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Dyer was right on
While making fun of Joel Dyer’s piece on fracking (“Can you hear us now?” DyerTimes, Dec. 6), Charlie Danaher offered zero data to refute Dyer’s predictions or rhetoric. I’m inclined to go with Dyer’s carefully researched points and dismiss Danaher’s dismissal. If you think fracking is safe, prove it before drilling another well anywhere. Even if it’s perfectly safe,
the
Highroad
fracking permanently takes millions of gallons of water per well out of the cycle in a drought, and releases tons of carbon and methane into the atmosphere in an accelerating climate change nightmare. Natural gas is really cheap right now. Why don’t we leave it where it is until prices are better, water is more plentiful, and carbon in the atmosphere is under 350 PPM. E. Scott MacInnis/Longmont
zens, insisting that the process is perfectly safe, doing no damage to people or the environment. Their assertion of purity was bolstered several months ago by an academic research report issued by the prestigious Energy Institute at the University of Texas. In a summary of the white papers that made up the report, lead researcher Charles Groat declared that the scientists found little or no evidence of damage to groundwater. So there you have it — an academic acquittal of fracking. Well, not quite. A watchdog group called Public Accountability Initiative popped up with the revelation that professor Groat held some $1.7 million worth of stock in a gas fracking corporation, served on its board, and was paid $400,000 by it as the report was being assembled. This forced UT to
A fracking surprise in Texas by Jim Hightower
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ow ironic: Fracking recently got fracked! This brutish technique for extracting natural gas from deep within the Earth, led by such profiteering giants as Exxon Mobil and Halliburton, has rapidly swept across America. Indeed, it has run right over local residents who’ve had their air and water polluted, their families sickened, and their own economic futures imperiled. As usual, the frackers pooh-poohed the concerns of these bothersome citi-
Thank you so much for this thoughtful article. What you outline is right on. We must fight this. Margi Ness/via Internet
My memories of Sandy Hook On Dec. 14, 1962, at 9:30 a.m., I was in my kindergarten class at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Like most days, we would have been having see LETTERS Page 7
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announce that a three-member panel would investigate — a ploy that many critics feared would be a whitewash. No such luck for Groat, however. Using blunt terms like “distortion,” “inappropriately selective,” and “very poor judgment,” the panel excoriated the professor and the university, concluding that the hoked-up report should be withdrawn. The panel’s findings were, as the watchdog put it: a “damning critique.” So damning that UT has since withdrawn the report, Groat was compelled to retire, and the head of the Energy Institute has resigned. Now that’s a thorough frack job! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 27, 2012 5
danish plan
Repeal the Second Amendment? How about the First?
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ven before the massacre at twerps who perpetrated the crime, into Sandy Hook Elementary larger-than-life role models for latterSchool, there were calls for day delusional little twerps like James getting rid of the Second Holmes and Adam Lunza. Amendment, like the letter The way to prevent, or at least to the editor from Andrew J. O’Conner reduce, this self-perpetuating, everin the Boulder Camera a couple weeks growing wave of mass murder is obviago. ous: Censor the papers and the elecO’Conner didn’t raise any new tronic media and don’t let them give arguments for repealing the Second massacre stories the Columbine/ Amendment — he thinks it’s a danger- Aurora/Sandy Hook treatment. ous anachronism — but he at least If you call the mainstream media deserves points for candor. Outright on this sort of conduct, they will tell repeal of the Second Amendment has you that “they are only doing their job,” always been the ultimate objective of start mouthing pious bullshit about the gun control movement. “the people’s right to know” and the Repeal the Second Amendment, sanctity of the First Amendment. Yeah, sure. Tell that to the grieving parents huh? after the next school or church or mulWhy stop there? tiplex strafing. While we’re at Of course, the it, let’s get rid of the Defenders of the mainstream media’s Amendment that is First Amendment charming habit of the real source of producing infomerviolence in the would probably cials for mass murUnited States. argue that there’s a der is hardly the The First big difference only way the First Amendment. Amendment causes The First between words and violence, nor even Amendment is shot bullets — and they through with sothe most imporwould be right. called “freedoms” tant. In fact, in the whose irresponsible larger scheme of Words are much use causes violence, things it is relativemore dangerous. injury and death on ly minor. a scale that eclipses The First anything brought Amendment proabout by the Second tects hate speech. Amendment. Ever hear of a book called Mein Start with freedom of the press. Kampf? If you own a Kindle, you can Newspapers and TV news operabuy it on Amazon for the princely sum tions are directly complicit in massacres of $0.99. Ditto The Protocols of the like the one at Sandy Hook. Their Learned Elders of Zion. That’s the one complicity flows from the massive, that accuses the Jews of ritually killing unrelenting, hyperventilating, voyeuris- Christian children and using their tic coverage they give such stories. The blood to bake their Passover Matzos. coverage goes on and on and on — and These texts enabled World War II serves as the incubus that gives rise to and the Holocaust, and they are still dozens of equally deranged copycat readily available; they can be had for a assassins. single click. It is easier to get them Remember Columbine? The than, what’s the analogy we’re looking Denver papers and much of the nation- for here, ah, yes: It’s easier to get them al media didn’t just cover the story; than pulling the trigger on a gun. they wallowed in it. A year after the Thanks to the First Amendment. massacre they were still running frontThere are thousands of neo-Nazi, page stories about it — which collecneo-Communist, neo-Syndicalist, tively served to turn Eric Harris and see DANISH PLAN Page 9 Dylan Klebold, the delusional little 6 December 27, 2012
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cookies and milk about that time. Before the teacher lowered the shades for our nap, we could look across the playground at the woods beyond and dream of carefree afternoons to come exploring those woods. Even with all the excitement of Christmas coming, I was more excited than most because in two more days, I would be the very grown up age of 5! For the next 50 years, other children would eat milk and cookies as they begin going down the path that would be their life in one of the nicest places to start life in. On Dec. 14, 20 children lost their chance to grow up in Sandy Hook when their lives were ended by bullets. Unlike me, they will not get to win the kite flying contest with a homemade newspaper kite, play kickball on that playground, plant trees along the driveway, make science fair planets in the gym or learn to read the big wooden plaque with gold letters above the cafeteria entrance that had words from another life shortened by bullets. The plaque read, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Today is the day that you can do something for your country. You can ask President Obama and your representatives to renew the assault weapons ban — you can ask that mental health services be less expensive, more socially acceptable, and easier to get than a gun — and you can be a little nicer to every person you meet from this day forward. Paul Kolesnikoff, Sandy Hook Elementary School Alumnus/via Internet
Season’s greetings
I do not celebrate “holiday.” I celebrate Christmas! And Boulder is unrelenting in its quest to totally obliterate any mention of Christmas. Thus I do not shop or buy local. Why should I when I’m made to feel a pariah when I dare mention Christmas or greet someone “Merry Christmas?” Phyllis Pappu/Boulder
Judas Obama
Germany 1939 began with disarmament of the populace. What followed was genocide of the Jews! The signing of the U.N. agreement to take firearms from the people is an open invitation to foreign countries to take the United States over. It is simple, but those that put the President back into power are not seeing the forest for the trees! You hold out your hand and you are paid for doing nothing. On the other side he gives billions to CEO’s that have done nothing but give he and his spineless congress millions back! I wont tell you that the other man running was that good either, but for God sake people use your head and look at what has happened the last four years! It is not going to get better for anyone but the rest of the world. We have a leader and his name is Judas! Fall in line and go to slaughter. A government that has no fear of the population is a government to be feared. Telling it how I see it! Dave Graham Boulder Weekly
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WHAT THE PLUCK? You probably didn’t miss this if you were near the intersection of Broadway and Pearl in Boulder on Wednesday, Dec. 19. A representative from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was standing on the corner dressed as a half-plucked goose to raise awareness about how animals are abused in the creation of your down pillows and sleeping bags. Apparently, PETA says we need to be reminded of the “hideous suffering of birds who are often repeatedly — and painfully — plucked alive for their feathers.” We like how they refer to the birds as “who.” But the best part about the press release announcing this event was the link (bit.ly/ VPYGKy) to a video with actress Alicia Silverstone showing how millions of geese and ducks are plucked while they are still alive, which PETA describes as “a traumatic and painful experience.” In the video, Silverstone says birds are “violently plucked bloody for their feathers,” and clips of the plucking process show how the terrified birds are stripped of their feathers several times a year. It gets worse when she describes — and we see — how their resulting wounds are sown up. Let’s just say we decided not to share this with you until after your Christmas goose was cooked and consumed. DONATE TO FRACKING BAN DEFENSE On the heels of our suggestion last week that the anti-fracking group Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont (or Our Longmont for short) launch a national fundraising effort on the wings of a clever musical cartoon like the one that was done before the election, we got wind that a donation page has, in fact, been launched to collect money to help the city defend its voter-approved fracking ban against the oil and gas industry. A “donate” button has been added to the Our Longmont website, http://ourlongmont.org, and contributions will go toward a legal defense fund. The group is assembling its own legal team to act as interveners in the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s lawsuit against the city of Longmont and the ban that 60 percent of voters approved in the Nov. 6 election. “It is unconscionable that the oil and gas industry has decided to sue the people of Longmont to recklessly endanger our health, safety and property,” Michael Bellmont of Our Longmont said in a press release. Perennial rabble-rouser and Question 300 campaign manager Kaye Fissinger added, “We will not be bullied. We will not permit Gov. [ John] Hickenlooper, who has publicly stated he will support a lawsuit and the oil and gas industry, to put this dangerous, industrial activity next to our homes, schools and public parks.” MO’ MONEY Speaking of Frackenlooper, did you see where the state revenue forecast has improved by about $160 million for this year? Fiscal cliffs aside, it’s high time for the state to start investing in higher education again, after letting our own University of Colorado limp along, duct-taped together, for more than a decade. In a press release, the guv lists several areas that will benefit from the additional funding, and while “education” was included, we certainly hope that doesn’t just mean K-12. We also noticed a couple of other priorities on the list, like “economic development,” “public health” and “safety.” Economic development, as in oil and gas development? Public health and safety, as in the environmental concerns associated with fracking? It’s not too late, John. Do the wise thing. Be on the right side of history. Get off the industry’s lap and listen to your constituents. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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neo-Nihilist, neo-Anarchist and latter-day lunatic websites pumping out similar venom for the contemplation by malleable young minds like Adam Lunza’s. And the publishers and the webmasters glibly reply: “Freedom of the press, baby. Ever hear of the First Amendment?” And let’s not forget the entertainment side of the media. American popular entertainment is not merely shot through with the glorification of violence; it is defined by the glorification of violence. It has been that way for more than a century. One hundred years ago, parents anguished over pulp fiction. Then came violent movies, violent radio shows, violent comic books and violent television. And today it’s computer gaming, the maraschino cherry on the poison sundae. Hey, you don’t suppose all that “entertainment” helps shape the world view of weird little kids like Adam Lunza or James Holmes or Jared Loughner, do you? Nah, of course not. It’s just good, clean fun. Those kids are perfectly harmless until they get their hands on a gun. Well, where do you think they got their ideas about what you ought to do with a gun? From the NRA, which spends millions on teaching gun safety, or from liberals in the entertainment industry? Speaking of violence caused by the First Amendment, let’s not forget speaking. No, not public oratory, which has produced more than its fair share of riots and lynchings. I am thinking of the casual utterances of ordinary people. How many bar fights are preceded by bar arguments that spin out of control? How many cases of domestic violence are preceded by domestic arguments? How much racism, sexism and homophobia, starts with hate speech? Almost all of it, and what’s more, everyone knows it. Want to stop all that shit? Repeal the First Amendment, which will allow society to intervene before the words turn into the crime. Defenders of the First Amendment would probably argue that there’s a big difference between words and bullets — and they would be right. Words are much more dangerous. The aphorism we all learn in kindergarten — sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me — is a lie. Words cause actions. That’s why we speak them. Words are more dangerous Boulder Weekly
than guns, because words are what cause the guns to speak. So is there any argument that can be made for not repealing the Dangerous Amendments? I can think of one. Like the Second Amendment, and most other Amendments in the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment is in the Constitution because it protects individual freedoms. Freedoms empower people, and like
most things that empower people, freedoms are inherently dangerous. Words, and guns, are both protected by the Constitution, not despite the fact that they are dangerous, but because they are dangerous. The fact that they are dangerous is what makes them powerful and empowering — and what makes the people who have access to them free. Progressives who want to repeal or emasculate the Second Amendment in
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Clockwise from left, the members of the Our Longmont steering committee include Marilyn Belchinsky, Michael Bellmont, Judith Blackburn, Jean Ditslear and Kaye Fissinger (with the bullhorn).
