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buzz Portal hopping and pierogies / 18 The Polish Ambassador spreads electric vibes through the cosmos by P.J. Nutting Arts & Culture: Fishbone film tells story of pioneering black punk-rockers / 23 Overtones: Ra Ra Riot overcomes death of drummer to keep playing / 24 Overtones: Lykke Li will have you dreaming of psychedelic windmills / 24 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 28 Sophisticated Sex: The pleasure-pain threshold / 33 CU Sports: Buffs crushed by USC, look to regroup for Senior Night / 34 Screen: The Rum Diary; A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas / 37 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 38 Cuisine: Italian-style pizza booming in Boulder / 40 Cuisine Review: Southern Indian seasonings / 41 Dessert Diva: Rustic Apple and Cheddar Pie / 42 Elevation: Joel Gratz has an eye on the sky / 47

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Blowing smoke (Re: “Cain’s manager inhales,” Danish Plan, Nov. 3.) When Paul Danish refers to Herman Cain’s future search for “all sorts of unexpected and ignored constituencies” that, like the Smoker’s Block he’s presumably won over, will Cain be going after the Union of Concerned Alcoholics? The Serial Groper Community? The Cannibals Bund? Or even the extremely closeted Eaters of Belly Button Lint (and you know who you are!)? Who will stand up for the willfully ignorant? It will certainly not be the egg-headed do-gooder liberal elite. J. Adams/via Internet

Religion and abortion (Re: “God’s gifts,” letters, Nov. 3.) All I could think after reading J.D. Simonson’s letter on “God’s Gifts” (the supposed gift of life granted by his god who he didn’t identify) was OMG! There is no sense in even discussing Mr. Simonson’s faith-based belief in a creator versus evolution. Faith is defined as “unquestioning belief that does not require proof ” and is therefore immune to logical or reasoned arguments. However, the idea that life for most is a “gorgeous existence we are privileged to live in” is ludicrous on its face, except for maybe the very few of us (1 percent or so?) born into luxury, as is accepting that life, in fact, is just watching the “wonderful changing seasons, the beautiful colors, our mountains, seas, sun...” without putting in

“any effort” or paying “a dime” for the privilege. Even creationist evangelicals would have to blind themselves to any outside news to believe that the majority of people — think Asia, Africa, India, South America, Mexico and a goodly portion of America — actually enjoy a “gorgeous existence.” How could they not be aware of children starving and

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he Bible doesn’t say that money is the root of all evil — rather, it condemns the love of money. Today, that insidious love (taking the form of greed and excess) is celebrated in our country and has even exalted into official public policy, marring our economy with inequality and injustice. The reigning ethos of our nation’s upper crust is that too much is not enough. They’re not merely out to make loads of the money they love, but to make a killing, everyone else be damned. New numbers from the Congressional Budget Office confirm that as the moneyed elites have been making their killing, wealth disparity has become extreme in a country that once prided itself on trying to build a more egalitarian society. Analyzing 30 years of income data, the non-partisan CBO reports that the richest 1 percent of our population has enjoyed a

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sick, being savaged by marauding fighters, being sold into slavery, being sexually abused by their religious leaders or being abused by their own family? You don’t even have to leave Boulder, or Lafayette, in Mr. Simonson’s case, to find people abusing children, in some cases confining them in horrid conditions, contributing to their deaths. As far as having some benevolent

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The disuniting of America by Jim Hightower stunning 275 percent increase in their income during that time. As a result, these privileged few have more than doubled the slice of America’s income pie that they consume, going from 8 percent to 17 percent of the whole in just three decades. From whom did these richest 1-percenters get their extra-big slice? From us, the 99 percent. The share going to middle class and poor families shrank in this period, which is why there is such broad sup-

god, whichever one the faithful may choose to believe in — and there are plenty of choices — being the creator, I would argue his or her motives should be examined more carefully by those believers. I would ask why their benevolent god would also provide this partial list of “gifts” to his beloved children: see LETTERS Page 6

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port today for Occupy Wall Street’s “We are the 99%” movement. At the tippy-top of America’s wealth pyramid are the multi-millionaire CEOs and billionaire Wall Streeters. They are the richest one onehundreth of the one-percenters (a mere 14,836 households). These few now take 6 percent of all U.S. income — the biggest piece ever consumed by America’s megarich. The widening chasm between the rich and the rest of us is transforming our country from a society to a jungle — and not even billionaires will enjoy living there. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 10, 2011 5

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autism, arthritis, Down syndrome, mental retardation, physical deformities, cancer, heart disease etc., etc., etc. While I’m at it I might ask why most of the “right to life,” anti-abortion crowd are so anxious to put people to death through state-sponsored executions, wars and denial of universal health care? I continue to believe abortion is a difficult decision the prospective mother must make, and I would suggest that these folks so worried about “life” put some of their energy into improving it for the 99 percent or so whose “gorgeous existence” requires both effort and dimes and may still not be achieved. James C. Bailey Jr./Boulder In response to J.D. Simonson’s letter titled “God’s gifts” as a counterpoint to my “Fetal faith” letter (Oct. 27) regarding the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church using “white crosses” for their (since removed) pro-life display on South Boulder Road to symbolize unborn fetuses, it would seem your letter has missed the mark here. You state much of the obvious in that “each of us are privileged beings here on Earth reaping all the gifts from our Creator.” Unfortunately, J.D., had you read my letter closely you would see that it wasn’t directed as a jab against “the Creator,” but more so at “proCatholic/pro-life views,” as Sacred Heart took it upon themselves to use the sign of the crucifixion of “their chosen God” to symbolize the religion of an unborn fetus. I will agree with you in that the majority of humans here on Earth believe in some form of “a creator,” but for those who are still unborn perhaps the Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church shouldn’t jump in so quickly and push the sign of the cross as a symbol of an unborn fetus. For a fetus has no brain function in the womb and therefore cannot choose whether it believes in their God, a God or any God, for that matter. Dan O’Connor/Boulder 6 November 10, 2011

Keep moving your money Voters in Boulder are clearly fed up with corporate control of our lives. In the Nov. 1 election, 73 percent of us supported 2H, a measure in favor of a constitutional amendment to abolish Constitutional rights for corporations and end the Supreme Court’s equating money with speech. Support across the country for the Occupy movement is another indication that people want real change that puts control of our government and economy into our hands. In a recent CBS/ New York Times survey (Oct. 26), 43 percent of people said they agree with Occupy Wall Street’s goals, while 27 percent said they disagree. Thirty percent were unsure. Last weekend, we had the opportunity to say “NO” to Wall Street banks and corporate power by participating in “Bank Transfer Day.” Thousands of people across the world moved their money from big commercial banks to small, locally owned credit unions. Our clear, unified message to Wall Street: end your reckless speculation, which is destroying our economy and jobs; make loans to homeowners and small businesses; and stop buying our government. By moving our money, we’ll be supporting local banks and credit unions that are locally controlled and make local loans to homeowners and small businesses. Occupy Wall Street and the General Assembly of Occupy Boulder are backing this movement. Please join this growing, ongoing effort. For more information, go to www.occupyboulder.org. Carolyn Bninski/Boulder

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ou’re sitting in a coffee shop. You notice that the adult sitting next to you is logged on to one of those torrent sites and is illegally downloading music, movies, books and games. Knowing that this person is breaking the law — and determined to teach him right from wrong — you get up, pull off your belt, and proceed to beat this person for the next six minutes, shouting and berating him for this blatant act of stealing. Well, you would never get away with that. Others would intervene. Then the police would arrest you on assault charges. If only that person had been your daughter, a minor child who is much smaller than you and entirely dependent upon you. Then you would have been able to beat the shit out of her with impunity. That’s what one Texas father did.

William Adams, an elected court-atlaw judge in Aransas County, caught his disabled 16-year-old daughter, Hillary, downloading games and music illegally and went after her with his belt — for six horribly violent minutes. Adams struck Hillary again and again on her arms, legs and abdomen with the belt, shouting profanity at her and even threatening to strike her “fucking face” if she didn’t lie down on the bed and submit. Hillary’s mother helped, at one point, taking over in an apparent attempt to tone down the beating, but Adams didn’t go along with that. He left the room, returned with another belt and resumed striking Hillary, not yet satiated in his desire to punish her. “I’m going to beat you into submission!” he shouted, striking her again

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and again while she begged him to stop. The public has become very familiar with William Adams’ idea of “discipline” because Hillary, now 23, hid a camera in her room and videotaped the beating, which took place seven years ago. Ms. Adams, who said it was not the only time her father abused her, released the video on YouTube after her mother and younger sister left her father, and it quickly went viral, garnering more than 5 million views. Adams, who stepped down from the bench temporarily, is facing a judicial review, though the district attorney will not file criminal charges because the statute of limitations has passed. Yet, despite the public outcry, Adams defends what he did as “disciplining” his disobedient daughter. How is that there are still parents in 2011 who believe that the way to teach children is to cause them pain? There is no other relationship where one person is permitted to hit someone else without facing arrest. Hit your significant other or spouse, and you face arrest. Hit your employee or co-worker, and you face arrest. Even prison guards who strike inmates are subject to discipline. But if you’re a parent, you can get away with smacks, whacks, paddling, spanking and beating your child with a belt and call it “discipline.” To make matters worse, children love and trust their parents as they love and trust no one else. And yet the role of parent is the only one that enables one person to do violence to another and get away with it. Our laws don’t intervene in the parent-child relationship until violence reaches the level of “abuse,” a much higher threshold than the one that pertains to assault. A few smacks, some spankings, a whack with

a belt, and society is largely OK with it. While much of the country is outraged by the brutality in that video, there are many who defend Adams, quoting the Bible to prop up their medieval notions of parenthood. What would Jesus have done had he confronted Hillary? Just guessing, but I doubt he’d have shouted, “If you so much as fucking look at me wrong, I’m going to wear your fucking ass out with this belt!” Striking kids, hitting them, beating them isn’t about discipline; it’s about intimidation and dominance. It’s as lazy as it is brutal, skipping the hard work of teaching children in favor of controlling them through fear. If Adams had been serious about teaching Hillary a lesson, he might have made her pay for the items she stole, working off her debt through chores. Or he might have taken a restorative justice approach — proven to have a big impact on young people — and required her to do a report on the harm that pirating does to the livelihoods of musicians, film professionals, writers and others. There’s nothing like empathy for those you have wronged to make you feel contrite. It wasn’t that long ago that a husband could beat his wife and get away with it. Although partner violence still occurs, it’s now illegal. Anti-government wingnuts might not like it, but it’s time to give children the same respect under the law that we give everyone else in society by criminalizing violence as an acceptable form of discipline. One whack or six minutes worth of belt blows, it’s still the same thing — using violence to break a child’s will. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Striking kids, hitting them, beating isn’t about discipline; it’s about intimidation and dominance.

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Dog to lead Occupy Denver That was a brilliant move by Occupy Denver, when they finally acquiesced to pressure from government officials to choose a leader to represent the group. They chose Shelby, a border collie. The group announced the selection on Nov. 8, saying in a news release that they drew inspiration from the notion that corporations are people. “Shelby is closer to a person than any corporation: She can bleed, she can breed, and she can show emotion,” an anonymous member of the movement said in the release. “Either Shelby is a person, or corporations aren’t people.” And then there was this, which is rich and speaks for itself: “Occupy Denver reserves the right to alter leadership status, but for now, Shelby exhibits heart, warmth and an appreciation for the group over personal ambition that Occupy Denver members feel are sorely lacking in the leaders some of them have voted for on national, state and local levels,” the release said. Put GMOs on 2012 ballot For those who’ve been attended meetings and hearings regarding Boulder County’s cropland policy, the word “frustrated” doesn’t begin to cut it. After receiving public input that was overwhelmingly opposed to permitting genetically modified (GM) crops on county land, the Cropland Policy Advisory Group voted 6-3 to recommend that the county allow GM crops. Many were left with the feeling that the board had decided the issue before it even convened. Now, a poll conducted by GMO Free Boulder shows that 56 percent of respondents oppose the growth of GM crops on county land, while 30 percent favor GM crops and 14 percent aren’t sure. Right now, the county commissioners are set to decide the matter sometime in early 2012. But rather than leaving the decision up to three people, why not put GMOs on the 2012 county ballot and let the voters decide? Obviously, the issue is highly charged, and highly charged issues make politicians nervous. A vote of the people is one way to be certain exactly how Boulder County feels about GMOs — and might be the only way to see the majority’s will enacted on county land. Milton Greedman Came across this video clip of Phil Donahue interviewing economist Milton Friedman. Even though it was recorded more than 30 years ago, old Milt makes some points that are relevant today, in the age of the Occupy movement. Phil Donahue: “When you see, around the globe, the maldistribution of wealth, the desperate plight of millions of people in underdeveloped countries, when Boulder Weekly

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you see so few haves and so many havenots, when you see the greed and the concentration of power, did you ever have a moment of doubt about capitalism and whether greed is a good idea to run on?” Milton Friedman: “First of all, is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run

on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? … The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein did not construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the auto-

