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news & views 60, 61 and 101 would be disastrous Measures would cripple Colorado by Oakland L. Childers / 6 Humanity and baseball / 13 Locals launch outreach trips to benefit Kenyan children by Elizabeth Miller On the cover: Squatters’ rights / 14 Eldorado Springs residents say county is passing buck on sewer system by Jefferson Dodge

buzz Rebuilding Coliseum / 18 Kentucky band back to basics with new drummer by Oakland L. Childers Overtones: The Big Motif wants to make you groove / 23 Overtones: Boulder’s only back to school bash / 25 Arts & Culture: Martina Hoffmann’s world as art / 27 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Sophisticated Sex: What’s in your backpack? / 43 Cuisine: Crafty solutions for parents of picky eaters / 45 Cuisine review: Restaurante 100% Mexicano / 47 Elevation: How I got to Burning Man / 52 Screen: Takers; Going the Distance / 57 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 59

departments Letters: Fair is fair; A taste of his own medicine / 4 The Highroad: Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit / 4 In Case You Missed It: The war is overish; Poop in the coop / 11 Boulderganic: Tour de Coops brings farming home / 16 Police Blotter: Unexpected growth; Burglary bungled / 17 Puzzles: Crossword and sudoku / 63 Classifieds: Your community resource / 66 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 69

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Fair is fair [Re: “What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero,” Danish Plan, Aug. 26.] Paul Danish tells us what to do about a mosque a few blocks from the former World Trade Center. We build a giant display opposite the mosque showing the atrocities that religious fundamentalist terrorists have produced — not all atrocities, just those perpetrated by Muslims. The Danish Plan would have giant video displays rotating pictures as an in-your-face response consistent with the First Amendment. For consistency, we must apply this tactic to all the major religions. We will also erect a display opposite the National Cathedral in Washington. On this we will show the violence perpetrated by the Christian terrorists on our abortion clinics. Never mind that the National Cathedral is operated by Episcopals who have liberal ideas about abortion. The Danish Plan will group all Christians with any terrorist practices done in the Christian name. Ted Weverka/Boulder

A taste of his own medicine [Re: “Stripped of dignity,” News, July 15.] Mr. Ari Zavaras, [executive director of the Department of Corrections,] I read with horror the Boulder Weekly account of your practices within the Colorado Department of Corrections, particularly your “new” strip-search procedure: “Boulder

Weekly has received 10 hand-written letters from inmates at DWCF describing their experiences with the new strip-search procedure, which requires women to part and lift their labia and to pull back their clitoral hoods to prove that they aren’t hiding contraband in their vagina or vulva.” There is nothing new here. This is

The Highroad

igh-Low is a poker game that I’ve played in the past, but America’s biggest banks have twisted it into a flimflam in which the deck is deliberately stacked against their own customers. The key to this scam is the fee that bankers assess when your account is overdrawn. Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and others are raking in billions from these fees, and lately they’ve been dealing a joker called “high-to-low” check clearing that takes even more from unsuspecting customers. It works like this: Let’s say you have $200 in your checking account, and you write checks for 10 small purchases, totaling $200. Then, at the end of the month, you pay your utility bill of $200. Oops — there’s nothing left in your account to cover that, so you owe a $35 overdraft fee for your mistake.

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plain, old violence against women, and you are a perpetrator masquerading as a corrections official. Not only should you step down from your position, you should be sentenced to time in prison for your criminal activity. What you are perpetrating is nothing less than crimes against humanity. Jennifer Block/Boulder

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Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit by Jim Hightower But your bank statement arrives a week later, showing $350 in overdraft fees! What happened? A little fast shuffling by your friendly MegaBank. Rather than processing your checks in the order in which you wrote them, the bank cleared your highest-dollar check first, even though you wrote it last. By cashing the $200 check for your utility bill, the bank totally drained your account. This meant that each of those 10 small checks you

Danish got it wrong While I respect Mr. Danish’s right to free speech (“What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero,” Danish Plan, Aug. 26), I am also aware that whether something goes to print or not depends on the choice of a paper’s edisee LETTERS Page 6

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wrote earlier were cleverly shifted into overdraft status, forcing you to pay a fee on each of them — thus stinging you for $350 rather than the $35 you really owed. As one victim said of this finagling, “It’s crooked.” At least one federal judge agrees, having ordered Wells Fargo to repay $203 million to California customers who were jacked around by the high-tolow scheme, referring to it as “gouging and profiteering.” Yes, but highly lucrative! Wells Fargo says it will continue to play the high-to-low gouging game while it appeals the judge’s decision. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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tors. Letting Mr. Danish’s column go to print this time was a mistake, and something you should be ashamed of. Papers have a responsibility to print columns that, while certainly opinionated, don’t cite false information or spread false information. Journalism of any sort is about reporting the truth and giving accurate commentary on it. Mr. Danish’s column opens with the assumption that people organizing the mosque near Ground Zero are “Islamists.” Now, it could be assumed that an “Islamist” is someone who supports Islam, or is Muslim, in the same way that a “Buddhist” is someone who can be assumed to support or even follow the teachings of Buddha. But why not then simply refer to these people as Muslim? Actually, the word “Islamist” seems to be a conservative pop word, used in creating loaded talking points. Looking at it, we see that the word is inferred to mean, “ISLAMic ExtremIST,” or basically, “Terrorist.” So, I am arguing that Mr. Danish has all but accused these people of being terrorists, just by using that word. Add to that his ranting about how the Cordoba House is actually a triumphalist scheme in disguise, apparently pulled off by the same people that perpetrated 9/11, and we have Mr. Danish seriously accusing these people of conspiracy and terrorism. That’s not journalism, that’s simple street insults, and you printed it in your paper, for shame. The reality is that these are people who dared to believe in the American Dream of free religion, prosperity and equality under the law to the extent that they decided building a mosque dedicated to working against radical Islam within a few blocks of Ground Zero would be looked at as a sort of peace offering or, at worst, ignored. The reality is that naming the mosque after the city of Cordoba that Danish mentions being another secret triumphalist plot is in fact named so because Cordoba was a city in which Christians, Jews and Muslims co-existed in not only peace but great prosperity, learning from one another. Ryan D. Weeks Since you regard, not just this “mosque”, (in quotes because it will be a community center with a room to pray (“What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero,” Danish Plan, Aug. 26), just like the one they have in the Pentagon), but Islam itself as a threat to our democracy, then I have my own modest proposal: There are mosques and Muslims all over this country! 7 million of the buggers, last I heard. And they are all here to promote “sly Islamist religious triumphalism”!! They are all intent on 6 September 2, 2010

undermining our way of life!! What is wrong with you people, wasting your precious First Amendment rights on one lousy mosque?? The United States is teeming with terrorists!!!. Why are we limiting our troops to Afghanistan??? Why aren’t we sending ‘em into Dearborn, MI? Why aren’t you demanding the dismantling of all mosques in this country and rounding up all Muslims into interment camps like we did with the Japs in WWII??? How can you in good conscience call yourself a patriot? Is this the best you can do? Shame on you. Bob Levitt/Boulder

Personhood battle not over [Re: “Personhood revisited,” News, Aug. 26.] Ignorance is not bliss when human lives are at stake. Katherine Creel refers to a “fertilized human egg.” Hey Katherine, there’s no such thing as a fertilized human egg. Once an egg is fertilized, it is an embryo. I’m a former embryo and so are you. The Carnegie Stages of Early Human Embryonic Development states, “The term “egg” is best reserved for ... the breakfast table.” Monica McAfferty, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains spokesperson, said, “There’s no legal definition” for “the beginning of biological development.” It is a scientific definition that needs to be recognized by our laws, which is the goal of the amendment. Moore and Persaud’s The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology states, “Human development begins at fertilization.” The previously mentioned Carnegie Stages says, “Embryonic life commences at fertilization.” Everyone knows when life begins, and science makes it abundantly clear. If we’re wrong, Planned Parenthood is free to let us know when life begins. And while they’re at it, they can also let us know at what age it is no longer OK to rip a baby’s arms and legs off. The fact that the previous amendment failed 3 to 1 is very similar to the agonizing defeats incurred by those trying to restore legal personhood to blacks. They didn’t quit fighting for what is right and neither will we! Will Duffy/Englewood

DeCoster eggs has some explaining to do It now appears that the owner and feed supplier for Iowa’s giant Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, associated with the recall of more than 500 million eggs, has a long record of violations. Austin “Jack” DeCoster has paid see LETTERS Page 8

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60, 61 and 101 would be disastrous by Oakland L. Childers

atalie Menten, the voice behind the uber-libertarian movement to pass Amendments 60 and 61, as well as Proposition 101, has accused the groups working to stop those measures of using overblown scare tactics and deception to win support. It’s an interesting stance to take, given the cult-like secrecy that surrounds her side of the debate. An Aug. 30 story in The Denver Post says Menten became enraged by the proposed language describing the three measures to be used in the Blue Book because it offered an example of what would happen to the state’s budget if all three were passed. She claims the staff of the Legislative Council is biased against the measures, and suggests the Blue Book draft language be scrapped and the council resign. This after agreeing that the council’s numbers were correct in its fiscal impact statement. The most obvious example of secrecy in this campaign is the mystery surrounding the invention of the three measures. Though he denies complicity in the whole affair, all three are pungent with the stink of former state legislator Douglas Bruce — the man known for creating the ill-conceived Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR). He also got a lot of attention for kicking a photographer during a prayer in the state House. Yes,

he’s a classy guy. After spending a good bit of the summer dodging subpoenas and stalling court proceedings to avoid appearing at a campaign finance complaint hearing, Bruce’s dirty laundry was aired by one of his own: Michelle Northrop, one of two sponsors of Amendment 61. She testified that Bruce gave detailed advice to the sponsors not only about the language of the ballot measures, but other intricate processes associated with the signaturegathering campaign and getting the ballot approved by the Secretary of State’s Office. The similarities between TABOR and these new measures — how the campaign is run, the wording and the proposed end result — are too similar to ignore. Bits and pieces of some of Bruce’s past initiatives including Amendment 13 (petition rights, 1996), Amendment 21 (a laundry list of tax cuts, 2000) and Amendment 38 (a basic rehash of Amendment 13, 2006), are also obvious in the language of 60, 61 and 101. If Bruce himself didn’t write the measures, he was clearly the hero of whoever did. And that pool of people is drying up faster than a sidewalk in August. Finding someone who supports 60, 61 and 101 is like picking lice off an Old English Sheepdog. They are scarce and not exactly willing to offer themsee TAXES Page 9

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Thanks for ‘Dream’ story Just read the article “Dreaming of a future,” [News, Aug. 12] and wanted to say thank you for the very eloquently written article. Brenda Santamaria/Boulder

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“When I get out, let’s buy the dress and we’ll get married.” —Esteban Rojas, who has been trapped underground for about four weeks with 32 other Chilean miners, using a handwritten note to propose to his girlfriend “You will be beaten upside the head with a truncheon. And that’s it.” —Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking to dissidents who are holding rallies that are unauthorized “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” —President Barack Obama, referring to rumors that he was not born in the U.S. Boulder Weekly

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selves up. As far as scare tactics go, Menten and whoever else is behind these measures haven’t a leg to stand on. Putting a measure that promises taxpayers cash in hand during one of the worst financial periods our state and nation have ever seen is dirty pool, plain and simple. It’s like offering a starving man rotten meat: He knows it’s bad for him, but isn’t in a position to quibble about what might happen down the road. If the reaction to TABOR is any indication, few people want to eat this new batch of decaying flesh. In 1992, when TABOR was introduced for the third time after losing in 1988 and 1990, anti-tax sentiment was high. There was a recession that year, too. The measure was endorsed by 71 percent of the delegates at the GOP state assembly. And why not? The amendment requires voter approval of all new taxes and limited government spending, both things disenfranchised voters can get behind. It’s the real-world result of the amendment that took so many voters — supporters and detractors — by surprise. Here’s what the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., had to say about the effects of TABOR: “While there is some limited evidence that TABOR had a positive effect on employment growth in the five years immediately following passage of the law, this short-run effect was not sustained into the second half of the decade. Indeed, Colorado’s employment growth between 1998 and 2003 was far below those of comparable states.” By 2005 many Coloradoans were fed up. Referendum C — an initiative that allowed the state to spend the money it collected over its TABOR limit for five years on health care, public education, transportation projects, and local fire and police pensions, as well as eliminate refunds on taxpayer overages for five years and reduce these refunds thereafter — passed narrowly. In the years following, a number of groups, including all but four of Colorado’s 178 school districts, the state library system and numerous municipalities and counties, passed de-Brucing measures to get out from under the restrictive rules of TABOR. Conservative supporters of tax reform are generally well-meaning folks who just want to reduce the size of the government and give hard-working people a fighting chance at success without having to fork over nearly half their income in taxes. It’s a noble cause. But voting for any measure that promises those things, despite the consequences, is folly. Measures 60, 61 and 101 don’t come Boulder Weekly

off looking like a misguided effort to help Coloradoans get their piece of the pie. Rather, it seems like the vindictive reaction to all the de-Brucing that’s been going on the past decade. Sore losers are the worst kind of politicians. It’s also a bit misguided, as conservative values go, in that the measures, if passed, would require constant voting to get even the most basic things done. How is that “small government?” More than anything, 60, 61 and 101 endanger much of what makes Colorado run: our schools, our higher

education system, roads, bridges — you name it. It’s true that citizens can spend their money more efficiently than the government. But how many people, given the opportunity, would elect to pony up their tax rebate to build a new jail or pave a decaying road? Ask the good people of Minneapolis, where the I-35 bridge buckled and fell into the Mississippi, if taking care of bridges is something they’d rather leave to chance. All this to save some taxpayers $500 a year per household. A renter with only one car would get far less — only the