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ichael Bellmont, the chief spokesperson for the group that succeeded in convincing a majority of Longmont voters to approve a ban on fracking in the city, is playing a harmonica under his cowboy hat. And he wants to go get his guitar before the photo shoot begins. Bellmont is one of dozens of activists who have shown up to have their picture taken on a recent chilly December morning at a local snow-covered playground, in honor of being chosen as Boulder Weekly’s Person of the Year. Or, in this case, People of the Year. After all, it was strength in numbers that made it possible for the group calling itself “Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont” to overcome a $440,000 campaign launched by oil and gas companies in an effort to defeat the charter amendment banning hydraulic fracturing within city limits. More than any other single group or individual, “Our Longmont” had a transformative effect on the discussion of perhaps the most important issue of the year facing Boulder County, hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it is commonly known. It is historically conservative, rural, Republican Longmont — not its liberal brother Boulder this time — that the county, state and even nation has to thank for its leadership on this important environmental issue. After getting his guitar, Bellmont starts singing a tune he composed, which opens with the line, “We’ll have no friggin’ fracking in this town.” He and the other volunteers who had the moxie to take on the energy industry and the pro-fracking governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, disperse reluctantly after the photo shoot, lingering to chat about the issues of the day and reflect on their accomplishments. Afterwards, the members of the Our Longmont steering committee gather at Bellmont’s Prospect neighborhood office, which they fondly refer to as “the war room,” a place they gathered often to 10 December 27, 2012
director, who began mobilizing his organization’s resources. And Fissinger says she began alerting her network of contacts about the threat. Momentum began building with meetings featuring Phil Doe, environmental issues director for Be the Change, and Environmental Protection Agency whistleblower Wes Wilson. In November 2011, the Longmont City Council got an earful about the TOP plans during a public comment session. In part due to the outcry, the company ended up signing a pact with the city in which it agreed to several operating conditions addressing environmental, health and safety concerns. “We had to stop that train in its tracks, or we would be fracked already,” Fissinger says.
strategize. Question 300 campaign manager Kaye Fissinger says the roots of Our Longmont stretch back a year and a half to American Tradition Partnership (ATP), a right-wing group formerly represented by current Secretary of State Scott Gessler that sued the city of Longmont over its campaign disclosure requirements and helped bankroll what some called a “push poll” and smear tactics against a left-leaning city council member in 2009. In a similar maneuver, ATP was conducting a telephone poll in the summer of 2011, Fissinger says, and among the questions was whether oil and gas drilling should be allowed on Longmont open space. It raised red flags for Fissinger, who at the time was serving as chair of the city’s Board of Environmental Affairs. Not long after, TOP Operating made headlines for its plans to drill near Union Reservoir, a proposal that Fissinger and her board scrutinized closely. Local activist Padma Wick sent a Boulder Weekly article about fracking and the Union Reservoir plan to Sam Schabacker, Food & Water Watch’s mountain west
**** Judith Blackburn, another member of the Our Longmont steering committee, says she originally heard about fracking from friends in New York, “and they said it’s going to happen in your part of Colorado, so stay alert.” Committee member Jean Ditslear first spoke to city council about the issue in December 2011 after being inspired by anti-fracking testimony offered to municipal leaders from neighbor Chris Porzuczek, who lived next to a Union Reservoir parcel targeted for drilling. Marilyn Belchinsky, another steering committee member, as well as musical spokesperson Bellmont, say they were inspired to get involved by another activist, Joe Bassman. “When I learned about it, I felt angry that the corporations would have more power than the citizens of the city,” Belchinsky says. It was Bassman who urged Bellmont to play one of his original anti-fracking songs at a community organizers’ meeting, saying, “Every movement has to have music!” But the group, initially named Longmont ROAR Boulder Weekly
news (Responsible Oil and Gas Regulation) was splintered between those who thought the problem could be controlled through government regulation and those who believed only a voterinitiated ban was the solution. Blackburn says the coalition struggled a bit on decision-making and its governance structure, but it coalesced. Eventually, after extensive discussion and negotiation shepherded in part by Schabacker, the group gained consensus on the view that government officials could not be trusted to enact sufficient regulations and a citizen-driven ballot measure was needed. Fissinger says that viewpoint was only reinforced when city council approved oil and gas regulations that were watered down in the face of the threat of a lawsuit from the Hickenlooper administration. And despite the watering down, she notes, the state is still suing the city over those regulations. Schabacker says the only reason city council narrowly approved those new rules was that they “saw that the citizens were leaving, and they could either get on the bus or be left in the dust.” Similarly, the industry-funded Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) is suing the city over the voter-approved ban, which appeared on the ballot as Question 300. But Our Longmont steering committee members are proud of their efforts and remain confident that the decision will stand up in court. They are putting together their own legal team to file as interveners in the case. They attribute their successful effort to educate the citizens and get out the vote to hard work — and a quality reflected in the name of the street on which Bellmont’s office lies: Tenacity Drive. Fissinger notes that an early iteration of the grassroots group began meeting in the Longmont Public Library, which she says was a symbol of the research they were undertaking, then moved to the Longmont Safety and Justice Center, a name that speaks to the ultimate goal of protecting the health and future of local families. When the group moved to an office on Tenacity, she says, it was only fitting.
“There were a lot of heated discussions in this room,” Schabacker says. When the focus of the group shifted from regulation to an outright ban, organizers filed for official nonprofit status under the new “Our Longmont” name, and one of the group’s biggest challenges was gathering 5,700 signatures within the six-week period required to get the measure on the ballot. More than 100 volunteers helped collect 8,200 signatures in the high heat of a fire-ravaged Colorado summer, an effort that Belchinsky contributed to — but she credits petition facilitator Joan Peck. Indeed, it seems to have been a group effort. Ditslear, a graphic designer, was responsible for the printed materials and website. Belchinsky spearheaded much of the volunteer organizing with her people skills. Schabacker, among other things, brought the weight of the Food and Water Watch legal team, and the group keyed in on messages that would resonate with voters. How did they overcome being outspent more than 17 to 1? “We have a relationship with this community,” Bellmont says. Belchinsky adds, “We had nothing to gain but our health and well-being.” Ditslear notes that getting a knock or flier on your door from one of your neighbors is different than getting solicited by young workers who are unloaded into neighborhoods in vans and are paid by the oil and gas industry. The committee estimates it distributed more than 12,000 pieces of literature, knocked on about 8,000 doors and made around 5,000 phone calls. The effort was David versus Goliath, considering the local activists were up against an industryfunded effort of full-page newspaper ads, television spots and glossy mailers featuring seven former Republican mayors who came out against the ban. Belchinsky calls the latter “a joke,” adding, “That was history, and we were thinking of the future.”
“We knew that if we could succeed, other communities could stand a chance too.” —Marilyn Belchinsky
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No one seemed willing to claim responsibility for the catchy musical YouTube video spoofing the seven mayors’ ad campaign (http://bit. ly/7mayors). And despite the group’s victory in November, the committee is not going overboard in celebrating the situation, especially given the fact that the city now has to shell out money to defend the voter-approved charter amendment
against the COGA lawsuit. “It’s a horrible position to be in,” Ditslear says, referring to the need to defend oneself against health threats and “to be told by your own state and governor you have no rights.” Belchinsky says people from nearby cities volunteered as well. “We knew that if we could succeed, other communities could stand a chance too,” she explains.
“There will be other communities that follow in Longmont’s footsteps in the next year or so,” Schabacker says. “The question is, where, and how many.” Ultimately, Fissinger explains, the effort wasn’t about the activists involved. She says, “it’s about our children, and grandchildren, and it’s a legacy we want to leave for them.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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n Earth Day in 1970, a group of dedicated students on the University of Colorado Boulder campus did something unprecedented. They created the first-ever student-facilitated and -organized environmental center. In years following, CU-Boulder students would continue to make history by creating and demanding more sustainable actions from their university. In 1973, they would be the first to create a comprehensive recycling program. In 1991, students would vote to have the first university-wide, mandated bus pass. In 2000, students would, again, vote to use student fees to purchase renewable energy credits to offset carbonintensive energy sources with wind power. And, in 2008, CU became the first major athletic program to implement a zero-waste goal in a NCCA Division I sports stadium. Other concerned students enrolled in institutions of higher education caught the CU sustainable fever and have since convened in numbers to ask their schools to make more sustainable choices and implement programs to improve environmental literacy
and behaviors. “The reason we [the staff of CU-Boulder’s Environmental Center] commit ourselves to student leadership is because of their innovation and willingness to think big,” says Sarah Dawn Haynes, programs assistant at CU-Boulder’s now studentKristen Nowakowski and staff-facilitated arranges water Environmental Center. “They bottles during a campus recydon’t know the rules yet, so cling campaign. they really do think outside of the box.” Most recently, student members of CU’s Boulder and Denver campuses have joined the efforts of students on more than 180 campuses nationally to engage in a divestment campaign that asks their schools to discontinue their endowments of fossil fuel companies. The effort was inspired by a Fossil Free campaign promoted by 350.org, a climate action group founded by Bill McKibben, who spoke
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An investigation into a fracking fluid leak near Calgary, in Canada, has confirmed groundwater contamination. On Sept. 22, 2011, Crew Energy Inc. workers “inadvertently perforated above the base of groundwater protection” and proceeded with hydraulic fracturing operations using 130 cubic meters of gelled propane as carrier fluid and 20.07 tons of sand before realizing the fracturing was too shallow, according to a report by Canada’s Energy Resources Conservation Board. The well was flowed back to recover as much of the propane and fracking fluid as possible and two groundwater monitoring wells were installed 50 meters northeast of the drill site. Combustible gas at a level lower than the combustible limit was found in one of the wells. Almost a year later, on Sept. 20, the groundwater composition showed ongoing effects from fracking fluid. But because the
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NEW CANDIDATES FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST
The petition to include the prairie gray fox and plains spotted skunk contends that populations of those two species have declined by 90 percent to 100 percent in most of their ranges following a loss of the grassland and early successional habitat both species require for cover or foraging. These two have been selected as “the most charismatic and endangered examples” of species threatened in their grasslands habitat. The Grand Prairie DPS of the Eastern Cottontail is also included in the petition, which was submitted by a biology professor at Western Illinois University and a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Small Carnivore Conservation specialist group.
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After an initial review of a petition to protect the prairie gray fox and plains spotted skunk, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is undergoing ongoing studies to determine whether these species qualify for protection under the Endangered Species Act as endangered or threatened. Both subspecies are found in grasslands in the Midwest and Great Plains. Species currently listed on the endangered and threatened list for the region include the Canada lynx, gray bat, gray wolf, Indiana bat and Ozark big-eared bat.
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the institution that manages and asking that all food on campus comes invests university funds. from suppliers that provide a decent “The moral implications are clear,” living wage and safe working condiSimon Mostafa, a graduate student in tions for all employees, from farm to environmental engineering at CU, said delivery.” in a press release announcing the At Naropa, students can also find launch of the campaign. “We do not their way to a Garden Café, which want to profit from corporations offers food grown on campus by stuwhose practices are at odds with CU’s dents. principles of environmental and social “Food is something that is imporresponsibility.” tant to the whole campus,” says Ayries All these student-led initiatives Blanck, a senior at Naropa and the make it clear that students care a lot school’s student sustainability coordiabout sustainability, environmental and nator. “The individuals who are social responsibility, and are taking attracted to Naropa care about being significant actions more sustainable. that follow the We care about footsteps created eating local food by CU students and want to have more than 40 engage in enviundertaken a push years ago. ronmental issues.” to incorporate “Sustainability Naropa stuis a huge buzz dents also created sustainably grown and word on campus,” the Bike Shack, locally sourced food. says junior Matt which provides Ribarich, CU’s free bike rentals. director of sus“Students are tainability for stucoming together dent government. “And, it’s not only in a number of ways to promote susused by the environmental studies tainable living and sustainable food students anymore. It’s now being practices. It has been an amazing incorporated into most majors and experience to witness the passions disciplines. Students really care.” people have for local food,” says “I think that university campuses Brody. “CU Going Local is a student have long been a signal for the direcgroup that provides a resource for tion that a generation will lead the CU students to learn what it means country,” says Dan Omasta, who gradu- to grow food, and are able to apply ated from CU in 2011 with a political what they learn by partaking in the science degree and who served as the gardening process at our student gardirector of sustainability for student gov- dens located on the Hill.” ernment in his junior and senior years. Students are working to reduce “The power of students to provide waste on campus through increased guidelines for social and environmenrecycling and composting efforts, and tal change is tremendous.” Naropa and CU students have asked Among the issues students have that their schools set zero-waste goals. undertaken is a push to incorporate CU students are now also asking that sustainably grown and locally sourced the school adopt a policy that removes food at places on campus. all single-serving plastic bottles on At CU, a coalition of students campus, and the university has set a formed to work with Chancellor Phil goal to divert 90 percent of waste from DiStefano to create a Fair Food landfills by 2020, says Ribarich. Statement of Values, which “seeks to Students on Front Range Community College’s Boulder campus enhance the sustainability experience are also taking action to mitigate camof our students, faculty, staff and visipus waste. Although the school does tors by providing food that is healthy not yet have a recycling program, last for people and our planet.” spring, students created their own by “Right off, one of the biggest designating certain bins to be used only demands I see from students comes for recyclables. In just a semester, this from an environmental justice side of action increased recycling by 90 percent, this,” says Omasta. Omasta, who also says John Feeley, the school’s public helped create the university’s Fair Food relations director. Statement, started a consulting business Based on this student-initiated after graduation and is currently working behavior, the school is now currently in with the university’s Housing and consultation with Waste Management Dining Services to draft a sustainable to discuss recycling and composting dining plan. options on campus. “Students are really asking for fair Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com food,” continues Omasta. “They’re
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development — construction started in January 1962, and at 9 a.m. on Dec. 15, 1962, Vail Mountain opened with two chairlifts, the lodge and the gondola, all installed that summer, and eight ski trails. Lift tickets were $5 apiece. The money to start Vail was raised by selling limited partnerships that included the right to pick out a residential home site — but investors had to start construction within a year. Rod Slifer was living and teaching skiing in Aspen when his boss, Morrie Shepherd, who would become the first ski school director at Vail, moved to Vail. “He asked me if I’d like to come to Vail and, being single and having nothing to lose, I said, ‘Sure. Where is it?’ And in answer to that question, it wasn’t,” Slifer says. “I arrived here May 1 of that year and there was absolutely nothing here. It was previously a ranch and there was one house that was built the year before I arrived, and everything else we built that summer.” Vail was a rough and tumble kind of place at first, stumbling through a period of rocky finances, chaotic development and builders who struggled to construct structures that could last in the wet, muddy conditions — all without doing so much as a market study to see if anyone wanted what they were doing. “People came in and it was really a frontier town. There were no facilities of any kind except what was being built on the mountain, the lifts and so forth, and they were in the process of being built,” Brown says. Vail, in those first years, was “chaos, and to quote an old military expression, flying on a hope and a wing and a prayer.” People who built early condos were just building a place for themselves to stay. It wasn’t about real estate development. “The profit motive just wasn’t there, people just wanted to see and have a great time skiing and build a lifestyle in the resort, but it wasn’t an ambitious lifestyle. Those things happened later,” Brown says.
