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Thank you so much for the brilliant reporting in the Sept. 6-12 issue concerning barcodes/numbers on ballots (“Can your vote be traced?”, cover story). Also, thank you for the fabulous graphics. The “barcode weevil” or “clerk snooping in the barcodes” is terrific! We at Citizen Center and other friends of election integrity are working diligently to prevent the clerk from carrying out her plan to impose the barcodes/numbers and again make our ballots traceable as they were in the primary. The article has helped people understand the issue better than anything else that has been published. I am highly impressed! Mary Eberle, co-founder, Citizen Center/Boulder

Rare journalism

(Re: “Monsanto’s point of no return,” cover story, Aug. 30.) Fantastic job cutting through to the core of the issue I have spent the past 30 years trying to teach. A more positive, follow-up article might now be appropriate. We are seeing hundreds of seed exchanges, seed libraries and a whole new wave of small bioregional seed companies rising up to meet the challenge so clearly stated in your article.

We teach a six-day program here called “Seed School” as our response. Stephen Thomas and I wrote an article outlining some of this in an article in Acres magazine. Feel free to use what you need. Let me know if we can help. You are doing good work. I just wished this kind of journalism wasn’t so rare. Congratulations. Bill McDorman, executive director of Native Seeds/SEARCH/Tucson, Ariz.

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Highroad Romney takes the gold in 2002 Olympics by Jim Hightower

ne of the curiosities of life in these curious times is that millions of Americans are enjoying the benefits of government — but are either unaware of it or in denial. A 2008 study found that 40 percent of Medicare recipients, 44 percent of Social Security beneficiaries, 53 percent of people with student loans, and 60 Boulder Weekly

article, “Nixon’s negative campaigns,” may have spoken inadvertently about his own relationship with honesty and politics. In a fictional dialogue with Richard Nixon, Danish has Tricky Dick say about politics: “Honest smears are when you pick up on something your opponent said or did and spin it to fit your narrative. … They may be quoting out of context and spinning like whirling Dervishes, but they start with a kernel of truth. I’m cool with that kind of negative campaigning.” Unfortunately, it seems that Danish is also cool with that kind of spinning of the truth in his writing. I’m still waiting

for the Weekly or for Danish to acknowledge that some of his writing about climate change has been clearly inaccurate — such as when he took the “climategate” scientists’ quotes out of context and spun them to fit his general wishful thinking about global warming. To refresh the reader’s mind, Danish wrote at the time of the Copenhagen climate talks: “The picture presented by the e-mails is one of corrupt scientists and corrupt science,” and the work of the scientists was “brazenly deceitful.” Furthermore, Danish prematurely see LETTERS Page 11

percent of homeowners with taxpayer-subsidized Grossly over budget and unable to attract enough mortgages answered “no” to the question of whether private-sector investment, Romney dashed for a taxthey are using a government social program. payer handout that ballooned to $1.5 billion before But at least they’re not running to be the chief he was done. That’s a lot of stuff! In fact, it was executive of the federal government. Mitt Romney, one-and-a-half-times more government money than on the other hand, is, and he’s had been thrown into all seven been disparaging Americans who Olympic games held in the U.S. For more information on Jim turn to government to get what he since 1904. Sen. John McCain Hightower’s work — and to calls “free stuff ” to meet some of called the level of federal subsidy subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The their needs. He cites his experience “a disgrace,” made all the more Hightower Lowdown — visit as a private sector executive as a disgraceful by later exposés docuwww.jimhightower.com. menting that much of the loot more virtuous model and proof went not for the games, but to that he has the managerial chops enrich wealthy Utah developers. to run the government like a business. For example, Remember Mitt’s Olympic haul of government Romney’s campaign has broadcast TV ads hailing his successful stint as CEO of the 2002 Winter gold the next time you hear him assail poor people for getting food stamps. Olympic games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unmentioned by this heroic free-enterpriser, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com however, is that his gold medal success was largely This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the the result of “free stuff ” he got from Washington. views of Boulder Weekly. September 27, 2012 7

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For the record, I will be voting in secret by Joel Dyer

ell, it’s another first for Boulder County. Or should I say another black eye? When Nov. 6 rolls around, I hear we will be the only county in the nation that won’t be guaranteeing its citizens the right to a secret ballot, or at least that’s what voter privacy activist Marilyn Marks says. I don’t know if that’s accurate or not, but I do know we are going to be the only county in Colorado still using this particular system of bar codes and numbers on our ballots, and that as of the most recent primary, those markings could be used to connect an individual ballot to the voter who filled it out. Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall claims that, this time around, she is going to create a bar-code and number system on our ballots that is so complex and shuffled that a NASA geek with a supercomputer couldn’t trace a ballot back to the voter who filled it out, but I’m skeptical. She said that the old system she was using in June couldn’t be traced either, and she was wrong. I know this because earlier this week, following a five-minute lesson on how to trace ballots, even I could connect the ballot to the voter. Shocking, considering I’m nearly computer-illiter-

ate. So when I say that if I can do it, anyone can, I’m not exaggerating. If that doesn’t scare you, it should. Think about it. Do elected officials really want their constituents to know exactly how they actually voted on every issue and race? Would the editors and publishers of area newspapers really want their readers to know how they voted? Would a Mitt Romney vote in a liberal market like Boulder cost a publication some of its advertisers? Would voting to legalize pot have potential ramifications for an aspiring local politician with his or her sights set on higher office someday? Do you want your boss to know how you voted on every single issue? How about your partner? I can think of at least one judge, U.S. District Court Judge Christine Arguello, who deserves to have her ballot printed on page one after her recent ruling that claimed that we have no constitutional right to a secret ballot and that no one would be damaged if their voting results were made public. It was Arguello’s asinine ruling that cleared the way for Hall to continue marking our ballots with numbers and bar codes. Colorado passed laws some 120 years ago guaranteeing that a ballot

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Hey! The state of Colorado has found a great compromise for fracking in and around schools and neighborhoods! wouldn’t contain marks that would allow it to be traced back to the voter who filled it out. Newspapers of the day declared it a great victory, noting that, thanks to the laws, even your boss and the government can’t know how you voted. But that hasn’t been true in Boulder County, where the stroke of a key or two could pull up your voting results connected to your name. Our government tells us that our voting information is safe because no county employee will ever break the law and look at our ballots or release all or part of the voter database into public domain. It’s like they never heard of Wikileaks, and I can’t count how many stories I have been able to write over the years because local government workers handed me information that they weren’t supposed to make public. I’m very glad that Hall is going to shuffle the ballots and supposedly assign duplicate numbers in an effort to make it harder or even impossible to trace ballots to voters this time around. It’s at least an acknowledgment that we’ve been doing it wrong and an attempt to fix things. But being a skeptic who cares deeply about my right to a secret vote, I wish she would just do what other counties in the state, and the entire nation, are doing and just get rid of the bar codes or make all of the numbers the same. But since Boulder County is determined to do it “our way,” I’ve decided to fix the problem myself. For the record, I am going to take a marker and black out the bar codes and numbers on my ballot before turning it over to the county to be counted. The law says that if the intent of the voter can be determined by examining the ballot, then the vote counts. Getting rid of the bar code and number will not impact my intent. In her response to my questions regarding

marking out the bar codes, Hall told me that such ballots would likely still be counted. She added that it would slow the process because a bipartisan team of judges would have to examine the ballot for intent and then transfer the votes onto a new ballot with a bar code that would be run back through the machine to be counted. This would also likely cause the ballot to be counted late, possibly even after election day, she says. Well so be it. And as for the delay in being counted, that is simply Hall’s choice, and from where I sit, intended as punishment for those of us who won’t play by her rules. My understanding from covering a recent meeting of the canvass board, a meeting that the clerk’s office claims was improperly called, is that Hall has the option of making the equipment count all ballots the first time through, even if the bar code has been marked out. But that would mean that Boulder would have to count its votes like every other county in the state. What a tragedy. This is important. When a person sees a bar code and number on their ballot, they naturally, and at least up until now, rightfully, assume that how they vote on every issue could be found out by someone else. True or not, going forward, the bar codes and numbers on this November’s ballots will affect some people’s sense of security that their vote will remain a private matter, especially considering that an idiot judge in a post-9/11 world just ruled that we have no right to a secret ballot. So I say mark out your bar code and number if you are concerned, and then cast your vote with confidence, knowing that it is truly secret. And if anyone tries to say that our votes don’t count because we marked out the bar code, I, for one, will gladly see them in court. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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SMOKE HIM IF YOU’VE GOT HIM While we have absolutely no opinion on whether marijuana should be legalized in Colorado (OK, so maybe we do, stay tuned for next week’s Vote Guide with our endorsements), we have to agree with the Amendment 64 campaign on at least one front. Amendment 64 would allow the smoking of the doobie, or at least control it the way that alcohol is regulated. Its backers balked last week at the comments of the anti-64 campaign chief, who reportedly dissed a decorated Denver police officer who dared endorse the pro-pot measure. In a Sept. 21 press release, Amendment 64 spokesperson Mason Tvert ripped opponent Roger Sherman for describing 36-year Denver Police Department veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Tony Ryan as a “rent-a-cop.” Now, we’ve met rent-a-cops before and Ryan doesn’t sound like he fits the bill. This dude got a DPD Purple Heart after being shot while on duty, and received a merit award for being an immediate responder to the Columbine shootings, according to Tvert. This seems to be yet another lame attempt to torpedo a common-sense measure that would put a plant on the same level as alcohol, a substance that is responsible for way more deaths and injuries each year than the herb. Kudos to a cop who recognizes that fact, and shame on the fear-mongers who ripped on him. YOU MISSED THE APOCALYPSE OK, we get lots of press releases each day, and lots of calls from well-meaning PR people making sure that we got their press releases. Sometimes, when it’s local, or at least in our general realm of coverage, we give it a glance. This time, when we saw the subject line “New book suggests God will return to Earth in September 2012,” we sat up and paid heed. After all, there are only a few days left in September, and we didn’t want to miss the boat. Some of us immediately began praying, asking about the possibility of forgiveness for last weekend’s shenanigans involving whiskey and a local goat farm. Turns out, this new book, titled The Message and written by Albert Lynch, predicted that “God will come to Earth to collect all His believers on September 17, 2012, at midnight.” The problem is, from a simple public relations standpoint, we got the press release about this fantastic revelation on Sept. 20. Folks, if you are planning to publish anything about the return of Jesus, He Who Shall Not Be Named, Mohammed, or any other deity or demigod or bornagain whatever, do not use a publishing company that publicizes your prediction after it doesn’t come true. It makes it a bit more difficult to save the infidels. SCOUT LEADERS In related news, and in a PR campaign that actually seems to have worked quite well, on Sept. 20, we got a press release from change.org that Eagle Scout Zach Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, was urging Intel to stop funding the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay discrimination, to the tune of $700,000 in 2010. We were told that more than 3,500 people had signed on to support the initiative protesting the company, which had professed to not donate to groups that discriminate. On Sept. 21, the next day, we got an announcement from change.org that, in fact, Intel had announced it will no longer fund the Boy Scouts, due to the Scouts’ policy barring gay scouts and leaders. In less than 48 hours, the number of folks who signed on to protest the corporation’s funding had apparently grown to 30,000. Now that’s what we call results. According to change.org, other companies that have made sizeable donations to the Boy Scouts include Verizon, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. It’s time to make them earn their merit badge for equality. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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claimed that “The e-mails revealed that the CRU scientists, who are some of the most influential in the field — and CRU Director Phil Jones in particular — sought to suppress the publication of the work of scientists with whom they disagreed, discussed blacklisting and boycotting scientific journals that published research and presented views that differed from theirs, and attempted to get the editors of such journals removed.” Since then, several formal investigations in the U.S. and Britain cleared the scientists from unethical behavior and verified their research findings. In other words, Danish made wrong accusations, unproven conclusions, and spun misinformation about one of the important issues of our time. The Mitt Romney campaign has been using similar tactics, such as distorting the meaning of the “you didn’t build it” quotation from President Obama when he argued that individual success also depends on the community. The Republicans even built their convention theme around this distortion. Let’s remember — lying caught up to Nixon, and voters and readers should demand more from their leaders and journalists when they compromise the truth. Weekly readers should keep a close eye on Danish’s claims, and ask the publisher, Stewart Sallo, to demand clearer thinking from him, including retractions and corrections, when he gets it wrong. Doug Dupler/via Internet