car registration fee plus the telecom fee and a 0.13 percent income tax reductions in the first year. Those behind 60, 61 and 101 are preying on the honest and well-intentioned ideology of conservatives who will be equally hurt by its consequences. The measures benefit no one, save a handful of megalomaniacs who are willing to trade public safety and security for personal vindication. That’s not nearly enough to make this deal worthwhile. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Poop in the coop There are so many things wrong with Wright County Egg facilities that picking out one seems a little silly. FDA inspectors found salmonella in nearly every conceivable place on the farm: in walkways, in chicken feed, on eggs and in the water used to wash the eggs. No, really. There were also maggots and flies, dead and living, “too numerous to count.” It’s a lot to take in. But one detail struck us as, well, monumental: eight-foot-high piles of manure. The poop was stacked so high and in so many places that doors to the chicken houses could not be closed, allowing all sorts of critters access to our nation’s egg supply. Even the chickens had to walk through the mess to get to their egg-laying area. Hillandale Farms, one of those under scrutiny, said it has already fixed most of the problems and is looking forward to returning to the egg-shipping business. Good for them, but we find it hard to believe they’ve truly removed 8-foot-deep piles of chicken poop in a way that wouldn’t cripple its ability to produce eggs. Trust whoever you want, but we’re going to substitute home fries for the breakfast omelet for a while. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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A miner problem We don’t think anyone expected officials in Chile to announce they’d found 33 trapped miners alive. But some of the joy and relief was soon squashed by the realization that the men, trapped 2,200 feet below the surface for a month following a collapse of their escape route, were way, way out of the reach of rescuers. We’re no psychologists, but the next bit of advice given to the families of the men, who just recently discovered their dads and husbands were alive and relatively well, seemed a little absurd. The families were asked not to tell the men that it would be at least two months and probably four until rescuers could reach them. Is it just us, or does that seem like information the trapped men could use? Granted, it wouldn’t be the easiest pill to swallow, but these men are made of some tough stuff, right? And what if knowing their stay will be a long one helps them prepare mentally? They have decisions to make and things to consider that no one on the surface could possibly imagine. Having the facts might help. The other option is to lie to them, over and over, until rescuers finally reach them. Somehow that doesn’t seem fair.

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The war is overish It’s a big day in Iraq. After seven and a half years of bloody combat in the streets, deserts and palm groves of Iraq, the end of “combat operations” was announced this week. On Wednesday Army Gen. Ray Odierno transferred U.S. military command to Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin. And you know what that means, right? Don’t you? Neither do we, and neither does anyone else. The “combat troops” are coming home, ostensibly forever. A mere 50,000 American troops will remain in the country until the end of 2011, CNN reported. Their mission will be to train, assist and advise the Iraqis. It should be noted that the Iraqis, the ones in charge and in the most danger of being brutally murdered as traitors once the Americans leave, don’t want the troops to leave. They aren’t ready to fight their own battles, and 50,000 troops won’t help. The real question is this: What constitutes a “combat” soldier? If, by some strange, inconceivable chance, one of the remaining soldiers is attacked and he fights back, is he not in combat? And when the rest of the soldiers go out looking for the attacker and his jihadist friends, is that “training?” We suspect the difference is academic to the soldiers left to wait out the arbitrary end of the war in Iraq while they engage in the futile task of rebuilding the Iraqi army they were charged with decimating less than a decade ago.

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Locals launch outreach trips to benefit Kenyan children

t wasn’t about religion, although the trip was organized by a missionary. And it wasn’t really about baseball, although most of the luggage was packed with sports equipment. But the trip to Africa that local residents Jim Cederberg, 55, and Drew Sauer, 28, went on last winter has them committed to returning regularly, bats, balls and gloves in hand. And yes, they go to teach baseball. But they say what they bring back is what matters. When a Boulder missionary approached Sauer at the bank where he worked and asked him to consider coming with her on a mission trip to Kenya in February, his response was that he’s not all that into Bibles. But she knew he was into baseball, and the children she was working with were desperate for recreational outlets, so she asked if he would consider coming to teach baseball to the kids. Sauer had gotten to know Cederberg, a local attorney, at the bank and had played baseball with him, and he knew Cederberg had been to Africa before. So Sauer got Cederberg involved. Cederberg had coached his own children, now in their 20s and 30s, through baseball leagues, and Sauer played baseball for Concordia University but had never coached sport. On Feb. 18, they flew to Nairobi, Kenya, joining a group of missionaries for 10 days of visiting orphanages and schools in rural areas. They arrived with eight duffle bags stuffed with donated baseball gear, including 100 baseball gloves. The kids went from treating the pair as outsiders to clumping around them at the end of the game, asking questions like “What does snow look like?” and “Why are we dying of AIDS while Americans are not?” “Once you get over there, the baseball definitely becomes secondary,” Sauer says. Their guide was one of the pastors who managed one of the orphanages full of children whose parents had died in the AIDS epidemic. Once, they were stopped by a woman whose children had been hit Boulder Weekly

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Drew Sauer, right, gives batting tips to a youth in Kenya

by a car. The pastor drove her to the hospital to see her children, and then drove her and her injured children to a bigger hospital about 25 miles away, with Sauer and Cederberg riding along. “When we first got there, they took us to this church compound thing, and this one pastor comes up to us and he looks me right in the eye and he says, ‘You do not accept the lord Jesus Christ as your savior, do you?’ and I’m thinking, ‘Oh God, 10 days of this?’ And it turns out, he was our guide,” Cederberg says. “And at the end of the time, we were leaving … and he hugged us and I mean, it was an embrace, and he said, ‘I love you.’ So we went from being about religion and what you believe, to being about we’re human beings. We all share this experience.” While missionaries do great work, he says, there was a sense they just didn’t get that idea of shared human experience. “Their religion got in the way of them really understanding the human connection. It was almost like they were selling a product, and that got in the way of them really understanding the connection,” Sauer says. “So for us, baseball got us closer to these people.” “We went over there with the attitude that we’re going to share the baseball, but we’re not really here to tell them something. We’re here to

learn. And I was kind of harping on Drew on that on the way over. We’re like a sponge — and we were,” Cederberg says. There’s just something about the game, he says. He talks about the smiles on the faces of girls who, in a culture where they otherwise see persistent inequality, are taught to throw and catch a ball just like the boys. At one orphanage, a little girl who had lost part of her hand in a fire hung back from the group of kids who were eager to play. Cederberg showed her how to slide the glove on and use it to catch a ball with just the fingers she had left. When asked what they want to be when they grow up, many of the kids said they want to be pilots, Cederberg says. “Pilot,” he discovered, is the word they use for the guy who drove him around. It’s confusing, he says, to come back from a place like Africa and look at spending money on something like remodeling the kitchen. Since returning, Cederberg has continued to send $600 a month to one of the pastors — a man whose house has never been built beyond a few feet of brick outline, who cares for a group of 30 orphans who pray in a windowless church, sleep in a metal, barn-like bunkhouse, eat food cooked on charcoal stones in a stick-and-mud kitchen, and consider a good meal

chopped greens and cornmeal mush. The money he sends pays for their food for a month. Anywhere Cederberg and Sauer went, other pastors approached them and asked them to come teach baseball at their orphanage, to come play with kids who had never seen a white person before. “There’s no way we can walk away from this,” Cederberg says. “It was obvious in the 10 days we were there we’d just barely started to scratch the surface.” They made the decision on the way back to America to start their foundation, 42-22 Humanity Through Baseball, which was just granted 501(c)3 nonprofit status. In December, they will return to Kenya with two other men interested in teaching baseball. They’ve scheduled themselves to teach at two or three schools a day, and will stay in the same guesthouse they did on their last trip, revisiting some of the same orphanages and schools, and then visiting a few new ones. This time, they will get to the Masai Mara, an area where the people are known for traditionalism, like the Amish in America. “The next trip we’re going to learn more about how things work, learn more ways to do stuff with orphanages,” Cederberg says. “It doesn’t have to all be baseball.” They’re doing some fundraising now, sending letters and e-mails to family, friends and business associates. They’ve collected bats and shirts. What they most want are used gloves, already broken in. And they want people who are interested in coming on this trip or ones in the future. After watching the way women struggle to achieve equality — and how playing baseball with the boys could help level the field — they’re hoping to find women who might set an example for the girls there. Cederberg is taking donations at his law office, 75 Manhattan Dr., #203 Boulder, as is Summit Bank & Trust, 2002 E Coalton Rd., Broomfield. Additional information is available at www.42-22.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 2, 2010 13

NEW SEWER SYSTEM

tic systems that were up to code. Still, he became a major proponent of installing a sewer plant that could accommodate the entire community’s needs. “I feel embarrassed in some ways, because I championed it, and now people are disappointed in me,” Sheldon says. The disappointment comes from the fact that now, with the project nearly complete, the property owners are being told to pay more than they originally thought. The community narrowly voted to reject an original sewer plant proposal that would have cost about $2.2 million. Then, in 2004, the voters approved a bond “not to exceed” $1.8 million, with a maximum repayment cost of about $3.1 million. Both amounts, the ballot said, were, if anything, to be reduced — “to the extent projected costs or loan rates have been overestimated, or to the extent additional sources of funding, if any, are secured.”

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COUNTY MISMANAGEMENT. The sewer project, which was managed by county officials, is costing more than the $1.8 million bond approved by Eldorado Springs voters in 2004. County officials argue it was clear from the start, based on county commissioners’ discussions at the time, that the $1.8 million would not be enough to cover the entire cost of the project, and that the homeowners should be the ones who pay for the new system in its entirety, since they are the only ones benefitting from the sewer plant. But the property owners say their 2004 ballot language clearly stated their debt for the project was “not to exceed” $1.8 million, and that the additional costs should be borne by the county, since county officials approved the overruns. If anything, they say, the debt amount should be reduced by the $400,000 in grants received for the project. They say their situation is a cautionary tale to homeowners in the county’s subdivisions who are considering forming a local improvement district (LID) to fix their roads, since those people may end up paying more than the $130 a year for 15 years that they have been promised. “I want to wave a red flag to the whole county about this,” says Alan Brown, a member of the Eldorado Sewer Advisory Committee (ESAC). “For some reason, they didn’t feel like they needed to be responsible to budgets. … Can the county do this again?” During an October hearing, the county commissioners are expected to approve how much each property owner will have to shell out to pay for the project — and what amount the county is responsible for paying.

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Longtime Eldorado Springs resident David Levin, an ESAC member who successfully helped lead the opposition against funding the sewer system in the first vote, acknowledges the $1.8 million figure was not a scientific estimate of what the project would actually cost. He said a group of about 15 residents held a meeting, offered their estimates on the price tag, added those up and divided by 15. “It’s a dumb way to do it, and $2.2 million was too low, so for sure $1.8 million was too low,” he says. County Commissioner Will Toor echoes that sentiment. “That number did not come from detailed engineering studies,” he says. “It came from the community, based on what they thought.” And, perhaps because of the lower price tag and the hope of grant money, the measure passed, setting up the expectation that $1.8 million would cover the entire cost. “The county allowed us to grow without ensuring that we had a system for disposing of the wastewater from a larger population,” Levin says. “We knew we had to have a system, otherwise the county claimed they would start condemning our houses.” As it turns out, Levin says, the thing that finally brought together opponents and proponents of the new sewer system was a common enemy: the cost overruns approved by the county. “Eventually, we all became united in opposition to the county staff ’s management approach,” Brown says. “Boy, that’s a sad story.” The county decided to save money on the project by managing it in-house and hired Fischer Construction as the prime contractor. Jones has a list of examples of what he says is county mismanagement of the project, from allowing the contractor to relocate grinder pumps and electrical substations at homeowners’ whims to having to buy additional land for the sewer plant. He also raises questions about construction problems he says haven’t been corrected in a timely manner. Sheldon adds communication was poor, and the committee found out about “change orders” — cost

ELDORADO SPRINGS SAYS COUNTY IS PASSING THE BUCK ON NEW SEWER SYSTEM by Jefferson Dodge

A storied community One thing most agree on was that Eldorado Springs was in serious need of a new sewer system a decade ago. David Jones, a longtime resident and ESAC member, paints a picture of the community’s colorful past while driving the winding dirt roads connecting homes tightly perched on steep hillsides. Artifacts show Native Americans occupied the area, and the town has been a destination for white folks for more than 100 years. Artesian wells and a resort are situated at the rocky crevice, where a railroad line to the Western Slope slips into the Rockies. Its historic swimming pool was built in 1905, and the resort was fre14 September 2, 2010

quented by the likes of former President Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Durante and Jack Dempsey. Glenn Miller reportedly played in the resort’s ballroom. During the early 1900s, Ivy Baldwin thrilled crowds with his tightrope walk over the canyon, 582 feet above its floor. The place is still a bit eccentric, a bit funky, and diverse, with million-dollar renovated houses sitting next to mobile homes. And in the early 2000s, most of the structures did not have suitable waste diversion systems. Many houses had systems that were more than four decades old. Some had homemade septic pits filled with gravel. Ken Sheldon, another ESAC member, says one home had a sewage pipe leading to an old car that had been buried in the ground — but not before being riddled with bullet holes to let the sewage seep out into the earth. There were reports of effluent leaking into the groundwater, if not into South Boulder Creek. State and county health officials were threatening to begin evicting residents if something wasn’t done. Sheldon was one of only 11 out of 95 Eldorado Springs homeowners who had installed individual sep-

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overruns — after the fact. “We weren’t involved in the process,” he says. “We were the client paying the money, but we had virtually no control.” Toor and Michelle Krezek, the county’s intergovernmental relations director, counter the perception that communication was lacking. Krezek notes that there were monthly meetings between the county and the advisory committee. Still, the committee wasn’t an official advisory board, which would have had a formal role and records, with bylaws and minutes. (A county request for applications to form such a group yielded no applicants.) “That has added to the communication issues,” Krezek says.