A year after Vail opened, Donovan and a business partner started the fifth business in town, a deli. “It was small but it was wonderful, a wonderful life. … The early years were so much fun. I mean we did whatever we wanted, there was no police,” Donovan says. There were baseball games played on skis, and farmers’ parties, hosted by ski patrol, that brought livestock into town, and a St. Patrick’s Day when snowcat drivers came down the run toward Vail Village spinning the cats and blowing green smoke out of their stacks. “There was no town, no nothing, just fun. It was a good life. And the skiing was wonderful, except the first year, like this year, was short on snow.” That first year, skiers took the gondola to Mid-Vail to meet the snow, then skied off the lifts from there on chairs four and five. The roads were so dry, in fact, Slifer drove his car to Mid-Vail in early December. “In hindsight, if it had snowed early and been a normal year, the construction and everything that was built probably could not have been completed,” says Slifer. Stepping up to do what needed to be done had Slifer doing a lot of touring investors around potential building sites — enough that he was encouraged to get his real estate license, and three years after Vail opened, he quit teaching skiing to work on developing real estate full time. Donovan was there before the covered bridge and the clock tower opened. And before the time that
Seibert called Southern Ute Indians to come perform a snow dance (two days later, they got almost two feet of snow). He was there during cloud-seeding operations that consisted of pouring table salt out of plane windows. He was there when the town was incorporated in 1966, and would become a member of the town council soon after. So why’d he come, and why’d he stay? “I liked it, how’s that?” Donovan says, settling in to a John Donovan corner table in the remodeled section of Vendetta’s, the bar that now occupies the space Donovan’s Copper Bar did for 16 years. It was his second business venture in Vail, bought in 1966. It joined three lodges and a ski shop. Donovan’s Copper Bar had one of few liquor licenses in town, and for years, the only beer on tap at the bar was Budweiser. The 19 refrigerated keg holders were restocked two or three times a week, and on St. Patrick’s Day one year, he says, he went through 35 kegs of beer. It was busy from when the lifts closed at 4 p.m., often crowded with ski patrol and ski instructors, until about 7 p.m., and closed by 9 p.m. Every Sunday night there was a party at the bar, he says, and everyone came. “We’d go somewhere and have a little get-together, and I mean everyone,” he says. “It was very friendly, one little family.” When he announced he was getting married, it was at a ski patrol end-of-the-year party at his bar. And when he and his wife Diana had their wedding in 1967, he put an invitation in the Eagle paper and invited everyone in the county — and most of them showed up, he says — people on horseback, sheep herders and ranchers alike. After a ceremony in Minturn, they held a reception at Manor Vail — it was the only place large enough for the crowd of a couple thousand people. see VAIL VALLEY Page 20
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Asked why host a party for the entire county, he says, “I knew everyone,” and laughs. “I don’t know. I figured, why not? What the hell?” Because the people who came to Vail stayed, and a core group of people committed to Vail, it grew into a town just a few years after the resort opened, founding a library, a hospital. “Every big investor that came in and bought Vail all loved the place, and it was not so much a money-maker as a dream for them,” Brown says. When Westin resort, now Vail Cascade, the only ski-in, ski-out resort in Vail, opened in 1982, Denver resident Paul Esserman booked a room for opening weekend to celebrate his 40th birthday. He’s been coming back every year since, booking the same room for most of the winter season. The hotel stores a box of his family photos and personal items to decorate his room with before he arrives. Before former President Gerald Ford became president in 1974, he had a house in Vail, and he helped draw attention to what a growing number of skiers knew — that you could ski Vail and ski some of the best terrain in the world under sunny blue skies and without having to fly to Europe. After Ford became president, Donovan would get calls from the Secret Service. “They’d say, ‘Would you mind if the president came in?’ and I’d say, ‘No, I wouldn’t mind at all,’” Donovan says. “He’d be talking with me and there’d be a few people in the bar and they’d look down and they’d almost fall off the stool
to see the president of the United States sitting down there having a beer. He was wonderful. And he was such a wonderful person, a wonderful person and a damn good skier.” So were the Kennedys, he says — they were just nice people from Washington who put their kids in ski school along with the rest of the children around. What Ford put on the map, I-70 had made accessible. When the Colorado Highway Department was planning the interstate, Seibert’s friend, Jack Tweedy, campaigned to get I-70 routed through Vail, instead of going through Steamboat Springs, Brown says. Then Bob Parker, another major player in Vail’s early years, fought to keep the highway out of the Gore Range wilderness areas, touring highway engineers through Red Mountain Canyon and showing them 40 avalanche tracks as evidence that routing a highway there would be a bad idea. “So the highway was put over Vail pass, and it’s 15 minutes longer than it would be otherwise,” Brown says. “It changed everything, it’s one of three major highways in the world and a lot of traffic goes through there.” Ask Donovan about the changes, and he talks about the mountain — the additions that have made a big difference in the acreage and terrain available, like China Bowl, which opened in December 1988 and Blue Sky Basin, which opened in 2001. And yes, OK, there have been changes since the ski area was purchased by the Boulder Weekly
Vail corporation, and the frontier spirit that characterized those early trailblazers — the perpetual optimism that an upstart resort in Colorado could succeed, the commitment to skiing that would have you doing it in lace-up boots that froze to a tangle over the course of the day. “Vail, starting in 1962, and I always say the stars were aligned,” Slifer says. “To think about trying to do it today, you couldn’t do it.” The environmental reviews and the tiers of approval and opposition to building a new ski area Vail Resorts would put an end to a project like Vail now, he says. “I think it’s great, to go from nothing to a, first of all, a great ski mountain and now really a great yearround resort because our summers are terrific, you know, with a lot of music and culture and all the things you do in the summer, hiking, biking, fishing, all those things. And it’s become not just a resort but a community.” Yes, Vail is an international skiing destination, and your time in the chairlift maze could be peppered with snippets of conversations in a barrage of languages. But you could also find yourself sharing a gondola with someone who has memorized the trail map and knows where to duck the long lift lines and what runs are likely to be wide open. Donovan, who taught in the ski school for a while and worked on the trail crew, earning two lift tickets, a $10 value, for spending hours side-stepping runs to pack the trails down, still works on the mountain, now leading “Meet the Mountain” tours, a guided ski tour that familiarizes newcomers to the terrain. “When I take off with these people, and we ski three and a half hours, they better be able to ski damn good or they’re going to be gone, because we’re going to go fast. And we’re going to go on slopes where no people are, and we’re going to go fast for me, which is fast for them,” Donovan says. “If I can’t out-ski them, I have to able to at least outlast them.” Though powder days still hold their temptations, he says, it’s not really about the skiing at this point. “There’s nothing in skiing that excites me anymore. It excites me being with good people and talking to people, people who’ve never been here, people who are amazed at the skiing we have Boulder Weekly
here,” says Donovan, who is now 76 years old. “Vail has 65,000 acres of skiing. That’s bigger than everything else on the Western Slope put together.” When Brown was doing interviews for his book Requiem for the West: A Collection of Stories, Essays and Photographs from Forty Years of Living in the Rocky Mountains, he interviewed Eaton. “He said to me, ‘When we built Vail, we weren’t worried about it getting too big because the valley was so narrow.’ Then he kind of smiled and said, ‘But we weren’t thinking about how long it was.’ You can’t maintain a tiny private ski resort on Forest Service land on I-70, it would be a political impossibility, so they had to grow.” In five decades in Vail, Donovan also started a garbage collection business his son now runs, and served on the Vail Town Council for 14 years, where he instituted a program to use a real estate transfer tax to fund open space, creating the capital to build the Gerald Ford outdoor amphitheater; co-founded the Eagle River Scholarship Fund; and started an annual town clean-up day. The park named in his honor, the John. F. Donovan Park and Pavilion, was completed in late August of 2003. He also bought his own chunks of land in the area, first owning a portion of what eventually became Arrowhead Ski Area, and now a 400-acre ranch up Squaw Creek near Edwards. He and his wife, Diana, live there in the summer months. In the winter, he drives up each morning, tosses six bales of hay into his tractor and drives out to feed his 31 Scottish Highland cattle, four mules and five horses. For Vail’s 50th anniversary, celebrated the weekend of Dec. 15, he went to parties (nothing that required getting more gussied up than his ski sweater, though) and a screening of Brown’s film on Vail’s 50th anniversary, which will also screen on PBS on Jan. 3, and enjoyed a minireunion with a lot of those original personalities who are still around town, like Brown, Slifer and Seibert’s son, Pete Seibert Jr. “This comes around every 50 years,” Donovan says. “I don’t know if you’re going to be around for the next 50. I plan on being here.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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he state of original music in this country is wonderful. It could be argued that, although corporate-owned mainstream radio has eschewed what’s clearly good, honest music, for what will sell (and what’s released by labels owned by the aforementioned corporations), we are currently able to enjoy more great original music than ever before. It’s just a little harder to find it. Which brings me to an apology. I’m sorry for kicking off my fifth annual “Best Albums of the Year” column for Boulder Weekly with a complaint, but “12-12-12,” aka Concert for Sandy, really got my blood boiling. Sure, a benefit concert of any kind is good news. But I’d love to know why the organizers of “12-12-12” chose to stage a concert in New York City, centered around raising awareness and money for the effects of a hurricane that hit New York and New Jersey, with not one band from New York or one formed in the last 20 years. Heck, most of the acts were 22 December 27, 2012
sexagenarian Englishmen. Point is: Respect the old, but at least give the new a chance. And don’t look at video of 68-year-old Roger Daltrey singing shirtless at “12-12-12,” making us all feel like we’d just accidentally walked in on our grandfathers showering. I hear a lot of people, young and old, lamenting rather than listening. Saying “There’s no great music anymore. It’s all been done.” Bullshit. There is something exciting for every kind of ear. So for the fifth year in a row, I’ve done a lot of research for the lazy kind of ear that complains but doesn’t seek. Here, in no particular order, are 10 remarkable new albums from 2012 worth digging into.
Tame Impala/Lonerism (Modular Recordings) Like many, I came upon Tame Impala this fall after seeing many notable music rags mentioning the psychedelic rockers’ Lonerism with enthusiasm. Tracks like “Music to Walk Home By” feature the sort of stoner-centric, reverbed-out vocals,
guitars and drums that The Verve made famous on A Storm in Heaven, with added funky beats, ELO-style keyboard solos and soaring Magical Mystery Tourinfluenced psychedelic indulgence. A more apropos LP title might be Music to Float Home By.
Sera Cahoone/Deer Creek Canyon (Sub Pop) Sub Pop is annually enthralled by the love they get on this list. Some might be tired of it, but don’t blame me. Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Helio Sequence, Mogwai, Death Vessel, Beach House, Boulder Weekly
Blitzen Trapper, Fruit Bats, etc.: Sub Pop has, in my opinion, music’s most impressive current lineup of original talent. That includes Sera Cahoone, the earnest, melancholy and hopeful 37-year-old singer-songwriter who was raised in Littleton and formerly drummed for Band of Horses. Cahoone beautifully juxtaposes the emerald tenderness of Washington with Americana that’d make the Carter family proud. NPR said it best: “Channeling Patsy Cline by way of Neko Case.” Deer Creek Canyon, Cahoone’s third LP, swirls with bluegrass, country, blues and indie-rock, and is her best yet.
Frank Ocean/Channel Orange (Def Jam) Here’s how white I am: My introduction to the immensely talented 25-year-old R&B sensation Frank Ocean was a profile in The New Yorker. Getting back to “12-12-12,” Ocean is the antithesis of the embarrassingly selfconscious and inappropriate Kanye West performance that night. Ocean, a Muslim, isn’t necessarily doing conscious hip-hop, though — rather, an almost shockingly honest and original form of R&B. And not just because, in my memory, Ocean’s the only openly gay black male music star. Ocean is deadpan funny (“Got a beach house I can sell you in Idaho”), cutting (the freaks ain’t trying to sleep with crackie”) and courageous (who else writes a straight-faced love song to Forrest Gump?). Here’s hoping his openness, and sheer musicality, reaches millions of young ears for years to come.
Godspeed You Black Emperor!/ ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (Constellation) Canada’s instrumental post-rock legends Godspeed You Black Emperor! blew me away with the frightening and profound 20-minute masterpiece “Mladic,” but there’s clearly no way to fit it neatly on the mix CD I always distribute to friends in conjunction with this column. It’s hard to even fit a GYBE! track into your day. The influential experimental group’s slowburning noise-symphonies are unique experiences that shock listeners out of quotidian experience into thoughtful terror. And unlike the stereotypical post-rock bands formed in its wake, GYBE!’s music is an unpredictable, poignant, brilliant journey, not a build-and-release blueprint.