A good fracking book

(Re: “The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome),” Danish Plan, Aug. 23.) Anyone wishing to learn more about aspects of the fracking issue is likely to be helped along by reading The End of Country. The author, Seamus McGraw, grew up in a rural Pennsylvania community that attracted the interest of energy companies desiring to produce natural gas from Marcellus shale. McGraw portrays numerous community members — ranging from multigenerational subsistence farmers to retirees escaping the big city rush — as only a home-grown person could. Some villagers opposed drilling. Others sold to the landman and became wealthy in small and big ways. McGraw describes findings of a local college professor who analyzed the geology and size of natural gas deposits in the shale under Dimock, Penn. Interestingly, McGraw describes some aspects of the fracking process, including the use of huge amounts of water, the use of chemicals, and the use of tiny particles to wedge open microcracks in fracked shale. Natural gas production changed the sociology of McGraw’s hometown. That far-reaching change is summed up in the Boulder Weekly

title of his book. Bruce Christ/Boulder

Review boosted my business

Editor’s note: The following is a letter to Boulder Weekly restaurant reviewer Clay Fong. (Re: “Back to the basics,” Cuisine Review, Sept. 13.) I am the owner of Crane Hollow Cafe and I want to thank you for your recent article about us in the Boulder Weekly. I have read other reviews written by you and I know you have discriminating taste so I was

pleased to see your favorable review. We have had at least a dozen or more new customers come in specifically because of your article. As a relatively new owner and a local small business I greatly appreciate having had the opportunity of being featured in the Boulder Weekly! I look forward to meeting you if you should drop by again. Debbie Schlepp/Crane Hollow Café

Pearl Street smoking ban The City of Boulder is leaning

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group has been know to pass that along to me.” formed to fight the In response to a question city of Longmont’s about what it might cost a group proposed ban on to hire Reiter and himself for a fracking that is campaign, he declined to comgoing to voters in November, ment. and one of the state’s most And when asked whether the prominent political consultants Main Street Longmont campaign has been enlisted to lead the would be a true grassroots effort, effort. Ray said, “I think the committee It may become a repeat of is going to be a combination of what Longmont saw in the grassroots and seasoned campaign 2009 and 2011 elections, when veterans who know how to effectelecommunications companies The above political ad fails to mention that all seven former mayors pictured above are Republicans. tively communicate on issues, so poured hundreds of thousands a little bit of everything. But of dollars into efforts to defeat a there will be plenty of grassroots, measure allowing the city to use its Evans, who works for Reiter & and there will be plenty of other people has evolved into and the backers of the own fiber-optic network. Corporate Associates, a Denver political consulting campaign.” working on the campaign to help comexecutives denied that their motivation firm headed by Rick Reiter, who has municate the message, whether that’s Ray said seven former Longmont was to deter a threat to their market gained prominence by leading a host of through grassroots work, if that’s mayors have signed on to support Main share, and while they helped defeat the well-financed campaigns for and against Street Longmont: Bryan Baum, Julia through media, through mail pieces and initiative in 2009, thanks in large part ballot initiatives statewide. the Internet, and all the other tools used Pirnack, Bill Swenson, Bob Askey, to an industry-backed “No Blank For example, according to records in campaigns right now.” Leona Stoecker, Roger Lange and Al Check” campaign that was accused of from the secretary of state’s office, In response to an inquiry about how Sweney. (See www.voteno300.com.) dirty politics, citizens approved the Reiter’s firm raised $86,350 in 2006 for big of a blow the passage of the ban When asked whether those mayors measure in 2011. the Adams County Sales Tax Extension will actually be financing the initiative, would be to the industry, Ray said it’s A similar situation might be brewing Campaign, $72,203 in 2006 to defeat not his role to discuss public policy. Ray said, “We don’t share strategy. In a among wealthy oil and gas companies the labor-backed Amendment 38, and “Right now, this issue is fueled by campaign, we have a campaign finance and their trade organizations, which are $64,302 in 2010 to defeat Amendment pure emotion,” he said. “There’s not a report due in mid-October, and that’s expected to fight the hit to their pocket- 60, Amendment 61 and Proposition lot of science behind the arguments when that information will become books that would be delivered by a ban 101. public.” Ray also failed to point out that being made against fracking.” on hydraulic fracturing in Longmont. Reiter & Associates was also Ray also said that his campaign all seven of the former mayors are That measure, known as the “Public involved in Coloradans for a Stable “needs to get back to putting out some Republicans, a fact that might say more Health, Safety and Wellness Act” and Economy, which in 2008 helped defeat facts about oil and gas production, about about “Main Street Longmont” and its listed as Question 300 on the Nov. 6 Amendment 58, a measure that would fracking, about the health and safety pro-fracking position than anything ballot, would ban fracking and related have increased severance taxes assessed concerns out there. … You have seven else. waste disposal within city limits. to oil and gas companies, and would former mayors standing up for their city, He declined to comment on whethAccording to records in the have directed most of that money to standing up for the health and safety of er this would be a repeat of the corpocollege scholarships. Longmont city clerk’s office, a committheir city, standing up for the economic rate telecommunications campaigns to An Oct. 31, 2008, article in the tee called “Longmont Taxpayers for defeat Longmont’s efforts to use its own environment of Longmont, and wanting Rocky Mountain News reported that Common Sense” filed its registration to make sure the city charter is not filled fiber-optic network. Reiter collected $800,000 in manageform on Aug. 13, then submitted a new with all kinds of special-interest initiaRay, who worked for the Longmont ment fees that year. filing on Sept. 11, changing its name to tives.” Times-Call for many years, including as When reached by phone, Evans “Main Street Longmont.” At least one Longmont City its editorial page editor, says he is no declined to discuss who is involved in According to Longmont City Clerk Council member, Bonnie Finley, has stranger to the community and has Valeria Skitt, the group had to change Main Street Longmont, or what entities many friends in the city. suggested that the city will be sued if its name because the original moniker were funding the effort. the fracking ban passes. When asked He also acknowledges working on was already taken by an organization in “I’m actually just the person hanwhether the ban would withstand the “many, many, many campaigns” with Washington, D.C. That group asked the dling the campaign finance, is all,” he scrutiny of the courts if approved, Ray Rick Reiter over the years. Ray conLongmont committee to change its title, said. “I have to have someone else call said, “I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t pracfirmed that Reiter is “probably the top but agreed to allow the committee to tice law without a license.” you if you want a press story.” ballot and issue campaign consultant in use the money it had already collected Question 300 proponent and Bill Ray, a communications consulthe state of Colorado, absolutely.” under that name, as long as it began tant hired to serve as spokesperson for Reiter’s LinkedIn profile says he has Longmont-area native Sam Schabacker, fundraising under the new name, Skitt Food & Water Watch’s mountain west the campaign, also declined to discuss compiled a 107-19 won-loss record on said. director, says he expects oil and gas the financial backing of the campaign. the state and local ballot issue camShe added that she will have no interests to spend more than $1 million When asked whether oil and gas interpaigns he has run. information about how the organization ests would be bankrolling Main Street to defeat the proposed fracking ban. He When asked why a request for comis funded until the first filing deadline adds that the hiring of a heavy hitter Longmont to protect their profits, Ray ment from the Colorado Oil and Gas for declaring financial contributions, said, “Obviously, that industry has an Association (COGA), the state’s primary like Reiter is a sign of how serious the which is Oct. 16. Subsequent financial interest in this issue in Longmont, as it association for that industry, was directed industry is taking this threat. forms are due Oct. 23, Oct. 31 and Dec. is a national issue impacting the indus“This guy is not small potatoes; he to him, Ray said, “COGA is not directly 6. knows what he’s doing,” Schabacker try, but I think, come mid-October, involved in the campaign, so when The registered agent for “Main said. when the financial reports happen, it COGA gets a press call about the camStreet Longmont” is listed as Richard Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com will paint a picture of who the campaign paign, which they do quite often, they Boulder Weekly

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n the 1960s, many historic buildings in downtown Boulder — including some dating back to the city’s roots in the last quarter of the 1800s — were demolished in the name of progress, in the name of expansion, in the name of economic development. But in the early ’70s, a group of local residents rose up against that tide and drew a line in the sand when it came to three particular properties. The upstart preservationists succeeded in saving two of those structures, the Highland School at 9th Street and Arapahoe Avenue and the city’s original Union-Pacific train depot, which has been relocated more than once and now stands at what is expected to be Boulder’s Transit Village. Unfortunately, the third building, Central School, erected at the site of Colorado’s first schoolhouse, was demolished. And that loss, even more than the two preserved structures, may have cemented the activists’ place in history. The group quickly became known as Historic Boulder, and the organization celebrates its 40th anniversary this week at a party being held from 5:30 to

8 p.m. Sept. 27 on the mezzanine of the Boulderado Hotel, in the heart of the downtown it has helped protect. According to Historic Boulder President Abby Daniels, the group’s first board president Joyce Davies helped organize a standing-room-only meeting at Boulder’s public library in the early 1970s to save the three threatened structures. Davies recalls what it was like during Historic Boulder’s infancy. “We had no money, no reputation, we had nothing at that time,” she tells Boulder Weekly. “The first few years there, we were so busy we couldn’t think.” Davies, who would later be hired as the group’s first executive director in 1977, says there were both public and private buildings that succumbed to the expansion of the downtown business district in the 1960s between Pine and Canyon streets. “At that time, nobody was giving them any thought at all, it was just, ‘We need a bigger building there,’ so down they went,” Davies says. Saving the Highland School was See HISTORIC Page 15

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one of their top priorities, she explains, and seven preservationists secured loans of $20,000 each from local banks to keep the historic structure from being torn down. About $70,000 was paid to the school district to secure the building, and the other half was used to renovate it, Davies says. It still stands today as an office building, thanks in no small part to its owner, Sina Simantob, who by most accounts has taken good care of one of Boulder’s oldest structures. “It’s a wonderful example of how a good caretaker can take an old building and give it new use,” Davies says. When city officials wanted to open 14th Street to traffic between Spruce and Canyon, threatening the historic train depot, the fledgling organization helped save the station with the assistance of the Jaycees, which secured money from the city to have it relocated to 30th and Pearl, according to Davies. The activists weren’t as lucky with Central School, since the school district was set on selling it to a developer who tore it down — but not before preservationist Prissy Bowron got wind of the wrecking ball’s approach and affixed a sign to the structure saying “Historic Boulder protests and regrets the destruction of this historic building.” “That’s really when people started to take us seriously,” Davies says, adding that Bowron and her husband Bob deserve much credit for buying historic homes in the area, renovating them and reselling them. The demolition of the Central School seemed to create a sense of urgency. Historic Boulder went on to bolster its reputation by spearheading the city’s historic preservation ordinance in 1974 and making its influence felt on the Boulder Landmarks Board, which has designated more than 163 individual landmarks and 11 historic districts. Today, Historic Boulder and its members are credited with saving dozens of structures that would have otherwise been razed, including the Boulder Theater and the Arnett-Fullen House at 7th and Pearl. Now, the group has taken on its most ambitious endeavor to date: preserving and rehabilitating the Hannah Barker House, one of the oldest residences in Boulder, which was donated to Historic Boulder in late 2010. Hannah Barker, who purchased the home with her husband Ezra Barker in 1877, two years after it was built, was one of the city’s most prominent pioneer women and was among the first female schoolteachers in Boulder County. According to Daniels, this structure, Boulder Weekly

located near the group’s first preservation effort, Highland School, will be the most expensive project the organization has funded, in part because it was neglected for many years. But the group has some help. The University of Colorado chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has adopted the property to be one of its volunteer projects, and in addition to using income from the Historic Boulder endowment, the group has acquired a grant from the State Historical Fund for the initiative.

Of course, more donations are needed to finish the final phases of the project over the next few years. Daniels says the Barker House effort is a sign of Historic Boulder’s continuing vitality. The group is not opposed to change, she explains; in fact, the organization has helped preserve “landmarks of the future” built as recently as the 1950s. “We don’t want a town frozen in time,” Daniels says, “but in historic preservation you want that change managed.”

