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Terrorist or freedom fighter? / 6 Julian Assange is a hero to some, a traitor to others by Pamela White A Nobel Prize for Assange? / 6 How about in chemistry? by Paul Danish On the cover: WikiLeaks War / 12 An in-depth look at Julian Assange’s cybershot heard ’round the world by Boulder Weekly staff Kids’ Gifts / 18 Big ideas for the little ones

buzz Punching back in / 29 Local songwriter Beth Preston starts making music after long hiatus / 29 by Adam Perry Overtones: Skrillex’s bass-heavy battle of good and evil hits the Fox / 32 Overtones: Joe Satriani draws inspiration from weird places / 33 Arts & Culture: Miners Alley visits a Christmas of yore / 34 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 39 Sophisticated Sex: Keeping courtship and commitment / 45 Elevation: Who cares about snow? MTB junkies just want dirt / 47 Screen: Black Swan; The Tourist / 51 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 53 Cuisine: Mix it up with local holiday spirit / 57 Cuisine Review: May Wah / 59 Dessert Diva: Eggnog Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce / 60

departments Letters: Palin is a quitter; Help CU students / 5 The Highroad: A victory for truth in labeling / 5 In Case You Missed It: Dare to DREAM; Don’t ask, don’t think / 11 Boulderganic: The art of having a green Christmas / 17 Classifieds: Your community resource / 64 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 65 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 69

staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Pamela White Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Katherine Creel Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Editorial Interns, Eli BooninVail, Mitchell Byars Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Ana Arias, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Oakland L. Childers, Ben Corbett, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Charmaine Ortega Getz, Jim Hightower, Gene Ira Katz, Dave Kirby, Heather May Koski, Elizabeth Miller, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Marisa Aragón Ware, Tom Winter, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, David Hasson Account Executives, Rich Blitz, Mike Cutler, Sammi Orlando Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman General & Administrative Assistant to the Publisher & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Shey Behbahani Circulation Team Halka Brunerova, Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, Alan Jones, George LaRoe Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Lowell Schaefer, Karl Schleinig 10-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo December 16, 2010 Volume XVIII, Number 19 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 2010 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com

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Palin is a quitter (“Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president?” Danish Plan, Dec. 2.) Last week, Paul Danish asked whether Sarah Palin is smart enough to be president. His question turned out to be more rhetorical than sincere. After drawing in his liberal Boulder audience, he pulls a bait and switch, suggesting virtues are more important than “smarts” when judging presidential potential. As a measure of virtues, Danish uses Kipling’s stirring, patriarchal (and, for the record, imperial) poem “If.” I have to admit, I’ve always had a soft spot for “If ” and for most hero scripts, but I’ve never considered Sarah Palin a potential hero, especially one who embodies the old-fashioned integrity Kipling conjures in “If.” Specifically, I don’t think she has demonstrated the ability to “fill the unforgiving minute/ With sixty seconds of distance run,” since she quit halfway through her term as Alaskan governor. But poems are tricky job descriptions, and Danish and Palin admirers might quibble with me here. So I propose a very clear test for potential presidents: Have you ever taken on the job of chief executive for a U.S. state or federal government body and refused to fulfill that contract? Mary Lee Geary/via Internet

Help CU students Finding a job is no easy task in this state of economy, however we feel far

too many CU students falsely believe that graduating with degree in hand will provide effortless job opportunities. But how far can a simple degree really get you? In reality, and in many of the competitive jobs students desire, having a degree is an essential. Having a

degree does more to camouflage an applicant than set them apart in these situations. Internships, on the other hand, stand out to employers. Providing the hands-on, specific knowledge and skills, internships are highly respected by potential employers.

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uestion: what do biotech corporations, national milk processors, and the Ohio state government have in common? Answer: defeat! Such biotech powerhouses as Monsanto and Eli Lilly are the profiteers behind an artificial growth hormone that induces dairy cows to produce more milk. This stuff is not good for the cows, and it produces nutritionally inferior milk. It also horrifies consumers — who tend to get a bit testy at the thought of having what is actually a sex hormone added to the milk their children drink. However, big milk marketers like the idea of squeezing out more milk per cow, for it fattens their bottom lines. The only problem is that little matter of consumer rejection. But the biotechers and marketers fixed that by getting federal regulators to declare that adulterated milk need not be labeled as

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by Jim Hightower such. In short, the industry, the government, and even the cows know about the sex hormones, but consumers are kept in the dark. Nonetheless, many organic and smaller dairy businesses have had the audacity to label their products as “hormone-free,” and consumers have rushed to them. This spurred the hormone hucksters into a cross-country lobbying frenzy, demanding that vari-

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ous state governments ban hormonefree labels. Ohio swallowed this corporate line, outlawing labels that tell consumers what’s not in their milk. Now, however, in a case brought by the Organic Trade Association, the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that such bans are not only ridiculous, but unconstitutional, violating the free speech rights of dairy producers who want to be straight with consumers. The court’s decision is a major defeat for the 15-year effort by the corporate powers to hide their perfidy from milk buyers. To learn more, contact the Organic Trade Association: www.ota.com. December 16, 2010 5

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Terrorist or freedom fighter?

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ewt Gingrinch has accused him of “information terrorism” and said he should be treated like an enemy combatant. Radio personality and columnist Jeffrey T. Kuhner has said the United States should treat him as they would any other high-profile terrorist target. And none other than former Nixon wonk G. Gordon Liddy has called for him to be added to the “kill list” of terrorists who can be assassinated without a trial. Meanwhile, activists, hacktivists and some media are calling him a hero. Time readers have voted him Person of the Year, and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers, have given him the Sam Adams Award. Last and definitely least, Italy’s Rolling Stone magazine is honoring him as Rockstar of the Year. So which is it? Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a terrorist, or is he a new kind of media hero, using the Internet to expose the hypocrisy and collusion of the world’s governments? Assange has gained worldwide fame and notoriety as the head of WikiLeaks, an international nonprofit “new media” organization that publishes submissions of otherwise unavailable documents leaked by anonymous sources. Though some media and the government portray WikiLeaks as an organization hostile to the U.S. government, the organization was founded in part to provide a safe outlet for people in countries like China, where simply writing about certain topics, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, can result in imprisonment and execution. WikiLeaks has claimed that its “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations.” In just a few short years, WikiLeaks has won numerous awards for exposing 6 December 16, 2010

events that otherwise might never have come to light, including police killings in Kenya, internal documents from an Icelandic bank showing unethical actions relating to that country’s financial collapse, and the content of secret Scientology “bibles.” Although the U.S. government had WikiLeaks on its radar as far back as 2008 (according to leaked government memos published on WikiLeaks), the U.S. effort to criminalize Assange is the result of a string of published leaks from this year, starting with a video of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq, in which U.S. military personnel callously gunned down civilians and a Reuters photographer. Then came the Afghan War Diary release, which included 76,900 documents about the war in Afghanistan. In October, WikiLeaks worked with other media to publish a package of nearly 400,000 documents it titled Iraq War Logs. Last month, WikiLeaks topped that by beginning the ongoing release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables. There’s no doubt the U.S. State Department is embarrassed down to its dirty underwear by the content of these cables. But does that make Assange a terrorist or even a criminal? Surprisingly, American politicians, normally so partisan, seem uniform in their agreement that it does — and that he ought to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. When reporters point out that the Constitution protects the media from government specifically so that newspapers and other media outlets can act as a government watchdog — the intent of the Founders when they wrote the free press provision of the First Amendment — politicos and talk show personalities then declare that Assange is not a journalist. “Mr. Assange obviously has a particular political objective behind his activities, and I think that, among other things, disqualifies him as being considered a journalist,” declared State Department spokesman Philip Crowley. see ASSANGE Page 8

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A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?

by Paul Danish

omeone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize. Interesting idea, that. But for what? Chemistry, of course. Why chemistry? That’s because Assange’s accomplishment was in keeping with history’s first example of Nobel-quality work on the planet, which was in the field of chemistry: It was when Prometheus stole the oxidation reaction from a fire pit on Olympus and released it into the public domain — setting off a chain of events that resulted in 1) civilization as we know it and 2) anthropomorphic global warming. Of course, when the gods saw what a mess the little asshole had made — Prometheus, not Assange, that is — they had him chained to a mountain where an eagle came by every day and clawed out his liver and ate it. Which is what Assange really deserves. The Nobel Prize Assange least deserves is a Peace Prize. Assange’s diplomatic cables dumps may contribute to many things, but peace isn’t one of them. They make wars, not peace, much more likely. There are lots of reasons why this is so, but perhaps the most important is that

accords between nations have to be negotiated in secret. There is no other way. Why? Because international accords — especially the ones that contribute to peace — always require the parties to make compromises involving two things: 1) national sovereignty and 2) principles. No national regime can be seen as contemplating decisions that appear to compromise its country’s national sovereignty; most people will equate such compromises with national betrayal regardless of which country they live in. As for compromises involving principle, diplomats and political leaders entering negotiations will inevitably proclaim, “We are prepared to compromise, but we will not compromise on principles,” but this is either a) a lie or b) a declaration that they do not intend to negotiate in good faith. For example, getting an agreement on, say, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians requires the parties to put things on the table that are central to their national sovereignty, national identities, and core beliefs and principles — and in the course of bargaining to offer them and withdraw them repeatedly. That is something that it is impossible for a political leader to do in see WIKILEAKS Page 8

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public. Leaders can’t be seen openly ever negotiated. playing with national values like they Now then, ask yourself this quesare poker chips and expect to survive. tion: Do you think the Philadelphia That’s true for the leaders of democraconvention of 1787 would have been cies and dictatorships alike. more likely to succeed or less likely to But what about open agreements succeed if a piece of human shit named openly arrived at? Heh. You mean like Julian Assange had been there stealing last year’s Copenhagen conference on cli- copies of the daily journal and slipping mate change, which was supposed to them to newspapers and pamphleteers? produce a “legally binding” treaty to limit Assange, by the way, isn’t some greenhouse gas emissions? What it actu- dewy-eyed champion of the people’s ally produced was a two-week-long spec- right to know. According to the Wall tacle of international preening, breastStreet Journal, Assange wrote an essay beating, showboating, hypocrisy and little in 2007 in which “he explicitly states more. that his goal is to Negotiations restrict how inforconducted in secret mation is shared The magnitude have a much better among governof WikiLeaks’ track record. ment officials, espionage Come to think such as intellishould be suffiof it, the single most gence agencies cient cause for and diplomats, in important agreesending order to cripple ment in the history Assange and America. As he of the United States, his 1,400 co-conputs it, ‘An the one in which spirators to authoritarian conthe original 13 Guantanamo spiracy that canstates agreed “to Bay until the not think effiform a more perfect end of the next union, establish jusciently cannot act ice age. tice, insure domestic to preserve itself.’” tranquility, provide This is imporfor the common defense … ,” etc., was tant, because the intent to do harm to negotiated in complete secrecy. the United States is necessary to susOne of the first things delegates to tain a conviction under the 1917 the Constitutional Convention did was Espionage Act for releasing classified to adopt a rule of omerta, which said, in documents. so many words, what happens in The magnitude of WikiLeaks’ espiPhiladelphia stays in Philadelphia. onage should be sufficient cause for What emerged after four months of sending Assange and his 1,400 co-consecret debates, negotiations and comspirators to Guantanamo Bay until the promises was a document that was end of the next ice age. essentially a treaty among 13 sovereign But their real crime is poisoning the states in which they agreed to give up ability of governments to resolve consignificant measures of their sovereignty flicts through negotiation and comprofor the common good. mise, or even to receive candid reports And far from being corrupted by from their diplomats. the secrecy that accompanied its creBut, hey, in a nuclear age, what ation, the U.S. Constitution has proved could possibly go wrong? to be one of most successful accords Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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By that standard, very few journalists are journalists, including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and the entire reporting staff of FOX News. Whether he’s a journalist or not, he’s certainly a publisher. His organization has laid bare the cynical underbelly of international politics, where Saudia Arabia hides behind the United States when it comes to Iran, where a U.S. company can use taxpayer dollars to hire a male child prostitute to entertain Afghan cops, and where the U.S. State Department colludes with the Spanish government to hinder a Spanish family from gaining justice for a Spanish reporter slain by U.S. troops. As for Assange’s motivation, an unnamed acquaintance, speaking to the

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Guardian, had this to say: “He really does think that WikiLeaks is going to change the world… [H]e constantly expects that it will achieve change through telling the truth.” If that’s true, then Assange shares an idealism common to investigative reporters everywhere, the belief, however naïve, that the truth will set us free — and help us remain free. So is he a terrorist? Of course not! Is he a journalist? The day we let the U.S. government decide who’s a journalist and who isn’t, democracy is screwed. The question we should be asking ourselves is, “Is the information in these leaks true?” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

“One person is always much weaker than an organization.” —Daniel Domscheit-Berg, co-founder of OpenLeaks, a new site that has arisen as a rival to whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, objecting to how Julian Assange runs WikiLeaks “Instead of doing what is right, ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body’ devolved into shameful schoolyard spats that put petty partisan politics above the needs of our women and men in uniform.” —Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, reacting to the U.S. Senate’s failure to repeal the discriminatory “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “If, from here, we send the Kyoto Protocol to the rubbish bin, we are responsible for eco-cide and genocide, because we will be sending many people to their death.” —Bolivian President Evo Morales, discussing climate change at a UN conference in Cancún, Mexico Boulder Weekly

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the federal government decides to file criminal charges against Julian Assange or other WikiLeaks employees because they posted classified documents online, media law experts say it will be uncharted waters. They say there has never been a case in which a third party — in other words, someone other than the individual who stole the documents in the first place — has been successfully prosecuted by the feds after circulating classified defense information. In the most famous case touching on that issue, the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court upheld the right of The New York Times to publish secret documents provided to the newspaper about the Vietnam War. And there was a federal case filed in 2005 against two third parties, former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), who received classified information and shared it with others, although that case was eventually dismissed at the request of the feds themselves. Legal experts say it would be an uphill battle for federal prosecutors to win a case against WikiLeaks, since there is little case law supporting such a move. The government has long been loathe to challenge First Amendment rights afforded to the press. But they agree that the matter could spawn new laws curtailing the ability of the press to disseminate classified information, as evidenced by calls from lawmakers to close the gaps that allowed WikiLeaks to release the classified cables in the first place. There are lingering questions. Is WikiLeaks, in fact, a media organization that should receive the full protection that has been afforded to the traditional press under the First Amendment? Would the U.S. be able to extradite Assange so that there is actually someone in custody to prosecute? Did WikiLeaks passively receive the information, or was it actively involved in negotiating for, acquiring and/ or paying for the information? The federal government can make a stronger case against someone involved in the theft of classified documents than against a third party who simply receives them and circulates them.