First Aid Kit/The Lion’s Roar (Redeye) Amid the increasingly commercial Americana phenomenon, sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg Boulder Weekly
(22 and 19) have come from Sweden to teach us the sound of our own roots. Made famous and beloved as high-schoolers a few years ago with a viral YouTube video of the duo, now known as First Aid Kit, performing a Fleet Foxes tune in the woods, the Soderbergs hit No. 65 in the U.S. (No. 1 in Sweden) this year with The Lion’s Roar. Its woodsy purity is a more fleshed-out, accessible version of Vermont’s Mountain Man. Yet tracks like “Emmylou” are so true to country music — and somehow still sparkling with brash, youthful indie originality — that First Aid Kit often makes groups like Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers sound like how the emperor looked in his new clothes.
Heartless Bastards/Arrow (Partisan) It really is heartening how women currently lead the way in rock ’n’ roll, and Heartless Bastards frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom surely leads the leaders, going so far as to command us on the group’s uncompromising new Sabbath-meetsPretenders fourth LP, Arrow, “You gotta have rock and roll.” Though the quartet secured a record deal after a recommendation from fellow Ohioans the Black Keys and its past two albums have been produced by Spoon drummer Jim Eno, Heartless Bastards’ guitar-driven rock seemingly becomes more dirty and less mainstream with every release. Wennerstrom’s songs detail personal change, honesty, home and needing “a little bit of whiskey and a little bit of time to ease my troubled mind,” but she’s no Jewel. Les Paul in hand, Wennerstrom is the brave, steely-voiced fem-Lemmy of soulful, female-fronted garage rock, and she keeps getting stronger.
Andrew Bird/Break Yourself (Mom + Pop) “You will need somebody when you come to die,” Andrew Bird sang this year. The sound of his violin would be just fine. Known as much for his voice and violin as his master whistling, Bird, nearing 40, has clearly experienced a musical rebirth since 2009’s Noble Beast & Useless Creatures. The former showcased Blonde on Blonde-esque wordplay and shimmering indie-folk, while the latter confidently and creatively showcased Bird’s instrumental virtuosity. This year, Bird released the familiar-butdifferent LP Break Yourself, which hit No. 10 in
the U.S. by carving dreamy song-worlds of love and curiosity out of encyclopedic word-play and awe-inspiring (yet tasteful) musicianship, and the dusty, old-timey Hands of Glory, the most stripped-down album of Bird’s career. The latter, thick with blues, folk, country and gospel influence, is a musical time machine. The highlight of both is Bird’s sweet version of Townes Van Zandt’s 1981 classic “If I Needed You,” which, courtesy of Bird’s voice and violin, now sounds more like a 1931 classic.
Poor Moon/Poor Moon (Sub Pop) Seattle’s Poor Moon is mostly the brainchild of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Christian Wargo, whose bass guitar and enchanting harmonies aptly back up young Robin Pecknold in Fleet Foxes. My daughter, then 2 years old, stayed out late the evening of Oct. 7 to attend her first big rock show, when Poor Moon, her first bona fide musical crush, played the Boulder Theater. It’s understandable, as the xylophone-happy group is a more playful, irreverent take on the chamber-folk fad. Kid-friendly but deceptively dark (the “devil in my soul” lyrics; the “Holiday” video featuring Tom Skerrit blissfully popping pills in a mental institution), Poor Moon is a chance for Wargo, and listeners, to shake off the seriousness of indie music and feel comforted, at first, with trippy late’60s banality. Until repeated listens reveal a twisted gloom, you’re too hypnotized to contest.
Beach House/Bloom (Sub Pop) Whereas Heartless Bastards, also female-fronted, stress the garage-rock simplicity of fuzzed-out vintage guitars and acoustic drums, Beach House (led by French-born Victoria Legrand’s wise, elegant voice) is two hipsters, one guitar and a slew of technology. Guitarist Alex Scally’s sweeps of sound are reminiscent of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, with a more calming nod to the Velvet Underground’s most lush ’60s material and the European movement it spawned. Legrand, as always, could be singing anything and the resulting feeling would be akin to walking home through a 3 a.m. mist down San Francisco’s Mission Street. A more coherent update of the Cocteau Twins’ best, Bloom, as Legrand sings, is “deeper than you and me”: Heavenly headphone rock made for uncontrollable head-bopping and self-reflecting. It’s “momentary bliss,” but so is life. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com December 27, 2012 23
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s this the loss of creativity we can expect when the dope heads get their way? Not many bands that come through Boulder are able to cull a playlist from a catalog that has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide. Yet this is what will happen when the Wailers come to town for their nearly annual pilgrimage Dec. 28 at the Fox Theatre. Most people know the Wailers through the iconic voice of Bob Marley, who rose to fame through a combination of cutting-edge reggae and social consciousness to become a legend of the genre. From 1970 until his death from cancer in
this material, you really learn how to craft a great song, arrangement-wise, melody-wise; I think we’ve gleaned a lot of that knowledge and are applying that to our own material.” We suspect, with the splitsecond proliferation of live recordings that Motet and most franchises working the groove circuit can publish through social media, many of the band’s fans probably haven’t even noticed that it has been a long time since the group actually cut a CD. So it made us wonder and ask Watts, who is hosting recording sessions at his home studio — is making CDs even a big deal anymore? “Heh,” Watts laughs, collecting his thoughts, “in some ways it’s a bigger deal, because you can do it all yourself, so now you have endless options and you really have to try hard to know when to stop. Before, it was like, OK, we go into the studio. We’re going to play the band, we’re going to have an engineer mix it, and I’ll spend time with the engineer, and I only have so much money, and when it runs out, it runs out. Now it’s like, I can do it all at home. “I mean, it’s really a blessing and a curse.” This time around, the group is performing funk covers of classic songs. After the Fox run of Sunday and Monday night shows, the Motet kicks off the new year by drifting their way into the Bermuda Triangle aboard Jam Cruise 11, throwing up a set or two and rubbing elbows with the likes of Karl Denson, MSMW, Big Gigantic, Galactic and Mike Dillon, who just brought his band through Boulder a few weeks ago and with whom Motet shares a pre-cruise bill in Boca on Jan. 5. Nothing like savoring the benefits of clean livin’. “I dunno what it is, but I’ll take it,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
1981, Marley was backed in part by the Barrett brothers, Carlton “Carly” Barrett and Aston “Family Man” Barrett. With Carly on drums and the Family Man providing the bass lines, the Wailers became international sensations with albums like Catch a Fire, Natty Dread and Exodus. Songs like “Stir It Up,” “Lively Up Yourself ” and “Waiting In Vain.” Since Marley’s death and the subsequent death of brother Carly in 1987, Family Man has carried on his version of the Wailers. Despite a cast of performers that has turned over a few times through see WAILERS Page 25
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the years, Barrett too. … I am has been the rewarded [that] we ON THE BILL: The Wailers play anchor of a band are so greatly the Fox Theatre on Dec. 28. Doors that will be showreceived.” open for the all ages show at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $26 in advance, n casing a medley of The Wailers $28 day of show, plus $2 for being hits and messagetravel with a full under 21. laden melodies. As band, background part of their Fox singers and a keyshow, the Wailers boardist, Keith will be performing Survival, their Sterling, who fills in any musical gaps. openly militant 1979 album. Yet it is the presence of the venerable Carrying on the legacy of Bob Barrett who keeps the unit authentic to Marley is an impossible task. Since the roots while allowing for the explo2010 Koolant Brown has been bringing ration of individual talents. Despite the his own interpretations to the songs as gruff exterior, the Family Man has held lead singer of the Wailers, careful not his charges together longer than many to stray too far from what made the clans do. songs such cultural touchstones to “He’s a legend,” Brown says of the begin with. band leader. “One thing for sure, when “I’m like a carrier. I keep on keeping Aston Barrett teach you something, he’s on keeping it alive,” Brown says of con- not rough or hard. You learn from him. tinuing the Wailers’ march into history. He’s a wonderful bass player and a “These songs are reality, and it’s a good man that people must look up to responsibility of me as a younger singer for his bass lines. This experience to make it ring in the people’s ears.” [teaches] me to be a greater musician Despite this responsibility, Brown myself and to be a greater writer and sees audiences young and old who have greater performer.” embraced the world music that has The Wailers have also been made Jamaica famous. The vibes of involved in the World Food reggae seem to be timeless, and never Programme, recording a song for a have calls for social justice been so elefundraising album from which proceeds gantly packaged along with sounds that go to helping combat hunger. seem to automatically uplift mood. It seems a natural fit for a band On the diverse crowds who come striving to make change for more than out for the experience, Bob Marley was four decades. “a Rasta man who [wasn’t] afraid of “It’s for a worthy cause,” Brown speaking the truth, and people want to says. “I myself believe that the chilhear the truth. Generations accept this dren are the future. If we can make music with open eyes because it’s a sure that the children are fed and message that they gravitate to, and the have a proper education and can be sound of the rhythm gives them a joy hopeful in society, then everything and lifts their spirits,” Brown says. will be right.” On the diverse crowds who show For the Wailers, there is no use up to hear the Wailers, Brown says it’s crying over previous losses. The only a “wonderful feeling to hear the audithing to do is get up, stand up and ence cheer for a song, to interact with continue bringing positive sounds to the audience, touching them and feelthe masses. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ing the vibe of what they are feeling Boulder Weekly
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The Motet — With Euforquestra. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Absinthe House New Year 2013 — International dance music with Ricard, Frisko, Space Ibiza and Hed Kandi. General admission is $15 and includes champagne toast and party favors. VIP admission is $35 and includes an open bar until midnight. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.
New Year’s Eve Celebratory & Seasonal Prix Fixe Dinner — Four-course menu for $85 per person, $120 with wine pairing. Reservations required. The Kitchen, 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303544-5973.
Boulder’s Dinner Theatre New Year’s Eve Show — Enjoy appetizers at your table, champagne for every two people and a dinner show seating for 42nd Street before ringing in the New Year by dancing on the stage until midnight. Tickets are priced $65 to $85. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.
New Year’s Eve Dance Party at the Avalon Ballroom — With American vernacular dance, music by the Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra and a dessert potluck. 8 p.m. to midnight. Champagne toast at 11 p.m. $32 per person cash or check at the door. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962.
Centro Latin Kitchen — A five-course dinner for $45, plus option to order the specialty cocktail, “The Resolution.” Call for reservations. 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771.
New Year’s Eve Dinner at the Greenbriar Inn — A six-course dinner with a champagne toast. Greenbriar Inn, 8735 Foothills Hwy., Boulder, 303-440-7979.
Millenium Rocks the Ages — Featuring Funkiphino, with dinner buffet, champagne toast, ball drop and party favors. $50/$90. 8 p.m. The Millennium Harvest House Boulder, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850.
New Year’s Eve Dinner. 5:30-7 p.m. Reservations required. Jill’s Restaurant, St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Gold Hill Inn New Year’s Celebration — Featuring Tommy and the Tangerines, with the Gasoline Lollipops. Doors at 7 p.m. with a light buffet from 7 to 10 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $29 and include food and music. ($2 service charge for phone orders.) Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-443-6461.
New Year’s Eve [Upstairs] — Seasonal winter cocktails and specials on oysters and champagne. 4:30 p.m. to close. The Kitchen [Upstairs], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0092.
The Goonies New Year’s Eve Concert. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Great Gatsby Gala — A ’20s style gala with music by Dressed in Black, featuring Mark Diamond on bass, and Quemando. Start the night with salsa dancing lessons, then move on to a buffet dinner of New York eats, followed by dancing. 8 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Honeycomb. 9 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Johnny O Band. 7 p.m. Blues and Greens at the Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Miracle + Wonder — New Year’s Eve at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Includes music, fortune telling, dancing, live art performance and painting. 9 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
New Year’s Eve Open Poetry Marathon. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
[Next Door] New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — Boulder’s Community Pub transforms into Boulder’s hottest dance party with DJ Jahsonic. Doors at 9 p.m. No cover, and no reservations required. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-542-8159. Polar Plunge 2012 — The 30th anniversary of the Polar Plunge. Best costumes get to jump in at the front of the line. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. Cost is $25. Registration opens at 10 a.m. The plunge starts at 12 p.m. New Year’s Day. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder. For more information, visit www.alz.org/co. Thrive in the Age of Aquarius — With the Dec. 21 solstice, many believe a new age of unity and consciousness begins and we move from the Piscean age into the age of Aquarius. Cross over with dance performances and music by Buddha Bomb, Orpheus, Sundragon and Mantra Matrix. Tickets $12 in advance, $17 at the door. 9 p.m. – 2 a.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Yonder Mountain String Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
ARVADA Muskateer Gripweed. 8 p.m. to midnight. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. BROOMFIELD The String Cheese Incident. 7:30 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. DENVER All Gold Everything NYE Soiree — With DJ KDJ, Ciroc cocktails, champagne toast and ball drop at midnight. $25 general admission, $35 VIP. 9 p.m. Bar Standard, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-5340222. Amon Tobin — With Eprom & Kastle. 8 p.m. City Hall, 1144 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628. Annual Erotic Poetry Festival — Accompanied by Bollywood Belly Dancers. Admission is $6. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. Best New Year’s Eve-r — Impulse Theater comedy show, dinner at Wynkoop Brewing Company, champagne and sparkling mead toast, live DJ in the pool hall. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. shows. Impulse Theater and Wynkoop Brewing. Impulse Theater, 1634 18th St., Denver, 303-297-2111. Birds of a Feather. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. The Black Angels — With Snake Rattle Rattle Snake and Chains of Love. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3771666. Brazilian New Year — With Ginga band, and flower offerings to the gods. $20. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. Champagne Hotel 4th Annual. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com. The Chick Sings Frank — A Tribute to Sinatra, starring Lannie Garrett, with the Justin Adams Trio. 8 p.m. $125 per person. Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 16th St. Mall, Denver, 303-293-0075.