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briefs Saving the ocean in Colorado As part of the one-year anniversary of the Colorado Ocean Coalition, Sherman’s Lagoon cartoonist Jim Toomey and Blue Frontier Campaign founder David Helvarg will be speaking at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Boulder Public Library. They will be part of a “Making Waves in Colorado” symposium being held from 1 to 5 p.m. that will include National Geographic Explorer in Residence Sylvia Earle, U.S. National Marine Sanctuary Program Director Dan Basta and environmental hero Margo Pellegrino. Helvarg is the author and Toomey the illustrator of 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, which Robert Kennedy Jr. calls “a workable blueprint for grassroots action to save the oceans.” Other panels and presentations will examine marine protected areas, environmental impacts of plastics, oceans and climate change, and the relationship between land use and watersheds. For more event information, go to www.facebook.com/coloradoocean. For information and tickets regarding a special evening “Ocean Celebration,” visit makingwavesin colorado.eventbrite.com. Help plan for county, reservoir Boulder County officials have scheduled an open house on the county’s new comprehensive plan for Tuesday, Nov. 15. A similar meeting will be held for the Boulder Reservoir master plan the next day. From late August to early October, Boulder County Land Use staff hosted a series of six community meetings around the county to gain public input on the first steps for updating the county’s comprehensive plan. The open house is intended to provide feedback from those community meetings and to solicit more input from county residents on the plan. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Boulder County Courthouse in the

Commissioners’ Hearing Room. For more information, visit the county’s website at bit.ly/ BCcompplan or call 303-441-3930. The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department will host the Boulder Reservoir master plan meeting from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave. A preview of the final draft will be available at www.BoulderRez.org. For more information, call Shelly Ruspakka at 303-413-7214. Renew your school The Center for ReSource Conservation’s Renew Our Schools Program, which has awarded schools in Boulder with solar arrays since 2007, is expanding. A dozen middle and high schools in the Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts will compete in an energy conservation contest in which schools will earn points by reducing energy usage on campus or by having their students complete energy-saving tasks in their homes. The energy savings will be added together to determine the overall contest winner. The school that reduces its energy usage by the greatest percentage will win prizes valued at up to $25,000. The competition runs until Jan. 6, and the winners will be announced in mid-January. There will also be a companion contest offered by the city of Boulder designed specifically as a fundraiser for parent-teacher organizations of schools in the City of Boulder. The BVSD schools competing in the contest are Arapahoe Ridge High School, Boulder High School, Broomfield Heights Middle School, Broomfield High School, Centaurus High School, Fairview High School, Horizons K-8, New Vista High School and Summit Middle School. The SVVSD schools competing in the contest are Coal Ridge Middle School, Erie High School and Niwot High School. For more information, contact education@conservationcenter.org

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Americans recycled less than 20 percent of their electronics and sent 2.6 million tons of consumer electronics to landfills and incinerators in 2009. Such electronics typically include lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominated flame retardants — all deadly contaminants that threaten environmental and public health. Residents and businesses can drop off desktop and laptop computers, flat-panel monitors, printers, power supplies, keyboards, cables, mice and cell phones as part of the partnership. To celebrate the new partnership, iSupportU and Eco-Cycle, in partnership with 10 for Change, are hosting a party open to the public at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the new drop-off location, at 1825 Pearl St. All attendees must register at facebook.com/iSupportU or iSupportU.biz to attend. Art wanted in Lafayette The City of Lafayette has issued two calls for art. The Public Art Committee is looking for sculpture submissions to the 2012 Art on the Street Outdoor Sculpture Gallery. Art on the Street, which is in its fourth year, is the largest sculpture-onloan program in Boulder County. Selected sculptures will be on display outside for a one-year period. Artists’ submissions are due Dec. 3. There are 17 spots available; selected artists will receive a $500 stipend upon installation. The program is not limited to local artists. More information can be found at www.cityoflafayette.com/CFA. In the second call for artists, the cultural resources department is looking for artists to show their work in month-long displays through 2012. Artwork will be selected by a panel of community members. The work will be hung in one of three city facilities: city hall, the library or senior services. Artists may submit their work for review to www.cityoflafayette.com/wallcall. For more information, contact Susan Booker at susanb@cityoflafayette.com or at 303-665-5588 x3353. More information is also available online at www.cityoflafayette. com/aiegrant. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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All you need is love — and a truck by Jefferson Dodge

magine if someone launched a movement that was not about money, religion or politics — an effort that was simply based on the idea of spreading love from one person to another. That seems to be the story behind that brightly colored truck and camper shell plastered with messages like “You are a miracle” and “Love wins” that has been making its way around Boulder County and the Denver metro area. It is the creation of Louisville resident Jeffrey “Yahva” Krumholz, who is hosting a party to kick off his “oneness” movement from 7 p.m. to midnight on Friday (11/11/11) at the Millennium Hotel’s grand ballroom in Boulder. Krumholz insists that his initiative is not about making a profit and is not motivated by any particular religion. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Christian, but he says he never became attached to any belief system. “We didn’t celebrate anything, but we did have a Christmas tree,” says Krumholz, who, fittingly, is a carpenter on the side. The guy genuinely seems to simply want to hug

here are potential bike frames growing alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. No, that’s not some Salvador Dali-inspired hipster painting; it’s the truth, in a matter of speaking — you just need to know how to build a bike out of bamboo. On Nov. 17, Boulder will get its chance to learn. Fence Heanue and Merrily Grashin are the traveling faces of Bamboo Bike Studio, which builds bamboo bicycles in New York, San Francisco, and even Africa. But don’t buy a plane ticket just yet. Heanue and Grashin are traveling the country in a modified U-Haul, teaching bamboo-bike building workshops, and will be leading a workshop with Satellite skate shop from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20. The two have been on the road since mid-September. “We’ve done a funny little zig-zag,” says Heanue, who has been working with Bamboo Bike Studio for about a year and a half. “We started in Brooklyn, then went down to Florida, over to Alabama, and then up to Minneapolis.” Bamboo Bike Studio began out of Boulder Weekly

total strangers. He parks his rig along busy roads in Boulder and Denver and asks passers-by to hold giant signs that read “IAMLOVE.org.” His umbrella organization, The Gardening of Love, offers games, books, apparel and stickers trumpeting the message, as well as free email workshops. He insists that he’s not some kind of hippie, and he says the response to his outgoing approach has been uniformly positive. “People are waving and honking all the time,” he says. One man asked him if they could agree that Jesus is the only path to salvation, and Krumholz stopped short. “I’m not going to make the call on any of that,” he says. “Judgment is a funny thing. … I love Jesus in the sense that he served people and washed feet. I love Buddha because he practiced mindfulness.” Plans for Friday’s drug- and alcohol-free party, where a $20 donation is suggested to help him pay for the event, include dancing to music from the ’60s and

’70s. There will also be large-scale artistic installations and a series of stations where visitors can create art or participate in a “garden of love” that involves choosing a seed or potted lettuce seedling and assigning it a concept they need to work on in their lives, such as “gratitude” or “forgiveness.” The event will also feature short inspirational speeches every half hour and a special musical surprise at 11:11 p.m. Krumholz’s next stop is New York City. “We’re looking for what’s really genuine in the world, not Walmart or Target,” he says. “I just pursued love.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

From blight to bike Bamboo Bike Studio workshop coming to Boulder by Theo Romeo doing research and development for a bike factory in Kumasi, Ghana, through a partnership between the UN’s Millennium Cities Initiative and Columbia University’s Earth Institute. The factory opened in January 2011. Unlike many of the bikes being built in New York, California, and the workshop tour, only one model is built in Kumasi, a simple design with coaster brakes (think when you learned to ride a bike, and the way to stop was peddling backwards). The frames built in the workshops, however, are customizable. When finished, the bamboo frames are just as strong as traditional steel bike frames. They don’t rot, because bamboo is naturally waterproof, and they are light weight. Heanue and Grashin arrived in

Colorado on Nov. 1. They held a short workshop in Boulder on Nov. 4, which was attended by Dan Coppola, who built a frame in Bamboo Bike’s New York shop the year before. He was attending the Nov. 4 workshop to build himself a cyclo-cross road bike, which are a bit more durable and normally used for touring. “The first one I built was for my girlfriend,” says Coppola, who is the event coordinator for Adventure Fit, a local sports marketing company. For each city, Heanue and Grashin order the bamboo, which will be delivered by Fed Ex, based on the number of people attending the workshop. Using files, drills and elbow grease, the frames are assembled — with instruction, of course, and by the end of the workshop,

should be ready for the bike’s components: brakes, seat post, crank, etc. But so far, according to Heanue, things have been a bit slow. “We’re having trouble getting the word out,” he says. There hasn’t been a lot of consistency with attendance or even the venues they build at in each city. Sometimes they are outside, using the awning of their modified U-Haul — which Heanue and Grashin have turned into a veritable steam-punk masterpiece of pulleys and trap doors — as a makeshift shelter from the elements. The Nov. 17 workshop is being hosted by Satellite skate shop, but Heanue and Grashin weren’t sure where the final venue would be. To sign up for the workshop, go to the group’s website, bamboobikestudio. com, and click on “bikes to build.” Select the bamboo frame, and on the bottom of the page, you’ll see form fields asking where you want to build the frame. Select “tour.” Link: http://bamboobikestudio.com/ products-page/bamboo-bike-buildingworkshop/bamboo-bike-frame/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 10, 2011 13

Surviving shelters Elizabeth Miller

awyer is a one in a hundred dog. He’s sweet, loyal and smart, with a playful streak likely to mature into a watchful air. At 16 months old, 83 pounds and mostly legs, he has a puppy’s energy for bounding through the backyard, but is so eager to please that his foster guardian says her best disciplinary weapon is a spray bottle. But a month ago, Sawyer, a purebred Akbash, was on the edge of becoming one of a couple hundred Lindsay Wood, HSBV dogs the Humane Society of Boulder director of behavior Valley euthanizes each year as treatment, works with untreatable or unhealthy. His condiCouscous, a 1-yearold beagle in the tion was likely a food allergy that had behavior modificahim scratching and biting himself so tion program, while hard that he was leaving bare patches Lisa Pedersen, chief executive officer of of inflamed skin. Breed rescuers interHSBV, observes. vened on his behalf and after a month of baths and improved nutrition, he’s left with just a few, barely visible dark marks to indicate where he might have some scarring. “I am so in awe of him. He’s so smart. He’s so intelligent,” says Julie Carmen, who is fostering Sawyer at her home in Lakewood with her husband Mark. “It takes an hour to bathe the dog and condition him, and what you get out of this is this brilliant dog. It’s totally worth it.” Rescue volunteers rushed to get His isn’t the only story of a dog that rescue volunSawyer out of Boulder Humane in a 24-hour period teers have swept in to pick up on short notice out of out of concern that if they left him there past a noon concern the animal would be destroyed if it wasn’t deadline, he would be euthanized because he was immediately relocated. The lives of dogs depend on “unadoptable.” The matter was so urgent, those rescue the collaborative work of these shelters and rescues, volunteers believed, they couldn’t even wait 48 hours to which each bring various benefits to the table. But resfinish processing the paperwork for Carmen, who had cue volunteers are protesting the short deadlines just applied to foster for the National Anatolian they’re often given to work with and arguing that Shepherd Rescue. using the threat of euthanasia to spur them to fast The Humane Society of Boulder Valley releases 91 action, which humane society staff admits to doing, is percent of animals brought to the humane society antagonistic and fails to acknowledge the limited alive through adoptions, transfers and owner reclaims. resources rescues work within. While the Humane In 2009, the national live release rate was 55 percent Society has a $5 million budget and a facility, rescues for the 461 shelters reporting to Maddie’s Fund, a often operate out of homes and on spare time and the nonprofit that monitors shelters. Their success rate personal bank accounts of rescue coordinators who are depends in part on the development of behavior modi- rarely fully repaid by adoption fees or donations. fication programs that retrain dogs with behavioral Janet Davis, who runs the Akbash Dog Rescue, a problems, as well as communication with breed rescue national rescue program based from her home in the programs that can also foster and rehabilitate dogs. San Francisco Bay area, was the first to respond to the But the Humane Society of Boulder Valley has been email about Sawyer from Boulder Humane stating communicating with rescues in a way that leads the that isolating for a food allergy in a shelter was basically impossible and asking for a rescue to step forward rescue coordinators to believe that dogs they are interested in working with — potentially healthy, adoptable with a plan, in writing, as to what they could provide for Sawyer. dogs — are being threatened with euthanization as “A lot of arranging and emails and phone calls go unhealthy and unadoptable. In 2010, the Humane into getting a dog out of a shelter,” Davis says. “I’m the Society euthanized 239 dogs, or 4.5 percent of their rescue coordinator for this breed of dog, Akbash. It’s dog intake that year, because they were deemed only me. It’s all my own money. So now, I’m going, unhealthy and untreatable. Dogs that are actually treatable and adoptable, like Sawyer. OK, I have to tell them by 5 o’clock what I’m going to