The AIPAC case In the Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court refused to allow prior restraint — that is, a court order prohibiting the newspaper from further publishing the contents of the classified documents. The court struck down this attempt at censoring infor12 December 16, 2010

mation in advance, but there has been little case law on prosecuting media for classified information it has already published. In the case of WikiLeaks, experts say federal prosecutors may steer clear of challenging that prior restraint precedent, and instead of attempting to keep WikiLeaks from posting additional information, they may target Assange for what his organization has done already. To do that, the most likely law to use is the 93-year-old Espionage Act. That was the law invoked when the federal government charged former AIPAC lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman with receiving — not

mer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The AIPAC case was the closest the nation has come to having some clear case law on how to treat third parties who simply circulate classified information, Lowell says. “Pure media has never been tested,” he explains. And Lowell says that while the government will likely argue against WikiLeaks being treated as a media organization, he believes the organization does qualify for the traditional protections of the press. While the press and everyday citizens receive the same free-speech protections under the First Amendment, the actions — as opposed to the speech — of the press receive special protection that could benefit WikiLeaks if it is viewed by the courts as a media outlet, Lowell says. Another factor that could play into prosecuting Assange is the Espionage Act’s prohibition against circulating such information “in bad faith,” or without good reason. Lowell says one could argue that WikiLeaks did have good reason to release the materials, especially if invoking First Amendment rights the founding fathers created to protect citizens’ rights to question and expose the actions of their government. Lowell believes that the Department of Justice will file charges against Assange (and/or the WikiLeaks employees who actually posted the information), but that WikiLeaks will prevail. “I think they could write an indictment that won’t be dismissed, but I think WikiLeaks would be seen as a media organization, so that’s a high bar,” he says. “It’s going to be a difficult case, and it’s going to create all kinds of new law.”

Improved security needed stealing — classified defense information and sharing it with others. The Espionage Act prohibits the “willful” communication of “information relating to the national defense” that “the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation” to anyone not entitled to receive it. It also prohibits someone from willfully retaining and failing to return such information. Abbe Lowell of McDermott Will & Emery, a law firm in Washington, D.C., was one of the attorneys who defended Rosen and Weissman. He told Boulder Weekly that he believes federal prosecutors dropped the case in part because the trial could have revealed more classified information than had already been shared, since Lowell planned to call a host of federal officials to the stand, including for-

Sandra Baron, executive director of the Media Law Resource Center, agrees that the government doesn’t have much of a case against Assange if he was just the passive recipient of the cables. “Absent active involvement by WikiLeaks in the acquisition of the material, absent solicitation, I don’t think there is a cause of action under the Espionage Act,” she told Boulder Weekly. “But the law has not been tested.” Baron says it would be inadvisable for federal prosecutors to test it in this case. “I don’t think they want to see if they can prosecute The New York Times by test-driving it on WikiLeaks,” she says, adding that attempts by Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and other legislators to change current law probably won’t gain enough support to pass. “They could criminalize stories of real Boulder Weekly

value simply because they used classified information,” she cautions. Baron says one of the real lessons is that the government needs to take better care of its classified documents, and reduce the number of them. “Probably what they need to do is streamline the classification system to fewer documents and protect them better,” she says. “I think there would be broader support for that type of solution.” It’s also a lesson for companies like PayPal, Visa and MasterCard, which were targeted by hackers in cyber attacks after severing ties with WikiLeaks. “I think at the end of the day, everyone’s going to have to learn more about cyber-security,” Baron says. She adds that one challenge in prosecuting WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act is that the government must prove that there was “an intent to do harm to the government or to intentionally aid and abet a foreign government,” which she agrees is “a very high bar.” In addition, she explains, the 1917 act was targeted to spies, not media organizations.

The Buckley report Baron points to a 2002 report done for the Media Law Resource Center by attorney Susan Buckley. That document, titled “Reporting on the War on Terror: The Espionage Act and Other Scary Statutes,” is available at www.mlrc.org and paints a detailed picture of the legal landscape for media outlets that report classified information. Buckley writes in the report that in the Pentagon Papers case, a judge noted that “publishing” is not mentioned in the relevant section of the Espionage Act, Section 793, even though the term is used elsewhere in the act, “indicating that newspapers were

not intended by Congress to come within the purview of Section 793.” In addition, Buckley’s report points to several other indications that the Espionage Act was not intended to apply to the press, including provisions rejected by Congress the year it was passed and opinions/provisions offered when the act was amended in 1950. She also cites a 1973 law review article in which Harold Edgar and Benno Schmidt Jr., analyzed the application of the Espionage Act to the publication of defense information and persuasively argued that Section 793 was not intended to be applied to the “publication of defense information that is motivated by the routine desires to initiate public debate or sell newspapers.” In explaining its decision to post the cables, on its website WikiLeaks states, “This document release reveals the contradictions between the U.S.’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors — and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what’s going on behind the scenes.”

Political pressures As for the propriety of government officials pressuring companies like PayPal, Visa and MasterCard to cease doing business with WikiLeaks, Baron says those were simply attempts “to close the barn doors after the horses have escaped.” While there have been cases in which a newspaper has sued a local government that discontinued advertising with the newspaper in retribution for content that was critical — a possible violation of the First Amendment — media experts say lawmakers who pressured PayPal, Visa and MasterCard did not

violate any laws. Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told Boulder Weekly there is nothing untoward or new about government officials using their own free speech to put pressure on companies. If, on the other hand, they passed a law or issued a court order inhibiting freedom of the press, that would be a First Amendment issue. It goes back to that Constitutional language saying Congress “shall make no law” abridging the freedom of the press. The other dynamic at play, while not a legal one, is the public pressure — and, subsequently, financial pressure — that WikiLeaks would feel if there was a widespread feeling that it was acting irresponsibly and threatening national security. In the court of public opinion, Assange would likely lose funding and associations with corporations and individual donors alike if there were general agreement that he was reckless. “If I were a business, and my strength depended on the good will of my customers, I’m always going to make a decision based on where the majority of my customers are coming from,” Dalglish says. But she agrees that the feds would have their work cut out for them if they try to prosecute WikiLeaks or Assange. “I think it would be exceptionally difficult to get a conviction against WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act,” Dalglish says, adding that her group will keep a close eye on any new law that grows from this showdown. “I’m going to be very apprehensive about anything they’re trying to do,” she says. “We’ll analyze it very, very carefully.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

‘Hacktivists’ rally around WikiLeaks, attack corporate sites by Katherine Creel

ith the political pressure mounting, WikiLeaks is becoming too hot for some business to handle. Companies such as MasterCard, Visa and PayPal, which processed donations to the site, and Swiss bank PostFinance, which held the foundation’s account, have all cut ties with the controversial whistle-blowing site. But while businesses may be stepping back from WikiLeaks, a group of politically motivated hackers has come forward in defense of the site and launched Operation Payback. Known collectively as Anonymous, the group has made retaliatory attacks on the websites of businesses they claim have “abandoned” WikiLeaks due to political pressure. So far, the group, which has no affiliation with WikiLeaks itself, has reportedly hit Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, PostFinance and other organizations with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can temporarily shut down a website. PostFinance and PayPal were among the earliest hit in Operation Payback, followed by MasterCard and Visa. In an online manifesto published by the group, Anonymous says it is “actively campaigning for the free flow of information,” and is “against anyone who supports censorship, such as those who are responsi-

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ble for the silencing of WikiLeaks.” Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for WikiLeaks, said in a statement, “We neither condemn nor applaud these attacks. We believe they’re a reflection of public opinion on the actions of the targets.” DDoS attacks work by flooding a website with more data than it can handle, temporarily shutting it down, or making it so slow as to be unusable. Because of the large amount of resources needed to clog a site, hackers generally use a botnet, a network of remotely controlled computers, to carry out the attacks. John Black, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, says DDoS attacks are nearly impossible for companies to defend against because there is no way for websites to differentiate between legitimate user data and data being dumped by a DDoS attack. “A well-conducted DDoS attack is indistinguishable from legitimate traffic,” he said. “You can’t filter these kinds of packets [of data] because this one is clearly malicious and this other one is clearly a customer trying to buy something. You can’t tell the difference.” One of the only ways to counter the influx of data is with more bandwidth, which is generally too expensive for most companies. This leaves compa-

nies like MasterCard, which generally only see a moderate amount of Internet traffic, more vulnerable to attack than sites like Amazon.com, which has massive amounts of bandwidth at its disposal. What sets Operation Payback apart from conventional DDoS attacks is the public, voluntary and political nature of the campaign. Rather than surreptitiously infecting users’ computers, Anonymous is asking users themselves to download the software for the DDoS attack and voluntarily join the attacks. “The old and traditional model is that these black hats, these trouble makers, will use a virus or a worm to break into thousands of machines [and] set up their software themselves, rather than have it voluntary,” Black says. “This the first time that I’ve ever heard of people volunteering their own personal resources — in this case their computer and their bandwidth — to join some cause as part of a botnet that they don’t actually understand the technology. They’re just saying ‘Yeah, I’ll download this thing and run it.’” The tool reportedly has been downloaded more than 80,000 times so far. As of this week, Anonymous has reportedly changed tactics, launching Operation Leakspin, a website that aims to summarize and publicize more of the leaked cables. December 16, 2010 13

the more than 250,000 cables that WikiLeaks say they have, they have released close to 1,500 so far, releasing 50 to 60 cables daily. The cables, which are communications between the U.S. State Department and U.S. embassies around the world, contain a variety of missives, ranging from summaries of meetings with world leaders to reports of events in an embassy’s region. A lot of the cables are full of gossip and rumor, with strong opinions on world leaders. Afghan

Sampling the cables By Quibian Salazar-Moreno President Hamid Karzai is called “weak” and “paranoid,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy was described as “thin-skinned” and an “emperor with no clothes,” and Russia’s Vladmir Putin is accused of bribing Kremlin figures, while his Russia is described as a “mafia state.” Here are more that caught our eye.

North Korea wants Eric Clapton For years the United States has been trying to have some sort of peaceful relationship with North Korea and its dictator, Kim Jong-il. In a May 23, 2007, cable, the suggestion of organizing an Eric Clapton concert in the country’s capital, Pyongyang, was raised to “build good will” with the country. Apparently, Kim Jong-

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il’s second son, Kim Jong-chol, is a huge fan of classic rock. The United States passed on the suggestion. Qadhafi’s habits, superstitions In a Sept. 29, 2009, cable, the phobias and habits of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi are exposed. According to an informant, Qadhafi will only stay on the first floor of any facility that’s rented for him, will not climb more than 35 steps, has a fear of flying over water and will not fly for more than eight hours. In an overseas trip to New York, Qhadhafi stopped in Europe for an overnight, then continued his journey the next day. There’s also a nurse named Galyna who is described as a “voluptuous blonde” and never leaves his side. It’s rumored they have a romantic relationship. Afghanistan asks U.S. to intervene on reporting of ‘dancing boys’ Earlier this year, PBS Frontline broadcast the documentary The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, which gave the details of “bacha bazi,” an Afghani practice in which adolescent boys dress up as girls, dance and then are sexually abused by rich, powerful men. According to a June 24, 2009, cable, employees of U.S. security contractor DynCorp hired “dancing boys” to entertain them in early 2009. Afghanistan Minister of the Interior Hanif Atmar said the U.S. government should “quash” a July 2009 Washington Post story reporting on the incident for fear that publicity would “endanger lives” and harm the image of “foreign mentors.” Even though the Post story downplayed the incident (or was it “quashed” by the State Department?), calling it a “questionable management oversight,” two Afghan police officers and nine other Afghanis were arrested for facilitating the event and charged with “purchasing service from a child.” The cable doesn’t describe what happened at the event. Saudi king wants US to attack Iran According to an April 20, 2008, cable, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus met with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd alAziz. During the meeting, they talked about their policies on Iraq and the influence of Iran. Saudi king Abdullah had a strong opinion on Iran and was adamant about the U.S. attacking Iran. The cable reports that Abdullah said “to cut off the head of the snake.” Spying on United Nations leaders? According to several treaties, it is illegal to spy on the U.N. But according to a July 31, 2009, cable, the U.S. State Department was asking its agents to gather intelligence on the U.N’s top brass. This included everything from phone numbers, e-mail addresses and work schedules to credit card numbers, passwords and personal encryption keys. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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feds REact to WikiLeaks by David Accomazzo

he controversy surrounding the latest disclosure of secret and classified diplomatic cables, dubbed “cablegate” by some uninventive types in the media, has spawned a wide variety of responses. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, herself an author of some of the most controversial (and embarassing) cables, stands on one side, bellowing that the document disclosure “tears at the fabric” of international relations. Then there are others, like Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who downplay the effect the leaks will have on national security. “I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a ‘meltdown,’ as a ‘game-changer,’ or so on, and I think those descriptions are fairly significantly overwrought. … Is it embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest,” Gates said at a press conference shortly after the cables were first released. Despite the fact that many in the media, like Gates, also downplay the negative impact of the WikiLeaks cables, many government officials have stepped up rhetoric in the past few days, calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be charged with espionage, treason or worse. In a release on his website, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., characterized the leaks as an attack on U.S. national security that endangers the lives of Americans. He also implored the president to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks and, waxing philosophical, called the release an assault on the “principle of transparency.” Later, Lieberman attacked The New York Times for publishing the documents. “To me The New York Times has committed at least an act of, at best, bad citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime is a matter of discussion for the justice department,” Lieberman told