She describes the approach as maintaining “a city that has a sense of place. … Communities with character are the most economically viable.” As for Davies, she has returned to the board of Historic Boulder, and she plans to attend its 40th birthday party. “I go off the board for a period of years, and I can’t stand it,” she says. “I have to know what’s going on. I love the organization. That’s sort of my mission in life, I love old buildings. Every one we save, I’m thrilled about.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ne week in fall several years ago, Douglas Hill went into the woods. What came out of the woods was a different man. Hill was finishing an intensive course in primitive skills at Practical Primitive in New Jersey. Together with the three other students in the class and their instructor, he walked into the woods to put what he had learned and what he had made in six months of study to the test. It was a week that would expose the gaps in the shelters they made, the weaknesses in the tools they used and pots they fired, holes in the knowledge of how to put those tools to use, but more than that, well beyond that, Hill says, on a rainy, cold night, when he was wet, chilled and without food or fire, he would come face to face with who he really was. And discover then that who he thought he was, was not who he actually was. “We were all so miserable and like our willpower had just gone out the door and I had this moment of just, I think, seeing through who I thought I was, who I always thought I was, and realizing who I am,” he says. “It was this moment of just wow, you know, like it would be pretty easy to die out here. The wilderness isn’t this bubbly take-careof-you sort of place. You’ve got to take care of yourself. You’ve got to put the energy out there. But I could not bring myself to go out in the rain and try to start a fire. It was just a miserable, miserable night.” That night reshaped his future. It took a man who could have become another Christopher McCandless story of enthusiasm for a life in the wild gone wrong and dosed him with a bit of well-deserved fear for the woods. “I think it took away a bit of my ideals and replaced it with experi-

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adventure ence,” Hill says. “Like a lot of people, I had a slightly altered sense of reality.” When he looks at the woods now, that sense of dangerous wild is tempered with a sensibility for harvesting its plentiful resources. He sees what can be woven into cordage, what wood will burn easily under the pressure of a bow drill and where to strike stones and logs to break them into usable pieces. Hill has spent half of the last decade studying primitive technology and indigenous skills. As a quote from primitive technologist Scott Silsby on his website claims, it’s not the worst set of tools we’ve ever used to get things done, it’s just the first. Hill grew up in the wilds of New Jersey. Before he learned how to make fire with sticks, weave baskets and carve a hunting bow, he completed a bachelor of science in technological studies and taught industrial arts and technology education — everything from wood shop to mechanical drafting — in high school. “I left teaching and that was really when I think my own interest in technology started going farther and farther back,” he says. “It’s just been a slow progression.” Yes, he says, he’s read Into the Wild, a gift from a friend he says probably handed it to him in the hope that it would save his life. The book served as cautionary tale. Reading the cover text about the boy who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness and was found dead months later was among the experiences that slowed his run into the wilderness for the life of a noble savage. When he goes to the woods now, his use of primitive technology is often tailored to meet the skills he wants to focus on developing, and he’ll pack contemporary tools so he can work on isolating one skill, such as purifying water in the woods, while enjoying a tent and the steel knife often belted to his side.

The former high school teacher is ship with the natural world, and a difclearly a teacher at heart — complete ferent understanding of the ancient with the humility and patience of havhumans and humanoids we’re descending wrangled teenagers — and now that ed from. he’s been studying and practicing primPart of what people learn when they itive skills for six years, he’s started to study indigenous skills is about us, and teach them. He founded Gone Feral a who we were, and what we’ve lost. The year ago, leads workshops around technology of the Stone Age is the Boulder County and spent a week in common denominator for humans early September at Rabbit Stick, a everywhere. Every civilization shows gathering of people who practice primi- evidence of having sharpened stone to a tive skills, teaching Adirondack basketpoint, a technology developed two and making. (And his baskets put a half million years ago, before humans, Longaberger to and carried right photo courtesy of Douglas Hill shame.) Though he through to late 1800s does teach kids, the medical reports of niche he’s really American West cavlooking to fill is proalrymen injured by viding an education stone-tipped arrows. in the outdoors to “You can go to adults through oneVirginia, you can go on-one mentorships to Afghanistan, you and private workcan go to South shops. Africa and there are Let’s get one periods when stone thing clear right technology was the away. He is not in only technology,” the business of says Douglas teaching anyone how Bamforth, professor Bow drill to survive the zomin the Department of bie apocalypse or the latest J.J. Abrams Anthropology at the University of television show scenario in an afterColorado. “All human groups used noon. flaked stone technology at one time in “I think it’s unrealistic to say ‘I want the past, and they often used it side by to learn how to survive for three weeks side with metal.” in a matter of six hours.’ That’s just not But when stones that were flintgoing to happen,” he says. Learning knapped, or broken into useable points how to survive an unexpected night out, like hand axes and spear points, were however, is a reasonable goal. first discovered in Europe, they were Hill teaches the use of technology called “fairy stones,” mysterious relics of that dates back to the Stone Age with unknown creatures — even though the idea that there are intrinsic benefits people were still flint knapping in to knowing how to build a brush shelFrance and England. The task of ter, throw with an atlatl, weave a basket, unmasking the fairies has fallen to cut with a stone knife, track an animal, archaeologists, who have to decipher identify edible plants or make a fire stories written in stone. from sticks. Some of those skills could “There’s two ways that we can tell help save your life in an emergency. But about past lifestyles. Number one, we beyond that, learning these skills is can study the tools themselves and we about developing a different relationcan use microscopes to study wear pat-

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terns on stone tools, see what kind of material they’re cutting,” says Steven Holen, curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. “The other way that we understand how people lived in the past is to reproduce their tools and use them ourselves and then study the wear patterns on the experimental tools. It’s easier to understand the ancient tools once you’ve used them yourself and then looked at the tools under the microscope to compare them.” What we learn first in that experiment is just how much knowledge we’ve lost over thousands of years in terms of skills and knowledge of the natural world and its resources. “We know tons that they didn’t know, so it’s not that we’ve become impoverished in our knowledge,” Bamforth says. “It’s just that our knowledge has changed, but you suddenly come to understand how much knowledge there was in the world that has not persisted.” “I think that’s another surprising thing is you find out how smart people were, they were very good technologists and they were very smart people,” Holen says. “They were just as smart as we were, in some ways, maybe smarter.” Even for those not examining stone tools under a microscope, the rest of the world comes into sharper focus after time working with primitive tools. You can look at a rock and see that a rock doesn’t have to just be a rock anymore. It could be a knife. “You look at the world a little bit differently when you’ve actually worked with these things and made them,” Bamforth says. “You just feel stupid, at first, because you don’t know how to hold the damn thing without hurting yourself.” Hill has a small collection of tools that replicate the evolving rock chunks see PRIMITIVE Page 18

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prehistoric people worked with over the last two and a half million years. He holds up a hand ax, a flake of rock with one side sharp enough to cut meat and the other round enough to grip, the kind of tool made by homo sapiens’ predecessor, homo erectus. “These are the folks that walked out of Africa, so this was what was in their hand when they left Africa,” he says. But let’s forget trying to wrap your head around gutting mega-fauna with the sharp edge of a rock, and forget Africa. That’s too far back. It was a cool, late summer morning when I first met Hill, thousands of miles from Africa and from those cold woods and after a string of days that could have you doubting you might ever be cold again. We talk for an hour before he asks, “Have you ever tried to make fire by friction?” He kneels over his fire kit, a foot tamping down a fire board, and his hands on the hand hold, a piece of wood on top and a bow drill to spin a stick, the spindle, against the fire board. The wood squeaks at first in protest, he adjusts the pieces, then a sound more like sawing starts. In moments, there’s a scent of burning. He picks up speed, the squeak returns, and a spin of smoke and the smell of campfire rise from the fire board. He leans back from a nugget of wood shavings, almost furry, black and gray with a glowing, red heart, determined and encouraged by a slight breeze. “It’s such a beautiful thing,” he says. The furry part, he explains, is the particles of wood. “People ask, ‘Will any wood make fire?’ I don’t know the answer to that question. I know some woods work a heck of a lot better. Generally, you want finer particles than that. The finer the particles, the quicker they’ll heat up. You’re shaving off all 18 September 27, 2012

these particles, raising the heat and they’re sort of melting together, and that’s what creates this coal.” Though he’d been a woodworker well before the days he started delving into primitive skills, making fire and bows reshaped his understanding of wood. Otherwise, it’s tough to see the particles for the board. A bow, for example, is made of one set of rings of a tree — cut through the rings, and the bow is likely to split at the mark of its growth. “When most people look out there on the landscape they just see green, they don’t see what’s around them, what different trees they have, what those different trees do, is it edible, is it medicinal, what it does for you,” says Eddie Starnater, co-founder of Practical Primitive and instructor for the sixmonth intensive course that landed Hill in the woods that night, putting his skills to the test. Studying primitive skills, he says, changes a person’s mindset. “You become a participant, if you will, in your ecosystem, rather than apart from it,” Starnater says. “You’re a part of things, not apart from things.” For the last seven years, Starnater and Practical Primitive co-founder Julie Martin have run small workshops from a property 45 minutes outside New York City, teaching everything from candle-making to building brush shelters. The program Hill participated in, their hunter gatherer program, is among their more intensive, demanding and challenging programs. Students commit one three-day weekend a month for six months, and, between classes, complete plenty of homework, which can include tasks like identifying, preparing and eating wild plants. see PRIMITIVE Page 20

ou may think you know Colorado. Maybe you’re a true mountain weekend warrior, and you’ve been to all of our state’s tiny gems, like Alta and Crystal and Montezuma. Maybe you even sport one of those “Native” bumper stickers on your rusted-out Land Cruiser or Jeep. But even if you are fluent in mountain-speak and can list all of the state’s 14ers in under a minute, grizzled highcountry scribe M. John Fayhee has a Mark Fox book for you. Actually, two. The first, The Colorado Mountain Companion, falls somewhere between a colorful collection of historical tidbits and a useful list of factoids, kind of like a local encyclopedia that can be read straight through or used as a reference guide when bar arguments arise. In fact, the idea for the Mountain Companion came to Fayhee while in an Arizona bar debating a fellow patron about whether Leadville is the highest municipality in the country. Not surprising that such inspiration should come to the Mountain Gazette editor in a watering hole, given his own welldocumented accounts of experiences enhanced by substances, liquid and otherwise. But he acknowledges that the Mountain Companion project was unlike any other writing assignment he has tackled, because it actually required a fair amount of research, rather than simply composing clever rambling memories of his adventures in the high country and elsewhere. For this book, he actually had to look things up and interview people to answer questions like, “Why the hell isn’t there an apostrophe in the names of certain mountains named after people’s last names, like Pikes Peak and Longs Peak? And what about strange Colorado town names, like Joes and

Saints John?” As he describes it, “It’s not just Fayhee bullshit. … I know what I’m talking about, and that’s rare for me.” The book’s subtitle is “A potpourri of useful miscellany from the highest parts of the highest state.” Fayhee has sections about songs that mention Colorado and movies that were filmed here. There are entire chapters serving as glossaries for the often unintelligible lexicon used by niche mountain subcultures like snowboarders, fishermen and mountain bikers. From cloud seeding to mountain license plates to the use of Viagra for nonsexual purposes, Fayhee’s Mountain Companion is a must-have for the library of those who fancy themselves authorities on our fair state. And Boulder County plays a prominent role in the book. Fayhee is currently on a regional speaking M. John Fayhee tour for not only that tome, but another work titled Smoke Signals: Wayward Journeys Through the Old Heart of the New West. It’s a collection of expanded versions of the tales he has woven over the past five years in his “Smoke Signals” column in Mountain Gazette. To give you some idea of the flavor of these pieces, on the off-chance that you haven’t already read his original, trimmed-down versions that appeared in MG, the book’s index is not so much organized in terms of places or people’s names, but categorized under themes like “Assholes,” “Bartenders,” “Buddies, Drinking,” “Drugs, Illegal,” “Police” and “Bud Girls” (as opposed to “Bud Light Girls,” who are discussed on a different page). These pieces are classic Fayhee. Meandering but irresistibly crafted sentences that paint images of a life well-lived, and others well-witnessed, perhaps embellished, but a fun ride nonetheless. Fayhee will speak at 6:30 p.m. Oct. Boulder Weekly