‘Trial and error’ Brown calls the hook-up of the sewer system “trial and error” and says lines were installed in the winter. “There were pipes that froze, and who’s going to pay for that?” he asks. Levin adds, “We’ve already had 10 percent of the grinder pumps fail.” Now, ESAC members say the project is at least $900,000 over budget and the county is balking at reducing the bond by the $400,000 in grants, as the ballot requires. ESAC members took up a collection around town to hire attorneys to explore their options. Half the residents kicked in $100 apiece. “That shows me the anger in town,” Levin says. What’s more, there have been isolated reports of residents who have refused to pay their sewer bill to the county and have even ripped out their new grinder pumps and electrical boxes. On a more civil note, one of the attorneys representing Eldorado Springs, Adam Chase of Hutchinson, Black & Cook, wrote a letter to Leslie Lacy of the county attorney’s office on July 21 pointing out the binding ballot language and protesting the additional costs. (Lacy did not return calls by press time.) Toor acknowledges that while the county is experienced in some areas, like road construction and maintenance, installing a sewer system was terra incognita. “To be fair, this is very different than anything we’ve ever done before,” he says. The county chose to go with a design-build contract, which Toor says means there was no hard cap set on the final price tag. (ESAC members say the agreement was, in fact, a fixed-cost contract, not open-ended. A copy of the contract obtained by Boulder Weekly lists the anticipated costs of engineering and construction at $1.86 million, and allows for change orders.) If the county had decided to pay for a design phase first, Toor says, the scope of the project would have been identified, and there could have been a fixed-cost contract for construction. But he says the whole thing would have been more expensive. “If it had been a fixed-cost contract, it would have been much higher,” Toor says. “We went with design-build because you can save money with that,” agrees Sheldon, who is a general contractor. Sheldon says he wishes the county had drawn the line and kept the contractor from exceeding the budget by so much. “That’s why I’m so critical of the management, because that’s what I do,” he says. “Why couldn’t they have stood on the contractor’s toes more? It felt like they rubber-stamped it to keep the project going.” (The county’s manager of the project, Jeff Callahan, Boulder Weekly

did not return calls by press time.)

A boulder the size of a VW The design-build model is much different from the design-then-build model, Toor says. You can’t have a fixed-cost contract on a design-build, he explains, because when you haven’t done the design phase in advance, you haven’t identified all of the issues and you have to deal with problems as they come up. And you can’t wait for the advisory committee to approve every change, Toor says, because it can be costly to delay the project for such decisions when a construction team is already in the field. “You start trenching, and you find a boulder the size of a Volkswagen,” he says. “Once you start it, you’ve got to finish it. … There were decisions that were made on the fly while managing a very complicated project we had never managed before.” Krezek adds that whenever the contractor encountered boulders, “there really wasn’t time to go to a committee meeting.” Sheldon counters that excavation around boulders does not account for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost overruns. “The additional costs were not about a boulder,” Brown, an architect, says. “What costs more is the addition of piping, grinder pumps and other equipment that was not in the original scope of work. Things were dug three and four times because it was not done right.” Toor points out that, in Boulder County, most homes are either hooked into a municipal sewer system and pay associated fees or have their own septic tank. He says that it would not be right to foot the bill for the Eldorado Springs system when the county does not do so for others. Toor explains that he doesn’t have a problem with subtracting the $400,000 in grants from the $1.8 million bond, but that $400,000 would then have to be made up by the homeowners in Eldorado Springs. To have the county pay for it would not be fair to the rest of the taxpayers. “We have money we hold in public trust for the rest of the county,” Toor says. “You can’t intentionally lowball it and then expect someone else to pay.” But ESAC members are insistent that the amount they owe is $1.4 million, because of the $400,000 in grant money they received, and that the county should eat the rest, since it was their mismanagement that caused the additional expenses. Toor acknowledges that the county should contribute something to the cost overruns, given its inexperience with managing sewer projects. The tally on the expenses that county officials feel responsible for is nearing $100,000. “We probably could have shaved the cost down a bit,” Toor says. “There is some responsibility that the county bears. … We are still considering what portion was legitimately borne by the taxpayers of Boulder County as a whole. … We are sympathetic to the concerns that the project may have been more expensive than it needed to be.” “We’re not good at building this type of infrastructure, because we don’t do it, but [the homeowners] didn’t have a lot of options,” Krezek says. “It was a real public health issue.” Toor attributes a significant portion of the cost overruns to the inflation of building expenses that occurred after 2004. For example, he says, the price of Colorado’s FastTracks project has seen a 35 percent increase due to inflation.

Toor says the contractor made every effort to hold down costs, even ordering grinder pumps early because they were found at a good price. In response to complaints that homeowners were allowed to change the placement of sewer-related equipment, Krezek acknowledges that, “in hindsight, we should have set the rules of engagement.” “It probably would have gone more smoothly if we had hired a project manager,” Toor adds. “But there would have been a cost associated with that.”

Next steps As for the county subdivisions considering the creation of LIDs to repair their roads, Toor says no bond will be issued without a formal vote approving that debt, and even a non-debt project will not go forward without majority support from the neighborhood. The hearing before the county commissioners to set the new annual amount each Eldorado Springs homeowner will have to pay won’t occur until the first part of October at the earliest, since the county is required to give the owners at least 30 days’ notice of the meeting and the new rates they will be charged. (The current average payment for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom house is about $900 a year, Levin says.) Toor and Krezek say the total cost of the project is $2.4 million, which is average for, if not less than, similar projects. Once the $400,000 grant is taken out — either from the bond amount or the excess costs — the price tag is $2 million. Remove the $100,000 the county is covering, and the cost is only $100,000 more than the $1.8 million approved in 2004, they say. “We’re not going to be talking about a large difference,” Toor says. “Ultimately, the cost the community will be paying will not be much different from that $1.8 million.” But ESAC members insist that there were also cost overruns related to a second LID created to pay for the sewer’s electrical system. They have not ruled out taking legal action against the county, as a last resort. They have circulated fliers around the community in recent weeks calling for residents to raise a stink by writing letters to the county commissioners, state legislators and newspapers. “Individuals with the county have abused their positions,” Brown says. “Our position is we shouldn’t be going to that hearing to increase taxation, we should be going to that hearing to decrease taxation. … If there was one mission of this volunteer committee, it was to control costs, and we failed. … It was easy for them to pass those costs on to [homeowners in] the LID.” “How often do they go over their projects by 40 percent?” Sheldon asks. “When it’s their wallet, they’re watching it.” Toor reiterates that county road projects are a different animal. They are much simpler, the county has experience doing them, they benefit many more residents, and changes can be made along the way to save money if needed. “We have had multiple road LIDs, and they’ve all come in on budget,” he says. Sewer systems, however, are another story. “Everybody in Boulder County pays for their own sewer system,” Toor says. “I think the facts are clear. The sewer needed to be built, and the people benefiting from it need to pay for it.” “This has been interpreted by novices who have no experience with design-build contracts,” Brown argues. “They have weaseled their way out of it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 2, 2010 15

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Pennsylvania Streets on the report of a felony menacing. The victim said he was in his house with some friends when a man entered. The victim asked the man to leave, and a verbal altercation began. The suspect then pulled a switchblade knife on the victim, causing a minor laceration to his chest. The victim’s injury did not require medical attention. The 20-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, menacing and underage possession of alcohol. Getting booze without ID According to the Boulder Police Department, on Aug. 27 a 20-year-old male was arrested after he admitted throwing a large rock through the glasspaned door of Sun Deli Groceries, at 2299 Pearl St., and taking a bottle of gin. According to the police report, he was charged with second-degree burglary and underage possession of alcohol. More charges for duo Back on March 27, Boulder police arrested two men suspected of a burglary at an unoccupied home in the Four Mile Creek subdivision in North Boulder. According to police reports, the men arrested were Nicholas Gene Dorrance, 47, and James Gurule, 45, both from Thornton. In the weeks following the arrests, police continued to investigate and were able to link the two men to 57 additional burglaries in the city of Boulder, as well as several others in Denver metropolitan police jurisdictions. On Aug. 25, arrest warrants were issued for both Dorrance and Gurule. Each is expected to be charged with 57 counts of burglary, two counts of attempted burglary, one count of theft and one count of criminal trespass in the Boulder crimes. Boulder police have photos of unclaimed recovered property on their website at www.boulderpolice.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t’s just like those people that got married at 18 and stayed together forever,” says Ryan Patterson, frontman of the Louisville, Ky., punk band Coliseum. “This lineup of the band feels like it should be the one forever. But who fucking knows?” Things haven’t always been so harmonious within Coliseum, which formed in 2003 with Patterson, bass player Mike Pascal and drummer Chris Maggio. After recording and touring on the band’s last record, No Salvation, it became clear to Patterson and Pascal that working with Maggio was no longer an option if they were to progress as a band. “We were not on the same page and we were never going to be,” Patterson says. “Being in a band is truly just like a relationship between a couple. The show is like the sex and the rest of the time is just enjoying each other’s company. With Chris we

tried for many, many years and it just didn’t work.” Patterson is vague about the specifics of the breakdown, but says the band struggled with its rhythmic identity: Maggio wanting to use the band to outlet his blistering, ultra-technical drumming as an entity all its own, and Patterson and Pascal needing a drummer to complete the rhythm section and be part of a singular sound. Something had to give. “That’s why most bands break up,” Patterson says. “I’ve been in those bands where it breaks up constantly and I knew Coliseum was never going to be that band.” With Maggio out of the picture, Coliseum found Carter Wilson, a drummer from Birmingham, Ala., through another Louisville band, Young Widows. Like Young Widows’ drummer

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Argentine Tango — Learn the most sensual dance known to man. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www. tangocolorado.org.

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Yoga Rocks the Park — Yoga, the outdoors and sweaty hippies. What could be more quintessentially Boulder? 2 p.m. Central Park, Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, Boulder, 970-390-4318.

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Dog Days of Summer — Bring your dog for a swim. 4-6 p.m. LaMont Does Outdoor Pool, 500 S. Boulder Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

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Flamenco Dance Technique — You’ll know all sorts of awesome dance moves after this week’s finished. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder. com.

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Chautauqua Silent Film Series — Flesh and the Devil. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4423282. Nick Thieneman

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McMonigle, Wilson’s approach to drumming is centered on the beat first and flamboyant flourishes second. Though many have argued that Maggio is the superior drummer of the two, his grandiose playing style often overshadowed the band as a whole. Wilson and Pascal’s playing styles are similar, making for a much firmer rhythmic foundation, something Patterson appreciates. “It honestly took a huge level of stress out of my life,” Patterson says. “We felt freed up that we didn’t have to be going 100 mph all the time. We can strip it down and have an actual drumbeat, then the guitar can move around a little. There’s more room for vocals.” The change is immediately obvious on Coliseum’s latest, House With A Curse, a powerful, rhythm-focused album of hard-edged burners and slower, ambling tunes reminiscent of the Jesus Lizard. For the first time in the band’s life silence plays a huge role in the sonic patchwork, and no one instrument or personality overwhelms the mix. It’s also noticeably slower-paced than anything Coliseum has done before. “In punk and hardcore, speed has become synonymous with energy,” Patterson says. “The challenge was figuring out how to make it energetic without playing super fast.” Patterson, a hardcore/punk veteran, has been a staple of the Louisville scene

for most of his life. He’s played in a host “I’d rather jump off a cliff and see of that city’s best-known bands includwhere it takes me than keep running in ing Black Cross, The National Acrobat, the same old circles,” Patterson says. “As The Enkindels and Metroschifter. His a human being you don’t wear the same guitar and vocal skills are renowned in clothes forever. You don’t keep the same the heavy music community. So what haircut. As life goes on you change. It’s was his first inclination when trying to the same with a band. Things just natudiscover his band’s new sound? rally happen.” He took piano Moving forward is On the Bill: lessons. a big theme with Coliseum plays the Marquis “I probably should Patterson, whose favorTheater on Thursday, Sept. 2.. Show at 7:30 p.m. Burning still be taking them,” ite bands are those that Love, Kingdom of Magic, he laughs. “But I got took something powerand The Black Sheep of Kali the general idea. I ful and used it as a open. Tickets are $8. 2009 Larimer St., Denver, thought the album stepping stone for new 303-292-0805 was going to have a artistic endeavors, not lot of piano and keyboards on it.” treading familiar ground. It’s not a trait The experiment did not go well. everyone is comfortable with. Despite his best efforts, Patterson’s key“Minor Threat broke up in 1983 and board creations never approached the Fugazi started in 1987. In that time (Ian level of his guitar playing. And the tunes MacKaye, the singer of both bands) that he produced didn’t exactly fit the went through a huge progression,” Coliseum mold. Patterson says. “Look at the changes “I immediately got to places that between Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand. were way too far away from what we That’s just the nature of art. Most every were trying to accomplish, but I think band I love changes a lot from beginning that was an important part of the proto end, and I don’t get broken hearted.” gression of the record,” he says. In the midst of touring in support of But the piano lessons may have been House With A Curse, Patterson says he a red flag that Patterson wasn’t content and the other members of the band are to keep doing the same thing over and already looking forward to the next over with Coliseum. He and Pascal had release. And for the first time ever a new, likeminded drummer and were they’ve got a bunch of songs ready to go. ready to turn the band’s direction Originally, the band planned to record around. House With A Curse with legendary pro-