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New Year’s Eve at Avalon Ballroom!
The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra!
CALENDAR from Page 29 Tavern NYE Olive Drop & Fireworks Celebration — With complimentary champagne toast and party favors. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Market St. and the Cowboy Lounge, 1941 Market St., Denver, www.tavernhg.com.
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Doors at 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2635 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Comedy Works Downtown Presents Ryan Sickler. Shows at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Twista — Live performance for New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078. The White Rose Gala — A Theatre de Marionette theme will take over the entire hotel. Featuring Kelli Said, DJ Ms. Vicious and Got Bass Cave with DJ Vinnie. Ten-story balloon drop, more than 40 performers, 10 DJs, a live band, human marionettes, five ballrooms. Elegant attire. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com.
Comedy Works DTC Presents Greg Warren. Shows at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800. Cracker — With The Yawpers. 9 p.m Soiled Dove, 7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001. Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party — With Nacho Men, Dueling Piano and a dance party. Party-only tickets are $139. Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.
Zoo Year’s Eve — Zoo Lights and a family dance party. 5:30-10 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.
Dot Lunch New Years Party — With Dotsero and Hotlunch. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Sherman Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-443-1000.
ENGLEWOOD
New Year’s Eve — With She Groovez, threecourse dinner. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. seatings. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, parade musical performance by Eric West at 11 a.m. and special countdown at noon. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
The Lumineers — With Shovels & Rope, Paper Bird. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
8 P.M. to Midnight Doors open 7:30 for DJ music $32 per person at the door
avd@columbine.net AmericanVernacularDance.com 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder 28 December 27, 2012
A Night in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — A Viennese-style concert to ring in the new year with waltzes, polkas and marches. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876. Noon Year’s Eve — The Children’s Museum of Denver recreates Times Square with glittery ball drops, confetti and arts projects. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.
1750 13th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 303.443.2122 BMOCA.org
LAFAYETTE
Howl at the Moon New Year’s Eve Party — Dueling piano bar. Packages from $40 to $100. 9 p.m. Howl Denver, 1735 19th St., Denver, 303291-0880.
New Year’s Evening Dinner — A three-course tour of Scandanavian culinary heritage blended with modern American cuisine for $70 with optional alcohol pairing for $25. Seatings include a champagne toast. Trillium, 2134 Larimer St., Denver, 303-379-9759.
half-price for veterans
Elephant Revival — With Mandarin Orange. 8 p.m. Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300.
Five Iron Frenzy — With Project 86, Showbread and Eleventyseven. Doors at 6 p.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-242-8923.
Milk the Clock New Year’s Eve Party. 8 p.m. Milk, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.
thedairy.org for tix
FORT COLLINS
Latin New Year’s Eve Fiesta. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-3528.
Swing and Ballroom Dancing
The Dairy Center for the Arts 26th and Walnut
3OH!3 — With the Epilogues, Chain Gang of 1974, My Body Sings Electric. 7 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.
Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more information, call 303-534-6161.
Mancub — With Il Cattivo, Thee Dang Dangs, Black Amex. Doors at 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
December 28-29, 7pm
LAKEWOOD Oakhurst. 9:15 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Denver, 720-932-1700. On the Spot — New Year’s Eve improv comedy shows at 4 p.m. for family, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Each show ends in time to catch the fireworks downtown. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722. Otis Taylor. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-839-5100. The Ricky Earl Band. Katie Mullens, 1550 Court St., Denver, 303573-0336. Roaring ’20s New Year’s Eve at the Corner Office — A roaring ’20s party with the music of The Hot Club of Pearl Street Band. Dinner service starts at 4 p.m., live music at 9 p.m. Tickets are $30. The Corner Office, 1401 Curtis St., Denver, 720-889-4727.
World Music Night — With Boulder Chamber Orchestra. $25 general admission, $50 box seats. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7876. LONGMONT
NYE Party @ BMoCA December 31, 2012 9pm–2am Revel in this year’s miracles + wonder at what the new year may bring as you celebrate in style with BMoCA.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged — A special New Year’s Eve performance of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $40-$60. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.
music, fortune telling, dancing, live art performance and painting, crowd-created installation, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, champagne toast
Bunkner Funken Band — Funky NYE party. 7:24 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
Music by ATCGf/x Lounge DJ: Chris Avedon, Invisible Digits MC Waylon Lewis of elephant journal
Hey Lady — With the Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
– $20 members – $25 advance non-members – $30 at the door
Singles Only New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — With party favors, champagne toast at midnight, cash bars. 7:30 p.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000.
LYONS
New Year’s Eve Party. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303997-9911.
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
NEDERLAND
New Year’s Eve Party with BAD/HCO. Eden, 3090 Downing St., Denver, 303-832-5482.
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.
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Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons.
Riff Raff New Year’s Eve Party — Free. The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Visit bmoca.org or call 303.443.2122 to purchase tickets. Advance tickets available through December 30. Ages 21+ Sponsors: elephant journal, Two Hands Paperie, Quick Left
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A Neighborhood Gathering Place in Downtown Louisville
UPCOMING SHOWS
Beginning 9:30 Nightly
Acoustic ThURSdAy pen Mic o dECEMbER 27 NO MINORS
fRIdAy countRY dECEMbER 28 toucH
TYNAN THE GREAT GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS
SATURDAY DECEMBER 29
NEW YEAR'S EVE
FREE CHAMPAGNE & PRIZES NO COvER
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2
TRIvIA NIGHT 8:30 pM
EVERY MONDAY
$6 BURGER & FRIES!
ServiNg the HIGHEST QUALITY iNgreDieNtS 809 MAiN St. • 303.993.2094 reAL FOOD Simply Louisville reAL PeOPLe • reAL MUSiC WWW.WATERLOOLOUISVILLE.COM
New Year’s Eve at Avalon Ballroom!
The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra!
CALENDAR from Page 29 Tavern NYE Olive Drop & Fireworks Celebration — With complimentary champagne toast and party favors. 7 p.m. The Tavern Downtown, 1949 Market St. and the Cowboy Lounge, 1941 Market St., Denver, www.tavernhg.com.
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. Doors at 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2635 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Comedy Works Downtown Presents Ryan Sickler. Shows at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works Downtown, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Twista — Live performance for New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-506-8078. The White Rose Gala — A Theatre de Marionette theme will take over the entire hotel. Featuring Kelli Said, DJ Ms. Vicious and Got Bass Cave with DJ Vinnie. Ten-story balloon drop, more than 40 performers, 10 DJs, a live band, human marionettes, five ballrooms. Elegant attire. 9 p.m. Hilton DoubleTree DTC, 7801 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, www.KevinLarsonPresents.com.
Comedy Works DTC Presents Greg Warren. Shows at 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl., Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800. Cracker — With The Yawpers. 9 p.m Soiled Dove, 7401 E. 1st St., Denver, 303-366-3001. Denver’s Grandest New Year’s Eve Party — With Nacho Men, Dueling Piano and a dance party. Party-only tickets are $139. Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton St., Denver 303-295-1234.
Zoo Year’s Eve — Zoo Lights and a family dance party. 5:30-10 p.m. Denver Zoo, 23rd Avenue and York Street, Denver, 303-376-4800.
Dot Lunch New Years Party — With Dotsero and Hotlunch. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Sherman Events Center, 1770 Sherman St., Denver, 303-443-1000.
ENGLEWOOD
New Year’s Eve — With She Groovez, threecourse dinner. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. seatings. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. WOW! Children’s Museum New Year’s Celebration — Noise-maker crafts, parade musical performance by Eric West at 11 a.m. and special countdown at noon. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
The Lumineers — With Shovels & Rope, Paper Bird. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
8 P.M. to Midnight Doors open 7:30 for DJ music $32 per person at the door
avd@columbine.net AmericanVernacularDance.com 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder 28 December 27, 2012
A Night in Vienna with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — A Viennese-style concert to ring in the new year with waltzes, polkas and marches. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1000 14th St., Denver, 303-623-7876. Noon Year’s Eve — The Children’s Museum of Denver recreates Times Square with glittery ball drops, confetti and arts projects. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Children’s Museum Dr., Denver, 303-433-7444.
1750 13th Street Boulder, Colorado 80302 303.443.2122 BMOCA.org
LAFAYETTE
Howl at the Moon New Year’s Eve Party — Dueling piano bar. Packages from $40 to $100. 9 p.m. Howl Denver, 1735 19th St., Denver, 303291-0880.
New Year’s Evening Dinner — A three-course tour of Scandanavian culinary heritage blended with modern American cuisine for $70 with optional alcohol pairing for $25. Seatings include a champagne toast. Trillium, 2134 Larimer St., Denver, 303-379-9759.
half-price for veterans
Elephant Revival — With Mandarin Orange. 8 p.m. Aggie Theatre, 204 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-482-8300.
Five Iron Frenzy — With Project 86, Showbread and Eleventyseven. Doors at 6 p.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-242-8923.
Milk the Clock New Year’s Eve Party. 8 p.m. Milk, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-534-0222.
thedairy.org for tix
FORT COLLINS
Latin New Year’s Eve Fiesta. 9 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-3528.
Swing and Ballroom Dancing
The Dairy Center for the Arts 26th and Walnut
3OH!3 — With the Epilogues, Chain Gang of 1974, My Body Sings Electric. 7 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-951-6705.
Downtown Denver Fireworks — Two fireworks displays will take place over the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The first show is at 9 p.m., and the second begins at midnight. For more information, call 303-534-6161.
Mancub — With Il Cattivo, Thee Dang Dangs, Black Amex. Doors at 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
December 28-29, 7pm
LAKEWOOD Oakhurst. 9:15 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Denver, 720-932-1700. On the Spot — New Year’s Eve improv comedy shows at 4 p.m. for family, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Each show ends in time to catch the fireworks downtown. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303-758-4722. Otis Taylor. 6:30 p.m. Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-839-5100. The Ricky Earl Band. Katie Mullens, 1550 Court St., Denver, 303573-0336. Roaring ’20s New Year’s Eve at the Corner Office — A roaring ’20s party with the music of The Hot Club of Pearl Street Band. Dinner service starts at 4 p.m., live music at 9 p.m. Tickets are $30. The Corner Office, 1401 Curtis St., Denver, 720-889-4727.
World Music Night — With Boulder Chamber Orchestra. $25 general admission, $50 box seats. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7876. LONGMONT
NYE Party @ BMoCA December 31, 2012 9pm–2am Revel in this year’s miracles + wonder at what the new year may bring as you celebrate in style with BMoCA.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged — A special New Year’s Eve performance of all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $40-$60. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.
music, fortune telling, dancing, live art performance and painting, crowd-created installation, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, champagne toast
Bunkner Funken Band — Funky NYE party. 7:24 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
Music by ATCGf/x Lounge DJ: Chris Avedon, Invisible Digits MC Waylon Lewis of elephant journal
Hey Lady — With the Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
– $20 members – $25 advance non-members – $30 at the door
Singles Only New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party — With party favors, champagne toast at midnight, cash bars. 7:30 p.m. Jazz @ Jack’s, 500 16th St., Denver, 303-433-1000.
LYONS
New Year’s Eve Party. The Lobby, 2191 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303997-9911.
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.
NEDERLAND
New Year’s Eve Party with BAD/HCO. Eden, 3090 Downing St., Denver, 303-832-5482.
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.
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Miracle + Wonder
Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons.
Riff Raff New Year’s Eve Party — Free. The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Visit bmoca.org or call 303.443.2122 to purchase tickets. Advance tickets available through December 30. Ages 21+ Sponsors: elephant journal, Two Hands Paperie, Quick Left
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isten, 2013, you look cool. You really do, with your new Superman movie and lack of Twilight. It’s just …well, your older sibling (2012) was super crazy awesome. It’s not easy being odd, especially with a number so feared it gets its own phobia named after it. But chin up, I’m sure it won’t be that bad. I mean, other than that sequel to Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups that’s coming. Here are the two major things I’m looking forward to inside of you. That sounded weird …
Dollar, dollar bills, y’all On the plus side, 2013 will automatically be the first year in what seems like forever without a Twilight movie soiling the top 10 box office winners of the year. On the other hand, the author who created that series has another film adaptation coming out, The Host. So it’s kind of like “out of the frying pan, into the even-more-derivative-and-imagination-free-horribly-insipid-and-kindasexist fire.” My predictions for the biggest hits? For blockbusters, sequels will once more dominate, with Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 burning like an untreated STD. My pick for top grosser is Star Trek Into Darkness, as I am a fan of a
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movie with a sentence for a title. For the top-grossing sleeper hit, I’m calling Elysium, which teams District 9 writer/ director Neill Blomkamp with Matt Damon; it’s an original sci-fi idea, a species so rare it’s like seeing a gay Republican ride a unicorn. Finally, flop city will add the following failures to its population: World War Z (dammit, I want to love you, zombies!), Oz The Great and Powerful ( James Franco is neither) and Pacific Rim (giant robots fighting monsters isn’t for mainstream folks yet).