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the stories in Smoke Signals, adding that about 40 percent of the book’s content has never been published. “Brevity is not my strength.” Among his favorite pieces, he lists “Crash Landing,” about a trip to China to do a story for Backpacker magazine, a story that begins with a hilarious attempt to separate a man from his cigarette on an airplane. Fayhee acknowledges that his aging body won’t let him lead the hard-charging, chemically infused lifestyle to the extent that he used to. While his work — and circle of friends — have ties to the late, great Hunter S. Thompson, Fayhee says he has no intention of trying to live the wild life well into his 60s like Thompson did. In fact, his next few projects will force him to take it down a notch, at least in altitude. He is hitting the Great Plains to work on two more books. The first was inspired by bound collections of

newspapers published in Ewing, Neb., from 1950 to 1952 that he found at an antique shop in Georgetown, Colo. “So I’m just going to go there and see what comes of it,” Fayhee says. The second project, for which he’ll travel to Oklahoma, involves an effort by the Apache Indians to relocate the bones of Geronimo to the great chief ’s homeland in southwest New Mexico, which Fayhee now calls home. Finally, he says, he wants to head toward the Atlantic. After all, despite his authoritative voice on all things Colorado, the West and the mountains, he is originally from eastern Virginia, and he wants to write a book about a Westerner’s perspective on that coast. So, as it turns out, even venerable Colorado veteran John Fayhee can’t in good conscience sport a “Native” bumper sticker. Not that he ever let a little thing like the truth get in the way. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“It’s not a theoretical knowledge base. They do have to find it, harvest it, prepare it and consume it, then they report back on it,” Starnater says. “You know pretty quick if somebody just read something out of a book. … The point of the program is to have the student internalize everything, so it’s practical knowledge you carry with you.” Among their first projects is weaving a long, narrow bag for their fire kits — a bag Hill still carries. That final week, participants take and put to the test what they’ve made and learned over the six previous months. The baskets, the clay pots, the bow, the atlatl. “I get to have a lot of fun with it because I’ll let them suffer in a few different areas for just a little bit first,” Starnater says. Students can pack backups — like a modern sleeping bag or a hatchet — and leave them in the car. He encourages them to use the materials available and if and when they turn to contemporary tools, note that as a skill to work on. Hill still employs a similar approach when he goes into the woods now, often packing based on the skill he wants to work on — and carrying a backup. He takes his bow drill to make a fire, for example, but will pack a lighter, too. “I’ll go in, if I want it to be a totally primitive experience, I’ll go in with a fire kit, or maybe none, and I’ll make it

out there, and build a brush shelter,” he says. For students of these skills, he recommends taking it on in small steps. “If you want to go out and not make fire with a lighter, pack your lighter, know where it is, but promise you’re not going to use it unless it’s dire. But keep everything else the same, your tent and everything else, and once you become really proficient with fire, then you’re like, ‘OK, well I’m going to go out and build myself a shelter,’ but keep your tent with you, maybe even set your tent up, so that if it gets bad and it’s rainy you can just dive in your tent as opposed to having to set it up. So that’s the kind of thing I did, is decide what I wanted to work on and then to kind of push everything a little farther.” Progress toward total self-sufficiency moves slowly, he says, and the key to not dying is to not go too far, too fast. One of the lessons Hill says carried with him from that night in the woods is the sense that you can’t do this alone. Surviving in the wild takes the skills, strength and energy of a community of people. There’s a big interest in survival skills now, thanks to shows like Bear Grylls’ Man vs. Wild, Survivorman and the J.J. Abrams’ collection of Lost and Revolution, as well as The Hunger Games books and movie. They often miss the point. (Though if you want to see some primitive technology in action, Hill’s a big fan of the skills Boulder Weekly

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slipped into Cast Away.) “If we’re talking about indigenous people, to a certain extent every day is survival, but they’re not necessarily having to wake up every day and go out there and make their fire kit and find water,” Hill says. “For most of history, we’re moving in small bands or extended family groups that we’ve taken to calling tribes. People had their group stuff, so you have your fire kit and you’re not going to have to remake that every day. As a matter of fact, you’re probably not even going to have to start a fire every day. Keep the fire going, let it go to coals, then blow that back to flame, so I think the hard and fast survival thing where you’re dropped into the woods with nothing is a situation that very few of us are ever going to find ourselves in, and very few people in history have found themselves in.” Among the facts archaeologists will never get stones to tell them is how many people were together and in what kind of group at any given site, people who dropped off something like the Mahaffey cache of stone tools that was dug out of a Boulder front yard, which Bamforth led the study on. But the evidence suggests we’ve always been intertwined, sharing skills and resources. “We tend to view people as totally self-sufficient and then when we start to look it often turns out they’re much more economically interactive than we Boulder Weekly

expected, so it’s not as rare as a quick glance of the evidence might suggest it is,” Bamforth says. Sites around the continent show that hunter-gatherers often moved and traded a lot to distribute the best materials for different purposes. “Overnight, sure, people get through stuff all the time by themselves, but long term, whether it’s a million years ago, or after the zombie apocalypse or to practice long term whatever, you need a group,” Hill says. “You need a community. Whether that’s your family or a group of friends, just whatever it is, you need a group of people.” So Hill is looking to build a community of people who get together to share their skills, trade tips and talk, well, not shop, but materials, cordage and projects. Secret places to practice archery and ways to get around the major hurdle of being an urban dweller and trying to make rural tools: sourcing materials. To that end, he’s running community skills nights at the Boulder History Museum the first Wednesday of each month. It’s an informal gathering meant to draw together people who are working on primitive technologies and want to work on them in company, instead of alone. After all, if you can make a fire, you ought to have someone to share it with. For additional information on Gone Feral, visit http://goneferal.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen you think the name Colin Meloy, you think The Decemberists, the Grammynominated indie-rock band he has fronted for a decade. You think catchy, theatrically crafted songs and folk-rock that actually

has an edge. But an arguably equal part of his bands’ enormous success is his lyrics, which arguably might even overshadow his songs. There’s a creeping darkness in his lyrics, not just in the explicitly violent scenes of tunes like “The Rake’s Song” but also in the blood and guts imagery of the upbeat and cheery “July, July.” The author of such couplets like “And I’ll say, ‘Your camisole was a sprightly light magenta’ / When, in fact, it was a nappy bluish grey” clearly has an inclination towards words (and, not surpisingly, a degree in creative writing), and the visceral storytelling of certain Decemberists songs is part of what makes the band so fun. So it’s no shock that Meloy, who in 2009 wrote a rock opera, Hazards of Love, would eventually turn to fiction, and

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given his band’s theatrical leanings, that the book ended up being in the fantasy genre. But what is surprising is Meloy’s target audience. His books aren’t for bespectacled hipsters with a fleeting appreciation of Baudrillard; they’re for children. And that’s how we get The Wildwood Chronicles, Meloy’s series of fantasy books for pre-teens. The first volume came out in 2011, and on Sept. 25 we got the sequel, Under Wildwood. It turns out that writing fiction was always a pipe dream for Meloy and his wife, Carson Ellis, who pens the detailed, full-color illustrations that appear throughout the book. Back in the early 2000s when The Decemberists were just starting out as a band, Ellis and Maloy were living together in a warehouse, “super excited” about sharing “a common aesthetic,” as Meloy puts it. Meloy was writing songs and Ellis was designing merch and

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buzz doing web design, but the couple knew Machines make convenience. they wanted to do more. They wanted Convenience is freedom. Freedom is to write a book. (The couple will sign family.” books and read at the Boulder Book In fact, the books were almost writStore on Saturday, Sept. 29.) ten for adults, Meloy says. “We started writing a kind of folk “I think that it just made sense, you tale, fairy tale-inspired novel back then know,” Meloy says of the decision to that was going to be really long and write for the middle school age group. heavily involved and weird, and be heav- “We wanted to do this thing that had a ily illustrated,” Meloy tells Boulder really strong footing in folk tales and Weekly. “We started writing, and we got fairy tales, and I think we just wanted 80 pages into it and then our other lives to do that genre right and not just write kind of took over, and The Decemberists it for adults. got really busy. … But we always knew “It just felt like from the outset, we that we wanted to come back to it, and were kind of like, ‘Should we make this this is the fruition of that.” a niche-y thing that’s for adults but is Meloy appropriates his longtime an illustrated fairy tale?’ But I think we home, Portland, Ore., as the setting for wanted to do it the right way and actuthe books. Portland’s lush, 5,100-acre ally have it be legitimately for kids.” jewel, Forest Park, becomes the magical Writing comes naturally to Meloy, Impassable Wilderness, but even though you accessible only by those might think songwriting and novel-writing with the proper birthON THE BILL: Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis will sign come from the same right, and he sprinkles books at the Boulder Book creative place, Meloy local color, like St. Store on Saturday, Sept. 29, says there are signifiJohns (a Portland at 4 p.m. Visit www.boulderbookstore.net for more inforcant differences. neighborhood) and the mation. 1107 Pearl St., “I think you can Willamette River, Boulder, 303-447-2074. really get rolling writthroughout. ing prose in a way that The books detail the adventures of two you can’t with writing a middle schoolers, Prue McKeel and song,” Meloy says. “Once you finish a Curtis Mehlberg, who get sucked into song, there’s no jumping from that adventures in a fantastical world of song. You can’t build on that song, it’s magical forests, shape-shifting fox kind of like a thing and you put it away. assassins, talking rats and roguish banYou’re like, OK. Now you start the realdits. In the first installment, Prue venly challenging part all over again, which tures into the Impassable Wilderness to is formulating ideas and getting somesave her kidnapped brother Mac, endthing that works. ing in, as is appropriate to Portland, a “Whereas if you are working on a dramatic bit of heroism taking place on book, you’re just living in that one sinPrue’s single-speed bike. She returns gle idea over the course of however home while Curtis opts to remain and many months, and there’s something start a new life as a bandit. really enjoyable in that. But then it The second book finds Prue misera- takes months, where a song could take ble in her seventh grade classes, while 10 minutes.” Curtis’ parents and two sisters struggle Meloy has been writing at a breakwith his disappearance. After her neck pace, which he says is part of the woodland friends discover a plot to kill game when writing for children. her, Prue is forced to take shelter with “You have a younger audience, is the Curtis and the bandits within the idea,” he says. “You want to try to keep Impassable Wilderness. When Curtis’ them before they get too old.” parents hear their son might be in It’s a pace Meloy is not sure is “susEastern Europe, they drop everything tainable at the enjoyable creative level.” to investigate and board their children Looking forward, Meloy wants to finat the local Dickensian orphanage. Of ish the trilogy he had planned and then course, it’s actually a slave-labor sweatwork on other projects, including possishop owned by a cartoonishly evil titan bly a musical. of industry, who reads magazines like “Yeah, actually, I’ve been talking to Industrialist Weekly, DUMP! and The some folks about doing something with 1% Journal, and forces the children to the theater,” he says. “It’s been kind of a make machine parts in his factories. longstanding dream of mine, and I have The darkness evident in some of been talking to people for the last seven Meloy’s Decemberists lyrics makes its years, just trying to find time to do it way into the books as well, as children and coming up with a good idea, meandeal with being abandoned by their while all these other things have happarents and the deaths of their friends, pened. I think that’s definitely on the and child slavers force orphans to chant, docket.” “Machine parts make machines. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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hat sort of huge, rauiTunes electronic charts, life grinding it cous event could warout on the road has provided a comfort rant switching the level between the two members. moniker of one the “Dom and I have been playing most iconic stages on together for years,” Salken says. “So we the planet? Something Big Gigantic. just have like this rapport with each The Boulder-based duo will take other and we know how to feel each over Red Rocks Sept. 29 with other out. There’s times when we’ll be Macklemore & about ready to go Ryan Lewis, on stage, and ON THE BILL: Big Gigantic plays Dillon Francis, Dom will be like, Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Saturday, Raw Russ, and ‘Oh yeah there’s a Sept. 29. Doors at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are Griz for an evenew song that I $35.95. 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494. ning being put in there, you dubbed got it, don’t even “Rowdytown.” It worry about it,’ is the first time producer/saxophonist and I’ll be like literally figuring the Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy tune out in front of a couple thousand Salken are headlining the venue, and people.” the plan is to throw a party for the That sort of artistry can backfire for entire Front Range. more inexperienced musicians, but Big G has found a way to meld the jazzy Lalli and Salken have been playing sounds of saxophone with the cacophotogether since 2008, gathering a folny of beats and effects that today’s prolowing for their up-tempo live perforduced music provides. Drawing from mances. With Salken banging skins the two realms and between, many and Lalli blasting his sax over bassintensive background, combined with a times the band finds itself just playing. “Sometimes I have a beat in mind, trip-tastic lighting rig, Big Gigantic is excited to bring their success full circle. sometimes I have, like, a melody from “We started here in Boulder. I feel my sax, and then I go and I just start like everyone in Boulder has our back, trying to create a song that is represenand it’s such a cool feeling and it’s tative of us,” Lalli says. “It’s great to great to have local support and amazlook over and just know that your buding fans. Boulder, Denver and the dy’s right there with you ready to do whole Colorado family is pretty insane. whatever you want to do. It’s a real We’re really stoked to say we’re from treat.” Boulder, and that’s how we do it,” Lalli As for Rowdytown at Red Rocks, says. Salken says Big Gigantic will be “playGood jam bands play with a tighting a bunch of stuff from Nocturnal, ness that comes from constant improvi- and then there’s all sorts of new stuff sation and repetition. For Big G, after kinda being rotated in there. Dom is four album releases including this year’s constantly hunting for new music and Nocturnal, which reached No. 2 on the digging for stuff,” Salken says. Boulder Weekly

