forest fires.” I urge you to use that as your metaphorical theme this week, Pisces. Let your imagination run free as you renew your connections with faraway sources of nourishment. Revivify your intimacy with departed influences that continue to define you. Dream about the tantalizing future.

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