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FOX News. Lieberman wasn’t the only politician to take U.S. media outlets to task. Rep.-elect Allen West, a Florida Republican, said on a right-wing radio program that the news organizations publishing the leaked documents should be censored. “There are different means by which you can be attacked,” West said, according to a transcript published on ThinkProgress.org. “I mean, it doesn’t have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a building. … It could be through leaking of very sensitive, classified information. … And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauded him for the efforts. So that’s kind of aiding and abetting a serious crime.” Mama Bear Sarah Palin took to Twitter and called WikiLeaks’ release “treasonous.” Her running mate and political surrogate father from 2008 was a bit more polite. “I wish The New York Times had chosen not to [publish the leaked cables],” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told The Daily Beast. Official response that goes beyond the opinions of Washington politicians has been a bit more muted, but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. As others have pointed out, if the justice department were moving to indict WikiLeaks’ pale-faced Australian founder, there would be no way for the American public to find out beforehand, since grand jury deliberations are secret. While Assange addresses allegations of sexual assault made against him by two Swedish women, he will have to wait for word from the American government as to whether or not they’ve constructed a legal argument that could be used to request his extradition from Sweden. WikiLeaks claims it gave the cables to the State Department prior to publishing them so that the U.S. government could provide feedback as to which documents WikiLeaks should “look at with extra care,” and that the State Department refused

to provide that information, instead insisting that none of the cables be released. The State Department sent a letter, dated Nov. 27, to WikiLeaks, firmly stating the government’s desire to keep the WikiLeaks documents out of the public eye. The letter, published by Reuters, says that the documents were given to WikiLeaks in a violation of American law. “As long as WikiLeaks holds such material,” the letter says, “the violation of the law is ongoing.” The letter concludes: “If you are genuinely interested in seeking to stop the damage from your actions, you should: 1) ensure WikiLeaks ceases publishing any and all such materials; 2) ensure WikiLeaks returns any and all classified U.S. Government material in its possession; and 3) remove and destroy all records of this material from WikiLeaks’ databases.” Much has been made about the use of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites of organizations that are anti-WikiLeaks. The DDoS attacks (which, on the scale of passionate activism techniques ranks just above changing your Facebook profile picture and many, many steps below hunger strikes) have been directed at WikiLeaks, too. Some suspect the government was behind the attacks, and there has been no word on this from the government so far, although a security expert interviewed by the Associated Press said the attackers were most likely “a bunch of geeks,” not the U.S. government. The Twitter account of State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley acted as the voice for the state department for a few days, issuing statements to counteract accusations appearing on blogs and websites. One major tweet concerned the government’s role in PayPal’s decision to sever ties with WikiLeaks after PayPal. There had been some speculation of U.S. government involvement after a company vice president publicly referred to a letter from the government as reason for stopping WikiLeaks’ service. “The U.S. government did not write to PayPal requesting any action regarding #WikiLeaks. Not true,” tweeted Crowley. PayPal later clarified that the VP was referring to the letter written by the State Department to WikiLeaks, not a letter addressed specifically to PayPal. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Consider books over toys this season by Jefferson Dodge

n this fast-paced, high-tech age of newfangled gizmos and gadgets, when all that kids seem to want is the latest video game or highpriced toy of the month, sometimes it’s good to get back to basics. Back to books. The 2010 Kids and Family Reading Report, conducted by Scholastic and the Harrison Group, found that parents are increasingly concerned that kids seem to be reading fewer books as they spend more time online and on cell phones. So if you’d like to give a young person something a bit more enriching and long-lasting than a piece of plastic this holiday season, we’ve collected some good titles from book store owners in Boulder County. They mention the old classics, of course, like Where the Wild Things Are and the Dr. Seuss series. But there are some other titles that are proving popular this year. For teens, Barbara Butterworth, owner of The Book Cellar in Louisville, recommends the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, a trio of science fiction tales that are more future than fantasy. Set years from now, North America has been divided into districts, all food is controlled by a central city called the

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Capitol, and kids are chosen to face off in a “Hunger Games” competition. “It’s dark, it’s not for the faint of heart,” says Butterworth. For kids 10 and up who don’t like reading much, she suggests picking up books by Walter Moers, because they are picture-heavy. Butterworth likes The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear. For younger kids, ages 6 to 10, she recommends books by Avi. They deal with problem-solving, she says, with characters that range from animals to children. Another good series for that age group is R.A. Montgomery’s Choose Your Own Adventure line, according to Butterworth. These have been around for a while, but now there are picture books that are suitable for kids as young as 4, she says. The series gives kids an active role in how the story turns out; readers are faced with choices along the way and are sent to different pages in the book, depending on which decision they make. Butterworth also suggests a “readto-me” book called Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus, especially for kids who have not come into their own yet. It’s about a lion whose roar is late in developing. In addition, she mentions Water by Frank Asch, which is about why water is important.

Finally, Butterworth recommends Native American Byrd Baylor’s The Table Where Rich People Sit, a book about why spending time together as a family is more important than material possessions. Another Baylor title she likes is Everyone Needs a Rock. Butterworth is offering a buy-oneget-one-free sale on kids’ books during the last two weekends of December. Her shop is located at 820 Main St. in downtown Louisville. Kathe Heinecken, owner of Barbed Wire Books in Longmont, specializes in used books, but also carries new works by local authors. She suggests looking for titles that have won one of the major awards for children’s literature, like the John Newbery Medal or Caldecott Medal (the latter is given for art/illustrations). “You cannot go wrong with award winners,” Heinecken says. When it comes to local authors of kids’ books, she suggests picking up a copy of Who Ate Boulder? by The Brothers Doyle or one of Elaine Pease’s titles. Those include Ghost Over Boulder Creek, Even Sharks Need Friends and I’ll Never Leave, illustrated by Kerry Lee MacLean, who is also a local. As for hot titles this holiday season, Heinecken says people are always asking for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. Both span multiple age groups, similar to the Twilight series. Barbed Wire Books is located at 504 Main St. in Longmont. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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wo Superior-area children, saddened by having to put their dog to sleep, have launched a fundraiser to help pets at animal shelters get adopted more quickly, so that fewer are euthanized. They are selling holiday-themed lotions to raise money for Boulderbased Shelter Me Photography, an operation that provides free professional photo services to shelters around the country. Shelter Me accelerates adoption rates through the circulation of high-quality, promotional images of pets on websites and in newspapers, for example. Melissa France, whose daughters Maria, 6, and Sophia, 4, came up with idea, says the family had to put down their 12-year-old pug Rocky in September. France says she tried to help the girls understand that Rocky was sick and suffering, and that there are other dogs at the animal shelter that are healthy and need good homes. She says Maria was upset when she learned that dogs and cats are sometimes euthanized after being at shelters for a certain amount of time, and she became determined to do something about it. France and her husband work in the skin-care industry, and so when her girls were searching for something to sell to raise money for Shelter Me, “we stuck with what we know.” She says her girls picked the scents for the lotions and even designed the labels. “They were with me every step of the way,” France says. “They certainly had a hand in everything, as much as they can.” Her husband’s company, Colorado Quality Products, donated the lotions, Koch Industries donated the fragrances, and Primeflex Labels donated the labels. The girls also came up with the slogan for the fundraiser: “Make a sale, save a tail!” That was Maria’s idea. The runner-up slogan for the lotions, suggested by Sophia, was “It makes your feet sweet.”

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DON’T HORSE AROUND WITH ANYONE ELSE! RIDING LESSONS GIFT CERTIFICATES The four Christmas-scented lotions are being sold at Fruehauf ’s in Boulder, the Home for the Holidays shop in The Village at Flatiron Crossing, and other area stores, as well as online at www.advanskin.com. France says the lotions will also be for sale from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 18, in the pet section at McGuckin Hardware. “We are extremely proud that they would want to do something like this, especially around Christmas and Santa, knowing that there are other needs in the world,” she says. France had met Nanette Martin, executive director of Shelter Me Photography, a couple years before, and suggested that all profits from the fundraiser go to that organization. Martin herself is a compelling story. She was inspired to begin taking photos of animals at shelters and adoption agencies after being assigned to photograph the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for People magazine. While touring the area by boat with the National Guard, Martin says, she saw many dogs stranded on top of cars and front porches, and she made a note of their locations, Sophia and Maria France leaving the addresses with the local chapter of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She also photographed the scene of what she describes as a brutal killing of pet dogs at the hands of sheriff ’s deputies at St. Bernard Parish, La. No one was charged in the killings. She traveled with groups rescuing abandoned animals from the hurricane’s devastation, and her photos helped ensure that the animals were adopted quickly when they reached their out-of-state destination. “I was told my pictures made the difference between life and death,” Martin says. Her experiences in Louisiana inspired her to dedicate her photography talents to getting pets adopted faster. She explains that seeing a dog in a kennel, especially a breed like a pit bull that can act crazy and wild when caged, does not always make people want to adopt. But a good photo of that dog is a different matter. “Great pictures will get an animal out of a shelter,” she says. Martin explains that faster animal turnover also helps shelters financially, through increased adoption-fee revenue. Her operation relies on fundraising and grants, so donations are welcome. “Our pockets are open and empty,” she says. More information is available at www.sheltermephotography.org and www.facebook.com/sheltermephoto. Asked about her reaction to the France children’s fundraiser, Martin says, “That’s so fantastic. For kids that young to have such a mature outlook — when I was that age, everything was about me and mine. I think this campaign they are doing is fabulous.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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here’s a lot going on this time of year, and we’re not just talking about shopping and holiday parties. Boulder offers a plethora of events and activities for families in December. Whether your little ones enjoy playing out in the cold or staying warm inside with a good story, there’s bound to be something they’ll love. So when you’re done wrapping presents and baking Christmas cookies, check out these kid-friendly holiday happenings.

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The Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza While it might not be cold enough to feel like winter yet, you can get in the frosty spirit at the Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza. Operating seasonally from November through February, the rink is open seven days a week, with extended holiday hours from Dec. 20 through Jan 2. You can even go skating on Christmas Day! For more information, visit www.bouldericerink. com or call 303-209-3722.

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Don’t miss your last chance to meet Santa. On Saturday, Dec. 18, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., kids of all ages can visit with St. Nick at the Downtown Boulder Visitor Information Center, at 13th and Pearl streets. Whether you are asking for a fire engine for Tommy, a new doll for Molly or a diamond

ring for mommy, bring your list and a camera to capture priceless holiday memories. Or let someone else take the photos. Professional photography will be available from AtomJohnson Photography (www.atomjohnson.com/ santa). For more information, visit www.boulder downtown.com/events or call 303-449-3774.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol A true classic never grows old. Start a new holiday tradition — or continue an old one — with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Can the miserly Scrooge escape a future that is haunted by his past? Follow his journey of self-redemption as all your favorite characters — Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and the Spirits of Christmas — come to life on stage. Performances run through Christmas Eve. For more information, visit www. coloradshakes.org.