Regarding any special collaborations, “There might be a couple surprises in there, but for the most part it’s gonna be us getting after it,” Salken says. One of the surprises for the show will be the use of projection mapping, which will splash video imagery onto the rocks while the music plays. It will bring a new visual element to an amphitheatre that has hosted thousands of shows over the years. “It is the first time it’s ever happened, and we thought it was a great opportunity for us to add to the whole experience. We have our own lighting designer and we have these other people who approached us. We’re all working together to bring the video content that we already have and integrating it with the video mapping on the rocks,” Lalli says. Whether it’s the lights, the sounds or just the energy of the crowd, Big Gigantic seems to be rounding into form as musicians and doing their moniker justice. For all the hype and fervor put into their performances, these local musicians have one foot firmly rooted in tradition while simultaneously dipping the other into the creative pool that can buoy a career. The headline gig at Red Rocks seems just another signpost on the road of things to come. “It’s been such a wild ride, and we’re just trying to grow and develop every day, get our sound bigger and better,” Lalli says. “We’ve tried pretty hard to progress as much as we can, and we’re definitely having some great times for sure.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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few weeks ago, I reviewed The Book of Mormon. Most people probably think that that musical’s profane, hilariously irreverent worldview sprang solely from the warped minds of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. And while Parker and Stone certainly contributed, they also had the help of a Mr. Robert Lopez, who, before signing on to The Book of Mormon, co-created anothON THE BILL: Avenue Q plays through Nov. 3 at er similarly styled award winBoulder’s Dinner Theatre. ner, Avenue Q. Tickets start at $35. 5501 The first five minutes of Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000, www.boulderAvenue Q contain enough sdinnertheatre.com. quirky, skewed humor to certify Lopez as an ingenious funny man on par with the Parkers, Stones and even Carlins of the world (we miss you, George). At intermission, one of my companions commented that she couldn’t believe it had taken so long for someone to take the world of Sesame alternately), an aspiring comedian who’s sort of a human Fozzie Bear. Brian is engaged to would-be Street and plunge it into the much less idealized realm therapist and walking, talking Asian stereotype of real life. I guess it took Lopez and his cohort, Jeff Christmas Eve (MariJune Scott), who, with her broMarx, to realize the comic potential in such a pairing. ken Engrish and lack of tact, is easily one of the funWe’re all lucky that they did. niest characters. When she heckles Brian at one of his Before the show even begins, Amy Campion’s set design sets the tone. A handful of dilapidated, inner city gigs by shouting, “You get job!” I thought I was going row houses that look as though they saw their last good to do a spit take. The flesh-and-blood humans live side by side with day sometime around the middle of the Reagan era let puppet humans and monsters. Bert and Ernie analogs the audience know that Avenue Q isn’t going to be the Rod and Nicky (Brett Ambler and Seth Caikowski, sunny day, clouds swept away kind of place its inspiration was. The fact that Avenue Q keeps its audience in respectively) sleep in twin beds and bicker like an old stitches from beginning to end with humor based on married couple. Rod is a fastidious, Republican financial poverty, racism and sex proves just how unique and whiz, and Nicky is a lazy slob. As with their inspiraexciting this musical is. tions, whether one or both of them is gay is a topic of Fresh out of college and wondering how to turn a ongoing discussion and a running gag. Trekkie B.A. in English into employment, Princeton (Brett (Caikowski again), an orange, porn-obsessed version of Ambler) signs a lease for an apartment on Avenue Q. Cookie Monster, lives above them. Avenues A through P, it seems, were too high-rent for Next door we find Kate Monster (Ellen Kaye), an the freshly minted graduate. He quickly meets the other assistant kindergarten teacher and eventual love interest residents of the block, a very mixed bag of strivers and for Princeton. Avenue Q uses monsters as a stand-in for minorities on multiple occasions, leading to the best loafers, who all share his yearning for a purpose in life. musical number of the night, “Everyone’s a Little Bit There’s Brian (Scott Beyette and Brian Jackson,

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Racist.” The superintendent managing the characters’ apartment buildings is Gary Coleman. Yes, that Gary Coleman (Ashlie-Amber Harris). ’Natch. And the Bad Idea Bears ( Joanie Brosseau and Caikowski), two of the most outlandish characters in this or any other musical, pop in from time to time to advise the worst possible courses of actions in the sweetest, cutest ways. I’ve seen Avenue Q before, and I still laughed out loud over and over again. The show works so well because it takes a beloved childhood classic and turns it on its head. It finds humor in the muck and mire of the less-than-perfect world in which we live and maintains an airy, jovial tone throughout. It smiles and winks as it pushes hot buttons like homosexuality, racial tension and the basic human tendency to take pleasure in the hardships of others — witness another outstanding musical number and excellent philosopho-cultural shout out, “Schadenfreude.” Avenue Q is must-see entertainment. And besides, where else will you ever watch two puppets fucking like there’s no tomorrow? Boulder’s Dinner Theatre has another hit on its hands. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Heart and soul

The muddled misadventures of an American Jew in Paris

Mare Travethan, Benjamin Bonenfant, Stephen Weitz, Barbra Andrews.

by Gary Zeidner

ext to “Chopsticks,” “Heart and Soul” is probably the most recognizable and easily played piano tune in the Western world. You may remember it from its appearance in the movie Big when Tom Hanks and Boulder Weekly

Robert Loggia danced it on the giant keyboard in the Manhattan FAO Schwarz store. It’s a simple little ditty that’s mildly entertaining but lacks, ironically, a certain amount of soul. see ELIJAH Page 30

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Like “Heart and Soul,” Elijah: An Adventure requires a piano and is an amusing entertainment that evaporates from the audience’s consciousness as soon as it concludes. Where the two differ is that the song has been committed to sheet music and is, therefore, mostly immutable, whereas the play has every opportunity to become tighter, tauter and more polished. If it does, it could well become the experience for which playwright Michael Mitnick is obviously striving. Set in 1922, Elijah: An Adventure takes us along on what promises to be a rousing journey of discovery by 17-year-old Elijah (Benjamin Bonenfant), a rabbi’s son from Chris Kendall as Brooklyn. Though the journey does Georges Deruet contain some bona fide coming-ofage elements and the occasional adventure-like interlude, the fact that it a Jewish butcher and an effete French fails to grab the viewer by either the bellboy, do the material good service. throat or the heart belies its title and Trevathan’s work — also in multiple begs for more workshopping. roles — is, as always, a pleasure to Using a considerable amount of his behold. Both male leads and the entire life savings, Elijah’s father (Chris ensemble not only portray their characKendall) sends Elijah to Paris to track ters credibly but also handle the copious down the reclusive composer, Georges set changes with aplomb. Unfortunately, Deruet (Chris Kendall again). Elijah is these seemingly endless scene changes, a talented pianist, and it is his father’s as well-managed as they are, contribute unnecessarily to the hope that under the play’s length and scattutelage of Deruet, ter its focus. Elijah will ascend to The action the rarified heights of ON THE BILL: Elijah: An Adventure is presented unfolds in front of a Tchaikovsky, Mahler by LOCAL Theater spectacularly innovaand Bach. Company and the Dairy tive set designed by During the transand plays through Oct. 7 at the Dairy Center, 2590 Kathryn Kawecki. Atlantic crossing, Walnut St. in Boulder. There are many Elijah meets Nicholas Tickets are $18-$22. Visit multi-level, demarcat(Matthew Bloodwww.thedairy.org for tickets or more information. ed spaces, all of which Smyth), a fortunate are draped in strands son from the of an opaque material Northeast. Nicholas that allows partially obscured actors to takes a shine to the much less wellheeled Elijah, and the two join forces to be seen through it, or on which various still and moving images may be projectdo what every red-blooded American ed. The video of the sea broken by the teenager does when set loose in Paris bow of a ship, in particular, showcases sans parental control: get drunk and get the success of this multimedia approach laid. Through some implausibly random, to storytelling. I didn’t dislike Elijah: An Adventure, extremely convenient circumstances, the nor was I enamored of it. Mitnick’s star two boys find themselves at odds over is rising in the theatre world, so I hope an attractive Parisian, Elisa (Rachel Fowler). Elijah does take some time out that his feet are still planted firmly from boozing and screwing to honor his enough on the ground to realize that father’s wishes and seek out Deruet. His this play’s potential has yet to be realized. The removal of some of the extraonly lead comes from an opium den neous material, the tying up of a few of owner, Otto (Stephen Weitz), whose the more noticeable loose ends and a lighthearted demeanor and ceaseless more prominent dramatic arc for Elijah needling of his wife, Frieda (Mare Trevathan), mask a more sinister, proto- himself could elevate this play from “Heart and Soul” to “Eine Kleine Nazi essence. Nachtmusik.” The actors, particularly Weitz not Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com only as Otto but also as a Jewish tailor, Boulder Weekly

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Acoustic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Big Paddy. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Aural Elixer. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Boulder Bach Festival. 7:30 p.m. First Lutheran Church, Longmont, 303-776-9666.

Brandon Sipes. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Brit Floyd. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Brian Parton — With Jackson Parten. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Chris Smither. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2. Crow Radio. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Words in Flight — With Ben and Eleanor. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

2012: The Beginning — Celebrating Maya Culture Past and Present. 7 p.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., 303-443-7510. Awakening the Eros Within — With Jillian Frazin. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

Homecoming! 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. John Lee Hooker Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mezzo Mestizo. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Behind the Atom Curtain: Life and Death in the Nuclear Age — Opening reception. 6-10 p.m. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720287-1717.

Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Friday Night Flow — Yoga & Dance. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Jim Adams and John Stilwagen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Asher Brewing Company, 4699 Nautilus Court South, #104, Boulder, 303-5301381.

History & Mystery Tour — Stories of local legends. 9:15 p.m. Location with reservation, Longmont, 303-7757137.

Juno What?! — With Ill-Mannered. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Funkiphino. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Josh Taillon and Sol Y Sombra Farm to Table Event. 6 p.m. Hygiene, 303-258-7329.

Todd Tijerina Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Megan Burt — Tribute to Bonnie Raitt. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

G.A.M.B. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Laser: Beatles Anthology. 9:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Todd Johnson Blues Band. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Hazel Miller. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Theory of a Deadman — Free concert. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Occupy the Debates — Two-day conference and concert featuring Junkyard Empire and Lee Camp. 4-10 p.m. Civic Center Amphitheater, Denver, www.occupythedebates.org.

The Ticket. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Jackson Parten. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

A Taste of Iceland — Celebrate Icelandic food, music and film. Various locations, Denver, www.icelandnaturally. com.

100,000 Poets for Change Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Jaden Carlson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Casual Sinners. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. George Nelson Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Hip Hop Jams. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Bouldering Poets Performance Series. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. GED Testing. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. How to Plan a Zero Waste Event — Workshop with Eco-Cycle and Volunteer Connection. 5:30 p.m. Gold Hill Elementary School, 890 Main St., Gold Hill, 303-4413522.

Jim Bradford. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Johannes Moser, cello — With the CU Sympony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008. John Lee Hooker Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

A Taste of Iceland — Celebrate Icelandic food, music and film. Various locations, Denver, www.icelandnaturally. com.

Salt & Stone — Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

Train Humane — Humane dog training event. 6 p.m. Training with Grace, Lakewood, 303-238-DOGS.

Signal Path and Air Dubai — With Alex Klinger. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Saturday, September 29 music Ben Howard — With Marcus Foster, Gill Landry. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Big Gigantic. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Bluezhouse. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Connally & Ramey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

Nick Lowe — With Eleni Mandell. 8 p.m. L2 Arts and Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St., Denver, 303-3213291. Salt & Stone — Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 303-583-1278. Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

100,000 Poets for Change Reading. 1 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Avery Brewing’s Rumpkin Release Party. 5 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324. Boulder Tango Festival. 9 p.m. – 2 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-601-8338. Elijah: An Adventure. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Empower Yourself Workshop For Women — Topics include self-care, transitioning from being a people pleaser to one who sets boundaries and how to tame your inner critic. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Meditation Place, 940 Kimbark St., Studio 4, Longmont, 303-717-8645. see PANORAMA Page 34

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20th Anniversary Art Exhibit — With work by Russ Wiltse, Polly Addison and Dawn Siebel. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Oct. 19.

Call for entries: Land Through the Lens — Photography of Boulder County parks and open space. Application deadline is Friday, Nov. 9. www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/photoshow. Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Nov. 25. Carol Walker, Wendy Rochman. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Sept. 30. Gary Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful — Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 30. El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Dec. 30. Hockney and Hogarth — Selections from CU’s collection of British art. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 27. Lecture by Frédéric Ogée 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at Norlin Library, room M549. Joyanne Matthes and Vicki Dyas. The Old

Gallery, 14863 Hwy. 7, Allenspark, 303-7472089. Through Sept. 30. Liminality, Luminosity and the Everyday — Selections from CU’s painting collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 22. Longmont Studio Tour Preview Exhibition. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303678-7869. Through Sept. 30. Now Boarding — Fentress Airports Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, www. denverartmuseum.org. Through Oct. 7. Primal Seen — Selections from CU’s photography collection. CU Art Museum, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22. Subterranean Delight — A food installation and dinner benefit for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 6 p.m. Sept. 29, Temporary Swoon, 1200 Yarmouth St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Traces — New work by Sean Fitzgibbon and Linda Lowry. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave. Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Oct. 14. Women of Influence: Colorado Artists and Curators; Intimate Dialogue: Seven Women, Seven Voices; La Mexicana; Female Icons in Mexican Culture. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 16.