do with this dog. I have no idea what I’m going to do with this dog. It’s 11 in the morning, and I’m already late for work.” She called staff at Boulder Humane to discuss Sawyer’s situation and ask for a little more time. The staff she spoke with gave her until noon the next day. “I said, ‘Does that mean if we don’t give you an answer about where Sawyer’s going to go by noon tomorrow, he’ll be euthanized?’ And she basically — she didn’t exactly say yes, but basically, yes, that’s the only option,” Davis says. “They’ve deemed him unadoptable. If they don’t get word from rescue and he’s not out of there by noon the next day, he would be euthanized. So her and I had a bit of a back and forth about that, and she said, ‘Well, if your agency can’t help me, I’ll find one that can.’ And I said, ‘Just so you understand, it’s not an agency. I’m one person in California in a townhouse, dealing with every Akbash in the United States that is sheltered.’ ... I’ve rarely had a deadline like that other than extremely highkill shelters.” “We ask for the same courtesy as we do with the [owner] reclaim, which is just let us know by the end of the following business day whether you think you can assist or not,” says Bridgette Chesne, director of shelter services at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. As to Sawyer just barely getting a stay of execution, Chesne says, “I think there may have been some confusion in that arena. I think that when the staff reaches out to a rescue group some of the staff that’s corresponding might not even know what that decision might be. ... And I think the way we’ve constructed the email, and which sometimes is true, is that if the rescue group cannot assist that, that animal may be euthanized.” A decision had not yet been reached in Sawyer’s case, she says. She was still exploring his options. “If the rescue group perceives that we have not made a euthanasia decision, they are less likely to assist us,” Chesne says. “We’re not really saying he is or isn’t — sometimes I think we are — but many times I think we’re still in that information gathering process and our decision is not always dependent on the rescue group’s ability to assist or not.” Sawyer would likely have been rehomed with his medical condition noted, or might have moved into a humane society foster home. If a rescue agrees to take a dog, Chesne says, the shelter would be willing to hold the dog for up to a week while foster care or boarding is arranged. That wasn’t the understanding of Davis at the Akbash rescue, or Emily Wolf at Mountain Dog

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Rescue based in Gold Hill, who picked Sawyer up from Boulder’s humane society and helped transport him to Denkai Animal Sanctuary, near Greeley, where he was held until his foster family could pick him up. “This dog’s healthy. Yes, granted, [he has] special needs.” Carmen says. Her vet says his condition is a treatable one and, particularly at his age, should be manageable. “With food and bathing and medication, it goes away eventually.” •••• Rafa was tougher to handle. But getting a puppy while between residences, jobs and just before starting a Ph.D. program in North Carolina wasn’t Bradley and Emily Ferguson’s idea. Rafa was a gift. They were living in Boulder for a summer internship, and Emily was six months pregnant, when her mother gave them a Labrador retriever mix puppy. “He was kind of hard to deal with,” Bradley says. “We took him to PetSmart to get some training to kind of control the biting, and they agreed that he bit a little bit more and he was a little more defiant than the average puppy. And we just didn’t have the means, the money and the time to discipline him and to teach him. If we did we would have definitely kept him. So we gave him to the [Boulder] humane society so he could find a home with someone that could give him the time and had the finances to take care of him.” The owner surrender form at Boulder Humane includes a box to check if you’d like to be notified if your pet hasn’t been adopted or has demonstrated other issues and is in line to be euthanized. The Fergusons had checked the box. They were living in Utah when they got the call from Boulder Humane. “They felt like he was too dangerous to rehome him, and so they gave us the option. They said either you can come reclaim him or we’ll have to put him down,” Bradley says. “I do believe them that Rafa was a little bit harder than the average puppy, but that being said, I still felt he was manageable.” Wolf, the same person who stepped in to help transport Sawyer, spotted a Craiglist ad the Fergusons posted Aug. 5 looking for someone to adopt Rafa. The Fergusons gave Boulder Humane permission to release Rafa to her care. “It was more sad than anything,” Bradley says. “It was especially hard on my wife because after we’d gone through the emotional ordeal of giving him up to somewhere where we thought he would be fine, it was really hard to go through that whole process again of trying to figure out what to do with him because obviously we wanted him to be happy.” “We as an organization want to be transparent. We want people to have Boulder Weekly

choices,” says Lisa Pedersen, chief executive officer of the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. “We do want them to understand when they sign over we are saying, ‘We are going to do an assessment and if we are looking at euthanasia, do you want to be contacted?’ We want to give them that power.” It’s not that Boulder Humane couldn’t or wouldn’t — or even that they didn’t — work with Rafa. Their behavior modification program, piloted in 2007, has worked with more than 700 dogs on issues with food guarding, novel item guarding, fearfulness, dog/dog interactions and body handling sensitivities. Adult animals entering the shelter are tested for behavioral issues, and if they demonstrate any, they’re enrolled in the behavior modification program, where they’re worked with twice daily and training is supplemented with playgroups and time with shelter employees. But in a shelter that manages almost 6,000 animals each year, efficiency has been key. “Our goal is to make sure we can resolve the behavioral problem within an amount of time that doesn’t start to negatively impact the animal otherwise in a shelter environment. So our goal is always to attempt to resolve behavior problems in under 14 days,” says Lindsay Wood, director of animal training behavior at HSBV. “Anything over 14 days and up to three weeks, we’ll start to see a real deterioration in an animal’s behavior because this isn’t a low-stress home setting that they’re living in.” The program has a 90 percent success rate, according to Wood. Overall, the average stay in the shelter is six days for a dog and 14 days for a cat. “If we started to notice that this animal isn’t resolving within the 14 days what we would need to look at is the reasons why,” Wood says. “The more behavior problems or the higher the complexity of issues, the much less favorable the prognosis will be for a dog.” Rafa had been enrolled in the behavior modification program to handle food guarding, rawhide guarding and novel item guarding, a complex series and a number of issues that would make training more difficult. “Due to his age, we really wanted to attempt to resolve that,” Wood says. “We worked for, I would say three weeks … and during that period we were really having difficulty resolving any of those categories successfully and we had seen a variety of other behaviors surface.” They reached out to breed rescues for help, and the rescues declined because of the complexity of Rafa’s issues and his aggression, Wood says. “I don’t always know about every single animal these guys are working

with, but I remember having the conversation because he was a puppy, and our training team was really dedicated and was really struggling because this was such a complex issue,” Pedersen says. “Euthanasia is not the decision that we want to make.” Notes from Rafa’s file indicate that he was not likely to be euthanized because he was so young. But the impression of his former family and the rescues that rushed to move him was otherwise. “We want to be really transparent. Yes, euthanasia is one of the things on our list of choices that we are considering at this time,” Pedersen says. “We don’t want to sugar-coat or not be upfront about that this is a serious situation. This is an animal that doesn’t fit into our particular criteria. That doesn’t mean that animal couldn’t be assisted by another organization. ... And that’s one of the things that we really appreciate about those rescue groups, they do have different strategies.” •••• Rafa didn’t go to rescue, though. He went to the Longmont Humane Society and was enrolled in their behavior treatment program. Longmont Humane runs a smaller shop, handling 1,885 dogs in 2010 (compared to Boulder’s 5,374) with a $3.1 million budget. “We just don’t have the money, the budget to run the programs that we do without these volunteers,” says Kim Walje, the shelter’s executive director. “They’re definitely very well-trained. It’s not that we’re just letting them run haphazard, but we’ve made it into such a teaching program that they’re willing to jump through these hoops to get to that level and then they stay invested.” Volunteers help provide grooming, veterinary care, and volunteers who want to work with dog training can pass through multiple levels of certifications, each of which can take six months to complete. Outside the behavior program, dogs are rehomed in an average of 10 days. Dogs within the program are allowed to stay as long as trainers feel the dog is still making progress. They complete it in a range of time frames, Walje says: 25 percent in two weeks, 25 percent in a month, 25 percent in three months, and 25 percent take a year. Dogs come from across the country, and Walje says there’s a waiting list to get in to the behavior program. Longmont trainers have taken on cases like a dog from Michael Vick’s fighting rings and sleddogs that had never eaten from a bowl before. “We’re small enough that we can go a little further than a lot of the bigger shelters,” Walje says. “We aren’t as corporate as a lot of shelters are, and we should be. It’s not necessarily a great

thing, but it’s a good thing in these situations. Rules are made to be broken, though, I think, especially for the right reasons.” The behavior program has contributed to Longmont Humane increasing its live release rate from 70-some percent to 92 percent, according to Walje. “For us, it works,” she says. “I think it’s fortunate that we’re small. It’s just workable. If it were much bigger, I think we couldn’t be able to pull off a program like that.” When she goes to a rescue, she says, it’s more an exercise in diplomacy than in stringent deadlines. After behavioral training work and time in foster care, Rafa was successfully adopted from the Longmont shelter. “Everybody who knew the story, they were really angry that this little puppy [Rafa] was going to be killed,” says Lorraine May, executive director of The Misha May Foundation. May opened the foundation specifically to work with dogs that would get lonely, fearful or stressed in a shelter and rehabilitates them before offering them for adoption. The collaboration is key to saving dogs’ lives, May says — a sentiment Pedersen has echoed on behalf of Boulder Humane. “It’s great that we can offer what we can offer and they can offer what they can offer, and that combination is literrally saving lives,” Pedersen says. “The way the system is now, it’s an impossible job,” May says of the shelter staff. “The system has to change, and that’s having directors come in and say, ‘We’re not going to euthanize.’” “We deserve more from Boulder Humane,” Wolf says. “You can’t just be good and not strive to be better.” Pedersen told Boulder Weekly that shelter services has begun reviewing its communications protocol for those times they do reach out to rescues. This past weekend, rescues were circulating an email about a puggle at risk at Boulder’s humane society. Trill, a 3-year-old male, bit a child who stuck its fingers through the bars of his cage. “The bite did break skin, and Trill is now on a 10-day bite quarantine,” the Oct. 28 email read. “Due to this behavior, we are not able to rehome him through our facility. We feel that Trill could successfully transition into a new home through your rescue.” It was Nov. 5 before the email was passed on to Wolf, who once again stepped forward to be the face of rescues and went the next day to pick him up from Boulder Humane, bought him a leash and collar, and took the squirmy, high-energy dog for a long walk. Then, she loaded him back into the car and drove him to foster care. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 10, 2011 15

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landfill materials are resources that we can recycle and reuse. An example is that they were burning plastic bags, but if you combine them with saw dust, they can be used for wood decking. You can reuse cell phones for scrap metal, you can take a water heater and remake it to something else. Burning all those resources is a waste of the resources.” On the other hand, Brian Karp, the district manager of Waste Connections, which is in charge of the Front Range Landfill, and Diehl both say the wasteto-energy project in Erie and zero waste are not mutually exclusive. “This is taking what has already been deposited over the past 30 years and it is creating something good out of it,” Karp says. “We can still continue to look to zero waste and recycling options in the future.” As for the economic concerns raised by Eco-Cycle, Karp says the project ends up paying for itself. The energy produced from the methane from the Front Range Landfill is put back into the grid and sold to United Power. Also, he says the well and vacuum system used to collect the gas was already in place because of federal regulations to collect any gas produced by the landfill. The difference now is that instead of collecting the gas to send to the flare system, which destroys the gas, the methane is sent to the engine to produce electricity — a process which Karp describes as “sexy.” “I can take stuff you put out on your curb and I can turn it into something good,” Karp says. “Now tell me that’s not sexy.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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cled, food, leaves or branches, when that breaks down, methane goes out into the atmosphere. Methane, in its highest potency, is 25 times more powerful than CO2.” Waste-to-energy is another option for diverting methane from the atmosphere. In the case of Erie, this means collecting the methane gas from the Front Range Landfill and using it to power an engine, which then creates electricity. The result will be enough electricity to power the equivalent of half the homes in Erie today, according to Fred Diehl, a representative of the town of Erie who has been working closely with the gas-to-energy project. “From the town’s perspective, we’ve worked hard to position ourselves as a sustainable community,” Diehl says. “When the project partners of Waste Connections came to the town with this, really one of the ultimate green projects, our role was to make sure we could facilitate them on the planning side as quickly and efficiently as possible. We were presented with the opportunity to use methane gas that would otherwise be lost to power the equivalent of half the homes in our community. That is a powerful step toward our sustainability goals.” Eco-Cycle does not agree that a waste-to-energy project is a good option. In fact, a recent paper published on EcoCycle’s website says waste-to-energy projects are wasteful. Eric Lombardi, the executive director of Eco-Cycle, said in an email that waste-to-energy is a waste of money and makes the most expensive, polluting electricity known. “The basic idea is to use and not burn our resources,” Abraham says. “These