Fiske Planetarium at CU The Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado campus offers a selection of kids’ programs for the holidays, like Season of Light, Fiske’s classic holiday show exploring festivals of light from many different traditions. This is a great show to get the entire family into the holiday spirit. The Astronomical Star of Bethlehem, presented by amateur astronomer Gil Buller, examines the sky at the time of the birth of Christ to see which astronomical phenomenon might have been the Star of Bethlehem. And don’t miss an entirely new spin on an old holiday favorite: Laser Nutcracker, accompanied by lasers and special effects. For dates and times, visit fiske.colorado.edu/ events, or call 303-492-5001. These special holiday shows run through the end of December. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen the Nintendo Wii hit store shelves back in 2006, it revolutionized the way we play video games. Its motion-sensing controllers allowed for a player to physically involve himself in a game, with the player’s movements captured by the game. The Wii succeeded with casual family-friendly games like Wii Sports, which featured bowling, baseball, golf, tennis and boxing, and Wii Fit, an exercise game that is one of the bestselling video games of all time. While Sony had gimmicky games that dealt with some motion-sensing technology and cameras for its Playstation 2, Nintendo based its entire game system off the technology. Now Sony is stepping up its efforts in the motion-sensing gaming world with the Playstation Move, only available for Playstation 3. The Playstation Move utilizes the Playstation Eye (its predecessor, the EyeToy, was made for Playstation 2),

a motion controller and a navigation controller. The technology behind the system is definitely superior to the Wii’s. The Playstation Eye and motion controller work in concert to track the movements of the player by using the lights and colors emitted from the motion controller’s bulb. It’s a lot more accurate, precise and detailed than Wii’s system. But even though the technology may be superior, Wii’s success was in large part because of the games offered. The Playstation Move has answered back with its lineup of sports and action games not only targeting the family, but also the hardcore gamer. One of the current games available now for the Playstation Move is The Fight: Lights Out, targeting the teenage crowd who may need a little exercise with their gaming. The Fight takes you into the street-fighting world where you compete in tournament-style matches in different virtu-

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etting gifts for children can be a magical adventure in toyland, with thousands of games, puzzles, dolls and toys to choose from. But it can also be a huge headache if you don’t know what to get, or if you want to give something a little more special than the latest plastic action hero. Whatever the age, local toy stores like PlayFair Toys and Grand Rabbit’s Toy Shoppe can help you pick the right toy for tots and teens alike. Shopping for the under-3 set, toddlers and infants, can be a bit tricky since they can’t always tell you what they want. Rather than trying to guess what the little guy or girl would want, however, Lisa Gerwig of PlayFair Toys says there’s an easy way to pick a winner: choose something you’d want to play with. “If it attracts your attention, it will attract their attention,” Gerwig says. Bright colors, an interesting design, whatever draws your eye will likely draw theirs as well. She has a few specific tips as well. “[Toddlers] like action-reaction type toys,” she says. The best ones give feedback, like making a sound when the child pushes a button, and allow for open-ended play, so no objective-oriented games just yet. And while it’s never too early for “educational” toys, Gerwig says, it’s important to keep in mind what toddlers are ready to take in. “What they’re really learning to do between the ages of 1 and 3 is interact,” she says, which makes toys like Stack Flap N Tumble a good choice. The child puts a ball in the top and, after some tumbling and clattering, it pops out of the bottom of the toy. “It’s kind of a surprise for them,” Gerwig says. Other possibilities include “talking” puzzles, shape-sorting toys and, of course, good old-fashioned blocks for stacking up and knocking down, the original open-ended play. For the very young, Danielle Lebens, also of PlayFair, recommends soft toys like the Ugly Dolls (www.

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hen she moved from San Diego to Boulder in 2007 my partner, Irene, was hoping to discover Colorado musicians who moved her as much as the reggae-tinged San Diego-based alt-folkie Beth Preston had. So one can imagine Irene’s surprise when she went grocery shopping at Vitamin Cottage shortly after settling in Boulder and saw her favorite modern Southern California singer-songwriter perusing the freezer section. Preston had also migrated fairly spontaneously to Boulder (where she has family) just after making serious waves in the San Diego music scene and having one of those “What does it all mean?” revelations. Playing big-time venues like the Casbah, touring North America and Australia and seeing what could’ve been a pretty clear path to stardom in front of her, Preston chose a route currently much-less traveled by young musicians: stopping for a while to take a look around. “I just kind of took a break from music, and I’ve been reevaluating the purpose of it and how I want to approach it,” says Preston, who hasn’t released an album since 2006’s

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bluesy Inside Fire. She also concluded that the now-rampant trend of musicians focusing more on Twitter, Myspace and Facebook than their craft had not surprisingly preyed on her, as well. “Trying to do your own promotion and things like that definitely takes a lot of time and energy,” Preston says, “and I definitely think that was part of my downfall before. I wasn’t really supporting my heart and my music, and I was always wrapped up in the computer and phone calls and kind of stressed out all the time. So I think that it is probably a good thing for people to spend more time just on themselves and their hearts and their spirits. “On the other hand, I understand the pressure to get the word out there and get people to come to shows,” Preston continues. “So I think it kind of depends on what your aim is and who you have helping you. That’s kind of the conundrum of being an independent solo artist.” In 2010, an up-and-coming musician without an Internet presence is about as rare as a hockey player in 1990 without a mullet. Preston does have a long-latent Myspace

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with three of her songs on it — and a smidgen of biographical information — but from what one is currently able to read about Preston online, it could almost be surmised that she passed away when she moved to Boulder a few years ago. The truth is much more interesting. “I think [Boulder] was kind of calling me here, because my family was here, and I found it really easy,” she says. “I found an amazing group of people here that became my really deep family, and I just love it here. I love the mountains, and I love the huge sky and the weather, and it’s just perfect for my life right now.” Playing much smaller venues than she was used to before relocating from Southern California has been refreshing, too. “I like playing to all sorts of crowds. I’ve played at the Fox Theatre here a couple of times, and that’s a great venue, but I’ve also played really small little venues like the Tonic [Oxygen] Bar on 10th and Pearl. It’s more of just a sharing circle; it’s way more intimate, and it’s nice to have a sort of personal unplugged thing going on and be able to talk to people and tell stories and that sort of thing. I really enjoy that very much. It feels like less of a performance and more of, like, ‘sharing time.’” Listening to Preston’s robust voice tear through an unruly garage-rock track

like “Shell Shock” from Inside Fire — which sounds like Mazzy Star frontwoman Hope Sandoval interpreting Beck’s “Loser” — it’s hard to imagine such a brash, sultry singer-songwriter embracing “sharing time” at a hippified oxygen bar in Boulder. A closer listen to Preston’s catalog, however, proves she’s been deliciously crunchy from the beginning. The mellow wisdom of “Paper, Ink and Plastic” is as much Ani DiFranco as American Beauty-era Grateful Dead. “Excess Baggage” shows the world-music influence of Xavier Rudd, with whom Preston once toured Australia. The confident urban reggae of “Red Red Earth” and the seductive “Be Your Love” makes one assume Preston was born with dreadlocks. But is she a hippie? Preston burst out laughing when asked that burning question. “That’s real funny,” she says after the giggles subsided. “You know, my dad always called me a hippie, and I always thought it was funny. Actually, when I was younger I really liked it because I felt like I was recognized as a particular kind of being. I dunno — whatever makes you comfortable, I guess. “Depending on where I am, if someone calls me [a hippie] I can take it like a compliment and feel like they’re recognizing me, or I could feel like they were

judging me and thinking that I’m a little weird. But I think for the most part I’m just an open being. My first priority is love and the earth and helping people be inspired and keeping a flame of inspiration in my own life.” One person who has returned the favor and greatly inspired Preston lately is her boyfriend, 25-year-old Boulder singer-guitarist Daniel Cooper. His incredibly sweet and gentle acoustic songs make a lot of Preston’s recorded work — and even a few new demos she shared with me — sound downright punkish in comparison. Preston has clearly kept the most raw, original and captivating aspects of her own music — including a very raw reggae influence and her love for vintage folk — intact since leaving San Diego, but she’s gleaned a lot from Cooper and his love for more soft-edged artists like Ray LaMontagne. “We’re definitely kindred spirits when it comes to music,” Preston says of Cooper, an Ohio native who has been a Boulder resident for the past five years. “We’ve shared a lot in the past few years and influenced each other with a kind of similar heart-chord in music. Daniel and I have started to collaborate quite a bit and I think that’s kind of the next avenue I’ll be taking.” On his song “Temezcal (Walking Home),” part of a collaborative CD called

Beloved — which will be officially released Sunday night at the Laughing Goat — Cooper sings “Listen deep / close your eyes / listen to the music in the skies / your eyes open your soul unbroken.” His lyrics declare that “love will heal all scars,” and Beloved’s placid, trippy music is no doubt in agreement. The Beloved album features musical contributions from Cooper and Preston, along with Tierro Lee and Gilly Gonzales of the Colorado-based “tribal psychedelic” band Kannal and even young Boulder Symphony Orchestra violinist Ilya Goldberg. Preston says she and Cooper hope to tour together eventually, and she has a treasure trove of new music she wants to record soon, so the bill she’s sharing with Cooper at the Laughing Goat on Sunday could be a foreshadowing of the outspoken singersongwriter’s long-awaited musical reemergence. “I’m still kind of reinventing my path with music and seeing where it’s moving me,” Preston concludes. “I’ve been focusing on other things. I also do healing work. I do massage therapy, and I’ve been getting into sound therapy more and more and seeing where that’ll take me. But I would like my music to be the main source of my abundance and living, so I’m gonna keep working on that.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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nce an obscure corner of English electronic music, dubstep will likely become a mainstream American sound in a matter of months — look no further than dubstep champ Rusko talking production with Britney Spears for definitive evidence that the genre’s days in the underground are over for good. Enter 22-year-old Los Angeles producer Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, a formidable newcomer who has risen so rapidly to fame that if Hot Topic suddenly becomes interested in dubstep, he unfortunately might be the first man they call. “I think everywhere will [play dubstep], to some degree,” Moore tells Boulder Weekly. “It always happens with any subgenre there ever is that has a bubbling. It always comes to the surface. Think about anything — black metal, in one way or another, did. Electro house is already in pop songs, and it’s going to happen with every genre in some way or another. “It may not be Skrillex, but somebody’s gonna to do it in a way that it carries over to the mainstream,” Moore says. And somebody surely will. The day before Bassnectar’s Lorin Ashton nearly overflowed the 1st Bank Center with grimy, once-obscure bass music and fans who love it, Moore’s brand of electronic dance music (EDM) went volcanic with the debut of his second EP, Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites, released exclusively on Beatport through Big Beat Records and electro king Deadmau5’s label, Mau5trap Recordings. After the release, Skrillex held an astounding eight of Beatport’s top 10 slots, the title track taking No. 1 (the first dubstep track ever to do so) and others claiming top spots on several of the site’s subgenre charts, such as dubstep, electro house and progressive house. And so it happened that Skrillex became a softball

for those taking swings at the commercialization of dubstep. The former frontman of hardcore band From First To Last, Moore has put up with plenty of distracting talk from what he has long considered his only project. Though dubstep is widely considered to be EDM’s version of hardcore, Skrillex wouldn’t be where it is if Moore wasn’t quick to master several styles of EDM. Genre-crossing had nothing to do with it, either: Hardcore alumni like Steve Aoki and The Bloody Beetroots have only benefited from fusing hardcore with electronic possibilities. “I’m not consciously or subconsciously trying to put hardcore into electronic music,” Moore says. “It’s always been about doing things I really love.” Skrillex’s list of remixes, which are heavy on Interscope artists such as Lady Gaga, LaRoux and the Black Eyed Peas, might have something to do with accusations of selling out. But it could also be general disbelief that Moore is even capable of doing anything but hardcore, especially at such a quick pace. “You know what’s a fun rumor that’s going around

right now … is that I have ghost producers,” Moore says. “I heard some people, first it was like Skizm is doing all my production, then Paranoize, then it was Excision and Datsik — they came out and squashed those rumors publicly. I just thought it was funny, I was reading something the other day that was like, ‘Yeah, the music’s cool, but Sonny is a douchebag and fuckin’ has ghost producers.’” However, it’s easy to hear that Moore’s hardcore past (and almost a decade of production experience) has contributed to a fresh take on EDM that is infectious enough to sell out the Fox weeks in advance. Skrillex’s genre-blending sound maintains through slow and fast tempos while epileptic chopups send bass breakdowns exploding through the room like electro-pop shrapnel. Tied together by trance sensibilities, teen sleepover-sing-along vocal hooks, airtight sound production, and fantastic melodies, Moore succeeds in bringing almost every popular electronic style together into what might as well be called skrillectrostep. In “Kill Everybody,” digitized pixie vocals that sing about eating your heart are backed against menacing Transformer sex noises, and the total package is a high-volume, heart-throbbing dance party. Together, you have a near-perfect mixture of light and dark, catchy and trashy, good and evil. “I’ve been very melody-driven and very into sound design as well, so I just put the two of them together,” Moore says. “I grew up playing guitar and writing songs and chord progressions; it was very natural to do stuff like that. I was just drawn to the half-time tempo (of dubstep).” Skrillex will stop at the Fox Theatre on Dec. 16 before picking up tour dates with Deadmau5 in late December. Tickets are already sold out, but anyone within a block will hear that the battle between monsters and sprites will be long and very, very loud. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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oe Satriani, one of the world’s most renowned guitar virtuosos, has been rocking audiences for three decades, yet when he speaks via phone from a tour stop in Florida, there is a surprising, yet unmistakable, tone of excitement in his voice, as though a lot of this is still somehow new to him. Perhaps even more unexpected is the fact that when asked how he manages to avoid going on auto-pilot after all these years, his reply is straightforward rather than overly profound or philosophical. “I love it,” he says. “That’s the simplest explanation. I wake up every day wanting to write something new, to see if I can play something better or differently, to see if I can get inspired by something. So it never gets routine for me.” Music is the language he speaks most fluin a golden room and that would protect you from ently, and the man who taught Steve Vai and Kirk getting influenced or attacked, let’s say, by bad vibes, Hammett — among others — how to play the guitar you know? Just the whole concept I thought was rathis a proud, lifelong student who is always looking to er interesting.” increase his mastery of it. The struggle between light and darkness stuck “Ever since I was a kid, it’s really been the way with him as well, and he uses this dynamic to create a that I relate to the world,” he says with a chuckle, “so tension that permeates every aspect of the song. it’s just about everything to me.” “There’s kind of a light The fact that he loves rock and dark aspect to the melomusic helps explain why he seems dy,” he says. “The melodies On the Bill Joe Satriani plays the to find inspiration for melodies and are dark and tense and the Paramount Theatre on song titles in unlikely places. “The improvisations are very light. Tuesday, Dec. 21. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $40. Golden Room,” a crunchy, Indian And so I liked that idea of 1621 Glenarm Pl., Denver, music-inspired rocker off his latest the two separate forces 303-623-0106. album, Black Swans & Wormhole bouncing back and forth in Wizards, is one such example. the song.” “I had been introduced to this The variety of tunes phrase, ‘The Golden Room,’ which some psychic had found on this album — blitzing rock songs, lonely said is a way you protect yourself against negative ballads, bluesy numbers and even a semi-jazzy tune influence from other people,” Satriani explains. “I just are among the entries — may be a surprise to some thought it was a strange concept, to imagine yourself listeners; the eclectic results even surprise Satriani