PANORAMA from Page 33 Grand Reopening of Crawl-A-See-Em Exhibit. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Butterfly Pavilion, 6252 West 104th Ave., Westminster, 303-469-5411. National Public Lands Day — Volunteer project. 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Open Space, www.bouldercountyopenspace.org/wildwork. Occupy the Debates — Two-day conference and concert featuring Junkyard Empire and Lee Camp. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Central Presbyterian Church,1660 Sherman St., Denver, www.occupythedebates.org. Red Barn Farm Harvest Market & Barn Sale. 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Shannon Red Barn Farm, 1341 95th St., Lafayette, 303-651-2180. Simplified Kundalini Yoga. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2523962. Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day Live! 12-4 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Subterranean Delights — A food installation and dinner benefit for BMoCA with art installations by Rebecca DiDominico, Martha Russo, the bARTer collective, Katie Caron and Emma Hardy. 6 p.m. Temporary Swoon, 1200 Yarmouth, Boulder, 303-443-2122. A Taste of Iceland — Celebrate Icelandic food, music and film. Various locations, Denver, www.icelandnaturally. com. What? There’s Still More Time for the Fall! — Prepare your garden for winter with Michael Morris. 2 p.m. The Flower Bin, Boulder, 303-772-3454.

Sunday, September 30 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m., Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bella Betts & the Little Stars. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Cameron Powers: Egyptian TranceDance. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Greg Schochet & Kyle Ussery. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Michael Kiwanuka — With Bahamas, Yuna. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond and Big Swing Trio. Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Mindy Smith — With Peter Bradley Adams. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2. Min’yo — Folk music of Japan. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4928008. Moonshiner Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Montana Skies. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Peter Gabriel. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Shaving Peggy. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Skanson & Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Steven Manshel duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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August: Osage County — Presented by Abster Productions. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Sept. 30. Avenue Q. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 3.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Sept. 30. ELIJAH: An Adventure — Presented by LOCAL Theater Company and The Dairy. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-4447328. Through Oct. 7.

Accessing the Divine Feminine — With Siberian shaman Ladamira. 1 p.m. The Kiva, 570 Pine, Gold Hill, 719-629-8055. Autumn Heritage Day — With Vintage Baseball Game. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, Flagstaff Road, Boulder, 303-776-8848. A Taste of Iceland — Celebrate Icelandic food, music and film. Various locations, Denver, www.icelandnaturally. com. Saint Vrain Valley Pioneer Association 108th Annual Meeting — Please bring a covered dish and your own table service. Registration begins at 12:45 p.m. Potluck served around 1:15 p.m. Hygiene United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 7452 Hygiene Road, Hygiene. Simplified Kundalini Yoga. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-2523962.

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Fiddler on the Roof. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Oct. 28. Is He Dead? — Presented by Creede Repertory Theatre. Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Oct. 28. Junk! — Peter Davidson’s one-man show. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303444-7328. Sept. 28 through Sept. 30. My Fair Lady. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 30.

Open Mic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First Street, Nederland, 303-258-7733.

events Amy Goodman — At KGNU Benefit. 7 p.m. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-449-4885.

George Stone & Friends. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Public Input Meetings for Lafayette Parks, Recreation, Open Space and Master Plan. Business and Alternative Providers Focus Group, 8 a.m. City Hall, Council Chambers, 1290 S. Public Road; Latino Focus Group, 3 p.m., Starkey Building, 209 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5588 x3610.

Pathways to Parenting Success. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. “So, You’re a Poet,” open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Movie: Samsara. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Marketing with Social Media. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Exploring Latina Heritage and Immigration Policy. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.boulderhumanrights.com.

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Faculty Tuesday — With Joel Burcham, tenor. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building, 18th and Euclid, CU campus, Boulder, www.music.colorado.edu/events.

An Evening with Tim Wise — Discussing race and privilege. Doors 6:15 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, www.colorado.edu/ceb.

Celebrating Diverse Cultures in Boulder Through Music and Dance — Scandanavian Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www. boulderhumanrights.com.

First United Methodist Church 1421 Spruce Street, Boulder

Diamond & Copper. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Buffaloes Primetime — With Head Coach Jon Embree. 7 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., 303-444-3535.

Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, 303-543-0886.

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Rumors. California Actors Theatre, 1250 Hover Drive, Twin Peaks Mall, Longmont, 303-7741842. Through Oct. 7.

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1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. “Ain’t Misbehavin”: A Tribute to Fats Waller. 7 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, www.cupresents.org. Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Cory McAbee. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Poetry Reading — Joseph Hutchison and Robert Cooperman. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Friday, September 28

100,000 Poets for Change — Hosted by M.D. Friedman.12 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. 100,000 Poets for Change — Poets, dancers, minstrels, live art. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Poetry Reading — By Christine Weeber. 7

p.m. Innisfree Poetry Book Store, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Under Wildwood— By Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, October 1 So, You’re a Poet? — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, October 2 The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels — By Catherynne Valente. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2704. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, October 3 Dare to Grow Up — By Paul Dunion. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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PANORAMA from Page 35 Firebreathers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Werks and Good Gravy. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

events Celebrating Diverse Cultures in Boulder Through Music and Dance — Salsaville Salsa Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www. boulderhumanrights.com. Introduction to HTML. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Los Immigrantes — Interviews from 29 years ago with Latino families. 6-8:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.boulderhumanrights.com.

stead, 7701 Flagstaff Rd., Boulder, 303-678-8848. Baby Boogie. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Coyote Tales. 1 p.m. Shanahan Ridge Lehigh Street entrance, Lehigh and Lafayette, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org. Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, October 1 Clementine Art Studio Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, October 2

Open Mic and Jam — Hosted by Lori Flynn and Hunter Hamilton. 8 p.m. Outlaw Saloon, 160 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-8200.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Warren Miller Wednesdays — Escape to Ski. 8 p.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., 303-444-3535.

Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, September 27

Reynolds Reading Pals. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Thursday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Friday, September 28

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Wednesday, October 3

Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

French with Veronique. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Saturday, September 29

Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424. Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424. Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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hen you remake a movie that originally starred Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider, it’s not a challenge to clear the bar that was set. Limbo-ing beneath it, however, would require a shrink-ray gun. So it is the faintest of all possible praises to say that Dredd 3D, the latest attempt to bring a gory U.K. comic book to the big screen, is the best movie to ever feature Judge Dredd. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s good. Director Pete Travis and writer Alex Garland had the misfortune of making an action movie entirely set in an apartment complex controlled by a mob boss the same year The Raid: Redemption set the gold standard for action movies entirely set in an apartment complex controlled by a mob boss. It wasn’t idea theft, as both movies were in production at the same time, but it’s never a good thing to demand immediate comparison with your superior. Basically, watching Dredd 3D will make you like The Raid better. Both films are dark, gritty and gory and feature law officers in way over their heads, but The Raid felt like violent escapism whereas Dredd 3D feels like endless repetition. It’s never encouraging to think “Didn’t they kill that guy already?” And speaking of questions, by now you’re probably wondering “Where is the obligatory plot synopsis in this review?” There’s no need to spill paragraphs worth of ink for something that can be done in two sentences.

riter/director/demigod of modern American cinema Paul Thomas Anderson — or PTA, as his peeps call him — has a filmography so stunning that merely making a very good movie means it’s his worst one yet. So, with a heavy heart comes the news that The Master isn’t outright the best film of the year; it’s only one of the best films of the year. Step up your game, PTA. What keeps this Scientology-tinted dual character sketch from the same instant-classic status the director seems to notch each time out is part repetition and part lack of execution. After creating Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood) and Barry Egan (Punch Drunk Love), there was really no need to explore another erratic, emotionally volatile, selfdestructive human time bomb. And if you’re going to cast the luminous and charming Amy Adams, maybe give her more to do than scold Joaquin Phoenix and tastefully pose nude with a prosthetic pregnancy belly. That sounds harsher than it needed to solely because if you don’t put the minor criticisms before the effusive praise when talking about The Master, there’s no way it sounds anything other than breathtaking; and again, it’s only almost breathtaking. The center of the film is Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a hurriBoulder Weekly

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get shot with future guns so many times before you begin thinking about other things, like how little use Anderson makes of her psychic powers or how much Urban’s chin quivers when he gruffly whispers threats. Garland, who was responsible for other great genre material like Sunshine and 28 Days Later, was content to hammer out one semi-original idea (a drug that makes users feel like time slows down) and hope the audience hangs their own character concepts on the thematic coat racks that are “rookie cop” and “tough vet.” What’s weird is that lots of critics have been giving Dredd 3D a pass, saying its “goofy, nonstop action” is endearing. When you aren’t the best action movie to pit a supercop against a housing complex full of villains this year, it’s hard to be anything other than bad. Sorry, bad-d-d-d. See, despite featuring three Ds in the name Dredd, Dredd 3D also incorporated the cash-grab 3-D gimmick into its official title, giving it a whopping seven Ds (if you’re into counting such things, and you’ll see why). Seeing as how the producers seem to love the letter so much, they probably won’t mind a report card with another big fat D on it. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

‘Dredd 3D’ is an underachiever by Ryan Syrek In the postapocalyptic future, crime runs rampant because few people are willing to be law officers, who are called “judges” for their ability to carry out punishment on the spot. A veteran judge, Dredd (Karl Urban), is stuck with a psychic rookie, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), in a high-rise complex controlled by a drug lord named Ma-Ma (Lena Headey). The rest is all shooting and noise, sometimes in slow motion. Dredd 3D does have a visual style that’s somewhat unique, with a refreshingly balanced color palette and nicely framed action. But you can only watch someone

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‘The Master’ says not even religion can change you by Ryan Syrek cane of a man fresh from the second Great War ready to destroy himself in the absence of new military enemies. When he’s not gargling rocket fuel or paint thinner to get wasted, he’s breaking something or copulating with someone. When he stows away on a ship owned by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the creator of a familiar cultish

pseudo-faith that may as well be called Schmientology, Freddie is inexplicably taken in by the blossoming quasi-religion. The dynamic between Lancaster, the narcissistic shepherd in search of a flock, and Freddie, the massively lost lamb looking to belong anywhere that will have him, is gripping. Every scene between the two feels like it may end with the latter mur-

dering the former or the former actually saving the soul of the latter. The problem is that the thesis is as depressing as it is anti-cinematic: You can’t and won’t ever change who you really are, not even with the power of the alien overlord Xenu. Because The Master is relatively plot-free, having two characters more or less stay the same is frustrating, which is likely PTA’s point, but that doesn’t make it any more palatable. The criminal misuse of Adams as a petulant shrew aside, there are various flat-out brilliant elements, including an inspired riff on the mythical sailor and tortured prophet motifs. Hoffman is uncharacteristically restrained, whereas Phoenix gives a sneering, mumbling, terrifying performance that makes it impossible to imagine that an average day in his life isn’t like a peyote hallucination. So now you see why the critique had to come first, as it’s hard to call a nearmasterpiece a disappointment. The Master is really very good, but much as Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom marked the end of what he can squeeze out of his familiar themes, hopefully this is the denouement of PTA’s lovesick psychopath period; an artist this talented has so much more to explore. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 27, 2012 39

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terious wizard named Howl. At Denver Film Society/Colfax –– Denver Film Society THE INTOUCHABLES The Intouchables is the inspiring true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat and a young man from the projects. Rated R. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

THE AMBASSADOR International provocateur Mads Brügger exposes a global scheme of political corruption in the Central African Republic.At Muenzinger. –– Denver Film Society

KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATE 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon as this debate marked television’s grand entrance into presidential politics. At Denver Film Society/Colfax –– Denver Film Society

BALLPLAYER: PELOTEROS Two young Dominican baseball players confront competition and corruption to achieve their Big-League dreams. At Boedecker –– Boedecker Theater BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Forget concerns about star power and familiarity. We have never needed a comingof-age fable set against environmental and poverty concerns as much as we need this. Rated PG-13. At Century and Mayan. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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Beauty Is Embarrassing chronicles the highs and the lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. –– Denver Film Society