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he recently completed gasto-energy project at the Front Range Landfill in Erie is raising some questions about which approach is better: waste-to-energy programs, or zero waste. While Front Range Landfill and the town of Erie have decided to follow the waste-to-energy path by trying to convert the gas from the landfill to electricity, the Boulder-based nonprofit EcoCycle favors the zero-waste option by trying to drastically reduce the amount of materials sent to landfills. Zero waste is an approach of waste management focused on the reduction of landfill matter. It encourages companies to design products and packaging with reuse in mind, and encourages users to view their trash in terms of compost and recycling, not waste destined for the landfills. Eco-Cycle, which works to build zero-waste communities, has a goal of “zero waste … or darn near.” According to Neshama Abraham, the communications and community campaign manager of Eco-Cycle, this means 90 percent or better of waste diversion from landfills to compost or recycling centers. “There is no question we have a ways to go, but that is one of the reasons Eco-Cycle exists,” Abraham says. “Zero waste also has very much to do with how we deal with our organic materials — basically what would go in your food compost. That is a really important one, because organic matter in a landfill is a very big greenhouse gas emitter. Any organic matter that ends up in a landfill, like paper or packaging that is not recy-

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formed into a regal uniform meant to inspire galactic awe and fight the bitter cold of space travel. It’s quirky, but it’s also a surprisingly believable portal into Sugalski’s stage personality, through which he commands an array of electronics and a killer soundtrack for cruising the galaxy. TPA’s music is driven by an easygoing attitude, exactly the kind you would want to have on a long voyage through space. What separates Sugalski most from the electro-dance pack is the endearing, halfserious fantasy he creates in a world of black-clad and dead-serious DJs. He prefers to create a carefree party atmosphere. “If you were to look at the suit itself, you’d be like ‘OK, Swedish ski suit from 1982,’” Sugalski told Boulder Weekly. “It does let people drop their guard, and often in this scene it’s all about who looks the coolest. When you see a guy in a yellow jumpsuit, everyone can latch onto that as being ridiculous. It’s all a party. We’re here to celebrate, and I’m here to facilitate that.” Every artist is a diplomat for one thing or another, whether it is an ideology, a cultural heritage or just the motivation to dance. The Polish Ambassador’s fat bass and booty-bobbing rhythms are not highly innovative or technical, but they are solid and inviting tunes that are so effective they border on pop. Sugalski manages to pack a ton of energy into the bleeps and bloops that compose a track. It’s that effortless style of energy that manages to get dance floors moving by invitation instead of force; in other words, diplomatically. “A lot of times I’ll see that it’s just about who can go the hardest, who can put out the music that makes you

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rage the most,” Sugalski says. “But when I look around at other artists, what I appreciate most is artists that can make people get down through a variety of styles. There’s all sorts of emotions we can tap into as human beings, so why not, as artists, allow people to do that?” Sugalski’s taste shines through in his choice of remix material, giving a space-age shine to artists like Architecture in Helsinki, Little Dragon, George Michael and Manu Chao. Mid-tempo, easy-dancing

electro is the bread and butter of TPA’s catalog, and from that pace Sugalski is free to stretch in either direction. “I want to create an experience for the concertgoer, create something that they’re going to remember that’s not just some blob of bass and drums that at the end of the night you’re like, ‘That was dope!’ but you don’t remember anything the next day.” A recently added member of the 1320 Records family, the 30-year-old Sugalski already has seven albums and a slew of remixes under his belt. The outer-space motif is pervasive, notably Homeboys In Outer Space: Episode I, a remix collection of five early ’90s hip-hop tracks with the Polish touch. Episode II will be released in January, featuring artists like Dead Prez, Lupe Fiasco and the Beastie Boys, and like Episode I, it will be a free release. Sugalski has given away everything in his catalog for free at some point, announcing bargains to his fans via social networking — an album for reaching a certain number of fans, a new remix for some inspiring words, a debut at a show if they ask nicely. “I always give opportunities to get stuff for free. A lot of it is paid for but doesn’t mean I can’t create some allowances on my website for maybe a few days to get it for free,” Sugalski says. “I think it’s fun for people; we live in this unique age where if enough people collectively decide that this is worth voting for, they can totally help artists out and artists can get their piece out there, but at the same time everyone gets something they want, and in this case it’s free music. It’s a beautiful thing and a great way to get music out to your fans. I’m an ambassador, and it’s my duty!” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Ra Ra Riot plays the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Delicate Steve and Yellow Ostrich open. Tickets are $18, plus $2 for those under 21. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Ra Ra Riot overcomes death of drummer and continues ascent by Chris Parker

ou’ll often hear Vampire Weekend menstands out as its best work, which is less an indictment tioned in connection with Ra Ra Riot, of their more recent work than an acknowledgment of for a variety of reasons not necessarily the incredible musicality of the first effort. It’s highrelated to their musical approaches. Both lighted by the powerful six-minute epic “Dying Is emerged in the late ’00s, possess a big, Fine,” which keenly balances driving guitars and elegiac effusive sound and are connected through Ra Ra Riot trilling strings. Its subject would prove strangely presinger Wes Miles (who’s a childhood friend of one scient, as in June, after a show in Fairhaven, Mass., member and started the electro-soul band Discovery drummer John Ryan Pike disappeared and was found with another). However, their paths have very different drowned in the bay the next day. trajectories. The band was devasDoron Gild Formed at Syracuse tated and struggled with University in 2006 from whether to go on. members of the music “It just felt like we school, Ra Ra Riot plays weren’t doing him any jusan, at times, peculiarly vigtice by stopping everyorous brand of chamberthing that we had created pop fueled by cello and with him. Things that he violin, in addition to tradihad created,” Lawn says. tional rock instrumenta“So it felt appropriate to tion. The sextet got its continue.” start playing house parties The EP came out the around Syracuse, earning next month and attracted attention for its lively perthe interest of V2 Records, formances and Miles’ lovewhich paid for them to ly tenor croon. record their debut, The That fall they earned Rhumb Line. They’d an invitation to New already finished the album York’s CMJ Music — which re-records four Festival. They then decidof its 10 tracks from that ed to take their shot, as sterling EP — when V2 two members quit school announced it was folding. to join their recently gradNorthwestern indie label Ra Ra Riot plays the Fox Theatre uated mates, and they Barsuk stepped up, and it’s on Tuesday, Nov. 15. began touring voraciously. been a mutually beneficial “When we got invited relationship, as Ra Ra to play CMJ, there were people who were boosting us Riot has become one of its best-selling artists (next to and it seemed like kind of a do-able thing,” says cellist those old Death Cab albums). Alexandra Lawn. “It just kind of happened.” While The Rhumb Line (taken from a pub near As ’07 began, the band began recording a self-titled Pike’s house, and mentioned in the song “St. Peter’s six-song debut, a release that, even after two albums, Day Festival”) is a fine album, it’s shadowed by the loss

Sweet sounds of Sweden

Lykke Li’s bizarre pop will have you dreaming of psychedelic windmills by Matt Conner

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that preceded it. The songs bustle with vibrancy, but the mood is darker and suffused with a sense of lost innocence. “I’m sure there’s some degree of innocence that’s taken away when someone in your life is all of sudden gone because of a tragic accident. Everyone has to go through that at some point. For a lot of us, that was our first big one,” Lawn says. “In that sense there was maybe some innocence lost. Now when we write music, we try to still stay true to John, like ‘What would John do?’” Last year the band released The Orchard, which emerges from the darkness with a brighter, more dulcet, meditative sound. While the syncopated rhythms still bubble beneath the surface, there’s more sweep and swell than rock attack. The songs still pulse, but have moved toward a beatific elegance that’s punctuated with guitar, not driven by it. The album’s title is taken from the upstate New York peach orchard where they spent a month writing and recording the album. The titular orchard offered refuge from the hardships of the road, and it bears some responsibility for the album’s softer tone. “The environment was beautiful, so I think that had a play in it,” Lawn says. For Lawn it represents her attempt at singing, unveiling a sultry, alabaster soprano on “You and I Know.” It’s gotten her creative juices flowing, even if it was harrowing at first to step up to the microphone on tour. “It was nerve-wracking, but it’s opened up the door with me, and made me a little more confident with my own songwriting and singing. Things have gotten a lot more interesting,” she says. “We’ve got a lot of demos of songs done, and we’re about ready to get into the studio.” There’s a sense with Ra Ra Riot that they’re on the cusp of big things, just a few steps behind Vampire Weekend, verging on mainstream familiarity. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

here’s nothing that compares to Scandinavian pop. Whether it’s a deep appreciation of the arts, the stunning landscape all around or the harsh winter season that forces songwriters inside to write for much of the year, the region produces some of the most beautiful and weirdest pop albums year after year. Lykke Li has provided two more pillars in that movement with her debut, Youth Novels, in 2008, and Wounded Rhymes earlier this year. The 25-year-old Swedish songstress constructs electronic pop arrangements bolstered by

orchestration both whimsical and tender, and the corresponding acclaim has her headlining coast to coast on her current tour with First Aid Kit as they stop at the Ogden Theatre on Friday, Nov. 11. Despite the growing audience and positive attention that comes with late-night television slots and major festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza, Li says the darker profile on Wounded Rhymes is only a lighter shade of what’s to come. As bright as the spotlight shines, the darker aspects of her personality are see LYKKE LI Page 25

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what interest her most. long, my band and I, and we try to “My life and my music go hand in make it this organic thing,” she says. hand, so it was my life that led me to “Every night we try to push ourselves these darker places,” she says about her harder and harder, and finally, when you latest album. “I think that Wounded play the songs for so long, then you Rhymes was the album that I tried to really know them so you can let go, make with Youth Novels. I was just so experiment and be loose and let the young and inexperienced on my first audience decide what will happen. The record that I couldn’t get there. Even entire affair is a very living thing.” though I had a lot But Lykke of darkness in me, I Li says she canOn the Bill couldn’t really let it not stand her Lykke Li plays at the Ogden out, and I want to debut album. Theatre on Friday, Nov. 11. Doors at 8 p.m. First Aid Kit also plays. keep going there. I “I can’t listen Tickets are $28.50 to $32. 935 E. want to get darker to Youth Novels,” Colfax, Denver, 303-832-1874. and darker. It’s she says. “For what is in me. I me, it’s just a think that’s just baby singing.” what I’m drawn to sound-wise. Even So fans of Lykke Li should mostly with this record, I feel like I didn’t mas- expect songs from Wounded Rhymes. ter it completely.” Although you might not recognize what While that might sound morbid, the you hear. music conjures descriptors like “majes“The new songs shift. Sometimes tic” and “beautiful.” Li says that’s we’ll make them harder, or sometimes because people often think of darkness we’ll strip them back. It all depends, as a bad or negative thing, but for her really. Last night, we did a really it’s the very source of her strong emostripped-back, and tomorrow I’m doing tional appeal. the same with all acoustics and no elec“For me, something dark is not tronics. Other times, we’ll make it all necessarily something negative,” says about the electronics, so I just have to Li. “For me, darkness in life and hard- do what challenges me.” ships in life are so beautiful. It’s such a While she mentions that she’s ready strong feeling. You lose someone and for a break, she’s still quite excited to then it hits you in the gut. You feel it play the shows left on the tour. physically, so it conjures these strong “The amazing thing about it is that emotions that become so physical. It’s I started in Washington Square Park in something that you can really feel, and New York playing for four people, and that makes it easier to describe those then I went to standing in front of feelings because it becomes so exact. Central Park in front of however many So it’s just about tapping into those thousands. I always think, ‘Wow, there’s experiences in a way that makes some- no way that it can get bigger than this.’ thing beautiful and worthwhile.” I’m very humbled, and I’m always surWhen it comes to Friday’s show, Li prised that people come to my shows. In says she’s not quite sure what to expect fact, I also think it’s the last time they’ll since her band has often been changing probably come. I don’t take anything for the entire set night after night. granted.” “We’ve been playing together for so Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Acoustic Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. Ash Ganley Trio. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bridger Jancic, The Get Down Easy’s, The Patent Pending. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. David Booker. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dexter Payne Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985. Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Felonius Smith Trio. 7:30 p.m., Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847. Jet Edison. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The New Olds.. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. She Groovez — With Ladies Night Dance Party. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Steve Crenshaw. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Toubab Krewe. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. World Musics Concert — Featuring CU Boulder performers in the Japanese and Balinese Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. The Yawpers. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Cafe, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

events 11:11 Divine Name Workshop — With Andi and Jonathan Goldman. 5 p.m. Boulder Center For Spiritual Living, 805 Yale Rd., Boulder, www.healingsounds.com.