The Bling Ring
This is (not) a man’s world Wait, what’s this? Could 2013 be the year we finally realize that you don’t need to have an anatomic tripod to use a camera tripod successfully? Consider that half of the 16 films slated at The Sundance Film Festival are by women. These include Stacie Passon’s Concussion, about a woman whose life changes after a blow to the head; Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight, in which a woman takes in a stripper to be her nanny, and actress/writer/director Lake Bell’s In a World…, about a vocal coach who tries to become a voiceover star. Why, those sound neither exploitive nor like men attempting to crudely ape the experience of women! Oh, and there’s a better-than-average chance that Kathryn Bigelow will prove that her
Star Trek Into Darkness
Best Director Oscar was not some kind of gender-based affirmative action by scoring her second straight nomination (and possible second win) for Zero Dark Thirty. What’s more, Sofia Coppola may get out of director jail with The Bling Ring, which features Leslie Mann and Emma Watson in the “based on a true
story” tale about teens who use the Internet to track celebrities’ whereabouts so they can rob them. I mean, we’d have to string together a few decades like this to really call things “good” or “even,” but it sure feels nice to look at 2013 with some optimism for equality! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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AT THE FOX THEATRE DEC. 30 & 31
Thursday, December 27
music
Louisville, 303-993-2094.
music
The By All Means Band. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Rick Gibbons. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Dragondeer. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Strangebyrds. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447SEE FULL 2739.
Aaron Mcolskey and Alex Johnstone. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Acoustic Open Mic. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Hindsight. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Jenn Cleary. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.
Art Lande's Boy/Girl Band. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The Kinky Fingers — With Cowgirl Radio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.
Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kort McCumber. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Left Foot Green. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Selasee. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1911 11th St., Boulder, 303-443-9902. Taylor Scott & The Big Payback. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. events Capricorn Birthday Party. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Friday, December 28 Boulder Weekly
Legendary Hitchhikers —Tom Petty Tribute. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Long Road Home. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Long Run. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St. Longmont, 303-834-9384. Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Mighty Twisters. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Mosey West. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Country Touch. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St.,
Tommy & The Tangerines. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733. The Wailers perform "Survival." 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
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Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. events Comedy NIght — Showcase of Denver’s top comics. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Saturday, December 29 music see PANORAMA Page 34
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Great Books Discussion Group meets to talk about Sense and Sensibility
Monday, December 31 So, You’re a Poet? — A New Year’s Eve open poetry marathon. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Wednesday, January 2 Great Books Discussion Group — Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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The Comedians & Goodwater. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St. Longmont, 303834-9384.
Jimmy Hall & Kate Moss. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.
Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.
The Lionel Young Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.
Dechen Hawk & A Murder of Prose. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.
The Meryl Romer Jazz Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985.
Grant Farm. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
People Under the Stairs. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Red Fox Run. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Something Underground. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strange Americans. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Steve Itterly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Tynan the Great. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Uncommoners. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. events Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Sunday, December 30 music
pm ic starts at 9:00
Live Mus
Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733. Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Constant Tourists. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jami Lunde Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jazz Jam — ������������������������������� With Mark Diamond. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. The Motet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Vermillion Road — With Less Than Zero. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. events Gingerbread Teas. 12 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Monday, December 31 music
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Sammy Seung-min Lee’s book art is on display at the Norlin Library’s West Lobby Bonnie & The Clydes. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Musketeer Gripweed. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Bunkner Funken. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
New Year’s Eve — Featuring Tommy & The Tangerines and Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Hey Lady! — WithThe RetroSonics. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384.
Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Johnny O Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. events
Riff Raff New Year’s Eve Party. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Age of Aquarius New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
She Groovez. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
New Year’s Eve Dance Party. 8 p.m. The Avalon see PANORAMA Page 36
arts
The Motet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
World Music Night — With the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, 303-9878945.
Abandoned — Photography by Mark Ivins. The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Through Feb. 17. Becoming Van Gogh. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Jan 20.
Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Feb. 10. Cover Story — Works by Daniel Pitín. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Dana Schutz: If the Face had Wheels. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb 13. El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 30. The Eye Awake — New works by Ian Fisher and Matthew Harris. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 2. Histories from Eight Rectilinear Boundaries — Annaday Hiser. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Jan. 11. Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration — With Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. Norlin Library East Lobby and West Lobby, CU Campus, Boulder, www.ucblibraries.colorado. edu. Through March 8. Random Walk with Drift — Works by Marius Lehene. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27. Reunion: What Made You Start Again? — By Jessica Knapp, Mary Pat LaMair, Christopher Lavery, Katie Queen, Polly Gates Simmons and Lori Warren. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Jan. 11. Soma — Works in felt. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Jan. 11.
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 27
FREE SHOW! P-NUCKLE & T.U.G.G. W/ GREEN RIVER VIBE, GREEN GENES & COLLIERAD
FRIDAY & SATURDAY DECEMBER 28-29
IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK & THE PIMPS OF JOYTIME W/ MUSKETEER GRIPWEED
SUNDAY DECEMBER 30
DUAL VENUE TIPPER & RANDOM RAB W/ ILL-ESHA, SEIED, TATANKS, VS, CUALI, ALPHA DATA & THORAZINE
MONDAY DECEMBER 31 (NYE)
CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD FRIDAY JANUARY 4
SHEBANGABANG 2013
FEAT MAGIC BEANS, TIGER PARTY, SUNSQUABI & COLD RIVER CITY
SATURDAY JANUARY 5
KILLAGRAHAM & DIAMOND PISTOLS
W/ REBUDZ RESIDENTS, DUB GMC & MR. PEEBS
THURSDAY DECEMBER 27
PETE KARTSOUNES BAND W/ GIPSY MOON & JEFF BRINKMAN
FRIDAY DECEMBER 28
LOVE IN THE CIRCUS W/ FUNKMA$TER
SATURDAY DECEMBER 29
PROJECT LOGIC
FEAT DJ LOGIC, MEMBERS OF TIGER PARTY & KINETIX & BILLY FRANKLIN’S SMOKE N BONES
THURSDAY JANUARY 3
STEEZ
W/ IN DUE TIME, ELEPHANT WRECKING BALL & DIGITAL BEATDOWN
FRIDAY JANUARY 4
FEAT SAM HOLT, TORI PATER, SPANKY, ERIC MARTINEZ & ANDY CLAPP W/ TURKUAZ
TUESDAY JANUARY 8 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9
PIGS ON THE WING
PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF PINK FLOYD
SATURDAY JANUARY 12
NIGHT SLUGS TOUR
FEAT BOK BOK, GIRL UNIT, L-VIS1990 & KINGDOM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY JANUARY 18-19 FIRESIDE WHISKEY AND ELEVATE VODKA PRESENT
CERVANTES 10TH ANNIVERSARY FEAT VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
TUESDAY JANUARY 22
BROWN & GAMMON
W/ COULT 45, DAYQUILL & WABBERJOCKY
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23
D12 TOUR – BIZARRE’S WORLD FEAT BIZARRE, MASTAMIND (W/ SKITZO), LEADERS OF THE LOST, UNSPOKEN WORDS
FRIDAY JANUARY 25
ROBERT WALTER’S 20TH CONGRESS
FEAT CHEME GASTELUM, CHRIS STILLWELL & SIMON LOTT W/ KUNG FU & FROGS GONE FISHIN’ W/ THE HORNY TOADS (HORN SECTION)
SATURDAY JANUARY 26
GREAT AMERICAN TAXI
FEAT VINCE HERMAN OF LEFTOVER SALMON W/ POOR MAN’S WHISKEY
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2
SO-GNAR PRESENTS DUAL ROOM SHOW
WINTER SHREDDED BEATS
BROTHER ALI - PROF DANNY BROWN EVIDENCE - MTHDS & DJ ABILITIES & CYSKO ROCKWELL
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7
CANDYLAND
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8
OTT & THE ALL-SEEING (LIVE BAND) W/ KILOWATTS
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9
VICTOR WOOTEN BAND W/ GARRETT SAYERS TRIO
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22
MACEO PARKER SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23
JUNO WHAT?! W/ DAM FUNK
FRIDAY MARCH 29
STOP MAKING SENSE
PERFORMED IN IT’S ENTIRETY BY THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE BAND)
SATURDAY APRIL 20
METHOD MAN & REDMAN
FEAT BADKLAAT & COFFI
BASS PHYSICS & LUCID VISION
W/ FULL AFFECT & DHYMES
THURSDAY JANUARY 10
WAKA WINTER CLASSIC
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. Special New Year’s Eve performance. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Denver Performing Arts Complex Stage Theatre, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 30. Mame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970-7443747. Through Jan. 13. Scrooge. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Dec. 30.
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Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, coloradosolstice.com. “So, You’re a Poet” — New Year’s Eve open poetry reading. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Tuesday, January 1 music
SOPHISTAFUNK
Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
TUESDAY JANUARY 15 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
FRIDAY JANUARY 11 W/ COLD RIVER CITY
FREE ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT CLOUD-D VS FILTHY DISCO & SUBLIMINAL W/ DUB KUSH, APHONIX, OB1 & COOK
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16
CONCERT FOR KIDS FEAT MINI WEAPON, RODWAY & LUCID VISION
FRIDAY JANUARY 18
THE REMINDERS
W/ PAA KOW’S BY ALL MEANS BAND, QUIZ & RAW RUSS (ELM & OAK) & DJ LAZY EYEZ
SATURDAY JANUARY 19
Open Stage. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. events New Years Day Brunch. 10 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Polar Plunge 2012 — All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado. Registration at 10 a.m. The plunge starts at 12 p.m. Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, www.alz. org/co.
Creekwalk Storytime — Who’s here for winter? 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Friday, December 28 Animals in Winter/Los animales en el invierno — Learn from Boulder Parks and Open Space and Mountain Parks Department about black bears, mountain lions and deer. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Saturday, December 29 Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Sunday, December 30 Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Wednesday, January 2
Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
music
Monday, December 31
1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
FEAT SOULS IN ACTION VS GOT BASS MUSIC & COULT 45
Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23
Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
THURSDAY JANUARY 24
Blues Jam — With The Firebreathers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.
New Year’s Eve Celebration — Ring in the New Year with noise maker crafts, music by Eric West, a parade and a countdown at noon. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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SUNDAY JANUARY 20
SPONGECAKE & THE FLUFF RAMBLERS W/ CLIFF HINES
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FREE ELECTRONIC TUESDAY W/ DRIFT BOOST, SLIM JIM, DEZTRIX & KAOS THEORY
SHANNON MCNALLY & AMY LAVERE: CHASING THE GHOST SWEATSHOP UNION W/ ABSTRACT COLLECTIVE, PRIME ELEMENT & PIKE
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Boulder Fringe Festival — Applications for performances accepted through Jan. 30. www. boulderfringe.com or 303-803-
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42nd Street. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb.13.
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Boulder Blues Trio. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Wednesday, January 2
Megan Burtt Trio. 8:30 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.
Family Garden Story and Song Time. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349.
New Year’s Day Dance Party. 7 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, coloradosolstice.com.
Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Open Mic Night. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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In a year with many great films, Beasts of the Southern Wild was pure perfection.
If you’ve been bad this year, you deserve to see That’s My Boy, an historic stinker.
2012, will you marry me?