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The story of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. At Boedecker –– Boedecker Theatre BIOPHILLIC DESIGN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIFE A new concept of design reconnects us to the natural world and decreases environmental impact. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax –– Denver Film Society BLUE VELVET A college student, cabaret singer, detective’s daughter and psychotic killer all come together in a dark and sensuous mystery. Rated R. At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres. THE BOURNE LEGACY As the Bourne series continues minus its star, Matt Damon, we find out about another super-secret spy program that produced super-secret super spies. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT THE BEST Recently dumped, Alex embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, Jim. By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term “lofi,” Alex and Jim find their own unique style. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater THE CAMPAIGN Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play dueling politicians who are only slightly more addled and alarming than our real ones. Rated R. At Century. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. 40 September 27, 2012

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THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Director Christopher Nolan’s D.C. superhero legacy comes to an end as unwelcome and reluctant hero Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) dons his cape and deepens his voice once more. Rated PG-13. At Century. DETROPIA Detroit’s story encapsulates America over the last century — the migration of African Americans, the rise of the middle class, the flowering of the American dream and now the collapse of the economy. At Denver Film Society/Colfax –– Denver Film Society DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS The latest installment in this series based on the popular books sends the wimpy kid off on appropriately wimpy summer misadventures. Rated PG. At Colony Square. DR. STRANGELOVE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB A maniacal warrior mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union. At Denver Film Center/ Colfax –– Denver Film Center DREDD 3D See full review page 39. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square. END OF WATCH Two young police officers patrol the dangerous streets of south central Los Angeles and capture the action through handheld HD cameras. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

FINDING NEMO 3D A re-release in 3D of the 2003 film about a clown fish on a mission to save his son from a life of captivity. Rated G. At Colony Square, Century and Twin Peaks. FIRST POSITION For the young dancers at one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, lifelong dreams are at stake. At Boedecker. –– Boedecker Theater FOR ELLEN In the midst of a low period in his life, an aspiring rock star agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife to see money from the sale of their home, only to discover that by signing, he will forfeit all custody of his 6-year-old daughter. At Denver Film Center/Colfax –– Denver Film Society HOPE SPRINGS Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple seeking to rekindle a big romance in the hands of a couples counselor (Steve Carell) in a small town. Tommy Lee at his most endearingly gruff and Meryl at her most blushingly flustered. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D Dracula invites some of the world’s most famous monsters to celebrate his daughter’s 118th birthday at Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where humans will not be able to bother them. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET

Because when the law says you can’t drink, only criminals will have alcohol. Based on the true story of the bootlegging Bondurant brothers. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. LOOPER A “looper,” a hired gun, is told to assassinate his future self. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MANHANTTAN SHORTS Filmgoers join 300 cities to choose 10 short films as finalists for Manhattan Shorts. At Boedecker –– Boedecker Theatre THE MASTER See full review page 39. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. MILE HIGH SCI-FI: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER The ’90s classic about a cheerleader who slays armies of vampires. At Denver Film Society/Colfax. –– Denver Film Society MOONRISE KINGDOM Once more, writer/director Wes Anderson dips his stylish pen into murky, melancholy tales of whimsy. A “Khaki Scout” flees from his troop to unite with his troubled gal pal. At Mayan. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS Director Isao Takahata wryly tweaks the everyday activities of family life with his depiction of an irresponsible, slovenly and lazy family. At Denver Film Center/Colfax. –– Denver Film Center

A divorced woman and her daughter move into a house in a small, upscale, rural town. Soon, they learn of the town’s chilling secret. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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ONLY YESTERDAY A bored 20-something heads for the countryside that sets her on a journey of reflection and self-discovery. At Denver Film Center/Colfax –– Denver Film Society PARANORMAN 3D Norman sees dead people,which comes in handy when a witch haunts his hometown. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

A funny and touching coming-of-age story, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a modern classic that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of growing up. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

An unusual classified ad leads three Seattle Magazine employees to discover Kenneth, a likable but paranoid store clerk. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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f you long for the Elway-era bright blue and orange, lobby for Bill Clinton to break term limit laws or still pay for a land line, you’re in luck: At least one thing in Boulder is going back to the good old days. The theme of this year’s Boulder County AIDS Project Local Legends Gala is “Back to Our Roots,” which reflects the event’s return to its original format. Several of Boulder’s top restaurant chefs will be pairing up to prepare a five-course gourmet meal for the Local Legends Gala at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 at the Hotel Boulderado. Chefs Dave Query of Big Red F Restaurant group and John Platt of Q’s Restaurant and Riff ’s Urban Fare have gathered a team of 13 talented chefs to create a fall-inspired dinner for more than 200 guests. The event will be hosted by Chris Parente, anchor for KWGN-CW2. “Back to Our Roots” is described by BCAP Marketing and Special Events Manager Elissa Smith as an “elegant, multicourse dinner that the dinner was known for.” The original event always featured a seated dinner that took place at Hotel Boulderado before switching to a cook station format at the St Julien Hotel and Spa for the past few years.

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“I think some of the people that had been involved in the event really wanted to sort of change it up and try something new,” says Ana Hopperstad, executive director of Boulder County AIDS Project. “We did cook stations for three years, and the chefs that support us came back to us this year and wanted to do a more formal dinner, and we were thrilled.” The dinner didn’t always involve as many chefs as it has now, and they weren’t paired up in teams. “When it first started, we had a different chef doing each course, which is kind of the norm for these dinners now, but back in the day it was really fresh and really gathered a lot of attention,” says Query. In more recent years, the chefs work in pairs and are assigned to prepare specific courses as a team. This format will be used in this year’s event. “I think that’s really what gets the chefs excited about the event, because they get the chance to all be in the kitchen together and work together to create their menu offering,” says Smith. The dinner will also feature a signature cocktail made with

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riend Mara and I descended on 28th Street’s Agave Mexico Bistro and Tequila House for a leisurely weekend lunch. We were attracted in part by its menu, which goes beyond that of the typical Mexican joint, underscoring the kitchen’s gastronomic aspirations. The decor here belies the strip mall location by virtue of its upscale, earthy and warm appearance, anchored by a towering fireplace. Usual suspects such as tacos, enchiladas and tamales are readily available. But there are also more distinctive offerings such as grilled seafood plates and vegetarian dishes featuring breaded cauliflower or chile-simmered cactus. While the menu touts a $9 guacamole prepared tableside, it wasn’t available when we ordered. Instead, we had a $5 version that arrived straight from the kitchen. I don’t know what flourishes the additional four bucks would

have bought us, but I suspect they might have been superfluous, as the crisp chips and creamy avocado were expertly prepared. The trick to compelling guacamole is to balance out chile and citrus with the bite of onion and the smoothness of the avocado. Here, the pepper wasn’t apparent until after a few bites, and rather than overwhelm,

Clay’s Obscurity Corner The molcajete

ztecs and Mayans were among the many users of the molcajete, which has a history that spans millennia. Likely developed from a simple rock slab, this tool is typically constructed of basalt, although many early versions were crafted from pottery. Like the mortar and pestle, the molcajete is a vessel for grinding spices as well as for preparing sauces. It’s also a serving dish, as guacamole

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is often served in small molcajetes. As evidence by our meal at Agave, it also has tremendous heat-retaining qualities, as our mix of chile and seafood remained piping hot for the duration of our leisurely meal.

it pleasantly tingled the tongue. Just enough fruit juice rounded out the flavor without being overly assertive. Had the meal ended then, I would have been perfectly content. My benchmark dish for Mexican restaurants is Tampiquena, a combination plate of carne asada and a chicken mole enchilada. Agave’s $14 version took things a step further with the addition of an intriguing corn on the cob in a cream sauce dusted with red chile. Another side was mashed potatoes topped with green chile, a winning combination. Had the spuds been a bit warmer, it would have been perfect. The steak arrived rare, as requested, and while it could have used a whisper less salt, it had the earthy savor synonymous with well-prepared carne. A layer of melted cheese contributed richness and added a pleasantly chewy contrast to the beef ’s tenderness. Unlike most mole preparations, the sauce complementing the tender poultry lacked the bitter tone common to lesser versions, and the whole enchilada went down easy. Agave’s full ambition manifested

itself with Mara’s choice of the $22 Molcajete Cancun. A molcajete is a heavy stone bowl, resembling a mortar, with little legs and formidable heat-retaining capabilities. In this case, the molcajete held what one might describe as a South of the Border bouillabaisse, anchored by a mild green chile base. In addition to generous slabs of fish, meaty shrimp and mussels, there were tart strips of cactus, adding a seldom-encountered flavor accent. As the dish arrived piping hot, our professional but hospitable server advised us to mix in chunks of cheese so they would melt into the broth. Overall, the dish neatly balanced spice, veggies and seafood to create a satisfying stew. While Mara felt it could use a bit more salt, she said, “I like the mix of fish, chile and bubbling cheese — I’m also thrilled it’s not too spicy.” The unique sides accompanying the Tampiquena testify to this eatery’s ambition to provide more than just the typical combo plate. Dishes like the molcajete provide even more compelling evidence of Agave’s ability to combine the best elements of traditional Mexican restaurants with a fresher gourmet sensibility. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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up to celebrate its status as Colorado’s first microbrewery. On Sept. 29, the brewery will hold its annual Anniversary Beer Rave. To honor the loss of craft brewing champion and frequent Beer Rave attendee Danny Williams, ticket sale proceeds will benefit the Danny Williams Fund. Williams was behind the Great American Beer Festival, World Beer Cup and Craft Brewer’s Conference. The Beer Rave will feature rare, “taproom only” draft beers from 30 different Colorado breweries, as well as 12 Brewer’s Choice Boulder Beer Company beers. In addition, Jimmy John’s will be donating subs for all guests and live music will be provided by Dylan & The Dead. Tickets to the event are $30 and can be purchased online at www.boulderbeer.com or in person at the Boulder Beer Pub. For more information contact Tess McFadden via email at tmcfadden@boulderbeer.com or by phone at 303444-8448 ext. 29.

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Eggcredible in Boulder and other restaurants across Colorado will switch up their menu a bit on Oct. 12 as part of a charity event called PJs & Eggs. Participants are asked to show up to one of the five participating restaurants ready to eat “brinner,” breakfast at dinner time, in their pajamas. In addition to wearing PJs, attendees are asked to bring a new set to be donated. Those who are not able to attend but would like to make a donation can take their unused pajamas or a monetary donation to any of the participating restaurants before Oct. 12. In addition to Eggcredible, restaurants participating in the event include Syrup at two Denver locations, Toast in Littleton and Breakfast on Broadway in Englewood. Each restaurant will open its doors at 5 p.m. The Colorado Egg Producers Association organized the event to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Denver on World Egg Day. The CEP is made up of seven Colorado farms that make regular donations of eggs to food banks throughout the state in an effort to be an active member of the community.

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As part of its Food and Wine Series, Q’s Restaurants will be holding “A Bouchaine Vineyards Wine Dinner.” The event is designed to celebrate the wine of Bouchaine Vineyards in Napa Valley. On Oct. 4, guests can take part in a five-course meal of Q’s fall cuisine. Each course will be expertly paired with wine from the two vineyards. In addition to presenting wine from Bouchaine Vineyards, winemaker Greg Gauthier will share wine from his own Gauthier Select Vineyards, and will be on hand to instruct guests on the different selections. The dinner will cost $65 plus tax and gratuity. Q’s asks that those interested call 303-442-4880 for reservations.