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himself. “I’m usually surprised by the direction my albums take,” he says. “I’m writing without thinking about direction, but then I’m gradually sort of presented with the unintentional direction and I just let it happen. So if I’m going in a heavy rock direction or a lighter direction, if I’ve got more ballads or more fast songs, I just let it be natural.” That willingness to let the album create itself is a big reason why Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards is one of Satriani’s most original albums yet. Plus it never hurts to have an eye for details, especially when it comes to titling songs that have no words. “The title usually comes along at the moment of inspiration, so it winds up being a guidepost for me,” Satriani says. “It follows that specific song’s story, so in that way the title is really like a signpost. It keeps me from wandering, musically, because I think instrumentals can get all-purpose-sounding if you don’t really have a theme or a story behind the music that you would if you were writing a song with lyrics. Having a title or a story as you start out writing the instrumental is a great way to go about it because it really keeps you focused. It makes you play specific to that story.” But in spite of his desire to use these signposts to guide him along the way, there is always the sense that the scenery surrounding these landmarks is never going to be the same thing twice, thus allowing the songs to be unique every time. “They’re all still works in progress for me,” he says. “I love having the opportunity to play the song every night so I can get deeper into it, figure out how to play it better, maybe stretch it a little and see how far I can take the idea. So it’s sort of a challenge to play all of them every night.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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A Child’s Christmas in Wales runs Thursdays through Sundays until Dec. 22 at Miners Alley Playhouse. Tickets start at $19. For more information, visit www.minersalley.com, or call 303-935-3044. 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 200, Golden.

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t’s been 10 months since I last reviewed a show at the Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden. Unlike Courtney Love or the majority of the Baldwin brothers, time has been kind to Miners Alley. A new mural, both attractive and functional, adorns their lobby wall. And now, rather than patrons having to make a mad dash for the best seats as in the general admission days, Miners Alley offers reserved seating. Huzzah! But don’t let the luxury of reserved seating keep you from arriving early and enjoying Miners Alley’s comfortable lounge area complete with full bar and local art for sale. With winter’s chill finally in the air, a glass of homemade eggnog — with or without rum — is a most efficacious way to warm your bones and relax prior to a viewing of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Though barely 25 minutes away, Golden retains a small-town sensibility lost in Boulder decades ago. On the night I saw A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Main Street was celebrating the holidays with a candlelight walk. A four-piece brass band on one corner played Christmas standards. A few blocks away, carolers serenaded the small throng of people, candles in hand, ambling down the street beneath the town arch festooned with Santa and his sleigh. Gingerbread men danced and a local shopkeeper stood at her door, offering wassail to passersby. This unpretentious holiday gathering dovetailed beautifully with the experience of seeing A Child’s Christmas in Wales for the first time. Based on Dylan Thomas’ recollections of childhood Christmases in the working-class, seaside town of Swansea, A Child’s

siderably more than half-sauced by the time he made his final delivery? With no electricity to power television or radio, the time after Christmas dinner was spent by adults and children alike sharing ghost stories, tall tales and singalongs. When I was a child in much more modern times, we told no such tales nor sang along with one another, but we would still have a reading of The Night Before Christmas in that twilight time of Christmas Eve. I doubt that many families even do that any longer, and at the risk of sounding irretrievably old-fashioned, might we not benefit from more familial interaction on Christmas (and, for that matter, the rest of the year)? As different as some aspects of Christmastime are from Thomas’ childhood to today, A Child’s Christmas in Wales reminds us that many things remain remarkably the same. One only sees certain distant aunts and uncles on Christmas, and those who are quirky, sullen or hypochondriacs are gossiped about just as much today as they were then. The prize of most Christmas dinners, the fat, juicy turkey, remains in as much jeopardy of overcooking today as it did when humans were switching over from wood-fired to gas-powered ovens. And the time between dinner and opening presents is as much as ever a time for some to toil cleaning dishes in the kitchen while others doze indolently in the living room. Miners Alley’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is a touching tribute to Christmas and family. Whether you’re short of or overflowing with holiday spirit, this show will stir memories and send you back out into the world with cheer in your heart. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Jackson Garske, Arianna Sutton, Gerry Lemmons and Talia Eaton in A Child’s Christmas In Wales.

Christmas in Wales is a heartfelt, musical ode to Christmas, family, youth and times gone by. In many ways, A Child’s Christmas in Wales reminded me just how much has changed — and not necessarily for the better — about how we experience Christmas. In the time of the play, a snow globe or squirt gun was the acme of gifts, and more to the point, the prepubescent Thomas’ wishes to Father Christmas didn’t overreach or presuppose any sense of entitlement. In one of the best scenes in A Child’s Christmas in Wales, the postman gives lyrical thanks for the warm libations awaiting him at each house on his route. Can you imagine not only knowing your postman (or as he or she might be called today, your mail delivery specialist) by name but welcoming him into your home every Christmas Eve and putting a warm glass of spiked eggnog or cider in his cold, chapped hands? More so, can you imagine that same postman’s boss, as well as everyone else in the community, not batting an eyelash at the fact that he was con-

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music Bill & John McKay. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bluegrass Pick — With Martin Gilmore. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. James and the Devil. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jelly Roll Bakers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. The John Lake Quartet. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Live Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Open Stage with Tommy and the Tangerines — Every Thursday night. Catacombs, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. The Ugly Sweater Holiday Party & SingAlong. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Wonderlic. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Jenn Cleary

One of Boulder’s most talked-about songstresses plays music that throws back to some of the great female songwriters of rock music history. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 9 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-918-6617. Comedyworks Presents:Vic Alejandro & Mark Lee. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Creating Online Copy That Sells. 9 a.m. to noon. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Denver/Boulder Drupal Users Meetup. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D

events 3rd Thursday Interactive Meetup. 5-6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Art Opening — With music by Holly and the Husbands. 5-7 p.m. Sola Salons, 3280 28th St., Boulder, 303-507-6404. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-

Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720242-8961. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www. flamenco-boulder.com. Lunchtime Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-5455562.

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

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Light Leaks — Paintings by Isca Greenfield-Sanders. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 9. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Collages by Gerda Rovetch. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Dec. 31. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Tina Will. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Jan. 30. Shut Your Face Off! Mixed media by Donald Fodness & Alvin Gregorio. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through Jan. 31. Slides of a Changing Painting — By Robert Gober. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 16. Swimming in Cola — Sculptures by Dewane Hughes. UMC Art Gallery, CU campus, 303-492-6161. Through Dec. 17. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 9. A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

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music Acoustic Open Mic. 7-9 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Boulder Chamber Orchestra’s All Magical: A Gift of Music. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-583-1278. Christy Wessler’s Holiday Concert and Sing-Along. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Colin Robison & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Dead Floyd. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. DJ Chonz and Friends. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Drifter Band. 4 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108. Ed Turner Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Face Holiday A Cappella Show. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Flamenco Christmas Show — With Steve Mullins, Lia Ochoa and more. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Girls on Top. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Indulgers. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jaron’s Funky Group. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. Mike Morter and Tim Bruns. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. P-Nuckle. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Quemandita. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Reed Foehl Trio and SHEL. 8 p.m. Swallow

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You don’t know the Boulder music scene until you’ve heard Kort McCumber. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Romano Paoletti Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. That Eighties Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

events The Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. 12-8 p.m. 902 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-272-SHOP. A Christmas Story. Longmont Theatre

Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-7725200. The Frame of Mind. 7:30 p.m. Unity Stage, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-681-7829. Jerry Downs Appreciation Print Sale and Exhibit. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

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theater Boulder Improv Collaborative’s Improv Sampler. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Dec. 18. A Christmas Carol — Presented by Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-4920554. Through Dec. 24. Hello Dolly! Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb 26, 2011. Jacob Marley’s Christmas

Carol — Presented by OpenStage Theatre. Art Lab, 239 Linden St., Fort Collins, 970-2216730. Through Dec. 19. The Nutcracker — Presented by Ballet Nouveau Colorado. Performing Arts Complex at PCS, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303450-3985. Through Dec. 19. The SantaLand Diaries — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 23.

10th Anniversary Production of the Christmas Revels. 2 p.m .& 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. 18 Switchbacks. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Based on Fiction. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-4435108. Benefit Concert for Pete & Deb Baksa featuring Whirld Vu. 1 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bluegrass Pick. Noon. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blue Mountain Ranch Hands. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Christy’s Top of the Hill Sing-Along. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003. Family Concert Series Presents: Okee Dokee Brothers. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Jenn Cleary. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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events Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. Kakes Studio, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303918-6617. BHA Psychic Fair. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Grange, 2nd Avenue & Frankin Street, Niwot, 303-545-5562. The Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. 902 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-272-SHOP. A Christmas Story. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. The Frame of Mind. 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Unity Stage, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-681-7829. Grant Collier’s Colorado’s National Parks & Monuments. 1-3 p.m. Barnes & Noble at 2999 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-444-0349. Grant Collier’s Colorado’s National Parks & Monuments. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Borders, 1750 29th St., Boulder, 720-565-8266. Jerry Downs Appreciation Print Sale and Exhibit. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Living Lights: Illuminating Small Wonders. 5:30 p.m. Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave. Westminster, 303-469-5441.Through Dec. 19.

Monday, Dec. 20 Conversations in English —For ESL learners. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, Dec. 21 Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.

Sunday, Dec. 19

music Beth Preston, Beloved. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Giddyup Kitty. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kazyak. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Kort McCumber & High Road. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Peter Kater Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Body Speak Listen: A Dance & Poetry Solstice Workshop. 1-5 p.m.Trevarton House, 6125 Trevarton Dr., Boulder, 303-918-6183. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Jerry Downs Appreciation Print Sale and Exhibit. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. The Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 902 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-272-SHOP. Elf. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Monday, Dec. 20

music Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jay Ryan’s Big Top — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Karen Karsh. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

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

Tuesday, Dec. 21

music 17th Avenue Allstars White Christmas Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bob’s Big Band Christmas Show. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Brian Waller. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350. Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628.

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Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder. Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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music The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Jazz to the World with Janis Kelly & Friends. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Prohibition Six. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Rising Lion. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

events Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Sound College Holiday Electro Show. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Swing Blues Dance Lessons. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-4490319.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, Dec. 16 So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, Dec. 17 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

Saturday, Dec. 18 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Sunday, Dec. 19 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Monday, Dec. 20 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, Dec. 21 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, Dec. 22 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

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Keeping courtship and commitment by Dr. Jenni Skyler Dear Dr. Jenni, I’m always the one initiating sex with my wife, and it’s getting old being told no, since she never wants to do it as often as I do. I’ve tried different approaches, but what advice would you give to get her in the mood more often? Or should I just play it cool and wait for her to initiate? —Frustrated Fellow

Basically, you want to ensure that you are romancing her on a regular basis. Then, make sure you delineate time for your relationship with weekly intimacy dates. You can suggest activities that you enjoy, to include sexual endeavors, and ask her to throw out ideas as well. Whether you go out to happy hour, dance your feet off in Denver, or stay home and have champagne, make sure you keep intimacy dates part of your Dear FF, marriage for the rest of your life. And Your question is a common one that again, remind her of the importance of all long-term relasex for feeling intiQuestions tionships experience. mate and close to Your level of sexual her, but also honor Send questions for Jenni where she is as well. desire is like your Skyler to drjenni@ fingerprint, unique theintimacyinstitute.org. Dear Dr. Jenni, to you. And since My husband we all have distincand I always have tive fingerprints, we sex in the same position — him on top. all have different levels of desire. The He is very traditional and doesn’t want to issue becomes more noticeable and frusexperiment. How do I convince him to trating when those levels of desire are try some different things? vastly different. —Bored in Boulder First of all, don’t just play it cool and wait for her to initiate. Did you know Dear BIB, that she ran out of hair conditioner the other day? What if she never put it on Your husband doesn’t know what he’s the grocery list and just hoped you would missing! There are more sex positions notice that the bottle in the shower was than there are days of the year. empty and needed to be replaced next Experimenting and exploring can be an time you went shopping? The odds of avenue into deepening intimacy with one this are low. She needs to tell you that another. However, it sounds like your hair conditioner is important to her for husband may struggle to relinquish conmaintaining healthy hair. Likewise, you trol. Or perhaps he’s harboring guilt and need to tell her that sex is important to shame around sex, and strains to see you you — that it’s your way of feeling loved, as both his pure wife and his sexy vixen. connected and close to her. Tell her you Conversation is key. Discuss what understand that you have differences in feels scary about a different position. desire, but that you feel hurt when you Give him permission to see you as both are constantly rejected. Ask if there is wife and vixen. Once he feels more comsomething you can do to better warm her fortable talking about some of his fears, up or romance her. slowly ease into changing your behaviors. Once you have broached the subject You can suggest a new position to try openly, owning how you feel without each week, even if you only entertain it attacking her, then gear up to win her for a few minutes. Honor his boundaries, heart. Once you have her heart, the body but also be honest with your desire to often follows. The secret is to keep the explore. And remind him that keeping commitment and the courtship! How did the flame alive in long-term relationships you seduce her back in the early days? may require introducing that which is Did you take her on dates? Did you new and forbidden. bring her flowers? Did you tell her how Send questions for Jenni Skyler, PhD, to stunning and sexy she looks when she drjenni@theintimacyinstitute.org. Skyler is a steps out of the shower? Did you carve sex therapist and board-certified sexologist out an afternoon to go hiking with just who runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, you and her? www.theintimacyinstitute.org.