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ducer J. Robbins, who fronted the D.C. post-hardcore band Jawbox throughout the ’90s and a host of other bands since. Just days before Robbins was scheduled to arrive in Louisville for the recording he had an emergency and couldn’t come. Robbins mixed the record, but the band still wanted to work with him as producer. They got their chance in July when, during a day off on tour, they met up with Robbins in Washington, D.C. His own studio was booked, but Don Zientara’s legendary Inner Ear studio wasn’t. So the band and Robbins holed up for an all-day session, writing and recording four songs from start to finish. “I kind of don’t want to have a threeyear break between records this time,” Patterson says. “We have three songs from the [House With A Curse sessions], a demo and the four songs from July with J. I feel like a year and a half from now having a new record out wouldn’t be a bad thing.” Whatever that record sounds like, it’s a safe bet it won’t be a rehash of House With A Curse. If people like it or don’t isn’t of great concern to Patterson. All he cares about is moving forward and doing what feels right. “There are people who will never dig our new record because they are No Salvation fans,” Patterson says. “You just kind of do what you do and see how things fall.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The Big Motif wants to make you groove by David Accomazzo

istening to a young band can be as fun as opening the door of an outhouse. Unfocused songwriting and lackluster instrumentation, spoon-fed by the blind adoration of equally young, equally uninformed fans, can make for an unpleasant experience, to put it mildy. But every now and then an exception comes along, a band whose impressive energy and sharpened chops surpass their youth. These are usually the lifelong musicians fortunate enough to meet as teenagers and who have played together for large parts of their lives. Denver’s The Big Motif is one of these bands. Drummer Jeff Jani, 19, bassist Hunter Roberts, 19, and guitarist Tony Pacello, 21, met five years ago in a contest for young musicians hosted by 103.5 FM DJs Lewis and Floorwax. The DJs were looking to create a band of musicians under the age of 16, and Jani, Roberts and Pacello were three of the seven chosen as winners. The ensemble drifted apart, but the three stayed together and continued to write songs and grow tighter as a unit. “It just didn’t really work out, because obviously, we didn’t form ourselves,” Pacello says. “So obviously there wasn’t the chemistry with everybody, and everybody didn’t have the same taste in music, but Jeff and Hunter and I kind of clicked musically and intellectually too, and started to become really good friends.” So the three stuck together, originally calling themselves The Running Wild Band. Pacello says their first attempts at songwriting produced songs in the classic rock vein, but he adds that the band’s sound has evolved since those early days. In fact, it seems to be mutating rather than evolving — blink

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once, and the band is dabbling in a new genre. The group’s self-titled, five-song EP — which dropped last fall to rave reviews from local media — is nearly 30 minutes of funky, jazz-laced grooves, heavy on now-departed-for-college saxophonist Sam Crowe’s contributions. Now, with the quartet downsized to a trio, Pacello says the group’s sound once again has shifted. “Yeah, I always have a hard time trying to label our sound,” Pacello says. “It’s definitely not all the way bluesy, definitely not all the way rock, not all the way jazz. It’s kind of an eclectic sound. ... I’d say it’s a mix between funk, jazz, rock and blues, with the rock and blues being the most apparent sound out of it all. It’s hard to explain. You almost have to listen to it.”

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For now, the members of The Big Motif are juggling school and work, trying to leave time for music. To make some cash on the side, they cover popular songs at bar gigs. But those gigs are just the means to support the end goal: playing venues where people come to listen to the music, not just to get a drink. “We love playing those gigs where people come for the music,” Pacello says. “Then again, you have to pay your dues by playing the bar gigs, making some cash. So yeah, we’ve definitely stayed busy from both sides of the spectrum.” There’s not much room in the music scene these days for the jam-oriented grooves The Big Motif favor. The band is still in the early stages of building a following and establishing themselves on the scene, but the group recently passed some significant milestones. They now have a manager and a publicity guy, and they played the Underground Music Showcase this summer. They want to change the focus of their songwriting, too. “[We’re writing] a lot of breaks ... places that are just not that typical, you know what I mean? Not just that [simple blues structure], and trying to write more melodic guitar lines instead of just soloing, and stuff like that,” Pacello says. The future is wide open for The Big Motif. Their talent affords them the freedom to take their music in whatever direction they want. Whether they do funk, rock, blues or even “experimental blues,” as Pacello likes to call it, The Big Motif have lots of options, and regardless of what path they choose, they should be one of the more exciting bands to watch on the Front Range. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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city as they see fit and rock DJ sets in dive bars and warehouses. When they decide to pick up the mic, it’s Foreman, Nation and their laptop on the beats — simple as that. Though they began touring with musicians on keyboards and drum machines, they’ve found that simpler is better. “It was kinda more trouble than it was worth,” Foreman says of their former backup musicians. “I see a lot of bands these days who started with the bare bones stuff, and that’s why it was cool, who then went into the full production deal. … We don’t need that many distractions; the beats kind of speak for themselves. We like to keep it simple and raw.” Nation says his version of simple, raw fun is to rap about “drugs and big rims and fat asses … pretty much living like you’re kids, just having fun and trying to survive and the fun they still can have.” “When you come to one of our shows, you’re Colorado’s award-winning restaurant and music venue for adults of all ages. We can also host your business meeting or private event.

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coming to a party,” Foreman says. “There’s a lot of people out there doing what we do, but for all the wrong reasons. It’s not to get bitches; it’s not to like, do whatever; it’s because we just want to have fun with you.” The last time Cobraconda played The Fox, the booze bit back and Nation wrecked himself on a loose beer bottle on stage. “I was standing on a monitor,” he says. “We pretty much had a 12-pack of beer bottles on stage with us, and I stepped right onto one and kind of stutter-stepped, my foot just snapped. … I didn’t really have time [to recuperate] — it was our second song.” “Short of one of us dying,” Foreman points out, “I don’t really see what would stop one of our sets. And if one of us died and the other one knew the rest of the material, I have a feeling the show would go on anyway.” So while these two might not be the typical band you’d expect to play role model for the new students’ impressionable minds, they offer some valuable advice. “It’s up to you to make your scene, especially in a town like this,” Foreman advises. “You can’t just expect all this shit to be thrown, so get active. If you want something to happen, if you want a band to come, do it, get it done. That was one of the biggest appeals in Austin [Texas] for me. … They were taking it into their own hands, booking [their friends’ bands] coming through on the road, y’know? House parties with touring acts. It was awesome. “I think there’s a good young scene here,” Foreman says. “It just needs a little bit of kickin’ in the ass from the older boys. I’ll take that job if I have to.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Martina Hoffmann’s world as art

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the most direct type of art; it’s a tool for understanding spirit and otherworldliness.” Hoffmann’s husband, internationally acclaimed painter Robert Venosa, is also often labeled as a visionary artist, although their styles and subject matter differ markedly. “We both paint in a similar vein, but Robert likes to paint the astral planes, and my emphasis is on the inner planes and the mystical experience,” Hoffman says. “I like to bring awareness to how we can all access expanded states of consciousness, through meditation, shamanic work, or whatever it takes. It’s such an important thing to tap into right now as the Earth is going through so many changes. We really need to change our awareness as a planetary unit and a global community.” In an effort to spread this message, Hoffmann and

Venosa spend a majority of their time traveling around the world teaching workshops and doing live painting performances at music festivals. Their workshops focus on helping people tap into their own unhindered creativity while also teaching them modern approaches to time-tested painting techniques. “Often there’s a tremendous amount of fear in people when they start with the creative process,” Hoffmann says. “Everyone has incredible insights within them at any given moment, and we’re just trying to offer people an approach to make those insights more available.” When they’re not traveling and teaching, Hoffmann and Venosa spend their time painting in their home studios in Boulder. “Boulder is a wonderful base. It offers the right combo of healthy organic lifestyle and good consciousness,” Hoffmann says. “People are very awake here, and they know what’s important in life: a healthy body, a healthy mind and a good spiritual base.” Hoffmann is adamant that art has great value, not only as a transcendent experience, but also as a force that shapes and structures the material world. “In mainstream society, art is considered a luxury, something that’s only acceptable for the chosen few. People think that artists just have a good time and goof off,” Hoffmann says. “Robert likes to say that if you look around, everything that you see was created by an artist at a certain point. Behind every object, there’s always an artist that combined functionality with a certain appealing shape. Art is the fundamental structure of our lives; it’s an amazing service.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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music By All Means. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jalbatross. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Kyle James Hauser. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628. Live Jazz with George Nelson. 6:30 p.m. Carelli’s Italian Restaurant, 645 30th St., Boulder, 303-938-9300. Live Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Mr. Anonymous & The Black Bridge Crew. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. Rhythm on the Rails Concert Series — With The Ugli Stick. 6:45 p.m. Whistlestop Station, First Avenue and Murray Street, Niwot, www.niwot.com/ events/. Randall Dubis Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Romano Paoletti Open Stage. 8-10 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Souls Squared. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Adobe DreamWeaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tango-

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8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

colorado.org. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Basics of Blogging. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder. com. Colorado WeatherWhys for the WeatherWise. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Comedy Works Presents — Kevin Fitzgerald. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Gindi Cafe Gay Night. Every Thursday night. Gindi Cafe, 3601 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 720-242-8961. Healing Meditation with Alan McAllister. 7-8:30 p.m., Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Ste. 307, Boulder, 303-545-5562. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-7867050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. The Wood Cut Print Exhibit. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Through Sept. 25.

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The Average Joe Band. 10:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. The Big Motif. 9 p.m. Hodi’s Half Note, 167 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-4722034. Blackdog — With Sally Van Meter. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues Torch. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bluez House. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Boulder Acoustic Society. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510. Boulder’s Only Back To School Bash — With Cobraconda, Willdabeast and Umconsious. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Brad Goode Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475. Funkiphino. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jeremy Dion. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Paul Kimbiris. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Phat Daddy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Vampire Weekend — With Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda

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Boulder/Denver Area BioLounge — Rotating exhibit of art and science. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892. Charles Deas & 1840s America — Oil paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Nov. 28. Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess — Various artists. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 13. Exposure: Photos from the Vault — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Oct. 31. Humor & Pathos — Artwork by Gary Sweeney.

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Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 5. Leanin’ Tree Museum of Western Art — Various artists. 6055 Longbow Dr., Boulder, 303-530-1442. Mi Frontera Es Su Frontera — Artwork by Tony Ortega. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 5. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery I — Paintings by Melinda Myrow. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through Sept. 30. NCAR Community Art Program Gallery II — Paintings by Roger Mordhorst. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through

Sept. 25. Shape and Spirit: The Lutz Bamboo Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 19. Shaped by Culture: New World Landscapes — Photographs by Edward Ranney. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 26. Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 9. A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer’s Anthology Paintings. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 31.

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words Thursday, September 2 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year Panel Discussion. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Sunday, September 5 Conversations in English — For nonnative English speakers. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, September 6 “So You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder,

Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Whiskey Bottles. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

events Art Opening at Studio 108. 6-10 p.m. Studio 108, 4949 N. Broadway, Boulder, 303-518-7112. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427. Boulder Designers Group for Women. 6-8 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. NoBo Night Out — Monthly artists showcase. 6-9 p.m.Various locations in North Boulder. 303-442-3142. Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5440008. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Upslope Brewing Co.Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, Sept. 4

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108. The Big Motif. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Weekly

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Tuesday, September 7 Margaret Coel’s The Spider’s Web. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. John Shors’ The Wishing Trees. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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David Boylan Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dovekins and Mucca Pazza. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. Easy Bill. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Gov’t Mule — With The Avett Brothers, Truth & Salvage Co. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. Ironwood Rain. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. J.L. Baker. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Mestizo. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mighty High Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Wildgrass —With David Williams. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www. averybrewing.com. Beer Garden. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Rib House, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-4427427. Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877. Boulder Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue September 2, 2010 31

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and Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, 303-9102236. Legend of the Tarantula — Travelling exhibit. The Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 W. 104th Ave., Westminster, 303-469-5441. Through Nov. 28. North and South, the Musical. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tour de Coops — Tour backyard chicken coops, farms and more. 2-5 p.m.Various locations. 303-908-3054.

Sunday, Sept. 5

music AOA. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Chris Thompson Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Irish Session. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jazz Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Mello Cello Sunday Brunch. 11 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683. Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324. Willie Nelson. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494.

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Avery Tap Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning Hawaiian Hula Class. 5:306:15 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Continuing Hawaiian Hula Class. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. Ocean’s Eleven (1960). 8:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696. Planetary Healing and Harmony Teleclass — Teachings and meditation. 8 a.m. For more information, call 720-3013993. Sunday Afternoon Tea — Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612. Yoga Rocks the Park. 2 p.m. Central Park, Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, Boulder, 970-390-4318. 34 September 2, 2010

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music Electric Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jay Ryan’s BigTop — Open stage. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave.,Arvada, 303-4636683. Jazz Jam with Brad Goode. 7 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-0475. Open Bluegrass Pick. 5 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303440-5858. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1, Boulder, 303-4435108. Spring Creek. 1 p.m. Central Park, Broadway and Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

events 180 Degrees South. 7:30 p.m. Patagonia Boulder, 1212 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-4792387. Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous — Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www. BoulderCountyAA.org. Dog Days of Summer — Bring your dog for a swim. 4-6 p.m. LaMont Does Outdoor Pool, 500 S. Boulder Rd., Lafayette, 303-6650469. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273. Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. “So,You’re a Poet” — Open mic poetry. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, Sept. 7

music Bluegrass Pick and Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350. Dexter Pane. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jazz Night with Supercollider. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Kevin Dooley & Friends. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757. Malah. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Boulder Weekly

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n Aug. 26, Boulder Weekly celebrated its 17th birthday with a party at the Boulder Theater. The event featured a performance by magician Draco Alexander, classic rock by Hindsight and special guests, and a tribute to Colorado Senate President Brandon Shaffer (D-Longmont) and others who assisted in Editor Pamela Whiteâ€™s successful effort to end the practice of shackling women inmates in labor. In the top row from left are BW Circulation Manager Cal Winn, who served as emcee for the evening; Weekly staffers Mark Goodman and Francie Swidler flanking Susan Winter of the Rolf Institute; Boulder Weekly Publisher Stewart Sallo; 9-year-old mandolin player extraordinaire Bella Betts; and magician Alexander. In the second row are Alora Clatka, Callie France and Mia Sallo; fiddler Ruth Jacobs; Kelly Crandall and BW staffer Katherine Creel; intern Eli Boonin-Vail striking a pose; and Boulder Weeklyâ€™s four Daves: Hasson, Accomazzo, Kirby and Grimsland. In the bottom row are Irina and Dave Grimsland; Hindsight bass guitarist Brian Otenberger with his daughter Erin; and Boulder Weekly matriarch Jane Sallo with her four granddaughters: Sarah Joyce, Julia Sallo, Mia Sallo and Rachel Joyce.