This year’s best movies were so good, you guys… by Ryan Syrek
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want the 2012 year-in-film to have my babies. putting this only at No. 10. Setting aside the glee that Heck, I’ll have its babies; it has been so durn good comes from nonstop action awesomeness, this may I’d totally go seahorse for it. Before I reduce a year mark a cultural watershed in terms of modern mythothat renewed my cinematic soul to a series of arbi- logic worship (which is what comic book movies are). trary numbers and rankings, a quick caveat: We may finally be over the “grim and gritty” and ready Because deadlines are soulless, and because major for hope and joy. movie studios are the only things less concerned about 9.) The Hobbit — Derided by a stunning number of Nebraska than presidential candidates, I wasn’t able to critics who creamed their keyboards about Peter see Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty or Les Jackson’s Lord of the Rings series, this is actually pretty Miserables in time. All that means is you should check easily the best of the whole bunch. With a better lead us out online at thereader.com/film in a few weeks to (Martin Freeman), a more emotionally resonant story see if I dramatically changed my mind, which is far (the struggle for modernity and the problem with diseasier to handle than when I placed refugees) and a stronmelodramatically change my ger visual approach, this is mind. what an epic looks like. Worst Movies of 2012 8.) Pitch Perfect — For 5) Total Recall — If peothe second year in a row, this ple are interested in improvyear’s funniest movie features ing things that Arnold an ensemble of females (like Schwarzenegger did, they Bridesmaids), striking should start with running another huge blow against the state of California. the misogynistic and idiotic theory that women can’t 4) Anna Karenina — make us laugh. From Rebel Only the fourth-worst Wilson’s improvisation and movie but easily the biggest raunch to Anna Kendrick’s disappointment. If the swoon-inducing vocals and Soviet Union existed, it Any other year and Lincoln would be a top five film. charisma, the depth of my would collapse again from love for this one surprised this film’s existence. 3) Dredd — Repetitive, derivative and expletiveeven me. inducing, there’s a reason you didn’t hear of this one. 7.) Lincoln — Now it gets real, yo. Any other year, 2) The Watch — This was punishment for thinking Lincoln is a top-five movie (probably top-three). This Night at the Museum was Ben Stiller’s “rock bottom.” ode to democracy and a time when politicians were still 1) That’s My Boy — 2012 gave me the best film I’ve asshats, but asshats who actually did stuff, features ever seen (more on that in a bit) and the worst film I’ve another trademark brilliant performance from Daniel ever seen. I feel like this was Adam Sandler personally Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg’s best work in a punishing me for something. decade. Best Movies of 2012 6.) Argo — It doesn’t matter that this didn’t crack Honorable mention: The Grey, 2 Days in New York, my top 5, because I have a feeling it may crack the top Safety Not Guaranteed, Skyfall and Cabin in the Woods. 1 come Oscar night. Ben Affleck’s masterful film thrills 10.) The Avengers — The 10-year-old who lives in despite a known conclusion, which is like making my heart probably won’t ever forgive the adult me for someone laugh at a punchline they already know. I Boulder Weekly
thought it was going to take him decades to surpass Clint Eastwood as “best actor turned director.” Boy, was I wrong. 5.) Paranorman — Yeah, you heard me. The point of almost every animated movie is “you should be true to yourself, no matter what others think.” The point of Paranorman is “don’t be a hateful dick to people who are different or they have every right to haunt the crap out of you.” Featuring the first openly gay animated character in a mainstream movie, this is as groundbreaking as it is hilarious. 4.) Sound of My Voice — This only works if you find Brit Marling as absolutely ethereal and stunning as I do. This lithe, light-sci-fi flick is effortlessly thrilling, intimately compelling and ambiguously guided. Again, any other year, this may have hit the top spot. That doesn’t mean I don’t love you, Brit. I do. A lot. 3.) Brave — A list with two animated films and The Avengers sure makes it sound like my emotional growth was stunted at an early age, doesn’t it? Actually, Pixar’s latest (and best) kicked my obsession with feminine scholarship (particularly in terms of epic myths and tropes) right into high gear. A Disney movie with a full-on princess who is complete unto herself (no mate needed, thanks), who is not orphaned or tortured by her mother and who is not saved by external forces. As beautiful as it is important, skip other princess movies and hit this one first. 2.) Holy Motors — Leos Carax wrote and directed the most intelligent and artistic film of the year. Denis Lavant gave the best lead performance of the year. I still have no idea if I enjoyed it. “Best of ” does not mean “most favorite.” It means recognizing the finest works of art in 2012. This is unquestionably pure artistic genius. I just don’t know if I like it. 1.) Beasts of the Southern Wild — Know that I don’t say this lightly: This is the best movie I have ever seen. I’ve now watched it closing in on a half dozen times and have yet to find a flawed scene, a dishonest character beat or any single thing I can point to as a negative. Nothing has changed since I wrote my review, and here’s what I said then “This is an affirmation of the value of the medium, a finger on humanity’s collective pulse and a reminder that there are always, always, always new ways to tell old stories.” Perfection. —This article first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com December 27, 2012 37
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LIFE OF PI 3D
Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity comes to life thanks to director Joe Wright. A unique narrative device illuminates the theatrical behavior of the randy Russian nobles who can’t seem to help trying to sleep with each other’s spouses. In the end, it’s a costume drama, with a Masterpiece Theatre feel, but fans of the novel and the genre will enjoy this version. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — The Reader of Omaha Neb.
A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, coyly named Richard Parker. The film follows the odd couple’s lifeboat as Pi devises ways to stay alive and tame his beastly companion. Shot in 3-D, the film is a visual feast and is an almost certain to receive a Best Picture nomination. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979. Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage, but six Americans escape to the home of a Canadian ambassador. A CIA agent comes forward to get them out of the country before they’re found. Rated R. At Colony Square. BROOKLYN CASTLE The remarkable and improbable story of I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, where 65 percent of the students live below the poverty level, yet it has the highest-ranked junior high chess team in the nation. The film’s heart lies in the journey of each of the students on the team. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it “the crime of the century.” But the truth about what really happened didn’t become clear until after the five had spent years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society DJANGO UNCHAINED A slave in the 1850s South is set free by a bounty hunter, but the two stick together, searching for wanted criminals — and the wife that the slave lost years earlier. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. THE GUILT TRIP Before setting off on one of the biggest trips of his life, Andy Brewster makes a quick stop at his mom’s house and unexpectedly picks her up to join on his personal adventure. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. 38 December 27, 2012
LES MISERABLES
Helena Bonham Carter in a role set in Europe and requiring an accent? Shocking.
HOLY MOTORS HIGH GROUND Eleven veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan join an expedition to climb the 20,000-foot Himalayan giant Mount Lobuche. With blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer and a team of Everest summiters as their guides, they set out on an emotional and gripping climb to reach the top in an attempt to heal the emotional and physical wounds of the longest war in U.S. history. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater HITCHCOCK Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock — cinema’s “master of suspense” and the extraordinary film icon known for orchestrating some of the most intense experiences of menace and intrigue audiences have ever seen — was a hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D Peter Jackson goes back for an Unexpected Journey that produces expected results, as this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original endeavor into hobbits and wizards is every bit as good as the fantastically successful Lord of the Rings series (and is, in some ways, even better). Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
Over the course of a day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. At SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres JACK REACHER The tough-as-nails main character of 17 Lee Child crime thriller novels is brought to the screen in this film, an adaptation of the book One Shot. The 6-foot-5 protagonist, portrayed by the 5-foot-7 Tom Cruise, uncovers a plot to frame an Army veteran. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. A LATE QUARTET Set in iconic New York City and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener as members of a world-renowned string quartet who, despite their passion for music, struggle to stay together when their patriarch is diagnosed with a terminal illness. The repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine, with power struggles and illicit affairs. Rated R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater LES MISERABLES The classic tale about the survival of the human spirit featuring an all-star cast, including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Sacha Baron Cohen. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
This is all about the creation of the penny. OK, kidding. This is Daniel Day-Lewis proving he’s the best there is (maybe ever) embodying the emancipatory president as he works to get the 13th Amendment through a divided Congress in the midst of war. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. MIAMI CONNECTION The year is 1987. Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts synth rock band Dragon Sound has had enough, and embarks on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society MONSTERS, INC. 3D This Pixar feature returns to the silver screen in 3D. Sully and Mike have to figure out what to do with a little girl named Boo who has followed them back into the world of monsters. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS In May of 2011, Neil Young drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario, to downtown Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall, where he intimately performed the last two nights of his solo world tour. Along the drive, Young recounted insightful and introspective stories from his youth to filmmaker Jonathan Demme. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater NORTH SEA TEXAS Pim lives with his ex-beauty-queen single mother in a small town on the Belgian coast. Introverted, he spends his childhood drawing and dreaming up fantasy lives while Boulder Weekly
reel to reel keeping his emerging desires a secret. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society PARENTAL GUIDANCE A grandfather and his wife face new challenges when they baby-sit their three grandchildren while the parents are away, and they find they must adjust their methods when faced with the problems of a younger generation. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D Childhood legends such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny team up with Jack Frost to protect the imagination and beliefs of children. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. RUST AND BONE Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard gives a tour-de-force performance in Rust and Bone that rivals anything she has done before. She plays Stéphanie, a whale trainer at a marineland on the French Riviera who suffers a devastating injury. Rated R. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres SAMSARA “Samsara” is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life,” and it is the point of departure for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson (Baraka, Chronos). At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN The incredible and true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ’60s, he went on to record an album that was supposed to secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. The album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of gruesome on-stage suicide, but a bootleg recording found its way to apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater THE SESSIONS Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the triumphant story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Bradley Cooper plays a man who loses everything and has move in with his parents while he puts the pieces back together — including reuniting with his wife, aided by a mysterious girl he meets. At Century. SKYFALL While Daniel Craig has provided some Boulder Weekly
entertaining moments as the world’s most famous fictional spy, James Bond purists have grumbled that Craig’s two films departed too greatly from the 22-film tradition of the womanizing spy-hero. Skyfall is a return to form for 007. Action, beautiful dames, interesting gadgets and snappy oneliners abound in this thriller. No surprises there. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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TALES OF THE NIGHT A hit at the Berlin Film Festival, Tales of the Night blends history with fairytale as viewers are whisked off to enchanted lands full of dragons, werewolves, captive princesses, sorcerers and enormous talking bees, all bursting with color and kaleidoscopic backgrounds. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Mountain Sun intends to open new restaurant by early 2013 by Steve Weishampel
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n winter’s darkest hour, a new Sun will rise. OK, that’s a little dramatic. But it’s the truth, as Boulder’s Mountain Sun brewpub empire moves to add a fourth restaurant to its lineup, which now includes Mountain Sun, Southern Sun and Denver’s Vine Street Pub. The new restaurant is located in the space directly beneath the Southern Sun at Broadway and Table Mesa, formerly occupied by Giovanni’s. A lot of the decisions on the new eatery are up in the air, but the super-clever name is already locked in: “Under the Sun.” That’s about the only thing set in stone, says Timothy McMurray, coowner of the Mountain Sun restaurant group. “We haven’t decided on the opening. We don’t really know when it’s going to be,” he says. “We still need to do a lot of hiring, stuff like that … We’re still testing menu stuff out.” McMurray did announce one departure from the Sun formula for Under the Sun: Other brews are invited to the party. “We’re going to have 21 Mountain Sun beers, 10 guest beers and then we’re going to do eight wines in draft,” he says. “It’ll be just a little more selec-
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Sun executive chef Annabelle Forrestal.
tion of draft beer and wine.” The current Suns feature a guest beer or two — Vine Street Manager Caroline Duffy says one tap is dedicated to guest beers — but 10 at a time is a high mark for the franchise. Particular beers haven’t been chosen yet, McMurray says, but he says he knows there are “a lot of good breweries around here.” “It’ll just be good beer,” he says. “So if it’s good, there’s a good chance it’ll be on here.” Past guest taps at Vine Street have included Colorado favorites like Avery, Oskar Blues and New Belgium as well as Oregon’s Deschutes. While renovation on the restaurant nears completion, rumors are flying, says another of the Sun owners, Will
Doerrmann. He’s heard lots of unfounded claims about the restaurant. That could include the assertions one of the Southern Sun’s servers made to Boulder Weekly staff before we talked to Doerrmann. Under the Sun is opening in early January, she said, maybe Jan. 5. The menu’s going to top out at $15, not $10 like the other Suns. She even offered to get us a menu to see. But she never returned with one, and the other information isn’t true, Doerrmann and McMurray say. McMurray emphasized to Boulder Weekly that the menu is still being tested by the Sun owners and executive chef.
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From now until Jan. 4, Door to Door Organics’ customers can have chefinspired hors d’oeuvres (antipasti) delivered straight to their doorsteps. The gourmet cured meats and artisan cheese, artichoke hearts, olives and crackers cost less than $5 per person — the $49.98 package will serve a party of 10. The array includes Sopressata, a handcrafted, artisan salami from Creminelli Fine Meats in Salt Lake City; Tartufo, another handcrafted, artisan salami from Creminelli with black summer truffles, Camembert Cheese from MouCo Cheese Co. in Fort Collins; Campo de Montalban, a Spanish cheese made from a blend of cows’, sheeps’ and goats’ milk; Napoleon artichoke hearts; Mediterranean organic kalamata olives; Back to Nature Stoneground Wheat Crackers; and a fresh Italian Ciabatta from local Red Mountain Bakery. Hors Doeuvres boxes will be delivered along with customers’ regular deliveries. http://colorado.doortodoororganics.com. see TIDBITES Page 44
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incon Argentino, which opened just this past fall, has brought the seldomseen (at least around here) cuisine of Argentina to a friendly and accessible venue. Argentine fare has many parents, including the food of indigenous peoples and European settlers as well as a deep, romantic tradition of cattle ranching. The menu here features hot sandwiches and numerous empanadas, along with simple side salads. Ingredients are sourced locally where possible, and come from such purveyors as Udi’s and Colorado’s Best Beef. An alliterative Argentine selection of beverages include Malbec wine and mate, potent caffeinated rainforest tea served with traditional biscuits. One gets a sense that many of these offerings would be considered authentic street food, an impression reinforced by the order-at-the-counter service and prompt arrival of items. Friend Paul and I decided to split a sandwich and a quartet of empanadas. A lomito is the archetypical Argentine steak sandwich, a tribute to both that nation’s unadulterated appetite for beef as well as a formidable repast suitable for grab-and-go refueling. Rincon offers two versions, the first being the more elemental solo, a $9.50 item consisting of thin-sliced steak garnished with lettuce and tomato. We decided to divvy up the completo, which also included ham and mozzarella for a substantial $11. The sandwich arrived plenty hot, with the cheese taking on an endearingly gooey consistency. Including a thin
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slice of ham seemed a bit like gilding the lily, although the bread endeared itself with a winning balance of chew and crust. Beef, the centerpiece ingredient, definitely had a meaty savor. But some might second-guess the thickness
(more than a cheesesteak, less than a regular steak) and well-done preparation, which made matters a bit chewier than one might prefer. However, the recommended chimichurri sauce, a staple blend of herbs and olive oil, added
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he late 19th century was a period of heavy European immigration to Argentina, with many newcomers arriving from Italy. These new arrivals brought their cuisine with them, and items such as pasta and the breaded meat dishes known as milanesas began appearing on Argentine tables. Pizza is another popular import that has, over time, taken on a distinct Argentine flavor. Fainia, or slices of chickpea flatbread, often come atop pizza, creating a sandwich effect. One thick-crusted pie, fugazetta (a corruption of the word “foccacia”), consists of heaps of cheese and caramelized onion atop thick crust, hold the red sauce.