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Thursday, Dec. 16

Winter Climbing Training. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Suite A, Boulder, 303-4998866. Winter on Longs Peak. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway Suite A, Boulder, 303-4998866.

Saturday, Dec. 18

Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Sunday, Dec. 19

Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org. Nature for Kids & Parents: Surviving the Winter. 1-3 p.m. Shanahan Ridge Trail entrance, 1903 Lehigh St., Boulder, 303-441-3440.

Winter riding Who cares that the snow is the best in years? MTB junkies just want dirt by Tom Winter

olorado is a blessed state. Take, for example, Boulder’s easy living. This November and December have seen big snows in the mountains. But we’ve hardly had to lift a shovel of the white stuff down here in B-Town. For mountain bikers, that’s a good thing. After all, while the high country has a ton of trails, it also has a ton of snow. So if you’re not into riding planks (one or two) and wheels are your thing, you’ve still got options, even in the middle of winter. And the options don’t end on the Front Range. Drive up over the passes, through all that snow, and you can end up way out rp.boulder.weekly.ability.pdf

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on the Western Slope, Grand Junction way, where it’s possible to tap into spring-like temperatures in January and enjoy a heaping helping of singletrack along with red rock vistas. So with storms pounding the Continental Divide, and skiers and snowboarders flooding I-70, here are a few of our favorite winter rides. These are rides which, at this time of year, will be empty of people and, thankfully, snow.

Rabbit Valley — Grand Junction area Head west, young mountain biker, to the borderlands of

Monday, Dec. 20

Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:30-6:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720565-6019.

Tuesday, Dec. 21

Customer Appreciation Day. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7868406. Solstice Moonshine. 6-8 p.m. Sawhill Ponds, 75th Street near Valmont Road, Boulder, 303-441-3440. Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Wednesday, Dec. 22

Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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lack Swan is a breathtaking, intense, horrifying and beautiful cinematic essay on obsession, maturity and the fine line between reality and fantasy, and it’s well worth seeing, regardless of whether you’re interested in ballet. Natalie Portman plays Nina Sayers, a dancer in a Manhattan-based ballet troupe who has mastered the technical requirements of ballet but lacks the passion, sensuousness and soul to be an outstanding prima ballerina. The troupe artistic director Thomas (Vincent Cassel) announces their next performance will be Swan Lake, but he’s going to make it edgier, and the lead will need to play both the white swan, an embodiment of all that is sweet, pure and youthful, and the black swan, the dark alter ego, the sexual, aggressive counterpoint to the white swan. Nina is cast for this role, a role that’ll be the pinnacle of her dancing career, but the pressure of performing, the expectations of her obsessive, controlling mother Erica (a superb Barbara Hershey), making sure that the antithetical Lily (Mila Kunis) doesn’t steal her part, and the challenge of finding the “black swan” within her innocent, childlike personality tear Nina apart, and it’s that descent into madness that’s the heart of the film. One of the things I really enjoyed about Inception (another film in the running for Best Picture) was that what we saw on screen wasn’t always what was actually happening in the story. Seeing the delusions, fears, daydreams and hallucinations of characters is far

more powerful, and in Black Swan, there are frequent scenes where the viewer is left asking whether it really transpired or was symptomatic of Nina’s gradual loss of her grip on reality. The film that Black Swan most reminds me of, however, was the 1984 French film Carmen, directed by Francesco Rosi. Carmen focuses on an opera company that gets caught up in the interpersonal complexities of the love triangle in the Bizet opera, even as they rehearse the opera itself.

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he Tourist is a facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on Charade, and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen’s 1963 picture. While it’s fairly easy to take in its retro way — it certainly takes it easy on the audience — it’s a peculiar sort of ... leisure thriller, I suppose is the phrase. When the Johnny Depp character scurries against a green screen in his jammies along tiled Venice rooftops, fleeing Russian mobsters, the question arises: Is it still “fleeing” if the actor’s stunt double isn’t moving very quickly? Based on the little-seen French film Anthony Zimmer (2005), The Tourist offers four deluxe cinematic locales: Paris, Venice, Depp and Angelina Jolie. For this assignment director and co-writer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, best known for The Lives of Others, has no interest in politics or real life or even the planet Earth. He and his colleagues are making a serenely ludicrous Continental fairy tale. Depp plays the wrong man in this wrong-man scenario, a Midwestern shmo picked up by Jolie’s character, Elise, on a train from Paris to Venice. Elise, a Brit, is the paramour of a man who stole billions belonging to a London gangster (Steven Berkoff ). Boulder Weekly

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Both films share an obvious parallel between the story that the troupe is rehearsing and the performers themselves. Nina is the white swan, with a child-like life, including a domineering mother who refuses to let her grow up and a bedroom full of stuffed animals. Lily is the black swan, dark, sultry, sexual, uninhibited, and with ambiguous intentions and motivations. Lily is also the temptress, encouraging Nina to rebel against her mother and hook up with men, try recreational drugs and get drunk. It’s telling that after they go to a nightclub and meet up with some guys, however, Nina’s fantasy of how the evening ends has her making love to Lily, not one of the men. I’ll say this: Portman and Kunis making love was one of the sexiest scenes I’ve seen this year, despite how simultaneously creepy it was. Ultimately, Black Swan isn’t about ballet; it’s about obsession and perfection; it’s about being so focused on a goal that everything else in life either helps achieve that goal or is a waste and needs to be ignored or ejected. Nina’s descent into madness is as inevitable as it is painful — and alarming — to watch, and Portman’s performance is superb. The film is a reminder of why balance in life is critical, of how every truly good person is a careful balance of black and white, of good and evil. It’s also one of the best movies of the year. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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She’s instructed by her shadow lover, who doesn’t appear on screen until late in the game, to find a false boyfriend on the train in order to throw the Interpol agents off the scent, or divert their attention. Something. Couldn’t say for sure, actually. Before the screening I saw the Tourist trailer three times and still couldn’t make out the premise. Good thing Venice photographs well. Depp’s character is supposed to be a Wisconsin community college math instructor, yet the way he comports himself in The Tourist, even before the fancy-

dress party scenes, he suggests an amalgam of everybody Carly Simon may have sung about in “You’re So Vain.” Alarmingly skinny by Euro standards and even American ones, Jolie’s Elise nonetheless turns one head after another with comical reliability. In Venice, where the angry mobsters and the Scotland Yard detectives, played by Paul Bettany and Timothy Dalton, close in, there are canal chases of middling interest and an almost aggressive lack of razzle-dazzle. Depp barely raises his voice above whisper level throughout The Tourist, even when his life’s in danger. American audiences, I suspect, may have trouble warming to the film, since they tend to resist movies with any mentions of Interpol (why is that?), just as they resist twisty affairs with a predominantly facetious tone (such as Duplicity, the one with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts). Coming after Salt, Jolie’s previous and harder-charging diversion, The Tourist plays like a quaint artifact from a lost world. It goes down, or sideways, like a cup of caffeinefree mint tea — a thriller for those who prefer to keep their vital signs nice and steady. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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writes a New York Times editorial outlining his conclusions and igniting a firestorm of controversy. From Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theaters

The latest film from Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) dramatizes the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who has to resort to desperate measures to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Mayan and Esquire. — Rene Rodriguez

The Fighter Mark Wahlberg stars as the boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, who ended up as world lightweight champion. Christian Bale co-stars as Micky’s half-brother, an ex-con who becomes his trainer. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Black Swan See full review on Page 51. At Mayan, Colony Square, Century and Flatiron.

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Burlesque In her first starring role in more than a decade, Cher returns as the owner and headliner of a cabaret who hires an ingenue (Christina Aguilera) as a cocktail waitress. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Director Michael Apted tackles the third installment in the series of beloved novels by C.S. Lewis, in which the Pevensie siblings and their young cousin return to the magical land and sail to the edge of the world alongside Prince Caspian. There will be dragons. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Tron: Legacy We picked this photo because it really captures the essence of the new Tron film (and not at all because of the phallic imagery).

Fair Game A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, Fair Game is a riveting actionthriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts), whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was illegally exposed. As a covert officer in

the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Valerie’s husband, diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), is drawn into the investigation to substantiate an alleged sale of enriched uranium from Niger. But when the administration ignores his findings and uses the issue to support the call to war, Joe

In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — the final installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy — Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back. Also starring Michael Nyqvist as journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Harry, Ron and Hermione set out to find the

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-790-4262 127 Hours Thu-Wed: 11, 1:10, 3:35, 5:55, 8:30, 10:50 Black Swan Fri-Wed: 2:30, 5:30, 8:20, 10:55 Burlesque Thu: 11:10, 2, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:20, 4:15, 7:15 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu: 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 The Fighter Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Thu: 11:15, 12:20, 2:40, 3:45, 6, 7, 9:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 How Do You Know Fri-Wed: 10:20, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Love and Other Drugs Thu: 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8, 10:40 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Tangled Thu: 11:55, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 10 Fri-Wed: 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 The Tourist Fri-Wed: 11:10, 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Tron: Legacy Fri-Wed: 11, 2, 5, 8, 10:55 Yogi Bear Fri-Wed: 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 127 Hours Thu-Wed: 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9 FriWed: 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Burlesque Thu: 1:25, 4:10, 7, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 7:15 Black Swan Fri-Wed: 12:15, 1:45, 3:15, 4:35, 6:15, 7:35, 9, 10:15 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu: 10:15, 1:05, 3:55,

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6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 10:40, 12:10, 3:05, 4:40, 7:30, 9:10 Fair Game Thu: 1:35, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 FriWed: 10:55, 4:30, 10 The Fighter Fri-Wed: 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:35 How Do You Know Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50 Love and Other Drugs Thu: 11:35, 2:15, 5, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed: 10:25 p.m. Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 FriWed: 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 The Tourist Thu: 10:30, 11:50, 1, 2:20, 3:35, 4:50, 6:05, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 1:05, 2:30, 3:50, 5:15, 6:35, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Tron: Legacy Fri-Wed: 11, 2, 5, 8, 10:50 Yogi Bear Fri-Wed: 11:20, 1:30, 3:40, 6:05, 8:15 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Black Swan Fri-Wed: 1:35, 4:25 Burlesque Thu: 1:10, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed: 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu: 1, 4, 7, 9:50 FriWed: 2, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 The Fighter Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Thu: 3:30, 4:20, 7, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed: 1, 4:15, 7:03, 10:40 How Do You Know Fri-Wed: 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Love and Other Drugs Thu: 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10 Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5, 7:50, 10:35 Tangled Thu: 2, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:25, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 The Tourist Thu: 2, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-

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Scrooged Fri: 10 p.m. Sat: 11:55 p.m. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Thu: 5 p.m. Today’s Special Thu: 4:15, 7:10, 9:20 Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Fri-Wed: 2, 4:30 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within FriWed: 5, 9:20 UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 Burlesque Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 FriWed: 7:05, 9:45 The Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Thu-Wed: 12:50, 4, 7:10, 9:45 The Fighter Fri-Wed: 11, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I Thu-Wed: 12:40, 3:40, 7, 9:40 How Do You Know Fri-Wed: 10:40, 1:40, 4:40, 10:25 Megamind Thu: 1:10, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 FriWed: 10:45, 1:15, 4:15 Tangled Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 The Tourist Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10 FriWed: 10:35, 1, 4, 7:35, 10:10 Tron: Legacy Fri-Wed: 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Yogi Bear Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 As times are always subject to change, we request that you verify all movie listings beforehand. Daily updated information can be viewed on our website, www.boulderweekly.com.