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Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Avery Tap Room. 4 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4404324. Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028. Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m. Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464.

Goal Setting and Outdoor Adventure for Women. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.

Open Mic Poetry and Music — Hosted by Rob Geisen and Olatundji Akpo-Sani. 8 p.m. The No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder. Production and Lighting Techniques for Video. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Salsa Night — Lessons and open dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. WordPress: Managing Content. 1-4 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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theater The Dinner Detective — Murder mystery show and dinner. Embassy Suites Hotel, 7525 E. Hampden Ave., Denver, 888-575-3884. Sept. 4. Guys and Dolls. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 23. Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Oct. 24.

Mulan. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 4. North and South: The Musical. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826. Sept 4. Peter Pan. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 4.

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music Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Clamdaddys Transcendental Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Danny Meyer. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4404628. Kamikaze Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273. Mister Tim. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303443-5108. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ray Francis & Lauren Michael. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Reggae Wednesday — With Rude Boys. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Shodekeh — Presented by Conference on World Affairs. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center Ballroom, CU campus, 303-492-2515. Stray Dog. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Flesh and the Devil. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282. Compulsive Eaters AnonymousHOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740. Denver/Boulder Drupal Meetup. 6:30 p.m Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350. Healing Space — With Alan McAllister. 12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562. Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m.. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com. Tea, Talks,Transformation — With Linda Lawson. 6:30 p.m. Boulder. For location, call 720-301-3993. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270. Upslope Brewing — 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com. Vajrayana Buddhist Meditation. 7 p.m. Mipham Shedra, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-449-0319.

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Saturday, Sept. 4 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Just Write — Creative writing for middle and high school students. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club — Learn to play the game known as Go. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, Sept. 8 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

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heila went to a financial planning convention last weekend. She intended to take home information about retirement, life and disability insurance, and how much to save versus spend. Instead, she took home Mike. Sheila never dreamed that she would have the best sex of her life one steamy night at a Marriott with a man she just met over a discussion on stocks and bonds. Mike never imagined that he would pay $800 to learn about money just to blow off the majority of seminars in order to have mind-blowing sex with a stranger. But when Mike saw Sheila, he was instantly attracted. Maybe it was the pheromonal chemistry, or maybe it was the way she twirled her strawberryblond hair around her slender finger. Either way, Mike was mesmerized. Luckily, Mike kept up with his sex education through Boulder Weekly, and he knew he had to seduce Sheila to pique her interest. He started by offering her a coffee and some dark chocolate mints, and then complimented her courage on attending a male-dominated conference. She laughed at this, but allowed him to sit next to her. The seduction continued as they lubricated their brains with rousing conversation, from religion to rock climbing. Mike then invited Sheila to lunch and continued to seduce her with calamari and a bottle of local Chardonnay. Eager to take it to the next stage, Sheila slipped her foot out of her heel and slid her toes up Mike’s leg under the table. And so begins the sensation, or arousal, stage where Mike and Sheila went up to her hotel room and continued to touch, fondle and electrify each other’s necks, legs and lips. Knowing it was only one night, Sheila surrendered to the most powerful orgasm she ever experienced. Mike joined in with loud moaning, and neither cared too much about what they sounded or looked like. It was only one night, and they’d never have to see each other again. Or so they thought. As they lay there in bed, reflecting on their post-orgasmic bliss, they realized the whole experience was so delicious, it begged to be repeated — 20 minutes later. Then two hours later. Boulder Weekly

Then again after room service dinner and a pay-per-view movie. By the end of the seminar, they had a stockpile of positive experiences to reflect back upon — and thus decided to meet once every few months to have a sexual rendezvous. Sheila and Mike underwent a positively perfect example of Dr. David Reed’s model of human sexual response. They experienced seduction, sensation, surrender and, finally, reflection. The reflection stage is a time to look back over the sexual episode and size up its worth. If we felt good and all the stages were satiated — seduction, sensation, and surrender — then we often look forward to a repeat sex session. If we felt bad or unfulfilled, then we may steer clear of future sexual encounters. Sometimes we reflect back not only on the latest sexual incident, but also the past few ones, or events as far back as childhood. As pleasurable as the most recent sex might have been, our past will still affect how we experience the world in the present. It’s like we are carrying backpacks into the bedroom. Some of us go mountaineering and some of us go ultra-light. What we stow in the backpack shapes how we have sex and how we feel about it. If you suffered from sexual trauma, you may face some blocks with sexual intimacy. Getting rid of these items may mean unpacking and sorting through stuff with a partner, friend or therapist. It may also mean adding updated items such as new, enjoyable sexual experiences. Like Sheila and Mike, if you start collecting appetizing sexual adventures, your backpack will be filled with more positive than negative — and those fun times can help drive you forward. So pop open a bottle of port, plug in the disco ball, and pull out the old shag rug from the early days when you did it on the floor. If you prefer to be in bed by candlelight with soft jazz in the background, that’s cool too. Either way, it’s time to re-pack your bag and get on the trail. There are many exciting sexual escapades waiting to be experienced — and remembered. Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www.theintimacyinstitute.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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anya Wenman Steel gets “And there’s the problem,” Steel the whole feeding-chilsays. “You have to be the ultimate dren-is-a-challenge PR person for spinach. You’ve got thing. to be a spokesperson for the deliThe “eat this”, “no I ciousness of fresh food. And that won’t!” power plays. means not just talking the talk, but The nose-wrinkling and poutwalking the walk and eating that ing that create dinner table havoc. way every day in front of them.” She’s mom to 12-year-old twin • Start ‘em early: Despite “terriboys, co-authored the tip-packed ble 2 moments,” Steel says, “that’s Real Food for Healthy Kids cookthe time to put spinach pie on their book with Tracey Seaman and is tray when they feed themselves editor-in-chief of epicurious.com. because they will just eat. There As good-food guru at the webhave been studies that show kids site, she’s traveling this summer for need to try things over a dozen Epicurious’ annual farmers’ market times to really get used to the flatour and has participated in food vor, the taste and the smell.” festivals at Walt Disney World. • Challenge teens: Say to teens And it’s why she has talked and (particularly boys), “I think I’m talked with parents about picky going to challenge you to make this Tanya Wenman Steel reveals tips on how to get kids to eat healthy during a visit to the proeaters (“the world’s most ornery taste really good,” she says. “Use duce section. food critics”), getting young kids in the word ‘challenge’ and try to the kitchen and to the market, and appeal to their competitive side.” her “personal obsession” with healthful eating — Ask them to pick out fruits and vegetables with • Institute “no, thank you” bites: “They just have that is, healthful food plus “a healthy attitude about intense colors (they’re typically the most nutritious) to taste one tiny bite, that’s all we’re asking and food.” but also ask them what they find appealing. that’s the rule of the house,” she says. “I am a huge Here are a few of her tips for parents: She suggests involving them in the decisionproponent of ‘You’re the parent; they’re the child.’ • Healthy attitudes start early: “At 2, have them making and preparation, with questions and follow- We’re not negotiating. We’re not short-order cooks. sit on the floor and tear lettuce. You can have them up comments, such as: “Do these Brussels sprouts Nobody should be making six meals.” wash sugar snap peas. You can have them stir,” look really fun to you? We can make them taste • Foods kids like: Steel suggests edamame (fresh Steel says. “At that age, it’s more about the fun. You really good. We can roast them.” soybeans), popular as appetizers and sold at food don’t actually care if they get the lettuce washed. “Part of that ‘I don’t like that’ is ultimately a courts. “If you make edamame, you just put it in the Try not to worry about the mess, which will go on power issue,” Steel says. “You don’t want it to be. microwave and add just a little bit of coarse salt,” for the next 10 years. It’s more about creating a fun It’s very important that food is food. It should not she says. “It’s like eating potato chips. Some parents environment and warm memory and a Pavlovian be about taking or giving power.” would never think of giving them to kids, but they instinct that the kitchen equals fun.” • Introduce a range of foods: “Parents say to me, should. And raw broccoli? Have them wash them • Take that attitude to the market: “Teach kids ‘My kid doesn’t eat.’” When Steel asks them if they and pull out the stems and make a dip for it.” that you should always shop around the perimeter eat — and sing the praises of — healthful foods • Watch portion sizes: “Portions are incredibly of the store. That’s where the freshest things are,” such as spinach or seven-grain bread, the parents Steel says. admit that they don’t. see PICKY Page 48

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orth Boulder’s Restaurante tones associated with red chile pork, this 100% Mexicano, which has tamale carried a mild flavor reminiscent of been open a little more than white sauce — in fact it reminded both of a month, is the latest local us of a comforting serving of pot pie. Most eatery to deliver an authenimportantly, the veggies and cheese were tic “south of the border” street food experiproperly balanced with the masa cornmeal. ence. All too often, what passes for a tamale Hidden in the Diagonal Plaza mall, these days consists of way too much corn100% is not an easy place to find. But if meal versus the rest of the filling. you can make your way to the DMV, you’ll “Unctuous,” was Cynthia’s one-word discover it across the hall. This is a trip verdict describing the inherently fatty worth taking to experience this venue’s qualities of the $3 chicharron gordita value and comforting-yet-simple fare. drizzled with green salsa. Indeed, these It’s an unapologetically casual spot, bits of pork skin had a superlative meltwith at-the-counter ordering and a selfin-your-mouth quality that should be service condiment bar featuring fresh pico limited to one serving a year due to de gallo, red and green salsas, and slices of health concerns. The spice of the green radish and lime. The menu encompasses salsa balanced out the protein’s deep such street food staples as tacos with richness. freshly made corn tortillas, quesadillas, A cross between a sandwich and a tamales with a multitude of stuffings, and taco, the gorditas consist of fillings s most folks know, tortillas come in two distinct forms, corn torta sandwiches. There’s also a selection between thick homespun corn tortillas and flour. Corn tortillas have been around longer and preof platos, such as tequila-sautéed shrimp with a wonderfully handmade appearance. date European conquest of the Americas. Mayan legend and a decent $9.75 carne asada platter Cynthia’s steak, cactus leaves and onion holds that these discs of alkaline-treated maize were originally that I sampled on an earlier visit. This gordita was another winner, with strips of cooked to feed a peckish monarch. While many, myself particular choice was generously portioned tender meat interlaced with surprisingly included, prefer the rustic feel of corn tortillas, their susceptibiliwith flavorful beef set off by pungent delicate cactus, which could easily be misty to breakage doesn’t lend themselves to the load-bearing roasted chile. Weekends feature both taken for slow-cooked bell pepper. demands of the modern burrito. Enter the flour, or wheatmenudo and the spicy stew known as I ended with a duo of $1.75 lengua based tortilla, to fill this architectural need. Increasingly, the birria estilo jerez. (tongue) tacos. For the less adventurous, flour version also appears to be showing up as the base for torJournalist pal Cynthia and I stuck to beef carne asada and both al pastor with tilla chips, a truly questionable development. more basic items for lunch. Unfortunately, fruit marinade and carnitas pork are also we struck out on our attempts to sample available. On an earlier visit, the tongue the $5.50 chicken soup and $1.99 pork spice. This was one of the better versions I’ve tasted, was dead-solid perfect. This time, while tamales, since they weren’t available. Nor were the with satisfyingly creamy flavor, not too much sugar the texture was appropriately velvety, the meat sufpineapple or cantaloupe agua frescas (“Not much of a and a light cinnamon bouquet. fered from a surplus of salt. Nevertheless, this onecheese shop, is it?”), which I had enjoyed previously. Indulging a street food craving, Cynthia started time quibble won’t prevent me from future visits to Consequently, I contented myself with a large $2 with a $1.99 meatless tamale, stuffed with cheese, car- this bargain-priced spot. horchata, the sweet rice milk drink with a hint of rot, potato, corn and peas. Rather than the peppery Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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TIDBITES Food happenings around town Hop on for hops The West End Tavern and Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours are teaming up with three local breweries for the new Boulder Brew Bus North tour, happening every Saturday from Sept. 26 to Oct. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Guests board the bus outside the West End Tavern and head to the first stop, Left Hand Brewing Company, for VIP access and tastings of their delicious beers, like the Milk Stout. Stop number two is Oskar Blues Brewery, one of the Top 25 American Brewers, according to Beer Advocate. Stop number three is a visit to Colorado’s first microbrewery, the Boulder Beer Company, a 50-barrel brewhouse with award-winning beer. From there, it’s back to the West End

Tavern for a complimentary appetizer and a selection of 20 different beers on tap and more than 34 craft bombers. The cost is $50 per person, and you must be 21 or older. For more information or to reserve your seat, call 303-444-3535.

Jim Beam me up, Scotty Restaurant 4580 in north Boulder will host its second annual Star Trek Night on Sept. 8 to commemorate the launch of the original Star Trek series in 1966. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. and include “alien” cocktails, Trek trivia and more. Restaurant 4580 is located at 4580 Broadway. For more information, call 303-4481500 or visit www.restaurant4580. com.