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The 62nd annual Warren Miller film is a titillating bit of snow porn, showcasing not just the typical big air and bottomless powder but also some unusual locations and personalities. It’s extremely entertaining, featuring very little snowboarding, and packed with enough jaw-dropping moments to make you start dreaming of winter snow to come. Screens from Nov. 10-13. 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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10 All Shook Up. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, www. fairviewhs.org/sites/musical. BIBA Gets Happy At Boulder Digital Arts. 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. The Boulder Blind Café. 6:45 p.m. The First Baptist Church of Boulder, 1237 Pine Street, Boulder, 720-495-7797. Boulder Cocktail Tours. 4 p.m. Call for details 303-909-5747. En Fuego Latino — Cuatro Lunas, Latin Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Expert Talk with Amanda Marie Ploegsma. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Marine Corps Birthday Party. Crossfit Niwot, 1401 Sherman Dr., Longmont, 720-

340-1333. Seasonal Decorating. 6:15 p.m. Sturtz & Copeland, 2851 Valmont, Boulder, 303-4426663. Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow. 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Xanadu — The Musical. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-5615313. Zumba for Charity. 12 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., 720-442-1368.

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Boulder/Denver Area All Artists Exhibition — First Anniversary Celebration. 3 to 8 p.m. Nov. 12, Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Rd., Hygiene, 303-651-1106. 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, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 29. Bryce Widom. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. Through

Nov. 30. Burning Issues — The Fourmile Canyon Fire. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building 218, Boulder, 303492-6892.Through Jan. 26. CU Art Museum — Points of View: Selections from Colorado Collections; The Anxiety of Influence: from CU’s ceramics collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1320.Through Dec. 17. Edition to Clay: Ceramic Artists as Printmakers. Arvada Center for the Arts and

Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200.Through Nov. 13. NCAR Community Art Program — Nancy Myer and Kit Hevron Mahoney. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Nov. 30. Reflections & Traditions — A Journey Through Asia. 915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-3598543. Small Press.Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3883. Through Nov. 18.

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11/11/11 Celebration in Song. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Adam Bodine and Kalin Capra. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Bandaids. 8 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-7427. Big Sean. 9 p.m Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Dan Navarro. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Early Music Ensemble. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008. HighMay. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Hwy 287. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Li’l Red & Big Bad. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. Lynn Skinner Quintet — Presenting True Blue: Joni Mitchell. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The McKay Brothers. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Paula Nelson Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Selassee. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Something Underground 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Veteran’s Day Concert — CU Wind Sympony and Symponic Band. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Woody Pines. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events All Shook Up. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, www. fairviewhs.org/sites/musical. Awareness Night for Boulder Youth Body Alliance. 6 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. The Boulder Blind Café. 6:45 p.m. The First Baptist Church of Boulder, 1237 Pine St.,

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Friday, November 11 Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Saturday, November 12 Boulder Writers’ Salon. 10:30 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th

Boulder, 720-495-7797. Boulder Downtown Coffee and Pastry Tours, Dining Tours. 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Call for details 303-909-5747. En Fuego Latino — Cuatro Lunas, Latin Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. First Bite Boulder. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Guys in Ties, Girls in Pearls — Featuring live swing music by Pearl de la Rue. 7-11 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. In the Current — CU Dance. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181 iShare — Connecting Museums and Communities East and West. 5 p.m. University

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theater The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. CU Theatre & Dance, University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181. Accomplice. Devil’s Thumb Productions, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Avenue Q. Vintage Theatre, 2119 E. 17th Ave., Denver, 303-839-1361. Through Jan. 8. Cannibal! The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-9984. Through Nov. 26.

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St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Courtney Shafer’s The Whitefire Crossing. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Between the Covers — An Evening for Bookclubs. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Tuesday, November 15 Ed and Deb Shapiro’s Be the Change. 7:30 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.

of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Paint, Pattern & Print — Young Artists at Work program. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 8 p.m. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685. Soup Supper — To benefit Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. 4 to 8 p.m. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 4215 Grinnell Ave., Boulder, www.emptybowls.net. Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow. 5 p.m. & 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. White Space — Six artists transform white Eames Molded Plastic Rockers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Ln., Broomfield, www.tickethorse. com. Xanadu — The Musical. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-5615313.

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music Alfredo Muro. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Come Ye Songs of Art — Presented by Seicento Baroque Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-301-7747. Danny Schafer. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Gourds. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jake Loggins Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., 303-443-3322. John Craigie & Paris Hayes. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985. The Legendary Hitchhikers — A Tribute to Tom Petty. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Meryl Romer/Bill Kopper Duo. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Matthew Middendorf, Plenty of Fish, Claymore Disco. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. Pete Wernick & Flexigrass. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Seicento Baroque Ensemble presents “Come Ye Sons of Art.” 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 720-301-7747. Top of the Hill Faculty Concert Series — Kindred Spirits with Vicki Jordan. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Wadirum. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. The Wolftones. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

events 3rd Annual Beard & Mustache Showdown and Beertasting. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Afternoon Tea — Feat. artist Ashlee Comerford and the Ralph Sharon Trio. 2 to 4 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. All Shook Up. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, www. fairviewhs.org/sites/musical. Beginning Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. En Fuego Latino — Cuatro Lunas, Latin Cabaret. 6 p.m. & 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Howl & The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg — The Bent Lens at the Boe. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. In the Current — CU Dance. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre Building, 303-492-8181. Magic — Beyond Belief VI. Annual fundrasier for Mile High Magicians Society, Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-987-7845. MyHandleBar — End of season party. 3 to 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Company, 4699 Nautilus Ct., Ste. 104, Boulder, 303-530-1381. A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet

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Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 8 p.m. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685. Veterans’ Affairs — Stories on Stage. 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro at the Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, 303-4940523. Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow. 2 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Ln., Broomfield, www.tickethorse. com. Xanadu — The Musical. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-5615313.

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Blues Jam — With Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Dan Rodriguez & Friends. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Dog House Music. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Logo Ligi West African Dance Troupe. 9:45 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Peter Kater. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Rumpke Mountain Boys. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

events Advanced Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. All Shook Up. 2 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, www. fairviewhs.org/sites/musical. 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. The Funny People — World premiere of Children’s TV Pilot. Play-Ground Theatre at the Backdoor Theater, 740 Highway 72 North, Nederland, 303-258-0393. Howl & The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg — The Bent Lens at the Boe. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. In the Current — CU Dance. 2 p.m. University Theatre Building, CU Campus, 303492-8181. Logo Ligi West African Dance Troupe. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Making Waves in Colorado — A Celebration with the Colorado Ocean Coalition. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Occupy Big Oil — Forum with Antonia Juhasz, oil and energy policy analyst. 7 p.m. Unitarian Universtalist Church, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195. Outdoor Boot Camp. 10 a.m. Take It Out Fitness and Play Boulder Foundation, Boulder City Park, 13th and Arapahoe, Boulder, 573424-7168. Ren and Aki Adventures Fall Fundraiser. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Women’s Wilderness Institute, 1501 Lee Hill Dr., Boulder, 303-9389191. A Shared Experience in Art — Ballet Nouveau Colorado and RedLine. 2 p.m. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W 84th Ave., Denver, 303-466-5685. Vienna Boys Choir. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Warren Miller’s Like There’s No Tomorrow. 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., & 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Ln., Broomfield, www.tickethorse. com.

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Melissa Ivey, Lara Ruggles and Colan Simpson. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. eTown Holiday Taping — Mark O’Connors’ Hot Swing! and Matt Wertz. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. George Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628. Open Mic. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Paula Nelson. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Ra Ra Riot. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Wings of Whimsey — Featuring CU music faculty. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

events 1968 — Panel Discussion about an Exceptionally Eventful Year. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3196. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50-7 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Folk Dancing. 7-10 p.m. Boulder Civic Plaza,

Monday, November 14

music Brad Goode Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Colorado Spirit Chorus — Weekly rehearsals and auditions. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Valley Christian Church, 7100 South Boulder Rd., for more information contact Nicci at 303460-8651 or Joy at 303-641-4122. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. George Nelson Quartet. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9399900. Into Africa — An Introduction to Piano Music of Africa, with William Chapman Nyaho. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303492-8008. Jay Ryan’s Big Top Open Stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Roster McCabe. 10 p.m. The Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Zach Heckendorf. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

events The Arctic — Unique, Beautiful, Fascinating, presented by NOAA. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Naturally Boulder Networking Night. 5:30 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, news@ naturallyboulderproducts.com. Not One Day Like the Rest — With Julia Mancuso and Chris Anthony. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Operation Christmas Child — Drop-off location open. 3 to 5 p.m. Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, www. samaritanspurse.org. “So, You’re a Poet” — Open Poetry Reading with poems of T.R. Peters. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

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Boulder, 303-499-6363. Joint Session of the Food and Agriculture Policy Council and the Parks and Open Space Advisory Commission — Reviewing the Cropland Policy Advisory Group's decision on GMOs. 5:30 p.m. Longmont Conference Center, 1850 Industrial Cir., Longmont. Look Who's Moved into the Neighborhood — Human/Bird Interactions in Boulder County and Beyond. 7 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-6892. March of Dimes Signature Chef's Auction. 6 p.m. Omni Interlocken Resort, 500 Interlocken Blvd., Broomfield, 303-6920011. NaNoWriMo Write In. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Recycling Center Open House. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Boulder County Recycling Center, 1901 63rd St., Boulder, 720-564-2226. Zero Waste Event Planning Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Walt Self Center, 335 Railroad Ave., Lyons, 303-441-3522.

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Kid’s Hula Dance. 5 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st. St., Boulder, 303-4472566. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Dean’s List & Oncue. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. George Nelson. 7 p.m. Cuvée, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Jaden Carlson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Thom Sandrock. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tribute to Gram Parsons and Ryan Adams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Boulder Reservoir Master Plan Public Meeting. 6 to 8:30 p.m. Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., www.BoulderRez. org. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Salsa in Boulder. 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319. Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-449-5962.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, November 10 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dance With Me Class — Ballet Nouveau Colorado. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Friday, November 11 11/11/11 — Numbers & Patterns Everywhere. 11:11 a.m. to 1:11 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave.,

Saturday, November 12 Bach in the Community — Bach for kids concert. 11 a.m. WOW Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-776-9666. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lost in Lexicon — An Adventure in Words and Numbers, with Pendred Noyce. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. SunSational Energy & Science. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. WOW! Children’s Museum’s 15th Birthday Celebration. 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Sunday, November 13 Go Club. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Tuesday, November 15 Discovery Days. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Kindermusik. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, November 16 Children’s Story Hikes. 11:30 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Discovery Days. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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The pleasure-pain threshold Dr. Jenni Skyler Dear Dr. Jenni, My girlfriend likes to be handcuffed and blindfolded during sex. I’ve gotten used to this and can find it rather fun at times. Now she is asking for more things. She wants me to paddle her hard on her legs and even slap her face. I can’t seem to take it to this step, but I don’t want to disappoint her either. I would hate to end the relationship because of sexual incompatibility. Do you have ideas for how I can get over this? —Incompatible kink life

get Viagra? I feel a little young to do this, but I hate when this happens. I’m a little better at sex if I have a beer or two if that helps. —CU Candidate for Viagra

Dear CU Candidate, It does not sound like you have erectile dysfunction. If you are able to obtain and maintain your erection almost all the time when alone, then physiologically everything is functioning just fine. Even if you struggle with the presence of a partner, treatment is only suggested if it happens about 50 percent Dear Incompatible, of the time. Keep in mind that most It sounds like your girlfriend is men will struggle with erections at least upping the stakes on your sensation 20 percent of the time over their lives. play. Every person has a different perErectile solutions come in many spective on sensashapes and colors. Questions tions of pleasure, Viagra is recompain and the mended for men Send questions for Jenni threshold between with true erectile Skyler to drjenni@ dysfunction. Other the two. Because theintimacyinstitute.org. treatment protocols your sexual activity includes a lot of include penis pumps sensory exploraand injections, and tion, it’s essential to have an ongoing some men use cock rings to help stabilize the penis once it is erect. Of course, conversation about fantasies that turn sex therapy is enormously useful for you on, as well as your limits. If you alleviating anxiety and exploring psyhave a boundary around slapping her chological pieces around guilt, shame or face, can you tell her why? She may fear associated with sexuality. Some men understand where you are coming from also use natural supplements, herbal and let it go, or she may explain how remedies and even acupuncture. the sensation brings her a kind of pleasure only you can be trusted to deliver. As for drinking, it sounds like your If you are confused about why some limited alcohol use reduces anxiety, people enjoy feeling pain, it’s imporhelping facilitate an erection. Keep in tant to know that pain and pleasure mind that too much alcohol can make it pathways in the brain occur in close almost impossible to achieve an erecproximity. In the right environment, tion. some people experience pain as pleaMy guess is that you might be feelsurable. ing nervous about being in a serious Also remember that bottoms, or relationship. Many men can lose their those in the submissive play position, erection when they get nervous about are turned on not just by sensation but their performance or letting down their by giving over control and trusting. partner. Instead of worrying about how your penis functions, focus on enjoying Dear Dr. Jenni, the pleasure of sharing each other’s bodI’m a 24-year-old grad student at ies and let your penis join the party CU. I’ve started dating a girl pretty seri- when he’s ready and willing. ously last month. We have sex almost Send questions for Jenni Skyler, PhD, every day, but I seem to lose my erection to drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org. Skyler about every three days. Not all the time, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexolbut about one-third. I’m curious if I ogist who runs The Intimacy Institute in have erectile dysfunction and if I should Boulder, www.theintimacyinstitute.org.