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rest of the Horcruxes to defeat Voldemort. With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Ralph Fiennes. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT How Do You Know The usually reliable writer-director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, As Good As It Gets) returns with his first movie in six years. Reese Witherspoon stars as a former softball player caught in a love triangle with a major-league pitcher (Owen Wilson) and a corporate executive (Paul Rudd). Rated PG-13. — Rene Rodriguez Howl James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg — poet, counter-culture adventurer and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional, leave-nothing-out style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless and electrifying work of his career, the poem Howl. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, Howl is on trial. Prosecutor Ralph McIntosh (Strathairn) sets out to prove that the book should be banned, while suave defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Hamm) argues fervently for freedom of speech and creative expression. The proceedings veer from the comically absurd to the passionate as a host of unusual witnesses (Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker, Treat Williams, Alesssandro Nivola) pit generation against generation and art against fear in front of conservative Judge Clayton Horn (Bob Balaban). At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society I Love You Phillip Morris Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) leads a seemingly average life — he’s an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann), and a member of the local police force. That is, until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest — even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the state penitentiary, where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another. Told with an uncanny sense of humor and a lot of heart, I Love You Phillip Morris is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide. Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, screenwriters of the cult hit Bad Santa. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Inside Job From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Ferguson comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of more than $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships that have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. At Mayan and Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres Love and Other Drugs Ed Zwick directs this romantic comedy about two commitment-phobes (Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway) who work in the pharmaceutical industry and fall for each other. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez Marwencol In 2000, five men beat Mark Hogancamp outside 54 December 16, 2010

a bar so severely that he nearly died. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Mark was discharged with little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, Mark decided to create his own. In his backyard, he built Marwencol (named for Mark/Wendy/Colleen), a one-sixth scale World War II-era town that he populated with dolls representing his friends, family and even his attackers. He used the small dolls and props to redevelop his hand-eye coordination, while he dealt with the psychic wounds from his attack through the town’s many battles and dramas. He developed an elaborate fantasy life for the world of Marwencol and took photographs of the dramatic scenes, which were eventually discovered and published in an art magazine. His homemade therapy suddenly became “art,” attracting a lot of attention and forcing Mark to make a choice between the safety of his fictional town and the real world he’d avoided since his attack. A surprising tale of love, secrets, pain and adventure. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Megamind In this computer-animated 3-D adventure, the eponymous supervillain (voiced by Will Ferrell) finally defeats his heroic arch-enemy (Brad Pitt), then discovers that his life has no meaning without someone to scheme against. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Monsters In 2009, NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples from Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, but it crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an Infected Zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the extraterrestrial “creatures.” After six years, they’re no longer aliens — they’re residents. Our story begins when a U.S. photojournalist Andrew Kaulder agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the Infected Zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an “archeological” dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town! When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his father Rauno (Jorma Tommila), a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa’s elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare — a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern-day morality. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres Scrooged Cold-hearted TV exec Bill Murray is about to discover the true meaning of Christmas — the hard way. This wild, woolly spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol sees Murray visited by three high-spirited spirits … and while there are laughs aplenty, Murray’s reformation and redemption are immensely powerful. With hilarious support from John Forsythe, Karen Allen, Carol Kane and others, Scrooged is a modern Christmas classic. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies,

lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a masterpiece of traditional songcraft and irresistible synthpop. Strange Powers explores Merritt’s songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime manager Claudia Gonson, revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Tangled This witty and charming 3-D computer-animated adventure is loosely based on the legend of Rapunzel, the long-haired princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), and the intrepid thief (Zachary Levi) who frees her from her tower prison. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Tiny Furniture Twenty-two-year-old Aura (writer/director Lena Dunham) returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her YouTube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her train-wreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows,” drinking all the wine in her mother’s cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Today’s Special Today’s Special is a heartwarming comedy with a culinary flavor, inspired by Aasif Mandvi’s Obie Award-winning play Sakina’s Restaurant. Samir (Mandvi) is a sous chef who dreams of becoming the head chef at an upscale Manhattan restaurant. Dreams must be put aside though after his father, Hakim, has a heart attack and Samir is forced to take over Tandoori Palace, the nearly bankrupt family restaurant in Jackson Heights. Samir’s relationship with his parents and his heritage is immediately put to the test. He has been estranged from his father since the death of his older brother, and his mother, Farrida, is consumed with finding a wife for her remaining son. While Samir is being forced to forsake his dreams, he is desperately trying to master Indian cooking to salvage the family business. Luckily, he crosses paths with Akbar, a taxi driver, passionate chef and worldly raconteur. Akbar inspires Samir and teaches him to trust his senses more than recipes, to stop measuring his life, and to start truly living it. With Akbar’s guidance, Samir has a chance to rediscover his heritage and his passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres The Tourist Johnny Depp is an American who travels to Italy to mend his broken heart. Angelina Jolie is the mysterious woman who enters his life. Soon they are swirling in danger and intrigue. She’s a trouble magnet, that Jolie. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Tron: Legacy Remember the summer of 1982, when a movie featuring newfangled computer-generated effects was expected to rule the box office? That never happened, but the prospects for this 3-D sequel seem a lot brighter. Have you seen the things they can do with computers nowadays? Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the world-famous video-game designer who suddenly disappears. Garrett Hedlund co-stars as his son, who discovers that Dad may have been pulled back into cyberspace. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment. At Esquire and Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Landmark Theatres White Material

Director Claire Denis returns to Africa, where she grew up, for this haunting story of a stubborn woman (Isabelle Huppert) obsessed with staying on her coffee plantation even as an increasingly violent civil war threatens to engulf the area. Her listless son (Nicolas Duvauchelle) refuses to help, and becomes an out-of-control vigilante after encountering threat. Her ex-husband (Christopher Lambert) tries to sell the property behind her back. Meanwhile, a wounded rebel soldier with a bounty on his head (Isaach de Bankole, who starred in Denis’ 1988 debut film Chocolat) is hiding on the premises. Huppert is a magnetic if enigmatic presence in a film whose oppressive atmosphere rivals that of Walkabout and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants, including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra and David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within is a probing yet loving look at the man whose works at once savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements and reconfigured 20th century culture. The film is narrated by Peter Weller, with a soundtrack by Patti Smith and Sonic Youth. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s. His novel Naked Lunch is one of the most recognized and respected literary works of the 20th century and has influenced generations of artists. The intimate documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society Yogi Bear

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Mix it up with local holiday spirit

by Mitchell Byars courtesy of Altitude Spirits

o crowded shopping malls and piles of unwritten greeting cards have you feeling out of season? Well, maybe holiday spirits will help get you into the holiday spirit. The folks at Altitude Spirits, a Boulderbased and family-owned company that makes organic Vodka 14, have come out with a line of seasonal cocktails for any occasion you feel like getting festive. “We try to release recipes from time to time, especially seasonal stuff for the holidays,” says Matthew Baris, who opened Altitude Spirits along with his dad, Mitch, in 2005. “We are always looking for the best ways to use our vodka.” To come up with their holiday cocktails, Baris went to Stan Usinowicz, a longtime mixologist and bartender who works at Hapa Sushi on Pearl Street. “I’ve known Stan personally for quite a few years,” Baris says. “He stands out as a very exceptional mixologist. I asked him if he wouldn’t mind making us a cocktail list, and he was pleased to do so. He is just amazingly creative and amazingly innovative, and it’s been a tremendous amount of fun working with him, just sitting at the bar and trying his concoctions. “Stan does a really nice job, despite using a number of flavors that add a lot to the drink, of not masking the vodka and allowing a flavor like vodka, which can be pretty subtle, to still shine through.” Baris says he wanted the ingredients in the cocktails to be organic ingredients as much as possible, to go with his certified organic vodka. “We wanted them to be seasonally appropriate and kind of make them holiday themed, but beyond that we wanted to use natural and organic ingredients whenever possible,” Baris says. “We make an organic

squeezed pomelo (a type of Asian citrus fruit similar to a grapefruit), 4 leaves of fresh spearmint and one pasteurized egg white and shake vigorously over ice. Strain into a highball glass (without ice) and add three drops of Peychaud’s bitters into the foam. Add sparkling water to taste and serve garnished with a skewer of pomelo peel and spearmint.

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vodka, and it’s our belief that the best cocktails use natural and fresh ingredients, so we try to use stuff that’s in season and appropriate for the season and basically use real juices, real herbs and spices, and that type of stuff, so we have the best possible flavor that’s appropriate for all-natural organic vodka. “Those were the guidelines that Stan had to work with. Beyond that he was limited only by his creativity.”

Apres Exhale In a shaker, mix 3 ounces of Vodka 14, 1 ounce Fu-Ki Cherry Wine, 1/2 teaspoon pomegranate molasses, and six drops Mexican vanilla extract. Shake over ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with 3 small marshmallows rolled in smoked salt (Alderwood smoked salt is suggested) and placed on the rim of the glass.

Fourteen Pomelo Fizz Mix 2 ounces of Vodka 14, 2-3 ounces of fresh

Start with an ounce of fresh cranberries in a saucepan. Add 4 ounces of unfiltered apple cider and a dash of cinnamon (this recipe can be scaled up as needed and can be prepared in large batches and refrigerated). Simmer over medium heat, stirring throughout, until the cranberries split and soften. Remove from heat and allow to cool. When ready to serve, mix 1.5 ounces of the cranberry reduction, a splash of lemon juice, a splash of orgeat syrup, and 2.5 ounces of Vodka 14 in a shaker. Shake over ice, strain into a martini glass and add 1 ounce of coconut water, stirring gently. Garnish with a skewered cranberry.

Stan’s White Monkey Start by grating fresh ginger as finely as possible. In a shaker, combine a pinch of the fresh ginger, 2 ounces of Vodka 14, a dash of Ceylon bark cinnamon, 2 ounces of fresh-squeezed blood orange juice, 1 tablespoon of half-and-half, and 1/2 ounce of Root Organic Liquor. Shake vigorously over ice and strain into a highball glass with very little ice or no ice at all, depending on your preference. Garnish with a wheel of blood orange, dressed in cinnamon. For information on where to find some of these ingredients or for more cocktail recipes, visit www. vodka14.com/mixology-and-cocktail-recipes.html. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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utside of Chinatowns and some vegetable filling. Asian communities, Eric’s $6.95 Mongolian beef consisted there’s a reassuring preof tender and flavorful strips of meat dictability to what’s on alongside small but pungent slivers of the menu at what one dried red pepper and sautéed onion. This can categorize as Chinese-American resentrée was attractively plated, with the taurants. These aren’t places to get jellycharming touch of having the fried rice fish appetizers, preserved duck egg conpresented in the shape of a cloud, as if it gee or black bean oysters. Instead, this is had been formed by a cookie cutter. where you don’t even have to look at the It may be easier to make a bad sesame menu to accurately guess that you’ll be chicken than a good one. Fortunately, able to get a reasonably priced and fillMay Wah’s $6.95 lunch preparation gening lunch. erally falls on the side of the angels. If my Typical main course selections include family, which is dedicated to traditional such old chestnuts as kung paos of various culinary notions, saw me order this dish, stripes or some variant of fried chicken. they would disown me. Ordering this sort Tofu and steamed vegetables are usually of dish is tantamount to proclaiming on tap for those desiring something other Jackie Chan superior to Bruce Lee, but than meat. Of course, each of these comes it’s my shameful guilty pleasure. Sure, the with soup, an egg roll and rice. These are sesame sauce’s syrupy sweetness could the staple offerings of Basemar Center’s have been a little less, but that’s par for May Wah, which has been around for at the course for this dish wherever you go. least as long my mid-’90s grad school What was good was the crisp but not career. peaking of Asian fare, Saichi Sushi, located in the Niwot overly bready texture of the batter (a While the menu and interior are Market at 7980 Niwot Rd., serves up authentic ramen nooreminder that the best fried chicken from remarkably unchanged (although Thai and dle soup bowls on Sundays. Available with salt, soy and miso Asian restaurants is as good as you’ll find Vietnamese dishes, including pho, are now broths, these offerings range from $9 to $10 a serving. I recently anywhere) surrounding moist and tender available), dining companion Eric noted tried the spicy miso version. While I wished the broth were more poultry. that the owners keep the place in tip-top rounded in flavor, I appreciated the texture of the noodles, You don’t go to a place like May Wah shape, and its appearance doesn’t belie its which were much more substantial than the instant variety. for culinary originality. But while we’ve age. The menu holds few surprises, with Tender bits of pork and pickled vegetable also added flavor seen these dishes countless times before, the most expensive a la carte options conand heft. During my visit, it was clear that the soup here draws it’s clear that this eatery doesn’t take its sisting of $13.95 seafood offerings. The a dedicated crowd. customers for granted. For the money, the lunch special choices start at $6.95 and preparations are as expert as you’ll find work their way up to $8.50 for scallop or anywhere, and the attractive presentation Happy Family options. being too hot or too sour. White pepper certainly was a pleasant surprise. So if one needs to indulge Eric and I both went for lunch specials, with a perked things up on a wintry day, but it certainly the guilty pleasures of Chinese-American cuisine, starter of hot and sour soup. May Wah’s preparation wasn’t overbearing, and the vinegar contributed you’ll find exactly what you need at this Boulder was remarkably balanced, contrasting with the many ample tang to the broth without being obtrusive. institution. versions of this starter that tend towards, well, either The accompanying egg roll was crisp with a toothRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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’m hitting the sauce in this it! Now, follow the directions, put column. I mean, why should some love into it and invite me over this week be any different when it’s done. than last? It’s the holidays for heavEggnog Bread Pudding en’s sake, and I’m making good use with Rum Sauce of all the libations that come my way around this time of year. How’s 2 cups milk about some Eggnog Bread Pudding 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla with Rum Sauce for your next holi1 cup brown sugar day extravaganza? Sounds about 1 tsp. nutmeg right to me. Bread pudding is such a 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon simple sweet or savory recipe, always 2 eggs a crowd-pleaser, as it is a bit of a 10 cups French bread cubes (1 loaf of comfort dessert with a sophisticated French bread) flair. 1 cup raisins No eggnog from a container in this treat. We are using all the ingre- Sauce dients you find in basic eggnog, so you will have that amazing aromatic 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar nutmeg goodness, but a few added 1/2 cup light corn syrup bonus ingredients to tickle your 2 1/2 tbsp. rum tummy strings. If your taste buds can 2 tbsp. butter be tickled, then so can your tummy, I 1/2 tsp. vanilla say. The rum sauce is a quick and Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray tasty way to not only add more 13-by-9-inch baking dish with nonauthentic eggnog flavor, but any time stick cooking spray. In a large bowl, you can give your combine all recipe a little bread pudding “kick,” you will ingredients It’s the holidays, always be the hit except bread and I’m making of the party. and raisins, blend until And for all good use of smooth with you soberlicious wire whisk. readers, the sauce libations. Fold in bread is just as good cubes and raiwithout the rum, sins. Pour into the prepared dish. so no reason you can’t make this too. Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes or Actually, I love this for breakfast, so until set. you might want to omit the rum if Rum sauce: In small saucepan, you think you will be whipping this combine all ingredients. Cook over up as a morning treat. I’m not judgmedium heat until mixture comes to ing if you leave the rum in for the a boil, stirring constantly. Boil one a.m.; just trying to be a responsible minute. Remove from heat, cool dessert diva. slightly. Pour over warm-to-roomI like French bread for this bread pudding, but cinnamon raisin or even temperature bread pudding. Top with whipped cream and a dash of cinnamulti-grain works well, too. I favor mon if desired. Enjoy! the thick crusty outside and the You can watch the Dessert Diva chewy center of French bread, with every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel just a hint of sweetness. I feel it lets 2. To contact Danette at the station, all the other flavors shine while addvisit 2thedeuce.com, and click on ing to the perfect texture of this Daybreak on the Deuce. To chat and/or “egg-cellent” dessert. Sorry, hitting send comments and suggestions, write to the rum already. jdromega@aol.com. This recipe will make you and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com yours very happy. You can hold me to