Please pass the salt

by Julia Edwards

o some, the label “reduced sodium” may as well say “reduced satisfaction.” Those people are genetically geared to seek out that salty taste because it offsets other unpleasant flavors they find in food, according to a recent study by Pennsylvania State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “Supertasters,” as dubbed by food psychologists, experience flavors such as the sourness of lemon, the bitterness of cheese or the zing of soda more intensely than “non-tasters” and use salt to mask the potency. While food brands are offering more reduced-salt versions of household favorites to lower Americans’ risk of high blood pressure and stroke, supertasters, who make up an estimated 25 percent of the population, may be slow to make the salt sacrifice. The findings of the study may tell manufacturers which foods are worsened when they skimp on salt. Low-sodium cheese,

for example, was reported as too bitter by supertasters who normally depend on salt to dull its sharp taste. John Hayes, assistant professor of food science at Penn State, advises supertasters to mind their sodium. Salt often sneaks into processed food where we wouldn’t expect to find it, such as cereal and bread. Hayes suggests checking labels to be sure each serving does not exceed 480 milligrams of sodium. “Think of having a certain salt budget to spend,” Hayes says. “Spend it wisely on things you need.” The Institute of Medicine suggests a sodium budget of 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams per day, half of what is found in the average American’s diet. Can the supertaster become sodium-savvy? Yes, but it may take some discipline if the need for salt is in your genes. Still, “biology is not destiny,” Hayes says. “Food is a choice.” (c) Chicago Tribune —MCT

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important. Portions are probably half of what parents think they should be,” Steel says. “You should actually be giving small portions, particularly when it’s a treat. “It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to tell the brain it’s full. So I always start my kids with fresh veggies. ... By the time they’re eating 48 September 2, 2010

dessert, hopefully it has been 20 minutes, and they’re going to say, ‘I don’t need another thing to eat.’ But if they do, give them whatever fruit is in season that will satisfy the sweetness they’re craving.” (c) 2010, Chicago Tribune —MCT Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ne, two buckle your it’s done. shoe. Three, four knock at the door. Blueberry Buckle Five, six pick up 1 1/4 cups flour sticks. Seven, eight 1/4 tsp. salt this dessert will be freakin’ great. 1 tsp. baking powder That last part of this classic nurs1 tsp. allspice ery rhyme was all me. I’m sure I didn’t 1/4 cup unsalted softened butter need to point that out, but you never 3/4 cup brown sugar know. Just add “bustin’ a rhyme” to 1 egg my resume. I am breaking out a nice 1 tsp. vanilla homey, end-of-summer recipe, 1/2 cup milk (I used 1%) Blueberry Buckle. 1 1/2 cups blueberries (washed and If you have never tasted a buckle dried) you are in for a treat. Who can really 1 tbsp. flour resist nice, plump, sweet blueberries nestled between a yummy white cake Streusel Topping and crunchy streusel? My guess is no 1/2 cup brown sugar one. It is a treat your mother or grand- 1/2 cup flour mother probably has made a time or 1 tsp. cinnamon two in her life. I guess that would 1/4 cup unsalted butter (cut into pieces) make it the “mother” of all cakes. I love desserts that work morning, Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease noon or night, and an 8 x 8 square bakthis is one of those ing pan. In a small I love for sure. Of course, bowl combine the desserts who can’t eat cake flour, salt, baking any time of the powder and allspice. that work day? But there is Set aside. something special In a large bowl morning, about this one that mix together butter noon or pairs well with cofand brown sugar, fee in the morning, with an electric night mixer or by hand, or with a nice desuntil light and sert wine after dinfluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix ner. I recommend Adagio, Grand well. Add the flour mixture into the Valley Black Muscat from Bookcliff wet mixture and stir until almost incorVineyards in case you’re wondering. porated. Add the milk and mix until It’s a Colorado wine that takes the the batter is well combined. Toss in the cake and, with the Buckle, would blueberries with 1 tbsp. of flour and make for a great Labor Day party gently fold them into the cake batter. combo. Who needs beers and brats Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. when you could have wine and cake? For the topping, combine brown sugar, This treat does not look like a flour and cinnamon in a small bowl. buckle, by the way. The name comes Add the butter and mix it all with a from the cake rising and then the fork or two knifes until the streusel weight of the blueberries on top of resembles coarse crumbs. Spread this the cake causing it to, well, buckle. I know, dessert facts are so fun. I’m sure over the top of the cake. Bake for 35-40 minutes until the buckle is goldDuff from Ace of Cakes has in fact en and bubbling. Serve warm or at actually made a Buckle cake. Maybe for a country singer’s birthday, or for a room temperature, topping it off with ice cream or whipped cream. Enjoy! rapper, to remind him a “buckle will help you hold your drawers up.” You can watch the Dessert Diva All I know is this recipe might not every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on Channel look like a Buckle Cake, but it is deli- 2. To contact Danette at the station, visit cious, simple to make, and you can 2thedeuce.com, and click on Daybreak on sing nursery rhymes as you bake it. the Deuce. To chat and/or send comments Nineteen, 20, my cake plate is empty! and suggestions, write to jdromega@aol. Now, follow the directions, put some com love into it and invite me over when Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Rueben’s Burger Bistro 1800 Broadway, Boulder 303-443-5000

lending the disparate elements of cycling, Belgian gastronomy and burgers, Rueben’s Burger Bistro is a recent addition to the downtown Boulder dining scene. The menu highlights burgers, such as the bacon-bleu cheese Spoke, and all are available with a choice of proteins, including natural beef, buffalo, house-made veggie and poultry. Other features include entrée salads, mac and cheese, chicken wings and mussels, along with an array of Belgian draft beers.

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hile the Sun Deli still retains its selection of hot and cold sandwiches, pizzas, cheese steaks and other items that delight the carnivore, it’s also making great strides in broadening its menu for the meatless diner. This eatery draws upon a substantial palette of meatless ingredients to create vegan and gluten-free pizzas, as well as strombolis stuffed with herbivorous sausage and pepperoni. Parmesan sandwiches are also available in meatless versions, with the faux chicken interpretation being a particularly delicious and filling selection.

Jet’s Espressoria

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et’s Espressoria is an inviting Pearl Street spot that serves up full-bodied, fair-trade organic coffee with subtly spicy tones. In addition to the java, the other star attraction is the baked goods crafted on site, including scones, muffins and other pastries, notably the exemplary chocolate chip cookies. These are enticingly plump treats, dripping with buttery flavor and tantalizingly melted chocolate chips, served warm straight off the cookie sheet.

Basil Flats 1067 S. Hover Rd. Longmont 303-776-1777

ongmont’s fast-casual Basil Flats features a tasty and affordable Mediterraneaninspired menu. It includes flatbread pizza, sandwiches, tapas such as hummus, and beer and wine to drink. It’s one of these places where there are choices for both vegetarians and carnivores, and the tapas menu encourages sharing. Highlights include the arugala salad pizza, textbook perfect fries and grilled flatbread meatball grinders.

Newport 6700 W. 120th Ave. Broomfield, 303-635-1688

ormerly Heaven Star, Broomfield’s Newport still serves up some of the finest Chinese around at exceptional prices. Where else can you get a whole lobster cooked with ginger and scallions atop a platter of succulent yee mein noodles for $15.95? You can also request the classic Chinese-American tomato beef chow mein, as well as roast duck and several kinds of fried rice. They still serve dim sum, and their tea brunch is likely the best in Colorado.

Conor O’Neill’s 1922 13th St. Boulder, 303-449-1922

tive-laden hand rolls prepared elsewhere. Here, raw fish is sliced on demand, and the hot items are cooked to order. The reasonably priced menu features sushi, traditional donburi rice bowls, curries and some fish and meat entrees. Menu highlights include the grilled mackerel dinner, an elegantly simple choice, and the chirashi, a filling assortment of sashimi topping a bowl of sushi rice.

But the food does match up to the prices, and includes a first-rate chicken mole as well as a sophisticated shrimp tamale that balances the taste of corn with delicate seafood. End with a coconut flan, and you’ve got an elevated “south of the border” experience.

Boulder Organic Pizzeria

ush is an intriguing concept, a private supper club with no fixed address. The aim is to spotlight up-and-coming chefs in a non-restaurant setting. Hush’s first foray into the Boulder area was held at Colorado’s Best Beef farm, with a meal prepared by Tim Payne of Longmont’s Terroir. The menu featured smoked tomato gazpacho and portbraised short ribs over a potato cake stuffed with smoked brisket. Hush plans to stage more Boulder events, and one can get on the invite list by registering at www.hushdenver. com.

1175 Walnut St., Boulder 303-999-3833

oulder Organic Pizzeria is a new, downtown establishment devoted to featuring organic and local ingredients, simply presented. This space also offers gluten-free and vegan options at no additional cost. Menu items include salads and appetizers and, of course, pizza, available whole and by the slice. Top choices include a refreshing salad of baby arugula topped with real crab and drizzled with a unique dressing of olive oil and lemon. The pizzas here feature such top-shelf ingredients as a truly sensual mozzarella, locally sourced Hazel Dell mushrooms and silky prosciutto.

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oulder’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House takes Mexican fare to a more elevated plane by offering memorable ambience, a gourmet experience and prices to match.

he menu here is a blend of traditional pub grub and breakfasts as well as more contemporary sandwiches and small plates. Entrées top out at $11.99 and include such UK stalwarts as fish and chips, corned beef and cabbage, and pot pies. Sandwiches include standard-issue clubs and Reubens, while the Euro small plates offer sophisticated tastes of seared tuna, roasted piquillo peppers and an exquisite Thai shrimp skewer.

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he Mediterranean Restaurant is the proverbial old reliable of Boulder eateries. Its voluminous assortment of Southern European pastas, sandwiches, tapas, salads and main plates means that anyone’s dietary restrictions or plain old pickiness can be ably accommodated. Highlights include tapas items like bacon-wrapped dates, grilled selections such as a highly flavorful hanger steak and classic desserts

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easonably priced and tasty, Boulder’s Half Fast Subs’ sandwiches are a cut or two above chain-store offerings. There’s an abundance of meatless selections (tempeh cheese steak anyone?) as well as unique items like a shrimp po’ boy sandwich. Deli staples such as Italian-style subs and classic BLTs are also offered, as are beverages such as hurricanes and Long Island iced teas.

La Choza 3365 Diagonal Hwy., Boulder 720-296-5107

f you can get past the gas station parking lot setting and the lack of seating, you can enjoy some of Boulder’s finest authentic Mexican food at La Choza. A small stand adjoining the Sinclair gas station on the Diagonal Highway, it serves up inexpensive and tasty classics for breakfast and lunch — it closes at 3 p.m. Specialties include a perfect quartet of carne asada steak tacos, a variety of breakfast burritos and generously portioned tostadas. Repond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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About two margaritas later, Bud Thompson suggested we bike 142 miles on Kokopelli’s Trail from Grand Junction to Moab, swim on the Colorado River for 18 miles from Moab to Potash Point, and then run 24 miles rim-to-rim in the Grand Canyon. Bud is prone to crazy talk like this, and I dismissed him as mad, which he truly is, but in a good way. For the greatest festival on earth, Bud argued, we had to concoct an adventure apropos for the occasion — a first-of-its-kind trip, something that would rip our minds and bodies apart. The risks were great. The heat would be searing traversing the Colorado Plateau. There could be glory at the end of the road. “Yeah,” I exclaimed after another margarita. “I’m in.” We left on Aug. 27, 2009, for our two-week, 3,500-mile mid-life crisis and drove to the start of Kokopelli’s Trail. We put our tents at the trailhead and Bud took off the next morning. I am a swimmer and a runner, not a mountain biker, so I ran support for this leg in the White Whale, Bud’s big Suburban. Bud rode in 100-degree-plus heat for about 60 miles, from from Fruita to Dewey Bridge, with about 12,000 feet of climbing. We met at several spots along the way to replenish water and food. I set up camp at the Hittle Bottom on the Colorado River, about 23 miles north of Moab. The Allman Brothers played loudly on the iPod perched on top of the Whale, chairs sat on the water’s edge for feetsoaking, and cold Tecate beers were waiting when Bud came in after eight hours of riding. The next day wasn’t so pretty — we missed our rendezvous due to poor communication and a lack of maps. I took the White Whale over 26 stream crossings, and my bike fell

off the rack several times. It was an 80-mile ride, but with much more climbing and challenging trail. We were supposed to meet at 3 p.m. at the Colorado River boat ramp in Moab, so by 5, I started getting nervous. By 6 we got a note from two guys in a truck that Bud was at the Sorrel River Ranch up the road having beers and waiting for us. He was dehydrated and said his scrotum was scorched, but otherwise fine. The following morning we readied our canoe for a long day of swimming and shuttled the Whale to take-out. Because I had already supported the previous two days and was the strongest swimmer of the crew, I wasn’t going to be sitting in a canoe all day. I tied the rope from the canoe around my waist. They laughed and thought, no way. I smiled and dove in first, stroking hard and setting a good pace, pulling the canoe most of the day. We swam 15 miles in about five hours. Our home for the night would be a large, beautiful beach with plenty of firewood (yes, we had a firepan). We ate a hearty meal of flank steak and black beans with corn and passed around a bottle of Patron tequila while we watched the stars. One by one, each of us faded into our sleeping bags. The following day our bodies were stiff, and Bud was exhausted. The bike had taken a lot out of him. We swam the remaining three miles to the take-out at Potash Point, quickly loaded the car and blazed towards the Grand Canyon. Jonathan drove most of the eight hours to the North Rim. I had trained hard for the Grand Canyon run. I didn’t want to be stuck down there with heat stroke — a very strong possibility for the unprepared. I was nervous, though, because the 18

