Cigar dinner? Barlow?s shows how it?s done

Your typical Boulder dinner is was not.

The Eye was pleased to help Barlow’s Premium Cigars and Pipes, located at 95th and Arapahoe in Lafayette’s Atlas Valley Shopping Center, celebrate its one-year anniversary with a five-course gourmet “cigar dinner” at Wolfgang Puck Grand Café in Denver.

Yes, at a cigar dinner you smoke cigars. Gasp! But a full house showed up on a snowy night to congratulate Barlow’s owners and partners Terry Barlow, Robert Joyner and Barry Blonder on running probably Boulder County’s best cigar shop, which, according to Blonder, offers more than 700 different “facings” or boxes of cigars and tobacco.

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For the reception and first course of Chilean ceviche, diners lit up a nice robusto from Drew Estate; during the second course of banana and black bean salad and the third course of a grilled lobster in an ancho broth with roasted hominy, a Tubo Corona from Indian Tabac was offered to carry through for the main entre, a Cuban dish of braised beef atop rice and red beans.

The Eye admits he/she/it decided to save the dessert cigar, a Gold Churchill by Bahia Cigars, preferring instead to just enjoy the pineapple and cinnamon empenada.

Even the chefs, also enjoying their own cigars, emerged to describe each course as well as the wines from Bonny Doon Vineyard.

If you missed the dinner, all of these above-mentioned cigars are available at Barlow’s. If you stop in, tell them the Eye sent you.It looks like a case of local man makes good. Scott Fraser, a contemporary realist painter from Longmont, has just seen his oil painting “Life Cycle II” acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to be a part of its Modern Art Collection.

It originally was bought from Fraser by Big Apple resident Gregory Peterson, who then donated it to the Met. Peterson has been collecting Fraser’s work for nearly 20 years. “In putting Life Cycle II into the Metropolitan’s collection, I hope more people will discover what great painting exists in our own time,” Peterson said.

Life Cycle II is a 43- by 80-inch oil on panel work. It depicts the cycle of life and death, using birds as a metaphor.

Fraser, 43, was educated at the Kansas City Art Institute and at the Atelier Haus in Germany. His work is in numerous museums and public and private collections throughout the country. Fraser is represented by the Carson Gallery in Denver, the Susan Duval Gallery in Aspen, and the Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco.

In case you are unable to make the trek to New York to see Life Cycle II, see it here in the Eye or online at www.sfraser.com.Paper pushers and office workers glued to glowing computer screens may find their office tasks to be mentally trying at times, but most would not say their work was physically painful ? at least not in ways immediately apparent.

To make workers aware of the signs and effects of repetitive strain injuries and to make employers aware of the costs involved, Feb. 28 has been designated International RSI Awareness Day. (Yes, there is a day dedicated to finding out if your chair is proportional to your desk height and if your keyboard is positioned correctly.)

Helping to spread the word for this year’s event is Boulder’s MassageSpecialists.com. “Work shouldn’t hurt,´ said MassageSpecialists.com founder Dirk McCuistion in a statement.

Providing message therapy and ergonomic wellness consulting to corporations, MassageSpecialists’ program claims to reduce treatment costs for work-related injuries by up to 80 percent, which can save employers a bundle of money considering that annual costs in workman’s comp claims total around $100 billion, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance. Contact MassageSpecialists.com at (303) 938-0388 or visit www.messagespecialists.com. One of the more amusing takeoffs of CBS’ Survivor show is the DotCom Doom Survivor Contest out of Silicon Valley.

Prizes such as a free trip for two to Paris or Napa Valley can be won as competitors vote off survivors each week from DotCom Doom Island. DotCom Doom is a Web site covering the shakeout in the dot-com world, including layoffs, lawsuits and rumors. Try your luck at dotcomdoom.com. An auction area helps flailing companies sell their inventories and supplies to online bargain hunters.A less-than-roughing-it take on camping will benefit the Girl Scouts Mountain Prairie Council. On March 15, join the fun for a good cause at Camp Faux 2001 to be held at the Raintree Plaza Conference Center in Longmont. A minimum $100 tax deductible contribution can be made as you enjoy the event beginning at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m.

Make reservations with Janet Mulay at (303) 776-8548 or adambrosio@juno.com. You can also mail your RSVP to Girl Scouts Mountain Prairie Council, P.O. Box 6323, Longmont, CO 80501. For information on the night of the event, call (303) 775-6607.