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Happy birthday, Japango! Through Saturday, Dec. 18, Boulder’s Japango sushi and Japanese restaurant is celebrating its 11th year in business at the same Pearl Street Mall location. Japango serves fresh sushi that is flown in every day, much of it directly from the Tsukiji market in Tokyo. The restaurant is known for authentic traditional Japanese cuisine as well as creative, neuvo-style dishes. In addition to sushi, guests can enjoy a wide variety of Japanese tapas, happy hour every day and catering. Owner Jon Banis says they are excited about the 11th anniversary and have been offering week-long specials to celebrate. Guests can follow Japango on Twitter for a different deal each day, and everyone will receive 25 percent off dinner bills nightly through Dec. 18. Japango is located at 1136 Pearl St. They are open for lunch and dinner, and offer all-you-can-eat sushi on Tuesday nights. For more information, call 303-938-0330 or visit www.boulderjapango.com. Big Red Christmas Big Red F Restaurant Group members Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace and West End Tavern will each host a New Year’s Eve event this year. Centro will host a four-course New Year’s Eve dinner for $50 per person, with an optional champagne cocktail pairing for $25 per person. A full menu and details can be found at www.centrolatinkitchen.com. For reservations, call 303-442-7771. The West End Tavern will throw a New Year’s Eve Apres-Ski Party with food specials, champagne slushies, hot toddy specials and more. For more information, visit www.thewest endtavern.com. Classy Christmas chow To make gift giving even easier, Arugula Bar e Ristorante in Boulder is offering instant gift certificates, available for immediate printing from your own printer. Just follow the “Instant Gift Certificates” link in the upper right hand corner of their website, www.arugularistorante.com. Arugula is also hosting two holiday dinners: a four-course Christmas Eve dinner, for $49 per person, on Dec. 24., and a four- or five-course

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New Year’s Eve dinner. Both events will also offer a shortened “a la carte” menu featuring items from their regular menu and the holiday menus. Reservations are strongly recommended. Call Arugula at 303-4435100. New downtown restaurant Chef Theo Adley opened his new restaurant, The Pinyon, on Dec. 10 in the former Bimbamboo location, at 1710 Pearl St. in Boulder. The menu features classic American fare with a focus on local food and beverages, including an exclusively domestic wine and beer list. Unique ingredients such as wild herbs, foraged produce and mushrooms will also be featured. For more information on The Pinyon, visit www.thepinyon. com. Warm up with buffalo chili Each month, the Colorado Department of Agriculture features a different commodity to highlight the variety and quality of products grown, raised or processed in the state. This month, Colorado buffalo is featured in the Buffalo and Bean Chili recipe provided by Chef Jason K. Morse of the Valley Country Club in Aurora. 4 slices Applewood bacon, diced 1 lb. buffalo stew meat, diced 2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced 1/2 red bell pepper, diced 1/2 green bell pepper, diced 1/2 yellow bell pepper, diced 1/2 small yellow onion, diced 1 small fresh jalapeno, minced 1-14 oz. can diced tomato 1-14 oz. can crushed tomato 1-1/2 cans pinto beans, drained 2 tbsp. cumin 4 tbsp. chili powder 1 tbsp. seasoning salt 1 tsp. sea salt 1 tsp. Liquid Smoke Sauté bacon. Add buffalo and garlic, and cook until buffalo is browned. In a separate pan, sauté onion and peppers until golden. Combine onions and peppers with sautéed meat, add jalapeno and cook. Add tomatoes, beans and seasonings and simmer for 35 minutes. Serve with cornbread. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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

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

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

II Pastaio 3075 Arapahoe Ave., Suite B, Boulder 303-447-9572

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

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

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

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

Delhi Darbar 1132 W. Dillion Rd., Louisville 303-665-4848

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

3601 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder 303-997-8775

equestered in the Peloton residences, Pizzeria Basta features an unintimidating selection of starters focusing on cheese and charcuterie, as well as pasta, salads and pizza. The $10 lunch special is an especially excellent value, offering soup or salad with an entree choice of pizza, calzone or sandwich. A chef ’s special calzone stuffed with cheese, bright tomato sauce and salami is a winner, as are desserts like the house-made spearmint ice cream and a lavender-scented panna cotta.

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point. In this case, a predictable menu is a virtue. Fans of textbook deli-style sandwiches will be content here, and the generous portions and classic flavors will put the diner in a comfortable frame of mind. Top choices include the traditional Italian sub with its mix of pepperoni, Genoa salami, mortadella and provolone. Chicken salad is another fine entry.

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treat Chefs, the brainchild of Top Chef victor Hosea Rosenberg, is an Airstream trailer that moves around town to provide a winning mix of ethnic street food and American comfort classics. Use the operation’s website to track down its whereabouts, and you’ll be rewarded with savory items like an authentic Vietnamese banh mi sandwich or an outstanding grilled cheese. The menu is constantly changing, but reasonable prices and high quality are certainly the norm.

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

owntown’s Brasserie Ten Ten has a touch of the old school with its wood panels, a full bar and ambience that isn’t just typical modernist minimalism. Traditionalism’s also apparent on the menu: escargot, steak frites and seafood platters. Other notable items, like a hot dog dressed with mornay sauce and gruyere cheese, may not be strictly authentic, but are still consistent with the brasserie’s comfort-food tradition.

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

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I vividly remember seeing singer Diamanda Galas in concert. Though classically trained, she didn’t confine herself to mellifluous melodies and elegant tones. She was a whirlwind of elemental sound, veering from animalistic bellows to otherworldly chants to operatic glossolalia. It was all very entertaining and often enjoyable. The skill with which she shaped the sound as it escaped her body was prodigious. My companion and I agreed that “she made your ears convulse and your eyes writhe and your skin prickle — but in a good way.” How would you feel about inviting some similar experiences into your life, Aries? The astrological omens suggest this would be an excellent time to seek the rowdy healing that only disciplined wildness can provide.

More than a few wildlife films use deception to fool the audiences into thinking they’re watching animals in the wild. So says Chris Palmer, a producer of many such films. “One classic trick involves hiding jellybeans in carcasses,” he told New Scientist. “If you see a bear feeding on a dead elk in a film, you can be pretty sure that the bear was hired from a game farm and is looking for sweets hidden in the carcass by the film-makers.” I suspect you will encounter a metaphorically comparable ruse or switcheroo sometime soon, Scorpio. It’ll be your job to be an enforcer of authenticity. Be on the lookout for the jellybeans.

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April 20-May 20:

Here’s a haiku-like poem by Cor van den Heuvel: “the little girl / hangs all the ornaments / on the nearest branch.” My comment: It’s cute that the girl crams all the decorations onto one small section of the tree, and maybe her parents will keep them that way. But I recommend that you take a different approach as you work to beautify and enliven your environment. Spread out your offerings; distribute your blessings equally; make sure that everything in need of invigoration gets what it requires.

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May 21-June 20:

This is a good time to go in search of any secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. I suggest you also try to track down the “missing links” that aren’t really missing but rather are neglected. My advice is similar for the supposedly “lost treasure” you’re wondering about. Clues about its whereabouts are lying around in full view for anyone who is innocent enough to see them. P.S.: Being uncomplicated isn’t normally your strong suit, but this is one of those rare times when you’ll have an aptitude for it.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

In the TV comedy series Arrested Development, Buster Bluth was an adult character who was a bit over-attached to his mother. It seemed to have to do with the fact that he lingered in her womb for 11 months before agreeing to be born. The obstetrician claimed “there were claw marks on her uterus.” I want to be sure you don’t make a comparable misstep in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It really is time for you to come out and play. Ready or not, leave your protective sanctuary and leap into the jangly, enchanting tumult.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

I have imaginary friends who help me. And, yes, they sometimes even give me ideas for your horoscopes. Are you OK with that? Among the many other perks my secret buddies provide, they show me where my cell phone and car keys are when I’ve misplaced them — a prime sign of their practical value. What’s your current status in regards to imaginary friends, Leo? Do you even have any? This would be an excellent time to seek them out and put them to work. In fact, I encourage you to do anything that might attract the input of undiscovered allies, behind-the-scenes collaborators, mysterious guidance and divine assistance.

VIRGO

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Might there be a message for you in the mist on the window? Can you find a clue to the next phase of your destiny by scanning a newspaper that the wind blows against your leg as you’re walking? Be alert for the undertones, Virgo. Tune in to the subtexts. Scan the peripheries for the future as it reveals itself a little early. You never know when the hidden world might be trying to slip you a tip. You should be alert for the deeper storylines weaving themselves just below the level where the supposedly main plot is unfolding.

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Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

A musician who records under the name of Shamantis took Justin Bieber’s silly pop tune “U Smile,” and slowed it down 800 percent. The new work was a 35-minute-long epic masterpiece of ambient electronica that The New York Times praised as “ghostly” and “oceanic.” More than 2 million people tuned in to hear it on the Internet. Might there be a comparable transformation in your future, Libra? From an astrological perspective, it’s prime time for you to transform a pedestrian exercise into a transcendent excursion or a trivial diversion into an elegant inspiration or a meaningless entertainment into a sublime learning opportunity.

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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

My favorite news source, The Onion, reported on a proposed law that would prohibit marriage between any two people who don’t actually love each other (Onion.com/ LoveLaw). Couples whose unions are rooted in mutual antipathy or indifference are of course protesting the plan, insisting that they have as much of a right to wed as those who care for each other deeply and treat each other tenderly. Whether or not this proposal becomes a formal part of the legal system, Sagittarius, I urge you to embrace it. In fact, I’ll go so far as to ask you not to do anything at all unless you are at least somewhat motivated by love. The coming months will be a time when your success will depend on your ability to rise to new heights of compassion, romance, eros, tenderness, empathy and affection.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Let’s imagine we’re 5th-century monks living in the land that today is known as the south of France. And let’s say we decide we’re going to build a chapel in a place that has long been a pagan shrine dedicated to the moon goddess Selene. Shouldn’t we consider the possibility that our new house of worship may be imbued with the vibes of the previous sanctuary? Won’t our own spiritual aspirations be colored by those of the people who for hundreds of years poured forth their devotions? Now shift your attention to the present day, and apply our little thought experiment to what’s going on in your life. Tune in to the influences that may be conditioning the new thing you’d like to create.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

I would like to steal your angst, Aquarius. I fantasize about sneaking into your room tonight, plucking your nightmares right out of the heavy air and spiriting them away. I imagine sidling up to you on a crowded street and pickpocketing your bitterness and frustration — maybe even pilfering your doubts, too. I wouldn’t keep any of these ill-gotten goods for myself, of course. I wouldn’t try to profit from them in any way. Instead, I would donate them to the yawning abyss, offer them up to the stormy ocean or feed them to a bonfire on a primal beach. P.S.: Even though I can’t personally accomplish these things, there is now a force loose in your life that can. Are you willing to be robbed of things you don’t need?

PISCES

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In 2011, I bet that memory won’t play as big a role in your life as it has up until now. I don’t mean to say that you will neglect or forget about the past. Rather, I expect that you will be less hemmed in by the consequences of what happened way back when. You’ll be able to work around and maybe even transcend the limitations that the old days and the old ways used to impose on you. Your free will? It will be freer than maybe it has ever been. Your creative powers will override the inertia of how things have always been done.

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