miles I had done around the Boulder Reservoir two weeks prior, the longest run of my life, had roasted me — and that terrain was flat. Now, I was facing a 24-mile run with 12,000 feet of elevation loss and gain — an additional mile down and back up. My mind raced as I lay down that night in a log cabin on the rim. To boot, our last meal before the hinterlands of the Grand Canyon was Taco Bell, which kept some of us (not me) up at night with the runs. Not the best prerun meal. A mist hung low over the canyon and it was very dark with no moon at 4:20 a.m. when Jonathan and I started down the North Rim. Bud followed about 45 minutes behind so he could arrange to drop off a key with a driver who would shuttle the White Whale to the South Rim, a threehour drive. The run felt good, and I was careful to eat and drink at regular intervals to stay on top of nutrition. I chugged electrolyte drinks that claimed to “prevent muscle cannibalization” and ate plenty of Goo and Clif Bloks chewables. It was working, my body felt loose and strong as we flew along the canyon walls. With about three of the steepest miles left to go to the top of the canyon, I knew I was going to make it, and I started thinking about how far I had come in my life to get to that point. I was now a profoundly different person from the unhealthy boy who moved to Colorado from Louisiana 15 years ago. Back then I was 210 pounds and smoking a pack of Marlboro Reds a day. Now I was at the top of my game. I was overwhelmed with joy despite the physical agony I was feeling up those last switchbacks. I ate them up like breakfast cereal. As the Hopi prophecy says, “Banish the

word struggle from your vocabulary. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” I was so joyous I whooped at tourists on the rim, looking like a crusty, wet madman. Upon reaching the top, I saw Bud and Jonathan, and we all embraced. Bud made it in four hours and 50 minutes, with Jonathan not far behind, and I came in at just under seven hours. I cried when I told them of my epiphany. Perching on the rim was one of the most magnificent and emotional experiences of my life. I had worked so hard for it, and the accomplishment made the salt crusted on my lips taste sweet. We drove five hours to Las Vegas and pulled the White Whale up to the Hard Rock Hotel looking like we’d been ridden hard and put up wet, rolling out like crippled and stiff old men going to a nursing home. The valet was not impressed when our stinky wet gear spilled out of the Whale at the entrance of the hotel and casino. I look back on that adventure one year ago as one of the greatest times in my life — a time when I went beyond my limits and learned a lot about myself in the process. When I climbed, like a ravaged, soaking animal, onto the top of the South Rim a year ago, I can remember the feeling so clearly — it wasn’t just better than sex, it was better than Vegas. The next day, we turned the White Whale north and headed to Burning Man. Maybe we would finally get some rest. Yeah, right. Moseley is a communications strategist in Boulder and author of Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign. He is at Burning Man this week to write about the music for Rolling Stone. This time he took a plane.

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en percent to the usual charities?” I love a line like that, smack in the middle of a scene featuring bank robbers dividing up the spoils. It proves they’re good guys at heart, willing to spread it around (if only for the sake of appearances) while blowing the rest on bling, ladies, threads, cars and bling. Oh, and bling. The line comes from the frantic, moderately entertaining heist picture Takers, set in Los Angeles and featuring characters who reference by name both Genghis Khan and The Italian Job. Top-billed Matt Dillon brings stoic professionalism to the role of an LAPD detective who does not have time for his daughter because he’s chasing a quintet of stylish hoodlums. They’ve been persuaded by a former colleague, just out of the clink, to blow up part of a downtown LA street, boost an armored truck’s worth of banknotes, and get busy with the fruits of their labor. A heist film depends on the quality of its heist (duh), and the one we get here is like Takers itself: noisy, unsubtle, but it gets the job done. The movie becomes exponentially more interesting the minute things start going haywire in this key scene, forcing the criminals to improvise. A little later, in the film’s surefire set piece, the junior member of the team, played by Chris Brown, eludes the cops in a chase through the downtown LA cement chunk known as

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Pershing Park. Clearly jacked up on the Bourne pictures and the parkour scene in Casino Royale, Brown rolls on and off car hoods, jumps fences and never stops for anything. Director John Luessenhop’s camera bobs and weaves, and editor Armen Minasian cuts the sequence like a slasher on uppers. You almost can’t tell what’s going on. But the preview audience loved it, just as they whooped at the shot of Idris Elba (The Wire) in his briefs. A movie such as Takers isn’t reinventing anyone’s wheel. It’s simply spinning the wheel as quickly as possible. Does crime pay in this story? Well, that’s a rather old-fashioned moralistic question, don’t you think? It

pays really well for some and not at all for others. If there’s a lesson in the many-hands screenplay, it’s this: Do not trust Russians, in any context. The movie can’t get enough of wordless shots of men on balconies backed by a sunrise, or a sunset, or the lights of the city. Some of the performers in Takers can really act, Elba most notably. Others, such as rapper-turned-actor Tip “T.I.” Harris, who plays the combustible con known as Ghost, are getting there. But at least he’s relaxed on screen. The way this film is shot, nothing happens in “real” space. The director perpetually frames the action in a telephoto-type depth of field, so that the actors and the cars and the guns become one disorienting mass of quicksilver. I longed for some visual relief after a while. But what makes Takers better than average for its genre is its lack of snark. Violent as it is for a PG-13 film, it offers only a modicum of the facetious brutality littering a Guy Ritchie crime picture such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (or for that matter, his recent, egregious Sherlock Holmes). Takers is an unpretentious timewaster. And I rather liked it. —MCT, Tribune Media Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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here’s an unexpected wistfulness, a bittersweet undercurrent to Going the Distance that could not have been in the script. This romantic comedy co-starring Drew Barrymore and longtime beau Justin Long was finished just as the real life couple was splitting up. For good, this time. So it has baggage. That may explain why it’s been dumped on Labor Day weekend. But that baggage tends to give this R-rated romance resonance. It’s formulaic and loses its mushy/silly momentum at about the one-hour mark. But the truths — funny and otherwise — about long-distance relationships allow documentary maker Nanette Burstein’s first fiction feature to do that one thing that a romance absolutely has to do — touch us. Long is Garrett, a hip New York artist rep at a small record label. He has goofy friends ( Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day) and no clue about women. We meet him as he is dumped for botching his girlfriend’s birthday. Boulder Weekly

Drew plays Erin, at 31 entirely too old to be doing a New York newspaper internship. “You are behind in your life,” her irritable sister (Christina Applegate, terrific) reminds her. Like Erin needs reminding. “I’m 31. I’m an intern. I’m going to get wasted.” The two 30-somethings “meet cute” — a profane exchange over a Centipede arcade game. And, over many drinks and their variation of Truth or Dare, they connect. Her: “How would you like to die?” Him: “Eating tortellini. Or getting water-boarded.” Geoff LaTulippe’s script is sort of an arrested-development guy’s fantasy about what dating can be — a woman able to hang with you in movie trivia, better than you at video games, capable of trading Jagermeister shots and monster bong hits without wheezing. The obstacle to this romance? Her internship is ending. She’s got to finish her degree at Stanford. And since newspapers haven’t been in a hiring mode

for the past few years, the chances of this romance going anywhere are slim. Burstein follows the modern romance formula to a fault — “date” montages edited to pop songs — while touching on the inevitable stresses of long distance. The language is coarse, the sex kind of graphic, the drinking constant and the “best friends” (or sister) characters carry their share of the load. But Going the Distance manages more than a few moments that hit close to home. We buy them as a couple because they’re both following their dreams into professions going through traumatic changes. No, there really are no record label jobs in San Francisco or newspaper jobs in NYC. How do you get past that? And the way these two tumble is both adult and romantic. They don’t want it to happen. Her: “I’m only here for a couple more weeks.” Him: “Maybe you’ll come back one day.” You have to be pretty cynical not to hear the heart in that, or to simply root for these two as a couple, at least on the screen. ® 2010, The Orlando Sentinel (Fla.). Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com Rotten Tomatoes rates at zero. Not a sequel to Troll, the bad-enough 1986 Sonny Bono vehicle, it isn’t even actually about trolls but rather goblins — goblins in the town of Nilbog (get it?) who transform people into vegetables and then eat them. Made by an Italian crew with a loose grasp of English, it has spawned numerous fan clubs, effectively becoming The Rocky Horror Picture Show of a new generation. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant meditation on man and his place in the mysterious universe concerns two astronauts (Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood) who become imperiled by their hyper-intelligent shipboard computer, HAL 9000, while on a mission in the depths of space. Kubrick’s visionary approach to science fiction features Oscar-winning, mind-tripping special effects and a thoughtful, spare script by the director and Arthur C. Clarke. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Cairo Time Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three-week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The American As an assassin, Jack (George Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town. While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact. Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara. Jack and Clara’s time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Landmark Theatres Animal Kingdom In the Melbourne underworld, armed robber Pope Cody is in hiding, on the run from a gang of renegade detectives who want him dead. His business

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Or just watch while Julia Roberts does those things in this lush, scenic travelogue. partner and best friend, Barry ‘Baz’ Brown, wants out of the game, recognizing that their days of oldschool banditry are all but over. Pope’s younger brother, the speed-addicted and volatile Craig Cody, is making a fortune in the illicit substances trade while the youngest Cody brother, Darren, naively navigates his way through this criminal world—the only world his family has ever known. And into this world arrives their nephew, Joshua ‘J’ Cody. Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to

the Cody boys. When tensions between family and police reach a bloody peak, J finds himself at the center of a cold-blooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatre Best Worst Movie Alabama dentist George Hardy’s brief flirtation with acting comes back to haunt him — playfully — in this documentary about Troll 2, the horrifyingly inept horror movie that popular movie website

The brutal and exhilarating action adventure Centurion is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the second-century Roman conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger) stars as Quintus Dias, Roman centurion and son of a legendary gladiator who leads a group of soldiers on a raid of a Pict camp to rescue a captured general (Dominic West, “The Wire”). The son of the Pict leader is murdered during the raid, and the Romans find themselves hunted by a seemingly unstoppable group of the Pict’s most vicious and skilled warriors, led by a beautiful and deadly tracker (Olga Kurylenko, Quantum of Solace), and hell-bent on revenge. A gripping survival thriller set against a background of

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303-7904262 The American Thu: 1, 4:45, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Wed: 11:30, 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Despicable Me Thu: 2:10, 4:25 Fri-Wed: 9:55, 12:20, 2:40 Dinner for Schmucks Thu-Wed: 7:25, 10:05 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed: 10, 1, 4:10, 7:15 The Expendables Thu: 2:15, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Get Low Thu:12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Going the Distance Fri-Wed: 11:45, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10 Inception Thu: 1:45, 5, 8:15 FriWed: 12:05, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 The Last Exorcism Thu: 2:05, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 Machete Fri-Wed: 12:10, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Nanny McPhee Returns Thu: 1:30, 4, 7, 9:30 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:20, 4:50 The Other Guys Thu: 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed: 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Piranha Thu-Wed: 8:10, 10:20 Ramona and Beezus Thu: 2:45, 4:15 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Thu:

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7:40, 10:10 The Switch Thu: 2, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:25 Takers Fri: 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8 FriWed: 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8, 10:30 Vampires Suck Thu: 12:45, 2:50, 4:50, 7:10, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 5, 7:10, 9:15 Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 The American Thu-Wed: 12:20, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Despicable Me Thu: 3:10, 5:30 Fri-Wed: 12:25, 3:10, 5:30 Eat, Pray, Love Thu-Wed: 12:40, 3:55, 6:10, 7:15, 9:25, 10:30 The Expendables Thu-Wed: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Get Low Thu: 1:10, 3:45, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Wed: 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30 Going the Distance Fri-Wed: 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 Inception Thu: 12:30, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40 The Kids Are All Right Thu: 1:15, 4:05 The Last Exorcism Thu-Wed: 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:45 Lottery Ticket Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 10:25 Machete Fri-Wed: 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:45 Nanny McPhee Returns ThuWed: 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:15 The Other Guys Thu: 11:55, 2:30,

5:10, 6:30, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 11:50, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50 Piranha Thu-Wed: 7:55, 10:15 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Thu: 7:05, 10 Fri-Wed: 9:55 p.m. The Switch Thu-Wed: 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Takers Thu-Wed: 11:35, 2:20, 5, 7:35, 10:10 Toy Story 3 Thu: 12:25 Vampires Suck Thu: 12, 2:25, 4:35, 7, 9:20 Fri-Wed: 12, 3:15 Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 The American Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 Eat, Pray, Love Thu: 3:10, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Wed: 3:40, 7:05, 10:10 The Expendables Thu-Wed: 2:20, 5, 8, 10:30 Inception Thu-Wed: 3:20, 7, 10:15 The Last Exorcism Fri-Wed: 2:30, 4:50, 7:55, 10:35 Fri-Wed: 2, 5:10, 8:10, 10:35 Machete Fri-Wed: 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 The Other Guys Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4, 7:10, 9:55 Piranha Thu: 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 10 Salt Thu-Wed: 1:55, 7:35 Fri-Wed: 1:40, 7:35 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Thu: 3:50, 10:20 The Switch Thu: 1, 3:40, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 4:50, 10

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UA Twin Peaks, 1250 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-651-2434 The American Thu-Wed: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:05 Despicable Me Thu: 1:10, 4:15 Eat, Pray, Love Thu-Wed: 12:50, 4, 7, 10 The Expendables Thu-Wed: 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:05 Inception Thu-Wed: 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 9:50 The Last Exorcism Thu-Wed: 2, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Nanny McPhee Returns ThuWed: 1, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 The Other Guys Thu-Wed: 7:20, 9:55 The Switch Thu: 1:50, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Takers Thu-Wed: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10 Vampires Suck Thu: 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 9:45 Fri-Wed: 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15