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specially infused vodka by 303 Vodka in Boulder, beer on tap from Mountain Sun Brewery, and wine pairings from wine specialist William Snowden of Republic National Distributors. The chefs who are participating in the event come from restaurants all over Boulder, including newcomers such as Alec Schuler of Arugula and Steven Redzikowski of Oak at Fourteenth. Many of the other chefs at the event have been participating since the beginning, such as Mark Monette of the Flagstaff House and Bradford Heap of SALT. Jim Smailer, head chef of Boulder Cork, has not always been available to participate in the dinner, but is looking forward to being back at the event this year. “I’ll tell you what I’ve always said: I don’t know of another event that gets all of the top-end Boulder chefs together. … It’s the only thing in Boulder that has done that,” he says. Smailer will be paired with Monette for the second course of the dinner, which will include a roasted butternut squash soup made by Monette, and braised, all-natural short ribs prepared by Smailer. For dessert, pastry chef Jen Bush will be serving a toasted meringue panna cotta with a honey yogurt and a cinnamon sponge cake with honey and marigold spun sugar. Bush is the main pastry chef at Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery, which will open Nov. 5 on Broadway in Boulder, across from Lucky’s Market. Many of the courses are still being considered, but all will be inspired by the fall season, with an emphasis on food from local farms. The event is certain to have great food, but that is not to take away from the main purpose of the event, which is to raise awareness and support for Boulder County AIDS Project and to honor individuals who have offered tremendous support and effort in the fight against the disease. “This has been a really established event for a long time,” says Bush. “It’s a really great opportunity for a lot of great chefs and to give to a really great Boulder organization like BCAP. It’s a great thing to support. It really is.” The overall event, in addition to the dinner, has also gone through a few changes over the years, and a lot of it has to do with some special guests. “I think that the main difference between the old dinners we used to do and the local legends event is that it realBoulder Weekly

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FRIDAY & SATURDAY: LATE NIGHT HAPPY HOUR 10:00 - 11:00 pm ly does give us an additional opportunity to honor people from our community,” says Hopperstad. “We’ve always had volunteer of the year, board member of the year and corporation of the year, and that’s been a wonderful way to honor those people who gave amazing service, but this allows us even to reach beyond BCAP and into the community.” Some of the local legends that will be attending the event include Bud Coleman, associate professor and chair of the department of theatre and dance at the University of Colorado Boulder. Coleman has directed more than three dozen plays, including Rent, Seussical, Pippin, The Mikado, Into the Woods, Hair and Six Degrees of Separation. “We wanted to take the opportunity to honor people who were strong advocates for HIV and AIDS in the community, and so we renamed the event, formerly known as the BCAP Annual Dinner, to the Local Legends,” says Hopperstad. “First it was called the Local Legends Ball because we had dancing that year, and then we switched it to the gala. So this will be the fourth Local Legends.” Also in attendance will be Barb Cardell, who is a steering committee member at Positive Women’s Network and has been living with HIV since 1991. Cardell was also appointed by former Gov. Bill Ritter to sit on the Colorado Coalition for HIV Care and Prevention in 2011 and was elected vice chair of the coalition in 2012. There will be a silent auction during the cocktail reception beginning at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and BCAP’s program and live auction at 8 p.m. Some items up for auction include a week-long vacation to the Caribbean, a year of fine dining, and a day with Chris Parente, anchor at KWGN-CW2. Tickets must be purchased in advance and cost $125 per person. They are available online at www.bcap.org or by calling Elissa Smith at 303-444-6121. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Native Foods Cafe

1675 29th St., Suite 1272, Boulder 303-442-0213

rishna Kare is one of those cool ethnic finds that foodies live for, spotlighting chaat, or savory Indian street fare. Located in a Lafayette strip mall, this spot serves spicy options like samosa chaat, the familiar fried potato-filled turnovers submerged in peppy stewed garbanzos. There’s also a range of Indochinese dishes, a hybrid of Indian and Chinese cuisine. These include ginger-scented Hakka noodles and the intriguing Dry Manchurian, a chile- and soy-seasoned meatless dumpling.

riginating in Palm Springs, Native Foods Cafe is a fast-casual chain restaurant featuring vegan fare, where various forms of meatless protein stand in for such items as chicken wings and gyros meat. This hospitable spot in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street features everything from meatless nacho starters to dairy-free cupcakes. The seitanbased meatball sub is a winner, as is the Soul Bowl, a surprisingly compelling take on Southern fried chicken sans poultry.

Crane Hollow Cafe

7504 Hygiene Road, Hygiene 303-776-1551

ygiene’s Crane Hollow Cafe is an endearingly rustic breakfast and lunch spot that may more closely resemble a friend’s country cottage than anything else. Offerings here are simple and satisfying, and the menu features such old standbys as corned beef hash and a standout biscuits and gravy. There’s also a full complement of espresso beverages and homemade pies, including a top-notch mixed berry number.

Chef-owned and operated, Zamparelli’s Italian Bistro specializes in brick oven pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads using the freshest, local ingredients when available, always at affordable prices. Pizzas are made to order, local beers are on tap and a variety of wines are available. We have outdoor seating, daily happy hour and a warm family environment

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rattoria on Pearl continues to please lunch patrons with its high-value, $10 power lunch. Consisting of a choice of beverage (including house wine), organic green salad or minestrone, and an entree of pasta or hot sandwich, this meal can be enjoyed in less than an hour if you’re pressed for time. Top selections include the tasty eggplant parmigiana or the unapologetically decadent spaghetti carbonara with egg and pancetta.

Bramble and Hare 1970 13th St., Boulder 303-449-9110

ramble and Hare, Boulder’s new self-styled farmhouse kitchen and pub, distinguishes itself by offering locavore small plates as well as a relatively affordable prix fixe menu. A spinoff of its next-door neighbor, the Black Cat Bistro, this restaurant also spotlights ingredients from Chef Eric Skokan’s farm. Menu highlights include the full-flavored and tendersmoked Mulefoot pork, as well as the duck liver “doughnut” set off by a remarkable orange marmalade.

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ot’s Diner on the Hill’s offerings include a full complement of egg dishes, ranging from single egg, bacon and toast kids specials for $4 to $8 jumbo-sized helpings of huevos rancheros. The usual suspects of grilled cheese and BLTs with avocado share space on the lunch bill of fare alongside meatless specialties like Gardenburgers and a tempeh Reuben. The abovementioned huevos are adorned with particularly flavorful red and green chiles, and the Monte Cristo sandwich serves up sweet and savory satisfaction.

he fundamental strength of this self-proclaimed “urban taqueria” is its strong respect for the original source cuisine, which is basic street-influenced Mexican. The guacamole here is impeccably fresh and epitomizes balanced flavor. Amongst the tacos, clear winners are the decadent braised pork belly and the snapper, which evokes all the best qualities of this Baja California staple.

Cured

1825 Pearl St., Boulder 720-389-8096

earl Street’s Cured, a small and welcoming shop, is the perfect spot to indulge cravings for fine wine, cheese and charcuterie. This open brick-and-wood space also includes the sublime Boxcar Coffee’s retail outlet. Cured is a go-to destination for top-notch gourmet sandwiches artfully combining the best crusty baguettes in town with artisan charcuterie, like prosciutto and salami, and small-batch cheeses. For a special occasion or picnic, signature platters of charcuterie and cheese are just the ticket.

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ow open on Pearl Street, H Burger is the local offshoot of the successful Denver-based burger, cocktails and shake eatery. Burgers include those made from beef, bison, turkey and veggies. Those seeking something different might enjoy the Colorado lamb burger topped with feta and aioli, while the more traditionally minded might relish the Boulder burger, freighted with a full seven ounces of grassfed beef. Don’t miss

Curry N Kebob

3050 28th St., Boulder 720-328-4696

oulder’s recently opened Curry N Kebob features value-priced Indian that’s served up quickly. At lunch, there’s a $7.95 special that includes a choice of one of about a half-dozen entrees — at least one is vegetarian — as well as rice, naan bread and dessert. Popular selections include the rich and herb-infused makhini, or butter chicken, and various kebobs, which include classic tandoori chicken and fish and shrimp variants.

Pastavino

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oused in the former site of Juanita’s on West Pearl, the new Pastavino is a winning exercise in fairly priced Italian classicism. Featuring entrees like veal legs, New York steak and baked fish cioppino, this eatery also unsurprisingly features a plethora of noodle dishes. Daily pasta specials include the veal canneloni, a rich concoction of meat and cream sauce, and one can’t-miss item is the spaghetti vongole, featuring Manila clams in a perfectly balanced white wine sauce. The rare beef Carpaccio and Fritto Misto mix of fried calamari and bay scallops are noteworthy starters. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Here’s the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific information. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a connector. An influence that in other situations would tend to cause separation will in this case be likely to promote unity. Capitalize on this anomaly, Aries!

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

In my first dream last night, I gave you a holy book that you left out in the rain. In my second dream, I cooked you some chicken soup that you didn’t eat. My third dream was equally disturbing. I assigned you some homework that would have helped you discover important clues about tending to your emotional health. Alas, you didn’t do the homework. In the morning, I woke up from my dreams feeling exasperated and worried. But later I began to theorize that maybe they weren’t prophecies, but rather helpful warnings. Now that you’ve heard them, I’m hoping you will become alert to the gifts you’ve been ignoring and take advantage of the healing opportunities you’ve been neglecting.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

There’s a good chance that your rhythm in the coming days will resemble a gentle, continuous orgasm. It won’t be stupendously ecstatic, mind you. I’m not predicting massive eruptions of honeyed bliss that keep blowing your mind. Rather, the experience will be more like a persistent flow of warm contentment. You’ll be constantly tuning in to a secret sweetness that thrills you subliminally. Again and again you will slip into a delicious feeling that everything is unfolding exactly as it should be. Warning! There are two factors that could possibly undermine this blessing: 1. if you scare it away with blasts of cynicism; 2. if you get greedy and try to force it to become bigger and stronger. So please don’t do those things!

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Philosopher Jonathan Zap (zaporacle.com) provides the seed for this week’s meditation: “Conscious reflection on the past can deepen the soul and provide revelations of great value for the present and future. On the other hand, returning to the past obsessively out of emotional addiction can be a massive draining of vitality needed for full engagement with the present.” So which will it be, Cancerian? One way or another, you are likely to be pulled back toward the old days and the old ways. I’ll prefer it if you re-examine your history and extract useful lessons from the past instead of wallowing in dark nostalgia and getting lost in fruitless longing.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

Picture a TV satellite dish on the roof of a peasant’s shack in rural Honduras. Imagine a gripping rendition of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played on the mandolin. Visualize the Dalai Lama quoting Chris Rock a bit out of context but with humorous and dramatic effect. Got all that? Next, imagine that these three scenes are metaphors for your metaphysical assignment in the coming week. Need another hint? OK. Think about how you can make sure that nothing gets lost in the dicey translations you’ll be responsible for making.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Here are some ways to get more respect: 1. Do your best in every single thing you do — whether it’s communicating precisely or upholding the highest possible standards at your job or taking excellent care of yourself. 2. Maintain impeccable levels of integrity in everything you do — whether it’s being scrupulously honest or thoroughly fair-minded or fiercely kind. 3. On the other hand, don’t try so compulsively hard to do your best and cultivate integrity that you get self-conscious and obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence. 4. Make it your goal that no later than four years from now you will be doing what you love to do at least 51 percent of the time. 5. Give other people as much respect as

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LIBRA

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes. As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity by pouring cold water over his head. What about you, Libra? Are there odd inclinations and idiosyncratic behaviors that in the past have roused your original thinking? I encourage you to try them all this week, and then see if you can dream up at least two new ones. You have officially entered the brainstorming season.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

It’s expensive for the U.S. to hold prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba: $800,000 annually for each detainee. That’s 30 times more than it costs to incarcerate a convict on the American mainland. According to the Miami Herald, Guantanamo is the most expensive prison on the planet. How much do you spend on locking stuff up, Scorpio? What does it cost, not just financially but emotionally and spiritually, for you to keep your secrets hidden and your fears tamped down and your unruly passions bottled up and your naughty urges suppressed? The coming weeks would be a good time to make sure the price you pay for all that is reasonable — not even close to being like Guantanamo.

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What time is it, boys and girls? It’s Floods of Fantastic Gratitude Week, a perfect opportunity to express your passionate appreciation for everything you’ve been given. So get out there and tell people how much you’ve benefited from what they’ve done for you. For best results, be playful and have fun as you express your thanks. By the way, there’ll be a fringe benefit to this outpouring: By celebrating the blessings you already enjoy, you will generate future blessings.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Telling the whole deep truth and nothing but the whole deep truth isn’t necessarily a recipe for being popular. It may on occasion provoke chaos and be disruptive. In an institutional setting, displays of candor may even diminish your clout and undermine your ambitions. But now take everything I just said and disregard it for a while. This is one of those rare times when being profoundly authentic will work to your supreme advantage.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“Show me the money” is a meme that first appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. It has been uttered approximately a hundred trillion times since then. Have you ever said it in earnest? If so, you were probably demanding to get what you had been promised. You were telling people you wanted to see tangible proof that they valued your efforts. In light of your current astrological omens, I propose that you use a variation on this theme. What you need right now is less materialistic and more marvelous. Try making this your mantra: “Show me the magic.”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

My acquaintance Jacob fell for a woman who also professed her ardor for him. But in the midst of their courtship, as the mystery was still ripening, she suddenly left the country. “I’ve got to go to Indonesia,” she texted him one night, and she was gone the next day. Jacob was confused, forlorn, dazed. He barely ate for days. On the sixth day, a FedEx package arrived from her. It contained a green silk scarf and a note: “I wore this as I walked to the top of the volcano and said a five-hour prayer to elevate our love.” Jacob wasn’t sure how to interpret it, although it seemed to be a good omen. What happened next? I haven’t heard yet. I predict that you will soon receive a sign that has resemblances to this one. Don’t jump to conclusions about what it means, but assume the best.

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