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he same old issues were those that plagued the beleaguered Buffs once again on Nov. 4. And this time, if head coach Jon Embree’s squad doesn’t find some solutions, the CU faithful will witness a rough senior night on Nov. 12 at Folsom Field. More than 50,000 fans were on hand to watch CU deliver another sorry performance riddled with the same thoughtless penalties, blocked field goals, injuries, shoddy red zone play and subpar secondary defense that have produced nine losses already this season. A career day for USC’s Matt Barkley did not help, as his six touchdown passes led to a 42-17 romp for the Trojans. Although the Buffs went into CU Buffs’ Quarterback Tyler Hansen drops back to throw against USC. The Buffs lost 42-17. the second quarter of the game in a 7-7 deadlock, an inability to capitalize on scoring chances eliminated any Starting kicker Will Oliver had two field Saturday’s cellar-dweller showdown chance Colorado had to stay in the game. goals blocked before being replaced by against Arizona, a team that is second“We have to be better in the red Justin Castor in the fourth quarter. to-last in the Pac-12 (to the Buffs) but zone,” Embree said. “We have to be con“Like I said at the [post-game] press boasts a stellar quarterback in senior sistent. It is amazing, the first drive was conference, we were just unfortunately Nick Foles. like, ‘Wow,’ and then you struggle and not getting enough lift on the ball,” “One thing that jumps out to me is you come back in, you move it again, and Embree said. “It wasn’t an issue of prohow accurate he is throwing the deep then you stall out in the red zone.” tection.” ball,” Embree said. “He throws the deep “All field goals do is make cheerleadMore importantly, Barkley had his ball really well. … He will be another ers do three pushups and the band to way with Colorado’s secondary, finishing challenge for our secondary.” play. You are not going to win. We have 25 of 39 for 318 yards passing and only Injuries to an already banged-up to get touchdowns so we can win.” one interception. defense won’t help the Buffs’ cause on Even when the Buffs had field goal The Buffs will need to plug up opportunities, they could not convert. defensive holes as they look ahead to see FOOTBALL Page 35

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Game schedule n Friday, Nov. 11 Women’s Basketball vs. Northern Arizona Boulder, 5:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Fort Lewis College Boulder, 8 p.m. Volleyball @ Arizona State Tempe, Ariz., 8 p.m. n Saturday, Nov. 12 Football vs. Arizona Boulder, 12:30 p.m. Volleyball @ Arizona Tuscon, Ariz., 7 p.m.

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Running back Rodney Stewart is the only player in Colorado history to ever amass over 500 rushing and receiving yards in a single season. Stewart is the only player in the NCAA to have accomplished the feat this season. CU has an advantage going into Saturday’s matchup with the Wildcats. When head coach Jon Embree hired his staff, he selected two members of Arizona’s coaching staff to fill voids in Boulder. Defensive line coach Mike Tuiasosopo spent seven years in Tuscon and defensive coordinator Greg Brown left Boulder in 2009 only to return a year later. How much of an impact did former Buff baller Alec Burks make? The season CU Buff’s Quarterback Tyler Hansen before his arrival in Boulder, Colorado had won nine games, including one in the Big 12. Two season later, the Buffs won a school record 25 games, nine in the Big 12.

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Matt Sparkman (8-2): Colorado, 24-21 Neither team is by any means impressive, but CU showed occasional signs of life against USC, and they carry home field advantage. If there is one game the Buffs can win the rest of the way, it’s this one. Guest Picker (8-1) – Ryan Finley, Arizona Star: Colorado, 38-35 Colorado’s going to need to catch breaks and force turnovers to have a chance at its first PAC-12 win. Luckily, Arizona is in a giving mood: The Buffaloes might not have the players (yet), but Saturday they’ll have the momentum.

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Saturday, especially if Embree is being cautious about whom to play. Linebacker Brady Daigh should be able to play after injuring his wrist against USC, but Embree might not let strong safety Kyle Jefferson (concussion) return to help a defense that will be without six players already. “I just get leery on concussion guys, saying they’re back,” Embree said. “Until they run around and are not afraid to hit, I don’t count on those guys. Sometimes they are back, and then the first play they hit somebody and they are out for the game.” Despite the Buffs losing by 41, 28, 43, 34, and 25 points in their past five games, Embree is looking ahead to his 28 seniors finishing their careers on a high note. “I feel for them, I do, but they can still win their final home game. They can

still end the road losing streak,” he said. “I went to a bowl game my senior year, but I didn’t win my last game here at Folsom Field and that still kind of bothers me. There is still some stuff out there for them, and I expect they will have a great effort on Saturday and do what we can do to get them to sing that fight song afterwards.” And as senior night looms closer, what will Embree remember about his group of seniors, who have endured four losing seasons and coaching and conference transitions? “The want-to in this group, the adversity that they have faced. They’ve played hurt; they’ve played beat-up. I will remember them as a group that really wanted to try and get things done and help set this program on the right path.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Buffs’ spikers take sets from top teams by Matt Sparkman

he days of consistent 0-3 losses for the University of Colorado volleyball team appear to be over. After a fairly successful four-game road trip, CU returned home to face Stanford and California, both top 10 teams. In both matches the Buffs started out strong, nearly winning the first set, but it was the second set where the Buffs showed their electric potential, using aggressive serving and an attacking mentality to put their opponent away, winning their first two sets at home in Pac-12 play. “It’s a glimpse of greatness every single time,” said senior captain Kerra Schroeder. “We know we can do it.” As CU continues its strong play in the second half of the double roundrobin Pac-12 schedule, they have an advantage in that many teams expect the Buffs to roll over, and are taken aback when they see CU’s high level of play. “When we are coming this hard at teams, they’re kind of thrown back,” said middle blocker Nikki Lindow. “Like, ‘Whoa, this is Colorado, what are they doing?’ It’s starting to work, and it’s wearing on them.” The fact that the Buffs are able to keep spirits high despite a 5-20 record, including a 0-17 mark in conference, is a testament to CU’s dedication to build for the future. Yesterday, the Buffs signed the highest-rated volleyball class in the program’s history. Members include Fairview High School’s Nicole Edelman, an Olympic level setter; Alexis Austin, a middle blocker from Texas; and Chelsey Keoho, a skilled defensive specialist from Hawaii. Even though there is no postseason to motivate the Buffs down the

stretch, CU’s effort will undoubtedly continue to be strong. “The season’s running short on us here,” said head coach Liz Kritza. “We’re running out of time, so there’s a sense of urgency about it. It’s not enough just to compete and to be showing progress, and I think that’s what’s helping us to get better and really to stay positive and keep these kids going.” Perhaps no Buff embodies a positive mindset better than sophomore defensive specialist Elysse Richardson. Richardson, who stands at a “generous” 5 feet, 2 inches, has been perhaps CU’s most improved player through Pac-12 play, and she accompanies her skill by playing with a positive attitude not seen enough in sport. Richardson was put in a tough position against Cal at the very end of the match when CU ran out of subs, and Richardson was forced to play in the front row. Having received a set, Richardson swung as hard as she could, hitting the ball just long, giving the match to the Golden Bears. Instead of moping about her poor fortune, Richardson shrugged off the miss. “The littlest one out there seems to have the most fight,” Kritza said. “The response she had was exactly what the team has to have, of ‘Great, I’m [5-feet, 2-inches], playing against a [6-foot, 5-inch] player,’ just going with everything that she has. It’s exactly the mentality that we have to have.” Colorado goes on the road to face Arizona and Arizona State. The Buffs were extremely competitive with the Sun Devils when they faced them earlier in the season, losing in three sets, all by the score of 23-25. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Snapshots from the rum haze by Michael Phillips

ohnny Depp was a pal of the late Hunter S. Thompson, and the frustrating but thickly atmospheric film version of Thompson’s early novel The Rum Diary finds Depp and writerdirector Bruce Robinson paying tribute to the author, freelance gonzo journalist, career substanceingester and lifelong alcohol sponge. The undertaking was a labor of love. The results are more a labor of “like, in parts,” but they certainly don’t resemble anything else on screen at the moment. Thompson wrote The Rum Diary in 1959. For a brief spell he resided in Puerto Rico, living hard and fast in Bacardiville, writing for a rag called El Sportivo and attempting, and failing, to find work at the English-language San Juan Star. Out of these facts came Thompson’s wish-fulfillment novel, in which the autobiographical figure, Paul Kemp, is a Star reporter who falls in with the lover of a ruthless American developer. Robinson streamlines the character roster so that Kemp’s adventures provide the through-line, led by his Don Quixote/Sancho Panza routine with his confidant and conscience, the photojournalist Sala (Michael Rispoli). The writer-director of The Rum Diary is best known for the worst-vacationever classic Withnail & I, which is practically a religion in England and has its ardent fans (including me) here in America. Robinson has directed only

three films since then, the last “unmentionable” one (Robinson’s own description) being Jennifer 8, nearly 20 years ago. At its best, the fractious Withnail magic resurfaces in the sunnier climes of The Rum Diary. Shot on loca-

tion in Puerto Rico, the film scampers after Depp’s reporter (his editor is played by Richard Jenkins, in the world’s finest lousy toupee) as he tests his ethics against those of the developer, played by Aaron Eckhart, and the developer’s thrill-seeking mistress, played by Amber Heard. There isn’t a sophisticated or “adult” perspective to be found in The Rum Diary. Though made by seasoned pros, it derives from a novel written by Hunter when he was a veteran hellion of 22. Depp brings everything he can to the role, except the raw-youth part. (If only he’d made it around the time he made the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!) It’s evident Depp shot The Rum Diary in the wake of his Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut — some of the double takes he owes to Jack Sparrow and no one else. It’s equally evident Depp’s amusement and engagement with scoundrels and rakes of all types can anchor even a wobbly film. The best thing that can come out of The Rum Diary? Another project for Bruce Robinson, that’s what. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Unnecessary 3-D by Michael Phillips

omic effrontery is the Bic that lights the bong in the Harold & Kumar movies, but willfully strained outrageousness can turn sour like that. For a definition of “that,” there’s A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the weakest of the three. Here, the boy-men — now 30-ish menboys, dealing with adult concerns and relationships, in addition to their perpetual White Castle jones — hunt down a Christmas tree, mix it up with Ukrainian gangsters, briefly turn into Claymation-type animated versions of themselves, consort with virgins and meet Santa. And reunite with Neil Patrick Harris, who leads a lascivious Rockettes-style musical number. Which has its moments. Unlike the movie surrounding it. The whole point of these films is that they’re scattershot and willing to try any stupid thing they can. (Todd Strauss-Schulson, making his feature debut, Boulder Weekly

directed the new one, in 3-D; it was written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schossberg, who gave us the worthwhile one, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle in 2004, and the first disappointing sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay in 2008.) A dispirited air, however, smothers the fun from the start this time. Tense, bourgeois Harold ( John Cho) and

unemployed slacker Kumar (Kal Penn) reunite under duress, and the movie engineers the realization they’re destined to be BFFs as long as the sequels hold out. They may be holding out, but they’re not exactly holding up. The chief running gag concerns an infant who accidentally ingests a tremendous amount of cocaine and other substances over the course of the 90-minute misadventure. Is that even funny in theory? The first H&K caught people off-guard with its canny idiocy and zigzagging, picaresque treasure hunt premise. By now, there’s no catching anyone off-guard with these two, except by way of the most off-color and offputting means possible. Harris, at least, brings a cynical brio to his scenes. But the 3-D only makes the general not-funniness that much closer. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The tender and funny 50/50 addresses its subject, cancer, with a refreshing lack of melodrama. Based on a 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. — Michael Phillips/TMS

Adam Sandler finally takes on the cross-dressing role sure to immortalize him among other comedic greats.