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conquest and invasion, Centurion is written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Cyrus Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie, John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim at a party. To his surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei). The relationship takes off quickly, but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John’s house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly’s life: her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres Despicable Me The world’s most nefarious villain (voiced by Steve Carell) is planning the greatest crime in history — stealing the moon — when three orphaned little girls awaken his paternal instincts. Julie Andrews, Will Arnett and Russell Brand round out the voice cast of this 3-D computer-animated comedy. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Flatiron, Century and Colony Square. — Rene Rodriguez Dinner for Schmucks This remake of a French farce has a lot of funny people going for it. In it, a wealthy businessman hosts a monthly soiree for which his employees must bring an idiot to dinner, and the best idiot wins. Tim (Paul Rudd) feels conflicted about this, but into his life (and off the front of his car) bounces a pluperfect dolt, played by Steve Carell. While cast members like Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis play well, this schmucked-up American edition does the chortling for us and then scolds us for laughing. Or, in my case, not. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Eat, Pray, Love Ryan Murphy, creator of TV’s Glee and Nip/Tuck, directs this adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir about a woman (Julia Roberts) who realizes she is unfulfilled, divorces her husband and goes on a trip around the world. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez The Expendables The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone’s all-star mercenary movie, is a deliriously retro ride into Reaganera blockbusters. The brawn and testosterone drip off the screen as Sly, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews and Randy Couture go out rootin’, tootin’ and shootin’ black and brown people in various Godforsaken parts of the world. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore Farewell Engaging, emotional and riveting, Farewell is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history — about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Get Low For years, townsfolk have been terrified of the backwoods recluse known as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall). One day, Felix rides to town with a shotgun and a wad of cash, saying he wants to buy a funeral — a “living funeral,” in which anyone who ever had heard a story about him will come to tell it, while he takes it all in. Rated PG-13. At Esquire, Flatiron and Century. — Landmark Theatres The Girl Who Played With Fire 60 September 2, 2010

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behavior makes her an official danger to society — but no one can find her anywhere. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

brero to the likes of Coffy and Shaft, this over-thetop pastiche of Westerns, revenge thrillers, cultural stereotypes and soft-core porn will be catnip for those who flocked to Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 cult opus, Grindhouse. Rated R. At Century. — Preston Jones

Going the Distance

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is based on a harrowing true story. The cop of the tale, Hank, is called to a bungalow in a respectable San Diego neighborhood where a man named Brad has barricaded himself in his house and taken two hostages. Across the street, Brad’s mother lies dead, found sprawled in a pool of blood, the victim of a sword wound. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

See full review on Page 57. At Flatiron and Century. Inception Blithely summarized, Inception’s plot would seem confusing and impenetrable. Confusing? No doubt, and that’s what makes the film so enjoyable, as we try to tease and puzzle out what is really going on. Impenetrable? Hardly. Simply put, mainstream moviemaking just doesn’t get any better than Inception. Rated PG-13. At Flatirons, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Randy Myers The Kids Are All Right Doctor Nic (Annette Bening) and her longtime partner, Jules (Julianne Moore), have two teenagers from the same sperm donor. When the kids make contact with the donor behind the moms’ backs, Mark Ruffalo’s easygoing restaurateur Paul shows up to stir this family’s pot a bit. Bening and Moore have never been looser on screen, and Ruffalo is the perfect foil. Rated R. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Michael Phillips The Last Dragon A young man searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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Nanny McPhee Returns This sequel is pushier and more frantic than the charming original. A fine fat hit in the U.K., this film transports us back to WWII-era rural England where the farm belonging to the beleaguered Green family is on the brink. The three Green children are forced to play host to their snooty London cousins, all watched over by the supernatural presence of Nanny McPhee. Shenanigans ensue. Too much of the contrasting comedy in the movie is shrill, laden with routine computer-generated effects and pounded into dust by the score. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Other Guys Two mismatched New York City detectives find themselves stepping into the limelight of the top cops they idolize. With Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchy Tribune Media Services Patrik, Age 1.5

make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 94-minute deployment. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels, Scott Pilgrim is about a Toronto dweeb (Michael Cera — who else?) smitten by one Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a girl with punky Day-Glo hair and an attitude of studied indifference. There’s a catch. Ramona informs Scott that she has had a colorful romantic past and that to win her hand he must battle and defeat her “seven evil exes.” Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Robert W. Butler. Step Up 3D A tight-knit group of street dancers team up with an NYU freshman and find themselves pitted against the world’s best hip-hop dancers in a highstakes showdown. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchy Tribune Media Services St. Martin’s Lane A story about street performers. A middle-aged musician (Charles Laughton) discovers the musical talent of Libby (Vivien Leigh), a young woman pickpocket. Complications of unrequited love follow, and Leigh eventually meets up with a big-time promoter (Rex Harrison). Tyrone Guthrie appears in a smallish role. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Switch

This film is all over the place. Single and ready for a kid, TV producer Kassie decides on artificial insemination. Her longtime friend and long-ago lover, Wally, does not get the nod. The title refers to a switcheroo that Wally pulls at the “insemination party,” substituting his own donation for the cause. Seven years later, Kassie’s son’s quirks appear to have more in common with Wally than the presumptive birth father. Wally has a secret. The movie is about how long he can keep it. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips.

This faux documentary offers up a squirmy tale of demonic possession. Director Daniel Stamm’s film follows Cotton Marcus, a charming huckster preacher who intends to show the film crew how the fake-exorcism business works by taking the case of a distraught, hyper-religious Louisiana farmer who believes the devil has taken hold of his teenage daughter. While the wrapping-up feels obvious, for a good while The Last Exorcism makes for an atmospheric stab at movie fright night. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Robert Abele

In this heart-warming, hilarious crowd-pleaser, Göran is a doctor who’s married to his partner, Sven, and Swedish authorities have cleared them for adoption. When Göran and Sven receive a letter with an offer from social services to take care of “Patrik, age 1.5,” a child who needs a new family, they happily accept and prepare the nursery for the baby’s arrival. On the day that little Patrik is expected to arrive, a lanky teenager rings their doorbell. He says his name is Patrik and that he has come to live with them. They realize, horror-struck, that their little baby Patrik is actually a juvenile delinquent; there has been a clerical error and a decimal point was misplaced. “Patrik, age 1.5” is actually “Patrik, age 15.” And to add insult to injury, he is also homophobic! At Starz. — Landmark Theatres

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In writer/director Todd Solondz’s part sequel/part variation on his acclaimed film Happiness, three sisters and the people they love struggle to find their places in an unpredictable and volatile world where the past haunts the present and imperils the future. The question of forgiveness and its limits threads throughout a series of intersecting love stories. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Spring breakers on sleepy Lake Victoria are terrorized by scores of prehistoric man-eating fish. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

If Toy Story 3 had sprung, Slinky Dog-like, from any creative think tank besides Pixar, it might be considered a classic. As is, it’s a good sequel. Young Andy is heading off to college, and the long-neglected toys are headed for the attic. After mistakenly getting thrown to the curb as trash, the gang has to bust out of the day care center in which they find themselves. Make no mistake: This Disney/Pixar release represents a franchise taken seriously by its custodians. Rated G. At Century. — Michael Phillips

Ramona and Beezus

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If a film of such unfashionable gentleness fares indifferently or worse at the box office, it’ll only encourage the studios in the direction of the coarse, the obvious and the Shrek. But if Ramona and Beezus does find an audience, its success can be framed as brand loyalty to author Beverly Cleary’s children’s books. Rated PG. At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

For years, the fearsome figure known only as One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen, Flame & Citron, Casino Royale) has defeated everyone he’s encountered, but he’s treated more like an animal than a warrior. The only person he has any relationship with is the young boy who brings him food and water daily. Constantly caged and shackled, One Eye has drawn the attention of a new force now sweeping the countryside and displacing the society’s leaders: Christians. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

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Lottery Ticket It’s hard out there for a kid from the projects who scores a lottery payoff, but must wait for the claim office to reopen. Suddenly everyone in the projects is after him. One foot in fantasyland, the other in the real world, this picture isn’t out for anything except laughs, plus a little astute sociology. Virtually everyone on screen knows where to find those laughs, how to deliver them and how hard to push them. At Century. — Michael Phillips Machete A loud, giddy, carnal blast from one of cinema’s most relentless schlock auteurs, Robert Rodriguez’s latest is best enjoyed with your brain switched off. Billed as a “Mexploitation” flick and doffing its som-

Restrepo Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to

Takers See full review on Page 57. At Flatiron, Century and Twin Peaks. Toy Story 3

Vampires Suck A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. Rated PG-13. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/McClatchyTribune Information Services Boulder Weekly

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TAURUS

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As I was meditating on your horoscope for this week, a song popped into my head: Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing.” I instantly knew it was a message from my unconscious, meant to be delivered to your unconscious — a perfect action plan for you to pursue in order to be in maximum alignment with the astrological omens. I encourage you to come up with your own interpretation of what “sexual healing” means for you, maybe even write your own lyrics. If you’d like to listen to the original for inspiration, go here: tinyurl.com/SexHealing. P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to conjure up the cure.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

You probably get e-mails that close like this: “Sent from my iPhone.” Maybe you even deliver e-mails like that yourself. Keep that detail in mind while I tell you the dream I had last night. In the dream, all of my Gemini friends had sent me poignant e-mails. Every one of them said something like, “I’ve got to get back to where I started from,” or “There’s something really important that I’ve got to do, but I can’t remember what it is,” or “I hear a voice calling my name but I don’t know who it is or where it’s coming from.” And each of their e-mails ended like this: “Sent from my iSoul.” I suspect my dream is in perfect accordance with your astrological omens, Gemini. It’s time to go home, in every sense of the word.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

My name was “Robbie” from birth till seventh grade. But as my adolescent hormones began to kick in, I decided I needed a more virile stature. My name became the punchier, sleeker “Rob.” But with every year that passes, I find myself heading back in the direction of “Robbie.” The clever severity of my youth yearns to meld with the buoyant tenderness I’ve been cultivating the past decade. I want my paradoxes to harmonize — my blithe feminine qualities to cooperate with my aggressive masculine side, my bright-eyed innocence to synergize with my restless probing. So you can call me “Robbie” if you like, or “Rob,” or sometimes one and sometimes the other. Isn’t it time for you, too, my fellow Cancerian, to circle back and reclaim an early part of you that got lost along the way?

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

The Clash was a leftwing punk band that launched its career in 1979. With its dissident lyrics and experimental music, it aspired to make an impact on political attitudes. But then one of its songs, “Rock the Casbah,” got so popular that college fraternity parties were playing it as feel-good dance music. That peeved the Clash’s lead singer Joe Strummer, born under the sign of Leo. He didn’t want his revolutionary anthems to be used as vulgar entertainment by bourgeois kids. I sympathize with his purity, but I don’t advocate that approach for you. For now, relinquish control of your offerings. Let people use them the way they want to.

VIRGO

adventures came on a night when he got a bad case of the hiccups. Thinking he could scare himself into being cured, he set fire to his pajamas. In the ensuing mayhem, his hiccups disappeared but he burned himself. I bring this to your attention, Libra, in the hope it will dissuade you from attacking a small problem in a way that causes a bigger problem. For now it’s better to endure a slight inconvenience. Don’t seek a quick fix that causes a complicated mess.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I will ask you to make everything wetter; to be the personification of fluidity. Where there is drought, use your magic to bring the rain. If you’re stuck in a dynamic that is parched and barren, add moisture and tenderness. Be ingenious, not rash, as you stir up dormant feelings in people you care about. Remind those who are high and dry about the river that runs through them. (A good way to do that is to reveal the river that runs through you.)

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

Gwyneth Paltrow is the most perfect person alive, said Gawker.com. From a certain perspective, I suppose it’s possible to award her that title. She’s beautiful, rich, famous, and in good shape. She’s a talented actress and published author. Without denying that Gwyneth is a gem, however, I must say that my standards of perfection are different. Are you doing the work you love? Are you engaged in ongoing efforts to transform your darkness? Do you practice compassion with wit and style? Are you saving the world in some way? Are you skilled at taking care of yourself? Those are my primary measures. What are yours, Sagittarius? It’s an excellent time to define your ideal human.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

In an old Star Trek episode, a 24th-century starship captain is weighed down by a knotty problem about how to deal with two of her enemies who are at war with each other. Unable to come up with a viable solution, she retreats to the holodeck, where virtual reality technology can create a convincingly real rendition of any desired scene. Where does she go for advice? She seeks out Leonardo da Vinci in his 16th-century studio. Once she has outlined her dilemma, Leonardo offers his counsel: “When one’s imagination cannot provide an answer, one must turn to a greater imagination.” This is my advice to you right now, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Seth Grahame-Smith rewrote Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. He kept 85 percent of her material, but also added a big dose of “ultraviolent zombie mayhem,” creating a new story, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. In his version, Austen’s tale is expanded and altered by the previously unrevealed activities of zombies. I urge you to follow Grahame-Smith’s lead, Aquarius. Take some original creation you really like, and add a shot of your own unique approach to generate a completely new thing.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

Everyone alive should see the musical comedy I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. At the very least, we should all meditate regularly on the play’s title, using it as a self-mocking mantra that dissuades us from committing the folly it describes. How better to serve the health of our relationships than by withdrawing the projections we superimpose on people, thereby allowing them to be themselves? Right now you’re in special need of honoring this wisdom, Pisces. If you feel the itch to tell friends and loved ones that they should be different from how they actually are, stop and ask yourself whether maybe you should transform yourself instead.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer; it’s that there are so many answers,” said folklorist Ruth Benedict. That’s always true, of course, but it’s especially apropos for you right now. You’re teeming with viable possibilities. There are so many decent ideas eddying in your vicinity that you may be hard-pressed to pick out just a couple to give your power to. My advice: Let them all swarm and swirl for a few more days, then go with the ones that you feel will last the longest.

LIBRA

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