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lively bite and tang. A quartet of $2.95 empanadas comprised the second act of our meal. Our meat selections included chicken chorizo, steak and spicy steak. While the sandwich was perfectly satisfying, we both felt the empanadas were the restaurant’s strong suit. Right off the bat, we noted the wonderful flaky qualities of the layered pastry enveloping the fillings. The short duration it took to travel from oven to plate was likely the key factor; one suspects the experience wouldn’t be as compelling once things cooled down. The spicy steak was our consensus favorite, albeit for an unexpected reason. Paul and I agreed it was much like the Aristotelian ideal of a pot pie, if the philosopher had concerned himself with such matters. “Swanson’s,” said Paul, but not pejoratively, as he referred to the comforting qualities of the moist, tender steak with its mix of bell pepper, onion and olive. The vegetarian Patagonia differed from the other empanadas by dint of its meatless filling and open-faced nature. A mix of garlic, onion and cherry tomato, the flavors were remarkably fresh. Bright and tangy, these ingredients combined to create a memorable filling reminiscent of a fine Italian marinara sauce. Rincon Argentino is a welcome new entry to the local ethnic dining scene. Fresh flavors and quality ingredients combine to make a fine introduction to a cuisine that’s underrepresented locally. While not inexpensive, the steak sandwich was fine, but the empanadas take top honors. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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“We’re still in a lot of developmental stages. We’re still developing a lot of entrees and food,” he says. “It’ll be really fresh, healthy, clean food.” That means prices are still unknown as well. Construction inside the restaurant is now finished, and executive chef Annabelle Forrestal says the restaurant is nearly ready to open. Doerrmann says the feel of the room will be similar to the other Sun locations. Gone will be the distinct rooms that defined Giovanni’s, including an arcade room and separate dining room. He says Under the Sun will have “wood floors and more tile accents” and that the single room will feel big and open. The restaurant’s location, Suite A of 627 S. Broadway, has seen several tenants over the past few years. Before Giovanni’s, the space was occupied by Ajuua!!, the Mexican franchise with locations in Denver, Aurora, Johnstown and Niwot. When asked what might have gone wrong with Giovanni’s, which opened in February 2011 and closed about a 44 December 27, 2012
year later, McMurray said he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know about Giovanni’s. I know we’re not going to be an Italian restaurant,” McMurray says. “I don’t know why it’s gone through a couple different places. Everyone just kind of runs their business differently, I guess.” A decision also hasn’t been made on whether Under the Sun will offer live music. Each of the Sun locations currently hosts one band per week, with styles ranging from dub/electro to jazz to bluegrass. So when can Boulder expect to see some more Sun? “It’ll be after the first of the year. That’s kind of all we have right now,” McMurray says at first. Later, he gets just a little more specific: “We’re thinking February, could be March. I don’t know when.” Co-owner Doerrmann says no date is set in stone, but he says the opening could be in “mid- or late January.” One thing seems certain, it will definitely be in 2013. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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In the sci-fi film trilogy The Matrix, the heroes are able to instantaneously acquire certain complex skills via software that’s downloaded directly into their brains. In this way, the female hacker named Trinity masters the art of piloting a military M-109 helicopter in just a few minutes. If you could choose a few downloads like that, Aries, what would they be? This isn’t just a rhetorical question meant for your amusement. In 2013, I expect that your educational capacity will be exceptional. While you may not be able to add new skills as easily as Trinity, you’ll be pretty fast and efficient. So what do you want to learn? Choose wisely.
After Libran poet Wallace Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955, Harvard University offered him a job as a full professor. But he turned it down. He couldn’t bear leaving his day job as the vice-president of an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. I suspect that in the first half of 2013, you will come to a fork in the road that may feel something like Stevens’ quandary. Should you stick with what you know or else head off in the direction of more intense and unpredictable stimulation? I’m not here to tell you which is the better choice; I simply want to make sure you clearly identify the nature of the decision.
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Are you familiar with the fable of the golden goose? The farmer who owned it became impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day. So he killed it, thinking he would thereby get the big chunk of gold that must be inside its body. Alas, his theory was mistaken. There was no chunk. From then on, of course, he no longer got his modest daily treasure. I nominate this fable to be one of your top teaching stories of 2013. As long as you’re content with a slow, steady rate of enrichment, you’ll be successful. Pushing extra hard to expedite the flow might lead to problems.
In 2013, I will try to help you retool, reinvent, and reinvigorate yourself in every way that’s important to you. I will encourage you to reawaken one of your sleeping aptitudes, recapture a lost treasure, and reanimate a dream you’ve neglected. If you’re smart, Scorpio, you will reallocate resources that got misdirected or wasted. And I hope you will reapply for a privilege or position you were previously denied, because I bet you’ll win it this time around. Here are your words of power for the year ahead: resurrection and redemption.
SAGITTARIUS
Here are some of the experiences I hope to help you harvest in the coming year: growing pains that are interesting and invigorating rather than stressful; future shock that feels like a fun joyride rather than a bumpy rumble; two totally new and original ways to get excited; a good reason to have faith in a dream that has previously been improbable; a fresh supply of Innocent Crazy-Wise Love Truth; and access to all the borogoves, mome raths, and slithy toves you could ever want.
Based on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, a team of physicists in France and Switzerland announced last July that they had tentatively discovered the Higgs Boson, which is colloquially known as the “God particle.” What’s all the fuss? In her San Francisco Chronicle column, Leah Garchik quoted an expert who sought to explain: “The Higgs boson is the WD40 and duct tape of the universe, all rolled into one.” Is there a metaphorical equivalent of such a glorious and fundamental thing in your life, Sagittarius? If not, I predict you will find it in 2013. If there already is, I expect you will locate and start using its 2.0 version.
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In her gallery show Actuality, Reminiscence, and Fabrication, artist Deborah Sullivan includes a piece called “Penance 1962.” It consists of a series of handwritten statements that repeats a central theme: “I must not look at boys during prayer.” I’m assuming it’s based on her memory of being in church or Catholic school when she was a teenager. You probably have an analogous rule lodged somewhere in the depths of your unconscious mind — an outmoded prohibition or taboo that may still be subtly corroding your life energy. The coming year will be an excellent time to banish that ancient nonsense for good. If you were Deborah Sullivan, I’d advise you to fill a whole notebook page with the corrected assertion: “It’s OK to look at boys during prayer.”
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Home is not just the building where you live. It’s more than the community that gives you support and the patch of earth that comforts you with its familiarity. Home is any place where you’re free to be your authentic self; it’s any power spot where you can think your own thoughts and see with your own eyes. I hope and trust that in 2013 you will put yourself in position to experience this state of mind as often as possible. Do you have any ideas about how to do that? Brainstorm about it on a regular basis for the next six months.
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For years, the gravestone of Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde was covered with kiss-shaped lipstick marks that were left by his admirers. Unfortunately, Wilde’s descendants decided to scour away all those blessings and erect a glass wall around the tomb to prevent further displays of affection. In my astrological opinion, Leo, you should favor the former style of behavior over the latter in 2013. In other words, don’t focus on keeping things neat and clean and well-ordered. On the contrary: Be extravagant and uninhibited in expressing your love for the influences that inspire you — even at the risk of being a bit unruly or messy.
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New Year’s Eve $99/oz. Strain Sale call for details on which top shelf strain will be $99 for the day
TOP SHELF STRAINS
$159/oz • $5.70 a gram GLASS CURED ORGANIC STRAINS
$199/oz • $7.10 a gram
BUY 2 OUNCES and get 10% OFF MIX and MATCH No Membership Required
Ear Wax $20 a gram
FIRST TIME PATIENTS GET
$10 8th (on select strains) Offer expires 1/15/13
Shatter $25 a gram
Romulan
Grape Stomper
10 pack of Pre-Rolls (strain specific) for $30 Qualified MMJ Doctor Referrals: Dr. Landes 303-521-2164 (Boulder) Holos Health 720-273-3568 (Boulder)
first ounce is
$50.00 when you sign up with omc Offer expires 1/15/13
Hours: Monday - Friday 11am - 6:45pm • Saturday 11am - 6pm • Sunday 12pm - 4pm
1534 55th Street • Boulder, CO • 303.444.0861 • email: info@optionsmedicalcenter.com For medical marijuana patients only 54 December 27, 2012
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BLUE DREAM 400 W. South Boulder Rd. Lafayette Plaza • 303.665.5599 www. herbalwellnesscolorado.com www. facebook.com/herbalwellnesslafayette Open 7 days a week • 9am-7pm Regular Hours on New Year’s Day 9am-7pm
SUPER SUNDAY SPECIAL
$25 1/8 ON ALL STRAINS
$200 PER OUNCE
BOULDER’S MOST CONVENIENT DISPENSARY Providing a sense of professionalism that has not yet been introduced to the medical marijuana community. All strains are proudly grown in house.
Intended for MMJ Patients Only
HOURS: MON - SAT 9:30 - 6:30 • SUN 12:00 - 5:00 3005 28TH STREET • BOULDER • 303.442.0892 WWW.THESTATIONBOULDER.COM
Elevate Your Mind
Gravitate Your Soul
BUY ONE OUNCE AT REGULAR PRICE AND GET THE SECOND FOR
1/2 OFF
MORROCAN BRONZE HASH
$5 per gram
FOR ALL THIS WEEK
Providing Superior Medicine Since 2009 “A Routine Stop To Your Mountain Destination”
IDAHO SPRINGS, CO. EXIT 241-A (Next to Starbuck’s)
Special DiScount
287
N
H Lafayette Plaza Coal Creek Dr.
For Medical Purposes Only Boulder Weekly
S. Public Rd.
S. Boulder Rd.
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When mention
PROMO CODE
POWD ER DAYS 303
(303) 567-2018 • THEKINEMINE.COM Open EVERYDAY from 8am - 6:45pm* *Ski season hours
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last word The Drum Shop
African drumming classes with Fara Tolno
Tuesday nights • 6-7:30pm 2095 30th St., Boulder
303-402-0122
Divine Resonance Massage & Skin Care Please see ad on page 48. Now offering acne treatments. www.divineresonance.com 720-432-1108
2801 Iris Ave. Boulder, CO
SMALL HARVESTS BEAUTIFULLY FINISHED
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AlterMeds.com Louisville, Colorado 720-389-6313
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tobacco
glass with class! 1144 Pearl St. Boulder 303-443-PIPE Westminster 3001 W. 74th Ave. 303-426-6343 • Highlands Ranch 7130 E. County Line Road 303-740-5713
Piano Man
Available for all occasions. Acoustic or digital piano, with or without vocals Dave Grimsland • 720-841-1940
SAME DAY APPLE HARD DRIVES
iPhone, IPad, iPod, Macintosh Repair
LongmontMacRepair.com 303.827.3131
Now Featuring
House & Garden Premium Dutch Nutrients & Additives
1387 E South Boulder Rd., Louisville, CO
303.66.HYDRO (664.9376) victoryhydro.com
SWAGGER into the NEW YEAR with NEW WARES
10% off
Dog House Music
525 Courtney Way, Lafayette 303.664.1600 doghousemusic.com
We Offer Amazing Daily Specials on Top Shelf Strains, Edibles, Beverages, Concentrates, Pre-Rolls, Etc.! Ask us about the incredible member benefits we can offer you for making us your caregiver!
Swagger Glass Ware Now thru January 2nd Also featuring glassware from Glass Antixx, Magic Glass, Green Monster, Fire, Incredibowl & more THAT’S THE WAY WE DO IT! For medical marijuana patients only. 28th & Iris www.thefarmco.com
303.440.1323 Look for Flower of Life Infused Products at your favorite dispensary.
Caddy Corner to St. Julien • Free Parking West of 9th Street We Validate St. Julien Garage Parking
WHERE NATURE & MEDICINE MEET
FIRST TIME PATIENTS RECEIVE
www.floweroflifeinfused.com
20% OFF!
REAL MASSAGE • REAL PRICES
303.442.2565
NORTH BOULDER / LONGMONT 720.438.5642
Michelaii Massage
Open Everyday
5420 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder www.boulderwc.com
NEW DAILY SPECIALS
Now at The Bud Depot • 138 Main St., Lyons
303-823-6422
Siam Sensation Massage 720-385-4840 See ad on page 48
HOLOS HEALTH is back! A holistic medical practice, specializing in MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS 720-273-3568 • www.journey2life.org 5377 Manhattan Circle #204, Boulder
Dr. Joe Cohen, DO
Infused
Say goodbyE to rEStlESS nightS!
these Cbn capsules wont keep you up with psychoactivity because there is very little thC in them. What they are is a non-toxic pain relieving, anti-inflammatory sleep aid. 15mg Cbn - 5Mg Cbd - 2Mg thC
look for Flower of life infused Products at your favorite dispensary WWW.FLOWEROFLIFEINFUSED.COM
MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATIONS
$65 Renewals • $85 New • $50 with MMED Badge • $5 Notary FREE B.I.A. with 15 minute consultation only $65 (Savings of $50!) We have a state of the art Bio-Impedance Analysis (BIA) machine that measures body composition electronically so you get a complete evaluation of your current health and actually see the results as you improve! (Good for 1st time B.I.A. evaluations though 1/31/13)
Online appointments at www.journey2life.org or call 720.273.3568 5377 Manhattan Circle, Suite 204, Boulder • By appointment only M-F