International Animation Day The Boedecker Theater is partnering with ASIFA-Colorado to bring a collection of new animation from around the world. This event is in honor of International Animation Day (Oct. 28), as designated by the International Animated Film Association. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

Anonymous In Elizabethan England, intrigue swirls around Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who in this film is the true author of Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

J. Edgar A biopic about the life of J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI for nearly 50 years. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Blackthorn

It’s been said that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed by the Bolivian military in 1908. In the Western Blackthorn, Cassidy (Sam Shepard) survived, and is quietly living out his years under the name James Blackthorn in a secluded Bolivian village. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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This film mobilizes a treasure trove of 16-mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the U.S. drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Buck

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. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone A feature-length documentary on the band Fishbone. With director Chris Metzler in person. At International Film Series. — IFS Footloose This remake of this ’80s classic misses a few steps, most notably when it comes to dancing. While director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) adds weight, the leads don’t pop onscreen. Rated PG-13. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT The French Connection This gritty, fast-paced and innovative police drama with arguably the greatest car-chase scene ever filmed earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. At 38 November 10, 2011

A successful ad executive with a beautiful wife and kids dreads the Thanksgiving visit of his passive-aggressive twin sister. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

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Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy, possesses near magical abilities as he transforms horses — and people — with his understanding, compassion and respect. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

series of mesmerizing time-lapses with original soundtracks from Icelandic musicians. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg This film explores the life of the greatest poet of the Beat Generation. Along with his biography, it features the poet’s readings of his work, including his masterwork, Howl. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Like Crazy

International Film Series. — IFS Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Taking the best from La Vie En Rose and Amélie, comic book artist Joann Sfar’s film is an original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. At Chez Artiste and International Film Series. — Landmark Theatres Happy This feature documentary takes us from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what makes people happy. It combines interviews with leading scientists in happiness and real-life stories of people from around the world. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Howl James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg. Howl is a portrait of a renegade artist breaking down barriers to find love and redemption. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater The Ides of March In the hectic days before an Ohio presiden-

tial primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary becomes embroiled in a political scandal that threatens his candidate’s chances. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Immortals When a bloodthirsty, power-hungry king rampages across ancient Greece in search of a legendary weapon, a brave young stonemason assembles a band to stop him. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT In Time In a future where time is the universal currency and the wealthy live forever, a poor young man stumbles into a fortune but is falsely accused of murder and tries to bring down the system. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Inland/Outland Svavar Jonatansson has traveled the circumference of Iceland several times taking more than 200,000 photos of landscapes. Of these, 40,000 have been assembled, each one a beautiful moment to itself, into a

A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Machine Gun Preacher The inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug dealer who finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Martha Marcy May Marlene A powerful psychological thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a young woman rapidly unraveling in her effort to reclaim a normal life after fleeing a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Metropolis Long unavailable, Giorgio Moroder’s 1984 cut of Metropolis adds a contemporary, synth-heavy score to Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece of power and oppression, along with a pop music soundtrack featuring some of the biggest stars of the era. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Midnight in Paris, a romantic comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, depicts a family that travels to the French capital on business. The party includes two young people (Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams) who are engaged to be married and have experiences that change their lives forever. Rated PG-13. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Decades after a French woman’s harrowing experiences during the Nazi occupation, her story intertwines with an American journalist doing research. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Moneyball Director Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is based on the true story of baseball general manager Billy Beane, played 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 and Colony Square. — 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 one day and sits beside Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a little old lady reading excerpts from her novel aloud. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Opera: Tosca Puccini’s popular Tosca performed at the Royal Opera House with a fabulous cast. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater Paranormal Activity 3 Now that Saw has run its course, a new franchise steps in to spawn a film every Halloween. The third installment is an origin tale and is set in the ’80s. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT Pianomania This documentary follows the chief technician and master tuner of Steinway & Sons as he helps pair world-class pianists and their instruments. At International Film Series. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Puncture Puncture, directed by brothers Mark and Adam Kassen, is a real-life, issue-driven drama that finds its footing in a contemporary David and Goliath story. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Puss in Boots

The eponymous swashbuckling cat embarks on adventures with Humpty Dumpty in this spinoff prequel to the Shrek animated films. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Real Steel In 2020, human boxing is no longer; robot boxing rules. Charlie (Hugh Jackman) and son Max (Dakota Goyo) prepare their junkyard robot to face a Russian-owned force. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips/TMS The Room The film depicts friendships and relationships and raises life’s real and most-asked question: “Can you really trust anyone?”At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres The Rum Diary See full review Page 37. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT Boulder Weekly

The Secret of the Kells A 2010 Academy Award nominee from the producers of Kirikou. Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology meet in this story about the power of imagination and faith. 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

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The Skin I Live In Since his wife was burned, plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) has been obsessed with making a new skin. After 12 years, he creates one that is sensitive, yet a real shield. He needs three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Starz Denver Film Festival Nov. 2 through Nov. 14. Full schedule online at www.denverfilm.org. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Take Shelter A father begins having terrifying dreams about an apocalyptic storm. He channels his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in his backyard. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres The Three Musketeers

Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson are the titular trio, with hotheaded D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman), fighting baddies played by Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT Toast

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Italian-style pizza booming in Boulder

t’s clear that people in Boulder love pizza. Not just any kind of pizza, but authentic Italian pizza. And the city’s restaurant scene has seen an uptick in places that offer it. Boulder’s newest restaurant that serves Italian-style pizza is Tossa, which opened its doors on Oct. 26 to many waiting customers. Yet there are many other pizzerias blocks away that also have loyal customers, in part because each restaurant has its own unique style of Italian pizza. Some pizzerias in Boulder want their pizza to be an exact replica of what a customer is likely to find in Italy. Pizzeria Locale sent its head pizza chef to Naples for four months to work in several pizzerias there, says Cristin Napier of Pizzeria Locale. The restaurant uses a dough-proofing box which is set to the temperature and humidity of Naples, and the dough sits in it for a 24-hour period, says Napier. “The texture is almost identical to what you’d find in Naples,” she says. “We’re just trying to create the exact experience you’d have in Naples. People are really happy about it.” Pizzeria Locale doesn’t cut its pizzas, to add to the authentic Italian feel. In addition, the rare artisan oven that cooks the pizzas was made in Naples and allows for extremely high heat, which is an important aspect in its “Napoletana”-style pizzas, Napier says. Pizzeria da Lupo also models its dough off of Naples. Flour is brought directly over from Naples, where the dough is prepared over three days, says Jim Cohen, chef and owner of the restaurant. While his pizzas have several aspects of Naples, Cohen says that his pizzas are not classic Neapolitans because of the temperature that he cooks the pizzas, and the way he prepares his dough. “I don’t think you can just say, ‘There’s an Italian pizza,’” he says. “They are all different.” At Pizzeria da Lupo, the mozzarella is made in the restaurant, says Cohen. He also imports his olive

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A Margherita pizza with mushrooms and egg from Pizzeria da Lupo

oil directly from Italy. He says it is used as both a starter and a finisher when preparing his pizzas. Both Pizzeria da Lupo and Pizzeria Locale use a very simple sauce made from pureed San Marzano tomatoes, which are grown near Naples. “I just try to buy great ingredients and keep it simple,” Cohen says. “We’ve had a really positive reaction. People seem to love the pizza.” At Pizzeria Basta, the Neapolitan pizza approach is a little different. The dough is made from the same flour that Italians use in their pizza — called “00 flour” — but Kelly Whitaker, owner and chef of the restaurant, wants to have his own take on the pizzas.

“Basta is a chef-driven restaurant,” he says. “We make a version of pizza that is ours. It’s Naplesinfluenced, but it’s not Naples pizza.” An important aspect of Pizzeria Basta’s pizzas is the way they are cooked. The restaurant, like most of the other pizzerias, uses a wood-fired oven. Heat is important because it adds a difference in taste, says Whitaker, and he strives to catch the char flavor that is found in many Italian pizzas. The Italian style is given an American taste at Tossa, says Tom Ryan, founder of both Tossa and Smashburger. The restaurant offers customers traditional pizzas such as cheese and pepperoni, signature Italian pizzas and a build-your-own pizza option. “Our approach is to have a very modern, differentiated pizza,” Ryan says. “What we are doing is authentic Italian pizzas done in an American way.” Tossa offers several unique pizzas that go beyond a traditional Margherita pizza. The restaurant offers salad pizzas, for instance. “We wanted to skew fresh and lighter in general,” Ryan says. At Proto’s Pizzeria in North Boulder, the pizza has a balanced ingredient base, so everything can be tasted, says Kim Homer, the restaurant’s general manager. And unlike the other pizzerias, Proto’s uses a brick-fired oven to ensure that their thin-crust Neapolitan pizzas are evenly cooked. “We use high-quality, fresh ingredients,” she says. “We want it to be like an Italian experience from start to finish.” With this kind of variety, Boulder customers are bound to find a pizza that will cater to their exact tastes. And since these restaurants’ pizzas range from $7 to $18, it’s a whole lot cheaper than a flight to Italy. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ne of my more illadvised college misadventures involved a midnight competition with a classmate to see who could consume the most Tabasco sauce straight. While I prevailed, I learned a valuable lesson (actually one of several) in that heat for heat’s sake isn’t a good thing. The best spicy dishes are ones that don’t up your fiery pain so much that you can’t enjoy the rest of your meal, and are tempered by other intriguing flavors lurking beneath the surface. I recalled this youthful indiscretion during a visit to Boulder’s new Tiffin’s restaurant, which spotlights vegetarian southern Indian street fare. The bulk of what’s touted as Indian food is primarily northern Indian, and its southern analog tends towards lighter but potent flavors, and stresses such seasonings as ginger and tamarind. Not everything here rates high on the spice quotient, and peppery flavors are expertly balanced out by subtle, cooling influences. As a matter of fact, the skillful melding of ingredients easily catapults Tiffin’s into the first tier of local Indian restaurants, and some may quickly discover it becomes their favorite. Of course, the strip mall cafeteria atmosphere probably won’t help that impression, but the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff more than compensate for the ambience. Being a novice of southern Indian food, I asked for an assortment of representative dishes for our party of five. I’d recommend going with a larger group, as this provides ample opportunity to treat the many offerings as small plates, and to identify favorite dishes for future visits. Also, vegan and gluten-free

same fritters were available without bread as the aloo vada plate for $3.95, with tamer condiments of both tamarind and herbal chuthile we have previously discussed ney. The $6.95 samothe word “tiffin” in this space, it’s sa chat was akin to a relevant to note that this term is synsmothered burrito, onymous in India with a “light meal,” featuring potato and particularly lunch. The phrase is colovegetable stuffed pasnial in origin, and likely derives from try topped with the archaic British term for a small onions, cilantro and alcoholic drink, a “tiff,” which is relatcurry. Lastly, there ed to the Scots’ “wee dram.” More was the $6.95 bhel recent mentions of the term often refpuri, touted as a “trail erence tiffin-wallahs, those that delivmix” of puffed rice, er home-cooked lunches. A parent noodles and vegetamay make a lunch for their working bles, which provided adult child, and the tiffin-wallah will a cooling, citrusy pick up the lunch, deliver it to the counterpoint to the workplace, and bring the empty potency of the spicier lunch container back home. chutneys and chat. For dessert, we tried the $2.95 Gulab Jamun, a familiar Indian treat described as “donut holes” on the menu, options are available. and soaked in syrup. These were overly dense, without We sampled a few soup selections, including the typical spongy qualities. I favored the $3.25 $3.95 rasam vada, tangy tomato soup with fritters, Shrikhund, a thick yogurt with a consistency resemand the similarly priced Idli Sambar dal (lentil) soup bling Greek versions, and possessing the right degree with lentil rice cakes. My top choice was the medu of sweetness and saffron scent. vada, a $3.95 dal and rice donut served in lentil soup Despite the absence of meat, there’s no shortage and noteworthy for its heartiness and warming qualiof flavors and satisfaction here. If one desires freshties. tasting Indian that’s not going to appear on menus Clear favorites included the addictive $6.95 plain elsewhere, the top-flight Tiffin’s is a must-visit destidosa, a large cylindrical rice crepe accompanied by nation. Spice aficionados who favor intriguing flavors potent red chile and soothing coconut chutneys. more elevated than spoonfuls of Tabasco will also find Another favorite was the vada pav, a serving of $4.25 reason to celebrate here. potato fritters on a bun featuring an assertive chile Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com chutney, which provided a pleasantly clean burn. The

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ll right, enough is enough. Pumpkin recipes are done for now (until I change my mind, of course). We had a lot of fun though, didn’t we? I’m still in the pumpkin mood, but time to move along and give you fine people something new. How about something that will make your humble abode smell like a big warm hug from cousin Helen? I don’t know why Helen came to mind, but that name just brings on images of a big bear-type of hugger. Although most Helens I know are little, so it is beyond me why I picture a nice stout woman giving you all hugs. Good grief, you would think I would spend my time worrying about more important things (like chocolate), but I’m not gonna lie, I don’t. OK, on to the dessert. This week, the big warm hug will be administered, not by Helen, but by Rustic Apple and Cheddar Pie. Can I get an Amen? Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze. That’s what I hear anyway. I’m sure most of you have enjoyed a slice of sharp cheddar with your pie, but for those who haven’t, well, you are in for a treat. We aren’t serving the cheese up as an accompaniment, but melted right there on the top. This is a salty-sweet combo that will have you begging for more. Well, if you are the one making it, then I guess you won’t have to beg, but you get what I’m saying. How about, people will be begging you? Yes, that makes more sense. This is a fall treat that works fine and dandy with the holidays. For all you antipumpkin pie peeps, this recipe will become your go-to. Don’t be whining about the absence of whipped cream or ice cream with the pie because it’s cheesy. Trust me, a little vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream fits right into this wicked good combo. Remember, salty and sweet is always a treat. Throw all you think you know about apple pie out the door. This is the rustic version, which just means I slapped the dough right on a baking sheet, piled up the apples (granny smiths, holla) in the middle, folded over the edges a bit and zappo, bake and eat. If you really want to try something different, add blue cheese instead of the cheddar. This isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s my favorite, but I’m starting you out slow, breaking you in with the cheddar. If

you love it, and want to advance, please try the blue cheese. There will forever be a place for you at my dinner table if you like it; you will forever be my people. If that doesn’t get you to throw some stinky cheese on your pie, nothing will. Now, follow the directions, put some love into it, and invite me over when it’s done.

Rustic Apple & Cheddar Pie Crust 1-1/2 cups flour 1/2 tsp. salt 1-1/2 tbsp. sugar 1/2 cup unsalted butter 4-5 tbsp. water (cold) Filling 4-5 apples (cored and sliced, peel on) 3/4 cup sugar 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. cloves 1/2 tsp. allspice 1-1/3 tbsp. lemon juice 1 tbsp. melted butter (to brush on crust) 1-2 thick slices of cheddar cheese (I used sharp cheese)

Mix first three crust ingredients together in food processor (or large bowl, and use a pastry blender) slowly pulse in butter until somewhat incorporated. Slowly add in water, 1 tbsp. at a time, until dough forms. Take out, and shape into ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in fridge while making filling, or for at least 15 minutes. Mix, apples, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and allspice in large bowl. Add in lemon juice, and toss to combine. Preheat oven to 375. Take out dough, flatten into disc (about 1/4 inch thick), and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Pile up apple mixture in center. Gently fold up edges of crust all the way around just until crust touches apples. Brush crust with melted butter. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until apples are bubbling and crust is turning golden. Take out and place cheese on top. Bake another 5 to 10 minutes until cheese is melted. Take out, and let cool. Cut into wedges. Serve warm or at room temperature. Enjoy! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Matthew Jansen and Justin Anthony of Mateo and Radda, Kevin Kidd of SALT, Lachlan MackinnonPatterson of Frasca Food and Wine, Hugo Matheson of The Kitchen, Salvatore Proia of the Bitter Bar, Matt Tobin of Tahona Tequila Bistro & Pearl Street Steak Room and Mike Trimmer of Brasserie Ten Ten. Individual seats are $150 and corporate tables (which include 10 seats and marketing benefits) may be purchased for $2,500. Reservations can be made by calling the March of Dimes at 303-692-0011 or visiting marchofdimes.com/colorado. Door-to-Door delivers Thanksgiving Door-to-Door Organics is offering local heritage bred, and organic, whole turkeys to customers, as well as Thanksgiving produce items like green beans, sweet potatoes, freshbaked breads, pie pumpkins and cranberries, in addition to its selection of staple items ready to deliver. Customers shop online by selecting their favorite recipes, and the ingredients are delivered straight to their doorstep. Vegan and gluten-free options are also available. To search for recipes, visit colorado.doortodoororganics.com Door to Door is also offering gift cards for the holidays. Cards are available for $25 or more, and deliveries are customizable. To purchase a gift card, visit colorado.doortodoororganics.com/shop/gift_cards Ted’s to offer turkey meal This Thanksgiving, the Boulder location of Ted’s Montana Grill will be serving a three-course classic turkey meal for guests who want to skip the cooking. The meal will start with a side salad or a cup of either tomato soup or Karen’s Flying-D Bison Chili. They will be followed by turkey and gravy, garlic mashed potatoes, herb dressing, country-style green beans, Aunt Fannie’s squash casserole and cranberry sauce. Dessert will be an apple pecan crisp. The meal is $23 per person, and $11 for kids. Ted’s will also be offering other meal options for the day and half-price bottles of wine. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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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 at Country Cuisine is the first-rate gumbo, brimming with meaty shrimp, perfectly textured okra and pleasing earthy flavor.

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his hospitable watering hole offers such expected bar food staples as a range of burgers, chicken wings and nachos. But the tavern also surprises with unexpected selections such as edamame and a hot clam dip loaded with cheese. Notable entrees include the hearty beef Stroganoff and shitakeencrusted ahi sided with compelling Asianstyle noodles and carrots scented with garlic.

Backcountry Pizza and Tap House 2319 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-449-4285

oulder’s Backcountry Pizza and Tap House ably builds on the foundation of its Nederland parent. The menu spotlights buildyour-own (with a gluten-free crust option) and specialty pizzas, ranging from the all-encompassing Meat Grinder to the Vegan Love. One satisfying option is The Works, a classic combo of mushrooms, sausage, ground beef, banana peppers, black olives and feta. There are also burger, sandwich, salad and entrée options.

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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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Georgia boys BBQ 237 Collyer St., Longmont 720-999-4099

ongmont’s Georgia boys BBQ has the feel of an old-school barbecue, right down to 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 dollar-to-flavor ratio at Pickled Lemon on The Hill is impressive, as this fastcasual 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 spicysweet Moroccan carrots, incongruous but flavorful Korean kimchi and the namesake pickled lemon. The herbed falafel is another noteworthy and delicious item, as these fried chickpea delights have a remarkably delicate coating and light interior.

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hree things distinguish The Kitchen [Next Door] from its namesake neighbor, namely a focus on swift service for time-constrained diners, menu offerings all less than $9, and a family-friendly emphasis. The kids menu features dishes priced at $5.95, and includes 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 tender and flavorful roasted beets, is a fine choice, as is the delicious salmon salad. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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a massive gap between meteorologists ure it out,” Gratz says of understanding and the public.” the complexity of the weather patterns Already in love with snow and skiin Colorado’s mountains. “If a big storm ing, Gratz arrived in Boulder in 2003 to is coming, the computer models will all attend the University of Colorado. He’d say ‘snow.’ But you need to know toporecently graduated from Penn State with graphically what that means.” a degree in meteorology, and at CU he’d At Opensnow.com, Gratz will share end up with an MA in environmental storm secrets. He’ll let you know that if studies coupled with an MBA from the a storm’s southwest winds continue to university’s dominate, that respected business the Interstate 70 Details, details Opensnow.com school. While ski areas won’t Featuring Snow Alerts, location pursuing these benefit as much specific forecasts, nationwide forecasts handcrafted for Colorado degrees, he studwhen it comes and LiveSnow, a real-time snow ied under Roger to precipitation. report, Opensnow.com launched on Nov.1. Pielke Jr., a proHe knows that fessor in CU’s Winter Park Environmental benefits most Studies Program. from north and northwest winds. And A former scientist at the National while he’s hesitant to make long-range Center for Atmospheric Research, forecasts (you rarely have people in Pielke is a Fellow of the Cooperative April grading their long-term forecasts, Institute for Research in Environmental he says, because they’ll usually look Sciences (CIRES). Pielke’s research bad), he’s able to get you the crucial focuses on the intersection of science information about each storm soon and technology and decision-making, enough to start “coughing a lot at work” and this interdisciplinary approach should a mid-week powder day — er, influenced Gratz. “sick” day — be in the works. For a skier like Gratz, Pielke’s work “You can plan two to three days out took on a highly personal meaning. The for specific events,” Gratz says of his Holy Grail for any skier is the ultimate forecasts at Opensnow.com. “Reschedule powder day, and upon graduation Gratz meetings, work late, whatever you need quickly focused on the most important to do, like leave the night before so you question for powder hounds: how to don’t get stuck on the wrong side of a harness science, technology and decipass when the storm closes the highway sion-making to score the best days at in the morning.” Colorado ski resorts. He soon found The benefit for skiers and snowthat, while he could get in a lot of great boarders is obvious: first tracks, no travel days, predicting snowfall and capitalizheadaches and bragging rights about ing on the elusive combination of prehow you’ve scored all the best days of cipitation, winds and localized storm the season over après ski beers. intensity that made a great day into an But Gratz is quick to point out that epic day proved more challenging than while the powder day is a big deal for he thought. many people, knowing when it won’t “Colorado’s mountains make foresnow is important, too. casting that much more difficult,” says “If you’re teaching a little kid to ski, Gratz. you want to be out on the bunny hill on According to Gratz, the jumbled a sunny day when it’s warm,” he says. mass of the Rockies, the myriad high The goal, of course, is to give people peaks, ranges and sub-ranges, means the information they need to have the that the challenge for him as a skier was perfect day, from sideslipping the bunny to learn how to read the nuances of hill to dropping into Vail’s Prima storms, the tiny differences in wind Cornice. direction and other factors that meant “Our customers are the general pubhe should end up at Breckenridge rather lic,” Gratz says of his Opensnow.com than nearby Copper Mountain. project. “We have hand-crafted personal “Weather is what happens when forecasts, snow alerts, an ‘ask the weathmoist air gets high,” says Gratz. “When erman’ feature. The entire experience is air hits the mountains, that creates the very interactive. We’re going to be the weather.” weather channel for outdoor sports. And Colorado’s complex topography we’re going to close the information gap.” meant that as Gratz learned more about With Colorado turning the corner the mountains, he was able to pinpoint towards December, and winter’s big the most favored areas for snow depend- storms still on tap, Gratz will be busy ing upon the individual characteristics this fall. He’ll be working on closing the of each storm. And as he learned more, information gap, modeling storms, lookhe decided to put the knowledge to use, ing at mountain ranges and predicting launching a website, Colorado Powder the perfect day. The only question is will Forecast, which has morphed into his you be there to enjoy it? If Gratz has his current project, Open Snow. way, the answer will be “yes.” “It took me four or five years to figRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The title of this week’s movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and The Most Feeling Machine In The World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution for the hell of it. Comic touches will slip in at unexpected moments. When you’re not up to your jowls in archetypes, you might be able to muster the clarity to gorge yourself on the earthly delights that are spread from here to the edge of the abyss.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

How’s your relationship with your muse? Don’t tell me that you’re not an artist so you don’t have a muse. Even garbage collectors need muses. Even farmers. Even politicians. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventures. So I ask you again: What have you and your muse been up to lately? I say it’s high time for you to infuse your connection with a dose of raw mojo. And if for some sad reason you don’t have a muse, I urge you to go out in quest of new candidates. (P.S. A muse isn’t necessarily a person; he or she might also be an animal, an ancestor, a spirit or a hero.)

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular consumption of Free Will Astrology can be effective in smoothing unsightly wrinkles on your attitude, scouring away stains on your courage and disposing of old garbage stuck to your karma. They’ve also gathered testimony from people who claim to have experienced spontaneous healings of nagging ailments and chronic suffering while under the influence of these oracles. If I were you, I’d try to take advantage of such benefits right now. You could really use some healing. Luckily, it looks like there’ll be an array of other curative options available to you as well. Be aggressive about seeking them out.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Given the lush and exotic astrological factors now coming to bear on your destiny, and due to the possibility that something resembling actual magic may soon make an appearance, I am taking a leap of faith with this week’s horoscope. Are you game? There is a hypothetical scene described by the English poet Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) that would normally be too outlandish to take seriously, but I suspect it’s a possible match for your upcoming adventures. “What if you slept,” he wrote, “and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”

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I was musing on how slow I am to learn the lessons I need to master — how hard it can be to see the obvious secrets that are right in front of me. But I felt better after I came across the logo for the Jung Institute in San Francisco, which is dedicated to the study of psychology and psychotherapy. The symbol that it has chosen to embody its ruling spirit consists of four snails creeping their way around a center point — a witty acknowledgment of the plodding nature of the human psyche. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it’s important for you to give yourself credit for how much you’ve grown since the old days — even if your progress seems intolerably gradual.

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It will be a good week to have nice long talks with yourself — the more, the better. The different sub-personalities that dwell within you need to engage in vigorous dialogues that will get all their various viewpoints out in the open. I even recommend coaxing some of those inner voices to manifest themselves outside the confines of your own head — you know, by speaking out loud. If you feel inhibited about giving them full expression where they might be overheard by people, find a private place that will allow them to feel free to be themselves.

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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word “mutinyversal” as “rebellion against the whole universe.” I think it would be an excellent time for you to engage in a playful, vivacious version of that approach to life. This is one of those rare times when you have so many unique gifts to offer and so many invigorating insights to unleash that you really should act as if you are mostly right and everyone else is at least half-wrong. Just one caution: As you embark on your crusade to make the world over in your image, do it with as much humility and compassion as you can muster.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

In Mongolia, there’s a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy’s arm. They’ve been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I’m shoving this image in your face, Sagittarius, so as to dare you and encourage you to withdraw from your old feuds and disputes. It’s a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to give up any struggle that’s not going to matter 80 million years from now. (More info: tinyurl.com/ DinosaurFight.)

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According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have always felt unworthy of or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here’s an extra bonus: This breakthrough may in turn lead to you finding a lost piece to the puzzle of your identity.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20: My acquaintance Bob takes a variety of meds for his bipolar disorder. They work pretty well to keep him out of the troughs, but he misses the peaks. Last time he saw his psychiatrist he told her he wished he could stop taking the complicated brew of drugs and just take a happy pill every day. The psychiatrist told him that if he ever found such a thing, she’d love to take it herself. Wouldn’t we all? I’m pleased to report that you are now very close to locating the next best thing to a happy pill, Pisces. It may require you to at least partially give up your addiction to one of your customary forms of suffering, though. Are you prepared to do that?

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